Ansible 5.0.0b1 available for testing

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Hi all,

We're happy to announce that the Ansible 5.0.0 beta1 package is now available!

This version is based on the newly released ansible-core 2.12.0 which
is a major update from ansible-core 2.11.x used in Ansible 4.
There may be backwards incompatibilities in the core playbook language.
Please see the porting guide for details.

This is a beta release so we encourage people to use it to test that
their playbooks and workflows work with the upcoming major release.
Bugs can be reported to relevant trackers such as
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/ for ansible-core and the relevant
collection repositories for modules and plugins from Ansible
collections.

How to get it

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A mistake in the release announcement for Ansible 5.0.0b1 was brought to my attention:

  • ansible-core-2.12 now requires Python 3.8 or greater on the
    controller (where you run ansible-playbook). Managed nodes continue to
    support Python 2.7 and Python 3.6 or greater unless noted otherwise in
    a specific module’s documentation.

Please note that while ansible-core 2.12 does require python >=3.8 on the controller, managed nodes running python 2.6 and python 3.5 are still supported for the time being:

  • support for python 2.6 for managed nodes is deprecated in ansible-core 2.12 and will be removed in ansible-core 2.13 (around May 2022)

  • support for python 3.5 is currently expected to end in ansible-core 2.16 (around November 2023)

This information will be corrected in upcoming release announcements for Ansible 5.0.0.

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A mistake in the release announcement for Ansible 5.0.0b1 was brought to my attention:

  • ansible-core-2.12 now requires Python 3.8 or greater on the
    controller (where you run ansible-playbook). Managed nodes continue to
    support Python 2.7 and Python 3.6 or greater unless noted otherwise in
    a specific module’s documentation.

Please note that while ansible-core 2.12 does require python >=3.8 on the controller, managed nodes running python 2.6 and python 3.5 are still supported for the time being:

  • support for python 2.6 for managed nodes is deprecated in ansible-core 2.12 and will be removed in ansible-core 2.13 (around May 2022)

  • support for python 3.5 is currently expected to end in ansible-core 2.16 (around November 2023)

This information will be corrected in upcoming release announcements for Ansible 5.0.0.