New releases

Ansible Core and community distribution of collections saw new releases at the end of 2021. Apart from regular fixes and enhancements, ansible-core 2.12 and ansible 5 packages made one rather drastic change: they dropped support for Python versions lower than 3.8.

So, what does this change mean in practical terms? In short, we can no longer use older distributions such as RHEL 7, CentOS 7, and Debian 10 as control nodes. However, note that we can still manage older distributions using Ansible just fine since most Ansible modules in the wild still support Python 2.7. And this will not change anytime soon.