Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.7.6 - HTML format

Bug

  • [CHEF-87] - File specificity (preferred file) is broken by dotfiles
  • [CHEF-357] - groupmod error with chef (0.6.2)
  • [CHEF-371] - Link provider will not delete symbolic link if target does not exist
  • [CHEF-394] - Last Check-in is only updated on the first run of chef-client, but not on later runs
  • [CHEF-400] - Chef::Application#fatal! should log output to STDERR aswell, so errors are more plain
  • [CHEF-406] - typos in specs, fix resulting failures
  • [CHEF-407] - CHEF-308 breaks mount provider remote filesystem usage
  • [CHEF-409] - run_list specified in json doesn't run the file caching step before trying to find recipes
  • [CHEF-410] - Be able to have major, minor, revision for metadata version.
  • [CHEF-411] - When a recipe is in the run_list and included, it may be run twice
  • [CHEF-413] - why did chef gem get so big?
  • [CHEF-415] - Error message clarity when a registration exists for the same hostname but the local secret doesn't exist / match
  • [CHEF-416] - API roles, search integration features have failing steps
  • [CHEF-423] - gentoo service provider enable action always runs for long service names
  • [CHEF-433] - rake install should not copy .git files in addition to .svn
  • [CHEF-436] - Default attributes from a role should not be written into the role's nodes
  • [CHEF-437] - if manage_home is set to true but no home is set then home dir becomes -m
  • [CHEF-458] - File Cache stub missing
  • [CHEF-463] - chef-solo and chef-client should display the version with --version (and optionally, -v)
  • [CHEF-465] - chef-solo tries to get templates from localhost:4000
  • [CHEF-467] - chef-server web ui doesn't load assets properly with 0.7.5

Improvement

  • [CHEF-373] - include specs in chef gem
  • [CHEF-395] - Splay time should be applied before the first run, not after
  • [CHEF-418] - Update readme for new integration tests
  • [CHEF-427] - Minor cleanup of JSON Attribute editor
  • [CHEF-448] - allow a default URL definition in client.rb
  • [CHEF-1337] - Chef is too 1337 4 u

New Feature

  • [CHEF-274] - Add support for multiple named queues on a single stompserver
  • [CHEF-414] - add symlink owner/group support
  • [CHEF-420] - Decouple usage of -s from -i

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