1.. _base_roadmap_2_10: 2 3================= 4Ansible-base 2.10 5================= 6 7.. contents:: 8 :local: 9 10Release Schedule 11---------------- 12 13Expected 14======== 15 16PRs must be raised well in advance of the dates below to have a chance of being included in this ansible-base release. 17 18.. note:: There is no Alpha phase in 2.10. 19.. note:: Dates subject to change. 20 21- 2020-06-16 Beta 1 **Feature freeze** 22 No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code 23 24- 2020-07-21 Release Candidate 1 (bumped from 2020-07-14) 25- 2020-07-24 Release Candidate 2 26- 2020-07-25 Release Candidate 3 27- 2020-07-30 Release Candidate 4 28- 2020-08-13 Release 29 30Release Manager 31--------------- 32 33@sivel 34 35Planned work 36============ 37 38- Migrate non-base plugins and modules from the ``ansible/ansible`` repository to smaller collection repositories 39- Add functionality to ease transition to collections, such as automatic redirects from the 2.9 names to the new FQCN of the plugin 40- Create new ``ansible-base`` package representing the ``ansible/ansible`` repository 41 42Additional Resources 43==================== 44 45The 2.10 release of Ansible will fundamentally change the scope of plugins included in the ``ansible/ansible`` repository, by 46moving much of the plugins into smaller collection repositories that will be shipped through https://galaxy.ansible.com/ 47 48The following links have more information about this process: 49 50- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ansible-devel/oKqgCeYTs-M/cHrOgMw8CAAJ 51- https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/README.rst 52