We are delighted to announce the availability of version 1.7.2 of Chef 360 Platform.
Chef 360 Platform 1.7.2 delivers major improvements across Node Management and Courier, introduces a new notifications system, and adds platform capabilities for tenant lifecycle management and security updates.
Prerequisites
Before upgrading to Chef 360 Platform 1.7.2, you must be running version 1.7.1.
New features
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Node Management skill lifecycle hooks: You can now register scripts with Node Management that run automatically during skill installation, upgrade, and removal events. This eliminates manual post-install steps such as bootstrapping Chef Infra Client into Chef Declarative State Management (DSM) and provisioning credentials.
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Courier: run jobs on demand: You can now manually execute any existing Courier job definition without creating a duplicate. Manual execution creates a new job instance linked to the same job definition, preserving the original schedule and execution history.
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Notifications system: Chef 360 Platform now includes a built-in notifications system integrated with Node Management and Courier. You can subscribe to platform events—such as node enrollment status changes and Courier job execution failures—to receive timely alerts about platform activity.
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Automate Connector: When migrating from Chef Infra Server to Chef Declarative State Management (DSM), you can now configure Chef DSM to forward Chef Infra Client run reports to your existing Chef Automate server. This preserves your reporting and compliance workflows during migration without requiring changes to your Chef clients.
Improvements
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Courier job wizard: edit advanced fields: You can now edit advanced Courier job fields—including input variables, expected input variables, conditions, and output variables—from any step in the Courier job creation wizard in the Chef 360 Platform UI before final submission.
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License management API: The license management API now includes endpoints to list and get services, consistent with the existing assets and features API conventions.
Dependency updates
- Go runtime: Updated Go runtime to version 1.26.3 on Chef 360 Platform services to resolve Go CVEs.
Security updates
- Resolved critical and high CVEs in fluent-bit, mailpit, nginx, and chef-os-shell.
- Updated the Go Habitat package to 1.26.3 to resolve Go CVEs.
Supported skill versions
This release supports the following skill versions.
| Skill | Skill name | Habitat package | Version | Change summary |
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| Courier Runner | courier-runner | chef-platform/courier-runner | 1.5.19 | Courier runner handles interpreter exit codes gracefully. |
| Gohai | chef-gohai | chef-platform/chef-gohai | 1.2.57 | Improvements in skill configuration validation. |
| InSpec Interpreter | inspec-interpreter | chef-platform/inspec-interpreter | 1.0.24 | System environment variables inherited by InSpec at execution. |
| Node Management Agent | node-management-agent | chef-platform/node-management-agent | 1.1.18 | Improvement in subnet mask detection for node attributes. |
| Restart Interpreter | restart-interpreter | chef-platform/restart-interpreter | 1.0.21 | |
| Shell Interpreter | shell-interpreter | chef-platform/shell-interpreter | 1.0.18 | |
| Infra Client Interpreter | chef-client-interpreter | chef-platform/chef-client-interpreter | 1.0.20 | |
| Ansible Interpreter | ansible-interpreter | chef-platform/ansible-interpreter | 0.1.11 |
Component versions
| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| chef-360 | 1.7.2 |
| Installer | v2.14.0+k8s-1.32 |
| Kubernetes (bundled) | v1.32.12+k0s.1 |
| AdminConsole | v1.129.4-ec.0 |
| EmbeddedClusterOperator | v2.14.0+k8s-1.32 |
| OpenEBS | v4.4.0 |
| Registry | v3.0.0 |
| SeaweedFS | v4.0.413 |
| Velero | v11.4.0 |