# Ansible-5.0.0 alpha1 ready for testing

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-5-0-0-alpha1-ready-for-testing/35824>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [October 5, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-5-0-0-alpha1-ready-for-testing/35824 "2021-10-05T18:58:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![tkuratom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@tkuratom](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tkuratom)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-5-0-0-alpha1-ready-for-testing/35824/1 "2021-10-05T18:58:25Z")

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Hi all,

We're happy to announce that the Ansible 5.0.0 alpha1 package is now  
available! This update is based on the ansible-core-2.12.x package  
which is a major update from the one used by Ansible 4. Ansible 4 was  
based on Ansible Core 2.11.x. There may be backwards incompatibilities  
in the core playbook language. Please see the porting guide for  
details.

This is an alpha release so we encourage people to use it to test that  
their playbooks and workflows work with the upcoming major release and  
report any bugs to the relevant bug trackers  
([https://github.com/ansible/ansible/](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/) for bugs in ansible-core and the  
relevant collection for bugs in a collection's modules and plugins).

How to get it