This week in Ansible Community
Issue #223, 2026-03-30 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
Ansible AI collaboration repository
gundalow said
New repo for Ansible AI collaboration
To allow the community to share and develop AI tooling for Ansible, we’d like to propose a new ansible-community repo for collaboration.
Key Principles
- LLM-agnostic: works across AI platforms
- For all: This isn’t just about Ansible Collection development, though all of Ansible
- Community driven: contributions not just welcome, but encouraged
- Community maintained: not Red Hat Supported
- Iterate fast: expect rapid evolution as the space matures
- For practitioners: these are tools for Ansible developers, by Ansible
developers- Use if you want to: complementary to existing workflows, never mandatory
See the forum post for details on what existing skills would fit here and how you can help.
New CI requirement for included collections
andersson007_ said
The Ansible community and its steering committee have discussed and introduced a new Ansible community package collection inclusion requirement. If you maintain a collection included in the Ansible community package, please add testing against the devel or milestone branches of ansible-core to your CI if you aren’t already doing so. This requirement ensures that you find out about new linting requirements and compatibility issues between your collection and ansible-core early. See the forum post for details.
Ansible playbook scanning tools
steampunks said
Hi, as Ansible automation scales, keeping playbooks safe and compliant is harder than ever. We’ve prepared a guide to help you choose the right playbook scanning tools to catch risks early and enforce policies: 5 Best Ansible Playbook Scanning Tools in 2026 for Secure and Scalable Automation | XLAB Steampunk blog
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 2.16.18 release
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.16.18 - New Release: ansible-core v2.16.18
ansible-core 2.19.8 release
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.8 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.8
ansible-core 2.20.4 release
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.20.4 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.4
ansible-core 2.18.15 release
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.15 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.15
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 13.5.0 package release
Felix Fontein said
Ansible 13.5.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 13.5.0
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==13.5.0 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/13/CHANGELOG-v13.md at 13.5.0 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 13 Porting Guide (Ansible 13 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Collection updates 
community.docker 5.1.0 release
Felix Fontein said
community.docker 5.1.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) is out with a new feature for the docker_compose_v2_pull module.
community.beszel 1.0.0 release
dbrennand said
community.beszel 1.0.0 has released with various improvements to the agent and hub roles.
community.general 12.5.0 and 11.4.6 releases
Felix Fontein said
- community.general 12.5.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-12 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) is a regular feature and bugfix release with four new modules and a bunch of deprecations.
- community.general 11.4.6 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-11 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) is a regular bugfix release.
community.routeros 3.18.0 release
Felix Fontein said
community.routeros 3.18.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) is out with a new feature for the api_modify module in the path
interface veth.
community.openwrt 1.2.0 release
russoz (Alex Z) contributed
The community.openwrt version 1.2.0 has been released! See the Changelog for details.
This version comes with one new module, a couple of bugfixes and other changes.
Certified collections weekly update
dbrennand shared
Certified collections updated this week:
- chocolatey.chocolatey:1.6.0
- cisco.intersight:2.16.0
- cisco.meraki:2.23.1
- cyberark.isp:1.0.7
- cyberark.pas:1.0.39
- ibm.power_hmc:1.15.0
- microsoft.hyperv:1.0.0
- netscaler.adc:2.16.0
- redhat.amq_streams:1.0.1
- redhat.artifact_signer:1.3.3
- redhat.jbcs:1.1.4
- redhat.jws:2.1.2
- redhat.openshift_virtualization:2.2.4
- redhat.runtimes_common:1.2.3
- redhat.satellite_operations:4.0.0
- redhat.sso:2.0.1
Community events and meetups
Upcoming meetups and working groups
dbrennand shared
- 2026-04-02, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month
- 2026-04-07, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process
- 2026-04-23, AWS Community Meeting
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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