Vagrant v0.8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2011-07-20 // almost 13 years ago
    • VirtualBox 4.1 support only. Previous versions of VirtualBox are supported by earlier versions of Vagrant.
    • Performance optimizations in virtualbox gem. Huge speed gains.
    • :chef_server provisioner is now :chef_client. [GH-359]
    • SSH connection is now cached after first access internally, speeding up vagrant up, reload, etc. quite a bit.
    • Actions which modify the VM now occur much more quickly, greatly speeding up vagrant up, reload, etc.
    • SUSE host only networking support. [GH-369]
    • Show nice error message for invalid HTTP responses for HTTP downloader. [GH-403]
    • New :inline option for shell provisioner to provide inline scripts as a string. [GH-395]
    • Host only network now properly works on multiple adapters. [GH-365]
    • Can now specify owner/group for regular shared folders. [GH-350]
    • ssh_config host name will use VM name if given. [GH-332]
    • ssh -e flag changed to -c to align with ssh standard behavior. [GH-323]
    • Forward agent and forward X11 settings properly appear in ssh_config output. [GH-105]
    • Chef JSON can now be set with chef.json = instead of the old merge technique. [GH-314]
    • Provisioner configuration is no longer cleared when the box needs to be downloaded during an up. [GH-308]
    • Multiple Chef provisioners no longer overwrite cookbook folders. [GH-407]
    • package won't delete previously existing file. [GH-408]
    • Vagrantfile can be lowercase now. [GH-399]
    • Only one copy of Vagrant may be running at any given time. [GH-364]
    • Default home directory for Vagrant moved to ~/.vagrant.d [GH-333]
    • Specify a forwarded_port_destination for SSH configuration and SSH port searching will fall back to that if it can't find any other port. [GH-375]