This week in Ansible Community
Issue #174, 2025-02-24 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
2.x Docs redirects
Oranod contributed
Heads up! The Ansible community team is going to consolidate redirects for Ansible 2.x documentation. We’re planning to make this change next week on Monday, Feb 24.
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.htmlpage.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.
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.
There is also a more recent post in the forum announcing this change here: Docs.ansible.com revamping redirects for 2.x versions of the docs
Thank you!
Online Ansible template playground
mkamner contributed
Newly released online Ansible template playground on tech-playground.com that renders templates in the backend using ansible.builtin.template, and lets you choose which version of Ansible to use. Also supports saving and sharing snippets.
Collection updates 
Certified collections
samccann shared
Certified collections updated this week:
servicenow.itsm
Martin Jackson shared
servicenow.itsm 2.8.0 has now been released. The headline feature in it is an improvement to the inventory plugin which allows users with very large inventories to limit what columns are returned from the database, greatly improving inventory loading when querying for many tens of thousands of systems.
purstorage.flasharray
Simon Dodsley said
purestorage.flasharray 1.33.0 (changelog) has been released. This contains the first FlashArray modules to support Pure Storage Fusion in FlashArray.
community.general
Felix Fontein said
community.general 10.4.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) and community.general 9.5.5 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with new features and a new module (10.4.0 only) and bugfixes (both).
community.routeros
Felix Fontein said
community.routeros 3.4.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) is out with a new feature and a bugfix for the API modules.
openstack.cloud
sshnaidm said
Ansible Openstack collection released 2.4.0 version with new module openstack.cloud.trait and loadbalancer improvements.
ibm.ibm_zos_core
demetri said
The latest
ibm_zos_corecollection version 1.13.0-beta.1 is now available on Galaxy.This release includes a new
zos_zfs_resizemodule that can resize zFS aggregates. Thezos_job_submitmodule was updated with a new deploy and forget capability for those who don’t need a response and asynchronous support for parallel batch job execution.Additionally, auto-escaping of Jinja templates was added to modules
zos_job_submit,zos_copyandzos_script.Finally, numerous bug fixes for
zos_mvs_raw,zos_copy,zos_find,zos_fetchandzos_query.You can review release details in the blog.
community.dns
Felix Fontein contributed
community.dns 3.2.0 (community.dns/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.dns · GitHub) has been released with improved parameter validation for the filters, modernized Python 3 only code, and (as always) an updated Public Suffix List.
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