# ChefSpec 7.1 released

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chefspec-7-1-released/10898>\
**Category:** Chef Release Announcements\
**Created:** [May 12, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chefspec-7-1-released/10898 "2017-05-12T16:37:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chefspec-7-1-released/10898/1 "2017-05-12T16:37:22Z")

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ChefSpec 7.1 has been released to Rubygems and as usual it will be included in our next release of ChefDK.

7.1 It might not be a major release, but it has some major new functionality. Resource matchers are now generated automatically which means:

- You won’t have to worry about older releases of ChefSpec not knowing about new resources in chef-client.
- You won’t have to define the matchers in your cookbook code
- You won’t have issues if a community cookbook lacks matchers

> **[chefspec/chefspec](https://github.com/chefspec/chefspec)**
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> chefspec - Write RSpec examples and generate coverage reports for Chef recipes!

-Tim