Bux fixes and enhancements

• Improved analytics collection to collect the playbook status for all hosts in a playbook run
• Updated nginx on RHEL 7
• Updated autobahn
• Added aggregation support for applying multiple subscriptions to a single Tower installation
• Fixed Tower to properly handle certain uploaded subscription manifests
• Fixed Tower to properly respect the configured destination port when interacting with Red Hat Satellite 6 to obtain licensing/entitlement data
• Fixed an error in the module documentation for the tower_license module* Fixed inventory updates from Satellite 6 and Tower to no longer fail unexpectedly
• Fixed AWS inventory hosts to now properly track across inventory updates

Bux fixes and enhancements

• Upgraded to the latest oVirt inventory plugin to resolve a number of inventory syncing issues that can occur on RHEL7
• Upgraded to the latest theforeman.foreman inventory plugin to resolve a few bugs and performance regressions
• Upgraded to a more recent version of Django to address CVE-2021-3281
• Upgraded to a more recent version of autobahn to address CVE-2020-35678
• Fixed a security issue that allowed a malicious playbook author to elevate to the awx user from outside the isolated environment https:https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-2025[CVE-2021-20253]
• Fixed several issues related to how Tower rotates its log files
• Fixed the installer to no longer prevent Tower from installing on RHEL8 with certain non-en_US.UTF-8 locales
• Fixed unanticipated delays in certain playbook output
• Fixed job runs to no longer fail for playbooks that print certain types of raw binary data
• Fixed the generation of unnecessary records in the Activity Stream when Ansible Automation data is collected
• Fixed PostgreSQL backups to no longer fail when a non-default PostgreSQL username is specified
• Fixed access to encrypted Tower settings to prevent intermittent failures that caused failed job launches
• Fixed unexpected failures on certain long-running jobs running on isolated nodes
• Deprecated the global /api/v2/job_events/ endpoint, which will be removed in a future release

Bux fixes

• Analytics collection no longer cause lost job events when Tower is under load
• Analytics collection now handles null characters in job event output
• Pending jobs in /api/v2/metrics show correct counts
• Project updates are no longer delayed when projects contain large files
• Status for hosts are properly counted in notification payloads
• SAML organization creation now properly assigns a default Galaxy credential
• SAML configuration now properly denotes required SAML contact fields
• Fixed a race condition in settings updates that previously lead to incorrect behavior
• Log messages are updated to be more clear when rsyslog is unresponsive

Private Automation Hub

• Use the new private Automation Hub, which is hosted on-premises or on the cloud of your choice, to synchronize and manage this automation for enterprise use. Administrators can synchronize any desired certified Content Collections from Ansible Automation Hub into private Automation Hub, in addition to their own content, to provide a curated library of content for reusing and sharing across your internal automation community.

Private Automation Hub bug fixes and enhancements

• Fixed NamespaceLink creation and Validation on duplicated name
• Fixed a bug where API returns 409 in case of existing group with same name
• Updated the namespaces api to perform a partial match on namespace name and namespace company name when using the 'keywords' query parameter
• Fixed KeyError lookup in namespace and collection viewset
• Fixed error in error msg when importing invalid filenames
• Enhanced content sync to better deal with Akamai rate limits

Automation Hub bug fixes and enhancements

• Fixed the galaxy-importer check for max size of docs files
• Removed ability for uses to delete themselves
• Prevented users with delete-user permissions from deleting admin users
• Obfuscated token and password on the API docs for /sync/config
• Split the proxy_url into 3 fields: username, password, and address
• Fixed ability to remove credentials from advanced options for repository sync
• Added a new component to indicate when a secret field is set or not

Automation Hub bug fixes

• Fix how travis checks for existence of Jira issues
• Fixed synclist curation creating 2 * N tasks, where N is number of synclists. Now synclist curation is executed in batches. Number of batches is configured in project settings. By default it is set to 200 synclists per task.
• Fix NamespaceLink creation and Validation on duplicated name.
• API returns 409 in case of existing group with same name.
• The namespaces api now performs a partial match on namespace name and namespace company name when using the 'keywords' query parameter.
• Fix KeyError lookup in namespace and collection viewset
• Fix error in error msg when importing invalid filenames
• Fix the galaxy-importer check for max size of docs files
• Only show synclist toggles to org admin. Non-org admins should get 403 response when viewing synclist endpoints.
• Users should not be able to delete themselves regardless of having 'delete-user' permissions.
• Prevent users with delete-user perms from deleting admin users
• Make token and password obfuscated on the API docs for /sync/config
• split proxy_url in 3 fields: username, password, address
• Fix groups endpoint viewable only by admin
• Expose pulp API in generated openapi spec.
• Replace current PULP_REDIS* env variables with PULP_REDIS_URL env variable to accommodate PULP_REDIS_SSL.

Automation Hub bug fixes

• Fix "CVE-2021-32052 django: header injection" by moving to django 2.2.23
• Download collection artifacts from the galaxy apis instead of the pulp content app

Automation Hub bug fixes

• Implemented filters for state and keywords on imports API
• Create 'inbound-namespaces' whenever a namespace is created

Technology Preview

• Connect your on-premise Ansible Tower infrastructure to communicate with Automation Services Catalog by installing the Receptor plug-in.

New Features

• Use the new order process features to integrate Automation Services Catalog with an Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) systems such as ServiceNow.