antsibull-core
Tools for building the Ansible Distribution
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes, if you are developing Ansible tooling or building Ansible distributions. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and provides essential build infrastructure. No, if you are a general Ansible user—this is a developer library for the Ansible project itself, not an Ansible feature or plugin. The copyleft license requires your project to be GPL-compatible.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.9 or later
- Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution.
- Active maintenance with a release 27 days ago.
License · maintenance · safety
GPL-3.0-or-later AND BSD-2-Clause AND MIT AND PSF-2.0 (copyleft) — Copyleft license (GPL-3.0-or-later) with mixed licensing in vendored code (BSD-2-Clause, MIT, PSF-2.0). Use is restricted to GPL-compatible projects unless you obtain alternative licensing.
last release 2026-07-18 (27 days) · last repo commit 2026-08-14 · 6 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 159,184 downloads/mo, #10,705 on PyPI
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import antsibull_core- Whether the package is intended for end-user consumption or primarily for Ansible project maintainers
- Specific API stability guarantees beyond the semantic versioning statement in the description
What it is and what it does
antsibull-core is a library that provides shared build and tooling infrastructure for the Ansible project and related distribution-building tasks. It handles common patterns needed across Ansible's build scripts—changelog management, versioning, file utilities, and release automation—rather than being a user-facing Ansible feature. The package depends on aiohttp for async HTTP operations, pydantic for data validation, semantic-version for version parsing, and several other utilities for file handling and logging.
The library is actively maintained by the Ansible community and follows semantic versioning from version 1.0.0 onward, with the current development series at 3.x.y. It requires Python 3.9 or later and is typed for static analysis. The package is primarily intended for developers working on Ansible tooling and build infrastructure.
Use it for
- Building custom Ansible distributions or collections that need standardized versioning and changelog management
- Automating release workflows for Ansible-related projects using the provided build and publishing utilities
- Integrating with Ansible project infrastructure when developing tools that need to interact with Ansible's build system
- Validating and processing Ansible project metadata using pydantic-based data structures
Worth the install?
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Yes, if you are developing Ansible tooling or building Ansible distributions.
The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and provides essential build infrastructure. No, if you are a general Ansible user—this is a developer library for the Ansible project itself, not an Ansible feature or plugin. The copyleft license requires your project to be GPL-compatible.
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antsibull-core on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Active maintenance with a release 27 days ago. Requires Python 3.9 or later and depends on 9 runtime packages including aiohttp and pydantic.
Requires Python 3.9 or later
License in practice
Copyleft license (GPL-3.0-or-later) with mixed licensing in vendored code (BSD-2-Clause, MIT, PSF-2.0). Use is restricted to GPL-compatible projects unless you obtain alternative licensing.
Quickstart
pip install antsibull-core
import antsibull_coreVerify before relying
- Whether the package is intended for end-user consumption or primarily for Ansible project maintainers
- Specific API stability guarantees beyond the semantic versioning statement in the description
Package facts
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later AND BSD-2-Clause AND MIT AND PSF-2.0 copyleft |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.9 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 9 packagesaiofilesaiohttpantsibull-fileutilsbuildpackagingperkypydanticsemantic-versiontwiggy |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 27 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 159,184 / month, #10,705 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 4 - BetaFramework :: AnsibleIntended Audience :: DevelopersProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9Typing :: Typed |
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