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2020-07-05
Rex-1.12.0

The Rex-1.12.0 release is now available on CPAN. It adds support for local rsync operations, improves tab completion for Bash and Zsh, and fixes related bugs. It also discontinues support for running Rex on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and older versions since both mainstream and extended support has already ended for these products.

2020-06-09
Rex on StackShare

Thanks to the support from their amazing team, Rex is now listed on StackShare.

2020-06-05
Rex-1.11.0

The Rex-1.11.0 release is now available on CPAN. It enhances the behaviour of sysctl and file management, fixes bugs about group management and OpenSSH connection options, and clarifies quite a bit of documentation.

2020-05-05
Rex-1.10.0

The Rex-1.10.0 release is now available on CPAN (changelog). Apart from documentation updates and bug fixes, it adds initial package glob support, and an on_change hook for the mkdir command.

2020-04-05
Rex-1.9.0

The Rex-1.9.0 release is now available on CPAN, and it adds a new feature flag to force writing UTF-8 encoded files, documents configuration options, and fixes bugs.

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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