community.network VS ansible-build-data

Updates from Ansible networking team. * We have enabled periodic jobs through GHA for network collections. * We are working on community.ioscm collection which works for iosxe on controller mode, when the appliance is in sd-wan infrastructure! * IRC Meeting changes. * We want someone who will look into ansible-lint fixes for community.network collection.

The community.network collection versions 3.3.1 (Final EOL release, changelog) and 4.0.2 (changelog) have been released!

community.network collection 5.0.0 has been released! See the changelog for details. Special thanks to felixfontein for removing flat-mapping and other improvements!

Community Network Collection 4.0.0 has been released and is available to download! See changelog for details regarding the major changes and deprecated features!🎉

The community.network minor releases 2.3.0 & 3.3.0 have been released!🎉 Thanks to all the awesome people who contributed to them!❤️

community.network 1.3.7 & 2.2.2 & 3.2.0 have been released with some improvements and bug fixes (see changelogs 1.3.7, 2.2.2, 3.2.0 for more details)🎉

community.network collection versions 1.3.6, 2.2.1, and 3.1.0 have been released! Special thanks to felixfontein!

We are looking at reducing the maintenance for old stable branches for community.general and community.network collection repositories. We'd welcome your feedback, in particular if you think you may be negatively impacted by the change. Full details of the proposal, and the ability to record your vote can be done via community-topic#55.

IBM -> RedHat -> Ansible (https://docs.ansible.com/platform.html)

I think the new ansible docs are opaque, and the new "everything is an ansible collection" scheme makes troubleshooting any issues reported by users hundreds of times harder than "the old days"

I keep this (https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob...) bookmarked because it's the only way to match up what "ansible 8.1.0" (https://pypi.org/project/ansible/8.1.0/) even means since it for damn sure not any of this: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/releases (they used to have a 'release' pinned on that releases tab saying "these are not the droids you are looking for"). I believe I tried asking for them to update the completely erroneous pypi "source code" link to point to that repo and ... well, one can see how well that turned out

➡️ Check Release Notes📦️🗒️ and Ansible 8 Porting Guide for more details.

💽You can install it by running the following command or download the release tarball directly from pypi: pip install ansible==8.0.0a1 --user ➡️Check Release Notes 📦️🗒️ and Ansible 8 Porting Guide for more details!

You can find the current list for Ansible 7 here: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/7/ansible-7.build

Check Release Notes📦️🗒️ and Ansible 6 Porting Guide for more details on changes, improvements, new and deprecated features!!

You can find the release announcement on ansible-announce and the changelog on GitHub. Happy automating!

The vmware.vmware_rest collection has been included in Ansible 5. Thanks to everyone involved!

As https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/issues/114 showed we should really check the existing collections included in the Ansible package. Some ideas:

Ansible 5.7.0 has been released with updates to 19 of the included Ansible collections! Read the announcement or check out the update changelog to learn more about this new version.

Debian package "ansible" -> called "ansible" on PyPI -> is called "ansible collections" through most of the documentation -> upstream PyPI packages are generated through https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data