This week in Ansible Community
Issue #152, 2024-09-06 (Past Issues)
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Major new releases 
See Ecosystem Releases - Ansible for more of this week’s releases.
Project updates 
Antsibull 
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
antsibull-changelog
andersson007_ said
Mindshare: working on a release in collections now and feeling that antsibull-changelog is a really great tool! We shouldn’t take it for granted, so thanks a lot felixfonteint for its development and long term maintenance!
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.
Execution environments documentation
Oranod contributed
We’re planning to move the documentation for community execution environments from ansible.readthedocs.io back to the Ansible package docs. We’re going to do this so we can have all our content, including the docsite landing pages, hosted on ReadTheDocs. Please check out the recent forum post for full details about this upcoming change. If you have any questions, concerns, or thoughts, please let us know. Thanks for your patience and continued support!
ARA records
dmsimard said
ARA Records Ansible 1.7.2 has been tagged and released!
It includes a fix for python 3.13 and will now catch interrupted playbooks to prevent them from staying “running” forever.
Highlights are on Mastodon and the full changelog is available in the documentation. Enjoy !
AWX Project
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. Join the AWX discussion in the Ansible Community Forum.
AWX operator helm chart
Oranod shared
Looking for opinions on AWX operator helm chart versioning! If you use the helm chart to deploy AWX operator, we would like to get your input on how to version new releases, whether the same version as AWX operator or an independent version potentially starting from 3.0. Please join us on the forum and share your thoughts by replying to the AWX operator helm versioning post.
Collection updates 
community.mysql
andersson007_ contributed
The community.mysql collection version 3.10.2 has been released!
andersson007_ said
The community.mysql collection version 3.10.1 has been released!
Besides a bugfix, it contains an important upcoming breaking-change information and a porting guide.
amazon.aws
abuzachis shared
amazon.aws 8.2.0 has been released with a number of bugfixes, some new features and improvements. This release also introduces a deprecation for the
amazon.aws.iam_rolemodule, where support for creating and deleting IAM instance profiles using thecreate_instance_profileanddelete_instance_profileoptions has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2026-05-01. (see changelog for details).
Proposals - discuss and vote! 
Deprecating and removing community.network collection
andersson007_ contributed
Within 2 weeks, the Community Steering Committee is goint to start a poll on deprecating and removing the
community.networkcollection from theansiblecommunity package due to the lack of active maintenance by the community. Any users, contributors, or other interested community members are still welcome to join the discussion.
Community events and meetups 
Birthday celebration for the Ansible Forum!
samccann said
Tuesday, Sept 11th is the one-year birthday for the Ansible Forum! Head on over to the social category on that day and help us celebrate! (virtual) cake will be provided
.
Other events
See the Events - Ansible category for more upcoming Ansible community events.
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! See you next time!