2. Release Notes¶

2.1. Ansible Tower Version 3.8.3¶

Fixes in Ansible Tower:

• Analytics collection no longer cause lost job events when Tower is under load

• Analytics collection now handles null characters in job event output

• Pending jobs in /api/v2/metrics show correct counts

• Project updates are no longer delayed when projects contain large files

• Status for hosts are properly counted in notification payloads

• SAML organization creation now properly assigns a default Galaxy credential

• SAML configuration now properly denotes required SAML contact fields

• Fixed a race condition in settings updates that previously lead to incorrect behavior

• Log messages are updated to be more clear when rsyslog is unresponsive

Fixes in the platform installer:

• Updated to include Ansible 2.9.20

• Updated to use a PostgreSQL secret when deploying in OpenShift

• Updated to remove RabbitMQ on upgrade only on Tower nodes

Fixes in the ansible.tower collection:

• The tower_user module now updates the system auditor and superuser flags

• The workflow_launch and job_launch modules now properly send survey-only variables

• A number of defaults corrected to no longer set to an empty string

• Updated the project module to support spawning project updates

• Fixed job_template and worfklow_job_template to properly error on incorrect survey formats

• Enhanced job_template and workflow_job_template to use identical survey_spec arguments

• Updated inventory plugin to properly add child groups

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