From b65cb54636bbd061301185b8e4d343a0ad1b4ed2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:42:34 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove the "echo hello" check because it does nothing.

---
 lib/vagrant/ssh.rb | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/vagrant/ssh.rb b/lib/vagrant/ssh.rb
index 6bbb8cfc6..3f9af307b 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/ssh.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/ssh.rb
@@ -115,12 +115,7 @@ module Vagrant
 
       require 'timeout'
       Timeout.timeout(env.config.ssh.timeout) do
-        execute(:timeout => env.config.ssh.timeout, :port => ssh_port) do |ssh|
-          # We run a basic command to test that the shell is up and
-          # ready to receive commands. Only then is our SSH connection
-          # truly "up"
-          return ssh.exec!("echo hello") == "hello\n"
-        end
+        execute(:timeout => env.config.ssh.timeout, :port => ssh_port) { |ssh| }
       end
 
       false

From c4eeda2025a3242e473fa54a4d5b3d62748ecc73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:43:20 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] v0.8.9

---
 CHANGELOG.md           | 5 +++++
 lib/vagrant/version.rb | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 498d1f74a..55c06b805 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+## 0.8.9 (December 10, 2011)
+
+  - Revert the SSH tweaks made in 0.8.8. It affected stability
+    that I'd rather not test in a patch release.
+
 ## 0.8.8 (December 1, 2011)
 
   - Mount shared folders shortest to longest to avoid mounting
diff --git a/lib/vagrant/version.rb b/lib/vagrant/version.rb
index 9485882cd..6ca44d385 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/version.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/version.rb
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ module Vagrant
   # This will always be up to date with the current version of Vagrant,
   # since it is used to generate the gemspec and is also the source of
   # the version for `vagrant -v`
-  VERSION = "0.8.8"
+  VERSION = "0.8.9"
 end