This week in Ansible Community
Issue #164, 2024-12-02 (Past Issues)
Welcome to The Bullhorn, our newsletter for the Ansible Community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, you’re welcome to chat with us in the Ansible Social room on Matrix, and mention newsbot to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue!
General news updates 
gundalow shared
The Ansible Forum will be readonly for maintenance for a few hours on Tuesday 3rd December 9AM EST, for approximately 6 hours
As part of Consolidating Ansible discussion platforms in July 2024 we announced we would archive the old Ansible Google Groups, and bulk import them into the Forum. This maintenance will happen on Tuesday 3rd December.We will update the Forum Banner with further details as the work progresses.
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.
PyPI space voting
mariolenz contributed
We still need more votes on Saving space on PyPI from the SC to reach quorum!
Major 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-core 2.16
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.16.14 - New Release: ansible-core v2.16.14
ansible-core 2.17
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.17.7 - New Release: ansible-core v2.17.7
ansible-core 2.18
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.1 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.1
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.
community EEs
anwesha said
We’re happy to announce the release of the
Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.18-1 (latest)
Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.18-1 (latest)
Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.17.6-1 and Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.17.6-1!Get the details of both the images in the announcement made in the Ansible Forum.
Join the Ansible Forum to know about the future release announcements.
On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!
Collection updates 
community.postgresql
andersson007_ contributed
The community.postgresql collection version 3.9.0 has been released!
containers.podman
sshnaidm contributed
Ansible Podman collection got a new release in 1.16.0 stream, significantly improved Podman Quadlet support along with latest Podman changes and adding a new podman_container_copy module to copy files to and from containers.
openstack.cloud
sshnaidm contributed
Ansible Openstack collection (openstack.cloud in Galaxy) got a new 2.3.0 release after a year of work! In addition to about 30 bugfixes it introduces 3 new modules:
- trunk - Add or delete trunks from an OpenStack cloud.
- volume_service_info - Fetch OpenStack Volume (Cinder) services
- application_credential - Manage OpenStack Identity (Keystone) application credentials
It’s being developed in Openstack Gerrit repository, feel free to submit your patches there.
Unmaintained collections
mariolenz contributed
Both community.libvirt and ovirt.ovirt haven’t seen a new release for quite some time. This is not the first step in considering them unmaintained. But I’ll start the process soon if there aren’t any new releases and want to give people a chance to react before I do.
Certified collections
Certified collections updated this week:
- arista.avd 5.1.0
- redhat.sattelite 5.0.0
- redhat.rhel_idm 1.14.0
- dell.enterprise_sonic 3.0.0
- vmware.vmare 1.6.0
- redhat.amq_broker 2.2.6
- cyberark.pas 1.0.27
- fortinet.fortimanager 2.8.2
- vmware.vmware_rest 4.2.0
- confluent.platform 7.6.1
- ibm.ibm_zhmc 1.9.2
- dellemc.powerscale 3.6.0
Community events and meetups 
Cfgmgmtcamp
Oranod said
Don’t forget to register for Configuration Management Camp if you haven’t already! There are some great talks from awesome speakers lined up for the Ansible tracks on Monday and Tuesday, Feb 3rd and 4th. We’re really excited about next year’s event. The waffles will flow so be sure to register soon if you haven’t got your ticket yet.
We’re also busy preparing for Ansible Contributor Summit at Cfgmgmtcamp 2025! We’ll be back with a full day working session on Wednesday, Feb 5th. The agenda is still a work in progress but we have some good stuff lined up in the Contributor Summit event page on the forum.
Be sure to reply to that forum post and tell us what you’d like to hear or do at the Contributor Summit. If you didn’t make the submission deadline for one of the days, but have a talk you’d like to give, let us know and we can potentially add it to the agenda on Wednesday.
Finally, if you’re looking for Christmas presents or want to grab some Cfgmgmtcamp merchanise for yourself, head over to the online shop and place an order.
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!
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!