[chef] Released: Test Kitchen 1.3.0

[Fletcher Nichol < >]

Heya Chefs!

Happy Thursday, Test Kitchen 1.3.0 is out the door. It is currently available 
on RubyGems and soon to be included in the next ChefDK release (stay tuned).

More more detail, you can take a peek at the release notes here:

http://kitchen.ci/blog/test-kitchen-1-3-0-release-notes/

Here’s a copy of the changelog (also available at 
https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchen/releases/tag/v1.3.0):

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## Upstream changes

* Pull request #558, pull request #557: Update omnibus download URL to 
chef.io. (@scarolan)
* Pull request #531, pull request #521: Update mixlib-shellout dependency to 
be greater or equal to 1.2 and less than 3.0. (@lamont-granquist)

## Bug fixes

* Pull request #555, issue #524, issue #343: (Breaking) Correct global YAML 
merge order to lowest (from highest).
* Pull request #416: Use Gem::GemRunner to install drivers with kitchen init 
generator (addresses opscode/chef-dk#20). (@mcquin)
* Pull request #399: Sleep before retrying SSH#establish_connection. 
(@fnichol)
* Pull request #527: Rescue SSH authentication failures to use retry/timeout 
connection logic. (@chrishenry)
* Pull request #363: Ensure that integer chef config attributes get placed in 
solo.rb/client.rb properly. (@benlangfeld, @sethvargo)
* Pull request #431: Check for zero byte state files. (@rhass)
* Pull request #554, pull request #543: Replace / with - in Instance names, 
allowing instance names to be used as server hostnames in most cases. 
(@grubernaut, @fnichol)

## New features

* Pull request #373: Add new subcommand 'exec'. (@sawanoboly)
* Pull request #397: Introduce the :chef_zero_port config attribute to the 
chef_zero provisioner. (@jtgiri)
* Pull request #381, pull request #456: Add configurable defaults for 
chef-solo, chef-client, and chef omnibus paths. (@sethvargo, @robcoward, 
@fnichol)
* Pull request #489: Introduce the :chef_omnibus_install_options config 
attribute to be able to pass additional arguments to the Chef installer 
script. (@ringods)
* Pull request #549: Introduce the :chef_zero_host config attribute to the 
chef_zero provisioner. (@jochenseeber)
* Pull request #454: Customize :ssh_timeout and :ssh_retries. (@ekrupnik)
* Pull request #510, issue #166: Add support for site-cookbooks when using 
Librarian. (@jstriebel)

##Improvements

* Pull request #427: Backfilling spec coverage and refactoring: technical 
debt edition. Epically huge, finally complete. (@fnichol)
* Pull request #478, issue #433, issue #352: Buffer Logger output & fix Chef 
run output formatting. (@fnichol)
* Pull request #481: Disable color output when no TTY is present. (@fnichol)
* Pull request #526, pull request #462, issue #375: Die on kitchen login if 
instance is not created. (@daniellockard, @fnichol)
* Pull request #504: Fix 2 tests in SSHBase to reflect their intent. 
(@jgoldschrafe)
* Pull request #450: Update help description for CLI subcommands. 
(@MarkGibbons)
* Pull request #477: Bump 'kitchen help' into new Usage section in README and 
add how to use "-l". (@curiositycasualty)
* Pull request #567: Pass the template filename down to Erb for __FILE__ et 
al. (@coderanger)
* Pull request #498: Fix doc comment in Kitchen::Loader::YAML.new. 
(@jaimegildesagredo)
* Pull request #507: Clarify comments in configuration loader. (@martinb3)
* Pull request #366: Fix glaring "Transfering" -> "Transferring" typo. 
(@srenatus)
* Pull request #457: Fix "confiuration" -> "configuration" typo in README. 
(@michaelkirk)
* Pull request #370: Use Ruby 2.1 instead of 2.1.0 for CI. (@justincampbell)

## Heads up

* Drop Ruby 1.9.2 from TravisCI build matrix (support for Ruby 1.9.2 will be 
a "best effort"). (@fnichol)

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Enjoy your converging!

Fletcher