Release notes
Ansible Automation Platform unifies comprehensive automation capabilities, a robust ecosystem, and flexible deployment options into one strategic solution. It enables customers to automate and orchestrate workflows across domains for efficient, resilient, and consistent IT operations at scale.
From the introduction of Ansible Automation Platform 2, our promise has been to deliver an automation platform experience that allows our customers to create the automation content they need with more efficiency, manage the resulting automated workflows more effectively, and scale those automated workflows with ease across domains and environments. We continue to strive to deliver on that promise with the release of Ansible Automation Platform 2.6.
Automate at scale on proven foundation. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 delivers new features, platform enhancements, and strategic integrations that will help you continue to build a resilient, trusted foundation for the next generation of IT operations.
- Unlock more value with the new automation dashboard, which allows you to securely measure automation ROI, with customized tracking and reporting.
- Operate more efficiently with the new Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant, which harnesses generative AI to provide on-demand support, for a more intuitive platform experience.
- Achieve new levels of scale with the self-service automation portal, which enables platform admins to quickly and easily scale automation service delivery to new users and teams.
Because your team is not just preparing for the future, you are automating for it.
Platform services in 2.6 Copy linkLink copied!
These are the major service versions in Ansible Automation Platform 2.6. For more current information, see the entire Life Cycle.
| Ansible-core version | Ansible Automation Platform UI version | Automation controller (automation execution) version | Automation hub (automation content) version | Event-Driven Ansible controller (automation decisions) version | Platform gateway version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.16 |
2.6.1 |
4.7.1 |
4.11.0 |
1.2.0 |
2.6.20251001 |
- New features and enhancements
Review the new features and enhancements in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 to maximize your automation capabilities. This release introduces the Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant, the self-service automation portal, and unified role-based access control. - Deprecated features
Deprecated functionality is still included in Ansible Automation Platform and continues to be supported during this version’s support cycle. However, the functionality will be removed in a future release of Ansible Automation Platform and is not recommended for new deployments. - Removed features
Removed features are those that were deprecated in earlier releases. They are now removed from the Ansible Automation Platform 2.5, and will no longer be supported. - Changed features
Changed features are not deprecated and will continue to be supported until further notice. - Known issues
This section provides information about known issues in Ansible Automation Platform 2.6. - Fixed issues
This section provides information about fixed issues in Ansible Automation Platform 2.6.