Ansible 2.0 RC4 is available for testing

[James Cammarata]

Hi all, as mentioned yesterday the 2.0 RC4 release is now available for testing.

This release candidate includes the following bug fixes (as well as some other minor ones):

* bugs in the free/linear strategies related task iteration, where some tasks could be skipped if they occured in rescue/always portions of a block.

* bugs in the linear strategy, where in certain situations the next task was not being correctly selected, meaning the playbook would hang until ctrl+c is pressed.

* unicode in some connection plugins was causing a problem.

The final release is now scheduled for next week, Tuesday January 12th.

For details and background, please see the original beta announcement here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ansible-project/_hTjEIpbA_Y/GtllImCkCQAJ

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-2.0.0-0.9.rc4.tar.gz

SHA256: aa4f512501c31e4ee44e7f5a1be30b1d0b68f4925ec849433b74f8d6d36430bd

You can also test against the git repository as follows:

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

$ cd ansible

$ git checkout v2.0.0-0.9.rc4

$ 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-2.0.0.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

Director, Ansible Core Engineering

github: jimi-c