Ohai Chefs!
We're happy to announce the release of ChefDK 2.6.2, updating bundled software and fixing security issues. Read on for the full release notes!
ChefDK 2.6.2 Release Notes
Chef 13.12.3
ChefDK now ships with Chef 13.12.3. See <https://docs.chef.io/release_notes.html> for more information on what's new.
Security Updates
Ruby
Ruby has been updated to 2.4.4 to resolve CVE-2018-16396 and CVE-2018-16395.
Smaller package size
ChefDK RPM and Debian packages are now compressed. Additionally many gems were updated to remove extraneous files that do not need to be included. The download size of packages has decreased accordingly (all measurements in megabytes):
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.deb: 108 -> 84 (22%)
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.rpm: 112 -> 86 (24%)
Updated Tooling
Kitchen DigitalOcean
The Kitchen DigitalOcean driver now supports FreeBSD 10.4 and 11.2 in Kitchen configs.
Kitchen EC2
Kitchen EC2 has been updated to better support Windows systems. The auto-generated security group will now include support for RDP and the log directory will alway be created.
Kitchen Google
Kitchen Google now includes support for adding labels to instances with a new labels config that accepts labels as a hash.
Knife Windows
Knife Windows has improved Windows detection support to identify Windows 2012r2, 2016, and 10. Additionally when bootstrapping nodes, there is now support for using the client.d directories.
Please see the CHANGELOG for the complete list of changes.
Get the Build
As always, you can download binaries directly from downloads.chef.io or by using the mixlib-install :
$ mixlib-install download chef-dk -v 2.6.2
Alternatively, you can install Chef DK using one of the following command options:
# In Shell
$ curl https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -P chef-dk -v 2.6.2
# In Windows Powershell
. { iwr -useb https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.ps1 } | iex; install -project chef-dk -version 2.6.2
Cheers!
-Tyler