Ansible 2.1.3 RC1 is ready for testing

[James Cammarata]

Hi all, we're happy to announce that RC1 for 2.1.3 is now available for testing.

This release candidate addresses the following bugs:

* Fixed several bugs related to locating files relative to role/playbook directories.

* Fixed a bug in the way hosts were tested for failed states, resulting in incorrectly skipped block sessions.

* Fixed a bug in the way our custom JSON encoder is used for the to_json* filters.

* Fixed some bugs related to the use of non-ascii characters in become passwords.

* Fixed postgres* and subversion modules to ensure password fields were not displayed when no_log=True is used.

How do you get it?

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The tar.gz of the release can be found here:

http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.1.3.0-0.1.rc1.tar.gz

SHA256: 20ba6fa21632a96c6727edd080a4184e91c0aa756391d7a88988e626de66d961

You can also test against the git repository as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git

$ cd ansible

$ git checkout v2.1.3.0-0.1.rc1

$ git submodule update --init

You can then source our testing script:

$ . hacking/env-setup

or you can build your own .tar.gz (output will be dist/ansible-2.1.3.0.tar.gz):

$ make sdist

If you discover any errors, or if you see any regressions from playbooks which work on 1.9.x and prior, please open a Github issue and be sure to mention you're testing against this release candidate.

Thanks!

James Cammarata

Ansible Lead/Sr. Principal Software Engineer

Ansible by Red Hat

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