# \[ANNOUNCE\] Grocery-Delivery and Taste-Tester releases!

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/announce-grocery-delivery-and-taste-tester-releases/12332>\
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**Created:** [December 18, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/announce-grocery-delivery-and-taste-tester-releases/12332 "2017-12-18T23:40:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/announce-grocery-delivery-and-taste-tester-releases/12332/1 "2017-12-18T23:40:53Z")

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Ohai Chefs!

Today Facebook has cut long overdue releases of our two biggest chef tools:  
Grocery-Delivery and Taste-Tester.

Grocery-Delivery is a tool for keeping your Chef Server(s) in sync with your  
VCS repository - i.e. continuous delivery to your Chef Server(s). Taste-Tester  
is a tool for managing chef-zero instances as a testing infrastructure and  
being able to leverage production systems for real tests.

Changelogs are here:

Grocery-Delivery

- Remove timestamp option
- Add option to track symlinks
- Return exit status properly
- Fix bug with roles/databags
- Support JSON roles
- Add pre\_upload hook
- Report errors in hooks more clearly

Taste-tester

- Add a NoOp transport
- Replace `--locallink` with `--transport`
- Add option to support tracking symlinks
- Add option to allow specifying a knife config
- Use /bin/echo rather than built-in for better cross-platform support
- Add config file for taste-untester
- Fix tunnel support

(Between meals is a library they both use which was also released today.)

taste-tester-0.0.13, grocery-delivery-0.0.8, and between-meals-0.0.8 are all  
available on [rubygems.org](http://rubygems.org).

Source and info available on github:

> **[facebook/grocery-delivery](https://github.com/facebook/grocery-delivery)**
>
> The Grocery Delivery utility for managing cookbook uploads to distributed Chef backends.

> **[facebook/taste-tester](https://github.com/facebook/taste-tester)**
>
> Software to manage a chef-zero instance and use it to test changes on production servers.

> **[facebook/between-meals](https://github.com/facebook/between-meals)**
>
> A library to provide calculations between Chef diffs.