The Bullhorn #236

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This week in Ansible Community
Issue #236, 2026-10-16 (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:

Proposal for community event discussions

gundalow contributed

Proposal: Consolidating Ansible discussion platforms

We propose moving away from Meetup Pro and using the Ansible Forum for event information and community discussion, with Pretix for registration and ticketing.

  • Event discussions stay in the Ansible community: agendas, questions, and follow-up live on the Forum, where people can contribute and find them later.
  • Local updates are opt-in: people can follow events in the cities they care about through Forum location preferences and city notifications.
    Registration is purpose-built: Pretix handles RSVPs, attendee updates, and check-in, including offline check-in when venue connectivity is unreliable.
  • The tools are more open to community stewardship: Pretix is open source, has an API, and can be self-hosted, while the Forum provides a shared place to improve event guidance and processes.

This would give each city a place to plan and share events, while providing organisers with registration and check-in tools. It would also bring event conversations into the Ansible community’s existing spaces, where people can ask questions and share what they learn after an event.

  • Where do you currently hear about events (not just Ansible), and what would help you discover events?
  • Would you be OK having to use your Ansible Forum login to RSVP to community events?
  • Meetup Organizers: Is the workflow easy for you?

We have a proposal, and we want your feedback before we settle the details.

ACP discussion after Everpure rename

mariolenz said

The purestorage.flasharray and purestorage.flashblade collections have been renamed to everpure.flasharray and everpure.flashblade. The Ansible Community Package discussion is considering what to do with the old names and their successors for ACP 15; no decision is recorded in the thread yet. Join the discussion.

RavenDB ACP inclusion requirements

mariolenz shared

The ravendb.ravendb collection may not meet the Ansible Community Package inclusion requirements: its last release was October 30, 2025, and its last sanity test or CI run was June 15, 2026. Sanity tests run against devel but not ansible-core 2.20 or 2.21. The thread author has opened an issue in the collection repository. Maintainers and users are invited to join the discussion.

AI playbook leaderboard results

steampunks said

Hi, our team wanted to check how many errors AI makes when writing Ansible Playbooks. We tested three leading AI models on real Ansible tasks and checked outputs with Steampunk Spotter. Every model-and-scenario combination we tested came back with errors, warnings, or hints. Check out the results.

ansible-test images repository move

Felix Fontein shared

The community ansible-test images have moved from the https://github.com/ansible-community/images to the GitHub - ansible-community/ansible-test-images: Ansible container image definitions meant for ansible-test · GitHub repository. The images are still published to quay.io under the same names in Quay.

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 v2.22.0rc1 release

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.22.0rc1 - New Release: ansible-core v2.22.0rc1

ansible-core v2.21.5 release

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.21.5 - New Release: ansible-core v2.21.5

ansible-core v2.20.10 release

ansible-announce contributed

New Release: ansible-core v2.20.10 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.10

ansible-core v2.19.14 release

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.19.14 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.14

Ansible 15.0.0a3 package release

mariolenz contributed

Ansible 15.0.0a3 package (pre-release) is here! :heart:
:link:Release announcement: Ansible community package 15.0.0a3 (Pre-Release)
:computer_disk:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==15.0.0a3 --user

:right_arrow: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: and Ansible 15 Porting Guide for more details!

Antsibull :up_right_arrow:

Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.

Antsibull docs 2.28.0 release

Felix Fontein shared

antsibull-docs 2.28.0 (Release 2.28.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-docs · GitHub) has been released with support for no_log in role argument specs, which ansible-core 2.22 adds support for. It also declares support for and runs some tests with Python 3.15.

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 14.5.0 package release

Felix Fontein said

Ansible 14.5.0 package is here! :heart:
🔗forum.ansible.com/t/46426
:computer_disk:You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==14.5.0 --user

:right_arrow: Check Release Notes :package::spiral_notepad: (ansible-build-data/14/CHANGELOG-v14.md at 14.5.0 · 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:

EDA Server Operator activation namespace change

Kaio Oliveira contributed

Upstream breaking change in EDA Server Operator: activation-job namespace field removed

eda-server-operator #373 removes the experimental spec.activation_worker.activation_job_namespace field introduced by #345. This interface was upstream-only and was never backported to a stable release.

If you tested this field upstream, disable affected activations, verify their runtime resources are cleaned up, remove the field from your EDA CR, and review/remove any target-namespace Role and RoleBinding created by the previous Operator implementation. The field no longer configures activation Jobs to run in a separate namespace.

Ansible Community Execution Environment release

dbrennand said

We’re happy to announce the release of Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.21.5-2 and Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.21.5-2!

Read the full announcement on the Ansible Forum.

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

molecule-plugins bug fixes and features

dbrennand said

molecule-plugins v26.10.12 adds an option to adjust the OpenStack instance start timeout and fixes issues with Vagrant, containers, and Podman.

andebox release supports ansible-core previews

russoz (Alex Z) shared

New Release: andebox 2.1.0!

andebox 2.1.0 is out! Main feature is supporting ansible-core 2.22 pre-releases
View this release at PyPI. Check the changelog at: andebox/CHANGELOG.md at main · russoz-ansible/andebox · GitHub

Ansible Developer Tools 26.10.0 release

ansible-announce shared

Ansible Developer Tools 26.10.0 is available. The release bundles the Ansible content development tools; individual tools also published October 12 updates.

Collection updates :magic_wand:

amazon.aws 11.5.0 & 12.0.0 release

Mandar Kulkarni shared

amazon.aws 11.5.0 has been released! This minor release adds a use_deprecated_tags option to the aws_ec2 inventory plugin, migrates off the deprecated ansible.module_utils.six shims along with bugfixes across a couple modules. Refer to the changelog for more details!

RomiAsad contributed

amazon.aws 12.0.0 has been released with new bugfixes, requirements and refactoring improvements. Refer to the release for details!

ansible.netcommon 8.7.1 release

Piyush Malik shared

ansible.netcommon 8.7.1 adds transcript recording to network_cli and fixes netconf_rpc output when display is set to pretty or XML.

ansible.utils 6.1.1 release

Piyush Malik shared

ansible.utils 6.1.1 fixes deep-copy warnings in AnsibleArgSpecValidator with ansible-core 2.21+ lazy containers and corrects documentation URLs.

arista.eos 12.3.0 release

Jayant Sogikar shared

arista.eos 12.3.0 fixes TACACS+ enable-prompt handling and an ACL context bug.

cisco.ios 11.6.0 release

Jayant Sogikar shared

cisco.ios 11.6.0 adds VRRPv3 SNMP trap support and fixes command generation, parsing, and idempotency issues across several plugins.

cisco.iosxr 13.0.0 release

Piyush Malik shared

cisco.iosxr 13.0.0 includes a breaking change: the gRPC connection plugin now requires protobuf>=3.20.0 and grpcio>=1.48.4 on the controller.

cisco.nxos 13.0.0 release

Jayant Sogikar shared

cisco.nxos 13.0.0 adds HSRP hold timer support and fixes several command formatting, parsing, and state issues. The nxos_route_maps metric match format changes from integer lists to dictionaries.

community.aws 11.2.0 & 12.0.0 release

Oranod shared

community.aws 11.2.0 has been released! This minor release deprecates the inspector_target module following Amazon’s retirement of the Inspector Classic service, and includes improvements to the s3_cors module. Refer to the stable-11 changelog for details!

chyna said

community.aws 12.0.0 has been released with new bugfixes, breaking changes, and updates. Refer to the release for details!

community.clickhouse 2.4.0 release

rkozlo contributed

The community.clickhouse collection version 2.4.0 has been released!

community.crypto 3.5.0 release

Felix Fontein contributed

community.crypto 3.5.0 (community.crypto/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.crypto · GitHub) has been released with support for ML-DSA-44 SSH keys and ansible-core 2.22’s new secret masking.

community.dns 4.3.0 and 3.5.11 releases

Felix Fontein said

community.dns 4.3.0 (community.dns/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.dns · GitHub) and community.dns 3.5.11 (community.dns/CHANGELOG.md at stable-3 · ansible-collections/community.dns · GitHub) have been released with support for dnspython 2.9.0 and an updated Public Suffix List. Version 4.3.0 also deprecates the values return values for which alternatives (entries) have been added a year ago, and replaces wait_for_txt’s values option with its alias entries.

community.docker 5.4.0 and 4.8.9 releases

Felix Fontein said

community.docker 5.4.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) and community.docker 4.8.9 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at stable-4 · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) have been released with a bugfix and (for 5.4.0 only) support ansible-core 2.22’s new secret masking.

community.general 13.5.0 and 12.6.6 releases

Felix Fontein contributed

Today there were two new releases:

Please note that 13.5.0 is the last feature release for the 13.x.y release train. The next feature release will be community.general 14.0.0 in roughly four weeks.

community.hrobot 2.8.0 release

Felix Fontein said

community.hrobot 2.8.0 (community.hrobot/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.hrobot · GitHub) has been released with support for ansible-core 2.22’s new secret masking.

community.openwrt 1.9.0 release

russoz (Alex Z) said

New Release: community.openwrt 1.9.0 has been released today, proudly featuring the complete rewrite of the modules in ucode, a Javascript-like language tailored specifically for OpenWrt devices and installed by default in all supported versions of the system. However impactful this change has been in the implementation of the collection, it has aimed to maintain backward compatibility and to be transparent to the users of the collection. Happy routing!

community.postgresql 5.0.0 release

andersson007_ shared

The community.postgresql collection version 5.0.0 has been released! Thanks to everyone involved!

community.sops 2.5.0 release

Felix Fontein shared

community.sops 2.5.0 (community.sops/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.sops · GitHub) has been released with support for ansible-core 2.22’s new secret masking.

DebOps 3.3.2 release

drybjed shared

New release of DebOps is out, v3.3.2. This release brings many bugfixes backported from the master branch of the project, as well as new Debian Installer netboot experience based on the di-netboot-assistant Debian package.

infra.aap_configuration 4.10.0 release

Sean Sullivan contributed

infra.aap_configuration 4.10.0 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 3.4.3 release

Sean Sullivan shared

infra.controller_configuration 3.4.3 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.ee_utilities 4.6.0 release

Sean Sullivan said

infra.ee_utilities 4.6.0 has been released.
This Ansible collection makes it easy to build execution environments for AWX or Ansible Controller server and converting 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.

infra.support_assist 2.1.0 release

Lenny Shirley said

infra.support_assist 2.1.0 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 https://github.com/redhat-cop/infra.support_assist/ for more information and updates.

kubernetes.core 6.6.0 and 5.5.0 releases

Oranod shared

kubernetes.core version 6.6.0 and version 5.5.0 have been released! Both versions include various improvements and bug fixes along with some deprecations. View the changelogs for complete details and install with ansible-galaxy collection install kubernetes.core.

Certified collections weekly update

dbrennand shared

Certified collections updated this week:

Proposals - discuss and vote! :ballot_box_with_ballot:

cisco.ucs removal vote accepted

mariolenz shared

The vote on removing cisco.ucs from the Ansible Community Package (ACP) 16 has been accepted.

Please note that you can still manually install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.ucs even when it has been removed from the Ansible Community Package. Additionally, there is a successor collection (cisco.intersight) which is already included in the ACP.

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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