New releases: ansible-core 2.14.0 - C'mon Everybody

[Matt Martz]

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

- ansible-core 2.14.0


How to get it
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$ python3 -m pip install --user ansible-core==2.14.0

The release artifacts can be found here:

* ansible-core 2.14.0
    Wheel:  https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ef/ef/0448f37c05769497e919c04eb668f379fbaeaf0c3188c01cd09c92253f76/ansible_core-2.14.0-py3-none-any.whl
    Source: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ea/69/2c760df481d425b0ec3555c24d0adb441fca7ebbc22962e733c9c4e05f80/ansible-core-2.14.0.tar.gz


Checksums
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What's new
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This release is a major release. The full changelog can be found here:

* ansible-core 2.14.0
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.14.0/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.14.rst

Important Changes:

* Implement sidecar docs to support documenting filter/test plugins, as well as non Python modules

* Proxy Display over queue from forks

* Move handler processing into new PlayIterator phase to use the configured strategy
* Convert FieldAttribute to data descriptors to avoid complex meta classes
* Drop Python 3.8 support for controller
* Enforce running controller code with the Python locale and filesystem encoding set to UTF-8

* Ensure stdin/stdout/stderr file handles are using blocking IO.

* Evaluate variables lazily to allow defined tests to properly detect when dependent variables are undefined

What's the schedule for future maintenance releases?
----------------------------------------------------

The next batch of release candidates is planned to be released on 28 November 2022. The next general availability release will be one week after.


Porting Help
------------

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!

--

Matt Martz
@sivel
sivel.net

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 11:19 AM Matt Martz <ma...@sivel.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all- we're happy to announce the general release of:
>
> - ansible-core 2.14.0
>
>
> How to get it
> -------------
>
> $ python3 -m pip install --user ansible-core==2.14.0

For RHEL, this does not work on RHEL 7. python 2.7 is the default, and
the python3 package is python 3.6, too old to use.

For RHEL 8. RHEL 8 needs:

RHEL 8 needs this:

sudo dnf module enable python39
# because RHEL chose to use modularity for python, despite the
problems it causes
sudo dnf install python39 python39-pip
pip3.9 install --user ansible-core==2.14.0

The "python3" instructions work for RHEL 9 and Fedora, which have
recent enough python releases by default.

And I have, as so often lately, updated my RPM building tools at
https://github.com/nkadel/ansiblerepo/ . Building docs associated with
the packages requires an up-to-date sphinx, which is not available as
RPMs for RHEL 7 or RHEL 8, and I'm not going down the conflicting
dependency rathole to build those up. I'm a bit disappointed that Red
Hat does not publish a python39-sphinx for RHEL 8, but it's more work
than I want to take on.