Per @tyler-ball's suggestion:
https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchen/pull/703#issuecomment...

While trying to learn about ssh timeouts with test-kitchen and the
kitchen-ec2 driver I tried up...

Updating CHANGELOG and version for 1.4.1 release

Fixing issues to support windows in kitchen-ec2, fixes #688, fixes #733

generate a chefignore during init, fixes #732

Fix failing feature in `kitchen drvier discover` due to too many gems.

The code for `kitchen driver discover` was written when there weren't
many RubyGem Drivers publi...

Revert "Use a relative name for the connection class."

Use a relative name for the connection class.

This makes life easier for subclassing.

don't prompt for passwords when using public keys

Update platform version defaults in `kitchen init` command.

The updated platforms are:

- ubuntu-14.04
- centos-7.1

References #707
References #663
Referen...

Bump to centos-6.6, fix #663.

Thanks @tyler-ball for the tip on how to write it.

Sometimes when an ssh server is starting up it will accept connections
but fail any authenticati...

[Transport::Ssh] Add default :compression & :compression_level attrs.

This commit introduces 2 new configuration attributes for all SSH
Transports:

* `:compression` ...

[Transport::SSH] Expand path for `:ssh_key` if provided in kitchen.yml.

Closes #389

[ChefSolo,ChefZero] Ensure that secret key is deleted before converge.

This fixes an issue where the permissions of the file on the workstation
get transferred to the ...

[Transport::Winrm] Extract dependant code to winrm-transport gem.

This commit extracts the implementation logic for the WinRM Transport
and all of its associated ...

[CommandExecutor] Move ObjectSpace finalizer logic into executor.

Any remote shell cleanup needs to be handled by the CommandExecutor so
that it attempts to close...

Due to wildy varied differences of how different distributions manage
their `$PATH`, we augment ...

This commit adds a new metadata field for each type of plugin (Drivers,
Provisioner, Verifiers, ...

Add `plugin_version` support for all plugin types.

This commit provides a new mechanism to report the version of the loaded
Driver, Provisioner, Ve...

Add plugin diagnostics, exposed via `kitchen diagnose`.

This command adds a new flag to `kitchen diagnose`: `--plugins` which
adds a `:plugins` hash to ...

- centos-6.4 is no longer available from opscode-vm-bento.
- Didn't fix kitchen_list_command.fea...

Updated for sh compatibility based on install.sh code

[ChefZero] Consider `:require_chef_omnibus = 11` to be modern version.

[ChefZero,ChefSolo] Support symbol values in solo.rb & client.rb.

We should only care about versions of Chef less than 11.8.0 to be "old"
(i.e. pre-dating chef-cl...

This will allow for setting such as the following to serialize correctly
into `client.rb` or `so...

Add :sudo_command to Provisioners, Verifiers, & ShellOut.

In an effort to better support older distros (such as CentOS 5), and
other distros which don't s...

[Provisioner::Shell] Add HTTP proxy support to commands.

[Transport::Winrm] Truncate destination file for overwriting.

If the destination file already exists and is larger than the new
source, the tail of the file w...

Further backwards compatibility effort

Here are the implementation details for these methods (intended only to
preserve behavior for ex...

Test Kitchen 1.4 Refactoring (SSH/WinRM Transports, Windows Support, etc)

Note that the code changes outside `Unzip-File` are refactorings to
ensure the PowerShell script...

open zip file in binary mode to avoid corrupting zip files on windows

As the fallback default, a Winrm Transport will be set up for all
Platforms whose name matches `...

The updated rule is as follows:

* If the platform name begins with "win" (case insensitive), th...

There were 2 issues found when running Windows Server 2008r2 instances:

* The `Dispose()` metho...

This would make all calls to `gem` work like the following for
PowerShell:

& \path\to\bin\r...

This is to deal with older Omnibus packages, only on Windows. The batch
file wrappers for `chef-...

Conflicts:
.gitignore
lib/kitchen/provisioner/chef_base.rb

This will make `kitchen diagnose` output clearer as to what is tuneable.

Formerly, `:http_proxy` and `:https_proxy` configuration was set in
driver blocks for use by Dri...

Now `kitchen list` has all 4 plugin types represented:

* Driver
* Provisioner
* Verifier
* Tran...

All shell-related code has been redistributed throughout the codebase,
primarily in Provisioner ...

The following methods have landed in `Configurable`, which was extracted
from `Provisioner::Chef...

Potentially Breaking Notes
==========================

This is a potentially breaking change to ...

Verifiers are a type of plugin like Drivers, Provisioners, and
Transports. They recieve configur...

Now Busser uses the same intialization as Drivers, Provisioners, and
Transports (using `#finaliz...

HTTP Proxy
==========

This commit also added more complete strategy for HTTP proxy variable
set...

This makes the ssh transport code much more similar to winrm's code.

Before this commit, #execute would be considered a failure if the
command had an exit code of 0 ...