This week in Ansible Community
Issue #171, 2025-01-31 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
Ansible survey results
gundalow contributed
Hey folks, the Survey Results have been published, massive thanks to the 1,117 of you that took the time to share your views!
How to become a code contributor
andersson007_ said
HOWTO: Want to become a code contributor to modules in nsible collections? There’s a comprehensive learning path we’ve created for you on the forum. Share your feedback in comments!
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 2.17.8
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.17.8 - New Release: ansible-core v2.17.8
ansible-core 2.18.2
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.2 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.2
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 11.2.0
Felix Fontein said
Ansible 11.2.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.2.0
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==11.2.0 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/11/CHANGELOG-v11.md at 11.2.0 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 11 Porting Guide (Ansible 11 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Collection updates 
Certified collections
samccann contributed
Certified collections updated this week:
community.routeros
Felix Fontein shared
community.routeros 3.3.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) is out with new features for the API modules.
community.general
Felix Fontein said
community.general 10.3.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), community.general 9.5.4 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), and community.general 8.6.10 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-8 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with new features, plugins, and modules (10.3.0 only), bugfixes (10.3.0 and 9.5.4), and a security fix for
community.general.keycloak_client(all three releases).
Help wanted 
Documentation redirects
Oranod shared
The Ansible community team is planning to consolidate redirects for Ansible documentation from versions 2.3 to 2.10. This effort will result in a change to the user experience but we’re doing it in the name of progress.
We’ve had some great feedback so far and have made some adjustments with a couple of options ahead for how we deal with some of the redirect rules for pre-collections urls that point to the latest version. We’re asking our community members to review all the details in this forum post: Consolidating redirects on docs.ansible.com.
You can find specific examples about the change as well as the related PRs. Please feel free to review all the details and share your thoughts and opinions by replying to the forum post or commenting on one of the PRs. Thank you!
Community events and meetups 
Cfgmgmtcamp
Oranod shared
It’s almost time!! Configuration Management Camp kicks off next Monday in Ghent! The Cfgmgmtcamp 2025 schedule is available if you haven’t seen it already. We’ve got two Ansible tracks lined up with interesting talks from some great speakers.
Be sure to register for Cfgmgmtcamp if you haven’t yet. It’s free, fun, and a great opportunity to learn, share, and engage with cool folks from the Ansible community and other IaC technologists.
Also check out the Cfgmgmtcamp guide for some good info and handy tips.
If you are going to FOSDEM before Cfgmgmtcamp, have a good time! We’ll see you in Ghent!
Ansile London meetup
gundalow shared
The next Ansible London meetup will take place on Thursday 27th Feb
We’d love to hear your Ansible stories
Please RSVP via the Meetup event page
Ansible Contributor Summit
Oranod contributed
Ansible Contributor Summit at Cfgmgmtcamp next week! We’ll be back with a full day working session on Wednesday, Feb 5th. The agenda is in the Contributor Summit event page on the forum. We hope to see you in either in person or online. Keep an eye on the forum for posts and updates.
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!