Ansible 1.9.5-1 has been released

[James Cammarata]

Hi all, we're very happy to announce that Ansible 1.9.5-1 has been released.

This release to the 1.9.x series addresses several critical bugs for those who are unable to update to Ansible 2.0. The fixes included are:

* Compatibility fix with docker 1.8.
* Fix a bug with the crypttab module omitting certain characters from the name of the device
* Fix bug with uri module not handling all binary files
* Fix bug with ini_file not removing options set to an empty string
* Fix bug with script and raw modules not honoring parameters passed via yaml dict syntax
* Fix bug with plugin loading finding the wrong modules because the suffix checking was not ordered
* Fix bug in the literal_eval module code used when we need python-2.4 compat
* Added --ignore-certs, -c option to ansible-galaxy. Allows ansible-galaxy to work behind a proxy
  when the proxy fails to forward server certificates.
* Fixed bug where tasks marked no_log were showing hidden values in output if
  ansible's --diff option was used.
* Fix bug with non-english locales in git and apt modules
* Compatibility fix for using state=absent with the pip ansible module and pip-6.1.0+
* Backported support for ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation flag to disable cert validation on Python 2.7.9+ (and support for other passthru args to pywinrm transport).
* Backported various updates to user module (prevent accidental OS X group membership removals, various checkmode fixes).

As always, this update is available via PyPi and releases.ansible.com now. The ansible-1.9 PPA has also been updated, and packages for other distros will be available as soon as possible.

Thanks and enjoy!

James Cammarata

Ansible Lead/Sr. Principal Software Engineer

Ansible by Red Hat

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