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On Thursday, February 26, we had an outage for downloading cookbooks from Supermarket via Berkshelf. The next day, February 27, we held a public post mortem. If you’d like to see the video of the post mortem, you can view it on Youtube here.

Nell Shamrell-Harrington
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Chef Compliance 0.14.5 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a minor release update which is recommended for all users of Chef Compliance. It is available now through the downloads page. Some highlights of this release are: * Add auditd_rules support for new syntax (v2.3) and add filters.

Dominik Richter
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Whether you’ve attended yourself, or have been told by a friend, you know ChefConf is rad. What makes it even better? Presenting. Give back to the Community you love, help others overcome challenges, get feedback and validation for your ideas, heck, do it for the glory.

Nathen Harvey
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Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 marked the first meeting of the Chef Board of Governance (CBGB) in San Francisco. In attendance were 11 of the members of the board, as well as Nathen Harvey and Thom May from Chef Software to observe and advise as the leads of the community teams at Chef Software.

Nathen Harvey
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Company Joins with 3Scale, Alert Logic, CloudPassage, Dynatrace, Infoblox, NetApp, Sumo Logic, and More to Deliver Verified Partner Code for Automating Cloud Resources, Servers, and Storage Solutions with Chef SEATTLE – February 23, 2016 – Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today announced its new Partner Cookbook Program, setting a new standard in code

Justin Fenton
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We’re pleased to announce that Chef Analytics 1.3.0 is now available from downloads.chef.io. This release contains a minor bug fix and new database functionality to improve data management. Once partitions are installed, which are on by default in 1.3.0, it cannot be reversed without data loss.

The new global group, server-admins, was released in Chef Server 12.4.1. This group improves your ability to customize permissions that affect user management in your Chef Server. Previously, there were only two types of users, regular and super. The server-admins group adds another possibility.

Tyler Cloke
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We just released Chef Client 12.7.2 and it is available via the downloads page. Here are some highlights of this release: Updates to versioning specification We recently updated the versioning specification in our release process to facilitate faster releases with lower risk between each release.

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Chef Compliance 0.11.1 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a minor release update which is recommended for all users for Chef Compliance. **Implemented enhancements:** – Improve feedback when profiles uploaded by reporting any `inspec check` errors – Improvements handling metadata in `inspec.yml`.