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Issue #204, 2025-10-10 (Past Issues)
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Major new releases 
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.3 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.3
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0b2 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0b2
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.10 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.10
mariolenz contributed
Ansible 13.0.0a2 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 13.0.0a2 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==13.0.0a2 --user
Check Release Notes
and Ansible 13 Porting Guide for more details!
mariolenz said
Ansible 11.11.0 package is here!
python3 -m pip install ansible==11.11.0 --user
mariolenz contributed
Ansible 12.1.0 package is here!
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.1.0 --user
General news updates 
Felix Fontein shared
antsibull-nox 1.3.0 (antsibull-nox/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) has been released. The biggest new feature is support for change detection for ansible-test sessions and some of the included extra sanity tests. Read more about it in the documentation. (Change detection - antsibull-nox – Antsibull Nox Helper) Also handling of Python dependencies of sessions has been improved; the fields for them now accept lists, and you can also specify constraint files next to packages and requirements files.
Collection updates 
yurnov said
kubernetes.core 5.4.1 have been released with bugfixes for k8s service field handling, k8s_cp init containers support, and removes deprecated ansible.module_utils.six imports.
Felix Fontein said
community.routeros 3.12.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released with new features and maintenance work.
Felix Fontein contributed
community.general 11.4.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-11 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), community.general 10.7.5 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), and community.general 9.5.12 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with new features (11.4.0 only) and bugfixes. The next round of releases is planned for November 2nd. Note that then 12.0.0 will be released; 9.x.y will be End of Life; and 11.x.y will only receive more bugfix releases, but no more feature releases.
andersson007_ contributed
The community.clickhouse collection version 0.10.0 has been released!
Felix Fontein said
community.docker 4.8.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released with new features and maintenance work.
andersson007_ contributed
The community.clickhouse collection version 0.9.0 has been released!
Sean Sullivan contributed
infra.aap_configuration 3.8.2 has been released.
This Ansible collection allows for easy interaction with Ansible Automation Platform via Ansible roles using the supported collections modules.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/infra.aap_configuration: A collection of roles to manage Ansible Automation Platform 2.5+ with code For more information and updates.
Bianca Henderson contributed
kubernetes.core 5.4.1 has been released! This release includes bugfixes for k8s service field handling,
k8s_cpinit containers support, and removes deprecatedansible.module_utils.siximports.
Felix Fontein said
community.hrobot 2.6.0 (community.hrobot/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.hrobot · GitHub) has been released. This is a maintenance release deprecating support for storage boxes using the old API. Also compatibility return values that emulate the old API have been deprecated; when using ansible-core 2.19 or newer, a deprecation message will be shown when using them.
yurnov contributed
kubernetes.core 6.2.0 have been released with minor changes and bugfixes, including support of
skip-schema-validationinhelmmodule and removing deprecatedansible.module_utils.siximports.
gomathiselvi shared
: amazon.aws 9.5.2 has been released with bugfixes. Refer the changelog for details!
Certified Collections Updates
anwesha said
- fortinet.fortimanager 2.11.0
- google.cloud 1.9.0
- ibm.storage_virtualize 3.1.0
- redhat.rhel_system_roles 1.108.6
- cisco.intersight 2.6.0
- vmware.vmware 2.4.0
- amazon.aws 10.1.2
- redhat.artifact_signer 1.3.0
- redhat.eap 1.5.8
- kubernetes.core 6.2.0
- hashicorp.terraform 1.1.0
- hitachivantara.vspone_block 4.3.0
- datadog.dd 6.3.1
- ibm.isam 3.5.0
- cisco.ios 11.1.1
Validated Collections Updates
Help wanted 
russoz (Alex Z) shared
Liveness check: community.general Dimension Data cloud (2nd call)
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.
Community events and meetups 
anwesha contributed
- 2025-10-15, CFP close for CfgMgmtCamp 2026
- 2025-10-21, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process
- 2025-10-23, Ansible-Minneapolis: Minneapolis Ansible User Group [2025-10-23]
- 2025-10-23, AWS Community Meeting
- 2025-11-05, Ansible-Barcelona: A Deep Dive into Configuration as Code using Ansible’s community aap_configurati [2025-11-05]
- 2025-11-06, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month
- 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.
Join the Ansible community
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That’s all for now!
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