# Ansible-core devel: drops support for Python 3.11 on controller

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-core-devel-drops-support-for-python-3-11-on-controller/44187>\
**Category:** Collection Development\
**Tags:** news-for-maintainers, python, ansible-test, ansible-devel\
**Created:** [July 31, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-core-devel-drops-support-for-python-3-11-on-controller/44187 "2025-07-31T20:35:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-core-devel-drops-support-for-python-3-11-on-controller/44187/1 "2025-07-31T20:35:37Z")

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As a follow-up to [Ansible-core devel: adds support for Python 3.14, drops support for Python 3.8; also AZP's azure-pipelines-test-container got updated](https://forum.ansible.com/t/44168), ansible-core devel also dropped support for Python 3.11 on the controller side: [Drop Python 3.11 controller support by mattclay · Pull Request #85590 · ansible/ansible · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/85590)

This means you now need Python 3.12+ to install ansible-core devel. Your CI matrix might need an update for this.