Bullhorn #76
A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #76, 2022-09-30 (Past Issues)
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KEY DATES ⏱️
cybette said
- 2022-10-04: ETA for Ansible 6.5.0 release
- 2022-10-04: DaWGs meeting, 15:00 UTC
- 2022-10-05: Community WG meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)
- 2022-10-06: Bullhorn #77 content deadline, 18:00 UTC
- 2022-10-10: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.13.5 and Ansible-Core 2.12.10 releases (if those releases have updates)
- 2022-10-12: Community topic: List any backwards incompatible collection releases that beta1 should try to accommodate
- 2022-10-17: Ansible Contributor Summit 2022.10
- 2022-10-17: ansible-core 2.14 release candidate 1
- 2022-10-18: Ansible-7.0.0 alpha2
- 2022-10-18/19: AnsibleFest 2022
GENERAL NEWS UPDATES 🔈️
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.
chadams contributed
Ansible 7.0.0a1 (first alpha release) is out! ❤️ 🔗https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-devel/c/iXPDK5udh7Y
💽You can install it by running the following command or download the release tarball directly from pypi:
pip install ansible==7.0.0a1 --user🔆 Note: Ansible 7 requires Python 3.9 on the controller, same as ansible-core 2.14.
➡️ Check Release Notes📦️🗒️ and Ansible 7 Porting Guide for more details!
samccann shared
Hacktoberfest
Hacktoberfest is coming! Consider adding the topic to your repository to get some community help with your easier issues for this month-long hackfest. See the maintainers section at https://hacktoberfest.com/participation/ for details.
MAJOR NEW RELEASES 🏆️
Antsibull ↗ 🐂
Tooling for building the Ansible package and collection documentation.
felixfontein contributed
antsibull 0.50.0 (changelog) was released with new features and bugfixes for Ansible 6.x.0 and Ansible 7.x.0.
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.
cybette shared
The first beta release of ansible-core 2.14.0b1 is now available! This is a major release. Find out how to get it and check out the full changelog: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-devel/c/gCZ44HW1zAc
PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! 🗳️
mariolenz shared
As mentioned in The Bullhorn #71, we consider
dellemc.os6an effectively unmaintained collection. Therefore, we’ve opened a community / steering committee vote on removing it from the Ansible 8 community package.
mariolenz said
As mentioned in The Bullhorn #71, we consider
dellemc.os10an effectively unmaintained collection. Therefore, we’ve opened a community / steering committee vote on removing it from the Ansible 8 community package.
mariolenz contributed
As mentioned in The Bullhorn #71, we consider
dellemc.os9an effectively unmaintained collection. Therefore, we’ve opened a community / steering committee vote on removing it from the Ansible 8 community package.
COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MEETUPS 📅
cybette said
Ansible New Zealand is having an online meetup on October 6, 2022 at 11:00 NZST. There'll be 2 talks: AAP2 (Ansible Automation Platform) by Ashor Benjamin and Execution Environments (EE) through Ansible Builder by Feliz Karnadi. Check out the details and RSVP here.
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!
