New release v2.15.6 (#82140)

* Import role public (#81772)

revert to previous behavior to push vars to play at compile time
add `public` parameter to allow per import control of exporting (vs just the global config)

Co-authored-by: tchernomax <maxime.deroucy@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Sloane Hertel <19572925+s-hertel@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit ab6a544e86)

* adapted to prev version

 - removed new functionality
 - restored global config functioning overriding specific public option

* remove typoe

* quote it

(cherry picked from commit 9a4bc7e7b3)

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -26,17 +26,12 @@ variables:
     value: ansible
   - name: coverageBranches
     value: devel
-  - name: pipelinesCoverage
-    value: coverage
   - name: entryPoint
-    value: test/utils/shippable/shippable.sh
+    value: .azure-pipelines/commands/entry-point.sh
   - name: fetchDepth
     value: 500
-
-resources:
-  containers:
-    - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:1.9.0
+  - name: defaultContainer
+    value: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:4.0.1
 
 pool: Standard
 
@@ -51,9 +46,6 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - test: 1
             - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
-            - test: 5
   - stage: Units
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -62,7 +54,6 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: units/{0}
           targets:
-            - test: 2.6
             - test: 2.7
             - test: 3.5
             - test: 3.6
@@ -70,6 +61,7 @@ stages:
             - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
+            - test: 3.11
   - stage: Windows
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -86,27 +78,58 @@ stages:
   - stage: Remote
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/target
         parameters:
           targets:
-            - name: macOS 11.1
-              test: macos/11.1
+            - name: macOS 13.2
+              test: macos/13.2
             - name: RHEL 7.9
               test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: RHEL 8.4 py36
-              test: rhel/8.4@3.6
-            - name: RHEL 8.4 py38
-              test: rhel/8.4@3.8
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
-              test: freebsd/12.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
-              test: freebsd/13.0
+            - name: RHEL 8.7 py36
+              test: rhel/8.7@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.7 py39
+              test: rhel/8.7@3.9
+            - name: RHEL 9.1
+              test: rhel/9.1
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.4
+              test: freebsd/12.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.1
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller
+        parameters:
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 13.2
+              test: macos/13.2
+            - name: RHEL 8.7
+              test: rhel/8.7
+            - name: RHEL 9.1
+              test: rhel/9.1
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.1
+          groups:
             - 3
             - 4
             - 5
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller (ansible-test container management)
+        parameters:
+          targets:
+            - name: Alpine 3.17
+              test: alpine/3.17
+            - name: Fedora 38
+              test: fedora/38
+            - name: RHEL 8.7
+              test: rhel/8.7
+            - name: RHEL 9.1
+              test: rhel/9.1
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu/20.04
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu/22.04
+          groups:
+            - 6
   - stage: Docker
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -116,27 +139,30 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - name: Alpine 3
               test: alpine3
-            - name: CentOS 6
-              test: centos6
             - name: CentOS 7
               test: centos7
-            - name: CentOS 8
-              test: centos8
-            - name: Fedora 33
-              test: fedora33
-            - name: Fedora 34
-              test: fedora34
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
-              test: opensuse15py2
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+            - name: Fedora 37
+              test: fedora37
+            - name: openSUSE 15
               test: opensuse15
-            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
-              test: ubuntu1804
             - name: Ubuntu 20.04
               test: ubuntu2004
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu2204
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
+            - name: Fedora 37
+              test: fedora37
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu2204
+          groups:
             - 3
             - 4
             - 5
@@ -148,9 +174,9 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: galaxy/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
+            - test: 3.11
   - stage: Generic
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -159,55 +185,9 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: generic/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
-  - stage: Incidental_Remote
-    displayName: Incidental Remote
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: i/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 11.1
-              test: macos/11.1
-            - name: RHEL 7.9
-              test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: RHEL 8.4 py36
-              test: rhel/8.4@3.6
-            - name: RHEL 8.4 py38
-              test: rhel/8.4@3.8
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
-              test: freebsd/12.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
-              test: freebsd/13.0
-  - stage: Incidental_Docker
-    displayName: Incidental Docker
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: i/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: CentOS 6
-              test: centos6
-            - name: CentOS 7
-              test: centos7
-            - name: CentOS 8
-              test: centos8
-            - name: Fedora 33
-              test: fedora33
-            - name: Fedora 34
-              test: fedora34
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
-              test: opensuse15py2
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
-              test: opensuse15
-            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
-              test: ubuntu1804
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
+            - test: 3.11
   - stage: Incidental_Windows
     displayName: Incidental Windows
     dependsOn: []
@@ -233,12 +213,6 @@ stages:
               test: ios/csr1000v/
             - name: VyOS Python
               test: vyos/1.1.8/
-            - name: AWS Python 2.7
-              test: aws/2.7
-            - name: AWS Python 3.6
-              test: aws/3.6
-            - name: Cloud Python
-              test: cloud/
   - stage: Summary
     condition: succeededOrFailed()
     dependsOn:
@@ -249,8 +223,6 @@ stages:
       - Docker
       - Galaxy
       - Generic
-      - Incidental_Remote
-      - Incidental_Docker
       - Incidental_Windows
       - Incidental
     jobs:

.azure-pipelines/commands/entry-point.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o pipefail -eux
+
+declare -a args
+IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
+
+script="${args[0]}"
+
+test="$1"
+
+docker images
+docker ps
+
+for container in $(docker ps --format '{{.Image}} {{.ID}}' | grep -v -e '^quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:' | sed 's/^.* //'); do
+    docker rm -f "${container}" || true  # ignore errors
+done
+
+docker ps
+
+export PATH="${PWD}/bin:${PATH}"
+export PYTHONIOENCODING='utf-8'
+
+if [ -n "${COVERAGE:-}" ]; then
+    # on-demand coverage reporting triggered by setting the COVERAGE environment variable to a non-empty value
+    export COVERAGE="--coverage"
+elif [[ "${COMMIT_MESSAGE}" =~ ci_coverage ]]; then
+    # on-demand coverage reporting triggered by having 'ci_coverage' in the latest commit message
+    export COVERAGE="--coverage"
+else
+    # on-demand coverage reporting disabled (default behavior, always-on coverage reporting remains enabled)
+    export COVERAGE="--coverage-check"
+fi
+
+if [ -n "${COMPLETE:-}" ]; then
+    # disable change detection triggered by setting the COMPLETE environment variable to a non-empty value
+    export CHANGED=""
+elif [[ "${COMMIT_MESSAGE}" =~ ci_complete ]]; then
+    # disable change detection triggered by having 'ci_complete' in the latest commit message
+    export CHANGED=""
+else
+    # enable change detection (default behavior)
+    export CHANGED="--changed"
+fi
+
+if [ "${IS_PULL_REQUEST:-}" == "true" ]; then
+    # run unstable tests which are targeted by focused changes on PRs
+    export UNSTABLE="--allow-unstable-changed"
+else
+    # do not run unstable tests outside PRs
+    export UNSTABLE=""
+fi
+
+if [[ "${COVERAGE:-}" == "--coverage" ]]; then
+    timeout=60
+else
+    timeout=50
+fi
+
+ansible-test env --dump --show --timeout "${timeout}" --color -v
+
+".azure-pipelines/commands/${script}.sh" "${test}"

.azure-pipelines/commands/i.sh

@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ script="${args[1]}"
 
 IFS='/' test="${args[*]:1}"
 
-"test/utils/shippable/incidental/${script}.sh" "${test}"
+".azure-pipelines/commands/incidental/${script}.sh" "${test}"

.azure-pipelines/commands/incidental/windows.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o pipefail -eux
+
+declare -a args
+IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
+
+version="${args[1]}"
+
+target="shippable/windows/incidental/"
+
+stage="${S:-prod}"
+provider="${P:-default}"
+
+# python version to run full tests on while other versions run minimal tests
+python_default="$(PYTHONPATH="${PWD}/test/lib" python -c 'from ansible_test._internal import constants; print(constants.CONTROLLER_MIN_PYTHON_VERSION)')"
+
+# version to test when only testing a single version
+single_version=2012-R2
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+ansible-test windows-integration --list-targets -v ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} > /tmp/explain.txt 2>&1 || { cat /tmp/explain.txt && false; }
+{ grep ' windows-integration: .* (targeted)$' /tmp/explain.txt || true; } > /tmp/windows.txt
+
+if [ -s /tmp/windows.txt ] || [ "${CHANGED:+$CHANGED}" == "" ]; then
+    echo "Detected changes requiring integration tests specific to Windows:"
+    cat /tmp/windows.txt
+
+    echo "Running Windows integration tests for multiple versions concurrently."
+
+    platforms=(
+        --windows "${version}"
+    )
+else
+    echo "No changes requiring integration tests specific to Windows were detected."
+    echo "Running Windows integration tests for a single version only: ${single_version}"
+
+    if [ "${version}" != "${single_version}" ]; then
+        echo "Skipping this job since it is for: ${version}"
+        exit 0
+    fi
+
+    platforms=(
+        --windows "${version}"
+    )
+fi
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+ansible-test windows-integration --color -v --retry-on-error "${target}" ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} \
+    "${platforms[@]}" \
+    --docker default --python "${python_default}" \
+    --remote-terminate always --remote-stage "${stage}" --remote-provider "${provider}"

.azure-pipelines/commands/sanity.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o pipefail -eux
+
+declare -a args
+IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
+
+group="${args[1]}"
+
+group2_include=(
+    ansible-doc
+    changelog
+    package-data
+    pep8
+    pylint
+    validate-modules
+)
+
+group1_exclude=(
+    "${group2_include[@]}"
+)
+
+options=()
+
+case "${group}" in
+    1)
+        for name in "${group1_exclude[@]}"; do
+            options+=(--skip-test "${name}")
+        done
+        ;;
+    2)
+        for name in "${group2_include[@]}"; do
+            options+=(--test "${name}")
+        done
+        ;;
+esac
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+ansible-test sanity --color -v --junit ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} \
+    --docker \
+    "${options[@]}" --allow-disabled

.azure-pipelines/commands/windows.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o pipefail -eux
+
+declare -a args
+IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
+
+version="${args[1]}"
+group="${args[2]}"
+
+target="shippable/windows/group${group}/"
+
+stage="${S:-prod}"
+provider="${P:-default}"
+
+# python versions to test in order
+IFS=' ' read -r -a python_versions <<< \
+    "$(PYTHONPATH="${PWD}/test/lib" python -c 'from ansible_test._internal import constants; print(" ".join(constants.CONTROLLER_PYTHON_VERSIONS))')"
+
+# python version to run full tests on while other versions run minimal tests
+python_default="$(PYTHONPATH="${PWD}/test/lib" python -c 'from ansible_test._internal import constants; print(constants.CONTROLLER_MIN_PYTHON_VERSION)')"
+
+# version to test when only testing a single version
+single_version=2012-R2
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+ansible-test windows-integration --list-targets -v ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} > /tmp/explain.txt 2>&1 || { cat /tmp/explain.txt && false; }
+{ grep ' windows-integration: .* (targeted)$' /tmp/explain.txt || true; } > /tmp/windows.txt
+
+if [ -s /tmp/windows.txt ] || [ "${CHANGED:+$CHANGED}" == "" ]; then
+    echo "Detected changes requiring integration tests specific to Windows:"
+    cat /tmp/windows.txt
+
+    echo "Running Windows integration tests for multiple versions concurrently."
+
+    platforms=(
+        --windows "${version}"
+    )
+else
+    echo "No changes requiring integration tests specific to Windows were detected."
+    echo "Running Windows integration tests for a single version only: ${single_version}"
+
+    if [ "${version}" != "${single_version}" ]; then
+        echo "Skipping this job since it is for: ${version}"
+        exit 0
+    fi
+
+    platforms=(
+        --windows "${version}"
+    )
+fi
+
+for version in "${python_versions[@]}"; do
+    changed_all_target="all"
+    changed_all_mode="default"
+
+    if [ "${version}" == "${python_default}" ]; then
+        # smoketest tests
+        if [ "${CHANGED}" ]; then
+            # with change detection enabled run tests for anything changed
+            # use the smoketest tests for any change that triggers all tests
+            ci="${target}"
+            changed_all_target="shippable/windows/smoketest/"
+            if [ "${target}" == "shippable/windows/group1/" ]; then
+                # only run smoketest tests for group1
+                changed_all_mode="include"
+            else
+                # smoketest tests already covered by group1
+                changed_all_mode="exclude"
+            fi
+        else
+            # without change detection enabled run entire test group
+            ci="${target}"
+        fi
+    else
+        # only run minimal tests for group1
+        if [ "${target}" != "shippable/windows/group1/" ]; then continue; fi
+        # minimal tests for other python versions
+        ci="shippable/windows/minimal/"
+    fi
+
+    # terminate remote instances on the final python version tested
+    if [ "${version}" = "${python_versions[-1]}" ]; then
+        terminate="always"
+    else
+        terminate="never"
+    fi
+
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+    ansible-test windows-integration --color -v --retry-on-error "${ci}" ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} \
+        "${platforms[@]}" --changed-all-target "${changed_all_target}" --changed-all-mode "${changed_all_mode}" \
+        --docker default --python "${version}" \
+        --remote-terminate "${terminate}" --remote-stage "${stage}" --remote-provider "${provider}"
+done

.azure-pipelines/scripts/aggregate-coverage.sh

@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ PATH="${PWD}/bin:${PATH}"
 
 mkdir "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/"
 
-options=(--venv --venv-system-site-packages --color -v)
+options=(--venv --color -v)
 
-ansible-test coverage combine --export "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/" "${options[@]}"
+ansible-test coverage combine --group-by command --export "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/" "${options[@]}"
 
 if ansible-test coverage analyze targets generate --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     # Only analyze coverage if the installed version of ansible-test supports it.

.azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+Upload code coverage reports to codecov.io.
+Multiple coverage files from multiple languages are accepted and aggregated after upload.
+Python coverage, as well as PowerShell and Python stubs can all be uploaded.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import dataclasses
+import pathlib
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+import typing as t
+import urllib.request
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
+class CoverageFile:
+    name: str
+    path: pathlib.Path
+    flags: t.List[str]
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
+class Args:
+    dry_run: bool
+    path: pathlib.Path
+
+
+def parse_args() -> Args:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument('-n', '--dry-run', action='store_true')
+    parser.add_argument('path', type=pathlib.Path)
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    # Store arguments in a typed dataclass
+    fields = dataclasses.fields(Args)
+    kwargs = {field.name: getattr(args, field.name) for field in fields}
+
+    return Args(**kwargs)
+
+
+def process_files(directory: pathlib.Path) -> t.Tuple[CoverageFile, ...]:
+    processed = []
+    for file in directory.joinpath('reports').glob('coverage*.xml'):
+        name = file.stem.replace('coverage=', '')
+
+        # Get flags from name
+        flags = name.replace('-powershell', '').split('=')  # Drop '-powershell' suffix
+        flags = [flag if not flag.startswith('stub') else flag.split('-')[0] for flag in flags]  # Remove "-01" from stub files
+
+        processed.append(CoverageFile(name, file, flags))
+
+    return tuple(processed)
+
+
+def upload_files(codecov_bin: pathlib.Path, files: t.Tuple[CoverageFile, ...], dry_run: bool = False) -> None:
+    for file in files:
+        cmd = [
+            str(codecov_bin),
+            '--name', file.name,
+            '--file', str(file.path),
+        ]
+        for flag in file.flags:
+            cmd.extend(['--flags', flag])
+
+        if dry_run:
+            print(f'DRY-RUN: Would run command: {cmd}')
+            continue
+
+        subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)
+
+
+def download_file(url: str, dest: pathlib.Path, flags: int, dry_run: bool = False) -> None:
+    if dry_run:
+        print(f'DRY-RUN: Would download {url} to {dest} and set mode to {flags:o}')
+        return
+
+    with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as resp:
+        with dest.open('w+b') as f:
+            # Read data in chunks rather than all at once
+            shutil.copyfileobj(resp, f, 64 * 1024)
+
+    dest.chmod(flags)
+
+
+def main():
+    args = parse_args()
+    url = 'https://ci-files.testing.ansible.com/codecov/linux/codecov'
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix='codecov-') as tmpdir:
+        codecov_bin = pathlib.Path(tmpdir) / 'codecov'
+        download_file(url, codecov_bin, 0o755, args.dry_run)
+
+        files = process_files(args.path)
+        upload_files(codecov_bin, files, args.dry_run)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()

.azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.sh

@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Upload code coverage reports to codecov.io.
-# Multiple coverage files from multiple languages are accepted and aggregated after upload.
-# Python coverage, as well as PowerShell and Python stubs can all be uploaded.
-
-set -o pipefail -eu
-
-output_path="$1"
-
-curl --silent --show-error https://ansible-ci-files.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/codecov/codecov.sh > codecov.sh
-
-for file in "${output_path}"/reports/coverage*.xml; do
-    name="${file}"
-    name="${name##*/}"  # remove path
-    name="${name##coverage=}"  # remove 'coverage=' prefix if present
-    name="${name%.xml}"  # remove '.xml' suffix
-
-    bash codecov.sh \
-        -f "${file}" \
-        -n "${name}" \
-        -X coveragepy \
-        -X gcov \
-        -X fix \
-        -X search \
-        -X xcode \
-        || echo "Failed to upload code coverage report to codecov.io: ${file}"
-done

.azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh

@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ fi
 
 # Generate stubs using docker (if supported) otherwise fall back to using a virtual environment instead.
 # The use of docker is required when Powershell code is present, but Ansible 2.12 was the first version to support --docker with coverage.
-ansible-test coverage xml --stub --docker --color -v || ansible-test coverage xml --stub --venv --venv-system-site-packages --color -v
+ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --docker --color -v || ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --venv --color -v

.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 jobs:
   - job: Coverage
     displayName: Code Coverage
-    container: default
+    container: $[ variables.defaultContainer ]
     workspace:
       clean: all
     steps:
@@ -23,20 +23,7 @@ jobs:
       - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh
         displayName: Generate Coverage Report
         condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
-      - task: PublishCodeCoverageResults@1
-        inputs:
-          codeCoverageTool: Cobertura
-          # Azure Pipelines only accepts a single coverage data file.
-          # That means only Python or PowerShell coverage can be uploaded, but not both.
-          # Set the "pipelinesCoverage" variable to determine which type is uploaded.
-          # Use "coverage" for Python and "coverage-powershell" for PowerShell.
-          summaryFileLocation: "$(outputPath)/reports/$(pipelinesCoverage).xml"
-          # Override the root (sources) path specified in the coverage XML files.
-          # This allows coverage to be reported in Azure Pipelines even if the report was generated in a container.
-          pathToSources: "$(Agent.BuildDirectory)/$(checkoutPath)"
-        displayName: Publish to Azure Pipelines
-        condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
-      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.sh "$(outputPath)"
+      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py "$(outputPath)"
         displayName: Publish to codecov.io
         condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
         continueOnError: true

.azure-pipelines/templates/test.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
   - ${{ each job in parameters.jobs }}:
     - job: test_${{ replace(replace(replace(replace(job.test, '/', '_'), '.', '_'), '-', '_'), '@', '_') }}
       displayName: ${{ job.name }}
-      container: default
+      container: $[ variables.defaultContainer ]
       workspace:
         clean: all
       steps:

.git-blame-ignore-revs

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# .git-blame-ignore-revs
+# Bulk PowerShell sanity fixes
+6def4a3180fe03981ba64c6d8db28fed3bb39c0c
+716631189cb5a3f66b3add98f39e64e98bc17bf7

.github/BOTMETA.yml

@@ -1,151 +0,0 @@
-automerge: false
-collection_redirect: true
-notifications: false
-files:
-  $module_utils/csharp: &id001
-    labels: windows
-    maintainers: $team_windows_core
-    support: core
-  $module_utils/network:
-    labels: networking
-  $module_utils/network/common:
-    maintainers: $team_networking
-    support: network
-  $module_utils/powershell: *id001
-  $modules:
-    ignored: ryansb tomaszkiewicz
-  $modules/lineinfile.py: $team_ansible samdoran
-  $modules/stat.py:
-    ignored: bpennypacker
-  $modules/unarchive.py:
-    ignored: dagwieers
-    labels: m:unarchive
-    maintainers: pileofrogs
-  $modules/add_host.py:
-    ignored: skvidal
-    maintainers: $team_ansible
-  $modules/get_url.py: ptux
-  $modules/uri.py:
-    ignored: romeotheriault
-    maintainers: $team_ansible
-  $modules/pip.py: Lujeni webknjaz
-  $modules//yum.py:
-    ignored: skvidal
-    maintainers: $team_ansible kustodian
-  $modules/user.py: $team_ansible samdoran
-  $modules/pause.py: samdoran
-  $modules/wait_for.py: gregswift
-  $plugins/cliconf/:
-    labels: networking
-  $plugins/connection/psrp.py: *id001
-  $plugins/connection/winrm.py: *id001
-  $plugins/doc_fragments/url_windows.py:
-    labels: windows
-    maintainers: $team_windows_core
-    support: core
-  $plugins/httpapi:
-    labels: networking
-    maintainers: $team_networking
-    support: network
-  $plugins/netconf/:
-    labels: networking
-    maintainers: $team_networking
-    support: network
-  $plugins/shell/powershell.py: *id001
-  $plugins/terminal/:
-    labels: networking
-  $plugins/terminal/__init__.py:
-    support: network
-  .github/BOTMETA.yml:
-    labels: botmeta
-    support: core
-  docs/:
-    maintainers:
-    - acozine
-  docs/docsite/rst/community/:
-    maintainers:
-    - gundalow
-  docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/:
-    maintainers:
-    - gundalow
-  docs/docsite/rst/network/:
-    labels: networking
-    maintainers:
-    - samccann
-  docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/windows: *id001
-  hacking/report.py:
-    notified: mattclay
-  hacking/shippable/:
-    notified: mattclay
-  lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py:
-    keywords:
-    - persistent connection
-    labels: networking
-  lib/ansible/config/ansible_builtin_runtime.yml:
-    labels: runtime
-    maintainers: gundalow
-  lib/ansible/executor/powershell: *id001
-  lib/ansible/inventory:
-    keywords:
-    - core inventory
-    - inventory
-    - inventory parsing
-  lib/ansible/playbook/handler.py:
-    keywords:
-    - handlers
-  lib/ansible/playbook/role:
-    keywords:
-    - roles path
-    - roles_path
-    - role
-    - role path
-  lib/ansible/playbook/role/include.py:
-    keywords:
-    - include role
-    - include_role
-    - role include
-  lib/ansible/playbook/role/requirement.py:
-    keywords:
-    - role dependencies
-    - role dep
-    - role dependency
-  lib/ansible/release.py:
-    notified: mattclay nitzmahone
-  lib/ansible/template:
-    keywords:
-    - jinja
-    - jinja2
-  lib/ansible/utils/collection_loader.py:
-    notified: mattclay nitzmahone
-  test/integration/targets/incidental_:
-    notified: mattclay
-  test/lib/:
-    notified: mattclay
-  test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules:
-    keywords:
-    - validate-modules
-    notified:
-    - mattclay
-  test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/main.py:
-    notified:
-    - gundalow
-    - sivel
-  test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/schema.py:
-    notified:
-    - gundalow
-    - sivel
-  test/sanity/:
-    notified: mattclay
-  test/sanity/ignore.txt:
-    notified: tremble
-  test/support/:
-    notified: mattclay
-  test/utils/shippable/:
-    notified: mattclay
-macros:
-  module_utils: lib/ansible/module_utils
-  modules: lib/ansible/modules
-  plugins: lib/ansible/plugins
-  team_ansible: []
-  team_networking: Qalthos ganeshrn trishnaguha justjais NilashishC danielmellado rohitthakur2590 GomathiselviS
-  team_windows_core: nitzmahone jborean93

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ body:
     label: Ansible Version
     description: >-
       Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` below, under
-      the prompt line. Please don't wrap it with tripple backticks — your
+      the prompt line. Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
       whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
     render: console
     value: |
@@ -119,15 +119,17 @@ body:
   attributes:
     label: Configuration
     description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed`
-      below, under the prompt line.
-      Please don't wrap it with tripple backticks — your
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all` below, under the prompt line.
+      (if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all')
+      Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
       whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
     render: console
     value: |
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
+      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
     placeholder: |
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
+      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
       DEFAULT_GATHERING(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = smart
       DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['~/src/github/ansible/ansible/hosts']
       DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ~/src/github/ansible/ansible/vault/print-password.sh
@@ -191,7 +193,7 @@ body:
     description: |
       Describe what actually happened. If possible run with extra verbosity (`-vvvv`).
 
-      Paste verbatim command output and don't wrap it with tripple backticks — your
+      Paste verbatim command output and don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
       whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
     render: console
     placeholder: >-

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ body:
 
 
       **HINT:** Did you know the documentation has a `View on GitHub`
-      link on every page? Feel free to use it to start a pull request
+      link on some pages? Feel free to use it to start a pull request
       right from the GitHub UI!
     placeholder: >-
       I was reading the ansible-core documentation of version X and I'm having
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ body:
     label: Ansible Version
     description: >-
       Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` below, under
-      the prompt line. Please don't wrap it with tripple backticks — your
+      the prompt line. Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
       whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
     render: console
     value: |
@@ -129,15 +129,17 @@ body:
   attributes:
     label: Configuration
     description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed`
-      below, under the prompt line.
-      Please don't wrap it with tripple backticks — your
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all` below, under the prompt line.
+      (if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all')
+      Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
       whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
     render: console
     value: |
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
+      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
     placeholder: |
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
+      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
       DEFAULT_GATHERING(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = smart
       DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['~/src/github/ansible/ansible/hosts']
       DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ~/src/github/ansible/ansible/vault/print-password.sh

.github/RELEASE_NAMES.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+- 2.15.0  Ten Years Gone
+- 2.14.0  C'mon Everybody
+- 2.13.0  Nobody's Fault but Mine
 - 2.12.0  Dazed and Confused
 - 2.11.0  Hey Hey, What Can I Do
 - 2.10.0  When the Levee Breaks

.gitignore

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ docs/docsite/rst/cli/ansible-*.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/cli/ansible.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/collections_galaxy_meta.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/index.rst.new
+docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/index.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/modules/*.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/collections/*.rst
 !docs/docsite/rst/collections/all_plugins.rst
@@ -52,12 +53,10 @@ docs/docsite/searchindex.js
 docs/docsite/_static/*.gif
 docs/docsite/_static/*.png
 docs/docsite/_static/websupport.js
-# deb building stuff...
-/debian/
-deb-build
 # Vim swap files
 *.swp
 *.swo
+[._]*.un~
 credentials.yml
 # test output
 *.retry
@@ -74,7 +73,16 @@ coverage.xml
 /test/cache/*
 # Development
 /test/develop
+# Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+env.bak/
+venv.bak/
 venv
+env
 Vagrantfile
 .vagrant
 # Backwards compatibility with `stable-2.9` and earlier branches.

MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,40 +1,11 @@
-include README.rst
 include COPYING
-include SYMLINK_CACHE.json
-include requirements.txt
-recursive-include docs *
-include docs/docsite/rst/collections/all_plugins.rst
-exclude docs/docsite/rst_warnings
-exclude docs/docsite/rst/conf.py
-exclude docs/docsite/rst/index.rst
-recursive-exclude docs/docsite/_build *
-recursive-exclude docs/docsite/_extensions *.pyc *.pyo
-include examples/hosts
-include examples/ansible.cfg
-include examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1
-include examples/scripts/upgrade_to_ps3.ps1
-include lib/ansible/keyword_desc.yml
-recursive-include lib/ansible/executor/powershell *.ps1
-recursive-include lib/ansible/module_utils/csharp *.cs
-recursive-include lib/ansible/module_utils/powershell *.psm1
-recursive-include lib/ansible/modules/windows *.ps1
-recursive-include lib/ansible/galaxy/data *.yml *.j2 README.md ansible.cfg inventory .git_keep
-recursive-include lib/ansible/config *.yml
-recursive-include licenses *.txt
-recursive-include packaging *
-recursive-include test/ansible_test *.py Makefile
-recursive-include test/integration *
-recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/config *.yml *.template
-recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_data *.cfg *.ini *.ps1 *.txt *.yml coveragerc
-recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_util *.cfg *.json *.ps1 *.psd1 *.py *.sh *.txt *.yml
-recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules validate-modules
-recursive-include test/sanity *.json *.py *.txt
-recursive-include test/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs
-exclude test/sanity/code-smell/botmeta.*
-recursive-include test/units *
-include Makefile
-include MANIFEST.in
+include bin/*
 include changelogs/CHANGELOG*.rst
 include changelogs/changelog.yaml
-recursive-include hacking/build_library *.py
-include hacking/build-ansible.py
+include licenses/*.txt
+include requirements.txt
+recursive-include packaging *.py *.j2
+recursive-include test/integration *
+recursive-include test/sanity *.in *.json *.py *.txt
+recursive-include test/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs *.md
+recursive-include test/units *

Makefile

@@ -1,312 +0,0 @@
-# WARN: gmake syntax
-########################################################
-# Makefile for Ansible
-#
-# useful targets:
-#   make clean ---------------- clean up
-#   make webdocs -------------- produce ansible doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
-#   make coredocs ------------- produce core doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
-#   make sdist ---------------- produce a tarball
-#   make deb-src -------------- produce a DEB source
-#   make deb ------------------ produce a DEB
-#   make docs ----------------- rebuild the manpages (results are checked in)
-#   make gettext -------------- produce POT files for docs
-#   make generate-po ---------- generate language specific po file
-#   make needs-translation ---- generate list of file with unstranlated or fuzzy string for a specific language
-#   make tests ---------------- run the tests (see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/testing_units.html for requirements)
-
-########################################################
-# variable section
-
-NAME = ansible-core
-OS = $(shell uname -s)
-PREFIX ?= '/usr/local'
-SDIST_DIR ?= 'dist'
-
-# This doesn't evaluate until it's called. The -D argument is the
-# directory of the target file ($@), kinda like `dirname`.
-MANPAGES ?= $(patsubst %.rst.in,%,$(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1.rst.in))
-ifneq ($(shell which rst2man 2>/dev/null),)
-ASCII2MAN = rst2man $< $@
-else ifneq ($(shell which rst2man.py 2>/dev/null),)
-ASCII2MAN = rst2man.py $< $@
-else
-ASCII2MAN = @echo "ERROR: rst2man from docutils command is not installed but is required to build $(MANPAGES)" && exit 1
-endif
-
-PYTHON ?= python
-GENERATE_CLI = hacking/build-ansible.py generate-man
-
-# fetch version from project release.py as single source-of-truth
-VERSION := $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --raw || echo error)
-ifeq ($(findstring error,$(VERSION)), error)
-$(error "version_helper failed")
-endif
-
-# Get the branch information from git
-ifneq ($(shell which git),)
-GIT_DATE := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ci")
-GIT_HASH := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%h")
-GIT_BRANCH := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | sed 's/[-_.\/]//g')
-GITINFO = .$(GIT_HASH).$(GIT_BRANCH)
-else
-GITINFO = ""
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(shell echo $(OS) | egrep -c 'Darwin|FreeBSD|OpenBSD|DragonFly'),1)
-DATE := $(shell date -j -r $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ct") +%Y%m%d%H%M)
-CPUS ?= $(shell sysctl hw.ncpu|awk '{print $$2}')
-else
-DATE := $(shell date --utc --date="$(GIT_DATE)" +%Y%m%d%H%M)
-CPUS ?= $(shell nproc)
-endif
-
-# Intenationalisation and Localisation
-LANGUAGES ?=
-
-# DEB build parameters
-DEBUILD_BIN ?= debuild
-DEBUILD_OPTS = --source-option="-I"
-DPUT_BIN ?= dput
-DPUT_OPTS ?=
-DEB_DATE := $(shell LC_TIME=C date +"%a, %d %b %Y %T %z")
-DEB_VERSION ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debversion)
-ifeq ($(OFFICIAL),yes)
-    DEB_RELEASE ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debrelease)ppa
-    # Sign OFFICIAL builds using 'DEBSIGN_KEYID'
-    # DEBSIGN_KEYID is required when signing
-    ifneq ($(DEBSIGN_KEYID),)
-        DEBUILD_OPTS += -k$(DEBSIGN_KEYID)
-    endif
-else
-    DEB_RELEASE ?= 100.git$(DATE)$(GITINFO)
-    # Do not sign unofficial builds
-    DEBUILD_OPTS += -uc -us
-    DPUT_OPTS += -u
-endif
-DEBUILD = $(DEBUILD_BIN) $(DEBUILD_OPTS)
-DEB_PPA ?= ppa
-# Choose the desired Ubuntu release: lucid precise saucy trusty
-DEB_DIST ?= unstable
-
-# pbuilder parameters
-PBUILDER_ARCH ?= amd64
-PBUILDER_CACHE_DIR = /var/cache/pbuilder
-PBUILDER_BIN ?= pbuilder
-PBUILDER_OPTS ?= --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd --architecture $(PBUILDER_ARCH) --debbuildopts -b
-
-# ansible-test parameters
-ANSIBLE_TEST ?= bin/ansible-test
-TEST_FLAGS ?=
-
-# ansible-test units parameters (make test / make test-py3)
-PYTHON_VERSION ?= $(shell python2 -c 'import sys; print("%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:2])')
-PYTHON3_VERSION ?= $(shell python3 -c 'import sys; print("%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:2])')
-
-# ansible-test integration parameters (make integration)
-IMAGE ?= centos7
-TARGET ?=
-
-########################################################
-
-.PHONY: all
-all: clean python
-
-.PHONY: tests
-tests:
-	$(ANSIBLE_TEST) units -v --python $(PYTHON_VERSION) $(TEST_FLAGS)
-
-.PHONY: tests-py3
-tests-py3:
-	$(ANSIBLE_TEST) units -v --python $(PYTHON3_VERSION) $(TEST_FLAGS)
-
-.PHONY: integration
-integration:
-	$(ANSIBLE_TEST) integration -v --docker $(IMAGE) $(TARGET) $(TEST_FLAGS)
-
-# Regenerate %.1.rst if %.1.rst.in has been modified more
-# recently than %.1.rst.
-%.1.rst: %.1.rst.in
-	sed "s/%VERSION%/$(VERSION)/" $< > $@
-	rm $<
-
-# Regenerate %.1 if %.1.rst or release.py has been modified more
-# recently than %.1. (Implicitly runs the %.1.rst recipe)
-%.1: %.1.rst lib/ansible/release.py
-	$(ASCII2MAN)
-
-.PHONY: clean
-clean:
-	@echo "Cleaning up distutils stuff"
-	rm -rf build
-	rm -rf dist
-	rm -rf lib/ansible*.egg-info/
-	@echo "Cleaning up byte compiled python stuff"
-	find . -type f -regex ".*\.py[co]$$" -delete
-	find . -type d -name "__pycache__" -delete
-	@echo "Cleaning up editor backup files"
-	find . -type f -not -path ./test/units/inventory_test_data/group_vars/noparse/all.yml~ \( -name "*~" -or -name "#*" \) -delete
-	find . -type f \( -name "*.swp" \) -delete
-	@echo "Cleaning up manpage stuff"
-	find ./docs/man -type f -name "*.xml" -delete
-	find ./docs/man -type f -name "*.rst" -delete
-	find ./docs/man/man3 -type f -name "*.3" -delete
-	rm -f ./docs/man/man1/*
-	@echo "Cleaning up output from test runs"
-	rm -rf test/test_data
-	rm -rf logs/
-	rm -rf .cache/
-	rm -f test/units/.coverage*
-	rm -rf test/results/*/*
-	find test/ -type f -name '*.retry' -delete
-	@echo "Cleaning up symlink cache"
-	rm -f SYMLINK_CACHE.json
-	@echo "Cleaning up Debian building stuff"
-	rm -rf debian
-	rm -rf deb-build
-	rm -rf docs/json
-	rm -rf docs/js
-	@echo "Cleaning up docsite"
-	$(MAKE) -C docs/docsite clean
-
-.PHONY: python
-python:
-	$(PYTHON) setup.py build
-
-.PHONY: install
-install:
-	$(PYTHON) setup.py install
-
-install_manpages:
-	gzip -9 $(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1)
-	cp $(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1.gz) $(PREFIX)/man/man1/
-
-.PHONY: sdist_check
-sdist_check:
-	$(PYTHON) -c 'import setuptools, sys; sys.exit(int(not (tuple(map(int, setuptools.__version__.split("."))) > (39, 2, 0))))'
-	$(PYTHON) packaging/sdist/check-link-behavior.py
-
-.PHONY: sdist
-sdist: sdist_check clean docs
-	_ANSIBLE_SDIST_FROM_MAKEFILE=1 $(PYTHON) setup.py sdist --dist-dir=$(SDIST_DIR)
-
-# Official releases generate the changelog as the last commit before the release.
-# Snapshots shouldn't result in new checkins so the changelog is generated as
-# part of creating the tarball.
-.PHONY: snapshot
-snapshot: sdist_check clean docs changelog
-	_ANSIBLE_SDIST_FROM_MAKEFILE=1 $(PYTHON) setup.py sdist --dist-dir=$(SDIST_DIR)
-
-.PHONY: sdist_upload
-sdist_upload: clean docs
-	$(PYTHON) setup.py sdist upload 2>&1 |tee upload.log
-
-.PHONY: changelog
-changelog:
-	PYTHONPATH=./lib antsibull-changelog release -vv --use-ansible-doc && PYTHONPATH=./lib antsibull-changelog generate -vv --use-ansible-doc
-
-.PHONY: debian
-debian: sdist
-	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
-	    mkdir -p deb-build/$${DIST} ; \
-	    tar -C deb-build/$${DIST} -xvf dist/$(NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.gz ; \
-	    cp -a packaging/debian deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ ; \
-        sed -ie "s|%VERSION%|$(DEB_VERSION)|g;s|%RELEASE%|$(DEB_RELEASE)|;s|%DIST%|$${DIST}|g;s|%DATE%|$(DEB_DATE)|g" deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/debian/changelog ; \
-	done
-
-.PHONY: deb
-deb: deb-src
-	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
-	    PBUILDER_OPTS="$(PBUILDER_OPTS) --distribution $${DIST} --basetgz $(PBUILDER_CACHE_DIR)/$${DIST}-$(PBUILDER_ARCH)-base.tgz --buildresult $(CURDIR)/deb-build/$${DIST}" ; \
-	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) create $${PBUILDER_OPTS} --othermirror "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $${DIST} universe" ; \
-	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) update $${PBUILDER_OPTS} ; \
-	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) build $${PBUILDER_OPTS} deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}.dsc ; \
-	done
-	@echo "#############################################"
-	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
-	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
-	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_amd64.changes ; \
-	done
-	@echo "#############################################"
-
-# Build package outside of pbuilder, with locally installed dependencies.
-# Install BuildRequires as noted in packaging/debian/control.
-.PHONY: local_deb
-local_deb: debian
-	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
-	    (cd deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ && $(DEBUILD) -b) ; \
-	done
-	@echo "#############################################"
-	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
-	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
-	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_amd64.changes ; \
-	done
-	@echo "#############################################"
-
-.PHONY: deb-src
-deb-src: debian
-	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
-	    (cd deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ && $(DEBUILD) -S) ; \
-	done
-	@echo "#############################################"
-	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
-	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
-	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_source.changes ; \
-	done
-	@echo "#############################################"
-
-.PHONY: deb-upload
-deb-upload: deb
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+[![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ansible-core.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core)
+[![Docs badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/)
+[![Chat badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-IRC-brightgreen.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=devel)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_build/latest?definitionId=20&branchName=devel)
+[![Ansible Code of Conduct](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20of%20conduct-Ansible-silver.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html)
+[![Ansible mailing lists](https://img.shields.io/badge/mailing%20lists-Ansible-orange.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html#mailing-list-information)
+[![Repository License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL%20v3.0-brightgreen.svg)](COPYING)
+[![Ansible CII Best Practices certification](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372)
+
+# Ansible
+
+Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles
+configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning,
+ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex
+changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy. More information on the Ansible [website](https://ansible.com/).
+
+## Design Principles
+
+* Have an extremely simple setup process with a minimal learning curve.
+* Manage machines quickly and in parallel.
+* Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by
+  leveraging the existing SSH daemon.
+* Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human
+  friendly.
+* Focus on security and easy auditability/review/rewriting of content.
+* Manage new remote machines instantly, without bootstrapping any
+  software.
+* Allow module development in any dynamic language, not just Python.
+* Be usable as non-root.
+* Be the easiest IT automation system to use, ever.
+
+## Use Ansible
+
+You can install a released version of Ansible with `pip` or a package manager. See our
+[installation guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html) for details on installing Ansible
+on a variety of platforms.
+
+Power users and developers can run the `devel` branch, which has the latest
+features and fixes, directly. Although it is reasonably stable, you are more likely to encounter
+breaking changes when running the `devel` branch. We recommend getting involved
+in the Ansible community if you want to run the `devel` branch.
+
+## Get Involved
+
+* Read [Community Information](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community) for all
+  kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project,
+  including mailing list information and how to submit bug reports and
+  code to Ansible.
+* Join a [Working Group](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki),
+  an organized community devoted to a specific technology domain or platform.
+* Submit a proposed code update through a pull request to the `devel` branch.
+* Talk to us before making larger changes
+  to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps everyone
+  know what is going on, but it also helps save time and effort if we decide
+  some changes are needed.
+* For a list of email lists, IRC channels and Working Groups, see the
+  [Communication page](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html)
+
+## Coding Guidelines
+
+We document our Coding Guidelines in the [Developer Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/). We particularly suggest you review:
+
+* [Contributing your module to Ansible](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_checklist.html)
+* [Conventions, tips, and pitfalls](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_best_practices.html)
+
+## Branch Info
+
+* The `devel` branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
+* The `stable-2.X` branches correspond to stable releases.
+* Create a branch based on `devel` and set up a [dev environment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html#common-environment-setup) if you want to open a PR.
+* See the [Ansible release and maintenance](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html) page for information about active branches.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+Based on team and community feedback, an initial roadmap will be published for a major or minor version (ex: 2.7, 2.8).
+The [Ansible Roadmap page](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/) details what is planned and how to influence the roadmap.
+
+## Authors
+
+Ansible was created by [Michael DeHaan](https://github.com/mpdehaan)
+and has contributions from over 5000 users (and growing). Thanks everyone!
+
+[Ansible](https://www.ansible.com) is sponsored by [Red Hat, Inc.](https://www.redhat.com)
+
+## License
+
+GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
+
+See [COPYING](COPYING) to see the full text.

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-|PyPI version| |Docs badge| |Chat badge| |Build Status| |Code Of Conduct| |Mailing Lists| |License| |CII Best Practices|
-
-*******
-Ansible
-*******
-
-Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles
-configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning,
-ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex
-changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy. More information on the Ansible `website <https://ansible.com/>`_.
-
-Design Principles
-=================
-
-*  Have an extremely simple setup process with a minimal learning curve.
-*  Manage machines quickly and in parallel.
-*  Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by
-   leveraging the existing SSH daemon.
-*  Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human
-   friendly.
-*  Focus on security and easy auditability/review/rewriting of content.
-*  Manage new remote machines instantly, without bootstrapping any
-   software.
-*  Allow module development in any dynamic language, not just Python.
-*  Be usable as non-root.
-*  Be the easiest IT automation system to use, ever.
-
-Use Ansible
-===========
-
-You can install a released version of Ansible with ``pip`` or a package manager. See our
-`installation guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html>`_ for details on installing Ansible
-on a variety of platforms.
-
-Red Hat offers supported builds of `Ansible Engine <https://www.ansible.com/ansible-engine>`_.
-
-Power users and developers can run the ``devel`` branch, which has the latest
-features and fixes, directly. Although it is reasonably stable, you are more likely to encounter
-breaking changes when running the ``devel`` branch. We recommend getting involved
-in the Ansible community if you want to run the ``devel`` branch.
-
-Get Involved
-============
-
-*  Read `Community
-   Information <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community>`_ for all
-   kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project,
-   including mailing list information and how to submit bug reports and
-   code to Ansible.
-*  Join a `Working Group
-   <https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki>`_, an organized community devoted to a specific technology domain or platform.
-*  Submit a proposed code update through a pull request to the ``devel`` branch.
-*  Talk to us before making larger changes
-   to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps everyone
-   know what is going on, but it also helps save time and effort if we decide
-   some changes are needed.
-*  For a list of email lists, IRC channels and Working Groups, see the
-   `Communication page <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html>`_
-
-Coding Guidelines
-=================
-
-We document our Coding Guidelines in the `Developer Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/>`_. We particularly suggest you review:
-
-* `Contributing your module to Ansible <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_checklist.html>`_
-* `Conventions, tips, and pitfalls <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_best_practices.html>`_
-
-Branch Info
-===========
-
-*  The ``devel`` branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
-*  The ``stable-2.X`` branches correspond to stable releases.
-*  Create a branch based on ``devel`` and set up a `dev environment <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html#common-environment-setup>`_ if you want to open a PR.
-*  See the `Ansible release and maintenance <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html>`_ page for information about active branches.
-
-Roadmap
-=======
-
-Based on team and community feedback, an initial roadmap will be published for a major or minor version (ex: 2.7, 2.8).
-The `Ansible Roadmap page <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/>`_ details what is planned and how to influence the roadmap.
-
-Authors
-=======
-
-Ansible was created by `Michael DeHaan <https://github.com/mpdehaan>`_
-and has contributions from over 5000 users (and growing). Thanks everyone!
-
-`Ansible <https://www.ansible.com>`_ is sponsored by `Red Hat, Inc.
-<https://www.redhat.com>`_
-
-License
-=======
-
-GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
-
-See `COPYING <COPYING>`_ to see the full text.
-
-.. |PyPI version| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ansible-core.svg
-   :target: https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core
-.. |Docs badge| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg
-   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/
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-   :target: https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_build/latest?definitionId=20&branchName=devel
-.. |Chat badge| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-IRC-brightgreen.svg
-   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html
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-   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html
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-   :target: COPYING
-   :alt: Repository License
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-   :target: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372
-   :alt: Ansible CII Best Practices certification

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+================================================
+ansible-core 2.15 "Ten Years Gone" Release Notes
+================================================
+
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+
+v2.15.6
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-11-06
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - Windows 2012 and 2012-R2 instances are now requested from Azure instead of AWS.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix ``run_once`` being incorrectly interpreted on handlers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81666)
+- Plugin loader does not dedupe nor cache filter/test plugins by file basename, but full path name.
+- Properly template tags in parent blocks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81053)
+- Restoring the ability of filters/tests can have same file base name but different tests/filters defined inside.
+- ``import_role`` reverts to previous behavior of exporting vars at compile time.
+- ansible-galaxy - Provide a better error message when using a requirements file with an invalid format - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81901
+- ansible-inventory - index available_hosts for major performance boost when dumping large inventories
+- ansible-test - Fix parsing of cgroup entries which contain a ``:`` in the path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81977).
+
+v2.15.5
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-10-09
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-galaxy dependency resolution messages have changed the unexplained 'virtual' collection for the specific type ('scm', 'dir', etc) that is more user friendly
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- ansible-galaxy - Prevent roles from using symlinks to overwrite files outside of the installation directory (CVE-2023-5115)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Allow for searching handler subdir for included task via include_role (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81722)
+- PluginLoader - fix Jinja plugin performance issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79652)
+- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - ensure binary data transmission in ``daemonize()``
+- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - fix inter-process communication in ``daemonize()``
+- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for collections that do not have any stable versions published. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
+- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for dependencies on any level of the dependency tree that specifically demand exact pre-release versions of collections and not version ranges. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
+- ansible-galaxy error on dependency resolution will not error itself due to 'virtual' collections not having a name/namespace.
+- ansible-galaxy info - fix reporting no role found when lookup_role_by_name returns None.
+- role deduplication - don't deduplicate before a role has had a task run for that particular host (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81486).
+- uri/urls - Add compat function to handle the ability to parse the filename from a Content-Disposition header (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81806)
+- winrm - Better handle send input failures when communicating with hosts under load
+
+v2.15.4
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-09-11
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
+
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- vault and unfault filters - the undocumented ``vaultid`` parameter is deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core 2.20. Use ``vault_id`` instead.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- PowerShell - Remove some code which is no longer valid for dotnet 5+
+- Prompting - add a short sleep between polling for user input to reduce CPU consumption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81516).
+- ansible-galaxy - Enabled the ``data`` tarfile filter during role installation for Python versions that support it. A probing mechanism is used to avoid Python versions with a broken implementation.
+- ansible-test - Always use ansible-test managed entry points for ansible-core CLI tools when not running from source. This fixes issues where CLI entry points created during install are not compatible with ansible-test.
+- first found lookup has been updated to use the normalized argument parsing (pythonic) matching the documented examples.
+- handlers - the ``listen`` keyword can affect only one handler with the same name, the last one defined as it is a case with the ``notify`` keyword (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81013)
+- include_role - expose variables from parent roles to role's handlers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80459)
+- tarfile - handle data filter deprecation warning message for extract and extractall (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80832).
+- vault and unvault filters now properly take ``vault_id`` parameter.
+
+v2.15.3
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-08-14
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Removed ``exclude`` and ``recursive-exclude`` commands for generated files from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These excludes were unnecessary since releases are expected to be built with a clean worktree.
+- Removed ``exclude`` commands for sanity test files from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These tests were previously excluded because they did not pass when run from an sdist. However, sanity tests are not expected to pass from an sdist, so excluding some (but not all) of the failing tests makes little sense.
+- Removed redundant ``include`` commands from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These includes either duplicated default behavior or another command.
+- The ``ansible-core`` sdist no longer contains pre-generated man pages. Instead, a ``packaging/cli-doc/build.py`` script is included in the sdist. This script can generate man pages and standalone RST documentation for ``ansible-core`` CLI programs.
+- The ``docs`` and ``examples`` directories are no longer included in the ``ansible-core`` sdist. These directories have been moved to the https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation repository.
+- Use ``include`` where ``recursive-include`` is unnecessary in the ``MANIFEST.in`` file.
+- ansible-test - Update the logic used to detect when ``ansible-test`` is running from source.
+- ansible-test - Updated the CloudStack test container to version 1.6.1.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Exclude internal options from man pages and docs.
+- Fix ``ansible-config init`` man page option indentation.
+- The ``ansible-config init`` command now has a documentation description.
+- The ``ansible-galaxy collection download`` command now has a documentation description.
+- The ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` command documentation is now visible (previously hidden by a decorator).
+- The ``ansible-galaxy collection verify`` command now has a documentation description.
+- The ``ansible-galaxy role install`` command documentation is now visible (previously hidden by a decorator).
+- The ``ansible-inventory`` command command now has a documentation description (previously used as the epilog).
+- Update module_utils.urls unit test to work with cryptography >= 41.0.0.
+- When generating man pages, use ``func`` to find the command function instead of looking it up by the command name.
+- ``ansible-galaxy`` now considers all collection paths when identifying which collection requirements are already installed. Use the ``COLLECTIONS_PATHS`` and ``COLLECTIONS_SCAN_SYS_PATHS`` config options to modify these. Previously only the install path was considered when resolving the candidates. The install path will remain the only one potentially modified. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79767, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81163)
+- ansible-test - Fix several possible tracebacks when using the ``-e`` option with sanity tests.
+- ansible-test - Pre-build a PyYAML wheel before installing requirements to avoid a potential Cython build failure.
+- ansible-test - Remove redundant warning about missing programs before attempting to execute them.
+- core will now also look at the connection plugin to force 'local' interpreter for networking path compatibility as just ansible_network_os could be misleading.
+- man page build - Sub commands of ``ansible-galaxy role`` and ``ansible-galaxy collection`` are now documented.
+- password_hash - fix salt format for ``crypt``  (only used if ``passlib`` is not installed) for the ``bcrypt`` algorithm.
+- urls.py - fixed cert_file and key_file parameters when running on Python 3.12 - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80490
+
+v2.15.2
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-07-18
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Utilize gpg check provided internally by the ``transaction.run`` method as oppose to calling it manually.
+- ansible-test - Add Fedora 38 remote.
+- ansible-test - Use a context manager to perform cleanup at exit instead of using the built-in ``atexit`` module.
+- dnf5 - enable environment groups installation testing in CI as its support was added.
+- dnf5 - enable now implemented ``cacheonly`` functionality
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- From issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80880, when notifying a handler from another handler, handler notifications must be registered immediately as the flush_handler call is not recursive.
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix issue installing collections containing directories with more than 100 characters on python versions before 3.10.6
+- paramiko_ssh, psrp, and ssh connection plugins - ensure that all values for options that should be strings are actually converted to strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81029).
+- templating - In the template action and lookup, use local jinja2 environment overlay overrides instead of mutating the templars environment
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- ansible-test - The Fedora 37 remote is known to occasionally hang during boot. It is no longer routinely tested as a result. If possible, use the Fedora 38 remote instead.
+
+v2.15.1
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-06-20
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - Allow float values for the ``--timeout`` option to the ``env`` command. This simplifies testing.
+- ansible-test - Refactored ``env`` command logic and timeout handling.
+- ansible-test - Use ``datetime.datetime.now`` with ``tz`` specified instead of ``datetime.datetime.utcnow``.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Properly disable ``jinja2_native`` in the template module when jinja2 override is used in the template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80605)
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix variable type error when installing subdir collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80943)
+- ansible-test - Fix a traceback that occurs when attempting to test Ansible source using a different ansible-test. A clear error message is now given when this scenario occurs.
+- ansible-test - Fix handling of timeouts exceeding one day.
+- ansible-test - Fix various cases where the test timeout could expire without terminating the tests.
+- ansible-test local change detection - use ``git merge-base <branch> HEAD`` instead of ``git merge-base --fork-point <branch>`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79734).
+- deb822_repository - use http-agent for receiving content (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80809).
+- dnf5 - Update dnf5 module to handle API change for setting the download directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80887)
+- man page build - Remove the dependency on the ``docs`` directory for building man pages.
+- pep517 build backend - Copy symlinks when copying the source tree. This avoids tracebacks in various scenarios, such as when a venv is present in the source tree.
+- uri - fix search for JSON type to include complex strings containing '+'
+
+v2.15.0
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-05-15
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
+
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - Docker Desktop on WSL2 is now supported (additional configuration required).
+- ansible-test - Docker and Podman are now supported on hosts with cgroup v2 unified. Previously only cgroup v1 and cgroup v2 hybrid were supported.
+- ansible-test - Podman now works on container hosts without systemd. Previously only some containers worked, while others required rootfull or rootless Podman, but would not work with both. Some containers did not work at all.
+- ansible-test - Podman on WSL2 is now supported.
+- ansible-test - When additional cgroup setup is required on the container host, this will be automatically detected. Instructions on how to configure the host will be provided in the error message shown.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Add support for custom salt for vault encoding to make it deterministic (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35480).
+- Added the conditional that was False if ``when`` caused a task to skip under ``false_condition``.
+- Allow force deletion of a group even when it is the primary group of a user. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77849)
+- Ansible.ModuleUtils.AddType - Add support for compiling ``unsafe`` code with the ``//AllowUnsafe`` directive
+- Cache field attributes list on the playbook classes
+- Cleaned up unused imports in core.
+- Get user input for ``pause`` and ``paramiko_ssh`` from the strategy rather than access ``sys.stdin`` in the WorkerProcess.
+- Introduce ``Delegatable`` and ``Notifiable`` mixin classes for playbook objects
+- Make using blocks as handlers a parser error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79968)
+- Playbook objects - Replace deprecated stacked ``@classmethod`` and ``@property``
+- Raise an error when an incorrect ``isa`` type is passed to ``FieldAttribute``.
+- Remove fallback code for when ``defined``/``undefined`` tests were used on objects containing nested undefined variables; due to changes in lazy evalution of Jinja2 expressions it is no longer needed.
+- Remove unused Python stdlib imports from module_utils which were not present for backwards compatibility in: common.file, compat.selectors, facts.network.iscsi, facts.network.nvme, yumdnf
+- Remove unused internal imports from module_utils which were not present for backwards compatibility in: common.file, common.parameters, facts.system.caps, yumdnf
+- Removed ``straight.plugin`` from the build and packaging requirements.
+- Removed unused imports from the following action plugins: async_status, command, pause, set_stats, uri, validate_argument_spec
+- Removed unused imports from the following lookup plugins: fileglob, template
+- Removed unused imports from the following modules: apt, dnf, expect, pip, slurp, user, yum
+- Removed unused imports from the following set of test plugins: files
+- Removed unused imports from the following strategy plugins: debug
+- Removed unused imports from the following vars plugins: host_group_vars
+- The minimum required ``setuptools`` version is now 45.2.0, as it is the oldest version to support Python 3.10.
+- Use ``ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat`` in modules and module_utils.
+- Use ``collections.abc`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat`` in controller code.
+- Use ``package_data`` instead of ``include_package_data`` for ``setup.cfg`` to avoid ``setuptools`` warnings.
+- ``AnsibleJ2Vars`` class that acts as a storage for all variables for templating purposes now uses ``collections.ChainMap`` internally.
+- add parameter ``numeric`` to the iptables module to disable dns lookups when running list -action internally (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78793).
+- allow user to set ansible specific env vars for selecting pager and editor, but still fall back to commonly used defaults.
+- ansible-doc - support role extension for semantic markup spec so that ``O()`` and ``RV()`` referring to role entrypoints are rendered more readable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80305).
+- ansible-doc - support semantic markup in text output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80242).
+- ansible-doc text output - support ``seealso`` plugin record that was added for filter and test plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80212).
+- ansible-galaxy - Add ability to specify collection versions on the CLI without the need for a colon. Such as ``namespace.name==1.2.3`` vs ``namespace.name:1.2.3``.
+- ansible-galaxy - Use Python's native ``raise ... from`` instead of ``six.raise_from``.
+- ansible-galaxy - support ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 0.10.0``.
+- ansible-galaxy - support ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 1.1.0``.
+- ansible-inventory now supports the limit command line options.
+- ansible-test - A new ``audit`` option is available when running custom containers. This option can be used to indicate whether a container requires the AUDIT_WRITE capability. The default is ``required``, which most containers will need when using Podman. If necessary, the ``none`` option can be used to opt-out of the capability. This has no effect on Docker, which always provides the capability.
+- ansible-test - A new ``cgroup`` option is available when running custom containers. This option can be used to indicate a container requires cgroup v1 or that it does not use cgroup. The default behavior assumes the container works with cgroup v2 (as well as v1).
+- ansible-test - Add Alpine 3.17 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add Fedora 37 container.
+- ansible-test - Add Fedora 37 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add FreeBSD 12.4 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add RHEL 8.7 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add RHEL 9.1 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add macOS 13.2 remote.
+- ansible-test - Additional log details are shown when containers fail to start or SSH connections to containers fail.
+- ansible-test - Connection failures to remote provisioned hosts now show failure details as a warning.
+- ansible-test - Containers included with ansible-test no longer disable seccomp by default.
+- ansible-test - Disabled the ``ansible-format-automatic-specification`` rule from the ``pylint`` sanity test, now that Python 2.6 is no longer supported.
+- ansible-test - Enable the ``trailing-comma-tuple`` rule in the ``pylint`` sanity test.
+- ansible-test - Enable the ``unused-import`` rule for the ``pylint`` sanity test for collections.
+- ansible-test - Failure to connect to a container over SSH now results in a clear error. Previously tests would be attempted even after initial connection attempts failed.
+- ansible-test - Improve consistency of executed ``pylint`` commands by making the plugins ordered.
+- ansible-test - Improve consistency of version specific documentation links.
+- ansible-test - Integration tests can be excluded from retries triggered by the ``--retry-on-error`` option by adding the ``retry/never`` alias. This is useful for tests that cannot pass on a retry or are too slow to make retries useful.
+- ansible-test - Minor cleanup and package updates in distro containers.
+- ansible-test - More details are provided about an instance when provisioning fails.
+- ansible-test - Moved git handling out of the validate-modules sanity test and into ansible-test.
+- ansible-test - Reduce the polling limit for SSHD startup in containers from 60 retries to 10. The one second delay between retries remains in place.
+- ansible-test - Removed test containers: fedora36
+- ansible-test - Removed test remotes: alpine/3.16, fedora/36, freebsd/12.3, rhel/8.6, rhel/9.0, macos/12.0
+- ansible-test - Removed the ``--keep-git`` sanity test option, which was limited to testing ansible-core itself.
+- ansible-test - SSH connections from OpenSSH 8.8+ to CentOS 6 containers now work without additional configuration. However, clients older than OpenSSH 7.0 can no longer connect to CentOS 6 containers as a result. The container must have ``centos6`` in the image name for this work-around to be applied.
+- ansible-test - SSH shell connections from OpenSSH 8.8+ to ansible-test provisioned network instances now work without additional configuration. However, clients older than OpenSSH 7.0 can no longer open shell sessions for ansible-test provisioned network instances as a result.
+- ansible-test - Specify the configuration file location required by test plugins when the config file is not found. This resolves issue: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79411
+- ansible-test - The ``ansible-test env`` command now detects and reports the container ID if running in a container.
+- ansible-test - The ``pep8`` sanity test rule ``E203`` is now disabled since it is not PEP 8 compliant. This provides compatibility with output generated by the ``black`` code formatter.
+- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test no longer limits the ``__future__`` imports that can be used. Other sanity tests that check ``__future__`` imports remain unchanged. As a result, the error code ``illegal-future-imports`` is no longer used.
+- ansible-test - Unit tests now support network disconnect by default when running under Podman. Previously this feature only worked by default under Docker.
+- ansible-test - Update Alpine 3 container to 3.17.
+- ansible-test - Update Python requirements used for sanity tests.
+- ansible-test - Update ``base`` and ``default`` containers to include Python 3.11.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to include new ``docs-build`` sanity test requirements.
+- ansible-test - Update error handling code to use Python 3.x constructs, avoiding direct use of ``errno``.
+- ansible-test - Update test container to ``7.4.0`` which includes the new PSScriptAnalyzer versions
+- ansible-test - Update the CloudStack test plugin to use a newer test container with CloudStack 4.18.0.
+- ansible-test - Update the NIOS test plugin to use a newer multi-arch test container.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``ansible-bad-import-from`` rule in the ``pylint`` sanity test to recommend ``ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat``.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` test containers with the latest requirements.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to include the ``package-data`` requirements update.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to include the ``pylint`` requirements update.
+- ansible-test - Updated the Azure Pipelines CI plugin to work with newer versions of git.
+- ansible-test - Use ``stop --time 0`` followed by ``rm`` to remove ephemeral containers instead of ``rm -f``. This speeds up teardown of ephemeral containers.
+- ansible-test - Warnings are now shown when using containers that were built with VOLUME instructions.
+- ansible-test - When setting the max open files for containers, the container host's limit will be checked. If the host limit is lower than the preferred value, it will be used and a warning will be shown.
+- ansible-test - When using Podman, ansible-test will detect if the loginuid used in containers is incorrect. When this occurs a warning is displayed and the container is run with the AUDIT_CONTROL capability. Previously containers would fail under this situation, with no useful warnings or errors given.
+- ansible-test acme test container - update version to update used Pebble version, underlying Python and Go base containers, and Python requirements (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79783).
+- ansible-test pslint - Upgrade PSScriptAnalyzer to ``1.21.0`` which enables the ``AvoidMultipleTypeAttributes``, ``AvoidSemicolonsAsLineTerminators``, and ``AvoidUsingBrokenHashAlgorithms`` rules
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata sanity test - ensure that ``redirect`` entries in ``meta/runtime.yml`` contain collection names, except for ``module_utils`` plugin redirects and ``import_redirect`` redirects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78802).
+- ansible-test sanity --test ansible-doc - now also lists documentation for test and filter plugins that are documented (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77737).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - Added support for validating module documentation stored in a sidecar file alongside the module (``{module}.yml`` or ``{module}.yaml``). Previously these files were ignored and documentation had to be placed in ``{module}.py``.
+- ansible-test validate-modules - no longer treat falsy non-``False`` values for defaults as ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79267).
+- apt - add allow-change-held-packages option to apt remove (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78131)
+- apt_repository - adds ``sources_added`` and ``sources_removed`` to the return of the module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79306).
+- apt_repository will use the trust repo directories in order of preference (more appropriate to less) as they exist on the target.
+- collections - Add additional ignores for commonly rejected file extensions
+- collections - Add additional includes for REUSE license files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79368)
+- deb822_repository - Add new module for managing DEB822 formatted apt repositories
+- debug - Perform argspec valdiation in debug action plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79862)
+- dnf5 - Add new module for managing packages and other artifacts via the next version of DNF (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78898)
+- galaxy - include ``license_file`` in the default manifest directives (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull-request/79420)
+- optimized var loading by caching results as there is no variance in input during run.
+- pycompat24 module_utils - Remove support for Python 2.5 and earlier.
+- sanity tests - updates the collection-deprecated-version tests to ignore the ``prerelease`` component of the collection version ().
+- strftime filter, additional docs and links to source of truth.
+- updated the vendored distro library to upstream version (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79227)
+- validate-modules sanity test - add support for semantic markup (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80243).
+- validate-modules sanity test - if the ``check_mode`` attribute is present, check that it coincides with the ``support_check_mode`` parameter of ``AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80090).
+- validate-modules sanity test - remove support for the never implemented ``forced_action_plugin`` attribute (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79317).
+- validate-modules sanity test - support the ``plugin`` see-also part of the semantic markup specification (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80244).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- ansible-doc - no longer treat plugins in collections whose name starts with ``_`` as deprecated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79362).
+- ansible-test - Integration tests which depend on specific file permissions when running in an ansible-test managed host environment may require changes. Tests that require permissions other than ``755`` or ``644`` may need to be updated to set the necessary permissions as part of the test run.
+- ansible-test - The ``vcenter`` test plugin now defaults to using a user-provided static configuration instead of the ``govcsim`` simulator for collections. Set the ``ANSIBLE_VCSIM_CONTAINER`` environment variable to ``govcsim`` to use the simulator. Keep in mind that the simulator is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
+- ansible-test sanity - previously plugins and modules in collections whose name started with ``_`` were treated as deprecated, even when they were not marked as deprecated in ``meta/runtime.yml``. This is no longer the case (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79362).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - Removed the ``missing-python-doc`` error code in validate modules, ``missing-documentation`` is used instead for missing PowerShell module documentation.
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- The ``ConnectionBase()._new_stdin`` attribute is deprecated, use ``display.prompt_until(msg)`` instead.
+- ansible-test - The ``foreman`` test plugin is now deprecated. It will be removed in a future release.
+- ansible-test - The ``govcsim`` simulator in the ``vcenter`` test plugin is now deprecated. It will be removed in a future release. Users should switch to providing their own test environment through a static configuration file.
+- password_hash - deprecate using passlib.hash.hashtype if hashtype isn't in the list of documented choices.
+- vars - Specifying a list of dictionaries for ``vars:`` is deprecated in favor of specifying a dictionary.
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- Remove deprecated ``ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_WHITELIST`` configuration environment variable, use ``ANSIBLE_CALLBACKS_ENABLED`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78821)
+- Remove deprecated ``ANSIBLE_COW_WHITELIST`` configuration environment variable, use ``ANSIBLE_COW_ACCEPTLIST`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78819)
+- Remove deprecated ``callback_whitelist`` configuration option, use ``callbacks_enabled`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78822)
+- Remove deprecated ``cow_whitelist`` configuration option, use ``cowsay_enabled_stencils`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78820)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Ansible.Basic.cs - Ignore compiler warning (reported as an error) when running under PowerShell 7.3.x.
+- AnsibleModule.run_command - Only use selectors when needed, and rely on Python stdlib subprocess for the simple task of collecting stdout/stderr when prompt matching is not required.
+- BSD network facts - Do not assume column indexes, look for ``netmask`` and ``broadcast`` for determining the correct columns when parsing ``inet`` line (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79117)
+- Correctly count rescued tasks in play recap (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79711)
+- Display - Defensively configure writing to stdout and stderr with a custom encoding error handler that will replace invalid characters while providing a deprecation warning that non-utf8 text will result in an error in a future version.
+- Do not crash when templating an expression with a test or filter that is not a valid Ansible filter name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78912, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78913).
+- Fix ``MANIFEST.in`` to exclude unwanted files in the ``packaging/`` directory.
+- Fix ``MANIFEST.in`` to include ``*.md`` files in the ``test/support/`` directory.
+- Fix a traceback occuring when a task is named ``meta`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79459)
+- Fix an issue where the value of ``become`` was ignored when used on a role used as a dependency in ``main/meta.yml`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79777)
+- Fix bug in `vars` applied to roles, they were being incorrectly exported among others while only vars/main.yml was meant to be. Also adjusted the precedence to act the same as inline params.
+- Fix conditionally notifying ``include_tasks` handlers when ``force_handlers`` is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79776)
+- Fix post-validating looped task fields so the strategy uses the correct values after task execution.
+- Fix reusing a connection in a task loop that uses a redirected or aliased name - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78425
+- Fix setting become activation in a task loop - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78425
+- Fix traceback when using the ``template`` module and running with ``ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79763)
+- Fix using ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` in conjunction with collections in requirements files which specify a specific ``source`` that isn't in the configured servers.
+- Fix using ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` when downloading tarballs from Galaxy servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79557).
+- Fixes leftover _valid_attrs usage.
+- Fixes the password lookup to not rewrite files if they are not changed when using the "encrypt" parameter (#79430).
+- Module and role argument validation - include the valid suboption choices in the error when an invalid suboption is provided.
+- Perform type check on data passed to Display.display to enforce the requirement of being given a python3 unicode string
+- Prevent running same handler multiple times when included via ``include_role`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73643)
+- TaskExecutor - don't ignore templated _raw_params that k=v parser failed to parse (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79862)
+- Windows - Display a warning if the module failed to cleanup any temporary files rather than failing the task. The warning contains a brief description of what failed to be deleted.
+- Windows - Ensure the module temp directory contains more unique values to avoid conflicts with concurrent runs - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80294
+- Windows - Improve temporary file cleanup used by modules. Will use a more reliable delete operation on Windows Server 2016 and newer to delete files that might still be open by other software like Anti Virus scanners. There are still scenarios where a file or directory cannot be deleted but the new method should work in more scenarios.
+- ``ansible-galaxy search rolename`` - give a warning instead of non-zero return code when search results are empty. This is similar to the behavior when listing roles, which gives a warning if a role cannot be found and exits with a return code of ``0``.
+- ``ansible_eval_concat`` - avoid redundant unsafe wrapping of templated strings converted to Python types
+- ``pkg_mgr`` - fix the default dnf version detection
+- ansible-config limit shorthand format to assigned values
+- ansible-doc - stop generating wrong module URLs for module see-alsos. The URLs for modules in ansible.builtin do now work, and URLs for modules outside ansible.builtin are no longer added (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80280).
+- ansible-doc now will correctly display short descriptions on listing filters/tests no matter the directory sorting.
+- ansible-galaxy - Improve retries for collection installs, to properly retry, and extend retry logic to common URL related connection errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80170 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80174)
+- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections from directories that have a trailing path separator (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77803).
+- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections in git repositories/directories which contain a MANIFEST.json file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79796).
+- ansible-galaxy - fix installing signed collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80648).
+- ansible-galaxy - make initial call to Galaxy server on-demand only when installing, getting info about, and listing roles.
+- ansible-galaxy - reduce API calls to servers by fetching signatures only for final candidates.
+- ansible-galaxy collection install - respect symlinks when installing from source or local repository (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78442)
+- ansible-galaxy collection verify - fix verifying signed collections when the keyring is not configured.
+- ansible-galaxy collection/role init - preserve symlinks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39334).
+- ansible-galaxy role info - fix unhandled AttributeError by catching the correct exception.
+- ansible-inventory will no longer duplicate host entries if they were part of a group's childrens tree.
+- ansible-inventory will not explicitly sort groups/hosts anymore, giving a chance (depending on output format) to match the order in the input sources.
+- ansible-playbook -K breaks when passwords have quotes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79836).
+- ansible-test - Add ``wheel < 0.38.0`` constraint for Python 3.6 and earlier.
+- ansible-test - Add support for ``argcomplete`` version 3.
+- ansible-test - Add support for ``pytest`` assertion rewriting when running unit tests on Python 3.5 and later. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68032
+- ansible-test - Added a work-around for a traceback under Python 3.11 when completing certain command line options.
+- ansible-test - Allow disabled, unsupported, unstable and destructive integration test targets to be selected using their respective prefixes.
+- ansible-test - Allow unstable tests to run when targeted changes are made and the ``--allow-unstable-changed`` option is specified (resolves https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74213).
+- ansible-test - Always indicate the Python version being used before installing requirements. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72855
+- ansible-test - Avoid using ``exec`` after container startup when possible. This improves container startup performance and avoids intermittent startup issues with some old containers.
+- ansible-test - Connection attempts to managed remote instances no longer abort on ``Permission denied`` errors.
+- ansible-test - Detection for running in a Podman or Docker container has been fixed to detect more scenarios. The new detection relies on ``/proc/self/mountinfo`` instead of ``/proc/self/cpuset``. Detection now works with custom cgroups and private cgroup namespaces.
+- ansible-test - Exclude ansible-core vendored Python packages from ansible-test payloads.
+- ansible-test - Fix broken documentation link for ``aws`` test plugin error messages.
+- ansible-test - Fix validate-modules error when retrieving PowerShell argspec when retrieved inside a Cmdlet
+- ansible-test - Handle server errors when executing the ``docker info`` command.
+- ansible-test - Integration test target prefixes defined in a ``tests/integration/target-prefixes.{group}`` file can now contain an underscore (``_``) character. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79225
+- ansible-test - Multiple containers now work under Podman without specifying the ``--docker-network`` option.
+- ansible-test - Pass the ``XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`` environment variable through to container commands.
+- ansible-test - Perform PyPI proxy configuration after instances are ready and bootstrapping has been completed. Only target instances are affected, as controller instances were already handled this way. This avoids proxy configuration errors when target instances are not yet ready for use.
+- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent / repeat inspections of the same container image.
+- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent / repeat pulls of the same container image.
+- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent execution of cached methods.
+- ansible-test - Removed pointless comparison in diff evaluation logic.
+- ansible-test - Set ``PYLINTHOME`` for the ``pylint`` sanity test to prevent failures due to ``pylint`` checking for the existence of an obsolete home directory.
+- ansible-test - Show the exception type when reporting errors during instance provisioning.
+- ansible-test - Support Podman 4.4.0+ by adding the ``SYS_CHROOT`` capability when running containers.
+- ansible-test - Support loading of vendored Python packages from ansible-core.
+- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test now properly enforces documentation before imports for plugins. Previously this was only enforced for modules due to a coding error.
+- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.2 to resolve several possible false positives.
+- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.3 to resolve several possible false positives.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test requirements to resolve crashes on Python 3.11. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78882)
+- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 2.15.4.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 2.15.5.
+- ansible-test - Use consistent file permissions when delegating tests to a container or remote host. Files with any execute bit set will use permissions ``755``. All other files will use permissions ``644``. (Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75079)
+- ansible-test - When bootstrapping remote FreeBSD instances, use the OS packaged ``setuptools`` instead of installing the latest version from PyPI.
+- ansible-test - fix warning message about failing to run an image to include the image name
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata sanity test - do not crash on YAML parsing errors without a context mark (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78802).
+- ansible-test sanity - correctly report invalid YAML in validate-modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75837).
+- ansible-vault encrypt_string - started appending a line feed at the end of the encrypted string output. Missing newline character caused problems identifying where the string ends in some shells (like bash) or accidentally copying an extra trailing terminator symbol (e.g., zsh prints out a ``%`` sign to signal where the original output stops) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78932).
+- ansible_facts.hardware - Define all processor facts on s390x (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/19755)
+- apt - set locale to fix updating the cache (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79523).
+- apt module should not traceback on invalid type given as package. issue 78663.
+- apt_repository will no longer fail to detect key when unrelated errors/warnings are issued by apt-key.
+- argument spec validation - again report deprecated parameters for Python-based modules. This was accidentally removed in ansible-core 2.11 when argument spec validation was refactored (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79680, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79681).
+- argument spec validation - ensure that deprecated aliases in suboptions are also reported (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79740).
+- argument spec validation - fix warning message when two aliases of the same option are used for suboptions to also mention the option's name they are in (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79740).
+- basic.py module_utils - Perform Python version check much earlier to ensure it runs before other errors occur.
+- connection local now avoids traceback on invalid user being used to execuet ansible (valid in host, but not in container).
+- copy - fix creating the dest directory in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78611).
+- copy - fix reporting changes to file attributes in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77957).
+- copy module will no longer move 'non files' set as src when remote_src=true.
+- copy remote_src=true - fix copying subdirs recursively when the dest exists and the src and dest have multiple common subdirectories in a common directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74536).
+- copy remote_src=true - fix reporting changed for copying empty directories.
+- display - reduce risk of post-fork output deadlocks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79522)
+- dnf5 - Use ``transaction.check_gpg_signatures`` API call to check package signatures AND possibly to recover from when keys are missing.
+- dnf5 - fix module and package names in the message following failed module respawn attempt
+- dnf5 - use the logs API to determine transaction problems
+- file - touch action in check mode was always returning ok. Fix now evaluates the different conditions and returns the appropriate changed status. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79360)
+- file lookup now handles missing files more gracefully.
+- file lookup now plays nice with generic lookup ``errors`` option.
+- get_url - Ensure we are passing ciphers to all url_get calls (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79717)
+- get_url module - Added a documentation reference to ``hashlib`` regarding algorithms, as well as a note about ``md5`` support on systems running in FIPS compliant mode.
+- get_url module - Removed out-of-date documentation stating that ``hashlib`` is a third-party library.
+- handlers - fix ``v2_playbook_on_notify`` callback not being called when notifying handlers
+- handlers - fix an issue where the ``flush_handlers`` meta task could not be used with FQCN: ``ansible.builtin.meta`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79023)
+- include_role - Inherit from role parents beyond a depth of 3 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47023).
+- jinja2_native - fix intermittent 'could not find job' failures when a value of ``ansible_job_id`` from a result of an async task was inadvertently changed during execution; to prevent this a format of ``ansible_job_id`` was changed.
+- jinja2_native: preserve quotes in strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79083)
+- keyword inheritance - Ensure that we do not squash keywords in validate (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79021)
+- known_hosts - do not return changed status when a non-existing key is removed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78598)
+- list-tags now shows the 'never' tag, which was being excluded by default. To list all tasks you still need to add `--list-tasks --tags never,all`.
+- loops/delegate_to - Do not double calculate the values of loops and ``delegate_to`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80038)
+- module responses - Ensure that module responses are utf-8 adhereing to JSON RFC and expectations of the core code.
+- module/role argument spec - validate the type for options that are None when the option is required or has a non-None default (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79656).
+- module_utils/basic.py - Fix detection of available hashing algorithms on Python 3.x. All supported algorithms are now available instead of being limited to a hard-coded list. This affects modules such as ``get_url`` which accept an arbitrary checksum algorithm.
+- normal action plugin - remove obsolete ``if`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79690).
+- omit on keywords was resetting to default value, ignoring inheritance.
+- paramiko - Add a new option to allow paramiko >= 2.9 to easily work with all devices now that rsa-sha2 support was added to paramiko, which prevented communication with numerous platforms. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76737)
+- paramiko - Add back support for ``ssh_args``, ``ssh_common_args``, and ``ssh_extra_args`` for parsing the ``ProxyCommand`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78750)
+- paramiko connection was still using outdated playcontext, this should bring it up to date to use the 'correct' data for each task/loop.
+- password lookup now correctly reads stored ident fields.
+- password_hash - handle errors using unknown passlib hashtypes more gracefully (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45392).
+- pep517 build backend - Use the documented ``import_module`` import from ``importlib``.
+- plugin loader, fix detection for existing configuration before initializing for a plugin
+- role deduplication - Always create new role object, regardless of deduplication. Deduplication will only affect whether a duplicate call to a role will execute, as opposed to re-using the same object. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78661)
+- roles - Fix templating ``public``, ``allow_duplicates`` and ``rolespec_validate`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80304).
+- service_facts - Use python re to parse service output instead of grep (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78541)
+- strategy plugins now correctly identify bad registered variables, even on skip.
+- strategy plugins: get the correctly templated and validated run_once value on strategy linear (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78492)
+- syntax check - Limit ``--syntax-check`` to ``ansible-playbook`` only, as that is the only CLI affected by this argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80506)
+- systemd - daemon-reload and daemon-reexec ignore errors when running in a chroot (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79643)
+- templates - Fixed ``TypeError`` when a lookup plugin has an option called ``name``.
+- unarchive - allow relative path for ``dest`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64612)
+- unarchive - log errors from commands to assist in debugging (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64612)
+- updated error messages to include 'acl' and not just mode changes when failing to set required permissions on remote.
+- uri - improve JSON content type detection
+- user - fix comparing group IDs to existing group names so groups are not always updated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79956).
+- user module - Removed ``password_expire_max`` from the return docs, as it is not returned.
+- user module - Removed ``password_expire_min`` from the return docs, as it is not returned.
+- validate-modules sanity test - replace semantic markup parsing and validating code with the code from `antsibull-docs-parser 0.2.0 <https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-docs-parser/releases/tag/0.2.0>`__ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80406).
+- vault - show filename additionally if missing secrets prevents decryption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79723)
+- winrm - Increase the read timeout to 10 seconds later than the operation timeout reducing the chances of a false read timeout
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- ansible-test - Additional configuration may be required for certain container host and container combinations. Further details are available in the testing documentation.
+- ansible-test - Custom containers with ``VOLUME`` instructions may be unable to start, when previously the containers started correctly. Remove the ``VOLUME`` instructions to resolve the issue. Containers with this condition will cause ``ansible-test`` to emit a warning.
+- ansible-test - Systems with Podman networking issues may be unable to run containers, when previously the issue went unreported. Correct the networking issues to continue using ``ansible-test`` with Podman.
+- ansible-test - Unit tests for collections do not support ``pytest`` assertion rewriting on Python 2.7.
+- ansible-test - Using Docker on systems with SELinux may require setting SELinux to permissive mode. Podman should work with SELinux in enforcing mode.
+- dnf5 - The DNF5 package manager currently does not provide all functionality to ensure feature parity between the existing ``dnf`` and the new ``dnf5`` module. As a result the following ``dnf5`` options are effectively a no-op: ``cacheonly``, ``enable_plugin``, ``disable_plugin`` and ``lock_timeout``.
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- commonpath - gets the common path
+- normpath - Normalize a pathname
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+Lib
+~~~
+
+ansible.modules
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- deb822_repository - Add and remove deb822 formatted repositories
+- dnf5 - Manages packages with the I(dnf5) package manager

changelogs/CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Placeholder changelog
-=====================
-
-This file is a placeholder; a version-specific ``CHANGELOG-vX.Y.rst`` will be generated during releases from fragments
-under changelogs/fragments. On release branches once a release has been created, consult the branch's version-specific
-file for changes that have occurred in that branch.

changelogs/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Changelogs
+==========
+
+As part of the release process a version-specific `CHANGELOG-vX.Y.rst` will be generated from fragments in
+the `fragments` directory.
+
+On release branches once a release has been created, consult the branch's version-specific file for changes that have
+occurred in that branch. The `devel` branch does not have a generated changelog, only changelog fragments.

changelogs/fragments/17587-get-distribution-more-distros.yml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - >
-    get_distribution - ``lib.ansible.module_utils.common.sys_info.get_distribution`` now returns
-    distribution information for all platforms not just Linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17587)
-  - >
-    get_distribution_version - ``lib.ansible.module_utils.common.sys_info.get_distribution_version`` now
-    returns the version for all platfroms not just Linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17587)

changelogs/fragments/19755-ansible_processor-s390x.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - ansible_facts.hardware - Define all processor facts on s390x (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/19755)

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-05-15
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-04-04
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b2_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-04-10
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b3_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-04-17
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-04-25
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0rc2_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-05-01
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-06-20
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.1rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-06-12
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.2_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-07-18
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.2rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-07-10
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.3_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-08-14
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.3rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-08-07
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.4_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-09-11
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.4rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-09-05
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.5_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-10-09
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.5rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-10-03
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.6_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-11-06
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.6rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-10-30
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/20221021-deprecated-sanity.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- sanity tests - updates the collection-deprecated-version tests to ignore the ``prerelease`` component of the collection version ().

changelogs/fragments/21088-no-auto-unsafe-set-fact-include-vars-with-register.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- register - Ensure that ``register`` used on ``set_fact`` or ``include_vars``
-  does not automatically wrap the facts as unsafe.
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/21088)

changelogs/fragments/212-py26-deprecation.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- Python 2.6 Target Support - Deprecate Python 2.6 for targets, requiring Python 2.7 or newer.
-  ``ansible-core==2.13`` will drop support for Python 2.6.
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74165)

changelogs/fragments/29457-deprecate-remote_checksum.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - deprecate ``_remote_checksum()`` and remove all internal uses (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74848)

changelogs/fragments/32829-ssh-connection-module-add-pkcs11-support.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ssh - added pkcs11 support by adding the pkcs11_provider option in the
-    ssh connection module. (https://www.github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/32829)

changelogs/fragments/36498-subversion-fix-info-parsing.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - subversion - fix stack trace when getting information about the repository (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36498)

changelogs/fragments/37187-catch-cond-tmpl-errors.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- >-
-  ``failed_when``/``changed_when`` - Catch templating errors to prevent masking of module output
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/37187)

changelogs/fragments/39029_unarchive.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- unarchive - fail when zipinfo binary is not found in executable paths (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39029).

changelogs/fragments/50594_ini.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- ini - added new parameter ``allow_no_value`` to ini lookup plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50594).

changelogs/fragments/55994_testcases.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-minor_changes:
-- validation testcases for check_* APIs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55994).

changelogs/fragments/56249_recursive_diff.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- recursive_diff - handle condition when parameters are not dict (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56249).

changelogs/fragments/57378-inventory-cli-unicode.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Add unicode support to ``ansible-inventory`` CLI (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57378)

changelogs/fragments/57406-hpux-fc-info.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - facts - add fiber channel facts for HP-UX (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/57406)

changelogs/fragments/61185-basic.py-fix-check_mode.yaml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- AnsibleModule.set_mode_if_different - don't check file existence when check_mode is activated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61185).

changelogs/fragments/64612-unarchive-log-command-output.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - unarchive - log errors from commands to assist in debugging (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64612)

changelogs/fragments/64612-unarchive-relative-path-dest.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - unarchive - allow relative path for ``dest`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64612)

changelogs/fragments/65227.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - system_service - use a context manager for file handling.

changelogs/fragments/65386-validate-hosts.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - play - validate the ``hosts`` entry in a play (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65386)

changelogs/fragments/66349-include-role-omit.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- >-
-  ``include_role`` - Allow use of ``omit`` in the ``from_*`` arguments
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66349)

changelogs/fragments/66432_hostname_check_mode_writes.yml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - hostname - No longer modifies system files in get_* methods and therefore when consulted in check_mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66432)
-
-breaking_changes:
-  - hostname - Drops any remaining support for Python 2.4 by using ``with open()`` to simplify exception handling code which leaked file handles in several spots
-  - hostname - On FreeBSD, the string ``temporarystub`` no longer gets written to the hostname file in the get methods (and in check_mode). As a result, the default hostname will now appear as ``''`` (empty string) instead of ``temporarystub`` for consistency with other strategies. This means the ``before`` result will be different.
-  - hostname - On OpenRC systems and Solaris, the ``before`` value will now be ``''`` (empty string) if the permanent hostname file does not exist, for consistency with other strategies.

changelogs/fragments/67340-slurp_error_message.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- "slurp - Fix error messages for unreadable files and directories(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67340)."

changelogs/fragments/67943_collection_skip.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-minor_changes:
-- collection - match skip message as per role installation.

changelogs/fragments/68525-add-varswithsources-yaml-representer.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- Add yaml representer for VarsWithSources (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68525).

changelogs/fragments/69253-template-comment-attribute.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - template - Add comment attributes (``comment_start_string`` and ``comment_end_string``)

changelogs/fragments/70028-config-small-typo-fix.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - config - use ``callbacks_enabled`` instead ``callback_enabled`` in a deprecated message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70028).

changelogs/fragments/70792-yum-action-plugin-use-as-alias-of-use-backend.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - yum - yum action plugin changes to support 'use' as an alias of 'use_backend' (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70774).

changelogs/fragments/70949-yum-parsing-check-update-output-multiple-empty-lines.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - yum - fix parsing of multiple subsequent empty lines from ``yum check-update`` output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70949)

changelogs/fragments/71343_yum_repository.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- basic - skip over module parameters which are used in ``journal.send`` API call (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71343).

changelogs/fragments/71424-deterministic-vault-encode.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - Add support for custom salt for vault encoding to make it deterministic (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35480).

changelogs/fragments/72607.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- YAML parsing - Create common utils for loading and dumping YAML that prefer the C extensions if available