This week in Ansible Community
Issue #186, 2025-05-27 (Past Issues)
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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-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.6 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.6
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.17.12 - New Release: ansible-core v2.17.12
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.
infra.aap_configuration
Sean Sullivan shared
infra.aap_configuration 3.3.0 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.aap_configuration: A collection of roles to manage Ansible Automation Platform 2.5+ with code For more information and updates.
Community Package
Felix Fontein shared
Ansible 11.6.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.6.0
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==11.6.0 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/11/CHANGELOG-v11.md at 11.6.0 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 11 Porting Guide (Ansible 11 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Collection updates 
community.clickhouse
andersson007_ shared
The community.clickhouse collection version 0.8.3 has been released!
community.rabbimq
csmart said
the community.rabbitmq collection has been updated to 1.5.0, which adds support for vhost manipulation through RabbitMQ API and other minor improvements.
community.libvirt
csmart contributed
the community.libvirt collection has been updated to 1.4.0, which brings support for managing volumes inside a storage pool and some other small enhancements.
community.crypto
Felix Fontein contributed
community.crypto 3.0.0-a2 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) has been released. It is mostly identical to 3.0.0-a1, except that all Entrust content has been removed.
community.general
Felix Fontein contributed
community.general 9.5.8 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) and community.general 10.7.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with bugfixes, new features (10.7.0 only), and new plugins and modules (10.7.0 only). Please note that 10.7.0 is the last minor 10.x.0 release; the next 10.x.y release will be 10.7.1. The next feature release will be community.general 11.0.0 in roughly four weeks, ready for inclusion in Ansible 12.0.0.
community.crypto
Felix Fontein said
There is a first alpha pre-release community.crypto 3.0.0-a1 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub). The 3.0.0 version requires ansible-core 2.17+, Python 3.7+, and cryptography 3.3+. If you are using older ansible-core, Python, or cryptography versions, please continue to use community.crypto 2.x.y (
stable-2branch). This first pre-release is giving everyone interested a chance to see whether their workflows break. There might still be larger changes for the final 3.0.0 version, but it is not clear yet.
community.clickhouse
andersson007_ shared
The community.clickhouse collection version 0.8.2 has been released!
community.mysql
laurent-indermuehle said
The community.mysql collection version 3.14.0 has been released!
community.crypto
Felix Fontein said
community.crypto 2.26.2 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at stable-2 · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) has been released. It announces the deprecation and upcoming removal in community.crypto 3.0.0 of all Entrust content (
ecs_domainandecs_certificatemodules, andentrustprovider forx509_certificateandx509_certificate_pipemodules). If you need to use these modules and providers until the service has been sunsetted later this year, please stick to community.crypto 2.x.y for that time.
Antsibull
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
antsibull-nox
Felix Fontein shared
antsibull-nox 0.5.0 (Release 0.5.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) is out with a bugfix and a new feature. The new feature allows to pass environment variables into ansible-test integration tests as Ansible vars. This can be useful to pass in
GITHUB_TOKENin CI, for example.
certified collections
hitachivantara.vspone_block:3.4.2
redhat.openshift_virtualization:2.2.2
Community updates 
Community voting results
Felix Fontein contributed
The community vote ([Vote ended on 2025-05-20] Collection requirements: dependencies-related changes - #11 by Andersson007) on strengthening the requirements on EE dependencies of collections included in Ansible (collection_requirements: add requirements version specification recommendation to avoid conflicts when building EEs by Andersson007 · Pull Request #2585 · ansible/ansible-documentation · GitHub) has been accepted. Collections SHOULD avoid capped (
<=) or pinned (==) dependencies. Lower bounds (>=) and explicit exclusions (!=) are generally OK. This will hopefully make it easier to build EEs, since capped and pinned dependencies tend to cause conflicts between different collections.
Other events and releases
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That’s all for now!
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