# Meeting Notes for December 16, 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-december-16-2021/20595>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [December 16, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-december-16-2021/20595 "2021-12-16T19:01:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![ktolliver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@ktolliver](https://discourse.chef.io/u/ktolliver)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-december-16-2021/20595/1 "2021-12-16T19:01:51Z")

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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**

Kiah Tolliver shared

Only one shameless plug from DevRel this week:  
If you're doing something cool with Chef that'd you'd like to show off and share with the community, we'd love to have you on our live stream! Ping [@damacus](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1QLQQV5X) or me if you'd like to learn more.

Actually, I lied. One more update on the topic of live streams: We won't be streaming for the next couple of weeks due to folks being out on vacation. We'll pick back up on Jan 11 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed with fresh content for your viewing pleasure

# This week’s releases

**Chef Infra Server**

Kiah Tolliver shared

[Chef Infra Server 14.11.21 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-server-14-11-21-released/20592) This release includes security and packaging updates.

**Other releases**

Kiah Tolliver shared

[Chef Manage 3.2.20 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-manage-3-2-20-released/20573) This release contains a few minor security updates.

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Ankur Mundhra shared

Hello community  
Few things which the team worked on include:

- Pagination API for control list in Compliance reporting
- See list of downloadable compliance reports and ability to download (currently in dev branch of large compliance report)
- Fixes on client reset modal, node run list tab in Infra Server views
- New CLI commands: automate-ctl license uniqueNodeRunReport and automate-ctl license nodeRunReport
- Optimize bulk indexing to improve the performance of the system
- Backup and restore capability in data feed service
- ES upgraded to 6.8.21 and AdoptOpenJDK upgraded to 11.0.13+8

**Chef Habitat**

mwrockx shared

This week's updates:

- Making progress on next core-plans refresh

- Working on tool to auto version bump core packages

- Working on HA on prem builder support

- Working on a way to turn off auto builds at the origin level internally

- Fixed failures of large package uploads to builder

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

Hey everyone!

We have a few good updates for this week

- We merged Hashi Vault Approle support for our secrets helper
- We merged improved VMware hypervisor detection on Windows and new helpers to determine exactly which hypervisor you are running on from [@theinen](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U37DFJ5NY)
- We are just about to merge some great improvements to the yum package support. This backports some of the learnings that [@lamont](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1PLPF6NB) made when refactoring the DNF package provider. It includes some nice edge condition fixes and a giant pile of new specs to make sure we support every funky usage of package installation
- Once that yum change makes it in we'll ship 17.9 which also includes the fix for windows\_feature\_powershell failing that [@mikevg](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UM96P1W80) noticed

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

Here is the update for the Server team:  
Hello folks!- Chef Server 14.11.21 has been released. It fixes multiple CVE's related to log4j, redis and jdk. Please find the release notes at: [Chef Infra Server Release Notes](https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_server/)

- We have posted the steps for mitigation of the log4j CVE at

[Is Chef vulnerable to CVE-2021-44228 (Log4j)? - Chef Blog | Chef](https://www.chef.io/blog/is-chef-vulnerable-to-cve-2021-44228-(log4j))

- We are currently working through multiple issues un upgrading Infra Server to the latest in Automate.

That is all for us this week!

**Chef Inspec**

cwolfe shared

The Chef InSpec team has been working on:

- Adding support for a `is_latest?` matcher for the `package` resource
- Investigating support for tls1.2 and 1.3 on the `ssl` resource
- Looking into an issue with unicode in an error message in German-language Windows installations
- Adding support for using an SSH config file
- Expanding support for more containerization systems on the `virtualization` resource

**Chef Workstation**

Vikram Karve shared

Note- We are working toward addressing a release pipeline blocker issue. This is causing delay in bringing you up-to-date Chef Infra Client and other modules.

Ready for release / completed

- Addressed few test-kitchen issues [[1]](https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-ec2/issues/497) & [[2]](https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-dokken/issues/126)
- The fix to chef-vault [issue](https://github.com/chef/chef-vault/issues/373) is merged
- Resolved issue where workstation tray icon would disappear on upgrade.

Work-in-progress

- Implementing `chef env` in Golang
- Identifying what telemetry data is sent via workstation already, and what more could be added.
- Updating build scripts to [support](https://github.com/chef/chef-workstation/issues/2365) Apple M1 ARM64 architecture.
- Updating kitchen-vra plugin and vmware-vra-gem to support vRA 8

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

Hello from the Cinc Project!

Cinc Server

- Looking into issues when upgrading to latest Cinc Server release (getting close to having a solution for this!)
- Will be releasing 14.11.15 and 14.11.21 once those issues have been resolved

Cinc Client

- Looking into run-time issues with Cinc 17 on Windows

**Other updates**

## **See you next week!**

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