[chef] Re: Chef 10.12.0 Release Candidate 1

[Stephen Delano < >]

Ohai Chefs! 

As Bryan mentioned in the previous email, Chef 10.12.0 is also the "Omnibus" 
release which marks the point at which we begin shipping Omnibus builds of 
the Chef client that are generated by our new Ruby-based build system. I'm 
sending this email out as a notice that we've pushed out some new build 
artifacts of Chef 10.12.0.rc.1 and you'll now be able to pick them up via 
`knife bootstrap`[[[[ and Opscode's hosted installer 
(http://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh).

= Install Instructions

Since this is a release candidate, 10.12.0.rc.1 is NOT the default version 
installed by either `knife bootstrap` or `install.sh`. You will have to 
configure each method accordingly:

== `knife bootstrap`

To configure `knife bootstrap` to bootstrap new nodes with an Omnibus-built 
Chef 0.10.12.rc.1, you'll have to set the #bootstrap_version configuration 
parameter. You can do this either via your knife.rb (with the 
#bootstrap_version method) or via the --bootstrap-version command line 
argument. The correct value to set is "10.12.0.rc.1".

In future releases (and release candidates), `knife bootstrap` will 
automatically bootstrap your Omnibus nodes with the currently-installed 
version of Chef [1].

== `install.sh`

To use `install.sh` to install the latest prerelease, simple call it with the 
-v flag: `install.sh -v 10.12.0.rc.1`

= Supported Platforms

Moving our clojure-based build infrastructure over to Ruby has taken time, 
and we're not 100% of the way there yet. Omnibus packages have been built and 
uploaded for the following platforms:

Ubuntu:
- 10.04 (x86, x86_64)
- 11.04 (x86, x86_64)
- 12.04 (x86, x86_64)

CentOS / RedHat:
- 5 (x86, x86_64)
- 6 (x86, x86_64)

New builds for Mac OS X, Debian, Solaris, and Windows will follow shortly.

1: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3166

Cheers!

-- 
Stephen Delano
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On Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Bryan McLellan wrote:

> We've pushed the first release candidate for Chef 10.12.0 up to
> Rubygems.org (http://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
> ---------------------
> 
> 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 (to)
> 
> -- 
> Bryan McLellan | opscode | technical program manager, open source
> (c) 206.607.7108 | (t) @btmspox | (b) http://blog.loftninjas.org