Hi all, We're happy to announce that the Ansible 5.0.0rc1 package is now available for testing ! Unless there are issues with this version, it will be released as Ansible 5.0.0 on 2021-11-30.
This version is based on the newly released ansible-core 2.12.0 which is a major update from ansible-core 2.11.x used in Ansible 4. There may be backwards incompatibilities in the core playbook language. Please see the porting guide for details. This is a release candidate so we encourage people to use it to test that their playbooks and workflows work with the upcoming major release. Bugs can be reported to relevant trackers such as https://github.com/ansible/ansible/ for ansible-core and the relevant collection repositories for modules and plugins from Ansible collections. How to get it ------------- Due to a limitation in pip, if you are upgrading from Ansible 3 (or earlier), you need to uninstall Ansible and Ansible Base before installing Ansible 5: ``` $ pip uninstall ansible ansible-base $ pip install ansible==5.0.0rc1 --user ``` The tar.gz of the release can be found here: Ansible 5.0.0rc1: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-5.0.0rc1.tar.gz SHA256: 48704dba40e77e11b68e0ebb1034dbe828d46fe1e8ec8cc540e27f0fd89532da What's new in Ansible 5.0.0 --------------------------- * This version of Ansible is based on Ansible Core 2.12 which is a new major update of the ansible-core package. It may contain backwards incompatible changes to the playbook language and command line programs. Please see the porting guide (linked at the bottom) for more information. * ansible-core-2.12 now requires Python 3.8 or greater on the controller (where you run ansible-playbook). * Support for python 2.6 for managed nodes is deprecated in ansible-core 2.12 and will be removed in ansible-core 2.13 (around May 2022) * Collections which have opted into being a part of the Ansible-5 unified changelog will have an entry on this page: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/5/CHANGELOG-v5.rst * For collections which have not opted into the unified changelog, you may find more information on https://galaxy.ansible.com or their source repository. For example, the community.crypto collection would be found at https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/crypto and you can find a link to the source repository under the "Repo" button at the top right. * The changelog for ansible-core 2.12.0 installed by this release of ansible is available here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.12/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.12.rst What's the schedule for new Ansible releases after 5.0.0rc1 ? --------------------------------------------------------- * The Ansible-5 final release is expected on 2021-11-30. For the full release schedule, including dates for other pre-releases, see the roadmap page: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_5.html * Maintenance releases of Ansible 5.x will occur approximately every three weeks (Ansible 5.1.0, Ansible 5.2.0, etc) until the release of Ansible 6.0.0. They will contain bugfixes and new features but no backwards incompatibilities. * Except for ansible-2.9.x, older versions of ansible are no longer seeing maintenance releases. If there is a desire for maintenance releases of older versions, drop by a Community Working Group Meeting to discuss how you can help: https://github.com/ansible/community/tree/main/meetings#wednesdays * The last expected release of Ansible 4.x will be 4.10 around December 14th 2021. Porting Help ------------- A unified porting guide for collections which have opted-in is available here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_5.html On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating ! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-devel/CAH7C%2BPqn3A0HBYZO3WwCZuDr7wJXaUv5t2Om53BtnmEfcUC%2B-g%40mail.gmail.com.
