Hi all, We're happy to announce that the Ansible 5.9.0 package has been released !
Ansible 5.9.0 includes 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. Please see the porting guide (linked at the bottom) for details. 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==5.9.0 --user ``` The tar.gz of the release can be found here: *Ansible 5.9.0:* https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-5.9.0.tar.gz <https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-5.8.0.tar.gz> *SHA256:* 6f2f762fca6cff0401a6d2119b8ba3b2f111ea1a93fd203c86df09bc75570f18 What's new in Ansible 5.9.0 -------------------------------------------- * The changelog for ansible-core 2.12 installed by this release of ansible is available here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.12/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.12.rst * 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. What's the schedule for new Ansible releases after 5.9.0 ? --------------------------------------------------------- * Maintenance releases of Ansible 5.x will occur approximately every three weeks until the release of Ansible 6.0.0. They will contain bugfixes and new features but no backwards incompatibilities. * Ansible 6.0.0 (which will include ansible-core 2.13) is expected to be released around 2022-06-21. More information can be found in the roadmap: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_6.html * Please note that the release of ansible-core 2.13 in May 2022 will coincide with the end-of-life of ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce/c/kegIH5_okmg/ * 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#wednesday 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 Getting collection updates from Ansible 5 with ansible-core 2.11.x ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ansible 5 includes ansible-core 2.12.x which has raised the minimum python requirement to python>=3.8 and users have expressed an interest in getting collection updates as they ship in Ansible 5 while keeping ansible-core 2.11.x which still supports python>=2.7. An ansible-galaxy requirements file based on the collections from Ansible 5 has been made available for this use case: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/5/galaxy-requirements.yaml Once the requirements file has been downloaded, the collections can be installed by running: "ansible-galaxy collection install -r galaxy-requirements.yaml" 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/CAJm9AsTmUu1pFWPqUb%2Bsw6XO8vUKNMyz1_LTvN%3DEdzQMbBnysg%40mail.gmail.com.
