The Bullhorn #220

[samccann (Sandra McCann)]

This week in Ansible Community
Issue #220, 2026-03-06 (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 2.16.17

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.16.17 - New Release: ansible-core v2.16.17

ansible-core 2.20.3

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.20.3 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.3

ansible-core 2.19.7

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.19.7 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.7

ansible-core 2.18.14

ansible-announce contributed

New Release: ansible-core v2.18.14 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.14

ansible.builtin.paramiko_ssh deprecation notice

Felix Fontein shared

The ansible.builtin.paramiko_ssh plugin 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 to ansible.builtin.ssh anyway. 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.

Ansible community package 13.4.0

mariolenz shared

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!

Collection updates

community.openwrt release

russoz (Alex Z) said

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.general release

Felix Fontein shared

community.general 12.4.0 (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 (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 (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)).

community.routeros release

Felix Fontein said

community.routeros 3.17.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) is now out with a lot of new changes for api_modify and api_info. Many new paths are now supported, and the list of supported fields have been adjusted to match several newer RouterOS versions.

Certified collections updates

samccann contributed

Certified collections updated this week:

• splunk.itsi:1.0.1
• ansible.scm:3.1.1
• fortinet.fortimanager:2.13.0
• cisco.intersight:2.14.0
• os_migrate.vmware_migration_kit:2.2.2
• ibm.ibm_zos_core:1.16.0
• google.cloud:1.12.0
• ansible.windows:3.4.0
• redhat.sap_infrastructure:1.3.1
• redhat.trusted_profile_analyzer:2.2.2
• paloaltonetworks.panos:3.3.0

community.beszel release

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.

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.

awx.awx removal from Ansible Community Package

mariolenz shared

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.

Help wanted

Partner communication forum proposal

Oranod contributed

The Community and Partner Engineering team have proposed bringing Red Hat partner communication into the forum to encourage open participation and increase transparency for the community. To support those goals we’ve put forward some suggestions on the approach and opened a poll.

Please take a few minutes to read through the proposal and cast your vote. We’re open to ideas and want to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to share their thoughts.

We intend to close the poll on Friday, March 13, but might keep it open past that day if it seems like folks need more time to respond.

So head over to our forum poll and have your say here: Proposing a New "Red Hat Partners" Category for the Ansible Forum - #18 by oranod

Forgejo collection storage support

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.

Community events and meetups

Red Hat Summit 2026

gundalow said

Red Hat Summit 2026: Bird tickets available now!

The “earliest” tickets have sold out, the reduced “early” price is available till March 25.

Join us for Red Hat Summit in Atlanta, GA | May 11-14, 2026

Early tickets are available till March 25, so don’t miss out.

View the full agenda when the session catalog launches in March 2026.

Upcoming community events

samccann shared

• 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]
• 2026-04-02, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month
• 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!

Have any questions you’d like to ask, or issues you’d like to see covered? Please ask in #social:ansible.com! See you next time!