Ansible 2.6
Release Schedule
Actual
2018-05-17 Core Freeze (Engine and Core Modules/Plugins)
2018-05-21 Alpha Release 1
2018-05-25 Community Freeze (Non-Core Modules/Plugins)
2018-05-25 Branch stable-2.6
2018-05-30 Alpha Release 2
2018-06-05 Release Candidate 1
2018-06-08 Release Candidate 2
2018-06-18 Release Candidate 3
2018-06-25 Release Candidate 4
2018-06-26 Release Candidate 5
2018-06-28 Final Release
Release Manager
2.6.0-2.6.12 Matt Clay (IRC/GitHub: @mattclay)
2.6.13+ Toshio Kuratomi (IRC: abadger1999; GitHub: @abadger)
Engine improvements
Version 2.6 is largely going to be a stabilization release for Core code.
Some of the items covered in this release, but are not limited to are the following:
ansible-inventoryimport_*include_*Test coverage
Performance Testing
Core Modules
Adopt-a-module Campaign
Review current status of all Core Modules
Reduce backlog of open issues against these modules
Cloud Modules
Network
Connection work
New connection plugin: eAPI proposal#102
New connection plugin: NX-API
Support for configurable options for network_cli & netconf
Modules
New
net_get- platform independent module for pulling configuration with SCP/SFTP over network_cliNew
net_put- platform independent module for pushing configuration with SCP/SFTP over network_cliNew
netconf_get- Netconf module to fetch configuration and state data proposal#104
Other Features
Stretch & tech preview: Configuration caching for network_cli. Opt-in feature to avoid
show runningperformance hit