A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #53, 2022-04-08 (Past Issues)

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KEY DATES ⏱️

cybette shared

2022-04-12: Ansible Contributor Summit 2022.04

2022-04-12: ETA for Ansible 6.0.0 alpha1 - check it out live during the Contributor Summit!

2022-04-13: Community WG meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)

2022-04-14: Bullhorn #54 content deadline, 18:00 UTC

2022-04-25: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.12.5 and Ansible-Core 2.11.11 releases (if those releases have updates)

2022-04-26: ETA for Ansible 5.7.0 release

2022-05-23: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.13 GA

2022-05-23: End-of-life for upstream Ansible 2.9 and Ansible-base 2.10

2022-06-21: ETA for Ansible 6.0.0 GA

GENERAL NEWS UPDATES 🔈️

cybette said

Ansible Contributor Summit 2022.04 is happening next Tuesday! We have an amazing list of talks and are in the process of finalizing the schedule. Check out the event page, including details on the various updates and discussions on all the projects/topics associated with Ansible and the community.

Join us on April 12, 2022 (Tuesday) from 12:00 UTC in the Main Conference Room in Matrix (#ansible-conf on IRC), and feel free to drop by the Ansible Social Room (#ansible-social on IRC) anytime before or during the event to say hi and chat with the community!

ompragash contributed

John Barker (Matrix/GitHub: gundalow) has been elected by the Steering Committee as its chairperson for the year 2022-2023! Join us in congratulating Gundalow as being selected as the chairperson🎉

MAJOR NEW RELEASES 🏆️

Ansible ↗ 📦️

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.

dmsimard contributed

Ansible 5.6.0 has been released! It includes updates to 29 collections and adds a new one: community.sap. View the announcement here and the changelog here. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the release and happy automating!

COLLECTION UPDATES 🪄

markuman shared

community.aws 3.2.0 has been released with some new features and bugfixes (see changelog for details).

abuzachis said

amazon.aws 3.2.0 has been released with some new features and bugfixes (see changelog for details).

felixfontein said

community.general 4.7.0 (changelog) and 3.8.6 (changelog) have been released with new features and bugfixes.

PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! 🗳️

ompragash shared

Hi Community🎉, in our last Contributor Summit, we talked about "Ansible Badges" which is a new initiative and with that, we want to value and recognise the achievements of our contributors by providing Digital Credentials. To start things off, we designed a couple of badge icons for the Meetup category and are looking forward to your input here: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-badges/discussions/3

COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MEETUPS 📅

cybette contributed

Join London virtual meetup on 19th April 2022 and hear about ansible-lint's future, deploying an OpenStack infrastructure with Ansible, and migration from Puppet to Ansible.

dmsimard shared

We'll have our first Ansible Montreal meetup in person since the beginning of the pandemic! Presentations will be in French and available in streaming if you can't make it. Sign up here for the April 21 meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-Montreal/events/284804996/

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!