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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index 67f54644a8..75852adaf2 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -193,6 +193,23 @@ This will also affect nokogiri, but that gem natively supports UTF-8, UTF-16LE/B 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. +### Deprecated cookbook metadata has been removed + +The `recommends`, `suggests`, `conflicts`, `replaces` and `grouping` +metadata fields are no longer supported, and have been removed, since +they were never used. Chef will ignore them in existing `metadata.rb` +files, but we recommend that you remove them. This was proposed in RFC 85. + +### All unignored cookbook files will now be uploaded. + +We now treat every file under a cookbook directory as belonging to a +cookbook, unless that file is ignored with a `chefignore` file. This is +a change from the previous behaviour where only files in certain +directories, such as `recipes` or `templates`, were treated as special. +This change allows chef to support new classes of files, such as Ohai +plugins or Inspec tests, without having to make changes to the cookbook +format to support them. + ### DSL-based custom resources and providers no longer get module constants Up until now, creating a `mycook/resources/thing.rb` would create a `Chef::Resources::MycookThing` name to access the resource class object. |