This week in Ansible Community
Issue #192, 2025-07-06 (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.
Ansible-Core Devel Branch Update
Felix Fontein contributed
Now that ansible-core 2.19.0rc1 has been released, ansible-core’s
develbranch has been bumped from 2.19.0.dev0 to 2.20.0.dev0. This potentially requires collection CIs to be updated which rely ondevelusingtests/sanity/ignore-2.19.txt, for example. Also it’s now time to addstable-2.19to CI if you relied ondevelto cover 2.19 so far. Note thatmilestonehas also been updated to 2.20.0dev0.
Ansible-Core Release Announcement
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0rc1 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0rc1
Collection Maintainer Notice
Felix Fontein said
Ansible-core’s
develandmilestonebranch versions have been bumped to 2.20.0.dev0. As a collecftion maintainer, you might need to add atests/sanity/ignore-2.20.txtfile to avoid sanity test failures; and if you haven’t done so, you should addstable-2.19to your collection CI. (Ansible-core devel and milestone bumped to 2.20.0.dev0)
Antsibull
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
Antsibull-Nox Release
Felix Fontein contributed
antsibull-nox 0.7.0 (antsibull-nox/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) has been released, which bumps the version for ansible-core’s
develandmilestonebranch to 2.20 for CI matrix generation, and adjusts the supported Python versions for 2.20. It also supports the newantsibull-docs lint-collection-docsfeature.
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 Community Package Lifecycle Extension
Felix Fontein said
The Ansible community package version 11’s lifetime will be extended until Ansible community package 13 is released, probably in November. This gives users more time to migrate from Ansible 11 to Ansible 12 (or directly to 13) due to the larger templating changes and improvements in ansible-core 2.19, on which Ansible 12 is based. ([vote ended 2025-04-16] Make Ansible 11 a "LTS" (similar to Ansible 9)?)
Ansible 12.0.0a8 Pre-Release
anwesha contributed
Ansible 12.0.0a8 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0a8 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0a8 --user
Check Release Notes
and Ansible 12 Porting Guide for more details!
Collection updates 
Community.Proxmox Release
thulium-drake contributed
community.proxmox 1.1.0 has been released! This release features a few new modules for managing ACLs and HA resources! Get it now!
ServiceNow ITSM Collection Update
Martin Jackson said
servicenow-itsm 2.10.0 has been released, which brings support for new authentication mechanisms (OAuth and APIkey) and also introduces a new option in the inventory plugin to speed up loads of large inventories
Community.Crypto Major Release
Felix Fontein shared
community.crypto 3.0.0 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) has been released. This new major release features a modernization of the Python codebase, which drops support for older ansible-core, Python, and cryptography releases: ansible-core 2.17+, Python 3.7+, and cryptography 3.3+ are now required. Support for PyOpenSSL has been removed completely, and the Entrust modules and the Entrust providers for
community.crypto.x509_certificate*have been removed. Check out the changelog for more details! Note that older ansible-core, Python, and cryptography versions are still supported by community.crypto 2.x.y, which will still receive bugfixes for some time.
Certified Collections Updates
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!