Ansible is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management and application-deployment tool enabling infrastructure as code. It runs on many Unix-like systems, and can configure both Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows.

Release Released Supported Latest
2.18 2 weeks and 2 days ago
(04 Nov 2024)
Ends in 1 year and 5 months
(01 May 2026)
2.18.0
(04 Nov 2024)
2.17 6 months ago
(20 May 2024)
Ends in 11 months
(01 Nov 2025)
2.17.6
(04 Nov 2024)
2.16 1 year ago
(06 Nov 2023)
Ends in 5 months
(01 May 2025)
2.16.13
(04 Nov 2024)
2.15 1 year and 6 months ago
(15 May 2023)
Ended 2 weeks and 5 days ago
(01 Nov 2024)
2.15.13
(04 Nov 2024)
2.14 2 years ago
(07 Nov 2022)
Ended 5 months and 3 weeks ago
(31 May 2024)
2.14.18
(04 Nov 2024)
2.13 2 years and 6 months ago
(16 May 2022)
Ended 11 months ago
(30 Nov 2023)
2.13.13
(09 Oct 2023)
2.12 3 years ago
(08 Nov 2021)
Ended 1 year and 5 months ago
(31 May 2023)
2.12.10
(11 Oct 2022)
2.11 3 years and 6 months ago
(26 Apr 2021)
Ended 2 years ago
(07 Nov 2022)
2.11.12
(23 May 2022)
2.10 4 years ago
(13 Aug 2020)
Ended 2 years and 6 months ago
(23 May 2022)
2.10.17
(31 Jan 2022)
2.9 5 years ago
(31 Oct 2019)
Ended 2 years and 6 months ago
(23 May 2022)
2.9.27
(11 Oct 2021)

The ansible-core package has a graduated maintenance structure that extends to three major releases. For detailed information, see Ansible Releases and maintenance.

See the ansible-core Roadmap for upcoming release details.

Compatibility

ansible-core Control node Python Managed node Python Managed node PowerShell
2.18 3.11 - 3.13 3.8 - 3.13 5.1
2.17 3.10 - 3.12 3.7 - 3.12 5.1
2.16 3.10 - 3.12 2.7 / 3.6 - 3.12 3 - 5.1
2.15 3.9 - 3.11 2.7 / 3.5 - 3.11 3 - 5.1
2.14 3.9 - 3.11 2.7 / 3.5 - 3.11 3 - 5.1
2.13 3.8 - 3.10 2.7 / 3.5 - 3.10 3 - 5.1
2.12 3.8 - 3.10 2.6 - 2.7 / 3.5 - 3.10 3 - 5.1
2.11 2.7 / 3.5 - 3.9 2.6 - 2.7 / 3.5 - 3.9 3 - 5.1
2.10 2.7 / 3.5 - 3.9 2.6 - 2.7 / 3.5 - 3.9 3 - 5.1
2.9 2.7 / 3.5 - 3.8 2.6 - 2.7 / 3.5 - 3.8 3 - 5.1

More information is available on the Ansible-core website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running:
ansible --version
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You can submit an improvement to this page on GitHub :octocat: . This page has a corresponding Talk Page.

A JSON version of this page is available at /api/ansible-core.json. See the API Documentation for more information. You can subscribe to the iCalendar feed at /calendar/ansible-core.ics.