Automate version 4.2.59 Released!

We are delighted to announce the availability of version 4.2.59 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 major upgrade documentation for more information.

Compliance Profile Updates

Compliance profiles are updated to version 1.0.0/20220722105137, which includes the new and improved profiles for:

  • CIS Apache HTTP Server 2.4 v2.0.0
  • CIS Windows Server 2022 v1.0.0
  • STIG Ubuntu 20.04 v1.2.0
  • CIS Windows Server 2016 v1.3.0
  • CIS MSSQL Server 2016 v1.3.0
  • CIS Oracle 12c v3.0.0
  • CIS Oracle 18c v1.0.0
  • CIS Oracle 19c v1.0.0

This update also includes fixes for:

  • CIS RHEL 8 v2.0.0 fix for control 6.2.7

Bug Fixes

  • The compliance reports node name search is now case insensitive. (#7310)

Maintenance

  • Updated the Habitat version to 1.6.521 (#4517)
  • Added support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 to Chef Automate HA.

Chef Packaged Product Versions

This release uses:

  • Chef Habitat version: 1.6.521/20220603154827
  • Chef Habitat Builder version: 9978/20211221122808
  • Chef Infra Server version: 14.15.10/20220510065931
  • Chef InSpec version: 4.56.22/20220517052126

Service Versions

This release uses:

  • Postgres: 13.5
  • OpenSearch: 1.2.4
  • Nginx: 1.21.3
  • Haproxy: 2.2.18

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+

See the package manifest for the latest release.


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