ChangeLog

2014-10-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.54.3)
  * 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

2014-09-13 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.53.1)
  * 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.

2014-08-30 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.52.0)
  * fixed #381 - file NAME, ensure => 'absent' for a directory
  * fixed #392 - run conditional options with exec_autodie
  * added 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'

2014-07-29 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.51.2)
  * Fixed #394 - export of is_symlink function
  * Fixed #395 - is_file compatibility bug, doesn't detect symlinks anymore
  * 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

2014-07-20 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.50.0)
  * 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

2014-07-12 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.49.0)
  * Added FreeBSD 10 Support for pkgng. #280

2014-07-10 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.48.0)
  * Added CentOS 7 support

2014-07-05 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.47.0)
  * 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

2014-05-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.46.2)
  * fixed tmp_dir configuration
  * load Rex::Commands::Box if Rex::Test is loaded, so that set(box => '') work
  * fixed a problem with Test:run

2014-05-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.46.1)
  * fixed a dependency problem
  * fixed a problem detecting the temporary directory
  * 'set port' ignored in Rexfile - #366
  * update_system / better error message - #367
  * set sudo auth for a special server in a group causes endless loops - #368

2014-05-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.46.0)
  * 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.

2014-04-13 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.45.3)
  * fixed jiffybox endless loop on creating instances. #344 - reneeb

2014-04-12 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.45.2)
  * fixed special mkdir() case on local windows runs.

2014-04-11 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.45.1)
  * no_overwrite option for file() function
  * ensure 'directory' option for file() function
  * added notifications
  * pkg resource (replacement for install function)
  * allow array for file() function
  * check if iptables rule already exists
  * creates option for run() resource
  * only_if and unless option for run() resrouce
  * added notification for service() resource
  * added account() resource (as replacement for create_user)
  * fixed SCM::Git to work with sudo
  * update _parse_ip subroutine. be possible to parse ppp0. #328 - Tomohiro Hosaka
  * support -g to supply group name - #330 - fanyeren
  * added openstack cloud support - Ferenc Erki
  * run() resource support customized environments - #316 andrejzverev
  * can_run() now returns the first command found as string - #193
  * read cpu information out of /proc/cpuinfo if dmidecode is not available - #306
  * Handles the case where rsync is missing, and that makes Rex wait forever - #331 - Joris DE POOTER
  * fixed $Rex::Logger::format does not apply. - #335
  * fixed download() command on windows - #271
  * added cloud_image_list function()
  * fixed debian system_update - #339 - Niklas Larsson

2014-03-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.6)
  * 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

2014-02-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.5)
  * fixed shell gathering

2014-02-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.4)
  * fixed manifest file

2014-02-14 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.3)
  * 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

2014-02-08 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.2)
  * fixed sudo_without_sh - #305
  * added warning if no perl interpreter was found on the remote system - #302

2014-02-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.1)
  * 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

2014-01-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.0)
  * 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

2013-10-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.43.7)
  * fixed problem with unconfigured network devices
  * fixed return of complete cmdb
  * fixed bug with the reporting initialization

2013-09-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.43.3)
  * fixed return of string '0' on stdout
  * fixed loading of report via env variable
  * fixed manifest

2013-09-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.43.2)
  * #234 - Silent yum operations - Chris Steigmeier

2013-09-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.43.0)
  * #223 - generating reports of changed things on the remote system (report infrastructure)
  * #220 - atomic uploads
  * #219 - df function doesnt parse errors - jorisd
  * #218 - problems with escaping of special characters, reverted back to old behaviour (pre 0.42)
  * #215 - input validation for rexify to prevent creation of invalid module names
  * #214 - yum operations should be silent
  * #213, #231 - rexify to use proxy settings - Chris Steigmeier
  * #231 - Another Red Hat Enterprise flavor - Chris Steigmeier
  * #200 - Refactor OpenWrt user module - Ferenc Erki
  * #195 - Fix a typo in example code - Boris Däppen
  * #194 - Prefer ip command over ifconfig - Ferenc Erki
  * #189 - Zero values in crontab fields - Ferenc Erki
  * #186 - Turn "eval your Rexfile" into a debug message - Anders Ossowicki
  * #210 - zypper --no-gpg-checks option
  * #208 - Cache inventory of servers for faster execution
  * #206 - sync_up function doesn't work in modules.
  * #196 - Support port with ranged hostnamed
  * #180 - support of other shells than bash for the PATH / environment variable - Cuong Manh Le
  * #177 - if a feature can't be satisfied, die()
  * #166 - tmp directory now configurable

2013-07-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.42.4)
  * fixed an issue with append_if_no_such_line when searching for a string
    containing a quote.

2013-06-29 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.42.3)
  * #189 fixed zero values in crontab - ferki
  * fixed ownership problem with sudo mode and file manipulation

2013-06-23 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.42.2)
  * fixed local run of run_with helper command

2013-06-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.42.1)
  * #178 - no_ssh option doesn't work with OpenSSH connection
  * #181 - ssh ports doesn't work with Net::OpenSSH
  * #182 - addition parameters doesn't work for ini files
  * #183 - fqdn doesn't work in ini files
  * #184 - hostname evaluation and additional parameters doesn't work together

2013-06-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.42.0)
  * added Net::OpenSSH support - chenryn, jfried
  * custom user for sudo command
  * new function: delete_lines_according_to
  * new feature flag use_server_auth
  * improved ini file parsing
  * support for custom server parameters
  * cwd option for run command
  * speed improvements: #123, #133, #135, #136, #137, #143 - liedekef
  * removed blastwave package capabilities from solaris, because blastwave doesn't exists anymore
  * #129 - removed an unnecessary opendir call - liedekef
  * #148 - use equery for Rex::Pkg::Gentoo in get_installed, later replaced by #165 - tianon
  * #149 - updated most of Rsync with server-specific auth - tianon
  * #159 - don't execute a task if the defined group doesn't contain servers. There is a feature flag to disable this behavior (empty_groups)
  * #163 - Rex::Pkg::Gentoo: Fix separator character between package name and version
  * #165 - Rex::Pkg::Gentoo: Replace get_installed checking method

2013-05-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.41.3)
  * fixed using -c flag with Rex::Box - #160
  * fixed parsing ssh/config file - #158
  * get_box() : better error message - #157
  * fixed PATH variable for run() with multiple commands - #156

2013-04-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.41.2)
  * fixed exit status code for some situations where it fails
  * fixed rexify --use=module command
  * fixinig 'unititialized value' output of inspect() function. returning now 'no value'. - #152
  * added check if template result is empty. if so - die() - #152
  * fixing problem with invalid variable names in templates - #152

2013-03-30 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.41.1)
  * fixed a parsing bug in df output
  * fixed mount command with persistend option

2013-03-30 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.41.0)
  * Function to get the last output of a command that uses run() #104
  * Refactores Cron module, added environment variable support to cron
  * New sync module
  * added Hardware::VirtInfo module #119 - Franky Van Liedekerke
  * new keyword "case"
  * Refactored net_ssh2_exec() function - Peter H. Ezetta
  * Refactored local command execution to use IPC::Open3
  * Changed the Debian is_installed function to use the more accurate
    get_installed function. - Samuele Tognini
  * '-t' option should work with '-e' option. rex -t 2 -H "hostA hostB"
     -e 'run "sleep 10"; say run "uptime"' should run in parallel.
     - Tokuhiro Matsuno
  * Fixed loading of modules in $HOME/.rex/recipes
  * Don't calculate md5 sums if there is no on_change hook for file() function - Franky Van Liedekerke
  * Better understandable error messages for authentication - Franky Van Liedekerke
  * Cloud/Amazon: support multiple security groups - RenatoCRON
  * Fix Pod about pubkey authentication - Joris
  * Rex/Gearman: Fixed get_exit_codes use flag
  * Rex/Boxes: Creation order of VMs can now be defined in YAML file

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