## Upgrade Journey

Chef lets you choose your **upgrade journey** based on your current version of Chef Automate. You can do all the version upgrades manually.

| Your Current Version | Upgrade To |
| -------------------- | ---------- |
| Any version before 20220329091442| 20220329091442|
| 20220329091442| 3.0.x|
| 3.0.49| 4.x|

See the [Chef Automate 4.x upgrade documentation](https://docs.chef.io/automate/major_upgrade_4.x/) for more information. 

## Improvements
- The Infra Server in Automate now allows organisations to be accessed by having dex or assets as a substring. ([#8744](https://github.com/chef/automate/pull/8744))

## Bug Fixes
- Fixes the issue of stopping Automate from loading more than 100 controls in the compliance reports page for a node. ([#8673](https://github.com/chef/automate/pull/8673))
- Fixes the issue that stopped Automate from expanding the control test results for a node in case the number of tests exceeds 50. ([#8673](https://github.com/chef/automate/pull/8673))
- Added Preflight check for Port 6432,5432 in Automate HA Verification

## Security

### Security Improvements
(examples: new security configurations)
- The X-XSS-Protection and CSP-header values are now configurable. ([#8767](https://github.com/chef/automate/pull/8767))
- Remove the plain text password and encrypt it while storing it for Automate / Automate HA from the configs.

### Security Updates
(examples: dependency updates, CVE fixes)
- Updated `open-policy-agent/opa` to v0.42.0 
- Updated `lodash` to v4.17.19 
- Update `crypto` to v0.31.0 

## Chef Packaged Product Versions

This release uses:
- Chef Habitat version:1.6.1205/20241107140309
- Chef Habitat Builder version: 9497/20221221224518
- Chef Infra Server version: 15.10.33/20250220084434
- Chef InSpec version: 4.56.61/20240809111842

## Service Versions

This release uses:
- Postgres: 13.18
- OpenSearch: 1.3.20
- Nginx: 1.25.4
- HAProxy: 2.2.29
- Dex: 2.35.0

## Supported External Chef Products

This release supports the following external 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: 1.22.5
- OpenJDK: 11.0.22+7
- Angular: 17.3.0

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