The Bullhorn #197

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This week in Ansible Community
Issue #197, 2025-08-08 (Past Issues)

Welcome to The Bullhorn, our newsletter for the Ansible Community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, you’re welcome to chat with us in the Ansible Social room on Matrix, and mention newsbot to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue!

General news updates :speaker_low_volume:

Closing the Ansible Network Slack instance

gundalow shared

Proposal: Closing the Ansible Network Slack instance
Following on from Proposal: Consolidating Ansible discussion platforms, we are considering what to do with the Ansible Network Slack instance (which you’ve likely never heard of).

As the Forum has critical mass of people, and the Ansible Network slack instance is very quiet, we are proposing archiving the Slack instance, and bring everybody to network part of the Forum.

Join the discussion

Major new releases :trophy:

Ansible Community Package :up_right_arrow:

The Ansible package includes ansible-core and is a batteries-included package that provides a curated set of Ansible collections. See the Ansible roadmaps for future release plans.

Ansible 12 beta

gotmax23 shared

Ansible 12.0.0b3 package (pre-release) is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0b3 (Pre-Release)
:computer_disk:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0b3 --user

:right_arrow: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: and Ansible 12 Porting Guide for more details!

Please note that Ansible 12.0.0 is delayed due to important parts of ansible.netcommon and several network connections not working with ansible-core 2.19 right now. For that reason, we decided to keep publishing beta releases until ansible.netcommon is fixed, and stopped feature freeze until then to avoid other collections becoming stale. Also Ansible 12.0.0 will depend on ansible-core 2.19.1 (or whichever version is released by then), instead of ansible-core 2.19.0. See this forum thread for more information.

Project updates :hammer_and_wrench:

community.internal_test_tools release

Felix Fontein shared

community.internal_test_tools 0.18.0 (community.internal_test_tools/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools · GitHub) has been released. Its deprecated extra sanity test runner has been removed, in favor of antsibull-nox which is better suited for these kind of tests.

Collection updates :magic_wand:

amazon.aws releases

gomathiselvi shared

: amazon.aws 9.5.1 has been released with a bug fix and documentation updates. Refer the release notes for details!

gomathiselvi said

: amazon.aws 10.1.1 has been released with a bug fix and documentation updates. Refer the release notes for details!

Certified collections updates

samccann said

Certified collections updated this week:

ibm.qradar deprecation announcement

AAYUSH ANAND contributed

The ibm.qradar collection has been deprecated and will not have any more major releases. End of life is scheduled for Dec 2026

community.docker release

Felix Fontein shared

community.docker 4.7.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released with a bugfix (working around a bug in Docker 28.3.3 when pushing images without authentication) and a new feature for the docker_swarm_service module.

Community events and meetups :date:

samccann contributed

Upcoming events:

Other events and releases

Use the Ansible Forum to see other events and releases.

Join the Ansible community

Looking for ways to get involved? See how can I help for some ideas!

You can find easy issues in collections and other projects for code or documentation contributions.

That’s all for now!

Have any questions you’d like to ask, or issues you’d like to see covered? Please ask in #social:ansible.com! See you next time!