Drop support for Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, a…

…nsible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, and ansible-core 2.14.

.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml

@@ -26,25 +26,12 @@ jobs:
         ansible:
           # It's important that Sanity is tested against all stable-X.Y branches
           # Testing against `devel` may fail as new tests are added.
-          - stable-2.9
-          - stable-2.10
-          - stable-2.11
-          - stable-2.12
-          - stable-2.13
           - stable-2.14
           - stable-2.15
           - stable-2.16
           - stable-2.17
           - devel
-    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
-    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
-    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
-    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
-    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: >-
-      ${{ contains(fromJson(
-          '["stable-2.9", "stable-2.10", "stable-2.11"]'
-      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Perform sanity testing
         uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
@@ -55,26 +42,13 @@ jobs:
             git clone --depth=1 --single-branch --branch stable-1 https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.library_inventory_filtering.git ../../community/library_inventory_filtering_v1
 
   units:
-    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
-    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
-    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
-    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
-    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: >-
-      ${{ contains(fromJson(
-          '["stable-2.9", "stable-2.10", "stable-2.11"]'
-      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }})
     strategy:
       # As soon as the first unit test fails, cancel the others to free up the CI queue
       fail-fast: true
       matrix:
         ansible:
-          - stable-2.9
-          - stable-2.10
-          - stable-2.11
-          - stable-2.12
-          - stable-2.13
           - stable-2.14
           - stable-2.15
           - stable-2.16

README.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Please note that this collection does **not** support Windows targets.
 
 ## Tested with Ansible
 
-Tested with the current Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, ansible-core 2.14, ansible-core 2.15, ansible-core 2.16, and ansible-core 2.17 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible versions before 2.9.10 are not supported.
+Tested with the current ansible-core 2.14, ansible-core 2.15, ansible-core 2.16, and ansible-core 2.17 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible versions before 2.9.10 are not supported.
 
 ## External requirements
 

changelogs/fragments/2.0.0.yml

@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ major_changes:
 breaking_changes:
   - "robot inventory plugin - ``filters`` is now no longer an alias of ``simple_filters``, but a new, different option
      (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/101)."
+removed_features:
+  - "The collection no longer supports Ansible, ansible-base, and ansible-core releases
+     that are currently End of Life at the time of the 2.0.0 release. This means that
+     Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13,
+     and ansible-core 2.14 are no longer supported. The collection might still work with these
+     versions, but it can stop working at any moment without advance notice, and this will not
+     be considered a bug
+     (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/101)."
 minor_changes:
   - "robot inventory plugin - add ``filter`` option which allows to include and exclude
      hosts based on Jinja2 conditions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/101)."

meta/runtime.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
-requires_ansible: '>=2.9.10'
+requires_ansible: '>=2.14.0'
 action_groups:
   robot:
     - boot