Hi everyone,
It's about time to release Ansible 1.1!
I know lots of people run straight from the development branch (no
reason to stop!), but a release is still a pretty big milestone, and
is consumed by lots of folks running content out of distributions
(such as Extras Packages for Enterprise Linux), as well as those
downloading with pip from PyPi. For those folks who are new, Ansible
runs on a two month release cycle, which was the result of a very
scientific survey asking what folks wanted the release cycle to be.
In preparation for the release, I am going to not merge any more
features submitted after 3/25 to allow all features to be fully tested
-- bugfixes can still be taken. Also, since it is going to be Easter
weekend (at least for some of us), I'm not going to release on 3/31,
but hold things until 4/2, so we have a little more time to test (and
also spend time with families and easter bunnies). And I know better
than to release on 4/1 
There's a very large crop of pull requests
to merge, which I plan to sort through this weekend.
Ansible 1.1 brings about 20 more modules, dry run support, interactive
playbook step throughs, a new environment keyword for setting
environment variables (like proxy support), a chroot connection type
for image builds, and conf.d style inventory directories! Everything
is remain fully backward compatible with previous releases as always
and there is nothing you need to update from a 1.0 playbook. This
should be a great release and I hope everyone is excited as I am.
Thank you everyone for making this a totally amazing experience and a
very fun project to work on!