New release v2.10.2rc1

(cherry picked from commit 0c3a9c7ae6)

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

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-trigger:
-  batch: true
-  branches:
-    include:
-      - devel
-      - stable-*
-
-pr:
-  autoCancel: true
-  branches:
-    include:
-      - devel
-      - stable-*
-
-schedules:
-  - cron: 0 7 * * *
-    displayName: Nightly
-    always: true
-    branches:
-      include:
-        - devel
-        - stable-*
-
-variables:
-  - name: checkoutPath
-    value: ansible
-  - name: coverageBranches
-    value: devel
-  - name: entryPoint
-    value: test/utils/shippable/shippable.sh
-  - name: fetchDepth
-    value: 500
-
-resources:
-  containers:
-    - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:3.0.0
-
-pool: Standard
-
-stages:
-  - stage: Sanity
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
-            - test: 5
-  - stage: Units
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: units/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.5
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: 3.7
-            - test: 3.8
-            - test: 3.9
-            - test: '3.10'
-  - stage: Windows
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Server {0}
-          testFormat: windows/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 2012
-            - test: 2012-R2
-            - test: 2016
-            - test: 2019
-            - test: 2022
-  - stage: Remote
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 12.0
-              test: macos/12.0
-            - name: RHEL 7.9
-              test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: RHEL 8.5 py36
-              test: rhel/8.5@3.6
-            - name: RHEL 8.5 py38
-              test: rhel/8.5@3.8
-            - name: RHEL 9.0
-              test: rhel/9.0
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.3
-              test: freebsd/12.3
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
-              test: freebsd/13.0
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-            - 4
-            - 5
-  - stage: Docker
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-            - name: CentOS 7
-              test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 34
-              test: fedora34
-            - name: Fedora 35
-              test: fedora35
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
-              test: opensuse15py2
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
-              test: opensuse15
-            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
-              test: ubuntu1804
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-            - 4
-            - 5
-  - stage: Galaxy
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: galaxy/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 3.8
-            - test: 3.9
-            - test: '3.10'
-  - stage: Generic
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          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: RHEL 8.5 py36
-              test: rhel/8.5@3.6
-            - name: RHEL 8.5 py38
-              test: rhel/8.5@3.8
-  - stage: Incidental_Windows
-    displayName: Incidental Windows
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Server {0}
-          testFormat: i/windows/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 2012
-            - test: 2012-R2
-            - test: 2016
-            - test: 2019
-            - test: 2022
-  - stage: Incidental
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: i/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - name: IOS Python
-              test: ios/csr1000v/
-            - name: VyOS Python
-              test: vyos/1.1.8/
-            - name: AWS Python 2.7
-              test: aws/2.7
-            - name: AWS Python 3.6
-              test: aws/3.6
-            - name: Cloud Python
-              test: cloud/
-  - stage: Summary
-    condition: succeededOrFailed()
-    dependsOn:
-      - Sanity
-      - Units
-      - Windows
-      - Remote
-      - Docker
-      - Galaxy
-      - Generic
-      - Incidental_Remote
-      - Incidental_Windows
-      - Incidental
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/coverage.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Generate code coverage reports for uploading to Azure Pipelines and codecov.io.
-
-set -o pipefail -eu
-
-PATH="${PWD}/bin:${PATH}"
-
-if ! ansible-test --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-    # Install the devel version of ansible-test for generating code coverage reports.
-    # This is only used by Ansible Collections, which are typically tested against multiple Ansible versions (in separate jobs).
-    # Since a version of ansible-test is required that can work the output from multiple older releases, the devel version is used.
-    pip install https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/devel.tar.gz --disable-pip-version-check
-fi
-
-# Generate stubs using docker (if supported) otherwise fall back to using a virtual environment instead.
-# The use of docker is required when Powershell code is present, but Ansible 2.12 was the first version to support --docker with coverage.
-ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --docker --color -v || ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --venv --color -v

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

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

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

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

.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml

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

.azure-pipelines/templates/matrix.yml

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

.azure-pipelines/templates/test.yml

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

.gitattributes

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 .github/ export-ignore
+hacking/ export-ignore

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md

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

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -1,263 +0,0 @@
----
-name: 🐛 Bug report
-description: Create a report to help us improve
-
-body:
-- type: markdown
-  attributes:
-    value: >
-      **Thank you for wanting to report a bug in ansible-core!**
-
-
-      ⚠
-      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on
-      GitHub][issue search] and keep in mind that we may have to keep
-      the current behavior because [every change breaks someone's
-      workflow][XKCD 1172].
-      We try to be mindful about this.
-
-      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
-
-
-      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please consider
-      [starting a mailing list thread or chatting in IRC][ML||IRC].
-
-
-
-      [ML||IRC]:
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-      Write the short name of the rst file, module, plugin, task or
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-      of this repository. If the page you are reporting describes
-      modules/plugins/etc that are not officially supported by the
-      Ansible Core Engineering team, there is a good chance that it is
-      coming from one of the [Ansible Collections maintained by the
-      community][collections org]. If this is the case, please make sure
-      to file an issue under the appropriate project there instead.
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-      [collections org]: /ansible-collections
-    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
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-    label: Ansible Version
-    description: >-
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-      $ ansible --version
-    placeholder: |
-      $ ansible --version
-      ansible [core 2.11.0b4.post0]  (detached HEAD ref: refs/) last updated 2021/04/02 00:33:35 (GMT +200)
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-      below, under the prompt line.
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-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
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-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
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-      Describe exactly how to reproduce the problem, using a minimal test-case. It would *really* help us understand your problem if you could also pased any playbooks, configs and commands you used.
-
-      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
-    value: |
-      <!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
-      ```yaml (paste below)
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-      ```
-    placeholder: |
-      1. Implement the following playbook:
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-         ```yaml
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-           gather_facts: false
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-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Expected Results
-    description: >-
-      Describe what you expected to happen when running the steps above.
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-      that it did not.
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-    description: |
-      Describe what actually happened. If possible run with extra verbosity (`-vvvv`).
-
-      Paste verbatim command output and don't wrap it with tripple backticks — your
-      whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
-    render: console
-    placeholder: >-
-      Certificate did not match expected hostname: files.pythonhosted.org. Certificate: {'notAfter': 'Apr 28 19:20:25 2021 GMT', 'subjectAltName': ((u'DNS', 'r.ssl.fastly.net'), (u'DNS', '*.catchpoint.com'), (u'DNS', '*.cnn.io'), (u'DNS', '*.dollarshaveclub.com'), (u'DNS', '*.eater.com'), (u'DNS', '*.fastly.picmonkey.com'), (u'DNS', '*.files.saymedia-content.com'), (u'DNS', '*.ft.com'), (u'DNS', '*.meetupstatic.com'), (u'DNS', '*.nfl.com'), (u'DNS', '*.pagar.me'), (u'DNS', '*.picmonkey.com'), (u'DNS', '*.realself.com'), (u'DNS', '*.sbnation.com'), (u'DNS', '*.shakr.com'), (u'DNS', '*.streamable.com'), (u'DNS', '*.surfly.com'), (u'DNS', '*.theverge.com'), (u'DNS', '*.thrillist.com'), (u'DNS', '*.vox-cdn.com'), (u'DNS', '*.vox.com'), (u'DNS', '*.voxmedia.com'), (u'DNS', 'eater.com'), (u'DNS', 'ft.com'), (u'DNS', 'i.gse.io'), (u'DNS', 'picmonkey.com'), (u'DNS', 'realself.com'), (u'DNS', 'static.wixstatic.com'), (u'DNS', 'streamable.com'), (u'DNS', 'surfly.com'), (u'DNS', 'theverge.com'), (u'DNS', 'vox-cdn.com'), (u'DNS', 'vox.com'), (u'DNS', 'www.joyent.com')), 'subject': ((('countryName', u'US'),), (('stateOrProvinceName', u'California'),), (('localityName', u'San Francisco'),), (('organizationName', u'Fastly, Inc'),), (('commonName', u'r.ssl.fastly.net'),))}
-      Exception:
-      Traceback (most recent call last):
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
-          status = self.run(options, args)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 335, in run
-          wb.build(autobuilding=True)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 749, in build
-          self.requirement_set.prepare_files(self.finder)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 380, in prepare_files
-          ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 620, in _prepare_file
-          session=self.session, hashes=hashes)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 821, in unpack_url
-          hashes=hashes
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 659, in unpack_http_url
-          hashes)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 853, in _download_http_url
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-          resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 618, in send
-          r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
-        File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/adapter.py", line 47, in send
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-      SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /packages/ef/ab/aa12712415809bf698e719b307419f953e25344e8f42d557533d7a02b276/netapp_lib-2020.7.16-py2-none-any.whl (Caused by SSLError(CertificateError("hostname 'files.pythonhosted.org' doesn't match either of 'r.ssl.fastly.net', '*.catchpoint.com', '*.cnn.io', '*.dollarshaveclub.com', '*.eater.com', '*.fastly.picmonkey.com', '*.files.saymedia-content.com', '*.ft.com', '*.meetupstatic.com', '*.nfl.com', '*.pagar.me', '*.picmonkey.com', '*.realself.com', '*.sbnation.com', '*.shakr.com', '*.streamable.com', '*.surfly.com', '*.theverge.com', '*.thrillist.com', '*.vox-cdn.com', '*.vox.com', '*.voxmedia.com', 'eater.com', 'ft.com', 'i.gse.io', 'picmonkey.com', 'realself.com', 'static.wixstatic.com', 'streamable.com', 'surfly.com', 'theverge.com', 'vox-cdn.com', 'vox.com', 'www.joyent.com'",),))
-      ERROR: Command "/usr/bin/python2.6 /root/ansible/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/quiet_pip.py install --disable-pip-version-check -r /root/ansible/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/units.txt -r tests/unit/requirements.txt -c /root/ansible/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/constraints.txt" returned exit status 2.
-      ERROR: Command "docker exec d47eb360db4ce779c1f690db964655b76e68895c4360ff252c46fe7fe6f5c75a /usr/bin/env ANSIBLE_TEST_CONTENT_ROOT=/root/ansible_collections/netapp/ontap LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python3.6 /root/ansible/bin/ansible-test units --metadata tests/output/.tmp/metadata-9i2qfrcl.json --truncate 200 --redact --color yes --requirements --python default --requirements-mode only" returned exit status 1.
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-      *One last thing...*
-
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-      *Please, complete **all** sections as described, this form
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-
-
-      Thank you for your collaboration!
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-      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct][CoC] first.
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.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml

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 # Ref: https://help.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository#configuring-the-template-chooser
-blank_issues_enabled: false  # default: true
+blank_issues_enabled: true  # default
 contact_links:
 - name: 🔐 Security bug report 🔥
   url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.md

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

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

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md

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

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml

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

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 - Bugfix Pull Request
 - Docs Pull Request
 - Feature Pull Request
-- Test Pull Request
+- New Module Pull Request
 
 ##### COMPONENT NAME
 <!--- Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below -->

.github/RELEASE_NAMES.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 ---
-- 2.13.0  Nobody's Fault but Mine
-- 2.12.0  Dazed and Confused
-- 2.11.0  Hey Hey, What Can I Do
 - 2.10.0  When the Levee Breaks
 - 2.9.0   Immigrant Song
 - 2.8.0   How Many More Times

.gitignore

@@ -32,16 +32,12 @@ docs/man/man3/*
 docs/docsite/_build
 docs/docsite/*.html
 docs/docsite/htmlout
-docs/docsite/rst/conf.py
-docs/docsite/rst/index.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/cli/ansible-*.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/cli/ansible.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/collections_galaxy_meta.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/index.rst.new
-docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/index.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/modules/*.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/collections/*.rst
-!docs/docsite/rst/collections/all_plugins.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/collections/*/*.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/playbooks_directives.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/plugins_by_category.rst
@@ -53,10 +49,12 @@ docs/docsite/searchindex.js
 docs/docsite/_static/*.gif
 docs/docsite/_static/*.png
 docs/docsite/_static/websupport.js
+# deb building stuff...
+/debian/
+deb-build
 # Vim swap files
 *.swp
 *.swo
-[._]*.un~
 credentials.yml
 # test output
 *.retry
@@ -81,12 +79,7 @@ Vagrantfile
 /lib/ansible.egg-info/
 # First used in the `devel` branch during Ansible 2.10 development.
 /lib/ansible_base.egg-info/
-# First used in the `devel` branch during Ansible 2.11 development.
-/lib/ansible_core.egg-info/
-# vendored lib dir
-lib/ansible/_vendor/*
-!lib/ansible/_vendor/__init__.py
-# test stuff
+/shippable/
 /test/integration/cloud-config-*.*
 !/test/integration/cloud-config-*.*.template
 .python-version

MANIFEST.in

@@ -2,23 +2,15 @@ include README.rst
 include COPYING
 include SYMLINK_CACHE.json
 include requirements.txt
+include shippable.yml
 recursive-include docs *
-include docs/docsite/rst/collections/all_plugins.rst
 exclude docs/docsite/rst_warnings
-exclude docs/docsite/rst/conf.py
-exclude docs/docsite/rst/index.rst
-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
 include examples/ansible.cfg
 include examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1
 include examples/scripts/upgrade_to_ps3.ps1
-include lib/ansible/keyword_desc.yml
 recursive-include lib/ansible/executor/powershell *.ps1
 recursive-include lib/ansible/module_utils/csharp *.cs
 recursive-include lib/ansible/module_utils/powershell *.psm1
@@ -29,16 +21,13 @@ recursive-include licenses *.txt
 recursive-include packaging *
 recursive-include test/ansible_test *.py Makefile
 recursive-include test/integration *
-recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/config *.yml *.template
-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 *.in *.json *.py *.txt
+recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/config *.template
+recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_data *.cfg *.ini *.json *.ps1 *.psd1 *.py *.sh *.txt *.yml coveragerc inventory
+recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_data/injector ansible ansible-config ansible-connection ansible-console ansible-doc ansible-galaxy ansible-playbook ansible-pull ansible-test ansible-vault pytest
+recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_data/sanity/validate-modules validate-modules
+recursive-include test/sanity *.json *.py *.txt
 recursive-include test/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs
 exclude test/sanity/code-smell/botmeta.*
-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
@@ -46,6 +35,3 @@ 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

@@ -4,13 +4,17 @@
 #
 # useful targets:
 #   make clean ---------------- clean up
+#   make webdocs -------------- produce ansible doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
 #   make sdist ---------------- produce a tarball
+#   make deb-src -------------- produce a DEB source
+#   make deb ------------------ produce a DEB
+#   make docs ----------------- rebuild the manpages (results are checked in)
 #   make tests ---------------- run the tests (see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/testing_units.html for requirements)
 
 ########################################################
 # variable section
 
-NAME = ansible-core
+NAME = ansible-base
 OS = $(shell uname -s)
 PREFIX ?= '/usr/local'
 SDIST_DIR ?= 'dist'
@@ -26,7 +30,7 @@ else
 ASCII2MAN = @echo "ERROR: rst2man from docutils command is not installed but is required to build $(MANPAGES)" && exit 1
 endif
 
-PYTHON ?= python
+PYTHON=python
 GENERATE_CLI = hacking/build-ansible.py generate-man
 
 # fetch version from project release.py as single source-of-truth
@@ -35,6 +39,55 @@ ifeq ($(findstring error,$(VERSION)), error)
 $(error "version_helper failed")
 endif
 
+# Get the branch information from git
+ifneq ($(shell which git),)
+GIT_DATE := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ci")
+GIT_HASH := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%h")
+GIT_BRANCH := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | sed 's/[-_.\/]//g')
+GITINFO = .$(GIT_HASH).$(GIT_BRANCH)
+else
+GITINFO = ""
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(shell echo $(OS) | egrep -c 'Darwin|FreeBSD|OpenBSD|DragonFly'),1)
+DATE := $(shell date -j -r $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ct") +%Y%m%d%H%M)
+CPUS ?= $(shell sysctl hw.ncpu|awk '{print $$2}')
+else
+DATE := $(shell date --utc --date="$(GIT_DATE)" +%Y%m%d%H%M)
+CPUS ?= $(shell nproc)
+endif
+
+# DEB build parameters
+DEBUILD_BIN ?= debuild
+DEBUILD_OPTS = --source-option="-I"
+DPUT_BIN ?= dput
+DPUT_OPTS ?=
+DEB_DATE := $(shell LC_TIME=C date +"%a, %d %b %Y %T %z")
+DEB_VERSION ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debversion)
+ifeq ($(OFFICIAL),yes)
+    DEB_RELEASE ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debrelease)ppa
+    # Sign OFFICIAL builds using 'DEBSIGN_KEYID'
+    # DEBSIGN_KEYID is required when signing
+    ifneq ($(DEBSIGN_KEYID),)
+        DEBUILD_OPTS += -k$(DEBSIGN_KEYID)
+    endif
+else
+    DEB_RELEASE ?= 100.git$(DATE)$(GITINFO)
+    # Do not sign unofficial builds
+    DEBUILD_OPTS += -uc -us
+    DPUT_OPTS += -u
+endif
+DEBUILD = $(DEBUILD_BIN) $(DEBUILD_OPTS)
+DEB_PPA ?= ppa
+# Choose the desired Ubuntu release: lucid precise saucy trusty
+DEB_DIST ?= unstable
+
+# pbuilder parameters
+PBUILDER_ARCH ?= amd64
+PBUILDER_CACHE_DIR = /var/cache/pbuilder
+PBUILDER_BIN ?= pbuilder
+PBUILDER_OPTS ?= --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd --architecture $(PBUILDER_ARCH) --debbuildopts -b
+
 # ansible-test parameters
 ANSIBLE_TEST ?= bin/ansible-test
 TEST_FLAGS ?=
@@ -94,13 +147,15 @@ clean:
 	rm -f ./docs/man/man1/*
 	@echo "Cleaning up output from test runs"
 	rm -rf test/test_data
+	rm -rf shippable/
 	rm -rf logs/
 	rm -rf .cache/
 	rm -f test/units/.coverage*
 	rm -rf test/results/*/*
 	find test/ -type f -name '*.retry' -delete
-	@echo "Cleaning up symlink cache"
-	rm -f SYMLINK_CACHE.json
+	@echo "Cleaning up Debian building stuff"
+	rm -rf debian
+	rm -rf deb-build
 	rm -rf docs/json
 	rm -rf docs/js
 	@echo "Cleaning up docsite"
@@ -142,13 +197,92 @@ sdist_upload: clean docs
 changelog:
 	PYTHONPATH=./lib antsibull-changelog release -vv --use-ansible-doc && PYTHONPATH=./lib antsibull-changelog generate -vv --use-ansible-doc
 
+.PHONY: debian
+debian: sdist
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    mkdir -p deb-build/$${DIST} ; \
+	    tar -C deb-build/$${DIST} -xvf dist/$(NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.gz ; \
+	    cp -a packaging/debian deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ ; \
+        sed -ie "s|%VERSION%|$(DEB_VERSION)|g;s|%RELEASE%|$(DEB_RELEASE)|;s|%DIST%|$${DIST}|g;s|%DATE%|$(DEB_DATE)|g" deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/debian/changelog ; \
+	done
+
+.PHONY: deb
+deb: deb-src
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    PBUILDER_OPTS="$(PBUILDER_OPTS) --distribution $${DIST} --basetgz $(PBUILDER_CACHE_DIR)/$${DIST}-$(PBUILDER_ARCH)-base.tgz --buildresult $(CURDIR)/deb-build/$${DIST}" ; \
+	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) create $${PBUILDER_OPTS} --othermirror "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $${DIST} universe" ; \
+	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) update $${PBUILDER_OPTS} ; \
+	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) build $${PBUILDER_OPTS} deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}.dsc ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_amd64.changes ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+
+# Build package outside of pbuilder, with locally installed dependencies.
+# Install BuildRequires as noted in packaging/debian/control.
+.PHONY: local_deb
+local_deb: debian
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    (cd deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ && $(DEBUILD) -b) ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_amd64.changes ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+
+.PHONY: deb-src
+deb-src: debian
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    (cd deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ && $(DEBUILD) -S) ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_source.changes ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+
+.PHONY: deb-upload
+deb-upload: deb
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    $(DPUT_BIN) $(DPUT_OPTS) $(DEB_PPA) deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_amd64.changes ; \
+	done
+
+.PHONY: deb-src-upload
+deb-src-upload: deb-src
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    $(DPUT_BIN) $(DPUT_OPTS) $(DEB_PPA) deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_source.changes ; \
+	done
+
+.PHONY: epub
+epub:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) epub)
+
+# for arch or gentoo, read instructions in the appropriate 'packaging' subdirectory directory
+.PHONY: webdocs
+webdocs:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) docs)
+
+.PHONY: linkcheckdocs
+linkcheckdocs:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) linkcheckdocs)
+
 .PHONY: generate_rst
 generate_rst: lib/ansible/cli/*.py
 	mkdir -p ./docs/man/man1/ ; \
-	$(PYTHON) $(GENERATE_CLI) --template-file=docs/templates/man.j2 --output-dir=docs/man/man1/ --output-format man lib/ansible/cli/*.py
+	$(GENERATE_CLI) --template-file=docs/templates/man.j2 --output-dir=docs/man/man1/ --output-format man lib/ansible/cli/*.py
+
 
 docs: generate_rst
 	$(MAKE) $(MANPAGES)
 
+.PHONY: alldocs
+alldocs: docs webdocs
+
 version:
 	@echo $(VERSION)

README.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-|PyPI version| |Docs badge| |Chat badge| |Build Status| |Code Of Conduct| |Mailing Lists| |License| |CII Best Practices|
+|PyPI version| |Docs badge| |Chat badge| |Build Status| |Code Of Conduct| |Mailing Lists| |License|
 
 *******
 Ansible
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ Ansible
 Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles
 configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning,
 ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex
-changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy. More information on the Ansible `website <https://ansible.com/>`_.
+changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy. More information on `the Ansible website <https://ansible.com/>`_.
 
 Design Principles
 =================
 
-*  Have an extremely simple setup process with a minimal learning curve.
-*  Manage machines quickly and in parallel.
+*  Have a dead simple setup process and a minimal learning curve.
+*  Manage machines very quickly and in parallel.
 *  Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by
    leveraging the existing SSH daemon.
 *  Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human
@@ -28,10 +28,13 @@ Design Principles
 Use Ansible
 ===========
 
-You can install a released version of Ansible with ``pip`` or a package manager. See our
+You can install a released version of Ansible via ``pip``, a package manager, or
+our `release repository <https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/>`_. See our
 `installation guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html>`_ for details on installing Ansible
 on a variety of platforms.
 
+Red Hat offers supported builds of `Ansible Engine <https://www.ansible.com/ansible-engine>`_.
+
 Power users and developers can run the ``devel`` branch, which has the latest
 features and fixes, directly. Although it is reasonably stable, you are more likely to encounter
 breaking changes when running the ``devel`` branch. We recommend getting involved
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ Get Involved
 *  Submit a proposed code update through a pull request to the ``devel`` branch.
 *  Talk to us before making larger changes
    to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps everyone
-   know what is going on, but it also helps save time and effort if we decide
+   know what is going on, it also helps save time and effort if we decide
    some changes are needed.
 *  For a list of email lists, IRC channels and Working Groups, see the
    `Communication page <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html>`_
@@ -61,7 +64,7 @@ Coding Guidelines
 We document our Coding Guidelines in the `Developer Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/>`_. We particularly suggest you review:
 
 * `Contributing your module to Ansible <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_checklist.html>`_
-* `Conventions, tips, and pitfalls <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_best_practices.html>`_
+* `Conventions, tips and pitfalls <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_best_practices.html>`_
 
 Branch Info
 ===========
@@ -69,7 +72,7 @@ Branch Info
 *  The ``devel`` branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
 *  The ``stable-2.X`` branches correspond to stable releases.
 *  Create a branch based on ``devel`` and set up a `dev environment <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html#common-environment-setup>`_ if you want to open a PR.
-*  See the `Ansible release and maintenance <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html>`_ page for information about active branches.
+*  See the `Ansible release and maintenance <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html>`_ page for information about active branches.
 
 Roadmap
 =======
@@ -81,7 +84,7 @@ Authors
 =======
 
 Ansible was created by `Michael DeHaan <https://github.com/mpdehaan>`_
-and has contributions from over 5000 users (and growing). Thanks everyone!
+and has contributions from over 4700 users (and growing). Thanks everyone!
 
 `Ansible <https://www.ansible.com>`_ is sponsored by `Red Hat, Inc.
 <https://www.redhat.com>`_
@@ -93,12 +96,12 @@ GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
 
 See `COPYING <COPYING>`_ to see the full text.
 
-.. |PyPI version| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ansible-core.svg
-   :target: https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core
+.. |PyPI version| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ansible.svg
+   :target: https://pypi.org/project/ansible
 .. |Docs badge| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg
    :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/
-.. |Build Status| image:: https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=devel
-   :target: https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_build/latest?definitionId=20&branchName=devel
+.. |Build Status| image:: https://api.shippable.com/projects/573f79d02a8192902e20e34b/badge?branch=devel
+   :target: https://app.shippable.com/projects/573f79d02a8192902e20e34b
 .. |Chat badge| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-IRC-brightgreen.svg
    :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html
 .. |Code Of Conduct| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20of%20conduct-Ansible-silver.svg
@@ -110,6 +113,3 @@ See `COPYING <COPYING>`_ to see the full text.
 .. |License| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL%20v3.0-brightgreen.svg
    :target: COPYING
    :alt: Repository License
-.. |CII Best Practices| image:: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372/badge
-   :target: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372
-   :alt: Ansible CII Best Practices certification

bin/ansible

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

bin/ansible-config

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

bin/ansible-console

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

bin/ansible-doc

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

bin/ansible-galaxy

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

bin/ansible-inventory

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

bin/ansible-playbook

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

bin/ansible-pull

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

bin/ansible-test

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

bin/ansible-vault

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

changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,770 @@
+=======================================================
+Ansible Base 2.10 "When the Levee Breaks" Release Notes
+=======================================================
+
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+
+v2.10.2rc1
+==========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2020-09-28
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - Raise the number of bytes scanned by ansible-test to determine if a file is binary to 4096.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Pass the connection's timeout to connection plugins instead of the task's timeout.
+- Provide more information in AnsibleUndefinedVariable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55152)
+- ansible-doc - properly show plugin name when ``name:`` is used instead of ``<plugin_type>:`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71966).
+- ansible-test - Change classification using ``--changed`` now consistently handles common configuration files for supported CI providers.
+- ansible-test - The ``resource_prefix`` variable provided to tests running on Azure Pipelines is now converted to lowercase to match other CI providers.
+- collection loader - fix bogus code coverage entries for synthetic packages
+- psrp - Fix hang when copying an empty file to the remote target
+- runas - create a new token when running as ``SYSTEM`` to ensure it has the full privileges assigned to that account
+
+v2.10.1
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2020-09-14
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Fixed ansible-doc to not substitute for words followed by parenthesis.  For instance, ``IBM(International Business Machines)`` will no longer be substituted with a link to a non-existent module. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71070
+- Updated network integration auth timeout to 90 secs.
+- ansible-doc will now format, ``L()``, ``R()``, and ``HORIZONTALLINE`` in plugin docs just as the website docs do.  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71070
+- ansible-test - Add ``macos/10.15`` as a supported value for the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test - Allow custom ``--remote-stage`` options for development and testing.
+- ansible-test - Fix ``ansible-test coverage`` reporting sub-commands (``report``, ``html``, ``xml``) on Python 2.6.
+- ansible-test - Remove ``pytest < 6.0.0`` constraint for managed installations on Python 3.x now that pytest 6 is supported.
+- ansible-test - Remove the discontinued ``us-east-2`` choice from the ``--remote-aws-region`` option.
+- ansible-test - Request remote resources by provider name for all provider types.
+- ansible-test - Show a warning when the obsolete ``--remote-aws-region`` option is used.
+- ansible-test - Support custom remote endpoints with the ``--remote-endpoint`` option.
+- ansible-test - Update built-in service endpoints for the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test - Use new endpoint for Parallels based instances with the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test - default container now uses default-test-container 2.7.0 and ansible-base-test-container 1.6.0. This brings in Python 3.9.0rc1 for testing.
+- ansible-test - the ACME test container was updated, it now supports external account creation and has a basic OCSP responder (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71097, https://github.com/ansible/acme-test-container/releases/tag/2.0.0).
+- galaxy - add documentation about galaxy parameters in examples/ansible.cfg (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68402).
+- iptables - add a note about ipv6-icmp in protocol parameter (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70905).
+- setup.py - Skip doing conflict checks for ``sdist`` and ``egg_info`` commands (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71310)
+- subelements - clarify the lookup plugin documentation for parameter handling (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38182).
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- **security issue** - copy - Redact the value of the no_log 'content' parameter in the result's invocation.module_args in check mode. Previously when used with check mode and with '-vvv', the module would not censor the content if a change would be made to the destination path. (CVE-2020-14332)
+- The fix for CVE-2020-1736 has been reverted. Users are encouraged to specify a ``mode`` parameter in their file-based tasks when the files being manipulated contain sensitive data.
+- dnf - Previously, regardless of the ``disable_gpg_check`` option, packages were not GPG validated. They are now. (CVE-2020-14365)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS - remove deprecation so that users of Ansible 2.9 and 2.10+ can use the same var when specifying a collection path without a warning.
+- Confirmed commit fails with TypeError in IOS XR netconf plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.iosxr/issues/74)
+- Ensure password passed in by -k is used on delegated hosts that do not have ansible_password set
+- Fix an exit code for a non-failing playbook (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71306)
+- Fix execution of the meta tasks 'clear_facts', 'clear_host_errors', 'end_play', 'end_host', and 'reset_connection' when the CLI flag '--flush-cache' is provided.
+- Fix statistics reporting when rescue block contains another block (issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61253).
+- Fixed Ansible reporting validate not supported by netconf server when enabled in netconf - (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/issues/119).
+- Skip literal_eval for string filters results in native jinja. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70831)
+- Strategy - Ensure we only process expected types from the results queue and produce warnings for any object we receive from the queue that doesn't match our expectations. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70023)
+- TOML inventory - Ensure we register dump functions for ``AnsibleUnsafe`` to support dumping unsafe values. Note that the TOML format has no functionality to mark that the data is unsafe for re-consumption. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71307)
+- ansible-galaxy download - fix bug when downloading a collection in a SCM subdirectory
+- ansible-test units - fixed collection location code to work under pytest >= 6.0.0
+- avoid clobbering existing facts inside loop when task also returns ansible_facts.
+- cron - cron file should not be empty after adding var (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71207)
+- fortimanager httpapi plugin - fix redirect to point to the ``fortinet.fortimanager`` collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71073).
+- gluster modules - fix redirect to point to the ``gluster.gluster`` collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71240).
+- linux network facts - get the correct value for broadcast address (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64384)
+- native jinja2 types - properly handle Undefined in nested data.
+- powershell - fix escaping of strings that broken modules like fetch when dealing with special chars - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62781
+- powershell - fix the CLIXML parser when it contains nested CLIXML objects - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69550
+- psrp - Use native PSRP mechanism when copying files to support custom endpoints
+- strftime filter - Input epoch is allowed to be a float (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71257)
+- systemd - fixed chroot usage on new versions of systemd, that broke because of upstream changes in systemctl output
+- systemd - made the systemd module work correctly when the SYSTEMD_OFFLINE environment variable is set
+- templating - fix error message for ``x in y`` when y is undefined (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70984)
+- unarchive - check ``fut_gid`` against ``run_gid`` in addition to supplemental groups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49284)
+
+v2.10.0
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2020-08-13
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- Both ansible-doc and ansible-console's help command will error for modules and plugins whose return documentation cannot be parsed as YAML. All modules and plugins passing ``ansible-test sanity --test yamllint`` will not be affected by this.
+- Collections may declare a list of supported/tested Ansible versions for the collection. A warning is issued if a collection does not support the Ansible version that loads it (can also be configured as silent or a fatal error). Collections that do not declare supported Ansible versions do not issue a warning/error.
+- Plugin routing allows collections to declare deprecation, redirection targets, and removals for all plugin types.
+- Plugins that import module_utils and other ansible namespaces that have moved to collections should continue to work unmodified.
+- Routing data built into Ansible 2.10 ensures that 2.9 content should work unmodified on 2.10. Formerly included modules and plugins that were moved to collections are still accessible by their original unqualified names, so long as their destination collections are installed.
+- When deprecations are done in code, they to specify a ``collection_name`` so that deprecation warnings can mention which collection - or ansible-base - is deprecating a feature. This affects all ``Display.deprecated()`` or ``AnsibleModule.deprecate()`` or ``Ansible.Basic.Deprecate()`` calls, and ``removed_in_version``/``removed_at_date`` or ``deprecated_aliases`` in module argument specs.
+- ansible-test now uses a different ``default`` test container for Ansible Collections
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- 'Edit on GitHub' link for plugin, cli documentation fixed to navigate to correct plugin, cli source.
+- Add 'auth_url' field to galaxy server config stanzas in ansible.cfg The url should point to the token_endpoint of a Keycloak server.
+- Add --ask-vault-password and --vault-pass-file options to ansible cli commands
+- Add ``--pre`` flag to ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` to allow pulling in the most recent pre-release version of a collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64905)
+- Add a global toggle to control when vars plugins are executed (per task by default for backward compatibility or after importing inventory).
+- Add a new config parameter, WIN_ASYNC_STARTUP_TIMEOUT, which allows configuration of the named pipe connection timeout under Windows when launching async tasks.
+- Add a per-plugin stage option to override the global toggle to control the execution of individual vars plugins (per task, after inventory, or both).
+- Add an additional check for importing journal from systemd-python module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/60595).
+- Add an example for using var in with_sequence (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68836).
+- Add new magic variable ``ansible_collection`` that contains the collection name
+- Add new magic variable ``ansible_role_name`` that contains the FQCN of the role
+- Add standard Python 2/3 compatibility boilerplate to setup script, module_utils and docs_fragments which were missing them.
+- Added PopOS as a part of Debian OS distribution family (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69286).
+- Added hostname support for PopOS in hostname module.
+- Added openEuler OS in RedHat OS Family.
+- Added the ability to set ``DEFAULT_NO_TARGET_SYSLOG`` through the ``ansible_no_target_syslog`` variable on a task
+- Ansible CLI fails with warning if extra_vars parameter is used with filename without @ sign (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51857).
+- Ansible modules created with ``add_file_common_args=True`` added a number of undocumented arguments which were mostly there to ease implementing certain action plugins. The undocumented arguments ``src``, ``follow``, ``force``, ``content``, ``backup``, ``remote_src``, ``regexp``, ``delimiter``, and ``directory_mode`` are now no longer added. Modules relying on these options to be added need to specify them by themselves. Also, action plugins relying on these extra elements in ``FILE_COMMON_ARGUMENTS`` need to be adjusted.
+- Ansible now allows deprecation by date instead of deprecation by version. This is possible for plugins and modules (``meta/runtime.yml`` and ``deprecated.removed_at_date`` in ``DOCUMENTATION``, instead of ``deprecated.removed_in``), for plugin options (``deprecated.date`` instead of ``deprecated.version`` in ``DOCUMENTATION``), for module options (``removed_at_date`` instead of ``removed_in_version`` in argument spec), and for module option aliases (``deprecated_aliases.date`` instead of ``deprecated_aliases.version`` in argument spec).
+- Ansible should fail with error when non-existing limit file is provided in command line.
+- Ansible.Basic - Added the ability to specify multiple fragments to load in a generic way for modules that use a module_util with fragment options
+- Ansible.Basic.cs - Added support for ``deprecated_aliases`` to deprecated aliases in a standard way
+- Ansible.ModuleUtils.WebRequest - Move username and password aliases out of util to avoid option name collision
+- Change order of arguments in ansible cli to use --ask-vault-password and --vault-password-file by default
+- CollectionRequirement - Add a metadata property to update and retrieve the _metadata attribute.
+- Command module: Removed suggestions to use modules which have moved to collections and out of ansible-base
+- Enable Ansible Collections loader to discover and import collections from ``site-packages`` dir and ``PYTHONPATH``-added locations.
+- Enable testing the AIX platform as a remote OS in ansible-test
+- Flatten the directory hierarchy of modules
+- Ignore plesk-release file while parsing distribution release (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64101).
+- Openstack inventory script is migrated to ansible-openstack-collection, adjusted the link in documentation accordingly.
+- Openstack inventory script is moved to openstack.cloud from community.general.
+- PowerShell Add-Type - Add an easier way to reference extra types when compiling C# code on PowerShell Core
+- PowerShell Add-Type - Added the ``X86`` and ``AMD64`` preprocessor symbols for conditional compiling
+- Prevent losing useful error information by including both the loop and the conditional error messages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66529)
+- Provides additional information about collection namespace name restrictions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65151).
+- Raise error when no task file is provided to import_tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54095).
+- Refactor test_distribution_version testcases.
+- Remove the deprecation message for the ``TRANSFORM_INVALID_GROUP_CHARS`` setting. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61889)
+- Removed extras_require support from setup.py (and [azure] extra). Requirements will float with the collections, so it's not appropriate for ansible-base to host requirements for them any longer.
+- Simplify dict2items filter example in loop documentation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65505).
+- Templating - Add globals to the jinja2 environment at ``Templar`` instantiation, instead of customizing the template object. Only customize the template object, to disable lookups. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69278)
+- Templating - Add support to auto unroll generators produced by jinja2 filters, to prevent the need of explicit use of ``|list`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68014)
+- The plugin loader now keeps track of the collection where a plugin was resolved to, in particular whether the plugin was loaded from ansible-base's internal paths (``ansible.builtin``) or from user-supplied paths (no collection name).
+- The results queue and counter for results are now split for standard / handler results. This allows the governing strategy to be truly independent from the handler strategy, which basically follows the linear methodology.
+- Update required library message with correct grammer in basic.py.
+- Updated inventory script location for EC2, Openstack, and Cobbler after collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68897).
+- Updated inventory script location for infoblox, ec2 and other after collection migration (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69139).
+- Updates ``ansible_role_names``, ``ansible_play_role_names``, and ``ansible_dependent_role_names`` to include the FQCN
+- Use OrderedDict by default when importing mappings from YAML.
+- Windows - Add a check for the minimum PowerShell version so we can create a friendly error message on older hosts
+- Windows - add deprecation notice in the Windows setup module when running on Server 2008, 2008 R2, and Windows 7
+- `AnsibleModule.fail_json()` has always required that a message be passed in which informs the end user why the module failed.  In the past this message had to be passed as the `msg` keyword argument but it can now be passed as the first positional argument instead.
+- ``AnsibleModule.load_file_common_arguments`` now allows to simply override ``path``.
+- add mechanism for storing warnings and deprecations globally and not attached to an ``AnsibleModule`` object (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/58993)
+- added more ways to configure new uri options in 2.10.
+- ansible-doc - improve suboptions formatting (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69795).
+- ansible-doc - now indicates if an option is added by a doc fragment from another collection by prepending the collection name, or ``ansible.builtin`` for ansible-base, to the version number.
+- ansible-doc - return values will be properly formatted (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69796).
+- ansible-galaxy - Add ``download`` option for ``ansible-galaxy collection`` to download collections and their dependencies for an offline install
+- ansible-galaxy - Add a `verify` subcommand to `ansible-galaxy collection`. The collection found on the galaxy server is downloaded to a tempfile to compare the checksums of the files listed in the MANIFEST.json and the FILES.json with the contents of the installed collection.
+- ansible-galaxy - Add installation successful message
+- ansible-galaxy - Added the ability to display the progress wheel through the C.GALAXY_DISPLAY_PROGRESS config option. Also this now defaults to displaying the progress wheel if stdout has a tty.
+- ansible-galaxy - Added the ability to ignore further files and folders using a pattern with the ``build_ignore`` key in a collection's ``galaxy.yml`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59228).
+- ansible-galaxy - Allow installing collections from git repositories.
+- ansible-galaxy - Always ignore the ``tests/output`` directory when building a collection as it is used by ``ansible-test`` for test output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59228).
+- ansible-galaxy - Change the output verbosity level of the download message from 3 to 0 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70010)
+- ansible-galaxy - Display message if both collections and roles are specified in a requirements file but can't be installed together.
+- ansible-galaxy - Install both collections and roles with ``ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml`` in certain scenarios.
+- ansible-galaxy - Requirement entries for collections now support a 'type' key to indicate whether the collection is a galaxy artifact, file, url, or git repo.
+- ansible-galaxy - Support both 'galaxy.yml' and 'galaxy.yaml' files for collections.
+- ansible-galaxy - add ``--token`` argument which is the same as ``--api-key`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65955)
+- ansible-galaxy - add ``collection list`` command for listing installed collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/65022)
+- ansible-galaxy - add ``validate_collection_path()`` utility function ()
+- ansible-galaxy - add collections path argument
+- ansible-galaxy - allow role to define dependency requirements that will be only installed by defining them in ``meta/requirements.yml`` (https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/57)
+- ansible-test - --docker flag now has an associated --docker-terminate flag which controls if and when the docker container is removed following tests
+- ansible-test - Add a test to prevent ``state=get``
+- ansible-test - Add a test to prevent ``state=list`` and ``state=info``
+- ansible-test - Add a verbosity option for displaying warnings.
+- ansible-test - Add support for Python 3.9.
+- ansible-test - Added CI provider support for Azure Pipelines.
+- ansible-test - Added a ``ansible-test coverage analyze targets filter`` command to filter aggregated coverage reports by path and/or target name.
+- ansible-test - Added a ``ansible-test coverage analyze targets`` command to analyze integration test code coverage by test target.
+- ansible-test - Added support for Ansible Core CI request signing for Shippable.
+- ansible-test - Added support for testing on Fedora 32.
+- ansible-test - General code cleanup.
+- ansible-test - Now includes testing support for RHEL 8.2
+- ansible-test - Provisioning of RHEL instances now includes installation of pinned versions of ``packaging`` and ``pyparsing`` to match the downstream vendored versions.
+- ansible-test - Refactor code to consolidate filesystem access and improve handling of encoding.
+- ansible-test - Refactored CI related logic into a basic provider abstraction.
+- ansible-test - Remove obsolete support for provisioning remote vCenter instances. The supporting services are no longer available.
+- ansible-test - Report the correct line number in the ``yamllint`` sanity test when reporting ``libyaml`` parse errors in module documentation.
+- ansible-test - Support writing compact JSON files instead of formatting and indenting the output.
+- ansible-test - Update Ubuntu 18.04 test container to version 1.13 which includes ``venv``
+- ansible-test - Update ``default-test-container`` to version 1.11, which includes Python 3.9.0a4.
+- ansible-test - Updated the default test containers to include Python 3.9.0b3.
+- ansible-test - Upgrade OpenSUSE containers to use Leap 15.1.
+- ansible-test - Upgrade distro test containers from 1.16.0 to 1.17.0
+- ansible-test - Upgrade from ansible-base-test-container 1.1 to 2.2
+- ansible-test - Upgrade from default-test-container 2.1 to 2.2
+- ansible-test - ``mutually_exclusive``, ``required_if``, ``required_by``, ``required_together`` and ``required_one_of`` in modules are now validated.
+- ansible-test - ``validate-modules`` now also accepts an ISO 8601 formatted date as ``deprecated.removed_at_date``, instead of requiring a version number in ``deprecated.removed_in``.
+- ansible-test - ``validate-modules`` now makes sure that module documentation deprecation removal version and/or date matches with removal version and/or date in meta/runtime.yml.
+- ansible-test - ``validate-modules`` now validates all version numbers in documentation and argument spec. Version numbers for collections are checked for being valid semantic versioning version number strings.
+- ansible-test - add ``validate-modules`` tests for ``removed_in_version`` and ``deprecated_aliases`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/66920/).
+- ansible-test - add check for ``print()`` calls in modules and module_utils.
+- ansible-test - added a ``--no-pip-check`` option
+- ansible-test - added a ``--venv-system-site-packages`` option for use with the ``--venv`` option
+- ansible-test - added new ``changelog`` test, which runs if a `antsibull-changelog <https://pypi.org/project/antsibull-changelog/>`_ configuration or files in ``changelogs/fragments/`` are found (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69313).
+- ansible-test - allow delegation config to specify equivalents to the ``--no-pip-check``, ``--disable-httptester`` and `--no-temp-unicode`` options
+- ansible-test - allow sanity tests to check for optional errors by specifying ``--enable-optional-errors`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/66920/).
+- ansible-test - also run the ``ansible-doc`` sanity test with ``--json`` to ensure that the documentation does not contain something that cannot be exported as JSON (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69238).
+- ansible-test - enable deprecated version testing for modules and ``module.deprecate()`` calls (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/66920/).
+- ansible-test - extend alias validation.
+- ansible-test - fixed ``units`` command with ``--docker`` to (mostly) work under podman
+- ansible-test - improve module validation so that ``default``, ``sample`` and ``example`` contain JSON values and not arbitrary YAML values, like ``datetime`` objects or dictionaries with non-string keys.
+- ansible-test - module validation will now consider arguments added by ``add_file_common_arguments=True`` correctly.
+- ansible-test - switch from testing RHEL 8.0 and RHEL 8.1 Beta to RHEL 8.1
+- ansible-test - the argument spec of modules is now validated by a YAML schema.
+- ansible-test - the module validation code now checks whether ``elements`` documentation for options matches the argument_spec.
+- ansible-test - the module validation code now checks whether ``elements`` is defined when ``type=list``
+- ansible-test - the module validation code now checks whether ``requirement`` for options is documented correctly.
+- ansible-test add pyparsing constraint for Python 2.x to avoid compatibility issues with the upcoming pyparsing 3 release
+- ansible-test defaults to redacting sensitive values (disable with the ``--no-redact`` option)
+- ansible-test has been updated to use ``default-test-container:1.13`` which includes fewer Python requirements now that most modules and tests have been migrated to collections.
+- ansible-test no longer detects ``git`` submodule directories as files.
+- ansible-test no longer provides a ``--tox`` option. Use the ``--venv`` option instead. This only affects testing the Ansible source. The feature was never available for Ansible Collections or when running from an Ansible install.
+- ansible-test no longer tries to install sanity test dependencies on unsupported Python versions
+- ansible-test now checks for the minimum and maximum supported versions when importing ``coverage``
+- ansible-test now filters out unnecessary warnings and messages from pip when installing its own requirements
+- ansible-test now has a ``--list-files`` option to list files using the ``env`` command.
+- ansible-test now includes the ``pylint`` plugin ``mccabe`` in optional sanity tests enabled with ``--enable-optional-errors``
+- ansible-test now places the ansible source and collections content in separate directories when using the ``--docker`` or ``--remote`` options.
+- ansible-test now provides a more helpful error when loading coverage files created by ``coverage`` version 5 or later
+- ansible-test now supports provisioning of network resources when testing network collections
+- ansible-test now supports skip aliases in the format ``skip/{arch}/{platform}`` and ``skip/{arch}/{platform}/{version}`` where ``arch`` can be ``power``. These aliases are only effective for the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test now supports skip aliases in the format ``skip/{platform}/{version}`` for the ``--remote`` option. This is preferred over the older ``skip/{platform}{version}`` format which included no ``/`` between the platform and version.
+- ansible-test now supports testing against RHEL 7.8 when using the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test now supports the ``--remote power/centos/7`` platform option.
+- ansible-test now validates the schema of ansible_builtin_runtime.yml and a collections meta/runtime.yml file.
+- ansible-test provides clearer error messages when failing to detect the provider to use with the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test provisioning of network devices for ``network-integration`` has been updated to use collections.
+- ansible_native_concat() - use ``to_text`` function rather than Jinja2's ``text_type`` which has been removed in Jinja2 master branch.
+- apt - Implemented an exponential backoff behaviour when retrying to update the cache with new params ``update_cache_retry_max_delay`` and ``update_cache_retries`` to control the behavior.
+- apt_repository - Implemented an exponential backoff behaviour when retrying to update the apt cache with new params ``update_cache_retry_max_delay`` and ``update_cache_retries`` to control the behavior.
+- blockinfile - Update module documentation to clarify insertbefore/insertafter usage.
+- callbacks - Allow modules to return `None` as before/after entries for diff. This should make it easier for modules to report the "not existing" state of the entity they touched.
+- combine filter - now accept a ``list_merge`` argument which modifies its behaviour when the hashes to merge contain arrays/lists.
+- conditionals - change the default of CONDITIONAL_BARE_VARS to False (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70682).
+- config - accept singular version of ``collections_path`` ini setting and ``ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH`` environment variable setting
+- core filters - Adding ``path_join`` filter to the core filters list
+- debconf - add a note about no_log=True since module might expose sensitive information to logs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32386).
+- default_callback - moving 'check_mode_markers' documentation in default_callback doc_fragment (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/565).
+- distro - Update bundled version of distro from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0
+- dnf - Properly handle idempotent transactions with package name wildcard globs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62809)
+- dnf - Properly handle module AppStreams that don't define stream (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63683)
+- dnf param to pass allowerasing
+- downstream packagers may install packages under ansible._vendor, which will be added to head of sys.path at ansible package load
+- file - specifying ``src`` without ``state`` is now an error
+- get_bin_path() - change the interface to always raise ``ValueError`` if the command is not found (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/56813)
+- get_url - Remove deprecated string format support for the headers option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61891)
+- git - added an ``archive_prefix`` option to set a prefix to add to each file path in archive
+- host_group_vars plugin - Require whitelisting and whitelist by default.
+- new magic variable - ``ansible_config_file`` - full path of used Ansible config file
+- package_facts.py - Add support for Pacman package manager.
+- pipe lookup - update docs for Popen with shell=True usages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70159).
+- plugin loader - Add MODULE_IGNORE_EXTS config option to skip over certain extensions when looking for script and binary modules.
+- powershell (shell plugin) - Fix `join_path` to support UNC paths (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66341)
+- regexp_replace filter - add multiline support for regex_replace filter (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61985)
+- rename ``_find_existing_collections()`` to ``find_existing_collections()`` to reflect its use across multiple files
+- reorganized code for the ``ansible-test coverage`` command for easier maintenance and feature additions
+- service_facts - Added undocumented 'indirect' and 'static' as service status (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69752).
+- ssh - connection plugin now supports a new variable ``sshpass_prompt`` which gets passed to ``sshpass`` allowing the user to set a custom substring to search for a password prompt (requires sshpass 1.06+)
+- systemd - default scope is now explicitly "system"
+- tests - Add new ``truthy`` and ``falsy`` jinja2 tests to evaluate the truthiness or falsiness of a value
+- to_nice_json filter - Removed now-useless exception handler
+- to_uuid - add a named parameter to let the user optionally set a custom namespace
+- update ansible-test default-test-container from version 1.13 to 1.14, which includes an update from Python 3.9.0a6 to Python 3.9.0b1
+- update ansible-test default-test-container from version 1.9.1 to 1.9.2
+- update ansible-test default-test-container from version 1.9.2 to 1.9.3
+- update ansible-test default-test-container from version 1.9.3 to 1.10.1
+- update ansible-test images to 1.16.0, which includes system updates and pins CentOS versions
+- uri/galaxy - Add new ``prepare_multipart`` helper function for creating a ``multipart/form-data`` body (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69376)
+- url_lookup_plugin - add parameters to match what is available in ``module_utils/urls.py``
+- user - allow groups, append parameters with local
+- user - usage of ``append: True`` without setting a list of groups. This is currently a no-op with a warning, and will change to an error in 2.14. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/65795)
+- validate-modules checks for deprecated in collections against meta/runtime.yml
+- validation - Sort missing parameters in exception message thrown by check_required_arguments
+- vars plugins - Support vars plugins in collections by adding the ability to whitelist plugins.
+- vars_prompt - throw error when encountering unsupported key
+- win_package - Added proxy support for retrieving packages from a URL - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43818
+- win_package - Added support for ``.appx``, ``.msix``, ``.appxbundle``, and ``.msixbundle`` package - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50765
+- win_package - Added support for ``.msp`` packages - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/22789
+- win_package - Added support for specifying the HTTP method when getting files from a URL - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35377
+- win_package - Read uninstall strings from the ``QuietUninstallString`` if present to better support argumentless uninstalls of registry based packages.
+- win_package - Scan packages in the current user's registry hive - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45950
+- windows collections - Support relative module util imports in PowerShell modules and module_utils
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- Using the DefaultCallback without the correspodning doc_fragment or copying the documentation.
+- hash_behaviour - Deprecate ``hash_behaviour`` for future removal.
+- script inventory plugin - The 'cache' option is deprecated and will be removed in 2.12. Its use has been removed from the plugin since it has never had any effect.
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- core - remove support for ``check_invalid_arguments`` in ``AnsibleModule``, ``AzureModule`` and ``UTMModule``.
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- **security issue** - Convert CLI provided passwords to text initially, to prevent unsafe context being lost when converting from bytes->text during post processing of PlayContext. This prevents CLI provided passwords from being incorrectly templated (CVE-2019-14856)
+- **security issue** - Redact cloud plugin secrets in ansible-test when running integration tests using cloud plugins. Only present in 2.9.0b1.
+- **security issue** - TaskExecutor - Ensure we don't erase unsafe context in TaskExecutor.run on bytes. Only present in 2.9.0beta1 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62237)
+- **security issue** - The ``subversion`` module provided the password via the svn command line option ``--password`` and can be retrieved from the host's /proc/<pid>/cmdline file. Update the module to use the secure ``--password-from-stdin`` option instead, and add a warning in the module and in the documentation if svn version is too old to support it. (CVE-2020-1739)
+- **security issue** - Update ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` and ``AnsibleUnsafeBytes`` to maintain unsafe context by overriding ``.encode`` and ``.decode``. This prevents future issues with ``to_text``, ``to_bytes``, or ``to_native`` removing the unsafe wrapper when converting between string types (CVE-2019-14856)
+- **security issue** - properly hide parameters marked with ``no_log`` in suboptions when invalid parameters are passed to the module (CVE-2019-14858)
+- **security issue** atomic_move - change default permissions when creating temporary files so they are not world readable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67794) (CVE-2020-1736)
+- **security issue** win_unzip - normalize paths in archive to ensure extracted files do not escape from the target directory (CVE-2020-1737)
+- **security_issue** - create temporary vault file with strict permissions when editing and prevent race condition (CVE-2020-1740)
+- Ensure we get an error when creating a remote tmp if it already exists. CVE-2020-1733
+- In fetch action, avoid using slurp return to set up dest, also ensure no dir traversal CVE-2020-1735.
+- Sanitize no_log values from any response keys that might be returned from the uri module (CVE-2020-14330).
+- ansible-galaxy - Error when install finds a tar with a file that will be extracted outside the collection install directory - CVE-2020-10691
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- ActionBase - Add new ``cleanup`` method that is explicitly run by the ``TaskExecutor`` to ensure that the shell plugins ``tmpdir`` is always removed. This change means that individual action plugins need not be responsible for removing the temporary directory, which ensures that we don't have code paths that accidentally leave behind the temporary directory.
+- Add example setting for ``collections_paths`` parameter to ``examples/ansible.cfg``
+- Add missing gcp modules to gcp module defaults group
+- Added support for Flatcar Container Linux in distribution and hostname modules. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69627)
+- Added support for OSMC distro in hostname module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66189).
+- Address compat with rpmfluff-0.6 for integration tests
+- Address the deprecation of the use of stdlib distutils in packaging. It's a short-term hotfix for the problem (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70456, https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2230, https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/bd110264)
+- Allow TypeErrors on Undefined variables in filters to be handled or deferred when processing for loops.
+- Allow tasks to notify a fqcn handler name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68181)
+- An invalid value is hard to track down if you don't know where it came from, return field name instead.
+- Ansible output now uses stdout to determine column width instead of stdin
+- Ansible.Basic - Fix issue when setting a ``no_log`` parameter to an empty string - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62613
+- Ansible.ModuleUtils.WebRequest - actually set no proxy when ``use_proxy: no`` is set on a Windows module - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68528
+- AnsibleDumper - Add a representer for AnsibleUnsafeBytes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62562).
+- AnsibleModule.run_command() - set ``close_fds`` to ``False`` on Python 2 if ``pass_fds`` are passed to ``run_command()``. Since ``subprocess.Popen()`` on Python 2 does not have the ``pass_fds`` option, there is no way to exclude a specific list of file descriptors from being closed.
+- Avoid bare select() for running commands to avoid too large file descriptor numbers failing tasks
+- Avoid running subfunctions that are passed to show_vars function when it will be a noop.
+- By passing the module_tmpdir as a parameter in the write_ssh_wrapper function instead of initalizing module_tmpdir via get_module_path()
+- CLI - the `ANSIBLE_PLAYBOOK_DIR` envvar or `playbook_dir` config can now substitute for the --playbook-dir arg on CLIs that support it (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59464)
+- Check NoneType for raw_params before proceeding in include_vars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64939).
+- Collections - Allow a collection role to call a stand alone role, without needing to explicitly add ``ansible.legacy`` to the collection search order within the collection role. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69101)
+- Correctly process raw_params in add_hosts.
+- Create an ``import_module`` compat util, for use across the codebase, to allow collection loading to work properly on Python26
+- DUPLICATE_YAML_DICT_KEY - Fix error output when configuration option DUPLICATE_YAML_DICT_KEY is set to error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65366)
+- Do not keep empty blocks in PlayIterator after skipping tasks with tags.
+- Ensure DataLoader temp files are removed at appropriate times and that we observe the LOCAL_TMP setting.
+- Ensure that ``--version`` works with non-ascii ansible project paths (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66617)
+- Ensure that keywords defined as booleans are correctly interpreting their input, before patch any random string would be interpreted as False
+- Ensure we don't allow ansible_facts subkey of ansible_facts to override top level, also fix 'deprefixing' to prevent key transforms.
+- Fact Delegation - Add ability to indicate which facts must always be delegated. Primarily for ``discovered_interpreter_python`` right now, but extensible later. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61002)
+- Fix ``delegate_facts: true`` when ``ansible_python_interpreter`` is not set. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70168)
+- Fix a bug when a host was not removed from a play after ``meta: end_host`` and as a result the host was still present in ``ansible_play_hosts`` and ``ansible_play_batch`` variables.
+- Fix an issue with the ``fileglob`` plugin where passing a subdirectory of non-existent directory would cause it to fail - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69450
+- Fix case sensitivity for ``lookup()`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66464)
+- Fix collection install error that happened if a dependency specified dependencies to be null (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67574).
+- Fix https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-dev/issues/96 Add support for automation-hub authentication to ansible-galaxy
+- Fix incorrect "Could not match supplied host pattern" warning (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66764)
+- Fix issue git module cannot use custom `key_file` or `ssh_opts` as non-root user on system with noexec `/tmp` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/30064).
+- Fix issue git module ignores remote_tmp (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/33947).
+- Fix issue where the collection loader tracebacks if ``collections_paths = ./`` is set in the config
+- Fix issue with callbacks ``set_options`` method that was not called with collections
+- Fix label lookup in the default callback for includes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65904)
+- Fix regression when ``ansible_failed_task`` and ``ansible_failed_result`` are not defined in the rescue block (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64789)
+- Fix string parsing of inline vault strings for plugin config variable sources
+- Fix traceback when printing ``HostVars`` on native Jinja2 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65365)
+- Fix warning for default permission change when no mode is specified. Follow up to https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67794. (CVE-2020-1736)
+- Fixed a bug with the copy action plugin where mode=preserve was being passed on symlink files and causing a traceback (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68471).
+- Fixed the equality check for IncludedFiles to ensure they are not accidently merged when process_include_results runs.
+- Fixes ansible-test traceback when plugin author is not a string or a list of strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70507)
+- Fixes in network action plugins load from collections using module prefix (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65071)
+- Force collection names to be static so that a warning is generated because templating currently does not work (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68704).
+- Handle empty extra vars in ansible cli (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61497).
+- Handle empty roles and empty collections in requirements.yml in ansible-galaxy install command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68186).
+- Handle exception encountered while parsing the argument description in module when invoked via ansible-doc command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/60587).
+- Handle exception when /etc/shadow file is missing or not found, while operating user operation in user module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63490).
+- HostVarsVars - Template the __repr__ value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64128).
+- JSON Encoder - Ensure we treat single vault encrypted values as strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70784)
+- Make netconf plugin configurable to set ncclient device handler name in netconf plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/65718)
+- Make sure if a collection is supplied as a string that we transform it into a list.
+- Misc typo fixes in various documentation pages.
+- Module arguments in suboptions which were marked as deprecated with ``removed_in_version`` did not result in a warning.
+- On HTTP status code 304, return status_code
+- Plugin Metadata is supposed to have default values.  When the metadata was missing entirely, we were properly setting the defaults.  Fixed the metadata parsing so that the defaults are also set when we were missing just a few fields.
+- Prevent a race condition when running handlers using a combination of the free strategy and include_role.
+- Prevent rewriting nested Block's data in filter_tagged_tasks
+- Prevent templating unused variables for {% include %} (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68699)
+- Properly handle unicode in ``safe_eval``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66943)
+- Python module_utils finder - refactor logic to eliminate many corner cases, remove recursion, fix base module_utils redirections
+- Remove a temp directory created by wait_for_connection action plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62407).
+- Remove the unnecessary warning about aptitude not being installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56832).
+- Remove unused Python imports in ``ansible-inventory``.
+- Restore the ability for changed_when/failed_when to function with group_by (#70844).
+- Role Installation - Ensure that a role containing files with non-ascii characters can be installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69133)
+- RoleRequirement - include stderr in the error message if a scm command fails (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41336)
+- SSH plugin - Improve error message when ssh client is not found on the host
+- Skipping of become for ``network_cli`` connections now works when ``network_cli`` is sourced from a collection.
+- Stop adding the connection variables to the output results
+- Strictly check string datatype for 'tasks_from', 'vars_from', 'defaults_from', and 'handlers_from' in include_role (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68515).
+- Strip no log values from module response keys (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68400)
+- TaskExecutor - Handle unexpected errors as failed while post validating loops (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70050).
+- TaskQueueManager - Explicitly set the mutliprocessing start method to ``fork`` to avoid issues with the default on macOS now being ``spawn``.
+- Template connection variables before using them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70598).
+- Templating - Ansible was caching results of Jinja2 expressions in some cases where these expressions could have dynamic results, like password generation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/34144).
+- Terminal plugins - add "\e[m" to the list of ANSI sequences stripped from device output
+- The `ansible_become` value was not being treated as a boolean value when set in an INI format inventory file (fixes bug https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70476).
+- The ansible-galaxy publish command was using an incorrect URL for v3 servers. The configuration for v3 servers includes part of the path fragment that was added in the new test.
+- The machine-readable changelog ``changelogs/changelog.yaml`` is now contained in the release.
+- Update ActionBase._low_level_execute_command to honor executable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68054)
+- Update the warning message for ``CONDITIONAL_BARE_VARS`` to list the original conditional not the value of the original conditional (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67735)
+- Use ``sys.exit`` instead of ``exit`` in ``ansible-inventory``.
+- Use fqcr from command module invocation using shell module. Fixes https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69788
+- Use hostnamectl command to get current hostname for host while using systemd strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59438).
+- Using --start-at-task would fail when it attempted to skip over tasks with no name.
+- Validate include args in handlers.
+- Vault - Allow single vault encrypted values to be used directly as module parameters. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68275)
+- Vault - Make the single vaulted value ``AnsibleVaultEncryptedUnicode`` class work more like a string by replicating the behavior of ``collections.UserString`` from Python. These changes don't allow it to be considered a string, but most common python string actions will now work as expected. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/67823)
+- ``AnsibleUnsafe``/``AnsibleContext``/``Templar`` - Do not treat ``AnsibleUndefined`` as being "unsafe" (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65198)
+- account for empty strings in when splitting the host pattern (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61964)
+- action plugins - change all action/module delegations to use FQ names while allowing overrides (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69788)
+- add constraints file for ``anisble_runner`` test since an update to ``psutil`` is now causing test failures
+- add magic/connection vars updates from delegated host info.
+- add parameter name to warning message when values are converted to strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/57145)
+- add_host action now correctly shows idempotency/changed status
+- added 'unimplemented' prefix to file based caching
+- added new option for default callback to compat variable to avoid old 3rd party plugins from erroring out.
+- adhoc CLI - when playbook-dir is specified and inside a collection, use default collection logic to resolve modules/actions
+- allow external collections to be created in the 'ansible' collection namespace (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59988)
+- also strip spaces around config values in pathlist as we do in list types
+- ansiballz - remove '' and '.' from sys.path to fix a permissions issue on OpenBSD with pipelining (#69320)
+- ansible command now correctly sends v2_playbook_on_start to callbacks
+- ansible-connection persists even after playbook run is completed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/61591)
+- ansible-doc - Allow and give precedence to `removed_at_date` for deprecated modules.
+- ansible-doc - collection name for plugin top-level deprecation was not inserted when deprecating by version (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70344).
+- ansible-doc - improve error message in text formatter when ``description`` is missing for a (sub-)option or a return value or its ``contains`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70046).
+- ansible-doc - improve man page formatting to avoid problems when YAML anchors are used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70045).
+- ansible-doc - include the collection name in the text output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70401).
+- ansible-doc now properly handles removed modules/plugins
+- ansible-galaxy - Default collection install path to first path in COLLECTIONS_PATHS (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/62870)
+- ansible-galaxy - Display proper error when invalid token is used for Galaxy servers
+- ansible-galaxy - Ensure we preserve the new URL when appending ``/api`` for the case where the GET succeeds on galaxy.ansible.com
+- ansible-galaxy - Expand the ``User-Agent`` to include more information and add it to more calls to Galaxy endpoints.
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix ``collection install`` when installing from a URL or a file - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65109
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix ``multipart/form-data`` body to include extra CRLF (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/67942)
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix issue when compared installed dependencies with a collection having no ``MANIFEST.json`` or an empty version string in the json
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix pagination issue when retrieving role versions for install - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64355
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix up pagination searcher for collection versions on Automation Hub
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix url building to not truncate the URL (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61624)
+- ansible-galaxy - Handle the different task resource urls in API responses from publishing collection artifacts to galaxy servers using v2 and v3 APIs.
+- ansible-galaxy - Preserve symlinks when building and installing a collection
+- ansible-galaxy - Remove uneeded verbose messages when accessing local token file
+- ansible-galaxy - Return the HTTP code reason if no error msg was returned by the server - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64850
+- ansible-galaxy - Send SHA256 hashes when publishing a collection
+- ansible-galaxy - Set ``User-Agent`` to Ansible version when interacting with Galaxy or Automation Hub
+- ansible-galaxy - Treat the ``GALAXY_SERVER_LIST`` config entry that is defined but with no values as an empty list
+- ansible-galaxy - Utilize ``Templar`` for templating skeleton files, so that they have access to Ansible filters/tests/lookups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69104)
+- ansible-galaxy - fix a bug where listing a specific role if it was not in the first path failed to find the role
+- ansible-galaxy - fix regression that prenented roles from being listed
+- ansible-galaxy - hide warning during collection installation if other installed collections do not contain a ``MANIFEST.json`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67490)
+- ansible-galaxy - properly list roles when the role name also happens to be in the role path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67365)
+- ansible-galaxy - properly show the role description when running offline (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/60167)
+- ansible-galaxy cli - fixed ``--version`` argument
+- ansible-galaxy collection - Preserve executable bit on build and preserve mode on install from what tar member is set to - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68415
+- ansible-galaxy collection download - fix downloading tar.gz files and collections in git repositories (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70429)
+- ansible-galaxy collection install - fix fallback mechanism if the AH server did not have the collection requested - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70940
+- ansible-galaxy role - Fix issue where ``--server`` was not being used for certain ``ansible-galaxy role`` actions - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61609
+- ansible-galaxy- On giving an invalid subcommand to ansible-galaxy, the help would be shown only for role subcommand (collection subcommand help is not shown). With this change, the entire help for ansible-galaxy (same as ansible-galaxy --help) is displayed along with the help for role subcommand. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69009)
+- ansible-inventory - Fix long standing bug not loading vars plugins for group vars relative to the playbook dir when the '--playbook-dir' and '--export' flags are used together.
+- ansible-inventory - Fix regression loading vars plugins. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65064)
+- ansible-inventory - Properly hide arguments that should not be shown (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61604)
+- ansible-inventory - Restore functionality to allow ``--graph`` to be limited by a host pattern
+- ansible-test - Add ``pytest < 6.0.0`` constraint for managed installations on Python 3.x to avoid issues with relative imports.
+- ansible-test - Change detection now properly resolves relative imports instead of treating them as absolute imports.
+- ansible-test - Code cleanup.
+- ansible-test - Disabled the ``duplicate-code`` and ``cyclic-import`` checks for the ``pylint`` sanity test due to inconsistent results.
+- ansible-test - Do not try to validate PowerShell modules ``setup.ps1``, ``slurp.ps1``, and ``async_status.ps1``
+- ansible-test - Do not warn on missing PowerShell or C# util that are in other collections
+- ansible-test - Fix PowerShell module util analysis to properly detect the names of a util when running in a collection
+- ansible-test - Fix regression introduced in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/67063 which caused module_utils analysis to fail on Python 2.x.
+- ansible-test - Fix traceback in validate-modules test when argument_spec is None.
+- ansible-test - Make sure import sanity test virtual environments also remove ``pkg-resources`` if it is not removed by uninstalling ``setuptools``.
+- ansible-test - Remove out-of-date constraint on installing paramiko versions 2.5.0 or later in tests.
+- ansible-test - The ``ansible-doc`` sanity test now works for ``netconf`` plugins.
+- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test now correctly blocks access to python modules, not just packages, in the ``ansible`` package.
+- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test now correctly provides an empty ``ansible`` package.
+- ansible-test - The shebang sanity test now correctly identifies modules in subdirectories in collections.
+- ansible-test - Updated Python constraints for installing ``coverage`` to resolve issues on multiple Python versions when using the ``--coverage`` option.
+- ansible-test - Updated requirements to limit ``boto3`` and ``botocore`` versions on Python 2.6 to supported versions.
+- ansible-test - Use ``sys.exit`` instead of ``exit``.
+- ansible-test - Use ``virtualenv`` versions before 20 on provisioned macOS instances to remain compatible with an older pip install.
+- ansible-test - avoid use of deprecated junit_xml method
+- ansible-test - bump version of ACME test container. The new version includes updated dependencies.
+- ansible-test - during module validation, handle add_file_common_args only for top-level arguments.
+- ansible-test - during module validation, improve alias handling.
+- ansible-test - for local change detection, allow to specify branch to compare to with ``--base-branch`` for all types of tests (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69508).
+- ansible-test - improve ``deprecate()`` call checker.
+- ansible-test - integration and unit test change detection now works for filter, lookup and test plugins
+- ansible-test can now install argparse with ``--requirements`` or delegation when the pip version in use is older than version 7.1
+- ansible-test change detection - Run only sanity tests on ``docs/`` and ``changelogs/`` in collections, to avoid triggering full CI runs of integration and unit tests when files in these directories change.
+- ansible-test coverage - Fix the ``--all`` argument when generating coverage reports - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62096
+- ansible-test import sanity test now consistently reports errors against the file being tested.
+- ansible-test import sanity test now consistently reports warnings as errors.
+- ansible-test import sanity test now properly handles relative imports.
+- ansible-test import sanity test now properly invokes Ansible modules as scripts.
+- ansible-test is now able to find its ``egg-info`` directory when it contains the Ansible version number
+- ansible-test no longer errors reporting coverage when no Python coverage exists. This fixes issues reporting on PowerShell only coverage from collections.
+- ansible-test no longer fails when downloading test results for a collection without a ``tests`` directory when using the ``--docker`` option.
+- ansible-test no longer optimizes setting ``PATH`` by prepending the directory containing the selected Python interpreter when it is named ``python``. This avoids unintentionally making other programs available on ``PATH``, including an already installed version of Ansible.
+- ansible-test no longer tracebacks during change analysis due to processing an empty python file
+- ansible-test no longer tries to install ``coverage`` 5.0+ since those versions are unsupported
+- ansible-test no longer tries to install ``setuptools`` 45+ on Python 2.x since those versions are unsupported
+- ansible-test now always uses the ``--python`` option for ``virtualenv`` to select the correct interpreter when creating environments with the ``--venv`` option
+- ansible-test now correctly collects code coverage on the last task in a play. This should resolve issues with missing code coverage, empty coverage files and corrupted coverage files resulting from early worker termination.
+- ansible-test now correctly enumerates submodules when a collection resides below the repository root
+- ansible-test now correctly excludes the test results temporary directory when copying files from the remote test system to the local system
+- ansible-test now correctly includes inventory files ignored by git when running tests with the ``--docker`` option
+- ansible-test now correctly installs the requirements specified by the collection's unit and integration tests instead of the requirements specified for Ansible's own unit and integration tests
+- ansible-test now correctly recognizes imports in collections when using the ``--changed`` option.
+- ansible-test now correctly rewrites coverage paths for PowerShell files when testing collections
+- ansible-test now creates its integration test temporary directory within the collection so ansible-playbook can properly detect the default collection
+- ansible-test now enables color ``ls`` on a remote host only if the host supports the feature
+- ansible-test now ignores empty ``*.py`` files when analyzing module_utils imports for change detection
+- ansible-test now ignores version control within subdirectories of collections. Previously this condition was an error.
+- ansible-test now ignores warnings when comparing pip versions before and after integration tests run
+- ansible-test now installs sanity test requirements specific to each test instead of installing requirements for all sanity tests
+- ansible-test now installs the correct version of ``cryptography`` with ``--requirements`` or delegation when setuptools is older than version 18.5
+- ansible-test now limits Jinja2 installs to version 2.10 and earlier on Python 2.6
+- ansible-test now limits ``pathspec`` to versions prior to 0.6.0 on Python 2.6 to avoid installation errors
+- ansible-test now limits installation of ``hcloud`` to Python 2.7 and 3.5 - 3.8 since other versions are unsupported
+- ansible-test now limits the version of ``setuptools`` on Python 2.6 to versions older than 37
+- ansible-test now loads the collection loader plugin early enough for ansible_collections imports to work in unit test conftest.py modules
+- ansible-test now preserves existing SSH authorized keys when provisioning a remote host
+- ansible-test now properly activates the vcenter plugin for vcenter tests when docker is available
+- ansible-test now properly activates virtual environments created using the --venv option
+- ansible-test now properly creates a virtual environment using ``venv`` when running in a ``virtualenv`` created virtual environment
+- ansible-test now properly excludes the ``tests/output/`` directory from code coverage
+- ansible-test now properly handles creation of Python execv wrappers when the selected interpreter is a script
+- ansible-test now properly handles enumeration of git submodules. Enumeration is now done with ``git submodule status --recursive`` without specifying ``.`` for the path, since that could cause the command to fail. Instead, relative paths outside the current directory are filtered out of the results. Errors from ``git`` commands will now once again be reported as errors instead of warnings.
+- ansible-test now properly handles warnings for removed modules/plugins
+- ansible-test now properly ignores the ``tests/output//`` directory when not using git
+- ansible-test now properly installs requirements for multiple Python versions when running sanity tests
+- ansible-test now properly recognizes modules and module_utils in collections when using the ``blacklist`` plugin for the ``pylint`` sanity test
+- ansible-test now properly registers its own code in a virtual environment when running from an install
+- ansible-test now properly reports import errors for collections when running the import sanity test
+- ansible-test now properly searches for ``pythonX.Y`` instead of ``python`` when looking for the real python that created a ``virtualenv``
+- ansible-test now properly sets PYTHONPATH for tests when running from an Ansible installation
+- ansible-test now properly sets ``ANSIBLE_PLAYBOOK_DIR`` for integration tests so unqualified collection references work for adhoc ``ansible`` usage
+- ansible-test now properly uses a fresh copy of environment variables for each command invocation to avoid mixing vars between commands
+- ansible-test now shows sanity test doc links when installed (previously the links were only visible when running from source)
+- ansible-test now shows the correct source path instead of ``%s`` for collection role based test targets when the ``-v`` option is used
+- ansible-test now supports submodules using older ``git`` versions which require querying status from the top level directory of the repo.
+- ansible-test now updates SSH keys it generates with newer versions of ssh-keygen to function with Paramiko
+- ansible-test now upgrades ``pip`` with `--requirements`` or delegation as needed when the pip version in use is older than version 7.1
+- ansible-test now uses GNU tar format instead of the Python default when creating payloads for remote systems
+- ansible-test now uses ``pycodestyle`` frozen at version 2.6.0 for consistent test results.
+- ansible-test now uses modules from the ``ansible.windows`` collection for setup and teardown of ``windows-integration`` tests and code coverage
+- ansible-test once again properly collects code coverage for ``ansible-connection``
+- ansible-test validate-modules - Fix arg spec collector for PowerShell to find utils in both a collection and base.
+- ansible-test validate-modules - ``version_added`` on module level was not validated for modules in collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70869).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - return correct error codes ``option-invalid-version-added`` resp. ``return-invalid-version-added`` instead of the wrong error ``deprecation-either-date-or-version`` when an invalid value of ``version_added`` is specified for an option or a return value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70869).
+- ansible-test validate-modules sanity test code ``missing-module-utils-import-c#-requirements`` is now ``missing-module-utils-import-csharp-requirements`` (fixes ignore bug).
+- ansible-test validate-modules sanity test code ``multiple-c#-utils-per-requires`` is now ``multiple-csharp-utils-per-requires`` (fixes ignore bug).
+- ansible-test validate-modules sanity test now checks for AnsibleModule initialization instead of module_utils imports, which did not work in many cases.
+- ansible-test validate-modules sanity test now properly handles collections imports using the Ansible collection loader.
+- ansible-test validate-modules sanity test now properly handles relative imports.
+- ansible-test validate-modules sanity test now properly handles sys.exit in modules.
+- ansible-test validate-modules sanity test now properly invokes Ansible modules as scripts.
+- ansible-test windows coverage - Ensure coverage reports are UTF-8 encoded without a BOM
+- ansible-test windows coverage - Output temp files as UTF-8 with BOM to standardise against non coverage runs
+- ansible-vault - Fix ``encrypt_string`` output in a tty when using ``--sdtin-name`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65121)
+- ansible-vault create - Fix exception on no arguments given
+- api - time.clock is removed in Python 3.8, add backward compatible code (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70649).
+- apt - Fixed the issue the cache being updated while auto-installing its dependencies even when ``update_cache`` is set to false.
+- apt - include exception message from apt python library in error output
+- assemble - fix decrypt argument in the module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65450).
+- assemble module - fix documentation - the remote_src property specified a default value of no but it's actually yes.
+- avoid fatal traceback when a bad FQCN for a callback is supplied in the whitelist (#69401).
+- basic - use PollSelector implementation when DefaultSelector fails (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70238).
+- become - Fix various plugins that still used play_context to get the become password instead of through the plugin - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62367
+- blockinfile - fix regression that results in incorrect block in file when the block to be inserted does not end in a line separator (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69734)
+- blockinfile - preserve line endings on update (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64966)
+- clean_facts - use correct variable to avoid unnecessary handling of ``AttributeError``
+- code - removes some Python compatibility code for dealing with socket timeouts in ``wait_for``
+- collection loader - ensure Jinja function cache is fully-populated before lookup
+- collection loader - fixed relative imports on Python 2.7, ensure pluginloader caches use full name to prevent names from being clobbered (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/60317)
+- collection metadata - ensure collection loader uses libyaml/CSafeLoader to parse collection metadata if available
+- collection_loader - sort Windows modules below other plugin types so the correct builtin plugin inside a role is selected (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65298)
+- collections - Handle errors better for filters and tests in collections, where a non-existent collection is specified, or importing the plugin results in an exception (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66721)
+- combine filter - ``[dict1, [dict2]] | combine`` now raise an error; previously ``combine`` had an undocumented behaviour where it was flattening the list before combining it (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/57894#discussion_r339517518).
+- config - encoding failures on config values should be non-fatal (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63310)
+- copy - Fix copy modes when using remote_src=yes and src is a directory with trailing slash.
+- copy - Fixed copy module not working in case that remote_src is enabled and dest ends in a / (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47238)
+- copy - recursive copy with ``remote_src=yes`` now recurses beyond first level. (Fixes https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58284)
+- core - remove unneeded Python version checks.
+- core - replace a compatibility import of pycompat24.literal_eval with ast.literal_eval.
+- core filters - fix ``extract()`` filter when key does not exist in container (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64957)
+- cron - encode and decode crontab files in UTF-8 explicitly to allow non-ascii chars in cron filepath and job (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69492)
+- cron and cronvar - use get_bin_path utility to locate the default crontab executable instead of the hardcoded /usr/bin/crontab. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/59765)
+- cron cronvar - only run ``get_bin_path()`` once
+- cronvar - use correct binary name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63274)
+- deal with cases in which just a file is pased and not a path with directories, now fileglob correctly searches in 'files/' subdirs.
+- debug - fixed an issue introduced in Ansible 2.4 where a loop of debug tasks would lose the "changed" status on each item.
+- discovery will NOT update incorrect host anymore when in delegate_to task.
+- display - Improve method of removing extra new line after warnings so it does not break Tower/Runner (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68517)
+- display - remove extra new line after warnings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/65199)
+- display - remove leading space when displaying WARNING messages
+- display logging - Fix issue where 3rd party modules will print tracebacks when attempting to log information when ``ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH`` is set - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65249
+- display logging - Fixed up the logging formatter to use the proper prefixes for ``u=user`` and ``p=process``
+- display logging - Re-added the ``name`` attribute to the log formatter so that the source of the log can be seen
+- dnf - Fix idempotence of `state: installed` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64963)
+- dnf - Unified error messages when trying to install a nonexistent package with newer dnf (4.2.18) vs older dnf (4.2.9)
+- dnf - Unified error messages when trying to remove a wildcard name that is not currently installed, with newer dnf (4.2.18) vs older dnf (4.2.9)
+- dnf - enable logging using setup_loggers() API in dnf-4.2.17-6 or later
+- dnf - remove custom ``fetch_rpm_from_url`` method in favor of more general ``ansible.module_utils.urls.fetch_file``.
+- dnf module - Ensure the modules exit_json['msg'] response is always string, not sometimes a tuple.
+- ensure delegated vars can resolve hostvars object and access vars from hostvars[inventory_hostname].
+- ensure we pass on interpreter discovery values to delegated host.
+- env lookup plugin - Fix handling of environment variables values containing utf-8 characters. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65298)
+- fact gathering - Display warnings and deprecation messages that are created during the fact gathering phase
+- facts - account for Slackware OS with ``+`` in the name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38760)
+- facts - fix detection of virtualization type when dmi product name is KVM Server
+- facts - fix incorrect UTC timestamp in ``iso8601_micro`` and ``iso8601``
+- facts - introduce fact "ansible_processor_nproc" which reflects the number of vcpus available to processes (falls back to the number of vcpus available to the scheduler)
+- file - Removed unreachable code in module
+- file - change ``_diff_peek`` in argument spec to be the correct type, which is ``bool`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59433)
+- file - return ``'state': 'absent'`` when a file does not exist (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66171)
+- find - clarify description of ``contains`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61983)
+- fix issue in which symlinked collection cannot be listed, though the docs/plugins can be loaded if referenced directly.
+- fix issue with inventory_hostname and delegated host vars mixing on connection settings.
+- fix wrong command line length calculation in ``ansible-console`` when long command inputted
+- for those running uids for invalid users (containers), fallback to uid=<uid> when logging fixes #68007
+- free strategy - Include failed hosts when filtering notified hosts for handlers. The strategy base should determine whether or not to run handlers on those hosts depending on whether forcing handlers is enabled (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65254).
+- galaxy - Fix an AttributeError on ansible-galaxy install with an empty requirements.yml (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66725).
+- get_url - Don't treat no checksum as a checksum match (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61978)
+- get_url pass incorrect If-Modified-Since header (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67417)
+- git - when force=True, apply --force flag to git fetches as well
+- group - The group module was not correctly detecting whether a local group is existing or not with local set to yes if the same group exists in a non local group repository e.g. LDAP. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58619)
+- group_by now should correctly refect changed status.
+- hostname - Fixed an issue where the hostname on the cloudlinux 6 server could not be set.
+- hostname - make module work on Manjaro Linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61382)
+- hurd - Address FIXMEs. Extract functionality and exit early.
+- if the ``type`` for a module parameter in the argument spec is callable, do not pass ``kwargs`` to avoid errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70017)
+- include_vars - fix stack trace when passing ``dirs`` in an ad-hoc command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62633)
+- interpreter discovery will now use correct vars (from delegated host) when in delegate_to task.
+- junit callback - avoid use of deprecated junit_xml method
+- lineinfile - add example of using alternative backrefs syntax (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42794)
+- lineinfile - don't attempt mkdirs when path doesn't contain directory path
+- lineinfile - fix bug that caused multiple line insertions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58923).
+- lineinfile - fix not subscriptable error in exception handling around file creation
+- lineinfile - properly handle inserting a line when backrefs are enabled and the line already exists in the file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63756)
+- lineinfile - use ``module.tmpdir`` to allow configuration of the remote temp directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68218)
+- lineinfile - use correct index value when inserting a line at the end of a file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63684)
+- loops - Do not indiscriminately mark loop items as unsafe, only apply unsafe to ``with_`` style loops. The items from ``loop`` should not be explicitly wrapped in unsafe. The underlying templating mechanism should dictate this. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64379)
+- make ``no_log=False`` on a module option silence the ``no_log`` warning (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49465 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64656)
+- match docs for ssh and ensure pipelining is configurable per connection plugin.
+- module executor - Address issue where changes to Ansiballz module code, change the behavior of module execution as it pertains to ``__file__`` and ``sys.modules`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64664)
+- module_defaults - support candidate action names for relocated content
+- module_defaults - support short group names for content relocated to collections
+- now correclty merge and not just overwrite facts when gathering using multiple modules.
+- objects - Remove FIXME comment because no fix is needed.
+- optimize 'smart' detection from being run over and over and preferably do it at config time.
+- package_facts - fix value of ``vital`` attribute which is returned when ``pkg`` manager is used
+- package_facts - use module warnings rather than a custom implementation for reporting warnings
+- packaging_yum - replace legacy file handling with a file manager.
+- paramiko - catch and handle exception to prevent stack trace when running in FIPS mode
+- paramiko_ssh - Removed redundant conditional statement in ``_parse_proxy_command`` that always evaluated to True.
+- paramiko_ssh - improve authentication error message so it is less confusing
+- paramiko_ssh - optimized file handling by using a context manager.
+- pause - handle exception when there is no stdout (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47851)
+- pip - The virtualenv_command option can now include arguments without requiring the full path to the binary. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/52275)
+- pip - check_mode with ``state: present`` now returns the correct state for pre-release versioned packages
+- playbooks - detect and propagate failures in ``always`` blocks after ``rescue`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70000)
+- plugins - Allow ensure_type to decrypt the value for string types (and implicit string types) when value is an inline vault.
+- psexec - Fix issue where the Kerberos package was not detected as being available.
+- psexec - Fix issue where the ``interactive`` option was not being passed down to the library.
+- reboot - Add support for the runit init system, used on Void Linux, that does not support the normal Linux syntax.
+- reboot, win_reboot - add ``boot_time_command`` parameter to override the default command used to determine whether or not a system was rebooted (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58868)
+- remove update/restore of vars from play_context as it is now redundant.
+- replace use of deprecated functions from ``ansible.module_utils.basic``.
+- reset logging level to INFO due to CVE-2019-14846.
+- roles - Ensure that ``allow_duplicates: true`` enables to run single role multiple times (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64902)
+- runas - Fix the ``runas`` ``become_pass`` variable fallback from ``ansible_runas_runas`` to ``ansible_runas_pass``
+- service_facts - Now correctly parses systemd list-unit-files for systemd >=245
+- setup - properly detect yum package manager for IBM i.
+- setup - service_mgr - detect systemd even if it isn't running, such as during a container build
+- shell - fix quoting of mkdir command in creation of remote_tmp in order to allow spaces and other special characters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69577).
+- shell cmd - Properly escape double quotes in the command argument
+- splunk httpapi plugin - switch from splunk.enterprise_security to splunk.es in runtime.yml to reflect upstream change of Collection Name
+- ssh connection plugin - use ``get_option()`` rather than ``_play_context`` to ensure ``ANSBILE_SSH_ARGS`` are applied properly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70437)
+- synchronize - allow data to be passed between two managed nodes when using the docker connection plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/65698)
+- synchronize - fix password authentication on Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56629)
+- sysctl - Remove FIXME comments to avoid confusion
+- systemd - don't require systemd to be running to enable/disable or mask/unmask units
+- systemd - the module should fail in check_mode when service not found on host (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68136).
+- sysvinit - Add missing parameter ``module`` in call to ``daemonize()``.
+- template lookup - ensure changes to the templar in the lookup, do not affect the templar context outside of the lookup (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/60106)
+- template lookup - fix regression when templating hostvars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63940)
+- the default parsing will now show existing JSON errors and not just YAML (last attempted), also we avoid YAML parsing when we know we only want JSON issue
+- throttle: the linear strategy didn't always stuck with the throttle limit
+- unarchive - Remove incorrect and unused function arguments.
+- unsafe_proxy - Ensure that data within a tuple is marked as unsafe (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65722)
+- update ``user`` module to support silencing ``no_log`` warnings in the future (see: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/64733)
+- uri - Don't return the body even if it failed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/21003)
+- user - allow 13 asterisk characters in password field without warning
+- user - don't create home directory and missing parents when create_home == false (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70600).
+- user - fix comprasion on macOS so module does not improperly report a change (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62969)
+- user - fix stack trace on AIX when attempting to parse shadow file that does not exist (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62510)
+- user - on systems using busybox, honor the ``on_changed`` parameter to prevent unnecessary password changing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65711)
+- user - update docs to reflect proper way to remove account from all groups
+- validate-modules - Fix hang when inspecting module with a delegate args spec type
+- virtual facts - detect generic container environment based on non-empty "container" env var
+- wait_for_connection - with pipelining enabled, interpreter discovery would fail if the first connection attempt was not successful
+- win setup - Fix redirection path for the windows setup module
+- win_exec_wrapper - Be more defensive when it comes to getting unhandled exceptions
+- win_package - Handle quoted and unquoted strings in the registry ``UninstallString`` value - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40973
+- win_uri win_get_url - Fix the behaviour of ``follow_redirects: safe`` to actual redirect on ``GET`` and ``HEAD`` requests - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65556
+- windows async - use full path when calling PowerShell to reduce reliance on environment vars being correct - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70655
+- windows environment - Support env vars that contain the unicode variant of single quotes - https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.windows/issues/45
+- winrm - preserve winrm forensic data on put_file failures
+- yum - fix bug that caused ``enablerepo`` to not be honored when used with disablerepo all wildcard/glob (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66549)
+- yum - fixed the handling of releasever parameter
+- yum - performance bugfix, the YumBase object was being  instantiated multiple times unnecessarily, which lead to considerable overhead when operating against large sets of packages.
+- yum - yum tasks can no longer end up running non-yum modules
+- yum/dnf - check type of elements in a name
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Lookup
+~~~~~~
+
+- unvault - read vaulted file(s) contents

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-ansible-core 2.13 "Nobody's Fault but Mine" Release Notes
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-.. contents:: Topics
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-
-v2.13.4
-=======
-
-Release Summary
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-
-| Release Date: 2022-09-12
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
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-
-- Fix for network_cli not getting all relevant connection options
-- 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-test - Fix change detection for ansible-test's own integration tests.
-- 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.
-- 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)
-- 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)
-- wait_for - Read file and perform comparisons using bytes to avoid decode errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78214)
-
-v2.13.3
-=======
-
-Release Summary
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-
-| Release Date: 2022-08-15
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
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-
-- Avoid 'unreachable' error when chmod on AIX has 255 as return code.
-- Fix PluginLoader to mimic Python import machinery by adding module to sys.modules before exec
-- Fix dnf module documentation to indicate that comparison operators for package version require spaces around them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78295)
-- ansible-connection - decrypt vaulted parameters before sending over the socket, as vault secrets are not available on the other side.
-- 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 - 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 listing collections that contains metadata but the namespace or name are not strings.
-- ansible-galaxy - fix setting the cache for paginated responses from Galaxy NG/AH (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77911).
-- 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 - Test configuration for collections is now parsed only once, prior to delegation. Fixes issue: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78334
-- 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.
-- dnf - fix output parsing on systems with ``LANGUAGE`` set to a language other than English (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78193)
-- if a config setting prevents running ansible it should at least show it's "origin".
-- prevent type annotation shim failures from causing runtime failures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77860)
-- template module/lookup - fix ``convert_data`` option that was effectively always set to True for Jinja macros (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78141)
-- uri - properly use uri parameter use_proxy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58632)
-- yum - fix traceback when ``releasever`` is specified with ``latest`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78058)
-
-v2.13.2
-=======
-
-Release Summary
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-
-| Release Date: 2022-07-18
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
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-
-- ansible-test - An improved error message is shown when the download of a pip bootstrap script fails. The download now uses ``urllib2`` instead of ``urllib`` on Python 2.
-
-Bugfixes
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-
-- Move undefined check from concat to finalize (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78156)
-- ansible-doc - no longer list module and plugin aliases that are created with symlinks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78137).
-- ansible-doc - when listing modules in collections, proceed recursively. This fixes module listing for community.general 5.x.y and community.network 4.x.y (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78137).
-- ansible-doc will not add 'website for' in ":ref:" substitutions as it made them confusing.
-- file backed cache plugins now handle concurrent access by making atomic updates to the files.
-- password lookup does not ignore k=v arguments anymore.
-- user - Fix error "Permission denied" in user module while generating SSH keys (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78017).
-
-v2.13.1
-=======
-
-Release Summary
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-
-| Release Date: 2022-06-20
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
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-
-- Add an 'action_plugin' field for modules in runtime.yml plugin_routing.
-
-  This fixes module_defaults by supporting modules-as-redirected-actions
-  without redirecting module_defaults entries to the common action.
-
-  .. code: yaml
-
-     plugin_routing:
-       action:
-         facts:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos
-         command:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos
-       modules:
-         facts:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_facts
-         command:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_command
-
-  With the runtime.yml above for ns.coll, a task such as
-
-  .. code: yaml
-
-     - hosts: all
-       module_defaults:
-         ns.coll.eos_facts: {'valid_for_eos_facts': 'value'}
-         ns.coll.eos_command: {'not_valid_for_eos_facts': 'value'}
-       tasks:
-         - ns.coll.facts:
-
-  will end up with defaults for eos_facts and eos_command
-  since both modules redirect to the same action.
-
-  To select an action plugin for a module without merging
-  module_defaults, define an action_plugin field for the resolved
-  module in the runtime.yml.
-
-  .. code: yaml
-
-     plugin_routing:
-       modules:
-         facts:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_facts
-           action_plugin: ns.coll.eos
-         command:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_command
-           action_plugin: ns.coll.eos
-
-  The action_plugin field can be a redirected action plugin, as
-  it is resolved normally.
-
-  Using the modified runtime.yml, the example task will only use
-  the ns.coll.eos_facts defaults.
-- ansible-galaxy - Support resolvelib versions 0.6.x, 0.7.x, and 0.8.x. The full range of supported versions is now >= 0.5.3, < 0.9.0.
-- ansible-test - Add RHEL 9.0 remote support.
-- ansible-test - Add support for Ubuntu VMs using the ``--remote`` option.
-- ansible-test - Add support for exporting inventory with ``ansible-test shell --export {path}``.
-- ansible-test - Add support for multi-arch remotes.
-- ansible-test - Add support for running non-interactive commands with ``ansible-test shell``.
-- ansible-test - Avoid using the ``mock_use_standalone_module`` setting for unit tests running on Python 3.8 or later.
-- ansible-test - Blocking mode is now enforced for stdin, stdout and stderr. If any of these are non-blocking then ansible-test will exit during startup with an error.
-- ansible-test - Improve consistency of output messages by using stdout or stderr for most output, but not both.
-- ansible-test - The ``shell`` command can be used outside a collection if no controller delegation is required.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Add PyYAML >= 5.1 as a dependency of ansible-core to be compatible with Python 3.8+.
-- ansible-config dump - Only display plugin type headers when plugin options are changed if --only-changed is specified.
-- ansible-galaxy - handle unsupported versions of resolvelib gracefully.
-- ansible-test - Fix internal validation of remote completion configuration.
-- ansible-test - Prevent ``--target-`` prefixed options for the ``shell`` command from being combined with legacy environment options.
-- ansible-test - Sanity test output with the ``--lint`` option is no longer mixed in with bootstrapping output.
-- ansible-test - Subprocesses are now isolated from the stdin, stdout and stderr of ansible-test. This avoids issues with subprocesses tampering with the file descriptors, such as SSH making them non-blocking. As a result of this change, subprocess output from unit and integration tests on stderr now go to stdout.
-- ansible-test - Subprocesses no longer have access to the TTY ansible-test is connected to, if any. This maintains consistent behavior between local testing and CI systems, which typically do not provide a TTY. Tests which require a TTY should use pexpect or another mechanism to create a PTY.
-- apt module now correctly handles virtual packages.
-- lookup plugin - catch KeyError when lookup returns dictionary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77789).
-- pip - fix cases where resolution of pip Python module fails when importlib.util has not already been imported
-- plugin loader - Sort results when fuzzy matching plugin names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77966).
-- plugin loader will now load config data for plugin by name instead of by file to avoid issues with the same file being loaded under different names (fqcn + short name).
-- psrp connection now handles default to inventory_hostname correctly.
-- winrm connection now handles default to inventory_hostname correctly.
-
-v2.13.0
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-05-16
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Major Changes
--------------
-
-- Jinja2 Controller Requirement - Jinja2 3.0.0 or newer is required for the control node (the machine that runs Ansible) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75881)
-- Templating - remove ``safe_eval`` in favor of using ``NativeEnvironment`` but utilizing ``literal_eval`` only in cases when ``safe_eval`` was used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75587)
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- Action Plugins - Add helper method for argument spec validation, and extend to pause and async_wrapper
-- Added AIX root CA certs folders - enhance the TLS support in ``uri`` task on AIX
-- Added ``module_utils.compat.typing`` to facilitate type-hinting on all supported Python versions.
-- Ansible.Basic - small changes to allow use in PowerShell modules running on non-Windows platforms (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76924).
-- AnsibleModule.run_command() now has a toggle to allow caller to decide to handle exceptions from executing the command itself
-- Attach concat function to an environment class (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76282)
-- Clarify in a comment that unrolling an iterator in ``Templar._finalize`` is actually necessary. Also switch to using the ``_unroll_iterator`` decorator directly to deduplicate code in ``Templar._finalize``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76436)
-- Installation - modernize our python installation, to reduce dynamic code in setup.py, and migrate what is feasible to setup.cfg. This will enable shipping wheels in the future.
-- PlayIterator - introduce public methods to access ``PlayIterator._host_states`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74416)
-- PlayIterator - use enums for Iterating and Failed states (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74511)
-- Reduce number of iterations through PlayIterator (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74175)
-- Remove more Python 2.x compatibility code from controller (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77320).
-- Start of moving away from using Six, Python 2 and 3 compatibility library (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75863)
-- The collection loader now reports a Python warning if an attempt is made to install the Ansible collection loader a second time. Previously this condition was reported using an Ansible warning.
-- ``ansible-galaxy collection [install|verify]`` - allow user-provided signature sources in addition to those from the Galaxy server. Each collection entry in a requirements file can specify a ``signatures`` key followed by a list of sources. Collection name(s) provided on the CLI can specify additional signature sources by using the ``--signatures`` CLI option. Signature sources should be URIs that can be opened with ``urllib.request.urlopen()``, such as "https://example.com/path/to/detached_signature.asc" or "file:///path/to/detached_signature.asc". The ``--keyring`` option must be specified if signature sources are provided.
-- ``ansible-galaxy collection [install|verify]`` - use gpg to verify the authenticity of the signed ``MANIFEST.json`` with ASCII armored detached signatures provided by the Galaxy server. The keyring (which is not managed by ``ansible-galaxy``) must be provided with the ``--keyring`` option to use signature verification. If no ``--keyring`` is specified and the collection to ``install|verify`` has associated detached signatures on the Galaxy server, a warning is provided.
-- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` - Add a global configuration to modify the required number of signatures that must verify the authenticity of the collection. By default, the number of required successful signatures is 1. Set this option to ``all`` to require all signatures verify the collection. To ensure signature verification fails if there are no valid signatures, prepend the value with '+', such as ``+all`` or ``+1``.
-- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` - Add a global ignore list for gpg signature errors. This can be used to ignore certain signatures when the number of required successful signatures is all. When the required number of successful signatures is a positive integer, the only effect this has is to display fewer errors to the user on failure (success is determined by having the minimum number of successful signatures, in which case all errors are disregarded).
-- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` - Add a global toggle to turn off GPG signature verification.
-- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` - Store Galaxy server metadata alongside installed collections for provenance. Signatures obtained from the Galaxy server can be used for offline verification with ``ansible-galaxy collection verify --offline``.
-- ansible-console - Provide a  way to customize the stdout callback
-- ansible-core modules - Remove unused Python shebangs from built-in modules.
-- ansible-doc metadata dump - add option ``--no-fail-on-errors`` which allows to not fail the ansible-doc invocation when errors happen during docs parsing or processing. Instead they are reported in the JSON result in an ``error`` key for the affected plugins (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77035).
-- ansible-galaxy - the option to skip certificate verification now also applies when cloning via SCM (git/hg) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41077)
-- ansible-test - Accept new-style Python modules without a shebang.
-- ansible-test - Add ``--version`` support to show the ansible-core version.
-- ansible-test - Add support for ``rhel/8.5`` remote instances.
-- ansible-test - Add support for remote testing of FreeBSD 12.3.
-- ansible-test - Add support for running container tests with ``podman remote`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75753)
-- ansible-test - Added the ``fedora35`` test container.
-- ansible-test - Change the maximum number of open files in a test container from the default to ``10240``.
-- ansible-test - Declare public dependencies of ansible-core and use to limit unguarded imports in plugins.
-- ansible-test - Importing ``distutils`` now results in an error.
-- ansible-test - Installation of ``cryptography`` is no longer version constrained when ``openssl`` 1.1.0 or later is installed.
-- ansible-test - Miscellaneous code cleanup and type hint fixes.
-- ansible-test - PowerShell in the ``base`` and ``default`` containers has been upgraded to version 7.1.4.
-- ansible-test - Remove RHEL 8.4 remote (``rhel/8.4``) support.
-- ansible-test - Remove ``idna`` constraint.
-- ansible-test - Remove obsolete ``MAXFD`` display.
-- ansible-test - Remove obsolete constraints for Python 2.6.
-- ansible-test - Remove support for FreeBSD 12.2 remote provisioning.
-- ansible-test - Remove support for macOS 11.1 remote provisioning.
-- ansible-test - Remove support for provisioning remote AIX instances.
-- ansible-test - Remove the ``centos8`` test container since CentOS 8 will reach end-of-life soon.
-- ansible-test - Remove the ``fedora33`` test container since Fedora 33 will reach end-of-life soon.
-- ansible-test - Remove unused Python 2.x compatibility code.
-- ansible-test - Removed support for Sherlock from the Azure provisioning plugin.
-- ansible-test - Removed used ``MarkupSafe`` constraint for Python 3.5 and earlier.
-- ansible-test - Requirements for the plugin import test are now frozen.
-- ansible-test - Shellcheck in the ``base`` and ``default`` containers has been upgraded to version 0.7.0.
-- ansible-test - Stop early with an error if the current working directory contains an invalid collection namespace or name.
-- ansible-test - The ``--help`` option is now available when an unsupported cwd is in use.
-- ansible-test - The ``--help`` output now shows the same instructions about cwd as would be shown in error messages if the cwd is unsupported.
-- ansible-test - The ``pip`` and ``wheel`` packages are removed from all sanity test virtual environments after installation completes to reduce their size. Previously they were only removed from the environments used for the ``import`` sanity test.
-- ansible-test - The explanation about cwd usage has been improved to explain more clearly what is required.
-- ansible-test - The hash for all managed sanity test virtual environments has changed. Containers that include ``ansible-test sanity --prime-venvs`` will need to be rebuilt to continue using primed virtual environments.
-- ansible-test - Update ``base`` container to version 2.1.0.
-- ansible-test - Update ``base`` container to version 2.2.0.
-- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.2.0.
-- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.4.0.
-- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.5.0.
-- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.6.2.
-- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.7.0.
-- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.8.0.
-- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.9.0.
-- ansible-test - Update ``pip`` used to bootstrap remote FreeBSD instances from version 20.3.4 to 21.3.1.
-- ansible-test - Update sanity test requirements.
-- ansible-test - Update the NIOS test plugin container to version 1.4.0.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``alpine`` container to version 3.3.0. This updates the base image from 3.14.2 to 3.15.0, which includes support for installing binary wheels using pip.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` containers from Python 3.10.0rc2 to 3.10.0.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` containers from a Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 base image.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to version 5.1.0.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``galaxy`` test plugin to get its container from a copy on quay.io.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``openshift`` test plugin to get its container from a copy on quay.io.
-- ansible-test - Use Python 3.10 as the default Python version for the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
-- ansible-test - add macOS 12.0 as a remote target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76328)
-- ansible-test - handle JSON decode error gracefully in podman environment.
-- ansible-test pslint - Added the `AvoidLongLines <https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/blob/master/docs/Rules/AvoidLongLines.md>`_ rule set to a length of 160.
-- ansible-test pslint - Added the `PlaceCloseBrace <https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/blob/master/docs/Rules/PlaceCloseBrace.md>`_ rule set to enforce close braces on a newline.
-- ansible-test pslint - Added the `PlaceOpenBrace <https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/blob/master/docs/Rules/PlaceOpenBrace.md>`_ rule set to enforce open braces on the same line and a subsequent newline.
-- ansible-test pslint - Added the `UseConsistentIndentation <https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/blob/master/docs/Rules/UseConsistentIndentation.md>`_ rule to enforce indentation is done with 4 spaces.
-- ansible-test pslint - Added the `UseConsistentWhitespace <https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/blob/master/docs/Rules/UseConsistentWhitespace.md>`_ rule to enforce whitespace consistency in PowerShell.
-- ansible-test pslint - Updated ``PowerShellScriptAnalyzer`` to 1.20.0
-- ansible-test sanity validate-modules - the validate-modules sanity test now also checks the documentation of documentable plugin types (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71734).
-- ansible-test validate-modules sanity test - add more schema checks to improve quality of plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77268).
-- ansible-test validate_modules - allow ``choices`` for return values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76009).
-- apt - Add support for using ">=" in package version number matching.
-- apt - Adds APT option ``--allow-change-held-packages`` as module parameter ``allow_change_held_packages`` to allow APT up- or downgrading a package which is on APTs hold list (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65325)
-- auto inventory plugin will now give plugin loading information on verbose output
-- callbacks - Add result serialization format options to ``_dump_results`` allowing plugins such as the ``default`` callback to emit ``YAML`` serialized task results in addition to ``JSON``
-- dnf - add more specific error message for GPG validation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76192)
-- env lookup, add default option
-- facts - report prefix length for IPv4 addresses in Linux network facts.
-- get_parsable_locale now logs result when in debug mode.
-- git - display the destination directory path in error msg when local_mods detects local modifications conflict so that users see the exact location
-- iptables - add the ``chain_management`` parameter that controls iptables chain creation and deletion
-- jinja2_native - keep same behavior on Python 3.10.
-- junit callback - Add support for replacing the directory portion of out-of-tree relative task paths with a placeholder.
-- k8s - scenario guides for kubernetes migrated to ``kubernetes.core`` collection.
-- module_utils.distro - Add missing ``typing`` import from original code.
-- package_facts - add pkg_info support for OpenBSD and NetBSD (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76580)
-- services_facts - Add support for openrc (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76373).
-- setting DEFAULT_FACT_PATH is being deprecated in favor of the generic module_defaults keyword
-- uri - Avoid reading the response body when not needed
-- uri - Eliminate multiple requests to determine the final URL for file naming with ``dest``
-- validate-modules - do some basic validation on the ``M(...)``, ``U(...)``, ``L(..., ...)`` and ``R(..., ...)`` documentation markups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76262).
-- vmware - migrated vmware scenario guides to `community.vmware` repo.
-- yum, dnf - add sslverify option to temporarily disable certificate validation for a repository
-
-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
---------------------------------
-
-- Module Python Dependency - Drop support for Python 2.6 in module execution.
-- Templating - it is no longer allowed to perform arithmetic and concatenation operations outside of the jinja template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75587)
-- The ``finalize`` method is no longer exposed in the globals for use in templating.
-
-Deprecated Features
--------------------
-
-- ansible-core - Remove support for Python 2.6.
-- ansible-test - Remove support for Python 2.6.
-- ssh connection plugin option scp_if_ssh in favor of ssh_transfer_method.
-
-Removed Features (previously deprecated)
-----------------------------------------
-
-- Remove deprecated ``Templar.set_available_variables()`` method (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75828)
-- cli - remove deprecated ability to set verbosity before the sub-command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75823)
-- copy - remove deprecated ``thirsty`` alias (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75824)
-- psrp - Removed fallback on ``put_file`` with older ``pypsrp`` versions. Users must have at least ``pypsrp>=0.4.0``.
-- url_argument_spec - remove deprecated ``thirsty`` alias for ``get_url`` and ``uri`` modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75825, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75826)
-
-Security Fixes
---------------
-
-- Do not include params in exception when a call to ``set_options`` fails. Additionally, block the exception that is returned from being displayed to stdout. (CVE-2021-3620)
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Add a YAML representer for ``NativeJinjaText``
-- Add a YAML representer for ``NativeJinjaUnsafeText``
-- AnsiballZ - Ensure we use the full python package in the module cache filename to avoid a case where ``collections:`` is used to execute a module via short name, where the short name duplicates another module from ``ansible.builtin`` or another collection that was executed previously.
-- Ansible.ModuleUtils.LinkUtil - Ignore the ``LIB`` environment variable when loading the ``LinkUtil`` code
-- Ansible.ModuleUtils.SID - Use user principal name as is for lookup in the ``Convert-ToSID`` function - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77316
-- Detect package manager for Amazon Linux 2022 (AL2022) as dnf
-- Ensure the correct ``environment_class`` is set on ``AnsibleJ2Template``
-- Fix ``AttributeError`` when providing password file via ``--connection-password-file`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76530)
-- Fix ``end_play`` to end the current play only (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76672)
-- Fix collection filter/test plugin redirects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77192).
-- Fix executing includes in the always section in the free strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75642)
-- Fix for when templating empty template file resulted in file with string 'None' (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76610)
-- Fix help message for the 'ansible-galaxy collection verify' positional argument. The positional argument must be a collection name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76087).
-- Fix module logging issue when using custom module on WSL2 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76320)
-- Fix task debugger to work with ``run_once`` using ``linear`` strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76049)
-- Fix traceback when installing a collection from a git repository and git is not installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77479).
-- Interpreter Discovery - Fallback to OS family if the distro is not found in ``INTERPRETER_PYTHON_DISTRO_MAP`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75560)
-- Interpreter discovery - Add ``RHEL`` to ``OS_FAMILY_MAP`` for correct family fallback for interpreter discovery (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77368)
-- Make include_role/include_tasks work with any_errors_fatal (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50897)
-- Parser errors from within includes should not be rescueable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73657)
-- Prevent losing unsafe on results returned from lookups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77535)
-- Templating - Ensure we catch exceptions when getting ``.filters`` and ``.tests`` attributes on their respective plugins and properly error, instead of aborting which results in no filters being added to the jinja2 environment
-- Trigger an undefined error when an undefined variable is detected within a dictionary and/or list (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75587)
-- _run_loop - Add the task name to the warning (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76011)
-- ``Templar.copy_with_new_env`` - set the ``finalize`` method of the new ``Templar`` object for the new environment (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76379)
-- add_host/group_by: fix using changed_when in a loop (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71627)
-- ansible - Exclude Python 2.6 from Python interpreter discovery.
-- ansible-config avoid showing _terms and _input when --only-changed.
-- ansible-doc - Fix ansible-doc -l ansible.builtin / ansible.legacy not returning anything
-- ansible-doc - ignore plugin deprecation warnings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75671)
-- ansible-galaxy - Add galaxy_collection_skeleton/galaxy_collection_skeleton_ignore configuration options
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix using the '--ignore-certs' option when there is no server-specific configuration for the Galaxy server.
-- ansible-galaxy - installing/downloading collections with invalid versions in git repositories and directories now gives a formatted error message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76425, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75404).
-- ansible-galaxy - when installing a role properly raise an error when inaccessible path is specified multiple times in roles_path (e.g. via environment variable and command line option) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76316)
-- ansible-galaxy collection build - Ignore any existing ``MANIFEST.json`` and ``FILES.json`` in the root directory when building a collection.
-- ansible-galaxy collection verify - display files/directories not included in the FILES.json as modified content.
-- ansible-galaxy publish - Fix warning and error detection in import messages to properly display them in Ansible
-- ansible-pull handle case where hostname and nodename are empty
-- ansible-test - Add default entry for Windows remotes to be used with unknown versions.
-- ansible-test - All virtual environments managed by ansible-test are marked as usable after being bootstrapped, to avoid errors caused by use of incomplete environments. Previously this was only done for sanity tests. Existing environments from previous versions of ansible-test will be recreated on demand due to lacking the new marker.
-- ansible-test - Automatic target requirements installation is now based on the target environment instead of the controller environment.
-- ansible-test - Correctly detect when running as the ``root`` user (UID 0) on the origin host. The result of the detection was incorrectly being inverted.
-- ansible-test - Don't fail if network cannot be disconnected (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77472)
-- ansible-test - Fix Python real prefix detection when running in a ``venv`` virtual environment.
-- ansible-test - Fix ``windows-integration`` and ``network-integration`` when used with the ``--docker`` option and user-provided inventory.
-- ansible-test - Fix installation and usage of ``pyyaml`` requirement for the ``import`` sanity test for collections.
-- ansible-test - Fix path to inventory file for ``windows-integration`` and ``network-integration`` commands for collections.
-- ansible-test - Fix plugin loading.
-- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/python`` on the origin host.
-- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/root`` on the origin host.
-- ansible-test - Fix the ``import`` sanity test to work properly when Ansible's built-in vendoring support is in use.
-- ansible-test - Fix the ``validate-modules`` sanity test to avoid double-loading the collection loader and possibly failing on import of the ``packaging`` module.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback in ``import`` sanity test on Python 2.7 when ``pip`` is not available.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback in the ``validate-modules`` sanity test when testing an Ansible module without any callables.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback when running from an install and delegating execution to a different Python interpreter.
-- ansible-test - Fix traceback when using the ``--all`` option with PowerShell code coverage.
-- ansible-test - Fix type hints.
-- ansible-test - Import ``yaml.cyaml.CParser`` instead of ``_yaml.CParser`` in the ``yamllint`` sanity test.
-- ansible-test - Limit ``paramiko`` installation to versions before 2.9.0. This is required to maintain support for systems which do not support RSA SHA-2 algorithms.
-- ansible-test - Pylint Deprecated Plugin - Use correct message symbols when date or version is not a float or str (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77085)
-- ansible-test - Relocate constants to eliminate symlink.
-- ansible-test - Replace the directory portion of out-of-tree paths in JUnit files from integration tests with the ``out-of-tree:`` prefix.
-- ansible-test - Sanity tests run with the ``--requirements` option for Python 2.x now install ``virtualenv`` when it is missing or too old. Previously it was only installed if missing. Version 16.7.12 is now installed instead of the latest version.
-- ansible-test - Set the ``pytest`` option ``--rootdir`` instead of letting it be auto-detected.
-- ansible-test - Show an error message instead of a traceback when running outside of a supported directory.
-- ansible-test - Target integration test requirements are now correctly installed for target environments running on the controller.
-- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test no longer reports errors about ``packaging`` being missing when testing collections.
-- ansible-test - Update distribution test containers to version 3.1.0.
-- ansible-test - Update help links to reference ``ansible-core`` instead of ``ansible``.
-- ansible-test - Update unit tests to use the ``--forked`` option instead of the deprecated ``--boxed`` option.
-- ansible-test - Use https://ci-files.testing.ansible.com/ for instance bootstrapping instead of an S3 endpoint.
-- ansible-test - Use relative paths in JUnit files generated during integration test runs.
-- ansible-test - Use the correct variable to reference the client's SSH key when generating inventory.
-- ansible-test - Use the legacy collection loader for ``import`` sanity tests on target-only Python versions.
-- ansible-test - Virtual environments managed by ansible-test now use consistent versions of ``pip``, ``setuptools`` and ``wheel``. This avoids issues with virtual environments containing outdated or dysfunctional versions of these tools. The initial bootstrapping of ``pip`` is done by ansible-test from an HTTPS endpoint instead of creating the virtual environment with it already present.
-- ansible-test - fix a typo in validate-modules.
-- ansible-test - fixed support container failures (eg http-test-container) under podman
-- ansible-test compile sanity test - do not crash if a column could not be determined for an error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77465).
-- ansible-test pslint - Fix error when encountering validation results that are highly nested - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74151
-- ansible-vault encrypt_string - fix ``--output`` option to correctly write encrypted string into given file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75101)
-- ansible.builtin.file modification_time supports check_mode
-- ansible_facts.devices - Fix parsing of device serial number detected via sg_inq for rhel8 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75420)
-- apt - fails to deploy deb file to old debian systems using python-apt < 0.8.9 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47277)
-- arg_spec - Fix incorrect ``no_log`` warning when a parameter alias is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77576)
-- async - Improve performance of sending async callback events by never sending the full task through the queue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76729)
-- catch the case that cowsay is broken which would lead to missing output
-- cleaning facts will now only warn about the variable name and not post the content, which can be undesireable to disclose
-- collection_loader - Implement 'find_spec' and 'exec_module' to override deprecated importlib methods 'find_module' and 'load_module' when applicable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74660).
-- correctly inherit vars from parent in block (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75286).
-- default callback - Ensure we compare FQCN also in lockstep logic, to ensure using the FQCN of a strategy plugin triggers the correct behavior in the default callback plugin. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76782)
-- distribution - add EuroLinux to fact gathering (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76624).
-- distribution - detect tencentos and gather correct facts on the distro.
-- dnf - ensure releasever is passed into libdnf as string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77010)
-- extend timeout for ansible-galaxy when communicating with the galaxy server api, and apply it to all interactions with the api
-- facts - add support for deepin distro information detection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77286).
-- first_found - fix to allow for spaces in file names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77136)
-- gather_facts - Fact gathering now continues even if it fails to read a file
-- gather_facts action now handles the move of base connection plugin types into collections to add/prevent subset argument correctly
-- gather_facts/setup will not fail anymore if capsh is present but not executable
-- git module fix docs and proper use of ssh wrapper script and GIT_SSH_COMMAND depending on version.
-- git module is more consistent and clearer about which ssh options are added to git calls.
-- git module no longer uses wrapper script for ssh options.
-- hacking - fix incorrect usage of deprecated fish-shell redirection operators that failed to honor ``--quiet`` flag when sourced (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77180).
-- hostname - Do not require SystemdStrategy subclasses for every distro (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76792)
-- hostname - Fix Debian strategy KeyError, use `SystemdStrategy` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76124)
-- hostname - Update the systemd strategy in the ``hostname`` module to not interfere with NetworkManager (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76958)
-- hostname - add hostname support for openEuler distro (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/76619).
-- hostname - use ``file_get_content()`` to read the file containing the host name in the ``FileStrategy.get_permanent_hostname()`` method. This prevents a ``TypeError`` from being raised when the strategy is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77025).
-- include_vars, properly initialize variable as there is corner case in which it can end up referenced and not defined
-- inventory - parameterize ``disable_lookups`` in ``Constructable`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76769).
-- inventory manager now respects --flush-cache
-- junit callback - Fix traceback during automatic fact gathering when using relative paths.
-- junit callback - Fix unicode error when handling non-ASCII task paths.
-- module_utils.common.yaml - The ``SafeLoader``, ``SafeDumper`` and ``Parser`` classes now fallback to ``object`` when ``yaml`` is not available. This fixes tracebacks when inheriting from these classes without requiring a ``HAS_YAML`` guard around class definitions.
-- parameters - handle blank values when argument is a list (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77108).
-- play_context now compensates for when a conneciton sets the default to inventory_hostname but skips adding it to the vars.
-- playbook/strategy have more informative 'attribute' based errors for playbook objects and handlers.
-- python modules (new type) will now again prefer the specific python stated in the module's shebang instead of hardcoding to /usr/bin/python.
-- replace - Always return ``rc`` to ensure return values are consistent - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71963
-- script - skip in check mode if the plugin cannot determine if a change will occur (i.e. neither `creates` or `removes` are provided).
-- service - Fixed handling of sleep arguments during service restarts on AIX. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76877)
-- service - Fixed service restarts with arguments on AIX. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76840)
-- service_facts module will now give more meaningful warnings when it fails to gather data.
-- set_fact/include_vars correctly handle delegation assignments within loops
-- setup - detect docker container with check for ./dockerenv or ./dockinit (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74349).
-- shell/command - only return changed as True if the task has not been skipped.
-- shell/command - only skip in check mode if the options `creates` and `removes` are both None.
-- ssh connection - properly quote controlpersist path given by user to avoid issues with spaces and other characters
-- ssh connection avoid parsing ssh cli debug lines as they can match expected output at high verbosities.
-- ssh connection now uses more correct host source as play_context can ignore loop/delegation variations.
-- sudo become plugin, fix handling of non interactive flags, previous substitution was too naive
-- systemd - check if service is alias so it gets enabled (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75538).
-- systemd - check if service is indirect so it gets enabled (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76453).
-- task_executor reverts the change to push facts into delegated vars on loop finalization as result managing code already handles this and was duplicating effort to wrong result.
-- template lookup - restore inadvertently deleted default for ``convert_data`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77004)
-- to_json/to_nice_json filters defaults back to unvaulting/no unsafe packing.
-- unarchive - Fix zip archive file listing that caused issues with content postprocessing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76067).
-- unarchive - Make extraction work when the LANGUAGE environment variable is set to a non-English locale.
-- unarchive - apply ``owner`` and ``group`` permissions to top folder (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35426)
-- unarchive - include the original error when a handler cannot manage the archive (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/28977).
-- unarchive - the ``io_buffer_size`` option added in 2.12 was not accepted by the module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77271).
-- urls - Allow ``ca_path`` to point to a bundle containing multiple PEM certs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75015)
-- urls/uri - Address case where ``HTTPError`` isn't fully initialized due to the error, and is missing certain methods and attributes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76386)
-- user - allow ``password_expiry_min`` and ``password_expiry_min`` to be set to ``0`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75017)
-- user - allow password min and max to be set at the same time (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75017)
-- user - update logic to check if user exists or not in MacOS.
-- validate_argument_spec - Skip suboption validation if the top level option is an invalid type (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75612).
-- variablemanager, more efficient read of vars files
-- vault - Warn instead of fail for missing vault IDs if at least one valid vault secret is found.
-- winrm - Ensure ``kinit`` is run with the same ``PATH`` env var as the Ansible process
-- yum - prevent storing unnecessary cache data by running `yum makecache fast` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76336)
-
-Known Issues
-------------
-
-- get_url - document ``check_mode`` correctly with unreliable changed status (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65687).

changelogs/config.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: ansible-core
+title: Ansible Base
 release_tag_re: '(v(?:[\d.ab\-]|rc)+)'
 pre_release_tag_re: '(?P<pre_release>(?:[ab]|rc)+\d*)$'
 changes_file: changelog.yaml

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/32386_debconf_password.yml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/38182_subelements.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/50771-uri-improvements.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/50897-include_role-any_errors_fatal.yaml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/54095-import_tasks-fix_no_task.yml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/565_default_callback.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/57779-module_defaults_groups_catchup_gcp.yml

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/58632-uri-include_use_proxy.yaml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/59772-fix_ansible_issue_58619.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/60106-templar-contextmanager.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/60527-apt_exponential_backoff_cache_update_retry.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/60587-doc_parsing.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/60595-systemd_import.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/61659-load_file_common_arguments-override-path.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- "``AnsibleModule.load_file_common_arguments`` now allows to simply override ``path``."

changelogs/fragments/61889-change-transform_invalid_group_chars-default.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - Remove the deprecation message for the ``TRANSFORM_INVALID_GROUP_CHARS`` setting. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61889)

changelogs/fragments/61891-get_url-remove-deprecated-string-headers.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - get_url - Remove deprecated string format support for the headers option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61891)

changelogs/fragments/61978-get-url-no-checksum.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- get_url - Don't treat no checksum as a checksum match
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61978)

changelogs/fragments/62096-test-coverage-all.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- ansible-test coverage - Fix the ``--all`` argument when generating coverage reports - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62096

changelogs/fragments/62134-user-allow-groups-and-append-with-local.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+ - user - allow groups, append parameters with local

changelogs/fragments/62237-keep-unsafe-context.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+security_fixes:
+- >
+  **security issue** - TaskExecutor - Ensure we don't erase unsafe context in TaskExecutor.run on bytes.
+  Only present in 2.9.0beta1
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62237)

changelogs/fragments/62407-wait_for_connection.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Remove a temp directory created by wait_for_connection action plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62407).

changelogs/fragments/62582-allow_diff_before_after_to_be_None.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - callbacks - Allow modules to return `None` as before/after entries for diff.
+    This should make it easier for modules to report the "not existing" state of
+    the entity they touched.

changelogs/fragments/62598-AnsibleDumper-representer.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - AnsibleDumper - Add a representer for AnsibleUnsafeBytes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62562).

changelogs/fragments/62713-add-path_join-filter.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+    - core filters - Adding ``path_join`` filter to the core filters list

changelogs/fragments/62766-package_facts-pkg-manager-fix-vital-value.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "package_facts - fix value of ``vital`` attribute which is returned when ``pkg`` manager is used"

changelogs/fragments/62809-dnf-wildcard-absent-failure.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+  - dnf - Properly handle idempotent transactions with package name wildcard globs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62809)

changelogs/fragments/62870-collection-install-default-path.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- ansible-galaxy - Default collection install path to first path in COLLECTIONS_PATHS (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/62870)

changelogs/fragments/63194-lineinfile_insertafter_duplicate.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- lineinfile - fix bug that caused multiple line insertions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58923).

changelogs/fragments/63551-yum-single-YumBase-instantiation.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - yum - performance bugfix, the YumBase object was being  instantiated
+    multiple times unnecessarily, which lead to considerable overhead when
+    operating against large sets of packages.

changelogs/fragments/63628-ansible-galaxy-fix-version.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- "ansible-galaxy cli - fixed ``--version`` argument"

changelogs/fragments/63683-dnf-handle-empty-appstream-stream.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+  - dnf - Properly handle module AppStreams that don't define stream (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63683)

changelogs/fragments/63782-add-ansible-ask-vault-password-and-vault-password-file-options.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+minor_changes:
+- Add --ask-vault-password and --vault-pass-file options to ansible cli commands
+- Change order of arguments in ansible cli to use --ask-vault-password and --vault-password-file by default

changelogs/fragments/63919-lineinfile-create-no-dir-path.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+ - "lineinfile - don't attempt mkdirs when path doesn't contain directory path"

changelogs/fragments/63940-template-lookup-hostvars-regression.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - template lookup - fix regression when templating hostvars (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63940)

changelogs/fragments/63988-removes-python_compat_fallback.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - code - removes some Python compatibility code for dealing with socket timeouts in ``wait_for``

changelogs/fragments/63990-replace-deprecated-basic-functions.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - replace use of deprecated functions from ``ansible.module_utils.basic``.

changelogs/fragments/64057-Add_named_parameter_to_the_to_uuid_filter.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - to_uuid - add a named parameter to let the user optionally set a custom namespace

changelogs/fragments/64076-urls-timeout-parameter.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - core - remove unneeded Python version checks.

changelogs/fragments/64088-ast-literal.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - core - replace a compatibility import of pycompat24.literal_eval with ast.literal_eval.

changelogs/fragments/64151-remove-unsed-inventory-script-option.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+deprecated_features:
+  - script inventory plugin - The 'cache' option is deprecated and will be removed in 2.12. Its use has been removed from the plugin since it has never had any effect.