# Ansible 2.3.0 RC1 is available for testing

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-3-0-rc1-is-available-for-testing/23985>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows, aws\
**Created:** [March 15, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-3-0-rc1-is-available-for-testing/23985 "2017-03-15T20:13:02Z")\
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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:** [March 15, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-3-0-rc1-is-available-for-testing/23985/1 "2017-03-15T20:13:02Z")

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(now with a subject…)

We are happy to announce the availability of Ansible 2.3.0 RC1!

There are many new things to try out with this release:

- Shared code for modules can now be placed in “module\_utils” directories local to your playbook and/or roles to make it easier to share code across locally developed modules.
- Allow async tasks to work when an action plugin is used.
- Added a new “dense” callback to produce a more condensed output.
- A total of 1034 modules (~140 more than 2.2), including:

- A new group of modules to aid in automating your Ansible Tower instances.
- A new group of modules for managing oVirt.
- A few new modules for AWS, including support for KMS and ECS/ECR.
- More below…

For Windows:

- Pipelining support for faster module execution (~20-50% performance boost for many modules).
- Support for the “runas” become method to execute as a different user and allow for transparent second-hop authentication in many cases.
- Many other improvements for existing WIndows modules such as check mode, and other fixes for the winrm connection type.
- Fourteen new modules, including:

- win\_domain
- win\_domain\_controller
- win\_domain\_membership
- win\_path
- win\_region
- win\_shortcut

In the network space:

- We’ve introduced new performance upgrades and additional vendor support. For more information about what’s new with Ansible Networking, take a look at our blog post ([https://www.ansible.com/blog/networking-features-in-ansible-2-3](https://www.ansible.com/blog/networking-features-in-ansible-2-3)), and check out the expanded list of Network Modules now available here: [http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list\_of\_network\_modules.html](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_network_modules.html).
- This release brings the total number of networking modules up to 267.

We are tracking a handful of issues for this release candidate that we expect to have fixed by the time we release version 2.3; you can monitor the list of known issues here:

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20milestone%3A2.3.0](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20milestone%3A2.3.0)

How do you get it?

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Stroder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Michael\_Stroder](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Stroder)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-3-0-rc1-is-available-for-testing/23985/2 "2017-03-15T23:12:13Z")

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James Cammarata wrote:

> We are happy to announce the availability of Ansible 2.3.0 RC1!

With this pre-release I get (after a couple of tasks):

TASK [web2ldap : Install fcgi.py]