# Announcing AWX 23.8.0 and AWX-Operator 2.12.0

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-8-0-and-awx-operator-2-12-0/3867>\
**Category:** Ecosystem Releases\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [February 14, 2024, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-8-0-and-awx-operator-2-12-0/3867 "2024-02-14T08:59:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheRealHaoLiu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/therealhaoliu/32/100_2.png) [@TheRealHaoLiu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/TheRealHaoLiu)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-8-0-and-awx-operator-2-12-0/3867/1 "2024-02-14T08:59:42Z")

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We’re happy to announce that the next release of AWX, version 23.8.0 is now available!  
Some notable features include:

- Add support for mesh ingress
- Per-service metrics http server
- awxkit: allow to modify api base url
- Fix the way we are passing the awxkit base path to resources
- Added LDAP support for HashiCorp Vault lookup credential
- Add new credential type to support Terraform backend configuration
- Allow connecting to websockets via api/websocket/
- Websockets now use rest\_framework configed auth
- Allow DATABASES configuration without a password

In addition AWX Operator version 2.12.0 has also been released!  
Some notable features include:

- add ‘customSecrets’ and ‘customVolumes’ values to Helm Chart to simplifies the creation of ressources for PoC
- Allow connecting to websockets via api/websocket/

Please see the releases pages for more details:  
AWX: [Release 23.8.0 (Not recommended) · ansible/awx · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/23.8.0)  
Operator: [Release 2.12.0 (Not recommended) · ansible/awx-operator · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases/tag/2.12.0)

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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:** [February 14, 2024, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-8-0-and-awx-operator-2-12-0/3867/2 "2024-02-14T09:24:55Z")

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Users considering upgrading to 23.8.0 should be aware that this issue may occur after the upgrade:

[https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/14876](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/14876)

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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:** [February 15, 2024, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-23-8-0-and-awx-operator-2-12-0/3867/3 "2024-02-15T13:03:53Z")

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The above issue has been addressed by [ansible/awx#14879](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/14879).  
Hope we could have new Z release soon 🙏