# Ansible 0.9 released!

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-0-9-released/12114>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 1, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-0-9-released/12114 "2012-12-01T03:36:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-0-9-released/12114/1 "2012-12-01T03:36:56Z")

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Ansible 0.9 is now available! This release features quite a lot of  
new things, and a lot of refinements.

Compared with Ansible 0.8, you'll enjoy such new things as:

\* an ansible-doc program for explaining how to use modules without  
having to read the web docs  
\* various performance speedups and optimizations  
\* New modules:  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* addhost, useful for provisioning use cases  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* group\_by, a powerful way to target systems as if they were  
grouped by arbitrary properties  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* ec2, it creates ec2 machines  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* script, for pushing and executing scripts without installing them  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* svr4pkg, for Solaris packages

As always, the full changelog is available here:

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md)

Thanks to everyone for contributions to this release. Here's the  
number of Commits by each author:

Michael DeHaan (270), Daniel Hokka Zakrisson (96), Dag Wieers (32),  
Jan-Piet Mens (19), Stephen Fromm (18), Seth Vidal (12), Nigel  
Metheringham (12), Romeo Theriault (7), Jeroen Hoekx (6), Fabian  
Arrotin (6), Brian Coca (5), Luke Antins (4), fdavis (3), Serge van  
Ginderachter (3), Philipp Grau (3), Peter Sankauskas (3), Patrik  
Lundin (3), bleader (2), Yvan Cottyn (2), Ton Kersten (2), Stijn  
Opheide (2), Stavros Korokithakis (2), Lorin Hochstein (2), Igor Galić  
(2), willthames (1), Miek Gieben (1), Michel Blanc (1), Maxim  
Burgerhout (1), Jonathan Palley (1), John Kleint (1), Jeremiah Heller  
(1), Jens Rantil (1), Gary Richards (1), Felix Ingram (1), Derek  
Carter (1), Chandler Latour (1), Brandon Alexander (1), Boyd Adamson  
(1), Aleksej Romanov (1)

Release 1.0 starts now! Generally we have been doing monthly  
releases, though this one took a bit longer. Given that core is  
reasonably stable now, and most activity is around modules with many  
many people following the active development branch, I suspect we may  
be moving towards releases for the distros every two months.

--Michael

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**Author:** ![Harm\_Aarts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Harm\_Aarts](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Harm_Aarts)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-0-9-released/12114/2 "2012-12-02T19:35:56Z")

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Great news! I’m looking forward to using it.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-0-9-released/12114/3 "2012-12-03T13:46:05Z")

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Yeah, it's released, it's just an error in the changelog since I  
didn't merge changelog.md to the other branch.