From ddb1e484012bbc78080a9ce51997e5f5727315aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Smith Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:54:20 -0800 Subject: Update RELEASE_NOTES.md Signed-off-by: Tim Smith --- RELEASE_NOTES.md | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index 98f433fcd8..986f01bac5 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -5,29 +5,40 @@ This file holds "in progress" release notes for the current release under develo This section serves to track things we should later document here for 17.0 - Dropped support for Ruby 2.6 -- Lazy attribute loading: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10861 -- Duping property defaults: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11095 - Compliance Phase in GA: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10547 -- gem resource: assume rubygems 1.8+ now: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10379 - remove support for RHEL 6 i386 / Ubuntu 16.04 / macOS 10.13 -- don't write out node['filesystem2'] data on AIX/Solaris/FreeBSD: https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1592 -- Improved performance in systemd_unit resource - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10925 - Compliance cli report - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10939 - Remove ability to run client as a service on Windows - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10928 -- apt_package allow_downgrades now functions as expected, but also raises on invalid versions - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10993 -- reboot_pending? now works on all debian platform_family distros not just Ubuntu specifically - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10989 -- Alibaba Cloud support with node['alibaba'] showing metadata, `alibaba?` helper and node['cloud'] returning data now - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11004 - macOS builds now use openSSL 1.1.1 -- 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 - Knife Org commands from knife-opc are now part of chef itself - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10187 -- Improved Docker container detection - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1627 -- Improve idempotency debug logging in resources - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11149 - Chef packages on *nix now create the /etc/chef directory and subdirectories to make getting started easier - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11158 + + +### Infra Language Improvements + - New effortless? helper - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11150 -- Resolve potential failures in chef_client_launchd and macosx_service - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11154 - Default values in custom resources are now dup'd - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11095 +- Lazy attribute loading: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10861 +- reboot_pending? now works on all debian platform_family distros not just Ubuntu specifically - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10989 + +### Resource Improvements + +- apt_package allow_downgrades now functions as expected, but also raises on invalid versions - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10993 - Use shell redirection in chef_client_cron when append_log_file is true - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11124 +- Improve idempotency debug logging in resources - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11149 +- Resolve potential failures in chef_client_launchd and macosx_service - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11154 +- Improved performance in systemd_unit resource - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10925 +- gem resource: assume rubygems 1.8+ now: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10379 + +### 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 +- Gather additional package information on Windows - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1616 +- Detect guests running in Podman - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1617 +- Improved Docker container detection - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1627 +- don't write out node['filesystem2'] data on AIX/Solaris/FreeBSD: https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1592 +- Alibaba Cloud support with node['alibaba'] showing metadata, `alibaba?` helper and node['cloud'] returning data now - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11004 ## What's New in 16.10.17 -- cgit v1.2.1