StackStorm/st2 v0.8.0

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• Allow user to specify current working directory (cwd parameter) when running actions using the
  local or the remote runner (run-local, run-local-script, run-remote,
  run-remote-script). (new-feature)
• Default values of the parameter of an Action can be system values stored in kv-store. (new-feature)
• Allow users to specify additional paths where StackStorm looks for integration packs using
  packs_base_paths setting. (new-feature)
• Allow user to specify which Python binary to use for the Python runner actions using
  actionrunner.python_binary setting (new-feature)
• Default Python binary which is used by Python runner actions to be the Python binary which is
  used by the action runner service. Previous, system's default Python binary was used.
• Fix a race-condition / bug which would occur when multiple packs are installed at the same time.
  (bug-fix)
• Vars can be defined in the ActionChain. (new-feature)
• Node in an ActionChain can publish global variables. (new-feature)
• Allow user to provide authentication token either inside headers (X-Auth-Token) or via
  x-auth-token query string parameter. (new-feature)
• Allow actions without parameters. (bug-fix)
• Fix a bug with rule matching not working for any triggers with parameters. (bug-fix)
• Require cmd parameter for the following actions: core.remote, core.remote_sudo,
  core.local, core.local_sudo (bug-fix)
• Allow user to override authentication information (username, password, private key) on per
  action basis for all the remote runner actions. (new-feature)
• Allow user to pass --inherit-env flag to the st2 action run command which causes all
  the environment variables accessible to the CLI to be sent as env parameter to the action
  being executed. (new-feature)
• Cast params of an execution before scheduling in the RulesEngine. This allows non-string
  parameters in an action. (new-feature)
• Use QuerySet.count() instead of len(QuerySet) to avoid the caching of the entire result which
  improve running time of API request. (bug-fix)
• CLI commands to return non-zero exit codes for failed operations (new-feature)
• Fix a bug with template rendering, under some conditions, ending in an infinite loop. (bug-fix)
• Rename ActionExecution to LiveAction. (refactor)
• Rename ActionExecutionHistory to ActionExecution. (refactor)
• A separate history process is no longer required. ActionExecution updates are carried at time of
  update to LiveAction. (refactor)
• Add new nequals (neq) rule criteria operator. This criteria operator
  performs not equals check on values of an arbitrary type. (new-feature)
• Mistral subworkflows kicked off in st2 should include task name. (bug-fix)
• Add new execution re-run <execution id> CLI command for re-running an
  existing action. (new-feature)
• Dispatch an internal trigger when a sensor process is spawned / started
  (st2.sensor.process_spawn) and when a process exits / is stopped
  (st2.sensor.process_exit). (new-feature)
• Update HTTP runner to automatically parse JSON response body if Content-Type is
  application/json (new-feature)
• API url /v1/actionexecutions/ is now deprecated in favor of /v1/executions/ (refactor)
• API url change /v1/history/execution to /v1/executions (refactor)
• API url change /v1/history/execution/views/filters to /v1/executions/views/filters (refactor)
• POST to /v1/executions take LiveActionAPI but returns ActionExecutionAPI (refactor)
• Support for filtering by timestamp and status in executions list. (new-feature)
• Execution list shows only top level executions by default to see full list use --showall. (refactor)
• Ability to see child tasks of any execution. (new-feature)
• Allow sensors to manage global datastore items via sensor_service by passing local=False
  argument to the get_value, set_value and delete_value methods. (new-feature)
• Allow sensors to list datastore items using list_values sensor_service method. (new-feature)
• Allow users to filter datastore items by name prefix by passing ?prefix=<value> query
  parameter to the /keys endpoint. (new-feature)
• Fix non-string types to be rendered correctly in action parameters when used in rule. (bug-fix)
• Allow user to specify default value for required attributes in the definition of action
  parameters. (bug-fix)
• When running with auth enabled, correctly preserve the username of the authenticated user who
  has triggered the action execution. (bug-fix)

Read more on our blog, w/ simple GIF demos of the highlight of 0.8 - our first release of the StackStorm GUI here: http://stackstorm.com/2015/03/03/stackstorm-0-8-introducing-new-web-ui/