The Bullhorn #202

samccann · September 29, 2025, 2:24pm

This week in Ansible Community
Issue #202, 2025-09-29 (Past Issues)

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General news updates

New docs.ansible.com design

Oranod contributed

We’ve got a new look and feel for Ansible community docs.

The Ansible community team at Red Hat announced our plans to migrate the docs.ansible.com subdomain to Read The Docs (RTD) hosting in a forum post.

We’re gearing up to make the switch to Read The Docs but decided to roll out the new docsite landing pages first. We’ve revamped the docsite using the design of the community website with the content journey based approach to the docsite.

You can now visit ansible.readthedocs.io to see what docs.ansible.com is going to look like after we point the subdomain to Read The Docs hosting. So please take a look and try it out. If you spot any issues or have ideas on how to improve, please open an issue in the ansible-docsite repo, in the forum, or in the Ansible Docs channel on Matrix. Cheers!

community.sap_libs collection removal consideration

mariolenz said

It looks like the community.sap_libs collection is effectively unmaintained. According to the current Ansible Community Package Collections Removal Process, we consider removing it in a future version of the Ansible Community Package. Please see Unmaintained collection: community.sap_libs for more information or to announce that you’re interested in taking over the maintenance of (a fork of) community.sap_libs.

At least one month after this announcement appears here and in the collection’s issue tracker, the Ansible Community Steering Committee will vote on whether this collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed, or whether it will be kept. If it will be removed, this will happen earliest in Ansible Community Package 14. Please note that you can still manually install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install community.sap_libs even when it has been removed from Ansible Community Package.

Collection updates

Certified collections updates

samccann contributed

Certified collections updated this week:

hitachivantara.vspone_block:4.2.2

ibm.ibm_zos_core:1.15.0

cisco.intersight:2.4.0

ibm.ibm_zhmc:1.9.6

datadog.dd:6.3.0

ibm.isam:3.4.0

community.routeros release

Felix Fontein contributed

community.routeros 3.11.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released with a bugfix and a new feature. The new feature improves idempotency handling of the community.routeros.api_find_and_modify and community.routeros.api_modify modules by comparing values as strings, while considering librouteros’ value type transformations.

Help wanted

Bullhorn feedback

We’re looking for feedback from you on possible Bullhorn improvements! Participate in
the Bullhorn feedback forum post!

Dimension Data cloud modules check

russoz (Alex Z) shared

Liveness check: community.general Dimension Data cloud

In 15/Aug we left a post in the forum about the Dimension Data cloud service - there are modules and accompanying plugins in the community.general collection, but when investigated, it seems the service is no longer operating.

This is a call to the community, if anyone can help confirm whether that service (or more importantly those modules) are still useful or not. If you know something about that service, please go to that forum post and leave a message for us.

If we do not here from anyone in a while (I am thinking a couple of mentions in the Bullhorn), a deprecation PR will be created for those modules.

Thanks in advance to any light anyone can shed over this matter.

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 2.20 beta

ansible-announce contributed

New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0b1 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0b1

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 package 13.0 alpha

Felix Fontein contributed

Ansible 13.0.0a1 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 13.0.0a1 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==13.0.0a1 --user
Check Release Notes (ansible-build-data/13/CHANGELOG-v13.md at 13.0.0a1 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 13 Porting Guide (Ansible 13 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!

Community events and meetups