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Ansible 2.7
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.. contents:: Topics
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Release Schedule
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Expected
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- 2018-09-06 Core Freeze (Engine and Core Modules/Plugins)
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- 2018-09-06 Alpha Release 1
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- 2018-09-13 Community Freeze (Non-Core Modules/Plugins)
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- 2018-09-13 Beta Release 1
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- 2018-09-27 Release Candidate 1
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- 2018-10-04 General Availability
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Cleaning Duty
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- Drop Py2.6 for controllers
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- Remove dependency on simplejson
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Engine Improvements
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- Make ``become`` plugin based. `pr#38861 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38861>`_
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- Introduce a ``live`` keyword to provide modules the ability to push intermediate (live) updates `pr#13620 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/13620>`_
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- Create a configuration object for a top level content installation path for modules, plugins, roles, etc.
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- Investigate what it will take to utilise the work performed by Mitogen maintainers.
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- Provide sane connection defaults by platform `ansible_platform`.
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- Refactor connection/shell/action/terminal/become plugins to allow looser coupling and more mix-and-match behaviour.
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- Investigate performance improvements in using threads as opposed to forks.
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- Jinja native types will allow for users to render a Python native type. `pr#32738 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/32738>`_
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Core Modules
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- Include feature changes and improvements
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- Create new argument `apply` that will allow for included tasks to inherit explicitly provided attributes. `pr#39236 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39236>`_
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- Create "private" functionality for allowing vars/default sot be exposed outside of roles. `pr#41330 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41330>`_
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- Provide a parameter for the `template` module to output to different encoding formats.
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- `reboot` module for Linux hosts
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Cloud Modules
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General
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* Cloud auth plugin `proposal#24 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/24>`_
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AWS
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* Inventory plugin for RDS
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* Count support for `ec2_instance`
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* `aws_eks` module `pr#41183 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41183>`_
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* Cloudformation stack sets support
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* RDS instance and snapshot modules
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* Diff mode improvements for cloud modules
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Azure
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* Azure inventory plugin
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* Azure stack support for modules
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Network
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General
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* Refactor the apis in cliconf and netconf plugins so that they have a uniform signature across supported network platforms.
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Modules
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* New ``net_config`` module
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* New ``cli_command`` module
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* Refactor ``netconf_config`` module to add additional functionality. `#proposal#104 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/104>`_
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Windows
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General
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* Investigate the cause of WinRM HTTPS read timeouts
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* WinRM connection persistence (improves performance)
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* Experiment with OpenSSH + powershell
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Modules
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* `win_domain` and `win_domain_controller` action wrappers
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* Add link to `win_file`
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* Hostname change support for `win_domain` and `win_domain_controller`
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