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Issue #181, 2025-04-14 (Past Issues)
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Data tagging and preparing for ansible-core 2.19
ansible-core has gone through an extensive rewrite in sections, related to supporting the new data tagging feature, as describe in Data Tagging preview and testing. These changes are now in the devel branch.
Advice for playbook and roles users and creators
This change has the potential to impact both your playbooks/roles and collection development. As such, we are asking the community to test against devel and provide feedback as described in Data Tagging preview and testing.
Advice for collection maintainers
We are asking all collection maintainers to:
- Review Data Tagging preview and testing for background and where to open issues against
ansible-coreif needed. - Review Making a collection compatible with data tagging for advice from your peers. Add your advice to help other collection maintainers prepare for this change.
- Add
develto your CI testing and periodically verify results through the ansible-core 2.19 release to ensure compatibility with any changes/bugfixes that come as a result of your testing.
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Major new releases 
Ansible Community Package 
The Ansible package includes ansible-core and is a batteries-included package that provides a curated set of Ansible collections. See the Ansible roadmaps for future release plans.
Ansible 12 roadmap
Felix Fontein said
The Ansible 12 roadmap’s release schedule (Ansible project 12.0 — Ansible Community Documentation) has been adjusted to follow the updated ansible-core 2.19’s release schedule (Ansible-core 2.19 — Ansible Community Documentation).
Collection updates 
community.postgresql
andersson007_ contributed
The community.postgresql collection version 3.13.0 has been released!
- It contains a bugfix and a new module postgresql_alter_system that will probably replase postgresql_set in future.
Help wanted 
See the prior section on how to help test and verify against ansible-core devel branch for significant changes that can impact users and content creators.
Other events and releases
Use the Ansible Forum to see other events and releases.
Join the Ansible community
Looking for ways to get involved? See how can I help for some ideas!
You can find easy issues in collections and other projects for code or documentation contributions.
That’s all for now!
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