TYPO3 Surf 2.0.0 beta3

Changes since Surf 2.0.0 beta2

This version includes some important bugfixes for TYPO3 CMS deployment.
Update to beta3 is recommended.

TYPO3 Surf 2.0.0 beta2

Changes since first beta release

The new Surf version contains a lot of bugfixes, cleanups and added features since the last release.

Added features

• Self update command for phar. Updating will become much easier. Just type surf.phar self-update and your phar will be automatically updated if a newer version is available. Since this is the first release with this feature, you'll have to download the phar one last time
• Refinements for the TYPO3 CMS deployment workflow
  ** Extensions that are added will automatically be set up (database tables, configuration, static data, files) typo3_console version 2.0.0 or higher will be required
  ** DatabaseCompare task can now handle the typo3_console command for that action. No coreapi extension required-
• Exclude flags for rsync transfer are now configurable. Example $application->setOption('\TYPO3\Surf\Task\Transfer\RsyncTask[rsyncExcludes]' = ['.git', '.surf'];
• Private key can be specified for ssh connection $node->setOption('privateKeyFile' = 'path/.ssh/key';`

TYPO3 Surf - Flexible PHP Deployment

This is the first version of TYPO3 Surf, which runs completely standalone and is delivered as surf.phar binary for easy usage.

Work done compared to 0.9.0 release:

• Remove dependency to Flow and replace with smaller components that are needed (symfony/console ...)
• Changed the custom task identifier syntax to well know class name syntax (tasks are always referenced with full namespace when adding tasks or options. defined tasks should follow a similar convention, but still work the with arbitrary identifiers in case the base task is specified with full namespace.
• Added migration command for old deployment definitions
• Added specific TYPO3 CMS tasks and application (in the future I could imagine having these in an additional composer package)
• Tests are cleaned up and run on travis
• Documentation file is moved to markdown README
• Deployment definitions are looked for in $PWD/.surf or ~/.surf/deployments/
• surf.phar

Open TODOs for upcoming releases:

• Further cleanup README file
• Write more documentation
• Make the default deployment case (composer + dotenv) possible with (almost) zero configuration
• Add "setup" command to set deployment up on remote nodes (basically use a different set of tasks for that)

TYPO3 Surf - Flow Package

This is the version of TYPO3 Surf, as it is know by existing users. It requires TYPO3 Flow to work properly.

Users of this Surf Version are advised to change their composer.json file from "typo3/surf": "dev-master" to "typo3/surf": "~0.9.0" as the code in master branch will change significantly soon.