=========== Ansible 2.6

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Release Schedule

Actual

• 2018-05-17 Core Freeze (Engine and Core Modules/Plugins)
• 2018-05-21 Alpha Release 1
• 2018-05-25 Community Freeze (Non-Core Modules/Plugins)
• 2018-05-25 Branch stable-2.6
• 2018-05-30 Alpha Release 2
• 2018-06-05 Release Candidate 1
• 2018-06-08 Release Candidate 2
• 2018-06-18 Release Candidate 3
• 2018-06-25 Release Candidate 4
• 2018-06-26 Release Candidate 5
• 2018-06-28 Final Release

Release Manager

• 2.6.0-2.6.12 Matt Clay (IRC/GitHub: @mattclay)
• 2.6.13+ Toshio Kuratomi (IRC: abadger1999; GitHub: @abadger)

Engine improvements

• Version 2.6 is largely going to be a stabilization release for Core code.

• Some of the items covered in this release, but are not limited to are the following:

  • ansible-inventory
  • import_*
  • include_*
  • Test coverage
  • Performance Testing

Core Modules

• Adopt-a-module Campaign

  • Review current status of all Core Modules
  • Reduce backlog of open issues against these modules

Cloud Modules

Network

Connection work

• New connection plugin: eAPI proposal#102 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/102>_
• New connection plugin: NX-API
• Support for configurable options for network_cli & netconf

Modules

• New net_get - platform independent module for pulling configuration with SCP/SFTP over network_cli
• New net_put - platform independent module for pushing configuration with SCP/SFTP over network_cli
• New netconf_get - Netconf module to fetch configuration and state data proposal#104 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/104>_

Other Features

• Stretch & tech preview: Configuration caching for network_cli. Opt-in feature to avoid show running performance hit

Windows