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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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.

Ansible Core Team

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

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