1.. _base_roadmap_2_11: 2 3================= 4Ansible-core 2.11 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-core release. 17 18.. note:: There is no Alpha phase in 2.11. 19.. note:: Dates subject to change. 20 21- 2021-02-12 Feature Freeze 22 No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code 23 24- 2021-03-02 Beta 1 25- 2021-03-15 Beta 2 (if necessary) 26 27- 2021-03-29 Release Candidate 1 (and ``stable-2.11`` branching from ``devel``) 28- 2021-04-12 Release Candidate 2 (if necessary) 29 30- 2021-04-26 Release 31 32Release Manager 33--------------- 34 35 Ansible Core Team 36 37Planned work 38============ 39 40- Rename ``ansible-base`` to ``ansible-core``. 41- Improve UX of ``ansible-galaxy collection`` CLI, specifically as it relates to install and upgrade. 42- Add new Role Argument Spec feature that will allow a role to define an argument spec to be used in 43 validating variables used by the role. 44- Bump the minimum Python version requirement for the controller to Python 3.8. There will be no breaking changes 45 to this release, however ``ansible-core`` will only be packaged for Python 3.8+. ``ansible-core==2.12`` will include 46 breaking changes requiring at least Python 3.8. 47- Introduce split-controller testing in ``ansible-test`` to separate dependencies for the controller from 48 dependencies on the target. 49