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 fromdevel
) No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code2022-04-11 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 integrationansible-galaxy
CLI collection verification, source, and trustjinja2
3.0+ dependencyConsolidate template handling to always use
jinja2
nativeDrop 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