This week in Ansible Community
Issue #149, 2024-08-16 (Past Issues)
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Events
See the Events - Ansible category for more upcoming Ansible community events.
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 shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.16.10 - New Release: ansible-core v2.16.10
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.17.3 - New Release: ansible-core v2.17.3
Ansible Community Package
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 shared
Ansible 10.3.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 10.3.0
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==10.3.0 --user
Check Release Notes
(https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/10.3.0/10/CHANGELOG-v10.md) and Ansible 10 Porting Guide (Ansible 10 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Felix Fontein said
Ansible 9.9.0 package is here!
python3 -m pip install ansible==9.9.0 --user
NEW RELEASES
See Ecosystem Releases - Ansible for more of this week’s releases.
COLLECTION UPDATES 
Felix Fontein shared
community.general 9.3.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) has been released with new features, new modules, and bugfixes. Check out the community.general changelog (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) for more details!
Felix Fontein contributed
There will be a new major release community.routeros 3.0.0 at the end of October / beginning of November which drops support for Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, and ansible-core 2.14.
Felix Fontein said
Reminder: There’s a discussion on declaring community.crypto 1.x.y as End of Life (Deprecate community.crypto 1.x.y · Issue #785 · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub). Please comment there if you’re still using community.crypto 1.x.y. Thanks.
Felix Fontein said
community.routeros 2.18.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released with a bugfix and several new features, including a new parameter
restrictforcommunity.routeros.api_infoandcommunity.routeros.api_modifywhich allows to restrict operations to entries with specific conditions. For example, you can use this to only retrieve or modify firewall rules for a specific chain, or to remove all firewall rules with a specific comment.
mariolenz shared
It looks like two maintainers stepped up who claim to support
netapp_eseries.santricity. Therefore, we’ve closed the community / steering committee vote announced in The Bullhorn #148 for now.
THAT’S ALL FOR NOW!
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