This week in Ansible Community
Issue #155, 2024-09-28 (Past Issues)
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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.
Leo contributed
Ansible-core devel bumped to 2.19.0.dev0, stable-2.18 branch created. If you are a collection maintainer check the following forum topic by @felixfontein to know the details on how this affects your tests and CI matrix.
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.0b1 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.0b1
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.
gotmax23 contributed
I submitted an official Fedora Change Proposal (Changes/Ansible11) to update to the upcoming Ansible Core 2.18 / Ansible 11 release in Fedora 42, scheduled to be released next spring. Fedora users, please direct your feedback to the Fedora Discussion or fedora-devel mailing list posts.
Felix Fontein said
Ansible 11.0.0a1 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.0.0a1 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==11.0.0a1 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/11/CHANGELOG-v11.md at 11.0.0a1 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 11 Porting Guide (Ansible 11 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Collection updates 
demetri shared
The IBM Ansible z/OS Core v1.11.0 has released !!!
This release has enhanced 16 modules with over 30 new features and delivered 5 bug fixes, documentation updates, new examples and sample playbooks, have a look at the blog that goes into the details.
It focuses primarily on supporting generation data groups (GDG), generation data sets (GDS) with relative name notation, special characters ($ # @) and hyphens in data sets, for example, PROD.DATA#OUT.USER$001. For modules zos_job_sript, zos_job_submit and zos_unarchive, their performance and ability to run in an execution environment was improved by changing the plugins mechanics when interacting with peer modules. Additionally, fixes were made in zos_copy, zos_data_set, zos_job_submit, zos_mvs_raw.
andersson007_ contributed
[UPDATED POLL] The community is voting on removing the
community.networkcollection from the Ansible community package. Please share your opinion in one of the related polls!
Community events and meetups 
Leo contributed
Ansible was present at DevOpsDays London 2024. Did you attend the event? Share your experience in the forum topic. For those that visited the booth there is a badge coming! Extra points if you got a pic with @gundalow @oranod @anwesha @samccann or @gwmngilfen in the Ansible booth
Leo contributed
The Ansible London Meetup got back together in-person just before DevOpsDays London, hosted by Dell at their offices and organized by the Ansible Community Team. The agenda had @gundalow, @samccann, @Oranod, @anwesha , @ssbarnea and @lucab_it all doing presentations. Check the post in the forum for details and share your comments and feedback if you attended!
Proposals - discuss and vote! 
Leo said
The @network-wg is currently working on the IOS-XR route_maps resource module and would like to request reviews for the proposed model. The model is up for review. For a more detailed view, please take a look at the accompanying gist. Additionally, a temporary configuration has been added in the deleted examples section for review purposes. Your feedback and insights would be greatly appreciated!
That’s all for now!
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