Chef Workstation 21.8.555 Released!

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We are delighted to announce the availability of version 21.8.555 of Chef Workstation.

Bug Fixes

  • PowerShell DLLs for Chef Infra Client are now properly set up on Windows systems to prevent failures running Chef Infra Client.
  • knife bootstrap now respects the config_log_level config when setting up client.rb configuration files on new Windows nodes.
  • knife bootstrap with the --use-sudo-password no longer fails with a sudo error.
  • knife user create now provides helpful error messages if the client can't be written to disk.
  • knife bootstrap now properly supports the ~/.ssh/config settings.
  • Cookstyle no longer reports Chef/Deprecations/ResourceWithoutUnifiedTrue failures in custom resource partials.
  • Cookstyle no longer reports Chef/Deprecations/ResourceWithoutUnifiedTrue failures when a custom resource file is empty.
  • chef generate cookbook now generates cookbooks that require Chef Infra Client 16 or later.
  • chef generate cookbook now generates example content referencing Chef Infra Client 17.

Packaging

RHEL 8 Packages

We improved our RHEL 8 packages with additional RHEL 8 optimizations and EL8 in the filename.

Get the Build

If you are running the Chef Workstation toolbar application you can download this version from the menu after the app next update check. You can also download binaries directly from downloads.chef.io.

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