# Release Announcement: Ansible Community Execution Environment Base & Minimal 2.21.3-1

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-execution-environment-base-minimal-2-21-3-1/46207>\
**Category:** Ecosystem Releases\
**Tags:** windows, fedora, ee\
**Created:** [August 21, 2026, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-execution-environment-base-minimal-2-21-3-1/46207 "2026-08-21T12:06:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andersson007](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/andersson007/32/89_2.png) [@Andersson007](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andersson007)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-execution-environment-base-minimal-2-21-3-1/46207/1 "2026-08-21T12:06:41Z")

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Hello everyone,

We’re happy to announce the release of:

- [Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.21.3-1](https://github.com/ansible-community/images/pkgs/container/community-ee-minimal)
- [Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.21.3-1](https://github.com/ansible-community/images/pkgs/container/community-ee-base)

## What are Execution Environments?

Read the [Getting started with Execution Environments](https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/getting_started_ee/index.html) guide to learn how to benefit from running Ansible automation in containers.

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

Ansible community-ee-minimal is a container image. It includes:

- `base_image`: fedora 44
- `ansible-core`: 2.21.3
- `collections`: The following set of collections
  - ansible.posix 2.2.2
  - ansible.utils 6.1.0
  - ansible.windows 3.7.0

## How to get community-ee-minimal?

Install from command line by running:

`podman pull http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal@sha256:4359b29750dfc67b55e73bfc5a4ffa804c882c1376a33e59217c1087632241e6`

## What’s inside community-ee-base?

- `base_image`: fedora 44
- `ansible-core`: 2.21.3

## How to get community-ee-base?

Install from command line by running:

`podman pull http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base@sha256:9f2836592ab92794e8b1982311d504ba3c28a2c09b3f8de221ca3564842c0902`

## To know about future releases

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

Cheers,  
Ansible Community Team

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**Author:** ![oranod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/oranod/32/1434_2.png) [@oranod](https://forum.ansible.com/u/oranod)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-execution-environment-base-minimal-2-21-3-1/46207/2 "2026-08-21T12:08:23Z")

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Thanks for doing the EE releases @Andersson007 🎉