# Meeting Notes for October 7, 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-october-7-2021/20386>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [October 7, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-october-7-2021/20386 "2021-10-07T18:51:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-october-7-2021/20386/1 "2021-10-07T18:51:16Z")

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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 Tolliver shared

Thanks for joining, I hope everyone is having an amazingly productive week.

First thing’s first, if you aren’t tuning into [@damacus](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U1QLQQV5X) and me on our livestream in [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/getchefdotcom/) and [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/chefsoftware) on Tuesday & Thursday mornings @ 9:30am EST, you’re not a cool kid. But it’s never too late to get on the right track!

Also, there are 18 days left to submit your project to our [Automate for Good Hackathon](https://chef-hackathon.devpost.com/)! $60k in cash prizes, cool swag, honorable mentions can win an iPad Pro or a PS5. I'd do a project if I could. You can so you should!

# This week’s releases

**Chef Automate**

benny Vasquez shared

**Chef Habitat**

benny Vasquez shared

**Chef Infra Server**

benny Vasquez shared

**Chef Infra Client**

benny Vasquez shared

Chef Infra Client released versions [16.16.7](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-16-7-released/20346), [16.16.13](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-16-16-13-released/20354), [17.6.15](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-17-6-15-released/20348) & [17.6.18](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-17-6-18-released/20353) read more about those using the respective links.

**Chef Inspec**

benny Vasquez shared

Chef InSpec AWS Cloud Resources released. Read more about that [here](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-aws-cloud-resources-released/20351).

**Chef Workstation**

benny Vasquez shared

**Other releases**

tas50 shared

# Updates

**Chef Automate**

Kallol Roy shared

Hello community Things which Automate team worked on include:

- Continue to improve Infra Server UI and fix bugs.
- Data Feed: Minio integrations behind feature flag.
- Compliance Upgrade to include RHEL 8 V1.0.0 fixed for removing extra escape characters and Apple Mac OS 11 Profile V1.2.0.
- More progress has been made to bring A2HA components to Automate with the CLI capabilities to setup environments.
- Security Improvements: Changes are made to mask user credentials in Data Feed debug logs.
- Documentation: Automate documentation now includes Policy Groups in Infra Server, User Profiles.That’s all folks!!

**Chef Habitat**

mwrockx shared

Hello from Habitat!  
This week's updates are:

- Openssl 1.0.2 refresh

- Addressing out of band refreshes

- NATS library overhaul

- Investigating builder bug not rendering all releases

- Comprted habitat release pipeline fixes

- Starting post refresh builder pipeline fixes

**Chef Infra Client**

tas50 shared

Hey everyone

Like [@Kiah](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U023PGMFFFV) mentioned already we were busy with releases this last week

Fun times with Lets Encrypt, OpenSSL, and cacerts

We also have a few new things that are in the works:

- Digging into libarchive FFI library loading issues
- Merged a great improvement to the secrets helper for use with more complex Azure setups. Thanks [@Jason Barnett](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UAUUU6MC4)
- Working on cleanup of our win32-certstore gem
- About to merge new FFI based approach to interacting with macOS APIs

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

Hello Awesome Chefs!As the release for 14.10 comes close, the server team is focussed on:

- Continuing analysis to access Elasticsearch with no authentication from the Chef Server

- Investigating very high cpu usage and associated 500 errors(

[Chef CPU high usage and web server failing · Issue #2787 · chef/chef-server](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2787) )

- Addressing the issue with knife-ec-backup unable to take backups after upgrading to 14.9.3 (

[knife-ec-backup unable to backup on upgrading to 14.9.23 · Issue #2835 · chef/chef-server](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2835) )

- Adding policy group list to the to the policy revision API; we are done with the code part of this, it needs some additional test related updates (

[Policy Groups List in the policy revision API by vinay-satish · Pull Request #2818 · chef/chef-server](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2818) ).Reviewing and Testing:

- Upgrading to PostgreSQL 13.4

- Fix PostgreSQL major version detection and use for binaries & data paths (

[Fix PostgreSQL major version detection and use for binaries & data paths by apavely · Pull Request #2827 · chef/chef-server](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2827) ). Thanks [@apavely](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U01FG14MKRT)!

- Almost ready to merge: Making display of x-ops-api-info a configurable. (

[Adding a configurable to display x-ops-api-info by vinay-satish · Pull Request #2815 · chef/chef-server](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2815) )Done:

- Rename the private-chef cookbook to infra-server (

[Rename the private-chef cookbook to infra-server by tas50 · Pull Request #2709 · chef/chef-server](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2709) ) - This also sets us up to be able to review and merge the wordmarks change when ready.

- [OC-ID]: User email verification functionality added (

[[OC-ID]: User email verification functionality added by antima-gupta · Pull Request #2783 · chef/chef-server](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2783) )

**Chef Inspec**

cwolfe shared

The Chef InSpec team has been working on:

- Adding Windows support to the http resource
- Making user and group resources match case insensitively on windows
- Documentation updates to standardize property listings on resource docs
- Updating unit tests to remove outdated OSes
- Working on our roadmap for 2022

**Chef Workstation**

Vikram Karve shared

Hi All! Here are the updates from the Workstation team

`1We released build 21.10.640, which includes the updates below 2- Packages support additional OSes i.e. Windows 2022, Windows 11, macOS 12, Debian 11 and Ubuntu 16.04 3- Chef Infra client with fix to the expired CA certificate and vulnerability fixes in OpenSSL 4- Chef Infra client that supports fetching secrets from HashiCorp Vault and AKeyless Vault 5- Updated Inspec and Cookstyle 6- Chef-vault updated to address a regression that broke \n handling 7- Test-kitchen updated to support certificate authentication in winrm transport 8- Splash screen added in Workstation app 9 10Work-in-progress 11- Go based changes in chef-cli are nearing completion, with tests now ready for merge 12- Some scripts in release pipeline being fixed - this will enable... 13 - Publishing packages to 3rd party pkg mgmt services namely homebrew and chocolatey 14 - Update changelog on stable release 15 - Post notifications in Discourse and Slack when a release is promoted to stable 16- Triaging/ fixing customer issues & bugs in knife, test-kitchen & workstation app 17- Prep work on moving `chef env` implementation to Go`

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

Hello from Sous Chefs!

Here's the list of new releases in the past week:

- haproxy - 12.2.2: README updates

- java - 10.1.0:

- Add Corretto 16

- Default the Debian install method to package

- Primarily support OpenJDK LTS versions 11, 17

- Drop support for OpenJDK package installs for non-LTS versions

- These packages are still possible to install though they will now default to a source install

- Direct Amazon users to Amazon Corretto instead of installing OpenJDK

- Drop package install support for Java 8

- Most supported operating systems no longer support OpenJDK 8

- To install OpenJDK 8, a `source` install from an internal mirror is now recommended

- See the [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/sous-chefs/java/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#1010---2021-10-06) for the additional fixes

- percona - 3.1.0: Use `dnf_module` resource from yum cookbook instead of manually disabling module

- sql\_server - 7.1.0:

- Adds parameter for tempdb data and log file initial size

- Adds parameter for number of tempdb data files to create

- Adds parameter for granting instant file initialization to Sql Server service account

- yum-mysql-community - 5.1.0: Use `dnf_module` resource from yum cookbook instead of manually shelling out

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

Hello from the Cinc Project!

Cinc Client

- Released 17.6.18
- Released 16.16.13

Cinc Auditor

- Released 4.46.13

Cinc Workstation

- Working on building 21.10.640

**Other updates**

## **See you next week!**

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