Task v3.0.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-08-17 // over 3 years ago-
- On
v3
, all CLI variables will be considered global variables (#336, #341) - โ Add support to
.env
like files (#324, #356). - โ Add
label:
to task so you can override the task name in the logs (#321, #337). - ๐จ Refactor how variables work on version 3 (#311).
- Disallow
expansions
on v3 since it has no effect. Taskvars.yml
is not automatically included anymore.Taskfile_{{OS}}.yml
is not automatically included anymore.- ๐ Allow interpolation on
includes
, so you can manually include a Taskfile based on operation system, for example. - ๐ฆ Expose
.TASK
variable in templates with the task name (#252). - Implement short task syntax (#194, #240).
- โ Added option to make included Taskfile run commands on its own directory (#260, #144)
- ๐ Taskfiles in version 1 are not supported anymore (#237).
- โ Added global
method:
option. With this option, you can set a default method to all tasks in a Taskfile (#246). - ๐ Changed default method from
timestamp
tochecksum
(#246). - ๐ New magic variables are now available when using
status:
:.TIMESTAMP
which contains the greatest modification date from the files listed insources:
, and.CHECKSUM
, which contains a checksum of all files listed instatus:
. This is useful for manual checking when using external, or even remote, artifacts when usingstatus:
(#216). - We're now using slim-sprig instead of sprig, which allowed a file size reduction of about 22% (#219).
- ๐ We now use some colors on Task output to better distinguish message types - commands are green, errors are red, etc (#207).
- On