[chef] Cookbook Releases, New Year Edition (Jan 9)

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai Chefs,

Welcome to the new year. We've already had 58 issues resolved this year,
and 39 are closed and released in their respective cookbooks. We have a
few more releases on the way, including munin and nagios, but we'll need
to do a bit more testing on those first.

A couple notes about the sudo cookbook's release. First, the README.md is
written for "GitHub flavored markdown" (GFM) We don't do this often for
cookbooks because they don't render properly on the Chef Community Site.
However, we do have plans for general improvements to the Community Site,
and are tracking improving README rendering with GFM internally as one of
these improvements. We have a few other cookbooks that have GFM in their
READMEs as well, so this is something we'd like to get resolved.

Second, this cookbook includes an example test for the COOK-2119 ticket
implementation. This should catch regressions. We've started adding
ticket-specific tests to cookbooks. The sudo cookbook has tests for
COOK-1892, COOK-2022. These are intended to run in Test Kitchen.

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/sudo/commit/069fd1c32728700b009e0d4787
53f2a3b17bea6a

Other cookbooks released this week had tests added for specific tickets as
well.

Yum: 
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/yum/commit/04dd8ee2b9b41db743161deac95
48382f337fd52

RabbitMQ: 
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/rabbitmq/commit/eb9ce305adcf666be5e885
6d9b457e3d5e8278fc

Rsyslog: 
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/rsyslog/commit/b2e370c18dd113bddcdf76c
b65bcdbab0c52f901

## apache2 v1.4.2:

- [COOK-1721] - fix logrotate recipe

## application_python v1.0.6:

- [COOK-2122] - pip was incorrectly using -E syntax
- [COOK-2147] - django sub-resource searched wrong directory for
requirements.txt

## application_ruby v1.0.8:

- [COOK-2159] - cookbook attribute is not treated as a string

## apt v1.8.0:

- [COOK-2143] - Allow for a custom cacher-ng port
- [COOK-2171] - On `apt_repository.run_action(:add)` the source file is
not created.
- [COOK-2184] - apt::cacher-ng, use `cacher_port` attribute in acng.conf

## aws v0.100.6:

- [COOK-2148] - `aws_ebs_volume` attach action saves nil `volume_id` in
node

## bluepill v2.2.0:

- [COOK-547] - Add `load` action to provider to reload services when
template changes.

## chef-client v2.1.6:

- [COOK-1978] - make cron output location configurable
- [COOK-2169] - use helper library to make path permissions consistent
- [COOK-2170] - test filename cleanup (dev repository only)

## chef_handler v1.1.4:

- [COOK-2146] - style updates

## database v1.3.10:

- [COOK-2117] - undefined variable `grant_statement` in mysql user provider

## iis v1.3.6:

- [COOK-2084] - Add support for additional options during site creation
- [COOK-2152] - Add recipe for IIS6 metabase compatibility

## java v1.8.0:

- [COOK-2095] - Add windows support

## jpackage v1.0.0:

- [COK-2127] - Use `platform_family` to add OS support

## maven v0.13.0:

- [COOK-2116] - maven should be available on the path

## mercurial v1.1.2:

- [COOK-2033] - only set recursive permissions if mode is used in
mercurial resource

## nginx v1.1.4:

- [COOK-2168] - specify package name as an attribute

## rabbitmq v1.8.0

- [COOK-2151] - Add config options for `disk_free_limit` and
`vm_memory_high_watermark` via attributes

## rsyslog v1.5.0:

- [COOK-2141] - Add `$PreserveFQDN` configuration directive

## selinux v0.5.6:

- [COOK-2124] - enforcing recipe fails if selinux is disabled

## sudo v2.0.4

- [COOK-2078] - syntax highlighting README on GitHub flavored markdown
- [COOK-2119] - LWRP template doesn't support multiple commands in a
single block.

## supervisor v0.4.0:

- [COOK-2157] - add `inet_http_server` and logfile config settings

## ubuntu v1.1.0:

- [COOK-2104] - allow specifying architectures for repos

## whitelist-node-attrs v1.1.0:

- [COOK-1886] - add `ohai_time` as a default whitelisted attribute

## yum v2.1.0:

- [COOK-2045] - add remi repository recipe
- [COOK-2121] - add `:create` action to `yum_repository`

Cheers,

-- 
Opscode, Inc
Joshua Timberman, Technical Community Manager
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