The Bullhorn #204

anwesha
Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:47:19 +0000
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Issue #204, 2025-10-10 (Past Issues)

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Major new releases

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.19.3 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.3

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0b2 - New Release: ansible-core v2.20.0b2

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.18.10 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.10

mariolenz contributed

Ansible 13.0.0a2 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 13.0.0a2 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==13.0.0a2 --user

Check Release Notes and Ansible 13 Porting Guide for more details!

mariolenz said

Ansible 11.11.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.11.0
You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==11.11.0 --user

Check Release Notes and Ansible 11 Porting Guide for more details!

mariolenz contributed

Ansible 12.1.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.1.0
You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==12.1.0 --user

Check Release Notes and Ansible 12 Porting Guide for more details!

General news updates

Felix Fontein shared

antsibull-nox 1.3.0 (antsibull-nox/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-community/antsibull-nox · GitHub) has been released. The biggest new feature is support for change detection for ansible-test sessions and some of the included extra sanity tests. Read more about it in the documentation. (Change detection - antsibull-nox – Antsibull Nox Helper) Also handling of Python dependencies of sessions has been improved; the fields for them now accept lists, and you can also specify constraint files next to packages and requirements files.

Collection updates

yurnov said

kubernetes.core 5.4.1 have been released with bugfixes for k8s service field handling, k8s_cp init containers support, and removes deprecated ansible.module_utils.six imports.

Felix Fontein said

community.routeros 3.12.0 (community.routeros/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.routeros · GitHub) has been released with new features and maintenance work.

Felix Fontein contributed

community.general 11.4.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-11 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), community.general 10.7.5 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub), and community.general 9.5.12 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with new features (11.4.0 only) and bugfixes. The next round of releases is planned for November 2nd. Note that then 12.0.0 will be released; 9.x.y will be End of Life; and 11.x.y will only receive more bugfix releases, but no more feature releases.

andersson007_ contributed

The community.clickhouse collection version 0.10.0 has been released!

Felix Fontein said

community.docker 4.8.0 (community.docker/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.docker · GitHub) has been released with new features and maintenance work.

andersson007_ contributed

The community.clickhouse collection version 0.9.0 has been released!

Sean Sullivan contributed

infra.aap_configuration 3.8.2 has been released.
This Ansible collection allows for easy interaction with Ansible Automation Platform via Ansible roles using the supported collections modules.
Visit GitHub - redhat-cop/infra.aap_configuration: A collection of roles to manage Ansible Automation Platform 2.5+ with code For more information and updates.

Bianca Henderson contributed

kubernetes.core 5.4.1 has been released! This release includes bugfixes for k8s service field handling, k8s_cp init containers support, and removes deprecated ansible.module_utils.six imports.

Felix Fontein said

community.hrobot 2.6.0 (community.hrobot/CHANGELOG.md at main · ansible-collections/community.hrobot · GitHub) has been released. This is a maintenance release deprecating support for storage boxes using the old API. Also compatibility return values that emulate the old API have been deprecated; when using ansible-core 2.19 or newer, a deprecation message will be shown when using them.

yurnov contributed

kubernetes.core 6.2.0 have been released with minor changes and bugfixes, including support of skip-schema-validation in helm module and removing deprecated ansible.module_utils.six imports.

gomathiselvi shared

: amazon.aws 9.5.2 has been released with bugfixes. Refer the changelog for details!

Certified Collections Updates

anwesha said

fortinet.fortimanager 2.11.0

google.cloud 1.9.0

ibm.storage_virtualize 3.1.0

redhat.rhel_system_roles 1.108.6

cisco.intersight 2.6.0

vmware.vmware 2.4.0

amazon.aws 10.1.2

redhat.artifact_signer 1.3.0

redhat.eap 1.5.8

kubernetes.core 6.2.0

hashicorp.terraform 1.1.0

hitachivantara.vspone_block 4.3.0

datadog.dd 6.3.1

ibm.isam 3.5.0

cisco.ios 11.1.1

Validated Collections Updates

infra.aap_configuration 3.8.0

Help wanted

russoz (Alex Z) shared

Liveness check: community.general Dimension Data cloud (2nd call)

In 15/Aug we left a post in the forum about the Dimension Data cloud service - there are modules and accompanying plugins in the community.general collection, but when investigated, it seems the service is no longer operating.

This is a call to the community, if anyone can help confirm whether that service (or more importantly those modules) are still useful or not. If you know something about that service, please go to that forum post and leave a message for us.

If we do not here from anyone in a while (I am thinking a couple of mentions in the Bullhorn), a deprecation PR will be created for those modules.

Thanks in advance to any light anyone can shed over this matter.

Community events and meetups

anwesha contributed

2025-10-15, CFP close for CfgMgmtCamp 2026

2025-10-21, Announcing Our Official Code Freeze Schedule & Process

2025-10-23, Ansible-Minneapolis: Minneapolis Ansible User Group [2025-10-23]

2025-10-23, AWS Community Meeting

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

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

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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