In addition to some bug fixes listed here 10.30.0 release includes:
- Includes recently released ruby 1.9.3-p484 fixing a security issue.
- Fixes to the attribute calculation logic:
10.30.0 makes sure that to_hash method is calculating the attributes correctly.
WARNING: 10.30.0 changes the attribute calculation behavior for array values. Prior to 10.30.0 Chef was merging array values of attributes between different precedence levels. In 10.30.0, Chef makes sure that the values from higher precendence levels override the values from lower precendence values.
Eg:
If node had a default value of ["foo", "bar"] and an override value of ["zoo", "bar"] for an attribute;
Prior to Chef 10.30.0 the calculated value would be ["bar", "foo", "zoo"]
With Chef 10.30.0 the calculated value will be ["zoo", "bar"]
NOTE: You can restore the old behavior setting Chef::Config[:deep_merge_array_concat] = false in your client.rb.
- New property on group resource called
:excluded_members.
When set to an array, :excluded_members makes sure that the group does NOT include any of the specified members in the array. It only works when append is set as well.
- File resource now will not checksum the contents when
:sourceor:contentis not present on the resource. This helps in the case when managing the permissions on a large file. - Chef Client can now handle bare IPv6 addresses.
- Chef now includes a new resource called
whyrun_safe_ruby_blockwhich is same withruby_blockbut executes the configured block in the why-run mode as well. - Includes mixlib-shellout 1.3.0
- Includes recently released ruby 1.9.3-p484 fixing a security issue.
- If a command launched by mixlib-shellout doesn't complete in the given timeout window, mixlib-shellout 1.3.0 terminates the process after the specified timeout.
This helps if Chef is running as a service or daemon and executing some endemically long commands which are OK to timeout e.g. certain yum commands.
I think you mean 11.8.2.