Fix require.system.locales when a prefix is set
Fix require.system.locale() on fresh Ubuntu systems
Add optional environment variables in crontab
Fix crontab permissions
Allow special characters in MySQL password (Régis Behmo)
Fix bug with some services not starting correctly (Chris Marinos)
Add getdevice_by_uuid to the disk module (Bruno Adele)
Fix implicit directory name in git.working_copy (iiie)
Make require.sysctl robust to procps start failure
Fix missing import in user.local_home_directory() (Sebastien Beal)
Better tests documentation (thanks to Stéphane Klein)
Add require.directories() (Edouard de Labareyre)
Add support for Apache web server (Stéphane Klein)
Upgrade default Node.js version to 0.10.13
Note: Fabtools now requires Fabric >= 1.6.0
Upgrade default pip version to 1.3.1
Add fabtools.system.cpus to get the host’s CPU count
Less verbose output
Move OS detection functions to fabtools.system
Better support for Red Hat based systems
Use SHOW DATABASES to test existence of MySQL (Zhang Erning)
Use ifconfig as root in network module
Update OpenVZ guest context manager for Fabric 1.6.0
Fix broken fabtools.deb.upgrade
Add support for Arch Linux packages (Bruno Adele)
Add support for Linux disk partitions (Bruno Adele)
Add OpenSSH server hardening (Adam Patterson)
Add systemd module (Jakub Stasiak)
Abort on nginx configuration errors
Upgrade default Node.js version to 0.10.7
The watch context manager now allows you to either provide a callback or do an explicit check afterwards (warning: this change is not backwards compatible, please update your fabfiles)
The services module now supports both upstart and traditional SysV-style /etc/init.d scripts (thanks to Selwin Ong)
The virtualenv context manager can now also be used with local() (thanks to khorn)
The supervisor module now uses update instead of reload to avoid unnecessary restarts (thanks to Dan Fairs)
Add support for OpenVZ containers (requires a kernel with OpenVZ patches)
pip can now use a download cache
Upgrade Redis version to 2.4.17
Misc bug fixes and improvements
Support for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Debian 6.0
Documentation improvements