# Release Announcement: ansible.netcommon 8.5.3

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-netcommon-8-5-3/45960>\
**Category:** Ecosystem Releases\
**Tags:** release, network\
**Created:** [June 22, 2026, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-netcommon-8-5-3/45960 "2026-06-22T10:20:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsogikar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jsogikar/32/10297_2.png) [@jsogikar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jsogikar)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-netcommon-8-5-3/45960/1 "2026-06-22T10:20:55Z")

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Hey Everyone! 👋  
We’ve now rolled out `ansible.netcommon` **8.5.3**

The changes in this include:

> Bugfixes for ansible-core 2.19+ caching attribute error, an ignored Paramiko SSH proxy command issue, and a crash on empty lists in the VLAN parser.

You can check out the full changelog and details [here](https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/releases/tag/v8.5.3).

Thanks to everyone who reported issues and contributed fixes! ❤

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**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 22, 2026, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-netcommon-8-5-3/45960/2 "2026-06-22T11:54:29Z")

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@jsogikar is there an ETA when the deprecated ansible-core parts that ansible.netcommon uses will be remove from ansible.netcommon? Some of them have been deprecated since ansible-core 2.20.

Ref: [Various code imports deprecated ansible.module\_utils.six, resulting in deprecation messages shown to users · Issue #786 · ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/issues/786)

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**Author:** ![jsogikar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jsogikar/32/10297_2.png) [@jsogikar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jsogikar)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-netcommon-8-5-3/45960/3 "2026-06-23T06:32:51Z")

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Thanks for raising the issue @felixfontein, we already have it noted and are planning to pick it up in upcoming weeks. So you should see it fixed in the next release.