# Ohai 8.18 Released

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/ohai-8-18-released/9074>\
**Category:** Chef Release Announcements\
**Created:** [August 4, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/ohai-8-18-released/9074 "2016-08-04T17:47:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![tas50](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/tas50/32/941_2.png) [@tas50](https://discourse.chef.io/u/tas50)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/ohai-8-18-released/9074/1 "2016-08-04T17:47:23Z")

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Ohai 8.18 is now up on Rubygems and will be included with the next release of chef-client

**New Functionality:**

- Add a plugin for collecting available shells
- BlockDevice: Add physical and logical block size
- Properly detect PHP 7
- Add support for Linux HugePages
- Add detection of Virtualbox and VMware Fusion on OS X
- Remove support for Ruby 2.0
- Add hardware plugin for ohai on darwin