Chapter 1. Release notes for Ansible on Clouds 2.4
This release includes a number of enhancements, additions, and fixes that have been implemented for Ansible Automation Platform from GCP Marketplace.
1.1. Self-managed version 2.4.20240215-00 (Mar 7, 2024)
| Ansible on Clouds version | AAP version | Controller UI version | Hub UI version | Upgrade from version | Ansible-on-clouds-ops container image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4.20240215-00 | 2.4 | 4.5.1 | 4.7.3 | 2.4.20231024-00 | registry.redhat.io/ansible-on-clouds/ansible-on-clouds-ops-rhel9:2.4.20240215 |
New features and enhancements
Security fixes
- Various CVE fixes
Bug fixes
Deprecated and removed features
1.2. Self-managed version 2.4.20231024-00 (Nov 30, 2023)
| Ansible on Clouds version | AAP version | Controller UI version | Hub UI version | Upgrade from version | Ansible-on-clouds-ops container image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4.20231024-00 | 2.4 | 4.4.6 | 4.7.3 | 2.4.20230630-00 | registry.redhat.io/ansible-on-clouds/ansible-on-clouds-ops-rhel9:2.4.20231024 |
New features and enhancements
Security fixes
- Various CVE fixes
Bug fixes
Deprecated and removed features
1.3. Self-managed version 2.4.20230630-00 (Aug 3, 2023)
| Ansible on Clouds version | AAP version | Controller UI version | Hub UI version | Upgrade from version | Ansible-on-clouds-ops container image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4.20230630-00 | 2.4 | 4.4.0 | 4.7.1 | 2.4.20230221-00-00 | registry.redhat.io/ansible-on-clouds/ansible-on-clouds-ops-rhel9:2.4.20230630 |
New features and enhancements
- Support for Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 has been added.
Added internal encryption to the web servers.
- Addition of custom certificates is now supported.
Support has been added for custom tagging and labelling.
- Support has been added to GCP to add or remove tag support for resources owned by the deployment.
- Ansible Automation Platform from GCP Marketplace now has operational playbooks to add and remove extension nodes.
There are improvements to backup and restore functionality.
- Support has been added for taking multiple backups.
- An operational playbook has been added to list available backups.
- An operational playbook has been added to delete a selected backup.
- The capability to restore an existing VPC has been added.
Operational functionality to check the current version has been added.
- Operational playbooks now check to ensure that the Ansible Automation Platform environment they are operating upon is at the same version before beginning their operation.
Security fixes
Bug fixes
Deprecated and removed features
Some features available in previous releases have been deprecated or removed. Deprecated functionality is still included in Ansible Automation Platform and continues to be supported; however, it will be removed in a future release of this product and is not recommended for new deployments. The following is a list of major functionality deprecated and removed within Ansible Automation Platform 2.4:
- On-premise component Automation Services Catalog is now removed from Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 onwards.
- With the Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 release, the Execution Environment container image for Ansible 2.9 (ee-29-rhel-8) is no longer loaded into the automation controller configuration by default.
- The process of deploying the application using a new VPC has been deprecated, and the functionality will be removed from Ansible Automation Platform from GCP Marketplace in a future release.
1.4. Self-managed version 2.3.20230221-00 (May 22, 2023)
| Ansible on Clouds version | AAP version | Controller UI version | Hub UI version | Upgrade from version | Ansible-on-clouds-ops container image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3.20230221-00 | 2.3 | 4.3.5 | 4.6.3 | 2.2.20230215-00 | registry.redhat.io/ansible-on-clouds/ansible-on-clouds-ops-rhel8:2.3.20230221 |
New features and enhancements
- Support for Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 has been added.
Security fixes
Bug fixes
Deprecated and removed features
Automation Mesh and Event Driven Automation are not yet supported by the self-managed Ansible on Cloud offerings at this time.
Additional Release Notes related to Ansible Automation Platform
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