## Chef InSpec 4.24

Chef InSpec has been updated to 4.24.8 including the following improvements:

- An unset `HOME` environment variable will not cause execution failures
- You can use wildcards in `platform-name` and `release` in InSpec profiles
- The support for arrays in the `WMI` resource, so it can return multiple objects
- The `package` resource on Windows properly escapes package names
- The `grub_conf` resource succeeds even if without a `menuentry` in the grub config
- Loaded plugins won't try to re-load themselves

## Updated Resources

### dsc_resource / dsc_script

The `dsc_resource` and `dsc_script` resources have been updated to use the `powershell_exec` helper for significantly improved performance executing the PowerShell commands.

### hostname

The `hostname` resource has been updated to prevent failures when the default system hostname is set on macOS hosts.

### remote_file

The `remote_file` resource has been updated to use certificates located in Chef Infra Client's `trusted_certificates` directory. Thanks for reporting this issue [@carguel](https://github.com/carguel/)!

### windows_certificate

The `windows_certificate` has been updated with a new `exportable` property that marks PFX files as exportable in the certificate store.

## Ohai Improvements

- A new optional `Grub2` plugin can be enabled to expose GRUB2 environment variables.
- Linode cloud detection has been improved.

## Platform Packages

We are once again building packages for Solaris on Sparc and x86 platforms.