Release planning

[felixfontein]

Let's use this issue to discuss when to release a new version.

[felixfontein]

I'd like to make a 1.2.0 release soon. We just missed the feature freeze window for Ansible 5.0.0, but we can still get into 4.10.0 and 5.1.0. @endorama what do you think?

[endorama]

Ok for me. Happy to cut the release.

What changes are needed to make the 1.2.0 release?
What are the deadlines?

These are the changes since last release: 1.1.0...main

[felixfontein]

The changes from November 10th are the main parts; the other commits are mainly collection infrastructure.

Deadlines: Ansible 5.1.0 will be out on December 21st, but Ansible 4.9.0 should come out on November 23rd (i.e. in 8 days). So having a release before then would be great IMO :)

[endorama]

Release 1.2.0 done.

[felixfontein]

I'll make a small 1.2.1 release today with updated docs (README update from November, collection links file from today).

[felixfontein]

1.2.1 is out.

[felixfontein]

1.2.2 is out with a missing license file.

[felixfontein]

I'll create a 1.2.3 release today to fix a docs formatting issue. That will reduce the number of warnings in the Ansible docs build by three :) CC @samccann

[samccann]

woot Thanks!

[felixfontein]

1.3.0 has been released with a new feature to work around an awx information leak when using the vars plugin.

[felixfontein]

1.4.0 has been released with a new feature (age support).

[felixfontein]

1.4.1 has been released to improve compatibility to future ansible-core releases (regarding the load_vars action plugin).

[felixfontein]

1.5.0 has been released with a role for installing sops, and two playbooks for installing sops on localhost and remote targets. This makes it easier to use community.sops in Execution Environments.

[felixfontein]

1.6.0 has been released with improvements for the installation role.

[felixfontein]

1.6.1 has been released with a bugfix (doesn't directly affect content in this collection though).

[felixfontein]

1.6.2 has been released with a bugfix.

[felixfontein]

1.6.3 has been released with updated documentation that now uses semantic markup.

[felixfontein]

Not exactly a release announcement, but: the sops repository moved from https://github.com/mozilla/sops to https://github.com/getsops/sops/! So finally something got moving, and we'll get a new patch release hopefully soon (getsops/sops#927 (comment))!

(The only drawback: the installation role breaks, apparently fetching the latest release data from GitHub doesn't like permanent redirects... Will look at it now...)

[felixfontein]

1.6.4 is out with a fixed install role, and updated references (getsops/sops instead of mozilla/sops).

[felixfontein]

1.6.5 is out with a fixed install role.

[felixfontein]

1.6.6 is out with a fixed install role. Now fully works with today's sops 3.8.0 release! 🎉

[felixfontein]

1.6.7 is out with a bugfix for the sops_encrypt module.