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Ansible-core 2.13

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Release Schedule

Expected

PRs must be raised well in advance of the dates below to have a chance of being included in this ansible-core release.

.. note:: There is no Alpha phase in 2.13. .. note:: Dates subject to change.

Development Phase ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The milestone branch will be advanced at the start date of each development phase.

• 2021-09-27 Development Phase 1
• 2021-12-13 Development Phase 2
• 2022-02-14 Development Phase 3

Release Phase ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• 2022-03-28 Feature Freeze (and stable-2.13 branching from devel) No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code

• 2022-04-11 Beta 1

• 2022-04-25 Beta 2 (if necessary)

• 2022-05-02 Release Candidate 1

• 2022-05-16 Release

Release Manager

Ansible Core Team

Planned work

• ansible-doc extended dump support for devtools integration
• ansible-galaxy CLI collection verification, source, and trust
• jinja2 3.0+ dependency
• Consolidate template handling to always use jinja2 native
• Drop Python 2.6 support for module execution
• Update the collection loader to Python 3.x loader API, due to removal of the Python 2 API in Python 3.12
• Modernize python packaging and installation

Delayed work

The following work has been delayed and retargeted for a future release

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