From 46b2fe0ebafd348ab96861785c74821a75f03f0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Shubin <james@shubin.ca>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:38:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] docs: Add old release notes

These release notes used to live on the mailing list at:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/mgmtconfig-list/ until Red Hat
killed off this excellent service recently.

I'm adding them all here for reference.

Before 0.0.9 there were no release notes.
---
 docs/release-notes/0.0.10 |  51 ++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.11 |  59 ++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.12 |  87 ++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.13 |  89 +++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.14 |  81 +++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.15 | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.16 | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.17 | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.18 | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.19 | 131 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.20 | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.21 | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.22 | 160 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.23 | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.24 | 161 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/release-notes/0.0.9  |  71 +++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.10 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.10
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4a266312
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.10
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.10 of mgmt!
+
+NEWS
+
+57 files changed, 1991 insertions(+), 752 deletions(-)
+
+* There's a new resource called `KV`. Short examples exist, but I
+haven't yet published a whole integration showing the usefulness.
+
+* A major race was fixed. The issue of what to do with BackPokes during
+start/pause was never previously solved. I had this as an open issue on
+my whiteboard for a while, and I finally got some time to work through
+it. The answer wasn't that difficult, but I think it was shrouded in
+some tunnel vision. See the commit messages and source comments for the
+details.
+
+* The GAPI grew four new associated World API methods: StrWatch,
+StrGet, StrSet, StrDel, and the associated etcd backed implementations.
+These are quite useful when combined with the KV resource.
+
+* There are now P/V style counting semaphores available as metaparams.
+This is particularly cool because the implementation is (AFAIK,
+assuming no bugs) dead-lock free! This is mentioned in my recent blog
+post.
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and sorry for anything notable I left
+out!
+
+BUGS
+
+* There's a `concurrent map write` bug in the semaphore implementation
+which is fixed in git master. Since it was a race, it was only caught
+after this release was made. I should also figure out if the sema check
+should go after the BackPoke or not.
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started!
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+James Shubin, Julien Pivotto, Michael Borden.
+We had 3 unique committers since 0.0.9, and have had 30 overall.
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.11 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.11
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7ee0ac3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.11
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.11 of mgmt!
+
+NEWS
+
+ 20 files changed, 579 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)
+
+* Added a missing mutex around the semaphore map which prevents
+occasional panics
+
+* Removed exec pollint param which is not needed because of the poll
+metaparam
+
+* Fixed a state rechecking bug in exec resource (things are faster now)
+
+* Fixed the major annoyance of exec resources receiving main's signals.
+If we would ^C the main mgmt, the child processes would receive this
+too which was incorrect.
+
+* Fixed the deadlock on resource errors. This meant that previously if
+a resource failed, we would deadlock the graph from shutting down. This
+was bad and I'm glad it's now fixed. Sorry about that!
+
+* Improved the backpoke logic to not require semaphores since we used
+to take the lock even when we were going to backpoke which was
+unnecessary.
+
+* Added fast pausing to the graph. This means that a ^C or a pause
+transition used to wait for the whole graph to roll through, but it now
+finishes after the currently running resources finish executing. Read
+the commit messages for more background here including the discussion
+about a possible Interrupt() addition to the resource API.
+
+* Prometheus support has been updated!
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and sorry for anything notable I left
+out!
+
+BUGS
+
+* We're in pretty good shape now. There are some small issues, but
+nothing major that I don't know about.
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started!
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+James Shubin, Julien Pivotto
+We had 2 unique committers since 0.0.10, and have had 30 overall.
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.12 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.12
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1bd612da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.12
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.12 of mgmt!
+
+Sorry if I've been more quiet than usual, I've had to focus a lot of my
+time on GlusterFS related features ($dayjob official directives) and
+work there.
+
+One goal is to try and use libmgmt to either wholly or partially re-
+implement glusterd. As a result, a lot of my upstream focus has been
+re-prioritized to features needed for that effort.
+
+I wrote a PoC called gd3: https://github.com/purpleidea/gd3
+(It has now bit-rotted compared to upstream mgmt, but is easy to fix.)
+The initial scope looks like it will be much smaller, but hopefully
+this is interesting to you too. Ping me if you'd like to help.
+
+We desperately need your contributions if we're going to get mgmt
+standalone into a MVP. To motivate you, there's some great new stuff
+that landed since 0.0.11, including:
+
+* a great new YAML parser from contributor Mildred
+
+* a huge pgraph refactor (to remove internal deps and cycles)
+
+* a great amount of new tests and testing
+
+and so much more...
+
+NEWS
+
+ 76 files changed, 7549 insertions(+), 4269 deletions(-)
+
+* The svc resource now also supports user services
+
+* There's a fabulous new yaml parser that fixes a longstanding issue in
+my original code. Try it with --yaml2. I'll remove the old one
+eventually. Thanks to contributor Mildred for this great work!
+
+* Refactored the lib/ etcd usage into the GAPI's for a cleaner main
+
+* World API grew some new methods for libmgmt users
+
+* pgraph refactor and cleanup, now it's a fairly clean standalone pkg
+
+* pgraph functions to flatten/merge in subgraphs along with examples
+
+* Giant resource refactor to hopefully make things more logical, and to
+simplify the resource API. This also introduces the mgraph struct to
+add the higher level graph knowledge outside of pgraph.
+
+* A partial implementation of a "Graph" (recursive subgraph?) resource!
+See the code for details, as help is wanted to finish this. This should
+help elucidate what the most elegant design for the mgmt core should
+be.
+
+* Send/Recv support for the exec resource as output, stdout, and stderr
+
+* GAPI improvements to support exit requests and fast pausing
+
+* AutoEdge API improvements including a fix+test for a regression
+
+* A possible fix for the possible etcd server startup race
+
+* A fun amount of new tests all over including for gometalinter
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+BUGS
+
+* We fixed a bunch of stuff, and added more tests!
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started!
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+James Shubin, Julien Pivotto, Mildred Ki'Lya
+We had 3 unique committers since 0.0.11, and have had 30 overall.
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.13 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.13
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9d661c78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.13
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.13 of mgmt!
+
+I guess this is an appropriate number for a scary October release.
+
+We recently re-licensed to the more permissive GPL. I put a lot of
+thought into it, and also wrote up a short blog post about some of the
+reasoning. It's here:
+
+https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/copyleft-is-dead-long-live-copyl
+eft/
+
+If you read to the end you'll also see that Red Hat is not funding my
+mgmt work anymore. This is too bad, and means I'll only have small
+amounts of personal time available to work on this. If you'd like to
+help fund my work, or know someone who'd like to, please let me know!
+
+Having said that, there's some great new stuff that landed since
+0.0.12, including:
+
+* new resources from new contributor Jonathan Gold (aws, group, user)
+
+* an HCL frontend from new contributor Chris McKenzie
+
+* polish in a number of places including in the nspawn resource
+
+and so much more... If you'd prefer to have releases more often, then
+please let me know! Lastly, the language and a number of associated
+parts are on its way. I hope to push this monster patch to git master
+before February.
+
+It's also worth mentioning that we have 17 resources now! wow.
+
+NEWS
+
+ 140 files changed, 3921 insertions(+), 848 deletions(-)
+
+* Many improvements to tests, testing and small fixes to avoid false-
+failures on travis.
+
+* golint now reports 0 issues.
+
+* An HCL frontend if you'd prefer that to the YAML. Also a great
+example of how to plug in a new frontend.
+
+* An update to golang 1.8 as the minimum version required.
+
+* Bump the etcd version to 3.2.6+ -- Looking forward to a 3.3 release
+which should probably include some patches we upstreamed.
+
+* Addition of new user and group resources. These also include a bunch
+of automatic edges.
+
+* Addition of an AWS resource! I've wanted this for a while, as it
+demonstrates nicely how event based cloud resources can fit nicely into
+our design. There's still a lot to do, and we have some suggestions for
+Amazon too. If you have a contact there, please put me in touch!
+
+* Our nspawn resource is more polished now.
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started!
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved. This is free and friendly. You get to improve your skills,
+and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+AdnanLFC, Arthur Mello, ChrisMcKenzie, Dennis Kliban, Ismael Puerto,
+James Shubin, Jonathan Gold, Juan Luis de Sousa-Valadas Castaño, Juan-
+Luis de Sousa-Valadas Castaño (although I suspect the last two are the
+same ;))
+
+We had 9 unique committers since 0.0.12, and have had 38 overall.
+Run 'git log 0.0.12..0.0.13' to see what has changed since 0.0.12
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.14 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.14
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8173fc4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.14
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.14 of mgmt!
+
+> 118 files changed, 2688 insertions(+), 974 deletions(-)
+
+There's some great new stuff that landed since
+0.0.13, including:
+
+* amazon AWS EC2 resource is now in git master.
+
+* more automatic edges from new contributor Guillaume Herail (xiu)
+
+* a move to golang 1.8 or higher
+
+and so much more... This will probably be the last release before the
+language lands in git master. It's a pretty giant patch coming :/
+
+NEWS
+
+* We're > 1k stars on GitHub now. It's a silly metric, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
+
+* Jonathan Gold has done a lot of hard work on the AWS EC2 resource,
+and it's now in git master. There are still many things we'd like to
+do, but it's a great start on what is a *monster* resource, and
+hopefully it will inspire others to get involved.
+
+In particular, it was a great learning experience (for me in
+particular!) about how bad the EC2 golang API is. There are some
+notable design bugs we found, and if anyone from Amazon engineering
+would like to reach out to us, we'd love to provide some constructive
+ideas.
+
+* Guillaume Herail (xiu) wrote some really nice patches, and picked up
+on the autoedges API very quickly. Hopefully he'll have time to work on
+even more!
+
+* Paul Morgan sent us some nice shell fixups-- many more exist in an
+open PR that didn't make it into this release. Hopefully we'll get
+those merged by 0.0.15
+
+* Felix Frank did a few Puppet compiler fix ups. I think he's been
+refreshing his work with new resources recently...
+
+* We're looking for help writing Google, DigitalOcean, Rackspace, etc
+resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly if
+there is support from those organizations as well.
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+EVENTS
+
+There are a bunch of upcoming mgmt talks and events! Stay tuned for
+details in the coming email, but TL;DR: Linux Conf Australia, FOSDEM, &
+CfgMgmtCamp.eu -- from three different speakers, and including a
+hackathon too!
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started! Expect many new tagged #mgmtlove
+issues within the month.
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved. This is free and friendly. You get to improve your skills,
+and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+Felix Frank, Guillaume Herail, James Shubin, Jonathan Gold,
+jonathangold, Julien Pivotto, Paul Morgan, Toshaan Bharvani
+We had 8 unique committers since 0.0.13, and have had 41 overall.
+run 'git log 0.0.13..0.0.14' to see what has changed since 0.0.13
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.15 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.15
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ba89dc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.15
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.15 of mgmt!
+
+> 328 files changed, 29869 insertions(+), 943 deletions(-)
+
+(Yeah, that's almost 30k+ LOC)
+
+There's some great new stuff that landed since 0.0.14, including:
+
+* THE LANGUAGE (mcl)
+
+* "Deploys": a distributed way to push code into your cluster
+
+* Scheduling (as a reactive function)
+
+* Better testing
+
+* a move to etcd 3.3+ and golang 1.9+
+
+and so much more... This is a monster release. Please try out the
+language and all the other new features today :)
+
+NEWS
+
+* We released the language. Please play around with it :) It's time to
+get used to this cool new paradigm. Learn more from the...
+
+Blog post:
+https://purpleidea.com/blog/2018/02/05/mgmt-configuration-language/
+
+Video:
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxObmwZDyrI
+
+Docs:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/language-guide.md
+
+Function guide:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/function-guide.md
+
+And tons of code all over git master. Check the lang/ folder.
+
+* There is a reactive scheduler in the language. Use your imagination,
+or play around with:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/3ad7097c8aa7eab7f895aab9af22338
+c0cf82986/lang/funcs/core/schedule_polyfunc.go#L18
+
+* There is a "deploys" feature. It's not documented yet. You should
+poke around if you're curious. Consider this an early soft release.
+
+* There is a FS implementation to store files in a POSIX-like layer on
+top of etcd. It's used by deploys. It needs more tests though :)
+
+* The language grew two "simple" API's for implementing functions, so
+that new functionality can be exposed in the mgmt language.
+
+* The language grew two ways to specify edges between resources: either
+internal to the resource, or externally as standalone edges.
+
+* The language now supports optional resource parameters via the
+"elvis" operator. This keeps things type safe and avoids needing an
+"undef" or "nil" in the language. This operator also works for edge
+declarations.
+
+* New contributor Johan Bloemberg has been on fire sending patches!
+He has already made some great improvements to our Makefile for
+testing, and the addition of the env* functions in the language, with
+much more code pending in open PR's.
+
+* Initial debian packaging has been added. It now needs a maintainer to
+build, upload, and love it :)
+
+* We have an early emacs major mode for "mcl", our language.
+
+* Lots of new documentation has been added. Particularly for developers
+wanting to contribute to the project.
+
+* We're looking for help writing Google, DigitalOcean, Rackspace, etc
+resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly if
+there is support from those organizations as well.
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started! For details please see:
+
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con
+tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang
+
+Many new tagged #mgmtlove issues were tagged:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%
+3Amgmtlove
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved.
+This is free and friendly. You get to improve your skills,
+and we get
+some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+Carsten Thiel, dsx, James Shubin, Joe Julian, Johan Bloemberg, Jonathan
+Gold, jonathangold, karimb, Oliver Frommel, Peter Oliver, Toshaan
+Bharvani, Wim
+We had 12 unique committers since 0.0.14, and have had 48 overall.
+run 'git log 0.0.14..0.0.15' to see what has changed since 0.0.14
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.16 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.16
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b964a092
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.16
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.16 of mgmt!
+
+> 220 files changed, 14243 insertions(+), 9491 deletions(-)
+
+Woo...
+
+There's some great new stuff that landed since 0.0.15, including:
+
+* A giant engine re-write! (Makes resource writing more elegant too.)
+
+* New resources!!
+
+* New language features!!!
+
+and so much more... This is a monster release. Please try out the new
+features today :)
+
+NEWS
+
+* New resources include: net, mount and docker:container. Jonathan was
+responsible for all of these. Please take them for a spin! He's looking
+for a job too, and would probably be happy to get paid to work on mgmt.
+
+* We're > 1.5k stars on GitHub now. It's a silly metric, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
+
+* A giant engine refactoring/re-write was done. This cleaned up the
+code significantly, and made it more elegant to write resources.
+Unfortunately there is one small bug that I missed and that I haven't
+fixed yet. It rarely happens except during some of our tests during
+shutdown, which causes intermittent failures. It shouldn't block you
+playing with mgmt.
+
+* The language "class" and "include" statements have been added. These
+are important pieces for writing reusable modules which are coming
+soon. Try them out! (This comes with a bunch of tests too.)
+
+* We have an integration testing framework. It's pretty cool, it spins
+up a full mgmt cluster and runs stuff. Try it out or add some tests.
+
+* I had fun fixing a big bug: 06ee05026b0c743d19c7d62675f8ddeabdc8dd4f
+
+* I removed the remote execution functionality from core. I realized it
+could be re-written as a resource, and it was also in the way from some
+other cleanups that were more important. Half the new code is done,
+ping me if this is a priority for you or you want to help.
+
+* I also removed the HCL front-end, because mcl is usable enough to be
+more fun to play with, and I wanted to refactor some code. If someone
+really wants it back, let me know.
+
+* We have some release building scripts in git master, so you can now
+download pre-built (with fpm) RPM, DEB, or PACMAN packages! They're
+signed too. https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/0.0.16
+
+* We're looking for help writing Google, DigitalOcean, Rackspace, etc
+resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly if
+there is support from those organizations as well.
+
+* Many other bug fixes, changes, etc...
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+MISC
+
+I took a bit of a break recently to catch up on some life stuff, but I
+think I'm back on track. While git master hasn't been especially busy,
+there's an active feature branch at feat/import which contains some fun
+stuff, with a very WIP giant patch still sitting on my machine. I hope
+to finish it up soon and then do another release. That branch contains
+one of the last big features before I'll really be ready to run mgmt on
+my personal servers!
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started! For details please see:
+
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con
+tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang
+
+Many new tagged #mgmtlove issues were tagged:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%
+3Amgmtlove
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved.
+This is free and friendly. You get to improve your skills,
+and we get
+some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+Alan Jenkins, James Shubin, jesus m. rodriguez, Jonathan Gold,
+jonathangold, Lauri Ojansivu, phaer
+We had 7 unique committers since 0.0.15, and have had 52 overall.
+run 'git log 0.0.15..0.0.16' to see what has changed since 0.0.15
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.17 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.17
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a7643a29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.17
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.17 of mgmt!
+
+> 269 files changed, 13281 insertions(+), 1633 deletions(-)
+
+There's some very useful stuff that landed since 0.0.16, including:
+
+* Modules and import system now exists!
+* A lot of tests, fixes and a huge new test infra was added
+* Merging puppet with mcl code is now possible (madness!)
+* We made a small change to the cli UI
+* Bump to golang 1.10 (please update your environments)
+
+And much more...
+
+DOWNLOAD
+
+Prebuilt binaries are available here:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/0.0.17
+
+NEWS
+
+* One of the biggest missing features was the lack of a module/import
+system. After some initial exploration on what turned out to be a dead-
+end, I found what I think is a very elegant approach, which is now in
+this release. Please try it out, there are docs available. I hope to
+write a blog post about it soon.
+
+(There's one additional "kind" of import that I'm considering, similar
+to a macro "#include", that I might add. To be determined. Let me know
+if you find anything missing as of today.)
+
+* Felix added the first version of his mcl+puppet frontend. This should
+allow you to more cleverly merge legacy puppet environments with mcl
+code. It's fantastic, take a look.
+
+* Jonathan added a systemd-timer resource. This is a great replacement
+for cron.
+
+* We changed the CLI ui to improve the determinism of the frontend
+selection. Basically we changed from: `mgmt run --lang code.mcl` to:
+`mgmt run lang --lang code.mcl`. Remember to put --tmp-prefix after
+`run` directly where it is used.
+
+* We made a whole bunch of cleanups to the test infra, added new test
+infra for testing complex mcl modules and the import/module system, and
+of course added new tests.
+
+* You can pass a list of strings as the resource name to build that
+many resources. (Looping/iteration!)
+
+* You can specify all the metaparams and auto-* properties in mcl now.
+
+* Native mcl code can be used to write imported core code.
+
+* There was a bug that snuck into the pkg res. This has now been fixed.
+
+* A small, long-time copy+pasta error bug was fixed in Exec.
+
+* Virtually all the imports of the "log" package are at the top-level
+now. This will make moving to a new logger easier in the future. I have
+an innovative logger idea that I have a design for that I'll eventually
+get to.
+
+* A few workarounds for occasional test failures were added. Some
+legacy code needs a cleanup, and it's not done yet. Fortunately, none
+of these issues seem to occur in real-life as far as I can tell, and
+are caused by closing down mgmt at weird times.
+
+* Found a bug (now fixed) in the upstream lexer Yikes! See:
+57ce3fa587897d74634c1216af67dd42252c64e5
+
+* We're looking for help writing Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, etc
+resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly if
+there is support from those organizations as well.
+
+* Many other bug fixes, changes, etc...
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started! For details please see:
+
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con
+tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang
+
+Many new tagged #mgmtlove issues were tagged:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%
+3Amgmtlove
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved. This is fun and friendly! You get to improve your skills,
+and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+Felix Frank, James Shubin, Jonathan Gold, Kevin Kuehler, Michael Lesko-
+Krleza, Tom Payne, Vincent Membré
+We had 7 unique committers since 0.0.16, and have had 56 overall.
+run 'git log 0.0.16..0.0.17' to see what has changed since 0.0.16
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.18 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.18
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..546b4223
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.18
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.18 of mgmt!
+
+> 202 files changed, 5606 insertions(+), 1880 deletions(-)
+
+There's some great stuff that landed since 0.0.17, including:
+
+* A re-write of the core engine algorithm
+* Tests are very stable
+* At least three old bugs were killed
+* An infra to write tests for individual resources was added
+
+And much more...
+
+This adds a significant amount of polish and bug fixes to mgmt. We're
+on the home stretch to MVP!
+
+DOWNLOAD
+
+Prebuilt binaries are available here:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/0.0.18
+
+NEWS
+
+* There was a rare race that would panic the engine on shutdown. This
+only seemed to happen in CPU/system call starved environments like
+travis-ci. This was due to some ignorance when writing this early part
+of the code base. The algorithm has been re-written, and this also
+removed the use of at least one mutex. Things should be stable now, and
+also much faster. (Although perf was never an issue.)
+
+* A hidden race/deadlock in the exec resource was found and killed.
+Woo! Some new tools to help find these and other problems are in misc/
+
+* The early converger code was re-written. I was not as knowledgeable
+about golang in the very beginning, and this code needed refreshing. It
+contained a rare deadlock which needed to be killed.
+
+* Toshaan added an uptime() function.
+
+* Julien added a method for generating some simple functions for the
+language.
+
+* Lander added two new functions.
+
+* James added a new readfile() function, and other examples.
+
+* The template function now allows you to use imported functions. They
+use underscores instead of periods for namespace separation due to a
+limitation in the template library.
+
+* Kevin and I killed a tricky race in the SocketSet code! Woo :) Kevin
+also added a great cpucount() fact!
+
+* James gave a number of presentations at FOSDEM. Some recordings are
+available: https://purpleidea.com/talks/
+
+* We're looking for help writing Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, etc
+resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly if
+there is support from those organizations as well.
+
+* Many other bug fixes, changes, etc...
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+BUGS
+
+* An unfortunate bug in the type unification code was found. This can
+cause small code bases to take a lot of ram/cpu to run. This will be
+prioritized in an upcoming release. Until then you'll have to avoid
+fancy type unification. (Specify types you know when it has to guess.)
+
+If efficient type unification algorithms are your specialty, please let
+us know, we'd like your help!
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started! For details please see:
+
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con
+tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang
+
+Many tagged #mgmtlove issues exist:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%
+3Amgmtlove
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved. This is fun and friendly! You get to improve your skills,
+and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+Felix Frank, James Shubin, Jeff Waugh, Johan Bloemberg, Julien Pivotto,
+Kevin Kuehler, Lander Van den Bulcke, Toshaan Bharvani
+We had 8 unique committers since 0.0.17, and have had 58 overall.
+run 'git log 0.0.17..0.0.18' to see what has changed since 0.0.17
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.19 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.19
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..262777c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.19
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.19 of mgmt!
+
+> 361 files changed, 10451 insertions(+), 3919 deletions(-)
+
+This is a very important (and huge) release and has some important
+fixes that landed since 0.0.18, including:
+
+* A huge re-write of the elastic etcd clustering code base
+* A significant improvement in the type unification algorithm
+* An important import/class scoping bug was discovered and fixed
+* New mcl functions and resource improvements
+
+And much more...
+
+What comes next is just polish, new features and small bug fixes!
+
+DOWNLOAD
+
+Prebuilt binaries are available here:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/0.0.19
+
+NEWS
+
+* A giant etcd re-write was completed and merged. The elastic
+clustering algorithm is not perfect, however it should suffice for most
+use cases, and it's always possible to point mgmt at an external etcd
+cluster if you don't understand the limitations of the automatic
+clustering algorithm. The important part is that the core code is much
+cleaner now, so hopefully races and bugs of ignorance are gone now. :)
+
+* I found an unfortunate bug in the type unification algorithm that
+severely impacted performance for some types of code bases. This is now
+fixed, and I hope we should not experience problems again! Special
+thanks to Sam for talking me through the problem and understanding the
+space better! Woo \o/
+
+* An important import/class scoping bug was fixed. Thanks to Nicolas
+for the bug report. We also added tests for this too!
+
+* Nicolas also added our first os detection function. os.is_debian and
+os.is_redhat are now in core. Get your favourite os added today!
+
+* The polymorphic len function can also check str length.
+
+* The exec resource got a big cleanup. It also learned the interrupt
+trait so that long running commands can be forcefully killed if need
+be.
+
+* A fancy new test infra for testing functions over time was added.
+Anytime we want to check our individual FRP functions are working as
+expected, this is an easy way to add a test. This way, if we ever find
+a bug, we can drop in a test with the fix. This actually helped find a
+very subtle bug in readfile that nobody had experienced yet!
+
+* File res with state => exists but no content now performs as
+expected.
+
+* Improved send/recv, since it was neglected a bit. Hopefully it ends
+up being a useful primitive.
+
+* Added a new synchronization primitive that I'm called
+SubscribedSignal. I found it very useful for building some of my code,
+and I hope you'll find it useful too. I'd offer it upstream to the sync
+package if Google didn't force their crappy CLA nonsense on everyone
+who wanted to send a patch. :/ Death by 1000 paper cuts, I guess.
+
+* Added a match function in the new regexp core package. Try it out and
+add some more functions!
+
+* Wouter has been testing mgmt and filling all sorts of useful bug
+reports. We fixed at least one related to a report, and more are
+planned for the next release. Wouter also sent in one cleanup patch to
+remove some dead code. Welcome to the project!
+
+* We're looking for help writing Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, etc
+resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly if
+there is support from those organizations as well.
+
+* Many other bug fixes, changes, etc...
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+BUGS
+
+* There are a few known issues, in particular with some over eager
+checking done in the Validate portion of two resources, that should
+actually be runtime checks in CheckApply. As a result, if you intend to
+change some state during the graph execution, the resource won't see
+it. These should be very easy to fix if someone is interested in
+writing the patch!
+
+TALKS
+
+* James will be presenting at this year's OSDC in Berlin. There will be
+a workshop: https://osdc.de/events/mgmt-config-workshop/
+and a talk:
+https://osdc.de/events/mgmt-config-the-future-of-your-autonomous-datacentre/
+Sign up soon if you want to guarantee a spot, as they're limited!
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started! For details please see:
+
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con
+tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang
+
+Many tagged #mgmtlove issues exist:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%
+3Amgmtlove
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved. This is fun and friendly! You get to improve your skills,
+and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+Adam Sigal, Felix Frank, James Shubin, Jonathan Gold, Michael Schubert,
+Mitch Fossen, Nicolas Charles, Wouter Dullaert
+We had 8 unique committers since 0.0.18, and have had 63 overall.
+run 'git log 0.0.18..0.0.19' to see what has changed since 0.0.18
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.20 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.20
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..69092d58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.20
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.20 of mgmt!
+
+> 295 files changed, 8585 insertions(+), 1413 deletions(-)
+
+This was a very challenging release but it includes many useful changes
+since 0.0.19, including:
+
+* Function values / lambdas exist and are first-class
+* Over 70 new tests have been added!
+* Core functions, classes, and globals can now be written in mcl code
+* A new compiler "Ordering" step was added
+
+And much more...
+
+DOWNLOAD
+
+Prebuilt binaries are available here:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/0.0.20
+
+NEWS
+
+* After a long and challenging road, I finally got function values and
+lambdas merged. If you find any bugs, please let me know! You can now
+treat functions as first-class values, and even use them as closures by
+capturing variable state.
+
+* Over 70 new tests were added, most of which test the behaviour of the
+new functions.
+
+* Core packages always allowed you to write new functions in pure
+golang, but now you can implement new functions, classes, and even
+variables in native mcl code! It's still desirable and perhaps
+efficient in some cases to want native golang implementations, but all
+good programs self-host some of their stdlib in their own language
+eventually.
+
+* A new compiler step called "Ordering" was added. It's hidden inside
+the SetScope step, but now lets us generate code ordering graphs and
+determine exactly what to run first.
+
+* Light copying of Node's allows more correct and efficient function
+graphs that can share common vertices and edges. For example, if two
+different closures capture a variable $x, they'll both use the same
+copy when running the function, since the compiler can prove if they're
+identical.
+
+* Improved the type system slightly to allow advanced type comparisons.
+
+* The type unification algorithm was improved. Hopefully it should
+solve all scenarios without needing the recursive solver which was very
+slow. If you find a case that isn't speedy, please let us know!
+
+* Added subtest listing by using -short and -v in a test. This lets you
+know what's available and how to run individual sub tests easily.
+
+* Support for the systemd STATE_DIRECTORY and xdg cache dir was added
+by new contributor John! Thanks!
+
+* New contributor Adam added a pgraph test.
+
+* A bug in the systemd mount resource was fixed. Hopefully it should
+work correctly now.
+
+* A bug that prevented us from allowing nested system imports was
+fixed. Nest away! This will pave the way for us to automatically import
+most of the golang standard library by doing: import "golang/regexp" or
+golang/whatever".
+
+* Added an example showing that unicode is allowed in strings.
+
+* Fixed a rare race in the engine.
+
+* Added some new core functions including math.mod and datetime
+improvements.
+
+* Changed the API to remove the use of --lang. This avoids the
+stuttering.
+
+* Moved to golang 1.11 and etcd 3.3.13. The later includes a fix for an
+un-catchable error scenario which we fixed in etcd.
+
+* Improved the pgraph library significantly so that we can generate
+better graphs with accurate vertices based on the vertex pointers.
+
+* Added ArchLinux OS family detection.
+
+* We're looking for help writing Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, etc
+resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly if
+there is support from those organizations as well.
+
+* Many other bug fixes, changes, etc...
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+BUGS
+
+* There are a few known issues with some disabled code paths in the new
+function value code. These issues don't *need* to be fixed, but if they
+are, then we should see a slight performance increase. Happy to have
+someone dig into these, and they shouldn't bother anyone.
+
+* Some of the pre-built binaries might not work on your system. We need
+to start building them with the right dependencies so that `ldd`
+related things are happy. For now, please try building yourself if the
+build doesn't work for you, or help improve our build system.
+
+TALKS
+
+I'll be giving a talk at an upcoming mini-conference in Montreal. If
+you're interested in attending, please let me know.
+If you'd like to give an mgmt talk somewhere, please let me know!
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started! For details please see:
+
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con
+tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang
+
+Many tagged #mgmtlove issues exist:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%
+3Amgmtlove
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved. This is fun and friendly! You get to improve your skills,
+and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+Adam Sigal, Christian Rebischke, Felix Frank, James Shubin, Jan
+Martens, Johan Bloemberg, John Hooks, Ward Vandewege
+We had 8 unique committers since 0.0.19, and have had 67 overall.
+run 'git log 0.0.19..0.0.20' to see what has changed since 0.0.19
+
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.21 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.21
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d61f4537
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.21
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.21 of mgmt!
+
+> 178 files changed, 4351 insertions(+), 829 deletions(-)
+
+This was a very lonely release but it includes some very useful
+additions since 0.0.20, including:
+
+* The first mgmt meme!
+* Working distro packages for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and Arch!
+* Reversible resources!
+* A deploy package to let you read files from the active deploy
+* Improved file resource behaviours
+
+And much more...
+
+DOWNLOAD
+
+Prebuilt binaries are available here:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/0.0.21
+
+NEWS
+
+* Someone made a cool mgmt meme. Look in art/mgmt_*_meme.jpg
+
+* Distro packages are now built properly, so they should all work now.
+We have builds for Fedora-30, Fedora-29, Debian-10, Ubuntu-Bionic, and
+Archlinux. If you'd like a build for a different distro/version please
+let me know.
+
+* We finally got rid of the old `Compare(...) bool` API, and moved to
+`Cmp(...) error`. We'll now get more useful information from Res
+compares when they differ. Thanks to new contributor Donald Bakong for
+working on this. He's ramping up his golang contributions, so we expect
+to see more from him in the future!
+
+* We now have reversible resources. Basically if you create a resource
+and specify the reverse metaparam, eg: `Meta:reverse => true`, then if
+a resource is removed (either because a new version of code doesn't
+have it anymore OR more importantly if it was inside an `if` block that
+became false) then the engine will perform some "reverse" action for
+it. For a file, if it was added, we'll remove it. If it was edited,
+we'll undo the edit. If we added ugo+w, we'll remove that. And so on.
+The engine bits are done, and as well so have the file resource bits.
+It should be easy to add this for any other resource where it makes
+sense. This will likely be a very powerful feature that we use a lot.
+
+* The file resource was changed slightly so that by default the "state"
+is undefined. As a result, if you want a file to be created and none is
+present, you need to specify the state. Otherwise specifying "content"
+will only edit a file if it already exists, and otherwise be an error.
+It turns out this is actually a better behaviour, even if it's not
+necessarily intuitive for puppet users. It turns out it simplifies the
+code drastically and makes the reversible file resource much more
+logical. It seems that Puppet and Ansible got this wrong, but Cfengine
+got it right. IIRC. Do you agree? (Look at the code!)
+
+* We now catch CR \r characters in code so that you don't wonder why
+the compiler is telling you about unexpected whitespace. This should
+make your life easier.
+
+* You can now read files from within the deploy. This can be used for
+templates or anything else. This was one of the last missing things
+that was blocking me from writing useful mcl modules.
+
+* Fixed a copy-pasta bug where the != operator (for strings only) was
+actually doing an ==. Woops! The good news is that we've been shaking
+out silly bugs because I've been using mgmt more and more. Hopefully
+there aren't any woops ones like this left!
+
+* A bunch of function, class, and include tests were added. We're
+getting really well tested!
+
+* We're looking for help writing Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, etc
+resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly if
+there is support from those organizations as well.
+
+* Many other bug fixes, changes, etc...
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+BUGS
+
+* Function values as args don't work yet. This is blocking us from
+implementing functions like map/reduce/filter, because they'd want to
+receive a function as input. TBH, I'm a bit tunnel-visioned on this,
+because I'm not the compilers genius that you are. If you can help,
+please let me know. I'll be posting a bunch of test cases that show
+what's needed shortly.
+
+* Three patches have been submitted to mkosi to support the image
+building I've been doing. They're not merged yet, so you'll have to
+apply them yourself if you want to make your own distro images. This
+isn't a major requirement anyone should have, but if they're not
+merged, we'll store them here and apply them as needed.
+
+TALKS
+
+I'll be in Belgium for FOSDEM and CfgMgmtCamp in 2020. If I'm lucky
+I'll have at least one mgmt presentation. I might also consider going
+to DevConf.cz if I get a talk accepted. Feel to ping me if you'd like
+to hack, get consulting, training, etc while I'm in Europe!
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started! For details please see:
+
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con
+tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang
+
+Many tagged #mgmtlove issues exist:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%
+3Amgmtlove
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved. This is fun and friendly! You get to improve your skills,
+and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+bjanssens, Donald Bakong, James Shubin
+We had 3 unique committers since 0.0.20, and have had 69 overall.
+run 'git log 0.0.20..0.0.21' to see what has changed since 0.0.20
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.22 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.22
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c25d15c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.22
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.22 of mgmt!
+
+> 579 files changed, 17984 insertions(+), 3136 deletions(-)
+
+Compared to the last release, this is a monster. Previously:
+
+> 178 files changed, 4351 insertions(+), 829 deletions(-)
+
+I apologize for not doing a release earlier, but to be quite honest,
+I've been busy, the people who are playing with mgmt are doing their
+own builds anyways, and there are still some unimplemented, pre-
+production features missing.
+
+Also, I started a new job. News on my blog and how (if at all) it
+affects mgmt is there.
+
+This is still an incredibly important release, so let's cover some of
+the points!
+
+* This is the last release before we switch to go.mod
+* IRC channel moved to #mgmtconfig on libera.chat after Freenode died
+* New resources including tftp, dhcp, and http (all as servers, wow!)
+* New string interpolation implementation with many tests
+* Resource fields can accept complex structs and other types now
+* Improved type unification solver and new invariants like generator
+* A new polymorphic function API interface
+
+And much more...
+
+DOWNLOAD
+
+Prebuilt binaries are NOT available here for this release:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/0.0.22
+
+NEWS
+
+* The file resource supports building files from other "fragments".
+This is magic and automatic and real-time. Docs and examples are in the
+repo.
+
+* The file resource (and others) have a new trait and queryable API to
+make decisions based on what other resources are in the graph.
+
+* The file resource has a "purge" option to remove unmanaged files from
+a managed directory.
+
+* A lot of built-in functions are auto-generated from the stdlib. Most
+things you would want are now present, particularly if they're pure
+functions.
+
+* There's a new consul KV resource.
+
+* File resources support symbolic modes now!
+
+* New tftp related resources are now present. They're great and I use
+them to provision things!
+
+* A docker image resource was added.
+
+* First-class constants now exist. So you can do
+$const.res.file.state.exists instead of typing "exists" which is prone
+to typos. This is more verbose, but it's safer if that's your priority.
+
+* We found a bug with fuzzing! Cool, thanks Patrick!
+
+* We have dhcp server related resources. This is pretty cool when
+combined with the tftp resource and you can provision a lot of stuff
+from your laptop and one binary now.
+
+* We also have http server resources. Combined with the tftp and dhcp
+resources mgmt starts to look like a powerful tool to greenfield a new
+datacentre and then take over and manage it continuous. All from a
+single, type-safe, code base. Of course you can do other things with
+this, and I'm looking forward to seeing the ideas that I haven't
+thought of yet! PS: An http:ui has been partially implemented too. Ping
+if you want to know more.
+
+* Resource fields couldn't previously accept anonymous structs as types
+because of how golang built its reflect library. Joe found an elegant
+workaround, thanks!
+
+* The type unification solver was improved to support some new
+invariants. This makes a lot of new things possible, and was done to
+support new complex functions including the eventual addition of map,
+reduce, and filter. One of the new invariants is a "generator"
+invariant, so that unification can take into account the entire
+relevant parts of the AST. It's not a textbook CS implementation, but
+it's based on sound theory I think, and it seems to work great. If you
+find an edge case, please let us know.
+
+* The polymorphic function interface was changed to use the new
+unification logic. This makes a lot more sense. All the functions have
+been ported to the new interface.
+
+* 42
+
+* We're looking for help writing Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, etc
+resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly if
+there is support from those organizations as well.
+
+* Many other bug fixes, changes, etc...
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+BUGS
+
+* Function values as args don't work yet. This is blocking us from
+implementing functions like map/reduce/filter, because they'd want to
+receive a function as input. TBH, I'm a bit tunnel-visioned on this,
+because I'm not the compilers genius that you are. If you can help,
+please let me know. I'll be posting a bunch of test cases that show
+what's needed shortly.
+
+(This is the exact message I wrote last time. I've made a lot of
+progress since then, but motivation here has been low. Reach out if you
+can help.)
+
+TALKS
+
+Hopefully CfgMgmtCamp in 2022 will be back on. If we're lucky and safe,
+maybe I can travel there. TBD... Feel to ping me if you'd like to hack,
+talk, whatever if I'm in Europe.
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Libera IRC, or ping this list if
+you'd like help getting started! For details please see:
+
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con
+tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang
+
+Many tagged #mgmtlove issues exist:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%
+3Amgmtlove
+
+Although asking in IRC is the best way to find something to work on.
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved. This is fun and friendly! You get to improve your skills,
+and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+Adam Sigal, Ahmed Al-Hulaibi, David Randall, Derek Buckley, Donald
+Bakong, Felix Frank, Francois Rompre-Lanctot, Ivan Pejić, James Shubin,
+Jean-Philippe Evrard, Jimmy Tang, Joe Groocock, Jonathan Gold, Julien
+Pivotto, Kenneth Hoste, Matthew Lesko-Krleza, Patrick Meyer, viq, Yohan
+Belval
+We had 19 unique committers since 0.0.21, and have had 82 overall.
+run 'git log 0.0.21..0.0.22' to see what has changed since 0.0.21
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.23 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.23
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e56a7dd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.23
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.23 of mgmt!
+
+>  424 files changed, 7051 insertions(+), 2256 deletions(-)
+
+This is a fairly quiet release, and I'm mostly doing this to have a
+permanent tag before I start really breaking git master.
+
+I'd like to apologize for things being kind of quiet. I've had to focus
+on life and making money to pay my bills, and I've been struggling a
+bit to complete some of the tougher algorithmic parts that I think are
+necessary for a solid MVP. Hopefully I will succeed, but to do so, it's
+going to be easier if I break git master and then sort things out
+later.
+
+I'm feeling optimistic about the future, although help with some
+complex concurrent programming would certainly be appreciated.
+
+With that, here are a few highlights from the release:
+
+* We're using go.mod, but I'm not keeping it up-to-date regularly yet.
+
+* We have an os.system(`cmd`) function!
+
+* We replaced go-bindata with the embed package.
+
+* We added a hetzner vm resource.
+
+* We did a giant lang/ package refactor.
+
+* Printf supports %v now (any type).
+
+And much more...
+
+DOWNLOAD
+
+Prebuilt binaries are NOT available here for this release:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/0.0.23
+
+NEWS
+
+* We have our Libera IRC channel bridged to Matrix, so you can join
+that way too.
+
+* We're looking for help writing Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, Hetzner,
+etc, resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly
+if there is support from those organizations as well.
+
+* Many other bug fixes, changes, etc...
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+BUGS
+
+* Function values as args don't work yet. This is blocking us from
+implementing functions like map/reduce/filter, because they'd want to
+receive a function as input.
+
+(This is the exact message I wrote last time. I've made a lot of
+progress since then, but motivation here has been low. Reach out if you
+can help.)
+
+TALKS
+
+I don't have anything planned until CfgMgmtCamp 2024. If you'd like to
+book me for a private event, or sponsor my travel for your conference,
+please let me know.
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Libera IRC or Matrix, or ping this
+list if you'd like help getting started! For details please see:
+
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con
+tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang
+
+Many tagged #mgmtlove issues exist:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%
+3Amgmtlove
+
+Although asking in IRC is the best way to find something to work on.
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved. This is fun and friendly! You get to improve your skills,
+and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+dantefromhell, James Shubin, Jef Masereel, Joe Groocock, Samuel
+Gélineau
+We had 5 unique committers since 0.0.22, and have had 85 overall.
+run 'git log 0.0.22..0.0.23' to see what has changed since 0.0.22
+
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.24 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.24
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..019b9434
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.24
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+I've just released version 0.0.24 of mgmt!
+
+
+> 600 files changed, 13622 insertions(+), 6907 deletions(-)
+
+This is a huge and hugely important release! It has been a long time
+coming. We have lambdas! I could not have done this without the
+unrelentingly supportive and brilliant Samuel Gélineau.
+
+Getting past the blockers and tricky code changes was all thanks to
+him. Cleanups, polish and making it more golang idiomatic was my doing.
+(The easy stuff.) If Sam wanted to be a golang expert, he could have
+done it all, but it was more sensible than I do all the mundane and
+filler stuff.
+
+With that, here are a few highlights from the release:
+
+* We have working lambdas, including iter.map =D
+
+* We have a new function engine!
+
+* We have improved type unification!
+
+* We have an improved resource engine!
+
+* We have improved many of the internal API's.
+
+* We have so many tests.
+
+And much more...
+
+DOWNLOAD
+
+Prebuilt binaries are NOT available here for this release:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/0.0.24
+
+NEWS
+
+* Our main tests are now in the excellent .txtar format. This makes
+things much easier to manage.
+
+* The iter.map function can be named as such due to parser tricks! No
+need to name it xmap anymore!
+
+* The unification solver has been greatly improved. We can infer a lot
+more about function types.
+
+* The resources API uses the context package for closing Watch and
+returning early from CheckApply. The next step would be to remove all
+the resource-specific timeout code and make that a metaparam.
+
+* A new sync primitive has been added in case you'd like to use it
+somewhere. We'd love help adding an even more complex one. Look in
+util/sync.go for more information.
+
+* Sam added some beautiful type inference debugging that makes things
+easier for those familiar with the standard literature.
+
+* An important bug in standalone etcd has been fixed. While embedded
+etcd and automatic clustering isn't "supported" (it's buggy) the
+status-quo of using your own etcd cluster is stable, and you can even
+use the embedded etcd server in standalone mode...
+
+* This means you can run `mgmt etcd` and get the standard etcd binary
+behviour that you'd get from running `etcd` normally. This makes it
+easy to use both together since you only need to transport one binary
+around. (And maybe mgmt will do that for you!)
+
+* I fixed and cleaned up some sketchy code in the resource engine. I
+had been unmotivated to fix this for a while because I really wanted
+lambdas first, but now that they are in, I took a good look at the
+code, made some fixes, and I'm really happy with it now.
+
+* Metaparams are appropriately stateful between graph switches now.
+Retry is the easy example. Limit/Burst need to be ported if you care
+about these fine details.
+
+* A RetryReset metaparam has been added. This is another good example
+of how powerful metaparams are and how much potential there is for
+building systems with these and future ones.
+
+* A bunch of internal API's have been updated. This makes it better for
+function and resource writers! Some GAPI changes also got pushed
+through that make things clearer for those reading code.
+
+* We have a listlookup function. It's still missing syntactic sugar
+though!
+
+* Our new function graph engine is called "dage". I think it's pretty
+clever. There's a chance there is still a bug inside, but it's unclear.
+Please report any issues. If you have some large machines I can test
+very large and fast graphs on, please let me know.
+
+* Lambdas really work now! The txn and ref/gc code is pretty fantastic.
+
+* Many bugs have been killed!
+
+* We're looking for help writing Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, Hetzner,
+etc, resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly
+if there is support from those organizations as well.
+
+* Many other bug fixes, changes, etc...
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
+
+BUGS/TODO
+
+* Function values getting _passed_ to resources doesn't work yet, but
+it's not a blocker, but it would definitely be useful. We're looking
+into it.
+
+* Function graphs are unnecessarily dynamic. We might make them more
+static so that we don't need as many transactions. This is really a
+compiler optimization and not a bug, but it's something important we'd
+like to have.
+
+* Running two Txn's during the same pause would be really helpful. I'm
+not sure how much of a performance improvement we'd get from this, but
+it would sure be interesting to build. If you want to build a fancy
+synchronization primitive, then let us know! Again this is not a bug.
+
+TALKS
+
+I don't have anything planned until CfgMgmtCamp 2024. If you'd like to
+book me for a private event, or sponsor my travel for your conference,
+please let me know.
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
+and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
+Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Libera IRC or Matrix, or ping this
+list if you'd like help getting started! For details please see:
+
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con
+tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang
+
+Many tagged #mgmtlove issues exist:
+https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%
+3Amgmtlove
+
+Although asking in IRC/matrix is the best way to find something to work
+on.
+
+MENTORING
+
+We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
+involved. This is fun and friendly! You get to improve your skills,
+and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
+
+THANKS
+
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release:
+James Shubin, Kaushal, Laurent Indermuehle, Ofek Atar, Samuel Gélineau
+We had 5 unique committers since 0.0.23, and have had 88 overall.
+run 'git log 0.0.23..0.0.24' to see what has changed since 0.0.23
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/0.0.9 b/docs/release-notes/0.0.9
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e9dda50c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/0.0.9
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+I've just released 0.0.9!
+
+Release tags are now signed with my GPG key.
+
+From now on, I'm going to try and write a release email to the list
+with information about each release. Here we go!
+
+NEWS
+
+* There were far more commits that went into this release than I was
+expecting. I delayed a while because of some nasty races and deadlocks
+I encountered when cleaning some cruft out of the engine.
+
+134 files changed, 5394 insertions(+), 2168 deletions(-)
+
+* We grew initial integration with Prometheus thanks to new contributor
+`roidelapluie`.
+
+* The file resource can now chown/chmod files! Thanks to new
+contributor `mildred`.
+
+* The virt resource can now hotplug/hotunplug cpus. This made for some
+dope demos at CfgMgmtCamp. Special thanks to pkrempa for helping me
+with the libvirt API.
+
+* Native testing of all the golang code is now enabled again. I broke
+this when I split mgmt up into multiple packages. (Sorry!) Golang tests
+in foo_test.go should now run and be tested automatically. I'd
+especially like it if someone wrote some for pgraph/pgraph.go:
+GraphSync().
+
+* Documentation has been significantly improved. We have a resource
+guide (for writing new native resources) and much more. We also now
+build the docs as a RTD project:
+https://mgmt.readthedocs.io/en/master/
+Patches welcome to make it style as pretty as GitHub markdown does.
+
+* See the git log for more NEWS, and sorry for anything notable I left
+out!
+
+BUGS
+
+* I hope to resolve this soon, but it shouldn't block further
+development on git master for now. The issue: if you make extremely
+high speed graph changes to graphs involving the virt resource, it can
+eventually cause a panic. This is being tracked here:
+https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt-go/issues/7 (help welcome!)
+
+GLUSTERFS
+
+I've started working on some stuff for Glusterd so that it can embed
+mgmt as a lib, and use the resource model to simplify cluster
+management. This will involve writing Gluster resources in mgmt
+(volume, brick, etc...) and all sorts of other fun stuff. If you'd like
+to participate, please LMK!
+
+MISC
+
+We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own! Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if you'd like help getting started!
+
+THANKS
+
+We had 12 unique committers since 0.0.8, and have had 29 overall.
+Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
+release: Daniele Sluijters, Daniel P. Berrange, Felix Frank, goberghen,
+James Shubin, Julien Pivotto, Kaushal M, Lars Kulseng, Mildred Ki'Lya,
+Sean Jones, Steve Milner, Tom Ritserveldt.
+
+Happy hacking,
+James
+@purpleidea