The Bullhorn #157 - Ansible Newsletter

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This week in Ansible Community

Issue #157, 2024-10-11 (Past Issues)

Welcome to The Bullhorn, our newsletter for the Ansible Community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, you’re welcome to chat with us in the Ansible Social room on Matrix, and mention newsbot to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue!

General news updates :speaker:

Ansible project survey

@Leo said

We’re excited to launch the Ansible Project Survey 2024 - the first ever project-wide survey of the Ansible ecosystem. Please head to this link here to have your say about how you use Ansible, what features or content is more important, and what problems you encounter.

If you wish to learn a bit more about the survey first, read the post by Gwmngilfen on the Ansible Forum, where you will find the link too!

Community events and meetups :date:

Ansible Contributor Summit

@oranod shared

Ansible Contributor Summit is coming to Ghent! Mark your calendars and RSVP to let us know if you’re joining us as we get together with Ansible users, contributors, and development teams to share ideas, have some fun, discuss the future of the Ansible community, and improve collaboration. We’re still working on all the details but would like to hear ideas and suggestions from you. Please reply to the forum topic and let us know what you’d like to see on the agenda.

Configuration Management Camp (Cfgmgmtcamp)

@oranod shared

Do you like waffles and yaml? Have you got an interesting talk about Ansible or Infrastructure-as-Code in general?

If the answer to those questions is “yes”, then you should submit a talk to Configuration Management Camp (Cfgmgmtcamp) 2025. The CFP is open until the end of October with a range of different events to choose from, ignite talks, presentations, workshops, and fringes. Don’t delay, submit today!

Other events

See the Events - Ansible category for more upcoming Ansible community events.

Major new releases :trophy:

Antsibull :arrow_upper_right:

Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.

anstibull-docs

Felix Fontein shared

antsibull-docs 2.15.0 (antsibull-docs/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull-docs · GitHub) has been released. It now depends on Pydantic 2 and no longer supports Pydantic 1, uses the ini language for INI examples for better syntax highlighting, and allows to configure HTTP(S) proxies with environment variables. It also has some improvements for the official Ansible docsites.

Ansible Community Package :arrow_upper_right:

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.

Antsibull 10

Felix Fontein shared

Ansible 10.5.0 package is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 10.5.0
:minidisc:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==10.5.0 --user

:arrow_right: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: (ansible-build-data/10/CHANGELOG-v10.md at 10.5.0 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 10 Porting Guide (Ansible 10 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!

Ansible 9

Felix Fontein shared

Ansible 9.11.0 package is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 9.11.0
:minidisc:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==9.11.0 --user

:arrow_right: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: (ansible-build-data/9/CHANGELOG-v9.md at 9.11.0 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 9 Porting Guide (Ansible 9 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!

Other releases :trophy:

See Ecosystem Releases - Ansible for more of this week’s releases.

Collection updates :magic_wand:

community.general

Felix Fontein said

community.general 9.5.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) and community.general 8.6.6 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-8 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with new features (9.5.0) and bugfixes. Please note that 9.5.0 was the last 9.x.y feature release, and that 8.6.6 was the last 8.x.y regular bugfix release. From now on, there will only be 9.5.x bugfix releases, and 8.6.x major bugfix and security fix releases. The next community.genreal feature release will be 10.0.0, to be released around November 4th.

community.postgresql

andersson007_ shared

The community.postgresql collection version 3.7.0 has been released!

ansible.posix

hsaito shared

ansible.posix collection version 1.6.1 has been released (ansible.posix/CHANGELOG.rst at 1.6.1 · ansible-collections/ansible.posix · GitHub).

Note: According with semantic versioning guidelines, we have reverted the retirement of the skippy plugin on 1.x release. This will be removed in 2.0.0 in the future.

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!

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