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Hello Ansible Gurus,

What is the latest version of Ansible and is it backward compatible ?Where I can find the porting Guide.
Is support for RHEL 8 is there in newer Ansible version ?

Rahul

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Hello Rahul,

please find the attachment link of porting guide and latest version of ansible.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/porting_guides/porting_guides.html
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.3/release_and_maintenance.html

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Latest version of ansible is 2.8.9

for more reference you can go with the links it will help you.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.8.html

https://www.ansible.com/blog/integrating-ansible-and-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-beta

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Hi,

your release_and_maintenance link is seriously outdated (it is for
Ansible 2.3!). Please use

  https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/release_and_maintenance.html

instead.

Cheers,
Felix

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Hi,

Latest version of ansible is 2.8.9

that's not true. The latest version of Ansible is 2.9.6.
(https://pypi.org/project/ansible/#history)

The 2.9 porting guide is here:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.9.html

You will need multiple porting guides, depending on with which version
of Ansible you are starting. Every porting guide is describing the
changes between the previous major release and the current one, i.e.
the 2.9 porting guide shows how to upgrade from Ansible 2.8.x to 2.9.

The porting guides for older versions can be obtained by adjusting the
URL:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.8.html
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.7.html
...

About Rahul's original email:

What is the latest version of Ansible and is it backward compatible ?

The standard deprecation period is 4 versions, so if you are currently
using Ansible 2.5, version 2.9 could have features removed or changed,
while version 2.8 should not (except by accident). There can be other
small changes in behavior; these are all mentioned in the porting
guides, so please read them to be sure.

Is support for RHEL 8 is there in newer Ansible version ?

RHEL 8 should be supported by all current Ansible versions. CI includes
test runs on RHEL 7 and RHEL 8.

Cheers,
Felix