[chef] Re: Chef 0.9.10 RC Available for Testing

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

Ohai Chefs, just a quick note on installing the RC:

Since we've bumped our dependency on the JSON gem to version 1.4.4 and
higher, you need to install an updated ohai as well. We're not quite
ready to go final with ohai 0.5.8, so I've released an RC of the new
ohai as well. Unfortunately, installing chef with --pre won't install
the prerelease ohai, so you need to manually install the ohai
prerelease before you can install the chef prerelease:

  gem install ohai --pre
  gem install chef --pre

Thanks,
Dan DeLeo

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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 wrote:
> Ohai Chefs,
>
> I've just pushed release candidate version of Chef 0.9.10 to
> rubygems.org. Please test and report any bugs you find.
>
> # Features And Bug Fixes #
>
> Here's a totally unscientific sampling of bug fixes and new features
> in Chef 0.9.10:
>
> * Improved Solaris and Windows Support, including a knife windows bootstrap
> * Fixes to cookbook uploading and downloading where metadata updates
> were not being respected, and versions were not sorted correctly
> * Attributes from JSON are applied **before** attribute files are
> processed, as was the behavior in 0.8.x and previous
> * `knife exec` allows you to run shef scripts
> * New resource/provider for reloading ohai data
> * Chef client now cleans up its cache of file/template checksums
> * knife ec2 server create should now be more reliable
> * knife ssh logs a warning (instead of failing) when some hosts are 
> unavailable
> * knife cookbook delete --purge now works correctly
>
> Thanks for testing, enjoy!
>
> Dan DeLeo (kallistec)
>