The Bullhorn #183

samccann
Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:09:41 +0000
Newsletter

This week in Ansible Community
Issue #183, 2025-04-25 (Past Issues)

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Data tagging and preparing for ansible-core 2.19

ansible-core has gone through an extensive rewrite in sections, related to supporting the new data tagging feature, as describe in Core-2.19 templating changes - preview and testing. These changes are now in the devel branch.

Advice for playbook and roles users and creators

This change has the potential to impact both your playbooks/roles and collection development. As such, we are asking the community to test against devel and provide feedback as described in Core-2.19 templating changes - preview and testing.

Advice for collection maintainers

We are asking all collection maintainers to:

Review Core-2.19 templating changes - preview and testing for background and where to open issues against ansible-core if needed.

Review Making a collection compatible with core 2.19 and templating changes for advice from your peers. Add your advice to help other collection maintainers prepare for this change.

Add devel to your CI testing and periodically verify results through the ansible-core 2.19 release to ensure compatibility with any changes/bugfixes that come as a result of your testing.

AnsibleFest at Red Hat Summit - May 19-22, 2025

Ansible® is the key to scaling automation—and AnsibleFest is the place to find out how. Join us May 19-22 in Boston for the automation experience at Red Hat® Summit, and unlock what’s next in your unique journey.

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 2.19 beta

ansible-announce shared

New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b2 - New Release: ansible-core v2.19.0b2

ansible-core 2.18

ansible-announce contributed

New Release: ansible-core v2.18.5 - New Release: ansible-core v2.18.5

ansible-core 2.17

ansible-announce contributed

New Release: ansible-core v2.17.11 - New Release: ansible-core v2.17.11

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 12 alpha

Felix Fontein shared

Ansible 12.0.0a2 package (pre-release) is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 12.0.0a2 (Pre-Release)
You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==12.0.0a2 --user

Check Release Notes (ansible-build-data/12/CHANGELOG-v12.md at 12.0.0a2 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub) and Ansible 12 Porting Guide (Ansible 12 Porting Guide — Ansible Community Documentation) for more details!

Ansible 11.5

mariolenz shared

Ansible 11.5.0 package is here!
Release announcement: Ansible community package 11.5.0
You can install it by running the following command:

python3 -m pip install ansible==11.5.0 --user

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

Collection updates

Certified collections

samccann shared

Certified collections updated this week:

hitachivantara.vspone_block: 3.4.0

redhat.ai: 1.0.0

redhat.amq_broker 2.2.10

crowdstrike.falcon 4.7.3

community.clickhouse

andersson007_ said

The community.clickhouse collection version 0.8.1 has been released!

It ensures the collection works with the upcoming ansible-core 2.19 version. Make sure you’ve upgraded the collection before upgrading ansible-core to 2.19 after its release.

community.general

Felix Fontein shared

community.general 10.6.0 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-10 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) and community.general 9.5.7 (community.general/CHANGELOG.md at stable-9 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub) have been released with bugfixes, new features and plugins, and deprecations (9.5.7 has only bugfixes). Note that these are the first 9.x.y and 10.x.y releases that have been tested against ansible-core 2.19.0b1 / Data Tagging. They contain a certain set of fixes for Data Tagging. If you test them with Data Tagging and find more issues, please report them (GitHub · Where software is built)! Thanks.

Community events and meetups

DevConf.CZ

Oranod contributed

Mark your calendars for DevConf.CZ 2025!

DevConf.CZ is a community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to open source technologies. The conference schedule has been announced and has several great Ansible sessions, including:

Securing Secrets at Scale: Integrating Ansible Automation with Conjur

Ansible code Bot - The ultimate Artificially Intelligent bot for your git repo

Beyond Buzzword: Network Automation (Taming Complexities with Ansible)

Simplifying container orchestration with Ansible and Podman

We’re also planning an Ansible meetup at DevConf.CZ. You can reply to our meetup event in the forum with questions and proposals for agenda items. We’d love to hear from you and get your thoughts on what you’d like to hear at the meetup.

DevConf is a free event but requires registration. So head over to the DevConf.CZ 2025 calendar event to find out details and let us know if you’re planning to attend.

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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