New release v2.13.2rc1 (#78229)

* Fix workding for :ref|term: subsitution

 now matches 'seealso' and makes more sense:

  ```
  delay:
  applies_to:
  - Task
  description: Number of seconds to delay between retries. This setting is only used
    in combination with `until`.
  ```
 vs
  ```
  delay:
  applies_to:
  - Task
  description: Number of seconds to delay between retries. This setting is only used
    in combination with website for `until`.
  ```

* updated unit tests

* match see also

* more sanity

(cherry picked from commit d26801e994)

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -12,17 +12,29 @@ pr:
       - devel
       - stable-*
 
+schedules:
+  - cron: 0 7 * * *
+    displayName: Nightly
+    always: true
+    branches:
+      include:
+        - devel
+        - stable-*
+
 variables:
   - name: checkoutPath
     value: ansible
   - name: coverageBranches
     value: devel
   - name: entryPoint
-    value: .azure-pipelines/commands/entry-point.sh
+    value: test/utils/shippable/shippable.sh
   - name: fetchDepth
     value: 500
-  - name: defaultContainer
-    value: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:4.0.1
+
+resources:
+  containers:
+    - container: default
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:3.0.0
 
 pool: Standard
 
@@ -48,7 +60,6 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: units/{0}
           targets:
-            - test: 2.6
             - test: 2.7
             - test: 3.5
             - test: 3.6
@@ -56,37 +67,45 @@ stages:
             - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
+  - stage: Windows
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Server {0}
+          testFormat: windows/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2012
+            - test: 2012-R2
+            - test: 2016
+            - test: 2019
+            - test: 2022
   - stage: Remote
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           targets:
+            - name: macOS 12.0
+              test: macos/12.0
             - 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: RHEL 8.5 py36
+              test: rhel/8.5@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.5 py38
+              test: rhel/8.5@3.8
+            - name: RHEL 9.0
+              test: rhel/9.0
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.3
+              test: freebsd/12.3
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+              test: freebsd/13.0
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
             - 3
             - 4
             - 5
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller (ansible-test container management)
-        parameters:
-          targets:
-            - name: RHEL 8.4
-              test: rhel/8.4
-            - name: RHEL 9.0
-              test: rhel/9.0
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu/20.04
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu/22.04
-          groups:
-            - 6
   - stage: Docker
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -94,10 +113,22 @@ stages:
         parameters:
           testFormat: linux/{0}
           targets:
-            - name: CentOS 6
-              test: centos6
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
             - name: CentOS 7
               test: centos7
+            - name: Fedora 34
+              test: fedora34
+            - name: Fedora 35
+              test: fedora35
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
@@ -134,34 +165,53 @@ stages:
         parameters:
           testFormat: i/{0}
           targets:
-            - 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
-  - stage: Incidental_Docker
-    displayName: Incidental Docker
+            - name: RHEL 8.5 py36
+              test: rhel/8.5@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.5 py38
+              test: rhel/8.5@3.8
+  - stage: Incidental_Windows
+    displayName: Incidental Windows
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
-          testFormat: i/linux/{0}
+          nameFormat: Server {0}
+          testFormat: i/windows/{0}
           targets:
-            - name: CentOS 6
-              test: centos6
-            - name: CentOS 7
-              test: centos7
+            - test: 2012
+            - test: 2012-R2
+            - test: 2016
+            - test: 2019
+            - test: 2022
+  - stage: Incidental
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: i/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - name: IOS Python
+              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:
       - Sanity
       - Units
+      - Windows
       - Remote
       - Docker
       - Galaxy
       - Generic
       - Incidental_Remote
-      - Incidental_Docker
+      - Incidental_Windows
+      - Incidental
     jobs:
       - template: templates/coverage.yml

.azure-pipelines/commands/fedora.sh

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-remote.sh

.azure-pipelines/commands/ubuntu.sh

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-remote.sh

.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 jobs:
   - job: Coverage
     displayName: Code Coverage
-    container: $[ variables.defaultContainer ]
+    container: default
     workspace:
       clean: all
     steps:

.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: $[ variables.defaultContainer ]
+      container: default
       workspace:
         clean: all
       steps:

.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

.github/RELEASE_NAMES.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 ---
+- 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

MANIFEST.in

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ 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
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/index.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/bin-symlinks.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/botmeta.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/integration-aliases.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/release-names.rst
 recursive-exclude docs/docsite/_build *
 recursive-exclude docs/docsite/_extensions *.pyc *.pyo
 include examples/hosts
@@ -21,20 +26,19 @@ 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 Makefile *.py
-recursive-include packaging/arch *
-recursive-include packaging/debian *
-recursive-include packaging/gentoo *
-recursive-include packaging/macports *
+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/_data *.cfg *.in *.ini *.ps1 *.txt *.yml coveragerc
+recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_util *.cfg *.ini *.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 *.md
+recursive-include test/sanity *.in *.json *.py *.txt
+recursive-include test/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs
 exclude test/sanity/code-smell/botmeta.*
+exclude test/sanity/code-smell/release-names.*
+exclude test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/commands/sanity/bin_symlinks.py
+exclude test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/commands/sanity/integration_aliases.py
 recursive-include test/units *
 include Makefile
 include MANIFEST.in
@@ -42,3 +46,6 @@ include changelogs/CHANGELOG*.rst
 include changelogs/changelog.yaml
 recursive-include hacking/build_library *.py
 include hacking/build-ansible.py
+include hacking/test-module.py
+include hacking/update-sanity-requirements.py
+include bin/*

Makefile

@@ -4,15 +4,7 @@
 #
 # 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)
 
 ########################################################
@@ -43,58 +35,6 @@ 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 ?=
@@ -161,9 +101,6 @@ clean:
 	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"
@@ -205,108 +142,13 @@ sdist_upload: clean docs
 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
-	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
-	    $(DPUT_BIN) $(DPUT_OPTS) $(DEB_PPA) deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_amd64.changes ; \
-	done
-
-.PHONY: deb-src-upload
-deb-src-upload: deb-src
-	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
-	    $(DPUT_BIN) $(DPUT_OPTS) $(DEB_PPA) deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_source.changes ; \
-	done
-
-.PHONY: epub
-epub:
-	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) epub)
-
-# for arch or gentoo, read instructions in the appropriate 'packaging' subdirectory directory
-.PHONY: webdocs
-webdocs:
-	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) docs)
-
-.PHONY: coredocs
-coredocs:
-	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) coredocs)
-
-.PHONY: gettext
-gettext:
-	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) gettext)
-
-.PHONY: generate-po
-generate-po:
-	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) LANGUAGES=$(LANGUAGES) $(MAKE) generate-po)
-
-.PHONY: needs-translation
-needs-translation:
-	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) LANGUAGES=$(LANGUAGES) $(MAKE) needs-translation)
-
-.PHONY: linkcheckdocs
-linkcheckdocs:
-	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) linkcheckdocs)
-
 .PHONY: generate_rst
 generate_rst: lib/ansible/cli/*.py
 	mkdir -p ./docs/man/man1/ ; \
 	$(PYTHON) $(GENERATE_CLI) --template-file=docs/templates/man.j2 --output-dir=docs/man/man1/ --output-format man lib/ansible/cli/*.py
 
-
 docs: generate_rst
 	$(MAKE) $(MANPAGES)
 
-.PHONY: alldocs
-alldocs: docs webdocs
-
 version:
 	@echo $(VERSION)

bin/ansible

@@ -1 +1 @@
-../lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_cli_stub.py
+../lib/ansible/cli/adhoc.py

bin/ansible-config

@@ -1 +1 @@
-ansible
+../lib/ansible/cli/config.py

bin/ansible-console

@@ -1 +1 @@
-ansible
+../lib/ansible/cli/console.py

bin/ansible-doc

@@ -1 +1 @@
-ansible
+../lib/ansible/cli/doc.py

bin/ansible-galaxy

@@ -1 +1 @@
-ansible
+../lib/ansible/cli/galaxy.py

bin/ansible-inventory

@@ -1 +1 @@
-ansible
+../lib/ansible/cli/inventory.py

bin/ansible-playbook

@@ -1 +1 @@
-ansible
+../lib/ansible/cli/playbook.py

bin/ansible-pull

@@ -1 +1 @@
-ansible
+../lib/ansible/cli/pull.py

bin/ansible-vault

@@ -1 +1 @@
-ansible
+../lib/ansible/cli/vault.py

changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.12.rst

@@ -1,757 +0,0 @@
-====================================================
-ansible-core 2.12 "Dazed and Confused" Release Notes
-====================================================
-
-.. contents:: Topics
-
-
-v2.12.10
-========
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-10-10
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- 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)
-
-v2.12.9
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-09-12
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix for network_cli not getting all relevant connection options
-
-v2.12.8
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-08-15
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- ansible-test - An improved error message is shown when the download of a pip bootstrap script fails. The download now uses ``urllib2`` instead of ``urllib`` on Python 2.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- ansible-connection - decrypt vaulted parameters before sending over the socket, as vault secrets are not available on the other side.
-- ansible-galaxy - fix setting the cache for paginated responses from Galaxy NG/AH (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77911).
-- ansible-test - Delegation now properly handles arguments given after ``--`` on the command line.
-- file backed cache plugins now handle concurrent access by making atomic updates to the files.
-
-v2.12.7
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-06-20
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- Add an 'action_plugin' field for modules in runtime.yml plugin_routing.
-
-  This fixes module_defaults by supporting modules-as-redirected-actions
-  without redirecting module_defaults entries to the common action.
-
-  .. code: yaml
-
-     plugin_routing:
-       action:
-         facts:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos
-         command:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos
-       modules:
-         facts:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_facts
-         command:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_command
-
-  With the runtime.yml above for ns.coll, a task such as
-
-  .. code: yaml
-
-     - hosts: all
-       module_defaults:
-         ns.coll.eos_facts: {'valid_for_eos_facts': 'value'}
-         ns.coll.eos_command: {'not_valid_for_eos_facts': 'value'}
-       tasks:
-         - ns.coll.facts:
-
-  will end up with defaults for eos_facts and eos_command
-  since both modules redirect to the same action.
-
-  To select an action plugin for a module without merging
-  module_defaults, define an action_plugin field for the resolved
-  module in the runtime.yml.
-
-  .. code: yaml
-
-     plugin_routing:
-       modules:
-         facts:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_facts
-           action_plugin: ns.coll.eos
-         command:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_command
-           action_plugin: ns.coll.eos
-
-  The action_plugin field can be a redirected action plugin, as
-  it is resolved normally.
-
-  Using the modified runtime.yml, the example task will only use
-  the ns.coll.eos_facts defaults.
-- ansible-test - Avoid using the ``mock_use_standalone_module`` setting for unit tests running on Python 3.8 or later.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- pip - fix cases where resolution of pip Python module fails when importlib.util has not already been imported
-- plugin loader - Sort results when fuzzy matching plugin names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77966).
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-v2.12.6
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2022-05-23
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
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-Bugfixes
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-- Prevent losing unsafe on results returned from lookups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77535)
-- arg_spec - Fix incorrect ``no_log`` warning when a parameter alias is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77576)
-- plugin loader will now load config data for plugin by name instead of by file to avoid issues with the same file being loaded under different names (fqcn + short name).
-- variablemanager, more efficient read of vars files
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-v2.12.5
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2022-04-25
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
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-Bugfixes
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-- Ansible.ModuleUtils.SID - Use user principal name as is for lookup in the ``Convert-ToSID`` function - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77316
-- Fix traceback when installing a collection from a git repository and git is not installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77479).
-- ansible-test - Correctly detect when running as the ``root`` user (UID 0) on the origin host. The result of the detection was incorrectly being inverted.
-- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/python`` on the origin host.
-- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/root`` on the origin host.
-- ansible-test compile sanity test - do not crash if a column could not be determined for an error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77465).
-- hostname - use ``file_get_content()`` to read the file containing the host name in the ``FileStrategy.get_permanent_hostname()`` method. This prevents a ``TypeError`` from being raised when the strategy is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77025).
-- script - skip in check mode since the plugin cannot determine if a change will occur.
-- shell/command - only skip in check mode if the options `creates` and `removes` are both None.
-- winrm - Ensure ``kinit`` is run with the same ``PATH`` env var as the Ansible process
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-v2.12.4
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2022-03-28
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
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-Bugfixes
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-- Add a YAML representer for ``NativeJinjaText``
-- Add a YAML representer for ``NativeJinjaUnsafeText``
-- AnsiballZ - Ensure we use the full python package in the module cache filename to avoid a case where ``collections:`` is used to execute a module via short name, where the short name duplicates another module from ``ansible.builtin`` or another collection that was executed previously.
-- Fix collection filter/test plugin redirects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77192).
-- ansible-galaxy collection verify - display files/directories not included in the FILES.json as modified content.
-- ansible-test - Fix ``windows-integration`` and ``network-integration`` when used with the ``--docker`` option and user-provided inventory.
-- extend timeout for ansible-galaxy when communicating with the galaxy server api, and apply it to all interactions with the api
-- first_found - fix to allow for spaces in file names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77136)
-- unarchive - the ``io_buffer_size`` option added in 2.12 was not accepted by the module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77271).
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-v2.12.3
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2022-02-28
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
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-Minor Changes
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-- The collection loader now reports a Python warning if an attempt is made to install the Ansible collection loader a second time. Previously this condition was reported using an Ansible warning.
-- ansible-test - Installation of ``cryptography`` is no longer version constrained when ``openssl`` 1.1.0 or later is installed.
-- ansible-test - Requirements for the plugin import test are now frozen.
-- ansible-test - The ``pip`` and ``wheel`` packages are removed from all sanity test virtual environments after installation completes to reduce their size. Previously they were only removed from the environments used for the ``import`` sanity test.
-- ansible-test - The hash for all managed sanity test virtual environments has changed. Containers that include ``ansible-test sanity --prime-venvs`` will need to be rebuilt to continue using primed virtual environments.
-- ansible-test - Update ``pip`` used to bootstrap remote FreeBSD instances from version 20.3.4 to 21.3.1.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``alpine`` container to version 3.3.0. This updates the base image from 3.14.2 to 3.15.0, which includes support for installing binary wheels using pip.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``galaxy`` test plugin to get its container from a copy on quay.io.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``openshift`` test plugin to get its container from a copy on quay.io.
-- junit callback - Add support for replacing the directory portion of out-of-tree relative task paths with a placeholder.
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-Bugfixes
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-- ansible-test - All virtual environments managed by ansible-test are marked as usable after being bootstrapped, to avoid errors caused by use of incomplete environments. Previously this was only done for sanity tests. Existing environments from previous versions of ansible-test will be recreated on demand due to lacking the new marker.
-- ansible-test - Fix the ``validate-modules`` sanity test to avoid double-loading the collection loader and possibly failing on import of the ``packaging`` module.
-- ansible-test - Import ``yaml.cyaml.CParser`` instead of ``_yaml.CParser`` in the ``yamllint`` sanity test.
-- ansible-test - Replace the directory portion of out-of-tree paths in JUnit files from integration tests with the ``out-of-tree:`` prefix.
-- ansible-test - Sanity tests run with the ``--requirements` option for Python 2.x now install ``virtualenv`` when it is missing or too old. Previously it was only installed if missing. Version 16.7.12 is now installed instead of the latest version on Python 2.7.
-- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test no longer reports errors about ``packaging`` being missing when testing collections.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to version 4.2.0.
-- ansible-test - Use https://ci-files.testing.ansible.com/ for instance bootstrapping instead of an S3 endpoint.
-- ansible-test - Use relative paths in JUnit files generated during integration test runs.
-- ansible-test - Virtual environments managed by ansible-test now use consistent versions of ``pip``, ``setuptools`` and ``wheel``. This avoids issues with virtual environments containing outdated or dysfunctional versions of these tools. The initial bootstrapping of ``pip`` is done by ansible-test from an HTTPS endpoint instead of creating the virtual environment with it already present.
-- cleaning facts will now only warn about the variable name and not post the content, which can be undesireable to disclose
-- correctly inherit vars from parent in block (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75286).
-- gather_facts action now handles the move of base connection plugin types into collections to add/prevent subset argument correctly
-- junit callback - Fix traceback during automatic fact gathering when using relative paths.
-- junit callback - Fix unicode error when handling non-ASCII task paths.
-- ssh connection now uses more correct host source as play_context can ignore loop/delegation variations.
-- task_executor reverts the change to push facts into delegated vars on loop finalization as result managing code already handles this and was duplicating effort to wrong result.
-- template lookup - restore inadvertently deleted default for ``convert_data`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77004)
-- unarchive - Make extraction work when the LANGUAGE environment variable is set to a non-English locale.
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-v2.12.2
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2022-01-31
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
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-Bugfixes
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-- Fix ``AttributeError`` when providing password file via ``--connection-password-file`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76530)
-- Fix ``end_play`` to end the current play only (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76672)
-- Templating - Ensure we catch exceptions when getting ``.filters`` and ``.tests`` attributes on their respective plugins and properly error, instead of aborting which results in no filters being added to the jinja2 environment
-- ``Templar.copy_with_new_env`` - set the ``finalize`` method of the new ``Templar`` object for the new environment (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76379)
-- ansible-config avoid showing _terms and _input when --only-changed.
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix using the '--ignore-certs' option when there is no server-specific configuration for the Galaxy server.
-- ansible-galaxy collection build - Ignore any existing ``MANIFEST.json`` and ``FILES.json`` in the root directory when building a collection.
-- ansible-test - Fix the ``import`` sanity test to work properly when Ansible's built-in vendoring support is in use.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback in the ``validate-modules`` sanity test when testing an Ansible module without any callables.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback when running from an install and delegating execution to a different Python interpreter.
-- ansible-test - Show an error message instead of a traceback when running outside of a supported directory.
-- ansible-test - Update help links to reference ``ansible-core`` instead of ``ansible``.
-- ansible-test - Update unit tests to use the ``--forked`` option instead of the deprecated ``--boxed`` option.
-- async - Improve performance of sending async callback events by never sending the full task through the queue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76729)
-- default callback - Ensure we compare FQCN also in lockstep logic, to ensure using the FQCN of a strategy plugin triggers the correct behavior in the default callback plugin. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76782)
-- hostname - Do not require SystemdStrategy subclasses for every distro (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76792)
-- include_vars, properly initialize variable as there is corner case in which it can end up referenced and not defined
-- ssh connection - properly quote controlpersist path given by user to avoid issues with spaces and other characters
-- ssh connection avoid parsing ssh cli debug lines as they can match expected output at high verbosities.
-- sudo become plugin, fix handling of non interactive flags, previous substitution was too naive
-- unarchive - Fix zip archive file listing that caused issues with content postprocessing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76067).
-- yum - prevent storing unnecessary cache data by running `yum makecache fast` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76336)
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-v2.12.1
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2021-12-06
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
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-Minor Changes
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-- jinja2_native - keep same behavior on Python 3.10.
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-Bugfixes
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-- Ansible.ModuleUtils.LinkUtil - Ignore the ``LIB`` environment variable when loading the ``LinkUtil`` code
-- ansible-test - Automatic target requirements installation is now based on the target environment instead of the controller environment.
-- ansible-test - Fix Python real prefix detection when running in a ``venv`` virtual environment.
-- ansible-test - Fix installation and usage of ``pyyaml`` requirement for the ``import`` sanity test for collections.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback in ``import`` sanity test on Python 2.7 when ``pip`` is not available.
-- ansible-test - Relocate constants to eliminate symlink.
-- ansible-test - Target integration test requirements are now correctly installed for target environments running on the controller.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to version 4.1.1, which includes the updated ``import`` sanity test requirements.
-- ansible-test - Use the legacy collection loader for ``import`` sanity tests on target-only Python versions.
-- set_fact/include_vars correctly handle delegation assignments within loops
-- setup - detect docker container with check for ./dockerenv or ./dockinit (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74349).
-- validate_argument_spec - Skip suboption validation if the top level option is an invalid type (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75612).
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-v2.12.0
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2021-11-05
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
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-Major Changes
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-- Python Controller Requirement - Python 3.8 or newer is required for the control node (the machine that runs Ansible) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74013)
-- ansible-test - All "cloud" plugins which use containers can now be used with all POSIX and Windows hosts. Previously the plugins did not work with Windows at all, and support for hosts created with the ``--remote`` option was inconsistent.
-- ansible-test - Collections can now specify controller and target specific integration test requirements and constraints. If provided, they take precedence over the previously available requirements and constraints files.
-- ansible-test - Integration tests run with the ``integration`` command can now be executed on two separate hosts instead of always running on the controller. The target host can be one provided by ``ansible-test`` or by the user, as long as it is accessible using SSH.
-- ansible-test - Most container features are now supported under Podman. Previously a symbolic link for ``docker`` pointing to ``podman`` was required.
-- ansible-test - New ``--controller`` and ``--target`` / ``--target-python`` options have been added to allow more control over test environments.
-- ansible-test - Python 3.8 - 3.10 are now required to run ``ansible-test``, thus matching the Ansible controller Python requirements. Older Python versions (2.6 - 2.7 and 3.5 - 3.10) can still be the target for relevant tests.
-- ansible-test - SSH port forwarding and redirection is now used exclusively to make container ports available on non-container hosts. When testing on POSIX systems this requires SSH login as root. Previously SSH port forwarding was combined with firewall rules or other port redirection methods, with some platforms being unsupported.
-- ansible-test - Sanity tests always run in isolated Python virtual environments specific to the requirements of each test. The environments are cached.
-- ansible-test - Sanity tests are now separated into two categories, controller and target. All tests except ``import`` and ``compile`` are controller tests. The controller tests always run using the same Python version used to run ``ansible-test``. The target tests use the Python version(s) specified by the user, or all available Python versions.
-- ansible-test - Sanity tests now use fully pinned requirements that are independent of each other and other test types.
-- ansible-test - Tests run with the ``centos6`` and ``default`` test containers now use a PyPI proxy container to access PyPI when Python 2.6 is used. This allows tests running under Python 2.6 to continue functioning even though PyPI is discontinuing support for non-SNI capable clients.
-- ansible-test - The ``future-import-boilerplate`` and ``metaclass-boilerplate`` sanity tests are limited to remote-only code. Additionally, they are skipped for collections which declare no support for Python 2.x.
-- ansible-test - The ``import`` and ``compile`` sanity tests limit remote-only Python version checks to remote-only code.
-- ansible-test - Unit tests for controller-only code now require Python 3.8 or later.
-- ansible-test - Version neutral sanity tests now require Python 3.8 or later.
-- junit callback - The ``junit_xml`` and ``ordereddict`` Python modules are no longer required to use the ``junit`` callback plugin.
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-Minor Changes
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-- Add ``end_batch`` meta task.
-- Allow connection and become passwords to be set by file/executable script. Also document this was already the case for vault.
-- CLI - Remove ``__requires__`` attribute for ``pkg_resources``
-- Collections can define action_groups in ``meta/runtime.yml``.
-- Introduce a config option to enable/disable emitting warning about Jinja2 version being old for ``jinja2_native``. The option is on by default, only in CI it is off.
-- Make the code structure of ansible-doc's generic snippet feature more maintainable.
-- On RHEL 9, CentOS Stream 9 etc., use /usr/bin/python3 as the default interpreter; /usr/libexec/platform-python is just a backwards-compatibility symbolic link there.
-- PowerShell - Added support for optional module_util imports by scanning for ``-Optional`` at the end of the import declaration
-- 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)
-- Task - Add a resolved_action attribute for Task objects to get the final resolved plugin.
-- Templar - remove ``_fail_on_lookup_errors`` and ``_fail_on_filter_errors`` instance variables that were never used. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73785)
-- The AnsiballZ Python wrapper now changes the working directory to ``~`` or ``/`` if the current one is not accessible. This allows become to drop privileges on macOS when using pipelining.
-- Update test container ansible-core-test-container to version 3.6.0
-- Update test container ansible-core-test-container to version 3.7.0
-- Update test container default-test-container to version 3.6.0
-- Update test container default-test-container to version 3.7.0
-- Update vendored copy of ``six`` to 1.16.0 to eliminate warnings for deprecated python loader methods in Python 3.10+ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74659)
-- Update vendored copy of distro to 1.6.0
-- Vendor ``distutils.version`` due to it's deprecation in Python 3.10 and impending removal in Python 3.12 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74599)
-- YAML parsing - Create common utils for loading and dumping YAML that prefer the C extensions if available
-- ``include_role`` - Allow use of ``omit`` in the ``from_*`` arguments (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66349)
-- ``uri``/``get_url`` - Expose ``unredirected_headers`` to modules to allow user control
-- `ansible.plugins.callback.CallbackBase.host_label()` has been factored out as a static method (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73814).
-- action_groups can include actions from other groups by using the special ``metadata`` dictionary field.
-- add a quick short circuit when checking if a string is a template to improve performance on large strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74336)
-- add host label to retry print statements
-- added new function to module utils to choose best possible locale.
-- adds the ``undef`` keyword to the templating environment. This allows for directly creating Undefined values in templates. It is most useful for providing a hint for variables which must be overridden.
-- ansbile-doc now also shows snippets for inventory and lookup, adding to existing modules.
-- ansible adhoc, clarified the help to some options, also added some comments to code.
-- ansible-cli - remove unnecessary trailing space in ``ansible --version`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74875).
-- ansible-config can now list and dump for specific documentable plugins by specifying them in the command line
-- ansible-config has new 'init' option to create, highly commented, example configurations as ini (ansible.cfg), environment variables (shell) or Ansible variable files (YAML)
-- ansible-config now supports displaying plugin configuration info.
-- ansible-doc - ``version_added`` in ``attributes`` now comes with ``version_added_collection`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74602).
-- ansible-doc - show ``version_added`` for the plugin/module itself in text output, and improve ``version_added`` formatting (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73602).
-- ansible-doc now supports 'attributes' for plugins as per proposal.
-- ansible-doc pretty cli options output.
-- ansible-doc, improve handling of rstisms, try to make the display more meaningfull for the terminal users.
-- ansible-galaxy - Allow specification of client_id override value for Keycloak Token (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75593).
-- ansible-galaxy - Allow validate_certs to be configured for individual Galaxy servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75677).
-- ansible-galaxy - Installing a collection from a git repository without specifying a version (or using the version ``HEAD``) will clone the repository using --depth=1.
-- ansible-galaxy - Non-HTTP exceptions from Galaxy servers are now a warning and only fatal if the collection to download|install|verify is not available from any of the servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75443).
-- ansible-test - A new ``base`` test container is available. It is similar to the ``default`` test container, but contains no pre-installed Python packages other than ``pip`` and its dependencies.
-- ansible-test - Add RHEL 8.4 as a remote.
-- ansible-test - Add ``--prime-venvs`` option to create virtual environments without running tests.
-- ansible-test - Add constraint for ``decorator`` for Python versions prior to 3.5.
-- ansible-test - Add support for Windows Server 2022.
-- ansible-test - Add support for an ansible-test configuration file in collections under ``tests/config.yml``.
-- ansible-test - Add support for testing with Python 3.10.
-- ansible-test - Added a ``--prime-containers`` option to support downloading containers without running tests.
-- ansible-test - Adding DigitalOcean cloud support to ansible-test (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74222).
-- ansible-test - All "cloud" plugins have been refactored for more consistency. For those that use docker containers, management of the containers has been standardized.
-- ansible-test - All "cloud" plugins now use fixed hostnames and ports in tests. Previously some tests used IP addresses and/or randomly assigned ports.
-- ansible-test - Changes made to the ``hosts`` file on test systems are now done using an Ansible playbook for both POSIX and Windows systems. Changes are applied before a test target runs and are reverted after the test target finishes.
-- ansible-test - Clean up code in the cloud plugins.
-- ansible-test - Collections can declare their remote-only code (modules/module_utils and related tests) as controller-only.
-- ansible-test - Collections can limit the Python versions used for testing their remote-only code (modules/module_utils and related tests).
-- ansible-test - Command line help has been updated to hide the ``--remote`` option (and related options) when the user lacks an API key to use the feature.
-- ansible-test - Constraints provided by ``ansible-test`` for Python package installs have been reduced.
-- ansible-test - Default settings are now applied to unknown versions of known ``--remote`` platforms.
-- ansible-test - Distribution specific test containers have been updated to version 3.0.0.
-- ansible-test - Environment checking (``pip``, ``python``, ``~/.ssh/known_hosts``, etc.) is no longer performed when running integration tests.
-- ansible-test - Environment variables exposed by "cloud" plugins are now available to the controller for role based tests. Previously only script based tests had access to the exposed environment variables.
-- ansible-test - Fedora 32 and 33 (``fedora32`` and ``fedora33``) containers have been updated and now allow for ssh in more container environments.
-- ansible-test - Fedora 34 (``fedora34``) container has been added.
-- ansible-test - Installation of ``cryptography`` no longer occurs when it is already installed. This avoids downgrading existing OS packages.
-- ansible-test - Minor code cleanup.
-- ansible-test - More efficient string splitting.
-- ansible-test - Most scripts used internally by ``ansible-test`` no longer have a shebang or the executable bit set.
-- ansible-test - Move code from ``_data`` directory to ``_util`` directory.
-- ansible-test - Relocate change classification code.
-- ansible-test - Remove CI provider support for Shippable, now that the service has been discontinued.
-- ansible-test - Remove check for legacy ``core`` and ``extras`` directories.
-- ansible-test - Remove deprecated container ``fedora32``.
-- ansible-test - Remove deprecated remote platforms ``freebsd/11.4`` and ``rhel/8.3```.
-- ansible-test - Removed the warning filter for ``PyYAML`` in the ``import`` sanity test.
-- ansible-test - Removed unused pip constraints. Collections may need to add their own constraints if they depended on any which were removed.
-- ansible-test - Reorganize code for individual commands.
-- ansible-test - Reorganize integration test implementation by command.
-- ansible-test - Rewrite the ``compile`` sanity test to improve error handling and support Python 3.10.
-- ansible-test - Sanity test warnings relating to Python version support have been improved.
-- ansible-test - Set minimum version constraints for ``pytest``.
-- ansible-test - Split out shell command implementation.
-- ansible-test - The "injector" scripts are now generated at runtime to avoid issues with symlinks and shebangs.
-- ansible-test - The HTTP Tester can now be used without the ``--docker`` or `--remote`` options. It still requires use of the ``docker`` command to run the container.
-- ansible-test - The HTTP Tester has been converted to a "cloud" plugin and can now be requested using the ``cloud/httptester`` alias. The original ``needs/httptester`` alias is still supported for backwards compatibility.
-- ansible-test - The ``--docker-keep-git`` option (used only for testing ansible-core) has been renamed to ``--keep-git``.
-- ansible-test - The ``--python`` option can be used without another delegation option such as the ``--venv`` or ``--docker`` options.
-- ansible-test - The ``ansible-test coverage`` commands ``combine``, ``report``, ``html`` and ``xml`` now support delegation.
-- ansible-test - The ``default`` test container has been updated to version 3.4.0 and now uses Python 3.9 by default instead of Python 3.6.
-- ansible-test - The ``docker run`` option ``--link`` is no longer used to connect test containers. As a result, changes are made to the ``/etc/hosts`` file as needed on all test containers. Previously containers which were used with the ``--link`` option did not require changes to the ``/etc/hosts`` file.
-- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test now requires that Ansible modules guard instantiation of ``AnsibleModule`` with a ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` conditional, or equivalent logic.
-- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test now requires that non-modules do not instantiate ``AnsibleModule`` on import.
-- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test codes ``ansible-deprecated-module`` and ``collection-deprecated-module`` have been added.
-- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test codes ``last-line-main-call``, ``missing-if-name-main`` and ``missing-main-call`` have been removed.
-- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test no longer enforces the ``missing-if-name-main``, ``last-line-main-call`` or ``missing-main-call`` checks on non-deleted Ansible modules. Modules are still required to instantiate ``AnsibleModule`` when ``__name__ == '__main__'``.
-- ansible-test - Unit tests are now run in separate contexts (``controller``, ``modules``, ``module_utils``), each using separate invocations of ``pytest``.
-- ansible-test - Unit tests other than ``modules`` and ``module_utils`` are now run only on Python versions supported by the controller (Python 3.8+).
-- ansible-test - Update ``typed-ast`` constraint to version 1.4.3 for compatibility with Python 3.10.
-- ansible-test - Update distribution test containers from version 2.0.1 to 2.0.2.
-- ansible-test - Update the Ansible Core and Ansible Collection default test containers to 3.2.0 and 3.2.2 respectively.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` containers from Python 3.10.0rc2 to 3.10.0.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``import`` sanity test to avoid a new warning in Python 3.10.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``runtime-metadata`` sanity test to handle a new warning on Python 3.10.
-- ansible-test - Updated the ``default`` containers to version 4.0.1.
-- ansible-test - Updated the help message for failed tests in the ``azure`` test plugin.
-- ansible-test - Upgrade ``pylint`` to version 2.9.3 and update its dependencies to the latest versions as well.
-- ansible-test - Using an unknown ``--docker`` or ``--remote`` environment now requires specifying a Python version.
-- ansible-test - add freebsd/13.0 as a remote option.
-- ansible-test - aws creates and exposes a new tiny_prefix variable to provide a shorter prefix for the AWS tests.
-- ansible-test - display recent ``ssh`` debug logs after connection failures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75374)
-- ansible-test - validate-modules now properly checks ``attributes`` for plugins (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74602).
-- ansible-test - virtualenv-isolated.sh is no longer provided. Prefer virtualenv.sh in its place.
-- ansible-test validate-modules - enforce that ``_info`` and ``_facts`` modules set ``supports_check_mode=True`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75324).
-- ansible-vault - remove support for ``PyCrypto`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72646)
-- apt - added an ``allow_downgrade`` option to enable safe downgrade of packages without using ``force`` which doesn't verify signatures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29451, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74852).
-- apt, added a 'lock_timeout' to be more resilient when encountering the apt db already locked and handle it w/o haveing to rerun task.
-- async tasks - the use of the task-level ``ANSIBLE_ASYNC_DIR`` variable within ``environment:`` is no longer valid. Use the shell configuration variable ``async_dir`` instead.
-- async_wrapper, better reporting on timeout, slight refactor on reporting itself.
-- basic module_util - Clean up ``selinux`` compat import.
-- blockinfile - Remove unused code for Ansible 1.x.
-- cache base - More efficient string splitting.
-- callback API - implemented ``v2_runner_on_async_ok`` and ``v2_runner_on_async_failed`` callbacks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74953).
-- cli scripts - remove trailing blank space in help after newline when outputting.
-- collection - match skip message as per role installation.
-- command - update the user warning message to point out command name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74475).
-- config lookup now can handle plugin settings.
-- config, default site for ansible-core is now under /ansbile-core/.
-- connection base - Avoid using deprecated ``@abstractproperty`` decorator.
-- constructed - a new options ``trailing_separator`` and ``default_value`` to deal with key's value empty on keyed group.
-- cron - ``name`` is now a required parameter always
-- cron - ``reboot`` parameter has been dropped in favor of ``special_time: reboot``
-- cron, removed previously deprecated 'reboot' and now requires either 'name' as unique identifier.
-- default callback plugin - displays output for ``v2_runner_on_async_ok`` and ``v2_runner_on_async_failed`` callbacks.
-- deprecate ``_remote_checksum()`` and remove all internal uses (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74848)
-- dnf - Add ``cacheonly`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69397).
-- dnf - allow for ``download_only`` to be run without root privileges (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75530)
-- encrypt - add new parameter ``ident`` to specify version of BCrypt algorithm to be used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74571).
-- fact cache - Remove deprecated backwards compatibility shim for the FactCache `update` method to accept multiple arguments.
-- fact cache - Remove the deprecated location for FactCache. Import FactCache from `ansible.vars.fact_cache` instead.
-- facts - add fiber channel facts for HP-UX (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/57406)
-- galaxy - support role artifact download from API response ``download_url`` location (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73103).
-- 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)
-- git - Add ``accept_newhostkey`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69846).
-- hostname - add support RedOS (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74779).
-- import_role - Template tasks_from, vars_from, defaults_from, and handlers_from with --extra-vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69097).
-- include_vars - add ``hash_behaviour`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72944).
-- ini - added new parameter ``allow_no_value`` to ini lookup plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50594).
-- ini lookup - add case sensitive option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74601)
-- interpreter discovery - allow the default list of ``INTERPRETER_PYTHON_FALLBACK`` to be changed using a variable
-- interpreter discovery - prefer Python 3 over Python 2
-- inventory plugins - Remove the deprecated cache interface. Set top level keys in the inventory plugin's `_cache` attribute (a dictionary) instead.
-- jinja2_native - short-circuit ``ast.literal_eval`` for non-string values
-- module_utils distro - when a 'distro' package/module is in PYTHONPATH but isn't the real 'distro' package/module that we expect, gracefully fall back to our own bundled distro.
-- modules - add Anolis distro in hostname.py. project website https://openanolis.org/
-- move all builtin modules to use the best possible locale function instead of hardcoding 'C'.
-- password - add new parameter ``ident`` to specify version of BCrypt algorithm to be used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74571).
-- password - add new parameter ``seed`` in lookup plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69775).
-- password_hash uses passlib default if option isn't set
-- playbook - Error if a playbook is an empty list instead of just skipping
-- playbook - Error if using ``include`` instead of ``import_playbook``
-- replaced examples/ansible.cfg with instructions on how to generate an up to date copy.
-- service - add description how service module works internally (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74507).
-- service_facts now handles more states/statuses from systemd and in a more reliable way (failed, not-found, masked).
-- setup - add ``epoch_int`` option to date_time facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73822).
-- ssh - added pkcs11 support by adding the pkcs11_provider option in the ssh connection module. (https://www.github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/32829)
-- ssh connection, can not configure ssh_transfer_method with a variable.
-- ssh connection, ssh_transfer_method is now configurable via variable.
-- subelements lookup - Use generator in instance type check.
-- tempfile - Remove unnecessary conditional for creating a temporary directory.
-- template - Add comment attributes (``comment_start_string`` and ``comment_end_string``)
-- unicode utils - Fix ``__all__`` which was incorrectly declared as a string instead of a tuple.
-- user - Add ``umask`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40359).
-- user module - Remove unused code.
-- validation testcases for check_* APIs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55994).
-- winrm - Allow explicit environment variables to be passed through to the ``kinit`` call for Kerberos authentication
-- yaml dumper - YAML representer for AnsibleUndefined (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75072).
-- yum - Add ``cacheonly`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69397).
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-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
---------------------------------
-
-- Action, module, and group names in module_defaults must be static values. Their values can still be templates.
-- Fully qualified 'ansible.legacy' plugin names are not included implicitly in action_groups.
-- Unresolvable groups, action plugins, and modules in module_defaults are an error.
-- ansible-test - Automatic installation of requirements for "cloud" test plugins no longer occurs. The affected test plugins are ``aws``, ``azure``, ``cs``, ``hcloud``, ``nios``, ``opennebula``, ``openshift`` and ``vcenter``. Collections should instead use one of the supported integration test requirements files, such as the ``tests/integration/requirements.txt`` file.
-- ansible-test - The HTTP Tester is no longer available with the ``ansible-test shell`` command. Only the ``integration`` and ``windows-integration`` commands provide HTTP Tester.
-- ansible-test - The ``--disable-httptester`` option is no longer available. The HTTP Tester is no longer optional for tests that specify it.
-- ansible-test - The ``--httptester`` option is no longer available. To override the container used for HTTP Tester tests, set the ``ANSIBLE_HTTP_TEST_CONTAINER`` environment variable instead.
-- ansible-test - Unit tests for ``modules`` and ``module_utils`` are now limited to importing only ``ansible.module_utils`` from the ``ansible`` module.
-- conditionals - ``when`` conditionals no longer automatically parse string booleans such as ``"true"`` and ``"false"`` into actual booleans. Any non-empty string is now considered true. The ``CONDITIONAL_BARE_VARS`` configuration variable no longer has any effect.
-- 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.
-- intersect, difference, symmetric_difference, union filters - the default behavior is now to be case-sensitive (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74255)
-- unique filter - the default behavior is now to fail if Jinja2's filter fails and explicit ``case_sensitive=False`` as the Ansible's fallback is case-sensitive (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74256)
-
-Deprecated Features
--------------------
-
-- ansible-test - The ``--docker-no-pull`` option is deprecated and has no effect.
-- ansible-test - The ``--no-pip-check`` option is deprecated and has no effect.
-- include action is deprecated in favor of include_tasks, import_tasks and import_playbook.
-- module_utils' FileLock is scheduled to be removed, it is not used due to its unreliable nature.
-
-Removed Features (previously deprecated)
-----------------------------------------
-
-- The built-in module_util ``ansible.module_utils.common.removed`` was previously deprecated and has been removed.
-- connections, removed password check stubs that had been moved to become plugins.
-- task, inline parameters being auto coerced into variables has been removed.
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-Security Fixes
---------------
-
-- Do not include params in exception when a call to ``set_options`` fails. Additionally, block the exception that is returned from being displayed to stdout. (CVE-2021-3620)
-- templating engine fix for not preserving usnafe status when trying to preserve newlines. CVE-2021-3583
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-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Add RockyLinux to fact gathering (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74530).
-- Add unicode support to ``ansible-inventory`` CLI (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57378)
-- Add yaml representer for VarsWithSources (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68525).
-- Added page describing terminal plugins to docsite
-- AnsibleModule.set_mode_if_different - don't check file existence when check_mode is activated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61185).
-- Apply ``display_failed_stderr`` callback option on loop item results. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74864)
-- Binary GnuPG keys downloaded via URLs by the 'ansible.builtin.apt_key' module were corrupted so 'gpg' could not import them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74424).
-- Ensure end_play ends play, not batch (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73971)
-- Ensure we get full path for extra vars into cliargs to avoid realpath issues after initial load.
-- Fix ``keys()`` implementation of ``BaseFileCacheModule`` to strip the prefix from the key and only return keys that share the same prefix as the cache.
-- Fix ``when`` evaluation on Native Jinja and Python 3.10.
-- Fix templating task action with host-specific vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75568)
-- Fully qualified 'ansible.legacy' and 'ansible.builtin' plugin names work in conjunction with module_defaults.
-- Give a warning instead of an error if a handler name contains undefined variables and has no listen topics (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58841).
-- Improve resilience of ``ansible-galaxy collection`` by increasing the page size to make fewer requests overall and retrying queries with a jittered exponential backoff when rate limiting HTTP codes (520 and 429) occur. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74191)
-- Jinja2 globals should be accessible even when importing a template without the context (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75371)
-- PlayContext - Remove deprecated ``make_become_cmd`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74136)
-- PowerShell - Ignore the ``LIB`` environment variable when compiling C# Ansible code
-- Prevent ``ansible_failed_task`` from further templating (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74036)
-- Remove 'default' from ssh plugin as we want to rely on default from ssh itself or ssh/config.
-- Replace usage of private dnf.Base() attribute by future dnf API
-- Save unreachable hosts between plays by adding them to the PlayIterator's _play._removed_hosts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66945).
-- Solaris - correct version check in svcadm_supports_sync (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73860).
-- Task depth - Prevent exception when the task depth exceeds Pythons recursion depth (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73996)
-- Templating - Ensure we catch exceptions when calling ``.filters()`` or ``.tests()`` on their respective plugins and properly error, instead of aborting which results in no filters being added to the jinja2 environment (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74127)
-- The ``apt_key`` module did not properly handle GnuPG errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74477)
-- The error message about the failure to import a ```gpg`` key by the ``apt_key`` module was incorrect (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74423).
-- Update network user guide to explain use of cli_parse and validate plugins.
-- Variable Manager - Only check if ``play.hosts`` is a template when the play hasn't been finalized (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73926)
-- WorkerProcess - Python 3.5 fix for workaround for stdout deadlock in multiprocessing shutdown to avoid process hangs. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74149)
-- ``AnsibleModule.run_command`` - Address thread safety issues, concerning mutating the environment, current working directory, and umask. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74783)
-- ``failed_when``/``changed_when`` - Catch templating errors to prevent masking of module output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/37187)
-- ``heuristic_log_sanitize`` - Return the full string if there is no password (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75542)
-- ``pip`` now uses the ``pip`` Python module installed for the Ansible module's Python interpreter, if available, unless ``executable`` or ``virtualenv`` were specified.
-- advanced_host_list inventory plugin - Fixed variable referenced before assignment when hostname/range could not be parsed.
-- ansiballz - avoid treating path to site_packages as regex; escape it. This prevents a crash when ansible is installed to, or running from, an oddly named directory like ``ansi[ble``
-- ansible-doc - in text output, do not show empty ``version_added_collection`` values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74999).
-- ansible-doc can now dump kewyords with --metadata-dump (still just for internal use)
-- ansible-doc, fix output for internal metadata dump option
-- ansible-doc, make inventory plugin selection for snippets generic and not a hardcoded list
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix a bug with build_ignore when installing collections from source (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75528).
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix handling HTTP exceptions from Galaxy servers. Continue to the next server in the list until the collection is found.
-- ansible-galaxy - Improve error message from dependency resolution when a candidate has inconsistent requirements (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75139).
-- ansible-inventory - handle an exception while parsing inventory in toml format (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74404).
-- ansible-playbook, more robust handling of --list-hosts and undefined vars in hosts keyword.
-- ansible-pull - update documentation for ``--directory`` option to clarify path must be absolute.
-- ansible-pull, restore other options to use as repo other than git.
-- ansible-test - Add constraint for ``pyspnego>=0.1.6`` for Python 3.10 - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74612
-- ansible-test - Avoid publishing the port used by the ``pypi-test-container`` since it is only accessed by other containers. This avoids issues when trying to run tests in parallel on a single host.
-- ansible-test - Failure to download test results from a remote host no longer hide test failures. If a download failure occurs after tests fail, a warning will be issued instead.
-- ansible-test - Fix docker container IP address detection. The ``bridge`` network is no longer assumed to be the default.
-- ansible-test - Fix path to inventory file for ``windows-integration`` and ``network-integration`` commands for collections.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback when generating coverage reports and no coverage directory exists.
-- ansible-test - Random port selection is no longer handled by ``ansible-test``, avoiding possible port conflicts. Previously ``ansible-test`` would, under some circumstances, use one host's available ports to determine those of another host.
-- ansible-test - Running tests in a single test run with multiple "cloud" plugins no longer results in port conflicts. Previously two or more containers with overlapping ports could not be used in the same test run.
-- ansible-test - Tab completion after options like ``--docker`` which accept an optional argument will no longer provide incorrect completions.
-- ansible-test - The ``--python`` and ``--venv`` options are no longer ignored by some commands, such as ``coverage``.
-- ansible-test - The ``docker inspect`` command is now used to check for existing images instead of the ``docker images`` command. This resolves an issue where a ``docker pull`` would be unnecessarily executed for an image referenced by checksum.
-- ansible-test - Update distribution test containers to version 3.1.0.
-- ansible-test - Use ``--strict`` for ``pytest`` on Python 2.6 since ``--strict-markers`` is not available.
-- ansible-test - Use documented API to retrieve build information from Azure Pipelines.
-- ansible-test - Use pwsh to generate correct coverage line counts for stub files to get a more accurate coverage result
-- ansible-test - Use the correct variable to reference the client's SSH key when generating inventory.
-- ansible-test - add packaging python module to ``ansible-doc`` sanity test requirements.
-- ansible-test - allow the same listening port on all container interfaces
-- ansible-test - ensure the correct unit test target is given when the ``__init__.py`` file is modified inside the connection plugins directory
-- ansible-test - make the ``a/`` and ``b/`` prefixes an optional match since these can be turned off with the ``diff.noprefix`` setting in ``git``
-- ansible-test - restrict ``packaging`` to ``< 21.0`` for Python ``< 3.6`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75186).
-- ansible-test pslint - Fix error when encountering validation results that are highly nested - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74151
-- ansible-test validate-modules - EXAMPLES will no longer be marked as invalid YAML when it uses Ansible-specific YAML tags (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74384).
-- ansible-test validate-modules - correctly validate positional parameters to ``AnsibleModules`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75332).
-- ansible.builtin.cron - Keep non-empty crontabs, when removing cron jobs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74497).
-- ansible.utils.encrypt now handles missing or unusable 'crypt' library.
-- ansible_test - add constraint for ``MarkupSafe`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74666)
-- apt_key - set --recv argument as last one in apt-key command when using env var HTTP_PROXY (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74946)
-- arg_spec - remove unused imports
-- async_status, ensure we always get documented returns
-- async_status, resurrected module to deprecate for those that were invoking it directly.
-- basic - skip over module parameters which are used in ``journal.send`` API call (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71343).
-- become - fix a regression on Solaris where chmod can return 5 which we interpret as auth failure and stop trying become tmpdir permission fallbacks
-- become - work around setfacl not existing on modern Solaris (and possibly failing on some filesystems even when it does exist)
-- callbacks, restore displaying delegation to host as host label.
-- cli defaults for ssh args set to None as '' was bypassing normal default.
-- command - remove unreachable code path when trying to convert the value for ``chdir`` to bytes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75036)
-- command module, clarify order of remove/creates checks.
-- command module, correctly handles chdir to symlinks.
-- command module, move to standarized messages in 'msg' vs abusing 'stdout'.
-- command module, now all options work in ad-hoc execution.
-- command module, now always returns what we documented as 'returns always'.
-- config - use ``callbacks_enabled`` instead ``callback_enabled`` in a deprecated message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70028).
-- config lookup, can also handle collection plugins now
-- config, ensure 'quoted' lists from ini or env do not take the quotes literally as part of the list item.
-- connection ssh, no ssh_args cli option, so removed doc entry.
-- constants, internal _deprecated function always requires version.
-- correct doc links for become on warnings over world readable settings.
-- correctly use world readable setting since old constant is not 'settable' anymore.
-- dnf - align the return value of the list argument with the ``yum`` module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75483)
-- dnf - properly capture transaction error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72651)
-- dnf - refactor code to use `dnf whatprovides` API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73503).
-- dnf - support non-english environments (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75021)
-- dnf module - Use all components of a package name to determine if it's installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75311).
-- do not trigger interpreter discovery in the forced_local module path as they should use the ansible playbook python unless otherwise configured.
-- facts - detect homebrew installed at /opt/homebrew/bin/brew
-- facts, service_mgr, handle issues if ps command fails or returns empty.
-- filter plugins - patch new versions of Jinja2 to prevent warnings/errors on renamed filter decorators (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74667)
-- find - fix a bug where ``size`` argument was ignored for regular files with ``file_type`` of ``any``.
-- find action, correctly convert path to text when warning about skiping.
-- find does not ignore errors from os.walk anymore and issues warnings as expected.
-- gather_facts, improved message on timeout.
-- gather_facts, package, service - fix using module_defaults for the modules in addition to the action plugins. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72918)
-- get_bin_path, clarify with quotes what the missing required executable is.
-- get_url - Fixed checksum validation for binary files (leading asterisk) in checksum files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74502).
-- getent, fix return data for when there are multiple results for the same key
-- git - Fix git path used when .git file is present (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75608).
-- host_group_vars vars plugin fixed ini entry, section and key were reversed.
-- hostname - Add Rocky Linux support
-- hostname - No longer modifies system files in get_* methods and therefore when consulted in check_mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66432)
-- include - Remove deprecated ``static`` argument for ``include`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74135)
-- includes - Remove the deprecated ability to specify ``tags`` as ``vars`` on includes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74144)
-- ini lookup - better error on mixed/bad parameters
-- ini lookup - handle errors for duplicate keys and missing sections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74601)
-- interpreter discovery - Debian 8 and lower will avoid unsupported Python3 version in interpreter discovery
-- interpreter discovery is now handling special (ansible_network_os) cases in less noisy ways.
-- interpreter_discovery - hide warning 'No python interpreters...' when ANSIBLE_PYTHON_INTERPRETER=auto_silent (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74274).
-- module_common - handle exception when multiple workers try to create the cache directory
-- module_defaults - Fix action defaults for legacy actions/modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75279).
-- module_utils - detect symlinked init systems, even if unable to read /proc/1/comm (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74866).
-- netconf - catch and handle exception to prevent stack trace when running in FIPS mode
-- network module_utils - fix bug where ``to_bits()`` returned the ``str`` type instead of a useful value.
-- paramiko_ssh - mark connection as connected when ``_connect()`` is called (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74081)
-- password - Handle passlib wrapped algos bsd_nthash, django_argon2, django_bcrypt, ldap_bcrypt, ldap_bsdi_crypt, ldap_des_crypt, ldap_hex_md5, ldap_hex_sha1, ldap_md5_crypt, ldap_pbkdf2_sha1, ldap_pbkdf2_sha256, ldap_pbkdf2_sha512, ldap_sha1_crypt, ldap_sha256_crypt, ldap_sha512_crypt, roundup_plaintext (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75527).
-- pause - ensure control characters are always set to an appropriate value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73264)
-- pkg_mgr.py - Lower the priority of rpm-ostree detection to avoid false positives on systems not using it as the main package manager (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74578)
-- play - validate the ``hosts`` entry in a play (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65386)
-- playbook loaded from collection subdir now does not ignore subdirs.
-- plugin config now allows list type options to have multiple valid choices (#74225).
-- psrp - Always cleanup the last run pipeline if a second pipeline is invoked to avoid violating any resource limits.
-- psrp - Fix error when resetting a connection that was initialised but not connected - (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74092).
-- psrp - Try to clean up any server-side resources when resetting a connection.
-- recursive_diff - handle condition when parameters are not dict (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56249).
-- 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)
-- rekey_on_member - handle undefined positional arguments better.
-- remote tmpdir permissions - fix type error in macOS chmod ACL fallback (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74613).
-- replace - better handling of file operation exceptions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74686).
-- roles - allow for role arg specs in new meta file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74525).
-- roles - fix unexpected ``AttributeError`` when an empty ``argument_specs.yml`` is present (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75604).
-- roles - make sure argspec validation task is tagged with ``always`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74994).
-- roles - make sure argspec validation task templates suboptions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75070).
-- schema validation now uses dynamic range of versions for valid deprecation entries vs hardcoded out of date list.
-- script inventory plugin - Remove deprecated caching support (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74143)
-- sequence - fix error message so that unrecognized options to the plugin display correctly as a list and normalize error messages.
-- service - compare version without LooseVersion API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74488).
-- set ssh host_key_checking defaults to True, restoring original behaviour (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75168)
-- setup module should now not truncate hpux interface names.
-- setup module, fix filter to adjust for missing ``ansible_`` prefix on query.
-- setup, while gathering linux hardware facts be more resilient to errors and try to return more info.
-- slurp - Fix error messages for unreadable files and directories(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67340).
-- slurp - handle error when ``path`` is a directory and not a file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74930).
-- slurp - improve the logic in the error handling and remove ``os.stat()`` call (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75038)
-- ssh connection now correctly handle ssh_transfer_method and scp_if_ssh interactions.
-- ssh connection, fix interaction between trasnfer settings options.
-- ssh connection, use self.host which has the most up2date info instead of pc.remote_addr
-- ssh_connection - rename ``retries`` to ``reconnection_retries`` to avoid conflicts with task vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75142).
-- ssh_connection - set the default for ``reconnection_retries`` back to ``0`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75142).
-- subversion - fix stack trace when getting information about the repository (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36498)
-- system_service - use a context manager for file handling.
-- task_executor, Actions using AnsibleActionFail/Skip will now propagate 'results' if given
-- task_executor/ssh_connection - use the ``retries`` value from ``ssh_connection`` settings, not the default from the ``Task`` field attributes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75142).
-- template - ensure Jinja2 overrides from template header are used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75275)
-- unarchive - allow extracting archives that contain files which size exceeds free system memory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73985).
-- unarchive - fail when zipinfo binary is not found in executable paths (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39029).
-- unarchive - move failure for missing binary to ``can_handle_archive()`` rather than ``__init__()``
-- uri - Fix traceback and provide error message when trying to use non-string or mapping for ``form-multipart`` body - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74276
-- urls - Fix logic in matching ``unredirected_headers`` to perform case insensitive matching
-- validate_argument_spec, correct variable precedence and merge method and add missing examples
-- variable manager, avoid sourcing delegated variables when no inventory hostname is present. This affects scenarios like syntax check and imports.
-- version test - improve error message when an empty version is provided
-- yum - Fixed typo in failure message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72964).
-- yum - When upgrading, every architecture of a package is now included in the module results, instead of just one (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73284).
-- yum - fix ``yumstate`` return value when wildcards are used in the ``list`` argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74557)
-- yum - fix parsing of multiple subsequent empty lines from ``yum check-update`` output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70949)
-- yum - yum action plugin changes to support 'use' as an alias of 'use_backend' (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70774).
-
-Known Issues
-------------
-
-- ansible-test - Tab completion anywhere other than the end of the command with the new composite options will provide incorrect results. See https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/issues/351 for additional details.

changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.13.rst

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+=========================================================
+ansible-core 2.13 "Nobody's Fault but Mine" Release Notes
+=========================================================
+
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+
+v2.13.2rc1
+==========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2022-07-11
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - An improved error message is shown when the download of a pip bootstrap script fails. The download now uses ``urllib2`` instead of ``urllib`` on Python 2.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Move undefined check from concat to finalize (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78156)
+- ansible-doc - no longer list module and plugin aliases that are created with symlinks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78137).
+- ansible-doc - when listing modules in collections, proceed recursively. This fixes module listing for community.general 5.x.y and community.network 4.x.y (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78137).
+- ansible-doc will not add 'website for' in ":ref:" substitutions as it made them confusing.
+- file backed cache plugins now handle concurrent access by making atomic updates to the files.
+- password lookup does not ignore k=v arguments anymore.
+- user - Fix error "Permission denied" in user module while generating SSH keys (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78017).
+
+v2.13.1
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2022-06-20
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Add an 'action_plugin' field for modules in runtime.yml plugin_routing.
+
+  This fixes module_defaults by supporting modules-as-redirected-actions
+  without redirecting module_defaults entries to the common action.
+
+  .. code: yaml
+
+     plugin_routing:
+       action:
+         facts:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos
+         command:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos
+       modules:
+         facts:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos_facts
+         command:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos_command
+
+  With the runtime.yml above for ns.coll, a task such as
+
+  .. code: yaml
+
+     - hosts: all
+       module_defaults:
+         ns.coll.eos_facts: {'valid_for_eos_facts': 'value'}
+         ns.coll.eos_command: {'not_valid_for_eos_facts': 'value'}
+       tasks:
+         - ns.coll.facts:
+
+  will end up with defaults for eos_facts and eos_command
+  since both modules redirect to the same action.
+
+  To select an action plugin for a module without merging
+  module_defaults, define an action_plugin field for the resolved
+  module in the runtime.yml.
+
+  .. code: yaml
+
+     plugin_routing:
+       modules:
+         facts:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos_facts
+           action_plugin: ns.coll.eos
+         command:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos_command
+           action_plugin: ns.coll.eos
+
+  The action_plugin field can be a redirected action plugin, as
+  it is resolved normally.
+
+  Using the modified runtime.yml, the example task will only use
+  the ns.coll.eos_facts defaults.
+- ansible-galaxy - Support resolvelib versions 0.6.x, 0.7.x, and 0.8.x. The full range of supported versions is now >= 0.5.3, < 0.9.0.
+- ansible-test - Add RHEL 9.0 remote support.
+- ansible-test - Add support for Ubuntu VMs using the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test - Add support for exporting inventory with ``ansible-test shell --export {path}``.
+- ansible-test - Add support for multi-arch remotes.
+- ansible-test - Add support for running non-interactive commands with ``ansible-test shell``.
+- ansible-test - Avoid using the ``mock_use_standalone_module`` setting for unit tests running on Python 3.8 or later.
+- ansible-test - Blocking mode is now enforced for stdin, stdout and stderr. If any of these are non-blocking then ansible-test will exit during startup with an error.
+- ansible-test - Improve consistency of output messages by using stdout or stderr for most output, but not both.
+- ansible-test - The ``shell`` command can be used outside a collection if no controller delegation is required.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Add PyYAML >= 5.1 as a dependency of ansible-core to be compatible with Python 3.8+.
+- ansible-config dump - Only display plugin type headers when plugin options are changed if --only-changed is specified.
+- ansible-galaxy - handle unsupported versions of resolvelib gracefully.
+- ansible-test - Fix internal validation of remote completion configuration.
+- ansible-test - Prevent ``--target-`` prefixed options for the ``shell`` command from being combined with legacy environment options.
+- ansible-test - Sanity test output with the ``--lint`` option is no longer mixed in with bootstrapping output.
+- ansible-test - Subprocesses are now isolated from the stdin, stdout and stderr of ansible-test. This avoids issues with subprocesses tampering with the file descriptors, such as SSH making them non-blocking. As a result of this change, subprocess output from unit and integration tests on stderr now go to stdout.
+- ansible-test - Subprocesses no longer have access to the TTY ansible-test is connected to, if any. This maintains consistent behavior between local testing and CI systems, which typically do not provide a TTY. Tests which require a TTY should use pexpect or another mechanism to create a PTY.
+- apt module now correctly handles virtual packages.
+- lookup plugin - catch KeyError when lookup returns dictionary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77789).
+- pip - fix cases where resolution of pip Python module fails when importlib.util has not already been imported
+- plugin loader - Sort results when fuzzy matching plugin names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77966).
+- plugin loader will now load config data for plugin by name instead of by file to avoid issues with the same file being loaded under different names (fqcn + short name).
+- psrp connection now handles default to inventory_hostname correctly.
+- winrm connection now handles default to inventory_hostname correctly.
+
+v2.13.0
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2022-05-16
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- Jinja2 Controller Requirement - Jinja2 3.0.0 or newer is required for the control node (the machine that runs Ansible) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75881)
+- Templating - remove ``safe_eval`` in favor of using ``NativeEnvironment`` but utilizing ``literal_eval`` only in cases when ``safe_eval`` was used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75587)
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Action Plugins - Add helper method for argument spec validation, and extend to pause and async_wrapper
+- Added AIX root CA certs folders - enhance the TLS support in ``uri`` task on AIX
+- Added ``module_utils.compat.typing`` to facilitate type-hinting on all supported Python versions.
+- Ansible.Basic - small changes to allow use in PowerShell modules running on non-Windows platforms (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76924).
+- AnsibleModule.run_command() now has a toggle to allow caller to decide to handle exceptions from executing the command itself
+- Attach concat function to an environment class (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76282)
+- Clarify in a comment that unrolling an iterator in ``Templar._finalize`` is actually necessary. Also switch to using the ``_unroll_iterator`` decorator directly to deduplicate code in ``Templar._finalize``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76436)
+- Installation - modernize our python installation, to reduce dynamic code in setup.py, and migrate what is feasible to setup.cfg. This will enable shipping wheels in the future.
+- PlayIterator - introduce public methods to access ``PlayIterator._host_states`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74416)
+- PlayIterator - use enums for Iterating and Failed states (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74511)
+- Reduce number of iterations through PlayIterator (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74175)
+- Remove more Python 2.x compatibility code from controller (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77320).
+- Start of moving away from using Six, Python 2 and 3 compatibility library (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75863)
+- The collection loader now reports a Python warning if an attempt is made to install the Ansible collection loader a second time. Previously this condition was reported using an Ansible warning.
+- ``ansible-galaxy collection [install|verify]`` - allow user-provided signature sources in addition to those from the Galaxy server. Each collection entry in a requirements file can specify a ``signatures`` key followed by a list of sources. Collection name(s) provided on the CLI can specify additional signature sources by using the ``--signatures`` CLI option. Signature sources should be URIs that can be opened with ``urllib.request.urlopen()``, such as "https://example.com/path/to/detached_signature.asc" or "file:///path/to/detached_signature.asc". The ``--keyring`` option must be specified if signature sources are provided.
+- ``ansible-galaxy collection [install|verify]`` - use gpg to verify the authenticity of the signed ``MANIFEST.json`` with ASCII armored detached signatures provided by the Galaxy server. The keyring (which is not managed by ``ansible-galaxy``) must be provided with the ``--keyring`` option to use signature verification. If no ``--keyring`` is specified and the collection to ``install|verify`` has associated detached signatures on the Galaxy server, a warning is provided.
+- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` - Add a global configuration to modify the required number of signatures that must verify the authenticity of the collection. By default, the number of required successful signatures is 1. Set this option to ``all`` to require all signatures verify the collection. To ensure signature verification fails if there are no valid signatures, prepend the value with '+', such as ``+all`` or ``+1``.
+- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` - Add a global ignore list for gpg signature errors. This can be used to ignore certain signatures when the number of required successful signatures is all. When the required number of successful signatures is a positive integer, the only effect this has is to display fewer errors to the user on failure (success is determined by having the minimum number of successful signatures, in which case all errors are disregarded).
+- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` - Add a global toggle to turn off GPG signature verification.
+- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` - Store Galaxy server metadata alongside installed collections for provenance. Signatures obtained from the Galaxy server can be used for offline verification with ``ansible-galaxy collection verify --offline``.
+- ansible-console - Provide a  way to customize the stdout callback
+- ansible-core modules - Remove unused Python shebangs from built-in modules.
+- ansible-doc metadata dump - add option ``--no-fail-on-errors`` which allows to not fail the ansible-doc invocation when errors happen during docs parsing or processing. Instead they are reported in the JSON result in an ``error`` key for the affected plugins (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77035).
+- ansible-galaxy - the option to skip certificate verification now also applies when cloning via SCM (git/hg) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41077)
+- ansible-test - Accept new-style Python modules without a shebang.
+- ansible-test - Add ``--version`` support to show the ansible-core version.
+- ansible-test - Add support for ``rhel/8.5`` remote instances.
+- ansible-test - Add support for remote testing of FreeBSD 12.3.
+- ansible-test - Add support for running container tests with ``podman remote`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75753)
+- ansible-test - Added the ``fedora35`` test container.
+- ansible-test - Change the maximum number of open files in a test container from the default to ``10240``.
+- ansible-test - Declare public dependencies of ansible-core and use to limit unguarded imports in plugins.
+- ansible-test - Importing ``distutils`` now results in an error.
+- ansible-test - Installation of ``cryptography`` is no longer version constrained when ``openssl`` 1.1.0 or later is installed.
+- ansible-test - Miscellaneous code cleanup and type hint fixes.
+- ansible-test - PowerShell in the ``base`` and ``default`` containers has been upgraded to version 7.1.4.
+- ansible-test - Remove RHEL 8.4 remote (``rhel/8.4``) support.
+- ansible-test - Remove ``idna`` constraint.
+- ansible-test - Remove obsolete ``MAXFD`` display.
+- ansible-test - Remove obsolete constraints for Python 2.6.
+- ansible-test - Remove support for FreeBSD 12.2 remote provisioning.
+- ansible-test - Remove support for macOS 11.1 remote provisioning.
+- ansible-test - Remove support for provisioning remote AIX instances.
+- ansible-test - Remove the ``centos8`` test container since CentOS 8 will reach end-of-life soon.
+- ansible-test - Remove the ``fedora33`` test container since Fedora 33 will reach end-of-life soon.
+- ansible-test - Remove unused Python 2.x compatibility code.
+- ansible-test - Removed support for Sherlock from the Azure provisioning plugin.
+- ansible-test - Removed used ``MarkupSafe`` constraint for Python 3.5 and earlier.
+- ansible-test - Requirements for the plugin import test are now frozen.
+- ansible-test - Shellcheck in the ``base`` and ``default`` containers has been upgraded to version 0.7.0.
+- ansible-test - Stop early with an error if the current working directory contains an invalid collection namespace or name.
+- ansible-test - The ``--help`` option is now available when an unsupported cwd is in use.
+- ansible-test - The ``--help`` output now shows the same instructions about cwd as would be shown in error messages if the cwd is unsupported.
+- ansible-test - The ``pip`` and ``wheel`` packages are removed from all sanity test virtual environments after installation completes to reduce their size. Previously they were only removed from the environments used for the ``import`` sanity test.
+- ansible-test - The explanation about cwd usage has been improved to explain more clearly what is required.
+- ansible-test - The hash for all managed sanity test virtual environments has changed. Containers that include ``ansible-test sanity --prime-venvs`` will need to be rebuilt to continue using primed virtual environments.
+- ansible-test - Update ``base`` container to version 2.1.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``base`` container to version 2.2.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.2.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.4.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.5.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.6.2.
+- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.7.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.8.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.9.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``pip`` used to bootstrap remote FreeBSD instances from version 20.3.4 to 21.3.1.
+- ansible-test - Update sanity test requirements.
+- ansible-test - Update the NIOS test plugin container to version 1.4.0.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``alpine`` container to version 3.3.0. This updates the base image from 3.14.2 to 3.15.0, which includes support for installing binary wheels using pip.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` containers from Python 3.10.0rc2 to 3.10.0.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` containers from a Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 base image.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to version 5.1.0.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``galaxy`` test plugin to get its container from a copy on quay.io.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``openshift`` test plugin to get its container from a copy on quay.io.
+- ansible-test - Use Python 3.10 as the default Python version for the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
+- ansible-test - add macOS 12.0 as a remote target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76328)
+- ansible-test - handle JSON decode error gracefully in podman environment.
+- ansible-test pslint - Added the `AvoidLongLines <https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/blob/master/docs/Rules/AvoidLongLines.md>`_ rule set to a length of 160.
+- ansible-test pslint - Added the `PlaceCloseBrace <https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/blob/master/docs/Rules/PlaceCloseBrace.md>`_ rule set to enforce close braces on a newline.
+- ansible-test pslint - Added the `PlaceOpenBrace <https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/blob/master/docs/Rules/PlaceOpenBrace.md>`_ rule set to enforce open braces on the same line and a subsequent newline.
+- ansible-test pslint - Added the `UseConsistentIndentation <https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/blob/master/docs/Rules/UseConsistentIndentation.md>`_ rule to enforce indentation is done with 4 spaces.
+- ansible-test pslint - Added the `UseConsistentWhitespace <https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/blob/master/docs/Rules/UseConsistentWhitespace.md>`_ rule to enforce whitespace consistency in PowerShell.
+- ansible-test pslint - Updated ``PowerShellScriptAnalyzer`` to 1.20.0
+- ansible-test sanity validate-modules - the validate-modules sanity test now also checks the documentation of documentable plugin types (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71734).
+- ansible-test validate-modules sanity test - add more schema checks to improve quality of plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77268).
+- ansible-test validate_modules - allow ``choices`` for return values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76009).
+- apt - Add support for using ">=" in package version number matching.
+- apt - Adds APT option ``--allow-change-held-packages`` as module parameter ``allow_change_held_packages`` to allow APT up- or downgrading a package which is on APTs hold list (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65325)
+- auto inventory plugin will now give plugin loading information on verbose output
+- callbacks - Add result serialization format options to ``_dump_results`` allowing plugins such as the ``default`` callback to emit ``YAML`` serialized task results in addition to ``JSON``
+- dnf - add more specific error message for GPG validation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76192)
+- env lookup, add default option
+- facts - report prefix length for IPv4 addresses in Linux network facts.
+- get_parsable_locale now logs result when in debug mode.
+- git - display the destination directory path in error msg when local_mods detects local modifications conflict so that users see the exact location
+- iptables - add the ``chain_management`` parameter that controls iptables chain creation and deletion
+- jinja2_native - keep same behavior on Python 3.10.
+- junit callback - Add support for replacing the directory portion of out-of-tree relative task paths with a placeholder.
+- k8s - scenario guides for kubernetes migrated to ``kubernetes.core`` collection.
+- module_utils.distro - Add missing ``typing`` import from original code.
+- package_facts - add pkg_info support for OpenBSD and NetBSD (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76580)
+- services_facts - Add support for openrc (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76373).
+- setting DEFAULT_FACT_PATH is being deprecated in favor of the generic module_defaults keyword
+- uri - Avoid reading the response body when not needed
+- uri - Eliminate multiple requests to determine the final URL for file naming with ``dest``
+- validate-modules - do some basic validation on the ``M(...)``, ``U(...)``, ``L(..., ...)`` and ``R(..., ...)`` documentation markups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76262).
+- vmware - migrated vmware scenario guides to `community.vmware` repo.
+- yum, dnf - add sslverify option to temporarily disable certificate validation for a repository
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- Module Python Dependency - Drop support for Python 2.6 in module execution.
+- Templating - it is no longer allowed to perform arithmetic and concatenation operations outside of the jinja template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75587)
+- The ``finalize`` method is no longer exposed in the globals for use in templating.
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- ansible-core - Remove support for Python 2.6.
+- ansible-test - Remove support for Python 2.6.
+- ssh connection plugin option scp_if_ssh in favor of ssh_transfer_method.
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- Remove deprecated ``Templar.set_available_variables()`` method (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75828)
+- cli - remove deprecated ability to set verbosity before the sub-command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75823)
+- copy - remove deprecated ``thirsty`` alias (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75824)
+- psrp - Removed fallback on ``put_file`` with older ``pypsrp`` versions. Users must have at least ``pypsrp>=0.4.0``.
+- url_argument_spec - remove deprecated ``thirsty`` alias for ``get_url`` and ``uri`` modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75825, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75826)
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- Do not include params in exception when a call to ``set_options`` fails. Additionally, block the exception that is returned from being displayed to stdout. (CVE-2021-3620)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Add a YAML representer for ``NativeJinjaText``
+- Add a YAML representer for ``NativeJinjaUnsafeText``
+- AnsiballZ - Ensure we use the full python package in the module cache filename to avoid a case where ``collections:`` is used to execute a module via short name, where the short name duplicates another module from ``ansible.builtin`` or another collection that was executed previously.
+- Ansible.ModuleUtils.LinkUtil - Ignore the ``LIB`` environment variable when loading the ``LinkUtil`` code
+- Ansible.ModuleUtils.SID - Use user principal name as is for lookup in the ``Convert-ToSID`` function - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77316
+- Detect package manager for Amazon Linux 2022 (AL2022) as dnf
+- Ensure the correct ``environment_class`` is set on ``AnsibleJ2Template``
+- Fix ``AttributeError`` when providing password file via ``--connection-password-file`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76530)
+- Fix ``end_play`` to end the current play only (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76672)
+- Fix collection filter/test plugin redirects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77192).
+- Fix executing includes in the always section in the free strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75642)
+- Fix for when templating empty template file resulted in file with string 'None' (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76610)
+- Fix help message for the 'ansible-galaxy collection verify' positional argument. The positional argument must be a collection name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76087).
+- Fix module logging issue when using custom module on WSL2 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76320)
+- Fix task debugger to work with ``run_once`` using ``linear`` strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76049)
+- Fix traceback when installing a collection from a git repository and git is not installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77479).
+- Interpreter Discovery - Fallback to OS family if the distro is not found in ``INTERPRETER_PYTHON_DISTRO_MAP`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75560)
+- Interpreter discovery - Add ``RHEL`` to ``OS_FAMILY_MAP`` for correct family fallback for interpreter discovery (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77368)
+- Make include_role/include_tasks work with any_errors_fatal (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50897)
+- Parser errors from within includes should not be rescueable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73657)
+- Prevent losing unsafe on results returned from lookups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77535)
+- Templating - Ensure we catch exceptions when getting ``.filters`` and ``.tests`` attributes on their respective plugins and properly error, instead of aborting which results in no filters being added to the jinja2 environment
+- Trigger an undefined error when an undefined variable is detected within a dictionary and/or list (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75587)
+- _run_loop - Add the task name to the warning (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76011)
+- ``Templar.copy_with_new_env`` - set the ``finalize`` method of the new ``Templar`` object for the new environment (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76379)
+- add_host/group_by: fix using changed_when in a loop (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71627)
+- ansible - Exclude Python 2.6 from Python interpreter discovery.
+- ansible-config avoid showing _terms and _input when --only-changed.
+- ansible-doc - Fix ansible-doc -l ansible.builtin / ansible.legacy not returning anything
+- ansible-doc - ignore plugin deprecation warnings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75671)
+- ansible-galaxy - Add galaxy_collection_skeleton/galaxy_collection_skeleton_ignore configuration options
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix using the '--ignore-certs' option when there is no server-specific configuration for the Galaxy server.
+- ansible-galaxy - installing/downloading collections with invalid versions in git repositories and directories now gives a formatted error message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76425, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75404).
+- ansible-galaxy - when installing a role properly raise an error when inaccessible path is specified multiple times in roles_path (e.g. via environment variable and command line option) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76316)
+- ansible-galaxy collection build - Ignore any existing ``MANIFEST.json`` and ``FILES.json`` in the root directory when building a collection.
+- ansible-galaxy collection verify - display files/directories not included in the FILES.json as modified content.
+- ansible-galaxy publish - Fix warning and error detection in import messages to properly display them in Ansible
+- ansible-pull handle case where hostname and nodename are empty
+- ansible-test - Add default entry for Windows remotes to be used with unknown versions.
+- ansible-test - All virtual environments managed by ansible-test are marked as usable after being bootstrapped, to avoid errors caused by use of incomplete environments. Previously this was only done for sanity tests. Existing environments from previous versions of ansible-test will be recreated on demand due to lacking the new marker.
+- ansible-test - Automatic target requirements installation is now based on the target environment instead of the controller environment.
+- ansible-test - Correctly detect when running as the ``root`` user (UID 0) on the origin host. The result of the detection was incorrectly being inverted.
+- ansible-test - Don't fail if network cannot be disconnected (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77472)
+- ansible-test - Fix Python real prefix detection when running in a ``venv`` virtual environment.
+- ansible-test - Fix ``windows-integration`` and ``network-integration`` when used with the ``--docker`` option and user-provided inventory.
+- ansible-test - Fix installation and usage of ``pyyaml`` requirement for the ``import`` sanity test for collections.
+- ansible-test - Fix path to inventory file for ``windows-integration`` and ``network-integration`` commands for collections.
+- ansible-test - Fix plugin loading.
+- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/python`` on the origin host.
+- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/root`` on the origin host.
+- ansible-test - Fix the ``import`` sanity test to work properly when Ansible's built-in vendoring support is in use.
+- ansible-test - Fix the ``validate-modules`` sanity test to avoid double-loading the collection loader and possibly failing on import of the ``packaging`` module.
+- ansible-test - Fix traceback in ``import`` sanity test on Python 2.7 when ``pip`` is not available.
+- ansible-test - Fix traceback in the ``validate-modules`` sanity test when testing an Ansible module without any callables.
+- ansible-test - Fix traceback when running from an install and delegating execution to a different Python interpreter.
+- ansible-test - Fix traceback when using the ``--all`` option with PowerShell code coverage.
+- ansible-test - Fix type hints.
+- ansible-test - Import ``yaml.cyaml.CParser`` instead of ``_yaml.CParser`` in the ``yamllint`` sanity test.
+- ansible-test - Limit ``paramiko`` installation to versions before 2.9.0. This is required to maintain support for systems which do not support RSA SHA-2 algorithms.
+- ansible-test - Pylint Deprecated Plugin - Use correct message symbols when date or version is not a float or str (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77085)
+- ansible-test - Relocate constants to eliminate symlink.
+- ansible-test - Replace the directory portion of out-of-tree paths in JUnit files from integration tests with the ``out-of-tree:`` prefix.
+- ansible-test - Sanity tests run with the ``--requirements` option for Python 2.x now install ``virtualenv`` when it is missing or too old. Previously it was only installed if missing. Version 16.7.12 is now installed instead of the latest version.
+- ansible-test - Set the ``pytest`` option ``--rootdir`` instead of letting it be auto-detected.
+- ansible-test - Show an error message instead of a traceback when running outside of a supported directory.
+- ansible-test - Target integration test requirements are now correctly installed for target environments running on the controller.
+- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test no longer reports errors about ``packaging`` being missing when testing collections.
+- ansible-test - Update distribution test containers to version 3.1.0.
+- ansible-test - Update help links to reference ``ansible-core`` instead of ``ansible``.
+- ansible-test - Update unit tests to use the ``--forked`` option instead of the deprecated ``--boxed`` option.
+- ansible-test - Use https://ci-files.testing.ansible.com/ for instance bootstrapping instead of an S3 endpoint.
+- ansible-test - Use relative paths in JUnit files generated during integration test runs.
+- ansible-test - Use the correct variable to reference the client's SSH key when generating inventory.
+- ansible-test - Use the legacy collection loader for ``import`` sanity tests on target-only Python versions.
+- ansible-test - Virtual environments managed by ansible-test now use consistent versions of ``pip``, ``setuptools`` and ``wheel``. This avoids issues with virtual environments containing outdated or dysfunctional versions of these tools. The initial bootstrapping of ``pip`` is done by ansible-test from an HTTPS endpoint instead of creating the virtual environment with it already present.
+- ansible-test - fix a typo in validate-modules.
+- ansible-test - fixed support container failures (eg http-test-container) under podman
+- ansible-test compile sanity test - do not crash if a column could not be determined for an error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77465).
+- ansible-test pslint - Fix error when encountering validation results that are highly nested - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74151
+- ansible-vault encrypt_string - fix ``--output`` option to correctly write encrypted string into given file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75101)
+- ansible.builtin.file modification_time supports check_mode
+- ansible_facts.devices - Fix parsing of device serial number detected via sg_inq for rhel8 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75420)
+- apt - fails to deploy deb file to old debian systems using python-apt < 0.8.9 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47277)
+- arg_spec - Fix incorrect ``no_log`` warning when a parameter alias is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77576)
+- async - Improve performance of sending async callback events by never sending the full task through the queue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76729)
+- catch the case that cowsay is broken which would lead to missing output
+- cleaning facts will now only warn about the variable name and not post the content, which can be undesireable to disclose
+- collection_loader - Implement 'find_spec' and 'exec_module' to override deprecated importlib methods 'find_module' and 'load_module' when applicable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74660).
+- correctly inherit vars from parent in block (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75286).
+- default callback - Ensure we compare FQCN also in lockstep logic, to ensure using the FQCN of a strategy plugin triggers the correct behavior in the default callback plugin. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76782)
+- distribution - add EuroLinux to fact gathering (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76624).
+- distribution - detect tencentos and gather correct facts on the distro.
+- dnf - ensure releasever is passed into libdnf as string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77010)
+- extend timeout for ansible-galaxy when communicating with the galaxy server api, and apply it to all interactions with the api
+- facts - add support for deepin distro information detection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77286).
+- first_found - fix to allow for spaces in file names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77136)
+- gather_facts - Fact gathering now continues even if it fails to read a file
+- gather_facts action now handles the move of base connection plugin types into collections to add/prevent subset argument correctly
+- gather_facts/setup will not fail anymore if capsh is present but not executable
+- git module fix docs and proper use of ssh wrapper script and GIT_SSH_COMMAND depending on version.
+- git module is more consistent and clearer about which ssh options are added to git calls.
+- git module no longer uses wrapper script for ssh options.
+- hacking - fix incorrect usage of deprecated fish-shell redirection operators that failed to honor ``--quiet`` flag when sourced (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77180).
+- hostname - Do not require SystemdStrategy subclasses for every distro (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76792)
+- hostname - Fix Debian strategy KeyError, use `SystemdStrategy` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76124)
+- hostname - Update the systemd strategy in the ``hostname`` module to not interfere with NetworkManager (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76958)
+- hostname - add hostname support for openEuler distro (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76619).
+- hostname - use ``file_get_content()`` to read the file containing the host name in the ``FileStrategy.get_permanent_hostname()`` method. This prevents a ``TypeError`` from being raised when the strategy is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77025).
+- include_vars, properly initialize variable as there is corner case in which it can end up referenced and not defined
+- inventory - parameterize ``disable_lookups`` in ``Constructable`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76769).
+- inventory manager now respects --flush-cache
+- junit callback - Fix traceback during automatic fact gathering when using relative paths.
+- junit callback - Fix unicode error when handling non-ASCII task paths.
+- module_utils.common.yaml - The ``SafeLoader``, ``SafeDumper`` and ``Parser`` classes now fallback to ``object`` when ``yaml`` is not available. This fixes tracebacks when inheriting from these classes without requiring a ``HAS_YAML`` guard around class definitions.
+- parameters - handle blank values when argument is a list (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77108).
+- play_context now compensates for when a conneciton sets the default to inventory_hostname but skips adding it to the vars.
+- playbook/strategy have more informative 'attribute' based errors for playbook objects and handlers.
+- python modules (new type) will now again prefer the specific python stated in the module's shebang instead of hardcoding to /usr/bin/python.
+- replace - Always return ``rc`` to ensure return values are consistent - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71963
+- script - skip in check mode if the plugin cannot determine if a change will occur (i.e. neither `creates` or `removes` are provided).
+- service - Fixed handling of sleep arguments during service restarts on AIX. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76877)
+- service - Fixed service restarts with arguments on AIX. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76840)
+- service_facts module will now give more meaningful warnings when it fails to gather data.
+- set_fact/include_vars correctly handle delegation assignments within loops
+- setup - detect docker container with check for ./dockerenv or ./dockinit (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74349).
+- shell/command - only return changed as True if the task has not been skipped.
+- shell/command - only skip in check mode if the options `creates` and `removes` are both None.
+- ssh connection - properly quote controlpersist path given by user to avoid issues with spaces and other characters
+- ssh connection avoid parsing ssh cli debug lines as they can match expected output at high verbosities.
+- ssh connection now uses more correct host source as play_context can ignore loop/delegation variations.
+- sudo become plugin, fix handling of non interactive flags, previous substitution was too naive
+- systemd - check if service is alias so it gets enabled (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75538).
+- systemd - check if service is indirect so it gets enabled (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76453).
+- task_executor reverts the change to push facts into delegated vars on loop finalization as result managing code already handles this and was duplicating effort to wrong result.
+- template lookup - restore inadvertently deleted default for ``convert_data`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77004)
+- to_json/to_nice_json filters defaults back to unvaulting/no unsafe packing.
+- unarchive - Fix zip archive file listing that caused issues with content postprocessing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76067).
+- unarchive - Make extraction work when the LANGUAGE environment variable is set to a non-English locale.
+- unarchive - apply ``owner`` and ``group`` permissions to top folder (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35426)
+- unarchive - include the original error when a handler cannot manage the archive (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/28977).
+- unarchive - the ``io_buffer_size`` option added in 2.12 was not accepted by the module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77271).
+- urls - Allow ``ca_path`` to point to a bundle containing multiple PEM certs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75015)
+- urls/uri - Address case where ``HTTPError`` isn't fully initialized due to the error, and is missing certain methods and attributes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76386)
+- user - allow ``password_expiry_min`` and ``password_expiry_min`` to be set to ``0`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75017)
+- user - allow password min and max to be set at the same time (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75017)
+- user - update logic to check if user exists or not in MacOS.
+- validate_argument_spec - Skip suboption validation if the top level option is an invalid type (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75612).
+- variablemanager, more efficient read of vars files
+- vault - Warn instead of fail for missing vault IDs if at least one valid vault secret is found.
+- winrm - Ensure ``kinit`` is run with the same ``PATH`` env var as the Ansible process
+- yum - prevent storing unnecessary cache data by running `yum makecache fast` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76336)
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- get_url - document ``check_mode`` correctly with unreliable changed status (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65687).

changelogs/fragments/ 75876-fix-parsing-of-device-serial-number-for-rhel-8.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - ansible_facts.devices - Fix parsing of device serial number detected via sg_inq for rhel8 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75420)

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/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/47277-fails-to-deploy-deb-when-has-no-architecture-attribute.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - apt - fails to deploy deb file to old debian systems using python-apt < 0.8.9 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47277)

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/50771-uri-improvements.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+minor_changes:
+- uri - Eliminate multiple requests to determine the final URL for file naming with ``dest``
+- uri - Avoid reading the response body when not needed

changelogs/fragments/50897-include_role-any_errors_fatal.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Make include_role/include_tasks work with any_errors_fatal (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50897)

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/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/67616-galaxy-scm-cloning-ignore-certs.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- ansible-galaxy - the option to skip certificate verification now also applies when cloning via SCM (git/hg) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41077)

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/69776-add-aix-root-ca-certs-paths.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+- Added AIX root CA certs folders - enhance the TLS support in ``uri`` task on AIX

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/71627-add_host-group_by-fix-changed_when-in-loop.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "add_host/group_by: fix using changed_when in a loop (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71627)"

changelogs/fragments/71734-validate-plugins.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - "ansible-test sanity validate-modules - the validate-modules sanity test now also checks the documentation of documentable plugin types (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71734)."

changelogs/fragments/72405-git-module-local_mods-show-conflict-destination-directory.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - git - display the destination directory path in error msg when local_mods detects local modifications conflict so that users see the exact location

changelogs/fragments/72592-catch-broken-cowsay.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - catch the case that cowsay is broken which would lead to missing output

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

changelogs/fragments/72651-dnf-capture-transaction-failure.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - dnf - properly capture transaction error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72651)

changelogs/fragments/72944-include_vars-add-hash_behaviour-option.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - include_vars - add ``hash_behaviour`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72944).

changelogs/fragments/72964-fixed-typo-in-yum-failure-message.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - yum - Fixed typo in failure message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72964).

changelogs/fragments/73024-unarchive-apply-permissions-top-folder.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - unarchive - apply ``owner`` and ``group`` permissions to top folder (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35426)

changelogs/fragments/73114-fix-ansible-role-download.yaml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - galaxy - support role artifact download from API response ``download_url`` location (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73103).

changelogs/fragments/73264-pause-emacs.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - pause - ensure control characters are always set to an appropriate value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73264)

changelogs/fragments/73284-yum-multiarch.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - yum - When upgrading, every architecture of a package is now included in the module results, instead of just one (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73284).

changelogs/fragments/73503_dnf_whatprovides.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- dnf - refactor code to use `dnf whatprovides` API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73503).

changelogs/fragments/73602-ansible-doc-version-added.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- "ansible-doc - show ``version_added`` for the plugin/module itself in text output, and improve ``version_added`` formatting (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73602)."

changelogs/fragments/73629_allow-change-held-packages.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - apt - Adds APT option ``--allow-change-held-packages`` as module parameter ``allow_change_held_packages`` to allow APT up- or
+    downgrading a package which is on APTs hold list (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65325)

changelogs/fragments/73657-include-parser-error-fail.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Parser errors from within includes should not be rescueable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73657)

changelogs/fragments/73814-host_label.yaml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - >-
-    `ansible.plugins.callback.CallbackBase.host_label()` has been factored out
-    as a static method (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73814).

changelogs/fragments/73819-git-accept_new_host_key.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-minor_changes:
-  - git - Add ``accept_newhostkey`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69846).

changelogs/fragments/73820-yumdnf-add_cacheonly_option.yaml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
----
-minor_changes:
-  - yum - Add ``cacheonly`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69397).
-  - dnf - Add ``cacheonly`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69397).

changelogs/fragments/73821-user-add_umask_option.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-minor_changes:
-  - user - Add ``umask`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40359).

changelogs/fragments/73822-date_time_facts_add_epoch_int.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-minor_changes:
-  - setup - add ``epoch_int`` option to date_time facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73822).

changelogs/fragments/73860-solaris-correct-version-check-in-svcadm_supports_sync.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Solaris - correct version check in svcadm_supports_sync (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73860).

changelogs/fragments/73864-action-plugin-module-defaults.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - gather_facts, package, service - fix using module_defaults for the modules in addition to the action plugins. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72918)

changelogs/fragments/73887.mac-m1-homebrew.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-  - facts - detect homebrew installed at /opt/homebrew/bin/brew

changelogs/fragments/73926-is-template-play-hosts.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- Variable Manager - Only check if ``play.hosts`` is a template when the play
-  hasn't been finalized (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73926)

changelogs/fragments/73971-non-batch-end_play.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Ensure end_play ends play, not batch (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73971)

changelogs/fragments/73985-let-unarchive-handle-huge-files.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - unarchive - allow extracting archives that contain files which size exceeds free system memory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73985).

changelogs/fragments/73996-recursion-depth.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- Task depth - Prevent exception when the task depth exceeds Pythons recursion depth
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73996)

changelogs/fragments/74005-keyed_groups-specific-options-for-empty-value.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - constructed - a new options ``trailing_separator`` and ``default_value`` to deal with key's value empty on keyed group.

changelogs/fragments/74013-controller-py38-min.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-major_changes:
-- Python Controller Requirement - Python 3.8 or newer is required for the control node (the machine that runs Ansible)
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74013)

changelogs/fragments/74036-unsafe-ansible_failed_task.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Prevent ``ansible_failed_task`` from further templating (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74036)

changelogs/fragments/74039_enable_module_defaults_for_collections.yml

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Fully qualified 'ansible.legacy' and 'ansible.builtin' plugin names work in conjunction with module_defaults.
-breaking_changes:
-  - Action, module, and group names in module_defaults must be static values. Their values can still be templates.
-  - Unresolvable groups, action plugins, and modules in module_defaults are an error.
-  - Fully qualified 'ansible.legacy' plugin names are not included implicitly in action_groups.
-minor_changes:
-  - Collections can define action_groups in ``meta/runtime.yml``.
-  - action_groups can include actions from other groups by using the special ``metadata`` dictionary field.

changelogs/fragments/74081-paramiko-mark-connected.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - paramiko_ssh - mark connection as connected when ``_connect()`` is called (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74081)

changelogs/fragments/74127-bad-filter.yml

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- Templating - Ensure we catch exceptions when calling ``.filters()`` or
-  ``.tests()`` on their respective plugins and properly error, instead of
-  aborting which results in no filters being added to the jinja2 environment
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74127)

changelogs/fragments/74135-remove-include-deprecations.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- include - Remove deprecated ``static`` argument for ``include``
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74135)

changelogs/fragments/74136-remove-playcontext-make-become-cmd.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- PlayContext - Remove deprecated ``make_become_cmd`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74136)

changelogs/fragments/74143-remove-script-cache.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- script inventory plugin - Remove deprecated caching support
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74143)

changelogs/fragments/74144-remove-include-vartags.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- includes - Remove the deprecated ability to specify ``tags`` as ``vars`` on includes
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74144)

changelogs/fragments/74222-ansible-test-digitalocean.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ansible-test - Adding DigitalOcean cloud support to ansible-test (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74222).

changelogs/fragments/74240-ansible-galaxy-increase-pagesize-and-handle-throttling.yml

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- >-
-  Improve resilience of ``ansible-galaxy collection`` by increasing the page
-  size to make fewer requests overall and retrying queries with a jittered
-  exponential backoff when rate limiting HTTP codes (520 and 429) occur.
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74191)

changelogs/fragments/74241-find-checks-size-with-any.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - find - fix a bug where ``size`` argument was ignored for regular files with ``file_type`` of ``any``.

changelogs/fragments/74256-set-theory-filters-behavior.yml

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-breaking_changes:
-  - intersect, difference, symmetric_difference, union filters - the default behavior
-    is now to be case-sensitive (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74255)
-  - unique filter - the default behavior is now to fail if Jinja2's filter fails and
-    explicit ``case_sensitive=False`` as the Ansible's fallback is case-sensitive
-    (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74256)

changelogs/fragments/74274_interpreter_discovery.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- interpreter_discovery - hide warning 'No python interpreters...' when ANSIBLE_PYTHON_INTERPRETER=auto_silent (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74274).

changelogs/fragments/74336-is_template-quick-check.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-    - >-
-        add a quick short circuit when checking if a string is a template to improve performance
-        on large strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74336)

changelogs/fragments/74361-install-collection-from-shallow-git-clone.yml

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- >-
-  ansible-galaxy - Installing a collection from a git repository
-  without specifying a version (or using the version ``HEAD``)
-  will clone the repository using --depth=1.

changelogs/fragments/74384-validate-modules-yaml.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- ansible-test validate-modules - EXAMPLES will no longer be marked as invalid YAML when it uses Ansible-specific YAML tags (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74384).