There’s a new post in the AWX Modernization series at AWX UI and credential types transitioning to the new pluggable architecture.
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I’ve just posted the next forum post in this series, Transitioning authentication and authorization (RBAC) to the new AWX architecture
Dear AWX Team,
I’m excited to see the project evolving, and I understand that such a significant transformation is challenging to execute. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a smooth process!
I’m can’t find the information regarding the duration of the freeze on the AWX and the release of new versions. Do you have any estimates on when the first AWX release with the new changes might occur?
Thanks and Regards,
Kamil
Hi @kmkamyk
Welcome to the Ansible forum, and thanks for your first post!
Glad to hear you like many others are excited for this modernization work.
The refactoring is progressing, due to the depth of the work we are doing, we don’t have visibility into when that status will change, though we realistically expect this work continue well into 2025.
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Thanks, I wanted to know about the prospects of refactoring, so I’m glad to have received the information that that will continue into 2025 
Related questions, at this point, are there any planned changes that would make it impossible to use the same deployment methods as before, complicate the deployment of the upstream version using the Operator, or alter the licensing of AWX? The related topic is here.
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Hi AWX Team,
We know you’re working hard on the big AWX refactoring.
How is the work progressing? Could you share any updates or hints about what’s coming? Many of us are very curious.
For example, I’m wondering if future versions will still strictly require Kubernetes, or if other ways to run AWX might become possible. I’m also curious if the project will keep the AWX name :).
Any small details you can share at this stage would be really interesting.
Thanks for all your hard work on AWX!
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Hello colleagues,
I would like to know if a new version will be released in case of a vulnerability or incompatibility with K8s cluster updates.
There will be no more tagged releases for the old AWX architecture. The AWX team is overhauling the old monolithic architecture to a new more modular architecture and framework. Tagged releases will resume with the new architecture when the team feels it is ready for GA.
If you want guaranteed reliability, support, and continued security updates for a stable release, then you will need to look at AAP instead of AWX. Otherwise, you could try building and modifying the AWX container image yourself and at least keep the system packages up-to-date, but you’ll be fighting with stale dependencies.
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An update around this project would be great. Anything at this point.
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Maybe something at ansible fest?
You could try to join the AWX Community Meeting on the second Tuesday of the month and ask.
I have added it as a topic for the upcoming community meeting:
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