Chef Infra Client 19.2.12 Released!

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We are delighted to announce the availability of version 19.2.12 of Chef Infra Client.

Compliance Phase

  • Updated inspec and inspec-core-bin to address CVEs. #15672

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Chef Infra Client could crash during proxy evaluation when connecting to servers using IPv6 addresses, ensuring runs proceed normally in IPv6-enabled environments. #15655
  • Fixed an issue where platforms weren't enumerated before parsing remote output for the candidate version. #15661
  • Matched platforms for gem versions in the rubygems provider. #15649

Resource bug fixes

  • Fixed intermittent failures when installing MSI packages with the chocolatey_package resource on Windows, where Chocolatey's pending/locked state caused file in use by another process errors and required manual cleanup. #15646

Improvements

  • Updated the Habitat plan file to remove GitHub workflow files in some gems. #15679
  • Reduced the size of Chef Infra Client on disk by removing the Ruby DevKit.
  • Removed the chef/chef-powershell-shim Habitat package dependency and added pre-flight DLL checks (vcruntime140.dll, msvcp140.dll) to the Windows test suite to surface missing PowerShell runtime dependencies with actionable errors. #15611
  • Added support for finding the hab binary path for all Chef-prefixed gems (chef-client, chef-zero). #15625

Dependency updates

  • Updated aws-sdk-s3 to 1.213.0. #15678
  • Updated rack to 3.2.5. #15670

Security

  • This release restores FIPS Mode support.

Known issues

  • This release doesn't support SELinux.
  • Don't install this version of Chef Infra Client on a machine running Chef Automate.