This week in Ansible community
Issue #145, 2024-07-15 (Past Issues)
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EVENTS 
Check the Events category in the Ansible Forum for upcoming events.
NEW RELEASES 
Check the Ecosystem Releases category for the latest releases.
COLLECTION UPDATES 
Felix Fontein shared
community.routeros 2.17.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released with new features for the API modules.
Felix Fontein shared
community.crypto 2.21.0 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) has been released with two new features for
get_certificate(allow to specify TLS context options; allow to obtain certificate chains when using Python 3.10+) and one forcertificate_complete_chain(support Ed25519 and Ed448 signatures).
andersson007_ contributed
The community.general collection version 9.2.0 has been released with new features and bugfixes!
andersson007_ shared
The community.clickhouse collection version 0.5.0 has been released! Special thanks to aleks_vagachev and Oranod ! If you’re a collection user and like the initiative, please add a star in our repo to motivate us a bit:)
Felix Fontein said
community.sops 1.8.0 (community.sops/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.sops · GitHub) has been released with new features and bugfixes supporting the new SOPS release 3.9.0. This includes detecting the SOPS version to use the new subcommands introduced in 3.9.0, including the
filestatussubcommand to improve handling of unencrypted files for the vars plugin. When SOPS 3.9.0 is used, this release also fixes a long-standing bug for thecommunity.sops.sops_encryptmodule.
Felix Fontein shared
community.docker 3.11.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released with a few bugfixes, and two new features for
community.docker.docker_container: support fordevice_cgroup_rules, and a newstate=healthywhich waits for a container to become healthy.
PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! 
gundalow contributed
AWX Calendar Version (CalVer) PR. Following from the discussion in the Streamlining AWX releases forum post, Shane has created a PR for the initial move to CalVer ansible/awx#15358, let us know what you think.
andersson007_ contributed
Feedback wanted: As a part of reducing fragmentation and consolidating Ansible discussion platforms effort, we’d like to prioritize the Forum across the collections under the ansible-collections organization. Please see the details and share your opinions in the Reducing fragmentation: Add Communication section emphasizing Forum to collections READMEs in ansible-collections org forum topic.
Felix Fontein contributed
Is anyone still using 1.x.y releases of community.crypto? If yes, please comment in the GitHub issue on declaring community.crypto 1.x.y End of Life (Deprecate community.crypto 1.x.y · Issue #785 · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub). Version 2.0.0 of the collection was released in November 2021, so we would really like to know if someone is still using the 1.x.y versions.
Leo said
Receptor news! As announced in the Ansible forum, we are currently planning on deprecating the
"--work-python"feature in Receptor. Please let us know in the forum thread if you have any feedback!
THAT’S ALL FOR NOW!
Have any questions you’d like to ask, or issues you’d like to see covered? Please ask in #social:ansible.com or post a forum topic in the Social Space category! See you next time!