News

2025-07-05
Rex-1.16.1

Rex-1.16.1 is now available on CPAN.

It delivers bug fixes for hostgroup membership lists, executable discovery without which, and many others on BSDs and Solaris, including discovering memory usage details.

2025-02-05
Rex-1.16.0

Rex-1.16.0 is now available on CPAN.

It now requires at least perl-5.14.4 to install, contains new features for running commands on Windows, and fixes bugs around git repository branch operations.

2024-11-05
Rex-1.15.0

Happy 14th birthday, Rex!

Rex-1.15.0 is now available on CPAN. It contains several bug fixes and a few new features.

2023-08-05
Rex-1.14.3

Rex-1.14.3 is now available on CPAN. It contains bug fixes for local package installation, command existence checks, and Git tests.

2023-05-05
Rex-1.14.2

The Rex-1.14.2 release is now available on CPAN. It contains bug fixes for running local commands on Windows, cloning git repositories, and test suite fixes for the upcoming perl-5.38.0 release.

Events

2021-03-08
Learning automation using Rex

Ferenc Erki (FErki) will be the guest of Gábor Szabó on the next Code Maven live stream to learn about automation using Rex. Register for the free event via Code Maven or Meetup, and join the discussion!

2020-03-05
Unexpected use cases with Rex

Unexpected use cases with Rex at the 22nd German Perl/Raku Workshop 2020 in Erlangen by Ferenc Erki (FErki).

2019-11-09
Rex & Friends

Rex & Friends talk at the Barcelona Perl & Friends 2019 by Ferenc Erki (FErki).

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Call for papers TPRC 2023

2023-03-17 - Ferenc Erki

Dean Hamstead from the The Perl and Raku Foundation Marketing Committee has sent an invitation to present about Rex at TPRC 2023. I’m posting it here to increase visibility.

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Rex-1.14.1

2023-03-05 - Ferenc Erki

The Rex-1.14.1 release is now available on CPAN. It contains bug fixes and documentation updates.

Rex-1.14.0

2023-02-05 - Ferenc Erki

The Rex-1.14.0 release is now available on CPAN. It contains improved Rexfile loading, documentation updates, and bumps the minimum required Perl version to 5.12.5.

Rex-1.13.4

2021-07-05 - Ferenc Erki

The Rex-1.13.4 release is now available on CPAN. It contains documentation updates, and a fix for inconsistent behavior between the content and source options of the file command.

Rex-1.13.3

2021-03-05 - Ferenc Erki

The Rex-1.13.3 release is now available on CPAN. It contains documentation updates, and a fix for debconf parsing. Behind the scenes, CI was migrated over to GitHub Actions as well.