RHBA-2025:17221 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 is now available

Description

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless language.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 introduces significant new features and enhancements designed to improve efficiency, scalability, and user experience. Key among these are the general availability of the Ansible Lightspeed Intelligent Assistant, which leverages generative AI for on-demand support within the platform, and the Ansible self-service automation portal, enabling platform administrators to easily scale automation service delivery to a broader user base. Additionally, the Automation Dashboard is now generally available, providing a utility to visualize automation usage data, track ROI, and gain insights into automation strategy.

Further enhancements include updates to core platform services, with support for PostgreSQL 16 and 17, and updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4+ system requirements for containerized installations. Event-Driven Ansible sees improvements such as external secret management, editable project URLs, enhanced job auditing, Kafka enhancements, and a new event filter. The Platform UI has also been updated with centralized Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC) and a refreshed interface based on the latest Patternfly. The release also includes an overview of upgrade improvements, simplifying the process from versions 2.4 and 2.5 to 2.6, with streamlined authentication and Identity Access Management (IAM) data migration.

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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