What's new

There are two major changes in this release:

• ⚠️ Breaking change: The command line interface has been simplified (with the aim of reducing typing for the most common task, running a task):

  • ./batect run the-task is now ./batect the-task (run is not required and no longer allowed)
  • ./batect version is now ./batect --version
  • ./batect help is now ./batect --help (--help was always available, but help is not available any more)
  • ./batect tasks is now ./batect --list-tasks
  • the --no-colors option is now --no-color for consistency (and yes, it uses the US spelling)
  • the --disable-update-notification option is now --no-update-notification for consistency

• ⚠️ Potentially breaking change: batect now tries to help you deal with proxy servers where it can:

  • during image builds, it will pass the http_proxy, https_proxy, ftp_proxy and no_proxy environment variables as build arguments, making them available as environment variables to commands that run as part of the build
  • when running a container, it will pass the same environment variables through to the container, unless these are overridden in your configuration file
  • note that this does not apply to image pulls - this must be configured separately
  • there's more information in the new documentation about handling proxies

Getting started

First time using batect? Take a look at the getting started guide, or the Java or Ruby sample projects.

How to upgrade from previous versions

Already using batect? To install this update, simply replace the batect script in your project with the one attached to this release. (Don't forget to make it executable with chmod +x batect if need be.)