# The Bullhorn #173 - Ansible Newsletter **URL:** \ **Category:** Newsletter\ **Tags:** contribute, ubuntu\ **Created:** [February 14, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-173-ansible-newsletter/40277 "2025-02-14T16:13:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samccann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/samccann/32/18_2.png) [@samccann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/samccann)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-173-ansible-newsletter/40277/1 "2025-02-14T16:13:11Z")
![bullhorn-red](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/e/edbf91c1249038dcd689b4fdc2bbe45d307201f8.png) **This week in Ansible Community** _Issue #173, 2025-02-14 ([Past Issues](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/bullhorn/17))_ Welcome to [The Bullhorn](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/bullhorn/17), our newsletter for the Ansible Community. If you have any questions or content you鈥檇 like to share, you鈥檙e welcome to chat with us in the [Ansible Social room on Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#social:ansible.com), and mention [`newsbot`](https://matrix.to/#/@newsbot:ansible.im) to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue! ## General news updates 馃攬 ### GHA deprecation ubuntu-2020.04 [gundalow](https://matrix.to/#/@gundalow:ansible.im) shared > The ubuntu-2020.04 runner image deprecation notice. > > The `ubuntu-2020.04` image used by some GitHub Actions will be deleted on 1st April. > > If you are still using this in your GitHub action, please update to `ubuntu-24.04` (or `ubuntu-latest`) > > For further information see [this forum post](https://forum.ansible.com/t/github-actions-still-using-ubuntu-20-04/40187) ### Ansible 2.x documentation changes coming [Oranod](https://matrix.to/#/@orandon:ansible.im) said > The Ansible community team is planning to consolidate redirects for Ansible 2.x documentation. We鈥檝e advertized this effort in the Bullhorn and the forum for a while now and plan to make the change soon. > > If you have bookmarks or links to Ansible 2.x documentation, you will notice a change when you attempt to access those URLs. At present, there are redirects for plugin and module pages that open to the corresponding collection page. To facilitate these redirects, we are maintaining thousands of individual redirect rules. Over time these rules get broken and result in 404 errors. Additionally having a large number of specific redirect rules for end-of-life content restricts the ability to migrate to modern hosting platforms that offer a better user experience with cross-project search and other nice features. > > The change you will notice after we consolidate the redirects is that all 2.x plugin and module pages will open to an updated version of the `docs.ansible.com/collections.html` page. > > We invite you to review our plans and provide feedback before we flip the switch and consolidate the redirects. You can find all the details in this forum post: [Consolidating redirects on docs.ansible.com](https://forum.ansible.com/t/consolidating-redirects-on-docs-ansible-com/38897). > > That post provides 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! ## Help wanted 馃檹 ### Improving Ansible Facts documentation [gundalow](https://matrix.to/#/@gundalow:ansible.im) contributed > Improving Ansible Facts documentation > > During CfgMgmtCamp & Contributors Summit 2025 in Ghent there was a lot of discussion around set\_facts. One of the actions we took was to improve the [Ansible Variable documentation](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_variables.html). > > We are thinking of how to improve this, in particular: > > - Detail the anti patterns (how _not_ to use set\_facts) > - Some real world examples (not made up examples) > > Have you been tripped up by facts in Ansible, or got some ideas on how we can improve this, if so, please add your ideas into the [forum discussion](https://forum.ansible.com/t/improving-ansible-facts-documentation/40075). ## Collection updates 馃獎 ### community.internal\_test\_tools [Felix Fontein](https://matrix.to/#/@felixfontein:matrix.org) said > community.internal\_test\_tools 0.14.0 ([community.internal\_test\_tools/CHANGELOG.md at main 路 ansible-collections/community.internal\_test\_tools 路 GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v0-14-0)) has been released with a new helper method for the `open_url`/`fetch_url` test frameworks. ### community.docker [Felix Fontein](https://matrix.to/#/@felixfontein:matrix.org) contributed > community.docker 3.13.6 ([community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at stable-3 路 ansible-collections/community.docker 路 GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/blob/stable-3/CHANGELOG.md#v3-13-6)) and community.docker 4.4.0 ([community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main 路 ansible-collections/community.docker 路 GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v4-4-0)) have been released with bugfixes (both) and a new module (4.4.0). The new module, `community.docker.docker_context_info`, allows to query `docker context` information. This can be used to let all modules of the collection run in a specific Docker context. ### community.crypto [Felix Fontein](https://matrix.to/#/@felixfontein:matrix.org) contributed > community.crypto 2.25.0 ([community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main 路 ansible-collections/community.crypto 路 GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v2-25-0)) has been released with an improvement for the luks\_device module. ### Certified collections updates [samccann](https://matrix.to/#/@samccann:ansible.im) contributed > Certified collections updated this week: > > - [ansible.controller 4.6.8](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/ansible/controller) > - [redhat.amq\_broker 2.2.8](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/redhat/amq_broker) > - [ansible.platform 2.5.20250213](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/ansible/platform) > - [redhat.rhel\_idm 1.14.5](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/redhat/rhel_idm) > - [cisco.meraki 2.20.7](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/cisco/meraki) > - [arista.eos 10.1.1](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/arista/eos) > - [arista.avd 5.2.1](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/arista/avd) > - [ansible.eda 2.5.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/ansible/eda) > - [ibm.power\_aix 2.0.3](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/ibm/power_aix) ## Other events and releases Use the Ansible Forum to see [other events](https://forum.ansible.com/c/events/8) and [releases](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/releases/18). ## Join the Ansible community Looking for ways to get involved? See [how can I help](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/how_can_I_help.html#how-can-i-help) for some ideas! You can find easy issues in [collections](https://github.com/search?q=user:ansible-collections+label:easyfix,%22good+first+issue%22+state:open&type=Issues) and [other projects](https://github.com/search?q=user:ansible+user:ansible-community+label:easyfix,%22good+first+issue%22+state:open&type=Issues) for code or documentation contributions. ## That鈥檚 all for now! Have any questions you鈥檇 like to ask, or issues you鈥檇 like to see covered? Please ask in [#social:ansible.com](https://matrix.to/#/#social:ansible.com)! See you next time!