Update dependency inspec to v7

[renovate]

This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
inspec	'~> 5' -> '~> 7'

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Release Notes

inspec/inspec (inspec)

v7.0.95: Chef InSpec v7.0.95

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v7.0.95 (2025-10-16)

Merged Pull Requests

• CHEF-18694 Windows hab pipeline enabled for InSpec 7 #​7270 (Nik08)
• CHEF-18694 windows hab package fix for in spec 7 #​7327 (sa-progress)
• CHEF-19348-Update tomlrb version #​7328 (balasubramanian-s)
• Foreport: CHEF-20111: Fix inspec check for a profile with only comments or empty file #​7333 (ahasunos)
• Foreport - CHEF-15789 - Improve error handling for audit_policy resource #​7335 (ahasunos)
• Sonar config for inspec-7 branch #​7348 (Nik08)
• CHEF-19361 Removed Opa resources from Inspec #​7314 (sa-progress)
• Foreport to InSpec 7: Waivers error handling fix #​7344 (Nik08)
• CHEF-20736, CHEF-18371 bump up train kubernetes #​7352 (sathish-progress)
• Fixes for external plugin testing #​7363 (clintoncwolfe)
• CHEF-14327 support resource packs with vendor #​7355 (sathish-progress)
• CHEF-21376 Disable licensing and telemetry from InSpec 7 #​7377 (Nik08)
• CHEF-21513 Upgrading few tests and doc for min support of Ruby 3.1 - InSpec 7 #​7382 (Nik08)
• CHEF-18371 Update/ruby upgrade 3.4.2 (exclusive of habitat upgrade) #​7380 (Nik08)
• Habitat authentication token #​7397 (borisicbs)
• CHEF-18373-Habitat package upgrade for Ruby 3.4.x - Linux #​7400 (balasubramanian-s)
• Cleanup HAB env & Update HAB Promote channel to base-2025 #​7410 (balasubramanian-s)
• Fixes for 'Package Not Found ' error in Habitat pipelines #​7411 (balasubramanian-s)
• CHEF-18374 Habitat package upgrade for Ruby 3.4.x - Windows #​7401 (sa-progress)
• CHEF-23231 Upgrade train and train-winrm to latest version - InSpec 7 #​7476 (Nik08)
• Reverted testing change for chef-licensing upgrade on Ruby 3.4 #​7479 (Nik08)
• Revert "CHEF-21376 Disable licensing and telemetry from InSpec 7" #​7495 (balasubramanian-s)
• CHEF-23911 Revert "CHEF-18207 Removed SSH resources and tests" #​7502 (sa-progress)
• CHEF-23438-Bypass entitlement checks for InSpec7 #​7509 (balasubramanian-s)
• CHEF-23438-Disable Entitlement check for edge case #​7520 (balasubramanian-s)
• CHEF-23442 Added support to use trace level with log level option #​7513 (Nik08)
• CHEF-26493-Update Fallback Resource packs #​7541 (balasubramanian-s)
• CHEF-26157-Revert "Bypass entitlement checks for InSpec7" #​7533 (balasubramanian-s)
• CHEF-25173 Pull release notes from v7 wiki page for InSpec 7 #​7540 (Nik08)
• CHEF-26495 Foreport -7448 Add socks kerberos cli options to inspec #​7554 (Nik08)
• Fix inspec habitat tests #​7558 (Nik08)
• Update rspec-its requirement from ~> 1.2 to >= 1.2, < 3.0 #​7553 (dependabot[bot])
• Update parslet requirement from >= 1.5, < 2.0 to >= 1.5, < 3.0 #​7552 (dependabot[bot])
• Update rubyzip requirement from >= 1.2.2, < 3.0 to >= 1.2.2, < 4.0 #​7550 (dependabot[bot])
• Foreport-CHEF-18030- Fix GitFetcher to Clear Empty Cache Directory on Fetch #​7498 (balasubramanian-s)
• CHEF-23547 use official distribution in hab plan #​7507 (sathish-progress)
• Foreport-7154 Added fatal message check for postgres_session:query method #​7564 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport-7198 Improved regex to load readme from inspec profiles (#​7198) #​7565 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport-7152 hab: fix hab pipeline for windows #​7569 (Vasu1105)
• Update Artifact test Profiles (#​7443) #​7567 (Vasu1105)
• Forport 7277 Postgres session resource fix for special characters in password #​7566 (Vasu1105)
• Update thor requirement from >= 0.20, < 1.3.0 to >= 0.20, < 1.5.0 #​7551 (dependabot[bot])
• Attempt to fix windows verify pipeline failures #​7576 (Vasu1105)
• Forport 7203 fix: Prioritize environment-set license server URL #​7572 (Nik08)
• Foreport 7349 Issue with reading/writing signed and tar profiles #​7571 (Nik08)
• Foreport 7261 Fix code scanning alert no. 63: Use of a broken or weak cryptographic hashing algorithm on sensitive data #​7570 (Vasu1105)
• Update ruby version for windows artifact tests #​7581 (balasubramanian-s)
• Foreport-7222 Update regular expression to fix warnings detected by CodeQL #​7573 (Vasu1105)
• Update ostruct requirement from ~> 0.1.0 to >= 0.1, < 0.7 #​7548 (dependabot[bot])
• Foreport-7168 Test kitchen integration #​7568 (Vasu1105)
• Updated train dependency min version to use socks5h feature #​7586 (Nik08)
• CHEF-26188-Foreport deprecation messages for InSpec-7 #​7582 (balasubramanian-s)
• CHEF-26987 Prevent adding CHEF RUBYGEMS server if license key is empty #​7588 (sathish-progress)
• Chef 26425 add notices text #​7585 (sathish-progress)
• CHEF-26507 Adds copilot instructions file - InSpec 7 #​7592 (Nik08)
• CHEF-27018 - Update copyright text in InSpec 7 source code #​7593 (Nik08)
• Label updates changes for github and jira #​7598 (Nik08)
• InSpec 7 Expeditor changes - uncommented #​7599 (Nik08)
• Fix gemspec activation logic to check for alternate spec file #​7597 (sathish-progress)
• CHEF-27163-Add github release pipeline #​7603 (balasubramanian-s)
• Add notice.txt #​7605 (sathish-progress)
• Allow all NOTICE changes to be bumped #​7606 (sathish-progress)

v6.8.24

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Merged Pull Requests

• Fix license server URL override issue by prioritizing environment-set value #​7203 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-15651: Introduce --legacy flag for compatibility in inspec automate upload with legacy checks and export options #​7200 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-11226: Upgrade Ruby and Ruby Dev Kit to 3.1.6 due to outdated embedded Perl version in 3.1.2 #​7174 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-12173: Update regular expression to fix warnings detected by CodeQL #​7222 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-16823: Introduce deprecation warning for core resources moving to resource packs in InSpec 7 #​7219 (ahasunos)
• Improvements in error handling of plugin installation error #​7161 (Nik08)
• Bump ffi from 1.17.0 to 1.17.1 in /omnibus #​7251 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump rexml from 3.3.3 to 3.3.9 in /omnibus #​7199 (dependabot[bot])
• To Fix OpenSSL 3.2.0 gem issue #​7267 (poorndm)
• CHEF-18596 Fix code scanning alert no. 63: Use of a broken or weak cryptographic hashing algorithm on sensitive data #​7261 (sathish-progress)
• CHEF-18596 Fix code scanning alert no. 62: Request without certificate validation #​7260 (sathish-progress)
• CHEF-16676-Bug fix for spl character password #​7277 (balasubramanian-s)
• Revert "CHEF-18596 Fix code scanning alert no. 62: Request without certificate validation" #​7280 (Nik08)

v6.8.11

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Merged Pull Requests

• Bump rexml from 3.3.2 to 3.3.3 in /omnibus #​7116 (dependabot[bot])
• ci: resume habitat pipeline #​7109 (ahasunos)
• enhance: improve fetch and persist to catch entitlement exception #​7121 (ahasunos)
• ci: use latest local license server #​7123 (ahasunos)
• added docs changes #​7118 (vviveksharma)
• Editing for install script docs #​7129 (IanMadd)
• CHEF-14881: Fix habitat pipeline for InSpec 6 #​7127 (ahasunos)
• ci: introduce inspec-7 as part of release branches #​7135 (ahasunos)
• Update install doc #​7144 (IanMadd)
• CHEF-14805 Oracle db session resource fixes #​7136 (Nik08)
• ci: improve hab pipeline for windows #​7153 (ahasunos)
• Added fatal message check for postgres_session:query method #​7154 (gokulks97)
• added the correct prod Url spellings #​7166 (vviveksharma)
• Improved regex to load readme from inspec profiles #​7198 (Nik08)
• chore: disable habitat package promotion in config #​7197 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-12879 Test kitchen integration with InSpec 6 #​7168 (Nik08)

v6.8.1

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Merged Pull Requests

• Bump rexml from 3.3.2 to 3.3.3 in /omnibus #​7116 (dependabot[bot])
• ci: resume habitat pipeline #​7109 (ahasunos)
• enhance: improve fetch and persist to catch entitlement exception #​7121 (ahasunos)
• ci: use latest local license server #​7123 (ahasunos)
• added docs changes #​7118 (vviveksharma)
• Editing for install script docs #​7129 (IanMadd)
• CHEF-14881: Fix habitat pipeline for InSpec 6 #​7127 (ahasunos)
• ci: introduce inspec-7 as part of release branches #​7135 (ahasunos)
• Update install doc #​7144 (IanMadd)
• CHEF-14805 Oracle db session resource fixes #​7136 (Nik08)
• ci: improve hab pipeline for windows #​7153 (ahasunos)
• Added fatal message check for postgres_session:query method #​7154 (gokulks97)
• added the correct prod Url spellings #​7166 (vviveksharma)
• Improved regex to load readme from inspec profiles #​7198 (Nik08)
• chore: disable habitat package promotion in config #​7197 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-12879 Test kitchen integration with InSpec 6 #​7168 (Nik08)

v6.6.0

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Merged Pull Requests

• CFINSPEC-452 Added Inspec parallel logging for warn/error #​6245 (Nik08)
• CFINSPEC-246/CFINSPEC-247 Attestation changes for N/R outcomes #​6222 (Nik08)
• Feature Config File and Logger Support #​6260 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreport 6238 to inspec-6 #​6280 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport 6243 to inspec-6 #​6275 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreport 6043 to inspec-6 #​6278 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreport 6261 to InSpec 6 #​6276 (ahasunos)
• Foreport 6229 to inspec 6 #​6277 (Nik08)
• Foreport 6257 to inspec 6 #​6279 (Nik08)
• Foreport #​6267 to inspec-6 #​6283 (Vasu1105)
• Added child-status reporter in features.yaml list #​6288 (Nik08)
• CFINSPEC-479 Inspec parallel breaking fix #​6272 (Nik08)
• Foreport #​6329 to inspec-6 - Update readme for usage via Docker (CFINSPEC-516) #​6333 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreport 6304 RESOURCE-527 Add an inspec init template for alicloud #​6432 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport #​6239: Sync up the default branch as main #​6455 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport - 6227 #​6460 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport-6274 Bump omnibus-software from 1d540dc to 7d0e0fe in /omnibus #​6462 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport-6289: Fix for omnibus build failure on Windows #​6463 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport #​6324 Fix Ruby 2.7 Bundle Installs on CI Verify Pipeline #​6446 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport #​6298: CFINSPEC-493 update signing_identity #​6448 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport-6330: Remove Windows Ruby 3.0 testing #​6452 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport #​6262 Prevent negative status from crashing launchctl service resource #​6433 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport 6240: Update chefstyle from 2.0.x to 2.2.2 to use RuboCop 1.25.1 #​6458 (Nik08)
• Foreport-6334: CFINSPEC-393 - Fix train-kubernetes plugin load issue #​6464 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport 6340: Fix for habitat build failure #​6461 (Nik08)
• Foreport-6344 Fixing typo in user_permissions #​6465 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport 6342 Fix env smoke test by updating ERB.new in inspec env; add additional test #​6440 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport #​6337 Fix undefined method 'summary' for Gem::SourceFetchProblem (NoMethodError) when air gapped #​6434 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport 6341: Use Ruby 3.1.2 in Omnibus build #​6441 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport-6378 #​6453 (ahasunos)
• Foreport-6381 #​6451 (ahasunos)
• Foreport 6369 to inspec-6 Extended file format support for waivers: JSON & CSV only #​6371 (Nik08)
• Foreport #​6377 CFINSPEC-542 Bug fix for profiles with dependent profiles (#​6377) #​6435 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport-6385 #​6447 (ahasunos)
• Foreport-6395 #​6444 (ahasunos)
• Foreport #​6367 CFINSPEC-522: Remove rake tasks which are no longer used #​6436 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport #​6384 RAKE TEST: Fix rake task for docs:cli #​6437 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport-6384 #​6466 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport 6401: Fix for mongodb_session resource prints debug level of information in profile run result. #​6438 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport #​6398: Updates release process docs as per current changes (#​6398) #​6439 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport-6408 Fix profile gem dependency loading issue when dependent gem is required inside profile libraries. #​6467 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport-6410 #​6468 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport 6386 #​6469 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport 6403 #​6470 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport 6442 #​6473 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport-6423 #​6474 (Vasu1105)
• Foreport 6360 #​6476 (Vasu1105)
• Forport 6388 #​6477 (Vasu1105)
• testing version bump #​9 (sean-simmons-progress)
• CHEF-1267 Add omnibus release and adhoc pipelines #​15 (clintoncwolfe)
• testing version bump and pipeline creation #​16 (sean-simmons-progress)
• Update Gemfile to add artifactory as source for chef-licensing gem dependency #​25 (Vasu1105)
• CI - Use License Key and API Key Secrets from Vault #​26 (clintoncwolfe)
• Integration of chef licensing with inspec #​12 (Nik08)
• Licensing - Integrates Software Entitlement #​13 (Vasu1105)
• Add command to list license information #​10 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-52: Add licensing information to help output #​27 (ahasunos)
• Remove kitchen group from Gemfile #​31 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-1957: Update chef-licesing api call license_keys to fetch_and_persist #​30 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-2994: Add license command to list of allowed commands #​35 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-2743: Set chef executable name to display in help messages of chef-licensing #​34 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-3105 Fix windows openssl issue #​37 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreport - Clarify key_rsa docs regarding SSH keys (#​6507) #​45 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreport - CHEF-2438 Add train-kubernetes to inspec gemspec (#​6512) #​43 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreport - fix: ensure Invoke-WebRequest headers can be configured (#​6484) #​41 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreport - Bump rack from 2.2.6.2 to 2.2.6.4 in /omnibus (#​6490) #​42 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreport - Update host resource to resolve all ipaddresses (#​6481) #​39 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreport - Add nftables resources (#​6499) #​44 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreports 6489 (CHEF-1458 Multiple values changes in SimpleConfig library) #​28 (ahasunos)
• CHEF 83 Revert attestations changes #​47 (sathish-progress)
• CHEF-3186: Remove fetching of bearer auth token from vault #​48 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-3403: Default server URL to production value #​50 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-3184 Error handling for inspec license add command - disabled in local mode #​52 (Nik08)
• restrict license commands only to inspec distro #​58 (sathish-progress)
• CHEF-3704 Modify help for local licensing service mode and other distros #​59 (Nik08)
• Bump omnibus-software from 225e357 to 88169e3 in /omnibus #​61 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump omnibus from cf97613 to 15122f2 in /omnibus #​62 (dependabot[bot])
• Foreport #​6523: Update RSpec to 3.12 #​65 (ahasunos)
• Bump berkshelf from 8.0.2 to 8.0.7 in /omnibus #​63 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump omnibus from 15122f2 to 9c0643a in /omnibus #​70 (dependabot[bot])
• Crossport Public 6545 Fix for InSpec Parallel hangs on certain CIS profiles #​71 (clintoncwolfe)
• Foreports #​6526 and #​6541: Update Docker base image to be ubuntu 22.04 #​64 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-3759 Crossport public 6540 Fix for inspec parallel on windows crashing due to error log rename #​74 (clintoncwolfe)
• Bump omnibus-software from 88169e3 to 4b08f0b in /omnibus #​73 (dependabot[bot])
• Foreport - Add postgres support for custom port with a socket connection #​40 (clintoncwolfe)
• Case correction of product name in licensing config #​78 (ahasunos)
• Crossport public 6549: Drop testing on EOL ruby 2.7, and run linter on Ruby 3.1 #​76 (clintoncwolfe)
• Configure to use Inspec::Log in Chef Licensing #​67 (ahasunos)
• Adds test for licensing_config #​57 (Vasu1105)
• Add chef-licensing, syncing from inspec-prime repo inspec-6 branch #​6559 (clintoncwolfe)
• CHEF-3832: Fix for InSpec Parallel fails to fetch remote profiles due to cache contention. #​6546 (Vasu1105)
• CHEF-4080: Point to latest EULA in GUI installers #​6580 (ahasunos)
• Foreport 6568 #​6579 (clintoncwolfe)
• Bump omnibus-software from 4b08f0b to 3268356 in /omnibus #​6576 (dependabot[bot])
• CHEF-4559 Extended support to inspec parallel for reporters using config #​6578 (Nik08)
• Disable git caching in omnibus builds #​6584 (clintoncwolfe)
• Revert omnibus-software bump (6576) - ffi-yajl issue #​6585 (clintoncwolfe)
• CHEF-3916 Add section on inspec license subcommand to online docs #​6583 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-4818 revise inspec parallel docs content #​6586 (IanMadd)
• CHEF-4010 make a clean exit for License list command #​6552 (sathish-progress)
• Missing changes from main #​6564 (sathish-progress)
• Bump omnibus-software from 4b08f0b to 3268356 in /omnibus #​6587 (dependabot[bot])
• Adds missing release-rollup tag in CHANGELOG file #​6639 (Vasu1105)
• Adds missing expeditor configuration for inspec 6 release #​6624 (Vasu1105)
• Update podman.md #​6502 (IanMadd)
• Fix for omnibus build failure on Windows due to ffi-yajl error #​6628 (Vasu1105)
• CHEF-6123 Updated URL for chef licensing global service #​6647 (Nik08)
• Fix liniting in omnibus/Gemfile #​6649 (Vasu1105)
• Add license key error to troubleshooting page #​6609 (IanMadd)
• Revert CLI docs page changes #​6650 (IanMadd)
• CHEF-5898: Update latest EULA as used in MacOS installers #​6652 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-3849: InSpec should exit quickly and clearly if waiver file is malformed/corrupt #​6644 (Vasu1105)
• Move InSpec docs menu from chef-web-docs #​6657 (IanMadd)
• Bump omnibus from 9c0643a to 56015cb in /omnibus #​6670 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump omnibus-software from 3268356 to c44dea9 in /omnibus #​6665 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump omnibus from 56015cb to 82dae89 in /omnibus #​6679 (dependabot[bot])
• Fix broken plugin search test #​6674 (clintoncwolfe)
• Update json_schemer requirement from >= 0.2.1, < 0.2.19 to >= 0.2.1, < 2.0.1 #​6693 (dependabot[bot])
• Update html-proofer requirement from ~> 3.19.4 to ~> 5.0.8 #​6697 (dependabot[bot])
• Update hashie requirement from >= 3.4, < 5.0 to >= 3.4, < 6.0 #​6696 (dependabot[bot])
• Revert "Update html-proofer requirement from ~> 3.19.4 to ~> 5.0.8" #​6717 (Vasu1105)
• CHEF-6429: Update omnibus config to use updated signing method for msi packages #​6658 (ahasunos)
• Fix Syntax #​6483 (bryaend)
• CHEF-5899: Update latest EULA as used in Windows installers #​6655 (ahasunos)
• Changed params usage in inspec archive to skip evaluation #​6741 (Nik08)
• Bump omnibus-software from c44dea9 to 7723be6 in /omnibus #​6770 (dependabot[bot])
• Bump omnibus-software from 7723be6 to b3d89a4 in /omnibus #​6787 (dependabot[bot])
• CHEF-2627 Clarify License Description on Rubygems #​6630 (clintoncwolfe)
• Renames the project name in the SonarQube #​6797 (Vasu1105)
• Update EULA for windows to fix formattings #​6780 (ahasunos)
• Docs updates to install inspec 6 #​6574 (IanMadd)
• OMNIBUS: Drop enterprise linux 6 support as it has reached EOL #​6801 (ahasunos)
• Bump omnibus-software from b3d89a4 to 4fef367 in /omnibus #​6805 (dependabot[bot])
• CI: Build on MacOS 11 intel, dropping EOL 10.15 #​6789 (clintoncwolfe)
• Update links in docs #​6788 (IanMadd)
• CHEF-3928 Fix in HTML2 reporter - unique ID usage for control HTML divisions #​6645 (Nik08)
• CHEF-3917 Troubleshooting Page for Chef Licensing issues/errors #​6612 (Nik08)
• Fixed inspec json ability to use cli options successfully #​6796 (Nik08)
• Pin Thor to < 1.3.0 to fix test failures related to aliases #​6815 (Vasu1105)
• Openssl upgrade with version 1.1.1w #​6748 (Nik08)
• Explicitly pin openssl to 1.0.2zi to avoid a CVE - inspec-6 #​6825 (clintoncwolfe)
• Update runtime platform list #​6826 (clintoncwolfe)
• Fix lint offense, TrailingWhitespace & EmptyLines #​6830 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-7670 Ability to set feature preview flag using ENV #​6833 (Nik08)
• Profile params usage changes - inspec compliance plugin #​6832 (Nik08)
• Dev docs on profile evaluations and more #​6813 (Nik08)
• CHEF-7281: Remove references to MacOS 10.15 in docs #​6845 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-3745: Update supported platforms list to include RHEL 9 #​6846 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-6437: Implement different version of inspec export #​6816 (ahasunos)
• CHEF-7694 (CHEF-8271) : Fix security_policy resource returns array for non comma separated values #​6838 (Vasu1105)
• CHEF-6439 Mandatory Profile Signing (Preview) #​6705 (Nik08)
• Bump chef-licensing verison from ">= 0.4.44" to ">=0.7.5" #​6856 (Vasu1105)
• CHEF-6440: Integrates audit logging feature #​6809 (Vasu1105)

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