# Release: Chef 0.7.4

**URL:** https://discourse.chef.io/t/release-chef-0-7-4/1187
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)
**Created:** [June 26, 2009, 6:43am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/release-chef-0-7-4/1187 "2009-06-26T06:43:42Z")
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### Author: ![Joshua\_Timberman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/joshua_timberman/32/424_2.png) [@Joshua\_Timberman](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Joshua_Timberman)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 6:43am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/release-chef-0-7-4/1187/1 "2009-06-26T06:43:42Z")

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Ohai Chefs!

As you probably noticed we didn’t do a blog post for Chef 0.7.2’s  
release as it was in the middle of VelocityConf. Thanks to our  
excellent and observant community, some bugs crept into that release,  
so we went ahead and updated to 0.7.4 today.

We’d like to note our MVP for 0.7.2 is Joshua Sierles, for a lot of  
the leg work in finding and reporting bugs related to Roles and  
Metadata when using Chef Solo.

For 0.7.4, MVP is Hongli Lai from Phusion. We’re totally stoked to  
have Phusion contributing, and Hongli jumped right in with a fix for a  
100% CPU utilization bug, moved search from chef-server to chef to  
improve spec testing, and fixed an openid authorization check in the  
web interface.

Other excellent members of the community had a hand in fixing bugs in  
both versions, including Mark Imbriaco, Joe Williams, Caleb Tennis,  
Matthew Kent, and Scott Likens. Thanks guys for reporting bugs and  
fixing them!

AJ sent out the 0.7.2 release notes already, so here’s 0.7.4’s. This  
is a small but important release.

Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.7.4

\*\* Bug  
\* [CHEF-388] - rake task new\_cookbook generates empty version  
metadata  
\* [CHEF-399] - Unit test fixes and 100% CPU bug  
\* [CHEF-401] - After Install Phusion throws a Runtime Error  
because of the log file  
\* [CHEF-402] - Weird characters on the bottom of status page  
\* [CHEF-403] - Capitals in authorized\_open\_id\_identifiers  
\* [CHEF-404] - openid consumer only valid for http://  
authorized\_openid\_identifier/

\*\* Improvement  
\* [CHEF-363] - we should kick out logged in openids if they  
become unauthorized

\*\* New Feature  
\* [CHEF-381] - Ruby Block Resource

–  
Opscode, Inc  
Joshua Timberman, Senior Solutions Engineer  
C: 720.878.4322 E: [joshua@opscode.com](mailto:joshua@opscode.com)