This week in Ansible Community
Issue #210, 2025-11-21 (Past Issues)
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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.
Ansible Community Package Release 13.0.0
Felix Fontein contributed
Ansible 13.0.0 package is here!
🔗forum.ansible.com/t/44866
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==13.0.0 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/13/CHANGELOG-v13.md at 13.0.0 · 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 20.0.0-1 (latest) Release
anwesha said
We’re happy to announce the release of the
- Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 20.0.0-1 (latest)!
- Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 20.0.0-1 (latest)!
Get the details of both the images in the announcement made in the Ansible Forum.
Help wanted 
Ansible 14 roadmap
mariolenz shared
There is now a vote open on the Ansible 14 roadmap.
General news updates 
andebox 1.8.0
russoz (Alex Z) said
andebox 1.8.0 has been released, dropping support for ansible-core < 2.17, amongst other changes. See the CHANGELOG for details.
Unmaintained collections in Ansible Community Package
mariolenz said
Now that 13.0.0 is out, I’ve started another round looking for possibly unmaintained collections in the Ansible Community Package. If your collection turns up on this list, feel free to comment!
Collection updates 
Archival of junipernetworks.junos Collection & Migration to juniper.device
AAYUSH ANAND shared
As part of the joint effort between Juniper Networks and the Red Hat Ansible Networking team, we’re announcing the archival of the junipernetworks.junos collection and the transition to the new consolidated collection: juniper.device.
Full details: [Announcement] Archival of junipernetworks.junos Collection & Migration to juniper.device
Certified Collections
anwesha said
Certified collections updated this week
- ibm.ibm_zos_core:1.15.1
- microsoft.ad:1.10.0
- microsoft.iis:1.1.0
- ansible.windows:3.3.0
- ansible.receptor:2.0.8
- juniper.device:2.0.1
- hitachivantara.vspone_block:4.4.2
- cisco.nd:1.4.0
- hitachivantara.vspone_object:1.1.0
- cisco.intersight:2.8.0
- amazon.ai:1.0.0
- hashicorp.terraform:1.2.0
- azure.azcollection:3.11.0
Community events and meetups 
Upcoming Community Events
- 2025-11-28, Ansible Toronto: Secrets and credential management with Ansible
- 2025-11-27, AWS Community Meeting
- 2025-12-01, Ansible @ AWS: re:invent - December 2025
- 2025-12-04, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month
- 2025-12-16, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process
- 2025-12-18, Ansible-Minneapolis: Automating with Ansible Localhost
- 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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