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We’re pumped to be at Velocity again this year and can’t wait to be on the ground in Santa Clara next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We hope you’ll join us for a bunch of awesome Chef happenings, including: * We’re hosting a hack on Tuesday from 1:30pm to 5:00pm.

Lucas Welch
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Earlier today, we deployed a change to force http->https redirect for Supermarket. During the deployment, the load balancer was incorrectly configured, causing Supermarket to be unavailable. At Chef, we conduct postmortem meetings for outages and issues with the site and services.

Joshua Timberman
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We are so excited to announce the soft-opening of Supermarket – the new Chef Community site. With a clean, responsive design and an open-source foundation, the doors have opened and are we are ready for our first visitors. The current community site will continue to be available at http://community.opscode.com during this soft-opening period.

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Ohai Chefs, Two frequently discussed topics in the community have been issue tracking and the contribution workflow. JIRA has been our issue tracker for a long time and we’ve been using Github from the beginning to host the source code. Our contribution workflow have evolved around the combination of these tools.

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A few months back at #ChefConf we had the opportunity to connect some very cool people for a series of “#ChefTalks: Kitchen Chats” on-site at the show. In short, we put together smart people to discuss what’s really going on in IT, from driving organizational and cultural change to skill-building to new technology.

Lucas Welch
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We’re pretty hyped to announce that we’re backing a very cool new project on Kickstarter – “Release! A card game about software and the people who make it.” What is it exactly?

Lucas Welch
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London Technology Week sweeps through the city June 16-20 and Chef is getting in on the fun with a tasty dinner event on June 18. From 6-9 pm Greenwich Time, join our European Chef team – Justin Arbuckle, Andy Hawkins, John Fitzpatrick, and Andrew Gough – at Curry Leaf East, 20 City Road in London.

Lucas Welch
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Ohai Chefs, We have just released Chef Client versions 11.12.8-2 and 10.32.2-3 which includes the mitigation for the recently reported OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2014-0224. Note that after installing these builds, if you check the OpenSSL version using `OpenSSL::OPENSSL_VERSION` you will see `OpenSSL 1.0.0k 5 Feb 2013`.

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Today we joined our friends at Docker for their user conference – DockerCon 2014. There’s a ton going on at the show today and tomorrow, including Docker announcing its first production-ready version, Docker 1.0. Of course, your friendly Chefs are out in force at the show, so please stop by our booth for a chat.

Justin Fenton