[augeas-devel] ANNOUNCE: Augeas 0.10.0

[David Lutterkort]

I am pleased to announce the release of Augeas 0.10.0. This marks an
important milestone since we just added three more committers to the
project: Matt Booth, Michael Chapman and Dominic Cleal. They've all made
good and continued contributions, and have been part of the project for
quite some time. Please pester them now to get patches reviewed, bugs
fixed and changes committed ;)

This release contains a huge number of changes. Raphael has been busy
cleaning up lenses, writing new ones, and improving the docs for
existing lenses; he also added aug_to_xml, a way to export parts of the
tree as an XML DOM. Dominic added support for relative paths ("get
etc/hosts/1/ipaddr") to augtool and aug_srun, and has made those behave
a lot more like Puppet's augeas type in all the small annoying details
that have to do with whitespace handling, quotes etc.

As always, there's a slew of bug fixes and new lenses from many, many
contributors.

Detailed news:
  - support relative paths by taking them relative to the value
    of /augeas/context in all API functions where paths are used
  - add aug_to_xml to API: transform tree(s) into XML, exposed as dump-xml
    in aug_srun and augtool. Introduces dependency on libxml2
  - fix regular expression escaping. Previously, /[\/]/ match either a
    backslash or a slash. Now it only matches a slash
  - path expressions: add function 'int' to convert a node value (string)
    to an integer
  - path expressions: make sure the regexp produced by empty nodesets from
    regexp() and glob() matches nothing, rather than the empty word
  - fix --autosave when running single command from command line, BZ 743023
  - aug_srun: support 'insert' and 'move' as aliases for 'ins' and 'mv'
  - aug_srun: allow escaping of spaces, quotes and brackets with \
  - aug_init: accept AUG_NO_ERR_CLOSE flag; return augeas handle even when
    intialization fails so that caller gets some details about why
    initialization failed
  - aug_srun: tolerate trailing white space in commands
  - much improved, expanded documentation of many lenses
  - always interpret lens filter paths as absolute, bug #238
  - fix bug in libfa that would incorrectly calculate the difference of a
    case sensistive and case insensitive regexp (/[a-zA-Z]+/ - /word/i
    would match 'worD')
  - new builtin 'regexp_match' for .aug files to make testing regexp
    matching easier during development
  - fix 'span' command, bug #220
  - Lens changes/additions
    * Access: parse user at host and (group) in users field; field separator
      need not be surrounded by spaces
    * Aliases: allow spaces before colons
    * Aptconf: new lens for /etc/apt/apt.conf
    * Aptpreferences: support origin entries
    * Backuppchosts: new lens for /etc/backuppc/hosts, bug 233 (Adam Helms)
    * Bbhosts: various fixes
    * Cgconfig: id allowed too many characters
    * Cron: variables aren't set like shellvars, semicolons are allowed in
      email addresses; fix parsing of numeric fields, previously upper case
      chars were allowed; support ranges in time specs
    * Desktop: new lens for .desktop files
    * Dhcpd: slashes must be double-quoted; add Red Hat's dhcpd.conf
      locations
    * Exports: allow empty options
    * Fai_diskconfig: new lens for FAI disk_config files
    * Fstab: allow ',' in file names, BZ 751342
    * Host_access: new lens for /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}
    * Host_conf: new lens for /etc/host.conf
    * Hostname: new lens for /etc/hostname
    * Hosts: also load /etc/mailname by default
    * Iptables: allow digits in ipt_match keys, bug #224
    * Json: fix whitespace handling, removing some cf ambiguities
    * Kdump: new lens for /etc/kdump.conf (Roman Rakus)
    * Keepalived: support many more flags, fields and blocks
    * Krb5: support [pam] section, bug #225
    * Logrotate: be more tolerant of whitespace in odd places
    * Mdadm_conf: new lens for /etc/mdadm.conf
    * Modprobe: Parse commands in install/remove stanzas (this introduces a
      backwards incompatibility); Drop support for include as it is not
      documented in manpages and no unit tests are shipped.
    * Modules: new lens for /etc/modules
    * Multipath: add support for seveal options in defaults section, bug #207
    * Mysql: includedir statements are not part of sections; support
      \!include; allow indentation of entries and flags
    * Networks: new lens for /etc/networks
    * Nrpe: allow '=' in commands, bug #218 (Marc Fournier)
    * Php: allow indented entries
    * Phpvars: allow double quotes in variable names; accept case
      insensitive PHP tags; accept 'include_once'; allow empty lines at
      EOF; support define() and bash-style and end-of-line comments
    * Postfix_master: allow a lot more chars in words/commands, including
      commas
    * PuppetFileserver: support same-line comments and trailing whitespace,
      bug #214
    * Reprepo_uploaders: new lens for reprepro's uploaders files
    * Resolv: permit end-of-line comments
    * Schroot: new lens for /etc/schroot/schroot.conf
    * Shellvars: greatly expand shell syntax understood; support various
      syntactic constructs like if/then/elif/else, for, while, until, case,
      and select; load /etc/blkid.conf by default
    * Spacevars: add toplevel lens 'lns' for consistency
    * Ssh: new lens for ssh_config (Jiri Suchomel)
    * Stunnel: new lens for /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf (Oliver Beattie)
    * Sudoers: support more parameter flags/options, bug #143
    * Xendconfsxp: lens for Xen configuration (Tom Limoncelli)
    * Xinetd: allow spaces after '{'

Tarball:          http://augeas.net/download/augeas-0.10.0.tar.gz
GPG signature:    http://augeas.net/download/augeas-0.10.0.tar.gz.sig

RPM's for Fedora and EPEL are making their way through the build systems
and will be available shortly from the usual repos.

David


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