# 0.10.6 Release Candidate

**URL:** https://discourse.chef.io/t/0-10-6-release-candidate/2189
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)
**Created:** [November 16, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/0-10-6-release-candidate/2189 "2011-11-16T23:01:30Z")
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### Author: ![kallistec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/kallistec/32/23_2.png) [@kallistec](https://discourse.chef.io/u/kallistec)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/0-10-6-release-candidate/2189/1 "2011-11-16T23:01:30Z")

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Hi Chefs,

I just pushed RC 1 of Chef 0.10.6 to [rubygems.org](http://rubygems.org). Chef 0.10.6 has more than 70 bug fixes and improvements, including:

- A new windows command execution backend. This adds support for environment variables and specifying a working directory, and should also fix issues with incorrect exit codes being reported.
- not\_if and only\_if have been updated so that they'll use our newer command execution backends, and also allow multiple not\_if/only\_if conditionals per resource.
- knife bootstrap can install your encrypted data bag secret
- A bug where chef-client or knife running on ruby 1.9 would encounter an EOFError when uploading data containing multibyte characters to a Chef server running SSL has been fixed.
- You can turn off the "processing" lines in the log output by setting verbose to false in your config file.
- There's a new handler type for issuing notifications at the beginning of a chef-client run
- Numerous fixes to the yum package provider
- And many more…

To try out the RC:

```
gem install chef --pre

```

You can view the full list of bug fixes and improvements here:

[http://tickets.opscode.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+CHEF+AND+fixVersion+%3D+10403+AND+status+%3D+Closed](http://tickets.opscode.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+CHEF+AND+fixVersion+%3D+10403+AND+status+%3D+Closed)

You can also see the full list of commits and changes here:

> **[chef/chef](https://github.com/chef/chef/compare/0.10.4...0.10.6.rc.1)**
>
> Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale - chef/chef

Please let us know if you find any regressions. Per our new release policy, we'll wait at least three days for regressions to be found before shipping a final release (if regressions are found, we'll create a new RC and start over).

Thanks!

--  
Dan DeLeo