# Meeting notes for November 5th, 2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-november-5th-2020/17909>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [November 5, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-november-5th-2020/17909 "2020-11-05T19:00:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-november-5th-2020/17909/1 "2020-11-05T19:00:50Z")

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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**

benny Vasquez shared

_Only a few things from me today!_

_I’m submitting the ticket internally to have the Habitat slack shut down today. If you’ve got anything you want to grab from there still, now’s the time._

_We should be ready to transfer the discourse content from forums.habitat.sh to_ [_discourse.chef.io_](http://discourse.chef.io/) _by the end of next week, so keep an eye out for that._

_I also wanna thank_ [_@robbkidd_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1PB5NVUY) _for making_ [_#cooking_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/C01D5ELQ3NH) _, ’cause that’s been an absolute delight._

# This week’s releases

benny Vasquez shared

_@tas50 posted a Cookstyle update here:_ [_https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-7-released/17896_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookstyle-7-released/17896)

_it’s got a pretty massive change in how cops are named, but it’s gonna be awesome in practice._

tas50 shared

_kitchen-vcenter 2.9.0 shipped with the ability to customize the windows guests before provisioning thanks to_ [_@theinen_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U37DFJ5NY) [_https://github.com/chef/kitchen-vcenter/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v290-2020-10-30_](https://github.com/chef/kitchen-vcenter/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v290-2020-10-30)

_kitchen-vagrant 1.7.1 shipped with a fix to prevent failures in pruning old boxes if those boxes are currently being used:_ [_https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-vagrant/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#171-2020-11-03_](https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-vagrant/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#171-2020-11-03)

_And last, but not least mixlib-install 3.12.5 shipped with support for Apple silicon:_ [_https://github.com/chef/mixlib-install/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v3125-2020-11-02_](https://github.com/chef/mixlib-install/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v3125-2020-11-02)

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Alex Pop shared

_Greetings from the Automate team!_

- _We’ve done maintenance work on the integration tests._
- _Merged style changes to the pagination component used on the Scan History panel._
- _Made improvements to documentation and release notes._
- _Found a bug while testing on the 24h compliance reporting change. A fix is being tested now for it._
- _Added additional semgrep validations_

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

_Hello!_

- _This week we have been dealing with some build and test pipeline issues due to_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2148_](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2148) _, But that seems to be resolved for now._
- _Merged #2159 and #2135 from Timothy Ehlers. (Thank you!)_
- _We are making forward progress on testing the rails upgrade to 6.0. This will enable us to upgrade the Chef 16 in Chef Infra Server, in the future._
- _We have started working on_ [_https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2088_](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2088)

That is all for us!

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

- _Continued work on merging audit cookbook functionality directly into the client_
- _powershell\_out calls have been converted to powershell\_exec with expanded testing for greatly improved windows performance_
- _improved zfs pool detections in Ohai_
- _Improved resource examples on the docs site by moving more documentation into the codebase_
- _Fixed a failure running homebrew\_update_
- _Minor performance improvements in chef and ohai codebases_
- _2 new cops in Cookstyle + improved detection of package resources that could pass arrays of packages_
- _Detection of pop\_os in Ohai_

**Chef Inspec**

schwad shared

_Hello from the InSpec team!_

_I’d like everyone to say a big hello to_ [_@Darren_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UHK0TBATE) _- who has been an invaluable part of the Chef family for nearly three years!_

_I’m very pleased to say that Darren will be helping us out on the InSpec core team for a while so be sure to say hello when you see him around!At the moment we are continuing to review our PRs outstanding and our (large) issue backlog while we onboard Darren._

_Thanks much!_

**Chef Workstation**

mparadise shared

_Howdy! Not a lot to report this week. We've been working on testing and merging some Test Kitchen community fixes, adding support to the_ chef _command for an upcoming feature, and sorting out some licensing fun._

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

_Hello from Sous Chefs!_

_Yet another busy week!_

_nginx 10.6.0 has been released (thanks_ [_@bmhughes_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/USRKJ9BFH) _):_

- _Allow multiple packages to be specified for install package name override._

_docker 7.2.1 has been released:_

- _Fix issue with default-ip-addr in systemd_

_maven 5.4.0 has been released:_

- _Sous Chefs Adoption_
- _Various cookstyle fixes_
- _Yamllint fixes_
- _Add default .mdlrc_
- _Add missing platforms to dokken_
- _Remove EL 6 testing_

_openldap 4.2.0 has been released:_

- _Sous Chefs Adoption_
- _Update to use Sous Chefs GH workflow_
- _Various cookstyle fixes_
- _Add proper support for Amazon Linux_
- _Fix CentOS dokken suite testing_
- _Restart slapd if the default file is updated_
- _Enable modulepath for centos_
- _Fix tls for Amazon Linux_
- _Fix testing on FreeBSD_
- _Additional InSpec tests_
- _Remove EL6 testing and support_

_Here's a list of current in progress PRs from the last week:_

- _docker: Allow to specify the IP when connecting to a docker network_ [_#1075_](https://github.com/sous-chefs/docker/pull/1075)
- _docker: Remove creates guard for extracting tarball which prevents upgrades_ [_#1032_](https://github.com/sous-chefs/docker/pull/1032)
- _jenkins: WIP - Sous Chefs Adoption_ [_#757_](https://github.com/sous-chefs/jenkins/pull/757)
- _mariadb: Fix galera\_configuration tests_ [_#321_](https://github.com/sous-chefs/mariadb/pull/321)
- _nodejs: WIP - Feature/ci install from sources on centos7 #patch_ [_#230_](https://github.com/sous-chefs/nodejs/pull/230)
- _perl: Sous Chefs Adoption_ [_#43_](https://github.com/sous-chefs/perl/pull/43)
- _pyenv: Add_ upgrade _action to the pyenv\_pip resource_ [_#78_](https://github.com/sous-chefs/pyenv/pull/78)

_The rsync and kubernetes cookbook were transferred over to us from chef-cookbooks in the past week and will be added to the queue of cookbooks that need to be cleaned up and properly adopted into our CI pipeline._

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Hello from the Cinc Project!_

_Cinc Server:_

- _Cinc Server 14.0.65 has been released via the unstable channel_

_Other updates:_

- [_@Tensibai_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1TS1SGMQ) _has activated the mirroring for inspec and chef in upstreams_

## **See you next week!**

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