This week in Ansible Community
Issue #208, 2025-11-07 (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-core v2.20.0 Release
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0
ansible-core v2.19.4 Release
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.4 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.4
ansible-core v2.18.11 Release
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.11 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.11
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 Community Package 12.2.0 Release
anwesha said
Ansible 12.2.0 package is here! 
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.2.0
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.2.0 --user
Check Release Notes 
and Ansible 12 Porting Guide
Ansible 13.0.0b1 Release
anwesha stated
Ansible 13.0.0b1 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 13.0.0b1 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==13.0.0b1 --user
Check Release Notes and Ansible 13 Porting Guide
Ansible 11.12.0 package release
anwesha informed
Ansible 11.12.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.12.0
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==11.12.0 --user
Check Release Notes and Ansible 11 Porting Guide
Ansible Community Execution Environment Images 2.19.4-1 (latest) Release
anwesha said
We’re happy to announce the release of the
Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.19.4-1 (latest)!
Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.19.4-1 (latest)!
Get the details of both the images in the announcement made in the Ansible Forum.
Collection updates 
community.general
Felix Fontein said
community.general 12.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-12/CHANGELOG.md#v12-0-0) has been released! The collection contains mainy new features, bugfixes, and new plugins and modules! It also drops support for ansible-core 2.16, and is thus supporting only Python 3.7+. For this release, the Python code was polished and modernized a bit - there’s still a lot of work left, which isn’t surprising since there are over 1000 Python files.
Felix Fontein said
community.general 11.4.1 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-11 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), community.general 10.7.6 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), and community.general 9.5.13 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with new bugfixes and a security fix for community.general.keycloak_user (the option
credentials[].valueis now marked asno_log=True). Please note that 9.5.13 was the last 9.x.y release; the 9.x.y release train is now End of Life. Thanks for everyone who contributed to 9.x.y releases!
community.beszel
dbrennand shared
community.beszel 0.5.0 has been released with support for deploying the Beszel binary agent in air-gapped or restricted network environments.
community.dns
Felix Fontein contributed
community.dns 3.4.0 (community.dns/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.dns · GitHub) has been released with an updated Public Suffix List, a new lookup plugin, and some new features.
community.docker
Felix Fontein contributed
community.docker 5.0.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released!
Certified Collections
anwesha said
General news updates 
docs.ansible.com migration to Read The Docs
Oranod contributed
We’re planning to migrate the
docs.ansible.comsubdomain to Read The Docs hosting on Monday, November 10. Hopefully the migration will go smoothly but we want to give notice in the event of unexpected behavior or outages. For more information, or to give us your thoughts, see the thread in the forum: We’re moving to Read The Docs
Help wanted
Comment on suggested roadmap for Ansible 14
mariolenz said
There is now a suggested roadmap for Ansible 14. Feel free to comment!
Community events and meetups 
Upcoming Community Events
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2025-11-12, Ansible for IBM Z community meeting
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2025-11-15, CFP close for CfgMgmtCamp 2026
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2025-11-18, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process
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2025-11-27, AWS Community Meeting
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2025-12-01, Ansible @ AWS: re:invent - December 2025
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2025-12-04, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month
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2026-02-02, CfgMgmtCamp 2026
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Every Tuesday @11AM ET, Documentation Working Group
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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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