- 2018-08-23 Core Freeze (Engine and Core Modules/Plugins)
- 2018-08-23 Alpha Release 1
- 2018-08-30 Community Freeze (Non-Core Modules/Plugins)
- 2018-08-30 Beta Release 1
- 2018-09-06 Release Candidate 1 (If needed)
- 2018-09-13 Release Candidate 2 (If needed)
- 2018-09-20 Release Candidate 3 (If needed)
- 2018-09-27 Release Candidate 4 (If needed)
- 2018-10-04 General Availability
Toshio Kuratomi (IRC: abadger1999; GitHub: @abadger)
- Performance improvement invoking Python modules pr #41749
- Jinja native types will allow for users to render a Python native type. pr #32738
- Include feature changes and improvements
- Create new argument
apply
that will allow for included tasks to inherit explicitly provided attributes. pr #39236
- Create “private” functionality for allowing vars/default to be exposed outside of roles. pr #41330
- Provide a parameter for the
template
module to output to different encoding formats pr
#42171
reboot
module for Linux hosts (@samdoran) pr #35205
- Added new connection plugin that uses PSRP as the connection protocol pr #41729