# Announcing AWX 21.6.0 and AWX-Operator 0.29.0

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-21-6-0-and-awx-operator-0-29-0/37113>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [September 16, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-21-6-0-and-awx-operator-0-29-0/37113 "2022-09-16T17:04:44Z")\
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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:** [September 16, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-21-6-0-and-awx-operator-0-29-0/37113/1 "2022-09-16T17:04:44Z")

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Hi all,

We’re happy to announce that the next release of AWX, version 21.6.0 is now available!  
Some notable features include:

- Allow for projects to be GPG-verified against unexpected changes
- Add documentation for running development environment in kind
- Add exception options to the schedule form in the UI
- Add make target for building personal awx kube image
- Close database connections while processing job output
- Fix awx-manage list\_instances command to show last seen heartbeat
- Implement generic OIDC provider for Authentication

In addition AWX Operator version 0.29.0 has also been released!  
Some notable features include:

- Allow runtime modification of receptor config without updating configmap
- Upgrade operator-sdk version from 1.22.2 to 1.23.0

Please see the releases pages for more details:  
AWX: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/21.6.0](https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/21.6.0)  
Operator: [https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases/tag/0.29.0](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases/tag/0.29.0)

-The AWX team.

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**Author:** ![m.nelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@m.nelson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/m.nelson)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-21-6-0-and-awx-operator-0-29-0/37113/2 "2022-09-16T19:03:37Z")

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Hi Team,

Congratulation keep up the excelent work. I will test this weekend and report back if I discover any issues.  
I created a small project to test on K3s, works great so far:  
[https://github.com/antuelle78/deploy-awx-k3s-ubuntu](https://github.com/antuelle78/deploy-awx-k3s-ubuntu)

I open to suggestions.

Kind regards,  
Michael Nelson