[chef] Knife-windows 0.5.14 Release Announcement

[Adam Edwards < >]

Ohai Chefs. We’ve release knife-windows 0.5.14 – you can gem install it today on your knife workstation. Improvements include support for Windows Server 2012 R2 bootstrap, fixes for blocking issues in ssh bootstrap of Windows nodes, nested attributes for knife winrm, closer parity with knife ssh command-line options, and improved retry / robustness / instrumentation of Windows bootstrap.

 

We thank all of our contributors for their improvements to knife-windows and therefore Chef. Additionally, we’d like to thank Jeppe Nejsum Madsen for identifying the ssh-related blockers in this release, and for improving all of our lives on Windows by contributing the fixes. Everyone, thank you!

 

# knife-windows 0.5.14 on RubyGems and GitHub:

https://rubygems.org/gems/knife-windows

https://github.com/opscode/knife-windows

The specific list of issues addressed in this knife-windows 0.5.14 release is given below:

 

KNIFE-401           Windows Bootstrap logs RSA Private Key

KNIFE-391           Knife-ec2 + Knife-windows fails to bootstrap Windows 2012 machine

KNIFE-371           knife-windows github page links to not accessible ticket page

KNIFE-354           Knife-windows error on installing to Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1

KNIFE-336           Add hint to set basic auth

KNIFE-325           Support no_proxy

KNIFE-323           Add travis and fix rubygems source

KNIFE-296           knife-windows overrides -x option with winrm-user

KNIFE-286           Windows bootstrap template does not render json-attributes

KNIFE-285           Error during windows bootstrapping

KNIFE-276           winrm should support nested attributes

KNIFE-270           knife bootstrap ssh for a windows node fails when TEMP directory has spaces

KNIFE-259           knife-windows should use "no UI" flag for msiexec

KNIFE-249           Bootstrap Windows Returns 404 on chef-client.msi download (bad url in REMOTE_SOURCE_MSI_URL)

KNIFE-242           Add support to pass JSON attributes to 'knife bootstrap windows winrm'

KNIFE-235           knife-windows winrm doesn't work -- returns no nodes from search

KNIFE-232           `knife winrm` will errantly exclude all nodes

KNIFE-204           Add Support for ssh_gateway in knife-windows

KNIFE-29              Should be able to choose msi version

 

-Adam

Software Development Engineer, Opscode, Inc.