# Announcing AWX 21.12.0 and AWX-Operator 1.2.0

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-21-12-0-and-awx-operator-1-2-0/37658>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [February 13, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-21-12-0-and-awx-operator-1-2-0/37658 "2023-02-13T18:37:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-21-12-0-and-awx-operator-1-2-0/37658/1 "2023-02-13T18:37:35Z")

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We’re happy to announce that the next release of AWX, version 21.12.0 is now available!  
Some notable features include:

- Update clustering.md to be more current
- Enable support for injecting complex extra vars
- Adding new management command to allow failsafe enabling of local auth
- SAML enhancements
- Add ‘–order\_by’ option to awx CLI
- Re-add workflow approval bulk actions to workflow approvals list
- Attempt to consolidate CI logic with github\_ci\_runner target

In addition AWX Operator version 1.2.0 has also been released!  
Some notable features include:

- [fix] backup role use k8s\_cp module to write large files
- Add `additional_labels` parameter
- Auto-assign NodePort port by default rather than hardcoding a default

Please see the releases pages for more details:  
AWX: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/21.12.0](https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/21.12.0)  
Operator: [https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases/tag/1.2.0](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases/tag/1.2.0)

-The AWX team.