Ansible 2.7

Release Schedule

Expected

  • 2018-08-23 Core Freeze (Engine and Core Modules/Plugins)
  • 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

Toshio Kuratomi (IRC: abadger1999; GitHub: @abadger)

Cleaning Duty

Engine Improvements

  • Performance improvement invoking Python modules pr #41749
  • Jinja native types will allow for users to render a Python native type. pr #32738

Core Modules

  • Include feature changes and improvements
    • Create new argument apply 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. pr #41330
  • Provide a parameter for the template module to output to different encoding formats pr#42171
  • reboot module for Linux hosts (@samdoran) pr #35205

Cloud Modules

General

AWS

Azure

Network

General

Modules

Windows

General

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

Modules

  • Revamp Chocolatey to fix bugs and support offline installation pr #43013.

  • Add Chocolatey modules that can manage the following Chocolatey features