# The Bullhorn #174 - Ansible Newsletter **URL:** \ **Category:** Newsletter\ **Tags:** vmware, documentation, collections, galaxy-ng\ **Created:** [February 24, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-174-ansible-newsletter/40592 "2025-02-24T15:37:11Z")\ **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 24, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-174-ansible-newsletter/40592/1 "2025-02-24T15:37:11Z")
![bullhorn-red](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/e/edbf91c1249038dcd689b4fdc2bbe45d307201f8.png) **This week in Ansible Community** _Issue #174, 2025-02-24 ([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 ### 2.x Docs redirects [Oranod](https://matrix.to/#/@orandon:ansible.im) contributed > Heads up! The Ansible community team is going to consolidate redirects for Ansible 2.x documentation. We鈥檙e 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.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. > > 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](https://forum.ansible.com/t/docs-ansible-com-revamping-redirects-for-2-x-versions-of-the-docs/40333) > > Thank you! ### Online Ansible template playground [mkamner](https://matrix.to/#/@mkamner:matrix.org) contributed > Newly released [online Ansible template playground](https://tech-playground.com/playgrounds/ansible-template/) on [tech-playground.com](http://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 馃獎 ### Certified collections [samccann](https://matrix.to/#/@samccann:ansible.im) shared > Certified collections updated this week: > > - [servicenow.itsm 2.8.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/servicenow/itsm) > - [hitachivantrara.vspone\_block 3.2.3](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/hitachivantara/vspone_block) > - [confluent.platform 7.9.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/confluent/platform) > - [vmware.vmware 1.10.1](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/vmware/vmware) > - [cisco.meraki 2.20.8](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/cisco/meraki) > - [purestorage.flasharry 1.33.1](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/purestorage/flasharray) > - [netscaler.adc 2.8.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/netscaler/adc) > - [ansible.receptor 2.0.4](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/ansible/receptor) ### servicenow.itsm [Martin Jackson](https://matrix.to/#/@mhjacks:matrix.org) 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](https://matrix.to/#/@sdodsley:matrix.org) said > purestorage.flasharray 1.33.0 ([changelog](https://github.com/Pure-Storage-Ansible/FlashArray-Collection/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst#v1-33-0)) has been released. This contains the first FlashArray modules to support Pure Storage Fusion in FlashArray. ### community.general [Felix Fontein](https://matrix.to/#/@felixfontein:matrix.org) said > community.general 10.4.0 ([community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 路 ansible-collections/community.general 路 GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-10/CHANGELOG.md#v10-4-0)) and community.general 9.5.5 ([community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 路 ansible-collections/community.general 路 GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/CHANGELOG.md#v9-5-5)) have been released with new features and a new module (10.4.0 only) and bugfixes (both). ### community.routeros [Felix Fontein](https://matrix.to/#/@felixfontein:matrix.org) said > community.routeros 3.4.0 ([community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main 路 ansible-collections/community.routeros 路 GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.routeros/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v3-4-0)) is out with a new feature and a bugfix for the API modules. ### openstack.cloud [sshnaidm](https://matrix.to/#/@sshnaidm:matrix.org) said > [Ansible Openstack collection](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/openstack/cloud/) released [2.4.0 version](https://github.com/openstack/ansible-collections-openstack/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst#v2-4-0) with new module [openstack.cloud.trait](https://github.com/openstack/ansible-collections-openstack/blob/master/plugins/modules/trait.py) and loadbalancer improvements. ### ibm.ibm\_zos\_core [demetri](https://matrix.to/#/@ddimatos:matrix.org) said > The latest `ibm_zos_core` collection version 1.13.0-beta.1 is now available on Galaxy. > > This release includes a new `zos_zfs_resize` module that can resize zFS aggregates. The `zos_job_submit` module was updated with a new deploy and forget capability for those who don鈥檛 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_copy` and `zos_script`. > > Finally, numerous bug fixes for `zos_mvs_raw`, `zos_copy`, `zos_find`, `zos_fetch` and `zos_query`. > > You can review release details in the [blog](https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/oscar-fernando-flores-garcia/2025/02/06/automate-with-the-newest-capabilities-in-v1130-bet). ### community.dns [Felix Fontein](https://matrix.to/#/@felixfontein:matrix.org) contributed > community.dns 3.2.0 ([community.dns/CHANGELOG.md at main 路 ansible-collections/community.dns 路 GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v3-2-0)) has been released with improved parameter validation for the filters, modernized Python 3 only code, and (as always) an updated Public Suffix List. ## 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!