[chef] Re: knife-ec2 0.5.12 Release Announcement

[David Montgomery < >]

Is there a page somewhere on how to safely upgrade chef-client so I
can upgrade knife?  I am on ubuntu and using hosted chef.

Thanks

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Steven Danna 
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 wrote:
> Ohai Chefs,
>
> We just released knife-ec2 0.5.12.  This release fixes a number
> of bugs and brings new features such as ec2 instance tagging, a
> --purge option to remove the node and client related to an
> instance on server delete, and a bump in in our fog dependency
> allowing users to create instances in us-west-2.
>
> Those upgrading should note that knife-ec2 now depends on the latest
> version of Chef and a recent version of Fog, which could cause
> dependency conflicts with other knife plugins.  Further, the default
> bootstrap template has changed to the "chef-full" template which uses
> the omnibus installer.
>
> This release cycle has been a long one. We hope to provide
> shorter knife-ec2 release cycles moving into the future.
>
> Bugs
>
>    [KNIFE_EC2-49] - Need to delete rackspace from gemspec file
>    [KNIFE_EC2-51] - AWS returns ENETUNREACH while instance is firing up
>    [KNIFE_EC2-53] - fix column widths for server lists
>    [KNIFE_EC2-54] - Explicit 'chef' dependency for the plugin
>    [KNIFE_EC2-56] - ubuntu10.04-gems should not be the default for
> knife ec2 server create
>
> Improvements
>
>    [KNIFE_EC2-39] - Failing specs
>    [KNIFE_EC2-41] - Upgrade Fog dependency from 0.8.2 to 1.1.x
>
> New Features
>
>    [KNIFE_EC2-18] - enabling to give a new tag key to an EC2 instance
> created with knife, as well as set its name
>    [KNIFE_EC2-37] - Deleting cloud servers with knife should do more
> cleanup with nodes and clients
>    [KNIFE_EC2-44] - Teach ec2_create_server the --ssh-port option
>
>
> Contributors:
>
> * Anthony Goddard
> * Christopher Maier
> * Grégory Karékinian
> * James Casey
> * Max Rabin
> * Sam Marx
> * Steven Danna
> * Jessica Bourne
> * Matt Ray
>
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve