## Bug Fixes

- The knife boostrap command's `--max-wait` no longer fails when connecting over WinRM

## Updated Components

### InSpec 4.50.3

Chef InSpec has been updated from 4.49.0 to 4.50.3 which adds Windows support to the http resource.

### Chef Infra Client 17.8.25

Chef Infra Client has been updated from 17.7.29 to 17.8.25. This new release includes Compliance Phase improvements along with a large number of resource improvements and fixes. See the [Chef Infra Client 17.8.25 Release Notes](https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_client/?v=17.8.25) for complete details on what's new in this version.

### Chef Vault 4.1.5

Chef Vault has been updated to 4.1.5 to resolve issues where no results would be shown with the chef-vault` CLI.

### Cookstyle 7.25.10

Cookstyle has been updated from 7.25.9 to 7.25.10. This new release updates the RuboCop engine used by Cookstyle to resolve a number of false positives and improve detection and autocorrection.

### Test Kitchen

Test Kitchen has been updated from 3.1.1 to 3.2.2 and kitchen-ec2, kitchen-vagrant, kitchen-vcenter, and kitchen-dokken.

#### Bug Fixes

- Resolved failures using the `multiple_converge` config option when testing Windows systems. Thanks for this fix [@tecracer-theinen](https://github.com/tecracer-theinen)!
- Resolved failures cloning a VM without a network interface in the kitchen-vcenter driver. Thanks for this fix [@tecracer-theinen](https://github.com/tecracer-theinen)!
- Resolved output formatting issues when running the `kitchen diagnose` command.
- Resolved deprecation warnings in the kitchen-aws driver.

#### New Features

- Support for testing cookbooks that use the `compliance` directory introduced in Chef Infra Client 17.5.
- Added support for private Docker registries in the kitchen-dokken driver.
- Adds the ability to set `use_cached_chef_client` in the kitchen-vagrant driver to enable caching of Chef Infra Client packages on vagrant boxes not produced by Chef. Thanks for this improvement [@gaelik](https://github.com/gaelik)!

### Chef CLI

The Chef CLI has seen significant performance improvements.

## Packaging

### macOS 10.14 Package Removal

With the release of macOS 12, our N-2 macOS release policy now includes macOS 12, 11, and 10.15. macOS 10.14 packages will no longer be produced.

## Security

### Ruby 3.0.3

Ruby has been updated from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 to resolve the following CVEs:

* CVE-2021-41817
* CVE-2021-41816
* CVE-2021-41819