What's new in Rex 1.14.2.3
Aug 4, 2023
- [BUG FIXES]:
- Fix checking command existence
New in Rex 1.14.2.2 (Aug 2, 2023)
- [BUG FIXES]:
- Fix checking test git repository
- Fix local package installation
New in Rex 1.14.2.1 (May 29, 2023)
- [BUG FIXES]:
- Fix skipping tests without git
- Fix changing directory into git test repository
New in Rex 1.14.2 (May 7, 2023)
- [BUG FIXES]:
- Fix switching working directory to another drive
- Fix git cloning into an existing empty directory
- Fix Rexfile loading tests after perl-5.37.9
New in Rex 1.14.1 (Mar 6, 2023)
- [DOCUMENTATION]:
- Clarify PATH settings for executing commands
- Clarify sync command locality
- Clarify run command output handling
New in Rex 1.13.4.1 (Jan 30, 2023)
- [BUG FIXES]:
- Detect invalid hostgroup expressions
- Prevent empty log lines upon Rexfile warnings
- Fix tests on Strawberry Perl older than 5.18.4
- Fix test warnings on Perl before 5.16.0
- [DOCUMENTATION]:
- Clarify optional arguments of file commands
- Clarify optional arguments of the pkg command
- Correct example for file_read command
- [ENHANCEMENTS]:
- Show Rexfile path in loading messages
- Hide internal details when Rexfile loading fails
- [MINOR]:
- Set minimum required Perl version to 5.12.5
- [REVISION]:
- Fix handling of warnings during Rexfile loading
- Mask internal naming in Rexfile loading output
New in Rex 1.13.4 (Jul 7, 2021)
- [DOCUMENTATION]:
- Add section about Rex core vs extending Rex
- Add common scenarios to contributing guide
- Clarify documentation of run command
- Clarify documentation of can_run command
- Fix Rex::Task synopsis
- Clarify documentation of rex script
New in Rex 1.13.3.2 (Jul 5, 2021)
- Fix local file copy on Windows
New in Rex 1.13.3.1 (Jul 5, 2021)
- Remove unused tasks array
- Fix file hooks when source option is used
New in Rex 1.13.3 (Mar 8, 2021)
- [BUG FIXES]:
- Fix parsing debconf values containing colons
- [DOCUMENTATION]:
- Clarify contributing guide
- Remove misleading sudo command variant
New in Rex 1.13.2 (Dec 7, 2020)
- [DOCUMENTATION]:
- Clarify templating documentation
New in Rex 1.13.1 (Nov 6, 2020)
- [DOCUMENTATION]
- Clarify perlcritic policy
New in Rex 1.13.0.3 (Nov 2, 2020)
- [BUG FIXES]:
- Fix gathering OS version for Cygwin
- Fix excessive caching when querying a CMDB item
- Fix gathering OS version for Windows
- Add missing autodie feature flag
New in Rex 1.13.0.2 (Oct 29, 2020)
- BUG FIXES:
- Fix CMDB hostname when Rex is being run locally
- Fix replacing hostname macro in CMDB paths
- Fix host information gathering on Windows
- Fix hostname detection on Windows
- Fix CMDB path separators on Windows
- [DOCUMENTATION:
- Clarify CMDB documentation
- [REVISION:
- Add initial CMDB path tests
New in Rex 1.13.0.1 (Oct 14, 2020)
- [BUG FIXES]:
- Fix MD5 checksumming when default perl does not have Digest::MD5 or incompatible with the perl running rex
New in Rex 1.13.0 (Oct 6, 2020)
- [BUG FIXES]:
- Fix MD5 checksumming if filename looks like md5 output
- Fix fallback hostname detection on Linux
- Require minimum version of List::MoreUtils
- [NEW FEATURES]:
- Add on_no_change hook for file commands
- [REVISION]:
- Add progressive perlcritic test
- Enable more perlcritic policies
New in Rex 1.12.2 (Oct 2, 2020)
- [BUG FIXES]:
- Fix fallback MD5 calculation method on OS X
- Fix dmidecode section getter
- Fix cpuinfo parsing
- Fix registering custom template functions
- Fix handling of configuration file settings
- Skip MD5 binary test if there's no binary available
- Warn if cpuinfo is unreadable
- Fix file hook options
- Fix file on_change hook when source option is used
- Set uniform environment for Debian package commands
- Disable apt-listbugs
- [DOCUMENTATION]:
- Clarify contributing guide
- Clarify INI file documentation
- Document custom server parameters in INI files
- Clarify installation of OS-specific dependencies
- Clarify installation steps
- [REVISION]:
- Set Travis CI root build job options explicitly
- Test internal MD5 checksumming methods
- Report coverage to Coveralls
- Add initial test for proc inventory
- Test custom template functions
- Add initial config file tests
- Test custom server functions
- Add test for OS-specific dependencies
- List optional features and their dependencies
- List suggested development dependencies
- Test cpuinfo inventory
- Add initial file hook tests
- Add file on_change tests for source option
New in Rex 1.12.1 (Aug 6, 2020)
- [DOCUMENTATION]:
- Document feature flags
- Clarify description of the rex script
- [REVISION]:
- Gather only files tracked by git
New in Rex 1.12.0 (Aug 4, 2020)
- [BUG FIXES]:
- Discontinue support for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and older
- Avoid caching of Bash completion options to support multiple Rexfiles
- Fix calling get_file_path from Rexfile
- Fix quoting of rsync parameters
- Fix local download rsync operations
- Fix determining local connections for rsync operations
- [ENHANCEMENTS]:
- Extend Bash completion with known hosts
- Support wildcards in get_file_path
- Split out temp file naming logic
- [NEW FEATURES]:
- Enable Bash completion of available CLI options
- Add tab completion for Zsh
- Enable local rsync operations
- Distribute tab completion scripts
- [REVISION]:
- Use author tests to check tidiness of bin files
- Use Symbol to manipulate Perl symbols
- Add initial rsync tests
- - Test rsync with spaces in source path
- - Test rsync with wildcard in source path
- - Add initial test for temp file names
- - Simplify temp file naming logic
- - Use set semantics for directory comparisons
New in Rex 1.4.0 (Mar 7, 2016)
- Normalize EOL characters earlier (fix #957) - Ferenc Erki
- fixed variable usage - Jan
- remove chr(13) everywhere - fix #957 - Jan
- cleanup newline(s) at the end. fix for #957 - Jan
- Increase timeout for read_buffer test (fix #954) - Ferenc Erki
- Test with a bit less output - Ferenc Erki
- Update read_buffer test for Windows - Ferenc Erki
- removed read_buffer reduction - Jan Gehring
- Handle partial last chunks from STDOUT and STDERR - Ferenc Erki
- Fix draining IO - Ferenc Erki
- Add initial tests for draining IO - Ferenc Erki
- fix continuous read bug - RexOps/#951 - Jan
- Reopen STDERR after loading Rexfile - Dmitry Kopytov
- Let service tests be silent - Ferenc Erki
- Don't confess upon failure of a non-resource (fix #936) - Ferenc Erki
- iptables_clear should clear only loaded tables - Dmitry Kopytov
- Fix copy-pasta POD errors - Ferenc Erki
- Make CPAN Testers happy for unsupported OSes - Ferenc Erki
- fixed issue of calling Rex::Args->get inside before_task_start - RexOps/Rex#934 - krimdomu
- can't connect message must be ::info logging - krimdomu
- check if task is no object, and get the task object then - Jan Gehring
- removed connecting to mesages (change to debug level) - Jan Gehring
- added parameters to do_task and fixed LOCAL block - Jan Gehring
- fixed calling of exit hooks after summary - Jan Gehring
- Update docs for Rex::Task - Ferenc Erki
- Add docs for Rex::Shared::Var (fix #920) - Ferenc Erki
- Update sudo docs (fix #918) - Ferenc Erki
- Fix summary tests for Mac OS X - Ferenc Erki
- Add tests for task hooks - Ferenc Erki
- don't clone task object. When cloned before_task_start/after_task_finished hooks doesn't work - fix #919 - krimdomu
- debug output now gets displayed again. - fix RexOps/Rex#910 - krimdomu
- fix loading of Rexfile on perl 5.8.9 - RexOps/Rex#922 - krimdomu
- fixed loading of resource module in perl 5.8 - RexOps/Rex#917 - krimdomu
- try to fix failing tests on freebsd - #901 - krimdomu
- Fix POD - Ferenc Erki
- Unbundle AWS::Signature4 - Ferenc Erki
- Fix rendering of false values in templates - Ferenc Erki
- Test rendering of false values in templates - Ferenc Erki
- Avoid __Rexfile__ as dependency - Ferenc Erki
- Enable more feature flags for development releases - Ferenc Erki
- Use development versioning - Ferenc Erki
- Pass options to mkfs (#fix 905) - Ferenc Erki
- Don't fail mkfs if label is undefined - Ferenc Erki
- Skip creating filesystems for some reserved words - Ferenc Erki
- Check for fstype existence at the start - Ferenc Erki
- Update docs for partition command - Ferenc Erki
- Remove purge package action on arch (fix #867) - Ferenc Erki
- Use sysread for local exec interface too (fix #887) - Ferenc Erki
- Avoid bitshifting error code twice (fix #901) - Ferenc Erki
- add default values for cpu and memory - krimdomu
- some windows fixes for rexify command - krimdomu
- run shell detection a second time if first time failed - krimdomu
- remove unnecessary new lines - krimdomu
- moved detect method to base, because it is everywhere the same, created direct_exec method for all interfaces - krimdomu
- remove error message, we don't need it for the tests - krimdomu
- fixed inheritance problem, moved shell() method to base class. - krimdomu
- return always shell object - krimdomu
- load right cron module if os is *bsd and shell is csh - #883 - krimdomu
- use sysread to read from filehandle. fixes #887 - krimdomu
- Read STDOUT and STDERR in parallel (fix #756) - Ferenc Erki
- fix error code in $? after a run command which was introduced by 6c8441 - krimdomu
- print the error message in the summary when a task die()d - krimdomu
- readd close of stderr - krimdomu
- only update chained resource when the upper resource wasn't changed before. Also removed 'inside resource check' because this is not needed anymore due to stacked resources - krimdomu
- fix loading of libraries in lib directory when use -f path/to/Rexfile - krimdomu
- fixed loading of rexfiles with -f - krimdomu
- load a rexfile also if it doesn't return a true value. This fixes a regression - RexOps/Rex#513 - krimdomu
- fixed reporting of nested resources (changed resource) - krimdomu
- fixed firewall resource to work with ipv6 patch - krimdomu
- added Rex::Args->get method again. fixes #860 - krimdomu
- Refactor Rex::TaskList. No functional change. - Eric Johnson
- fixed tests for windows - krimdomu
- added tmp to gitignore - krimdomu
- Add Rex::Commands::Mkfs to rexify and pp.args - Ferenc Erki
- The after hook now runs even if the ssh connection fails. - Eric Johnson
- added archlinux support - Harm Müller
- support key_url and key_file also on redhat systems - krimdomu
- also lookup task name in cmdb - krimdomu
- Fix regression in deprecated static call to Rex::Task->run() - Eric Johnson
- Fix links in README (fix #853) - Ferenc Erki
- Output full task names (fix #825, close #842) - Daniel Cesario
- use empty string to prevent uninitialized warning messages - krimdomu
- make environment available inside cmdb template - krimdomu
- color for windows - krimdomu
- defaults for cpus and memory - krimdomu
- call after task hook, even if connection to system failed - krimdomu
- fix after hook call for connections that wasn't successfull - krimdomu
- Fix passing memory/cpus options to constructor - Ferenc Erki
- Allow tests so set Box memory and cpus (close #839) - Patrick Lauer
- Exit with an error message when a bad task name is used. - Eric Johnson
- Exit codes now work when using 'rex -e' (fix #761, close #840) - Eric Johnson
- Fix indentation - Eric Johnson
- Refactor out some code into handle_lock_file() - Eric Johnson
- Refactor out logic for loading server ini file into load_server_ini_file(). - Eric Johnson
- Put Rexfile exists check inside load_rexfile() - Eric Johnson
- Simplify loading the Rexfile and improve error handling. - Eric Johnson
- Add missing Data::Dumper import - Ken Crowell
- Tests for needs() were not useful. Now they are. - Eric Johnson
- allow mix of modules.rexify.org modules and git modules - Jan
- Fix summary test tasks for Windows - Ferenc Erki
- Add support for ip6tables (close #795) - Dmitry Kopytov
- Prefer uid over getlogin as fallback username (close #793, fix #792) - Ferenc Erki
- Sort failure list - Ferenc Erki
- Further simplify summary output - Ferenc Erki
- Refactor summary output - Ferenc Erki
- Use error level output in the summary if some tasks failed - Ferenc Erki
- added AWS::Signature4 directly to code, due to problems with Centos5 dependencies (#737) - Jan
- ignore eclipse files - Jan
- fixed call of task as functions with normal parameters, #827 - Jan
- allow config (set) vars in cmdb templates - Jan
- Fix template handling in YAML CMDB files - Ferenc Erki
- YAML cmdb can now contain template code - Jan
- don't concat caller package anymore - Jan
- fixed some unitialized warnings - Jan
- fixed lookup path for arp command - Jan
- report all packages - Jan
- allow nested resources in reports - Jan
- use md5 binary if perl module is not available - fix for #834 - Jan
- default to empty task list - Jan
- don't print summary on rex -T - Jan
- use can_run to detect arp command - Jan Gehring
- Custom storage path for kvm - Prajithp
- give server configuration precedence - Jan
- detect iptables version and choose syntax for ip adresses - Jan
- fixed a logic bug, that prevents batch creation - Jan
- fixed a bug that was introduced by b0416b1710611b900284ba5a2d9d74991fc4351b - Jan
- Ensuring that labels can be added to swap partitions - Peter H. Ezetta
- Ensure proper test-time connection type (fix #821) - Ferenc Erki
- Fix examples - Ferenc Erki
- Slightly reword synopsis - Ferenc Erki
- Updated pod in bin/rex and lib/Rex.pm - Eric Johnson
- Fix static side comments - Ferenc Erki
- Use static comments to avoid alignment change later - Ferenc Erki
- Checking for a running rex process failed if the pidfile contains a pid that partially matches a running process. - petersonchen
- Updated documentation in bin/rex (pod/man page) - Eric Johnson
- fixed loading of Rex::Commands via require. RexOps/Rex#789 - Jan Gehring
- Recognize Raspbian as a Debian clone - Ferenc Erki
- Mute noisy tests - Ferenc Erki
- Added option for rebase during pull. - Eivin Giske Skaaren
- added feature flag for 1.4 and removed deprecated warning of Rex::RunList - Jan
- Added a firewall module to manage different firewall models with one interface. - Jan
- resource and task now have own namespace for template variables - Jan
- Exit codes need to be bit shifted by 8. Do it in one place. - Eric Johnson
- Summary tests for all permutations of Parallel::ForkManager, Base, and exec_autodie - Eric Johnson
- Summarize success/failure at the end of a run - Eric Johnson
- added ParamLookup and registering task parameter as template variables. - Jan
- Suppress STDERR during crontab listings - Ferenc Erki
- Fix managing a user's own crontab via cron_entry - Ferenc Erki
- Add _whoami to determine remote effective username - Ferenc Erki
- Add docs on glob usage with file command (close #712, fix #738) - Jose Luis Perez Diez
- Map Debian clones correctly - Ferenc Erki
- Recognize LinuxMint as a Debian clone (close #506) - Ferenc Erki
- Fix GetRex link url - hiroraba
- Avoid unnecessary package rebuilds on Gentoo (close #809) - Patrick Lauer
- Don't parse @ARGV on import. - Eric Johnson
- Refactor child/parent pid logic + comments to be more readable - Eric Johnson
- Avoid race condition when doing IPC. - Eric Johnson
- Test for race condition problem in Rex::Shared::Var. - Eric Johnson
- Refactoring LVM.pm to use mkfs(); - Peter H. Ezetta
- refactor Partition.pm, fix $lv_name in Mkfs.pm - Peter H. Ezetta
- refactoring swap logic into mkfs logic, silly to separate. - Peter H. Ezetta
- code cleanup and addition of POD - Peter H. Ezetta
- error checking on $lvname - Peter H. Ezetta
- setting up logic for lvm vs raw disk - Peter H. Ezetta
- starting to add option parsing - Peter H. Ezetta
- start of refactor mkfs/mkswap into their own pm - Peter H. Ezetta
- Fix undef warnings if calling get() without param - Andy Beverley
- lower exitecode to less than 255 because some os have problems with larger ones - Jan
- Fatal exceptions if git switching fail - alex1line
- fix for Net::OpenSSH can't set initialize_options for the constructor - #796 - Jan Gehring
- fixes the problem of run_task connecting to the wrong host #788 - Jan Gehring
New in Rex 1.3.3 (Aug 28, 2015)
- Use binmode as a function - Jan
- Use raw Rex::Interface::Exec to call can_run - Jan
- Remove md5sum usage - Ferenc Erki
- Fix for filenames with at sign in them - Ferenc Erki
- Add test case for filenames with at sign - Ferenc Erki
- Add initial MD5 test - Ferenc Erki
- Fix check for environment-specific filenames - Ferenc Erki
- Use OS-agnostic perl executable detection - Ferenc Erki
- Fix RC version handling - Ferenc Erki
- Refactor MD5 checksum calculation (fix #719) - Ferenc Erki
- Add missing test names - Ferenc Erki
- Only display diagnostic message if something went wrong - Ferenc Erki
- Explicitly test for optional dependencies - Ferenc Erki
- Fix LEFT_PRECEDENCE typo - Dmitry Kopytov
New in Rex 1.3.1 (Jun 8, 2015)
- Cleanup db tests (fix #714) - Ferenc Erki
- Update parallelism docs - Ferenc Erki
New in Rex 1.3.0 (Jun 8, 2015)
- Fix regex pattern for perl-5.22.0 - Ferenc Erki
- Filter changelogger output - Ferenc Erki
- Cleanup group command POD - Ferenc Erki
- Convert POD directives of methods and DSL functions (fix #685, close #705) - Brian Manning
- pass cmdb() arguments to callback - fixed #709 - Jan
- allow creation of inherited Rex::Group::Entry::Server objects - fixed #708 - Jan
- Reuse VM name as image filename when importing - Ferenc Erki
- Recognize CloudLinux as Red Hat clone (close #699) - Dmitry Kopytov
- Fix auth test when REX_USER env is present - Dmitry Kopytov
- Remove unused CLI option - Ferenc Erki
- More helpful/verbose help message (close #698) - Eric Johnson
- Cleanup a file used during testing - Ferenc Erki
- Cleanup tests with optional dependencies - Ferenc Erki
- Use explicit test plans everywhere - Ferenc Erki
- Cleanup test imports - Ferenc Erki
- Remove tests doing nothing else than use_ok() - Ferenc Erki
- Automatically use all modules during testing - Ferenc Erki
- Remove redundant hostname evaluation tests - Ferenc Erki
- Remove unused Data::Dumper from tests - Ferenc Erki
- Add CMDB docs - Ferenc Erki
- Don't run into an endless loop: fix for #692 - Jan Gehring
- Iptables.pm: add long-form iptables examples to POD - Brian Manning
- Iptables.pm: show error from iptables on non-zero exit status - Brian Manning
- ignore backfiles from editors - Jan
- Log STDERR on errors where auto_die is enabled - Dmitry Kopytov
- Set parallelism automatically (fix #491) - Ferenc Erki
- added template_ng tests - Jan
- fixed a problem when one template object was used twice - Jan
- new template engine for 1.3 - Jan
- Fix checking of virsh command result upon VM creation - Ferenc Erki
- Update clearpart command documentation - Ferenc Erki
- Add bios_boot option to GPT initialization - Ferenc Erki
- make report filename configurable. don't sleep in test - Jan
- Check for CLI argument definedness (fix #668) - Ferenc Erki
- this commit fixes #667. this bug was introduced with the fix for #629 - Jan
- first detect if uname and md5sum can be run, then use it. fixed #665 - Jan
- fix warning if local file is not given. fixed #647 - Jan
- Include provided modules in META.yml - Ferenc Erki
- added systemd support for debian. fixes #659 - Jan
- this prevents the stderr output of perl to get send over the wire. fixes #658 - Jan
New in Rex 1.2.1 (May 5, 2015)
- first detect if uname and md5sum can be run, then use it. fixed #665 - Jan
New in Rex 1.2.0 (May 4, 2015)
- Set version to 9999.99.99 if version is not present (e.g. during development) - Jan
- Fix Rexfile parsing (fix #629) - Jan
- Refactor tasklist output (fix #631, #653) - Eric Johnson
- Remove -w from shebang (fix #650) - Eric Johnson
- Add tab completion (fix #636, #652) - Eric Johnson
- Update modules listed in POD - Brian Manning
- Add another Red Hat synonym for RHWS version 3 - Brian Manning
- Fix file manipulation when using Net::OpenSSH and sudo (fix #640) - Jan
- Check if requested environment is defined (fix #639) - Ferenc Erki
- Use normal DSL for internal task - Ferenc Erki
- Fix SCM documentation - Ferenc Erki
- Sort server names naturally - Ferenc Erki
- Sort tasklist output (fix #633) - Ferenc Erki
- Add YAML CMDB merging support (fix #499) - Ferenc Erki
- Add CMDB merge tests - Ferenc Erki
- Update list of contributors - Ferenc Erki
- Check number of elements returned by stat - Ferenc Erki
- Rex::Commands::Fs::stat() should return a hash or throw an exception. - Mitch Broadhead
- Allow single-character tasknames (fix #621) - Ferenc Erki
- Fix reporting for umount - Ferenc Erki
New in Rex 1.1.0 (Apr 21, 2015)
- Fix dependencies for openssh + pass_auth - Ferenc Erki
- prevent faulty debug message - Jan
- fixed merge_auth() method for #615 -Jan
- Update task tests (fix #614) - Jan
- Recognize usable SSH modules separately - Ferenc Erki
- Describe platform-specific dependencies - Ferenc Erki
- Only check for iDrac signature if there was an output - Ferenc Erki
- added a prototype, this will prevent failures like RexOps/Rex#584 - references: RexOps/Rex#608 - Jan
- we need to do an explicit return undef. if we only use 'return' and the return of is_file/is_dir is passed to an array, this will not appear in the array. reference: RexOps/Rex#608 - Jan
- updated tests to use is() instead of ok(). reference: RexOps/Rex#608 - Jan
- changed return code to undef if file/dir not found. fix for RexOps/Rex#608 - Jan
- Add initial iDrac shell support - Ferenc Erki
- Allow can_run method to accept command to do the check with - Jan
- Check if a command can be run before its execution (fix #514) - Ferenc Erki
- Refactor can_run - Ferenc Erki
- Support can_run command on Windows - Ferenc Erki
- Move can_run to Rex::Interface::Exec - Ferenc Erki
- Add can_run tests - Ferenc Erki
- Create target directory before extracting an archive (fix #600, close #604) - Arnold Bechtoldt
- Update POD (close #598) - Ferenc Erki
- added a Rex::Logger::masq() function that can masq sensitiv data for logging output. (fix for RexOps/Rex#554) - Jan
- added code to make shells pluggable. - RexOps/Rex#602 - Jan
- Avoid noisy test output - Ferenc Erki
- added support to export resources to main namespace and added more events - Jan
- added possibility to use auth(for => task) before a task is created - fixed #402 - Jan
- Fix handling of symbolic links (fix #591, close #592) - Jan
- this adds a new method to the server objects called group() - Jan
- fixed setting of path environment variable - #583 - Jan
- Add preferred type option for mount command (fix #469) - Ferenc Erki
- Reword has_{dir,file} test outputs - Ferenc Erki
- Add has_dir test - Ferenc Erki
- Print explicit PASS or FAIL output upon finishing a test suite - Ferenc Erki
- Fix has_stat test for non-existing UIDs and GIDs - Ferenc Erki
- Allow has_stat test to handle directories (fix #582) - Ferenc Erki
- Add diag method for Rex::Test::Base - Ferenc Erki
- Ensure proper return values for is_{dir,file} functions (fix #584) - Ferenc Erki
- Drop potentially dangerous --force-yes option (fix #559) - Ferenc Erki
- Generate docs for Rex::Test (fix #483) - Ferenc Erki
New in Rex 1.0.0 (Apr 21, 2015)
- Remove hardcoded connection type (fix #579) - Ferenc Erki
- fixed systemd status query - Jan
- test output of tmpdir gathering before working with it. - Jan
- fixed removing some tmp files - Jan
- fixed some warnings for netstat listing if reading an unknown transport layer - Jan
- added no_autodie feature flag - Jan
- fixed is_file() for files with spaces - Jan
- Fix POD - Ferenc Erki
- don't redirect stdout 2 times. freebsd don't like it - Jan
- added tty feature flag and sorted the flags - Jan
- added some defaults for kvm boxes (network) - Jan
- fixed autodie bug for is_symlink function - Jan
- added reconnect tries to Net::OpenSSH connections - Jan
- Allow spaces in Augeas values - Andrew Beverley
- Warn if Augeas command fails - Andrew Beverley
- fixed a problem if a server group was empty - Jan
- dist.ini: Add Twitter and IRC links to metaresources block - Brian Manning
- Rex::Commands::MD5: Make Rex use the /sbin/md5 binary on OS X - Brian Manning
- Rex::Commands::User: fix typo in POD (user_group -> user_groups) - Brian Manning
- Rex::Helper:Run->i_run: check no_path_cleanup before calling get_path - Brian Manning
- stop 'profile' before returning from a subroutine. - Andrej Zverev
- Speed up connecting to Boxes - Ferenc Erki
- allow call of run() command with arrayRef - Jan
- fixed sync_up/sync_down with Text::Glob - Jan
- fixed authentication, failing if try password auth without mentioning pass_auth directly - Jan
- fixed line endings with openssh and pty - Jan
- Added possibility to use group() also as a resource function - Jan
- added possibility to define task parameters multiple times from cli. - #516 - Jan
- fixed windows tests - #514 - Jan
- fixed #555 - default for Net::OpenSSH now also spawn a pty. Can be disabled with feature no_tty - Jan
- Die if trying to run augeas without augtool installed (close #547) - Andrew Beverley
- Skip db tests if there are missing dependencies (fix #548, close #549) - Volker Kroll (vkroll)
- Restore perl-5.8.9 compatibility - Ferenc Erki
- Add test for minimum perl version required - Ferenc Erki
- Be more explicit about required perl version - Ferenc Erki
- Stop append_or_amend_line inserting extra blank lines - Andrew Beverley
- Add tests for append_or_amend_line - Andrew Beverley
- fixed Rex::Box with Net::OpenSSH - Jan
- rex/CLI.pm: update docs for Rex options - Brian Manning
- CLI.pm: throw error if -T used with task arg, but no matching task found - Brian Manning
- fixed #539 - detect primary network address - Jan
- Add append_or_amend_line function to File command - Andrew Beverley
- Drop Rex::Helper::Glob - Ferenc Erki
- Suppress noisy test output - Ferenc Erki
- Suppress warning about a variable being used only once - Ferenc Erki
- Tidy up all the tests - Ferenc Erki
- Use more helpful test functions - Ferenc Erki
- use more appropriate functions from Test::More in tests - reneeb
- some class inherit cleanup - Jan
- Use correct path when using augeas insert - Andrew Beverley
- Return correct output from augtool - Andrew Beverley
- Fix false positive when using "augeas exists" - Andrew Beverley
- Optimise Rex::Commands::Augeas - Andrew Beverley
- Add user base class for those calls not supported in all OS - Andrew Beverley
- Add password lock/unlock functions (Linux only) - Andrew Beverley
- fixed resource end - Jan
- Add PkgConf command to configure packages - Andrew Beverley
- fixed set_openssh_opt() function to allow multiple options - Jan
- fixed #527 - Rex::Output leaks semaphores and shared memory - Jan
- improved continous_read option for Net::SSH2 connection mode - Jan
- tail now also works with sudo also fixed #530 - Jan
- use Net::OpenSSH is now default. don't need feature flag 0.55 - Jan
- fixed line based operation with OpenSSH connection mode - Jan
- migrated augeas module into Rex core - #532 - Jan
- added partial sudo support for rsync command - Jan
- fixed #529 - odd number of elements - Jan
- fixed #528 -Amazon list_services, doesn't get all ec2 instances - thanks to David Golovan - Jan
- fixed an issue that causes the parser to think the rexfile has an error - Jan
- start of unit-test for Rex::Commands::DB - Volker Kroll (vkroll)
- better fix for #521, don't print all servers by rex -T. Also fixed group authentication. - Jan
- patch from twitter/@tekcurmudgeon to allow setting of gpgkey for a repository - Jan
- fixed late group lookup - #521 - Jan
- if the evaluation of the Rexfile was without syntax errors, but don't return a true value, try to evaluate it manually. so is is not needed to return a true value at the end. - fix for #513 - Jan
- fixed path resolution for private_key and public_key when used a ~ (tilde) sign. #517 - Jan
- fix rsync with port definition - #520 - Jan
- added parse_templates option to sync_up function, so that template parsing can be prevented - #519 - Jan
- Rex::FS::File accepts filenames now - reneeb
- Add initial version of changelog generator - Ferenc Erki
New in Rex 0.57.0 (Apr 21, 2015)
- allow definition of gpgkey for redhat/yum repositories - #522 - tekcurmudgeon
- fixed Group defined after task definition - #521
- fixed rsync will execute failed when use -H 127.0.0.1:2222 - #520
- added new sync_up/down option for sync_up function will replace template variable of *.tpl - #519
- fixed failed authentication when used ~ symbol - #517
- fixed before_task_start() fails with an ambiguous error when your Rexfile does not return a true value - #513
New in Rex 0.56.1 (Jan 7, 2015)
- tasks doesn't return a value when called as a sub (#523)
New in Rex 0.55.3 (Dec 27, 2014)
- Bug fixes:
- Don't return leading ./ on pathes - Ferenc Erki
- Make helper_path tests OS-agnostic - Ferenc Erki
- Convert ok() tests to is() - Ferenc Erki
- Remove unnecessary variable assignment - Ferenc Erki
- Update installation instructions - Ferenc Erki
- Use ChangeLog file in tests - Ferenc Erki
- Fix typo - Ferenc Erki
- status call for services with upstart and systemd may not work properly - #460 - Jan
- sudo with -e cli flag doesn't work - #461 - Jan
- Cannot pass an argument with the value zero to a task - #463 - Jan
- Issue tracker not in META.yml - #464 - Ferenc Erki
- Allow specifying which tests to run as a parameter for Test:run #462 - Ferenc Erki
- vm names in quote. so they can contain spaces - Jan
- fallback to arp query if no answer from rex-kvm-agent - #454 - Jan
- Print out error messages during Test:run (fix #450) - Ferenc Erki
- Clarify error message during image download - Ferenc Erki
- Remove explicit setting of VERSION - Ferenc Erki
- return 0 if no swap given - #452 - Jan
- fixed windows crashing on multiple connects - #448 - Jan
- Work when swap in not enabled and values are undefined. FreeBSD only for now. - Graham Todd
- possibility to modify Net::OpenSSH constructor - Jan
- Revert use Rex::Group (#447) - Ferenc Erki
- added late-group lookup, if group is not defined yet. fixed #447 - Jan
- Make PkgVersion happy - Ferenc Erki
- Fix typo - Ferenc Erki
- removed unlink - Jan
- Added possibility to query rex-kvm-agent. fixed #436 - Jan
- dont throw error with multiple test files - Robert Abraham
- Add ROSA systems support - Denis Silakov
- fixed get_installed and is_installed functions Rex::Pkg::Gentoo - Robert Abraham
- create binary installers from Rexfiles - Jan
- Correct ChangeLog - Ferenc Erki
- use Net::OpenSSH as default when available - #435 - Jan
- removed executable bit - Jan
- Added possibility to pack rex with PAR - Jan
New in Rex 0.54.3 (Oct 6, 2014)
- added possibility to clone an jiffybox image - #439 - Peter Manthey
- only execute testfiles which end on .t - #434 - Robert Abraham
- close last used ssh connection after test - #433 - Robert Abraham
- Add error message when attempting to run a non-existing task - FErki
- Check if file exists before checking contents - fix #432 - FErki
- refactored the behaviour of set() function to do what it is saying. So with feature 0.54 enabled set is always overwriting the existing values. (#425)
- Add service_exists for Gentoo - FErki
- fixing nested sudo operations. - #423
- added check if service exists - #407
- Handle hostgroup members with leading numeric ranges - FErki
- redirect nohup output to /dev/null
- fixed return value for flavors function - #406 - exzz
- make apt-listchanges non-interactive - #417 - aowi
- added path_map function - Erik Huelsmann
- don't try to run dmidecode if it is not in PATH - Andrej Zverev
- enhanced support for pkgng (FreeBSD) - Andrej Zverev
- fixed Rex::Commands::MD5::md5() to obey path settings
- Add documentation for run() function. - #440 - Erik Huelsmann
New in Rex 0.54.0 (Oct 2, 2014)
- added possibility to clone an jiffybox image - #439 - Peter Manthey
- only execute testfiles which end on .t - #434 - Robert Abraham
- close last used ssh connection after test - #433 - Robert Abraham
- Add error message when attempting to run a non-existing task - FErki
- Check if file exists before checking contents - fix #432 - FErki
- refactored the behaviour of set() function to do what it is saying. So with feature 0.54 enabled set is always overwriting the existing values. (#425)
- Add service_exists for Gentoo - FErki
- fixing nested sudo operations. - #423
- added check if service exists - #407
- Handle hostgroup members with leading numeric ranges - FErki
- redirect nohup output to /dev/null
- fixed return value for flavors function - #406 - exzz
- make apt-listchanges non-interactive - #417 - aowi
- added path_map function - Erik Huelsmann
- don't try to run dmidecode if it is not in PATH - Andrej Zverev
- enhanced support for pkgng (FreeBSD) - Andrej Zverev
- fixed Rex::Commands::MD5::md5() to obey path settings
New in Rex 0.53.1 (Sep 15, 2014)
- added Rex::JobControl functions
- fixed hanging VBox with CentOS 7 and delayed dhcp ip lease
- fixed on_change hook for file() resource when file was removed
- added cmdb variables to template with feature flag - #420
- export Rex::Config variables to all template variants - #419
- fixed chkconfig bug for Mageia, Redhat and SuSE - chenryn
- added resource() function, to define own resources.
New in Rex 0.52.0 (Sep 5, 2014)
- Fixed #381 - file NAME, ensure => 'absent' for a directory
- Fixed #392 - run conditional options with exec_autodie
- Fdded on_change hook for update_system function. fixed #401
- Added support for end_if_matched option to run command
- Rex::Output to persist across different processes (forks)
- Add floating ip support for openstack provider - #398
- Auto upload ssh key to openstack cloud provider
- Implement feature to tie server.ini to specified -E environment (server.$environment.ini).
- #409 - added before_task_start and after_task_finished hooks
- [#408] - define fallback authentication
- [#416] - fixed pkg with ensure => 'ver.si.on'
New in Rex 0.51.1 (Jul 31, 2014)
- Added "." in the allowed char of lvm create #393 - samuelet
- possibility to call tasks as a method (prettier dsl)
- load cmdb by default
- load ini group module by default, if server.ini exists
New in Rex 0.50.0 (Jul 21, 2014)
- Use stat() output for directory and file tests (fix #391) - FErki
- added Paralell::ForkManager as optional component - #295
- fixed Problem with failed conditionals in Rex::Command::Run - #389
- activate exit_status feature by default for non parallel task execution
- added proxy_command support - fixed #380
New in Rex 0.49.0 (Jul 14, 2014)
- Added FreeBSD 10 Support for pkgng
New in Rex 0.48.0 (Jul 14, 2014)
New in Rex 0.47.0 (Jul 7, 2014)
- Rex::Test now also working with KVM - FErki
- Update default VNC listen address for KVM machines - FErki
- added pkgng commands for FreeBSD 10
- A module which allows to read configuration files from an XML file. - nathanIL
- Fixed a problem with auth_type try for rsync
- Fixed using -G cli switch with a non existing group it will run localy #379
- added Darwin (MacOSX) network module
- documentation updates - FErki
- Ident task description when running -T - Nathan Abu
- use https to communicate with amazon
- allow set callback and environment together #374 (run command) - alex1line
- added exclude option to sync commands - Cameron Daniel
- General tasks before/after sub #353
- shell_path variable is not checked for empty value before use #376 - Ilya Evseev
- verbose_run feature flag #375
- Syntax enhancement of "group" command #369 - Jens Berthold
- extend service() function, so that it knows how to get a status for a service if the init script doesn't have a status call
- Avoid warning if there's nothing to upgrade (update_system) - FErki
- Possible precedence issue with control flow operator with perl-5.20.0 - FErki
- added Rex::Constants library
- don't use shadow file if not present - user module
- detect amazon system and use redhat classes
- fixed inline templates for modules
New in Rex 0.46.0 (May 9, 2014)
- Rex::Box, added kvm support - #174
- core: allow passing template content to template command - #345 - reneeb
- core/report: refactored report generation. This change break backward compat. because the report format changed.
- core: added groups_dbi() function to generate server groups from sql - #346 - Jean-Marie RENOUARD
- core: added groups_yaml() function to generate server groups from yaml file - Jean-Marie RENOUARD
- core: add support for df on a given mount point - Simon Bertrang
- cloud/amazon: fixed a case where amazon returns instance item in an array - Kasim Tuman
- core: added authentication to download() function. - #340
- core: refactored tmp dir generation - FErki
- cloud: added cloud_volume detach/attach function
- cloud/amazon: fixed multiple tags - David Golovan
- core: added description to environments - #274
- refactored README.pod to README.md, added build badge - eduardoj
- core: extended rexify command to work with git
- core/test: Added Rex::Test - Framework to run tests
- core: Connect failure reports "Error running task/batch: Wrong username/password or wrong key" - #359 - eduardoj
- core/cmdb: path can now have variables / can be extended
- core/user: refactored handling of home directory creation. This might break compat. because we are following the system default now. (added create_home option) - #270 - FErki
- core: added a special load path for perl libraries, so that we don't mix up perl and rex modules.
- core/service: using nohup to work around a bug in Net::SSH2/libssh2
- core: the caching is now enabled by default. this might break backward compat. if you are using chroot() to another system inside a task.
- core: added 'no_cache' feature.
New in Rex 0.45.2 (Apr 15, 2014)
- fixed special mkdir() case on local windows runs.
New in Rex 0.44.6 (Mar 21, 2014)
- fixed wrong expansion of home paths #324
- fixed return code on failed connects is wrong #317
- get as much output from ps(1) as possible #323 - sbertrang
New in Rex 0.44.5 (Mar 21, 2014)
New in Rex 0.44.4 (Mar 21, 2014)
New in Rex 0.44.3 (Feb 17, 2014)
- do not call sprintf on undefined values to prevent warnings - #312 - sbertrang
- add ksh to shells - #310 - sbertrang
- only pass actual option strings to prevent ssh crashes - #309 - sbertrang
- rexify does not create projects due to missing file error - #318
- sed command changes mode of target file - #314
New in Rex 0.44.2 (Feb 10, 2014)
- fixed sudo_without_sh - #305
- added warning if no perl interpreter was found on the remote system - #302
New in Rex 0.44.1 (Feb 10, 2014)
- fixed detection of openSUSE with lsb-release installed - #297
- use Makefile.PL for tests. fixed #300
- Support for DBI \%attr hashref - #296 - stefb69
- Make quiet mode not mute warnings and errors. - #294 - slashbeast
- new cli parameter -qw for quiet with warnings - #294
New in Rex 0.44.0 (Jan 27, 2014)
- docker support (experimental) - #278 - chenryn
- format the output of say() - #155
- userdefined columns for ps() command - #175 - dirkcjelli
- using tilde (~) sign for directories - #198 - gnouc, krimdomu
- SCM::Git, now uses cwd option of run() command, so it works also remote. - #211 - atrodo
- Box default pkg update - #217 - endyman
- run_batch() command to run batches on demand - #222 - jorisd
- Allow "sed" function to work on multiple lines. - #227 - davidolrik, krimdomu
- Added bulk_install() method for packages installing - #229 - jorisd
- Enable bulk_install for Gentoo and OpenWrt - #231 - ferki
- Added some hooks at central points in rex, so that it is possible to control the behaviour of rex in some points.
- added on_change hook for sync_up/sync_down - #232
- Rex::Group::Lookup::Command - read hostnames from a command. - #233 - fanyeren
- Improve user and group management on OpenWrt - #242 - ferki
- Add kernel module (un)loading support for OpenWrt - #243 - ferki
- Add service status support for OpenWrt - #246 - ferki
- make ssh read buffer configurable (for Net::SSH2 connections) - #247 this will speedup the connection, but may break on older systems!
- Add systemd service provider support for Gentoo - #250 - ferki
- Add systemd service provider support for Mageia - #282
- feature flag to deactivate path cleanup - #261
- feature flag to parse $HOME/.profile - #262
- Cloud::Amazon Check to make sure it is HASH before key look up - #263 - oneness
- autodie feature if run() fail - #265
- added support for tcsh shell - #284
- Fix guestinfo for Gentoo - #236 - ferki
- get_host can't find aliases - #239, #240 - jorisd, ferki
- rsync get wrong user if using "auth for $task" - #252
- Flag existing feature sudo_without_sh as found - #253 - gittex
- Cleaned-Up Data module dependence - #254
- iptables arguments needs quote if they are whitespaced - #257 - jorisd
- add Pod encoding marker - #259 - sergeyromanov
- "needs" doesn't know how to call tasks from the main Rexfile - #260
- gathering alias network interfaces like eth0:0 - #264
- Cron: Jobs can be duplicated - #269 - jorisd
- FreeBSD: store netmask in dotted decimal format - #287 - andrejzverev
- Uninitialized value in OpenSSH.pm - #290 - samuelet
New in Rex 0.43.7 (Nov 8, 2013)
- fixed problem with unconfigured network devices
- fixed return of complete cmdb
- fixed bug with the reporting initialization
New in Rex 0.43.3 (Sep 24, 2013)
- fixed return of string '0' on stdout
- fixed loading of report via env variable
- fixed manifest
New in Rex 0.43.2 (Sep 19, 2013)