This week in Ansible Community
Issue #205, 2025-10-17 (Past Issues)
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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-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0rc1 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0rc1
Felix Fontein said
ansible-core’s
develandmilestonebranch have been bumped to 2.21.0.dev0. For more details see the forum post (Ansible-core devel and milestone bumped to 2.21.0.dev0).
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 said
Ansible 13.0.0a3 package (pre-release) is here! 
Release announcement: Ansible community package 13.0.0a3 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==13.0.0a3 --user
Check Release Notes 
(ansible-build-data/13/CHANGELOG-v13.md at 13.0.0a3 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 13 Porting Guide (Ansible 13 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Ansible Community Execution Environment (base & minimal)
We’re happy to announce the release of the
Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.19.3-2 (latest)!
Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.19.3-2 (latest)!
Get the details of both the images in the announcement made in the Ansible Forum.
Collection updates 
infra.aap_configuration 3.8.3
Sean Sullivan shared
infra.aap_configuration 3.8.3 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.
andebox
russoz (Alex Z) contributed
andebox 1.7.0 has been released, with improvements to CLI validation, plus a number of other minor changes. See the CHANGELOG for full list.
community.proxysql
andersson007_ said
The community.proxysql collection version 1.7.0 has been released!
infra.ee_utilities
Sean Sullivan shared
infra.ee_utilities 4.2.0 has been released.
This Ansible collection makes it easy to build execution environments for AWX or Ansible Controller server and converting from python environments to execution environments.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/ee_utilities: This ansible collection includes a number of roles and tools which can be useful for managing Ansible Execution Environments. For more information and updates.
community.beszel
dbrennand contributed
community.beszel 0.4.0 has released with support for Beszel Hub 0.13.0+ customized
SYSTEM_NAMEfeature when registering agents.
community.mysql
andersson007_ shared
The community.mysql collection versions 3.16.1 and 4.0.1 have been released!
community.clickhouse
andersson007_ said
The community.clickhouse collection version 0.11.0 has been released!
Certified Collections Updates
anwesha said
Validated Collections Updates
Help wanted 
community.general Dimension Data cloud
russoz (Alex Z) contributed
Liveness check: community.general Dimension Data cloud (3rd and final 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. If nothing is said otherwise, deprecation will be submitted on 28/Oct.
Community updates 
CfgMgmtCamp CFP
anwesha shared
CfgMgmtCamp CFP is extended till 2025-11-16 !!
Config Management Camp is a conference for developers, system engineers, SRE, system administrators and all practitioners of Infrastructure as Code or Infrastructure Management.
Consider submitting your talk or workshop on open source topic relating to Infrastructure, including but not limited to Configuration Management, Infrastructure Orchestration, Infrastructure Management, Infrastructure Automation, and Infrastructure Monitoring.
Here is the link to submit your session.
Community events and meetups 
- 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
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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