*SVN*

* Make the server definition itself available to SSH channels, rather that 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