Ansible 2.3.1 RC2 is available for testing

[James Cammarata]

We are happy to announce the availability of Ansible 2.3.1 RC2!

This release candidate includes a lot of small bug fixes, including (but not limited to):

* Performance fix when using loops, avoiding default serialization of classes in dump_attrs.

* Fixed a bug with the copy module, where symlinks were not being properly followed when doing checksums.

* Fixed a bug where the "always" portion of a block might be incorrectly skipped.

* Fix to increase the win_async_wrapper fire and forget sleep time.

* Fix pam_limits writing text to a file opened in binary mode.

* Fix template not showing a diff with a directory.

* Fix timeout issue in ansible-connection.

* Fixed a bug related to the new way we manage facts internally.

* Fix for UnboundLocalError while accessing deprecations in result in module_utils/basic.py.

* Added better detection for dead worker processes in the TQM.

* Fixes for Py3 and winrm connections.

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-2.3.1.0-0.2.rc2.tar.gz

SHA256: db9aa525739f9a8ee4a8596f35e505afea772c6ed0184ddd601c671ea4a3f511

You can also test against the git repository as follows:

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

$ cd ansible

$ git checkout <tagged version>

$ 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 in the dist/ directory):

$ 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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