Brokkr 0.4.0 Alpha 1

2020-08-13

Alpha release with the following changes:

Core features

• Add input and output queues to tie together multiple pipelines
• Add support for TCP and arbitrary network packets as inputs
• Add binary file writing for output
• Add external drive discovery, mounting and selection
• Add netcat command to send commands and receive simple network data

Infrastructure

• Greatly enhance functionality of FileOutputStep and filename/path gen
• Add CLI option to select pipeline to run with brokkr status/monitor
• Enable ability to enable/disable specific pipelines with config option
• Add smart repr for large/binary objects in pretty printer

Under the hood

• Refactor network code for enhanced functionality, robustness and perf.
• Improve error handling and debug logging package-wide
• Improve error/NA/exit sentinels, shutdown and pipeline handling
• Further general refactoring, cleanup and commenting