diff --git a/website/www/source/blog/2014-05-06-vagrant-1-6.html.md b/website/www/source/blog/2014-05-06-vagrant-1-6.html.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bf050826c --- /dev/null +++ b/website/www/source/blog/2014-05-06-vagrant-1-6.html.md @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +--- +page_title: "Vagrant 1.6" +title: "Vagrant 1.6" +author: "Mitchell Hashimoto" +author_url: https://github.com/mitchellh +--- + +Vagrant 1.6 is now available! This is a new major release building upon +Vagrant 1.5 to add new features to improve workflow, expand Vagrant to +support more development environment types, and more. + +Vagrant 1.6 introduces no breaking backwards compatibilities. There are some +configuration options that have changed but they still work and will now just +output deprecation warnings. + +There are a few major features in Vagrant 1.6. We covered the major features +in feature previews leading up to this release. You can find more information +by clicking on the feature name below: + + * [Global Status and Control](/blog/vagrant-1-6.html#features) + * [Windows Guests](/blog/vagrant-1-6.html#features) + * [Docker-Based Development Environments](/blog/vagrant-1-6.html#features) + +You can [download Vagrant now](/downloads.html) or read the +[complete CHANGELOG](https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/blob/v1.6.0/CHANGELOG.md). +Or, continue reading to get an overview of the new features and improvements +in Vagrant 1.6, as well as the direction we're heading for Vagrant 1.7. + +READMORE + + +### New Features + +Vagrant 1.6 has a large number of new features. We spent a month leading +up to the release of Vagrant 1.6 previewing each of these features. To +learn more about the new features in Vagrant 1.6, please read the preview +post for each: + + * [Global Status and Control](/blog/feature-preview-vagrant-1-6-global-status.html) - + Global Status shows you the status of all created Vagrant environments + on your machine. Global Control lets you control any of these created + environments from anywhere on your machine. + + * [Windows Guests](/blog/feature-preview-vagrant-1-6-windows.html) - + Windows is now a first-class officially supported guest OS for + Vagrant, meaning you can now `vagrant up` development environments running + on Windows. + + * [Docker-Based Development Environments](/blog/feature-preview-vagrant-1-6-docker-dev-environments.html) - + This allows Vagrant to run development environments within Linux containers + powered by Docker, rather than virtual machines. + +In addition to the above features we highlighted, Vagrant 1.6 has many more that +we didn't have time to cover in dedicated blog posts: + + * **New command: version** - This command not only shows the current + Vagrant version, but also queries the latest Vagrant version and tells + you if you are out of date. `vagrant -v` still exists to only show the + current version. + + * **Provisioners can now run 'once' or 'always'** - Prior to Vagrant 1.6, + provisioners would only run on the first `vagrant up`. This is still + the case, but provisioners can now be configured to run "always" to + run on any subsequent `vagrant up` or `vagrant reload` as well. + + * **Vagrantfiles can contain a post-up message** - This message will be + shown after a `vagrant up` and can be used to notify the user how the + development environment can be accessed and used. + + * **Boxes can now be compressed with LZMA** - LZMA compression can result + in much smaller boxes in a lot of cases, and Vagrant can now decompress + LZMA-compressed boxes. + +The documentation for Vagrant has been updated to cover all of these new +features, so you can learn details about each feature in the +[Vagrant documentation](http://docs.vagrantup.com). + +In addition to these features, dozens of improvements and bug fixes were +made to Vagrant. You can see these by reading the complete +[CHANGELOG](https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/blob/v1.6.0/CHANGELOG.md). + +### The Future + +Vagrant 1.6 continues the trend of Vagrant 1.5 of being a feature-heavy +release. With no backwards compatibility issues for Vagrantfiles or plugins, +we expect Vagrant 1.6 to become quickly adopted across Vagrant users. + +Work on Vagrant 1.7 is already underway. Vagrant 1.7 will have at least +one major new feature that has been heavily requested, but for the most +part we're focusing on improving existing features for 1.7. The result +of this work should be an extremely stable, feature-rich release. + +But, Vagrant 1.7 will include a few surprise features that people +are going to be _very_ excited about.