Hello everyone, We're happy to announce the Alpha release of Ansible 9.0.0rc1!
This pre-release version contains the latest version of ansible-core 2.16 and includes a curated set of Ansible collections that provides a vast number of modules and plugins. ansible-core is a required dependency, not contained within the ansible packages. How to get it? ------------------ This release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip: `$ python3 -m pip install ansible==9.0.0rc1 --user` The source and the wheel for this release can be found here: Release tarball: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/cc/6a/e0ed75032e025e89d78797d993e29b8cf68faba2aeed7d06582aeb5c1224/ansible-9.0.0rc1.tar.gz SHA256: 7a87375fe0931de65ed025fac4b0c760c80453959f1e7254b0584019d6e8ac47 Wheel package: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d9/77/24379b1e81f70ee3439159bef637c5642827c94a197a2286ec10d2a831ba/ansible-9.0.0rc1-py3-none-any.whl SHA256: 404b49c79f8bebc7e007930cdc2eca5590f562a6f11cb24f8ee3755b0ff747b5 Some important details ------------------------------- Python wheels are available for both Ansible 9.0.0rc1 and ansible-core 2.16. In addition, Ansible 9 no longer installs some unnecessary files from the included Ansible collections such as tests or hidden files and directories. This further improves installation performance and reduces the size on disk. These files are still available in the source tarball if needed. Collections which have opted-in to being a part of the Ansible 9 unified changelog will have an entry on this page: For collections which have not opted-in to the unified changelog, you may find more information on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections or the collection source repository. For example, the community.crypto collection is available at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/index.html and you can find a link to the source repository under the "Repository(Sources)" button. The changelog for ansible-core 2.16 installed by this release of Ansible 9 can be found here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.0/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.16.rst What's the schedule for new Ansible releases after 9.0.0rc1? --------------------------------------------------------- The next release roadmap can be found at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/ansible_roadmap_index.html Subscribe to the Bullhorn for all future release dates, announcements, and Ansible contributor community news. Visit this link to subscribe: https://bit.ly/subscribe-bullhorn You can find all past Bullhorn issues on the official wiki page: https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/News#the-bullhorn Join the new Ansible Community Forum to follow along and participate in all the discussions and release related discussions and announcements. Feel free to share your thoughts, ideas and concerns there. Register here to join the Ansible Forum: https://forum.ansible.com Porting Help ----------------- A unified porting guide for collections that have opted-in is available here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_9.html Getting collection updates from Ansible 9 with older releases of ansible-core ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ansible 9 includes ansible-core 2.16 Based on your requirements, you can get collection updates as they ship in the Ansible "batteries included" package while continuing to use older versions of ansible-core. An ansible-galaxy requirements file based on the collections from Ansible 9 has been made available for this use case: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/9/galaxy-requirements.yaml After you download the requirements file, the collections can be installed by running this command: "ansible-galaxy collection install -r galaxy-requirements.yaml" Special Thanks --------------------- We would like to give a shoutout with a big THANK YOU to felixfontein and `Ansible Release Management Working Group` for making this release happen! On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating! Cheers Ansible Community Team -- 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/CAHK8eviePpxyQqSrmPEaeT2VPny39b%3DgNgR-V7kgu8oZ25zK7g%40mail.gmail.com.
