# Release announcement : Ansible Community Package 8.1.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [June 22, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-package-8-1-0/38149 "2023-06-22T21:16:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anwesha\_Das](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@Anwesha\_Das](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Anwesha_Das)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-package-8-1-0/38149/1 "2023-06-22T21:16:24Z")
Hello everyone, We're happy to announce the release of the Ansible 8.1.0 package! Ansible 8.1.0 includes ansible-core 2.15.1 as well as a curated set of Ansible collections that provide a vast number of modules and plugins. How to get it ---
**Author:** ![Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/nico_kadel-garcia/32/9998_2.png) [@Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nico_Kadel-Garcia)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 10:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-package-8-1-0/38149/2 "2023-06-23T10:12:35Z")
> Hello everyone, > > We're happy to announce the release of the Ansible 8.1.0 package! > > Ansible 8.1.0 includes ansible-core 2.15.1 as well as a curated set of > Ansible collections that provide a vast number of modules and plugins. Please: stop claiming this. ansible-core is a required dependency, not contained within the ansible packages. Pip install builds the dependency, but it can be built and installed quite independently of the "ansible" distribution. Nico Kadel-Garcia ---
**Author:** ![Anwesha\_Das](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@Anwesha\_Das](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Anwesha_Das)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-package-8-1-0/38149/3 "2023-06-28T08:44:09Z")
Hello Nico, \ > Please: stop claiming this. ansible-core is a required dependency, not > contained within the ansible packages. Pip install builds the > dependency, but it can be built and installed quite independently of > the "ansible" distribution. Thank you for pointing this out. I truly appreciate it. I will edit the wording of the release announcements to match to what happens, under the hood, technically. How does this sound? ```auto Ansible 8.1.0 requires latest version of ansible-core 2.15 and includes a curated set of Ansible collections that provides a vast number of modules and plugins. ``` \ Looking forward to hearing from you. Cheers, Anwesha ---
**Author:** ![Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/nico_kadel-garcia/32/9998_2.png) [@Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nico_Kadel-Garcia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-package-8-1-0/38149/4 "2023-06-28T10:59:50Z")
That sounds \*fabulous\*. Thank you very much. The ansible documentation is a bit vague on the distinction as well.      [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation\_guide/intro\_installation.html#installing-and-upgrading-ansible](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#installing-and-upgrading-ansible) If you're revising the release or installation notes, perhaps you could mention the python version requirement? The current ansib-core 2.15 or later requires python 3.11 or later. And some supported systems, like RHEL 7, don't have such recent python as a supported option. It's why I would recommend using RHEL 8 or 9 for ansible servers. ---
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-package-8-1-0/38149/5 "2023-06-28T12:15:00Z")
Hi Anwesha, before we start modifying the announcement, can we please first have it in a public GH repo - say [https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/tree/main/docs](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/tree/main/docs) - and then discuss these changes in a PR so it's clear to everyone involved what exactly the diff is? Cheers, Felix ---
**Author:** ![Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/nico_kadel-garcia/32/9998_2.png) [@Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nico_Kadel-Garcia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-package-8-1-0/38149/6 "2023-06-28T12:44:31Z")
> Hi Anwesha, > > before we start modifying the announcement, can we please first have it > in a public GH repo - say > [https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/tree/main/docs](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/tree/main/docs) > - and then discuss these changes in a PR so it's clear to everyone > involved what exactly the diff is? > > Cheers, > Felix Felix, the provenance of the "ansible" package is really a bundle of "ansible galaxy collections", It's not from a single project. It's built from more than 100 distinct modules, most of which have their own git repo. Take a look at this to see the build tool used to generate that tarball.:     [https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/8/ansible-8.1.0.deps](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/8/ansible-8.1.0.deps) And yes, this is very confusing, especially because ansible-core comes from the mismatched git repo name:     [https://github.com/ansible/ansible](https://github.com/ansible/ansible) Can we just fix the one thing right now? Nico Kadel-Garicia ---
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-package-8-1-0/38149/7 "2023-06-28T19:16:33Z")
Hi Nico, > Felix, the provenance of the "ansible" package is really a bundle of > "ansible galaxy collections", It's not from a single project. It's > built from more than 100 distinct modules, most of which have their > own git repo. Take a look at this to see the build tool used to > generate that tarball.: I'm fully aware of how the ansible PyPI package is built. > Can we just fix the one thing right now? We have two things here: we have the ansible PyPI package, and we have Ansible as the 'thing' that users use. The new suggestion is perfect from a technical point of view, when talking about the ansible PyPI package. But it is NOT perfect when looking at Ansible, as described by the Ansible docsite ([https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/)) and the Ansible changelog ([https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/8/CHANGELOG-v8.rst](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/8/CHANGELOG-v8.rst)). I'm against changing something so that one aspect of it is better, but another gets worse, without this being properly discussed first. Cheers, Felix