beaker 3.9.0

No maintenance tasks are included in this release.

Details

Bug

• [BKR-940] - Audit against supported platforms in CI Testing

Task

• [BKR-1037] - Add support for Debian 9 "Stretch" and Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety" and 17.04 "Zesty" codenames

beaker 3.8.0

There were no maintenance tasks merged into this release. Details below:

Details

Bug

• [BKR-940] - Audit against supported platforms in CI Testing
• [BKR-1018] - copy_ssh_to_root is not working on windows as expected
• [BKR-1028] - yard 0.9.6 throws warnings {#run_block_on} links

Story

• [BKR-980] - `beaker init` command line implementation

beaker 3.7.0

Details

Bug

• [BKR-1014] - unix puppet_agent_dev_package_info method does not accomodate RHEL derivatives
• [BKR-1022] - beaker/vagrant limits memory of windows boxes to 1G

Improvement

• [BKR-1016] - resolve stub forge instance from the SUT

New Feature

• [BKR-524] - support Arch Linux
• [BKR-987] - Remove/unpin json from gemspec

beaker 3.6.0

Highlights

• @Iristyle & @MikaelSmith fixed a number of Windows issues
• @ferglor implemented option attribution in BKR-981

Details

Bug

• [BKR-1006] - Using the Windows::Exec::reboot helper can take forever closing the connection
• [BKR-1008] - The Host user_get function does not work properly on non-English Windows
• [BKR-1009] - Don't fail when ip is unavailable in Vagrantfile
• [BKR-1010] - Beaker cannot install Windows Cygwin packages on Packer-ized templates
• [BKR-1011] - The Host group_get function does not work properly on non-English Windows
• [BKR-1012] - Host#ip does not work properly on Japanese Windows

Story

• [BKR-981] - Make beaker know where the values in the options came from

Maintenance Tasks

No maintenance tasks this release.

beaker 3.5.0

Highlight

• @camlow325 added server HUP support in BKR-703

Details

Bug

• [BKR-983] - OpenStack Hypervisor Cannot Run Concurrent Jobs

New Feature

• [BKR-703] - with_puppet_running_on should have support for server HUP to reload config

Maintenance Tasks

• #1287 assert on OSX pkg info requirement
• #1286 clarify puppet_agent_version parameter

beaker 2.52.0

Details

Task

• [BKR-976] - Investigate locking down beaker's dependencies

beaker 3.4.0

Details

Bug

• [BKR-40] - net-ssh fails if UTF-8 encoded strings are sent as part of a command

Improvement

• [QENG-4170] - Compress files in Beaker's archive_file_from method

beaker 3.3.0

Highlights

• @spjmurray fixed keypair generation in the openstack hypervisor in BKR-949
• @tvpartytonight fixed ssh channel cleanup in BKR-971

Details

Bug

• [BKR-949] - Fix Keypair Generation on OpenStack
• [BKR-971] - Beaker doesn't always clean up ssh channels properly, which can cause later commands to fail

New Feature

• [BKR-915] - Add the possibility to pass any option to the vagrant-libvirt driver.

Task

• [BKR-965] - Need to re-enable the old functionality for how beaker set ec2 hostnames

Maintenance Tasks

• #1270 Update CLI hosts option help text
• #1271 fix method doc note
• #1274 Add internal_list key to MAINTAINERS
• #1275 Add reference to beaker-http

beaker 3.2.0

Details

Bug

• [BKR-942] - Beaker is unable to install packages on older FreeBSD versions

Story

• [BKR-956] - `beaker init` implementation

Maintenance Tasks

• #1253 add name and roles tags to vmpooler vms
• #1266 Allow no hosts option to be passed

beaker 3.1.0

Highlights

@kevpl enforced the supported ruby version in the gemspec BKR-948

Details

Improvement

• [BKR-948] - specify supported ruby versions in gemspec

New Feature

• [BKR-911] - Add support for macOS Sierra (10.12)

Maintenance Tasks

#1261 update the beaker-pe inclusion explanation
#1251 improve beaker vmpooler error response
#1257 Require beaker-pe if available