Ansible 2.2.0 RC3 is ready for testing

[James Cammarata]

Hi all, we're happy to announce that RC3 for 2.2.0 is now available for testing.

This release candidate addresses the following bugs:

* Fixed a bug where a custom module could overwrite connection-based variables.

* Fixed a bug with apt_key, where the use of long keys caused some problems (#5237, #5353, #5357)

* Fixed a race condition bug in the new Windows async support.

* Fixed a bug where include_role was not failing if the specified "tasks_from" file was not found.

* Fixed a bug related to async tasks running in check mode.

* Fixed a bug with handlers so that both by name and by listen target work.

* Fixed a bug related to 'smart' connection mode and the scp_if_ssh setting when fetching files.

* Various fixes related to facts.

* Many more Python 3 fixes.

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-2.2.0.0-0.3.rc3.tar.gz

SHA256: 9bd7443428dee83b8c6344c2730bf4c640589e0f24b8671c1de2b0c5d831facb

You can also test against the git repository as follows:

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

$ cd ansible

$ git checkout v2.2.0.0-0.3.rc3

$ 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-2.2.0.0.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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