Hi all! First feature release of 2012. Let's just skip the obligatory stupid apocalypse joke and move right along.
## Fabric 1.4 Happy to announce that Fabric 1.4 is out and on PyPI, after a too-long wait. It's a sobering reminder that the temptation to stuff a lot of related changes into one release needs to be strongly resisted! (For example, SSH agent forwarding has been stable since late last year...) On the plus side, it contains many long-awaited features: SSH agent forwarding, SSH configuration file support, network connection retries/timeouts, execute() return values, and more. The full changelog can be found here: http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.4.0/changelog.html . Everything above "Fabric 1.3.4" is included in this release. (P.S. I have [possibly over-engineered] ideas about how to add a release-oriented view back to the changelog; we'll see how that goes...) ## Bugfixes I have also cut bugfixes for 1.1 through 1.3, though most contain only one or two fixes. Specifically: 1.1.8, 1.2.6 and 1.3.5. And speaking of bugfix releases... ## End-of-life (EOL) for older support branches It's time to retire old bugfix lines; our strong commitment to backwards compatibility should mean upgrading is painless or nearly so, and it is getting taxing keeping old release lines active. >From here on we're going to experiment with a smaller support window: current stable release (so right now, that's 1.4) plus its immediate predecessor (so 1.3). 1.1 and 1.2 are now EOL'd, and when 1.5 comes out, 1.3 will become EOL'd, and so forth. ## Where next? I've updated the roadmap: http://docs.fabfile.org/en/latest/roadmap.html Some project infrastructure needs work, so I will be focusing on that stuff in tandem with 1.5 -- which should come out much quicker than 1.4, my day job and personal life willing. 1.5 will focus mostly on logging and UI improvements, plus a couple network issues punted from 1.4. Big thanks as always to all of you, users & contributors alike! Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Forcier Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby engineer http://bitprophet.org _______________________________________________ Fab-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user
