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2. Release Notes

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

  • 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. Removed utilities to manage the cleanup of those soft-deleted objects

  • 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 RHEL 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

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