Synopsis

ansible bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated ansible packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Description

On behalf of the entire Ansible open source community, we are very
happy to announce that Ansible 2.4.0 has been released!

This release includes many new features and improvements, including
the following:

• New import/include keywords to replace the old bare `include` directive:
  
• Using `import_*` (`import_playbook`, `import_tasks`, `import_role`)
  directives are static
  
• Using `include_*` (`include_tasks`, `include_role`) directives are dynamic
  
• For more information, see
  http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_reuse_includes.html
  
• New `order` play level keyword that allows the user to change the
  order in which Ansible processes hosts when dispatching tasks
  
• New `ansible_group_priority` variable:
  
• Users can now set group merge priority for groups of the same depth
  (parent child relationship), when values are the same or don't exist
  it will fallback to the previous sorting by name'
  
• Updated inventory subsystem:
  
• There are now inventory plugins which can take the place of dynamic
  inventory scripts. These plugins have access to more information from
  Ansible itself, leading to cleaner code
  
• It is now possible to specify multiple inventory sources in the
  command line (-i /etc/hosts1 -i /opt/hosts2)
  
• Inventory plugins can use Ansible cache plugins (i.e. virtualbox)
  which responds to `meta: refresh_inventory` unlike inventory scripts
  that have their own cache separate from Ansible
  
• Group variable precedence is now configurable via a new
  'precedence' option in ansible.cfg
  
• ansible-inventory CLI for querying Ansible inventory directly
  
• Improved warnings and error messages across the board
  
• Vars plugins updated:
  
• Default host_vars/group_vars behaviour is now a plugin and ‘overridable’
  
• They can now deal with vaulted files again by using the DataLoader
  object to read files
  
• Still backwards compatible with existing plugins
  
• Configuration has been changed from a hardcoded listing in the
  constants module to dynamically loaded; this lets plugins add new
  config options entirely from within the plugin code
  
• Added an ansible-config CLI listing config options and dumping
  current config
  
• Windows modules now support the use of multiple shared module_utils
  files in the form of Powershell modules (.psm1), via `#Requires
  
• Module Ansible.ModuleUtils.Whatever.psm1`
  
• Windows become_method: runas now works across all authtypes and will
  auto-elevate under UAC if WinRM user has "Act as part of the operating
  system" privilege
  
• Python module argument_spec now supports custom validation logic by
  accepting a callable as the `type` argument
  
• Platform agnostic network modules to execute “show” commands and
  push configuration to devices in vendor agnostic way
  

For more information, please see the Changelog
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.4/CHANGELOG.md

and Porting Guide https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/porting_guide_2.4.html

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 2.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 x86_64

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4

SRPM
ansible-2.4.0.0-1.el7ae.src.rpm	SHA-256: 5e4f508aef32d516335a1ca00e8fb4dd38fa65ef966f38609b7a91addc13b636
libtomcrypt-1.17-23.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 6397a795c3c4151653db09eaad38a8df4dd97ca47320123cd3edc659a47ef580
libtommath-0.42.0-4.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1e806d007cffa2f1d89199e773a5fb2f1d9ddfb167868853ea99588ba360ea2e
python-ecdsa-0.11-4.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: a28c1345f0a6974060f54ac1d5a63506572a36f543178fc4d54463ae232da3a3
python-httplib2-0.9.1-2.1.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 37446c782412a6c82946f23a0c947dea602b87f14f9478ceadf23df5cf0fc2a5
python-paramiko-2.1.1-2.el7ae.src.rpm	SHA-256: 7d493196e3e8e7b8f6c9ceb44859fd5fb2bad93472727c9eff7b6e172c0d11d4
python-passlib-1.6.5-1.1.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1828379b1bfd3253aefed1ad2e1fcd99898183ab12511d7fc82e3f04f0e780b6
sshpass-1.06-1.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 122016721022f9884f2a14dc0e0ebf9c091e663592f1d6350c8da17020b9a859
x86_64
ansible-2.4.0.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 38638cbc3cce53499df7b4d836320b759b0db924d7d393a51b5bdcb0d0f8795e
ansible-doc-2.4.0.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 04b175105353c739ed6d8437f0e19e9a89c9ced7fada084dfe078211bc69391d
libtomcrypt-1.17-23.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 5f2fde6b42455eab91ccaf772d937993a5ac30a48c77438a67acd69e9f38aaa3
libtomcrypt-debuginfo-1.17-23.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 1e604b8d588a0c5510208bd313eed6a37766efdcfe36745f8dba9ab590aef243
libtommath-0.42.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 5f5a91457bb0e81bba82f45b7b4c36bd1e2ebc62c35b059ab399f96884df010e
libtommath-debuginfo-0.42.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 9fe2f5550e9cce170c824ce1aba83303306634c20933c2b0efc0e01e4690707b
python-ecdsa-0.11-4.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: eed37efcf2f8c918043bcfd21ef62af626113baf4032a03178e1ba6fa0ffe534
python-httplib2-0.9.1-2.1.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: fe331cefb4823ea6d6551e286bb20d2f3b7a627f35d95cbe3513df69f31ad351
python-paramiko-2.1.1-2.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 08f6a7bbbe146d7e0f62ba157f70828215a142eb3c0d9e73eaa1af5cd10fcc21
python-passlib-1.6.5-1.1.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 1785c4fc591b42974b0fae511aff1a70ddbea31a59a692e5de36791f54ecc9d9
sshpass-1.06-1.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: aa1707c594c0b18d5956217192543b9ad40824a01cc529cfb74e4bb5765d0be4
sshpass-debuginfo-1.06-1.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d23dd27a0f00b5c5967f34a85a755c527ea06a8160fd919c91fba3f41e1a2bc5
ppc64le
ansible-2.4.0.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 38638cbc3cce53499df7b4d836320b759b0db924d7d393a51b5bdcb0d0f8795e
ansible-doc-2.4.0.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 04b175105353c739ed6d8437f0e19e9a89c9ced7fada084dfe078211bc69391d
python-httplib2-0.9.1-2.1.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: fe331cefb4823ea6d6551e286bb20d2f3b7a627f35d95cbe3513df69f31ad351
python-paramiko-2.1.1-2.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 08f6a7bbbe146d7e0f62ba157f70828215a142eb3c0d9e73eaa1af5cd10fcc21
python-passlib-1.6.5-1.1.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 1785c4fc591b42974b0fae511aff1a70ddbea31a59a692e5de36791f54ecc9d9
sshpass-1.06-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm	SHA-256: 994069950aa7ed89e4858123bc483483a05b84e431a3195209f9b32a46b90ae3
sshpass-debuginfo-1.06-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm	SHA-256: 4e31958009bc2ce0e69dcf7c499c511b0c72a19636e07d6acbfd1549c2455a52

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2

SRPM
x86_64
ansible-2.4.0.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 38638cbc3cce53499df7b4d836320b759b0db924d7d393a51b5bdcb0d0f8795e
ansible-doc-2.4.0.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 04b175105353c739ed6d8437f0e19e9a89c9ced7fada084dfe078211bc69391d
libtomcrypt-1.17-23.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 5f2fde6b42455eab91ccaf772d937993a5ac30a48c77438a67acd69e9f38aaa3
libtommath-0.42.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 5f5a91457bb0e81bba82f45b7b4c36bd1e2ebc62c35b059ab399f96884df010e
python-ecdsa-0.11-4.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: eed37efcf2f8c918043bcfd21ef62af626113baf4032a03178e1ba6fa0ffe534
python-httplib2-0.9.1-2.1.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: fe331cefb4823ea6d6551e286bb20d2f3b7a627f35d95cbe3513df69f31ad351
python-paramiko-2.1.1-2.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 08f6a7bbbe146d7e0f62ba157f70828215a142eb3c0d9e73eaa1af5cd10fcc21
python-passlib-1.6.5-1.1.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 1785c4fc591b42974b0fae511aff1a70ddbea31a59a692e5de36791f54ecc9d9
sshpass-1.06-1.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: aa1707c594c0b18d5956217192543b9ad40824a01cc529cfb74e4bb5765d0be4