Chef Workstation 25.14.2 Released!

We are delighted to announce the availability of version 25.14.2 of Chef Workstation.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed REXML XPath deprecation warnings that appeared during Test Kitchen converge operations when using the Azure driver on Windows platforms.
  • Fixed "Exception in finalizer" and "can't alloc thread (ThreadError)" warnings that appeared after Test Kitchen completed a kitchen verify run against Windows targets.

Component updates

  • Updated Cookstyle to v8.6.10.
  • Updated Berkshelf to v8.1.21.
  • Updated Chef Vault to v4.2.9.
  • Updated Fauxhai to v9.4.20.
  • Updated Test Kitchen to v4.0.0, which moves the provisioner to its own gem.
  • Updated the kitchen-omnibus-chef gem. This gem provides the Chef provisioner to Test Kitchen and now supports authenticated downloads with a license from the Chef Downloads API. This gem is deprecated, and starting with Chef Workstation 26, the kitchen-chef-enterprise plugin will be automatically bundled and shipped for enterprise customer usage.
  • Replaced winrm, winrm-elevated, and winrm-fs gems with chef-winrm, chef-winrm-elevated, and chef-winrm-fs.

Updated the following Test Kitchen drivers:

  • Updated kitchen-ec2 to v3.22.3.
  • Updated kitchen-digitalocean to v0.16.2.
  • Updated kitchen-google to v2.6.2.
  • Updated kitchen-openstack to v7.0.1.
  • Updated kitchen-vagrant to v2.2.1.
  • Updated kitchen-vcenter to v2.12.3.

Dependency updates

  • Updated mixlib-install to v3.16.0.
  • Updated net-ssh to v7.3.2.
  • Updated mixlib-archive to v1.3.3.
  • Updated openssl gem to v4.0.1.

Security

  • Updated cURL from v8.16.0 to v8.19.0.
  • Updated Go from v1.23.12 to v1.26.2.
  • Updated git-windows from v2.48.1 to v2.54.0.
  • Updated activesupport from v7.2.3 to v7.2.3.1.
  • Updated json from v2.18.1 to v2.19.5.
  • Updated rack from v3.2.5 to v3.2.6.
  • Updated net-imap from v0.2.5 to v0.5.14.
  • Updated chef-analyze from v0.1.192 to v0.1.194.
  • Updated The Go Programming Language from v0.3.8 to v0.24.0.
  • Updated The Go Programming Language from v0.31.0 to v0.45.0.