Ansible 2.7

Topics

Release Schedule
- Expected
Release Manager
Cleaning Duty
Engine Improvements
Core Modules
Cloud Modules
- General
- AWS
- Azure
Network
- General
- Modules
Windows
- General
- Modules

Release Schedule

Expected

2018-08-23 Core Freeze (Engine and Core Modules/Plugins)
2018-08-23 Alpha Release 1
2018-08-30 Community Freeze (Non-Core Modules/Plugins)
2018-08-30 Beta Release 1
2018-09-06 Release Candidate 1 (If needed)
2018-09-13 Release Candidate 2 (If needed)
2018-09-20 Release Candidate 3 (If needed)
2018-09-27 Release Candidate 4 (If needed)
2018-10-04 General Availability

Release Manager

Toshio Kuratomi (IRC: abadger1999; GitHub: @abadger)

Cleaning Duty

Drop Py2.6 for controllers Docs PR #42971 and issue #42972
Remove dependency on simplejson issue #42761

Engine Improvements

Performance improvement invoking Python modules pr #41749
Jinja native types will allow for users to render a Python native type. pr #32738

Core Modules

Include feature changes and improvements
- Create new argument apply that will allow for included tasks to inherit explicitly provided attributes. pr #39236
- Create "private" functionality for allowing vars/default to be exposed outside of roles. pr #41330
Provide a parameter for the template module to output to different encoding formats pr #42171
reboot module for Linux hosts (@samdoran) pr #35205

Cloud Modules

General

Cloud auth plugin proposal #24

AWS

Inventory plugin for RDS pr #41919
Count support for ec2_instance
aws_eks module pr #41183
Cloudformation stack sets support (PR#41669)
RDS instance and snapshot modules pr #39994 pr #43789
Diff mode improvements for cloud modules pr #44533

Azure

Azure inventory plugin issue #42769

Network

General

Refactor the APIs in cliconf (issue #39056) and netconf (issue #39160) plugins so that they have a uniform signature across supported network platforms. done (PR #41846) (PR #43643) (PR #43837) (PR #43203) (PR #42300) (PR #44157)

Modules

New cli_config module issue #39228 done PR #42413.
New cli_command module issue #39284
Refactor netconf_config module to add additional functionality. done proposal #104 (PR #44379)

Windows

General

Added new connection plugin that uses PSRP as the connection protocol pr #41729

Modules

Revamp Chocolatey to fix bugs and support offline installation pr #43013.
Add Chocolatey modules that can manage the following Chocolatey features