Deprecation: Windows CPU plugin attribute changes. (OHAI-5)
The Windows Ohai plugin has been updated to correctly return CPU
information. Previously the CPU plugin reported a model_name value,
which was actually the CPU’s description and not the actual model name.
Ohai now reports the proper name value for model_name and provides
description with the previous description value. This behavior aligns
CPU plugin behavior between *nix and Windows hosts in Chef.
Remediation
If you rely on the format of a CPU model_name value such as
node['cpu'['0']['model_name'] you will need to update your cookbook
code to reference node['cpu']['0']['description'] instead.
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