Bullhorn #38
A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #38, 2021-11-18 (Past Issues)
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KEY DATES
cybette said
- 2021-11-23: ETA for Ansible 4.9.0 release
- 2021-11-24: community IRC meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)
- 2021-11-30: ETA for Ansible 5.0.0 GA release
- 2021-12-01: community IRC meeting, 18:00 UTC (propose topics here)
- 2021-12-01: Bullhorn #39 content deadline
- 2021-12-06: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.12.1 release
GENERAL NEWS UPDATES
samccann contributed
We are proposing the addition of semantic markup for module documentation to separate what the module has (options, values, etc.) from how we display it (bold, italic, monospace, etc.). See https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/53 for details and to add your thoughts.
samccann said
We are experimenting with changing the module documentation tables that appear on docs.ansible.com to make them more compatible with smaller screen sizes. This also impacts how it appears on wider screens so please take a look at https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull/pull/335 and post your comments!
Before example:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/crypto/acme_account_module.html#parameters
After example:
https://ansible.fontein.de/collections/community/crypto/acme_account_module.html#parameters
(More examples in the pull request.)
Ansible-Core ↗
Ansible Core is minimal package containing the base engine, modules, and plugins
gundalow said
We are happy to announce that
ansible-core-2.12
is available on CentOS Stream - Ansible on Koji Hub
MAJOR NEW RELEASES
Ansible ↗
Ansible is the full-fat package containing Ansible Core & the Community Collections
dmsimard contributed
Ansible 5.0.0b2 (including ansible-core 2.12.0) is now available for testing: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce/c/_Z4JE5X-gZg
Ansible-Core ↗
Ansible Core is minimal package containing the base engine, modules, and plugins
Gwmngilfen (work) said
Update from @sivel: New major release: ansible-core 2.12.0 https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce/c/Q3Gp8O8sJak
Antsibull ↗
Tooling for building various things related to ansible
felixfontein contributed
antsibull 0.39.2 has been released
COLLECTION UPDATES
felixfontein said
community.docker 1.10.1 and 2.0.1 have been released with docs fixes
felixfontein said
community.hrobot 1.2.1 has been released
briantist contributed
community.hashi_vault
version1.5.0
has been released with a new action group andmount_point
vars for plugins. This is expected to be the final1.x
release of the collection.
briantist shared
community.hashi_vault
version2.0.0
has been released. Some deprecated features have been removed and support for Python 2 and Python 3.5 has been dropped.
felixfontein shared
community.dns 2.0.2 has been released with updates to the Public Suffix List
resmo contributed
ngine_io.vultr
has started the conversion to the Vultr API v2, which will be completed with the collection release of 2.0.0. Progress can be followed at https://github.com/ngine-io/ansible-collection-vultr/pull/22.
felixfontein said
community.general 2.5.7 has been released. This is the last regular 2.5.x release, from now on there will only be releases for major bugfixes or security fixes.
andersson007_ said
community.cockroachdb 0.2.0 has been released
felixfontein contributed
community.general 4.0.2 has been released
evgeni shared
The Foreman Ansible Collection v3.0.0 was released. Most notable changes include: - drop of Ansible 2.8 support (breaking change) - switch inventory plugin to the new Reports API (breaking change as this might change returned results) - convert2rhel role to ease setup of environments to convert CentOS and Oracle Linux installations to RHEL
tremble contributed
amazon.aws 2.1.0 has been released community.aws 2.1.0 has been released
felixfontein said
community.internal_test_tools 0.5.0 has been released with some tool improvements
endorama shared
community.sops 1.2.0 has been released
COMMUNITY UPDATES
Gwmngilfen (work) contributed
Contributor Summit on Matrix Live
I got the chance to join Thib from Element on the latest episode of Matrix Live! We spent a very pleasant time discussing how running events on Matrix felt, what the architecture was, where we think it did well, and how to improve it in the future. You can watch it on YouTube or on the This Week in Matrix blog.
cybette said
Thanks to those who have already filled in the Contributor Survey! If you haven't had the chance to do so, please spare a few minutes to take the survey. We truly appreciate your feedback!
Maintainers ↗
Maintainers help to run the community!
andersson007_ said
The community.libvirt collection is looking for new maintainers. If you're interested, please let us know in this issue. Thank you!
COMMUNITY EVENTS/MEETUPS
cybette contributed
- Thu, Nov 18 @ 6:30PM CST - Ansible Minneapolis - Ansible Meetup at Indeed Brewing
- Thu, Nov 25 @ 11:00AM SGT - Ansible Singapore - Ansible Virtual Meet Up - November 2021
tima shared
An Ansible Working Group meeting has been started under the Operator Framework project community. Meetings will be held monthly, ever third Monday at 5PM UTC. Topics will include not only the Ansible Operator SDK, but also the kubernetes.core collection and other Ansible + cloud native discussion. For more information see the Operator Framework community repo. The first meeting was held November 15. A recording of the call is available here. The WG has also setup a new mailing list for discussion between the meetings. Please subscribe and join in the conversation.
THAT'S ALL FOR NOW!
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