The Bullhorn #194

samccann · July 21, 2025, 6:59pm

This week in Ansible Community
Issue #194, 2025-07-21 (Past Issues)

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General news updates

Ansible EEs

anwesha contributed

We’re happy to announce the release of the

Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.18.7-1
Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.18.7-1 !

Get the details of both the images in the announcement made in the Ansible Forum.

Join the Ansible Forum to know about the future release announcements.

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

ansible-announce said

New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0

ansible-core 2.18

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.18.7 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.7

ansible-core 2.17

ansible-announce contributed

New Release: ansible-core v2.17.13 - New Release: ansible-core v2.17.13

Antsibull

Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.

antsibull-docs

Felix Fontein shared

antsibull-docs 2.19.0 (antsibull-docs/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull-docs · GitHub) has been released with a bugfix and new features. The extra docs linter now checks whether toctree entries actually exist. There’s now also a new subcommand, antsibull-docs ansible-output, which allows to render RST code blocks with ansible-playbook output. This allows to generate output in documentation from playbooks/tasks that are also part of the documentation, without having to manually execute playbooks and copy the results over into the docs.

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.

google.cloud removal cancelled

mariolenz shared

The vote on canceling the removal of google.cloud is over. Everybody who voted was in favor, so we will not remove the collection from Ansible 12.

Ansible 11

anwesha said

Ansible 11.8.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.8.0
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==11.8.0 --user
Check Release Notes and Ansible 12 Porting Guide for more details!

Collection updates

community.clickhouse

andersson007_ said

The community.clickhouse collection version 0.8.4 has been released!

ansible.posix

hsaito shared

ansible.posix 2.1.0 has been released.
If you are using(or planning) to use Ansible Core 2.19, you can use the version 2.1.0.

community.rabbitmq

David Buckman said

community.rabbitmq 1.6.0 has been released with some minor bugfixes and adds support for updating policies through the management API. Note that the rabbitmq_vhost module has been updated to now require the requests library, removing the fallback to the rabbitmqctl command line utility when the module is invoked with API parameters.

community.proxmox

thulium-drake shared

community.proxmox 1.2.0 has been released! This release features a few new modules for managing users, groups and nodes as well as some new features and fixes! Get it now!

community.general

Felix Fontein shared

community.general 11.1.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-11 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) and community.general 10.7.2 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with bugfixes (both), features, and new plugins and modules (11.1.0 only). Note that there might be a 11.1.1 bugfix release in one or two weeks for Ansible 12’s feature freeze resp. release candidate.

community.libvirt

andersson007_ said

The community.libvirt collection version 2.0.0 has been released!

Certified collections

This week’s certified collection updates:

Help wanted

Planned changes section of Ansible package roadmap