RHBA-2018:2668 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Ansible 2.6.4 Z-release for Ansible Engine 2

Description

v2.6.4
======

Release Summary

• --------------

| Release Date: 2018-09-06
| `Porting Guide
<https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_

Minor Changes

• ------------
• add azure_rm_storageaccount support to StorageV2 kind.

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44242)

• import_tasks - Do not allow import_tasks to transition to dynamic if the

file is missing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44822)

Bugfixes

• -------
• Add md5sum check in nxos_file_copy module

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43423).

• Allow arbitrary ``log_driver`` for docker_container

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/33579).

• Fix Python2.6 regex bug terminal plugin nxos, iosxr

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45135).

• Fix check_mode in nxos_static_route module

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44252).

• Fix glob path of rc.d Some distribtuions like SUSE has the rc%.d

directories under /etc/init.d

• Fix network config diff issue for lines

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43889)

• Fixed an issue where ``ansible_facts.pkg_mgr`` would incorrectly set to

``zypper`` on Debian/Ubuntu systems that happened to have the command
installed.

• The docker_* modules respect the DOCKER_* environment variables again

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42641).

• The fix for `CVE-2018-10875

<https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10875>`_ prints out a
warning message about skipping a config file from a world writable current
working directory. However, if the user is in a world writable current
working directory which does not contain a config file, it should not print
a warning message. This release fixes that extaneous warning.

• To resolve nios_network issue where vendor-encapsulated-options can not

have a use_option flag. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43925)

• To resolve the issue of handling exception for Nios lookup gracefully.

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44078)

• always correctly template no log for tasks

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43294

• ansible-galaxy - properly list all roles in roles_path

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43010)

• basic.py - catch ValueError in case a FIPS enabled platform raises this

exception - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44447

• docker_container: fixing ``working_dir`` idempotency problem

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42857)

• docker_container: makes unit parsing for memory sizes more consistent,

and fixes idempotency problem when ``kernel_memory`` is set (see
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/16748 and
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42692)

• fix example code for AWS lightsail documentation
• fix the enable_snat parameter that is only supposed to be used by an user

with the right policies. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44418

• fixes docker_container check and debug mode

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42380)

• improves docker_container idempotency

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44808)

• ios_l2_interface - fix bug when list of vlans ends with comma

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43879)

• ios_l2_interface - fix issue with certain interface types

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43819)

• ios_user - fix unable to delete user admin issue

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44904)

• ios_vlan - fix unable to work on certain interface types issue

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43819)

• nxos_facts test lldp feature and fix nxapi check_rc

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44104).

• nxos_interface port-channel idempotence fix for mode

(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44248).

• nxos_linkagg mode fix (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44294).

See
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.6.4/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.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 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)