# Ansible 2.0 release delay

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-0-release-delay/20134>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 6, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-0-release-delay/20134 "2016-01-06T16:12:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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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 6, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-0-release-delay/20134/1 "2016-01-06T16:12:01Z")

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Hi all, really hate having to send this email but we’ve decided to do an RC4 release due to several bugs (details below). As a result, we’re pushing the final release out to next week on the 12th.

The bugs are:

- 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.

We’ll be releasing RC4 today or tomorrow, depending on when we get that last bug fixed (testing the PR which fixes it now).

Thanks, and sorry for the delay again!

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**Author:** ![knacktus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@knacktus](https://forum.ansible.com/u/knacktus)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-0-release-delay/20134/2 "2016-01-10T07:31:43Z")

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I just want to use the moment to thank all people helping developing Ansible. When taking a step back and thinking about the huge value you guys are creating for everyone for free I can only be very grateful.

Cheers,

Jan

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**Author:** ![Mike\_Jeski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Mike\_Jeski](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Jeski)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-0-release-delay/20134/3 "2016-01-11T04:46:05Z")

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Likewise!

Very grateful.