Chef Workstation 25.13.7 Released!

We are delighted to announce the availability of version 25.13.7 of Chef Workstation.

Release Date: March 5, 2026.

Component updates

  • Updated Chef Infra Client to v18.10.17.
  • Updated InSpec to v5.24.7
  • Updated Knife to v18.10.18
  • Updated ohai to v18.2.8
  • Updated knife-google to v5.0.15
  • Updated knife-windows to v5.0.7

Updated the following Test Kitchen drivers:

  • Updated kitchen-azurerm to v1.13.6.
  • Updated kitchen-ec2 to v3.22.1.
  • Updated kitchen-hyperv to v0.10.3.
  • Updated kitchen-inspec to v3.1.0.

Dependencies

Updated kitchen-dokken from v2.20.8 to v2.22.2 to address CI pipeline failures resulting from Docker 29.x incompatibility with the previously bundled plugin version.

Security

  • Updated aws-partitions from v1.1161.0 to v1.1220.0

  • Updated aws-sdk-core from v3.232.0 to v3.242.0

  • Updated aws-sdk-kms from v1.112.0 to v1.122.0

  • Updated aws-sdk-s3 from v1.199.0 to v1.213.0

  • Updated faraday from v1.10.4 to v1.10.5

  • Updated rack from v3.2.4 to v3.2.5

  • Updated chef-analyze from v0.1.187 to v0.1.192

  • Updated golang.org/x/sys from v0.38.0 to v0.41.0