Ansible 2.7

    • 2018-08-23 Alpha Release 1
    • 2018-08-30 Community Freeze (Non-Core Modules/Plugins)
    • 2018-08-30 Beta Release 1
    • 2018-09-06 Release Candidate 1 (If needed)
    • 2018-09-13 Release Candidate 2 (If needed)
    • 2018-09-20 Release Candidate 3 (If needed)
    • 2018-09-27 Release Candidate 4 (If needed)
    • 2018-10-04 General Availability

    Release Manager

    • Drop Py2.6 for controllers andissue #42972
    • Remove dependency on simplejson

    Engine Improvements

    • Performance improvement invoking Python modules pr #41749
    • Jinja native types will allow for users to render a Python native type.
    • Include feature changes and improvements
      • Create new argument that will allow for included tasks to inherit explicitly provided attributes. pr #39236
      • Create “private” functionality for allowing vars/default to be exposed outside of roles.
    • Provide a parameter for the template module to output to different encoding formats pr#42171

    Cloud Modules

    General

    • Cloud auth plugin
    • Inventory plugin for RDS pr #41919
    • Count support for ec2_instance
    • aws_eks module
    • Cloudformation stack sets support (PR#41669)
    • RDS instance and snapshot modules pr #43789
    • Diff mode improvements for cloud modules

    Azure

    Modules

    • New cli_config module donePR #42413.
    • New module
    • Refactor netconf_config module to add additional functionality. doneproposal #104 ()

    Windows

    • Added new connection plugin that uses PSRP as the connection protocol pr #41729

    Modules