[chef] Re: Chef 11.0.0.beta.1 is out, now with Omnibus!

[Steffen Gebert < >]

Hi Brian,

thanks for the release!

It looks like Debian packages are finally available :-)

This information is missing in the linked wiki page.

Thanks
Steffen

On 1/29/13 3:34 AM, Bryan McLellan wrote:
> Hi Chefs,
> 
> We've released Chef 11.0.0.beta.1 to Rubygems and in Omnibus package form.
> 
> ### Changes
> The following issues have been fixed since the beta 0:
> 
> * Modified the behavior of the new attributes system to overwrite Arrays 
> when merging between precedence levels. This matches the Chef 10.x behavior.
> * Fixed a bug where calling `puts` on a attribute component would raise a 
> TypeError.
> * Fixed an issue managing the 32 bit registry on 64 bit Windows 2003 
> systems.
> * Corresponding test fixes.
> * Added a flag to check for admin privileges when running chef-client on 
> Windows
> * Bug fixes to chef_fs, used in the knife-essentials utilities like knife 
> diff
> * Added missing requires for some deprecated DSL mixins
> * Fixed a bug in log messages under Windows
> * Fixed another windows bug where cookbook_file wouldn't inherit 
> permissions from a parent object
> 
> ### Installing
> 
> #### With Omnibus, via install.sh:
> 
> curl:
> 
>     curl -L "https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh" ;| sudo bash -s -- -v 
> 11.0.0.beta.1
> 
> wget:
> 
>     wget -qO- "https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh" ;| sudo bash -s -- 
> -v 11.0.0.beta.1
> 
> #### With Omnibus via package download:
> 
> Omnibus packages are served via a webservice called Omnitruck that 
> redirects you to the appropriate package. Normally you don't need to know 
> any specificsthing about Omnitruck, but we haven't updated the install.sh 
> script with a flag for grabbing a pre-release yet and maybe you're just 
> interested anyway. If you are, an explanation of the URL parameters that 
> allows you to grab whatever versions you want is available on the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+11+Server+Preview
> 
> The wiki page is focused on the chef-server case but is valid for 
> chef-client as well. For example, this will fetch the package on Ubuntu 
> 10.04:
> 
>    wget -O /tmp/chef_11.0.0.beta.1_amd64.deb 
> 'https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=11.0.0.beta.1&p=ubuntu&pv=10.04&m=x86_64'
> 
> ### Reporting Problems
> 
> If you find any issues using the beta, please report them here and file bug 
> reports on tickets.opscode.com.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ---
> Bryan McLellan | opscode | technical program manager, open source
> (c) 206.607.7108 | (t) @btmspox | (b) http://blog.loftninjas.org
> 
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