What’s New Add a “lazy loading” option for startup scripts. Refer to the installation instructions for more details.

What’s New In This Release? Clean up interactive mode flag setting. Add support for Python 2.6, contributed by heavenshell. Fix multi-word commands in interactive mode.

What’s New in 3.3? Clean up file permissions and remove shebangs from scripts not intended to be executed on the command line. (contributed by ralphbean) Worked on some brittle tests. Received updates to Japanese translation of the documentation from t2y. Fix the test script and runner so the user’s $WORKON_HOME is not erased if they do not have some test shells installed. (big thanks to agriffis). If the hook loader is told to list plugins but is not given a hook name, it prints the list of core hooks.

What’s New In This Release? Asking for help about a command by prefix lists all matching commands. Add formatters for HTML, JSON, and YAML.

Finding the name of the program from which a Python module is running can be trickier than it would seem at first, and investigating the reasons led to some interesting experiments.

What’s New In This Release? Add ShowOne base class for commands that show details about single objects. Fix a problem with Lister when there is no data to be printed.

What’s New In This Release? Add shell formatter for single objects. Add interactive mode. Expand documentation.

What’s New In This Release? Incorporate changes from dtroyer to replace use of optparse in App with argparse. Added “help” subcommand to replace –help option handling in subcommands.

What’s New In This Release? This is the first public release of cliff. It is alpha software, mostly because the API between list commands and output formatters may need to change.

These are my notes from the Design Summit and Conference kicking off the Folsom release of OpenStack, held April 16-20, 2012 in San Francisco, CA. Much more happened than I could hope to capture in a single post, but I can publish most of my notes from the design sessions.