v15.0.258 (2019-05-03)

Merged Pull Requests

Update more brand names to current #8454 (tas50)

Changes since latest stable release

Merged Pull Requests

Update more brand names to current #8454 (tas50)
Add connstant for Chef Server and improve help messaging #8452 (tas50)
Fixed empty value for knife status long output #8415 (vijaymmali1990)
[CHEF-8432] Ensure default protocol is used properly. Use correct 'require' before accessing Net::SSH constants. #8440 (marcparadise)
Replace Chef Client by its constant in Chef::Dist #8448 (Tensibai)
Update to Ruby 2.6.3 #8446 (tas50)
Remove old maintainer gems from the Gemfile #8445 (tas50)
[CHEF-8422] Fix incorrect deprecation warnings #8429 (marcparadise)
Update InSpec to 4.3.2 #8444 (jaymalasinha)
file: Tell people what file a link is pointing at in warning messages #8417 (jaymzh)
fix chef-bin bundling in omnibus #8439 (lamont-granquist)
Fixed bootstrap error while using --msi-url option with knife bootstrap winrm #8435 (Vasu1105)
remove windows executables from windows gemspec #8430 (lamont-granquist)
Update property descriptions for new resources #8424 (tas50)
Update InSpec preview to 4.2.0 #8426 (tas50)
Remove chef-* bin files from chef gem #8413 (lamont-granquist)
Enable license acceptance during bootstrap #8411 (marcparadise)
Implement bootstrap directly with train #8419 (marcparadise)
"chef-client" => #{Chef::Dist::CLIENT} #8418 (bobchaos)
Add the introduced field to snap_package #8412 (tas50)
windows_task: Add start_when_available support #8420 (vsingh-msys)
Fix for write permissions were not working properly on windows #8168 (vijaymmali1990)
Refactor bootstrapping to use train as the transport with full Windows bootstrap support #8253 (marcparadise)
Move ed25519 gems into omnibus #8410 (tas50)
Implement new owner/review structure + expand dev docs #8350 (tas50)
Add Chef::Dist to abstract branding details to a single location #8368 (bobchaos)
Switch to inspec/train from gems #8407 (tas50)
Merge the local and travis kitchen tests into a single config #8406 (tas50)
Replace kitchen-appbundle-updater in Travis tests with Test Kitchen lifecycle hooks #8403 (lamont-granquist)
Triggering expeditor version bump #8405 (marcparadise)
Add ed25519 deps, bump highline and net-ssh pins and pull inspec from git #8380 (tas50)
fix default/override attribute blacklists and whitelists #8396 (lamont-granquist)
Replace highline with tty-screen in knife list #8381 (tas50)
Sync the CLI option descriptions between chef-client and chef-solo #8391 (tas50)
Use color in chef-solo by default on Windows #8390 (tas50)
Improve the error message when no config can be loaded #8389 (tas50)
Remove a functional test for the reboot_pending DSL #8383 (btm)
Allow encrypting a previously unencrypted data bag #8077 (vijaymmali1990)
Prevent accidentally configuring windows_service properties #8351 (jasonwbarnett)
Limit locale resource to Linux #8375 (btm)
Allow empty strings in -o to result in empty override run list #8370 (lamont-granquist)
Add a new archive_file resource from the libarchive cookbook #8028 (tas50)
Drop privileges before creating files in solo mode #8361 (btm)
Add Verification tests in Buildkite #8357 (jaymalasinha)
Don't force DSC functional tests to PS4 #8359 (btm)
Avoid occasionally randomly reusing a gid in tests #8352 (btm)
Add Debian 10 testing to Travis #8348 (tas50)
Implement Chef::Resource#copy_properties_from #8344 (lamont-granquist)
Add Ruby 2.6 testing Appveyor #8349 (tas50)
Add PROJECT_NAME to omnibus-test scripts #8346 (tas50)
locale: Add support to set all LC ENV variables and deprecate LC_ALL #8324 (Nimesh-Msys)
Update nokogiri to 1.10.2 #8338 (tas50)
Remove windows-api pin and update Gemfile.lock #8328 (jaymalasinha)
fix data collector non-utf8 file output #8337 (lamont-granquist)
Update inspec to 3.9.0 #8336 (tas50)
Update Ruby to 2.6.2 #8333 (tas50)
Remove Ubuntu 14.04 testing #8330 (tas50)
Update InSpec to 3.7.11 and mixlib-cli to 2.0.3 #8329 (tas50)
Update win32-service gem and fix #8195 #8322 (jasonwbarnett)
Update chef-zero to 14.0.12 #8312 (tas50)
Remove the travis gem from our gemfile #8310 (tas50)
Pin expeditor to ruby 2.5.3 and bump train to 1.7.6 #8308 (tas50)
Update Ruby to 2.5.5 #8296 (tas50)
Loosen mixlib deps to allow for the latest versions #8304 (tas50)
Early allocation of the Chef::RunContext #8301 (lamont-granquist)
Allow the use of --delete-entire-chef-repo #8298 (ABewsher)
fix unsolvable Gemfile.lock #8300 (lamont-granquist)
windows_service: Fix action :start to not resets credentials on service #8278 (jasonwbarnett)
Add misc YARD comments #8287 (tas50)
Loosen win32-certstore pin and bump to 0.3.0 #8286 (tas50)
Remove audit mode from chef-client #7728 (tas50)
Remove the rake task to generate a pre-announcement #8288 (tas50)
Allow win32-service 2.x and bump InSpec to 3.7.1 #8285 (tas50)
Extract ActionCollection out of ResourceReporter, overhaul DataCollector #8063 (lamont-granquist)
Refactor windows_service unit tests #8279 (jasonwbarnett)
Update rubygems to 3.0.3 #8276 (tas50)
mount: Add proper new lines when on AIX to prevent failures #8271 (gsreynolds)
windows_certificate: Import nested certificates while importing P7B certs. #8242 (Nimesh-Msys)
Update openssl to 1.0.2r #8258 (tas50)
Remove checks / patches for old versions of Ruby #8259 (tas50)
Update omnibus gemfile deps to remove pry #8257 (tas50)
rollback rbnacl #8255 (lamont-granquist)
windows_share: Improve path comparison to prevent convering on each run #8248 (Xorima)
Update libxml2 to 2.9.9 #8240 (tas50)
allow setting mode for openssl_dhparam after creation #8245 (btm)
pin rbnacl to 5.x #8244 (lamont-granquist)
add LazyModuleInclude to Universal DSL #8243 (lamont-granquist)
Update InSpec to 3.6.6 #8235 (tas50)
Cleanup the user resource and convert it to the resource DSL + delete user_add provider #8228 (tas50)
chocolatey_package: use provided options when determing available options to allow using private sources #8230 (vsingh-msys)
Update scripts to use new EXPEDITOR_ environment variables #8232 (tduffield)
windows_certificate: Add support to import Base 64 encoded CER certificates #8229 (Nimesh-Msys)
Chef::Config: Uniform config dir path separator #8219 (vsingh-msys)
Alter how we set set group members in solaris / unify group testing #8226 (tas50)
add ed25519 gemset and update omnibus-software #8221 (lamont-granquist)
More consist descriptions for resource name properties #8216 (tas50)
Add windows_uac resource #8212 (tas50)
Add windows_dfs and windows_dns resources #8198 (tas50)
Bump InSpec to 3.5.0 #8211 (tas50)
powershell_script: Prefer user provided flags over the defaults #8167 (Nimesh-Msys)
chef-solo: Fixes for extra cookbook_path with parent dir that doesn't exist causes crash #8202 (vsingh-msys)
windows_task: Properly set command / argumentts so resource updates behave as expected #8201 (Nimesh-Msys)
windows_certificate: Import PFX certificates with their private keys #8193 (Nimesh-Msys)
Convert execute_resource remaining properties to use properties #8178 (Vasu1105)
Update knife bootstrap template to use up to date omnitruck URL #8190 (mivok)
git: Don't display the repo URL when sensitive property is set #8179 (dheerajd-msys)
Update Rubygems to 3.0.2 #8174 (tas50)
[knife] Remove duplicate code blocks in the knife cookbook upload command #8135 (f9n)
Cleanup requires / includes in knife supermarket #8166 (tas50)
Misc YARD updates for knife #8169 (tas50)
Remove support for unsupported opensuse < 42 from group provider #8158 (tas50)
apt_repository: Don't create gpg temporary files owned by root in the running user's home directory #8104 (vijaymmali1990)
windows_certificate: Ensure all actions are fully idempotent #8118 (Nimesh-Msys)
Use the latest omnibus-software and nokogiri #8162 (tas50)
Remove hpux support from group's usermod provider #8160 (tas50)
Remove bogus "solaris" platform from specs #8159 (tas50)
Bump misc deps the latest #8153 (tas50)
Remove 'attributes' attribute from cookbook metadata #8151 (tas50)
Add a deprecation warning to knife cookbook site #8149 (tas50)
Hide knife cookbook site & null by setting them to deprecated category #8148 (tas50)
Sysctl: Allow slashes in key or block name #8136 (kapilchouhan99)
Allow for mixlib-archive 1.x #8137 (tas50)
Fix cask resource running each chef-client run #8140 (jeroenj)
Updates homebrew_cask tap name #8139 (jeroenj)
windows_printer: prevent failures when deleting printers and using device_id property #8125 (tas50)
homebrew_cask / homebrew_tap: Properly use the cask_name and tap_name properties #8123 (tas50)
openssl_ec_private_key / openssl_x509_request.rb: properly use the path properties when specified #8122 (tas50)
ssh_known_host_entry: Use the host name_property in debug logging #8124 (tas50)
Update license_scout to 1.0.22 #8133 (tas50)
Update license scout 1.0.21 #8130 (tas50)
Add a bit more yard to chef-config/config #8119 (tas50)
user resource: Remove support for macOS 10.7 and 10.7 upgraded to 10.8+ #8110 (tas50)
Don't system exit on ohai CriticalPluginFailure #8098 (joshuamiller01)
windows_task resource: Allow non-system users without password #7918 (Nimesh-Msys)
Support Ruby 2.6 and add Ruby 2.6 testing #7922 (tas50)
Update rubygems to 2.7.7 and bundler to 1.17.3 #8091 (tas50)
Bump multiple deps to the latest #8085 (tas50)
Bump inspec-core to 3.2.6 #8076 (tas50)
Update train-core to 1.6.3 for smaller size and new winrm options #8074 (tas50)
Disable s3 omnibus cache #8068 (tas50)
windows_certificate: Fix failures in delete action fails if certificate doesn't exist #8000 (Vasu1105)
Bump license_scout to 1.0.20 for licensing tests #8065 (tas50)
Update inspec to 3.1 and bump all the mixlibs #8062 (tas50)
windows_certificate: Fix invalid byte sequence errors with pfx certicates #8008 (dheerajd-msys)
Adding VC Redistributable files required for powershell_exec on Windows #8059 (stuartpreston)
windows_ad_join: suppress sensitive stderr #8054 (Happycoil)
Added property comment on Windows group. #8038 (kapilchouhan99)
fix EBUSY errors in preinst script #8046 (lamont-granquist)
minimal_ohai: Add init_package plugin as a required plugin #7980 (tas50)
Remove travis apt proxy before running functional tests #8040 (lamont-granquist)
Chef 15: Windows Server 2019 version detection #8031 (stuartpreston)
Allow the use of tagged?(tags) method in both only_if and not_if blocks #7977 (kapilchouhan99)
Bugfixes to powershell_package_source #8025 (Happycoil)
Require Ruby 2.5 or later #8023 (tas50)
timezone: updated description to include windows #8018 (Stromweld)
Update InSpec to 3.0.61 and Ohai to 15.0.20 #8010 (tas50)
Fix locking ohai to to the value in the Gemfile.lock #8014 (tas50)
Pin the ohai definition to use the ohai version from Gemfile.lock #8012 (tas50)
RHEL8 yum_package fix. #8005 (lamont-granquist)
package resource: Add RHEL 8 support to DNF package installer #8003 (pixdrift)
Initial suppport for snap packages #7999 (lamont-granquist)
better kithen ohai pinning #7998 (lamont-granquist)
Make sure which mixin requires chef_class #7989 (tas50)
pull the ohai version from the bundle not from master #7987 (lamont-granquist)
gem_package provider supports --no-document and rubygems 3.x #7986 (lamont-granquist)
Added windows support for the timezone resource #7806 (username-is-already-taken2)
cab_package: Chef should fail when specified package is not applicable to the image #7951 (kapilchouhan99)
Support apt-get --allow-downgrades #7963 (lamont-granquist)
Update openssl to 1.0.2q #7979 (tas50)
Update inspec to 3.0.52 #7978 (tas50)
windows_share: Avoid ConvertTo-Json errors on Windows 2012r2 with powershell 4 #7961 (derekgroh)
need -rf to remove dirs #7966 (lamont-granquist)
wipe the installer direction before installation #7964 (lamont-granquist)
windows_share: Accounts to be revoked should be provided as an individually quoted string array #7959 (stuartpreston)
windows_share: Fix idempotency by removing the "everyone" access #7956 (tas50)
Chef-15: switch default of allow_downgrade to true #7953 (lamont-granquist)
Chef-15: require instead of load libraries #7954 (lamont-granquist)
Allow Integers for all group / owner properties #7948 (tas50)
Remove unused yum_timeout and yum_lock_timeout configs #7909 (tas50)
windows_workgroup: Coerce the provided reboot property and add more tests #7916 (tas50)
Convert service resource to use properties #7946 (tas50)
Replace several uses of attribute with property in resources #7943 (tas50)
Fully convert remote_directory to use properties #7947 (tas50)
windows_certificate: Add testing of the defaults and allowed properties #7917 (tas50)
Require chef-zero 14.0.11 or later to resolve Rack gem CVEs #7940 (tas50)
Add additional resource description fields #7938 (tas50)
Improve resource descriptions for documentation #7929 (tas50)
windows_feature_dism: support installed deleted features #7905 (kapilchouhan99)
use --no-tty during apt-keys fro gpg - fixes #7913 #7914 (EugenMayer)
Update Cheffish to 14.0.4 #7936 (tas50)
Replace usage of win_friendly_path helper in windows_certificate #7927 (tas50)
Update inspec-core to 3.0.46 #7924 (tas50)
windows_feature: Move provider logic into the default of the install_method property #7912 (tas50)
Always run policy_file if a policy_file or policy_group exists #7910 (tas50)
Update deps to bring in the new ca-certs #7897 (tas50)
Add nillability to attribute deep merging #7892 (lamont-granquist)
Make sure we define windows_task resource on *nix systems #7903 (tas50)
windows_ad_join: Switch to UPN format usernames for use with AD cmdlets #7895 (stuartpreston)
Fix the knife integration spec timeouts #7896 (lamont-granquist)
fix whitespace in node attributes [ci skip] #7890 (lamont-granquist)
add tests for yum version with package_source bug #7886 (lamont-granquist)
Remove Chef provisioning lazy loading #7866 (tas50)
Update more descriptions and tweak default handling in chef-resource-inspector #7884 (tas50)
Allow passing multiple ports in windows_firewall #7879 (tas50)
Add additional descriptions to resource and update others #7881 (tas50)
resource inspector: don't convert nil to "nil" in default values #7880 (tas50)
Defer running initramfs_command until end of run #7871 (tomdoherty)
Fully remove knife cookbook create command #7852 (tas50)
Add more validation_messages to properties #7867 (tas50)
Make knife command banners consistent #7869 (tas50)
Add windows_firewall_rule #7842 (Happycoil)
Improve resource descriptions for resource documentation automation #7808 (tas50)
Remove the remaining OSC 11 knife user commands #7868 (tas50)
Remove knife user support for open source Chef Server < 12 #7841 (tas50)
Add additional github issue templates #7859 (tas50)
Chef 15 node attribute array fixes #7840 (lamont-granquist)
Remove the check for nil code property in the script provider #7855 (tas50)
powershell_package doc update #7857 (Happycoil)
Set http_disable_auth_on_redirect to true #7856 (tas50)
Bump inspec-core to 3.0.25 #7853 (chef-ci)
Remove knife cookbook test feature #7323 (tas50)
Added property description on windows_task resource #7777 (kapilchouhan99)
Remove the deprecated ohai_name property from the ohai resource #7787 (tas50)
Remove deprecated knife status --hide-healthy flag #7791 (tas50)
Update win32-taskscheduler to 2.0.1 #7843 (tas50)
Handle interactive_enabled property in windows_task resource #7814 (Nimesh-Msys)
Fix chef-apply crash for reboot #7720 (dheerajd-msys)
Remove preview resource from windows_certificate & windows_share #7818 (tas50)
Bump win32-certstore to 0.1.11 #7823 (tas50)
More cookbook loader cleanup and documentation #7820 (lamont-granquist)
Fix testing / installing on SLES 15 #7819 (tas50)
Update win32-certstore to include a license #7822 (tas50)
Add windows_certificate and windows_share resources #7731 (tas50)
Remove unused route resource properties #7240 (tas50)
Fix inspector to properly handle defaults that are symbols #7813 (tas50)
Refactor Cookbook loader logic now that we don't support merging #7794 (lamont-granquist)
Remove deprecated support for FreeBSD pkg provider #7789 (tas50)
Multiple fixes to dmg_package #7802 (tas50)
Allow passing array to supports in mount again #7803 (tas50)
Require mixin::shellout where we use it #7798 (tas50)
add GEMFILE_MOD to pin ohai to github master #7796 (lamont-granquist)
shell_out auto-timeout still needs to be restricted to only providers #7793 (lamont-granquist)
Remove cookbook merging/shadowing from the cookbooker loader #7792 (lamont-granquist)
Remove legacy require_recipe DSL method #7790 (tas50)
Do the shell_out deprecations for Chef-15. #7788 (lamont-granquist)
Update description fields from the docs site #7784 (tas50)
Make all Chef 14 preview resources into full resources #7786 (tas50)
Remove the deprecated knife bootstrap --identity-file flag #7489 (tas50)
Start Chef 15 development #7785 (tas50)

v14.11.21 (2019-03-07)

Merged Pull Requests

Update rubygems to 2.7.8 and bundler to 1.17.3 #8194 (tas50)
windows_certificate: Import PFX certificates with their private keys #8206 (tas50)
windows_task: Properly set command / arguments so resource updates behave as expected #8205 (tas50)
Update knife bootstrap template to use up to date omnitruck URL #8207 (tas50)
chef-solo: Fixes for extra cookbook_path with parent dir that doesn't exist causes crash #8209 (tas50)
Update InSpec to 3.5.0 #8214 (tas50)
Chef-14: add ed25519 gemset and update omnibus-software #8222 (lamont-granquist)
Update InSpec to 3.6.6 #8237 (tas50)
Chef-14: add lazy module include to universal DSL #8246 (lamont-granquist)
Chef-14: rollback rbnacl #8254 (lamont-granquist)
Update libxml2 to 2.9.9 #8238 (tas50)
Use proper paths on Windows in chef-config #8261 (tas50)
windows_share: Improve path comparison to prevent convering on each run #8262 (tas50)
chocolatey_package: use provided options when determing available options to allow using private sources #8263 (tas50)
openssl_dhparam: allow changing file mode on subsequent runs #8264 (tas50)
More consist descriptions for resource name properties #8265 (tas50)
Update openssl to 1.0.2r #8266 (tas50)
windows_certificate: Add support to import Base 64 encoded CER certificates #8267 (tas50)
Update InSpec to 3.7.1 #8268 (tas50)
Update cacerts to 2019-01-22 file #8270 (tas50)
mount: Add proper new lines when on AIX to prevent failures #8273 (tas50)
Update Rubygems to 2.7.9 + Add release notes for Chef 14.11 #8272 (tas50)

v14.10.9 (2019-01-30)

Merged Pull Requests

Bump all deps to the latest versions #8154 (tas50)
windows_certificate: Ensure all actions are fully idempotent #8163 (tas50)
Add a deprecation warning to knife cookbook site #8164 (tas50)
Update nokogiri to 1.10.1 #8172 (tas50)
Bump all deps to current #8173 (tas50)
Cleanup dependencies and comments in knife plugins #8183 (tas50)
apt_repository: Don't create gpg temporary files owned by root in the running user's home directory #8184 (tas50)
Update inspec to 3.3.14 #8185 (tas50)
Officially deprecate cookbook shadowing and audit mode #8187 (tas50)
Backport git resource fix in #8179 and update win32-certstore #8189 (tas50)
Bump InSpec to 3.4.1 #8192 (tas50)

v14.9.13 (2019-01-22)

Merged Pull Requests

Bump mixlib-archive, mixlib-shellout, semverse, and train-core to the latest #8041 (tas50)
Chef 14: Windows Server 2019 version detection #8033 (stuartpreston)
Bump mixlib-shellout to 2.4.2 and inspec to 3.0.64 #8027 (chef-ci)
Bump mixlib-archive to 0.4.19 and mixlib-shellout to 2.4.4 #8037 (chef-ci)
Backport: Bugfixes to powershell_package_source #8050 (stuartpreston)
Backport: Allow setting the comment on a Windows group #8052 (stuartpreston)
Backport: windows_ad_join: suppress sensitive stderr #8061 (stuartpreston)
Bump inspec-core to 3.1.3 #8048 (chef-ci)
Backport: Adding VC Redistributable files required for powershell_exec on Windows #8060 (stuartpreston)
Bump license_scout to 1.0.20 for licensing tests #8064 (tas50)
Bump train-core to 1.6.3 #8067 (chef-ci)
windows_certificate: Fix failures in delete action fails if certificate doesn't exist #8073 (tas50)
chef 14: windows_certificate: Fix invalid byte sequence errors with pfx certicates #8071 (tas50)
chef 14: minimal_ohai: Add init_package plugin as a required plugin #8072 (tas50)
Disable s3 omnibus cache #8069 (tas50)
Bump inspec-core to 3.2.6 #8075 (chef-ci)
Bump mixlib-cli to 2.0.0 and win32-certstore to 0.2.1 #8092 (chef-ci)
Support and test on Ruby 2.6 #8121 (tas50)
windows_task resource: allow non-system users without password for interactive tasks #8120 (tas50)
Chef 14: A windows support to the timezone resource #8129 (tas50)
Update license scout to 1.0.22 #8131 (tas50)
Backport various name_property fixes in resources from Chef 15 #8134 (tas50)
Allow for mixlib-archive 1.x #8141 (tas50)
systctl: Allow slashes in key or block name #8142 (tas50)
homebrew_cask: Ensure the resource is fully idempotent #8143 (tas50)

v14.8.12 (2018-12-13)

Merged Pull Requests

Chef 14 Backport: fix the knife integration spec timeouts #7899 (lamont-granquist)
Chef 14 Backport: windows_ad_join: Switch to UPN format usernames for use with AD cmdlets #7906 (stuartpreston)
Chef 14 Backport: Make sure we define windows_task resource on *nix systems #7907 (stuartpreston)
Update inspec and ca-certs to the latest #7898 (tas50)
Backport: windows_feature: Move provider logic into the default of the install_method property #7920 (tas50)
Bump InSpec to 3.0.46 #7931 (tas50)
Replace usage of win_friendly_path helper in windows_certificate #7932 (tas50)
Update cheffish to 14.0.4 #7937 (tas50)
Bump inspec-core to 3.0.52 #7945 (chef-ci)
Chef 14: Replace several uses of attribute with property in resources #7967 (tas50)
Chef 14: windows_certificate: Add testing of the defaults and allowed properties #7968 (tas50)
Chef 14: Improve resource descriptions #7969 (tas50)
Chef 14: windows_workgroup: Coerce the provided reboot property and add more t ests #7972 (tas50)
Chef 14: windows_share: Properly split the users to be revoked using quotes #7974 (tas50)
Chef 14: apt_repository: prevent gpg key import on newer Debian releases #7971 (tas50)
Chef 14: windows_share: Fix idempotency by removing the "everyone" access #7973 (tas50)
Chef 14: removed features are also available for installation in windows_feature_dism #7970 (tas50)
Update to openssl 1.0.2q #7976 (tas50)
cab_package: Fail if the cab does not apply to the current windows image #7992 (tas50)
gem_package: support the --no-document flag needed for Ruby 2.6 / rubygems 3 #7994 (tas50)
windows_share: Avoid ConvertTo-Json errors on Windows 2012r2 with powershell 4 #7991 (tas50)
apt_package: Support downgrades for apt packages #7993 (tas50)
Make sure which mixin requires chef_class #7995 (tas50)
Bump inspec-core to 3.0.61 #8002 (chef-ci)
dnf_package: Add RHEL 8 support #8006 (tas50)
Bump ohai to 14.8.10 for improved virtualization and platform detection #8019 (chef-ci)
Make sure the ohai CLI uses the same version of ohai as chef-client #8020 (tas50)

v14.7.17 (2018-11-08)

Merged Pull Requests

Allow passing array to supports in mount resource again #7809 (tas50)
Automated resource documentation improvements #7811 (tas50)
Backport: Add macOS support to the timezone resource #7830 (tas50)
Backport: Fix inspector to properly handle defaults that are symbols #7826 (tas50)
Backport: Fix SLES 15 upgrades removing the symlinks #7827 (tas50)
Backport: Add windows_share and windows_certificate resources #7833 (tas50)
Backport: Handle interactive_enabled property in windows_task resource #7832 (tas50)
Backport: Multiple fixes to dmg_package including functional EULA acceptance #7831 (tas50)
Backport: Fix chef-apply crash for reboot #7828 (tas50)
Update win32-taskscheduler to 2.0.1 #7844 (tas50)
Backport: Added description property on windows_task resource #7848 (btm)
Backport: Add default_descriptions to properties #7873 (tas50)
Backport: Make knife command banners consistent #7874 (tas50)
Add more validation_messages to properties #7875 (tas50)
Backport: Add windows_firewall_rule resource #7876 (tas50)
Backport: Resource property description updates #7887 (tas50)
Backport: Allow multiple local and remote ports in the windows_firewall_rule resource #7888 (tas50)
Backport: Defer running initramfs_command until end of run #7889 (tas50)
fix whitespace in node attributes [ci skip] #7891 (lamont-granquist)

v14.6.47 (2018-10-26)

Merged Pull Requests

zypper_package: Add new global_options property #7518 (dheerajd-msys)
Bump chef-vault to 3.4.2 #7675 (chef-ci)
Adds full_name property to user resource for Windows. #7677 (Vasu1105)
Upgrade to rspec 3.8.x #7691 (lamont-granquist)
Fixed introduced version to 14.6 for newly added properties in zypper_package and windows_user resource as it got released in 14.6. #7692 (Vasu1105)
Minor optimization in yum_helper.py to avoid RPM DB corruption under certain scenarios #7696 (Nimesh-Msys)
replace some instances of to_hash with to_h #7697 (lamont-granquist)
Sanitize inputs to Gem::Version in comparison operation of Package provider superclass #7703 (lamont-granquist)
Change the allow_downgrade pseudo-default in the package provider superclass to true #7701 (lamont-granquist)
short circuit before the version_compare call #7705 (lamont-granquist)
add some big FIXMEs #7706 (lamont-granquist)
fixed typo in description property of rhsm_errata_level resource #7710 (freakinhippie)
Bump inspec-core to 2.3.5 #7709 (chef-ci)
Bump inspec-core to 2.3.10 #7723 (chef-ci)
Add chef-cleanup omnibus-software defn #7725 (lamont-granquist)
better docs for Chef::Knife::Bootstrap#validate_options! #7719 (bankair)
Cleanup the Test Kitchen setup in omnibus #7726 (tas50)
Only include the Windows distro files on Windows #7727 (tas50)
Add the timezone resource from the timezone_lwrp cookbook #7736 (tas50)
Enable x86_64-linux-kernel2 habitat builds for chef-client #7722 (smacfarlane)
Bump win32-taskscheduler to 1.0.12 #7740 (chef-ci)
Bump ohai to 14.6.2 #7742 (chef-ci)
Bump win32-taskscheduler to 2.0 #7743 (btm)
When a property regex fails don't call it an option #7745 (tas50)
Bump inspec-core to 2.3.23 #7747 (chef-ci)
Bump inspec-core to 2.3.24 #7748 (chef-ci)
Update omnibus deps #7749 (tas50)
Update Nokogiri to 1.8.5 #7750 (tas50)
Node Attributes: Build ImmutableMash properly in deep_merge! #7752 (lamont-granquist)
File provider: fix sticky bits management / preservation #7753 (lamont-granquist)
Run more Travis tests on Ruby 2.5.1 #7755 (tas50)
Add support for localized system account to windows_task resource #7679 (jugatsu)
Update omnibus to use ruby-cleanup definition #7757 (tas50)
Bump mixlib-archive to 0.4.18 #7759 (chef-ci)
Bump train-core to 1.5.4 #7760 (chef-ci)
Update Ruby to 2.5.3 #7766 (tas50)
[chef/chef]Fix duplicate logs #7698 (dheerajd-msys)
Throw better error on invalid resources actions #7729 (tas50)
Don't ship contributing.md and VERSION file in the gem #7769 (tas50)
Fix registry key bug when sensitive is true #7767 (josh-barker)
Use the Chefstyle gem instead of a git checkout #7770 (tas50)
Switch back to chefstyle from git and use the updated chef omnibus def #7772 (tas50)
Update InSpec to 3.0 #7773 (tas50)
Update chef-vault and serverspec to the latest #7774 (tas50)
Move iso8601 gem to windows only gemspec #7778 (tas50)
Add some retry/delay in HTTP functional tests #7780 (schisamo)
Pin rake to 12.3.0 to prevent installing 2 copies in our install #7779 (tas50)
Fix locale on RHEL 6 / Amazon Linux #7782 (tas50)

v14.5.33 (2018-09-25)

Merged Pull Requests

windows_service: Remove potentially sensitive info from the log #7659 (stuartpreston)
windows_feature: Fix exception message grammar #7669 (dgreeninger)
Add @jjlimepoint as a maintainer for chef-provisioning #7649 (jjlimepoint)
Deprecate ohai resource's ohai_name property #7667 (tas50)
Fix failures in windows_ad_join in 14.5.27 #7673 (tas50)
Update to the latest omnibus-software for builds #7676 (tas50)

v14.5.27 (2018-09-20)

Merged Pull Requests

Bump mixlib-archive to 0.4.16 #7595 (chef-ci)
Add additional property docs + update existing docs #7600 (tas50)
Simplify the rake task to updating gem dependencies #7602 (lamont-granquist)
Build chef omnibus package with Chef 14 / Berkshelf 7 #7603 (tas50)
windows_auto_run: Avoid declare_resource where it's not needed #7608 (tas50)
Allow resource_inspector be used outside the binary #7609 (tas50)
Update property descriptions and remove extra nil types #7604 (tas50)
Update inspec-core to 2.2.78 #7606 (tas50)
Shorten the resource collision deprecation message #7601 (lamont-granquist)
Update rubyzip to 1.2.2 #7618 (tas50)
Remove the CBGB #7619 (nathenharvey)
Add additional resource descriptions #7623 (tas50)
Remove unnecessary declare_resource usage in build_essential #7624 (tas50)
Add introduced versions for properties and more descriptions #7627 (tas50)
Properly capitalize PowerShell in descriptions and errors #7630 (tas50)
Add required properties to the resource inspector output #7631 (tas50)
Fix remote_directory does not obey removal of file specificity #7551 (thechile)
Update expeditor config to use subscriptions #7632 (tas50)
paludis_package: Make sure timeout property is an Integer #7625 (tas50)
Add locale resource more managing the system's locale #7633 (vincentaubert)
windows_ad_join resource - add newname property #7637 (derekgroh)
Bump inspec-core to 2.2.101 #7640 (chef-ci)
windows_workgroup Resource for joining Windows Workgroups #7564 (derekgroh)
Update libarchive to 3.3.3 #7641 (tas50)
Rename windows_ad_join's newname to be new_hostname #7643 (tas50)
Bump ohai to 14.5.0 #7644 (chef-ci)
Fix resource descriptions for ohai_hint and rhsm_errata_level #7645 (tas50)
More Resource doc fixes #7646 (tas50)
Move subversion properties out of scm and into subversion #7648 (tas50)
Bump InSpec and Ohai to the latest #7657 (tas50)
Add Chef 14.5 release notes #7652 (tas50)
Pull in updated omnibus-software #7658 (tas50)
Update script resource deprecation waring #7651 (tas50)
Remove Bryant Lippert as a FreeBSD maintainer #7654 (tas50)
Wire up openssl_x509 #7660 (tas50)

v14.4.56 (2018-08-29)

Merged Pull Requests

[MSYS-843] - Add remove_account_right function to win32/security #7445 (Nimesh-Msys)
Add proper yard deprecated tags on methods #7452 (tas50)
Remove require mixlib/shellouts where not necessary #7457 (tas50)
Add knife config get/use-profile commands #7455 (coderanger)
Fixing array args in some unix providers #7379 (lamont-granquist)
Fix duplicated query parameters to resolve Chef::HTTP::Simple regression #7465 (lamont-granquist)
Move all knife cookbook site plugin logic into knife supermarket #7466 (tas50)
Improve the error message when knife bootstrap windows isn't installed #7470 (tas50)
Remove require json_compat where not used #7472 (tas50)
Make gem_installer generate a valid Gemfile #6168 (oclaussen)
Bump version to 14.4.0 #7476 (tas50)
add back clean_array API #7477 (lamont-granquist)
ifconfig: Allow specifying VLAN on RHEL/Centos #7478 (tas50)
Allow specifying VLAN & Gateway on RHEL/Centos #6400 (tomdoherty)
group: convert to properties with descriptions and improve comma separated parsing #7474 (tas50)
Pull in the latest inspec-core and train-core #7487 (tas50)
ifconfig: Add gateway property on RHEL/Debian based systems #7475 (tas50)
Expand platform support for the route resource #7480 (tas50)
Handling Quotes in Windows Task Commands and Arguments #7497 (Nimesh-Msys)
Functional tests: Ensure we logon with the local security_user account #7498 (stuartpreston)
Make sure knife descriptions all have periods #7473 (tas50)
Add minor version bumping to Expeditor config #7501 (tas50)
Bump version of ISO8601 to latest (0.11.0) #7505 (Nimesh-Msys)
Assume credentials supplied are still valid if they cannot be validated due to a Windows account restriction #7416 (stuartpreston)
Add support for setting task priority #7464 (Vasu1105)
Add additional resource descriptions #7506 (tas50)
[SHACK-304] Deprecation checking turns up false positive #7515 (tyler-ball)
MSYS-858 : added warning if allow_downgrade set to be false and tried to install older version #7495 (piyushawasthi)
Always update both the loaded sysctl value and the sysctl.d value on disk #7519 (Nimesh-Msys)
[SHACK-290] Unpacking tarball paths suffer from URI error #7523 (tyler-ball)
Prevent failures RHSM resources by using default_env in execute resources #7520 (tas50)
add chef_version API to provides lines #7524 (lamont-granquist)
Maybe hold off on rspec 3.8 #7527 (cheeseplus)
stop parsing init script at the "### END INIT INFO" marker. #7525 (goblin23)
Bump Ohai to 14.4 #7532 (tas50)
Update omnibus to 5.6.15 #7536 (tas50)
Update inspec to 2.2.61 #7534 (tas50)
osx_profile: Use the full path to /usr/bin/profiles #7539 (tas50)
Run rspec tests within a kitchen container on CentOS 7 #7529 (lamont-granquist)
Fix issue of setting comment for windows user #7537 (NAshwini)
Require mixlib-shellout 2.4 or later #7543 (tas50)
windows_package: Fix package sensitive error #7353 (dheerajd-msys)
Add cron_d and cron_access resources #7253 (tas50)
Update to openssl 1.0.2p #7546 (tas50)
Add new openssl resources: ec_private_key, ec_public_key, certificate, and x509_request #7513 (tas50)
Fix failed RHEL6 32-bit functional tests #7555 (lamont-granquist)
Restart Python yum helper before each repo enable/disable #7558 (cosinusoidally)
Support for battery power options in windows_task resource #7483 (dheerajd-msys)
support repeated options in systemd_unit #7560 (dbresson)
Validatorless bootstrap fix #7562 (coderanger)
Pull in the latest InSpec and Ohai #7563 (tas50)
switch shell_out to shell_out! in func tests #7565 (lamont-granquist)
Update to Ohai 14.4.2 #7570 (tas50)
lazy the default resource_name until after parsing #7566 (lamont-granquist)
Modernize our Rakefile / Version bumping system #7574 (tas50)
Fix rake task to build the correct gemspec on Chef #7579 (tas50)
Pull in latest omnibus definitions + new inspec/train #7581 (tas50)
Simplify / fix our yard doc Rake task #7580 (tas50)
Update the announcement rake task with kitchen examples #7583 (tas50)
Add openssl_x509_crl resource and fix default modes in x509_certificate / x509_request #7586 (tas50)
Add missing description to windows_feature_powershell #7587 (tas50)
Resolve new_resource error with cron_d resource #7588 (tas50)
openssl resources: Improve descriptions and fix provides for Chef 14.X #7590 (tas50)
Be more explicit in disabling provides for openssl_x509 #7591 (tas50)

v14.3.37 (2018-07-11)

Merged Pull Requests

Expand development docs with branch/backport + more #7343 (tas50)
Add skip_publisher_check property to powershell_package #7259 (Happycoil)
Support windows_feature_powershell on Windows 2008 R2 #7349 (tas50)
Bump the version to 14.3.0 #7346 (tas50)
Deprecated the Chef::Provider::Package::Freebsd::Pkg provider #7350 (tas50)
Make shell_out_compact automatically pull timeouts off the resource + remove uses of shell_out_compact_timeout #7330 (lamont-granquist)
Add whyrun message when installing a local file on Windows #7351 (josh-barker)
Implement rfc107: NodeMap locking for resource and provider handlers #7224 (coderanger)
Update help link in Add/Remove Programs on Windows #7345 (stuartpreston)
Add ssh_known_hosts_entry resource from ssh_known_hosts cookbook #7161 (tas50)
Add kernel_module resource from the kernel_module cookbook #7165 (tas50)
Mount: Fix errors on Windows when using the mount_point property #7284 (dheerajd-msys)
Update to the latest inspec and liblzma #7355 (tas50)
Add missing chef/resource requires in resource #7364 (tas50)
package: Make sure to use the package_name name properties #7365 (tas50)
windows_feature_dism: Fix errors when specifying the source #7370 (tas50)
Add more property descriptions to resources #7358 (tas50)
removing mwrock from client maintainers #7369 (mwrock)
Pull in win32-taskscheduler 1.0.2 #7371 (tas50)
windows_task: Don't allow bad username/password to be provided to a task which will fail later #7288 (Vasu1105)
windows_task: Fix for task is not idempotent when task name includes parent folder #7293 (Vasu1105)
Remove awesome customers testing and update kitchen configs #7377 (tas50)
Silence deprecation warnings #7375 (coderanger)
Remove the unused audit test cookbook #7378 (tas50)
Unification of shell_out APIs #7372 (lamont-granquist)
Rework the credentials file system to support any config keys. #7387 (coderanger)
deprecate old shell_out APIs #7382 (lamont-granquist)
Add missing knife license headers #7397 (tas50)
Add chocolatey_config and chocolatey_source resources #7388 (tas50)
Remove the existing acceptance testing framework #7399 (tas50)
Remove sudo/gcc-c++ package installs from kitchen tests #7398 (tas50)
Add missing require knife #7400 (tas50)
Switch powershell_exec mixin to use FFI instead of COM #7380 (stuartpreston)
Rename the kitchen base test suite to end-to-end #7385 (tas50)
Pull in new InSpec and win32-service #7405 (tas50)
Chefstyle fixes #7414 (lamont-granquist)
More chefstyle updates #7415 (lamont-granquist)
chefstyle: fix Style/MutableConstant #7417 (lamont-granquist)
knife config and a bunch of UX improvements #7390 (coderanger)
fix some chefstyle offenses #7427 (lamont-granquist)
Don't require rubygems in our binaries #7428 (tas50)
bump chefstyle + inspec-core #7431 (lamont-granquist)
Fix dupe stdout_logger #7401 (nsdavidson)
Prevent failures using windows_feature due to the platform helper #7433 (tas50)
Bump Ohai to 14.3.0 #7437 (tas50)
Enable Amazon Linux 2.0 tests again #7442 (tas50)
Add missing descriptions and add periods after resource the descriptions #7444 (tas50)
Attributes -> Properties in a few more resources #7448 (tas50)

v14.2.0 (2018-06-07)

Merged Pull Requests

publish habitat packages #7272 (thommay)
improved regex accuracy lib/chef/resource/hostname.rb #7262 (bottkv488)
Add additional unit tests for resource actions/properties #7266 (tas50)
Add additional resource unit tests #7275 (tas50)
Add default_action to the resource inspector #7276 (tas50)
UID now starts at 501, uses createhomedir instead #4903 (nmcspadden)
[MSYS-817] fix for windows_task does not parse backslashes in the commad property #7281 (Vasu1105)
object validation for DataHandlerBase#normalize_hash #7264 (jeremymv2)
Fix manifest entries for root files #7270 (thommay)
Fix systemd_unit user context #7274 (mal)
Cleanup AIX and Solaris user resources. #7249 (lamont-granquist)
Cookbook Version: add host-<fqdn> to the error message for templates and files specificity #7295 (lamont-granquist)
add default_env flag to shell_out and execute resource #7298 (lamont-granquist)
Properly print path to config file to the screen in knife configure #7325 (tas50)
windows_ad_join: Ensure that reboot requests work #7328 (thommay)
Better errors with uninstalled official knife plugins #7326 (tas50)
convert a_to_s to shell_out_compact in DNF/yum #7313 (lamont-granquist)
Support signing with ssh-agent #7324 (coderanger)
fix yum versionlock quoting #7329 (lamont-granquist)
resource_inspector: Add default values for properties #7300 (thommay)
Check local file exists before installing a windows package #7299 (josh-barker)
Fix :configure_startup action to configure delayed start #7297 (jasonwbarnett)
Allow securable resource tests to work on Windows 10 machines connected to an Azure Active Directory #7301 (stuartpreston)
Quote git remote_url property (PR 6249 + chefstyle fix) #7014 (tas50)
Use inspec-core, new ffi gem, and bump deps #7332 (lamont-granquist)
bump ohai to 14.2.0 #7333 (lamont-granquist)

v14.1.12 (2018-05-16)

Merged Pull Requests

Remove redundant "?" in knife configure #7235 (alexymik)
Switch Node#role? to use the attributes expansion instead of the run list #7234 (coderanger)
fix git provider: -prune-tags is not available with old git versions, fixes #7233 #7247 (rmoriz)
repo_name property should be part of new_resource object #7252 (tj-anderson)
remote_directory: restore overwrite default #7254 (rmoriz)
apt_repository: Use the repo_name name property #7244 (tas50)
Update Habitat plan to correctly build #6111 (elliott-davis)
Update Ohai to 14.1.3 #7258 (tas50)
Fix windows_task resource not handling commands with arguments #7250 (Vasu1105)
Update win32-taskscheduler gem to fix creating tasks as the SYSTEM user #7265 (tas50)
Use some unique task names for windows_task functional tests #7267 (btm)

v14.1.1 (2018-05-08)

Merged Pull Requests

fix for Red Hat Satellite yum_package bug #7147 (lamont-granquist)
add name_property to resource inspector #7164 (thommay)
Windows MSI: files are now re-unzipped during repair mode #7111 (stuartpreston)
Some options, i.e. metric, require specifying dev #7162 (tomdoherty)
Avoid conflict with build_powershell_command from powershell_out mixin #7173 (stuartpreston)
Ubuntu 1804 - passing tests and fixed ifconfig provider #7174 (thommay)
CLI help text now includes :trace log level #7186 (stuartpreston)
Fix NoMethodError when (un)locking single packages in apt and zypper #7138 (RoboticCheese)
Whitelist some additional Hash/Array methods #7198 (lamont-granquist)
Convert some of remote_directory to use properties #7204 (tas50)
Don't always request lazy files #7208 (thommay)
Allow specifying ignore_failure :quiet to disable the error spew #7194 (coderanger)
[MSYS-752] windows task rewrite using win32-taskscheduler #6815 (Vasu1105)
Trying to use --recipe-url on Windows with local file fails #7223 (tyler-ball)

v14.0.202 (2018-04-16)

Merged Pull Requests

Update InSpec to 2.1.21 #7109 (tas50)
add delegator for property_is_set? to providers #7122 (lamont-granquist)
Modify the provides for all resources from cookbooks so chef wins #7134 (tas50)
Fix RHSM registration using passwords #7133 (tas50)
fix Chef-14 chef_fs/chef-zero perf regression #7143 (lamont-granquist)
fix for enable/disable repo ordering #7148 (lamont-granquist)
Fix up knife logging #7144 (thommay)
Add support for route metric #7140 (tomdoherty)
add the resources() dsl method back to providers #7152 (lamont-granquist)
bump omnibus #7157 (lamont-granquist)
add support for lock bot #7136 (lamont-granquist)
Catch json.load exceptions causing syslog errors #7155 (tomdoherty)

v14.0.190 (2018-04-03)

Merged Pull Requests

Remove erl_call and deploy resources #6753 (tas50)
Remove knife index rebuild command that requires Chef < 11 #6728 (tas50)
Remove deprecated -r option for Solo mode #6719 (tas50)
Chef 14: Remove deprecated knife ssh csshx command #6444 (tas50)
Add dhparam, rsa_private_key and rsa_public_key resources #6736 (tas50)
Remove deprecated knife ssh --identity-file option #6445 (tas50)
Prevent knife search --id-only from outputting IDs in the same format… #6742 (zanecodes)
Remove update-rc.d -n (dryrun) option. #6723 (vinsonlee)
Remove unused chef_server_fqdn argument: run_status #6670 (jasonwbarnett)
Fixing missing and/or inconsistent quoting in knife search documentation #6607 (andyfeller)
add create and delete actions for windows_service #6595 (jasonwbarnett)
Convert actions in Chef::Resource::Notification to symbols to prevent double notification #6515 (dimsh99)
Revert "add create and delete actions for windows_service" #6763 (lamont-granquist)
Rename the OpenSSL mixin to avoid name conflicts #6764 (tas50)
Remove node.set and node.set_unless attribute levels #6762 (lamont-granquist)
Convert node map to last-writer-wins for ties #6765 (lamont-granquist)
[MSYS-727] Added support for setting node policy name and group from knife #6656 (piyushawasthi)
Fail on interval runs on windows #6766 (lamont-granquist)
Bump to ruby 2.5.0 #6770 (thommay)
Fix the changelog for the 13.7 release #6772 (tas50)
Revert "Fail on interval runs on windows" #6776 (lamont-granquist)
speed up http func tests #6775 (lamont-granquist)
Fix regression where message isn't an identity property in log resource #6779 (tas50)
update immutable API blacklist and whitelist #6778 (lamont-granquist)
Added idempotent checks to windows_task_spec #6761 (NAshwini)
[MSYS-724] Chef::Util::Windows::LogonSession should allow having only the prescribed users permissions #6687 (NimishaS)
allow uninstall of bundler to fail #6789 (lamont-granquist)
fix node assignment of ImmutableArrays to VividMashes/AttrArrays #6790 (lamont-granquist)
use a relative link so that docker does not drop our ca bundle link #6796 (thommay)
Force the creation of a relative link for cacerts #6798 (thommay)
Nillable properties are the default now #6800 (thommay)
Remove epic_fail alias to ignore_failure #6801 (tas50)
Use attempt or attempts in the retries logging #6802 (tas50)
Add MSIFASTINSTALL property, supported by Windows Installer 5.0 #6806 (stuartpreston)
Add create, delete and configure actions to windows_service #6804 (jasonwbarnett)
Update error handling for "knife status" #3287 #6756 (cramaechi)
use a stricter comparison so knife ssh only fails if --exit-on-error #6582 (sarkis)
Ensure package (un)locking is idempotent #6494 (Rarian)
Fix Appveyor testing: the format of this flametest doesn't matter #6808 (lamont-granquist)
Remove the spec for epic_fail #6809 (tas50)
Update /etc/fstab on FreeBSD #4959 #6782 (cramaechi)
Avoid dpkg prompts for modified config files #6810 (thommay)
guard against somehow being called by the package resource #6820 (thommay)
Remove testing of Debian 7 as it's going EOL #6826 (tas50)
Fix windows_task idle_time validation #6807 (algaut)
Grammar fixes in windows_task #6828 (Happycoil)
Link to the knife docs when the knife config file is missing #6364 (tas50)
Don't rely on the Passwd Ohai plugin in resources #6833 (thommay)
Simplify powershell_out calls in powershell_package #6837 (Happycoil)
Use the license_scout that comes with Omnibus gem #6839 (tduffield)
add additional systemd_unit actions #6835 (nathwill)
Implement resource enhancement RFCs #6818 (thommay)
invites_sort_fail: Clean the invites array before sorting it #6463 (MarkGibbons)
Fix issue #2351, chef-client doesn't make /etc/chef if the directory … #6429 (jseely)
[MSYS-726] Allow setting environment variables at the user level #6612 (harikesh-kolekar)
RemoteFile: unlink tempfile when using cache control shows unchanged #6822 (lamont-granquist)
only run windows env specs on windows #6850 (thommay)
add Chef::NodeMap#delete_class API #6846 (lamont-granquist)
Use the updated inspec gem - 1.51.18 #6845 (tas50)
registry_key: Add sensitive property support for suppressing output (fixes #5695) #6496 (shoekstra)
Add hostname resource from chef_hostname cookbook #6795 (tas50)
fix ohai tests after require_plugin removal #6867 (thommay)
Add new Redhat Subscription Manager resources #6827 (tas50)
Add powershell_package source param #6843 (Happycoil)
Add ohai_hint resource from ohai cookbook #6793 (tas50)
check identifier to resolve exported cookbooks by chef export #6859 (sawanoboly)
fix chefstyle #6874 (thommay)
make sure all proxy settings are dealt with #6875 (thommay)
updating paranoid to verify_host_key #6869 (tarcinil)
Add macos_user_defaults resource from mac_os_x cookbook #6878 (tas50)
Disable sudo on unit tests #6879 (lamont-granquist)
Update libxml2 to 2.9.7 #6885 (tas50)
Allow tarballs generated by chef export to be used #6871 (thommay)
Add new introduced and description resource properties to many resources #6854 (tas50)
The end of our long travis unit testing nightmare #6888 (lamont-granquist)
Add chef_handler resource from chef_handler cookbook #6895 (tas50)
Modernize macosx_service #6908 (tas50)
Modernize mdadm #6905 (tas50)
Simplify how we define the powershell_package resource_name #6901 (tas50)
revert lazy attributes #6911 (lamont-granquist)
Convert parts of cron resource to use properties #6904 (tas50)
Add more introduced and description fields to resources #6899 (tas50)
surface default guard interpreter errors #5972 (nathwill)
Add windows auto_run, font, pagefile, printer, printer_port, and shortcut resources #6767 (tas50)
Add description, validation_message, and introduced fields into openssl resources #6855 (tas50)
Added Flag to distinguish between gateway and host key to fix issue #6210 #6514 (erikparra)
Don't use .eql? in the aix mount provider #6915 (tas50)
[knife] Don't crash when a deprecated cookbook has no replacement #6853 (rlyders)
Add support for knife bootstrap-preinstall-command #6861 (smcavallo)
Raise fatal error If FQDN duplicated #6781 (linyows)
Stop mixlib-cli default clobbering mixlib-config settings #6916 (lamont-granquist)
fix for master of chefstyle #6919 (lamont-granquist)
fixing red omnibus builds #6921 (lamont-granquist)
Revert appbundler to 0.10.0 #6922 (lamont-granquist)
need to pin appbundler in omnibus #6924 (lamont-granquist)
Remove git ref on bundler-audit #6925 (lamont-granquist)
this really needs to be turned into a yml file... #6926 (lamont-granquist)
Remove the :uninstall action from chocolatey_package - CHEF-21 #6920 (tas50)
use appbundler 0.11.1 for omnibus builds #6930 (lamont-granquist)
bump appbundler again, again #6931 (lamont-granquist)
Allow specifying a comment for routes #6929 (tomdoherty)
Update our tests based on new resources we ship #6939 (tas50)
Add Ubuntu 18.04 Testing in Travis #6937 (tas50)
Apt repo cleanup and testing expansion #6498 (tas50)
Use the existing helper method for package resource classes that don't support allow_downgrade #6942 (coderanger)
Set properties in git resource using our resource DSL #6902 (tas50)
Modernize provides in the portage_package resource #6903 (tas50)
registry_key: Properly limit allowed values for architecture #6947 (tas50)
Add more description fields, style fixes, add missing requires #6943 (tas50)
Add attribute hoisting into core #6927 (jonlives)
Don't use supervisor process for one-shot / command-line runs #6914 (lamont-granquist)
add a utility to dump info about resources #6896 (thommay)
Remove support for Windows 2003 #6923 (tas50)
Avoid compile time error in apt_repository #6953 (tas50)
Added source_file to FromFile #6938 (zfjagann)
remove deprecated property namespace collisions #6952 (lamont-granquist)
Remove explicit setting of @provider and depend on ProviderResolver #6958 (jasonwbarnett)
Convert more set_or_returns to proper properties #6950 (tas50)
Rename bff provider to match its resource #6956 (tas50)
New interop between Chef and PowerShell 4.0 (or higher) #6941 (stuartpreston)
Remove the manpages #6974 (tas50)
RFC 106: expose name and chef_environment as attrs #6967 (thommay)
Use node.override not node.normal in the windows_feature_dism resource #6962 (tas50)
Remove platfom restrictions in provides and don't require providers #6957 (tas50)
Properly validate reboot_action in dsc_resource #6951 (tas50)
Don't use String.new in the cron provider #6976 (tas50)
Knife should give a useful error when the chef_server_url isn't a chef server API #6253 (jeunito)
Bump to ruby 2.5.0 #6838 (thommay)
Add output_locations functionality to data collector #6873 (jonlives)
Require Ruby 2.4+ #6983 (tas50)
Pass pointer to LsaFreeMemory, not FFI::MemoryPointer #6980 (btm)
Stripping out Authorization header on redirect to a different host #6985 (bugok)
Remove knife help which used the manpages #6982 (tas50)
update mount to use properties and fix 6851 #6969 (thommay)
Yum refactor #6540 (lamont-granquist)
Use Chef omnibus def that includes libarchive #6993 (tas50)
Revert "Stripping out Authorization header on redirect to a different host #6996 (tas50)
Add the sudo resource from the sudo resource #6979 (tas50)
Add more resource descriptions and convert resources to use properties #6994 (tas50)
Lazy eval empty Hash/Array resource properties. #6997 (tas50)
Detect new "automatically" installed string in Zypper #7009 (tas50)
Fail with a warning if users specify apt/yum/zypper repos with slashes #7000 (tas50)
Remove Chef 12-isms from the apt_repository resource #6998 (tas50)
Add dmg_package, homebrew_cask, and homebrew_tap resources #6963 (tas50)
Add missing installed logic for macos in build_essential #7005 (tas50)
memoize some work in the package class #6661 (lamont-granquist)
Pagefile sizes are in megabytes not bytes #7019 (tas50)
Support installing removed windows features from source #7015 (tas50)
Save the node's UUID as an attribute #7016 (thommay)
rubocop fixes from engine bump to 0.54.0 #7023 (lamont-granquist)
remove dead code from property declaration #7025 (lamont-granquist)
sudo: Don't fail on FreeBSD. Turns out there's a .d directory #7033 (tas50)
Add sysctl_param resource from the sysctl cookbook #7022 (tas50)
Suppress nested causes for sensitive exceptions #7032 (thommay)
Use the latest libarchive/bzip2 defs in omnibus #7035 (tas50)
Add windows_adjoin resource #6981 (tas50)
Fix a few bugs in the sudo resource #7038 (tas50)
Upgrade to openssl 1.1 #7044 (tas50)
Revert "Upgrade to openssl 1.1" #7045 (tas50)
Add swap_file resource from the swap cookbook #6990 (tas50)
Parser 2.5.0.4 was yanked #7055 (tas50)
Ensure that we pass the correct options to mount #7030 (thommay)
RFC-102: Deprecation warning in resources #7050 (thommay)
Ship InSpec 2 #7051 (thommay)
Update information on updating gems / Expeditor #7057 (tas50)
Update openssl to 1.0.2o #7075 (tas50)
Add / update resource descriptions #7073 (tas50)
Sudo resource: specify ruby type for visudo_binary #7076 (brewn)
Add Chef 13.8 and 14.0 release notes #7074 (tas50)
Fix array parsing in windows_feature_dism / windows_feature_powershell #7078 (tas50)
Setting nil to properties with implicit nil sets default value #7037 (lamont-granquist)
windows_feature_dism: Be case insensitive with feature names #7079 (tas50)
Add basic hostname validation on Windows #7087 (tas50)
[windows_ad_join] add description for :join action #7082 (brewn)
[windows_font] get rid of "remove" in description #7089 (brewn)
Fix method missing error in dmg_package #7091 (tas50)
Avoid lookups for rights of 'LocalSystem' in windows service #7083 (btm)
macos_userdefaults: Fix 2 failures #7095 (tas50)
Bump Ruby to 2.5.1 #7090 (tas50)
homebrew_tap / homebrew_cask: Fix compile time errors with the user mixin #7097 (tas50)
scrub tempfile names #7104 (lamont-granquist)
Address possible gem installs between interval runs that are then used in the config #7106 (coderanger)
Bring in the windows_feature_powershell improvements from the cookbook #7098 (tas50)
Stripping Authorization header upon redirects (second try) #7006 (bugok)
[CHEF-7026] Rewrite portage package provider candidate_version determination and fix tests #7027 (gengor)
Don't fail on every hostname with windows #7107 (tas50)
[windows_printer_port] fix typo + add action descriptions #7093 (brewn)

v13.12.14 (2019-03-07)

Merged Pull Requests

Update openssl to 1.0.2q and bring in latest omnibus-software #8088 (tas50)
Update Chef 13 to the latest gem deps #8145 (tas50)
Update omnibus Chef dep to 14.8 #8146 (tas50)
Fix for Property deprecations are broken in Chef 13 #8132 (kapilchouhan99)
Update knife bootstrap template to use up to date omnitruck URL #8208 (tas50)
Update nokogiri to 1.10.1 #8218 (tas50)
Update Ohai to 13.12.6 #8223 (tas50)
Chef-13: add lazy module include to universal DSL #8247 (lamont-granquist)
Update libxml2 to 2.9.9 #8239 (tas50)
Update openssl to 1.0.2r and rubygems to 2.7.9 #8280 (tas50)
mount: Add proper new lines when on AIX to prevent failures #8281 (tas50)

v13.12.3 (2018-11-01)

Merged Pull Requests

Backport omnibus cleanup + MSI speedup logic from Chef 14 #7739 (tas50)
Bump dependencies / slim the package size #7805 (tas50)
Pin rake to 12.0 to prevent shipping 2 copies #7812 (tas50)
Update Ohai to 13.12.4 #7817 (tas50)
Backport: Throw better error on invalid resources actions #7836 (tas50)

v13.11.3 (2018-09-26)

Merged Pull Requests

Update to openssl 1.0.2p #7547 (tas50)
Use the existing helper method for package resource classes that don't support allow_downgrade #7548 (tas50)
windows_service: Remove potentially sensitive info from the log #7688 (tas50)
Improve the error message when knife bootstrap windows isn't installed #7686 (tas50)
Fix remote_directory does not obey removal of file specificity #7687 (tas50)
windows_package: Avoid exposing sensitive data during package install failures if sensitive property set #7684 (tas50)
osx_profile: Use the full path to /usr/bin/profiles #7683 (tas50)

v13.10.4 (2018-08-08)

Merged Pull Requests

Check local file exists before installing a windows package #7341 (josh-barker)
Backport for 13: scrub tempfile names #7526 (tyler-ball)
Pin to rspec to < 3.8 #7528 (cheeseplus)
[SHACK-290] Unpacking tarball paths suffer from URI error #7522 (tyler-ball)

v13.10.0 (2018-07-11)

Merged Pull Requests

Trying to use --recipe-url on Windows with local file fails #7426 (tyler-ball)
Pull in latest win32-service gem #7432 (tas50)
Bump Ohai to 13.10.0 #7438 (tas50)
Backport duplicate logger fix #7447 (btm)
Bump to 13.10 and add release notes #7454 (tas50)

v13.9.4 (2018-06-07)

Merged Pull Requests

Update nokogiri, ruby, and openssl for CVEs #7232 (tas50)
Backport Ubuntu 18.04 fixes #7280 (thommay)
Chef-13: Bump ffi to 1.9.25 along with the rest of things #7337 (lamont-granquist)

v13.9.1 (2018-05-08)

Merged Pull Requests

Backport RFC-101/RFC-104 resource enhancements #6964 (thommay)
Pass pointer to LsaFreeMemory, not FFI::MemoryPointer #6991 (btm)
Backport mount provider fixes to 13 #7007 (thommay)
[chef-13] support nils because of course #7017 (thommay)
Empty commit to trigger a release build #7040 (btm)
partially revert 61e3d4bb: do not use properties for mount #7031 (thommay)
Bump dependencies to bring in Ohai 13.9 #7135 (tas50)
Windows MSI: files are now re-unzipped during repair mode (Backport to Chef 13) #7112 (stuartpreston)
Don't always request lazy files #7216 (thommay)
13.9 Release notes #7218 (thommay)
RFC-102: Deprecation warning in resources #7219 (thommay)

v13.8.5 (2018-03-07)

Merged Pull Requests

[knife] Don't crash when a deprecated cookbook has no replacement (#6853) #6936 (tas50)
lock ffi at 1.9.21 #6960 (thommay)

v13.8.3 (2018-03-05)

Merged Pull Requests

Link to the knife.rb docs when the knife.rb file is missing #6892 (tas50)
Revert "Revert "fixup some unit tests"" #6912 (lamont-granquist)
Bump depenencies to pull in Ohai 13.8 / InSpec 1.51.21 #6934 (tas50)

v13.8.0 (2018-02-27)

Merged Pull Requests

Fix regression where message isn't an identity property in log resource #6780 (tas50)
fix node assignment of ImmutableArrays to VividMashes/AttrArrays (Chef-13 backport) #6791 (lamont-granquist)
Ensure that we create a docker compatible ca-certs symlink #6799 (thommay)
Backport the powershell spec fix to get Appveyor green again #6813 (tas50)
Use the version of LicenseScout that comes with the Omnibus gem. #6841 (tduffield)
RemoteFile: unlink tempfile when using cache control shows unchanged (Chef-13 backport) #6849 (lamont-granquist)
add Chef::NodeMap#delete_class API (Chef 13 backport) #6848 (lamont-granquist)
Fix windows_task idle_time validation #6856 (tas50)
Update libxml2 to 2.9.7 #6886 (tas50)
use a stricter comparison so knife ssh only fails if --exit-on-error #6894 (tas50)
Prevent knife search --id-only from outputting IDs in the same format as an empty hash #6893 (tas50)
Chef-13 revert lazy attributes #6898 (lamont-granquist)

v13.7.16 (2018-01-23)

Merged Pull Requests

Update release notes for 13.7 #6751 (thommay)
Revert deprecation of use_inline_resources #6754 (tas50)
fix double-logging bug #6752 (lamont-granquist)
Add a warning that Chef 11 server support in knife user is deprecated #6725 (tas50)
fix non-daemonized umask #6745 (lamont-granquist)
simplify node_map logic #6637 (lamont-granquist)
Fix knife status to show seconds when needed #5055 #6738 (cramaechi)
Enable the deprecation for use_inline_resource #6732 (tas50)
Fix dscl group provider gid_used? #6703 (get9)
Fix windows_task resource not being idempotent for random_delay and execution_time_limit #6688 (Vasu1105)
Update to Ruby 2.4.3 #6737 (tas50)
DSCL: Check for set home property before file existence (fixes #5777) #6735 (get9)
Modernize windows_path resource #6699 (tas50)
Don't check both platform_family / os in provides when platform_family will do #6711 (tas50)
Update the knife editor error message to point to the correct document #6726 (tas50)
Remove a useless regex in zypper_repository resource #6710 (tas50)
Deprecate erl_call resource #6720 (tas50)
Improve property warnings in resources #6717 (tas50)
Remove lock files and test github masters in Kitchen Tests #6709 (tas50)
[MSYS-692] Fix issue with PowerShell function buffer #6664 (TheLunaticScripter)
Escape single-quoted strings from the context in knife bootstrap #6695 (aespinosa)
Allow injecting tempfiles into Chef::HTTP #6701 (lamont-granquist)
Modernize launchd resource #6698 (tas50)
Add an 's' for quantity of 0 cookbooks. #6552 (anoadragon453)
Fix yum_repository allowing priority of 0 and remove string regexes #6697 (tas50)
Add descriptions and yard @since comments to all resources #6696 (tas50)
Cleanup to some of the resource specs #6692 (tas50)
fix for data bag names partially matching search reserved words #6652 (sandratiffin)
Modernize directory resource #6693 (tas50)
Modernize the ifconfig resource #6684 (tas50)
Slight improvements to validation failures #6690 (thommay)
Modernize osx_profile resource #6685 (tas50)
Modernize cookbook_file resource and expand specs #6689 (tas50)
implement credential management #6660 (thommay)
Modernize reboot resource and add spec #6683 (tas50)
Fix bugs in handling 'source' in msu_package and cab_package #6686 (tas50)
Move docker and git top cookbook tests to travis #6673 (scotthain)
Modernize the log resource #6676 (tas50)
Avoid a few initializers in resources by using the DSL we have #6671 (tas50)
Don't use .match? which is Ruby 2.4+ only in windows_task #6675 (tas50)
windows_task: Fix resource isn't fully idempotent due to command property #6654 (Vasu1105)
Invalid date error on windows_task with frequency :on_logon #6618 (NimishaS)
Fix sneaky chefstyle violations #6655 (thommay)
Ensure data bags names can contain reserved words #6636 (EmFl)
windows_task: Add additional input validation to properties #6628 (tas50)
Solaris: Fix svcadm clear to only run in maintenance state #6631 (jaymalasinha)
speedup node_map get and set operations #6632 (lamont-granquist)
Update for openssl 1.0.2n and inspec 1.48 #6630 (tas50)
Improved windows_task logging #6617 (tas50)
Update InSpec to 1.47 and Ohai to 13.7 #6616 (tas50)
Add openSUSE testing in Travis & expand cookbooks we test #6614 (tas50)
Knife SSH prefix option #6590 (mal)
Add Amazon Linux testing to PRs in Travis #6611 (tas50)
Hide sensitive properties in converge_if_changed. #6576 (cma-arnold)
Bump dependencies to pick up InSpec v1.46.2 #6609 (adamleff)
Fix windows_path converging on every run #6541 (tas50)
add unit_name name_property to systemd_unit (fixes #6542) #6546 (nathwill)
fix NodeMap to not throw exceptions on platform_versions #6608 (lamont-granquist)
Enable Fedora integration testing in Travis #6523 (tas50)
Only warn if a secret was actually given #6605 (coderanger)
Makes life easier for hook authors switching from the older report handler syntax #6574 (coderanger)
[MSYS-688] Fixed invalid date and Invalid starttime error #6544 (NimishaS)
Selinux shellout fix (#6346) #6567 (deltamualpha)
Switch from the Travis container to the VM #6600 (btm)
Don't try to uninstall bundler on appveyor #6597 (btm)
Fix variable name in solaris service provider #6596 (jaymalasinha)
Revert "add missing functional tests for users" #6588 (lamont-granquist)
Filter out periods from tmux session name #6593 (afn)
Fix mount test, also update ifconfig to work with both common versions. #6587 (scotthain)
Change a useradd_spec test for RHEL >= 6.8 and >= 7.3 #6555 (jeremiahsnapp)
replace deprecated Dir.exists? with Dir.exist? #6583 (thomasdziedzic)
Add ohai_time to minimal_ohai filter #6584 (btm)

v13.6.4 (2017-11-06)

Merged Pull Requests

[MSYS-492]Add missing functional tests for users #6425 (harikesh-kolekar)
Fix the invalid version comparison in apt/dpkg providers #6558 (tas50)
Fix the invalid version comparison of apt packages. #6554 (komazarari)
Bump openssl and rubygems to latest #6568 (tas50)

v13.6.0 (2017-10-30)

Merged Pull Requests

Bump InSpec to v1.40.0 #6460 (adamleff)
Force encoding to UTF_8 in chef-shell to prevent failures #6447 (tas50)
Only warn about skipping sync once #6454 (Happycoil)
Import the zypper GPG key before templating the repo #6410 (tas50)
Fixes to package upgrade behaviour #6428 (jonlives)
Tweak the knife banners for multi-arg commands. #6466 (coderanger)
dnf_resource: be more specific for rhel packages #6435 (NaomiReeves)
Prevent creation of data bags named node, role, client or environment #6469 (sanditiffin)
Remove cookbook_artifacts from CHEF_11_OSS_STATIC_OBJECTS #6478 (itmustbejj)
Add allow_downgrade to zypper_package resource #6476 (yeoldegrove)
Don't spin in powershell module that launches chef processes #6481 (ksubrama)
Sleep for another interval after handling SIGHUP #6461 (grekasius)
Support new CriticalOhaiPlugins #6486 (jaymzh)
Package: only RHEL >= 8 and Fedora >= 22 get dnf #6490 (lamont-granquist)
Windows: Added :none frequency to windows_task resource #6394 (NAshwini)
Fix rebooter for solaris and background reboots #6497 (lamont-granquist)
Added parser for DSC configuration #6473 (piyushawasthi)
Add array support for choco pkg from artifactory #6437 (dheerajd-msys)
Bump dependencies to pull in new InSpec #6511 (adamleff)
Fix remote_file with UNC paths failing #6510 (tas50)
Deprecate the deploy resource and family #6468 (coderanger)
Include Ohai 13.6 #6521 (btm)
Use the latest libxml2, libxslt, libyaml, and openssl #6520 (tas50)
Pull in the latest libiconv and nokogiri #6532 (tas50)

v13.5.3 (2017-10-03)

Merged Pull Requests

Fix password property is sensitive for mount resource #6442 (dimsh99)
Only accept MM/DD/YYYY for windows_task start_day #6434 (jaym)
Update dependencies to pull in InSpec v1.39.1 #6440 (adamleff)
Fix Knife search ID only option to actually filter result set #6438 (dimsh99)
Add throttle and metalink options to yum_repository #6431 (tas50)
Don't catch SIGCHLD from dnf_helper.py #6416 (nemith)
Open apt resources up to prevent breaking change #6417 (tas50)
Remove unused requires in yum_repository #6413 (tas50)
Quiet the output of the zypper refresh and add force #6408 (tas50)
Replace which apt-get check with simple debian check in apt resources #6409 (tas50)

v12.21.14 (2017-09-27)

v13.4.24 (2017-09-14)

Merged Pull Requests

Fixed dsc_script for WMF5 #6383 (piyushawasthi)
windows_task resource is not idempotent when specifying start_time and start_day #6312 (harikesh-kolekar)
Allow specifying default gateway on RHEL/Centos #6386 (tomdoherty)
Use ruby 2.4.2 to addess multiple security vulnerabilities #6404 (thommay)

v13.4.19 (2017-09-13)

Bug Fixes

Ignore validation errors in Resource#to_text #6331 (coderanger)
Auto import gpg keys in zypper_repository #6348 (tas50)
Handle apple's git in the git resource #6359 (kzw)
Launchd should not load launchagents as root. #6353 (mikedodge04)
Pass json configuration to ShellSession class #6314 (btm)

Merged Pull Requests

Add windows_path resource from the Windows cookbook #6295 (NimishaS)
Bump Bundler version to 1.15.4 #6349 (jakauppila)
dnf_provider: be more specific when we provide package #6351 (jaymzh)
Speed up immutabilization #6355 (lamont-granquist)
Node attributes: remove useless dup in merge_all #6356 (lamont-granquist)
Link to the knife docs in both places where we error on editor #6363 (tas50)
Bump rubygems to 2.6.13 #6365 (lamont-granquist)
Ship chef-vault in the omnibus package #6370 (thommay)
Support an array of keys for apt_repository #6372 (gsreynolds)
Immutablize properly as we deep merge #6362 (lamont-granquist)
Alternate user local logon authentication for remote_file resource #5832 (NimishaS)
Add support for specifying ETHTOOL_OPTS in the ifconfig resource #6384 (tomdoherty)

v13.3.42 (2017-08-16)

Merged Pull Requests

Apt: Add apt_preference resource from apt cookbooks #5529 (tas50)
Fix typos #6298 (akitada)
Set explicit page size for every search request #6299 (stevendanna)
Add .dockerignore to reduce size of resulting images #6296 (tduffield)
Fix git command in DCO sign-off example #6306 (edmorley)
Add option to enable unprivileged symlink creation on windows #6236 (svmastersamurai)
Bump omnibus-software version #6310 (thommay)
Throw readable errors if multiple dsc resources are found #6307 (Happycoil)
Add zypper_repository resource #5948 (tas50)
Pull in Ohai 13.3 #6319 (tas50)
Maintain compat with old zypper_repo resource used in cookbooks #6318 (tas50)
README improvement for Chef beginner. #6297 (takaya-fuj19)
Bump InSpec to v1.33.1 #6324 (adamleff)

v13.3.27 (2017-07-26)

Full Changelog

Added username/password validation for elevated option #6293 (NimishaS)
Bump mixlib-shellout for #6271 #6285 (btm)
Added :elevated option for powershell_script resource #6271 (NimishaS)
Make mount idempotent on Aix #6213 (NAshwini)
Allow windows_task create action to update tasks. #6193 (harikesh-kolekar)
Use socketless local mode by default #6177 (coderanger)
Convert breakpoint resource to a custom resource #6176 (lamont-granquist)
Make non-legacy solo use socketless mode #6174 (coderanger)
Prefer Systemd with sysvinit script over Upstart for service provider #6157 (shortdudey123)

v13.0.118 (2017-04-12)

Fix Gems won't install on Windows with Chef 13
Fix yum_package options option broken in Chef 13
Fix cookbooks uploaded by Chef 13 can't be used by Chef 12
Update Ohai to 13.0.1 to fix the OpenStack and Eucalyptus plugins

v13.0.113 (2017-04-06)

Use Ohai 13.0
Add new server enforced required recipe feature
shell_out PATH fixes and path_sanity changes
Remove magic from the logger/formatter settings
Add new windows_task resource
Better solution to gem_package source issues
Remove the knife cookbook create command in favor of Chef-DK
Remove need to define use_inline_resources and always enable inline resources
RFC 59 - Load ohai plugins
Use new lzma lib
Have knife cookbook generate use SPDX standard license strings
Implement RFC033: Root aliases
Ensure DataBagItems are a Mash
Add InSpec to chef omnibus builds
Remove knife cookbook site vendor
Make Standardized Exit Codes The Default Behavior
Tweaks to rubygems source option for urls
Allow lazy{} to be used in template resource variables.
Freeze property defaults
fix knife ssh --exit-on-error
Add -u param to usermod in linux_user resource when using non_unique
Launchd limit_load_to_session_type accepts Array or String
Remove the consts for DSL-based resources/providers
Add real support for rb files (at least roles) in knife-serve
Adding restart action to launchd resource
systemd_unit verifier escape hatch
Ensure we check all required fields
V2 Cookbook Manifests
Fix and simplify rake bundle:* commands
Expand the system info displayed on error to give us some more data to work with when helping users
Add policy_name and policy_group indexes to converge message sent to ...
Turn on zypper gpg checks by default
Knife search exit 1 when no results
Remove deprecated knife subcommand APIs
Coerce package options property to an Array
Fix cookbook gem installer
Remove iconv from the chef build
Remove deprecated Chef::ResourceResolver.resource API
Fix notifying array resources
Remove deprecated run_command API entirely
Apply knife search node fuzzifier to knife ssh
Remove Chef::Resource.updated=
Remove deprecated launchd resource hash property
Remove more deprecated method_missing access
Support nameless resources and remove deprecated multi-arg resources
bumping acceptance gems
Set default guard_interpreter to powershell_script on Windows
Remove more deprecated provider_resolver code
Make ActionClass a class
Don't include nokogiri gem as it doesn't compile on Windows right now
Retry API requests if using an unsupported version
Bump _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 for ruby 2.4 on Solaris
Upgrade Ruby to the 2.4.1 release
Fix action class weirdness in Chef-13
Make ResourceReporter smarter to get resource identity and state
Don't rescue Exception in retryable resources
Simplify DSL creation
Remove deprecated Chef::Client attrs
Remove method_missing from the DSL
Remove support for the sort option to searches.
smf_recursive_dependencies: Allow solaris services to start recursively.
Fix for creating users in non english windows machines
Remove node_map back-compat
Fix chef-shell option name and help message
Remove Chef::ShellOut
Remove deprecated run_context methods
Remove old platform mapping code
Remove the old rake tasks
Properly use chef-shell in SoloSession by deprecating old behavior into SoloLegacySession
Raise on properties redefining inherited methods
Optimize cheffs
Remove Chef::REST
Fix node#debug_value access through arrays
Nillable properties
Freeze merged node attribute
Properly deep dup Node#to_hash
Add release policy badge to README
Remove the deprecated easy_install resource
Remove declare_resource create_if_missing API
Kill JSON auto inflate with fire
Remove method_missing access to node object.
Cleanup of Chef::Resource
Add attribute blacklist
Enable why-run by default in resources
Ensure that there are no pesky // in our paths
Compress debs and rpms with xz
Fix apt_repository for Ubuntu 16.10+
Remove all Chef 11 era deprecations
Remove partial_search methods
Use v3 data bag encryption
Remove %{file} from verify interpolation
Revert "Remove all 11 era deprecations"
Convert additional resource methods to properties
Remove backcompat classes
Remove provisioning from the downstream tests
Remove supports API from Chef::Resource
Be a bit less keen to help properties
Add an option for gateway_identity_file that will allow key-based authentication on the gateway.
Mac: Validate that a machine has a computer level profile
Verify data bag exists before trying to create it in knife
Remove resource cloning and 3694 warnings
HTTP: add debug long for non-JSON response

v12.21.4 (2017-08-14)

Full Changelog

Fixed bugs:

Backport #5941 (Make ResourceReporter smarter to get resource identity and state) #6308

Tech cleanup:

Bump omnibus-software to fix early Rubygems segfaults on Windows #6329
Upgrade Ruby from 2.3.1 to 2.3.4
Upgrade libiconv from 1.14 to 1.15
Upgrade Rubygems from 2.6.10 to 2.6.12

v12.21.3 (2017-06-23)

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Fixed bugs:

Properly send expanded run list event for policy file nodes #6229 / #6233

v12.21.1 (2017-06-20)

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Handle the supports pseudo-property more gracefully #6222 (coderanger)
Provide better system information when Chef crashes #6173 (coderanger)
On Debian based systems, correctly prefer Systemd to Upstart #6157 (shortdudey123)
Don't crash if we downgrade from Chef 13 to Chef 12 #6129 (akitada)
Update zlib to 1.2.11 to resolve CVEs #6219 (thommay)
Update Ohai to 8.24 with improved EC2 metadata handling, dmi code fixes, and scala/lua detection fixes

v12.20.3 (2017-04-30)

Add the ability to define a server enforced required recipe#6032(sdelano)
Fix apt_repository key fingerprint for Ubuntu 16.10+
Verify if a databag exists before we try to create it with knife
Bump json, winrm, plist, and net-ssh gems to the latest #6106 (rhass)

v12.19.36 (2017-02-23)

Use shellsplit for apt_package options #5838 (mivok)

v12.19.33 (2017-02-16)

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coerce immutable arrays to normal arrays in the yum_package resource #5816 (lamont-granquist)
Suppress sensitive properties from resource log and reporting output #5803 (tduffield)
Sanitize UTF-8 data sent to Data Collector #5793 (lamont-granquist)
Add multipackage_api support to yum_package provider #5791 (tduffield)
rhel7 / dnf 2.0 fixes / improved errors #5782 (lamont-granquist)
Grant Administrators group permissions to nodes directory under chef-solo #5781 (tduffield)
Fix --no-fips on chef-client #5778 (btm)
Raise error if ips_package install returns non-zero #5773 (tduffield)
Use CIDR notation rather than netmask in route-eth0 file #5772 (tduffield)
Verify systemd_unit file with custom verifier #5765 (mal)
Windows alternate user support for execute resources #5764 (NimishaS)
favor metadata.json over metadata.rb #5750 (lamont-granquist)
Ensure ssh search paginates correctly #5744 (thommay)
Do not modify File's new_resource during why-run #5742 (scottopherson)
Add gems for ECC algorithm support to omnibus. #5736 (rhass)
dh/url support cab #5732 (dheerajd-msys)
use git archive to speed up putting source in place #5730 (robbkidd)
use pkg.path variable to reference path to self #5729 (robbkidd)
Raise NamedSecurityInfo related exception using HR result. #5727 (Aliasgar16)
Core: Ensure paths are correctly escaped when syntax checking #5704 (ceneo)
Added module_version attribute for dsc_resource for SxS support #5701 (Aliasgar16)
Bump net-ssh to v4, add dependencies for ed25519 support #5687 (onlyhavecans)

v12.18.31 (2017-01-11)

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Implemented enhancements:

yum_repository: Allow baseurl to be an array & allow fastestmirror_enabled false #5708 (tas50)
Adding returns property to chocolatey_package resource #5688 (Vasu1105)
Code cleanup in the user provider #5674 (lamont-granquist)
Code cleanup in the group provider #5673 (lamont-granquist)
Core: Formally deprecate run_command #5666 (lamont-granquist)
Set MSI Scheduled Task name to match chef-client cookbook managed name #5657 (mwrock)
remove Chef::Platform::HandlerMap #5636 (lamont-granquist)
Core: Properly deprecate old Chef::Platform methods #5631 (lamont-granquist)

Fixed bugs:

Fix error thrown by solo when run on Windows as SYSTEM #5693 (scottopherson)
Report a blank resource if sensitive is enabled #5668 (afiune)
Ensure node.docker? returns boolean #5645 (andrewjamesbrown)
Fix Data Collector organization parsing regex #5630 (adamleff)
Core: Use object ID when detected unprocessed Resources #5604 (adamleff)

Merged pull requests:

Core: fix node attribute "unless" API methods #5717 (lamont-granquist)

v12.17.44 (2016-12-07)

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Implemented enhancements:

Action :umount for mount resource is an obtuse anachronism #5595
Core: Update ohai resource to new style, stop overwriting name property #5607 (adamleff)
Linux: mount provider - skip device detection for zfs #5603 (ttr)
Core: Ensure chef-solo creates node files w/ correct permissions #5601 (scottopherson)
Resources: Add unmount as an alias to umount in the mount resource #5599 (shortdudey123)
Core: Update Data Collector to use Chef::JSONCompat #5590 (adamleff)
Knife: Add ability to pass multiple nodes to knife node/client delete #5572 (jeunito)
Core: Data Collector debug log should output JSON #5570 (adamleff)
Yum: Purge yum cache before deleting repo config #5509 (iancward)
Knife Bootstrap: Passing config_log_level and config_log_location from config.rb #5502 (dheerajd-msys)

Fixed bugs:

Custom Resources: Undefined method up_to_date thrown by Chef 12.16.42 #5593
Core: Ensure deprecation messages are always included #5618 (thommay)
Core: Fix bug where Access Controls on existing symlink resources would be ignored on first chef-client run #5616 (tduffield)
The suggested fix for the manage_home deprecation is incorrect #5615 (tas50)
change choco -version to choco --version #5613 (spuder)
Knife: Correct example chef\_server\_url in knife configure #5602 (jerryaldrichiii)
Windows: Ensure correct version of shutdown is called when using the reboot resource #5596 (Xoph)
Windows: Support for running cab_package on non-English system locales #5591 (jugatsu)
Core: Ensure Data Collector resource report exists before updating #5571 (adamleff)
Windows: Use the full path to expand.exe for msu_package #5564 (NimishaS)
Unset http[s]_proxy in the subversion spec #5562 (stefanor)
Core: fix Lint/UnifiedInteger cop #5547 (lamont-granquist)
Core: fix ImmutableArray slices #5541 (lamont-granquist)
Prevent apt_update failures on non-Linux platforms #5524 (tas50)
Core: Ensure that the sensitive property is correctly accessed #5508 (axos88)

Closed issues:

cab_package doesn't support running on non-English system locales #5592
Support restarting/stopping/ the service from state paused on windows #5586

v12.16.42 (2016-11-04)

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Implemented enhancements:

Core: improve readability of property-resource namespace collision exception message #5500 (lamont-granquist)
Omnibus: Pull in Ohai 8.21.0 and other new deps #5499 (tas50)
Core: Add deprecations to Data Collector run completion messages #5496 (adamleff)
Core: add attribute_changed hook to event handlers #5495 (lamont-granquist)
Knife: Add the --field-separator flag to knife show commands #5489 (tduffield)
Core: Enable Signed Header Auth for Data Collector, and Configure the Data Collector Automatically #5487 (danielsdeleo)
Core: set use_inline_resources in package superclass #5483 (lamont-granquist)
Package: Add new "lock" action for apt, yum and zypper packages #5395 (yeoldegrove)

Fixed bugs:

Enable data collector w/o token for solo, but require explicit URL #5511 (danielsdeleo)
Core: Include chef/chef_class in Chef::REST for method log_deprecation #5504 (smalltown)
Knife: Updating knife ssl fetch to correctly store certificate when it does not have a CN #5498 (tyler-ball)
Knife: Fixed knife download cookbooks issue which used to corrupt the certificate files each time the command was fired. #5494 (Aliasgar16)
Solaris: Properly check lock status of users on solaris2 #5486 (tduffield)
Solaris: Fix IPS package must create symlinks to package commands #5485 (jaymalasinha)

v12.15.19 (2016-10-07)

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Enhancements:

Adding support for rfc 62 exit code 213 (Chef upgrades) #5428 (jeremymv2)
Allow raw_key to override the configured signing_key #5314 (thommay)
Set yum_repository gpgcheck default to true #5398 (shortdudey123)
Allow deletion of registry_key without the need for users to pass data key in values hash. #5359 (Aliasgar16)
Adding support for cab files to Chef package provider on windows #5285 (Vasu1105)
Ignore unknown metadata fields in metadata.rb #5299 (lamont-granquist)

Fixed Bugs:

knife ssh: use the command line prompt for sudo if set #5427 (lamont-granquist)
User provider: Fix manage_home provider inconsistency for Mac and FreeBSD providers #5423 (lamont-granquist)
Fix for "Chefspec template rendering fails when cookbook_name != directory name" #5417 (lamont-granquist)
Fix solaris handling for useradd -m/-M behavior #5408 (coderanger)
Normalize full key name to avoid resource update on identical key names #5290 (bai)
Add trailing newline to generated 15update-stamp #5382 (pwalz)
Invalid dsc_scripts should fail the run #5377 (NimishaS)
Revert --local filter for gems installed from paths #5379 (mwrock)
Fix knife list_commands() #5386 (lamont-granquist)
Don't use -r for users or groups on Solaris. #5355 (coderanger)
Chef 12 Attribute Regression #5360 (gbagnoli)
Handling Errno::ETIMEDOUT #5358 (NimishaS)

v12.14.89 (2016-09-22)

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Fixed Bugs:

Revert "Verify systemd_unit file during create" #5326 (mwrock)
Fix method_access and array handling in node presenter #5351 (lamont-granquist)
Fixed undefined short_cksum method issue and checksum in uppercase issue for windows_package resource. #5332 (Aliasgar16)
Fix makecache action name in yum_repository #5348 (tas50)

v12.14.77 (2016-09-19)

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Fixed Bugs:

Revert supports[:manage_home] behavior #5322 (lamont-granquist)
Preserve the extension of the file in the rendered tempfile in File providers #5327 (lamont-granquist)
Allow the :delete action for yum_repository + fix old property support #5320 (tas50)

v12.14.60 (2016-09-09)

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Enhancements:

Only support Solaris 10u11 and newer #5264 (rhass)
Added code to handle deletion of directories on Windows that are symlinks. #5234 (Aliasgar16)
Readability improvements to options parsing code #5289 (lamont-granquist)
Add Hash type to launchd:keep_alive #5182 (erikng)
Added timeout during removing of windows package #5250 (dheerajd-msys)
Bump openssl to 1.0.2h #5260 (lamont-granquist)
Rewrite linux_user provider check_lock #5248 (lamont-granquist)
Allow flagging a resource property as sensitive #5185 (adamleff)
Rewrite linux useradd provider #5243 (lamont-granquist)
Add yum_repository resource from the yum cookbook #5187 (thommay)
Verify systemd_unit file during create #5210 (mal)
Add a warning for guard blocks that return a non-empty string #5233 (coderanger)
Forward package cookbook_name to underlying remote_file #5128 (Annih)
Fix "URI.escape is obsolete" warnings #5230 (jkeiser)
Remove ruby 2.1 support #5220 (lamont-granquist)
User provider manage_home behavior and refactor #5122 (lamont-granquist)
Fix Style/BlockDelimiters, Style/MultilineBlockLayout and 0.42.0 engine upgrade #5218 (lamont-granquist)
Switch from Ruby 2.1.9 to Ruby 2.3.1 #5190 (jkeiser)
Update to latest chefstyle #5217 (jkeiser)
Rubygems memory performance improvement #5203 (lamont-granquist)
HTTP 1.1 keepalives for cookbook synchronization #5151 (lamont-granquist)

Fixed Bugs:

Fixes GH-4955, allowing local gems with remote dependencies #5098 (jyaworski)
Hook up the recipe_file_loaded event which was defined but not actually called #5281 (coderanger)
fix gem_package regression in master #5262 (lamont-granquist)
Added fix for spaces in profile identifiers #5159 (natewalck)
Add a hook for compat_resource #5259 (lamont-granquist)
Fix flush_cache issues in yum_package #5258 (jaymzh)
Use symbols instead of strings as keys for systemd user property #5241 (joshuamiller01)
Use upstart goal state as service status #5249 (evan2645)
Fix the useradd test filters #5236 (lamont-granquist)
Fix specify members of group on suse/openbsd/solaris2/hpux #5152 (tas50)
Fix cookbook upload of symlinked cookbooks in Ruby 2.3 on Windows #5216 (jkeiser)
Don't use relative_path_from on glob results #5215 (jkeiser)

v12.13.37 (2016-08-12)

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Enhancements:

Bumping ohai and mixlib-log to fix regression #5197 (mwrock)
Remove requires in Chef::Recipe that are no longer necessary #5189 (lamont-granquist)

v12.13.30 (2016-08-05)

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Enhancements:

noop apt_update similar to apt_repository #5173 (lamont-granquist)
Bump dependencies to bring in Ohai 8.18 #5168 (tas50)
Make Chef work with Ruby 2.3, update Ruby to 2.1.9 #5165 (jkeiser)
Log cause chain for exceptions #3354 (jaym)
First pass on --config-option handling. #5045 (coderanger)
Add bootstrap proxy authentication support. #4059 (yossigo)
Support setting an empty string for cron attrs #5127 (thommay)
Also clear notifications when deleting a resource. #5146 (coderanger)
Clean up subscribes internals and notification storage. #5145 (coderanger)
Cache ChefFS children #5131 (thommay)
Update to rspec 3.5 #5126 (thommay)
Add chef\_data\_bag\_item to Cheffish DSL methods #5125 (danielsdeleo)
replace glibc resolver with ruby resolver #5123 (lamont-granquist)
The user must specify a category for a new cookbook #5091 (thommay)
Warn if not installing an individual bff fileset #5093 (mwrock)
Use Mixlib::Archive to extract tarballs #5080 (thommay)
Data Collector server URL validation, and disable on host down #5076 (adamleff)

Fixed Bugs:

Don't log error for reporting audit data in when in chef-zero #5016 (erichelgeson)
Invalidate the file system cache on deletion #5154 (thommay)
Root ACLs are a top level json file not a sub-directory #5155 (thommay)
Install nokogiri and pin mixlib-cli #5118 (ksubrama)
Ensure that the valid option is given back to the option parser #5114 (dldinternet)
Fixed regex for zypper version 1.13.*. #5109 (yeoldegrove)
add back method_missing support to set_unless #5103 (lamont-granquist)
Fix #5094 node.default_unless issue in 12.12.13 #5097 (lamont-granquist)
Fix #5078 using cwd parameter instead of Dir.pwd #5079 (Tensibai)

v12.12.15 (2016-07-08)

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Fixed Bugs:

Fix for #5094 12.12.13 node.default_unless issue #5097 (lamont-granquist)

v12.12.13 (2016-07-01)

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Implemented Enhancements:

Tweak 3694 warnings #5075 (lamont-granquist)
Adding node object to Data collector run_converge message #5065 (adamleff)
Attribute API improvements #5029 (lamont-granquist)
Remove deprecated Thread.exclusive around require call. #5068 (maxlazio)
Ensure that chef-solo uses the expected repo dir #5059 (thommay)
Expand data_collector resource list to include all resources #5058 (adamleff)
Turn off fips with an empty environment var #5048 (mwrock)
Deprecate knife-supermarket gem #4896 (thommay)
Update Nokogiri #5042 (mwrock)
Remote resource should respect sensitive flag #5025 (PrajaktaPurohit)
Convert the 3694 warning to a deprecation so it will be subject to the usual deprecation formatting (collected at the bottom, can be made an error, etc). #5022 (coderanger)
Deprecate knife cookbook create in favor of chef generate cookbook. #5021 (tylercloke)

Fixed Bugs:

Fixes windows_package uninstall scenarios by calling uninstall string directly #5050 (mwrock)
Fix gem_package idempotency #5046 (thommay)
Undefined local variable lookup in multiplexed_dir.rb #5027 (robdimarco)
Correctly write out data collector metadata file #5019 (adamleff)
Eliminate missing constant errors for LWRP class #5000 (PrajaktaPurohit)
Updated_resource_count to data collector should only include updated resources #5006 (adamleff)
Don't mask directory deletion errors #4991 (jaymzh)

v12.11.18 (2016-06-02)

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Implemented Enhancements:

Creation of the new DataCollector reporter #4973 (adamleff)
Add systemd_unit try-restart, reload-or-restart, reload-or-try-restart actions #4908 (nathwill)
RFC062 exit status chef client #4611 (smurawski)
Create 'universal' DSL #4942 (lamont-granquist)
Handle numeric id for the user value in the git resource #4902 (MichaelPereira)
RFC 31 - Default solo to local mode #4919 (thommay)
Wire up chef handlers directly from libraries #4933 (lamont-granquist)
Reject malformed ini content in systemd_unit resource #4907 (nathwill)
Update usage of @new_resource.destination to cwd within the git hwrp #4898 (joshburt)
Support Ruby Files in ChefFS #4887 (thommay)
Adds a system check for fips enablement and runs in fips mode if enabled #4880 (mwrock)
Lazy'ing candidate_version in package provider #4869 (lamont-granquist)
Add systemd_unit resource #4700 (nathwill)
Bump chef-zero to avoid aggressive logging #4878 (stevendanna)

Fixed Bugs:

Fix #4949 and Avoid Errno::EBUSY on docker containers #4979 (andrewjamesbrown)
Ensure recipe-url works right in solo #4957 (thommay)
Fix portage provider to support version with character #4966 (crigor)
Fixes #4968 and only retrieves the latest version of packages from chocolatey #4977 (mwrock)
Update contributing doc to better reflect reality #4962 (tas50)
Load cookbook versions correctly for knife #4936 (thommay)
Gem metadata command needs Gem.clear_paths #4929 (lamont-granquist)
Fix os x profile provider for nil #4921 (achand)
Cookbook site install : tar error on windows #4867 (willoucom)
Fix yum_package breakage (the =~ operator in ruby is awful) #4912 (lamont-granquist)
Encode registry enumerated values and keys to utf8 instead of the local codepage #4906 (mwrock)
Chocolatey Package Provider chomps nil object #4760 (svmastersamurai)
Fixes knife ssl check on windows #4886 (mwrock)

v12.10.24 (2016-04-27)

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Fixed Bugs:

Removing non-existent members from group should not fail #4812 (chefsalim)
The easy_install provider and resource are deprecated and will be removed in Chef 13 #4860 (coderanger)

Tech cleanup:

Refactor ChefFS files to be files #4837 (thommay)
Rename and add backcompat requires for ChefFS dirs #4830 (thommay)
Refactor ChefFS directories to be directories #4826 (thommay)
Move all ChefFS exceptions into a single file #4822 (thommay)

Enhancements:

Add layout option support for device creation to mdadm resource provider #4855 (kbruner)
add notifying_block and subcontext_block to chef #4818 (lamont-granquist)
modernize shell_out method syntax #4865 (lamont-granquist)
Update rubygems provider to support local install of gems if so specified #4847 (PrajaktaPurohit)
fix details in with_run_context #4839 (lamont-granquist)
Lock dependencies of chef through a Gemfile.lock #4820 (jkeiser)
add better resource manipulation API #4834 (lamont-granquist)
add nillable apt_repository and nillable properties #4832 (lamont-granquist)

v12.9 (2016-04-09)

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Implemented enhancements:

Sftp remote file support #4750 (jkerry)
Setting init_command should be accepted instead of specific command overrides #4709 (coderanger)
Add a NoOp provider #4798 (thommay)
Add ability to notify from inside LWRP to wrapping resource_collections #4017
Notifications from LWRPS/sub-resources can trigger resources in outer run_context scopes #4741 (lamont-granquist)
Improve the docs generated by knife cookbook create #4757 (tas50)
Need Config/CLI options to move interval+splay sleep to end of client loop #3305
Add optional integer argument for --daemonize option #4759 (jrunning)
Add shorthand :syslog and :win_evt for log_location config #4751 (jrunning)

Fixed bugs:

chef_gem and gem metadata don't play well #4710
Fix cookbook metadata 'gem' command to make it useful #4809 (lamont-granquist)
Convert timeout config to integer #4787 (chefsalim)
The mount resource is not idempotent on windows #3861
fix for #4715 - unset TMPDIR in homebrew package provider #4716 (gips0n)
tons of "Deprecation class overwrites LWRP resource" WARNING SPAM with chefspec #4668

Merged pull requests:

Add apt_repository resource #4782 (thommay)
Point to the right license file for chef. #4811 (sersut)
add omnibus license metadata #4805 (patrick-wright)
Add default timeout #4804 (chefsalim)
Spec break on Windows due to temp dir and short path names #4776 (adamedx)
Require chef/version since it's used here #4762 (jkeiser)
remove pry from rbx build #4761 (lamont-granquist)
ruby 2.0.0 is EOL #4752 (lamont-granquist)
supresses parser gem errors #4755 (lamont-granquist)
Set inherit=false on the fallback provider constant lookup. #4753 (coderanger)

Closed issues:

Uploading an encrypted data bag to Chef server fails #4815
powershell_script does not have PSCredential capability #4589
Documentation don't include how to setup mail server during deployment of Chef server #4807
Resource 'mount' and chef 12.5.1 #4056
Incorrect $TMPDIR environment variable on OS X #4715
group provider on suse Linux adds user multiple times #4689
Unexpected error when using "knife cookbook show ...." #4659

12.8.1 (2016-03-07)

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Implemented enhancements:

Clarify the probable cause of tempfile creation failure during cookbook sync #2171
Remove static libraries from Chef package #4654 (chefsalim)
Have client.rb verify that FIPS mode can be enforced #4630 (ksubrama)
List all of the unignored files when loading a cookbook #4629 (danielsdeleo)
adding pry and pry-byebug to dev dependencies #4601 (mwrock)
Split group members on commas #4583 (thommay)
Make tempfiles easier to read (prepend chef to the name) #4582 (thommay)
Extend cookbook shadowing deprecation warnings more broadly #4574 (lamont-granquist)
tell knife's edit_data what the object is #4548 (thommay)
Implement knife bootstrap client.d RFC #4529 (jaym)
Update to Log Level when showing unencrypted databag #4524 (PatrickWalker)
RFC-060 gem metadata MVP #4478 (lamont-granquist)
chef-client: add --[no]skip-cookbook-sync option #4316 (josb)
Extend service resource to support masking #4307 (davide125)
launchd for osx #4111 (mikedodge04)

Fixed bugs:

Chef::DataBagItem.to_hash is modifying Chef::DataBagItem.raw_data #4614
Chef 12 seeing a ton of these in debug mode #2396
Data bag item hash can have name key #4664 (chefsalim)
Clearer exception for loading non-existent data bag items in solo mode. #4655 (coderanger)
Always rehash from gem source and not existing hash file #4651 (tyler-ball)
Handle negative content length headers too. #4646 (coderanger)
if no module name is found for a valid dsc resource default to PSDesiredStateConfiguration #4638 (mwrock)
removing disabling of readline in chef-shell #4635 (mwrock)
Fix a bug that was causing DataBagItem.to_hash to mutate the data bag item #4631 (itmustbejj)
ensure paths maintain utf-8ness in non ascii encodings #4626 (mwrock)
Fix the Chocolatey-missing error again #4621 (randomcamel)
fixes exe package downloads #4612 (mwrock)
fallback to netmsg.dll error table if error message is not found in system errors #4600 (mwrock)
zypper multipackage performance fix #4591 (lamont-granquist)
bugfix #2865 check for validation_key #4581 (thommay)
remove bogus recalculation of cookbook upload failures #4580 (thommay)
Make sure we have a valid object before calling close! #4579 (thommay)
Fix policyfile_zero provisioner in 12.7 #4571 (andy-dufour)
do not include source parameter when removing a chocolatey package and ensure source is used on all functional tests #4570 (mwrock)
Fix databag globbing issues for chef-solo on windows #4569 (jaym)
remove Chef::Mixin::Command use #4566 (lamont-granquist)

12.7.2

pr#4559 Remove learnchef acceptance tests until we make them more reliable
pr#4545 Removing rm -rf in chef-solo recipe_url

12.7.1

Daniel Steen
- pr#3183 Provide more helpful error message when accidentally using --secret instead of --secret-file
pr#4532 Bump Bundler + Rubygems
pr#4550 Use a streaming request to download cookbook

12.7.0

Nate Walck
- pr#4078 Add osx_profile resource for OS X
Timothy Cyrus
- pr#4420 Update code climate badge and code climate blocks in README.md
Jordan Running
- pr#4399 Correctly save policy_name and policy_group with knife node edit
Brian Goad
- pr#4315 Add extra tests around whether to skip with multiple guards
pr#4516 Return propper error messages when using windows based mount, user and group resources
pr#4500 Explicitly declare directory permissions of chef install on windows to restrict rights on Windows client versions
pr#4498 Correct major and minor OS versions for Windows 10 and add versions for Windows 2016 Server
pr#4375 No longer try to auto discover package version of exe based windows packages
pr#4369 Import omnibus-chef chef project definition and history
pr#4399 Correctly save policy_name and policy_group with knife node edit
pr#4278 make file resource use properties
pr#4479 Remove incorrect cookbook artifact normalization
pr#4470 Fix sh spacing issues
pr#4434 adds EOFError message to handlers
pr#4422 Add an apt_update resource
pr#4287 Default Chef with FIPS OpenSSL to use sign v1.3
pr#4461 debian-6 is EOL next month
pr#4460 Set range of system user/group id to max of 200
pr#4231 zypper multipackage patch
pr#4459 use require_paths and not path so bundler grabs all paths from a git reference
pr#4450 don't warn about ambiguous property usage
pr#4445 Add CBGB to the repository
pr#4423 Add deprecation warnings to Chef::REST and all json_creates
pr#4439 Sometimes chocolately doesn't appear on the path
pr#4432 add get_rest etc calls to ServerAPI
pr#4435 add nokogiri to omnibus-chef
pr#4419 explicitly adding .bat to service executable called by service in case users remove .bat from PATHEXT
pr#4413 configure chef client windows service to the correct chef directory
pr#4377 fixing candidate filtering and adding functional tests for chocolatey_package
pr#4406 Updating to the latest release of net-ssh to consume net-ssh/net-ssh#280
pr#4405 ServerAPI will return a raw hash, so do that
pr#4400 inflate an environment after loading it
pr#4396 Remove duplicate initialization of @password in user_v1
pr#4344 Warn (v. info) when reloading resources
pr#4369 Migrate omnibus-chef project/software definitions for chef in here
pr#4106 add chocolatey_package to core chef
pr#4321 fix run_as_user of windows_service
pr#4333 no longer wait on node search to refresh vault but pass created ApiCient instead
pr#4325 Pin win32-eventlog to 0.6.3 to avoid clashing CreateEvent definition
pr#4312 Updates the template to use omnitruck-direct.chef.io
pr#4277 non msi packages must explicitly provide a source attribute on install
pr#4309 tags always an array; fix set_unless
pr#4278 make file resource use properties
pr#4288 Fix no_proxy setting in chef-config
pr#4273 Use signing protocol 1.1 by default
pr#4520 Fix a few dsc_resource bugs

12.6.0

Dave Eddy pr#3187 overhaul solaris SMF service provider
Mikhail Zholobov
- pr#3192 provider/user/dscl: Set default gid to 20
- pr#3193 provider/user/dscl: Set "comment" default value
Jordan Evans
- pr#3263 value_for_platform should use Chef::VersionConstraint::Platform
- pr#3633 add the word group to converge_by call for group provider
Scott McGillivray pr#3450 Fix 'knife cookbook show' to work on root files
Aubrey Holland pr#3986 fix errors when files go away during chown
James Michael DuPont pr#3973 better error reporting
Michael Pereira pr#3968 Fix cookbook installation from supermarket on windows
Yukihiko SAWANOBORI
- pr#3941 allow reboot by reboot resource with chef-apply
- pr#3900 Add new option json attributes file to bootstraping
permyakovsv pr#3901 Add tmux-split parameter to knife ssh
Evan Gilman pr#3864 Knife bootstrap_environment should use Explicit config before Implicit
Ranjib Dey pr#3834 Dont spit out stdout and stderr for execute resource failure, if its declared sensitive
Jeff Blaine
- pr#3776 Changes --hide-healthy to --hide-by-mins MINS
- pr#3848 Migrate to --ssh-identity-file instead of --identity-file
dbresson pr#3650 Define == for node objects
Patrick Connolly pr#3529 Allow user@hostname format for knife-bootstrap
Justin Seubert pr#4160 Correcting regex for upstart_state
Sarah Michaelson pr#3810 GH-1909 Add validation for chef_server_url
Maxime Brugidou pr#4052 Add make_child_entry in ChefFS CookbookSubdir
Nathan Williams pr#3836 simplify service helpers
Paul Welch pr#4066 Fix chef-apply usage banner
Mat Schaffer pr#4153 Require ShellOut before Knife::SSH definition
Donald Guy pr#4158 Allow named_run_list to be loaded from config
Jos Backus pr#4064 Ensure that tags are properly initialized
John Bellone pr#4101 Adds alias method upgrade_package for solaris package
Nolan Davidson pr#4014 Adding ksh resource
pr#4193 support for inno, nsis, wise and installshield installer types in windows_package resource
pr#4196 multipackage dpkg_package and bonus fixes
pr#4185 dpkg provider cleanup
pr#4165 Multipackage internal API improvements
pr#4081 RFC-037: add chef_version and ohai_version metadata
pr#3530 Allow using --sudo option with user's home folder in knife bootstrap
pr#3858 Remove duplicate 'Accept' header in spec
pr#3911 Avoid subclassing Struct.new
pr#3990 Use SHA256 instead of MD5 for registry_key when data is not displayable
pr#4034 add optional ruby-profiling with --profile-ruby
pr#3119 allow removing user, even if their GID isn't resolvable
pr#4068 update messaging from LWRP to Custom Resource in logging and spec
pr#4021 add missing requires for Chef::DSL::Recipe to LWRPBase
pr#3597 print STDOUT from the powershell_script
pr#4091 Allow downloading of root_files in a chef repository
pr#4112 Update knife bootstrap command to honor --no-color flag in chef-client run that is part of the bootstrap process.
pr#4090 Improve detection of ChefFS-based commands in knife rehash
pr#3991 Modify remote_file cache_control_data to use sha256 for its name
pr#4079 add logger to windows service shellout
pr#3966 Report expanded run list json tree to reporting
pr#4080 Make property modules possible
pr#4069 Improvements to log messages
pr#4049 Add gemspec files to allow bundler to run from the gem
pr#4029 Fix search result pagination
pr#4048 Accept coercion as a way to accept nil values
pr#4046 ignore gid in the user resource on windows
pr#4118 Make Property.derive create derived properties of the same type
pr#4133 Add retries to Chef::HTTP for transient SSL errors
pr#4135 Windows service uses log file location from config if none is given on commandline
pr#4142 Use the proper python interpretor for yum-dump.py on Fedora 21
pr#4149 Handle nil run list option in knife bootstrap
pr#4040 Implement live streaming for execute resources
pr#4167 Add reboot_action to dsc_resource
pr#4167 Allow dsc_resource to run with the LCM enabled
pr#4188 Update dsc_resource to use verbose stream output
pr#4200 Prevent inspect of PsCredential from printing out plain text password
pr#4237 Enabling 'knife ssl check/fetch' commands to respect proxy environment variables and moving proxy environment variables export to Chef::Config

12.5.1

Ranjib Dey: pr#3588 Count skipped resources among total resources in doc formatter
John Kerry: pr#3539 Fix issue: registry_key resource is case sensitive in chef but not on windows
David Eddy:
- pr#3443 remove extraneous space
- pr#3091 fix locking/unlocking users on SmartOS
margueritepd: pr#3693 Interpolate %{path} in verify command
Jeremy Fleischman: pr#3383 gem_package should install to the systemwide Ruby when using ChefDK
Stefano Rivera: pr#3657 fix upstart status_commands
ABE Satoru: pr#3764 uniquify chef_repo_path
Renan Vicente: pr#3771 add depth property for deploy resource
James Belchamber: pr#1796: make mount options aware
Nate Walck:
- pr#3594: Update service provider for OSX 10.11
- pr#3704: Add SIP (OS X 10.11) support
Phil Dibowitz: pr#3805 LWRP parameter validators should use truthiness
Igor Shpakov: pr#3743 speed improvement for remote_directory resource
James FitzGibbon: pr#3027 Add warnings to 'knife node run list remove ...'
Backslasher: pr#3172 Migrated deploy resource to use shell_out instead of run_command
Sean Walberg: pr#3190 Allow tags to be set on a node during bootstrap
ckaushik and Sam Dunne: pr#3510 Fix broken rendering of partial templates.
Simon Detheridge: pr#3806 Replace output_of_command with shell_out! in subversion provider
Joel Handwell: pr#3821 Human friendly elapsed time in log
pr#3985 Simplify the regex which determines the rpm version to resolve issue #3671
pr#3928 Add named run list support when using policyfiles
pr#3913 Add policy_nameand policy_group fields to the node object
pr#3875 Patch Win32::Registry#delete_key, #delete_value to use wide (W) APIs
pr#3850 Patch Win32::Registry#write to fix encoding errors
pr#3837 refactor remote_directory provider for mem+perf improvement
pr#3799 fix supports hash issues in service providers
pr#3797 Fix dsc_script spec failure on 64-bit Ruby
pr#3817 Remove now-useless forcing of ruby Garbage Collector run
pr#3775 Enable 64-bit support for Powershell and Batch scripts
pr#3774 Add support for yum-deprecated in yum provider
pr#3793 CHEF-5372: Support specific run_levels for RedHat service
pr#2460 add privacy flag
pr#1259 CHEF-5012: add methods for template breadcrumbs
pr#3656 remove use of self.provides?
pr#3455 powershell_script: do not allow suppression of syntax errors
pr#3519 The wording seemed odd.
pr#3208 Missing require (require what you use).
pr#3449 correcting minor typo in user_edit knife action
pr#3572 Use windows paths without case-sensitivity.
pr#3666 Support SNI in knife ssl check.
pr#3667 Change chef service to start as 'Automatic delayed start'.
pr#3683 Correct Windows reboot command to delay in minutes, per the property.
pr#3698 Add ability to specify dependencies in chef-service-manager.
pr#3728 Rewrite NetLocalGroup things to use FFI
pr#3754 Fix functional tests for group resource - fix #3728
pr#3498 Use dpkg-deb directly rather than regex
pr#3759 Repair service convergence test on AIX
pr#3329 Use ifconfig target property
pr#3652 Fix explanation for configuring audit mode in client.rb
pr#3687 Add formatter and force-logger/formatter options to chef-apply
pr#3768 Make reboot_pending? look for CBS RebootPending
pr#3815 Fix powershell_script validation to use correct architecture
pr#3772 Add ps_credential dsl method to dsc_script
pr#3462 Fix issue where ps_credential does not work over winrm

12.4.1

Noah Kantrowitz: pr#3605 Rework Resource#action to match 12.3 API
pr#3586 Fix bug preventing light weight resources from being used with heavy weight providers
Issue #3593 Fix bug where provider priority map did not take into consideration a provided block
pr#3630 Restore Chef::User and Chef::ApiClient namespace to API V0 functionality and move new functionality into Chef::UserV1 and Chef::ApiClientV1 until Chef 13.
pr#3611 Call provides? even if provides is not called
pr#3589 Fix errant bashisms
pr#3620 Fix issue where recipe names in run list mutate when version constaints are present
pr#3623 Allow LWRPs to access the real class when accessed through Chef::Resource and Chef::Provider
pr#3627 Separate priority map and DSL handler map so that provides has veto power over priority
pr#3638 Deprecate passing more than 1 argument to create a resource

12.4.0

Phil Dibowitz: Fix multipackage and architectures
Igor Shpakov: Always run exception handlers Prioritise manual ssh attribute over automatic ones for knife
Noah Kantrowitz: Cache service_resource_providers for the duration of the run. #2953
Slava Kardakov: Fix installation of yum packages with version constraints #3155
Dave Eddy: fix smartos_package for new "pkgin" output, fixes #3112 #3165
Yukihiko SAWANOBORI: Show Chef version on chef shell prompt
Jacob Minshall: Ensure suid bit is preserved if group or owner changes
Tim Smith: Convert wiki links to point to docs.chef.io
SAWANOBORI Yukihiko: Add Chef::Log::Syslog class for integrating sending logs to syslog
Pavel Yudin: Ensure LWRP and HWRP @action variable is consistent #3156
Dan Bjorge: Fix bad Windows securable_resource functional spec assumptions for default file owners/groups #3266
Yukihiko SAWANOBORI: Pass name by knife cil attribute pr#3195
Torben Knerr: Allow knife sub-command loader to match platform specific gems. pr#3281
Steve Lowe: Fix copying ntfs dacl and sacl when they are nil. pr#3066
pr#3339: Powershell command wrappers to make argument passing to knife/chef-client etc. easier.
pr#3720: Extract chef's configuration to a separate gem. Code stays in the Chef git repo.
pr#3321: Add an integration test of chef-client with empty ENV.
pr#3278: Switch over Windows builds to universal builds.
pr#2877: Convert bootstrap template to use sh.
Issue #3316: Fix idempotency issues with the windows_package resource
pr#3295: Stop mutating new_resource.checksum in file providers. Fixes some ChecksumMismatch exceptions like issue#3168
pr#3320: Sanitize non-UTF8 characters in the node data before doing node.save(). Works around many UTF8 exception issues reported on node.save().
Implemented X-Ops-Server-API-Version with a API version of 0, as well as error handling when the Chef server does not support the API version that the client supports.
pr#3327: Fix unreliable AIX service group parsing mechanism.
pr#3333: Fix SSL errors when connecting to private Supermarkets
pr#3340: Allow Event dispatch subscribers to be inspected.
Issue #3055: Fix regex parsing for recipe failures on Windows
pr#3345: Windows Event log logger
pr#3336: Remote file understands UNC paths
pr#3269: Deprecate automatic recipe DSL for classes in Chef::Resource
pr#3360: Add check_resource_semantics! lifecycle method to provider
pr#3344: Rewrite Windows user resouce code to use ffi instead of win32-api
pr#3318: Modify Windows package provider to allow for url source
pr#3381: warn on cookbook self-deps
pr#2312: fix node[:recipes] duplication, add node[:cookbooks] and node[:expanded_run_list]
pr#3325: enforce passing a node name with validatorless bootstrapping
pr#3398: Allow spaces in files for the remote_file resource
Issue #3010 Fixed knife user for use with current and future versions of Chef Server 12, with continued backwards compatible support for use with Open Source Server 11.
pr#3438 Server API V1 support. Vast improvements to and testing expansion for Chef::User, Chef::ApiClient, and related knife commands. Deprecated Open Source Server 11 user support to the Chef::OscUser and knife osc_user namespace, but with backwards compatible support via knife user.
Issue #2247: powershell_script returns 0 for scripts with syntax errors
pr#3080: Issue 2247: powershell_script exit status should be nonzero for syntax errors
pr#3441: Add powershell_out mixin to core chef
pr#3448: Fix dsc_resource to work with wmf5 april preview
pr#3392: Comment up Chef::Client and privatize/deprecate unused things
pr#3419: Fix cli issue with chef_repo_path when ENV variable is unset
pr#3358: Separate audit and converge failures
pr#3431: Fix backups on windows for the file resource
pr#3397: Validate owner exists in directory resources
pr#3418: Add shell_out mixin to Chef::Resource class for use in not_if/only_if conditionals, etc.
pr#3406: Add wide-char 'Environment' to broadcast_env_change mixin for setting windows environment variables
pr#3442: Add resource_name to top-level Resource class to make defining resources easier.
pr#3447: Add allowed_actions and default_action to top-level Resource class.
pr#3475: Fix shell_out timeouts in all package providers to respect timeout property on the resource.
pr#3477: Update zypper_package to look like the rest of our package classes.
pr#3483: Allow include_recipe from LWRP providers.
pr#3495: Make resource name automatically determined from class name, and provide DSL for it.
pr#3497: Issue 3485: Corruption of node's run_context when non-default guard_interpreter is evaluated
pr#3299: Remove experimental warning on audit mode

12.3.0

pr#3160: Use Chef Zero in socketless mode for local mode, add --no-listen flag to disable port binding
Nolan Davidson: Removed after_created and added test to recipe_spec
Tim Sogard: Reset $HOME to user running chef-client when running via sudo
Torben Knerr: Allow for the chef gem installation to succeed without elevated privileges #3126
Mike Dodge MacOSX services: Load LaunchAgents as console user, adding plist and session_type options.
Eric Herot Ensure knife ssh doesn't use a non-existant field for hostname #3131
Tom Hughes Ensure searches progress in the face of incomplete responses #3135
pr#3162: Add --minimal-ohai flag to client/solo/apply; restricts ohai to only the bare minimum of plugins.
Ensure link's path attribute works with delayed #3130
gem_package, chef_gem should not shell out to using https://rubygems.org #2867
Add dynamic resource resolution similar to dynamic provider resolution
Add Chef class fascade to internal structures
Fix nil pointer for windows event logger #3200
Use partial search for knife status
Ensure chef/knife properly honours proxy config

12.2.1

Issue 3153: Fix bug where unset HOME would cause chef to crash

12.2.0

Update policyfile API usage to match forthcoming Chef Server release
knife ssh now has an --exit-on-error option that allows users to fail-fast rather than moving on to the next machine.
migrate macosx, windows, openbsd, and netbsd resources to dynamic resolution
migrate cron and mdadm resources to dynamic resolution
Issue 3096 Fix OpenBSD package provider installation issues
New dsc_resource resource to invoke Powershell DSC resources

12.1.2

Issue 3022: Homebrew Cask install fails FIXME (remove on 12.2.0 release): 3022 was only merged to 12-stable and #3077 or its descendant should fix this
Issue 3059: Chef 12.1.1 yum_package silently fails
Issue 3078: Compat break in audit-mode changes

12.1.1

Phil Dibowitz: Issue 3008 Allow people to pass in source to package
Issue 3011 package provider base should include Chef::Mixin::Command as there are still providers that use it.
Ranjib Dey: Issue 3019 Fix data fetching when explicit attributes are passed

12.1.0

Andre Elizondo Typo fixes
Vasiliy Tolstov: cleanup cookbook path from stale files (when using chef-solo with a tarball url)
Nathan Cerny: Fix rubygems provider to use https instead of http.
Anshul Sharma removed securerandom patch
Scott Bonds add package support for OpenBSD
Lucy Wyman Added support for handling empty version strings to rubygems provider.
Yulian Kuncheff Correctly set the pre-release identifier during knife bootstrap.
Anshul Sharma knife node run_list remove now accepts run_list options in the same form as add
Veres Lajos Typo fixes
Tim Smith Typo fixes
Pull 2505 Make Chef handle URIs in a case-insensitive manner
Phil Dibowitz: Drop SSL warnings now that we have a safe default
Pull 2684 Remove ole_initialize/uninitialize which cause problems with Ruby >= 2
BinaryBabel Make knife cookbook site share prefer gnutar when packaging
Dave Eddy Support arrays for not_if and only_if
Scott Bonds Add service provider for OpenBSD
Alex Slynko Change env provider to preserve ordering
Rob Redpath Add --lockfile opt for chef-client and chef-solo
Josh Murphy Check cookbooks exist in path(s) before attempting to upload them with --all
Vasiliy Tolstov add ability to fetch recipes like in chef-solo when using local-mode
Jan FIX data_bag_item.rb:161: warning: circular argument reference - data_bag
David Radcliffe add banner for knife serve command
Yukihiko Sawanobori use Chef::JSONCompat.parse for file_contents
[Xabier de Zuazo] (https://github.com/zuazo) Remove some simple Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 code
[Xabier de Zuazo] (https://github.com/zuazo) Remove all RSpec test filters related to Ruby 1.8 and 1.9
[Xabier de Zuazo] (https://github.com/zuazo) Fix knife cookbook upload messages
[David Crowder] (https://github.com/david-crowder) refactor to use shell_out in rpm provider
Phil Dibowitz: Multi-package support
Naotoshi Seo: Support HTTP/FTP source on rpm_package add json_attribs option for chef-apply command allow_downgrade in rpm_package
AJ Christensen: Isolate/fix the no-fork fault. Issue 2709
Cory Stephenson: Remove comments of a service being enabled/disabled in FreeBSD. Fixes #1791
Will Albenzi: CHEF-4591: Knife commands to manipulate env_run_list on nodes
Jon Cowie: CHEF-2911: Fix yum_package provider to respect version requirements in package name and version attribute
Anshul Sharma:
- Node::Attribute to_s should print merged attributes Issue 1526
- Access keys attribute in knife show list incorrect information Issue 1974
- Guard interpreter loading incorrect resource Issue 2683

Chef Contributions

ruby 1.9.3 support is dropped
Update Chef to use RSpec 3.2
Cleaned up script and execute provider + specs
Added deprecation warnings around the use of command attribute in script resources
Audit mode feature added - see the RELEASE_NOTES for details
shell_out now sets LANGUAGE and LANG to the Chef::Config[:internal_locale] in addition to LC_ALL forcing
chef_gem supports a compile_time flag and will warn if it is not set (behavior will change in the future)
suppress CHEF-3694 warnings on the most trivial resource cloning
fixed bugs in the deep_merge_cache logic introduced in 12.0.0 around node['foo'] vs node[:foo] vs. node.foo
add include_recipe "::recipe" sugar to reference a recipe in the current cookbook
Add --proxy-auth option to knife raw
added Chef::Org model class for Chef Organizations in Chef 12 Server
powershell_script should now correctly get the exit code for scripts that it runs. See Issue 2348
Useradd functional tests fail randomly
Add comments to trusted_certs_content
fixes a bug where providers would not get defined if a top-level ruby constant with the same name was already defined (ark cookbook, chrome cookbook)
Fix a bug in reboot, ips_package, paludis_package, windows_package resources where action :nothing was not permitted
Use Chef::ApiClient#from_hash in knife client create to avoid json_class requirement. Issue 2542
Add support for policyfile native API (preview). These APIs are unstable, and you may be forced to delete data uploaded to them in a future release, so only use them for demonstration purposes.
Deprecation warning for 'knife cookbook test'
dsc_script should now correctly honor timeout. See Issue 2831
Added an imports attribute to dsc_script. This attribute allows you to specify DSC resources that need to be imported for your script.
Fixed error where guard resources (using :guard_interpreter) were not ran in why_run mode Issue 2694
Add verify method to File resource per RFC027
Move supermarket.getchef.com to supermarket.chef.io
Check with AccessCheck for permission to write to directory on Windows
Add declare_resource/build_resource comments, fix faulty ||=
Knife bootstrap creates a client and ships it to the node to implement validatorless bootstraps
Knife bootstrap can use the client it creates to setup chef-vault items for the node
windows service now has a configurable timeout

12.0.3

Phil Dibowitz: Issue 2594 Restore missing require in digester.

12.0.2

Issue 2578 Check that installed is not empty for keg_only formula in Homebrew provider
Issue 2609 Resolve the circular dependency between ProviderResolver and Resource.
Issue 2596 Fix nodes not writing to disk
Issue 2580 Make sure the relative paths are preserved when using link resource.
Pull 2630 Improve knife's SSL error messaging
Issue 2606 chef 12 ignores default_release for apt_package
Issue 2602 Fix subscribes resource notifications.
Issue 2578 Check that installed is not empty for keg_only formula in Homebrew provider.
gh2k: Issue 2625 Fix missing shell_out! for windows_package resource
BackSlasher: Issue 2634 Fix option ':command' is not a valid option error in subversion provider.
Seth Vargo: Issue 2345 Allow knife to install cookbooks with metadata.json.

12.0.1

Issue 2552 Create constant for LWRP before calling provides
Issue 2545 path attribute of execute resource is restored to provide backwards compatibility with Chef 11.
Issue 2565 Fix Chef::Knife::Core::BootstrapContext constructor for knife-windows compat.
Issue 2566 Make sure Client doesn't raise error when interval is set on Windows.
Issue 2560 Fix uninitialized constant Windows::Constants in windows_eventlog.
Issue 2563 Make sure the Chef Client rpm packages are signed with GPG keys correctly.

12.0.0

Jesse Hu: retry on HTTP 50X Error when calling Chef REST API
Nolan Davidson: The chef-apply command now prints usage information when called without arguments
Kazuki Saito: CHEF-4933: idempotency fixes for ifconfig provider
Kirill Shirinkin: The knife bootstrap command expands the path of the secret-file
Malte Swart: [CHEF-4101] DeepMerge - support overwriting hash values with nil
James Belchamber: Mount provider remount action now honours options
Mark Gibbons: Fix noauto support in Solaris Mount Provider
Jordan Evans: support version constraints in value_for_platform
Yukihiko Sawanobori: Add environment resource attribute to scm resources
Grzesiek Kolodziejczyk: Use thread-safe OpenSSL::Digest instead of Digest
Grzesiek Kolodziejczyk: Chef::Digester converted to thread-safe Singleton mixin.
Vasiliy Tolstov: Reload systemd service only if it's running, otherwise start.
Chris Jerdonek: knife diagnostic messages sent to stdout instead of stderr
Xabier de Zuazo: Remove the unused StreamingCookbookUploader class (CHEF-4586)
Jacob Vosmaer: Fix creation of non-empty FreeBSD groups (#1698)
Nathan Huff: Check local repository for ips package installs (#1703)
Sean Clemmer: Fix "cron" resource handling of special strings (e.g. @reboot, @yearly) (#1708)
Phil Dibowitz: 'group' provider on OSX properly uses 'dscl' to determine existing groups
Hugo Lopes Tavares: Catch StandardError in Chef::ResourceReporter#post_reporting_data (Issue 1550).
Daniel O'Connor: Fix regex causing DuplicateRole error (Issue 1739).
Xeron: Ability to specify an array for data_bag_path. (CHEF-3399, CHEF-4753)
Jordan: Use Systemd for recent Fedora and RHEL 7.
Xabier de Zuazo: Encrypted data bags should use different HMAC key and include the IV in the HMAC (CHEF-5356).
Pierre Ynard: Don't modify variable passed to env resource when updating.
Chris Aumann: Add "force" attribute to resource/user, pass "-f" to userdel. (Issue 1601)
Brian Cobb: Chef::VersionConstraint#to_s should accurately reflect constraint's behavior.
Kevin Graham: Do not override ShellOut:live_stream if already set.
Mike Heijmans: Change knife option --force to --delete-validators. (Issue 1652)
Pavel Yudin: Add Parallels Cloud Server (PCS) platform support.
tbe: Minor fixes for the Paludis package provider:
- only search for non-masked packages,
- increase command timeout length for package installation.
sawanoboly: Use shared_path for deploy resource.
Victor Hahn: Add template syntax check to files in the templates/ dir only.
Jordan: Allow git provider to checkout existing branch names.
Eric Herot: Add whitespace boundaries to some mount point references in mount provider.
Dave Eddy: Improve the regex for /etc/rc.conf for the FreeBSD service provider
Stanislav Bogatyrev: Fetch recipe_url before loading json_attribs in chef-solo (CHEF-5075)
Mal Graty: Workaround for a breaking change in git's shallow-clone behavior. (Issue 1563)
Dave Eddy: Fix version detection in FreeBSD pkgng provider. (PR 1980)
Dan Rathbone: Fixed gem_package resource to be able to upgrade gems when version is not set.
Jean Mertz: Made Chef Client load library folder recursively.
Eric Saxby: Made Chef Client read the non-root crontab entries as the user specified in the resource.
sawanoboly: Added --dry-run option to knife cookbook site share which displays the files that are to be uploaded to Supermarket.
Sander van Harmelen: Fixed Chef::HTTP to be able to follow relative redirects.
Cory Stephenson: Fixed FreeBSD port package provider to interpret FreeBSD version 10 correctly.
Brett Chalupa: Added source_url and issues_url options to metadata to be used by Supermarket.
Anshul Sharma: Fixed Chef Client to use the :client_name instead of :node_name during initial client registration.
tbe: Fixed Paludis package provider to be able to interpret the package category.
David Workman: Added a more clear error message to chef-apply when no recipe is given.
Joe Nuspl: Added support for sensitive property to the execute resource.
Nolan Davidson: Added an error message to prevent unintentional running of exec() in recipes.
wacky612: Fixed a bug in pacman package provider that was preventing the installation of bind package.
Ionuț Arțăriși: Changed the default service provider to systemd on SLES versions 12 and higher.
Ionuț Arțăriși: Changed the default group provider to gpasswd on SLES versions 12 and higher.
Noah Kantrowitz: Implemented RFC017 - File Specificity Overhaul.
James Bence: Improved the reliability of Git provider by making it to be more specific when selecting tags.
Jean Mertz: Changed knife upload not to validate the ruby files under files & templates directories.
Alex Pop: Made knife cookbook create to display the directory of the cookbook that is being created.
Alex Pop: Fixed the information debug output for the configuration file being used when running knife.
Martin Smith: Changed knife cookbook site share to make category an optional parameter when uploading cookbooks. It is still required when the cookbook is being uploaded for the first time but on the consequent uploads existing category of the cookbook will be used.
Nicolas DUPEUX: Added JSON output to knife status command. --medium and --long output formatting parameters are now supported in knife status.
Trevor North: Removed dead code from knife ssh.
Nicolas Szalay: Fixed a bug preventing mounting of cgroup type devices in the mount provider.
Anshul Sharma: Fixed inconsistent globbing in knife from file command.
Nicolas Szalay: Made user prompts in knife more beautiful by adding a space after Y/N prompts.
Ivan Larionov: Made empty run_list to produce an empty array when using node.to_hash.
Siddheshwar More: Fixed a bug in knife bootstrap that caused config options to override command line options.
Thiago Oliveira: Fixed a bug in Mac OSX group provider and made it idempotent.
liseki: Fixed a bug in why-run mode for freebsd service resources without configured init scripts.
liseki: Fixed a bug in freebsd service providers to load the status correctly.

Chef Contributions

ruby 1.9.3 support is dropped
Added RFC-023 Chef 12 Attribute Changes (https://github.com/chef/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc023-chef-12-attributes-changes.md)
Added os/platform_family options to provides syntax on the Chef::Resource DSL
Added provides methods to the Chef::Provider DSL
Added supported?(resource, action) class method to all Providers for late-evaluation if a provider can handle a resource
Added ProviderResolver feature to handle late resolution of providers based on what kinds of support is in the base operating system.
Partial Deprecation of Chef::Platform provider mapping. The static mapping will be removed as Chef-12 progresses and the hooks will be completely dropped in Chef-13.
Default guard_interpreter for powershell_script resource set to :powershell_script, for batch to :batch
Recipe definition now returns the retval of the definition
Add support for Windows 10 to version helper.
dsc_script resource should honor configuration parameters when configuration_data_script is not set (Issue #2209)
Ruby has been updated to 2.1.3 along with rubygems update to 2.4.2
Removed shelling out to erubis/ruby for syntax checks (>= 1.9 has been able to do this in the ruby vm itself for awhile now and we've dropped 1.8.7 which could not do this and had to shell_out)
Report the request and response when a non-200 error code happens
[FEATURE] Upgrade knife upload and knife download to download everything in an organization, now including the organization definition itself (knife download /org.json) and the invitations and member list (knife download /invitations.json and knife download /members.json). Should be compatible with knife-ec-backup.
Make default Windows paths more backslashy
knife now prefers to load config.rb in preference to knife.rb; knife.rb will be used if config.rb is not found.
Fixed Config[:cache_path] to use path_join()
Updated chef-zero to 3.0, so that client tests can be run against Enterprise Chef as well as Open Source.
knife cookbook site download/list/search/share/show/unshare now uses supermerket.getchef.com urls
added Chef::ResourceCollection#insert_at API to the ResourceCollection
http_proxy and related config vars no longer clobber already set ENV vars
all http_proxy configs now set lowercase + uppercase versions of ENV vars
https_proxy/ftp_proxy support setting http:// URLs (and whatever mix and match makes sense)
End-to-end tests for Ubuntu 12.04
Only run end-to-end tests when secure environment variables are present.
Remove recipe DSL from base provisioner (Issue 1446).
Enable client-side key generation by default. (Issue 1711)
CookbookSiteStreamingUploader now uses ssl_verify_mode config option (Issue 1518).
chef/json_compat now throws its own exceptions not JSON gem exceptions
Modify action for env raises Chef::Exceptions::Env exception on Windows (Chef Issues 1754)
Fix a bug in the experimental Policyfile mode that caused errors when using templates.
Disable JSON encoding of request body when non-JSON content type is specified.
Clean up FileVendor and CookbookUploader internal APIs
log resource now marks itself as supporting why-run
http_request no longer appends "?message=" query string to GET and HEAD requests
added shell_out commands directly to the recipe DSL
cookbook synchronizer deletes old files from cookbooks
do not clear file cache when override run list is set (CHEF-3684)
ruby 1.8.7/1.9.1/1.9.2 support is dropped
set no_lazy_load to true (CHEF-4961)
set file_stating_uses_destdir config option default to true (CHEF-5040)
remove dependency on rest-client gem
Add method shell_out_with_systems_locale to ShellOut.
chef-repo rake tasks are deprecated; print relevant information for each one.
Fix RPM package version detection (Issue 1554)
Don't override :default provider map if :default passed as platform (OC-11667).
Fix SuSE package removal failure (Issue 1732).
Enable Travis to run Test Kitchen with Kitchen EC2.
Fix a bug in reporting not to post negative duration values.
Add password setting support for Mac 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 to the dscl user provider.
ChefSpec can find freebsd_package resource correctly when a package resource is declared on Freebsd.
Autodetect/decrypt encrypted data bag items with data_bag_item dsl method. (Issue 1837, Issue 1849)
windows_user: look up username instead of resource name (Issue #1705)
Remove the unused bootstrap templates that install chef from rubygems
Remove the Chef 10 functionality from bootstrap.
Deprecate --distro / --template_file options in favor of --boostrap-template
Add :node_ssl_verify_mode & :node_verify_api_cert options to bootstrap to be able to configure these settings on the bootstrapped node.
Add partial_search dsl method to Chef::Search::Query, add result filtering to search.
Transfer trusted certificates under :trusted_certs_dir during bootstrap.
Set :ssl_verify_mode to :verify_peer by default.
Add homebrew provider for package resource, use it by default on OS X (Issue #1709)
Add escape_glob method to PathHelper, update glob operations.
Verify x509 properties of certificates in the :trusted_certs_dir during knife ssl check.
Disable unforked interval chef-client runs.
Removed dependencies on the 'json' gem, replaced with ffi-yajl. Use Chef::JSONCompat library for parsing and printing.
Restore the deprecation logic of #valid_actions in LWRPs until Chef 13.
Now that we don't allow unforked chef-client interval runs, remove the reloading of previously defined LWRPs.
Use shell_out to determine Chef::Config[:internal_locale], fix CentOS locale detection bug.
only_if and not_if attributes of execute resource now inherits the parent resource's attributes when set to a String.
Retain the original value of retries for resources and display the original value when the run fails.
Added service provider for AIX.
The Windows env provider will delete elements even if they are only in ENV (and not in the registry)
Allow events to be logged to Windows Event Log
Fixed bug in env resource where a value containing the delimiter could never correctly match the existing values
More intelligent service check for systemd on Ubuntu 14.10.

11.16.4

Windows omnibus installer security updates for redistributed bash.exe / sh.exe vulnerabilities ("Shellshock") CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-6278, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187.
Fix bug on Windows where using the env resource on path could render the path unusable.
Chef Client now retries when it gets 50X from Chef Server.
Chef Client 11.16.4 can use the policyfiles generated with Chef DK 0.3.0.

11.16.2

Phil Dibowitz: Fix a regression in whyrun_safe_ruby_block.

11.16.0

Fix a bug in user dscl provider to enable managing password and other properties at the same time.
Add dsc_script resource to Chef for PowerShell DSC support on Windows

11.14.6:

Modify action for env raises Chef::Exceptions::Env exception on Windows (Chef Issues 1754)
Fix RPM package version detection (Issue 1554)
Fix a bug in reporting not to post negative duration values.
Add password setting support for Mac 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 to the dscl user provider.
ChefSpec can find freebsd_package resource correctly when a package resource is declared on Freebsd.
http_proxy and related config vars no longer clobber already set ENV vars
all http_proxy configs now set lowercase + uppercase versions of ENV vars
https_proxy/ftp_proxy support setting http:// URLs (and whatever mix and match makes sense)

11.14.2

Jess Mink: Symlinks to directories should be swingable on windows (CHEF-3960)
Phil Dibowitz: SIGTERM will once-more kill a non-daemonized chef-client (CHEF-5172)
Pierre Ynard: chef-service-manager should run as a non-interactive service (CHEF-5150)
Tensibai Zhaoying: Fix file:// URI support in remote_file on windows (CHEF-4472)
John Dyer: Catch HTTPServerException for 404 in remote_file retry (CHEF-5116)
Pavel Yudin: Providers are now set correctly on CloudLinux. (CHEF-5182)
Joe Richards: Made -E option to work with single lettered environments. (CHEF-3075)
Jimmy McCrory: Added a 'knife node environment set' command. (CHEF-1910)
Hongbin Lu: Made bootstrap report authentication exceptions. (CHEF-5161)
Richard Manyanza: Made freebsd_package resource use the brand new "pkgng" package manager when available.(CHEF-4637)
Nikhil Benesch: Implemented a threaded download queue for synchronizing cookbooks. (CHEF-4423)
Chulki Lee: Raise an error when source is accidentally passed to apt_package (CHEF-5113)
Cam Cope: Add an open_timeout when opening an http connection (CHEF-5152)
Sander van Harmelen: Allow environment variables set on Windows to be used immediately (CHEF-5174)
Luke Amdor: Add an option to configure the chef-zero port (CHEF-5228)
Ricardo Signes: Added support for the usermod provider on OmniOS
Anand Suresh: Only modify password when one has been specified. (CHEF-5327)
Stephan Renatus: Add exception when JSON parsing fails. (CHEF-5309)
Xabier de Zuazo: OK to exclude space in dependencies in metadata.rb. (CHEF-4298)
Łukasz Jagiełło: Allow cookbook names with leading underscores. (CHEF-4562)
Michael Bernstein: Add Code Climate badge to README.
Phil Sturgeon: Documentation that -E is not respected by knife ssh [search]. (CHEF-4778)
Stephan Renatus: Fix resource_spec.rb.
Sander van Harmelen: Ensure URI compliant urls. (CHEF-5261)
Robby Dyer: Correctly detect when rpm_package does not exist in upgrade action. (CHEF-5273)
Sergey Sergeev: Hide sensitive data output on chef-client error (CHEF-5098)
Mark Vanderwiel: Add config option :yum-lock-timeout for yum-dump.py
Peter Fern: Convert APT package resource to use provides :package, add timeout parameter.
Xabier de Zuazo: Fix Chef::User#list API error when inflate=true. (CHEF-5328)
Raphaël Valyi: Use git resource status checking to reduce shell_out system calls.
Eric Krupnik: Added .project to git ignore list.
Ryan Cragun: Support override_runlist CLI option in shef/chef-shell. (CHEF-5314)
Cam Cope: Fix updating user passwords on Solaris. (CHEF-5247)
Ben Somers: Enable storage of roles in subdirectories for chef-solo. (CHEF-4193)
Robert Tarrall: Fix Upstart provider with parameters. (CHEF-5265)
Klaas Jan Wierenga: Don't pass on default HTTP port(80) in Host header. (CHEF-5355)
MarkGibbons: Allow for undefined solaris services in the service resource. (CHEF-5347)
Allan Espinosa: Properly knife bootstrap on ArchLinux. (CHEF-5366)
Matt Hoyle: Made windows service resource to handle transitory states. (CHEF-5319, CHEF-4791)
Brett cave: Add Dir.pwd as fallback for default user_home if home directory is not set. (CHEF-5365)
Caleb Tennis: Add support for automatically using the Systemd service provider when available. (CHEF-3637)
Matt Hoyle: Add timeout for Chef::Provider::Service::Windows. (CHEF-1165)
Jesse Hu: knife[:attribute] in knife.rb should not override --attribute (CHEF-5158)
Vasiliy Tolstov: Added the initial exherbo linux support for Chef providers.
Fix knife cookbook site share on windows (CHEF-4994)
YAJL Allows Invalid JSON File Sending To The Server (CHEF-4899)
YAJL Silently Ingesting Invalid JSON and "Normalizing" Incorrectly (CHEF-4565)
Update rpm provider checking regex to allow for special characters (CHEF-4893)
Allow for spaces in selinux controlled directories (CHEF-5095)
Windows batch resource run action fails: " TypeError: can't convert nil into String" (CHEF-5287)
Log resource always triggers notifications (CHEF-4028)
Prevent tracing? from throwing an exception when first starting chef-shell.
Use Upstart provider on Ubuntu 13.10+. (CHEF-5276)
Cleaned up mount provider superclass
Added "knife serve" to bring up local mode as a server
Print nested LWRPs with indentation in doc formatter output
Make local mode stable enough to run chef-pedant
Wrap code in block context when syntax checking so return is valid (CHEF-5199)
Quote git resource rev_pattern to prevent glob matching files (CHEF-4940)
User resource now only prints the name during why-run runs. (CHEF-5180)
Set --run-lock-timeout to wait/bail if another client has the runlock (CHEF-5074)
remote_file's source attribute does not support DelayedEvaluators (CHEF-5162)
option attribute of mount resource now supports lazy evaluation. (CHEF-5163)
force_unlink now only unlinks if the file already exists. (CHEF-5015)
chef_gem resource now uses omnibus gem binary. (CHEF-5092)
chef-full template gets knife options to override install script url, add wget/curl cli options, and custom install commands (CHEF-4697)
knife now bootstraps node with the latest current version of chef-client. (CHEF-4911)
Add config options for attribute whitelisting in node.save. (CHEF-3811)
Use user's .chef as a fallback cache path if /var/chef is not accessible. (CHEF-5259)
Fixed Ruby 2.0 Windows compatibility issues around ruby-wmi gem by replacing it with wmi-lite gem.
Set proxy environment variables if preset in config. (CHEF-4712)
Automatically enable verify_api_cert when running chef-client in local-mode. (Chef Issues 1464)
Add helper to warn for broken [windows] paths. (CHEF-5322)
Send md5 checksummed data for registry key if data type is binary, dword, or qword. (Chef-5323)
Add warning if host resembles winrm command and knife-windows is not present.
Use FFI binders to attach :SendMessageTimeout to avoid DL deprecation warning. (ChefDK Issues 69)
Use 'guest' user on AIX for RSpec tests. (OC-9954)
Added DelayedEvaluator support in LWRP using the lazy {} key
Fixed a bug where nested resources that inherited from Resource::LWRPBase would not share the same actions/default_action as their parent
Raise error if a guard_interpreter is specified and a block is passed to a guard (conditional)
Allow specifying a guard_interpreter after a conditional on a resource (Fixes #1943)

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