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Eclat NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2015-02-26
Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Sergey Poznyakoff
See the end of file for copying conditions.

Please send Eclat bug reports to <bug-eclat@gnu.org.ua>


Version 1.1, 2015-02-26

* New commands:

 lsaattr   describe-image-attribute
 setaattr  modify-image-attribute

* New options:

 -A, --add-parameter=NAME=VALUE

Adds parameter NAME with the given VALUE to the generated AWS request.
This option is intended for testing new AWS functionality for which
eclat does not yet provide native support.

  -p, --check-permissions
  
Checks if you have the required permissions for the action, without
actually making the request.

* forcibly stop the instance

eclat stop now supports -f (--force) option, which stops the instance
forcibly.

* Implement signature version 4 signing

The signature version 4 signing process is now the default.  Version
2 can enabled by using the following statement in the eclat
configuration file:

  signature-version 2;

* POST support

POST HTTP method is supported.  It is enabled by the following
configuration statement:

  http-method post;
  
* If availability region is not supplied, it is read from the instance store.

* Authentication providers

Support for different authentication providers is introduced.
Authentication provider is a service that supplies AWS access key ID and
secret key.  It is configured by the "authentication-provider"
statement in the configuration file.  The syntax is:

  authentication-provider TYPE [ARG];

TYPE can be one of:

- file
Credentials are obtained from a disk file named by the second
argument.  The statement

  authentication-provider file NAME

is equivalent to

  access-file NAME

of eclat 1.0 and prior.  The "access-file" statement is retained for
backward compatibility.

- instance-store
Credentials are obtained from the instance store.  Second argument
is optional.  If present, it should be the name of the IAM role the
instance is launched with.

* IAM support

If authentication provider is set to "instance-store", its argument
specifies IAM role name.  The authentication credentials are then
taken from the instance store.

* New program: ispeek

Lists content of the instance store.

* Setting UserData instance attribute.

The setiattr (modify-instance-attribute) command automatically encodes
the value of UserData attribute in base64.  A command line option is
provided to read the value from a file.

* lsistat

The default for lsistat (describe-instance-status) command has been
changed to display all instances, no matter their status.  Use the
-r (--running) option to get prior behavior.  The -a (--all) option
has been retained for backward compatibility.


Version 1.0, 2013-12-20

First official release.  Implements a basic set of commands.


Version 0.1, 2012-10-23

First alpha release.

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Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Sergey Poznyakoff

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