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Ansible 2.6
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Release Schedule
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Actual
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- 2018-05-17 Core Freeze (Engine and Core Modules/Plugins)
- 2018-05-21 Alpha Release 1
- 2018-05-25 Community Freeze (Non-Core Modules/Plugins)
- 2018-05-25 Branch stable-2.6
- 2018-05-30 Alpha Release 2
- 2018-06-05 Release Candidate 1
- 2018-06-08 Release Candidate 2
- 2018-06-18 Release Candidate 3
- 2018-06-25 Release Candidate 4
- 2018-06-26 Release Candidate 5
Expected
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- 2018-06-28 Final Release
Release Manager
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Matt Clay (IRC/GitHub: @mattclay)
Engine improvements
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- Version 2.6 is largely going to be a stabilization release for Core code.
- Some of the items covered in this release, but are not limited to are the following:
- ``ansible-inventory``
- ``import_*``
- ``include_*``
- Test coverage
- Performance Testing
Core Modules
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- Adopt-a-module Campaign
- Review current status of all Core Modules
- Reduce backlog of open issues against these modules
Cloud Modules
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Network
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Connection work
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* New connection plugin: eAPI `proposal#102 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/102>`_
* New connection plugin: NX-API
* Support for configurable options for network_cli & netconf
Modules
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* New ``net_get`` - platform agnostic module for pulling configuration via SCP/SFTP over network_cli
* New ``net_put`` - platform agnostic module for pushing configuration via SCP/SFTP over network_cli
* New ``netconf_get`` - Netconf module to fetch configuration and state data `proposal#104 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/104>`_
Other Features
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* Stretch & tech preview: Configuration caching for network_cli. Opt-in feature to avoid ``show running`` performance hit
Windows
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