# Ansible 2.1.0 RC4 is ready for testing

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-1-0-rc4-is-ready-for-testing/21515>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [May 22, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-1-0-rc4-is-ready-for-testing/21515 "2016-05-22T20:52:14Z")\
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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:** [May 22, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-1-0-rc4-is-ready-for-testing/21515/1 "2016-05-22T20:52:14Z")

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Hi all, we’re happy to announce that RC4 for 2.1.0 is now available for testing.

This updated release candidate fixes two more bugs (one very long standing and one a result of a change in this release):

- Fixes a bug where the item squashing code (which is used by many package modules) was incorrectly  
squashing the list of package names.
- Adds an additional mitigation for the intermittent ssh issue where a heavily loaded system  
might return no data (this is a bug between sshd and the kernel, but this mitigation makes it  
much less likely to occur).

How do you get it?

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**Author:** ![Bernhard\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bernhard\_L](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bernhard_L)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-1-0-rc4-is-ready-for-testing/21515/2 "2016-05-23T14:23:14Z")

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Hi,

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It would be nice if this issue [https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/issues/2144](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/issues/2144) could be resolved before 2.1.0 gets released.  
There is already a pull request with the fix: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/2149](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/2149)  
Otherwise the pkgutil-module would be unusable.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Toshio_Kuratomi)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-1-0-rc4-is-ready-for-testing/21515/3 "2016-05-25T15:22:28Z")

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Just an update for the mailing list – we finished reviewing and merging this too late for 2.1.0 but it is now merged into the stable-2.1 branch for inclusion into 2.1.1.

-Toshio