Pending Release Notes

New Features

• Added a --refresh-channel argument to hab pkg build and a -f argument to the hab studio commands. This informs the build program which refresh channel should be used when downloading dependencies for any of the following origins: core, chef, or chef-platform. The default value is stable. In a later release this will change to LTS-2024. As we move forward with LTS releases, the default will become the latest LTS channel. For example, after the LTS-2027 refresh, the default will be LTS-2027. Note that one would use the --refresh-channel argument in order to build a Chef Habitat plan against an older refresh. For instance, if you needed to build your plan against the obsolete stable channel, then you would set --refresh-channel to stable.

Improvements

Bug Fixes

Backward Incompatibilities

• Chef Habitat no longer includes support for Windows 7. Habitat uses a variety of open source low level libraries and some of these libraries no longer call the outdated Win32 API functions that Windows 7 expects. In order to keep Chef Habitat up to date and secure, we need to keep these open source dependencies up to date.