Ohai Chefs, We’ve just released Chef 11.18.12. This release updates OpenSSL to 1.0.1m, solving the issues listed in the recent security announcement. ## Wait… You skipped 11.18.8 and 11.18.10 I found minor issues with both of these releases (failing Windows tests, incorrect gem version). Sorry for any confusion. ## How to get it?

Manage 1.12.0 is now available from the Chef download site. This release changes the Manage session store from using cookies to using redis. This change addresses sessions not being invalidated immediately on a user’s password reset. Upon upgrading to Manage 1.12.

Greetings! We have released ChefDK 0.5.0.  It can be downloaded for all supported systems at https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/ The full list of changes is available in the changelog, but I wanted to highlight some noteable changes below: Policyfiles Native API Mode This release adds a lot of support for the Policyfile workflow.

Update: The dates for ChefConf 2016 have been updated in this post. Update 2: ChefConf 2016 Registration and Call for Proposals are now open. On the heels of our most awesome ChefConf yet, we’re incredibly excited to announce ChefConf 2016, coming to Austin, TX, July 11-13, 2016!

Ohai Chefs! We’ve just released Chef Client 12.3.0. This release includes bug fixes as well couple of new goodies… we hope you enjoy them. You can check out the CHANGELOG for a full set of the changes.

Note: This post originally appeared on Padgeblog. Chef-vault is a tool created by Nordstrom and adopted by Chef as the de facto way to handle secrets management using the Chef platform. Chef-vault builds on the original Chef encrypted data bags concept¹.

On Friday, April 17th Hosted Chef experienced an average error rate of approximately 30% for a period of 4 hours followed by intermittent brief periods of similar error rates until April 22nd.

In philosophy, ontology is (as Wikipedia says) “the study of what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.

This is an updated version of the previous post from August, 2014: Getting started with oc-id and Supermarket Chef Server 12 includes oc-id, the OAuth2 service that powers id.chef.io. After upgrading to this release, Chef customers can now run their own Supermarket service behind a firewall.