Ansible Changes By Release ========================== 0.4 "Unchained" ------- in progress * See the CHANGELOG.md file on the devel branch for a summary 0.3 "Baluchitherium" -- April 23, 2012 * Packaging for Debian, Gentoo, and Arch * Improvements to the apt and yum modules * A virt module * SELinux support for the file module * Ability to use facts from other systems in templates (aka exported resources like support) * Built in Ansible facts so you don't need ohai, facter, or Ruby * tempdir selections that work with noexec mounted /tmp * templates happen locally, not remotely, so no dependency on python-jinja2 for remote computers * advanced inventory format in YAML allows more control over variables per host and per group * variables in playbooks can be structured/nested versus just a flat namespace * manpage upgrades (docs) * various bugfixes * can specify a default --user for playbooks rather than specifying it in the playbook file * able to specify ansible port in ansible host file (see docs) * refactored Inventory API to make it easier to write scripts using Ansible * looping capability for playbooks (with_items) * support for using sudo with a password * module arguments can be unicode * A local connection type, --connection=local, for use with cron or in kickstarts * better module debugging with -D * fetch module for pulling in files from remote hosts * command task supports creates=foo for idempotent semantics, won't run if file foo already exists 0.0.2 and 0.0.1 * Initial stages of project