We are delighted to announce the availability of version 24.12.1073 of Chef Workstation.
Release Date: 18 December, 2024.
Components
- Updated Chef Infra Client from v18.5.0 to v18.6.2 and Knife from v18.5.0 to v18.6.2. See the Chef Infra Client release notes for a full list of improvements and features.
- Updated Chef InSpec from v5.22.55 to v5.22.65. See the InSpec release notes for more information.
- Updated kitchen-dokken to v2.20.7.
Improvements
- Updated the chef-cli gem from v5.6.14 to v5.6.16 so users can connect to JFrog Artifactory with an access token. ([#239]
(Added a support to connect to JFrog Artifactory with AccessToken by sanjain-progress · Pull Request #239 · chef/chef-cli · GitHub))
Licensing
These changes prepare users for new license requirements in Chef Infra Client 19. (#14669)
The knife bootstrap command now validates your license key and downloads from Chef’s new download APIs. If you don’t have a license, Knife falls back to the older Omnitruck API and returns a warning to add a license.
We added the following commands to manage licenses with Knife:
knife licenseknife license listknife license add
See the Chef licensing documentation and download API documentation for more information.
Security
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Updated OpenSSL from v3.0.12 to v3.0.15 to resolve the following CVEs:
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Updated libxml2 from v2.12.5 to v2.12.7 to resolve the following CVE:
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Updated libarchive from v3.7.4 to v3.7.5 to resolve the following CVEs:
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Updated git-windows from v2.41.0 to v2.47.0 to resolve the following CVE:
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Updated ruby and ruby-msys2-devkit from v3.1.2 to v3.1.6 to resolve the following CVE:
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Updated RDoc to v6.4.1.1 to resolve the following CVE:
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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