Linuxeden开源社区Chef 14.4.42 发布了，Chef 是一个系统集成框架，为整个架构提供配置管理功能。
更新内容如下：
- Validatorless bootstrap fix #7562 (coderanger)
- support repeated options in systemd_unit #7560 (dbresson)
- Support for battery power options in windows_task resource #7483 (dheerajd-msys)
- Restart Python yum helper before each repo enable/disable #7558 (cosinusoidally)
- Fix failed RHEL6 32-bit functional tests #7555 (lamont-granquist)
- Add new openssl resources: ec_private_key, ec_public_key, certificate, and x509_request #7513 (tas50)
- Update to openssl 1.0.2p #7546 (tas50)
- Add cron_d and cron_access resources #7253 (tas50)
- windows_package: Fix package sensitive error #7353 (dheerajd-msys)
- Require mixlib-shellout 2.4 or later #7543 (tas50)
- Fix issue of setting comment for windows user #7537 (NAshwini)
- Run rspec tests within a kitchen container on CentOS 7 #7529 (lamont-granquist)
- osx_profile: Use the full path to /usr/bin/profiles #7539 (tas50)
- Update inspec to 2.2.61 #7534 (tas50)
- Update omnibus to 5.6.15 #7536 (tas50)
- Bump Ohai to 14.4 #7532 (tas50)
- stop parsing init script at the “### END INIT INFO” marker. #7525 (goblin23)
- Maybe hold off on rspec 3.8 #7527 (cheeseplus)
- add chef_version API to provides lines #7524 (lamont-granquist)
- Prevent failures RHSM resources by using default_env in execute resources #7520 (tas50)
- [SHACK-290] Unpacking tarball paths suffer from URI error #7523 (tyler-ball)
- Always update both the loaded sysctl value and the sysctl.d value on disk #7519 (Nimesh-Msys)
- MSYS-858 : added warning if allow_downgrade set to be false and tried to install older version #7495 (piyushawasthi)
- [SHACK-304] Deprecation checking turns up false positive #7515 (tyler-ball)
- Add additional resource descriptions #7506 (tas50)
- Add support for setting task priority #7464 (Vasu1105)
- Assume credentials supplied are still valid if they cannot be validated due to a Windows account restriction #7416(stuartpreston)
- Bump version of ISO8601 to latest (0.11.0) #7505 (Nimesh-Msys)
- Add minor version bumping to Expeditor config #7501 (tas50)
- Make sure knife descriptions all have periods #7473 (tas50)
- Functional tests: Ensure we logon with the local security_user account #7498 (stuartpreston)
- Handling Quotes in Windows Task Commands and Arguments #7497 (Nimesh-Msys)
- Expand platform support for the route resource #7480 (tas50)
- ifconfig: Add gateway property on RHEL/Debian based systems #7475 (tas50)
- Pull in the latest inspec-core and train-core #7487 (tas50)
- group: convert to properties with descriptions and improve comma separated parsing #7474 (tas50)
- Allow specifying VLAN & Gateway on RHEL/Centos #6400 (tomdoherty)
- ifconfig: Allow specifying VLAN on RHEL/Centos #7478 (tas50)
- add back clean_array API #7477 (lamont-granquist)
- Bump version to 14.4.0 #7476 (tas50)
- Make gem_installer generate a valid Gemfile #6168 (oclaussen)
- Remove require json_compat where not used #7472 (tas50)
- Improve the error message when knife bootstrap windows isn’t installed #7470 (tas50)
- Move all knife cookbook site plugin logic into knife supermarket #7466 (tas50)
- Fix duplicated query parameters to resolve Chef::HTTP::Simple regression #7465 (lamont-granquist)
- Fixing array args in some unix providers #7379 (lamont-granquist)
- Add knife config get/use-profile commands #7455 (coderanger)
- Remove require mixlib/shellouts where not necessary #7457 (tas50)
- Add proper yard deprecated tags on methods #7452 (tas50)
- [MSYS-843] – Add remove_account_right function to win32/security #7445 (Nimesh-Msys)
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