# Release Announcement : Ansible Netcommon 8.6.2 

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-netcommon-8-6-2/46199>\
**Category:** Ecosystem Releases\
**Tags:** network\
**Created:** [August 20, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-netcommon-8-6-2/46199 "2026-08-20T13:54:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![komal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/komal/32/9265_2.png) [@komal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/komal)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-netcommon-8-6-2/46199/1 "2026-08-20T13:54:39Z")

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Hey Everyone! 👋

We’ve now rolled out `ansible.netcommon` **\*\*8.6.2\*\***

The changes in this include:

- **\*\*Bugfix:\*\*** libssh now uses `persistent_connect_timeout` for the SSH connect timeout instead of the generic play context timeout, ensuring `ansible_connect_timeout` / `ANSIBLE_PERSISTENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT` is respected

- **\*\*Bugfix:\*\*** Enabled `huge_tree=True` for all NETCONF XML parsing operations to support responses with text nodes larger than 10MB, fixing `XMLSyntaxError: Resource limit exceeded` when fetching or pushing large configurations

You can check out the full changelog and details here: [Release v8.6.2 · ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/releases/tag/v8.6.2)

Thanks to everyone who reported issues and contributed fixes! ❤