winget install --id ChefSoftware.WorkstationAbout Chef Workstation
Start your infrastructure automation with Chef Workstation. Chef Workstation gives you everything you need to get started with Chef - ad hoc remote execution, remote scanning, configuration tasks, cookbook creation tools as well as robust dependency and testing software - all in one easy-to-install package. Chef Workstation includes: - Chef Infra Client - Chef InSpec - Chef Habitat - chef and knife command line tools - Testing tools such as Test Kitchen and Cookstyle - Everything else needed to author cookbooks and...
What's new in 25.14.2.1
Bug fixes - Fixed REXML XPath deprecation warnings that appeared during Test Kitchen converge operations when using the Azure driver on Windows platforms. - Fixed “Exception in finalizer” and “can’t alloc thread (ThreadError)” warnings that appeared after Test Kitchen completed a kitchen verify run against Windows targets. Component updates - Updated Cookstyle to v8.6.10. - Updated Berkshelf to v8.1.21. - Updated Chef Vault to v4.2.9. - Updated Fauxhai to v9.4.20. - Updated Test Kitchen to v4.0.0, which moves the provisioner to its own gem. - Updated the kitchen-omnibus-chef gem. This gem provides the Chef provisioner to Test Kitchen and now supports authenticated downloads with a license from the Chef Downloads API. This gem is deprecated, and starting with Chef Workstation 26, the kitchen-chef-enterprise plugin will be automatically bundled and shipped for enterprise customer usage. - Replaced winrm, winrm-elevated, and winrm-fs gems with chef-winrm, chef-winrm-elevated, and chef-winrm-fs. Updated the following Test Kitchen drivers: - Updated kitchen-ec2 to v3.22.3. - Updated kitchen-digitalocean to v0.16.2. - Updated kitchen-google to v2.6.2. - Updated kitchen-openstack to v7.0.1. - Updated kitchen-vagrant to v2.2.1. - Updated kitchen-vcenter to v2.12.3. Dependency updates - Updated mixlib-install to v3.16.0. - Updated net-ssh to v7.3.2. - Updated mixlib-archive to v1.3.3. - Updated openssl gem to v4.0.1. Security - Updated cURL from v8.16.0 to v8.19.0. - Updated Go from v1.23.12 to v1.26.2. - Updated git-windows from v2.48.1 to v2.54.0. - Updated activesupport from v7.2...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 25.14.2.1 | Unknown | Bug fixes - Fixed REXML XPath deprecation warnings that appeared during Test Kitchen converge operations when using the Azure driver on Windows platforms. - Fixed “Exception in finalizer” and “can’t alloc thread (ThreadE... |
| 25.13.7.1 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 25.12.1102.1 | Unknown | Component Updates Test Kitchen - Updated Test Kitchen to v3.9.1. Knife - Updated Knife from v18.8.13 to v18.8.68 to address code scanning alerts. chef-cli - Updated chef-cli from v5.6.21 to v5.6.23 to to address code sca... |
| 25.9.1094.1 | Unknown | Release Date: September 30, 2025. New features - Updated Test Kitchen to 3.9.0. This adds support for using SSH transport on Windows platforms. Component updates - Updated Chef Infra Client to v18.8.11. See the Chef Infr... |
| 25.5.1084.1 | Unknown | Release Date: May 27, 2025. Components Chef Infra Client - Updated Chef Infra Client to v18.7.10. See the Chef Infra Client release notes for a full list of improvements and features. InSpec - Updated Chef InSpec to v5.2... |
| 25.2.1075.1 | Unknown | Components Knife Important Notice: Upcoming Omnitruck API Deprecation We updated Knife from v18.6.2 to v18.6.13. This release introduces a warning message when running knife bootstrap that notifies users about the upcomi... |
| 22.7.1006.1 | Unknown | No notes |
| 22.1.745.1 | Unknown | No notes |
| 21.11.679.1 | Unknown | No notes |
| 21.7.524.1 | Unknown | No notes |