# Miscellaneous pull requests just merged for 0.8

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/miscellaneous-pull-requests-just-merged-for-0-8/11884>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 11, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/miscellaneous-pull-requests-just-merged-for-0-8/11884 "2012-09-11T22:11:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/miscellaneous-pull-requests-just-merged-for-0-8/11884/1 "2012-09-11T22:11:29Z")

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Some small features that might make your life easier just got merged in:

\* playbooks can import playbooks in other (different) directories and  
then be able to import tasks relative to them

\* ansible config file can also go in '.ansible.cfg' in your current  
working directory in addition to ~/.ansible.cfg and  
/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

\* $group and $group\_names are now accessible in with\_items

\* you can now pass a list of host patterns to the inventory API again  
versus having to colon seperate them (regression from 0.6 I think)