Reporting 1.1.0 has been released.

Chef Server 11.0.11 is now available for download at: http://www.opscode.

Ohai folks, Today we’ve released two new versions of Chef Client; 11.10.2 and 10.30.4. These releases include the fix for the recently reported security vulnerability in libyaml that is explained here.

Join us at SCaLE 12x, the Linux/Open Source software expo in North America.  We’ll be hosting two Chef workshops as well as great Chef technical presentations from Cloud Integrations Lead, Matt Ray and Software Engineer, Sean O’Meara.  Matt will be presenting on Chef deployment on OpenStack on  Saturday, February 22nd.

We experienced a brief outage yesterday, and we are sorry about the inconvenience. We know how frustrating it can be when a chef-client cannot connect to the server.At 00:12 UTC the firewall configuration was modified to use TCP for syslog to keep syslog messages from being dropped/lost over UDP.

Our third annual user conference is going to be a tremendous event. In addition to dynamite talks, presentations, and meet-ups (featuring GE Capital, Yahoo, and many more), On Tues., April 15, #ChefConf is hosting an incredibly diverse and hands-on day of training, with multiple full day and half-day options available.

Chef is surging right now. As we announced yesterday: Total sales last year grew 188 percent over 2012. Our annual recurring revenue quadrupled. Nearly 70 percent of the sales came from Fortune 1000 organizations. European sales grew 400 percent YoY. The open source Chef Community grew more than 200 percent.

Companies Must Get Addicted to Moving Fast This blog series is about technology and business speed – how it’s stressing organizations; why they need to catch up; and how they can make up lost ground – before they get left behind. The first post, which follows, lays out the problem and solution.

Over the past couple weeks we published a series of blogs previewing the many adventures of a number of our stateside Chefs in Europe, who traveled across the Atlantic to help add to all our European Chef Team has been building in the past year and a half.