- dnf properly honor disable_gpg_check for local (on local disk of remote node) package installation
- fix yum module to handle list argument optional empty strings properly
- netconf_config - Make default_operation optional in netconf_config module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46333)
- win_nssm - Drop support of literal YAML dictionnary for ``app_parameters`` option. Use the ``key=value;`` string form instead
- yum - properly handle proxy password and username embedded in url
- yum/dnf - fail when space separated string of names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47109)
Bugfixes
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- Ansible JSON Decoder - Switch from decode to object_hook to support nested use of __ansible_vault and __ansible_unsafe (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45514)
- Don't parse parameters and options when ``state`` is ``absent`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45700).
- FieldAttribute - Do not use mutable defaults, instead allow supplying a callable for defaults of mutable types (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46824)
- Fix an issue with the default telnet prompt handling. The value needs to be escaped otherwise it does not work when converted to bytes.
- Fix calling deprecate with correct arguments (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46062).
- Fix iterator to list conversion in ldap_entry module.
- Fix pip module so that it can recognize multiple extras
- Fix prompt mismatch issue for ios (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47004)
- Fix the issue with refreshing the token by storing Authorization header inside HttpApi connection plugin.
- Fix the quoting of vhost and other names in rabbitmq_binding
- Fix the win_reboot plugin so that the post_reboot_delay parameter is honored
- Fixed an issue with ansible-doc -l failing when parsing some plugin documentation.
- Fixed: Appropriate code to expand value was missing so assigning SSL certificate is not working as described in the documentation. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45830
- Fixes an error that occurs when attempting to see if the netns already exists on the remote device. This change will now execute ``ip netns list`` and check if the desired namespace is in the output.
- Give user better error messages and more information on verbose about inventory plugin behaviour
- Hardware fact gathering now completes on Solaris 8. Previously, it aborted with error `Argument 'args' to run_command must be list or string`.
- Ignore empty result of rabbitmqctl list_user_permissions.
- In systemd module, allow scope to default to 'system'
- In systemd module, fix check if a systemd+initd service is enabled - disabled in systemd means disabled
- Only access EC2 volume tags when set
- Only delete host key from redis in-memory cache if present.
- PLUGIN_FILTERS_CFG - Ensure that the value is treated as type=path, and that we use the standard section of ``defaults`` instead of ``default`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45994)
- Refactor virtual machine disk logic.
- Restore SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL when creating subprocesses to avoid it being ignored under Python 2.
- Rewrite get_resource_pool method for correct resource_pool selection.
- The docker_* modules more uniformly check versions of docker-py/docker and (if necessary) the docker API.
- Update callbacks to use Ansible's JSON encoder to avoid known serialization issues
- Update the signatures of many cliconf plugins' get() methods to support the check_all paramter. Specifically, aireos, aruba, asa, ce, cnos, dellos6, dellos9, dellos10, edgeos, enos, exos, ironware, nos, onyx, routeros, slxos, and voss were updated. This fixes the cli_command module for these platforms
- Vultr - fix for unreliable API behaviors resulting in timeouts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45712/).
- ansible-connection - Clean up socket files if playbook aborted before connection is started.
- ansible-doc, removed local hardcoded listing, now uses the 'central' list from constants and other minor issues
- aws_ec2 - fixed issue where cache did not contain the computed groups
- aws_ssm_parameter_store - AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store may reach an internal limit before finding the expected parameter, causing misleading results. This is resolved by paginating the describe_parameters call.
- azure_rm_deployment - fixed regression that prevents resource group from being created (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45941)
- blockinfile - use bytes rather than a native string to prevent a stacktrace in Python 3 when writing to the file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46237)
- chroot connection - Support empty files with copying to target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36725)
- cs_instance - Fix docs and typo in examples (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46035).
- cs_instance - Fix host migration without volume (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46115).
- delegate_to - When templating ``delegate_to`` in a loop, don't use the task for a cache, return a special cache through ``get_vars`` allowing looping over a hostvar (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47207)
- docker connection - Support empty files with copying to target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36725)
- docker_container - Fix idempotency problems with ``cap_drop`` and ``groups`` (when numeric group IDs were used).
- docker_container - Fix type conversion errors for ``log_options``.
- docker_container - Fixing various comparison/idempotency problems related to wrong comparisons. In particular, comparisons for ``command`` and ``entrypoint`` (both lists) no longer ignore missing elements during idempotency checks.
- docker_container - Makes ``blkio_weight``, ``cpuset_mems``, ``dns_opts`` and ``uts`` options actually work.
- docker_container - ``publish_ports: all`` was not used correctly when checking idempotency.
- docker_container - fail if ``ipv4_address`` or ``ipv6_address`` is used with a too old docker-py version.
- docker_container - fix behavior of ``detach: yes`` if ``auto_remove: yes`` is specified.
- docker_container - fix idempotency check for published_ports in some special cases.
- docker_container - the behavior is improved in case ``image`` is not specified, but needed for (re-)creating the container.
- docker_network - fixes idempotency issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/33045) and name substring issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32926).
- docker_service - correctly parse string values for the `scale` parameter https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45508
- docker_volume - fix ``force`` and change detection logic. If not both evaluated to ``True``, the volume was not recreated.
- dynamic includes - Use the copied and merged task for calculating task vars in the free strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47024)
- ec2_group - There can be multiple security groups with the same name in different VPCs. Prior to 2.6 if a target group name was provided, the group matching the name and VPC had highest precedence. Restore this behavior by updated the dictionary with the groups matching the VPC last.
- ec2_group - support EC2-Classic by not assuming security groups have VPCs.
- ec2_metadata_facts - Parse IAM role name from metadata ARN instead of security credential field.
- fetch_url did not always return lower-case header names in case of HTTP errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45628).
- fix azure_rm_autoscale module can create a schedule with fixed start/end date (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47186)
- fix flatten to properly handle multiple lists in lists https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46343
- get_url - improve code that parses checksums from a file so it is not fragile and reports a helpful error when no matching checksum is found
- handlers - fix crash when handler task include tasks
- jail connection - Support empty files with copying to target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36725)
- nmcli - fix syntax of vlan modification command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42322)
- nxos_file_copy fix for binary files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46822).
- openssl_csr - fix byte encoding issue on Python 3
- openssl_pkcs12 - fix byte encoding issue on Python 3
- os_router - ``enable_snat: no`` was ignored.
- ovirt_host_network - check for empty user_opts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47283).
- ovirt_vm - Check next_run configuration update if exist (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47282/).
- ovirt_vm - Fix initialization of cloud init (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47354).
- ovirt_vm - Fix issue in SSO option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47312).
- ovirt_vm - Fix issue in setting the custom_compatibility_version to NULL (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47388).
- pamd: add delete=False to NamedTemporaryFile() fixes OSError on module completion, and removes print statement from module code. (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47281 and https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47080)
- pamd: use module.tmpdir for NamedTemporaryFile() (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47133 and https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36954)
- postgresql_user - create pretty error message when creating a user without an encrypted password on newer PostgreSQL versions
- psrp - Fix issue when dealing with unicode values in the output for Python 2
- reboot - add reboot_timeout parameter to the list of parameters so it can be used.
- reboot - add support for OpenBSD
- reboot - use correct syntax for fetching a value from a dict and account for bare Linux systems (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45607#issuecomment-422403177)
- reboot - use unicode instead of bytes for stdout and stderr to match the type returned from low_level_execute()
- roles - Ensure that we don't overwrite roles that have been registered (from imports) while parsing roles under the roles header (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47454)
- route53 - fix CAA record ordering for idempotency.
- ssh connection - Support empty files with piped transfer_method (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45426)
- templar - Do not strip new lines in native jinja - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46743
- unsafe - Add special casing to sets, to support wrapping elements of sets correctly in Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47372)
- use proper module_util to get Ansible version for Azure requests
- user - add documentation on what underlying tools are used on each platform (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44266)
- user module - do not pass ssh_key_passphrase on cmdline (CVE-2018-16837)
- vmware - honor "wait_for_ip_address" when powering on a VM
- vultr_server - fix diff for user data (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45753/).
- vyos_facts - fix vyos_facts not returning version number issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39115)
- win_copy - Fix issue where the dest return value would be enclosed in single quote when dest is a folder - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45281
- win_nssm - Add missing space between parameters with ``app_parameters``
- win_nssm - Correctly escape argument line when a parameter contains spaces, quotes or backslashes
- win_nssm - Fix error when several services were given to the ``dependencies`` option
- win_nssm - Fix extra space added in argument line with ``app_parameters`` or ``app_parameters_free_form`` when a parameter start by a dash and is followed by a period (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44079)
- win_nssm - Fix service not started when ``state=started`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35442)
- win_nssm - Fix several issues and idempotency problems (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44755)
- winrm - Only use pexpect for auto kerb auth if it is installed and contains the required kwargs - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43462
- zabbix_host - module was failing when zabbix host was updated with new interface and template depending on that interface at the same time
- zone connection - Support empty files with copying to target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36725)
Toshio Kuratomi
7 years ago