# Meeting notes for December 10th, 2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-december-10th-2020/18025>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-december-10th-2020/18025 "2020-12-15T17:38:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-december-10th-2020/18025/1 "2020-12-15T17:38:38Z")

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Below are the meeting notes for last 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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# This week’s releases

**Chef Automate**

tas50 shared

_The Automate team released Automate 20201127104018 with some great improvements for the 24 hour view especially if you're west of PST._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20201127104018-released/18003_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20201127104018-released/18003)

**Chef Habitat**

tas50 shared

_Habitat shipped 1.6.175 and 1.6.181. This resolve a regression that prevented non-root containers, improved TLS support, added a new `HAB_FALLBACK_CHANNEL` config in plans, and included several dozen PRs to improve documentation and docs auatomation._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/habitat-1-6-175-1-6-181-released/17895_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/habitat-1-6-175-1-6-181-released/17895)

**Chef Inspec**

tas50 shared

_The InSpec team shipped InSpec 4.24. This adds ed25519 SSH key support in the omnibus package, updated Ruby from 2.6 -\> 2.7, removes some unused dependencies, and allows specifying more than one platform in your profiles._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-24-8-released/18010_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-24-8-released/18010)

**Other releases**

aaronlippold shared

_The MITRE team will be pushing some PRs to improve the postgres\_session resource to make it actually work on windows platform runners_

# Updates

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

_Hello Folks,_

- _While testing for the rails update to 6 we have hit some blockers in a Chef server upgrade scenario, so we will be investigating that._
- _We did some refactor for the aws\_sig\_v4 changes in bookshelf to fit into our current code structure and fixed some unit tests in that process._
- _We are currently working on getting the change for aws sig\_v4 in Automate._  
_That is all for us!_

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

_Merged a fix for hostname resource on macOS when the OS has no hostname_

- _Solaris builds have returned_
- _Unit tests on Windows are now 6-15 minutes faster with the removal of systemd unit tests on Windows_
- _DNF/YUM work is nearly complete. This may ship in 16.8 or a bugfix release shortly after_
- _Once 16.8 goes out we're going to fork master to the chef-16 branch and start prepping Chef Infra Client 17_

**Chef Inspec**

schwad shared

_Hello InSpec friends!_

_Our big news of the week is a hot-off-the-presses InSpec release! I dropped this just a few hours ago. There’s a bunch of updates so be sure to check the full run-down here:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-24-8-released/18010_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-24-8-released/18010)

_Highlights include:_

- _Ruby 2.4 is no longer supported_
- _A dependency issue that was causing Ruby 2.5 to break has been fixed!_
- _On the JSON reporter, you now can access the_ resource\_class _(or name) of the resource used in the result as well as the params that were passed to that resource. This will give you a lot more backend information and also will help support projects like Automate in reporting by cloud resources._
- _Ruby builds bumped to latest Ruby 2.7 (Until Christmas of course when Ruby 3 drops! )_
- _You can specify more than one platform in profiles with a supported wildcard_
- _As always, miscellaneous but helpful bugfixes_

_We’ve continued to have **great** community interaction and growth with this project, and it really means a lot.Finally - I’m working on a super-secret PR to really boost our performance and speed on InSpec runs that heavily rely on waiver files. I’m looking to test this against real-world setups- if you have examples that I can use please drop a note here or a DM:_ [_https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/C1XB6U6MN/p1607524180332500_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/C1XB6U6MN/p1607524180332500)

That’s it for now, have a great weekend folks until next time!

**Chef Workstation**

mparadise shared

_It's been a quiet week in Workstation as we continue onboarding new team members and trying to get our backlog in a semblance of order. (Clarification: just bringing old issues up to date, we found a bunch that fell through the cracks.)_

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_Hello from Sous Chefs! Here's the list of new releases in the past week:_

- _docker 7.4.0 - Support_ local _option for the_ log\_driver _properties of_ docker\_service _and_ docker\_container _resources_
- _etcd 6.2.0 - Update permissions to_ 0700 _on_ data\_dir
- _etcd 6.3.0 - Add configuration flag_ listen-metrics-urls
- _fail2ban 6.3.1 - Fixes jail resource to support priority property in delete action_
- _java 8.5.0 - Fix installation issues with_ openjdk\_install _resource_
- _line 2.9.2 - Cookstyle fixes_
- _line 2.9.3 - Add a type to the EOL property of the_ filter\_lines _resource_
- _nginx 11.1.0 - Add_ repo\_train _property to_ nginx\_install _to select stable/mainline when installing from the nginx repo, and_ packages\_versions _property to_ nginx\_install _to specify specific package versions._
- _nginx 11.1.1 - Fix site containing directory creation when_ nginx\_config _is not used_
- _postgresql 8.1.0 - Fix potential password exposure in logs_
- _rsyslog 7.6.0 - Bring default configuration for SmartOS inline with current distribution from pkgsrc_
- _rsyslog 8.0.0 - Variety of fixes related to_ imfile _and_ rsyslog\_file\_input

_I've also been working on improving the openldap cookbook along with finishing up cleaning up the jenkins cookbook in the past week. I on-boarded_ [_@nuclearsandwich_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U94PQQA0K) _earlier this week on the status of that Jenkins PR._

_Here's a_ [_https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+org%3Asous-chefs+archived%3Afalse+sort%3Aupdated-desc_](https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+org%3Asous-chefs+archived%3Afalse+sort%3Aupdated-desc) _currently open pull requests that have been recently updated that need some reviews._

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Hello from the Cinc Project!_

_Cinc Auditor_

- _4.24.8 is currently building and will be released later today_

_Other updates_

- _Created MacOS Big Sur (11.0) VM to assist with builds. Still needs to be finished being setup but I hope to finish that in the next week or so._
- _The OSUOSL ordered a beefier x86 MacMini along with an M1 MacMini which Cinc will be able to use for builds moving forward._

_Note: Those MacMini's will be available for other FOSS projects to use as well as an alternative to MacStadium. Cinc will be the first users of these!_

_As a team of volunteers, we're still very busy with our actual jobs however we're still trying to find time to make progress on the following items:_

- _Windows Cinc Workstation build_
- _MacOS BigSur (11.0) builds for Client, Auditor and Workstation_
- _Additional stabilization of Cinc Server and Cinc Workstation_

**Other updates**

ramereth shared

_yum-centos 5.0.0 was released which removed support for EL6 and updated vault versions_

_I have an open PR for yum-epel which also removes testing/support for EL6 and older Amazon Linux. Also adds modular and playground repos for EL8 (disabled by default)_ [_https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/yum-epel/pull/62_](https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/yum-epel/pull/62) _._

tas50 shared

_Expect RHEL 6 to be removed from cookbooks everywhere. no timeline yet on when the builds will stop in the client. but if you're on RHEL 6 it's time to get off_

## **See you Thursday!**

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