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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4

New features, enhancements, and bug fix information

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This guide provides a summary of new features, enhancements, and bug fix information for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform simplifies the development and operation of automation workloads for managing enterprise application infrastructure lifecycles. Ansible Automation Platform works across multiple IT domains including operations, networking, security, and development, as well as across diverse hybrid environments. Simple to adopt, use, and understand, Ansible Automation Platform provides the tools needed to rapidly implement enterprise-wide automation, no matter where you are in your automation journey.

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2.4

4.4

  • 4.7
  • hosted service

1.0

hosted service

Red Hat provides different levels of maintenance for each Ansible Automation Platform release. For more information, see Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Life Cycle.

1.3. Upgrading Ansible Automation Platform
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When upgrading, do not use yum update. Use the installation program instead. The installation program performs all of the necessary actions required to upgrade to the latest versions of Ansible Automation Platform, including automation controller and private automation hub.

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2.1. New features and enhancements
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Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 includes the following enhancements:

  • Previously, the execution environment container images were based on RHEL 8 only. With Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 onwards, the execution environment container images are now also available on RHEL 9. The execution environment includes the following container images:

    • ansible-python-base
    • ansible-python-toolkit
    • ansible-builder
    • ee-minimal
    • ee-supported

  • The ansible-builder project recently released Ansible Builder version 3, a much-improved and simplified approach to creating execution environments. You can use the following configuration YAML keys with Ansible Builder version 3:

    • additional_build_files
    • additional_build_steps
    • build_arg_defaults
    • dependencies
    • images
    • options
    • version
  • Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 and later versions can now run on ARM platforms, including both the control plane and the execution environments.
  • Added an option to configure the SSO logout URL for automation hub if you need to change it from the default value.
  • Updated the ansible-lint RPM package to version 6.14.3.
  • Updated Django for potential denial-of-service vulnerability in file uploads (CVE-2023-24580).
  • Updated sqlparse for ReDOS vulnerability (CVE-2023-30608).
  • Updated Django for potential denial-of-service in Accept-Language headers (CVE-2023-23969).
  • Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 adds the ability to install automation controller, automation hub, and Event-Driven Ansible on IBM Power (ppc64le), IBM Z (s390x), and IBM® LinuxONE (s390x) architectures.

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2.2. Technology Preview
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Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

The following are Technology Preview features:

  • Starting with Ansible Automation Platform 2.4, the Platform Resource Operator can be used to create the following resources in automation controller by applying YAML to your OpenShift cluster:

    • Inventories
    • Projects
    • Instance Groups
    • Credentials
    • Schedules
    • Workflow Job Templates
    • Launch Workflows

You can now configure the Controller Access Token for each resource with the connection_secret parameter, rather than the tower_auth_secret parameter. This change is compatible with earlier versions, but the tower_auth_secret parameter is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

2.3. Deprecated and removed features
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Deprecated functionality is still included in Ansible Automation Platform and continues to be supported. However, the functionality will be removed in a future release of Ansible Automation Platform and is not recommended for new deployments.

The following functionality was deprecated and removed in 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.
  • Although you can still synchronize content, the use of synclists is deprecated and will be removed in a later release. Instead, private automation hub administrators can upload manually-created requirements files from the rh-certified remote.
  • You can now configure the Controller Access Token for each resource with the connection_secret parameter, rather than the tower_auth_secret parameter. This change is compatible with earlier versions, but the tower_auth_secret parameter is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
  • Smart inventories have been deprecated in favor of constructed inventories and will be removed in a future release.

2.4. Bug fixes
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Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 includes the following bug fixes:

  • Updated the installation program to ensure that collection auto signing cannot be enabled without enabling the collection signing service.
  • Fixed an issue with restoring backups when the installed automation controller version is different from the backup version.
  • Fixed an issue with not adding user defined galaxy-importer settings to galaxy-importer.cfg file.
  • Added missing X-Forwarded-For header information to nginx logs.
  • Removed unnecessary receptor peer name validation when IP address is used as the name.
  • Updated the outdated base_packages.txt file that is included in the bundle installer.
  • Fixed an issue where upgrading the Ansible Automation Platform did not update the nginx package by default.
  • Fixed an issue where an awx user was created without creating an awx group on execution nodes.
  • Fixed the assignment of package version variable to work with flat file inventories.
  • Added a FQDN check for the automation hub hostname required to run the Skopeo commands.
  • Fixed the front end URL for Red Hat Single Sign On (SSO) so it is now properly configured after you specify the sso_redirect_host variable.
  • Fixed the variable precedence for all component nginx_tls_files_remote variables.
  • Fixed the setup.sh script to escalate privileges if necessary for installing Ansible Automation Platform.
  • Fixed an issue when restoring a backup to an automation hub with a different hostname.

Chapter 3. Automation controller
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Automation controller helps teams manage complex multitiered deployments by adding control, knowledge, and delegation to Ansible-powered environments.

See Automation Controller Release Notes for 4.x for a full list of new features and enhancements.

Chapter 4. Event-Driven Ansible
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Event-Driven Ansible is a new way to enhance and expand automation by improving IT speed and agility while enabling consistency and resilience. Event-Driven Ansible is designed for simplicity and flexibility.

Known issues

  • Both contributor and editor roles cannot set the AWX token. Only users with administrator roles can set the AWX token.
  • Activation-job pods do not have request limits.
  • The onboarding wizard does not request a controller token creation.
  • Users cannot filter through a list of tokens under the Controller Token tab.
  • Only the users with administrator rights can set or change their passwords.
  • If there is a failure, an activation with restart policy set to Always is unable to restart the failed activation.
  • Disabling and enabling an activation causes the restart count to increase by one count. This behavior results in an incorrect restart count.
  • You must run Podman pods with memory limits.
  • Users can add multiple tokens even when only the first AWX token is used.
  • A race condition occurs when creating and rapidly deleting an activation causes errors.
  • When users filter any list, only the items that are on the list get filtered.
  • When ongoing activations start multiple jobs, a few jobs are not recorded in the audit logs.
  • When a job template fails, a few key attributes are missing in the event payload.
  • Restart policy in a Kubernetes deployment does not restart successful activations that are marked as failed.
  • An incorrect status is reported for activations that are disabled or enabled.
  • If the run_job_template action fails, the rule is not counted as executed.
  • RHEL 9.2 activations cannot connect to the host.
  • Restarting the Event-Driven Ansible server can cause activation states to become stale.
  • Bulk deletion of rulebook activation lists is not consistent, and the deletion can be either successful or unsuccessful.
  • When users access the detail screen of a rule audit, the related rulebook activation link is broken.
  • Long running activations with loads of events can cause an out of disk space issue. Resolved in installer release 2.4-6.
  • Certain characters, such as hyphen (-), forward slash (/), and period (.), are not supported in the event keys. Resolved in installer release 2.4-3.
  • When there are more activations than available workers, disabling the activations incorrectly shows them in running state. Resolved in installer release 2.4-3.
  • Event-Driven Ansible activation pods are running out of memory on RHEL 9. Resolved in installer release 2.4-3.
  • When all workers are busy with activation processes, other asynchronous tasks are not executed, such as importing projects. Resolved in installer release 2.4-3.

Chapter 5. Automation hub
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Automation hub enables you to discover and use new certified automation content, such as Ansible Collections, from Red Hat Ansible and Certified Partners.

New features and enhancements

  • This release of automation hub provides repository management functionality. With repository management, you can create, edit, delete, and move content between repositories.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue in the collection keyword search which was returning an incorrect number of results.
  • Added the ability to set OPT_REFERRALS option for LDAP, so that users can now successfully log in to the automation hub by using their LDAP credentials.
  • Fixed an error on the UI when redhat.openshift collection’s core dependency was throwing a 404 Not Found error.
  • Fixed an error such that the deprecated execution environments are now skipped while syncing with registry.redhat.io.

Chapter 6. Automation Platform Operator
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{OperatorPlatform} provides cloud-native, push-button deployment of new Ansible Automation Platform instances in your OpenShift environment.

Bug fixes

  • Enabled configuration of resource requirements for automation controller init containers.
  • Added securityContext for Event-Driven Ansible Operator deployments to be Pod Security Admission compliant.
  • Resolved error Controller: Error 413 Entity too large when doing bulk updates.
  • Ansible token is now obfuscated in YAML job details.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 documentation includes significant feature updates as well as documentation enhancements and offers an improved user experience.

New features and enhancements

  • With the removal of the on-premise component automation services catalog from Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 onwards, all automation services catalog documentation is removed from the Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 documentation.

  • The following documents are created to help you install and use Event-Driven Ansible, the newest capability of Ansible Automation Platform:

In addition, sections of the Ansible Automation Platform Planning Guide and the Ansible Automation Platform Installation Guide are updated to include instructions for planning and installing Event-Driven Ansible.

  • The automation hub documentation has had significant reorganization to combine the content spread across 9 separate documents into the following documents:

    Getting started with automation hub
    Use this guide to perform the initial steps required to use Red Hat automation hub as the default source for Ansible collections content.
    Managing content in automation hub
    Use this guide to understand how to create and manage collections, content and repositories in automation hub.
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Installation Guide
    Use this guide to learn how to install Ansible Automation Platform based on supported installation scenarios.
  • The Managing Red Hat Certified and Ansible Galaxy collections in automation hub guide has been moved to the Red Hat Certified, validated, and Ansible Galaxy content in automation hub topic in the Managing content in automation hub guide.
  • The Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Release Notes are restructured to improve the experience for our customers and the Ansible Community. Users can now view the latest updates based on the Ansible Automation Platform versions, instead of their release timeline.
  • The topic Repository management with automation hub is created to help you create and manage custom repositories in automation hub. This topic is found in the Managing content in automation hub guide.

Chapter 8. Asynchronous updates
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Security, bug fix, and enhancement updates for Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 are released as asynchronous erratas. All Ansible Automation Platform erratas are available on the Download Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform page in the Customer Portal.

As a Red Hat Customer Portal user, you can enable errata notifications in the account settings for Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM). When errata notifications are enabled, you receive notifications through email whenever new erratas relevant to your registered systems are released.

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Red Hat Customer Portal user accounts must have systems registered and consuming Ansible Automation Platform entitlements for Ansible Automation Platform errata notification emails to generate.

The Asynchronous updates section of the release notes will be updated over time to give notes on enhancements and bug fixes for asynchronous errata releases of Ansible Automation Platform 2.4.

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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October 22, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.26
  • Automation hub 4.9.5
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.250225
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online): 2.4-13
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (bundle): 2.4-13.4
  • Receptor 1.6.0

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1760618328
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1760618870

8.1.1. General
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  • The ansible.controller collection has been updated to 4.5.26.(AAP-56033)

8.1.2. Bug Fixes
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8.1.2.1. Ansible Automation Platform
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  • Fixed an issue where query performance was not optimized on the jobs list page and loading user admin data during login, which could cause expensive queries.(AAP-54299)
8.1.2.2. Automation controller
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  • Fixed an issue where the awx.awx.license appeared to succeed when given an invalid pool / subscription.(AAP-54649)
  • Fixed an issue where there were double escaped quotes in api/v2/jobs/{id}/stdout/?format=txt.(AAP-51845)
8.1.2.3. Receptor
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  • Fixed an issue where the previous version of receptor had stability issues on long-running jobs, with clusters under heavy load, and with network inconsistencies.(AAP-53742)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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September 22, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.25
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Automation hub 4.9.5
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.250225
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-13
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (bundle) 2.4-13.3
  • Receptor 1.5.7

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1758079821
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1758080293

8.2.1. CVE
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2025-57833 python3x-django: Django SQL injection in FilteredRelation column aliases. (AAP-53033)
  • CVE-2025-57833 python-django: Django SQL injection in FilteredRelation column aliases. (AAP-53032)
  • CVE-2025-57833 ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8: Django SQL injection in FilteredRelation column aliases. (AAP-52603)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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August 27, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.25
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Automation hub 4.9.5
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.250225
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-13
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (bundle) 2.4-13.2
  • Receptor 1.5.7

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1755833431
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1755833968

8.3.1. General
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  • The ansible.controller collection has been updated to 4.5.25.(AAP-51876)

8.3.2. Ansible Automation Platform
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8.3.2.1. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixed an issue to use scram-sha-256 password encryption to enable FIPS for operator deployments.(AAP-49371)
  • Fixed the scale-down process when upgrading from PostgreSQL 13 to 15.(AAP-49103)
  • Fixed an issue to resolve public_base_url undefined variable error when the 2.4 Ansible Automation Platform Operator is installed in another namespace on the same cluster as a 2.5 Ansible Automation Platform Operator install.(AAP-46486)

8.3.3. Automation controller
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8.3.3.1. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixed an optimization issue on the jobs list page to reduce the number of API calls.(AAP-50102)

8.3.4. Event-Driven Ansible
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8.3.4.1. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixed an issue with the PostgreSQL password encryption when upgrading from PG13 to PG15 on FIPS.(AAP-50453)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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July 30, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.24
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Automation hub 4.9.4
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.250225
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-13
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (bundle) 2.4-13
  • Receptor 1.5.7

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1753232084
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1753232791

8.4.1. General
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  • The redhat.rhel_system_roles collection has been updated to 1.95.7.(AAP-49917)
  • The ansible.windows collection has been updated to 2.8.0.(AAP-48369)

8.4.2. Ansible Automation Platform
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8.4.2.1. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixed an issue where the automation hub resource was failing during a Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Operator update due to a wrong task file reference in upgrade_postgres.yml.(AAP-49103)

8.4.3. RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
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8.4.3.1. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixed an issue where the certified collections in the bundle installer did not match what is included in the execution environment image.(AAP-48368)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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July 2, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.24
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Automation hub 4.9.4
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.250225
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-12
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (bundle) 2.4-12
  • Receptor 1.5.5

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1750877268
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1750878254

8.5.1. General
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  • The ansible.controller collection has been updated to 4.5.24.(AAP-48350)

8.5.2. CVE
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2025-2287 receptor: Request smuggling due to acceptance of invalid chunked data in net/http.(AAP-47165)

8.5.3. Ansible Automation Platform
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8.5.3.1. Features
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  • Fresh installs on Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 will use the PostgreSQL 15 image.(AAP-45607)

8.5.4. Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed
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8.5.4.1. Features
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  • PostgreSQL 15 support, including upgrade logic for managed database deployments.(AAP-45612)

8.5.5. Automation controller
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8.5.6. Features
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  • PostgreSQL 15 support, including upgrade logic for managed database deployments.(AAP-45609)
8.5.6.1. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixed an issue where the Fact Storage was not working when automation controller’s time zone is different from UTC.(AAP-45925)

8.5.7. Automation hub
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8.5.7.1. Features
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  • PostgreSQL 15 support, including upgrade logic for managed database deployments.(AAP-45610)

8.5.8. Event-Driven Ansible
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8.5.9. Features
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  • PostgreSQL 15 support, including upgrade logic for managed database deployments.(AAP-45611)

8.5.10. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixed an intermittent activation failure when using Podman 5.x (shipped starting from RHEL 9.5).(AAP-42284)

8.5.11. Receptor
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8.5.11.1. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixed an issue where connections that had cancelled context were not removed.(AAP-47996)

8.5.12. RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
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8.5.12.1. Enhancements
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  • PostgreSQL has been updated to 15.(AAP-46764)
8.5.12.2. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixed an issue where the bundle installer failed to update the automation controller and aap-metrics-utility in the same run.(AAP-47173)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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June 9, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.23
  • Automation hub 4.9.4
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Receptor 1.5.5
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-12
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (bundle) 2.4-12
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.250225

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1749069319
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1749069693

8.6.1. General
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  • The ansible.controller collection has been updated to 4.5.23.(AAP-46561)

8.6.2. CVE
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2025-26699 python3x-django: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in django.utils.text.wrap().(AAP-46567)
  • CVE-2025-26699 python-django: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in django.utils.text.wrap().(AAP-46566)
  • CVE-2025-43859 ansible-lightspeed-container: h11 accepts some malformed Chunked-Encoding bodies.(AAP-44778)

8.6.3. Ansible Automation Platform
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8.6.3.1. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixes an issue where the workflow visualizer would occasionally freeze with higher node counts.(AAP-46620)

8.6.4. Automation controller
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8.6.4.1. Features
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  • Replaced the basic authentication with service account authentication for Ansible Automation Platform subscription management.(AAP-44642)
  • Updated help text on the credentials creation page.(AAP-45499)
8.6.4.2. Enhancements
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  • Updated banner on the Credentials form (specifically for Insights credentials) to inform the user to enter client ID and secret to create an Insights credential.(AAP-43235)
  • Updated field names and help text in the System Settings UI to indicate client ID and client secret for service accounts, as well as client ID and client secret for analytics.(AAP-43161)
  • Updated license mechanism to allow users to provide username and password when fetching subscriptions via the API and AAP User Interface.(AAP-46837)
8.6.4.3. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixed a useThrottle issue where the jobs list page was spamming the API when websocket events rolled in.(AAP-46551)
  • Fixed an issue where the analytics collector failed to clean up temporary files after a failed upload to Hybrid Cloud Console.(AAP-45967)
  • Fixed an issue where the idle dispatch workers were not recycled based upon age, or after completing the last task. Default maximum age is 4 hours, controlled by WORKER_MAX_LIFETIME_SECONDS setting. Set to None to disable worker recycling.(AAP-45948)
  • Fixed a database deadlock by awx_callback_receiver_worker and awx_dispatcher_worker while trying to update hosts last_job_id and ansible_facts in two separate commands.(AAP-45122)

8.6.5. Automation hub
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8.6.5.1. Bug Fixes
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  • Fixed an issue where Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 allowed unauthenticated execution environment pulls.(AAP-46525)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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May 7, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.22
  • Automation hub 4.9.3
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Receptor 1.5.5
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-11
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (bundle) 2.4-11
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.250225

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1746132523
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1746133932

8.7.1. General
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  • The ansible.controller collection has been updated to 4.5.22.(AAP-45011)

8.7.2. Enhancements
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8.7.2.1. Automation controller
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  • Updated the pinned version for receptorctl in automation controller.(AAP-45005)

8.7.3. Bug fixes
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2025-26699 automation controller: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in django.utils.text.wrap().(AAP-44152)
8.7.3.1. Automation controller
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  • Fixed an issue where facts were unintentionally deleted when the inventory is modified during a job execution.(AAP-45006)
  • Fixed an issue where there was an incorrect deprecation warning for awx.awx.schedule_rrule.(AAP-43475)
8.7.3.2. RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
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  • Fixed an issue where old instance nodes were still registered in the automation controller post restore.(AAP-44232)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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April 9, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.21
  • Automation hub 4.9.3
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Receptor 1.5.3
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-10
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (offline) 2.4-10.2
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.250225

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1743629049
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1743630487

8.8.1. General
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  • The ansible.controller collection has been updated to 4.5.21.(AAP-43127)

8.8.2. Bug fixes
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

CVE-2025-2877 ansible-rulebook: exposure of inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in Event-Driven Ansible.(AAP-42816)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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March 26, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.20
  • Automation hub 4.9.3
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Receptor 1.5.3
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-10
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (offline) 2.4-10.1
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.250225

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1742444794
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1742445409

8.9.1. General
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The ansible.controller collection has been updated to 4.5.20.(AAP-42241)

8.9.2. Bug fixes
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2025-27516 ansible-lightspeed-container: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method.(AAP-41689)
  • CVE-2025-27516 python3x-jinja2: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method.(AAP-42106)
  • CVE-2025-27516 python-jinja2: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method.(AAP-42105)
  • CVE-2025-27516 automation-controller: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method.(AAP-41691)
8.9.2.1. Ansible Automation Platform Operator
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  • Fixed an issue where Ansible Automation Platform backups failed when writing YAML to the PVC on Openshift clusters with Openshift Virtualization installed.(AAP-28609)
8.9.2.2. Automation controller
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  • Fixed an issue where Insights projects were failing on Openshift Container Platform Ansible Automation Platform, due to incorrectly specifying the extra vars path.(AAP-41875)
  • Fixed an issue where the system auditor could download the execution node install bundle.(AAP-39799)
  • Fixed an issue where the latest committed code was not reflecting on controller nodes.(AAP-39228)
8.9.2.3. Automation hub
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  • Fixed an issue where the retain_repo_versions was null for the validated repos.(AAP-42004)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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March 12, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.19
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Receptor 1.5.3
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-10
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (offline) 2.4-10
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.250225

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1741194076
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1741194557

8.10.1. Enhancements
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8.10.1.1. General
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  • The redhat.insights collection has been updated to 1.3.0(AAP-40261)
  • The ansible.controller collection has been updated to 4.5.19(AAP-41401)

8.10.2. Bug fixes
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8.10.2.1. Automation controller
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  • Fixed an issue where the Azure credentials automatically added the config_cred value where having both fields for the client caused an error.(AAP-39847)
  • Fixed an issue where the job schedules would run at incorrect times when that schedule’s start time fell within a Daylight Saving Time period.(AAP-39827)
  • Fixed an issue where awxkit did not have service account support for Insights credential type. The fields client_id and client_secret were missing from the credential_input_fields.(AAP-39351)
  • Fixed an issue where the python script action_plugins/insights.py could not handle service account oauth.(AAP-37463)
  • Fixed an issue where there was no service account support for Insights credential type for Ansible Automation Platform version 2.4.(AAP-37440)
8.10.2.2. Receptor
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  • Fixed an issue where automation mesh receptor was creating too many inotify processes, and where the user would encounter a too many open files error.(AAP-22605)
8.10.2.3. RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
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  • Fixed an issue where the previously required a Red Hat Enterprise Linux minimum versions were not set to 8.8 and 9.2.(AAP-40422)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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January 29, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.17
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Receptor 1.5.1
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-9
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (offline) 2.4-9
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.250121

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1737661496
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1737662040

8.11.1. Enhancements
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8.11.1.1. General
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  • The ansible.controller collection has been updated to 4.5.17.(AAP-39099)

8.11.2. Bug fixes
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8.11.2.1. CVE
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2024-56326 python3x-jinja2: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through indirect reference to format method.(AAP-38851)
  • CVE-2024-11407 ansible-lightspeed-container: Denial-of-Service through data corruption in gRPC-C++.(AAP-38785)
  • CVE-2024-56374 ansible-lightspeed-container: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in IPv6 validation.(AAP-38784)
  • CVE-2024-56201 python3x-jinja2: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames.(AAP-38332)
  • CVE-2024-56201 python3x-jinja2: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames.(AAP-38328)
  • link;CVE-2024-56201 ansible-lightspeed-container: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames.(AAP-38078)
  • CVE-2024-56326 ansible-lightspeed-container: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through indirect reference to format method.(AAP-38055)
  • CVE-2024-52304 ansible-lightspeed-container: aiohttp vulnerable to request smuggling due to incorrect parsing of chunk extensions.(AAP-37995)
  • CVE-2024-53908 automation-controller: Potential SQL injection in HasKey(lhs, rhs) on Oracle.(AAP-36768)
  • CVE-2024-56201 automation-controller: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames.(AAP-38080)
8.11.2.2. Automation controller
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  • Fixed an issue where the traceback from host_metric_summary_monthly task caused a type comparison error.(AAP-37486)
  • Fixed an issue where the order of source inventories was not respected by the collection ansible.controller.(AAP-38511)
8.11.2.3. RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
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  • Fixed an issue where setting the *pg_host= without any other context would result in an empty HOST section of settings.py in controller.(AAP-38030)
  • Fixed an issue where Automation hub backup would fail when automationhub_pg_port=".(AAP-18484)
  • Fixed an issue where providing the database installation a custom port would break the installation of postgres.(AAP-31260)
  • Fixed an issue where setup.sh -p <path_to_log_dir> did not work if the directory specified by the -p parameter was not writable. The setup script now warns if the provided log path does not have write permission.(AAP-18204)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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December 18, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.15
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Receptor 1.5.1
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-8
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (offline) 2.4-8.1
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.241210

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1733943951
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1733945743

8.12.1. Enhancements
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8.12.1.1. General
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  • aap-metrics-utility has been updated to 0.4.1.(AAP-36394)
  • The ansible.controller collection has been updated to 4.5.15.(AAP-37293)

8.12.2. Bug fixes
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8.12.2.1. General
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2024-53908 ansible-lightspeed-container: Potential SQL injection in HasKey(lhs, rhs) on Oracle.(AAP-36767)
  • CVE-2024-53907 ansible-lightspeed-container: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags().(AAP-37275)
8.12.2.2. Automation controller
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  • Fixed an issue where a scheduled job with count set to non-zero value would run unexpectedly.(AAP-37292)
  • Fixed an issue where when launching the job template, the named URL returned a 404 error code.(AAP-37024)
  • Fixed an issue where temporary receptor files were not being cleaned up on nodes.(AAP-36903)

The following enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented in this release of Ansible Automation Platform.

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December 3, 2025

  • Automation controller 4.5.13
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible controller 1.0.7
  • Receptor 1.5.1
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (online) 2.4-8
  • Ansible Automation Platform-collection installer (offline) 2.4-8
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed 2.4.241127

CSV Versions in this release:

  • Namespace-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1733185647
  • Cluster-scoped Bundle: aap-operator.v2.4.0-0.1733186

8.13.1. Enhancements
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8.13.1.1. Ansible Automation Platform
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  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed has been updated to 2.4.241127.
8.13.1.2. Ansible Automation Platform Operator
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  • With this update you can set PostgreSQL SSL/TLS mode to verify-full or verify-ca with the proper sslrootcert configuration in the automation hub Operator.
8.13.1.3. Automation controller
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  • With this update, support was added for receiving webhooks from Bitbucket Data Center. Additionally, support was added for posting build statuses back.
8.13.1.4. RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
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  • The 2.4-8 installer can restore a backup created with 2.4-8 or later, but cannot restore backups created with 2.4-1 to 2.4-7. The 2.4-7 installer can restore backups created with 2.4-1 to 2.4-7. Ensure that you make a backup before and after the upgrade to 2.4-8 or later.
  • With this update, installer tasks that include CA or key information are obfuscated.

8.13.2. Bug fixes
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8.13.2.1. General
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2024-9902 ansible-core: Ansible-core user can read or write unauthorized content.
  • CVE-2024-8775 ansible-core: Exposure of sensitive information in Ansible vault files due to improper logging.
  • CVE-2024-45801 automation-controller: XSS vulnerability via prototype pollution.
  • CVE-2024-45296 automation-controller: Backtracking regular expressions causes ReDoS.
  • CVE-2024-52304 automation-controller: aiohttp vulnerable to request smuggling due to wrong parsing of chunk extensions.
8.13.2.2. Ansible Automation Platform
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  • The Notification List no longer errors when notifications have a missing or null organization field.
8.13.2.3. Ansible Automation Platform Operator
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  • Fixed a parsing issue with the node_selector parameter so it is now correctly evaluated as a dictionary.
  • The /var/log/tower directory is now pre-created by mounting an emptyDir so the directory exists and web logging does not throw a permission error.
8.13.2.4. Automation controller
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  • Fixed job schedules running at the wrong time when the rrule interval was set to HOURLY or MINUTELY.
  • Fixed an issue where sensitive data was displayed in the job output.
  • With this update, you can now save a constructed inventory when verbosity is greater than 2.
  • Fixed an issue where unrelated jobs could be marked as a dependency of other jobs.
  • Fixed an issue where Thycotic secret server credentials form fields were mis-matched.
8.13.2.5. Execution environments
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  • ansible.utils collection has been updated to 5.1.2.
8.13.2.6. Receptor
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  • Fixed an issue that caused a receptor runtime panic error.
8.13.2.7. RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
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  • Fixed an issue where the metrics-utility command failed to run after updating automation controller.
  • Fixed an issue where the dispatcher service went into FATAL status and failed to process new jobs after a database outage.
  • With this update, the receptor data directory can now be configured using the receptor_datadir variable.
  • Fixed an issue that caused wrong IDs for RBAC in the database following a backup restore.

8.14. RPM releases
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RHSA-2024:7312
Sep 27, 2024

  • ansible-automation-platform-installer 2.4-7.1
  • ansible-core 2.15.12
  • Automation controller 4.5.12
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible 1.0.7

RHSA-2024:6765
Sep 18, 2024

  • ansible-automation-platform-installer 2.4-7.1
  • ansible-core 2.15.12
  • Automation controller 4.5.11
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible 1.0.7

RHSA-2024:6428
Sep 5, 2024

  • ansible-automation-platform-installer 2.4-7.1
  • ansible-core 2.15.12
  • Automation controller 4.5.10
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible 1.0.7

RHSA-2024:4522
Jul 12, 2024

  • ansible-automation-platform-installer 2.4-7.1
  • ansible-core 2.15.12
  • Automation controller 4.5.8
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible 1.0.7

RHSA-2024:3781
Jun 10, 2024

  • ansible-automation-platform-installer 2.4-7.1
  • ansible-core 2.15.11
  • Automation controller 4.5.7
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible 1.0.7

RHSA-2024:7312

8.14.1.1. General
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2024-21520 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS) through break_long_headers.

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: djangorestframework.

  • CVE-2024-37891 - proxy-authorization request header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects.

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: urllib3.

  • CVE-2024-41810 - Reflected XSS by HTML injection in redirect response.

    • Packages updated: automation-controller.
8.14.1.2. Automation controller
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  • Fixed Galaxy credentials to be correctly ordered when assigning them by using 'ansible.controller.organization' (AAP-31398).
  • Fixed gather analytics failure caused by missing '_unpartitioned_main_jobevent' table (AAP-31053).

RHSA-2024:6765

8.14.2.1. General
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2024-7143 - RBAC permissions incorrectly assigned in tasks that create objects.

    • Packages updated: python-pulpcore and python39-pulpcore.

  • CVE-2024-37891 - proxy-authorization request header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects.

    • Packages updated: python-urllib3: urllib3.

  • CVE-2024-24788 - malformed DNS message can cause an infinite loop.

    • Packages updated: receptor: golang: net.

  • CVE-2024-24790 - unexpected behavior from Is methods for IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses.

    • Packages updated: receptor: golang: net and receptor: golang: netip.
8.14.2.2. Automation controller
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  • Updated the shipping analytics data fallback to use the Red Hat Subscription Manager subscription credentials if analytics gathering is enabled (AAP-30228).
  • Upgraded the 'channels-redis' library to fix Redis connection leaks (AAP-30124).

RHSA-2024:6428

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  • Gunicorn python package will no longer obsolete itself when checking for or applying updates (AAP-28364).

With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2024-42005 - potential SQL injection in QuerySet.values() and values_list().

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: Django, python3-django, and python39-django.

  • CVE-2024-41991 - potential denial of service vulnerability in django.utils.html.urlize() and AdminURLFieldWidget.

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: Django, python3-django, and python39-django.

  • CVE-2024-41990 - potential denial of service vulnerability in django.utils.html.urlize().

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: Django, python3-django, and python39-django.

  • CVE-2024-33663 - algorithm confusion with OpenSSH ECDSA keys and other key formats.

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: python-jose.

  • CVE-2024-32879 - improper handling of case sensitivity in social-auth-app-django.

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: python-social-auth.

  • CVE-2024-6840 - gain access to the Kubernetes API server through job execution with container group.

    • Packages updated: automation-controller.

  • CVE-2024-41989 - memory exhaustion in django.utils.numberformat.floatformat().

    • Packages updated: python3-django and python39-django.

  • CVE-2024-39614 - Potential denial of service in django.utils.translation.get_supported_language_variant().

    • Packages updated: python3-django and python39-django.

  • CVE-2024-39330 - Potential directory-traversal in django.core.files.storage.Storage.save().

    • Packages updated: python3-django and python39-django.

  • CVE-2024-39329 - Username enumeration through timing difference for users with unusable passwords.

    • Packages updated: python3-django and python39-django.

  • CVE-2024-38875 - Potential denial of service in django.utils.html.urlize().

    • Packages updated: python3-django and python39-django.

  • CVE-2024-7246 - Client communicating with a HTTP/2 proxy can poison the HPACK table between the proxy and the backend.

    • Packages updated: python3-grpcio and python39-grpcio.

  • CVE-2024-5569 - denial of service (infinite loop) through crafted .zip file.

    • Packages updated: python3-zipp and python39-zipp.
8.14.3.2. Automation controller
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  • Updated the receptor to not automatically release the receptor work unit when RECEPTOR_KEEP_WORK_ON_ERROR is set to true (AAP-27635).
  • Updated the Help link in the REST API to point to the latest API reference documentation (AAP-27573).
  • Fixed a timeout error in the UI when trying to load the Activity Stream with a large number of activity records (AAP-26772).
8.14.3.3. Automation hub
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  • The API browser now correctly escapes JSON values (AAH-3272, AAP-14463).

RHSA-2024:4522

8.14.4.1. General
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With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2024-34064 - Jinja accepts keys containing non-attribute characters.

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: jinja2.

  • CVE-2024-28102 - malicious JWE token can cause denial of service.

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: jwcrypto.

  • CVE-2024-35195 - many requests to the same host ignore cert verification.

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: requests.
8.14.4.2. Automation controller
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  • Fixed a bug where the controller does not respect DATABASES['OPTIONS'] setting, if specified (AAP-26398).
  • Changed all uses of ImplicitRoleField to perform an on_delete=SET_NULL (AAP-25136).
  • Fixed the HostMetric automated counter to display the correct values (AAP-25115).
  • Added Django logout redirects (AAP-24543).
  • Updated the dispatcher to make the database password optional in order to support PostgreSQL authentication methods that do not require them (AAP-22231).

RHSA-2024:3781

8.14.5.1. General
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  • Added the automation-controller-cli package to the ansible-developer RPM repositories (AAP-23368).

With this update, the following CVEs have been addressed:

  • CVE-2023-45288 - unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames causes a denial of service (DoS).

    • Packages updated: receptor: golang: net/http, x/net/http2.

  • CVE-2023-45290 - memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm.

    • Packages updated: receptor: golang: net/http.

  • CVE-2023-49083 - null-pointer dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates.

    • Packages updated: python3-cryptography and python39-cryptography.

  • CVE-2023-50447 - arbitrary code execution with the environment parameter.

    • Packages updated: python3-pillow and python39-pillow.

  • CVE-2024-1135 - HTTP Request Smuggling due to improper validation of Transfer-Encoding headers.

    • Packages updated: python3-gunicorn and python39-gunicorn.

  • CVE-2024-21503 - regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) with the lines_with_leading_tabs_expanded() function within the strings.py file.

    • Packages updated: python3-black and python39-black.

  • CVE-2024-24783 - verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm.

    • Packages updated: receptor: golang: crypto/x509.

  • CVE-2024-26130 - NULL pointer dereference with pkcs12.serialize_key_and_certificates when called with a non-matching certificate and private key and an hmac_hash override.

    • Packages updated: python3-cryptography and python39-cryptography.

  • CVE-2024-27306 - cross-site scripting (XSS) on index pages for static file handling.

    • Packages updated: python3-aiohttp and python39-aiohttp.

  • CVE-2024-27351 - potential ReDoS in django.utils.text.Truncator.words().

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: Django.

  • CVE-2024-28219 - buffer overflow in _imagingcms.c.

    • Packages updated: python3-pillow and python39-pillow.

  • CVE-2024-28849 - possible credential leak.

    • Packages updated: python3-galaxy-ng: follow-redirects, python39-galaxy-ng: follow-redirects, and automation-hub: follow-redirects.

  • CVE-2024-30251 - DoS when trying to parse malformed POST requests.

    • Packages updated: python3-aiohttp, python39-aiohttp, and automation-controller: aiohttp.

  • CVE-2024-32879 - improper handling of case sensitivity in social-auth-app-django.

    • Packages updated: python3-social-auth-app-django and python39-social-auth-app-django.

  • CVE-2024-34064 - xmlattr filter accepts keys containing non-attribute characters.

    • Packages updated: python3-jinja2 and python39-jinja2.

  • CVE-2024-35195 - additional requests to the same host ignore cert verification.

    • Packages updated: python3-requests and python39-requests.

  • CVE-2024-3651 - potential DoS with resource consumption through specially crafted inputs to idna.encode().

    • Packages updated: python3-idna and python39-idna.

  • CVE-2024-3772 - ReDoS with a crafted email string.

    • Packages updated: python3-pydantic, python39-pydantic, and automation-controller: python-pydantic.

  • CVE-2024-4340 - parsing a heavily nested list leads to a DoS.

    • Packages updated: python3-sqlparse and python39-sqlparse.

  • CVE-2023-5752 - Mercurial configuration injection in repository revision when installing with pip.

    • Packages updated: automation-controller: pip.
8.14.5.2. Automation controller
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  • Fixed a Redis connection leak on automation controller version 4.5.6 (AAP-24286).
  • Fixed the #! interpreter directive, also known as shebang, for the Python uwsgitop script (AAP-22461).
8.14.5.3. Automation hub
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  • With this update, fetching a list of users for a namespace does not include group members (AAH-3121).
  • Fixed an issue that caused a "Calculated digest does not equal passed in digest" error when syncing the community repository (AAH-3111).
  • Fixed an issue where syncing a rh-certified repository after updating automation hub to the latest version failed (AAH-3218).
8.14.5.4. Event-Driven Ansible
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  • Added support for the SAFE_PLUGINS_FOR_PORT_FORWARD setting for eda-server to the installation program (AAP-21620).
  • With this update, eda-server now opens the ports for a rulebook that has a source plugin that requires inbound connections only if that plugin is allowed in the settings (AAP-17416).
  • Fixed an issue where an activation could not be started after reaching a limit of 2048 pods due to a wrong cleanup of volumes (AAP-21065).
  • Fixed an issue where some activations failed due a wrong cleanup of volumes (AAP-22132).
  • With this release, activation-worker and worker targets now correctly stop worker services independently of other required Event-Driven Ansible services (AAP-23735).

RHSA-2024:1057

8.14.6.1. Automation hub
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  • Displays the download count for each collection in automation hub (AAP-18298).
8.14.6.2. Event-Driven Ansible
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  • Added a parameter to control the number of running activations per Event-Driven Ansible worker service (AAP-20672).
  • Added EDA_CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS, which can be set by user input or defined based on the allowed hostnames that are determined by the installer (AAP-20244).
  • Event-Driven Ansible installation now fails when the pre-existing automation controller version is 4.4.0 or older (AAP-20241).
  • Added the podman_containers_conf_logs_max_size variable for containers.conf to control the max log size for Podman installations. The default value is 10 MiB (AAP-19775).
  • Setting the Event-Driven Ansible debug flag to false now correctly disables Django debug mode (AAP-19577).
  • XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is now defined when applying Event-Driven Ansible linger settings for Podman (AAP-19265).
  • Fixed the Event-Driven Ansible nginx config when using a custom https port (AAP-19137).
  • Some features in this release are classified as Developer Preview, including LDAP authentication functionality for Event-Driven Ansible. For more information about these Event-Driven Ansible Developer Preview features, see Event-Driven Ansible - Developer Preview.

RHSA-2024:0733

8.14.7.1. Automation controller
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  • Fixed an error that caused rsyslogd to stop sending events to Splunk HTTP Collector (AAP-19069).
8.14.7.2. Automation hub
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  • Automation hub now uses system crypto-policies in nginx (AAP-18974).
8.14.7.3. Event-Driven Ansible
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  • Fixed an error that caused a manual installation failure when pinning Event-Driven Ansible to an older version (AAP-19399).

RHBA-2024:0104

8.14.8.1. General
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  • Fixed conditional code statements to align with changes from ansible-core issue #82295 (AAP-19099).
  • Fixed an issue which caused the update-ca-trust handler to be skipped for execution nodes in controller (AAP-18911).
  • Improved the error pages for automation controller (AAP-18840).
  • Implemented libffi fix to avoid uWSGI core dumps on failed import (AAP-18196).
  • Fixed an issue with checking the license type following an upgrade caused by earlier incomplete upgrade (AAP-17615).
  • Postgres certificates are now temporarily copied when checking the Postgres version for SSL mode verify-full (AAP-15374).

RHBA-2023:7460

8.14.9.1. General
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  • Fixed an error which caused the incorrect target database to be selected when restoring Event-Driven Ansible from a backup (AAP-18151).
  • Postgres tasks that create users in FIPS environments now use scram-sha-256 (AAP-17516).
  • All Event-Driven Ansible services are enabled after installation is complete (AAP-17426).
  • Ensure all backup and restore staged files and directories are cleaned up before running a backup or restore. You must also mark the files for deletion after a backup or restore (AAP-16101).
  • Updated nginx to 1.22 (AAP-15962).
  • Added a task to VMs that will run the awx-manage command to pre-create events table partitions before executing pg_dump and added a variable for the default number of hours to pre-create (AAP-15920).
8.14.9.2. Event-Driven Ansible
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  • Fixed the automation controller URL check when installing Event-Driven Ansible without controller (AAP-18169).
  • Added a separate worker queue for Event-Driven Ansible activations to not interfere with application tasks such as project updates (AAP-14743).

RHBA-2023:5347

8.14.10.1. General
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  • The installer now properly generates a new SECRET_KEY for controller when running setup.sh with the -k option (AAP-15565).
  • Added temporary file cleanup for Podman to prevent cannot re-exec process error during job execution (AAP-15248).
  • Added new variables for additional nginx configurations per component (AAP-15124).
  • The installer now correctly enforces only one Event-Driven Ansible host per Ansible Automation Platform installation (AAP-15122).
  • You are now able to sync execution environment images in automation hub to automation controller on upgrade (AAP-15121).
  • awx user configuration now supports rootless Podman (AAP-15072).
  • You can now mount the /var/lib/awx directory as a separate filesystem on execution nodes (AAP-15065).
  • Fixed the linger configuration for an Event-Driven Ansible user (AAP-14745).
  • Fixed the values used for signing installer managed certificates for internal postgres installations (AAP-14236).
  • Subject alt names for component hosts will now only be checked for signing certificates when https is enabled (AAP-14235).
  • Fixed postgres sslmode for verify-full that affected external postgres and postgres signed for 127.0.0.1 for internally managed postgres (AAP-13962).
  • Updated the inventory file to include SSL key and cert parameters for provided SSL web certificates (AAP-13854).
  • Fixed an issue with the awx-rsyslogd process where it starts with the wrong user (AAP-13664).
  • Fixed an issue where the restore process failed to stop pulpcore-worker services on RHEL 9 (AAP-13297).
  • Podman configurations are now correctly aligned to the Event-Driven Ansible home directory (AAP-13289).

8.15. Installer releases
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Installation bundleComponent versions

2.4-7.4
October 01, 2024

  • ansible-core 2.15.12
  • Automation controller 4.5.12
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible 1.0.7

2.4-7.3
September 19, 2024

  • ansible-core 2.15.12
  • Automation controller 4.5.11
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible 1.0.7

2.4-7.2
September 06, 2024

  • ansible-core 2.15.12
  • Automation controller 4.5.10
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible 1.0.7

2.4-7.1
July 15, 2024

  • ansible-core 2.15.12
  • Automation controller 4.5.8
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible 1.0.7

2.4-7
June 12, 2024

  • ansible-core 2.15.11
  • Automation controller 4.5.7
  • Automation hub 4.9.2
  • Event-Driven Ansible 1.0.7

RHBA-2024:7454

RHBA-2024:6877

RHBA-2024:6492

RHBA-2024:4555

RHBA-2024:3871

RHBA-2024:2074

8.15.6.1. General
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  • Resolved a race condition that occurred when there were many nearly simultaneous uploads of the same collection. (AAH-2699)
8.15.6.2. Automation controller
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  • Fixed a database connection leak that occurred when the wsrelay main asyncio loop crashes. (AAP-22938)

RHBA-2024:1672

8.15.7.1. General
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  • Fixed an issue where worker nodes became unavailable and stuck in a running state (AAP-21828).
  • automation-controller: axios: Exposure of confidential data stored in cookies (CVE-2023-45857)
  • python-django: Potential regular expression denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator.words() (CVE-2024-27351)
  • receptor: golang-fips/openssl: Memory leaks in code encrypting and decrypting RSA payloads (CVE-2024-1394)
  • automation-controller: python-aiohttp: HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2024-23829)
  • automation-controller: aiohttp: follow_symlinks directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-23334)
  • python3x-aiohttp: aiohttp: follow_symlinks directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-23334)
  • python-aiohttp: aiohttp: follow_symlinks directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-23334)
  • automation-controller: Django: denial of service in intcomma template filter (CVE-2024-24680)
  • automation-controller: jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter (CVE-2024-22195)
  • automation-controller: python-cryptography: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates (CVE-2023-49083)
  • receptor: golang: net/http/internal: Denial of service by resource consumption through HTTP requests (CVE-2023-39326)
  • automation-controller: python-aiohttp: Issues in HTTP parser with header parsing (CVE-2023-47627)
  • automation-controller: GitPython: Blind local file inclusion (CVE-2023-41040)
  • automation-controller: python-twisted: Disordered HTTP pipeline response in twisted.web (CVE-2023-46137)
8.15.7.2. Automation controller
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  • The update execution environment image no longer fails with jobs that use the previous image (AAP-21733).
  • Replaced string validation of English literals with error codes to allow for universal validation and comparison (AAP-21721).
  • The dispatcher now appropriately ends child processes when the dispatcher terminates (AAP-21049).
  • Fixed a bug where schedule prompted variables and survey answers were reset in edit mode when changing one of the basic form fields (AAP-20967).
  • The upgrade from Ansible Tower 3.8.6 to Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 no longer fails after a database schema migration (AAP-19738).
  • Fixed a bug in OpenShift Container Platform deployments that caused the controller task container to restart (AAP-21308).

RHBA-2024:1158

8.15.8.1. General
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  • python-django: Django: denial-of-service in intcomma template filter (CVE-2024-24680)
  • pycryptodomex: pycryptodome: Side-channel leakage for OAEP decryption in PyCryptodome and pycryptodomex (CVE-2023-52323)
  • python3x-jinja2: jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter (CVE-2024-22195)
  • python-jinja2: jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter (CVE-2024-22195)
  • python3x-aiohttp: CRLF injection if user controls the HTTP method using aiohttp client (CVE-2023-49082)
  • python-aiohttp: aiohttp: CRLF injection if user controls the HTTP method using aiohttp client (CVE-2023-49082)
  • python3x-aiohttp: aiohttp: HTTP request modification (CVE-2023-49081)
  • python3x-aiohttp: python-aiohttp: Issues in HTTP parser with header parsing (CVE-2023-47627)
  • python-aiohttp: Issues in HTTP parser with header parsing (CVE-2023-47627)
  • python3x-pillow: python-pillow: Uncontrolled resource consumption when text length in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument (CVE-2023-44271)
  • python-pillow: Uncontrolled resource consumption when text length in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument (CVE-2023-44271)
8.15.8.2. Event-Driven Ansible
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  • event_driven: Ansible Automation Platform: Insecure WebSocket used when interacting with Event-Driven Ansible server (CVE-2024-1657).

RHBA-2023:6831

8.15.9.1. General
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  • python3-urllib3/python39-urllib3: Cookie request header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2023-43804)
8.15.9.2. Automation controller
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  • automation-controller: Django: Denial-of-service possibility in django.utils.text.Truncator (CVE-2023-43665)
  • Customers using the infra.controller_configuration collection (which uses ansible.controller collection) to update their Ansible Automation Platform environment no longer receive an HTTP 499 response (AAP-17422).

RHBA-2023:5886

8.15.10.1. General
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  • receptor: golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487) (CVE-2023-39325)
  • receptor: golang: crypto/tls: slow verification of certificate chains containing large RSA keys (CVE-2023-29409)
8.15.10.2. Automation controller
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  • receptor: HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack) (CVE-2023-44487)

RHBA-2023:5812

8.15.11.1. General
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  • ansible-core: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files (CVE-2023-5115)
  • python3-django/python39-django: Denial-of-service possibility in django.utils.text.Truncator (CVE-2023-43665)
8.15.11.2. Automation controller
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  • Added a new Subscription Usage page to the controller UI to view historical usage of licenses (AAP-16983).
  • automation-controller: Django: Potential denial of service vulnerability in django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri() (CVE-2023-41164)

RHBA-2023:5653

8.15.12.1. General
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  • Updated ansible-lint to include an offline mode, which is enabled by default, to prevent outbound network calls (AAH-2606).
8.15.12.2. Automation controller
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  • Fixed settings lookup to no longer leave some services in a supervisord FATAL unresponsive state (AAP-16460).
  • Replaced the SQL commands for creating a partition with the use of ATTACH PARTITION to avoid exclusive table lock on event tables (AAP-16350).
  • Fixed settings to allow simultaneous use of SOCIAL_AUTH_SAML_ORGANIZATION_ATTR and SOCIAL_AUTH_SAML_ORGANIZATION_MAP for a given organization (AAP-16183).
  • Fixed Content Security Policy (CSP) to enable Pendo retrieval (AAP-16057).
  • Updated the Thycotic DevOps Secrets Vault credential plugin to allow for filtering based on secret_field (AAP-15695).

RHBA-2023:5140

8.15.13.1. Automation controller
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  • Fixed a bug that caused a deadlock on shutdown when Redis was unavailable (AAP-14203).
  • The login form no longer supports autocomplete on the password field due to security concerns (AAP-15545).
  • automation-controller: cryptography: memory corruption via immutable objects (CVE-2023-23931)
  • automation-controller: GitPython: Insecure non-multi options in clone and clone_from is not blocked (CVE-2023-40267)
  • python3-gitpython/python39-gitpython: Insecure non-multi options in clone and clone_from is not blocked (CVE-2023-40267)

RHBA-2023:4782

8.15.14.1. Automation controller
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  • automation-controller: python-django: Potential regular expression denial of service vulnerability in EmailValidator/URLValidator (CVE-2023-36053)
  • automation-controller: python-django: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in file uploads (CVE-2023-24580)
  • Changing credential types by using the drop-down list in the Launch prompt window no longer causes the screen to disappear (AAP-11444).
  • Upgraded python dependencies which include upgrades from Django 3.2 to 4.2.3, psycopg2 to psycopg3, and additional libraries as needed. Also added a new setting in the UI exposing the CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGIN settings (AAP-12345).
  • Fixed slow database UPDATE statements on the job events table which could cause a task manager timeout (AAP-12586).
  • Fixed an issue where adding a new label to a job through the Prompt On Launch option would not add the label to the job details (AAP-14204).
  • Added noopener and noreferrer attributes to controller UI links that were missing these attributes (AAP-14345).
  • Fixed the broken User Guide link in the Edit Subscription Details page (AAP-14375).
  • Turned off auto-complete on the remaining controller UI forms that were missing that attribute (AAP-14442).
  • The Add button on the credentials page is now accessible for users with the correct permissions (AAP-14525).
  • Fixed an unexpected error that occurred when adding a new host while using a manifest with size 10 (AAP-14675).
  • Applied environment variables from the AWX_TASK_ENV setting when running credential lookup plugins (AAP-14683).
  • Interrupted jobs (such as canceled jobs) no longer clear facts from hosts if the job ran on an execution node (AAP-14878).
  • Using a license that is missing a usage attribute no longer returns a 400 error (AAP-14880).
  • Fixed sub-keys under data from HashiCorp Vault Secret Lookup responses to check for secrets, if found (AAP-14946).
  • Fixed Ansible facts to retry saving to hosts if there is a database deadlock (AAP-15021).
8.15.14.2. Event-Driven Ansible
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  • automation-eda-controller: token exposed at importing project (CVE-2023-4380)
  • python3-cryptography/python39-cryptography: memory corruption via immutable objects (CVE-2023-23931)
  • python3-requests/python39-requests: Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header (CVE-2023-32681)
  • Contributor and editor roles now have permissions to access users and set the AWX token (AAP-11573).
  • The onboarding wizard now requests controller token creation (AAP-11907).
  • Corrected the filtering capability of the Rule Audit screens so that a search yields results with the starts with function (AAP-11987).
  • Enabling or disabling rulebook activation no longer increases the restarts counter by 1 (AAP-12042).
  • Filtering by a text string now displays all applicable items in the UI, including those that are not visible in the list at that time (AAP-12446).
  • Audit records are no longer missing when running activations with multiple jobs (AAP-12522).
  • The event payload is no longer missing key attributes when a job template fails (AAP-12529).
  • Fixed the Git token leak that occurs when importing a project fails (AAP-12767).
  • The restart policy in Kubernetes (k8s) now restarts a successful activation that is incorrectly marked as failed (AAP-12862).
  • Activation statuses are now reported correctly, whether you are disabling or enabling them (AAP-12896).
  • When the run_job_template action fails, ansible-rulebook prints an error log in the activation output and creates an entry in rule audit so the user is alerted that the rule has failed (AAP-12909).
  • When a user tries to bulk delete rulebook activations from the list, the request now completes successfully and consistently (AAP-13093).
  • The Rulebook Activation link now functions correctly in the Rule Audit Detail UI (AAP-13182).
  • The ansible-rulebook now only connects to the controller if the rulebook being processed has a run_job_template action (AAP-13209).
  • Fixed a bug where some audit rule records had the wrong rulebook link (AAP-13844).
  • Fixed a bug where only the first 10 audit rules had the right link (AAP-13845).
  • Before this update, project credentials could not be updated if there was a change to the credential used in the project. With this update, credentials can be updated in a project with a new or different credential (AAP-13983).
  • The User Access section of the navigation panel no longer disappears after creating a decision environment (AAP-14273).
  • Fixed a bug where filtering for audit rules did not work properly on OpenShift Container Platform (AAP-14512).

RHBA-2023:4621

8.15.15.1. Automation controller
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  • automation controller: Html injection in custom login info (CVE-2023-3971)
  • Organization admin users are no longer shown an error on the Instances list (AAP-11195).
  • Fixed the workflow job within the workflow approval to display the correct details (AAP-11433).
  • Credential name search in the ad hoc commands prompt no longer requires case-sensitive input (AAP-11442).
  • The Back to list button in the controller UI now maintains previous search filters (AAP-11527).
  • Topology view and Instances are only available as sidebar menu options to System Administrators and System Auditors (AAP-11585).
  • Fixed the frequency of the scheduler to run on the correct day of the week as specified by the user (AAP-11776).
  • Fixed an issue with slow database UPDATE statements when using nested tasks (include_tasks) causing task manager timeout (AAP-12586).
  • Added the ability to add execution and hop nodes to VM-based controller installations from the UI (AAP-12849).
  • Added the awx-manage command for creating future events table partitions (AAP-12907).
  • Re-enabled Pendo support by providing the correct Pendo API key (AAP-13415).
  • Added the ability to filter teams by using partial names in the dialog for granting teams access to a resource (AAP-13557).
  • Fixed a bug where a weekly rrule string without a BYDAY value would result in the UI throwing a TypeError (AAP-13670).
  • Fixed a server error that happened when deleting workflow jobs ran before event partitioning migration (AAP-13806).
  • Added API reference documentation for the new bulk API endpoint (AAP-13980).
  • Fixed an issue where related items were not visible in some cases. For example, job template instance groups, organization galaxy credentials, and organization instance groups (AAP-14057).

RHBA-2023:4288

8.15.16.1. Automation hub
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  • Fixed issue by using gpg key with passphrase for signing services (AAH-2445).

8.16. Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub
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8.16.1. 1.2 (March 2025)
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The following updates were introduced in Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub 1.2:

  • Improvements in error handling and logging for collection and playbook project scaffolder.
  • Updates to the backstage-rhaap-backend plugin for compatibility with RHDH 1.4.

The technology preview release of Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub provides links to the following curated content:

  • Learning paths

    • Introduction to Ansible
    • Getting started with the Ansible VS Code extension
    • YAML Essentials for Ansible
    • Getting started with Ansible playbooks
    • Getting started with Content Collections
    • Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub user guide

  • Interactive labs

    • Getting started with Ansible Navigator
    • Getting started with Ansible Builder
    • Writing your first playbook

    • Signing Ansible Content Collections with Private Automation Hub

      Note

      Learning paths and interactive labs are hosted on developers.redhat.com for the tech preview. Customers must sign up for a Red Hat Developer account to access them.

  • Software templates

    • Create Ansible Collection Project
    • Create Ansible Playbook Project

  • Documentation updates

    • Installing Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub
    • Using Ansible plug-ins for Red Hat Developer Hub

Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

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