New Features
Added the ability for control nodes to peer out to remote execution nodes (on a Kubernetes deployment only)
Introduced peers detail tab for instances
Introduced the ability to create and remove instances in the controller UI
Updated nodes/links in the Topology Viewer of the controller UI to support new states
Enabled health checks to be run on remote execution nodes on a Kubernetes deployment
Added the ability for Kubernetes users to create instance groups
Added project/playbook signature verification functionality to the controller, enabling users to supply a GPG key and add a content signing credential to a project, automatically enabling content signing for that project
Introduced ansible-sign, a content signing and verification utility that provides a unified way to sign content across the Ansible eco-system
Support for schedules with the awx-cli import and awx-cli export features
Surfaced database connections in /api/v2/metrics
Additions
Topology viewer now shows new node and link states
Mesh topology shows directionality of links between nodes
The ability to pass variable value from a nested workflow job template to a job template or workflow job template using the set_stats module
Added Prompt on Launch options on all parameters of the job template and workflow job templates
Added Job and Skip tags on workflow job templates and accompanying Prompt on Launch options
Configurable timeout settings for the receptor
Added missing security headers to application URLs
Metrics added for Support Engineers and customers to analyze, problem solve performance-related issues with lags in job events
The controller now polls the job endpoint to determine exactly when events are done processing and the UI displays a message when it has finished processing events for the job
Include forks on job and/or job template data for Automation Analytics
Forks information no longer missing in running job details
Schedules now allow date exceptions
Optimized/cache information about preferred instance groups
Control for capacity decisions and task worker availability
Survey wizard now handles multiple choice/multi-select question-answers in both array and string form (formerly only strings were supported)
Surveys can now auto-complete in multiple choice input fields
Added options for setting the priority class on the control plane and PostgreSQL pods
Subscription Details indicating whether the customer is in or out-of-compliance with their subscriptions
Added the ability for Receptor Ansible collection to provision receptor node(s)
Added the ability to deprovision external execution nodes
Added playbook with all the required variables for provisioning new remote execution nodes
Pop-up help text added to Details fields of job templates, workflow job templates, credentials, projects, inventories, hosts, organizations, users, credential types, notifications, instance groups, applications, and execution environments
Extra variables added to workflow approval notifications
Updates or Fixes
Topology Viewer links, nodes, legend, list view "Status" updated to reflect new states
Updated the Topology viewer to show more node detail
Topology Viewer no longer fails to populate when launched
Updated the controller to handle asynchronous health checks on an instance
Nodes are now moved to a deprovisioning state when removing from the controller UI
Increased the number of allowed characters for the job_tags (Job Tags field) in a template
Job schedules are no longer missing from the Schedules view when sorting by type
Schedules now prompting for job or skip tags
Browser timezone automatically set as default when creating a schedule
Fixed issue with adding a schedule to an inventory source
LDAP / LDAPS connections no longer stay open after a user has logged out
Refactored LDAP backend to be more efficient, including reduced initial login time after increasing list of LDAP mappings
Job launch failure error now contains more succinct and informative messaging in the event that content signature validation fails
Users with Admin permissions on a workflow are able to assign an inventory to the workflow job template
Approval node toolbar buttons updated to improve the Workflow approval user experience
Workflow approval templates are now exportable
Admin users can now copy a workflow job template
Node rejoins cluster as expected after connection to PostgreSQL is lost
Workflow or sliced jobs no longer blocked or fails when ran
Sliced jobs no longer produce 500 errors when performing a GET operation while launching more than 500 slices
Jobs no longer fails if Job Slicing and Fact Storage are enabled together
Adhoc command jobs no longer result in error when ran
Fixed error that resulted from relaunching an adhoc command with password
Advanced search updated to only allow users to select valid or logical match types to avoid unnecessary 500 errors
Included updates and enhancements to improve performance associated with the Task Manager in the handling of scaling jobs, mesh and cluster sizes
Job output performance improvements
Job output screen user experience improvements
Job timeout details showing in the Job Output as expected
Job Settings page updated to no longer produce 404 errors and other various warnings
First Run / Next Run values of the job schedule fixed to no longer change to one day before the date entered in the Edit/Add page of the schedule settings
Job template with concurrent jobs launches as expected if capacity allows the controller to run more jobs
awx-cli import and awx-cli export now produce an error message and provide appropriate exit codes when an imported or exported operation fails
Default cleanup schedules no longer only run once
Updated SAML adapter to not remove System Administrator and System Auditor flags
Lookup modals refresh when opened
Twilio notifications can now be sent from the controller from behind a proxy
Custom credential type creation works as expected
Updated strings for translation
The Demo Project will now initially show a status of "successful" and will not update on launch, whereas before it showed "never updated" and updated on launch
Inventory updates based on an SCM source now provides the revision of the project it used
Removing hosts from inventories no longer fails with "Out of Shared Memory" error
Manually gathering analytics from CLI no longer results in a unicode error
Filter websockets related to sync jobs on jobs list(s) when refreshed, these jobs will be filtered again from the Jobs view
The GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable is now being set from a Google Compute Engine (GCE) credential type
Fixes some stability issues with ansible-runner worker processes and related logging slowdowns in the Dispatcher task processing
Deprecations
None in this release.
Removals
Removed the Update on Project Update field (update_on_project_update) in projects. This is intended to be replaced by ordinary "Update on Launch" behavior, because they chain from inventory to project. So if this option was previously set on the inventory source, it is recommended that both inventory and project are set to "Update on Launch".
The Credential Permissions page no longer allows Credential Admin or Org Admins to manage access operations for a credential that does not belong to any organization
Fallback behavior removed when an instance group is defined on a job template or inventory