Hopefully by now you’ve all seen the ChefConf session guide and are as pumped for the show as we are. If you haven’t already registered, you still have until Wed., 2/4, to take advantage of early bird ticket prices.

Ohai Chefs! Today we released ChefDK 0.4.0. As promised in an earlier blog post, this release includes the latest stable version of Chef Client. Other than that, we’ve gone through and updated a lot of packages that ship with ChefDK.  These include: chef 12.0.3 chefspec 4.2.0 chef-provisioning 0.18 chef-provisioning-aws 0.2.1 chef-provisioning-fog 0.12 chef-vault 2.4.

This is the second entry in our ongoing, bi-weekly series examining our customer Standard Bank’s DevOps journey. You can read the first entry here and continue below for part two. Planning the DevOps Journey Standard Bank brought in Chef to help plan and execute its DevOps journey.

We nearly escaped the first month of the new year without another major security vulnerability, but just a few days ago, security researchers found another serious bug, which they named GHOST. This time it’s in the gethostbyname() function inside glibc, the GNU C library, so the name is apt.

The Chef community is full of many awesome individuals who contribute and do exceptional things every day. Each year at ChefConf, three individuals are awarded the Awesome Community Chef award.

It’s here! The ChefConf 2015 schedule is now live and being updated continuously (well, maybe not continuously, but pretty frequently). This year’s ChefConf will feature more than 40 sessions of dynamite content, from technical how-to presentations and demos, to examinations of cultural change and organizational structure.

Ohai Chefs, We’ve just released Chef 11.18.6. This release pins the cacerts bundle to a known working version, which should work around issues where SSL connections would fail due to certificate errors. ## Wait… You skipped 11.18.2 and 11.18.4 I found minor issues with both of these releases (incorrect hyperlinks, incorrect gem version).

Ohai! Today we’ve released Chef Server 12.0.2, a small bugfix release that addresses a critical bug in the upgrade process from Enterprise Chef 11 that was causing upgrades to hang during long-running migrations. The latest packages can be downloaded from https://downloads.chef.io/chef-server.

### Description We shipped Analytics `1.1.0` with a development configuration setting enabled that disabled authentication on the endpoints used to create and modify rules and notification aliases. This meant that rules could be created or modified without having to be logged in as a valid chef user. We have released version `1.1.