# Ansible Community Execution Environment 2.21.5-2

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-execution-environment-2-21-5-2/46439>\
**Category:** Ecosystem Releases\
**Tags:** windows, fedora, ee\
**Created:** [October 8, 2026, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-execution-environment-2-21-5-2/46439 "2026-10-08T06:49:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 8, 2026, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-execution-environment-2-21-5-2/46439/1 "2026-10-08T06:49:52Z")

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Hello everyone,

We’re happy to announce the release of Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal `2.21.5-2` and Ansible Community Execution Environment Base `2.21.5-2`!

## Supply Chain Security Improvements

Supply chain security has improved significantly in this release:

- Python dependencies are now generated via `uv pip compile` with SHA256 hashes. See the [example](https://github.com/ansible-community/images/blob/main/execution-environments/community-ee-base/requirements.txt).
- SBOMs are generated upon release for each Execution Environment image.
- Released Execution Environments now include SPDX JSON SBOM [attestations](https://github.com/ansible-community/images/attestations). See the [instructions](https://github.com/ansible-community/images/blob/main/execution-environments/README.md#verifying-released-image-sboms) for how to verify the attestation.

## What are Execution Environments?

Read the [Getting started with Execution Environments](https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/getting_started_ee/index.html) guide to learn how to benefit from running Ansible automation in containers.

## What’s included?

### Core components

| Component | Minimal | Base |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Base image | `quay.io/fedora/fedora:44` | `quay.io/fedora/fedora:44` |
| `ansible-core` | `2.21.5` | `2.21.5` |
| `ansible-runner` | `2.4.3` | `2.4.3` |

### Collections

`community-ee-minimal` does not include any collections.

| Collection | Base |
| --- | --- |
| `ansible.posix` | `2.2.2` |
| `ansible.utils` | `6.1.1` |
| `ansible.windows` | `3.8.0` |

## Pull the images

### `community-ee-minimal`

```console
# Immutable digest
podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal@sha256:41c6c5eeb9915fec5a97de241b2f91a269234942eaa0d78ac5bcead95a0d91b1

# Release tag
podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal:2.21.5-2

# Latest tag
podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal:latest

```

### `community-ee-base`

```console
# Immutable digest
podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base@sha256:d42f2597080e8e34ce4d1f70f66f987fc841bd0bbeb680f8d234e94ef1afc60a

# Release tag
podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base:2.21.5-2

# Latest tag
podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base:latest

```

## Follow future releases

Join the [Ansible Community Forum](https://forum.ansible.com) to follow along and participate in the discussions.

Subscribe to the [Bullhorn](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/bullhorn/17) for release dates, announcements, and Ansible community contributor news.

On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!

Cheers,  
Ansible Community Team