Ansible 2.1.1 RC2 is ready for testing

[James Cammarata]

Hi all, we're happy to announce that RC2 for 2.1.1 is now available for testing.

This release candidate fixes several more bugs since the RC1 release:

* Several fixes to the way async works to prevent race conditions and other bugs

* More fixes to the way failed and unreachable hosts affect future plays

* Fixed a bug in the way the to_json filter encoded some objects

* Fixed a bug in the way roles and dependencies are loaded, and how they inherit

  params from parent roles.

* Fixed a bug in which the number of retries in a do/until loop was off by one

* Fixed a bug in the way the passwd lookup deals with salts

* When using the local connection, internally the remote_user value is now forced

  to be the current user even if remote_user is specified, to prevent issues with

  become settings

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-2.1.1.0-0.2.rc2.tar.gz

SHA256: 2a92eb81e2ddd4fe40d5b6d96a2727d9c5eb075919b1cf678789ef729e27b53a

You can also test against the git repository as follows:

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

$ cd ansible

$ git checkout v2.1.1.0-0.2.rc2

$ 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-2.1.1.0.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

twitter: @thejimic, github: jimi-c