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Here is Woodpecker 2.5.0

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Anbraten
Anbraten
Maintainer of Woodpecker

Here is the next minor release 2.5.0 of Woodpecker 🪶 ☀️.

As always thanks to all contributors who helped to make this release possible. It includes quite a few enhancements most users will benefit from while they are probably not that visible at first sight for most. The release also includes some preparations for new features to come in the next versions. Anyway, let's dive into some of the highlights of this release:

Improve the way entrypoints work​

The implementation wasn't perfect yet so we improved the way entrypoints work:

If you define commands, the default entrypoint will be ["/bin/sh", "-c", "echo $CI_SCRIPT | base64 -d | /bin/sh -e"].

If you define your own entrypoint, you can completely overwrite the default entrypoint. If you define entrypoint: ["/bin/my-script", ""] for example you can run your own binary / script. In this case the commands section will ignored, however you can still access it in your own script by using the base64 encoded string of the CI_SCRIPT environment variable.

#3269

Cli output formats​

The cli output has been improved. The first command (mainly pipeline info, ls, create) support a --output flag now which allows you to change the output format. There is a new table format (the new default) which will look like the following and can be further customized:

# use default table output
❯ woodpecker-cli pipeline ls --limit 2 2
NUMBER  STATUS   EVENT   BRANCH  COMMIT                                    AUTHOR
43      error    manual  main    473761d8b26b20f7c206408563d54cf998410329  woodpecker
42      success  push    main    473761d8b26b20f7c206408563d54cf998410329  woodpecker

# customize table output and disable header
❯ woodpecker-cli pipeline ls --limit 2 --output table=number,status,event --no-header 2
43  error    manual
42  success  push

In addition especially useful for programmtic usage there is a go-template output format which will output the data using the provided go template like this:

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# go crazy and use a template layout
❯ woodpecker-cli pipeline ls --limit 2 --output go-template='{{range .}}{{printf "\x1b[33mPipeline #%d\x1b[0m\nStatus: %s\nEvent:%s\nCommit:%s\n\n" .Number .Status .Event .Commit}}{{end}}' 2
Pipeline #43
Status: error
Event:manual
Commit:473761d8b26b20f7c206408563d54cf998410329

Pipeline #42
Status: success
Event:push
Commit:473761d8b26b20f7c206408563d54cf998410329

#3660

Deleting logs or complete pipelines​

If you accidentally exposed some secret to the public in your logs or you simply want to cleanup some logs you can now delete logs or complete pipelines using the api and the cli.

#3451 #3506 #3458

Support for Github deploy tasks​

Woodpecker now supports Github deploy tasks. This allows you to pass the deploy task set in Github to your Woodpecker pipeline.

#3512

Deprecations​

To keep things clean and simple we deprecated some pipeline options, server settings and features which will be removed in the next major release:

  • Deprecated environment filter, use when.evaluate
  • Use WOODPECKER_EXPERT_FORGE_OAUTH_HOST instead of WOODPECKER_DEV_GITEA_OAUTH_URL or WOODPECKER_DEV_OAUTH_HOST
  • Deprecated WOODPECKER_WEBHOOK_HOST in favor of WOODPECKER_EXPERT_WEBHOOK_HOST

For a full list of deprecations that will be dropped in the next major release 3.0.0 (no eta yet), please check the migrations section.