This week in Ansible Community
Issue #177, 2025-03-17 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
Thank you @thaumos for four years of service
gundalow said
After four years of serving on the Ansible Community Steering Commitee, @thaumos will leave the committee. Thanks for being a member and working with us to improve Ansible!
Major new releases 
Antsibull 
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
anstsibull-docs-parser
Felix Fontein contributed
antsibull-docs-parser 1.2.0 (Release 1.2.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-docs-parser · GitHub) has been released. This is a Python library for parsing and formatting Ansible markup. It mainly drops support for Python 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8, and thus requires Python 3.9+. If you need to use the library with older Python versions, please stick to version 1.1.1.
antsibull-changelog
Felix Fontein said
antsibull-changelog 0.32.0 (Release 0.32.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-changelog · GitHub) is out with a new feature that allows to better control the changelog files written to disk. The old settings controlling such behavior are deprecated, but will stay for a long time and do not produce runtime warnings yet, so there’s no need to change something anytime soon if you don’t want to. If you happen to use antsibull-changelog as a library, there have been some breaking changes. (If you do so, it would be nice to know, right now I’m assuming nobody is doing that except antsibull-docs and antsibull-build.)
Project updates 
DevTools
Projects to make it easier to write and test Ansible Content. The ansible-dev-tools metapackage, which includes VScode extension, ansible-creator, ansible-lint, molecule, ansible-navigator, [ansible-dev-environment)(GitHub - ansible/ansible-dev-environment: Build and maintain a development environment including ansible collections and their python dependencies) and more! To see what’s planned, and how you can help checkout the foundation-devtools project board
FreeBSD 13.5 replaces FreeBSD 13.4
Felix Fontein said
If you’re using ansible-test’s FreeBSD 13.4 VM in CI (with AZP) with ansible-core’s ansible-test, please note that it was replaced with FreeBSD 13.5 (Ansible-test devel: FreeBSD 13.4 replaced by 13.5) and you need to update your CI.
Collection updates 
community.postgresql
andersson007_ shared
The community.postgresql collection version 3.12.0 has been released!
community.crypto
Felix Fontein shared
community.crypto 2.26.0 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) has been released with a new feature for the openssl_pkcs12 module that allows to pass in certificates without having to write them to disk.
Certified Collections Released this week
redhat.trusted_profile_analyzer: 1.3.1
Other events and releases
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That’s all for now!
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