Ansible News — Ansible Core 2.16.0 General Available “All My Love”

The Release Summary of Ansible Core 2.16.0 on November 6, 2023.

Introduction

Ansible, the open-source automation platform, has released a new version with numerous enhancements, bug fixes, and security updates. Ansible has become a fundamental tool for managing IT infrastructure and applications, streamlining workflows, and maintaining infrastructure as code (IaC) principles.

Ansible 2.16

Let’s delve into the key changes introduced in this release:

Important Changes:

• Drop Python 3.5 support for module execution.
• Drop Python 3.9 support for the controller.
• Add Python 3.12 support.
• Preserve display context when proxying display over the queue.
• Update TaskExecutor to not unnecessarily establish persistent ansible-connection when not needed.

Ansible Enhancements

• Collection Path
  The INI config option “collections_paths” has been deprecated; please use the singular form “collections_path”…