The Bullhorn #225

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This week in Ansible Community
Issue #225, 2026-04-24 (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.

General news updates :speaker_low_volume:

Ansible and the EU Cyber Resilience Act

anwesha shared

Ansible and the EU CRA: Stronger Together

The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is setting new standards for software security, and the Ansible project is embracing it as an opportunity to strengthen the open-source ecosystem. By prioritizing “security by default,” the CRA aligns with our goal of providing a robust, reliable automation platform.

Red Hat has been the biggest supporter and sponsor of the Ansible project. Red Hat extends its help throughout the journey of the Open Source Software Stewardship for Ansible. By taking on the administrative and legal responsibilities of CRA compliance—such as vulnerability reporting and documentation—Red Hat ensures that community contributors can stay focused on innovation without the burden of regulatory overhead.

This partnership guarantees that Ansible remains a trusted, “security-first” automation platform while preserving the open, collaborative spirit we all value.

Read the full announcement on the Ansible Forum

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 2.18.16 release

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.18.16 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.16

ansible-core 2.20.5 release

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.20.5 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.5

ansible-core 2.19.9 release

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.19.9 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.9

ansible-core 2.21.0b3 release

ansible-announce said

New Release: ansible-core v2.21.0b3 - New Release: ansible-core v2.21.0b3

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.

Ansible 13.6.0 release

gotmax23 contributed

Ansible 13.6.0 package is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 13.6.0
:computer_disk:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==13.6.0 --user

:right_arrow: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: and Ansible 13 Porting Guide for more details!

Ansible 14.0.0a3 pre-release

Felix Fontein said

Ansible 14.0.0a3 package (pre-release) is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 14.0.0a3 (Pre-Release)
:computer_disk:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==14.0.0a3 --user

:right_arrow: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: (ansible-build-data/14/CHANGELOG-v14.md at 14.0.0a3 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 14 Porting Guide (Ansible 14 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!

Project updates :hammer_and_wrench:

ansible-jailexec connection plugin releases

larvitz said

I shipped two releases of ansible-jailexec, a connection plugin that runs tasks inside FreeBSD jails via jexec on the jail host, so you don’t need (and usually don’t want) direct SSH into the jails themselves.

1.1.0 is a ground-up refactor. The plugin now subclasses ansible.plugins.connection.ssh.Connection and merges the live ssh plugin’s options into its own at import time. That means every SSH option like ansible_ssh_port, ansible_ssh_private_key_file, ansible_ssh_common_args, ControlPersist, jump hosts, password_mechanism, and anything newer ansible-core adds, works without the plugin needing to know about it. Roughly a quarter of the old code, stricter input validation (jail names + traversal checks), single-round-trip put_file, lazy jail-root probe, full unit test suite with 100% coverage, Bandit in CI. Tested against ansible-core 2.14 through 2.20.

1.2.0 adds ansible_jail_root, an inventory-level override for the jail’s on-host filesystem path. The default probe (jls -j <name> path) is fine for vanilla jails, but returns something unhelpful for nested or VNET setups. The override sidesteps that.

Happy to hear bug reports, edge cases, or interest in bundling this into a collection.

Community Execution Environment release

anwesha contributed

We’re happy to announce the release of:

Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.20.5-1 (Latest)
Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.20.5-1 (Latest)
Read the full release announcement here.

Join the new Ansible Community Forum to follow along and participate in all the discussions and release related discussions and announcements. On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!

Collection updates :magic_wand:

community.crypto 3.2.0 release

Felix Fontein contributed

community.crypto 3.2.0 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) has been released with new (experimental) features (dns-account-01 and dns-persist-01 support) and bugfixes for the ACME modules, as well as new filter plugins to help with creating dns-persist-01 DNS records.

community.proxysql 1.8.0 release

andersson007_ contributed

The community.proxysql collection version 1.8.0 has been released!

kubernetes.core 6.4.0 release

Bianca Henderson contributed

The kubernetes.core collection version 6.4.0 has been released!

This release adds Helm v4 compatibility across the Helm modules and improves k8s_drain with check mode. When you explicitly allow evicting unmanaged pods, pods with local storage, or pods managed by a DaemonSet, those cases are reported as informational output instead of module warnings.

Please see the changelog for more info.

community.routeros 3.20.0 release

Felix Fontein contributed

community.routeros 3.20.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) is out with new features for the API modules.

community.sops 2.3.0 release

Felix Fontein shared

community.sops 2.3.0 (Release 2.3.0 · ansible-collections/community.sops · GitHub) is out with ansible-core 2.21 support for community.sops.load_vars, improved sops_binary handling for the lookup and vars plugin, proper argument spec validation for the community.sops.decrypt filter plugin, and option support for new features added in the last SOPS versions.

community.general 12.6.0 and 11.4.7 releases

Felix Fontein said

Today there were two new releases:

Note that 12.6.0 is the last feature release for the 12.x.y release train. The next feature release will be 13.0.0 in approximately four weeks. Also note that the 10.x.y release train will become End of Life at that point.

community.openwrt 1.3.0 release

russoz (Alex Z) said

The community.openwrt version 1.3.0 has been released!

This version comes with bugfixes, few improvements, and one breaking change in the community.openwrt.setup module. See the CHANGELOG for details.

infra.support_assist 1.0.1 release

Lenny Shirley said

infra.support_assist 1.0.1 has been released.
This Ansible Collection will gather various reports/outputs that are commonly asked for in Red Hat Support Cases, and can optionally
create the case, and then upload the diagnostics directly to the Support Case Portal.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/infra.support_assist: This Ansible Collection will gather various reports/outputs that are commonly asked for in Red Hat Support Cases, and can optionally upload them directly to the Support Case Portal. · GitHub For more information and updates.

Certified Collections weekly update

dbrennand shared

Certified collections updated this week:

Community updates :ear:

Documenting breaking changes in collections

mariolenz shared

There is now a discussion on documenting breaking changes in collections.

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!

New community.proxysql maintainer

andersson007_ shared

In the community.proxysql collection, we’re excited to announce that Janos Ruszo (GitHub: @jruszo), a contributor who greatly expanded the project by adding PostgreSQL support, has joined the maintainers team!
Welcome aboard, Janos — and thank you for your commitment to helping shape and sustain the project!

Community events and meetups

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!

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