The Ansible Core team is communicating a delay to the release of Ansible Core 2.19.
The 2.19 release brings the highly anticipated Data Tagging capability. Our previous communication on Data Tagging was the forum post in early March Data Tagging preview and testing - Project Discussions - Ansible.
In summary this brings more security, performance and easier maintenance to your automations, but in doing so may affect existing authored playbooks. We want to know what those impacts are, and guide users through any changes or, if possible, remove the need for changes.
We have not received enough feedback from this phase of testing to provide the level of reassurance we want to give to community users, partners and customers about the impacts data tagging could have on existing Ansible playbooks.
We have therefore taken the decision to delay the Ansible Core 2.19 release schedule by at least a month to allow more time for communicating the impending changes, and to gather more participants for testing during the early phases of the release schedule.
We request your patience while we confirm our revised release schedule that will help us ascertain the impact of Data Tagging and what changes you can expect. We expect to have 6 weeks of betas starting mid April 2025 and will communicate our new timeline as soon as we can.