Synopsis

Ansible 2.5.2 Z-release for Ansible Engine 2

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Ansible 2.5.2 Z-release for Ansible Engine 2

Description

v2.5.2
======

Release Summary

• --------------
  

| Release Date: 2018-04-26
| `Porting Guide
`_

Minor Changes

• ------------
  
• Fixed return virtual_facts after VMware platform detection, otherwise we are falling back to 'NA' for virtualization type and virtualization role.
  

Bugfixes

• -------
  
• copy - Fixed copy to only follow symlinks for files in the non-recursive
  case
  
• file - Fixed the default follow behavior of file to be true
  
• docker modules - Improved error with useful message that both docker and docker-py are found to both be installed
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38884)
  
• dynamic includes - Improved performance by fixing re-parenting on copy
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38747)
  
• dynamic includes - Fixed IncludedFile comparison for free strategy
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37083)
  
• dynamic includes - Added support to allow inheriting attributes from static parents
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38827)
  
• Fixed ios and iosxr terminal prompt regex
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39063)
  
• set_fact/include_vars - Added support to allow incremental update for vars in loop
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38302)
  
• cloudfront_distribution - Added support for missing protocol versions
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38990)
  
• slice filter - Removed Ansible-provided impl in favor of Jinja builtin
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37944)
  
• ovirt_host_networks - Fixed removing of network attachments
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38816)
  
• ovirt_disk - Added support for removing unmanaged networks
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38726)
  
• ovirt_disk - Updated FCP storage domains so they do not have to have target
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38882)
  
• Ansible.ModuleUtils.FileUtil - Added support for using Test-AnsiblePath with non filesystem providers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39200)
  
• win_get_url - Added support to compare the UTC time of the web file to the local UTC time
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39152)
  

See
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.5.2/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.5.rst
for details on this release.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 x86_64

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2

SRPM
ansible-2.5.2-1.el7ae.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2ca3e844c6f2cba0c95d1bf4b793278cd6e00d1621501246e07cf255afc34d35
x86_64
ansible-2.5.2-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: fe5d382163361481835b4c9d66c0c8dc280e769a345680cddab8f6ebb06479e5
ansible-doc-2.5.2-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 0f8fc177665d7ade9b14a4e70f6537125dbbd24cb2fd391af8097ed9bab893ca