diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index c46d939..ed97328 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,3 +1,46 @@ +WHATSNEW For 'tsshbatch' 1.158 (Wed Oct 23 21:54:17 CDT 2013) +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +CHANGES: + + - Changed default behavior to pick up $USER from the environment and + not prompt for it. + + - When prompting for username, now shows $USER or the user presented + via -n as default if present. + + - Cosmetic changes in reporting output + + - Cleaned up sudo handling and reporting + +NEW FEATURES: + + - A new option, -N, to forces prompting for username to overcome the + new default behavior of using $USER or the name provided by -n + without promptng. + + - A new option, -S, forces prompting for the sudo password, with the + default being any previously provided password (interactive or -p). + This allows you to use one password to authenticate to the system + and a different one to do sudo promotion. + + - Two new options, -G and -P, support file transfer GETs and PUTs + respectively from the selected hosts. + + - A new option, -f cmdfile, allows multiple commands stored + in the file to be run on each of the selected hosts. This + allows for considerably more complex operations than the + single command string at the end of the command line supported + in previous versions. + + - Both cmdfiles and hostlistfiles now support freeform whitespace + and commenting via the "#" character. + + - Both cmdfiles and hostlistfiles now support including other + files via the .include directive. Circular include detection + is also implemented. + + WHATSNEW For 'tsshbatch' 1.137 (Fri Feb 22 15:30:24 CST 2013) ----------------------------------------------------------------------