# Meeting notes for Sept 30th, 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-sept-30th-2021/20344>\
**Category:** Community Meetings\
**Created:** [September 30, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-sept-30th-2021/20344 "2021-09-30T16:30:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/meeting-notes-for-sept-30th-2021/20344/1 "2021-09-30T16:30:41Z")

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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

_we’re down to just 25 days to submit to the_ [_Automate for Good_](https://chef-hackathon.devpost.com/) _hackathon. we’ve already got 3 qualified submissions, and I know of at least three more that are coming in soon. $15,000 is a LOT of money to potentially win, so I hope you’re taking a second to look._

_We also got all of the_ [_#chefconf_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/CQM00GNNL) _videos up and published on youtube, so if you were looking for them you can find them here:_ [_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrYvxggff9o&list=PL11cZfNdwNyNtMlJren0jm9NIeK0jSsRq_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrYvxggff9o&list=PL11cZfNdwNyNtMlJren0jm9NIeK0jSsRq)

# This week’s releases

**Chef Automate**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Automate 2 had a release with more UI improvements and a couple bug fixes:_ [Automate 2 version 20210923171324 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/automate-2-version-20210923171324-released/20336)

**Chef Infra Client**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Infra Client dropped_ [_17.5.22_](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-infra-client-17-5-22-released/20334) _(thanks_ [_@tecracer-theinen_](https://github.com/tecracer-theinen) _,_ [_@jasonwbarnett_](https://github.com/jasonwbarnett) _,_ [_@gholtiii_](https://github.com/gholtiii) _,_ [_@gogsbread_](https://github.com/gogsbread) _,_ [_@jiokmiso_](https://github.com/jiokmiso) _,_ [_@sjethvani_](https://github.com/sjethvani) _, and_ [_@ahembree_](https://github.com/ahembree) _)!_

**Chef Inspec**

benny Vasquez shared

_final release to call out is just 13 hours old: Chef InSpec got a release with a bunch of awesome enhancement that will be super helpful especially to anyone looking to use a CentOS Stream alternative:_ [Chef InSpec 4.46.13 Released!](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-inspec-4-46-13-released/20341)

**Other releases**

benny Vasquez shared

_Chef Supermarket got a HUGE update with a ton of security-related updates. It’s worth your time to get your installs updated if you haven’t already:_ [Chef Supermarket 4.0.21 Released! - #2 by tas50](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-supermarket-4-0-21-released/20333/2)

_New cookstyle 7.25 is out with a Rubocop upgrade that resolves a large number of edge conditions plus there's a new cop for cookbooks without a version and we're alerting if a gemfile rubygems source uses http instead of https._

# Updates

**Chef Habitat**

mwrockx shared

_Hello from Habitat!_  
_This week's updates are:_

- _Post refresh cleanup_
- _Addressing out of band refreshes_
- _NATS library overhaul_
- _Investigating builder bug not rendering all releases_
- _Fixing end to end pipeline_

**Chef Infra Server**

prajakta shared

_Hello Chefs!_  
_In the past week, the server team has been working on the following as we gear up for the next Chef Infra Server Release._

- _Started analyzing access Elasticsearch with no authentication from the Chef Server (_ [Access Elasticsearch with authentication from the Chef Server. · Issue #2233 · chef/chef-server · GitHub](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2233) _)_

- _Adding policy group list to the to the policy revision API (_ [Policy Groups List in the policy revision API by vinay-satish · Pull Request #2818 · chef/chef-server · GitHub](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2818) _)._

- _Investigating very high cpu usage and associated 500 errors.(_ [Chef CPU high usage and web server failing · Issue #2787 · chef/chef-server · GitHub](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/issues/2787) _)_

- _Upgrading to PostgreSQL 13.4_

- _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 · GitHub](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2815) _)Reviewing and Testing:_

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

- _Rename the private-chef cookbook to infra-server (_ [Rename the private-chef cookbook to infra-server by tas50 · Pull Request #2709 · chef/chef-server · GitHub](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2709) _)_

- _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 · GitHub](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2827) _). Thanks_ [_@apavely_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/U01FG14MKRT) _!_

- _Adding configurable option to run nginx master process as non-root user. (_ [adds configurable option to run nginx master process as non-root user by collinmcneese · Pull Request #2570 · chef/chef-server · GitHub](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2570) _). This needs verification with Automate._

- _Replacing “Wordmarks” (trademarked strings) in output with constants from ChefUtils::Dist, allowing wordmarks to be removed / replaced for community builds. (_ [https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2808](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2808) _). Thanks_ [_@jgitlin_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UVANM7LTX) _!_

**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_
- _Support for Cassandra DB_
- _Updating unit tests to remove outdated OSes_

**Sous Chefs**

ramereth shared

Hello from Sous Chefs!

_Here's the list of new releases in the past week:_

- _chef-splunk - 9.1.0: Add SUSE support_
- _chef-splunk - 9.2.0: Align index name validation in_ splunk\_monitor _and_ splunk\_index _resources with Splunk docs_
- _consul - 4.8.0: Added_ advertise\_addr\_wan\_ipv4 _and_ advertise\_addr\_wan\_ipv6 _attributes_
- _line - 4.4.2: Documentation fixes for_ filter\_lines _comment filter_
- _yum - 7.2.0: Add_ dnf\_module _resource for managing DNF modules on RHEL 8+ / Fedora_

_I'm really excited about the new_ dnf\_module _resource that_ [_@Robert Detjens_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UUTQ3RB52) _added to the yum cookbook. That will be useful to several Sous Chefs cookbooks that have a manual fix for that_

[_@bmhughes has also been working on a refactor of the grafana cookbook:_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/USRKJ9BFH)[https://github.com/sous-chefs/grafana/pull/403](https://github.com/sous-chefs/grafana/pull/403)

_I have massive cleanup PR for the varnish cookbook ready to release as well:_ [https://github.com/sous-chefs/varnish/pull/218](https://github.com/sous-chefs/varnish/pull/218)

_I'm also working on cutting the Sous Chefs adoption release of the bind cookbook but running into some fun issues with DNSSEC:_ [Sous Chefs Adoption by ramereth · Pull Request #65 · sous-chefs/bind · GitHub](https://github.com/sous-chefs/bind/pull/65)

**Cinc Updates**

ramereth shared

_Hello from the Cinc Project!_

_Cinc Client_

- _Released of 17.5.22_

_Cinc Auditor_

- _Will be releasing 4.46.13 later today (hopefully)_

jgitlin shared

[_The chef-server wordmark PR upstream_](https://github.com/chef/chef-server/pull/2808) _is being reviewed as_ [_@prajakta_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/team/UKKG0LJLU) _mentioned. Cinc Server patched builds from this branch_ [_don't work right due to some issues in the private-chef cookbook_](https://chefcommunity.slack.com/archives/CHLTJ6XP0/p1632842840139600) _, and we're working on those. Next step will be to review the usages of_ /etc/opscode _in that cookbook and make sure all paths are updated._

**Other updates**

ramereth pointed out that it’s a special happy day: _Happy LetsEncrypt DST Root CA X3 expiration day!_

## **See you next week!**

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