This week in Ansible Community
Issue #168, 2025-01-10 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
ovirt.ovirt collection unmaintained
mariolenz said
We would like to have some input on Should we revamp the tools and programs page?. It would be great to see what you, the community, think about this.
mariolenz shared
It looks like the ovirt.ovirt collection is effectively unmaintained. According to the current Ansible Community Package Collections Removal Process, we consider removing it in a future version of the Ansible Community Package. Please see Unmaintained collection: ovirt.ovirt for more information or to announce that you’re interested in taking over the maintenance of (a fork of)
ovirt.ovirt.At least one month after this announcement appears here and in the collection’s issue tracker, the Ansible Community Steering Committee will vote on whether this collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed, or whether it will be kept. If it will be removed, this will happen earliest in Ansible Community Package 13. Please note that you can still manually install the collection with
ansible-galaxy collection install ovirt.ovirteven when it has been removed from Ansible Community Package.
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-test updates
Felix Fontein shared
Ansible-core devel’s ansible-test has updated multiple CI containers and remote VMs; see Ansible-test devel: Fedora 40 replaced by Fedora 41, Alpine 3.20 by 3.21, RHEL 9.4 by 9.5, FreeBSD 14.1 by 14.2; multiple other CI container updates for more information.
Collection updates 
Nokia srlinux collection coming
andersson007_ shared
A new forum tag srlinux has been added to the forum for Nokia SR Linux ansible collection (Nokia SR Linux Network OS support).
community.dns
Felix Fontein shared
community.dns 2.9.9 (community.dns/CHANGELOG.md at stable-2 · ansible-collections/community.dns · GitHub) has been released; community.dns 2.x.y is now End of Life. Please upgrade to community.dns 3.x.y if you’re still version 2 (or even 1).
community.docker
Felix Fontein contributed
community.docker 4.3.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released with a new feature that should allow the
community.docker.docker_compose_v2*modules to work with podman and Docker’s Compose plugin, and improved module documentation.
community.general
Felix Fontein shared
community.general 10.2.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), community.general 9.5.3 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), and community.general 8.6.9 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-8 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with new features, plugins, and modules (10.2.0 only), bugfixes, and one security fix for
community.general.keycloak_authenticationwhen working with Keycloak 25+. Check out the linked changelogs for more details, and many thanks to everyone who contributed to these releases!
community.hrobot
Felix Fontein said
community.hrobot 1.9.5 (community.hrobot/CHANGELOG.md at stable-1 · ansible-collections/community.hrobot · GitHub) has been released; community.hrobot 1.x.y is now End of Life. Please upgrade to community.hrobot 2.x.y if you’re still using version 1.x.y.
community.routeros
Felix Fontein shared
community.routeros 3.2.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released with support for the
routing filter community-listpath and improved documentation.
Certified collections
samccann shared
Certified collections updated this week:
community.internal_test_tools
Felix Fontein said
community.internal_test_tools 0.13.0 (community.internal_test_tools/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools · GitHub) has been released with improvements to the extra sanity test runner and improved module documentation.
community.crypto
Felix Fontein said
community.crypto 2.23.0 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) has been released with new features. It also deprecates the PyOpenSSL backend for the
community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12module. It will be removed in the next major release. The module documentation has been improved as well.
Other events and releases
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