Chef Infra Client

app ruby-runtime

Chef Infra Client is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management and application-deployment tool enabling infrastructure as code.

Release Released Active Support Security Support Latest
18 2 years ago
(28 Oct 2022)
 Yes Yes 18.5.0
(09 Jul 2024)
17 3 years and 6 months ago
(28 Apr 2021)
 Ended 2 years and 10 months ago
(10 Jan 2022)
 Ends in 1 week and 3 days
(30 Nov 2024)
 17.10.122
(11 Mar 2024)
16 4 years and 6 months ago
(05 May 2020)
 Ended 3 years and 11 months ago
(19 Dec 2020)
 Ended 1 year and 11 months ago
(30 Nov 2022)
 16.18.30
(15 Feb 2023)
15 6 years ago
(26 Oct 2018)
 Ended 4 years and 10 months ago
(21 Jan 2020)
 Ended 3 years and 11 months ago
(19 Dec 2020)
 15.17.4
(17 Apr 2021)
14 6 years and 10 months ago
(22 Jan 2018)
 Ended 6 years ago
(26 Oct 2018)
 Ended 4 years and 10 months ago
(21 Jan 2020)
 14.16.19
(07 Jun 2022)
13 7 years ago
(01 Mar 2017)
 Ended 6 years and 10 months ago
(22 Jan 2018)
 Ended 6 years ago
(26 Oct 2018)
 13.12.14
(07 Mar 2019)
12 9 years ago
(25 Nov 2014)
 Ended 7 years ago
(01 Mar 2017)
 Ended 6 years and 10 months ago
(22 Jan 2018)
 12.22.5
(30 May 2018)
11 11 years ago
(01 Feb 2013)
 Ended 9 years ago
(03 Dec 2014)
 Ended 7 years ago
(01 Mar 2017)
 11.18.12
(30 Apr 2015)
10 12 years ago
(18 Jun 2012)
 Ended 11 years ago
(01 Feb 2013)
 Ended 9 years ago
(03 Dec 2014)
 10.34.6
(10 Nov 2014)

Chef Infra Client generally follows an N-1 support strategy (meanings that the 2 most recent major versions receive security and bug fixes)

Release Schedule

Latest major releases Schedule:

Version Type Description Cadence
Major For significant changes, will include breaking or backwards-incompatible changes. Once a year in April
Minor Will include new features, bug fixes, and will be backwards-compatible to the best of the maintainers’ abilities. 2nd week of each month
Patch Will include backwards-compatible bug fixes. As needed.

N-1 major releases Schedule:

Version Type Description Cadence
Minor & Patch For critical bugs and security vulnerabilities only As needed.

More information is available on the Chef Infra Client website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running: 
chef-client -v
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You can submit an improvement to this page on GitHub :octocat: . This page has a corresponding Talk Page.

A JSON version of this page is available at /api/chef-infra-client.json. See the API Documentation for more information. You can subscribe to the iCalendar feed at /calendar/chef-infra-client.ics.