# Release Announcement : Ansible Community Execution Environment Base and Minimal : 2.18.9-1

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-execution-environment-base-and-minimal-2-18-9-1/44478>\
**Category:** News & Announcements\
**Tags:** community, windows, fedora, ansible-project, release, collections, ee\
**Created:** [September 12, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-execution-environment-base-and-minimal-2-18-9-1/44478 "2025-09-12T17:20:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-execution-environment-base-and-minimal-2-18-9-1/44478/1 "2025-09-12T17:20:48Z")

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Hello everyone,

We’re happy to announce the release of:

- **Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.18.9-1**
- **Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.18.9-1**

## What’s inside Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.18.9-1?

### This container image includes :

- Base\_image: Fedora 42
- ansible-core: ansible-core 2.18.9
- collections:
  - ansible.posix 1.6.2
  - ansible.utils 5.1.2
  - ansible.windows 2.5.0

### sha256 sum value of the container image :

`84fecbf1045155d0bf192191c19910ba89c9304db10701adbc5a0072ce5b9730`

### How to get community-ee-base 2.18.9-1?

Install from command line via @sha256\_sum\_value of the image

`podman pull http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base@sha256:84fecbf1045155d0bf192191c19910ba89c9304db10701adbc5a0072ce5b9730`

Install from command line via image tag

`podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base:2.18.9-1`

## What’s inside community-ee-minimal 2.18.9-1?

### This container image includes :

- base\_image: Fedora 42
- ansible-core: ansible-core 2.18.9

### sha256 sum value of the container image :

`da1f01e27b35b027193fb7ce2f13282bc1cc6dbd49db09c26a33c114b0aea840`

### How to get community-ee-minimal 2.18.9-1?

Install from command line via @sha256\_sum\_value of the image

`podman pull http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal@sha256:da1f01e27b35b027193fb7ce2f13282bc1cc6dbd49db09c26a33c114b0aea840`

Install from command line via image tag

`podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal:2.18.9-1`

## To know about future releases

Keep your eyes on [Releases section of the Forum](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/release) and [The Bullhorn](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/bullhorn/17).

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

Cheers,  
Ansible Release Management Working Group