# Automate version 4.13.295 Released!

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-version-4-13-295-released/24251>\
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**Created:** [September 2, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-version-4-13-295-released/24251 "2025-09-02T12:39:40Z")\
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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](https://docs.chef.io/automate/major_upgrade_4.x/) 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](https://packages.chef.io/manifests/current/automate/latest_semver.json) for the latest release.

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As always, we welcome your feedback and invite you to contact us directly or share your [feedback online](https://www.chef.io/feedback/). Thanks for using Chef Automate!