This week in the Ansible Community
Issue #159, 2024-10-25 (Past Issues)
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The Ansible team is hiring! 
samccann said
Ansible is hiring! From associate engineer through principal and manager! I can’t figure out a good search url to pick up just the Ansible jobs but the following URL gets close - look for any interesting ones. They will either have Ansible in the job title or in the description. Come join us in Ansible Engineering! https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/jobs/?q=Ansible&d=c18026e77576010f6ef6126f4e43ec4a
General news updates 
Ansible Survey
gundalow said
Help needed: Just 2 minutes of your time
We are doing the first big Ansible Survey this year. For this to be successful we need a a wide ranging and diverse set of responses, we’d really appreciate if you can share these social links to your own networks.For more context, see the Forum Post
Cfmgmtcamp CfP
Oranod shared
Hi everyone! Don’t forget to submit your proposal for Configuration Management Camp (Cfgmgmtcamp)!! We’re back next year right after FOSDEM in Ghent, Belgium from Feb 3rd to 5th. This is a great event for IaC enthusiasts in EMEA so mark your calendars.
The CFP is now open and looking for proposals for ignite talks, presentations, and workshops. This year we had two full Ansible tracks and a ton of interest in all things Ansible. We’d like to make next year’s event even better. So if you have any community Ansible topics or experiences with Ansible Automation Platform that you think would benefit the wider IaC ecosystem, please submit your proposal by the end of this month (CFP closes on Oct 31). You can find the CFP here: CfgMgmtCamp 2025 Ghent :: pretalx
Thanks and looking forward to seeing some Ansible talks in Ghent!
Ansible Contributor Summit
Oranod shared
Ansible Contributor Summit is coming to Cfgmgmtcamp 2025! We’ll be back with a full day working session especially for community users and contributors to interact with one another, as well as with Ansible development teams. We will discuss important issues affecting the Ansible community to help shape the future of Ansible with a focus on improving collaboration with our contributors.
We’re still working on putting together an agenda and there are more details to come but go ahead and mark your calendars and save the date!
We’d also like to ask our community what they’d like to hear, speak about, or participate in. So, if you’re planning to attend either in person or virtually, let us know what you’d like to add to the agenda. Head over to our Contributor Summit at Cfgmgmtcamp 2025 event topic in the forum and give us your thoughts.
Other events
See the Events - Ansible category for more upcoming Ansible community events.
Help wanted 
andersson007_ said
Feedback wanted: If you’re a collection developer/maintainer, please help us understand all the tooling currently in use for building, testing, releasing, publishing, and distributing Ansible collections by taking part in the forum poll. Your feedback is much appreciated!
Major new releases 
Antsibull 
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
antsibull-changelog
Felix Fontein contributed
antsibull-changelog 0.31.0 (antsibull-changelog/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull-changelog · GitHub) has been released with official Python 3.13 support, a new
--strictflag for thelint-changelog-yamlsubcommand, and a few internal code changes (cleanup and extending the API for use in antsibull-build).
Collection updates 
community.docker
Felix Fontein said
community.docker 4.0.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released with the old
community.docker.docker_composemodule removed; some deprecated features removed and one default forcommunity.docker.docker_containerchanged; support for some End of Life versions of Ansible/ansible-base/ansible-core removed; and one new feature forcommunity.docker.docker_compose_v2. The 3.x.y release stream will only receive bugfix releases from now on, and the 2.x.y release stream is now End of Life.
ansible.posix
hsaito said
ansible.posix collection version 1.6.2 has been released (ansible.posix/CHANGELOG.rst at 1.6.2 · ansible-collections/ansible.posix · GitHub)
There is no impact on users with this release, as the only changes are to correct an issue where the minimum supported version of Ansible Core was reverted and to change the integration tests.
community.sops
Felix Fontein said
community.sops 2.0.0 (community.sops/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.sops · GitHub) has been released with support for some End of Life versions of Ansible/ansible-base/ansible-core removed. The 1.x.y release stream will only receive bugfix releases from now on for an unspecified amount of time, until it will be declared End of Life. That unspecified amount of time will be shorter or longer depending on (absence of) feedback whether someone is still using these versions.
Felix Fontein said
community.routeros
community.routeros 3.0.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at 3.0.0 · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released, which removes support of End of Life Ansible/ansible-base/ansible-core versions and fixes check mode of the community.routeros.command module. The 2.x.y release stream will only receive bugfix releases (2.20.x) from now on.
Other releases
See Ecosystem Releases - Ansible for more of this week’s releases.
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!