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Chef Workstation 25.14.2.1

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

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About 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 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.

License: Proprietary
Release info New Release on 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.
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