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Chef Workstation

"Chef Software, Inc. <maintainers@chef.io>"·ChefSoftware.Workstation

Chef Workstation installs everything you need to get started using Chef products on Windows, Mac and Linux.

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 upload them to the Chef Infra Server Chef Workstation replaces ChefDK, combining all the existing features with new features, such as ad-hoc task support and the new Chef Workstation desktop application.

winget install --id ChefSoftware.Workstation --exact --source winget

Latest 25.14.2.1·May 26, 2026

Release Notes

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 v7.2.3 to v7.2.3.1.
  • Updated json from v2.18.1 to v2.19.5.
  • Updated rack from v3.2.5 to v3.2.6.
  • Updated net-imap from v0.2.5 to v0.5.14.
  • Updated chef-analyze from v0.1.192 to v0.1.194.
  • Updated golang.org/x/text from v0.3.8 to v0.24.0.
  • Updated golang.org/x/crypto from v0.31.0 to v0.45.0.

Installer type: wix

x64—5096A806FFC1FD8A6218ABFFFB13741732217C740C7DB408AE341D03D0FF3BFC

Details

Homepage
https://www.chef.io/downloads
License
Proprietary
Publisher
"Chef Software, Inc. <maintainers@chef.io>"
Support
https://www.chef.io/support
Privacy Policy
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Copyright
© 2008-2026 Progress Software Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Older versions (9)

25.13.7.1
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25.12.1102.1
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25.9.1094.1
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25.5.1084.1
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25.2.1075.1
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22.7.1006.1
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22.1.745.1
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21.11.679.1
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21.7.524.1
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