Chef Workstation 21.7.545 Released!

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We are delighted to announce the availability of version 21.7.545 of Chef Workstation.

Bug Fixes

Knife

  • Resolved failures running knife ssh on hosts that require a PTY with a new --pty flag.
  • Resolved knife bootstrap of Windows nodes from Chef Workstation on Linux/macOS incorrectly setting the file cache config.
  • Resolved knife bootstrap of Linux nodes from Chef Workstation on macOS creating a /Users directory.

Updated Components

InSpec 4.38.9

InSpec has been updated from 4.38.3 to 4.38.9:

New Features

  • The mssql_session resource now allows named connections by no longer forcing a port.
  • The PostgreSQL resources (postgres_session, postgres_conf, postgres_hba_conf, and postgres_ident_conf) now work with Windows.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the year in an expiration date was misinterpreted in waiver files.

Chef Infra Client 17.3.48

Chef Infra Client has been updated from 17.2.29 to 17.3.48. This new release includes large improvements to Policyfiles, 9 new built-in resources, and initial support for fetching secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and Azure Key Vault. See the 17.3 release notes for more information.

Habitat 1.6.351

Habitat has been updated from 1.6.319 to 1.6.351 with updated internal libraries.

Security

Addressable

We've updated the addressable gem from 2.7 to 2.8 to resolve CVE-2021-32740.

Ruby

We've upgraded Ruby from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2. This upgrade resolves bugs and also resolves the following CVEs:

curl

We've updated the bundled curl CLI from 7.76 to 7.77 to resolve the following CVEs:

Get the Build

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