community.general/CHANGELOG.md

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)
• service fixes to better detect status using return codes of the service script
• ansible INI style format can do groups of groups [groupname:children] and group vars [groupname:vars]
• sudo to a particular user with -U/--sudo-user, or using 'sudo_user: foo' in a playbook

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