# Meeting Notes for Jan 7, 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-jan-7-2021/19433>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [January 12, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-jan-7-2021/19433 "2021-01-12T20:07:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![bennyvasquez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/bennyvasquez/32/2559_2.png) [@bennyvasquez](https://discourse.chef.io/u/bennyvasquez)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-jan-7-2021/19433/1 "2021-01-12T20:07:29Z")

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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

_Up first, you might have noticed that_ [_discourse.chef.io/_](http://discourse.chef.io/) _is in read-only mode right now. We’re finally merging in the data from forums.habitat.sh, which should be done in the next couple hours. forums.habitat.sh will be going offline as soon as everything’s confirmed, and we can get the redirects in place._

_I also wanted to call attention to_ [_this message_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/C0M1NGZE3/p1610011354485300) _from_ [_@Xorima_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UDG5853CG) _. If you got a new laptop recently, it’s worth working on finding a good home for the old one._

# This week’s releases

**Chef Habitat**

benny Vasquez shared

_Habitat got an update, too (including external contributions from_ [_sajjaphani_](https://github.com/sajjaphani) _)._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/habitat-1-6-235-released/18085_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/habitat-1-6-235-released/18085)

_This release modifies the behavior around the Supervisor’s LOCK file. Take a look at the_ [_pull request_](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8036) _to find out more details about that._

**Chef Infra Client**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef infra client had a release a couple days ago, with all kinds of great work from both internal and external sources:_ [_https://t/chef-infra-client-16-9-16-released/18076_](https://t/chef-infra-client-16-9-16-released/18076)

tas50 shared

_Chef Infra Client 15.15.0 shipped as well. I had planned to post that today, but it's a bit hard with RO discourse_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-15-0-released/19423_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-15-0-released/19423) _That release includes several nice bugfixes backported from the 16 branch and resolves multiple CVEs_

**Chef Inspec**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Inspec got an update to 4.24.26 just a couple days ago (including external contributions from_ [_@rgeissert_](https://github.com/rgeissert) _and_ [_@kclinden_](https://github.com/kclinden) _!) One note from that update: macOS 10.13 is no longer a supported platform for Chef InSpec. You can check out the release notes here._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-24-26-released/18073_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-24-26-released/18073)

_And 4.24.28 was released late last as a hotfix; 4.24.26 had a serious issue on Windows._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-24-28-released/19420_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-24-28-released/19420)

**Chef Workstation**

benny Vasquez shared

_And just yesterday Workstation had a release:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-21-1-222-released/18084_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-21-1-222-released/18084)

_remember, if you haven’t moved to workstation yet, you’re setting yourself up for failure. Workstation replaces ChefDK, which went end of life last week:_ [_https://blog.chef.io/goodbye-chefdk-hello-chef-workstation_](https://blog.chef.io/goodbye-chefdk-hello-chef-workstation)

**Other releases**

tas50 shared

_Cookstyle got two updates to bring in new versions of Rubocop! We’re up to Rubocop 1.7.0 in Cookstyle 7.5._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-7-4-released/18046_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-7-4-released/18046)  
[_https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-7-5-released/18062_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-7-5-released/18062)

# Updates

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

- _Welcomed_ [_@mparadise_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1L5UMU66) _as a new member to the Chef Infra Client team_
- _Shipped 16.9 with the long awaited DNF work_
- \*Began work cleaning up the yum\_package resource to match the DNF cleanup work in 16.9\*
- _Scoping of upcoming work for 2021 and Chef Infra Client 17_

**Chef Inspec**

cwolfe shared

_The Chef InSpec Team is working on:_

- _Several routine dependency updates_
- _Modify_ --reporter-message-truncation _to also trim the_ code\_desc _field for large reports_
- _Investigate timeouts in the plugin installer unit tests on Windows; looks like_ webmock _may be the culprit_
- _Long-term looking into Ruby 3 support_

**Chef Workstation**

mparadise shared

_In addition to the release of Workstation that_ [_@tas50_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1CDF6JE6) _published yesterday, this week has been seeing our newest team members ramping up their contributions, taking on several long-delayed usability improvements to chef-cli and other components of Workstation. Work has also continued on the new rollouts (policyfile deployment) tracking feature._

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_Hello from Sous Chefs!_

_Here's the list of new releases in the past few weeks:_

- _atlantis - 1.2.1: Update documentation with better Terragrunt command_
- _consul - 4.3.1: Added the renamed parameters from consul 1.0.0_
- _docker - 7.4.1: Fix the codeowners to use the correct group_
- _docker - 7.5.0: Update to use docker-20.10 by default_
- _docker - 7.6.0: Support for loki-docker driver logging plugin_
- _elixir - 2.0.1: Cookstyle fixes_
- _nodejs - 7.3.1: Cookstyle fixes and enable testing on OpenSUSE_
- _openvpn - 5.2.0: Add support for Amazon Linux_
- _passenger\_apache2 - 4.0.1: Cookstyle fixes_
- _pyenv - 3.4.1: Cookstyle fixes_
- _rsyslog - 8.0.1: Cookstyle fixes_
- _vagrant - 2.0.4: Cookstyle fixes_

_In addition the 29 additional cookbooks has been transferred over from chef-cookbooks:_

- _apt_
- _ark_
- _aws_
- _chef-splunk_
- _chrony_
- _cron_
- _freebsd_
- _homebrew_
- _iis_
- _iis\_urlrewrite_
- _logrotate_
- _mcelog_
- _motd-tail_
- _nscd_
- _ntp_
- _openssh_
- _powershell_
- _resolver_
- _sql\_server_
- _sssd\_ldap_
- _yum-amazon_
- _yum-centos_
- _yum-elrepo_
- _yum-epel_
- _yum-erlang\_solutions_
- _yum-fedora_
- _yum-ius_
- _yum-remi-chef_
- _yum_

_It didn't stop there, we also also transferred the following 5 cookbooks over from windowschefcookbooks:_

- _beyondcompare_
- _notepadpp_
- _resharper_
- _seven\_zip_
- _visualstudio_

_Needless to say we're going to be busy getting those adopted into Sous Chefs and cleaned up. Here's a_ [_list_](https://osl.io/souschefsprs) _currently open pull requests that have been recently updated that need some reviews._

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Hello from the Cinc Project!_

_Cinc Auditor_

- _Released 4.24.26_
- _Now include a native MacOS 11.0 (x86-64) package_
- _We'll be releasing 4.24.28 later today_

_Cinc Client_

- _Released 16.9.16_
- _Now include a native MacOS 11.0 (x86-64) package_
- _We'll be releasing 15.15.0 later today_

_Cinc Workstation_

- _Released 21.1.222 via the unstable channel_
- _Unfortunately, we were not able to build a native MacOS 11.0 (x86-64) package yet due to this_ [_issue_](https://github.com/chef/chef-workstation/issues/1633)

_Other updates:_

- _Thanks to the OSUOSL, our MacOS builds are much faster now with a new x86-64 MacMini that isn't from 2011_
- _We now have a MacOS 11.0 builder working on Auditor, Client and Workstation_
- _Improved and refactored our cached builds work for Auditor, Client and Workstation. Plan to do the same for Server eventually as well._
- _We'll soon have access to an M1 MacMini which will enable us to build projects for that platform once Chef has resolved all upstream issues._

_I've started looking into the build issues with Workstation on Windows again starting with a better development environment for testing such issues. I plan on this in resulting in a new cookbook that we'll use for standardizing how we make our Linux, Windows and MacOS builders._

## **See you next week!**

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