What's New¶

Version 0.5.1 (Newest)¶

Fixed a cleanup action bug that prevented existing empty directories from being deleted.
Updated paramiko to 2.10.1.

Added the --skip switch to manually skip named stages.
Added the current working directory to stdout.
Fixed a regression bug that caused the bind and hostwd parameters to fail validation.
Fixed a bug introduced in 0.4.1 that would delete existing directories when the cleanup action was used.

Updated python packages.
Fixed a cleanup action bug on Windows that prevented directories mis-identified as files from preventing cleanup.
Fixed a cleanup action bug that prevented files in an empty working directory from being cleaned up.
Fixed a cleanup action bug that prevented an empty directory from being deleted.
Fixed a bug that would raise an unhandled exception if a Windows path was provided as a runtime variable.
Fixed a cleanup action bug on Windows with the remote command runner.

Added a prep section to config files.
Added author, maintainer, version, created, and modified sections to config files.
Added the --info option to the CLI for viewing config file meta data.
Added dotenv file support.
Added support for environment variables.
Added support for command labels to optionally display instead of the command itself.
Added support for job and stage descriptions.
An environment can now be specified for the Local command runner and the stage will be skipped if the environment doesn't match the current OS or distribution.
Build-magic creates and uses a custom Vagrantfile when using the Vagrant command runner and setting bind directory or envvars.
Bugfixes

Updated dependency versions.
Improved the error message when Docker or Vagrant isn't installed.
Fixed a bug that caused the spinner to continue running if the environment is a Docker container that cannot be found.
Improved error handling in the case a Docker container cannot be found.
Added a check for if a build-magic container is already running and raises an exception if so.
Added a check to make sure the provided host working directory exists for the Docker and Vagrant runners.

Added the --template option for generating an example Config File named build-magic_template.yaml.
Added support for variable substitution in Config Files using the syntax {{ VARIABLE }} which can be substituted with myhost by using the command-line option --variable VARIABLE myhost.
Added the --prompt option to interactively prompt the user for a value to substitute with --prompt VARIABLE.
Fixed a bug in the cleanup action that caused directories to not be properly deleted on Windows.
Fixed a bug where open default config files were not being properly closed on Windows.
Fixed a bug affecting commands displayed that are too long for the terminal or end in a new line character.
Fixed a bug where the spinner continued to run after a keyboard interrupt was received.
Fixed a bug where using the cleanup action on Windows would cause a job to fail on startup if a file or directory raised a permission error.
Fixed a bug that prevented stderr from a command executed in a Docker container from being displayed properly.

Added the --target and -t options to execute specific config file stages by name.
Added the ability to run specific config file stages by name passed as an argument if the config file has a default name of build-magic.yaml.
Added a process spinner to long-running stage start up commands.
Added the sequence number and total commands to the output for each command.
Removed the newline character at the end of the output displayed when in verbose mode.
Changed the stage end status from COMPLETE to DONE.

Added the hammer and sparkles emoji to the terminal output.
Suppressed the Vagrant not installed log warning.
Updated requests to 2.25.1 in requirements.txt.
Fixed a bug with the cleanup action that was corrupting git refs by ignoring modified files in the .git directory.
Fixed a bug with terminal output that could cause a large empty gap of lines if build-magic is executed after running the clear command.