# Meeting notes for January 21, 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-january-21-2021/19500>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [January 28, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-january-21-2021/19500 "2021-01-28T17:41:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-january-21-2021/19500/1 "2021-01-28T17:41:58Z")

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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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# This week’s releases

**Chef Infra Client**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Infra Client got an update to 16.9.29, bringing in the Inspec updates from above AND including some bug fixes (thanks_ [_@rgeissert_](https://github.com/rgeissert) _for the inspec updates, and_ [_@jaymzh_](https://github.com/jaymzh) _!)._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-9-29-released/19473_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-9-29-released/19473)

- _Resolved failures from running_ chef-client _on some Windows systems._
- _Compliance Phase: Improved detection of the_ audit _cookbook when it is used for compliance reporting._
- _chef-shell: Added support for loading configs in_ client.d _directories - Thanks_ [_@jaymzh_](https://github.com/jaymzh) _!_
- _Duplicate gems in our packaging have been removed to further shrink the package sizes and improve load time._

**Chef Inspec**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef InSpec got an update to 4.25.1 with some neat stuff:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-25-1-released/19460_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-25-1-released/19460)

- _OpenSSH Client on Windows can now be tested with the ssh\_config and sshd\_config resources. Thanks_ [_@rgeissert_](https://github.com/rgeissert) _!_
- _The_ --reporter-message-truncation _option now also truncates the_ code\_desc _field, preventing failures when sending large reports to Automate._

**Chef Workstation**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Workstation 21.1.233 got a release last week, with some goodness in knife-ec2 and kitchen-google. Thanks to_ [_@DoctorOgg_](https://github.com/DoctorOgg) _and_ [_@jerseyfoxcom_](https://github.com/jerseyfoxcom) _for their help!_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-21-1-233-released/19456_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-21-1-233-released/19456)

# Updates

**Chef Habitat**

mwrockx shared

_This week we have been:_

- _Investigating processes around core-plans_
- _Refactoring database pooling in builder_
- _Addressing a bug in launching install hooks on some specific linux distros_

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

- _Chef Infra Client 16.9.29 released_
- _Working to further slim our package / install sizes_
- _Merged initial work to get M1 Mac support. Thanks_ [_@ramereth_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U2UHD7RQF)
- _Working to build out our 2021 roadmap and epics_

**Chef Inspec**

cwolfe shared

_The Chef InSpec team is working on:_

- _Released Chef InSpec 4.25.1_
- _Routine dependency updates_
- _Implementing Ruby 3 support_
- _Looking into splitting up the Google Cloud SDK gems in_ train _(and thus as used by_ inspec-gcp _), now that Google is releasing individual gems_

**Chef Workstation**

mparadise shared

_Workstation team is continuing to work through the backlog of issues. Upcoming fixes include supporting_ chef update _when no lockfile is present; allowing cookbook files to be generated into subdirectories. Separately, work continues on the new Rollouts tracking feature._

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_Hello from Sous Chefs!_

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

- _apt - 7.4.0: Sous Chefs Adoption_
- _chrony - 1.0.0: Sous Chefs Adoption which includes a small refactor and a variety of fixes_
- _grafana - 9.5.2: Fixed a bug where ldap and grafana had hard coded paths along with documentation fixes_
- _nginx - 11.2.0: Add file and folder mode overrides to_ nginx\_config _and_ nginx\_site
- _percona - 2.1.0: Fix error when granting multi-word privileges (ex._ REPLICATION CLIENT _) to users through_ percona\_mysql\_user _. Also remove support for Ubuntu 16.04_
- _tomcat - 4.1.0: Added Tomcat 10 support for_ tomcat\_install
- _vault - 5.0.0: Major refactor and update thanks to @@bmhughes. Seechangelog and upgrading doc for further details_
- _vcruntime - 2.1.0: Sous Chefs Adoption and update vc14 to 14.28.29325.2_
- _vcruntime - 2.2.0: Add norestart options to installers and also allow for_ 1638 _return code_
- _yum - 6.0.0: Sous Chefs Adoption which also includes a set of fixes going back to 2018_
- _yum-epel - 4.1.0: Sous Chefs Adoption_

_We’re still working on properly importing the slew of cookbooks that got transferred last week. We made some progress this past week and hope to continue more! 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 4.25.1_
- _This release now includes aarch64 builds for Debian 10, OpenSuSE 15 and Ubuntu 18.04 & 20.04_
- _This release also removes builds for Debian 8_

_Cinc Workstation_

- _Released 21.1.233 via unstable channel_

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