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# Ohai Changelog

## Release 8.8.0
* [**James Flemer, NDP LLC**](https://github.com/jflemer-ndp):
  - Add detection for RHEV (on Linux guests) to virtualization plugin
* [**Shahul Khajamohideen**](https://github.com/sh9189):
  - Fixes Windows :CPU plugin inconsistencies with other platforms: modifies
  `cpu[:total]` to return total number of logical processors, adds `cpu[:cores]`
  to return total number of cores.
* [**clewis**](https://github.com/clewis):
  - Don't constrain the width of `ps` output.
* [**George Gensure**](https://github.com/werkt):
  - Prevents invalid memory access on subsequent failed calls to `proc_state`
  on sigar by throwing exception on returned invalid PID.
* [**Hleb Valoshka**](https://github.com/375gnu):
  - Add support for DragonFly BSD
* Make collected zfs filesystem properties configurable on solaris2.
* Add kernel bitness detection for AIX
* Fix CPU detection on FreeBSD 10.2+, add collection CPU family and model data.
* Add inode data for filesystems on FreeBSD
* Detect Virtualbox, VMware, and KVM on Windows guests and speed up Ohai runs
* Add a plugin for Virtualbox to provide host / guest version information
* Escape plugin directory path to prevent failures on Windows
* Detect Microsoft Hyper-V Linux/BSD guests, which were previously detected as VirtualPC guests
* Detect Microsoft VirtualPC Linux/BSD guests on additional releases of VirtualPC
* Add KVM, VirtualBox, and Openstack guest detection to BSD platforms and add the node[:virtualization][:systems] syntax

## Release 8.7.0
* Fix behavior when abort called from plug-in (Ohai should exit with error code)
* [**Shahul Khajamohideen**](https://github.com/sh9189):
  Add total cores to linux cpu plugin

## Release 8.6.0
* [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jaymzh):
  - Provide a new and improved filesystem plugin for Linux & Mac (filesystem2), to
  support CentOS7, multiple virtual filesystems, etc.
  - Fix Darwin filesystem plugin on newer MacOSX
* [**Jonathan Amiez**](https://github.com/josqu4red):
  - Linux filesystems plugin report wrong fs-type for logical volumes
* [**involucelate**](https://github.com/involucelate)
  - Fix Windows 2008 hostname truncation #554
* [**Pavel Yudin**](https://github.com/Kasen):
  - Detect Parallels host and guest virtualization
* [**Claire McQuin**](https://github.com/mcquin):
  - Deprecate Ohai::Config in favor of Ohai::Config.ohai.
  - Load a configuration file while running as an application.
* [PR #597](https//github.com/chef/ohai/597):
  - Correct platform, platform\_family and version detection on Cisco's Nexus platforms.
* [**cmluciano**](https://github.com/cmluciano):
  - add vmware plugin
* [**Jean Baptiste Favre**](https://github.com/jbfavre):
  - Detect updated docker cgroup format
* [**Shahul Khajamohideen**](https://github.com/sh9189):
  - Fix memory plugin output on Solaris
  - Add swap space attributes for Solaris memory plugin
  - Add swap space attributes for AIX
  - Add support for SPARC based processors in Solaris cpu plugin
  - Make AIX cpu plugin's output consistent with Solaris cpu plugin
  - Make AIX, Solaris memory output consistent to Linux
* [**Sean Horn**](https://github.com/sean-horn):
  - ec2 plugin should handle binary userdata too
* [**Alexey Karpik**](https://github.com/akarpik):
  - Add support for SoftLayer cloud
* [**MichaelSp**](https://github.com/MichaelSp):
  - return correct ipaddress for openvz guests
* [**Anthony Caiafa**](https://github.com/acaiafa):
  - Only run ifconfig against active interfaces
* [**Shahul Khajamohideen**](https://github.com/sh9189) and [**Sean Escriva**](https://github.com/webframp):
  - Windows Memory plugin
* [**Chris Chambers**](https://github.com/cachamber):
  - Convert Solaris OHAI CPU detection to kstat from psrinfo

## Release 8.5.0

* [PR #548](https://github.com/chef/ohai/548):
  Coerce non-UTF8 strings to UTF8 in output to suppress UTF8 encoding exceptions
* [PR #544](https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/544)
  add support for Wind River Linux and Cisco's Nexus platforms

## Release 8.4.0

* Correctly skip unwanted DMI information
* Collect DMI information on Solaris/x86

## Release 8.3.0

* [**Jeremy Mauro**](https://github.com/jmauro):
  Removing trailing space and '\r' for windows #474
* [**Tim Smith**](https://github.com/tas50):
  Ensure Gentoo based Linuxen get IP information
* [PR #534](https://github.com/chef/ohai/534)
  Ignore OEM logo on Windows

## Release 8.2.0

* [**Michael Glenney**](https://github.com/Maniacal)
  Remove redundant if statement

* Remove CloudStack support due to GPL licensed library

## Release 8.1.1
* Fix broken DigitalOcean plugin

## Release 8.1.0

* [**Warren Bain**](https://github.com/thoughtcroft)
  Fix for removal of :Config in ruby 2.2
* [**Chris Luciano**](https://github.com/cmluciano)
  Add language elixir
* [**Chris Luciano**](https://github.com/cmluciano)
  Update WARNING for ohai 7 syntax docs page
* [**Malte Swart**](https://github.com/mswart)
  ssh_host_key: detect ed25519 host key
* [**hirose31**](https://github.com/hirose31)
  Detect OpenStack guest server using dmidecode
* [**Chris Luciano**](https://github.com/cmluciano)
  Add language rust.
* [**Tim Smith**](https://github.com/tas50)
  Add additional information on the PHP engine versions to PHP plugin
* [**Paul Czarkowski**](https://github.com/paulczar)
  detect if inside Docker container
* [**Michael Schmidt**](https://github.com/BugRoger)
  OHAI-339 Unable to detect IPAddress on CoreOS/Gentoo
* [**Stafford Brunk**](https://github.com/wingrunr21)
  Digital Ocean ohai/cloud support round
* [**Sten Spans**](https://github.com/sspans)
  Fix network.rb for XenServer Creedence
* [**Shuo Zhang**](https://github.com/zshuo)
  Update Linux plugin cpu.rb and spec_cpu.rb to support S390
* [**Alexey Karpik**](https://github.com/akarpik)
  Fix up incorrect CloudStack metadata
* [**Jeff Goldschrafe**](https://github.com/jgoldschrafe)
  cloud_v2 fails to initialize on GCE hosts without external IP
* [**Ryan Chipman**](https://github.com/rychipman)
  Archlinux Version
* [**Jose Luis Salas**](https://github.com/josacar)
  Add a trailing dot to avoid using search option in resolv.conf
* [**Eric G. Wolfe**](https://github.com/atomic-penguin)
  block_device rotational key
* [**Josh Blancett**](https://github.com/jblancett)
  add extra metadata passed in from hints in knife-linode

* Update mime-types dependency

## Release 8.0.0

* [**sawanoboly**](https://github.com/sawanoboly)
  Retrieve OpenStack-specific metadata.
* [**Olle Lundberg**](https://github.com/lndbrg)
  Add CloudStack support.
* [**Tim Smith**](https://github.com/tas50)
  Remove newlines in CPU strings on Darwin.
* [**Nathan Huff**](https://github.com/nhuff)
  Match zpool output for OmniOS 151006.
* [**Pavel Yudin**](https://github.com/Kasen)
  Add Parallels Cloud Server (PCS) platform support.
* [**Christian Vozar**](https://github.com/christianvozar):
  Add Go language plugin.
* [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jaymzh):
  regression: qualify device names from lsblk
* [**Chris Read**](https://github.com/cread):
  Add support for ip version ss131122.
* [**carck**](https://github.com/carck):
  Reduce GCE metadata timeout to 6 seconds.
* [**barnabear**](https://github.com/barnabear):
  Add Pidora platform detection.
* [**Ben Carpenter**](https://github.com/bcarpenter):
  Presume 'latest' API version on 404 from Eucalyptus metadata server.
* [**Nabeel Shahzad**](https://github.com/nshahzad):
  Look for any number of spaces between the VxID and the value.
* [**Daniel Searles**](https://github.com/squaresurf):
  Removed *.static.cloud-ips.com and fixed the DNS resolution on Rackspace hosts.

* Update specs to use RSpec 3 syntax
* Update mixlib-shellout pin to ~> 2.x

## Release 7.6.0

* This release was yanked due to mixlib-shellout 1.x/2.x issues

## Release 7.4.0

* Added Powershell plugin.

## Release 7.2.4

* [**Phil Dibowitz**](https://github.com/jaymzh):
  linux::network should handle ECMP routes

## Release 7.2.2

* [**Phil Dibowitz**:](https://github.com/jaymzh)
  Use lsblk instead of blkid if available.
* [**Phil Dibowitz**:](https://github.com/jaymzh)
  linux::filesystem now reads all of /proc/mounts instead of just 4K

## Release: 7.2.0

* [**Lance Bragstad**:](https://github.com/lbragstad)
  Added platform_family support for ibm_powerkvm (OHAI-558)
* [**Pierre Carrier**:](https://github.com/pcarrier)
  EC2 metadata errors are unhelpful (OHAI-566)
* [**Elan Ruusamäe**:](https://github.com/glensc)
  Support deep virtualization systems in `node[:virtualization][:systems]` (OHAI-182)
* [**Sean Walberg**:](https://github.com/swalberg)
  :Passwd plugin now ignores duplicate users. (OHAI-561)
* [**Joe Richards**:](https://github.com/viyh)
  Fix warning message about constants already defined (OHAI-572)
* [**Tim Smith**:](https://github.com/tas50)
  Present all CPU flags on FreeBSD (OHAI-568)
* [**Tim Smith**:](https://github.com/tas50)
  Ohai doesn't detect all KVM processor types as KVM on FreeBSD (OHAI-575)
* [**Tim Smith**:](https://github.com/tas50)
  Ohai should expose mdadm raid information on Linux systems (OHAI-578)
* [**Cam Cope**:](https://github.com/ccope)
  relax regex to match newer Oracle Solaris releases (OHAI-563)
* [**Vasiliy Tolstov**:](https://github.com/vtolstov)
  add exherbo support (OHAI-570)
* [**jasonpgignac**](https://github.com/jasonpgignac)
  Add inode information to the Linux Filesystem plugin. (OHAI-539)
* [**Benedikt Böhm**](https://github.com/hollow)
  Change log-level from warn to debug for missing gateway IPs.
* [**sawanoboly**](https://github.com/sawanoboly)
  Include Joyent SmartOS specific attributes in Ohai. (OHAI-458)
* [**Mike Fiedler**](https://github.com/miketheman)
  Collect ec2 metadata even if one of the resources returns a 404. (OHAI-541)
* [**Pat Collins**](https://github.com/patcoll)
  Provide basic memory information for Mac OS X. (OHAI-431)
* [**Jerry Chen**](https://github.com/jcsalterego):
  Rackspace plugin rescues Errno::ENOENT if xenstor-* utils are not found (OHAI-587)


* root_group provider not implemented for Windows (OHAI-491)
* `Ohai::Exceptions::AttributeNotFound` errors in Chef's ohai resource
* Be reluctant to call something an LXC host (OHAI-573)
* Assume 'latest' metadata versions on 404

## Release: 7.0.4

* Added platform_family support for ibm_powerkvm (OHAI-558)
* cannot disable Lsb plugin (OHAI-565)
* Skip v7 plugins when refreshing a v6 plugin. Fixes (OHAI-562)
  `Ohai::Exceptions::AttributeNotFound` errors in Chef's ohai resource
* Work around libc bug in `hostname --fqdn`
* Report Suse and OpenSuse separately in the :platform attribute.
* CPU information matching Linux is now available on Darwin.
* ip6address detection failure logging is turned down to :debug.
* fe80:: link-local address is not reported as ip6addresses anymore.
* Private network information is now available as [:rackspace][:private_networks] on Rackspace nodes.
* System init mechanism is now reported at [:init_package] on Linux.
* Define cloud plugin interface (OHAI-542)
* java -version wastes memory (OHAI-550)
* Ohai cannot detect running in an lxc container (OHAI-551)
* Normalize cloud attributes for Azure (OHAI-554)
* Capture FreeBSD osreldate for comparison purposes (OHAI-557)

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