_Update: 2014-10-17: We have released an update of Chef Server products and Analytics to address the POODLE attack as well as other recently announced vulnerabilites._ A new attack on SSL 3.0 has been announced. This attack is fully detailed in this document.

We’re excited to announce that our own Jez Humble will be hosting a webinar on The Lean Enterprise on November 14th. Register here, or via the embed below.

Don’t Get Spooked by LAMP on Azure! On Wednesday, October 29th at 12:00pm CST, we are joining 10th Magnitude for a special Halloween episode in our Azure + Chef = Awesome Series. We’ll show you why Linux is a first class workload in Microsoft Azure.

Ohai Chefs, Today we’ve made a new patch release for Chef Client: 11.16.4. This release includes security fixes and a few major bug fixes. Here is the list of changes included in this release: * Windows omnibus installer security updates for redistributed bash.exe / sh.exe vulnerabilities (“Shellshock”) CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-6278, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187.

Next week is an exciting week for Chef as we kickoff our first Chef Summit in London. If you’ve never attended a Chef Summit in the past, it’s an opportunity for our folks to meet with members of the Chef community to talk about all sorts of things.

This post originally appeared on jtimberman’s Code Blog. Have you ever wanted to find a list of nodes that updated a specific resource in a period of time? Such as “show me all the nodes in production that had an application service restart in the last hour”?

The week of October 13-17 is full of amazing Chef events in London. Make plans to join us for as many of these events as you can. And if you would like an early preview, join us this week for the Chef Users London Meetup on Thursday, October 9.

We’re excited to announce that ChefDK 0.3.0 is now released. You can get it from our download page now.Today’s release contains a preview release of the new Policyfile feature. This is a significant milestone on our journey to improve the way you develop and distribute Chef code to manage your infrastructure.

When talking about the management of complex systems, orchestration is always a hot topic. This is because orchestration is often seen as the easiest way to represent and model complex systems, as well as provide a path to delivering complex systems. Most often orchestration is represented through a topology model.