The Bullhorn, #210

anwesha
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:01:44 +0000
Newsletter

This week in Ansible Community

Issue #210, 2025-11-21 (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!

Major new releases

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 Release 13.0.0

Felix Fontein contributed

Ansible 13.0.0 package is here!
🔗forum.ansible.com/t/44866
You can install it by running the following command:
python3 -m pip install ansible==13.0.0 --user
Check Release Notes (ansible-build-data/13/CHANGELOG-v13.md at 13.0.0 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 13 Porting Guide (Ansible 13 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!

Ansible Community Execution Environment Base & Minimal 20.0.0-1 (latest) Release

anwesha said

We’re happy to announce the release of the

Ansible Community Execution Environment Base 20.0.0-1 (latest)!

Ansible Community Execution Environment Minimal 20.0.0-1 (latest)!
Get the details of both the images in the announcement made in the Ansible Forum.

Help wanted

Ansible 14 roadmap

mariolenz shared

There is now a vote open on the Ansible 14 roadmap.

General news updates

andebox 1.8.0

russoz (Alex Z) said

andebox 1.8.0 has been released, dropping support for ansible-core < 2.17, amongst other changes. See the CHANGELOG for details.

Unmaintained collections in Ansible Community Package

mariolenz said

Now that 13.0.0 is out, I’ve started another round looking for possibly unmaintained collections in the Ansible Community Package. If your collection turns up on this list, feel free to comment!

Collection updates

Archival of junipernetworks.junos Collection & Migration to juniper.device

AAYUSH ANAND shared

As part of the joint effort between Juniper Networks and the Red Hat Ansible Networking team, we’re announcing the archival of the junipernetworks.junos collection and the transition to the new consolidated collection: juniper.device.
Full details: [Announcement] Archival of junipernetworks.junos Collection & Migration to juniper.device

Certified Collections

anwesha said

Certified collections updated this week

ibm.ibm_zos_core:1.15.1

microsoft.ad:1.10.0

microsoft.iis:1.1.0

ansible.windows:3.3.0

ansible.receptor:2.0.8

juniper.device:2.0.1

hitachivantara.vspone_block:4.4.2

cisco.nd:1.4.0

hitachivantara.vspone_object:1.1.0

cisco.intersight:2.8.0

amazon.ai:1.0.0

hashicorp.terraform:1.2.0

azure.azcollection:3.11.0

Community events and meetups

Upcoming Community Events

2025-11-28, Ansible Toronto: Secrets and credential management with Ansible

2025-11-27, AWS Community Meeting

2025-12-01, Ansible @ AWS: re:invent - December 2025

2025-12-04, AAP Config as Code Office Hours - First Thursday of Every Month

2025-12-16, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process

2025-12-18, Ansible-Minneapolis: Automating with Ansible Localhost

2026-02-02, CfgMgmtCamp 2026

Every Tuesday @11AM ET, Documentation Working Group

Every Thursday @13:00 UTC, Network Working Group

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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