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Ansible-core 2.17

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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.

• 2023-10-16 Development Phase 1
• 2023-12-18 Development Phase 2
• 2024-02-19 Development Phase 3

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

• 2024-04-01 Feature Freeze (and stable-2.17 branching from devel) No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code

• 2024-04-08 Beta 1

• 2024-04-29 Release Candidate 1

• 2024-05-20 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 2.7 and 3.6 support for module execution
• 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