0.59.0

Release Summary

Feature release for the upcoming Ansible 9.0.0rc1 release.

Minor Changes

• ansible python metadata - remove links specific to ansible-core and add links to the Ansible forum and the ansible-build-data repository (#558).
• build-release role - add changed_when: false to validate-tags task (https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibulll/pull/557).
• build-release role - add a test to ensure that Python files in the ansible package successfully compile (#552).
• build-release role - directly install the wheel when running tests (#553).

Bugfixes

• Fix regression in validate-tags subcommand argument validation that caused a traceback (#51).