- Connection error messages may contain characters that jinja2 would interpret as a template. Wrap the error string so this doesn't happen (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37329)
- Fix onyx_linkagg module writing debugging information to a tempfile on the remote machine (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37308)
- terraform - fixed typo in module result stdout value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37253)
- setup - ensure that `ansible_lo` is properly nested under ansible_facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37360)
v2.5.0rc2
=========
Major Changes
-------------
@ -41,140 +25,6 @@ Major Changes
* Loads of bug fixes.
* Plus lots more.
Bugfixes
--------
- tower_* modules - fix credentials to work with v1 and v2 of Ansible Tower API
- docker_container, docker_image, docker_network modules - Update to work with Docker SDK 3.1
- edgeos_facts - fix error when there are no commit revisions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/37123)
- setup.py - Ensure we install ansible-config and ansible-inventory with `pip install -e` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37151)
- Fix bytes/text handling in maven_artifact that was causing tracebacks on Python3
- znode - fixed a bug calling the zookeeper API under Python3 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36999
- Fix for unarchive when users use the --strip-components extra_opt to tar causing ansible to set permissions on the wrong directory. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37048
- win_lineinfile - fixed issue where \r and \n as a string was converted to newline (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35100)
- win_uri - return response info and content on a non 200 message
- win_wait_for - fixed issue when trying to check a localport when the port is not available externally
v2.5.0rc1
=========
Minor Changes
-------------
- aci_* modules - added signature based authentication
- aci_* modules - included dedicated ACI documentation
- aci_* modules - improved ACI return values
Deprecated Features
-------------------
- Apstra's ``aos_*`` modules are deprecated as they do not work with AOS 2.1 or higher. See new modules at `https://github.com/apstra <https://github.com/apstra>`_.
Bugfixes
--------
- include_role - improved performance and recursion depth (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36470)
- lineinfile - fixed regexp used with insert(before|after) inserting duplicate lines (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36156)
- Fix for ansible_*_interpreter on Python3 when using non-newstyle modules. Those include old-style ansible modules and Ansible modules written in non-python scripting languages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36541)
- fix for ansible-vault always requesting passwords (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/33027)
- nxos_bgp_neighbor - fixed various module arg issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36318)
- vyos_l3_interface - fixed issues with multiple addresses on an interface (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36377)
- nxos_banner - fixed issues with unstructured output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36411)
- nxos_bgp_neighbor_af - fixed various issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36472)
- vyos_config - fixed IndexError in sanitize_config (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36375)
- cs_user - fixed user_api_secret return for ACS 4.10+ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36447)
- nxos_* modules - various fixes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36514)
- fix cases where INVENTORY_UNPARSED_IS_FAILED didn't fail (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36034)
- aws_ses_identity - fixed failure on missing identity info (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36065)
- ec2_vpc_net_facts - fixed traceback for regions other than us-east-1 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35302)
- aws_waf_* - fixed traceback on WAFStaleDataException (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36405)
- ec2_group - fixed check_mode when using tags (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36503)
- loop item labels will now update if templated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36430)
- win_feature - will display a more helpful error when it fails during execution (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36491)
v2.5.0b2
========
Major Changes
-------------
- New simpler and more intuitive 'loop' keyword for task loops. The ``with_<lookup>`` loops will likely be deprecated in the near future and eventually removed.
- Added fact namespacing; from now on facts will be available under ``ansible_facts`` namespace (for example: ``ansible_facts.os_distribution``)
@ -238,10 +88,18 @@ Minor Changes
the spelling of the config value. ANSIBLE\_REMOTE\_TEMP will be
deprecated in the future.
- aci_* modules - added signature based authentication
- aci_* modules - included dedicated ACI documentation
- aci_* modules - improved ACI return values
Deprecated Features
-------------------
- Apstra's ``aos_*`` modules are deprecated as they do not work with AOS 2.1 or higher. See new modules at `https://github.com/apstra <https://github.com/apstra>`_.
- Previously deprecated 'hostfile' config settings have been
're-deprecated' because previously code did not warn about deprecated
configuration settings.
@ -742,26 +600,50 @@ New Modules
Bugfixes
--------
- tower_* modules - fix credentials to work with v1 and v2 of Ansible Tower API
- azure_rm modules - updated with internal changes to use API profiles and kwargs for future Azure Stack support and better stability between SDK updates. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35538)
- fixed memory bloat on nested includes by preventing blocks from self-parenting (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36075)
- updated to ensure displayed messages under peristent connections are returned to the controller (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36064)
- docker_container, docker_image, docker_network modules - Update to work with Docker SDK 3.1
- edgeos_facts - fix error when there are no commit revisions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/37123)
- eos_vrf and eos_eapi - fixed vrf parsing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35791)
- include_role - improved performance and recursion depth (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36470)
- interface_file - now accepts interfaces without address family or method (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/34200)
- lineinfile - fixed insertion if pattern already exists (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/33393)
- lineinfile - fixed regexp used with insert(before|after) inserting duplicate lines (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36156)
- Connection error messages may contain characters that jinja2 would interpret as a template. Wrap the error string so this doesn't happen (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37329)
- nxos_evpn_vni - fixed a number of issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35930)
- nxos_igmp_interface - fixed response handling for different nxos versions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35959)
- nxos_interface_ospf - added various bugfixes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35988)
- Fix onyx_linkagg module writing debugging information to a tempfile on the remote machine (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37308)
- openshift modules - updated to client version 0.4.0 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35127)
- setup.py - Ensure we install ansible-config and ansible-inventory with `pip install -e` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37151)
- Fix for ansible_*_interpreter on Python3 when using non-newstyle modules. Those include old-style ansible modules and Ansible modules written in non-python scripting languages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36541)
- Fix bytes/text handling in maven_artifact that was causing tracebacks on Python3
- znode - fixed a bug calling the zookeeper API under Python3 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36999
- Fix for unarchive when users use the --strip-components extra_opt to tar causing ansible to set permissions on the wrong directory. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37048
- fixed templating issues in loop_control (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36124)
- ansible-config - fixed traceback when no config file is present (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35965)
@ -772,6 +654,82 @@ Bugfixes
- ios_ping - updated to allow for count > 70 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36142)
- fix for ansible-vault always requesting passwords (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/33027)
Matt Davis
7 years ago