Recently at Chef we moved to Slack for our internal messaging and collaboration tool. While this was awesome for us, our analytics product, Chef Analytics, had integrations written specifically for our old tool, Hipchat.

Manage 1.18.0 is now available from the Chef download site. With this release Manage will now respect the “`strict_search_result_acls“` setting if it is set on the Chef server. When this setting is enabled the Chef server search functionality does ACL permission checking before returning results.

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Chef Analytics 1.1.5. This is a bugfix release for 1.1.4, which prevented some customers from cleanly upgrading from previous versions of Analytics. This version also includes a scheduled task (cron job) that will purge Analytics data older than three months by default on an ongoing basis.

Chef Server 12.1.2 is now released. This is a bug fix release which fixes installing remote add-on packages via the chef-server-ctl install command on apt systems. You can get the updated package here. Upgrade instructions are located here.

Hello again! I mentioned in my intro blog that, before coming to Chef, I was an academic, and I am actively researching the ways tech professionals choose and use technology. A large part of that effort is writing and publishing peer-review research.

## What is the Curl Pipe Bash Problem? You have probably seen documentation on commands to use to install chef-client that look something like: [bash] curl -L https://www.chef.io/chef/install.sh | bash -s — -v 12 [/bash] Or just: [bash] curl -L https://chef.sh | bash [/bash] Or for ChefDK: [bash] curl -L https://www.chef.io/chef/install.

Chef Server 12.1.1 was released today. This is a bug fix release which fixes bugs related to upgrades from Open Source 11, Enterprise Chef 11, and Chef Server 12. This release also ships OpenSSL 1.0.1p; however, Chef Server was not vulnerable to CVE-2015-1793 since no version of Chef Server shipped the affected versions.

Earlier today, Chef Automation Engineer, Galen Emery, presented a webinar on how to “Get the Most From Chef” with some of our newest features. Chef Analytics: Do you have compliance or audit requirements? Get real-time visibility into what’s happening on the Chef server. Chef Provisioning: Spend less time on the tedious stuff.

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.