ansible/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.rst

Ansible 2.6 "Heartbreaker" Release Notes

v2.6.0a1

Release Summary

Release Date: 2018-05-21
Porting Guide

Minor Changes

• azure_rm_loadbalancer - add support for sku
• azure_rm_publicipaddress - add support for sku
• Added an encoding option to the b64encode and b64decode filters to specify the encoding of the string that is base64 encoded.
• import/include - Cache task_vars to speed up IncludedFile.process_include_results (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39026)
• PowerShell modules that use Convert-ToSID in Ansible.ModuleUtils.SID.psm1 like win_user_right now accept an actual SID as an input string. This means any local or domain accounts that are named like a SID need to be prefixed with the domain, hostname, or . to ensure it converts to that accounts SID https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38502

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

• win_chocolatey - removed deprecated upgrade option and choco* output return values
• win_feature - removed deprecated reboot option
• win_iis_webapppool - removed the ability to supply attributes as a string in favour of a dictionary
• win_package - removed deprecated name option
• win_regedit - removed deprecated support for specifying HKCC as HCCC

Bugfixes

• template - Fix for encoding issues when a template path contains non-ascii characters and using the template path in ansible_managed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27262)
• copy - fixed copy to only follow symlinks for files in the non-recursive case
• file - fixed the default follow behaviour of file to be true
• copy module - The copy module was attempting to change the mode of files for remote_src=True even if mode was not set as a parameter. This failed on filesystems which do not have permission bits (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40099)
• Fix an encoding issue when parsing the examples from a plugins' documentation
• file module - The file module allowed the user to specify src as a parameter when state was not link or hard. This is documented as only applying to state=link or state=hard but in previous Ansible, this could have an effect in rare cornercases. For instance, "ansible -m file -a 'state=directory path=/tmp src=/var/lib'" would create /tmp/lib. This has been disabled and a warning emitted (will change to an error in Ansible-2.10).
• file module - Fix error when running a task which assures a symlink to a nonexistent file exists for the second and subsequent times (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39558)
• file module - Fix error when recursively assigning permissions and a symlink to a nonexistent file is present in the directory tree (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39456)
• file module - Eliminate an error if we're asked to remove a file but something removes it while we are processing the request (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39466)
• Various grafana* modules - Port away from the deprecated b64encodestring function to the b64encode function instead. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38388
• import/include - Update TaskInclude _raw_params with the expanded/templated path to file allowing nested includes using host vars in file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39365)
• dynamic includes - Don't treat undefined vars for conditional includes as truthy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39377)
• import/include - Ensure role handlers have the proper parent, allowing for correct attribute inheritance (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39426)
• include_role/import_role - Use the computed role name for include_role/import_role so to diffentiate between names computed from host vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39516)
• import_playbook - Pass vars applied to import_playbook into parsing of the playbook as they may be needed to parse the imported plays (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39521)
• include_role/import_role - Don't overwrite included role handlers with play handlers on parse (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39563)
• dynamic includes - Improved performance by fixing re-parenting on copy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38747)
• dynamic includes - Fix IncludedFile comparison for free strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37083)
• dynamic includes - Allow inheriting attributes from static parents (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38827)
• include_role/import_role - improved performance and recursion depth (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36470)
• include_role/import_role - Fix parameter templating (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36372)
• dynamic includes - Use the copied and merged task for calculating task vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39762)
• Implement mode=preserve for the template module
• Fix mode=preserve with remote_src=True for the copy module
• Document mode=preserve for both the copy and template module
• pause - ensure ctrl+c interrupt works in all cases (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35372)
• spwd - With python 3.6 spwd.getspnam returns PermissionError instead of KeyError if user does not have privileges (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39472)
• template action plugin - fix the encoding of filenames to avoid tracebacks on Python2 when characters that are not present in the user's locale are present. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39424)
• user - only change the expiration time when necessary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/13235)
• win_environment - Fix for issue where the environment value was deleted when a null value or empty string was set - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40450
• win_file - fix issue where special chars like [ and ] were not being handled correctly https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37901
• win_get_url - fixed a few bugs around authentication and force no when using an FTP URL
• win_template - fix when specifying the dest option as a directory with and without the trailing slash https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39886
• win_updates - Fix typo that hid the download error when a download failed
• win_updates - Fix logic when using a whitelist for multiple updates
• windows become - Show better error messages when the become process fails
• winrm - allow ansible_user or ansible_winrm_user to override ansible_ssh_user when both are defined in an inventory - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39844
• The yaml callback plugin now allows non-ascii characters to be displayed.