# Meeting notes for Dec 19, 2019

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-dec-19-2019/16412>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [December 19, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-dec-19-2019/16412 "2019-12-19T18:22:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-dec-19-2019/16412/1 "2019-12-19T18:22:24Z")

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With this week’s #community-meeting we’re going to start sharing summaries here on Discourse, for anyone that wasn’t able to attend the meeting.

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**DevRel**

tas50 started by introducing our new DevRel team, and community manager. benny had a list for the room

- _Like you said, we published a new blog intro-ing the new team:_ [_https://blog.chef.io/hi-im-benny-how-can-i-help/_](https://blog.chef.io/hi-im-benny-how-can-i-help/)
- _Our new community site,_ [_dev.chef.io_](http://dev.chef.io/) _launched! This site is aimed at being a cleaner, easier way to welcome new people to the Chef community, and an easier resource for existing people to join the chef community._
- _The CFP for ChefConf is set to open up Friday, Dec 20th… tomorrow! If you wanna keep up on the updates around ChefConf, join the_ [_#chefconf2020_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/CQM00GNNL) _channel._

_We’ve got lots more coming next year, but that’s it for now! We’ll keep sharing things that come up!_

# This week’s releases

**Automate**

_First off Automate 2 20191211163405 shipped. This included a bunch of housekeeping to get us on the latest habitat, ES, and java. It also fixed a TON of bugs and gave some nice performance improvements. If you’re using the Applications or IAMv2 beta make sure to check the complete release notes out. It’s big._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20191211163405-released/16400_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20191211163405-released/16400)

**Chef InSpec**

_Next up is Chef InSpec 4.18.51 which got us ready for Ruby 2.7, updates to rspec 3.9, and fixed a few nice bugs._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-18-51-released/16397_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-18-51-released/16397)

**Chef Infra**

_After that we shipped Chef Infra Client 15.6.10. This has a few nice resource improvements such as full failure output for the verify property. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of troubleshooting a failure there you know it was basically impossible. That’s a big win for that feature. This release has includes some substantial performance improvements for loading the chef-client and knife commands and shrinks our on disk install by an additional 7%_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-6-10-released/16388_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-6-10-released/16388)

_You might notice that every month seems to shrink by 5% or so. Things are getting a lot smaller even as we add new features._

**Cookstyle**

_After Infra we released Cookstyle with a new TargetChefVersion config that lets you turn off cops that don’t apply / aren’t compatible with your Infra Client release. It also contains 14 new cops. Lot’s of platform and platform helper cleanup and cops for notifications._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-5-16-released-with-14-new-chef-cops/16402_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-5-16-released-with-14-new-chef-cops/16402)

**Chef Workstation**

_And last, but not least is our Chef Workstation 0.13.35 release. This includes the latest Chef Infra Client and Cookstyle releases, our Ruby performance improvements, and some nice bug fixes / improvements to knife-ec2, knife-tidy, kitchen-dokken, and kitchen-azurerm._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-0-13-35-released/16407_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-0-13-35-released/16407)

_We’ll probably have a DK release coming up, but our main focus at this point is Workstation so that will always be the first / most frequent release_

**Community Updates**

_BobChaos shared that we've also had releases this week for Auditor and Client: Cinc Auditor 4.18.51 and Client 15.6.10. tas50 pointed out “Cinc 15.6.10 is the first release for Linux that is trademark free. That’s a huge accomplishment and they should all be super proud of that. I’m fairly certain they all know more about building Chef than I do now.”_

# Other updates

**Automate**

AlexPop shared

_In Automate we worked on: integrating Habitat Builder in Automate, improving Compliance profiles, updated the Compliance APIs for InSpec waivers, IAMv2, EAS Dashboard, automated documentation, refactoring and cleanup._

**Inspec**

CWolfe shared

_The InSpec Team is up to:_

- _making the URL fetcher failover to use an archive when available_
- _removing a major layer of complexity in the in the library evaluation context_
- _got the audit cookbook tests passing again_
- _looking into winrm timeouts in inspec when using the -b option_
- _and our ongoing improvements and buildout of our CI system_

**Habitat**

sdmacfarlane shared

_This week we've been continuing to get ready for a Futures world, getting the Eventstream ready for GA, and working on some tooling to help us visualize our package graph in builder_

**Workstation**

tball shared

_We spent the last week working on more Chef Analyze improvements, working on getting it closer to usability. As a reminder this is an experimental feature that is not ready for consumption yet. Other than that we helped prep the Chef Workstation 0.13.35 release that you got out - thanks Tim!_

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

- _For the past week the team has been focussed on integrating the release test infrastructure into a pipeline so that it can be run on a more regular basis._
- _We are making progress upgrading the Erlang version to 21._
- _Work is in progress to replace internal solr with elasticsearch._

tas50 also mentioned:

_I should also mention that we’re going to be forking the chef-15 branch off soon and we’ll start work on chef-16. Right now we have a few open PRs ready to merge once that’s complete. If there’s something you really think we need to get in for Chef Infra 16 it would be a great time to file an issue_

**Sous Chefs**

Xorima shared

_We are working on migrating the keepalived cookbook from HWRPs to Custom Resources. Another announcement is our weekly meeting will be moving to Thursdays 17:00 UTC (1 Hour after this community meeting) from January, so if you want to see what we get up to or how we sort though our backlog come join us!and_

_as always we are looking for maintainers and people to help us fix the numerous cookbooks we own, if you use it and you know of a way to make it better just raise an issue or create a Pull Request_

**See you next week!**

If you have any suggestions for these notes or want to say “Hi!”, comment below, or wave in slack to Mandi or benny! See you next Thursday!

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