# Ansible 2.0 RC4 is available for testing

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-0-rc4-is-available-for-testing/20142>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-0-rc4-is-available-for-testing/20142 "2016-01-07T19:00:57Z")\
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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:** [January 7, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-0-rc4-is-available-for-testing/20142/1 "2016-01-07T19:00:57Z")

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Hi all, as mentioned yesterday the 2.0 RC4 release is now available for testing.

This release candidate includes the following bug fixes (as well as some other minor ones):

- bugs in the free/linear strategies related task iteration, where some tasks could be skipped if they occured in rescue/always portions of a block.
- bugs in the linear strategy, where in certain situations the next task was not being correctly selected, meaning the playbook would hang until ctrl+c is pressed.
- unicode in some connection plugins was causing a problem.

The final release is now scheduled for next week, Tuesday January 12th.

For details and background, please see the original beta announcement here: [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ansible-project/\_hTjEIpbA\_Y/GtllImCkCQAJ](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ansible-project/_hTjEIpbA_Y/GtllImCkCQAJ)

How do you get it?