# Release announcement: Ansible Community Package 9.0.1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ecosystem Releases\ **Tags:** release-management, release, distro-packaging\ **Created:** [November 21, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-package-9-0-1/2500 "2023-11-21T23:12:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-package-9-0-1/2500/1 "2023-11-21T23:12:13Z")
Hello everyone, We’re happy to announce the release of Ansible 9.0.1! This bugfix release was created to fix the Python package metadata in `setup.cfg` to require Python `>=3.10` to ensure that `pip install ansible` still works on older Python versions. Thanks to Jeremy Cornett for reporting this issue! This release contains the latest version of ansible-core 2.16 and includes a curated set of Ansible collections that provide a vast number of modules and plugins. ansible-core is a required dependency, not contained within the ansible packages. How to get it? This release is available on [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/ansible/) and can be installed with pip: $ python3 -m pip install ansible==9.0.1 --user The source and the wheel for this release can be found here: Release tarball: [https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/19/17/5da525931b5867b4f542c1ef1cdc5b55d28948da7eadf650d9f0f75df0ca/ansible-9.0.1.tar.gz](https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/19/17/5da525931b5867b4f542c1ef1cdc5b55d28948da7eadf650d9f0f75df0ca/ansible-9.0.1.tar.gz) SHA256: cc06c251f142837cf540b7977724596a94f3d0fe9da9619175e9de6539cd0705 Wheel package: [https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e5/9a/d8e83a8f64f208eeaf84f45358d85302efc14ff7c60c4c9d792c3d275155/ansible-9.0.1-py3-none-any.whl](https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e5/9a/d8e83a8f64f208eeaf84f45358d85302efc14ff7c60c4c9d792c3d275155/ansible-9.0.1-py3-none-any.whl) SHA256: 4e758da22ff7a95ed2ab30cef12860407be68f65527af66a5b828739f634415a Some important details Python wheels are available for both Ansible 9.0.1 and ansible-core 2.16.0 In addition, Ansible 9 does not install some unnecessary files from the included Ansible collections such as tests or hidden files and directories. This further improves installation performance and reduces the size on disk. These files are still available in the source tarball if needed. Collections which have opted-in to being a part of the Ansible 9 unified changelog will have an entry on this page: > For collections which have not opted-in to the unified changelog, you may find more information on [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections) or the collection source repository. For example, the community.crypto collection is available at [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/index.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/index.html) and you can find a link to the source repository under the “Repository (Sources)” button. The changelog for ansible-core 2.16 installed by this release of Ansible 9 can be found here: > What’s the schedule for new Ansible releases after 9.0.1? The next release roadmap can be found at [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/ansible\_roadmap\_index.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/ansible_roadmap_index.html) Subscribe to the Bullhorn for all future release dates, announcements, and Ansible contributor community news. Visit this link to subscribe: [https://bit.ly/subscribe-bullhorn](https://bit.ly/subscribe-bullhorn) You can find all past Bullhorn issues on the official wiki page: > **[News](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/News#the-bullhorn)** > > This repository is being archived. See https://github.com/ansible-community/presentations and https://github.com/ansible-community/meetings for the new locations - ansible/community Join the new Ansible Community Forum to follow along and participate in all the discussions and release related discussions and announcements. Feel free to share your thoughts, ideas and concerns there. Register here to join the Ansible Forum: [http://forum.ansible.com](http://forum.ansible.com) Porting Help A unified porting guide for collections that have opted-in is available here: [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting\_guides/porting\_guide\_9.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_9.html) Getting collection updates from Ansible 9 with older releases of ansible-core Ansible 9 includes ansible-core 2.16 Based on your requirements, you can get collection updates as they ship in the Ansible “batteries included” package while continuing to use older versions of ansible-core. An ansible-galaxy requirements file based on the collections from Ansible 9 has been made available for this use case: > After you download the requirements file, the collections can be installed by running this command: “ansible-galaxy collection install -r galaxy-requirements.yaml” Special Thanks We would like to give a shoutout with a big THANK YOU to the Release Management Working Group for making this release happen! On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating! Cheers, Maxwell