Ohai, we have a nice release for you today!
Our MVP for Ohai 0.3.2 is James Gartrell, for adding Windows support! He had an itch to scratch, and thanks to his contribution, the whole community benefits! We're excited because this brings us one step closer to also having Chef available for Windows. Now that Ohai can detect Windows as the platform, Chef can select providers – that is, when there's providers for resources on Windows. Thank you James! He would like to give a shout out to Holly (also pictured), as Windows support wouldn't have been possible without her :-).
Along with Windows support comes a new dependency on the "systemu" gem. This should be installed automatically with a gem update, but please be aware. We have posted a document on the Wiki about installing Ohai on Windows.
We'd also like to recognize other community members for contributions in this release. Our new contributor Grant Zanetti fixed an issue where Red Hat derivatives would report the hostname as the fully qualified domain name (somehost.example.com instead of somehost). Scott Likens found an issue on gentoo where lsmod wasn't found and causing an exception. Finally, while he didn't submit a patch, Bryan McLellan gets credit for adding uptime to Darwin/OSX because his plugin for FreeBSD worked, with a minor path change.
Opscode folks contributed as well. Nuo Yan made a couple updates to fix filesystem reporting in Windows, and verified the changes James made would cleanly merge. Adam Jacob made network media information more usable on OSX. Joshua Timberman updated the README.rdoc to be more developer-centric, and added the Ohai Windows installation instructions..
On to the release notes!
Release Notes – Ohai – Version 0.3.2
Bug
- [OHAI-93] – plugin linux::kernel threw exception #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory – /sbin/lsmod>
- [OHAI-99] – Network media hash on darwin is nigh-unsable
- [OHAI-100] – hostname output differs between redhat dirivatives and debian dirivatives distributions
- [OHAI-102] – no uptime data for darwin/osx
Improvement
- [OHAI-98] – update readme.rdoc to focus more on developing/contributing for ohai
New Feature
- [OHAI-65] – Get ohai working on windows
Task
- [OHAI-97] – Fix git clone link in readme