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# Chef Client Release Notes 12.13:

Highlights for this release:

- Ohai 8.18 includes a new plugin for gathering available user shells. Additionally for OS X users there is a new hardware plugin that gathers system information, and we’ve added detection of VMware and VirtualBox installations.

## Updated Dependencies

- ruby - 2.1.9 (was 2.1.8)

### Updated Gems

- chef-zero - 4.8.0 (was 4.7.0)
- cheffish - 2.0.5 (was 2.0.4)
- compat_resource - 12.10.7 (was 12.10.6)
- ffi - 1.9.14 (was 1.9.10)
- ffi-yajl - 2.3.0 (was 2.2.3)
- fuzzyurl - 0.9.0 (was 0.8.0)
- mixlib-cli - 1.7.0 (was 1.6.0)
- mixlib-log - 1.7.0 (was 1.6.0)
- ohai - 8.18.0 (was 8.17.1)
- pry - 0.10.4 (was 0.10.3)
- rspec - 3.5.0 (was 3.4.0)
- rspec-core - 3.5.2 (was 3.4.4)
- rspec-expectations - 3.5.0 (was 3.4.0)
- rspec-mocks - 3.5.0 (was 3.4.1)
- rspec-support - 3.5.0 (was 3.4.1)
- simplecov - 0.12.0 (was 0.11.2)
- specinfra - 2.60.3 (was 2.59.4)
- mixlib-archive - 0.2.0 (added to package)