#  It is necessary to remove the accidentally published version of the collection

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/it-is-necessary-to-remove-the-accidentally-published-version-of-the-collection/44784>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** ansible-galaxy, galaxy, help, galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [November 4, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/it-is-necessary-to-remove-the-accidentally-published-version-of-the-collection/44784 "2025-11-04T17:54:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![MaryTishchenkova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/marytishchenkova/32/9768_2.png) [@MaryTishchenkova](https://forum.ansible.com/u/MaryTishchenkova)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/it-is-necessary-to-remove-the-accidentally-published-version-of-the-collection/44784/1 "2025-11-04T17:54:28Z")

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Hello,

I don’t know where I should make this request, but we need to remove an accidentally published version of a collection from Ansible Galaxy that can’t be removed manually.

Namespace: zxbot  
Collection name: carbonio\_install  
Version: 25.12.0  
URL: [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/zxbot/carbonio_install/)  
Reason for deletion: The version was published by mistake and contains invalid data.

I created also this request here: [Can't remove wrong collection version: Request to delete collection zxbot.carbonio\_install version 25.12.0 · Issue #3555 · ansible/galaxy · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible/galaxy/issues/3555)  
It is really important for us to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

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**Author:** ![mariolenz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/mariolenz/32/108_2.png) [@mariolenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mariolenz)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/it-is-necessary-to-remove-the-accidentally-published-version-of-the-collection/44784/2 "2025-11-04T18:12:52Z")

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As a quick’n’dirty fix so people don’t run into problems, can’t you do a bugfix release 25.12.1? This would mean 25.12.0 would be still online, but your users would have a way to install a version without invalid data. Just an idea.

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**Author:** ![MaryTishchenkova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/marytishchenkova/32/9768_2.png) [@MaryTishchenkova](https://forum.ansible.com/u/MaryTishchenkova)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/it-is-necessary-to-remove-the-accidentally-published-version-of-the-collection/44784/3 "2025-11-04T18:16:08Z")

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Unfortunately, the collection version is tied to the application version, so we cannot use 25.12.\* until the next release.

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**Author:** ![samccann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/samccann/32/18_2.png) [@samccann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/samccann)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/it-is-necessary-to-remove-the-accidentally-published-version-of-the-collection/44784/4 "2025-11-04T21:54:39Z")

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I when ahead and deleted that version.

Overall, we do need a better process for this, but we don’t get a lot of deletion requests. I also have the fuzzy feeling that an admin of the namespace could have been able to delete this on their own. Do you know who the admin is for your namespace?

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**Author:** ![MaryTishchenkova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/marytishchenkova/32/9768_2.png) [@MaryTishchenkova](https://forum.ansible.com/u/MaryTishchenkova)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/it-is-necessary-to-remove-the-accidentally-published-version-of-the-collection/44784/5 "2025-11-05T06:48:04Z")

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The administrator was a bot, and since I couldn’t find a deletion option via the CLI, and also found information that deleting collections wasn’t possible, I submitted this request. Thank you so much for responding to my request so quickly.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/it-is-necessary-to-remove-the-accidentally-published-version-of-the-collection/44784/6 "2025-12-05T06:48:11Z")

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