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0.24.0
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 - reporter added `initialize()`
 - cmd `list`: added option `--template`
 - dodo.py can specify minimum required doit version with DOIT_CONFIG['minversion']
 - #62: added the absolute path from which doit is invoked `doit.initial_workdir`
 - fix #36: added method `isatty()` to `action.Writer`
 - added command `tabcompletion` for bash and zsh
 - fix #56: allow python actions to have default values for task parameters


0.23.0 (*2013-09-20*)
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 - support definition of group tasks using basename without any task
 - added task property `watch` to specific extra files/folders in auto command
 - CmdAction support for all arguments of subprocess.Popen, but stdout and stderr
 - added command option `-k` as short for `--seek-file`
 - task action can be specified as a list of strings (executed using subprocess.Popen shell=False)
 - fix #60: result of calc_dep only considered if not run yet
 - fix #61: test failures involving DBM
 - fix: do not allow duplicate task names


0.22.1 (*2013-08-04*)
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 - fix reporter output in py3 was being displayed as bytes instead of string
 - fix pr#12 read file in chunks when calculating MD5
 - fix #54 - remove distribute bootstrapping during installation


0.22.0 (*2013-07-05*)
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- fix #49: skip unicode tests on systems with non utf8 locale
- fix #51: bash completion does not mess up with global COMP_WORDBREAKS
- fix docs spelling and added task to check spelling
- fix #47: Task.options can always be accessed from `uptodate` code
- fix #45: cmd forget, added option -s/--follow-sub to forget task_dep too


0.21.1 (*2013-05-21*)
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- fix tests on python3.3.1
- fix race condition on CmdAction (affected only python>=3.3.1)


0.21.0 (*2013-04-29*)
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- fix #38: `doit.tools.create_folder()` raise error if file exists in path
- `create_doit_tasks` not called for unbound methods
- support execution using "python -m doit"
- fix #33: Failing to clean a group of task(s) with sub-tasks
- python-actions can take a magic "task" parameter as reference to task
- expose task.clean_targets
- tools.PythonInteractiveAction saves "result" and "values"
- fix #40. added option to use threads for parallel running of tasks
- same code base for python 2 & 3 (no need to use tool `2to3`)
- add sqlite3 DB backend
- added option to select backend


0.20.0 (*2013-01-09*)
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- added command `dumpdb`
- added `CmdAction.save_out` param
- `CmdAction` support for callable that returns a command string
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE `getargs` for a group task gets a dict where
  each key is the name of subtasks (previously it was a list)
- added command `strace`
- cmd `auto` run tasks on separate process
- support unicode for task name


0.19.0 (*2012-12-18*)
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- support for `doit help <task-name>`
- added support to load tasks using `create_doit_tasks`
- dropped python 2.5 support


0.18.1 (*2012-12-03*)
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- fix bug cmd option --continue not being recognized


0.18.0 (*2012-11-27*)
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- remove DEPRECATED `Task.insert_action`, `result_dep` and `getargs` using strings
- fix #10 --continue does not execute tasks that have failed dependencies
- fix --always-execute does not execute "ignored" tasks
- fix #29 python3 cmd-actions issue
- fix #30 tests pass on all dbm backends
- API to add new sub-commands to doit
- API to modify task loader
- API to make dodo.py executable
- added ZeroReporter


0.17.0 (*2012-09-20*)
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- fix #12 Action.out and Action.err not set when using multiprocessing
- fix #16 fix `forget` command on gdbm backend
- fix #14 improve parallel execution (better process utilization)
- fix #9 calc_dep create implicit task_dep if a file_dep returned is a also a target
- added tools.result_dep
- fix #15 tools.result_dep supports group-tasks
- DEPRECATE task attribute `result_dep` (use tools.result_dep)
- DEPRECATE `getargs` specification using strings (must use 2-element tuple)
- several changes on `uptodate`
- DEPRECATE `Task.insert_action` (replaced by `Task.value_savers`)
- fix #8 `clean` cleans all subtasks from a group-task
- fix #8 `clean` added flag `--all` to clean all tasks
- fix #8 `clean` when no task is specified set --clean-dep and clean default tasks


0.16.1 (*2012-05-13*)
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- fix multiprocessing/parallel bug
- fix unicode bug on tools.config_changed
- convert tools uptodate stuff to a class, so it can be used with multi-processing


0.16.0 (*2012-04-23*)
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- added task parameter ``basename``
- added support for task generators yield nested python generators
- ``doit`` process return value ``3`` in case tasks do start executing (reporter is not used)
- task parameter ``getargs`` take a tuple with 2 values (task_id, key_name)
- DEPRECATE ``getargs`` being specified as <task_id>.<key_name>
- ``getargs`` can take all values from task if specified as (task_id, None)
- ``getargs`` will pass values from all sub-tasks if specified task is a group task
- result_dep on PythonAction support checking for dict values
- added ``doit.tools.PythonInteractiveAction``


0.15.0 (*2012-01-10*)
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- added option --db-file (#909520)
- added option --no-continue (#586651)
- added genstandalone.py to create a standalone ``doit`` script (#891935)
- fix doit.tools.set_trace to not modify sys.stdout


0.14.0 (*2011-11-05*)
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- added tools.InteractiveAction (#865290)
- bash completion script
- sub-command list: tasks on alphabetical order, better formatting (#872829)
- fix ``uptodate`` to accept instance methods callables (#871967)
- added command line option ``--seek-file``
- added ``tools.check_unchanged_timestamp`` (#862606)
- fix bug subclasses of BaseAction should get a task reference


0.13.0 (*2011-07-18*)
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- performance speed improvements
- fix bug on unicode output when task fails
- ConsoleReporter does not output task's title for successful tasks that start with an ``_``
- added ``tools.config_changed`` (to be used with ``uptodate``)
- ``teardown`` actions are executed in reverse order they were registered
- added ``doit.get_var`` to get variables passed from command line
- getargs creates implicit "setup" task not a "task_dep"


0.12.0 (*2011-05-29*)
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- fix bug #770150 - error on task dependency from target
- fix bug #773579 - unicode output problems
- task parameter ``uptodate`` accepts callables
- deprecate task attribute run_once. use tools.run_once on uptodate instead
- added doit.tools.timeout


0.11.0 (*2011-04-20*)
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- no more support for python2.4
- support for python 3.2
- fix bug on unicode filenames & unicode output (#737904)
- fix bug when using getargs together with multiprocess (#742953)
- fix for dumbdbm backend
- fix task execution order when using "auto" command
- fix getargs when used with sub-tasks
- fix calc_dep when used with "auto" command
- "auto" command now support verbosity control option

0.10.0 (*2011-01-24*)
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- add task parameter "uptodate"
- add task parameter "run_once"
- deprecate file_dep bool values and None
- fix issues with error reporting for JSON Reporter
- "Reporter" API changes
- ".doit.db" now uses a DBM file format by default (speed optimization)

0.9.0 (*2010-06-08*)
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- support for dynamic calculated dependencies "calc_dep"
- support for user defined reporters
- support "auto" command on mac
- fix installer on mac. installer aware of different python versions
- deprecate 'dependencies'. use file_dep, task_dep, result_dep.

0.8.0 (*2010-05-16*)
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- parallel execution of tasks (multi-process support)
- sub-command "list" option "--deps", show list of file dependencies
- select task by wildcard (fnmatch) i.e. test:folderXXX/*
- task-setup can be another task
- task property "teardown" substitute of setup-objects cleanup
- deprecate setup-objects


0.7.0 (*2010-04-08*)
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- configure options on dodo file (deprecate DEFAULT_TASKS)(#524387)
- clean and forget act only on default tasks (not all tasks) (#444243)
- sub-command "clean" option "clean-dep" to follow dependencies (#444247)
- task dependency "False" means never up-to-date, "None" ignored
- sub-command "list" by default do not show tasks starting with an underscore, added option (-p/--private)
- new sub-command "auto"


0.6.0 (*2010-01-25*)
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- improve (speed optimization) of check if file modified (#370920)
- sub-command "clean" dry-run option (-n/--dry-run) (#444246)
- sub-command "clean" has a more verbose output (#444245)
- sub-command "list" option to show task status (-s/--status) (#497661)
- sub-command "list" filter tasks passed as positional parameters
- tools.set_trace, PDB with stdout redirection (#494903)
- accept command line optional parameters passed before sub-command (#494901)
- give a clear error message if .doit.db file is corrupted (#500269)
- added task option "getargs". actions can use computed values from other tasks (#486569)
- python-action might return a dictionary on success


0.5.1 (*2009-12-03*)
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- fix. task-result-dependencies should be also added as task-dependency to force its execution.


0.5.0 (*2009-11-30*)
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- task parameter 'clean' == True, cleans empty folders, and display warning for non-empty folders
- added command line option --continue. Execute all tasks even if tasks fails
- added command line option --reporter to select result output reporter
- added executed-only reporter
- added json reporter
- support for task-result dependency #438174
- added sub-command ignore task
- added command line option --outfile. write output to specified file path
- added support for passing arguments to tasks on cmd line
- added command line option --dir (-d) to set current working directory
- removed dodo-sample sub-command
- added task field 'verbosity'
- added task field 'title'
- modified default way a task is printed on console (just show ".  name"), old way added to doit.tools.task_title_with_actions


0.4.0 (*2009-10-05*)
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- deprecate anything other than a boolean values as return of python actions
- sub-cmd clean (#421450)
- remove support for task generators returning action (not documented behavior)
- setup parameter for a task should be a list - single value deprecated (#437225)
- PythonAction support 'dependencies', 'targets', 'changed' parameters
- added tools.create_folder (#421453)
- deprecate folder-dependency
- CmdActions reference to dependencies, targets and changed dependencies (#434327)
- print task description when printing through doit list (#425811)
- action as list of commands/python (#421445)
- deprecate "action" use "actions"


0.3.0 (*2009-08-30*)
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- added subcommand "forget" to clear successful runs status (#370911)
- save run results in text file using JSON. (removed dbm)
- added support for DEFAULT_TASKS in dodo file
- targets md5 is not checked anymore. if target exist, task is up-to-date. it also supports folders
- cmd line sub-commands (#370909)
- remove hashlib dependency on python 2.4
- sub-cmd to create dodo template
- cmd-task supports a list of shell commands
- setup/cleanup for task (#370905)


0.2.0 (*2009-04-16*)
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- docs generated using sphinx
- execute once (dependency = True)
- group task
- support python 2.4 and 2.6
- folder dependency


0.1.0 (*2008-04-14*)
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- initial release

