This week in Ansible Community
Issue #157, 2024-10-11 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
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 
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 
Antsibull 
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
inilanguage 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
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!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 10.5.0
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==10.5.0 --user
Check Release Notes
(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!
python3 -m pip install ansible==9.11.0 --user
Other releases
See Ecosystem Releases - Ansible for more of this week’s releases.
Collection updates 
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 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix/blob/1.6.1/CHANGELOG.rst).
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!
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