# Meeting Notes for January 5th, 2023
**URL:** https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-january-5th-2023/21751
**Category:** Community Meetings
**Created:** [January 10, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-january-5th-2023/21751 "2023-01-10T17:21:20Z")
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### Author:  [@ktolliver](https://discourse.chef.io/u/ktolliver)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-january-5th-2023/21751/1 "2023-01-10T17:21:20Z")
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 shared
_Happy New Year Folks! Thanks for joining me for the first community meeting of the year!_
_We’re kicking back into gear internally, so not much to report from a DevRel perspective…yet but stay tuned because great things are coming._
_Just a reminder, our next Community Advisory Council is coming up next week 12 Jan at 1pm ET. Here’s the_ [_Zoom link_](https://progress.zoom.us/j/2857352905)_._
_Learn more about_ [_ **Setting up Chef Infra and Chef Automate Server** _](https://www.chef.io/blog/setting-up-chef-infra-and-chef-automate-server) _with this latest blog post._
_New year, new webinars. Here’s what’s coming up:Jan 11 Seamless Premium Content Delivery_ [Seamless Premium Content Delivery - Webinar | Chef](https://www.chef.io/webinars/seamless-premium-content-delivery)
_Jan 17 Simplifying SOC2 Compliance for Cloud Security_ [Simplifying SOC2 Compliance for Cloud Security - Webinar | Chef](https://www.chef.io/webinars/simplifying-soc2-compliance-for-cloud-security)
# This week’s releases
**Chef Automate**
Kiah shared
[_Automate version 4.4.10 Released!_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-version-4-4-10-released/21737/1) _This release contains a host of new features including adding the ability to patch configurations from Bastion host of Automate HA and adding new Automate CLI command to add and delete frontend and backend nodes of Automate HA for On-Prem deployment._
# Updates
**Chef Automate**
Ankur Mundhra shared
_Hello community_
_Highlights of this week include:_
- _A new version of Automate was released,_ [_4.4.10_](https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_automate/#4.4.10)
- _Upgraded OpenSearch to 1.3.6_
- _Upgraded OpenJDK to 11.0.17+8_
- _New and updated compliance profiles for Rocky Linux 8, Oracle Linux 8, Alma Linux 8, RHEL 7 & 8, Windows Server 2019, Windows 2016, Azure Fundamentals, GKE and SharePoint_
- _End-user confirmation for workspace upgrade while upgrading from v4.x to 4.4.x will not be asked_
- _Fixed issue while rotating certificate for On-Prem deployment of Automate HA_
- _Fixed issue to delete backups which do not exist_
- _Chef Infra Server configurations can now be patched using Chef Automate patch mechanism_
_Team Automate_
**Chef Habitat**
mwrockx shared
_Hello from Habitat!_
_Yesterday we released some nginx config updates to on-prem builder specifically turned on when authenticating against automate. This fixes outh errors when using automate as an oauth provider with modern versions of Automate._
**Chef Infra Client**
Thomas Powell shared
_Chef Infra Client: 18.1.0 released... (Chocolately package still pending approval and working on getting docs out) contents:Resource Updates_
- _Resource validation should be aware of action property requirements (_ [_#13069_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/13069)_) - Thanks_ [_@sabat_](https://github.com/sabat)
- _RHSM/Satellite - add option to set release version when using activation keys (_ [_#13352_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/13352)_) - Thanks_ [_@ianl678_](https://github.com/ianl678)
- _Launchd - added_ associated\_bundle\_identifiers t_o provide an optional key which indicates which bundles the Login Items Added by Apps panel associates with the helper executable. (_ [_#13288_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/13288)_) - Thanks_ [_@chilcote_](https://github.com/chilcote)
- yum\_repository _- add_ makecache\_fast _property to enable downloading only the minimum required metadata when refreshing the cache. (_ [_#12915_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/12915)_) - Thanks -_ [_@lanky_](https://github.com/lanky)
_Security_
- _Patch for_ [_CVE-2022-29181_](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29181) _and_ [_CVS-2022-24836_](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24836) _- upgraded to_ nokogiri _version_ 1.13.6
_Bug Fixes_
- _FIPS mode breakage in Windows has been resolved. (_ [_#13375_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/13375)_)_
- _Update deprecated_ hab sup status _call to_ hab sac status _(_ [_#13314_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/13314)_) - Thanks_ [_@gene1wood_](https://github.com/gene1wood)_!_
- _Fix indentation error in_ yum\_helper.py _that was causing_ disable _repo options to be ignored unless it appeared last in the_ repos _array (_ [_#13327_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/13327)_) - Thanks_ [_@darnaut_](https://github.com/darnaut)
- _Switch from Boolean to String type as value for the deprecated property option. (_ [_#13350_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/13350)_) Thanks_ [_@jweyer8_](https://github.com/jweyer8)
- _Update file\_system to send back the copy status (_ [_#13107_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/13107)_)_
_Known issue_
- _Intermittent FFI::Yajl errors_
_Chef 16 release should be in the works next and Chef 17 should be fairly soon behind that._
**Chef Infra Server**
Lincoln Baker shared
_In Progress_
- _[DAST Scan] Cacheable SSL page found_
- _[Chef Infra Server] Investigate Commons vulnerability_
- _[Chef Infra Server] Investigate unable to upload cookbooks after upgrading from 15.1.7 to 15.3.2_
- _Add el-9 to the builders, testers, and the Umbrella pipeline for Infra Server_
- _Refactor/cleanup work_
_Completed_
- _[Chef Infra Server] rebar3 upgrade_
- _[Chef Infra Server] Update knife-ec-backup to output meaningful success/failure results_
- _[Courier Server] Ensure that a new Job (POST w/ 201) adds the URL of the created job in a Location header_
- _[Courier Server] Implement schedulemanager.UpdateJobById_
- _[Automate] Investigate Automate failures on upgrading to Infra Server 15.3.2_
- _Develop workaround for ibrowse pipelines and parallel connections issue_
**Chef Inspec**
cwolfe shared
**Chef Workstation**
Vikram Karve shared
**Sous Chefs**
ramereth shared
_Hello from Sous Chefs!_
- _apt - 7.5.0_
- _Update_ 50unattended-upgrades _to package defaults_
- _Add testing for Ubuntu 22.04, CI updates_
- _postgresql - 11.1.1: Fix parsing of address field in_ pga\_hba.conf
- _vagrant - 4.0.0_
- _Update default version to install to 2.3.4_
- _Logic fixes for installing \>= 2.3.0_
- _CI and Cookstyle fixes_
- _Update tested platforms_
- _Standardize helper library and clean it up_
- _Cleanup and modernize unit tests_
- _Fix up generic installation_
- _yum-remi-chef - 6.2.0_
- _Add_ remi\_php82 _resource for supporting PHP 8.2_
- _Add support for AlmaLinux 9, CentOS Stream 9 and Rocky Linux 9_
- _Remove remaining references to CentOS 8_
- _Fix CI and update tests_
**Cinc Updates**
ramereth shared
_Hello from the Cinc Project!_
- _Looks like we'll be building 18.1.0 soon since it was just released_
- _No other new updates_
## **See you next week!**
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.chef.io/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-january-5th-2023/21751/2 "2023-01-13T17:21:33Z")
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