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ansible.posix 2.2.2 Released - Whats New and How to Test

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2024-01-013By Luca Berton

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ansible.posix 2.2.2 Released - Whats New and How to Test

Introduction

ansible.posix is the collection that bundles POSIX-specific modules and plugins for Ansible, covering things like mount, firewalld, selinux, sysctl, synchronize, at, authorized_key, and the profile_tasks/profile_roles callback plugins commonly used to profile playbook execution. It is one of the collections shipped by default with the ansible community package, and version 2.2.2 has just been published to Ansible Galaxy.

Whats New

Version 2.2.2 is a minor release. Compared to 2.2.1, there are no functional changes to any module or plugin code in this release: no new modules, no new parameters, no behavioral bugfixes to mount, firewalld, selinux, sysctl, synchronize, or any of the other modules in the collection.

The only change in the changelog is a documentation fix in the README.

Bugfixes

  • README - Added Red Hat Automation Hub as the correct contact information for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) subscribers.

In practice, this means the README.md shipped with the collection now points AAP customers to Automation Hub as the correct support/contact channel, instead of whatever reference was there before. If a user is not consuming this collection through Red Hat Automation Hub, this release has no practical impact and can be treated as a no-op update.

How to Test

Since this release only touches documentation, testing is limited to confirming that the collection installs cleanly and reports the expected version and README content.

# Install (or upgrade to) ansible.posix 2.2.2 from Ansible Galaxy
ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.posix:2.2.2 --force

# Verify the installed version
ansible-galaxy collection list ansible.posix

# Inspect collection metadata
ansible-galaxy collection list -vvv ansible.posix

# Locate the installed README and confirm the Automation Hub reference
find ~/.ansible/collections -path "*ansible/posix/README.md" -exec grep -i "Automation Hub" {} \;

# Sanity check that existing modules still load correctly
ansible-doc ansible.posix.mount
ansible-doc ansible.posix.firewalld

Involved Components

ComponentChange
README.mdUpdated contact info: Red Hat Automation Hub for AAP subscribers
ModulesNo change
PluginsNo change
RolesNo change (n/a for this collection)

Conclusion

ansible.posix 2.2.2 is a documentation-only release. Users already running 2.2.1 do not need to rush the upgrade unless they specifically rely on the README for support contact information as Red Hat AAP subscribers. As always, it is good practice to pin collection versions in requirements.yml and bump them deliberately rather than relying on implicit latest resolution.

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