This week in Ansible Community
Issue #162, 2024-11-15 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
Working Group meetings
samccann said
All community working group meetings are now part of the Ansible forum events calendar. Just find the event you are interested in, and click the
...to add to your personal calendar. The old ICS calendar is now removed in favor of the forum calendar.
Ansible PyPi changes
Oranod shared
Ansible releases have been deleted from PyPI to save space
While releasing Ansible 11.0.0rc1, the maintainers encountered a problem on PyPI. Namely, the number of packages for the “ansible” project exceeded the size limit of 10 GB.
A request was made to increase the limit but that could take some time to happen. To allow new releases to continue, community maintainers have deleted the following releases that were previously yanked for various reasons, such as incorrect package metadata or another breaking change:
- 10.0.0
- 9.6.0
- 9.5.0
- 9.0.0
If you have any of these versions pinned in ci workflows or elsewhere, you should immediately change to a more recent version. For instance, if you have version 9.0.0 pinned, update to version 9.0.1 at a minimum. Please note that Ansible 9 and 10 are close to end of life (EOL) and will no longer receive updates from early December 2024. For this reason you should update to the latest possible version.
Ideally the request to increase the limit on PyPI will be accepted. In the meantime, the Ansible community is currently discussing next steps to save space on PyPI, including the removal of old pre-releases such as alpha candidates. If you have thoughts and want to join the dicussion, or just read what others are saying, visit the Saving space on PyPI topic in the Ansible forum.
Major new releases 
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.
Ansible 11
mariolenz shared
Ansible 11.0.0rc1 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.0.0rc1 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==11.0.0rc1 --user
Check Release Notes
and Ansible 11 Porting Guide for more details!
Collection updates 
infra.aap_configuration
Sean Sullivan shared
infra.aap_configuration 3.1.0 has been released.
This Ansible collection allows for easy interaction with an AWX or Ansible Controller server via Ansible roles using the AWX/Controller collection modules.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/infra.aap_configuration: A collection of roles to manage Ansible Automation Platform 2.5+ with code For more information and updates.
community.postgresql
toydarian shared
The community.postgresql collection version 3.8.0 has been released!
New maintainer
andersson007_ shared
community.postgresql: I’m happy to announce @toydarian (GitHub: toydarian) joining our maintainers crew:) Thank you Thomas for your great contributions and welcome!
Community events and meetups 
Cfgmgmtcamp registration
Oranod said
Hey, hey, hey! We’ve now hit the deadline for submitting proposals to Configuration Management Camp (Cfgmgmtcamp) so hopefully everyone who wanted to present in one of the main tracks has proposed a session. Registration is now open and there will be some very exciting talks next year so mark your calendars for Feb 3rd to 5th in Ghent, Belgium.
We’re also busy preparing for Ansible Contributor Summit at Cfgmgmtcamp 2025! We’ll be back with a full day working session on Wednesday. We’re still working the agenda but we’ve already got some great speakers and interesting talks lined up. Head over to the forum and read through the Contributor Summit event topic to check out what we’ve got lined up so far.
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 by replying to that event topic.
See you in Ghent next year!
Other events and releases
Use the Ansible Forum to see other events and releases.
Join the Ansible community
Looking for ways to get involved? See how can I help for some ideas!
You can find easy issues in collections and other projects for code or documentation contributions.
That’s all for now!
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