Change Log¶
All notable changes to the COT project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
1.4.0 - 2015-09-01¶
Added
- #24 -
cot deploy esxi
now creates serial ports after deployment using pyVmomi library.- Serial port connectivity must be specified either via entries in the OVF
(which can be defined using
cot edit-hardware ... -S
) or at deployment time using the new-S
/--serial-connection
parameter tocot deploy
. - The syntax for serial port connectivity definition is based
on that of QEMU’s
--serial
CLI option. - Currently only “telnet”, “tcp”, and “device” connection types are supported.
- Serial port connectivity must be specified either via entries in the OVF
(which can be defined using
- #38 -
cot edit-product
can now set product and vendor information. - flake8 validation now includes pep257 to validate docstring compliance to PEP 257 as well.
- Added changelog file.
- Added
COT.file_reference
submodule in support of #39.
Changed
- Split ESXi-specific logic out of
COT.deploy
module and into newCOT.deploy_esxi
module. - UT for
COT.deploy_esxi
now requiresmock
(standard library in Python 3.x, install via pip on Python 2.x).
Fixed
- #39 - avoid unnecessary file copies to save time and disk space.
1.3.1 - 2015-04-09¶
Fixed
- #30 -
cot install-helpers
can now installfatdisk
andvmdktool
under Python 3.
1.3.0 - 2015-03-27¶
Added
- Installation of helper programs is now provided by a
cot install-helpers
subcommand rather than a separate script. - COT now has man pages (
man cot
,man cot-edit-hardware
, etc.) The man pages are also installed bycot install-helpers
. - Improved documentation of the CLI on readthedocs.org as well.
Changed
- Refactored
COT.helper_tools
module intoCOT.helpers
subpackage. This package has an API (COT.helpers.api
) for the rest of COT to access it; the helper-specific logic (qemu-img, fatdisk, etc.) is split into individual helper modules that are abstracted away by the API. - Similarly, logic from
COT.tests.helper_tools
has been refactored and enhanced underCOT.helpers.tests
. - Renamed all test code files from “foo.py” to “test_foo.py” to facilitate test case discovery.
- CLI help strings are dynamically rendered to ReST when docs are built, providing cleaner output for both readthedocs.org and the manpages.
Removed
- COT no longer supports Python 3.2.
cot_unittest
is no more - usetox
orunit2 discover
to run tests.- As noted above, the installation script
check_and_install_helpers.py
no longer exists - this functionality is now provided by theCOT.install_helpers
module.
1.2.2 - 2015-02-19¶
Added
- Documentation built with Sphinx and available at http://cot.readthedocs.org
Changed
- CLI adapts more intelligently to terminal width (fixes #28)
- Submodules now use Python properties instead of get_value/set_value methods.
1.2.1 - 2015-02-03¶
Added
- Now PEP 8 compliant - passes validation by flake8 code analysis.
- Very preliminary support for OVF 2.x format
- Now uses tox for easier test execution and coverage.py for code coverage analysis.
- Code coverage reporting with Coveralls.
Changed
- Now uses colorlog instead of
coloredlogs
for CLI log colorization, as this fits better with COT’s logging model. - Greatly improved unit test structure and code coverage, including tests for logging.
1.2.0 - 2015-01-16¶
Added
- Greatly improved logging (#26). COT now defaults to logging level INFO,
which provides relatively brief status updates to the user. You can also
run with
--quiet
to suppress INFO messages and only log WARNING and ERROR messages,--verbose
to see VERBOSE messages as well, or--debug
if you want to really get into the guts of what COT is doing. - Now integrated with Travis CI for automated builds and UT under all supported Python versions. This should greatly improve the stability of COT under less-common Python versions. (#12)
Changed
- The CLI for
cot deploy
has been revised somewhat based on user feedback. - A lot of restructuring of the underlying code to make things more modular and easier to test in isolation.
Fixed
- Various bugfixes for issues specific to Python 2.6 and 3.x - these environments should now be fully working again.
1.1.6 - 2015-01-05¶
Added
- Added THANKS file recognizing various non-code contributions to COT.
Fixed
1.1.5 - 2014-11-25¶
Fixed
- Fixed issue #17 (
cot edit-hardware
adding NICs makes an OVA that vCenter regards as invalid) - Removed several spurious WARNING messages
1.1.4 - 2014-11-12¶
Added
- COT can at least be installed and run under CentOS/Python2.6 now, although the automated unit tests will complain about the different XML output that 2.6 produces.
Changed
- Vastly improved installation workflow under Linuxes supporting
apt-get
oryum
- included helper script can automatically install all helper programs exceptovftool
. Fixes #9.
Fixed
1.1.3 - 2014-10-01¶
Added
cot edit-hardware
added--nic-names
option for assigning names to each NICcot info
now displays NIC names.
Fixed
- Improved installation documentation
- Some improvements to IOS XRv OVA support
1.1.2 - 2014-09-24¶
Added
- Take advantage of QEMU 2.1 finally supporting the
streamOptimized
VMDK sub-format. - Can now create new hardware items without an existing item of the same type (issue #4)
Changed
- Clearer documentation and logging messages (issue #8 and others)
- Now uses versioneer for automatic version numbering.
Fixed
- Fixed several Python 3 compatibility issues (issue #7 and others)
1.1.0 - 2014-07-29¶
Added
cot deploy esxi
subcommand by Kevin Keim (@kakeim), which usesovftool
to deploy an OVA to an ESXi vCenter server.
Changed
- Removed dependencies on
md5
/md5sum
/shasum
/sha1sum
in favor of Python’shashlib
module. - Nicer formatting of
cot info
output
Fixed
- Miscellaneous fixes and code cleanup.
1.0.0 - 2014-06-27¶
Initial public release.