From 1a7d051ab3a5f07eb5a239820ca18c55097e7335 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael DeHaan Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:44:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update the changelog for recent 1.4 development branch activity. --- CHANGELOG.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 13528edcafa..e467ea5c194 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -11,8 +11,14 @@ Highlighted new features: * Added the capability to use either paramiko or ssh for the inital setup connection of an accelerated playbook. * (docs pending) Swap the active user on a task in the middle of a play with the 'remote_user' parameter. * Automatically provide advice on common parser errors users encounter. +* Deprecation warnings are now shown for legacy features: when_integer/etc, only_if, include+with_items, etc. Can be disabled in ansible.cfg +* The system will now provide helpful tips around possible YAML syntax errors increasing ease of use for new users. +* warnings are now shown for using {{ foo }} in loops and conditionals, and suggest leaving the variable expressions bare as per docs. +* The roles search path is now configurable in ansible.cfg. 'roles_path' in the config setting. +* (DOCS PENDING) includes with parameters can now be done like roles for consistency: - { include: song.yml, year:1984, song:'jump' } +* The name of each role is now shown before each task if roles are being used -New modules: +New modules and plugins: * cloud:ec2_eip -- manage AWS elastic IPs * cloud:rax_clb -- manage Rackspace cloud load balancers @@ -21,6 +27,15 @@ New modules: * system: modprobe -- manage kernel modules on systems that support modprobe/rmmod * system: open_iscsi -- manage targets on an initiator using open-iscsi +Plugins: + +* jail connection module (FreeBSD) +* lxc connection module +* added inventory script for listing FreeBSD jails +* added md5 as a Jinja2 filter: {{ path | md5 }} +* added a fileglob filter that will return files matching a glob pattern. with_items: "/foo/pattern/*.txt | fileglob" +* 'changed' filter returns whether a previous step was changed easier. when: registered_result | changed + Misc changes: * (docs pending) New features for accelerate mode: configurable timeouts and a keepalives for long running tasks. @@ -28,11 +43,20 @@ Misc changes: * Added `ansible_env` to the list of facts returned by the setup module. * Added `state=touch` to the file module, which functions similarly to the command-line version of `touch`. * Added a -vvvv level, which will show SSH client debugging information in the event of a failure. -* Includes now support the more standard syntax, similar to that of role includes and dependencies. It is no longer necessary to specify a special "vars" field for the variables passed to the include. +* Includes now support the more standard syntax, similar to that of role includes and dependencies. * Changed the `user:` parameter on plays to `remote_user:` to prevent confusion with the module of the same name. Still backwards compatible on play parameters. * Added parameter to allow the fetch module to skip the md5 validation step ('validate_md5=false'). This is usefull when fetching files that are actively being written to, such as live log files. * Inventory hosts are used in the order they appear in the inventory. * in hosts: foo[2-5] type syntax, the iterators now are zero indexed and the last index is non-inclusive, to match Python standards. +* There's now a way for a callback plugin to disable itself. See osx_say example code for an example. +* Many bugfixes to modules of all types. +* Complex arguments now can be used with async tasks +* SSH ControlPath is now configurable in ansible.cfg. There's a limit to the lengths of these paths, see how to shorten them in ansible.cfg. +* md5sum support on AIX with csum. +* Extremely large documentation refactor into subchapters +* Added 'append_privs' option to the mysql_user module +* Can now update (temporarily change) host variables using the "add_host" module for existing hosts. +* Fixes for IPv6 addresses in inventory text files 1.3.3 "Top of the World" (reprise) - October 9, 2013