Chef InSpec

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Chef InSpec is an open-source framework for testing and auditing applications and infrastructure.

Release Released Active Support Security Support Latest
7 4 months and 3 weeks ago
(16 Oct 2025)
 Yes Yes 7.0.107
(20 Feb 2026)
6 2 years and 3 months ago
(14 Nov 2023)
 Ended 4 months and 3 weeks ago
(16 Oct 2025)
 Yes 6.8.24
(23 Jan 2025)
5 4 years ago
(17 Mar 2022)
 Ended 2 years and 3 months ago
(14 Nov 2023)
 Ended 4 months and 3 weeks ago
(16 Oct 2025)
 5.24.7
(26 Feb 2026)
4 6 years and 10 months ago
(30 Apr 2019)
 Ended 4 years ago
(17 Mar 2022)
 Ended 2 years and 3 months ago
(14 Nov 2023)
 4.56.58
(24 Oct 2023)
3 7 years ago
(15 Oct 2018)
 Ended 6 years and 10 months ago
(30 Apr 2019)
 Ended 5 years and 10 months ago
(30 Apr 2020)
 3.9.3
(11 Apr 2019)
2 8 years ago
(20 Feb 2018)
 Ended 7 years ago
(15 Oct 2018)
 Ended 6 years ago
(31 Dec 2019)
 2.3.28
(08 Feb 2019)
1 9 years ago
(26 Sep 2016)
 Ended 8 years ago
(20 Feb 2018)
 Ended 6 years ago
(31 Dec 2019)
 1.51.31
(06 Mar 2019)

Supported commercial releases of Chef InSpec are documented on the Chef Documentation website.

Looking at the published list of supported releases, it seems that Chef InSpec follows an N-1 support strategy, with the latest release supported with bug and security fixes, and the previous release marked “deprecated” and only supported with security fixes.

More information is available on the Chef InSpec website.

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

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