Ohai, Chefs! This is my first post on the Chef blog, and I’m thrilled to be part of this fantastic community of innovators. It was great to meet so many of you at ChefConf 2015, where I spoke in the plenary session.

This year’s Chef Community Summit in London will be held November 3 and 4 and we hope to see you there.  Registration is open now, read on for more details. This marks our second Chef Community Summit in Europe.

Ohai Chefs, We’ve just released Chef Client 12.4.0. This release has a lot of new things: Better logging options, Windows experience improvements, Resource DSL enhancements, and much more. You can read about some of the changes below. A full list of changes can be found in the changelog.

It was early April, and I arrived in Santa Clara in the days preceding ChefConf 2015. Levi’s Stadium and the surrounding area was filled with 125,000 wrestling fans. There were seven matches on the main card. The Undertaker contested his first match in almost a year.

Matt Wrock is a Principal Software Engineer at CenturyLink Cloud, where he works on data center automation. Many of you are already familiar with Matt from his blog Hurry Up and Wait! Matt writes about many aspects of software engineering, including Chef.

Please join Chef this week in Boston at the 2015 Red Hat Summit! This is your chance to learn more about Red Hat’s plans for not just Red Hat Enterprise Linux but the many other open source products they work on and provide.

Ohai Chefs! Today we have releases of Chef Server 12.1.0, Enterprise Chef Server 11.3.2, and Chef Manage 1.17.0 which contain the following security updates: Redis 2.8.21 This update addresses CVE-2015-4335, a remote code execution vulnerability in Redis.

Ohai Chefs! I’m pleased to announce that Chef Server 12.1.0 is now available for download on the Chef Downloads Page and via our Apt and RPM repositories. Here are some of this release’s highlights: * Significant performance improvements. * Policyfile APIs are significantly more complete and are enabled by default.

Ohai Chefs, We’re pleased to announce that Chef Server 12.1.0 RC3 is now available for download. RC3 is the follow-up to RC1, which we announced on May 28th. ### What’s New Since RC1 * **Erlang 17:** We’ve upgraded the Erlang distribution that we ship with the Chef Server to Erlang 17.