Hi all- we're happy to announce that the beta release of ansible-core, 2.11.0b4 is now available!
Note that because we are shipping a fourth beta, the rc1 release candidate of ansible-core has been pushed back one week and is expected to land on 5 April 2021. The branching to stable-2.11 will take place then too. All other dates in the recent "Dates worth knowing" email to the ansible-devel@ mailing list remain unchanged. ansible-core 2.11 is a rename of ansible-base. As with ansible-base, it includes only a minimal, vetted set of modules and plugins, and is extensible through the use of Ansible Collections. This release of ansible-core includes some new features and changes that we'd like to highlight below. This list is not exhaustive: - As of this release, Python 3.8 is now a *soft requirement* on the controller. (This release will continue to work with the same versions of Python as ansible-base 2.10, but ansible-core 2.12 will NOT) - Role arguments can now be validated at runtime to ensure that roles are used correctly - ansible-galaxy now makes use of "resolvelib" for resolving dependencies - New virtualization facts are now included (as lists), so that administrators can see all virtual guest and host technologies available to the node - Playbooks can now be run from collections - For module authors, module_utils imports are now treated as optional if in any nested block (such as 'try' or 'if') allowing for implementation of fallback behavior for module_utils that do not exist in older versions of Ansible. In addition, this fourth beta includes a bugfix affecting role argument validation, several small enhancements to `ansible-galaxy collection verify`, and a few smaller bugfixes. See the changelog for more details. We appreciate any and all early adopters and welcome any reports of issues on GitHub. Happy testing! How to get it ------------- $ pip install ansible-core==2.11.0b4 --user The tar.gz of the release can be found here: * ansible-core 2.11.0b4 https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.11.0b4.tar.gz SHA256: 69561295bfdc101235397f41ef7c2421919a4f2e7bc95988bc312a21e4f4bc80 What's new in ansible-core 2.11.0b4 ----------------------------------- This release is a maintenance release containing numerous bugfixes. The full changelog is at: * 2.11.0b4 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst What's the schedule for future releases? ---------------------------------------- We are now planning to ship release candidate 1 on 5 April 2021. Porting Help ------------ We've published a porting guide at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.11.html to help migrate your content to 2.11. If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you upgrade to 2.11.0b4, please use the following link to report the regression: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/new/choose In your issue, be sure to mention the version that works and the one that doesn't. Thanks! -Rick Elrod -- 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/CAMuUyjTJ5sU_O7BSi8Cf%3D%2BwHGUv7%3DSUHpR%2BxKY8feUW997phdg%40mail.gmail.com.
