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Ansible 2.7
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Release Schedule
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Expected
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- 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
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Toshio Kuratomi (IRC: abadger1999; GitHub: @abadger)
Cleaning Duty
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- Drop Py2.6 for controllers `Docs PR #42971 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42971> `_ and
`issue #42972 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42972> `_
- Remove dependency on simplejson `issue #42761 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42761> `_
Engine Improvements
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- Make `` become `` plugin based. `pr #38861 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38861> `_
- Introduce a `` live `` keyword to provide modules the ability to push intermediate (live) updates `pr #13620 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/13620> `_
- Add content_path for mazer installed content `pr #42867 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42867/> `_
- Investigate what it will take to utilise the work performed by Mitogen maintainers. `pr #41749 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41749> `_ , `branch <https://github.com/jimi-c/ansible/tree/abadger-ansiballz-one-interpreter> `_ and talk to jimi-c
- Provide sane connection defaults by platform `ansible_platform` `proposal #77 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/77> `_
- Refactor connection/shell/action/terminal/become plugins to allow looser coupling and more mix-and-match behaviour.(nitzmahone)
- Investigate performance improvements in using threads as opposed to forks `branch from jimi-c
<https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/threading_plus_forking>`_
- Jinja native types will allow for users to render a Python native type. `pr #32738 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/32738> `_
Core Modules
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- Include feature changes and improvements
- Create new argument `` apply `` that will allow for included tasks to inherit explicitly provided attributes. `pr #39236 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39236> `_
- Create "private" functionality for allowing vars/default sot be exposed outside of roles. `pr #41330 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41330> `_
- Provide a parameter for the `` template `` module to output to different encoding formats `pr
#42171 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42171>`_
- `` reboot `` module for Linux hosts (@samdoran) `pr #35205 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35205> `_
Cloud Modules
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General
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* Cloud auth plugin `proposal #24 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/24> `_
AWS
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* Inventory plugin for RDS `pr #41919 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41919> `_
* Count support for `ec2_instance`
* `aws_eks` module `pr #41183 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41183> `_
* Cloudformation stack sets support (`PR#41669 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41669> `_ )
* RDS instance and snapshot modules `pr #39994 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39994> `_ `issue #19524 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/19524> `_
* Diff mode improvements for cloud modules `pr #37212 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37212> `_
Azure
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* Azure inventory plugin `issue #42769 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42769> `__
* Azure stack support for modules `project tracker <https://github.com/nitzmahone/ansible/projects/2> `__
Network
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General
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* Refactor the APIs in cliconf (`issue #39056 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39056> `_ ) and netconf (`issue #39160 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39160> `_ ) plugins so that they have a uniform signature across supported network platforms.
Modules
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* New `` cli_config `` module `issue #39228 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39228> `_
* New `` cli_command `` module `issue #39284 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39284> `_
* Refactor `` netconf_config `` module to add additional functionality. `proposal #104 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/104> `_
Windows
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General
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* Investigate the cause of WinRM HTTPS read timeouts `issue #41145 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41145> `__
* WinRM connection persistence (improves performance) `pr #41729 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41729> `__
* Experiment with OpenSSH + powershell `pr #33074 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/33074> `_
Modules
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* `win_domain` and `win_domain_controller` action wrappers `issue #42764 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42764> `__
* Add link to `win_file` `issue #43060 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43060> `__
* Hostname change support for `win_domain` and `win_domain_controller` `issue #42768 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42768> `__
