## Windows Task

The `windows_task` resource has been entirely rewritten. This resolves a large number of bugs, including being able to correctly set the start time of tasks, proper creation and deletion of tasks, and improves Chef's validation of tasks. The rewrite will also solve the idempotency problems that users have reported.

## build_essential

The `build_essential` resource no longer requires a name, similar to the `apt_update` resource.

## Ignore Failure

The `ignore_failure` property takes a new argument, `:quiet`, to suppress the error output when the resource does in fact fail.

## This release of Chef Infra Client 14 resolves a number of regressions in 14.0

- On Windows, the installer now correctly re-extracts files during repair mode
- Fix a number of issues relating to use with Red Hat Satellite
- Git fetch now prunes remotes before running
- Fix locking and unlocking packages with apt and zypper
- Ensure we don't request every remote file when running with lazy loading enabled
- The sysctl resource correctly handles missing keys when used with `ignore_error`
- --recipe-url apparently never worked on Windows. Now it does.

## Security Updates

### ffi Gem

- CVE-2018-1000201: DLL loading issue which can be hijacked on Windows OS

## Ohai 14.1

### Configurable DMI Whitelist

The whitelist of DMI IDs is now user configurable using the `additional_dmi_ids` configuration setting, which takes an Array.

### Shard plugin

The Shard plugin has been returned to a default plugin rather than an optional one. To ensure we work in FIPS environments, the plugin will use SHA256 rather than MD5 in those environments.

### SCSI plugin

A new plugin to enumerate SCSI devices has been added. This plugin is optional.

## Platform Additions

Chef Infra Client packages are now produced for Ubuntu 18.04 and Debian 9 platforms.