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Chef Client Release Notes :

Knife Key Management Commands for Users and Clients

knife user and knife client now have a suite of subcommands that live under the key subcommand. These subcommands allow you to list, show, create, delete and edit keys for a given user or client. They can be used to implement key rotation with multiple expiring keys for a single actor or just for basic key management. See knife user key and knife client key for a full list of subcommands and their usage.

System Loggers

Windows Event Logger

You can now have all Chef logs sent to the Windows Event Logger. The logger can be used by adding the following line to your chef config file:

log_location Chef::Log::WinEvt.new

This will write to the Application log with the source set as Chef.

RemoteFile resource supports UNC paths on Windows

You can now use UNC paths with remote_file on Windows machines. For example, you can get Foo.tar.gz off of fooshare on foohost using the following resource:

remote_file 'C:\Foo.tar.gz' do
  source "\\\\foohost\\fooshare\\Foo.tar.gz"
end

WindowsPackage resource supports URLs

The windows_package resource now allows specifying URLs for the source attribute. For example, you could install 7zip with the following resource:

windows_package '7zip' do
  source "http://www.7-zip.org/a/7z938-x64.msi"
end

Internally, this is done by using a remote_file resource to download the contents at the specified url. If needed, you can modify the attributes of the remote_file resource using the remote_file_attributes attribute. The remote_file_attributes accepts a hash of attributes that will be set on the underlying remote_file. For example, the checksum of the contents can be verified using

windows_package '7zip' do
  source "http://www.7-zip.org/a/7z938-x64.msi"
  remote_file_attributes {
    :path => "C:\\7zip.msi",
    :checksum => '7c8e873991c82ad9cfcdbdf45254ea6101e9a645e12977dcd518979e50fdedf3'
  }
end

To make the transition easier from the Windows cookbook, windows_package also accepts the checksum attribute, and the previous resource could be rewritten as:

windows_package '7zip' do
  source "http://www.7-zip.org/a/7z938-x64.msi"
  checksum '7c8e873991c82ad9cfcdbdf45254ea6101e9a645e12977dcd518979e50fdedf3'
end