# 0.9 changelog thus far

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/0-9-changelog-thus-far/12078>\
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**Created:** [November 11, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/0-9-changelog-thus-far/12078 "2012-11-11T17:15:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/0-9-changelog-thus-far/12078/1 "2012-11-11T17:15:37Z")

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I've added all the new things that have come in 0.9 to the changelog  
and organized it a bit, so for those wondering what all the new things  
are, this may be a good review:

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md)

TLDR:

\* everything is faster  
\* lots of module improvements and modules  
\* user module now supports BSD/Solaris, as well as service module  
upgrades for BSD, means things are much more nicely cross platform  
\* when and 'group\_by' allow compelling alternatives to the somewhat  
complex 'only\_if' construct \*  
\* a gazillion new types of plugins, all about getting data into your  
playbook in interesting ways, if you need that, but many won't

All the new things are not on the doc site yet, unless they are module  
related, in which case, they are and are flagged for what is new in  
0.9.

I need to write some sections on the new constructs, particularly the  
new "when\_" and "with\_" operators, and the other ways of getting data  
from lookup plugins.  
There are so many types of plugins now it's starting to confuse \*me\*,  
which is a good sign we need to stop making more types of them 🙂  
Thankfully, I think we are very  
close to mission accomplished around the core, and most future  
activity will be around modules. This is good!

On the developer docs page, I'm also going to be adding info about all  
the other new plugin types.

Whew. That's a lot of change just for 0.9, and that's \*WITH\* cutting  
some things out of it!

BTW, the next release will be numbered 1.0. This is just a number.  
Don't read anything stable or unstable into it. There is no major  
architecture shift, and we've kept  
backwards compatibility very strongly for the last 5 or 6 releases,  
I'm not planning on changing anything now either.

--Michael