Ansible-test images and VMs update (devel, 2.20, 2.19, 2.18)

felixfontein
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:29:55 +0000
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There have been multiple updates for Ansible-core devel and the 2.20, 2.19, and 2.18 stable branches this week:

Ansible-core devel:

the Fedora 42 VM and Docker image were replaced by Fedora 43 (ansible-test - Replace Fedora 42 with 43 by mattclay · Pull Request #86220 · ansible/ansible · GitHub);

the Alpine 3.22 VM and Docker image were replaced by Alpine 3.23 (ansible-test - Replace Alpine 3.22 with 3.23 by mattclay · Pull Request #86386 · ansible/ansible · GitHub);

the FreeBSD 13.5 VM was removed, a FreeBSD 15.0 VM was added (ansible-test - Replace FreeBSD 13.5 with 15.0 by mattclay · Pull Request #86385 · ansible/ansible · GitHub);

the RHEL 10.0 VM was replaced by a RHEL 10.1 VM (ansible-test - Replace RHEL 10.0 with 10.1 by mattclay · Pull Request #86387 · ansible/ansible · GitHub);

the RHEL 9.6 VM was replaced by a RHEL 9.7 VM (ansible-test - Upgrade to RHEL 9.7 by mattclay · Pull Request #86374 · ansible/ansible · GitHub).

Ansible-core 2.18, 2.19, and 2.20:

the RHEL 10.0 VM was replaced by a RHEL 10.1 VM ([stable-2.20] ansible-test - Replace RHEL 10.0 with 10.1 (#86387) by mattclay · Pull Request #86389 · ansible/ansible · GitHub, [stable-2.19] ansible-test - Replace RHEL 10.0 with 10.1 (#86387) by mattclay · Pull Request #86390 · ansible/ansible · GitHub, [stable-2.18] ansible-test - Replace RHEL 10.0 with 10.1 (#86387) by mattclay · Pull Request #86391 · ansible/ansible · GitHub);

the RHEL 9.6/9.5/9.4 VMs were replaced by a RHEL 9.7 VM ([stable-2.20] ansible-test - Upgrade to RHEL 9.7 (#86374) by mattclay · Pull Request #86376 · ansible/ansible · GitHub, [stable-2.19] ansible-test - Upgrade to RHEL 9.7 (#86374) by mattclay · Pull Request #86377 · ansible/ansible · GitHub, [stable-2.18] ansible-test - Upgrade to RHEL 9.7 (#86374) by mattclay · Pull Request #86378 · ansible/ansible · GitHub).

Community images:

the Arch Linux image’s Python got updated from Python 3.13 to Python 3.14 (Arch Linux did the upgrade today)(Arch Linux upgraded to Python 3.14 by felixfontein · Pull Request #142 · ansible-community/images · GitHub)

If you’re using any of these container images or VMs, you need to update/adjust your CI matrix.