2016-07-10 Jan Gehring <jfried@rexify.org> (1.4.1)
  * bug with get_cloud_instances_as_group - Pierrick DINTRAT
  * Adds 64bit module path to @INC for linux - Mitch Broadhead
  * set ls quoting for fedora 24 which magically quotes filenames - Jan Gehring
  * added cache for can_run - Jan Gehring
  * removed space from line ending. fixed test on centos 6 - Jan Gehring
  * Don't add duplicates env variable in crontab - Rapenne Solène
  * quote source and destination, so spaces in directory names are possible - Jan Gehring
  * fixed summary tests for netbsd - Jan Gehring
  * run hooks before push_connection - Jan Gehring
  * Don't hardcode LibXML dependency - Jan Gehring
  * workaround for wrong behaviour with -f and windows symlinks - Jan Gehring
  * it seems that the channel sometimes doesn't get closed in time. so we need an option to force close it after command run. - Jan Gehring
  * fixed reporting for named resource - Jan Gehring
  * pass cli parameters to tasks for pre 1.4 feature flags. fix #1039 - Jan Gehring
  * fixed old style Rex::Args->get when called from outside a task - Jan Gehring
  * Fix for #1054 - get_private_key() to check the private key file - Tamas Molnar
  * Fix for #1052 - mask sudo_password in debug log - Tamas Molnar
  * exit rex with an exitcode of 1 if some tests failed. fix #989 - Jan Gehring
  * show how to assign a user with a non-default shell - Andrew Solomon
  * Fix example code (fix #1034) - Ferenc Erki
  * Update example tasknames - Ferenc Erki
  * Add possible root cause to authentication error message (fix #671) - Ferenc Erki
  * Correct message for authentication problems - Ferenc Erki
  * Avoid hardcoded path - Ferenc Erki
  * Refactor calls to reporting - Ferenc Erki
  * Refactor reporting message handling - Ferenc Erki
  * Simplify detection of pkg change type - Ferenc Erki
  * Refactor pkg on_change handling - Ferenc Erki
  * Report each pkg modification (fix #838) - Ferenc Erki
  * Revert "report all packages" - Ferenc Erki
  * Timeout value should be passed in milliseconds - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix compatibility with recent Net::SSH2 (fix #1023) - Ferenc Erki
  * Only log masked password if one is being used - Ferenc Erki
  * Avoid logging undefined host during connection - Ferenc Erki
  * Refactor do_task - Ferenc Erki
  * Backport task existence check for do_task from #1010 (fix #992) - Ferenc Erki
  * Initial tests for do_task - Ferenc Erki
  * fix hardcoded git tag command - Kirill Babikhin
  * Document perlcritic violations - Ferenc Erki
  * Integer with leading zeros - Ferenc Erki
  * Add S_IMODE - Ferenc Erki
  * Variable declared in conditional statement - Ferenc Erki
  * "require" statement with library name as string - Ferenc Erki
  * "select" used to emulate "sleep" - Ferenc Erki
  * Don't modify $_ in list functions - Ferenc Erki
  * removed hard coded qemu-img create format and added use of driver_type option. fix #948 - Jan Gehring
  * added understandable error message when no virtualization module is given. fix #949 - Jan Gehring
  * print right error message if run_task is calling a task that is not available. fix #970 - Jan Gehring
  * on windows test for SSH connection type. fix #965 - Jan Gehring
  * Add more tests for shared arrays - Ferenc Erki
  * Add unshift for shared arrays - Ferenc Erki
  * Add tests for unshift to shared arrays - Ferenc Erki
  * Add pop for shared arrays - Ferenc Erki
  * Add tests for pop from shared arrays - Ferenc Erki
  * Add shift for shared arrays (fix #921) - Ferenc Erki
  * Add tests for shift from shared arrays (ref #921) - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix #967 - Harm Müller
  * Add META.json to CPAN release - Kent Fredric

2016-03-06 Ferenc Erki <ferki@cpan.org> (1.4.0)
  * Normalize EOL characters earlier (fix #957) - Ferenc Erki
  * fixed variable usage - Jan
  * remove chr(13) everywhere - fix #957 - Jan
  * cleanup newline(s) at the end. fix for #957 - Jan
  * Increase timeout for read_buffer test (fix #954) - Ferenc Erki
  * Test with a bit less output - Ferenc Erki
  * Update read_buffer test for Windows - Ferenc Erki
  * removed read_buffer reduction - Jan Gehring
  * Handle partial last chunks from STDOUT and STDERR - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix draining IO - Ferenc Erki
  * Add initial tests for draining IO - Ferenc Erki
  * fix continuous read bug - RexOps/#951 - Jan
  * Reopen STDERR after loading Rexfile - Dmitry Kopytov
  * Let service tests be silent - Ferenc Erki
  * Don't confess upon failure of a non-resource (fix #936) - Ferenc Erki
  * iptables_clear should clear only loaded tables - Dmitry Kopytov
  * Fix copy-pasta POD errors - Ferenc Erki
  * Make CPAN Testers happy for unsupported OSes - Ferenc Erki
  * fixed issue of calling Rex::Args->get inside before_task_start - RexOps/Rex#934 - krimdomu
  * can't connect message must be ::info logging - krimdomu
  * check if task is no object, and get the task object then - Jan Gehring
  * removed connecting to mesages (change to debug level) - Jan Gehring
  * added parameters to do_task and fixed LOCAL block - Jan Gehring
  * fixed calling of exit hooks after summary - Jan Gehring
  * Update docs for Rex::Task - Ferenc Erki
  * Add docs for Rex::Shared::Var (fix #920) - Ferenc Erki
  * Update sudo docs (fix #918) - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix summary tests for Mac OS X - Ferenc Erki
  * Add tests for task hooks - Ferenc Erki
  * don't clone task object. When cloned before_task_start/after_task_finished hooks doesn't work - fix #919 - krimdomu
  * debug output now gets displayed again. - fix RexOps/Rex#910 - krimdomu
  * fix loading of Rexfile on perl 5.8.9 - RexOps/Rex#922 - krimdomu
  * fixed loading of resource module in perl 5.8 - RexOps/Rex#917 - krimdomu
  * try to fix failing tests on freebsd - #901 - krimdomu
  * Fix POD - Ferenc Erki
  * Unbundle AWS::Signature4 - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix rendering of false values in templates - Ferenc Erki
  * Test rendering of false values in templates - Ferenc Erki
  * Avoid __Rexfile__ as dependency - Ferenc Erki
  * Enable more feature flags for development releases - Ferenc Erki
  * Use development versioning - Ferenc Erki
  * Pass options to mkfs (#fix 905) - Ferenc Erki
  * Don't fail mkfs if label is undefined - Ferenc Erki
  * Skip creating filesystems for some reserved words - Ferenc Erki
  * Check for fstype existence at the start - Ferenc Erki
  * Update docs for partition command - Ferenc Erki
  * Remove purge package action on arch (fix #867) - Ferenc Erki
  * Use sysread for local exec interface too (fix #887) - Ferenc Erki
  * Avoid bitshifting error code twice (fix #901) - Ferenc Erki
  * add default values for cpu and memory - krimdomu
  * some windows fixes for rexify command - krimdomu
  * run shell detection a second time if first time failed - krimdomu
  * remove unnecessary new lines - krimdomu
  * moved detect method to base, because it is everywhere the same, created direct_exec method for all interfaces - krimdomu
  * remove error message, we don't need it for the tests - krimdomu
  * fixed inheritance problem, moved shell() method to base class. - krimdomu
  * return always shell object - krimdomu
  * load right cron module if os is *bsd and shell is csh - #883 - krimdomu
  * use sysread to read from filehandle. fixes #887 - krimdomu
  * Read STDOUT and STDERR in parallel (fix #756) - Ferenc Erki
  * fix error code in $? after a run command which was introduced by 6c8441 - krimdomu
  * print the error message in the summary when a task die()d - krimdomu
  * readd close of stderr - krimdomu
  * only update chained resource when the upper resource wasn't changed before. Also removed 'inside resource check' because this is not needed anymore due to stacked resources - krimdomu
  * fix loading of libraries in lib directory when use -f path/to/Rexfile - krimdomu
  * fixed loading of rexfiles with -f - krimdomu
  * load a rexfile also if it doesn't return a true value. This fixes a regression - RexOps/Rex#513 - krimdomu
  * fixed reporting of nested resources (changed resource) - krimdomu
  * fixed firewall resource to work with ipv6 patch - krimdomu
  * added Rex::Args->get method again. fixes #860 - krimdomu
  * Refactor Rex::TaskList.  No functional change. - Eric Johnson
  * fixed tests for windows - krimdomu
  * added tmp to gitignore - krimdomu
  * Add Rex::Commands::Mkfs to rexify and pp.args - Ferenc Erki
  * The after hook now runs even if the ssh connection fails. - Eric Johnson
  * added archlinux support - Harm Müller
  * support key_url and key_file also on redhat systems - krimdomu
  * also lookup task name in cmdb - krimdomu
  * Fix regression in deprecated static call to Rex::Task->run() - Eric Johnson
  * Fix links in README (fix #853) - Ferenc Erki
  * Output full task names (fix #825, close #842) - Daniel Cesario
  * use empty string to prevent uninitialized warning messages - krimdomu
  * make environment available inside cmdb template - krimdomu
  * color for windows - krimdomu
  * defaults for cpus and memory - krimdomu
  * call after task hook, even if connection to system failed - krimdomu
  * fix after hook call for connections that wasn't successfull - krimdomu
  * Fix passing memory/cpus options to constructor - Ferenc Erki
  * Allow tests so set Box memory and cpus (close #839) - Patrick Lauer
  * Exit with an error message when a bad task name is used. - Eric Johnson
  * Exit codes now work when using 'rex -e' (fix #761, close #840) - Eric Johnson
  * Fix indentation - Eric Johnson
  * Refactor out some code into handle_lock_file() - Eric Johnson
  * Refactor out logic for loading server ini file into load_server_ini_file(). - Eric Johnson
  * Put Rexfile exists check inside load_rexfile() - Eric Johnson
  * Simplify loading the Rexfile and improve error handling. - Eric Johnson
  * Add missing Data::Dumper import - Ken Crowell
  * Tests for needs() were not useful.  Now they are. - Eric Johnson
  * allow mix of modules.rexify.org modules and git modules - Jan
  * Fix summary test tasks for Windows - Ferenc Erki
  * Add support for ip6tables (close #795) - Dmitry Kopytov
  * Prefer uid over getlogin as fallback username (close #793, fix #792) - Ferenc Erki
  * Sort failure list - Ferenc Erki
  * Further simplify summary output - Ferenc Erki
  * Refactor summary output - Ferenc Erki
  * Use error level output in the summary if some tasks failed - Ferenc Erki
  * added AWS::Signature4 directly to code, due to problems with Centos5 dependencies (#737) - Jan
  * ignore eclipse files - Jan
  * fixed call of task as functions with normal parameters, #827 - Jan
  * allow config (set) vars in cmdb templates - Jan
  * Fix template handling in YAML CMDB files - Ferenc Erki
  * YAML cmdb can now contain template code - Jan
  * don't concat caller package anymore - Jan
  * fixed some unitialized warnings - Jan
  * fixed lookup path for arp command - Jan
  * report all packages - Jan
  * allow nested resources in reports - Jan
  * use md5 binary if perl module is not available - fix for #834 - Jan
  * default to empty task list - Jan
  * don't print summary on rex -T - Jan
  * use can_run to detect arp command - Jan Gehring
  * Custom storage path for kvm - Prajithp
  * give server configuration precedence - Jan
  * detect iptables version and choose syntax for ip adresses - Jan
  * fixed a logic bug, that prevents batch creation - Jan
  * fixed a bug that was introduced by b0416b1710611b900284ba5a2d9d74991fc4351b - Jan
  * Ensuring that labels can be added to swap partitions - Peter H. Ezetta
  * Ensure proper test-time connection type (fix #821) - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix examples - Ferenc Erki
  * Slightly reword synopsis - Ferenc Erki
  * Updated pod in bin/rex and lib/Rex.pm - Eric Johnson
  * Fix static side comments - Ferenc Erki
  * Use static comments to avoid alignment change later - Ferenc Erki
  * Checking for a running rex process failed if the pidfile contains a pid that partially matches a running process. - petersonchen
  * Updated documentation in bin/rex (pod/man page) - Eric Johnson
  * fixed loading of Rex::Commands via require. RexOps/Rex#789 - Jan Gehring
  * Recognize Raspbian as a Debian clone - Ferenc Erki
  * Mute noisy tests - Ferenc Erki
  * Added option for rebase during pull. - Eivin Giske Skaaren
  * added feature flag for 1.4 and removed deprecated warning of Rex::RunList - Jan
  * Added a firewall module to manage different firewall models with one interface. - Jan
  * resource and task now have own namespace for template variables - Jan
  * Exit codes need to be bit shifted by 8.  Do it in one place. - Eric Johnson
  * Summary tests for all permutations of Parallel::ForkManager, Base, and exec_autodie - Eric Johnson
  * Summarize success/failure at the end of a run - Eric Johnson
  * added ParamLookup and registering task parameter as template variables. - Jan
  * Suppress STDERR during crontab listings - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix managing a user's own crontab via cron_entry - Ferenc Erki
  * Add _whoami to determine remote effective username - Ferenc Erki
  * Add docs on glob usage with file command (close #712, fix #738) - Jose Luis Perez Diez
  * Map Debian clones correctly - Ferenc Erki
  * Recognize LinuxMint as a Debian clone (close #506) - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix GetRex link url - hiroraba
  * Avoid unnecessary package rebuilds on Gentoo (close #809) - Patrick Lauer
  * Don't parse @ARGV on import. - Eric Johnson
  * Refactor child/parent pid logic + comments to be more readable - Eric Johnson
  * Avoid race condition when doing IPC. - Eric Johnson
  * Test for race condition problem in Rex::Shared::Var. - Eric Johnson
  * Refactoring LVM.pm to use mkfs(); - Peter H. Ezetta
  * refactor Partition.pm, fix $lv_name in Mkfs.pm - Peter H. Ezetta
  * refactoring swap logic into mkfs logic, silly to separate. - Peter H. Ezetta
  * code cleanup and addition of POD - Peter H. Ezetta
  * error checking on $lvname - Peter H. Ezetta
  * setting up logic for lvm vs raw disk - Peter H. Ezetta
  * starting to add option parsing - Peter H. Ezetta
  * start of refactor mkfs/mkswap into their own pm - Peter H. Ezetta
  * Fix undef warnings if calling get() without param - Andy Beverley
  * lower exitecode to less than 255 because some os have problems with larger ones - Jan
  * Fatal exceptions if git switching fail - alex1line
  * fix for Net::OpenSSH can't set initialize_options for the constructor - #796 - Jan Gehring
  * fixes the problem of run_task connecting to the wrong host #788 - Jan Gehring

2015-09-04 Ferenc Erki <ferki@rexify.org> (1.3.3)
  * Catch another way to manage services on FreeBSD (close #773) - timp87
  * Fix generated links for Commands modules (fix #776) - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix code block output when there's no space before closing tag - Ferenc Erki
  * Escape curly braces in template content - Ferenc Erki
  * Force syncing package information on FreeBSD - Ferenc Erki
  * Take service name and rcvar mapping into account on FreeBSD (close #770) - timp87
  * Check if systemctl is functional before using it (fix #753) - Ferenc Erki
  * Rearrange dist.ini - Ferenc Erki
  * Fail early on unsupported Windows versions (fix #751) - Ferenc Erki
  * Warn about missing environment instead of panicking (fix #742) - Ferenc Erki
  * Document alias of get_operating_system() - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix perlcritic warnings about modifying list elements - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix perlcritic warnings about two-argument open - Ferenc Erki
  * Update auth docs - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix docs for transaction (fix #686, close #766) - Elmer Quintanilla
  * Fix ensure option for NetBSD services (close #759) - timp87
  * Do not silently fail on update errors (close #758) - Andrew Beverley
  * Fix ensure option for FreeBSD services (close #752) - timp87
  * Enable Rex to manage system services on FreeBSD (#752) - timp87
  * Recognize multi-arch packages on Debian (fix #748, close #755) - Erik Huelsmann
  * Fix Gentoo service detection (fix #747) - Ferenc Erki
  * force apt-listchanges to not run - Anders Ossowicki
  * Added doc about using regex for auth - Eivin Giske Skaaren
  * Fixes #760 timeout for OpenSSH - Eivin Giske Skaaren
  * Use the correct class for managing forks (fix #743) - Ferenc Erki
  * Support key files for Debian repositories + add docs (close #736) - John Karr
  * Don't recreate connection during rethink_connection (fix #694, close #727) - Mitch Broadhead
  * Pass exception to on_rollback (fix #687, close #732) - Mitch Broadhead
  * Document hostname expressions support in INI files - Ferenc Erki
  * Support hostname expressions in INI files (close #713) - okaoka
  * Document -O CLI option - Ferenc Erki
  * Revert "Remove unused CLI option" (fix RexOps/rex-jobcontrol#10) - Ferenc Erki
  * make Fcntl calls os independent - Jan
  * added a wrapper module for File::Spec - Jan
  * Fix LEFT_PRECEDENCE typo - Dmitry Kopytov
  * Add function for checkout of Git tags - Eivin Giske Skaaren

2015-06-17 Ferenc Erki <ferki@rexify.org> (1.3.2)
  * Use binmode as a function - Jan
  * Use raw Rex::Interface::Exec to call can_run - Jan
  * Remove md5sum usage - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix for filenames with at sign in them - Ferenc Erki
  * Add test case for filenames with at sign - Ferenc Erki
  * Add initial MD5 test - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix check for environment-specific filenames - Ferenc Erki
  * Use OS-agnostic perl executable detection - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix RC version handling - Ferenc Erki
  * Refactor MD5 checksum calculation (fix #719) - Ferenc Erki
  * Add missing test names - Ferenc Erki
  * Only display diagnostic message if something went wrong - Ferenc Erki
  * Explicitly test for optional dependencies - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix LEFT_PRECEDENCE typo - Dmitry Kopytov

2015-06-08 <ferki, rexify.org> (1.3.1)
  * Cleanup db tests (fix #714) - Ferenc Erki
  * Update parallelism docs - Ferenc Erki

2015-06-03 <jfried, rexify.org> (1.3.0)
  * Fix regex pattern for perl-5.22.0 - Ferenc Erki
  * Filter changelogger output - Ferenc Erki
  * Cleanup group command POD - Ferenc Erki
  * Convert POD directives of methods and DSL functions (fix #685, close #705) - Brian Manning
  * pass cmdb() arguments to callback - fixed #709 - Jan
  * allow creation of inherited Rex::Group::Entry::Server objects - fixed #708 - Jan
  * Reuse VM name as image filename when importing - Ferenc Erki
  * Recognize CloudLinux as Red Hat clone (close #699) - Dmitry Kopytov
  * Fix auth test when REX_USER env is present - Dmitry Kopytov
  * Remove unused CLI option - Ferenc Erki
  * More helpful/verbose help message (close #698) - Eric Johnson
  * Cleanup a file used during testing - Ferenc Erki
  * Cleanup tests with optional dependencies - Ferenc Erki
  * Use explicit test plans everywhere - Ferenc Erki
  * Cleanup test imports - Ferenc Erki
  * Remove tests doing nothing else than use_ok() - Ferenc Erki
  * Automatically use all modules during testing - Ferenc Erki
  * Remove redundant hostname evaluation tests - Ferenc Erki
  * Remove unused Data::Dumper from tests - Ferenc Erki
  * Add CMDB docs - Ferenc Erki
  * Don't run into an endless loop: fix for #692 - Jan Gehring
  * Iptables.pm: add long-form iptables examples to POD - Brian Manning
  * Iptables.pm: show error from iptables on non-zero exit status - Brian Manning
  * ignore backfiles from editors - Jan
  * Log STDERR on errors where auto_die is enabled - Dmitry Kopytov
  * Set parallelism automatically (fix #491) - Ferenc Erki
  * added template_ng tests - Jan
  * fixed a problem when one template object was used twice - Jan
  * new template engine for 1.3 - Jan
  * Fix checking of virsh command result upon VM creation - Ferenc Erki
  * Update clearpart command documentation - Ferenc Erki
  * Add bios_boot option to GPT initialization - Ferenc Erki
  * make report filename configurable. don't sleep in test - Jan
  * Check for CLI argument definedness (fix #668) - Ferenc Erki
  * this commit fixes #667. this bug was introduced with the fix for #629 - Jan
  * first detect if uname and md5sum can be run, then use it. fixed #665 - Jan
  * fix warning if local file is not given. fixed #647 - Jan
  * Include provided modules in META.yml - Ferenc Erki
  * added systemd support for debian. fixes #659 - Jan
  * this prevents the stderr output of perl to get send over the wire. fixes #658 - Jan

2015-05-04 <jfried@rexify.org> (1.2.1)
  * first detect if uname and md5sum can be run, then use it. fixed #665 - Jan

2015-05-02 <jfried@rexify.org> (1.2.0)
  * Set version to 9999.99.99 if version is not present (e.g. during development) - Jan
  * Fix Rexfile parsing (fix #629) - Jan
  * Refactor tasklist output (fix #631, #653) - Eric Johnson
  * Remove -w from shebang (fix #650) - Eric Johnson
  * Add tab completion (fix #636, #652) - Eric Johnson
  * Update modules listed in POD - Brian Manning
  * Add another Red Hat synonym for RHWS version 3 - Brian Manning
  * Fix file manipulation when using Net::OpenSSH and sudo (fix #640) - Jan
  * Check if requested environment is defined (fix #639) - Ferenc Erki
  * Use normal DSL for internal task - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix SCM documentation - Ferenc Erki
  * Sort server names naturally - Ferenc Erki
  * Sort tasklist output (fix #633) - Ferenc Erki
  * Add YAML CMDB merging support (fix #499) - Ferenc Erki
  * Add CMDB merge tests - Ferenc Erki
  * Update list of contributors - Ferenc Erki
  * Check number of elements returned by stat - Ferenc Erki
  * Rex::Commands::Fs::stat() should return a hash or throw an exception. - Mitch Broadhead
  * Allow single-character tasknames (fix #621) - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix reporting for umount - Ferenc Erki

2015-03-29 <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (1.1.0)
  * Fix dependencies for openssh + pass_auth - Ferenc Erki
  * prevent faulty debug message - Jan
  * fixed merge_auth() method for #615 -Jan
  * Update task tests (fix #614) - Jan
  * Recognize usable SSH modules separately - Ferenc Erki
  * Describe platform-specific dependencies - Ferenc Erki
  * Only check for iDrac signature if there was an output - Ferenc Erki
  * added a prototype, this will prevent failures like RexOps/Rex#584 - references: RexOps/Rex#608 - Jan
  * we need to do an explicit return undef. if we only use 'return' and the return of is_file/is_dir is passed to an array, this will not appear in the array. reference: RexOps/Rex#608 - Jan
  * updated tests to use is() instead of ok(). reference: RexOps/Rex#608 - Jan
  * changed return code to undef if file/dir not found. fix for RexOps/Rex#608 - Jan
  * Add initial iDrac shell support - Ferenc Erki
  * Allow can_run method to accept command to do the check with - Jan
  * Check if a command can be run before its execution (fix #514) - Ferenc Erki
  * Refactor can_run - Ferenc Erki
  * Support can_run command on Windows - Ferenc Erki
  * Move can_run to Rex::Interface::Exec - Ferenc Erki
  * Add can_run tests - Ferenc Erki
  * Create target directory before extracting an archive (fix #600, close #604) - Arnold Bechtoldt
  * Update POD (close #598) - Ferenc Erki
  * added a Rex::Logger::masq() function that can masq sensitiv data for logging output. (fix for RexOps/Rex#554) - Jan
  * added code to make shells pluggable. - RexOps/Rex#602 - Jan
  * Avoid noisy test output - Ferenc Erki
  * added support to export resources to main namespace and added more events - Jan
  * added possibility to use auth(for => task) before a task is created - fixed #402 - Jan
  * Fix handling of symbolic links (fix #591, close #592) - Jan
  * this adds a new method to the server objects called group() - Jan
  * fixed setting of path environment variable - #583 - Jan
  * Add preferred type option for mount command (fix #469) - Ferenc Erki
  * Reword has_{dir,file} test outputs - Ferenc Erki
  * Add has_dir test - Ferenc Erki
  * Print explicit PASS or FAIL output upon finishing a test suite - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix has_stat test for non-existing UIDs and GIDs - Ferenc Erki
  * Allow has_stat test to handle directories (fix #582) - Ferenc Erki
  * Add diag method for Rex::Test::Base - Ferenc Erki
  * Ensure proper return values for is_{dir,file} functions (fix #584) - Ferenc Erki
  * Drop potentially dangerous --force-yes option (fix #559) - Ferenc Erki
  * Generate docs for Rex::Test (fix #483) - Ferenc Erki

2015-03-08 <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (1.0.0)
  * Remove hardcoded connection type (fix #579) - Ferenc Erki
  * fixed systemd status query - Jan
  * test output of tmpdir gathering before working with it. - Jan
  * fixed removing some tmp files - Jan
  * fixed some warnings for netstat listing if reading an unknown transport layer - Jan
  * added no_autodie feature flag - Jan
  * fixed is_file() for files with spaces - Jan
  * Fix POD - Ferenc Erki
  * don't redirect stdout 2 times. freebsd don't like it - Jan
  * added tty feature flag and sorted the flags - Jan
  * added some defaults for kvm boxes (network) - Jan
  * fixed autodie bug for is_symlink function - Jan
  * added reconnect tries to Net::OpenSSH connections - Jan
  * Allow spaces in Augeas values - Andrew Beverley
  * Warn if Augeas command fails - Andrew Beverley
  * fixed a problem if a server group was empty - Jan
  * dist.ini: Add Twitter and IRC links to metaresources block - Brian Manning
  * Rex::Commands::MD5: Make Rex use the /sbin/md5 binary on OS X - Brian Manning
  * Rex::Commands::User: fix typo in POD (user_group -> user_groups) - Brian Manning
  * Rex::Helper:Run->i_run: check no_path_cleanup before calling get_path - Brian Manning
  * stop 'profile' before returning from a subroutine. - Andrej Zverev
  * Speed up connecting to Boxes - Ferenc Erki
  * allow call of run() command with arrayRef - Jan
  * fixed sync_up/sync_down with Text::Glob - Jan
  * fixed authentication, failing if try password auth without mentioning pass_auth directly - Jan
  * fixed line endings with openssh and pty - Jan
  * Added possibility to use group() also as a resource function - Jan
  * added possibility to define task parameters multiple times from cli. - #516 - Jan
  * fixed windows tests - #514 - Jan
  * fixed #555 - default for Net::OpenSSH now also spawn a pty. Can be disabled with feature no_tty - Jan
  * Die if trying to run augeas without augtool installed (close #547) - Andrew Beverley
  * Skip db tests if there are missing dependencies (fix #548, close #549) - Volker Kroll (vkroll)
  * Restore perl-5.8.9 compatibility - Ferenc Erki
  * Add test for minimum perl version required - Ferenc Erki
  * Be more explicit about required perl version - Ferenc Erki
  * Stop append_or_amend_line inserting extra blank lines - Andrew Beverley
  * Add tests for append_or_amend_line - Andrew Beverley
  * fixed Rex::Box with Net::OpenSSH - Jan
  * rex/CLI.pm: update docs for Rex options - Brian Manning
  * CLI.pm: throw error if -T used with task arg, but no matching task found - Brian Manning
  * fixed #539 - detect primary network address - Jan
  * Add append_or_amend_line function to File command - Andrew Beverley
  * Drop Rex::Helper::Glob - Ferenc Erki
  * Suppress noisy test output - Ferenc Erki
  * Suppress warning about a variable being used only once - Ferenc Erki
  * Tidy up all the tests - Ferenc Erki
  * Use more helpful test functions - Ferenc Erki
  * use more appropriate functions from Test::More in tests - reneeb
  * some class inherit cleanup - Jan
  * Use correct path when using augeas insert - Andrew Beverley
  * Return correct output from augtool - Andrew Beverley
  * Fix false positive when using "augeas exists" - Andrew Beverley
  * Optimise Rex::Commands::Augeas - Andrew Beverley
  * Add user base class for those calls not supported in all OS - Andrew Beverley
  * Add password lock/unlock functions (Linux only) - Andrew Beverley
  * fixed resource end - Jan
  * Add PkgConf command to configure packages - Andrew Beverley
  * fixed set_openssh_opt() function to allow multiple options - Jan
  * fixed #527 - Rex::Output leaks semaphores and shared memory - Jan
  * improved continous_read option for Net::SSH2 connection mode - Jan
  * tail now also works with sudo also fixed #530 - Jan
  * use Net::OpenSSH is now default. don't need feature flag 0.55 - Jan
  * fixed line based operation with OpenSSH connection mode - Jan
  * migrated augeas module into Rex core - #532 - Jan
  * added partial sudo support for rsync command - Jan
  * fixed #529 - odd number of elements - Jan
  * fixed #528 -Amazon list_services, doesn't get all ec2 instances - thanks to David Golovan - Jan
  * fixed an issue that causes the parser to think the rexfile has an error - Jan
  * start of unit-test for Rex::Commands::DB - Volker Kroll (vkroll)
  * better fix for #521, don't print all servers by rex -T. Also fixed group authentication. - Jan
  * patch from twitter/@tekcurmudgeon to allow setting of gpgkey for a repository - Jan
  * fixed late group lookup - #521 - Jan
  * if the evaluation of the Rexfile was without syntax errors, but don't return a true value, try to evaluate it manually. so is is not needed to return a true value at the end. - fix for #513 - Jan
  * fixed path resolution for private_key and public_key when used a ~ (tilde) sign. #517 - Jan
  * fix rsync with port definition - #520 - Jan
  * added parse_templates option to sync_up function, so that template parsing can be prevented - #519 - Jan
  * Rex::FS::File accepts filenames now - reneeb
  * Add initial version of changelog generator - Ferenc Erki

2015-01-11 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.57.0)
  * allow definition of gpgkey for redhat/yum repositories - #522 - tekcurmudgeon
  * fixed Group defined after task definition - #521
  * fixed rsync will execute failed when use -H 127.0.0.1:2222 - #520
  * added new sync_up/down option for sync_up function will replace template variable of *.tpl - #519
  * fixed failed authentication when used ~ symbol - #517
  * fixed before_task_start() fails with an ambiguous error when your Rexfile does not return a true value - #513

2015-01-06 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.56.1)
  * tasks doesn't return a value when called as a sub (#523) - Jan

2014-12-26 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.56.0)
  * Extend documentation of run() options (#466) - Ferenc Erki
  * New template engine with better error reporting. - Jan
  * Only try to run umount if mount point is already mounted - Ferenc Erki
  * Set changed flag for umount after the command has been run - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix error when only grow option was given to partition() - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix regex to find end of partition instead of size - Ferenc Erki
  * Use kB as unit when determining partition boundaries - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix missing `strict` and `warnings` pragmas - Ferenc Erki
  * Add LICENSE section to POD - Ferenc Erki
  * Replace defined-or operator to restore perl-5.8.0 compatibility - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix test for Parallel::ForkManager - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix test for Amazon Cloud Module - Ferenc Erki
  * Add rex_kvm_agent feature flag - Ferenc Erki
  * Allow multiple tasks to run with Rex::Test::Base (fix #476) - Robert Abraham
  * Improve evaluation of hostnames (fix #479, close #480) - Renee Bäcker
  * Fix POD (close #488) - Brian Manning
  * Fixed some deprecated docker calls - Jan
  * Fix mode option for mkdir command - Ferenc Erki
  * Fixed needs function - Jan
  * Added before_execute and after_execute task hooks - Jan
  * Add basic tests for Rex::Logger (close #484) - Renee Bäcker
  * Clarify/correct documentation (close #486) - Sascha Askani
  * Check versions of installed packages - Ferenc Erki
  * Refactor has_package test for simpler version matching - Ferenc Erki
  * Use OurPkgVersion for automatic module versioning - Ferenc Erki
  * Add has_stat to Rex::Test - Robert Abraham
  * Add documentation for has_stat (close #474) - Ferenc Erki
  * fix for #473 - download root restricted files in sudo mode - Jan
  * fix for #498 - added autodie feature flag - Jan
  * fixed local mkdir return code - Jan
  * fixed path quoting for #512 - Jan
  * added glob_to_regex function (Text::Glob) - fix for #495 - Jan
  * use test binary instead of '[ ... ]' for file tests - Jan

2014-11-02 Ferenc Erki <ferki, rexify.org> (0.55.3)
  * Fix @INC compilation for Windows - Ferenc Erki

2014-11-01 Ferenc Erki <ferki, rexify.org> (0.55.2)
  * Don't return leading ./ on pathes - Ferenc Erki
  * Make helper_path tests OS-agnostic - Ferenc Erki
  * Convert ok() tests to is() - Ferenc Erki
  * Remove unnecessary variable assignment - Ferenc Erki
  * Update installation instructions - Ferenc Erki
  * Use ChangeLog file in tests - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix typo - Ferenc Erki

2014-10-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.55.1)
  * status call for services with upstart and systemd may not work properly - #460 - Jan
  * sudo with -e cli flag doesn't work - #461 - Jan
  * Cannot pass an argument with the value zero to a task - #463 - Jan
  * Issue tracker not in META.yml - #464 - Ferenc Erki
  * Allow specifying which tests to run as a parameter for Test:run #462 - Ferenc Erki

2014-10-19 Ferenc Erki <ferki, rexify.org> (0.55.0)
  * vm names in quote. so they can contain spaces - Jan
  * fallback to arp query if no answer from rex-kvm-agent - #454 - Jan
  * Print out error messages during Test:run (fix #450) - Ferenc Erki
  * Clarify error message during image download - Ferenc Erki
  * Remove explicit setting of VERSION - Ferenc Erki
  * return 0 if no swap given - #452 - Jan
  * fixed windows crashing on multiple connects - #448 - Jan
  * Work when swap in not enabled and values are undefined. FreeBSD only for now. - Graham Todd
  * possibility to modify Net::OpenSSH constructor - Jan
  * Revert use Rex::Group (#447) - Ferenc Erki
  * added late-group lookup, if group is not defined yet. fixed #447 - Jan
  * Make PkgVersion happy - Ferenc Erki
  * Fix typo - Ferenc Erki
  * removed unlink - Jan
  * Added possibility to query rex-kvm-agent. fixed #436 - Jan
  * dont throw error with multiple test files - Robert Abraham
  * Add ROSA systems support - Denis Silakov
  * fixed get_installed and is_installed functions Rex::Pkg::Gentoo - Robert Abraham
  * create binary installers from Rexfiles - Jan
  * Correct ChangeLog - Ferenc Erki
  * use Net::OpenSSH as default when available - #435 - Jan
  * removed executable bit - Jan
  * Added possibility to pack rex with PAR - Jan

2014-10-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.54.3)
  * added possibility to clone an jiffybox image - #439 - Peter Manthey
  * only execute testfiles which end on .t - #434 - Robert Abraham
  * close last used ssh connection after test - #433 - Robert Abraham
  * Add error message when attempting to run a non-existing task - FErki
  * Check if file exists before checking contents - fix #432 - FErki
  * refactored the behaviour of set() function to do what it is saying.
    So with feature 0.54 enabled set is always overwriting the existing values. (#425)
  * Add service_exists for Gentoo - FErki
  * fixing nested sudo operations. - #423
  * added check if service exists - #407
  * Handle hostgroup members with leading numeric ranges - FErki
  * redirect nohup output to /dev/null
  * fixed return value for flavors function - #406 - exzz
  * make apt-listchanges non-interactive - #417 - aowi
  * added path_map function - Erik Huelsmann
  * don't try to run dmidecode if it is not in PATH - Andrej Zverev
  * enhanced support for pkgng (FreeBSD) - Andrej Zverev
  * fixed Rex::Commands::MD5::md5() to obey path settings
  * Add documentation for run() function. - #440 - Erik Huelsmann

2014-09-13 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.53.1)
  * added Rex::JobControl functions
  * fixed hanging VBox with CentOS 7 and delayed dhcp ip lease
  * fixed on_change hook for file() resource when file was removed
  * added cmdb variables to template with feature flag - #420
  * export Rex::Config variables to all template variants - #419
  * fixed chkconfig bug for Mageia, Redhat and SuSE - chenryn
  * added resource() function, to define own resources.

2014-08-30 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.52.0)
  * fixed #381 - file NAME, ensure => 'absent' for a directory
  * fixed #392 - run conditional options with exec_autodie
  * added on_change hook for update_system function. fixed #401
  * Added support for end_if_matched option to run command
  * Rex::Output to persist across different processes (forks)
  * Add floating ip support for openstack provider - #398
  * Auto upload ssh key to openstack cloud provider
  * Implement feature to tie server.ini to specified -E environment (server.$environment.ini).
  * #409 - added before_task_start and after_task_finished hooks
  * [#408] - define fallback authentication
  * [#416] - fixed pkg with ensure => 'ver.si.on'

2014-07-29 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.51.2)
  * Fixed #394 - export of is_symlink function
  * Fixed #395 - is_file compatibility bug, doesn't detect symlinks anymore
  * Added "." in the allowed char of lvm create #393 - samuelet
  * possibility to call tasks as a method (prettier dsl)
  * load cmdb by default
  * load ini group module by default, if server.ini exists

2014-07-20 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.50.0)
  * Use stat() output for directory and file tests (fix #391) - FErki
  * added Paralell::ForkManager as optional component - #295
  * fixed Problem with failed conditionals in Rex::Command::Run - #389
  * activate exit_status feature by default for non parallel task execution
  * added proxy_command support - fixed #380

2014-07-12 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.49.0)
  * Added FreeBSD 10 Support for pkgng. #280

2014-07-10 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, rexify.org> (0.48.0)
  * Added CentOS 7 support

2014-07-05 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.47.0)
  * Rex::Test now also working with KVM - FErki
  * Update default VNC listen address for KVM machines - FErki
  * added pkgng commands for FreeBSD 10
  * A module which allows to read configuration files from an XML file. - nathanIL
  * Fixed a problem with auth_type try for rsync
  * Fixed using -G cli switch with a non existing group it will run localy #379
  * added Darwin (MacOSX) network module
  * documentation updates - FErki
  * Ident task description when running -T - Nathan Abu
  * use https to communicate with amazon
  * allow set callback and environment together #374  (run command) - alex1line
  * added exclude option to sync commands - Cameron Daniel
  * General tasks before/after sub #353
  * shell_path variable is not checked for empty value before use #376 - Ilya Evseev
  * verbose_run feature flag #375
  * Syntax enhancement of "group" command #369 - Jens Berthold
  * extend service() function, so that it knows how to get a status for a service if the init script doesn't have a status call
  * Avoid warning if there's nothing to upgrade (update_system) - FErki
  * Possible precedence issue with control flow operator with perl-5.20.0 - FErki
  * added Rex::Constants library
  * don't use shadow file if not present - user module
  * detect amazon system and use redhat classes
  * fixed inline templates for modules

2014-05-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.46.2)
  * fixed tmp_dir configuration
  * load Rex::Commands::Box if Rex::Test is loaded, so that set(box => '') work
  * fixed a problem with Test:run

2014-05-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.46.1)
  * fixed a dependency problem
  * fixed a problem detecting the temporary directory
  * 'set port' ignored in Rexfile - #366
  * update_system / better error message - #367
  * set sudo auth for a special server in a group causes endless loops - #368

2014-05-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.46.0)
  * Rex::Box, added kvm support - #174
  * core: allow passing template content to template command - #345 - reneeb
  * core/report: refactored report generation. This change break backward compat. because the report format changed.
  * core: added groups_dbi() function to generate server groups from sql - #346 - Jean-Marie RENOUARD
  * core: added groups_yaml() function to generate server groups from yaml file - Jean-Marie RENOUARD
  * core: add support for df on a given mount point - Simon Bertrang
  * cloud/amazon: fixed a case where amazon returns instance item in an array - Kasim Tuman
  * core: added authentication to download() function. - #340
  * core: refactored tmp dir generation - FErki
  * cloud: added cloud_volume detach/attach function
  * cloud/amazon: fixed multiple tags - David Golovan
  * core: added description to environments - #274
  * refactored README.pod to README.md, added build badge - eduardoj
  * core: extended rexify command to work with git
  * core/test: Added Rex::Test - Framework to run tests
  * core: Connect failure reports "Error running task/batch: Wrong username/password or wrong key"  - #359 - eduardoj
  * core/cmdb: path can now have variables / can be extended
  * core/user: refactored handling of home directory creation. This might break compat. because we are following the system default now. (added create_home option) - #270 - FErki
  * core: added a special load path for perl libraries, so that we don't mix up perl and rex modules.
  * core/service: using nohup to work around a bug in Net::SSH2/libssh2
  * core: the caching is now enabled by default. this might break backward compat. if you are using chroot() to another system inside a task.
  * core: added 'no_cache' feature.

2014-04-13 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.45.3)
  * fixed jiffybox endless loop on creating instances. #344 - reneeb

2014-04-12 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.45.2)
  * fixed special mkdir() case on local windows runs.

2014-04-11 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.45.1)
  * no_overwrite option for file() function
  * ensure 'directory' option for file() function
  * added notifications
  * pkg resource (replacement for install function)
  * allow array for file() function
  * check if iptables rule already exists
  * creates option for run() resource
  * only_if and unless option for run() resrouce
  * added notification for service() resource
  * added account() resource (as replacement for create_user)
  * fixed SCM::Git to work with sudo
  * update _parse_ip subroutine. be possible to parse ppp0. #328 - Tomohiro Hosaka
  * support -g to supply group name - #330 - fanyeren
  * added openstack cloud support - Ferenc Erki
  * run() resource support customized environments - #316 andrejzverev
  * can_run() now returns the first command found as string - #193
  * read cpu information out of /proc/cpuinfo if dmidecode is not available - #306
  * Handles the case where rsync is missing, and that makes Rex wait forever - #331 - Joris DE POOTER
  * fixed $Rex::Logger::format does not apply. - #335
  * fixed download() command on windows - #271
  * added cloud_image_list function()
  * fixed debian system_update - #339 - Niklas Larsson

2014-03-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.6)
  * fixed wrong expansion of home paths #324
  * fixed return code on failed connects is wrong #317
  * get as much output from ps(1) as possible #323 - sbertrang

2014-02-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.5)
  * fixed shell gathering

2014-02-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.4)
  * fixed manifest file

2014-02-14 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.3)
  * do not call sprintf on undefined values to prevent warnings - #312 - sbertrang
  * add ksh to shells - #310 - sbertrang
  * only pass actual option strings to prevent ssh crashes - #309 - sbertrang
  * rexify does not create projects due to missing file error - #318
  * sed command changes mode of target file - #314

2014-02-08 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.2)
  * fixed sudo_without_sh - #305
  * added warning if no perl interpreter was found on the remote system - #302

2014-02-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.1)
  * fixed detection of openSUSE with lsb-release installed - #297
  * use Makefile.PL for tests. fixed #300
  * Support for DBI \%attr hashref - #296 - stefb69
  * Make quiet mode not mute warnings and errors. - #294 - slashbeast
  * new cli parameter -qw for quiet with warnings - #294

2014-01-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.44.0)
  * docker support (experimental) - #278 - chenryn
  * format the output of say() - #155
  * userdefined columns for ps() command - #175 - dirkcjelli
  * using tilde (~) sign for directories - #198 - gnouc, krimdomu
  * SCM::Git, now uses cwd option of run() command, so it works also remote. - #211 - atrodo
  * Box default pkg update - #217 - endyman
  * run_batch() command to run batches on demand - #222 - jorisd
  * Allow "sed" function to work on multiple lines. - #227 - davidolrik, krimdomu
  * Added bulk_install() method for packages installing - #229 - jorisd
  * Enable bulk_install for Gentoo and OpenWrt - #231 - ferki
  * Added some hooks at central points in rex, so that it is possible to control the behaviour of rex in some points.
  * added on_change hook for sync_up/sync_down - #232
  * Rex::Group::Lookup::Command - read hostnames from a command. - #233 - fanyeren
  * Improve user and group management on OpenWrt - #242 - ferki
  * Add kernel module (un)loading support for OpenWrt - #243 - ferki
  * Add service status support for OpenWrt - #246 - ferki
  * make ssh read buffer configurable (for Net::SSH2 connections) - #247 this will speedup the connection, but may break on older systems!
  * Add systemd service provider support for Gentoo - #250 - ferki
  * Add systemd service provider support for Mageia - #282
  * feature flag to deactivate path cleanup - #261
  * feature flag to parse $HOME/.profile - #262
  * Cloud::Amazon Check to make sure it is HASH before key look up - #263 - oneness
  * autodie feature if run() fail - #265
  * added support for tcsh shell - #284
  * Fix guestinfo for Gentoo - #236 - ferki
  * get_host can't find aliases - #239, #240 - jorisd, ferki
  * rsync get wrong user if using "auth for $task" - #252
  * Flag existing feature sudo_without_sh as found - #253 - gittex
  * Cleaned-Up Data module dependence - #254
  * iptables arguments needs quote if they are whitespaced - #257 - jorisd
  * add Pod encoding marker - #259 - sergeyromanov
  * "needs" doesn't know how to call tasks from the main Rexfile - #260
  * gathering alias network interfaces like eth0:0 - #264
  * Cron: Jobs can be duplicated - #269 - jorisd
  * FreeBSD: store netmask in dotted decimal format - #287 - andrejzverev
  * Uninitialized value in OpenSSH.pm - #290 - samuelet

2013-10-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.43.7)
  * fixed problem with unconfigured network devices
  * fixed return of complete cmdb
  * fixed bug with the reporting initialization

2013-09-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.43.3)
  * fixed return of string '0' on stdout
  * fixed loading of report via env variable
  * fixed manifest

2013-09-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.43.2)
  * #234 - Silent yum operations - Chris Steigmeier

2013-09-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.43.0)
  * #223 - generating reports of changed things on the remote system (report infrastructure)
  * #220 - atomic uploads
  * #219 - df function doesnt parse errors - jorisd
  * #218 - problems with escaping of special characters, reverted back to old behaviour (pre 0.42)
  * #215 - input validation for rexify to prevent creation of invalid module names
  * #214 - yum operations should be silent
  * #213, #231 - rexify to use proxy settings - Chris Steigmeier
  * #231 - Another Red Hat Enterprise flavor - Chris Steigmeier
  * #200 - Refactor OpenWrt user module - Ferenc Erki
  * #195 - Fix a typo in example code - Boris Däppen
  * #194 - Prefer ip command over ifconfig - Ferenc Erki
  * #189 - Zero values in crontab fields - Ferenc Erki
  * #186 - Turn "eval your Rexfile" into a debug message - Anders Ossowicki
  * #210 - zypper --no-gpg-checks option
  * #208 - Cache inventory of servers for faster execution
  * #206 - sync_up function doesn't work in modules.
  * #196 - Support port with ranged hostnamed
  * #180 - support of other shells than bash for the PATH / environment variable - Cuong Manh Le
  * #177 - if a feature can't be satisfied, die()
  * #166 - tmp directory now configurable

2013-07-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.42.4)
  * fixed an issue with append_if_no_such_line when searching for a string
    containing a quote.

2013-06-29 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.42.3)
  * #189 fixed zero values in crontab - ferki
  * fixed ownership problem with sudo mode and file manipulation

2013-06-23 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.42.2)
  * fixed local run of run_with helper command

2013-06-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.42.1)
  * #178 - no_ssh option doesn't work with OpenSSH connection
  * #181 - ssh ports doesn't work with Net::OpenSSH
  * #182 - addition parameters doesn't work for ini files
  * #183 - fqdn doesn't work in ini files
  * #184 - hostname evaluation and additional parameters doesn't work together

2013-06-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.42.0)
  * added Net::OpenSSH support - chenryn, jfried
  * custom user for sudo command
  * new function: delete_lines_according_to
  * new feature flag use_server_auth
  * improved ini file parsing
  * support for custom server parameters
  * cwd option for run command
  * speed improvements: #123, #133, #135, #136, #137, #143 - liedekef
  * removed blastwave package capabilities from solaris, because blastwave doesn't exists anymore
  * #129 - removed an unnecessary opendir call - liedekef
  * #148 - use equery for Rex::Pkg::Gentoo in get_installed, later replaced by #165 - tianon
  * #149 - updated most of Rsync with server-specific auth - tianon
  * #159 - don't execute a task if the defined group doesn't contain servers. There is a feature flag to disable this behavior (empty_groups)
  * #163 - Rex::Pkg::Gentoo: Fix separator character between package name and version
  * #165 - Rex::Pkg::Gentoo: Replace get_installed checking method

2013-05-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.41.3)
  * fixed using -c flag with Rex::Box - #160
  * fixed parsing ssh/config file - #158
  * get_box() : better error message - #157
  * fixed PATH variable for run() with multiple commands - #156

2013-04-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.41.2)
  * fixed exit status code for some situations where it fails
  * fixed rexify --use=module command
  * fixinig 'unititialized value' output of inspect() function. returning now 'no value'. - #152
  * added check if template result is empty. if so - die() - #152
  * fixing problem with invalid variable names in templates - #152

2013-03-30 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.41.1)
  * fixed a parsing bug in df output
  * fixed mount command with persistend option

2013-03-30 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.41.0)
  * Function to get the last output of a command that uses run() #104
  * Refactores Cron module, added environment variable support to cron
  * New sync module
  * added Hardware::VirtInfo module #119 - Franky Van Liedekerke
  * new keyword "case"
  * Refactored net_ssh2_exec() function - Peter H. Ezetta
  * Refactored local command execution to use IPC::Open3
  * Changed the Debian is_installed function to use the more accurate
    get_installed function. - Samuele Tognini
  * '-t' option should work with '-e' option. rex -t 2 -H "hostA hostB"
     -e 'run "sleep 10"; say run "uptime"' should run in parallel.
     - Tokuhiro Matsuno
  * Fixed loading of modules in $HOME/.rex/recipes
  * Don't calculate md5 sums if there is no on_change hook for file() function - Franky Van Liedekerke
  * Better understandable error messages for authentication - Franky Van Liedekerke
  * Cloud/Amazon: support multiple security groups - RenatoCRON
  * Fix Pod about pubkey authentication - Joris
  * Rex/Gearman: Fixed get_exit_codes use flag
  * Rex/Boxes: Creation order of VMs can now be defined in YAML file

2013-03-10 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.40.4)
  * fixed get_box() command if task is run on a remote host
  * fixed sudo without password

2013-03-09 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.40.3)
  * fixed loading of files in lib directory
    @INC sometime got populated too late

2013-03-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.40.2)
  * fixed #117 - encode everything except a-z, 0-9 and _

2013-02-27 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.40.1)
  * fixed #114 - used only once warnings
  * fixed #115 - passwordless sudo didn't work

2013-02-23 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.40.0)
  * fixed bug and refactored file path calculation #103 and #102
  * added ini style groups #99 - Franky Van Liedekerke
  * VirtualBox Headless mode #105
  * added default environment "default"
  * basic cmdb via YAML #107
  * crypt sudo password
  * sudo without locales and password #98 - Dominik Schulz
  * fixed dmidecode on openbsd
  * export update_system sub - Ferenc Erki
  * fixing regex which gets name interfaces - Fran Rodriguez

2013-02-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.39.0)
  * don't need PERL5LIB env any more, fixed bug #95
  * match comments better - Naveed Massjouni
  * more allowed characters in lvname - Samuele Tognini
  * new feature flag: exit_status - rex will now return a number higher than 0
    if a task execution fails.
  * new function: is_installed - Daniel Baeurer
  * optimized lookup_file function - Franky Van Liedekerke
  * rexify command now allows usage of private module server

2013-01-27 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.38.0)
  * added security groups to amazon cloud - Jonathan Delgado
  * updated pod documentation - jorisd
  * fixed a problem with do_task() and lost ssh connections
  * rexify command now allows usage of local templates
  * added architecture and apt key to Pkg::Debian - Daniel Baeurer
  * added updated_system command to update a system
  * box: added function to list all vms
  * box: amazon support
  * box: describe boxes with an YAML file

2013-01-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.37.1)
  * fixed template bug in modules

2013-01-05 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.37.0)
  * box module is now plugable
  * run_task now accepts additional parameters
  * virtualization module is now plugable
  * hardware provider now plugable
  * package provider now plugable
  * service provider now plugable
  * fixed zypper ref call for SuSE on unsigned repositories

2012-12-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.36.0)
  * added run_task a new function to run tasks on specific hosts
  * added feature to install perl dependencies via cpanm/cpan with rexify
    command
  * get private IP of amazon ec2 instances - jdelgado7
  * added possibility to extend cloud api with external modules
  * spawn a pty to execute commands #80. this fixes the requiretty thing.

2012-12-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.35.1)
  * VirtualBox support for virtualization module
  * new command - Rex::Commands::Box
  * auth for - supports regular expresions
  * repository function now supports multiple distributions in one call
  * Unwrapped double looping over files and regexes and adding $new_line
    if not present in absence of regexes - Mario Domgoergen
  * Better handling of $option parameter for 'install' - joris

2012-12-14 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.34.2)
  * fixed login for Rex::connect

2012-11-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.34.1)
  * fixed #77. added iptables tests - Dominik Danter
  * Relax ssh config file parsing - Dominik Schulz

2012-11-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.34.0)
  * Use Storable module for shared variables
  * Enhanced lookup_file function. Comments (#) and empty lines are now skipped. (chenryn)
  * get_network_devices now detects ppp devices (under linux). (bokutin)
  * Fixed pkg_info execution on FreeBSD (bokutin)
  * Set $? to match effective command return value (joris)
  * If a task is defined multiple times it will now print out a warning.
  * Fixed mount bug #75
  * Fixed Redhat Repo bug #73
  * Fixed a bug with profiling and http endpoint

2012-10-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.33.3)
  * fixed rename() bug, #67

2012-10-02 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.33.2)
  * fixed windows bug

2012-09-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.33.1)
  * speed improvements
  * profiler class
  * mounts can now be persisted in /etc/fstab - Laird Liu
  * the partition command accepts a mount parameter to mount the partition
    after creation - Laird Liu
  * new keyword "make"
  * some usability improvements - Anders Ossowicki
  * create_user got a new option "no_create_home"
  * it is now possible to use other template engines.
  * it is now easier to write independant modules
  * fixed expire date for create_user
  * check shell before executing things

2012-08-30 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.32.1)
  * fixed a bug in the transaction module

2012-08-21 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.32.0)
  * made the worker model exchangeable
  * added a reporting base class
  * replaced Getops::Std with Rex::Args
  * added start command to amazon cloud module
  * fixed stop command in amazon cloud module

2012-08-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.31.5)
  * fixed cli parameter bug (-G)
  * fixed logging bug with %h

2012-08-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.31.0)
  * fixed a bug for task with the no_ssh attribute
  * added http transport layer
  * added possibility to modify task and server authentication

2012-07-21 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.30.1)
  * fixed a cli parameter bug for custom user authentication
  * fixed a batch display bug

2012-06-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.30.0)
  * rex -T now show the server groups as well
  * new option "type" for the extract function - Sven Dowideit
  * Added user_list and user_groups - Jean Charles Passard
  * fixed the problem with pass_auth and rsync (#30)
  * Better Error Messages for compile failures in modules
  * Added support for task specific parallelism
  * fixed upload and download to work in sudo environments
  * add mode to extract function
  * Added the on_change support to the append_if_no_such_line - Samuele Tognini

2012-05-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.29.0)
  * Fixed wrong error message in LibVirt/create.pm - Sven Dowideit
  * Added dumpxml command (LibVirt) - Sven Dowideit
  * Updated docs - Sven Dowideit
  * Default listening on all ip's for vnc (LibVirt) - Sven Dowideit
  * Added more colorized output options - Samuele Tognini
  * Fixed a logging bug - Samuele Tognini
  * -Tv command line option output information about requested task - Samuele Tognini
  * -Tv command line option output information about batches and environments - Samuele Tognini
  * Updated some error messages output - Samuele Tognini
  * Added iflist command (LibVirt) - Jean Charles Passard
  * Added blklist command (LibVirt) - Jean Charles Passard
  * Added vncdisplay command (LibVirt) - Sven Dowideit
  * Fixed a bug with hooks and packages #41 - Jan Gehring
  * Refactored Task Module. Task is now an object - Jan Gehring
  * Added module to parse cli parameters - Jan Gehring
  * Added driver_type for kvm disks
  * fixed a md5 check bug for 'install file =>'
  * fixed bug #50 (extract function)
  * if no rexfile is in the current path try to guess the rexfile from the taskname - Sven Dowideit
  * added experimental feature: shared variables - Jan Gehring


2012-05-08 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.28.0)
  * fixed a bug with relative source file names inside external modules
  * new parameter -Tv to display more information about tasks
  * allow additional parameters for rsync
  * more code refactoring
  * fixed a bug in the libvirt module (thanks to SvenDowideit for reporting
    and testing)


2012-05-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.27.0)
  * added callback parameter to run command
  * added logformat function to define custom logging
  * reworked the output classes for better jenkins integration
  * code refactoring
  * added coloriszed output if Term::ANSIColor is available
  * fixed a bug with older lvm versions
  * added on_change option to sed command, thanks to Samuele Tognini

2012-04-26 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.26.3)
  * fixed a notification bug in the on_change event of the file function.
  * fixed a cli parameter bug in the rexify command.

2012-03-28 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.26.2)
  * fixed a cli parameter bug (-G)

2012-03-13 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.26.1)
  * fixed a bug in the libvirt module

2012-02-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.26.0)
  * changed license to Apache 2.0
  * added sudo compatibility
  * added support for custom init commands
  * added rex-agent compatibility
  * added overmind compatibility
  * added lvm support to libvirt module
  * allow package installation with "install $pkg"
  * added sed function
  * added chdir parameter to extract function
  * added include function to include Rex recipes without registering the tasks
  * Specify the sudo password prompt to avoid different prompts in different locales. thanks to Hiroaki Nakamura
  * Sync exclude option now takes a string or an array of strings. thanks to Hiroaki Nakamura

2012-02-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.25.3)
  * fixed a display bug in rexify --search command
  * fixed a bug in the libvirt module if it gets executed local
  * fixed a bug in the service module for ubuntu

2012-02-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.25.2)
  * display the correct module name in rexify --search command

2012-02-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.25.1)
  * don't use github for recipes query

2012-02-15 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.25.0)
  * added public repository commands to rexify
  * added patch from JEEN Lee for gpgcheck on yum repositories

2012-02-13 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.24.1)
  * fixed a dependeny bug

2012-02-10 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.24.0)
  * Added patches from Alexandr Ciornii for Makefile.PL and home-directory detection
  * it is now possible to use Rex as a library
  * fixed/simplified SCM module
  * added iptables flush command
  * added a simple tcp alive test
  * allow inline templates
  * cloud_instance returns vm info after create
  * added cli parameters to before/around hooks
  * fixed before/around/after hooks for lokal tasks
  * added lvm create functions

2012-01-14 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.23.0)
  * Redhat Enterprise Linux Support (5/6)
  * read ssh_config file
  * rsync now automatically accept keys

2012-01-04 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.22.0)
  * systemd service provider (for redhat and suse)
  * before, around and after hooks for tasks
  * curl: Allow connections to SSL sites without certs
  * don't override db config if no import options given
  * fixed suse detection bug
  * user: set crypted passwords
  * added OpenSuSE 12.1 compatibility
  * fixed redhat versiond detection
  * automatically use systemd service class if opensuse >= 12.1
  * added fusioninventory-agent output to the inventory module (if available)

2011-10-28 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.21.1)
  * fix for #8 - HOME environment variable on Windows
  * fix for #5 - hostname evaluation with ips

2011-10-10 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.21.0)
  * fixed running of multiple tasks by do_task
  * allow multiple groups for a task
  * every task can have its own auth information
  * user module: add ssh key
  * ssh port isn't fix anymore (patch from Jose Luis Martinez)
  * use generic auth method from Net::SSH2 (patch from Jose Luis Martinez)
  * add SCM module (Subversion and Git)
  * file and upload now scans for environment specifiy files first
  * added a file lookup function to build groups from
  * fixed windows syslog bug #6, thanks to aero
  * added -nolog parameter to logging function to disable logging at all
  * added posibility to evaluate perl code within the -H cli parameter

2011-09-16 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.20.0)
  * added virtualization module (from Sascha Guenther)
  * added extract function
  * flattend hardware gather template variables
  * fixed set_path and get_path
  * fixed get_random to return not 1 char too much
  * added set and get commands to set config values

2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.19.0)
  * added JUnit output module
  * added environment support
  * load Rex::Commands::Process as default

2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.18.1)
  * fixed a bug registering tasks as functions

2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.18)
  * added network support for Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD
  * added is_solaris, is_bsd and is_linux function

2011-09-01 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.17)
  * added solaris 11 support
  * added solaris 10 support
  * added a caching module
  * added a clear task function (for rex-swarm)
  * added a function to get os release
  * fixed local copy error handling

2011-08-28 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.16)
  * added NetBSD support
  * added OpenBSD support
  * fixed a bug in the gentoo pkg management module

2011-08-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.15)
  * new function to detect a redhat system (or clone like CentOS, Scientific
  Linux)
  * increased timeouts for jiffybox
  * fixed template bug with $ signs
  * added support for scientific linux
  * added support for gentoo

2011-08-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.14.0)
  * Extended API to allow passing of arguments to Rex::Task->run
  * FreeBSD support
  * Ubuntu support

2011-08-07 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.13.0)
  * cache sftp object - for speed
  * added function to update package database
  * added windows support
  * license changed to GPL3
  * added an alias for unlink (rm)
  * added functions to manage repositories
  * revised error handling
  * added jiffybox support, a german cloudservice from domainfactory
  * fixed template parsing bug (port from 0.12.1)
  * fixed bug with too long content in file function (port from 0.12.2)

2011-07-23 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.12.0)
  * allow array refs for Pkg::remove
  * register every task as a sub if not in main package
  * use lsb_release if available as default to detect operating system/version
  * added sudo command
  * allow to manage multiple services at once
  * added possibility to add and remove services from runlevels
  * added iptables module for basic iptables commands
  * added cloud layer and support for amazon ec2 instances

2011-07-26 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.11.1)
  * fixed output of netstat (reported by Thomas Biege)
  * fixed inclusion of some modules in Run.pm that causes errors under
    some circumstances (reported by Thomas Biege)

2011-07-22 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.11.0)
  * added lvm module
  * added lvm to inventory
  * fixed <OUT OF SPEC> inventory string
  * fixed multiplicator for GB and TB
  * added order key to selects
  * added support for hpacucli
  * added centos 6 support

2011-07-17 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.10.1)
  * fixed db disconnect on forks
  * fixed some typos

2011-07-12 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.10.0)
  * added network module for route, default gateway and netstat
  * added mount and umount function
  * added cron module
  * added more information (basic system information) to the inventor function
  * added installed_packages function to get all the installed packages

2011-07-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.9.0)
  * register tasks as function if possible
  * add "lib" to INC if exists
  * added function get_operating_system
  * added transactions
  * deprecated "package file =>"
  * added hal module to access hardware information detected by hal
  * added dmidecode module to access bios information
  * added inventory function "inventor"
  * added ubuntu support (tested with lts 10.04)
  * added can_run function, to test if a command is present

2011-07-03 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.8.1)
  * fixed mageia detection
  * fixed bug if dnsdomainname returns no domainname
  * fixed mkdir bug on setting permissions, caused by a wrong merge

2011-06-26 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.8.0)
  * added mageia support for services and packages
  * added chown, chgrp and chmod functions
  * mkdir, added possibility to specify the permission, the user and the group
  * added function delete_lines_matching
  * added function append_if_no_such_line
  * added reload action for services
  * extended db module to support insert, delete, update

2011-06-25 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.7.1)
  * restored the backward compatibility with perl 5.8.x
  * suppress warning if no parameter is given
  * fixed mkdir function

2011-06-23 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.7.0)
  * preload a lot more default modules
  * added new functions (df, du, cp)
  * added some aliases (ln, cp, cd, ls)
  * added process management functions (kill, killall, nice, ps)
  * splitted out rex-agent and rex-master.

2011-06-19 Jan Gehring <jan.gehring, gmail.com> (0.6.1)
  * fixed documentation bugs (thanks to djill)
  * fixed #68827, rewrote is_readable/is_writable
  * handle auth failure correctly
  * mkdir now created directories recursive
