## Enhancements

### Backup Timeout Control

The backup command now includes a new `--timeout` flag that controls the timeout duration in seconds. This defaults to 600 seconds.

### Cluster Status

The cluster status command now reports leaders that are blocked and leaders that are eligible.

### Elasticsearch Temporary Files

Elasticsearch temporary files are now stored in `/var/opt/chef-backend/elasticsearch/tmp`. This value can be changed with a new `elasticsearch['temp_directory']` configuration option.

Eleasticsearch tmp directory is not its own tmp directory.

## Component Upgrades

### Chef Infra Client 13.9.1

The embedded Chef Infra Client that configures Chef Backend has been updated from 13.3.42 to 13.9.1.

## Security

### SSL Ciphers

Out-of-the-box SSL security has been improved by removing older and less secure SSL ciphers from the list of allowed SSL ciphers.

### Ruby 2.4.4

Ruby has been updated from 2.3.5 to 2.4.4 to improve performance and to resolve the following CVEs:

- CVE-2017-17405
- CVE-2017-17742
- CVE-2018-6914
- CVE-2018-8777
- CVE-2018-8778
- CVE-2018-8779
- CVE-2018-8780