Ansible 6.0.0b2 (including ansible-core 2.13) is available for testing!
Ompragash Viswanathan
Hi all,
We're happy to announce that the second beta release of Ansible 6.0.0 is now available for testing !
Ansible 6.0.0 will include ansible-core 2.13 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 5.x which included
ansible-core 2.12 and there may be backwards incompatibilities in the core playbook language.
How to get it
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This pre-release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip:
```
$ pip install ansible==6.0.0b2 --user
```
The sources for this release can be found here:
Release tarball:
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-6.0.0b2.tar.gz
SHA256: e5656cef9fbc1cebf5bb1c77b2fd34c257846385b57f35b0507bc3c6fd928b5a
Wheel package: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/py3/a/ansible/ansible-6.0.0b2-py3-none-any.whl
SHA256: d989553fde417f2591b9b02a896d9bc81f4aac00d2c4f4581204f53291075c93
What's new in Ansible 6.0.0b2
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* Python wheels are now available for both Ansible 6 and ansible-core
2.13.x, resulting in significantly improved installation performance.
* In addition, Ansible 6 will no longer install some unnecessary files
from the included Ansible collections such as tests or hidden files &
directories in order to further improve installation performance and
reduce the size on disk. These files are still available in the source
tarball if necessary.
* The changelog for ansible-core 2.13 installed by this release of
ansible is available here:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.13/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.13.rst
* Collections which have opted into being a part of the Ansible-6
unified changelog will have an entry on this page:
https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/6/CHANGELOG-v6.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 6.0.0b2 ?
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* Maintenance releases of Ansible 5.x will occur approximately every three weeks (Ansible 5.8.0, Ansible 5.9.0, etc) until the release of Ansible 6.0.0. They will contain bugfixes and new features but no backwards incompatibilities.
* The stable release of Ansible 6.0.0 is expected on 2022-06-21.
More information can be found in the Ansible 6 roadmap:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_6.html
* Please note that the release of ansible-core 2.13 in May 2022
coincides with the end-of-life of ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10:
https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce/c/kegIH5_okmg/
Porting Help
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A unified porting guide for collections which have opted-in is available here:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_6.html
Getting collection updates from Ansible 6 with older releases of ansible-core
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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 6 has been made available for this use case:
https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/6/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 !