Ansible 2.1.2 RC1 is ready for testing

Hi all, we’re happy to announce that RC1 for 2.1.2 is now available for testing.

This release candidate fixes many bugs, including (but not limited to):

  • Fixed a bug introduced by static includes in 2.1, which prevented notifications from going to the “top level” handler name.
  • Fixed a bug where a group_vars or host_vars directory in the current working directory would be used (and would take precedence) over those in the inventory and/or playbook directory.
  • Fixed a bug which could occur when the result of an async task did not parse as valid JSON.
  • (re)-allowed the use of ansible_python_interpreter lines with more than one argument.
  • Fixed several bugs related to the creation of the implicit localhost in inventory.
  • Fixed a bug related to an unspecified number of retries when using until.
  • Fixed a race-condition bug when creating temp directories before the worker process is forked.

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