From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-06-24T10:08:12+09:00
Subject: [ANN] vlad 1.4.0 Released

vlad version 1.4.0 has been released!

* <http://rubyhitsquad.com/>
* <http://rubyforge.org/projects/hitsquad/>

Vlad the Deployer is pragmatic application deployment automation,
without mercy. Much like Capistrano, but with 1/10th the
complexity. Vlad integrates seamlessly with Rake, and uses familiar
and standard tools like ssh and rsync.

Impale your application on the heartless spike of the Deployer.

Changes:

### 1.4.0 / 2009-06-23

* 1 major enhancement:

  * Switched to passenger as default app server.

* 11 minor enhancements:

  * #rsync now takes ANY number of arguments and expects to you add "host:".
  * Added Rake::RemoteTask#get.
  * Added doco for why we don't ship a deploy task
  * Added links to example maintenance recipes
  * Added multi-env doco to getting_started.txt
  * Added svn-over-ssh faq item. gah.
  * Flipped tests to minitest
  * Merged global #role and Rake::RemoteTask::role.
  * Moved all global methods to Rake::RemoteTask and wrote #external to clean up.
  * Moved rake extensions to hoe so everyone can enjoy the fun.
  * put names the tempfile based on the remote path to ease debugging

* 2 bug fixes:

  * passenger:start_app wasn't using the latest_release path
  * set/fetch wasn't dealing with a default of false well. (Seth Falcon)