The Bullhorn #198

[samccann (Sandra McCann)]

This week in Ansible Community
Issue #198, 2025-08-19 (Past Issues)

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General news

Closing the Ansible Network Slack instance

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.

Join the discussion

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 release

ansible-announce said

New Release: ansible-core v2.18.8 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.8

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 beta

gotmax23 shared

Ansible 12.0.0b3 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0b3 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0b3 --user

Check Release Notes and Ansible 12 Porting Guide for more details!

Ansible Community Execution Environment release

anwesha contributed

We’re happy to announce the release of the

Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.18.8-1
Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.18.8-1 !

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.

On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!

Ansible 11.9

anwesha said

Ansible 11.9.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.9.0
You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==11.9.0 --user

Check Release Notes and Ansible 11 Porting Guide for more details!

Collection updates

community.routeros release

Felix Fontein said

community.routeros 3.9.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released with several new features for the API modules and a bugfix for the SSH modules.

kubernetes.core release

yurnov shared

kubernetes.core ansible collection just releases with versions 5.4.0.

This release updates the helm_registry_auth module to match the behavior of helm >= 3.18.0 which reports a successful logout regardless of the current state (i.e., no idempotency).

community.docker release

Felix Fontein shared

community.docker 4.7.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released with a bugfix (working around a bug in Docker 28.3.3 when pushing images without authentication) and a new feature for the docker_swarm_service module.

amazon.aws release

gomathiselvi contributed

: amazon.aws 10.1.1 has been released with a bug fix and documentation updates. Refer the release notes for details!

gomathiselvi shared

: amazon.aws 9.5.1 has been released with a bug fix and documentation updates. Refer the release notes for details!

community.general release

Felix Fontein said

community.general 11.2.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-11 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), community.general 10.7.3 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), and community.general 9.5.11 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with bugfixes (all three), new features, and new modules and plugins (only 11.2.0). There might be another 11.2.1 bugfix release in the next two weeks, depending on how the Ansible 12.0.0 release schedule goes.

ibm.qradar deprecation

AAYUSH ANAND contributed

The ibm.qradar collection has been deprecated and will not have any more major releases. End of life is scheduled for Dec 2026

community.dns release

Felix Fontein shared

community.dns 3.3.0 (community.dns/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.dns · GitHub) has been released with an updated Public Suffix List and two new modules for managing AdGuard Home DNS rewrite entries. Thanks to markuman for contributing these!

community.proxmox release

thulium-drake said

Community.proxmox 1.3.0 is here! Once again we have some more new shiny modules and fixes for issues. Get it now!

kubernetes.core release

Bianca Henderson shared

kubernetes.core 6.1.0 has been released! This release adds plain_http and take_ownership parameters for helm modules, support for hidden_fields in k8s_json_patch, documented lack of idempotency support in helm_registry_auth with helm ≥ 3.18.0, and improved k8s_rollback test coverage. Please refer to the changelog for more informaiton.

Certified collections updates

samccann said

Certified collections updated this week:

• vmware.vmware:2.3.0
• ansible.netcommon:8.1.0
• f5networks.f5_modules:1.38.0
• f5networks.f5os:1.20.0
• hitachivantara.vspone_block:4.1.0
• kubernetes.core:6.1.0
• ibm.ibm_zos_ims:1.3.1
• dellemc.unity:2.1.0
• crowdstrike.falcon:4.8.1
• redhat.amq_broker:2.3.4

Project updates

ansible-core milestone branch update

Felix Fontein said

ansible-core’s milestone branch has been updated (Ansible-core's milestone branch has been updated).

community.internal_test_tools release

Felix Fontein contributed

community.internal_test_tools 0.18.0 (community.internal_test_tools/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools · GitHub) has been released. Its deprecated extra sanity test runner has been removed, in favor of antsibull-nox which is better suited for these kind of tests.

antsibull-nox release

Felix Fontein shared

antsibull-nox 1.2.0 (Release 1.2.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) has been released with a new feature (allow editable installs and requirement files), a bugfix for the action-groups extra check, and updating the list of supported Python verisons for ansible-core’s milestone branch which was updated.

Upcoming events

Event announcements

samccann shared

Upcoming events:

• 2025-08-21, Ansible-Atlanta: Ansible + AIOPs (Take 2) [2025-08-21]
• 2025-08-26, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process
• 2025-08-28, Ansible-Minneapolis: August Meetup [2025-08-28]
• 2025-08-28, AWS Community Meeting
• 2025-09-02, 8th Ansible Anwendertreffen
• 2025-09-04, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month
• 2025-09-06, Ansible-India: Ansible Bangalore Meetup - September 2025 [2025-09-06]
• 2025-10-02, Ansible Virtual Meetup: October 2025 [2025-10-02]
• 2025-10-09, Ansible-London: Ansible London – Thursday 9th October 2025 [2025-10-09]
• 2025-10-09, Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 London
• 2025-10-15, CFP close for CfgMgmtCamp 2026
• 2025-11-05, Ansible-Barcelona: A Deep Dive into Configuration as Code using Ansible’s community aap_configurati [2025-11-05]
• 2026-02-02, CfgMgmtCamp 2026
• Every Tuesday @11AM ET, Documentation Working Group
• Every Thursday @13:00 UTC, Network Working Group

Other events and releases

Use the Ansible Forum to see other events and releases.

Join the Ansible community

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That’s all for now!

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