[chef] Cookbook Releases, Groundhog Edition!

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Hello!

Well, we're a few days after Groundhog Day, but hey, Punxsutawney Phil
won't know[0].

Over the last few months, we've made a lot of progress released a lot
of new cookbooks. Thank you to everyone who has submitted a patch
fixing a bug, whether in code or documentation. You make Chef and
these cookbooks, awesome. I'm sorry for the delay in several of these.
I think we've taken care of most of the older tickets.

As of this email, we're down to 1 "resolved and merged" ticket that
hasn't been released to the community site (COOK-627), and only 5
"resolved and untriaged" tickets, three of which are pending COOK-634
(application cookbook LWRP). The other two are pending review or
further investigation per Bryan's triage email for this week. We are
also down to 64 pull requests, and I'd like to thank Paul Morton for
his awesome assistance in following up with pull requests, linking
tickets (or creating them) and helping people through the CLA process.

As most of you are probably aware, we're planning to split the
opscode/cookbooks repository into individual repositories per
cookbook. A commit last week contained a bulk of the finishing touches
for the individual cookbooks:

- add LICENSE and CONTRIBUTING files
- remove the "changes" sections from README.md
- create CHANGELOG.md with the "changes" section

This is a priority and we're actively working on moving it forward. I
don't have an ETA when it will be done, but you'll see activity on
GitHub, for sure!

The list of cookbook releases is a new experiment, it is markdown
format and should render HTML just fine (though most mail clients
don't do that).

# apt v1.4.0:

* [COOK-889](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-889) - overwrite
existing repo source files
* [COOK-921](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-921) - optionally
use cookbook_file or remote_file for key
* [COOK-1032](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1032) - fixes
problem with apt repository key installation

# bluepill v1.0.2:

* [COOK-1043](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1043) - Bluepill
cookbook fails on OS X because it tries to use 'root' group

# chef-client v1.1.2:

* [COOK-1039](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1039) - support
mac_os_x_server

# chef_handler v1.0.6:

* [COOK-1069](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1069) - typo in
chef_handler readme

# database v1.1.4:

* [COOK-1062](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1062) -
Databases: Postgres exists should close connection

# iis v1.1.0:

* [COOK-1012](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1012) - support adding 
apps
* [COOK-1028](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1028) - support
for config command
* [COOK-1041](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1041) - fix
removal in app pools
* [COOK-835](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-835) - add app
pool management
* [COOK-950](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-950) -
documentation correction for version of IIS/OS

# java v1.4.2:

* [COOK-1051](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1051) - fix
attributes typo and platform case switch consistency

# memcached v1.0.2:

* [COOK-1081](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1081) - support
for centos/rhel

# nginx v0.100.2:

* [COOK-1053](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1053) - Add :url
attribute to nginx cookbook

# pacman v1.0.2:

* [COOK-1018](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1018) - aur
provider fails when a package is of 'any' cpu type.

# passenger_apache2 v0.99.4:

* [COOK-1003](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1003) - support archlinux

# pdns v0.1.0:

* [COOK-1080](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1080) - Fixes for
centos/rhel boxen and pdns::recursor cookbook

# postgresql v0.99.4:

* [COOK-421](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-421) - config
template is malformed
* [COOK-956](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-956) - add make
package on ubuntu/debian

# rabbitmq v1.4.0:

* [COOK-911](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-911) - Auto
clustering support

# runit v0.15.0:

* [COOK-1008](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1008) - Added
parameters for names of different templates in runit

# ssh_known_hosts v0.5.0:

* [COOK-1077](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1077) - allow
adding arbitrary host keys from a data bag

# windows v1.2.12:

* [COOK-1037](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1037) - specify
version for rubyzip gem
* [COOK-1007](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1007) -
windows_feature does not work to remove features with dism
* [COOK-667](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-667) - shortcut
resource + provider for Windows platforms

# users v1.1.2:

* [COOK-623](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-623) - LWRP
conversion of users recipe
* [COOK-1076](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1076) -
authorized_keys template not found in another cookbook

Thank you!

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punxsutawney_Phil
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