5. Change log¶
5.1. pywbemtools 0.6.1¶
This version contains all fixes up to pywbemtools 0.5.2.
Released: 2020-06-11
Bug fixes:
- Fixed incorrect connection list output in readme files (see issue #593).
- Fixed yaml.RepresenterError during ‘connection save’ command. This introduced a dependency on the yamlloader package. (see issue #603).
- Pinned pywbem to <1.0.0 due to the incompatibilities it will introduce. Support for working with pywbem 1.0.0 will be added in pywbemtools 0.7.0, and will not be rolled back into earlier versions of pywbemtools (see issue #616).
5.2. pywbemtools 0.6.0¶
This version contains all fixes up to pywbemtools 0.5.1.
Released: 2020-04-10
Bug fixes:
- Fix issue with mixed old and new formats on click.echo statement. (See issue #419)
- Fixed missing Python 3.7 in supported environments shown on Pypi. (See issue #416)
- Fixed that the ‘class find’ command showed the –namespace option twice (see issue #417)
- Added PyYAML>=5.1 as a prerequisite package for pywbemtools for installation. So far, it was pulled in indirectly via pywbem.
- Fixed case sensitive matching of class names in instance modify by picking up the fix in pywbem 0.14.6. (See issue #429).
- Fixed issue where extra diagnostic information about click was being displayed when the general option –verbose was defined.
- Fixed issue with x509 parameter of WBEMConnection. (See issue #468)
- Fixed issue with class find command not returning connection error when cannot connect to server.
- Added documentation for the –version general option.
- Increased pywbem minimum version to 0.16.0 to accomodate install issues on Python 3.4, and to pick up other fixes.
- Test: Accomodated new formatting of error messages in Click 7.1.1, and excluded Click 7.1 due to bug.
- Test: Fixed dependency to Python development packages on CygWin platform in Appveyor CI.
- Pygments 2.4.0 and readme-renderer 25.0 have removed support for Python 3.4 and have therefore been pinned to below these versions on Python 3.4.
- Fix bug where order of commands listed in help output was different for different versions of Python. (See issue # 510)
- Increased minimum version of pluggy package from 0.12.0 to 0.13.0 because it failed during loading of pytest plugins on Python 3.8. (See issue #494)
- Test: Changed testcases that check the CIM-XML generated with output format ‘xml’ to tolerate the different order of XML attributes that happens on Python 3.8 (See issue #494)
- Fixed several badges on the README page.
- Remove use of pywbem internal functions from pywbemcli. This removes use of NocaseDict, _to_unicode, _ensure_unicode, _format from pywbemcli. (See issue #489)
- Corrected issue with use-pull general option that causes issues with using the ‘either’ option with servers that do not have pull. (See issue #530)
- Pinned dparse to <0.5.0 on Python 2.7 due to an issue.
- Test: Fixed incorrect coverage reported at the end of the pytest run, by increasing the minimum version of the coverage package to 4.5.2. (See issue #547)
- Test: Fixed bug with detection of invalid test validation values, and fixed testcases in turn (See issue #553).
- Fixed issues in README and README_PYPI file (See issue #555)
- Improvements and bug fixes in the way the INSTANCENAME parameter of pywbemcli commands is processed. (See issue #528)
- Increased minimum versions of some packages used for development to address security issues reported by the pyup.io safety tool: twine, bleach, urllib3.
Enhancements:
- Promoted development status of pywbemtools from Alpha to Beta. (See issue #476)
- Add capability to reorder commands in the help for each group. The commands in all groups except for the top group (pywbemcli -h) are ordered in the help list by their order in their source file. The display of commands in the top level group is alphabetical except that connection, help, and repl are reordered to the bottom of the list. (See issue #466)
- Define alternatives for creating INSTANCENAME input parameter since the original form using, WBEMURI is error prone with quote marks. (see issue #390)
- Add prompt-toolkit auto-suggest. This extends the command completion capability in the repl mode (interactive mode) to make suggestions on command line input based on the history file. Usually auto-suggest completion will be shown as gray text behind the current input. Auto-suggest is not available in command line mode.
- Add ability to filter results of ‘class enumerate’, ‘class find’, and ‘instance count’ commands for selected class qualifiers. This ability is based on 3 new options for each of the above commands ‘–association’, ‘–indication’, and ‘–experimental’ each of which has a corresponding ‘no-…’. The user can filter to find classes with combinations of these options returning only classes that meet the option criteria. Thus, ‘–association’ returns classes that are associations and ‘–no-association’ returns only classes that are not associations. See issue # 447
- Added support for disabling the spinner that is displayed by default during any ongoing activities, by setting the env var PYWBEM_SPINNER to ‘false’, ‘0’, or the empty string. This is useful when debugging. See issue #465.
- Modified the response handling on commands that may return nothing with successful response to display a message if the general option –verbose is defined and display nothing if –verbose not set. This includes class/instance delete, instance modify and the commands that display cim objects. (See issue #123)
- Changed the –ca-certs general option to support the changes as of pywbem version 1.0.0 (new values ‘system’ and ‘certifi’, and default changed from a fixed set of directories to ‘certifi’). The pywbem version is determined at run time and pywbem versions before 1.0.0 are still supported.
- Test: Improved assertion messages in tests.
- Output of “pywbemcli server profiles” command is now reliably sorted by version in addition to org and name. (See issue #500)
- Added support for a new –pdb general option and corresponding PYWBEMCLI_PDB environment variable that causes the pywbemcli command to come up with the pdb debugger before invoking the specified command. This is a debug feature that is expected to be used mainly by the developers of pywbemcli. (See issue #505)
- Test: Added support for entering the pdb debugger from specific unit testcases by setting the condition parameter of the testcase to the string ‘pdb’. This causes pywbemcli to be invoked with the new –pdb option for that testcase. (See issue #505)
- Removed usage of the “pbr” package. It was used for automatic versioning
of the pywbemtools package, but it had too many drawbacks for that small
benefit (See issue #178):
- Getting the minor version increased in a development version (instead of the patch version) by means of markers in the commit message never worked.
- The package needed to be tagged twice during the release process.
- If the last tag was too far in the past of the commit history, the shallow git checkout used by Travis failed and its depth needed to be adjusted. At some point this defeats the purpose of a shallow checkout.
- Test: Added support for testing on Python 3.8 in Travis, Appveyor and Tox. (See issue #494)
- Added support for adjusting the width of any help output to the terminal width. The width can be set using the PYWBEMCLI_TERMWIDTH env var. (See issues #518 and #542)
- Docs: Increased the width of the help text to 120 (See issue #548).
- Modified the help usage to better reflect the required and optional components of the command line. This includes showing the location in the cmd line for general options where before it was called [COMMAND-OPTIONS] and showing the positioning of both arguments and command arguments. (See issue #446)
- Increased minimum version of pywbem to 0.17.0 (See issue #571)
- Add option –full to connection list to create both a brief table output that only has 3 columns (name, server, mock-server) as default but when the option is set all of the columns currently in the report. We did this because it appears that the most frequent use of this command is to just get the name of the various servers defined within an 80 column display. This also now shows empty columns where the original report hid any columns that were empty. (See issue #556)
Cleanup:
- Test: Enabled Python warning suppression for PendingDeprecationWarning and ResourceWarning (py3 only), and fixed incorrect make variable for that.
- Test: Removed testfixtures from minimum constraints file, as it is not used.
- Test: Increased minimum version of pytest from 3.3.0 to 4.3.1 because it fixed an issue that surfaced with pywbem minimum package levels on Python 3.7.
- Code: refactor code to use only the .format formatter and remove all use of the % formatter.
- Test: Added missing indirectly referenced prerequisite packages to minimum-constraints.txt, for a defined package level when testing with PACKAGE_LEVEL=minimum.
- Clean up test mock files by merging mock_simple_model_ext.mof into mock_simple_model.mof
- Changed some tests to account for behavior difference with pywbem 0.15.0 references and associations with invalid class, role.
- Changed minimun version of pywbem to 0.15.0 because of test differences that resulted from differences between pywbem 0.14.6 and 0.15.0. The differences are in pywbem_mock where the code was changed to return errors for invalid classnames and roles in association and reference operations where it previously return empty, ignoring the invalid classname.
- Added tests of all command groups and commands for server connection error.
- Removed a circumvention for a pywbem bug related to colons in WBEM URIs that was fixed in pywbem 0.13.0. (See issue #131)
- Added the general option –use-pull to the the PywbemServer() class so that it is persisted in the connection file and to the display of connection information (connection show and connection list). This means that –use-pull can now be set for a particular server permanently.(See issues #529 and #534).
- Added table formatted output for connection show and removed original free-form output format. (See issue #572)