The votes are in and we have elected our final members for the Chef Board of Governance (CBGB). We will be meeting on a quarterly basis to provide input and formal recommendations regarding the project scope. Please join me in congratulating everyone who has been elected!

Ohai Chefs, ChefSalim here, excited to be bringing you tidings of joy with a release announcement for Chef Client 12.6.0!

What is it? Collaborator Groups are a new way to manage cookbook collaborators in Supermarket. With this feature you can now create groups of collaborators and associate that group with a cookbook or tool.

Chef Compliance 0.9.6 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a minor release update which is recommended for all users of Chef Compliance. Enhancements: Remove public key for SSH from UI and API Simplify and improve API documentation found at https://docs.chef.io/api_compliance.

Keeping your Red Hat systems patched is critical, and registering your nodes with Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM) or a Red Hat Satellite is the first step. Frequently, users will handle the registration manually or bake it in to their nodes with a one-time startup script.

AWS OpsWorks is an application management service that makes it easy to deploy and operate applications of all shapes and sizes. OpsWorks supports Chef recipes for automating these services.

Chef Compliance 0.9.5 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a minor release update which is recommended for all users for Chef Compliance. Enhancements Bulk add or remove nodes in the UI. Paste a list of IPs or hostnames which are comma- or space-separated and have them quickly added.

Manage 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 are now available from the Chef downloads site. Manage 2.1.1 is a security release to address a cross site scripting vulnerability that was discovered to exist in previous versions of Manage, including 2.1.0 and the 1.x series. Manage 2.1.0 is a major version bump from 1.21.1 to 2.1.

This is a guest post from our friend Doug Ireton at Nordstrom, detailing key information about the transfer of ownership for Chef-Vault from the Nordstrom team to Chef. # What is chef-vault? Chef-Vault is a tool to help engineers securely manage passwords, SSL certs, and other secrets in Chef Recipes.