This week in Ansible Community
Issue #195, 2025-07-25 (Past Issues)
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Major new releases 
Ansible-Core 
2.19.0
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0
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-test
Felix Fontein shared
ansible-core 2.17 and 2.18 replaced their ansible-test’s FreeBSD 13.3 VM with FreeBSD 13.5 (Ansible-test in ansible-core 2.17 and 2.18: FreeBSD 13.3 replaced with 13.5). In case you’re using FreeBSD 13.3 in your AZP CI, you should update your CI matrix.
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 12.0.0b1
anwesha contributed
Ansible 12.0.0b1 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0b1 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0b1 --user
Check Release Notes
and Ansible 12 Porting Guide for more details!
Collection updates 
community.mysql
andersson007_ said
The community.mysql collection version 3.15.0 has been released!
community.sops 2.2.0
Felix Fontein contributed
community.sops 2.2.0 has been released. When used with ansible-core 2.19, its
community.sops.load_varsaction allows to load SOPS-encrypted data with lazily evaluated Jinja expressions, similar to ansible-core’s builtinansible.builtin.include_varsaction.
Certified collections
This week’s certified collection updates:
- zscaler.zpacloud 2.0.2
- ibm.power_ibmi 3.3.0
- zscaler.ziacloud 2.0.6
- microsoft.iis 1.0.3
- ansible.windows 3.2.0
- microsoft.ad 1.9.2
- ansible.eda 2.8.2
- cisco/intersight 2.2.0
- hitachivantara/vspone_block 4.0.1
Help wanted 
gundalow shared
Proposal: Closing the Ansible Network Slack instance
Following on from Proposal: Consolidating Ansible discussion platforms, we are considering what to do with the Ansible Network Slack instance (which you’ve likely never heard of).As the Forum has critical mass of people, and the Ansible Network slack instance is very quiet, we are proposing archiving the Slack instance, and bring everybody to network part of the Forum.
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!
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