@@ -15,11 +15,16 @@ Core Features:

 * cosmetic: "*****" banners in ansible-playbook output are now constant width

 * --limit can now be given a filename (--limit @filename) to constrain a run to a host list on disk

 * failed playbook runs will create a retry file in /var/tmp/ansible usable with --limit

+* roles allow easy arrangement of reusable tasks/handlers/files/templates

+* pre_tasks and post_tasks allow for seperating tasks into blocks where handlers will fire around them automatically

+* "meta: flush_handler" task capability added for when you really need to force handlers to run

+* new --start-at-task option to ansible playbook allows starting at a specific task name in a long playbook

 Modules added

 * rax: module for creating instances in the rackspace cloud (uses pyrax)

 * npm: node.js package management

+* postgresql_priv: manages postgresql priveledges

 Bugfixes and Misc Changes:

@@ -29,6 +34,22 @@ Bugfixes and Misc Changes:

 * overwrite parameter added to the s3 module

 * private_ip parameter added to the ec2 module

 * $FILE and $PIPE now tolerate unicode

+* various plugin loading operations have been made more efficient

+* hostname now uses platform.node versus socket.gethostname to be more consistant with Unix 'hostname'

+* fix for SELinux operations on Unicode path names

+* inventory directory locations now ignore files with .ini extensions, making hybrid inventory easier

+* copy module in check-mode now reports back correct changed status when used with force=no

+* added avail. zone to ec2 module

+* fixes to the hash variable merging logic if so enabled in the main settings file (default is to replace, not merge hashes)

+* group_vars and host_vars files can now end in a .yaml or .yml extension, (previously required no extension, still favored)

+* ec2vol module improvements

+* if the user module is told to generate the ssh key, the key generated is now returned in the results

+* misc fixes to the Riak module

+* make template module slightly more efficient

+* base64encode / decode filters are now available to templates

+* libvirt module can now work with multiple different libvirt connecton URIs

+* fix for postgresql password escaping

+* unicode fix for shlex.split in some cases

 1.1 "Mean Street" -- 4/2/2013