Hi all, We're happy to announce that the Ansible 7.0.0rc1 package has been released!
Ansible 7.0.0rc1 will include ansible-core 2.14.0 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 6.x which included ansible-core 2.13 and there may be backwards incompatibilities in the core playbook language. How to get it ------------- This pre-release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip: ``` $ pip install ansible==7.0.0rc1 --user ``` The sources for this release can be found here: Release tarball: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-7.0.0rc1.tar.gz SHA256: 1ff41e1bc3201a3931e26fb7fa1768e54e45ff43f92b3130c19d8ffad1176ffa Wheel package: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/py3/a/ansible/ansible-7.0.0rc1-py3-none-any.whl SHA256: 0d8dc49b808d55c8228e57f1c13b7f944b4a09d0b1a19cfc477c9c9da18ab12a What's new in Ansible 7 --------------------------- Ansible 7 requires Python 3.9 on the controller, same as ansible-core 2.14. Variables are now evaluated lazily; only when they are actually used. For example, in ansible-core 2.14 an expression ``{{ defined_variable or undefined_variable }}`` does not fail on ``undefined_variable`` if the first part of ``or`` is evaluated to ``True`` as it is not needed to evaluate the second part. Collections added to Ansible 7: * ibm.spectrum_virtualize (version 1.9.0) * inspur.ispim (version 1.0.1) * purestorage.fusion (version 1.1.1) * vultr.cloud (version 1.1.0) The previously deprecated servicenow.servicenow collection has been removed. NOTE: Read the full Ansible 7 porting guide at https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_7.rst for complete details. * The changelog for ansible-core 2.14 installed by this release of ansible is available here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.14/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.14.rst * Collections which have opted into being a part of the Ansible-7 unified changelog will have an entry on this page: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/7/CHANGELOG-v7.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 7.0.0rc1 ? --------------------------------------------------------- * Please refer to the Ansible Project 7.0 Roadmap for more information about the upcoming releases: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_7.html Porting Help ------------- A unified porting guide for collections which 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 7 has been made available for this use case: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/7/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! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/0497d0b6-312e-47fa-9cd1-084ecabc8b6bn%40googlegroups.com.
