# Ansible 1.9.6-1 has been released

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-9-6-1-has-been-released/21177>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 15, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-9-6-1-has-been-released/21177 "2016-04-15T19:34:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-9-6-1-has-been-released/21177/1 "2016-04-15T19:34:56Z")

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Hi all, we’re happy to announce that 1.9.6-1 has been released.

As noted in the RC1 announcement, 1.9.6 fixes a few bugs introduced in the 1.9.5 release, as well as a security flaw:

- Fixes several security bugs in the lxc\_container module, which could result in someone with local privileges modifying a script which was being created with world-writable permissions, resulting in that new script being run with root permission. If you’re using this module, you should upgrade immediately.
- Fixes a bug where --limit was incorrectly affecting inventory variables being read.
- Fixes a bug where a role parameter named ‘name’ would incorrectly be used as the name of the role.

As always, this update is available via PyPi and [releases.ansible.com](http://releases.ansible.com/) now. Packages for other distros will be available as soon as possible.

Thanks and enjoy!