This week in Ansible Community
Issue 219, 2026-02-27 (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 v2.16.17
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.16.17 - New Release: ansible-core v2.16.17
ansible-core v2.20.3
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.20.3 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.3
ansible-core v2.19.7
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.7 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.7
ansible-core v2.18.14
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.14 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.14
ansible.builtin.paramiko_ssh plugin was deprecated in ansible-core 2.19
Felix Fontein shared
The
ansible.builtin.paramiko_sshplugin was deprecated in ansible-core 2.19 and is about to be removed from ansible-core 2.21. This unfortunately was not mentioned in the porting guide and there is also no runtime warning, so users might not be aware of this. To find out whether there are still use-cases that need this plugin, I created a discussion on the forum (Future of the (deprecated) paramiko connection plugin). If you still use the plugin, please mention your use-case there, in case you don’t want to simply switch toansible.builtin.sshanyway. Also, in case you’re using the Paramiko connection together with network device automation, note that the Ansible network team is working on covering that specific aspect directly (but they do not cover the general connection plugin).
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.
mariolenz said
Ansible 13.4.0 package is here! 
Release announcement: Ansible community package 13.4.0
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==13.4.0 --user
Check Release Notes 
and Ansible 13 Porting Guide for more details!
Help wanted 
dbrennand shared
A community member is working on adding support for storing and downloading collections to Forgejo. If you have any inputs or suggestions, please review the code on the PR.
Collection updates 
awx.awx
mariolenz said
The awx.awx collection currently is undergoing a heavy refactoring. Unfortunately, this means that it does not align with the standards for the community package at the moment. So we decided to remove it from the Ansible Community Package (ACP) 14.
We sincerely hope that the current work on the collection will be successful and we can add it again some time in the future.Please note that you can still manually install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install awx.awx even when it has been removed from the Ansible Community Package.
community.openwrt
russoz (Alex Z) contributed
The community.openwrt version 1.1.0 has been released! See the Changelog for details.
This version comes with two new modules, a couple of bugfixes and other changes.
community.beszel
dbrennand shared
The community.beszel collection has released 0.7.1 with a bugfix to the agent and hub roles to work correctly when running in check mode.
community.general 12.4.0
Felix Fontein contributed
community.general (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-12 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) is a regular feature and bugfix release with a new callback plugin and two new modules (community.general 12.4.0 on Galaxy (Ansible Galaxy)).
community.general 11.4.5
Felix Fontein contributed
community.general 11.4.5 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-11 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) is a regular bugfix release (community.general 11.4.5 on Galaxy (Ansible Galaxy)).
community.general 10.7.8
Felix Fontein contributed
community.general 10.7.8 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) is a bugfix release (community.general 10.7.8 on Galaxy (Ansible Galaxy)).
Certified collections updated this week:
- redhat.trusted_profile_analyzer:2.2.1
- arista.avd:6.0.1
- trilio.trilio_kubernetes:1.5.0
- redhat.sap_install:1.8.0
- hitachivantara.vspone_block:4.6.1
Validated collections updated this week:
Community events and meetups 
Upcoming Community Events
- 2026-03-05, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month
- 2026-03-10, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process
- 2026-03-12, Ansible-London: Ansible London – Thursday 12th March 2026 [2026-03-12]
- 2026-03-26, Ansible-munchen: Spring starts with Ansible [2026-03-26]
- 2026-03-26, AWS Community Meeting
- 2026-03-26, Ansible-Atlanta: AIOps AAP MCP Server capabilities [2026-03-26]
- 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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