Ansible-core 2.18

Release Schedule 

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.

The milestone branch will be advanced at the start date of each development phase, and the beta 1 release.

2024-09-16 Feature Freeze (and stable-2.18 branching from devel) No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code
2024-09-23 Beta 1
2024-10-14 Release Candidate 1
2024-11-04 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.

Ansible Core Team

Drop Python 3.10, and add Python 3.13 for controller code
Drop Python 3.7, and add Python 3.13 for target code
Data Tagging
Add support to ansible-galaxy for new console.redhat.com service account auth
Finalize task object connection attribute for connection reporting in callbacks
Add break functionality for task loops
Add new non-local mount facts
Evaluate changes to strategy plugins to use the core strategy result processing for meta task results
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

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