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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:

2019-05-19
New site engine for rexify.org

After months of work on a new site backend, we reached the MVP today for our site to be switched over to a new engine: from now on, our site will be maintained using the static site generator Statocles.

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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'