The Bullhorn #163 - Ansible Newsletter

This week in Ansible Community
Issue #163, 2024-11-22 (Past Issues)

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General news updates :speaker:

Documentation search change

samccann shared

We’ve updated the docs search engine to use Opensearch instead of a proprietary search engine that caused problems. See Switching search on docs to OpenSearch - #4 by samccann for details.

codeberg.org - ansible-community org

dmsimard contributed

More than 6 years ago already, I created the ansible-community organization on GitHub as a home for local meetups to put their repositories in.

Over the years it has grown to 117 repositories, highlighting the need for a neutral, general purpose place to contribute on Ansible projects together.

I’ve now created the ansible-community organization on codeberg.org to do exactly the same: https://codeberg.org/ansible-community

I’m not looking to justify my personal motives for this but know that it is not meant to compete with Community managed Ansible repositories · GitHub and does not intend to spur a migration from GitHub either.
It is meant to be a neutral, general purpose place to contribute on Ansible projects together outside of GitHub because the Ansible community exists outside of GitHub.

I could say many great things about Codeberg but I will limit myself to say the following:

  • I believe in their mission as a non-profit to provide community-led code hosting for FOSS projects.
  • Their work in getting Forgejo (a fork of Gitea) off the ground has been fantastic.
  • It just works.
  • They will have a booth at FOSDEM if you would like to visit and talk to them !

If you have any questions, would like to set up a repository there or would like to participate in some fashion, feel free to reach out to me on Matrix (dmsimard:matrix.org) or email: opensource@rfc2549.ca.

Major new releases :trophy:

Antsibull :arrow_upper_right:

Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.

antsibull-docs

Felix Fontein shared

antsibull-docs 2.16.0 (antsibull-docs/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull-docs · GitHub) has been released. It declares official support for Python 3.13, requires a newer antsibull-core version (3.4.0+), and has a new feature for the official Ansible docsite regarding deprecated collections.

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.

Ansible 11.0.0

mariolenz contributed

Ansible 11.0.0 package is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.0.0
:minidisc:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==11.0.0 --user

:arrow_right: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: and Ansible 11 Porting Guide for more details!

Collection updates :magic_wand:

purestorage.flasharray

Simon Dodsley shared

purestorage.flasharray 1.32.0 (changelog) has been released.

community.mysql

laurent-indermuehle shared

The community.mysql collection version 3.11.0 has been released! (fixed link)

Certified collection updates

samccann shared

Certified collections updated this week:

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!

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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