## Published 2023-07-10 14:30 UTC (no further changes accepted) https://mailchi.mp/redhat/the-bullhorn-108
*This week in Ansible Community*
*Issue #108, 2023-07-09 ([Past Issues](https://us19.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=56d874e027110e35dea0e03c1&id=d6635f5420))*
Welcome to [The Bullhorn](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/News#the-bullhorn), our newsletter for the Ansible Community. If you have any questions or content you’d like to share, you're welcome to chat with us in the [Ansible Social room on Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#social:ansible.com), and mention [`newsbot`](https://matrix.to/#/@newsbot:ansible.im) to have your news item tagged for review for the next weekly issue!
## KEY DATES ⏱️
[cybette](https://matrix.to/#/@cybette:ansible.im) said
> * 2023-07-11: [AWX Office hours](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/14131), 15:00 UTC
> * 2023-07-11: [DaWGs meeting](https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/678), 15:00 UTC
> * 2023-07-12: [Community WG meeting](https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/679), 18:00 UTC (propose topics [here](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues))
> * 2023-07-13: [Bullhorn #109 content deadline](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/News#the-bullhorn), 18:00 UTC
> * 2023-07-17: ETA for Ansible-Core 2.14.8 and 2.15.2
> * 2023-07-18: [ETA for Ansible 8.2.0 release](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_8.html)
## GENERAL NEWS UPDATES 🔈️
[Don Naro](https://matrix.to/#/@orandon:ansible.im) shared
> As you may recall from last week's Bullhorn, we're [making Ansible community documentation a separate project to ansible/ansible](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/243).
>
> On Monday, July 10, 2023, all RST source for Ansible community documentation will move from [`ansible/docs/docsite`](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/docs/docsite) to the [`ansible/ansible-documentation`](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation) repository. If you want to find out more or have any concerns, come let us know in the [docs channel on Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#docs:ansible.com).
## MAJOR NEW RELEASES 🏆️
### Antsibull [↗](https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull) 🐂
Tooling for building the `Ansible` package and collection documentation.
[gotmax23](https://matrix.to/#/@gotmax:matrix.org) shared
> [Version 0.57.0](https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull/blob/0.57.0/CHANGELOG.rst#v0-57-0) of antsibull, the build tool for the ansible community package has been released. This release includes a couple misc. minor changes, drops support for building older ansible versions, and removes the deprecated `multiple` and `collection` subcommands.
[felixfontein](https://matrix.to/#/@felixfontein:libera.chat) contributed
> [antsibull-docs 2.3.0](https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-docs/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst#v2-3-0) has been released with new features and bugfixes. The Sphinx extension has a new role, `:ansplugin:`, to make it easier to reference modules, plugins, and roles from extra RST documentation. The extension now also reports errors in role parameters during the build, and not just in the generated markup. antsibull-docs has two new subcommands, `lint-core-docs` for linting references in the ansible-core docs, and `collection-plugins` for just emitting `.rst` files for modules, plugins, and roles in a collection, similar to what the collection_prep tool does. It is now also possible to switch between two RST outputs, the regular one for use with the Sphinx extension.
## PROJECT UPDATES 🛠️
[audgirka](https://matrix.to/#/@ajinksh:matrix.org) said
> [Version 1.1.0](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-language-server/releases/tag/v1.1.0) The Ansible Language Server (ALS) underwent a substantial upgrade. ALS v1.1.0 has adopted the new YAML 2.x package and successfully updated its code base accordingly. This significant development brings enhanced capabilities in terms of YAML diagnostics and strengthened security measures. Another crucial feature addition was the completion for variables declared inside a playbook. Full list of change-logs [here](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-language-server/releases/tag/v1.1.0).
[audgirka](https://matrix.to/#/@ajinksh:matrix.org) said
> [Version 0.19.0](https://github.com/ansible/creator-ee/releases/tag/v0.19.0) of creator-ee has been released. This release includes updated versions of ansible-runner, molecule, ansible-lint and addition of ansible-pylibssh library.
## COLLECTION UPDATES 🪄
[Rohit Thakur](https://matrix.to/#/@rothakur:matrix.org) said
> * [junipernetworks.junos](https://github.com/ansible-collections/junipernetworks.junos/tree/v5.2.0) has been released with several bugfixes and features ([changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/junipernetworks.junos/blob/v5.2.0/CHANGELOG.rst)).
> * [ansible.netcommon](https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/tree/v5.1.2) has been released with bugfixes ([changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)).
> * [cisco.ios](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.ios/tree/v5.0.0) has been released with bugfixes and features ([changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.ios/blob/v5.0.0/CHANGELOG.rst)).
> * [cisco.nxos](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.nxos/tree/v5.1.0) has been released with new features ([changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.nxos/blob/v5.1.0/CHANGELOG.rst)).
> * [cisco.iosxr](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.iosxr/tree/v6.0.0) has been released with new features ([changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.iosxr/blob/v6.0.0/CHANGELOG.rst)).
[Helen Bailey](https://matrix.to/#/@hbailey:matrix.org) said
> [amazon.aws 5.5.2](https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/tree/5.5.2) has been released with some bugfixes (see [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/blob/5.5.2/CHANGELOG.rst) for details).
[abuzachis](https://matrix.to/#/@aevelina:ansible.im) shared
> [amazon.aws 6.2.0](https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/tree/6.2.0) has been released with two new modules, some new features and several bugfixes (see [changelog for details](https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/blob/6.2.0/CHANGELOG.rst#v6-2-0)).
[Simon Dodsley](https://matrix.to/#/@sdodsley:matrix.org) shared
> purestorage.pure1 has been released with features and bugfixes ([changelog](https://github.com/Pure-Storage-Ansible/Pure1-Collection/releases/tag/1.3.0)).
[abuzachis](https://matrix.to/#/@aevelina:ansible.im) contributed
> * [community.aws 5.5.1](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/tree/5.5.1) has been released with several bugfixes (see [changelog for details](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/blob/5.5.1/CHANGELOG.rst#v5-5-1)).
> * [community.aws 6.1.0](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/tree/6.1.0) has been released with a new inventory plugin, some new features, and several bugfixes (see [changelog for details](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/blob/6.1.0/CHANGELOG.rst#v6-1-0)).
## PROPOSALS - DISCUSS AND VOTE! 🗳️
[mariolenz](https://matrix.to/#/@mariolenz:matrix.org) contributed
> As mentioned in [The Bullhorn #104](https://mailchi.mp/redhat/the-bullhorn-104), we consider `netapp.azure` an effectively unmaintained collection. Therefore, we've opened a community / steering committee [vote](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/discussions/249) on removing it from the Ansible 10 community package.
[felixfontein](https://matrix.to/#/@felixfontein:libera.chat) contributed
> We have started a community discussion on [Which/how many versions of ansible(-base|-core) should a (community) collection support?](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/245). This is a topic that really needs user feedback: which versions of ansible-core (or even ansible-base or Ansible 2.9) are you still using, and which do you expect to be supported by (which) collections you use? Since we do not have analytics we really don't know, so if you don't tell us we might drop support for the versions you are still using :) The discussion contains an explicit proposal for community.general, so we have something concrete to talk about: "For every new major release of community.general, drop support for all ansible-core versions that have been End of Life for at least a couple of weeks before the release date."
## HELP WANTED 🙏
[andersson007_](https://matrix.to/#/@andersson007_:matrix.org) contributed
> Please help the `community.mysql` collection define its [mission statement](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/discussions/560). Any feedback will be much appreciated!
[samccann](https://matrix.to/#/@samccann:ansible.im) said
> Looking to help out in Ansible but not sure where to start? Take a look at some easyfix or good first issues:
> * across multiple [collections](https://github.com/search?q=user%3Aansible-collections+label%3Aeasyfix%2C%22good+first+issue%22+state%3Aopen&type=Issues )
> * for all [other](https://github.com/search?q=user%3Aansible+user%3Aansible-community+label%3Aeasyfix%2C%22good+first+issue%22+state%3Aopen&type=Issues) Ansible projects
## COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MEETUPS 📅
[felixfontein](https://matrix.to/#/@felixfontein:libera.chat) shared
> The [14th Zurich Ansible meetup](https://www.meetup.com/ansible-zurich/events/294635148/) will happen on Tuesday, September 12th.
## THAT'S ALL FOR NOW!
Have any questions you’d like to ask, or issues you’d like to see covered? Please ask in [#social:ansible.com](https://matrix.to/#/#social:ansible.com)! See you next time!
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