[chef] Status of the Open Source Chef Server 11.1 Release

[Mark Mzyk < >]

Hello Everyone,

I'm one of the software engineers at Chef and for a while now I've been involved in getting the next release of the open source server, 11.1, ready and out the door. I realize that 11.1 was promised long ago and we've been remiss in not getting it out sooner. For that I apologize. We are working to improve our processes so that we don't have delays like this in the future.

On to 11.1. We're currently in the testing phase. If all continues to go well we'll be cutting a release candidate early next week with the goal of the release landing later in the week.

All the builds we do of the open source server land in a public s3 bucket and are accessible with the omnitruck API (http://docs.opscode.com/api_omnitruck.html). Currently nightlies exist for the 11.1 release for all our supported platforms. These are labeled 11.1.0-beta and will have a timestamp appended. If you feel like it, you can go ahead and install the nightlies and drop us feedback. Just be aware we're still working out a few bugs, particularly around the new chef-server-ctl upgrade process.

We've kept a detailed changelog for this release, which can be found here: https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-chef-server/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Highlights of the release include full IPv6 support, the addition of the chef-server-ctl upgrade command, and a change back to the gecode depsolver from the erlang one.

Again, feel free to send any feedback you have. I can personally be reached at mm at getchef dot com if you want to drop me feedback directly. We're hopeful this release fixes many of the issues you may have. We're going to work to get better at releasing more often so that delays like this don't happen again.

Thanks,

Mark Mzyk