Chef Manage Release Notes

Chef Manage provides a web-based user interface that manages Chef Infra nodes and other policy objects, such as data bags and roles, on the instance of Chef Infra Server that it is installed on.

Chef Manage is deprecated and users should plan to migrate to Chef Automate as the replacement.

Upgrading

Download the latest version of the chef-manage package for your platform from Chef Downloads to your Chef Infra Server, then run:

# rpm -Uvh /path/to/chef-manage-*.rpm
or
# dpkg -i /path/to/chef-manage-*.deb

then
# chef-manage-ctl reconfigure
# chef-server-ctl reconfigure

Chef Manage 3.2.43

https://packages.chef.io/release-notes/manage/3.2.43.md

Bug Fixes

This release resolves a regression in the previous 3.2.35 release, which resulted in icons not displaying in the Manage UI.

Chef Manage 3.2.35

https://packages.chef.io/release-notes/manage/3.2.35.md

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Resolved deprecation warnings when running chef-manage-ctl reconfigure.

Security Updates

Improved HTTP Headers

Added stricter HTTP headers for improved security.

Rails 6.1.4.3

Updated Rails to 6.1.4.3 to resolve CVE-2021-44528.

Chef Manage 3.2.20

https://packages.chef.io/release-notes/manage/3.2.20.md

Security

Ruby 2.7.5

Updated Ruby from 2.7.4 to 2.7.5 to resolve the following CVEs:

CVE-2021-41817
CVE-2021-41816
CVE-2021-41819

Chef Manage 3.2.13

https://packages.chef.io/release-notes/manage/3.2.13.md

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Fixed rendering of the changelog from the Manage UI.
Refreshed many icons throughout the UI.

Security Updates

Sidekiq 6.3.1

Upgraded the Sidekiq job queuing engine used in Chef Manage from 5.2.9 to 6.3.1 to resolve CVE-2021-30151.

Improved HTTP Headers

Chef Manage now includes Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy HTTP headers for improved security.

Chef Manage 3.1.83

https://packages.chef.io/release-notes/manage/3.1.83.md

Bug fixes

Fixed 500 error while loading change log url introduced in 3.1.80

Chef Manage 3.1.80

https://packages.chef.io/release-notes/manage/3.1.80.md

Updates

The Chef Manage UI has received minor updates to branding, emails, and external URLs:

Links lead to the latest pages
Brand logos match Chef Infra Client / Chef Infra Server
Community Slack replaces the link to the defunct IRC channel
Chef Questions replaces the legacy mailing list

Package Improvements

Smaller Package Size

The Chef Manage packaging is optimized, reducing both the package and the on-disk install size by half.

RHEL 6 Package Removal

Chef Manage packages are no longer produced for EOL RHEL 6.

RPM Package Digests

The file digest in Chef Infra RPM packages is updated from M5 to SHA256 to prevent installation failures on some FIPS-enabled systems.

Security Enhancements

Users can no longer change their email during the signup process to avoid validation.

MTLS Support

Support MTLS in Chef Infra Server

E-mail Verification

User email verification is enforced for all user email address changes.

Ruby 2.7.4

Updated Ruby from 2.6.6 to 2.7.4 to resolve a large number of bugs as well as the following CVEs:

CVE-2021-28966
CVE-2021-28965
CVE-2020-25613
CVE-2021-31810
CVE-2021-32066
CVE-2021-31799

Rails 6.1.4.1

Updated the Rails framework used by Chef Manage from 5.2.4.4 to 6.1.4.1. This new release includes performance improvements, new capabilities, and resolves the following CVEs:

CVE-2021-22902
CVE-2021-22903
CVE-2021-22885
CVE-2021-22904

OpenSSL 1.0.2zb

Updated OpenSSL from 1.0.2w to 1.0.2zb to resolve issues with Let’s Encrypt certificates and to resolve CVE-2021-3712.

cacerts

Updated the cacerts bundle to the 2021-09-30 release, which removes older expired root certificates and adds the following new root certificates:

AC RAIZ FNMT-RCM SERVIDORES SEGUROS
GlobalSign Root R46
GlobalSign Root E46
GLOBALTRUST 2020
ANF Secure Server Root CA
Certum EC-384 CA
Certum Trusted Root CA

nokogiri 1.12.5

Update the nokogiri gem to 1.12.5 to resolve CVE-2021-41098.

libarchive 3.5.2

Update the libarchive library from 3.4.3 to 3.5.2 to resolve security vulnerabilities in libarchive’s handling of symbolic links.

Chef Manage 3.0.16

https://packages.chef.io/release-notes/manage/3.0.16.md

Bug Fixes

Fixed issues adding cookbook constraints to an environment.
Fixed errors when changing a node’s environment.
Fixed incorrect cookbook versions being displayed in environments.
Fixed a blank page being shown when refreshing the databag item page.

Ubuntu 20.04 Support

We added Ubuntu 20.04 packages and continue to support Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 packages.

Dependency Updates

Embedded Chef Infra Client is upgraded from 14 to 15
Sidekiq is upgraded from 4.2.10 to 5.2.9

Security Updates

Ruby 2.6

We updated Chef Manage’s Ruby installation from 2.5.5 to 2.6.6. This upgrade improves the performance of the application and resolves the following CVEs:

OpenSSL

We updated OpenSSL from 1.0.2u to 1.0.2w to resolve CVE-2020-1968.

Rack

We updated the Rack gem used in Chef Manage from 2.0.9 to 2.2.3 to resolve CVE-2020-8184.

Rails

We updated the Rails engine used in Chef Manage from 5.2.4.2 to 5.2.4.4 to resolve CVE-2020-15169.

Chef Manage 3.0.11

https://packages.chef.io/release-notes/manage/3.0.11.md

This release includes important dependency updates and support for SSL connections to the Chef Infra Server.

Dependency Updates

Rails is upgraded to 5.2.4
Chef Infra Client is upgraded from 11 to 14
Sidekiq is upgraded from 2.5 to 4 to improve the background processing

SSL Support

Chef Manage 3.0 now supports SSL communication between Chef Manage and Chef Infra Server. For compatibility with self-signed certificates which are commonly used on the Chef Infra Server, this feature defaults to off in this release.

Configuration

The SSL support is configured using these settings in the /etc/chef-manage/manager.rb configuration file. After any changes you must run sudo chef-manage-ctl reconfigure to apply the changes.

ssl_verify_mode: Configure SSL verification for the connection to the Chef Infra Server. By default this is set to :verify_none. Setting this to :verify_peer will require a Chef Manage to verify the SSL certificate of the Chef Infra Server.

trusted_certs_dir: Provide a path to a directory containing trusted SSL certificates. This is empty by default, but /etc/chef/trusted_certs is the most likely setting for reusing certificates installed by Chef Infra Client.

Bug Fixes

Generating a Knife Config now produces a config.rb instead of knife.rb file. These files have the same format and contents, but config.rb has been the preferred file name since Chef Infra Client 12.0.
Minor UI bug fixes

Supported Infra Server Versions

Chef Manage 3.0 is compatible with Chef Infra Server 12 and later. Users are always encouraged to stay up to date on Chef Infra Server releases to ensure they have the latest security updates.

Added Platform Support

RHEL 7
RHEL 8
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 18.04

Removed Platform Support

Ubuntu 10.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 14.04

Chef Manage 2.5.16

https://packages.chef.io/release-notes/manage/2.5.16.md

Dependency Updates

Embedded Chef Infra Client upgraded from 12.19.36 to 12.22.5

Chef Manage 2.5.15

https://packages.chef.io/release-notes/manage/2.5.15.md

Bug Fixes

Replaced links to the legacy IRC channel with links to Chef Community Slack.
Allow uppercase letters to be used in data bag names.
Hide the reporting tab when Chef Reporting is not installed on the system.