Ansible-core 2.13

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

There is no Alpha phase in 2.13.

Note

Dates subject to change.

Development Phase

The milestone branch will be advanced at the start date of each development phase.

  • 2021-09-27 Development Phase 1

  • 2021-12-13 Development Phase 2

  • 2022-02-14 Development Phase 3

Release Phase

  • 2022-03-28 Feature Freeze (and stable-2.13 branching from devel) No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code

  • 2022-04-11 Beta 1

  • 2022-04-25 Beta 2 (if necessary)

  • 2022-05-02 Release Candidate 1

  • 2022-05-16 Release

Release Manager

Ansible Core Team

Planned work

  • ansible-doc extended dump support for devtools integration

  • ansible-galaxy CLI collection verification, source, and trust

  • jinja2 3.0+ dependency

  • Consolidate template handling to always use jinja2 native

  • Drop Python 2.6 support for module execution

  • Update the collection loader to Python 3.x loader API, due to removal of the Python 2 API in Python 3.12

  • Modernize python packaging and installation

Delayed work

The following work has been delayed and retargeted for a future release

  • Data Tagging

  • Implement sidecar docs to support documenting filter/test plugins, as well as non Python modules