New release v2.11.2rc1

(cherry picked from commit 58d8397771)

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -12,17 +12,31 @@ 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: pipelinesCoverage
+    value: coverage
   - 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:6.0.0
+
+resources:
+  containers:
+    - container: default
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:1.9.0
 
 pool: Standard
 
@@ -37,6 +51,9 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - test: 1
             - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
+            - test: 5
   - stage: Units
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -45,14 +62,13 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: units/{0}
           targets:
+            - test: 2.6
             - test: 2.7
             - test: 3.5
             - test: 3.6
             - test: 3.7
             - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
-            - test: '3.10'
-            - test: 3.11
   - stage: Windows
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -61,62 +77,34 @@ stages:
           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  # context/target
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           targets:
-            - name: macOS 13.2
-              test: macos/13.2
+            - name: macOS 11.1
+              test: macos/11.1
             - name: RHEL 7.9
               test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: RHEL 8.7 py36
-              test: rhel/8.7@3.6
-            - name: RHEL 8.7 py39
-              test: rhel/8.7@3.9
-            - name: RHEL 9.1
-              test: rhel/9.1
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
-              test: freebsd/13.2
+            - name: RHEL 8.3 py36
+              test: rhel/8.3@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.3 py38
+              test: rhel/8.3@3.8
+            - name: FreeBSD 11.4
+              test: freebsd/11.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller
-        parameters:
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 13.2
-              test: macos/13.2
-            - name: RHEL 8.7
-              test: rhel/8.7
-            - name: RHEL 9.1
-              test: rhel/9.1
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
-              test: freebsd/13.2
-          groups:
             - 3
             - 4
             - 5
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller (ansible-test container management)
-        parameters:
-          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.17
-              test: alpine/3.17
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora/38
-            - name: RHEL 8.7
-              test: rhel/8.7
-            - name: RHEL 9.1
-              test: rhel/9.1
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu/20.04
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu/22.04
-          groups:
-            - 6
   - stage: Docker
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -126,30 +114,27 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - name: Alpine 3
               test: alpine3
+            - name: CentOS 6
+              test: centos6
             - name: CentOS 7
               test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 37
-              test: fedora37
-            - name: openSUSE 15
+            - name: CentOS 8
+              test: centos8
+            - name: Fedora 32
+              test: fedora32
+            - name: Fedora 33
+              test: fedora33
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
               test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
             - name: Ubuntu 20.04
               test: ubuntu2004
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu2204
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-            - name: Fedora 37
-              test: fedora37
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu2204
-          groups:
             - 3
             - 4
             - 5
@@ -161,9 +146,8 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: galaxy/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 3.9
-            - test: '3.10'
-            - test: 3.11
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
   - stage: Generic
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -172,9 +156,54 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: generic/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 3.9
-            - test: '3.10'
-            - test: 3.11
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+  - stage: Incidental_Remote
+    displayName: Incidental Remote
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: i/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: OS X 10.11
+              test: osx/10.11
+            - name: RHEL 7.9
+              test: rhel/7.9
+            - name: RHEL 8.3 py36
+              test: rhel/8.3@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.3 py38
+              test: rhel/8.3@3.8
+            - name: FreeBSD 11.4
+              test: freebsd/11.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
+  - stage: Incidental_Docker
+    displayName: Incidental Docker
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: i/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: CentOS 6
+              test: centos6
+            - name: CentOS 7
+              test: centos7
+            - name: CentOS 8
+              test: centos8
+            - name: Fedora 32
+              test: fedora32
+            - name: Fedora 33
+              test: fedora33
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
   - stage: Incidental_Windows
     displayName: Incidental Windows
     dependsOn: []
@@ -184,9 +213,10 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Server {0}
           testFormat: i/windows/{0}
           targets:
+            - test: 2012
+            - test: 2012-R2
             - test: 2016
             - test: 2019
-            - test: 2022
   - stage: Incidental
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -196,6 +226,16 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - name: IOS Python
               test: ios/csr1000v/
+            - name: VyOS Python 2.7
+              test: vyos/1.1.8/2.7
+            - name: VyOS Python 3.6
+              test: vyos/1.1.8/3.6
+            - 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:
@@ -206,6 +246,8 @@ stages:
       - Docker
       - Galaxy
       - Generic
+      - Incidental_Remote
+      - Incidental_Docker
       - Incidental_Windows
       - Incidental
     jobs:

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

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

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

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

.azure-pipelines/commands/sanity.sh

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

.azure-pipelines/commands/windows.sh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@@ -12,6 +12,4 @@ if ! ansible-test --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     pip install https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/devel.tar.gz --disable-pip-version-check
 fi
 
-# Generate stubs using docker (if supported) otherwise fall back to using a virtual environment instead.
-# The use of docker is required when Powershell code is present, but Ansible 2.12 was the first version to support --docker with coverage.
-ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --docker --color -v || ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --venv --color -v
+ansible-test coverage xml --stub --venv --venv-system-site-packages --color -v

.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 jobs:
   - job: Coverage
     displayName: Code Coverage
-    container: $[ variables.defaultContainer ]
+    container: default
     workspace:
       clean: all
     steps:
@@ -23,7 +23,17 @@ jobs:
       - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh
         displayName: Generate Coverage Report
         condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
-      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py "$(outputPath)"
+      - task: PublishCodeCoverageResults@1
+        inputs:
+          codeCoverageTool: Cobertura
+          # Azure Pipelines only accepts a single coverage data file.
+          # That means only Python or PowerShell coverage can be uploaded, but not both.
+          # Set the "pipelinesCoverage" variable to determine which type is uploaded.
+          # Use "coverage" for Python and "coverage-powershell" for PowerShell.
+          summaryFileLocation: "$(outputPath)/reports/$(pipelinesCoverage).xml"
+        displayName: Publish to Azure Pipelines
+        condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
+      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.sh "$(outputPath)"
         displayName: Publish to codecov.io
         condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
         continueOnError: true

.azure-pipelines/templates/test.yml

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

.git-blame-ignore-revs

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

.github/BOTMETA.yml

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

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -1,35 +1,18 @@
 ---
 name: 🐛 Bug report
 description: Create a report to help us improve
+issue_body: false  # default: true, adds a classic WSYWIG textarea, if on
 
 body:
 - type: markdown
   attributes:
-    value: >
-      **Thank you for wanting to report a bug in ansible-core!**
-
-
+    value: |
       ⚠
-      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on
-      GitHub][issue search] and keep in mind that we may have to keep
-      the current behavior because [every change breaks someone's
-      workflow][XKCD 1172].
-      We try to be mindful about this.
-
+      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
       Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
+      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
 
-
-      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please consider
-      [starting a mailing list thread or chatting in IRC][ML||IRC].
-
-
-
-      [ML||IRC]:
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--bug_report.yml#mailing-list-information
-
-      [issue search]: ../search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
-
-      [XKCD 1172]: https://xkcd.com/1172/
+      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
 
 
 - type: textarea
@@ -46,22 +29,6 @@ body:
 - type: dropdown
   attributes:
     label: Issue Type
-    description: >
-      Please select the single available option in the drop-down.
-
-      <details>
-        <summary>
-          <em>Why?</em>
-        </summary>
-
-        We would do it by ourselves but unfortunatelly, the curent
-        edition of GitHub Issue Forms Alpha does not support this yet 🤷
-
-
-        _We will make it easier in the future, once GitHub
-        supports dropdown defaults. Promise!_
-
-      </details>
     # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
     options:
     - Bug Report
@@ -71,22 +38,9 @@ body:
 - type: input
   attributes:
     label: Component Name
-    description: >
-      Write the short name of the rst file, module, plugin, task or
-      feature below, *use your best guess if unsure*.
-
-
-      **Tip:** Cannot find it in this repository? Please be advised that
-      the source for some parts of the documentation are hosted outside
-      of this repository. If the page you are reporting describes
-      modules/plugins/etc that are not officially supported by the
-      Ansible Core Engineering team, there is a good chance that it is
-      coming from one of the [Ansible Collections maintained by the
-      community][collections org]. If this is the case, please make sure
-      to file an issue under the appropriate project there instead.
-
-
-      [collections org]: /ansible-collections
+    description: >-
+      Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
+      *use your best guess if unsure*.
     placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
   validations:
     required: true
@@ -95,23 +49,13 @@ body:
   attributes:
     label: Ansible Version
     description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` below, under
-      the prompt line. Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
-      whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
-    render: console
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` between
+      tripple backticks.
     value: |
+      ```console (paste below)
       $ ansible --version
-    placeholder: |
-      $ ansible --version
-      ansible [core 2.11.0b4.post0]  (detached HEAD ref: refs/) last updated 2021/04/02 00:33:35 (GMT +200)
-        config file = None
-        configured module search path = ['~/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
-        ansible python module location = ~/src/github/ansible/ansible/lib/ansible
-        ansible collection location = ~/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
-        executable location = bin/ansible
-        python version = 3.9.0 (default, Oct 26 2020, 13:08:59) [GCC 10.2.0]
-        jinja version = 2.11.3
-        libyaml = True
+
+      ```
   validations:
     required: true
 
@@ -119,20 +63,12 @@ body:
   attributes:
     label: Configuration
     description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all` below, under the prompt line.
-      (if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all')
-      Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
-      whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
-    render: console
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed` between quotes.
     value: |
-      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
-    placeholder: |
-      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
-      DEFAULT_GATHERING(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = smart
-      DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['~/src/github/ansible/ansible/hosts']
-      DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ~/src/github/ansible/ansible/vault/print-password.sh
+      ```console (paste below)
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
+
+      ```
   validations:
     required: true
 
@@ -159,20 +95,6 @@ body:
       ```yaml (paste below)
 
       ```
-    placeholder: |
-      1. Implement the following playbook:
-
-         ```yaml
-         ---
-         # ping.yml
-         - hosts: all
-           gather_facts: false
-           tasks:
-           - ping:
-         ...
-         ```
-      2. Then run `ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1 ansible-playbook ping.yml -vvvvv`
-      3. An error occurs.
   validations:
     required: true
 
@@ -193,73 +115,11 @@ body:
     description: |
       Describe what actually happened. If possible run with extra verbosity (`-vvvv`).
 
-      Paste verbatim command output and don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
-      whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
-    render: console
-    placeholder: >-
-      Certificate did not match expected hostname: files.pythonhosted.org. Certificate: {'notAfter': 'Apr 28 19:20:25 2021 GMT', 'subjectAltName': ((u'DNS', 'r.ssl.fastly.net'), (u'DNS', '*.catchpoint.com'), (u'DNS', '*.cnn.io'), (u'DNS', '*.dollarshaveclub.com'), (u'DNS', '*.eater.com'), (u'DNS', '*.fastly.picmonkey.com'), (u'DNS', '*.files.saymedia-content.com'), (u'DNS', '*.ft.com'), (u'DNS', '*.meetupstatic.com'), (u'DNS', '*.nfl.com'), (u'DNS', '*.pagar.me'), (u'DNS', '*.picmonkey.com'), (u'DNS', '*.realself.com'), (u'DNS', '*.sbnation.com'), (u'DNS', '*.shakr.com'), (u'DNS', '*.streamable.com'), (u'DNS', '*.surfly.com'), (u'DNS', '*.theverge.com'), (u'DNS', '*.thrillist.com'), (u'DNS', '*.vox-cdn.com'), (u'DNS', '*.vox.com'), (u'DNS', '*.voxmedia.com'), (u'DNS', 'eater.com'), (u'DNS', 'ft.com'), (u'DNS', 'i.gse.io'), (u'DNS', 'picmonkey.com'), (u'DNS', 'realself.com'), (u'DNS', 'static.wixstatic.com'), (u'DNS', 'streamable.com'), (u'DNS', 'surfly.com'), (u'DNS', 'theverge.com'), (u'DNS', 'vox-cdn.com'), (u'DNS', 'vox.com'), (u'DNS', 'www.joyent.com')), 'subject': ((('countryName', u'US'),), (('stateOrProvinceName', u'California'),), (('localityName', u'San Francisco'),), (('organizationName', u'Fastly, Inc'),), (('commonName', u'r.ssl.fastly.net'),))}
-      Exception:
-      Traceback (most recent call last):
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
-          status = self.run(options, args)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 335, in run
-          wb.build(autobuilding=True)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 749, in build
-          self.requirement_set.prepare_files(self.finder)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 380, in prepare_files
-          ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 620, in _prepare_file
-          session=self.session, hashes=hashes)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 821, in unpack_url
-          hashes=hashes
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 659, in unpack_http_url
-          hashes)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 853, in _download_http_url
-          stream=True,
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 521, in get
-          return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 386, in request
-          return super(PipSession, self).request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 508, in request
-          resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 618, in send
-          r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/adapter.py", line 47, in send
-          resp = super(CacheControlAdapter, self).send(request, **kw)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/adapters.py", line 506, in send
-          raise SSLError(e, request=request)
-      SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /packages/ef/ab/aa12712415809bf698e719b307419f953e25344e8f42d557533d7a02b276/netapp_lib-2020.7.16-py2-none-any.whl (Caused by SSLError(CertificateError("hostname 'files.pythonhosted.org' doesn't match either of 'r.ssl.fastly.net', '*.catchpoint.com', '*.cnn.io', '*.dollarshaveclub.com', '*.eater.com', '*.fastly.picmonkey.com', '*.files.saymedia-content.com', '*.ft.com', '*.meetupstatic.com', '*.nfl.com', '*.pagar.me', '*.picmonkey.com', '*.realself.com', '*.sbnation.com', '*.shakr.com', '*.streamable.com', '*.surfly.com', '*.theverge.com', '*.thrillist.com', '*.vox-cdn.com', '*.vox.com', '*.voxmedia.com', 'eater.com', 'ft.com', 'i.gse.io', 'picmonkey.com', 'realself.com', 'static.wixstatic.com', 'streamable.com', 'surfly.com', 'theverge.com', 'vox-cdn.com', 'vox.com', 'www.joyent.com'",),))
-      ERROR: Command "/usr/bin/python2.6 /root/ansible/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/quiet_pip.py install --disable-pip-version-check -r /root/ansible/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/units.txt -r tests/unit/requirements.txt -c /root/ansible/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/constraints.txt" returned exit status 2.
-      ERROR: Command "docker exec d47eb360db4ce779c1f690db964655b76e68895c4360ff252c46fe7fe6f5c75a /usr/bin/env ANSIBLE_TEST_CONTENT_ROOT=/root/ansible_collections/netapp/ontap LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python3.6 /root/ansible/bin/ansible-test units --metadata tests/output/.tmp/metadata-9i2qfrcl.json --truncate 200 --redact --color yes --requirements --python default --requirements-mode only" returned exit status 1.
+      Paste verbatim command output between quotes.
+    value: |
+      ```console (paste below)
+
+      ```
   validations:
     required: true
-
-
-- type: markdown
-  attributes:
-    value: >
-      *One last thing...*
-
-
-      *Please, complete **all** sections as described, this form
-      is [processed automatically by a robot][ansibot help].*
-
-
-      Thank you for your collaboration!
-
-
-      [ansibot help]:
-      /ansible/ansibullbot/blob/master/ISSUE_HELP.md#for-issue-submitters
-
-
-- type: checkboxes
-  attributes:
-    label: Code of Conduct
-    description: |
-      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct][CoC] first.
-
-      [CoC]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--bug_report.yml
-    options:
-    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-      required: true
 ...

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml

@@ -1,51 +1,28 @@
 ---
 name: 📝 Documentation Report
 description: Ask us about docs
+# NOTE: issue body is enabled to allow screenshots
+issue_body: true  # default: true, adds a classic WSYWIG textarea, if on
 
 body:
 - type: markdown
   attributes:
-    value: >
-      **Thank you for wanting to report a problem with ansible-core
-      documentation!**
-
-
-      Please fill out your suggestions below. If the problem seems
-      straightforward, feel free to go ahead and
-      [submit a pull request] instead!
-
-
+    value: |
       ⚠
-      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on
-      GitHub][issue search].
-
+      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
       Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
+      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
 
-
-      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please consider
-      [starting a mailing list thread or chatting in IRC][ML||IRC].
-
-
-      [ML||IRC]:
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--documentation_report.yml#mailing-list-information
-
-      [issue search]: ../search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
-
-      [submit a pull request]:
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/documentation_contributions.html
+      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
 
 
 - type: textarea
   attributes:
     label: Summary
-    description: >
-      Explain the problem briefly below, add suggestions to wording
-      or structure.
+    description: |
+      Explain the problem briefly below, add suggestions to wording or structure.
 
-
-      **HINT:** Did you know the documentation has a `View on GitHub`
-      link on some pages? Feel free to use it to start a pull request
-      right from the GitHub UI!
+      **HINT:** Did you know the documentation has an `Edit on GitHub` link on every page?
     placeholder: >-
       I was reading the ansible-core documentation of version X and I'm having
       problems understanding Y. It would be very helpful if that got
@@ -56,22 +33,6 @@ body:
 - type: dropdown
   attributes:
     label: Issue Type
-    description: >
-      Please select the single available option in the drop-down.
-
-      <details>
-        <summary>
-          <em>Why?</em>
-        </summary>
-
-        We would do it by ourselves but unfortunatelly, the curent
-        edition of GitHub Issue Forms Alpha does not support this yet 🤷
-
-
-        _We will make it easier in the future, once GitHub
-        supports dropdown defaults. Promise!_
-
-      </details>
     # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
     options:
     - Documentation Report
@@ -81,22 +42,9 @@ body:
 - type: input
   attributes:
     label: Component Name
-    description: >
+    description: >-
       Write the short name of the rst file, module, plugin, task or
       feature below, *use your best guess if unsure*.
-
-
-      **Tip:** Be advised that the source for some parts of the
-      documentation are hosted outside of this repository. If the page
-      you are reporting describes modules/plugins/etc that are not
-      officially supported by the Ansible Core Engineering team, there
-      is a good chance that it is coming from one of the [Ansible
-      Collections maintained by the community][collections org]. If this
-      is the case, please make sure to file an issue under the
-      appropriate project there instead.
-
-
-      [collections org]: /ansible-collections
     placeholder: docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/debugging.rst
   validations:
     required: true
@@ -105,23 +53,13 @@ body:
   attributes:
     label: Ansible Version
     description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` below, under
-      the prompt line. Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
-      whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
-    render: console
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` between
+      tripple backticks.
     value: |
+      ```console (paste below)
       $ ansible --version
-    placeholder: |
-      $ ansible --version
-      ansible [core 2.11.0b4.post0]  (detached HEAD ref: refs/) last updated 2021/04/02 00:33:35 (GMT +200)
-        config file = None
-        configured module search path = ['~/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
-        ansible python module location = ~/src/github/ansible/ansible/lib/ansible
-        ansible collection location = ~/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
-        executable location = bin/ansible
-        python version = 3.9.0 (default, Oct 26 2020, 13:08:59) [GCC 10.2.0]
-        jinja version = 2.11.3
-        libyaml = True
+
+      ```
   validations:
     required: true
 
@@ -129,20 +67,12 @@ body:
   attributes:
     label: Configuration
     description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all` below, under the prompt line.
-      (if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all')
-      Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
-      whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
-    render: console
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed` between quotes.
     value: |
-      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
-    placeholder: |
-      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
-      DEFAULT_GATHERING(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = smart
-      DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['~/src/github/ansible/ansible/hosts']
-      DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ~/src/github/ansible/ansible/vault/print-password.sh
+      ```console (paste below)
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
+
+      ```
   validations:
     required: true
 
@@ -156,46 +86,12 @@ body:
   validations:
     required: true
 
-
-- type: textarea
+- type: markdown
   attributes:
-    label: Additional Information
-    description: |
+    value: |
+      **Additional Information**
+
       Describe how this improves the documentation, e.g. before/after situation or screenshots.
 
       **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
-    placeholder: >-
-      When the improvement is applied, it makes it more straightforward
-      to understand X.
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-
-- type: markdown
-  attributes:
-    value: >
-      *One last thing...*
-
-
-      *Please, complete **all** sections as described, this form
-      is [processed automatically by a robot][ansibot help].*
-
-
-      Thank you for your collaboration!
-
-
-      [ansibot help]:
-      /ansible/ansibullbot/blob/master/ISSUE_HELP.md#for-issue-submitters
-
-
-- type: checkboxes
-  attributes:
-    label: Code of Conduct
-    description: |
-      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct][CoC] first.
-
-      [CoC]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--documentation_report.yml
-    options:
-    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-      required: true
 ...

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml

@@ -1,96 +1,24 @@
 ---
 name: ✨ Feature request
 description: Suggest an idea for this project
+issue_body: false  # default: true, adds a classic WSYWIG textarea, if on
 
 body:
 - type: markdown
   attributes:
-    value: >
-      **Thank you for wanting to suggest a feature for ansible-core!**
-
-
-
-      💡
-      Before you go ahead with your request, please first consider if it
-      would be useful for majority of the ansible-core users. As a
-      general rule of thumb, any feature that is only of interest to a
-      small sub group should be [implemented in a third-party Ansible
-      Collection][contribute to collections] or maybe even just your
-      project alone. Be mindful of the fact that the essential
-      ansible-core features have a broad impact.
-
-      If unsure, consider filing a [new proposal] instead outlining your
-      use-cases, the research and implementation considerations. Then,
-      start a discussion on one of the public [IRC meetings] we have just
-      for this.
-
-
-      <details>
-        <summary>
-          ❗ Every change breaks someone's workflow.
-        </summary>
-
-
-        [![❗ Every change breaks someone's workflow.
-        ](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/workflow.png)
-        ](https://xkcd.com/1172/)
-      </details>
-
-
+    value: |
       ⚠
-      Verify first that your idea is not [already requested on
-      GitHub][issue search].
+      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
+      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
+      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
 
-      Also test if the devel branch does not already implement this.
-
-
-      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please consider
-      [starting a mailing list thread or chatting in IRC][ML||IRC].
-
-
-
-      [contribute to collections]:
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/contributing_maintained_collections.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--feature_request.yml
-
-      [IRC meetings]:
-        https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--feature_request.yml#irc-meetings
-
-      [issue search]: ../search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
-
-      [ML||IRC]:
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--feature_request.yml#mailing-list-information
-
-      [new proposal]: ../../proposals/issues/new
+      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
 
 
 - type: textarea
   attributes:
     label: Summary
-    description: >
-      Describe the new feature/improvement you would like briefly below.
-
-
-      What's the problem this feature will solve?
-
-      What are you trying to do, that you are unable to achieve
-      with ansible-core as it currently stands?
-
-
-      * Provide examples of real-world use cases that this would enable
-      and how it solves the problem you described.
-
-      * How do you solve this now?
-
-      * Have you tried to work around the problem using other tools?
-
-      * Could there be a different approach to solving this issue?
-
-
-      *Know **exactly** what you want?* Consider filing a [new proposal]
-      instead outlining your research and implementation considerations.
-
-
-      [new proposal]: ../../proposals/issues/new
+    description: Describe the new feature/improvement briefly below.
     placeholder: >-
       I am trying to do X with ansible-core from the devel branch on GitHub and
       I think that implementing a feature Y would be very helpful for me and
@@ -101,22 +29,6 @@ body:
 - type: dropdown
   attributes:
     label: Issue Type
-    description: >
-      Please select the single available option in the drop-down.
-
-      <details>
-        <summary>
-          <em>Why?</em>
-        </summary>
-
-        We would do it by ourselves but unfortunatelly, the curent
-        edition of GitHub Issue Forms Alpha does not support this yet 🤷
-
-
-        _We will make it easier in the future, once GitHub
-        supports dropdown defaults. Promise!_
-
-      </details>
     # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
     options:
     - Feature Idea
@@ -126,19 +38,9 @@ body:
 - type: input
   attributes:
     label: Component Name
-    description: >
+    description: >-
       Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
       *use your best guess if unsure*.
-
-
-      Be aware that a lot of content that used to reside in this repository
-      previously, is now hosted under [individual collection
-      projects][collections org].
-      If this is the case, please make sure to file an issue under the
-      appropriate project there instead.
-
-
-      [collections org]: /ansible-collections
     placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
   validations:
     required: true
@@ -155,38 +57,6 @@ body:
       ```yaml (paste below)
 
       ```
-    placeholder: >-
-      I asked on https://stackoverflow.com/.... and the community
-      advised me to do X, Y and Z.
   validations:
     required: true
-
-
-- type: markdown
-  attributes:
-    value: >
-      *One last thing...*
-
-
-      *Please, complete **all** sections as described, this form
-      is [processed automatically by a robot][ansibot help].*
-
-
-      Thank you for your collaboration!
-
-
-      [ansibot help]:
-      /ansible/ansibullbot/blob/master/ISSUE_HELP.md#for-issue-submitters
-
-
-- type: checkboxes
-  attributes:
-    label: Code of Conduct
-    description: |
-      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct][CoC] first.
-
-      [CoC]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--feature_request.yml
-    options:
-    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-      required: true
 ...

.github/RELEASE_NAMES.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-- 2.15.0  Ten Years Gone
-- 2.14.0  C'mon Everybody
-- 2.13.0  Nobody's Fault but Mine
-- 2.12.0  Dazed and Confused
 - 2.11.0  Hey Hey, What Can I Do
 - 2.10.0  When the Levee Breaks
 - 2.9.0   Immigrant Song

.gitignore

@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ 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
@@ -53,10 +52,12 @@ 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
@@ -73,16 +74,7 @@ coverage.xml
 /test/cache/*
 # Development
 /test/develop
-# Environments
-.env
-.venv
-env/
-venv/
-ENV/
-env.bak/
-venv.bak/
 venv
-env
 Vagrantfile
 .vagrant
 # Backwards compatibility with `stable-2.9` and earlier branches.
@@ -92,10 +84,7 @@ Vagrantfile
 /lib/ansible_base.egg-info/
 # First used in the `devel` branch during Ansible 2.11 development.
 /lib/ansible_core.egg-info/
-# vendored lib dir
-lib/ansible/_vendor/*
-!lib/ansible/_vendor/__init__.py
-# test stuff
+/shippable/
 /test/integration/cloud-config-*.*
 !/test/integration/cloud-config-*.*.template
 .python-version

MANIFEST.in

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

Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,313 @@
+# WARN: gmake syntax
+########################################################
+# Makefile for Ansible
+#
+# useful targets:
+#   make clean ---------------- clean up
+#   make webdocs -------------- produce ansible doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
+#   make coredocs ------------- produce core doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
+#   make sdist ---------------- produce a tarball
+#   make deb-src -------------- produce a DEB source
+#   make deb ------------------ produce a DEB
+#   make docs ----------------- rebuild the manpages (results are checked in)
+#   make gettext -------------- produce POT files for docs
+#   make generate-po ---------- generate language specific po file
+#   make needs-translation ---- generate list of file with unstranlated or fuzzy string for a specific language
+#   make tests ---------------- run the tests (see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/testing_units.html for requirements)
+
+########################################################
+# variable section
+
+NAME = ansible-core
+OS = $(shell uname -s)
+PREFIX ?= '/usr/local'
+SDIST_DIR ?= 'dist'
+
+# This doesn't evaluate until it's called. The -D argument is the
+# directory of the target file ($@), kinda like `dirname`.
+MANPAGES ?= $(patsubst %.rst.in,%,$(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1.rst.in))
+ifneq ($(shell which rst2man 2>/dev/null),)
+ASCII2MAN = rst2man $< $@
+else ifneq ($(shell which rst2man.py 2>/dev/null),)
+ASCII2MAN = rst2man.py $< $@
+else
+ASCII2MAN = @echo "ERROR: rst2man from docutils command is not installed but is required to build $(MANPAGES)" && exit 1
+endif
+
+PYTHON ?= python
+GENERATE_CLI = hacking/build-ansible.py generate-man
+
+# fetch version from project release.py as single source-of-truth
+VERSION := $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --raw || echo error)
+ifeq ($(findstring error,$(VERSION)), error)
+$(error "version_helper failed")
+endif
+
+# Get the branch information from git
+ifneq ($(shell which git),)
+GIT_DATE := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ci")
+GIT_HASH := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%h")
+GIT_BRANCH := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | sed 's/[-_.\/]//g')
+GITINFO = .$(GIT_HASH).$(GIT_BRANCH)
+else
+GITINFO = ""
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(shell echo $(OS) | egrep -c 'Darwin|FreeBSD|OpenBSD|DragonFly'),1)
+DATE := $(shell date -j -r $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ct") +%Y%m%d%H%M)
+CPUS ?= $(shell sysctl hw.ncpu|awk '{print $$2}')
+else
+DATE := $(shell date --utc --date="$(GIT_DATE)" +%Y%m%d%H%M)
+CPUS ?= $(shell nproc)
+endif
+
+# Intenationalisation and Localisation
+LANGUAGES ?=
+
+# DEB build parameters
+DEBUILD_BIN ?= debuild
+DEBUILD_OPTS = --source-option="-I"
+DPUT_BIN ?= dput
+DPUT_OPTS ?=
+DEB_DATE := $(shell LC_TIME=C date +"%a, %d %b %Y %T %z")
+DEB_VERSION ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debversion)
+ifeq ($(OFFICIAL),yes)
+    DEB_RELEASE ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debrelease)ppa
+    # Sign OFFICIAL builds using 'DEBSIGN_KEYID'
+    # DEBSIGN_KEYID is required when signing
+    ifneq ($(DEBSIGN_KEYID),)
+        DEBUILD_OPTS += -k$(DEBSIGN_KEYID)
+    endif
+else
+    DEB_RELEASE ?= 100.git$(DATE)$(GITINFO)
+    # Do not sign unofficial builds
+    DEBUILD_OPTS += -uc -us
+    DPUT_OPTS += -u
+endif
+DEBUILD = $(DEBUILD_BIN) $(DEBUILD_OPTS)
+DEB_PPA ?= ppa
+# Choose the desired Ubuntu release: lucid precise saucy trusty
+DEB_DIST ?= unstable
+
+# pbuilder parameters
+PBUILDER_ARCH ?= amd64
+PBUILDER_CACHE_DIR = /var/cache/pbuilder
+PBUILDER_BIN ?= pbuilder
+PBUILDER_OPTS ?= --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd --architecture $(PBUILDER_ARCH) --debbuildopts -b
+
+# ansible-test parameters
+ANSIBLE_TEST ?= bin/ansible-test
+TEST_FLAGS ?=
+
+# ansible-test units parameters (make test / make test-py3)
+PYTHON_VERSION ?= $(shell python2 -c 'import sys; print("%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:2])')
+PYTHON3_VERSION ?= $(shell python3 -c 'import sys; print("%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:2])')
+
+# ansible-test integration parameters (make integration)
+IMAGE ?= centos7
+TARGET ?=
+
+########################################################
+
+.PHONY: all
+all: clean python
+
+.PHONY: tests
+tests:
+	$(ANSIBLE_TEST) units -v --python $(PYTHON_VERSION) $(TEST_FLAGS)
+
+.PHONY: tests-py3
+tests-py3:
+	$(ANSIBLE_TEST) units -v --python $(PYTHON3_VERSION) $(TEST_FLAGS)
+
+.PHONY: integration
+integration:
+	$(ANSIBLE_TEST) integration -v --docker $(IMAGE) $(TARGET) $(TEST_FLAGS)
+
+# Regenerate %.1.rst if %.1.rst.in has been modified more
+# recently than %.1.rst.
+%.1.rst: %.1.rst.in
+	sed "s/%VERSION%/$(VERSION)/" $< > $@
+	rm $<
+
+# Regenerate %.1 if %.1.rst or release.py has been modified more
+# recently than %.1. (Implicitly runs the %.1.rst recipe)
+%.1: %.1.rst lib/ansible/release.py
+	$(ASCII2MAN)
+
+.PHONY: clean
+clean:
+	@echo "Cleaning up distutils stuff"
+	rm -rf build
+	rm -rf dist
+	rm -rf lib/ansible*.egg-info/
+	@echo "Cleaning up byte compiled python stuff"
+	find . -type f -regex ".*\.py[co]$$" -delete
+	find . -type d -name "__pycache__" -delete
+	@echo "Cleaning up editor backup files"
+	find . -type f -not -path ./test/units/inventory_test_data/group_vars/noparse/all.yml~ \( -name "*~" -or -name "#*" \) -delete
+	find . -type f \( -name "*.swp" \) -delete
+	@echo "Cleaning up manpage stuff"
+	find ./docs/man -type f -name "*.xml" -delete
+	find ./docs/man -type f -name "*.rst" -delete
+	find ./docs/man/man3 -type f -name "*.3" -delete
+	rm -f ./docs/man/man1/*
+	@echo "Cleaning up output from test runs"
+	rm -rf test/test_data
+	rm -rf shippable/
+	rm -rf logs/
+	rm -rf .cache/
+	rm -f test/units/.coverage*
+	rm -rf test/results/*/*
+	find test/ -type f -name '*.retry' -delete
+	@echo "Cleaning up symlink cache"
+	rm -f SYMLINK_CACHE.json
+	@echo "Cleaning up Debian building stuff"
+	rm -rf debian
+	rm -rf deb-build
+	rm -rf docs/json
+	rm -rf docs/js
+	@echo "Cleaning up docsite"
+	$(MAKE) -C docs/docsite clean
+
+.PHONY: python
+python:
+	$(PYTHON) setup.py build
+
+.PHONY: install
+install:
+	$(PYTHON) setup.py install
+
+install_manpages:
+	gzip -9 $(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1)
+	cp $(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1.gz) $(PREFIX)/man/man1/
+
+.PHONY: sdist_check
+sdist_check:
+	$(PYTHON) -c 'import setuptools, sys; sys.exit(int(not (tuple(map(int, setuptools.__version__.split("."))) > (39, 2, 0))))'
+	$(PYTHON) packaging/sdist/check-link-behavior.py
+
+.PHONY: sdist
+sdist: sdist_check clean docs
+	_ANSIBLE_SDIST_FROM_MAKEFILE=1 $(PYTHON) setup.py sdist --dist-dir=$(SDIST_DIR)
+
+# Official releases generate the changelog as the last commit before the release.
+# Snapshots shouldn't result in new checkins so the changelog is generated as
+# part of creating the tarball.
+.PHONY: snapshot
+snapshot: sdist_check clean docs changelog
+	_ANSIBLE_SDIST_FROM_MAKEFILE=1 $(PYTHON) setup.py sdist --dist-dir=$(SDIST_DIR)
+
+.PHONY: sdist_upload
+sdist_upload: clean docs
+	$(PYTHON) setup.py sdist upload 2>&1 |tee upload.log
+
+.PHONY: changelog
+changelog:
+	PYTHONPATH=./lib antsibull-changelog release -vv --use-ansible-doc && PYTHONPATH=./lib antsibull-changelog generate -vv --use-ansible-doc
+
+.PHONY: debian
+debian: sdist
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    mkdir -p deb-build/$${DIST} ; \
+	    tar -C deb-build/$${DIST} -xvf dist/$(NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.gz ; \
+	    cp -a packaging/debian deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ ; \
+        sed -ie "s|%VERSION%|$(DEB_VERSION)|g;s|%RELEASE%|$(DEB_RELEASE)|;s|%DIST%|$${DIST}|g;s|%DATE%|$(DEB_DATE)|g" deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/debian/changelog ; \
+	done
+
+.PHONY: deb
+deb: deb-src
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    PBUILDER_OPTS="$(PBUILDER_OPTS) --distribution $${DIST} --basetgz $(PBUILDER_CACHE_DIR)/$${DIST}-$(PBUILDER_ARCH)-base.tgz --buildresult $(CURDIR)/deb-build/$${DIST}" ; \
+	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) create $${PBUILDER_OPTS} --othermirror "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $${DIST} universe" ; \
+	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) update $${PBUILDER_OPTS} ; \
+	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) build $${PBUILDER_OPTS} deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}.dsc ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_amd64.changes ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+
+# Build package outside of pbuilder, with locally installed dependencies.
+# Install BuildRequires as noted in packaging/debian/control.
+.PHONY: local_deb
+local_deb: debian
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    (cd deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ && $(DEBUILD) -b) ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_amd64.changes ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+
+.PHONY: deb-src
+deb-src: debian
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    (cd deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ && $(DEBUILD) -S) ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_source.changes ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+
+.PHONY: deb-upload
+deb-upload: deb
+	@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/ ; \
+	$(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)

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@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-[![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ansible-core.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core)
-[![Docs badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/)
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-[![Ansible Code of Conduct](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20of%20conduct-Ansible-silver.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html)
-[![Ansible mailing lists](https://img.shields.io/badge/mailing%20lists-Ansible-orange.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html#mailing-list-information)
-[![Repository License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL%20v3.0-brightgreen.svg)](COPYING)
-[![Ansible CII Best Practices certification](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372)
-
-# Ansible
-
-Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles
-configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning,
-ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex
-changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy. More information on the Ansible [website](https://ansible.com/).
-
-## Design Principles
-
-* Have an extremely simple setup process with a minimal learning curve.
-* Manage machines quickly and in parallel.
-* Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by
-  leveraging the existing SSH daemon.
-* Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human
-  friendly.
-* Focus on security and easy auditability/review/rewriting of content.
-* Manage new remote machines instantly, without bootstrapping any
-  software.
-* Allow module development in any dynamic language, not just Python.
-* Be usable as non-root.
-* Be the easiest IT automation system to use, ever.
-
-## Use Ansible
-
-You can install a released version of Ansible with `pip` or a package manager. See our
-[installation guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html) for details on installing Ansible
-on a variety of platforms.
-
-Power users and developers can run the `devel` branch, which has the latest
-features and fixes, directly. Although it is reasonably stable, you are more likely to encounter
-breaking changes when running the `devel` branch. We recommend getting involved
-in the Ansible community if you want to run the `devel` branch.
-
-## Get Involved
-
-* Read [Community Information](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community) for all
-  kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project,
-  including mailing list information and how to submit bug reports and
-  code to Ansible.
-* Join a [Working Group](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki),
-  an organized community devoted to a specific technology domain or platform.
-* Submit a proposed code update through a pull request to the `devel` branch.
-* Talk to us before making larger changes
-  to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps everyone
-  know what is going on, but it also helps save time and effort if we decide
-  some changes are needed.
-* For a list of email lists, IRC channels and Working Groups, see the
-  [Communication page](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html)
-
-## Coding Guidelines
-
-We document our Coding Guidelines in the [Developer Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/). We particularly suggest you review:
-
-* [Contributing your module to Ansible](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_checklist.html)
-* [Conventions, tips, and pitfalls](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_best_practices.html)
-
-## Branch Info
-
-* The `devel` branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
-* The `stable-2.X` branches correspond to stable releases.
-* Create a branch based on `devel` and set up a [dev environment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html#common-environment-setup) if you want to open a PR.
-* See the [Ansible release and maintenance](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html) page for information about active branches.
-
-## Roadmap
-
-Based on team and community feedback, an initial roadmap will be published for a major or minor version (ex: 2.7, 2.8).
-The [Ansible Roadmap page](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/) details what is planned and how to influence the roadmap.
-
-## Authors
-
-Ansible was created by [Michael DeHaan](https://github.com/mpdehaan)
-and has contributions from over 5000 users (and growing). Thanks everyone!
-
-[Ansible](https://www.ansible.com) is sponsored by [Red Hat, Inc.](https://www.redhat.com)
-
-## License
-
-GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
-
-See [COPYING](COPYING) to see the full text.

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

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changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst

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+========================================================
+ansible-core 2.11 "Hey Hey, What Can I Do" Release Notes
+========================================================
+
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+
+v2.11.2rc1
+==========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2021-06-14
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- templating engine fix for not preserving usnafe status when trying to preserve newlines. CVE-2021-3583
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- 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)
+- Avoid task executor from ending early as vars can come from delegated to host.
+- ansible-pull - update documentation for ``--directory`` option to clarify path must be absolute.
+- config, ensure 'quoted' lists from ini or env do not take the quotes literally as part of the list item.
+- gather_facts, package, service - fix using module_defaults for the modules in addition to the action plugins. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72918)
+- 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.
+- roles - make sure argspec validation task is tagged with ``always`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74994).
+- 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).
+- ssh connection - fix interaction between transfer settings options.
+- subversion - fix stack trace when getting information about the repository (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36498)
+- version test - improve error message when an empty version is provided
+
+v2.11.1
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2021-05-24
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible adhoc, clarified the help to some options, also added some comments to code.
+- command - update the user warning message to point out command name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74475).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Add RockyLinux to fact gathering (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74530).
+- 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)
+- 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.
+- 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).
+- 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 - Fix docker container IP address detection. The ``bridge`` network is no longer assumed to be the default.
+- ansible-test - Use documented API to retrieve build information from Azure Pipelines.
+- 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 - Binary GnuPG keys downloaded via URLs were corrupted so GnuPG could not import them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74424).
+- 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)
+- callback default, now uses task delegate_to instead of delegate vars to display delegate to host
+- callbacks, restores missing delegate_vars
+- correct doc links for become on warnings over world readable settings.
+- correctly use world readable setting since old constant is not 'settable' anymore.
+- facts - detect homebrew installed at /opt/homebrew/bin/brew
+- filter plugins - patch new versions of Jinja2 to prevent warnings/errors on renamed filter decorators (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74667)
+- get_url - Fixed checksum validation for binary files (leading asterisk) in checksum files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74502).
+- hostname - Add Rocky Linux support
+- 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
+- pause - ensure control characters are always set to an appropriate value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73264)
+- playbook loaded from collection subdir now does not ignore subdirs.
+- plugin config now allows list type options to have multiple valid choices (#74225).
+- 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).
+- service - compare version without LooseVersion API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74488).
+
+v2.11.0
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2021-04-26
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- A collection can be reinstalled with new version requirements without using the ``--force`` flag. The collection's dependencies will also be updated if necessary with the new requirements. Use ``--upgrade`` to force transitive dependency updates.
+- AnsibleModule - use ``ArgumentSpecValidator`` class for validating argument spec and remove private methods related to argument spec validation. Any modules using private methods should now use the ``ArgumentSpecValidator`` class or the appropriate validation function.
+- Declared ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 0.6.0`` a direct dependency of
+  ansible-core. Refs:
+  - https://github.com/sarugaku/resolvelib
+  - https://pypi.org/p/resolvelib
+  - https://pradyunsg.me/blog/2020/03/27/pip-resolver-testing
+- It became possible to install Ansible Collections from local folders and namespaces folder similar to SCM structure with multiple collections.
+- It became possible to upgrade Ansible collections from Galaxy servers using the ``--upgrade`` option with ``ansible-galaxy collection install``.
+- Support for role argument specification validation at role execution time. When a role contains an argument spec, an implicit validation task is inserted at the start of role execution.
+- add ``ArgumentSpecValidator`` class for validating parameters against an argument spec outside of ``AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73335)
+- 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.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Add ``--format`` CLI option to ``ansible-galaxy collection list`` which allows for ``human`` (default), ``yaml``, or ``json``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73474)
+- Add an example for using var in with_sequence (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68836).
+- Add new rolespec_validate option to the import/include_role modules do allow disabling of the implicit role arg validation task on a per-role basis.
+- Add option to pass extra vars to ansible-inventory
+- Add path of collection location in Ansible CLI version info.
+- Add standard Python 2/3 compatibility boilerplate to setup script, module_utils and docs_fragments which were missing them.
+- Add support for `argument_specs` data in role metadata.
+- Add support for datetime.date object type in module result (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70583).
+- Add which conditional is being evaluated at each step when debugging.
+- Add yum/dnf version comparison documentation for package install
+- Added NO_COLOR environment var to ansible color configuration, allowing it to integrate with existing convention.
+- Added name of aliases in user error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58752).
+- Added support for GSSAPI/Kerberos authentication with ``urls.py`` that is used by ``uri`` and ``get_url``.
+- Added support for specify custom credentials for GSSAPI authentication.
+- Allow an attribute to be passed to the min and max filters with Jinja 2.10+
+- Allow for the skipped filter to be used on a registered looped task results. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16949)
+- Allow inventory plugins access to extra vars by default
+- Allow unsafe_writes to be set on target via env var, for those targets that need a blanket setting.
+- Also added extra vars cli option to console CLI.
+- AnsiballZ - Improve performance of ``ModuleDepFinder`` by using faster lookups and reducing the object types that are walked while looking for ``import`` statements. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70475)
+- CLI - Specify jinja version in ``--version`` output
+- CLI - Specify whether PyYAML includes libyaml support in version output
+- CLI version displays clarified as core version
+- Callbacks - Migrate more places in the ``TaskExecutor`` to sending callbacks directly over the queue, instead of sending them as ``TaskResult`` and short circuiting in the Strategy to send the callback. This enables closer to real time callbacks of retries and loop results (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73899)
+- Collection routing: Cisco NSO content from community.network migrated to cisco.nso (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: DellEMC content from community.general migrated to dellemc.openmanage (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: FortiOS content from community.network migrated to community.fortios (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: Google content from community.general migrated to community.google (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: Hashi Vault content from community.general migrated to community.hashi_vault (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: Hetzner Robot content from community.general migrated to community.hrobot (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: KubeVirt content from community.general migrated to community.kubevirt (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: OC content from community.general migrated to community.okd (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: PostgreSQL content from community.general migrated to community.postgresql (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: RouterOS content from community.network migrated to community.routeros (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: docker content from community.general migrated to community.docker (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Controller - Add warning for Ansible 2.11 when running a Python version older than Python 3.8 to inform users that 2.12 will only support Python 3.8 and newer on the controller. Starting with Ansible 2.11, the project will only be packaged for Python 3.8 and newer.
+- Discourage the use of 'hexdigits' in password lookup, as it distorts expected entropy.
+- Enable extra vars for inventory plugin options
+- Errors - Ensure that errors passed with ``orig_exc`` include the context of that exception (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68605)
+- Filters - Add new ``split`` filter for splitting strings
+- Fixed ansible-doc to not substitute for words followed by parenthesis.  For instance, ``IBM(International Business Machines)`` will no longer be substituted with a link to a non-existent module. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71070
+- Force the template module to use non-native Jinja2 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46169)
+- Internal config entries will not be documented, to mark an entry as internal it must start with `_`.
+- Interpreter Discovery - Add Python 3.8 and Python 3.9 to the fallback list
+- Minor code cleanup in plugin loader.
+- Module API - libselinux-python is no longer required for basic module API selinux operations (affects core modules assemble, blockinfile, copy, cron, file, get_url, lineinfile, setup, replace, unarchive, uri, user, yum_repository)
+- Module API - new module_respawn API allows modules that need to run under a specific Python interpreter to respawn in place under that interpreter
+- Module iptables multiport destination support added (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72928)
+- Module iptables set/ipset support added (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72984)
+- New 'timeout' feature added to adhoc and console CLIs, corresponding to the recent 'timeout' task keyword.
+- New virtualization facts, ``virtualization_tech_guest`` and ``virtualization_tech_host`` now allow for conveying when a system is a host or guest of multiple virtualization technologies.
+- Now 'choices' keyword in config definitions also restricts valid values for the entry.
+- Refactored ``ansible-galaxy collection [download|install|list|verify]`` CLI subcommands with the public interface kept intact.
+- Restructured _fixup_perms2() in ansible.plugins.action to make it more linear
+- Shadow prompt input to ansible-vault encrypt-string unless the ``--show-input`` flag is set
+- Switch to hashlib.sha256() for ansible-test to allow for FIPs mode.
+- TOML inventory plugin is no longer in preview status
+- Templar - reduce the complexity of ``Templar._lookup`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73277)
+- The ``csvfile`` lookup plugin now uses ``parse_kv()`` internally. As a result, multi-word search keys can now be passed.
+- The ``csvfile`` lookup plugin's documentation has been fixed; it erroneously said that the delimiter could be ``t`` which was never true. We now accept ``\t``, however, and the error in the documentation has been fixed to note that.
+- The constructed inventory plugin has new option to force using vars plugins on previouslly processed inventory sources.
+- The find module is now more specific about the reasons it skips candidate files.
+- The logging functionality in module_utils.basic now returns a nicer error when it falls back to syslog but ends up getting a TypeError thrown back.
+- The new dependency resolver prefers ``MANIFEST.json`` over ``galaxy.yml`` if it exists in the target directory.
+- The plugin loader now keeps track of the collection where a plugin was resolved to, in particular whether the plugin was loaded from ansible-core's internal paths (``ansible.builtin``) or from user-supplied paths (no collection name).
+- Toggle allowing usage of extra_vars in compose
+- When connecting as an unprivileged user, and becoming an unprivileged user, we now fall back to also trying ``chmod +a`` which works on macOS and makes use of ACLs.
+- allow tree callback plugin to be configurable, for use with playbooks.
+- ansible-doc - In Windows setup steps, ``ExecutionPolicy`` should be restored to default value ``RemoteSigned`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72993).
+- ansible-doc - provide ``has_action`` field in JSON output for modules. That information is currently only available in the text view (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72359).
+- ansible-doc has new option to show keyword documentation.
+- ansible-doc will now format, ``L()``, ``R()``, and ``HORIZONTALLINE`` in plugin docs just as the website docs do.  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71070
+- ansible-galaxy - Add installation successful message
+- ansible-galaxy - Added caching mechanisms when retrieving collection info to speed up installs and downloads
+- ansible-galaxy - Change the output verbosity level of the download message from 3 to 0 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70010)
+- ansible-galaxy - Ensure ``get_collection_versions`` returns an empty list when a collection does not exist for consistency across API versions.
+- ansible-galaxy - find any collection dependencies in the globally configured Galaxy servers and not just the server the parent collection is from.
+- ansible-galaxy CLI - ``collection verify`` command now exits with a non-zero exit code on verification failure
+- ansible-galaxy CLI - ``collection verify`` command now supports a ``--offline`` option for local-only verification
+- ansible-test - A warning is no longer emitted when a ``pip*`` or ``python*`` binary is found without a matching couterpart.
+- ansible-test - Add ``macos/10.15`` as a supported value for the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test - Add a ``--docker-network`` option to choose the network for running containers when using the ``--docker`` option.
+- ansible-test - Add constraint for ``decorator`` for Python versions prior to 3.5.
+- ansible-test - Add support for running tests on Fedora 33 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72861).
+- ansible-test - Added Ubuntu 20.04 LTS image to the default completion list
+- ansible-test - Added a ``--export`` option to the ``ansible-test coverage combine`` command to facilitate multi-stage aggregation of coverage in CI pipelines.
+- ansible-test - Added the ``-remote rhel/7.9`` option to run tests on RHEL 7.9
+- ansible-test - Allow custom ``--remote-stage`` options for development and testing.
+- ansible-test - CentOS 8 container is now 8.2.2004 (https://github.com/ansible/distro-test-containers/pull/45).
+- ansible-test - Changed the internal name of the custom plugin used to identify use of unwanted imports and functions.
+- ansible-test - Cleaned up code to resolve warnings and errors reported by PyCharm.
+- ansible-test - Code cleanup in the ``import`` sanity test.
+- ansible-test - Code cleanup in the internal logic for code coverage collection of PowerShell modules.
+- ansible-test - Collections can now specify pip constraints for unit and integration test requirements using ``tests/unit/constraints.txt`` and ``tests/integration/constraints.txt`` respectively.
+- ansible-test - Containers used with the ``--remote`` option have been updated to version 1.29.0 to include the latest Ansible requirements.
+- ansible-test - Files used to track remote instances no longer have a region suffix.
+- ansible-test - Fix ``ansible-test coverage`` reporting sub-commands (``report``, ``html``, ``xml``) on Python 2.6.
+- ansible-test - Fix container hostname/IP discovery for the ``acme`` test plugin.
+- ansible-test - FreeBSD 11.4 and 12.2 provisioning can now be used with the ``--python 3.8`` option.
+- ansible-test - FreeBSD instances provisioned with ``--remote`` now make ``libyaml`` available for use with PyYAML installation.
+- ansible-test - Generation of an ``egg-info`` directory, if needed, is now done after installing test dependencies and before running tests. When running from an installed version of ``ansible-test`` a temporary directory is used to avoid permissions issues. Previously it was done before installing test dependencies and adjacent to the installed directory.
+- ansible-test - Implemented CloudStack test container selection by ENV variable `ANSIBLE_CLOUDSTACK_CONTAINER` with a default to `quay.io/ansible/cloudstack-test-container:1.4.0`.
+- ansible-test - Improved handling of minimum Python version requirements for sanity tests. Supported versions are now included in warning messages displayed when tests are skipped.
+- ansible-test - More sanity test requirements have been pinned to specific versions to provide consistent test results.
+- ansible-test - Most sanity test specific ``pip`` constraints are now used only when running sanity tests. This should reduce conflicts with ``pip`` requirements and constraints when testing collections.
+- ansible-test - Most sanity tests are now skipped on Python 3.5 and earlier with a warning. Previously this was done for Python 2.7 and earlier.
+- ansible-test - Now supports freebsd/11.4 remote (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/48782).
+- ansible-test - Now supports freebsd/12.2 remote (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72366).
+- ansible-test - OpenSuse container now uses Leap 15.2 (https://github.com/ansible/distro-test-containers/pull/48).
+- ansible-test - Pin the ``virtualenv`` version used for ``--remote`` pip installs to the latest version supported by Python 2.x, which is version 16.7.10.
+- ansible-test - Provisioning of RHEL instances now includes installation of pinned versions of ``packaging`` and ``pyparsing`` to match the downstream vendored versions.
+- ansible-test - RHEL 8.2+ provisioning can now be used with the ``--python 3.8`` option, taking advantage of the Python 3.8 AppStream.
+- ansible-test - Raise the number of bytes scanned by ansible-test to determine if a file is binary to 4096.
+- ansible-test - Refactor code for installing ``cryptography`` to allow re-use in the future.
+- ansible-test - Refactor code to remove unused logic for obsolete support of multiple provisioning endpoints.
+- ansible-test - Remove ``pytest < 6.0.0`` constraint for managed installations on Python 3.x now that pytest 6 is supported.
+- ansible-test - Remove em dash from the Pytest configuration file in order to be readable on systems where preferred encoding is ASCII. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71739)
+- ansible-test - Remove outdated ``--docker`` completion entries: fedora30, fedora31, ubuntu1604
+- ansible-test - Remove outdated ``--remote`` completion entries: freebsd/11.1, freebsd/12.1, osx/10.11, macos/10.15, rhel/7.6, rhel/7.8, rhel/8.1, rhel/8.2
+- ansible-test - Remove outdated ``--windows`` completion entries: 2008, 2008-R2
+- ansible-test - Remove the discontinued ``us-east-2`` choice from the ``--remote-aws-region`` option.
+- ansible-test - Remove unused ``--remote`` completion entry: power/centos/7
+- ansible-test - Removed ``pip`` constraints related to integration tests that have been moved to collections. This should reduce conflicts with ``pip`` requirements and constraints when testing collections.
+- ansible-test - Removed the obsolete ``--remote-aws-region`` provisioning option.
+- ansible-test - Removed the obsolete ``tower`` test plugin for testing Tower modules.
+- ansible-test - Removed unused provisioning code and cleaned up remote provider management logic.
+- ansible-test - Rename internal functions to match associated constant names that were previously updated.
+- ansible-test - Reorganize internal ``pylint`` configuration files for easier comparison and maintenance.
+- ansible-test - Report the correct line number in the ``yamllint`` sanity test when reporting ``libyaml`` parse errors in module documentation.
+- ansible-test - Request remote resources by provider name for all provider types.
+- ansible-test - Show a warning when the obsolete ``--remote-aws-region`` option is used.
+- ansible-test - Silence ``pip`` warnings about Python 3.5 being EOL when installing requirements.
+- ansible-test - Support custom remote endpoints with the ``--remote-endpoint`` option.
+- ansible-test - The ``--remote`` option no longer pre-installs the ``virtualenv`` module on Python 3.x instances. The Python built-in ``venv`` module should be used instead.
+- ansible-test - The ``default`` container for both collections and core have been updated to versions 2.11.0 and 1.9.0 respectively.
+- ansible-test - The ``pylint`` sanity test is now skipped with a warning on Python 3.9 due to unresolved upstream regressions.
+- ansible-test - The ``pylint`` sanity test is now supported on Python 3.8.
+- ansible-test - The ``rstcheck`` sanity test is no longer used for collections, but continues to be used for ansible-core.
+- ansible-test - The generated ``resource_prefix`` variable now meets the host name syntax requirements specified in RFC 1123 and RFC 952. The value used for local tests now places the random number before the hostname component, rather than after. If the resulting value is too long, it will be truncated.
+- ansible-test - Ubuntu containers as well as ``default-test-container`` and ``ansible-base-test-container`` are now slightly smaller due to apt cleanup (https://github.com/ansible/distro-test-containers/pull/46).
+- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` and its dependencies to the latest available versions to support Python 3.9.
+- ansible-test - Update built-in service endpoints for the ``--remote`` option.
+- 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 - Updated the default test containers to version 3.1.0.
+- ansible-test - Upgrade ansible-runner version used in compatibility tests, remove some tasks that were only needed with older versions, and skip in python2 because ansible-runner is soon dropping it.
+- ansible-test - Use new endpoint for Parallels based instances with the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test - ``default-test-container`` and ``ansible-base-test-container`` now use Python 3.9.0 instead of 3.9.0rc1.
+- ansible-test - add https endpoint for ansible-test
+- ansible-test - add macOS 11.1 as a remote target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72622)
+- ansible-test - add the collection plugin directories ``plugin_utils`` and ``sub_plugins`` to list of plugin types. This ensures such plugins are tested for the ``import`` sanity test (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73599).
+- ansible-test - centos6 end of life - container image updated to point to vault base repository (https://github.com/ansible/distro-test-containers/pull/54)
+- ansible-test - centos6 image now has multiple fallback yum repositories for CentOS Vault.
+- ansible-test - default container now uses default-test-container 2.7.0 and ansible-base-test-container 1.6.0. This brings in Python 3.9.0rc1 for testing.
+- ansible-test - now makes a better attempt to support podman when calling ``docker images`` and asking for JSON format.
+- ansible-test - python-cryptography is now bounded at <3.2, as 3.2 drops support for OpenSSL 1.0.2 upon which some of our CI infrastructure still depends.
+- ansible-test - remote macOS instances no longer install ``virtualenv`` during provisioning
+- ansible-test - the ACME test container was updated, it now supports external account creation and has a basic OCSP responder (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71097, https://github.com/ansible/acme-test-container/releases/tag/2.0.0).
+- ansible-test - the ``import`` sanity test now also tries to import all non-module and non-module_utils Python files in ``lib/ansible/`` resp. ``plugins/`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72497).
+- ansible-test - virtualenv helper scripts now prefer ``venv`` on Python 3 over ``virtualenv``
+- ansible-test Now supports RHEL 8.3
+- ansible-test pylint - ensure that removal collection version numbers conform to the semantic versioning specification at https://semver.org/ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71679).
+- ansible-test pylint sanity test - stop ignoring ``used-before-assignment`` errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73639).
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata - compare deprecation and tombstone versions to the current version to ensure that they are correct (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72625).
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata - ensure that removal collection version numbers conform to the semantic versioning specification at https://semver.org/ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71679).
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata - ensure that the tombstone removal date is not in the future (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72625).
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata - validate removal version numbers, and check removal dates more strictly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71679).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - ensure that removal collection version numbers and version_added collection version numbers conform to the semantic versioning specification at https://semver.org/ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71679).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - no longer assume that ``default`` for ``type=bool`` options is ``false``, as the default is ``none`` and for some modules, ``none`` and ``false`` mean different things (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69561).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - option names that seem to indicate they contain secret information that should be marked ``no_log=True`` are now flagged in the validate-modules sanity test. False positives can be marked by explicitly setting ``no_log=False`` for these options in the argument spec. Please note that many false positives are expected; the assumption is that it is by far better to have false positives than false negatives (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73508).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - validate removal version numbers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71679).
+- ansible.utils.encrypt now returns `AnsibleError` instead of crypt.crypt's `OSError` on Python 3.9
+- apt - module now works under any supported Python interpreter
+- apt_repository - module now works under any supported Python interpreter
+- callback plugins - ``meta`` tasks now get sent to ``v2_playbook_on_task_start``. Explicit tasks are always sent. Plugins can opt in to receiving implicit ones.
+- callbacks - Add feature allowing forks to send callback events (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/14681)
+- conditionals - change the default of CONDITIONAL_BARE_VARS to False (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70682).
+- config - more types are now automatically coerced to string when ``type: str`` is used and the value is parsed as a different type
+- constructed - Add a toggle to allow the separator to be omitted if no prefix has been provided.
+- constructed inventory plugin - Sanitize group names created from the ``groups`` option silently.
+- create ``get_type_validator`` standalone function and move that functionality out of ``AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72667)
+- create ``get_unsupported_parameters`` validation function (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72447/files)
+- debconf - add a note about no_log=True since module might expose sensitive information to logs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32386).
+- default callback - add ``show_task_path_on_failure`` option to display file and line number of tasks only on failed tasks when running at normal verbosity level (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64625)
+- default callback - task name is now shown for ``include_tasks`` when using the ``free`` strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71277).
+- default callback - task name is now shown for ``include_tasks`` when using the ``linear`` strategy with ``ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS=0``.
+- default_callback - moving 'check_mode_markers' documentation in default_callback doc_fragment (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/565).
+- distribution - add facts about Amazon Linux Distribution facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73742).
+- distribution - add support for DragonFly distribution (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43739).
+- distribution - added distribution fact and hostname support for Parrot OS (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69158).
+- distribution - handle NetBSD OS Family (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43739).
+- distribution facts - ``distribution_release`` is now ``"Stream"`` on CentOS Stream (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73027).
+- dnf - Add nobest option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69983)
+- dnf - When ``state: absent``, package names are now matched similarly to how the ``dnf`` CLI matches them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72809).
+- dnf - module now works under any supported Python interpreter
+- dnf - now shows specific package changes (installations/removals) under ``results`` in check_mode. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66132)
+- facts - ``/dev/kvm`` is now consulted in Linux virtualization facts, and the host is considered a KVM host if this file exists and none of the pre-existing checks matched.
+- facts - add new fact ``date_time['tz_dst']``, which returns the daylight saving timezone (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69004).
+- facts - add uptime to openbsd
+- find module - Now has a ``read_whole_file`` boolean parameter which allows for reading the whole file and doing an ``re.search()`` regex evaluation on it when searching using the ``contains`` option. This allows (for example) for ensuring the very end of the file matches a pattern.
+- galaxy - add documentation about galaxy parameters in examples/ansible.cfg (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68402).
+- galaxy - handle token as dict while loading from yaml file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70887).
+- get_url - allow checksum urls to point to file:// resources, moving scheme test to function
+- get_url - handle same SHA sum for checksum file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71420).
+- git - add ``single_branch`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/28465)
+- hash filter - fail when unsupported hash type is passed as an argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70258)
+- inventory cache - do not show a warning when the cache file does not (yet) exist.
+- iptables - add a note about ipv6-icmp in protocol parameter (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70905).
+- iptables - fixed get_chain_policy API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68612).
+- iptables - reorder comment postition to be at the end (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71444).
+- lineinfile - add search_string parameter for non-regexp searching (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70470)
+- linux facts - Add additional check to ensure 'container' virtual fact gets added to guest_tech when appropriate (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71385)
+- meta - now include a ``skip_reason`` when skipped (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71355).
+- module payload builder - module_utils imports in any nested block (eg, ``try``, ``if``) are treated as optional during module payload builds; this allows modules to implement runtime fallback behavior for module_utils that do not exist in older versions of Ansible.
+- module_utils - ``get_file_attributes()`` now takes an optional ``include_version`` boolean parameter. When ``True`` (default), the file's version/generation number is included in the result (but requires ``lsattr -v`` to work on the target platform).
+- now !unsafe works on all types of data, not just strings, even recursively for mappings and sequences.
+- package_facts - module support for apt and rpm now works under any supported Python interpreter
+- pipe lookup - update docs for Popen with shell=True usages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70159).
+- plugin examples - Allow non-YAML examples, so that examples for plugins like the INI and TOML inventory plugins can be directly represented (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71184)
+- plugin option validation - now the option type ``dict``/``dictionary`` is also validated by the config manager (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71928).
+- reboot - add ``reboot_command`` parameter to allow specifying the command used to reboot the system (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51359)
+- remove ``excommunicate`` debug command from AnsiballZ
+- selinux - return selinux_getpolicytype facts correctly.
+- service_facts - return service state information on AIX.
+- service_facts - return service state information on OpenBSD.
+- setup - allow list of filters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68551).
+- setup - fix distribution facts for Older Amazon Linux with ``/etc/os-release`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73946).
+- setup.py - Declare that Python 3.9 is now supported (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72861).
+- setup.py - Skip doing conflict checks for ``sdist`` and ``egg_info`` commands (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71310)
+- subelements - clarify the lookup plugin documentation for parameter handling (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38182).
+- subversion - ``validate_certs`` option, which, when true, will avoid passing ``--trust-server-cert`` to ``svn`` commands (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/22599).
+- unarchive - Add support for .tar.zst (zstd compression) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73265).
+- unarchive - add ``RETURN`` documentation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67445).
+- unarchive - add ``include`` parameter to allow extracting specific files from an archive (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40522)
+- update sphinx to 2.1.2 and rstcheck to 3.3.1 for building documentation.
+- uri - add ``ca_path`` argument to allow specification of a CA certificate (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71979).
+- user - add new parameters ``password_expire_max`` and ``password_expire_min`` for controlling password expiration (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68775)
+- varnames lookup plugin - Fixed grammar error in exception message when the plugin is given a non-string term.
+- vault - Provide better error for single value encrypted values to indicate the file, line, and column of the errant vault (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72276)
+- version test - Add semantic version functionality
+- virtual facts - containerd cgroup is now recognized as container tech (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66304).
+- virtualization facts - Detect ``vdsmd`` in addition to ``vdsm`` when trying to detect RHEV hosts. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66147)
+- winrm - Added ``ansible_winrm_kinit_args`` that can be used to control the args that are sent to the ``kinit`` call for Kerberos authentication.
+- yum - module now works under any supported Python interpreter
+- yum_repository - added boolean option module_hotfixes which allows to enable functionality for dnf.
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- Made SCM collections be reinstalled regardless of ``--force`` being present.
+- NetBSD virtualization facts (specifically ``ansible_virtualization_type``) now returns a more accurate value by checking the value of the ``machdep.hypervisor`` ``sysctl`` key. This change is breaking because in some cases previously, we would erroneously report ``xen`` even when the target is not running on Xen. This prevents that behavior in most cases. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69352)
+- Replaced the in-tree dependency resolver with an external implementation that pip >= 20.3 uses now by default — ``resolvelib``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71784)
+- The ``meta`` module now supports tags for user-defined tasks. Internal ``meta`` tasks continue to always run. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64558)
+- ansible-galaxy login command has been removed (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71560)
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- Starting in 2.14, shell and command modules will no longer have the option to warn and suggest modules in lieu of commands. The ``warn`` parameter to these modules is now deprecated and defaults to ``False``. Similarly, the ``COMMAND_WARNINGS`` configuration option is also deprecated and defaults to ``False``. These will be removed and their presence will become an error in 2.14.
+- apt_key - the paramater ``key`` does not have any effect, has been deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core version 2.14 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70319).
+- psrp - Set the minimum version of ``pypsrp`` to ``0.4.0``.
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- Removed `SharedPluginLoaderObj` class from ansible.plugins.strategy. It was deprecated in favor of using the standard plugin loader.
+- Removed `_get_item()` alias from callback plugin base class which had been deprecated in favor of `_get_item_label()`.
+- The "user" parameter was previously deprecated and is now removed in favor of "scope"
+- The deprecated ``ansible.constants.BECOME_METHODS`` has been removed.
+- The deprecated ``ansible.constants.get_config()`` has been removed.
+- The deprecated ``ansible.constants.mk_boolean()`` has been removed.
+- `with_*` loops are no longer optimized for modules whose `name` parameters can take lists (mostly package managers). Use `name` instead of looping over individual names with `with_items` and friends.
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- **security issue** - Mask default and fallback values for ``no_log`` module options (CVE-2021-20228)
+- **security issue** - copy - Redact the value of the no_log 'content' parameter in the result's invocation.module_args in check mode. Previously when used with check mode and with '-vvv', the module would not censor the content if a change would be made to the destination path. (CVE-2020-14332)
+- Sanitize no_log values from any response keys that might be returned from the uri module (CVE-2020-14330).
+- dnf - Previously, regardless of the ``disable_gpg_check`` option, packages were not GPG validated. They are now. (CVE-2020-14365)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- A handler defined within a role will now search handlers subdir for included tasks (issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71222).
+- ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMP, switched to 'moved' message as 'deprecation' is misleading since config settings still work w/o needing change.
+- ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS - remove deprecation so that users of Ansible 2.9 and 2.10+ can use the same var when specifying a collection path without a warning.
+- Added unsafe_writes test.
+- Address compat with rpmfluff-0.6 for integration tests
+- Address the deprecation of the use of stdlib distutils in packaging. It's a short-term hotfix for the problem (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70456, https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2230, https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/bd110264)
+- Adjust various hard-coded action names to also include their ``ansible.builtin.`` and ``ansible.legacy.`` prefixed version (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71817, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71818, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71824).
+- Allow TypeErrors on Undefined variables in filters to be handled or deferred when processing for loops.
+- Allow `~` to be present in file names in galaxy roles (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72966)
+- Always mention the name of the deprecated or tombstoned plugin in routing deprecation/tombstone messages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73059).
+- Ansible output now uses stdout to determine column width instead of stdin
+- AnsibleModule - added arg ``ignore_invalid_cwd`` to ``AnsibleModule.run_command()``, to control its behaviour when ``cwd`` is invalid. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72390)
+- Apply ``_wrap_native_text`` only for builtin filters specified in STRING_TYPE_FILTERS.
+- Automatically remove async cache files for polled async tasks that have completed (issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73206).
+- Be smarter about collection paths ending with ansible_collections, emulating a-galaxy behaviour. Issue 72628
+- CLI - Restore git information in version output when running from source
+- Collection callbacks were ignoring options and rules for stdout and adhoc cases.
+- Collections - Ensure ``action_loader.get`` is called with ``collection_list`` to properly find collections when ``collections:`` search is specified (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72170)
+- Command module now returns stdout & stderr if executable is missing or an unknown error occurs
+- ConfigManager - Normalize ConfigParser between Python2 and Python3 to for handling comments (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73709)
+- Continue execution when  'flatten' filter when it hits a None/null value as part of the list.
+- Correct the inventory source error parse handling, specifically make the config INVENTORY_ANY_UNPARSED_IS_FAILED work as expected.
+- Correctly set template_path and template_fullpath for usage in template lookup and action plugins.
+- Deal with failures when sorting JSON and you have incompatible key types.
+- Display - Use wcswidth to calculate printable width of a text string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63105)
+- Enabled unsafe_writes for get_url which was ignoring the paramter.
+- Ensure Ansible's unique filter preserves order (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63417)
+- Ensure if a traceback halts ``strategy.run`` that we still attempt to clean up (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/23958)
+- Ensure password passed in by -k is used on delegated hosts that do not have ansible_password set
+- Ensure the correct options are used when ssh executables are used that don't match ssh executable names.
+- Facts collection - get serial number of NVMe device without sg_inq (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66663).
+- Fix --list-tasks format `role_name : task_name` when task name contains the role name. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72505)
+- Fix ``RecursionError`` when templating large vars structures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71920)
+- Fix ``delegate_facts: true`` when ``ansible_python_interpreter`` is not set. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70168)
+- Fix adding unrelated candidate names to the plugin loader redirect list.
+- Fix an exit code for a non-failing playbook (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71306)
+- Fix ansible-galaxy collection list to show collections in site-packages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70147)
+- Fix bytestring vs string comparison in module_utils.basic.is_special_selinux_path() so that special-cased filesystems which don't support SELinux context attributes still allow files to be manipulated on them. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70244)
+- Fix execution of the meta tasks 'clear_facts', 'clear_host_errors', 'end_play', 'end_host', and 'reset_connection' when the CLI flag '--flush-cache' is provided.
+- Fix fileglob bug where it could return different results for different order of parameters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72873).
+- Fix incorrect msg in the results dict in loops
+- Fix incorrect re-run of roles with tags (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69848)
+- Fix incorrect variable scoping when using ``import with context`` in Jinja2 templates. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72615)
+- Fix jsonfile cache plugin option '_uri' to be a type path instead of a string. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38002)
+- Fix notifying handlers via `role_name : handler_name` when handler name contains the role name. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70582)
+- Fix parsing of values when using empty string as a key (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57132)
+- Fix statistics reporting when rescue block contains another block (issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61253).
+- Fix to previous deprecation change (#70504) which caused command warning deprecation to show in all cases, even when not specified by the user.
+- Fixed TypeError instancemethod expecting at least 2 arguments for apt_repository(issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69308, PR https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69463)
+- Fixed issue when `netstat` is either missing or doesn't have execution permissions leading to incorrect command being executed.
+- Fixes ``ansible-galaxy role info`` to support multiple roles on the command line (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70148)
+- Fixes ansible-test traceback when plugin author is not a string or a list of strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70507)
+- Handle more varnames that can create conflicts, expand a function in general, handle jinja2 globals in particular (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41955).
+- INTERPRETER_PYTHON_DISTRO_MAP - prefer ``/usr/libexec/platform-python`` on ``oraclelinux 8`` when other pythons are present.
+- Improve Ansible config deprecations to show the source of the deprecation (ansible-core). Also remove space before a comma in config deprecations (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72697).
+- Improved/fixed regular expressions in ``validate-modules/validate_modules/schema.py`` and ``utils/collection_loader/_collection_finder.py`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73577).
+- Includes - Explicitly get the include task, and not assume it is the parent (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65710)
+- InventoryManager - Fix unhandled exception when given limit file was actually a directory.
+- InventoryManager - Fix unhandled exception when inventory directory was empty or contained empty subdirectories (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73658).
+- JSON Encoder - Ensure we treat single vault encrypted values as strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70784)
+- Lookup user by UID in password database if login name is not found (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17029)
+- OpenBSD module_utils - update sysctl variable name
+- Pass expression in angle-bracket notation as filename argument to a ``compile()`` built-in function, so that Python debuggers do not try to parse it as filename.
+- Pass the connection's timeout to connection plugins instead of the task's timeout.
+- Provide more information in AnsibleUndefinedVariable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55152)
+- Python module_utils finder - refactor logic to eliminate many corner cases, remove recursion, fix base module_utils redirections
+- Remove an embedded function from RoleMixin and add tests for it (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72754).
+- Remove the warning displayed when validating the arg spec of a role with dependencies and add it to the documentation.
+- Restore the ability for changed_when/failed_when to function with group_by (#70844).
+- Restored unsafe_writes functionality which was being skipped.
+- Restructured pipelining settings to be at the connection plugins leaving base config as global and for backwards compatiblity.
+- SSH plugin - Improve error message when ssh client is not found on the host
+- Setup virtualization_facts - add RHV and oVirt type. This change will fully work for VMs in clusters at cluster level 4.4 or newer (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72876).
+- Skip invalid collection names when listing in ansible-doc instead of throwing exception. Issue#72257
+- Skip literal_eval for string filters results in native jinja. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70831)
+- Stop adding the connection variables to the output results
+- Strategy - When building the task in the Strategy from the Worker, ensure it is properly marked as finalized and squashed. Addresses an issue with ``ansible_failed_task``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57399)
+- Suppress warning when user directory used in --playbook-dir option with ansible-inventory command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65262).
+- TOML inventory - Ensure we register dump functions for ``AnsibleUnsafe`` to support dumping unsafe values. Note that the TOML format has no functionality to mark that the data is unsafe for re-consumption. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71307)
+- Terminal plugins - add "\e[m" to the list of ANSI sequences stripped from device output
+- The ``docker`` and ``k8s`` action groups / module default groups now also support the moved modules in `community.docker <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/docker>`_, `community.kubevirt <https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.kubevirt>`_, `community.okd <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/okd>`_, and `kubernetes.core <https://galaxy.ansible.com/kubernetes/core>`_ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72428).
+- The ``flush()`` method of ``CachePluginAdjudicator`` now calls the plugin's ``flush()`` method instead of iterating over the keys that the adjudicator knows about and deleting those from the cache. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68770)
+- The `ansible_become` value was not being treated as a boolean value when set in an INI format inventory file (fixes bug https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70476).
+- The machine-readable changelog ``changelogs/changelog.yaml`` is now contained in the release.
+- Try to avoid kernel 'blocking' state on reading files while fact gathering.
+- Updated docs and added warning on max_fail_percentage and free strategy usage. fixes issue 16666.
+- VariableManager - Add the 'vars' key before getting delegated variables (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71092).
+- Vault - Allow single vault encrypted values to be used directly as module parameters. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68275)
+- WorkerProcess - Implement workaround for stdout deadlock in multiprocessing shutdown to avoid process hangs.
+- WorkerProcess - Python 3.5 fix for workaround for stdout deadlock in multiprocessing shutdown to avoid process hangs. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74149)
+- [set_fact] Corrected and expanded documentation as well as now raise errors that were previously ignored.
+- account for bug in Python 2.6 that occurs during interpreter shutdown to avoid stack trace
+- action plugins - change all action/module delegations to use FQ names while allowing overrides (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69788)
+- add AlmaLinux to fact gathering (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73458)
+- add constraints file for ``ansible_runner`` test since an update to ``psutil`` is now causing test failures
+- add magic/connection vars updates from delegated host info.
+- add support for alpine linux 'apk' package manager in package_facts
+- allow become method 'su' to work on 'local' connection by allocating a fake tty.
+- ansible-console - Ctrl+C (in a task) abort current task, and put you back on prompt (this behavior doesn't change) (ditto)
+- ansible-console - Ctrl+C (on prompt) used to exit the shell, unlike most shells, it should just reset the current line (ie. abort it and spawn a new prompt) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68529)
+- ansible-console - Ctrl+D (on prompt) now exit the shell, this is the expected behavior in a shell (cf bash, sh, zsh, ipython, ...) (ditto)
+- ansible-console - add more documentation, specifically on various commands[1] (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72195)
+- ansible-console - fixes few strings' typos
+- ansible-console - remove useless and poorly formatted comment section (replaced with [1])
+- ansible-doc - account for an empty ``meta/main.yml`` file when displaying role information (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73590)
+- ansible-doc - collection name for plugin top-level deprecation was not inserted when deprecating by version (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70344).
+- ansible-doc - improve error message in text formatter when ``description`` is missing for a (sub-)option or a return value or its ``contains`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70046).
+- ansible-doc - improve man page formatting to avoid problems when YAML anchors are used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70045).
+- ansible-doc - include the collection name in the text output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70401).
+- ansible-doc - plugin option deprecations now also get ``collection_name`` added (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71735).
+- ansible-doc - properly show plugin name when ``name:`` is used instead of ``<plugin_type>:`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71966).
+- ansible-galaxy - Cache the responses for available collection versions after getting all pages. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73071)
+- ansible-galaxy - Instead of assuming the first defined server is galaxy, filter based on the servers that support the v1 API, and return the first of those (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65440)
+- ansible-galaxy - Use ``sys.exit`` instead of ``exit`` when reporting an error for the removed login command.
+- ansible-galaxy - correct ``collections-path`` command line argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73127)
+- ansible-galaxy - fixed galaxy role init command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71977).
+- ansible-galaxy collection download - fix downloading tar.gz files and collections in git repositories (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70429)
+- ansible-galaxy collection install - fix fallback mechanism if the AH server did not have the collection requested - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70940
+- ansible-galaxy download - fix bug when downloading a collection in a SCM subdirectory
+- ansible-pull - Run all playbooks that when multiple are supplied via the command line (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72708)
+- ansible-test - Add ``pytest < 6.0.0`` constraint for managed installations on Python 3.x to avoid issues with relative imports.
+- ansible-test - Add a ``six < 1.14.0`` constraint for Python 2.6.
+- ansible-test - Always connect additional Docker containers to the network used by the current container (if any).
+- ansible-test - Always map ``/var/run/docker.sock`` into test containers created by the ``--docker`` option if the docker host is not ``localhost``.
+- ansible-test - Attempt to detect the Docker hostname instead of assuming ``localhost``.
+- ansible-test - Avoid using ``/tmp`` to resolve occasional failures starting tests with the ``--docker`` option.
+- ansible-test - Change classification using ``--changed`` now consistently handles common configuration files for supported CI providers.
+- ansible-test - Change detection now properly resolves relative imports instead of treating them as absolute imports.
+- ansible-test - Correctly detect changes in a GitHub pull request when running on Azure Pipelines.
+- ansible-test - Correctly detect running in a Docker container on Azure Pipelines.
+- ansible-test - Do not try to validate PowerShell modules ``setup.ps1``, ``slurp.ps1``, and ``async_status.ps1``
+- ansible-test - Prefer container IP at ``.NetworkSettings.Networks.{NetworkName}.IPAddress`` over ``.NetworkSettings.IPAddress``.
+- ansible-test - Running tests using an installed version of ``ansible-test`` against one Python version from another no longer fails due to a missing ``egg-info`` directory. This could occur when testing plugins which import ``pkg_resources``.
+- ansible-test - Running tests using an installed version of ``ansible-test`` no longer generates an error attempting to create an ``egg-info`` directory when an existing one is not found in the expected location. This could occur if the existing ``egg-info`` directory included a Python version specifier in the name.
+- ansible-test - Skip installing requirements if they are already installed.
+- ansible-test - Symbolic links are no longer used to inject ``python`` into the environment, since they do not work reliably in all cases. Instead, the existing Python based exec wrapper is always used.
+- ansible-test - Temporarily limit ``cryptography`` to versions before 3.4 to enable tests to function.
+- ansible-test - The ``--export`` option for ``ansible-test coverage`` is now limited to the ``combine`` command. It was previously available for reporting commands on which it had no effect.
+- ansible-test - The ``--raw`` option for ``ansible-test shell --remote`` now uses ``sh`` for the shell instead of ``bash``, which may not be present.
+- ansible-test - The ``--remote`` option has been updated for Python 2.7 to work around breaking changes in the newly released ``get-pip.py`` bootstrapper.
+- ansible-test - The ``--remote`` option has been updated to use a versioned ``get-pip.py`` bootstrapper to avoid issues with future releases.
+- ansible-test - The ``ansible-doc`` sanity test now works for ``netconf`` plugins.
+- ansible-test - The ``ansible-test coverage combine`` option ``--export`` now exports relative paths. This avoids loss of coverage data when aggregating across systems with different absolute paths. Paths will be converted back to absolute when generating reports.
+- ansible-test - The ``changelog`` sanity test has been updated to ensure ``rstcheck`` does not load the ``sphinx`` module.
+- ansible-test - The ``cs`` and ``openshift`` test plugins now search for containers on the current network instead of assuming the ``bridge`` network.
+- ansible-test - The ``resource_prefix`` variable provided to tests running on Azure Pipelines is now converted to lowercase to match other CI providers.
+- ansible-test - Unified SSH key management for all instances created with the ``--remote`` or ``--docker`` options.
+- ansible-test - Using the ``--remote`` option on Azure Pipelines now works from a job running in a container.
+- ansible-test - ``cryptography`` is now limited to versions prior to 3.2 only when an incompatible OpenSSL version (earlier than 1.1.0) is detected
+- ansible-test - add constraint for ``cffi`` to prevent failure on systems with older versions of ``gcc`` (https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/cffi/-/issues/480)
+- ansible-test - convert target paths to unicode on Python 2 to avoid ``UnicodeDecodeError`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68398, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72623).
+- ansible-test - ensure the correct unit test target is given when the ``__init__.py`` file is modified inside the connection plugins directory
+- ansible-test - ensure unit test paths for connection and inventory plugins are correctly identified for collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73876).
+- ansible-test - improve classification of changes to ``.gitignore``, ``COPYING``, ``LICENSE``, ``Makefile``, and all files ending with one of ``.in`, ``.md`, ``.rst``, ``.toml``, ``.txt`` in the collection root directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72353).
+- ansible-test - integration and unit test change detection now works for filter, lookup and test plugins
+- ansible-test now always uses the ``--python`` option for ``virtualenv`` to select the correct interpreter when creating environments with the ``--venv`` option
+- ansible-test sanity changelog test - bump dependency on antsibull-changelog to 0.9.0 so that `fragments that add new plugins or objects <https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-changelog/blob/main/docs/changelogs.rst#adding-new-roles-playbooks-test-and-filter-plugins>`_ will not fail validation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73428).
+- ansible-test units - fixed collection location code to work under pytest >= 6.0.0
+- ansible-test validate-modules - ``version_added`` on module level was not validated for modules in collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70869).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - return correct error codes ``option-invalid-version-added`` resp. ``return-invalid-version-added`` instead of the wrong error ``deprecation-either-date-or-version`` when an invalid value of ``version_added`` is specified for an option or a return value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70869).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - when a module uses ``add_file_common_args=True`` and does not use a keyword argument for ``argument_spec`` in ``AnsibleModule()``, the common file arguments were not considered added during validation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72334).
+- ansible_pkg_mgr fact - now correctly returns ``atomic_container`` when run on "RHEL for Edge" images and Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Atomic Host (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73084).
+- api - time.clock is removed in Python 3.8, add backward compatible code (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70649).
+- apt - add ``fail_on_autoremove`` param to apt module to avoid unintended package removals (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63231)
+- apt - fix policy_rc_d parameter throwing an exception when restoring original file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66211)
+- apt - include exception message from apt python library in error output
+- apt_key - Specifying ``file`` as mutually exclusive with ``data``, ``keyserver``, ``url`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70492).
+- apt_repository - fixes ``mode`` doc to remove ineffective default (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70319).
+- argument spec validation - fix behavior of ``apply_defaults=True`` when an empty dictionary is specified for such an option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74029).
+- assemble - fix decrypt argument in the module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65450).
+- async - Fix Python 3 interpreter parsing from module by comparing with bytes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70690)
+- async_wrapper - Fix race condition when ``~/.ansible_async`` folder tries to be created by multiple async tasks at the same time - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59306
+- avoid possible errors accessing os.environ by not assuming existance of variables.
+- basic - handle exceptions for default selectors in Python 2.7 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71704).
+- basic - use PollSelector implementation when DefaultSelector fails (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70238).
+- bcrypt hashing - Ensure we repair the salt, to avoid warnings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36129)
+- blockinfile - properly insert a block at the end of a file that does not have a trailing newline character (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72055)
+- blockinfile now returns name of backup file when this option is used.
+- clarified changed status to reflect existing rule that had never been written down.
+- collection loader - fix bogus code coverage entries for synthetic packages
+- collection metadata - ensure collection loader uses libyaml/CSafeLoader to parse collection metadata if available
+- connection/ssh, ensure parameters come from correct source get_option, so functionality matches docs.
+- connection/ssh, fix reset to use same parameters to check if socket exists as actually used, was hardcoded to default string construction previouslly.
+- cron - cron file should not be empty after adding var (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71207)
+- cron - encode and decode crontab files in UTF-8 explicitly to allow non-ascii chars in cron filepath and job (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69492)
+- debug action, prevent setting facts when displaying ansible_facts.
+- default callback - Ensure that the ``host_pinned`` strategy is not treated as lockstep (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73364)
+- delegate_to - Ensure that calculating ``delegate_to`` vars with a loop uses the correct context to correctly evaluate the loop (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/37132)
+- display correct error information when an error exists in the last line of the file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16456)
+- distribution - add support for Pardus Linux distribution (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71636).
+- distribution facts - Allow ``distribution_major_version`` and ``distribution_version`` to work for RC and PRERELEASE versions of FreeBSD (and derived distributions) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72331).
+- dnf - fix filtering to avoid dependncy conflicts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72316)
+- dnf - it is now possible to specify both ``security: true`` and ``bugfix: true`` to install updates of both types. Previously, only security would get installed if both were true. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70854)
+- ensure 'local' connection always has the correct default user for actions to consume.
+- ensure delegated vars can resolve hostvars object and access vars from hostvars[inventory_hostname].
+- ensure find_mount_point consistently returns text.
+- ensure we don't clobber role vars data when getting an empty file
+- expect - Operate pexpect with bytes to avoid potential encoding issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29351)
+- facts - account for Slackware OS with ``+`` in the name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38760)
+- facts - fix distribution fact for SLES4SAP (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71559).
+- facts - fix incorrect UTC timestamp in ``iso8601_micro`` and ``iso8601``
+- facts - properly report virtualization facts for Linux guests running on bhyve (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73167)
+- file - prevent link src from being rewritten when src is not specified explicitly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65448)
+- file - the module should warn in check_mode when path an owner/group don't exist (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67307).
+- find module - Don't treat empty excludes as a match (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70640)
+- find module - Stop traversing directories past the requested depth. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73627)
+- find module, fix default pattern when use_regex is true.
+- fix issue with inventory_hostname and delegated host vars mixing on connection settings.
+- fortimanager httpapi plugin - fix redirect to point to the ``fortinet.fortimanager`` collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71073).
+- galaxy - handle plus sign in user token appearing in role url (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45475).
+- get_sysctl now handles multiline values and does not die silently anymore.
+- get_url - skip checksum during ``--check`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61369).
+- git - Only pass ``--raw`` flag to git verify commands (verify-tag, verify-commit) when ``gpg_whitelist`` is in use. Otherwise don't pass it so that non-whitelist GPG validation still works on older Git versions. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64469)
+- gluster modules - fix redirect to point to the ``gluster.gluster`` collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71240).
+- hostname - Fixed an issue where the hostname on the alinux could not be set.
+- hostname - add Almalinux support (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73619)
+- hostname - add macOS support (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/54439)
+- if the ``type`` for a module parameter in the argument spec is callable, do not pass ``kwargs`` to avoid errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70017)
+- import_playbook - change warning about extra parameters to deprecation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72745)
+- improve deprecation message when using bare variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70687)
+- inventory - pass the vars dictionary to combine_vars instead of an individual key's value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72975).
+- inventory plugins - Let plugins define the sanitization method for the constructed ``groups`` feature.
+- inventory_hostnames - Use ``InventoryManager`` instead of trying to replicate its behavior (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17268)
+- is_string/vault - Ensure the is_string helper properly identifies AnsibleVaultEncryptedUnicode as a string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71609)
+- j2 plugin loader clarified comments, made note with better fqcn detection.
+- lineinfile - fix not subscriptable error in exception handling around file creation
+- linux network facts - get the correct value for broadcast address (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64384)
+- native jinja2 types - properly handle Undefined in nested data.
+- notify keyword is not ignored anymore on import_tasks, also able to apply to blocks now.
+- package - use list of built in package managers from facts rather than creating a new list
+- paramiko connection plugin - Ensure we only reset the connection when one has been previously established (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65812)
+- password hashing - Ensure we validate salts against allowed characters and length when using ``crypt`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71107)
+- password lookup - Try to automatically generate salts using known salt sizes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/53750)
+- pause - Fix indefinite hang when using a pause task on a background process (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32142)
+- pause - catch additional error on setting up curses (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73588).
+- pause - do not accept enter to continue when a timeout is set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73948)
+- pause - do not warn when running in the background if a timeout is provided (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73042)
+- pause - handle exception when there is no stdout (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47851)
+- powershell - fix escaping of strings that broken modules like fetch when dealing with special chars - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62781
+- powershell - fix the CLIXML parser when it contains nested CLIXML objects - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69550
+- powershell - remove getting the PowerShell version from the env var ``POWERSHELL_VERSION``. This feature never worked properly and can cause conflicts with other libraries that use this var
+- psrp - Fix hang when copying an empty file to the remote target
+- psrp - Use native PSRP mechanism when copying files to support custom endpoints
+- quote filter - normalize how ``None`` is handled, to match Python3 behavior (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32174)
+- reboot - Add support for the runit init system, used on Void Linux, that does not support the normal Linux syntax.
+- remove contradictory recomendation from template docs. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63484
+- remove redundant remote_user setting in play_context for local as plugin already does it, also removes fork/thread issue from use of pwd library.
+- reset logging level to INFO due to CVE-2019-14846.
+- restrict module valid JSON parsed output to objects as lists are not valid responses.
+- runas - create a new token when running as ``SYSTEM`` to ensure it has the full privileges assigned to that account
+- service - Fix for the BSD rcconf code using a Python 2 specific string replace function
+- set_mode_if_different - handle symlink if it is inside a directory with sticky bit set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45198)
+- setup module, fix error handling on bad subset given
+- setup, don't give up on all local facts gathering if one script file fails.
+- several fixes to make apt_key better at identifying needs for change and also to avoid changes in check_mode.
+- shell - fix quoting of mkdir command in creation of remote_tmp in order to allow spaces and other special characters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69577).
+- splunk httpapi plugin - switch from splunk.enterprise_security to splunk.es in runtime.yml to reflect upstream change of Collection Name
+- ssh connection plugin - use ``get_option()`` rather than ``_play_context`` to ensure ``ANSBILE_SSH_ARGS`` are applied properly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70437)
+- stat - handle colons in filename while parsing the mimetype output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70256).
+- strftime filter - Input epoch is allowed to be a float (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71257)
+- su become plugin, ensure correct type for localization option.
+- systemd - account for templated unit files using ``@`` when searching for the unit file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72347#issuecomment-730626228)
+- systemd - fixed chroot usage on new versions of systemd, that broke because of upstream changes in systemctl output
+- systemd - follow up fix to https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72338 to use ``list-unit-files`` rather than ``list-units`` in order to show all units files on the system.
+- systemd - made the systemd module work correctly when the SYSTEMD_OFFLINE environment variable is set
+- systemd - preserve the full unit name when using a templated service and ``systemd`` failed to parse dbus due to a known bug in ``systemd`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72985)
+- systemd - work around bug with ``systemd`` 245 and 5.8 kernel that does not correctly report service state (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71528)
+- task parsing - strip spaces from action name when using ``action: foo bar=baz`` form. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62136)
+- templating - fix error message for ``x in y`` when y is undefined (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70984)
+- the unvault lookup plugin returned a byte string. Now returns a real string.
+- to_text(stdout) before json.loads in psrp.Connection.put_file in case stdout is bytes
+- unarchive - ``zip`` unarchive no longer errors on RHEL/CentOS 6 and old Fedora when attempting to use a numeric gid (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71903).
+- unarchive - check ``fut_gid`` against ``run_gid`` in addition to supplemental groups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49284)
+- undeprecate hash_merge setting and add more docs clarifying its use and why not to use it.
+- uri - ``status_code`` elements are type ``int``
+- url lookup - make sure that options supplied in ansible.cfg are actually used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71736).
+- url lookup - set default user agent to ``ansible-httpget`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72324)
+- urls - Close filedescriptor of certificate chain tempfile to prevent stale filedescriptor leakage (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71825).
+- user - AnsibleModule.run_command returns a tuple of return code, stdout and stderr. The module main function of the user module expects user.create_user to return a tuple of return code, stdout and stderr. Fix the locations where stdout and stderr got reversed.
+- user - Local users with an expiry date cannot be created as the ``luseradd`` / ``lusermod`` commands do not support the ``-e`` option. Set the expiry time in this case via ``lchage`` after the user was created / modified. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71942)
+- user - do the right thing when ``password_lock=True`` and ``password`` are used together (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72992)
+- user - don't create home directory and missing parents when create_home == false (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70600).
+- validate-modules - do not raise an ``AttributeError`` if a value is assigned to a module attribute in a try/except block.
+- vault - Support reading raw binary data from stdin under python3
+- virtual facts - kubevirt is now identified as "KubeVirt" and with a "guest" role instead of "kvm" and "host" role (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72001).
+- wait_for - catch and ignore errors when getting active connections with psutil (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72322)
+- wait_for module, move missing socket into function to get proper comparrison in time.
+- win setup - Fix redirection path for the windows setup module
+- windows async - use full path when calling PowerShell to reduce reliance on environment vars being correct - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70655
+- winrm - preserve winrm forensic data on put_file failures
+- yamllint - do not raise an ``AttributeError`` if a value is assigned to a module attribute at the top of the module.
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- ansible-test - The ``pylint`` sanity test no longer correctly detects "bad" variable names for non-constants. See https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/3701 for additional details.
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- validate_argument_spec - Validate role argument specs.

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-================================================
-ansible-core 2.15 "Ten Years Gone" Release Notes
-================================================
-
-.. contents:: Topics
-
-
-v2.15.13
-========
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2024-11-04
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- ansible-test - Improve container runtime probe error handling. When unexpected probe output is encountered, an error with more useful debugging information is provided.
-- ansible-test - Removed support for provisioning remote Windows 2012 and 2012-R2 instances.
-- ansible-test - Removed the ``vyos/1.1.8`` network remote as it is no longer functional.
-- ansible-test - Update ``pypi-test-container`` to version 3.1.0.
-
-Security Fixes
---------------
-
-- include_vars action - Ensure that result masking is correctly requested when vault-encrypted files are read. (CVE-2024-8775)
-- task result processing - Ensure that action-sourced result masking (``_ansible_no_log=True``) is preserved. (CVE-2024-8775)
-- user action won't allow ssh-keygen, chown and chmod to run on existing ssh public key file, avoiding traversal on existing symlinks (CVE-2024-9902).
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix ``SemanticVersion.parse()`` to store the version string so that ``__repr__`` reports it instead of ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83831).
-- runtime-metadata sanity test - do not crash on deprecations if ``galaxy.yml`` contains an empty ``version`` field (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83831).
-- user action will now require O(force) to overwrite the public part of an ssh key when generating ssh keys, as was already the case for the private part.
-
-v2.15.12
-========
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2024-05-20
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Add a version ceiling constraint for pypsrp to avoid potential breaking changes in the 1.0.0 release.
-- ansible-test - Automatically enable the PyPI proxy for the ``centos7`` container to restore the ability to use ``pip`` in that container.
-- facts - add a generic detection for VMware in product name.
-- uri - update the documentation for follow_redirects.
-
-v2.15.11
-========
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2024-04-22
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fixes permission for cache json file from 600 to 644 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82683).
-- allow_duplicates - fix evaluating if the current role allows duplicates instead of using the initial value from the duplicate's cached role.
-- ansible-test ansible-doc sanity test - do not remove underscores from plugin names in collections before calling ``ansible-doc`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82574).
-- dnf5 - replace removed API calls
-- unarchive modules now uses zipinfo options without relying on implementation defaults, making it more compatible with all OS/distributions.
-- winrm - Do not raise another exception during cleanup when a task is timed out - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81095
-
-v2.15.10
-========
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2024-03-25
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- ansible-test - Add a work-around for permission denied errors when using ``pytest >= 8`` on multi-user systems with an installed version of ``ansible-test``.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix an issue when setting a plugin name from an unsafe source resulted in ``ValueError: unmarshallable object`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82708)
-- ansible-test - The ``libexpat`` package is automatically upgraded during remote bootstrapping to maintain compatibility with newer Python packages.
-- winrm - does not hang when attempting to get process output when stdin write failed
-
-v2.15.9
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2024-01-29
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- ansible-test - Removed `freebsd/12.4` remote.
-
-Security Fixes
---------------
-
-- ANSIBLE_NO_LOG - Address issue where ANSIBLE_NO_LOG was ignored (CVE-2024-0690)
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- ``ansible-galaxy role import`` - fix using the ``role_name`` in a standalone role's ``galaxy_info`` metadata by disabling automatic removal of the ``ansible-role-`` prefix. This matches the behavior of the Galaxy UI which also no longer implicitly removes the ``ansible-role-`` prefix. Use the ``--role-name`` option or add a ``role_name`` to the ``galaxy_info`` dictionary in the role's ``meta/main.yml`` to use an alternate role name.
-- ``ansible-test sanity --test runtime-metadata`` - add ``action_plugin`` as a valid field for modules in the schema (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82562).
-- ansible-config init will now dedupe ini entries from plugins.
-- ansible-galaxy role install - fix symlinks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82702, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81965).
-- ansible-galaxy role install - normalize tarfile paths and symlinks using ``ansible.utils.path.unfrackpath`` and consider them valid as long as the realpath is in the tarfile's role directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81965).
-- delegate_to when set to an empty or undefined variable will now give a proper error.
-- unsafe data - Enable directly using ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` with Python ``pathlib`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82414)
-
-v2.15.8
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-12-11
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- ansible-test - Add FreeBSD 13.2 remote.
-- ansible-test - Removed `freebsd/13.1` remote.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- unsafe data - Address an incompatibility when iterating or getting a single index from ``AnsibleUnsafeBytes``
-- unsafe data - Address an incompatibility with ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` and ``AnsibleUnsafeBytes`` when pickling with ``protocol=0``
-
-v2.15.7
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-12-04
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
---------------------------------
-
-- assert - Nested templating may result in an inability for the conditional to be evaluated. See the porting guide for more information.
-
-Security Fixes
---------------
-
-- templating - Address issues where internal templating can cause unsafe variables to lose their unsafe designation (CVE-2023-5764)
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- ansible-pull now will expand relative paths for the ``-d|--directory`` option is now expanded before use.
-- flush_handlers - properly handle a handler failure in a nested block when ``force_handlers`` is set (http://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81532)
-- module no_log will no longer affect top level booleans, for example ``no_log_module_parameter='a'`` will no longer hide ``changed=False`` as a 'no log value' (matches 'a').
-- modules/user.py - Add check for valid directory when creating new user homedir (allows /dev/null as skeleton) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75063)
-- role params now have higher precedence than host facts again, matching documentation, this had unintentionally changed in 2.15.
-- wait_for should not handle 'non mmapable files' again.
-
-v2.15.6
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-11-06
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- ansible-test - Windows 2012 and 2012-R2 instances are now requested from Azure instead of AWS.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix ``run_once`` being incorrectly interpreted on handlers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81666)
-- Plugin loader does not dedupe nor cache filter/test plugins by file basename, but full path name.
-- Properly template tags in parent blocks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81053)
-- Restoring the ability of filters/tests can have same file base name but different tests/filters defined inside.
-- ``import_role`` reverts to previous behavior of exporting vars at compile time.
-- ansible-galaxy - Provide a better error message when using a requirements file with an invalid format - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81901
-- ansible-inventory - index available_hosts for major performance boost when dumping large inventories
-- ansible-test - Fix parsing of cgroup entries which contain a ``:`` in the path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81977).
-
-v2.15.5
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-10-09
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- ansible-galaxy dependency resolution messages have changed the unexplained 'virtual' collection for the specific type ('scm', 'dir', etc) that is more user friendly
-
-Security Fixes
---------------
-
-- ansible-galaxy - Prevent roles from using symlinks to overwrite files outside of the installation directory (CVE-2023-5115)
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Allow for searching handler subdir for included task via include_role (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81722)
-- PluginLoader - fix Jinja plugin performance issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79652)
-- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - ensure binary data transmission in ``daemonize()``
-- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - fix inter-process communication in ``daemonize()``
-- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for collections that do not have any stable versions published. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
-- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for dependencies on any level of the dependency tree that specifically demand exact pre-release versions of collections and not version ranges. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
-- ansible-galaxy error on dependency resolution will not error itself due to 'virtual' collections not having a name/namespace.
-- ansible-galaxy info - fix reporting no role found when lookup_role_by_name returns None.
-- role deduplication - don't deduplicate before a role has had a task run for that particular host (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81486).
-- uri/urls - Add compat function to handle the ability to parse the filename from a Content-Disposition header (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81806)
-- winrm - Better handle send input failures when communicating with hosts under load
-
-v2.15.4
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-09-11
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Deprecated Features
--------------------
-
-- vault and unfault filters - the undocumented ``vaultid`` parameter is deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core 2.20. Use ``vault_id`` instead.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- PowerShell - Remove some code which is no longer valid for dotnet 5+
-- Prompting - add a short sleep between polling for user input to reduce CPU consumption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81516).
-- ansible-galaxy - Enabled the ``data`` tarfile filter during role installation for Python versions that support it. A probing mechanism is used to avoid Python versions with a broken implementation.
-- ansible-test - Always use ansible-test managed entry points for ansible-core CLI tools when not running from source. This fixes issues where CLI entry points created during install are not compatible with ansible-test.
-- first found lookup has been updated to use the normalized argument parsing (pythonic) matching the documented examples.
-- handlers - the ``listen`` keyword can affect only one handler with the same name, the last one defined as it is a case with the ``notify`` keyword (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81013)
-- include_role - expose variables from parent roles to role's handlers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80459)
-- tarfile - handle data filter deprecation warning message for extract and extractall (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80832).
-- vault and unvault filters now properly take ``vault_id`` parameter.
-
-v2.15.3
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-08-14
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- Removed ``exclude`` and ``recursive-exclude`` commands for generated files from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These excludes were unnecessary since releases are expected to be built with a clean worktree.
-- Removed ``exclude`` commands for sanity test files from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These tests were previously excluded because they did not pass when run from an sdist. However, sanity tests are not expected to pass from an sdist, so excluding some (but not all) of the failing tests makes little sense.
-- Removed redundant ``include`` commands from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These includes either duplicated default behavior or another command.
-- The ``ansible-core`` sdist no longer contains pre-generated man pages. Instead, a ``packaging/cli-doc/build.py`` script is included in the sdist. This script can generate man pages and standalone RST documentation for ``ansible-core`` CLI programs.
-- The ``docs`` and ``examples`` directories are no longer included in the ``ansible-core`` sdist. These directories have been moved to the https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation repository.
-- Use ``include`` where ``recursive-include`` is unnecessary in the ``MANIFEST.in`` file.
-- ansible-test - Update the logic used to detect when ``ansible-test`` is running from source.
-- ansible-test - Updated the CloudStack test container to version 1.6.1.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Exclude internal options from man pages and docs.
-- Fix ``ansible-config init`` man page option indentation.
-- The ``ansible-config init`` command now has a documentation description.
-- The ``ansible-galaxy collection download`` command now has a documentation description.
-- The ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` command documentation is now visible (previously hidden by a decorator).
-- The ``ansible-galaxy collection verify`` command now has a documentation description.
-- The ``ansible-galaxy role install`` command documentation is now visible (previously hidden by a decorator).
-- The ``ansible-inventory`` command command now has a documentation description (previously used as the epilog).
-- Update module_utils.urls unit test to work with cryptography >= 41.0.0.
-- When generating man pages, use ``func`` to find the command function instead of looking it up by the command name.
-- ``ansible-galaxy`` now considers all collection paths when identifying which collection requirements are already installed. Use the ``COLLECTIONS_PATHS`` and ``COLLECTIONS_SCAN_SYS_PATHS`` config options to modify these. Previously only the install path was considered when resolving the candidates. The install path will remain the only one potentially modified. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79767, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81163)
-- ansible-test - Fix several possible tracebacks when using the ``-e`` option with sanity tests.
-- ansible-test - Pre-build a PyYAML wheel before installing requirements to avoid a potential Cython build failure.
-- ansible-test - Remove redundant warning about missing programs before attempting to execute them.
-- core will now also look at the connection plugin to force 'local' interpreter for networking path compatibility as just ansible_network_os could be misleading.
-- man page build - Sub commands of ``ansible-galaxy role`` and ``ansible-galaxy collection`` are now documented.
-- password_hash - fix salt format for ``crypt``  (only used if ``passlib`` is not installed) for the ``bcrypt`` algorithm.
-- urls.py - fixed cert_file and key_file parameters when running on Python 3.12 - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80490
-
-v2.15.2
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-07-18
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- Utilize gpg check provided internally by the ``transaction.run`` method as oppose to calling it manually.
-- ansible-test - Add Fedora 38 remote.
-- ansible-test - Use a context manager to perform cleanup at exit instead of using the built-in ``atexit`` module.
-- dnf5 - enable environment groups installation testing in CI as its support was added.
-- dnf5 - enable now implemented ``cacheonly`` functionality
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- From issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80880, when notifying a handler from another handler, handler notifications must be registered immediately as the flush_handler call is not recursive.
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix issue installing collections containing directories with more than 100 characters on python versions before 3.10.6
-- paramiko_ssh, psrp, and ssh connection plugins - ensure that all values for options that should be strings are actually converted to strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81029).
-- templating - In the template action and lookup, use local jinja2 environment overlay overrides instead of mutating the templars environment
-
-Known Issues
-------------
-
-- ansible-test - The Fedora 37 remote is known to occasionally hang during boot. It is no longer routinely tested as a result. If possible, use the Fedora 38 remote instead.
-
-v2.15.1
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-06-20
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- ansible-test - Allow float values for the ``--timeout`` option to the ``env`` command. This simplifies testing.
-- ansible-test - Refactored ``env`` command logic and timeout handling.
-- ansible-test - Use ``datetime.datetime.now`` with ``tz`` specified instead of ``datetime.datetime.utcnow``.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Properly disable ``jinja2_native`` in the template module when jinja2 override is used in the template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80605)
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix variable type error when installing subdir collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80943)
-- ansible-test - Fix a traceback that occurs when attempting to test Ansible source using a different ansible-test. A clear error message is now given when this scenario occurs.
-- ansible-test - Fix handling of timeouts exceeding one day.
-- ansible-test - Fix various cases where the test timeout could expire without terminating the tests.
-- ansible-test local change detection - use ``git merge-base <branch> HEAD`` instead of ``git merge-base --fork-point <branch>`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79734).
-- deb822_repository - use http-agent for receiving content (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80809).
-- dnf5 - Update dnf5 module to handle API change for setting the download directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80887)
-- man page build - Remove the dependency on the ``docs`` directory for building man pages.
-- pep517 build backend - Copy symlinks when copying the source tree. This avoids tracebacks in various scenarios, such as when a venv is present in the source tree.
-- uri - fix search for JSON type to include complex strings containing '+'
-
-v2.15.0
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-05-15
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
-
-
-Major Changes
--------------
-
-- ansible-test - Docker Desktop on WSL2 is now supported (additional configuration required).
-- ansible-test - Docker and Podman are now supported on hosts with cgroup v2 unified. Previously only cgroup v1 and cgroup v2 hybrid were supported.
-- ansible-test - Podman now works on container hosts without systemd. Previously only some containers worked, while others required rootfull or rootless Podman, but would not work with both. Some containers did not work at all.
-- ansible-test - Podman on WSL2 is now supported.
-- ansible-test - When additional cgroup setup is required on the container host, this will be automatically detected. Instructions on how to configure the host will be provided in the error message shown.
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- Add support for custom salt for vault encoding to make it deterministic (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35480).
-- Added the conditional that was False if ``when`` caused a task to skip under ``false_condition``.
-- Allow force deletion of a group even when it is the primary group of a user. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77849)
-- Ansible.ModuleUtils.AddType - Add support for compiling ``unsafe`` code with the ``//AllowUnsafe`` directive
-- Cache field attributes list on the playbook classes
-- Cleaned up unused imports in core.
-- Get user input for ``pause`` and ``paramiko_ssh`` from the strategy rather than access ``sys.stdin`` in the WorkerProcess.
-- Introduce ``Delegatable`` and ``Notifiable`` mixin classes for playbook objects
-- Make using blocks as handlers a parser error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79968)
-- Playbook objects - Replace deprecated stacked ``@classmethod`` and ``@property``
-- Raise an error when an incorrect ``isa`` type is passed to ``FieldAttribute``.
-- Remove fallback code for when ``defined``/``undefined`` tests were used on objects containing nested undefined variables; due to changes in lazy evalution of Jinja2 expressions it is no longer needed.
-- Remove unused Python stdlib imports from module_utils which were not present for backwards compatibility in: common.file, compat.selectors, facts.network.iscsi, facts.network.nvme, yumdnf
-- Remove unused internal imports from module_utils which were not present for backwards compatibility in: common.file, common.parameters, facts.system.caps, yumdnf
-- Removed ``straight.plugin`` from the build and packaging requirements.
-- Removed unused imports from the following action plugins: async_status, command, pause, set_stats, uri, validate_argument_spec
-- Removed unused imports from the following lookup plugins: fileglob, template
-- Removed unused imports from the following modules: apt, dnf, expect, pip, slurp, user, yum
-- Removed unused imports from the following set of test plugins: files
-- Removed unused imports from the following strategy plugins: debug
-- Removed unused imports from the following vars plugins: host_group_vars
-- The minimum required ``setuptools`` version is now 45.2.0, as it is the oldest version to support Python 3.10.
-- Use ``ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat`` in modules and module_utils.
-- Use ``collections.abc`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat`` in controller code.
-- Use ``package_data`` instead of ``include_package_data`` for ``setup.cfg`` to avoid ``setuptools`` warnings.
-- ``AnsibleJ2Vars`` class that acts as a storage for all variables for templating purposes now uses ``collections.ChainMap`` internally.
-- add parameter ``numeric`` to the iptables module to disable dns lookups when running list -action internally (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78793).
-- allow user to set ansible specific env vars for selecting pager and editor, but still fall back to commonly used defaults.
-- ansible-doc - support role extension for semantic markup spec so that ``O()`` and ``RV()`` referring to role entrypoints are rendered more readable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80305).
-- ansible-doc - support semantic markup in text output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80242).
-- ansible-doc text output - support ``seealso`` plugin record that was added for filter and test plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80212).
-- ansible-galaxy - Add ability to specify collection versions on the CLI without the need for a colon. Such as ``namespace.name==1.2.3`` vs ``namespace.name:1.2.3``.
-- ansible-galaxy - Use Python's native ``raise ... from`` instead of ``six.raise_from``.
-- ansible-galaxy - support ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 0.10.0``.
-- ansible-galaxy - support ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 1.1.0``.
-- ansible-inventory now supports the limit command line options.
-- ansible-test - A new ``audit`` option is available when running custom containers. This option can be used to indicate whether a container requires the AUDIT_WRITE capability. The default is ``required``, which most containers will need when using Podman. If necessary, the ``none`` option can be used to opt-out of the capability. This has no effect on Docker, which always provides the capability.
-- ansible-test - A new ``cgroup`` option is available when running custom containers. This option can be used to indicate a container requires cgroup v1 or that it does not use cgroup. The default behavior assumes the container works with cgroup v2 (as well as v1).
-- ansible-test - Add Alpine 3.17 remote.
-- ansible-test - Add Fedora 37 container.
-- ansible-test - Add Fedora 37 remote.
-- ansible-test - Add FreeBSD 12.4 remote.
-- ansible-test - Add RHEL 8.7 remote.
-- ansible-test - Add RHEL 9.1 remote.
-- ansible-test - Add macOS 13.2 remote.
-- ansible-test - Additional log details are shown when containers fail to start or SSH connections to containers fail.
-- ansible-test - Connection failures to remote provisioned hosts now show failure details as a warning.
-- ansible-test - Containers included with ansible-test no longer disable seccomp by default.
-- ansible-test - Disabled the ``ansible-format-automatic-specification`` rule from the ``pylint`` sanity test, now that Python 2.6 is no longer supported.
-- ansible-test - Enable the ``trailing-comma-tuple`` rule in the ``pylint`` sanity test.
-- ansible-test - Enable the ``unused-import`` rule for the ``pylint`` sanity test for collections.
-- ansible-test - Failure to connect to a container over SSH now results in a clear error. Previously tests would be attempted even after initial connection attempts failed.
-- ansible-test - Improve consistency of executed ``pylint`` commands by making the plugins ordered.
-- ansible-test - Improve consistency of version specific documentation links.
-- ansible-test - Integration tests can be excluded from retries triggered by the ``--retry-on-error`` option by adding the ``retry/never`` alias. This is useful for tests that cannot pass on a retry or are too slow to make retries useful.
-- ansible-test - Minor cleanup and package updates in distro containers.
-- ansible-test - More details are provided about an instance when provisioning fails.
-- ansible-test - Moved git handling out of the validate-modules sanity test and into ansible-test.
-- ansible-test - Reduce the polling limit for SSHD startup in containers from 60 retries to 10. The one second delay between retries remains in place.
-- ansible-test - Removed test containers: fedora36
-- ansible-test - Removed test remotes: alpine/3.16, fedora/36, freebsd/12.3, rhel/8.6, rhel/9.0, macos/12.0
-- ansible-test - Removed the ``--keep-git`` sanity test option, which was limited to testing ansible-core itself.
-- ansible-test - SSH connections from OpenSSH 8.8+ to CentOS 6 containers now work without additional configuration. However, clients older than OpenSSH 7.0 can no longer connect to CentOS 6 containers as a result. The container must have ``centos6`` in the image name for this work-around to be applied.
-- ansible-test - SSH shell connections from OpenSSH 8.8+ to ansible-test provisioned network instances now work without additional configuration. However, clients older than OpenSSH 7.0 can no longer open shell sessions for ansible-test provisioned network instances as a result.
-- ansible-test - Specify the configuration file location required by test plugins when the config file is not found. This resolves issue: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79411
-- ansible-test - The ``ansible-test env`` command now detects and reports the container ID if running in a container.
-- ansible-test - The ``pep8`` sanity test rule ``E203`` is now disabled since it is not PEP 8 compliant. This provides compatibility with output generated by the ``black`` code formatter.
-- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test no longer limits the ``__future__`` imports that can be used. Other sanity tests that check ``__future__`` imports remain unchanged. As a result, the error code ``illegal-future-imports`` is no longer used.
-- ansible-test - Unit tests now support network disconnect by default when running under Podman. Previously this feature only worked by default under Docker.
-- ansible-test - Update Alpine 3 container to 3.17.
-- ansible-test - Update Python requirements used for sanity tests.
-- ansible-test - Update ``base`` and ``default`` containers to include Python 3.11.0.
-- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to include new ``docs-build`` sanity test requirements.
-- ansible-test - Update error handling code to use Python 3.x constructs, avoiding direct use of ``errno``.
-- ansible-test - Update test container to ``7.4.0`` which includes the new PSScriptAnalyzer versions
-- ansible-test - Update the CloudStack test plugin to use a newer test container with CloudStack 4.18.0.
-- ansible-test - Update the NIOS test plugin to use a newer multi-arch test container.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``ansible-bad-import-from`` rule in the ``pylint`` sanity test to recommend ``ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat``.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` test containers with the latest requirements.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to include the ``package-data`` requirements update.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to include the ``pylint`` requirements update.
-- ansible-test - Updated the Azure Pipelines CI plugin to work with newer versions of git.
-- ansible-test - Use ``stop --time 0`` followed by ``rm`` to remove ephemeral containers instead of ``rm -f``. This speeds up teardown of ephemeral containers.
-- ansible-test - Warnings are now shown when using containers that were built with VOLUME instructions.
-- ansible-test - When setting the max open files for containers, the container host's limit will be checked. If the host limit is lower than the preferred value, it will be used and a warning will be shown.
-- ansible-test - When using Podman, ansible-test will detect if the loginuid used in containers is incorrect. When this occurs a warning is displayed and the container is run with the AUDIT_CONTROL capability. Previously containers would fail under this situation, with no useful warnings or errors given.
-- ansible-test acme test container - update version to update used Pebble version, underlying Python and Go base containers, and Python requirements (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79783).
-- ansible-test pslint - Upgrade PSScriptAnalyzer to ``1.21.0`` which enables the ``AvoidMultipleTypeAttributes``, ``AvoidSemicolonsAsLineTerminators``, and ``AvoidUsingBrokenHashAlgorithms`` rules
-- ansible-test runtime-metadata sanity test - ensure that ``redirect`` entries in ``meta/runtime.yml`` contain collection names, except for ``module_utils`` plugin redirects and ``import_redirect`` redirects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78802).
-- ansible-test sanity --test ansible-doc - now also lists documentation for test and filter plugins that are documented (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77737).
-- ansible-test validate-modules - Added support for validating module documentation stored in a sidecar file alongside the module (``{module}.yml`` or ``{module}.yaml``). Previously these files were ignored and documentation had to be placed in ``{module}.py``.
-- ansible-test validate-modules - no longer treat falsy non-``False`` values for defaults as ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79267).
-- apt - add allow-change-held-packages option to apt remove (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78131)
-- apt_repository - adds ``sources_added`` and ``sources_removed`` to the return of the module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79306).
-- apt_repository will use the trust repo directories in order of preference (more appropriate to less) as they exist on the target.
-- collections - Add additional ignores for commonly rejected file extensions
-- collections - Add additional includes for REUSE license files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79368)
-- deb822_repository - Add new module for managing DEB822 formatted apt repositories
-- debug - Perform argspec valdiation in debug action plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79862)
-- dnf5 - Add new module for managing packages and other artifacts via the next version of DNF (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78898)
-- galaxy - include ``license_file`` in the default manifest directives (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull-request/79420)
-- optimized var loading by caching results as there is no variance in input during run.
-- pycompat24 module_utils - Remove support for Python 2.5 and earlier.
-- sanity tests - updates the collection-deprecated-version tests to ignore the ``prerelease`` component of the collection version ().
-- strftime filter, additional docs and links to source of truth.
-- updated the vendored distro library to upstream version (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79227)
-- validate-modules sanity test - add support for semantic markup (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80243).
-- validate-modules sanity test - if the ``check_mode`` attribute is present, check that it coincides with the ``support_check_mode`` parameter of ``AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80090).
-- validate-modules sanity test - remove support for the never implemented ``forced_action_plugin`` attribute (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79317).
-- validate-modules sanity test - support the ``plugin`` see-also part of the semantic markup specification (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80244).
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-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
---------------------------------
-
-- ansible-doc - no longer treat plugins in collections whose name starts with ``_`` as deprecated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79362).
-- ansible-test - Integration tests which depend on specific file permissions when running in an ansible-test managed host environment may require changes. Tests that require permissions other than ``755`` or ``644`` may need to be updated to set the necessary permissions as part of the test run.
-- ansible-test - The ``vcenter`` test plugin now defaults to using a user-provided static configuration instead of the ``govcsim`` simulator for collections. Set the ``ANSIBLE_VCSIM_CONTAINER`` environment variable to ``govcsim`` to use the simulator. Keep in mind that the simulator is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
-- ansible-test sanity - previously plugins and modules in collections whose name started with ``_`` were treated as deprecated, even when they were not marked as deprecated in ``meta/runtime.yml``. This is no longer the case (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79362).
-- ansible-test validate-modules - Removed the ``missing-python-doc`` error code in validate modules, ``missing-documentation`` is used instead for missing PowerShell module documentation.
-
-Deprecated Features
--------------------
-
-- The ``ConnectionBase()._new_stdin`` attribute is deprecated, use ``display.prompt_until(msg)`` instead.
-- ansible-test - The ``foreman`` test plugin is now deprecated. It will be removed in a future release.
-- ansible-test - The ``govcsim`` simulator in the ``vcenter`` test plugin is now deprecated. It will be removed in a future release. Users should switch to providing their own test environment through a static configuration file.
-- password_hash - deprecate using passlib.hash.hashtype if hashtype isn't in the list of documented choices.
-- vars - Specifying a list of dictionaries for ``vars:`` is deprecated in favor of specifying a dictionary.
-
-Removed Features (previously deprecated)
-----------------------------------------
-
-- Remove deprecated ``ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_WHITELIST`` configuration environment variable, use ``ANSIBLE_CALLBACKS_ENABLED`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78821)
-- Remove deprecated ``ANSIBLE_COW_WHITELIST`` configuration environment variable, use ``ANSIBLE_COW_ACCEPTLIST`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78819)
-- Remove deprecated ``callback_whitelist`` configuration option, use ``callbacks_enabled`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78822)
-- Remove deprecated ``cow_whitelist`` configuration option, use ``cowsay_enabled_stencils`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78820)
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-Bugfixes
---------
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-- Ansible.Basic.cs - Ignore compiler warning (reported as an error) when running under PowerShell 7.3.x.
-- AnsibleModule.run_command - Only use selectors when needed, and rely on Python stdlib subprocess for the simple task of collecting stdout/stderr when prompt matching is not required.
-- BSD network facts - Do not assume column indexes, look for ``netmask`` and ``broadcast`` for determining the correct columns when parsing ``inet`` line (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79117)
-- Correctly count rescued tasks in play recap (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79711)
-- Display - Defensively configure writing to stdout and stderr with a custom encoding error handler that will replace invalid characters while providing a deprecation warning that non-utf8 text will result in an error in a future version.
-- Do not crash when templating an expression with a test or filter that is not a valid Ansible filter name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78912, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78913).
-- Fix ``MANIFEST.in`` to exclude unwanted files in the ``packaging/`` directory.
-- Fix ``MANIFEST.in`` to include ``*.md`` files in the ``test/support/`` directory.
-- Fix a traceback occuring when a task is named ``meta`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79459)
-- Fix an issue where the value of ``become`` was ignored when used on a role used as a dependency in ``main/meta.yml`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79777)
-- Fix bug in `vars` applied to roles, they were being incorrectly exported among others while only vars/main.yml was meant to be. Also adjusted the precedence to act the same as inline params.
-- Fix conditionally notifying ``include_tasks` handlers when ``force_handlers`` is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79776)
-- Fix post-validating looped task fields so the strategy uses the correct values after task execution.
-- Fix reusing a connection in a task loop that uses a redirected or aliased name - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78425
-- Fix setting become activation in a task loop - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78425
-- Fix traceback when using the ``template`` module and running with ``ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79763)
-- Fix using ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` in conjunction with collections in requirements files which specify a specific ``source`` that isn't in the configured servers.
-- Fix using ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` when downloading tarballs from Galaxy servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79557).
-- Fixes leftover _valid_attrs usage.
-- Fixes the password lookup to not rewrite files if they are not changed when using the "encrypt" parameter (#79430).
-- Module and role argument validation - include the valid suboption choices in the error when an invalid suboption is provided.
-- Perform type check on data passed to Display.display to enforce the requirement of being given a python3 unicode string
-- Prevent running same handler multiple times when included via ``include_role`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73643)
-- TaskExecutor - don't ignore templated _raw_params that k=v parser failed to parse (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79862)
-- Windows - Display a warning if the module failed to cleanup any temporary files rather than failing the task. The warning contains a brief description of what failed to be deleted.
-- Windows - Ensure the module temp directory contains more unique values to avoid conflicts with concurrent runs - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80294
-- Windows - Improve temporary file cleanup used by modules. Will use a more reliable delete operation on Windows Server 2016 and newer to delete files that might still be open by other software like Anti Virus scanners. There are still scenarios where a file or directory cannot be deleted but the new method should work in more scenarios.
-- ``ansible-galaxy search rolename`` - give a warning instead of non-zero return code when search results are empty. This is similar to the behavior when listing roles, which gives a warning if a role cannot be found and exits with a return code of ``0``.
-- ``ansible_eval_concat`` - avoid redundant unsafe wrapping of templated strings converted to Python types
-- ``pkg_mgr`` - fix the default dnf version detection
-- ansible-config limit shorthand format to assigned values
-- ansible-doc - stop generating wrong module URLs for module see-alsos. The URLs for modules in ansible.builtin do now work, and URLs for modules outside ansible.builtin are no longer added (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80280).
-- ansible-doc now will correctly display short descriptions on listing filters/tests no matter the directory sorting.
-- ansible-galaxy - Improve retries for collection installs, to properly retry, and extend retry logic to common URL related connection errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80170 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80174)
-- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections from directories that have a trailing path separator (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77803).
-- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections in git repositories/directories which contain a MANIFEST.json file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79796).
-- ansible-galaxy - fix installing signed collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80648).
-- ansible-galaxy - make initial call to Galaxy server on-demand only when installing, getting info about, and listing roles.
-- ansible-galaxy - reduce API calls to servers by fetching signatures only for final candidates.
-- ansible-galaxy collection install - respect symlinks when installing from source or local repository (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78442)
-- ansible-galaxy collection verify - fix verifying signed collections when the keyring is not configured.
-- ansible-galaxy collection/role init - preserve symlinks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39334).
-- ansible-galaxy role info - fix unhandled AttributeError by catching the correct exception.
-- ansible-inventory will no longer duplicate host entries if they were part of a group's childrens tree.
-- ansible-inventory will not explicitly sort groups/hosts anymore, giving a chance (depending on output format) to match the order in the input sources.
-- ansible-playbook -K breaks when passwords have quotes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79836).
-- ansible-test - Add ``wheel < 0.38.0`` constraint for Python 3.6 and earlier.
-- ansible-test - Add support for ``argcomplete`` version 3.
-- ansible-test - Add support for ``pytest`` assertion rewriting when running unit tests on Python 3.5 and later. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68032
-- ansible-test - Added a work-around for a traceback under Python 3.11 when completing certain command line options.
-- ansible-test - Allow disabled, unsupported, unstable and destructive integration test targets to be selected using their respective prefixes.
-- ansible-test - Allow unstable tests to run when targeted changes are made and the ``--allow-unstable-changed`` option is specified (resolves https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74213).
-- ansible-test - Always indicate the Python version being used before installing requirements. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72855
-- ansible-test - Avoid using ``exec`` after container startup when possible. This improves container startup performance and avoids intermittent startup issues with some old containers.
-- ansible-test - Connection attempts to managed remote instances no longer abort on ``Permission denied`` errors.
-- ansible-test - Detection for running in a Podman or Docker container has been fixed to detect more scenarios. The new detection relies on ``/proc/self/mountinfo`` instead of ``/proc/self/cpuset``. Detection now works with custom cgroups and private cgroup namespaces.
-- ansible-test - Exclude ansible-core vendored Python packages from ansible-test payloads.
-- ansible-test - Fix broken documentation link for ``aws`` test plugin error messages.
-- ansible-test - Fix validate-modules error when retrieving PowerShell argspec when retrieved inside a Cmdlet
-- ansible-test - Handle server errors when executing the ``docker info`` command.
-- ansible-test - Integration test target prefixes defined in a ``tests/integration/target-prefixes.{group}`` file can now contain an underscore (``_``) character. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79225
-- ansible-test - Multiple containers now work under Podman without specifying the ``--docker-network`` option.
-- ansible-test - Pass the ``XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`` environment variable through to container commands.
-- ansible-test - Perform PyPI proxy configuration after instances are ready and bootstrapping has been completed. Only target instances are affected, as controller instances were already handled this way. This avoids proxy configuration errors when target instances are not yet ready for use.
-- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent / repeat inspections of the same container image.
-- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent / repeat pulls of the same container image.
-- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent execution of cached methods.
-- ansible-test - Removed pointless comparison in diff evaluation logic.
-- ansible-test - Set ``PYLINTHOME`` for the ``pylint`` sanity test to prevent failures due to ``pylint`` checking for the existence of an obsolete home directory.
-- ansible-test - Show the exception type when reporting errors during instance provisioning.
-- ansible-test - Support Podman 4.4.0+ by adding the ``SYS_CHROOT`` capability when running containers.
-- ansible-test - Support loading of vendored Python packages from ansible-core.
-- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test now properly enforces documentation before imports for plugins. Previously this was only enforced for modules due to a coding error.
-- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.2 to resolve several possible false positives.
-- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.3 to resolve several possible false positives.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test requirements to resolve crashes on Python 3.11. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78882)
-- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 2.15.4.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 2.15.5.
-- ansible-test - Use consistent file permissions when delegating tests to a container or remote host. Files with any execute bit set will use permissions ``755``. All other files will use permissions ``644``. (Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75079)
-- ansible-test - When bootstrapping remote FreeBSD instances, use the OS packaged ``setuptools`` instead of installing the latest version from PyPI.
-- ansible-test - fix warning message about failing to run an image to include the image name
-- ansible-test runtime-metadata sanity test - do not crash on YAML parsing errors without a context mark (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78802).
-- ansible-test sanity - correctly report invalid YAML in validate-modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75837).
-- ansible-vault encrypt_string - started appending a line feed at the end of the encrypted string output. Missing newline character caused problems identifying where the string ends in some shells (like bash) or accidentally copying an extra trailing terminator symbol (e.g., zsh prints out a ``%`` sign to signal where the original output stops) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78932).
-- ansible_facts.hardware - Define all processor facts on s390x (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/19755)
-- apt - set locale to fix updating the cache (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79523).
-- apt module should not traceback on invalid type given as package. issue 78663.
-- apt_repository will no longer fail to detect key when unrelated errors/warnings are issued by apt-key.
-- argument spec validation - again report deprecated parameters for Python-based modules. This was accidentally removed in ansible-core 2.11 when argument spec validation was refactored (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79680, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79681).
-- argument spec validation - ensure that deprecated aliases in suboptions are also reported (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79740).
-- argument spec validation - fix warning message when two aliases of the same option are used for suboptions to also mention the option's name they are in (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79740).
-- basic.py module_utils - Perform Python version check much earlier to ensure it runs before other errors occur.
-- connection local now avoids traceback on invalid user being used to execuet ansible (valid in host, but not in container).
-- copy - fix creating the dest directory in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78611).
-- copy - fix reporting changes to file attributes in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77957).
-- copy module will no longer move 'non files' set as src when remote_src=true.
-- copy remote_src=true - fix copying subdirs recursively when the dest exists and the src and dest have multiple common subdirectories in a common directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74536).
-- copy remote_src=true - fix reporting changed for copying empty directories.
-- display - reduce risk of post-fork output deadlocks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79522)
-- dnf5 - Use ``transaction.check_gpg_signatures`` API call to check package signatures AND possibly to recover from when keys are missing.
-- dnf5 - fix module and package names in the message following failed module respawn attempt
-- dnf5 - use the logs API to determine transaction problems
-- file - touch action in check mode was always returning ok. Fix now evaluates the different conditions and returns the appropriate changed status. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79360)
-- file lookup now handles missing files more gracefully.
-- file lookup now plays nice with generic lookup ``errors`` option.
-- get_url - Ensure we are passing ciphers to all url_get calls (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79717)
-- get_url module - Added a documentation reference to ``hashlib`` regarding algorithms, as well as a note about ``md5`` support on systems running in FIPS compliant mode.
-- get_url module - Removed out-of-date documentation stating that ``hashlib`` is a third-party library.
-- handlers - fix ``v2_playbook_on_notify`` callback not being called when notifying handlers
-- handlers - fix an issue where the ``flush_handlers`` meta task could not be used with FQCN: ``ansible.builtin.meta`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79023)
-- include_role - Inherit from role parents beyond a depth of 3 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47023).
-- jinja2_native - fix intermittent 'could not find job' failures when a value of ``ansible_job_id`` from a result of an async task was inadvertently changed during execution; to prevent this a format of ``ansible_job_id`` was changed.
-- jinja2_native: preserve quotes in strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79083)
-- keyword inheritance - Ensure that we do not squash keywords in validate (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79021)
-- known_hosts - do not return changed status when a non-existing key is removed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78598)
-- list-tags now shows the 'never' tag, which was being excluded by default. To list all tasks you still need to add `--list-tasks --tags never,all`.
-- loops/delegate_to - Do not double calculate the values of loops and ``delegate_to`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80038)
-- module responses - Ensure that module responses are utf-8 adhereing to JSON RFC and expectations of the core code.
-- module/role argument spec - validate the type for options that are None when the option is required or has a non-None default (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79656).
-- module_utils/basic.py - Fix detection of available hashing algorithms on Python 3.x. All supported algorithms are now available instead of being limited to a hard-coded list. This affects modules such as ``get_url`` which accept an arbitrary checksum algorithm.
-- normal action plugin - remove obsolete ``if`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79690).
-- omit on keywords was resetting to default value, ignoring inheritance.
-- paramiko - Add a new option to allow paramiko >= 2.9 to easily work with all devices now that rsa-sha2 support was added to paramiko, which prevented communication with numerous platforms. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76737)
-- paramiko - Add back support for ``ssh_args``, ``ssh_common_args``, and ``ssh_extra_args`` for parsing the ``ProxyCommand`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78750)
-- paramiko connection was still using outdated playcontext, this should bring it up to date to use the 'correct' data for each task/loop.
-- password lookup now correctly reads stored ident fields.
-- password_hash - handle errors using unknown passlib hashtypes more gracefully (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45392).
-- pep517 build backend - Use the documented ``import_module`` import from ``importlib``.
-- plugin loader, fix detection for existing configuration before initializing for a plugin
-- role deduplication - Always create new role object, regardless of deduplication. Deduplication will only affect whether a duplicate call to a role will execute, as opposed to re-using the same object. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78661)
-- roles - Fix templating ``public``, ``allow_duplicates`` and ``rolespec_validate`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80304).
-- service_facts - Use python re to parse service output instead of grep (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78541)
-- strategy plugins now correctly identify bad registered variables, even on skip.
-- strategy plugins: get the correctly templated and validated run_once value on strategy linear (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78492)
-- syntax check - Limit ``--syntax-check`` to ``ansible-playbook`` only, as that is the only CLI affected by this argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80506)
-- systemd - daemon-reload and daemon-reexec ignore errors when running in a chroot (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79643)
-- templates - Fixed ``TypeError`` when a lookup plugin has an option called ``name``.
-- unarchive - allow relative path for ``dest`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64612)
-- unarchive - log errors from commands to assist in debugging (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64612)
-- updated error messages to include 'acl' and not just mode changes when failing to set required permissions on remote.
-- uri - improve JSON content type detection
-- user - fix comparing group IDs to existing group names so groups are not always updated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79956).
-- user module - Removed ``password_expire_max`` from the return docs, as it is not returned.
-- user module - Removed ``password_expire_min`` from the return docs, as it is not returned.
-- validate-modules sanity test - replace semantic markup parsing and validating code with the code from `antsibull-docs-parser 0.2.0 <https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-docs-parser/releases/tag/0.2.0>`__ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80406).
-- vault - show filename additionally if missing secrets prevents decryption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79723)
-- winrm - Increase the read timeout to 10 seconds later than the operation timeout reducing the chances of a false read timeout
-
-Known Issues
-------------
-
-- ansible-test - Additional configuration may be required for certain container host and container combinations. Further details are available in the testing documentation.
-- ansible-test - Custom containers with ``VOLUME`` instructions may be unable to start, when previously the containers started correctly. Remove the ``VOLUME`` instructions to resolve the issue. Containers with this condition will cause ``ansible-test`` to emit a warning.
-- ansible-test - Systems with Podman networking issues may be unable to run containers, when previously the issue went unreported. Correct the networking issues to continue using ``ansible-test`` with Podman.
-- ansible-test - Unit tests for collections do not support ``pytest`` assertion rewriting on Python 2.7.
-- ansible-test - Using Docker on systems with SELinux may require setting SELinux to permissive mode. Podman should work with SELinux in enforcing mode.
-- dnf5 - The DNF5 package manager currently does not provide all functionality to ensure feature parity between the existing ``dnf`` and the new ``dnf5`` module. As a result the following ``dnf5`` options are effectively a no-op: ``cacheonly``, ``enable_plugin``, ``disable_plugin`` and ``lock_timeout``.
-
-New Plugins
------------
-
-Filter
-~~~~~~
-
-- commonpath - gets the common path
-- normpath - Normalize a pathname
-
-New Modules
------------
-
-Lib
-~~~
-
-ansible.modules
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-- deb822_repository - Add and remove deb822 formatted repositories
-- dnf5 - Manages packages with the I(dnf5) package manager

changelogs/CHANGELOG.rst

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

changelogs/README.md

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

changelogs/fragments/14681-allow-callbacks-from-forks.yml

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+minor_changes:
+- callbacks - Add feature allowing forks to send callback events
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/14681)

changelogs/fragments/16456-correct-YAML-error-message-when-file-load-failed.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - display correct error information when an error exists in the last line of the file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16456)

changelogs/fragments/16949-global-skipped-result-flag-looped-tasks.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - Allow for the skipped filter to be used on a registered looped task results. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16949)

changelogs/fragments/17029-prevent-user-fact-lookup-failure-is-logname-is-set.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Lookup user by UID in password database if login name is not found (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17029)

changelogs/fragments/17268-inventory-hostnames.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- inventory_hostnames - Use ``InventoryManager`` instead of trying to replicate its behavior
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17268)

changelogs/fragments/19755-ansible_processor-s390x.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b1_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b2_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b3_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0rc1_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.0rc2_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.10_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-03-25
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.10rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-03-18
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.11_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-04-22
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.11rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-04-16
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.12_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-05-20
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.12rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-05-13
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.13_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-11-04
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.13rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-10-29
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.1_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.1rc1_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.2_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.2rc1_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.3_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.3rc1_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.4_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.4rc1_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.5_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.5rc1_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.6_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.6rc1_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.15.7_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-12-04
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.7rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-11-27
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.8_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-12-11
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.9_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-01-29
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.15.9rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-01-22
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/20221021-deprecated-sanity.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/22599_svn_validate_certs.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - subversion - ``validate_certs`` option, which, when true, will avoid passing ``--trust-server-cert`` to ``svn`` commands (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/22599).

changelogs/fragments/23958-cleanup.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Ensure if a traceback halts ``strategy.run`` that we still attempt to clean up
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/23958)

changelogs/fragments/29351-expect-bytes.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- expect - Operate pexpect with bytes to avoid potential encoding issues
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29351)

changelogs/fragments/32143-pause-background-hangs.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - >
+    pause - Fix indefinite hang when using a pause task on a background
+    process (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32142)

changelogs/fragments/32174-normalize-None-quote.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- quote filter - normalize how ``None`` is handled, to match Python3 behavior
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32174)

changelogs/fragments/322214-hostname-macos-support.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - hostname - add macOS support (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/54439)

changelogs/fragments/32386_debconf_password.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- debconf - add a note about no_log=True since module might expose sensitive information to logs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32386).

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

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

changelogs/fragments/37132-delegate-to-loop-context.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bugfixes:
+- delegate_to - Ensure that calculating ``delegate_to`` vars with a loop
+  uses the correct context to correctly evaluate the loop
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/37132)

changelogs/fragments/38182_subelements.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- subelements - clarify the lookup plugin documentation for parameter handling (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38182).

changelogs/fragments/38760-slackware-os-dist.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - facts - account for Slackware OS with ``+`` in the name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38760)

changelogs/fragments/40522-unarchive-add-include.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - >
+    unarchive - add ``include`` parameter to allow extracting specific files
+    from an archive (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40522)

changelogs/fragments/43739_dragonflybsd_disto.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- distribution - add support for DragonFly distribution (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43739).

changelogs/fragments/45475_galaxy.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- galaxy - handle plus sign in user token appearing in role url (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45475).

changelogs/fragments/46169-non-native-template-module.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - Force the template module to use non-native Jinja2 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46169)

changelogs/fragments/50909-min-max-attrs.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - Allow an attribute to be passed to the min and max filters with Jinja 2.10+

changelogs/fragments/52229-vault-python3-binary-stdin.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - vault - Support reading raw binary data from stdin under python3

changelogs/fragments/55152-add-more-info-to-AnsibleUndefinedVariable.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Provide more information in AnsibleUndefinedVariable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55152)

changelogs/fragments/565_default_callback.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- default_callback - moving 'check_mode_markers' documentation in default_callback doc_fragment (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/565).

changelogs/fragments/57399-finalize-task-in-strategy.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Strategy - When building the task in the Strategy from the Worker,
+  ensure it is properly marked as finalized and squashed. Addresses an
+  issue with ``ansible_failed_task``.
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57399)

changelogs/fragments/58752_argument_aliases.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- Added name of aliases in user error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58752).

changelogs/fragments/60882-keyed_groups-leading-separator-toggle.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - constructed - Add a toggle to allow the separator to be omitted if no prefix has been provided.

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

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+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/61234-yum-dnf-version-comp-doc.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - Add yum/dnf version comparison documentation for package install

changelogs/fragments/61369_get_url.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- get_url - skip checksum during ``--check`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61369).