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Release notes for 0.52.1

These are the changes in 0.52 release.

This release don't bring many new features but fixes bugs and enhanced some existing functions.

But we have another delicacy for you. Currently we are developing an easy to use Webfrontend for Rex. A first working development snapshot is available at https://github.com/RexOps/rex-jobcontrol. You will also find some screenshots there.

The installation is easy and it is described in the README.md file in the repository.

We welcome any feedback and if you want to help developing this webfrontend feel free to contact us via irc on irc.freenode.net #rex.

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'

(R)?ex the friendly automation framework

News

Conferences

Release notes for 0.52.1

Base

Cloud

Bugfixes