Release: Chef Client 11.16.0 & Ohai 7.4.0 [feedly]

Release: Chef Client 11.16.0 & Ohai 7.4.0
http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/09/08/release-chef-client-11-16-0-ohai-7-4-0/

Ohai Chefs,

Today we've released Chef Client 11.16.0 and Ohai 7.4.0. The releases contain the following changes:

Chef Client 11.16.0

• MacOS: Fix dscl user provider to be able to manage home and password at the same time
• Support for  PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) on Windows

Ohai 7.4.0

• Ohai PowerShell plugin

Our thanks go out to:

• Phil Dibowitz for reporting the MacOS user provider issue.
• The PowerShell team at Microsoft for delivering the DSC platform on Windows, a great foundation on for Chef on Windows.

See GitHub for full details on changes in Chef Client 11.16.0 and Ohai 7.4.0:

• Chef Client RELEASE_NOTES.md and CHANGELOG.md.
• Ohai 7.4.0 RELEASE_NOTES.md and CHANGELOG.md

Installing Chef Client 11.16.0

You can install Chef Client 11.16.0 via script on non-windows platforms:

curl -L https://www.getchef.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -v 11.16.0

For Windows, you can download the release using this link:

Chef Client 11.16.0

If you encounter problems with the release, please file an issue at GitHub.

Thank you!

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