This week in Ansible Community
Issue #191, 2025-06-27 (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-core 2.19 beta
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b7 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b7
Antsibull
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
antsibull-docs
Felix Fontein contributed
antsibull-docs 2.18.0 (antsibull-docs/CHANGELOG.md at 2.18.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-docs · GitHub) has been released with a bugfix, some new features, and some deprecations. First the
lint-collection-docssubcommand has been extended to be able to also validate references in extra documentation when using antsibull-docs’ roles such as:ansopt:,:ansretval:,:ansplugin:. Then the:ansplugin:role has been extended to also allow referencing role entrypoints (and not just the whole role), and a new role:anscollection:has been added that allows to reference a collection page, some of its sections, and the collection’s changelog. The deprecation is about the defaults of various feature flags for thelint-collection-docssubcommand; antsibull-docs 3.0.0 will enable more checks by default and disable a rather slow and not really needed check. See the changelog or the documentation (Creating a collection docsite - antsibull-docs – Ansible Documentation Build Scripts) for details.
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 12.0.0a7 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0a7 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0a7 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/12/CHANGELOG-v12.md at 12.0.0a7 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 12 Porting Guide (Ansible 12 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Help wanted 
Ansible Meetups
gundalow said
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.
Other events and releases
Use the Ansible Forum to see other events and releases.
Collection updates 
Networking collection updates
Ruchi Pakhle shared
arista.eoshad a good amount of community issues and open PR’s reviewed and merged.Big kudos to bewing and other folks for raising PRs and issues, thanks for all your efforts!
ansible.utilsalso had the codehealth improvement done where we fixed the CI which was affected by the 2.19 ansible-core templatimg changes, its all green now and we also reviewed the open community PR’s
Certified collections updates
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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