Chef Infra Client 17.7.29 Released!

We are delighted to announce the availability of version 17.7.29 of Chef Infra Client.

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved a regression introduced in Chef Infra Client 17.7.22 that caused changes to node['fdqn'] data in some DNS configurations.
  • Resolved a regression introduced in Chef Infra Client 17.7.22 that could cause macos_user_defaults to fail.

Compliance Phase Improvements

Chef InSpec 4.49.0

Chef InSpec has been updated from 4.46.13 to 4.49.0 with the following updates:

New Features

  • Added support for testing Cassandra DB configurations and CQL commands.

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved case sensitivity issue for Windows users and group resources.
  • Fixed the oracledb_session resource when invoking a query using OS user and DB role.
  • Additional oracledb_session resource fixes.

Resource Updates

chef_client_trusted_certificate

The chef_client_trusted_certificate resource now supports the sensitive property to mask certificate contents in logs. Thanks for this improvement @jakauppila!


Get the Build

As always, you can download binaries directly from downloads.chef.io or by using the mixlib-install command-line utility:

$ mixlib-install download chef -v 17.7.29

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

# In Shell
$ curl https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -P chef -v 17.7.29
# In Windows Powershell
. { iwr -useb https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.ps1 } | iex