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This week in Ansible Community
Issue #224, 2026-04-17 (Past Issues)

Welcome to The Bullhorn, our newsletter for the Ansible Community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, you’re welcome to chat with us in the Ansible Social room on Matrix, and mention newsbot to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue!

Red Hat Summit 2026

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

Major new releases :trophy:

Ansible-Core :up_right_arrow:

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 Beta Release

ansible-announce contributed

New Release: ansible-core v2.21.0b1 - New Release: ansible-core v2.21.0b1

Latest ansible-core Beta

ansible-announce said

New Release: ansible-core v2.21.0b2 - New Release: ansible-core v2.21.0b2

Antsibull :up_right_arrow:

Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.

antsibull-nox Release

Felix Fontein shared

antsibull-nox 1.6.0 (Release 1.6.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) has been released with new features and bugfixes. It includes support for the new ansible-core stable-2.21 branch and its bumped devel and milestone branches.

Ansible Community Package :up_right_arrow:

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.

Latest Ansible Package Pre-Release

Felix Fontein contributed

Ansible 14.0.0a2 package (pre-release) is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 14.0.0a2 (Pre-Release)
:computer_disk:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==14.0.0a2 --user

:right_arrow: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: (ansible-build-data/14/CHANGELOG-v14.md at 14.0.0a2 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 14 Porting Guide (Ansible 14 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!

Ansible Package Alpha Release

mariolenz contributed

Ansible 14.0.0a1 package (pre-release) is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 14.0.0a1 (Pre-Release)
:computer_disk:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==14.0.0a1 --user

:right_arrow: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: and Ansible 14 Porting Guide for more details!

Project updates :hammer_and_wrench:

Community Execution Environment Releases

anwesha contributed

We’re happy to announce the release of the

Read the whole release announcement here.

On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!

andebox Release Update

russoz (Alex Z) shared

andebox 1.10.0 has been released, adding support to Ansible 2.21 (and bumping dev to 2.22), plus dependencies updates. See the CHANGELOG for details.

Collection updates :magic_wand:

cisco.dnac Collection Deprecated

mariolenz contributed

The cisco.dnac collection has been deprecated. There’s a new collection, cisco.catalystcenter, to replace it. However, it’s a little bit unclear what we should do about this. If you’re interested in either collection, please join the discussion.

infra.ee_utilities Release

Sean Sullivan shared

infra.ee_utilities 4.2.5 has been released.
This Ansible collection makes it easy to build execution environments for AWX or Ansible Controller server and convert 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. · GitHub for more information and updates.

community.proxmox Beta Release

thulium-drake said

The first beta release of community.proxmox 2.0.0-beta1 is here! :tada: This release comes with some exciting new features and new modules once again! Please note that due to the large refactoring effort that is going on, we’re going to release a few beta releases first. You can help us a great deal by reporting bugs or other problems you encounter with this! Get it now on Galaxy! :rocket:

Thanks to all the contributors on Github that keep this show alive! :heart:

community.sops Pre-Release

Felix Fontein shared

community.sops 2.3.0-b1 (Release 2.3.0-b1 · ansible-collections/community.sops · GitHub) has been released. This pre-release has support for ansible-core 2.21.0b1, which allows community.sops.load_vars to set actual variables (instead of facts, as a work-around). If you are using community.sops.load_vars and want to test this with ansible-core 2.21.0 pre-releases, we would be happy to receive feedback (in the community.sops issue tracker (Issues · ansible-collections/community.sops · GitHub) or in the forum under the sops tag (Topics tagged sops)). Thanks!

community.docker Export Feature

Felix Fontein shared

community.docker 5.2.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released with a new feature for the community.docker.docker_image_export module, to allow exporting a specific platform variant from a multi-arch image.

community.routeros Update

Felix Fontein said

community.routeros 3.19.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released with support for RouterOS 7.22 and 7.22.1, some more missing parameters, and deprecations for being able to write to certain parameters that should be read-only.

infra.aap_configuration Release

Sean Sullivan contributed

infra.aap_configuration 4.4.0 has been released.
This Ansible collection allows for easy configuration of an Ansible Automation Platform via Ansible roles using the certified collections.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/infra.aap_configuration: A collection of roles to manage Ansible Automation Platform 2.5+ with code · GitHub for more information and updates.

infra.controller_configuration Release

Sean Sullivan contributed

infra.controller_configuration 3.2.6 has been released.
This Ansible collection allows for easy interaction with an AWX or Ansible Controller server via Ansible roles using the AWX/Controller collection modules.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/infra.controller_configuration: ansible collection for standardizing configuring AAP 2.4 and earlier · GitHub for more information and updates.

infra.aap_utilities Major Release

Sean Sullivan contributed

infra.aap_utilities 3.0.0 has been released.
This Ansible collection provides utility roles for usage with Ansible Automation Platform.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/aap_utilities: Ansible Collection for automated deployment of AAP and other objects for general use · GitHub for more information and updates.

Certified Collections Weekly Update

dbrennand shared

Certified collections updated this week:

Help wanted :folded_hands:

OpenSuSE Testing for Collections

Felix Fontein said

If anyone is interested in having OpenSuSE testing for collections, please note that ansible-test removed its last OpenSuSE based container image already some time ago (ansible-core 2.16 was the last version to have one). It would be great if an OpenSuSE based image could be added to GitHub - ansible-community/images: Ansible container image definitions meant for ansible-test and Execution Environments · GitHub, so it can for example be used to test the OpenSuSE package manager modules in community.general. If you’re interested in helping creating and maintaining such an image, please look at the corresponding issue in the images repository (Add OpenSuSE ansible-test image · Issue #146 · ansible-community/images · GitHub).

Community updates :ear:

Ansible Community AI Policy Proposal

andersson007_ contributed

We’d love to hear your feedback on the Ansible Community AI Policy Proposal. We have a draft PR ready for review—please head over to the forum to share your thoughts and help us shape these new standards together!

Maintainers :up_right_arrow:

Maintainers help to run the community!

ansible-core Branch Updates

Felix Fontein shared

ansible-core’s devel and milestone branch have been bumped to 2.22.0.dev0. For more details see the forum post (Ansible-core devel and milestone bumped to 2.22.0.dev0).

New community.clickhouse Maintainer

andersson007_ contributed

In the community.clickhouse collection, we’re excited to announce that Rafał Kozłowski (GitHub: @rkozlo), a contributor to the project, has joined the maintainers team!
Welcome aboard, Rafał — and thank you for your commitment to helping shape and sustain the project!

Collections Needing New Releases

mariolenz shared

We’ve just released Ansible 14.0.0a1, so it’s a little bit early to start a forum thread about possibly unmaintained collections similar to the one for Ansible 13. However, there are some collections that didn’t see a new release for some time (since Ansible 12.0.0, that is several months). Maybe the maintainers of those collections could have a look. At least some of those collections seem to have commits fixing things. But without doing a new release, users won’t benefit from this.

  • ansible.posix
  • cisco.ucs
  • community.ciscosmb
  • community.grafana
  • community.okd
  • community.rabbitmq
  • dellemc.unity
  • infinidat.infinibox
  • lowlydba.sqlserver
  • vyos.vyos

The maintainers of those collections should consider if it’s time to do a new release. If not to make it easier for people working on the Ansible Community Package to find (possibly) unmaintained collections, do it to ship bugfixes and maybe even new features to your users :smirking_face:

Community events and meetups :date:

Securing Ansible Workflows Webinar

steampunks shared

Hi, we’re organizing a free live webinar on April 22 at 3PM CEST — Live Demo: Securing Ansible Workflows with Steampunk Spotter. We’ll go beyond the theory and show Spotter’s core security capabilities in action, walking through a real enterprise environment where Spotter surfaced security and compliance issues across Ansible Playbooks. If securing your Ansible environment is on your radar, this session is worth your time: Live Demo: Securing Ansible Workflows with Steampunk Spotter | XLAB Steampunk

Upcoming Meetups and Working Groups

dbrennand shared

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!