[chef] Chef 10.12.0 Release Candidate 1

[Bryan McLellan < >]

We've pushed the first release candidate for Chef 10.12.0 up to
Rubygems.org. You can test it out by installing the chef gem with the
'gem install chef --pre' command.

This release fixes a regression preventing chef-client from running on
Windows Server 2003.

We built a much stronger link resource and fixed a regression with the
mdadm provider.

Of course, there are many fixes and features from the community, outlined 
below.

We expect to have a build available of Omnibus available today from
the new Ruby based system. Stay tuned for more information about that.

The release will change the Chef version scheme in the same way we
described for the Ohai project in the 6.14.0 release notes yesterday:
http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/05/30/ohai-6-14-0-released/

Release Notes
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http://tickets.opscode.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+CHEF+AND+fixVersion+%3D+10801

CHEF-3155       Chef::Win32 constant collides with ::Win32 constant, causing
confusing NoMethodErrors
CHEF-3153       securable_spec uses load to reset configuration, breaking 
rake spec
CHEF-3143       gem_package under omnibus not properly detecting path or
setting gem_binary
CHEF-3142       Function 'Quer ySecurityAccessMask' not found in [advapi32]
(FFI::NotFoundError) when running "chef-client --version" on Windows
Server 2003 R2 SP2
CHEF-3135       Notifications from remote_file resource not working
CHEF-3129       "mode" on Windows errors out where before it silently failed
CHEF-3123       mdadm does not work on debian squeeze
CHEF-3114       convert knife ssh to chef/mixin/shell_out
CHEF-3112       link resource fails when link file already exists but is not
a link to the target
CHEF-3111       link resource silently fails to switch a link from symbolic 
to hard
CHEF-3110       link resource fails when changing owner of link to 
nonexistent file
CHEF-3108       remove mixlib-shellout version dependency
CHEF-3106       cache_options puts checksum files into etc, instead of var
CHEF-3103       Typo in long form option
CHEF-3102       Link resource fails when owner/group is set
CHEF-3099       Platform mapping debugging messages confusing / noisy
CHEF-2887       FFI bindings not backward compatible with Windows XP
CHEF-2389       link provider is not idempotent when used with relative link 
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Bryan McLellan | opscode | technical program manager, open source
(c) 206.607.7108 | (t) @btmspox | (b) http://blog.loftninjas.org