Introduced
Graphical visualization of the automation topology to show the types of nodes, the links between them and their statuses
Added
For VM-based installs, the controller will now automatically mount the system trust store in execution environments when jobs run
Log Format For API 4XX Errors field to the Logging settings form to allow customization of 4xx error messages that are produced when the API encounters an issue with a request
Ability to use labels with inventory
Ability to flag users as superusers and auditors in SAML integration
Support for expanding and collapsing plays and tasks in the job output UI
Filtering job output UI by multiple event types
Various default search filters to a number of list views
Top-level list of instances to now be visible in the UI
A pop-up message when a user copies a resource
Job Templates tab to Credentials and Inventories to view all the templates that use that particular credential or inventory
Updated
Controller to use Python 3.9
Django’s SESSION_COOKIE_NAME setting to a non-default value. Note, any external clients that previously used the sessionid cookie will need to change. Refer to Session Authentication for more detail.
Controller to support podman-style volume mount syntax in the Paths to expose to isolated jobs field of the Jobs Settings of the UI
Isolated path to be exposed in OCP/K8s as HostPath
Upgraded Django from version 2.2 to 3.2
Modified usage of ansible_facts on Advanced Search to add more flexibility to the usage of ansible_facts when creating a smart inventory
The controller node for a job running on an execution node now incurs a penalty of 1 unit of capacity to account for the system load that controlling a job incurs. This can be adjusted with the file-based setting AWX_CONTROL_NODE_TASK_IMPACT.
Project updates to always run in the controlplane instance group
Slack notifications to allow replying to a thread instead of just channels
UI performance to improve job output
Job status icons to be more accessible
Display of only usable inventories when launching a job
Browser tab to show more information about which page the user is currently viewing
Controller to now load variables after job template extra variables to prevent overriding the meta variables injected into each job run
Deprecated
The concept of “committed capacity” from Instance Groups due to the removal of RabbitMQ
Inventory source option to Update on project update - this field updates the inventory source if its project pulled a new revision. In the future, when updating an inventory source, the controller shall automatically run project updates if the project itself is set to Update on launch.
Removed
Case sensitivity around hostcount