## 2.8.0 / August 3 2011

A short release, after the last. Announcing Rails 3.1 asset pipeline support.

The asset pipeline support requires an additiona `load` in your `Capfile`.

You can see information pertaining to the pull request, including the inline
comments here: https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/pull/35

Documentation will be available soon in the wiki.

* Drop-In Rails 3.1 asset pipeline support. (Chris Griego)

## 2.7.0 / August 3 2011

A fairly substantial release. There are fixes so that current_release works
during dry-runs, (although, apparently still not with bundler.)

The test-suite was also modified to work with Ruby 1.9.2, except in one case
where Ruby 1.9.x calls `to_ary` and `to_a` on mocks, which still makes an
error. 1.9.x has always been supported, but due to lack of maintenance on my
part the tests didn't ever pass.

The `start`, `stop` and `restart` tasks have been reduced to mere hooks into
which extensions can define their own functionality.

The `readme` was also slightly improved, simply tweaks to express how best to
run the test suite.

* Ensure dry-run works with `:current_release` variable (Carol Nichols)
* Added a new variable `:git_submodules_recursive`, setting the value to false
will ensure Git doesn't recursively initialize and checkout submodules. (Konstantin Kudryashov)
* Added an additional task option, `:on_no_matching_servers`, setting the
value to `:continue` will ensure tasks with no matched servers continue
without error, instead of raising `Capistrano::NoMatchingServersError` as was
the previous behaviour. (Chris Griego)

A huge thanks to all contributors, as always!

Remember: @capistranorb on twitter for news.

## 2.6.1 / June 25 2011

A short maintenance release, Some fixes to the verbose flag inside the Git SCM
as well as another argument for the (internal) `variable()` command, offering
a default. The Git SCM is now verbose by default, but can be disabled by
setting `:scm_verbose` to false.

There has been an additional method added to string, within the context of the
test suite, I'm always sketchy about adding additional methods to core
classes, but it's a short term fix until I make the time to patch the test
suite not to compare strings literally. The method is `String#compact`, and is
implemented simply as `self.gsub(/\s+/, ' ')`.

Here's the run-down of changes, and their committers, as always - a huge thank
you to the community that continues to drive Capistrano's development.

* `deploy:setup` now respects `:group_writable` (Daniel Duvall)
* Fixes to `:scm_verbose` for the Git module (defaults to On.) (Matthew Davies)
* Will now copy hidden files in the project's root into the release
directory (Mark Jaquith)
* Now handles closing already-dead connections in a sane way (does not raise
an exception) (Will Bryant)
* Renamed `Capistrano::VERSION::TINY` to `Capistrano::VERSION::PATCH` (Lee
Hambley)
* Removed the `VERSION` file (Lee Hambley)

## 2.6.0 / May 3 2011

A rather large release, feature-version bump because of the new
multiple-gateways feature as implemented by Ryan Duryea (way to go!)

Please also note from this release that if you use Git submodules, the
Git-version requirement for the new implementation is now >= 1.5.6, from
previously un-documented. (1.5.6 is new-enough that I think this is
acceptable)

	* Upgrade Net::SSH-gateway dependency to 1.1 (fixes a thread-deadlocking bug on MRI	1.9)
	* Respect "dry-run" on transfer methods (Florian Frank)
	* Add support for multiple gateways: (Ryan Duryea)
        set :gateway, {
          'gate1.example.com' => 'server1.example.com',
          [ 'gate2.example.com', 'gate3.example.com' ] => [ 'server5.example.com', 'server6.example.com' ]
        }
	* Properly support nested Git submodules, moves Git requirement to >= 1.5.6 [if	you rely upon submodules] (Ken Miller)
  * Fetch tags into the remote cache, allows deploying a tag when using Git, with the remote_cache strategy (Florian Frank)
  * Various fixes to path handling bugs in the copt strategy. (Philippe Rathé)

## 2.5.21 / April 6 2011
	
	* Fixed to follow best-practice guidelines from Bundler (Ben Langfeld)
	* No longer force a gemset for Capistrano development. (Ben Langfeld)

## 2.5.20 / March 16 2011

  * `deploy:migrations` will now always operate on the latest_release, not
	current_release (Mike Vincent)
  * Adds a check for the presence of `rsync` when using the copy strategy with `rsync`. (Chris Griego)
  * Do not try to look up the `:release_path` on servers which are defined `:no_release` (Chris Griego)
  * Tiny patch to the `CVS` SCM code to be Ruby 1.9 compatible (Martin Carpenter)
  * Changed the default `Git` submodule behaviour to use `--recursive`, Lighthouse Issue #176. (Lee Hambley)
  * `:public_children` can now be `set()`, the default is unchanged, thanks (Chris Griego)
  * Fixing the load path in the default `Capfile` to search vendored/unpacked Gems. Lighthouse Issue #174 (Mari Carmen/Rafael García)
  * Adds a `maintenance_basename` variable (default value is `maintenance`) to allow you to set the maintenance page name (Celestino Gomes)
  * Spelling fixes in inline-documentation (Tom Copeland)
  * Make `zip` and `tar` handle symlinks the same way (zip follows symlinks by default, tar needs the option `-h`) (Ross Cooperman)

## 2.5.19 / June 21, 2010

  * Small bug fixes, no improvements for people who weren't experiencing problems anyway.

## 2.5.18 / March 14, 2010

Small fix for rolling back if a shell scripts exits non-zero; enabled a rollback if git (or other) externals fail during the deploy.

  * #151 check return code status of system command to create local copy and rollback if not 0 (David King)

## 2.5.17 / February 27, 2010

Various small bug fixes.

## 2.5.16 / February 14, 2010

Fixed a small regression in 2.5.15

## 2.5.15 / 14 February 2010

Fixes a feature request not to overwrite roles when using the ROLES environmental variable.

  * #126 - The option to not overwriting the roles which are defined in the task definition.
  * Removed the `upgrade` file as it has been a couple of years since 1.x was in the wild.
  * Slight internal re-factor of the way we calculate the `version`

## 2.5.14 / 18 January 2010

Fixes a low-value bug, thanks to Chris G for the well submitted patch:

  * #139 - Improves consistency of variable lookup, scm variables with a local_ prefix will be honoured with priority locally (Chris Griego)

## 2.5.13 / 6 January 2010

* Small maintenance release:

  * #118 - Modified CLI test to not load user or system configuration file (Emily Price)
  * #88  - Re-fixed a problem here, massive apologies to all concerned. (Hangover from 2.5.12)

## 2.5.12 / 5 January 2010

* Tweak the directory version listing (caused a lot of problems, please upgrade immediately)

## 2.5.11 / December 2009

* Deprecations and other small changes

## 2.5.10 / 3 November 2009

* Fixes Darcs remote repository problem when using the copy strategy [Alex `regularfry` Young]
* Documentation improvements for embedding Capistrano [Lee Hambley]
* Fixes ticket #95 -formally deprecating the before_something and after_something methods [Lee Hambley] 

## 2.5.9 / 1 August 2009

* Adds support for customizing which `tar` command to use. [Jeremy Wells]

* Fixes a couple of documentation problems, typos and worse. [Lee Hambley]

  * #105 - Add skip_hostfilter option to find_servers() [Eric]
  * #103 - Using non-master branch fails with Ruby 1.9 [Suraj Kurapati]
  * #96  - Tweak for 1.9 Compatibility
  * #79  - Capistrano hangs on shell command for many computers
  * #77  - Copy command doesn't work on Solaris due to tar/gtar
  * #76  - Invalid Subversion URL
  * Improved web:disable task, now suggests a .htaccess block to use suggested by Rafael García
  * Includes more logger options (can now select stdout, stderr of a file) [Rafael García] 

## 2.5.8 / July 2009

* Fixes a problem in 2.5.7 where deploy:finalize_update had been badly merged.

## 2.5.6 & 2.5.7 / July 2009

* 2.5.7 masks a broken 2.5.6 release that was accidentally mirrored via Rubyforge.

* Clean the cached git repository [Graeme Mathieson]

* Fixes perforce issues reported at http://bit.ly/wt0es [Scott Johnson]

* Improved back-tick handling code in relation to the above.

* Fixes a Git issue when submodules update upstream. (via mailing list) [sneakin]

* Capify now creates the config directory in directories without one.

## 2.5.5 / 24 Feb 2009

* Make sure role(:foo) actually declares an (empty) role for :foo, even without server arguments [Jamis Buck]


## 2.5.4 / 4 Feb 2009

* When using rsync with the remote_cache strategy include -t switch to preserve file times [Kevin McCarthy]

* Bump Net::SSH dependency to version 2.0.10 [Jamis Buck]

* Use 'user' from .ssh/config appropriately [Jamis Buck]

* Allow respond_to?() method to accept optional second parameter (include_priv) [Matthias Marschall]

* Make sure sudo prompts are retried correctly even if "try again" and the prompt appear in the same text chunk from the server [Jamis Buck]

* Add supported environment variables to -H output [François Beausoleil]


## 2.5.3 / December 6, 2008

* Make previous_release return nil if there is no previous release [Mathias Meyer]

* Play nice with rubies that don't inspect terminals well (ie. JRuby) by defaulting screen columns to 80 [Bob McWhirter]

* Rollback of deploy:symlink would explode if there was no previous revision to rollback to [Jamis Buck]

* Fix bug in transfer.rb that caused get/put/upload/download to ignore blocks passed to them [arika]

* Fix issue with git SCM that caused "Unable to resolve revision" errors when there was trailing whitespace in git's output [Mark Zuneska, Daniel Berlinger and Evan Closson]


## 2.5.2 / November 13, 2008

* Fix issue with git SCM that caused "Unable to resolve revision for 'HEAD'" errors on deploy [Jamis Buck]


## 2.5.1 / November 7, 2008

* Add -t (--tools) switch for better task lists for external tools [Jamis Buck]

* Make the RemoteDependency#try method use invoke_command instead of run, for sudo-ability [Matthias Marschall]

* Make locally executed commands in Windows more Windows-friendly [esad@esse.at]

* Added :scm_arguments variable for custom SCM arguments (subversion-only, currently) [David Abdemoulaie]

* Don't emit -p for sudo when :sudo_prompt is blank [Matthias Marschall]

* Copy symlinks when using rsync [Paul Paradise]

* Make sure git query-revision matches on exact branch name [grant@nightriot.com]

* Use -T <arg> to filter listed tasks by a pattern [Mathias Meyer, Geoffrey Grosenbach]

* Expose the #scm method on SCM::Base for building custom scm commands [Mathias Meyer]

* Start logging some locally executed commands [springyweb]

* Added HOSTFILTER environment variable for constraining tasks so they run only on hosts matching the given list of servers [Walter Smith]

* Make sure the glob matching for copy excludes does not delete parent directories [Fabio Akita]

* Ruby 1.9 compatibility [Jamis Buck]


## 2.5.0 / August 28, 2008

* Allow :gateway to be set to an array, in which case a chain of tunnels is created [Kerry Buckley]

* Allow HOSTS spec to override even non-existent roles [Mike Bailey]

* Sort releases via "ls -xt" instead of "ls -x" to allow for custom release names [Yan Pritzker]

* Convert arguments to -s and -S into integers, booleans, etc. based on whether the arguments appear to be those types [Jamis Buck]

* Add descriptions of -n and -d to the verbose help text [Jamis Buck]

* Make rollbacks work with processes that need the current directory to be valid in order to restart properly (e.g. mongrel_rails) [Jamis Buck]

* Rename deploy:rollback_code to deploy:rollback:code [Jamis Buck]

* Added parallel() helper for executing multiple different commands in parallel [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure a task only uses the last on_rollback block, once, on rollback [Jamis Buck]

* Add :shared_children variable to customize which subdirectories are created by deploy:setup [Jonathan Share]

* Allow filename globbing in copy_exclude setting for the copy strategy [Jonathan Share]

* Allow remote_cache strategy to use copy_exclude settings (requires rsync) [Lewis Mackenzie]

* Make None SCM module work in Windows [Carlos Kozuszko]

* Recognize mingw as a Windows platform [Carlos Kozuszko]

* Fixed failing tests in Windows [Carlos Kozuszko]

* Made :scm_auth_cache control whether password option is emitted in subversion module [Brendan Schwartz]

* Fixed timestamp bug in CVS module [Jørgen Fjeld]

* Added -n/--dry-run switch, to display but not execute remote tasks [Paul Gross]


## 2.4.3 / June 28, 2008

* Fix gem dependencies so gem actually understands them [Jamis Buck]


## 2.4.2 / June 27, 2008

* Specify gem dependencies in rakefile [Jamis Buck]


## 2.4.1 / June 27, 2008

* Use Echoe to manage the Rakefile [Jamis Buck]

* Let Net::SSH manage the default SSH port selection [Ben Lavender]

* Changed capture() helper to not raise an exception on error, but to warn instead [Jeff Forcier]


## 2.4.0 / June 13, 2008

* Added :normalize_asset_timestamps option to deployment, defaulting to true, which allows asset timestamping to be disabled [John Trupiano]


## 2.4.0 Preview Release #1 (2.3.101) / June 5, 2008 

* Only make deploy:start, deploy:stop, and deploy:restart try sudo as :runner. The other sudo-enabled tasks (deploy:setup, deploy:cleanup, etc.) will now use the :admin_runner user (which by default is unset). [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure triggers defined as a block inherit the scope of the task they are attached to, instead of the task they were called from [Jamis Buck]

* Make deploy:upload use the upload() helper for more efficient directory processing [Jamis Buck]

* Make deploy:upload accept globs [Mark Imbriaco]

* Make sure the host is reported with the output from scm_run [Jamis Buck]

* Make git SCM honor the :scm_verbose option [Jamis Buck]

* Don't follow symlinks when using :copy_cache [Jamis Buck]

* If :mode is given to upload() helper, do a chmod after to set the mode [Jamis Buck]

* Fix load_from_file method for windows users [Neil Wilson]

* Display a deprecation error if a remote git branch is specified [Tim Harper]

* Fix deployment recipes to use the updated sudo helper [Jamis Buck]

* Enhance the sudo helper so it can be used to return the command, instead of executing it [Jamis Buck]

* Revert "make sudo helper play nicely with complex command chains", since it broke stuff [Jamis Buck]

* Make set(:default_shell, false) work for not using a shell on a per-command basis [Ryan McGeary] 

* Improved test coverage [Ryan McGeary]

* Fixed "coverage" take task [Ryan McGeary]

* Use upload() instead of put() with the copy strategy [Jamis Buck]

* Revert the "git fetch --tags" change, since it didn't work as expected [Jamis Buck]

* Fix deploy:pending when using git SCM [Ryan McGeary]

* Make sure deploy:check works with :none scm (which has no default command) [Jamis Buck]

* Add debug switch for enabling conditional execution of commands [Mark Imbriaco]


## 2.3.0 / May 2, 2008

* Make deploy:setup obey the :use_sudo and :runner directives, and generalize the :use_sudo and :runner options into a try_sudo() helper method [Jamis Buck]

* Make sudo helper play nicely with complex command chains [Jamis Buck]

* Expand file-transfer options with new upload() and download() helpers. [Jamis Buck]

* Allow SCP transfers in addition to SFTP. [Jamis Buck]

* Use Net::SSH v2 and Net::SSH::Gateway. [Jamis Buck]

* Added #export method for git SCM [Phillip Goldenburg]

* For query_revision, git SCM used git-rev-parse on the repo hosting the Capfile, which may NOT be the same tree as the actual source reposistory. Use git-ls-remote instead to resolve the revision for checkout. [Robin H. Johnson]

* Allow :ssh_options hash to be specified per server [Jesse Newland]

* Added support for depend :remote, :file to test for existence of a specific file [Andrew Carter]

* Ensure that the default run options are mixed into the command options when executing a command from the cap shell [Ken Collins]

* Added :none SCM module for deploying a specific directory's contents [Jamis Buck]

* Improved "copy" strategy supports local caching and pattern exclusion (via :copy_cache and :copy_exclude variables) [Jamis Buck]


## 2.2.0 / February 27, 2008

* Fix git submodule support to init on sync [halorgium]

* Add alternative server-centric role definition method [James Duncan Davidson]

* Add support for password prompts from the Mercurial SCM [ches]

* Add support for :max_hosts option in task definition or run() [Rob Holland <rob@inversepath.com>]

* Distributed git support for better operability with remote_cache strategy [voidlock]

* Use a default line length in help text if line length is otherwise too small [Jamis Buck]

* Fix incorrect reference to the 'setup' task in task documentation [rajeshduggal]

* Don't try to kill the spawner process on deploy:stop if no spawner process exists [Jamis Buck]

* Dynamic roles (e.g. role(:app) { "host.name" }) [dmasover]

* Implement Bzr#next_revision so that pending changes can be reported correctly [casret]

* Use a proper export command for bzr SCM [drudru]

* Use checkout instead of merge for git SCM [nuttycom]

* Fix typo in Subversion SCM module, encountered when an update fails [kemiller]

* Fix documentation typo in upload.rb [evolving_jerk]

* Added test case to show that the :scm_command is honored by the git SCM module [grempe]

* Fail gracefully when double-colons are used to delimit namespaces [richie]

* Add support for :git_enable_submodules variable, to enable submodules with the git SCM [halorgium]

* If subversion asks for a password, prompt as a last resort [Jamis Buck]

* Use checkout --lightweight for bzr checkout, instead of branch [michiels]

* Make sure bzr SCM works when revision is head (or unspecified) [michiels]

* Support p4sync_flags and p4client_root variables for Perforce [gseidman]

* Prepare for Net::SSH v2 by making sure Capistrano only tries to load Net::SSH versions less than 1.99.0 [Jamis Buck]


## 2.1.0 / October 14, 2007

* Default to 0664 instead of 0660 on upload [Jamis Buck]

* Fix deploy:pending to query SCM for the subsequent revision so that it does not include the last deployed change [Jamis Buck]

* Prefer 'Last Changed Rev' over 'Revision' when querying latest revision via Subversion [Jamis Buck]

* Explicitly require 'stringio' in copy_test [mislav]

* When Subversion#query_revision fails, give a more sane error [Jamis Buck]

* Don't run the upgrade:revisions task on non-release servers [Jamis Buck]

* Fix cap shell to properly recognize sudo prompt [Mark Imbriaco, barnaby, Jamis Buck]

* Git SCM module [Garry Dolley, Geoffrey Grosenbach, Scott Chacon]

* Use the --password switch for subversion by default, but add :scm_prefer_prompt variable (defaults to false) [Jamis Buck]


## 2.0.100 (2.1 Preview 1) / September 1, 2007

* capify-generated Capfile will autoload all recipes from vendor/plugins/*/recipes/*.rb [Graeme Mathieson]

* Use sudo -p switch to set sudo password prompt to something predictable [Mike Bailey]

* Allow independent configurations to require the same recipe file [Jamis Buck]

* Set :shell to false to run a command without wrapping it in "sh -c" [Jamis Buck]

* Don't request a pty by default [Jamis Buck]

* Add a "match" remote dependency method [Adam Greene]

* Allow auth-caching of subversion credentials to be enabled via :scm_auth_cache [tsmith]

* Don't let a task trigger itself when used as the source for an "on" hook [Jamis Buck]

* Avoid using the --password switch with subversion for security purposes [sentinel]

* Add version_dir, current_dir, and shared_dir variables for naming the directories used in deployment [drinkingbird]

* Use Windows-safe binary reads for reading file contents [Ladislav Martincik]

* Add Accurev SCM support [Doug Barth]

* Use the :runner variable to determine who to sudo as for deploy:restart [Graham Ashton]

* Add Namespaces#top to always return a reference to the topmost namespace [Jamis Buck]

* Change the "-h" output so that it does not say that "-q" is the default [Jamis Buck]


## 2.0.0 / July 21, 2007

* Make the "no matching servers" error more sane [halorgium]

* Make sure the invoke task gives a sane error when the COMMAND value is omitted [halorgium]

* Make sure variables are conditionally set in the deploy recipes, so as not to clobber values set elsewhere [Jamis Buck]

* Fix "input stream is empty" errors from HighLine on prompt [Jamis Buck]

* Added "synchronous_connect" setting to try and work around SFTP hangs for certain users [Jamis Buck]

* Auto-require the SSH shell service, to avoid race conditions [Jamis Buck]

* Add a millisecond sleep in upload to reduce CPU impact [Jamis Buck]

* Allow the logger to be set via Configuration#logger= [Jamis Buck]

* Allow $CAPISTRANO:HOST$ to be used in filenames to the put command [Jamis Buck]

* Allow execute_on_servers to be called without a current task again [Jamis Buck]

* Put $stdout in sync mode, so that Net::SSH prompts are displayed [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure deploy:check aborts if it fails [Jamis Buck]

* Spelling corrections in docs [Tim Carey-Smith, Giles Bowkett]


## 1.99.3 (2.0 Preview 4) / June 28, 2007

* Don't break task descriptions on a period that appears in the middle of a sentence [Jamis Buck]

* Added support for :on_error => :continue in task definitions, allowing tasks to effectively ignore connection and execution errors that occur as they run [Rob Holland]

* Use correct parameters for Logger constructor in the SCM and Strategy base initializers [Jamis Buck]

* Set LC_ALL=C before querying the revision, to make sure the output is in a predictable locale and can be parsed predictably [via Leandro Nunes dos Santos]

* Add :copy_remote_dir variable for the :copy strategy, to indicate where the archive should be copied to on the remote servers [Jamis Buck]

* Make the awk use in the dependencies code work with POSIX awk [mcornick]

* Make variable accesses thread safe [via Adrian Danieli]

* Make user input for yes/no prompts work correctly in the Mercurial module [Matthew Elder]

* Use single quotes to escape semicolon in find command, instead of a backslash [via michael.italia@gmail.com]

* Better quoting of reserved characters in commands [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure Net::SSH versions prior to 1.1.0 still work [Jamis Buck]

* Allow the :hosts and :roles keys to accept lambdas, which will be evaluated lazily to allow runtime selection of hosts and roles in tasks [Jamis Buck]

* Use `which' to test whether a command exists in the remote path, instead of `test -p' [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure the connection factory is established synchronously, to avoid multiple gateway instances being spawned [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure symlink and finalize_update tasks reference the most recent release when called by themselves [Jamis Buck]


## 1.99.2 (2.0 Preview 3) / June 15, 2007
 
* CVS SCM module [Brian Phillips]

* Fix typo in Perforce SCM module [Chris Bailey]

* ssh_options < server options when connecting [Jamis Buck]

* Logger defaults to $stderr instead of STDERR [lhartley]

* Use cp -RPp instead of -a in the remote cache strategy

* Make the UploadError exception include an array of the hosts that failed [rob@inversepath.com]

* Allow "empty" roles to be declared [Jamis Buck]

* Mercurial SCM module [Tobias Luetke, Matthew Elder]

* Invoke all commands via sh (customizable via :default_shell) [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure all directories exist on each deploy which are necessary for subsequent commands to succeed, since some SCM's won't save empty directories [Matthew Elder]

* Add :default_environment variable, which is applied to every command


## 1.99.1 (2.0 Preview 2) / May 10, 2007

* Fix some documentation typos [eventualbuddha]

* Don't retry failed connections if an explicit auth_methods list is given [Chris Farms]

* Added support for load and exit callbacks, which get invoked when all recipes have been loaded and when all requested tasks have been executed [Jamis Buck]

* Added support for start and finish callbacks, which get invoked when any task is called via the command-line [Jamis Buck]

* Make `capify' understand simple command-line switches [Jamis Buck]

* Make the server definition itself available to SSH channels, rather than just the host name [Jamis Buck]

* Identify servers by their complete credentials in logs, rather than simply by hostname [Jamis Buck]

* Uniquely identify servers based on hostname, port, and username, instead of merely on hostname [Jamis Buck]

* Allow (e.g.) scm_command and local_scm_command to be set in the event of different paths to the scm command on local vs. remote hosts. [Jamis Buck]

* Kill the "deploy:app" namespace and move those tasks into deploy, directly. [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure 'desc' applies to the next defined task, in any namespace. [Jamis Buck]

* Fix shell so that servers for a task are correctly discovered. [Jamis Buck]

* Added before(), after(), and on() callback creation methods. [Jamis Buck]

* Fix broken check! method for some deployment strategies. [Jamis Buck]

* deploy:cold should also run migrations before starting the app [Jamis Buck]

* Make the copy strategy check out to a temporary directory [Jamis Buck]


## 1.99.0 (2.0 Preview 1) / April 24, 2007

* Add `capify' script to make it easier to prepare a project for deployment using cap [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure the sudo helper understands the SuSE dialect of the sudo password prompt [Steven Wisener]

* Fix synchronization issue with Gateway initialization [Doug Barth]

* Added opt-in "compat" and "upgrade" recipes for tasks to aid in the upgrade process to Capistrano 2 [Jamis Buck]

* The deployment recipes are now opt-in. Just do 'load "deploy"' in your recipe script. [Jamis Buck]

* Added $CAPISTRANO:HOST$ placeholder in commands, which will be replaced with the name of the host on which the command is executing [Jamis Buck]

* Added -e switch to explain specific task. Added -X to extend -x. Made -h much briefer. Added -T to list known tasks. [Jamis Buck]

* Added namespaces for tasks [Jamis Buck]

* Merged the Configuration and Actor classes, performed various other massive refactorings of the code [Jamis Buck]


## 1.4.1 / February 24, 2007

* Use the no-auth-cache option with subversion so that username/password tokens do not get cached by capistrano usage [jonathan]

* Deprecated upper-cased variables [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure Actor#get does not close the SFTP channel (so subsequent SFTP operations work) [Dov Murik]

* Add :env option to 'run' (and friends) so that you can specify environment variables to be injected into the new process' environment [Mathieu Lajugie]


## 1.4.0 / February 3, 2007

* Use the auth info for subversion more consistently [Jamis Buck]

* Add a "capture" helper, for capturing the stdout of a remote command and returning it as a string [Jamis Buck]

* Add a "get" helper, to pull a file from a remote server to the localhost [bmihelac]

* Fix gateway to actually increment local_port if a port is in use, so that multiple capistrano instances can run at the same time [Mark Imbriaco]

* Refactor the permissions tweaking in update_code to a separate task so that people on shared hosts can override it as necessary [jaw6]

* Set umask during the setup task, so that intermediate directories are created with the proper permissions [NeilW]

* Removed -c/--caprc switch, since the new load order renders it meaningless (just use -f now) [Mike Bailey]

* Make sure the standard recipe loads first, so that .caprc and friends can override what it defines. [Mike Bailey]

* Add support for a system-wide capistrano config file [Mike Bailey]

* Make cold_deploy call update instead of deploy (to avoid invoking the restart task).

* Make the touch command run by update_code set the TZ to UTC, for consistent setting of asset timestamps. [NeilW]

* Fix off-by-one bug in show_tasks width-computation [NeilW]


## 1.3.1 / January 5, 2007

* Fix connection problems when using gateways [Ezra Zygmuntowicz]


## 1.3.0 / December 23, 2006

* Deprecate rake integration in favor of invoking `cap' directly [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure the CVS module references the repository explicitly in cvs_log [weyus@att.net]

* Remove trace messages when loading a file [Jamis Buck]

* Cleaner error messages for authentication failures and command errors [Jamis Buck]

* Added support for ~/.caprc, also -x and -c switches. [Jamis Buck]

* Updated migrate action to use db:migrate task in Rails instead of the deprecated migrate task [DHH]

* Allow SSH user and port to be encoded in the hostname strings [Ezra Zygmuntowicz]

* Fixed that new checkouts were not group-writable [DHH, Jamis Buck]

* Fixed that cap setup would use 755 on the deploy_to and shared directory roots instead of 775 [DHH]

* Don't run the cleanup task on servers marked no_release [Jamis Buck]

* Fix typo in default_io_proc so it correctly checks the stream parameter to see if it is the error stream [Stephen Haberman]

* Make sure assets in images, javascripts, and stylesheets are touched after updating the code, to ensure the asset timestamping feature of rails works correctly [Jamis Buck]

* Added warning if password is prompted for and termios is not installed [John Labovitz]

* Added :as option to sudo, so you can specify who the command is executed as [Mark Imbriaco]


## 1.2.0 / September 14, 2006

* Add experimental 'shell' task [Jamis Buck]

* Display file for external configurations, rather than inspected proc. [Jamis Buck]

* Connect to multiple servers in parallel, rather than serially. [Jamis Buck]

* Add SCM module for Mercurial (closes #4150) [Matthew Elder]

* Remove unused line in SCM::Base (closes #5619) [chris@seagul.co.uk]

* More efficient "svn log" usage (closes #5620) [Anatol Pomozov]

* Better support for key passphrases in the SVN module (closes #5920) [llasram@gmail.com]

* Fix missing default for :local in cvs.rb (closes #3645) [jeremy@hinegardner.org]

* Fix awkward spacing in gemspec file (closes #3888) [grant@antiflux.org]

* Add support for :sudo variable to specify path to sudo (closes #4578) [timothee.peignier@tryphon.org]

* Make previous_release return nil if there are no previous releases (closes #4959) [bdabney@cavoksolutions.com]

* Uncache releases list after update_code is called so that newly released dir is included (closes #3766) [Jamis Buck]

* Allow the subversion scm to accept HTTPS certificates (closes #4792) [Jamis Buck]

* Make sure rollbacks occur within the scope of the task that triggered them [Jamis Buck]

* Fixed the default recipe to work with setups that haven't yet gone pids [DHH]

* Symlink and setup for shared/pids to tmp/pids [DHH]

* Fix some incorrect usage text (closes #4507) [gerry_shaw@yahoo.com]

* Added Actor#stream method that makes it easy to create cross-server streams [DHH]. Example:

    desc "Run a tail on multiple log files at the same time"
    task :tail_fcgi, :roles => :app do
      stream "tail -f #{shared_path}/log/fastcgi.crash.log"
    end

* Make update_code and symlink a macro task under the name "update" for easy of deploy to servers that does not run fcgis [DHH]

* Changed setup, update_code, rollback_code, and symlink to work on all servers instead of only those in the :app, :web, and :db roles. A server can opt out of being part of the release deployment by setting :no_release => true [DHH]

* Added support for :except on task declarations as the opposite of :only [DHH]. Example:

    role :app, "192.168.0.2"
    role :file, "192.168.0.3", :no_release => true

    task :symlink, :except => { :no_release => true } do
      on_rollback { run "ln -nfs #{previous_release} #{current_path}" }
      run "ln -nfs #{current_release} #{current_path}"
    end
    
    cap symlink # will not run on 192.168.0.3

* Deprecate the -r/--recipe switch in favor of -f/--file (for more make/rake-like semantics) [Jamis Buck]

* Fix gemspec to include a dependency on rake 0.7 [Jamis Buck]

* Added respect for ENV["HOSTS"] that'll be used instead of the roles specified in the task definition [DHH]. Example:

    HOSTS=192.168.0.1 cap setup # one-off setup for that server, doesn't need to be prespecified in the recipes file

* Added respect for ENV["ROLES"] that'll be used instead of the roles specified in the task definition [DHH]. Example:

    task :setup, :roles => [ :app, :web, :db ]
      # normally this would run every where
    end
    
    ROLES=app cap setup # this will only run for the app role, overwritting the default declaration

* Added :hosts option to task definition that allows you to specify cross-cutting tasks [DHH]. Example:

    task :setup, :hosts => [ "06.example.com", "01.example.com" ] do
      # this task will happen on 06 and 01 regardless of which roles they belong to
    end

* Fix operator precedence problem in script for touching the revisions.log #3223 [jason.garber@emu.edu]


## 1.1.0 / March 6th, 2006

* Simplify the generated capistrano.rake file, and make it easier to customize

* Use rake-like command-line semantics ("cap deploy", in addition to "cap -a deploy")

* Rename to capistrano

* Make the generated capistrano.rake file use rake namespaces, and include all default tasks

* Look for config/deploy.rb, capfile, and Capfile by default


## 1.0.1 / February 20th, 2006

* Fix broken switchtower_invoke function in switchtower.rake (missing require statement)


## 1.0.0 / Feburary 18th, 2006

* Make CVS module's :local value default to "."

* Add "invoke" task for executing one-off commands

* Make port selection smarter for gateway connections

* Add extension mechanism for custom ST operations and third-party task libraries

* Make ST rails rake tasks more configurable

* Add Actor#current_task and simplify Task#servers

* Add Actor#connect! method for working around lazy connection establishing

* Make sure IO::TRUNC is specified for Net::SFTP uploads (#3510)

* Add branch support to CVS [jeremy@hinegardner.org] (#3596)

* Add bazaar-ng SCM module [Damien Merenne]

* Add optional :svn_username and :svn_password variables

* Allow Proc-valued variables to be set more conveniently (set(:foo) { "bar" })

* Add perforce SCM module [Richard McMahon]

* Add bazaar (v1) SCM module [Edd Dumbill] (#3533)

* Fix stftime format string used in CVS module to be Windows-compatible (fixes #3383)

* Add an better error when a task is run and no servers match the required conditions

* Add default spinner and cold_deploy tasks, and spinner_user variable

* Changed restart_via variable to (boolean) use_sudo

* Only chmod when the revisions.log file is first created

* Make UPPERCASE variables work

* Added rails_env variable (defaults to production) for use by tasks that employ the RAILS_ENV environment variable

* Added Actor.default_io_proc

* Set :actor key on SSH channel instances


## 0.10.0 / January 2nd, 2006

* Handle ssh password prompts like "someone's password:"

* Make CLI#echo available as a class method.

* Add CLI#with_echo.

* Make the default password prompt available as a class method.

# Add documentation for the CLI class.

* Add a sanity check to make sure the correct versions of Net::SSH and Net::SFTP are installed.

* Added a cleanup task to remove unused releases from the deployment directory

* Allow password to be reentered on sudo if it was entered incorrectly

* Use && as the command separator for the checkouts, so that errors are caught early.

* Ping each SSH connection every 1s during command processing so that long-running commands don't cause the connection to timeout.

* Add a 0.01s sleep during the command loop so that the CPU doesn't go ballistic while ST is doing its thing.

* Add :restart_via variable for specifying whether restart ought to use :sudo (default, use sudo)

* Use SFTP for file transfers (if available).

* Add an "update_current" task that will do an svn up on the current release

* Use the :checkout variable to determine what operation to use for svn checkouts (instead of co, like "export").

* The Rails rake tasks now load ST directly, instead of invoking it via system

* Added ssh_options variable to configure the SSH connection parameters #2734 [jerrett@bravenet.com]

* Require Net::SSH 1.0.5


## 0.9.0 / October 18th, 2005

* Use process reaper instead of custom reap script for restarting

* Use -S switch to set variables before reading recipe files #2242

* Have setup.rb create a switchtower.cmd file on Win32 platforms #2402

* Add diff_from_last_deploy to the rails switchtower rakefile template

* Add diff_from_last_deploy task (currently only works with subversion)

* Add deploy_with_migrations task.

* Make the migrate task more customizable.

* If no password is given with the -p switch, prompt for password immediately.

* Do not install a switchtower stub in the script directory. Assume the switchtower executable is in the path.

* Remove trailing newlines from commands to prevent trailing backslash #2141

* Default parameters work correctly with the generator #2218 [Scott Barron]

* Attempt to require 'rubygems' explicitly when running the switchtower utility #2134

* Make default tasks work only on app/db/web roles, so that additional roles may be created for boxes with specific needs without needing to (for instance) deploy the app to those boxes

* Default the application name to "Application" when using --apply-to

* Show the help screen instead of an error when no arguments are given

* Make SwitchTower easier to invoke programmatically via SwitchTower::CLI

* Specify the revision to release via the :revision variable (defaults to latest revision)

* Allow variables to be set via the cli using the -s switch

* Log checkouts to a "revisions.log" file

* Changed behavior of checkout to use the timestamp as the release name, instead of the revision number

* Added CVS module (very very experimental!)

* Works with public keys now, for passwordless deployment

* Subversion module recognizes the password prompt for HTTP authentication

* Preserve +x on scripts when using darcs #1929 [Scott Barron]

* When executing multiline commands, use a backslash to escape the newline