(R)?ex Changelog

What's new in (R)?ex 0.52.1

• Base:
• on_change hook for update_system
• update_system
• on_change => sub {
• my (@modified_packates) = @_;
• for my $pkg (@modified_packages) {
• say "Name: $pkg->{name}";
• say "Version: $pkg->{version}";
• say "Action: $pkg->{action}"; # some of updated, installed or removed
• Added support for end_if_matched option to run command - nathanIL
• run "my_command",
• end_if_matched => qr/PATTERN/;
• Tie server.ini to specified -E environment (server.$environment.ini). - ehu
• Added before_task_start and after_task_finished hooks
• The before_task_start hook will be executed before the fork for the task is made. The after_task_finished hook will be executed after all servers has finished the task.
• before_task_start mytask => sub {
• # do some things
• after_task_finished mytask => sub {
• # do some things
• Added fallback authentication support.
• Sometimes you have different authentications on different hosts and you don't know beforehand which one you have to use. For these cases you can now define multiple authentication options. Rex will try all of them.
• auth fallback => {
• user => "fallback_user1",
• password => "fallback_pw1",
• public_key => "",
• private_key => "",
• }, {
• user => "fallback_user2",
• password => "fallback_pw2",
• public_key => "keys/public.key",
• private_key => "keys/private.key",
• sudo => TRUE,
• Cloud:
• Add floating ip support to openstack provider - exzz
• Auto upload ssh key to openstack cloud provider - exzz
• Bugfixes:
• #381 - file NAME, ensure => 'absent' for a directory
• #392 - run conditional options with exec_autodir
• #399 - Rex::Output to persist across different processes - nathanIL
• #416 - fixed pkg with ensure => 'ver.si.on'