Chef Infra Client 18 is being marked as End Of Life as of May 1, 2024

[jjperry]

Description

Chef Infra Client 18.x including 18.4.12 (the latest release available on the Chef Infra Client page) is reporting: This release of Chef Infra Client became end of life (EOL) on May 1st, 2024. Please update to a supported release to receive new features, bug fixes, and security updates

Chef Version

18.4.12

Platform Version

Linux
Windows

Replication Case

1. Install any version of Chef Infra Client.
2. Run chef-client

Client Output

[2024-05-08T19:02:28+00:00] WARN: This release of Chef Infra Client became end of life (EOL) on May 1st #{eol_year}. Please update to a supported release to receive new features, bug fixes, and security updates.

Stacktrace

None

[jjperry]

The code in question is client.rb.

I don't know the EOL plans for the Chef client releases, so I can't even suggest a change to this block as it would change the EOL message for multiple versions now and in the future.

      # We make a release every year so take the version you're on + 2006 and you get
      # the year it goes EOL
      eol_year = 2006 + Gem::Version.new(Chef::VERSION).segments.first

      if Time.now > Time.new(eol_year, 5, 01)
        logger.warn("This release of #{ChefUtils::Dist::Infra::PRODUCT} became end of life (EOL) on May 1st #{eol_year}. Please update to a supported release to receive new features, bug fixes, and security updates.")
      end

[fern4lvarez]

Duplicate of #14365, please close.

[jjperry]

Closed. Duplicate of #14365

[Asif-123]

$chef-client -zr "recipe[my-cookbook::recipe1]" not working in the latest chef infra version 18.4.12
which command uses to execute chef-client please help us