New release v2.19.0b2 (#85040)

* New release v2.19.0b2

* Revert setuptools version bump

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,231 @@
+trigger:
+  batch: true
+  branches:
+    include:
+      - devel
+      - stable-*
+
+pr:
+  autoCancel: true
+  branches:
+    include:
+      - devel
+      - stable-*
+
+schedules:
+  - cron: 0 7 * * *
+    displayName: Nightly
+    always: true
+    branches:
+      include:
+        - devel
+        - stable-*
+
+variables:
+  - name: checkoutPath
+    value: ansible
+  - name: coverageBranches
+    value: devel
+  - name: entryPoint
+    value: .azure-pipelines/commands/entry-point.sh
+  - name: fetchDepth
+    value: 500
+  - name: defaultContainer
+    value: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:6.0.0
+
+pool: Standard
+
+stages:
+  - stage: Sanity
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+  - stage: Units
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: units/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.8
+            - test: 3.9
+            - test: '3.10'
+            - test: 3.11
+            - test: 3.12
+            - test: 3.13
+  - stage: Windows
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Server {0}
+          testFormat: windows/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - name: 2016 WinRM HTTP
+              test: 2016/winrm/http
+            - name: 2019 WinRM HTTPS
+              test: 2019/winrm/https
+            - name: 2022 WinRM HTTPS
+              test: 2022/winrm/https
+            - name: 2022 PSRP HTTP
+              test: 2022/psrp/http
+            - name: 2022 SSH Key
+              test: 2022/ssh/key
+            - name: 2025 PSRP HTTP
+              test: 2025/psrp/http
+            - name: 2025 SSH Key
+              test: 2025/ssh/key
+  - stage: Remote
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/target
+        parameters:
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 15.3
+              test: macos/15.3
+            - name: RHEL 9.5 py39
+              test: rhel/9.5@3.9
+            - name: RHEL 9.5 py312
+              test: rhel/9.5@3.12
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.5
+              test: freebsd/13.5
+            - name: FreeBSD 14.2
+              test: freebsd/14.2
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller
+        parameters:
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 15.3
+              test: macos/15.3
+            - name: RHEL 9.5
+              test: rhel/9.5
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.5
+              test: freebsd/13.5
+            - name: FreeBSD 14.2
+              test: freebsd/14.2
+          groups:
+            - 3
+            - 4
+            - 5
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller (ansible-test container management)
+        parameters:
+          targets:
+            - name: Alpine 3.21
+              test: alpine/3.21
+            - name: Fedora 41
+              test: fedora/41
+            - name: RHEL 9.5
+              test: rhel/9.5
+            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
+              test: ubuntu/24.04
+          groups:
+            - 6
+  - stage: Docker
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/target
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Alpine 3.21
+              test: alpine321
+            - name: Fedora 41
+              test: fedora41
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu2204
+            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
+              test: ubuntu2404
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Alpine 3.21
+              test: alpine321
+            - name: Fedora 41
+              test: fedora41
+            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
+              test: ubuntu2404
+          groups:
+            - 3
+            - 4
+            - 5
+  - stage: Galaxy
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: galaxy/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.11
+            - test: 3.12
+            - test: 3.13
+  - stage: Generic
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: generic/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.11
+            - test: 3.12
+            - test: 3.13
+  - stage: Incidental_Windows
+    displayName: Incidental Windows
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Server {0}
+          testFormat: i/windows/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: 2016 WinRM HTTP
+              test: 2016/winrm/http
+            - name: 2019 WinRM HTTPS
+              test: 2019/winrm/https
+            - name: 2022 WinRM HTTPS
+              test: 2022/winrm/https
+            - name: 2022 PSRP HTTP
+              test: 2022/psrp/http
+            - name: 2022 SSH Key
+              test: 2022/ssh/key
+            - name: 2025 PSRP HTTP
+              test: 2025/psrp/http
+            - name: 2025 SSH Key
+              test: 2025/ssh/key
+  - stage: Incidental
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: i/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - name: IOS Python
+              test: ios/csr1000v/
+  - stage: Summary
+    condition: succeededOrFailed()
+    dependsOn:
+      - Sanity
+      - Units
+      - Windows
+      - Remote
+      - Docker
+      - Galaxy
+      - Generic
+      - Incidental_Windows
+      - Incidental
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/coverage.yml

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

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

.azure-pipelines/commands/i.sh

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

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

@@ -16,10 +16,8 @@ provider="${P:-default}"
 
 # python versions to test in order
 # all versions run full tests
-python_versions=(
-    2.7
-    3.6
-)
+IFS=' ' read -r -a python_versions <<< \
+    "$(PYTHONPATH="${PWD}/test/lib" python -c 'from ansible_test._internal import constants; print(" ".join(constants.CONTROLLER_PYTHON_VERSIONS))')"
 
 if [ "${python_version}" ]; then
     # limit tests to a single python version

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

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o pipefail -eux
+
+declare -a args
+IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
+
+version="${args[1]}"
+connection="${args[2]}"
+connection_setting="${args[3]}"
+
+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=2022
+
+# 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 the version ${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: ${version}"
+        exit 0
+    fi
+fi
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+ansible-test windows-integration --color -v --retry-on-error "${target}" ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} \
+    --controller "docker:default,python=${python_default}" \
+    --target "remote:windows/${version},connection=${connection}+${connection_setting},provider=${provider}" \
+    --remote-terminate always --remote-stage "${stage}"

.azure-pipelines/commands/remote.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o pipefail -eux
+
+declare -a args
+IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
+
+platform="${args[0]}"
+version="${args[1]}"
+pyver=default
+
+# check for explicit python version like 8.3@3.8
+declare -a splitversion
+IFS='@' read -ra splitversion <<< "$version"
+
+if [ "${#splitversion[@]}" -gt 1 ]; then
+    version="${splitversion[0]}"
+    pyver="${splitversion[1]}"
+fi
+
+if [ "${#args[@]}" -gt 2 ]; then
+    target="shippable/posix/group${args[2]}/"
+else
+    target="shippable/posix/"
+fi
+
+stage="${S:-prod}"
+provider="${P:-default}"
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+ansible-test integration --color -v --retry-on-error "${target}" ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} \
+    --python "${pyver}" --remote "${platform}/${version}" --remote-terminate always --remote-stage "${stage}" --remote-provider "${provider}" \

.azure-pipelines/commands/sanity.sh

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

.azure-pipelines/commands/windows.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o pipefail -eux
+
+declare -a args
+IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
+
+version="${args[1]}"
+connection="${args[2]}"
+connection_setting="${args[3]}"
+group="${args[4]}"
+
+target="shippable/windows/group${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=2022
+
+# 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 the version ${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: ${version}"
+        exit 0
+    fi
+fi
+
+for py_version in "${python_versions[@]}"; do
+    changed_all_target="all"
+    changed_all_mode="default"
+
+    if [ "${py_version}" == "${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 [ "${target}" != "shippable/windows/group1/" ]; then continue; fi
+        # minimal tests for other python versions
+        ci="shippable/windows/minimal/"
+    fi
+
+    # terminate remote instances on the final python version tested
+    if [ "${py_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"} \
+        --changed-all-target "${changed_all_target}" --changed-all-mode "${changed_all_mode}" \
+        --controller "docker:default,python=${py_version}" \
+        --target "remote:windows/${version},connection=${connection}+${connection_setting},provider=${provider}" \
+        --remote-terminate "${terminate}" --remote-stage "${stage}"
+done

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

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Aggregate code coverage results for later processing.
+
+set -o pipefail -eu
+
+agent_temp_directory="$1"
+
+PATH="${PWD}/bin:${PATH}"
+
+mkdir "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/"
+
+options=(--venv --color -v)
+
+ansible-test coverage combine --group-by command --export "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/" "${options[@]}"
+
+if ansible-test coverage analyze targets generate --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    # Only analyze coverage if the installed version of ansible-test supports it.
+    # Doing so allows this script to work unmodified for multiple Ansible versions.
+    ansible-test coverage analyze targets generate "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/coverage-analyze-targets.json" "${options[@]}"
+fi

.azure-pipelines/scripts/combine-coverage.py

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+Combine coverage data from multiple jobs, keeping the data only from the most recent attempt from each job.
+Coverage artifacts must be named using the format: "Coverage $(System.JobAttempt) {StableUniqueNameForEachJob}"
+The recommended coverage artifact name format is: Coverage $(System.JobAttempt) $(System.StageDisplayName) $(System.JobDisplayName)
+Keep in mind that Azure Pipelines does not enforce unique job display names (only names).
+It is up to pipeline authors to avoid name collisions when deviating from the recommended format.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import re
+import shutil
+import sys
+
+
+def main():
+    """Main program entry point."""
+    source_directory = sys.argv[1]
+
+    if '/ansible_collections/' in os.getcwd():
+        output_path = "tests/output"
+    else:
+        output_path = "test/results"
+
+    destination_directory = os.path.join(output_path, 'coverage')
+
+    if not os.path.exists(destination_directory):
+        os.makedirs(destination_directory)
+
+    jobs = {}
+    count = 0
+
+    for name in os.listdir(source_directory):
+        match = re.search('^Coverage (?P<attempt>[0-9]+) (?P<label>.+)$', name)
+        label = match.group('label')
+        attempt = int(match.group('attempt'))
+        jobs[label] = max(attempt, jobs.get(label, 0))
+
+    for label, attempt in jobs.items():
+        name = 'Coverage {attempt} {label}'.format(label=label, attempt=attempt)
+        source = os.path.join(source_directory, name)
+        source_files = os.listdir(source)
+
+        for source_file in source_files:
+            source_path = os.path.join(source, source_file)
+            destination_path = os.path.join(destination_directory, source_file + '.' + label)
+            print('"%s" -> "%s"' % (source_path, destination_path))
+            shutil.copyfile(source_path, destination_path)
+            count += 1
+
+    print('Coverage file count: %d' % count)
+    print('##vso[task.setVariable variable=coverageFileCount]%d' % count)
+    print('##vso[task.setVariable variable=outputPath]%s' % output_path)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()

.azure-pipelines/scripts/process-results.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Check the test results and set variables for use in later steps.
+
+set -o pipefail -eu
+
+if [[ "$PWD" =~ /ansible_collections/ ]]; then
+    output_path="tests/output"
+else
+    output_path="test/results"
+fi
+
+echo "##vso[task.setVariable variable=outputPath]${output_path}"
+
+if compgen -G "${output_path}"'/junit/*.xml' > /dev/null; then
+    echo "##vso[task.setVariable variable=haveTestResults]true"
+fi
+
+if compgen -G "${output_path}"'/bot/ansible-test-*' > /dev/null; then
+    echo "##vso[task.setVariable variable=haveBotResults]true"
+fi
+
+if compgen -G "${output_path}"'/coverage/*' > /dev/null; then
+    echo "##vso[task.setVariable variable=haveCoverageData]true"
+fi

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

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+#!/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.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+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/report-coverage.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Generate code coverage reports for uploading to Azure Pipelines and codecov.io.
+
+set -o pipefail -eu
+
+PATH="${PWD}/bin:${PATH}"
+
+if ! ansible-test --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    # Install the devel version of ansible-test for generating code coverage reports.
+    # This is only used by Ansible Collections, which are typically tested against multiple Ansible versions (in separate jobs).
+    # Since a version of ansible-test is required that can work the output from multiple older releases, the devel version is used.
+    pip install https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/devel.tar.gz --disable-pip-version-check
+fi
+
+# Generate stubs using docker.
+# The use of docker is mandatory when Powershell code is present.
+ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --docker --color -v

.azure-pipelines/scripts/run-tests.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Configure the test environment and run the tests.
+
+set -o pipefail -eu
+
+entry_point="$1"
+test="$2"
+read -r -a coverage_branches <<< "$3"  # space separated list of branches to run code coverage on for scheduled builds
+
+export COMMIT_MESSAGE
+export COMPLETE
+export COVERAGE
+export IS_PULL_REQUEST
+
+if [ "${SYSTEM_PULLREQUEST_TARGETBRANCH:-}" ]; then
+    IS_PULL_REQUEST=true
+    COMMIT_MESSAGE=$(git log --format=%B -n 1 HEAD^2)
+else
+    IS_PULL_REQUEST=
+    COMMIT_MESSAGE=$(git log --format=%B -n 1 HEAD)
+fi
+
+COMPLETE=
+COVERAGE=
+
+if [ "${BUILD_REASON}" = "Schedule" ]; then
+    COMPLETE=yes
+
+    if printf '%s\n' "${coverage_branches[@]}" | grep -q "^${BUILD_SOURCEBRANCHNAME}$"; then
+        COVERAGE=yes
+    fi
+fi
+
+"${entry_point}" "${test}" 2>&1 | "$(dirname "$0")/time-command.py"

.azure-pipelines/scripts/time-command.py

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Prepends a relative timestamp to each input line from stdin and writes it to stdout."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import sys
+import time
+
+
+def main():
+    """Main program entry point."""
+    start = time.time()
+
+    sys.stdin.reconfigure(errors='surrogateescape')
+    sys.stdout.reconfigure(errors='surrogateescape')
+
+    for line in sys.stdin:
+        seconds = time.time() - start
+        sys.stdout.write('%02d:%02d %s' % (seconds // 60, seconds % 60, line))
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()

.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# This template adds a job for processing code coverage data.
+# It will upload results to Azure Pipelines and codecov.io.
+# Use it from a job stage that completes after all other jobs have completed.
+# This can be done by placing it in a separate summary stage that runs after the test stage(s) have completed.
+
+jobs:
+  - job: Coverage
+    displayName: Code Coverage
+    container: $[ variables.defaultContainer ]
+    workspace:
+      clean: all
+    steps:
+      - checkout: self
+        fetchDepth: $(fetchDepth)
+        path: $(checkoutPath)
+      - task: DownloadPipelineArtifact@2
+        displayName: Download Coverage Data
+        inputs:
+          path: coverage/
+          patterns: "Coverage */*=coverage.combined"
+      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/combine-coverage.py coverage/
+        displayName: Combine Coverage Data
+      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh
+        displayName: Generate Coverage Report
+        condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
+      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py "$(outputPath)"
+        displayName: Publish to codecov.io
+        condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
+        continueOnError: true

.azure-pipelines/templates/matrix.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# This template uses the provided targets and optional groups to generate a matrix which is then passed to the test template.
+# If this matrix template does not provide the required functionality, consider using the test template directly instead.
+
+parameters:
+  # A required list of dictionaries, one per test target.
+  # Each item in the list must contain a "test" or "name" key.
+  # Both may be provided. If one is omitted, the other will be used.
+  - name: targets
+    type: object
+
+  # An optional list of values which will be used to multiply the targets list into a matrix.
+  # Values can be strings or numbers.
+  - name: groups
+    type: object
+    default: []
+
+  # An optional format string used to generate the job name.
+  # - {0} is the name of an item in the targets list.
+  - name: nameFormat
+    type: string
+    default: "{0}"
+
+  # An optional format string used to generate the test name.
+  # - {0} is the name of an item in the targets list.
+  - name: testFormat
+    type: string
+    default: "{0}"
+
+  # An optional format string used to add the group to the job name.
+  # {0} is the formatted name of an item in the targets list.
+  # {{1}} is the group -- be sure to include the double "{{" and "}}".
+  - name: nameGroupFormat
+    type: string
+    default: "{0} - {{1}}"
+
+  # An optional format string used to add the group to the test name.
+  # {0} is the formatted test of an item in the targets list.
+  # {{1}} is the group -- be sure to include the double "{{" and "}}".
+  - name: testGroupFormat
+    type: string
+    default: "{0}/{{1}}"
+
+jobs:
+  - template: test.yml
+    parameters:
+      jobs:
+        - ${{ if eq(length(parameters.groups), 0) }}:
+          - ${{ each target in parameters.targets }}:
+            - name: ${{ format(parameters.nameFormat, coalesce(target.name, target.test)) }}
+              test: ${{ format(parameters.testFormat, coalesce(target.test, target.name)) }}
+        - ${{ if not(eq(length(parameters.groups), 0)) }}:
+          - ${{ each group in parameters.groups }}:
+            - ${{ each target in parameters.targets }}:
+              - name: ${{ format(format(parameters.nameGroupFormat, parameters.nameFormat), coalesce(target.name, target.test), group) }}
+                test: ${{ format(format(parameters.testGroupFormat, parameters.testFormat), coalesce(target.test, target.name), group) }}

.azure-pipelines/templates/test.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# This template uses the provided list of jobs to create test one or more test jobs.
+# It can be used directly if needed, or through the matrix template.
+
+parameters:
+  # A required list of dictionaries, one per test job.
+  # Each item in the list must contain a "job" and "name" key.
+  - name: jobs
+    type: object
+
+jobs:
+  - ${{ each job in parameters.jobs }}:
+    - job: test_${{ replace(replace(replace(replace(job.test, '/', '_'), '.', '_'), '-', '_'), '@', '_') }}
+      displayName: ${{ job.name }}
+      container: $[ variables.defaultContainer ]
+      workspace:
+        clean: all
+      steps:
+        - checkout: self
+          fetchDepth: $(fetchDepth)
+          path: $(checkoutPath)
+        - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/run-tests.sh "$(entryPoint)" "${{ job.test }}" "$(coverageBranches)"
+          displayName: Run Tests
+        - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/process-results.sh
+          condition: succeededOrFailed()
+          displayName: Process Results
+        - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/aggregate-coverage.sh "$(Agent.TempDirectory)"
+          condition: eq(variables.haveCoverageData, 'true')
+          displayName: Aggregate Coverage Data
+        - task: PublishTestResults@2
+          condition: eq(variables.haveTestResults, 'true')
+          inputs:
+            testResultsFiles: "$(outputPath)/junit/*.xml"
+          displayName: Publish Test Results
+        - task: PublishPipelineArtifact@1
+          condition: eq(variables.haveBotResults, 'true')
+          displayName: Publish Bot Results
+          inputs:
+            targetPath: "$(outputPath)/bot/"
+            artifactName: "Bot $(System.JobAttempt) $(System.StageDisplayName) $(System.JobDisplayName)"
+        - task: PublishPipelineArtifact@1
+          condition: eq(variables.haveCoverageData, 'true')
+          displayName: Publish Coverage Data
+          inputs:
+            targetPath: "$(Agent.TempDirectory)/coverage/"
+            artifactName: "Coverage $(System.JobAttempt) $(System.StageDisplayName) $(System.JobDisplayName)"

.git-blame-ignore-revs

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# .git-blame-ignore-revs
+# Bulk PowerShell sanity fixes
+6def4a3180fe03981ba64c6d8db28fed3bb39c0c
+716631189cb5a3f66b3add98f39e64e98bc17bf7
+# Bulk update of strings from triple single quotes to triple double quotes
+a0495fc31497798a7a833ba7406a9729e1528dd8

.gitattributes

@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 .github/ export-ignore
-hacking/ export-ignore

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -4,22 +4,75 @@ Hi! Nice to see you here!
 
 ## QUESTIONS ?
 
-Please see the [Community Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/index.html) for information on how to ask questions on the [mailing lists](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html#mailing-list-information) and IRC.
+If you have questions about anything related to Ansible, get in touch with us!
+See [Communicating with the Ansible community](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html) to find out how.
 
-The GitHub issue tracker is not the best place for questions for various reasons, but both IRC and the mailing list are very helpful places for those things, as the community page explains best.
+The [Community Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/index.html) also explains how to contribute
+and interact with the project, including how to submit bug reports and code to Ansible.
+
+Please note that the GitHub issue tracker is not the best place to ask questions for several reasons.
+You'll get more helpful, and quicker, responses in the forum.
 
 ## CONTRIBUTING ?
 
-By contributing you agree that these contributions are your own (or approved by your employer) and you grant a full, complete, irrevocable copyright license to all users and developers of the project, present and future, pursuant to the license of the project. You can also read the same [CLA](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/contributor_license_agreement.html) on the Ansible docsite.
+By contributing to this project you agree to the [Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)](#developer-certificate-of-origin-dco).
 
-Please review the [Community Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/index.html) for more information on contributing to Ansible.
+The Ansible project is licensed under the [GPL-3.0](COPYING) or later. Some portions of the code fall under other licenses as noted in individual files.
+
+The Ansible project accepts contributions through GitHub pull requests.
+Please review the [Community Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/index.html) for more information on contributing to Ansible.
 
 ## BUG TO REPORT ?
 
-First and foremost, also check the [Community Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/index.html).
+First and foremost, also check the [Community Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/index.html).
 
-You can report bugs or make enhancement requests at the [Ansible GitHub issue page](http://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/new/choose) by filling out the issue template that will be presented.
+You can report bugs or make enhancement requests at
+the [Ansible GitHub issue page](http://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/new/choose) by filling out the issue template that will be presented.
 
-Also please make sure you are testing on the latest released version of Ansible or the development branch; see the [Installation Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html) for details.
+Also please make sure you are testing on the latest released version of Ansible or the development branch.
+See the [Installation Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html) for details.
 
 Thanks!
+
+## DEVELOPER CERTIFICATE OF ORIGIN (DCO)
+
+This document was created by the Linux Kernel community and is a simple statement that you, as a contributor, have the legal right to make the contribution.
+
+```text
+Developer Certificate of Origin
+Version 1.1
+
+Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
+1 Letterman Drive
+Suite D4700
+San Francisco, CA, 94129
+
+Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
+license document, but changing it is not allowed.
+
+Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
+
+By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
+
+(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
+    have the right to submit it under the open source license
+    indicated in the file; or
+
+(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
+    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
+    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
+    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
+    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
+    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
+    in the file; or
+
+(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
+    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
+    it.
+
+(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
+    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
+    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
+    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
+    this project or the open source license(s) involved.
+```

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md

@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
----
-name: 🐛 Bug report
-about: Create a report to help us improve
----
-<!--- Verify first that your issue is not already reported on GitHub -->
-<!--- Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too -->
-<!--- Complete *all* sections as described, this form is processed automatically -->
-
-##### SUMMARY
-<!--- Explain the problem briefly below -->
-
-##### ISSUE TYPE
-- Bug Report
-
-##### COMPONENT NAME
-<!--- Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below, use your best guess if unsure -->
-
-##### ANSIBLE VERSION
-<!--- Paste verbatim output from "ansible --version" between quotes -->
-```paste below
-
-```
-
-##### CONFIGURATION
-<!--- Paste verbatim output from "ansible-config dump --only-changed" between quotes -->
-```paste below
-
-```
-
-##### OS / ENVIRONMENT
-<!--- Provide all relevant information below, e.g. target OS versions, network device firmware, etc. -->
-
-
-##### STEPS TO REPRODUCE
-<!--- Describe exactly how to reproduce the problem, using a minimal test-case -->
-
-<!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
-```yaml
-
-```
-
-<!--- HINT: You can paste gist.github.com links for larger files -->
-
-##### EXPECTED RESULTS
-<!--- Describe what you expected to happen when running the steps above -->
-
-
-##### ACTUAL RESULTS
-<!--- Describe what actually happened. If possible run with extra verbosity (-vvvv) -->
-
-<!--- Paste verbatim command output between quotes -->
-```paste below
-
-```

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,250 @@
+---
+name: 🐛 Bug report
+description: Create a report to help us improve
+
+body:
+- type: markdown
+  attributes:
+    value: >
+      **Thank you for wanting to report a bug in ansible-core!**
+
+
+      ⚠
+      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.
+
+      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
+
+
+      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please see
+      [Communicating with the Ansible community][communication] to
+      get in touch and ask questions.
+
+
+
+      [communication]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html
+
+      [issue search]: ../search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
+
+      [XKCD 1172]: https://xkcd.com/1172/
+
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Summary
+    description: Explain the problem briefly below.
+    placeholder: >-
+      When I try to do X with ansible-core from the devel branch on GitHub, Y
+      breaks in a way Z under the env E. Here are all the details I know
+      about this problem...
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: dropdown
+  attributes:
+    label: Issue Type
+    description: This is a marker for our automatic bot. Do not change it.
+    options:
+    - Bug Report
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- 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
+    placeholder: dnf, apt, pip, user etc.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  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
+    value: |
+      $ 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
+
+- type: textarea
+  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
+    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
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: OS / Environment
+    description: >-
+      Provide all relevant information below, e.g. target OS versions,
+      network device firmware, etc.
+    placeholder: RHEL 8, CentOS Stream etc.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Steps to Reproduce
+    description: |
+      Describe exactly how to reproduce the problem, using a minimal test-case. It would *really* help us understand your problem if you could also pased any playbooks, configs and commands you used.
+
+      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
+    value: |
+      <!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
+      ```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
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Expected Results
+    description: >-
+      Describe what you expected to happen when running the steps above.
+    placeholder: >-
+      I expected X to happen because I assumed Y and was shocked
+      that it did not.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Actual Results
+    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.
+  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/ansibotmini#ansibotmini
+
+
+- type: checkboxes
+  attributes:
+    label: Code of Conduct
+    description: |
+      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct][CoC] first.
+
+      [CoC]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/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/config.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Ref: https://help.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository#configuring-the-template-chooser
-blank_issues_enabled: true  # default
+blank_issues_enabled: false  # default: true
 contact_links:
 - name: 🔐 Security bug report 🔥
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser
+  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser
   about: |
     Please learn how to report security vulnerabilities here.
 
@@ -11,16 +11,16 @@ contact_links:
     a prompt response.
 
     For more information, see
-    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html
+    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html
 - name: 📝 Ansible Code of Conduct
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser
+  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser
   about: ❤ Be nice to other members of the community. ☮ Behave.
-- name: 💬 Talks to the community
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser#mailing-list-information
+- name: 💬 Talk to the community
+  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser#forum
   about: Please ask and answer usage questions here
 - name: ⚡ Working groups
-  url: https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki
-  about: Interedted in improving a specific area? Become a part of a working group!
+  url: https://forum.ansible.com/g?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser
+  about: Interested in improving a specific area? Become a part of a working group!
 - name: 💼 For Enterprise
   url: https://www.ansible.com/products/engine?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser
-  about: Red Hat offers supported builds of Ansible Engine
+  about: Red Hat offers support for the Ansible Automation Platform

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.md

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
----
-name: 📝 Documentation Report
-about: Ask us about docs
----
-<!--- Verify first that your improvement is not already reported on GitHub -->
-<!--- Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too -->
-<!--- Complete *all* sections as described, this form is processed automatically -->
-
-##### SUMMARY
-<!--- Explain the problem briefly below, add suggestions to wording or structure -->
-
-<!--- HINT: Did you know the documentation has an "Edit on GitHub" link on every page ? -->
-
-##### ISSUE TYPE
-- Documentation Report
-
-##### COMPONENT NAME
-<!--- Write the short name of the rst file, module, plugin, task or feature below, use your best guess if unsure -->
-
-##### ANSIBLE VERSION
-<!--- Paste verbatim output from "ansible --version" between quotes -->
-```paste below
-
-```
-
-##### CONFIGURATION
-<!--- Paste verbatim output from "ansible-config dump --only-changed" between quotes -->
-```paste below
-
-```
-
-##### OS / ENVIRONMENT
-<!--- Provide all relevant information below, e.g. OS version, browser, etc. -->
-
-##### ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-<!--- Describe how this improves the documentation, e.g. before/after situation or screenshots -->
-
-<!--- HINT: You can paste gist.github.com links for larger files -->

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+---
+name: 📝 Documentation Report
+description: Ask us about docs
+
+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!
+
+
+      ⚠
+      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.
+
+
+      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please see
+      [Communicating with the Ansible community][communication] to
+      get in touch and ask questions.
+
+
+
+      [communication]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html
+
+      [issue search]: ../search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
+
+      [submit a pull request]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/documentation_contributions.html
+
+- type: markdown
+  attributes:
+    value: >
+      **Check the repository for your issue.**
+
+      Source files for Ansible community documentation are
+      hosted in different repositories. Please make sure to file an
+      issue in the correct project.
+
+      Documentation for modules/plugins/etc that are officially
+      supported by the Ansible Core Engineering team is available
+      in this (`ansible/ansible`) repository.
+
+      The Installation Guide, Playbook Guide, Developer Guide,
+      and other documentation is available in the
+      [ansible/ansible-documentation] repository.
+      Documentation for other modules/plugins/etc is likely to be
+      available in one of the [Ansible Collections][collections index].
+      If available in the collection documentation, select the
+      **Issue Tracker** button to go directly to the GitHub issues.
+
+
+      [ansible/ansible-documentation]: /ansible/ansible-documentation
+
+      [collections index]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/index.html
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Summary
+    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!
+    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
+      rephrased as Z.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: dropdown
+  attributes:
+    label: Issue Type
+    description: This is a marker for our automatic bot. Do not change it.
+    options:
+    - Documentation Report
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- 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*.
+
+    placeholder: lib/ansible/modules/copy.py
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  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
+    value: |
+      $ 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
+
+- type: textarea
+  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
+    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
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: OS / Environment
+    description: >-
+      Provide all relevant information below, e.g. OS version,
+      browser, etc.
+    placeholder: Fedora 33, Firefox etc.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Additional Information
+    description: |
+      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/ansibotmini#ansibotmini
+
+
+- type: checkboxes
+  attributes:
+    label: Code of Conduct
+    description: |
+      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct][CoC] first.
+
+      [CoC]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/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.md

@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
----
-name: ✨ Feature request
-about: Suggest an idea for this project
----
-<!--- Verify first that your feature was not already discussed on GitHub -->
-<!--- Complete *all* sections as described, this form is processed automatically -->
-
-##### SUMMARY
-<!--- Describe the new feature/improvement briefly below -->
-
-##### ISSUE TYPE
-- Feature Idea
-
-##### COMPONENT NAME
-<!--- Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below, use your best guess if unsure -->
-
-##### ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-<!--- Describe how the feature would be used, why it is needed and what it would solve -->
-
-<!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
-```yaml
-
-```
-
-<!--- HINT: You can also paste gist.github.com links for larger files -->

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+---
+name: ✨ Feature request
+description: Suggest an idea for this project
+
+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 in the [Ansible forum][forum].
+
+
+      <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>
+
+
+      ⚠
+      Verify first that your idea is not [already requested on
+      GitHub][issue search].
+
+      Also test if the devel branch does not already implement this.
+
+
+      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please see
+      [Communicating with the Ansible community][communication] to
+      get in touch and ask questions.
+
+
+
+      [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
+
+      [communication]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html
+
+      [issue search]: ../search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
+
+      [forum help]:
+      https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6
+
+      [new proposal]: ../../proposals/issues/new
+
+
+- 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
+    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
+      every other user of ansible-core because of Z.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: dropdown
+  attributes:
+    label: Issue Type
+    description: This is a marker for our automatic bot. Do not change it.
+    options:
+    - Feature Idea
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: input
+  attributes:
+    label: Component Name
+    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, pip, user etc.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Additional Information
+    description: |
+      Describe how the feature would be used, why it is needed and what it would solve.
+
+      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
+    value: |
+      <!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
+      ```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/ansibotmini#ansibotmini
+
+
+- type: checkboxes
+  attributes:
+    label: Code of Conduct
+    description: |
+      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct][CoC] first.
+
+      [CoC]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/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/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/internal_issue.md

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+name: Internal Issue
+about: Free-form issue creation for core maintainer use only.
+title: ''
+labels: [core-internal]
+assignees: ''
+---
+
+
+@ansibot bot_skip

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/pre_release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+name: Pre-Release Bug Report
+description: File a bug report against a pre-release version
+labels:
+  - bug
+  - pre_release
+assignees:
+  - nitzmahone
+  - mattclay
+body:
+  - type: markdown
+    attributes:
+      value: |
+        ## Bug Report
+  - type: textarea
+    attributes:
+      label: Ansible Version
+      description: Paste the full output from `ansible --version` below.
+      render: console
+      placeholder: $ ansible --version
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: textarea
+    attributes:
+      label: Summary
+      description: Describe the issue with any relevant steps to reproduce.
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: <!-- Bot instructions (ignore this) -->
+      options:
+        - |
+          <!--
+          ### Component Name
+          bin/ansible
+          ### Issue Type
+          Bug Report
+          ### Configuration
+          ### OS / Environment
+          -->
+    validations:
+      required: true

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-##### SUMMARY
-<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale and design decisions -->
-
-<!--- HINT: Include "Fixes #nnn" if you are fixing an existing issue -->
-
-##### ISSUE TYPE
-<!--- Pick one below and delete the rest -->
-- Bugfix Pull Request
-- Docs Pull Request
-- Feature Pull Request
-- New Module Pull Request
-
-##### COMPONENT NAME
-<!--- Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below -->
-
-##### ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-<!--- Include additional information to help people understand the change here -->
-<!--- A step-by-step reproduction of the problem is helpful if there is no related issue -->
-
-<!--- Paste verbatim command output below, e.g. before and after your change -->
-```paste below
-
-```

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/Unclear purpose or motivation.md

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/Bug fix.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+##### SUMMARY
+
+<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale and design decisions -->
+
+<!--- Add "Fixes #1234" or steps to reproduce the problem if there is no corresponding issue -->
+
+##### ISSUE TYPE
+
+- Bugfix Pull Request

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/Documentation change.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+##### SUMMARY
+
+<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale -->
+
+<!--- Add "Fixes #1234" if there is a corresponding issue -->
+
+##### ISSUE TYPE
+
+- Docs Pull Request

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/New feature.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+##### SUMMARY
+
+<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale and design decisions -->
+
+<!--- Add "Fixes #1234" if there is a corresponding issue -->
+
+##### ISSUE TYPE
+
+- Feature Pull Request

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Unclear purpose or motivation.md

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/Tests.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+##### SUMMARY
+
+<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale and design decisions -->
+
+<!--- Add "Fixes #1234" if there is a corresponding issue -->
+
+##### ISSUE TYPE
+
+- Test Pull Request

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/Unclear purpose or motivation.md

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+##### SUMMARY
+
+<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale and design decisions -->
+
+<!--- Add "Fixes #1234" or steps to reproduce the problem if there is no corresponding issue -->
+
+##### ISSUE TYPE
+
+<!--- Pick one below and delete the rest -->
+
+- Bugfix Pull Request
+- Docs Pull Request
+- Feature Pull Request
+- Test Pull Request

.github/RELEASE_NAMES.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+2.19.0  What Is and What Should Never Be
+2.18.0  Fool in the Rain
+2.17.0  Gallows Pole
+2.16.0  All My Love
+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
+2.8.0   How Many More Times
+2.7.0   In the Light
+2.6.0   Heartbreaker
+2.5.0   Kashmir
+2.4.0   Dancing Days
+2.3.0   Ramble On
+2.2.0   The Battle of Evermore
+2.1.0   The Song Remains the Same
+2.0.0   Over the Hills and Far Away

.github/RELEASE_NAMES.yml

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
----
-- 2.10.0  When the Levee Breaks
-- 2.9.0   Immigrant Song
-- 2.8.0   How Many More Times
-- 2.7.0   In the Light
-- 2.6.0   Heartbreaker
-- 2.5.0   Kashmir
-- 2.4.0   Dancing Days
-- 2.3.0   Ramble On
-- 2.2.0   The Battle of Evermore
-- 2.1.0   The Song Remains the Same
-- 2.0.0   Over the Hills and Far Away

.gitignore

@@ -32,11 +32,17 @@ docs/man/man3/*
 docs/docsite/_build
 docs/docsite/*.html
 docs/docsite/htmlout
+docs/docsite/rst/conf.py
+docs/docsite/rst/index.rst
 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
+docs/docsite/rst/collections/*/*.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/playbooks_directives.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/plugins_by_category.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/plugins/*/*.rst
@@ -47,12 +53,10 @@ docs/docsite/searchindex.js
 docs/docsite/_static/*.gif
 docs/docsite/_static/*.png
 docs/docsite/_static/websupport.js
-# deb building stuff...
-/debian/
-deb-build
 # Vim swap files
 *.swp
 *.swo
+[._]*.un~
 credentials.yml
 # test output
 *.retry
@@ -69,7 +73,16 @@ coverage.xml
 /test/cache/*
 # Development
 /test/develop
+# Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+env.bak/
+venv.bak/
 venv
+env
 Vagrantfile
 .vagrant
 # Backwards compatibility with `stable-2.9` and earlier branches.
@@ -77,12 +90,17 @@ Vagrantfile
 /lib/ansible.egg-info/
 # First used in the `devel` branch during Ansible 2.10 development.
 /lib/ansible_base.egg-info/
-/shippable/
+# First used in the `devel` branch during Ansible 2.11 development.
+/lib/ansible_core.egg-info/
+# First used in the `devel` branch during Ansible 2.18 development.
+/ansible_core.egg-info/
+# vendored lib dir
+lib/ansible/_vendor/*
+!lib/ansible/_vendor/__init__.py
+# test stuff
 /test/integration/cloud-config-*.*
 !/test/integration/cloud-config-*.*.template
 .python-version
-/hacking/tests/selinux/*.mod
-/hacking/tests/selinux/*.pp
 # Release directory
 packaging/release/ansible_release
 /.cache/

COPYING

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
                     GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                        Version 3, 29 June 2007
 
- Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
+ Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/>
  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
 
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
     GNU General Public License for more details.
 
     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+    along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
 
@@ -664,12 +664,11 @@ might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an "about box".
   You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
 if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary.
 For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
-<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
   The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
 into proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you
 may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
 the library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
 Public License instead of this License.  But first, please read
-<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
-
+<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html>.

MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,36 +1,10 @@
-include README.rst
 include COPYING
-include SYMLINK_CACHE.json
-include requirements.txt
-include shippable.yml
-recursive-include docs *
-exclude docs/docsite/rst_warnings
-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
-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
-recursive-include hacking/build_library *.py
-include hacking/build-ansible.py
+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 *.ini
+recursive-include test/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs *.md
+recursive-include test/units *

Makefile

@@ -1,288 +0,0 @@
-# WARN: gmake syntax
-########################################################
-# Makefile for Ansible
-#
-# useful targets:
-#   make clean ---------------- clean up
-#   make webdocs -------------- produce ansible doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
-#   make 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 tests ---------------- run the tests (see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/testing_units.html for requirements)
-
-########################################################
-# variable section
-
-NAME = ansible-base
-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
-
-# 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 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) $(MAKE) docs)
-
-.PHONY: linkcheckdocs
-linkcheckdocs:
-	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) linkcheckdocs)
-
-.PHONY: generate_rst
-generate_rst: lib/ansible/cli/*.py
-	mkdir -p ./docs/man/man1/ ; \
-	PYTHONPATH=./lib $(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)

README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+[![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ansible-core.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core)
+[![Docs badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/)
+[![Chat badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-IRC-brightgreen.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=devel)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_build/latest?definitionId=20&branchName=devel)
+[![Ansible Code of Conduct](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20of%20conduct-Ansible-silver.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/code_of_conduct.html)
+[![Ansible mailing lists](https://img.shields.io/badge/mailing%20lists-Ansible-orange.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/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.
+
+## Communication
+
+Join the Ansible forum to ask questions, get help, and interact with the
+community.
+
+* [Get Help](https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6): Find help or share your Ansible knowledge to help others.
+  Use tags to filter and subscribe to posts, such as the following:
+  * Posts tagged with [ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/ansible)
+  * Posts tagged with [ansible-core](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/ansible-core)
+  * Posts tagged with [playbook](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/playbook)
+* [Social Spaces](https://forum.ansible.com/c/chat/4): Meet and interact with fellow enthusiasts.
+* [News & Announcements](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/5): Track project-wide announcements including social events.
+* [Bullhorn newsletter](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#the-bullhorn): Get release announcements and important changes.
+
+For more ways to get in touch, see [Communicating with the Ansible community](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html).
+
+## Contribute to Ansible
+
+* Check out the [Contributor's Guide](./.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+* Read [Community Information](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community) for all
+  kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project,
+  including how to submit bug reports and code to Ansible.
+* 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.
+
+## 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/devel/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)
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-=================
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+==================================================================
+ansible-core 2.19 "What Is and What Should Never Be" Release Notes
+==================================================================
+
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+v2.19.0b2
+=========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2025-04-24
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- comment filter - Improve the error message shown when an invalid ``style`` argument is provided.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Remove use of `required` parameter in `get_bin_path` which has been deprecated.
+- ansible-doc - fix indentation for first line of descriptions of suboptions and sub-return values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84690).
+- ansible-doc - fix line wrapping for first line of description of options and return values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84690).
+
+v2.19.0b1
+=========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2025-04-14
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- Jinja plugins - Jinja builtin filter and test plugins are now accessible via their fully-qualified names ``ansible.builtin.{name}``.
+- Task Execution / Forks - Forks no longer inherit stdio from the parent ``ansible-playbook`` process. ``stdout``, ``stderr``, and ``stdin`` within a worker are detached from the terminal, and non-functional. All needs to access stdio from a fork for controller side plugins requires use of ``Display``.
+- ansible-test - Packages beneath ``module_utils`` can now contain ``__init__.py`` files.
+- variables - The type system underlying Ansible's variable storage has been significantly overhauled and formalized. Attempts to store unsupported Python object types in variables will now result in an error.
+- variables - To support new Ansible features, many variable objects are now represented by subclasses of their respective native Python types. In most cases, they behave indistinguishably from their original types, but some Python libraries do not handle builtin object subclasses properly. Custom plugins that interact with such libraries may require changes to convert and pass the native types.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Added a -vvvvv log message indicating when a host fails to produce output within the timeout period.
+- AnsibleModule.uri - Add option ``multipart_encoding`` for ``form-multipart`` files in body to change default base64 encoding for files
+- INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS config, removed ``ini`` from the default list, inventory scripts using a corresponding .ini configuration are rare now and inventory.ini files are more common. Those that need to ignore the ini files for inventory scripts can still add it to configuration.
+- Jinja plugins - Plugins can declare support for undefined values.
+- Jinja2 version 3.1.0 or later is now required on the controller.
+- Move ``follow_redirects`` parameter to module_utils so external modules can reuse it.
+- PlayIterator - do not return tasks from already executed roles so specific strategy plugins do not have to do the filtering of such tasks themselves
+- SSH Escalation-related -vvv log messages now include the associated host information.
+- Windows - Add support for Windows Server 2025 to Ansible and as an ``ansible-test`` remote target - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84229
+- Windows - refactor the async implementation to better handle errors during bootstrapping and avoid WMI when possible.
+- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` — the collection dependency resolver now prints out conflicts it hits during dependency resolution when it's taking too long and it ends up backtracking a lot. It also displays suggestions on how to help it compute the result more quickly.
+- ansible, ansible-console, ansible-pull - add --flush-cache option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83749).
+- ansible-galaxy - Add support for Keycloak service accounts
+- ansible-galaxy - support ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 2.0.0`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84217).
+- ansible-test - Added a macOS 15.3 remote VM, replacing 14.3.
+- ansible-test - Automatically retry HTTP GET/PUT/DELETE requests on exceptions.
+- ansible-test - Default to Python 3.13 in the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
+- ansible-test - Disable the ``deprecated-`` prefixed ``pylint`` rules as their results vary by Python version.
+- ansible-test - Disable the ``pep8`` sanity test rules ``E701`` and ``E704`` to improve compatibility with ``black``.
+- 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 - Replace container Alpine 3.20 with 3.21.
+- ansible-test - Replace container Fedora 40 with 41.
+- ansible-test - Replace remote Alpine 3.20 with 3.21.
+- ansible-test - Replace remote Fedora 40 with 41.
+- ansible-test - Replace remote FreeBSD 13.3 with 13.5.
+- ansible-test - Replace remote FreeBSD 14.1 with 14.2.
+- ansible-test - Replace remote RHEL 9.4 with 9.5.
+- ansible-test - Show a more user-friendly error message when a ``runme.sh`` script is not executable.
+- ansible-test - The ``yamllint`` sanity test now enforces string values for the ``!vault`` tag.
+- ansible-test - Update ``nios-test-container`` to version 7.0.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 3.3.1.
+- ansible-test - Update distro containers to remove unnecessary pakages (apache2, subversion, ruby).
+- ansible-test - Update sanity test requirements to latest available versions.
+- ansible-test - Update the HTTP test container.
+- ansible-test - Update the PyPI test container.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
+- ansible-test - Update the utility container.
+- ansible-test - Use Python's ``urllib`` instead of ``curl`` for HTTP requests.
+- ansible-test - When detection of the current container network fails, a warning is now issued and execution continues. This simplifies usage in cases where the current container cannot be inspected, such as when running in GitHub Codespaces.
+- ansible-test acme test container - bump `version to 2.3.0 <https://github.com/ansible/acme-test-container/releases/tag/2.3.0>`__ to include newer versions of Pebble, dependencies, and runtimes. This adds support for ACME profiles, ``dns-account-01`` support, and some smaller improvements (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84547).
+- apt_key module - add notes to docs and errors to point at the CLI tool deprecation by Debian and alternatives
+- apt_repository module - add notes to errors to point at the CLI tool deprecation by Debian and alternatives
+- become plugins get new property 'pipelining' to show support or lack there of for the feature.
+- callback plugins - add has_option() to CallbackBase to match other functions overloaded from AnsiblePlugin
+- callback plugins - fix get_options() for CallbackBase
+- copy - fix sanity test failures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83643).
+- copy - parameter ``local_follow`` was incorrectly documented as having default value ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83643).
+- cron - Provide additional error information while writing cron file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83223).
+- csvfile - let the config system do the typecasting (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82263).
+- display - Deduplication of warning and error messages considers the full content of the message (including source and traceback contexts, if enabled). This may result in fewer messages being omitted.
+- display - The ``collection_name`` arg to ``Display.deprecated`` no longer has any effect. Information about the calling plugin is automatically captured by the display infrastructure, included in the displayed messages, and made available to callbacks.
+- distribution - Added openSUSE MicroOS to Suse OS family (#84685).
+- dnf5, apt - add ``auto_install_module_deps`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84206)
+- docs - add collection name in message from which the module is being deprecated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84116).
+- env lookup - The error message generated for a missing environment variable when ``default`` is an undefined value (e.g. ``undef('something')``) will contain the hint from that undefined value, except when the undefined value is the default of ``undef()`` with no arguments. Previously, any existing undefined hint would be ignored.
+- file - enable file module to disable diff_mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80817).
+- file - make code more readable and simple.
+- filter - add support for URL-safe encoding and decoding in b64encode and b64decode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84147).
+- find - add a checksum_algorithm parameter to specify which type of checksum the module will return
+- from_json filter - The filter accepts a ``profile`` argument, which defaults to ``tagless``.
+- handlers - Templated handler names with syntax errors, or that resolve to ``omit`` are now skipped like handlers with undefined variables in their name.
+- improved error message for yaml parsing errors in plugin documentation
+- local connection plugin - A new ``become_strip_preamble`` config option (default True) was added; disable to preserve diagnostic ``become`` output in task results.
+- local connection plugin - A new ``become_success_timeout`` operation-wide timeout config (default 10s) was added for ``become``.
+- local connection plugin - When a ``become`` plugin's ``prompt`` value is a non-string after the ``check_password_prompt`` callback has completed, no prompt stripping will occur on stderr.
+- lookup_template - add an option to trim blocks while templating (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75962).
+- module - set ipv4 and ipv6 rules simultaneously in iptables module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84404).
+- module_utils - Add ``NoReturn`` type annotations to functions which never return.
+- modules - PowerShell modules can now receive ``datetime.date``, ``datetime.time`` and ``datetime.datetime`` values as ISO 8601 strings.
+- modules - PowerShell modules can now receive strings sourced from inline vault-encrypted strings.
+- modules - The ``collection_name`` arg to Python module-side ``deprecate`` methods no longer has any effect. Information about the calling module is automatically captured by the warning infrastructure and included in the module result.
+- modules - Unhandled exceptions during Python module execution are now returned as structured data from the target. This allows the new traceback handling to be applied to exceptions raised on targets.
+- pipelining logic has mostly moved to connection plugins so they can decide/override settings.
+- plugin error handling - When raising exceptions in an exception handler, be sure to use ``raise ... from`` as appropriate. This supersedes the use of the ``AnsibleError`` arg ``orig_exc`` to represent the cause. Specifying ``orig_exc`` as the cause is still permitted. Failure to use ``raise ... from`` when ``orig_exc`` is set will result in a warning. Additionally, if the two cause exceptions do not match, a warning will be issued.
+- removed harcoding of su plugin as it now works with pipelining.
+- runtime-metadata sanity test - improve validation of ``action_groups`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83965).
+- service_facts module got freebsd support added.
+- ssh connection plugin - Support ``SSH_ASKPASS`` mechanism to provide passwords, making it the default, but still offering an explicit choice to use ``sshpass`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83936)
+- ssh connection plugin now overrides pipelining when a tty is requested.
+- ssh-agent - ``ansible``, ``ansible-playbook`` and ``ansible-console`` are capable of spawning or reusing an ssh-agent, allowing plugins to interact with the ssh-agent. Additionally a pure python ssh-agent client has been added, enabling easy interaction with the agent. The ssh connection plugin contains new functionality via ``ansible_ssh_private_key`` and ``ansible_ssh_private_key_passphrase``, for loading an SSH private key into the agent from a variable.
+- templating - Access to an undefined variable from inside a lookup, filter, or test (which raises MarkerError) no longer ends processing of the current template. The triggering undefined value is returned as the result of the offending plugin invocation, and the template continues to execute.
+- templating - Embedding ``range()`` values in containers such as lists will result in an error on use. Previously the value would be converted to a string representing the range parameters, such as ``range(0, 3)``.
+- templating - Handling of omitted values is now a first-class feature of the template engine, and is usable in all Ansible Jinja template contexts. Any template that resolves to ``omit`` is automatically removed from its parent container during templating.
+- templating - Template evaluation is lazier than in previous versions. Template expressions which resolve only portions of a data structure no longer result in the entire structure being templated.
+- templating - Templating errors now provide more information about both the location and context of the error, especially for deeply-nested and/or indirected templating scenarios.
+- templating - Unified ``omit`` behavior now requires that plugins calling ``Templar.template()`` handle cases where the entire template result is omitted, by catching the ``AnsibleValueOmittedError`` that is raised. Previously, this condition caused a randomly-generated string marker to appear in the template result.
+- templating - Variables of type ``set`` and ``tuple`` are now converted to ``list`` when exiting the final pass of templating.
+- to_json / to_nice_json filters - The filters accept a ``profile`` argument, which defaults to ``tagless``.
+- troubleshooting - Tracebacks can be collected and displayed for most errors, warnings, and deprecation warnings (including those generated by modules). Tracebacks are no longer enabled with ``-vvv``; the behavior is directly configurable via the ``DISPLAY_TRACEBACK`` config option. Module tracebacks passed to ``fail_json`` via the ``exception`` kwarg will not be included in the task result unless error tracebacks are configured.
+- undef jinja function - The ``undef`` jinja function now raises an error if a non-string hint is given. Attempting to use an undefined hint also results in an error, ensuring incorrect use of the function can be distinguished from the function's normal behavior.
+- validate-modules sanity test - make sure that ``module`` and ``plugin`` ``seealso`` entries use FQCNs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84325).
+- vault - improved vault filter documentation by adding missing example content for dump_template_data.j2, refining examples for clarity, and ensuring variable consistency (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83583).
+- warnings - All warnings (including deprecation warnings) issued during a task's execution are now accessible via the ``warnings`` and ``deprecations`` keys on the task result.
+- when the ``dict`` lookup is given a non-dict argument, show the value of the argument and its type in the error message.
+- windows - add hard minimum limit for PowerShell to 5.1. Ansible dropped support for older versions of PowerShell in the 2.16 release but this reqirement is now enforced at runtime.
+- windows - refactor windows exec runner to improve efficiency and add better error reporting on failures.
+- winrm - Remove need for pexpect on macOS hosts when using ``kinit`` to retrieve the Kerberos TGT. By default the code will now only use the builtin ``subprocess`` library which should handle issues with select and a high fd count and also simplify the code.
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- Support for the ``toml`` library has been removed from TOML inventory parsing and dumping. Use ``tomli`` for parsing on Python 3.10. Python 3.11 and later have built-in support for parsing. Use ``tomli-w`` to support outputting inventory in TOML format.
+- assert - The ``quiet`` argument must be a commonly-accepted boolean value. Previously, unrecognized values were silently treated as False.
+- callback plugins - The structure of the ``exception``, ``warnings`` and ``deprecations`` values visible to callbacks has changed. Callbacks that inspect or serialize these values may require special handling.
+- conditionals - Conditional expressions that result in non-boolean values are now an error by default. Such results often indicate unintentional use of templates where they are not supported, resulting in a conditional that is always true. When this option is enabled, conditional expressions which are a literal ``None`` or empty string will evaluate as true, for backwards compatibility. The error can be temporarily changed to a deprecation warning by enabling the ``ALLOW_BROKEN_CONDITIONALS`` config option.
+- first_found lookup - When specifying ``files`` or ``paths`` as a templated list containing undefined values, the undefined list elements will be discarded with a warning. Previously, the entire list would be discarded without any warning.
+- internals - The ``AnsibleLoader`` and ``AnsibleDumper`` classes for working with YAML are now factory functions and cannot be extended.
+- internals - The ``ansible.utils.native_jinja`` Python module has been removed.
+- inventory - Invalid variable names provided by inventories result in an inventory parse failure. This behavior is now consistent with other variable name usages throughout Ansible.
+- lookup plugins - Lookup plugins called as `with_(lookup)` will no longer have the `_subdir` attribute set.
+- lookup plugins - ``terms`` will always be passed to ``run`` as the first positional arg, where previously it was sometimes passed as a keyword arg when using ``with_`` syntax.
+- loops - Omit placeholders no longer leak between loop item templating and task templating. Previously, ``omit`` placeholders could remain embedded in loop items after templating and be used as an ``omit`` for task templating. Now, values resolving to ``omit`` are dropped immediately when loop items are templated. To turn missing values into an ``omit`` for task templating, use ``| default(omit)``. This solution is backwards compatible with previous versions of ansible-core.
+- modules - Ansible modules using ``sys.excepthook`` must use a standard ``try/except`` instead.
+- plugins - Any plugin that sources or creates templates must properly tag them as trusted.
+- plugins - Custom Jinja plugins that accept undefined top-level arguments must opt in to receiving them.
+- plugins - Custom Jinja plugins that use ``environment.getitem`` to retrieve undefined values will now trigger a ``MarkerError`` exception. This exception must be handled to allow the plugin to return a ``Marker``, or the plugin must opt-in to accepting ``Marker`` values.
+- public API - The ``ansible.vars.fact_cache.FactCache`` wrapper has been removed.
+- serialization of ``omit`` sentinel - Serialization of variables containing ``omit`` sentinels (e.g., by the ``to_json`` and ``to_yaml`` filters or ``ansible-inventory``) will fail if the variable has not completed templating. Previously, serialization succeeded with placeholder strings emitted in the serialized output.
+- set_fact - The string values "yes", "no", "true" and "false" were previously converted (ignoring case) to boolean values when not using Jinja2 native mode. Since Jinja2 native mode is always used, this conversion no longer occurs. When boolean values are required, native boolean syntax should be used where variables are defined, such as in YAML. When native boolean syntax is not an option, the ``bool`` filter can be used to parse string values into booleans.
+- template lookup - The ``convert_data`` option is deprecated and no longer has any effect. Use the ``from_json`` filter on the lookup result instead.
+- templating - Access to ``_`` prefixed attributes and methods, and methods with known side effects, is no longer permitted. In cases where a matching mapping key is present, the associated value will be returned instead of an error. This increases template environment isolation and ensures more consistent behavior between the ``.`` and ``[]`` operators.
+- templating - Conditionals and lookups which use embedded inline templates in Jinja string constants now display a warning. These templates should be converted to their expression equivalent.
+- templating - Many Jinja plugins (filters, lookups, tests) and methods previously silently ignored undefined inputs, which often masked subtle errors. Passing an undefined argument to a Jinja plugin or method that does not declare undefined support now results in an undefined value.
+- templating - Templates are always rendered in Jinja2 native mode. As a result, non-string values are no longer automatically converted to strings.
+- templating - Templates resulting in ``None`` are no longer automatically converted to an empty string.
+- templating - Templates with embedded inline templates that were not contained within a Jinja string constant now result in an error, as support for multi-pass templating was removed for security reasons. In most cases, such templates can be easily rewritten to avoid the use of embedded inline templates.
+- templating - The ``allow_unsafe_lookups`` option no longer has any effect. Lookup plugins are responsible for tagging strings containing templates to allow evaluation as a template.
+- templating - The result of the ``range()`` global function cannot be returned from a template- it should always be passed to a filter (e.g., ``random``). Previously, range objects returned from an intermediate template were always converted to a list, which is inconsistent with inline consumption of range objects.
+- templating - ``#jinja2:`` overrides in templates with invalid override names or types are now templating errors.
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- CLI - The ``--inventory-file`` option alias is deprecated. Use the ``-i`` or ``--inventory`` option instead.
+- Stategy Plugins - Use of strategy plugins not provided in ``ansible.builtin`` are deprecated and do not carry any backwards compatibility guarantees going forward. A future release will remove the ability to use external strategy plugins. No alternative for third party strategy plugins is currently planned.
+- ``ansible.module_utils.compat.datetime`` - The datetime compatibility shims are now deprecated. They are scheduled to be removed in ``ansible-core`` v2.21. This includes ``UTC``, ``utcfromtimestamp()`` and ``utcnow`` importable from said module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81874).
+- bool filter - Support for coercing unrecognized input values (including None) has been deprecated. Consult the filter documentation for acceptable values, or consider use of the ``truthy`` and ``falsy`` tests.
+- cache plugins - The `ansible.plugins.cache.base` Python module is deprecated. Use `ansible.plugins.cache` instead.
+- callback plugins - The `v2_on_any` callback method is deprecated. Use specific callback methods instead.
+- callback plugins - The v1 callback API (callback methods not prefixed with `v2_`) is deprecated. Use `v2_` prefixed methods instead.
+- conditionals - Conditionals using Jinja templating delimiters (e.g., ``{{``, ``{%``) should be rewritten as expressions without delimiters, unless the entire conditional value is a single template that resolves to a trusted string expression. This is useful for dynamic indirection of conditional expressions, but is limited to trusted literal string expressions.
+- config - The ``ACTION_WARNINGS`` config has no effect. It previously disabled command warnings, which have since been removed.
+- config - The ``DEFAULT_JINJA2_NATIVE`` option has no effect. Jinja2 native mode is now the default and only option.
+- config - The ``DEFAULT_NULL_REPRESENTATION`` option has no effect. Null values are no longer automatically converted to another value during templating of single variable references.
+- display - The ``Display.get_deprecation_message`` method has been deprecated. Call ``Display.deprecated`` to display a deprecation message, or call it with ``removed=True`` to raise an ``AnsibleError``.
+- file loading - Loading text files with ``DataLoader`` containing data that cannot be decoded under the expected encoding is deprecated. In most cases the encoding must be UTF-8, although some plugins allow choosing a different encoding. Previously, invalid data was silently wrapped in Unicode surrogate escape sequences, often resulting in later errors or other data corruption.
+- first_found lookup - Splitting of file paths on ``,;:`` is deprecated. Pass a list of paths instead. The ``split`` method on strings can be used to split variables into a list as needed.
+- interpreter discovery - The ``auto_legacy`` and ``auto_legacy_silent`` options for ``INTERPRETER_PYTHON`` are deprecated. Use ``auto`` or ``auto_silent`` options instead, as they have the same effect.
+- oneline callback - The ``oneline`` callback and its associated ad-hoc CLI args (``-o``, ``--one-line``) are deprecated.
+- paramiko - The paramiko connection plugin has been deprecated with planned removal in 2.21.
+- playbook variables - The ``play_hosts`` variable has been deprecated, use ``ansible_play_batch`` instead.
+- plugin error handling - The ``AnsibleError`` constructor arg ``suppress_extended_error`` is deprecated. Using ``suppress_extended_error=True`` has the same effect as ``show_content=False``.
+- plugins - The ``listify_lookup_plugin_terms`` function is obsolete and in most cases no longer needed.
+- template lookup - The jinja2_native option is no longer used in the Ansible Core code base. Jinja2 native mode is now the default and only option.
+- templating - Support for enabling Jinja2 extensions (not plugins) has been deprecated.
+- templating - The ``ansible_managed`` variable available for certain templating scenarios, such as the ``template`` action and ``template`` lookup has been deprecated. Define and use a custom variable instead of relying on ``ansible_managed``.
+- templating - The ``disable_lookups`` option has no effect, since plugins must be updated to apply trust before any templating can be performed.
+- to_yaml/to_nice_yaml filters - Implicit YAML dumping of vaulted value ciphertext is deprecated. Set `dump_vault_tags` to explicitly specify the desired behavior.
+- tree callback - The ``tree`` callback and its associated ad-hoc CLI args (``-t``, ``--tree``) are deprecated.
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- Remove deprecated plural form of collection path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84156).
+- Removed deprecated STRING_CONVERSION_ACTION (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84220).
+- encrypt - passing unsupported passlib hashtype now raises AnsibleFilterError.
+- manager - remove deprecated include_delegate_to parameter from get_vars API.
+- modules - Modules returning non-UTF8 strings now result in an error. The ``MODULE_STRICT_UTF8_RESPONSE`` setting can be used to disable this check.
+- removed deprecated pycompat24 and compat.importlib.
+- selector - remove deprecated compat.selector related files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84155).
+- windows - removed common module functions ``ConvertFrom-AnsibleJson``, ``Format-AnsibleException`` from Windows modules as they are not used and add uneeded complexity to the code.
+
+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)
+- templating - Ansible's template engine no longer processes Jinja templates in strings unless they are marked as coming from a trusted source. Untrusted strings containing Jinja template markers are ignored with a warning. Examples of trusted sources include playbooks, vars files, and many inventory sources. Examples of untrusted sources include module results and facts. Plugins which have not been updated to preserve trust while manipulating strings may inadvertently cause them to lose their trusted status.
+- templating - Changes to conditional expression handling removed numerous instances of insecure multi-pass templating (which could result in execution of untrusted template expressions).
+- 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
+--------
+
+- Ansible will now also warn when reserved keywords are set via a module (set_fact, include_vars, etc).
+- Ansible.Basic - Fix ``required_if`` check when the option value to check is unset or set to null.
+- Correctly return ``False`` when using the ``filter`` and ``test`` Jinja tests on plugin names which are not filters or tests, respectively. (resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82084)
+- Do not run implicit ``flush_handlers`` meta tasks when the whole play is excluded from the run due to tags specified.
+- Errors now preserve stacked error messages even when YAML is involved.
+- Fix a display.debug statement with the wrong param in _get_diff_data() method
+- Fix disabling SSL verification when installing collections and roles from git repositories. If ``--ignore-certs`` isn't provided, the value for the ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` configuration option will be used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83326).
+- Fix ipv6 pattern bug in lib/ansible/parsing/utils/addresses.py (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84237)
+- Fix returning 'unreachable' for the overall task result. This prevents false positives when a looped task has unignored unreachable items (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84019).
+- Implicit ``meta: flush_handlers`` tasks now have a parent block to prevent potential tracebacks when calling methods like ``get_play()`` on them internally.
+- Improve performance on large inventories by reducing the number of implicit meta tasks.
+- Jinja plugins - Errors raised will always be derived from ``AnsibleTemplatePluginError``.
+- Optimize the way tasks from within ``include_tasks``/``include_role`` are inserted into the play.
+- Time out waiting on become is an unreachable error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84468)
+- Use consistent multiprocessing context for action write locks
+- Use the requested error message in the ansible.module_utils.facts.timeout timeout function instead of hardcoding one.
+- Windows - add support for running on system where WDAC is in audit mode with ``Dynamic Code Security`` enabled.
+- YAML parsing - The `!unsafe` tag no longer coerces non-string scalars to strings.
+- ``ansible-galaxy`` — the collection dependency resolver now treats version specifiers starting with ``!=`` as unpinned.
+- ``package``/``dnf`` action plugins - provide the reason behind the failure to gather the ``ansible_pkg_mgr`` fact to identify the package backend
+- action plugins - Action plugins that raise unhandled exceptions no longer terminate playbook loops. Previously, exceptions raised by an action plugin caused abnormal loop termination and loss of loop iteration results.
+- ansible-config - format galaxy server configs while dumping in JSON format (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84840).
+- ansible-doc - If none of the files in files exists, path will be undefined and a direct reference will throw an UnboundLocalError (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84464).
+- ansible-galaxy - Small adjustments to URL building for ``download_url`` and relative redirects.
+- ansible-pull change detection will now work independently of callback or result format settings.
+- ansible-test - Enable the ``sys.unraisablehook`` work-around for the ``pylint`` sanity test on Python 3.11. Previously the work-around was only enabled for Python 3.12 and later. However, the same issue has been discovered on Python 3.11.
+- ansible-test - Ensure CA certificates are installed on managed FreeBSD instances.
+- ansible-test - Fix support for PowerShell module_util imports with the ``-Optional`` flag.
+- ansible-test - Fix support for detecting PowerShell modules importing module utils with the newer ``#AnsibleRequires`` format.
+- ansible-test - Fix traceback that occurs after an interactive command fails.
+- ansible-test - Fix up coverage reporting to properly translate the temporary path of integration test modules to the expected static test module path.
+- ansible-test - Fixed traceback when handling certain YAML errors in the ``yamllint`` sanity test.
+- ansible-test - Managed macOS instances now use the ``sudo_chdir`` option for the ``sudo`` become plugin to avoid permission errors when dropping privileges.
+- ansible-vault will now correctly handle `--prompt`, previously it would issue an error about stdin if no 2nd argument was passed
+- ansible_uptime_second - added ansible_uptime_seconds fact support for AIX (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84321).
+- apt_key module - prevent tests from running when apt-key was removed
+- base.yml - deprecated libvirt_lxc_noseclabel config.
+- build - Pin ``wheel`` in ``pyproject.toml`` to ensure compatibility with supported ``setuptools`` versions.
+- config - various fixes to config lookup plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84398).
+- copy - refactor copy module for simplicity.
+- copy action now prevents user from setting internal options.
+- debconf - set empty password values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83214).
+- debug - hide loop vars in debug var display (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65856).
+- default callback - Error context is now shown for failing tasks that use the ``debug`` action.
+- display - The ``Display.deprecated`` method once again properly handles the ``removed=True`` argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82358).
+- distro - add support for Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84934).
+- distro - detect Debian as os_family for LMDE 6 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84934).
+- dnf5 - Handle forwarded exceptions from dnf5-5.2.13 where a generic ``RuntimeError`` was previously raised
+- dnf5 - fix ``is_installed`` check for packages that are not installed but listed as provided by an installed package (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84578)
+- dnf5 - fix installing a package using ``state=latest`` when a binary of the same name as the package is already installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84259)
+- dnf5 - fix traceback when ``enable_plugins``/``disable_plugins`` is used on ``python3-libdnf5`` versions that do not support this functionality
+- dnf5 - libdnf5 - use ``conf.pkg_gpgcheck`` instead of deprecated ``conf.gpgcheck`` which is used only as a fallback
+- dnf5 - matching on a binary can be achieved only by specifying a full path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84334)
+- facts - gather pagesize and calculate respective values depending upon architecture (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84773).
+- facts - skip if distribution file path is directory, instead of raising error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84006).
+- find - skip ENOENT error code while recursively enumerating files. find module will now be tolerant to race conditions that remove files or directories from the target it is currently inspecting. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84873).
+- first_found lookup - Corrected return value documentation to reflect None (not empty string) for no files found.
+- gather_facts action now defaults to `ansible.legacy.setup` if `smart` was set, no network OS was found and no other alias for `setup` was present.
+- gather_facts action will now issues errors and warnings as appropriate if a network OS is detected but no facts modules are defined for it.
+- gather_facts action, will now add setup when 'smart' appears with other modules in the FACTS_MODULES setting (#84750).
+- get_url - add support for BSD-style checksum digest file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84476).
+- get_url - fix honoring ``filename`` from the ``content-disposition`` header even when the type is ``inline`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83690)
+- host_group_vars - fixed defining the 'key' variable if the get_vars method is called with cache=False (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84384)
+- include_vars - fix including previously undefined hash variables with hash_behaviour merge (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84295).
+- iptables - Allows the wait paramater to be used with iptables chain creation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84490)
+- linear strategy - fix executing ``end_role`` meta tasks for each host, instead of handling these as implicit run_once tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84660).
+- local connection plugin - Become timeout errors now include all received data. Previously, the most recently-received data was discarded.
+- local connection plugin - Ensure ``become`` success validation always occurs, even when an active plugin does not set ``prompt``.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed cases where the internal ``BECOME-SUCCESS`` message appeared in task output.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed hang or spurious failure when data arrived concurrently on stdout and stderr during a successful ``become`` operation validation.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed hang when a become plugin expects a prompt but a password was not provided.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed hang when an active become plugin incorrectly signals lack of prompt.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed hang when an internal become read timeout expired before the password prompt was written.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed hang when only one of stdout or stderr was closed by the ``become_exe`` subprocess.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed long timeout/hang for ``become`` plugins that repeat their prompt on failure (e.g., ``sudo``, some ``su`` implementations).
+- local connection plugin - Fixed silent ignore of ``become`` failures and loss of task output when data arrived concurrently on stdout and stderr during ``become`` operation validation.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed task output header truncation when post-become data arrived before ``become`` operation validation had completed.
+- lookup plugins - The ``terms`` arg to the ``run`` method is now always a list. Previously, there were cases where a non-list could be received.
+- module arg templating - When using a templated raw task arg and a templated ``args`` keyword, args are now merged. Previously use of templated raw task args silently ignored all values from the templated ``args`` keyword.
+- module defaults - Module defaults are no longer templated unless they are used by a task that does not override them. Previously, all module defaults for all modules were templated for every task.
+- module respawn - limit to supported Python versions
+- omitting task args - Use of omit for task args now properly falls back to args of lower precedence, such as module defaults. Previously an omitted value would obliterate values of lower precedence.
+- package_facts module when using 'auto' will return the first package manager found that provides an output, instead of just the first one, as this can be foreign and not have any packages.
+- psrp - Improve stderr parsing when running raw commands that emit error records or stderr lines.
+- regex_search filter - Corrected return value documentation to reflect None (not empty string) for no match.
+- respawn - use copy of env variables to update existing PYTHONPATH value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84954).
+- runas become - Fix up become logic to still get the SYSTEM token with the most privileges when running as SYSTEM.
+- sequence lookup - sequence query/lookups without positional arguments now return a valid list if their kwargs comprise a valid sequence expression (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82921).
+- service_facts - skip lines which does not contain service names in openrc output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84512).
+- ssh - Improve the logic for parsing CLIXML data in stderr when working with Windows host. This fixes issues when the raw stderr contains invalid UTF-8 byte sequences and improves embedded CLIXML sequences.
+- ssh - Raise exception when sshpass returns error code (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58133).
+- ssh - connection options were incorrectly templated during ``reset_connection`` tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84238).
+- stability - Fixed silent process failure on unhandled IOError/OSError under ``linear`` strategy.
+- su become plugin - Ensure generated regex from ``prompt_l10n`` config values is properly escaped.
+- su become plugin - Ensure that password prompts are correctly detected in the presence of leading output. Previously, this case resulted in a timeout or hang.
+- su become plugin - Ensure that trailing colon is expected on all ``prompt_l10n`` config values.
+- sudo become plugin - The `sudo_chdir` config option allows the current directory to be set to the specified value before executing sudo to avoid permission errors when dropping privileges.
+- sunos - remove hard coding of virtinfo command in facts gathering code (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84357).
+- to_yaml/to_nice_yaml filters - Eliminated possibility of keyword arg collisions with internally-set defaults.
+- unarchive - Clamp timestamps from beyond y2038 to representible values when unpacking zip files on platforms that use 32-bit time_t (e.g. Debian i386).
+- uri - Form location correctly when the server returns a relative redirect (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84540)
+- uri - Handle HTTP exceptions raised while reading the content (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83794).
+- uri - mark ``url`` as required (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83642).
+- user - Create Buildroot subclass as alias to Busybox (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83665).
+- user - Set timeout for passphrase interaction.
+- user - Update prompt for SSH key passphrase (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84484).
+- user - Use higher precedence HOME_MODE as UMASK for path provided (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84482).
+- 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.
+- user module now avoids changing ownership of files symlinked in provided home dir skeleton
+- vars lookup - The ``default`` substitution only applies when trying to look up a variable which is not defined. If the variable is defined, but templates to an undefined value, the ``default`` substitution will not apply. Use the ``default`` filter to coerce those values instead.
+- wait_for_connection - a warning was displayed if any hosts used a local connection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84419)
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- templating - Any string value starting with ``#jinja2:`` which is templated will always be interpreted as Jinja2 configuration overrides. To include this literal value at the start of a string, a space or other character must precede it.
+- variables - Tagged values cannot be used for dictionary keys in many circumstances.
+- variables - The values ``None``, ``True`` and ``False`` cannot be tagged because they are singletons. Attempts to apply tags to these values will be silently ignored.

changelogs/CHANGELOG.rst

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

changelogs/README.md

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

changelogs/changelog.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,810 @@
-# Ancestor is the first release after stable-2.9 was branched
-# Technically this should be 2.9.0b1, but that is not a valid
-# semantic version and the semver parser will complain.
-ancestor: 2.9.0
-releases: {}
+ancestor: 2.18.0
+releases:
+  2.19.0b1:
+    changes:
+      breaking_changes:
+      - Support for the ``toml`` library has been removed from TOML inventory parsing
+        and dumping. Use ``tomli`` for parsing on Python 3.10. Python 3.11 and later
+        have built-in support for parsing. Use ``tomli-w`` to support outputting inventory
+        in TOML format.
+      - assert - The ``quiet`` argument must be a commonly-accepted boolean value.
+        Previously, unrecognized values were silently treated as False.
+      - callback plugins - The structure of the ``exception``, ``warnings`` and ``deprecations``
+        values visible to callbacks has changed. Callbacks that inspect or serialize
+        these values may require special handling.
+      - conditionals - Conditional expressions that result in non-boolean values are
+        now an error by default. Such results often indicate unintentional use of
+        templates where they are not supported, resulting in a conditional that is
+        always true. When this option is enabled, conditional expressions which are
+        a literal ``None`` or empty string will evaluate as true, for backwards compatibility.
+        The error can be temporarily changed to a deprecation warning by enabling
+        the ``ALLOW_BROKEN_CONDITIONALS`` config option.
+      - first_found lookup - When specifying ``files`` or ``paths`` as a templated
+        list containing undefined values, the undefined list elements will be discarded
+        with a warning. Previously, the entire list would be discarded without any
+        warning.
+      - internals - The ``AnsibleLoader`` and ``AnsibleDumper`` classes for working
+        with YAML are now factory functions and cannot be extended.
+      - internals - The ``ansible.utils.native_jinja`` Python module has been removed.
+      - inventory - Invalid variable names provided by inventories result in an inventory
+        parse failure. This behavior is now consistent with other variable name usages
+        throughout Ansible.
+      - lookup plugins - Lookup plugins called as `with_(lookup)` will no longer have
+        the `_subdir` attribute set.
+      - lookup plugins - ``terms`` will always be passed to ``run`` as the first positional
+        arg, where previously it was sometimes passed as a keyword arg when using
+        ``with_`` syntax.
+      - loops - Omit placeholders no longer leak between loop item templating and
+        task templating. Previously, ``omit`` placeholders could remain embedded in
+        loop items after templating and be used as an ``omit`` for task templating.
+        Now, values resolving to ``omit`` are dropped immediately when loop items
+        are templated. To turn missing values into an ``omit`` for task templating,
+        use ``| default(omit)``. This solution is backwards compatible with previous
+        versions of ansible-core.
+      - modules - Ansible modules using ``sys.excepthook`` must use a standard ``try/except``
+        instead.
+      - plugins - Any plugin that sources or creates templates must properly tag them
+        as trusted.
+      - plugins - Custom Jinja plugins that accept undefined top-level arguments must
+        opt in to receiving them.
+      - plugins - Custom Jinja plugins that use ``environment.getitem`` to retrieve
+        undefined values will now trigger a ``MarkerError`` exception. This exception
+        must be handled to allow the plugin to return a ``Marker``, or the plugin
+        must opt-in to accepting ``Marker`` values.
+      - public API - The ``ansible.vars.fact_cache.FactCache`` wrapper has been removed.
+      - serialization of ``omit`` sentinel - Serialization of variables containing
+        ``omit`` sentinels (e.g., by the ``to_json`` and ``to_yaml`` filters or ``ansible-inventory``)
+        will fail if the variable has not completed templating. Previously, serialization
+        succeeded with placeholder strings emitted in the serialized output.
+      - set_fact - The string values "yes", "no", "true" and "false" were previously
+        converted (ignoring case) to boolean values when not using Jinja2 native mode.
+        Since Jinja2 native mode is always used, this conversion no longer occurs.
+        When boolean values are required, native boolean syntax should be used where
+        variables are defined, such as in YAML. When native boolean syntax is not
+        an option, the ``bool`` filter can be used to parse string values into booleans.
+      - template lookup - The ``convert_data`` option is deprecated and no longer
+        has any effect. Use the ``from_json`` filter on the lookup result instead.
+      - templating - Access to ``_`` prefixed attributes and methods, and methods
+        with known side effects, is no longer permitted. In cases where a matching
+        mapping key is present, the associated value will be returned instead of an
+        error. This increases template environment isolation and ensures more consistent
+        behavior between the ``.`` and ``[]`` operators.
+      - templating - Conditionals and lookups which use embedded inline templates
+        in Jinja string constants now display a warning. These templates should be
+        converted to their expression equivalent.
+      - templating - Many Jinja plugins (filters, lookups, tests) and methods previously
+        silently ignored undefined inputs, which often masked subtle errors. Passing
+        an undefined argument to a Jinja plugin or method that does not declare undefined
+        support now results in an undefined value.
+      - templating - Templates are always rendered in Jinja2 native mode. As a result,
+        non-string values are no longer automatically converted to strings.
+      - templating - Templates resulting in ``None`` are no longer automatically converted
+        to an empty string.
+      - templating - Templates with embedded inline templates that were not contained
+        within a Jinja string constant now result in an error, as support for multi-pass
+        templating was removed for security reasons. In most cases, such templates
+        can be easily rewritten to avoid the use of embedded inline templates.
+      - templating - The ``allow_unsafe_lookups`` option no longer has any effect.
+        Lookup plugins are responsible for tagging strings containing templates to
+        allow evaluation as a template.
+      - templating - The result of the ``range()`` global function cannot be returned
+        from a template- it should always be passed to a filter (e.g., ``random``).
+        Previously, range objects returned from an intermediate template were always
+        converted to a list, which is inconsistent with inline consumption of range
+        objects.
+      - templating - ``#jinja2:`` overrides in templates with invalid override names
+        or types are now templating errors.
+      bugfixes:
+      - Ansible will now also warn when reserved keywords are set via a module (set_fact,
+        include_vars, etc).
+      - Ansible.Basic - Fix ``required_if`` check when the option value to check is
+        unset or set to null.
+      - Correctly return ``False`` when using the ``filter`` and ``test`` Jinja tests
+        on plugin names which are not filters or tests, respectively. (resolves issue
+        https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82084)
+      - Do not run implicit ``flush_handlers`` meta tasks when the whole play is excluded
+        from the run due to tags specified.
+      - Errors now preserve stacked error messages even when YAML is involved.
+      - Fix a display.debug statement with the wrong param in _get_diff_data() method
+      - Fix disabling SSL verification when installing collections and roles from
+        git repositories. If ``--ignore-certs`` isn't provided, the value for the
+        ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` configuration option will be used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83326).
+      - Fix ipv6 pattern bug in lib/ansible/parsing/utils/addresses.py (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84237)
+      - Fix returning 'unreachable' for the overall task result. This prevents false
+        positives when a looped task has unignored unreachable items (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84019).
+      - 'Implicit ``meta: flush_handlers`` tasks now have a parent block to prevent
+        potential tracebacks when calling methods like ``get_play()`` on them internally.'
+      - Improve performance on large inventories by reducing the number of implicit
+        meta tasks.
+      - Jinja plugins - Errors raised will always be derived from ``AnsibleTemplatePluginError``.
+      - Optimize the way tasks from within ``include_tasks``/``include_role`` are
+        inserted into the play.
+      - Time out waiting on become is an unreachable error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84468)
+      - Use consistent multiprocessing context for action write locks
+      - Use the requested error message in the ansible.module_utils.facts.timeout
+        timeout function instead of hardcoding one.
+      - Windows - add support for running on system where WDAC is in audit mode with
+        ``Dynamic Code Security`` enabled.
+      - YAML parsing - The `!unsafe` tag no longer coerces non-string scalars to strings.
+      - "``ansible-galaxy`` \u2014 the collection dependency resolver now treats version
+        specifiers starting with ``!=`` as unpinned."
+      - '``package``/``dnf`` action plugins - provide the reason behind the failure
+        to gather the ``ansible_pkg_mgr`` fact to identify the package backend'
+      - action plugins - Action plugins that raise unhandled exceptions no longer
+        terminate playbook loops. Previously, exceptions raised by an action plugin
+        caused abnormal loop termination and loss of loop iteration results.
+      - ansible-config - format galaxy server configs while dumping in JSON format
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84840).
+      - ansible-doc - If none of the files in files exists, path will be undefined
+        and a direct reference will throw an UnboundLocalError (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84464).
+      - ansible-galaxy - Small adjustments to URL building for ``download_url`` and
+        relative redirects.
+      - ansible-pull change detection will now work independently of callback or result
+        format settings.
+      - ansible-test - Enable the ``sys.unraisablehook`` work-around for the ``pylint``
+        sanity test on Python 3.11. Previously the work-around was only enabled for
+        Python 3.12 and later. However, the same issue has been discovered on Python
+        3.11.
+      - ansible-test - Ensure CA certificates are installed on managed FreeBSD instances.
+      - ansible-test - Fix support for PowerShell module_util imports with the ``-Optional``
+        flag.
+      - ansible-test - Fix support for detecting PowerShell modules importing module
+        utils with the newer ``#AnsibleRequires`` format.
+      - ansible-test - Fix traceback that occurs after an interactive command fails.
+      - ansible-test - Fix up coverage reporting to properly translate the temporary
+        path of integration test modules to the expected static test module path.
+      - ansible-test - Fixed traceback when handling certain YAML errors in the ``yamllint``
+        sanity test.
+      - ansible-test - Managed macOS instances now use the ``sudo_chdir`` option for
+        the ``sudo`` become plugin to avoid permission errors when dropping privileges.
+      - ansible-vault will now correctly handle `--prompt`, previously it would issue
+        an error about stdin if no 2nd argument was passed
+      - ansible_uptime_second - added ansible_uptime_seconds fact support for AIX
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84321).
+      - apt_key module - prevent tests from running when apt-key was removed
+      - base.yml - deprecated libvirt_lxc_noseclabel config.
+      - build - Pin ``wheel`` in ``pyproject.toml`` to ensure compatibility with supported
+        ``setuptools`` versions.
+      - config - various fixes to config lookup plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84398).
+      - copy - refactor copy module for simplicity.
+      - copy action now prevents user from setting internal options.
+      - debconf - set empty password values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83214).
+      - debug - hide loop vars in debug var display (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65856).
+      - default callback - Error context is now shown for failing tasks that use the
+        ``debug`` action.
+      - display - The ``Display.deprecated`` method once again properly handles the
+        ``removed=True`` argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82358).
+      - distro - add support for Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84934).
+      - distro - detect Debian as os_family for LMDE 6 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84934).
+      - dnf5 - Handle forwarded exceptions from dnf5-5.2.13 where a generic ``RuntimeError``
+        was previously raised
+      - dnf5 - fix ``is_installed`` check for packages that are not installed but
+        listed as provided by an installed package (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84578)
+      - dnf5 - fix installing a package using ``state=latest`` when a binary of the
+        same name as the package is already installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84259)
+      - dnf5 - fix traceback when ``enable_plugins``/``disable_plugins`` is used on
+        ``python3-libdnf5`` versions that do not support this functionality
+      - dnf5 - libdnf5 - use ``conf.pkg_gpgcheck`` instead of deprecated ``conf.gpgcheck``
+        which is used only as a fallback
+      - dnf5 - matching on a binary can be achieved only by specifying a full path
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84334)
+      - facts - gather pagesize and calculate respective values depending upon architecture
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84773).
+      - facts - skip if distribution file path is directory, instead of raising error
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84006).
+      - find - skip ENOENT error code while recursively enumerating files. find module
+        will now be tolerant to race conditions that remove files or directories from
+        the target it is currently inspecting. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84873).
+      - first_found lookup - Corrected return value documentation to reflect None
+        (not empty string) for no files found.
+      - gather_facts action now defaults to `ansible.legacy.setup` if `smart` was
+        set, no network OS was found and no other alias for `setup` was present.
+      - gather_facts action will now issues errors and warnings as appropriate if
+        a network OS is detected but no facts modules are defined for it.
+      - gather_facts action, will now add setup when 'smart' appears with other modules
+        in the FACTS_MODULES setting (#84750).
+      - get_url - add support for BSD-style checksum digest file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84476).
+      - get_url - fix honoring ``filename`` from the ``content-disposition`` header
+        even when the type is ``inline`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83690)
+      - host_group_vars - fixed defining the 'key' variable if the get_vars method
+        is called with cache=False (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84384)
+      - include_vars - fix including previously undefined hash variables with hash_behaviour
+        merge (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84295).
+      - iptables - Allows the wait paramater to be used with iptables chain creation
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84490)
+      - linear strategy - fix executing ``end_role`` meta tasks for each host, instead
+        of handling these as implicit run_once tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84660).
+      - local connection plugin - Become timeout errors now include all received data.
+        Previously, the most recently-received data was discarded.
+      - local connection plugin - Ensure ``become`` success validation always occurs,
+        even when an active plugin does not set ``prompt``.
+      - local connection plugin - Fixed cases where the internal ``BECOME-SUCCESS``
+        message appeared in task output.
+      - local connection plugin - Fixed hang or spurious failure when data arrived
+        concurrently on stdout and stderr during a successful ``become`` operation
+        validation.
+      - local connection plugin - Fixed hang when a become plugin expects a prompt
+        but a password was not provided.
+      - local connection plugin - Fixed hang when an active become plugin incorrectly
+        signals lack of prompt.
+      - local connection plugin - Fixed hang when an internal become read timeout
+        expired before the password prompt was written.
+      - local connection plugin - Fixed hang when only one of stdout or stderr was
+        closed by the ``become_exe`` subprocess.
+      - local connection plugin - Fixed long timeout/hang for ``become`` plugins that
+        repeat their prompt on failure (e.g., ``sudo``, some ``su`` implementations).
+      - local connection plugin - Fixed silent ignore of ``become`` failures and loss
+        of task output when data arrived concurrently on stdout and stderr during
+        ``become`` operation validation.
+      - local connection plugin - Fixed task output header truncation when post-become
+        data arrived before ``become`` operation validation had completed.
+      - lookup plugins - The ``terms`` arg to the ``run`` method is now always a list.
+        Previously, there were cases where a non-list could be received.
+      - module arg templating - When using a templated raw task arg and a templated
+        ``args`` keyword, args are now merged. Previously use of templated raw task
+        args silently ignored all values from the templated ``args`` keyword.
+      - module defaults - Module defaults are no longer templated unless they are
+        used by a task that does not override them. Previously, all module defaults
+        for all modules were templated for every task.
+      - module respawn - limit to supported Python versions
+      - omitting task args - Use of omit for task args now properly falls back to
+        args of lower precedence, such as module defaults. Previously an omitted value
+        would obliterate values of lower precedence.
+      - package_facts module when using 'auto' will return the first package manager
+        found that provides an output, instead of just the first one, as this can
+        be foreign and not have any packages.
+      - psrp - Improve stderr parsing when running raw commands that emit error records
+        or stderr lines.
+      - regex_search filter - Corrected return value documentation to reflect None
+        (not empty string) for no match.
+      - respawn - use copy of env variables to update existing PYTHONPATH value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84954).
+      - runas become - Fix up become logic to still get the SYSTEM token with the
+        most privileges when running as SYSTEM.
+      - sequence lookup - sequence query/lookups without positional arguments now
+        return a valid list if their kwargs comprise a valid sequence expression (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82921).
+      - service_facts - skip lines which does not contain service names in openrc
+        output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84512).
+      - ssh - Improve the logic for parsing CLIXML data in stderr when working with
+        Windows host. This fixes issues when the raw stderr contains invalid UTF-8
+        byte sequences and improves embedded CLIXML sequences.
+      - ssh - Raise exception when sshpass returns error code (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58133).
+      - ssh - connection options were incorrectly templated during ``reset_connection``
+        tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84238).
+      - stability - Fixed silent process failure on unhandled IOError/OSError under
+        ``linear`` strategy.
+      - su become plugin - Ensure generated regex from ``prompt_l10n`` config values
+        is properly escaped.
+      - su become plugin - Ensure that password prompts are correctly detected in
+        the presence of leading output. Previously, this case resulted in a timeout
+        or hang.
+      - su become plugin - Ensure that trailing colon is expected on all ``prompt_l10n``
+        config values.
+      - sudo become plugin - The `sudo_chdir` config option allows the current directory
+        to be set to the specified value before executing sudo to avoid permission
+        errors when dropping privileges.
+      - sunos - remove hard coding of virtinfo command in facts gathering code (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84357).
+      - to_yaml/to_nice_yaml filters - Eliminated possibility of keyword arg collisions
+        with internally-set defaults.
+      - unarchive - Clamp timestamps from beyond y2038 to representible values when
+        unpacking zip files on platforms that use 32-bit time_t (e.g. Debian i386).
+      - uri - Form location correctly when the server returns a relative redirect
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84540)
+      - uri - Handle HTTP exceptions raised while reading the content (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83794).
+      - uri - mark ``url`` as required (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83642).
+      - user - Create Buildroot subclass as alias to Busybox (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83665).
+      - user - Set timeout for passphrase interaction.
+      - user - Update prompt for SSH key passphrase (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84484).
+      - user - Use higher precedence HOME_MODE as UMASK for path provided (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84482).
+      - 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.
+      - user module now avoids changing ownership of files symlinked in provided home
+        dir skeleton
+      - vars lookup - The ``default`` substitution only applies when trying to look
+        up a variable which is not defined. If the variable is defined, but templates
+        to an undefined value, the ``default`` substitution will not apply. Use the
+        ``default`` filter to coerce those values instead.
+      - wait_for_connection - a warning was displayed if any hosts used a local connection
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84419)
+      deprecated_features:
+      - CLI - The ``--inventory-file`` option alias is deprecated. Use the ``-i``
+        or ``--inventory`` option instead.
+      - Stategy Plugins - Use of strategy plugins not provided in ``ansible.builtin``
+        are deprecated and do not carry any backwards compatibility guarantees going
+        forward. A future release will remove the ability to use external strategy
+        plugins. No alternative for third party strategy plugins is currently planned.
+      - '``ansible.module_utils.compat.datetime`` - The datetime compatibility shims
+        are now deprecated. They are scheduled to be removed in ``ansible-core`` v2.21.
+        This includes ``UTC``, ``utcfromtimestamp()`` and ``utcnow`` importable from
+        said module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81874).'
+      - bool filter - Support for coercing unrecognized input values (including None)
+        has been deprecated. Consult the filter documentation for acceptable values,
+        or consider use of the ``truthy`` and ``falsy`` tests.
+      - cache plugins - The `ansible.plugins.cache.base` Python module is deprecated.
+        Use `ansible.plugins.cache` instead.
+      - callback plugins - The `v2_on_any` callback method is deprecated. Use specific
+        callback methods instead.
+      - callback plugins - The v1 callback API (callback methods not prefixed with
+        `v2_`) is deprecated. Use `v2_` prefixed methods instead.
+      - conditionals - Conditionals using Jinja templating delimiters (e.g., ``{{``,
+        ``{%``) should be rewritten as expressions without delimiters, unless the
+        entire conditional value is a single template that resolves to a trusted string
+        expression. This is useful for dynamic indirection of conditional expressions,
+        but is limited to trusted literal string expressions.
+      - config - The ``ACTION_WARNINGS`` config has no effect. It previously disabled
+        command warnings, which have since been removed.
+      - config - The ``DEFAULT_JINJA2_NATIVE`` option has no effect. Jinja2 native
+        mode is now the default and only option.
+      - config - The ``DEFAULT_NULL_REPRESENTATION`` option has no effect. Null values
+        are no longer automatically converted to another value during templating of
+        single variable references.
+      - display - The ``Display.get_deprecation_message`` method has been deprecated.
+        Call ``Display.deprecated`` to display a deprecation message, or call it with
+        ``removed=True`` to raise an ``AnsibleError``.
+      - file loading - Loading text files with ``DataLoader`` containing data that
+        cannot be decoded under the expected encoding is deprecated. In most cases
+        the encoding must be UTF-8, although some plugins allow choosing a different
+        encoding. Previously, invalid data was silently wrapped in Unicode surrogate
+        escape sequences, often resulting in later errors or other data corruption.
+      - first_found lookup - Splitting of file paths on ``,;:`` is deprecated. Pass
+        a list of paths instead. The ``split`` method on strings can be used to split
+        variables into a list as needed.
+      - interpreter discovery - The ``auto_legacy`` and ``auto_legacy_silent`` options
+        for ``INTERPRETER_PYTHON`` are deprecated. Use ``auto`` or ``auto_silent``
+        options instead, as they have the same effect.
+      - oneline callback - The ``oneline`` callback and its associated ad-hoc CLI
+        args (``-o``, ``--one-line``) are deprecated.
+      - paramiko - The paramiko connection plugin has been deprecated with planned
+        removal in 2.21.
+      - playbook variables - The ``play_hosts`` variable has been deprecated, use
+        ``ansible_play_batch`` instead.
+      - plugin error handling - The ``AnsibleError`` constructor arg ``suppress_extended_error``
+        is deprecated. Using ``suppress_extended_error=True`` has the same effect
+        as ``show_content=False``.
+      - plugins - The ``listify_lookup_plugin_terms`` function is obsolete and in
+        most cases no longer needed.
+      - template lookup - The jinja2_native option is no longer used in the Ansible
+        Core code base. Jinja2 native mode is now the default and only option.
+      - templating - Support for enabling Jinja2 extensions (not plugins) has been
+        deprecated.
+      - templating - The ``ansible_managed`` variable available for certain templating
+        scenarios, such as the ``template`` action and ``template`` lookup has been
+        deprecated. Define and use a custom variable instead of relying on ``ansible_managed``.
+      - templating - The ``disable_lookups`` option has no effect, since plugins must
+        be updated to apply trust before any templating can be performed.
+      - to_yaml/to_nice_yaml filters - Implicit YAML dumping of vaulted value ciphertext
+        is deprecated. Set `dump_vault_tags` to explicitly specify the desired behavior.
+      - tree callback - The ``tree`` callback and its associated ad-hoc CLI args (``-t``,
+        ``--tree``) are deprecated.
+      known_issues:
+      - templating - Any string value starting with ``#jinja2:`` which is templated
+        will always be interpreted as Jinja2 configuration overrides. To include this
+        literal value at the start of a string, a space or other character must precede
+        it.
+      - variables - Tagged values cannot be used for dictionary keys in many circumstances.
+      - variables - The values ``None``, ``True`` and ``False`` cannot be tagged because
+        they are singletons. Attempts to apply tags to these values will be silently
+        ignored.
+      major_changes:
+      - Jinja plugins - Jinja builtin filter and test plugins are now accessible via
+        their fully-qualified names ``ansible.builtin.{name}``.
+      - Task Execution / Forks - Forks no longer inherit stdio from the parent ``ansible-playbook``
+        process. ``stdout``, ``stderr``, and ``stdin`` within a worker are detached
+        from the terminal, and non-functional. All needs to access stdio from a fork
+        for controller side plugins requires use of ``Display``.
+      - ansible-test - Packages beneath ``module_utils`` can now contain ``__init__.py``
+        files.
+      - variables - The type system underlying Ansible's variable storage has been
+        significantly overhauled and formalized. Attempts to store unsupported Python
+        object types in variables will now result in an error.
+      - variables - To support new Ansible features, many variable objects are now
+        represented by subclasses of their respective native Python types. In most
+        cases, they behave indistinguishably from their original types, but some Python
+        libraries do not handle builtin object subclasses properly. Custom plugins
+        that interact with such libraries may require changes to convert and pass
+        the native types.
+      minor_changes:
+      - Added a -vvvvv log message indicating when a host fails to produce output
+        within the timeout period.
+      - AnsibleModule.uri - Add option ``multipart_encoding`` for ``form-multipart``
+        files in body to change default base64 encoding for files
+      - INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS config, removed ``ini`` from the default list, inventory
+        scripts using a corresponding .ini configuration are rare now and inventory.ini
+        files are more common. Those that need to ignore the ini files for inventory
+        scripts can still add it to configuration.
+      - Jinja plugins - Plugins can declare support for undefined values.
+      - Jinja2 version 3.1.0 or later is now required on the controller.
+      - Move ``follow_redirects`` parameter to module_utils so external modules can
+        reuse it.
+      - PlayIterator - do not return tasks from already executed roles so specific
+        strategy plugins do not have to do the filtering of such tasks themselves
+      - SSH Escalation-related -vvv log messages now include the associated host information.
+      - Windows - Add support for Windows Server 2025 to Ansible and as an ``ansible-test``
+        remote target - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84229
+      - Windows - refactor the async implementation to better handle errors during
+        bootstrapping and avoid WMI when possible.
+      - "``ansible-galaxy collection install`` \u2014 the collection dependency resolver
+        now prints out conflicts it hits during dependency resolution when it's taking
+        too long and it ends up backtracking a lot. It also displays suggestions on
+        how to help it compute the result more quickly."
+      - 'ansible, ansible-console, ansible-pull - add --flush-cache option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83749).
+
+        '
+      - ansible-galaxy - Add support for Keycloak service accounts
+      - ansible-galaxy - support ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 2.0.0`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84217).
+      - ansible-test - Added a macOS 15.3 remote VM, replacing 14.3.
+      - ansible-test - Automatically retry HTTP GET/PUT/DELETE requests on exceptions.
+      - ansible-test - Default to Python 3.13 in the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
+      - ansible-test - Disable the ``deprecated-`` prefixed ``pylint`` rules as their
+        results vary by Python version.
+      - ansible-test - Disable the ``pep8`` sanity test rules ``E701`` and ``E704``
+        to improve compatibility with ``black``.
+      - 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 - Replace container Alpine 3.20 with 3.21.
+      - ansible-test - Replace container Fedora 40 with 41.
+      - ansible-test - Replace remote Alpine 3.20 with 3.21.
+      - ansible-test - Replace remote Fedora 40 with 41.
+      - ansible-test - Replace remote FreeBSD 13.3 with 13.5.
+      - ansible-test - Replace remote FreeBSD 14.1 with 14.2.
+      - ansible-test - Replace remote RHEL 9.4 with 9.5.
+      - ansible-test - Show a more user-friendly error message when a ``runme.sh``
+        script is not executable.
+      - ansible-test - The ``yamllint`` sanity test now enforces string values for
+        the ``!vault`` tag.
+      - ansible-test - Update ``nios-test-container`` to version 7.0.0.
+      - ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 3.3.1.
+      - ansible-test - Update distro containers to remove unnecessary pakages (apache2,
+        subversion, ruby).
+      - ansible-test - Update sanity test requirements to latest available versions.
+      - ansible-test - Update the HTTP test container.
+      - ansible-test - Update the PyPI test container.
+      - ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
+      - ansible-test - Update the utility container.
+      - ansible-test - Use Python's ``urllib`` instead of ``curl`` for HTTP requests.
+      - ansible-test - When detection of the current container network fails, a warning
+        is now issued and execution continues. This simplifies usage in cases where
+        the current container cannot be inspected, such as when running in GitHub
+        Codespaces.
+      - ansible-test acme test container - bump `version to 2.3.0 <https://github.com/ansible/acme-test-container/releases/tag/2.3.0>`__
+        to include newer versions of Pebble, dependencies, and runtimes. This adds
+        support for ACME profiles, ``dns-account-01`` support, and some smaller improvements
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84547).
+      - apt_key module - add notes to docs and errors to point at the CLI tool deprecation
+        by Debian and alternatives
+      - apt_repository module - add notes to errors to point at the CLI tool deprecation
+        by Debian and alternatives
+      - become plugins get new property 'pipelining' to show support or lack there
+        of for the feature.
+      - callback plugins - add has_option() to CallbackBase to match other functions
+        overloaded from AnsiblePlugin
+      - callback plugins - fix get_options() for CallbackBase
+      - copy - fix sanity test failures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83643).
+      - copy - parameter ``local_follow`` was incorrectly documented as having default
+        value ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83643).
+      - cron - Provide additional error information while writing cron file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83223).
+      - csvfile - let the config system do the typecasting (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82263).
+      - display - Deduplication of warning and error messages considers the full content
+        of the message (including source and traceback contexts, if enabled). This
+        may result in fewer messages being omitted.
+      - display - The ``collection_name`` arg to ``Display.deprecated`` no longer
+        has any effect. Information about the calling plugin is automatically captured
+        by the display infrastructure, included in the displayed messages, and made
+        available to callbacks.
+      - distribution - Added openSUSE MicroOS to Suse OS family (#84685).
+      - dnf5, apt - add ``auto_install_module_deps`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84206)
+      - docs - add collection name in message from which the module is being deprecated
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84116).
+      - env lookup - The error message generated for a missing environment variable
+        when ``default`` is an undefined value (e.g. ``undef('something')``) will
+        contain the hint from that undefined value, except when the undefined value
+        is the default of ``undef()`` with no arguments. Previously, any existing
+        undefined hint would be ignored.
+      - file - enable file module to disable diff_mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80817).
+      - file - make code more readable and simple.
+      - filter - add support for URL-safe encoding and decoding in b64encode and b64decode
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84147).
+      - find - add a checksum_algorithm parameter to specify which type of checksum
+        the module will return
+      - from_json filter - The filter accepts a ``profile`` argument, which defaults
+        to ``tagless``.
+      - handlers - Templated handler names with syntax errors, or that resolve to
+        ``omit`` are now skipped like handlers with undefined variables in their name.
+      - improved error message for yaml parsing errors in plugin documentation
+      - local connection plugin - A new ``become_strip_preamble`` config option (default
+        True) was added; disable to preserve diagnostic ``become`` output in task
+        results.
+      - local connection plugin - A new ``become_success_timeout`` operation-wide
+        timeout config (default 10s) was added for ``become``.
+      - local connection plugin - When a ``become`` plugin's ``prompt`` value is a
+        non-string after the ``check_password_prompt`` callback has completed, no
+        prompt stripping will occur on stderr.
+      - lookup_template - add an option to trim blocks while templating (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75962).
+      - module - set ipv4 and ipv6 rules simultaneously in iptables module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84404).
+      - module_utils - Add ``NoReturn`` type annotations to functions which never
+        return.
+      - modules - PowerShell modules can now receive ``datetime.date``, ``datetime.time``
+        and ``datetime.datetime`` values as ISO 8601 strings.
+      - modules - PowerShell modules can now receive strings sourced from inline vault-encrypted
+        strings.
+      - modules - The ``collection_name`` arg to Python module-side ``deprecate``
+        methods no longer has any effect. Information about the calling module is
+        automatically captured by the warning infrastructure and included in the module
+        result.
+      - modules - Unhandled exceptions during Python module execution are now returned
+        as structured data from the target. This allows the new traceback handling
+        to be applied to exceptions raised on targets.
+      - pipelining logic has mostly moved to connection plugins so they can decide/override
+        settings.
+      - plugin error handling - When raising exceptions in an exception handler, be
+        sure to use ``raise ... from`` as appropriate. This supersedes the use of
+        the ``AnsibleError`` arg ``orig_exc`` to represent the cause. Specifying ``orig_exc``
+        as the cause is still permitted. Failure to use ``raise ... from`` when ``orig_exc``
+        is set will result in a warning. Additionally, if the two cause exceptions
+        do not match, a warning will be issued.
+      - removed harcoding of su plugin as it now works with pipelining.
+      - runtime-metadata sanity test - improve validation of ``action_groups`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83965).
+      - service_facts module got freebsd support added.
+      - ssh connection plugin - Support ``SSH_ASKPASS`` mechanism to provide passwords,
+        making it the default, but still offering an explicit choice to use ``sshpass``
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83936)
+      - ssh connection plugin now overrides pipelining when a tty is requested.
+      - ssh-agent - ``ansible``, ``ansible-playbook`` and ``ansible-console`` are
+        capable of spawning or reusing an ssh-agent, allowing plugins to interact
+        with the ssh-agent. Additionally a pure python ssh-agent client has been added,
+        enabling easy interaction with the agent. The ssh connection plugin contains
+        new functionality via ``ansible_ssh_private_key`` and ``ansible_ssh_private_key_passphrase``,
+        for loading an SSH private key into the agent from a variable.
+      - templating - Access to an undefined variable from inside a lookup, filter,
+        or test (which raises MarkerError) no longer ends processing of the current
+        template. The triggering undefined value is returned as the result of the
+        offending plugin invocation, and the template continues to execute.
+      - templating - Embedding ``range()`` values in containers such as lists will
+        result in an error on use. Previously the value would be converted to a string
+        representing the range parameters, such as ``range(0, 3)``.
+      - templating - Handling of omitted values is now a first-class feature of the
+        template engine, and is usable in all Ansible Jinja template contexts. Any
+        template that resolves to ``omit`` is automatically removed from its parent
+        container during templating.
+      - templating - Template evaluation is lazier than in previous versions. Template
+        expressions which resolve only portions of a data structure no longer result
+        in the entire structure being templated.
+      - templating - Templating errors now provide more information about both the
+        location and context of the error, especially for deeply-nested and/or indirected
+        templating scenarios.
+      - templating - Unified ``omit`` behavior now requires that plugins calling ``Templar.template()``
+        handle cases where the entire template result is omitted, by catching the
+        ``AnsibleValueOmittedError`` that is raised. Previously, this condition caused
+        a randomly-generated string marker to appear in the template result.
+      - templating - Variables of type ``set`` and ``tuple`` are now converted to
+        ``list`` when exiting the final pass of templating.
+      - to_json / to_nice_json filters - The filters accept a ``profile`` argument,
+        which defaults to ``tagless``.
+      - troubleshooting - Tracebacks can be collected and displayed for most errors,
+        warnings, and deprecation warnings (including those generated by modules).
+        Tracebacks are no longer enabled with ``-vvv``; the behavior is directly configurable
+        via the ``DISPLAY_TRACEBACK`` config option. Module tracebacks passed to ``fail_json``
+        via the ``exception`` kwarg will not be included in the task result unless
+        error tracebacks are configured.
+      - undef jinja function - The ``undef`` jinja function now raises an error if
+        a non-string hint is given. Attempting to use an undefined hint also results
+        in an error, ensuring incorrect use of the function can be distinguished from
+        the function's normal behavior.
+      - validate-modules sanity test - make sure that ``module`` and ``plugin`` ``seealso``
+        entries use FQCNs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84325).
+      - vault - improved vault filter documentation by adding missing example content
+        for dump_template_data.j2, refining examples for clarity, and ensuring variable
+        consistency (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83583).
+      - warnings - All warnings (including deprecation warnings) issued during a task's
+        execution are now accessible via the ``warnings`` and ``deprecations`` keys
+        on the task result.
+      - when the ``dict`` lookup is given a non-dict argument, show the value of the
+        argument and its type in the error message.
+      - windows - add hard minimum limit for PowerShell to 5.1. Ansible dropped support
+        for older versions of PowerShell in the 2.16 release but this reqirement is
+        now enforced at runtime.
+      - windows - refactor windows exec runner to improve efficiency and add better
+        error reporting on failures.
+      - winrm - Remove need for pexpect on macOS hosts when using ``kinit`` to retrieve
+        the Kerberos TGT. By default the code will now only use the builtin ``subprocess``
+        library which should handle issues with select and a high fd count and also
+        simplify the code.
+      release_summary: '| Release Date: 2025-04-14
+
+        | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__
+
+        '
+      removed_features:
+      - Remove deprecated plural form of collection path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84156).
+      - Removed deprecated STRING_CONVERSION_ACTION (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84220).
+      - encrypt - passing unsupported passlib hashtype now raises AnsibleFilterError.
+      - manager - remove deprecated include_delegate_to parameter from get_vars API.
+      - modules - Modules returning non-UTF8 strings now result in an error. The ``MODULE_STRICT_UTF8_RESPONSE``
+        setting can be used to disable this check.
+      - removed deprecated pycompat24 and compat.importlib.
+      - selector - remove deprecated compat.selector related files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84155).
+      - windows - removed common module functions ``ConvertFrom-AnsibleJson``, ``Format-AnsibleException``
+        from Windows modules as they are not used and add uneeded complexity to the
+        code.
+      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)
+      - templating - Ansible's template engine no longer processes Jinja templates
+        in strings unless they are marked as coming from a trusted source. Untrusted
+        strings containing Jinja template markers are ignored with a warning. Examples
+        of trusted sources include playbooks, vars files, and many inventory sources.
+        Examples of untrusted sources include module results and facts. Plugins which
+        have not been updated to preserve trust while manipulating strings may inadvertently
+        cause them to lose their trusted status.
+      - templating - Changes to conditional expression handling removed numerous instances
+        of insecure multi-pass templating (which could result in execution of untrusted
+        template expressions).
+      - 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).
+    codename: What Is and What Should Never Be
+    fragments:
+    - 2.19.0b1_summary.yaml
+    - 81709-ansible-galaxy-slow-resolution-hints.yml
+    - 81812-ansible-galaxy-negative-spec-is-pinned.yml
+    - 81874-deprecate-datetime-compat.yml
+    - 83642-fix-sanity-ignore-for-uri.yml
+    - 83643-fix-sanity-ignore-for-copy.yml
+    - 83690-get_url-content-disposition-filename.yml
+    - 83700-enable-file-disable-diff.yml
+    - 83757-deprecate-paramiko.yml
+    - 83936-ssh-askpass.yml
+    - 83965-action-groups-schema.yml
+    - 84008-additional-logging.yml
+    - 84019-ignore_unreachable-loop.yml
+    - 84149-add-flush-cache-for-adhoc-commands.yml
+    - 84206-dnf5-apt-auto-install-module-deps.yml
+    - 84213-ansible-galaxy-url-building.yml
+    - 84229-windows-server-2025.yml
+    - 84238-fix-reset_connection-ssh_executable-templated.yml
+    - 84259-dnf5-latest-fix.yml
+    - 84321-added-ansible_uptime_seconds_aix.yml
+    - 84325-validate-modules-seealso-fqcn.yml
+    - 84334-dnf5-consolidate-settings.yml
+    - 84384-fix-undefined-key-host-group-vars.yml
+    - 84419-fix-wait_for_connection-warning.yml
+    - 84468-timeout_become_unreachable.yml
+    - 84473-dict-lookup-type-error-message.yml
+    - 84490-allow-iptables-chain-creation-with-wait.yml
+    - 84496-CallbackBase-get_options.yml
+    - 84540-uri-relative-redirect.yml
+    - 84547-acme-test-container.yml
+    - 84578-dnf5-is_installed-provides.yml
+    - 84660-fix-meta-end_role-linear-strategy.yml
+    - 84685-add-opensuse-microos.yml
+    - 84705-error-message-malformed-plugin-documentation.yml
+    - 84725-deprecate-strategy-plugins.yml
+    - Ansible.Basic-required_if-null.yml
+    - ansible-galaxy-keycloak-service-accounts.yml
+    - ansible-test-added-macos-15.3.yml
+    - ansible-test-containers.yml
+    - ansible-test-coverage-test-files.yml
+    - ansible-test-curl.yml
+    - ansible-test-fix-command-traceback.yml
+    - ansible-test-freebsd-nss.yml
+    - ansible-test-network-detection.yml
+    - ansible-test-nios-container.yml
+    - ansible-test-no-exec-script.yml
+    - ansible-test-probe-error-handling.yml
+    - ansible-test-pylint-fix.yml
+    - ansible-test-remotes.yml
+    - ansible-test-update.yml
+    - apt_key_bye.yml
+    - become-runas-system-deux.yml
+    - buildroot.yml
+    - compat_removal.yml
+    - config.yml
+    - config_dump.yml
+    - copy_validate_input.yml
+    - cron_err.yml
+    - csvfile-col.yml
+    - cve-2024-8775.yml
+    - darwin_pagesize.yml
+    - debconf_empty_password.yml
+    - deprecated.yml
+    - distro_LMDE_6.yml
+    - dnf5-exception-forwarding.yml
+    - dnf5-plugins-compat.yml
+    - dnf5-remove-usage-deprecated-option.yml
+    - feature-uri-add-option-multipart-encoding.yml
+    - file_simplify.yml
+    - find-checksum.yml
+    - find_enoent.yml
+    - fix-ansible-galaxy-ignore-certs.yml
+    - fix-cli-doc-path_undefined.yaml
+    - fix-display-bug-in-action-plugin.yml
+    - fix-include_vars-merge-hash.yml
+    - fix-ipv6-pattern.yml
+    - fix-is-filter-is-test.yml
+    - fix-lookup-sequence-keyword-args-only.yml
+    - fix-module-utils-facts-timeout.yml
+    - fix_errors.yml
+    - follow_redirects_url.yml
+    - gather_facts_netos_fixes.yml
+    - gather_facts_smart_fix.yml
+    - get_url_bsd_style_digest.yml
+    - hide-loop-vars-debug-vars.yml
+    - implicit_flush_handlers_parents.yml
+    - include_delegate_to.yml
+    - interpreter-discovery-auto-legacy.yml
+    - jinja-version.yml
+    - libvirt_lxc.yml
+    - local-become-fixes.yml
+    - lookup_config.yml
+    - macos-correct-lock.yml
+    - no-inherit-stdio.yml
+    - no-return.yml
+    - openrc-status.yml
+    - os_family.yml
+    - package-dnf-action-plugins-facts-fail-msg.yml
+    - package_facts_fix.yml
+    - passlib.yml
+    - pin-wheel.yml
+    - pipelining_refactor.yml
+    - playiterator-add_tasks-optimize.yml
+    - ps-import-sanity.yml
+    - pull_changed_fix.yml
+    - remove_ini_ignored_dir.yml
+    - reserved_module_chekc.yml
+    - respawn-min-python.yml
+    - respawn_os_env.yml
+    - selector_removal.yml
+    - service_facts_fbsd.yml
+    - set_ipv4_and_ipv6_simultaneously.yml
+    - simplify-copy-module.yml
+    - skip-handlers-tagged-play.yml
+    - skip-implicit-flush_handlers-no-notify.yml
+    - skip-role-task-iterator.yml
+    - ssh-agent.yml
+    - ssh-clixml.yml
+    - ssh_raise_exception.yml
+    - string_conversion.yml
+    - sunos_virtinfo.yml
+    - templates_types_datatagging.yml
+    - toml-library-support-dropped.yml
+    - trim_blocks.yml
+    - unarchive_timestamp_t32.yaml
+    - update-resolvelib-lt-2_0_0.yml
+    - uri_httpexception.yml
+    - url_safe_b64_encode_decode.yml
+    - user_action_fix.yml
+    - user_module.yml
+    - user_passphrase.yml
+    - user_ssh_fix.yml
+    - v2.19.0-initial-commit.yaml
+    - vault_cli_fix.yml
+    - vault_docs_fix.yaml
+    - win-async-refactor.yml
+    - win-wdac-audit.yml
+    - windows-exec.yml
+    - winrm-kinit-pexpect.yml
+    release_date: '2025-04-14'
+  2.19.0b2:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - Remove use of `required` parameter in `get_bin_path` which has been deprecated.
+      - ansible-doc - fix indentation for first line of descriptions of suboptions
+        and sub-return values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84690).
+      - ansible-doc - fix line wrapping for first line of description of options and
+        return values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84690).
+      minor_changes:
+      - comment filter - Improve the error message shown when an invalid ``style``
+        argument is provided.
+      release_summary: '| Release Date: 2025-04-24
+
+        | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__
+
+        '
+    codename: What Is and What Should Never Be
+    fragments:
+    - 2.19.0b2_summary.yaml
+    - 84690-ansible-doc-indent-wrapping.yml
+    - comment_fail.yml
+    - get_bin_path-remove-use-of-deprecated-param.yml
+    release_date: '2025-04-23'

changelogs/config.yaml

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 ---
-title: Ansible Base
+title: ansible-core
 release_tag_re: '(v(?:[\d.ab\-]|rc)+)'
 pre_release_tag_re: '(?P<pre_release>(?:[ab]|rc)+\d*)$'
 changes_file: changelog.yaml
 changes_format: combined
 keep_fragments: true
 always_refresh: true
+ignore_other_fragment_extensions: true
 mention_ancestor: false
 notesdir: fragments
 prelude_section_name: release_summary

changelogs/fragments/2.19.0b1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2025-04-14
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.19.0b2_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2025-04-24
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/21003-uri-return-content.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- uri - Don't return the body even if it failed
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/21003)

changelogs/fragments/34722-ssh-sshpass-prompt-variable.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- ssh - connection plugin now supports a new variable ``sshpass_prompt`` which gets passed to ``sshpass`` allowing the user to set a custom substring to search for a password prompt (requires sshpass 1.06+)

changelogs/fragments/47050-copy_ensure-_original_basename-is-set.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-  - copy - Fixed copy module not working in case that remote_src is enabled and dest ends in a / (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47238)

changelogs/fragments/51489-apt-not-honor-update-cache.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-- apt - Fixed the issue the cache being updated while auto-installing its
-  dependencies even when ``update_cache`` is set to false.

changelogs/fragments/54095-import_tasks-fix_no_task.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- Raise error when no task file is provided to import_tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54095).

changelogs/fragments/56629-synchronize-password-auth.yaml

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - synchronize - fix password authentication on Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56629)
-  - >
-    AnsibleModule.run_command() - set ``close_fds`` to ``False`` on Python 2 if ``pass_fds`` are passed to
-    ``run_command()``. Since ``subprocess.Popen()`` on Python 2 does not have the ``pass_fds`` option,
-    there is no way to exclude a specific list of file descriptors from being closed.

changelogs/fragments/56832-remove-aptitude-warning.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Remove the unnecessary warning about aptitude not being installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56832).

changelogs/fragments/57266-apt_repository-update-cache-retrying.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - apt_repository - Implemented an exponential backoff behaviour when retrying to update the apt cache with new params ``update_cache_retry_max_delay`` and ``update_cache_retries`` to control the behavior.

changelogs/fragments/57779-module_defaults_groups_catchup_gcp.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-  - Add missing gcp modules to gcp module defaults group

changelogs/fragments/57894-combine-filter-rework.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- combine filter - ``[dict1, [dict2]] | combine`` now raise an error; previously ``combine`` had an undocumented behaviour where it was flattening the list before combining it (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/57894#discussion_r339517518).
-minor_changes:
-- combine filter - now accept a ``list_merge`` argument which modifies its behaviour when the hashes to merge contain arrays/lists.

changelogs/fragments/58323-copy-deep-recursive-with-remote_src.yaml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- copy - recursive copy with ``remote_src=yes`` now recurses beyond first level. (Fixes https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58284)

changelogs/fragments/59060-validate-modules-aliases.yml

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- "ansible-test - during module validation, improve alias handling."
-- "ansible-test - during module validation, handle add_file_common_args only for top-level arguments."
-minor_changes:
-- "ansible-test - extend alias validation."

changelogs/fragments/59438-hostname-use-hostnamectl.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-    - Use hostnamectl command to get current hostname for host while using systemd strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59438).

changelogs/fragments/59464-playbook-dir-envvar.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- CLI - the `ANSIBLE_PLAYBOOK_DIR` envvar or `playbook_dir` config can now substitute for the --playbook-dir arg on CLIs that support it (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59464)

changelogs/fragments/59765-cron-cronvar-use-get-bin-path.yaml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - cron and cronvar - use get_bin_path utility to locate the default crontab executable instead of the hardcoded /usr/bin/crontab. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/59765)

changelogs/fragments/59772-fix_ansible_issue_58619.yaml

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - >
-     group - The group module was not correctly detecting whether a local
-     group is existing or not with local set to yes if the same group
-     exists in a non local group repository e.g. LDAP. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58619)

changelogs/fragments/60106-templar-contextmanager.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- template lookup - ensure changes to the templar in the lookup, do not
-  affect the templar context outside of the lookup
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/60106)

changelogs/fragments/60527-apt_exponential_backoff_cache_update_retry.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - apt - Implemented an exponential backoff behaviour when retrying to update the cache with new params ``update_cache_retry_max_delay`` and ``update_cache_retries`` to control the behavior.

changelogs/fragments/60587-doc_parsing.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Handle exception encountered while parsing the argument description in module when invoked via ansible-doc command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/60587).

changelogs/fragments/60595-systemd_import.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- Add an additional check for importing journal from systemd-python module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/60595).

changelogs/fragments/61078-vars-plugin-whitelist-and-execution-settings.yaml

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
----
-minor_changes:
-  - vars plugins - Support vars plugins in collections by adding the ability to whitelist plugins.
-  - host_group_vars plugin - Require whitelisting and whitelist by default.
-  - Add a global toggle to control when vars plugins are executed (per task by default for backward compatibility or after importing inventory).
-  - Add a per-plugin stage option to override the global toggle to control the execution of individual vars plugins (per task, after inventory, or both).

changelogs/fragments/61604-ansible-inventory-hide-args.yaml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- ansible-inventory - Properly hide arguments that should not be shown
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61604)
-- ansible-inventory - Restore functionality to allow ``--graph`` to be limited by a host pattern

changelogs/fragments/61624-fix-galaxy-url-building.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix url building to not truncate the URL (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61624)