New release announcement : Ansible Community Package 7.7.0

[Anwesha Das]

Hello everyone,

We're happy to announce the release of the Ansible 7.7.0 package!

Ansible 7.7.0 includes ansible-core 2.14.7 as well as a curated set of
Ansible collections that provide a vast number of modules and plugins.

How to get it
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This release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip:

`$ python3 -m pip install ansible==7.7.0 --user`

The sources for this release can be found here:

Release tarball:

https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/39/47/bef8fd8bc2b6e7b5058b61565959c91819eccb8be119a66f8524c0252c62/ansible-7.7.0.tar.gz

SHA256:

9c206ba515f13a0cc9c919d496218ba26df581755bdc39be85b074066c699a02

Wheel package:

https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f5/0f/fd3546905e2fae6fa8fc646d6698887c8e31f625d1016936f984223d2d95/ansible-7.7.0-py3-none-any.whl

SHA256:

4f8d346db1b6cec0f30b77935b3dce5633d76881186da839b58b34b48a089b92

What's the schedule for new Ansible releases after 7.7.0 ?
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* This is the last release of Ansible version 7. No new feature or bug
fixes will come for Ansible 7.X.X. From now on we will only have 8.X.X
releases. The next scheduled release is Ansible 8.1.0 on 22nd June 2023.

* Please follow the announcement of the recent release of 2.14.7
https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce/c/7KktcxSN7zA
for detailed information on the release cadance of ansible-core.


Porting Help
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A unified porting guide for collections that have opted-in is available here:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_7.html

Getting collection updates from Ansible 7 with older releases of ansible-core
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Ansible 7 includes ansible-core 2.14.x. Based on your requirements,
you can get collection updates as they ship in the Ansible "batteries
included" package while continuing to use older versions of
ansible-core.

An ansible-galaxy requirements file based on the collections from
Ansible 7 has been made available for this use case:
https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/7/galaxy-requirements.yaml

After you download the requirements file, the collections can be
installed by running this command:

"ansible-galaxy collection install -r galaxy-requirements.yaml"

On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!

Cheers
Ansible Community Team