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diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..487a28d105 --- /dev/null +++ b/HISTORY.md @@ -0,0 +1,1243 @@ +## [v12.15.19](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v12.15.19) (2016-10-07) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/v12.14.89...v12.15.19) + +**Enhancements:** + +- Adding support for rfc 62 exit code 213 (Chef upgrades) [\#5428](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5428) ([jeremymv2](https://github.com/jeremymv2)) +- Allow raw_key to override the configured signing\_key [\#5314](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5314) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Set yum\_repository gpgcheck default to true [\#5398](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5398) ([shortdudey123](https://github.com/shortdudey123)) +- Allow deletion of registry\_key without the need for users to pass data key in values hash. [\#5359](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5359) ([Aliasgar16](https://github.com/Aliasgar16)) +- Adding support for cab files to Chef package provider on windows [\#5285](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5285) ([Vasu1105](https://github.com/Vasu1105)) +- Ignore unknown metadata fields in metadata.rb [\#5299](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5299) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) + +**Fixed Bugs:** + +- knife ssh: use the command line prompt for sudo if set [\#5427](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5427) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- User provider: Fix manage\_home provider inconsistency for Mac and FreeBSD providers [\#5423](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5423) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Fix for "Chefspec template rendering fails when cookbook\_name != directory name" [\#5417](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5417) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Fix solaris handling for useradd -m/-M behavior [\#5408](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5408) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) +- Normalize full key name to avoid resource update on identical key names [\#5290](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5290) ([bai](https://github.com/bai)) +- Add trailing newline to generated 15update-stamp [\#5382](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5382) ([pwalz](https://github.com/pwalz)) +- Invalid `dsc_scripts` should fail the run [\#5377](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5377) ([NimishaS](https://github.com/NimishaS)) +- Revert --local filter for gems installed from paths [\#5379](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5379) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Fix knife list\_commands\(\) [\#5386](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5386) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Don't use -r for users or groups on Solaris. [\#5355](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5355) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) +- Chef 12 Attribute Regression [\#5360](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5360) ([gbagnoli](https://github.com/gbagnoli)) +- Handling Errno::ETIMEDOUT [\#5358](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5358) ([NimishaS](https://github.com/NimishaS)) + +## [v12.14.89](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v12.14.89) (2016-09-22) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/v12.14.77...v12.14.89) + +**Fixed Bugs:** + +- Revert "Verify systemd\_unit file during create" [\#5326](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5326) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Fix method\_access and array handling in node presenter [\#5351](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5351) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Fixed undefined short\_cksum method issue and checksum in uppercase issue for windows\_package resource. [\#5332](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5332) ([Aliasgar16](https://github.com/Aliasgar16)) +- Fix makecache action name in yum\_repository [\#5348](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5348) ([tas50](https://github.com/tas50)) + +## [v12.14.77](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v12.14.77) (2016-09-19) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/v12.14.60...v12.14.77) + +**Fixed Bugs:** + +- Revert supports\[:manage\_home\] behavior [\#5322](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5322) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Preserve the extension of the file in the rendered tempfile in File providers [\#5327](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5327) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Allow the :delete action for yum\_repository + fix old property support [\#5320](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5320) ([tas50](https://github.com/tas50)) + +## [v12.14.60](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v12.14.60) (2016-09-09) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/v12.13.37...v12.14.60) + +**Enhancements:** + +- Only support Solaris 10u11 and newer [\#5264](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5264) ([rhass](https://github.com/rhass)) +- Added code to handle deletion of directories on Windows that are symlinks. [\#5234](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5234) ([Aliasgar16](https://github.com/Aliasgar16)) +- Readability improvements to options parsing code [\#5289](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5289) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Add Hash type to launchd:keep\_alive [\#5182](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5182) ([erikng](https://github.com/erikng)) +- Added timeout during removing of windows package [\#5250](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5250) ([dheerajd-msys](https://github.com/dheerajd-msys)) +- Bump openssl to 1.0.2h [\#5260](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5260) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Rewrite linux\_user provider check\_lock [\#5248](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5248) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Allow flagging a resource property as sensitive [\#5185](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5185) ([adamleff](https://github.com/adamleff)) +- Rewrite linux useradd provider [\#5243](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5243) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Add yum_repository resource from the yum cookbook [\#5187](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5187) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Verify systemd\_unit file during create [\#5210](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5210) ([mal](https://github.com/mal)) +- Add a warning for guard blocks that return a non-empty string [\#5233](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5233) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) +- Forward package cookbook\_name to underlying remote\_file [\#5128](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5128) ([Annih](https://github.com/Annih)) +- Fix "URI.escape is obsolete" warnings [\#5230](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5230) ([jkeiser](https://github.com/jkeiser)) +- Remove ruby 2.1 support [\#5220](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5220) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- User provider manage\_home behavior and refactor [\#5122](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5122) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Fix Style/BlockDelimiters, Style/MultilineBlockLayout and 0.42.0 engine upgrade [\#5218](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5218) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Switch from Ruby 2.1.9 to Ruby 2.3.1 [\#5190](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5190) ([jkeiser](https://github.com/jkeiser)) +- Update to latest chefstyle [\#5217](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5217) ([jkeiser](https://github.com/jkeiser)) +- Rubygems memory performance improvement [\#5203](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5203) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- HTTP 1.1 keepalives for cookbook synchronization [\#5151](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5151) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) + +**Fixed Bugs:** + +- Fixes GH-4955, allowing local gems with remote dependencies [\#5098](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5098) ([jyaworski](https://github.com/jyaworski)) +- Hook up the recipe\_file\_loaded event which was defined but not actually called [\#5281](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5281) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) +- fix gem\_package regression in master [\#5262](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5262) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Added fix for spaces in profile identifiers [\#5159](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5159) ([natewalck](https://github.com/natewalck)) +- Add a hook for compat\_resource [\#5259](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5259) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Fix flush\_cache issues in yum\_package [\#5258](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5258) ([jaymzh](https://github.com/jaymzh)) +- Use symbols instead of strings as keys for systemd user property [\#5241](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5241) ([joshuamiller01](https://github.com/joshuamiller01)) +- Use upstart goal state as service status [\#5249](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5249) ([evan2645](https://github.com/evan2645)) +- Fix the useradd test filters [\#5236](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5236) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Fix specify members of group on suse/openbsd/solaris2/hpux [\#5152](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5152) ([tas50](https://github.com/tas50)) +- Fix cookbook upload of symlinked cookbooks in Ruby 2.3 on Windows [\#5216](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5216) ([jkeiser](https://github.com/jkeiser)) +- Don't use relative\_path\_from on glob results [\#5215](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5215) ([jkeiser](https://github.com/jkeiser)) + +## [v12.13.37](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v12.13.37) (2016-08-12) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/v12.13.30...v12.13.37) + +**Enhancements:** + +- Bumping ohai and mixlib-log to fix regression [\#5197](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5197) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Remove requires in Chef::Recipe that are no longer necessary [\#5189](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5189) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) + +## [v12.13.30](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v12.13.30) (2016-08-05) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/v12.12.15...v12.13.30) + +**Enhancements:** + +- noop apt_update similar to apt_repository [\#5173](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5173) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Bump dependencies to bring in Ohai 8.18 [\#5168](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5168) ([tas50](https://github.com/tas50)) +- Make Chef work with Ruby 2.3, update Ruby to 2.1.9 [\#5165](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5165) ([jkeiser](https://github.com/jkeiser)) +- Log cause chain for exceptions [\#3354](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3354) ([jaym](https://github.com/jaym)) +- First pass on --config-option handling. [\#5045](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5045) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) +- Add bootstrap proxy authentication support. [\#4059](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4059) ([yossigo](https://github.com/yossigo)) +- Support setting an empty string for cron attrs [\#5127](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5127) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Also clear notifications when deleting a resource. [\#5146](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5146) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) +- Clean up subscribes internals and notification storage. [\#5145](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5145) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) +- Cache ChefFS children [\#5131](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5131) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Update to rspec 3.5 [\#5126](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5126) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Add `chef\_data\_bag\_item` to Cheffish DSL methods [\#5125](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5125) ([danielsdeleo](https://github.com/danielsdeleo)) +- replace glibc resolver with ruby resolver [\#5123](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5123) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- The user must specify a category for a new cookbook [\#5091](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5091) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Warn if not installing an individual bff fileset [\#5093](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5093) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Use Mixlib::Archive to extract tarballs [\#5080](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5080) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Data Collector server URL validation, and disable on host down [\#5076](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5076) ([adamleff](https://github.com/adamleff)) + +**Fixed Bugs:** + +- Don't log error for reporting audit data in when in chef-zero [\#5016](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5016) ([erichelgeson](https://github.com/erichelgeson)) +- Invalidate the file system cache on deletion [\#5154](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5154) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Root ACLs are a top level json file not a sub-directory [\#5155](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5155) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Install nokogiri and pin mixlib-cli [\#5118](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5118) ([ksubrama](https://github.com/ksubrama)) +- Ensure that the valid option is given back to the option parser [\#5114](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5114) ([dldinternet](https://github.com/dldinternet)) +- Fixed regex for zypper version 1.13.\*. [\#5109](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5109) ([yeoldegrove](https://github.com/yeoldegrove)) +- add back method\_missing support to set\_unless [\#5103](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5103) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Fix \#5094 node.default\_unless issue in 12.12.13 [\#5097](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5097) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Fix \#5078 using cwd parameter instead of Dir.pwd [\#5079](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5079) ([Tensibai](https://github.com/Tensibai)) + +## [v12.12.15](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v12.12.15) (2016-07-08) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/v12.12.13...v12.12.15) + +**Fixed Bugs:** + +- Fix for #5094 12.12.13 node.default_unless issue [\#5097](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5097) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) + +## [v12.12.13](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v12.12.13) (2016-07-01) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/v12.11.18...v12.12.13) + +**Implemented Enhancements:** + +- Tweak 3694 warnings [\#5075](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5075) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Adding node object to Data collector run\_converge message [\#5065](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5065) ([adamleff](https://github.com/adamleff)) +- Attribute API improvements [\#5029](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5029) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Remove deprecated Thread.exclusive around require call. [\#5068](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5068) ([maxlazio](https://github.com/maxlazio)) +- Ensure that chef-solo uses the expected repo dir [\#5059](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5059) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Expand data\_collector resource list to include all resources [\#5058](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5058) ([adamleff](https://github.com/adamleff)) +- Turn off fips with an empty environment var [\#5048](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5048) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Deprecate knife-supermarket gem [\#4896](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4896) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Update Nokogiri [\#5042](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5042) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Remote resource should respect sensitive flag [\#5025](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5025) ([PrajaktaPurohit](https://github.com/PrajaktaPurohit)) +- Convert the 3694 warning to a deprecation so it will be subject to the usual deprecation formatting \(collected at the bottom, can be made an error, etc\). [\#5022](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5022) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) +- Deprecate `knife cookbook create` in favor of `chef generate cookbook`. [\#5021](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5021) ([tylercloke](https://github.com/tylercloke)) + +**Fixed Bugs:** + +- Fixes windows_package uninstall scenarios by calling uninstall string directly [\#5050](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5050) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Fix gem_package idempotency [\#5046](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5046) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Undefined local variable lookup in multiplexed_dir.rb [\#5027](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/5027) ([robdimarco](https://github.com/robdimarco)) +- Correctly write out data collector metadata file [\#5019](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5019) ([adamleff](https://github.com/adamleff)) +- Eliminate missing constant errors for LWRP class [\#5000](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5000) ([PrajaktaPurohit](https://github.com/PrajaktaPurohit)) +- Updated_resource_count to data collector should only include updated resources [\#5006](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/5006) ([adamleff](https://github.com/adamleff)) +- Don't mask directory deletion errors [\#4991](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4991) ([jaymzh](https://github.com/jaymzh)) + +## [v12.11.18](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v12.11.18) (2016-06-02) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/v12.11.17...v12.11.18) + +**Implemented Enhancements:** + +- Creation of the new DataCollector reporter [\#4973](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4973) ([adamleff](https://github.com/adamleff)) +- Add systemd\_unit try-restart, reload-or-restart, reload-or-try-restart actions [\#4908](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4908) ([nathwill](https://github.com/nathwill)) +- RFC062 exit status chef client [\#4611](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4611) ([smurawski](https://github.com/smurawski)) +- Create 'universal' DSL [\#4942](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4942) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Handle numeric id for the user value in the git resource [\#4902](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4902) ([MichaelPereira](https://github.com/MichaelPereira)) +- RFC 31 - Default solo to local mode [\#4919](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4919) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Wire up chef handlers directly from libraries [\#4933](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4933) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Reject malformed ini content in systemd\_unit resource [\#4907](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4907) ([nathwill](https://github.com/nathwill)) +- Update usage of @new\_resource.destination to `cwd` within the git hwrp [\#4898](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4898) ([joshburt](https://github.com/joshburt)) +- Support Ruby Files in ChefFS [\#4887](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4887) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Adds a system check for fips enablement and runs in fips mode if enabled [\#4880](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4880) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Lazy'ing candidate\_version in package provider [\#4869](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4869) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Add systemd\_unit resource [\#4700](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4700) ([nathwill](https://github.com/nathwill)) +- Bump chef-zero to avoid aggressive logging [\#4878](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4878) ([stevendanna](https://github.com/stevendanna)) + +**Fixed Bugs:** + +- Fix \#4949 and Avoid Errno::EBUSY on docker containers [\#4979](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4979) ([andrewjamesbrown](https://github.com/andrewjamesbrown)) +- Ensure recipe-url works right in solo [\#4957](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4957) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Fix portage provider to support version with character [\#4966](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4966) ([crigor](https://github.com/crigor)) +- Fixes \#4968 and only retrieves the latest version of packages from chocolatey [\#4977](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4977) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Update contributing doc to better reflect reality [\#4962](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4962) ([tas50](https://github.com/tas50)) +- Load cookbook versions correctly for knife [\#4936](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4936) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Gem metadata command needs Gem.clear\_paths [\#4929](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4929) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Fix os x profile provider for nil [\#4921](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4921) ([achand](https://github.com/achand)) +- Cookbook site install : tar error on windows [\#4867](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4867) ([willoucom](https://github.com/willoucom)) +- Fix yum\_package breakage \(the =~ operator in ruby is awful\) [\#4912](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4912) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Encode registry enumerated values and keys to utf8 instead of the local codepage [\#4906](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4906) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Chocolatey Package Provider chomps nil object [\#4760](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4760) ([svmastersamurai](https://github.com/svmastersamurai)) +- Fixes knife ssl check on windows [\#4886](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4886) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) + +## [v12.10.24](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v12.10.24) (2016-04-27) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/v12.10.23...v12.10.24) + +**Fixed Bugs:** + +- Removing non-existent members from group should not fail [\#4812](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4812) ([chefsalim](https://github.com/chefsalim)) +- The easy\_install provider and resource are deprecated and will be removed in Chef 13 [\#4860](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4860) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) + +**Tech cleanup:** + +- Refactor ChefFS files to be files [\#4837](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4837) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Rename and add backcompat requires for ChefFS dirs [\#4830](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4830) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Refactor ChefFS directories to be directories [\#4826](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4826) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Move all ChefFS exceptions into a single file [\#4822](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4822) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) + +**Enhancements:** + +- Add layout option support for device creation to mdadm resource provider [\#4855](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4855) ([kbruner](https://github.com/kbruner)) +- add notifying\_block and subcontext\_block to chef [\#4818](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4818) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- modernize shell\_out method syntax [\#4865](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4865) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Update rubygems provider to support local install of gems if so specified [\#4847](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4847) ([PrajaktaPurohit](https://github.com/PrajaktaPurohit)) +- fix details in with\_run\_context [\#4839](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4839) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Lock dependencies of chef through a `Gemfile.lock` [\#4820](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4820) ([jkeiser](https://github.com/jkeiser)) +- add better resource manipulation API [\#4834](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4834) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- add nillable apt\_repository and nillable properties [\#4832](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4832) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) + +## [v12.9](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v12.9.38) (2016-04-09) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/v12.8.2...v12.9.38) + +**Implemented enhancements:** + +- Sftp remote file support [\#4750](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4750) ([jkerry](https://github.com/jkerry)) +- Setting init\_command should be accepted instead of specific command overrides [\#4709](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4709) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) +- Add a NoOp provider [\#4798](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4798) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Add ability to notify from inside LWRP to wrapping resource\_collections [\#4017](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/4017) +- Notifications from LWRPS/sub-resources can trigger resources in outer run\_context scopes [\#4741](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4741) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Improve the docs generated by knife cookbook create [\#4757](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4757) ([tas50](https://github.com/tas50)) +- Need Config/CLI options to move interval+splay sleep to end of client loop [\#3305](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3305) +- Add optional integer argument for --daemonize option [\#4759](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4759) ([jrunning](https://github.com/jrunning)) +- Add shorthand :syslog and :win\_evt for log\_location config [\#4751](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4751) ([jrunning](https://github.com/jrunning)) + +**Fixed bugs:** + +- chef\_gem and gem metadata don't play well [\#4710](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/4710) +- Fix cookbook metadata 'gem' command to make it useful [\#4809](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4809) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Convert timeout config to integer [\#4787](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4787) ([chefsalim](https://github.com/chefsalim)) +- The mount resource is not idempotent on windows [\#3861](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3861) +- fix for \#4715 - unset TMPDIR in homebrew package provider [\#4716](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4716) ([gips0n](https://github.com/gips0n)) +- tons of "Deprecation class overwrites LWRP resource" WARNING SPAM with chefspec [\#4668](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/4668) + +**Merged pull requests:** + +- Add apt\_repository resource [\#4782](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4782) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Point to the right license file for chef. [\#4811](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4811) ([sersut](https://github.com/sersut)) +- add omnibus license metadata [\#4805](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4805) ([patrick-wright](https://github.com/patrick-wright)) +- Add default timeout [\#4804](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4804) ([chefsalim](https://github.com/chefsalim)) +- Spec break on Windows due to temp dir and short path names [\#4776](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4776) ([adamedx](https://github.com/adamedx)) +- Require chef/version since it's used here [\#4762](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4762) ([jkeiser](https://github.com/jkeiser)) +- remove pry from rbx build [\#4761](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4761) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- ruby 2.0.0 is EOL [\#4752](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4752) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- supresses parser gem errors [\#4755](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4755) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- Set inherit=false on the fallback provider constant lookup. [\#4753](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4753) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) + +**Closed issues:** + +- Uploading an encrypted data bag to Chef server fails [\#4815](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/4815) +- powershell\_script does not have PSCredential capability [\#4589](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/4589) +- Documentation don't include how to setup mail server during deployment of Chef server [\#4807](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/4807) +- Resource 'mount' and chef 12.5.1 [\#4056](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/4056) +- Incorrect $TMPDIR environment variable on OS X [\#4715](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/4715) +- group provider on suse Linux adds user multiple times [\#4689](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/4689) +- Unexpected error when using "knife cookbook show ...." [\#4659](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/4659) + +## [12.8.1](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/12.8.1) (2016-03-07) +[Full Changelog](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/12.7.2...12.8.1) + +**Implemented enhancements:** + +- Clarify the probable cause of tempfile creation failure during cookbook sync [\#2171](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2171) +- Remove static libraries from Chef package [\#4654](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4654) ([chefsalim](https://github.com/chefsalim)) +- Have client.rb verify that FIPS mode can be enforced [\#4630](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4630) ([ksubrama](https://github.com/ksubrama)) +- List all of the unignored files when loading a cookbook [\#4629](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4629) ([danielsdeleo](https://github.com/danielsdeleo)) +- adding pry and pry-byebug to dev dependencies [\#4601](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4601) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Split group members on commas [\#4583](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4583) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Make tempfiles easier to read \(prepend chef to the name\) [\#4582](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4582) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Extend cookbook shadowing deprecation warnings more broadly [\#4574](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4574) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- tell knife's edit\_data what the object is [\#4548](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4548) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Implement knife bootstrap client.d RFC [\#4529](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4529) ([jaym](https://github.com/jaym)) +- Update to Log Level when showing unencrypted databag [\#4524](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4524) ([PatrickWalker](https://github.com/PatrickWalker)) +- RFC-060 gem metadata MVP [\#4478](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4478) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- chef-client: add --\[no\]skip-cookbook-sync option [\#4316](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4316) ([josb](https://github.com/josb)) +- Extend service resource to support masking [\#4307](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4307) ([davide125](https://github.com/davide125)) +- launchd for osx [\#4111](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4111) ([mikedodge04](https://github.com/mikedodge04)) + +**Fixed bugs:** + +- Chef::DataBagItem.to\_hash is modifying Chef::DataBagItem.raw\_data [\#4614](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/4614) +- Chef 12 seeing a ton of these in debug mode [\#2396](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2396) +- Data bag item hash can have name key [\#4664](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4664) ([chefsalim](https://github.com/chefsalim)) +- Clearer exception for loading non-existent data bag items in solo mode. [\#4655](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4655) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) +- Always rehash from gem source and not existing hash file [\#4651](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4651) ([tyler-ball](https://github.com/tyler-ball)) +- Handle negative content length headers too. [\#4646](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4646) ([coderanger](https://github.com/coderanger)) +- if no module name is found for a valid dsc resource default to PSDesiredStateConfiguration [\#4638](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4638) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- removing disabling of readline in chef-shell [\#4635](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4635) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Fix a bug that was causing DataBagItem.to\_hash to mutate the data bag item [\#4631](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4631) ([itmustbejj](https://github.com/itmustbejj)) +- ensure paths maintain utf-8ness in non ascii encodings [\#4626](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4626) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Fix the Chocolatey-missing error again [\#4621](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4621) ([randomcamel](https://github.com/randomcamel)) +- fixes exe package downloads [\#4612](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4612) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- fallback to netmsg.dll error table if error message is not found in system errors [\#4600](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4600) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- zypper multipackage performance fix [\#4591](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4591) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) +- bugfix \#2865 check for validation\_key [\#4581](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4581) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- remove bogus recalculation of cookbook upload failures [\#4580](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4580) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Make sure we have a valid object before calling close! [\#4579](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4579) ([thommay](https://github.com/thommay)) +- Fix policyfile\_zero provisioner in 12.7 [\#4571](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4571) ([andy-dufour](https://github.com/andy-dufour)) +- do not include source parameter when removing a chocolatey package and ensure source is used on all functional tests [\#4570](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4570) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock)) +- Fix databag globbing issues for chef-solo on windows [\#4569](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4569) ([jaym](https://github.com/jaym)) +- remove Chef::Mixin::Command use [\#4566](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4566) ([lamont-granquist](https://github.com/lamont-granquist)) + +## 12.7.2 + +* [pr#4559](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4559) Remove learnchef acceptance tests until we make them more reliable +* [pr#4545](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4545) Removing rm -rf in chef-solo recipe_url + +## 12.7.1 +* [**Daniel Steen**](https://github.com/dansteen) + * [pr#3183](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3183) Provide more helpful error message when accidentally using --secret instead of --secret-file + +* [pr#4532](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4532) Bump Bundler + Rubygems +* [pr#4550](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4550) Use a streaming request to download cookbook + +## 12.7.0 + +* [**Nate Walck**](https://github.com/natewalck) + * [pr#4078](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4078) Add `osx_profile` resource for OS X +* [**Timothy Cyrus**](https://github.com/tcyrus) + * [pr#4420](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4420) Update code climate badge and code climate blocks in README.md +* [**Jordan Running**](https://github.com/jrunning) + * [pr#4399](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4399) Correctly save policy_name and policy_group with `knife node edit` +* [**Brian Goad**](https://github.com/bbbco) + * [pr#4315](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4315) Add extra tests around whether to skip with multiple guards + +* [pr#4516](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4516) Return propper error messages when using windows based `mount`, `user` and `group` resources +* [pr#4500](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4500) Explicitly declare directory permissions of chef install on windows to restrict rights on Windows client versions +* [pr#4498](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4498) Correct major and minor OS versions for Windows 10 and add versions for Windows 2016 Server +* [pr#4375](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4375) No longer try to auto discover package version of `exe` based windows packages +* [pr#4369](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4396) Import omnibus-chef chef project definition and history +* [pr#4399](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4399) Correctly save `policy_name` and `policy_group` with `knife node edit` +* [pr#4278](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4278) make file resource use properties +* [pr#4479](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4479) Remove incorrect cookbook artifact normalization +* [pr#4470](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4470) Fix sh spacing issues +* [pr#4434](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4434) adds EOFError message to handlers +* [pr#4422](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4422) Add an apt_update resource +* [pr#4287](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4287) Default Chef with FIPS OpenSSL to use sign v1.3 +* [pr#4461](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4461) debian-6 is EOL next month +* [pr#4460](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4460) Set range of system user/group id to max of 200 +* [pr#4231](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4231) zypper multipackage patch +* [pr#4459](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4459) use require_paths and not path so bundler grabs all paths from a git reference +* [pr#4450](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4450) don't warn about ambiguous property usage +* [pr#4445](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4445) Add CBGB to the repository +* [pr#4423](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4423) Add deprecation warnings to Chef::REST and all json_creates +* [pr#4439](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4439) Sometimes chocolately doesn't appear on the path +* [pr#4432](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4432) add get_rest etc calls to ServerAPI +* [pr#4435](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4435) add nokogiri to omnibus-chef +* [pr#4419](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4419) explicitly adding .bat to service executable called by service in case users remove .bat from PATHEXT +* [pr#4413](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4413) configure chef client windows service to the correct chef directory +* [pr#4377](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4377) fixing candidate filtering and adding functional tests for chocolatey_package +* [pr#4406](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4406) Updating to the latest release of net-ssh to consume https://github.com/net-ssh/net-ssh/pull/280 +* [pr#4405](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4405) ServerAPI will return a raw hash, so do that +* [pr#4400](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4400) inflate an environment after loading it +* [pr#4396](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4396) Remove duplicate initialization of @password in user_v1 +* [pr#4344](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4344) Warn (v. info) when reloading resources +* [pr#4369](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4369) Migrate omnibus-chef project/software definitions for chef in here +* [pr#4106](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4106) add chocolatey_package to core chef +* [pr#4321](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4321) fix run_as_user of windows_service +* [pr#4333](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4333) no longer wait on node search to refresh vault but pass created ApiCient instead +* [pr#4325](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4325) Pin win32-eventlog to 0.6.3 to avoid clashing CreateEvent definition +* [pr#4312](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4312) Updates the template to use omnitruck-direct.chef.io +* [pr#4277](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4277) non msi packages must explicitly provide a source attribute on install +* [pr#4309](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4309) tags always an array; fix set_unless +* [pr#4278](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4278) make file resource use properties +* [pr#4288](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4288) Fix no_proxy setting in chef-config +* [pr#4273](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4273) Use signing protocol 1.1 by default +* [pr#4520](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/4520) Fix a few `dsc_resource` bugs + +## 12.6.0 + +* [**Dave Eddy**](https://github.com/bahamas10) + [pr#3187](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3187) overhaul solaris SMF service provider +* [**Mikhail Zholobov**](https://github.com/legal90) + - [pr#3192](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3192) provider/user/dscl: Set default gid to 20 + - [pr#3193](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3193) provider/user/dscl: Set "comment" default value +* [**Jordan Evans**](https://github.com/jordane) + - [pr#3263](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3263) `value_for_platform` should use `Chef::VersionConstraint::Platform` + - [pr#3633](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3633) add the word group to `converge_by` call for group provider +* [**Scott McGillivray**](https://github.com/thechile) + [pr#3450](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3450) Fix 'knife cookbook show' to work on root files +* [**Aubrey Holland**](https://github.com/aub) + [pr#3986](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3986) fix errors when files go away during chown +* [**James Michael DuPont**](https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3) + [pr#3973](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3973) better error reporting +* [**Michael Pereira**](https://github.com/MichaelPereira) + [pr#3968](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3968) Fix cookbook installation from supermarket on windows +* [**Yukihiko SAWANOBORI**](https://github.com/sawanoboly) + - [pr#3941](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3941) allow reboot by reboot resource with chef-apply + - [pr#3900](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3900) Add new option json attributes file to bootstraping +* [**permyakovsv**](https://github.com/permyakovsv) + [pr#3901](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3901) Add tmux-split parameter to knife ssh +* [**Evan Gilman**](https://github.com/evan2645) + [pr#3864](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3864) Knife `bootstrap_environment` should use Explicit config before Implicit +* [**Ranjib Dey**](https://github.com/ranjib) + [pr#3834](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3834) Dont spit out stdout and stderr for execute resource failure, if its declared sensitive +* [**Jeff Blaine**](https://github.com/jblaine) + - [pr#3776](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3776) Changes --hide-healthy to --hide-by-mins MINS + - [pr#3848](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3848) Migrate to --ssh-identity-file instead of --identity-file +* [**dbresson**](https://github.com/dbresson) + 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Vast improvements to and testing expansion for Chef::User, Chef::ApiClient, and related knife commands. 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[pr#3483](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3483): Allow `include_recipe` from LWRP providers. +* [pr#3495](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3495): Make resource name automatically determined from class name, and provide DSL for it. +* [pr#3497](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3497): Issue 3485: Corruption of node's run\_context when non-default guard\_interpreter is evaluated +* [pr#3299](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3299): Remove experimental warning on audit mode + +## 12.3.0 + +* [pr#3160](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3160): Use Chef Zero in + socketless mode for local mode, add `--no-listen` flag to disable port + binding +* [**Nolan Davidson**](https://github.com/nsdavidson): + Removed after_created and added test to recipe_spec +* [**Tim Sogard**](https://github.com/drags): + Reset $HOME to user running chef-client when running via sudo +* [**Torben Knerr**](https://github.com/tknerr): + Allow for the chef gem installation to succeed without elevated privileges #3126 +* [**Mike Dodge**](https://github.com/mikedodge04) + MacOSX services: Load LaunchAgents as console user, adding plist and + session_type options. +* [**Eric Herot**](https://github.com/eherot) + Ensure knife ssh doesn't use a non-existant field for hostname #3131 +* [**Tom Hughes**](https://github.com/tomhughes) + Ensure searches progress in the face of incomplete responses #3135 + +* [pr#3162](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3162): Add + `--minimal-ohai` flag to client/solo/apply; restricts ohai to only the + bare minimum of plugins. +* Ensure link's path attribute works with delayed #3130 +* gem_package, chef_gem should not shell out to using https://rubygems.org #2867 +* Add dynamic resource resolution similar to dynamic provider resolution +* Add Chef class fascade to internal structures +* Fix nil pointer for windows event logger #3200 +* Use partial search for knife status +* Ensure chef/knife properly honours proxy config + +## 12.2.1 +* [Issue 3153](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3153): Fix bug where unset HOME would cause chef to crash + +## 12.2.0 +* Update policyfile API usage to match forthcoming Chef Server release +* `knife ssh` now has an --exit-on-error option that allows users to + fail-fast rather than moving on to the next machine. +* migrate macosx, windows, openbsd, and netbsd resources to dynamic resolution +* migrate cron and mdadm resources to dynamic resolution +* [Issue 3096](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3096) Fix OpenBSD package provider installation issues +* New `dsc_resource` resource to invoke Powershell DSC resources + +## 12.1.2 +* [Issue 3022](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3022): Homebrew Cask install fails + FIXME (remove on 12.2.0 release): 3022 was only merged to 12-stable and #3077 or its descendant should fix this +* [Issue 3059](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3059): Chef 12.1.1 yum_package silently fails +* [Issue 3078](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3078): Compat break in audit-mode changes + +## 12.1.1 +* [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jaymzh): + [Issue 3008](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3008) Allow people to pass in `source` to package +* [Issue 3011](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3011) `package` provider base should include + `Chef::Mixin::Command` as there are still providers that use it. +* [**Ranjib Dey**](https://github.com/ranjib): + [Issue 3019](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3019) Fix data fetching when explicit attributes are passed + +## 12.1.0 + +* [**Andre Elizondo**](https://github.com/andrewelizondo) + Typo fixes +* [**Vasiliy Tolstov**](https://github.com/vtolstov): + cleanup cookbook path from stale files (when using chef-solo with a tarball url) +* [**Nathan Cerny**](https://github.com/ncerny): + Fix rubygems provider to use https instead of http. +* [**Anshul Sharma**](https://github.com/justanshulsharma) + removed securerandom patch +* [**Scott Bonds**](https://github.com/bonds) + add package support for OpenBSD +* [**Lucy Wyman**](https://github.com/lucywyman) + Added support for handling empty version strings to rubygems provider. +* [**Yulian Kuncheff**](https://github.com/Daegalus) + Correctly set the pre-release identifier during knife bootstrap. +* [**Anshul Sharma**](https://github.com/justanshulsharma) + `knife node run_list remove` now accepts run_list options in the same form as add +* [**Veres Lajos**](https://github.com/vlajos) + Typo fixes +* [**Tim Smith**](https://github.com/tas50) + Typo fixes +* [Pull 2505](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/2505) Make Chef handle URIs in a case-insensitive manner +* [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jaymzh): + Drop SSL warnings now that we have a safe default +* [Pull 2684](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/2684) Remove ole_initialize/uninitialize which cause problems with Ruby >= 2 +* [**BinaryBabel**](https://github.com/binarybabel) + Make knife cookbook site share prefer gnutar when packaging +* [**Dave Eddy**](https://github.com/bahamas10) + Support arrays for not_if and only_if +* [**Scott Bonds**](https://github.com/bonds) + Add service provider for OpenBSD +* [**Alex Slynko**](https://github.com/alex-slynko-wonga) + Change env provider to preserve ordering +* [**Rob Redpath**](https://github.com/robredpath) + Add --lockfile opt for chef-client and chef-solo +* [**Josh Murphy**](https://github.com/jdmurphy) + Check cookbooks exist in path(s) before attempting to upload them with --all +* [**Vasiliy Tolstov**](https://github.com/vtolstov) + add ability to fetch recipes like in chef-solo when using local-mode +* [**Jan**](https://github.com/habermann24) + FIX data_bag_item.rb:161: warning: circular argument reference - data_bag +* [**David Radcliffe**](https://github.com/dwradcliffe) + add banner for knife serve command +* [**Yukihiko Sawanobori**](https://github.com/sawanoboly) + use Chef::JSONCompat.parse for file_contents +* [**Xabier de Zuazo**] (https://github.com/zuazo) + Remove some simple Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 code +* [**Xabier de Zuazo**] (https://github.com/zuazo) + Remove all RSpec test filters related to Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 +* [**Xabier de Zuazo**] (https://github.com/zuazo) + Fix knife cookbook upload messages +* [**David Crowder**] (https://github.com/david-crowder) + refactor to use shell_out in rpm provider +* [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jaymzh): + Multi-package support +* [**Naotoshi Seo**](https://github.com/sonots): + Support HTTP/FTP source on rpm_package + add json_attribs option for chef-apply command + allow_downgrade in rpm_package +* [**AJ Christensen**](https://github.com/fujin): + Isolate/fix the no-fork fault. [Issue 2709](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2709) +* [**Cory Stephenson**](https://github.com/Aevin1387): + Remove comments of a service being enabled/disabled in FreeBSD. [Fixes #1791](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/1791) +* [**Will Albenzi**](https://github.com/walbenzi): + CHEF-4591: Knife commands to manipulate env_run_list on nodes +* [**Jon Cowie**](https://github.com/jonlives): + CHEF-2911: Fix yum_package provider to respect version requirements in package name and version attribute +* [**Anshul Sharma**](https://github.com/justanshulsharma): + * Node::Attribute to_s should print merged attributes [Issue 1526](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/1562) + * Access keys attribute in `knife show` list incorrect information [Issue 1974](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/1974) + * Guard interpreter loading incorrect resource [Issue 2683](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2683) + +### Chef Contributions +* ruby 1.9.3 support is dropped +* Update Chef to use RSpec 3.2 +* Cleaned up script and execute provider + specs +* Added deprecation warnings around the use of command attribute in script resources +* Audit mode feature added - see the RELEASE_NOTES for details +* shell_out now sets `LANGUAGE` and `LANG` to the `Chef::Config[:internal_locale]` in addition to `LC_ALL` forcing +* chef_gem supports a compile_time flag and will warn if it is not set (behavior will change in the future) +* suppress CHEF-3694 warnings on the most trivial resource cloning +* fixed bugs in the deep_merge_cache logic introduced in 12.0.0 around `node['foo']` vs `node[:foo]` vs. `node.foo` +* add `include_recipe "::recipe"` sugar to reference a recipe in the current cookbook +* Add --proxy-auth option to `knife raw` +* added Chef::Org model class for Chef Organizations in Chef 12 Server +* `powershell_script` should now correctly get the exit code for scripts that it runs. See [Issue 2348](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2348) +* Useradd functional tests fail randomly +* Add comments to trusted_certs_content +* fixes a bug where providers would not get defined if a top-level ruby constant with the same name was already defined (ark cookbook, chrome cookbook) +* Fix a bug in `reboot`, `ips_package`, `paludis_package`, `windows_package` resources where `action :nothing` was not permitted +* Use Chef::ApiClient#from_hash in `knife client create` to avoid json_class requirement. [Issue 2542](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2542) +* Add support for policyfile native API (preview). These APIs are unstable, and you may be forced to delete data uploaded to them in a + future release, so only use them for demonstration purposes. +* Deprecation warning for 'knife cookbook test' +* dsc_script should now correctly honor timeout. See [Issue 2831](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2831) +* Added an `imports` attribute to dsc_script. This attribute allows you to specify DSC resources that need to be imported for your script. +* Fixed error where guard resources (using :guard_interpreter) were not ran in `why_run` mode [Issue 2694](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2694) +* Add `verify` method to File resource per RFC027 +* Move supermarket.getchef.com to supermarket.chef.io +* Check with AccessCheck for permission to write to directory on Windows +* Add declare_resource/build_resource comments, fix faulty ||= +* Knife bootstrap creates a client and ships it to the node to implement validatorless bootstraps +* Knife bootstrap can use the client it creates to setup chef-vault items for the node +* windows service now has a configurable timeout + +## 12.0.3 +* [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jaymzh): +[Issue 2594](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2594) Restore missing require in `digester`. + +## 12.0.2 +* [Issue 2578](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2578) Check that `installed` is not empty for `keg_only` formula in Homebrew provider +* [Issue 2609](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2609) Resolve the circular dependency between ProviderResolver and Resource. +* [Issue 2596](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2596) Fix nodes not writing to disk +* [Issue 2580](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2580) Make sure the relative paths are preserved when using link resource. +* [Pull 2630](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/2630) Improve knife's SSL error messaging +* [Issue 2606](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2606) chef 12 ignores default_release for apt_package +* [Issue 2602](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2602) Fix `subscribes` resource notifications. +* [Issue 2578](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2578) Check that `installed` is not empty for `keg_only` formula in Homebrew provider. +* [**gh2k**](https://github.com/gh2k): + [Issue 2625](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2625) Fix missing `shell_out!` for `windows_package` resource +* [**BackSlasher**](https://github.com/BackSlasher): + [Issue 2634](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2634) Fix `option ':command' is not a valid option` error in subversion provider. +* [**Seth Vargo**](https://github.com/sethvargo): + [Issue 2345](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2345) Allow knife to install cookbooks with metadata.json. + +## 12.0.1 + +* [Issue 2552](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2552) Create constant for LWRP before calling `provides` +* [Issue 2545](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2545) `path` attribute of `execute` resource is restored to provide backwards compatibility with Chef 11. +* [Issue 2565](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2565) Fix `Chef::Knife::Core::BootstrapContext` constructor for knife-windows compat. +* [Issue 2566](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2566) Make sure Client doesn't raise error when interval is set on Windows. +* [Issue 2560](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2560) Fix `uninitialized constant Windows::Constants` in `windows_eventlog`. +* [Issue 2563](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/2563) Make sure the Chef Client rpm packages are signed with GPG keys correctly. + +## 12.0.0 + +* [**Jesse Hu**](https://github.com/jessehu): + retry on HTTP 50X Error when calling Chef REST API +* [**Nolan Davidson**](https://github.com/nsdavidson): + The chef-apply command now prints usage information when called without arguments +* [**Kazuki Saito**](https://github.com/sakazuki): + CHEF-4933: idempotency fixes for ifconfig provider +* [**Kirill Shirinkin**](https://github.com/Fodoj): + The knife bootstrap command expands the path of the secret-file +* [**Malte Swart**](https://github.com/mswart): + [CHEF-4101] DeepMerge - support overwriting hash values with nil +* [**James Belchamber**](https://github.com/JamesBelchamber): + Mount provider remount action now honours options +* [**Mark Gibbons**](https://github.com/MarkGibbons): + Fix noauto support in Solaris Mount Provider +* [**Jordan Evans**](https://github.com/jordane): + support version constraints in value_for_platform +* [**Yukihiko Sawanobori**](https://github.com/sawanoboly): + Add environment resource attribute to scm resources +* [**Grzesiek Kolodziejczyk**](https://github.com/grk): + Use thread-safe OpenSSL::Digest instead of Digest +* [**Grzesiek Kolodziejczyk**](https://github.com/grk): + Chef::Digester converted to thread-safe Singleton mixin. +* [**Vasiliy Tolstov**](https://github.com/vtolstov): + Reload systemd service only if it's running, otherwise start. +* [**Chris Jerdonek**](https://github.com/cjerdonek): + knife diagnostic messages sent to stdout instead of stderr +* [**Xabier de Zuazo**](https://github.com/zuazo): + Remove the unused StreamingCookbookUploader class (CHEF-4586) +* [**Jacob Vosmaer**](https://github.com/jacobvosmaer): + Fix creation of non-empty FreeBSD groups (#1698) +* [**Nathan Huff**](https://github.com/nhuff): + Check local repository for ips package installs (#1703) +* [**Sean Clemmer**](https://github.com/sczizzo): + Fix "cron" resource handling of special strings (e.g. @reboot, @yearly) (#1708) +* [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jaymzh): + 'group' provider on OSX properly uses 'dscl' to determine existing groups +* [**Hugo Lopes Tavares**](https://github.com/hltbra): + Catch StandardError in Chef::ResourceReporter#post_reporting_data (Issue 1550). +* [**Daniel O'Connor**](https://github.com/CloCkWeRX): + Fix regex causing DuplicateRole error (Issue 1739). +* [**Xeron**](https://github.com/xeron): + Ability to specify an array for data_bag_path. (CHEF-3399, CHEF-4753) +* [**Jordan**](https://github.com/jordane): + Use Systemd for recent Fedora and RHEL 7. +* [**Xabier de Zuazo**](https://github.com/zuazo): + Encrypted data bags should use different HMAC key and include the IV in the HMAC (CHEF-5356). +* [**Pierre Ynard**](https://github.com/linkfanel): + Don't modify variable passed to env resource when updating. +* [**Chris Aumann**](https://github.com/chr4): + Add "force" attribute to resource/user, pass "-f" to userdel. (Issue 1601) +* [**Brian Cobb**](https://github.com/bcobb): + Chef::VersionConstraint#to_s should accurately reflect constraint's behavior. +* [**Kevin Graham**](https://github.com/kgraham): + Do not override ShellOut:live_stream if already set. +* [**Mike Heijmans**](https://github.com/parabuzzle): + Change knife option --force to --delete-validators. (Issue 1652) +* [**Pavel Yudin**](https://github.com/Kasen): + Add Parallels Cloud Server (PCS) platform support. +* [**tbe**](https://github.com/tbe): + Minor fixes for the Paludis package provider: + * only search for non-masked packages, + * increase command timeout length for package installation. +* [**sawanoboly**](https://github.com/sawanoboly): + Use shared_path for deploy resource. +* [**Victor Hahn**](https://github.com/victorhahncastell): + Add template syntax check to files in the templates/ dir only. +* [**Jordan**](https://github.com/jordane): + Allow git provider to checkout existing branch names. +* [**Eric Herot**](https://github.com/eherot): + Add whitespace boundaries to some mount point references in mount provider. +* [**Dave Eddy**](https://github.com/bahamas10): + Improve the regex for /etc/rc.conf for the FreeBSD service provider +* [**Stanislav Bogatyrev**](https://github.com/realloc): + Fetch recipe_url before loading json_attribs in chef-solo (CHEF-5075) +* [**Mal Graty**](https://github.com/mal): + Workaround for a breaking change in git's shallow-clone behavior. (Issue 1563) +* [**Dave Eddy**](https://github.com/bahamas10): + Fix version detection in FreeBSD pkgng provider. (PR 1980) +* [**Dan Rathbone**](https://github.com/rathers): + Fixed gem_package resource to be able to upgrade gems when version is not set. +* [**Jean Mertz**](https://github.com/JeanMertz): + Made Chef Client load library folder recursively. +* [**Eric Saxby**](https://github.com/sax): + Made Chef Client read the non-root crontab entries as the user specified in the resource. +* [**sawanoboly**](https://github.com/sawanoboly): + Added `--dry-run` option to `knife cookbook site share` which displays the files that are to be uploaded to Supermarket. +* [**Sander van Harmelen**](https://github.com/svanharmelen): + Fixed `Chef::HTTP` to be able to follow relative redirects. +* [**Cory Stephenson**](https://github.com/Aevin1387): + Fixed FreeBSD port package provider to interpret FreeBSD version 10 correctly. +* [**Brett Chalupa**](https://github.com/brettchalupa): + Added `source_url` and `issues_url` options to metadata to be used by Supermarket. +* [**Anshul Sharma**](https://github.com/justanshulsharma): + Fixed Chef Client to use the `:client_name` instead of `:node_name` during initial client registration. +* [**tbe**](https://github.com/tbe): + Fixed Paludis package provider to be able to interpret the package category. +* [**David Workman**](https://github.com/workmad3): + Added a more clear error message to chef-apply when no recipe is given. +* [**Joe Nuspl**](https://github.com/nvwls): + Added support for `sensitive` property to the execute resource. +* [**Nolan Davidson**](https://github.com/nsdavidson): + Added an error message to prevent unintentional running of `exec()` in recipes. +* [**wacky612**](https://github.com/wacky612): + Fixed a bug in pacman package provider that was preventing the installation of `bind` package. +* [**Ionuț Arțăriși**](https://github.com/mapleoin): + Changed the default service provider to systemd on SLES versions 12 and higher. +* [**Ionuț Arțăriși**](https://github.com/mapleoin): + Changed the default group provider to gpasswd on SLES versions 12 and higher. +* [**Noah Kantrowitz**](https://github.com/coderanger): + Implemented [RFC017 - File Specificity Overhaul](https://github.com/chef/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc017-file-specificity.md). +* [**James Bence**](https://github.com/jbence): + Improved the reliability of Git provider by making it to be more specific when selecting tags. +* [**Jean Mertz**](https://github.com/JeanMertz): + Changed knife upload not to validate the ruby files under files & templates directories. +* [**Alex Pop**](https://github.com/alexpop): + Made `knife cookbook create` to display the directory of the cookbook that is being created. +* [**Alex Pop**](https://github.com/alexpop): + Fixed the information debug output for the configuration file being used when running knife. +* [**Martin Smith**](https://github.com/martinb3): + Changed `knife cookbook site share` to make category an optional parameter when uploading cookbooks. + It is still required when the cookbook is being uploaded for the first time but on the consequent + uploads existing category of the cookbook will be used. +* [**Nicolas DUPEUX**](https://github.com/vaxvms): + Added JSON output to `knife status` command. `--medium` and `--long` output formatting parameters are now supported in knife status. +* [**Trevor North**](https://github.com/trvrnrth): + Removed dead code from `knife ssh`. +* [**Nicolas Szalay**](https://github.com/rottenbytes): + Fixed a bug preventing mounting of cgroup type devices in the mount provider. +* [**Anshul Sharma**](https://github.com/justanshulsharma): + Fixed inconsistent globbing in `knife from file` command. +* [**Nicolas Szalay**](https://github.com/rottenbytes): + Made user prompts in knife more beautiful by adding a space after Y/N prompts. +* [**Ivan Larionov**](https://github.com/xeron): + Made empty run_list to produce an empty array when using node.to_hash. +* [**Siddheshwar More**](https://github.com/siddheshwar-more): + Fixed a bug in knife bootstrap that caused config options to override command line options. +* [**Thiago Oliveira**](https://github.com/chilicheech): + Fixed a bug in Mac OSX group provider and made it idempotent. +* [**liseki**](https://github.com/liseki): + Fixed a bug in why-run mode for freebsd service resources without configured init scripts. +* [**liseki**](https://github.com/liseki): + Fixed a bug in freebsd service providers to load the status correctly. + + +### Chef Contributions + +* ruby 1.9.3 support is dropped +* Added RFC-023 Chef 12 Attribute Changes (https://github.com/chef/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc023-chef-12-attributes-changes.md) +* Added os/platform_family options to provides syntax on the Chef::Resource DSL +* Added provides methods to the Chef::Provider DSL +* Added supported?(resource, action) class method to all Providers for late-evaluation if a provider can handle a + resource +* Added ProviderResolver feature to handle late resolution of providers based on what kinds of support is in the + base operating system. +* Partial Deprecation of Chef::Platform provider mapping. The static mapping will be removed as Chef-12 progresses + and the hooks will be completely dropped in Chef-13. +* Default `guard_interpreter` for `powershell_script` resource set to `:powershell_script`, for `batch` to `:batch` +* Recipe definition now returns the retval of the definition +* Add support for Windows 10 to version helper. +* `dsc_script` resource should honor configuration parameters when `configuration_data_script` is not set (Issue #2209) +* Ruby has been updated to 2.1.3 along with rubygems update to 2.4.2 +* Removed shelling out to erubis/ruby for syntax checks (>= 1.9 has been able + to do this in the ruby vm itself for awhile now and we've dropped 1.8.7 which + could not do this and had to shell_out) +* Report the request and response when a non-200 error code happens +* [FEATURE] Upgrade `knife upload` and `knife download` to download + **everything** in an organization, now including the organization definition + itself (`knife download /org.json`) and the invitations and member list + (`knife download /invitations.json` and `knife download /members.json`). + Should be compatible with knife-ec-backup. +* Make default Windows paths more backslashy +* `knife` now prefers to load `config.rb` in preference to `knife.rb`; +`knife.rb` will be used if `config.rb` is not found. +* Fixed Config[:cache_path] to use path_join() +* Updated chef-zero to 3.0, so that client tests can be run against Enterprise + Chef as well as Open Source. +* knife cookbook site download/list/search/share/show/unshare now uses + supermerket.getchef.com urls +* added Chef::ResourceCollection#insert_at API to the ResourceCollection +* http_proxy and related config vars no longer clobber already set ENV vars +* all http_proxy configs now set lowercase + uppercase versions of ENV vars +* https_proxy/ftp_proxy support setting `http://` URLs (and whatever mix and match makes sense) +* End-to-end tests for Ubuntu 12.04 +* Only run end-to-end tests when secure environment variables are present. +* Remove recipe DSL from base provisioner (Issue 1446). +* Enable client-side key generation by default. (Issue 1711) +* CookbookSiteStreamingUploader now uses ssl_verify_mode config option (Issue 1518). +* chef/json_compat now throws its own exceptions not JSON gem exceptions +* Modify action for env raises Chef::Exceptions::Env exception on Windows (Chef Issues 1754) +* Fix a bug in the experimental Policyfile mode that caused errors when + using templates. +* Disable JSON encoding of request body when non-JSON content type is + specified. +* Clean up FileVendor and CookbookUploader internal APIs +* log resource now marks itself as supporting why-run +* http_request no longer appends "?message=" query string to GET and HEAD requests +* added shell_out commands directly to the recipe DSL +* cookbook synchronizer deletes old files from cookbooks +* do not clear file cache when override run list is set (CHEF-3684) +* ruby 1.8.7/1.9.1/1.9.2 support is dropped +* set no_lazy_load to true (CHEF-4961) +* set file_stating_uses_destdir config option default to true (CHEF-5040) +* remove dependency on rest-client gem +* Add method shell_out_with_systems_locale to ShellOut. +* chef-repo rake tasks are deprecated; print relevant information for + each one. +* Fix RPM package version detection (Issue 1554) +* Don't override :default provider map if :default passed as platform (OC-11667). +* Fix SuSE package removal failure (Issue 1732). +* Enable Travis to run Test Kitchen with Kitchen EC2. +* Fix a bug in reporting not to post negative duration values. +* Add password setting support for Mac 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 to the dscl user provider. +* ChefSpec can find freebsd_package resource correctly when a package resource is declared on Freebsd. +* Autodetect/decrypt encrypted data bag items with data_bag_item dsl method. (Issue 1837, Issue 1849) +* windows_user: look up username instead of resource name (Issue #1705) +* Remove the unused bootstrap templates that install chef from rubygems +* Remove the Chef 10 functionality from bootstrap. +* Deprecate --distro / --template_file options in favor of --boostrap-template +* Add `:node_ssl_verify_mode` & `:node_verify_api_cert` options to bootstrap + to be able to configure these settings on the bootstrapped node. +* Add partial_search dsl method to Chef::Search::Query, add result filtering to search. +* Transfer trusted certificates under :trusted_certs_dir during bootstrap. +* Set :ssl_verify_mode to :verify_peer by default. +* Add homebrew provider for package resource, use it by default on OS X (Issue #1709) +* Add escape_glob method to PathHelper, update glob operations. +* Verify x509 properties of certificates in the :trusted_certs_dir during knife ssl check. +* Disable unforked interval chef-client runs. +* Removed dependencies on the 'json' gem, replaced with ffi-yajl. Use Chef::JSONCompat library for parsing and printing. +* Restore the deprecation logic of #valid_actions in LWRPs until Chef 13. +* Now that we don't allow unforked chef-client interval runs, remove the reloading of previously defined LWRPs. +* Use shell_out to determine Chef::Config[:internal_locale], fix CentOS locale detection bug. +* `only_if` and `not_if` attributes of `execute` resource now inherits the parent resource's + attributes when set to a `String`. +* Retain the original value of `retries` for resources and display the original value when the run fails. +* Added service provider for AIX. +* The Windows env provider will delete elements even if they are only in ENV (and not in the registry) +* Allow events to be logged to Windows Event Log +* Fixed bug in env resource where a value containing the delimiter could never correctly match the existing values +* More intelligent service check for systemd on Ubuntu 14.10. + +## 11.16.4 + +* Windows omnibus installer security updates for redistributed bash.exe / sh.exe + vulnerabilities ("Shellshock") CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-6278, + CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187. +* Fix bug on Windows where using the env resource on path could render the path unusable. +* Chef Client now retries when it gets 50X from Chef Server. +* Chef Client 11.16.4 can use the policyfiles generated with Chef DK 0.3.0. + +## 11.16.2 + +* [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jaymzh): + Fix a regression in whyrun_safe_ruby_block. + +## 11.16.0 + +* Fix a bug in user dscl provider to enable managing password and other properties at the same time. +* Add `dsc_script` resource to Chef for PowerShell DSC support on Windows + +## 11.14.6: + +* Modify action for env raises Chef::Exceptions::Env exception on Windows (Chef Issues 1754) +* Fix RPM package version detection (Issue 1554) +* Fix a bug in reporting not to post negative duration values. +* Add password setting support for Mac 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 to the dscl user provider. +* ChefSpec can find freebsd_package resource correctly when a package resource is declared on Freebsd. +* http_proxy and related config vars no longer clobber already set ENV vars +* all http_proxy configs now set lowercase + uppercase versions of ENV vars +* https_proxy/ftp_proxy support setting `http://` URLs (and whatever mix and match makes sense) + +## 11.14.2 + +* [**Jess Mink**](https://github.com/jmink): + Symlinks to directories should be swingable on windows (CHEF-3960) +* [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jaymzh): + SIGTERM will once-more kill a non-daemonized chef-client (CHEF-5172) +* [**Pierre Ynard**](https://github.com/linkfanel): + chef-service-manager should run as a non-interactive service (CHEF-5150) +* [**Tensibai Zhaoying**](https://github.com/Tensibai): + Fix file:// URI support in remote\_file on windows (CHEF-4472) +* [**John Dyer**](https://github.com/johntdyer): + Catch HTTPServerException for 404 in remote_file retry (CHEF-5116) +* [**Pavel Yudin**](https://github.com/Kasen): + Providers are now set correctly on CloudLinux. (CHEF-5182) +* [**Joe Richards**](https://github.com/viyh): + Made -E option to work with single lettered environments. (CHEF-3075) +* [**Jimmy McCrory**](https://github.com/JimmyMcCrory): + Added a 'knife node environment set' command. (CHEF-1910) +* [**Hongbin Lu**](https://github.com/hongbin): + Made bootstrap report authentication exceptions. (CHEF-5161) +* [**Richard Manyanza**](https://github.com/liseki): + Made `freebsd_package` resource use the brand new "pkgng" package + manager when available.(CHEF-4637) +* [**Nikhil Benesch**](https://github.com/benesch): + Implemented a threaded download queue for synchronizing cookbooks. (CHEF-4423) +* [**Chulki Lee**](https://github.com/chulkilee): + Raise an error when source is accidentally passed to apt_package (CHEF-5113) +* [**Cam Cope**](https://github.com/ccope): + Add an open_timeout when opening an http connection (CHEF-5152) +* [**Sander van Harmelen**](https://github.com/svanharmelen): + Allow environment variables set on Windows to be used immediately (CHEF-5174) +* [**Luke Amdor**](https://github.com/rubbish): + Add an option to configure the chef-zero port (CHEF-5228) +* [**Ricardo Signes**](https://github.com/rjbs): + Added support for the usermod provider on OmniOS +* [**Anand Suresh**](https://github.com/anandsuresh): + Only modify password when one has been specified. (CHEF-5327) +* [**Stephan Renatus**](https://github.com/srenatus): + Add exception when JSON parsing fails. (CHEF-5309) +* [**Xabier de Zuazo**](https://github.com/zuazo): + OK to exclude space in dependencies in metadata.rb. (CHEF-4298) +* [**Łukasz Jagiełło**](https://github.com/ljagiello): + Allow cookbook names with leading underscores. (CHEF-4562) +* [**Michael Bernstein**](https://github.com/mrb): + Add Code Climate badge to README. +* [**Phil Sturgeon**](https://github.com/philsturgeon): + Documentation that -E is not respected by knife ssh [search]. (CHEF-4778) +* [**Stephan Renatus**](https://github.com/srenatus): + Fix resource_spec.rb. +* [**Sander van Harmelen**](https://github.com/svanharmelen): + Ensure URI compliant urls. (CHEF-5261) +* [**Robby Dyer**](https://github.com/robbydyer): + Correctly detect when rpm_package does not exist in upgrade action. (CHEF-5273) +* [**Sergey Sergeev**](https://github.com/zhirafovod): + Hide sensitive data output on chef-client error (CHEF-5098) +* [**Mark Vanderwiel**](https://github.com/kramvan1): + Add config option :yum-lock-timeout for yum-dump.py +* [**Peter Fern**](https://github.com/pdf): + Convert APT package resource to use `provides :package`, add timeout parameter. +* [**Xabier de Zuazo**](https://github.com/zuazo): + Fix Chef::User#list API error when inflate=true. (CHEF-5328) +* [**Raphaël Valyi**](https://github.com/rvalyi): + Use git resource status checking to reduce shell_out system calls. +* [**Eric Krupnik**](https://github.com/ekrupnik): + Added .project to git ignore list. +* [**Ryan Cragun**](https://github.com/ryancragun): + Support override_runlist CLI option in shef/chef-shell. (CHEF-5314) +* [**Cam Cope**](https://github.com/ccope): + Fix updating user passwords on Solaris. (CHEF-5247) +* [**Ben Somers**](https://github.com/bensomers): + Enable storage of roles in subdirectories for chef-solo. (CHEF-4193) +* [**Robert Tarrall**](https://github.com/tarrall): + Fix Upstart provider with parameters. (CHEF-5265) +* [**Klaas Jan Wierenga**](https://github.com/kjwierenga): + Don't pass on default HTTP port(80) in Host header. (CHEF-5355) +* [**MarkGibbons**](https://github.com/MarkGibbons): + Allow for undefined solaris services in the service resource. (CHEF-5347) +* [**Allan Espinosa**](https://github.com/aespinosa): + Properly knife bootstrap on ArchLinux. (CHEF-5366) +* [**Matt Hoyle**](https://github.com/deployable): + Made windows service resource to handle transitory states. (CHEF-5319, CHEF-4791) +* [**Brett cave**](https://github.com/brettcave): + Add Dir.pwd as fallback for default user_home if home directory is not set. (CHEF-5365) +* [**Caleb Tennis**](https://github.com/ctennis): + Add support for automatically using the Systemd service provider when available. (CHEF-3637) +* [**Matt Hoyle**](https://github.com/deployable): + Add timeout for Chef::Provider::Service::Windows. (CHEF-1165) +* [**Jesse Hu**](https://github.com/jessehu): + knife[:attribute] in knife.rb should not override --attribute (CHEF-5158) +* [**Vasiliy Tolstov**](https://github.com/vtolstov): + Added the initial exherbo linux support for Chef providers. + +* Fix knife cookbook site share on windows (CHEF-4994) +* YAJL Allows Invalid JSON File Sending To The Server (CHEF-4899) +* YAJL Silently Ingesting Invalid JSON and "Normalizing" Incorrectly (CHEF-4565) +* Update rpm provider checking regex to allow for special characters (CHEF-4893) +* Allow for spaces in selinux controlled directories (CHEF-5095) +* Windows batch resource run action fails: " TypeError: can't convert nil into String" (CHEF-5287) +* Log resource always triggers notifications (CHEF-4028) +* Prevent tracing? from throwing an exception when first starting chef-shell. +* Use Upstart provider on Ubuntu 13.10+. (CHEF-5276) +* Cleaned up mount provider superclass +* Added "knife serve" to bring up local mode as a server +* Print nested LWRPs with indentation in doc formatter output +* Make local mode stable enough to run chef-pedant +* Wrap code in block context when syntax checking so `return` is valid + (CHEF-5199) +* Quote git resource rev\_pattern to prevent glob matching files (CHEF-4940) +* User resource now only prints the name during why-run runs. (CHEF-5180) +* Set --run-lock-timeout to wait/bail if another client has the runlock (CHEF-5074) +* remote\_file's source attribute does not support DelayedEvaluators (CHEF-5162) +* `option` attribute of mount resource now supports lazy evaluation. (CHEF-5163) +* `force_unlink` now only unlinks if the file already exists. (CHEF-5015) +* `chef_gem` resource now uses omnibus gem binary. (CHEF-5092) +* chef-full template gets knife options to override install script url, add wget/curl cli options, and custom install commands (CHEF-4697) +* knife now bootstraps node with the latest current version of chef-client. (CHEF-4911) +* Add config options for attribute whitelisting in node.save. (CHEF-3811) +* Use user's .chef as a fallback cache path if /var/chef is not accessible. (CHEF-5259) +* Fixed Ruby 2.0 Windows compatibility issues around ruby-wmi gem by replacing it with wmi-lite gem. +* Set proxy environment variables if preset in config. (CHEF-4712) +* Automatically enable verify_api_cert when running chef-client in local-mode. (Chef Issues 1464) +* Add helper to warn for broken [windows] paths. (CHEF-5322) +* Send md5 checksummed data for registry key if data type is binary, dword, or qword. (Chef-5323) +* Add warning if host resembles winrm command and knife-windows is not present. +* Use FFI binders to attach :SendMessageTimeout to avoid DL deprecation warning. (ChefDK Issues 69) +* Use 'guest' user on AIX for RSpec tests. (OC-9954) +* Added DelayedEvaluator support in LWRP using the `lazy {}` key +* Fixed a bug where nested resources that inherited from Resource::LWRPBase + would not share the same actions/default_action as their parent +* Raise error if a guard_interpreter is specified and a block is passed to a guard (conditional) +* Allow specifying a guard_interpreter after a conditional on a resource (Fixes #1943) +* Windows package type should be a symbol (Fixes #1997) |