This week in Ansible Community
Issue #138, 2024-05-17 (Past Issues)
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KEY DATES 
- 2024-05-21: DaWGs meeting, 15:00 UTC
- 2024-05-22: Community WG meeting, 18:00 UTC
- 2024-05-23: Bullhorn #139 content deadline, 18:00 UTC
- 2024-05-20: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.16.7
- 2024-05-21: ETA for Ansible 9.6.0 release
MAJOR NEW RELEASES 
Ansible-Core 
The ansible-core package contains the base engine and a small subset of modules and plugins. To see what’s planned for the next release, look at the ansible-core roadmaps.
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.17.0rc2 - New Release: ansible-core v2.17.0rc2
Antsibull
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
Felix Fontein shared
antsibull 0.62.0 (antsibull/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull · GitHub) has been released with new features and a breaking change related to handling feature freeze, and releasing with existing data (
.depsfiles, and/or release summary). The breaking change is that the release role no longer automatically skips thepreparestep if the.depsfile is already present. The old behavior can be restored with a new option for the release role. See the changelog for more details.
Felix Fontein shared
antsibull 0.63.0 (antsibull/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull · GitHub) has been released with another feature needed for the Ansible community package automated release process.
Ansible
The Ansible package includes ansible-core and is a batteries-included package that provides a curated set of Ansible collections. See the Ansible roadmaps for future release plans.
Felix Fontein said
Ansible 10.0.0a3 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 10.0.0a3 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==10.0.0a3 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/10/CHANGELOG-v10.md at 10.0.0a3 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 10 Porting Guide (Ansible 10 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
COLLECTION UPDATES 
abuzachis said
amazon.aws 8.0.0 has been released with new features, bugfixes, and deprecated features. It also includes the removal of some functionality for
iam_role, iam_role_infoandmodule_utils.policythat were previously deprecated. We have also removed support foransible-core<2.15. (see changelog for details).
Felix Fontein said
community.hrobot 2.0.0 (community.hrobot/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.hrobot · GitHub) has been released! This new major release drops support for older Ansible/ansible-base/ansible-core releases (2.13 and before), and changes the inventory plugins to repurpose the
filteroption to support the new filtering available from thecommunity.library_inventory_filtering_v1collection.
andersson007_ contributed
The community.postgresql collection version 2.4.6 and 3.4.1 have been released!
yurnov said
kubernetes.core collection has been released version 3.1.0 and avaliable on Galaxy
Release Summary
This release comes with some bugfixes and documentation updates. It also adds new features to the kubectl connection plugin and the kustomize lookup plugin.
Minor Changes
- kubectl - added support of local enviroment variable that will be used for kubectl and may be requried for establishing connections ifself (add support of kubectl_local_env_vars (#698) by yurnov · Pull Request #702 · ansible-collections/kubernetes.core · GitHub)
- kustomize - new parameter added to --enable-helm (Need to pass command line args to Kustomize to install helm charts · Issue #568 · ansible-collections/kubernetes.core · GitHub)
Bugfixes
- helm - expand kubeconfig path with user’s home directory for consistency with k8s
- k8s_json_patch - rename action symlink to ensure k8s action plugin is used (fixed typo in filename of 'k8s_json_patch'-action by realSchoki · Pull Request #652 · ansible-collections/kubernetes.core · GitHub).
demetri shared
The ibm_zos_core 1.10.0-beta.1 collection is now available on Galaxy. This release includes support for ZOAU 1.3.0, bugfixes and enhancements. Check out the blog for more details.
PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! 
samccann shared
Red Hat is looking for feedback on automated Policy As Code - Welcome to the Policy as Code Forum! Get started here
andersson007_ contributed
Please everyone share your feelings on the options for the Ansible community package future in the forum poll .
andersson007_ contributed
Feedback wanted on the How to improve cross-project contributor experience topic: can we enable contributors to easily be able to land and expand in our ecosystem?
COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MEETUPS 
samccann said
A couple of upcoming events, check out the details and RSVP:
- Ansible NZ will meet on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 to discuss what’s the latest from AnsibleFest 2024.
- Ansible Atlanta will meet on Thursday, May 30, 2024 on Managing Microsoft SQL clusters with Ansible.
THAT’S ALL FOR NOW!
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