CHANGELOG.md

chef-client Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the chef-client cookbook.

v3.7.0 (2014-08-13)

• remove dependency on ruby-wmi which breaks chef 11.14.2

v3.6.0 (2014-06-07)

• [COOK-3465] Switch Fedora to using systemd

v3.5.0 (2014-05-07)

• [COOK-4594] - 'Found chef-client in' log resource
• Add Windows support to README

v3.4.0 (2014-04-09)

• [COOK-4521] - support Ohai 7 syntax for disabling plugins
• [COOK-4505] - kill -9 chef-client when stopping vis SMF

v3.3.8 (2014-03-18)

• [COOK-4430] can't rotate chef-client's logs

v3.3.6 (2014-03-18)

• [COOK-4432] Use SSL verification by default when talking to HEC

v3.3.4 (2014-03-12)

• [COOK-4101] - Support ENV['https_proxy']

v3.3.3 (2014-02-27)

[COOK-4338] - chef-client Upstart job starts too early

v3.3.2 (2014-02-25)

Fixing merge conflict in launchd_service

v3.3.0 (2014-02-25)

Bug

• COOK-4286 - Cleanup the Kitchen
• COOK-4242 - Add Fedora 19 support to chef-client::cron
• COOK-4151 - Runit should set locale
• COOK-4127 - add mailto support for cron runs
• COOK-4038 - Don't define CHEF_SERVER_USER constant if already defined

New Feature

• COOK-4169 - Add the possibility to specify "options" for the required-gems installation procedure in the chef-client cookbook

Improvement

• COOK-4159 - turn down "Found chef-client in #{client_bin}" messages to :debug level
• COOK-3896 - launchd_service recipe should use Gem::Requirement instead of Chef::VersionConstraint

v3.2.2 (2014-01-26)

[COOK-4092] Add KeepAlive so that launchd will "daemonize" chef-client

v3.2.0

Bug

• COOK-3885 - launchd_service template missing client_bin
• COOK-3874 - COOK-3492 patch breaks server_test.rb
• COOK-3848 - allow disable splay
• Fixing up style to pass most rubocops
• Updating test-kitchen harness

v3.1.2

Bug

• COOK-4113 - chef-client::smf_service breaks permissions on /lib/svc/method

v3.1.0

Bug

• COOK-3638 - Use standard posix shell /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash
• COOK-3637 - Fix typo in README
• COOK-3501 - Notify reload :immediately when client.rb template is changed
• COOK-3492 - Test upstart on CentOS

New Feature

• COOK-3500 - Rotate logs on supported platforms if 'log_file' is set

Improvement

• COOK-1863 - Install chef-client as a Windows Service

v3.0.6

Bug

• COOK-3373 - Provide full syslog custom config example in README
• COOK-3301 - Fix MiniTest Cron Recipe
• COOK-3300 - Allow environment variables (not require)
• COOK-3276 - Use node.default instead of node.set
• COOK-3227 - Fix misnamed attribute
• COOK-3104 - Update .kitchen.yml to properly set environment_variables

v3.0.4

Bug

• [COOK-3159]: don't skip directory creation on Windows

v3.0.2

Bug

• [COOK-3157]: correct root group detection for Windows

v3.0.0

Sub-task

• [COOK-1002]: chef-client service is not started for init_style = init
• [COOK-1191]: chef-client cookbook doesn't log to /var/log/chef/client.log when using init_style runit
• [COOK-2319]: The service recipe has too many lines of code
• [COOK-2344]: chef-client config should preserve log settings
• [COOK-2651]: The cron task fails to disable and stop service if the init_style is set to upstart
• [COOK-2709]: chef-client needs explicit dependancy on cron >= 1.2.0
• [COOK-2856]: Use attribute/data driven configuration for /etc/chef/client.rb
• [COOK-2857]: Update chef-client to use runit v1.0+
• [COOK-2858]: support "inclusion" of other Chef Config files in client.rb
• [COOK-3110]: kitchen.yml missing chef-client::config in cook-2317 runlist
• [COOK-3112]: chef_client test cook-1951 fails as provided

Bug

• [COOK-2607]: detect if node is a chef-server and set user/group file ownership correctly
• [COOK-3104]: kitchen.yml file for chef-client doesn't properly set environment_variables

Improvement

• [COOK-2637]: Silence expected errors from which based chef-server checks
• [COOK-2825]: SMF for chef-client should use :kill to stop service

v2.2.4

Bug

• [COOK-2687]: chef-client::service doesn't work on SLES 11
• [COOK-2689]: chef-client service recipe on windows fails to start
• [COOK-2700]: chef-client cookbook should have more splay
• [COOK-2952]: chef-client cookbook has foodcritic failures

Sub-task

• [COOK-2823]: Chef-client SMF manifest should set locale to UTF-8

v2.2.2

• [COOK-2393] - chef-client::delete_validation checks for chef-server in the path, on chef 11, needs to check for chef-server-ctl
• [COOK-2410] - chef-client::service doesn't always start the chef-client daemon
• [COOK-2413] - Deprecation warning when using Chef::Mixin::Language in chef-client cookbook under chef 11.x
• [COOK-2446] - Typo: the chef-client executable has a hyphen
• [COOK-2492] - Ruby System("") call that includes an '&' on Ubuntu has odd behavior.
• [COOK-2536] - On Freebsd - chef-client group values in helper library should be set to "wheel" vs [ "wheel" ]

v2.2.0

• [COOK-2317] - Provide the ability to add disabled ohai plugins in a managed chef config
• [COOK-2255] - Chef-Client Cookbook init.d script under ubuntu

v2.1.10

• [COOK-2316] - Permissions for SMF init type break Solaris 10

v2.1.8

• [COOK-2192] - Add option to use cron_d resource for cron management
• [COOK-2261] - pin runit dependency

v2.1.6

• [COOK-1978] - make cron output location configurable
• [COOK-2169] - use helper library to make path permissions consistent
• [COOK-2170] - test filename cleanup (dev repository only)

v2.1.4

• [COOK-2108] - corrected Chef and Ohai version requirements in README

v2.1.2

• [COOK-2071] - chef-client breaks on value_for_platform_family b/c of unneeded version
• [COOK-2072] - chef-client on mac should not attempt to create directory nil
• [COOK-2086] - Allow the passing of an enviornment variables to node['chef-client']['bin']
• [COOK-2092] - chef-client run fails because quotes in log_path cause File resource to fail

v2.1.0

• [COOK-1755] - Don't delete the validation key on systems that have a 'chef-server' binary in the default $PATH
• [COOK-1898] - Support Handlers and Cache Options with Attributes
• [COOK-1923] - support chef-client::cron on Solaris/SmartOS
• [COOK-1924] - use splay for size of random offset in chef-client::cron
• [COOK-1927] - unknown node[:fqdn] prevents bootstrap if chef-client::cron is in runlist
• [COOK-1951] - Add an attribute for additional daemon options to pass to the chef-client service
• [COOK-2004] - in attributes, "init" style claims to handle fedora, but service.rb missing a clause
• [COOK-2017] - Support alternate chef-client locations in Mac OS X Launchd service plist
• [COOK-2052] - Log files are set to insecure default

v2.0.2

• Remove a stray comma that caused syntax error on some versions of Ruby.

v2.0.0

This version uses platform_family attribute, making the cookbook incompatible with older versions of Chef/Ohai, hence the major version bump.

• [COOK-635] - Allow configuration of path to chef-client binary in init script
• [COOK-985] - set correct permissions on run and log directory for chef-servers using this cookbook
• [COOK-1379] - Register chef-client as a launchd service on Mac OS X (Server)
• [COOK-1574] - config recipe doesn't work on Windows
• [COOK-1586] - add SmartOS support
• [COOK-1633] - chef-client doesn't recognise Oracle Linux, a Redhat family member
• [COOK-1634] - chef-client init is missing for Scientific Linux
• [COOK-1664] - corrected permissions in cron recipe (related to COOK-985)
• [COOK-1729] - support windows task
• [COOK-1788] - init_style upstart only works on Ubuntu
• [COOK-1861] - Minor styling fix for consistency in chef-client
• [COOK-1862] - add name attribute to metadata.rb

v1.2.0

This version of the cookbook also adds minitest and test-kitchen support.

• [COOK-599] - chef-client::config recipe breaks folder permissions of chef-server::rubygems-install recipe on same node
• [COOK-1111] - doesn't work out of the box with knife bootstrap windows
• [COOK-1161] - allow setting log file and environment in client.rb
• [COOK-1203] - allow PATH setting for cron
• [COOK-1254] - service silently fails on ubuntu 12.04 with ruby 1.9.3
• [COOK-1309] - cron recipe expects SANE_PATHS constant
• [COOK-1345] - preformat log location before sending to template
• [COOK-1377] - allow client.rb to require gems
• [COOK-1419] - add init script for SUSE
• [COOK-1463] - Add verbose_logging knob for config recipe, client.rb template
• [COOK-1506] - set an attribute for server_url
• [COOK-1566] - remove random splay for unique sleep number

v1.1.4

• [COOK-599] - don't break folder permissions if chef-server recipe is present

v1.1.2

• [COOK-1039] - support mac_os_x_server

v1.1.0

• [COOK-909] - trigger upstart on correct event
• [COOK-795] - add windows support with winsw
• [COOK-798] - added recipe to run chef-client as a cron job
• [COOK-986] - don't delete the validation.pem if chef-server recipe is detected

v1.0.4

• [COOK-670] - Added Solaris service-installation support for chef-client cookbook.
• [COOK-781] - chef-client service recipe fails with chef 0.9.x

v1.0.2

• [CHEF-2491] init scripts should implement reload

v1.0.0

• [COOK-204] chef::client pid template doesn't match package expectations
• [COOK-491] service config/defaults should not be pulled from Chef gem
• [COOK-525] Tell bluepill to daemonize chef-client command
• [COOK-554] Typo in backup_path
• [COOK-609] chef-client cookbook fails if init_type is set to upstart and chef is installed from deb
• [COOK-635] Allow configuration of path to chef-client binary in init script