# Release Announcement : Community Execution Environment 2.18.6-1

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-community-execution-environment-2-18-6-1/43701>\
**Category:** News & Announcements\
**Tags:** community, windows, fedora, ee\
**Created:** [July 2, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-community-execution-environment-2-18-6-1/43701 "2025-07-02T18:50:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-community-execution-environment-2-18-6-1/43701/1 "2025-07-02T18:50:27Z")

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Hello everyone,

We’re happy to announce the release of the

Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.18.6-1 (Latest)

Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.18.6-1 (Latest)

What’s inside Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.18.6-1(Latest)?

This container image includes :

Base\_image: fedora 42

ansible-core: ansible-core 2.18.6 (latest version of ansible-core)

collections: The following set of collections

ansible.posix 1.6.2

ansible.utils 5.1.2

ansible.windows 2.8.0

sha256 sum value of the container image :

665b9718aa6d3fc8c2904b4323f1c65cabf7375880c1877554f4ea3c87250199

How to get community-ee-base 2.18.6-1 (Latest)?

Install from command line via @sha256\_sum\_value of the image

podman pull [Package community-ee-base · GitHub](http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base@sha256:665b9718aa6d3fc8c2904b4323f1c65cabf7375880c1877554f4ea3c87250199)

Install from command line via image tag

podman pull [Package community-ee-base · GitHub](http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base:latest)

podman pull [Package community-ee-base · GitHub](http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base:2.18.6-1)

What’s inside community-ee-minimal?

Ansible Community Excution Environment Minimal 2.18.6-1 (Latest)

This container image includes :

base\_image: fedora 42

ansible-core: ansible-core 2.18.6 (latest version of ansible-core)

sha256 sum value of the container image :

965103b6b74068a949a9eefc9ee0bd8b19039b8e9af636eada4d0c2d4c673d34

How to get community-ee-minimal 2.18.6-1 (Latest)?

Install from command line via @sha256\_sum\_value of the image

podman pull [Package community-ee-minimal · GitHub](http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal@sha256:965103b6b74068a949a9eefc9ee0bd8b19039b8e9af636eada4d0c2d4c673d34)

Install from command line via image tag

podman pull [Package community-ee-minimal · GitHub](http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal:latest)

podman pull [Package community-ee-minimal · GitHub](http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal:2.18.6-1)

To know about future releases

Keep your eyes on Forum and Bullhorn.

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

Cheers,

Ansible Community Team