Merge pull request #663 from tas50/master

Release notes for Ohai 8.8.0

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Ohai Changelog
 
-## Release 8.8.0
+## Unreleased
 * [**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):
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   - 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 additional CPU attributes, and convert values from hex to base 10
+* 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
+* 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

RELEASE_NOTES.md

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-# Ohai Release Notes 8.8.0:
+
+# Ohai Release Notes:
+## Virtualization
+With this release we greatly improved detection of virtualization guests:
+- We now detect Linux/BSD guests running on the RedHat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) platform, Microsoft Hyper-V, and additional versions of Microsoft VirtualPC.
+- BSD systems gained detection of guests running on VirtualBox, KVM, and Openstack.
+- Windows systems gained detection of guests running on Virtualbox, VMware, and KVM.
+- BSD now includes the nested virtualization support, which was added to other platforms in the 7.2.0 release.
+- A new plugin was added for VirtualBox to expose information on the version of the guest additions package, as well as the version of the VirtualBox host.
+
+## BSD
+Initial support for Support for DragonFly BSD was added.
+
+BSD also saw several improvements to better align collected data with that of Linux systems:
+- The filesystem plugin now collects inode data for each filesystem
+- CPU detection has been fixed on FreeBSD 10.2 and later systems. We're also collecting CPU model and family data to match CPU data on Linux systems.
+- The code to parse dmidecode data to detect virtualization guests is now shared between BSD and Linux systems for consistent detection of virtualization guests.
+
+## Miscellaneous
+- Collected zfs filesystem properties are now configurable on solaris2.
+- The path to the Ohai plugins directory is now escaped to prevent failures on Windows systems if the path included spaces.
+- The AIX CPU plugin now detects the bitness of the system.
+- Ohai now longer fails under certain circumstances when determining network listeners
+
+# Ohai Breaking Changes:
+- Linux guests running on Hyper-V were previously detected as running on VirtualPC, but are now correctly detected as Hyper-V guests.
+- Core and CPU counts on Windows were based on the first CPU only. Counts will now take into account all physical CPUs.