This week in Ansible Community
Issue #185, 2025-05-16 (Past Issues)
Welcome to The Bullhorn, 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, and mention newsbot to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue!
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.
core-2.19
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b3 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b3
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b4 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b4
Antsibull
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
antsibull-nox
Felix Fontein shared
antsibull-nox 0.4.0 (Release 0.4.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) has been released with new features and bugfixes.
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
Felix Fontein said
Ansible 12.0.0a3 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0a3 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0a3 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/12/CHANGELOG-v12.md at 12.0.0a3 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 12 Porting Guide (Ansible 12 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Felix Fontein said
Ansible 12.0.0a4 package (pre-release) is here!
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0a4 --user
Collection updates 
kubernetes.core
aubin said
The kubernetes.core collection version 5.3.0 has been released.
infra.controller_configuration
Sean Sullivan shared
infra.controller_configuration 3.1.2 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.
cloud.common
gomathiselvi contributed
cloud.common 4.1.0 has been released. Checkout the changelog for more information.
community.postgresql
andersson007_ said
The community.postgresql collection versions 4.0.1 and 3.14.1 have been released. Thanks everyone involved!
community.proxmox
Felix Fontein contributed
community.proxmox 0.1.0 (community.proxmox/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.proxmox · GitHub) has been released and is available from Ansible Galaxy (Ansible Galaxy). It basically contains the Proxmox content from community.general 10.6.0, and requires ansible-core 2.17+ (and thus Python 3.7+) and proxmoxer 2.0.0+. It is currently planned that the Proxmox content in community.general will be removed and replaced by redirects to community.proxmox in community.general 11.0.0. Thanks to everyone involved in getting community.proxmox ready!
community.aws
aubin contributed
the community.aws release 9.3.0 has been published
certified collections
samccann shared
Certified collections updated this week:
amazon.aws
Mandar Kulkarni shared
amazon.aws 10.0.0 has been released with support for the aws_ssm connection plugin promoted from community.aws, bugfixes, increased minimum boto3/botocore versions, and removed support for Python < 3.8 and ansible-core < 2.17. For full details, check out the changelog.
abuzachis shared
amazon.aws 9.5.0 has been released with several bugfixes and new features for the
route53_infoandiam_user_infomodules. For full details, check out the changelog.
community.aws
Bianca Henderson contributed
The community.aws 10.0.0 release has been published! In this major release, the
connection/aws_ssmconnection plugin has been fully migrated out of this collection and intoamazon.aws(AWS SSM Connection Refactoring & Plugin Promotion). Playbooks or Inventory using the Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN) for this connection plugin should be updated to useamazon.aws.aws_ssm. Additionally,botocore<1.31.0andboto3<1.28.0are no longer supported; most modules will continue to work with older versions of the AWS SDK, however, compatibility with older versions of the SDK is not guaranteed. Check out the full changelog for more info on what’s new!
community.postresql
andersson007_ contributed
The community.postgresql collection version 4.0.0 has been released!
Because, among other changes, a few features were removed in the release, please read the changelog carefully to learn what to use instead.
Thanks to everyone involved in the release!
Community events and meetups 
DevConf.CZ
Oranod shared
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!