Release announcement: Ansible community package 9.2.0

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Hello everyone

We’re happy to announce the release of the Ansible 9.2.0 package!

Ansible 9.2.0 includes ansible-core 2.16.3 as well as a curated set of Ansible collections that provide a vast number of modules and plugins.

How to get it

This release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip:

python3 -m pip install ansible==9.2.0 --user

The sources for this release can be found here:

Release tarball:

https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c5/8d/701590703e9bb6359a335ee88a9223442fe6abfae056928876d8318e8c07/ansible-9.2.0.tar.gz

SHA256:

a207a4a00a45e5cd178a7f94ca42afe26f23c9d27be49901ea8c45d18a07b7c6

Wheel package:

https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0d/7e/3e4967b4881e8eb7bbbb430de328f95969db235adff2d3c32581e4e2f800/ansible-9.2.0-py3-none-any.whl

SHA256:

39b19c252800aeed531413a626ccd07473b79615a3cea77568a1624c1aefaf7c

Some important details

Collections that have opted to join 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

or on the collection source repository. For example, the community.crypto collection is available at

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:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.16.rst

What’s the schedule for new Ansible releases after 9.2.0?

The next release roadmap can be found at

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/ansible_roadmap_index.html

From now on, the Ansible community package release schedule will follow the Ansible Core release schedule, including (for example) delays for holidays. This means Ansible releases happen every four weeks through most of the year, but release dates may be delayed when Ansible Core release is.

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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

Getting collection updates from Ansible 9 with older releases of ansible-core

Ansible 9 includes ansible-core 2.16. Depending on your needs, 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

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

Cheers,
Ansible Release Management Working Group

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