Synopsis

Ansible Engine 2.5.0

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Ansible 2.5.0 for Ansible Engine

Description

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Ansible 2.5 "Kashmir" Release Notes
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v2.5.0
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Release Summary

• --------------
  

| Release Date: 2018-03-22
| `Porting Guide `_

Major Changes

• ------------
  
• Ansible Network improvements
  
• Created new connection plugins ``network_cli`` and ``netconf`` to replace ``connection=local``. ``connection=local`` will continue to work for a number of Ansible releases.
  
• No more ``unable to open shell``. A clear and descriptive message will be displayed in normal ansible-playbook output without needing to enable debug mode
  
• Loads of documentation, see `Ansible for Network Automation Documentation `_.
  
• Refactor common network shared code into package under ``module_utils/network/``
  
• Filters: Add a filter to convert XML response from a network device to JSON object.
  
• Loads of bug fixes.
  
• Plus lots more.
  
• New simpler and more intuitive 'loop' keyword for task loops. The ``with_`` loops will likely be deprecated in the near future and eventually removed.
  
• Added fact namespacing; from now on facts will be available under ``ansible_facts`` namespace (for example: ``ansible_facts.os_distribution``)
  without the ``ansible_`` prefix. They will continue to be added into the main namespace directly, but now with a configuration toggle to
  enable this. This is currently on by default, but in the future it will default to off.
  
• Added a configuration file that a site administrator can use to specify modules to exclude from being used.
  

See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.5/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.5.rst for full changelog.

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 2.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.5 ppc64le

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.5

SRPM
ansible-2.5.0-1.el7ae.src.rpm	SHA-256: 183aaa0e2c30c8b5aa32c6dd118ec558a1fb0d178dacbbafb8d03b39cacac3c2
python-httplib2-0.9.1-2.1.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 37446c782412a6c82946f23a0c947dea602b87f14f9478ceadf23df5cf0fc2a5
python-jmespath-0.9.0-4.el7ae.src.rpm	SHA-256: 39cad65a0eda393d3a9f3fa65d357081036c3bd276b26b60aaa16f8356e8cc75
python-paramiko-2.1.1-4.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 43ba21a7cbfc99918164c9dee8e2c2ece5915b421834a00474d2bfbeb3d748b7
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-2.5.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4bd8b4419e7b264330cc3dbafe4cb90a5eb24e3888ab97785635ba4164bc5215
ansible-doc-2.5.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 583d3248b08e147415153390dde70cc1e76e189586d7184082d31d743ec6d6de
python-httplib2-0.9.1-2.1.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: fe331cefb4823ea6d6551e286bb20d2f3b7a627f35d95cbe3513df69f31ad351
python-paramiko-2.1.1-4.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 461375b1b458818f5b5893aefac09fbf39cd651c081e63479915b8ffa33a72cc
python-passlib-1.6.5-1.1.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 1785c4fc591b42974b0fae511aff1a70ddbea31a59a692e5de36791f54ecc9d9
python2-jmespath-0.9.0-4.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 766862f83804267ea5fc1d6e5d2deb7a0bd29763b7c9b253ca76e83fe53eb842
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-2.5.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4bd8b4419e7b264330cc3dbafe4cb90a5eb24e3888ab97785635ba4164bc5215
ansible-doc-2.5.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 583d3248b08e147415153390dde70cc1e76e189586d7184082d31d743ec6d6de
python-httplib2-0.9.1-2.1.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: fe331cefb4823ea6d6551e286bb20d2f3b7a627f35d95cbe3513df69f31ad351
python-paramiko-2.1.1-4.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 461375b1b458818f5b5893aefac09fbf39cd651c081e63479915b8ffa33a72cc
python-passlib-1.6.5-1.1.el7.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 1785c4fc591b42974b0fae511aff1a70ddbea31a59a692e5de36791f54ecc9d9
python2-jmespath-0.9.0-4.el7ae.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 766862f83804267ea5fc1d6e5d2deb7a0bd29763b7c9b253ca76e83fe53eb842
sshpass-1.06-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm	SHA-256: 994069950aa7ed89e4858123bc483483a05b84e431a3195209f9b32a46b90ae3
sshpass-debuginfo-1.06-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm	SHA-256: 4e31958009bc2ce0e69dcf7c499c511b0c72a19636e07d6acbfd1549c2455a52