## Bug Fixes

- Resolved a regression introduced in Chef Infra Client 17.4 that caused HWRP-style resources inheriting from LWRPBase to fail.

## Enhancements

- Improved log output to clearly define where the Infra Phase ends and the Compliance Phase begins.
- Enhanced Ohai data collection of Amazon EC2 metadata to collect additional data for some configurations.
- Removed ERROR logs when retrying failed communication with the Chef Infra Server.
- Improved the `archive_file` resource by upgrading the `libarchive` library it uses, which includes the following improvements:
    - Support for PWB and v7 binary CPIO formats.
    - Support for the deflate algorithm in symbolic link decompression with zip files.
    - Various bug fixes when working with CAB, ZIP, 7zip, and RAR files.

## Security

### OpenSSL 1.1.1l

OpenSSL has been updated from 1.1.1k to 1.1.1l on macOS systems to resolve the following CVEs:

- [CVE-2021-3711](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3711)
- [CVE-2021-3712](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3712)

### libarchive 3.5.2

Updated the libarchive library that powers the `archive_file` resource from 3.5.1 to 3.5.2 to resolve security vulnerabilities in libarchive's handling of symbolic links.