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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.

Nicole Forsgren
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## 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.

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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.

Tyler Cloke
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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.

Jamie Bright
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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.

Roberta Leibovitz
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A few months ago, we announced ChefConf 2016 would be in Austin, TX, May 9-11, at the beautiful JW Marriott hotel. Many of you in the community were excited about the location, which boasts tremendous culture, food, outdoor activity, nightlife, and more.

Lucas Welch
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On July 9th, 2015, the OpenSSL team released a new high severity security advisory. This advisory details an issue that affects OpenSSL versions 1.0.2c, 1.0.2b, 1.0.1n and 1.0.1o.

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Collaboration Between Chef and AWS Enables Businesses to Use Automation, Cloud, and DevOps Practices to Rapidly and Safely Deliver Customer Value Through Software SEATTLE & NEW YORK – July 9, 2015 – From the AWS Summit – New York, Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today announced the availability of Chef in Amazon Web […]

Lucas Welch
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Ohai Chefs, We’ve just released Chef Client 12.4.1. This release fixes regressions that were in Chef Client 12.4.0. I’ve listed the changes that below: * #3605 Rework `Resource#action` to match 12.