What’s new in ansible 1.6

Below are the list of new changes , Modules in Ansible 1.6

Major features/changes in Ansible 1.6:

• The deprecated legacy variable templating system has been finally removed. Use {{ foo }} always not $foo or ${foo}.
• Any data file can also be JSON. Use sparingly — with great power comes great responsibility. Starting file with “{” or “[” denotes JSON.
• Added ‘gathering’ param for ansible.cfg to change the default gather_facts policy.
• Accelerate improvements:
  • multiple users can connect with different keys, when accelerate_multi_key = yes is specified in the ansible.cfg.
  • daemon lifetime is now based on the time from the last activity, not the time from the daemon’s launch.
• ansible-playbook now accepts –force-handlers to run handlers even if tasks result in failures.
• Added VMWare support with the vsphere_guest module.

New Modules:

• files: replace
• packaging: cpanm (Perl)
• packaging: portage
• packaging: composer (PHP)
• packaging: homebrew_tap (OS X)
• packaging: homebrew_cask (OS X)
• packaging: apt_rpm
• packaging: layman
• monitoring: logentries
• monitoring: rollbar_deployment
• monitoring: librato_annotation
• notification: nexmo (SMS)
• notification: twilio (SMS)
• notification: slack (Slack.com)
• notification: typetalk (Typetalk.in)
• notification: sns (Amazon)
• system: debconf
• system: ufw
• system: locale_gen
• system: alternatives
• system: capabilities
• net_infrastructure: bigip_facts
• net_infrastructure: dnssimple
• net_infrastructure: lldp
• web_infrastructure: apache2_module
• cloud: digital_ocean_domain
• cloud: digital_ocean_sshkey
• cloud: rax_identity
• cloud: rax_cbs (cloud block storage)
• cloud: rax_cbs_attachments
• cloud: ec2_asg (configure autoscaling groups)
• cloud: ec2_scaling_policy
• cloud: ec2_metric_alarm
• cloud: vsphere_guest

Other notable changes:

• example callback plugin added for hipchat
• added example inventory plugin for vcenter/vsphere
• added example inventory plugin for doing really trivial inventory from SSH config files
• libvirt module now supports destroyed and paused as states
• s3 module can specify metadata
• security token additions to ec2 modules
• setup module code moved into module_utils/, facts now accessible by other modules
• synchronize module sets relative dirs based on inventory or role path
• misc bugfixes and other parameters
• the ec2_key module now has wait/wait_timeout parameters
• added version_compare filter (see docs)
• added ability for module documentation YAML to utilize shared module snippets for common args
• apt module now accepts “deb” parameter to install local dpkg files
• regex_replace filter plugin added
• added an inventory script for Docker
• added an inventory script for Abiquo
• the get_url module now accepts url_username and url_password as parameters, so sites which require authentication no longer need to have them embedded in the url

Release Date:- May 5, 2014

Reference:- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md