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Chef Habitat Release Notes

Chef Habitat 1.6.420

Released on November 1, 2021

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Chef Habitat 1.6.416

Released on October 28, 2021

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Chef Habitat 1.6.415

Released on October 28, 2021

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Chef Habitat 1.6.400

Released on October 12, 2021

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Chef Habitat 1.6.351

Released on July 7, 2021

Chef Habitat 1.6.319

Released on May 12, 2021

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Chef Habitat 1.6.288

Released on April 5, 2021

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Chef Habitat 1.6.267

Released on March 9, 2021

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Chef Habitat 1.6.235

Released on January 6, 2021

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Chef Habitat 1.6.216

Released on December 1, 2020

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Chef Habitat 1.6.181

Released on October 30, 2020

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Chef Habitat 1.6.175

Released on October 28, 2020

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Chef Habitat 1.6.139

Released on August 25, 2020

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Chef Habitat 1.6.115

Released on August 10, 2020

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Chef Habitat 1.6.56

Released on June 22, 2020

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Chef Habitat 1.6.39

Released on May 28, 2020

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Chef Habitat 1.6.0

Released on April 21, 2020

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Chef Habitat 1.5.86

Released on April 9, 2020

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Chef Habitat 1.5.71

Released on March 19, 2020

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Bug Fixes

New Features & Enhancements

Behavioral Changes

  • When follower services restart during a rolling update all packages newer than the package the leader updated to are automatically uninstalled. This ensures that the leader and followers are running the same package. #7556 (davidMcneil)

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Chef Habitat 1.5.50

Released on March 3, 2020

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Bug Fixes

New Features & Enhancements

  • adds hab origin info subcommand #7445 (jeremymv2)
  • Add flag to ignore missing packages in seed lists #7512 (smacfarlane)
  • Get-HabPackagePath accepts any valid ident like pkg_path_for #7505 (mwrock)
  • add NO_NAMED_PIPE_HEALTH_CHECK feature flag to suppress named pipe on windows #7474 (mwrock)
  • provide guidance on 409 conflict #7473 (jeremymv2)
  • windows-service improvements #7422 (mwrock)

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Chef Habitat 1.5.29

Released on February 11, 2020

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Chef Habitat 1.5.0

Released on January 29, 2020

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Behavioral Changes

  • Remove the HAB_FEAT_EVENT_STREAM feature flag. The event stream is now enabled with --event-stream-url. #7335 (davidMcneil)
  • Deprecate and ignore the --application and --environment flags from hab svc load and hab sup run commands. #7335 (davidMcneil)
  • The initial event stream connection attempt no longer blocks by default. Set –event-stream-connect-timeout if blocking is desired. #7293 (davidMcneil)

New Features & Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • Ensure that signal handlers are installed first #7356 (christophermaier)
  • Fix rolling updates after the death of group members #7167 (mwrock)
  • The initial event stream connect attempt will not block the main thread when –event-stream-connect-timeout=0 #7293 (davidMcneil)
  • Event stream messages are always immediately processed (even when disconnected). This prevents a “thundering herd” of messages on reconnect. #7293 (davidMcneil)
  • do not attempt to set binlink path if not in an elevated console #7319 (mwrock)
  • Fix lock when spawning windows processes #7213 (davidMcneil)

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Behavioral Changes

  • Update install scripts to pull from packages.chef.io for new releases #7119 (smacfarlane)

Chef Habitat 0.90.6

Released on November 13, 2019

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New Features & Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • remove IGNORE_SIGNALS feature #7140 (mwrock)
  • fix version checks in windows tar exporter #7125 (mwrock)
  • sup: immediately set initialization_state if no init hook exists #7117 (stevendanna)
  • Fully qualified package names download irrespective of channel #7108 (markan)
  • fix tar exporter on windows #7116 (mwrock)
  • stop windows service if launcher exits #7099 (mwrock)
  • Initialize health check gateway state to Unknown #7087 (stevendanna)
  • add windows system paths to environment PATH variable if included #7073 (mwrock)
  • make pkg download fail when zero packages #7068 (markan)
  • do not use hab as default user on windows #7059 (mwrock)
  • Order objects used for template data #7031 (raskchanky)
  • fixes using a svc_user on windows #7049 (mwrock)

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Chef Habitat 0.88.0

Released on October 15, 2019

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New Features & Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • HTTP 200 indicates successful response from hab bldr channel delete #7002 (jeremymv2)
  • pass supervisor pid to named pipe server instead of querying it from server to fix win7 #6998 (mwrock)
  • set connection header to close on all ApiClient requests #6993 (mwrock)
  • do not inject studio environment with ctl_secret from cli.toml #6988 (mwrock)
  • use -file instead of -command when forwarding args to hab-studio.ps1 so that args are passed as individual args and not as a single string #6985 (mwrock)

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Chef Habitat 0.85.0

Released on September 17, 2019

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Chef Habitat 0.83.0

Released on July 29, 2019

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Bug Fixes

  • Improve liveliness checker #6714 (baumanj)
  • Stop health check futures when upgrading the Supervisor #6717 (christophermaier)
  • do not overwrite PSModulePath when setting up build environment #6697 (mwrock)
  • provide a better error when no value is passed to Set-BuildtimeEnv or Set-RuntimeEnv #6684 (mwrock)
  • Remove recusive memberlist locking #6662 (baumanj)
  • allow windows service to set arbitrary environment variables #6648 (mwrock)

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0.82.0 (2019-06-06)

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Behavioral Changes

  • Add --binlink-dir argument to hab pkg install #6597 (baumanj)

New Features & Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • remove trailing space from env vars set in export docker build #6540 (mwrock)

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0.81.0 (2019-05-06)

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Bug Fixes

  • Add habitat_common::sync::Lock type for recursive read locking #6436 (baumanj)
  • Add HAB_LICENSE to 2 more spots in our release automation #6497 (raskchanky)
  • Ensure the install script has accepted the license #6503 (raskchanky)

Merged Pull Requests

  • Update docs and Makefile for 0.81.0 #6529 (raskchanky)
  • adds working code and test for altering a package name to make it val… #6524 (nellshamrell)
  • Update the docker exporter docs to include HAB_LICENSE instructions #6525 (raskchanky)
  • Propagate host license acceptance into docker containers #6522 (raskchanky)
  • Sets project status and SLA #6473 (dmccown)
  • Revert "Switch to parking_lot's RwLock and add CI deadlock detection" #6513 (raskchanky)

0.80.0 (2019-04-30)

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New Features & Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • add ltsc2016 tag for windowsservercore base images #6470 (mwrock)
  • Fix detection of emacs in studio #6390 (smacfarlane)
  • build_component.ps1 should enter a non interactive container and forward exit code #6476 (mwrock)

Behavioral Changes

  • Make –binlink take an value (or env var) for hab pkg install #6423 (baumanj)
  • Add a license agreement prompt to hab #6364 (raskchanky)

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0.79.1 (2019-04-10)

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Bug Fixes

  • add studio powershell directory to path on studio creation so it is propogated to supervisor #6400 (mwrock)

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0.79.0 (2019-04-01)

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New Features & Enhancements

Behavioral Changes

  • Remove uses of default_cache_key_path #6336 (baumanj)
  • Remove uses of core's default_cache_key_path #6326 (baumanj)
  • Remove usage of habitat_core::binlink::default_binlink_dir #6315 (baumanj)
  • macOS still needs –interactive and –tty set #6295 (raskchanky)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix positional args, tweak err handling for promote/demote/delete #6379 (chefsalim)
  • Properly pass CLI args to hab origin key import #6363 (baumanj)
  • start supervisor outside of interactive powershell session in local windows studio #6353 (mwrock)
  • Revert "remove old content" feature #6348 (christophermaier)
  • Remove offensively-named command in favor of updated version #6343 (baumanj)
  • uninstall should not rename to existing directory on windows #6322 (mwrock)
  • Use POSIX unset rather than Busybox env -u for HAB_STUDIO_BINARY #6318 (christophermaier)
  • windows docker studio should output sup log in color and without timestamp #6312 (mwrock)
  • turn off supervisor log coloring in local windows studio if ANSI is not supported #6306 (mwrock)
  • eliminate false error noise from windows launcher #6313 (mwrock)
  • Use subshells and unset to actually unset environment variables #6296 (christophermaier)
  • implement platform specific UI symbols #6290 (mwrock)

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Chef Habitat 0.82.0

Released on June 6, 2019

0.82.0 (2019-06-06)

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Behavioral Changes

  • Add --binlink-dir argument to hab pkg install #6597 (baumanj)

New Features & Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • remove trailing space from env vars set in export docker build #6540 (mwrock)

Merged Pull Requests

Chef Habitat 0.81.0

Released on May 8, 2019

0.81.0 (2019-05-06)

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Bug Fixes

  • Add habitat_common::sync::Lock type for recursive read locking #6436 (baumanj)
  • Add HAB_LICENSE to 2 more spots in our release automation #6497 (raskchanky)
  • Ensure the install script has accepted the license #6503 (raskchanky)

Merged Pull Requests

  • Update docs and Makefile for 0.81.0 #6529 (raskchanky)
  • adds working code and test for altering a package name to make it val… #6524 (nellshamrell)
  • Update the docker exporter docs to include HAB_LICENSE instructions #6525 (raskchanky)
  • Propagate host license acceptance into docker containers #6522 (raskchanky)
  • Sets project status and SLA #6473 (dmccown)
  • Revert “Switch to parking_lot’s RwLock and add CI deadlock detection” #6513 (raskchanky)

Chef Habitat 0.80.0

Released on April 30, 2019

0.80.0 (2019-04-30)

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New Features & Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • add ltsc2016 tag for windowsservercore base images #6470 (mwrock)
  • Fix detection of emacs in studio #6390 (smacfarlane)
  • build_component.ps1 should enter a non interactive container and forward exit code #6476 (mwrock)

Behavioral Changes

  • Make –binlink take an value (or env var) for hab pkg install #6423 (baumanj)
  • Add a license agreement prompt to hab #6364 (raskchanky)

Merged Pull Requests

Chef Habitat 0.79.1

Released on April 11, 2019

0.79.1 (2019-04-10)

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Bug Fixes

  • add studio powershell directory to path on studio creation so it is propogated to supervisor #6400 (mwrock)

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