Chef Infra Client 18.5.0 Released!

[chef-ci]

We are delighted to announce the availability of version 18.5.0 of Chef Infra Client.

Security

• OpenSSL 3.0.9 has been introduced for all platforms except macOS, Windows, and AIX
• Amazon and Ubuntu now support FIPS for ARM.

Resource Updates

• chef_client_systemd_timer: add umask chef/chef#14238 - Stromweld
• chocolatey_package: correct logic for use_choco_list (regression + downcase fix) chef/chef#14227 - jaymzjulian
• Add examples to snap_package resource. chef/chef#14299 - williamtheaker
• Fixed the issue with log level on the chef config chef/chef#14294 - ashiqueps
• [Immutablize#convert_value] reduce number of class comparisons chef/chef#14234 - dafyddcrosby
• Fix chocolatey_package for Chocolatey Licensed customers chef/chef#14320 - johnmccrae
• [Bug fix] Disable merging of chocolatey searches chef/chef#14327 - jaymzjulian
• hyperv added to virtualization helper chef/chef#14359 - snohio
• Adds AllowClobber powershell_package resource chef/chef#14382 - mikef-nl
• Comment property of sysctl resource does not define system state chef/chef#14309 - drdev

Performance improvements (thanks to dafyddcrosby for all the effort on these)

• [Knife#pattern_arg_from] Use start_with? chef/chef#14384
• [CookbookManifest#files_for] Avoid unnecessary allocations chef/chef#14388
• [StateTracking] Do in-place compact chef/chef#14390
• [CookbookSynchronizer#ensure_cookbook_paths] Move file_cache_path method out of loop chef/chef#14391
• [PathHelper#join] Reduce allocations chef/chef#14385
• [Immutablize#convert_value] return already frozen String objects chef/chef#14226
• [CookbookVersionLoader#load_all_files] Do directory test after name check chef/chef#14349
• [Chefignore#parse_ignore_file] Use strip! on lines chef/chef#14348
• Move attribute merge NIL checks into inject chef/chef#14218
• [FileCache#Find] N to 1 calls for file matching chef/chef#14351
• [ChefConfig] Add memoization to var_root_dir and var_chef_dir methods chef/chef#14368

Bug Fixes

• fix bug in chef_client_config resource template for client.rb when listed property is a bool and checks for .empty? generates NoMethodError chef/chef#14255 - Stromweld
• hab-install.sh was calling the incorrect version of bash in the script chef/chef#14298 - johnmccrae
• [Revert] "Add missing description to windows_service load_current_resource for idempotent check to be successful" chef/chef#14334 - tpowell-progress - win32-service gem was not able to be updated to suppor this at this time, reverting.
• [Revert] "zypper_package: Fix idempotency issue" chef/chef#14408 - johnmccrae - idempotency fix caused other issues.
• Updating Chef Foundation chef/chef#14449 - johnmccrae - Updating Chef-Foundation to pull in updates from Omnibus-Software that fix this issue: Ruby Patches : Windows throwing encoding (utf-8) errors when retrieving data from the registry.

Cleanup

• Fix requiring of chef-utils/version_string. chef/chef#14256 - tpowell-progress
• remove repetitive words in comments chef/chef#14281 - carrychair
• Replace hardcoded Chef trademark with ChefUtils::Dist::Infra::PRODUCT in deprecation warnings. chef/chef#14279 - williamtheaker
• cleanup and refactor of kitchen-tests chef/chef#14280 - Stromweld
• [trivial] add missing markdown fence on execute resource code example chef/chef#14326 - dafyddcrosby
• Add note about adding account rights not taking immediate effect in Windows. chef/chef#14325 - tpowell-progress -
  There is some confusion about add_account_right and whether it can take immediate effect in Windows in the same Chef run. Also updated the example for setting rights to use windows_privilege_resource
• EC and modulo length update for OpenSSL 3 compatibility chef/chef#14354 - tpowell-progress
• Remove EOL Warning for Chef 18, since there is no specific timeline for major version releases chef/chef#14366 - Stromweld
• Test FIPS MD5 chef/chef#14387 - tpowell-progress
• update kitchen-tests platforms chef/chef#14395 - Stromweld
• update latest license_scout version chef/chef#14413 - muthuja
• conservative update of vault chef/chef#14423 - tpowell-progress
• Remove extra asterisk from the chef_gem resource examples chef/chef#14429 - IanMadd

Packaging

• Removing OSX 10.15 support per request from Build Services chef/chef#14291 - johnmccrae
• Bump Ruby 3.1 from 3.1.2 to 3.1.4 to pick up curl version bump to curl 8.0.1 and perl 5, version 36

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Get the Build

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

$ mixlib-install download chef -v 18.5.0

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 18.5.0
# In Windows Powershell
. { iwr -useb https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.ps1 } | iex