# Meeting notes for January 14, 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-january-14-2021/19445>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [January 14, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-january-14-2021/19445 "2021-01-14T17:33:42Z")\
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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**

benny Vasquez Shared

_Hallo and good happy thursday to all of you lovely nuggets, **@here**. It’s time once again for our weekly community meeting. I’ll kick us off with some devrel/community updates._

_First things first: as part of the migration/merging of the habitat forums to the Chef discourse, I’ve audited the permissions and users on_ [_discourse.chef.io_](http://discourse.chef.io/) _(mostly just disabling accounts of employees that left many years agoooooo). If you had accesses you’re now missing, let me know. Similarly, if you have any problems logging in, let me know!_

_Next up: I wanted to mention that we’ve got another Roundtable webinar coming up on January 26th at 10am Pacific Time. This one covers Compliance as Code and its potential organizational impact, as well as Continuous Compliance._ [_Register here_](https://pages.chef.io/202101-Webinar-RoundtableComplianceasCode_01Register.html) _._

_and lastly, we just released that Git course I mentioned last month on_ [_learn.chef.io_](http://learn.chef.io/) _! It’s the first in a series of new Learn Chef courses focusing on key technologies/languages that Chef practitioners need to be successful with our tools, instead of focusing entirely on our tools themselves._ [_Getting Started with Git_](https://learn.chef.io/courses/course-v1:chef+Git101+Perpetual/about) _is on the site now!_

# This week’s releases

**Chef Automate**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Automate 2 had two releases in the last week (one just 40 minutes ago)._

- _20201230192246 included a few improvements were made, specifically around ElasticSearch. See the release notes here:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20201230192246-released/19424_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20201230192246-released/19424)
- _20210112001354 included improvements and bug fixes around compliance and compliance profiles._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20210112001354-released/19442_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20210112001354-released/19442)

**Chef Infra Client**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Infra Client 15 & 16 both got releases. Client 15.15.0 is a_ [_security and bugfix release_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-15-0-released/19423) _. Client 16 had both_ [_16.9.16_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-9-16-released/18076) _(thanks to_ [_@axelrtgs_](https://github.com/axelrtgs) _,_ [_@drbrain_](https://github.com/drbrain) _,_ [_@axl89_](https://github.com/axl89) _,_ [_@epilatow_](https://github.com/epilatow) _,_ [_@Blorpy_](https://github.com/Blorpy) _,_ [_@bcg62_](https://github.com/bcg62) _,_ [_@janskarvall_](https://github.com/janskarvall) _,_ [_@reitermarkus_](https://github.com/reitermarkus) _,_ [_@tboyko_](https://github.com/tboyko) _,_ [_@jaymzh_](https://github.com/jaymzh) _, and_ [_@wildcrazyman_](https://github.com/wildcrazyman) _for all your contributions!) and_ [_16.9.20_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-9-20-released/19437) _(a few additional bugfixes; Thanks_ [_@mrtazz_](https://github.com/mrtazz/) _!) released this week._

**Chef Inspec**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Inspec also had a small release:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-24-32-released/19440_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-24-32-released/19440)

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Alex Pop shared

_Greetings from the Automate team!_

- _We fixed some issues with the build pipelines._
- _We made updates to the compliance profiles._
- _Fixed issue where notifications service failed for ServiceNow requests._
- _We upgraded from AngularJS 10 to 11._
- _We fixed a bug introduced by the D3 library upgrade that prevented the day filter to change when clicking on the Compliance trend graphs._
- _Fixed a performance issue with the Compliance trend graphs when a period of over 1 month was selected._
- _Added option for download the entire compliance scan history for a node._
- _Workflow documentation has been made EOL._
- _Modified the secrets store/secrets helper utilities to encrypt secrets that are stored on disk._

**Chef Habitat**

mwrockx shared

_Hello from Habitat!_  
_This week our focus has been:_

- _Fixed public Windows builders_
- _Updating core habitat dependency in Builder_
- _Sorting out our Builder Acceptance environment_

**Chef Infra Server**

tas50 shared

- _Wrapping up work on SigV4_
- _Reviewing mtls support PR_
- _Scoped out work to ship in 14.1 and 14.2_

_Here's our mtls PR for those interesting in that:_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2207_](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2207)

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

- _Released Chef Infra Client 16.9.20 to resolve freebsd pkgng failures and issues with the yet to be released Compliance Mode running (oops)_
- _PR is open to allow lazy loading attributes throughout the client. Here's that lazy PR for those interesting in what that'll look like:_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10861_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10861)
- _Renamed Recipe DSL to Chef Infra Language in our docs and began process of rewriting nearly all of these docs. Expect to see all the helpers documented soon_

_the TLDR on that is with that change it becomes possible from a security perspective to publicly face your Chef Infra Server_

**Chef Inspec**

cwolfe shared

_The Chef InSpec team is working on:_

- _Routine dependency updates_
- _Fixing the tagging on the Docker images_
- _Implementing Ruby 3 support_

_One thing to note: our Docker images are now omnibus-based, rather than being based on a gem installation. That makes them much more predictable and consistent (and, well, working). It also means that if you are customizing the images, you need to know that the inspec installation is now under_ /opt/inspec _rather than_ /usr/local/bundle

tas50 pointed out: _That Docker change there is pretty rocking for folks. That means you're going to get all the omnibus deps you need for a fully functional InSpec install in those containers now_

**Chef Workstation**

mparadise shared

_Chef Workstation had a quieter-than-anticipated week as new team members continue to work through several outstanding usability issues and bugs. We anticipate more of the same over the next week, with these updates expected ready for release in the next Workstation release; and in_ current _in the coming days._

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

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

- _docker - 7.6.1: Fixed_ reload\_signal _and cpus bug for_ docker\_container _in #1090_
- _iis - 7.4.0: Adoption by Sous Chefs_
- _postgresql - 8.1.1: Fix attribute updates for users with dashes_
- _squid - 4.4.0: Add support for Debian 10, Ubuntu 20.04 and CentOS 8_

_Thanks to work by me, we now have working windows exec driver which means github actions work with windows runners, for an example see_ [_https://github.com/sous-chefs/iis_](https://github.com/sous-chefs/iis) _. Thanks to_ [_@Xorima_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UDG5853CG) _for getting that full working example in place!_

_We hope to start implementing this in other cookbooks that need it._

_We're still working on properly importing the slew of cookbooks that got transferred last week. We hope to make some new progress soon._

_Here's a_ [_list_](https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+org%3Asous-chefs+archived%3Afalse+sort%3Aupdated-desc+is%3Aopen+) _of 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 4.24.28 & 4.24.32 (both include a native MacOS 11.0 (x86-64) package)_

_Cinc Client_

- _Released 15.15.0 & 15.15.1, now with a native MacOS 11.0 (x86-64) package_
- _Released 16.6.17 & 16.9.20_

_Cinc Workstation_

- _Released 21.1.222 via unstable channel_
- _Unfortunately no native MacOS 11.0 build due to_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef-workstation/issues/1633_](https://github.com/chef/chef-workstation/issues/1633) _but I believe the 10.15 build should still work_

_I also went through and cleaned up and properly fixed cached builds on MacOS and Windows for Auditor, Client and Workstation. I'm planning on back porting that to Server eventually as well._

_We also now have access to an M1 MacMini (arm64) which will allow us to eventually make builds for the various products. I started working through some of the porting issues and will be making some upstream PRs as we have time._

_I've also been slowly finding time to work on the Windows build of Cinc Workstation. Still no ETA on when that will be ready but **I am** working on it._

jgitlin shared:

_Not a lot on Cinc Server, but we have a_ [_new contributor guide_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/server/-/wikis/contributor-guide) _now (still a work in progress)_

**Other updates**

ramereth shared:

_I'm working on a_ [_PR_](https://github.com/test-kitchen/dokken-images/pull/36) _for the dokken-images which should fix issues if you run it on a Linux machine. I should be pushing an update to the PR which will hopefully make_ [_@tas50_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1CDF6JE6) _happy. Basically, running systemd inside of containers can be annoying on systems also running systemd._

## **See you next week!**

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