# Chef 11.0.0.beta.1 is out, now with Omnibus!

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**Created:** [January 29, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-11-0-0-beta-1-is-out-now-with-omnibus/3543 "2013-01-29T02:34:10Z")\
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Hi Chefs,

We’ve released Chef 11.0.0.beta.1 to Rubygems and in Omnibus package form.

### Changes

The following issues have been fixed since the beta 0:

- Modified the behavior of the new attributes system to overwrite Arrays when merging between precedence levels. This matches the Chef 10.x behavior.
- Fixed a bug where calling `puts` on a attribute component would raise a TypeError.
- Fixed an issue managing the 32 bit registry on 64 bit Windows 2003 systems.
- Corresponding test fixes.
- Added a flag to check for admin privileges when running chef-client on Windows
- Bug fixes to chef\_fs, used in the knife-essentials utilities like knife diff
- Added missing requires for some deprecated DSL mixins
- Fixed a bug in log messages under Windows
- Fixed another windows bug where cookbook\_file wouldn’t inherit permissions from a parent object

### Installing

#### With Omnibus, via [install.sh](http://install.sh):

curl:

```
curl -L "https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh" | sudo bash -s -- -v 11.0.0.beta.1

```

wget:

```
wget -qO- "https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh" | sudo bash -s -- -v 11.0.0.beta.1

```

#### With Omnibus via package download:

Omnibus packages are served via a webservice called Omnitruck that redirects you to the appropriate package. Normally you don’t need to know any specificsthing about Omnitruck, but we haven’t updated the [install.sh](http://install.sh) script with a flag for grabbing a pre-release yet and maybe you’re just interested anyway. If you are, an explanation of the URL parameters that allows you to grab whatever versions you want is available on the wiki:

[http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+11+Server+Preview](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+11+Server+Preview)

The wiki page is focused on the chef-server case but is valid for chef-client as well. For example, this will fetch the package on Ubuntu 10.04:

wget -O /tmp/chef\_11.0.0.beta.1\_amd64.deb ‘[https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=11.0.0.beta.1&p=ubuntu&pv=10.04&m=x86\_64](https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=11.0.0.beta.1&p=ubuntu&pv=10.04&m=x86_64)’

### Reporting Problems

If you find any issues using the beta, please report them here and file bug reports on [tickets.opscode.com](http://tickets.opscode.com).

Thanks!

* * *

Bryan McLellan | opscode | technical program manager, open source  
© 206.607.7108 | (t) @btmspox | (b) [http://blog.loftninjas.org](http://blog.loftninjas.org)

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**Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-11-0-0-beta-1-is-out-now-with-omnibus/3543/2 "2013-01-29T14:41:21Z")

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Hi Brian,

thanks for the release!

It looks like Debian packages are finally available 🙂

This information is missing in the linked wiki page.

Thanks  
Steffen

On 1/29/13 3:34 AM, Bryan McLellan wrote:

> Hi Chefs,
> 
> We've released Chef 11.0.0.beta.1 to Rubygems and in Omnibus package form.
> 
> ### Changes
> 
> The following issues have been fixed since the beta 0:
> 
> - Modified the behavior of the new attributes system to overwrite Arrays when merging between precedence levels. This matches the Chef 10.x behavior.
> - Fixed a bug where calling `puts` on a attribute component would raise a TypeError.
> - Fixed an issue managing the 32 bit registry on 64 bit Windows 2003 systems.
> - Corresponding test fixes.
> - Added a flag to check for admin privileges when running chef-client on Windows
> - Bug fixes to chef\_fs, used in the knife-essentials utilities like knife diff
> - Added missing requires for some deprecated DSL mixins
> - Fixed a bug in log messages under Windows
> - Fixed another windows bug where cookbook\_file wouldn't inherit permissions from a parent object
> 
> ### Installing
> 
> #### With Omnibus, via install.sh:
> 
> curl:
> 
> ```
> curl -L "https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh" | sudo bash -s -- -v 11.0.0.beta.1
> 
> ```
> 
> wget:
> 
> ```
> wget -qO- "https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh" | sudo bash -s -- -v 11.0.0.beta.1
> 
> ```
> 
> #### With Omnibus via package download:
> 
> Omnibus packages are served via a webservice called Omnitruck that redirects you to the appropriate package. Normally you don't need to know any specificsthing about Omnitruck, but we haven't updated the install.sh script with a flag for grabbing a pre-release yet and maybe you're just interested anyway. If you are, an explanation of the URL parameters that allows you to grab whatever versions you want is available on the wiki:
> 
> [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+11+Server+Preview](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+11+Server+Preview)
> 
> The wiki page is focused on the chef-server case but is valid for chef-client as well. For example, this will fetch the package on Ubuntu 10.04:
> 
> wget -O /tmp/chef\_11.0.0.beta.1\_amd64.deb '[https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=11.0.0.beta.1&p=ubuntu&pv=10.04&m=x86\_64](https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=11.0.0.beta.1&p=ubuntu&pv=10.04&m=x86_64)'
> 
> ### Reporting Problems
> 
> If you find any issues using the beta, please report them here and file bug reports on [tickets.opscode.com](http://tickets.opscode.com).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> * * *
> 
> Bryan McLellan | opscode | technical program manager, open source  
> (c) 206.607.7108 | (t) @btmspox | (b) [http://blog.loftninjas.org](http://blog.loftninjas.org)

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**Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-11-0-0-beta-1-is-out-now-with-omnibus/3543/3 "2013-01-29T15:35:07Z")

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Sorry, I didn't read carefully enough.. the link posted was to  
chef-client, which is available for Debian.

When can we expect a chef-server package for Debian? Or should the  
Ubuntu packages also work?

Thanks  
Steffen

On 1/29/13 3:41 PM, Steffen Gebert wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> 
> thanks for the release!
> 
> It looks like Debian packages are finally available 🙂
> 
> This information is missing in the linked wiki page.
> 
> Thanks  
> Steffen
> 
> On 1/29/13 3:34 AM, Bryan McLellan wrote:
> 
> > Hi Chefs,
> > 
> > We've released Chef 11.0.0.beta.1 to Rubygems and in Omnibus package form.
> > 
> > ### Changes
> > 
> > The following issues have been fixed since the beta 0:
> > 
> > - Modified the behavior of the new attributes system to overwrite Arrays when merging between precedence levels. This matches the Chef 10.x behavior.
> > - Fixed a bug where calling `puts` on a attribute component would raise a TypeError.
> > - Fixed an issue managing the 32 bit registry on 64 bit Windows 2003 systems.
> > - Corresponding test fixes.
> > - Added a flag to check for admin privileges when running chef-client on Windows
> > - Bug fixes to chef\_fs, used in the knife-essentials utilities like knife diff
> > - Added missing requires for some deprecated DSL mixins
> > - Fixed a bug in log messages under Windows
> > - Fixed another windows bug where cookbook\_file wouldn't inherit permissions from a parent object
> > 
> > ### Installing
> > 
> > #### With Omnibus, via install.sh:
> > 
> > curl:
> > 
> > ```
> > curl -L "https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh" | sudo bash -s -- -v 11.0.0.beta.1
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > wget:
> > 
> > ```
> > wget -qO- "https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh" | sudo bash -s -- -v 11.0.0.beta.1
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > #### With Omnibus via package download:
> > 
> > Omnibus packages are served via a webservice called Omnitruck that redirects you to the appropriate package. Normally you don't need to know any specificsthing about Omnitruck, but we haven't updated the install.sh script with a flag for grabbing a pre-release yet and maybe you're just interested anyway. If you are, an explanation of the URL parameters that allows you to grab whatever versions you want is available on the wiki:
> > 
> > [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+11+Server+Preview](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+11+Server+Preview)
> > 
> > The wiki page is focused on the chef-server case but is valid for chef-client as well. For example, this will fetch the package on Ubuntu 10.04:
> > 
> > wget -O /tmp/chef\_11.0.0.beta.1\_amd64.deb '[https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=11.0.0.beta.1&p=ubuntu&pv=10.04&m=x86\_64](https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=11.0.0.beta.1&p=ubuntu&pv=10.04&m=x86_64)'
> > 
> > ### Reporting Problems
> > 
> > If you find any issues using the beta, please report them here and file bug reports on [tickets.opscode.com](http://tickets.opscode.com).
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > * * *
> > 
> > Bryan McLellan | opscode | technical program manager, open source  
> > (c) 206.607.7108 | (t) @btmspox | (b) [http://blog.loftninjas.org](http://blog.loftninjas.org)

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**Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-11-0-0-beta-1-is-out-now-with-omnibus/3543/4 "2013-01-29T19:18:26Z")

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Update on the Omnibus install:

On Monday, January 28, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Bryan McLellan wrote:

> Hi Chefs,
> 
> We've released Chef 11.0.0.beta.1 to Rubygems and in Omnibus package form.  
> snip
> 
> ### Installing
> 
> #### With Omnibus, via install.sh ([http://install.sh](http://install.sh)):
> 
> curl:
> 
> curl -L "[https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh](https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh)" | sudo bash -s -- -v 11.0.0.beta.1
> 
> wget:
> 
> wget -qO- "[https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh](https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh)" | sudo bash -s -- -v 11.0.0.beta.1

We just added prerelease support to the install.sh script. Now you can do:

wget -qO- "[https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh](https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh)" | sudo bash -s -- -p

And you'll get the latest prerelease.

--  
Daniel DeLeo

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**Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-11-0-0-beta-1-is-out-now-with-omnibus/3543/5 "2013-01-29T22:36:45Z")

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On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Steffen Gebert [st+gmane@st-g.de](mailto:st+gmane@st-g.de) wrote:

> Sorry, I didn't read carefully enough.. the link posted was to  
> chef-client, which is available for Debian.

My fault, Dan wrote all the good parts of that announcement and when I  
copied it and finished it I wasn't in the right groove with it.

> When can we expect a chef-server package for Debian? Or should the  
> Ubuntu packages also work?

Probably won't see official debian server packages for a while, but  
the Ubuntu packages work alright AFAICT.

I just used these commands to get debs on my Debian Wheezy VM and they  
worked okay:

wget -O chef-server.deb  
'[http://www.opscode.com/chef/download-server?p=ubuntu&pv=12.04&m=x86\_64&v=latest&prerelease=true&nightlies=true](http://www.opscode.com/chef/download-server?p=ubuntu&pv=12.04&m=x86_64&v=latest&prerelease=true&nightlies=true)'  
sudo dpkg -i chef-server.deb  
sudo apt-get remove apache2 && sudo killall apache2 # I had an issue  
with this getting in the way 😛  
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure

# Get the Debian stable Omnibus Client

wget -O chef.deb  
'[https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=&p=debian&pv=6&m=x86\_64](https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=&p=debian&pv=6&m=x86_64)'

# set chef\_server\_url to [https://localhost](https://localhost)

sudo cp /etc/chef-server/chef-validator.pem /etc/chef/validation.pem  
sudo chef-client

Bryan

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Hi,

On 01/29/2013 11:36 PM, Bryan McLellan wrote:  
[...]

> wget -O chef-server.deb  
> '[http://www.opscode.com/chef/download-server?p=ubuntu&pv=12.04&m=x86\_64&v=latest&prerelease=true&nightlies=true](http://www.opscode.com/chef/download-server?p=ubuntu&pv=12.04&m=x86_64&v=latest&prerelease=true&nightlies=true)'  
> sudo dpkg -i chef-server.deb

Can I download the source package somewhere?

Thanks,  
Nanuk

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**Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-11-0-0-beta-1-is-out-now-with-omnibus/3543/7 "2013-01-30T15:21:26Z")

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Nanuk Krinner  
[nanukkrinner.devel@googlemail.com](mailto:nanukkrinner.devel@googlemail.com) wrote:

> Can I download the source package somewhere?

erchef (The erlang based API server) is here: [GitHub - chef-boneyard/erchef: DEPRECATED: Erlang based Chef Server top-level OTP release project](https://github.com/opscode/erchef)

This blog post directly lists the repositories for some components it  
uses: [Introducing erchef - Chef Blog | Chef](http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/08/27/introducing-erchef/)

Bryan

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**Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-11-0-0-beta-1-is-out-now-with-omnibus/3543/8 "2013-01-30T18:13:55Z")

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The packages are made with the omnibus project and fpm. There is no source  
package.

Adam

On 1/30/13 5:50 AM, "Nanuk Krinner" [nanukkrinner.devel@googlemail.com](mailto:nanukkrinner.devel@googlemail.com)  
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 01/29/2013 11:36 PM, Bryan McLellan wrote:  
> [...]
> 
> > wget -O chef-server.deb
> > 
> > '[http://www.opscode.com/chef/download-server?p=ubuntu&pv=12.04&m=x86\_64&v](http://www.opscode.com/chef/download-server?p=ubuntu&pv=12.04&m=x86_64&v)  
> > =latest&prerelease=true&nightlies=true'  
> > sudo dpkg -i chef-server.deb
> 
> Can I download the source package somewhere?
> 
> Thanks,  
> Nanuk

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So we are just barely getting a chef server stood up for initial  
development and testing. I'm tempted to start with chef 11 and live with  
the growing pains, but I hesitate since it is still in beta. On the other  
hand, I don't like starting with 10 when 11 is so close.

Any advice? Which way would you go if you were starting now?

Thanks,

Ben

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Adam Jacob [adam@opscode.com](mailto:adam@opscode.com) wrote:

> The packages are made with the omnibus project and fpm. There is no source  
> package.
> 
> Adam
> 
> On 1/30/13 5:50 AM, "Nanuk Krinner" [nanukkrinner.devel@googlemail.com](mailto:nanukkrinner.devel@googlemail.com)  
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 01/29/2013 11:36 PM, Bryan McLellan wrote:  
> > [...]
> > 
> > > wget -O chef-server.deb
> > > 
> > > '  
> > > [http://www.opscode.com/chef/download-server?p=ubuntu&pv=12.04&m=x86\_64&v](http://www.opscode.com/chef/download-server?p=ubuntu&pv=12.04&m=x86_64&v)  
> > > =latest&prerelease=true&nightlies=true'  
> > > sudo dpkg -i chef-server.deb
> > 
> > Can I download the source package somewhere?
> > 
> > Thanks,  
> > Nanuk

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Benjamin Bytheway [bbytheway@gmail.com](mailto:bbytheway@gmail.com) wrote:

> So we are just barely getting a chef server stood up for initial development  
> and testing. I'm tempted to start with chef 11 and live with the growing  
> pains, but I hesitate since it is still in beta. On the other hand, I don't  
> like starting with 10 when 11 is so close.
> 
> Any advice? Which way would you go if you were starting now?

Chef 11 is in good shape. The Chef Server 11 Omnibus packages make  
setting up a server really easy on the platforms it supports. I'd use  
that.

Bryan