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| author | John Keiser <john@johnkeiser.com> | 2016-03-09 12:56:55 -0800 |
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| committer | John Keiser <john@johnkeiser.com> | 2016-03-09 12:56:55 -0800 |
| commit | 56e1b5475fc259918b04759d2418a05ec4300065 (patch) | |
| tree | 17253a8bc6399a770ddfbd44b6170b8782f64189 | |
| parent | 1d260ee08afe09bd4d53abd81c9d7ab1dda48a16 (diff) | |
| parent | 2031f02c4f562bb2576ae2c110dae3133a10ef33 (diff) | |
| download | ohai-56e1b5475fc259918b04759d2418a05ec4300065.tar.gz | |
Merge pull request #769 from tas50/master
Update release notes with functionality on master
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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index 81c295a5..39c2519c 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -10,14 +10,31 @@ Details about the thing that changed that needs to get included in the Release N # Ohai Release Notes: ## Microsoft Azure + - Hosts running on Microsoft Azure will now be better detected as Azure hosts when they don't have a cloud hint file. The presence of the waagent on Windows and Linux or the presence of DHCP option 245 on Linux will mark a host as running in Azure. ## Amazon EC2 + - Linux hosts that include the ec2metadata command line tool will now be detected as running in EC2 - EC2 nodes will now be able to use EC2 metadata versions 2014-11-05 and 2014-02-25 if available for increased instance information +## Virtualization Improvements: + +- Openstack hosts are now detected if Nova is installed +- KVM detection has been improved to better detect Linux guests running on KVM, and to properly detect KVM hosts +- Solaris guests running on various hypervisors are now detected, and the node['virutalization']['systems'] attribute is now set as we do on other platforms +- bhyve hosts and guests on FreeBSD are now detected +- FreeBSD guests on VMware, Xen, and Hyper-V are now detected even if dmidecode isn't installed +- Virsh detection no longer requires the hpricot gem to be installed, and no longer returns XML data + ## OS X + - The plist gem is now a required gem for Ohai, which allows the system_profile data to be collected without the need to install the gem manually ## run_command Deprecation + - The run_command method in the Command mixin has been deprecated, and will be removed from Ohai 9.0.0. Shelling out should be accomplished using the shell_out method in that same mixin. + +## New Sessions Plugin + +- A new plugin Sessions plugin has been added for Linux hosts to collect systemd sessions information using loginctl |