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1. ▸▾0.8.09 Jun 2014Breaking

   This is technically a backwards incompatible change (reminder: we’re not at 1.0 yet!). You’ll only notice if you were relying on adding your tasks mod…

   [ Feature ] #125 : Improve output of Failure exceptions when printed.

   [ Feature ] #124 : Add a --debug flag to the core parser to enable easier debugging (on top of existing INVOKE_DEBUG env var.)

   [ Feature ] #87 : (also #92 ) Rework the loader module such that recursive filesystem searching is implemented, and is used instead of searching sys.path .

   This adds the behavior most users expect or are familiar with from Fabric 1 or similar tools; and it avoids nasty surprise collisions with other installed packages containing files named tasks.py .

   Thanks to Michael Hahn for the original report & PR, and to Matt Iversen for providing the discovery algorithm used in the final version of this change.

   Warning

   This is technically a backwards incompatible change (reminder: we’re not at 1.0 yet!). You’ll only notice if you were relying on adding your tasks module to sys.path and then calling Invoke elsewhere on the filesystem.

   [ Feature ] #110 : Add task docstrings’ 1st lines to --list output. Thanks to Hiroki Kiyohara for the original PR (with assists from Robert Read and James Thigpen.)

   [ Feature ] #115 : Make it easier to reuse Invoke’s primary CLI machinery in other (non-Invoke-distributed) bin-scripts. Thanks to Noah Kantrowitz.

   [ Feature ] #135 : (also bugs #120 , #123 ) Implement post-tasks to match pre-tasks, and allow control over the arguments passed to both (via invoke.tasks.call ). For details, see Pre- and post-tasks .

   Warning

   Pre-tasks were overhauled a moderate amount to implement this feature; they now require references to task objects instead of task names . This is a backwards incompatible change.

   [ Bug ] #127 : Fill in tasks’ exposed name attribute with body name if explicit name not given.

   [ Bug ] #116 : Ensure nested config overrides play nicely with default tasks and pre-tasks.

   [ Bug ] #131 : Make sure one’s local tasks module is always first in sys.path , even if its parent directory was already somewhere else in sys.path . This ensures that local tasks modules never become hidden by third-party ones. Thanks to @crccheck for the early report and to Dorian Puła for assistance fixing.

   [ Bug ] #121 : Add missing help output denoting inverse Boolean options (i.e. --[no-]foo for a --foo flag whose value defaults to true.) Thanks to Andrew Roberts for catch & patch.

   [ Bug ] #128 : Positional arguments containing underscores were not exporting to the parser correctly; this has been fixed. Thanks to J. Javier Maestro for catch & patch.

   [ Support ] : Refactor the invoke.runners.Runner module to differentiate what it means to run a command in the abstract, from execution specifics. Top level API is unaffected.

   [ Support ] #117 : Tidy up setup.py a bit, including axing the (broken) distutils support. Thanks to Matt Iversen for the original PR & followup discussion.

   [ Support ] #118 : Update the bundled six plus other minor tweaks to support files. Thanks to Matt Iversen.

   [ Support ] #25 : Trim a bunch of time off the test suite by using mocking and other tools instead of dogfooding a bunch of subprocess spawns.