# Ansible 2.2.0 RC2 is ready for testing

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-2-0-rc2-is-ready-for-testing/22822>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 18, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-2-0-rc2-is-ready-for-testing/22822 "2016-10-18T21:15:01Z")\
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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:** [October 18, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-2-0-rc2-is-ready-for-testing/22822/1 "2016-10-18T21:15:01Z")

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Hi all, we’re happy to announce that RC2 for 2.2.0 is now available for testing.

This release candidate addresses the following bugs:

- More Python 3 fixes for the core engine.
- Fixed several bugs related to locating files relative to role/playbook directories.
- Lots of fixes for networking modules.
- Several fixes for bugs found in the new include\_role feature, especially in terms of loops.
- Fixed a bug in the way hosts were tested for failed states, resulting in incorrectly skipped block sessions.
- Several fixes to improve parsing of INI files and better error messages during inventory parsing in general.
- Added feature to make interprocess polling interval configurable (internal\_poll\_interval in ansible.cfg [general]), to allow people to tweak this setting for different playbooks.
- Fixed a bug in the way our custom JSON encoder is used for the to\_json\* filters.
- Fixed a bug in which the `free` strategy was not correctly returning internal codes, resulting in incorrect task execution when using blocks.
- Fixed some bugs related to the use of non-ascii characters in become passwords.
- Fixed a bug in which a unicode file name caused errors in inventory parsing.
- Some fixes to the pbrun become method, to remove the `-b` option by default (re-add to become\_flags if you need it back).
- Fixed postgres\* and subversion modules to ensure password fields were not displayed when no\_log=True is used.
- The `ansible_managed` string now defaults to something without variables in it, so as to avoid incorrectly replacing files which have not changed.
- Moved ‘Statically included…’ messages to -vv verbosity.

How do you get it?