From b0ab453e200329b162d6110bfdc040b9abc3846b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Smith Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 20:14:12 -0800 Subject: Add 16.9 release notes Signed-off-by: Tim Smith --- RELEASE_NOTES.md | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index a8e1b732eb..fa5bb89385 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -1,5 +1,43 @@ 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. +# What's New in 16.9 + +## Knife Improvements + +- The `knife bootstrap` command now properly formats the `trusted_certs_dir` configuration value on Windows hosts. Thanks for this fix [@axelrtgs](https://github.com/axelrtgs) +- The `knife bootstrap` command now only specifies the ssh option `-o IdentitiesOnly=yes` if keys are present. Thanks for this fix [@drbrain](https://github.com/drbrain) +- The `knife status` command with the `-F json` flag no longer fails if cloud nodes have no public IP + +## Updated Resources + +### cron_d + +The `cron_d` resource now respects the use of the `sensitive` property. Thanks for this fix [@axl89](https://github.com/axl89)! + +### dnf + +The `dnf` resource has received a large number of improvements to provide improved idempotency and to better handle uses of the `version` and `arch` properties. Thanks for reporting these issues [@epilatow](https://github.com/epilatow) and [@Blorpy](https://github.com/Blorpy)! + +### homebrew_cask + +The `homebrew_cask` resource has been updated to work with the latest command syntax requirements in the `brew` command. Thanks for reporting this issue [@bcg62](https://github.com/bcg62)! + +### locale + +The allowed execution time for the `locale-gen` command in the `locale` resource has been extended to 1800 seconds to make sure the Chef Infra Client run doesn't fail before the command completes on slower systems. Thanks for reporting this issue [@janskarvall](https://github.com/janskarvall)! + +### plist / macosx_service / osx_profile / macos_userdefaults + +Parsing of plist files has been improved in the `plist`, `macosx_service`, `osx_profile` and `macos_userdefaults` resources thanks to updates to the plist gem by [@reitermarkus](https://github.com/reitermarkus) and [@tboyko](https://github.com/tboyko). + +### user + +The `user` resource on Windows hosts now properly handles `uid` values passed as strings instead of integers. Thanks for reporting this issue [@jaymzh](https://github.com/jaymzh)! + +## Security + +- The bundled Nokogiri Ruby gem has been updated to resolve [CVE-2020-26247](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26247) + # What's New in 16.8.14 - Updated openSSL to 1.0.2x to resolve [CVE-2020-1971](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1971). -- cgit v1.2.1