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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index bf8783b115..9624afbf68 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ This section serves to track things we should later document here for 17.0 - gem resource: assume rubygems 1.8+ now: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10379 - file: only run verifiers when the contents changed - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11171 -### Ohai +### Ohai - Ohai now detects systems running in the Effortless pattern at `node['chef_packages']['chef']['chef_effortless']` - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1624 - New Ohai habitat plugin at `node['habitat']` - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1623 - Detect Sangoma Linux in Ohai - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1631 @@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ This section serves to track things we should later document here for 17.0 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) +- [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 @@ -91,11 +91,11 @@ On AWS instances, we now gather data from the latest metadata API versions, expo - placement/region - spot/instance-action -#### Alma Linux Support +#### Alma Linux Detection -Chef Infra Client now maps [Alma Linux](https://almalinux.org/) to the `rhel` `platform_family` value. Alma Linux is a new open-source RHEL fork produced by the CloudLinux team. +Chef Infra Client now maps [Alma Linux](https://almalinux.org/) to the `rhel` `platform_family` value. Alma Linux is a new open-source RHEL fork produced by the CloudLinux team. Alma Linux falls under Chef's [Community Support](https://docs.chef.io/platforms/#community-support) platform support policy providing community driven support without the extensive testing given to commercially supported platforms in Chef Infra Client. -We've also added support for testing cookbooks on Alma Linux with new [Alma Linux 8 Vagrant Images](https://app.vagrantup.com/bento/boxes/almalinux-8) for use in Test Kitchen on VirtualBox, Parallels, and VMware. You can use these images today in Test Kitchen by specifying this new box in your config as follows: +You can test cookbooks on Alma Linux in Test Kitchen using [Alma Linux 8 Vagrant Images](https://app.vagrantup.com/bento/boxes/almalinux-8 on VirtualBox, Parallels, and VMware hypervisors as follows: ```yaml platforms: @@ -104,8 +104,6 @@ platforms: box: bento/almalinux-8 ``` -Note: In the upcoming release of Chef Workstation, you'll be able to skip the `box` config and Test Kitchen will automatically map `almalinux-8` to the appropriate Vagrant image. - #### Knife Bootstrapping Without Sudo The `knife bootstrap` command now supports elevating privileges on systems without `sudo` by using the `su` command instead. Use the new `--su-user` and `--su-password` flags to specify credentials for `su`. @@ -432,7 +430,7 @@ The `ifconfig` resource has been updated to no longer add empty blank lines to t The `windows_audit_policy` resource has been updated to fix a bug on failure-only auditing. -## Ohai Improvements +### Ohai Improvements #### Passwd Plugin For Windows |