Changelog¶ ↑

DaemonKit endures to use semantic versioning, at least since the 0.3.0 release. Below is a curated list of important changes/fixes/improvements. You can use GitHub's excellent compare view to get the nitty gritty details.

0.3.3 2018-04-25¶ ↑

• Require 'fcntl'. #93

0.3.2 2015-03-16¶ ↑

• No longer close IO we don't own when daemonizing. #85

• Fix missing ERB require. #89

• Ruby 2.2 compat fix. #91

0.3.1 2014-07-21¶ ↑

• Removed the dependency on the i18n gem

• Locked rufus-scheduler dependency to 2.0.x #79

• Pass YAML files through ERB #80

• Ensure proper shutdown of AMQP connections #84

0.3.0 2014-05-15¶ ↑

• No changes, released final version

0.3.0.rc2 2013-09-23¶ ↑

• safely usage is now optional, although included by default. #73

• XMPP abstractions fixed and now requires Blather ~> 0.8.0

• Removed support for “freezing” daemon-kit into vendor/daemon-kit

• Added new “–edge” generator, creating a Gemfile that depends on daemon-kit's Github repo

0.3.0.rc1 2013-09-11¶ ↑

• Removed nanite support, nanite hasn't released in years.

• Switched generators from Rubigen to Thor

• Added Travis builds

• Added Relish documentation for us

• Switched example specs to use “pending” instead of “violated”

• Running daemon-kit without arguments now shows help

0.2.0 2012-09-30¶ ↑

• Depend on the 'safely' gem for the safely method and logging backtraces

• Fixed compatibility with ruote-amqp 2.2.0

• AMQP fixes by @marcbowes (version, reconnect)

• Updated to rspec 2 (various contributors)

• Various documentation fixes by @ktrix

• Remove vendored Thor

• Various load/require fixes by @ktrix

• SQS generator by @marcbowes

0.1.8.2 2011-05-18¶ ↑

• Convert to use Bundler

0.1.18.1 2010-08-04¶ ↑

• Fixed issue with our own amqp.rb file causing havoc on Ruby 1.8.7

0.1.18 2010-08-03¶ ↑

• Generators rewritten to use Thor

• Evented XMPP now handled by blather

• Boot script fixes

• Removed Jabber generator, deprecating Jabber class (use XMPP)

• Upgraded Hoptoad notifications to V2 of the notifier API

• Fix various argument handling bugs

• Removed support for exception emails

• Improved log rotation support [mperham]

• Initial 1.9.2 support

• Exception handling for scheduled tasks (cron)

• Updates for ruote-amqp versions 2.1 and later

0.1.7.12 2009-12-04¶ ↑

• Bug fix, don't load environment files twice [grockit]

0.1.7.11 2009-11-30¶ ↑

• Renamed 'daemon_kit' executable to 'daemon-kit'

• Fixed some broken links in README.rdoc

• Sneaked in << on AbstractLogger for better Logger compatibility

• Support for Test::Unit in generated projects [skaar]

• Fixed missing DAEMON_ENV for test helpers

• Fixes for nanite configuration [skaar]

• Toughened up the ruote workitem parser

• Fixed issue with nanite services not being advertised correctly [Wijnand]

• Fixed some woes with rake if rspec gem is missing

0.1.7.10 2009-08-12¶ ↑

• Ruote remote participants

• Allow process umask to be configured, defaults to 022

• Updates to DaemonKit::Config hashes

• Fixed argument parsing bug (reported by Mathijs Kwik (bluescreen303)

• Support for privilege separation (See Configuration.txt)

0.1.7.9 2009-06-22¶ ↑

• Backtraces only logged on unclean shutdown

• AMQP generator got new keep alive code

0.1.7.8 2009-06-22¶ ↑

• Optional logging of all exceptions when the daemon process dies unexpectedly

• Update generated environment.rb to reflect new backtraces option

0.1.7.7 2009-06-22¶ ↑

• Fixed compatibility with rufus-scheduler-2.0.0 (or newer) in cron generator

• Started central eventmachine reactor management code

• Now depends on eventmachine

0.1.7.6 (Not released)¶ ↑

• Support for cucumber

• Fixed issue in daemon_kit:upgrade task

• Moved rspec generator into new home

• Removed conflicting rubigen generator, messed with our script directory

• Fixed bug where environment.rb overwrites some –config values (reported by Josh Owens)

0.1.7.5 2009-06-08¶ ↑

• New AbstractLogger

• Default Logger backend

• SysLogLogger support

• More documentation

0.1.7.4 2009-06-05¶ ↑

• Fixed bug with control script generator (thanks Sho Fukamachi)

• Enhanced deploy.rb template to check for current dk gem verion, unless vendored

• Fix bug in capistrano recipe for restarting daemons

• Added log:truncate rake task

• Error mails now handled by TMail

0.1.7.3 2009-05-31¶ ↑

• Removed dependency on daemons gem, now handled in house

• New argument management

• Some more docs

0.1.7.1 2009-05-28¶ ↑

• Fixed some minor issue with Capistrano support

• Added support for generating dog/monit configuration files via rake

• Initial implementation of ./script/* utilities

0.1.7 2009-05-26¶ ↑

• Capistrano deployment support

0.1.6 2009-05-13¶ ↑

• DaemonKit::Safety class to handle the trapping and logging of exceptions, as well as email notifications or Hoptoad notifications.

• New config/pre-daemonize and config/post-daemonize structure

• New tasks to simplify upgrading daemon-kit projects

• Fixed some other annoyances and bugs

• Bigger TODO list

0.1.5 2009-05-07¶ ↑

• DaemonKit::Config class to easy the use of YAML configs internally, and in generated daemons

0.1.2 2009-04-28¶ ↑

• Added missing rubigen dependency

0.1.1 2009-04-27¶ ↑

• AMQP consumer generator added

• 'cron' style generator added

• Allow configuring dir_mode and dir (pid file location) (Jim Lindley)

0.1.0 2009-01-08¶ ↑

• Ability to freeze the gem/edge copies of DaemonKit

• Simple non-evented Jabber generator

• Flexible UNIX signal trapping configuration

• Basic generator completed

• 1 small step for man, 1 giant leap for mankind