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This section lists the free and commercial Chef products and versions we currently support. The lifecycle stage defines the involvement by Chef Software in updating and maintaining each product.

Lifecycle Definitions

Generally Available (GA)

This stage indicates that the product or version is in active development and/or maintenance.

  • Chef continues to provide releases to the application or version in response to customer needs and security vulnerabilities
  • Chef welcomes customer feature requests for the product roadmap for the application

Deprecated

This stage indicates that an application or version is no longer in active development and will eventually move to end of life status. Chef continues to provide support according to our SLAs.

  • Chef no longer provides scheduled releases
  • Customers should use the GA alternative to these products; contact us for help with product selection and deployment
  • Chef may provide a release for a critical defect or security vulnerability

End of Life (EOL)

This stage indicates that Chef has set a date after which the application or version will no longer be supported or recommended for use by customers.

  • As of the end of life date, the application will no longer be supported by Chef and will no longer be available for download
  • Documentation for the application will be moved to https://docs-archive.chef.io

Versions and Status

Important

Unless otherwise stated, versions older than those listed below are EOL.

Supported Commercial Distributions

Use of these and later versions of these distributions must be in accordance with the Chef End User License Agreement or a commercial agreement with Chef. Additional information is available in this announcement.

Product Version Lifecycle Status EOL Date
Chef Automate Latest GA n/a
Chef Infra Client 17.x GA April 30, 2023
Chef Infra Server 14.x GA n/a
Chef Habitat 0.81+ GA n/a
Chef InSpec 4.x GA n/a
Chef Workstation 20.x (2020), 21.x (2021) GA n/a
Chef Backend 3.x Releasing 2021 2022

Note

Chef Backend does not directly require acceptance of the Chef EULA, but it does have functionality that requires its acceptance in other products.

Supported Free Distributions

Use of the following distributions is governed by the Apache License, version 2.0.

Product Version Lifecycle Status EOL Date
Supermarket 3.x GA TBD

Deprecated Products and Versions

The following products are deprecated. Users are advised to move to newer versions or products.

Product Version Lifecycle Status EOL Date
Chef Backend 2.x Deprecated December 31, 2022
Chef Infra Client 16.x Deprecated April 30, 2022
Chef Manage 2.5.x+ Deprecated December 31, 2022

End of Life (EOL) Products

Product Version Lifecycle Status EOL Date
Analytics All EOL December 31, 2018
Automate 1.x EOL December 31, 2019
Chef Infra Client 15 and under EOL April 30, 2021
Chef Compliance Server All EOL December 31, 2018
ChefDK ALL EOL December 31, 2020
Chef Infra Server 13.x EOL June 30, 2021
Chef InSpec 2 and under EOL December 31, 2019
Chef InSpec 3.x EOL April 30, 2020
Chef Provisioning All EOL August 31, 2019
Chef Push Jobs All EOL December 31, 2020
Chef Replication/Sync All EOL August 31, 2019
Chef Server DRBD HA All EOL March 31, 2019
Chef Workflow (Delivery) All EOL December 31, 2020
Enterprise Chef All EOL December 31, 2018
Reporting All EOL December 31, 2018

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