Ansible 2.1.1 RC1 is ready for testing

[James Cammarata]

Hi all, we're happy to announce that RC1 for 2.1.1 is now available for testing.

This release candidate fixes many bugs, including (but not limited to):

* Fixed some bugs in variable dependency resolution. These were mainly related to includes and roles, to bringe the VariableManager code in-line with our documentation.

* Fixed a bug in unarchive, when the destination was a symlinked directory.

* Fixed a bug related to performance when loading a large number of groups.

* Fixed bugs related to the way host and group vars are loaded, which (for large sets of inventory variables) can reduce CPU and memory usage by 50%.

* Fixed a bug where includes were not being implicitly evaluated as static when no loop or variables were being used.

* Fixed several more bugs in relation to the way play execution continues or halts when hosts fail, to bringe the behavior more in line with 1.9.x.

* Fixed bugs related to the use of the underlying shell executable with the script and raw modules.

* Fixed several bugs in relation to the way ssh keys were used with various networking modules.

* Fixed a bug related to the way handlers are tracked internally, which could cause bugs when roles are reused within the same play (allow_duplicates: yes) or when the role dependencies formed a "diamond" pattern.

* Fixed a bug related to setfacl on platforms which do not support the -R option for recursive changes.

* Many other bug fixes in core/extras modules.

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-2.1.1.0-0.1.rc1.tar.gz

SHA256: 93c16857edefd843ad0dda5f69a8975676e17634a549617ec08fb085dee8fda3

You can also test against the git repository as follows:

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

$ cd ansible

$ git checkout v2.1.1.0-0.1.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-2.1.1.0.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

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