Ansible-core 2.22

Release Schedule

Expected

PRs must be raised sufficiently in advance of the following dates to have a chance of inclusion in this ansible-core release.

Note

Dates are subject to change.

Development Phase

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

  • 2026-04-27 Development Phase 1

  • 2026-05-25 Development Phase 2

  • 2026-06-22 Development Phase 3

  • 2026-07-20 Development Phase 4

  • 2026-08-17 Development Phase 5

Release Phase

  • 2026-09-14 Feature Freeze

  • 2026-09-21 Beta 1

  • 2026-10-12 Release Candidate 1

  • 2026-11-02 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

  • Add Python 3.15 support

  • Drop Python 3.12 for controller

  • Windows connection resiliency and performance improvements

  • Introspection/debugging of running core processes

  • Deprecate module/actions returning skipped

  • Enable Pipelining by default

Delayed work

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

  • Drop Python 3.9 on target (delayed for 2.23)