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
- Azure inventory plugin issue #42769
- Refactor the APIs in cliconf () and netconf (issue #39160) plugins so that they have a uniform signature across supported network platforms. done() (PR #43643) ()(PR #43203) () (PR #44157)
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