Changelog updates and a few module renames. vpc -> ec2_vpc, githooks -> github_hooks, blacklist -> kernel_blacklist. These are all new in 1.4 so safe to change.
* added a fileglob filter that will return files matching a glob pattern. with_items: "/foo/pattern/*.txt | fileglob"
* 'changed' filter returns whether a previous step was changed easier. when: registered_result | changed
* DOCS NEEDED: 'unique' and 'intersect' filters are added for dealing with lists.
* DOCS NEEDED: new lookup plugin added for etcd
* a 'func' connection type to help people migrating from func/certmaster.
Misc changes:
@ -54,10 +77,10 @@ Misc changes:
* Added parameter to allow the fetch module to skip the md5 validation step ('validate_md5=false'). This is usefull when fetching files that are actively being written to, such as live log files.
* Inventory hosts are used in the order they appear in the inventory.
* in hosts: foo[2-5] type syntax, the iterators now are zero indexed and the last index is non-inclusive, to match Python standards.
* There's now a way for a callback plugin to disable itself. See osx_say example code for an example.
* There is now a way for a callback plugin to disable itself. See osx_say example code for an example.
* Many bugfixes to modules of all types.
* Complex arguments now can be used with async tasks
* SSH ControlPath is now configurable in ansible.cfg. There's a limit to the lengths of these paths, see how to shorten them in ansible.cfg.
* SSH ControlPath is now configurable in ansible.cfg. There is a limit to the lengths of these paths, see how to shorten them in ansible.cfg.
* md5sum support on AIX with csum.
* Extremely large documentation refactor into subchapters
* Added 'append_privs' option to the mysql_user module
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* file module more tolerant of non-absolute paths in softlinks.
* miscellaneous fixes/upgrades to async polling logic.
* conditions on roles now pass to dependent roles
*
* ansible_sudo_pass can be set in a host variable if desired
* misc fixes for the pip an easy_install modules
* support for running handlers that have parameterized names based on role parameters
* added support for compressing MySQL dumps and extracting during import
* Boto version compatibility fixes for the EC2 inventory script
* in the EC2 inventory script, a group 'EC2' and 'RDS' contains EC2 and RDS hosts.
* umask is enforced by the cron module
* apt packages that are not-removed and not-upgraded do not count as changes
* the assemble module can now use src files from the local server and copy them over dynamically
* authorization code has been standardized between Amazon cloud modules
* the wait_for module can now also wait for files to exist or a regex string to exist in a file
* leading ranges are now allowed in ranged hostname patterns, ex: [000-250].example.com
* pager support added to ansible-doc (so it will auto-invoke less, etc)
* misc fixes to the cron module
* get_url module now understands content-disposition headers for deciding filenames
* it is possible to have subdirectories in between group_vars/ and host_vars/ and the final filename, like host_vars/rack42/asdf for the variables for host 'asdf'. The intermediate directories are ignored, and do not put a file in there twice.
1.3.4 "Top of the World" (reprise) - October 29, 2013
# Cleaning all hooks for this repo that had an error on the last update. Since this works for all hooks in a repo it is probably best that this would be called from a handler.
Michael DeHaan
11 years ago