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2020-01-05
Rex-1.8.0

The Rex-1.8.0 release is now available on CPAN, adding initial support to manage Void Linux systems.

2019-12-05
Rex-1.7.1

The Rex-1.7.1 release is now available on CPAN, fixing a Windows testing issue, and updating some docs.

2019-11-05
Rex-1.7.0

The Rex-1.7.0 release is now available on CPAN.

2019-07-02
Deprecating official Rex packages

As part of our efforts to simplify maintenance around RexOps projects, we have decided to stop building Rex packages on our side. We recommend relying on OS packages maintained by the various distributions in their respective upstream repositories, or to install Rex from CPAN.

2019-06-09
Post-migration updates & clean-up

Over the course of the past weeks many clean-ups have been done, reaping the benefits provided by our new Statocles-based site:

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Release notes for 0.11

Rex

• Added LVM module and added LVM data to inventory.

  ⁠use Rex::Commands::LVM;
  ⁠
  ⁠task "lvm", sub {
  ⁠    my @physical_devices = pvs;
  ⁠    my @volume_groups    = vgs;
  ⁠    my @logical_volumes  = lvs;
  ⁠};    

• Added hpacucli support to inventory

• Added CentOS 6 packages and support

• added order option to db select

  ⁠task "db", sub {
  ⁠    my @data = db select => {
  ⁠        fields => "*",
  ⁠        from   => "table",
  ⁠        order  => "updated DESC",
  ⁠    };
  ⁠};    

• Fixed some bugs

  • Multiplicator in inventory module for TB and GB
  • removed OUT OF SPEC message from dmidecode
  • fixed db disconnects on fork (parallelism)
  • fixed some typos