[chef] Knife improvements upcoming in Chef 11.6

[John Keiser < >]

Hey Chefs!

Chef master has recently received a major merge of knife-essentials commands (knife diff / download / upload / list / show / delete / edit / xargs / deps / raw) which will make their way into 11.6.0.  The highlights include:

• Vastly improved performance for download/upload/diff
• Can view all data by default (inc. nodes, clients, etc.)
• New knife deps, knife edit and knife xargs commands
• Better UI, better error reporting, and stability
• An rspec framework to easily test knife commands using chef-zero

Full notes can be found at https://gist.github.com/jkeiser/5761426 .

If you'd like to use these right now, you can get all of these changes early by installing knife-essentials (gem install knife-essentials).  Please file issues  at https://github.com/jkeiser/knife-essentials if you see anything that doesn't do what you want :)  (The knife serve and knife converge commands are not part of this merge; you still need to gem install knife-essentials to get them.)

--John