# Chef 13.4.19 Released

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-13-4-19-released/11498>\
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**Created:** [September 13, 2017, 9:48am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-13-4-19-released/11498 "2017-09-13T09:48:06Z")\
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Ohai Chefs!

We’re happy to announce the release of Chef v13.4!

# Release Highlights

## Security release of RubyGems

Chef Client 13.4 includes RubyGems 2.6.13 to fix the following CVEs:

- CVE-2017-0899
- CVE-2017-0900
- CVE-2017-0901
- CVE-2017-0902

## Ifconfig provider on Red Hat now supports additional properties

It is now possible to set `ETHTOOL_OPTS`, `BONDING_OPTS`, `MASTER` and  
`SLAVE` properties on interfaces on Red Hat compatible systems. See [https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red\_Hat\_Enterprise\_Linux/6/html/Deployment\_Guide/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html) for further information

### Properties

- `ethtool\_opts`  
  
**Ruby types:** String  
**Platforms:** Fedora, RHEL, Amazon Linux  
A string containing arguments to ethtool. The string will be wrapped  
in double quotes, so ensure that any needed quotes in the property  
are surrounded by single quotes

- `bonding\_opts`  
  
**Ruby types:** String  
**Platforms:** Fedora, RHEL, Amazon Linux  
A string containing configuration parameters for the bonding device.

- `master`  
  
**Ruby types:** String  
**Platforms:** Fedora, RHEL, Amazon Linux  
The channel bonding interface that this interface is linked to.

- `slave`  
  
**Ruby types:** String  
**Platforms:** Fedora, RHEL, Amazon Linux  
Whether the interface is controlled by the channel bonding interface  
defined by `master`, above.

## Chef Vault is now included

Chef Client 13.4 now includes the `chef-vault` gem, making it easier for  
users of chef-vault to use their encrypted items.

## Windows `remote_file` resource with alternate credentials

The `remote_file` resource now supports the use of credentials on Windows when accessing a remote UNC path on Windows such as `\\myserver\myshare\mydirectory\myfile.txt`. This  
allows access to the file at that path location even if the Chef client process identity does not have permission to access the file. The new properties `remote_user`, `remote_domain`, and `remote_password` may be used to specify credentials with access to the remote file so that it may be read.

**Note** : This feature is mainly used for accessing files between two nodes in different domains and having different user accounts.  
In case the two nodes are in same domain, `remote_file` resource does not need `remote_user` and `remote_password` specified because the user has the same access on both systems through the domain.

### Properties

The following properties are new for the `remote_file` resource:

- `remote_user`  
**Ruby types:** String  
_Windows only:_ The user name of a user with access to the remote file specified by the `source` property. Default value: `nil`. The user name may optionally be specifed with a domain, i.e. `domain\user` or `user@my.dns.domain.com` via Universal Principal Name (UPN) format. It can also be specified without a domain simply as `user` if the domain is instead specified using the `remote_domain` attribute. Note that this property is ignored if `source` is not a UNC path. If this property is specified, the `remote_password` property **must** be specified.

- `remote_password`  
**Ruby types** String  
_Windows only:_ The password of the user specified by the `remote_user` property. Default value: `nil`. This property is mandatory if `remote_user` is specified and may only be specified if `remote_user` is specified. The `sensitive` property for this resource will automatically be set to `true` if `remote_password` is specified.

- `remote_domain`  
**Ruby types** String  
_Windows only:_ The domain of the user user specified by the `remote_user` property. Default value: `nil`. If not specified, the user and password properties specified by the `remote_user` and `remote_password` properties will be used to authenticate that user against the domain in which the system hosting the UNC path specified via `source` is joined, or if that system is not joined to a domain it will authenticate the user as a local account on that system. An alternative way to specify the domain is to leave this property unspecified and specify the domain as part of the `remote_user` property.

### Examples

Accessing file from a (different) domain account

```ruby
remote_file "E://domain_test.txt" do
  source "\\\\myserver\\myshare\\mydirectory\\myfile.txt"
  remote_domain "domain"
  remote_user "username"
  remote_password "password"
end

```

OR

```ruby
remote_file "E://domain_test.txt" do
  source "\\\\myserver\\myshare\\mydirectory\\myfile.txt"
  remote_user "domain\\username"
  remote_password "password"
end

```

Accessing file using a local account on the remote machine

```ruby
remote_file "E://domain_test.txt" do
  source "\\\\myserver\\myshare\\mydirectory\\myfile.txt"
  remote_domain "."
  remote_user "username"
  remote_password "password"
end

```

OR

```ruby
remote_file "E://domain_test.txt" do
  source "\\\\myserver\\myshare\\mydirectory\\myfile.txt"
  remote_user ".\\username"
  remote_password "password"
end

```

## windows\_path resource

`windows_path` resource has been moved to core chef from windows cookbook. Use the `windows_path` resource to manage the path environment variable on Microsoft Windows.

### Actions

- `:add` - Add an item to the system path
- `:remove` - Remove an item from the system path

### Properties

- `path` - Name attribute. The name of the value to add to the system path

### Examples

Add Sysinternals to the system path

```ruby
windows_path 'C:\Sysinternals' do
  action :add
end

```

Remove 7-Zip from the system path

```ruby
windows_path 'C:\7-Zip' do
  action :remove
end

```

## Ohai Release Notes 13.4

### Windows EC2 Detection

Detection of nodes running in EC2 has been greatly improved and should now detect nodes 100% of the time including nodes that have been migrated to EC2 or were built with custom AMIs.

### Azure Metadata Endpoint Detection

Ohai now polls the new Azure metadata endpoint, giving us additional configuration details on nodes running in Azure

Sample data now available under azure:

```javascript
{
  "metadata": {
    "compute": {
      "location": "westus",
      "name": "timtest",
      "offer": "UbuntuServer",
      "osType": "Linux",
      "platformFaultDomain": "0",
      "platformUpdateDomain": "0",
      "publisher": "Canonical",
      "sku": "17.04",
      "version": "17.04.201706191",
      "vmId": "8d523242-71cf-4dff-94c3-1bf660878743",
      "vmSize": "Standard_DS1_v2"
    },
    "network": {
      "interfaces": {
        "000D3A33AF03": {
          "mac": "000D3A33AF03",
          "public_ipv6": [

          ],
          "public_ipv4": [
            "52.160.95.99",
            "23.99.10.211"
          ],
          "local_ipv6": [

          ],
          "local_ipv4": [
            "10.0.1.5",
            "10.0.1.4",
            "10.0.1.7"
          ]
        }
      },
      "public_ipv4": [
        "52.160.95.99",
        "23.99.10.211"
      ],
      "local_ipv4": [
        "10.0.1.5",
        "10.0.1.4",
        "10.0.1.7"
      ],
      "public_ipv6": [

      ],
      "local_ipv6": [

      ]
    }
  }
}

```

### Package Plugin Supports Arch Linux

The Package plugin has been updated to include package information on Arch Linux systems.

Please see the [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) for the complete list of changes.

# Get the Build

As always, you can download binaries directly from [downloads.chef.io](https://downloads.chef.io/chef/13.4.19) or by using the new `mixlib-install` command line utility available in ChefDK 0.19.6 or greater.

```auto
$ mixlib-install download chef -v 13.4.19

```

Alternatively, you can install Chef using one of the following command options:

```auto
# In Shell
$ curl https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -P chef -v 13.4.19

# In Windows Powershell
. { iwr -useb https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.ps1 } | iex; install -project chef -version 13.4.19
```

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