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2. Release Notes

The following list summarizes the additions, changes, and modifications which were made to Ansible Tower 3.6.3.

2.1. Ansible Tower Version 3.6.3

  • Added a number of notable performance improvements to event processing to drastically speed up stdout ingestion speed

  • Added support for certain Job Template and Workflow launch-time arguments to the official Tower CLI

  • Deprecated the CloudForms inventory source, which will be removed in a future release

  • Support for running Ansible Tower on all versions older than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 is deprecated. Future versions of Ansible Tower will require a minimum of RHEL 7.7.

  • Fixed an issue which can cause certain git authentication failures to expose HTTP Basic auth credentials to configured loggers (such as Splunk or Logstash)

  • Fixed the SSL certificate formatting issue that can cause the Tower UI to fail to load in certain versions of Mac OSX Chrome

  • Fixed Tower installs hosted at domains that end with numbers

  • Fixed certain nested workflows to no longer be stuck in Running forever

  • Fixed copied credentials that omitted lookup sources

  • Fixed isolated nodes that reported incorrect capacity in certain failure scenarios

  • Fixed a number of issues related to the frequency of cloud.redhat.com analytics collection

  • Fixed Tower licenses to apply correctly when /etc/tower/conf.d/custom.py contains a custom TOWER_URL_BASE value

  • Fixed awx.api logs to properly send to external log aggregrator in OpenShift installs

  • Fixed Slack notifications to correctly show the Slack Bot username

  • Fixed official AMIs to not leave behind a randomized public SSH key from the build process

  • Fixed a number of issues related to the Red Hat Satellite 6 inventory script

  • Fixed Tower to not report an error when an OAuth2 token is used to delete itself

  • Fixed saml_admin_attr to work properly

  • Fixed the memcached service that resulted in degraded performance of some Tower systems, to correctly start at install time

  • Updated the pytz package to the latest version to reflect the latest available timezone data

  • Updated Tower’s translations to include more translated strings

For older version of the release notes, as well as other reference materials, refer to the Ansible Tower Release Notes.