Foodcritic 11.1 Released

Hey Everyone,

Foodcritic 11.1 has been released with several new deprecation checks to help your migration to the latest and greatest Chef releases. This release also ships with the Chef 12.20 metadata as the default, and includes a new command line option for specifying the path to a .foodcritic file.

  • Added FC086 - Use databag helper methods to load data bag items. Tags: style
  • Added FC087 - Library maps provider with deprecated Chef::Platform.set. Tags: chef13 deprecated
  • Added FC088 - Prefer Mixlib::Shellout over deprecated Chef::Mixin::Command. Tags: chef13 deprecated
  • Added FC089 - Prefer Mixlib::Shellout over deprecated Chef::ShellOut. Tags: chef13 deprecated
  • Added a new --rule-file flag to specify the path to your .foodcritic file
  • Added metadata for Chef 12.20.3 and made it the default
  • Updated several rule names to be more clear that we’re checking for deprecated functionality

-Tim