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The Bullhorn

A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #25, 2021-04-30 (Past Issues)

Welcome to the Bullhorn, our newsletter for the Ansible developer community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, please reach out to us at the-bullhorn@redhat.com, or comment on this GitHub issue.

KEY DATES

ANSIBLE 3.3.0 RELEASED

The Ansible Community team announced the general availability of Ansible 3.3.0 on April 22nd. This update contains bugfixes and new, backwards compatible features in the contained collections. If you would like to learn about how and why we got to version 3.0.0, we invite you to visit our blog for the background as well as a Q&A. For what's new in the release and how to install it, please see Toshio Kuratomi's email to the ansible-announce list.

ANSIBLE-CORE 2.11.0 RELEASED

The Ansible Core team announced the general availability of Ansible-Core 2.11.0 on April 26th. Ansible-core 2.11 is a rename of ansible-base. As with ansible-base, it includes only a minimal, vetted set of modules and plugins, and is extensible through the use of Ansible Collections. Follow this link for Rick Elrod’s email to the ansible-devel mailing list, to obtain details on what’s new, installation instructions, and schedule for future releases.

ANSIBLE 4.0.0 BETA1 RELEASED

The Ansible Community team announced the first beta release of Ansible 4.0.0 on April 29th. This update is based on the ansible-core-2.11.x package which is a major update from the Ansible 3.x package (which is based on ansible-base-2.10.x). There may be backwards incompatibilities in the core playbook language. Please see the porting guide for details. For what is included in this release, and how to get it for testing, please see Toshio Kuratomi’s email to the ansible-devel list. Unless a blocker bug is found, Ansible 4.0.0 final is scheduled for May 18, 2021.

NEW/UPDATED COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS

  • Openstack Cloud Collection - openstack.cloud 1.4.0 has been released, with a few bugfixes including IPv6 functionality, and a new object_container module for the management of Swift containers.
  • Ansible Podman Collection - containers.podman 1.5.0 has been released, with a lot of bugfixes since the 1.4.0 version, including full support of recent Podman v3 release, Podman networking and new podman_login module for login to container registries using Podman.
  • Internal Test Tools Collection - community.internal_test_tools 0.4.0 has been released with more features, some bugfixes and refactorings for the open_url/fetch_url test frameworks.
  • MySQL collection for Ansible - community.mysql 2.1.0 and 1.4.1 have been released.
  • Community General Collection - community.general 3.0.0 and 1.3.10 have been released. 1.3.10 is the last regular bugfix release from the stable-1 branch.
  • Amazon AWS Collection - amazon.aws 1.5.0 and Community AWS Collection - community.aws 1.5.0 have been released, and stable-1.5 have been branched for both collections.
  • The next releases of these collections, 2.0, will drop support for Python 2.7 in advance of AWS' end of Python2 support on July 15, 2021.

CHANGES IMPACTING COLLECTION OWNERS

THE ANSIBLE TEAM IS HIRING

Red Hat is hiring several roles to work on Ansible. Please check the job descriptions in the links and apply!

CONTENT FROM THE ANSIBLE COMMUNITY

ANSIBLE CONTRIBUTOR SUMMIT 2021.06

The next Ansible Contributor Summit will be held on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Please see the details and register on Eventbrite, and propose topics you’d like to discuss in this HackMD note.

ANSIBLE VIRTUAL MEETUPS

The following virtual meetup(s) are being held in the Ansible community over the next month:

FEEDBACK

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