DevOps/Ansible/Ansible changelog and versioning

Ansible (software) Changelog: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/releases

Releases

 * v2.9: 31/10/2019 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
 * v2.9.1 13/11/2019
 * v2.8: 16/05/2019 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.8/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst, https://www.ansible.com/blog/whats-new-in-red-hat-ansible-engine-2.8
 * Ansible Collections and content namespacing
 * is the default Ansible word to prompt for a password
 * module: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/gather_facts_module.html
 * python interpreter discovery
 * v2.7 09/10/2018: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.7/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst, https://www.ansible.com/blog/the-release-of-red-hat-ansible-engine-2-7
 * New  module
 * added
 * v2.6 02/07/2018 https://www.ansible.com/blog/your-time-has-come-ansible-2-6
 * Inventory Plugins: foreman, generator, gcp_compute, nmap
 * v2.5 23/03/2018 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-announce/V2HLb1lKKoI
 * v2.4 19/09/2017
 * keywords https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/import_playbook_module.html
 * https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/import_role_module.html#import-role-module
 * https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/import_role_module.html#import-role-module


 * v2.0 12/01/2016 https://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-2.0-launch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/stable-2.0/CHANGELOG.md
 * introduce the concept of exception handling to playbooks, and were modeled after the try/except/finally structure of Python (and many other languages)


 * v1.5 28 February 2014


 * 1.4.3 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/releases/tag/v1.4.3
 * 1.4.2 December 18, 2013 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/releases/tag/v1.4.2
 * command added for retrieving roles from the Galaxy


 * 1.2 June 10, 2013
 * Ansible Roles introduced