The Bullhorn #238

gundalow · November 2, 2026, 9:40am

This week in Ansible Community
Issue #238, 2026-11-02 (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

CfgMgmtCamp 2027 call for papers

gundalow shared

CfgMgmtCamp Call for Papers: closes in 3 weeks
The CFP for CfgMgmtCamp
Configuration Management Camp takes place in Ghent, Belgium, 1–3 February 2027
There is still time to submit your talk idea, and let us know what you’d like to hear about

Official Website and guide

5, 25, 50 minute talks welcome

Submit your topic

About CfgMgmtCamp

Got an idea, but don’t want to present, tell us what you want to hear at CfgMgmtCamp 2027

Ansible event discussion and registration proposal

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?

Are we missing a meetup city?

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

ansible-core secret masking discussions

Felix Fontein said

I’ve started two discussions on ansible-core 2.22’s new Secret masking feature, that are of interest both to interested collection developers and users:

What information should callback plugins mask? What information should callback plugins mask?

How to register secrets - as plugin developers, and users? How to register secrets - as plugin developers, and users?

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 2.22.0rc2 release

ansible-announce said

New Release: ansible-core v2.22.0rc2 - New Release: ansible-core v2.22.0rc2

antsibull

Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.

antsibull-nox 1.10.0 release

Felix Fontein shared

antsibull-nox 1.10.0 (Release 1.10.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) has been released. Alongside a few bugfixes and support for Python 3.15, its antsibull-nox CLI tool includes a new experimental release subcommand that helps with common tasks needed for releasing collections. The initial version only supports GitHub based collections that are published through Ansible’s Zuul instance to Ansible Galaxy, which covers all community.* collections and some more. Check out the “Releasing a collection” chapter (Releasing a collection - antsibull-nox – Antsibull Nox Helper) of the documentation for more information.

antsibull-changelog 0.36.0 release

Felix Fontein said

antsibull-changelog 0.36.0 (Release 0.36.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-changelog · GitHub) has been released with a breaking change: as announced more than a year ago, the boolean options --is-collection <value> and --collection-flatmap <value> are now proper flags (with --no- variants).

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 community package 15.0.0a4 release

gotmax23 contributed

Ansible 15.0.0a4 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 15.0.0a4 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==15.0.0a4 --user
Check Release Notes and Ansible 15 Porting Guide for more details!

Project updates

Ansible community package roadmap proposal

andersson007_ contributed

We invite everyone to take part in the Proposal: trimming down the Ansible community package and collection removal roadmap discussion. Any feedback will be much appreciated!

andebox 2.2.0 release

russoz (Alex Z) said

New Release: andebox 2.2.0!

andebox 2.2.0 is out! This version drops support for ansible-core 2.18 and 2.19 and for Python 3.11 and 3.12; and it updates dependencies, documentation and CI tasks.
Install this release from PyPI. Check the changelogs at: andebox/CHANGELOG.md at main · russoz-ansible/andebox · GitHub

Collection updates

Certified collections weekly update

New certified collection versions

dbrennand shared

Certified collections updated this week:

confluent.platform:8.4.0

redhat.amq_broker:2.4.0

servicenow.itsm:2.17.0

vyos.vyos:6.2.0

Community events and meetups

Upcoming Ansible community events