# Announcing AWX 23.5.1 and AWX-Operator 2.9.0

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-5-1-and-awx-operator-2-9-0/2763>\
**Category:** Ecosystem Releases\
**Tags:** awx-operator, awx, release\
**Created:** [December 5, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-5-1-and-awx-operator-2-9-0/2763 "2023-12-05T20:01:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![thedoubl3j](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/thedoubl3j/32/103_2.png) [@thedoubl3j](https://forum.ansible.com/u/thedoubl3j)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-5-1-and-awx-operator-2-9-0/2763/1 "2023-12-05T20:01:05Z")

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We’re happy to announce that the next release of AWX, version 23.5.1 is now available!  
Some notable features include:

In addition AWX Operator version 2.9.0 has also been released!  
Some notable features include:

- Add option to force drop database before restore
- Bump Ansible Operator SDK version to 1.32.0 for OS updates

Please see the releases pages for more details:  
AWX: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/23.5.1](https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/23.5.1)  
Operator: [https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases/tag/2.9.0](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases/tag/2.9.0)

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**Author:** ![kurokobo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kurokobo/32/182_2.png) [@kurokobo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kurokobo)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-5-1-and-awx-operator-2-9-0/2763/2 "2023-12-05T23:39:05Z")

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@thedoubl3j  
Hi, thanks for working on this!  
Operator does not seem to have been released correctly, could you please check?

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**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-5-1-and-awx-operator-2-9-0/2763/3 "2023-12-07T10:35:04Z")

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Pinging [@AWX](https://forum.ansible.com/groups/awx) just in case someone else beats Jake to it 😉

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**Author:** ![thedoubl3j](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/thedoubl3j/32/103_2.png) [@thedoubl3j](https://forum.ansible.com/u/thedoubl3j)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-5-1-and-awx-operator-2-9-0/2763/4 "2023-12-07T18:12:52Z")

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…we fix one issue and then another pops up, taking a look this afternoon/tomorrow.

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**Author:** ![thedoubl3j](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/thedoubl3j/32/103_2.png) [@thedoubl3j](https://forum.ansible.com/u/thedoubl3j)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-5-1-and-awx-operator-2-9-0/2763/5 "2023-12-07T18:23:22Z")

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It’s out and available on quay. My apologies for the delay