Hi all, We're happy to announce that the first release candidate of Ansible 6.0.0 is
now available for testing! Ansible 6.0.0rc1 will include ansible-core 2.13 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 5.x which included ansible-core 2.12 and there may be backwards incompatibilities in the core playbook language. How to get it ------------- This pre-release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip: ``` $ pip install ansible==6.0.0rc1 --user ``` The sources for this release can be found here: Release tarball: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-6.0.0rc1.tar.gz SHA256: 72f2421c9a83ea532eb079ab5ed5133b00d515b146d1855e3a3fe379153caffc Wheel package: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/py3/a/ansible/ansible-6.0.0rc1-py3-none-any.whl <https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/py3/a/ansible/ansible-6.0.0b1-py3-none-any.whl> SHA256: ad46296fbae5f2e22f0f2ee57aca5200165de93c1a3aaec86c023a2e6611a92a What's new in Ansible 6.0.0rc1 --------------------------- * New command-line utility “ansible-community” is added in Ansible 6 that allows to print the version of the Ansible Community package. ``` $ ansible-community --version Ansible community version 6.0.0rc1 ``` * Python wheels are now available for both Ansible 6 and ansible-core 2.13.x, resulting in significantly improved installation performance. * In addition, Ansible 6 will no longer install some unnecessary files from the included Ansible collections such as tests or hidden files & directories in order to further improve installation performance and reduce the size on disk. These files are still available in the source tarball if necessary. * The changelog for ansible-core 2.13 installed by this release of ansible is available here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.13/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.13.rst * Collections which have opted into being a part of the Ansible-6 unified changelog will have an entry on this page: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/6/CHANGELOG-v6.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 6.0.0rc1 ? --------------------------------------------------------- * Maintenance releases of Ansible 5.x will occur approximately every three weeks (Ansible 5.8.0, Ansible 5.9.0, etc) until the release of Ansible 6.0.0. They will contain bugfixes and new features but no backwards incompatibilities. * The stable release of Ansible 6.0.0 is expected on 2022-06-21. More information can be found in the Ansible 6 roadmap: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_6.html * Please note that the release of ansible-core 2.13 in May 2022 coincides with the end-of-life of ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce/c/kegIH5_okmg/ 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_6.html Getting collection updates from Ansible 6 with older releases of ansible-core ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ansible 6 includes ansible-core 2.13.x and users have expressed an interest in getting collection updates as they ship in the Ansible "batteries included" package while keeping an older version of ansible-core based on their needs and requirements. An ansible-galaxy requirements file based on the collections from Ansible 6 has been made available for this use case: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/6/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/CAJm9AsTMKGp6yK403yaQSyFWZbXpxUVNLd3GUx217xJdx0n8tg%40mail.gmail.com.
