It’s here! The ChefConf 2015 schedule is now live and being updated continuously (well, maybe not continuously, but pretty frequently). This year’s ChefConf will feature more than 40 sessions of dynamite content, from technical how-to presentations and demos, to examinations of cultural change and organizational structure.

Ohai Chefs, We’ve just released Chef 11.18.6. This release pins the cacerts bundle to a known working version, which should work around issues where SSL connections would fail due to certificate errors. ## Wait… You skipped 11.18.2 and 11.18.4 I found minor issues with both of these releases (incorrect hyperlinks, incorrect gem version).

Ohai! Today we’ve released Chef Server 12.0.2, a small bugfix release that addresses a critical bug in the upgrade process from Enterprise Chef 11 that was causing upgrades to hang during long-running migrations. The latest packages can be downloaded from https://downloads.chef.io/chef-server.

### Description We shipped Analytics `1.1.0` with a development configuration setting enabled that disabled authentication on the endpoints used to create and modify rules and notification aliases. This meant that rules could be created or modified without having to be logged in as a valid chef user. We have released version `1.1.

Pauly Comtois is the VP of DevOps at Hearst Business Media. Before that, he was Chef’s own VP of IT Operations.

We are happy to announce the release of the Chef analytics 1.1.0 package (`opscode-analytics-1.1.0`). `1.1.0` is the new production release, and has many new features over the `1.0.x` series. You can download the release from the Chef analytics download page.

Since the launch of Supermarket there has been the occasional question about how quickly the download counts grow for any given cookbook. In fact, if you upload an empty cookbook, it will quickly have greater than 10,000 downloads.

The beginning. Welcome to the first of a series of blog posts that describe Standard Bank of South Africa‘s DevOps journey. This series describes how Standard Bank is transforming its delivery process to provide new features and services at velocity. Standard Bank is the largest bank in Africa.

Hi Chefs, Today we released ChefDK 0.3.6. This release includes a bunch of new stuff: * Custom generator cookbooks can now be configured in your config.rb/knife.rb * `chef generate` will now generate ChefSpec tests for new recipes, and ServerSpec tests when a kitchen.