Chef Infra Client 19.3.14 Released!

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We are delighted to announce the availability of version 19.3.14 of Chef Infra Client.

Improvements

  • The rest_resource DSL now supports two new methods: rest_api_endpoint, which stores the base URL of the target REST API, and rest_identity_property, which declares which property uniquely identifies a resource.
    These additions remove the need to manually configure the Train transport endpoint and auto-generate document URLs.
    DSL inheritance is also fixed so subclasses correctly inherit values from parent classes. (#15867)
  • The dnf_package resource now locates the DNF Python helper more efficiently, reducing unnecessary shell_out calls during converge runs on systems using DNF. (#15718)
  • The package and dnf_package resources now support the DNF5 package manager used in Fedora 41+ and future RHEL-based systems, including updated version-lock handling and config-manager command differences between DNF4 and DNF5. Chef Infra Client detects which version of DNF is installed (DNF4 or DNF5)---no changes to existing cookbooks or recipes are required. Thanks to @jaymzh for this contribution. (#15993)

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue in Agentless Mode where Chef Infra Client converged the local workstation node instead of the specified remote target when connecting to Chef Infra Server.
    The client now correctly sets the node name to the target and authenticates all Chef Infra Server API calls using the operator's credentials. (#15735)
  • Fixed an issue where lazy content blocks in the file resource were evaluated more than once during a single converge run. (#15714)
  • Fixed an issue where platform_family matching incorrectly used fedora_derived as a platform family identifier instead of the fedora_derived? helper method. (#15728)
  • Fixed an issue where the slow report was written to standard output instead of Chef::Log, making slow report data inaccessible in deployments that rely on client.log. (#15721)

Dependency updates

  • Knife has been moved to its own repository and now loads as a gem. (#15847, #15887)
  • Updated aws-sdk-s3 from 1.213.0 to 1.220.0 (#15950).
  • Updated aws-sdk-secretsmanager from 1.124.0 to 1.129.0 (#15797).
  • Updated mixlib-shellout requirement from ~> 3.3.8 to >= 3.3.8, < 3.5.0 (#15941).
  • Updated train-core from 3.16.1 to 3.16.2 (#15928).
  • Updated train-winrm from 0.4.0 to 0.4.3 (#15827).
  • Updated ffi from 1.17.3 to 1.17.4 (#15813).
  • Updated rake from 13.3.1 to 13.4.2 (#15906).
  • Updated cookstyle from 8.5.2 to 8.6.10 (#15822).
  • Updated uri requirement from ~> 1.0.4 to >= 1.0.4, < 1.2.0 (#15823).
  • Updated vault requirement from ~> 0.18.2 to >= 0.18.2, < 0.21.0 (#15794).
  • Updated chef-vault from 4.2.5 to 4.2.9 (#15792).
  • Updated highline requirement from >= 1.6.9, < 3 to >= 1.6.9, < 4 (#15788).
  • Updated win32-eventlog from 0.6.3 to 0.6.7 (#15820).
  • Updated webmock from 3.26.1 to 3.26.2 (#15798).
  • Updated pry from 0.15.2 to 0.16.0 (#15875).
  • Updated pry-byebug from 3.11.0 to 3.12.0 (#15909).
  • Updated pry-stack_explorer from 0.6.1 to 0.6.3 (#15876).
  • Updated repl_type_completor from 0.1.12 to 0.1.15 (#15795).
  • Updated tomlrb from 1.3.0 to 2.0.4 (#15800).
  • Updated Ohai from 19.1.16 to 19.1.31 (#15964).
  • Updated Cheffish from f8740fc to 5095f56 (#15917).

Packaging

  • We now release Chef Infra Client Habitat packages for Linux ARM. (#15716)
  • Added a Habitat install hook that automatically applies SELinux file context (fcontext) rules when Chef Infra Client is installed on SELinux-enforcing systems such as Fedora and RHEL.
    This ensures Chef Infra Client binaries are labeled as bin_t and can execute under SELinux policy. (#15787)
  • The chef/chef-hab Docker image now supports both amd64 and arm64. Users on ARM-based systems can now pull the image natively without platform emulation. (#15856)