2.5. 20 March 2025

Ability to generate roles and view role explanations

Role generation and viewing role explanations are now supported on the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed cloud service. You can create roles within Ansible collections from the Ansible VS Code extension using a natural language interface in English. You can also view the explanations for new or existing roles. For more information, see Creating roles and viewing role explanations.

Availability of REST API on on-premise deployments

Platform administrators can now configure and use the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed REST API to build a custom automation development and tooling workflow outside of VS Code. For more information, see Using the Ansible Lightspeed REST API and Ansible AI Connect. 1.0.0 (v1) in the API catalog.

Removal of unnecessary settings from the initial configuration of Ansible VS Code extension

The initial configuration of the Ansible VS Code extension now has fewer settings that are enabled by default. For more information, see Configuring the Ansible VS Code extension.