Ansible 2.1.3 RC3 is ready for testing

[James Cammarata]

Hi all, we're happy to announce that RC3 for 2.1.3 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 bug with Azure modules which may be using the latest rc6 library.

* Backported some docker_common fixes.

For those who may have noticed, we skipped an official RC2 announcement as we decided to include a few additional fixes after RC2 had been tagged and uploaded, so testers should use this most recent RC3.

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-2.1.3.0-0.3.rc3.tar.gz

SHA256: 4517b38a261b975f59baef3d7b522f9b84042a39ad24638983d4b0705597f3f4

You can also test against the git repository as follows:

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

$ cd ansible

$ git checkout v2.1.3.0-0.3.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-2.1.3.0.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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