[chef-dev] Dependency problems with recent gem releases of ohai and mixlib-shellout

[Serdar Sutay < >]

Hey chefs,

In order to prep for upcoming Chef Client 12 release, yesterday we've released ohai 7.6.0, mixlib-shellout 1.6.1 & mixlib-shellout 2.0.0. 

Unfortunately with these releases we have broken gem installation of chef (gem install chef) for version 11.16.4 due to dependency conflicts. Huge thanks goes to migurski [https://github.com/migurski] for bringing this up to our attention.

You can read more about the details of the issue and our plan on resolving it at https://github.com/opscode/chef/issues/2517. In order to prevent further spreading of the issue we will yank ohai 7.6.0 release soon.

After mitigating the issue we'll do a blog post with more details and have a postmortem in order to ensure the problem doesn't happen again. 

Sorry for the inconvenience we've caused and thanks for your patience while this gets sorted out. 

-- Serdar