New release v2.14.4rc1 (#80265)

* [stable-2.14] 📦 Switch sdist build-system to pure setuptools (#80255)

This patch modifies the in-tree build backend to build sdists that swap
out pointers to it in the `pyproject.toml`'s `[build-system]` section.

The effect of this is that the first build from source (for example,
from a Git checkout) uses our PEP 517 in-tree build backend. But the
produced tarball has `build-backend` set to `setuptools.build_meta`
which is the native build backend of `setuptools`. So any following
builds from that sdist will skip using the in-tree build backend,
calling the setuptools' one.
The good news is that if the first build generated the manpages, they
will be included and won't go anywhere even though, a different build
system is in place.

Combined with #80253, this will make sure not to modify the current
source checkout on that first build.

Co-authored-by: Matt Clay <matt@mystile.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7097df3eed)

Co-authored-by: Sviatoslav Sydorenko <webknjaz@redhat.com>

* Make PEP 517 mutation tests use pinned old setuptools (#80262)

* Pin setuptools to lowest supported @ PEP 517 test

This allows catching the behavior of builds under old setuptools.

* Stop invoking `setup.py install` in tests

This is not the part we care about since it involves dealing with the
external runtime dependencies rather than building our source
distribution.

(cherry picked from commit eebfd71a6d)

---------

Co-authored-by: Sviatoslav Sydorenko <webknjaz@redhat.com>

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ variables:
   - name: coverageBranches
     value: devel
   - name: entryPoint
-    value: test/utils/shippable/shippable.sh
+    value: .azure-pipelines/commands/entry-point.sh
   - name: fetchDepth
     value: 500
 
 resources:
   containers:
     - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:1.9.0
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:3.0.0
 
 pool: Standard
 
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: units/{0}
           targets:
-            - test: 2.6
             - test: 2.7
             - test: 3.5
             - test: 3.6
@@ -68,6 +67,7 @@ stages:
             - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
+            - test: 3.11
   - stage: Windows
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -84,27 +84,58 @@ stages:
   - stage: Remote
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/target
         parameters:
           targets:
-            - name: macOS 11.1
-              test: macos/11.1
+            - name: macOS 12.0
+              test: macos/12.0
             - name: RHEL 7.9
               test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: RHEL 8.4 py36
-              test: rhel/8.4@3.6
-            - name: RHEL 8.4 py38
-              test: rhel/8.4@3.8
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
-              test: freebsd/12.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
-              test: freebsd/13.0
+            - name: RHEL 8.6 py36
+              test: rhel/8.6@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.6 py39
+              test: rhel/8.6@3.9
+            - name: RHEL 9.0
+              test: rhel/9.0
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.3
+              test: freebsd/12.3
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.1
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller
+        parameters:
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 12.0
+              test: macos/12.0
+            - name: RHEL 8.6
+              test: rhel/8.6
+            - name: RHEL 9.0
+              test: rhel/9.0
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.1
+          groups:
             - 3
             - 4
             - 5
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller (ansible-test container management)
+        parameters:
+          targets:
+            - name: Alpine 3.16
+              test: alpine/3.16
+            - name: Fedora 36
+              test: fedora/36
+            - name: RHEL 8.6
+              test: rhel/8.6
+            - name: RHEL 9.0
+              test: rhel/9.0
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu/20.04
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu/22.04
+          groups:
+            - 6
   - stage: Docker
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -114,25 +145,30 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - name: Alpine 3
               test: alpine3
-            - name: CentOS 6
-              test: centos6
             - name: CentOS 7
               test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 33
-              test: fedora33
-            - name: Fedora 34
-              test: fedora34
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
-              test: opensuse15py2
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+            - name: Fedora 36
+              test: fedora36
+            - name: openSUSE 15
               test: opensuse15
-            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
-              test: ubuntu1804
             - name: Ubuntu 20.04
               test: ubuntu2004
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu2204
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
+            - name: Fedora 36
+              test: fedora36
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu2204
+          groups:
             - 3
             - 4
             - 5
@@ -144,9 +180,9 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: galaxy/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
+            - test: 3.11
   - stage: Generic
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -155,53 +191,9 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: generic/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
-  - stage: Incidental_Remote
-    displayName: Incidental Remote
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: i/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 11.1
-              test: macos/11.1
-            - name: RHEL 7.9
-              test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: RHEL 8.4 py36
-              test: rhel/8.4@3.6
-            - name: RHEL 8.4 py38
-              test: rhel/8.4@3.8
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
-              test: freebsd/12.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
-              test: freebsd/13.0
-  - stage: Incidental_Docker
-    displayName: Incidental Docker
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: i/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: CentOS 6
-              test: centos6
-            - name: CentOS 7
-              test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 33
-              test: fedora33
-            - name: Fedora 34
-              test: fedora34
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
-              test: opensuse15py2
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
-              test: opensuse15
-            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
-              test: ubuntu1804
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
+            - test: 3.11
   - stage: Incidental_Windows
     displayName: Incidental Windows
     dependsOn: []
@@ -227,12 +219,6 @@ stages:
               test: ios/csr1000v/
             - name: VyOS Python
               test: vyos/1.1.8/
-            - name: AWS Python 2.7
-              test: aws/2.7
-            - name: AWS Python 3.6
-              test: aws/3.6
-            - name: Cloud Python
-              test: cloud/
   - stage: Summary
     condition: succeededOrFailed()
     dependsOn:
@@ -243,8 +229,6 @@ stages:
       - Docker
       - Galaxy
       - Generic
-      - Incidental_Remote
-      - Incidental_Docker
       - Incidental_Windows
       - Incidental
     jobs:

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

@@ -59,4 +59,4 @@ fi
 
 ansible-test env --dump --show --timeout "${timeout}" --color -v
 
-"test/utils/shippable/${script}.sh" "${test}"
+".azure-pipelines/commands/${script}.sh" "${test}"

.azure-pipelines/commands/generic.sh

@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ fi
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086
 ansible-test integration --color -v --retry-on-error "${target}" ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} \
-    --docker default --python "${python}" --pypi-proxy
+    --docker default --python "${python}"

.azure-pipelines/commands/i.sh

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

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

@@ -12,10 +12,6 @@ target="shippable/windows/incidental/"
 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)')"
 
@@ -49,25 +45,8 @@ else
     )
 fi
 
-for version in "${python_versions[@]}"; do
-    if [ "${version}" == "${python_default}" ]; then
-        # full tests
-        ci="${target}"
-    else
-        # minimal tests for other python versions
-        ci="incidental_win_ping"
-    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"} \
-        "${platforms[@]}" \
-        --docker default --python "${version}" \
-        --remote-terminate "${terminate}" --remote-stage "${stage}" --remote-provider "${provider}"
-done
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+ansible-test windows-integration --color -v --retry-on-error "${target}" ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} \
+    "${platforms[@]}" \
+    --docker default --python "${python_default}" \
+    --remote-terminate always --remote-stage "${stage}" --remote-provider "${provider}"

.azure-pipelines/commands/sanity.sh

@@ -7,12 +7,6 @@ IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
 
 group="${args[1]}"
 
-if [ "${BASE_BRANCH:-}" ]; then
-    base_branch="origin/${BASE_BRANCH}"
-else
-    base_branch=""
-fi
-
 case "${group}" in
     1) options=(--skip-test pylint --skip-test ansible-doc --skip-test docs-build --skip-test package-data --skip-test changelog --skip-test validate-modules) ;;
     2) options=(                   --test      ansible-doc --test      docs-build --test      package-data --test      changelog) ;;
@@ -23,5 +17,5 @@ esac
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086
 ansible-test sanity --color -v --junit ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} \
-    --docker --keep-git --base-branch "${base_branch}" \
+    --docker \
     "${options[@]}" --allow-disabled

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -119,15 +119,17 @@ body:
   attributes:
     label: Configuration
     description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed`
-      below, under the prompt line.
+      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 tripple backticks — your
       whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
     render: console
     value: |
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
+      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
     placeholder: |
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
+      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
       DEFAULT_GATHERING(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = smart
       DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['~/src/github/ansible/ansible/hosts']
       DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ~/src/github/ansible/ansible/vault/print-password.sh

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml

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

.github/RELEASE_NAMES.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+- 2.14.0  C'mon Everybody
+- 2.13.0  Nobody's Fault but Mine
 - 2.12.0  Dazed and Confused
 - 2.11.0  Hey Hey, What Can I Do
 - 2.10.0  When the Levee Breaks

.gitignore

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

MANIFEST.in

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ include docs/docsite/rst/collections/all_plugins.rst
 exclude docs/docsite/rst_warnings
 exclude docs/docsite/rst/conf.py
 exclude docs/docsite/rst/index.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/index.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/bin-symlinks.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/botmeta.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/integration-aliases.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/release-names.rst
 recursive-exclude docs/docsite/_build *
 recursive-exclude docs/docsite/_extensions *.pyc *.pyo
 include examples/hosts
@@ -20,17 +25,23 @@ 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 lib/ansible/modules *.yml
+recursive-include lib/ansible/plugins/test *.yml
+recursive-include lib/ansible/plugins/filter *.yml
 recursive-include licenses *.txt
-recursive-include packaging *
+recursive-include packaging Makefile *.py
 recursive-include test/ansible_test *.py Makefile
 recursive-include test/integration *
 recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/config *.yml *.template
-recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_data *.cfg *.ini *.ps1 *.txt *.yml coveragerc
-recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_util *.cfg *.json *.ps1 *.psd1 *.py *.sh *.txt *.yml
+recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_data *.cfg *.in *.ini *.ps1 *.txt *.yml coveragerc
+recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_util *.cfg *.ini *.json *.ps1 *.psd1 *.py *.sh *.txt *.yml
 recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules validate-modules
-recursive-include test/sanity *.json *.py *.txt
-recursive-include test/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs
+recursive-include test/sanity *.in *.json *.py *.txt
+recursive-include test/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs *.md
 exclude test/sanity/code-smell/botmeta.*
+exclude test/sanity/code-smell/release-names.*
+exclude test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/commands/sanity/bin_symlinks.py
+exclude test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/commands/sanity/integration_aliases.py
 recursive-include test/units *
 include Makefile
 include MANIFEST.in
@@ -38,3 +49,6 @@ include changelogs/CHANGELOG*.rst
 include changelogs/changelog.yaml
 recursive-include hacking/build_library *.py
 include hacking/build-ansible.py
+include hacking/test-module.py
+include hacking/update-sanity-requirements.py
+include bin/*

Makefile

@@ -4,15 +4,7 @@
 #
 # useful targets:
 #   make clean ---------------- clean up
-#   make webdocs -------------- produce ansible doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
-#   make coredocs ------------- produce core doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
 #   make sdist ---------------- produce a tarball
-#   make deb-src -------------- produce a DEB source
-#   make deb ------------------ produce a DEB
-#   make docs ----------------- rebuild the manpages (results are checked in)
-#   make gettext -------------- produce POT files for docs
-#   make generate-po ---------- generate language specific po file
-#   make needs-translation ---- generate list of file with unstranlated or fuzzy string for a specific language
 #   make tests ---------------- run the tests (see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/testing_units.html for requirements)
 
 ########################################################
@@ -26,9 +18,9 @@ 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 ($(shell which rst2man 2>/dev/null),)
+ifneq ($(shell command -v rst2man 2>/dev/null),)
 ASCII2MAN = rst2man $< $@
-else ifneq ($(shell which rst2man.py 2>/dev/null),)
+else ifneq ($(shell command -v rst2man.py 2>/dev/null),)
 ASCII2MAN = rst2man.py $< $@
 else
 ASCII2MAN = @echo "ERROR: rst2man from docutils command is not installed but is required to build $(MANPAGES)" && exit 1
@@ -43,58 +35,6 @@ ifeq ($(findstring error,$(VERSION)), error)
 $(error "version_helper failed")
 endif
 
-# Get the branch information from git
-ifneq ($(shell which git),)
-GIT_DATE := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ci")
-GIT_HASH := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%h")
-GIT_BRANCH := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | sed 's/[-_.\/]//g')
-GITINFO = .$(GIT_HASH).$(GIT_BRANCH)
-else
-GITINFO = ""
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(shell echo $(OS) | egrep -c 'Darwin|FreeBSD|OpenBSD|DragonFly'),1)
-DATE := $(shell date -j -r $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ct") +%Y%m%d%H%M)
-CPUS ?= $(shell sysctl hw.ncpu|awk '{print $$2}')
-else
-DATE := $(shell date --utc --date="$(GIT_DATE)" +%Y%m%d%H%M)
-CPUS ?= $(shell nproc)
-endif
-
-# Intenationalisation and Localisation
-LANGUAGES ?=
-
-# DEB build parameters
-DEBUILD_BIN ?= debuild
-DEBUILD_OPTS = --source-option="-I"
-DPUT_BIN ?= dput
-DPUT_OPTS ?=
-DEB_DATE := $(shell LC_TIME=C date +"%a, %d %b %Y %T %z")
-DEB_VERSION ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debversion)
-ifeq ($(OFFICIAL),yes)
-    DEB_RELEASE ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debrelease)ppa
-    # Sign OFFICIAL builds using 'DEBSIGN_KEYID'
-    # DEBSIGN_KEYID is required when signing
-    ifneq ($(DEBSIGN_KEYID),)
-        DEBUILD_OPTS += -k$(DEBSIGN_KEYID)
-    endif
-else
-    DEB_RELEASE ?= 100.git$(DATE)$(GITINFO)
-    # Do not sign unofficial builds
-    DEBUILD_OPTS += -uc -us
-    DPUT_OPTS += -u
-endif
-DEBUILD = $(DEBUILD_BIN) $(DEBUILD_OPTS)
-DEB_PPA ?= ppa
-# Choose the desired Ubuntu release: lucid precise saucy trusty
-DEB_DIST ?= unstable
-
-# pbuilder parameters
-PBUILDER_ARCH ?= amd64
-PBUILDER_CACHE_DIR = /var/cache/pbuilder
-PBUILDER_BIN ?= pbuilder
-PBUILDER_OPTS ?= --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd --architecture $(PBUILDER_ARCH) --debbuildopts -b
-
 # ansible-test parameters
 ANSIBLE_TEST ?= bin/ansible-test
 TEST_FLAGS ?=
@@ -161,9 +101,6 @@ clean:
 	find test/ -type f -name '*.retry' -delete
 	@echo "Cleaning up symlink cache"
 	rm -f SYMLINK_CACHE.json
-	@echo "Cleaning up Debian building stuff"
-	rm -rf debian
-	rm -rf deb-build
 	rm -rf docs/json
 	rm -rf docs/js
 	@echo "Cleaning up docsite"
@@ -177,6 +114,7 @@ python:
 install:
 	$(PYTHON) setup.py install
 
+.PHONY: install_manpages
 install_manpages:
 	gzip -9 $(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1)
 	cp $(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1.gz) $(PREFIX)/man/man1/
@@ -205,108 +143,15 @@ sdist_upload: clean docs
 changelog:
 	PYTHONPATH=./lib antsibull-changelog release -vv --use-ansible-doc && PYTHONPATH=./lib antsibull-changelog generate -vv --use-ansible-doc
 
-.PHONY: debian
-debian: sdist
-	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
-	    mkdir -p deb-build/$${DIST} ; \
-	    tar -C deb-build/$${DIST} -xvf dist/$(NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.gz ; \
-	    cp -a packaging/debian deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ ; \
-        sed -ie "s|%VERSION%|$(DEB_VERSION)|g;s|%RELEASE%|$(DEB_RELEASE)|;s|%DIST%|$${DIST}|g;s|%DATE%|$(DEB_DATE)|g" deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/debian/changelog ; \
-	done
-
-.PHONY: deb
-deb: deb-src
-	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
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-====================================================
-ansible-core 2.12 "Dazed and Confused" Release Notes
-====================================================
-
-.. contents:: Topics
-
-
-v2.12.6
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-05-23
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Prevent losing unsafe on results returned from lookups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77535)
-- arg_spec - Fix incorrect ``no_log`` warning when a parameter alias is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77576)
-- plugin loader will now load config data for plugin by name instead of by file to avoid issues with the same file being loaded under different names (fqcn + short name).
-- variablemanager, more efficient read of vars files
-
-v2.12.5
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-04-25
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Ansible.ModuleUtils.SID - Use user principal name as is for lookup in the ``Convert-ToSID`` function - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77316
-- Fix traceback when installing a collection from a git repository and git is not installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77479).
-- ansible-test - Correctly detect when running as the ``root`` user (UID 0) on the origin host. The result of the detection was incorrectly being inverted.
-- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/python`` on the origin host.
-- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/root`` on the origin host.
-- ansible-test compile sanity test - do not crash if a column could not be determined for an error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77465).
-- hostname - use ``file_get_content()`` to read the file containing the host name in the ``FileStrategy.get_permanent_hostname()`` method. This prevents a ``TypeError`` from being raised when the strategy is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77025).
-- script - skip in check mode since the plugin cannot determine if a change will occur.
-- shell/command - only skip in check mode if the options `creates` and `removes` are both None.
-- winrm - Ensure ``kinit`` is run with the same ``PATH`` env var as the Ansible process
-
-v2.12.4
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-03-28
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Add a YAML representer for ``NativeJinjaText``
-- Add a YAML representer for ``NativeJinjaUnsafeText``
-- AnsiballZ - Ensure we use the full python package in the module cache filename to avoid a case where ``collections:`` is used to execute a module via short name, where the short name duplicates another module from ``ansible.builtin`` or another collection that was executed previously.
-- Fix collection filter/test plugin redirects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77192).
-- ansible-galaxy collection verify - display files/directories not included in the FILES.json as modified content.
-- ansible-test - Fix ``windows-integration`` and ``network-integration`` when used with the ``--docker`` option and user-provided inventory.
-- extend timeout for ansible-galaxy when communicating with the galaxy server api, and apply it to all interactions with the api
-- first_found - fix to allow for spaces in file names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77136)
-- unarchive - the ``io_buffer_size`` option added in 2.12 was not accepted by the module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77271).
-
-v2.12.3
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-02-28
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- The collection loader now reports a Python warning if an attempt is made to install the Ansible collection loader a second time. Previously this condition was reported using an Ansible warning.
-- ansible-test - Installation of ``cryptography`` is no longer version constrained when ``openssl`` 1.1.0 or later is installed.
-- ansible-test - Requirements for the plugin import test are now frozen.
-- ansible-test - The ``pip`` and ``wheel`` packages are removed from all sanity test virtual environments after installation completes to reduce their size. Previously they were only removed from the environments used for the ``import`` sanity test.
-- ansible-test - The hash for all managed sanity test virtual environments has changed. Containers that include ``ansible-test sanity --prime-venvs`` will need to be rebuilt to continue using primed virtual environments.
-- ansible-test - Update ``pip`` used to bootstrap remote FreeBSD instances from version 20.3.4 to 21.3.1.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``alpine`` container to version 3.3.0. This updates the base image from 3.14.2 to 3.15.0, which includes support for installing binary wheels using pip.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``galaxy`` test plugin to get its container from a copy on quay.io.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``openshift`` test plugin to get its container from a copy on quay.io.
-- junit callback - Add support for replacing the directory portion of out-of-tree relative task paths with a placeholder.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- ansible-test - All virtual environments managed by ansible-test are marked as usable after being bootstrapped, to avoid errors caused by use of incomplete environments. Previously this was only done for sanity tests. Existing environments from previous versions of ansible-test will be recreated on demand due to lacking the new marker.
-- ansible-test - Fix the ``validate-modules`` sanity test to avoid double-loading the collection loader and possibly failing on import of the ``packaging`` module.
-- ansible-test - Import ``yaml.cyaml.CParser`` instead of ``_yaml.CParser`` in the ``yamllint`` sanity test.
-- ansible-test - Replace the directory portion of out-of-tree paths in JUnit files from integration tests with the ``out-of-tree:`` prefix.
-- ansible-test - Sanity tests run with the ``--requirements` option for Python 2.x now install ``virtualenv`` when it is missing or too old. Previously it was only installed if missing. Version 16.7.12 is now installed instead of the latest version on Python 2.7.
-- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test no longer reports errors about ``packaging`` being missing when testing collections.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to version 4.2.0.
-- ansible-test - Use https://ci-files.testing.ansible.com/ for instance bootstrapping instead of an S3 endpoint.
-- ansible-test - Use relative paths in JUnit files generated during integration test runs.
-- ansible-test - Virtual environments managed by ansible-test now use consistent versions of ``pip``, ``setuptools`` and ``wheel``. This avoids issues with virtual environments containing outdated or dysfunctional versions of these tools. The initial bootstrapping of ``pip`` is done by ansible-test from an HTTPS endpoint instead of creating the virtual environment with it already present.
-- cleaning facts will now only warn about the variable name and not post the content, which can be undesireable to disclose
-- correctly inherit vars from parent in block (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75286).
-- gather_facts action now handles the move of base connection plugin types into collections to add/prevent subset argument correctly
-- junit callback - Fix traceback during automatic fact gathering when using relative paths.
-- junit callback - Fix unicode error when handling non-ASCII task paths.
-- ssh connection now uses more correct host source as play_context can ignore loop/delegation variations.
-- task_executor reverts the change to push facts into delegated vars on loop finalization as result managing code already handles this and was duplicating effort to wrong result.
-- template lookup - restore inadvertently deleted default for ``convert_data`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77004)
-- unarchive - Make extraction work when the LANGUAGE environment variable is set to a non-English locale.
-
-v2.12.2
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-01-31
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix ``AttributeError`` when providing password file via ``--connection-password-file`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76530)
-- Fix ``end_play`` to end the current play only (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76672)
-- Templating - Ensure we catch exceptions when getting ``.filters`` and ``.tests`` attributes on their respective plugins and properly error, instead of aborting which results in no filters being added to the jinja2 environment
-- ``Templar.copy_with_new_env`` - set the ``finalize`` method of the new ``Templar`` object for the new environment (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76379)
-- ansible-config avoid showing _terms and _input when --only-changed.
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix using the '--ignore-certs' option when there is no server-specific configuration for the Galaxy server.
-- ansible-galaxy collection build - Ignore any existing ``MANIFEST.json`` and ``FILES.json`` in the root directory when building a collection.
-- ansible-test - Fix the ``import`` sanity test to work properly when Ansible's built-in vendoring support is in use.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback in the ``validate-modules`` sanity test when testing an Ansible module without any callables.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback when running from an install and delegating execution to a different Python interpreter.
-- ansible-test - Show an error message instead of a traceback when running outside of a supported directory.
-- ansible-test - Update help links to reference ``ansible-core`` instead of ``ansible``.
-- ansible-test - Update unit tests to use the ``--forked`` option instead of the deprecated ``--boxed`` option.
-- async - Improve performance of sending async callback events by never sending the full task through the queue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76729)
-- default callback - Ensure we compare FQCN also in lockstep logic, to ensure using the FQCN of a strategy plugin triggers the correct behavior in the default callback plugin. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76782)
-- hostname - Do not require SystemdStrategy subclasses for every distro (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76792)
-- include_vars, properly initialize variable as there is corner case in which it can end up referenced and not defined
-- ssh connection - properly quote controlpersist path given by user to avoid issues with spaces and other characters
-- ssh connection avoid parsing ssh cli debug lines as they can match expected output at high verbosities.
-- sudo become plugin, fix handling of non interactive flags, previous substitution was too naive
-- unarchive - Fix zip archive file listing that caused issues with content postprocessing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76067).
-- yum - prevent storing unnecessary cache data by running `yum makecache fast` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76336)
-
-v2.12.1
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2021-12-06
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- jinja2_native - keep same behavior on Python 3.10.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Ansible.ModuleUtils.LinkUtil - Ignore the ``LIB`` environment variable when loading the ``LinkUtil`` code
-- ansible-test - Automatic target requirements installation is now based on the target environment instead of the controller environment.
-- ansible-test - Fix Python real prefix detection when running in a ``venv`` virtual environment.
-- ansible-test - Fix installation and usage of ``pyyaml`` requirement for the ``import`` sanity test for collections.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback in ``import`` sanity test on Python 2.7 when ``pip`` is not available.
-- ansible-test - Relocate constants to eliminate symlink.
-- ansible-test - Target integration test requirements are now correctly installed for target environments running on the controller.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to version 4.1.1, which includes the updated ``import`` sanity test requirements.
-- ansible-test - Use the legacy collection loader for ``import`` sanity tests on target-only Python versions.
-- set_fact/include_vars correctly handle delegation assignments within loops
-- setup - detect docker container with check for ./dockerenv or ./dockinit (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74349).
-- validate_argument_spec - Skip suboption validation if the top level option is an invalid type (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75612).
-
-v2.12.0
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2021-11-05
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Major Changes
--------------
-
-- Python Controller Requirement - Python 3.8 or newer is required for the control node (the machine that runs Ansible) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74013)
-- ansible-test - All "cloud" plugins which use containers can now be used with all POSIX and Windows hosts. Previously the plugins did not work with Windows at all, and support for hosts created with the ``--remote`` option was inconsistent.
-- ansible-test - Collections can now specify controller and target specific integration test requirements and constraints. If provided, they take precedence over the previously available requirements and constraints files.
-- ansible-test - Integration tests run with the ``integration`` command can now be executed on two separate hosts instead of always running on the controller. The target host can be one provided by ``ansible-test`` or by the user, as long as it is accessible using SSH.
-- ansible-test - Most container features are now supported under Podman. Previously a symbolic link for ``docker`` pointing to ``podman`` was required.
-- ansible-test - New ``--controller`` and ``--target`` / ``--target-python`` options have been added to allow more control over test environments.
-- ansible-test - Python 3.8 - 3.10 are now required to run ``ansible-test``, thus matching the Ansible controller Python requirements. Older Python versions (2.6 - 2.7 and 3.5 - 3.10) can still be the target for relevant tests.
-- ansible-test - SSH port forwarding and redirection is now used exclusively to make container ports available on non-container hosts. When testing on POSIX systems this requires SSH login as root. Previously SSH port forwarding was combined with firewall rules or other port redirection methods, with some platforms being unsupported.
-- ansible-test - Sanity tests always run in isolated Python virtual environments specific to the requirements of each test. The environments are cached.
-- ansible-test - Sanity tests are now separated into two categories, controller and target. All tests except ``import`` and ``compile`` are controller tests. The controller tests always run using the same Python version used to run ``ansible-test``. The target tests use the Python version(s) specified by the user, or all available Python versions.
-- ansible-test - Sanity tests now use fully pinned requirements that are independent of each other and other test types.
-- ansible-test - Tests run with the ``centos6`` and ``default`` test containers now use a PyPI proxy container to access PyPI when Python 2.6 is used. This allows tests running under Python 2.6 to continue functioning even though PyPI is discontinuing support for non-SNI capable clients.
-- ansible-test - The ``future-import-boilerplate`` and ``metaclass-boilerplate`` sanity tests are limited to remote-only code. Additionally, they are skipped for collections which declare no support for Python 2.x.
-- ansible-test - The ``import`` and ``compile`` sanity tests limit remote-only Python version checks to remote-only code.
-- ansible-test - Unit tests for controller-only code now require Python 3.8 or later.
-- ansible-test - Version neutral sanity tests now require Python 3.8 or later.
-- junit callback - The ``junit_xml`` and ``ordereddict`` Python modules are no longer required to use the ``junit`` callback plugin.
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- Add ``end_batch`` meta task.
-- Allow connection and become passwords to be set by file/executable script. Also document this was already the case for vault.
-- CLI - Remove ``__requires__`` attribute for ``pkg_resources``
-- Collections can define action_groups in ``meta/runtime.yml``.
-- Introduce a config option to enable/disable emitting warning about Jinja2 version being old for ``jinja2_native``. The option is on by default, only in CI it is off.
-- Make the code structure of ansible-doc's generic snippet feature more maintainable.
-- On RHEL 9, CentOS Stream 9 etc., use /usr/bin/python3 as the default interpreter; /usr/libexec/platform-python is just a backwards-compatibility symbolic link there.
-- PowerShell - Added support for optional module_util imports by scanning for ``-Optional`` at the end of the import declaration
-- Python 2.6 Target Support - Deprecate Python 2.6 for targets, requiring Python 2.7 or newer. ``ansible-core==2.13`` will drop support for Python 2.6. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74165)
-- Task - Add a resolved_action attribute for Task objects to get the final resolved plugin.
-- Templar - remove ``_fail_on_lookup_errors`` and ``_fail_on_filter_errors`` instance variables that were never used. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73785)
-- The AnsiballZ Python wrapper now changes the working directory to ``~`` or ``/`` if the current one is not accessible. This allows become to drop privileges on macOS when using pipelining.
-- Update test container ansible-core-test-container to version 3.6.0
-- Update test container ansible-core-test-container to version 3.7.0
-- Update test container default-test-container to version 3.6.0
-- Update test container default-test-container to version 3.7.0
-- Update vendored copy of ``six`` to 1.16.0 to eliminate warnings for deprecated python loader methods in Python 3.10+ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74659)
-- Update vendored copy of distro to 1.6.0
-- Vendor ``distutils.version`` due to it's deprecation in Python 3.10 and impending removal in Python 3.12 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74599)
-- YAML parsing - Create common utils for loading and dumping YAML that prefer the C extensions if available
-- ``include_role`` - Allow use of ``omit`` in the ``from_*`` arguments (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66349)
-- ``uri``/``get_url`` - Expose ``unredirected_headers`` to modules to allow user control
-- `ansible.plugins.callback.CallbackBase.host_label()` has been factored out as a static method (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73814).
-- action_groups can include actions from other groups by using the special ``metadata`` dictionary field.
-- add a quick short circuit when checking if a string is a template to improve performance on large strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74336)
-- add host label to retry print statements
-- added new function to module utils to choose best possible locale.
-- adds the ``undef`` keyword to the templating environment. This allows for directly creating Undefined values in templates. It is most useful for providing a hint for variables which must be overridden.
-- ansbile-doc now also shows snippets for inventory and lookup, adding to existing modules.
-- ansible adhoc, clarified the help to some options, also added some comments to code.
-- ansible-cli - remove unnecessary trailing space in ``ansible --version`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74875).
-- ansible-config can now list and dump for specific documentable plugins by specifying them in the command line
-- ansible-config has new 'init' option to create, highly commented, example configurations as ini (ansible.cfg), environment variables (shell) or Ansible variable files (YAML)
-- ansible-config now supports displaying plugin configuration info.
-- ansible-doc - ``version_added`` in ``attributes`` now comes with ``version_added_collection`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74602).
-- ansible-doc - show ``version_added`` for the plugin/module itself in text output, and improve ``version_added`` formatting (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73602).
-- ansible-doc now supports 'attributes' for plugins as per proposal.
-- ansible-doc pretty cli options output.
-- ansible-doc, improve handling of rstisms, try to make the display more meaningfull for the terminal users.
-- ansible-galaxy - Allow specification of client_id override value for Keycloak Token (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75593).
-- ansible-galaxy - Allow validate_certs to be configured for individual Galaxy servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75677).
-- ansible-galaxy - Installing a collection from a git repository without specifying a version (or using the version ``HEAD``) will clone the repository using --depth=1.
-- ansible-galaxy - Non-HTTP exceptions from Galaxy servers are now a warning and only fatal if the collection to download|install|verify is not available from any of the servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75443).
-- ansible-test - A new ``base`` test container is available. It is similar to the ``default`` test container, but contains no pre-installed Python packages other than ``pip`` and its dependencies.
-- ansible-test - Add RHEL 8.4 as a remote.
-- ansible-test - Add ``--prime-venvs`` option to create virtual environments without running tests.
-- ansible-test - Add constraint for ``decorator`` for Python versions prior to 3.5.
-- ansible-test - Add support for Windows Server 2022.
-- ansible-test - Add support for an ansible-test configuration file in collections under ``tests/config.yml``.
-- ansible-test - Add support for testing with Python 3.10.
-- ansible-test - Added a ``--prime-containers`` option to support downloading containers without running tests.
-- ansible-test - Adding DigitalOcean cloud support to ansible-test (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74222).
-- ansible-test - All "cloud" plugins have been refactored for more consistency. For those that use docker containers, management of the containers has been standardized.
-- ansible-test - All "cloud" plugins now use fixed hostnames and ports in tests. Previously some tests used IP addresses and/or randomly assigned ports.
-- ansible-test - Changes made to the ``hosts`` file on test systems are now done using an Ansible playbook for both POSIX and Windows systems. Changes are applied before a test target runs and are reverted after the test target finishes.
-- ansible-test - Clean up code in the cloud plugins.
-- ansible-test - Collections can declare their remote-only code (modules/module_utils and related tests) as controller-only.
-- ansible-test - Collections can limit the Python versions used for testing their remote-only code (modules/module_utils and related tests).
-- ansible-test - Command line help has been updated to hide the ``--remote`` option (and related options) when the user lacks an API key to use the feature.
-- ansible-test - Constraints provided by ``ansible-test`` for Python package installs have been reduced.
-- ansible-test - Default settings are now applied to unknown versions of known ``--remote`` platforms.
-- ansible-test - Distribution specific test containers have been updated to version 3.0.0.
-- ansible-test - Environment checking (``pip``, ``python``, ``~/.ssh/known_hosts``, etc.) is no longer performed when running integration tests.
-- ansible-test - Environment variables exposed by "cloud" plugins are now available to the controller for role based tests. Previously only script based tests had access to the exposed environment variables.
-- ansible-test - Fedora 32 and 33 (``fedora32`` and ``fedora33``) containers have been updated and now allow for ssh in more container environments.
-- ansible-test - Fedora 34 (``fedora34``) container has been added.
-- ansible-test - Installation of ``cryptography`` no longer occurs when it is already installed. This avoids downgrading existing OS packages.
-- ansible-test - Minor code cleanup.
-- ansible-test - More efficient string splitting.
-- ansible-test - Most scripts used internally by ``ansible-test`` no longer have a shebang or the executable bit set.
-- ansible-test - Move code from ``_data`` directory to ``_util`` directory.
-- ansible-test - Relocate change classification code.
-- ansible-test - Remove CI provider support for Shippable, now that the service has been discontinued.
-- ansible-test - Remove check for legacy ``core`` and ``extras`` directories.
-- ansible-test - Remove deprecated container ``fedora32``.
-- ansible-test - Remove deprecated remote platforms ``freebsd/11.4`` and ``rhel/8.3```.
-- ansible-test - Removed the warning filter for ``PyYAML`` in the ``import`` sanity test.
-- ansible-test - Removed unused pip constraints. Collections may need to add their own constraints if they depended on any which were removed.
-- ansible-test - Reorganize code for individual commands.
-- ansible-test - Reorganize integration test implementation by command.
-- ansible-test - Rewrite the ``compile`` sanity test to improve error handling and support Python 3.10.
-- ansible-test - Sanity test warnings relating to Python version support have been improved.
-- ansible-test - Set minimum version constraints for ``pytest``.
-- ansible-test - Split out shell command implementation.
-- ansible-test - The "injector" scripts are now generated at runtime to avoid issues with symlinks and shebangs.
-- ansible-test - The HTTP Tester can now be used without the ``--docker`` or `--remote`` options. It still requires use of the ``docker`` command to run the container.
-- ansible-test - The HTTP Tester has been converted to a "cloud" plugin and can now be requested using the ``cloud/httptester`` alias. The original ``needs/httptester`` alias is still supported for backwards compatibility.
-- ansible-test - The ``--docker-keep-git`` option (used only for testing ansible-core) has been renamed to ``--keep-git``.
-- ansible-test - The ``--python`` option can be used without another delegation option such as the ``--venv`` or ``--docker`` options.
-- ansible-test - The ``ansible-test coverage`` commands ``combine``, ``report``, ``html`` and ``xml`` now support delegation.
-- ansible-test - The ``default`` test container has been updated to version 3.4.0 and now uses Python 3.9 by default instead of Python 3.6.
-- ansible-test - The ``docker run`` option ``--link`` is no longer used to connect test containers. As a result, changes are made to the ``/etc/hosts`` file as needed on all test containers. Previously containers which were used with the ``--link`` option did not require changes to the ``/etc/hosts`` file.
-- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test now requires that Ansible modules guard instantiation of ``AnsibleModule`` with a ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` conditional, or equivalent logic.
-- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test now requires that non-modules do not instantiate ``AnsibleModule`` on import.
-- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test codes ``ansible-deprecated-module`` and ``collection-deprecated-module`` have been added.
-- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test codes ``last-line-main-call``, ``missing-if-name-main`` and ``missing-main-call`` have been removed.
-- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test no longer enforces the ``missing-if-name-main``, ``last-line-main-call`` or ``missing-main-call`` checks on non-deleted Ansible modules. Modules are still required to instantiate ``AnsibleModule`` when ``__name__ == '__main__'``.
-- ansible-test - Unit tests are now run in separate contexts (``controller``, ``modules``, ``module_utils``), each using separate invocations of ``pytest``.
-- ansible-test - Unit tests other than ``modules`` and ``module_utils`` are now run only on Python versions supported by the controller (Python 3.8+).
-- ansible-test - Update ``typed-ast`` constraint to version 1.4.3 for compatibility with Python 3.10.
-- ansible-test - Update distribution test containers from version 2.0.1 to 2.0.2.
-- ansible-test - Update the Ansible Core and Ansible Collection default test containers to 3.2.0 and 3.2.2 respectively.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` containers from Python 3.10.0rc2 to 3.10.0.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``import`` sanity test to avoid a new warning in Python 3.10.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``runtime-metadata`` sanity test to handle a new warning on Python 3.10.
-- ansible-test - Updated the ``default`` containers to version 4.0.1.
-- ansible-test - Updated the help message for failed tests in the ``azure`` test plugin.
-- ansible-test - Upgrade ``pylint`` to version 2.9.3 and update its dependencies to the latest versions as well.
-- ansible-test - Using an unknown ``--docker`` or ``--remote`` environment now requires specifying a Python version.
-- ansible-test - add freebsd/13.0 as a remote option.
-- ansible-test - aws creates and exposes a new tiny_prefix variable to provide a shorter prefix for the AWS tests.
-- ansible-test - display recent ``ssh`` debug logs after connection failures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75374)
-- ansible-test - validate-modules now properly checks ``attributes`` for plugins (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74602).
-- ansible-test - virtualenv-isolated.sh is no longer provided. Prefer virtualenv.sh in its place.
-- ansible-test validate-modules - enforce that ``_info`` and ``_facts`` modules set ``supports_check_mode=True`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75324).
-- ansible-vault - remove support for ``PyCrypto`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72646)
-- apt - added an ``allow_downgrade`` option to enable safe downgrade of packages without using ``force`` which doesn't verify signatures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29451, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74852).
-- apt, added a 'lock_timeout' to be more resilient when encountering the apt db already locked and handle it w/o haveing to rerun task.
-- async tasks - the use of the task-level ``ANSIBLE_ASYNC_DIR`` variable within ``environment:`` is no longer valid. Use the shell configuration variable ``async_dir`` instead.
-- async_wrapper, better reporting on timeout, slight refactor on reporting itself.
-- basic module_util - Clean up ``selinux`` compat import.
-- blockinfile - Remove unused code for Ansible 1.x.
-- cache base - More efficient string splitting.
-- callback API - implemented ``v2_runner_on_async_ok`` and ``v2_runner_on_async_failed`` callbacks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74953).
-- cli scripts - remove trailing blank space in help after newline when outputting.
-- collection - match skip message as per role installation.
-- command - update the user warning message to point out command name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74475).
-- config lookup now can handle plugin settings.
-- config, default site for ansible-core is now under /ansbile-core/.
-- connection base - Avoid using deprecated ``@abstractproperty`` decorator.
-- constructed - a new options ``trailing_separator`` and ``default_value`` to deal with key's value empty on keyed group.
-- cron - ``name`` is now a required parameter always
-- cron - ``reboot`` parameter has been dropped in favor of ``special_time: reboot``
-- cron, removed previously deprecated 'reboot' and now requires either 'name' as unique identifier.
-- default callback plugin - displays output for ``v2_runner_on_async_ok`` and ``v2_runner_on_async_failed`` callbacks.
-- deprecate ``_remote_checksum()`` and remove all internal uses (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74848)
-- dnf - Add ``cacheonly`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69397).
-- dnf - allow for ``download_only`` to be run without root privileges (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75530)
-- encrypt - add new parameter ``ident`` to specify version of BCrypt algorithm to be used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74571).
-- fact cache - Remove deprecated backwards compatibility shim for the FactCache `update` method to accept multiple arguments.
-- fact cache - Remove the deprecated location for FactCache. Import FactCache from `ansible.vars.fact_cache` instead.
-- facts - add fiber channel facts for HP-UX (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/57406)
-- galaxy - support role artifact download from API response ``download_url`` location (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73103).
-- get_distribution - ``lib.ansible.module_utils.common.sys_info.get_distribution`` now returns distribution information for all platforms not just Linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17587)
-- get_distribution_version - ``lib.ansible.module_utils.common.sys_info.get_distribution_version`` now returns the version for all platfroms not just Linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17587)
-- git - Add ``accept_newhostkey`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69846).
-- hostname - add support RedOS (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74779).
-- import_role - Template tasks_from, vars_from, defaults_from, and handlers_from with --extra-vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69097).
-- include_vars - add ``hash_behaviour`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72944).
-- ini - added new parameter ``allow_no_value`` to ini lookup plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50594).
-- ini lookup - add case sensitive option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74601)
-- interpreter discovery - allow the default list of ``INTERPRETER_PYTHON_FALLBACK`` to be changed using a variable
-- interpreter discovery - prefer Python 3 over Python 2
-- inventory plugins - Remove the deprecated cache interface. Set top level keys in the inventory plugin's `_cache` attribute (a dictionary) instead.
-- jinja2_native - short-circuit ``ast.literal_eval`` for non-string values
-- module_utils distro - when a 'distro' package/module is in PYTHONPATH but isn't the real 'distro' package/module that we expect, gracefully fall back to our own bundled distro.
-- modules - add Anolis distro in hostname.py. project website https://openanolis.org/
-- move all builtin modules to use the best possible locale function instead of hardcoding 'C'.
-- password - add new parameter ``ident`` to specify version of BCrypt algorithm to be used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74571).
-- password - add new parameter ``seed`` in lookup plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69775).
-- password_hash uses passlib default if option isn't set
-- playbook - Error if a playbook is an empty list instead of just skipping
-- playbook - Error if using ``include`` instead of ``import_playbook``
-- replaced examples/ansible.cfg with instructions on how to generate an up to date copy.
-- service - add description how service module works internally (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74507).
-- service_facts now handles more states/statuses from systemd and in a more reliable way (failed, not-found, masked).
-- setup - add ``epoch_int`` option to date_time facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73822).
-- ssh - added pkcs11 support by adding the pkcs11_provider option in the ssh connection module. (https://www.github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/32829)
-- ssh connection, can not configure ssh_transfer_method with a variable.
-- ssh connection, ssh_transfer_method is now configurable via variable.
-- subelements lookup - Use generator in instance type check.
-- tempfile - Remove unnecessary conditional for creating a temporary directory.
-- template - Add comment attributes (``comment_start_string`` and ``comment_end_string``)
-- unicode utils - Fix ``__all__`` which was incorrectly declared as a string instead of a tuple.
-- user - Add ``umask`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40359).
-- user module - Remove unused code.
-- validation testcases for check_* APIs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55994).
-- winrm - Allow explicit environment variables to be passed through to the ``kinit`` call for Kerberos authentication
-- yaml dumper - YAML representer for AnsibleUndefined (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75072).
-- yum - Add ``cacheonly`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69397).
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-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
---------------------------------
-
-- Action, module, and group names in module_defaults must be static values. Their values can still be templates.
-- Fully qualified 'ansible.legacy' plugin names are not included implicitly in action_groups.
-- Unresolvable groups, action plugins, and modules in module_defaults are an error.
-- ansible-test - Automatic installation of requirements for "cloud" test plugins no longer occurs. The affected test plugins are ``aws``, ``azure``, ``cs``, ``hcloud``, ``nios``, ``opennebula``, ``openshift`` and ``vcenter``. Collections should instead use one of the supported integration test requirements files, such as the ``tests/integration/requirements.txt`` file.
-- ansible-test - The HTTP Tester is no longer available with the ``ansible-test shell`` command. Only the ``integration`` and ``windows-integration`` commands provide HTTP Tester.
-- ansible-test - The ``--disable-httptester`` option is no longer available. The HTTP Tester is no longer optional for tests that specify it.
-- ansible-test - The ``--httptester`` option is no longer available. To override the container used for HTTP Tester tests, set the ``ANSIBLE_HTTP_TEST_CONTAINER`` environment variable instead.
-- ansible-test - Unit tests for ``modules`` and ``module_utils`` are now limited to importing only ``ansible.module_utils`` from the ``ansible`` module.
-- conditionals - ``when`` conditionals no longer automatically parse string booleans such as ``"true"`` and ``"false"`` into actual booleans. Any non-empty string is now considered true. The ``CONDITIONAL_BARE_VARS`` configuration variable no longer has any effect.
-- hostname - Drops any remaining support for Python 2.4 by using ``with open()`` to simplify exception handling code which leaked file handles in several spots
-- hostname - On FreeBSD, the string ``temporarystub`` no longer gets written to the hostname file in the get methods (and in check_mode). As a result, the default hostname will now appear as ``''`` (empty string) instead of ``temporarystub`` for consistency with other strategies. This means the ``before`` result will be different.
-- hostname - On OpenRC systems and Solaris, the ``before`` value will now be ``''`` (empty string) if the permanent hostname file does not exist, for consistency with other strategies.
-- intersect, difference, symmetric_difference, union filters - the default behavior is now to be case-sensitive (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74255)
-- unique filter - the default behavior is now to fail if Jinja2's filter fails and explicit ``case_sensitive=False`` as the Ansible's fallback is case-sensitive (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74256)
-
-Deprecated Features
--------------------
-
-- ansible-test - The ``--docker-no-pull`` option is deprecated and has no effect.
-- ansible-test - The ``--no-pip-check`` option is deprecated and has no effect.
-- include action is deprecated in favor of include_tasks, import_tasks and import_playbook.
-- module_utils' FileLock is scheduled to be removed, it is not used due to its unreliable nature.
-
-Removed Features (previously deprecated)
-----------------------------------------
-
-- The built-in module_util ``ansible.module_utils.common.removed`` was previously deprecated and has been removed.
-- connections, removed password check stubs that had been moved to become plugins.
-- task, inline parameters being auto coerced into variables has been removed.
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-Security Fixes
---------------
-
-- Do not include params in exception when a call to ``set_options`` fails. Additionally, block the exception that is returned from being displayed to stdout. (CVE-2021-3620)
-- templating engine fix for not preserving usnafe status when trying to preserve newlines. CVE-2021-3583
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-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Add RockyLinux to fact gathering (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74530).
-- Add unicode support to ``ansible-inventory`` CLI (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57378)
-- Add yaml representer for VarsWithSources (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68525).
-- Added page describing terminal plugins to docsite
-- AnsibleModule.set_mode_if_different - don't check file existence when check_mode is activated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61185).
-- Apply ``display_failed_stderr`` callback option on loop item results. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74864)
-- Binary GnuPG keys downloaded via URLs by the 'ansible.builtin.apt_key' module were corrupted so 'gpg' could not import them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74424).
-- Ensure end_play ends play, not batch (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73971)
-- Ensure we get full path for extra vars into cliargs to avoid realpath issues after initial load.
-- Fix ``keys()`` implementation of ``BaseFileCacheModule`` to strip the prefix from the key and only return keys that share the same prefix as the cache.
-- Fix ``when`` evaluation on Native Jinja and Python 3.10.
-- Fix templating task action with host-specific vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75568)
-- Fully qualified 'ansible.legacy' and 'ansible.builtin' plugin names work in conjunction with module_defaults.
-- Give a warning instead of an error if a handler name contains undefined variables and has no listen topics (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58841).
-- Improve resilience of ``ansible-galaxy collection`` by increasing the page size to make fewer requests overall and retrying queries with a jittered exponential backoff when rate limiting HTTP codes (520 and 429) occur. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74191)
-- Jinja2 globals should be accessible even when importing a template without the context (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75371)
-- PlayContext - Remove deprecated ``make_become_cmd`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74136)
-- PowerShell - Ignore the ``LIB`` environment variable when compiling C# Ansible code
-- Prevent ``ansible_failed_task`` from further templating (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74036)
-- Remove 'default' from ssh plugin as we want to rely on default from ssh itself or ssh/config.
-- Replace usage of private dnf.Base() attribute by future dnf API
-- Save unreachable hosts between plays by adding them to the PlayIterator's _play._removed_hosts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66945).
-- Solaris - correct version check in svcadm_supports_sync (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73860).
-- Task depth - Prevent exception when the task depth exceeds Pythons recursion depth (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73996)
-- Templating - Ensure we catch exceptions when calling ``.filters()`` or ``.tests()`` on their respective plugins and properly error, instead of aborting which results in no filters being added to the jinja2 environment (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74127)
-- The ``apt_key`` module did not properly handle GnuPG errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74477)
-- The error message about the failure to import a ```gpg`` key by the ``apt_key`` module was incorrect (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74423).
-- Update network user guide to explain use of cli_parse and validate plugins.
-- Variable Manager - Only check if ``play.hosts`` is a template when the play hasn't been finalized (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73926)
-- WorkerProcess - Python 3.5 fix for workaround for stdout deadlock in multiprocessing shutdown to avoid process hangs. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74149)
-- ``AnsibleModule.run_command`` - Address thread safety issues, concerning mutating the environment, current working directory, and umask. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74783)
-- ``failed_when``/``changed_when`` - Catch templating errors to prevent masking of module output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/37187)
-- ``heuristic_log_sanitize`` - Return the full string if there is no password (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75542)
-- ``pip`` now uses the ``pip`` Python module installed for the Ansible module's Python interpreter, if available, unless ``executable`` or ``virtualenv`` were specified.
-- advanced_host_list inventory plugin - Fixed variable referenced before assignment when hostname/range could not be parsed.
-- ansiballz - avoid treating path to site_packages as regex; escape it. This prevents a crash when ansible is installed to, or running from, an oddly named directory like ``ansi[ble``
-- ansible-doc - in text output, do not show empty ``version_added_collection`` values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74999).
-- ansible-doc can now dump kewyords with --metadata-dump (still just for internal use)
-- ansible-doc, fix output for internal metadata dump option
-- ansible-doc, make inventory plugin selection for snippets generic and not a hardcoded list
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix a bug with build_ignore when installing collections from source (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75528).
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix handling HTTP exceptions from Galaxy servers. Continue to the next server in the list until the collection is found.
-- ansible-galaxy - Improve error message from dependency resolution when a candidate has inconsistent requirements (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75139).
-- ansible-inventory - handle an exception while parsing inventory in toml format (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74404).
-- ansible-playbook, more robust handling of --list-hosts and undefined vars in hosts keyword.
-- ansible-pull - update documentation for ``--directory`` option to clarify path must be absolute.
-- ansible-pull, restore other options to use as repo other than git.
-- ansible-test - Add constraint for ``pyspnego>=0.1.6`` for Python 3.10 - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74612
-- ansible-test - Avoid publishing the port used by the ``pypi-test-container`` since it is only accessed by other containers. This avoids issues when trying to run tests in parallel on a single host.
-- ansible-test - Failure to download test results from a remote host no longer hide test failures. If a download failure occurs after tests fail, a warning will be issued instead.
-- ansible-test - Fix docker container IP address detection. The ``bridge`` network is no longer assumed to be the default.
-- ansible-test - Fix path to inventory file for ``windows-integration`` and ``network-integration`` commands for collections.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback when generating coverage reports and no coverage directory exists.
-- ansible-test - Random port selection is no longer handled by ``ansible-test``, avoiding possible port conflicts. Previously ``ansible-test`` would, under some circumstances, use one host's available ports to determine those of another host.
-- ansible-test - Running tests in a single test run with multiple "cloud" plugins no longer results in port conflicts. Previously two or more containers with overlapping ports could not be used in the same test run.
-- ansible-test - Tab completion after options like ``--docker`` which accept an optional argument will no longer provide incorrect completions.
-- ansible-test - The ``--python`` and ``--venv`` options are no longer ignored by some commands, such as ``coverage``.
-- ansible-test - The ``docker inspect`` command is now used to check for existing images instead of the ``docker images`` command. This resolves an issue where a ``docker pull`` would be unnecessarily executed for an image referenced by checksum.
-- ansible-test - Update distribution test containers to version 3.1.0.
-- ansible-test - Use ``--strict`` for ``pytest`` on Python 2.6 since ``--strict-markers`` is not available.
-- ansible-test - Use documented API to retrieve build information from Azure Pipelines.
-- ansible-test - Use pwsh to generate correct coverage line counts for stub files to get a more accurate coverage result
-- ansible-test - Use the correct variable to reference the client's SSH key when generating inventory.
-- ansible-test - add packaging python module to ``ansible-doc`` sanity test requirements.
-- ansible-test - allow the same listening port on all container interfaces
-- ansible-test - ensure the correct unit test target is given when the ``__init__.py`` file is modified inside the connection plugins directory
-- ansible-test - make the ``a/`` and ``b/`` prefixes an optional match since these can be turned off with the ``diff.noprefix`` setting in ``git``
-- ansible-test - restrict ``packaging`` to ``< 21.0`` for Python ``< 3.6`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75186).
-- ansible-test pslint - Fix error when encountering validation results that are highly nested - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74151
-- ansible-test validate-modules - EXAMPLES will no longer be marked as invalid YAML when it uses Ansible-specific YAML tags (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74384).
-- ansible-test validate-modules - correctly validate positional parameters to ``AnsibleModules`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75332).
-- ansible.builtin.cron - Keep non-empty crontabs, when removing cron jobs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74497).
-- ansible.utils.encrypt now handles missing or unusable 'crypt' library.
-- ansible_test - add constraint for ``MarkupSafe`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74666)
-- apt_key - set --recv argument as last one in apt-key command when using env var HTTP_PROXY (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74946)
-- arg_spec - remove unused imports
-- async_status, ensure we always get documented returns
-- async_status, resurrected module to deprecate for those that were invoking it directly.
-- basic - skip over module parameters which are used in ``journal.send`` API call (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71343).
-- become - fix a regression on Solaris where chmod can return 5 which we interpret as auth failure and stop trying become tmpdir permission fallbacks
-- become - work around setfacl not existing on modern Solaris (and possibly failing on some filesystems even when it does exist)
-- callbacks, restore displaying delegation to host as host label.
-- cli defaults for ssh args set to None as '' was bypassing normal default.
-- command - remove unreachable code path when trying to convert the value for ``chdir`` to bytes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75036)
-- command module, clarify order of remove/creates checks.
-- command module, correctly handles chdir to symlinks.
-- command module, move to standarized messages in 'msg' vs abusing 'stdout'.
-- command module, now all options work in ad-hoc execution.
-- command module, now always returns what we documented as 'returns always'.
-- config - use ``callbacks_enabled`` instead ``callback_enabled`` in a deprecated message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70028).
-- config lookup, can also handle collection plugins now
-- config, ensure 'quoted' lists from ini or env do not take the quotes literally as part of the list item.
-- connection ssh, no ssh_args cli option, so removed doc entry.
-- constants, internal _deprecated function always requires version.
-- correct doc links for become on warnings over world readable settings.
-- correctly use world readable setting since old constant is not 'settable' anymore.
-- dnf - align the return value of the list argument with the ``yum`` module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75483)
-- dnf - properly capture transaction error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72651)
-- dnf - refactor code to use `dnf whatprovides` API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73503).
-- dnf - support non-english environments (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75021)
-- dnf module - Use all components of a package name to determine if it's installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75311).
-- do not trigger interpreter discovery in the forced_local module path as they should use the ansible playbook python unless otherwise configured.
-- facts - detect homebrew installed at /opt/homebrew/bin/brew
-- facts, service_mgr, handle issues if ps command fails or returns empty.
-- filter plugins - patch new versions of Jinja2 to prevent warnings/errors on renamed filter decorators (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74667)
-- find - fix a bug where ``size`` argument was ignored for regular files with ``file_type`` of ``any``.
-- find action, correctly convert path to text when warning about skiping.
-- find does not ignore errors from os.walk anymore and issues warnings as expected.
-- gather_facts, improved message on timeout.
-- gather_facts, package, service - fix using module_defaults for the modules in addition to the action plugins. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72918)
-- get_bin_path, clarify with quotes what the missing required executable is.
-- get_url - Fixed checksum validation for binary files (leading asterisk) in checksum files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74502).
-- getent, fix return data for when there are multiple results for the same key
-- git - Fix git path used when .git file is present (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75608).
-- host_group_vars vars plugin fixed ini entry, section and key were reversed.
-- hostname - Add Rocky Linux support
-- hostname - No longer modifies system files in get_* methods and therefore when consulted in check_mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66432)
-- include - Remove deprecated ``static`` argument for ``include`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74135)
-- includes - Remove the deprecated ability to specify ``tags`` as ``vars`` on includes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74144)
-- ini lookup - better error on mixed/bad parameters
-- ini lookup - handle errors for duplicate keys and missing sections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74601)
-- interpreter discovery - Debian 8 and lower will avoid unsupported Python3 version in interpreter discovery
-- interpreter discovery is now handling special (ansible_network_os) cases in less noisy ways.
-- interpreter_discovery - hide warning 'No python interpreters...' when ANSIBLE_PYTHON_INTERPRETER=auto_silent (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74274).
-- module_common - handle exception when multiple workers try to create the cache directory
-- module_defaults - Fix action defaults for legacy actions/modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75279).
-- module_utils - detect symlinked init systems, even if unable to read /proc/1/comm (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74866).
-- netconf - catch and handle exception to prevent stack trace when running in FIPS mode
-- network module_utils - fix bug where ``to_bits()`` returned the ``str`` type instead of a useful value.
-- paramiko_ssh - mark connection as connected when ``_connect()`` is called (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74081)
-- password - Handle passlib wrapped algos bsd_nthash, django_argon2, django_bcrypt, ldap_bcrypt, ldap_bsdi_crypt, ldap_des_crypt, ldap_hex_md5, ldap_hex_sha1, ldap_md5_crypt, ldap_pbkdf2_sha1, ldap_pbkdf2_sha256, ldap_pbkdf2_sha512, ldap_sha1_crypt, ldap_sha256_crypt, ldap_sha512_crypt, roundup_plaintext (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75527).
-- pause - ensure control characters are always set to an appropriate value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73264)
-- pkg_mgr.py - Lower the priority of rpm-ostree detection to avoid false positives on systems not using it as the main package manager (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74578)
-- play - validate the ``hosts`` entry in a play (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65386)
-- playbook loaded from collection subdir now does not ignore subdirs.
-- plugin config now allows list type options to have multiple valid choices (#74225).
-- psrp - Always cleanup the last run pipeline if a second pipeline is invoked to avoid violating any resource limits.
-- psrp - Fix error when resetting a connection that was initialised but not connected - (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74092).
-- psrp - Try to clean up any server-side resources when resetting a connection.
-- recursive_diff - handle condition when parameters are not dict (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56249).
-- register - Ensure that ``register`` used on ``set_fact`` or ``include_vars`` does not automatically wrap the facts as unsafe. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/21088)
-- rekey_on_member - handle undefined positional arguments better.
-- remote tmpdir permissions - fix type error in macOS chmod ACL fallback (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74613).
-- replace - better handling of file operation exceptions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74686).
-- roles - allow for role arg specs in new meta file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74525).
-- roles - fix unexpected ``AttributeError`` when an empty ``argument_specs.yml`` is present (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75604).
-- roles - make sure argspec validation task is tagged with ``always`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74994).
-- roles - make sure argspec validation task templates suboptions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75070).
-- schema validation now uses dynamic range of versions for valid deprecation entries vs hardcoded out of date list.
-- script inventory plugin - Remove deprecated caching support (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74143)
-- sequence - fix error message so that unrecognized options to the plugin display correctly as a list and normalize error messages.
-- service - compare version without LooseVersion API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74488).
-- set ssh host_key_checking defaults to True, restoring original behaviour (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75168)
-- setup module should now not truncate hpux interface names.
-- setup module, fix filter to adjust for missing ``ansible_`` prefix on query.
-- setup, while gathering linux hardware facts be more resilient to errors and try to return more info.
-- slurp - Fix error messages for unreadable files and directories(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67340).
-- slurp - handle error when ``path`` is a directory and not a file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74930).
-- slurp - improve the logic in the error handling and remove ``os.stat()`` call (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75038)
-- ssh connection now correctly handle ssh_transfer_method and scp_if_ssh interactions.
-- ssh connection, fix interaction between trasnfer settings options.
-- ssh connection, use self.host which has the most up2date info instead of pc.remote_addr
-- ssh_connection - rename ``retries`` to ``reconnection_retries`` to avoid conflicts with task vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75142).
-- ssh_connection - set the default for ``reconnection_retries`` back to ``0`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75142).
-- subversion - fix stack trace when getting information about the repository (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36498)
-- system_service - use a context manager for file handling.
-- task_executor, Actions using AnsibleActionFail/Skip will now propagate 'results' if given
-- task_executor/ssh_connection - use the ``retries`` value from ``ssh_connection`` settings, not the default from the ``Task`` field attributes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75142).
-- template - ensure Jinja2 overrides from template header are used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75275)
-- unarchive - allow extracting archives that contain files which size exceeds free system memory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73985).
-- unarchive - fail when zipinfo binary is not found in executable paths (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39029).
-- unarchive - move failure for missing binary to ``can_handle_archive()`` rather than ``__init__()``
-- uri - Fix traceback and provide error message when trying to use non-string or mapping for ``form-multipart`` body - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74276
-- urls - Fix logic in matching ``unredirected_headers`` to perform case insensitive matching
-- validate_argument_spec, correct variable precedence and merge method and add missing examples
-- variable manager, avoid sourcing delegated variables when no inventory hostname is present. This affects scenarios like syntax check and imports.
-- version test - improve error message when an empty version is provided
-- yum - Fixed typo in failure message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72964).
-- yum - When upgrading, every architecture of a package is now included in the module results, instead of just one (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73284).
-- yum - fix ``yumstate`` return value when wildcards are used in the ``list`` argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74557)
-- yum - fix parsing of multiple subsequent empty lines from ``yum check-update`` output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70949)
-- yum - yum action plugin changes to support 'use' as an alias of 'use_backend' (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70774).
-
-Known Issues
-------------
-
-- ansible-test - Tab completion anywhere other than the end of the command with the new composite options will provide incorrect results. See https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/issues/351 for additional details.

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+=================================================
+ansible-core 2.14 "C'mon Everybody" Release Notes
+=================================================
+
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+
+v2.14.4rc1
+==========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-03-21
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - Moved git handling out of the validate-modules sanity test and into ansible-test.
+- ansible-test - Removed the ``--keep-git`` sanity test option, which was limited to testing ansible-core itself.
+- ansible-test - Updated the Azure Pipelines CI plugin to work with newer versions of git.
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- ansible-test - Integration tests which depend on specific file permissions when running in an ansible-test managed host environment may require changes. Tests that require permissions other than ``755`` or ``644`` may need to be updated to set the necessary permissions as part of the test run.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix ``MANIFEST.in`` to exclude unwanted files in the ``packaging/`` directory.
+- Fix ``MANIFEST.in`` to include ``*.md`` files in the ``test/support/`` directory.
+- Fix an issue where the value of ``become`` was ignored when used on a role used as a dependency in ``main/meta.yml`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79777)
+- ``ansible_eval_concat`` - avoid redundant unsafe wrapping of templated strings converted to Python types
+- ansible-galaxy role info - fix unhandled AttributeError by catching the correct exception.
+- ansible-test - Always indicate the Python version being used before installing requirements. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72855
+- ansible-test - Exclude ansible-core vendored Python packages from ansible-test payloads.
+- ansible-test - Integration test target prefixes defined in a ``tests/integration/target-prefixes.{group}`` file can now contain an underscore (``_``) character. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79225
+- ansible-test - Removed pointless comparison in diff evaluation logic.
+- ansible-test - Set ``PYLINTHOME`` for the ``pylint`` sanity test to prevent failures due to ``pylint`` checking for the existence of an obsolete home directory.
+- ansible-test - Support loading of vendored Python packages from ansible-core.
+- ansible-test - Use consistent file permissions when delegating tests to a container or remote host. Files with any execute bit set will use permissions ``755``. All other files will use permissions ``644``. (Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75079)
+- copy - fix creating the dest directory in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78611).
+- copy - fix reporting changes to file attributes in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77957).
+
+v2.14.3
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-02-27
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Make using blocks as handlers a parser error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79968)
+- ansible-test - Specify the configuration file location required by test plugins when the config file is not found. This resolves issue: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79411
+- ansible-test - Update error handling code to use Python 3.x constructs, avoiding direct use of ``errno``.
+- ansible-test acme test container - update version to update used Pebble version, underlying Python and Go base containers, and Python requirements (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79783).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Ansible.Basic.cs - Ignore compiler warning (reported as an error) when running under PowerShell 7.3.x.
+- Fix conditionally notifying ``include_tasks` handlers when ``force_handlers`` is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79776)
+- TaskExecutor - don't ignore templated _raw_params that k=v parser failed to parse (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79862)
+- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections in git repositories/directories which contain a MANIFEST.json file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79796).
+- ansible-test - Support Podman 4.4.0+ by adding the ``SYS_CHROOT`` capability when running containers.
+- ansible-test - fix warning message about failing to run an image to include the image name
+- strategy plugins now correctly identify bad registered variables, even on skip.
+
+v2.14.2
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-01-30
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - Docker Desktop on WSL2 is now supported (additional configuration required).
+- ansible-test - Docker and Podman are now supported on hosts with cgroup v2 unified. Previously only cgroup v1 and cgroup v2 hybrid were supported.
+- ansible-test - Podman now works on container hosts without systemd. Previously only some containers worked, while others required rootfull or rootless Podman, but would not work with both. Some containers did not work at all.
+- ansible-test - Podman on WSL2 is now supported.
+- ansible-test - When additional cgroup setup is required on the container host, this will be automatically detected. Instructions on how to configure the host will be provided in the error message shown.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - A new ``audit`` option is available when running custom containers. This option can be used to indicate whether a container requires the AUDIT_WRITE capability. The default is ``required``, which most containers will need when using Podman. If necessary, the ``none`` option can be used to opt-out of the capability. This has no effect on Docker, which always provides the capability.
+- ansible-test - A new ``cgroup`` option is available when running custom containers. This option can be used to indicate a container requires cgroup v1 or that it does not use cgroup. The default behavior assumes the container works with cgroup v2 (as well as v1).
+- ansible-test - Additional log details are shown when containers fail to start or SSH connections to containers fail.
+- ansible-test - Connection failures to remote provisioned hosts now show failure details as a warning.
+- ansible-test - Containers included with ansible-test no longer disable seccomp by default.
+- ansible-test - Failure to connect to a container over SSH now results in a clear error. Previously tests would be attempted even after initial connection attempts failed.
+- ansible-test - Integration tests can be excluded from retries triggered by the ``--retry-on-error`` option by adding the ``retry/never`` alias. This is useful for tests that cannot pass on a retry or are too slow to make retries useful.
+- ansible-test - More details are provided about an instance when provisioning fails.
+- ansible-test - Reduce the polling limit for SSHD startup in containers from 60 retries to 10. The one second delay between retries remains in place.
+- ansible-test - SSH connections from OpenSSH 8.8+ to CentOS 6 containers now work without additional configuration. However, clients older than OpenSSH 7.0 can no longer connect to CentOS 6 containers as a result. The container must have ``centos6`` in the image name for this work-around to be applied.
+- ansible-test - SSH shell connections from OpenSSH 8.8+ to ansible-test provisioned network instances now work without additional configuration. However, clients older than OpenSSH 7.0 can no longer open shell sessions for ansible-test provisioned network instances as a result.
+- ansible-test - The ``ansible-test env`` command now detects and reports the container ID if running in a container.
+- ansible-test - Unit tests now support network disconnect by default when running under Podman. Previously this feature only worked by default under Docker.
+- ansible-test - Use ``stop --time 0`` followed by ``rm`` to remove ephemeral containers instead of ``rm -f``. This speeds up teardown of ephemeral containers.
+- ansible-test - Warnings are now shown when using containers that were built with VOLUME instructions.
+- ansible-test - When setting the max open files for containers, the container host's limit will be checked. If the host limit is lower than the preferred value, it will be used and a warning will be shown.
+- ansible-test - When using Podman, ansible-test will detect if the loginuid used in containers is incorrect. When this occurs a warning is displayed and the container is run with the AUDIT_CONTROL capability. Previously containers would fail under this situation, with no useful warnings or errors given.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Correctly count rescued tasks in play recap (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79711)
+- Fix traceback when using the ``template`` module and running with ``ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79763)
+- Fix using ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` in conjunction with collections in requirements files which specify a specific ``source`` that isn't in the configured servers.
+- Fix using ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` when downloading tarballs from Galaxy servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79557).
+- Module and role argument validation - include the valid suboption choices in the error when an invalid suboption is provided.
+- ansible-doc now will correctly display short descriptions on listing filters/tests no matter the directory sorting.
+- ansible-inventory will not explicitly sort groups/hosts anymore, giving a chance (depending on output format) to match the order in the input sources.
+- ansible-test - Added a work-around for a traceback under Python 3.11 when completing certain command line options.
+- ansible-test - Avoid using ``exec`` after container startup when possible. This improves container startup performance and avoids intermittent startup issues with some old containers.
+- ansible-test - Connection attempts to managed remote instances no longer abort on ``Permission denied`` errors.
+- ansible-test - Detection for running in a Podman or Docker container has been fixed to detect more scenarios. The new detection relies on ``/proc/self/mountinfo`` instead of ``/proc/self/cpuset``. Detection now works with custom cgroups and private cgroup namespaces.
+- ansible-test - Fix validate-modules error when retrieving PowerShell argspec when retrieved inside a Cmdlet
+- ansible-test - Handle server errors when executing the ``docker info`` command.
+- ansible-test - Multiple containers now work under Podman without specifying the ``--docker-network`` option.
+- ansible-test - Pass the ``XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`` environment variable through to container commands.
+- ansible-test - Perform PyPI proxy configuration after instances are ready and bootstrapping has been completed. Only target instances are affected, as controller instances were already handled this way. This avoids proxy configuration errors when target instances are not yet ready for use.
+- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent / repeat inspections of the same container image.
+- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent / repeat pulls of the same container image.
+- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent execution of cached methods.
+- ansible-test - Show the exception type when reporting errors during instance provisioning.
+- ansible-test sanity - correctly report invalid YAML in validate-modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75837).
+- argument spec validation - again report deprecated parameters for Python-based modules. This was accidentally removed in ansible-core 2.11 when argument spec validation was refactored (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79680, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79681).
+- argument spec validation - ensure that deprecated aliases in suboptions are also reported (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79740).
+- argument spec validation - fix warning message when two aliases of the same option are used for suboptions to also mention the option's name they are in (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79740).
+- connection local now avoids traceback on invalid user being used to execuet ansible (valid in host, but not in container).
+- file - touch action in check mode was always returning ok. Fix now evaluates the different conditions and returns the appropriate changed status. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79360)
+- get_url - Ensure we are passing ciphers to all url_get calls (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79717)
+- plugin filter now works with rejectlist as documented (still falls back to blacklist if used).
+- uri - improve JSON content type detection
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- ansible-test - Additional configuration may be required for certain container host and container combinations. Further details are available in the testing documentation.
+- ansible-test - Custom containers with ``VOLUME`` instructions may be unable to start, when previously the containers started correctly. Remove the ``VOLUME`` instructions to resolve the issue. Containers with this condition will cause ``ansible-test`` to emit a warning.
+- ansible-test - Systems with Podman networking issues may be unable to run containers, when previously the issue went unreported. Correct the networking issues to continue using ``ansible-test`` with Podman.
+- ansible-test - Using Docker on systems with SELinux may require setting SELinux to permissive mode. Podman should work with SELinux in enforcing mode.
+
+v2.14.1
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2022-12-06
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - Improve consistency of executed ``pylint`` commands by making the plugins ordered.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fixes leftover _valid_attrs usage.
+- ansible-galaxy - make initial call to Galaxy server on-demand only when installing, getting info about, and listing roles.
+- copy module will no longer move 'non files' set as src when remote_src=true.
+- display - reduce risk of post-fork output deadlocks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79522)
+- jinja2_native: preserve quotes in strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79083)
+- updated error messages to include 'acl' and not just mode changes when failing to set required permissions on remote.
+
+v2.14.0
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2022-11-07
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- Move handler processing into new ``PlayIterator`` phase to use the configured strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65067)
+- ansible - At startup the filesystem encoding and locale are checked to verify they are UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
+- ansible - Increase minimum Python requirement to Python 3.9 for CLI utilities and controller code
+- ansible-test - At startup the filesystem encoding is checked to verify it is UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
+- ansible-test - At startup the locale is configured as ``en_US.UTF-8``, with a fallback to ``C.UTF-8``. If neither encoding is available the process exits with an error. If the fallback is used, a warning is displayed. In previous versions the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale was always requested. However, no startup checking was performed to verify the locale was successfully configured.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Add a new "INVENTORY_UNPARSED_WARNING" flag add to hide the "No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available" warning
+- Add an 'action_plugin' field for modules in runtime.yml plugin_routing.
+
+  This fixes module_defaults by supporting modules-as-redirected-actions
+  without redirecting module_defaults entries to the common action.
+
+  .. code: yaml
+
+     plugin_routing:
+       action:
+         facts:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos
+         command:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos
+       modules:
+         facts:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos_facts
+         command:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos_command
+
+  With the runtime.yml above for ns.coll, a task such as
+
+  .. code: yaml
+
+     - hosts: all
+       module_defaults:
+         ns.coll.eos_facts: {'valid_for_eos_facts': 'value'}
+         ns.coll.eos_command: {'not_valid_for_eos_facts': 'value'}
+       tasks:
+         - ns.coll.facts:
+
+  will end up with defaults for eos_facts and eos_command
+  since both modules redirect to the same action.
+
+  To select an action plugin for a module without merging
+  module_defaults, define an action_plugin field for the resolved
+  module in the runtime.yml.
+
+  .. code: yaml
+
+     plugin_routing:
+       modules:
+         facts:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos_facts
+           action_plugin: ns.coll.eos
+         command:
+           redirect: ns.coll.eos_command
+           action_plugin: ns.coll.eos
+
+  The action_plugin field can be a redirected action plugin, as
+  it is resolved normally.
+
+  Using the modified runtime.yml, the example task will only use
+  the ns.coll.eos_facts defaults.
+- Add support for parsing ``-a`` module options as JSON and not just key=value arguments - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78112
+- Added Kylin Linux Advanced Server OS in RedHat OS Family.
+- Allow ``when`` conditionals to be used on ``flush_handlers`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77616)
+- Allow meta tasks to be used as handlers.
+- Display - The display class will now proxy calls to Display.display via the queue from forks/workers to be handled by the parent process for actual display. This reduces some reliance on the fork start method and improves reliability of displaying messages.
+- Jinja version test - Add pep440 version_type for version test. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78288)
+- Loops - Add new ``loop_control.extended_allitems`` to allow users to disable tracking all loop items for each loop (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75216)
+- NetBSD - Add uptime_seconds fact
+- Provide a `utc` option for strftime to show time in UTC rather than local time
+- Raise a proper error when ``include_role`` or ``import_role`` is used as a handler.
+- Remove the ``AnsibleContext.resolve`` method as its override is not necessary. Furthermore the ability to override the ``resolve`` method was deprecated in Jinja 3.0.0 and removed in Jinja 3.1.0.
+- Utilize @classmethod and @property together to form classproperty (Python 3.9) to access field attributes of a class
+- ``LoopControl`` is now templated through standard ``post_validate`` method (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75715)
+- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` - add an ``--offline`` option to prevent querying distribution servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77443).
+- ansible - Add support for Python 3.11 to Python interpreter discovery.
+- ansible - At startup the stdin/stdout/stderr file handles are checked to verify they are using blocking IO. If not, the process exits with an error reporting which file handle(s) are using non-blocking IO.
+- ansible-config adds JSON and YAML output formats for list and dump actions.
+- ansible-connection now supports verbosity directly on cli
+- ansible-console added 'collections' command to match playbook keyword.
+- ansible-doc - remove some of the manual formatting, and use YAML more uniformly. This in particular means that ``true`` and ``false`` are used for boolean values, instead of ``True`` and ``False`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78668).
+- ansible-galaxy - Support resolvelib versions 0.6.x, 0.7.x, and 0.8.x. The full range of supported versions is now >= 0.5.3, < 0.9.0.
+- ansible-galaxy now supports a user defined timeout,  instead of existing hardcoded 60s (now the default).
+- ansible-test - Add FreeBSD 13.1 remote support.
+- ansible-test - Add RHEL 9.0 remote support.
+- ansible-test - Add support for Python 3.11.
+- ansible-test - Add support for RHEL 8.6 remotes.
+- ansible-test - Add support for Ubuntu VMs using the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test - Add support for exporting inventory with ``ansible-test shell --export {path}``.
+- ansible-test - Add support for multi-arch remotes.
+- ansible-test - Add support for provisioning Alpine 3.16 remote instances.
+- ansible-test - Add support for provisioning Fedora 36 remote instances.
+- ansible-test - Add support for provisioning Ubuntu 20.04 remote instances.
+- ansible-test - Add support for provisioning remotes which require ``doas`` for become.
+- ansible-test - Add support for running non-interactive commands with ``ansible-test shell``.
+- ansible-test - Alpine remotes now use ``sudo`` for tests, using ``doas`` only for bootstrapping.
+- ansible-test - An improved error message is shown when the download of a pip bootstrap script fails. The download now uses ``urllib2`` instead of ``urllib`` on Python 2.
+- ansible-test - Avoid using the ``mock_use_standalone_module`` setting for unit tests running on Python 3.8 or later.
+- ansible-test - Become support for remote instance provisioning is no longer tied to a fixed list of platforms.
+- ansible-test - Blocking mode is now enforced for stdin, stdout and stderr. If any of these are non-blocking then ansible-test will exit during startup with an error.
+- ansible-test - Distribution specific test containers are now multi-arch, supporting both x86_64 and aarch64.
+- ansible-test - Distribution specific test containers no longer contain a ``/etc/ansible/hosts`` file.
+- ansible-test - Enable loading of ``coverage`` data files created by older supported ansible-test releases.
+- ansible-test - Fedora 36 has been added as a test container.
+- ansible-test - FreeBSD remotes now use ``sudo`` for tests, using ``su`` only for bootstrapping.
+- ansible-test - Improve consistency of output messages by using stdout or stderr for most output, but not both.
+- ansible-test - Improve consistency of version specific documentation links.
+- ansible-test - Remote Alpine instances now have the ``acl`` package installed.
+- ansible-test - Remote Fedora instances now have the ``acl`` package installed.
+- ansible-test - Remote FreeBSD instances now have ACLs enabled on the root filesystem.
+- ansible-test - Remote Ubuntu instances now have the ``acl`` package installed.
+- ansible-test - Remove Fedora 34 test container.
+- ansible-test - Remove Fedora 35 test container.
+- ansible-test - Remove FreeBSD 13.0 remote support.
+- ansible-test - Remove RHEL 8.5 remote support.
+- ansible-test - Remove Ubuntu 18.04 test container.
+- ansible-test - Remove support for Python 2.7 on provisioned FreeBSD instances.
+- ansible-test - Remove support for Python 3.8 on the controller.
+- ansible-test - Remove the ``opensuse15py2`` container.
+- ansible-test - Support multiple pinned versions of the ``coverage`` module. The version used now depends on the Python version in use.
+- ansible-test - Test containers have been updated to remove the ``VOLUME`` instruction.
+- ansible-test - The Alpine 3 test container has been updated to Alpine 3.16.0.
+- ansible-test - The ``http-test-container`` container is now multi-arch, supporting both x86_64 and aarch64.
+- ansible-test - The ``pypi-test-container`` container is now multi-arch, supporting both x86_64 and aarch64.
+- ansible-test - The ``shell`` command can be used outside a collection if no controller delegation is required.
+- ansible-test - The openSUSE test container has been updated to openSUSE Leap 15.4.
+- ansible-test - Ubuntu 22.04 has been added as a test container.
+- ansible-test - Update ``base`` and ``default`` containers to include Python 3.11.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to include new ``docs-build`` sanity test requirements.
+- ansible-test - Update pinned sanity test requirements for all tests.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` container to 3.4.0.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to 6.6.0.
+- ansible-test validate-modules - Added support for validating module documentation stored in a sidecar file alongside the module (``{module}.yml`` or ``{module}.yaml``). Previously these files were ignored and documentation had to be placed in ``{module}.py``.
+- apt_repository remove dependency on apt-key and use gpg + /usr/share/keyrings directly instead
+- apt_repository will use the trust repo directories in order of preference (more appropriate to less) as they exist on the target.
+- blockinfile - The presence of the multiline flag (?m) in the regular expression for insertafter opr insertbefore controls whether the match is done line by line or with multiple lines (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75090).
+- calls to listify_lookup_plugin_terms in core do not pass in loader/dataloader anymore.
+- collections - ``ansible-galaxy collection build`` can now utilize ``MANIFEST.in`` style directives from ``galaxy.yml`` instead of ``build_ignore`` effectively inverting the logic from include by default, to exclude by default. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78422)
+- config manager, move templating into main query function in config instead of constants
+- config manager, remove updates to configdata as it is mostly unused
+- configuration entry INTERPRETER_PYTHON_DISTRO_MAP is now 'private' and won't show up in normal configuration queries and docs, since it is not 'settable' this avoids user confusion.
+- distribution - add distribution_minor_version for Debian Distro (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74481).
+- documentation construction now gives more information on error.
+- facts - add OSMC to Debian os_family mapping
+- get_url - permit to pass to parameter ``checksum`` an URL pointing to a file containing only a checksum (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54390).
+- new tests url, uri and urn will verify string as such, but they don't check existance of the resource
+- plugin loader - add ansible_name and ansible_aliases attributes to plugin objects/classes.
+- systemd is now systemd_service to better reflect the scope of the module, systemd is kept as an alias for backwards compatibility.
+- templating - removed internal template cache
+- uri - cleanup write_file method, remove overkill safety checks and report any exception, change shutilcopyfile to use module.atomic_move
+- urls - Add support to specify SSL/TLS ciphers to use during a request (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78633)
+- validate-modules - Allow ``type: raw`` on a module return type definition for values that have a dynamic type
+- version output now includes the path to the python executable that Ansible is running under
+- yum_repository - do not give the ``async`` parameter a default value anymore, since this option is deprecated in RHEL 8. This means that ``async = 1`` won't be added to repository files if omitted, but it can still be set explicitly if needed.
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- Allow for lazy evaluation of Jinja2 expressions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56017)
+- The default ansible-galaxy role skeletons no longer contain .travis.yml files. You can configure ansible-galaxy to use a custom role skeleton that contains a .travis.yml file to continue using Galaxy's integration with Travis CI.
+- ansible - At startup the filesystem encoding and locale are checked to verify they are UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
+- ansible - Increase minimum Python requirement to Python 3.9 for CLI utilities and controller code
+- ansible-test - At startup the filesystem encoding is checked to verify it is UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
+- ansible-test - At startup the locale is configured as ``en_US.UTF-8``, with a fallback to ``C.UTF-8``. If neither encoding is available the process exits with an error. If the fallback is used, a warning is displayed. In previous versions the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale was always requested. However, no startup checking was performed to verify the locale was successfully configured.
+- ansible-test validate-modules - Removed the ``missing-python-doc`` error code in validate modules, ``missing-documentation`` is used instead for missing PowerShell module documentation.
+- strategy plugins - Make ``ignore_unreachable`` to increase ``ignored`` and ``ok`` and  counter, not ``skipped`` and ``unreachable``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77690)
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- Deprecate ability of lookup plugins to return arbitrary data. Lookup plugins must return lists, failing to do so will be an error in 2.18. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77788)
+- Encryption - Deprecate use of the Python crypt module due to it's impending removal from Python 3.13
+- PlayContext.verbosity is deprecated and will be removed in 2.18. Use ansible.utils.display.Display().verbosity as the single source of truth.
+- ``DEFAULT_FACT_PATH``, ``DEFAULT_GATHER_SUBSET`` and ``DEFAULT_GATHER_TIMEOUT`` are deprecated and will be removed in 2.18. Use ``module_defaults`` keyword instead.
+- ``PlayIterator`` - deprecate ``cache_block_tasks`` and ``get_original_task`` which are noop and unused.
+- ``Templar`` - deprecate ``shared_loader_obj`` option which is unused. ``ansible.plugins.loader`` is used directly instead.
+- listify_lookup_plugin_terms, deprecate 'loader/dataloader' parameter as it not used.
+- vars plugins - determining whether or not to run ansible.legacy vars plugins with the class attribute REQUIRES_WHITELIST is deprecated, set REQUIRES_ENABLED instead.
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- PlayIterator - remove deprecated ``PlayIterator.ITERATING_*`` and ``PlayIterator.FAILED_*``
+- Remove deprecated ``ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMPFILES`` configuration option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77393)
+- Remove deprecated ``COMMAND_WARNINGS`` configuration option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77394)
+- Remove deprecated ``DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS`` environment variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77396)
+- Remove deprecated ``LIBVIRT_LXC_NOSECLABEL`` environment variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77395)
+- Remove deprecated ``NETWORK_GROUP_MODULES`` environment variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77397)
+- Remove deprecated ``UnsafeProxy``
+- Remove deprecated ``plugin_filters_cfg`` config option from ``default`` section (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77398)
+- Remove deprecated functionality that allows loading cache plugins directly without using ``cache_loader``.
+- Remove deprecated functionality that allows subclassing ``DefaultCallback`` without the corresponding ``doc_fragment``.
+- Remove deprecated powershell functions ``Load-CommandUtils`` and ``Import-PrivilegeUtil``
+- apt_key - remove deprecated ``key`` module param
+- command/shell - remove deprecated ``warn`` module param
+- get_url - remove deprecated ``sha256sum`` module param
+- import_playbook - remove deprecated functionality that allows providing additional parameters in free form
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- "meta: refresh_inventory" does not clobber entries added by add_host/group_by anymore.
+- Add PyYAML >= 5.1 as a dependency of ansible-core to be compatible with Python 3.8+.
+- Avoid 'unreachable' error when chmod on AIX has 255 as return code.
+- BSD network facts - Do not assume column indexes, look for ``netmask`` and ``broadcast`` for determining the correct columns when parsing ``inet`` line (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79117)
+- Bug fix for when handlers were ran on failed hosts after an ``always`` section was executed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/52561)
+- Do not allow handlers from dynamic includes to be notified (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78399)
+- Do not crash when templating an expression with a test or filter that is not a valid Ansible filter name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78912, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78913).
+- Ensure handlers observe ``any_errors_fatal`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46447)
+- Ensure syntax check errors include playbook filenames
+- Ensure the correct ``environment_class`` is set on ``AnsibleJ2Template``
+- Error for collection redirects that do not use fully qualified collection names, as the redirect would be determined by the ``collections`` keyword.
+- Fix PluginLoader to mimic Python import machinery by adding module to sys.modules before exec
+- Fix ``-vv`` output for meta tasks to not have an empty message when skipped, print the skip reason instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77315)
+- Fix an issue where ``ansible_play_hosts`` and ``ansible_play_batch`` were not properly updated when a failure occured in an explicit block inside the rescue section (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78612)
+- Fix dnf module documentation to indicate that comparison operators for package version require spaces around them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78295)
+- Fix for linear strategy when tasks were executed in incorrect order or even removed from execution. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64611, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64999, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72725, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72781)
+- Fix for network_cli not getting all relevant connection options
+- Fix handlers execution with ``serial`` in the ``linear`` strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54991)
+- Fix potential, but unlikely, cases of variable use before definition.
+- Fix reusing a connection in a task loop that uses a redirected or aliased name - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78425
+- Fix setting become activation in a task loop - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78425
+- Fix traceback when installing a collection from a git repository and git is not installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77479).
+- GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS reworked to allow each server entry to override
+- More gracefully handle separator errors in jinja2 template overrides (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77495).
+- Move undefined check from concat to finalize (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78156)
+- Prevent losing unsafe on results returned from lookups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77535)
+- Propagate ``ansible_failed_task`` and ``ansible_failed_result`` to an outer rescue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43191)
+- Properly execute rescue section when an include task fails in all loop iterations (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/23161)
+- Properly send a skipped message when a list in a ``loop`` is empty and comes from a template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77934)
+- Support colons in jinja2 template override values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77495).
+- ``ansible-galaxy`` - remove extra server api call during dependency resolution for requirements and dependencies that are already satisfied (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77443).
+- `ansible-config init -f vars` will now use shorthand format
+- action plugins now pass cannonical info to modules instead of 'temporary' info from play_context
+- ansible - Exclude Python 2.6 from Python interpreter discovery.
+- ansible-config dump - Only display plugin type headers when plugin options are changed if --only-changed is specified.
+- ansible-config limit shorthand format to assigned values
+- ansible-configi init should now skip internal reserved config entries
+- ansible-connection - decrypt vaulted parameters before sending over the socket, as vault secrets are not available on the other side.
+- ansible-console - Renamed the first argument of ``ConsoleCLI.default`` from ``arg`` to ``line`` to match the first argument of the same method on the base class ``Cmd``.
+- ansible-console commands now all have a help entry.
+- ansible-console fixed to load modules via fqcn, short names and handle redirects.
+- ansible-console now shows installed collection modules.
+- ansible-doc - fix listing plugins.
+- ansible-doc will not add 'website for' in ":ref:" substitutions as it made them confusing.
+- ansible-doc will not again warn and skip when missing docs, always show the doc file (for edit on github) and match legacy plugins.
+- ansible-doc will not traceback when legacy plugins don't have docs nor adjacent file with docs
+- ansible-doc will now also display until as an 'implicit' templating keyword.
+- ansible-doc will now not display version_added_collection under same conditions it does not display version_added.
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix detection of ``--role-file`` in arguments for implicit role invocation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78204)
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix exit codes for role search and delete (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78516)
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix loading boolean server options so False doesn't become a truthy string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77416).
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix reinitializing the whole collection directory with ``ansible-galaxy collection init ns.coll --force``. Now directories and files that are not included in the collection skeleton will be removed.
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix unhandled traceback if a role's dependencies in meta/main.yml or meta/requirements.yml are not lists.
+- ansible-galaxy - do not require mandatory keys in the ``galaxy.yml`` of source collections when listing them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70180).
+- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections that have dependencies in the metadata set to null instead of an empty dictionary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77560).
+- ansible-galaxy - fix listing collections that contains metadata but the namespace or name are not strings.
+- ansible-galaxy - fix missing meta/runtime.yml in default galaxy skeleton used for ansible-galaxy collection init
+- ansible-galaxy - fix setting the cache for paginated responses from Galaxy NG/AH (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77911).
+- ansible-galaxy - handle unsupported versions of resolvelib gracefully.
+- ansible-galaxy --ignore-certs now has proper precedence over configuration
+- ansible-test - Add ``wheel < 0.38.0`` constraint for Python 3.6 and earlier.
+- ansible-test - Allow disabled, unsupported, unstable and destructive integration test targets to be selected using their respective prefixes.
+- ansible-test - Allow unstable tests to run when targeted changes are made and the ``--allow-unstable-changed`` option is specified (resolves https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74213).
+- ansible-test - Always remove containers after failing to create/run them. This avoids leaving behind created containers when using podman.
+- ansible-test - Correctly detect when running as the ``root`` user (UID 0) on the origin host. The result of the detection was incorrectly being inverted.
+- ansible-test - Delegation for commands which generate output for programmatic consumption no longer redirect all output to stdout. The affected commands and options are ``shell``, ``sanity --lint``, ``sanity --list-tests``, ``integration --list-targets``, ``coverage analyze``
+- ansible-test - Delegation now properly handles arguments given after ``--`` on the command line.
+- ansible-test - Don't fail if network cannot be disconnected (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77472)
+- ansible-test - Fix bootstrapping of Python 3.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 remotes.
+- ansible-test - Fix broken documentation link for ``aws`` test plugin error messages.
+- ansible-test - Fix change detection for ansible-test's own integration tests.
+- ansible-test - Fix internal validation of remote completion configuration.
+- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/python`` on the origin host.
+- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/root`` on the origin host.
+- ansible-test - Prevent ``--target-`` prefixed options for the ``shell`` command from being combined with legacy environment options.
+- ansible-test - Sanity test output with the ``--lint`` option is no longer mixed in with bootstrapping output.
+- ansible-test - Subprocesses are now isolated from the stdin, stdout and stderr of ansible-test. This avoids issues with subprocesses tampering with the file descriptors, such as SSH making them non-blocking. As a result of this change, subprocess output from unit and integration tests on stderr now go to stdout.
+- ansible-test - Subprocesses no longer have access to the TTY ansible-test is connected to, if any. This maintains consistent behavior between local testing and CI systems, which typically do not provide a TTY. Tests which require a TTY should use pexpect or another mechanism to create a PTY.
+- ansible-test - Temporary executables are now verified as executable after creation. Without this check, path injected scripts may not be found, typically on systems with ``/tmp`` mounted using the "noexec" option. This can manifest as a missing Python interpreter, or use of the wrong Python interpreter, as well as other error conditions.
+- ansible-test - Test configuration for collections is now parsed only once, prior to delegation. Fixes issue: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78334
+- ansible-test - Test containers are now run with the ``--tmpfs`` option for ``/tmp``, ``/run`` and ``/run/lock``. This allows use of containers built without the ``VOLUME`` instruction. Additionally, containers with those volumes defined no longer create anonymous volumes for them. This avoids leaving behind volumes on the container host after the container is stopped and deleted.
+- ansible-test - The ``shell`` command no longer redirects all output to stdout when running a provided command. Any command output written to stderr will be mixed with the stderr output from ansible-test.
+- ansible-test - The ``shell`` command no longer requests a TTY when using delegation unless an interactive shell is being used. An interactive shell is the default behavior when no command is given to pass to the shell.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test requirements to resolve crashes on Python 3.11. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78882)
+- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 2.15.4.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 2.15.5.
+- ansible-test - ansible-doc sanity test - Correctly determine the fully-qualified collection name for plugins in subdirectories, resolving https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78490.
+- ansible-test - validate-modules - Documentation-only modules, used for documenting actions, are now allowed to have docstrings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77972).
+- ansible-test compile sanity test - do not crash if a column could not be determined for an error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77465).
+- apt - Fix module failure when a package is not installed and only_upgrade=True. Skip that package and check the remaining requested packages for upgrades. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78762)
+- apt - don't actually update the cache in check mode with update_cache=true.
+- apt - don't mark existing packages as manually installed in check mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66413).
+- apt - fix package selection to include /etc/apt/preferences(.d) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77969)
+- apt module now correctly handles virtual packages.
+- apt module should not traceback on invalid type given as package. issue 78663.
+- arg_spec - Fix incorrect ``no_log`` warning when a parameter alias is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77576)
+- callback plugins - do not crash when ``exception`` passed from a module is not a string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75726, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77781).
+- cli now emits clearer error on no hosts selected
+- config, ensure that pulling values from configmanager are templated if possible.
+- display itself should be single source of 'verbosity' level to the engine.
+- dnf - Condense a few internal boolean returns.
+- dnf - The ``nobest`` option now also works for ``state=latest``.
+- dnf - The ``skip_broken`` option is now used in installs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73072).
+- dnf - fix output parsing on systems with ``LANGUAGE`` set to a language other than English (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78193)
+- facts - fix IP address discovery for specific interface names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77792).
+- facts - fix processor facts on AIX: correctly detect number of cores and threads, turn ``processor`` into a list (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78223).
+- fetch_file - Ensure we only use the filename when calculating a tempfile, and do not incude the query string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29680)
+- fetch_file - properly split files with multiple file extensions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75257)
+- file - setting attributes of symbolic links or files that are hard linked no longer fails when the link target is unspecified (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76142).
+- file backed cache plugins now handle concurrent access by making atomic updates to the files.
+- git module fix docs and proper use of ssh wrapper script and GIT_SSH_COMMAND depending on version.
+- handlers - fix an issue where the ``flush_handlers`` meta task could not be used with FQCN: ``ansible.builtin.meta`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79023)
+- if a config setting prevents running ansible it should at least show it's "origin".
+- include module - add docs url to include deprecation message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76684).
+- items2dict - Handle error if an item is not a dictionary or is missing the required keys (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70337).
+- keyword inheritance - Ensure that we do not squash keywords in validate (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79021)
+- known_hosts - do not return changed status when a non-existing key is removed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78598)
+- local facts - if a local fact in the facts directory cannot be stated, store an error message as the fact value and emit a warning just as if just as if the facts execution has failed. The stat can fail e.g. on dangling symlinks.
+- lookup plugin - catch KeyError when lookup returns dictionary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77789).
+- module_utils - Make distro.id() report newer versions of OpenSuSE (at least >=15) also report as ``opensuse``. They report themselves as ``opensuse-leap``.
+- module_utils.service - daemonize - Avoid modifying the list of file descriptors while iterating over it.
+- null_representation config entry changed to 'raw' as it must allow 'none/null' and empty string.
+- omit on keywords was resetting to default value, ignoring inheritance.
+- paramiko - Add a new option to allow paramiko >= 2.9 to easily work with all devices now that rsa-sha2 support was added to paramiko, which prevented communication with numerous platforms. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76737)
+- paramiko - Add back support for ``ssh_args``, ``ssh_common_args``, and ``ssh_extra_args`` for parsing the ``ProxyCommand`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78750)
+- password lookup does not ignore k=v arguments anymore.
+- pause module will now report proper 'echo' vs always being true.
+- pip - fix cases where resolution of pip Python module fails when importlib.util has not already been imported
+- plugin loader - Sort results when fuzzy matching plugin names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77966).
+- plugin loader will now load config data for plugin by name instead of by file to avoid issues with the same file being loaded under different names (fqcn + short name).
+- plugin loader, fix detection for existing configuration before initializing for a plugin
+- plugin loader, now when skipping a plugin due to an abstract method error we provide that in 'verbose' mode instead of totally obscuring the error. The current implementation assumed only the base classes would trigger this and failed to consider 'in development' plugins.
+- prevent lusermod from using group name instead of group id (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77914)
+- prevent type annotation shim failures from causing runtime failures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77860)
+- psrp connection now handles default to inventory_hostname correctly.
+- roles, fixed issue with roles loading paths not contained in the role itself when using the `_from` options.
+- service_facts - Use python re to parse service output instead of grep (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78541)
+- setup - Adds a default value to ``lvm_facts`` when lvm or lvm2 is not installed on linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17393)
+- shell plugins now give a more user friendly error when fed the wrong type of data.
+- template module/lookup - fix ``convert_data`` option that was effectively always set to True for Jinja macros (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78141)
+- unarchive - if unzip is available but zipinfo is not, use unzip -Z instead of zipinfo (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76959).
+- uri - properly use uri parameter use_proxy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58632)
+- uri module - failed status when Authentication Bearer used with netrc, because Basic authentication was by default. Fix now allows to ignore netrc by changing use_netrc=False (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74397).
+- urls - Guard imports of ``urllib3`` by catching ``Exception`` instead of ``ImportError`` to prevent exceptions in the import process of optional dependencies from preventing use of ``urls.py`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78648)
+- user - Fix error "Permission denied" in user module while generating SSH keys (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78017).
+- user - fix creating a local user if the user group already exists (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75042)
+- user module - Replace uses of the deprecated ``spwd`` python module with ctypes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78050)
+- validate-modules - fix validating version_added for new options.
+- variablemanager, more efficient read of vars files
+- vault secrets file now executes in the correct context when it is a symlink (not resolved to canonical file).
+- wait_for - Read file and perform comparisons using bytes to avoid decode errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78214)
+- winrm - Ensure ``kinit`` is run with the same ``PATH`` env var as the Ansible process
+- winrm connection now handles default to inventory_hostname correctly.
+- yaml inventory plugin - fix the error message for non-string hostnames (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77519).
+- yum - fix traceback when ``releasever`` is specified with ``latest`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78058)
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Test
+~~~~
+
+- uri - is the string a valid URI
+- url - is the string a valid URL
+- urn - is the string a valid URN

changelogs/fragments/17393-fix_silently_failing_lvm_facts.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - setup - Adds a default value to ``lvm_facts`` when lvm or lvm2 is not installed on linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17393)

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

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

changelogs/fragments/2.14.4rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2021-11-05
+   | Release Date: 2023-03-21
    | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__

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

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

changelogs/fragments/212-py26-deprecation.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/23161-includes-loops-rescue.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "Properly execute rescue section when an include task fails in all loop iterations (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/23161)"

changelogs/fragments/29457-deprecate-remote_checksum.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/29680-fetch-file-file-name-too-long.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- fetch_file - Ensure we only use the filename when calculating a tempfile, and do not incude the query string
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29680)

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/39029_unarchive.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/43191-72638-ansible_failed_task-fixes.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Propagate ``ansible_failed_task`` and ``ansible_failed_result`` to an outer rescue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43191)

changelogs/fragments/50594_ini.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/55994_testcases.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/56017-allow-lazy-eval-on-jinja2-expr.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+breaking_changes:
+  - Allow for lazy evaluation of Jinja2 expressions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56017)

changelogs/fragments/56249_recursive_diff.yml

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/58632-uri-include_use_proxy.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - uri - properly use uri parameter use_proxy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58632)

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

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

changelogs/fragments/61965-user-module-fails-to-change-primary-group.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- prevent lusermod from using group name instead of group id (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77914)

changelogs/fragments/64612-fetch_file-multi-part-extension.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - fetch_file - properly split files with multiple file extensions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75257)

changelogs/fragments/65227.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/65386-validate-hosts.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/65499-no_inventory_parsed.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- Add a new "INVENTORY_UNPARSED_WARNING" flag add to hide the "No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available" warning

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

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

changelogs/fragments/66432_hostname_check_mode_writes.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/67340-slurp_error_message.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/67943_collection_skip.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/70180-collection-list-more-robust.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - ansible-galaxy - do not require mandatory keys in the ``galaxy.yml`` of source collections when listing them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70180).

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/71343_yum_repository.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/72607.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/73072-dnf-skip-broken.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - dnf - The ``skip_broken`` option is now used in installs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73072).
+  - dnf - The ``nobest`` option now also works for ``state=latest``.
+  - dnf - Condense a few internal boolean returns.

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

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

changelogs/fragments/73264-pause-emacs.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/73284-yum-multiarch.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/73503_dnf_whatprovides.yml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/73814-host_label.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/73819-git-accept_new_host_key.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/73820-yumdnf-add_cacheonly_option.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/73821-user-add_umask_option.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/73822-date_time_facts_add_epoch_int.yaml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/73996-recursion-depth.yml

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

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

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

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

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