[chef-dev] Re: Release: Chef Client 11.8.0 & Ohai 6.20.0

[Jesse Campbell < >]

Cool stuff! Our application developers are going to love this :-)
From looking at the release notes I'm left with a question: Does local mode only support json format for roles and environments?
Is that the recommended repo format, and should my team switch over from ruby dsl?

Thanks!

On Oct 31, 2013 4:01 PM, "Serdar Sutay" < "> > wrote:

Hey Chefs,

What's a better day than Halloween to make a release :) 

We've released 11.8.0 of Chef Client and 6.20.0 of Ohai today. 

You can read more about these releases here: 

http://www.opscode.com/blog/2013/10/31/release-chef-client-11-8-0-ohai-6-20-0/

Two of the highlights of the release are: 

1-) Chef Client Local Mode which makes it dead simple to get started with Chef 

2-) Groundwork for getting to enable SSL verification in Chef. 

You can read more these features here:

http://www.opscode.com/blog/2013/10/31/chef-client-z-from-zero-to-chef-in-8-5-seconds/

http://www.opscode.com/blog/2013/10/31/ssl-certificate-validation-in-chef/

Big shout out to this release's MVP Eric Saxby for making Chef better on SmartOS. Thanks a lot Eric... 

Check out 11.8.0 and let us know if you hit any problems. 

Thanks and happy Halloween :)

-- Serdar