# Chef Workstation 22.1.745 Released!

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-22-1-745-released/20663>\
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**Created:** [January 10, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-22-1-745-released/20663 "2022-01-10T15:54:03Z")\
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We are delighted to announce the availability of version 22.1.745 of Chef Workstation.

## Performance

### Improved Knife Performance

Improved the Knife command performance with optimizations to plugin loading. Windows users and users on non-SSD disks will see the most significant performance improvements from this update.

## Updated Components

### Chef Infra Client 17.9.18

Updated Chef Infra Client from 17.8.25 to 17.9.18 with improvements to YUM support in the `package` resource, improved detection of VMware hypervisors, and supports for HashiCorp Vault Approle authentication in the `secrets` helper. See the [Chef Infra Client release notes](https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_client/) for a complete list of new features and updates.

### Chef InSpec 4.52.9

Chef InSpec has been updated from 4.50.3 to 4.52.9 with many important fixes and improvements.

#### New Features

- Added remote target support for Alpine Linux.
- Added a CLI option for executing profiles from private Supermarkets.
- Added the ability to specify a proxy as a parameter in the `http` resource.
- Added a CLI option to set an SSH configuration file path for SSH transport.
- Added support for TLS 1.3 to the `ssl` resource.

#### Bug Fixes

- Fixed an edge case in the `service` resource where InSpec may falsely detect services as enabled on FreeBSD if that service is the suffix of another enabled service.
- Fixed the `ibmdb2_session` resource so that it now correctly accepts queries with clauses.
- Fixed the `oracledb_session` resource to properly handle nil in the query output.
- Fixed the `packages` resource to list only installed packages on Alpine Linux correctly.

### Cookstyle 7.26.1

Updated Cookstyle from 7.25.10 to 7.26.1. This new version includes an updated RuboCop engine with improvements for code linting. New `Style/FileRead` and `Style/FileWrite` cops are also enabled to simplify file read/write code in libraries and resources.

### Kitchen-ec2 3.12

Updated the Test Kitchen kitchen-ec2 plugin from 3.11.1 to 3.12.0. This new release allows you to define multiple tags in the `subnet_filter` configuration and ensures the system is properly terminated if there is a failure during the instance creation. Thanks for these improvements [@jakauppila](https://github.com/jakauppila)!

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## 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](https://downloads.chef.io/chef-workstation/22.1.745).

As always, we welcome your feedback and invite you to contact us directly or share your [email](mailto:workstation@chef.io). Thanks for using Chef Workstation!