We are happy to announce the availability of Ansible 2.3.0 RC1! There are many new things to try out with this release:
* Shared code for modules can now be placed in "module_utils" directories local to your playbook and/or roles to make it easier to share code across locally developed modules. * Allow async tasks to work when an action plugin is used. * Added a new "dense" callback to produce a more condensed output. * A total of 1034 modules (~140 more than 2.2), including: - A new group of modules to aid in automating your Ansible Tower instances. - A new group of modules for managing oVirt. - A few new modules for AWS, including support for KMS and ECS/ECR. - More below... For Windows: * Pipelining support for faster module execution (~20-50% performance boost for many modules). * Support for the "runas" become method to execute as a different user and allow for transparent second-hop authentication in many cases. * Many other improvements for existing WIndows modules such as check mode, and other fixes for the winrm connection type. * Fourteen new modules, including: - win_domain - win_domain_controller - win_domain_membership - win_path - win_region - win_shortcut In the network space: * We’ve introduced new performance upgrades and additional vendor support. For more information about what’s new with Ansible Networking, take a look at our blog post ( https://www.ansible.com/blog/networking-features-in-ansible-2-3), and check out the expanded list of Network Modules now available here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_network_modules.html. * This release brings the total number of networking modules up to 267. We are tracking a handful of issues for this release candidate that we expect to have fixed by the time we release version 2.3; you can monitor the list of known issues here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20milestone%3A2.3.0 How do you get it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The tar.gz of the release can be found here: http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.3.0.0-0.1.rc1.tar.gz SHA256: 0f1f12449e3a981c2f0206ec35cfcccbe8d989b64db1464e53fee30e1e3b2fea You can also test against the git repository as follows: $ git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git $ cd ansible $ git checkout <tagged version> $ git submodule update --init You can then source our testing script: $ . hacking/env-setup or you can build your own .tar.gz (output will be in the dist/ directory): $ make sdist If you discover any errors, or if you see any regressions from playbooks which work on 1.9.x and prior, please open a Github issue and be sure to mention you're testing against this release candidate. Thanks! James Cammarata Ansible Lead/Sr. Principal Software Engineer Ansible by Red Hat twitter: @thejimic, github: jimi-c -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
