Chef Workstation 26.1.0 Released!

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We are delighted to announce the availability of version 26.1.0 of Chef Workstation.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed Chef Test Kitchen Enterprise warnings during kitchen verify that occurred due to unresolved or ambiguous gem specifications when multiple versions of gems (such as reline, minitest, and drb) were installed in the environment.
  • Fixed a knife search command issue where queries containing spaces were incorrectly parsed due to unquoted argument expansion in the Habitat knife wrapper.
  • Fixed Cookstyle inline # cookstyle:disable directives being ignored after the RuboCop engine upgrade. Directive comments are now parsed correctly regardless of whether the raw source contains the literal string rubocop.

Packages

Chef Workstation now includes OS-native packages alongside the existing Habitat packages. You can download packages from the Chef customer download portal or the download API.

The following native packages are available:

  • Linux x86: RPM (.rpm) and DEB (.deb) packages
  • Windows x86: MSI installer (.msi)

OS-native packages for Linux ARM and macOS aren't available in this release.
We plan to add Linux ARM and macOS OS-native packages in upcoming releases.

Security

  • Updated faraday in knife to v2.14.3.
  • Updated concurrent-ruby in knife to v1.3.7.
  • Updated mixlib-shellout in knife to v3.4.10.
  • Updated addressable in chef-cli to v2.9.0.

Tool updates

  • Berkshelf:

    • Updated Berkshelf to version 8.1.23.

  • Chef CLI:

    • Updated the chef CLI to version 6.1.34.

  • Chef Infra Client:

  • Chef InSpec:

  • Chef Vault:

    • Updated Chef Vault to version 4.2.12.

  • Cookstyle:

    • Updated Cookstyle to version 8.7.6 with RuboCop engine 1.86.1.

  • Fauxhai:

    • Updated Fauxhai to version 9.4.22.

  • Knife:

  • Ohai:

    • Updated Ohai to version 19.1.40.

  • Test Kitchen Enterprise:

Knife search command issue on latest chef workstation 26.0.18