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Patches for Chef Workstation x64
Windows
8 patches available
Chef Workstation is Chef's modern developer tool kit that includes Chef Infra, InSpec and Habitat plus a host of resources, helpers and testing tools that make automating infrastructure, application and security testing easier than ever. With Chef Workstation DevOps automators can create, test and deliver codified artifacts all within their preferred developer environment.
Chef Workstation x64 Version 25.5.1084.1
Release Date
5/27/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

**Not scanned for VT due to size **$$$Chef Workstation 25.5.1084$$$Release Date: May 27; 2025.$$$$$$Components$$$Chef Infra Client$$$Updated Chef Infra Client to v18.7.10. See the Chef Infra Client release notes for a full list of improvements and features.$$$InSpec$$$Updated Chef InSpec to v5.22.80. See the InSpec release notes for more information.$$$Knife$$$Updated Knife to v18.7.9.$$$Test Kitchen$$$Updated Test Kitchen to v3.7.0.$$$Security$$$Updated OpenSSL from v3.0.15 to v3.2.4 while maintaining FIPS algorithm support from v3.0.9.$$$$$$Updated cURL from v8.4.0 to v8.12.1 to resolve the following CVE:$$$$$$CVE-2025-0725$$$CVE-2024-9681$$$CVE-2023-46219$$$CVE-2023-46218$$$Updated libxml2 from v2.12.7 to v2.12.10 to resolve the following CVE:$$$$$$CVE-2025-27113$$$CVE-2025-24928$$$CVE-2024-56171$$$CVE-2024-40896$$$Updated libxslt from v1.1.39 to v1.1.43 to resolve the following CVE:$$$$$$CVE-2024-55549$$$CVE-2025-24855$$$Updated libarchive from v3.7.5 to v3.7.9 to resolve the following CVE:$$$$$$CVE-2024-48615$$$Updated REXML to v3.4.1 to address CVE-2024-49761$$$$$$Updated Go from v1.22.5 to v1.23.9 as support for the 1.22 series is nearing end-of-life.$$$$$$We updated several components to address critical security issues identified through Dependabot and GitHub code scanning alerts:$$$$$$Berkshelf was updated from v8.0.9 to v8.0.22.$$$Chef CLI was updated from v5.6.16 to v5.6.21.$$$Ohai was updated from v18.1.18 to v18.2.6.$$$Fauxhai was updated from v9.3.16 to v9.3.26.$$$Chef Vault was updated from v4.1.11 to v4.1.23.$$$Bug Fixes$$$Fixed a bootstrap failure on Windows caused by an incorrect URL in Knife.$$$Resolved unexpected kitchen doctor errors appearing during kitchen test runs.$$$Fixed knife-vsphere failures caused by licensing changes introduced in Chef Infra Client 19.$$$Resolved Windows pipeline failures in the chef-vault repository during verification steps.$$$Packaging$$$We no longer build packages for macOS 11 Big Sur.$$$We now build packages for macOS 13 and 14 on aarch64.
Chef Workstation x64 Version 25.2.1075.1
Release Date
2/5/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

**Not scanned for VT due to size **$$$Chef Workstation 25.2.1075$$$Release Date: 5 February; 2025.$$$$$$Components$$$Knife$$$Important Notice: Upcoming Omnitruck API Deprecation$$$$$$We updated Knife from v18.6.2 to v18.6.13. This release introduces a warning message when running knife bootstrap that notifies users about the upcoming Omnitruck API deprecation.$$$$$$To ensure uninterrupted downloads and remove this warning:$$$$$$For connected environments: Activate your Chef license and Knife automatically uses the new download APIs.$$$For air-gapped environments: Set up a local Chef licensing service and configure the CHEF_LICENSE_SERVER environment variable to point to its URL. For more information; see the Chef Local License Service documentation.$$$Activating your Chef license ensures a smooth transition to the new download mechanism before the Omnitruck API is deprecated.$$$$$$Chef Habitat$$$Updated Chef Habitat from v1.6.1041 to v1.6.1243. See the Habitat release notes for more information.$$$Improvements$$$To improve security and mitigate vulnerabilities; we replaced Kernel.open with File.open and IO.read with File.read.$$$Security$$$Updated expat from v2.5.0 to v2.6.4 to resolve the following CVEs:$$$$$$CVE-2023-52425$$$CVE-2023-52426$$$CVE-2024-45492
Chef Workstation x64 Version 24.12.1073.1
Release Date
8/12/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

**Not scanned for VT due to size **$$$Chef Workstation 24.12.1073$$$Release Date: 18 December; 2024.$$$$$$Components$$$Updated Chef Infra Client from v18.5.0 to v18.6.2 and Knife from v18.5.0 to v18.6.2. See the Chef Infra Client release notes for a full list of improvements and features.$$$Updated Chef InSpec from v5.22.55 to v5.22.65. See the InSpec release notes for more information.$$$Updated kitchen-dokken to v2.20.7.$$$Improvements$$$Updated the chef-cli gem from v5.6.14 to v5.6.16 so users can connect to JFrog Artifactory with an access token. ([#239] (https://github.com/chef/chef-cli/pull/239))$$$Licensing$$$These changes prepare users for new license requirements in Chef Infra Client 19. (#14669)$$$$$$The knife bootstrap command now validates your license key and downloads from Chef’s new download APIs. If you don’t have a license; Knife falls back to the older Omnitruck API and returns a warning to add a license.$$$$$$We added the following commands to manage licenses with Knife:$$$$$$knife license$$$knife license list$$$knife license add$$$See the Chef licensing documentation and download API documentation for more information.$$$$$$Security$$$Updated OpenSSL from v3.0.12 to v3.0.15 to resolve the following CVEs:$$$$$$CVE-2024-5535$$$CVE-2024-6119$$$CVE-2024-4741$$$Updated libxml2 from v2.12.5 to v2.12.7 to resolve the following CVE:$$$$$$CVE-2024-34459$$$Updated libarchive from v3.7.4 to v3.7.5 to resolve the following CVEs:$$$$$$CVE-2024-37407$$$CVE-2024-48957$$$CVE-2024-48958$$$Updated git-windows from v2.41.0 to v2.47.0 to resolve the following CVE:$$$$$$CVE-2023-38545$$$Updated ruby and ruby-msys2-devkit from v3.1.2 to v3.1.6 to resolve the following CVE:$$$$$$CVE-2023-38545$$$Updated RDoc to v6.4.1.1 to resolve the following CVE:$$$$$$CVE-2024-27281
Chef Workstation x64 Version 24.8.1068.1
Release Date
8/12/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

**Not scanned for VT due to size **$$$$$$Chef Workstation 24.8.1068$$$Bug Fixes$$$Calls to chef_vault_item in Test Kitchen now converge correctly.$$$Components$$$Updated Chef Infra Client from v18.4.12 to v18.5.0 and Knife from v18.4.2 to v18.5.0. See the Chef Infra Client release notes for a full list of improvements and features.$$$$$$Updated Chef InSpec from v5.22.50 to v5.22.55. See the InSpec release notes for more information.$$$$$$Updated the following Test Kitchen drivers:$$$$$$Updated kitchen-azurerm to v1.13.1.$$$Updated kitchen-digitalocean to v0.16.1.$$$Updated kitchen-dokken to v2.20.6.$$$Updated kitchen-ec2 to v3.19.0.$$$Updated kitchen-google to v2.6.1.$$$Updated kitchen-hyperv to v0.10.1.$$$Updated kitchen-openstack to v6.2.1.$$$Updated kitchen-vra to v3.3.3.$$$Updated kitchen-vagrant to v2.0.1.$$$Security$$$Updated libarchive from 3.6.2 to 3.7.4 to resolve the following CVE:$$$$$$CVE-2024-37407$$$Updated Go from 1.21.5 to 1.22.5 to resolve the following CVEs:$$$$$$CVE-2024-24790$$$CVE-2024-24791
Chef Workstation x64 Version 24.6.1066.1
Release Date
6/4/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

**Not scanned for VT due to size **$$$$$$Chef Workstation 24.6.1066$$$Improvements$$$Added the Ruby implementation of c_rehash script to Chef Workstation. In the past; we’ve included c_rehash as a Perl script; but we stopped including Perl with Chef Workstation. (#3234)$$$Bug Fixes$$$Fixed an error where the Chef Workstation App remains open in the tray icon after it is uninstalled on macOS.$$$Components
Chef Workstation x64 Version 24.4.1064.1
Release Date
4/23/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Chef Workstation 24.4.1064$$$Improvements$$$Added support for FIPS in OpenSSL v3.$$$Bug Fixes$$$Fixed an issue with the Chef Workstation tray icon.$$$Security$$$Libxml2$$$Updated the libxml2 to v2.12.5 to address the following CVE:$$$$$$CVE-2024-25062$$$Components$$$Chef Infra Client$$$Updated Chef Infra Client to v18.4.12. See the Chef Infra Client release notes for a full list of improvements and features.$$$$$$Fauxhai$$$Updated fauxhai-chef to v9.3.16. See the fauxhai changelogs for more information.$$$$$$kitchen-dokken$$$Updated kitchen-dokken to v2.20.4.$$$$$$kitchen-google$$$Updated kitchen-google to v2.6.0; which replaces the google-api-client Ruby gem with google-apis-compute-v1.$$$$$$kitchen-vagrant$$$Updated kitchen-vagrant to v2.0.0. See the changelogs for more information.$$$$$$knife-ec2$$$Updated knife-ec2 to v2.1.6; which adds support for the gp3 and io2 volume types.
Chef Workstation x64 Version 24.2.1058.1
Release Date
2/7/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Chef Workstation 24.2.1058$$$Packaging$$$Amazon Linux 2023 packages$$$We now produce Amazon Linux 2023 packages for Chef Workstation for x86_64 and AArch64 architectures.$$$$$$Note: Chef Habitat is not bundled with Chef Workstation for Amazon Linux 2023 AArch64 architectures.$$$$$$Components$$$InSpec$$$Updated Chef InSpec from 5.22.36 to 5.22.40. See the InSpec release notes for more information.$$$$$$Cookstyle$$$Updated Cookstyle to v7.32.7.$$$$$$Security$$$Go$$$Updated Go from 1.21.3 to 1.21.5; which resolves the following CVEs:$$$$$$CVE-2023-45285$$$CVE-2023-45283$$$zlib$$$Updated zlib from 1.3 to 1.3.1; which resolves the following CVEs:$$$$$$CVE-2023-45853$$$OpenSSL$$$Updated OpenSSL from 3.0.11 to 3.0.12; which resolves the following CVEs:$$$$$$CVE-2023-5363$$$
Chef Workstation x64 Version 23.12.1055.1
Release Date
12/5/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Chef Workstation Release Notes$$$Chef Workstation 23.12.1055$$$$$$Improvements$$$Replaced the previous Chef Workstation logo and icons with the new Progress Chef logo and updated the copyright date.$$$Improved performance of chef CLI commands when using multiple cookbooks stored in Git repositories. Thanks adsr! (#223)$$$$$$Bug Fixes$$$Fixed an issue with bundling the win32-security gem on Windows.$$$Fixed an installation issue with the ruby-shadow gem.$$$Fixed an error when installing Chef Workstation on D drive.$$$$$$For complete details refer - https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_workstation/?_ga=2.143546165.161612401.1707277966-1590178962.1707277966#23.12.1055
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