CHANGELOG.md

chef-client Cookbook CHANGELOG

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

7.1.0 (2017-01-16)

• Fix some poor wording in the readme due to split lines
• Remove a debug message in the windows task recipe
• Add deprecation warning when using the Runit init system

7.0.3 (2016-12-06)

• Fix invalid shell syntax in /etc/init.d script

7.0.2 (2016-12-02)

• Document / test setting a custom ohai plugin path
• Make log_perm permissions attribute value a string
• Avoid warnings during ChefSpec runs

7.0.1 (2016-12-02)

• Fixed cron attributes documentation
• Fix file modes to be strings
• Added SLES support to the readme
• Use regex instead of position for service status

7.0.0 (2016-10-25)

Breaking Changes

• Remove support for OpenBSD
• Remove support for Arch Linux

Other Changes

• Document 'weekday' in readme
• Adding exception to 5.11 SMF manifest for SmartOS. SmartOS does not have a config milestone
• Add chef-client init back for SLES 12

6.0.0 (2016-09-26)

Breaking Changes

• Support for Chef 11 has been removed. Chef 12.1 or later is now required
• Running chef-client as a service on Windows has been deprecated. The default.rb recipe will now include the task recipe on Windows hosts. The windows_service recipe will be removed in the next major version of this cookbook.

Other Changes

• Switch from serverspec to Inspec
• Add BSDs to bsd_init to fix cron service
• Simplified attributes for Chef 12 - Chef 12 lets us simplify attributes since we don't have to check to see if we can fork and we can assume we know the init type via Ohai
• Fix validation recipe to not explode under chef-solo.
• Change path for rc.d chef-client script in FreeBSD
• Remove wrong rc.d script created by an older version of cookbook
• Remove duplication from rc.d script template for FreeBSD
• Fix escaping in the Windows task recipe
• Allow STDOUT as a valid log location

v5.0.0 (2016-07-29)

• This will be the last version of this cookbook that supports Chef 11. If you are still using Chef 11 you will need to pin to < 6.0
• Support for Bluepill and Daemontools init systems has been removed
• chef_version metadata has been added
• client.d config files are now only explicitly added on Chef < 12.8 to prevent double loading configs
• Rubocop has been replaced by cookstyle for simpler ruby linting
• A new Rakefile that handles missing gems better has been included
• Support for daemon options when running as a Windows scheduled task has been added

v4.6.0 (2016-06-01)

• Add systemd support to Suse platforms and make systemd the default there as systemd is the init system on all supported suse platforms
• Added a serverspec test for systemd service setup

v4.5.4 (2016-05-31)

• Updated the systemd unit file to restart on failure and added exit status 3 as a valid successful exit status
• Added the ability to specify retries, retry_delay, timeout in the chef gem install hash

v4.5.3 (2016-05-27)

• Fixed idempotency of the windows task recipe

v4.5.2 (2016-05-20)

• Revert switching to ruby based which as this broke compatibility with older Chef clients
• Resolved deprecation warnings with chef_gem installs

v4.5.1 (2016-05-19)

• Switch from command line which to pure Ruby which in the helper for finding chef-client
• Removed the last bit of Chef 10 compatibility code
• Updated file modes in resources so we properly set the leading 0s
• Switched Travis CI testing to kitchen-dokken and expanded the platforms / suites that are tested
• Added additional service Chefspecs

v4.5.0 (2016-04-26)

• Updated the client.rb to use ChefConfig::Config.from_file to load config files on Chef 12.4.0. This resolves NameError messages when running Ohai on its own.

v4.4.0 (2016-04-20)

• Update the required version of logrorate to >= 1.9.0 and cron to 1.7.0 so we bring in the last few years of bug fixes and feature enhancements
• Removed support for Ubuntu 8.04 - 9.04
• Removed references to the Chef 10 server from the readme
• Updated all references to the community site in the readme to be Supermarket instead
• Documented the scheduled task recipe in the readme
• Added a Test Kitchen suite for the scheduled task recipe on Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 R2
• Add IBM zlinux to the metadata
• Update testing dependencies to the latest
• Remove a duplicate list of node['chef_client']['interval'] in the readme
• Remove extra spacing and a comment typo in client.rb

v4.3.3 (2016-02-15)

• [#349] Fix Ohai syntax for > 8.6.0 to remove deprecation warning
• [#316] Make chef-client log permissions configurable
• [#327/#364] Fix chef windows task quoting
• [#341] Update template to use correct milestone for Solaris 11
• [#338] Allow starting chef-client in FreeBSD jails
• Added amazon as a supported platform in the metadata.rb file
• Updated the minimum required windows cookbook to the latest version to resolve issues with scheduled tasks
• Replaced Digital Ocean testing with Kitchen-Docker running in Travis CI
• Expanded platform testing in Test Kitchen and fixed failing ServerSpecs

v4.3.2 (2015-11-05)

• [#347] windows_service updates client.service.rb with log_location path. This accompanies a change the chef-client that will now honor that configuration for windows_service logging. See chef/chef#4135
• [#326] prevent duplicate proxy config properties in client.rb
• [#345] improved wording around deprecated settings in the readme
• Added a chefignore file to limit files being uploaded to the chef server
• Updated contributing and testing docs
• Adding maintainers.md and maintainers.toml files
• Added a Rakefile for simplified testing
• Updated development and testing dependencies to the latest
• Added cookbook version badge and travis status badge to the readme

v4.3.1 (2015-07-12)

• [#320] don't crash if handler class isn't available
• [#318] default value for password for windows task should be nil
• [#317] properly quote log_location to avoid regex corner case issue
• [#314] fully replace root_group with node['root_group']
• [#310] revert #267; prohibit clients from dictating their environments
• [#307] fix delete_validation recipe under chef-zero
• [#235] workaround chef/chef#3432

v4.3.0 (2015-04-14)

• [#303] cron ignores daemon_options
• [#297] support prerotate options in logrotate
• [#296] Support adding audit_mode as configuration in client.rb
• [#295] Add support for specifying gem source for config
• [#294] Cleanup opscode-named plist and service on OS X
• [#291] Pass $OPTIONS to systemd service
• [#289] Use systemd on Debian 8 (jessie)
• [#286] Remove legacy logic for handling Chef Server
• [#283] Update plist filename for new company
• [#278] Fix path on SmartOS
• [#277] Update contributing documentation
• [#275] Correct logrotate postrotate command for upstart init_style
• [#273] Fix punctuation, capitalization and wording in readme
• [#272] Fix readme quoting
• [#271] Add internal heading links to documentation
• [#270] Fix Travis CI build
• [#262] Allow client.rb to contain environment
• [#257] Change log directory mode 0755
• [#254] Remove rbconfig
• [#156] Allow cron to have a weekday parameter

v4.2.4 (2015-02-18)

• Ripping out chef_gem compile_time stuff

v4.2.3 (2015-02-18)

• Fixing chef_gem with Chef::Resource::ChefGem.method_defined?(:compile_time)

v4.2.2 (2015-02-18)

• Fixing chef_gem for Chef below 12.1.0

v4.2.1 (2015-02-17)

• Being explicit about usage of the chef_gem's compile_time property.
• Eliminating future deprecation warnings in Chef 12.1.0.

v4.2.0 (2015-02-08)

• [#252] Fix ordering problem with logrotate command attribute
• [#250] Verify API certificates by default in config
• [#238] Remove proxy ENV variables from config
• [#234] Move windows service log directory to correct location

v4.1.1 (2015-01-30)

• Repair syntax error introduced in config recipe

v4.1.0 (2015-01-30)

• [#247] Switch Arch Linux to use systemd
• [#243] Improve logrotation configurability
• [#241] Configure logrotate to use systemd when appropriate
• [#239] Allow setting splay in upstart configuration
• [#233] Unbreak unit and integration test harnesses
• [#231] Allow setting NO_PROXY/no_proxy in client.rb
• [#219] Configure log location via client.rb only

v4.0.0 (2014-12-10)

• [#221] Retire the winsw service wrapper in Windows
• [#227] Add sourcing /etc/default/locale to upstart script
• [#224] Fix FreeBSD service startup
• [#223] Add FreeBSD test harness
• [#217] Fix and modernize systemd configuration

v3.9.0 (2014-10-15)

• [#208] Add AIX support

v3.8.2 (2014-09-30)

• [#206] Fixes amazon linux issues introduced in #190

v3.8.1 (2014-09-30)

• [#202] Avoid resource cloning
• [#190] Use systemd by default on EL7

v3.8.0 (2014-09-05)

• [#182] Complete refactor of testing. Now uses chefspec and serverspec
• [#134] Update of README to reflect there not being an init recipe
• [#133] Allow windows_task[chef-client] attributes to be overridden
• [#143] Added rc.d script for FreeBSD
• [#155] Allow option to not reload current run Chef config
• [#162] Update cron.rb to work properly for SUSE
• [#169] Sort config hash
• [#184] Changelog fixes

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 via 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