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Today we have pushed a small bugfix release of the Chef Client. This release includes some critical updates for some users, and includes a new version of OpenSSL. ### Changelog * Issue 3022: Homebrew Cask install fails * Issue 3059: Chef 12.1.

Casey to Lead Company’s High-Velocity Engineering Practice in Rapidly Delivering Innovation to Customers; Analytics Expert Nicole Forsgren, Ph.D., Joins Chef to Bolster Data-Driven Continual Development Process SEATTLE – March 23, 2015 –Chef, the leader in high-velocity IT automation, today announced James Casey has been appointed Vice President of Engineering.

Lucas Welch

Today we’re pleased to announce that Chef Server 12.0.6 has been released. This update contains the latest OpenSSL 1.0.1m along with further bug fixes and API improvements. ### OpenSSL 1.0.

On March 19th, 2015, the OpenSSL team released a new high severity security advisory. In addition, the OpenSSL team also upgraded the severity of an already-published advisory, CVE-2015-0204, to high severity status.

If you’re looking to level up your Chef skills, you have plenty of opportunities this week. Along with some of our partners, we’ll be presenting webinars on automating at scale, DevSecOps and automating on Azure with Chef. See full details on each webinar after the jump.

Jason McDonald

Supermarket is the Chef community’s central clearing house for sharing cookbooks, tools, and plugins. It is a place for Chef community members to download community cookbooks, collaborate on cookbooks, and upload cookbooks to be used by other community members. It is also the place to share information about tools that improve Chef’s ecosystem.

Nell Shamrell-Harrington

This is the fifth entry in our ongoing, bi-weekly series examining our customer Standard Bank’s DevOps journey. You can read the first entry here, the second entry here, the third entry here, and the fourth entry here. Continue below for part five. In this blog post, we talk to several members of the Chop Chop team.

Roberta Leibovitz

This post originally appeared on Chef engineer Alex Vinyar’s blog. To teach is to learn… …or something along these lines. “How do I manage reboots with chef-client on Windows” is a question I hear every so often.

Lucas Welch

Our Triage Process The Community Engineering team, along with others in Chef engineering, have been working to triage issues that come in on our open source projects. Part of that process includes identifying and categorizing issues and assigning them to milestones.

Steven Murawski