New release v2.6.2

Correcting conditionals looping (#43331 ) (#43346 )
* Correcting conditionals looping (#43331) Empty conditionals would not break out of the loop, causing every command to be run for the same number of times as retries is defined (10 by default) (cherry picked from commit e215f842ba) * Update changelog
2018-07-27 16:18:51 -07:00 · 2018-07-27 08:06:15 -07:00 · 2018-07-27 08:03:14 -07:00 · 2018-07-27 08:02:25 -07:00 · 2018-07-26 21:54:08 -07:00 · 2018-07-26 20:15:12 -07:00
1065 changed files with 10150 additions and 4463 deletions
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@ -103,3 +103,4 @@ htmlcov/
 # ansible-test coverage results
 test/units/.coverage.*
 /test/integration/cloud-config-azure.yml
+changelogs/.plugin-cache.yaml
--- a/CODING_GUIDELINES.md
+++ b/CODING_GUIDELINES.md
@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Language
 ========

  * While not all components of Ansible must be in Python, core contributions to the Ansible repo must be written in Python.  This is to maximize the ability of everyone to contribute.
-  * If you want to write non-Python ansible modules or inventory scripts, that's fine, but they are not going to get merged in most likely.  Sorry!!  
+  * If you want to write non-Python ansible modules or inventory scripts, that's fine, but they are not going to get merged in most likely.  Sorry!!

 PEP 8 and basic style checks
 ============================
@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ PEP 8 and basic style checks
  * [PEP 8](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) is a great Python style guide, which you should read.
  * PEP 8 must not be strictly followed in all aspects, but most of it is good advice.
  * The line is limited to 160 characters.
-  * To run checks for things we care about, use [ansible-test](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/dev_guide/testing_pep8.html#running-locally).
+  * To run checks for things we care about, use [ansible-test](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/testing_sanity.html).
  * Similarly, additional checks can be made with "make pyflakes".
  * There is no need to submit code changes for PEP 8 and pyflakes fixes, as these break attribution history.  Project leadership will make these periodically.
  * Do not submit pull requests that simply adjust whitespace in the code.
@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ PEP 8 and basic style checks
 Testing
 =======

-  * Much of ansible's testing needs are in integration, not unit tests.  Add module tests there.
+  * Much of Ansible's testing needs are in integration, not unit tests.  Add module tests there.
  * That being said, there are unit tests too!
  * Code written must absolutely pass tests (i.e. "make tests")
  * You should anticipate any error paths in your code and test down those error paths.
@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Whitespace

 Shebang Lines
 =============
- 
+
  * /usr/bin/scripts should start with '/usr/bin/env python'
  * module code should still use '/usr/bin/python' as this is replaced automatically by 'ansible_python_interpreter', see the FAQ in the docs for more info.

@ -60,13 +60,13 @@ Classes

  * With the exception of module code (where inline is better), it is desirable to see classes in their own files.
  * Classes should generally not cause side effects as soon as they are instantiated, move meaningful behavior to methods rather than constructors.
- 
+
 Functions and Methods
 =====================

  * In general, functions should not be 'too long' and should describe a meaningful amount of work
  * When code gets too nested, that's usually the sign the loop body could benefit from being a function
-  * Parts of our existing code are not the best examples of this at times. 
+  * Parts of our existing code are not the best examples of this at times.
  * Functions should have names that describe what they do, along with docstrings
  * Functions should be named with_underscores
  * "Don't repeat yourself" is generally a good philosophy
@ -161,24 +161,24 @@ All contributions to the core repo should preserve original licenses and new con
 Module Documentation
 ====================

-All module pull requests must include a DOCUMENTATION docstring (YAML format, 
-see other modules for examples) as well as an EXAMPLES docstring, which is free form.  
+All module pull requests must include a DOCUMENTATION docstring (YAML format,
+see other modules for examples) as well as an EXAMPLES docstring, which is free form.

-When adding new modules, any new parameter must have a "version_added" attribute.  
-When submitting a new module, the module should have a "version_added" attribute in the 
+When adding new modules, any new parameter must have a "version_added" attribute.
+When submitting a new module, the module should have a "version_added" attribute in the
 pull request as well, set to the current development version.

 Be sure to check grammar and spelling.

-It's frequently the case that modules get submitted with YAML that isn't valid, 
-so you can run "make webdocs" from the checkout to preview your module's documentation. 
-If it fails to build, take a look at your DOCUMENTATION string 
+It's frequently the case that modules get submitted with YAML that isn't valid,
+so you can run "make webdocs" from the checkout to preview your module's documentation.
+If it fails to build, take a look at your DOCUMENTATION string
 or you might have a Python syntax error in there too.

 Python Imports
 ==============

-To make it clear what a module is importing, imports should not be sprinkled throughout the code. 
+To make it clear what a module is importing, imports should not be sprinkled throughout the code.

 Python Imports should happen at the top of the file, exempting code from module_utils.

@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ Exceptions
 ==========

 In the main body of the code, use typed exceptions where possible:
-    
+
    # not this
    raise Exception("panic!")

@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ Use 'in':
    # not this:
    if x.find('foo') != -1:

-    # this: 
+    # this:
    if 'foo' in x:

 String checks
@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ Always do "git pull --rebase" and "git rebase" vs "git pull" or "git merge". See

 Always create a new branch for each pull request to avoid intermingling different features or fixes on the same branch.

-   
+
 Python Version Compliance
 =========================

--- a/8
+++ b/8
@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #   make deb-src -------------- produce a DEB source
 #   make deb ------------------ produce a DEB
 #   make docs ----------------- rebuild the manpages (results are checked in)
-#   make tests ---------------- run the tests (see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/dev_guide/testing_units.html for requirements)
+#   make tests ---------------- run the tests (see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/testing_units.html for requirements)
 #   make pyflakes, make pep8 -- source code checks

 ########################################################
@ -239,9 +239,9 @@ sdist: clean docs
 sdist_upload: clean docs
 	$(PYTHON) setup.py sdist upload 2>&1 |tee upload.log

-.PHONY: changelog_reno
-changelog_reno:
-	reno -d changelogs/ report --title 'Ansible $(MAJOR_VERSION) "$(CODENAME)" Release Notes' --collapse-pre-release --no-show-source --earliest-version v$(MAJOR_VERSION).0a1 --output changelogs/CHANGELOG-v$(MAJOR_VERSION).rst
+.PHONY: changelog
+changelog:
+	packaging/release/changelogs/changelog.py release -vv && packaging/release/changelogs/changelog.py generate -vv

 .PHONY: rpmcommon
 rpmcommon: sdist
--- a/changelogs/.changes.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/.changes.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,393 @@
+releases:
+  2.6.0:
+    codename: Heartbreaker
+    fragments:
+    - v2.6.0_summary.yaml
+    release_date: '2018-06-28'
+  2.6.0a1:
+    codename: Heartbreaker
+    fragments:
+    - ansible-managed-encoding.yaml
+    - azure-lb-sku.yaml
+    - base64_filter_encoding.yaml
+    - command-support-argv.yaml
+    - copy-files-default-follow.yaml
+    - copy-no-chmod.yaml
+    - copy-recursive-copy.yml
+    - encoding-docs-plugin-parsing.yaml
+    - file-disallow-src.yaml
+    - file-nonexistent-link.yaml
+    - file-nonexitent-link-recurse.yaml
+    - file-succeed-if-already-absent.yaml
+    - gem-custom-home.yaml
+    - grafana-deprecation-warnings.yaml
+    - includes.yaml
+    - mode-preserve.yaml
+    - pause-ctrl-c.yaml
+    - postgresql_user-encrypted-fixes.yml
+    - py36-spwd.yaml
+    - template-filename-encoding.yaml
+    - user-expires.yaml
+    - v2.6.0a1_catchup.yaml
+    - v2.6.0a1_summary.yaml
+    - win_environment-do-not-delete-on-null.yaml
+    - win_file-special-char-fix.yaml
+    - win_get_url-ftp-support.yaml
+    - win_module_utils_sid-conversion.yaml
+    - win_template-dest-dir-fix.yaml
+    - win_updates_typo_whitelist_fix.yaml
+    - window_become-better-errors.yaml
+    - windows-deprecation-removal.yaml
+    - winrm-encoding-fix
+    - winrm-get_correct_user.yaml
+    - yaml-callback-unicode.yaml
+    modules:
+    - aci_l3out
+    - avi_autoscalelaunchconfig
+    - avi_l4policyset
+    - avi_useraccount
+    - aws_caller_facts
+    - aws_inspector_target
+    - aws_ses_identity_policy
+    - aws_sgw_facts
+    - azure_rm_aks
+    - azure_rm_aks_facts
+    - bigip_data_group
+    - bigip_device_license
+    - bigip_gtm_global
+    - bigip_gtm_monitor_bigip
+    - bigip_gtm_monitor_firepass
+    - bigip_gtm_monitor_http
+    - bigip_gtm_monitor_https
+    - bigip_gtm_monitor_tcp
+    - bigip_gtm_monitor_tcp_half_open
+    - bigip_gtm_pool_member
+    - bigip_gtm_virtual_server
+    - bigip_log_destination
+    - bigip_log_publisher
+    - bigip_management_route
+    - bigip_profile_dns
+    - bigip_profile_tcp
+    - bigip_profile_udp
+    - bigip_service_policy
+    - bigip_smtp
+    - bigip_snmp_community
+    - bigip_timer_policy
+    - bigip_trunk
+    - bigiq_application_fasthttp
+    - bigiq_application_fastl4_tcp
+    - bigiq_application_fastl4_udp
+    - bigiq_application_http
+    - bigiq_application_https_offload
+    - bigiq_application_https_waf
+    - bigiq_regkey_license_assignment
+    - cnos_command
+    - cnos_config
+    - cs_role_permission
+    - digital_ocean_account_facts
+    - digital_ocean_certificate_facts
+    - digital_ocean_domain_facts
+    - digital_ocean_image_facts
+    - digital_ocean_load_balancer_facts
+    - digital_ocean_region_facts
+    - digital_ocean_size_facts
+    - digital_ocean_snapshot_facts
+    - digital_ocean_tag_facts
+    - digital_ocean_volume_facts
+    - ec2_eip_facts
+    - ec2_vpc_vpn_facts
+    - exos_command
+    - fortios_webfilter
+    - gcp_compute_address
+    - gcp_compute_backend_bucket
+    - gcp_compute_backend_service
+    - gcp_compute_health_check
+    - gcp_compute_http_health_check
+    - gcp_compute_https_health_check
+    - gcp_compute_instance
+    - gcp_compute_instance_template
+    - gcp_compute_network
+    - gcp_compute_route
+    - gcp_compute_subnetwork
+    - gcp_compute_target_http_proxy
+    - gcp_compute_target_https_proxy
+    - gcp_compute_target_tcp_proxy
+    - gcp_container_cluster
+    - gcp_container_node_pool
+    - gcp_dns_resource_record_set
+    - gcp_pubsub_subscription
+    - gcp_pubsub_topic
+    - gcp_storage_bucket
+    - gcp_storage_bucket_access_control
+    - gitlab_deploy_key
+    - gitlab_hooks
+    - k8s
+    - ldap_passwd
+    - memset_zone
+    - meraki_network
+    - meraki_organization
+    - na_ontap_broadcast_domain
+    - net_get
+    - net_put
+    - netconf_get
+    - one_host
+    - one_image
+    - one_image_facts
+    - one_vm
+    - os_server_metadata
+    - os_volume_snapshot
+    - psexec
+    - purefa_ds
+    - purefa_facts
+    - purefa_pgsnap
+    - purefb_fs
+    - purefb_snap
+    - rds_instance_facts
+    - rds_snapshot_facts
+    - scaleway_compute
+    - scaleway_sshkey
+    - slxos_command
+    - slxos_config
+    - slxos_facts
+    - slxos_interface
+    - slxos_l2_interface
+    - slxos_linkagg
+    - spectrum_device
+    - sysvinit
+    - vmware_cluster_facts
+    - vmware_datastore_cluster
+    - vmware_datastore_maintenancemode
+    - vmware_guest_disk_facts
+    - vmware_guest_snapshot_facts
+    - vmware_host_capability_facts
+    - vmware_host_powerstate
+    - vmware_local_user_facts
+    - vmware_portgroup_facts
+    - vmware_resource_pool_facts
+    - vmware_tag
+    - vmware_tag_facts
+    - vmware_vswitch_facts
+    - win_domain_computer
+    - win_hostname
+    - win_pester
+    - yarn
+    - zabbix_group_facts
+    plugins:
+      callback:
+      - cgroup_memory_recap
+      - grafana_annotations
+      - sumologic
+      connection:
+      - httpapi
+      inventory:
+      - foreman
+      - generator
+      - nmap
+      lookup:
+      - onepassword
+      - onepassword_raw
+    release_date: '2018-05-21'
+  2.6.0a2:
+    codename: Heartbreaker
+    fragments:
+    - always_run_removal.yaml
+    - aws_ses_identity_check_mode.yaml
+    - powershell_use_set_tmpdir.yaml
+    - selinux-check-mode.yaml
+    - synchronize_remote_is_local.yaml
+    - v2.6.0a2_catchup.yaml
+    - v2.6.0a2_summary.yaml
+    - win_updates-add-scheduled-tasks-back.yaml
+    - winrm_kinit_error-fix.yaml
+    - xenserver-facts-fix.yaml
+    modules:
+    - acme_account
+    - aws_config_aggregation_authorization
+    - aws_config_aggregator
+    - aws_config_delivery_channel
+    - aws_config_recorder
+    - aws_config_rule
+    - aws_glue_connection
+    - aws_glue_job
+    - azure_rm_resource
+    - azure_rm_resource_facts
+    - bigip_gtm_monitor_external
+    - bigip_monitor_external
+    - bigiq_utility_license
+    - cloud_init_data_facts
+    - elb_network_lb
+    - flatpak
+    - flatpak_remote
+    - gcp_compute_disk
+    - gcp_compute_firewall
+    - gcp_compute_forwarding_rule
+    - gcp_compute_global_address
+    - gcp_compute_global_forwarding_rule
+    - gcp_compute_image
+    - gcp_compute_instance_group
+    - gcp_compute_instance_group_manager
+    - gcp_compute_ssl_certificate
+    - gcp_compute_target_pool
+    - gcp_compute_target_ssl_proxy
+    - gcp_compute_url_map
+    - gluster_peer
+    - heroku_collaborator
+    - memset_dns_reload
+    - memset_zone_domain
+    - memset_zone_record
+    - meraki_admin
+    - meraki_snmp
+    - na_ontap_aggregate
+    - na_ontap_broadcast_domain_ports
+    - na_ontap_cifs
+    - na_ontap_cifs_acl
+    - na_ontap_cifs_server
+    - na_ontap_cluster
+    - na_ontap_cluster_ha
+    - na_ontap_export_policy
+    - na_ontap_export_policy_rule
+    - na_ontap_igroup
+    - na_ontap_interface
+    - na_ontap_iscsi
+    - na_ontap_job_schedule
+    - na_ontap_license
+    - na_ontap_lun
+    - na_ontap_lun_map
+    - na_ontap_net_ifgrp
+    - na_ontap_net_port
+    - na_ontap_net_routes
+    - na_ontap_net_vlan
+    - na_ontap_nfs
+    - na_ontap_ntp
+    - na_ontap_qtree
+    - na_ontap_service_processor_network
+    - na_ontap_snapshot
+    - na_ontap_snmp
+    - na_ontap_svm
+    - na_ontap_ucadapter
+    - na_ontap_user
+    - na_ontap_user_role
+    - na_ontap_volume
+    - na_ontap_volume_clone
+    - netconf_rpc
+    - one_service
+    - slxos_l3_interface
+    - slxos_vlan
+    plugins:
+      inventory:
+      - gcp_compute
+    release_date: '2018-05-30'
+  2.6.0rc1:
+    codename: Heartbreaker
+    fragments:
+    - v2.6.0rc1_catchup.yaml
+    - v2.6.0rc1_summary.yaml
+    release_date: '2018-06-05'
+  2.6.0rc2:
+    codename: Heartbreaker
+    fragments:
+    - 41167_ansible_doc_regression.yaml
+    - admin-users-default-change.yaml
+    - aws_s3_async_fix.yaml
+    - aws_s3_decryption_fix.yaml
+    - aws_s3_fix_custom_endpoints.yaml
+    - aws_s3_fix_exception_handling.yaml
+    - ec2_ami_fix_block_device_mapping_volume_size_type.yaml
+    - v2.6.0rc2_summary.yaml
+    release_date: '2018-06-08'
+  2.6.0rc3:
+    codename: Heartbreaker
+    fragments:
+    - digital_ocean_block_storage_fix.yaml
+    - gce-sort-fix.yaml
+    - iosxr_config_route_policy_objects_fix.yaml
+    - no_log_fix_for_connection_exceptions.yaml
+    - reset_con_fix.yml
+    - v2.6.0rc3_summary.yaml
+    release_date: '2018-06-18'
+  2.6.0rc4:
+    codename: Heartbreaker
+    fragments:
+    - 41530-apt-mark-deb6.yaml
+    - debug_fixes.yml
+    - eos_vrf_failure-fix.yml
+    - file_touch_diff.yaml
+    - fix_config_required.yml
+    - fix_yaml_inv_nulls.yml
+    - missing_raise.yml
+    - v2.6.0rc4_summary.yaml
+    - vars_lk.yml
+    - virtualbox_inventory.yaml
+    - win_updates-async-fix.yml
+    - winrm_kinit-remove-pass-log.yml
+    release_date: '2018-06-25'
+  2.6.0rc5:
+    codename: Heartbreaker
+    fragments:
+    - fix_options.yml
+    - fix_password_lookup_loading.yaml
+    - group_by_localhost.yaml
+    - lineinfile-insertbefore-bof-bugfix.yaml
+    - v2.6.0rc5_summary.yaml
+    - win_iis_webapppool-output-fix.yml
+    release_date: '2018-06-26'
+  2.6.1:
+    codename: Heartbreaker
+    fragments:
+    - avoid_cwd_vars.yml
+    - basic_booleans_backward_compat.yaml
+    - file_touch_check_mode.yaml
+    - inventory_manager_fix_required_options_override.yaml
+    - junos_config_confirm_commit.yaml
+    - nsupdate_fix_hmac-sha384.yaml
+    - v2.6.1_summary.yaml
+    - win_domain-dns-typo-fix.yml
+    - win_group_membership-sid-bugfix.yml
+    - wrcwd_ansible.cfg.yml
+    release_date: '2018-07-05'
+  2.6.2:
+    codename: Heartbreaker
+    fragments:
+    - 40839-docker_container_init.yml
+    - 42042-inventory_with_no_region.yaml
+    - 42647-win_updates.yaml
+    - clarify_error_message.yml
+    - doc_fix.yml
+    - docfix.yml
+    - docker-default-ssl.yml
+    - empty_gh_error.yaml
+    - ensure_text_source.yaml
+    - eos_l2_interface_fix.yaml
+    - fix_fact_clean.yaml
+    - fix_ios_vlan.yaml
+    - fix_pagination_cloudfront_facts.yml
+    - fix_sysvinit_typo.yml
+    - fix_tls_mail.yaml
+    - inventory_dir_ext_compare_fix.yaml
+    - ios_l2_interface-fix.yml
+    - junos_facts_fix.yaml
+    - lineinfile-empty-regexp.yml
+    - nxos_CI_failures_fix.yaml
+    - nxos_cliconf.yaml
+    - nxos_facts.yaml
+    - nxos_module_utils_nxapi_get_capabilities.yaml
+    - nxos_nxapi_default_http_behavior_fix.yaml
+    - nxos_vxlan_vtep_vni_fix.yaml
+    - openvswitch_db_make_key_optional.yaml
+    - pause-stdout-redirection.yaml
+    - pause-try-except-curses.yaml
+    - preserve_delegate_nolog.yml
+    - remote_tmp_de-escalated_user.yaml
+    - sysvinit_bugxif.yml
+    - user-freebsd-createhome-name-fix.yaml
+    - user_freebsd_always_changed_bugfix.yaml
+    - v2.6.2_summary.yaml
+    - vmware_remove_vm_sceanrio.yaml
+    - vultr-parameters-parsing.yaml
+    - vyos_command_retry.yml
+    - win_chocoalatey_install_tls12.yml
+    - win_reboot-fixes.yml
+    - win_security_policy-empty-value.yaml
+    - win_unzip_share-discard-cmdlet-output.yaml
+    - win_user-validate-fixes.yaml
+    release_date: '2018-07-27'
--- a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.rst
+++ b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.rst
@ -2,130 +2,610 @@
 Ansible 2.6 "Heartbreaker" Release Notes
 ========================================

-.. _Ansible 2.6 "Heartbreaker" Release Notes_v2.6.0a1:
-
-v2.6.0a1
-========
-
-.. _Ansible 2.6 "Heartbreaker" Release Notes_v2.6.0a1_Release Summary:
+v2.6.2
+======

 Release Summary
 ---------------

-| Release Date: 2018-05-21
+| Release Date: 2018-07-27
 | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_


-.. _Ansible 2.6 "Heartbreaker" Release Notes_v2.6.0a1_Minor Changes:
-
 Minor Changes
 -------------

- azure_rm_loadbalancer - add support for sku
-
- azure_rm_publicipaddress - add support for sku
-
- Added an ``encoding`` option to the ``b64encode`` and ``b64decode`` filters to specify the encoding of the string that is base64 encoded.
-
- import/include - Cache task_vars to speed up IncludedFile.process_include_results (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39026)
-
- PowerShell modules that use Convert-ToSID in Ansible.ModuleUtils.SID.psm1 like win_user_right now accept an actual SID as an input string. This means any local or domain accounts that are named like a SID need to be prefixed with the domain, hostname, or . to ensure it converts to that accounts SID https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38502
-
-
-.. _Ansible 2.6 "Heartbreaker" Release Notes_v2.6.0a1_Removed Features (previously deprecated):
-
-Removed Features (previously deprecated)
----------------------------------------
-
- win_chocolatey - removed deprecated upgrade option and choco_* output return values
-
- win_feature - removed deprecated reboot option
-
- win_iis_webapppool - removed the ability to supply attributes as a string in favour of a dictionary
-
- win_package - removed deprecated name option
-
- win_regedit - removed deprecated support for specifying HKCC as HCCC
-
-
-.. _Ansible 2.6 "Heartbreaker" Release Notes_v2.6.0a1_Bugfixes:
+- Sceanrio guide for removing an existing virtual machine is added.
+- lineinfile - add warning when using an empty regexp (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29443)

 Bugfixes
 --------

- template - Fix for encoding issues when a template path contains non-ascii characters and using the template path in ansible_managed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27262)
+- Add text output along with structured output in nxos_facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42886).
+- Allow more than one page of results by using the right pagination indicator ('NextMarker' instead of 'NextToken').
+- Fix an atomic_move error that is 'true', but  misleading. Now we show all 3 files involved and clarify what happened.
+- Fix eos_l2_interface eapi (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42270).
+- Fix fetching old style facts in junos_facts module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42351)
+- Fix get_device_info nxos zero or more whitespace regex (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43178).
+- Fix nxos CI failures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42240).
+- Fix nxos_nxapi default http behavior (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41817).
+- Fix nxos_vxlan_vtep_vni (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42240).
+- Fix regex network_os_platform nxos (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42288).
+- Refactor nxos cliconf get_device_info for non structured output supported devices (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42089).
+- To fix the NoneType error raised in ios_l2_interface when Access Mode VLAN is unassigned (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42312)
+- emtpy host/group name is an error https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42044
+- fix default SSL version for docker modules https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42897
+- fix mail module when using starttls https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42338
+- fix nmap config example https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42925
+- fix ps detection of service https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43014
+- fix the remote tmp folder permissions issue when becoming a non admin user - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41340, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42117
+- fix typoe in sysvinit that breaks update.rc-d detection https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42734
+- fixes docker_container compatibilty with docker-py < 2.2
+- get_capabilities in nxapi module_utils should not return empty dictionary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42688).
+- inventory - When using an inventory directory, ensure extension comparison uses text types (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42475)
+- ios_vlan - fix unable to identify correct vlans issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42247)
+- nxos_facts warning message improved (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42969).
+- openvswitch_db - make 'key' argument optional https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42108
+- pause - do not set stdout to raw mode when redirecting to a file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41717)
+- pause - nest try except when importing curses to gracefully fail if curses is not present (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42004)
+- plugins/inventory/openstack.py - Do not create group with empty name if region is not set
+- preseve delegation info on nolog https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42344
+- remove ambiguity when it comes to 'the source'
+- remove dupes from var precedence
+- restores filtering out conflicting facts https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41684
+- user - fix bug that resulted in module always reporting a change when specifiying the home directory on FreeBSD (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42484)
+- user - use correct attribute name in FreeBSD for creat_home (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42711)
+- vultr - Do not fail trying to load configuration from ini files if required variables have been set as environment variables.
+- vyos_command correcting conditionals looping (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43331).
+- win_chocolatey - enable TLSv1.2 support when downloading the Chocolatey installer https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41906
+- win_reboot - fix for handling an already scheduled reboot and other minor log formatting issues
+- win_reboot - fix issue when overridding connection timeout hung the post reboot uptime check - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42185 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42294
+- win_reboot - handle post reboots when running test_command - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41713
+- win_security_policy - allows an empty string to reset a policy value https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40869
+- win_share - discard any cmdlet output we don't use to ensure only the return json is received by Ansible
+- win_unzip - discard any cmdlet output we don't use to ensure only the return json is received by Ansible
+- win_updates - fixed module return value is lost in error in some cases (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42647)
+- win_user - Use LogonUser to validate the password as it does not rely on SMB/RPC to be available https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/24884

- copy - fixed copy to only follow symlinks for files in the non-recursive case
+v2.6.1
+======

- file - fixed the default follow behaviour of file to be true
+Release Summary
+---------------

- copy module - The copy module was attempting to change the mode of files for remote_src=True even if mode was not set as a parameter.  This failed on filesystems which do not have permission bits (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40099)
+| Release Date: 2018-07-05
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_

- Fix an encoding issue when parsing the examples from a plugins' documentation

- file module - The file module allowed the user to specify src as a parameter when state was not link or hard.  This is documented as only applying to state=link or state=hard but in previous Ansible, this could have an effect in rare cornercases.  For instance, "ansible -m file -a 'state=directory path=/tmp src=/var/lib'" would create /tmp/lib.  This has been disabled and a warning emitted (will change to an error in Ansible-2.10).
+Minor Changes
+-------------

- file module - Fix error when running a task which assures a symlink to a nonexistent file exists for the second and subsequent times (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39558)
+- Restore module_utils.basic.BOOLEANS variable for backwards compatibility with the module API in older ansible releases.

- file module - Fix error when recursively assigning permissions and a symlink to a nonexistent file is present in the directory tree (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39456)
+Bugfixes
+--------

- file module - Eliminate an error if we're asked to remove a file but something removes it while we are processing the request (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39466)
+- **Security Fix** - avoid loading host/group vars from cwd when not specifying a playbook or playbook base dir
+- **Security Fix** - avoid using ansible.cfg in a world writable dir.
+- Fix junos_config confirm commit timeout issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41527)
+- file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the 2.6.x development cycle.  The patch to fix that broke check mode. This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42111)
+- inventory manager - This fixes required options being populated before the inventory config file is read, so the required options may be set in the config file.
+- nsupdate - allow hmac-sha384 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42209
+- win_domain - fixes typo in one of the AD cmdlets https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41536
+- win_group_membership - uses the internal Ansible SID conversion logic and uses that when comparing group membership instead of the name https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40649

- Various grafana_* modules - Port away from the deprecated b64encodestring function to the b64encode function instead. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38388
+v2.6.0
+======

- import/include - Update TaskInclude _raw_params with the expanded/templated path to file allowing nested includes using host vars in file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39365)
+Release Summary
+---------------

- dynamic includes - Don't treat undefined vars for conditional includes as truthy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39377)
+| Release Date: 2018-06-28
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_

- import/include - Ensure role handlers have the proper parent, allowing for correct attribute inheritance (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39426)

- include_role/import_role - Use the computed role name for include_role/import_role so to diffentiate between names computed from host vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39516)
+Minor Changes
+-------------

- import_playbook - Pass vars applied to import_playbook into parsing of the playbook as they may be needed to parse the imported plays (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39521)
+- Added an ``encoding`` option to the ``b64encode`` and ``b64decode`` filters to specify the encoding of the string that is base64 encoded.
+- PowerShell modules that use Convert-ToSID in Ansible.ModuleUtils.SID.psm1 like win_user_right now accept an actual SID as an input string. This means any local or domain accounts that are named like a SID need to be prefixed with the domain, hostname, or . to ensure it converts to that accounts SID https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38502
+- Raise AnsibleParserError which was missing previously
+- The aws_ses_identity module supports check mode
+- `postgresql_user` module changed `encrypted=yes` to be the default. This shouldn't break any current playbooks, the module will just store passwords hashed by default. This change was done because Postgres 10 dropped support for `UNENCRYPTED` passwords and because all versions since Postgres 7.2 support storing encrypted passwords.
+- azure_rm_loadbalancer - add support for sku
+- azure_rm_publicipaddress - add support for sku
+- cloudflare_dns module - Removed restriction from protocol to allow other protocols than tcp and udp to be specified.
+- command module - Added argv option to allow command to be specified as a list vs. a string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/19392)
+- gem - add ability to specify a custom directory for installing gems (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38195)
+- import/include - Cache task_vars to speed up IncludedFile.process_include_results (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39026)
+- postgresql_user module - Changed encrypted=yes to be the default. This shouldn't break any current playbooks, the module will just store passwords hashed by default. This change was done because Postgres 10 dropped support for UNENCRYPTED passwords and because all versions since Postgres 7.2 support storing encrypted passwords.
+- vmware_target_canonical_facts module - The target_id parameter is an optional parameter.

- include_role/import_role - Don't overwrite included role handlers with play handlers on parse (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39563)
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------

- dynamic includes - Improved performance by fixing re-parenting on copy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38747)
+- nxos_igmp_interface module - The oif_prefix and oif_source properties are deprecated. Use the oif_ps parameter with a dictionary of prefix and source to values instead.

- dynamic includes - Fix IncludedFile comparison for free strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37083)
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------

- dynamic includes - Allow inheriting attributes from static parents (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38827)
+- removed the deprecated always_run task option, please use `check_mode: no` instead
+- win_chocolatey - removed deprecated upgrade option and choco_* output return values
+- win_feature - removed deprecated reboot option
+- win_iis_webapppool - removed the ability to supply attributes as a string in favour of a dictionary
+- win_package - removed deprecated name option
+- win_regedit - removed deprecated support for specifying HKCC as HCCC

- include_role/import_role - improved performance and recursion depth (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36470)
-
- include_role/import_role - Fix parameter templating (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36372)
-
- dynamic includes - Use the copied and merged task for calculating task vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39762)
-
- Implement mode=preserve for the template module
-
- Fix mode=preserve with remote_src=True for the copy module
+Bugfixes
+--------

+- **Security Fix** - Some connection exceptions would cause no_log specified on a task to be ignored.  If this happened, the task information, including any private information could have been displayed to stdout and (if enabled, not the default) logged to a log file specified in ansible.cfg's log_path. Additionally, sites which redirected stdout from ansible runs to a log file may have stored that private information onto disk that way as well. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41414)
+- Changed the admin_users config option to not include "admin" by default as admin is frequently used for a non-privileged account  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41164)
+- Changed the output to "text" for "show vrf" command as default "json" output format with respect to "eapi" transport was failing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41470)
 - Document mode=preserve for both the copy and template module
-
- pause - ensure ctrl+c interrupt works in all cases (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35372)
-
- spwd - With python 3.6 spwd.getspnam returns PermissionError instead of KeyError if user does not have privileges (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39472)
-
- template action plugin - fix the encoding of filenames to avoid tracebacks on Python2 when characters that are not present in the user's locale are present. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39424)
-
- user - only change the expiration time when necessary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/13235)
-
- win_environment - Fix for issue where the environment value was deleted when a null value or empty string was set - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40450
-
- win_file - fix issue where special chars like [ and ] were not being handled correctly https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37901
-
- win_get_url - fixed a few bugs around authentication and force no when using an FTP URL
-
- win_template - fix when specifying the dest option as a directory with and without the trailing slash https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39886
-
- win_updates - Fix typo that hid the download error when a download failed
-
- win_updates - Fix logic when using a whitelist for multiple updates
-
- windows become - Show better error messages when the become process fails
-
- winrm - allow `ansible_user` or `ansible_winrm_user` to override `ansible_ssh_user` when both are defined in an inventory - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39844
-
+- Fix added for Digital Ocean Volumes API change causing Ansible to recieve an unexpected value in the response. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41431)
+- Fix an encoding issue when parsing the examples from a plugins' documentation
+- Fix iosxr_config module to handle route-policy, community-set, prefix-set, as-path-set and rd-set blocks. All these blocks are part of route-policy language of iosxr.
+- Fix mode=preserve with remote_src=True for the copy module
+- Implement mode=preserve for the template module
 - The yaml callback plugin now allows non-ascii characters to be displayed.
+- Various grafana_* modules - Port away from the deprecated b64encodestring function to the b64encode function instead. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38388
+- added missing 'raise' to exception definition https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41690
+- allow custom endpoints to be used in the aws_s3 module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36832)
+- allow set_options to be called multiple times https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41913
+- ansible-doc - fixed traceback on missing plugins (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41167)
+- cast the device_mapping volume size to an int in the ec2_ami module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40938)
+- copy - fixed copy to only follow symlinks for files in the non-recursive case
+- copy module - The copy module was attempting to change the mode of files for remote_src=True even if mode was not set as a parameter.  This failed on filesystems which do not have permission bits (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40099)
+- copy module - fixed recursive copy with relative paths (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40166)
+- correct debug display for all cases https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41331
+- correctly check hostvars for vars term https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41819
+- correctly handle yaml inventory files when entries are null dicts https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41692
+- dynamic includes - Allow inheriting attributes from static parents (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38827)
+- dynamic includes - Don't treat undefined vars for conditional includes as truthy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39377)
+- dynamic includes - Fix IncludedFile comparison for free strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37083)
+- dynamic includes - Improved performance by fixing re-parenting on copy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38747)
+- dynamic includes - Use the copied and merged task for calculating task vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39762)
+- file - fixed the default follow behaviour of file to be true
+- file module - Eliminate an error if we're asked to remove a file but something removes it while we are processing the request (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39466)
+- file module - Fix error when recursively assigning permissions and a symlink to a nonexistent file is present in the directory tree (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39456)
+- file module - Fix error when running a task which assures a symlink to a nonexistent file exists for the second and subsequent times (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39558)
+- file module - The file module allowed the user to specify src as a parameter when state was not link or hard.  This is documented as only applying to state=link or state=hard but in previous Ansible, this could have an effect in rare cornercases.  For instance, "ansible -m file -a 'state=directory path=/tmp src=/var/lib'" would create /tmp/lib.  This has been disabled and a warning emitted (will change to an error in Ansible-2.10).
+- file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the 2.6.x development cycle.  This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41755)
+- fix BotoCoreError exception handling
+- fix apt-mark on debian6 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41530)
+- fix async for the aws_s3 module by adding async support to the action plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40826)
+- fix decrypting vault files for the aws_s3 module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39634)
+- fix errors with S3-compatible APIs if they cannot use ACLs for buckets or objects
+- fix permission handling to try to download a file even if the user does not have permission to list all objects in the bucket
+- fixed config required handling, specifically for _terms in lookups https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41740
+- gce_net - Fix sorting of allowed ports (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41567)
+- group_by - support implicit localhost (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41860)
+- import/include - Ensure role handlers have the proper parent, allowing for correct attribute inheritance (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39426)
+- import_playbook - Pass vars applied to import_playbook into parsing of the playbook as they may be needed to parse the imported plays (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39521)
+- include_role/import_role - Don't overwrite included role handlers with play handlers on parse (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39563)
+- include_role/import_role - Fix parameter templating (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36372)
+- include_role/import_role - Use the computed role name for include_role/import_role so to diffentiate between names computed from host vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39516)
+- include_role/import_role - improved performance and recursion depth (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36470)
+- lineinfile - fix insertbefore when used with BOF to not insert duplicate lines (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38219)
+- password lookup - Do not load password lookup in network filters, allowing the password lookup to be overriden (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41907)
+- pause - ensure ctrl+c interrupt works in all cases (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35372)
+- powershell - use the tmpdir set by `remote_tmp` for become/async tasks instead of the generic $env:TEMP - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40210
+- selinux - correct check mode behavior to report same changes as normal mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40721)
+- spwd - With python 3.6 spwd.getspnam returns PermissionError instead of KeyError if user does not have privileges (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39472)
+- synchronize - Ensure the local connection created by synchronize uses _remote_is_local=True, which causes ActionBase to build a local tmpdir (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40833)
+- template - Fix for encoding issues when a template path contains non-ascii characters and using the template path in ansible_managed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27262)
+- template action plugin - fix the encoding of filenames to avoid tracebacks on Python2 when characters that are not present in the user's locale are present. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39424)
+- user - only change the expiration time when necessary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/13235)
+- uses correct conn info for reset_connection  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27520
+- win_environment - Fix for issue where the environment value was deleted when a null value or empty string was set - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40450
+- win_file - fix issue where special chars like [ and ] were not being handled correctly https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37901
+- win_get_url - fixed a few bugs around authentication and force no when using an FTP URL
+- win_iis_webapppool - redirect some module output to null so Ansible can read the output JSON https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40874
+- win_template - fix when specifying the dest option as a directory with and without the trailing slash https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39886
+- win_updates - Added the ability to run on a scheduled task for older hosts so async starts working again - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38364
+- win_updates - Fix logic when using a whitelist for multiple updates
+- win_updates - Fix typo that hid the download error when a download failed
+- win_updates - Fixed issue where running win_updates on async fails without any error
+- windows become - Show better error messages when the become process fails
+- winrm - Add better error handling when the kinit process fails
+- winrm - allow `ansible_user` or `ansible_winrm_user` to override `ansible_ssh_user` when both are defined in an inventory - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39844
+- winrm - ensure pexpect is set to not echo the input on a failure and have a manual sanity check afterwards https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41865
+- winrm connection plugin - Fix exception messages sometimes raising a traceback when the winrm connection plugin encounters an unrecoverable error.  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39333
+- xenserver_facts - ensure module works with newer versions of XenServer (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35821)

+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Callback
+~~~~~~~~
+
+- cgroup_memory_recap - Profiles maximum memory usage of tasks and full execution using cgroups
+- grafana_annotations - send ansible events as annotations on charts to grafana over http api.
+- sumologic - Sends task result events to Sumologic
+
+Connection
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- httpapi - Use httpapi to run command on network appliances
+
+Inventory
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+- foreman - foreman inventory source
+- gcp_compute - Google Cloud Compute Engine inventory source
+- generator - Uses Jinja2 to construct hosts and groups from patterns
+- nmap - Uses nmap to find hosts to target
+
+Lookup
+~~~~~~
+
+- onepassword - fetch field values from 1Password
+- onepassword_raw - fetch raw json data from 1Password
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+Cloud
+~~~~~
+
+amazon
+^^^^^^
+
+- aws_caller_facts - Get facts about the user and account being used to make AWS calls.
+- aws_config_aggregation_authorization - Manage cross-account AWS Config authorizations
+- aws_config_aggregator - Manage AWS Config aggregations across multiple accounts
+- aws_config_delivery_channel - Manage AWS Config delivery channels
+- aws_config_recorder - Manage AWS Config Recorders
+- aws_config_rule - Manage AWS Config resources
+- aws_glue_connection - Manage an AWS Glue connection
+- aws_glue_job - Manage an AWS Glue job
+- aws_inspector_target - Create, Update and Delete Amazon Inspector Assessment Targets
+- aws_ses_identity_policy - Manages SES sending authorization policies
+- aws_sgw_facts - Fetch AWS Storage Gateway facts
+- ec2_eip_facts - List EC2 EIP details
+- ec2_vpc_vpn_facts - Gather facts about VPN Connections in AWS.
+- elb_network_lb - Manage a Network Load Balancer
+- rds_instance_facts - obtain facts about one or more RDS instances
+- rds_snapshot_facts - obtain facts about one or more RDS snapshots
+
+azure
+^^^^^
+
+- azure_rm_aks - Manage a managed Azure Container Service (AKS) Instance.
+- azure_rm_aks_facts - Get Azure Kubernetes Service facts.
+- azure_rm_resource - Create any Azure resource.
+- azure_rm_resource_facts - Generic facts of Azure resources.
+
+cloudstack
+^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- cs_role_permission - Manages role permissions on Apache CloudStack based clouds.
+
+digital_ocean
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- digital_ocean_account_facts - Gather facts about DigitalOcean User account
+- digital_ocean_certificate_facts - Gather facts about DigitalOcean certificates
+- digital_ocean_domain_facts - Gather facts about DigitalOcean Domains
+- digital_ocean_image_facts - Gather facts about DigitalOcean images
+- digital_ocean_load_balancer_facts - Gather facts about DigitalOcean load balancers
+- digital_ocean_region_facts - Gather facts about DigitalOcean regions
+- digital_ocean_size_facts - Gather facts about DigitalOcean Droplet sizes
+- digital_ocean_snapshot_facts - Gather facts about DigitalOcean Snapshot
+- digital_ocean_tag_facts - Gather facts about DigitalOcean tags
+- digital_ocean_volume_facts - Gather facts about DigitalOcean volumes
+
+google
+^^^^^^
+
+- gcp_compute_address - Creates a GCP Address
+- gcp_compute_backend_bucket - Creates a GCP BackendBucket
+- gcp_compute_backend_service - Creates a GCP BackendService
+- gcp_compute_disk - Creates a GCP Disk
+- gcp_compute_firewall - Creates a GCP Firewall
+- gcp_compute_forwarding_rule - Creates a GCP ForwardingRule
+- gcp_compute_global_address - Creates a GCP GlobalAddress
+- gcp_compute_global_forwarding_rule - Creates a GCP GlobalForwardingRule
+- gcp_compute_health_check - Creates a GCP HealthCheck
+- gcp_compute_http_health_check - Creates a GCP HttpHealthCheck
+- gcp_compute_https_health_check - Creates a GCP HttpsHealthCheck
+- gcp_compute_image - Creates a GCP Image
+- gcp_compute_instance - Creates a GCP Instance
+- gcp_compute_instance_group - Creates a GCP InstanceGroup
+- gcp_compute_instance_group_manager - Creates a GCP InstanceGroupManager
+- gcp_compute_instance_template - Creates a GCP InstanceTemplate
+- gcp_compute_network - Creates a GCP Network
+- gcp_compute_route - Creates a GCP Route
+- gcp_compute_ssl_certificate - Creates a GCP SslCertificate
+- gcp_compute_subnetwork - Creates a GCP Subnetwork
+- gcp_compute_target_http_proxy - Creates a GCP TargetHttpProxy
+- gcp_compute_target_https_proxy - Creates a GCP TargetHttpsProxy
+- gcp_compute_target_pool - Creates a GCP TargetPool
+- gcp_compute_target_ssl_proxy - Creates a GCP TargetSslProxy
+- gcp_compute_target_tcp_proxy - Creates a GCP TargetTcpProxy
+- gcp_compute_url_map - Creates a GCP UrlMap
+- gcp_container_cluster - Creates a GCP Cluster
+- gcp_container_node_pool - Creates a GCP NodePool
+- gcp_dns_resource_record_set - Creates a GCP ResourceRecordSet
+- gcp_pubsub_subscription - Creates a GCP Subscription
+- gcp_pubsub_topic - Creates a GCP Topic
+- gcp_storage_bucket - Creates a GCP Bucket
+- gcp_storage_bucket_access_control - Creates a GCP BucketAccessControl
+
+heroku
+^^^^^^
+
+- heroku_collaborator - Add or delete app collaborators on Heroku
+
+memset
+^^^^^^
+
+- memset_dns_reload - Request reload of Memset's DNS infrastructure,
+- memset_zone - Creates and deletes Memset DNS zones.
+- memset_zone_domain - Create and delete domains in Memset DNS zones.
+- memset_zone_record - Create and delete records in Memset DNS zones.
+
+misc
+^^^^
+
+- cloud_init_data_facts - Retrieve facts of cloud-init.
+
+opennebula
+^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- one_host - Manages OpenNebula Hosts
+- one_image - Manages OpenNebula images
+- one_image_facts - Gather facts about OpenNebula images
+- one_service - Deploy and manage OpenNebula services
+- one_vm - Creates or terminates OpenNebula instances
+
+openstack
+^^^^^^^^^
+
+- os_server_metadata - Add/Update/Delete Metadata in Compute Instances from OpenStack
+- os_volume_snapshot - Create/Delete Cinder Volume Snapshots
+
+scaleway
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- scaleway_compute - Scaleway compute management module
+- scaleway_sshkey - Scaleway SSH keys management module
+
+vmware
+^^^^^^
+
+- vmware_cluster_facts - Gather facts about clusters available in given vCenter
+- vmware_datastore_cluster - Manage VMware vSphere datastore clusters
+- vmware_datastore_maintenancemode - Place a datastore into maintenance mode
+- vmware_guest_disk_facts - Gather facts about disks of given virtual machine
+- vmware_guest_snapshot_facts - Gather facts about virtual machine's snapshots in vCenter
+- vmware_host_capability_facts - Gathers facts about an ESXi host's capability information
+- vmware_host_powerstate - Manages power states of host systems in vCenter
+- vmware_local_user_facts - Gather facts about users on the given ESXi host
+- vmware_portgroup_facts - Gathers facts about an ESXi host's portgroup configuration
+- vmware_resource_pool_facts - Gathers facts about resource pool information
+- vmware_tag - Manage VMware tags
+- vmware_tag_facts - Manage VMware tag facts
+- vmware_vswitch_facts - Gathers facts about an ESXi host's vswitch configurations
+
+Clustering
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+k8s
+^^^
+
+- k8s - Manage Kubernetes (K8s) objects
+
+Commands
+~~~~~~~~
+
+- psexec - Runs commands on a remote Windows host based on the PsExec model
+
+Monitoring
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- spectrum_device - Creates/deletes devices in CA Spectrum.
+
+zabbix
+^^^^^^
+
+- zabbix_group_facts - Gather facts about Zabbix hostgroup
+
+Net Tools
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+ldap
+^^^^
+
+- ldap_passwd - Set passwords in LDAP.
+
+Network
+~~~~~~~
+
+aci
+^^^
+
+- aci_l3out - Manage Layer 3 Outside (L3Out) objects (l3ext:Out)
+
+avi
+^^^
+
+- avi_autoscalelaunchconfig - Module for setup of AutoScaleLaunchConfig Avi RESTful Object
+- avi_l4policyset - Module for setup of L4PolicySet Avi RESTful Object
+- avi_useraccount - Avi UserAccount Module
+
+cnos
+^^^^
+
+- cnos_command - Run arbitrary commands on Lenovo CNOS devices
+- cnos_config - Manage Lenovo CNOS configuration sections
+
+exos
+^^^^
+
+- exos_command - Run commands on remote devices running Extreme EXOS
+
+f5
+^^
+
+- bigip_data_group - Manage data groups on a BIG-IP
+- bigip_device_license - Manage license installation and activation on BIG-IP devices
+- bigip_gtm_global - Manages global GTM settings
+- bigip_gtm_monitor_bigip - Manages F5 BIG-IP GTM BIG-IP monitors
+- bigip_gtm_monitor_external - Manages external GTM monitors on a BIG-IP
+- bigip_gtm_monitor_firepass - Manages F5 BIG-IP GTM FirePass monitors
+- bigip_gtm_monitor_http - Manages F5 BIG-IP GTM http monitors
+- bigip_gtm_monitor_https - Manages F5 BIG-IP GTM https monitors
+- bigip_gtm_monitor_tcp - Manages F5 BIG-IP GTM tcp monitors
+- bigip_gtm_monitor_tcp_half_open - Manages F5 BIG-IP GTM tcp half-open monitors
+- bigip_gtm_pool_member - Manage GTM pool member settings
+- bigip_gtm_virtual_server - Manages F5 BIG-IP GTM virtual servers
+- bigip_log_destination - Manages log destinations on a BIG-IP.
+- bigip_log_publisher - Manages log publishers on a BIG-IP
+- bigip_management_route - Manage system management routes on a BIG-IP
+- bigip_monitor_external - Manages external LTM monitors on a BIG-IP
+- bigip_profile_dns - Manage DNS profiles on a BIG-IP
+- bigip_profile_tcp - Manage TCP profiles on a BIG-IP
+- bigip_profile_udp - Manage UDP profiles on a BIG-IP
+- bigip_service_policy - Manages service policies on a BIG-IP.
+- bigip_smtp - Manages SMTP settings on the BIG-IP
+- bigip_snmp_community - Manages SNMP communities on a BIG-IP.
+- bigip_timer_policy - Manage timer policies on a BIG-IP
+- bigip_trunk - Manage trunks on a BIG-IP
+- bigiq_application_fasthttp - Manages BIG-IQ FastHTTP applications
+- bigiq_application_fastl4_tcp - Manages BIG-IQ FastL4 TCP applications
+- bigiq_application_fastl4_udp - Manages BIG-IQ FastL4 UDP applications
+- bigiq_application_http - Manages BIG-IQ HTTP applications
+- bigiq_application_https_offload - Manages BIG-IQ HTTPS offload applications
+- bigiq_application_https_waf - Manages BIG-IQ HTTPS WAF applications
+- bigiq_regkey_license_assignment - Manage regkey license assignment on BIG-IPs from a BIG-IQ.
+- bigiq_utility_license - Manage utility licenses on a BIG-IQ
+
+files
+^^^^^
+
+- net_get - Copy a file from a network device to Ansible Controller
+- net_put - Copy a file from Ansible Controller to a network device
+
+fortios
+^^^^^^^
+
+- fortios_webfilter - Configure webfilter capabilities of FortiGate and FortiOS.
+
+meraki
+^^^^^^
+
+- meraki_admin - Manage administrators in the Meraki cloud
+- meraki_network - Manage networks in the Meraki cloud
+- meraki_organization - Manage organizations in the Meraki cloud
+- meraki_snmp - Manage organizations in the Meraki cloud
+
+netconf
+^^^^^^^
+
+- netconf_get - Fetch configuration/state data from NETCONF enabled network devices.
+- netconf_rpc - Execute operations on NETCONF enabled network devices.
+
+slxos
+^^^^^
+
+- slxos_command - Run commands on remote devices running Extreme Networks SLX-OS
+- slxos_config - Manage Extreme Networks SLX-OS configuration sections
+- slxos_facts - Collect facts from devices running Extreme SLX-OS
+- slxos_interface - Manage Interfaces on Extreme SLX-OS network devices
+- slxos_l2_interface - Manage Layer-2 interface on Extreme Networks SLXOS devices.
+- slxos_l3_interface - Manage L3 interfaces on Extreme Networks SLXOS network devices.
+- slxos_linkagg - Manage link aggregation groups on Extreme Networks SLXOS network devices
+- slxos_vlan - Manage VLANs on Extreme Networks SLX-OS network devices
+
+Packaging
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+language
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- yarn - Manage node.js packages with Yarn
+
+os
+^^
+
+- flatpak - Manage flatpaks
+- flatpak_remote - Manage flatpak repository remotes
+
+Source Control
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- gitlab_deploy_key - Manages GitLab project deploy keys.
+- gitlab_hooks - Manages GitLab project hooks.
+
+Storage
+~~~~~~~
+
+glusterfs
+^^^^^^^^^
+
+- gluster_peer - Attach/Detach peers to/from the cluster
+
+netapp
+^^^^^^
+
+- na_ontap_aggregate - Manage NetApp ONTAP aggregates.
+- na_ontap_broadcast_domain - Manage NetApp ONTAP broadcast domains.
+- na_ontap_broadcast_domain_ports - Manage NetApp Ontap broadcast domain ports
+- na_ontap_cifs - Manage NetApp cifs-share
+- na_ontap_cifs_acl - Manage NetApp cifs-share-access-control
+- na_ontap_cifs_server - cifs server configuration
+- na_ontap_cluster - Create/Join ONTAP cluster. Apply license to cluster
+- na_ontap_cluster_ha - Manage HA status for cluster
+- na_ontap_export_policy - Manage NetApp ONTAP export-policy
+- na_ontap_export_policy_rule - Manage ONTAP Export rules
+- na_ontap_igroup - ONTAP iSCSI igroup configuration
+- na_ontap_interface - ONTAP LIF configuration
+- na_ontap_iscsi - Manage NetApp Ontap iscsi service
+- na_ontap_job_schedule - Manage NetApp Ontap Job Schedule
+- na_ontap_license - Manage NetApp ONTAP protocol and feature licenses
+- na_ontap_lun - Manage  NetApp Ontap luns
+- na_ontap_lun_map - Manage NetApp Ontap lun maps
+- na_ontap_net_ifgrp - Create, modify, destroy the network interface group
+- na_ontap_net_port - Manage NetApp Ontap network ports.
+- na_ontap_net_routes - Manage NetApp Ontap network routes
+- na_ontap_net_vlan - Manage NetApp Ontap network vlan
+- na_ontap_nfs - Manage Ontap NFS status
+- na_ontap_ntp - Create/Delete/modify_version ONTAP NTP server
+- na_ontap_qtree - Manage qtrees
+- na_ontap_service_processor_network - Manage NetApp Ontap service processor network
+- na_ontap_snapshot - Manage NetApp Sanpshots
+- na_ontap_snmp - Manage NetApp SNMP community
+- na_ontap_svm - Manage NetApp Ontap svm
+- na_ontap_ucadapter - ONTAP UC adapter configuration
+- na_ontap_user - useradmin configuration and management
+- na_ontap_user_role - useradmin configuration and management
+- na_ontap_volume - Manage NetApp ONTAP volumes.
+- na_ontap_volume_clone - Manage NetApp Ontap volume clones.
+
+purestorage
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- purefa_ds - Configure FlashArray Directory Service
+- purefa_facts - Collect facts from Pure Storage FlashArray
+- purefa_pgsnap - Manage protection group snapshots on Pure Storage FlashArrays
+- purefb_fs - Manage filesystemon Pure Storage FlashBlade`
+- purefb_snap - Manage filesystem snapshots on Pure Storage FlashBlades
+
+System
+~~~~~~
+
+- sysvinit - Manage SysV services.
+
+Web Infrastructure
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- acme_account - Create, modify or delete accounts with Let's Encrypt
+
+Windows
+~~~~~~~
+
+- win_domain_computer - Manage computers in Active Directory
+- win_hostname - Manages local Windows computer name.
+- win_pester - Run Pester tests on Windows hosts
--- a/changelogs/config.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/config.yaml
@ -3,16 +3,11 @@ release_tag_re: '(v(?:[\d.ab\-]|rc)+)'
 pre_release_tag_re: '(?P<pre_release>(?:[ab]|rc)+\d*)$'
 notesdir: fragments
 prelude_section_name: release_summary
+new_plugins_after_name: removed_features
 sections:
 - ['major_changes', 'Major Changes']
 - ['minor_changes', 'Minor Changes']
 - ['deprecated_features', 'Deprecated Features']
 - ['removed_features', 'Removed Features (previously deprecated)']
- ['new_lookup_plugins', 'New Lookup Plugins']
- ['new_callback_plugins', 'New Callback Plugins']
- ['new_connection_plugins', 'New Connection Plugins']
- ['new_test_plugins', 'New Test Plugins']
- ['new_filter_plugins', 'New Filter Plugins']
- ['new_modules', 'New Modules']
 - ['bugfixes', 'Bugfixes']
 - ['known_issues', 'Known Issues']
--- a/changelogs/fragments/40839-docker_container_init.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/40839-docker_container_init.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- fixes docker_container compatibilty with docker-py < 2.2
--- a/changelogs/fragments/41167_ansible_doc_regression.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/41167_ansible_doc_regression.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- ansible-doc - fixed traceback on missing plugins (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41167)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/41530-apt-mark-deb6.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/41530-apt-mark-deb6.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - fix apt-mark on debian6 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41530)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/42042-inventory_with_no_region.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/42042-inventory_with_no_region.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- plugins/inventory/openstack.py - Do not create group with empty name if region is not set
--- a/changelogs/fragments/42647-win_updates.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/42647-win_updates.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- win_updates - fixed module return value is lost in error in some cases (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42647)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/admin-users-default-change.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/admin-users-default-change.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - Changed the admin_users config option to not include "admin" by default as
+    admin is frequently used for a non-privileged account  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41164)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/always_run_removal.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/always_run_removal.yaml
@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 removed_features:
- removed the deprecated always_run task option, please use `check_mode: no` instead
+- "removed the deprecated always_run task option, please use `check_mode: no` instead"
--- a/changelogs/fragments/avoid_cwd_vars.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/avoid_cwd_vars.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - '**Security Fix** - avoid loading host/group vars from cwd when not specifying a playbook or playbook base dir'
--- a/changelogs/fragments/aws_s3_async_fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/aws_s3_async_fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- fix async for the aws_s3 module by adding async support to the action plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40826)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/aws_s3_decryption_fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/aws_s3_decryption_fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- fix decrypting vault files for the aws_s3 module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39634)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/aws_s3_fix_custom_endpoints.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/aws_s3_fix_custom_endpoints.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- allow custom endpoints to be used in the aws_s3 module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36832)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/aws_s3_fix_exception_handling.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/aws_s3_fix_exception_handling.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - fix permission handling to try to download a file even if the user does not have permission to list all objects in the bucket
+  - fix BotoCoreError exception handling
+  - fix errors with S3-compatible APIs if they cannot use ACLs for buckets or objects
--- a/changelogs/fragments/basic_booleans_backward_compat.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/basic_booleans_backward_compat.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+- Restore module_utils.basic.BOOLEANS variable for backwards compatibility with the module API in older ansible releases.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/clarify_error_message.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/clarify_error_message.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - Fix an atomic_move error that is 'true', but  misleading. Now we show all 3 files involved and clarify what happened.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/command-support-argv.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/command-support-argv.yaml
@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
-features:
+minor_changes:
  - command module - Added argv option to allow command to be specified as a list vs. a string
    (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/19392)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/debug_fixes.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/debug_fixes.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - correct debug display for all cases https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41331
--- a/changelogs/fragments/digital_ocean_block_storage_fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/digital_ocean_block_storage_fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- Fix added for Digital Ocean Volumes API change causing Ansible to recieve an unexpected value in the response. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41431)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/doc_fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/doc_fix.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - remove dupes from var precedence
--- a/changelogs/fragments/docfix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/docfix.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - fix nmap config example https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42925
--- a/changelogs/fragments/docker-default-ssl.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/docker-default-ssl.yml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- fix default SSL version for docker modules https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42897
--- a/changelogs/fragments/ec2_ami_fix_block_device_mapping_volume_size_type.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/ec2_ami_fix_block_device_mapping_volume_size_type.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- cast the device_mapping volume size to an int in the ec2_ami module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40938)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/empty_gh_error.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/empty_gh_error.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - emtpy host/group name is an error https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42044
--- a/changelogs/fragments/ensure_text_source.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/ensure_text_source.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - remove ambiguity when it comes to 'the source' 
--- a/changelogs/fragments/eos_l2_interface_fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/eos_l2_interface_fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Fix eos_l2_interface eapi (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42270).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/eos_vrf_failure-fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/eos_vrf_failure-fix.yml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - Changed the output to "text" for "show vrf" command as default "json" output format
+    with respect to "eapi" transport was failing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41470)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/file_touch_check_mode.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/file_touch_check_mode.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the
+  2.6.x development cycle.  The patch to fix that broke check mode.
+  This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42111)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/file_touch_diff.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/file_touch_diff.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the
+  2.6.x development cycle.  This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41755)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/fix_config_required.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/fix_config_required.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - fixed config required handling, specifically for _terms in lookups https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41740
--- a/changelogs/fragments/fix_fact_clean.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/fix_fact_clean.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - restores filtering out conflicting facts https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41684
--- a/changelogs/fragments/fix_ios_vlan.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/fix_ios_vlan.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - ios_vlan - fix unable to identify correct vlans issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42247)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/fix_options.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/fix_options.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - allow set_options to be called multiple times https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41913
--- a/changelogs/fragments/fix_pagination_cloudfront_facts.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/fix_pagination_cloudfront_facts.yml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - Allow more than one page of results by using the right pagination indicator ('NextMarker' instead of 'NextToken').
--- a/changelogs/fragments/fix_password_lookup_loading.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/fix_password_lookup_loading.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- password lookup - Do not load password lookup in network filters, allowing the password lookup to be overriden (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41907)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/fix_sysvinit_typo.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/fix_sysvinit_typo.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - fix typoe in sysvinit that breaks update.rc-d detection https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42734
--- a/changelogs/fragments/fix_tls_mail.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/fix_tls_mail.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - fix mail module when using starttls https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42338
--- a/changelogs/fragments/fix_yaml_inv_nulls.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/fix_yaml_inv_nulls.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - correctly handle yaml inventory files when entries are null dicts https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41692
--- a/changelogs/fragments/gce-sort-fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/gce-sort-fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- gce_net - Fix sorting of allowed ports (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41567)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/gem-custom-home.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/gem-custom-home.yaml
@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-new_features:
+minor_changes:
  - gem - add ability to specify a custom directory for installing gems (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38195)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/group_by_localhost.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/group_by_localhost.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- group_by - support implicit localhost (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41860)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/includes.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/includes.yaml
@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ minor_changes:
 - import/include - Cache task_vars to speed up IncludedFile.process_include_results (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39026)

 bugfixes:
- import/include - Update TaskInclude _raw_params with the expanded/templated path to file allowing nested includes using host vars in file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39365)
 - dynamic includes - Don't treat undefined vars for conditional includes as truthy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39377)
 - import/include - Ensure role handlers have the proper parent, allowing for correct attribute inheritance (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39426)
 - include_role/import_role - Use the computed role name for include_role/import_role so to diffentiate between names computed from host vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39516)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/inventory_dir_ext_compare_fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/inventory_dir_ext_compare_fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- inventory - When using an inventory directory, ensure extension comparison uses text types (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42475)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/inventory_manager_fix_required_options_override.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/inventory_manager_fix_required_options_override.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- inventory manager - This fixes required options being populated before the
+  inventory config file is read, so the required options may be set in the
+  config file.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/ios_l2_interface-fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/ios_l2_interface-fix.yml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - To fix the NoneType error raised in ios_l2_interface when Access Mode VLAN is unassigned 
+    (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42312)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/iosxr_config_route_policy_objects_fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/iosxr_config_route_policy_objects_fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- Fix iosxr_config module to handle route-policy, community-set, prefix-set,
+  as-path-set and rd-set blocks. All these blocks are part of route-policy
+  language of iosxr.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/junos_config_confirm_commit.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/junos_config_confirm_commit.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Fix junos_config confirm commit timeout issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41527)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/junos_facts_fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/junos_facts_fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Fix fetching old style facts in junos_facts module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42351)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/lineinfile-empty-regexp.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/lineinfile-empty-regexp.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - lineinfile - add warning when using an empty regexp (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29443)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/lineinfile-insertbefore-bof-bugfix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/lineinfile-insertbefore-bof-bugfix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - lineinfile - fix insertbefore when used with BOF to not insert duplicate lines (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38219)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/missing_raise.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/missing_raise.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - added missing 'raise' to exception definition https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41690
--- a/changelogs/fragments/new-gcp-modules.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/new-gcp-modules.yml
@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-new_features:
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_address'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_backend_bucket'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_backend_service'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_firewall'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_forwarding_rule'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_global_address'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_global_forwarding_rule'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_health_check'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_http_health_check'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_https_health_check'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_image'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_instance'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_instance_group'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_instance_group_manager'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_instance_template'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_network'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_route'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_ssl_certificate'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_subnetwork'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_target_http_proxy'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_target_https_proxy'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_target_pool'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_target_ssl_proxy'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_target_tcp_proxy'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_compute_url_map'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_container_cluster'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_container_node_pool'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_dns_managed_zone'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_dns_resource_record_set'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_pubsub_subscription'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_pubsub_topic'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_storage_bucket'
- 'New Google Cloud module: gcp_storage_bucket_access_control'
--- a/changelogs/fragments/no_log_fix_for_connection_exceptions.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/no_log_fix_for_connection_exceptions.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- '**Security Fix** - Some connection exceptions would cause no_log specified on
+  a task to be ignored.  If this happened, the task information, including any
+  private information could have been displayed to stdout and (if enabled, not
+  the default) logged to a log file specified in ansible.cfg''s log_path.
+  Additionally, sites which redirected stdout from ansible runs to a log file
+  may have stored that private information onto disk that way as well.
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41414)'
--- a/changelogs/fragments/nsupdate_fix_hmac-sha384.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/nsupdate_fix_hmac-sha384.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - nsupdate - allow hmac-sha384 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42209
--- a/changelogs/fragments/nxos_CI_failures_fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/nxos_CI_failures_fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Fix nxos CI failures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42240).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/nxos_cliconf.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/nxos_cliconf.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Refactor nxos cliconf get_device_info for non structured output supported devices (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42089).
+- Fix regex network_os_platform nxos (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42288).
+- Fix get_device_info nxos zero or more whitespace regex (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43178).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/nxos_facts.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/nxos_facts.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- nxos_facts warning message improved (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42969).
+- Add text output along with structured output in nxos_facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42886).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/nxos_module_utils_nxapi_get_capabilities.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/nxos_module_utils_nxapi_get_capabilities.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- get_capabilities in nxapi module_utils should not return empty dictionary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42688).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/nxos_nxapi_default_http_behavior_fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/nxos_nxapi_default_http_behavior_fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Fix nxos_nxapi default http behavior (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41817).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/nxos_vxlan_vtep_vni_fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/nxos_vxlan_vtep_vni_fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Fix nxos_vxlan_vtep_vni (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42240).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/onepassword-lookup.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/onepassword-lookup.yaml
@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-features:
-  - onepassword lookup - add lookup plugins onepassword and onepassword_raw to retrieve secrets from 1Password vault (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37207)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/openvswitch_db_make_key_optional.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/openvswitch_db_make_key_optional.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - openvswitch_db - make 'key' argument optional https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42108
--- a/changelogs/fragments/pause-stdout-redirection.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/pause-stdout-redirection.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - pause - do not set stdout to raw mode when redirecting to a file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41717)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/pause-try-except-curses.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/pause-try-except-curses.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - pause - nest try except when importing curses to gracefully fail if curses is not present (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42004)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/preserve_delegate_nolog.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/preserve_delegate_nolog.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - preseve delegation info on nolog https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42344
--- a/changelogs/fragments/remote_tmp_de-escalated_user.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/remote_tmp_de-escalated_user.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- fix the remote tmp folder permissions issue when becoming a non admin user - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41340, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42117
--- a/changelogs/fragments/reset_con_fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/reset_con_fix.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - uses correct conn info for reset_connection  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27520
--- a/changelogs/fragments/synchronize_remote_is_local.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/synchronize_remote_is_local.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- synchronize - Ensure the local connection created by synchronize uses _remote_is_local=True, which causes ActionBase to build a local tmpdir (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40833)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/sysvinit_bugxif.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/sysvinit_bugxif.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - fix ps detection of service https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43014
--- a/changelogs/fragments/user-freebsd-createhome-name-fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/user-freebsd-createhome-name-fix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - user - use correct attribute name in FreeBSD for creat_home (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42711)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/user_freebsd_always_changed_bugfix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/user_freebsd_always_changed_bugfix.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - user - fix bug that resulted in module always reporting a change when specifiying the home directory on FreeBSD (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42484)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2018-06-28
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0a1_catchup.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0a1_catchup.yaml
@ -1 +1,7 @@
-{}
+deprecated_features:
+- nxos_igmp_interface module - The oif_prefix and oif_source properties are deprecated. Use the oif_ps parameter with a dictionary of prefix and source to values instead.
+
+minor_changes:
+- cloudflare_dns module - Removed restriction from protocol to allow other protocols than tcp and udp to be specified.
+- vmware_target_canonical_facts module - The target_id parameter is an optional parameter.
+- postgresql_user module - Changed encrypted=yes to be the default. This shouldn't break any current playbooks, the module will just store passwords hashed by default. This change was done because Postgres 10 dropped support for UNENCRYPTED passwords and because all versions since Postgres 7.2 support storing encrypted passwords.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0a2_catchup.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0a2_catchup.yaml
@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{}
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0a2_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0a2_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2018-05-30
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc1_catchup.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc1_catchup.yaml
@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{}
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc1_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2018-06-05
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc2_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc2_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2018-06-08
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc3_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc3_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2018-06-18
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc4_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc4_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2018-06-25
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc5_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.0rc5_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2018-06-26
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.1_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2018-07-05
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_
--- a/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.2_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.6.2_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2018-07-27
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`_
--- a/changelogs/fragments/vars_lk.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/vars_lk.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - correctly check hostvars for vars term https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41819
--- a/changelogs/fragments/virtualbox_inventory.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/virtualbox_inventory.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+- Raise AnsibleParserError which was missing previously
--- a/changelogs/fragments/vmware_remove_vm_sceanrio.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/vmware_remove_vm_sceanrio.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+- Sceanrio guide for removing an existing virtual machine is added.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/vultr-parameters-parsing.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/vultr-parameters-parsing.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - vultr - Do not fail trying to load configuration from ini files if required variables have been set as environment variables.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/vyos_command_retry.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/vyos_command_retry.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- vyos_command correcting conditionals looping (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43331).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/win_chocoalatey_install_tls12.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/win_chocoalatey_install_tls12.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- win_chocolatey - enable TLSv1.2 support when downloading the Chocolatey installer https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41906
--- a/changelogs/fragments/win_domain-dns-typo-fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/win_domain-dns-typo-fix.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- win_domain - fixes typo in one of the AD cmdlets https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41536
--- a/changelogs/fragments/win_group_membership-sid-bugfix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/win_group_membership-sid-bugfix.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- win_group_membership - uses the internal Ansible SID conversion logic and uses that when comparing group membership instead of the name https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40649
--- a/changelogs/fragments/win_iis_webapppool-output-fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/win_iis_webapppool-output-fix.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- win_iis_webapppool - redirect some module output to null so Ansible can read the output JSON https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40874
--- a/changelogs/fragments/win_reboot-fixes.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/win_reboot-fixes.yml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bugfixes:
+- win_reboot - handle post reboots when running test_command - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41713
+- win_reboot - fix issue when overridding connection timeout hung the post reboot uptime check - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42185 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42294
+- win_reboot - fix for handling an already scheduled reboot and other minor log formatting issues
--- a/changelogs/fragments/win_security_policy-empty-value.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/win_security_policy-empty-value.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- win_security_policy - allows an empty string to reset a policy value https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40869
--- a/changelogs/fragments/win_unzip_share-discard-cmdlet-output.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/win_unzip_share-discard-cmdlet-output.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- win_share - discard any cmdlet output we don't use to ensure only the return json is received by Ansible
+- win_unzip - discard any cmdlet output we don't use to ensure only the return json is received by Ansible
--- a/changelogs/fragments/win_updates-async-fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/win_updates-async-fix.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- win_updates - Fixed issue where running win_updates on async fails without any error
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More