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# Ohai Release Notes:

## Cumulus Linux Platform

Cumulus Linux will now be detected as platform `cumulus` instead of `debian` and the `platform_version` will be properly set to the Cumulus Linux release.

## Virtualization Detection

Windows / Linux / BSD guests running on the Veertu hypervisors will now be detected

Windows guests running on Xen and Hyper-V hypervisors will now be detected

## New Sysconf Plugin

A new plugin parses the output of the sysconf command to provide information on the underlying system.

## AWS Account ID

The EC2 plugin now fetches the AWS Account ID in addition to previous instance metadata

## GCC Detection

GCC detection has been improved to collect additional information, and to not prompt for the installation of Xcode on macOS systems