The Bullhorn #235

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This week in Ansible Community
Issue #235, 2026-09-14 (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!

General news updates :speaker_low_volume:

ansible-test container retirement

Felix Fontein shared

Following the End of Life of Debian 11, the ansible-test container image quay.io/ansible-community/test-image:debian-bullseye has been retired and is no longer regenerated daily. (Removal PR (Remove Debian Bullseye image by felixfontein · Pull Request #169 · ansible-community/images · GitHub), forum announcement (Ansible-test images: Debian 11 (Bullseye) image retired).)

Team Nebula submissions for CfgMgmtCamp 2027

Oranod said

The team that maintains several of the cloud related collections, codenamed team Nebula, is considering several different submissions for CfgMgmtCamp 2027 and we’d like to hear from you!

Please join us in the forum to take part in our poll to have your say on which collections the team should present on. We’re looking forward to hearing from you and can’t wait to see you in Ghent!

GitHub Actions deprecation in February 2027

dbrennand said

The github-action-build-collection and github-action-test-galaxy-import GitHub Actions have been scheduled for deprecation in February 2027. If you’re using these actions in your GitHub workflows then please see the linked GitHub issues for migration guidance. Affected collection repositories have been notified with individual GitHub issues. See the Ansible Forum Discussion for further details.

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 2.21.3 release

ansible-announce contributed

New Release: ansible-core v2.21.3 - New Release: ansible-core v2.21.3

ansible-core 2.19.12 release

ansible-announce said

New Release: ansible-core v2.19.12 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.12

FreeBSD remote upgrade

Felix Fontein said

ansible-core devel’s ansible-test upgraded its FreeBSD 15.0 remote to 15.1: Ansible-test devel: FreeBSD 15.0 remote replaced with FreeBSD 15.1

ansible-core 2.20.9 release

ansible-announce contributed

New Release: ansible-core v2.20.9 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.9

ansible-core 2.18.19 release

ansible-announce contributed

New Release: ansible-core v2.18.19 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.19

ansible-core 2.21.4 release

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.21.4 - New Release: ansible-core v2.21.4

ansible-core 2.19.13 release

ansible-announce said

New Release: ansible-core v2.19.13 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.13

ansible-core 2.20.8 release

ansible-announce said

New Release: ansible-core v2.20.8 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.8

Antsibull :up_right_arrow:

Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.

antsibull-docs 2.27.0 release

Felix Fontein said

ansibull-docs 2.27.0 (Release 2.27.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-docs · GitHub) has been released. It supports the new secret keyword for plugin options that will be introduced in ansible-core 2.22 for the new Secret Masking API (Add new Secret Masking API by jborean93 · Pull Request #87457 · ansible/ansible · GitHub).

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 14.4.0 package release

Felix Fontein shared

Ansible 14.4.0 package is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 14.4.0
:computer_disk:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==14.4.0 --user

:right_arrow: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: (ansible-build-data/14/CHANGELOG-v14.md at 14.4.0 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 14 Porting Guide (Ansible 14 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!

cisco.ucs inclusion violation

mariolenz said

It looks like cisco.ucs violates the Ansible Community Package inclusion requirements. The last CI run seems to have been 2 months ago. This looks like we should remove the collection from the Ansible Community Package. If you’re a maintainer or user of this collection, feel free to join the discussion on the forum!

Ansible 14.3.0 package release

Felix Fontein said

Ansible 14.3.0 package is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 14.3.0
:computer_disk:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==14.3.0 --user

:right_arrow: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: (ansible-build-data/14/CHANGELOG-v14.md at 14.3.0 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 14 Porting Guide (Ansible 14 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!

dellemc.unity removal from ACP 16

mariolenz shared

The dellemc.unity collection violates the Ansible Community Package (ACP) requirements and will be removed from ACP 16.

Please note that you can still install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install dellemc.unity even when it has been removed from the Ansible Community

Ansible 14.3.1 package release

Felix Fontein contributed

Ansible 14.3.1 package is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 14.3.1
:computer_disk:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==14.3.1 --user

:right_arrow: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: (ansible-build-data/14/CHANGELOG-v14.md at 14.3.1 · 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:

antsibull-nox 1.9.0 release

Felix Fontein said

antsibull-nox 1.9.0 (Release 1.9.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) has been released with many smaller improvements and bugfixes.

Collection updates :magic_wand:

community.general 13.3.0 and 12.6.4 releases

Felix Fontein said

There have been two new community.general releases:

infra.aap_utilities 4.0.0 release

Sean Sullivan said

infra.aap_utilities 4.0.0 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.

community.routeros 3.22.0 release

Felix Fontein contributed

community.routeros 3.22.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released with new features for the API modules.

community.docker 5.3.0 release

Felix Fontein shared

community.docker 5.3.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released with a new feature for the docker_swarm_service module.

community.general 13.4.0 and 12.6.5 releases

Felix Fontein said

There were two new community.general releases:

community.openwrt 1.7.0 release

russoz (Alex Z) said

The community.openwrt version 1.7.0 has been released!

This is a regular release. See the CHANGELOG for details.

infra.aap_configuration 4.8.0 & 4.9.0 release

Sean Sullivan said

infra.aap_configuration 4.9.0 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.

community.crypto 3.4.0 release

Felix Fontein shared

community.crypto 3.4.0 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) has been released with two new modules for PKCS#12 archives (openssl_pkcs12_extract and openssl_pkcs12_info), and deprecations for select_crypto_backend options that lost their use in 3.0.0.

community.okd 6.0.0 release

Oranod contributed

community.okd 6.0.0 has been released. This release drops support for ansible-core versions below 2.16, replaces all ansible.module_utils.six imports with Python 3 stdlib equivalents, and fixes deprecated ansible.module_utils._text imports for compatibility with ansible-core 2.24+. Please see the changelogs for all release details.

community.dns 4.1.0 release

Felix Fontein contributed

community.dns 4.1.0 (community.dns/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.dns · GitHub) is out with bugfixes, an updated Public Suffix List, improved API handling for Hetzner DNS record info modules, a lenient option for the community.dns.unquote_txt filter, and a set of modules and an inventory plugin for working with Infomaniak’s DNS service.

Certified Collections Weekly Update

dbrennand shared

Certified collections updated this week:

Proposals - discuss and vote! :ballot_box_with_ballot:

Conventional commits adoption

chyna contributed

The team that maintains many of the cloud-related content collection is also considering the adoption of the conventional commits format, and would like to solicit opinions and feedback from the community on that front. Please see our forum post to chime in!

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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