Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.10.6 - HTML format

Bug

  • [CHEF-1656] - The knife man page has no description of the -F/--format options
  • [CHEF-1697] - Chef service resource confused by services names with spaces under Windows
  • [CHEF-1737] - Improve error reporting when cookbook files are not put in the standard locations.
  • [CHEF-1830] - knife bootstrap no longer prompts for password
  • [CHEF-1898] - Knife error messages get sent to stdout
  • [CHEF-1901] - Rakefile for mixlib-cli should require yaml
  • [CHEF-1958] - Misleading error message when files entry isn't under "default"
  • [CHEF-1959] - file provider ignores create_if_missing
  • [CHEF-2061] - knife bootstrap not finding add-on bootstrap dir
  • [CHEF-2107] - windows service provider works incorrectly on windows versions other than english
  • [CHEF-2339] - Node search results disappear just after node performs save
  • [CHEF-2342] - knife bootstrap script for centos should use rhel.rpm from aegisco to install yum repository
  • [CHEF-2344] - "knife configure -i" overwrites client key with 'nil' when run for an existing client name
  • [CHEF-2357] - shell_out should support cwd on windows platform
  • [CHEF-2358] - shell_out should support passing environment variables on windows platform
  • [CHEF-2363] - knife node edit: "EOFError: end of file reached" on save
  • [CHEF-2376] - Broken client scenario "Remove cached file checksums that are no longer needed"
  • [CHEF-2377] - Broken client scenario "Synchronize dependent cookbooks"
  • [CHEF-2378] - Chef expander's "rake install" fails with undefined method `version'
  • [CHEF-2437] - clear attribute list after each Knife::NodeShow.run
  • [CHEF-2462] - chef-expander in 0.10.2 requires git
  • [CHEF-2491] - init scripts should implement reload
  • [CHEF-2509] - "knife configure -i" incorrectly adds the deprecated cookbook shadowing configuration
  • [CHEF-2516] - Shef::SoloSession#rebuild_context raises NameError for undefined local variable or method run_status in solo mode
  • [CHEF-2519] - remote_directory create always logging
  • [CHEF-2530] - chef-solr-rebuild is broken
  • [CHEF-2531] - chef-expander, chef-expander-vnode argument parsing
  • [CHEF-2534] - Chef debian package should depend on ucf
  • [CHEF-2541] - windows service provider reports success on a failed restart
  • [CHEF-2547] - yum provider - arch in package name triggers provides search
  • [CHEF-2548] - Options list in knife manpages are out of date
  • [CHEF-2553] - chef-solr configs are packed within tar.gz
  • [CHEF-2559] - --with-uri option broken for multiple commands
  • [CHEF-2569] - Cannot bootstrap CentOS instances because of Aegisco RPMs fixed to specifc version in bootstrap
  • [CHEF-2571] - mixlib-cli does not support negation of boolean parameters
  • [CHEF-2573] - knife ssh interactive mode via tmux fails on OS X when search queries contain a colon
  • [CHEF-2579] - ~ in cookbook_path fails to expand on cookbook create
  • [CHEF-2580] - unable to delete via the webui
  • [CHEF-2588] - webui status page doesn't respect environment selection
  • [CHEF-2595] - Can't use the --description option when creating a role
  • [CHEF-2634] - FreeBSD packages: fail to build when using ports - incorrect use of port Makefile and working dir?
  • [CHEF-2637] - yum provider - packages installed but non zero exit status
  • [CHEF-2649] - validation client should not be able to create admin clients
  • [CHEF-2657] - Failing specs in chef-expander
  • [CHEF-2660] - chef-expander: undefined method `stop' for Chef::Expander::VNodeSupervisor:Class
  • [CHEF-2661] - Chef::Cookbook::SyntaxCheck shouldn't shell_out to run erubis via sh
  • [CHEF-2672] - Bad conditional in yum_spec.rb
  • [CHEF-2674] - Failing specs in chef-server-api
  • [CHEF-2675] - Typos in Sandboxes#update
  • [CHEF-2676] - Sandboxes#update fails if the sandbox is already complete
  • [CHEF-2684] - Windows Ruby 1.9: uninitialized constant Chef::Mixin::Command::Windows::Open4
  • [CHEF-2699] - Don't depend on the value of an masgn
  • [CHEF-2712] - rake install is broken in master due typo in Rakefile
  • [CHEF-2721] - not_if and only_if work incorrectly for commands on windows
  • [CHEF-2787] - knife help search examples reference 'nodes' when it should be 'node'

Improvement

  • [CHEF-294] - response_file handles grabbing a file via remote_file, but doesn't allow for dynamic preseeding through a template
  • [CHEF-597] - Debian service provider should use invoke-rc.d <script> rather than /etc/init.d/<script>
  • [CHEF-630] - Deploy should create the directories it needs if they don't exist
  • [CHEF-909] - Rollback on deploy errors
  • [CHEF-1506] - group resource should support 'system' similar to user
  • [CHEF-1677] - Support csshX in knife ssh
  • [CHEF-2179] - new log output for chef runs is a bit too verbose
  • [CHEF-2193] - knife bootstrap - search for bootstrap templates in external knife plugins
  • [CHEF-2207] - Add gemfile and development dependencies to chef client
  • [CHEF-2260] - knife cookbook create should use markdown as default README file format.
  • [CHEF-2431] - Present node JSON data in a similar manner to editing a node
  • [CHEF-2439] - "owner changed" info notice on cookbook_files is always repeated
  • [CHEF-2492] - Ifconfig provider doesn't allow modeling of onparent
  • [CHEF-2532] - Clean up spec output
  • [CHEF-2542] - Missing specs for some of the knife client commands
  • [CHEF-2549] - Add start handlers to a chef-client run.
  • [CHEF-2563] - Missing specs for some of the knife cookbook commands
  • [CHEF-2570] - new :reconfig action for the package resource
  • [CHEF-2607] - Missing spec for knife configure client
  • [CHEF-2647] - improve file specificity with component versions

New Feature

  • [CHEF-2434] - bootstrap templates should transfer/rendering of encrypted_data_bag_secret in client.rb
  • [CHEF-2626] - Platform/distribution identification for Solaris derivitives

Sub-task

  • [CHEF-2651] - solr_url ignores the path
  • [CHEF-2652] - solr-expander hardcodes solr_url
  • [CHEF-2655] - Refactor Checksum to support more storage strategies

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