Author:
Serdar Sutay
Release: Chef Client 10.34.0 & Ohai 6.24.0
By Serdar Sutay
Ohai chefs, Today we have released Chef Client 10.34.0 and Ohai 6.24.0. These releases contain important bug fixes and improvements that has been blockers to the Chef users who are on Chef 10. The MVP of this release is again **Phil Dibowitz**. Thanks Phil for your continuous support to us while maintaining Chef 10.
Read moreRelease: Chef Client 11.14.6 & Ohai 7.2.4
By Serdar Sutay
Ohai Chefs, Today we have released a patch release, 11.14.6, for Chef Client with some regression fixes and enhancements. We needed to skip 11.14.4 since we’ve realized that a couple of fixes slipped through the cracks and wasn’t included in 11.14.4 after tagging.
Read moreRelease: Chef Client 11.14.2
By Serdar Sutay
Ohai Chefs, Today we have released 11.14.2 of Chef Client. We found a regression while releasing 11.14.0 that was significant enough that we cancelled the release and fixed the bug.
Read moreRelease: Chef Development Kit 0.2.0 – Windows support and more
By Serdar Sutay
Today we have released a new version for Chef Development Kit a.k.a. Chef DK. The biggest highlight of this release is the Windows support. Starting with version 0.2.0 Chef DK is now supported on Windows.
Read moreChef Issue Tracking and Contribution Workflow Updates
By Serdar Sutay
Ohai Chefs, Two frequently discussed topics in the community have been issue tracking and the contribution workflow. JIRA has been our issue tracker for a long time and we’ve been using Github from the beginning to host the source code. Our contribution workflow have evolved around the combination of these tools.
Read moreChef Client Windows Patches for OpenSSL CVE-2014-0224 Vulnerability
By Serdar Sutay
Ohai Chefs, We have just released Chef Client versions 11.12.8-2 and 10.32.2-3 which includes the mitigation for the recently reported OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2014-0224. Note that after installing these builds, if you check the OpenSSL version using `OpenSSL::OPENSSL_VERSION` you will see `OpenSSL 1.0.0k 5 Feb 2013`.
Read moreChef Security Releases: 11.12.8 & 10.32.2-2
By Serdar Sutay
Ohai Chefs, Today we are releasing Chef Client 11.12.8 & 10.32.2-2 which include an updated version of OpenSSL that patches CVE-2014-0224. All installs of Chef Client should be upgraded immediately. This bug permits an attacker to execute an undetectable MITM attack on an otherwise secure connection.
Read moreRelease: Chef Client 11.12.4 & Ohai 7.0.4
By Serdar Sutay
Ohai Chefs, Today we’ve released Chef Client 11.12.4 and Ohai 7.0.4 fixing a few issues: CHEF-5223: ‘service’ resource broken on OSX CHEF-5211: ‘knife configure –initial’ fails to load ‘os’ and ‘hostname’ ohai plugins properly OHAI-565: cannot disable Lsb plugin Let us know if you experience any issues with these releases.
Read moreChef Development Kit
By Serdar Sutay
Ohai Chefs, The first version of Chef Development Kit (a.k.a. Chef DK) is here. What is Chef DK? Chef DK is a package that contains all the development tools you will need when coding Chef. It combines the best of the breed tools developed by Chef community with Chef Client.
Read morePostmortem: Chef Client Regressions and Heartbleed
By Serdar Sutay
Ohai Chefs, Last Tuesday 04-08-2014 7:12 PM, we released Chef Client 11.12.0 which contained 3 regressions (CHEF-5198, CHEF-5199 and OHAI-562). Subsequently, we released a new version of Chef Client which addressed these issues on Wednesday 04-09-2014 6:28 PM.
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