New releases: ansible-core 2.13.0 - Nobody's Fault but Mine

[Matt Martz]

Hi all- we're happy to announce the general release of:

- ansible-core 2.13.0


How to get it
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$ python3 -m pip install --user ansible-core==2.13.0

The release artifact can be found here:

* ansible-core 2.13.0
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/py3/a/ansible-core/ansible_core-2.13.0-py3-none-any.whl
  SHA256: 726196c529fe536f8ad83a30aa48b59dd3fcacc3e5d3b3c3392212f7a27e7262


What's new
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This release is a major release. The full changelog is at:

* ansible-core 2.13.0
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.13.0/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.13.rst

Important Changes:

* Add GPG cryptographic collection verification to the ansible-galaxy CLI

* Modernize the python packaging and installation of ansible-core, which enables shipping python wheels.

* ansible-core CLIs can be invoked using `python3 -m ansible`

* Increase minimum jinja2 dependency to 3.0+

* Consolidate template handling to always use jinja2 native, maintaining backwards compatibility by default. The jinja2_native setting still defaults to false.

* Drop Python 2.6 support for module execution

* Update the collection loader to support the Python 3 loader API

* Add result serialization format options to the base callback class allowing plugins such as the default callback to emit YAML serialized task results in addition to JSON

What's the schedule for future maintenance releases?
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The next batch of release candidates is planned to be released on 13 June 2022. The next general availability release will be one week after.


Porting Help
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If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you
upgrade, 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!

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Matt Martz
@sivel
sivel.net