Bump version to 16.18.4 by Chef Expeditorv16.18.4

Obvious fix; these changes are the result of automation not creative thinking.

7 files changed, 21 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c551c6b26e..586d0a86fd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,17 +2,18 @@
 
 This changelog lists individual merged pull requests to Chef Infra Client and geared towards developers. For a list of significant changes per release see the [Chef Infra Client Release Notes](https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_client/).
 
-<!-- latest_release 16.18.3 -->
-## [v16.18.3](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v16.18.3) (2022-05-08)
+<!-- latest_release 16.18.4 -->
+## [v16.18.4](https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/v16.18.4) (2022-06-14)
 
 #### Merged Pull Requests
-- Bump berkshelf from 7.2.2 to 8.0.0 in /omnibus [#12835](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/12835) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/dependabot[bot]))
+- Backport to 16: Stop executing locale-gen on every chef run [#12904](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/12904) ([hrak](https://github.com/hrak))
 <!-- latest_release -->
 
 <!-- release_rollup since=16.18.0 -->
 ### Changes not yet released to stable
 
 #### Merged Pull Requests
+- Backport to 16: Stop executing locale-gen on every chef run [#12904](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/12904) ([hrak](https://github.com/hrak)) <!-- 16.18.4 -->
 - Bump berkshelf from 7.2.2 to 8.0.0 in /omnibus [#12835](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/12835) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/dependabot[bot])) <!-- 16.18.3 -->
 - Bump omnibus-software from `88438e8` to `ff4c902` in /omnibus [#12853](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/12853) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/dependabot[bot])) <!-- 16.18.2 -->
 - Bump omnibus-software from `50d05bc` to `88438e8` in /omnibus [#12845](https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/12845) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/dependabot[bot])) <!-- 16.18.1 -->
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index d20c47de7f..86a29dc057 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ GIT
 PATH
   remote: .
   specs:
-    chef (16.18.3)
+    chef (16.18.4)
       addressable
       bcrypt_pbkdf (~> 1.1)
       bundler (>= 1.10)
-      chef-config (= 16.18.3)
-      chef-utils (= 16.18.3)
+      chef-config (= 16.18.4)
+      chef-utils (= 16.18.4)
       chef-vault
       chef-zero (>= 14.0.11)
       diff-lcs (>= 1.2.4, < 1.4.0)
@@ -57,12 +57,12 @@ PATH
       tty-screen (~> 0.6)
       tty-table (~> 0.11)
       uuidtools (>= 2.1.5, < 3.0)
-    chef (16.18.3-universal-mingw32)
+    chef (16.18.4-universal-mingw32)
       addressable
       bcrypt_pbkdf (~> 1.1)
       bundler (>= 1.10)
-      chef-config (= 16.18.3)
-      chef-utils (= 16.18.3)
+      chef-config (= 16.18.4)
+      chef-utils (= 16.18.4)
       chef-vault
       chef-zero (>= 14.0.11)
       diff-lcs (>= 1.2.4, < 1.4.0)
@@ -109,15 +109,15 @@ PATH
 PATH
   remote: chef-bin
   specs:
-    chef-bin (16.18.3)
-      chef (= 16.18.3)
+    chef-bin (16.18.4)
+      chef (= 16.18.4)
 
 PATH
   remote: chef-config
   specs:
-    chef-config (16.18.3)
+    chef-config (16.18.4)
       addressable
-      chef-utils (= 16.18.3)
+      chef-utils (= 16.18.4)
       fuzzyurl
       mixlib-config (>= 2.2.12, < 4.0)
       mixlib-shellout (>= 2.0, < 4.0)
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ PATH
 PATH
   remote: chef-utils
   specs:
-    chef-utils (16.18.3)
+    chef-utils (16.18.4)
 
 GEM
   remote: https://rubygems.org/
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ GEM
       tty-box (~> 0.6)
       tty-prompt (~> 0.20)
     little-plugger (1.1.4)
-    logging (2.3.0)
+    logging (2.3.1)
       little-plugger (~> 1.1)
       multi_json (~> 1.14)
     method_source (1.0.0)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index d88edf7336..0a73f51a1b 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-16.18.3
\ No newline at end of file
+16.18.4
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/chef-bin/lib/chef-bin/version.rb b/chef-bin/lib/chef-bin/version.rb
index 10c1b04fd3..471d1c638e 100644
--- a/chef-bin/lib/chef-bin/version.rb
+++ b/chef-bin/lib/chef-bin/version.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 module ChefBin
   CHEFBIN_ROOT = File.expand_path("..", __dir__)
-  VERSION = "16.18.3".freeze
+  VERSION = "16.18.4".freeze
 end
 
 #
diff --git a/chef-config/lib/chef-config/version.rb b/chef-config/lib/chef-config/version.rb
index 73985aa51b..8d750ae3d2 100644
--- a/chef-config/lib/chef-config/version.rb
+++ b/chef-config/lib/chef-config/version.rb
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@
 
 module ChefConfig
   CHEFCONFIG_ROOT = File.expand_path("..", __dir__)
-  VERSION = "16.18.3".freeze
+  VERSION = "16.18.4".freeze
 end
diff --git a/chef-utils/lib/chef-utils/version.rb b/chef-utils/lib/chef-utils/version.rb
index 7db72db862..7108a4d11d 100644
--- a/chef-utils/lib/chef-utils/version.rb
+++ b/chef-utils/lib/chef-utils/version.rb
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@
 
 module ChefUtils
   CHEFUTILS_ROOT = File.expand_path("..", __dir__)
-  VERSION = "16.18.3"
+  VERSION = "16.18.4"
 end
diff --git a/lib/chef/version.rb b/lib/chef/version.rb
index 0742cae670..fdbbf3ca5d 100644
--- a/lib/chef/version.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/version.rb
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ require_relative "version_string"
 
 class Chef
   CHEF_ROOT = File.expand_path("..", __dir__)
-  VERSION = Chef::VersionString.new("16.18.3")
+  VERSION = Chef::VersionString.new("16.18.4")
 end
 
 #