Progress Chef 360 Platform and Progress Chef Courier 1.7 release notes

Chef 360 Platform 1.7.1

Release date: May 12, 2026

Chef 360 Platform 1.7.1 is a patch release focused on security hardening, SSO stability, deployment reliability with custom certificates, and migration bug fixes.

Prerequisites

You must upgrade to Chef 360 Platform 1.7.0 before upgrading to 1.7.1.

New features

• Chef 360 Platform disaster recovery now supports S3-compatible MinIO. Organizations operating in air-gapped or on-premises environments benefit from greater flexibility in their disaster recovery strategies.
• Chef’s AI Assistant (Beta) is now available for SaaS customers on an invite-only basis.

Bug fixes

• Fixed multiple SSO issues, including login page redirect failures after logout and intermittent authentication errors.
• Fixed an issue where cookbook contents couldn’t be viewed in the UI after migrating from Chef Infra Server to Chef DSM.
• Fixed deployment failures when using custom certificates larger than approximately 100 KB.
• Fixed upgrade failures when upgrading from 1.6.1 to 1.7.0 in HyperscaleHA topology.

Supported skill versions

This release supports the following skill versions.

Component versions

Chef 360 Platform 1.7.0

Release date: April 7, 2026

Overview

Chef 360 Platform 1.7.0 is a significant step toward enterprise readiness and production deployments, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and operational control. This release removes key adoption barriers for regulated and large-scale environments by introducing Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK) and built-in disaster recovery (DR).

New features

Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK)

You can now deploy Chef 360 Platform on customer-managed Kubernetes clusters, enabling organizations to run the platform within their own infrastructure and networking boundaries.

Key benefits:

• Full control over the underlying infrastructure environment
• Flexibility to deploy Chef 360 Platform in on-premises, cloud, or air-gapped environments
• Clear installation paths with pre-install checks and documented prerequisites

Disaster recovery (DR)

Chef 360 Platform now includes built-in disaster recovery, eliminating the need for manual Kubernetes or YAML-based backup workflows.

Key capabilities:

• Dedicated disaster recovery section in the Admin Console
• UI-based configuration for:
  • Backup and snapshot schedules
  • Retention policies
  • External storage locations
• Visibility into backup health, including:
  • Recent runs
  • Success and failure status

Bug fixes

You can now create organization names with hyphens (-).

Skills

Skill updates

• Courier Runner (1.5.14): Courier runner handles interpreter exit codes gracefully.
• Gohai (1.2.53): Improvements in skill configuration validation.
• InSpec Interpreter (1.0.20): System environment variables inherited by Chef InSpec at execution.
• Node Management Agent (1.1.13): Improvement in subnet mask detection for node attributes.

Supported skill versions

This release supports the following skill versions.