changelog.md

v10

• Support for generic exported functions as tasks
• Experimental series function for composing tasks
• Added task timing, begin/end task output

• Next-tick kickoff/completion of tasks
• Support both sync and async tasks in experimental series
• Polling to ensure 100% sequential execution
• Begin updating to ESNext syntax

v8

• Concurrent task execution
• Allow prereqs for PackageTask + PublishTask
• LiveScript support
• Custom publish function, not just string command

• Change to whole-number versioning
• Change to ESLint for linting
• Support newer Nodes, dropped support for older
• Fixes for WatchTask
• Numerous community fixes

v0.7

• Updated API for include/exclude in PublishTask
• beforeEach/afterEach for TaskTask
• Custom publishing command for PublishTask
• Tests for PublishTask
• Throttling for WatchTask

• FileList fixes for Windows
• Fixed output for stdout/stderr when piped
• Numerous fixes for TestTask
• NpmPublish task renamed to simply PublishTask
• Chalk for color output (compat with strict mode)

v0.6

• Rule, for generating file-tasks on the fly
• WatchTask, for running tasks on file/directory changes
• Return values for tasks
• Promise-based async task completion
• Multiple Git branches for NpmPublishTask
• Linting codebase with JSHint
• Filled out top-level API methods for creating other task-types

• Better API for including/excluding files from NpmPublishTask

v0.5

• Interactive exec
• Node v0.10 compatibility (fixed their broken PPI)
• Docs for async management with manual invocation
• More lifecycle events emitted

• Better Windows support for FileList pathnames
• Faster FileTask execution

v0.4

• Embeddable Jake, non-CLI use

v0.3

• TestTask, for minimal test-running
• Chaining support for FileList API
• Node v0.8 compatibility
• Added -q / quiet flag for suppressing output

• Migrated FileUtils into 'utilities' NPM library
• Numerous PackageTask archiving fixes
• namespace appends instead of overwriting

v0.2

• NpmPublishTask, for automating NPM publishing
• FileUtils, for sync filesystem manipulation
• Evented tasks
• Streamed output from jake.exec
• Numerous Windows fixes for jake.exec
• Shit-ton of new tests

• Massive refactor of task/file-task/directory-task

v0.1

• FileTask, DirectoryTask
• PackageTask, for easy project packaging
• FileList, for lazy-access of long lists of filenames, pattern-matching
• zsh support
• Multiple targets from CLI
• 'async' Boolean to options object
• Always-make flag
• -T for listing tasks
• Passed params from CLI
• invoke, execute, reenable methods on tasks
• Task emits on completion
• Custom exit-status for fail
• Recursive directory-search for Jakefile
• Added proper license notice
• Basic suite of integration tests
• Added package.json
• Coffeescript support
• Basic Windows support

• Switch from node-glob to minimatch for globbing

v0.0

• Use Rake-style syntax instead of object-literal to define tasks
• jake main module as basic task-runner