v4.0.0 (04/09/2026)

What's Changed

• First Iteration: Load Random Data by @afiune in #14
• Adds license headers to all files by @afiune in #15
• [ChefActions] Generate 10 Chef Actions with flag -chef-action by @afiune in #17
• Adding functionality for random data by @ElizabethU in #16
• Replace edit with update for chef-server action task type by @kmacgugan in #18
• Use oauth token when in dev mode. by @lancewf in #19
• [AIA-126] Refactor chef-load to have sub-commands by @afiune in #20
• AIA-103 Enable actions load by @afiune in #21
• [AIA-140] Stability for high performance tests by @afiune in #24
• [AIA-103] Ability to load X days of back data by @afiune in #22
• [BugFix] Set StartTime for the generate command by @afiune in #25
• AIA-186 Add a delay for Historical Data by @afiune in #26
• Fix hab plan by @jeremiahsnapp in #28
• Add Missing Events Types by @afiune in #29
• Fixed infinite load of actions by @afiune in #30
• [AIA-260] Add liveness agent data by @afiune in #31
• Fix delay between livenessPings by @jeremiahsnapp in #32
• Customize actions by @afiune in #33
• Random action times by @lancewf in #34
• Random time more readable by @lancewf in #35
• ported compliance generator functionality into chef-load by @rickmarry in #37
• add matrix to hab default.toml by @rickmarry in #38
• Add missing go dep to plan.sh by @afiune in #39
• Rm/add studiorc by @rickmarry in #40
• Adding ohai data when generating nodes by @lancewf in #43
• Whitespace commit to trigger hab build w/ refreshed dependencies. by @itmustbejj in #45
• addional attrs to compliance data by @rickmarry in #48
• Allow the generation of more than 1 tag by @jaym in #50
• Setup go modules based build with vendored deps by @jaym in #49
• Wire up expeditor by @jaym in #52
• Spaces in environment names cause 400's in Chef Infra Server by @PrajaktaPurohit in #53
• Fix config file generation call in README by @ChefAustin in #54
• Correcting the CCR resources to have correct statuses by @lancewf in #47
• Updating expeditor configurations by @skeshari12 in #56
• changed README back to chef-load init for config gen by @rickmarry in #58
• New features to fine-tune client run controls by @marcparadise in #57
• add control tags and large inspec report by @rickmarry in #59
• Update go to 1.24.0 by @kalroy in #60
• Update go in plan file by @kalroy in #61
• feat: add policyfile and compliance phase support by @Stromweld in #62

New Contributors

• @afiune made their first contribution in #14
• @ElizabethU made their first contribution in #16
• @kmacgugan made their first contribution in #18
• @lancewf made their first contribution in #19
• @jeremiahsnapp made their first contribution in #28
• @rickmarry made their first contribution in #37
• @itmustbejj made their first contribution in #45
• @jaym made their first contribution in #50
• @PrajaktaPurohit made their first contribution in #53
• @ChefAustin made their first contribution in #54
• @skeshari12 made their first contribution in #56
• @marcparadise made their first contribution in #57
• @kalroy made their first contribution in #60
• @Stromweld made their first contribution in #62

Full Changelog: v3.0.0...v4.0.0

v3.0.0

This release makes chef-load a blind load tester. This means it will gracefully ignore API errors instead of trying to mimic what a real chef client would do. Resolves issue #12.

Logs all API requests to a file specified by the config file's log_file setting.

Prints an API request profile when chef-load receives a USR1 signal and when it is terminated.

This all makes for much cleaner output during normal operation as you can see in the API Request Profile section of the README.

The -profile-logs option reads the specified chef-load log files and prints an API request profile.

This also fixes a regression introduced in 2.2.0 and reported in issue #13.

v2.2.0

Update habitat plan for version 2.2.0

Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Snapp <jeremiah@chef.io>

v2.1.0

Update habitat plan for version 2.1.0

v2.0.0

Update habitat plan for 2.0.0

v1.0.0

Bump version to 1.0.0

v0.5.0

Bump version to 0.5.0

v0.4.0

Add some simple upgrade instructions to the README.md