This week in Ansible Community
Issue #190, 2025-06-22 (Past Issues)
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Major new releases 
Antsibull 
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
antsibull-nox
Felix Fontein said
antsibull-nox 0.6.0 (Release 0.6.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) has been released with some bugfixes and new features:
- You can now run
ruff check,ruff format, andruff check --fix --select ...as part of thelintsession;- The
yamllintsession now also checks YAML code blocks in extra docs (RST files indocs/docsite/rst/);- The
docs-checksession can now check code block languages in extra docs;- There is a new extra check
no-trailing-whitespace.
antibull-docs
Felix Fontein contributed
antsibull-docs 2.17.1 (antsibull-docs/CHANGELOG.md at 2.17.1 · ansible-community/antsibull-docs · GitHub) has been released with a bugfix that prevents coping collections into temporary directories that are part of an
ansible_collectionstree structure. This can for example happen if antsibull-docs is run from other tools that modifyTMPDIR.
antsibull-fileutils
Felix Fontein contributed
antsibull-fileutils 1.3.0 (antsibull-fileutils/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull-fileutils · GitHub) has been released with a bugfix in its collection copier and a new utility that creates temporary directories that are “Ansible-friendly” and are guaranteed to not be part of an existing
ansible_collectionstree structure.
antsibull-docutils
Felix Fontein shared
antsibull-docutils 1.2.0 (antsibull-docutils/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull-docutils · GitHub) has been released with a new utility that allows to enumerate code blocks in RST documents.
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 11.7.0
Felix Fontein contributed
Ansible 11.7.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.7.0
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==11.7.0 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/11/CHANGELOG-v11.md at 11.7.0 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 11 Porting Guide (Ansible 11 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Collection updates 
community.crypto
Felix Fontein shared
community.crypto 3.0.0-rc1 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) has been released with two bugfixes and several refactorings that should not be observable. The idea is to have the final 3.0.0 release out in 1-2 weeks, assuming no serious bug reports come in. If you rely on community.crypto, please test this pre-release to avoid breakage due to some of the many internal changes, breaking changes, and removed features that will appear in 3.0.0. You can find more information on user-facing breaking changes in the 3.0.0-a1 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) and 3.0.0-a2 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) changelogs.
community.routeros
Felix Fontein shared
community.routeros 3.8.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) is out with new features for the API modules.
community.general
Felix Fontein said
community.general 8.6.11 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-8 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) and community.general 9.5.9 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released. Note that community.general 8.x.y is now End of Life; there will be no further 8.x.y release. Thanks to everyone who contributed to 8.x.y releases! The 9.5.9 release contains improvements for the
yamlcallback to make it fully compatible with ansible-core 2.19.
community.general
Felix Fontein contributed
community.general 11.0.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-11 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) and community.general 10.7.1 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released! While 10.7.1 has some new bugfixes, 11.0.0 is a new major release with many bugfixes, features, and new content (mostly already in 10.x.y releases), but also breaking changes and removals. Check out the changelog for more details!
infra.ee_utilities
Sean Sullivan said
infra.ee_utilities 4.0.4 has been released.\
This Ansible collection makes it easy to build execution environments for AWX or Ansible Controller server and converting from python environments to execution environments.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/ee_utilities: This ansible collection includes a number of roles and tools which can be useful for managing Ansible Execution Environments. For more information and updates.
community.sops
Felix Fontein shared
community.sops 2.1.0 (community.sops/CHANGELOG.md at 2.1.0 · ansible-collections/community.sops · GitHub) has been released. The collection now supports specifying SSH private keys for age with the new
age_ssh_private_keyfileoption.
Certified Collections
os_migrate.vmware_migration_kit:2.0.5
Help wanted 
Oranod shared
Moving documentation to Read the Docs
Exciting news! We’re moving to Read The Docs.
Hello there. The Ansible community team at Red Hat is really pleased to announce that we’re planning to migrate the
docs.ansible.comsubdomain to Read The Docs hosting. These changes should be transparent to you and will not require you to update any bookmarks or do anything differently. It’s still the same great community documentation but better! This move will give us some new features and allow us to improve the documentation experience for you.We have written a forum post to summarize the changes and socialize our plan. We’d like to invite you to read through the details and provide your feedback. So please head over to the forum, read through our post, and let us know in the comments if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks!
Ansible Meetups
gundalow shared
Ansible Meetups
Did you know that Ansible has meetups across the globe, we are looking for your feedback on how we can improve them.
- Does the current setup work?
- How can we better promote events?
- What do we need to change so you can attend in-person events?
- Would you attend virtual meetups?
- If we did virtual meetups, how can we make them interactive, fun and useful?
Please provide your ideas via the forum post.
Community events and meetups 
Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 London
gundalow said
Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 London
Mark your calendars, the next Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 London will be on Thursday 9th October 2025.
Agenda and RSVP will be available later in the year.
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!