[chef-dev] knife-windows 0.8.0 release -- please upgrade for KB2918614 regression workaround

[Adam Edwards < >]

Hello Chefs. We’ve released knife-windows 0.8.0 to RubyGems. This release includes an important fix to work around blocking failures in Windows bootstrap caused by a recent OS patch KB2918614 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2918614). We’ve also added a new capability to use NTLM authentication when knife-windows commands are run from a Windows workstation.

 

For detailed release notes, see https://github.com/opscode/knife-windows/blob/0.8.0/RELEASE_NOTES.md.

 

Changes in this release are given below – special thanks to **Josh Mahowald** for contributing a fix to return nonzero exit codes on failure. Nick Carpenter also contributed a related fix to propagate the remote command’s exit code to the knife winrm subcommand’s exit status. Anyone can learn how to become a contributor at http://docs.opscode.com/community_contributions.html.

 

To report bugs in knife-windows, please visit https://github.com/opscode/knife-windows/issues to create a new issue.

 

### Other notes:

·         If you are executing knife-windows from a Windows system, you can use winrm without SSL (currently the default) **without** setting the AllowUnencrypted and Basic authentication options on the remote system’s WinRM configuration. The default winrm quickconfig configuration for WinRM will let you bootstrap a system without SSL using NTLM without the need for preconfiguring WinRM to enable bootstrap.

·         The workaround for the OS patch KB2918614 regression does not address other regressions installing Windows Installer (MSI) packages that may be caused by that patch. If your Chef Client run during bootstrap installs MSI packages, you may encounter a failure to install such packages if the bootstrap is initiated over WinRM. Please see https://github.com/opscode/knife-windows/issues/96 for possible workarounds until a new OS patch for Windows is released to fix this.

 

### Changes in knife-windows:

 

* [knife-windows #98](https://github.com/opscode/knife-windows/issues/98) Get winrm command exit code if it is not expected

* [knife-windows #96](https://github.com/opscode/knife-windows/issues/96) Fix break from OS patch KB2918614

* Remove the 'instance data' method of creating EC2 servers

* Update winrm-s dependency along with em-winrm and winrm dependencies

* Return failure codes from knife winrm even when `returns` is not set

* Support Windows negotiate authentication protocol when running knife on Windows

 

Thank you!

 

-Adam Edwards

Engineer at Chef Software, Inc.