# Meeting notes for July 2nd, 2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-july-2nd-2020/17353>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [July 2, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-july-2nd-2020/17353 "2020-07-02T16:54:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-july-2nd-2020/17353/1 "2020-07-02T16:54:59Z")

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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

_just one thing from us this week: a heads up that later this month we’ll be pushing changes to our internal build system that support a change of our default branch name from master to main. We’ll test first on a smaller, lesser-used repo. Based on the results of that test, we’ll set up and communicate out a plan to roll out this change to all of our repos. If you’ve got questions or concerns, feel free to pass them my way via PM!_

# This week’s releases

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

_Chef Infra Client 15.12.22 shipped. This includes a ton of backported fixes for resources and bootstrapping. It also includes ohai detect of macOS Big Sur and packages for Windows 8_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-12-22-released/17316_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-15-12-22-released/17316)

_Chef Infra Client 16.2.73 was released. This is another collection of small bug fixes we wanted to get out before shipping the next feature release._ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-2-73-released/17339_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-2-73-released/17339)

_That release includes some nice improvements in Ohai, the return of Habitat packages for Chef Infra along with powershell\_exec support in Habitat, and several nice bug fixes for resources_

**Chef Inspec**

tas50 shared

_InSpec 4.21.1 and 4.21.3 were both released. These have fixes for the new logging functionality_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-21-3-released/17352_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-21-3-released/17352)

**Chef Workstation**

tas50 shared

_Chef Workstation 20.7.81 shipped. This includes the updated Chef Infra Client with bootstrapping fixes, includes updates net-ssh gem for modern crypto in SSH connections, has a new train release that reuses SSH connections, the latest cookstyle as usual, and many other updates to components_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-20-7-81-released/17343_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-20-7-81-released/17343)

_Workstation is also now available for Windows 8_

**Other releases**

tas50 shared

_We also shipped a nice update to the_ [_kitchen.ci_](http://kitchen.ci/) _website for test kitchen._ [_kitchen.ci_](http://kitchen.ci/) _is now managed by netlify, which means any merge to the main test-kitchen repository will automatically deploy the website. Additionally any PR opened will build the website and toss a link in the PR where it can be previewed_

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Alex Pop shared

_Greetings from the Automate team!_

- _Merged an update to data-lifecycle that allows a user to make changes to Service Groups through the UI._
- _Fixed a bug where no output was generated for compliance csv exports when filtering by ‘Control Tag’._
- _With the introduction of the minimal reports ingestion, the notification service stopped receiving the metadata(control code, impact, etc) in the reports. This has been rectified now._
- _Documentation updates across the board._
- _Working to improve the compliance reporting when looking at the current day._
- _Made the data feed service more resilient to incomplete data being ingested._
- _Merged UI improvements to the cookbook filtering in the event feed._
- _Working to improve reporting of Compliance errors caused by InSpec exceptions (profile or resource bugs)._

**Chef Habitat**

sdmacfarlane shared

_Greetings from the Habitat team!_

- _Uninstall hook feature has merged_
- _Service bootstraping PR under review_
- _Fixes to package upload and channel promotion when the package is already present on Builder_
- _Allow dynamic changes to update-related config for services_
- _Starting work to make the above a 'patch' operation_
- _Starting work to refactor Builders job scheduler so we can teach it new tricks_

_mwrock is amazing to work with, thanks for returning him_

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

_Hello Chefs!_

- _The sig\_v4 changes are passing pedant and partial integration\_test pipeline. We will be running them through the full set of integration testing pipeline._
- _We updated java to 11.0.7 for elasticsearch, those changes will be available in current shortly._
- _We are working on updating to chef-16 and bundler-2.1.4 for Chef Infra Server._

_That is all for us!_

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

_bug fixes, bug fixes, and more bug fixes_

- _Chef Infra Client 15 now has a deprecation warning when you're missing the provides line in resources so you can fix that before upgrading to 16. The new Workstation release also has Cookstyle rules for that_

- _We're doing a lot of investigation into what macOS Big Sur means for Chef. As usual the release includes some huge bombs which are going to make our life a lot harder. Expect more work there_

- _We have several new resources incoming: inspec\_audit\_waiver, motd, and windows\_firewall\_profile are in the works_

- _We're working on a full formal pipeline for Habitat packages so we can fully test and promote those packages as equals with the omnibus packages_

**Chef Inspec**

Stocksy shared

_This week we released InSpec 4.21.1 - it contains the improvements_ [_@schwad_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U0115U2JL02) _mentioned at last week's meeting:_

- _A new html2 reporter for better HTML reporting_
- _Several improvements to the_

interface _resource_

- _A performance fix when running against ssh targets.We also_

_just released InSpec 4.21.3 with a small fix to the html2 reporter._  
_We also have a number of PRs in-flight, both from Chef staff and community_

_One incoming change is that InSpec will start to report in its result data when a profile fails to load due to errors with the source code in the profile; instead of the current behaviour of just terminating InSpec._

**Chef Workstation**

tball shared

_Howdy! We worked on the release that you already mentioned. As part of that it appears () that we fixed our automatic Chocolatey promotion. Still working on the homebrew solution. Releases should resume at our intended 2-week cadence. In addition to that release we have started going through some of the Test Kitchen backlog, and Clinton got two issues fixed this week already._

_Otherwise, our team is working on our Q3 planning and I'll share any updates about that when we can. Thanks!_

**Sous Chefs**

tas50 shared

- _chefignore fix pushed to all cookbooks to ensure we publish the_ [_changelog.md_](http://changelog.md) _file to supermarket again. This fix is also in the new Workstation release_
- _Lots of work happening in PHP to support the latest versions of RHEL/Debian/Ubuntu_
- _Apache2 cookbook work to add mod\_php support_
- _Lots of activity in the grafana cookbook with new resources and fixes_

**Cinc**

ramereth shared

_Cinc Client:_

- _Released 15.12.22 which now includes packages for aarch64 and Amazon Linux 2_
- _Released 16.2.73_

_Cinc Auditor:_

- _Released 4.21.1 & 4.21.3 which now includes packages for aarch64 and Amazon Linux 2_
- [_@Tensibai_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1TS1SGMQ) _created an MR for building and releasing Biome packages_ [_https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/auditor/-/merge\_requests/41_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/auditor/-/merge_requests/41)

_Cinc Workstation:_

- _Working on cleaning up this MR_ [_https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/workstation/-/merge\_requests/4_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/workstation/-/merge_requests/4) _before creating a new unstable release of 20.7.81_
- _Working on removing the "Chef Workstation App" from all builds until we can properly remove trademarks. Progress can be seen via this MR_ [_https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/workstation/-/merge\_requests/2_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/workstation/-/merge_requests/2) _._
- _If any community members that are familar with NodeJS want to help us out to work on removing the trademarks, please let us know in_ [_#community-distros_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/CHLTJ6XP0) _!_
- _Hoping to have 20.7.81 built and release either later this week or early next week_

_Cinc Server:_

- [_@jgitlin_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UVANM7LTX) _is making progress on resolving the issues with the Wordmarks PR. The PR broke the smoke tests; working to get those executing properly within our build pipeline while running smoke tests manually and resolving issues found._

## **See you next week!**

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