2013-03-10 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.40.4)
* fixed get_box() command if task is run on a remote host
* fixed sudo without password
2013-03-09 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.40.3)
* fixed loading of files in lib directory
@INC sometime got populated too late
2013-03-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.40.2)
* fixed #117 - encode everything except a-z, 0-9 and _
2013-02-27 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.40.1)
* fixed #114 - used only once warnings
* fixed #115 - passwordless sudo didn't work
2013-02-23 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.40.0)
* fixed bug and refactored file path calculation #103 and #102
* added ini style groups #99 - Franky Van Liedekerke
* VirtualBox Headless mode #105
* added default environment "default"
* basic cmdb via YAML #107
* crypt sudo password
* sudo without locales and password #98 - Dominik Schulz
* fixed dmidecode on openbsd
* export update_system sub - Ferenc Erki
* fixing regex which gets name interfaces - Fran Rodriguez
2013-02-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.39.0)
* don't need PERL5LIB env any more, fixed bug #95
* match comments better - Naveed Massjouni
* more allowed characters in lvname - Samuele Tognini
* new feature flag: exit_status - rex will now return a number higher than 0
if a task execution fails.
* new function: is_installed - Daniel Baeurer
* optimized lookup_file function - Franky Van Liedekerke
* rexify command now allows usage of private module server
2013-01-27 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.38.0)
* added security groups to amazon cloud - Jonathan Delgado
* updated pod documentation - jorisd
* fixed a problem with do_task() and lost ssh connections
* rexify command now allows usage of local templates
* added architecture and apt key to Pkg::Debian - Daniel Baeurer
* added updated_system command to update a system
* box: added function to list all vms
* box: amazon support
* box: describe boxes with an YAML file
2013-01-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.37.1)
* fixed template bug in modules
2013-01-05 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.37.0)
* box module is now plugable
* run_task now accepts additional parameters
* virtualization module is now plugable
* hardware provider now plugable
* package provider now plugable
* service provider now plugable
* fixed zypper ref call for SuSE on unsigned repositories
2012-12-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.36.0)
* added run_task a new function to run tasks on specific hosts
* added feature to install perl dependencies via cpanm/cpan with rexify
command
* get private IP of amazon ec2 instances - jdelgado7
* added possibility to extend cloud api with external modules
* spawn a pty to execute commands #80. this fixes the requiretty thing.
2012-12-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.35.1)
* VirtualBox support for virtualization module
* new command - Rex::Commands::Box
* auth for - supports regular expresions
* repository function now supports multiple distributions in one call
* Unwrapped double looping over files and regexes and adding $new_line
if not present in absence of regexes - Mario Domgoergen
* Better handling of $option parameter for 'install' - joris
2012-12-14 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.34.2)
* fixed login for Rex::connect
2012-11-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.34.1)
* fixed #77. added iptables tests - Dominik Danter
* Relax ssh config file parsing - Dominik Schulz
2012-11-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.34.0)
* Use Storable module for shared variables
* Enhanced lookup_file function. Comments (#) and empty lines are now skipped. (chenryn)
* get_network_devices now detects ppp devices (under linux). (bokutin)
* Fixed pkg_info execution on FreeBSD (bokutin)
* Set $? to match effective command return value (joris)
* If a task is defined multiple times it will now print out a warning.
* Fixed mount bug #75
* Fixed Redhat Repo bug #73
* Fixed a bug with profiling and http endpoint
2012-10-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.33.3)
* fixed rename() bug, #67
2012-10-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.33.2)
* fixed windows bug
2012-09-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.33.1)
* speed improvements
* profiler class
* mounts can now be persisted in /etc/fstab - Laird Liu
* the partition command accepts a mount parameter to mount the partition
after creation - Laird Liu
* new keyword "make"
* some usability improvements - Anders Ossowicki
* create_user got a new option "no_create_home"
* it is now possible to use other template engines.
* it is now easier to write independant modules
* fixed expire date for create_user
* check shell before executing things
2012-08-30 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.32.1)
* fixed a bug in the transaction module
2012-08-21 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.32.0)
* made the worker model exchangeable
* added a reporting base class
* replaced Getops::Std with Rex::Args
* added start command to amazon cloud module
* fixed stop command in amazon cloud module
2012-08-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.31.5)
* fixed cli parameter bug (-G)
* fixed logging bug with %h
2012-08-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.31.0)
* fixed a bug for task with the no_ssh attribute
* added http transport layer
* added possibility to modify task and server authentication
2012-07-21 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.30.1)
* fixed a cli parameter bug for custom user authentication
* fixed a batch display bug
2012-06-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.30.0)
* rex -T now show the server groups as well
* new option "type" for the extract function - Sven Dowideit
* Added user_list and user_groups - Jean Charles Passard
* fixed the problem with pass_auth and rsync (#30)
* Better Error Messages for compile failures in modules
* Added support for task specific parallelism
* fixed upload and download to work in sudo environments
* add mode to extract function
* Added the on_change support to the append_if_no_such_line - Samuele Tognini
2012-05-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.29.0)
* Fixed wrong error message in LibVirt/create.pm - Sven Dowideit
* Added dumpxml command (LibVirt) - Sven Dowideit
* Updated docs - Sven Dowideit
* Default listening on all ip's for vnc (LibVirt) - Sven Dowideit
* Added more colorized output options - Samuele Tognini
* Fixed a logging bug - Samuele Tognini
* -Tv command line option output information about requested task - Samuele Tognini
* -Tv command line option output information about batches and environments - Samuele Tognini
* Updated some error messages output - Samuele Tognini
* Added iflist command (LibVirt) - Jean Charles Passard
* Added blklist command (LibVirt) - Jean Charles Passard
* Added vncdisplay command (LibVirt) - Sven Dowideit
* Fixed a bug with hooks and packages #41 - Jan Gehring
* Refactored Task Module. Task is now an object - Jan Gehring
* Added module to parse cli parameters - Jan Gehring
* Added driver_type for kvm disks
* fixed a md5 check bug for 'install file =>'
* fixed bug #50 (extract function)
* if no rexfile is in the current path try to guess the rexfile from the taskname - Sven Dowideit
* added experimental feature: shared variables - Jan Gehring
2012-05-08 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.28.0)
* fixed a bug with relative source file names inside external modules
* new parameter -Tv to display more information about tasks
* allow additional parameters for rsync
* more code refactoring
* fixed a bug in the libvirt module (thanks to SvenDowideit for reporting
and testing)
2012-05-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.27.0)
* added callback parameter to run command
* added logformat function to define custom logging
* reworked the output classes for better jenkins integration
* code refactoring
* added coloriszed output if Term::ANSIColor is available
* fixed a bug with older lvm versions
* added on_change option to sed command, thanks to Samuele Tognini
2012-04-26 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.26.3)
* fixed a notification bug in the on_change event of the file function.
* fixed a cli parameter bug in the rexify command.
2012-03-28 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.26.2)
* fixed a cli parameter bug (-G)
2012-03-13 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.26.1)
* fixed a bug in the libvirt module
2012-02-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.26.0)
* changed license to Apache 2.0
* added sudo compatibility
* added support for custom init commands
* added rex-agent compatibility
* added overmind compatibility
* added lvm support to libvirt module
* allow package installation with "install $pkg"
* added sed function
* added chdir parameter to extract function
* added include function to include Rex recipes without registering the tasks
* Specify the sudo password prompt to avoid different prompts in different locales. thanks to Hiroaki Nakamura
* Sync exclude option now takes a string or an array of strings. thanks to Hiroaki Nakamura
2012-02-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.25.3)
* fixed a display bug in rexify --search command
* fixed a bug in the libvirt module if it gets executed local
* fixed a bug in the service module for ubuntu
2012-02-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.25.2)
* display the correct module name in rexify --search command
2012-02-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.25.1)
* don't use github for recipes query
2012-02-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.25.0)
* added public repository commands to rexify
* added patch from JEEN Lee for gpgcheck on yum repositories
2012-02-13 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.24.1)
* fixed a dependeny bug
2012-02-10 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.24.0)
* Added patches from Alexandr Ciornii for Makefile.PL and home-directory detection
* it is now possible to use Rex as a library
* fixed/simplified SCM module
* added iptables flush command
* added a simple tcp alive test
* allow inline templates
* cloud_instance returns vm info after create
* added cli parameters to before/around hooks
* fixed before/around/after hooks for lokal tasks
* added lvm create functions
2012-01-14 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.23.0)
* Redhat Enterprise Linux Support (5/6)
* read ssh_config file
* rsync now automatically accept keys
2012-01-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.22.0)
* systemd service provider (for redhat and suse)
* before, around and after hooks for tasks
* curl: Allow connections to SSL sites without certs
* don't override db config if no import options given
* fixed suse detection bug
* user: set crypted passwords
* added OpenSuSE 12.1 compatibility
* fixed redhat versiond detection
* automatically use systemd service class if opensuse >= 12.1
* added fusioninventory-agent output to the inventory module (if available)
2011-10-28 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.21.1)
* fix for #8 - HOME environment variable on Windows
* fix for #5 - hostname evaluation with ips
2011-10-10 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.21.0)
* fixed running of multiple tasks by do_task
* allow multiple groups for a task
* every task can have its own auth information
* user module: add ssh key
* ssh port isn't fix anymore (patch from Jose Luis Martinez)
* use generic auth method from Net::SSH2 (patch from Jose Luis Martinez)
* add SCM module (Subversion and Git)
* file and upload now scans for environment specifiy files first
* added a file lookup function to build groups from
* fixed windows syslog bug #6, thanks to aero
* added -nolog parameter to logging function to disable logging at all
* added posibility to evaluate perl code within the -H cli parameter
2011-09-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.20.0)
* added virtualization module (from Sascha Guenther)
* added extract function
* flattend hardware gather template variables
* fixed set_path and get_path
* fixed get_random to return not 1 char too much
* added set and get commands to set config values
2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.19.0)
* added JUnit output module
* added environment support
* load Rex::Commands::Process as default
2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.18.1)
* fixed a bug registering tasks as functions
2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.18)
* added network support for Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD
* added is_solaris, is_bsd and is_linux function
2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.17)
* added solaris 11 support
* added solaris 10 support
* added a caching module
* added a clear task function (for rex-swarm)
* added a function to get os release
* fixed local copy error handling
2011-08-28 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.16)
* added NetBSD support
* added OpenBSD support
* fixed a bug in the gentoo pkg management module
2011-08-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.15)
* new function to detect a redhat system (or clone like CentOS, Scientific
Linux)
* increased timeouts for jiffybox
* fixed template bug with $ signs
* added support for scientific linux
* added support for gentoo
2011-08-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.14.0)
* Extended API to allow passing of arguments to Rex::Task->run
* FreeBSD support
* Ubuntu support
2011-08-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.13.0)
* cache sftp object - for speed
* added function to update package database
* added windows support
* license changed to GPL3
* added an alias for unlink (rm)
* added functions to manage repositories
* revised error handling
* added jiffybox support, a german cloudservice from domainfactory
* fixed template parsing bug (port from 0.12.1)
* fixed bug with too long content in file function (port from 0.12.2)
2011-07-23 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.12.0)
* allow array refs for Pkg::remove
* register every task as a sub if not in main package
* use lsb_release if available as default to detect operating system/version
* added sudo command
* allow to manage multiple services at once
* added possibility to add and remove services from runlevels
* added iptables module for basic iptables commands
* added cloud layer and support for amazon ec2 instances
2011-07-26 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.11.1)
* fixed output of netstat (reported by Thomas Biege)
* fixed inclusion of some modules in Run.pm that causes errors under
some circumstances (reported by Thomas Biege)
2011-07-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.11.0)
* added lvm module
* added lvm to inventory
* fixed <OUT OF SPEC> inventory string
* fixed multiplicator for GB and TB
* added order key to selects
* added support for hpacucli
* added centos 6 support
2011-07-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.10.1)
* fixed db disconnect on forks
* fixed some typos
2011-07-12 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.10.0)
* added network module for route, default gateway and netstat
* added mount and umount function
* added cron module
* added more information (basic system information) to the inventor function
* added installed_packages function to get all the installed packages
2011-07-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.9.0)
* register tasks as function if possible
* add "lib" to INC if exists
* added function get_operating_system
* added transactions
* deprecated "package file =>"
* added hal module to access hardware information detected by hal
* added dmidecode module to access bios information
* added inventory function "inventor"
* added ubuntu support (tested with lts 10.04)
* added can_run function, to test if a command is present
2011-07-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.8.1)
* fixed mageia detection
* fixed bug if dnsdomainname returns no domainname
* fixed mkdir bug on setting permissions, caused by a wrong merge
2011-06-26 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.8.0)
* added mageia support for services and packages
* added chown, chgrp and chmod functions
* mkdir, added possibility to specify the permission, the user and the group
* added function delete_lines_matching
* added function append_if_no_such_line
* added reload action for services
* extended db module to support insert, delete, update
2011-06-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.7.1)
* restored the backward compatibility with perl 5.8.x
* suppress warning if no parameter is given
* fixed mkdir function
2011-06-23 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.7.0)
* preload a lot more default modules
* added new functions (df, du, cp)
* added some aliases (ln, cp, cd, ls)
* added process management functions (kill, killall, nice, ps)
* splitted out rex-agent and rex-master.
2011-06-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.6.1)
* fixed documentation bugs (thanks to djill)
* fixed #68827, rewrote is_readable/is_writable
* handle auth failure correctly
* mkdir now created directories recursive