Bullhorn #39
A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #39, 2021-12-03 (Past Issues)
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KEY DATES
cybette contributed
- 2021-12-06: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.12.1, Ansible-Core 2.11.7, and Ansible-Base 2.10.16 releases
- 2021-12-08: community IRC meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)
- 2021-12-09: D&I working group meeting, 19:00 UTC
- 2021-12-14: ETA for Ansible 4.10.0 release (last expected release of Ansible 4.x)
- 2021-12-15: community IRC meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)
- 2021-12-21: ETA for Ansible 5.1.0 release
- 2021-12-21: Bullhorn #40 content deadline
GENERAL NEWS UPDATES
Gwmngilfen shared
Making community participation more inclusive
Hey there! The Ansible Community Working Group has been looking at how to make our discussion process more inclusive - currently we use a very real-time format which we recognise limits participation.
There is a discussion (and draft proposal) currently happening on GitHub as to how to improve this. We'd really love to get more feedback on what you'd like to see to improve the discussion in the Ansible Community. Please come talk to us, either on the GitHub Issue, or here in chat.
MAJOR NEW RELEASES
DevTools ↗
VScode extension, language server, linter, molecule, runner, navigator and potentially other development goodies
ssbarnea contributed
VSCode extension v0.7.1 released: https://github.com/ansible/vscode-ansible/discussions/347
Ansible ↗
Ansible is the full-fat package containing Ansible Core & the Community Collections
cybette said
Ansible 4.9.0 has been released: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-devel/c/rRf0dks0XiE
dmsimard contributed
ansible 5.0.0 has been released: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce/c/t0JoB6evpt8 Ansible 5.0.0 includes the newly released ansible-core 2.12 as well as a curated set of Ansible collections to provide a vast number of modules and plugins. This is a major version update from Ansible 4.x which included ansible-core 2.11 and there may be backwards incompatibilities in the core playbook language. (Porting guide)
dmsimard contributed
ansible 5.0.1 (hotfix) has been released: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce/c/t0JoB6evpt8/m/krFCR5o9CgAJ The hotfix raises the minimum version of python for the ansible package from >=2.7 to >=3.8 in order to match ansible-core 2.12.
COLLECTION UPDATES
felixfontein contributed
community.crypto 1.9.7 and 2.0.1 have been released with some bugfixes
felixfontein contributed
community.general 4.1.0 and 3.8.2 have been released!
mcorr shared
The stackhpc.pulp Ansible collection v 0.2.0 has been released. This collection builds on the modules available in pulp.squeezer, adding roles for repositories, publications, distributions and content guards, as well as one for creating Django users. This helps to reduce the boilerplate involved, and makes the configuration more ‘declarative’.
andersson007_ contributed
community.mysql
2.3.2 has been released
andersson007_ said
community.postgresql 1.6.0 has been released
andersson007_ said
community.mysql
3.0.0 has been released!
COMMUNITY UPDATES
cybette shared
Ansible User Group Japan
There's an active user group for Japanese speaking Ansible community members. If you are interested to join, please check out the Japanese community homepage and follow their twitter account!
Maintainers ↗
Maintainers help to run the community!
andersson007_ contributed
We are happy to announce that Roger Sicart (rsicart on GitHub) has joined our maintainer club for the
community.mysql
collection. Our congratulations, Roger, and thank you for the great contribution! :)
andersson007_ contributed
We are happy to announce that the
community.libvirt
collection has found a new maintainer - Chris Smart (csmart on GitHub/IRC). Our congratulations, Chris, and thank you! :)
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!