From 74d4ac644777be8edd8aceb0e4f9182ffa63ff18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Smith Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:58:37 -0700 Subject: Add Chef 13.12 release notes Signed-off-by: Tim Smith --- RELEASE_NOTES.md | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index 1726d8f5e4..ec08794a8f 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -1,17 +1,52 @@ _This file holds "in progress" release notes for the current release under development and is intended for consumption by the Chef Documentation team. Please see for the official Chef release notes._ -# Unreleased +# Chef Client Release Notes 13.12 -## Ohai Release Nots 13.12 +## Smaller Package and Install Size + +Both Chef packages and on disk installations have been greatly reduced in size by trimming unnecessary installation files. This has reduced our package size on macOS/Linux by ~50% and Windows by ~12%. With this change Chef 13 is now smaller than a legacy Chef 10 package. + +## macOS Mojave (10.14) + +Chef is now tested against macOS Mojave, and packages are now available at downloads.chef.io. + +## SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 + +- Ohai now properly detects SLES 15 +- The Chef package will no longer remove symlinks to chef-client and ohai when upgrading on SLES 15 + +## Updated Chef-Vault + +Multiple bugfixes in Chef Vault have been resolved by updating chef-vault to 3.4.2 + +## Faster Windows Installations + +Windows installation speeds have been improved by using skipping unnecessary steps when Windows Installer 5+ is available. + +## Ohai Release Notes 13.12 ### macOS Improvements - sysctl commands have been modified to gather only the bare minimum required data, which prevents sysctl hanging in some scenarios - Extra data has been removed from the system_profile plugin, reducing the amount of data stored on the chef-server for each node -### SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 +## New Deprecations -- Ohai now properly detects SLES 15 +### system_profile Ohai plugin removal + +The system_profile plugin will be removed from Chef/Ohai 15 in April 2019. This plugin does not correctly return data on modern Mac systems. Additionally the same data is provided by the hardware plugin, which has a format that is simpler to consume. Removing this plugin will reduce Ohai return by ~3 seconds and greatly reduce the size of the node object on the Chef server. + +### ohai_name property in ohai resource + +The ``ohai`` resource's unused ``ohai_name`` property has been deprecated. This will be removed in Chef 15.0. + +## Security Updates + +### Ruby 2.4.5 + +Ruby has been updated to from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 to resolve multiple CVEs as well as bugs: +- [CVE-2018-16396](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/10/17/not-propagated-taint-flag-in-some-formats-of-pack-cve-2018-16396/) +- [CVE-2018-16395](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/10/17/openssl-x509-name-equality-check-does-not-work-correctly-cve-2018-16395/) # Chef Client Release Notes 13.11 -- cgit v1.2.1