CHANGELOG.md

1.4.2 (Jul 17, 2018)

FIXES:

• Fix problems with redir 3.x command line. [[GH-467]]

1.4.1 (Apr 30, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Add support for LXC v3.0
• Add support for redir 3.x command line. [GH-460]

1.4.0 (Mar 04, 2018)

FEATURES:

• Add support for unprivileged containers. [GH-312]

1.3.1 (Fev 06, 2018)

FIXES:

• Fix problems with tmpfs fiddling in v1.3.0. [GH-455]

1.3.0 (Jan 20, 2018)

FEATURES:

• lxc-template: make runnable by unprivileged users [GH-447]
• Use lxc-info instead of lxc-attach to retrieve container IP
• Add support for LXC v2.1+ [GH-445]
• Remove 2Gb limitation on /tmp. [GH-406]

OTHERS:

• Bump Vagrant requirements to v1.8+
• Bump LXC requirements to v1.0+

1.2.4 (Dec 20, 2017)

BUGFIX:

• Support alternative lxcpath [GH-413]
• Update pipework regexp in sudo wrapper for Vagrant 1.9+ [GH-438]
• Work around restrictive umask values [GH-435]
• Make --config in lxc-template optional [GH-421]
• Fix sudo wrapper binpath construction logic [GH-410]
• Fix bug causing CTRL-C on vagrant up to destroy the VM [GH-449]

1.2.3 (Dec 20, 2016)

• Fix bug in Gemfile.lock

1.2.2 (Dec 20, 2016)

BUGFIX:

• Make the timeout for fetching container IP's configurable [GH-426]
• Load locale file only once [GH-423]
• Preserve xattrs in container filesystems [GH-411]
• Forward port latest pipework script [GH-408]
• Fix handling of non-fatal lxc-stop return code [GH-405]

1.2.1 (Sep 24, 2015)

BUGFIX:

• Fix sudo Wrapper [GH-393]

1.2.0 (Sep 15, 2015)

FEATURES:

• Support private networking using DHCP [GH-352]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Move mountpoint creation to lxc template for lvm rootfs support [GH-361] / [GH-359]
• Mount selinux sys dir read-only [GH-357] / [GH-301]
• Use correct ruby interpreter when generating sudoers file [GH-355]
• Fix shebangs to be more portable [GH-376]
• Fix removal of lxcbr0/virbr0 when using private networking [GH-383]
• Improve /tmp handling by using tmpfs [GH-362]

1.1.0 (Jan 14, 2015)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• Support for Vagrant versions prior to 1.5 have been removed. The plugin now targets Vagrant 1.7+ but it might work on 1.5+.

FEATURES:

• New experimental support for private networking [GH-298] / [GH-120].
• Support for formatted overlayfs path [GH-329]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• The provider will now have a higher priority over the VirtualBox provider in case VirtualBox is installed alongside lxc dependecies.
• Show an user friendly message when trying to use the plugin on non-Linux environments.

BUG FIXES:

• Allow backingstore options to be used along with the sudo wrapper script [GH-310]
• Trim automatically generated container names to 64 chars [GH-337]

1.0.1 (Oct 15, 2014)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Avoid lock race condition when fetching container's IP [GH-318] and SSH execution [GH-321]
• Support for custom containers storage path by reading lxc.lxcpath [GH-317]

1.0.0 (Sep 23, 2014)

DEPRECATIONS:

• Support to all Vagrant versions prior to 1.5 are deprecated, there is a small layer that ensures compatibility with versions starting with 1.1.5 that will be removed on a future release.
• Official base boxes that were made available from http://bit.ly are no longer supported and were removed from @fgrehm's Dropbox, please upgrade your Vagrant and vagrant-lxc installation and use a base box from VagrantCloud

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• Remove plugin version from config file name generated by the vagrant lxc sudoers command. Manual removal of /usr/local/bin/vagrant-lxc-wrapper-* / /etc/sudoers.d/vagrant-lxc-* files are required.

IMPROVEMENTS:

• vagrant-mounted upstart event is now emited on containers that support it [GH-302]
• Add support for specifying the --strip-parameters used by the default template when extracting rootfs tarballs [GH-311]

BUG FIXES:

• Check for outdated base boxes when starting containers [GH-314]

1.0.0.alpha.3 (Aug 9, 2014)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Remove lxc-shutdown usage in favor of Vagrant's built in graceful halt
• Add fallback mechanism for platforms without lxc-attach support [GH-294]

BUG FIXES:

• Figure out the real executable paths for whitelisted commands on the sudo wrapper script instead of hardcoding Ubuntu paths [GH-304] / [GH-305]
• Attach to containers using the MOUNT namespace when attempting to fetch container's IP [GH-300]
• Escape space characters for synced folders [GH-291]
• Use Vagrant's ruby on the sudoers file so that it works on systems that don't have a global ruby installation [GH-289]

1.0.0.alpha.2 (May 13, 2014)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• The sudo_wrapper provider configuration was removed in favor of using the secure wrapper generated by vagrant lxc sudoers [GH-272]
• Support for specifying backingstore parameters from Vagrantfiles for lxc-create was added and it defaults to the best option. On older lxc versions that does not support that value, it needs to be set to none.

FEATURES:

• Add support for specifying backingstore parameters from Vagrantfiles [GH-277]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Make dnsmasq leases MAC address regex check case insensitive [GH-283]
• Use relative paths for lxc.mount.entry to avoid issues with lxc-clone [GH-258].
• Sort synced folders when mounting [GH-271]
• Privileged ports can now be forwarded with sudo [GH-259]
• The vagrant lxc sudoers generated sudoers configuration and wrapper script are safer and properly whitelists the commands required by vagrant-lxc to run. [GH-272] / [GH-269]

BUG FIXES:

• Fix lxc-create issues with pre 1.0.0 versions [GH-282]

1.0.0.alpha.1 (Apr 06, 2014)

DEPRECATIONS:

• Support to all Vagrant versions prior to 1.5 are now deprecated, there is a small layer that ensures compatibility with versions starting with 1.1.5 but there is no guarantee that it will stick for too long.
• Boxes released prior to this version are now deprecated and won't be available after the final 1.0.0 release.
• --auth-key argument is no longer provided to lxc-template. This will cause all official base boxes prior to 09/28/2013 to break.

FEATURES:

• New vagrant lxc sudoers command for creating a policy for users in order to avoid sudo passwords [GH-237] / [GH-257]
• Support for NFS and rsync synced folders.
• Support for synced folder mount options allowing for using read only synced folders [GH-193]

IMPROVEMENTS:

• lxc-template is now optional for base boxes and are bundled with the plugin, allowing us to roll out updates without the need to rebuild boxes [GH-254]
• Set container's utsname to config.vm.hostname by default [GH-253]
• Added libvirt dnsmasq leases file to the lookup paths [GH-251]
• Improved compatibility with Vagrant 1.4 / 1.5 including the ability to use rsync and nfs shared folders to work around synced folders permission problems. More information can be found on the following issues: [GH-151] [GH-191] [GH-241] [GH-242]
• Warn in case :group or :owner are specified for synced folders [GH-196]
• Acceptance specs are now powered by vagrant-spec [GH-213]
• Base boxes creation scripts were moved out to https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc-base-boxes.

0.8.0 (Feb 26, 2014)

FEATURES:

• Support for naming containers from Vagrantfiles #132

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Use a safer random name for containers #152
• Improve Ubuntu 13.10 compatibility #190 / #197
• Improved mac address detection from lxc configs #226

BUG FIXES:

• Properly detect if lxc is installed on hosts that do not have lxc-version on their paths #186

0.7.0 (Nov 8, 2013)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Support for vagrant up in parallel #152
• Warn users about unsupported private / public networking configs #154
• Respect Vagrantfile options to disable forwarded port #149

BUG FIXES:

• Nicely handle blank strings provided to :host_ip when specifying forwarded ports #170
• Fix "Permission denied" when starting/destroying containers after lxc security update in Ubuntu #180
• Fix vagrant package #172

0.6.4 (Oct 27, 2013)

FEATURES:

• New script for building OpenMandriva base boxes #167

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Make lxc-template compatible with Ubuntu 13.10 #150

BUG FIXES:

• Fix force halt for hosts that do not have lxc-shutdown around (like Ubuntu 13.10) #150

0.6.3 (Oct 12, 2013)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Respect Vagrantfile option to disable synced folders #147

BUG FIXES:

• Fix error raised when fetching container's IP with the sudo wrapper disabled #157

0.6.2 (Oct 03, 2013)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Cache the result of lxc-attach --namespaces parameter support checking to avoid excessive logging.

BUG FIXES:

• Fix detection of lxc-attach --namespaces parameter support checking.

0.6.1 (Oct 03, 2013)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Fall back to dnsmasq leases file if not able to fetch IP with lxc-attach #118
• Make sure lxc templates are executable prior to lxc-create #128
• New base boxes with support for lxc 1.0+

BUG FIXES:

• Fix various issues related to detecting whether the container is running and is "SSHable" #142
• Nicely handle missing templates path #139

0.6.0 (Sep 12, 2013)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Compatibility with Vagrant 1.3+ #136
• Set plugin name to vagrant-lxc so that it is easier to check if the plugin is installed with the newly added Vagrant.has_plugin?

BUG FIXES:

• Fix box package ownership on vagrant package #140
• Fix error while compressing container's rootfs under Debian hosts #131 / #133

0.5.0 (Aug 1, 2013)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• To align with Vagrant's core behaviour, forwarded ports are no longer attached to 127.0.0.1 and redir's --laddr parameter is skipped in case the :host_ip config is not provided, that means redir will listen on connections coming from any of the host's IPs.

FEATURES:

• Add support for salt-minion and add latest dev release for ubuntu codenamed saucy #116
• Add support for using a sudo wrapper script #90
• redir will log to /var/log/syslog if REDIR_LOG env var is provided

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Error out if dependencies are not installed #11 / #112
• Support for specifying host interface/ip for binding redir #76
• Add Vagrantfile VM name to the container name #115
• Properly handle forwarded port collisions #5
• Container's customizations are now written to the config file (usually kept under /var/lib/lxc/CONTAINER/config) instead of passed in as a -s parameter to lxc-start

0.4.0 (Jul 18, 2013)

FEATURES:

• New box format #89

BUG FIXES:

• Add translation for stopped status #97
• Enable retries when fetching container state #74
• Fix error when setting Debian boxes hostname from Vagrantfile #91
• BTRFS-friendly base boxes #81
• Extended templates path lookup #77 (tks to @aries1980)
• Fix default group for packaged boxes tarballs on the rake task #82 (tks to @cduez)

0.3.4 (May 08, 2013)

FEATURES:

• Support for building Debian boxes (tks to @Val)
• Support for installing babushka on base boxes (tks to @Val)

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Replace lxc-wait usage with a "retry mechanism" #22
• Remove /tmp files after the machine has been successfully shut down #68
• Clean up base boxes files after they've been configured, resulting in smaller packages
• Bump development dependency to Vagrant 1.2+ series

BUG FIXES:

• Issue a lxc-stop in case the container cannot shutdown gracefully #72

0.3.3 (April 23, 2013)

BUG FIXES:

• Properly kill redir child processes #59
• Use uname -m on base Ubuntu lxc-template #53

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Initial acceptance test suite
• New rake tasks for building Ubuntu precise and raring base amd64 boxes

0.3.2 (April 18, 2013)

• Do not display port forwarding message in case no forwarded ports were set

0.3.1 (April 18, 2013)

• Improved output to match lxc "verbiage"

0.3.0 (April 10, 2013)

BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:

• Boxes lxc-template should support a --tarball parameter
• start_opts config was renamed to customize, please check the README for the expected parameters
• V1 boxes are no longer supported
• target_rootfs_path is no longer supported, just symlink /var/lib/lxc to the desired folder in case you want to point it to another partition
• Removed support for configuring private networks. It will come back at some point in the future but if you need it you should be able to set using customize 'network.ipv4', '1.2.3.4/24'

IMPROVEMENTS:

• lxc templates are removed from lxc template dir after container is created
• Treat NFS shared folders as a normal shared folder instead of ignoring it so we can share the same Vagrantfile with VBox environments
• Support for lxc 0.7.5 (tested on Ubuntu 12.04) #49
• Remove /tmp files when packaging quantal64 base box #48
• Avoid picking the best mirror on quantal64 base box #38

BUG FIXES:

• Redirect redir's stderr output to /dev/null #51
• Switch from ifconfig to ip to grab container's IP to avoid localization issues #50

0.2.0 (March 30, 2013)

• Experimental box packaging (only tested with Ubuntu 64 base box)

0.1.1 (March 29, 2013)

• Removed support for development under Vagrant < 1.1
• Removed rsync from base quantal64 box to speed up containers creation #40
• Containers are now named after project's root dir #14
• Skip Vagrant's built in SSH redirect
• Allow setting rootfs from Vagrantfile #30

0.1.0 (March 27, 2013)

• Support for chef added to base quantal64 box
• Puppet upgraded to 3.1.1 on base quantal64 box
• Port forwarding support added #6

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