Release Date: 13 December,2024

## New Features

- Added the `--legacy` flag to the `inspec automate upload` command. ([#7200](https://github.com/inspec/inspec/pull/7200))

  The `inspec automate upload` command runs `inspec check` and `inspec export`, which were overhauled in Chef InSpec 5.22.36. This overhaul led to a bug with InSpec profiles with `=begin =end`. 

  Use the `--legacy` flag with profiles where the newer export and check methods may fail to parse older profiles correctly, particularly due to limitations in AST parsing.

## CVEs

- Upgraded Ruby Webrick from 1.8.1 to 1.9.1 to address [CVE-2024-47220](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2024-47220). ([#7236](https://github.com/inspec/inspec/pull/7236))

## Improvements

- Improved regular expressions used to load README files from InSpec profiles. ([#7198](https://github.com/inspec/inspec/pull/7198))

## Dependency Updates

- Upgraded Ruby and Ruby Devkit to 3.1.6 due to outdated embedded Perl version in Ruby 3.1.2. ([#7174](https://github.com/inspec/inspec/pull/7174))