This week in Ansible Community
Issue #239, 2026-11-09 (Past Issues)
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General news updates 
CfgMgmtCamp 2027 call for papers
gundalow said
CfgMgmtCamp 2027 call for papers closes in 1 week!
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
Open Forum Poll display update
dbrennand shared
Update: How We Show Open Forum Polls
We have streamlined how we show the Open Forum Polls. Going forward, all active polls are displayed inside a dedicated topic on the Ansible forum, automatically generated and refreshed on an hourly basis via Discourse workflows.
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Why the change?
- Less moving parts & maintenance: Relying on native Discourse workflows reduces external dependencies and failure points.
- Consolidation: Keeping everything under one roof makes it easier to view, track, and participate directly within the forum.
Head over to the dedicated topic to view the latest polls!
GitHub Actions workflow lockfiles
Oranod said
GitHub recently announced support for GHA workflow lockfiles. If you’re using them with Ansible collections or other projects, or have any thoughts or insights to share about workflow lockfiles, we’d like to hear from you. Join the conversation in the forum at GitHub Action workflow lockfiles
Meetup world map feedback
gundalow contributed
Meetup: World Map
As part of the move away from Meetup Pro to the Ansible Forum.
One of the nice features of Meetup Pro was the world map, which helps you find your local event.I’ve rendered.mdgot a work in progress version, would like to get feedback:
What else can we do to make it easier to find your local city
- How can I improve the layout (You can clearly tell I’m not a UI/UX expert)
- Easier call to action?
- Anyrendered.mdthing else?
Remaining work
- Direct invite links to each city
- Correct details in pop-up
Links
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 2.16.20 release
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.16.20 - New Release: ansible-core v2.16.20
ansible-core 2.20.11 release
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.20.11 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.11
ansible-core 2.19.15 release
ansible-announce contributed
New Release: ansible-core v2.19.15 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.15
ansible-core 2.21.6 release
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.21.6 - New Release: ansible-core v2.21.6
ansible-core 2.22.0 release
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.22.0 - New Release: ansible-core v2.22.0
ansible-core 2.18.20 release
ansible-announce shared
New Release: ansible-core v2.18.20 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.20
Antsibull
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
antsibull-changelog 0.37.0 release
Felix Fontein contributed
antsibull-changelog 0.37.0 (Release 0.37.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-changelog · GitHub) is out with a few improvements. Now the standard error of ansible-doc invocations is only shown if ansible-doc fails. This hides warnings about deprecated/redirected plugins found while exporting documentation. Also antsibull-changelog now can render changelogs as plain text files (with or without ANSI formatting). The latter feature uses the new antsibull-docutils 1.5.0 (Release 1.5.0 · ansible-community/antsibull-docutils · GitHub) release, which also adds support for more RST admonitions when rendering them to GitHub-style MarkDown.
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 15.0.0b1 release
Felix Fontein contributed
Ansible 15.0.0b1 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 15.0.0b1 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==15.0.0b1 --user
Check Release Notes
(ansible-build-data/15/CHANGELOG-v15.md at 15.0.0b1 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 15 Porting Guide (Ansible 15 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!
Ansible 14.6.0 release
Felix Fontein said
Ansible 14.6.0 package is here!
python3 -m pip install ansible==14.6.0 --user
Project updates 
Molecule Plugins 26.11.0 release
dbrennand said
Molecule Plugins v26.11.0 has been released with support for provisioning an instance via the GCE driver with GPUs attached and a fix for passing memory, swap and PID limits to containers created via the Podman driver.
DebOps 3.4.0 release
drybjed contributed
DebOps v3.4.0 has been released. This release includes support for project directories with their own Python virtual environments (per-project Ansible and Galaxy collection versioning), many improvements in DebOps scripts, new Ansible roles and many bugfixes in existing ones. Release DebOps v3.4.0 · debops/debops · GitHub
Ansible Community Execution Environments 2.21.6-1 release
dbrennand contributed
We’re happy to announce the release of Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 2.21.6-1 and Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 2.21.6-1!
Read the full announcement on the Ansible Forum.
On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!
Speedrunner keeps Ansible loaded
Anthony Gosme contributed
An ecosystem item, about my own project: I wrote speedrunner, which keeps ansible loaded in a daemon and forks it per call, with no configuration. ansible --version: 199 ms natively, 15 ms served, x13.4; ansible-doc ping: 318 ms to 59 ms, x5.3. Playbook runs are not in these measurements, so I make no claim for them. Linux and macOS. Code and measurements: GitHub - anthonyGosme/speedrunner: Makes aws, az, gcloud, ansible, eslint, rubocop, composer and hundreds of other Python, Ruby, PHP and Node CLIs start several times faster: each stays loaded in a daemon that forks it on every call. A checks script: 24.0 s → 5.3 s, same output. No per-tool config, one binary, Linux and macOS. · GitHub
Collection updates 
amazon.ai 1.1.0 release
RomiAsad said
: amazon.ai 1.1.0 has been released with new bugfixes, features, plugins, and modules. Refer to the release for details!
hashicorp.vault 1.4.0 release
mjohns91 contributed
hashicorp.vault 1.4.0 has been released. Please see the changelog section for details!
amazon.aws 11.5.1 release
Hannah DeFazio contributed
amazon.aws 11.5.1 has been released! This patch release includes bugfixes for the acm module utilities. Refer to the changelog for details!
amazon.aws 12.1.0 release
Mandar Kulkarni shared
amazon.aws 12.1.0 has been released. Refer to the release here for details!
community.aws 11.2.2 release
chyna shared
community.aws 11.2.2 has been released. Refer to the release here for details!
infra.aap_configuration 4.11.0 release
Sean Sullivan said
infra.aap_configuration 4.11.0 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.general 11.4.10, 12.6.7, 13.5.1, and 14.0.0 releases
Felix Fontein shared
There are four new community.general releases:
- community.general 11.4.10 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-11 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) is the final maintenance release for the 11.x.y release train. There will be no further 11.x.y releases. Thanks for everyone who contributed to an 11.x.y release!
- community.general 12.6.7 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-12 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) is a regular bugfix release. Note that from now on, further 12.x.y releases will only happen for major bugfixes or security fixes, and will no longer get regular bugfixes.
- community.general 13.5.1 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-13/CHANGELOG.md#v13-5-1) is a regular bugfix release.
- community.general 14.0.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-14 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) is a new major release with many new modules, plugins, features, and bugfixes. It also has several breaking changes and removed features, and drops support for ansible-core 2.18.
community.openwrt 1.11.0 release
russoz (Alex Z) contributed
New Release: community.openwrt 1.11.0 has been released, bringing new features and bugfixes.
This release adds support for ansible-core 2.22.
community.postgresql 4.2.1 and 5.1.1 releases
andersson007_ contributed
The community.postgresql collection versions 4.2.1 and 5.1.1 have been released!
sva.sentinelone 2.4.0 release
mwester117 contributed
sva.sentinelone collection 2.4.0 is out, an ansible collection with modules and roles for managing Sentinelone management consoles and agents.
This release adds the new custom_rules module for SentinelOne STAR detection rules, consistent check mode support for all modules and the install_agent role, and a more reliable Linux agent registration as well as some Bugfixes. The Linux Molecule scenarios now run on Lima instead of Vagrant.
See CHANGELOG for all changes
community.beszel 2.1.0 release
dbrennand said
community.beszel 2.1.0 has been released!
This release adds new configuration options for ICMP monitoring, sensors, package-update intervals, systemd journal access, additional devices, and several Beszel Hub settings. It also improves Linux capability handling for the agent.
See the full changelog.
community.aws 11.2.1 release
chyna said
community.aws 11.2.1 has been released with new bugfixes! Refer to the release here for details!
Certified collections weekly update
dbrennand shared
Certified collections updated this week:
Proposals - discuss and vote! 
Community package collection poll
andersson007_ contributed
As a part of the Proposal: Trimming down the Ansible community package and collection removal roadmap, we started a poll on What collections should stay in the Ansible community package. Please read the proposal first to get the full context, then vote!
Community events and meetups
Upcoming meetups and working groups
Upcoming community events
dbrennand shared
- 2026-11-17, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process
- 2026-12-03, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month
- 2027-02-01, CfgMgmtCamp 2027
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!
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