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1. Release Notes for Ansible Tower Version 3.0.2

1.1. Ansible Tower Version 3.0.2

  • Added support for IAM Roles when configuring an EC2 Inventory Sync
  • Added support for backing up and restoring Databases created when installing 3.0.x
  • Added the display of a “working” indicator when toggling Tower components on/off
  • Added the ability to toggle the view of job labels (view less/view more)
  • Added the ability to add skip tags to job templates (which may also be prompted for at launch time)
  • Added documentation around resetting the Tower URL provided in Notification links
  • Fixed an issue where users could not remove inventory or credentials from job template
  • Fixed an issue where admins were not properly allowed to copy or edit to Job Templates via the API
  • Fixed an issue where Home/Host column views were not sortable
  • Fixed the display of schedules to only show those with future activity
  • Fixed an error where clicking to a different page number while editing a resource and making a new selections indicated an item other than the one currently selected/being edited
  • Fixed an issue where relaunching a job ignored search filters
  • Fixed an issue where searching for a user on an inventory permission page queried a project access list URL instead of the inventory access list URL
  • Fixed an issue where pressing the Enter key (instead of clicking ‘Ok’ with your mouse) closes a pop up error message and, unexpectedly, navigates the user back to the Tower home page
  • Fixed an issue where system job templates were not being included when viewing unified job template results
  • Fixed an issue related to relaunching ad hoc commands
  • Fixed an issue preventing projects from being deleted during an SCM update
  • Fixed an issue where, when viewing the “Event Summary” field, filtering by task status summary dots returned incorrect tasks information
  • Fixed an issue where selecting a host on one page, then going to the next page and selecting another host, did not save the prior selection as expected
  • Fixed an issue where processing extra_vars in a survey caused errors
  • Fixed an issue regarding how passwords are stored with surveys
  • Fixed an issue where, when running a playbook with an ignored task, the ignored task was incorrectly marked as failing
  • Fixed an issue so that Webhook notifications properly display the host summary information
  • Fixed an issue where provisioning callbacks were running multiple times in a row
  • Fixed various minor issues related to RBAC permissions and credentials
  • Fixed various minor API bugs
  • Fixed various minor UI and tooltips bugs
  • Fixed an issue related to SAML logins hanging after multiple authorization attempts
  • Fixed an issue where the “start date” header and schedule preview do not match what is set by the browser locale
  • Fixed an issue where users could not properly edit their profile
  • Fixed an issue related to backup/restoring with the setup.sh script
  • Improved Tower installer compatibility with RHUI repos on RHEL non-AWS instances
  • Improved upon what the auditor role can view (organization auditors can view inventory script contents in their own organizations, view notification templates in the activity stream, team credentials views)
  • Improved the consistency of how scheduling is displayed within the Tower UI
  • Improved how credentials are handled in that they should only be shareable when the organization field is not “null”
  • Improved how teams are displayed for different organizations when viewing permissions
  • Improved support for CloudForms and Red Hat Satellite 6 with Tower 3.0.x
  • Reorganized activity stream views/access for organization admins and auditors
  • Removed the requirement of needing a password for the network credential when using an SSH key
  • Removed the requirement of needing AUTH with Email notifications using SMTP

1.2. Ansible Tower Version 3.0.1

  • Added a stock schedule job for the ‘Cleanup Fact Details’ management job
  • Fixed an issue with inventory syncs using Red Hat Satellite 6 credentials
  • Fixed an issue which incorrectly allowed users assigned to a system auditor role to be able to escalate privileges to teams
  • Fixed an issue with Webhook notifications where the content-type was being set incorrectly
  • Fixed an issue where canceling a new job failed to change state from “new” to “canceled”
  • Fixed an upgrade and credential migration issue which involved null inventory fields in job templates
  • Fixed an upgrade and migration issue where hosts which had previously been deleted were not skipped during the upgrade process
  • Fixed an upgrade and migration issue where job templates linked to deleted inventories caused migrations to fail
  • Fixed an upgrade and migration issue where job templates without inventories caused migrations to fail
  • Fixed an error related to the logging of RBAC migration data which caused installations to fail
  • Fixed an issue related to license checks
  • Fixed other various issues related to upgrading and migration
  • Fixed the need for elevated permissions to make changes to job templates under some scenarios
  • Fixed an issue where Organization-level admins could not edit scan jobs that were created prior to upgrading to Tower 3.0
  • Fixed an issue regarding Software Collections (SCL) installation on EL6
  • Fixed a problem with subsequent logins after upgrading to Tower 3.0 when using Google OAuth or SAML authentication
  • Discovered an issue with MS Azure inventory imports using new-style credentials being unsupported on distributions that ship python-2.7 (e.g. not EL6)
  • Updated the UI to display new jobs in the Jobs overview screen and added a cancellation method for these new jobs

1.3. Ansible Tower Version 3.0

  • Added a notifications system for Tower which supports services like Slack, HipChat, IRC, etc.

  • Added support for the new Azure inventory system and the latest Ansible Azure modules (legacy Azure inventory and credentials are still supported)

    • Azure inventory imports using new-style credentials are only supported on distributions that ship python-2.7 (e.g. not EL6)
  • Added support for keystone v3 which supports the latest Openstack versions

  • Added counts and more detail to Organization endpoints (API)

  • Added prompting for Job Templates

  • Added labels for Job Templates

  • Added support for user customization as Ansible tasks now run in their own environment

  • Added support for new Ansible Network Credentials

  • Added inventory support for Red Hat Cloudforms and Red Hat Satellite 6

  • Added SUSE, OpenSuse, and Debian support for scan jobs

  • Added a link to the schedule in the job detail view if the job was started as a result of a schedule

  • Added survey spec management without requiring that surveys be enabled on job templates

  • Added additional strict extra_vars validation. extra_vars passed to the job launch API are only honored if one of the following is true:

    • they correspond to variables in an enabled survey
    • ask_variables_on_launch is set to True
  • Added a deprecation notice for Ubuntu 12 and RHEL 6

  • Changed how Projects are linked so that they now tie singularly to an Organization

  • Changed how system tracking and scan data are stored–now in postgres. MongoDB dependency removed.

  • Discovered an issue with ECDSA credentials–if your Tower server has a version of OpenSSH that predates 5.7, jobs will fail when launched jobs with ECDSA credentials

  • Fixed issues with scan jobs on RHEL5

  • Fixed an issue with the websocket service when Tower is run on CentOS or RHEL 7.2

  • Fixed issues with Ansible’s no_log causing errors or not hiding data when running jobs

  • Fixed the way setting a license is done so that it propagates to standby Tower nodes in an HA configuration

  • Fixed GCE credential handling and inventory filtering

  • Improved (through a complete rewrite to expand and simplify) the Role-Based Access Control system in Tower

  • Improved job templates so that multiple invocations of the same job template will only block if the job templates used the same inventory

  • Improved the setup playbook so that it now hides potentially sensitive information from stdout and the setup log

  • Improved the Setup process now supports installing and configuring postgres on a remote system

  • Removed MongoDB and changed view queries to use a Postgres implementation

  • Removed soft-deletes: Tower now permanently deletes removed objects and the utilities to manage the cleanup of those soft-deleted objects have been removed

  • Removed Munin monitoring

  • Updated the look and feel of the entire Tower UI for a more approachable and intuitive user experience

  • Updated and simplifed the Tower setup process so that new Tower installs are now preloaded with Organization, Inventory, Project, and Job Template demo data

  • Updated the setup process to support installing and configuring Postgres on a remote system

  • Updated dependencies

  • Updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6/CentOS 6 to use python 2.7 (for Tower only)

  • Updated the minimum open file descriptor check and configuration by raising it from 1024 to 4096