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, and the beta 1 release.

2024-10-14 Development Phase 1
2024-12-16 Development Phase 2
2025-02-17 Development Phase 3
2025-04-14 Beta 1

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

2025-04-14 Feature Freeze (and stable-2.19 branching from devel) No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code
2025-04-14 Beta 1
2025-06-30 Release Candidate 1 (delayed, previously 2025-05-26)
2025-07-21 Release (delayed, previously 2025-06-16)

.. note:: The beta schedule allows for up to 6 releases 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

Data Tagging
No longer allow forks to inherit stdio
ansible-galaxy CLI improvements
- Support relative download_url in galaxy API responses
- Add support to ansible-galaxy for new console.redhat.com service account auth
Evaluate pre-fork loop processing in strategy plugins
Add alternative to sshpass to the ssh connection plugin
Evaluate inclusion of ssh-agent handling
Deprecate paramiko connection plugin
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:

Register Projections
ansible-galaxy CLI improvements
- Denote preferred collection
- Add uninstall command
- Support rollback on upgrade failures
- Utilize requires_ansible during installs/upgrades
Move environment variable handling for modules out of shell plugins, to support private environment variables