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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index 41f526dfab..b1e33fbc9f 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -182,3 +182,14 @@ the first place (`some_resource "name_two" do ...`) All the APIs in chef/mixlib/command have been removed. They were deprecated by mixlib-shellout and the shell_out mixin API. +### Iconv has been removed from the ruby libraries and chef omnibus build + +The ruby Iconv library was replaced by the Encoding library in ruby 1.9.x and since the deprecation of ruby 1.8.7 there has been no need +for the Iconv library but we have carried it forwards as a dependency since removing it might break some chef code out there which used +this library. It has now been removed from the ruby build. This also removes LGPLv3 code from the omnibus build and reduces build +headaches from porting iconv to every platform we ship chef-client on. + +This will also affect nokogiri, but that gem natively supports UTF-8, UTF-16LE/BE, ISO-8851-1(Latin-1), ASCII and "HTML" encodings. Users +who really need to write something like Shift-JIS inside of XML will need to either maintain their own nokogiri installs or will need to +convert to using UTF-8. + |