As of this release, version 2.x of Capistrano is officially End of Life. No further releases of 2.x series are planned, and pull requests against 2.x are no longer accepted. The maintainers encourage you to upgrade to 3.x if possible.

Breaking changes:

• None

New features:

• #1943: Make 'releases' and 'shared' directory names configurable from deployment target
• #1922: Prevents last good release from being deleted during cleanup if there are too many subsequent failed deploys
• #1930: Default to locking the version using the pessimistic version operator at the patch level.

Fixes:

• #1937: Clarify error message when plugin is required in the wrong config file.