New release v2.16.8rc1 (#83407)

Fixes: #83299

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit c1d41ee44e)

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+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: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
+            - test: 3.8
+            - test: 3.9
+            - test: '3.10'
+            - test: 3.11
+            - test: 3.12
+  - stage: Windows
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Server {0}
+          testFormat: windows/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2016
+            - test: 2019
+            - test: 2022
+  - stage: Remote
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/target
+        parameters:
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 13.2
+              test: macos/13.2
+            - name: RHEL 7.9
+              test: rhel/7.9
+            - name: RHEL 8.8 py36
+              test: rhel/8.8@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.8 py311
+              test: rhel/8.8@3.11
+            - name: RHEL 9.2 py39
+              test: rhel/9.2@3.9
+            - name: RHEL 9.2 py311
+              test: rhel/9.2@3.11
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
+              test: freebsd/13.2
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller
+        parameters:
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 13.2
+              test: macos/13.2
+            - name: RHEL 8.8
+              test: rhel/8.8
+            - name: RHEL 9.2
+              test: rhel/9.2
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
+              test: freebsd/13.2
+          groups:
+            - 3
+            - 4
+            - 5
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller (ansible-test container management)
+        parameters:
+          targets:
+            - name: Alpine 3.18
+              test: alpine/3.18
+            - name: Fedora 38
+              test: fedora/38
+            - name: RHEL 8.8
+              test: rhel/8.8
+            - name: RHEL 9.2
+              test: rhel/9.2
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu/22.04
+          groups:
+            - 6
+  - stage: Docker
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
+            - name: CentOS 7
+              test: centos7
+            - name: Fedora 38
+              test: fedora38
+            - name: openSUSE 15
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu2204
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
+            - name: Fedora 38
+              test: fedora38
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu2204
+          groups:
+            - 3
+            - 4
+            - 5
+  - stage: Galaxy
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: galaxy/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: '3.10'
+            - test: 3.11
+            - test: 3.12
+  - stage: Generic
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: generic/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: '3.10'
+            - test: 3.11
+            - test: 3.12
+  - stage: Incidental_Windows
+    displayName: Incidental Windows
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Server {0}
+          testFormat: i/windows/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 2016
+            - test: 2019
+            - test: 2022
+  - stage: Incidental
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: i/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - name: IOS Python
+              test: ios/csr1000v/
+            - name: VyOS Python
+              test: vyos/1.1.8/
+  - 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

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

.azure-pipelines/commands/i.sh

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

.azure-pipelines/commands/incidental/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

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

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

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

@@ -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 +1,60 @@
+#!/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) $(System.JobDisplayName)
+Keep in mind that Azure Pipelines does not enforce unique job display names (only names).
+It is up to pipeline authors to avoid name collisions when deviating from the recommended format.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import os
+import re
+import shutil
+import sys
+
+
+def main():
+    """Main program entry point."""
+    source_directory = sys.argv[1]
+
+    if '/ansible_collections/' in os.getcwd():
+        output_path = "tests/output"
+    else:
+        output_path = "test/results"
+
+    destination_directory = os.path.join(output_path, 'coverage')
+
+    if not os.path.exists(destination_directory):
+        os.makedirs(destination_directory)
+
+    jobs = {}
+    count = 0
+
+    for name in os.listdir(source_directory):
+        match = re.search('^Coverage (?P<attempt>[0-9]+) (?P<label>.+)$', 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 +1,101 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+Upload code coverage reports to codecov.io.
+Multiple coverage files from multiple languages are accepted and aggregated after upload.
+Python coverage, as well as PowerShell and Python stubs can all be uploaded.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import dataclasses
+import pathlib
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+import typing as t
+import urllib.request
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
+class CoverageFile:
+    name: str
+    path: pathlib.Path
+    flags: t.List[str]
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
+class Args:
+    dry_run: bool
+    path: pathlib.Path
+
+
+def parse_args() -> Args:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument('-n', '--dry-run', action='store_true')
+    parser.add_argument('path', type=pathlib.Path)
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    # Store arguments in a typed dataclass
+    fields = dataclasses.fields(Args)
+    kwargs = {field.name: getattr(args, field.name) for field in fields}
+
+    return Args(**kwargs)
+
+
+def process_files(directory: pathlib.Path) -> t.Tuple[CoverageFile, ...]:
+    processed = []
+    for file in directory.joinpath('reports').glob('coverage*.xml'):
+        name = file.stem.replace('coverage=', '')
+
+        # Get flags from name
+        flags = name.replace('-powershell', '').split('=')  # Drop '-powershell' suffix
+        flags = [flag if not flag.startswith('stub') else flag.split('-')[0] for flag in flags]  # Remove "-01" from stub files
+
+        processed.append(CoverageFile(name, file, flags))
+
+    return tuple(processed)
+
+
+def upload_files(codecov_bin: pathlib.Path, files: t.Tuple[CoverageFile, ...], dry_run: bool = False) -> None:
+    for file in files:
+        cmd = [
+            str(codecov_bin),
+            '--name', file.name,
+            '--file', str(file.path),
+        ]
+        for flag in file.flags:
+            cmd.extend(['--flags', flag])
+
+        if dry_run:
+            print(f'DRY-RUN: Would run command: {cmd}')
+            continue
+
+        subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)
+
+
+def download_file(url: str, dest: pathlib.Path, flags: int, dry_run: bool = False) -> None:
+    if dry_run:
+        print(f'DRY-RUN: Would download {url} to {dest} and set mode to {flags:o}')
+        return
+
+    with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as resp:
+        with dest.open('w+b') as f:
+            # Read data in chunks rather than all at once
+            shutil.copyfileobj(resp, f, 64 * 1024)
+
+    dest.chmod(flags)
+
+
+def main():
+    args = parse_args()
+    url = 'https://ci-files.testing.ansible.com/codecov/linux/codecov'
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix='codecov-') as tmpdir:
+        codecov_bin = pathlib.Path(tmpdir) / 'codecov'
+        download_file(url, codecov_bin, 0o755, args.dry_run)
+
+        files = process_files(args.path)
+        upload_files(codecov_bin, files, args.dry_run)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()

.azure-pipelines/scripts/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 (if supported) otherwise fall back to using a virtual environment instead.
+# The use of docker is required when Powershell code is present, but Ansible 2.12 was the first version to support --docker with coverage.
+ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --docker --color -v || ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --venv --color -v

.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 +1,25 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Prepends a relative timestamp to each input line from stdin and writes it to stdout."""
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+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 +1,4 @@
+# .git-blame-ignore-revs
+# Bulk PowerShell sanity fixes
+6def4a3180fe03981ba64c6d8db28fed3bb39c0c
+716631189cb5a3f66b3add98f39e64e98bc17bf7

.gitattributes

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

.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 +1,265 @@
+---
+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 consider
+      [starting a mailing list thread or chatting in IRC][ML||IRC].
+
+
+
+      [ML||IRC]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--bug_report.yml#mailing-list-information
+
+      [issue search]: ../search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
+
+      [XKCD 1172]: https://xkcd.com/1172/
+
+
+- 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: >
+      Please select the single available option in the drop-down.
+
+      <details>
+        <summary>
+          <em>Why?</em>
+        </summary>
+
+        We would do it by ourselves but unfortunatelly, the curent
+        edition of GitHub Issue Forms Alpha does not support this yet 🤷
+
+
+        _We will make it easier in the future, once GitHub
+        supports dropdown defaults. Promise!_
+
+      </details>
+    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
+    options:
+    - Bug Report
+  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, yum, 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/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--bug_report.yml
+    options:
+    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
+      required: true
+...

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # 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
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ contact_links:
   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!
+  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 +1,212 @@
+---
+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 consider
+      [starting a mailing list thread or chatting in IRC][ML||IRC].
+
+
+      [ML||IRC]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--documentation_report.yml#mailing-list-information
+
+      [issue search]: ../search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
+
+      [submit a pull request]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/documentation_contributions.html
+
+- 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: >
+      Please select the single available option in the drop-down.
+
+      <details>
+        <summary>
+          <em>Why?</em>
+        </summary>
+
+
+        _We will make it easier in the future, once GitHub
+        supports dropdown defaults. Promise!_
+
+      </details>
+    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
+    options:
+    - Documentation Report
+  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/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--documentation_report.yml
+    options:
+    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
+      required: true
+...

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.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 +1,192 @@
+---
+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 on one of the public [IRC meetings] we have just
+      for this.
+
+
+      <details>
+        <summary>
+          ❗ Every change breaks someone's workflow.
+        </summary>
+
+
+        [![❗ Every change breaks someone's workflow.
+        ](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/workflow.png)
+        ](https://xkcd.com/1172/)
+      </details>
+
+
+      ⚠
+      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 consider
+      [starting a mailing list thread or chatting in IRC][ML||IRC].
+
+
+
+      [contribute to collections]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/contributing_maintained_collections.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--feature_request.yml
+
+      [IRC meetings]:
+        https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--feature_request.yml#irc-meetings
+
+      [issue search]: ../search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
+
+      [ML||IRC]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--feature_request.yml#mailing-list-information
+
+      [new proposal]: ../../proposals/issues/new
+
+
+- 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: >
+      Please select the single available option in the drop-down.
+
+      <details>
+        <summary>
+          <em>Why?</em>
+        </summary>
+
+        We would do it by ourselves but unfortunatelly, the curent
+        edition of GitHub Issue Forms Alpha does not support this yet 🤷
+
+
+        _We will make it easier in the future, once GitHub
+        supports dropdown defaults. Promise!_
+
+      </details>
+    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
+    options:
+    - Feature Idea
+  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, yum, 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/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--feature_request.yml
+    options:
+    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
+      required: true
+...

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -1,23 +1,25 @@
 ##### 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 -->
+- Test Pull Request
 
 ##### 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/RELEASE_NAMES.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+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 +90,15 @@ 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/
+# 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 +1,11 @@
-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 bin/*
 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
+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 +1,89 @@
+[![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ansible-core.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core)
+[![Docs badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/)
+[![Chat badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-IRC-brightgreen.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=devel)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_build/latest?definitionId=20&branchName=devel)
+[![Ansible Code of Conduct](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20of%20conduct-Ansible-silver.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html)
+[![Ansible mailing lists](https://img.shields.io/badge/mailing%20lists-Ansible-orange.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html#mailing-list-information)
+[![Repository License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL%20v3.0-brightgreen.svg)](COPYING)
+[![Ansible CII Best Practices certification](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372)
+
+# Ansible
+
+Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles
+configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning,
+ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex
+changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy. More information on the Ansible [website](https://ansible.com/).
+
+## Design Principles
+
+* Have an extremely simple setup process with a minimal learning curve.
+* Manage machines quickly and in parallel.
+* Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by
+  leveraging the existing SSH daemon.
+* Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human
+  friendly.
+* Focus on security and easy auditability/review/rewriting of content.
+* Manage new remote machines instantly, without bootstrapping any
+  software.
+* Allow module development in any dynamic language, not just Python.
+* Be usable as non-root.
+* Be the easiest IT automation system to use, ever.
+
+## Use Ansible
+
+You can install a released version of Ansible with `pip` or a package manager. See our
+[installation guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html) for details on installing Ansible
+on a variety of platforms.
+
+Power users and developers can run the `devel` branch, which has the latest
+features and fixes, directly. Although it is reasonably stable, you are more likely to encounter
+breaking changes when running the `devel` branch. We recommend getting involved
+in the Ansible community if you want to run the `devel` branch.
+
+## Get Involved
+
+* Read [Community Information](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community) for all
+  kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project,
+  including mailing list information and how to submit bug reports and
+  code to Ansible.
+* Join a [Working Group](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki),
+  an organized community devoted to a specific technology domain or platform.
+* Submit a proposed code update through a pull request to the `devel` branch.
+* Talk to us before making larger changes
+  to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps everyone
+  know what is going on, but it also helps save time and effort if we decide
+  some changes are needed.
+* For a list of email lists, IRC channels and Working Groups, see the
+  [Communication page](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html)
+
+## Coding Guidelines
+
+We document our Coding Guidelines in the [Developer Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/). We particularly suggest you review:
+
+* [Contributing your module to Ansible](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_checklist.html)
+* [Conventions, tips, and pitfalls](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_best_practices.html)
+
+## Branch Info
+
+* The `devel` branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
+* The `stable-2.X` branches correspond to stable releases.
+* Create a branch based on `devel` and set up a [dev environment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html#common-environment-setup) if you want to open a PR.
+* See the [Ansible release and maintenance](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html) page for information about active branches.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+Based on team and community feedback, an initial roadmap will be published for a major or minor version (ex: 2.7, 2.8).
+The [Ansible Roadmap page](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/) details what is planned and how to influence the roadmap.
+
+## Authors
+
+Ansible was created by [Michael DeHaan](https://github.com/mpdehaan)
+and has contributions from over 5000 users (and growing). Thanks everyone!
+
+[Ansible](https://www.ansible.com) is sponsored by [Red Hat, Inc.](https://www.redhat.com)
+
+## License
+
+GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
+
+See [COPYING](COPYING) to see the full text.

README.rst

@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
-|PyPI version| |Docs badge| |Chat badge| |Build Status| |Code Of Conduct| |Mailing Lists| |License|
-
-*******
-Ansible
-*******
-
-Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles
-configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning,
-ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex
-changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy. More information on `the Ansible website <https://ansible.com/>`_.
-
-Design Principles
-=================
-
-*  Have a dead simple setup process and a minimal learning curve.
-*  Manage machines very quickly and in parallel.
-*  Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by
-   leveraging the existing SSH daemon.
-*  Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human
-   friendly.
-*  Focus on security and easy auditability/review/rewriting of content.
-*  Manage new remote machines instantly, without bootstrapping any
-   software.
-*  Allow module development in any dynamic language, not just Python.
-*  Be usable as non-root.
-*  Be the easiest IT automation system to use, ever.
-
-Use Ansible
-===========
-
-You can install a released version of Ansible via ``pip``, a package manager, or
-our `release repository <https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/>`_. See our
-`installation guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html>`_ for details on installing Ansible
-on a variety of platforms.
-
-Red Hat offers supported builds of `Ansible Engine <https://www.ansible.com/ansible-engine>`_.
-
-Power users and developers can run the ``devel`` branch, which has the latest
-features and fixes, directly. Although it is reasonably stable, you are more likely to encounter
-breaking changes when running the ``devel`` branch. We recommend getting involved
-in the Ansible community if you want to run the ``devel`` branch.
-
-Get Involved
-============
-
-*  Read `Community
-   Information <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community>`_ for all
-   kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project,
-   including mailing list information and how to submit bug reports and
-   code to Ansible.
-*  Join a `Working Group
-   <https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki>`_, an organized community devoted to a specific technology domain or platform.
-*  Submit a proposed code update through a pull request to the ``devel`` branch.
-*  Talk to us before making larger changes
-   to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps everyone
-   know what is going on, it also helps save time and effort if we decide
-   some changes are needed.
-*  For a list of email lists, IRC channels and Working Groups, see the
-   `Communication page <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html>`_
-
-Coding Guidelines
-=================
-
-We document our Coding Guidelines in the `Developer Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/>`_. We particularly suggest you review:
-
-* `Contributing your module to Ansible <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_checklist.html>`_
-* `Conventions, tips and pitfalls <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_best_practices.html>`_
-
-Branch Info
-===========
-
-*  The ``devel`` branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
-*  The ``stable-2.X`` branches correspond to stable releases.
-*  Create a branch based on ``devel`` and set up a `dev environment <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html#common-environment-setup>`_ if you want to open a PR.
-*  See the `Ansible release and maintenance <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/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 4700 users (and growing). Thanks everyone!
-
-`Ansible <https://www.ansible.com>`_ is sponsored by `Red Hat, Inc.
-<https://www.redhat.com>`_
-
-License
-=======
-
-GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
-
-See `COPYING <COPYING>`_ to see the full text.
-
-.. |PyPI version| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ansible.svg
-   :target: https://pypi.org/project/ansible
-.. |Docs badge| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg
-   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/
-.. |Build Status| image:: https://api.shippable.com/projects/573f79d02a8192902e20e34b/badge?branch=devel
-   :target: https://app.shippable.com/projects/573f79d02a8192902e20e34b
-.. |Chat badge| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-IRC-brightgreen.svg
-   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html
-.. |Code Of Conduct| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20of%20conduct-Ansible-silver.svg
-   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html
-   :alt: Ansible Code of Conduct
-.. |Mailing Lists| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/mailing%20lists-Ansible-orange.svg
-   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html#mailing-list-information
-   :alt: Ansible mailing lists
-.. |License| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL%20v3.0-brightgreen.svg
-   :target: COPYING
-   :alt: Repository License

bin/ansible

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

bin/ansible-config

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

bin/ansible-console

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

bin/ansible-doc

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

bin/ansible-galaxy

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

bin/ansible-inventory

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

bin/ansible-playbook

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

bin/ansible-pull

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

bin/ansible-test

@@ -1 +1 @@
-../test/lib/ansible_test/_data/cli/ansible_test_cli_stub.py
+../test/lib/ansible_test/_util/target/cli/ansible_test_cli_stub.py

bin/ansible-vault

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

changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.16.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,509 @@
+=============================================
+ansible-core 2.16 "All My Love" Release Notes
+=============================================
+
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+
+v2.16.8rc1
+==========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2024-06-10
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix the task attribute ``resolved_action`` to show the FQCN instead of ``None`` when ``action`` or ``local_action`` is used in the playbook.
+- Fix using ``module_defaults`` with ``local_action``/``action`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81905).
+- fixed unit test test_borken_cowsay to address mock not been properly applied when existing unix system already have cowsay installed.
+- powershell - Implement more robust deletion mechanism for C# code compilation temporary files. This should avoid scenarios where the underlying temporary directory may be temporarily locked by antivirus tools or other IO problems. A failure to delete one of these temporary directories will result in a warning rather than an outright failure.
+
+v2.16.7
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2024-05-20
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible.builtin.user - Remove user not found warning (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80267)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Add a version ceiling constraint for pypsrp to avoid potential breaking changes in the 1.0.0 release.
+- Fix NEVRA parsing of package names that include digit(s) in them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76463, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81018)
+- Fix handlers not being executed in lockstep using the linear strategy in some cases (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82307)
+- Give the tombstone error for ``include`` pre-fork like other tombstoned action/module plugins.
+- Include the task location when a module or action plugin is deprecated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82450).
+- Mirror the behavior of dnf on the command line when handling NEVRAs with omitted epoch (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71808)
+- ansible-test - Automatically enable the PyPI proxy for the ``centos7`` container to restore the ability to use ``pip`` in that container.
+- ansible_managed restored it's 'templatability' by ensuring the possible injection routes are cut off earlier in the process.
+- assemble - fixed missing parameter 'content' in _get_diff_data API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82359).
+- dnf - fix an issue when installing a package by specifying a file it provides could result in installing a different package providing the same file than the package already installed resulting in resolution failure (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82461)
+- uri - update the documentation for follow_redirects.
+
+v2.16.6
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2024-04-15
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Consolidated the list of internal static vars, centralized them as constant and completed from some missing entries.
+- Fix check for missing _sub_plugin attribute in older connection plugins (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82954)
+- Fixes permission for cache json file from 600 to 644 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82683).
+- Slight optimization to hostvars (instantiate template only once per host, vs per call to var).
+- allow_duplicates - fix evaluating if the current role allows duplicates instead of using the initial value from the duplicate's cached role.
+- ansible-config will now properly template defaults before dumping them.
+- ansible-test ansible-doc sanity test - do not remove underscores from plugin names in collections before calling ``ansible-doc`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82574).
+- async - Fix bug that stopped running async task in ``--check`` when ``check_mode: False`` was set as a task attribute - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82811
+- blockinfile - when ``create=true`` is used with a filename without path, the module crashed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81638).
+- dnf - fix an issue when cached RPMs were left in the cache directory even when the keepcache setting was unset (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81954)
+- dnf5 - replace removed API calls
+- facts - add a generic detection for VMware in product name.
+- fetch - add error message when using ``dest`` with a trailing slash that becomes a local directory - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82878
+- find - do not fail on Permission errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82027).
+- unarchive modules now uses zipinfo options without relying on implementation defaults, making it more compatible with all OS/distributions.
+- winrm - Do not raise another exception during cleanup when a task is timed out - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81095
+
+v2.16.5
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2024-03-25
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - Add a work-around for permission denied errors when using ``pytest >= 8`` on multi-user systems with an installed version of ``ansible-test``.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix an issue when setting a plugin name from an unsafe source resulted in ``ValueError: unmarshallable object`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82708)
+- Harden python templates for respawn and ansiballz around str literal quoting
+- ansible-test - The ``libexpat`` package is automatically upgraded during remote bootstrapping to maintain compatibility with newer Python packages.
+- template - Fix error when templating an unsafe string which corresponds to an invalid type in Python (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82600).
+- winrm - does not hang when attempting to get process output when stdin write failed
+
+v2.16.4
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2024-02-26
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix loading vars_plugins in roles (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82239).
+- expect - fix argument spec error using timeout=null (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80982).
+- include_vars - fix calculating ``depth`` relative to the root and ensure all files are included (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80987).
+- templating - ensure syntax errors originating from a template being compiled into Python code object result in a failure (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82606)
+
+v2.16.3
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2024-01-29
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
+
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- ANSIBLE_NO_LOG - Address issue where ANSIBLE_NO_LOG was ignored (CVE-2024-0690)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Run all handlers with the same ``listen`` topic, even when notified from another handler (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82363).
+- ``ansible-galaxy role import`` - fix using the ``role_name`` in a standalone role's ``galaxy_info`` metadata by disabling automatic removal of the ``ansible-role-`` prefix. This matches the behavior of the Galaxy UI which also no longer implicitly removes the ``ansible-role-`` prefix. Use the ``--role-name`` option or add a ``role_name`` to the ``galaxy_info`` dictionary in the role's ``meta/main.yml`` to use an alternate role name.
+- ``ansible-test sanity --test runtime-metadata`` - add ``action_plugin`` as a valid field for modules in the schema (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82562).
+- ansible-config init will now dedupe ini entries from plugins.
+- ansible-galaxy role import - exit with 1 when the import fails (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82175).
+- ansible-galaxy role install - fix symlinks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82702, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81965).
+- ansible-galaxy role install - normalize tarfile paths and symlinks using ``ansible.utils.path.unfrackpath`` and consider them valid as long as the realpath is in the tarfile's role directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81965).
+- delegate_to when set to an empty or undefined variable will now give a proper error.
+- dwim functions for lookups should be better at detectging role context even in abscense of tasks/main.
+- roles, code cleanup and performance optimization of dependencies, now cached,  and ``public`` setting is now determined once, at role instantiation.
+- roles, the ``static`` property is now correctly set, this will fix issues with ``public`` and ``DEFAULT_PRIVATE_ROLE_VARS`` controls on exporting vars.
+- unsafe data - Enable directly using ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` with Python ``pathlib`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82414)
+
+v2.16.2
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-12-11
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- unsafe data - Address an incompatibility when iterating or getting a single index from ``AnsibleUnsafeBytes``
+- unsafe data - Address an incompatibility with ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` and ``AnsibleUnsafeBytes`` when pickling with ``protocol=0``
+
+v2.16.1
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-12-04
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
+
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- assert - Nested templating may result in an inability for the conditional to be evaluated. See the porting guide for more information.
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- templating - Address issues where internal templating can cause unsafe variables to lose their unsafe designation (CVE-2023-5764)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix issue where an ``include_tasks`` handler in a role was not able to locate a file in ``tasks/`` when ``tasks_from`` was used as a role entry point and ``main.yml`` was not present (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82241)
+- Plugin loader does not dedupe nor cache filter/test plugins by file basename, but full path name.
+- Restoring the ability of filters/tests can have same file base name but different tests/filters defined inside.
+- ansible-pull now will expand relative paths for the ``-d|--directory`` option is now expanded before use.
+- ansible-pull will now correctly handle become and connection password file options for ansible-playbook.
+- flush_handlers - properly handle a handler failure in a nested block when ``force_handlers`` is set (http://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81532)
+- module no_log will no longer affect top level booleans, for example ``no_log_module_parameter='a'`` will no longer hide ``changed=False`` as a 'no log value' (matches 'a').
+- role params now have higher precedence than host facts again, matching documentation, this had unintentionally changed in 2.15.
+- wait_for should not handle 'non mmapable files' again.
+
+v2.16.0
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-11-06
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Add Python type hints to the Display class (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80841)
+- Add ``GALAXY_COLLECTIONS_PATH_WARNING`` option to disable the warning given by ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` when installing a collection to a path that isn't in the configured collection paths.
+- Add ``python3.12`` to the default ``INTERPRETER_PYTHON_FALLBACK`` list.
+- Add ``utcfromtimestamp`` and ``utcnow`` to ``ansible.module_utils.compat.datetime`` to return fixed offset datetime objects.
+- Add a general ``GALAXY_SERVER_TIMEOUT`` config option for distribution servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79833).
+- Added Python type annotation to connection plugins
+- CLI argument parsing - Automatically prepend to the help of CLI arguments that support being specified multiple times. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/22396)
+- DEFAULT_TRANSPORT now defaults to 'ssh', the old 'smart' option is being deprecated as versions of OpenSSH without control persist are basically not present anymore.
+- Documentation for set filters ``intersect``, ``difference``, ``symmetric_difference`` and ``union`` now states that the returned list items are in arbitrary order.
+- Record ``removal_date`` in runtime metadata as a string instead of a date.
+- Remove the ``CleansingNodeVisitor`` class and its usage due to the templating changes that made it superfluous. Also simplify the ``Conditional`` class.
+- Removed ``exclude`` and ``recursive-exclude`` commands for generated files from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These excludes were unnecessary since releases are expected to be built with a clean worktree.
+- Removed ``exclude`` commands for sanity test files from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These tests were previously excluded because they did not pass when run from an sdist. However, sanity tests are not expected to pass from an sdist, so excluding some (but not all) of the failing tests makes little sense.
+- Removed redundant ``include`` commands from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These includes either duplicated default behavior or another command.
+- The ``ansible-core`` sdist no longer contains pre-generated man pages. Instead, a ``packaging/cli-doc/build.py`` script is included in the sdist. This script can generate man pages and standalone RST documentation for ``ansible-core`` CLI programs.
+- The ``docs`` and ``examples`` directories are no longer included in the ``ansible-core`` sdist. These directories have been moved to the https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation repository.
+- The minimum required ``setuptools`` version is now 66.1.0, as it is the oldest version to support Python 3.12.
+- Update ``ansible_service_mgr`` fact to include init system for SMGL OS family
+- Use ``ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils._text``.
+- Use ``importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources`` instead of deprecated ``importlib.abc.TraversableResources`` where available (https:/github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81082).
+- Use ``include`` where ``recursive-include`` is unnecessary in the ``MANIFEST.in`` file.
+- Use ``package_data`` instead of ``include_package_data`` for ``setup.cfg`` to avoid ``setuptools`` warnings.
+- Utilize gpg check provided internally by the ``transaction.run`` method as oppose to calling it manually.
+- ``Templar`` - do not add the ``dict`` constructor to ``globals`` as all required Jinja2 versions already do so
+- ansible-doc - allow to filter listing of collections and metadata dump by more than one collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81450).
+- ansible-galaxy - Add a plural option to improve ignoring multiple signature error status codes when installing or verifying collections. A space-separated list of error codes can follow --ignore-signature-status-codes in addition to specifying --ignore-signature-status-code multiple times (for example, ``--ignore-signature-status-codes NO_PUBKEY UNEXPECTED``).
+- ansible-galaxy - Remove internal configuration argument ``v3`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80721)
+- ansible-galaxy - add note to the collection dependency resolver error message about pre-releases if ``--pre`` was not provided (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80048).
+- ansible-galaxy - used to crash out with a "Errno 20 Not a directory" error when extracting files from a role when hitting a file with an illegal name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81553). Now it gives a warning identifying the culprit file and the rule violation (e.g., ``my$class.jar`` has a ``$`` in the name) before crashing out, giving the user a chance to remove the invalid file and try again. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81555).
+- ansible-test - Add Alpine 3.18 to remotes
+- ansible-test - Add Fedora 38 container.
+- ansible-test - Add Fedora 38 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add FreeBSD 13.2 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add new pylint checker for new ``# deprecated:`` comments within code to trigger errors when time to remove code that has no user facing deprecation message. Only supported in ansible-core, not collections.
+- ansible-test - Add support for RHEL 8.8 remotes.
+- ansible-test - Add support for RHEL 9.2 remotes.
+- ansible-test - Add support for testing with Python 3.12.
+- ansible-test - Allow float values for the ``--timeout`` option to the ``env`` command. This simplifies testing.
+- ansible-test - Enable ``thread`` code coverage in addition to the existing ``multiprocessing`` coverage.
+- ansible-test - Make Python 3.12 the default version used in the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
+- ansible-test - RHEL 8.8 provisioning can now be used with the ``--python 3.11`` option.
+- ansible-test - RHEL 9.2 provisioning can now be used with the ``--python 3.11`` option.
+- ansible-test - Refactored ``env`` command logic and timeout handling.
+- ansible-test - Remove Fedora 37 remote support.
+- ansible-test - Remove Fedora 37 test container.
+- ansible-test - Remove Python 3.8 and 3.9 from RHEL 8.8.
+- ansible-test - Remove obsolete embedded script for configuring WinRM on Windows remotes.
+- ansible-test - Removed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS image from the `--remote` option.
+- ansible-test - Removed `freebsd/12.4` remote.
+- ansible-test - Removed `freebsd/13.1` remote.
+- ansible-test - Removed test remotes: rhel/8.7, rhel/9.1
+- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``--docker-no-pull`` option.
+- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``--no-pip-check`` option.
+- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``foreman`` test plugin.
+- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``govcsim`` support from the ``vcenter`` test plugin.
+- ansible-test - Replace the ``pytest-forked`` pytest plugin with a custom plugin.
+- ansible-test - The ``no-get-exception`` sanity test is now limited to plugins in collections. Previously any Python file in a collection was checked for ``get_exception`` usage.
+- ansible-test - The ``replace-urlopen`` sanity test is now limited to plugins in collections. Previously any Python file in a collection was checked for ``urlopen`` usage.
+- ansible-test - The ``use-compat-six`` sanity test is now limited to plugins in collections. Previously any Python file in a collection was checked for ``six`` usage.
+- ansible-test - The openSUSE test container has been updated to openSUSE Leap 15.5.
+- ansible-test - Update pip to ``23.1.2`` and setuptools to ``67.7.2``.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``nios-test-container`` to version 2.0.0, which supports API version 2.9.
+- ansible-test - Update the logic used to detect when ``ansible-test`` is running from source.
+- ansible-test - Updated the CloudStack test container to version 1.6.1.
+- ansible-test - Updated the distro test containers to version 6.3.0 to include coverage 7.3.2 for Python 3.8+. The alpine3 container is now based on 3.18 instead of 3.17 and includes Python 3.11 instead of Python 3.10.
+- ansible-test - Use ``datetime.datetime.now`` with ``tz`` specified instead of ``datetime.datetime.utcnow``.
+- ansible-test - Use a context manager to perform cleanup at exit instead of using the built-in ``atexit`` module.
+- ansible-test - When invoking ``sleep`` in containers during container setup, the ``env`` command is used to avoid invoking the shell builtin, if present.
+- ansible-test - remove Alpine 3.17 from remotes
+- ansible-test — Python 3.8–3.12 will use ``coverage`` v7.3.2.
+- ansible-test — ``coverage`` v6.5.0 is to be used only under Python 3.7.
+- ansible-vault create: Now raises an error when opening the editor without tty. The flag --skip-tty-check restores previous behaviour.
+- ansible_user_module - tweaked macos user defaults to reflect expected defaults (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44316)
+- apt - return calculated diff while running apt clean operation.
+- blockinfile - add append_newline and prepend_newline options (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80835).
+- cli - Added short option '-J' for asking for vault password (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80523).
+- command - Add option ``expand_argument_vars`` to disable argument expansion and use literal values - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54162
+- config lookup new option show_origin to also return the origin of a configuration value.
+- display methods for warning and deprecation are now proxied to main process when issued from a fork. This allows for the deduplication of warnings and deprecations to work globally.
+- dnf5 - enable environment groups installation testing in CI as its support was added.
+- dnf5 - enable now implemented ``cacheonly`` functionality
+- executor now skips persistent connection when it detects an action that does not require a connection.
+- find module - Add ability to filter based on modes
+- gather_facts now will use gather_timeout setting to limit parallel execution of modules that do not themselves use gather_timeout.
+- group - remove extraneous warning shown when user does not exist (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77049).
+- include_vars - os.walk now follows symbolic links when traversing directories (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80460)
+- module compression is now sourced directly via config, bypassing play_context possibly stale values.
+- reboot - show last error message in verbose logs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81574).
+- service_facts now returns more info for rcctl managed systesm (OpenBSD).
+- tasks - the ``retries`` keyword can be specified without ``until`` in which case the task is retried until it succeeds but at most ``retries`` times (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/20802)
+- user - add new option ``password_expire_warn`` (supported on Linux only) to set the number of days of warning before a password change is required (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79882).
+- yum_repository - Align module documentation with parameters
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- Any plugin using the config system and the `cli` entry to use the `timeout` from the command line, will see the value change if the use had configured it in any of the lower precedence methods. If relying on this behaviour to consume the global/generic timeout from the DEFAULT_TIMEOUT constant, please consult the documentation on plugin configuration to add the overlaping entries.
+- ansible-test - Test plugins that rely on containers no longer support reusing running containers. The previous behavior was an undocumented, untested feature.
+- service module will not permanently configure variables/flags for openbsd when doing enable/disable operation anymore, this module was never meant to do this type of work, just to manage the service state itself. A rcctl_config or similar module should be created and used instead.
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- Deprecated ini config option ``collections_paths``, use the singular form ``collections_path`` instead
+- Deprecated the env var ``ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS``, use the singular form ``ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH`` instead
+- Old style vars plugins which use the entrypoints `get_host_vars` or `get_group_vars` are deprecated. The plugin should be updated to inherit from `BaseVarsPlugin` and define a `get_vars` method as the entrypoint.
+- Support for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 has been removed as the support end of life from Microsoft is October 10th 2023. These versions of Windows will no longer be tested in this Ansible release and it cannot be guaranteed that they will continue to work going forward.
+- ``STRING_CONVERSION_ACTION`` config option is deprecated as it is no longer used in the Ansible Core code base.
+- the 'smart' option for setting a connection plugin is being removed as its main purpose (choosing between ssh and paramiko) is now irrelevant.
+- vault and unfault filters - the undocumented ``vaultid`` parameter is deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core 2.20. Use ``vault_id`` instead.
+- yum_repository - deprecated parameter 'keepcache' (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78693).
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- ActionBase - remove deprecated ``_remote_checksum`` method
+- PlayIterator - remove deprecated ``cache_block_tasks`` and ``get_original_task`` methods
+- Remove deprecated ``FileLock`` class
+- Removed Python 3.9 as a supported version on the controller. Python 3.10 or newer is required.
+- Removed ``include`` which has been deprecated in Ansible 2.12. Use ``include_tasks`` or ``import_tasks`` instead.
+- ``Templar`` - remove deprecated ``shared_loader_obj`` parameter of ``__init__``
+- ``fetch_url`` - remove auto disabling ``decompress`` when gzip is not available
+- ``get_action_args_with_defaults`` - remove deprecated ``redirected_names`` method parameter
+- ansible-test - Removed support for the remote Windows targets 2012 and 2012-R2
+- inventory_cache - remove deprecated ``default.fact_caching_prefix`` ini configuration option, use ``defaults.fact_caching_prefix`` instead.
+- module_utils/basic.py - Removed Python 3.5 as a supported remote version. Python 2.7 or Python 3.6+ is now required.
+- stat - removed unused `get_md5` parameter.
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- ansible-galaxy - Prevent roles from using symlinks to overwrite files outside of the installation directory (CVE-2023-5115)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Allow for searching handler subdir for included task via include_role (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81722)
+- AnsibleModule.run_command - Only use selectors when needed, and rely on Python stdlib subprocess for the simple task of collecting stdout/stderr when prompt matching is not required.
+- Cache host_group_vars after instantiating it once and limit the amount of repetitive work it needs to do every time it runs.
+- Call PluginLoader.all() once for vars plugins, and load vars plugins that run automatically or are enabled specifically by name subsequently.
+- Display - Defensively configure writing to stdout and stderr with a custom encoding error handler that will replace invalid characters while providing a deprecation warning that non-utf8 text will result in an error in a future version.
+- Exclude internal options from man pages and docs.
+- Fix ``ansible-config init`` man page option indentation.
+- Fix ``ast`` deprecation warnings for ``Str`` and ``value.s`` when using Python 3.12.
+- Fix ``run_once`` being incorrectly interpreted on handlers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81666)
+- Fix exceptions caused by various inputs when performing arg splitting or parsing key/value pairs. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46379 and issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61497
+- Fix incorrect parsing of multi-line Jinja2 blocks when performing arg splitting or parsing key/value pairs.
+- Fix post-validating looped task fields so the strategy uses the correct values after task execution.
+- Fixed `pip` module failure in case of usage quotes for `virtualenv_command` option for the venv command. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76372)
+- From issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80880, when notifying a handler from another handler, handler notifications must be registered immediately as the flush_handler call is not recursive.
+- Import ``FILE_ATTRIBUTES`` from ``ansible.module_utils.common.file`` in ``ansible.module_utils.basic`` instead of defining it twice.
+- Inventory scripts parser not treat exception when getting hostsvar (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81103)
+- On Python 3 use datetime methods ``fromtimestamp`` and ``now`` with UTC timezone instead of ``utcfromtimestamp`` and ``utcnow``, which are deprecated in Python 3.12.
+- PluginLoader - fix Jinja plugin performance issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79652)
+- PowerShell - Remove some code which is no longer valid for dotnet 5+
+- Prevent running same handler multiple times when included via ``include_role`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73643)
+- Prompting - add a short sleep between polling for user input to reduce CPU consumption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81516).
+- Properly disable ``jinja2_native`` in the template module when jinja2 override is used in the template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80605)
+- Properly template tags in parent blocks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81053)
+- Remove unreachable parser error for removed ``static`` parameter of ``include_role``
+- Replace uses of ``configparser.ConfigParser.readfp()`` which was removed in Python 3.12 with ``configparser.ConfigParser.read_file()`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81656)
+- Set filters ``intersect``, ``difference``, ``symmetric_difference`` and ``union`` now always return a ``list``, never a ``set``. Previously, a ``set`` would be returned if the inputs were a hashable type such as ``str``, instead of a collection, such as a ``list`` or ``tuple``.
+- Set filters ``intersect``, ``difference``, ``symmetric_difference`` and ``union`` now use set operations when the given items are hashable. Previously, list operations were performed unless the inputs were a hashable type such as ``str``, instead of a collection, such as a ``list`` or ``tuple``.
+- Switch result queue from a ``multiprocessing.queues.Queue` to ``multiprocessing.queues.SimpleQueue``, primarily to allow properly handling pickling errors, to prevent an infinite hang waiting for task results
+- The ``ansible-config init`` command now has a documentation description.
+- The ``ansible-galaxy collection download`` command now has a documentation description.
+- The ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` command documentation is now visible (previously hidden by a decorator).
+- The ``ansible-galaxy collection verify`` command now has a documentation description.
+- The ``ansible-galaxy role install`` command documentation is now visible (previously hidden by a decorator).
+- The ``ansible-inventory`` command command now has a documentation description (previously used as the epilog).
+- The ``hostname`` module now also updates both current and permanent hostname on OpenBSD. Before it only updated the permanent hostname (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80520).
+- Update module_utils.urls unit test to work with cryptography >= 41.0.0.
+- When generating man pages, use ``func`` to find the command function instead of looking it up by the command name.
+- ``StrategyBase._process_pending_results`` - create a ``Templar`` on demand for templating ``changed_when``/``failed_when``.
+- ``ansible-galaxy`` now considers all collection paths when identifying which collection requirements are already installed. Use the ``COLLECTIONS_PATHS`` and ``COLLECTIONS_SCAN_SYS_PATHS`` config options to modify these. Previously only the install path was considered when resolving the candidates. The install path will remain the only one potentially modified. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79767, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81163)
+- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - ensure binary data transmission in ``daemonize()``
+- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - fix inter-process communication in ``daemonize()``
+- ``import_role`` reverts to previous behavior of exporting vars at compile time.
+- ``pkg_mgr`` - fix the default dnf version detection
+- ansiballz - Prevent issue where the time on the control host could change part way through building the ansiballz file, potentially causing a pre-1980 date to be used during ansiballz unpacking leading to a zip file error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80089)
+- ansible terminal color settings were incorrectly limited to 16 options via 'choices', removing so all 256 can be accessed.
+- ansible-console - fix filtering by collection names when a collection search path was set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81450).
+- ansible-galaxy - Enabled the ``data`` tarfile filter during role installation for Python versions that support it. A probing mechanism is used to avoid Python versions with a broken implementation.
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix issue installing collections containing directories with more than 100 characters on python versions before 3.10.6
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix variable type error when installing subdir collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80943)
+- ansible-galaxy - Provide a better error message when using a requirements file with an invalid format - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81901
+- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections from directories that have a trailing path separator (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77803).
+- ansible-galaxy - fix installing signed collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80648).
+- ansible-galaxy - reduce API calls to servers by fetching signatures only for final candidates.
+- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for collections that do not have any stable versions published. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
+- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for dependencies on any level of the dependency tree that specifically demand exact pre-release versions of collections and not version ranges. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
+- ansible-galaxy collection verify - fix verifying signed collections when the keyring is not configured.
+- ansible-galaxy info - fix reporting no role found when lookup_role_by_name returns None.
+- ansible-inventory - index available_hosts for major performance boost when dumping large inventories
+- ansible-test - Add a ``pylint`` plugin to work around a known issue on Python 3.12.
+- ansible-test - Add support for ``argcomplete`` version 3.
+- ansible-test - All containers created by ansible-test now include the current test session ID in their name. This avoids conflicts between concurrent ansible-test invocations using the same container host.
+- ansible-test - Always use ansible-test managed entry points for ansible-core CLI tools when not running from source. This fixes issues where CLI entry points created during install are not compatible with ansible-test.
+- ansible-test - Fix a traceback that occurs when attempting to test Ansible source using a different ansible-test. A clear error message is now given when this scenario occurs.
+- ansible-test - Fix handling of timeouts exceeding one day.
+- ansible-test - Fix parsing of cgroup entries which contain a ``:`` in the path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81977).
+- ansible-test - Fix several possible tracebacks when using the ``-e`` option with sanity tests.
+- ansible-test - Fix various cases where the test timeout could expire without terminating the tests.
+- ansible-test - Include missing ``pylint`` requirements for Python 3.10.
+- ansible-test - Pre-build a PyYAML wheel before installing requirements to avoid a potential Cython build failure.
+- ansible-test - Remove redundant warning about missing programs before attempting to execute them.
+- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test now checks the collection loader for remote-only Python support when testing ansible-core.
+- ansible-test - Unit tests now report warnings generated during test runs. Previously only warnings generated during test collection were reported.
+- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.2 to resolve several possible false positives.
+- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.3 to resolve several possible false positives.
+- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to version 3.0.1.
+- ansible-test - Use ``raise ... from ...`` when raising exceptions from within an exception handler.
+- ansible-test - When bootstrapping remote FreeBSD instances, use the OS packaged ``setuptools`` instead of installing the latest version from PyPI.
+- ansible-test local change detection - use ``git merge-base <branch> HEAD`` instead of ``git merge-base --fork-point <branch>`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79734).
+- ansible-vault - fail when the destination file location is not writable before performing encryption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81455).
+- apt - ignore fail_on_autoremove and allow_downgrade parameters when using aptitude (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77868).
+- blockinfile - avoid crash with Python 3 if creating the directory fails when ``create=true`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81662).
+- connection timeouts defined in ansible.cfg will now be properly used, the --timeout cli option was obscuring them by always being set.
+- copy - print correct destination filename when using `content` and `--diff` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79749).
+- copy unit tests - Fixing "dir all perms" documentation and formatting for easier reading.
+- core will now also look at the connection plugin to force 'local' interpreter for networking path compatibility as just ansible_network_os could be misleading.
+- deb822_repository - use http-agent for receiving content (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80809).
+- debconf - idempotency in questions with type 'password' (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47676).
+- distribution facts - fix Source Mage family mapping
+- dnf - fix a failure when a package from URI was specified and ``update_only`` was set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81376).
+- dnf5 - Update dnf5 module to handle API change for setting the download directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80887)
+- dnf5 - Use ``transaction.check_gpg_signatures`` API call to check package signatures AND possibly to recover from when keys are missing.
+- dnf5 - fix module and package names in the message following failed module respawn attempt
+- dnf5 - use the logs API to determine transaction problems
+- dpkg_selections - check if the package exists before performing the selection operation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81404).
+- encrypt - deprecate passlib_or_crypt API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55839).
+- fetch - Handle unreachable errors properly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27816)
+- file modules - Make symbolic modes with X use the computed permission, not original file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80128)
+- file modules - fix validating invalid symbolic modes.
+- first found lookup has been updated to use the normalized argument parsing (pythonic) matching the documented examples.
+- first found lookup, fixed an issue with subsequent items clobbering information from previous ones.
+- first_found lookup now gets 'untemplated' loop entries and handles templating itself as task_executor was removing even 'templatable' entries and breaking functionality. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70772
+- galaxy - check if the target for symlink exists (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81586).
+- galaxy - cross check the collection type and collection source (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79463).
+- gather_facts parallel option was doing the reverse of what was stated, now it does run modules in parallel when True and serially when False.
+- handlers - fix ``v2_playbook_on_notify`` callback not being called when notifying handlers
+- handlers - the ``listen`` keyword can affect only one handler with the same name, the last one defined as it is a case with the ``notify`` keyword (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81013)
+- include_role - expose variables from parent roles to role's handlers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80459)
+- inventory_ini - handle SyntaxWarning while parsing ini file in inventory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81457).
+- iptables - remove default rule creation when creating iptables chain to be more similar to the command line utility (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80256).
+- lib/ansible/utils/encrypt.py - remove unused private ``_LOCK`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81613)
+- lookup/url.py - Fix incorrect var/env/ini entry for `force_basic_auth`
+- man page build - Remove the dependency on the ``docs`` directory for building man pages.
+- man page build - Sub commands of ``ansible-galaxy role`` and ``ansible-galaxy collection`` are now documented.
+- module responses - Ensure that module responses are utf-8 adhereing to JSON RFC and expectations of the core code.
+- module/role argument spec - validate the type for options that are None when the option is required or has a non-None default (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79656).
+- modules/user.py - Add check for valid directory when creating new user homedir (allows /dev/null as skeleton) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75063)
+- paramiko_ssh, psrp, and ssh connection plugins - ensure that all values for options that should be strings are actually converted to strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81029).
+- password_hash - fix salt format for ``crypt``  (only used if ``passlib`` is not installed) for the ``bcrypt`` algorithm.
+- pep517 build backend - Copy symlinks when copying the source tree. This avoids tracebacks in various scenarios, such as when a venv is present in the source tree.
+- pep517 build backend - Use the documented ``import_module`` import from ``importlib``.
+- pip module - Update module to prefer use of the python ``packaging`` and ``importlib.metadata`` modules due to ``pkg_resources`` being deprecated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80488)
+- pkg_mgr.py - Fix `ansible_pkg_mgr` incorrect in TencentOS Server Linux
+- pkg_mgr.py - Fix `ansible_pkg_mgr` is unknown in Kylin Linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81332)
+- powershell modules - Only set an rc of 1 if the PowerShell pipeline signaled an error occurred AND there are error records present. Previously it would do so only if the error signal was present without checking the error count.
+- replace - handle exception when bad escape character is provided in replace (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79364).
+- role deduplication - don't deduplicate before a role has had a task run for that particular host (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81486).
+- service module, does not permanently configure flags flags on Openbsd when enabling/disabling a service.
+- service module, enable/disable is not a exclusive action in checkmode anymore.
+- setup gather_timeout - Fix timeout in get_mounts_facts for linux.
+- setup module (fact gathering) will now try to be smarter about different versions of facter emitting error when --puppet flag is used w/o puppet.
+- syntax check - Limit ``--syntax-check`` to ``ansible-playbook`` only, as that is the only CLI affected by this argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80506)
+- tarfile - handle data filter deprecation warning message for extract and extractall (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80832).
+- template - Fix for formatting issues when a template path contains valid jinja/strftime pattern (especially line break one) and using the template path in ansible_managed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79129)
+- templating - In the template action and lookup, use local jinja2 environment overlay overrides instead of mutating the templars environment
+- templating - prevent setting arbitrary attributes on Jinja2 environments via Jinja2 overrides in templates
+- templating escape and single var optimization now use correct delimiters when custom ones are provided either via task or template header.
+- unarchive - fix unarchiving sources that are copied to the remote node using a relative temporory directory path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80710).
+- uri - fix search for JSON type to include complex strings containing '+'
+- uri/urls - Add compat function to handle the ability to parse the filename from a Content-Disposition header (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81806)
+- urls.py - fixed cert_file and key_file parameters when running on Python 3.12 - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80490
+- user - set expiration value correctly when unable to retrieve the current value from the system (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71916)
+- validate-modules sanity test - replace semantic markup parsing and validating code with the code from `antsibull-docs-parser 0.2.0 <https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-docs-parser/releases/tag/0.2.0>`__ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80406).
+- vars_prompt - internally convert the ``unsafe`` value to ``bool``
+- vault and unvault filters now properly take ``vault_id`` parameter.
+- win_fetch - Add support for using file with wildcards in file name. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73128)
+- winrm - Better handle send input failures when communicating with hosts under load
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- ansible-galaxy - dies in the middle of installing a role when that role contains Java inner classes (files with $ in the file name).  This is by design, to exclude temporary or backup files. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81553).
+- ansible-test - The ``pep8`` sanity test is unable to detect f-string spacing issues (E201, E202) on Python 3.10 and 3.11. They are correctly detected under Python 3.12. See (https://github.com/PyCQA/pycodestyle/issues/1190).

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/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/2.16.0_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-11-06
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.0b1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-09-26
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.0b2_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-10-03
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.0rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-10-16
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-12-04
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.1rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-11-27
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.2_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-12-11
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.3_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2024-01-29
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.3rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2024-01-22
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.4_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2024-02-26
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.4rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2024-02-19
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.5_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2024-03-25
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.5rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2024-03-18
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.6_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2024-04-15
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.7_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2024-05-20
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.7rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2024-05-13
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.8rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2024-06-10
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/20802-until-default.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - tasks - the ``retries`` keyword can be specified without ``until`` in which case the task is retried until it succeeds but at most ``retries`` times (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/20802)

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/22396-indicate-which-args-are-multi.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+minor_changes:
+- CLI argument parsing - Automatically prepend to the help of CLI arguments that support being specified multiple times.
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/22396)

changelogs/fragments/27816-fetch-unreachable.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- fetch - Handle unreachable errors properly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27816)

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/50603-tty-check.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+  - "ansible-vault create: Now raises an error when opening the editor without
+    tty. The flag --skip-tty-check restores previous behaviour."

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)