# Announcing AWX 17.0.0

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-17-0-0/34503>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [January 25, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-17-0-0/34503 "2021-01-25T14:29:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@John\_Hill](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_Hill)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-17-0-0/34503/1 "2021-01-25T14:29:05Z")

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Hello Everyone,

We’re excited to announce a new version of AWX, 17.0.0.

Here are some of the notable changes from the official changelog ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md)):

- AWX now requires PostgreSQL 12 by default: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8943](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8943) **Note:** users who encounter permissions errors at upgrade time should chown -R ~/.awx/pgdocker to ensure it’s owned by the user running the install playbook
- Added support for region name for OpenStack inventory: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/5080](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/5080)
- Added the ability to chain undefined attributes in custom notification templates: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8677](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8677)
- Dramatically simplified the image\_build role: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8980](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8980)
- Fixed a bug which can cause schema migrations to fail at install time: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/9077](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/9077)
- Fixed a bug which caused the is\_superuser user property to be out of date in certain circumstances: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8833](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8833)
- Fixed a bug which sometimes results in race conditions on setting access: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8580](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8580)
- Fixed a bug which sometimes causes an unexpected delay in stdout for some playbooks: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/9085](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/9085)
- (UI) Added support for credential password prompting on job launch: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/9028](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/9028)
- (UI) Added the ability to configure LDAP settings in the UI: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8291](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8291)
- (UI) Added a sync button to the Project detail view: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8847](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8847)
- (UI) Added a form for configuring Google Outh 2.0 settings: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8762](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8762)
- (UI) Added searchable keys and related keys to the Credentials list: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8603](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8603)
- (UI) Added support for advanced search and copying to Notification Templates: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/7879](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/7879)
- (UI) Added support for prompting on workflow nodes: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/5913](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/5913)
- (UI) Added support for session timeouts: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8250](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8250)
- (UI) Fixed a bug that broke websocket streaming for the insecure ws:// protocol: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8877](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/8877)
- (UI) Fixed a bug in the user interface when a translation for the browser’s preferred locale isn’t available: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8884](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8884)
- (UI) Fixed bug where navigating from one survey question form directly to another wasn’t reloading the form: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/7522](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/7522)
- (UI) Fixed a bug which can cause an uncaught error while launching a Job Template: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8936](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/8936)
- Updated autobahn to address CVE-2020-35678  
Happy automating!