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lbarry316 edited this page Sep 2, 2025 · 997 revisions

Upgrade Journey

Chef lets you choose your upgrade journey based on your current version of Chef Automate. You can do all the version upgrades manually.

Your Current Version Upgrade To
Any version before 20220329091442 20220329091442
20220329091442 3.0.x
3.0.49 4.x

See the Chef Automate 4.x upgrade documentation for more information.

New Features

Added the --verify-restore-config flag to the Automate Command Line Interface (CLI) High Availability (HA) Restore command for snapshot/base-path verification.

Compliance Profile Updates

The compliance profiles were updated to version 1.0.0/20250813155029, which includes the new and improved profiles for:

CIS Oracle Database 23 ai v1.0.0
CIS Ubuntu 22.04 v2.0.0 audits profile
CIS RHEL 8 v3.0.0 improvement in control 5.2.3.13 (removed unwanted code) CIS PostgreSQL 16 v1.0.0 (Audits) control 7.2 (log replication default to on) CIS PostgreSQL 16 v1.0.0 (Audits) control 3.1.8 (used correct anecdote for hours) CIS IBM AIX 7 v1.1.0 (audits profile)

Bug Fixes

Updated the self-signed certificate for the Postgres and Open search packages for the Automate HA packages.

Maintenance

  • Updated the following packages to ensure they are as up-to-date as possible:
    • OpenSearch (version specific to Chef commercially licensed from Tuxcare)
    • OpenJDK
    • Golang
    • NodeJS
    • Angular
    • Chef components:

      knife-ec-backup
      InSpec
      Habitat
      Chef Server

  • PostgreSQL and libraries to support the same
  • MinIO
  • Dex
  • OpenSSL
  • HAProxy
  • Curl

Security Updates

Many of the underlying packages were upgraded to improve security posture. Refer to the list of packages upgraded in the Maintenance section.

Chef Packaged Product Versions

This release uses:

  • Chef Habitat version: 1.6.1243/20241227194506
  • Chef Habitat Builder version: 10717/20250805204117
  • Chef Infra Server version: 15.10.63
  • Chef InSpec version: 5.22.95/20250805133317

Service Versions

This release uses:

  • Postgres: 13.21.0
  • OpenSearch: 1.3.20-tuxcare
  • Nginx: 1.25.4
  • HAProxy: 2.8.15

Supported External Chef Products

This release supports the following external Chef products:

  • Chef Infra Server version: 14.0.58+
  • Chef Inspec version: 4.3.2+
  • Chef Infra Client: 17.0.242+
  • Chef Habitat: 0.81+

View the package manifest for the latest release.

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