Today marks the release of the first major update to Automat:ee in 4 months. No one's really asked for anything and it was surprisingly stable so there didn't seem to be much of a need really. Till recently anyway, when a couple needs came up for better debugging tools, config overrides, NSM Update Notifier support and even a couple bug fixes and internal tweaks.

First, the debug tools now allow you to set a "mode" within Automat:ee that will send an email alert any time anything goes wrong with a Cron along with it's contents. This should help work out issues with external systems that Automat:ee is executing.

Then there's the new Run mechamism that allows users to excecute Crons from within the ExpressionEngine control panel. Next to each Cron is a simple link, click it and your Cron will run. Easy.

Finally, there's been a slew of tweaks such as

Updated URL request to use CURL instead of file_get_contents()
Abstracted out Cron methods into own class/library
Removed Instructions method
Added check for https on Ajax URls
Added error function to Ajax object for status alerts
Added NSM Update Notifier Support
Added config override options

Hit up Devot:ee to download the update.