## Chef Infra Client
Chef Infra Client has been updated from 16.9.20 to 16.9.32. 

- Resolved orphaned PowerShell processes when using Compliance Remediation content.
- Resolved failures from running `chef-client` on some Windows systems.
- Compliance Phase: Improved detection of the `audit` cookbook when it is used for compliance reporting.
- chef-shell: Added support for loading configs in `client.d` directories - Thanks [@jaymzh](https://github.com/jaymzh)!

## Chef InSpec
Chef InSpec has been updated from 4.24.32 to 4.26.14.

#### New Features

- You can now directly refer to settings in the `nginx_conf` resource using the `its` syntax. Thanks [@rgeissert](https://github.com/rgeissert)!
- You can now specify the shell type for WinRM connections using the `--winrm-shell-type` option. Thanks [@catriona1](https://github.com/catriona1)!
- Plugin settings can now be set programmatically. Thanks [@tecracer-theinen](https:/github.com/tecracer-theinen)!
- OpenSSH Client on Windows can now be tested with the ssh_config and sshd_config resources. Thanks [@rgeissert](https://github.com/rgeissert)!
- The `--reporter-message-truncation` option now also truncates the `code_desc` field, preventing failures when sending large reports to Automate.

#### Bug Fixes

- Updated the `oracledb_session` to use more general invocation options. Thanks [@pacopal](https://github.com/pacopal)!
- Fixed an error with the `http` resource in Chef Infra Client by including `faraday_middleware` in the gemspec.
- Fixed an incompatibility between `parslet` and `toml` in Chef Infra Client.
- Improved programmatic plugin configuration.

## Test Kitchen
Test Kitchen has been updated from 2.9 to 2.10.

### Uploading Files In the Provisioner

Test Kitchen now allows you to upload files from your workstation to the test node within the provisioner. The new `uploads` config accepts a hash mapping local files to files on the remote test node. Thanks for this new feature [@tecracer-theinen](https://github.com/tecracer-theinen)!

#### Uploading a config file before running Chef Infra Client

```yaml
provisioner:
  name: chef_zero
  uploads:
    "foo.cfg": "/etc/foo.cfg"
```

### Includes/Excludes Filters in Lifecycle Hooks

You can now exclude or include platforms from running in a lifecycle hook. This is particularly useful when running commands like `apt-get update` which can only be run on certain systems. Thanks for this new feature [@jasonwbarnett](https://github.com/jasonwbarnett)!

#### Excluding apt-get update on RHEL

```yaml
lifecycle:
  pre_converge:
    - remote: | 
        "apt-get update"
      exclude:
        - rhel-7
        - rhel-8
```

### Bug Fixes

- Resolved `uninitialized constant Kitchen::Loader::YAML::Psych` error - [@dwmarshall](https://github.com/dwmarshall)

## Kitchen Inspec Verifier

The kitchen-inspec verifier plugin has been updated from 2.2.2 to 2.3.0. This new release improves performance by setting the `backend_cache` config to `true` by default.

## Chef CLI

The Chef CLI has been updated to allow `chef generate` to properly create files in subdirectories.