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Release Notes for 4.x

Automation Controller Version 4.1.2

Automation Controller fixes:

  • Upgraded Django version to 3.2 LTS

  • System (management) jobs are now able to be canceled

  • Rsyslog no longer needs manual intervention to send out logs after hitting a 40x error

  • Credential lookup plugins now respect the AWX_TASK_ENV setting

  • Fixed the controller to list valid subscriptions from Satellite when having multiple quantities from the same SKU

  • Updated Receptor version to 1.2.1, which includes several fixes

Execution Environment fixes:

  • The host trusted cert store is now exposed to execution environments by default. See Isolation functionality and variables for detail.

  • Mounting the /etc/ssh or /etc/ to isolated jobs now works in podman

  • User customization of execution environment mount options and mount paths are now supported

  • Fixed SELinux context on /var/lib/awx/.local/share/containers and ensure awx as podman storage

  • Fixed failures to no longer occur when the semanage fcontext has been already set for the expected directory

Automation Controller UI fixes:

  • Fixed the ability to create manual projects in Japanese and other suppported non-English languages

  • Fixed the controller UI to list the roles for organizations when using non-English web browsers

  • Fixed the job output to display all job type events, including source control update events over websockets

  • Fixed the TypeError when running a command on a host in a smart inventory

  • Fixed the encrypted password in surveys to no longer show up as plaintext in the Edit Order page

Installation fixes specific to Automation Controller:

  • Fixed duplicate Galaxy credentials with no default organization

  • Running the ./setup.sh -b out of the installer directory no longer fails to load group vars

  • The installer no longer fails when IPV6 is disabled

  • Fixed unnecessary become_user:root entries in the installation

  • Modified database backup and restore logic to compress dump data

  • Creating default execution environments no longer fails when password has special characters

  • Fixed installations of execution environments when installing without internet access

  • Upgrading to AAP 2.1 no longer breaks when the Django superuser is missing

  • Rekey now allowed with existing key

Automation Controller Version 4.1.1

  • Added the ability to specify additional nginx headers

  • Fixed analytics gathering to collect all the data the controller needed to collect

  • Fixed the controller to no longer break subsequent installer runs when deleting the demo organization

Automation Controller Version 4.1

引进

  • Connected Receptor nodes to form a control plane and execution mesh configurations

  • The special controlplane instance group to allow for the task manager code to target an OpenShift Controller node to run the project update

  • The ability to render a configured mesh topology in a graph in the installer

  • Controller 4.1 execution nodes can be remote

  • Node types for Controller 4.1 (control, hybrid, execution, hop, control, hybrid, execution, hop) installed for different sets of services and provide different capabilities, allowing for scaling nodes that provide the desired capability such as job execution or serving of web requests to the API/UI.

添加

  • The ability for the platform installer to allow users to install execution nodes and express receptor mesh topology in the inventory file. The platform installer will also be responsible for deprovisioning nodes.

  • Work signing to the receptor mesh so that control plane nodes have the exclusive authority to submit receptor work to execution nodes over the mesh

  • Support for pre-population of execution environment name, description, and image from query parameters when adding a new execution environment in the Controller User Interface

  • Ability to trigger a reload of the topology configuration in Receptor without interrupting work execution

  • Using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for securing the Receptor mesh

  • Added importing execution environments from Automation Hub into the controller to improve the platform experience

更新

  • The controller to support new controller control plane and execution mesh

  • Task manager will only run project updates and system jobs on nodes with node_type of "control" or "hybrid"

  • Task manager will only run jobs, inventory updates, and ad hoc commands on nodes with node_type of "hybrid" or "execution"

  • Heartbeat and capacity check to work with Receptor execution nodes

  • Reaper to work with the addition of execution nodes

  • Controller User Interface to not show control instances as an option to associate with instance groups

  • The Associate pop-up screen to display host names when adding an existing host to a group

  • Validators for editing miscellaneous authentication parameters

  • Advanced search key options to be grouped

  • SAML variables default values

  • Survey validation on Prompt on Launch

  • Login redirect

弃用

删除

  • The ability to delete the default instance group through the User Interface

自动化控制器版本 4.0

引进

  • 支持自动化 execution environments。现在,所有自动化都通过容器(直接通过 OpenShift)或本地通过 podman 在执行环境中运行。

  • 新的基于 PatternFly 4 的用户界面以提高与其他 Ansible Automation Platform 组件的性能、安全性和一致性

添加

  • 添加了对 GitHub Enterprise 的身份供应商支持

  • 支持对 nginx 配置的 RHEL 系统加密配置集

  • 可以禁用本地系统用户,并仅从配置的身份提供程序中提取用户

  • 其他用于跟踪作业事件处理性能的 Prometheus 指标

  • 新的 awx-manage 命令用于转储主机自动化信息

  • 使用 Red Hat Insights 作为清单源

  • 使用 Django 的 AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS 设置设置服务器端密码策略的功能

  • 支持将 Vault 作为凭证查找插件

  • 支持 Hashicorp Vault 凭证插件中的命名空间

更新

  • OpenShift 部署通过 Operator 而不是 playbook 进行

  • 应用使用的 Python 为 Python 3.8

  • Nginx 用于版本 1.18

  • PostgreSQL 用于 PostgreSQL 12,并移到分区数据库以提高性能

  • "容器组"功能从技术预览中正式发布,现在可以充分利用执行环境

  • Insights 修复为使用新的 Red Hat Insights 清单源,而不是利用带有任意清单的扫描 playbook

  • 订阅显示以统计自动化的主机而不是导入的主机

  • 清单源、凭证和 Ansible 内容集合使用 controller 而不是 tower

弃用

删除

  • 在 CentOS(任何版本)和 RHEL 7 上部署的支持

  • 支持 Mercurial 项目

  • 支持存储在控制器中的自定义清单脚本(使用 awx-manage export_custom_scripts 导出它们)

  • 资源 profiling 代码 (AWX_RESOURCE_PROFILING_*)

  • 支持用于执行的自定义 Python 虚拟环境。使用新的 awx-manage 工具协助迁移。

  • 顶级 /api/v2/job_events/ API 端点

  • 禁用作业隔离的功能