This week in Ansible Community
Issue #199, 2025-09-01 (Past Issues)
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Key dates 
mariolenz shared
There is now a suggested roadmap for Ansible 13. Feel free to comment!
Major new releases 
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.
Felix Fontein contributed
Ansible 12.0.0b4 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0b4 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0b4 --user
Check Release Notes
(https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/12.0.0b4/12/CHANGELOG-v12.md) and Ansible 12 Porting Guide (Ansible 12 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Collection updates 
Felix Fontein contributed
If a collection that still supports Python 2.7 tests against ansible-core devel, please note that an update to the
pylintsanity tests now flags all usages of theansible.module_utils.siximport. You can simply add appropriate entries totests/sanity/ignore-2.20.txtof the formpath/to/file.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-fromto get rid of these warnings.
andersson007_ shared
The community.clickhouse collection version 0.8.5 has been released!
Felix Fontein shared
community.routeros 3.10.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released with a bugfix and some new features for the API modules.
russoz (Alex Z) contributed
andebox 1.6.0 has been released, with the tox-test action updated to ansible-core 2.19, plus a number of other minor changes. See the CHANGELOG for full list.
Sean Sullivan shared
infra.aap_configuration 3.5.0 has been released.
This Ansible collection allows for easy interaction with Ansible Automation Platform via Ansible roles using the supported collections modules.
Visit https://github.com/redhat-cop/aap_configuration/ For more information and updates.
Certified collections updates
Certified collections updated this week:
- ansible.eda:2.9.0
- ansible.hub:1.0.1
- cisco.nxos: 11.0.0
- arista.eos 12.0.0
- junipernetworks.junos 11.0.0
- redhat.edge_manager 1.2.0
- ansible.controller 4.5.25
- ansible.network 5.0.0
- ansible.security 4.0.0
- netscaler.adc 2.10.0
- dynatrace.event_driven_ansible 1.2.3
- servicenow.itsm 2.12.0
- redhat.artifact_signer 1.2.1
- hpe.oneview 10.2.0
- ibm.storage_virtualize 3.0.0
- ibm.power_hmc 1.13.0
- azure.azcollection 3.8.0
- dellemc.openmanage 10.0.0
- arista.avd 5.6.0
- vmware.vmware_rest 4.9.0
- vmware.alb 31.1.2
- hitachivantara.vspone_object 1.0.0
Validated collections updates
Validated collections updated this week:
Help wanted 
samccann contributed
Do you use molecule? If so the developer team is looking for help testing a prerelease
Upcoming events
Event announcements
anwesha shared
- 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]
- 2025-09-09, AWX Community Meeting
- 2025-09-23, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process
- 2025-09-25, AWS Community Meeting
- 2025-10-02, Ansible-London: 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]
- 2025-12-01, Ansible @ AWS: re:invent - December 2025
- 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.
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That’s all for now!
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