# Chef Infra Client 15.1.36 Released!

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-1-36-released/15490>\
**Category:** Chef Release Announcements\
**Created:** [July 2, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-1-36-released/15490 "2019-07-02T00:14:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![robbkidd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/robbkidd/32/2101_2.png) [@robbkidd](https://discourse.chef.io/u/robbkidd)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-1-36-released/15490/1 "2019-07-02T00:14:10Z")

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Hi there, everybody!

New release lever-puller, here. Chef Infra Client 15 gets a new minor release today, 15.1.36. It's got a new resource, some updates, improvements, and several bug fixes.

## New Resources

### chocolatey\_feature

The `chocolatey_feature` resource allows you to enable and disable Chocolatey features. See the [chocolatey\_feature documentation](https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_feauture.html) for full usage information. Thanks [@gep13](https://github.com/gep13) for this new resource.

## Updated Resources

### chocolatey\_source

The `chocolatey_source` resource has been updated with new `enable` and `disable` actions, as well as `admin_only` and `allow_self_service` properties. Thanks [@gep13](https://github.com/gep13) for this enhancement.

### launchd

The `launchd` resource has been updated with a new `launch_events` property, which allows you to specify higher-level event types to be used as launch-on-demand event sources. Thanks [@chilcote](https://github.com/chilcote) for this enhancement.

### yum\_package

The `yum_package` resource's helper for interacting with the yum subsystem has been updated to always close out the rpmdb lock, even during failures. This may prevent the rpmdb becoming locked in some rare conditions. Thanks for reporting this issue, [@lytao](https://github.com/lytao).

### template

The `template` resource now provides additional information on failures, which is especially useful in ChefSpec tests. Thanks [@brodock](https://github.com/brodock) for this enhancement.

## Target Mode Improvements

Our experimental Target Mode received a large number of updates in Chef Infra Client 15.1. Target Mode now reuses the connection to the remote system, which greatly speeds up the remote Chef Infra run. There is also now support for Target Mode in the `systemd_unit`, `log`, `ruby_block`, and `breakpoint` resources. Keep in mind that when using `ruby_block` with Target Mode that the Ruby code in the block will execute locally as there is not necessarily a Ruby runtime on the remote host.

## Ohai 15.1

Ohai has been updated to 15.1 with the following changes:

- The `Shard` plugin properly uses the machine's `machinename`, `serial`, and `uuid` attributes to generate the shard value. The plugin also no longer throws an exception on macOS hosts. Thanks [@michel-slm](https://github.com/michel-slm) for these fixes.
- The `Virtualbox` plugin has been enhanced to gather information on running guests, storage, and networks when VirtualBox is installed on a node. Thanks [@freakinhippie](https://github.com/freakinhippie) for this new capability.
- Ohai no longer fails to gather interface information on Solaris in some rare conditions. Thanks [@devoptimist](https://github.com/devoptimist) for this fix.

## Chef InSpec 4.6.4

Chef InSpec has been updated from 4.3.2 to 4.6.4 with the following changes:

- InSpec `Attributes` have now been renamed to `Inputs` to avoid confusion with Chef Infra attributes.
- A new InSpec plugin type of `Input` has been added for defining new input types. See the [InSpec Plugins documentation](https://github.com/inspec/inspec/blob/master/docs/dev/plugins.md#implementing-input-plugins) for more information on writing these plugins.
- InSpec no longer prints errors to the stdout when passing `--format json`.
- When fetching profiles from GitHub, the URL can now include periods.
- The performance of InSpec startup has been improved.

# Get the Build

As always, you can download binaries directly from [downloads.chef.io](https://downloads.chef.io/chef/15.1.36) or by using the `mixlib-install` command line utility:

```auto
$ mixlib-install download chef -v 15.1.36

```

Alternatively, you can install Chef using one of the following command options:

```auto
# In Shell
$ curl https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -P chef -v 15.1.36

# In Windows Powershell
. { iwr -useb https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.ps1 } | iex; install -project chef -version 15.1.36

```

If you want to give this version a spin in Test Kitchen, create or add the following to your `kitchen.yml` file:

```auto
provisioner:
  product_name: chef
  product_version: 15.1.36

```

### Test Kitchen Note

Chef 15 license acceptance requires Test Kitchen 2.2+ which ships in the latest [Chef Workstation](https://downloads.chef.io/chef-workstation/0.4.2) and [ChefDK](https://downloads.chef.io/chefdk/4.0.60). Alternatively, you can pin your Test Kitchen config to use Chef 14.

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**Author:** ![MattRay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/mattray/32/47_2.png) [@MattRay](https://discourse.chef.io/u/MattRay)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 10:08pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-1-36-released/15490/2 "2019-07-02T22:08:27Z")

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I've made builds and instructions for the 32-bit ARM builds on CentOS, Debian and Raspbian on my blog here: [https://mattray.github.io/2019/07/02/chef-15-on-arm.html](https://mattray.github.io/2019/07/02/chef-15-on-arm.html)

My Raspberry Pi 4 shipped yesterday and Raspbian 10 and Debian 10 builds will be coming soon.

-Matt