8.12.0 (2016-03-09)
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Implemented enhancements:
* add plugin to detect user sessions using loginctl #766 (davide125)
* Improve virtualization detection on Solaris #760 (tas50)
* Improve FreeBSD guest virtualization detection #756 (tas50)
* Detect Openstack hosts #751 (tas50)
* Improve KVM host and guest detection #750 (tas50)
* Update GCE metadata API version and fail better #736 (tas50)
Fixed bugs:
* Make ohai work with Chef 12.7 and below #768 (jkeiser)
* Remove XML output in VirtualizationInfo and need for hpricot gem #755 (tas50)
v8.11.1 (2016-03-08)
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Implemented enhancements:
* Detect Azure on non-bootstrapped hosts #657
* Deprecate run_command and popen4 in the command mixin #730 (tas50)
* OHAI-726 Regex to support openjdk 1.8 #727 (davidnewman)
* Add support for the 2 latest EC2 metadata versions #725 (tas50)
* Improved debug logging for cloud plugins #724 (tas50)
* Detect paravirt amazon instances without hint files #722 (tas50)
* Detect Azure using the Azure agent and DHCP options #714 (tas50)
Fixed bugs:
* Use escape_glob_dir instead of escape_glob #747 (jaym)
* have a proper dependency on plist #737 (thommay)
* Fix digital ocean ip address detection #735 (ctso)
* Log sigar gem load failures #731 (tas50)
* ipaddress on Linux - default route pointing to unaddressed interface, with route src #682 (glennmatthews)
Release 8.10.0
* pr#720 Make Windows driver plugin opt-in via config
* pr#717 Don't enable packages plugin by default
* pr#711 Improve EC2 detection for HVM instances when a hint isn't present
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)
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package colorls: missing distfile ls.tar.gz
Package molden: missing distfile molden-4.6/molden4.6.tar.gz
Package softmaker-office-demo: missing distfile ofl06trial.tgz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
Release 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
Release 8.5.0
* PR #548: Coerce non-UTF8 strings to UTF8 in output to suppress UTF8
encoding exceptions
* PR #544 add support for Wind River Linux and Cisco's Nexus platforms
Release 8.0.0
- Retrieve OpenStack-specific metadata.
- Add Cloudstack support.
- Remove newlines in CPU strings on Darwin.
- Match zpool output for OmniOS 151006.
- Add Parallels Cloud Server (PCS) platform support.
- Add Go language plugin.
- regression: qualify device names from lsblk
- Add support for ip version ss131122.
- Reduce GCE metadata timeout to 6 seconds.
- Add Pidora platform detection.
- Presume 'latest' API version on 404 from Eucalyptus metadata server.
- Look for any number of spaces between the VxID and the value.
- 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
- linux::network should handle ECMP routes
Release 7.2.2
- Use lsblk instead of blkid if available.
- linux::filesystem now reads all of /proc/mounts instead of just 4K
Release: 7.2.0
- Added platform_family support for ibm_powerkvm (OHAI-558)
- EC2 metadata errors are unhelpful (OHAI-566)
- Support deep virtualization systems in node[:virtualization][:systems]
- Passwd plugin now ignores duplicate users. (OHAI-561)
- Fix warning message about constants already defined (OHAI-572)
- Present all CPU flags on FreeBSD (OHAI-568)
- Ohai doesn't detect all KVM processor types as KVM on FreeBSD (OHAI-575)
- Ohai should expose mdadm raid information on Linux systems (OHAI-578)
- relax regex to match newer Oracle Solaris releases (OHAI-563)
- add exherbo support (OHAI-570)
- Add inode information to the Linux Filesystem plugin. (OHAI-539)
- Change log-level from warn to debug for missing gateway IPs.
- Include Joyent SmartOS specific attributes in Ohai. (OHAI-458)
- Collect ec2 metadata even if one of the resources returns a 404.
- Provide basic memory information for Mac OS X. (OHAI-431)
- Rackspace plugin rescues Errno::ENOENT if xenstor-* utils are not found
- 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
Ohai detects data about your operating system. It can be used
standalone, but it's primary purpose is to provide node data to Chef.
Ohai will print out a JSON data blob for all the known data about your
system. When used with Chef, that data is reported back via node
attributes.
