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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index 101a656e17..869f86823e 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -1504,6 +1504,60 @@ Several legacy Windows helpers have been deprecated as they will always return t - Chef::Platform.supports_powershell_execution_bypass? - Chef::Platform.windows_nano_server? +## What's new in 15.16 + +### Fixes and Improvements + +- Improved license acceptance failure messaging if incorrect values are provided. +- License acceptance values are no longer case sensitive. +- Resolved several failures that could occur in the `windows_certificate` resource. +- Improved handling of WinRM connections when bootstrapping Windows nodes. +- Switched docker containers back to EL6 packages to prevent failures running the containers with Kitchen Dokken to test RHEL 6 systems. +- Fixed non-0 exit codes in the Yum and DNF helper scripts which caused errors in system logs. +- Fixed package failures in FreeBSD due to changed in `pkgng` exit codes. +- Added support for `client.d` configuration files in `chef-shell`. + +### Chef InSpec + +Chef InSpec has been updated from 4.24.8 to 4.29.3 + +#### New Features + +- The JSON metadata pass-through configuration has been moved from the Automate reporter to the JSON Reporter +- Added the option to filter out empty profiles from reports. +- Exposed the `conf_path`, `content`, and `params` properties to the `auditd_conf` resource. +- You can now directly refer to settings in the `nginx_conf` resource using the `its` syntax. Thanks [@rgeissert](https://github.com/rgeissert)! +- Plugin settings can now be set programmatically. Thanks [@tecracer-theinen](https:/github.com/tecracer-theinen)! +- OpenSSH Client on Windows can now be tested with the `ssh_config` and `sshd_config` resources. Thanks [@rgeissert](https://github.com/rgeissert)! + +#### Bug Fixes + +- The `--reporter-message-truncation` option now also truncates the `code_desc` field, preventing failures when sending large reports to Automate. +- Fixed `skip_control` to work on deeply nested profiles. +- The `ssh_config` and `sshd_config` resources now correctly use the first value when a setting is repeated. +- Fixed the `crontab` resource when passing a username to AIX. +- Stopped a backtrace from occurring when using `cmp` to compare `nil` with a non-existing file. +- The `apt` resource now correctly fetches all package repositories using the `-name` flag in an environment where ZSH is the user's default shell. +- The `--controls` option in `inspec exec` now correctly filters the controls by name. +- Updates how InSpec profiles are created with GCP or AWS providers so they use `inputs` instead of `attributes`. +- `inspec exec` will now fetch profiles via Git regardless of the name of the default branch.rces now correctly use the first value when a setting is repeated. +- Updated the `oracledb_session` to use more general invocation options. Thanks [@pacopal](https://github.com/pacopal)! +- Fixed an error with the `http` resource in Chef Infra Client by including `faraday_middleware` in the gemspec. +- Fixed an incompatibility between `parslet` and `toml` in Chef Infra Client. +- Improved programmatic plugin configuration. + +### Security + +Upgraded OpenSSL to 1.0.2y, which resolves the following CVEs: + +- [CVE-2021-23841](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23841) +- [CVE-2021-23839](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23839) +- [CVE-2021-23840](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-23840) + +### Platform Updates + +With the release of macOS 11 we will no longer produce packages for macOS 10.13 systems. See our [Platform End-of-Life Policy](https://docs.chef.io/platforms/#platform-end-of-life-policy) for details on the platform lifecycle. + ## What's new in 15.15 ### Chef InSpec 4.24.8 |