Chef Infra Client 18.7.6 Released!

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We are delighted to announce the availability of version 18.7.6 of Chef Infra Client.

Dependencies

  • We fixed a regression in mixlib logging. (#14951)
  • We updated ffi-libarchive to prevent potential man-in-the-middle attacks on Windows nodes. (#91)
  • In Ohai, we constrained the ffi version to <= 1.17.0. (#1860)

Resource Updates

  • We improved the registry_key resource to prevent it from logging extraneous registry keys on Windows nodes. (#14961)

Packaging

  • We now build packages for macOS 13 and 14. (#14949)

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 18.7.6

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 18.7.6
# In Windows Powershell
. { iwr -useb https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.ps1 } | iex