We are delighted to announce the availability of version 4.13.295 of Chef Automate.
Upgrade Journey
Chef lets you choose your upgrade journey based on your current version of Chef Automate. You can do all the version upgrades manually.
| Your Current Version | Upgrade To |
|---|---|
| Any version before 20220329091442 | 20220329091442 |
| 20220329091442 | 3.0.x |
| 3.0.49 | 4.x |
See the Chef Automate 4.x upgrade documentation for more information.
New Features
Added the --verify-restore-config flag to the Automate Command Line Interface (CLI) High Availability (HA) Restore command for snapshot/base-path verification.
Compliance Profile Updates
The compliance profiles were updated to version 1.0.0/20250813155029, which includes the new and improved profiles for:
- CIS Oracle Database 23 ai v1.0.0
- CIS Ubuntu 22.04 v2.0.0 audits profile
- CIS RHEL 8 v3.0.0 improvement in control 5.2.3.13 (removed unwanted code)
- CIS PostgreSQL 16 v1.0.0 (Audits) control 7.2 (log replication default to on)
- CIS PostgreSQL 16 v1.0.0 (Audits) control 3.1.8 (used correct anecdote for hours)
- CIS IBM AIX 7 v1.1.0 (audits profile)
Bug Fixes
Updated the self-signed certificate for the Postgres and Open search packages for the Automate HA packages.
Maintenance
- Updated the following packages to ensure they are as up-to-date as possible:
- OpenSearch (version specific to Chef commercially licensed from Tuxcare)
- OpenJDK
- Golang
- NodeJS
- Angular
- Chef components:
- knife-ec-backup
- InSpec
- Habitat
- Chef Server
- PostgreSQL and libraries to support the same
- MinIO
- Dex
- OpenSSL
- HAProxy
- Curl
Security Updates
Many of the underlying packages were upgraded to improve security posture. Refer to the list of packages upgraded in the Maintenance section.
Chef Packaged Product Versions
This release uses:
- Chef Habitat version: 1.6.1243/20241227194506
- Chef Habitat Builder version: 10717/20250805204117
- Chef Infra Server version: 15.10.63
- Chef InSpec version: 5.22.95/20250805133317
Service Versions
This release uses:
- Postgres: 13.21.0
- OpenSearch: 1.3.20-tuxcare
- Nginx: 1.25.4
- HAProxy: 2.8.15
Supported External Chef Products
This release supports the following external Chef products:
- Chef Infra Server version: 14.0.58+
- Chef Inspec version: 4.3.2+
- Chef Infra Client: 17.0.242+
- Chef Habitat: 0.81+
View the package manifest for the latest release.
As always, we welcome your feedback and invite you to contact us directly or share your feedback online. Thanks for using Chef Automate!