This week in Ansible Community
Issue #160, 2024-11-01 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
Leo shared
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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.
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.0rc2 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.0rc2
Collection updates 
Simon Dodsley shared
purestorage.flashblade 1.19.0 (changelog) has been released with added support for new features in the latest Purity operating system of the Pure Storage FlashBlade.
abuzachis contributed
amazon.aws 9.0.0 has been released. It introduces significant updates, including new features, bug fixes, and some breaking changes. Key points to consider with this release are:
- A new set of supported modules that have been promoted from community.aws.
- A set of minor changes, several bugfixes and some deprecated features.
- Support for botocore<1.31.0 and boto3<1.28.0 has been dropped.
- Following the AWS SDKs support policy update that removes support for Python versions below 3.8, community.aws has deprecated support for Python versions below 3.8 in this release. Full removal of Python versions below 3.8 is scheduled for version 10.0.0.
For a comprehensive list of changes, see the official changelog.
abuzachis shared
community.aws 9.0.0 has been released. It introduces significant updates, including new features, bug fixes, and some breaking changes. Key points to consider with this release are:
- A set of new features, several bugfixes and some breaking changes.
- Several modules have been migrated to amazon.aws and the Fully Qualified Collection Name for these modules needs to be updated.
- Support for botocore<1.31.0 and boto3<1.28.0 has been dropped.
- Following the AWS SDKs support policy update that removes support for Python versions below 3.8, community.aws has deprecated support for Python versions below 3.8 in this release. Full removal of Python versions below 3.8 is scheduled for version 10.0.0.
For a comprehensive list of changes, see the official changelog.
demetri contributed
IBM z/OS Core collection version v1.9.3 has released !!
This release includes bug fixes for modules zos_job_query and zos_mvs_raw.
You can read more about this in the release blog: IBM z/OS Ansible Core v1.9.3 and support coverage explanation for v1.9.x
demetri shared
IBM z/OS core collection version 1.12.0-beta.1 has released.
This release depends on ZOAU 1.3.2, includes 8 enhancements, 15 fixes with a focus on:
- How modules leverage High Level Qualifiers (HLQ) for both, persistent and temporary data sets.
- Unrepresentable characters.
- Special character in user IDs.
- The introduction of job types.
You can read more about this in the release blog.
Automating has no limits and neither does our latest IBM z/OS core beta version.
Proposals - discuss and vote! 
Felix Fontein contributed
There is a new community vote on cancelling the removal of netapp.storagegrid from Ansible 11 ([Vote ends on 2024-11-05] Unmaintained collection: netapp.storagegrid - #24 by felixfontein), since maintenance of that collection has been taken up again by another team at NetApp. The vote closes early on Tuesday, November 5th, so please take a look until Monday if you’re interested
Community updates 
andersson007_ shared
A new forum tag scaleway has been created on the forum to discuss collections with modules and plugins for Ansible to automate the management of Scaleway infrastructure and services.
steampunks said
This Halloween, Steampunk Spotter 5.0 is here to chase away your automation nightmares! The newly released version is packed with updates, giving you greater control, enhanced security, and simpler management of your Ansible automation projects. Check out what’s new and give it a try.
Community events and meetups 
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.
The Ansible team is hiring! 
Leo contributed
Ansible is hiring! From Software Engineers and Technical Account Managers to Product Managers and other roles! Lookup all available Ansible related jobs at Red Hat
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!