Why package ansible-core is older in rocky 9 than in rocky 8

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Hi

If I install ansible-core on Rocky8, I’ve got

cat /etc/redhat-release 
Rocky Linux release 8.10 (Green Obsidian)

dnf info ansible-core
Nom          : ansible-core
Version      : 2.16.3

If I do the same on Rocky 9, I’ve got

cat /etc/redhat-release 
Rocky Linux release 9.4 (Blue Onyx)

dnf info ansible-core
Name         : ansible-core
Version      : 2.14.14

Why ansible-core version on Rocky 9 is older than on Rocky 8 ?

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Rocky has the same packages as RHEL. So if RHEL did it that way, then you need to ask them why. Rocky is a 1:1 rebuild of RHEL so the package versions are the same as RHEL.

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Note that platform-python in RHEL 8 is 3.6 and in RHEL 9 it is 3.9.
The Ansible depends on Python. On RHEL 9 it does use the 3.9.
On RHEL 8 the Ansible depends on application stream python3.12 – not the platform-python.
Could use of newer Ansible be connected to use of Python?

The RHEL 8 did not release with ansible-core. That did happen in 8.6. See Updates to using Ansible in RHEL 8.6 and 9.0
I’d guess that more work was necessary in RHEL 8 – that ansible-core could not use python3.6 – and hence it did diverge.

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