Version 1.5.1

Added

• cot edit-hardware --network-descriptions option, to specify the descriptive string(s) associated with each network definition.

Fixed

• #48 - NIC type not set when adding NICs to an OVF that had none before.
• When updating NIC network mapping, COT now also updates any Description that references the network mapping.

Version 1.5.0

New features

• #47 - Added cot remove-file subcommand.
• #43 - add cot edit-properties --transport option to set environment transport type(s) - iso, VMWare Tools, etc.
  • cot info now has a new "Environment" section that displays the
    transport type
• #45 - support for multiple values for --nic-types, --ide-subtypes, and --scsi-subtypes in cot edit-hardware.
• COT now recognizes the Cisco IOS XRv 9000 platform identifier com.cisco.ios-xrv9000.
• #21 - subcommand aliases (Python 3.x only):
  • cot edit-product aliases: cot set-product, cot set-version
  • cot edit-properties aliases: cot set-properties, cot edit-environment, cot set-environment
  • cot info alias: cot describe
  • cot inject-config alias: cot add-bootstrap
  • cot remove-file alias: cot delete-file
• Support for tab-completion of CLI parameters using argcomplete.

Other changes and fixes

• cot edit-hardware options --nic-types, --ide-subtypes, and --scsi-subtypes are now validated and canonicalized by COT, meaning that:
  • cot edit-hardware --nic-type virtio-net-pci is now a valid command and
    will correctly create an OVF with ResourceSubType virtio
    (not virtio-net-pci)
  • cot edit-hardware --ide-subtype foobar will now fail with an error
• cot info is now more self-consistent in how it displays property keys. They are now always wrapped in < >, whereas previously this was only sometimes the case.
• cot info --verbose now displays file and disk ID strings under the "Files and Disks" section.

Version 1.4.2

Bug fix release:

• Recognize xorriso as an alternative to mkisofs and genisoimage
• Installation document now recommends installation via pip rather than
  installing from source.
• #40 - Now uses faster Docker-based infrastructure from Travis CI for
  CI builds/tests.
• #42 - cot deploy esxi error handling behavior needed to be updated
  for requests release 2.8.
• #44 - test case failure seen when running pyVmomi 6.0.0.2016.4.

Version 1.4.1

Hotfix release to fix #41.

Version 1.4.0

New Features

• cot deploy esxi now creates serial ports after deployment (#24)
  • Serial port connectivity must be specified either via entries in the OVF (which can be defined using cot edit-hardware ... -S) or at deployment time using the new -S / --serial-connection parameter to cot deploy.
  • The syntax for serial port connectivity definition is based on that of QEMU's --serial CLI option.
  • Currently only "telnet", "tcp", and "device" connection types are supported.
• cot edit-product can now set product and vendor information (#38)
• COT now tries harder to avoid unnecessary file copies, in order to save time and disk space (#39).

Other Changes and Fixes

• flake8 validation now includes pep257 to validate docstring compliance to PEP 257 as well.
• Added changelog file.
• Added COT.file_reference submodule in support of #39.
• Split ESXi-specific logic out of COT.deploy module and into new COT.deploy_esxi module.
• UT for COT.deploy_esxi now requires mock (standard library in Python 3.x, install via pip on Python 2.x).

Version 1.3.3

Bug fix release:

• #10 - When changing network mapping, delete no longer needed networks
• #31 - Added --delete-all-other-profiles option to cot edit-hardware
• #32 - cot edit-hardware network names can now use wildcards
• #34 - cot add-disk can now be used to replace a CD-ROM drive with a hard disk, or vice versa.

Version 1.3.2

Fix to accommodate changes in the Travis-CI testing environment. No functional change compared to v1.3.1.

Version 1.3.1

Bug fix release to address issue #30.

Version 1.3.0

Features

• Installation of helper programs is now provided by a cot install-helpers subcommand rather than a separate script.
• COT now has man pages (man cot, man cot-edit-hardware, etc.)
  The man pages are also installed by cot install-helpers.
• Improved documentation of the CLI on readthedocs.org as well.
• COT no longer supports Python 3.2.

Infrastructure changes

• Refactored COT.helper_tools module into COT.helpers subpackage.
  This package has an API (COT.helpers.api) for the rest of COT to
  access it; the helper-specific logic (qemu-img, fatdisk, etc.) is split
  into individual helper modules that are abstracted away by the API.
• Similarly, logic from COT.tests.helper_tools has been refactored and
  enhanced under COT.helpers.tests.
• Renamed all test code files from "foo.py" to "test_foo.py" to
  facilitate test case discovery.
• cot_unittest is no more - use tox or unit2 discover to run tests.
• As noted above, the installation script check_and_install_helpers.py
  no longer exists - this functionality is now provided by the
  COT.install_helpers module.
• CLI help strings are dynamically rendered to ReST when docs are built,
  providing cleaner output for both readthedocs.org and the manpages.

Version 1.2.4

Bugfix release to address #29.