# Adjust Ansible 12 release schedule

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/adjust-ansible-12-release-schedule/41507>\
**Category:** Project Discussions\
**Tags:** ansible, release-management, community-wg\
**Created:** [April 3, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adjust-ansible-12-release-schedule/41507 "2025-04-03T20:22:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adjust-ansible-12-release-schedule/41507/24 "2025-08-21T18:26:19Z")

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I just noticed that cloud.common [requires ansible-core \< 2.19](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cloud.common/blob/main/meta/runtime.yml#L2) since version 5.0.0, released on June 25th. We’ve been including this version in Ansible 12 pre-releases since 12.0.0a7. (Previous versions didn’t explicitly require ansible-core \< 2.19.)

There has been [an attempt to fix this](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cloud.common/pull/189), but last activity on the PR has been on June 13. There has been no activity by maintainers in the issues [for ansible-core 2.19 compatibility](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cloud.common/issues/166) and [a similar one](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cloud.common/issues/165) since then. (@mariolenz asked two weeks ago whether there are news: no reaction.)

This collection is a dependency of vmware.vmware\_rest, so if we remove cloud.common now, we also have to remove vmware.vmware\_rest. It definitely would be more preferable if this gets fixed instead of having to remove these two collections. Or is this a problem that doesn’t matter too much? (I don’t use either of the collections so I don’t know what it affects.)

[@SteeringCommittee](https://forum.ansible.com/groups/steeringcommittee) [@release-managers](https://forum.ansible.com/groups/release-managers) What do you think?

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