# Announcing AWX 21.5.0 and AWX-Operator 0.27.0

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-21-5-0-and-awx-operator-0-27-0/37026>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [August 23, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-21-5-0-and-awx-operator-0-27-0/37026 "2022-08-23T19:23:45Z")\
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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:** [August 23, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-21-5-0-and-awx-operator-0-27-0/37026/1 "2022-08-23T19:23:45Z")

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Hi all,

We’re happy to announce that the next release of AWX, version 21.5.0 is now available!  
Some notable features include:

- Add a graph to show database connections being used
- Refactors and redesigns workflow approval to impove UX
- Add Help Text with documentation link to Notification Templates page
- Allow for passing multiple items for values and roles when configuring SAML auth
- Task manager refactor
- Easier review workflow output
- Wait 60 seconds before scaling down a worker
- Further resiliency changes, specifically focused on case of database going offline
- Complex schedules UI
- Add metric for task manager on\_commit calls
- Add more graphs for task manager refactor
- Altering events relationship to hosts to increase performance
- add help command to make
- feature\_request\_form\_update
- Added more context to subscription details and rearrange the order of some of the fields
- Modifying AWX collection to allow connection to IPv6 hosts.
- Implement Generic OIDC Provider

In addition AWX Operator version 0.27.0 has also been released!  
Some notable features include:

- configure callback receiver workers based on CPU
- Upgrade to Operator SDK v1.22.2

Please see the releases pages for more details:  
AWX: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/21.5.0](https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/21.5.0)  
Operator: [https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases/tag/0.27.0](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases/tag/0.27.0)

-The AWX team