This week in Ansible Community
Issue #189, 2025-06-13 (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-core 2.19
samccann shared
ansible-corecontinues to release core-2.19 beta releases to help you test the templating changes that are coming in that release. See the forum posts for details.
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b6 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b6
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 12.0.0a6 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0a6 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0a6 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/12/CHANGELOG-v12.md at 12.0.0a6 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 12 Porting Guide (Ansible 12 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Collection updates 
certified collections
samccann contributed
Certified collections updated this week:
community.proxmox
thulium-drake said
I made a small boo-boo when releasing
community.proxmox1.0.0, there was a small, but breaking, bug in there, which has been fixed in 1.0.1. Get it now!
Other events and releases
Community day slides available
Community day slides and event summary is available now on the Ansible forum!
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!
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