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Today I’m very pleased to announce the availability of Chef Client 12.0 for IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1. It is freely available from our downloads page and can be used with any version of the Chef Server up to and including Chef Server 12.

Julian Dunn
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Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Chef Client 12.0.0 which complements Chef Server 12. This version introduces numerous improvements to Chef Client while retaining backwards compatibility with current versions of Chef Client and Chef Server. ## MVP This release wouldn’t be possible without the help of Chef community along the way.

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Ohai everyone, We have released push-jobs-server 1.1.6 to fix an issue in which unsigned packages for push-jobs-server 1.1.5 caused its installation to fail. This is a point release because we also had to upgrade a test dependency on mixlib-shellout 1.6.0. There are no other changes between push-jobs-server 1.1.5 and 1.1.6.

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At one point, you had this great idea for a cookbook. You built it, and you shared it with everyone on the Supermarket. You rock! But at some point later on maintaining that cookbook became something that you couldn’t do any more.

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Hey chefs, On 2014/12/01 we have released a few gems in order to prepare for upcoming Chef Client 12.0.0 release. During these releases we’ve caused 2 distruptions: 1. `ohai 7.6.0` release broke gem installation of `chef 11.16.4` when using an older version of `rubygems`. 2. Yanking `mixlib-shellout 1.6.0` release from `rubygems.

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We’ve been making some big moves lately, not only on the business and product fronts, but actual moves, from our new headquarters here in Seattle, to offices in San Francisco and London. Keeping in the swing of things, we have now moved our online home to chef.io. Why?

Lucas Welch
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Chef IT Automation Platform Packaged into HP Technology Services New Datacenter Care Offering to Help Accelerate Business Services Delivery and Increase IT Resiliency BARCELONA & SEATTLE – December 2, 2014 – Today at HP Discover,Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, announced a new partnership with HP to transform IT operations for HP’s enterprise customers.

Lucas Welch
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Push Jobs Server 1.1.5 is out We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.5 of Push Jobs Server. This fixes minor issues with the push-jobs-ctl test command that caused failures when the Push Jobs Server was installed on Chef 12.

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Hi Chefs, We've decided not to support Ruby 1.9.3 in the upcoming Chef 12.0 release, in accordance with the support policy we approved in Chef RFC 015 and made explicit here. Before explaining the rationale, I'd like to be clear that Chef 12 Omnibus packages will ship with Ruby 2.1 for Unix-like systems and 2.