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A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #60, 2022-05-27 (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, you're welcome to chat with us in the Ansible Social room on Matrix, and mention newsbot to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue!

KEY DATES ⏱️

cybette contributed

GENERAL NEWS UPDATES 🔈️

cybette shared

AnsibleFest 2022 will be in Chicago, IL (USA) this year, on October 18 & 19. CFP for AnsibleFest is open until July 15, 2022.

There will be an Ansible Contributor Summit the day before AnsibleFest on October 17, 2022. More details about the event will be shared as we confirm them!

sivel shared

As of May 23, 2022, upstream Ansible 2.9 and Ansible-base 2.10 are officially end of life. Please review the original announcement for more information.

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.

sivel said

ansible-core 2.12.6 and ansible-core 2.11.12 have been released. These are maintenance releases containing numerous bugfixes.

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 said

Ansible 6.0.0b1 (including ansible-core 2.13.0) is now available for testing! It features, amongst other things, significantly improved installation performance on top of the latest updates from the included Ansible collections. This is a good opportunity to test the upcoming releases of both ansible and ansible-core and report feedback ahead of the stable release expected around 2022-06-21.

You can find the release announcement on ansible-announce and the changelog on GitHub.

Happy automating!

COLLECTION UPDATES 🪄

ompragash shared

Community Network Collection 4.0.0 has been released and is available to download! See changelog for details regarding the major changes and deprecated features!🎉

felixfontein contributed

community.docker 2.6.0 (changelog) and 1.10.10 (changelog) have been released.

Hideki Saito contributed

ansible.posix 1.4.0 (changelog) has been released.

markuman contributed

community.proxysql 1.4.0 has been released.

felixfontein said

community.routeros 2.1.0 (changelog) has been released with new modules, new features, and some bugfixes!

andersson007_ contributed

The cisco.dnac collection has been included in Ansible 5 and 6.

briantist contributed

community.hashi_vault version 3.0.0 has been released, dropping support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10, as well as removing some deprecated features.

PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! 🗳️

mariolenz contributed

For people using the Ansible community package, there is no generic way to find out the version they are running. ansible --version just gives the ansible-core version, so they have to rely on their specific package manager (pip, dpkg, rpm...). If you think there should be a generic way, please add your views to the CLI program which prints the Ansible package's version discussion.

hunleyd said

The community.postgresql maintainers need your feedback! A proposal for formalizing the supported PG versions has been filed here and needs your input. If adopted, the collection will issue major releases yearly and each major release will officially support the five major version of PG supported at that time. We think this will ultimately improve the collection and improve the end user's experience but we need your input. We look forward to hearing from everyone!

dmsimard said

If you happen to be using the ansible package from EPEL, we would appreciate your feedback on updating from 2.9 to the latest release of ansible 5. Please find this thread for more information. Thank you!

COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MEETUPS 📅

cybette shared

Ansible München group is organizing an Ansible SpringFest! It is happening soon on Tuesday, May 31st, starting from 18:00 CEST at Einstein Kultur. There will be 2 talks, “Ansible Automation for SAP - Deployment, Operations and Modernization” and “Ansible and Kubernetes - an alternative to Helm”. See here for more details and RSVP.

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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