Progress Chef 360 Platform and Progress Chef Courier 1.7 release notes

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.