Bullhorn #77
A Newsletter for the Ansible Developer Community Issue #77, 2022-10-07 (Past Issues)
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KEY DATES ⏱️
cybette said
- 2022-10-10: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.13.5 and Ansible-Core 2.12.10 releases
- 2022-10-11: ETA for Ansible 6.5.0 release
- 2022-10-11: DaWGs meeting, 15:00 UTC
- 2022-10-12: Community WG meeting, 18:00 UTC (topic: List any backwards incompatible collection releases that beta1 should try to accommodate)
- 2022-10-13: Bullhorn #78 content deadline, 18:00 UTC
- 2022-10-17: Ansible Contributor Summit 2022.10
- 2022-10-17: ansible-core 2.14 release candidate 1
- 2022-10-18/19: AnsibleFest 2022
GENERAL NEWS UPDATES 🔈️
gundalow said
Will you be joining Hacktoberfest? * We've got some great first issues in the awx and awx-operator repos * New to contributing to AWX, checkout the AWX Contributor Guide * Want to chat, join us in Matrix or post a message in the AWX Google Group * Don't forget to register via the Hacktoberfest portal to make your contributions count!
MAJOR NEW RELEASES 🏆️
relrod said
We're happy to announce that the next release of AWX, version 21.7.0 is now available! Some notable features include: * Improves visibility of workflow approval notification bell * Adds project revision hash to inventory source views * Prompt on launch on templates * Ability to add execution nodes at runtime * Add a new Instance.health_check_started field * Add tooltips to Instance form; change
name
field tohost name
* Addingprevent_instance_group_fallback
to job templates and inventoryIn addition AWX Operator version 0.30.0 has also been released! Some notable features include: * change receptor ca secret to tls secret... with migration * Add docs for adding execution nodes and custom CA
Please see the releases pages for more details: AWX: https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases/tag/21.7.0 Operator: https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases/tag/0.30.0
DevTools ↗ ⛏️
Projects to make it easier to write and test Ansible Content. Includes VScode extension, language server, ansible-lint, molecule, ansible-navigator and potentially other development goodies. To see what's planned, and how you can help checkout the foundation-devtools project board
ssbarnea shared
ansible-lint 6.8.0 is out and contains a huge number of bugfixes, also adding a nice summary report. Details at https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/discussions/2568
Antsibull ↗ 🐂
Tooling for building the Ansible
package and collection documentation.
felixfontein said
antsibull 0.51.0 (changelog) has been released for Ansible 7. The
python_requires
information from ansible-core is now stored in the.deps
files as well for easier access, and is used directly in the Ansible package instead of guessing its value based on the ansible-core version number.
felixfontein contributed
antsibull-docs 1.7.0 (changelog) has been released with some new features and bugfixes. Use
antsibull-docs lint-collection-docs --plugin-docs /path/to/collection-root
to check whether the docs in your collection will render OK on the docsite!
COLLECTION UPDATES 🪄
jillr contributed
The community.aws collection version 5.0.0 has been released. See the changelog for details on new modules and features.
jillr shared
The amazon.aws collection version 5.0.0 has been released. See the changelog for details on new modules and features.
felixfontein shared
community.general 5.7.0 (changelog) has been released with new modules, features, and bugfixes. Please note that the next minor release (5.8.0) will be the last minor 5.x.0 release, from then on only bugfix releases 5.8.x will be released. After 5.8.0, the 6.0.0 release will be made; see the current planning in the collection repository for details.
Collection removal
mariolenz contributed
The
dellemc.os6
collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See the removal process for details on how this works.
mariolenz shared
The
dellemc.os9
collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See the removal process for details on how this works.
mariolenz contributed
The
dellemc.os10
collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See the removal process for details on how this works.
HELP WANTED 🙏
andersson007_ contributed
The following collection inclusion requests are waiting for your review:
See the process description to learn how to do it.
If you have any questions, just ping
andersson007
on Matrix in the #community:ansible.com channel or on Libera.Chat IRC in the#ansible-community
channel or directly.Please help the community extend the Ansible package!
PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! 🗳️
briantist shared
Vote ends on 2022-10-12: Clarify inclusion requirements on temp files and editor configs.
mariolenz shared
As mentioned in The Bullhorn #72, we consider mellanox.onyx an 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 contributed
Ansible Singapore is having their next in-person event on October 13, 2022 at 6:30 PM SST. Check out the details and register!
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!