Release 4.9.0 - 1st production Release of ansible-oracle

v4.9.0
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Release Summary
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This is the 1st production release of ansible-oracle 4.x.
The RAC support was the last missing option in 4.x compared to 3.12.0.
A documentation for migration from 3.12.0 to 4.x is work in progress.

Minor Changes
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- added option to disable transparent hugepages in grub (oravirt#460)
- bugfix set custom environment for executables with oracle_script_env (oravirt#458)
- global_handlers: Introduce a global handlers role (oravirt#455)
- global_handlers: Reboot handler improvements, restart_on_requirement=false, ansible-lint (oravirt#457)
- molecule: added MOLECULE_IMAGE for custom images and support for SuSE (oravirt#458)
- oracle_opatch.py needs to support configurable temp directory  (oravirt#462)
- orahost: Add a list of additional hosts to /etc/hosts (oravirt#447)
- orahost: add oracle_sysctl_file and oracle_hugepages_sysctl_file variables (oravirt#432)
- orahost: set vm.hugetlb_shm_group to oracle user GID (oravirt#461)
- orahost_logrotate: logrotate setup for oracle files should be optional (oravirt#449)
- orahost_meta: Enable calculation of several kernel parameters (oravirt#451)
- orahost_meta: added oracle_tmp_stage for hardened systems (oravirt#453)
- oraswdb_manage_patches: make role compatible with oraswgi_manage_patches (oravirt#464)
- oraswgi_install: Next refactoring of role for RAC (oravirt#464)
- set custom environment for executables with oracle_script_env (oravirt#453)

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
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- CV_ASSUME_DISTID: SLES15 when ansible_os_family == 'SuSE' (oravirt#458)
- oraswgi_manage_patches: python-module xmltodict needed on ansible-controller (oravirt#464)

Bugfixes
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- Consider home was removed earlier, leaving REMOVED=T (oravirt#437)
- bugfix: added apply_patches_gi to some tasks with patch_before_rootsh (oravirt#464)
- default_gipass is not required if sysasmpassword and asmmonitorpassword are set (oravirt#433)
- fixed jinja spacing warning (oravirt#463)
- oracluvfy did not fail when error was detected (oravirt#464)
- orasw_meta: grid_base != oracle_base only required if role_separation=true (oravirt#439)
- oraswdb_install: Configure systemd only for Single Instance without GI/Restart (oravirt#431)
- oraswgi_install: honour deploy_ocenv setting (oravirt#443)

Author: Rendanic

roles/oraswgi_install/README.md

@@ -293,8 +293,8 @@ run_configtoolallcommand: true
 
 ## Open Tasks
 
-- (bug): oracle_vip is not flexible enough.
-- (bug): oracle_ic_net will be removed in the future
+- (bug): oracle_vip needs some rework
+- (bug): oracle_ic_net is deprecated
 - (bug): ConfigTools should not depend on olr.loc...
 - (bug): ConfigTools should not depend on olr.loc...
 - (information): add selectattr to asm_diskgroups

roles/oraswgi_install/defaults/main.yml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ default_dbpass: "{% if item.0.oracle_db_passwd is defined %}{{ item.0.oracle_db_
 # @end
 # oracle_scan:
 
-# @todo bug: oracle_vip is not flexible enough.
+# @todo bug: oracle_vip needs some rework
 # @var oracle_vip:description: >
 # suffix added to hostnames for VIPs.
 #
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ oracle_vip: -vip
 # @end
 oracle_scan_port: 1521
 
-# @todo bug: oracle_ic_net will be removed in the future
+# @todo bug: oracle_ic_net is deprecated
 # @var oracle_ic_net:description: >
 # Do not use - is replaced in the future!
 # Reason why RAC support has been disabled...