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Issue #180, 2025-04-06 (Past Issues)
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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 2.19
samccann shared
ansible-core 2.19 release schedule has been updated.
Collection updates 
infra.controller_configuration
Sean Sullivan contributed
infra.controller_configuration 3.0.2 has been released.
This Ansible collection allows for easy interaction with an AWX or Ansible Controller server via Ansible roles using the AWX/Controller collection modules.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/infra.controller_configuration: ansible collection for standardizing configuring AAP 2.4 and earlier For more information and updates.
kubernetes.core
yurnov contributed
The kubernetes.core collection version 3.3.1 and 5.2.0. The release 5.2.0 adds more functionality to the hidden_fields option and support for waiting on ClusterOperators to reach a ready state, while 3.3.1 fixes the CI issues with the linters workflow and is the same as 3.3.0
infra.aap_configuration
Sean Sullivan contributed
infra.aap_configuration 3.2.0 has been released.
This Ansible collection allows for easy interaction with an AWX or Ansible Controller server via Ansible roles using the AWX/Controller collection modules.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/infra.aap_configuration: A collection of roles to manage Ansible Automation Platform 2.5+ with code For more information and updates.
community.aws
abuzachis said
community.aws 9.2.0 has been released with several improvements for the
community.aws.aws_ssmconnection plugin in preparation for its promotion to amazon.aws in the ucoming major release. For full details, check out the changelog.
ibm_zos_core
demetri contributed
On April 30th, the IBM z/OS Core collection (ibm_zos_core) versions 1.9.x, 1.8.x, 1.7.x 1.6.x and 1.5.x will be EOL, our efforts will shift to support 1.10.x or later.
For more, see the IBM z/OS Core life cycle.
Dependencies Z Open Automation Utilities (ZOAU) version 1.2.x will reach EOL as will IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python versions 3.11.
For more on dependency requirements for the ibm_zos_core collection, see the support matrix.
amazon.aws
Gilles aubin Bikouo njangang said
amazon.aws 9.4.0 has been released. The release contains bug fixes and minor change to validate collection against future
ansible-core 2.19
hetzher-bare-metal-ansible
Dmitry Shurupov said
hetzner-bare-metal-ansible is a new Open Source playbook to deploy Linux bare-metal servers in Hetzner.
infra.ee_utilities
Sean Sullivan contributed
infra.ee_utilities 4.0.2 has been released.
This Ansible collection makes it easy to build execution environments for AWX or Ansible Controller server and converting from python environments to execution environments.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/ee_utilities: This ansible collection includes a number of roles and tools which can be useful for managing Ansible Execution Environments. For more information and updates.
community.clickhouse
andersson007_ shared
The community.clickhouse collection version 0.8.0 has been released with:
- dropping support for ClickHouse versions 21 and 22
- improvements to the clickhouse_info module
- a bugfix for the clickhouse_user module
ibm zos core
demetri shared
IBM z/OS Core collection version v1.13.0 is available on AAP and Galaxy!
This release includes a new zos_zfs_resize module for resizing zFS aggregates, several enhancements such as async support, deploy and forget batch job submission, optional escaping for Jinja templates and 13 bugfixes for modules zos_mvs_raw, zos_copy, zos_find, zos_fetch and zos_query.
For more details, see the release blog!
Certified collections
redhat.sap_infrastructure:1.1.1
hitachivantara.vspone_block:3.3.0
redhat.rhel_system_roles:1.95.7
Help wanted 
Data tagging feature
samccann contributed
Data tagging feature for
ansible-coreis available now in fallable. We are asking the community to test this significant feature and provide feedback.
Proposals - discuss and vote! 
Ansible 11 lifetime extension
Felix Fontein contributed
There is a new community vote on whether Ansible 11’s lifetime should be extended by 6 months until Ansible 13 comes out assuming that Data Tagging is included in ansible-core 2.19 ([vote open until 2025-04-16] Make Ansible 11 a "LTS" (similar to Ansible 9)? - #11 by felixfontein). The rationale is that Data Tagging is a rather big change to ansible-core, and depending on usage it can take longer to migrate roles and playbooks from ansible-core 2.18 (or before) to ansible-core 2.19. In these 6 months, Ansible 11 and Ansible 12 would be released in parallel.
Other events and releases
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That’s all for now!
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