Release announcement : Ansible Community Package 7.6.0

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Hello everyone,

We're happy to announce the release of the Ansible 7.6.0 package!

Ansible 7.6.0 includes ansible-core 2.14.6 as well as a curated set of
Ansible collections that provide a vast number of modules and plugins.

How to get it

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Hello everyone,

We're happy to announce the release of the Ansible 7.6.0 package!

Ansible 7.6.0 includes ansible-core 2.14.6 as well as a curated set of
Ansible collections that provide a vast number of modules and plugins.

Please, stop saying this. This line of the documentation is simply not
true. "ansible-core" is s distinct code base, from a different repo,
published as a different tarball. The ansible tarball is *only* a
curated set of ansible collections. It's huge, and awkward to manage,
and it does not contain the actually critical ansible-core3 that all
ansible software users require.

The ansible tarball is *locked* to specific releases of ansible-core
by the "ansible.egg-info/requires.txt" file, which currently lists:

      ansible-core~=2.14.6

Having a listed dependency is far from "including" a distinct code
base. Please use the correct verb. To describe it better, may I
suggest:

    > Ansible 7.6.0 requires and if not found, attempts to
automatically install ansible-core 2.14.6 The Ansible package provides
a large, curated set of Ansible collection published modules and
plugins.

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>
> Hello everyone,
>
> We're happy to announce the release of the Ansible 7.6.0 package!
>
> Ansible 7.6.0 includes ansible-core 2.14.6 as well as a curated set of
> Ansible collections that provide a vast number of modules and plugins.

Please, stop saying this. This line of the documentation is simply not
true. "ansible-core" is s distinct code base, from a different repo,
published as a different tarball. The ansible tarball is *only* a
curated set of ansible collections. It's huge, and awkward to manage,
and it does not contain the actually critical ansible-core3 that all
ansible software users require.

Argh. I typed "ansible-core3" rather than "ansible-core". Forgive me,
the cat wanted his breakfast. He's fed now!