The Ansible Core team has been able to come to a commitment on the release schedule for ansible-core 2.19 which will include the work known as “Data Tagging”.
| Release Period | Date |
|---|---|
| Beta | 2025-04-14 |
| RC | 2025-05-26 |
| GA | 2025-06-16 |
In addition to the above schedule, there are few other details to be aware of:
The Data Tagging PR will be merged on 2025-04-14, which is the same day as the Beta1 is scheduled for. This is being done to ensure no disruption to various projects with the ansible-core devel branch utilized in CI immediately before a weekend.
stable-2.19 will be branched from devel shortly after the merge of DT. The typical pattern of opening the devel branch for development of the next release will not be followed. devel will continue to be used as the development branch for 2.19, and there will be weekly syncs of devel to the stable-2.19 branch prior to each scheduled beta release.
The devel branch will become “unlocked” on 2025-05-26 aligning with the first planned release candidate.