Facter 4.0.26

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Added

• (FACT-2608) Add is_virtual fact #535 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2609) Add lspci resolver #534 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2245) Add xen resolver #532 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2607) Add Openvz detector #531 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2600) Run acceptance tests on Windows #519 (Filipovici-Andrei)

Fixed

• (FACT-2651) Fix --list-cache-groups when there are multiple arguments before it #545 (IrimieBogdan)
• (FACT-2650) Fix bug when loading external facts #543 (Filipovici-Andrei)
• Use proper encoding #539 (faucct)
• (FACT-2635) Incorrect output for non existing fact #536 (IrimieBogdan)

Fix environment variable facts

Fixed

• (FACT-2636) Set external as fact_type for environment variable facts. #537 (IrimieBogdan)

Added VMware and Virt-What resolvers for the Virtual fact

Added

• (FACT-2605) Add vmware resolver #525 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2604) Add virt-what resolver #523 (oanatmaria)

Fix trace and log errors when encountering exceptions in custom facts files

Fixed

• (FACT-2632) Log error message if we encounter exceptions while loading custom facts files #528 (IrimieBogdan)
• (FACT-2631) Trace is not working as expected #527 (IrimieBogdan)

Add facts and improve compatibility with Facter 3

Added

• (FACT-2603) Detect virtual on GCE vms #521 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2602) Add docker/Lxc resolver for Linux #520 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2615) Add Solaris mountpoints fact #515 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2532) Add Aix nim_type fact #513 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2183) Add Solaris's uptime legacy facts #511 (oanatmaria)

Fixed

• (FACT-2617) Fix for tests/external_facts/external_fact_stderr_messages_output_to_stderr.rb #522 (IrimieBogdan)
• (FACT-2523) Fix for tests/external_facts/non_root_users_default_external_fact_directory.rb #518 (IrimieBogdan)
• (FACT-2522) Fix for tests/external_facts/fact_directory_precedence.rb #517 (IrimieBogdan)
• (FACT-2521) Fix for tests/external_facts/external_fact_overrides_custom_fact_with_10000_weight_or_less.rb #514 (IrimieBogdan)
• (FACT-2525) Fix for tests/options/color.rb #512 (IrimieBogdan)

Added Linux networking facts, Aix processors fact, Improve error handling from Open3, Run acceptance tests with Github Actions

Added

• (FACT-2599) Run GitHub Actions on Ubuntu 16 and Osx 10 #497 (Filipovici-Andrei)
• (FACT-2247) Add networking fact for linux #496 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2515) Define custom fact groups in facter.conf #491 (florindragos)
• (FACT-2557) Add rake task for generating list of facts for specified OS #488 (IrimieBogdan)
• Add os.release facts on FreeBSD #485 (smortex)
• (FACT-2235) Add Aix processors fact #483 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2569) Run acceptance tests on Ubuntu GitHub actions #477 (Filipovici-Andrei)
• (FACT-2553) Quote special string in YAML format #471 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2517) Open3 wrapper for executing system calls #469 (oanatmaria)

Fixed

• (FACT-2533) Fix for tests/facts/partitions.rb #507 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2531) Fix for tests/facts/validate_file_system_size_bytes.rb #500 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2582) Date and Time in external YAML fact is not loaded #499 (IrimieBogdan)
• (FACT-2556) Refactor existing facts to use the new OS hierarchy #486 (IrimieBogdan)

Display facts on RedHat 5 and CentOS 6

Added

• Add *BSD kernelversion and kernelmajversion facts #462 (smortex)
• Fix os.family fact on *BSD #461 (smortex)
• Add support for *BSD load averages #460 (smortex)

Fixed

• (FACT-2590) No facts are displayed on Redhat 5 and Centos6 #484 (IrimieBogdan)
• (FACT-2530) Fix for tests/facts/os_processors_and_kernel.rb #449 (oanatmaria)

4.0.19

Added

• (FACT-2555)Create OS hierarchy and mechanism for loading it #470 (IrimieBogdan)
• (FACT-2552) Add Solaris processors facts #451 (oanatmaria)
• (Fact 2486) Add facts cache #430 (florindragos)

Fixed

• (FACT-2585) Mountpoints fact returns ASCI-8BIT instead of UTF-8 in some cases #472 (IrimieBogdan)
• (FACT-2570) Use Facter options to store custom and external facts #467 (IrimieBogdan)
• (FACT-2565) Debian development versions causes fatal error when resolving os.release #466 (Filipovici-Andrei)

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4.0.18

Added

• (FACT-2564) Add support for zpool_featureflags and fix zpool_version #443 (smortex)

Fixed

• (FACT-2553) remove double backslashes from windows path #456 (oanatmaria)
• (FACT-2559) Fix Facter.debugging? call when Facter not fully loaded #455 (Filipovici-Andrei)

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Fixed how custom and external fact directories are loaded

Fixed

• (FACT-2562) Correctly load custom and external fact directories #458 (IrimieBogdan)