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0.9.2

Second 0.9 bugfix/minor feature release

11%

4 closed (11%)   31 open (89%)

Related issues
  • Bug #40: get() not correctly detecting number of hosts
  • Bug #41: get() not using remote filename when downloading to a directory
  • Bug #77: If remote and local files are same: empty file as a result
  • Bug #84: fabric.contrib.files.sed uses "non-standard" flag '-r'
  • Bug #85: Prompts for "passphrase" instead of "password" in some situations
  • Bug #96: Remote 3-strikes auth failure causes traceback
  • Bug #104: Fix up autodoc-generated API docs
  • Bug #109: put() raising "NoneType has no attribute 'st_mode'" exception
  • Bug #113: Make sure host lists can be iterables, not just lists
  • Bug #121: Make put() more flexible re: file modes
  • Bug #138: env.port not honored if host string lacks port specification
  • Bug #143: context manager PATH errors when using with run operation
  • Bug #144: hosts decorator can not accept a list object as it's argument
  • Bug #145: Make 2.5+ requirement more visible
  • Bug #154: sed() add case-insensitive parameter or flag
  • Bug #155: Possible quoting related issues in contrib.files.exists
  • Bug #156: put() will try to chmod, even though this is not always possible. There is no way to turn this off
  • Bug #158: Slow disconnects at end of session
  • Bug #164: puts show_prefix
  • Bug #168: fabric.contrib.files.exists path expansion
  • Bug #173: readme typo
  • Bug #179: run behaviour changed in 0.9.1
  • Feature #44: rsync_project to a different ssh port
  • Feature #61: Extend `cd` to work for get/put
  • Feature #63: rsync_project w/ ssh key
  • Feature #68: `fab init` or similar for generating a skeleton fabfile
  • Feature #105: Allow use of getpass in prompt when asking user for passwords
  • Feature #140: Recursive put() and get()
  • Feature #163: Formattable output prefix.
  • Feature #165: Allow "cleaned up" docstring output in -l/-d
  • Feature #170: Pull request for exclude_hosts feature
  • Feature #176: Add a pty option in contrib.files.upload_template function args
  • Support #90: Update docs/templates to allow access to previous versions
  • Support #108: Ensure all first mentions of env vars are links to usage docs
  • Support #171: Add cross-links from env vars to their CLI args

0.9.3

Third 0.9 bugfix/minor feature release

10%

1 closed (10%)   9 open (90%)

Related issues
  • Bug #137: Allow escaped commas in command line
  • Bug #150: SSH key and agent weirdness
  • Bug #188: add grep_options to contrib.files.contains
  • Feature #116: Support task names with hyphens
  • Feature #117: Add mode support to upload_template()
  • Feature #151: Make fabfile print() statements controllable via output controls
  • Feature #175: contrib.select() function
  • Feature #189: Add option: skip password prompting upon failure
  • Support #111: Backport major compatible "1.0" (master) features to 0.9.x
  • Support #169: Add a bot or two to the IRC channel

1.0

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

26%

25 closed (26%)   73 open (74%)

Related issues
  • Bug #36: Incorrect import of state.connections
  • Bug #37: Use of _transport instead of the more appropriate get_transport()
  • Bug #48: Specifying two hosts throws fabric into an infinite loop.
  • Bug #53: Add command-line option to abort if input is needed
  • Bug #60: Use of the "user" argument to sudo() often results in profile load errors
  • Bug #66: Consider making `--hosts` always override `env.hosts`
  • Bug #70: some lines of the output are missing
  • Bug #88: Switch default behavior of local() to not capture
  • Bug #97: In some situations, pressing Enter does *not* reuse the previous password
  • Bug #100: UnicodeDecodeError on some output (or, implement Unicode support)
  • Bug #103: Use 3rd party "decorator" module to fix introspection for decorated functions
  • Bug #114: Ctrl-D causes hanging
  • Bug #115: Preserving order of hosts
  • Bug #118: Single quotes in append() don't work, or: goddamn quoting
  • Bug #123: ImportError in _get_system_username on cyqwin without win32api installed
  • Bug #142: disconnect_all doesnt delete closed connection from connections cache
  • Bug #159: sed doesn't work when there is single quote
  • Bug #180: --version breaks with no git
  • Bug #182: New I/O mechanisms print "extra" blank lines on \r
  • Bug #183: Prompts appear to kill capturing (now with bonus test server!)
  • Bug #187: make run use_sudo
  • Bug #190: Sudo prompt mixed up a bit
  • Bug #192: Per-user/host password memory (was: Possible issue in password memory)
  • Bug #196: open_shell() doesn't do readline too well
  • Bug #197: Handle running without any controlling tty
  • Bug #198: Test server does not shut down cleanly
  • Feature #2: Make `put` sudo-able
  • Feature #3: Make use of ssh_config where possible
  • Feature #4: Allow for storing/using metadata about hosts
  • Feature #5: Consider adding a "fab shell" back in
  • Feature #6: Bash/Zsh/etc completion
  • Feature #7: Improved prompt detection and passthrough
  • Feature #8: Add timeout support
  • Feature #9: Find decent way to perform platform-specific path logic
  • Feature #10: Overhaul contrib.project.upload_project
  • Feature #11: Possibly reimplement old undocumented "confirm_proceed" behavior
  • Feature #12: Overhaul reboot operation
  • Feature #13: Add command line flag for setting env vars
  • Feature #19: Implement parallelism/thread-safety
  • Feature #21: Make execution model more robust/flexible
  • Feature #22: Allow "aliasing" in env dictionary?
  • Feature #23: Make generic "persistence" context manager
  • Feature #25: Update "use_sudo to be "via" or similar
  • Feature #26: Implement "dry run" feature
  • Feature #27: Add global env var controlling pty behavior
  • Feature #28: Allow put-style globbing with get
  • Feature #29: Allow arbitrary shell commands to be specified on the command line
  • Feature #33: Look into adding "*" support for hosts/roles
  • Feature #35: Add manpage
  • Feature #38: Implement tunnelling
  • Feature #52: Allow display of full stack trace on error
  • Feature #55: Allow access to captured stderr from operations
  • Feature #56: Add namespacing or dot notation
  • Feature #57: Support full logging to file
  • Feature #69: Investigate translation of CLI per-task args to Python types
  • Feature #71: Consider adding "global"/per-task capture of run/sudo/local stdout/stderr
  • Feature #72: SSH key forwarding
  • Feature #76: Use decorator to define tasks
  • Feature #78: Add Tunneling Context to Fab
  • Feature #79: Optional host prefix for get
  • Feature #80: See whether `paramiko.SSHClient.invoke_shell` + `paramiko.Channel.send` is feasible
  • Feature #98: Optionally avoid using ssh if going to localhost
  • Feature #101: ANSI Color support
  • Feature #102: Consider updating abort to be more flexible/featureful
  • Feature #106: Improvements to contrib.files
  • Feature #107: Allow require()'s provided_by argument to accept non-list values
  • Feature #119: Deal with global-vs-local config issues
  • Feature #122: Allow fabricrc to be fabfile-esque Python module?
  • Feature #125: Support writing to a file in addition to appending
  • Feature #126: Allow developer to specify which functions are tasks
  • Feature #128: dont_write_bytecode env var
  • Feature #131: Allow graceful user-controlled handling of connection failures
  • Feature #133: Pre/post run hooks
  • Feature #134: Allow --list (or another option) to filter listed tasks
  • Feature #135: All output should be sent through logging module
  • Feature #136: Subdirectory fabfile support.
  • Feature #152: new contrib for remote file system utility functions.
  • Feature #177: Investigate pexpect/expect integration
  • Feature #178: Possibly allow shell selection in local()
  • Feature #181: Sudo context and/or decorator
  • Feature #184: allow local_dir to be a list in rsync
  • Feature #193: Terminal resizing support/detection
  • Support #14: Reorganize internals a bit
  • Support #15: Try polishing operations' API
  • Support #16: Increase test coverage
  • Support #18: Run PyLint to discover unnecessary imports and etc
  • Support #20: Rework output mechanisms
  • Support #24: Refactor run/sudo to use single subroutine
  • Support #51: Handle Paramiko-level "logger" issues
  • Support #73: Once Git can be used, update tutorial to use it.
  • Support #74: Try harder to get package-level stuff worked out
  • Support #81: Maybe switch from Setuptools to Distribute in 1.0
  • Support #86: Explore move back to external Paramiko dependency
  • Support #124: Maybe replace custom output capturing with nose plugin
  • Support #149: Move fabric.operations._AttributeString to utils or something
  • Support #172: Make default function arg values more sensible
  • Support #185: Get better SSH testing infrastructure
  • Support #199: Investigate newer Sphinx features