It’s been a while since we had an update on the status of the native 64-bit Windows Chef client While we have been busy shipping a myriad of new releases and features since Nov, we have not forgotten the 64-bit work!

Supermarket 2.3.3 is now available. This release contains bug fixes, minor enhancements, and security updates. Supermarket version 2.3.3 is a recommended update for all users running their own instances of Supermarket. Packages are available in the stable repository.

Ohai Chefs!  We are delighted to announce the release of a new feature in Chef Delivery. Delivery now supports integration with Atlassian Bitbucket v3.x (formerly known as Stash) as a Source Code Provider. With this feature you can create and manage PRs in Bitbucket via Delivery.

Ohai Chefs, We’re pleased to announce that today we’ve released Chef Server 12.4.1. This is a patch to fix upgrades from Chef Server 11 to Chef Server 12.4. To see the full list of changes, visit the changelog. The release can be downloaded at https://downloads.chef.io/chef-server.

An article I wrote with Jez Humble, “The Core Belief Keeping Marginalized Groups Out of Tech,” is available online in Model View Culture [link]. I think it’s an interesting look at some recent trends about what keeps marginalized groups out of tech.

On Tuesday, February 2nd, I co-presented a live webinar on the Chef DevOps Journey Assessment or DOJO with Thomas Enochs, VP Customer Success. The DOJO is an exercise Chef developed to help companies get better results from their DevOps adoption.

If you’ve been to ChefConf before, you know it’s not your typical tech conference. If you haven’t, this is your year. Our annual get together is like a huge family reunion open to everyone that celebrates a vibrant and passionate community of revolutionaries, game-changers, and disruptors.

Chef Compliance 0.10.4 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a minor release update which is recommended for all users of Chef Compliance. As you may have noticed, we changed our version scheme. From now on, we bump a minor version whenever we release a new feature, patch version indicate bug fixes.

Recently, VMware announced the general availability of their VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) plugin for Chef (formerly vCenter Orchestrator). This plugin offers a number of vRO workflows for interacting with the Chef Server (such as modifying nodes and environments) and bootstrapping new nodes with support for both Linux and Windows nodes.