Ohai Chefs, We’ve just released Chef Client 12.4.0. This release has a lot of new things: Better logging options, Windows experience improvements, Resource DSL enhancements, and much more. You can read about some of the changes below. A full list of changes can be found in the changelog.

It was early April, and I arrived in Santa Clara in the days preceding ChefConf 2015. Levi’s Stadium and the surrounding area was filled with 125,000 wrestling fans. There were seven matches on the main card. The Undertaker contested his first match in almost a year.

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.

Please join Chef this week in Boston at the 2015 Red Hat Summit! This is your chance to learn more about Red Hat’s plans for not just Red Hat Enterprise Linux but the many other open source products they work on and provide.

Ohai Chefs! Today we have releases of Chef Server 12.1.0, Enterprise Chef Server 11.3.2, and Chef Manage 1.17.0 which contain the following security updates: Redis 2.8.21 This update addresses CVE-2015-4335, a remote code execution vulnerability in Redis.

Ohai Chefs! I’m pleased to announce that Chef Server 12.1.0 is now available for download on the Chef Downloads Page and via our Apt and RPM repositories. Here are some of this release’s highlights: * Significant performance improvements. * Policyfile APIs are significantly more complete and are enabled by default.

Ohai Chefs, We’re pleased to announce that Chef Server 12.1.0 RC3 is now available for download. RC3 is the follow-up to RC1, which we announced on May 28th. ### What’s New Since RC1 * **Erlang 17:** We’ve upgraded the Erlang distribution that we ship with the Chef Server to Erlang 17.

Chef’s Product team is pleased to announce the launch of feedback.chef.io, our new site for collecting and responding to product feedback.  The site hosts three feedback forums, one each for Chef, Analytics and Delivery.  The Delivery forum is currently invite-only for participants in the early access program, but will be made public in the future.

Ever used oc-id with Chef Analytics or Chef Supermarket? Read on for information on how it works! What is oc-id? oc-id is a Chef authentication/authorization service. It allows you to use your Chef Server account credentials to access other applications.