This week in Ansible Community
Issue #212, 2025-12-15 (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 v2.19.5 release
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.5 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.5
ansible-core v2.18.12 release
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.12 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.12
ansible-core v2.20.1 release
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.20.1 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.1
ansible-core v2.16.15 release
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.16.15 - New Release: ansible-core v2.16.15
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 release: 11.13.0
Felix Fontein shared
Ansible 11.13.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.13.0
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==11.13.0 --user
This is the final 11.X.X release.
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/11/CHANGELOG-v11.md at 11.13.0 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 11 Porting Guide (Ansible 11 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Ansible package release: 12.3.0
Felix Fontein contributed
Ansible 12.3.0 package is here!
python3 -m pip install ansible==12.3.0 --user
This is the final 12.X.X release.
Ansible package release: 13.1.0
gotmax23 said
Ansible 13.1.0 package is here!
python3 -m pip install ansible==13.1.0 --user
Ansible Community Execution Environment Base and Minimal release
anwesha said
We’re happy to announce the release of the
Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.19.5-1 !
Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.19.5-1 !
Get the details of both the images in the announcement made in the Ansible Forum.
General news updates 
andebox 1.9.0
russoz (Alex Z) contributed
andebox 1.9.0 has been released, fully supporting Python 3.14, plus dependencies updates. See the CHANGELOG for details.
ara 1.7.4
dmsimard said
ara 1.7.4 has been released ! It features improvements to the web UI and a fix for Django 5.2 with MariaDB.
Get it from:
- PyPI: ara · PyPI
- Quay.io: Quay
- Docker Hub: recordsansible/ara-api - Docker Image
Full release notes are on Codeberg: Overloaded right now.</h3> <p>Please retry either now or later (by hitting refresh/reload). </p> </div.
Enjoy
Fallible 2025.12.5
gotmax23 contributed
Fallible 2025.12.5 was released with Register Projections and new Action API previews. See the announcement on the forum for more details.
antsibull-nox
Felix Fontein said
antsibull-nox 1.4.0 (Release 1.4.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) has been released with new features and bugfixes.
Ansible Meetup Strategy
anwesha said
We are delighted to announce the official adoption of the New Ansible Community Meetup Strategy!
You can review the full Meetup Strategy document here: https://github.com/ansible-community/meetup/blob/main/docs/ansible\_meetup\_strategy.md. The official annoucement can be read here.
Welcome Maintainer to community.postgresql
Maintainers help to run the community!
andersson007_ said
In the community.postgresql collection, we’re excited to announce that George Spanos (GitHub: @gspanos), a long-time contributor to the project, has joined the maintainers team!
Welcome aboard, George — and thank you for your commitment to helping shape and sustain the project!
Collection updates 
splunk.es
Oranod shared (On behalf of Steve Fulmer)
The Red Hat Ecosystem team is officially taking ownership and stewardship of the
splunk.esAnsible collection. This marks a commitment to ensuring the collection’s continued health, reliability, and expansion. We are immediately beginning active work to identify and fix any outstanding issues, bugs, or inconsistencies that may exist within the current collection. Our primary goal is to ensure a stable and high-quality automation experience for all users.
You can find all the details about this change in our forum announcement, where you can also join the conversation and reply with any comments or questions.
infra.aap_configuration
Sean Sullivan contributed
infra.aap_configuration 3.9.1 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.
community.openwrt
russoz (Alex Z) shared
The community.openwrt version 0.2.0 has been released! See the announcement post in the forum.
Like version 0.1.0 before it, this release is not yet production-ready, but it can be put to test. Volunteers are welcome!
The community.openwrt has had its very first release published to Ansible Galaxy!
This release is not production-ready yet, but it can be put to test. There is a lot of work to be done, but we believe that having an early release out there might be interesting for the community.
Read more in Announcement: community.openwrt
infra.ee_utilitie
Sean Sullivan said
infra.ee_utilities 4.1.1 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.clickhouse
andersson007_ said
The community.clickhouse collection version 1.1.0 has been released!
andebox 1.9.0
russoz (Alex Z) contributed
andebox 1.9.0 has been released, fully supporting Python 3.14, plus dependencies updates. See the CHANGELOG for details.
community.postgresql
andersson007_ contributed
The community.postgresql collection versions 4.2.0 and 3.14.3 have been released. Thanks everyone involved!
Certified Collections
anwesha said
Certified collections updated this week
- netscaler.adc:2.13.0
- ansible.mcp:1.0.0
- cisco.ios:11.2.0
- cisco.nxos:11.1.1
- cisco.iosxr:12.1.1
- zscaler.zpacloud:2.1.0
- purestorage.flashblade:1.23.0
- os_migrate.vmware_migration_kit:2.1.8
- cisco.intersight:2.12.0
- cisco.aci:2.13.0
Community events and meetups 
- 2025-12-16, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process
- 2025-12-19, Ansible-Minneapolis: Automating with Ansible Localhost. [2025-12-19]
- 2025-12-25, AWS Community Meeting
- 2026-01-01, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month
- 2026-01-17, Ansible-india: Ansible Bangalore Meetup - January 2026 [2026-01-17]
- 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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