# Announcing AWX 8.0.0

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-8-0-0/31499>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** windows, vmware, awx, galaxy-ng, kubernetes\
**Created:** [October 21, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-8-0-0/31499 "2019-10-21T18:24:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![rpetrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@rpetrell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rpetrell)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-8-0-0/31499/1 "2019-10-21T18:24:55Z")

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Hey everyone,

We’re excited to announce a new major version of AWX, 8.0.0.

Here’s what’s new:

- The Ansible Tower Ansible modules have been migrated to a new official Ansible AWX collection: [https://galaxy.ansible.com/awx/AWX](https://galaxy.ansible.com/awx/AWX)  
_Please note that this functionality is only supported in Ansible 2.9+_

- AWX now supports the ability to launch jobs from external webhooks (GitHub and GitLab integration are supported).

- AWX now supports Container Groups, a new feature that allows you to schedule and run playbooks on single-use kubernetes pods on-demand.

- AWX now supports sending notifications when Workflow steps are approved, denied, or time out.

- AWX now records the user who approved or denied Workflow steps.

- AWX now supports fetching Ansible Collections from private galaxy servers.

- AWX now checks the user’s ansible.cfg for paths where role/collections may live when running project updates.

- AWX now uses PostgreSQL 10 by default.

- AWX now warns more loudly about underlying AMQP connectivity issues ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/4857](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/4857)).

- Added a few optimizations to drastically improve dashboard performance for larger AWX installs (installs with several hundred thousand jobs or more).

- Updated to the latest version of Ansible’s VMWare inventory script (which adds support for vmware\_guest\_facts).

- Deprecated /api/v2/inventory\_scripts/ (this endpoint - and the Custom Inventory Script feature - will be removed in a future release of AWX).

- Fixed a bug which prevented Organization Admins from removing users from their own Organization ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/2979](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/2979))

- Fixed a bug which sometimes caused cluster nodes to fail to re-join with a cryptic error, “No instance found with the current cluster host id” ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/4294](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/4294))

- Fixed a bug that prevented the use of launch-time passphrases when using credential plugins ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/4807](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/4807))

- Fixed a bug that caused notifications assigned at the Organization level not to take effect for Workflows in that Organization ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/4712](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/4712))

- Fixed a bug which caused a notable amount of CPU overhead on RabbitMQ health checks ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/5009](https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/5009))

- Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the key to stop functioning in elements ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/4192](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/4192))

- Fixed a bug which caused request contention when the same OAuth2.0 token was used in multiple simultaneous requests ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/4694](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/4694))

- Fixed a bug related to parsing multiple choice survey options ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/4452](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/4452)).

- Fixed a bug that caused single-sign-on icons on the login page to fail to render in certain Windows browsers ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/3924](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/3924))

- Fixed a number of bugs that caused certain OAuth2 settings to not be properly respected, such as REFRESH\_TOKEN\_EXPIRE\_SECONDS.

- Fixed a number of bugs in the AWX CLI, including a bug which sometimes caused long lines of stdout output to be unexpectedly truncated.

- Fixed a number of bugs on the job details UI which sometimes caused auto-scrolling stdout to become stuck.

- Fixed a bug which caused LDAP authentication to fail if the TLD of the server URL contained digits ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/3646](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/3646))

- Fixed a bug which broke HashiCorp Vault integration on older versions of HashiCorp Vault.

For a full list of commits included in this release, see the tag page on GitHub: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/8.0.0](https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/8.0.0)

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