Chef Workstation 25.2.1075 Released!

We are delighted to announce the availability of version 25.2.1075 of Chef Workstation.

Release Date: 5 February, 2025.

Components

Knife

Important Notice: Upcoming Omnitruck API Deprecation

We updated Knife from v18.6.2 to v18.6.13. This release introduces a warning message when running knife bootstrap that notifies users about the upcoming Omnitruck API deprecation.

To ensure uninterrupted downloads and remove this warning:

  • For connected environments: Activate your Chef license and Knife automatically uses the new download APIs.
  • For air-gapped environments: Set up a local Chef licensing service and configure the CHEF_LICENSE_SERVER environment variable to point to its URL. For more information, see the Chef Local License Service documentation.

Activating your Chef license ensures a smooth transition to the new download mechanism before the Omnitruck API is deprecated.

Chef Habitat

Improvements

  • To improve security and mitigate vulnerabilities, we replaced Kernel.open with File.open and IO.read with File.read.

Security

Updated expat from v2.5.0 to v2.6.4 to resolve the following CVEs:


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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