Chef - v18.0.163

](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v18.0.163) (2022-10-14)

Merged Pull Requests

• Fixes bug in compare_user on Linux systems #13223 (fretb)

Changes not yet released to stable

Merged Pull Requests

• Fixes bug in compare_user on Linux systems #13223 (fretb)
• Updated release notes to consider cookstyle verification point #13225 (blabade)
• Adding a new repository to ensure images match the cache #13237 (johnmccrae)
• updating builders to add server 2012 back in #13235 (johnmccrae)
• Reenable Solaris build/release #13232 (tpowell-progress)
• Do not raise if we can't close win resource handle #13229 (marcparadise)
• Fix term and privilege related broken tests in Solaris build #13230 (tpowell-progress)
• On AIX, add delay to ensure members added to group are visible to tests #13220 (neha-p6)
• Disable platforms still under development #13218 (marcparadise)
• Update to latest omnibus #13216 (marcparadise)
• Allow user providers to declare no support for ruby-shadow #13213 (marcparadise)
• Permit ruby 3.0 for AIX #13207 (marcparadise)
• Update Chef version in Gemfile.lock under knife #13203 (neha-p6)
• Separate gemspec for windows #13202 (neha-p6)
• Windows Verify Plan fails during "Rake Install rest-client" #13199 (johnmccrae)
• Remove the chef17 git clone step #13197 (tpowell-progress)
• Update omnibus gem hash as well #13198 (tpowell-progress)
• Force omnibus version #13193 (tpowell-progress)
• Tweaking env variables in the config.yml file #13178 (johnmccrae)
• Move Gemfile.locks to 2.3.7 and disable .github kitchen install of 2.3.18 #13176 (tpowell-progress)
• The worker container for expeditor needs to use Ruby 3.1.0 #13171 (PrajaktaPurohit)
• Add empty pipeline for macos universal package #13152 (vkarve-chef)
• Add newline to end of sysctl files #13118 (tmccombs)
• fix chef_client_scheduled_task splay to accept 0 #13095 (Stromweld)
• add url for principal names #13104 (Stromweld)
• Added how to doc with details about documentation for infra client resources #13046 (neha-p6)
• Wording change in error for missing recipe dependency ("Obvious Fix") #13061 (c-drive)
• Require etc library #13068 (curzonj)
• Bump omnibus-software from a9b13a0 to 1d540dc in /omnibus #13089 (dependabot[bot])
• Re add: Use new msys2 based devkit for windows"" #13097 (neha-p6)
• Skip tests on FreeBSD-13 #13079 (poorndm)
• Add AIX-7.3 to Build Matrix #13058 (poorndm)
• update property DSL docs #13093 (jasonwbarnett)
• Revert "Use new msys2 based devkit for windows" #13063 (neha-p6)
• Fixed sensitive properties unsuppressed content issue #13014 (blabade)
• Fix issue in adhoc nightly builds #13059 (neha-p6)
• Use new msys2 based devkit for windows #13038 (mwrock)
• Use dist constant when invoking knife configure #12926 (ramereth)
• Add nightlies for chef-17 to run every Tue, Thu and chef-16 to run every Tue #13018 (PrajaktaPurohit)
• AdHoc Pipeline Windows PageFile Test errors #13009 (johnmccrae)
• Fix fedora kitchen test failure #13020 (neha-p6)
• Refactored tests for older Windows versions #13019 (johnmccrae)
• Correcting Cert creation for rspec tests #13010 (johnmccrae)
• Updated Ruby version in omnibus_overrides #12995 (johnmccrae)
• Fix documentation for chef_client_scheduled_task #12917 (williamtheaker)
• Zypper package source property addition #12182 (manick-vel-11)
• Smriti/3884 mounting cifs shares with spaces #11626 (msys-sgarg)
• Fix cron_d job name character set #12377 (hamarituc)
• Add CONTAINER_IMAGE dist constant #12806 (jakauppila)
• Stop executing locale-gen on every chef run by adding -h flag #12833 (hrak)
• KTLO - Updating authenticator.rb to correct for random password creation failures #12980 (johnmccrae)
• refactoring the version check #12988 (johnmccrae)
• Bumping license_scout version #12992 (johnmccrae)
• Adjusting cert creation for older Windows platforms #12965 (johnmccrae)
• Bump ohai to 18.0.14 #12973 (chef-expeditor[bot])
• Update the command to enable adhoc jobs for chef/chef main pipeline #12979 (PrajaktaPurohit)
• Fix error 'error validating X-Vault-AWS-IAM-Server-ID header: missing header X-Vault-AWS-IAM-Server-ID' in Hashi Vault secret manager for AWS IAM auth method #12956 (neha-p6)
• Add nightly builds for chef/chef:main #12971 (PrajaktaPurohit)
• Remove the beta feature warning which shows up when using Secret Manager #12925 (neha-p6)
• adding UCRT support to the build pipelines #12959 (johnmccrae)
• Updated ncurses and gems #12953 (johnmccrae)
• Updated files to account for pem storage in the Certificate Store #12910 (johnmccrae)
• updated version data to properly account for Windows 11 and its assoc… #12919 (johnmccrae)
• Knife upload: bad error message when a recipe has a syntax error #11678 (snehaldwivedi)
• updating throw statement to only execute on non-zero exit codes #12918 (johnmccrae)
• Refactoring Windows certificate code and tests to reflect updates in the win32-certstore gem #12859 (johnmccrae)
• flush package cache after registering via rhsm_register #12828 (jasonwbarnett)
• handling exception for compliance phase error during chef spec run #12830 (i5pranay93)
• Renamed private method as conflicting to inbuilt method and getting warning #12849 (sanga1794)
• Bump berkshelf from 7.2.2 to 8.0.0 in /omnibus #12837 (dependabot[bot])
• add expire and inactive options to linux user resource #11659 (Stromweld)
• Fix chef_client_config template rendering #12817 (jasonwbarnett)
• main - Update bundle #12788 (neha-p6)
• Updates for the chef_client_config resource #12732 (chef-davin)
• SELinux integration to infra client #12694 (neha-p6)
• Updating For Ruby 3.1 #12769 (johnmccrae)
• Updating gemfile.locks #12751 (johnmccrae)
• Rest Resource Support #12755 (lamont-granquist)
• Bump omnibus-software in Gemfile.lock #12754 (jeremiahsnapp)
• Bump libxslt to 1.1.35 #12752 (jeremiahsnapp)
• Fix attribute performance issues in node.read #12742 (lamont-granquist)
• Add rubygems_url property to chef_client_config resource #12724 (DecoyJoe)
• Bump libxml2 to 2.9.13 #12739 (johnmccrae)
• avoid coercion to block for new plist file content, fix adding a new dictionary #12680 (jazaval)
• Add support for default secret service and config #12140 (jasonwbarnett)
• Client code to put a certificate into the certstore and then retrieve it later during a chef-run. Unit tests included #12640 (johnmccrae)
• update libxml2 to 2.9.12 #12730 (johnmccrae)
• Package resource was calling a non-existent error method #12722 (johnmccrae)
• update chef client launchd to run at load #12706 (rishichawda)
• Enable ruby 3.1 testing on verify pipeline for unix, fix breakage #12695 (lamont-granquist)
• Use the latest libarchive (3.6.0) #12648 (tas50)
• Ruby 3.1 fixes #12696 (lamont-granquist)
• Chef-18: Enable unifed_mode by default #12692 (lamont-granquist)
• Fix windows kitchen tests #12693 (lamont-granquist)
• Fix PEM file generation when user is created #12619 (sanjain-progress)
• Bump omnibus-software from f64a223 to 5947560 in /omnibus #12670 (dependabot[bot])
• Modernize the http_request resource code and specs #12682 (lamont-granquist)
• Updated Rspec to add verbose logging #12683 (johnmccrae)
• turn off caching for adhoc pipelines #12661 (lamont-granquist)
• Add OMNITRUCK_URL dist constant #12654 (ramereth)
• Update to libffi 3.4.2 #12658 (tas50)
• Update nokogiri to 1.13.1 #12649 (tas50)
• Fix multiple regressions in yum_package provider #12657 (lamont-granquist)
• Stop cleaning the dokken sandbox #12656 (lamont-granquist)
• Bump train-rest to 0.4.2 #12653 (chef-expeditor[bot])
• Bump chef/ohai to 77929155a6f82b7e65db624b37766bf9fb5f81fb #12638 (chef-expeditor[bot])
• Bump chef/ohai to 58462789693e00c45c422f347c64d612862c104e #12637 (chef-expeditor[bot])
• Add train-rest as a dep for target mode #12633 (tas50)
• Add --always-dump-stacktrace to integration tests that use chef-client #12615 (neha-p6)
• Bump omnibus-software from eb3cc77 to d5ff796 in /omnibus #12628 (dependabot[bot])
• Loosen the win32-api dep to allow for the latest releases #12614 (tas50)
• Bump chef/ohai to 594372d3a48ccea6d2eddd173bc1281f314f0f09 #12616 (chef-expeditor[bot])
• More ruby 3.0 fixes #12621 (lamont-granquist)
• Disable knife gem install in kitchen tests #12618 (lamont-granquist)
• Bump chef/chefstyle to 8459a2f943dcef42a27518563eaf0b2dad3b4972 #12611 (chef-expeditor[bot])
• fixes for #12589 for compliance audit-enforcer reporter #12595 (collinmcneese)
• Bump omnibus-software from a4f4849 to d602268 in /omnibus #12592 (dependabot[bot])
• Pin openssl to 1.1.1m #12598 (jayashrig158)
• Validate resource spec passed to subscribes #12525 (neha-p6)
• Avoid calculating etc_chef_dir multiple times on startup #12581 (neha-p6)
• Bump omnibus-software from 91c1297 to a4f4849 in /omnibus #12585 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump omnibus from 55e74ac to cf9ef0a in /omnibus #12584 (dependabot[bot])
• Fix windows hab builds with rake install:local #12579 (lamont-granquist)
• Bump omnibus-software from c7a43ec to 91c1297 in /omnibus #12576 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump corefoundation to 0.3.13 #12574 (chef-expeditor[bot])
• Make sure network scripts dir exists on alma #12565 (tas50)
• net-ftp isn't bundled in Ruby 3.1 anymore so dep on it #12399 (tas50)
• Switch from centos-8 to almalinux-8 #12544 (tas50)
• Eager load ffi-libarchive to resolve centos-7 failures #12552 (lamont-granquist)
• Relax dep on diff-lcs now that 1.4.0 regression is fixed #12534 (tas50)
• Bump pedump from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4 in /omnibus #12536 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump omnibus-software from 1c00b6d to 791cc46 in /omnibus #12550 (dependabot[bot])
• Add constant for ChefServer system user #12513 (aleksey-hariton)
• Updated the chef client to retrieve certs from the Windows Cert store. #12426 (johnmccrae)
• Adding support to move the client.pem to secure storage #12518 (johnmccrae)
• Chef 18 - Added constant with Server`s docs url #12539 (aleksey-hariton)
• Fix inspec waivers in compliance mode #12523 (lamont-granquist)
• Bump omnibus from 201afa9 to 55e74ac in /omnibus #12529 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump omnibus-software from aa02d49 to 1c00b6d in /omnibus #12528 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump fauxhai-ng to 9.3.0 #12516 (chef-expeditor[bot])
• Suppress deprecation warning for chef-client-updater cookbook #12502 (lamont-granquist)
• Bump omnibus from 9c83f73 to 201afa9 in /omnibus #12508 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump omnibus-software from c2fb9a4 to aa02d49 in /omnibus #12504 (dependabot[bot])
• Add an expeditor corefoundation subscription #12498 (lamont-granquist)
• replace links in resource doc examples #12482 (IanMadd)
• Bump omnibus-software from dd555fa to c2fb9a4 in /omnibus #12484 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump omnibus from 7c5db7e to 9c83f73 in /omnibus #12485 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump omnibus from 2bf77bb to 7c5db7e in /omnibus #12481 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump package gems and omnibus gems #12457 (lamont-granquist)
• Bump chef/ohai to ad16192e00b4fa686756a72f081d3496d33a1698 #12449 (chef-expeditor[bot])
• Bump omnibus-software from 2e637bf to 16e5ae5 in /omnibus #12451 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump chef/chefstyle to d2ab8682d167351e5c5d864700a6bc4dac4ddf46 #12452 (chef-expeditor[bot])
• user: handle nil home dirs on macOS #12443 (tas50)
• chef_client_config: ensure config property directories exist #12416 (Stromweld)
• Bump omnibus-software from 94ef29b to 2e637bf in /omnibus #12439 (dependabot[bot])
• fix typo in chef-sleep resource documentation example block #12441 (JHBoricua)
• Fix ruby cleanup breaking builds #12440 (tas50)
• Add Amazon 2022 to our pipeline #12437 (tas50)
• Bump version to 18.0 and fix master references #12432 (tas50)
• Bump omnibus-software from b6dd27a to 94ef29b in /omnibus #12429 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump chef/ohai to fc48360746fa102f1c46ed1aee82896d94a3d4a3 #12427 (chef-expeditor[bot])
• Resolve Performance/RegexpMatch warnings #12411 (tas50)
• Resolve Performance/Count warning #12410 (tas50)
• Reduce 213 requires from each knife call #12409 (tas50)
• Simplify file reads #12386 (tas50)