Major changes:
* fact caching support, pluggable, initially supports Redis (DOCS pending)
* 'serial' size in a rolling update can be specified as a percentage
* added new Jinja2 filters, 'min' and 'max' that take lists
* new 'ansible_version' variable available contains a dictionary of version info
* For ec2 dynamic inventory, ec2.ini can has various new configuration options
* 'ansible vault view filename.yml' opens filename.yml decrypted in a pager.
* no_log parameter now surpressess data from callbacks/output as well as syslog
* ansible-galaxy install -f requirements.yml allows advanced options and installs from non-galaxy SCM sources and tarballs.
* command_warnings feature will warn about when usage of the shell/command module can be simplified to use core modules - this can be enabled in ansible.cfg
* new omit value can be used to leave off a parameter when not set, like so module_name: a=1 b={{ c | default(omit) }}, would not pass value for b (not even an empty value) if c was not set.
* developers: 'baby JSON' in module responses, originally intended for writing modules in bash, is removed as a feature to simplify logic, script module remains available for running bash scripts.
* async jobs started in "fire & forget" mode can now be checked on at a later time.
* added ability to subcategorize modules for docs.ansible.com
* added ability for shipped modules to have aliases with symlinks
* added ability to deprecate older modules by starting with "_" and including "deprecated: message why" in module docs
New Modules:
- cloud
* rax_cdb *-- manages Rackspace Cloud Database instances*
* rax_cdb_database *-- manages Rackspace Cloud Databases*
* rax_cdb_user *-- manages Rackspace Cloud Database users*
- monitoring
* bigpanda *-- support for bigpanda*
* zabbix_maintaince *-- handles outage windows with Zabbix*
- net_infrastructure
* a10_server *-- manages server objects on A10 devices*
* a10_service_group *-- manages service group objects on A10 devices*
* a10_virtual_server *-- manages virtual server objects on A10 devices*
- system
* getent *-- read getent databases*
Some other notable changes:
* added the ability to set "instance filters" in the ec2.ini to limit results from the inventory plugin.
* upgrades for various variable precedence items and parsing related items
* added a new "follow" parameter to the file and copy modules, which allows actions to be taken on the target of a symlink rather than the symlink itself.
* if a module should ever traceback, it will return a standard error, catchable by ignore_errors, versus an 'unreachable'
* ec2_lc: added support for multiple new parameters like kernel_id, ramdisk_id and ebs_optimized.
* ec2_elb_lb: added support for the connection_draining_timeout and cross_az_load_balancing options.
* support for symbolic representations (ie. u+rw) for file permission modes (file/copy/template modules etc.).
* docker: Added support for specifying the net type of the container.
* docker: support for specifying read-only volumes.
* docker: support for specifying the API version to use for the remote connection.
* openstack modules: various improvements
* irc: ssl support for the notification module
* npm: fix flags passed to package installation
* windows: improved error handling
* setup: additional facts on System Z
* apt_repository: certificate validation can be disabled if requested
* pagerduty module: misc improvements
* ec2_lc: public_ip boolean configurable in launch configurations
* ec2_asg: fixes related to proper termination of an autoscaling group
* win_setup: total memory fact correction
* ec2_vol: ability to list existing volumes
* ec2: can set optimized flag
* various parser improvements
* produce a friendly error message if the SSH key is too permissive
* ec2_ami_search: support for SSD and IOPS provisioned EBS images
* can set ansible_sudo_exe as an inventory variable which allows specifying
a different sudo (or equivalent) command
* git module: Submodule handling has changed. Previously if you used the
``recursive`` parameter to handle submodules, ansible would track the
submodule upstream's head revision. This has been changed to checkout the
version of the submodule specified in the superproject's git repository.
This is inline with what git submodule update does. If you want the old
behaviour use the new module parameter track_submodules=yes
* Checksumming of transferred files has been made more portable and now uses
the sha1 algorithm instead of md5 to be compatible with FIPS-140.
- As a small side effect, the fetch module no longer returns a useful value
in remote_md5. If you need a replacement, switch to using remote_checksum
which returns the sha1sum of the remote file.
* ansible-doc CLI tool contains various improvements for working with different terminals
And various other bug fixes and improvements ...