[rex-users] Rex 0.45.1 released

  • From: Jan Gehring <jan.gehring@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rex-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 17:06:25 +0200

Hi all,

today i'm proud to announce the next release (0.45.1) of Rex.

And i'm also proud to announce Ferenc Erki as a new core developer.

We are always looking for people helping in the different areas and we
welcome any help.
On this way i will also thank chenryn (饶琛琳) for his constantly work
translating the rexify website to chinese.

For a list of the changes with examples please see [1].

The changes in short are:

  * 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


Have a lot of fun.

[1] http://www.rexify.org/howtos/releases/0.45.html

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