ChangeLog

Revision history for Rex

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 [API CHANGES]

 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix FQDN parsing
 - Handle SMBios errors gracefully
 - Fix parsing free memory on Solaris
 - Fix shared variable lockfile on Solaris
 - Prefer GNU tools on Solaris

 [DOCUMENTATION]

 [ENHANCEMENTS]

 [MAJOR]

 [MINOR]

 [NEW FEATURES]

 [REVISION]

1.16.0 2025-02-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 - No code changes since the 1.15.0.2-TRIAL release

1.15.0.2-TRIAL 2025-01-29 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix git rebase tests on old git versions

 [MINOR]
 - Set minimum required Perl version to 5.14.4

1.15.0.1-TRIAL 2025-01-21 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix git branch checkout operations

 [ENHANCEMENTS]
 - Quote command arguments on Windows
 - Support command environment variables on Windows
 - Detect default branch of git origin

1.15.0 2024-11-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 - No code changes since the 1.14.3.2-TRIAL release

1.14.3.2-TRIAL 2024-11-03 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix precedence warning after perl-5.41.4
 - Fix missing argument warnings from Text::Wrap
 - Fix memory detection warnings on Solaris

1.14.3.1-TRIAL 2024-10-30 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Return only the first found command
 - Fix inconsistent augtool wrapper usage
 - Fix Config::Augeas detection
 - Fix on_change in update_system command on Redhat

 [NEW FEATURES]
 - Add config option to prepend Augeas commands
 - Add config option to control local Augeas backend

1.14.3 2023-08-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 - No code changes since the 1.14.2.3-TRIAL release

1.14.2.3-TRIAL 2023-08-03 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix checking command existence

1.14.2.2-TRIAL 2023-07-31 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix checking test git repository
 - Fix local package installation

1.14.2.1-TRIAL 2023-05-29 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix skipping tests without git
 - Fix changing directory into git test repository

1.14.2 2023-05-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [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

1.14.1 2023-03-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Clarify PATH settings for executing commands
 - Clarify sync command locality
 - Clarify run command output handling

1.14.0.1-TRIAL 2023-02-26 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix attempt to free unreferenced scalar on Windows
 - Declare dependencies for colored output
 - Fix warning when trying to create root directory

 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Fix rendering of inspect example
 - Clarify documentation of desc command
 - Clarify template variables

1.14.0 2023-02-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 - No code changes since 1.13.4.1 trial release

1.13.4.1-TRIAL 2023-01-30 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [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

1.13.4 2021-07-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [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

1.13.3.2-TRIAL 2021-07-03 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix local file copy on Windows

1.13.3.1-TRIAL 2021-07-02 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Remove unused tasks array
 - Fix file hooks when source option is used

 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Update support channels

1.13.3 2021-03-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix parsing debconf values containing colons

 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Clarify contributing guide
 - Remove misleading sudo command variant

1.13.2 2020-12-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Clarify templating documentation

1.13.1 2020-11-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Clarify perlcritic policy

1.13.0.3-TRIAL 2020-10-31 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [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

 [REVISION]
 - Replace List::MoreUtils with List::Util

1.13.0.2-TRIAL 2020-10-28 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [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

1.13.0.1-TRIAL 2020-10-13 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix MD5 checksumming when default perl does not have Digest::MD5 or
   incompatible with the perl running rex

1.13.0 2020-10-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [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

1.12.2 2020-09-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [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

1.12.1 2020-08-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Document feature flags
 - Clarify description of the rex script

 [REVISION]
 - Gather only files tracked by git

1.12.0 2020-07-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [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

1.11.0 2020-06-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Make group resource idempotent
 - Fix sysctl detection for Gentoo
 - Fix setting false values as sysctl parameters
 - Fix passing external_master as Net::OpenSSH constructor parameter

 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Clarify auth documentation
 - Clarify setting per-host authentication details within a group
 - Clarify documentation of configuring OpenSSH options
 - Clarify Rex::Transaction documentation
 - Fix typos
 - Document limitations of nesting shared variables
 - Add initial documentation for Rex::Hook
 - Clarify hooks documentation
 - Clarify synopsis and code example for Rex::Commands::MD5

 [ENHANCEMENTS]
 - Check availability of sysctl command
 - Checksum file only when content is managed
 - Support dotted semantic versioning for trial releases

1.10.0 2020-05-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix warning about redundant arguments when using sync with key
   authentication
 - Fix setting distributor when versioned feature flags are active
 - Remove default host of test tasks
 - Fix task hooks specified in Rexfile for tasks defined in modules

 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Clarify sudo usage for multiple commands
 - Clarify task hooks documentation
 - Clarify usage and purpose of configuration methods
 - Clarify mkdir usage

 [ENHANCEMENTS]
 - Add on_change option for mkdir
 - Support package globs on FreeBSD

 [NEW FEATURES]
 - Add new configuration option to control attaching default authentication
   info to tasks
 - Initial support for package globs

1.9.0 2020-04-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix setting custom waitpid_blocking_sleep_time
 - Fix autodie feature for local unlink commands

 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Categorize file system commands based on ability to change contents
 - Clarify documentation of file system commands
 - Document configuration methods

 [NEW FEATURES]
 - Add write_utf8_files feature flag to control encoding of files written
   by Rex

1.8.2 2020-03-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [BUG FIXES]
 - Fix namespace separator checks for tasks directly in Rexfile

 [REVISION]
 - Fix Travis builds on OS X

1.8.1 2020-02-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 [DOCUMENTATION]
 - Document embedded templates

 [REVISION]
 - Reformat changelog to match CPAN specifications
 - Use NextRelease to update release info
 - Use NextVersion::Semantic for versioning

1.8.0 2020-01-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 - Map commit authors to their canonical name and email - Ferenc Erki
 - Add contributors without commits on master branch - Ferenc Erki
 - Generate CONTRIBUTORS file - Ferenc Erki
 - Added Rex::Pkg::VoidLinux using XBPS - Leah Neukirchen
 - Added Rex::Service::VoidLinux using runit - Leah Neukirchen
 - Added Void Linux - Leah Neukirchen
 - Make waitpid blocking sleep time configurable - Ferenc Erki
 - Match waitpid blocking sleep between fork managers - Ferenc Erki
 - Add Kwalitee tests - Ferenc Erki
 - Update Perl::Tidy on each Travis build - Ferenc Erki
 - Skip bin tidiness check on Windows and Mac - Ferenc Erki

1.7.1 2019-12-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 - Update supported Perl versions - Ferenc Erki
 - Don't skip all markdown files - Ferenc Erki
 - Update synopsis - Ferenc Erki
 - Update CPAN metadata - Ferenc Erki
 - Update name and description in POD - Ferenc Erki
 - Clarify POD - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix POD formatting - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix CMDB examples (fix #1151) - Ferenc Erki
 - Test on OS X with Travis CI - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix getting current directory in Windows - Ferenc Erki
 - Skip symlink tests on Windows - Ferenc Erki
 - Test on Windows with Travis CI - Ferenc Erki
 - Update description - Ferenc Erki

1.7.0 2019-11-05 Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com>
 - Fix test dependency - Ferenc Erki
 - Use perl to query environment - Ferenc Erki
 - Test run failures with alternative commands - Ferenc Erki
 - Cache CMDB lookups (fix #1239) - Ferenc Erki
 - Test CMDB both with and without caching - Ferenc Erki
 - Instantiate CMDB object during initialization - Ferenc Erki
 - Remove redundant argument to rsync command - Steve Dondley
 - Detect upstart (fix #1190) - Ferenc Erki
 - Simplify quoting (close #1206) - Ferenc Erki
 - Better message and remove unused variable (ref #1206) - Roy Storey
 - Quote parameters that might have spaces (fix #807) - Roy Storey
 - Resolve symlinks for file management commands (fix #1195, close #1199) -
   Ferenc Erki
 - Add resolve_symlink helper - Ferenc Erki
 - Add symlink tests for file management commands - Ferenc Erki
 - Update link of installation intructions - Ferenc Erki
 - Update testing instructions - Ferenc Erki
 - Update list of useful resources - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix typos - Ferenc Erki
 - Update supported Perl versions - Ferenc Erki
 - Convert namespace separators from module to task (fix #1193) - Ferenc
   Erki
 - Add tests for package hooks (ref #1194) - Mitch Broadhead
 - create_host: drop useless get_host invocation (close #1181) - Ali
   Polatel
 - Run extra tests on Travis - Ferenc Erki
 - Ignore tidyness checks for generated extra tests - Ferenc Erki
 - Rename perltidy test - Ferenc Erki
 - Replace [ExtraTests] with [RunExtraTests] (fix #964) - Kent Fredric
 - Use file command for file operations - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix fallback method for getting username - Ferenc Erki
 - Return username for local connections - Ferenc Erki
 - only source ~/.profile if it really exists - Joachim Bargsten
 - Accept critic for ProhibitExplicitReturnUndef - Ferenc Erki
 - Accept critic for ProhibitNoStrict - Ferenc Erki
 - Accept critic for ProhibitSubroutinePrototypes - Ferenc Erki
 - Remove unnecessary subroutine prototype - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix critic for ProhibitMutatingListFunctions - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix critic for ProhibitSleepViaSelect - Erik Huelsmann
 - Disable tidyness checks in perlcritic - Ferenc Erki
 - improved error handling in run_task if task does not exist - Joachim
   Bargsten
 - Fixes virtualization type,role for Digital Ocean Droplets (close #1192)
   - Mitch Broadhead
 - Fix UID handling for OpenBSD (fix #1213) - Olivier Cherrier
 - Added the Option 'continuous_read' to the documentation - elisdg
 - Test for code tidyness - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix placeholder matching for %h in ssh config. (#1214) - Max E. Aubrey
 - Set minimum required Perl version to 5.10.1 - Ferenc Erki
 - Use Travis CI for testing - Ferenc Erki
 - added option to list all tasks, including hidden - Joachim Bargsten
 - errorless git checkout if on checkout branch - Joachim Bargsten
 - added clone_args as extra option for git checkout - Joachim Bargsten
 - git checkout also supports environment settings for e.g. proxies -
   Joachim Bargsten
 - added ssh as possible protocols for git-based rex modules - Joachim
   Bargsten
 - Improve package handling on OpenBSD - Olivier Cherrier
 - Enhance the OpenBSD User handling support - Olivier Cherrier
 - Document the 'requiretty' setting with the sudo command - Erik Huelsmann
 - delete_host: fix regex so it does not match on prefixes - Ali Polatel
 - Added Oracle Linux (fix #1168, close #1174) - labbeduddel
 - Ignore YAML-1.25 (fix #1197) - Ferenc Erki
 - Adds SLE 15 / Leap 15.0 support - LeMerP
 - Use virsh connect URI from config - Ferenc Erki
 - Update README about contributing guide - Ferenc Erki
 - Initial version of the contributing guide - Ferenc Erki
 - Convert namespace separators from module to task (fix #1188) - Ferenc
   Erki
 - Add test for using needs with nested modules (ref #1188) - Ferenc Erki
 - Added Virtuozzo as Red Hat clone. - iblinder
 - Print warning instead of dying when delete_user called on non existing
   user - Crimson Thompson
 - Fix Pkgconf for Debian - Andy Beverley

1.6.0 2017-12-03 Jan Gehring <jfried@rexify.org>
 - Check brctl command is available (resolves #1115) - perlancar
 - fixed path bug in git scm checkout - Joachim Bargsten
 - add Rexfile path to @INC, fixes bug with perl >=5.26 fixes #1170 - Jan
   Gehring
 - Added support for Devuan as clone of Debian. - Christophe Wolfhugel
 - fix bug with before => ALL in modules - Joachim Bargsten
 - fixed syntax bug and crash on windows - Jan Gehring
 - catch exception if version command failed. detect() method must return
   true/false not throw exception. - fix #1152 - Jan Gehring
 - replace JSON::XS with JSON::MaybeXS - fix #1153 - Jan Gehring
 - added initial docker box support - Jan Gehring
 - indent code to be properly formatted - Yanick Champoux
 - Allow connection config to be altered in before hook - Andy Beverley
 - fix #1134 - redirect stderr to dev/null or to stdout - Jan Gehring
 - fix #1066 - use Task::run() method to call the task code. - Jan Gehring
 - fix #1117 - run after hook after connection poped from connection stack
   - Jan Gehring
 - restore old current task object. - fix #1150 - Jan Gehring
 - mkfs for lvm volumes is optional - Samuele Tognini
 - Get PkgConf working with Debian clones like Ubuntu - James D Bearden
 - Use fail_ok in cron - Daniel Dico
 - VirtInfo: check dmi sys_vendor for qemu - Ali Polatel
 - Gentoo/layman: check repo exists for add_repo & add readd option - Ali
   Polatel
 - Libvirt: support to select cpu mode for KVM guests - Ali Polatel
 - Libvirt: vm destroy must not die() for not-running VMs - Ali Polatel
 - set_auth used before creating the task object - NDZ Prajith
 - fix exit code on failed logins. we need to bitshift the return value of
   a fork - Jan Gehring
 - clearpart: fix partition regex for nvme - Ali Polatel

1.5.0 2016-10-09 Jan Gehring <jfried@rexify.org>
 - Rex::Pkg::Gentoo: Add support for slotted package specs - Ali Polatel
 - only use srand() once. this caused a bug with sudo file writing.
   sometimes it generated two identical files - Jan Gehring
 - fix problem with locks when Rexfile is on a nfs share #1130 - Jan
   Gehring
 - fix running sudo on local connections - Jan Gehring
 - don't format a partition which is part of vg - Jan Gehring
 - Fix Rsync.pm paths and ports. - necrophcodr
 - Fix uninitialized value warnings when using Augeas module - Andy
   Beverley
 - fixed #1116 - detect suse systems by regex - Jan Gehring
 - load project libraries before system libraries. fix RexOps/Rex#1108 -
   Jan Gehring
 - fixed systemctl detection #1026 - Jan Gehring
 - Service.pm: Fix service class for Gentoo & non-systemd - Ali Polatel
 - Rex::Pkg::Gentoo: Smarter installed check to reinstall on USE updates -
   Ali Polatel
 - Handle different md5 styles on BSDs (fix #1099) - Ferenc Erki
 - Catch exceptions when trying to run dmidecode - Ferenc Erki
 - don't use is_ip function, so that it also works with older
   Data::Validate::IP module - Jan Gehring
 - Added some more tests to Rex::Box::Test - Jan Gehring
 - Refactored Rex::Box to be able to programmatically load box definitions.
   - Jan Gehring
 - Die if undefined line is found during _append_or_update (fix #1044) -
   Ferenc Erki
 - fix a problem with creating boxes. catch errors - Jan Gehring
 - Fix for  #1051 - Logger.pm - uninitialized value - Tamas Molnar
 - reload sysctl if file changed - Jan Gehring
 - use ensure or persistent for persistance - Jan Gehring
 - fix an extra define on a hash - Solène Rapenne
 - Detect Manjaro correctly (fix #993) - Ferenc Erki
 - Don't warn on missing Rexfile when -e is used (fix #1032, ref #1010) -
   Ferenc Erki
 - Specify XenServer as RedHat (CentOS) clone - Walery Wysotsky
 - added i_exec and i_exec_nohup function for better parameter quoting -
   #872 - Jan Gehring
 - refactored calls to run() function to use i_run() - Jan Gehring
 - test for ipv4 - Jan Gehring
 - don't set_connection if current task is the only one - Jan Gehring
 - load Helper::Run module - Jan Gehring
 - Give the kernel time to get informed of partition changes - Robert
   Abraham
 - Trying to fix #791 Now get_ssh_config_hostname sub returns a good
   hosntame. - Paco Esteban
 - also exclude directories - fix RexOps/Rex#904 - Jan Gehring
 - push connection information to the new task - fix #1091 - Jan Gehring
 - Add checking for ensure parameter and an error if ensure parameter isn't
   present/absent - solene rapenne
 - sysctl supports remove and keyword changed to ensure - solene rapenne
 - Create Rexfile-example2 - alx542
 - callback and options can both be used - Andrew Solomon
 - Add an option to save a sysctl key/value in /etc/sysctl.conf - Solène
   Rapenne
 - Using OpenBSD rcctl tool for managing services - Solène Rapenne
 - Add OpenBSD compatibility to test - solene rapenne
 - Implemented LXC container support - Oleg Hardt
 - try to add same update_system behaviour for as many systems as possible.
   Fix for RexOps/Rex#546 - Jan Gehring
 - backported has_feature_version functions - Jan Gehring
 - Escape backquotes when run command via sudo in the remote host - Nikolay
   A. Fetisov

1.4.1 2016-07-16 Jan Gehring <jfried@rexify.org>
 - bug with get_cloud_instances_as_group - Pierrick DINTRAT
 - Adds 64bit module path to @INC for linux - Mitch Broadhead
 - set ls quoting for fedora 24 which magically quotes filenames - Jan
   Gehring
 - added cache for can_run - Jan Gehring
 - removed space from line ending. fixed test on centos 6 - Jan Gehring
 - Don't add duplicates env variable in crontab - Rapenne Solène
 - quote source and destination, so spaces in directory names are possible
   - Jan Gehring
 - fixed summary tests for netbsd - Jan Gehring
 - run hooks before push_connection - Jan Gehring
 - Don't hardcode LibXML dependency - Jan Gehring
 - workaround for wrong behaviour with -f and windows symlinks - Jan
   Gehring
 - it seems that the channel sometimes doesn't get closed in time. so we
   need an option to force close it after command run. - Jan Gehring
 - fixed reporting for named resource - Jan Gehring
 - pass cli parameters to tasks for pre 1.4 feature flags. fix #1039 - Jan
   Gehring
 - fixed old style Rex::Args->get when called from outside a task - Jan
   Gehring
 - Fix for #1054 - get_private_key() to check the private key file - Tamas
   Molnar
 - Fix for #1052 - mask sudo_password in debug log - Tamas Molnar
 - exit rex with an exitcode of 1 if some tests failed. fix #989 - Jan
   Gehring
 - show how to assign a user with a non-default shell - Andrew Solomon
 - Fix example code (fix #1034) - Ferenc Erki
 - Update example tasknames - Ferenc Erki
 - Add possible root cause to authentication error message (fix #671) -
   Ferenc Erki
 - Correct message for authentication problems - Ferenc Erki
 - Avoid hardcoded path - Ferenc Erki
 - Refactor calls to reporting - Ferenc Erki
 - Refactor reporting message handling - Ferenc Erki
 - Simplify detection of pkg change type - Ferenc Erki
 - Refactor pkg on_change handling - Ferenc Erki
 - Report each pkg modification (fix #838) - Ferenc Erki
 - Revert "report all packages" - Ferenc Erki
 - Timeout value should be passed in milliseconds - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix compatibility with recent Net::SSH2 (fix #1023) - Ferenc Erki
 - Only log masked password if one is being used - Ferenc Erki
 - Avoid logging undefined host during connection - Ferenc Erki
 - Refactor do_task - Ferenc Erki
 - Backport task existence check for do_task from #1010 (fix #992) - Ferenc
   Erki
 - Initial tests for do_task - Ferenc Erki
 - fix hardcoded git tag command - Kirill Babikhin
 - Document perlcritic violations - Ferenc Erki
 - Integer with leading zeros - Ferenc Erki
 - Add S_IMODE - Ferenc Erki
 - Variable declared in conditional statement - Ferenc Erki
 - "require" statement with library name as string - Ferenc Erki
 - "select" used to emulate "sleep" - Ferenc Erki
 - Don't modify $_ in list functions - Ferenc Erki
 - removed hard coded qemu-img create format and added use of driver_type
   option. fix #948 - Jan Gehring
 - added understandable error message when no virtualization module is
   given. fix #949 - Jan Gehring
 - print right error message if run_task is calling a task that is not
   available. fix #970 - Jan Gehring
 - on windows test for SSH connection type. fix #965 - Jan Gehring
 - Add more tests for shared arrays - Ferenc Erki
 - Add unshift for shared arrays - Ferenc Erki
 - Add tests for unshift to shared arrays - Ferenc Erki
 - Add pop for shared arrays - Ferenc Erki
 - Add tests for pop from shared arrays - Ferenc Erki
 - Add shift for shared arrays (fix #921) - Ferenc Erki
 - Add tests for shift from shared arrays (ref #921) - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix #967 - Harm Müller
 - Add META.json to CPAN release - Kent Fredric

1.4.0 2016-03-06 Ferenc Erki <ferki@cpan.org>
 - 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

1.3.3 2015-09-04 Ferenc Erki <ferki@rexify.org>
 - Catch another way to manage services on FreeBSD (close #773) - timp87
 - Fix generated links for Commands modules (fix #776) - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix code block output when there's no space before closing tag - Ferenc
   Erki
 - Escape curly braces in template content - Ferenc Erki
 - Force syncing package information on FreeBSD - Ferenc Erki
 - Take service name and rcvar mapping into account on FreeBSD (close #770)
   - timp87
 - Check if systemctl is functional before using it (fix #753) - Ferenc
   Erki
 - Rearrange dist.ini - Ferenc Erki
 - Fail early on unsupported Windows versions (fix #751) - Ferenc Erki
 - Warn about missing environment instead of panicking (fix #742) - Ferenc
   Erki
 - Document alias of get_operating_system() - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix perlcritic warnings about modifying list elements - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix perlcritic warnings about two-argument open - Ferenc Erki
 - Update auth docs - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix docs for transaction (fix #686, close #766) - Elmer Quintanilla
 - Fix ensure option for NetBSD services (close #759) - timp87
 - Do not silently fail on update errors (close #758) - Andrew Beverley
 - Fix ensure option for FreeBSD services (close #752) - timp87
 - Enable Rex to manage system services on FreeBSD (#752) - timp87
 - Recognize multi-arch packages on Debian (fix #748, close #755) - Erik
   Huelsmann
 - Fix Gentoo service detection (fix #747) - Ferenc Erki
 - force apt-listchanges to not run - Anders Ossowicki
 - Added doc about using regex for auth - Eivin Giske Skaaren
 - Fixes #760 timeout for OpenSSH - Eivin Giske Skaaren
 - Use the correct class for managing forks (fix #743) - Ferenc Erki
 - Support key files for Debian repositories + add docs (close #736) - John
   Karr
 - Don't recreate connection during rethink_connection (fix #694, close
   #727) - Mitch Broadhead
 - Pass exception to on_rollback (fix #687, close #732) - Mitch Broadhead
 - Document hostname expressions support in INI files - Ferenc Erki
 - Support hostname expressions in INI files (close #713) - okaoka
 - Document -O CLI option - Ferenc Erki
 - Revert "Remove unused CLI option" (fix RexOps/rex-jobcontrol#10) -
   Ferenc Erki
 - make Fcntl calls os independent - Jan
 - added a wrapper module for File::Spec - Jan
 - Fix LEFT_PRECEDENCE typo - Dmitry Kopytov
 - Add function for checkout of Git tags - Eivin Giske Skaaren

1.3.2 2015-06-17 Ferenc Erki <ferki@rexify.org>
 - 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

1.3.1 2015-06-08 <ferki, rexify.org>
 - Cleanup db tests (fix #714) - Ferenc Erki
 - Update parallelism docs - Ferenc Erki

1.3.0 2015-06-03 <jfried, rexify.org>
 - 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

1.2.1 2015-05-04 <jfried@rexify.org>
 - first detect if uname and md5sum can be run, then use it. fixed #665 -
   Jan

1.2.0 2015-05-02 <jfried@rexify.org>
 - 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

1.1.0 2015-03-29 <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

1.0.0 2015-03-08 <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.18 2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - added network support for Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD
 - added is_solaris, is_bsd and is_linux function

0.17 2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.16 2011-08-28 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - added NetBSD support
 - added OpenBSD support
 - fixed a bug in the gentoo pkg management module

0.15 2011-08-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.57.0 2015-01-11 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org>
 - 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

0.56.1 2015-01-06 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org>
 - tasks doesn't return a value when called as a sub (#523) - Jan

0.56.0 2014-12-26 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org>
 - Extend documentation of run() options (#466) - Ferenc Erki
 - New template engine with better error reporting. - Jan
 - Only try to run umount if mount point is already mounted - Ferenc Erki
 - Set changed flag for umount after the command has been run - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix error when only grow option was given to partition() - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix regex to find end of partition instead of size - Ferenc Erki
 - Use kB as unit when determining partition boundaries - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix missing `strict` and `warnings` pragmas - Ferenc Erki
 - Add LICENSE section to POD - Ferenc Erki
 - Replace defined-or operator to restore perl-5.8.0 compatibility - Ferenc
   Erki
 - Fix test for Parallel::ForkManager - Ferenc Erki
 - Fix test for Amazon Cloud Module - Ferenc Erki
 - Add rex_kvm_agent feature flag - Ferenc Erki
 - Allow multiple tasks to run with Rex::Test::Base (fix #476) - Robert
   Abraham
 - Improve evaluation of hostnames (fix #479, close #480) - Renee Bäcker
 - Fix POD (close #488) - Brian Manning
 - Fixed some deprecated docker calls - Jan
 - Fix mode option for mkdir command - Ferenc Erki
 - Fixed needs function - Jan
 - Added before_execute and after_execute task hooks - Jan
 - Add basic tests for Rex::Logger (close #484) - Renee Bäcker
 - Clarify/correct documentation (close #486) - Sascha Askani
 - Check versions of installed packages - Ferenc Erki
 - Refactor has_package test for simpler version matching - Ferenc Erki
 - Use OurPkgVersion for automatic module versioning - Ferenc Erki
 - Add has_stat to Rex::Test - Robert Abraham
 - Add documentation for has_stat (close #474) - Ferenc Erki
 - fix for #473 - download root restricted files in sudo mode - Jan
 - fix for #498 - added autodie feature flag - Jan
 - fixed local mkdir return code - Jan
 - fixed path quoting for #512 - Jan
 - added glob_to_regex function (Text::Glob) - fix for #495 - Jan
 - use test binary instead of '[ ... ]' for file tests - Jan

0.55.3 2014-11-02 Ferenc Erki <ferki, rexify.org>
 - Fix @INC compilation for Windows - Ferenc Erki

0.55.2 2014-11-01 Ferenc Erki <ferki, rexify.org>
 - 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

0.55.1 2014-10-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org>
 - 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

0.55.0 2014-10-19 Ferenc Erki <ferki, rexify.org>
 - 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

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

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

0.52.0 2014-08-30 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org>
 - 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'

0.51.2 2014-07-29 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org>
 - 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

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

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

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

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

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

0.46.1 2014-05-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

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

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

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

0.45.1 2014-04-11 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

0.43.0 2013-09-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - #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

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

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

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

0.42.1 2013-06-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - #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

0.42.0 2013-06-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.41.3 2013-05-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.41.2 2013-04-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

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

0.41.0 2013-03-30 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.40.4 2013-03-10 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed get_box() command if task is run on a remote host
 - fixed sudo without password

0.40.3 2013-03-09 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed loading of files in lib directory @INC sometime got populated too
   late

0.40.2 2013-03-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed #117 - encode everything except a-z, 0-9 and _

0.40.1 2013-02-27 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed #114 - used only once warnings
 - fixed #115 - passwordless sudo didn't work

0.40.0 2013-02-23 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.39.0 2013-02-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.38.0 2013-01-27 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.37.1 2013-01-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed template bug in modules

0.37.0 2013-01-05 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.36.0 2012-12-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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.

0.35.1 2012-12-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.34.2 2012-12-14 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed login for Rex::connect

0.34.1 2012-11-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed #77. added iptables tests - Dominik Danter
 - Relax ssh config file parsing - Dominik Schulz

0.34.0 2012-11-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.33.3 2012-10-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed rename() bug, #67

0.33.2 2012-10-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed windows bug

0.33.1 2012-09-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.32.1 2012-08-30 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed a bug in the transaction module

0.32.0 2012-08-21 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.31.5 2012-08-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed cli parameter bug (-G)
 - fixed logging bug with %h

0.31.0 2012-08-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed a bug for task with the no_ssh attribute
 - added http transport layer
 - added possibility to modify task and server authentication

0.30.1 2012-07-21 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed a cli parameter bug for custom user authentication
 - fixed a batch display bug

0.30.0 2012-06-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.29.0 2012-05-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.28.0 2012-05-08 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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)

0.27.0 2012-05-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.26.3 2012-04-26 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed a notification bug in the on_change event of the file function.
 - fixed a cli parameter bug in the rexify command.

0.26.2 2012-03-28 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed a cli parameter bug (-G)

0.26.1 2012-03-13 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed a bug in the libvirt module

0.26.0 2012-02-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.25.3 2012-02-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.25.2 2012-02-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - display the correct module name in rexify --search command

0.25.1 2012-02-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - don't use github for recipes query

0.25.0 2012-02-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - added public repository commands to rexify
 - added patch from JEEN Lee for gpgcheck on yum repositories

0.24.1 2012-02-13 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed a dependeny bug

0.24.0 2012-02-10 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.23.0 2012-01-14 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - Redhat Enterprise Linux Support (5/6)
 - read ssh_config file
 - rsync now automatically accept keys

0.22.0 2012-01-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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)

0.21.1 2011-10-28 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fix for #8 - HOME environment variable on Windows
 - fix for #5 - hostname evaluation with ips

0.21.0 2011-10-10 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.20.0 2011-09-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.19.0 2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - added JUnit output module
 - added environment support
 - load Rex::Commands::Process as default

0.18.1 2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed a bug registering tasks as functions

0.14.0 2011-08-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - Extended API to allow passing of arguments to Rex::Task->run
 - FreeBSD support
 - Ubuntu support

0.13.0 2011-08-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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)

0.12.0 2011-07-23 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.11.1 2011-07-26 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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)

0.11.0 2011-07-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.10.1 2011-07-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed db disconnect on forks
 - fixed some typos

0.10.0 2011-07-12 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.9.0 2011-07-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.8.1 2011-07-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed mageia detection
 - fixed bug if dnsdomainname returns no domainname
 - fixed mkdir bug on setting permissions, caused by a wrong merge

0.8.0 2011-06-26 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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

0.7.1 2011-06-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - restored the backward compatibility with perl 5.8.x
 - suppress warning if no parameter is given
 - fixed mkdir function

0.7.0 2011-06-23 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - 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.

0.6.1 2011-06-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com>
 - fixed documentation bugs (thanks to djill)
 - fixed #68827, rewrote is_readable/is_writable
 - handle auth failure correctly
 - mkdir now created directories recursive