Ansible 2.7

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 andissue #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 #39994pr #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 #39228donePR #42413.
• New cli_command module issue #39284
• Refactor netconf_config module to add additional functionality. doneproposal #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

• Sources pr #42790
• Features pr #42848
• Config pr #42915