We've released version 10.16.6 of Chef. The only change in this release is that chef-server-api and chef-server-webui have changed their dependency on the extlib gem to require at least version 0.9.16. This change patches a potential vulnerability similar to the vulnerability recently disclosed and fixed in rails.

We’re getting 2013 started right with yet another story of Opscode Chef customer awesomeness. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. They’re also using Hosted Chef to do some pretty rockin’ things with their infrastructure.

Make a resolution to automate in 2013.  Attend one of our Chef Introductory workshops in a location near you.  Workshop coursework covers: local workstation set up with Chef and connection to a Chef Server. Use Chef to automate installation of a Nagios server as a real world example.

We’ve got a special holiday Chef bug-fix release for you today. Updated packages are in the usual places. First, this release sets a requirement that moneta be below the newly rewritten 0.7.0 version because that versions API changed and currently breaks Chef.

Last week we were fortunate enough to make a guest appearance on Channel 9, the Microsoft Developer Network channel with a fantastic community.

An OpenStack cloud is a journey some of the largest service providers in the world have embarked upon leveraging both Nicira and Opscode Chef. This webinar will explore the journey Nicira took to deploy their internal OpenStack cloud.

We’re back at it again! Today we announced our second annual #ChefConf, taking place April 24-26, 2013, in San Francisco at the Hyatt Embarcadero (a pretty cool hotel, btw).

We have released Test Kitchen version 0.7.0. This release brings some important new features and improvements we’d like to tell you about in more detail. OpenStack Runner The first new feature is an Openstack runner. We have an OpenStack build cluster for our Jenkins jobs, and we’ve started adding cookbook’s in test kitchen to Jenkins.

If you are interested in ways to drive faster cloud changes seamlessly, you should attend our webinar next week with Arista Networks to explore how data center infrastructure change is improved with EOS extensibility to Chef.