Hi all, We're happy to announce that the Ansible 5.0.0 package has been released !
Ansible 5.0.0 includes the newly released 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==5.0.0 --user ``` The tar.gz of the release can be found here: Ansible 5.0.0: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-5.0.0.tar.gz SHA256: 006504b4ba5f355073e0b3f10f317a5684c0ce7a35798b18fa18fbffaedab2a6 What's new in Ansible 5.0.0 --------------------------- * 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 * 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 * 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) * 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 5.0.0 ? --------------------------------------------------------- * 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 Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAH7C%2BPqWq%2BaB1naWeq6rw_Mcyi-7ioa8JvGZ3%2B9-kU1Gs%3DCeeA%40mail.gmail.com.
