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This release requires Fabric >= 1.7.0 and drops support for Python 2.5.
* Add ``drop_user`` and ``drop_database`` in ``postgres`` module
* Add LinuxMint to the Debian family list (Frank Rousseau)
* Add support for git remotes (Bryan Folliot)
* Add support for Tomcat (Jan Kowalski)
* Add support for Gentoo / portage (Travis Shirk)
* Add support for Mercurial (Travis Shirk)
* Add support for GVM (Groovy environment manager) (Bryan Folliot)
* Documentation fixes and updates
* MySQL improvements:
* do not require a password when a specific user is specified
* expose ``mysql.query`` in the public API
* Python improvements:
* Switch to pip 1.5 (**warning**: you will need to use the
``allow_external`` and/or ``allow_unverified`` options to install
packages not hosted on PyPI)
* Update GitHub download URL for pip installer (Guillaume Andreu Sabater)
* Retry when trying to download pip/setuptools installers
* Add support for pip's ``--exists-action`` option
* Improved OS support in ``distrib_family()`` and new
``UnsupportedFamily`` exception
* Make sure to install ``curl`` before using it (ponty)
* Vagrant improvements:
* Add function to get the Vagrant version
* Add function to get the status of a Vagrant machine
* Add function to get the list of Vagrant machines
* Add function to get the list of Vagrant base boxes
* Files improvements:
* Add ``temp_dir`` parameter to ``require.file`` (default is ``tmp``)
* Add ``require.files.temporary_directory``
* Add ``files.umask`` to get the user's umask
* Fix ``require.file`` ownership and permissions when using ``sudo``
* Add helpers to copy, move, symlink or remove files
* Fix ``require.deb.uptodate_index``
* Use ``rpm`` instead of ``yum`` to check if an RPM package is installed
* Update JDK install to match changes to the Oracle web site
* Fix ``cron.add_task`` (thanks to Dan Fairs and Ikuya Yamada)