Ansible-core 2.13

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

There is no Alpha phase in 2.13.

Note

Dates subject to change.

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

Ansible Core Team

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

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