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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

7.4.1 (2026-01-31)

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  • Gracefully handle rspec-github not being present #1990 (ekohl)

v7.4.0 (2026-01-22)

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7.3.0 (2026-01-06)

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  • Allow retry_on to work for host array #1983 (bwitt)

7.2.2 (2025-12-19)

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7.2.1 (2025-10-25)

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7.2.0 (2025-10-24)

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7.1.0 (2025-10-01)

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  • The tmpfile method in pswindows needs to implement the use of the extension parameter #1955

7.0.1 (2025-08-15)

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Fixed bugs:

  • Update verify_host_key usage to :never, fixes deprecation warning #1945 (silug)
  • Merge ssh settings #1944 (silug)

7.0.0 (2025-08-07)

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6.8.1 (2025-06-16)

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  • Use systemd to reload ssh during host prebuilt on RHEL10 #1933 (matejzero)

6.8.0 (2025-06-15)

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6.7.0 (2025-05-28)

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6.6.0 (2025-03-27)

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  • Changes to add powershell commands as wmic is deprecated in windows 2025 #1907 (skyamgarp)

6.5.0 (2025-03-18)

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6.4.1 (2024-08-27)

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  • platform: don't install curl-minimal on EL family #1902 (kenyon)

6.4.0 (2024-08-27)

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  • Only install timesync packages if needed #1853 (ekohl)

Merged pull requests:

  • Avoid mocking stdout on host and use explicit hosts in host_prebuilt_steps_spec.rb #1900 (ekohl)
  • Ensure platform is Beaker::Platform in tests #1855 (ekohl)

6.3.0 (2024-08-13)

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6.2.0 (2024-08-03)

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6.1.0 (2024-06-04)

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6.0.0 (2024-05-28)

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5.8.1 (2024-05-06)

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Fixed bugs:

  • Add extension parameter to parent tmpfile method signature #1863 (ekohl)

5.8.0 (2024-03-22)

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4.38.1 (2022-09-21)

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4.38.0 (2022-08-11)

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  • Drop pry dependency, allow using debug gem #1737 (ekohl)

4.37.2 (2022-07-29)

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4.37.1 (2022-07-27)

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4.37.0 (2022-06-28)

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4.36.1 (2022-06-16)

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  • (maint) Remove /etc/environment file for ubuntu2204 #1742 (cthorn42)

4.36.0 (2022-05-30)

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4.35.0 (2022-05-13)

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4.34.0 (2022-01-27)

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  • Extract a host_packages method from validate_host #1729 (ekohl)
  • Reduce duplication in ssh_permit_user_environment #1728 (ekohl)

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4.33.0 (2022-01-21)

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4.32.0 (2021-12-06)

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4.31.0 (2021-11-02)

Fixed

  • (BKR-1690) Fix localhost logging (#1691)

Added

  • Made fips_check? more generally applicable ([#1717]#1717))

4.30.0 (2021-07-21)

Fixed

  • Fix Platform version string comparison for install_local_package (#1712)

Added

  • Add initial opensuse support (#1697)
  • Implement codecov reporting (#1710)

Changed

  • beaker-abs: allow latest releases (#1706)
  • Align release setup with other gems (#1707)

4.29.1 (2021-05-26)

Fixed

  • Fixed vagrant* matching in the unix get_ip()

4.29.0 - 19-05-2021

Added

  • Ruby 3.0 support

4.28.1 - 03-10-2021

Fixed

  • Updated the ssh_preference example
  • Fixed various spec tests
  • Updated the which command to try type -P before falling back to which for systems that may not have which installed

4.28.0 - 12-21-2020

Changed

  • Arch Linux: Update box before installing packages (#1688)
  • Move the entire workflow to Github Actions (#1678)
  • Allow fakefs dependency in version >= 1 < 2 (#1687)

Fixed

  • Fix License text and SPDX code (#1681)

4.27.1 - 09-29-2020

Changed

  • Update net-scp requirement from "~> 1.2" to ">= 1.2, < 4.0"

Fixed

  • Handle systems going back in time after reboot
  • Enhanced error handling during the reboot sequence
  • Fixed time check logic during reboot
  • Wrap paths around "" on pswindows

4.27.0 - 07-24-2020

Changed

  • Updated dependency versions and minimum Ruby version in gemspec to Ruby 2.4, which is the minimum version Beaker will run with.
  • Added Travis unit testing and disabled Jenkins integrations in preparation for transferring the repo to Vox Pupuli

4.26.0

Changed

  • Fixed deprecated SSH option handling for verify_ssh_key being passed into Net::SSH. #1655

Removed

  • Removed deprecated use of paranoid flag with Net::SSH. #1655

4.25.0

Added

  • Execution of Beaker directly through ruby on localhost #1637 (#1637)

Fixed

  • Reliability improvements to the Host#reboot method (#1656) (#1659)

4.24.0 - 2020-06-05

Added

  • Host method which (#1651)

Fixed

  • Fixed implementation for cat and file_exists? host methods for PSWindows (#1654)
  • Fixed implementation for mkdir_p host method for PSWindows (#1657)

4.23.2

Fixed

  • Fixed Beaker's behavior when the strict_host_key_checking option is provided in the SSH config and Net-SSH > 5 is specified. (#1652)

4.23.1

Changed/Removed

  • Reversed the quoting changes on Unix from #1644 in favor of only quoting on Windows. (#1650)

4.23.0

Added

  • Relaxed dependency on net-ssh to >= 5 to support newer versions. (#1648)
  • cat DSL method added. Works on both Unix and Windows hosts. (#1645)

Changed

  • The mkdir_p and mv commands now double quote their file arguments. (#1644) If you rely on file globbing in these methods or elsewhere, please open an issue on the BEAKER project.
  • Change reboot method to use who -b for uptime detection (#1643)

Fixed

  • Use Base64 UTF-16LE encoding for commands (#1626)
  • Fix tmpdir method for Powershell on Windows (#1645)

4.22.1

Fixed

  • Removed single quotes around paths for file operation commands on Host #1642

4.22.0 - 2020-05-08

Added

  • Host methods chmod and modified_at. (#1638)

Removed

4.21.0 - 2020-03-31

Added

  • Empty file /etc/environment while preparing ssh environment on Ubuntu 20.04 to keep the current behavior and consider all variables from ~/.ssh/environment. (#1635)

4.20.0 - 2020-03-19

Added

4.19.0 - 2020-03-13

Added

  • apt-transport-https package will now be installed on Debian-based systems as part of the prebuilt process. (#1631)
  • Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 code name handling. (#1632)

Changed

  • The wait_time, max_connection_tries, and uptime_retries parameters have been added to Host::Unix::Exec.reboot. This allows for more fine-grained control over how the reboot is handled. (#1625)

Fixed

  • In hosts.yml, packaging_platform will now default to platform if unspecified. This fixed a bug where beaker would fail unless you specified both values in your config, even if both values were identical. (#1628)
  • version_is_less will now correctly handle builds and RCs when used in version numbers. (#1630)

Security

  • Update rake to ~> 12.0, which currently resolves to 12.3.3 to remediate CVE-2020-8130

4.18.0 - 2020-02-26

Changed

  • Thor dependency bumped to >=1.0.1 <2.0

4.17.0 - 2020-02-20

Added

  • Windows support in host_helpers (#1622)
  • EL 8 support (#1623)

4.16.0 - 2020-02-05

Added

  • release section to README (#1618)
  • false return if link_exists? raises an error (#1613)

Fixed

  • host.reboot uses uptime rather than ping to check host status (#1619)

4.15.0 - 2020-01-30

Added

  • macOS 10.15 Catalina support (BKR-1621)

4.14.1 - 2019-11-18

Fixed

  • fips_mode? detection (#1607)

4.14.0 - 2019-11-12

Added

  • Pre-built steps output stacktraces when aborted (QENG-7466)

4.13.1 - 2019-10-07

Fixed

  • Use correct platform variant for FIPS repo configs download (BKR-1616)

4.13.0 - 2019-09-16

Added

  • Host enable_remote_rsyslog method (QENG-7466)

4.12.0 - 2019-08-14

Added

  • redhatfips as a recognized platform (PE-27037)

4.11.1 - 2019-08-13

Changed

  • host.down?'s wait from a fibonacci to a constant wait (BKR-1595)

4.11.0 - 2019-07-22

Added

  • FIPS detection host method (BKR-1604)
  • PassTest exception catching for standard reporting

4.10.0 - 2019-07-01

Added

  • Down & Up Checking to Host#reboot (BKR-1595)

4.9.0 - 2019-06-19

Changed

  • SSH Connection failure backoff shortened (BKR-1599)

4.8.0 - 2019-04-17

Added

  • Support for Fedora >= 30 (BKR-1589)
  • Codenames for Ubuntu 18.10, 19.04, and 19.10

Changed

  • Remove "repos-pe" prefix for repo filenames

4.7.0 - 2019-04-17

Added

  • Provide for OpenSSL 1.1.x+ support
  • enable Solaris10Sparc pkgutil SSL CA2 (IMAGES-844)

Changed

  • update pry-byebug dependency 3.4.2->3.6 (BKR-1568)
  • disabling hostkey checks for cisco hosts (QENG-7108)
  • Change behavior of ruby versioning to accept job-parameter RUBY_VER
  • Change subcommand pre-suite to install ruby 2.3.1

4.6.0 - 2019.03.07

Added

  • Codename for Debian 10 'Buster'

4.5.0 - 2019.01.23

Changed

  • Do not mirror profile.d on Debian (BKR-1559)

4.4.0 - 2019.01.09

Added

  • Return root considerations for appending on nexus devices (BKR-1562)
  • Permit user environment on osx-10.14 (BKR-1534)
  • Add host helpers for working with files (BKR-1560)

Changed

  • Replace ntpdate with crony on RHEL-8 (BKR-1555)

4.3.0 - 2018.12.12

Added

  • Use zypper to install RPM packages on SLES (PA-2336)
  • Add only-fails capability to beaker (BKR-1523)

4.2.0 - 2018.11.28

Added

  • BEAKER_HYPERVISOR environment variable to choose the beaker-hostgenerator hypervisor

Changed

  • Handling of vsh appended commands for cisco_nexus (BKR-1556)
  • Acceptance tests: Add backoffs to other create_remote_file test

Fixed

  • Don't always start a new container with docker (can be reused between invocations of the provision and exec beaker subcommands) (BKR-1547)
  • Recursively remove unpersisted subcommand options (BKR-1549)

4.1.0 - 2018.10.25

Added

  • --preserve-state flag will preserve a given host options hash across subcommand runs(BKR-1541)

Changed

  • Added additional tests for EL-like systems and added 'redhat' support where necessary
  • Test if puppet module is installed in '/' and avoid stripping of path seperator

4.0.0 - 2018-08-06

Fixed

  • host.rsync_to throws Beaker::Host::CommandFailure if rsync call fails (BKR-463)
  • host.rsync_to throws Beaker::Host::CommandFailure if rsync does not exist on remote system (BKR-462)
  • host.rsync_to now check through configured SSH keys to use the first valid one
  • Updated some Beaker::Host methods to always return a Result object

Added

  • Adds Beaker::Host#chown, #chgrp, and #ls_ld methods (BKR-1499)
  • #uninstall_package host helper, to match #install_package
  • Host.uninstall_package for FreeBSD
  • Now easily check a command's exit status by calling Result.success?() for a simple, truthy result. No need to validate the exit code manually.

Changed

  • #set_env no longer calls #configure_type_defaults_on
  • beaker-puppet DSL Extension Library has been formally split into a standard DSL Extension Library and removed as a dependency from Beaker. Please see our upgrade guidelines.
  • Beaker's Hypervisor Libraries have been removed as dependencies. Please see our upgrade guidelines.

Removed

  • PEDefaults has been moved to beaker-pe

3.37.0 - 2018-07-11

Fixed

  • Exit early on --help/--version/--parse-only arguments instead of partial dry-run

Added

  • Beaker::Shared::FogCredentials.get_fog_credentials() to parse .fog credential files

Changed

  • beaker-pe is no longer automagically included. See the upgrade guide for more info
  • beaker-puppet is no longer required as a dependency

3.36.0 - 2018-06-18

Fixed

  • Raise ArgumentError when passing role = nil to only_host_with_role() or find_at_most_one_host_with_role()
  • Use install_package_with_rpm in add_el_extras

Added

  • Installation instructions for contributors
  • Markdown formatting guidelines for docs/
  • Glossary for project jargon in docs/concepts/glossary.md
  • Use AIX 6.1 packages everywhere for puppet6

3.35.0 - 2018-05-16

Fixed

  • Report accurate location of generated smoke test
  • Accept comma-separated tests for exec subcommand

Added

  • Added optional ability to use ERB in nodeset YAML files

3.34.0 - 2018-03-26

Fixed

  • Recursively glob the tests directory

Added

  • Codename for Ubuntu 18.04 'Bionic'

3.33.0 - 2018-03-07

Changed

  • Use relative paths for beaker exec

3.32.0 - 2018-02-22

Changed

  • Fully qualify sles ssh restart cmd
  • Deprecated deploy_package_repo methods
  • Configuration of host type in host_prebuilt_steps

Added

  • Added missing beaker options for subcommand passthorugh

3.31.0 - 2018-01-22

Changed

  • Clean up ssh paranoid setting deprecation warnings

Added

  • Add macOS 10.13 support

3.30.0 - 2018-01-10

Changed

  • Use host.hostname when combining options host_hash with host instance options

Removed

  • amazon as a platform value

Added

  • Load project options from .beaker.yml

3.29.0 - 2017-11-16

Added

  • Adding default to read fog credentials

3.28.0 - 2017-11-01

Fixed

  • corruption of opts[:ignore] when using rsync

3.27.0 - 2017-10-19

Added

  • support amazon as a platform
  • add codenames for MacOS 10.13 and Ubuntu Artful

3.26.0 - 2017-10-05

Added

  • concept of manual_test and manual_step

3.25.0 - 2017-09-26

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