Changes

v3.5.3

• another release to fix different doc generation issues 🫠

v3.5.2

• fix operation & fact docs generation

v3.5.1

Patch release with a bunch of great fixes. But notably want to call out two major changes for anyone working on the pyinfra code itself (huge thank you Daan for implementing these):

• feat: use ruff for linting and formatting (@DonDebonair)

• feat: use uv for project and dependency management (@DonDebonair)

Core fixes:

• api: correctly set context state+host when calling get_facts

• cli: catch exceptions when testing inventory/operation imports

• cli: fix/remove datetime timezone warnings (@wowi42)

• operations/files.block: correct behaviour when markers/block not found and no line provided (@morrison12)

• operations.util.packaging: extend PkgInfo for winget (@rod7760)

• facts/server: support negative value in sysctl (@imlonghao)

Docs:

• docs: fix dynamic execution example (@wowi42)

• docs: Specify how the recursive argument to directory() works (@cliffmccarthy)

• docs: change recommended installation methods (@DonDebonair)

• docs: update writing connectors

Tests:

• op.server.user tests: add exists_noop.json for user existence checks (fix warning) (@maisim)

• op.server.user tests: add noop_description (fix warning) (@maisim)

• fix: add missing command field in test (@maisim)

• tests: clear the host sftp memoization cache before setting up the mock (@wowi42)

• tests: export testgen class to a new package/repo

• tests: fix missing stage sets on state

v3.5

New release with some really awesome new features, brought to you by the fantastic contributions of the community. New stuff:

• add --diff argument to show file diffs for potential file changes (@jgelens)

• add _retries, _retry_delay and _retry_until global arguments (@shohamd4)

• parallelize disconnecting from hosts (@gwelch-contegix)

• enable using SCP instead of SFTP for SSH file transfers (@DonDebonair)

New and updated operations/facts:

• facts/server: add RebootRequired fact (@wowi42)

• operations/pip: support PEP-508 package versions (@morrison12)

• operations+facts/docker: add Docker plugin support (@DonDebonair)

• operations/files.put: add atime and mtime arguments (@vram0gh2)

• operations/openrc: support runlevel when enabling services (@sengo4hd)

• facts/yum+dnf+zypper: return repoid in repository facts

Operation/fact fixes:

• facts/files.File: add ls fallback support (@mrkbac)

• operations/openrc: add missing noop messages (@sengo4hd)

• operations/server.crontab: fix newline when replacing existing values (@Nananas)

• operations/files.block: fix examples doc (@morrison12)

• operations/files.block: fix case where file exists but line is missing (@morrison12)

• operations/files.block: improve handling of special characters in marker lines (@morrison12)

Internal/meta:

• documentation link fix (@sengo4hd)

v3.4.1

• fix config context when getting operation arguments

v3.4

Much delayed 3.4, great collection of additions and improvements. Huge THANK YOU to all contributors as always. New features:

• Add @podman connector (@Griffoen)

New and updated operations/facts:

• operations/docker.network: add support for aux addresses (@DonDebonair)

• operations/files: try multiple hash functions in files.get + files.put (@mrkbac)

• operations/files.download: add temp_dir argument (@scy)

• operations/files.download: add extra_curl_args and extra_wget_args arguments (@jgelens)

• operations/flatpak: add remote support (@Griffoen)

• operations/git + facts/git: add GitTag fact and support tag checkout (@wowi42)

• operations/server.mount: add support for FreeBSD mounts (@DtxdF)

• facts/server: add server.Port fact to find process listening on port (@missytake)

Operation/fact fixes:

• operations/docker: handle case where no docker containers/etc exist (@wowi42)

• operations/files + operations/crontab: fix deletion of lines when present=False (@bad)

• operations/files.block: avoid use of non-POSIX chown -n

• operations/files.put: fix copying of local file mode (@vram0gh2)

• operations/server.user: fix appending of user groups (@aaron-riact)

• facts/server.Mounts: fix whitespace and escaped character parsing (@lemmi)

• facts/systemd: treat mounted units as active

Internal/meta:

• remove unnecessary setuptools runtime dependency (@karlicoss)

v3.3.1

• connectors/ssh: fix extra keep_alive key passing through to paramiko connect call (@chipot)

• docs: refine installation guide with updated Python requirements and best practices (@wowi42)

v3.3

Second release of 2025: loads of adds, fixes and documentation improvements. A huge THANK YOU to all contributors. Slightly changed format for the change list based on commit messages which should speed up releases:

New operations & arguments:

• operations/freebsd: add FreeBSD operations & facts (@DtxdF)

• operations/files.move: new operation (@Pirols)

• operations/server.user: enable adding user to secondary groups (Pirols)

• operations/postgres: enhance role management by adding ALTER ROLE support (@wowi42)

• operations/postgres: enable modifying existing postgres databases (@wowi42)

• operations/docker.container: refactor to support container recreation (@minor-fixes)

Operation/fact fixes:

• operations/postgres: fix quoting of locale parameters (@xvello)

• operations/server: remove leftover deprecated parameter (@wowi42)

• operations/pacmen: update PACMAN_REGEX to support additional characters (@wowi42)

• operations/server.sysctl: handle 0 integer values correctly (@lemmi)

• operations/apt: dist-upgrade also supports –autoremove (@bauen1)

• operations/apt: fix parameter name in docs (@bauen1)

• operations/server: fix: lastlog is always null (@ingstem)

• operations/docker: Fixed a typo with the volumes parameter to docker.prune operation (@mpilone)

• facts/xbps.XbpsPackages: allow . in package names (@lemmi)

Connectors, CLI:

• connectors: improve detection of sudo password needed

• connectors/ssh: add support for ServerAliveInterval (@chipot)

• cli: enable -h as shorthand for –help (@NichtJens)

Docs:

• docs: Add a section explaining connector flow (@goetzk)

• docs: Add inventory processing note and reference it (@goetzk)

• docs: Add example of logging to using operations docs (@goetzk)

• docs: fix wrong example operation using forbidden argument ‘name’ (@robertmx)

• docs: Add a note to the docs about using _inner when calling operations from other operations (@CSDUMMI)

• docs: Document host, state, inventory in files.template (@mpilone)

• docs: Minor adjustments to wording help docs and help (@goetzk)

• docs: expand connectors documentation (@goetzk)

• docs: correct import path for any_changed, all_changed (@lemmi)

• docs: Add note re: global arguments to operations (@simonhammes)

Internal/meta:

• refactor: update opkg documentation and add requires_command to ZFS and Git tests (@wowi42)

• Update testing and development dependencies in setup.py (@wowi42)

• tests: Load test specs with PyYAML instead of json (@taliaferro)

• typing: Require explicit override decorator (@bauen1)

• api: don’t execute callbacks within a greenlet if we’re already in one

• ci: Github Actions support for python 3.12 (@wowi42)

• ci: Prevent docs job from running on forks (@simonhammes)

v3.2

Hello 2025! Here’s pyinfra 3.2 - with another incredible round of contributions from the community, THANK YOU ALL. New stuff:

• Add total counts to results summary (@NichtJens)

• Enable passing extra data via local.include (@TimothyWillard)

• Validate inventory files and display warnings for unexpected variables (@simonhammes)

New operations/facts:

• Add pipx operations (packages, upgrade_all, ensure_path) facts (PipxPackages, PipxEnvironment) and operations (@maisim)

• Add server.OsRelease fact (@wowi42)

• Add podman.PodmanSystemInfo and podman.PodmanPs facts (@bauen1)

• Add many extra arguments (including generic args) to files.FindFiles* facts (@JakkuSakura)

• Add system argument to git.config operation (@Pirols)

• Add psql_database argument to postgres operations & facts (@hamishfagg)

• Add files.Sha384File fact and sha384sum argument to files.download operation (@simonhammes)

• Add apt.SimulateOperationWillChange fact (@bauen1)

• Detect changes in apt.upgrade and apt.dist_upgrade operations (@bauen1)

• Add fibootmgr.EFIBootMgr fact (@bauen1)

• Add opkg facts and operations (@morrison12)

Fixes:

• Multiple fixes for server.crontab operation and facts (@JakkuSakura)

• Correctly handle latest argument with requirements file in pip.packages operation (@amiraliakbari)

• Fix regex used to parse installed apk packages (@simonhammes)

• Fix SSH connector overwriting known hosts files (@vo452)

Docs/internal tweaks:

• Add type annotations for many more operations (@simonhammes)

• Add typos CI checking to replace flake8-spellcheck (@simonhammes)

• Bump CI actions and dependencies (@simonhammes)

• Require JSON tests to include all arguments

• Remove unused configparser dependency (@bkmgit)

• Many small documentation fixes/tweaks

v3.1.1

• Improve errors with 2.x style @decorator (vs @decorator()) functions

• Document adding custom connectors (@simonhammes)

• Add basic API example to docs (@pirate)

• Fix sphinx warnings (@simonhammes)

• Fix force & pull arguments in git.worktree operation

• Fix server.reboot reconnection (@wackou)

• Fix chroot/local connector non-utf file gets (@evoldstad)

• Fix AptSources fact to parse components in order & with digits (@rsfzi)

v3.1

Here’s pyinfra 3.1 - a release primarily driven by contributors new and old - a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who dedicate time to work on pushing pyinfra forward. New stuff:

• Add zfs operations (dataset, snapshot, volume, filesystem) facts (Pools, Datasets, Filesystems, Snapshots, Volumes) (@taliaferro)

• Add flatpak operations (packages) and facts (FlatpakPackage, FlatpakPackages) (@JustScreaMy)

• Add jinja_env_kwargs argument to files.template operation (@DonDebonair)

• Add using dictionaries as @terraform output (map from group -> hosts)

• Add default @terraform output key - pyinfra_inventory.value, promote connector to beta

• Add support for multiple keys in each server.authorized_keys file (@matthijskooijman)

• Add print all dependency versions with --support flag (@kytta)

Fixes:

• Fix when ssh_hostname is set as override data, don’t do inventory hostname check

• Fix apt.AptSources parsing special characters (@CondensedTea)

• Fix server.reboot connection detection (@bauen1 + @lemmi)

• Fix systemd flagging of sockets running (@bauen1)

• Fix mysql dump quoting (@simonhammes)

• Fix tilde expansion in files facts (@simonhammes)

• Fix host lookup check with SSH alias config (@simonhammes)

• Fix crontab comparison (@andrew-d)

Docs/internal tweaks:

• Improve operations documentation (@bauen1)

• Default to local machine if user_name set in systecmt (@bauen1)

• Improve efficiency of Docker operations (@apecnascimento)

• Shallow copy host.data data to mutation

v3.0.2

• Fix OperationMeta.did_change: this is now a function as originally designed

• Add quick test for host.when context manager

• Remove extra detected changes note when not relevant

v3.0.1

• Switch to command -v not which in server.Which fact (@lemmi)

• Fix detection of xbps in server.packages operation (@romain-dartigues)

• Fix argument typo in operations doc (@scoufman)

• Add expanded note about detected changes + hidden side effects during execution

• Fix missing global arguments in group data files

• Fix --group-data CLI argument behaviour

• Remove unused/dead --quiet flag

v3.0

Welcome to pyinfra v3! This version is the biggest overhaul of pyinfra since it was created back in 2015. Most v2 deployment code should be automatically compatible, but as always be aware. Major changes:

Runtime operation execution

pyinfra now executes operations at runtime, rather than pre-generating commands. Although the change isn’t noticeable this fixes an entire class of bugs and confusion. See the limitations section in the v2 docs. All of those issues are now a thing of the past.

This represents a huge overhaul of pyinfra’s internals and should be a huge improvement for users.

Care has been taken to reduce the overhead of this change which still supports the same diffs and change proposal mechanism.

CLI flow & prompts

The pyinfra CLI will now prompt (instead of ignore, or immediately exit) when problems are encountered, allowing the user to choose to continue. Additionally an approval step is added before executing changes (this can be skipped with -y or setting the PYINFRA_YES environment variable).

Extendable connectors API, typing overhaul

v3 of pyinfra includes for the first time a (mostly) typed internal API with proper support for IDE linting. There’s a whole new connectors API that provides a framework for building new connectors.

Breaking changes

• Rename _use_sudo_password argument to _sudo_password

• Remove winrm connector and windows* operations/facts, moving to pyinfra-windows

• The deploy decorator must now be called, ie used as @deploy(), and is now typed

• Remove broken Ansible inventory connector

Operations & Facts

• Add docker.container, docker.image, docker.volume, docker.network & docker.prune operations (@apecnascimento)

• Add runit.service operation and RunitStatus fact (@lemmi)

• Add TmpDir fact

• Add services argument to systemd facts for filtering

• Add type hints for all the operations (@stone-w4tch3r)

• Lowercase pip packages properly (PEP-0426)

• Rename postgresql -> postgres operations & facts (old ones still work)

• Improve IP/MAC parsing in NetworkDevices fact (@sudoBash418)

• Enable getting Home fact for other users (@matthijskooijman)

• Use users correct home directory in server.user_authorized_keys operation (@matthijskooijman)

• Fix destination/not_destination arguments in iptables.rule operation

• Fix remote dirs when executing from Windows in files.sync operation (@Renerick)

• Fix quoting of systemd unit names (@martenlienen)

Other Changes

• Add new _if global argument to control operation execution at runtime

• Add --debug-all flag to set debug logging for all packages

• Retry SSH connections on failure (configurable, see SSH connector) (@fwiesel)

• Documentation typo fixes (@szepeviktor, @sudoBash418)

• Fix handling of binary files in Docker connector (@matthijskooijman)

• Add will_change attribute and did_change context manager to OperationMeta

• Replace use of pkg_resources with importlib.metadata (@diazona)

• Fix identifying Python inventory files as modules (@martenlienen)

• Fix typed arguments order (@cdleonard)

• Check that fact commands don’t take global arguments (@martenlienen)

v2.x

See this file in the 2.x branch.

v1.x

See this file in the 1.x branch.