Hi all, We're happy to announce that the Ansible 7.0.0a1 package has been released!
Ansible 7.0.0a1 will include ansible-core 2.14.0b1 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 6.x which included ansible-core 2.13 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==7.0.0a1 --user ``` The sources for this release can be found here: Release tarball: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-7.0.0a1.tar.gz SHA256: bf5e17bdd4a6f4711ed8cf8ec9f6a9c5e2fba72d6739a467fec6dc67fb7339f6 Wheel package: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/py3/a/ansible/ansible-7.0.0a1-py3-none-any.whl SHA256: eeab00dea3ec4060f5f5f55d622ef1430badd103760be5ad3b1777375fd27da3 What's new in Ansible 7 --------------------------- Ansible 7 requires Python 3.9 on the controller, same as ansible-core 2.14. Variables are now evaluated lazily; only when they are actually used. For example, in ansible-core 2.14 an expression ``{{ defined_variable or undefined_variable }}`` does not fail on ``undefined_variable`` if the first part of ``or`` is evaluated to ``True`` as it is not needed to evaluate the second part. Collections added to Ansible 7: * ibm.spectrum_virtualize (version 1.9.0) * inspur.ispim (version 1.0.1) * purestorage.fusion (version 1.1.1) * vultr.cloud (version 1.1.0) The previously deprecated servicenow.servicenow collection has been removed. NOTE: Read the full Ansible 7 porting guide at https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_7.rst for complete details. * The changelog for ansible-core 2.14 installed by this release of ansible is available here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.14/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.14.rst * Collections which have opted into being a part of the Ansible-7 unified changelog will have an entry on this page: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/7/CHANGELOG-v7.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 7.0.0a1 ? --------------------------------------------------------- * Please refer to the Ansible Project 7.0 Roadmap for more information about the upcoming releases: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel//roadmap/COLLECTIONS_7.html 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_7.html Getting collection updates from Ansible 7 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 7 has been made available for this use case: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/7/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/c5b833a3-dd81-4691-9f1c-31618ecd4919n%40googlegroups.com.
