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Ohai Chefs! I’m pleased to announce that Chef Server 12.1.0-rc.1 is now available for download. Here are some of this release’s highlights: * Significant performance improvements. * Policyfiles and cookbook artifacts are complete and are enabled by default. * Server API Versioning: API `0` is now deprecated, and current API version level is `1`.

Marc Paradise
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Are you building software with Chef Omnibus? Do your packages need to run multiple runit services? Then Omnibus-ctl may be for you! Omnibus-ctl is a massively useful tool you can use to run common commands in Chef Omnibus packages. What is Chef Omnibus?

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
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We will be hosting the Chef Community Summit on October 14 and 15 in Seattle, Washington and hope to see you there. This marks the fifth year for the Chef Community Summit and it has proven to be one of the most engaging events of the year for the Chef Community.

Nathen Harvey
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The Velocity Conference holds a special place in the hearts of Awesome Chefs everywhere. For many of us, DevOps was born with John Allspaw and Paul Hammond’s 10+ Deploys Per Day at Velocity 2009.

Lucas Welch
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ChefConf 2015 was awesome for so many reasons, including our first ever Diversity Scholarship program, designed to give those underrepresented in the Chef Community an opportunity to take part in the conference with free passes.

Lucas Welch

We’re very excited to announce we are once again supporting our friends at AWS in bringing the wildly popular AWS Pop-up Loft to New York.

Lucas Welch
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As you may be aware, I have been working on a Chef audit-mode cookbook that implements the CIS Benchmarks. I recently added coverage for Ubuntu 14.04.

Joshua Timberman
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I recently gave a webinar on Chef Supermarket. If you missed it, you can watch the recording here: Users learned how to make full use of Chef Supermarket and best practices for both using cookbooks from Chef Supermarket and uploading cookbooks to Chef Supermarket. What is Supermarket?

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
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Hi Chefs, We've released ChefDK 0.6.0, which you can find on our downloads page. This release has three changes from ChefDK 0.5.1: New chef provision command. Berkshelf is upgraded to 3.2.4 Kitchen Vagrant is upgraded to 0.18.