Ansible 2.1.2 RC1 is ready for testing

[James Cammarata]

Hi all, we're happy to announce that RC1 for 2.1.2 is now available for testing.

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

* Fixed a bug introduced by static includes in 2.1, which prevented notifications from going to the "top level" handler name.

* Fixed a bug where a group_vars or host_vars directory in the current working directory would be used (and would take precedence) over those in the inventory and/or playbook directory.

* Fixed a bug which could occur when the result of an async task did not parse as valid JSON.

* (re)-allowed the use of ansible_python_interpreter lines with more than one argument.

* Fixed several bugs related to the creation of the implicit localhost in inventory.

* Fixed a bug related to an unspecified number of retries when using until.

* Fixed a race-condition bug when creating temp directories before the worker process is forked.

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-2.1.2.0-0.1.rc1.tar.gz

SHA256: 877595c6ae0f6a4cbf91d368aeb1194d8df65cbb084033b62dd163c2a24080d7

You can also test against the git repository as follows:

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

$ cd ansible

$ git checkout v2.1.2.0-0.1.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-2.1.2.0.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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