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:: Dates subject to change.

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

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

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

2022-09-19 Feature Freeze (and stable-2.14 branching from devel) No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code
2022-09-26 Beta 1
2022-10-17 Release Candidate 1
2022-11-07 Release

.. note:: The beta and release candidate schedules allow for up to 3 releases on a weekly schedule depending on the necessity of creating a release.

Ansible Core Team

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

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