# The Bullhorn #184 **URL:** \ **Category:** Newsletter\ **Tags:** windows, eda-operator, galaxy-operator, vmware, awx, collections, ansible-lint, galaxy-ng\ **Created:** [May 2, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-184/42367 "2025-05-02T18:35:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samccann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/samccann/32/18_2.png) [@samccann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/samccann)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-bullhorn-184/42367/1 "2025-05-02T18:35:13Z")
![bullhorn-pool.png](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/bfccdf465dbf3994b176735604b2bf4241fa03fa.png) **This week in Ansible Community** _Issue #184, 2025-05-02 ([Past Issues](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/bullhorn/17))_ Welcome to [The Bullhorn](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/bullhorn/17), our newsletter for the Ansible Community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, you’re welcome to chat with us in the [Ansible Social room on Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#social:ansible.com), and mention [`newsbot`](https://matrix.to/#/@newsbot:ansible.im) to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue! ## Templating and preparing for ansible-core 2.19 `ansible-core` has gone through an extensive rewrite for templating as describe in [Core-2.19 templating changes - preview and testing](https://forum.ansible.com/t/data-tagging-preview-and-testing/40759). 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 your playbooks/roles and against `devel` and provide feedback as described in [Core-2.19 templating changes - preview and testing](https://forum.ansible.com/t/data-tagging-preview-and-testing/40759). Community members have reported the need to update their playbooks or integration/unit tests. ### Advice for collection maintainers We are asking all collection maintainers to: - Review [Core-2.19 templating changes - preview and testing](https://forum.ansible.com/t/data-tagging-preview-and-testing/40759) for background and where to open issues against `ansible-core` if needed. - Review [Making a collection compatible with core 2.19 and templating changes](https://forum.ansible.com/t/making-a-collection-compatible-with-data-tagging/41717) for advice from your peers. Add your advice to help other collection maintainers prepare for this change. - Add `devel` to 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. ## AnsibleFest at Red Hat Summit - May 19-22, 2025 Ansible® is the key to scaling automation—and AnsibleFest is the place to find out how. [Join us May 19-22](https://events.experiences.redhat.com/widget/redhat/sum25/SessionCatalog2025?search.programming=1706655818908001xDai&sc_cid=RHCTG1250000442936&tab.day=20250519) in Boston for the automation experience at Red Hat® Summit, and unlock what’s next in your unique journey. ## General news updates 🔈 ### galaxy and eda operator releases [chadams](https://matrix.to/#/@chadams:ansible.im) contributed > [Upcoming changes to Galaxy and EDA operator releases](https://forum.ansible.com/t/upcoming-changes-to-galaxy-and-eda-operator-releases/42285) > > There is a post here stating the intention take the same approach for the eda-server-operator and galaxy-operators as was taken for the awx-operator: To not cut and tag releases, but instead work from the `main` branch. In the post I included some instructions on how to pin to a given commit, etc. ## Collection updates 🪄 ### certified collections [samccann](https://matrix.to/#/@samccann:ansible.im) said > Certified collections updated this week: > > - [vmware.alb 31.1.1](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/vmware/alb) > - [cyberark.pas 1.0.31](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/cyberark/pas) > - [ibm.ibm\_zos\_cics 2.2.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/ibm/ibm_zos_cics) > - [cisco.meraki 2.21.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/cisco/meraki) > - [google.cloud 1.5.3](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/google/cloud) > - [redhat.amq\_broker 2.3.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/redhat/amq_broker) > - [dynatrace.oneagent 1.2.4](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/dynatrace/oneagent) > - [cloud.terraform](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/cloud/terraform) > - [dellemc.openmanage 9.11.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/dellemc/openmanage) > - [redhat.artifact\_signer 1.2.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/redhat/artifact_signer) > - [zabbix.zabbix 1.4.1](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/zabbix/zabbix) > - [microsoft.ad 1.9.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/microsoft/ad) > - [cisco.intersight 2.0.20](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/cisco/intersight) > - [ansible.windows 3.0.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/ansible/windows) > - [vmware.vmware 2.0.0](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/vmware/vmware) > - [ibm.power\_hmc 1.11.3](https://catalog.redhat.com/software/collection/ibm/power_hmc) ### cloud.aws\_ops [gomathiselvi](https://matrix.to/#/@gomathiselvi:ansible.im) contributed > cloud.aws\_ops 3.2.0 has been released. This release adds an optional credential field to contoller\_projects > in `configure_ec2` pattern and updates ansible-lint version. For details, refer [changelog](https://github.com/redhat-cop/cloud.aws_ops/blob/3.2.0/CHANGELOG.rst#v3-2-0) ### community.docker [Felix Fontein](https://matrix.to/#/@felixfontein:matrix.org) said > community.docker 4.6.0 ([community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v4-6-0)) has been released with a new feature for the `docker_container_copy_into` module that allows to specify how the `mode` parameter should be parsed. ### community.hrobot [Felix Fontein](https://matrix.to/#/@felixfontein:matrix.org) contributed > community.hrobot 2.3.0 ([community.hrobot/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.hrobot · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v2-3-0)) has been released with a new module for creating and managing storage box snapshots. ## Proposals - discuss and vote! 🗳 ### Forum spam [mariolenz](https://matrix.to/#/@mariolenz:matrix.org) shared > We’re facing serious problems with spam on the forum. If you have any good ideas how to prevent this, please let us know [here](https://forum.ansible.com/t/42296). ## Community events and meetups 📅 ### DevConf.CZ [Oranod](https://matrix.to/#/@orandon:ansible.im) 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](https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/schedule/) has been announced and has several great Ansible sessions, including: > > - [Securing Secrets at Scale: Integrating Ansible Automation with Conjur](https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/WDGJXW/) > - [Ansible code Bot - The ultimate Artificially Intelligent bot for your git repo](https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/MDFQFX/) > - [Beyond Buzzword: Network Automation (Taming Complexities with Ansible)](https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/ND9GAM/) > - [Simplifying container orchestration with Ansible and Podman](https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/B7W3T8/) > > We’re also planning an [Ansible meetup at DevConf.CZ](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-meetup-at-devconf-cz/41988). 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](https://forum.ansible.com/t/devconf-cz-brno/41987) 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](https://forum.ansible.com/c/events/8) and [releases](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/releases/18). ## Join the Ansible community Looking for ways to get involved? See [how can I help](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/how_can_I_help.html#how-can-i-help) for some ideas! You can find easy issues in [collections](https://github.com/search?q=user:ansible-collections+label:easyfix,%22good+first+issue%22+state:open&type=Issues) and [other projects](https://github.com/search?q=user:ansible+user:ansible-community+label:easyfix,%22good+first+issue%22+state:open&type=Issues) 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](https://matrix.to/#/#social:ansible.com)! See you next time!