Chef InSpec

app ruby-runtime

Chef InSpec is an open-source framework for testing and auditing applications and infrastructure.

Release Released Active Support Security Support Latest
6 12 months ago
(14 Nov 2023)
 Yes Yes 6.8.11
(06 Nov 2024)
5 2 years and 7 months ago
(17 Mar 2022)
 Ended 12 months ago
(14 Nov 2023)
 Yes 5.22.58
(03 Sep 2024)
4 5 years ago
(30 Apr 2019)
 Ended 2 years and 7 months ago
(17 Mar 2022)
 Ended 12 months ago
(14 Nov 2023)
 4.56.58
(31 Oct 2023)
3 6 years ago
(15 Oct 2018)
 Ended 5 years ago
(30 Apr 2019)
 Ended 4 years and 6 months ago
(30 Apr 2020)
 3.9.3
(15 Apr 2019)
2 6 years and 8 months ago
(20 Feb 2018)
 Ended 6 years ago
(15 Oct 2018)
 Ended 4 years and 10 months ago
(31 Dec 2019)
 2.3.28
(08 Feb 2019)
1 8 years ago
(26 Sep 2016)
 Ended 6 years and 8 months ago
(20 Feb 2018)
 Ended 4 years and 10 months ago
(31 Dec 2019)
 1.51.25
(10 May 2018)

Supported commercial releases of Chef InSpec are documented on the Chef Documentation website.

Looking at the published list of supported releases, it seems that Chef InSpec follows an N-1 support strategy, with the latest release supported with bug and security fixes, and the previous release marked “deprecated” and only supported with security fixes.

More information is available on the Chef InSpec website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running: 
inspec version
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You can submit an improvement to this page on GitHub :octocat: . This page has a corresponding Talk Page.

A JSON version of this page is available at /api/chef-inspec.json. See the API Documentation for more information. You can subscribe to the iCalendar feed at /calendar/chef-inspec.ics.