[augeas-devel] ANNOUNCE: Augeas 1.4.0

[Pat Riehecky]

Congratulations everyone!

On 06/01/2015 07:51 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:
> I am pleased to announce the release of Augeas 1.4.0. This release 
> contains a good number of lens fixes and additions. New lenses include 
> lenses for AFS's cellalias, ClamAV, Bind's zone files, iscsid, 
> mailscanner, pgbouncer, Postfix's SASL smtpd, Pylons paste files, and 
> Puppetfile. This brings the total number of file-processing lenses 
> that ship with Augeas to 187 - it's wonderful to see the level of 
> support that has gone into Augeas; at the same time, it's depressing 
> to think that Linux/Unix systems have managed to grow this many 
> special snowflake formats.
>
> The Augeas API has been fixed to properly escape pathological file 
> names in path expressions, especially for files whose names contain 
> funny characters like '\', '[' etc. There is a new function 
> aug_escape_name that can be used to sanitize file names, and aug_match 
> will now return paths that have been properly sanitized so that they 
> can be passed into aug_get etc. verbatim.
>
> The command line interface, augtool, has seen a few usability 
> improvements in the form of handling Ctrl-C more gracefully, correctly 
> recording history when switching to interactive mode after reading 
> commands from a file, and a new 'errors' command that relieves users 
> from typing 'print /augeas//error' all the time. The feared 'short 
> iteration' error now also provides better information on where parsing 
> the file failed.
>
> As always, this release was made possible by the contributions of a 
> large number of people; many thanks to everybody for helping make 
> Augeas better. Many thanks to my comaintainers, especially Raphael 
> Pinson and Dominic Cleal, for doing a lot of the actual work.
>
> There are a few incompatible lens changes, namely:
>
>   * Dnsmasq: parse the structure of 'address' and 'server' options
>   * Pagekite: more fine-grained control of service_on entries
>
> For a full list of changes, check the NEWS[1] file on github.
>
> Tarball: http://download.augeas.net/augeas-1.4.0.tar.gz
> GPG signature: http://download.augeas.net/augeas-1.4.0.tar.gz.sig
>
> David
>
> [1] https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/blob/master/NEWS
>
>
>
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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux developer

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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