CHANGELOG/roadmap updates for Windows

pull/21567/head
Matt Davis 8 years ago
parent 8527013fbe
commit 67f74bbc81

@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Ansible Changes By Release
* On platforms that support it, use more modern system polling API instead of * On platforms that support it, use more modern system polling API instead of
select in the ssh connection plugin. This removes one limitation on how many select in the ssh connection plugin. This removes one limitation on how many
parallel forks are feasible on these systems. parallel forks are feasible on these systems.
* Windows supports become method "runas" to run modules as a different user, and to transparently access network resources.
* Windows now uses pipelining when executing modules, resulting in significantly faster execution for small tasks.
* Refactored/standardized most Windows modules, adding check-mode and * Refactored/standardized most Windows modules, adding check-mode and
diff support where possible. diff support where possible.
* Extended Windows module API with parameter-type support, helper functions. * Extended Windows module API with parameter-type support, helper functions.

@ -38,15 +38,15 @@ Target: February/March 2017
- **Windows platform** (nitzmahone) - **Windows platform** (nitzmahone)
- Pipelining support - Pipelining support **(done)**
- Become support - Become support **(done)**
- Integrated kerberos ticket management (via ansible_user/ansible_password) **(done)** - Integrated kerberos ticket management (via ansible_user/ansible_password) **(done)**
- Switch PS input encoding to BOM-less UTF8 - Switch PS input encoding to BOM-less UTF8 **(done)**
- Server 2016 support/testing (now RTMd) - Server 2016 support/testing (now RTMd) **(in progress)**
- Modularize Windows module_utils (allow N files) - Modularize Windows module_utils (allow N files) **(in progress)**
- Declarative argspec for PS / .NET - Declarative argspec for PS / .NET **(bumped to 2.4)**
- Kerberos encryption (via notting, pywinrm/requests_kerberos/pykerberos) - Kerberos encryption (via notting, pywinrm/requests_kerberos/pykerberos) **(in progress, available in pywinrm post 2.3 release)**
- Fix plugin-specific connection var lookup/delegation (either registered explicitly by plugins or ansible_(plugin)_*) - Fix plugin-specific connection var lookup/delegation (either registered explicitly by plugins or ansible_(plugin)_*) **(bumped to 2.4)**
- **Windows modules** (nitzmahone) - **Windows modules** (nitzmahone)

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