## Improvements

- We removed the EOL (End Of Life) warning because major Chef Infra Client releases are no longer scheduled. ([#14367](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/14367))
- Updated OpenSSL to 3.0.9 for all platforms except AIX, Windows, and macOS. ([#14403](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/14403))

## Bug Fixes

- We corrected a method name conflict in the Azure Secrets Manager. ([#14439](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/14439))
- We updated the client.erb file to correctly process boolean properties. Previously, when properties with true/false values were set in the chef_client_config resource in a recipe, the client.erb template issued a no method error when generating a client.rb file. ([#14466](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/14466))
- The chef_client_config resource now correctly handles boolean values in `policy_persist_run_list`, and `minimal_ohai` properties. Previously it returned an undefined method error. ([#14431](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/14431))
- Updated Ohai so that it returns the FQDN suffix on Windows nodes. ([#1816](https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1816))
- Backported a fix from Infra Client 18.1 to the yum_package resource. The options property now correctly handles disable options if more than one option is specified and the disable option isn’t last. ([#14536](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/14536))
- Running `choco --version` now returns the correct version of Chocolatey. [#14523](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/14523)

## Security updates

- Updated the RDoc gem to 6.3 to address CVE-2024-27281. ([#14548](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/14548))

## Dependency updates

- Removed support for Ruby 2.7. ([#14260](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/14260))

Gem updates:

- Updated Vault gem to 0.18.2.
- Updated chef-powershell gem to 18.1.
- Updated inspec-core to 5.22.40.
- Set URI gem to 0.10.1 on Fedora.
- Set kitchen-inspec gem to 2.5.
- Set train-core gem to between 3.10 and 3.12.5.
- Constrained the FFI gem to less than 1.17.
- Constrained train-core to less than 3.12.5.

## Packaging

Added support for the following platforms:

- Amazon Linux 2023
- FreeBSD 13
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Ubuntu 24.04

Removed support for the following platforms:

- FreeBSD 12
- macOS 10.15
- Ubuntu 16
- Windows 8
- Windows 2012
- Windows 2012 R2