Ohai Chefs, Today we have released a patch release, 11.14.6, for Chef Client with some regression fixes and enhancements. We needed to skip 11.14.4 since we’ve realized that a couple of fixes slipped through the cracks and wasn’t included in 11.14.4 after tagging.

Hello Chefs, We are happy to announce that the 11.1.4 release of the open source Chef Server is now available. This is primarily a bug fix release. This release includes a bump in OpenSSL from 1.0.1h to 1.0.1i, as we announced in a previous post.

On Tuesday, August 12th at 15:10 UTC, the cookbook dependency API provided by Supermarket became unusable. We are very sorry for this outage and interruption to workflow. In this post, I will explain what happened and the mitigation steps we are taking to prevent this from happening in the future.

Continuing our series of updates on the new Chefs joining our engineering corps., we have another group of three delightful folks who have come on board.

Earlier this morning, a Supermarket code deployment caused the dependency API at /universe to start returning errors. Redis became unreachable, resulting in Berkshelf v3.x clients failing to resolve dependencies. At Chef, we conduct postmortem meetings for outages and issues with the site and services.

Recently MongoDB CEO Max Schireson wrote a compelling and personal blog about why he was stepping down as the company’s CEO.

Our friend Matt Wrock, a software engineer at CenturyLink Cloud, recently wrote a tremendous “how to” blog on Windows automation testing using Chef, Vagrant, and Test Kitchen. Matt writes: I work for CenturyLink Cloud and infrastructure automation is front and center to our business.

Chef Software has reviewed the following security advisory and does not believe that this represents a critical security risk to our users. OpenSSL Security Advisory The next planned release of all affected products will include an updated OpenSSL version; we will not have an exploit-specific release.

We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Management Console for Enterprise Chef 11, 1.5.4. Please contact support@getchef.com for details on obtaining this release.