Breaking changes:

• None

Fixes:

• #1977: Remove append operator when writing the git file - @mmiller1

Breaking changes:

• None

Fixes:

• #1954: Fix Host filtering when multi-host strings contain 0

As of this release, version 2.x of Capistrano is officially End of Life. No further releases of 2.x series are planned, and pull requests against 2.x are no longer accepted. The maintainers encourage you to upgrade to 3.x if possible.

Breaking changes:

• None

New features:

• #1943: Make 'releases' and 'shared' directory names configurable from deployment target
• #1922: Prevents last good release from being deleted during cleanup if there are too many subsequent failed deploys
• #1930: Default to locking the version using the pessimistic version operator at the patch level.

Fixes:

• #1937: Clarify error message when plugin is required in the wrong config file.

v3.9.0...v3.9.1

Breaking changes:

• None

Fixes:

• #1912: Fixed an issue where questions posed by ask were not printed on certain platforms - @kminiatures

v3.8.2...v3.9.0

Breaking changes:

• None

New features:

• #1911: Add Capistrano::DSL#invoke! for repetetive tasks

Fixes:

• #1899: Updated deploy:cleanup to continue rotating the releases and skip the invalid directory names instead of skipping the whole rotation of releases. The warning message has changed slightly due to the change of behavior.

v3.8.1...v3.8.2

Breaking changes:

• None

Other changes:

• #1882: Explain where to add new Capfile lines in scm deprecation warning - @robd

v3.8.0...v3.8.1

Breaking changes:

• None

Fixes:

• #1867: Allow cap -T to run without Capfile present - @mattbrictson

v3.7.2...v3.8.0

Potentially breaking changes:

• #1846: add_host will add a new host in a case where it used to incorrectly update an existing one (potentially breaking) (@dbenamy)

New features:

• #1860: Allow cap to be run within subdir and still work - @mattbrictson

Fixes:

• #1835: Stopped printing parenthesis in ask prompt if no default or nil was passed as argument (@chamini2)
• #1840: Git plugin: shellescape git_wrapper_path (@olleolleolle)
• #1843: Properly shell escape git:wrapper steps - @mattbrictson
• #1846: Defining a role is now O(hosts) instead of O(hosts^2) (@dbenamy)
• Run svn switch to work with svn branches if repo_url is changed
• #1856: Fix hg repo_tree implementation - @mattbrictson
• #1857: Don't emit doctor warning when repo_tree is set - @mattbrictson

Other changes:

• capistrano-harrow#4: Drop dependency on capistrano-harrow gem. Gem can still be installed separately (@leehambley)
• #1859: Move git-specific repo_url logic into git plugin - @mattbrictson
• #1858: Unset the :scm variable when an SCM plugin is used - @mattbrictson

v3.7.1...v3.7.2

Potentially breaking changes:

• None

Other changes:

• Suppress log messages of git ls-remote by filtering remote refs (@aeroastro)
• The Git SCM now allows the repo_url to be changed without manually wiping out the mirror on each target host first (@javanthropus)