Ansible 2.0.1 RC1 is available for testing!

[James Cammarata]

Hi all, we're happy to announce the RC1 release candidate for Ansible 2.0.1!

This release candidate includes many bug fixes since the 2.0 release:

* Fixes a major compatibility break in the synchronize module shipped with
  2.0.0.x.  That version of synchronize ran sudo on the controller prior to
  running rsync.  In 1.9.x and previous, sudo was run on the host that rsync
  connected to.  2.0.1 restores the 1.9.x behaviour.
* Additionally, several other problems with where synchronize chose to run when
  combined with delegate_to were fixed.  In particular, if a playbook targetted
  localhost and then delegated_to a remote host the prior behavior (in 1.9.x
  and 2.0.0.x) was to copy files between the src and destination directories on
  the delegated host.  This has now been fixed to copy between localhost and
  the delegated host.
* Fix a regression where synchronize was unable to deal with unicode paths.
* Fix a regression where synchronize deals with inventory hosts that use
  localhost but with an alternate port.
* Fixes a regression where the retry files feature was not implemented.
* Fixes a regression where the any_errors_fatal option was implemented in 2.0
  incorrectly, and also adds a feature where any_errors_fatal can be set at
  the block level.
* Fix tracebacks when playbooks or ansible itself were located in directories
  with unicode characters.
* Fix bug when sending unicode characters to an external pager for display.
* Fix a bug with squashing loops for special modules (mostly package managers).
  The optimization was squashing when the loop did not apply to the selection
  of packages.  This has now been fixed.
* Temp files created when using vault are now "shredded" using the unix shred
  program which overwrites the file with random data.
* Some fixes to cloudstack modules for case sensitivity
* Fix non-newstyle modules (non-python modules and old-style modules) to
  disabled pipelining.
* Fix fetch module failing even if fail_on_missing is set to False
* Fix for cornercase when local connections, sudo, and raw were used together.


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-2.0.1.0-0.1.rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: ab2230f22d742e1379c72a3a59b18779a6aad2b4db69e87e073478028f51b24b

You can also test against the git repository as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
$ cd ansible
$ git checkout v2.0.1.0-0.1.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-2.0.1.0.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 Project Lead

twitter: @thejimic github: jimi-c

[Mike Biancaniello]

excellent. I was excited to see the diff['prepared'] (plugins/callback/) made into this release, but a little bummed that AnsibleModule._diff did not. Do you have a release target for that? (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py#L1144)

[Brian Coca]

That was my mistake, `diff['prepared']` should be for 2.1 and was not
scheduled for this release. We can probably leave it in as itis not
used. New features are not included in maintenance releases, which is
why the rest of the diff improvements did not make it in.

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Brian Coca

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Unofficial rpms of 2.0.1rc1 for Fedora and EPEL (CentOS/RHEL/etc) are
now available in this copr repository:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/toshio/ansible-upstream/

-Toshio

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[Toshio Kuratomi]

Thanks for saying something. We've mainly been concentrating on
regressions in 2.0.0 versus 1.9.x for 2.0.1 so other bugs haven't
gotten the attention we would like. This change was small and simple
to review so we went ahead and merged it to devel and stable-2.0. if
we do a 2.0.1rc2 this will get into 2.0.1 otherwise it will go into
2.0.2 when we make that release.

-Toshio

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Bernhard L. <lib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would be nice, if my PR https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/12909 would
> finally make it into ansible.
> Now that SLES-12.1 is out, we hit the bug there, too.