Introduced
Support for automation execution environments. All automation now runs in execution environments via containers, either directly via OpenShift, or locally via podman
New PatternFly 4 based user-interface for increased performance, security, and consistency with other Ansible Automation Platform components
Added
Added identity provider support for GitHub Enterprise
Support for RHEL system crypto profiles to nginx configuration
The ability to disable local system users and only pull users from configured identity providers
Additional Prometheus metrics for tracking job event processing performance
New awx-manage command for dumping host automation information
Red Hat Insights as an inventory source
Ability to set server-side password policies using Django’s AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS setting
Support for Centrify Vault as a credential lookup plugin
Support for namespaces in Hashicorp Vault credential plugin
Updated
OpenShift deployment to be done via an Operator instead of a playbook
Python used by application to Python 3.8
Nginx used to version 1.18
PostgreSQL used to PostgreSQL 12, and moved to partitioned databases for performance
The “container groups” feature to general availability from Tech Preview; now fully utilizes execution environments
Insights remediation to use new Red Hat Insights inventory source rather than utilizing scan playbooks with arbitrary inventory
Subscriptions display to count hosts automated on instead of hosts imported
Inventory source, credential, and Ansible content collection to reference controller instead of tower
Deprecated
None
Removed
Support for deploying on CentOS (any version) and RHEL 7
Support for Mercurial projects
Support for custom inventory scripts stored in controller (use awx-manage export_custom_scripts to export them)
Resource profiling code (AWX_RESOURCE_PROFILING_*)
Support for custom Python virtual environments for execution. Use new awx-manage tools for assisting in migration
Top-level /api/v2/job_events/ API endpoint
The ability to disable job isolation