# Ansible 2.1.2 RC1 is ready for testing

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-1-2-rc1-is-ready-for-testing/22351>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 22, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-1-2-rc1-is-ready-for-testing/22351 "2016-08-22T22:00:59Z")\
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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:** [August 22, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-1-2-rc1-is-ready-for-testing/22351/1 "2016-08-22T22:00:59Z")

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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.

How do you get it?