diff --git a/cookbooks/cwb-server/attributes/default.rb b/cookbooks/cwb-server/attributes/default.rb
index 7cdc111..d30a676 100644
--- a/cookbooks/cwb-server/attributes/default.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/cwb-server/attributes/default.rb
@@ -102,8 +102,10 @@
 default['cwb-server']['chef']['server_url'] = "https://#{server_host}:443/organizations/#{organisation}"
 
 # Chef VM provisioning
-# Chef client versions: https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md
-default['cwb-server']['chef']['omnibus_chef_version'] = '12.14.60'
+# Chef client versions: https://docs.chef.io/release_notes.html
+# Notice that CWB is currently not yet compatible with Chef 13 and 14
+# https://github.com/sealuzh/cwb-benchmarks/issues/20
+default['cwb-server']['chef']['omnibus_chef_version'] = '12.22.3'
 default['cwb-server']['chef']['provisioning_path'] = '/etc/chef'
 
 ## Providers