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Ansible Changes By Release
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0.4 "Unchained" ------- in progress, ETA May 2012
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* custom facts provided by the setup module mean no dependency on Ruby, facter, or ohai
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* sudo improvements, now works much more smoothly
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* OS X support in progress for ansible on the host and clients (modules still TBA)
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* list of hosts in playbooks can be expressed as a YAML list in addition to ; delimited
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* tweaks to SELinux implementation for file module
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* first_available_file feature, see selective_file_sources.yml in examples/playbooks for info
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* fixes for yum module corner cases on EL5
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* --extra-vars="a=2 b=3" etc, now available to inject parameters into playbooks from CLI
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* file module now correctly returns the mode in octal
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* modules can no longer include stderr output (paramiko limitation from sudo)
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* 'group_names' is now a variable made available to templates
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* variables in the 'all' section can be used to define other variables based on those values
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* fix for symlink handling in the file module
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* groups and users module takes an optional system=yes|no on creation (default no)
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* async handling improvements
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* service takes an enable=yes|no which works with chkconfig or updates-rc.d as appropriate
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* inventory_hostname variable available that contains the value of the host as ansible knows it
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* service module works better on Ubuntu
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* git module now does resets and such to work more smoothly on updates
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* fix to internals of hacking/test-module development script
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0.3 "Baluchitherium" -- April 23, 2012
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* Packaging for Debian, Gentoo, and Arch
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* Improvements to the apt and yum modules
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* A virt module
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* SELinux support for the file module
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* Ability to use facts from other systems in templates (aka exported
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resources like support)
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* Built in Ansible facts so you don't need ohai, facter, or Ruby
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* tempdir selections that work with noexec mounted /tmp
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* templates happen locally, not remotely, so no dependency on
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python-jinja2 for remote computers
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* advanced inventory format in YAML allows more control over variables
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per host and per group
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* variables in playbooks can be structured/nested versus just a flat namespace
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* manpage upgrades (docs)
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* various bugfixes
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* can specify a default --user for playbooks rather than specifying it
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in the playbook file
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* able to specify ansible port in ansible host file (see docs)
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* refactored Inventory API to make it easier to write scripts using Ansible
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* looping capability for playbooks (with_items)
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* support for using sudo with a password
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* module arguments can be unicode
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* A local connection type, --connection=local, for use with cron or
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in kickstarts
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* better module debugging with -D
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* fetch module for pulling in files from remote hosts
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* command task supports creates=foo for idempotent semantics, won't
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run if file foo already exists
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0.0.2 and 0.0.1
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* Initial stages of project
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