# Meeting Notes for May 26, 2022

**URL:** https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-may-26-2022/21095
**Category:** Community Meetings
**Created:** [May 26, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-may-26-2022/21095 "2022-05-26T17:54:43Z")
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### Author: ![ktolliver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@ktolliver](https://discourse.chef.io/u/ktolliver)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-may-26-2022/21095/1 "2022-05-26T17:54:43Z")

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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**

Kiah shared

Let’s kick things off with some updates for your educational viewing and reading pleasure:

ICYMI: Yesterday we launched our new Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tool. We demoed our product, talked to a couple of our users, and recognized our amazing community. Check out the playback [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXv58SusGQo).

**Upcoming Livestreams:**  
June 1 - Habitat Office Hour (Rescheduled)  
June 9 - Automate HA Open Hour (Rescheduled)Tune in on [YT](https://youtube.com/c/getchefdotcom) or [Twitch](https://twitch.tv/chefsoftware)

**Blog Posts to Check Out:**  
[Release Updates for Chef Infra Client 18](https://www.chef.io/blog/release-updates-for-chef-infra-client-18)  
[4 Reasons Why Chef’s MEGA Product Launch is a Must Attend Event](https://www.chef.io/blog/4-reasons-why-chef-s-mega-product-launch-is-a-must-attend-event)  
[ChefConf '22, Progress 360, and DevReach Save the Date!](https://www.chef.io/blog/chefconf-'22-progress-360-and-devreach-save-the-date!)  
[GitOps Approach to Continuous Security to Harden your CI/CD Pipeline](https://www.chef.io/blog/gitops-approach-to-continuous-security-to-harden-your-ci-cd-pipeline)

**Events to Attend:**  
June 16th - Cubs game with Chef [Play ball with progress chef | Chef](https://www.chef.io/campaigns/play-ball-with-progress-chef)

# This week’s releases

**Chef Automate**

Kiah shared

[Automate version 4.0.54 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-version-4-0-54-released/21091) This release comes with improved pagination, added security features, and some compliance profile updates

**Chef Habitat**

Kiah shared

[Chef Habitat 1.6.513 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-habitat-1-6-513-released/21092) This release is largely a follow up to last week's core package refresh

**Chef InSpec**

Kiah shared

[Chef InSpec 5.17.4 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-5-17-4-released/21087) The new `zfs` resource has been added in this release

**Other releases**

Kiah shared

[Chef Supermarket 5.1.32 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-supermarket-5-1-32-released/21080) This release updates content security policies for unblocking google analytics scripts

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Ankur Mundhra shared

In the current week, the team worked on:

- Automate HA soft launch package supporting On-Prem systems has been released with Automate 4.0.54
- Pagination support is now available for ListControl API
- New feature to lock user on multiple failed login attempts has been added
- Airgap bundle of latest version of Automate can now be downloaded from [https://pacakges.chef.io/airgap\_bundle/current/automate/latest.aib](https://pacakges.chef.io/airgap_bundle/current/automate/latest.aib)
- Updated URL-parse to 1.5.10 (Solves CVE-2022-0686, CVE-2022-0691, CVE-2022-0639, CVE-2022-0512, CVE-2021-3664)
- Updated minimize to v1.2.6 (Solves CVE-2021-44906)
- Updated compliance profiles (Postgres 11 v1.0.0)

**Chef Habitat**

mwrockx shared

Hello from Habitat!  
This week's updates:

- Investigating an on-prem data migration bug when updating on-prem services
- Investigating supervisor strategies for ARM and we are experimenting with a concept of "native packages" See

[Proposal: Native Packages, enabling Supervisor service support for platforms without packages. · Issue #8501 · habitat-sh/habitat](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/issues/8501)

- Investigating supervisor census/IPC bugs in recent builds that manifest in SASS builder
- Adding end to end tests for builder worker
- Released new habitat (1.6.513) binaries built with refreshed core dependencies including a studio with refreshed core packages

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

Hello from Server.

- Upgrade Erlang to 24+
- Support internal Opensearch
- AWS sigv4 update
- Investigation of Redis-related failure
- API design for server side secrets
- Make oc\_reporting work with external Opensearch
- Investigation of bifrost database growth issue
- Add testing script for cleanup\_bifrost

**Chef Inspec**

cwolfe shared

Chef InSpec Team:

- Fixed a bug in kitchen-inspec in which waivers were claimed to be implemented but were not.
- Investigating a bug with the `processes` resource on Windows in which it does not return all processes
- Working on setting up `license_scout` in inspec and train repos
- Started work on adding resource\_id support to all core resources

**Chef Workstation**

Vikram Karve shared

Hi All! Here is what Workstation & Community Tools are working on

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Ready for release

- Updated knife-vrealize to work with vRA 8.

Work-in-progress...

- Automating the end-to-end test scenario for chef push/ install, kitchen-google plugin and knife
- Working on a screen accessible via tray icon to update Chef Infra Settings in Workstation.
- Working to add support for multiple networks in kitchen-vcenter.
- Resolving a ruby gem dependency related `bundle install` error in Workstation build

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

Looks like no new releases on Sous Chefs in the past week. I have been working on pushing out a fix for the git and selinux cookbook but haven't finished those yet.

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

Hello from the Cinc Project!

Auditor

- Released 5.17.4

Misc

- Created upstream PRs to deal with `knife configure` creating files in `.chef` instead of `.cinc`

- [knife configure creates ~/.chef/credentials (#22) · Issues · cinc / distribution / workstation · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/distribution/workstation/-/issues/22)

**Other updates**

## **See you next week!**

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