Added new features

7.x-2.x branch is released. It has the following new features:

• Expiry date format is configurable. Also it can contain date and time. Configuration is available via Configuration -> Workflow -> Node expire -> Format of expiry date. For example, formats like 10/18/2015 18:22 (m/d/Y H:i) or 25-05-2015 (d-m-Y) can be used. Hence, the branch has fixes for #979800: Date format and #366475: Date and time instead of just date?.
• Rules module is no longer a requirement. It is possible to configure some basic actions directly without Rules module usage. Just go to admin/structure/types and configure the node type under the Publishing options -> Node expire -> Action to do. Possible actions are:
• None (do nothing).
• Invoke Rules event (with Rules module installed).
• Node publish.
• Node unpublish.
• Make node sticky.
• Make node unsticky.
• Promote node to front page.
• Remove node from front page.
• The module has been completely rewritten in object-oriented Drupal 8 style. This is an intermediate stage for Drupal 8 module version. For Drupal 8 OOP (Object Oriented Programming) style in Drupal 7 version X Autoload module >=7.x-5.0 is required.

7.x-1.x branch can be upgraded to 7.x-2.x, but not vice versa. Shift back is not recommended, because some content type date settings can be lost - in 7.x-2.x they have more advanced format in order to keep date and time.

Please test the 7.x-2.x version on non-production sites first.