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Updated InSpec Release Notes

This pull request updates the Chef InSpec release notes to include details for version 7.2.0, released on August 13th, 2026. The changes summarize new enhancements, bug fixes, packaging improvements, and dependency updates.

Most important changes:

Enhancements

  • Added a deprecation warning for the --overwrite flag in the inspec compliance upload command, noting its future removal.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed Docker and Podman resource fallback with the --auto-install-gems flag, ensuring regex patterns match both bare resource names and sub-resources.
  • Corrected profile detection to avoid misidentifying vendored InSpec profiles with gemspec files as gem profiles, restoring proper control loading.
  • Resolved a Windows issue where system architecture could not be determined with Test Kitchen and WinRM by including WOW6432Node registry paths for all architectures except i386.

Packaging

  • Added support for Chef InSpec Habitat packages for aarch64-linux (ARM64), and aarch64-darwin (Apple Silicon Macs).
  • Added support for OS-native Habitat-based Chef InSpec packages for Linux ARM platform.

Dependency updates

  • Updated train, train-core, `chef-

Files Modified

  • content/release_notes/inspec.md - Updated version and date for the latest release

Related Issue

CHEF-34794

Add release notes for InSpec 7.1.16 including:
- Enhancements: Deprecation warning for --overwrite flag
- Bug fixes: Docker/Podman resource fallback, vendored profiles, Windows architecture detection
- Packaging: Support for aarch64-linux and aarch64-darwin Habitat packages
- Dependency updates: train/train-core and chef-licensing

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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@Nik08 Nik08 changed the title docs: Add release notes for InSpec 7.1.16 CHEF-34794 docs: Add release notes for InSpec 7.1.16 Jul 30, 2026
Nik08 and others added 3 commits August 5, 2026 14:08
- Add dependency update entry for train-kubernetes support (PR #7995)
- Add top pointer for Linux ARM Habitat packages in Packaging section

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Nik08 <nikita.mathur@progress.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Nik08 <nikita.mathur@progress.com>
Signed-off-by: Nik08 <nikita.mathur@progress.com>
@Nik08 Nik08 changed the title CHEF-34794 docs: Add release notes for InSpec 7.1.16 CHEF-34794 docs: Add release notes for InSpec 7.2.0 Aug 6, 2026
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Signed-off-by: Nik08 <nikita.mathur@progress.com>
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Nik08 force-pushed the release-notes/inspec-7.1.16 branch from 44f3637 to 686430f Compare August 6, 2026 07:11
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