Fabric

Change log

11/08/2009

First post-rewrite final release

Bug #161: sudo adduser seems stuck
Bug #31: --roles doesn't work
Bug #46: installation doc: does not list setuptool dependency
Bug #42: No documentation for ~/.fabricrc
Bug #45: 0.9 doc first example is wrong
Bug #47: env.hosts should be a list initially.
Bug #153: Hangs When Encountering an Invalid Security Certificate
Bug #157: Fabfile can't be a hidden file
Bug #34: upload_template produces "Permission denied".
Bug #50: upload_template: wrong handling of source filename and generation of remote path
Bug #58: Add 'show_stderr' to local() as per fabric's own fabfile.py
Bug #59: Exists produces "ls: illegal option -- -" error on mac os x
Bug #64: Officially-blessed downloads don't have stable md5 checksums
Bug #62: backticks in run() don't work as expected
Bug #32: Occasional dropped lines of output
Support #39: Clarify execution docs re: local. (was: local is called more than once)
Support #67: Prepare for packaging on PyPI, etc
Support #54: Python 2.5.2 is minimum requirement (not Python 2.5).

05/28/2010

First 0.9 bugfix/minor feature release

Bug #132: run()/sudo() strip the output, local() does not
Bug #75: "fab" with no arguments and no fabfiles should display help
Bug #82: fabric.contrib.files.append checks beginning of lines rather than discrete lines
Bug #110: Reorder fab CLI arguments list to be alphabetical
Bug #194: Windows + fab = ImportError: cannot import name output
Bug #130: Context managers don't account for exceptions
Bug #139: Connection refused showing up as a timeout error
Bug #166: cd() should overwrite non-empty env.cwd when given absolute path
Feature #148: Add .stdout attribute to _AttributeString
Feature #112: Add custom docstrings to --list output
Feature #129: Bash-completion script
Feature #141: Allow Fabric level access to more Paramiko connection params
Support #95: Ensure link to changelog, or changelog itself, is on PyPI
Support #93: Update install docs with new official D/L location
Support #92: Set up an IRC channel
Support #94: Update master/1.0 changelog, docs with all recent work
Support #91: Update old nongnu.org site to simply bounce to fabfile.org
Support #120: Make "fabfiles == Python modules" clearer
Support #17: Documentation enhancements (was: Enhance documentation for final release)
Support #127: Add PyPM to the installation document

Second 0.9 bugfix/minor feature release

Third 0.9 bugfix/minor feature release

Final commitment to long-term public API (plus more features than 0.9)

Bug #48: Specifying two hosts throws fabric into an infinite loop.
Bug #187: make run use_sudo
Bug #70: some lines of the output are missing
Bug #97: In some situations, pressing Enter does *not* reuse the previous password
Bug #182: New I/O mechanisms print "extra" blank lines on \r
Bug #123: ImportError in _get_system_username on cyqwin without win32api installed
Bug #159: sed doesn't work when there is single quote
Bug #183: Prompts appear to kill capturing (now with bonus test server!)
Bug #180: --version breaks with no git
Feature #193: Terminal resizing support/detection
Feature #126: Allow developer to specify which functions are tasks
Feature #128: dont_write_bytecode env var
Feature #136: Subdirectory fabfile support.
Feature #135: All output should be sent through logging module
Feature #80: See whether `paramiko.SSHClient.invoke_shell` + `paramiko.Channel.send` is feasible
Feature #29: Allow arbitrary shell commands to be specified on the command line
Feature #27: Add global env var controlling pty behavior
Feature #52: Allow display of full stack trace on error
Feature #181: Sudo context and/or decorator
Feature #55: Allow access to captured stderr from operations
Feature #23: Make generic "persistence" context manager
Feature #7: Improved prompt detection and passthrough
Support #185: Get better SSH testing infrastructure
Support #24: Refactor run/sudo to use single subroutine
Support #20: Rework output mechanisms