This week in Ansible Community
Issue #183, 2025-04-25 (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-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 v2.19.0b2 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b2
ansible-core 2.18
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.5 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.5
ansible-core 2.17
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.17.11 - New Release: ansible-core v2.17.11
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 shared
Ansible 12.0.0a2 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0a2 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0a2 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/12/CHANGELOG-v12.md at 12.0.0a2 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 12 Porting Guide (Ansible 12 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Ansible 11.5
mariolenz shared
Ansible 11.5.0 package is here!
python3 -m pip install ansible==11.5.0 --user
Collection updates 
Certified collections
samccann shared
Certified collections updated this week:
community.clickhouse
andersson007_ said
The community.clickhouse collection version 0.8.1 has been released!
- It ensures the collection works with the upcoming ansible-core 2.19 version. Make sure you’ve upgraded the collection before upgrading ansible-core to 2.19 after its release.
community.general
Felix Fontein shared
community.general 10.6.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) and community.general 9.5.7 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with bugfixes, new features and plugins, and deprecations (9.5.7 has only bugfixes). Note that these are the first 9.x.y and 10.x.y releases that have been tested against ansible-core 2.19.0b1 / Data Tagging. They contain a certain set of fixes for Data Tagging. If you test them with Data Tagging and find more issues, please report them (GitHub · Where software is built)! Thanks.
Community events and meetups 
DevConf.CZ
Oranod contributed
Mark your calendars for DevConf.CZ 2025!
DevConf.CZ is a community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to open source technologies. The conference schedule has been announced and has several great Ansible sessions, including:
- Securing Secrets at Scale: Integrating Ansible Automation with Conjur
- Ansible code Bot - The ultimate Artificially Intelligent bot for your git repo
- Beyond Buzzword: Network Automation (Taming Complexities with Ansible)
- Simplifying container orchestration with Ansible and Podman
We’re also planning an Ansible meetup at DevConf.CZ. You can reply to our meetup event in the forum with questions and proposals for agenda items. We’d love to hear from you and get your thoughts on what you’d like to hear at the meetup.
DevConf is a free event but requires registration. So head over to the DevConf.CZ 2025 calendar event to find out details and let us know if you’re planning to attend.
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!
Have any questions you’d like to ask, or issues you’d like to see covered? Please ask in #social:ansible.com! See you next time!