We are delighted to announce the availability of version 25.9.1094 of Chef Workstation.
Release Date: September 30, 2025.
New features
- Updated Test Kitchen to 3.9.0. This adds support for using SSH transport on Windows platforms.
Component updates
- Updated Chef Infra Client to v18.8.11. See the Chef Infra Client release notes for a full list of improvements and features.
- Updated Chef InSpec to v5.22.95. See the InSpec release notes for more information.
- Updated Knife to v18.8.13.
- Updated Test Kitchen to v3.9.0.
- Updated chef-vault from 4.1.23 to 4.2.5
- Updated knife-tidy from 2.1.6 to 2.3.2
- Updated kitchen-vagrant from 2.0.1 to 2.1.2
- Updated kitchen-dokken from 2.20.7 to 2.20.8
- Updated kitchen-ec2 from 3.19.0 to 3.20.0
Security updates
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Updated ruby and ruby-msys2-devkit from 3.1.6 to 3.1.7
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Updated Go from 1.23.9 to 1.23.12 to resolve the following CVE:
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Updated git from 2.39.3 to 2.43.7 to resolve the following CVE:
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Updated cURL from 8.12.1 to 8.14.1 to resolve the following CVEs:
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Updated libxml2 from 2.12.10 to 2.13.8 to resolve the following CVEs:
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Updated libarchive from 3.7.9 to 3.8.1 to resolve the following CVEs:
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Updated Berkshelf from 8.0.22 to 8.1.6 to address code scanning and dependabot alerts.
Packaging
We now build Windows packages for:
- Windows 2019
We no longer build packages for:
- Windows 8
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2.
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.
As always, we welcome your feedback and invite you to contact us directly or share your email. Thanks for using Chef Workstation!