Ghostly Emanations in Ansible Community
Issue #207, 2025-10-31 (Past Issues)*
Welcome to The Spookist Bullhorn, our scary newsletter for the Ansible Community. Read if you dare!!! If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, you’re welcome to commune with us in the beyond 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 and tales from the crypt 
community.digitalocean coffin-bound and unmaintained
mariolenz contributed
As already mentioned in Bullhorn #203, it looks like community.digitalocean is unmaintained. At the end of the day, it turns out that it really is ATM. If nobody turns up taking over the maintenance of (a fork of) this collection, we will start a vote on removing it from the Ansible Community Package soon.
ansible.core 2.20 code hauntings and deprecations
mariolenz contributed
If you are maintaining a collection, please be aware that ansible-core 2.20 will deprecate some code. You should see some of those deprecations in your CI because they make the sanity tests fail, but not all. If you want to spare your users seeing deprecation warnings that they can’t fix themselves in their playbooks, please have a look at this!
Banshee wails on 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 2.20 apparition
ansible-announce said
New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0rc3 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0rc3
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 13 specter 
Felix Fontein shared
Ansible 13.0.0a5 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 13.0.0a5 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==13.0.0a5 --user
Check Release Notes
( ansible-build-data/13/CHANGELOG-v13.md at 13.0.0a5 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub ) and Ansible 13 Porting Guide ( Ansible 13 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation ) for more details!
Collection trick or treats 
Certified collection candy 
samccann said
community.proxmox ghoulish delights
thulium-drake shared
It’s finally here! community.proxmox 1.4.0 has arrived! It features a truckload of new modules and several bugfixes and other improvements! Get it now!
community.docker bone rattling
Felix Fontein shared
community.docker 5.0.0-a1 ( community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub ), community.docker 4.8.2 ( community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at stable-4 · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub ), and community.docker 3.13.10 ( community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at stable-3 · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub ) have been released. The 3.13.10 release is the final 3.x.y release; community.docker 3.x.y is now End of Life. The release contains a few last bugfixes. The 4.8.2 release also contains these bugfixes and is the latest stable release. 5.0.0-a1 is a pre-release for 5.0.0, which will likely be released in a week, in time for Ansible 13’s feature freeze. It drops support for ansible-core 2.16 and before, and thus for Python 2.7 on the target. A lot of code modernization happened, but there should be no user-facing changes except the announced breaking changes following deprecations, and some bugfixes. Please check out the 5.0.0-a1 changelog for more details ( community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub ).
community.routeros graveyard grooves
Felix Fontein said
community.routeros 3.13.0 ( community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub ) has been released with a new feature.
community.hrobot deathly whispers 
Felix Fontein contributed
community.hrobot 2.7.0 ( community.hrobot/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.hrobot · GitHub ) has been released. It mainly implements changes from an API update by Hetzner ( Changelog ).
Paranormal help wanted 
collection workflow proposal and crystal ball gazing 
andersson007_ said
Feedback wanted on the new workflow proposal to reduce friction in publishing and improving quality of collections on Automation Hub.
Community events, meetups, and séances 
Upcoming events and witching hours
samccann said
- 2025-11-05, Ansible-Barcelona: A Deep Dive into Configuration as Code using Ansible’s community aap_configurati [2025-11-05]
- 2025-11-06, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month
- 2025-11-12, Ansible for IBM Z community meeting
- 2025-11-15, CFP close for CfgMgmtCamp 2026
- 2025-11-18, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process
- 2025-11-27, AWS Community Meeting
- 2025-12-01, Ansible @ AWS: re:invent - December 2025
- 2026-02-02, CfgMgmtCamp 2026
- Every Tuesd@11A@11AMy @11AM ET, Documentation Working Group
- Every Thursd@1@13y @13:00 UTC, Network Working Group
Ansible coding sprint and monster mash
misc said
A coding sprint around Ansible modules was organized during Pyconf.fr.
Other scary events and releases 
Use the Ansible Forum to see other events and releases.
Join the Ansible haunted community
Looking for ways to get involved, whether you are amongst the living or…not? See how can I help for some ideas!
You can find easy issues in collections and other projects for code or documentation contributions.
Happy Halloween! 
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!