in included files can still be templated just like top level playbooks. Resolves some issues about statements being evaluated before facts were available
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Ansible Changes By Release
0.4 "Unchained" ------- in progress, ETA May 2012
- custom facts provided by the setup module mean no dependency on Ruby, facter, or ohai
- sudo improvements, now works much more smoothly
- OS X support in progress for ansible on the host and clients (modules still TBA)
- list of hosts in playbooks can be expressed as a YAML list in addition to ; delimited
- tweaks to SELinux implementation for file module
- first_available_file feature, see selective_file_sources.yml in examples/playbooks for info
- fixes for yum module corner cases on EL5
- --extra-vars="a=2 b=3" etc, now available to inject parameters into playbooks from CLI
- file module now correctly returns the mode in octal
- modules can no longer include stderr output (paramiko limitation from sudo)
- 'group_names' is now a variable made available to templates
- variables in the 'all' section can be used to define other variables based on those values
- fix for symlink handling in the file module
- groups and users module takes an optional system=yes|no on creation (default no)
- async handling improvements
- service takes an enable=yes|no which works with chkconfig or updates-rc.d as appropriate
- inventory_hostname variable available that contains the value of the host as ansible knows it
- service module works better on Ubuntu
- git module now does resets and such to work more smoothly on updates
- fix to internals of hacking/test-module development script
- ansible-pull script and example playbook (extreme scaling, remediation)
0.3 "Baluchitherium" -- April 23, 2012
- Packaging for Debian, Gentoo, and Arch
- Improvements to the apt and yum modules
- A virt module
- SELinux support for the file module
- Ability to use facts from other systems in templates (aka exported resources like support)
- Built in Ansible facts so you don't need ohai, facter, or Ruby
- tempdir selections that work with noexec mounted /tmp
- templates happen locally, not remotely, so no dependency on python-jinja2 for remote computers
- advanced inventory format in YAML allows more control over variables per host and per group
- variables in playbooks can be structured/nested versus just a flat namespace
- manpage upgrades (docs)
- various bugfixes
- can specify a default --user for playbooks rather than specifying it in the playbook file
- able to specify ansible port in ansible host file (see docs)
- refactored Inventory API to make it easier to write scripts using Ansible
- looping capability for playbooks (with_items)
- support for using sudo with a password
- module arguments can be unicode
- A local connection type, --connection=local, for use with cron or in kickstarts
- better module debugging with -D
- fetch module for pulling in files from remote hosts
- command task supports creates=foo for idempotent semantics, won't run if file foo already exists
0.0.2 and 0.0.1
- Initial stages of project