## Improvements

- The Chef Automate HA config generation process now supports adding an IP address when backing up with MinIO. ([#8241](https://github.com/chef/automate/pull/8241))
- The `chef-automate version` command now returns the CLI version installed on the bastion host. ([#8242](https://github.com/chef/automate/pull/8242))
- The `chef-automate status` and `chef-automate service-version` commands now have `--accept-hab-license` flag to accept Chef Habitat license. ([#8267](https://github.com/chef/automate/pull/8267))

## Compliance Profile Updates

- Compliance profiles are updated to version 1.0.0/20231018131051, which includes the new and improved profiles for:

   - STIG Windows Server 2022 v1.2.0  
   - CIS Windows Server 2022 v2.0.0(Audits)  
   - CIS Windows Server 2016 v2.0.0(Audits)  

## Bug Fixes

- Fixed `chef-automate verify` to run on a five-node Automate HA cluster. ([#8251](https://github.com/chef/automate/pull/8251))
- Fixed `chef-automate config patch` command, which was returning an error when patching the Automate config file to centralize the log file. ([#8259](https://github.com/chef/automate/pull/8259))

## Security

### Security Updates

- The Inspec commands like archive, json, check and exec are run in sandboxed and secured environment which will fix:  

| ID | Category | Fixed Issue |  
| ------ | ------ | ------ |  
| CVE-2023-40050 | security | Run Inspec commands like archive, json, check and exec in Sandboxed and secured environment   |   

- Updated Terraform to version 1.5.7 which fixes [CVE-2023-4782](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4782)

## Chef Packaged Product Versions

This release uses:

- Chef Habitat version: 1.6.521/20220603154827
- Chef Habitat Builder version: 9497/20221221224518
- Chef Infra Server version: 15.4.0/20230105061154
- Chef InSpec version: 4.56.22/20220517052126

## Service Versions

This release uses:

- Postgres: 13.5
- OpenSearch: 1.3.7
- Nginx: 1.21.3
- Haproxy: 2.2.29
- Dex: 2.27.0

## Supported External Chef Products

This release supports the following Chef products:

- Chef Infra Server version: 14.0.58+
- Chef Inspec version: 4.3.2+
- Chef Infra Client: 17.0.242+
- Chef Habitat: 0.81+

## Supported Framework Versions

This release is built on the following framework versions:

- GoLang: 1.19.3
- OpenJDK: 11.0.20+8
- Angular: 11.2.6

View the [package manifest](https://packages.chef.io/manifests/current/automate/latest_semver.json) for the latest release.