Release 8.10.0

Release 8.10.0

• pr#720 Make pnp plugin opt-in via config
• pr#717 Don't enable packages plugin by default
• pr#711 Improve EC2 detection when hint isn't present

Release 8.9.0

Release 8.9.0

• phreakocious:
  • Collect layer 1 Ethernet information per NIC on Linux hosts
• Mark Gibbons:
  • Add kernel[:processor] with output of uname -p output
• Shahul Khajamohideen
  • Add packages plugin
• electrolinux
  • Add "alpine" platform and platform_family
• Julien Berard
  • Add instance_id to rackspace plugin
• Matt Whiteley
  • Allow route table override
• JM Howard Brown
  • Add tests and queue_depth to block_device
• pr#672 CPU plugin for Darwin (OS X) now properly reports the number of real CPUs adds "cores" to match the CPU output on Linux
• pr#674 CPU plugin for FreeBSD now reports "real" and "core" values to match the CPU output on Linux
• pr#654 Improvements to filesystem and wpar detection on AIX
• pr#683 Properly detect the init package on older Linux kernels
• pr#684 Remove non-functional cucumber tests
• pr#695 Fix detection of mac address on IPv6 only systems
• pr#703 Enable ChefStyle per RFC 64

Release 8.8.1

This is a patch release with the following fixes:

pr#677 Removed dependency on mime-types gem. This could cause failures in some scenarios.
pr#662 Skip loading the VMWare plug-in when we don't need it (e.g. on non-VMWare systems)

Release 8.8.0

• James Flemer, NDP LLC:
  • Add detection for RHEV (on Linux guests) to virtualization plugin
• Shahul Khajamohideen:
  • 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:
  • Don't constrain the width of ps output.
• George Gensure:
  • Prevents invalid memory access on subsequent failed calls to proc_state
    on sigar by throwing exception on returned invalid PID.
• Hleb Valoshka:
  • 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

• Shahul Khajamohideen:
  • Add total cores to linux cpu plugin
• Fix behavior when abort called from plug-in (Ohai should exit with error code)

8.6.0

• Phil Dibowitz:
  • 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:
  • Linux filesystems plugin report wrong fs-type for logical volumes
• involucelate
  • Fix Windows 2008 hostname truncation #554
• Pavel Yudin:
  • Detect Parallels host and guest virtualization
• Claire McQuin:
  • Deprecate Ohai::Config in favor of Ohai::Config.ohai.
  • Load a configuration file while running as an application.
• PR #597:
  • Correct platform, platform_family and version detection on Cisco's Nexus platforms.
• cmluciano:
  • add vmware plugin
• Jean Baptiste Favre:
  • Detect updated docker cgroup format
• Shahul Khajamohideen:
  • 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:
  • ec2 plugin should handle binary userdata too
• Alexey Karpik:
  • Add support for SoftLayer cloud
• MichaelSp:
  • return correct ipaddress for openvz guests
• Anthony Caiafa:
  • Only run ifconfig against active interfaces
• Shahul Khajamohideen and Sean Escriva:
  • Windows Memory plugin
• Chris Chambers:
  • Convert Solaris OHAI CPU detection to kstat from psrinfo

8.5.0

Version tag for 8.5.0

8.4.0

Release Ohai 8.4.0

Release 8.3.0

Merge pull request #528 from chef/tm/8.3.0

8.3.0