All releases of tentakel
Release Notes: This release comes with two new features: a plugin mechanism allowing users to easily create their own remote methods, and the new "maxparallel" parameter, which allows one to restrict the number of concurrently running threads to avoid too much load on download servers, etc.. The maxparallel feature can make tentakel a lot faster under certain circumstances. The rsh plugin is now much more useful, as it is now able to return the exit status of the remote command.
Release Notes: Most changes are not visible to the user, but there are still quite a few that are of interest. An rsh remote method has been implemented. The interpretation of the configuration file has changed in a subtle but important way: parameters for a specific host are now taken from its nearest enclosing group and not from the top-level group. Format strings may contain the string "%t", which expands to the time that was used to execute the remote command.
Release Notes: Only bugfixes have been made in this release. The most important fix is the one that allows "-" characters in hostnames.
Release Notes: This is basically a maintenance release that fixes some bugs and introduces basic unit regression testing.
Release Notes: The user can now specify the path to the ssh binary. Every parameter can now be set globally in the configuration file. Global parameters can be overridden by group parameters.
Release Notes: This release has much more functionality, such as format strings to control the output, a powerful configuration file, an interactive mode, and a much better manual. It has been completely rewritten in Python, which has led to better extensibility and cleaner code.
Release Notes: This release has been completely rewritten in the Python language. New features include multi-threading, format strings, an interactive mode, and a powerful configuration file. This is meant to be the last release before 2.0.
Release Notes: This release fixes a major bug that prevented hostlists from containing IP addresses or hostnames with dots.
Release Notes: A lot of bugs have been fixed (mainly bourne shell compatibility stuff). An example hostlist has been added. The documentation has improved a lot and a manpage is now available. Big parts of the code have been switched to object-oriented bourne shell style, which leads to much better code readability and improvability. The return value of the remote command is displayed inside the separator string. Remote stderr/stdout handling is now done with separate streams for each host object. The user interface is also clearer now.
No changes have been submitted for this release.
