Habitat 0.21.0 Released

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We are super stoked to announce the release of Habitat 0.21.0. As usual, we have a number of new features as well as bug fixes, so please read on for all the details. If you just want the binaries, head on over to our downloads page: https://www.habitat.sh/docs/get-habitat/ Thanks again for using Habitat!

New Feature: Post Run Hook

You can now specify a post run hook in your plan, while will get executed after initial startup.

For many data services creation of specific users / roles or datastores is required. This needs to happen once the service has already started. #2088 #1983

Features & Enhancements

  • Investigate adding Scaffolding direct run deps as direct Plan build deps #2097
  • EventSrv subscriber OnConnect receives seed of initial events #2023
  • Create scaffolding plan for python #2010
  • RFC: Post-Run hook for service initialization #1983
  • Add support for local directory and files for pkg\_source #1972
  • Create Scaffolding for Go Applications #1963
  • Implement Channel API #1864
  • Start Supervisor without services #1861
  • [RFC] Graceful departure from cluster #1812
  • Proposal: Habitat post run hook #1393
  • Integrate EventSrv into the supervisor. #2132 (raskchanky)
  • [plan-build] Add Scaffolding direct deps as direct build deps for Plans. #2116 (fnichol)
  • Supervisor spring cleaning public fields #2095 (bodymindarts)
  • Add PostRun hook to hook table #2088 (bodymindarts)
  • Verify that specified bindings exist in census before service start. #2076 (bodymindarts)
  • [plan-build] Make pkg\_source optional so local builds are first class. #2074 (fnichol)
  • Add Last Value Caching (LVC) to EventSrv #2048 (christophermaier)
  • Store package and channel data in postgres #2042 (mwrock)
  • Implement sharding down to the data layer #1961 (adamhjk)

Bug fixes

  • Config updates not propagated via bindings #2134
  • Builder API list_user_origins is broken #2081
  • Invalid cross-device link #2078
  • Adding dependencies in scaffolding fails #2073
  • pkgPathFor writes error msg when there is integer in ServiceConfig #2067
  • --config-from broken on latest release. #2058
  • Validate -bind \<bind\>:\<svc\>.\<group\> before starting service #2046
  • Regression 0.18.0 - Binding Config Fails To Populate ServiceConfig For Templates #1907
  • cannot manually install artifacts dropped into /hab/cache/artifacts #1736
  • Hab-sup as pid1 in docker container #1606
  • hab start does not propagate the --url parameter to hab sup start #1556
  • [butterfly] Write dat random tmpfile locally then move. #2100 (fnichol)
  • [sup] Restore support of the --config-from on hab start. #2098 (fnichol)
  • Tighten the scope of pkg_path_for’s deserializing #2077 (smurawski)

0.21.0 (04-20-2017)

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