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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Release notes for 1.16.1

This is a new patch release containing bug fixes and documentation updates.

Fix hostgroup membership list

Calling connection->server->groups now correctly returns all hostgroup names a host belongs to.

Fix command existence checks without which

Some non-Windows systems do not have a which binary, others (like Red Hat derivatives) may define which as a shell function. The can_run() command now uses command -v instead.

Test with extra GitHub Actions runners

Our GitHub Actions workflow now runs the test suite on DragonflyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris. This allows us to catch issues sooner than before, and we already fixed the following:

• Fix FQDN parsing
• Handle SMBios errors gracefully
• Fix parsing free memory on Solaris
• Fix shared variable lockfile on Solaris
• Prefer GNU tools on Solaris
• Fix parsing FreeBSD memory details
• Recognize laundry memory on FreeBSD

Please see the CPAN release page for the changelog.

Many thanks to all contributors who made this release possible.