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Ansible-core 2.16

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Ansible-core 2.16


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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:: Dates subject to change.

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

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

  • 2023-05-01 Development Phase 1
  • 2023-06-26 Development Phase 2
  • 2023-08-07 Development Phase 3

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

  • 2023-09-18 Feature Freeze (and stable-2.16 branching from devel) No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code

  • 2023-09-25 Beta 1

  • 2023-10-16 Release Candidate 1

  • 2023-11-06 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.

Release Manager

Ansible Core Team

Planned work

  • Drop Python 3.5 support for module execution
  • Drop Python 3.9 support for controller
  • Add support to ansible-doc for collections to declare new plugin types
  • Preserve display context when proxying display over the queue
  • Update TaskExecutor to not unnecessarily establish persistent ansible-connection when not needed
  • Remove deprecated functionality
  • Decrease incidental integration tests
  • Add controller type hinting for discrete areas of the code
  • Decrease testing sanity ignores
  • Update ansible-test container images and VMs
  • Update ansible-test dependencies

Delayed work

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

  • Data Tagging