# Meeting notes for Aug 20th, 2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-aug-20th-2020/17586>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-aug-20th-2020/17586 "2020-08-20T16:48:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-aug-20th-2020/17586/1 "2020-08-20T16:48:13Z")

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Below are the meeting notes for this week's Community Meeting, a text-based meeting held weekly in #community-meetings on our community slack, which you can join: [https://community-slack.chef.io/](https://community-slack.chef.io/)

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**DevRel/Community**

bennyVasquez shared

_hi y’all!_

- _Next week @chef\_jody will be learning how to cook a three course meal during a charity event we’re calling “Cooking with Chef”. Chef Alex Marek, Culinary Director at_ [_Salt & Iron_](http://www.saltniron.com/) _will lead Jody (and everyone watching) through all the steps, and **for every attendee Chef is donating $20 to** _ [_ **World Central Kitchen** _](https://wck.org/) _- a non-profit distributes individually packaged, fresh meals to people and communities that need support. The ingredient list is on the_ [_registration page_](https://pages.chef.io/202008-CookingwithChef.html) _. Jody is one punny human, so I definitely recommend you come join, even if cooking isn’t your thing. Then we can donate another $20 while you chuckle. 😄_
- _Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been adding a bunch of features to_ [_downloads.chef.io_](http://downloads.chef.io) _. Things like automatic OS detection, links to release notes, a smarter sorting of windows versions and not to mention performance improvements. Check it out, if you haven’t already, and definitely let me know if you have any questions or feedback._
- _Last,_ [_RustConf_](https://rustconf.com/) _officially starts in about 30 minutes [9:30 Pacific time]. If you haven’t already, I definitely recommend you register, so you can get access to the discord and other treats they’ve got. You don’t have to register, though, in order to watch the presentations. They’re streaming the talks live on the site!_

# This week’s releases

**Chef Automate**

tas50 shared

_Last but not least the Automate 2 team shipped 20200811175306 which removes the existing feature for entering the feature flag window by searching for "beta", "feat",. or "lega,". This prevented users for actually searching for those words_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20200811175306-released/17567_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20200811175306-released/17567)

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

_First off we released Chef Infra Client 16.4 (and 2 subsequent bugfix releases):_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-4-35-released/17570_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-4-35-released/17570)

- \*Resolves errors bootstrapping windows nodes from _nix nodes_
- _Improves many of the existing resources_
- _Shrinks our package size and reduces overall CVE risk by reducing the number of dependencies we ship in the package_

**Chef Workstation**

tas50 shared

_Workstation 20.8.125 shipped:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-20-8-125-released/17577_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-20-8-125-released/17577)

- _Chef Infra Client 16.4_
- _InSpec 4.22.8_
- _Cookstyle 6.15.5_
- _Improvements to the toolbar app to not throw error messages if it can't reach the internet_

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_redisio has been released at 4.1.1_

- _Properly perform version check when needed in redis.conf template_

_percona has been released at 1.0.0_

- _Tons of fixes, changes and updates_
- _Added support for percona 8.0_
- _Added support for newer platforms and removed support for EOL platforms_
- _Use new inclusive terminology and add deprecation warning for old terms_

_grafana has been released at 9.3.0_

- _Added support for use of config\_writer to only generate config file when grafana is not present on host_

**Other releases**

tas50 shared

_Fauxhai 8.3.0 / 8.3.1 shipped with platform updates_

- _Many older point releases of distros were marked deprecated for removal next April. In general test against the major version or you'll be constantly updating things_

- _CentOS 8 updated to 8.2_

- _All Ubuntu releases updated to the latest patch versions_

- _Added Debian 9.12_

_Similarly we shipped a ton of new Bento boxes. This brings in the latest package updates and releases. All the Ubuntu boxes were updated to the latest patches, Debian 10.5 and 9.13 were added, and more boxes were built for vmware and parallels hypervisors_

nreeves shared

_Facebook open sourced a few new cookbooks including `fb_networks_scripts`: uses RedHats network-scripts, `fb_networksetup`: basic networking setup for macs, and `fb_users`: managing linux users using attributes, forcing unified UID/GIDs (wrapping user/group resources). Check them out_ [_https://github.com/facebook/chef-cookbooks_](https://github.com/facebook/chef-cookbooks)

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Alex Pop shared

_👋 from the Automate team!_

- _Made a change to send chef-server actions as events to the event-feed-service_
- _Merged documentation fixes and improvements_
- _Continued with the compliance reporting improvements for the last 24h vs today (in UTC)_
- _The compliance profiles that ship with Automate have been updated_

**Chef Habitat**

sdmacfarlane shared

_Greetings from the Habitat team! We're all AFK attending RustConf today, 👋 to us if you're also there. We'd love to talk Rust (and Habitat) with you._

- _Continuing redesign of job dispatch scheduler in Builder_
- _Improving api retries in client libraries ( No useless retries, retry backoff )_
- _Added hab sup restart command_
- _Continued refactoring/tests around keys_
- _Prepping for RBAC release next week (_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/rbac-in-builder-saas/1343_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/rbac-in-builder-saas/1343) _)_

**Chef Infra Server**

tas50 shared

_Prajakta is out this week so here updates for the Chef Infra Server team_

- _Continued work on the Rails 6 upgrade for oc-id_
- _Continued work on the Erlang 22 upgrade and sigv4 upgrade_

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

_The Chef Infra Client team has been a bit busy this week_

- _We've brought on help for all our Windows needs with the return of_ [_@mwrockx_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1QBBADMM) _. Matt's already been an incredible help digging into Windows-land_
- _We released Chef Infra Client 16.4 as I mentioned above with some great bug fixes and improvements_
- _chef\_client\_trusted\_certificate was merged yesterday giving you an easy way to add a cert to the trust directory_
- _We've reenabled unit tests on all the platforms post build. This may seem pretty trivial, but this actually required several weeks of tracking down odd failures and in the end we discovered a nasty bug in the_ which _helper on Windows. It turns out when you test stuff you find bugs_
- _Performance improvement work and package size improvement work continues. Lots of our various deps have been released with minor perf enhancements and the next InSpec release will drop several gem dependencies from Chef_
- _We're starting work on the_ chef\_client\_launchd _resource which is a bit tricky since it needs to be able to restart the agent, but launchd has no restart concept. That resource may take a bit, but hopefully that'll be in 16.5_

**Chef Inspec**

tas50 shared

_The InSpec team is still out so I have an update from them for this week_

_Hello from Schwad & InSpec!We are in week two of the “quiet time” for InSpec so no release this week as well.However, we are please to report there will be a new InSpec release_ next _week so that is something we’re very much looking forward to.That release will include:_

- _Brand new_ windows\_firewall _and_ windows\_firewall\_rule _resources_
- _2.6.5 builds now upgraded to 2.6.6_
- _InSpec gets a lighter weight by removing README and certain unused dependencies from builds_
- _Under the hood, the JUnit reporter has been converted to a plugin_

_Thanks and have a great week!_

_that dep update let's us shave 250k off the chef builds. I know you're all as excited for that as I am!_

**Chef Workstation**

mparadise shared

_Howdy from Workstation! I'm filling in for_ [_@tball_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1PMMCYE6) _this week. Workstation 20.8.215 was released yesterday, with a bunch of performance and size improvements (mostly from Tim) and bug fixes. We're continuing to work on our next set of features this week.Sadly, though, it looks like our Homebrew auto-PR needs more work (this time it failed due to an unexpected permissions error), so we're looking at that again too._

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_In progress PRs:_

- _aptly: Feature/aptly mirror_
- _aptly: Fixed typo in_ node['aptly']['gpg']['key-tpye']
- _java: Add aarch64 systems for corretto installation_
- _mariadb: Fix password issue_
- _nginx: CentOS 8 dnf fixes_
- _percona: Add evel package attribute to client recipe_
- _postgresql: Compatibility updates_
- _ruby\_rbenv: Fix libssl-dev dependency for Ubuntu 18.04_
- _ruby\_rbenv: Namespace the run\_state variable_

_Some of those PRs are from OSL students. Excited to see them contributing upstream!_

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Cinc Client:_

- _We now have binary builds for Cinc Client on the s390x architecture for RHEL8 available for both version 15 / 16. These are available as-is and are not part of our automated build pipeline._
- _Released 16.4.35, 16.4.38 & 16.4.41_
- _Rebased and updated PR which moves all dist constants from chef and chef-config to chef-utils (_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/9834_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/9834) _)_

_Cinc Workstation_

- _A build for 20.8.125 is in progress and should hopefully be released later today (having an issue with the MacOS builds for some reason)_

_Cinc Server_

- [_@jgitlin_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UVANM7LTX) _has continued work on removing workmarks from chef-server-ctl (_ [_https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/upstream/chef-server/-/merge\_requests/2_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/upstream/chef-server/-/merge_requests/2) _)_

## **See you next week!**

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