1=========== 2Ansible 2.6 3=========== 4 5.. contents:: Topics 6 7Release Schedule 8---------------- 9 10Actual 11====== 12 13- 2018-05-17 Core Freeze (Engine and Core Modules/Plugins) 14- 2018-05-21 Alpha Release 1 15- 2018-05-25 Community Freeze (Non-Core Modules/Plugins) 16- 2018-05-25 Branch stable-2.6 17- 2018-05-30 Alpha Release 2 18- 2018-06-05 Release Candidate 1 19- 2018-06-08 Release Candidate 2 20- 2018-06-18 Release Candidate 3 21- 2018-06-25 Release Candidate 4 22- 2018-06-26 Release Candidate 5 23- 2018-06-28 Final Release 24 25 26Release Manager 27--------------- 28* 2.6.0-2.6.12 Matt Clay (IRC/GitHub: @mattclay) 29* 2.6.13+ Toshio Kuratomi (IRC: abadger1999; GitHub: @abadger) 30 31 32Engine improvements 33------------------- 34 35- Version 2.6 is largely going to be a stabilization release for Core code. 36- Some of the items covered in this release, but are not limited to are the following: 37 38 - ``ansible-inventory`` 39 - ``import_*`` 40 - ``include_*`` 41 - Test coverage 42 - Performance Testing 43 44Core Modules 45------------ 46- Adopt-a-module Campaign 47 48 - Review current status of all Core Modules 49 - Reduce backlog of open issues against these modules 50 51Cloud Modules 52------------- 53 54Network 55------- 56 57Connection work 58================ 59 60* New connection plugin: eAPI `proposal#102 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/102>`_ 61* New connection plugin: NX-API 62* Support for configurable options for network_cli & netconf 63 64Modules 65======= 66 67* New ``net_get`` - platform agnostic module for pulling configuration via SCP/SFTP over network_cli 68* New ``net_put`` - platform agnostic module for pushing configuration via SCP/SFTP over network_cli 69* New ``netconf_get`` - Netconf module to fetch configuration and state data `proposal#104 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/104>`_ 70 71Other Features 72================ 73 74* Stretch & tech preview: Configuration caching for network_cli. Opt-in feature to avoid ``show running`` performance hit 75 76 77Windows 78------- 79 80 81 82 83