[Machinery] Machinery 1.6.0 is out!

[Federica Teodori]

Right on time before the Easter break, the Machinery team is happy to
announce the availability of machinery 1.6.0.

This release is all about filtering.

In the previous version we already introduced the “--skip-files” option,
making it possible for you to exclude unmanaged files or directories
from a system description.  
There might be times in which it’s useful to have a complete account of
all filters used during an inspection - for this reason you can now add
“--verbose” to both the “inspect” and the “show” command. 
While a “machinery inspect --verbose HOSTNAME” will tell you right away
what you’re filtering out the current inspection, 
“machinery show --verbose HOSTNAME” will be very useful whenever you are
about to review an older system description. By the way, give it a try
also in the html view!

If you still want to hear more about filters and are not afraid to face
a little adventure keep reading what we have to say about the current
experimental features.

Experimental features are… well, experimental. You've been warned.
You can turn them on quickly with a 
“machinery config experimental-features on”, but you might also want to
have a look at: 
https://github.com/SUSE/machinery/wiki/Experimental-Features

The new feature here is “--exclude”: You can use it to specify your very
own filters - as long as you are following few directions.
If you want to know how, and do things like a filter that matches all
services that are *not* enabled, go ahead and have a look at :
https://github.com/SUSE/machinery/blob/master/docs/Filtering-Design.md

Last but not least, have a look at the changelog for the remaining
changes and improvements.
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## Version 1.6.0 - Wed Apr 01 15:43:17 CEST 2015
* Add experimental `--exclude` option to exclude elements from
inspection.
  Run `machinery config experimental-features on` to enable the option
* Support global `--exclude` option for `show` command.
  This feature is available when the experimental-features option is on.
* Add `--verbose` option to `inspect` command to display the filters
which
  were used during inspection
* Add `--verbose` option to `show` command to display the filters which
were
  applied before showing the system description
* Show progress on upgrading the system description format
* Improve help for users when upgrading system descriptions
* Fix piping output of Machinery to less 
  ( https://github.com/SUSE/machinery/issues/521 )
* Better help for users when upgrading format of system descriptions
* Add option to show command to display filters used during inspection
* Support negated filter expressions in --exclude option
* Show filters used during inspection in HTML view
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We hope you’ll enjoy this release, and please do get in touch with us if
you have any feedback or questions. 

Sincerely, 
Your Machinery team