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Ansible-core 2.20

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Release Schedule

Expected

PRs must be raised sufficiently in advance of the following dates to have a chance of inclusion in this ansible-core release.

.. note:: Dates are subject to change.

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

The milestone branch will be advanced at the start date of each development phase and the beta 1 release.

• 2025-08-18 Development Phase 5
• 2025-09-22 Beta 1

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

• 2025-09-15 Feature Freeze

• 2025-09-22 Beta 1

• 2025-10-13 Release Candidate 1

• 2025-11-03 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 3.11 and add Python 3.14 for controller code
• Drop Python 3.8 and add Python 3.14 for target code
• Tech preview of Play argument specs
• Support for 3rd party fact injection plugins
• Register Projections
• Remove deprecated functionality
• 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:

• TBD