Release Notes

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.9.8

Release announcement

Version 0.9.8 (71 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-1216	add 10.04 to ubuntu versions to check in upstart provider
	CHEF-1416	Knife cookbook delete is broken for all cases except when a specific version is specified
	CHEF-1441	Typo in amqp client fix
	CHEF-1448	specs broken by recent commits
	CHEF-1474	Extra node saves in Chef::Client can leave node data in a broken state
	CHEF-1486	bundle the rackup files with the gem for unicorn users
	CHEF-1498	knife cookbook create should use CLI opts instead of ARGs
	CHEF-1500	knife bootstrap's sudo option conflicts with general chef-server-url option (-s)
	CHEF-1514	Value for platform fails when the value to be returned is an array
	CHEF-1513	Deprecation notice for remote_file -> cookbook_file should print the line where the resource was declared
	CHEF-1503	knife ec2 server create needs to pass bootstrap options for template use
	CHEF-1499	update knife markdown and man page for 0.9.8 changes
	CHEF-1501	bootstrap template for ubuntu 10.04 using apt.opscode.com packages
	CHEF-1496	Bump required ohai version to 0.5.6
	CHEF-1286	JSON Attribs and precedence
	CHEF-1145	filenames with brackets, filenames regular expression escape
	CHEF-1369	save the expanded run list into a searchable property on nodes
	CHEF-1458	Trash and rebuild the Chef::Client for every run
	CHEF-1470	Refactor Knife's subcommand loader
	CHEF-1451	Negative UID heuristic fails for UIDs between 2**30 and 2**31
	CHEF-1479	Chef::Provider::Group overwrites the new resource's gid with the existing gid
	CHEF-1487	Configure the name setting in merb so chef-server and chef-server-webui show up in the process listing
	CHEF-1185	Mixlib authentication should be have a less cryptic failure message
	CHEF-1497	Remove as much monkey patching as possible from shef
	CHEF-1415	link resource is broken when using shef in client mode
	CHEF-1453	Knife status is broken on Ruby 1.9
	CHEF-187	Mount Resource should handle LABEL and UUID
	CHEF-1412	missing uuidtools dep?
	CHEF-1111	possible unclosed handle in easy_install package provider
	CHEF-587	no package provider for Solaris
	CHEF-1215	knife ssh subcommand often does nothing after receiving search query results
	CHEF-1438	value_for_platform fails on 1.9.2
	CHEF-1450	Shef can't resume chef run due to change on Session
	CHEF-1456	dead code in Resource#to_text
	CHEF-1329	Readable inspect for Chef::Node::Attribute
	CHEF-1391	support region option in ec2 commands
	CHEF-1345	Refactor help output for knife
	CHEF-1202	Update regular expression placeholders to quote substituted values.
	CHEF-1449	Moving cookbook creation task to Knife, and deprecating the rake task.
	CHEF-1312	webui is missing a lot of admin checks
	CHEF-1176	Need a way to support http_proxy shell setting for remote_file and other resources
	CHEF-1462	Factor out cookbook uploader from Knife::CookbookUpload
	CHEF-1393	Extend knife bootstrap to support templates
	CHEF-1359	chef-server -v does not report version
	CHEF-1461	Use Knife to share/unshare cookbook to/from the Opscode Cookbooks Site
	CHEF-1447	The script provider does not account for possible spaces in the interpreter or script path on Windows
	CHEF-1351	remove dependency on the merb-slices gem
	CHEF-1481	Add support for Chef::Mixin::Command.popen4 on Windows platforms
	CHEF-1223	execute provider does not work on Windows platforms
	CHEF-1100	Yum provider doesn't want to install packages with specified architecture
	CHEF-1502	Shef can masquerade as other nodes
	CHEF-1511	give shef a pretty interface to the api
	CHEF-1343	Add an option to 'knife configure -i' commands to accept the defaults.
	CHEF-1504	chef source should have a NEWS file
	CHEF-1509	file provider backup fails on Windows platforms
	CHEF-1512	DataBagItem#to_s uses obsolete @name variable so it always prints 'data_bag_item[]'
	CHEF-1517	knife node run_list add broken on 0.9.8 beta
	CHEF-1525	open handle fix in CHEF-1111 causes easy_install candidate version to always be 256
	CHEF-1524	improve easy_install previously installed package detection
	CHEF-366	Ability to specify service priority on action enable
	CHEF-1557	update centos/redhat packages to 0.9.8
	CHEF-1115	chef-solo incorrectly requires /etc/chef/client.pem
	CHEF-301	Directories with a dot (.ssh for example) aren't copied with the remote_directory resource
	CHEF-1082	Configuration settings for stomp server are obsolete and should be removed
	CHEF-1455	Resource#to_text triggers a deprecation warning
	CHEF-1387	JSON attribs aren't loaded correctly on first run of chef-client
	CHEF-184	chef-client debug output doesn't display the version
	CHEF-1516	Unable to delete cookbooks on server when there are multiple versions
	CHEF-1386	Knife bootstrap. Should support specifying a ssh private key file
	CHEF-1430	Ruby_block resources should be able to send notifications to other resources

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.9.6

Release announcement

Version 0.9.6 (7 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-1404	Shef no longer gets chef/recipe pulled in with its other requires, causing it to crash on start
	CHEF-1410	chef-solo does not always set Chef::Config[:solo] to true, Chef::Application::Solo should require 'chef'
	CHEF-1411	knife cookbook upload should be more resilient to 400's from the sandboxes controlled caused by S3 index inconsistency
	CHEF-1412	missing uuidtools dep?
	CHEF-1260	file resource checksums everything
	CHEF-1495	update centos/redhat packages to 0.9.6
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.9.2 and 0.9.4

A backwards compatibility issue was discovered in 0.9.2, and 0.9.4 was released immediately.

Release announcement

Version 0.9.4 (2 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-1400	Need to support deprecated usage of the @node instance variable within resources
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type

Version 0.9.2 (14 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-1365	Expectation of return code 0 is incorrect for chkconfig
	CHEF-1390	Upstart Script for WebUI runs the wrong command
	CHEF-1394	Notification Handlers are broken
	CHEF-1396	Template provider does not set access controls correctly when creating/updating a file
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-1363	ChefServerApi::SandboxFile assumes input is a StringIO
	CHEF-1384	Template resource looks for the raw template file in the wrong part of the cache
	CHEF-1380	update chef-server-webui's gemspec to require merb 1.1.x
	CHEF-1366	Add slicehost support to knife
	CHEF-1378	Add Upstart Scripts
	CHEF-1388	Move monkey patches to individual files so they can be required individually
	CHEF-1373	TypeError: true can't be coerced into Fixnum when you upload cookbooks
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type
	CHEF-1381	Error in reporting error in knife

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.9.0

Release announcement

Version 0.9.0 (86 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-1072	chef-server-webui incompatible with merb 1.1.0
	CHEF-1246	Override attributes from roles get written to the node
	CHEF-1280	Cookbook upload dies on some files
	CHEF-1273	Chef::Mixin::Language uses defunct @node should use node (method)
	CHEF-1275	knife doesn't work without highline, and highline is not in the gemspec
	CHEF-1294	Cookbook uploads that are only metadta changes fail
	CHEF-1295	cookbook file for preseed files in package resource needs to have its run context set
	CHEF-1277	Create a chef-server meta-gem
	CHEF-1269	The webui needs to be updated for cookbook and run list changes
	CHEF-1168	RubyGems 1.3.7 will introduce an issue where Chef's gem_package won't be able to install arch-specific packages
	CHEF-1291	Deploy resource seems to re-apply the whole recipe stack, not just the portion we specify
	CHEF-1288	@node can no longer be accessed directly in recipes, so we need to provide a check for this on cookbook upload
	CHEF-1301	gem_package prints gem installation messages on stdout with log
	CHEF-1296	Regression: We download all cookbook files, even those we may not need.
	CHEF-1304	Setting attributes fails when a hash of another precedence has an intermediate value
	CHEF-1305	ShellOut segfaults older ruby patchlevels
	CHEF-1253	Solr configuration uses dynamicFields Declaration, creates havoc during indexation
	CHEF-1232	knife --help doesn't display full help installed as debian package or w/ debian's rubygems
	CHEF-1236	DeepMerge fails to merge production data
	CHEF-1336	Chef::REST should paper over a bug in net/http
	CHEF-1331	Update knife's manpage source
	CHEF-1341	rewrite the handler API
	CHEF-1342	Updates to mixlib-config interact poorly with method stubs, resulting in spec failures
	CHEF-1307	chef-client does not error when non-existing role encountered in run_list
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-1346	Add elapsed time to the list of methods that Chef::Handler delegates to @run_status
	CHEF-1210	updated man pages, init scripts and supporting distro specifics in source to make packaging consistent
	CHEF-1286	JSON Attribs and precedence
	CHEF-1308	File Cache purging may incorrectly purge or not purge cookbook files (nee remote files) and templates
	CHEF-1289	API does not check for admin rights for user management
	CHEF-1293	Knife cookbook delete should default to latest if a version is not specified
	CHEF-1325	knife cookbook download should not fail when a version is not specified
	CHEF-1104	intermittent closed stream error on packages and templates
	CHEF-1358	The source line in resource objects is always recipe_definition_dsl_core.rb
	CHEF-1361	knife search -a option does not handle nil attributes gracefully
	CHEF-682	Add an exception notification hook
	CHEF-838	attributes set with the "default" keyword should not be persisted to the node, and should have lower precedence
	CHEF-1258	Knife ec2 support
	CHEF-1259	Knife should support per-directory configuration files
	CHEF-585	no service provider for Solaris
	CHEF-1219	Data bag item should throw Chef::Exceptions::ValidationFailed when validation failed
	CHEF-1262	Add user and group providers for Windows platforms
	CHEF-1268	Cookbooks should sync on a file-by-file basis, support versioning, and be updated atomically
	CHEF-1161	undefined method `cookbook_loader=' for nil:NilClass
	CHEF-1270	chef-solr-indexer dies converting an argument error to a string (possibly ruby1.9 related)
	CHEF-1271	The client needs to trust the server's provided manifest when fetching cookbooks
	CHEF-1272	Merge the completed work on chef 1269 into master so we can release alpha 4
	CHEF-1281	Knife cannot upload a cookbook without metadata
	CHEF-1299	knife configure should ask different question for client name based on whether -i is specified or not
	CHEF-1306	knife cookbook site vendor fails to extract due to incorrect cwd
	CHEF-1041	Cookbook (up)loader should be version aware
	CHEF-1267	Add mount provider for Windows platforms
	CHEF-1220	knife ssh tmux
	CHEF-1324	Bring back the syntax check cache
	CHEF-1326	500 error when attempting to show a cookbook with a bad/non-existent version
	CHEF-1353	Cookbook uploading fails
	CHEF-1347	knife recipe list shows '.rb' at the end of the recipe names
	CHEF-1348	undefined local variable or method full_recipe_list in views/nodes/show.html.haml
	CHEF-1300	chef-server Rakefile should have install / uninstall tasks
	CHEF-1314	Non existent roles are silently skipped in run_list expansion when running chef-client
	CHEF-1231	Implicit "::default" for include_attribute broken
	CHEF-1243	Remote file should be deprecated for fetching cookbook files--this should be a cookbook file resource/provider
	CHEF-1323	when chef tries to match a process against the ps output, it should print the regex with #inspect and not #to_s
	CHEF-1263	The docs/ directory in chef should be removed
	CHEF-1228	env provider
	CHEF-1211	Versions of packages should be specified in at most one place per sub-project
	CHEF-979	Include status module for knife
	CHEF-1189	Authenticated subversion checkouts fail due to prompt
	CHEF-1221	Exception if package needs updating (zypper)
	CHEF-1230	Knife : -f from --format overwrites -f from other options
	CHEF-1234	remote_file does not work with binary files on Windows platforms
	CHEF-1264	Chef::Solr::Query initialization should take couchdb object instead of just the database
	CHEF-45	Some attributes (e.g. Ohai's) are effectively immutable and should be read-only, lockable or namespaced.
	CHEF-1141	Nodes webui screen needs to be sorted by name.
	CHEF-1096	backups of config files gets included in various programs
	CHEF-1130	sync distro work from rpm packages
	CHEF-349	Refactor rubygems provider to use Gem classes, internal rubygems API instead of calling out to the CLI
	CHEF-1282	Specs throw warning "parenthesize argument(s) for future version"
	CHEF-914	knife data bag subcommands should include data bag from file
	CHEF-1309	rubygems providers tests don't run on older versions of rubygems
	CHEF-1320	Teach knife ssh screen to respect user's .screenrc
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type
	CHEF-1085	cookbook loader fails somewhat silently when given an invalid cookbook
	CHEF-1318	/files lists nonexistent files when source is a substring of another source directory
	CHEF-289	Initial JSON endpoint in REST API
	CHEF-1381	Error in reporting error in knife

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.8.16

Release announcement

Version 0.8.16 (8 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-1196	Commit bc411a1ded418a385af23bbec7d1cc6b013cb08b breaks template owner setting
	CHEF-1207	Leftover debug output in chef-solo
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-1204	Mixlib CLI update breaks shef
	CHEF-1208	CHEF-1207 breaks chef-client
	CHEF-1194	WebUI - show of cookbook fails
	CHEF-878	Put guards in require()s in the Rakefile so gems can be built w/o dev dependencies installed
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.8.12 and 0.8.14

We encountered a hiccup in the publishing process for 0.8.12, and moved right along to 0.8.14.

Release announcement

Version 0.8.14 (8 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-1184	JSON gem version 1.4.3 does not work with ohai or Chef::Node, a dependency on 1.4.2 or less needs to be added to the gem spec
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-1188	Chef::Client squashes errors in its save_node method, destroying valuable debugging info
	CHEF-1191	hotfix for all applications always cd-ing to root leaves a failing test
	CHEF-966	useradd provider should support creation of system users
	CHEF-1021	Pass environment, group and cwd to run on deploy
	CHEF-600	Refactoring RubyGems provider to use output_of_command for better diagnostics
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type

Version 0.8.12 (50 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-674	uuidtools gem needs to be packaged for debian
	CHEF-1106	remove suse copyrighted init script
	CHEF-1108	attribute note for streaming_cookbook_uploader.rb from author
	CHEF-1173	clients can turn themselves into admins
	CHEF-1181	knife configure needs to be updated to reflect that the validator is no longer an administrator
	CHEF-751	mixlib-authentication needs version tags
	CHEF-1172	file_spec.rb test is time zone dependent
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-1050	FreeBSD: chef commands freeze during ohai calls
	CHEF-1053	Chef source code repository need a CONTRIBUTING file
	CHEF-1091	chef_repo rake task fails to build metadata
	CHEF-785	svn_arguments not used when svn info is called (deploy resource)
	CHEF-489	Ruby 1.9 Support for Chef
	CHEF-641	Improvements to RPM packages
	CHEF-675	Allow for rendering file contents with a 'content' variable
	CHEF-1087	chef-solr truncating logs, not logging startup
	CHEF-1099	chef-solr problems with dropping privileges
	CHEF-1105	bring back the ruby/template test cache
	CHEF-1092	chef problems with dropping privileges
	CHEF-424	Chef's Tempfile leaves lot of chef-rest files in /tmp
	CHEF-1126	Deleting a role is extremely slow when using couchdb 10
	CHEF-1060	Deep merge json attributes passed on the command line
	CHEF-1151	Chef Solr should not run ohai in its startup sequence
	CHEF-1170	File lookup problems cause specs to fail on ruby 1.9.2 when run with rake
	CHEF-1107	Revision Provider for Deployment Resource cannot recover if cache file storing deployed revisions is lost
	CHEF-1150	"knife configure -i" uses hardcoded validation key path
	CHEF-1174	Knife output format: Allow more simple output for single attribute
	CHEF-1178	rake role[role_name] does not work at all
	CHEF-1008	validation key should not be an admin key
	CHEF-1164	Service Provider on Windows
	CHEF-1157	Make Chef-Client run on Windows with cookbooks using file, directory, remote file, remote directory, and template providers
	CHEF-845	Wrong number of arguments in preseed_package
	CHEF-1025	mdadm provider is broken
	CHEF-1121	Group/user creation / null group append fails on OSX
	CHEF-1155	Allow 'execute' resource to accept multiple return values without error.
	CHEF-557	Remove rubygems from any libraries
	CHEF-1166	There is no need to save the node after syncing cookbooks
	CHEF-669	optional rubygems?
	CHEF-1032	rake test no longer performs syntax check on ruby and erb files
	CHEF-1030	Properly escape existing cron-job names
	CHEF-721	support for purging managed directories
	CHEF-724	Chef should complain when it can't find any cookbooks
	CHEF-632	remote_file resource should display an INFO message at start of a download
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type
	CHEF-1120	Regex validation in the params validation mixin should print regex.inspect instead of regex.to_s in the error message
	CHEF-804	make knife 'configure' give an example of the server url requested
	CHEF-791	Help text for -T refers to openid
	CHEF-1001	gem provider specify's the source of 'gems.rubyforge.org' if the source is not specified, which is a deprecated mirror...
	CHEF-1109	Add descriptive error message identifying the file when an invalid metadata.json is loaded from a cookbook.
	CHEF-510	be able to use debian/ubuntu libjs-jquery packaged library for chef-server

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.8.10

Release announcement

Version 0.8.10 (24 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-468	chef-server version needs to not rely on walking gem objectspace
	CHEF-1039	chef-solr doesn't actually log to specified log file.
	CHEF-1044	Nested arrays of hashes break node indexing
	CHEF-946	if rabbitmq is down, the generated web ui and validation keys are lost
	CHEF-1064	Installing gems with an implicit --remote flag on gem fails because of merb 1.1.x
	CHEF-833	recursive copy of cached-copy in deploy resource fails on symlinked file
	CHEF-554	chef-server/indexer should run as 'chef' user in packaging
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-735	Web Slice needs a override config file.
	CHEF-1048	Creating an Invalid Role in WebUI causes 500
	CHEF-252	If a template's source doesn't end in .erb, but exists, we still get a 500 error.
	CHEF-653	Cron resource fails when the program takes a numerical argument.
	CHEF-1076	Role error messages are non-helpful to track down which role caused the problem (when loading roles from filesystem)
	CHEF-1069	Chef::Node does not properly validate the name parameter
	CHEF-1077	Running the features should not require sudo (mac-dev-start)
	CHEF-1083	chef-server-webui doesn't correctly rescue load error when it tries to load itself from source checkout
	CHEF-1057	Support templates that are already on the file system
	CHEF-1081	Chef::Config should specify an amqp_consumer_id by default
	CHEF-828	Mixlib CLI - Preserve ARGV after @opt_parser.parse!
	CHEF-425	portage provider in Gentoo reinstalls the packages over and over again; does not matter if :install or :upgrade is used.
	CHEF-782	debian packaging should include -e production
	CHEF-527	debian/ubuntu packages should use /etc/default/chef-{client,server} for settings to the init script
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type
	CHEF-510	be able to use debian/ubuntu libjs-jquery packaged library for chef-server

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.8.8

Release announcement

Version 0.8.8 (17 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-457	When using merb installed from debian packages, chef-server tries to load merb-slices gem.
	CHEF-823	release and package mixlib-log 1.1.0
	CHEF-965	chef-server logs excessively regardless of the log_level setting
	CHEF-1009	"WebUIUser" fails to index, snake-casing name to invalid value.
	CHEF-1014	Remote directory does not work with chef-solo.
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-961	Bad use of sudo in chef-server rake tasks
	CHEF-1015	Permission denied to /var/chef/ca/key.pem when running chef-server under non-root user
	CHEF-1018	chef-solr should report version
	CHEF-1022	chef-* commands should support -P or --pidfile that sets Chef::Config[:pid_file]
	CHEF-1036	chef .debs should conflict with outdated packages
	CHEF-780	Invalid file parameters of a cookbook upload request cause an authentication failure
	CHEF-959	Add a command-line switch for the pid_file option
	CHEF-1020	Features tests should not start a merb inside the cucumber process
	CHEF-1033	knife ssh should be able to use screen for real interactivity
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type
	CHEF-649	cucumber.yml tags in --tags option must always start with @

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.8.6

Release announcement

Version 0.8.6 (15 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-457	When using merb installed from debian packages, chef-server tries to load merb-slices gem.
	CHEF-1000	Runlist expand does not pass couchdb value on
	CHEF-1006	fedora missing from chef/lib/platform.rb
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-926	cleanup! of old releases sometimes deletes current release
	CHEF-1010	Yum provider ignores specified version in some circumstances
	CHEF-707	Change "gid" to "group" for the User Resource
	CHEF-964	Adding a bad role name to run list breaks everything for that node.
	CHEF-968	Chef rest should be more flexible with user keys and headers
	CHEF-1005	knife cookbook upload should support a list of multiple cookbooks
	CHEF-992	A node created with a role that did not exist can not be edited or deleted
	CHEF-994	chef no longer requires ruby-hmac
	CHEF-714	yum with a absolute path should try localinstall and honor option settings
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type
	CHEF-1012	knife help text needs a scrub for accuracy and consistent formatting

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.8.4

Release announcement

Version 0.8.4 (4 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-996	CA key not properly protected
	CHEF-1003	Cookbook Uploading does not contain an X-Chef-Version
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.8.2

Release announcement

Version 0.8.2 (208 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-219	Attribute files need include_attribute
	CHEF-328	CRUD Cookbooks via API
	CHEF-491	Should suport SSL verification
	CHEF-505	Nested Roles
	CHEF-539	User Accounts
	CHEF-540	Allow association of user accounts with OpenIDs
	CHEF-542	Cookbook Uploading
	CHEF-555	Default adapter for chef-server merb should be thin instead of mongrel
	CHEF-573	Add a verbose setting to allow logging to a TTY
	CHEF-598	Upstart service provider
	CHEF-607	cookbook loader doesn't get attributes in correct order
	CHEF-642	Services will always issue a WARN when status is not present
	CHEF-639	git resource fails on subsequent checkouts of the same repostiry
	CHEF-661	mixlib-authentication not available on apt.opscode.com
	CHEF-666	Chef should have separate Rabbitmq users for "nanite" and "mapper" roles
	CHEF-670	knife should be smarter about the command line arguments
	CHEF-680	When rake upload_cookbooks fails, it leaves behind a tempdir that causes the next run to fail
	CHEF-696	Cache file checksums
	CHEF-698	Validate JSON in the Web UI
	CHEF-703	chef search: make the default always be to iterate over the results
	CHEF-704	Ruby block device does not have a default action
	CHEF-708	add data bags support to Chef DSL
	CHEF-705	chef-repo with rake install should update roles via the api
	CHEF-710	knife fails silently if you lack the EDITOR env var
	CHEF-728	Data bags could be Mash, not Hash
	CHEF-737	Starting chef-server with '-c2' fails to create a couch database
	CHEF-740	debian package for nanite
	CHEF-742	Cron provider hangs installing new crontab
	CHEF-741	Web UI allows creation of a user with no name
	CHEF-744	rake upload_cookbook and upload_cookbooks tasks should complain when run from the wrong location.
	CHEF-747	webui needs a binary so you can run the slice outside of git
	CHEF-748	chef-server-webui - config.ru and bin script
	CHEF-749	cache is not maintained with run_list; so we load items from the cache that are no longer set to run in the run_list
	CHEF-758	Webui prints generated keys with spaces and not newlines
	CHEF-760	Use AMQP drivers directly for indexing queues
	CHEF-762	chef-solr gem builds from chef root but doesn't include the lib dir
	CHEF-759	Package bunny for debian + ubuntu
	CHEF-764	webui crashes when attributes are Fixnum
	CHEF-765	when creating a user in the web-ui, it causes an indexer failure to occur in solr and thus users never get indexed.
	CHEF-777	hostnames with an _ in it, create 2 node entry's and then fail during a chef-client run
	CHEF-787	Make bunny DFSG-free
	CHEF-799	remote_directory does not work
	CHEF-806	knife refactored should show all the sub commands with --help
	CHEF-811	knife subcommand options are invalid, not processed
	CHEF-809	man page for knife
	CHEF-808	Rakefile for mixlib-authentication uses obsolete cucumber task syntax
	CHEF-812	file backup permissions less secure than file
	CHEF-824	The WebUI is not detecting thin
	CHEF-832	chef-solr does not install any binaries what so ever.
	CHEF-858	Provider detection broken if Resource type and Provider name matches
	CHEF-855	ruby-openid required by chef-server-webui, and missing in rakefile
	CHEF-856	knife configure should allow you to create a new api user
	CHEF-860	chef-web-ui status button shows 500 error
	CHEF-864	Unable to reindex chef via knife or chef-solr-rebuild
	CHEF-879	knife data bag show groups fails ... with something like undefined method `keys' for ["http://localhost:4000/data/groups/sysadmin"]:Array
	CHEF-898	chef-solr-indexer needs to depend on uuidtools
	CHEF-902	mixlib-authentication fails to generate SHA1
	CHEF-900	security vulnerability in 0.8 webui
	CHEF-912	deep_merge should be a Chef::Mixin
	CHEF-919	chef-server-webui requires merb-param-protection but rakefile doesn't list it.
	CHEF-916	on chef-server startup, webui_user.rb:203:in `create_design_document': uninitialized constant Chef::Couchdb (NameError)
	CHEF-918	chef-solo fails to download remote recipes because application/solo.rb no longer uses open-uri
	CHEF-921	Remove deprecated gem dependencies
	CHEF-935	chef-server-webui data bag item editing is broken
	CHEF-951	update redhat distro files for 0.8
	CHEF-974	undefined chef_server_rest
	CHEF-975	client.pem is mode 644 by default
	CHEF-989	Search for client in the webui returns 404 when trying to show the client in the search result
	CHEF-530	chef-client daemon dies with segfault
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-623	Nodes are able to be created without names
	CHEF-537	Authenticate Signed API Requests
	CHEF-601	Extend metadata spec based on wiki comments
	CHEF-681	500 error when trying to retrieve a file w/o a default dir
	CHEF-688	Deploy revision strategy does not fetch tags
	CHEF-695	No backups kept if backup is set to 1
	CHEF-756	Specifying the run list for instance data with knife should ignore commas
	CHEF-774	Chef-server does not log anything to server.log
	CHEF-822	Web UI differentiates between "user not found" and "wrong password"
	CHEF-120	OpenID auth bits should default to HTTPS
	CHEF-136	bad permissions on search_indexes files hangs chef-server
	CHEF-209	make use of Joshua Sierles's thorfile for recipe management
	CHEF-291	No high-level cookbook endpoint in REST API
	CHEF-358	Refactor the REST API
	CHEF-417	Add rake task to update roles in running server.
	CHEF-438	Chef::Provider::Execute doesn't honor user attribute for not_if/only_if
	CHEF-440	Running chef-client with a JSON file should override the node's run_list on server
	CHEF-447	Zypper provider - suse support
	CHEF-454	Centos4 yum provider failure
	CHEF-470	role attribute deep merge only goes one level deep
	CHEF-474	Switch chef-server syntax highlighting to coderay
	CHEF-536	Add server side key-pair creation
	CHEF-538	Allow for the creation of API Clients
	CHEF-543	Web UI should call the API exclusively
	CHEF-551	erl_call provider
	CHEF-576	provider for python easy_install
	CHEF-584	launching chef-client init script hangs chef-solo
	CHEF-629	Users *must* be able to set the action on the SCM resource used by deploy
	CHEF-635	Portage incorrectly detects currently installed packages
	CHEF-643	Fix CHEF-570, as it doesn't catch package -revisions
	CHEF-644	Shebang lines should respect user's ruby
	CHEF-645	cd to /tmp breaks merb bootloader in features
	CHEF-650	Freebsd and Yum package shortcut resources don't exist
	CHEF-659	UI expands some escaped characters from JSON, then fails to encode them again
	CHEF-668	cron resource seems to always run for non-numeric time entries
	CHEF-684	Should be possible for roles to be created without anything in the run_list
	CHEF-687	shef: irb/REPL mode for chef
	CHEF-693	Nodes should auto-expand
	CHEF-694	role override and default attributes don't get indexed
	CHEF-697	Cookbook metadata does not convert booleans to "required" or "optional" on ruby 1.8.7 as shown by spec failures
	CHEF-699	solo and client modes in shef
	CHEF-706	mount provider fails to mount samba/cifs devices (Device does not exist)
	CHEF-725	'rake gem' fails calling 'rake package' on chef-solr
	CHEF-753	chef server slice should finish activating
	CHEF-755	"knife create_client" could accept :admin option
	CHEF-766	Chef should print the error message generated by the Chef Server when an HTTP Exception occurs
	CHEF-775	if a client has a hostname with an _ such as hasoffers_3.adappsolutions.com it gets truncated improperly and mangled into hasoffers.3.adappsolutions.com and then returns a 403 during chef-client run
	CHEF-776	users and groups for mac os x
	CHEF-800	The response from /search contains nil in some situations while the Chef::Search::Query library tries to process every result even it's nil
	CHEF-805	Deploy resource's scm_provider should accept a short string/symbol as name instead of a fully qualified class name
	CHEF-801	Deprecated dependencies in chef-server
	CHEF-807	SVN provider uses undefined local variables to create an error message, obscuring the true cause of the error
	CHEF-813	Spec failure: 'Chef::Application::Knife run should exit 2 if run without a sub command' actually returns 1
	CHEF-814	Spec failure: 'Chef::Application::Knife run should exit 2 if run without a sub command' actually returns 1
	CHEF-818	rake install: no longer require sudo
	CHEF-826	rest fails with an obscure error if node_name is not determinable
	CHEF-837	Delayed actions excute in unpredicatable order
	CHEF-841	knife keeps trying to upload a cookbook despite HTTP 401
	CHEF-854	shef executable needs to be added to the gemspec
	CHEF-859	route provider will incorrectly configures centos/rhel networking
	CHEF-865	Implement retry logic when making server requests
	CHEF-866	@node and node should be available in attributes
	CHEF-870	does not close stderr when daemonising
	CHEF-873	Template provider doesn't respect the template resource's cookbook option
	CHEF-877	fix :default and :required in lwrp
	CHEF-882	slowdown due to debugging in ruby_block provider
	CHEF-880	chef-server-api should require admin privileges to update data bag items
	CHEF-897	package provider does not tell you about which package is the cause of problems
	CHEF-904	"Could not create work tree dir" on chef deploy
	CHEF-906	chef-server-webui refers to JSONeditor which doesn't exist
	CHEF-908	Indexer fails on node properties that have invalid XML character sequences
	CHEF-922	knife ssh should accept -a ec2.public_hostname
	CHEF-927	Override and Default attributes get clobbered at recipe load time
	CHEF-931	deep_merge mixin spits out a warning
	CHEF-932	git provider fetch strategy will not get all updates
	CHEF-936	chef no longer requires deep_merge gem
	CHEF-937	chef-server-api and Chef::Solr::Query bans queries for api_users
	CHEF-943	add section for knife ssh to man page
	CHEF-944	chef-solr needs LICENSE information
	CHEF-948	pacman provider / resource - archlinux support
	CHEF-949	service daemons - archlinux support
	CHEF-956	Embed the Chef::VERSION as X-Chef-Version in HTTP requests
	CHEF-957	arch as platform - archlinux support
	CHEF-969	Api client should expect 409 not 403 in save when one with same name already exists
	CHEF-971	Changes to webui error handling
	CHEF-970	Need both class and instance methods for chef_server_rest
	CHEF-977	`knife configure` should prompt for validation_client name and validation_key
	CHEF-978	Knife should not show HTTP Request Returned 404 Not Found: Cannot load node foo as WARN when the node gets created successfully
	CHEF-677	Webui users object (for login)
	CHEF-390	Software raid provider
	CHEF-406	typos in specs, fix resulting failures
	CHEF-444	document using the chef-server API from a script using 'knife' as an example
	CHEF-616	rake install in chef-repo breaks if there is no git origin
	CHEF-617	Install to chef repository on a remote machine
	CHEF-626	Template Context should have a #node method so users don't have to remember to use @node
	CHEF-634	UI fails silently when unable to save node
	CHEF-633	HTTP Request uses Chef::REST incorrectly
	CHEF-647	Deploy resource should always run symlinks before migrate.
	CHEF-646	Enable Chef::Provider::Cron under FreeBSD
	CHEF-654	chef-client -j against a self signed cert fails
	CHEF-656	0.8 Integration tests should setup Vhosts and users for nanite
	CHEF-657	Deploy with revision strategey did not clean up cache on rollback
	CHEF-664	libxml required but not a gem dependency
	CHEF-671	SCM providers should be able to specify the group
	CHEF-667	Specs run really slooooow because of ohai
	CHEF-673	uuidtools gem is required with a silent rescue and not dependend on by chef server
	CHEF-676	redhat init script update
	CHEF-709	Support for backup up files in another directory than the original file
	CHEF-713	missing alias for rpm_package (and probably also freebsd_package, yum_package)
	CHEF-723	creating ssl-certs with fqdn "*.example.com" should name w/ wildcard instead of *
	CHEF-722	Link provider doesn't understand paths requiring expansion
	CHEF-732	Remove references to chef-indexer
	CHEF-734	LWRP resources should look for provider named same by default
	CHEF-736	chef-solr gem rake install task does not use sudo
	CHEF-750	Refactor the caching code so logic for what gets cached and why is wrapped in a class
	CHEF-754	Chef::Config.cookbook_path is in reverse order of override application
	CHEF-769	knife should be able to specify the config file location
	CHEF-779	rake upload_cookbook shouldn't try to upload cookbooks that don't exist in the local repo
	CHEF-796	Change to mixlib-log breaks Chef::Log.level() usage
	CHEF-815	knife cookbook upload fails when cookbooks are in an SVN repo
	CHEF-840	client admin field should be checkbox not text box
	CHEF-843	FileEdit permission issues
	CHEF-850	rake spec in 'chef' project tries to create directory /new/home/adam
	CHEF-881	make :name_attribute work in lwrp
	CHEF-896	file_backup_path include prefix in log output
	CHEF-901	If a role is deleted, any nodes that had that role can not be edited or deleted with the webgui
	CHEF-928	deep_merge issues with empty strings
	CHEF-929	typo in provider/deploy/revision causes rescue from StandardError instead of Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound
	CHEF-934	chef-server's old gemspec is still in the source tree
	CHEF-980	BULK DELETE (cookbook/node/client/role) defaults to deleting everything
	CHEF-990	bulk deletes are not spec tested for clients, cookbooks, or roles
	CHEF-638	Deploy with a revision should make that revision current if it already exists
	CHEF-1432	metadata.rb does not accept symbol as an attribute type
	CHEF-374	drop outdated contrib/
	CHEF-731	Add a screenrc to start a chef environment in screen
	CHEF-825	The WebUI is a little excited about wanting you to change the password and gramatically off
	CHEF-842	duplicate copies of FileEdit: file_edit.rb & fileedit.rb
	CHEF-851	specs leave a /tmp/foo directory lying around

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.7.16

Release announcement

Version 0.7.16 (6 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-812	file backup permissions less secure than file
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-686	chef-{server,client,indexer} creating world writable files and directories
	CHEF-859	route provider will incorrectly configures centos/rhel networking
	CHEF-882	slowdown due to debugging in ruby_block provider
	CHEF-923	Chef "Log" resource

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.7.14

Version 0.7.14 (19 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-591	if service doesn't have a status command, process table inspection fails in simple service provider
	CHEF-603	deploy: gems.yml support
	CHEF-604	deploy: sudo / run command handler support
	CHEF-628	Deploy resource removes newest release instead of oldest
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-602	in deploy provider, callback-defined resources are executed in all subsequent callbacks
	CHEF-640	SCM providers do not set resource updated (notifications)
	CHEF-570	Portage package provider uses wrong regexp in load_current_resource
	CHEF-577	provider.rb doesn't give @definitions a default value of Hash.new, causing epic fail in resource DSL
	CHEF-588	RC is missing debugging info in find_preferred_file
	CHEF-593	deploy resource is not idempotent
	CHEF-614	LWRP undefined local variable or method `new_resource'
	CHEF-619	Mixlib-* gems installed from gemcutter.org have too restrictive permissions
	CHEF-859	route provider will incorrectly configures centos/rhel networking
	CHEF-565	dpkg provider fails at packages with a dash in it, causing packages to be re-installed on every chef run
	CHEF-622	Gem Package resource/provider shouldn't silently ignore the options attribute
	CHEF-621	LWRP dynamic attribute methods are Ruby 1.9 incompatible and cause warnings in 1.8
	CHEF-620	LWRP components should be shown in Web UI
	CHEF-631	Should create LWRP resources/providers for new_cookbook

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.7.12

Version 0.7.12 (22 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-293	Chef breaks on systems with non-English Locales
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-544	Service provider fails to set @new_resource.updated
	CHEF-145	Cron resource: add support for setting cron environment variables like MAILTO or PATH
	CHEF-419	Create SCM resource and providers for git & svn
	CHEF-496	add simple service provider to chef
	CHEF-501	Fails to follow notification chains
	CHEF-534	remove execute permissions from javascripts, images, etc.
	CHEF-546	Make couchdb version switcher 0.8 specific, and use the new format for everything else.
	CHEF-559	distro/ should be under 'chef' dir and packaged w/ gem.
	CHEF-560	refactor Chef::Provider::Group::Groupadd
	CHEF-562	typo in provider/ifconfig.rb
	CHEF-571	LWRP unit tests
	CHEF-569	Remote File causes updates to be sent regardless of idempotency
	CHEF-578	Lots of files/subdirectories in a remote_directory cause most chef requests to take 11.5 seconds, and the merb process goes up to 100% CPU
	CHEF-582	group resource should allow users or members as a parameter
	CHEF-503	cookbooks UI should display the relative path of the template
	CHEF-547	remote_file not computing+comparing checksums before doing work
	CHEF-561	Flexible application layouts for deploy resource and provider
	CHEF-566	Deploy resource/provider callbacks for before_migrate, &etc. should support in-line recipes
	CHEF-580	faster find_preferred_file
	CHEF-568	Increase logging for Remote File status, including checksummation.

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.7.10

Version 0.7.10 (17 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-481	0.7.6 breaks Centos5
	CHEF-492	Attributes aren't quite hash enough to fool variables() method in templates
	CHEF-515	chef-server needs to be compatible with couchdb 0.10.0
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-287	chef client logging to file only dumps periodically
	CHEF-362	regression: mixlib-config 1.0.10 breaks log_location= override
	CHEF-449	use the basename of the target path as the default for the template, remote_file and remote_directory sources
	CHEF-476	merb-slices gem not installed with new chef server install on ubuntu 9.0.4
	CHEF-488	When installing a gem_package, the version parameter needs to be quoted
	CHEF-493	Alias set_unless with "default" in attributes.rb
	CHEF-494	Multiple roles' default_attributes are not merged correctly on the node
	CHEF-497	Status page fails to work under ruby 1.8.5
	CHEF-500	server.rb log_location truncation take two
	CHEF-509	add man pages, initscripts and other goods from packaging efforts
	CHEF-512	Update chef config for pending mixlib-config config_attr_writer fix
	CHEF-525	Spec failures in node/attribute_spec.rb
	CHEF-524	Chef::Platform.find_provider_for_node is always used to get an instance of the provider (code duplication)

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.7.8

Version 0.7.8 (17 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-484	Method Missing attribute lookups don't honour auto vivify on read.
	CHEF-477	Walking an attribute with .each when it is deeply nested and has no defaults or overrides causes an exception
	CHEF-483	Chef::Node::Attribute.should behave_like_a(Hash)
	CHEF-486	Attributes added from an attribute file can unneccessarily block run list expansion
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-482	Nested hashes loaded from JSON don't act like nested hashes
	CHEF-269	remote_file fails if URL contains % characters
	CHEF-319	chef-server should support connecting to an admin-only couchdb server
	CHEF-431	ChefServerSlice::OpenidServer#index should treat content_type as a symbol
	CHEF-430	Add support for HTTP Basic Authentication to Chef::REST
	CHEF-432	chef-server-slice views should use slice_url instead of url
	CHEF-439	service resource - inherited file handle weirdness
	CHEF-472	Output logging is very choppy
	CHEF-473	attribute setting issue in 0.7.6
	CHEF-475	chef-repo should have a roles directory with chef upgrade from blog post
	CHEF-474	Switch chef-server syntax highlighting to coderay
	CHEF-479	Attribute setting issue in 0.7.6 - wrong saved names?

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.7.6

Version 0.7.6 (30 issues)
Type	Key	Summary
	CHEF-411	When a recipe is in the run_list and included, it may be run twice
	CHEF-436	Default attributes from a role should not be written into the role's nodes
	CHEF-465	chef-solo tries to get templates from localhost:4000
	CHEF-467	chef-server web ui doesn't load assets properly with 0.7.5
	CHEF-1337	Chef is too 1337 4 u
	CHEF-410	Be able to have major, minor, revision for metadata version.
	CHEF-87	File specificity (preferred file) is broken by dotfiles
	CHEF-274	Add support for multiple named queues on a single stompserver
	CHEF-357	groupmod error with chef (0.6.2)
	CHEF-371	Link provider will not delete symbolic link if target does not exist
	CHEF-394	Last Check-in is only updated on the first run of chef-client, but not on later runs
	CHEF-395	Splay time should be applied before the first run, not after
	CHEF-407	CHEF-308 breaks mount provider remote filesystem usage
	CHEF-409	run_list specified in json doesn't run the file caching step before trying to find recipes
	CHEF-413	why did chef gem get so big?
	CHEF-415	Error message clarity when a registration exists for the same hostname but the local secret doesn't exist / match
	CHEF-416	API roles, search integration features have failing steps
	CHEF-414	add symlink owner/group support
	CHEF-418	Update readme for new integration tests
	CHEF-423	gentoo service provider enable action always runs for long service names
	CHEF-458	File Cache stub missing
	CHEF-463	chef-solo and chef-client should display the version with --version (and optionally, -v)
	CHEF-373	include specs in chef gem
	CHEF-406	typos in specs, fix resulting failures
	CHEF-420	Decouple usage of -s from -i
	CHEF-433	rake install should not copy .git files in addition to .svn
	CHEF-437	if manage_home is set to true but no home is set then home dir becomes -m
	CHEF-448	allow a default URL definition in client.rb
	CHEF-400	Chef::Application#fatal! should log output to STDERR aswell, so errors are more plain
	CHEF-427	Minor cleanup of JSON Attribute editor

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.7.4

Bug

• [CHEF-388] - rake task new_cookbook generates empty version metadata
• [CHEF-399] - Unit test fixes and 100% CPU bug
• [CHEF-401] - After Install Phusion throws a Runtime Error because of the log file
• [CHEF-402] - Weird characters on the bottom of status page
• [CHEF-403] - Capitals in authorized_open_id_identifiers
• [CHEF-404] - openid consumer only valid for http://authorized_openid_identifier/

Improvement

• [CHEF-363] - we should kick out logged in openids if they become unauthorized

New Feature

• [CHEF-381] - Ruby Block Resource

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.7.2

Bug

• [CHEF-166] - chef-server-slice rake install does not pick up merb-core dependency correctly
• [CHEF-299] - chef client running under runit does not restart
• [CHEF-348] - chef-server-slice version isn't tied to chef-server when loaded
• [CHEF-355] - Test chef::rest, chef::couchdb for remote DoS due to BigDecimal
• [CHEF-359] - Using chef-server-slice results in exceptions.rb "superclass mismatch for class Exceptions"
• [CHEF-360] - rake tasks should copy roles
• [CHEF-362] - undefined method `sync=' for "/var/log/chef/server.log":String (NoMethodError)
• [CHEF-367] - node run_list is empty when running chef-client with a json file specifying run_list
• [CHEF-369] - chef-indexer pid and permissions
• [CHEF-372] - chef-client and chef-solo will fail to run ohai if the node_name is explicitly configured.
• [CHEF-376] - Roles don't save.
• [CHEF-383] - Cookies have limit of 4K.
• [CHEF-386] - 'rake roles' doesn't update json files from ruby files
• [CHEF-387] - deleting a role generates a 500 error in the web interface
• [CHEF-396] - 4k cookie limit with nginx+passenger

Improvement

• [CHEF-361] - Init service provider currently doesn't start a service when the 'restart' action is called if the service is not already running.
• [CHEF-363] - we should kick out logged in openids if they become unauthorized
• [CHEF-368] - Chef README in the GitHub repo is outdated!
• [CHEF-370] - prettify /status view of uptime
• [CHEF-373] - include specs in chef gem
• [CHEF-374] - drop outdated contrib/

New Feature

• [CHEF-381] - Ruby Block Resource

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.7.0

Bug

• [CHEF-178] - remote_directory not supported in chef-solo
• [CHEF-187] - Mount Resource should handle LABEL and UUID
• [CHEF-242] - activesupport conflicts with to_json in node.rb
• [CHEF-245] - chef/provider/user/useradd.rb should only add -m to command line if home directory is being modified
• [CHEF-253] - chef-server-slice on centos 5.3 incompatibility with merb-core and ruby 1.8.5
• [CHEF-259] - redhat service provider - correct use of chkconfig
• [CHEF-260] - yum provider remove_package without version broken
• [CHEF-261] - yum provider depends on 'json' which is not available for Python 2.4
• [CHEF-271] - rpm packaging - executable examples
• [CHEF-276] - server.rb log_location truncation
• [CHEF-280] - recipes evaluated twice
• [CHEF-281] - Locale isn't set properly during package installation on Ubuntu 8.10 (at least)
• [CHEF-283] - "registrations" should be "registration's"
• [CHEF-295] - chef-indexer throws fatal exception when processing index/remove messages
• [CHEF-296] - limiting openid providers variable consistency
• [CHEF-297] - Failing specs for portage provider
• [CHEF-310] - yum provider - YumCache - refresh logic
• [CHEF-312] - FreeBSD user and group provider broken by CHEF-220
• [CHEF-320] - roles creation fails with an `each' nil:NilClass error
• [CHEF-330] - Chef::Config[:solo] not being set in Solo runs
• [CHEF-331] - user provider - useradd.rb :manage_home confusion
• [CHEF-335] - dpkg_package resource does not work
• [CHEF-336] - Error when no tags set in create REST call
• [CHEF-339] - log file should be a string, got: #<IO:0x7f0db9a68ad8>
• [CHEF-342] - chef-server's config.ru should include the server config file
• [CHEF-344] - gem_package resources failing to install packages
• [CHEF-345] - chef-client doesn't automatically read /etc/chef/client.rb anymore
• [CHEF-350] - chef-solo json attributes aren't loaded
• [CHEF-353] - .rake_test_cache gets corrupt

Improvement

• [CHEF-116] - Require authentication for the entire Chef Server
• [CHEF-122] - Notifies should be able to send different actions to different resources, perhaps through a hash
• [CHEF-151] - Refactor application CLI logic to a seperate class so it can be tested
• [CHEF-215] - Speedup of package provider (at least, for Gentoo)
• [CHEF-225] - Routing provider needs extended to manage configuration files
• [CHEF-243] - Search results in recipes & chef server return a flattened hash. It should return, or be able to return, a non-flattened hash, with all field names intact.
• [CHEF-251] - chef-server should run from gems without requiring config file modifications within the gem directories.
• [CHEF-268] - Config files should be able to be passed into chef-client as http resources
• [CHEF-272] - include contrib/ in gems
• [CHEF-288] - service resource - supports and custom stop/start/etc commands
• [CHEF-302] - chef-server authentication requirement should link to information on securing openid
• [CHEF-317] - Last Check in relative time ago
• [CHEF-323] - yum provider - improve failure output
• [CHEF-325] - cookbook not found error message is not helpful for metadata uptake
• [CHEF-327] - Package providers shoud have an options attribute to pass verbatin to underlying commands
• [CHEF-329] - more useradd home directory fun
• [CHEF-332] - Deleting a node via the web-ui pops up an error message, though the deletion is successful
• [CHEF-346] - Update 0.7.0 for new rake task to test templates and cache tests
• [CHEF-347] - cleanup - chef/provider/remote_directory.rb do_recursive_old
• [CHEF-354] - chef-repo should have config/chef_upgrade.json

New Feature

• [CHEF-131] - Add a flag to chef-client to re-read JSON attribute file each time it wakes up (in conjunction with daemonization/interval)
• [CHEF-220] - Interface Provider
• [CHEF-226] - the group resource doesn't allow you to add or remove users from the group, just explicitly set them.
• [CHEF-232] - determine if a recipe has been seen / included on a node
• [CHEF-265] - Add support for MacPorts on OS X as a package provider
• [CHEF-275] - Cookbook Meta-data Generator
• [CHEF-284] - Role support
• [CHEF-306] - We should only ship the set of cookbooks needed to build a node to the edge
• [CHEF-337] - Update skeleton repository for Chef 0.7.0

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.6.2

Bug

• [CHEF-255] - chef-client doesn't respect interval and stay running in foreground.
• [CHEF-257] - Rake test does not execute tests against the site-cookbooks directory
• [CHEF-277] - chef-solo should be able to use cookbook_path from config file

Improvement

• [CHEF-156] - chef-client and chef-solo should accept a URL for the -j switch
• [CHEF-249] - can I has open-uri supported "-j http://blah.com/some.json" for chef-solo/client?
• [CHEF-258] - gem_package doesn't allow you to point at a custom gem binary outside of your $PATH

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.6.0

Bug

• [CHEF-134] - User IDs and GIDs with negative numbers cause a type exception
• [CHEF-162] - delayed notifications should coalesce so they don't run multiple times
• [CHEF-163] - remote_file not working on head, 404 due to missing route
• [CHEF-164] - Slice routing changes break remote file provider
• [CHEF-169] - Detect and use new view URL's for CouchDB 0.9.0 compatability
• [CHEF-171] - Package name with a dash in it is not recognised
• [CHEF-173] - With debug logging level set long running commands do not show their output in real time
• [CHEF-174] - directory mode not set correctly
• [CHEF-175] - Install instructions on wiki don't work
• [CHEF-182] - Chef::Exception masks ::Exception (see OHAI-79)
• [CHEF-185] - file delete backs up links
• [CHEF-186] - file delete fails if file does not exist
• [CHEF-188] - Merb dependencies for both the server app and slice need to be updated to 1.0.10
• [CHEF-190] - apt provider fails on non-English debian installations
• [CHEF-195] - The backup attribute for File needlessly creates a backup then deletes it when set to 0
• [CHEF-198] - chef-solo banner
• [CHEF-206] - chef-server-slice rake install fails
• [CHEF-207] - chef-server and chef-server-slice should require merb > 1.0, not specific versions
• [CHEF-218] - Search indexes are broken due to missing route
• [CHEF-222] - CouchDB 0.9 compat causes the client to attempt a connection to the CouchDB server (while instantiating a node object)
• [CHEF-227] - Delete operation of Search Index is not working
• [CHEF-228] - chef-server under passenger: Controller class not found for controller `registrations'
• [CHEF-230] - remote_file with a url should include a type of hash option to verify the downloaded file is what we expected
• [CHEF-237] - Apt provider won't install msttcorefonts
• [CHEF-238] - Commands with over 4k of output will block forever
• [CHEF-244] - Chef server no longer checks openid's against the authorized_openid_identifiers configuration

Improvement

• [CHEF-54] - chef-server should be a merb slice
• [CHEF-129] - Implement pilu's web-app-theme for chef-server
• [CHEF-148] - cookbook naming and routing
• [CHEF-153] - Allow access to a list of OpenID's via configration.
• [CHEF-159] - CookbookLoader#load_cascading_files uses Dir.glob(array) syntax, which is unavailable on RHEL and Centos
• [CHEF-167] - chef-server-slice rake install requires sudo
• [CHEF-172] - In FreeBSD package provider simplify source parameter "magic" by using PKGNAME in ports Makefile
• [CHEF-177] - Where multiple ports have the same name allow path to ports to be given
• [CHEF-192] - speed up yum provider
• [CHEF-200] - fixes from centos packaging attempt
• [CHEF-210] - enterprise linux init scripts and configs
• [CHEF-213] - Fixing typos in the code
• [CHEF-214] - On Gentoo, services always support the :status command, so enable it by default
• [CHEF-246] - Should be clearer what tags are attached to a node
• [CHEF-247] - Let chef-server and chef-client compare checksums in bulk rather than one at a time.

New Feature

• [CHEF-78] - Add a mixin for parsing a file and replacing lines
• [CHEF-176] - Chef status page that displays basic info about each chef managed node
• [CHEF-191] - Enable optional CouchDB storage for OpenID associations and nonces
• [CHEF-216] - Allow execute/script resources to set umask

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.5.2

Bug

• [CHEF-28] - Rendering error when editing a node
• [CHEF-34] - Failing unit test on OS X
• [CHEF-36] - Default @action for http_request is :create instead of :get
• [CHEF-37] - Chef Solo does not obey the file selection laws
• [CHEF-38] - Unabled to delete nodes from the Node page
• [CHEF-41] - Chef Solo tells lies about being able to --noop
• [CHEF-43] - service provider lacks action_none
• [CHEF-44] - Chef will block forever reading IO, even on processes that don't play nicely with their filehandles
• [CHEF-52] - Chef traces miserably if ohai fails to provide it with a hostname
• [CHEF-57] - Permission denied when using bash resource and a non-root uid
• [CHEF-60] - Teach chef about the debian platform
• [CHEF-62] - portage provider should support both fully qualified package names and non prefixed package names
• [CHEF-70] - Clicking on certain recipes within Chef Server (chef-server 1.0.8.1) Web UI results in error 500
• [CHEF-75] - Badly behaved children block all IO

Improvement

• [CHEF-11] - Templates should be cached once
• [CHEF-29] - Group provider needs to be able to manage group members
• [CHEF-30] - Link should be more intuitive
• [CHEF-49] - Chef should be able to manipulate cron jobs
• [CHEF-55] - Service resource needs Gentoo providers
• [CHEF-56] - Service resource needs Redhat providers

New Feature

• [CHEF-35] - http_request should allow a block for the message, which will get evaluated when the request is sent
• [CHEF-46] - route provider for adding and deleting routes
• [CHEF-53] - support for freebsd pkg_*
• [CHEF-58] - Support for rc.d services in freebsd
• [CHEF-61] - Added Cron provider support for gentoo in platform.rb
• [CHEF-66] - Create registrations via REST easily

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.5.1

Bug

• [CHEF-3] - Require chef loads everything
• [CHEF-7] - Remote File tests failing after Solo updates
• [CHEF-10] - Remove Chef::FileStore in favor of Chef::FileCache
• [CHEF-12] - spec_helper causes bogus Constant redefinition
• [CHEF-16] - Search and SearchIndex are only used by the Chef Server, but they live in Chef Client
• [CHEF-18] - Search index does not understand nested hashes
• [CHEF-22] - templates aren't created / found in the cache and execution aborts

Improvement

• [CHEF-6] - Chef should require Ohai, not Facter
• [CHEF-21] - Chef::Daemon needs unit tests
• [CHEF-27] - No longer use MD5 anywhere - no sleep till SHA-256

New Feature

• [CHEF-1] - Group Support
• [CHEF-5] - Documentation for Service Providers/Resources
• [CHEF-8] - Add sugar for a Tag attribute on the nodes
• [CHEF-9] - Chef Client should Daemonize, schedule, and splay
• [CHEF-25] - http_request resource and provider
• [CHEF-26] - When you have a resource with the same name, it should inherit the pre-existing resources attributes