# Meeting notes for March 4th, 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-march-4th-2021/19633>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [March 4, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-march-4th-2021/19633 "2021-03-04T17:32:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-march-4th-2021/19633/1 "2021-03-04T17:32:55Z")

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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 Automate**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Automate also got a new version release (20210219171521). Some nice UI updates as well as a few bug fixes:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20210219171521-released/19624_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20210219171521-released/19624)

**Chef Infra Server**

benny Vasquez shared

_Last week we promoted Chef Infra Server 14.1.0. This release includes a large number of component updates to patch important CVEs. It also updated Ruby, Java, OpenSSL, and Nokogiri. Check out the notes here:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-server-14-1-0-released/19616_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-server-14-1-0-released/19616)

**Chef Workstation**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Workstation 21.2.303 also got promoted last week, with a ton of improvements in usability, Inspec and Test Kitchen updates, and now comes in a smaller package:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-21-2-303-released/19618_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-21-2-303-released/19618)

**Other releases**

tas50 shared

_Test Kitchen 2.11 now supports policyfiles with the chef-cli gem so you can use Test Kitchen with policyfiles in CI pipelines where you need to install everything with bundler_

_kitchen-dokken 2.12.1 includes more work from_ [_@jaymzh_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U293A0VB5) _to support using Docker Registries other than DockerHub which is great for anyone hitting those pull limits that DockerHub is enforcing now_

# Updates

**Chef Habitat**

mwrockx shared

_Hello from habitat! There a few noteworthy things we are working on:_

- _We will be deploying a new release of the hab cli and supervisor which includes a few minor bug fixes and some dependency bumps._

- _We are beginning to look at some enhancements to Notification features in the builder service_

- _We are kicking off a revamped effort to refresh core-plans_

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

_Here's Chef Infra Client for the week:_

- _Continued work on the Ruby 3 upgade_

- _We now have a fully working M1 mac build pipeline in our Buildkite infra. Thanks for all the hard work there_ [_@jsnapp_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1YA3CAQ2) [_@tduffield_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1Y8M4UTS) [_@mparadise_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1L5UMU66)

- _Our first M1 build happened last night. It actually built, which was a surprise to me, but it did expose some FFI issues. This is all expected and we will continue working on M1 support_

- _Splitting the knife functionality out of chef-client packages and into a knife gem is getting closer to being done. This is going to be a big win for package size and security:_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11129_](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11129)

- _We're digging in further in win32-certstore land as we work to store the client.pem file in the Windows Certificate store. This will also result in some nice improvements to the windows\_certificate resource_

**Chef Infra Server**

tas50 shared

- _The team shipped Infra Server 14.1 like_ [_@benny (she/her)_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UQC0ABRBQ) _. There's a ton of component upgrades there so make sure to check it out._
- _We're actively working on mtls support and upgrades to Postgesql, Elasticsearch, and Rails. Lots of PR updates being made every day_

_The final thing to mention on the Infra Server side is a bit of news on how we're shifting development there. If you've been in the community long enough you know we move pretty slow with Infra Server. The level of caution with server releases is incredibly high because regression there are hugely impacting to users. We did about 2 releases a year for while due to the manual validation involved. The Infra Server and releng teams have done a ton of work to automate that validation and this is shifting our release strategy. Instead of large waterfall releases we're going to be releasing as features become available so expect releases as pg, es, and rails updates are feature complete. The goal here is small updates and quick CVE patches. If you want to see the longer explanation of this:_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2223#issuecomment-789319137_](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2223#issuecomment-789319137)

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_Hello from Sous Chefs! Here's the list of new releases in the past week:_

- _apache2 - 8.9.1: Fix url in README_
- _docker - 7.7.0: Add_ buildargs _property to_ docker\_image _resource_
- _fail2ban - 6.3.2: Fix jail template to not set_ port _or_ logpath _if not defined in the resource_
- _motd-tail - 5.2.0: Sous Chefs Adoption_
- _nginx - 11.3.1: Fixup the default site template and update_ nginx\_site _doc to match_
- _nginx - 11.4.0: Refactor_ ResourceHelpers _library to inherit properties from the calling resource / Allow for inclusion of arbitrary template helper modules_
- _nscd - 5.2.0: Sous Chefs Adoption_
- _openssh - 2.9.0: Sous Chefs Adoption_
- _powershell - 6.2.1: Update_ powershell5 _recipe to log warning that 5.1 is preinstalled on windows server 2016+_
- _resolver - 3.0.3: Fix blog link for wrapper cookbooks_
- _resolver - 3.0.4: Fixed typo in the_ CacheFromLocalhost _parameter in the systemd-resolved template_
- _sql\_server - 6.2.0: Sous Chefs Adoption and other various fixes_
- _yum-fedora - 3.1.0: Sous Chefs adoption_
- _yum-ius - 3.2.0: Sous Chefs adoption_

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Hello from the Cinc Project!_

_Cinc Workstation:_

- _21.2.303 released via unstable channel_

- _We finally have a beta Windows build! Latest build_ [_here_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/workstation/-/jobs/1071203105/artifacts/raw/data/windows/2012r2/cinc-workstation-21.3.313-1-x64.msi)

- _You can see progress on this via_ [_this_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/upstream/chef-workstation/-/merge_requests/4) _and_ [_this_](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/workstation/-/merge_requests/2)

- _We're going to be removing the_ [_Chef Workstation App_](https://docs.chef.io/workstation/chef-workstation-app/) _from our build due to multiple word mark issues. This also resolves some build issues we were having on Windows._

- _Ruby wrappers for chef named binaries (similar to what we're using in client) are also a part of this build_

- _We're going to be replacing the_ hab _CLI with_ bio _soon as well_

_I'm excited to be getting closer to having a stable build of workstation that is word mark free!_

_Cinc Server:_

- _Working on resolving some build failures for releasing 14.1.0_
- _Hope to have a build out within the next few days or at least within a week_

_We have started having a public triage zoom meetings bi-weekly that everyone is welcome to join. Our next public triage will be on March 10 at 11AM PST. I'll send a meeting link in the_ [_#community-distros_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/CHLTJ6XP0) _channel when the meeting starts._

## **See you next week!**

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