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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-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 beta
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b1 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b1
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 alpha
Felix Fontein contributed
Ansible 12.0.0a1 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0a1 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0a1 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/12/CHANGELOG-v12.md at 12.0.0a1 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 12 Porting Guide (Ansible 12 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Project updates 
AWX Project
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. Join the AWX discussion in the Ansible Community Forum.
AWX Operator Helm
Oranod shared
AWX Operator Helm 3.1.0 is now available
Check the forum post for release details and the project README for details on how to install the latest version.
Congrats to miles-w-3 on this release and thanks for the valuable contribution!
Collection updates 
community.routeros 2.20.1
Felix Fontein said
community.routeros 2.20.1 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at stable-2 · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released. This release marks community.routeros 2.x.y as End of Life. If you haven’t done so, please upgrade to community.routeros 3.x.y. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the many 2.x.y releases!
community.internal_test_tools
Felix Fontein contributed
community.internal_test_tools 0.16.0 (community.internal_test_tools/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools · GitHub) has been released with basic Data Tagging support for ansible-core 2.19, and ansible-core’s current
develandmilestonebranches.
antsibull-nox 0.3.0
Felix Fontein said
antsibull-nox 0.3.0 (Release 0.3.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) has been released. This is the first ‘stable’ version of antsibull-nox, which allows you to run extra sanity tests, various Ansible test tools, and custom tests for your collection! A more detailed introduction can be found in the forum (Announcing antsibull-nox: test runner for extra sanity tests, various Ansible test tools, and custom tests for your collection!), and there’s of course the antsibull-nox docsite (antsibull-nox – Antsibull Nox Helper). I’m happy to hear feedback in the forum thread, the #antsibull:ansible.com, or the antsibull-nox repository’s issue tracker (GitHub · Where software is built).
infra.controller_configuration
Sean Sullivan contributed
infra.controller_configuration 3.1.0 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.controller_configuration: ansible collection for standardizing configuring AAP 2.4 and earlier For more information and updates.
community.postgresql
andersson007_ said
The community.postgresql collection version 3.14.0 has been released!
community.internal_test_tools
Felix Fontein said
community.internal_test_tools 0.17.0 (community.internal_test_tools/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools · GitHub) has been released. This is a maintenance release which deprecates the extra sanity tests runner included in the collection. It will be removed once no more collections depend on it that I am aware of. For all collections I’m aware of I created PRs to migrate to antsibull-nox (antsibull-nox – Antsibull Nox Helper). If you are also using it, and your collection did not receive a PR, please create an issue in the community.internal_test_tools repository (GitHub · Where software is built) so we can discuss waiting longer with the removal, or if you need help migrating.
Certified Collections Released this week
redhat.trusted_profile_analyzer:2.0.0
Other events and releases
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That’s all for now!
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