Chef InSpec 4.18.85 Released!

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Hello InSpec friends!
We are delighted to announce the availability of version 4.18.85 of Chef InSpec. Changes include:

New Features

  • Read SSL certificate contents from files or the content that you provide. Thank you to @frezbo for this new feature!
  • The archive command includes an --airgap mode, which allows it to re-package archives with remote dependencies and not fail.
  • Improve your resource debugging experience with the new --inspect option for the inspec shell command.
  • The service resource features new support for yocto-based linux distributions. Thank you to @michaellihs for this addition!
  • The package resource now includes support for FreeBSD. Thank you to @fzipi for this work!

Improvements

  • Our macOS packaging is compatible with macOS Catalina. For more information, see our recent blog post.
  • The ControlEvalContext, LibraryEvalContext, and Resource classes experienced removal of most meta-programming.
  • We standardized the platform for the etc_hosts, virtualization, ini, and xml resources.

Bug Fixes

  • The name of the option --winrm-basic-auth-only correctly matches the option provided by train. Thanks @shawnifoley for this fix!
  • The oracledb_session resource works again due to a missing quote fix.
  • command.exist? now conforms to POSIX standards. Thanks to @PiQuer!
  • Errors with bad tarball files will properly report.
  • The groups resource on macOS no longer reports duplicates anymore.
  • The JSON reporter's attributes array will not remain empty. Thanks @nazliBeit for your contribution!
  • Changed the postfix_conf resource's supported platform to the broader unix. Thank you to @fzipi for this fix!

Get the Build

You can download binaries directly from downloads.chef.io.