CHANGELOG.md

windows Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the windows cookbook.

2.1.1 (2016-11-23)

• Make sure the ohai plugin is available when installing features

2.1.0 (2016-11-22)

• Reduce expensive executions of dism in windows_feature by using a new Ohai plugin
• Add guard around chef_version metadata for Opsworks and older Chef 12 clients
• Update the rakefile to the latest
• Add deprecation dates for the windows_package and powershell functionality that has been moved to core Chef. These will be removed 4/17 when we release Chef 13
• Provide helper method to get windows version info
• Allow defining http acl using SDDL

2.0.2 (2016-09-07)

• Added the powershell_out mixin back to allow for Chef 12.1-12.3 compatibility
• Set the dependency back to Chef 12.1

2.0.1 (2016-09-07)

• Clarify the platforms we support in the readme
• Require Chef 12.4 which included powershell_out

2.0.0 (2016-09-07)

This cookbook now requires Chef 12.1+. Resources (lwrps) that have been moved into the chef-client have been removed from this cookbook. While the functionality in the chef-client is similar, and in many cases improved, the names and properties have changed in some cases. Make sure to check https://docs.chef.io/resources.html for full documentation on each of these resources, and as usual carefully test your cookbooks before upgrading to this new release.

Removed resources and helpers:

• windows_reboot provider
• windows_batch provider
• windows_registry provider
• Powershell out for only_if / not_if statements
• Windows Architecture Helper
• Reboot handler and the dependency on the chef_handler cookbook

Changes resource behavior

• For Chef clients 12.6 and later the windows_package provider will no longer be used as windows_package logic is now included in Chef. Chef 12.1 - 12.5.1 clients will continue to default to the windows_package provider in this cookbook for full compatibility.

Additional changes

• Updated and expanded testing
• Fixed the windows_feature powershell provider to run on Windows 2008 / 2008 R2
• Added TrustedPublisher as a valid cert store_name
• Updated the certificate_binding resource to respect the app_id property
• Added why-run support to the auto_run resource

1.44.3 (2016-08-16)

• Remove support for ChefSpec <4.1 in the matchers
• Add missing Chefspec matchers

1.44.2 (2016-08-15)

• Add missing windows_font matcher
• Add chef_version to the metadata
• Switch from Rubocop to Cookstyle and use our improved Rakefile
• Remove test deps from the Gemfile that are in ChefDK

v1.44.1

• PR 375 - Fix comparison of string to number in platform_version
• PR 376 - Switch to cookstyle, update gem deps and other minor stuff
• PR 377 - add test and check for feature installation through powershell

v1.44.0

• PR 372 - Support Server 2008 for feature installs via PowerShell

v1.43.0

• PR 369 - Add a enable_windows_task matcher

v1.42.0

• PR 365 - Escape command quotes when passing to schtasks

v1.41.0

• PR 364 - Configurable font source

v1.40.0

• PR 357 - Fixes for schtasks
• PR 359 - take bundler out of the appveyor build
• PR 356 - Misc fixes and updates
• PR 355 - bump and pin rubocop, fix broken cop
• PR 348 - Make notify work for windows_task

v1.39.2

• PR 329 - Silence compile_time warning for chef_gem
• PR 338 - ChefSpec matchers for windows_certificate
• PR 341 - Updated rubocop and FoodCritic compliance
• PR 336 - Fixed where clause compliance with PS v1/v2

v1.39.1

• PR 325 - Raise an error if a bogus feature is given to the powershell windows_feature provider
• PR 326 - Fix windows_font and copy the font file before installation

v1.39.0

• PR 305 - Added months attribute to windows_task and allow frequency_modifier to accept values 'FIRST', 'SECOND', 'THIRD', 'FOURTH', 'LAST', and 'LASTDAY' for monthly frequency
• PR 310 - Fix windows_task breaks when there is a space in the user name
• PR 314 - fixes reboot handling on some chef versions below 11.12
• PR 317 - Adds a disable_windows_task matcher
• PR 311 - Implements the cwd attribute of windows_task
• PR 318 - Use dsl instead of manual resource instanciation
• PR 303 - Fix http_acl idempotency when user name contains a space
• PR 257 - Speed up windows_feature dism provider
• PR 319 - Add a .kitchen.cloud.yml for kitchen testing on Azure
• PR 315 - Deprecate windows_package and forward to Chef::Provider::Package::Windows when running 12.6 or higher

v1.38.4

• PR 295 - Escape http_acl username
• PR 293 - Separating assignments to code_script and guard_script as they should be different scripts and not hold the same reference
• Issue 298 - windows_certificate_binding is ignoring store_name attribute and always saving to MY
• Issue 296 - Fixes windows_certificate idempotentcy on chef 11 clients

v1.38.3

• Make windows_task resource idempotent (double quotes need to be single when comparing)
• Issue 245 - Fix No resource, method, or local variable namedpassword' for Chef::Provider::WindowsTask' when interactive_enabled is true

v1.38.2

• Lazy-load windows-pr gem library files. Chef 12.5 no longer includes the windows-pr gem. Earlier versions of this cookbook will not compile on Chef 12.5.

v1.38.1 (2015-07-28)

• Publishing without extended metadata

v1.38.0 (2015-07-27)

• Do not set new_resource.password to nil, Fixes #219, Fixes #220
• Add windows_certificate resource #212
• Add windows_http_acl resource #214

v1.37.0 (2015-05-14)

• fix windows_package Chef.set_resource_priority_array warning
• update windows_task to support tasks in folders
• fix windows_task delete action
• replace windows_task name attribute with 'task_name'
• add :end action to 'windows_task'
• Tasks created with the windows_task resource default to the SYSTEM account
• The force attribute for windows_task makes the :create action update the definition.
• windows_task :create action will force an update of the task if the user or command differs from the currently configured setting.
• add default provider for windows_feature
• add a helper to make sure WindowsRebootHandler works in ChefSpec
• added a source and issues url to the metadata for Supermarket
• updated the Gemfile and .kitchen.yml to reflect the latest test-kitchen windows guest support
• started tests using the kitchen-pester verifier

v1.36.6 (2014-12-18)

• reverting all chef_gem compile_time work

v1.36.5 (2014-12-18)

• Fix zipfile provider

v1.36.4 (2014-12-18)

• Fix Chef chef_gem with Chef::Resource::ChefGem.method_defined?(:compile_time)

v1.36.3 (2014-12-18)

• Fix Chef chef_gem below 12.1.0

v1.36.2 (2014-12-17)

• Being explicit about usage of the chef_gem's compile_time property.
• Eliminating future deprecation warnings in Chef 12.1.0

v1.36.1 (2014-12-17)

• PR 160 - Fix Chef 11.10 / versions without windows_package in core

v1.36.0 (2014-12-16)

• PR 145 - do not fail on non-existant task
• PR 144 - Add a zip example to the README
• PR 110 - More zip documentation
• PR 148 - Add an LWRP for font installation
• PR 151 - Fix windows_package on Chef 12, add integration tests
• PR 129 - Add enable/disable actions to task LWRP
• PR 115 - require Chef::Mixin::PowershellOut before using it
• PR 88 - Code 1003 from servermanagercmd.exe is valid

v1.34.8 (2014-10-31)

• Issue 137 - windows_path resource breaks with ruby 2.x

v1.34.6 (2014-09-22)

• Chef-2009 - Patch to work around a regression in Chef

v1.34.2 (2014-08-12)

• Issue 99 - Remove rubygems / Internet wmi-lite dependency (PR #108)

v1.34.0 (2014-08-04)

• Issue 99 - Use wmi-lite to fix Chef 11.14.2 break in rdp-ruby-wmi dependency

v1.32.1 (2014-07-15)

• Fixes broken cookbook release

v1.32.0 (2014-07-11)

• Add ChefSpec resource methods to allow notification testing (@sneal)
• Add use_inline_resources to providers (@micgo)
• [COOK-4728] - Allow reboot handler to be used as an exception handler
• [COOK-4620] - Ensure win_friendly_path doesn't error out when ALT_SEPARATOR is nil

v1.31.0 (2014-05-07)

• [COOK-2934] - Add windows_feature support for 2 new DISM attributes: all, source

v1.30.2 (2014-04-02)

• [COOK-4414] - Adding ChefSpec matchers

v1.30.0 (2014-02-14)

• [COOK-3715] - Unable to create a startup task with no login
• [COOK-4188] - Add powershell_version method to return Powershell version

v1.12.8 (2014-01-21)

• [COOK-3988] Don't unescape URI before constructing it.

v1.12.6 (2014-01-03)

• [COOK-4168] Circular dep on powershell - moving powershell libraries into windows. removing dependency on powershell

v1.12.4

Fixing depend/depends typo in metadata.rb

v1.12.2

Bug

• COOK-4110 - feature_servermanager installed? method regex bug

v1.12.0

Bug

• COOK-3793 - parens inside parens of README.md don't render

New Feature

• COOK-3714 - Powershell features provider and delete support.

v1.11.0

Improvement

• COOK-3724 - Rrecommend built-in resources over cookbook resources
• COOK-3515 - Remove unprofessional comment from library
• COOK-3455 - Add Windows Server 2012R2 to windows cookbook version helper

Bug

• COOK-3542 - Fix an issue where windows_zipfile fails with LoadError
• COOK-3447 - Allow Overriding Of The Default Reboot Timeout In windows_reboot_handler
• COOK-3382 - Allow windows_task to create on_logon tasks
• COOK-2098 - Fix and issue where the windows_reboot handler is ignoring the reboot time

New Feature

• COOK-3458 - Add support for start_date and start_time in windows_task

v1.10.0

Improvement

• [COOK-3126]: windows_task should support the on start frequency
• [COOK-3127]: Support the force option on task create and delete

v1.9.0

Bug

• [COOK-2899]: windows_feature fails when a feature install requires a reboot
• [COOK-2914]: Foodcritic failures in Cookbooks
• [COOK-2983]: windows cookbook has foodcritic failures

Improvement

• [COOK-2686]: Add Windows Server 2012 to version.rb so other depending chef scripts can detect Windows Server 2012

v1.8.10

When using Windows qualified filepaths (C:/foo), the #absolute? method for URI returns true, because "C" is the scheme.

This change checks that the URI is http or https scheme, so it can be passed off to remote_file appropriately.

• [COOK-2729] - allow only http, https URI schemes

v1.8.8

• [COOK-2729] - helper should use URI rather than regex and bare string

v1.8.6

• [COOK-968] - windows_package provider should gracefully handle paths with spaces
• [COOK-222] - windows_task resource does not declare :change action
• [COOK-241] - Windows cookbook should check for redefined constants
• [COOK-248] - Windows package install type is case sensitive

v1.8.4

• [COOK-2336] - MSI That requires reboot returns with RC 3010 and causes chef run failure
• [COOK-2368] - version attribute of the windows_package provider should be documented

v1.8.2

Important: Use powershell in nodes expanded run lists to ensure powershell is downloaded, as powershell has a dependency on this cookbook; v1.8.0 created a circular dependency.

• [COOK-2301] - windows 1.8.0 has circular dependency on powershell

v1.8.0

• [COOK-2126] - Add checksum attribute to windows_zipfile
• [COOK-2142] - Add printer and printer_port LWRPs
• [COOK-2149] - Chef::Log.debug Windows Package command line
• [COOK-2155] -windows_package does not send checksum to cached_file in installer_type

v1.7.0

• [COOK-1745] - allow for newer versions of rubyzip

v1.6.0

• [COOK-2048] - undefined method for Falseclass on task :change when action is :nothing (and task doesn't exist)
• [COOK-2049] - Add windows_pagefile resource

v1.5.0

• [COOK-1251] - Fix LWRP "NotImplementedError"
• [COOK-1921] - Task LWRP will return true for resource exists when no other scheduled tasks exist
• [COOK-1932] - Include :change functionality to windows task lwrp

v1.4.0:

• [COOK-1571] - windows_package resource (with msi provider) does not accept spaces in filename
• [COOK-1581] - Windows cookbook needs a scheduled tasks LWRP
• [COOK-1584] - windows_registry should support all registry types

v1.3.4

• [COOK-1173] - windows_registry throws Win32::Registry::Error for action :remove on a nonexistent key
• [COOK-1182] - windows package sets start window title instead of quoting a path
• [COOK-1476] - zipfile lwrp should support :zip action
• [COOK-1485] - package resource fails to perform install correctly when "source" contains quote
• [COOK-1519] - add action :remove for path lwrp

v1.3.2

• [COOK-1033] - remove the libraries/ruby_19_patches.rb file which causes havoc on non-Windows systems.
• [COOK-811] - add a timeout parameter attribute for windows_package

v1.3.0

• [COOK-1323] - Update for changes in Chef 0.10.10.

  • Setting file mode doesn't make sense on Windows (package provider
  • and reboot_handler recipe)
  • Prefix ::Win32 to avoid namespace collision with Chef::Win32
  • (registry_helper library)
  • Use chef_gem instead of gem_package so gems get installed correctly under the Ruby environment Chef runs in (reboot_handler recipe, zipfile provider)

v1.2.12

• [COOK-1037] - specify version for rubyzip gem
• [COOK-1007] - windows_feature does not work to remove features with dism
• [COOK-667] - shortcut resource + provider for Windows platforms

v1.2.10

• [COOK-939] - add type parameter to windows_registry to allow binary registry keys.
• [COOK-940] - refactor logic so multiple values get created.

v1.2.8

• FIX: Older Windows (Windows Server 2003) sometimes return 127 on successful forked commands
• FIX: windows_package, ensure we pass the WOW* registry redirection flags into reg.open

v1.2.6

• patch to fix [CHEF-2684], Open4 is named Open3 in Ruby 1.9
• Ruby 1.9's Open3 returns 0 and 42 for successful commands
• retry keyword can only be used in a rescue block in Ruby 1.9

v1.2.4

• windows_package - catch Win32::Registry::Error that pops up when searching certain keys

v1.2.2

• combined numerous helper libarires for easier sharing across libaries/LWRPs

• renamed Chef::Provider::WindowsFeature::Base file to the more descriptive feature_base.rb

• refactored windows_path LWRP

  • :add action should MODIFY the the underlying ENV variable (vs CREATE)
  • deleted greedy :remove action until it could be made more idempotent

• added a windows_batch resource/provider for running batch scripts remotely

v1.2.0

• [COOK-745] gracefully handle required server restarts on Windows platform

  • WindowsRebootHandler for requested and pending reboots
  • windows_reboot LWRP for requesting (receiving notifies) reboots
  • reboot_handler recipe for enabling WindowsRebootHandler as a report handler

• [COOK-714] Correct initialize misspelling

• RegistryHelper - new get_values method which returns all values for a particular key.

v1.0.8

• [COOK-719] resource/provider for managing windows features
• [COOK-717] remove windows_env_vars resource as env resource exists in core chef
• new Windows::Version helper class
• refactored Windows::Helper mixin

v1.0.6

• added force_modify action to windows_registry resource
• add win_friendly_path helper
• re-purpose default recipe to install useful supporting windows related gems

v1.0.4

• [COOK-700] new resources and improvements to the windows_registry provider (thanks Paul Morton!)

  • Open the registry in the bitednes of the OS
  • Provide convenience methods to check if keys and values exit
  • Provide convenience method for reading registry values
  • NEW - windows_auto_run resource/provider
  • NEW - windows_env_vars resource/provider
  • NEW - windows_path resource/provider

• re-write of the windows_package logic for determining current installed packages

• new checksum attribute for windows_package resource...useful for remote packages

v1.0.2

• [COOK-647] account for Wow6432Node registry redirecter
• [COOK-656] begin/rescue on win32/registry

v1.0.0

• [COOK-612] initial release