Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible 2.9.18rc1 and 2.8.19rc1 are now available!
These are release candidates of ansible made available for user testing and testing in CI environments. A full listing of changes found in this release can be found in the changelog linked below. Of note, this release addresses the following *security vulnerabilities*: * CVE-2021-20228 where default and fallback values for no_log parameters to modules were not previously masked. * CVE-2021-20178 where several parameters to the snmp_facts module were logged and displayed despite containing sensitive information. * CVE-2021-20180 where several parameters to the bitbucket_pipeline_variable were logged and displayed despite containing sensitive information. * CVE-2021-20191 which addresses a number of modules whose parameters were logged and displayed despite containing sensitive information. For the full list of affected modules, refer to the changelog linked below. How do you get it? ------------------ $ pip install ansible==2.9.18rc1 --user or $ pip install ansible==2.8.19rc1 --user The tar.gz of the releases can be found here: * 2.9.18rc1 https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.18rc1.tar.gz SHA256: 10c018d7f3d397f7ed02ccd1176b283ff732dc1d794ec58362d2167e40dec752 * 2.8.19rc1 https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.8.19rc1.tar.gz SHA256: af2b3b68dda7e558bb6fbe174f760f734150f1cb81716cd81bb52cfa7492ea85 What's new in 2.9.18rc1 and 2.8.19rc1 ------------------------------------- These releases are maintenance releases containing numerous bugfixes. The full changelogs are at: * 2.9.18rc1 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst * 2.8.19rc1 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.8/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst What's the schedule for future maintenance releases? ---------------------------------------------------- This Release Candidate is scheduled to become a General Availability release in one week. Porting Help ------------ We've published a porting guide at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.9.html to help migrate your content to 2.9. If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you upgrade to 2.9.18rc1, please use the following link to report the regression: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/new/choose In your issue, be sure to mention the Ansible version that works and the one that doesn't. Thanks! -Rick Elrod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-devel/CAMuUyjSOc_VnpzfVFOfZ-Jz3HJcE6a0LwLw1pXhBCcVET%2BehjA%40mail.gmail.com.
