# Ansible 1.9.6 RC1 and 2.0.2 RC3 are available for testing

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-9-6-rc1-and-2-0-2-rc3-are-available-for-testing/21080>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 6, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-9-6-rc1-and-2-0-2-rc3-are-available-for-testing/21080 "2016-04-06T21:04:56Z")\
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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 6, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-9-6-rc1-and-2-0-2-rc3-are-available-for-testing/21080/1 "2016-04-06T21:04:56Z")

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Hi all, we’re happy to announce a twofer:

Ansible 1.9.6 RC1 is available for testing, and fixes a couple of bugs introduced by the 1.9.5 release:

- 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.
- 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.

Ansible 2.0.2 RC3 likewise includes the fix for the lxc\_container bug, as well as another minor bug related to using hostvars in a delegated action (which includes the use of local\_action).

Ansible 2.0.2 RC3 can be downloaded here:

[http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.0.2.0-0.3.rc3.tar.gz](http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.0.2.0-0.3.rc3.tar.gz)

SHA 256: ad99714b00f9de32b76046f96d2d773f9867be6a9506e266dbc3282b6efaced7

Ansible 1.9.6 RC1 can be downloaded here:  
[http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-1.9.6-0.1.rc1.tar.gz](http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-1.9.6-0.1.rc1.tar.gz)

SHA 256: ed65bc79788898fc91f68671f49eee41ce2ae40ba722f9584c91967f63f47929

If you discover any errors in either of these release candidates, please open a Github issue and be sure to mention you’re testing against this release candidate.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Ted\_Timmons1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Ted\_Timmons1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ted_Timmons1)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-9-6-rc1-and-2-0-2-rc3-are-available-for-testing/21080/2 "2016-04-07T02:04:59Z")

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Aha. I thought that was just me.

It was a good opportunity to use a better name than name, though.