Ansible Community: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Ansible Community from Red Hat

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-14

What is Ansible Community?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementAnsible is a community-driven automation engine that allows users to automate IT tasks through a lightweight, command-line interface. Unlike the enterprise version, it is entirely free to use and relies on a massive global community of contributors to develop and maintain its extensive library of modules. It utilizes an agentless model, connecting to remote systems via standard protocols like SSH or WinRM to execute tasks without pre-installed software. Because it is highly flexible and transparent, it is the preferred choice for individual developers and small teams who want to build custom automation workflows without licensing costs. While it lacks a native graphical dashboard or official support, it provides the fundamental building blocks—like Playbooks and Inventory files—that power the entire Ansible ecosystem.
 

The entire lifecycle of Ansible Community

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Ansible Community. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Ansible Community (Red Hat) release, version and end-of-life information
XAnsible Community (Red Hat) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Ansible Community (Red Hat)
 

Facts and figures about Ansible Community

Product
Ansible Community
Vendor
Red Hat
Latest version
13.5.0
Number of releases
13
Number of versions
185
Number of unstable versions
77
Number of versions affected by CVE
-
Licence
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
 
 

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