[[chef-dev]] Chef 0.10.4 Release Candidate 1

[Bryan McLellan < >]

We've got Chef 0.10.4 warm on the stove and we've released the first
release candidate.

We have over 80 fixes in this release. It is of particular importance
to users of Redhat based distributions as it contains a /slew/ of bug
fixes, mostly thanks to Matthew Kent.

Since this is a pre-release, it is only available via gems and you'll
need to use the "--pre" option to gem to get 0.10.4.rc.1. Installing
Opscode Chef normally will continue to get you 0.10.2 for now. For
instance:

$ sudo gem install chef chef-server --pre --no-rdoc --no-ri

We've been working new policy into our release process. I'm working on
getting it online and will be sure to send a note when I do. As part
of this, our new policy for release candidates is that if no blocking
bugs are reported within three days we will ship the final release. If
you haven't been following master in your test environment, now is the
time to pitch in and test out 0.10.4.rc.1! If there was anything you
were hoping would make it but didn't, do not fear as we'll be
continuing with the increasingly regular release cycle on the heels of
shipping 0.10.4.

Here's a list of what is in this release:

CHEF-2474       When loading a role from a json file, a role object is not 
returned
CHEF-2471       knife exit specs fail on Ubuntu
CHEF-2456       knife cookbook site install -D description is incorrect and
opposite behavior of -d from the old cookbook site vendor
CHEF-2449       yum provider - slow parsing of yum-dump output
CHEF-2444       yum provider - yum-dump.py broken with older versions of yum
CHEF-2437       clear attribute list after each Knife::NodeShow.run
CHEF-2432       yum-dump - provides broken on centos 4
CHEF-2431       Present node JSON data in a similar manner to editing a node
CHEF-2429       yum provider - remote provides loaded for :remove and :purge
CHEF-2428       yum provider raises an exception when asked to remove an
uninstalled package
CHEF-2416       Chef web ui is unable to edit data bag items
CHEF-2399       default group provider does not work on suse Linux
CHEF-2398       easy_install package provider doesn't use options attribute
CHEF-2396       NoMethodError accessing non-existent members of Encrypted
Data Bag Items
CHEF-2387       systemd service provider
CHEF-2386       Make knife bootstrap (and ssh) use ui.msg for output
CHEF-2379       Allow recipe to specify additional remotes to git resources
CHEF-2378       Chef expander's "rake install" fails with undefined method 
`version'
CHEF-2377       Broken client scenario "Synchronize dependent cookbooks"
CHEF-2376       Broken client scenario "Remove cached file checksums that
are no longer needed"
CHEF-2375       knife bootstrap needs a bootstrap-proxy option
CHEF-2373       GET /environments/:environment/recipes fails if there is a
cookbook with no available versions
CHEF-2367       support multiple lines in DAEMONS list in rc.conf on Arch 
linux
CHEF-2354       Notifies :restart always triggers in remote_directory resource
CHEF-2350       rubygems spec relies on rspec version which changed its
format in rspec2
CHEF-2342       knife bootstrap script for centos should use rhel.rpm from
aegisco to install yum repository
CHEF-2330       yum provider - allow flushing of cache
CHEF-2325       Knife cookbook upload needs to verify that dependencies of a
cookbook are/will be available when uploading
CHEF-2316       knife help can't find its man pages outside of a gem file 
heiarchy
CHEF-2314       "knife cookbook site install" fails with cookbook name
partially matching another cookbook name
CHEF-2313       cookbook_uploader exception when exception is raised in
uploader_function_for method
CHEF-2312       webui doesn't show fully expanded run list as expected
CHEF-2311       Knife default display does not correctly display cloud
providers public IP
CHEF-2310       knife ssh documentation missing -i option
CHEF-2309       knife bootstrap throws optparse error for -E when
bootstrapping less than 0.10.0
CHEF-2308       The cookbook shadowing feature should either be officially
deprecated or well documented with a commitment to support it
indefinitely
CHEF-2301       general yum provider improvements
CHEF-2300       net-ssh-multi dependancy it too restrictive
CHEF-2298       Add support for remote encryption key support to knife
CHEF-2295       README.rdoc in Chef source is outdated
CHEF-2293       bump rubygems version in bootstrap templates
CHEF-2283       yum/rpm providers - rpm version handling
CHEF-2280       general yum-dump.py improvements
CHEF-2272       yum-dump.py - commas are valid in package names
CHEF-2271       knife client bulk delete not consistent with node delete
CHEF-2250       knife cookbook site vendor fails on windows with 
ShellCommandFailed
CHEF-2235       chef-client failed when trying to install freebsd package 
from ports
CHEF-2234       dpkg package provider ignores ~ in versions
CHEF-2222       mount resource issue with its "options" attribute
CHEF-2193       knife bootstrap - search for bootstrap templates in external
knife plugins
CHEF-2129       Old zypper Versions will crash because they don'T know the
commandline arguments
CHEF-2127       chef-client daemon does not pick up changes from chef server
CHEF-2096       Yum provider should support installing packages via provides
when the name is not an exact match
CHEF-2085       YumCache needs unit tests
CHEF-2041       Allow file paths in package names to populate source attribute
CHEF-1982       mount provider fails to recognize existing /etc/fstab entries
CHEF-1968       windows caching configuration problem
CHEF-1956       We should upgrade jQuery to 1.5.2 and remove old jQuery and
jquery.livequery plugin
CHEF-1947       Alphabetical sort of keys in JSON editor
CHEF-1946       Lightweight resources should have access to run_context and
node during class definition, for use in DSL (e.g. attribute default
values)
CHEF-1929       'knife ssh' should read config file for attribute, ssh-user,
identity-file
CHEF-1907       OSX Macports package provider does not respect options
CHEF-1891       When using rake new_cookbook, deprecation message should
show correct syntax of creating cookbook via knife tool
CHEF-1887       Mount provider should not check existence of Fuse devices
CHEF-1848       http_request provider does not propagate request headers
when following redirects
CHEF-1838       Remove dead code from Chef::Runner
CHEF-1819       Chef isn't recognizing yum .x86_64 syntax
CHEF-1790       Modify package/yum.rb upgrade_package to support "downgrade"
in certain situations
CHEF-1588       knife cookbook upload should have a -d option to upload the
specified cookbooks dependencies
CHEF-1576       yum gets confused with available packge in different arch
CHEF-1565       mount resource does not respect action :nothing
CHEF-1439       apt package provider should be able to detect and install
'virtual' packages
CHEF-1424       Upstart provider fails restart action if service is not 
started yet
CHEF-1413       FreeBSD "Unexpected form for PKGNAME variable in ..."
CHEF-1287       speed up yum provider
CHEF-1245       Yum package provider fails poorly when it encounters
unexpected output from yum-dump.py
CHEF-1063       yum query/yum-dump.py fails when a locally-compiled Python is 
in $PATH
CHEF-1054       Chef SOLR gem has an empty README.rdoc
CHEF-909        Rollback on deploy errors
CHEF-519        value_for_platform should accept an array for version
CHEF-311        yum provider - better cache refresh
CHEF-39         Resources need a retry parameter which allows the action to
repeat a set number of times until success is achieved.

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Bryan McLellan | opscode | senior systems administrator
(c) 206.607.7108 | (t) @btmspox | (b) http://blog.loftninjas.org