[chef] Re: Chef Server 11.0.8-rc.2 available for testing

[Jesse Nelson < >]

Great to hear about the ports fixes I will give this some time today if I 
can. 




On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Bryan McLellan 
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 wrote:

> We've got a second release candidate ready for Chef Server 11.0.8. This 
> adds some security fixes for Rails and PostgreSQL on top of the last RC, as 
> well as bit more fixes to the configuration cookbooks for non-standard port 
> configurations that chef-server-ctl uses.
> 
> You'll still need to assemble a URL to download a prerelease package, which 
> is documented here: 
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+11+Server+Preview
> 
> For example, to get the latest x64 prerelease deb for Ubunu 10.04, you can 
> run these commands which work for both fresh installs and upgrades:
> 
> $ wget 
> 'http://www.opscode.com/chef/download-server?p=ubuntu&pv=10.04&m=x86_64&v=latest&prerelease=true'
>  -O chef-server-latest-prerelease.deb
> $ sudo dpkg -i chef-server-latest-prerelease.deb
> $ sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure
> 
> This release fixes the ability to change the ports of most of the services, 
> including external ports for nginx. We've tested this ourselves and it 
> appears robust but would love it if you tried too.
> 
> Here's a list of what's fixed in 11.0.8 Server:
> 
> [CHEF-3849] - redirect for login for webui ignores ssl_port
> [CHEF-3853] - checksum URLs generated by POST /sandboxes do not respect 
> configured load balancer port
> [CHEF-3887] - Cannot change port of erchef
> [CHEF-3889] - tunables for postgresql in chef server 11 do not work when 
> system has more than 64GB of RAM
> [CHEF-4029] - configurable bookshelf url & nginx ssl port issue
> [CHEF-4059] - chef-server-webui: update Rails version to 3.2.13 for 
> security issues
> [CHEF-4060] - Upgrade PostgreSQL 9.2.4
> 
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