Ansible-core 2.17
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
Dates subject to change.
Development Phase
The milestone
branch will be advanced at the start date of each development phase.
2023-10-16 Development Phase 1
2023-12-18 Development Phase 2
2024-02-19 Development Phase 3
Release Phase
2024-04-01 Feature Freeze (and
stable-2.17
branching fromdevel
) No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code2024-04-08 Beta 1
2024-04-29 Release Candidate 1
2024-05-20 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 2.7 and 3.6 support for module execution
Remove deprecated functionality
Decrease incidental integration tests
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:
Data Tagging