Release 4.9.0 - 1st production Release of ansible-oracle

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v4.9.0

Release Summary

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

• added option to disable transparent hugepages in grub (Enhancement#459 disable transparent hugepages #460)
• bugfix set custom environment for executables with oracle_script_env (This is a fix for #453 . #458)
• global_handlers: Introduce a global handlers role (Introduce a global handlers role #455)
• global_handlers: Reboot handler improvements, restart_on_requirement=false, ansible-lint (Reboot handler improvements #457)
• molecule: added MOLECULE_IMAGE for custom images and support for SuSE (This is a fix for #453 . #458)
• oracle_opatch.py needs to support configurable temp directory (oracle_opatch.py needs to support configurable temp directory #462)
• orahost: Add a list of additional hosts to /etc/hosts (Add a list of additional hosts to /etc/hosts #447)
• orahost: add oracle_sysctl_file and oracle_hugepages_sysctl_file variables (add oracle_sysctl_file and oracle_hugepages_sysctl_file variables #432)
• orahost: set vm.hugetlb_shm_group to oracle user GID (Add task/entry to set vm.hugetlb_shm_group #461)
• orahost_logrotate: logrotate setup for oracle files should be optional (logrotate setup for oracle files should be optional #449)
• orahost_meta: Enable calculation of several kernel parameters (Enable calculation of several kernel parameters #451)
• orahost_meta: added oracle_tmp_stage for hardened systems (Enhancement#452 oracle script env #453)
• oraswdb_manage_patches: make role compatible with oraswgi_manage_patches (reenable Patching in RAC Setups #464)
• oraswgi_install: Next refactoring of role for RAC (reenable Patching in RAC Setups #464)
• set custom environment for executables with oracle_script_env (Enhancement#452 oracle script env #453)

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

• CV_ASSUME_DISTID: SLES15 when ansible_os_family == 'SuSE' (This is a fix for #453 . #458)
• oraswgi_manage_patches: python-module xmltodict needed on ansible-controller (reenable Patching in RAC Setups #464)

Bugfixes

• Consider home was removed earlier, leaving REMOVED=T (Fix for Issue #436 Consider home was removed earlier, leaving REMOVED=T #437)
• bugfix: added apply_patches_gi to some tasks with patch_before_rootsh (reenable Patching in RAC Setups #464)
• default_gipass is not required if sysasmpassword and asmmonitorpassword are set (Fix for Issue #428: default_gipass is not required if sysasmpassword and asmmonitorpassword are set #433)
• fixed jinja spacing warning (fix jinja spacing warning in roles/orahost/tasks/main.yml #463)
• oracluvfy did not fail when error was detected (reenable Patching in RAC Setups #464)
• orasw_meta: grid_base != oracle_base only required if role_separation=true (Fix for issue#439 grid_base != oracle_base only required if role_separation=true #439)
• oraswdb_install: Configure systemd only for Single Instance without GI/Restart (oraswdb_install: Configure systemd only for Single Instance without GI/Restart #431)
• oraswgi_install: honour deploy_ocenv setting (Fix for issue# 442: task didn't honour deploy_ocenv setting #443)