# Released Test-Kitchen 1.11.0

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/released-test-kitchen-1-11-0/9146>\
**Category:** Chef Release Announcements\
**Created:** [August 12, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/released-test-kitchen-1-11-0/9146 "2016-08-12T20:29:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matt\_Wrock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/matt_wrock/32/3394_2.png) [@Matt\_Wrock](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Matt_Wrock)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/released-test-kitchen-1-11-0/9146/1 "2016-08-12T20:29:36Z")

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Test kitchen 1.11.0 just hit ruby gems. You can checkout the full changelog [here](https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchen/blob/v1.11.0/CHANGELOG.md). Just a couple of the enhancements include:

- Provide some way for Chef to know it’s running under test
- Ability to work with Instances over SSH tunnel

You can also expect this release to ship with the next chef-dk. Jenkins is washing his hands in preparation to build that very soon.

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**Author:** ![coderanger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/coderanger/32/5_2.png) [@coderanger](https://discourse.chef.io/u/coderanger)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/released-test-kitchen-1-11-0/9146/2 "2016-08-12T23:43:26Z")

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> Provide some way for Chef to know it's running under test

For those that don't want to go digging in the CHANGELOG, you can now check `if ENV['TEST_KITCHEN']` from inside Chef cookbook code to know if you are running under TK. You can check `ENV['CI']` which will be set if `$CI` was set on the machine running `kitchen` (which in turn is generally set by things like Travis and Jenkins to indicate you are in a CI build).

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Wrock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/matt_wrock/32/3394_2.png) [@Matt\_Wrock](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Matt_Wrock)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/released-test-kitchen-1-11-0/9146/3 "2016-08-13T18:26:20Z")

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Just released a patch build 1.11.1 to address a case where a `nil` password prevents the use of ssh keys.