# Chef Server Release Notes

This document contains an overview of significant customer-facing changes
in the release. For a detailed list of changed components, refer to
[CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).

This document contains release notes for the current release and all patches.
For prior releases, see [PRIOR\_RELEASE\_NOTES.md](PRIOR_RELEASE_NOTES.md).

## 12.8.0 (2016-07-06)

# Chef Server Release Notes

This document contains an overview of significant customer-facing changes
in the release. For a detailed list of changed components, refer to
[CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).

This document contains release notes for the current release and all patches.
For prior releases, see [PRIOR\_RELEASE\_NOTES.md](PRIOR_RELEASE_NOTES.md).

## 12.8.0 (2016-07-06)

### Chef Server

* Initial support for sending updates to a
  [Chef RFC 077](https://github.com/chef/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc077-mode-agnostic-data-collection.md)-compliant
  datacollection service.

* Minor bug fixes in the postgresql preflight check and upgrade
  migration 29.

Add basic release notes from 12.8.0
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