[chef] RE: Re: Knife improvements upcoming in Chef 11.6

[John Keiser < >]

Yep, the gem is still maintained and tested against Chef 10 
(https://travis-ci.org/jkeiser/knife-essentials).  It's useful to have a 
place to do out-of-band updates to the commands, since the project is still 
moving fast.

--John

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From: Mike
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:38 AM
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Subject: [chef] Re: Knife improvements upcoming in Chef 11.6

Awesome news!

For those of us on Chef 10 (and who may be there for some time to
come) will knife-essentials standalone gem continue to be maintained?

-M

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:31 PM, John Keiser 
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 wrote:
> 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