New release v2.11.2

(cherry picked from commit 58d8397771)

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -26,12 +26,17 @@ variables:
     value: ansible
   - name: coverageBranches
     value: devel
+  - name: pipelinesCoverage
+    value: coverage
   - name: entryPoint
-    value: .azure-pipelines/commands/entry-point.sh
+    value: test/utils/shippable/shippable.sh
   - name: fetchDepth
     value: 500
-  - name: defaultContainer
-    value: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:4.0.1
+
+resources:
+  containers:
+    - container: default
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:1.9.0
 
 pool: Standard
 
@@ -47,6 +52,8 @@ stages:
             - test: 1
             - test: 2
             - test: 3
+            - test: 4
+            - test: 5
   - stage: Units
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -55,14 +62,13 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: units/{0}
           targets:
+            - test: 2.6
             - test: 2.7
             - test: 3.5
             - test: 3.6
             - test: 3.7
             - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
-            - test: '3.10'
-            - test: 3.11
   - stage: Windows
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -75,62 +81,30 @@ stages:
             - test: 2012-R2
             - test: 2016
             - test: 2019
-            - test: 2022
   - stage: Remote
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/target
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           targets:
-            - name: macOS 12.0
-              test: macos/12.0
+            - name: macOS 11.1
+              test: macos/11.1
             - name: RHEL 7.9
               test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: RHEL 8.6 py36
-              test: rhel/8.6@3.6
-            - name: RHEL 8.6 py39
-              test: rhel/8.6@3.9
-            - name: RHEL 9.0
-              test: rhel/9.0
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.3
-              test: freebsd/12.3
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
-              test: freebsd/13.1
+            - name: RHEL 8.3 py36
+              test: rhel/8.3@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.3 py38
+              test: rhel/8.3@3.8
+            - name: FreeBSD 11.4
+              test: freebsd/11.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller
-        parameters:
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 12.0
-              test: macos/12.0
-            - name: RHEL 8.6
-              test: rhel/8.6
-            - name: RHEL 9.0
-              test: rhel/9.0
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
-              test: freebsd/13.1
-          groups:
             - 3
             - 4
             - 5
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller (ansible-test container management)
-        parameters:
-          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.16
-              test: alpine/3.16
-            - name: Fedora 36
-              test: fedora/36
-            - name: RHEL 8.6
-              test: rhel/8.6
-            - name: RHEL 9.0
-              test: rhel/9.0
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu/20.04
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu/22.04
-          groups:
-            - 6
   - stage: Docker
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -140,30 +114,27 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - name: Alpine 3
               test: alpine3
+            - name: CentOS 6
+              test: centos6
             - name: CentOS 7
               test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 36
-              test: fedora36
-            - name: openSUSE 15
+            - name: CentOS 8
+              test: centos8
+            - name: Fedora 32
+              test: fedora32
+            - name: Fedora 33
+              test: fedora33
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
               test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
             - name: Ubuntu 20.04
               test: ubuntu2004
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu2204
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-            - name: Fedora 36
-              test: fedora36
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu2204
-          groups:
             - 3
             - 4
             - 5
@@ -175,9 +146,8 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: galaxy/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 3.9
-            - test: '3.10'
-            - test: 3.11
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
   - stage: Generic
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -186,9 +156,54 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: generic/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 3.9
-            - test: '3.10'
-            - test: 3.11
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+  - stage: Incidental_Remote
+    displayName: Incidental Remote
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: i/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: OS X 10.11
+              test: osx/10.11
+            - name: RHEL 7.9
+              test: rhel/7.9
+            - name: RHEL 8.3 py36
+              test: rhel/8.3@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.3 py38
+              test: rhel/8.3@3.8
+            - name: FreeBSD 11.4
+              test: freebsd/11.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
+  - stage: Incidental_Docker
+    displayName: Incidental Docker
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: i/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: CentOS 6
+              test: centos6
+            - name: CentOS 7
+              test: centos7
+            - name: CentOS 8
+              test: centos8
+            - name: Fedora 32
+              test: fedora32
+            - name: Fedora 33
+              test: fedora33
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
   - stage: Incidental_Windows
     displayName: Incidental Windows
     dependsOn: []
@@ -202,7 +217,6 @@ stages:
             - test: 2012-R2
             - test: 2016
             - test: 2019
-            - test: 2022
   - stage: Incidental
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -212,8 +226,16 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - name: IOS Python
               test: ios/csr1000v/
-            - name: VyOS Python
-              test: vyos/1.1.8/
+            - name: VyOS Python 2.7
+              test: vyos/1.1.8/2.7
+            - name: VyOS Python 3.6
+              test: vyos/1.1.8/3.6
+            - name: AWS Python 2.7
+              test: aws/2.7
+            - name: AWS Python 3.6
+              test: aws/3.6
+            - name: Cloud Python
+              test: cloud/
   - stage: Summary
     condition: succeededOrFailed()
     dependsOn:
@@ -224,6 +246,8 @@ stages:
       - Docker
       - Galaxy
       - Generic
+      - Incidental_Remote
+      - Incidental_Docker
       - Incidental_Windows
       - Incidental
     jobs:

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

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

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

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

.azure-pipelines/commands/sanity.sh

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -o pipefail -eux
-
-declare -a args
-IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
-
-group="${args[1]}"
-
-group2_include=(
-    ansible-doc
-    changelog
-    package-data
-    pep8
-    pylint
-    validate-modules
-)
-
-group3_include=(
-    docs-build
-    sanity-docs
-)
-
-group1_exclude=(
-    "${group2_include[@]}"
-    "${group3_include[@]}"
-)
-
-options=()
-
-case "${group}" in
-    1)
-        for name in "${group1_exclude[@]}"; do
-            options+=(--skip-test "${name}")
-        done
-        ;;
-    2)
-        for name in "${group2_include[@]}"; do
-            options+=(--test "${name}")
-        done
-        ;;
-    3)
-        for name in "${group3_include[@]}"; do
-            options+=(--test "${name}")
-        done
-        ;;
-esac
-
-# shellcheck disable=SC2086
-ansible-test sanity --color -v --junit ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} \
-    --docker \
-    "${options[@]}" --allow-disabled

.azure-pipelines/commands/windows.sh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml

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

.azure-pipelines/templates/test.yml

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

.github/BOTMETA.yml

@@ -121,16 +121,16 @@ files:
     notified: mattclay
   test/lib/:
     notified: mattclay
-  test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules:
+  test/lib/ansible_test/_data/sanity/validate-modules:
     keywords:
     - validate-modules
     notified:
     - mattclay
-  test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/main.py:
+  test/lib/ansible_test/_data/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/main.py:
     notified:
     - gundalow
     - sivel
-  test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/schema.py:
+  test/lib/ansible_test/_data/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/schema.py:
     notified:
     - gundalow
     - sivel

.github/CODEOWNERS

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-/docs/ @ansible/ansible-release-managers
-/examples/ @ansible/ansible-release-managers
-/hacking/ @ansible/ansible-release-managers

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

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

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml

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

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml

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

.github/RELEASE_NAMES.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 ---
-- 2.14.0  C'mon Everybody
-- 2.13.0  Nobody's Fault but Mine
-- 2.12.0  Dazed and Confused
 - 2.11.0  Hey Hey, What Can I Do
 - 2.10.0  When the Levee Breaks
 - 2.9.0   Immigrant Song

.gitignore

@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ docs/docsite/rst/cli/ansible-*.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/cli/ansible.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/collections_galaxy_meta.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/index.rst.new
-docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/index.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/modules/*.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/collections/*.rst
 !docs/docsite/rst/collections/all_plugins.rst
@@ -53,10 +52,12 @@ docs/docsite/searchindex.js
 docs/docsite/_static/*.gif
 docs/docsite/_static/*.png
 docs/docsite/_static/websupport.js
+# deb building stuff...
+/debian/
+deb-build
 # Vim swap files
 *.swp
 *.swo
-[._]*.un~
 credentials.yml
 # test output
 *.retry
@@ -73,16 +74,7 @@ coverage.xml
 /test/cache/*
 # Development
 /test/develop
-# Environments
-.env
-.venv
-env/
-venv/
-ENV/
-env.bak/
-venv.bak/
 venv
-env
 Vagrantfile
 .vagrant
 # Backwards compatibility with `stable-2.9` and earlier branches.
@@ -92,10 +84,7 @@ Vagrantfile
 /lib/ansible_base.egg-info/
 # First used in the `devel` branch during Ansible 2.11 development.
 /lib/ansible_core.egg-info/
-# vendored lib dir
-lib/ansible/_vendor/*
-!lib/ansible/_vendor/__init__.py
-# test stuff
+/shippable/
 /test/integration/cloud-config-*.*
 !/test/integration/cloud-config-*.*.template
 .python-version

MANIFEST.in

@@ -7,11 +7,6 @@ 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
@@ -25,23 +20,17 @@ recursive-include lib/ansible/module_utils/powershell *.psm1
 recursive-include lib/ansible/modules/windows *.ps1
 recursive-include lib/ansible/galaxy/data *.yml *.j2 README.md ansible.cfg inventory .git_keep
 recursive-include lib/ansible/config *.yml
-recursive-include lib/ansible/modules *.yml
-recursive-include lib/ansible/plugins/test *.yml
-recursive-include lib/ansible/plugins/filter *.yml
 recursive-include licenses *.txt
-recursive-include packaging Makefile *.py *.j2
+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/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs *.md
+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
@@ -49,7 +38,3 @@ include changelogs/CHANGELOG*.rst
 include changelogs/changelog.yaml
 recursive-include hacking/build_library *.py
 include hacking/build-ansible.py
-include hacking/templates/*.j2
-include hacking/test-module.py
-include hacking/update-sanity-requirements.py
-include bin/*

Makefile

@@ -4,7 +4,15 @@
 #
 # useful targets:
 #   make clean ---------------- clean up
+#   make webdocs -------------- produce ansible doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
+#   make coredocs ------------- produce core doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
 #   make sdist ---------------- produce a tarball
+#   make deb-src -------------- produce a DEB source
+#   make deb ------------------ produce a DEB
+#   make docs ----------------- rebuild the manpages (results are checked in)
+#   make gettext -------------- produce POT files for docs
+#   make generate-po ---------- generate language specific po file
+#   make needs-translation ---- generate list of file with unstranlated or fuzzy string for a specific language
 #   make tests ---------------- run the tests (see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/testing_units.html for requirements)
 
 ########################################################
@@ -18,16 +26,16 @@ SDIST_DIR ?= 'dist'
 # This doesn't evaluate until it's called. The -D argument is the
 # directory of the target file ($@), kinda like `dirname`.
 MANPAGES ?= $(patsubst %.rst.in,%,$(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1.rst.in))
-ifneq ($(shell command -v rst2man 2>/dev/null),)
+ifneq ($(shell which rst2man 2>/dev/null),)
 ASCII2MAN = rst2man $< $@
-else ifneq ($(shell command -v rst2man.py 2>/dev/null),)
+else ifneq ($(shell which rst2man.py 2>/dev/null),)
 ASCII2MAN = rst2man.py $< $@
 else
 ASCII2MAN = @echo "ERROR: rst2man from docutils command is not installed but is required to build $(MANPAGES)" && exit 1
 endif
 
 PYTHON ?= python
-GENERATE_CLI = packaging/pep517_backend/_generate_man.py
+GENERATE_CLI = hacking/build-ansible.py generate-man
 
 # fetch version from project release.py as single source-of-truth
 VERSION := $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --raw || echo error)
@@ -35,6 +43,58 @@ ifeq ($(findstring error,$(VERSION)), error)
 $(error "version_helper failed")
 endif
 
+# Get the branch information from git
+ifneq ($(shell which git),)
+GIT_DATE := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ci")
+GIT_HASH := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%h")
+GIT_BRANCH := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | sed 's/[-_.\/]//g')
+GITINFO = .$(GIT_HASH).$(GIT_BRANCH)
+else
+GITINFO = ""
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(shell echo $(OS) | egrep -c 'Darwin|FreeBSD|OpenBSD|DragonFly'),1)
+DATE := $(shell date -j -r $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ct") +%Y%m%d%H%M)
+CPUS ?= $(shell sysctl hw.ncpu|awk '{print $$2}')
+else
+DATE := $(shell date --utc --date="$(GIT_DATE)" +%Y%m%d%H%M)
+CPUS ?= $(shell nproc)
+endif
+
+# Intenationalisation and Localisation
+LANGUAGES ?=
+
+# DEB build parameters
+DEBUILD_BIN ?= debuild
+DEBUILD_OPTS = --source-option="-I"
+DPUT_BIN ?= dput
+DPUT_OPTS ?=
+DEB_DATE := $(shell LC_TIME=C date +"%a, %d %b %Y %T %z")
+DEB_VERSION ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debversion)
+ifeq ($(OFFICIAL),yes)
+    DEB_RELEASE ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debrelease)ppa
+    # Sign OFFICIAL builds using 'DEBSIGN_KEYID'
+    # DEBSIGN_KEYID is required when signing
+    ifneq ($(DEBSIGN_KEYID),)
+        DEBUILD_OPTS += -k$(DEBSIGN_KEYID)
+    endif
+else
+    DEB_RELEASE ?= 100.git$(DATE)$(GITINFO)
+    # Do not sign unofficial builds
+    DEBUILD_OPTS += -uc -us
+    DPUT_OPTS += -u
+endif
+DEBUILD = $(DEBUILD_BIN) $(DEBUILD_OPTS)
+DEB_PPA ?= ppa
+# Choose the desired Ubuntu release: lucid precise saucy trusty
+DEB_DIST ?= unstable
+
+# pbuilder parameters
+PBUILDER_ARCH ?= amd64
+PBUILDER_CACHE_DIR = /var/cache/pbuilder
+PBUILDER_BIN ?= pbuilder
+PBUILDER_OPTS ?= --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd --architecture $(PBUILDER_ARCH) --debbuildopts -b
+
 # ansible-test parameters
 ANSIBLE_TEST ?= bin/ansible-test
 TEST_FLAGS ?=
@@ -94,6 +154,7 @@ 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*
@@ -101,6 +162,9 @@ clean:
 	find test/ -type f -name '*.retry' -delete
 	@echo "Cleaning up symlink cache"
 	rm -f SYMLINK_CACHE.json
+	@echo "Cleaning up Debian building stuff"
+	rm -rf debian
+	rm -rf deb-build
 	rm -rf docs/json
 	rm -rf docs/js
 	@echo "Cleaning up docsite"
@@ -114,7 +178,6 @@ python:
 install:
 	$(PYTHON) setup.py install
 
-.PHONY: install_manpages
 install_manpages:
 	gzip -9 $(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1)
 	cp $(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1.gz) $(PREFIX)/man/man1/
@@ -143,15 +206,108 @@ 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) $(MAKE) docs)
+
+.PHONY: coredocs
+coredocs:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) coredocs)
+
+.PHONY: gettext
+gettext:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) gettext)
+
+.PHONY: generate-po
+generate-po:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) LANGUAGES=$(LANGUAGES) $(MAKE) generate-po)
+
+.PHONY: needs-translation
+needs-translation:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) LANGUAGES=$(LANGUAGES) $(MAKE) needs-translation)
+
+.PHONY: linkcheckdocs
+linkcheckdocs:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) linkcheckdocs)
+
 .PHONY: generate_rst
 generate_rst: lib/ansible/cli/*.py
 	mkdir -p ./docs/man/man1/ ; \
-	$(PYTHON) $(GENERATE_CLI) --template-file=packaging/pep517_backend/_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
+
 
-.PHONY: docs
 docs: generate_rst
 	$(MAKE) $(MANPAGES)
 
-.PHONY: version
+.PHONY: alldocs
+alldocs: docs webdocs
+
 version:
 	@echo $(VERSION)

README.rst

@@ -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 with a minimal learning curve.
+*  Manage machines very quickly and in parallel.
 *  Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by
    leveraging the existing SSH daemon.
 *  Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ You can install a released version of Ansible with ``pip`` or a package manager.
 `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

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-v2.11.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,705 @@
+========================================================
+ansible-core 2.11 "Hey Hey, What Can I Do" Release Notes
+========================================================
+
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+
+v2.11.2
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2021-06-22
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- templating engine fix for not preserving usnafe status when trying to preserve newlines. CVE-2021-3583
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- AnsibleModule.set_mode_if_different - don't check file existence when check_mode is activated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61185).
+- Apply ``display_failed_stderr`` callback option on loop item results. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74864)
+- Avoid task executor from ending early as vars can come from delegated to host.
+- ansible-pull - update documentation for ``--directory`` option to clarify path must be absolute.
+- config, ensure 'quoted' lists from ini or env do not take the quotes literally as part of the list item.
+- gather_facts, package, service - fix using module_defaults for the modules in addition to the action plugins. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72918)
+- psrp - Always cleanup the last run pipeline if a second pipeline is invoked to avoid violating any resource limits.
+- psrp - Fix error when resetting a connection that was initialised but not connected - (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74092).
+- psrp - Try to clean up any server-side resources when resetting a connection.
+- roles - make sure argspec validation task is tagged with ``always`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74994).
+- slurp - Fix error messages for unreadable files and directories (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67340).
+- slurp - handle error when ``path`` is a directory and not a file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74930).
+- ssh connection - fix interaction between transfer settings options.
+- subversion - fix stack trace when getting information about the repository (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36498)
+- version test - improve error message when an empty version is provided
+
+v2.11.1
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2021-05-24
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible adhoc, clarified the help to some options, also added some comments to code.
+- command - update the user warning message to point out command name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74475).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Add RockyLinux to fact gathering (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74530).
+- Improve resilience of ``ansible-galaxy collection`` by increasing the page size to make fewer requests overall and retrying queries with a jittered exponential backoff when rate limiting HTTP codes (520 and 429) occur. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74191)
+- Prevent ``ansible_failed_task`` from further templating (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74036)
+- Remove 'default' from ssh plugin as we want to rely on default from ssh itself or ssh/config.
+- The error message about the failure to import a ``gpg`` key by the ``apt_key`` module was incorrect (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74423).
+- ansible-test - Avoid publishing the port used by the ``pypi-test-container`` since it is only accessed by other containers. This avoids issues when trying to run tests in parallel on a single host.
+- ansible-test - Fix docker container IP address detection. The ``bridge`` network is no longer assumed to be the default.
+- ansible-test - Use documented API to retrieve build information from Azure Pipelines.
+- ansible.builtin.cron - Keep non-empty crontabs, when removing cron jobs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74497).
+- ansible.utils.encrypt now handles missing or unusable 'crypt' library.
+- ansible_test - add constraint for ``MarkupSafe`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74666)
+- apt_key - Binary GnuPG keys downloaded via URLs were corrupted so GnuPG could not import them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74424).
+- become - fix a regression on Solaris where chmod can return 5 which we interpret as auth failure and stop trying become tmpdir permission fallbacks
+- become - work around setfacl not existing on modern Solaris (and possibly failing on some filesystems even when it does exist)
+- callback default, now uses task delegate_to instead of delegate vars to display delegate to host
+- callbacks, restores missing delegate_vars
+- correct doc links for become on warnings over world readable settings.
+- correctly use world readable setting since old constant is not 'settable' anymore.
+- facts - detect homebrew installed at /opt/homebrew/bin/brew
+- filter plugins - patch new versions of Jinja2 to prevent warnings/errors on renamed filter decorators (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74667)
+- get_url - Fixed checksum validation for binary files (leading asterisk) in checksum files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74502).
+- hostname - Add Rocky Linux support
+- ini lookup - handle errors for duplicate keys and missing sections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74601)
+- interpreter discovery - Debian 8 and lower will avoid unsupported Python3 version in interpreter discovery
+- pause - ensure control characters are always set to an appropriate value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73264)
+- playbook loaded from collection subdir now does not ignore subdirs.
+- plugin config now allows list type options to have multiple valid choices (#74225).
+- replace - better handling of file operation exceptions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74686).
+- roles - allow for role arg specs in new meta file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74525).
+- service - compare version without LooseVersion API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74488).
+
+v2.11.0
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2021-04-26
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- A collection can be reinstalled with new version requirements without using the ``--force`` flag. The collection's dependencies will also be updated if necessary with the new requirements. Use ``--upgrade`` to force transitive dependency updates.
+- AnsibleModule - use ``ArgumentSpecValidator`` class for validating argument spec and remove private methods related to argument spec validation. Any modules using private methods should now use the ``ArgumentSpecValidator`` class or the appropriate validation function.
+- Declared ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 0.6.0`` a direct dependency of
+  ansible-core. Refs:
+  - https://github.com/sarugaku/resolvelib
+  - https://pypi.org/p/resolvelib
+  - https://pradyunsg.me/blog/2020/03/27/pip-resolver-testing
+- It became possible to install Ansible Collections from local folders and namespaces folder similar to SCM structure with multiple collections.
+- It became possible to upgrade Ansible collections from Galaxy servers using the ``--upgrade`` option with ``ansible-galaxy collection install``.
+- Support for role argument specification validation at role execution time. When a role contains an argument spec, an implicit validation task is inserted at the start of role execution.
+- add ``ArgumentSpecValidator`` class for validating parameters against an argument spec outside of ``AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73335)
+- ansible-test - Tests run with the ``centos6`` and ``default`` test containers now use a PyPI proxy container to access PyPI when Python 2.6 is used. This allows tests running under Python 2.6 to continue functioning even though PyPI is discontinuing support for non-SNI capable clients.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Add ``--format`` CLI option to ``ansible-galaxy collection list`` which allows for ``human`` (default), ``yaml``, or ``json``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73474)
+- Add an example for using var in with_sequence (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68836).
+- Add new rolespec_validate option to the import/include_role modules do allow disabling of the implicit role arg validation task on a per-role basis.
+- Add option to pass extra vars to ansible-inventory
+- Add path of collection location in Ansible CLI version info.
+- Add standard Python 2/3 compatibility boilerplate to setup script, module_utils and docs_fragments which were missing them.
+- Add support for `argument_specs` data in role metadata.
+- Add support for datetime.date object type in module result (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70583).
+- Add which conditional is being evaluated at each step when debugging.
+- Add yum/dnf version comparison documentation for package install
+- Added NO_COLOR environment var to ansible color configuration, allowing it to integrate with existing convention.
+- Added name of aliases in user error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58752).
+- Added support for GSSAPI/Kerberos authentication with ``urls.py`` that is used by ``uri`` and ``get_url``.
+- Added support for specify custom credentials for GSSAPI authentication.
+- Allow an attribute to be passed to the min and max filters with Jinja 2.10+
+- Allow for the skipped filter to be used on a registered looped task results. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16949)
+- Allow inventory plugins access to extra vars by default
+- Allow unsafe_writes to be set on target via env var, for those targets that need a blanket setting.
+- Also added extra vars cli option to console CLI.
+- AnsiballZ - Improve performance of ``ModuleDepFinder`` by using faster lookups and reducing the object types that are walked while looking for ``import`` statements. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70475)
+- CLI - Specify jinja version in ``--version`` output
+- CLI - Specify whether PyYAML includes libyaml support in version output
+- CLI version displays clarified as core version
+- Callbacks - Migrate more places in the ``TaskExecutor`` to sending callbacks directly over the queue, instead of sending them as ``TaskResult`` and short circuiting in the Strategy to send the callback. This enables closer to real time callbacks of retries and loop results (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73899)
+- Collection routing: Cisco NSO content from community.network migrated to cisco.nso (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: DellEMC content from community.general migrated to dellemc.openmanage (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: FortiOS content from community.network migrated to community.fortios (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: Google content from community.general migrated to community.google (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: Hashi Vault content from community.general migrated to community.hashi_vault (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: Hetzner Robot content from community.general migrated to community.hrobot (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: KubeVirt content from community.general migrated to community.kubevirt (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: OC content from community.general migrated to community.okd (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: PostgreSQL content from community.general migrated to community.postgresql (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: RouterOS content from community.network migrated to community.routeros (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Collection routing: docker content from community.general migrated to community.docker (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73046).
+- Controller - Add warning for Ansible 2.11 when running a Python version older than Python 3.8 to inform users that 2.12 will only support Python 3.8 and newer on the controller. Starting with Ansible 2.11, the project will only be packaged for Python 3.8 and newer.
+- Discourage the use of 'hexdigits' in password lookup, as it distorts expected entropy.
+- Enable extra vars for inventory plugin options
+- Errors - Ensure that errors passed with ``orig_exc`` include the context of that exception (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68605)
+- Filters - Add new ``split`` filter for splitting strings
+- Fixed ansible-doc to not substitute for words followed by parenthesis.  For instance, ``IBM(International Business Machines)`` will no longer be substituted with a link to a non-existent module. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71070
+- Force the template module to use non-native Jinja2 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46169)
+- Internal config entries will not be documented, to mark an entry as internal it must start with `_`.
+- Interpreter Discovery - Add Python 3.8 and Python 3.9 to the fallback list
+- Minor code cleanup in plugin loader.
+- Module API - libselinux-python is no longer required for basic module API selinux operations (affects core modules assemble, blockinfile, copy, cron, file, get_url, lineinfile, setup, replace, unarchive, uri, user, yum_repository)
+- Module API - new module_respawn API allows modules that need to run under a specific Python interpreter to respawn in place under that interpreter
+- Module iptables multiport destination support added (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72928)
+- Module iptables set/ipset support added (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72984)
+- New 'timeout' feature added to adhoc and console CLIs, corresponding to the recent 'timeout' task keyword.
+- New virtualization facts, ``virtualization_tech_guest`` and ``virtualization_tech_host`` now allow for conveying when a system is a host or guest of multiple virtualization technologies.
+- Now 'choices' keyword in config definitions also restricts valid values for the entry.
+- Refactored ``ansible-galaxy collection [download|install|list|verify]`` CLI subcommands with the public interface kept intact.
+- Restructured _fixup_perms2() in ansible.plugins.action to make it more linear
+- Shadow prompt input to ansible-vault encrypt-string unless the ``--show-input`` flag is set
+- Switch to hashlib.sha256() for ansible-test to allow for FIPs mode.
+- TOML inventory plugin is no longer in preview status
+- Templar - reduce the complexity of ``Templar._lookup`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73277)
+- The ``csvfile`` lookup plugin now uses ``parse_kv()`` internally. As a result, multi-word search keys can now be passed.
+- The ``csvfile`` lookup plugin's documentation has been fixed; it erroneously said that the delimiter could be ``t`` which was never true. We now accept ``\t``, however, and the error in the documentation has been fixed to note that.
+- The constructed inventory plugin has new option to force using vars plugins on previouslly processed inventory sources.
+- The find module is now more specific about the reasons it skips candidate files.
+- The logging functionality in module_utils.basic now returns a nicer error when it falls back to syslog but ends up getting a TypeError thrown back.
+- The new dependency resolver prefers ``MANIFEST.json`` over ``galaxy.yml`` if it exists in the target directory.
+- The plugin loader now keeps track of the collection where a plugin was resolved to, in particular whether the plugin was loaded from ansible-core's internal paths (``ansible.builtin``) or from user-supplied paths (no collection name).
+- Toggle allowing usage of extra_vars in compose
+- When connecting as an unprivileged user, and becoming an unprivileged user, we now fall back to also trying ``chmod +a`` which works on macOS and makes use of ACLs.
+- allow tree callback plugin to be configurable, for use with playbooks.
+- ansible-doc - In Windows setup steps, ``ExecutionPolicy`` should be restored to default value ``RemoteSigned`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72993).
+- ansible-doc - provide ``has_action`` field in JSON output for modules. That information is currently only available in the text view (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72359).
+- ansible-doc has new option to show keyword documentation.
+- ansible-doc will now format, ``L()``, ``R()``, and ``HORIZONTALLINE`` in plugin docs just as the website docs do.  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71070
+- ansible-galaxy - Add installation successful message
+- ansible-galaxy - Added caching mechanisms when retrieving collection info to speed up installs and downloads
+- ansible-galaxy - Change the output verbosity level of the download message from 3 to 0 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70010)
+- ansible-galaxy - Ensure ``get_collection_versions`` returns an empty list when a collection does not exist for consistency across API versions.
+- ansible-galaxy - find any collection dependencies in the globally configured Galaxy servers and not just the server the parent collection is from.
+- ansible-galaxy CLI - ``collection verify`` command now exits with a non-zero exit code on verification failure
+- ansible-galaxy CLI - ``collection verify`` command now supports a ``--offline`` option for local-only verification
+- ansible-test - A warning is no longer emitted when a ``pip*`` or ``python*`` binary is found without a matching couterpart.
+- ansible-test - Add ``macos/10.15`` as a supported value for the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test - Add a ``--docker-network`` option to choose the network for running containers when using the ``--docker`` option.
+- ansible-test - Add constraint for ``decorator`` for Python versions prior to 3.5.
+- ansible-test - Add support for running tests on Fedora 33 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72861).
+- ansible-test - Added Ubuntu 20.04 LTS image to the default completion list
+- ansible-test - Added a ``--export`` option to the ``ansible-test coverage combine`` command to facilitate multi-stage aggregation of coverage in CI pipelines.
+- ansible-test - Added the ``-remote rhel/7.9`` option to run tests on RHEL 7.9
+- ansible-test - Allow custom ``--remote-stage`` options for development and testing.
+- ansible-test - CentOS 8 container is now 8.2.2004 (https://github.com/ansible/distro-test-containers/pull/45).
+- ansible-test - Changed the internal name of the custom plugin used to identify use of unwanted imports and functions.
+- ansible-test - Cleaned up code to resolve warnings and errors reported by PyCharm.
+- ansible-test - Code cleanup in the ``import`` sanity test.
+- ansible-test - Code cleanup in the internal logic for code coverage collection of PowerShell modules.
+- ansible-test - Collections can now specify pip constraints for unit and integration test requirements using ``tests/unit/constraints.txt`` and ``tests/integration/constraints.txt`` respectively.
+- ansible-test - Containers used with the ``--remote`` option have been updated to version 1.29.0 to include the latest Ansible requirements.
+- ansible-test - Files used to track remote instances no longer have a region suffix.
+- ansible-test - Fix ``ansible-test coverage`` reporting sub-commands (``report``, ``html``, ``xml``) on Python 2.6.
+- ansible-test - Fix container hostname/IP discovery for the ``acme`` test plugin.
+- ansible-test - FreeBSD 11.4 and 12.2 provisioning can now be used with the ``--python 3.8`` option.
+- ansible-test - FreeBSD instances provisioned with ``--remote`` now make ``libyaml`` available for use with PyYAML installation.
+- ansible-test - Generation of an ``egg-info`` directory, if needed, is now done after installing test dependencies and before running tests. When running from an installed version of ``ansible-test`` a temporary directory is used to avoid permissions issues. Previously it was done before installing test dependencies and adjacent to the installed directory.
+- ansible-test - Implemented CloudStack test container selection by ENV variable `ANSIBLE_CLOUDSTACK_CONTAINER` with a default to `quay.io/ansible/cloudstack-test-container:1.4.0`.
+- ansible-test - Improved handling of minimum Python version requirements for sanity tests. Supported versions are now included in warning messages displayed when tests are skipped.
+- ansible-test - More sanity test requirements have been pinned to specific versions to provide consistent test results.
+- ansible-test - Most sanity test specific ``pip`` constraints are now used only when running sanity tests. This should reduce conflicts with ``pip`` requirements and constraints when testing collections.
+- ansible-test - Most sanity tests are now skipped on Python 3.5 and earlier with a warning. Previously this was done for Python 2.7 and earlier.
+- ansible-test - Now supports freebsd/11.4 remote (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/48782).
+- ansible-test - Now supports freebsd/12.2 remote (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72366).
+- ansible-test - OpenSuse container now uses Leap 15.2 (https://github.com/ansible/distro-test-containers/pull/48).
+- ansible-test - Pin the ``virtualenv`` version used for ``--remote`` pip installs to the latest version supported by Python 2.x, which is version 16.7.10.
+- ansible-test - Provisioning of RHEL instances now includes installation of pinned versions of ``packaging`` and ``pyparsing`` to match the downstream vendored versions.
+- ansible-test - RHEL 8.2+ provisioning can now be used with the ``--python 3.8`` option, taking advantage of the Python 3.8 AppStream.
+- ansible-test - Raise the number of bytes scanned by ansible-test to determine if a file is binary to 4096.
+- ansible-test - Refactor code for installing ``cryptography`` to allow re-use in the future.
+- ansible-test - Refactor code to remove unused logic for obsolete support of multiple provisioning endpoints.
+- ansible-test - Remove ``pytest < 6.0.0`` constraint for managed installations on Python 3.x now that pytest 6 is supported.
+- ansible-test - Remove em dash from the Pytest configuration file in order to be readable on systems where preferred encoding is ASCII. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71739)
+- ansible-test - Remove outdated ``--docker`` completion entries: fedora30, fedora31, ubuntu1604
+- ansible-test - Remove outdated ``--remote`` completion entries: freebsd/11.1, freebsd/12.1, osx/10.11, macos/10.15, rhel/7.6, rhel/7.8, rhel/8.1, rhel/8.2
+- ansible-test - Remove outdated ``--windows`` completion entries: 2008, 2008-R2
+- ansible-test - Remove the discontinued ``us-east-2`` choice from the ``--remote-aws-region`` option.
+- ansible-test - Remove unused ``--remote`` completion entry: power/centos/7
+- ansible-test - Removed ``pip`` constraints related to integration tests that have been moved to collections. This should reduce conflicts with ``pip`` requirements and constraints when testing collections.
+- ansible-test - Removed the obsolete ``--remote-aws-region`` provisioning option.
+- ansible-test - Removed the obsolete ``tower`` test plugin for testing Tower modules.
+- ansible-test - Removed unused provisioning code and cleaned up remote provider management logic.
+- ansible-test - Rename internal functions to match associated constant names that were previously updated.
+- ansible-test - Reorganize internal ``pylint`` configuration files for easier comparison and maintenance.
+- ansible-test - Report the correct line number in the ``yamllint`` sanity test when reporting ``libyaml`` parse errors in module documentation.
+- ansible-test - Request remote resources by provider name for all provider types.
+- ansible-test - Show a warning when the obsolete ``--remote-aws-region`` option is used.
+- ansible-test - Silence ``pip`` warnings about Python 3.5 being EOL when installing requirements.
+- ansible-test - Support custom remote endpoints with the ``--remote-endpoint`` option.
+- ansible-test - The ``--remote`` option no longer pre-installs the ``virtualenv`` module on Python 3.x instances. The Python built-in ``venv`` module should be used instead.
+- ansible-test - The ``default`` container for both collections and core have been updated to versions 2.11.0 and 1.9.0 respectively.
+- ansible-test - The ``pylint`` sanity test is now skipped with a warning on Python 3.9 due to unresolved upstream regressions.
+- ansible-test - The ``pylint`` sanity test is now supported on Python 3.8.
+- ansible-test - The ``rstcheck`` sanity test is no longer used for collections, but continues to be used for ansible-core.
+- ansible-test - The generated ``resource_prefix`` variable now meets the host name syntax requirements specified in RFC 1123 and RFC 952. The value used for local tests now places the random number before the hostname component, rather than after. If the resulting value is too long, it will be truncated.
+- ansible-test - Ubuntu containers as well as ``default-test-container`` and ``ansible-base-test-container`` are now slightly smaller due to apt cleanup (https://github.com/ansible/distro-test-containers/pull/46).
+- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` and its dependencies to the latest available versions to support Python 3.9.
+- ansible-test - Update built-in service endpoints for the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test - Update distribution test containers from version 2.0.1 to 2.0.2.
+- ansible-test - Update the Ansible Core and Ansible Collection default test containers to 3.2.0 and 3.2.2 respectively.
+- ansible-test - Updated the default test containers to version 3.1.0.
+- ansible-test - Upgrade ansible-runner version used in compatibility tests, remove some tasks that were only needed with older versions, and skip in python2 because ansible-runner is soon dropping it.
+- ansible-test - Use new endpoint for Parallels based instances with the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test - ``default-test-container`` and ``ansible-base-test-container`` now use Python 3.9.0 instead of 3.9.0rc1.
+- ansible-test - add https endpoint for ansible-test
+- ansible-test - add macOS 11.1 as a remote target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72622)
+- ansible-test - add the collection plugin directories ``plugin_utils`` and ``sub_plugins`` to list of plugin types. This ensures such plugins are tested for the ``import`` sanity test (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73599).
+- ansible-test - centos6 end of life - container image updated to point to vault base repository (https://github.com/ansible/distro-test-containers/pull/54)
+- ansible-test - centos6 image now has multiple fallback yum repositories for CentOS Vault.
+- ansible-test - default container now uses default-test-container 2.7.0 and ansible-base-test-container 1.6.0. This brings in Python 3.9.0rc1 for testing.
+- ansible-test - now makes a better attempt to support podman when calling ``docker images`` and asking for JSON format.
+- ansible-test - python-cryptography is now bounded at <3.2, as 3.2 drops support for OpenSSL 1.0.2 upon which some of our CI infrastructure still depends.
+- ansible-test - remote macOS instances no longer install ``virtualenv`` during provisioning
+- ansible-test - the ACME test container was updated, it now supports external account creation and has a basic OCSP responder (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71097, https://github.com/ansible/acme-test-container/releases/tag/2.0.0).
+- ansible-test - the ``import`` sanity test now also tries to import all non-module and non-module_utils Python files in ``lib/ansible/`` resp. ``plugins/`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72497).
+- ansible-test - virtualenv helper scripts now prefer ``venv`` on Python 3 over ``virtualenv``
+- ansible-test Now supports RHEL 8.3
+- ansible-test pylint - ensure that removal collection version numbers conform to the semantic versioning specification at https://semver.org/ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71679).
+- ansible-test pylint sanity test - stop ignoring ``used-before-assignment`` errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73639).
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata - compare deprecation and tombstone versions to the current version to ensure that they are correct (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72625).
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata - ensure that removal collection version numbers conform to the semantic versioning specification at https://semver.org/ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71679).
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata - ensure that the tombstone removal date is not in the future (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72625).
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata - validate removal version numbers, and check removal dates more strictly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71679).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - ensure that removal collection version numbers and version_added collection version numbers conform to the semantic versioning specification at https://semver.org/ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71679).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - no longer assume that ``default`` for ``type=bool`` options is ``false``, as the default is ``none`` and for some modules, ``none`` and ``false`` mean different things (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69561).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - option names that seem to indicate they contain secret information that should be marked ``no_log=True`` are now flagged in the validate-modules sanity test. False positives can be marked by explicitly setting ``no_log=False`` for these options in the argument spec. Please note that many false positives are expected; the assumption is that it is by far better to have false positives than false negatives (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73508).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - validate removal version numbers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71679).
+- ansible.utils.encrypt now returns `AnsibleError` instead of crypt.crypt's `OSError` on Python 3.9
+- apt - module now works under any supported Python interpreter
+- apt_repository - module now works under any supported Python interpreter
+- callback plugins - ``meta`` tasks now get sent to ``v2_playbook_on_task_start``. Explicit tasks are always sent. Plugins can opt in to receiving implicit ones.
+- callbacks - Add feature allowing forks to send callback events (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/14681)
+- conditionals - change the default of CONDITIONAL_BARE_VARS to False (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70682).
+- config - more types are now automatically coerced to string when ``type: str`` is used and the value is parsed as a different type
+- constructed - Add a toggle to allow the separator to be omitted if no prefix has been provided.
+- constructed inventory plugin - Sanitize group names created from the ``groups`` option silently.
+- create ``get_type_validator`` standalone function and move that functionality out of ``AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72667)
+- create ``get_unsupported_parameters`` validation function (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72447/files)
+- debconf - add a note about no_log=True since module might expose sensitive information to logs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32386).
+- default callback - add ``show_task_path_on_failure`` option to display file and line number of tasks only on failed tasks when running at normal verbosity level (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64625)
+- default callback - task name is now shown for ``include_tasks`` when using the ``free`` strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71277).
+- default callback - task name is now shown for ``include_tasks`` when using the ``linear`` strategy with ``ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS=0``.
+- default_callback - moving 'check_mode_markers' documentation in default_callback doc_fragment (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/565).
+- distribution - add facts about Amazon Linux Distribution facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73742).
+- distribution - add support for DragonFly distribution (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43739).
+- distribution - added distribution fact and hostname support for Parrot OS (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69158).
+- distribution - handle NetBSD OS Family (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43739).
+- distribution facts - ``distribution_release`` is now ``"Stream"`` on CentOS Stream (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73027).
+- dnf - Add nobest option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69983)
+- dnf - When ``state: absent``, package names are now matched similarly to how the ``dnf`` CLI matches them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72809).
+- dnf - module now works under any supported Python interpreter
+- dnf - now shows specific package changes (installations/removals) under ``results`` in check_mode. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66132)
+- facts - ``/dev/kvm`` is now consulted in Linux virtualization facts, and the host is considered a KVM host if this file exists and none of the pre-existing checks matched.
+- facts - add new fact ``date_time['tz_dst']``, which returns the daylight saving timezone (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69004).
+- facts - add uptime to openbsd
+- find module - Now has a ``read_whole_file`` boolean parameter which allows for reading the whole file and doing an ``re.search()`` regex evaluation on it when searching using the ``contains`` option. This allows (for example) for ensuring the very end of the file matches a pattern.
+- galaxy - add documentation about galaxy parameters in examples/ansible.cfg (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68402).
+- galaxy - handle token as dict while loading from yaml file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70887).
+- get_url - allow checksum urls to point to file:// resources, moving scheme test to function
+- get_url - handle same SHA sum for checksum file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71420).
+- git - add ``single_branch`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/28465)
+- hash filter - fail when unsupported hash type is passed as an argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70258)
+- inventory cache - do not show a warning when the cache file does not (yet) exist.
+- iptables - add a note about ipv6-icmp in protocol parameter (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70905).
+- iptables - fixed get_chain_policy API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68612).
+- iptables - reorder comment postition to be at the end (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71444).
+- lineinfile - add search_string parameter for non-regexp searching (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70470)
+- linux facts - Add additional check to ensure 'container' virtual fact gets added to guest_tech when appropriate (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71385)
+- meta - now include a ``skip_reason`` when skipped (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71355).
+- module payload builder - module_utils imports in any nested block (eg, ``try``, ``if``) are treated as optional during module payload builds; this allows modules to implement runtime fallback behavior for module_utils that do not exist in older versions of Ansible.
+- module_utils - ``get_file_attributes()`` now takes an optional ``include_version`` boolean parameter. When ``True`` (default), the file's version/generation number is included in the result (but requires ``lsattr -v`` to work on the target platform).
+- now !unsafe works on all types of data, not just strings, even recursively for mappings and sequences.
+- package_facts - module support for apt and rpm now works under any supported Python interpreter
+- pipe lookup - update docs for Popen with shell=True usages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70159).
+- plugin examples - Allow non-YAML examples, so that examples for plugins like the INI and TOML inventory plugins can be directly represented (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71184)
+- plugin option validation - now the option type ``dict``/``dictionary`` is also validated by the config manager (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71928).
+- reboot - add ``reboot_command`` parameter to allow specifying the command used to reboot the system (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51359)
+- remove ``excommunicate`` debug command from AnsiballZ
+- selinux - return selinux_getpolicytype facts correctly.
+- service_facts - return service state information on AIX.
+- service_facts - return service state information on OpenBSD.
+- setup - allow list of filters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68551).
+- setup - fix distribution facts for Older Amazon Linux with ``/etc/os-release`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73946).
+- setup.py - Declare that Python 3.9 is now supported (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72861).
+- setup.py - Skip doing conflict checks for ``sdist`` and ``egg_info`` commands (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71310)
+- subelements - clarify the lookup plugin documentation for parameter handling (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38182).
+- subversion - ``validate_certs`` option, which, when true, will avoid passing ``--trust-server-cert`` to ``svn`` commands (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/22599).
+- unarchive - Add support for .tar.zst (zstd compression) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73265).
+- unarchive - add ``RETURN`` documentation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67445).
+- unarchive - add ``include`` parameter to allow extracting specific files from an archive (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40522)
+- update sphinx to 2.1.2 and rstcheck to 3.3.1 for building documentation.
+- uri - add ``ca_path`` argument to allow specification of a CA certificate (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71979).
+- user - add new parameters ``password_expire_max`` and ``password_expire_min`` for controlling password expiration (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68775)
+- varnames lookup plugin - Fixed grammar error in exception message when the plugin is given a non-string term.
+- vault - Provide better error for single value encrypted values to indicate the file, line, and column of the errant vault (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72276)
+- version test - Add semantic version functionality
+- virtual facts - containerd cgroup is now recognized as container tech (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66304).
+- virtualization facts - Detect ``vdsmd`` in addition to ``vdsm`` when trying to detect RHEV hosts. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66147)
+- winrm - Added ``ansible_winrm_kinit_args`` that can be used to control the args that are sent to the ``kinit`` call for Kerberos authentication.
+- yum - module now works under any supported Python interpreter
+- yum_repository - added boolean option module_hotfixes which allows to enable functionality for dnf.
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- Made SCM collections be reinstalled regardless of ``--force`` being present.
+- NetBSD virtualization facts (specifically ``ansible_virtualization_type``) now returns a more accurate value by checking the value of the ``machdep.hypervisor`` ``sysctl`` key. This change is breaking because in some cases previously, we would erroneously report ``xen`` even when the target is not running on Xen. This prevents that behavior in most cases. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69352)
+- Replaced the in-tree dependency resolver with an external implementation that pip >= 20.3 uses now by default — ``resolvelib``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71784)
+- The ``meta`` module now supports tags for user-defined tasks. Internal ``meta`` tasks continue to always run. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64558)
+- ansible-galaxy login command has been removed (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71560)
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- Starting in 2.14, shell and command modules will no longer have the option to warn and suggest modules in lieu of commands. The ``warn`` parameter to these modules is now deprecated and defaults to ``False``. Similarly, the ``COMMAND_WARNINGS`` configuration option is also deprecated and defaults to ``False``. These will be removed and their presence will become an error in 2.14.
+- apt_key - the paramater ``key`` does not have any effect, has been deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core version 2.14 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70319).
+- psrp - Set the minimum version of ``pypsrp`` to ``0.4.0``.
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- Removed `SharedPluginLoaderObj` class from ansible.plugins.strategy. It was deprecated in favor of using the standard plugin loader.
+- Removed `_get_item()` alias from callback plugin base class which had been deprecated in favor of `_get_item_label()`.
+- The "user" parameter was previously deprecated and is now removed in favor of "scope"
+- The deprecated ``ansible.constants.BECOME_METHODS`` has been removed.
+- The deprecated ``ansible.constants.get_config()`` has been removed.
+- The deprecated ``ansible.constants.mk_boolean()`` has been removed.
+- `with_*` loops are no longer optimized for modules whose `name` parameters can take lists (mostly package managers). Use `name` instead of looping over individual names with `with_items` and friends.
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- **security issue** - Mask default and fallback values for ``no_log`` module options (CVE-2021-20228)
+- **security issue** - copy - Redact the value of the no_log 'content' parameter in the result's invocation.module_args in check mode. Previously when used with check mode and with '-vvv', the module would not censor the content if a change would be made to the destination path. (CVE-2020-14332)
+- Sanitize no_log values from any response keys that might be returned from the uri module (CVE-2020-14330).
+- dnf - Previously, regardless of the ``disable_gpg_check`` option, packages were not GPG validated. They are now. (CVE-2020-14365)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- A handler defined within a role will now search handlers subdir for included tasks (issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71222).
+- ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMP, switched to 'moved' message as 'deprecation' is misleading since config settings still work w/o needing change.
+- ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS - remove deprecation so that users of Ansible 2.9 and 2.10+ can use the same var when specifying a collection path without a warning.
+- Added unsafe_writes test.
+- Address compat with rpmfluff-0.6 for integration tests
+- Address the deprecation of the use of stdlib distutils in packaging. It's a short-term hotfix for the problem (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70456, https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2230, https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/bd110264)
+- Adjust various hard-coded action names to also include their ``ansible.builtin.`` and ``ansible.legacy.`` prefixed version (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71817, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71818, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71824).
+- Allow TypeErrors on Undefined variables in filters to be handled or deferred when processing for loops.
+- Allow `~` to be present in file names in galaxy roles (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72966)
+- Always mention the name of the deprecated or tombstoned plugin in routing deprecation/tombstone messages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73059).
+- Ansible output now uses stdout to determine column width instead of stdin
+- AnsibleModule - added arg ``ignore_invalid_cwd`` to ``AnsibleModule.run_command()``, to control its behaviour when ``cwd`` is invalid. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72390)
+- Apply ``_wrap_native_text`` only for builtin filters specified in STRING_TYPE_FILTERS.
+- Automatically remove async cache files for polled async tasks that have completed (issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73206).
+- Be smarter about collection paths ending with ansible_collections, emulating a-galaxy behaviour. Issue 72628
+- CLI - Restore git information in version output when running from source
+- Collection callbacks were ignoring options and rules for stdout and adhoc cases.
+- Collections - Ensure ``action_loader.get`` is called with ``collection_list`` to properly find collections when ``collections:`` search is specified (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72170)
+- Command module now returns stdout & stderr if executable is missing or an unknown error occurs
+- ConfigManager - Normalize ConfigParser between Python2 and Python3 to for handling comments (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73709)
+- Continue execution when  'flatten' filter when it hits a None/null value as part of the list.
+- Correct the inventory source error parse handling, specifically make the config INVENTORY_ANY_UNPARSED_IS_FAILED work as expected.
+- Correctly set template_path and template_fullpath for usage in template lookup and action plugins.
+- Deal with failures when sorting JSON and you have incompatible key types.
+- Display - Use wcswidth to calculate printable width of a text string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63105)
+- Enabled unsafe_writes for get_url which was ignoring the paramter.
+- Ensure Ansible's unique filter preserves order (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63417)
+- Ensure if a traceback halts ``strategy.run`` that we still attempt to clean up (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/23958)
+- Ensure password passed in by -k is used on delegated hosts that do not have ansible_password set
+- Ensure the correct options are used when ssh executables are used that don't match ssh executable names.
+- Facts collection - get serial number of NVMe device without sg_inq (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66663).
+- Fix --list-tasks format `role_name : task_name` when task name contains the role name. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72505)
+- Fix ``RecursionError`` when templating large vars structures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71920)
+- Fix ``delegate_facts: true`` when ``ansible_python_interpreter`` is not set. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70168)
+- Fix adding unrelated candidate names to the plugin loader redirect list.
+- Fix an exit code for a non-failing playbook (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71306)
+- Fix ansible-galaxy collection list to show collections in site-packages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70147)
+- Fix bytestring vs string comparison in module_utils.basic.is_special_selinux_path() so that special-cased filesystems which don't support SELinux context attributes still allow files to be manipulated on them. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70244)
+- Fix execution of the meta tasks 'clear_facts', 'clear_host_errors', 'end_play', 'end_host', and 'reset_connection' when the CLI flag '--flush-cache' is provided.
+- Fix fileglob bug where it could return different results for different order of parameters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72873).
+- Fix incorrect msg in the results dict in loops
+- Fix incorrect re-run of roles with tags (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69848)
+- Fix incorrect variable scoping when using ``import with context`` in Jinja2 templates. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72615)
+- Fix jsonfile cache plugin option '_uri' to be a type path instead of a string. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38002)
+- Fix notifying handlers via `role_name : handler_name` when handler name contains the role name. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70582)
+- Fix parsing of values when using empty string as a key (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57132)
+- Fix statistics reporting when rescue block contains another block (issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61253).
+- Fix to previous deprecation change (#70504) which caused command warning deprecation to show in all cases, even when not specified by the user.
+- Fixed TypeError instancemethod expecting at least 2 arguments for apt_repository(issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69308, PR https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69463)
+- Fixed issue when `netstat` is either missing or doesn't have execution permissions leading to incorrect command being executed.
+- Fixes ``ansible-galaxy role info`` to support multiple roles on the command line (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70148)
+- Fixes ansible-test traceback when plugin author is not a string or a list of strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70507)
+- Handle more varnames that can create conflicts, expand a function in general, handle jinja2 globals in particular (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41955).
+- INTERPRETER_PYTHON_DISTRO_MAP - prefer ``/usr/libexec/platform-python`` on ``oraclelinux 8`` when other pythons are present.
+- Improve Ansible config deprecations to show the source of the deprecation (ansible-core). Also remove space before a comma in config deprecations (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72697).
+- Improved/fixed regular expressions in ``validate-modules/validate_modules/schema.py`` and ``utils/collection_loader/_collection_finder.py`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73577).
+- Includes - Explicitly get the include task, and not assume it is the parent (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65710)
+- InventoryManager - Fix unhandled exception when given limit file was actually a directory.
+- InventoryManager - Fix unhandled exception when inventory directory was empty or contained empty subdirectories (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73658).
+- JSON Encoder - Ensure we treat single vault encrypted values as strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70784)
+- Lookup user by UID in password database if login name is not found (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17029)
+- OpenBSD module_utils - update sysctl variable name
+- Pass expression in angle-bracket notation as filename argument to a ``compile()`` built-in function, so that Python debuggers do not try to parse it as filename.
+- Pass the connection's timeout to connection plugins instead of the task's timeout.
+- Provide more information in AnsibleUndefinedVariable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55152)
+- Python module_utils finder - refactor logic to eliminate many corner cases, remove recursion, fix base module_utils redirections
+- Remove an embedded function from RoleMixin and add tests for it (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72754).
+- Remove the warning displayed when validating the arg spec of a role with dependencies and add it to the documentation.
+- Restore the ability for changed_when/failed_when to function with group_by (#70844).
+- Restored unsafe_writes functionality which was being skipped.
+- Restructured pipelining settings to be at the connection plugins leaving base config as global and for backwards compatiblity.
+- SSH plugin - Improve error message when ssh client is not found on the host
+- Setup virtualization_facts - add RHV and oVirt type. This change will fully work for VMs in clusters at cluster level 4.4 or newer (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72876).
+- Skip invalid collection names when listing in ansible-doc instead of throwing exception. Issue#72257
+- Skip literal_eval for string filters results in native jinja. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70831)
+- Stop adding the connection variables to the output results
+- Strategy - When building the task in the Strategy from the Worker, ensure it is properly marked as finalized and squashed. Addresses an issue with ``ansible_failed_task``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57399)
+- Suppress warning when user directory used in --playbook-dir option with ansible-inventory command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65262).
+- TOML inventory - Ensure we register dump functions for ``AnsibleUnsafe`` to support dumping unsafe values. Note that the TOML format has no functionality to mark that the data is unsafe for re-consumption. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71307)
+- Terminal plugins - add "\e[m" to the list of ANSI sequences stripped from device output
+- The ``docker`` and ``k8s`` action groups / module default groups now also support the moved modules in `community.docker <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/docker>`_, `community.kubevirt <https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.kubevirt>`_, `community.okd <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/okd>`_, and `kubernetes.core <https://galaxy.ansible.com/kubernetes/core>`_ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72428).
+- The ``flush()`` method of ``CachePluginAdjudicator`` now calls the plugin's ``flush()`` method instead of iterating over the keys that the adjudicator knows about and deleting those from the cache. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68770)
+- The `ansible_become` value was not being treated as a boolean value when set in an INI format inventory file (fixes bug https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70476).
+- The machine-readable changelog ``changelogs/changelog.yaml`` is now contained in the release.
+- Try to avoid kernel 'blocking' state on reading files while fact gathering.
+- Updated docs and added warning on max_fail_percentage and free strategy usage. fixes issue 16666.
+- VariableManager - Add the 'vars' key before getting delegated variables (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71092).
+- Vault - Allow single vault encrypted values to be used directly as module parameters. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68275)
+- WorkerProcess - Implement workaround for stdout deadlock in multiprocessing shutdown to avoid process hangs.
+- WorkerProcess - Python 3.5 fix for workaround for stdout deadlock in multiprocessing shutdown to avoid process hangs. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74149)
+- [set_fact] Corrected and expanded documentation as well as now raise errors that were previously ignored.
+- account for bug in Python 2.6 that occurs during interpreter shutdown to avoid stack trace
+- action plugins - change all action/module delegations to use FQ names while allowing overrides (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69788)
+- add AlmaLinux to fact gathering (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73458)
+- add constraints file for ``ansible_runner`` test since an update to ``psutil`` is now causing test failures
+- add magic/connection vars updates from delegated host info.
+- add support for alpine linux 'apk' package manager in package_facts
+- allow become method 'su' to work on 'local' connection by allocating a fake tty.
+- ansible-console - Ctrl+C (in a task) abort current task, and put you back on prompt (this behavior doesn't change) (ditto)
+- ansible-console - Ctrl+C (on prompt) used to exit the shell, unlike most shells, it should just reset the current line (ie. abort it and spawn a new prompt) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68529)
+- ansible-console - Ctrl+D (on prompt) now exit the shell, this is the expected behavior in a shell (cf bash, sh, zsh, ipython, ...) (ditto)
+- ansible-console - add more documentation, specifically on various commands[1] (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72195)
+- ansible-console - fixes few strings' typos
+- ansible-console - remove useless and poorly formatted comment section (replaced with [1])
+- ansible-doc - account for an empty ``meta/main.yml`` file when displaying role information (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73590)
+- ansible-doc - collection name for plugin top-level deprecation was not inserted when deprecating by version (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70344).
+- ansible-doc - improve error message in text formatter when ``description`` is missing for a (sub-)option or a return value or its ``contains`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70046).
+- ansible-doc - improve man page formatting to avoid problems when YAML anchors are used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70045).
+- ansible-doc - include the collection name in the text output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70401).
+- ansible-doc - plugin option deprecations now also get ``collection_name`` added (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71735).
+- ansible-doc - properly show plugin name when ``name:`` is used instead of ``<plugin_type>:`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71966).
+- ansible-galaxy - Cache the responses for available collection versions after getting all pages. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73071)
+- ansible-galaxy - Instead of assuming the first defined server is galaxy, filter based on the servers that support the v1 API, and return the first of those (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65440)
+- ansible-galaxy - Use ``sys.exit`` instead of ``exit`` when reporting an error for the removed login command.
+- ansible-galaxy - correct ``collections-path`` command line argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73127)
+- ansible-galaxy - fixed galaxy role init command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71977).
+- ansible-galaxy collection download - fix downloading tar.gz files and collections in git repositories (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70429)
+- ansible-galaxy collection install - fix fallback mechanism if the AH server did not have the collection requested - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70940
+- ansible-galaxy download - fix bug when downloading a collection in a SCM subdirectory
+- ansible-pull - Run all playbooks that when multiple are supplied via the command line (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72708)
+- ansible-test - Add ``pytest < 6.0.0`` constraint for managed installations on Python 3.x to avoid issues with relative imports.
+- ansible-test - Add a ``six < 1.14.0`` constraint for Python 2.6.
+- ansible-test - Always connect additional Docker containers to the network used by the current container (if any).
+- ansible-test - Always map ``/var/run/docker.sock`` into test containers created by the ``--docker`` option if the docker host is not ``localhost``.
+- ansible-test - Attempt to detect the Docker hostname instead of assuming ``localhost``.
+- ansible-test - Avoid using ``/tmp`` to resolve occasional failures starting tests with the ``--docker`` option.
+- ansible-test - Change classification using ``--changed`` now consistently handles common configuration files for supported CI providers.
+- ansible-test - Change detection now properly resolves relative imports instead of treating them as absolute imports.
+- ansible-test - Correctly detect changes in a GitHub pull request when running on Azure Pipelines.
+- ansible-test - Correctly detect running in a Docker container on Azure Pipelines.
+- ansible-test - Do not try to validate PowerShell modules ``setup.ps1``, ``slurp.ps1``, and ``async_status.ps1``
+- ansible-test - Prefer container IP at ``.NetworkSettings.Networks.{NetworkName}.IPAddress`` over ``.NetworkSettings.IPAddress``.
+- ansible-test - Running tests using an installed version of ``ansible-test`` against one Python version from another no longer fails due to a missing ``egg-info`` directory. This could occur when testing plugins which import ``pkg_resources``.
+- ansible-test - Running tests using an installed version of ``ansible-test`` no longer generates an error attempting to create an ``egg-info`` directory when an existing one is not found in the expected location. This could occur if the existing ``egg-info`` directory included a Python version specifier in the name.
+- ansible-test - Skip installing requirements if they are already installed.
+- ansible-test - Symbolic links are no longer used to inject ``python`` into the environment, since they do not work reliably in all cases. Instead, the existing Python based exec wrapper is always used.
+- ansible-test - Temporarily limit ``cryptography`` to versions before 3.4 to enable tests to function.
+- ansible-test - The ``--export`` option for ``ansible-test coverage`` is now limited to the ``combine`` command. It was previously available for reporting commands on which it had no effect.
+- ansible-test - The ``--raw`` option for ``ansible-test shell --remote`` now uses ``sh`` for the shell instead of ``bash``, which may not be present.
+- ansible-test - The ``--remote`` option has been updated for Python 2.7 to work around breaking changes in the newly released ``get-pip.py`` bootstrapper.
+- ansible-test - The ``--remote`` option has been updated to use a versioned ``get-pip.py`` bootstrapper to avoid issues with future releases.
+- ansible-test - The ``ansible-doc`` sanity test now works for ``netconf`` plugins.
+- ansible-test - The ``ansible-test coverage combine`` option ``--export`` now exports relative paths. This avoids loss of coverage data when aggregating across systems with different absolute paths. Paths will be converted back to absolute when generating reports.
+- ansible-test - The ``changelog`` sanity test has been updated to ensure ``rstcheck`` does not load the ``sphinx`` module.
+- ansible-test - The ``cs`` and ``openshift`` test plugins now search for containers on the current network instead of assuming the ``bridge`` network.
+- ansible-test - The ``resource_prefix`` variable provided to tests running on Azure Pipelines is now converted to lowercase to match other CI providers.
+- ansible-test - Unified SSH key management for all instances created with the ``--remote`` or ``--docker`` options.
+- ansible-test - Using the ``--remote`` option on Azure Pipelines now works from a job running in a container.
+- ansible-test - ``cryptography`` is now limited to versions prior to 3.2 only when an incompatible OpenSSL version (earlier than 1.1.0) is detected
+- ansible-test - add constraint for ``cffi`` to prevent failure on systems with older versions of ``gcc`` (https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/cffi/-/issues/480)
+- ansible-test - convert target paths to unicode on Python 2 to avoid ``UnicodeDecodeError`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68398, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72623).
+- ansible-test - ensure the correct unit test target is given when the ``__init__.py`` file is modified inside the connection plugins directory
+- ansible-test - ensure unit test paths for connection and inventory plugins are correctly identified for collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73876).
+- ansible-test - improve classification of changes to ``.gitignore``, ``COPYING``, ``LICENSE``, ``Makefile``, and all files ending with one of ``.in`, ``.md`, ``.rst``, ``.toml``, ``.txt`` in the collection root directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72353).
+- ansible-test - integration and unit test change detection now works for filter, lookup and test plugins
+- ansible-test now always uses the ``--python`` option for ``virtualenv`` to select the correct interpreter when creating environments with the ``--venv`` option
+- ansible-test sanity changelog test - bump dependency on antsibull-changelog to 0.9.0 so that `fragments that add new plugins or objects <https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-changelog/blob/main/docs/changelogs.rst#adding-new-roles-playbooks-test-and-filter-plugins>`_ will not fail validation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73428).
+- ansible-test units - fixed collection location code to work under pytest >= 6.0.0
+- ansible-test validate-modules - ``version_added`` on module level was not validated for modules in collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70869).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - return correct error codes ``option-invalid-version-added`` resp. ``return-invalid-version-added`` instead of the wrong error ``deprecation-either-date-or-version`` when an invalid value of ``version_added`` is specified for an option or a return value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70869).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - when a module uses ``add_file_common_args=True`` and does not use a keyword argument for ``argument_spec`` in ``AnsibleModule()``, the common file arguments were not considered added during validation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72334).
+- ansible_pkg_mgr fact - now correctly returns ``atomic_container`` when run on "RHEL for Edge" images and Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Atomic Host (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73084).
+- api - time.clock is removed in Python 3.8, add backward compatible code (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70649).
+- apt - add ``fail_on_autoremove`` param to apt module to avoid unintended package removals (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63231)
+- apt - fix policy_rc_d parameter throwing an exception when restoring original file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66211)
+- apt - include exception message from apt python library in error output
+- apt_key - Specifying ``file`` as mutually exclusive with ``data``, ``keyserver``, ``url`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70492).
+- apt_repository - fixes ``mode`` doc to remove ineffective default (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70319).
+- argument spec validation - fix behavior of ``apply_defaults=True`` when an empty dictionary is specified for such an option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74029).
+- assemble - fix decrypt argument in the module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65450).
+- async - Fix Python 3 interpreter parsing from module by comparing with bytes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70690)
+- async_wrapper - Fix race condition when ``~/.ansible_async`` folder tries to be created by multiple async tasks at the same time - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59306
+- avoid possible errors accessing os.environ by not assuming existance of variables.
+- basic - handle exceptions for default selectors in Python 2.7 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71704).
+- basic - use PollSelector implementation when DefaultSelector fails (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70238).
+- bcrypt hashing - Ensure we repair the salt, to avoid warnings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36129)
+- blockinfile - properly insert a block at the end of a file that does not have a trailing newline character (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72055)
+- blockinfile now returns name of backup file when this option is used.
+- clarified changed status to reflect existing rule that had never been written down.
+- collection loader - fix bogus code coverage entries for synthetic packages
+- collection metadata - ensure collection loader uses libyaml/CSafeLoader to parse collection metadata if available
+- connection/ssh, ensure parameters come from correct source get_option, so functionality matches docs.
+- connection/ssh, fix reset to use same parameters to check if socket exists as actually used, was hardcoded to default string construction previouslly.
+- cron - cron file should not be empty after adding var (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71207)
+- cron - encode and decode crontab files in UTF-8 explicitly to allow non-ascii chars in cron filepath and job (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69492)
+- debug action, prevent setting facts when displaying ansible_facts.
+- default callback - Ensure that the ``host_pinned`` strategy is not treated as lockstep (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73364)
+- delegate_to - Ensure that calculating ``delegate_to`` vars with a loop uses the correct context to correctly evaluate the loop (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/37132)
+- display correct error information when an error exists in the last line of the file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16456)
+- distribution - add support for Pardus Linux distribution (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71636).
+- distribution facts - Allow ``distribution_major_version`` and ``distribution_version`` to work for RC and PRERELEASE versions of FreeBSD (and derived distributions) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72331).
+- dnf - fix filtering to avoid dependncy conflicts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72316)
+- dnf - it is now possible to specify both ``security: true`` and ``bugfix: true`` to install updates of both types. Previously, only security would get installed if both were true. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70854)
+- ensure 'local' connection always has the correct default user for actions to consume.
+- ensure delegated vars can resolve hostvars object and access vars from hostvars[inventory_hostname].
+- ensure find_mount_point consistently returns text.
+- ensure we don't clobber role vars data when getting an empty file
+- expect - Operate pexpect with bytes to avoid potential encoding issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29351)
+- facts - account for Slackware OS with ``+`` in the name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38760)
+- facts - fix distribution fact for SLES4SAP (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71559).
+- facts - fix incorrect UTC timestamp in ``iso8601_micro`` and ``iso8601``
+- facts - properly report virtualization facts for Linux guests running on bhyve (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73167)
+- file - prevent link src from being rewritten when src is not specified explicitly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65448)
+- file - the module should warn in check_mode when path an owner/group don't exist (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67307).
+- find module - Don't treat empty excludes as a match (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70640)
+- find module - Stop traversing directories past the requested depth. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73627)
+- find module, fix default pattern when use_regex is true.
+- fix issue with inventory_hostname and delegated host vars mixing on connection settings.
+- fortimanager httpapi plugin - fix redirect to point to the ``fortinet.fortimanager`` collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71073).
+- galaxy - handle plus sign in user token appearing in role url (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45475).
+- get_sysctl now handles multiline values and does not die silently anymore.
+- get_url - skip checksum during ``--check`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61369).
+- git - Only pass ``--raw`` flag to git verify commands (verify-tag, verify-commit) when ``gpg_whitelist`` is in use. Otherwise don't pass it so that non-whitelist GPG validation still works on older Git versions. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64469)
+- gluster modules - fix redirect to point to the ``gluster.gluster`` collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71240).
+- hostname - Fixed an issue where the hostname on the alinux could not be set.
+- hostname - add Almalinux support (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73619)
+- hostname - add macOS support (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/54439)
+- if the ``type`` for a module parameter in the argument spec is callable, do not pass ``kwargs`` to avoid errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70017)
+- import_playbook - change warning about extra parameters to deprecation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72745)
+- improve deprecation message when using bare variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70687)
+- inventory - pass the vars dictionary to combine_vars instead of an individual key's value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72975).
+- inventory plugins - Let plugins define the sanitization method for the constructed ``groups`` feature.
+- inventory_hostnames - Use ``InventoryManager`` instead of trying to replicate its behavior (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17268)
+- is_string/vault - Ensure the is_string helper properly identifies AnsibleVaultEncryptedUnicode as a string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71609)
+- j2 plugin loader clarified comments, made note with better fqcn detection.
+- lineinfile - fix not subscriptable error in exception handling around file creation
+- linux network facts - get the correct value for broadcast address (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64384)
+- native jinja2 types - properly handle Undefined in nested data.
+- notify keyword is not ignored anymore on import_tasks, also able to apply to blocks now.
+- package - use list of built in package managers from facts rather than creating a new list
+- paramiko connection plugin - Ensure we only reset the connection when one has been previously established (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65812)
+- password hashing - Ensure we validate salts against allowed characters and length when using ``crypt`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71107)
+- password lookup - Try to automatically generate salts using known salt sizes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/53750)
+- pause - Fix indefinite hang when using a pause task on a background process (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32142)
+- pause - catch additional error on setting up curses (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73588).
+- pause - do not accept enter to continue when a timeout is set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73948)
+- pause - do not warn when running in the background if a timeout is provided (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73042)
+- pause - handle exception when there is no stdout (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47851)
+- powershell - fix escaping of strings that broken modules like fetch when dealing with special chars - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62781
+- powershell - fix the CLIXML parser when it contains nested CLIXML objects - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69550
+- powershell - remove getting the PowerShell version from the env var ``POWERSHELL_VERSION``. This feature never worked properly and can cause conflicts with other libraries that use this var
+- psrp - Fix hang when copying an empty file to the remote target
+- psrp - Use native PSRP mechanism when copying files to support custom endpoints
+- quote filter - normalize how ``None`` is handled, to match Python3 behavior (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32174)
+- reboot - Add support for the runit init system, used on Void Linux, that does not support the normal Linux syntax.
+- remove contradictory recomendation from template docs. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63484
+- remove redundant remote_user setting in play_context for local as plugin already does it, also removes fork/thread issue from use of pwd library.
+- reset logging level to INFO due to CVE-2019-14846.
+- restrict module valid JSON parsed output to objects as lists are not valid responses.
+- runas - create a new token when running as ``SYSTEM`` to ensure it has the full privileges assigned to that account
+- service - Fix for the BSD rcconf code using a Python 2 specific string replace function
+- set_mode_if_different - handle symlink if it is inside a directory with sticky bit set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45198)
+- setup module, fix error handling on bad subset given
+- setup, don't give up on all local facts gathering if one script file fails.
+- several fixes to make apt_key better at identifying needs for change and also to avoid changes in check_mode.
+- shell - fix quoting of mkdir command in creation of remote_tmp in order to allow spaces and other special characters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69577).
+- splunk httpapi plugin - switch from splunk.enterprise_security to splunk.es in runtime.yml to reflect upstream change of Collection Name
+- ssh connection plugin - use ``get_option()`` rather than ``_play_context`` to ensure ``ANSBILE_SSH_ARGS`` are applied properly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70437)
+- stat - handle colons in filename while parsing the mimetype output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70256).
+- strftime filter - Input epoch is allowed to be a float (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71257)
+- su become plugin, ensure correct type for localization option.
+- systemd - account for templated unit files using ``@`` when searching for the unit file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72347#issuecomment-730626228)
+- systemd - fixed chroot usage on new versions of systemd, that broke because of upstream changes in systemctl output
+- systemd - follow up fix to https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72338 to use ``list-unit-files`` rather than ``list-units`` in order to show all units files on the system.
+- systemd - made the systemd module work correctly when the SYSTEMD_OFFLINE environment variable is set
+- systemd - preserve the full unit name when using a templated service and ``systemd`` failed to parse dbus due to a known bug in ``systemd`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72985)
+- systemd - work around bug with ``systemd`` 245 and 5.8 kernel that does not correctly report service state (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71528)
+- task parsing - strip spaces from action name when using ``action: foo bar=baz`` form. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62136)
+- templating - fix error message for ``x in y`` when y is undefined (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70984)
+- the unvault lookup plugin returned a byte string. Now returns a real string.
+- to_text(stdout) before json.loads in psrp.Connection.put_file in case stdout is bytes
+- unarchive - ``zip`` unarchive no longer errors on RHEL/CentOS 6 and old Fedora when attempting to use a numeric gid (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71903).
+- unarchive - check ``fut_gid`` against ``run_gid`` in addition to supplemental groups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49284)
+- undeprecate hash_merge setting and add more docs clarifying its use and why not to use it.
+- uri - ``status_code`` elements are type ``int``
+- url lookup - make sure that options supplied in ansible.cfg are actually used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71736).
+- url lookup - set default user agent to ``ansible-httpget`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72324)
+- urls - Close filedescriptor of certificate chain tempfile to prevent stale filedescriptor leakage (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71825).
+- user - AnsibleModule.run_command returns a tuple of return code, stdout and stderr. The module main function of the user module expects user.create_user to return a tuple of return code, stdout and stderr. Fix the locations where stdout and stderr got reversed.
+- user - Local users with an expiry date cannot be created as the ``luseradd`` / ``lusermod`` commands do not support the ``-e`` option. Set the expiry time in this case via ``lchage`` after the user was created / modified. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71942)
+- user - do the right thing when ``password_lock=True`` and ``password`` are used together (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72992)
+- user - don't create home directory and missing parents when create_home == false (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/70600).
+- validate-modules - do not raise an ``AttributeError`` if a value is assigned to a module attribute in a try/except block.
+- vault - Support reading raw binary data from stdin under python3
+- virtual facts - kubevirt is now identified as "KubeVirt" and with a "guest" role instead of "kvm" and "host" role (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72001).
+- wait_for - catch and ignore errors when getting active connections with psutil (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72322)
+- wait_for module, move missing socket into function to get proper comparrison in time.
+- win setup - Fix redirection path for the windows setup module
+- windows async - use full path when calling PowerShell to reduce reliance on environment vars being correct - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70655
+- winrm - preserve winrm forensic data on put_file failures
+- yamllint - do not raise an ``AttributeError`` if a value is assigned to a module attribute at the top of the module.
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- ansible-test - The ``pylint`` sanity test no longer correctly detects "bad" variable names for non-constants. See https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/3701 for additional details.
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- validate_argument_spec - Validate role argument specs.

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-ansible-core 2.14 "C'mon Everybody" Release Notes
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-.. contents:: Topics
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-
-v2.14.8
-=======
-
-Release Summary
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-
-| Release Date: 2023-07-18
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
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-
-- Cache field attributes list on the playbook classes
-- Playbook objects - Replace deprecated stacked ``@classmethod`` and ``@property``
-- ansible-test - Use a context manager to perform cleanup at exit instead of using the built-in ``atexit`` module.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix issue installing collections containing directories with more than 100 characters on python versions before 3.10.6
-
-v2.14.7
-=======
-
-Release Summary
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-
-| Release Date: 2023-06-20
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
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-
-- Removed ``straight.plugin`` from the build and packaging requirements.
-
-Bugfixes
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-
-- ansible-test - Fix a traceback that occurs when attempting to test Ansible source using a different ansible-test. A clear error message is now given when this scenario occurs.
-- ansible-test local change detection - use ``git merge-base <branch> HEAD`` instead of ``git merge-base --fork-point <branch>`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79734).
-- man page build - Remove the dependency on the ``docs`` directory for building man pages.
-- uri - fix search for JSON type to include complex strings containing '+'
-
-v2.14.6
-=======
-
-Release Summary
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-
-| Release Date: 2023-05-22
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- ansible-test - Allow float values for the ``--timeout`` option to the ``env`` command. This simplifies testing.
-- ansible-test - Refactored ``env`` command logic and timeout handling.
-- ansible-test - Use ``datetime.datetime.now`` with ``tz`` specified instead of ``datetime.datetime.utcnow``.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Display - Defensively configure writing to stdout and stderr with the replace encoding error handler that will replace invalid characters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80258)
-- Properly disable ``jinja2_native`` in the template module when jinja2 override is used in the template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80605)
-- ansible-galaxy - fix installing signed collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80648).
-- ansible-galaxy collection verify - fix verifying signed collections when the keyring is not configured.
-- ansible-test - Fix handling of timeouts exceeding one day.
-- ansible-test - Fix various cases where the test timeout could expire without terminating the tests.
-- ansible-test - When bootstrapping remote FreeBSD instances, use the OS packaged ``setuptools`` instead of installing the latest version from PyPI.
-- pep517 build backend - Copy symlinks when copying the source tree. This avoids tracebacks in various scenarios, such as when a venv is present in the source tree.
-
-v2.14.5
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-04-24
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Windows - Display a warning if the module failed to cleanup any temporary files rather than failing the task. The warning contains a brief description of what failed to be deleted.
-- Windows - Ensure the module temp directory contains more unique values to avoid conflicts with concurrent runs - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80294
-- Windows - Improve temporary file cleanup used by modules. Will use a more reliable delete operation on Windows Server 2016 and newer to delete files that might still be open by other software like Anti Virus scanners. There are still scenarios where a file or directory cannot be deleted but the new method should work in more scenarios.
-- ansible-doc - stop generating wrong module URLs for module see-alsos. The URLs for modules in ansible.builtin do now work, and URLs for modules outside ansible.builtin are no longer added (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80280).
-- ansible-galaxy - Improve retries for collection installs, to properly retry, and extend retry logic to common URL related connection errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80170 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80174)
-- ansible-galaxy - reduce API calls to servers by fetching signatures only for final candidates.
-- ansible-test - Add support for ``argcomplete`` version 3.
-- jinja2_native - fix intermittent 'could not find job' failures when a value of ``ansible_job_id`` from a result of an async task was inadvertently changed during execution; to prevent this a format of ``ansible_job_id`` was changed.
-- password lookup now correctly reads stored ident fields.
-- pep517 build backend - Use the documented ``import_module`` import from ``importlib``.
-- roles - Fix templating ``public``, ``allow_duplicates`` and ``rolespec_validate`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80304).
-- syntax check - Limit ``--syntax-check`` to ``ansible-playbook`` only, as that is the only CLI affected by this argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80506)
-
-v2.14.4
-=======
-
-Release Summary
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-
-| Release Date: 2023-03-27
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
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-
-- ansible-test - Moved git handling out of the validate-modules sanity test and into ansible-test.
-- ansible-test - Removed the ``--keep-git`` sanity test option, which was limited to testing ansible-core itself.
-- ansible-test - Updated the Azure Pipelines CI plugin to work with newer versions of git.
-
-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
---------------------------------
-
-- ansible-test - Integration tests which depend on specific file permissions when running in an ansible-test managed host environment may require changes. Tests that require permissions other than ``755`` or ``644`` may need to be updated to set the necessary permissions as part of the test run.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fix ``MANIFEST.in`` to exclude unwanted files in the ``packaging/`` directory.
-- Fix ``MANIFEST.in`` to include ``*.md`` files in the ``test/support/`` directory.
-- Fix an issue where the value of ``become`` was ignored when used on a role used as a dependency in ``main/meta.yml`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79777)
-- ``ansible_eval_concat`` - avoid redundant unsafe wrapping of templated strings converted to Python types
-- ansible-galaxy role info - fix unhandled AttributeError by catching the correct exception.
-- ansible-test - Always indicate the Python version being used before installing requirements. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72855
-- ansible-test - Exclude ansible-core vendored Python packages from ansible-test payloads.
-- ansible-test - Integration test target prefixes defined in a ``tests/integration/target-prefixes.{group}`` file can now contain an underscore (``_``) character. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79225
-- ansible-test - Removed pointless comparison in diff evaluation logic.
-- ansible-test - Set ``PYLINTHOME`` for the ``pylint`` sanity test to prevent failures due to ``pylint`` checking for the existence of an obsolete home directory.
-- ansible-test - Support loading of vendored Python packages from ansible-core.
-- ansible-test - Use consistent file permissions when delegating tests to a container or remote host. Files with any execute bit set will use permissions ``755``. All other files will use permissions ``644``. (Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75079)
-- copy - fix creating the dest directory in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78611).
-- copy - fix reporting changes to file attributes in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77957).
-
-v2.14.3
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-02-27
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
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-
-- Make using blocks as handlers a parser error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79968)
-- ansible-test - Specify the configuration file location required by test plugins when the config file is not found. This resolves issue: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79411
-- ansible-test - Update error handling code to use Python 3.x constructs, avoiding direct use of ``errno``.
-- ansible-test acme test container - update version to update used Pebble version, underlying Python and Go base containers, and Python requirements (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79783).
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Ansible.Basic.cs - Ignore compiler warning (reported as an error) when running under PowerShell 7.3.x.
-- Fix conditionally notifying ``include_tasks` handlers when ``force_handlers`` is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79776)
-- TaskExecutor - don't ignore templated _raw_params that k=v parser failed to parse (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79862)
-- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections in git repositories/directories which contain a MANIFEST.json file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79796).
-- ansible-test - Support Podman 4.4.0+ by adding the ``SYS_CHROOT`` capability when running containers.
-- ansible-test - fix warning message about failing to run an image to include the image name
-- strategy plugins now correctly identify bad registered variables, even on skip.
-
-v2.14.2
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-01-30
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Major Changes
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-
-- ansible-test - Docker Desktop on WSL2 is now supported (additional configuration required).
-- ansible-test - Docker and Podman are now supported on hosts with cgroup v2 unified. Previously only cgroup v1 and cgroup v2 hybrid were supported.
-- ansible-test - Podman now works on container hosts without systemd. Previously only some containers worked, while others required rootfull or rootless Podman, but would not work with both. Some containers did not work at all.
-- ansible-test - Podman on WSL2 is now supported.
-- ansible-test - When additional cgroup setup is required on the container host, this will be automatically detected. Instructions on how to configure the host will be provided in the error message shown.
-
-Minor Changes
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-
-- ansible-test - A new ``audit`` option is available when running custom containers. This option can be used to indicate whether a container requires the AUDIT_WRITE capability. The default is ``required``, which most containers will need when using Podman. If necessary, the ``none`` option can be used to opt-out of the capability. This has no effect on Docker, which always provides the capability.
-- ansible-test - A new ``cgroup`` option is available when running custom containers. This option can be used to indicate a container requires cgroup v1 or that it does not use cgroup. The default behavior assumes the container works with cgroup v2 (as well as v1).
-- ansible-test - Additional log details are shown when containers fail to start or SSH connections to containers fail.
-- ansible-test - Connection failures to remote provisioned hosts now show failure details as a warning.
-- ansible-test - Containers included with ansible-test no longer disable seccomp by default.
-- ansible-test - Failure to connect to a container over SSH now results in a clear error. Previously tests would be attempted even after initial connection attempts failed.
-- ansible-test - Integration tests can be excluded from retries triggered by the ``--retry-on-error`` option by adding the ``retry/never`` alias. This is useful for tests that cannot pass on a retry or are too slow to make retries useful.
-- ansible-test - More details are provided about an instance when provisioning fails.
-- ansible-test - Reduce the polling limit for SSHD startup in containers from 60 retries to 10. The one second delay between retries remains in place.
-- ansible-test - SSH connections from OpenSSH 8.8+ to CentOS 6 containers now work without additional configuration. However, clients older than OpenSSH 7.0 can no longer connect to CentOS 6 containers as a result. The container must have ``centos6`` in the image name for this work-around to be applied.
-- ansible-test - SSH shell connections from OpenSSH 8.8+ to ansible-test provisioned network instances now work without additional configuration. However, clients older than OpenSSH 7.0 can no longer open shell sessions for ansible-test provisioned network instances as a result.
-- ansible-test - The ``ansible-test env`` command now detects and reports the container ID if running in a container.
-- ansible-test - Unit tests now support network disconnect by default when running under Podman. Previously this feature only worked by default under Docker.
-- ansible-test - Use ``stop --time 0`` followed by ``rm`` to remove ephemeral containers instead of ``rm -f``. This speeds up teardown of ephemeral containers.
-- ansible-test - Warnings are now shown when using containers that were built with VOLUME instructions.
-- ansible-test - When setting the max open files for containers, the container host's limit will be checked. If the host limit is lower than the preferred value, it will be used and a warning will be shown.
-- ansible-test - When using Podman, ansible-test will detect if the loginuid used in containers is incorrect. When this occurs a warning is displayed and the container is run with the AUDIT_CONTROL capability. Previously containers would fail under this situation, with no useful warnings or errors given.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Correctly count rescued tasks in play recap (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79711)
-- Fix traceback when using the ``template`` module and running with ``ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79763)
-- Fix using ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` in conjunction with collections in requirements files which specify a specific ``source`` that isn't in the configured servers.
-- Fix using ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` when downloading tarballs from Galaxy servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79557).
-- Module and role argument validation - include the valid suboption choices in the error when an invalid suboption is provided.
-- ansible-doc now will correctly display short descriptions on listing filters/tests no matter the directory sorting.
-- ansible-inventory will not explicitly sort groups/hosts anymore, giving a chance (depending on output format) to match the order in the input sources.
-- ansible-test - Added a work-around for a traceback under Python 3.11 when completing certain command line options.
-- ansible-test - Avoid using ``exec`` after container startup when possible. This improves container startup performance and avoids intermittent startup issues with some old containers.
-- ansible-test - Connection attempts to managed remote instances no longer abort on ``Permission denied`` errors.
-- ansible-test - Detection for running in a Podman or Docker container has been fixed to detect more scenarios. The new detection relies on ``/proc/self/mountinfo`` instead of ``/proc/self/cpuset``. Detection now works with custom cgroups and private cgroup namespaces.
-- ansible-test - Fix validate-modules error when retrieving PowerShell argspec when retrieved inside a Cmdlet
-- ansible-test - Handle server errors when executing the ``docker info`` command.
-- ansible-test - Multiple containers now work under Podman without specifying the ``--docker-network`` option.
-- ansible-test - Pass the ``XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`` environment variable through to container commands.
-- ansible-test - Perform PyPI proxy configuration after instances are ready and bootstrapping has been completed. Only target instances are affected, as controller instances were already handled this way. This avoids proxy configuration errors when target instances are not yet ready for use.
-- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent / repeat inspections of the same container image.
-- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent / repeat pulls of the same container image.
-- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent execution of cached methods.
-- ansible-test - Show the exception type when reporting errors during instance provisioning.
-- ansible-test sanity - correctly report invalid YAML in validate-modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75837).
-- argument spec validation - again report deprecated parameters for Python-based modules. This was accidentally removed in ansible-core 2.11 when argument spec validation was refactored (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79680, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79681).
-- argument spec validation - ensure that deprecated aliases in suboptions are also reported (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79740).
-- argument spec validation - fix warning message when two aliases of the same option are used for suboptions to also mention the option's name they are in (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79740).
-- connection local now avoids traceback on invalid user being used to execuet ansible (valid in host, but not in container).
-- file - touch action in check mode was always returning ok. Fix now evaluates the different conditions and returns the appropriate changed status. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79360)
-- get_url - Ensure we are passing ciphers to all url_get calls (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79717)
-- plugin filter now works with rejectlist as documented (still falls back to blacklist if used).
-- uri - improve JSON content type detection
-
-Known Issues
-------------
-
-- ansible-test - Additional configuration may be required for certain container host and container combinations. Further details are available in the testing documentation.
-- ansible-test - Custom containers with ``VOLUME`` instructions may be unable to start, when previously the containers started correctly. Remove the ``VOLUME`` instructions to resolve the issue. Containers with this condition will cause ``ansible-test`` to emit a warning.
-- ansible-test - Systems with Podman networking issues may be unable to run containers, when previously the issue went unreported. Correct the networking issues to continue using ``ansible-test`` with Podman.
-- ansible-test - Using Docker on systems with SELinux may require setting SELinux to permissive mode. Podman should work with SELinux in enforcing mode.
-
-v2.14.1
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-12-06
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- ansible-test - Improve consistency of executed ``pylint`` commands by making the plugins ordered.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fixes leftover _valid_attrs usage.
-- ansible-galaxy - make initial call to Galaxy server on-demand only when installing, getting info about, and listing roles.
-- copy module will no longer move 'non files' set as src when remote_src=true.
-- display - reduce risk of post-fork output deadlocks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79522)
-- jinja2_native: preserve quotes in strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79083)
-- updated error messages to include 'acl' and not just mode changes when failing to set required permissions on remote.
-
-v2.14.0
-=======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2022-11-07
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Major Changes
--------------
-
-- Move handler processing into new ``PlayIterator`` phase to use the configured strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65067)
-- ansible - At startup the filesystem encoding and locale are checked to verify they are UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
-- ansible - Increase minimum Python requirement to Python 3.9 for CLI utilities and controller code
-- ansible-test - At startup the filesystem encoding is checked to verify it is UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
-- ansible-test - At startup the locale is configured as ``en_US.UTF-8``, with a fallback to ``C.UTF-8``. If neither encoding is available the process exits with an error. If the fallback is used, a warning is displayed. In previous versions the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale was always requested. However, no startup checking was performed to verify the locale was successfully configured.
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- Add a new "INVENTORY_UNPARSED_WARNING" flag add to hide the "No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available" warning
-- Add an 'action_plugin' field for modules in runtime.yml plugin_routing.
-
-  This fixes module_defaults by supporting modules-as-redirected-actions
-  without redirecting module_defaults entries to the common action.
-
-  .. code: yaml
-
-     plugin_routing:
-       action:
-         facts:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos
-         command:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos
-       modules:
-         facts:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_facts
-         command:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_command
-
-  With the runtime.yml above for ns.coll, a task such as
-
-  .. code: yaml
-
-     - hosts: all
-       module_defaults:
-         ns.coll.eos_facts: {'valid_for_eos_facts': 'value'}
-         ns.coll.eos_command: {'not_valid_for_eos_facts': 'value'}
-       tasks:
-         - ns.coll.facts:
-
-  will end up with defaults for eos_facts and eos_command
-  since both modules redirect to the same action.
-
-  To select an action plugin for a module without merging
-  module_defaults, define an action_plugin field for the resolved
-  module in the runtime.yml.
-
-  .. code: yaml
-
-     plugin_routing:
-       modules:
-         facts:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_facts
-           action_plugin: ns.coll.eos
-         command:
-           redirect: ns.coll.eos_command
-           action_plugin: ns.coll.eos
-
-  The action_plugin field can be a redirected action plugin, as
-  it is resolved normally.
-
-  Using the modified runtime.yml, the example task will only use
-  the ns.coll.eos_facts defaults.
-- Add support for parsing ``-a`` module options as JSON and not just key=value arguments - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78112
-- Added Kylin Linux Advanced Server OS in RedHat OS Family.
-- Allow ``when`` conditionals to be used on ``flush_handlers`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77616)
-- Allow meta tasks to be used as handlers.
-- Display - The display class will now proxy calls to Display.display via the queue from forks/workers to be handled by the parent process for actual display. This reduces some reliance on the fork start method and improves reliability of displaying messages.
-- Jinja version test - Add pep440 version_type for version test. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78288)
-- Loops - Add new ``loop_control.extended_allitems`` to allow users to disable tracking all loop items for each loop (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75216)
-- NetBSD - Add uptime_seconds fact
-- Provide a `utc` option for strftime to show time in UTC rather than local time
-- Raise a proper error when ``include_role`` or ``import_role`` is used as a handler.
-- Remove the ``AnsibleContext.resolve`` method as its override is not necessary. Furthermore the ability to override the ``resolve`` method was deprecated in Jinja 3.0.0 and removed in Jinja 3.1.0.
-- Utilize @classmethod and @property together to form classproperty (Python 3.9) to access field attributes of a class
-- ``LoopControl`` is now templated through standard ``post_validate`` method (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75715)
-- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` - add an ``--offline`` option to prevent querying distribution servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77443).
-- ansible - Add support for Python 3.11 to Python interpreter discovery.
-- ansible - At startup the stdin/stdout/stderr file handles are checked to verify they are using blocking IO. If not, the process exits with an error reporting which file handle(s) are using non-blocking IO.
-- ansible-config adds JSON and YAML output formats for list and dump actions.
-- ansible-connection now supports verbosity directly on cli
-- ansible-console added 'collections' command to match playbook keyword.
-- ansible-doc - remove some of the manual formatting, and use YAML more uniformly. This in particular means that ``true`` and ``false`` are used for boolean values, instead of ``True`` and ``False`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78668).
-- ansible-galaxy - Support resolvelib versions 0.6.x, 0.7.x, and 0.8.x. The full range of supported versions is now >= 0.5.3, < 0.9.0.
-- ansible-galaxy now supports a user defined timeout,  instead of existing hardcoded 60s (now the default).
-- ansible-test - Add FreeBSD 13.1 remote support.
-- ansible-test - Add RHEL 9.0 remote support.
-- ansible-test - Add support for Python 3.11.
-- ansible-test - Add support for RHEL 8.6 remotes.
-- ansible-test - Add support for Ubuntu VMs using the ``--remote`` option.
-- ansible-test - Add support for exporting inventory with ``ansible-test shell --export {path}``.
-- ansible-test - Add support for multi-arch remotes.
-- ansible-test - Add support for provisioning Alpine 3.16 remote instances.
-- ansible-test - Add support for provisioning Fedora 36 remote instances.
-- ansible-test - Add support for provisioning Ubuntu 20.04 remote instances.
-- ansible-test - Add support for provisioning remotes which require ``doas`` for become.
-- ansible-test - Add support for running non-interactive commands with ``ansible-test shell``.
-- ansible-test - Alpine remotes now use ``sudo`` for tests, using ``doas`` only for bootstrapping.
-- ansible-test - An improved error message is shown when the download of a pip bootstrap script fails. The download now uses ``urllib2`` instead of ``urllib`` on Python 2.
-- ansible-test - Avoid using the ``mock_use_standalone_module`` setting for unit tests running on Python 3.8 or later.
-- ansible-test - Become support for remote instance provisioning is no longer tied to a fixed list of platforms.
-- ansible-test - Blocking mode is now enforced for stdin, stdout and stderr. If any of these are non-blocking then ansible-test will exit during startup with an error.
-- ansible-test - Distribution specific test containers are now multi-arch, supporting both x86_64 and aarch64.
-- ansible-test - Distribution specific test containers no longer contain a ``/etc/ansible/hosts`` file.
-- ansible-test - Enable loading of ``coverage`` data files created by older supported ansible-test releases.
-- ansible-test - Fedora 36 has been added as a test container.
-- ansible-test - FreeBSD remotes now use ``sudo`` for tests, using ``su`` only for bootstrapping.
-- ansible-test - Improve consistency of output messages by using stdout or stderr for most output, but not both.
-- ansible-test - Improve consistency of version specific documentation links.
-- ansible-test - Remote Alpine instances now have the ``acl`` package installed.
-- ansible-test - Remote Fedora instances now have the ``acl`` package installed.
-- ansible-test - Remote FreeBSD instances now have ACLs enabled on the root filesystem.
-- ansible-test - Remote Ubuntu instances now have the ``acl`` package installed.
-- ansible-test - Remove Fedora 34 test container.
-- ansible-test - Remove Fedora 35 test container.
-- ansible-test - Remove FreeBSD 13.0 remote support.
-- ansible-test - Remove RHEL 8.5 remote support.
-- ansible-test - Remove Ubuntu 18.04 test container.
-- ansible-test - Remove support for Python 2.7 on provisioned FreeBSD instances.
-- ansible-test - Remove support for Python 3.8 on the controller.
-- ansible-test - Remove the ``opensuse15py2`` container.
-- ansible-test - Support multiple pinned versions of the ``coverage`` module. The version used now depends on the Python version in use.
-- ansible-test - Test containers have been updated to remove the ``VOLUME`` instruction.
-- ansible-test - The Alpine 3 test container has been updated to Alpine 3.16.0.
-- ansible-test - The ``http-test-container`` container is now multi-arch, supporting both x86_64 and aarch64.
-- ansible-test - The ``pypi-test-container`` container is now multi-arch, supporting both x86_64 and aarch64.
-- ansible-test - The ``shell`` command can be used outside a collection if no controller delegation is required.
-- ansible-test - The openSUSE test container has been updated to openSUSE Leap 15.4.
-- ansible-test - Ubuntu 22.04 has been added as a test container.
-- ansible-test - Update ``base`` and ``default`` containers to include Python 3.11.0.
-- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to include new ``docs-build`` sanity test requirements.
-- ansible-test - Update pinned sanity test requirements for all tests.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` container to 3.4.0.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to 6.6.0.
-- ansible-test validate-modules - Added support for validating module documentation stored in a sidecar file alongside the module (``{module}.yml`` or ``{module}.yaml``). Previously these files were ignored and documentation had to be placed in ``{module}.py``.
-- apt_repository remove dependency on apt-key and use gpg + /usr/share/keyrings directly instead
-- apt_repository will use the trust repo directories in order of preference (more appropriate to less) as they exist on the target.
-- blockinfile - The presence of the multiline flag (?m) in the regular expression for insertafter opr insertbefore controls whether the match is done line by line or with multiple lines (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75090).
-- calls to listify_lookup_plugin_terms in core do not pass in loader/dataloader anymore.
-- collections - ``ansible-galaxy collection build`` can now utilize ``MANIFEST.in`` style directives from ``galaxy.yml`` instead of ``build_ignore`` effectively inverting the logic from include by default, to exclude by default. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78422)
-- config manager, move templating into main query function in config instead of constants
-- config manager, remove updates to configdata as it is mostly unused
-- configuration entry INTERPRETER_PYTHON_DISTRO_MAP is now 'private' and won't show up in normal configuration queries and docs, since it is not 'settable' this avoids user confusion.
-- distribution - add distribution_minor_version for Debian Distro (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74481).
-- documentation construction now gives more information on error.
-- facts - add OSMC to Debian os_family mapping
-- get_url - permit to pass to parameter ``checksum`` an URL pointing to a file containing only a checksum (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54390).
-- new tests url, uri and urn will verify string as such, but they don't check existance of the resource
-- plugin loader - add ansible_name and ansible_aliases attributes to plugin objects/classes.
-- systemd is now systemd_service to better reflect the scope of the module, systemd is kept as an alias for backwards compatibility.
-- templating - removed internal template cache
-- uri - cleanup write_file method, remove overkill safety checks and report any exception, change shutilcopyfile to use module.atomic_move
-- urls - Add support to specify SSL/TLS ciphers to use during a request (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78633)
-- validate-modules - Allow ``type: raw`` on a module return type definition for values that have a dynamic type
-- version output now includes the path to the python executable that Ansible is running under
-- yum_repository - do not give the ``async`` parameter a default value anymore, since this option is deprecated in RHEL 8. This means that ``async = 1`` won't be added to repository files if omitted, but it can still be set explicitly if needed.
-
-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
---------------------------------
-
-- Allow for lazy evaluation of Jinja2 expressions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56017)
-- The default ansible-galaxy role skeletons no longer contain .travis.yml files. You can configure ansible-galaxy to use a custom role skeleton that contains a .travis.yml file to continue using Galaxy's integration with Travis CI.
-- ansible - At startup the filesystem encoding and locale are checked to verify they are UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
-- ansible - Increase minimum Python requirement to Python 3.9 for CLI utilities and controller code
-- ansible-test - At startup the filesystem encoding is checked to verify it is UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
-- ansible-test - At startup the locale is configured as ``en_US.UTF-8``, with a fallback to ``C.UTF-8``. If neither encoding is available the process exits with an error. If the fallback is used, a warning is displayed. In previous versions the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale was always requested. However, no startup checking was performed to verify the locale was successfully configured.
-- ansible-test validate-modules - Removed the ``missing-python-doc`` error code in validate modules, ``missing-documentation`` is used instead for missing PowerShell module documentation.
-- strategy plugins - Make ``ignore_unreachable`` to increase ``ignored`` and ``ok`` and  counter, not ``skipped`` and ``unreachable``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77690)
-
-Deprecated Features
--------------------
-
-- Deprecate ability of lookup plugins to return arbitrary data. Lookup plugins must return lists, failing to do so will be an error in 2.18. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77788)
-- Encryption - Deprecate use of the Python crypt module due to it's impending removal from Python 3.13
-- PlayContext.verbosity is deprecated and will be removed in 2.18. Use ansible.utils.display.Display().verbosity as the single source of truth.
-- ``DEFAULT_FACT_PATH``, ``DEFAULT_GATHER_SUBSET`` and ``DEFAULT_GATHER_TIMEOUT`` are deprecated and will be removed in 2.18. Use ``module_defaults`` keyword instead.
-- ``PlayIterator`` - deprecate ``cache_block_tasks`` and ``get_original_task`` which are noop and unused.
-- ``Templar`` - deprecate ``shared_loader_obj`` option which is unused. ``ansible.plugins.loader`` is used directly instead.
-- listify_lookup_plugin_terms, deprecate 'loader/dataloader' parameter as it not used.
-- vars plugins - determining whether or not to run ansible.legacy vars plugins with the class attribute REQUIRES_WHITELIST is deprecated, set REQUIRES_ENABLED instead.
-
-Removed Features (previously deprecated)
-----------------------------------------
-
-- PlayIterator - remove deprecated ``PlayIterator.ITERATING_*`` and ``PlayIterator.FAILED_*``
-- Remove deprecated ``ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMPFILES`` configuration option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77393)
-- Remove deprecated ``COMMAND_WARNINGS`` configuration option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77394)
-- Remove deprecated ``DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS`` environment variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77396)
-- Remove deprecated ``LIBVIRT_LXC_NOSECLABEL`` environment variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77395)
-- Remove deprecated ``NETWORK_GROUP_MODULES`` environment variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77397)
-- Remove deprecated ``UnsafeProxy``
-- Remove deprecated ``plugin_filters_cfg`` config option from ``default`` section (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77398)
-- Remove deprecated functionality that allows loading cache plugins directly without using ``cache_loader``.
-- Remove deprecated functionality that allows subclassing ``DefaultCallback`` without the corresponding ``doc_fragment``.
-- Remove deprecated powershell functions ``Load-CommandUtils`` and ``Import-PrivilegeUtil``
-- apt_key - remove deprecated ``key`` module param
-- command/shell - remove deprecated ``warn`` module param
-- get_url - remove deprecated ``sha256sum`` module param
-- import_playbook - remove deprecated functionality that allows providing additional parameters in free form
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- "meta: refresh_inventory" does not clobber entries added by add_host/group_by anymore.
-- Add PyYAML >= 5.1 as a dependency of ansible-core to be compatible with Python 3.8+.
-- Avoid 'unreachable' error when chmod on AIX has 255 as return code.
-- BSD network facts - Do not assume column indexes, look for ``netmask`` and ``broadcast`` for determining the correct columns when parsing ``inet`` line (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79117)
-- Bug fix for when handlers were ran on failed hosts after an ``always`` section was executed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/52561)
-- Do not allow handlers from dynamic includes to be notified (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78399)
-- Do not crash when templating an expression with a test or filter that is not a valid Ansible filter name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78912, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78913).
-- Ensure handlers observe ``any_errors_fatal`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46447)
-- Ensure syntax check errors include playbook filenames
-- Ensure the correct ``environment_class`` is set on ``AnsibleJ2Template``
-- Error for collection redirects that do not use fully qualified collection names, as the redirect would be determined by the ``collections`` keyword.
-- Fix PluginLoader to mimic Python import machinery by adding module to sys.modules before exec
-- Fix ``-vv`` output for meta tasks to not have an empty message when skipped, print the skip reason instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77315)
-- Fix an issue where ``ansible_play_hosts`` and ``ansible_play_batch`` were not properly updated when a failure occured in an explicit block inside the rescue section (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78612)
-- Fix dnf module documentation to indicate that comparison operators for package version require spaces around them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78295)
-- Fix for linear strategy when tasks were executed in incorrect order or even removed from execution. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64611, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64999, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72725, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72781)
-- Fix for network_cli not getting all relevant connection options
-- Fix handlers execution with ``serial`` in the ``linear`` strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54991)
-- Fix potential, but unlikely, cases of variable use before definition.
-- Fix reusing a connection in a task loop that uses a redirected or aliased name - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78425
-- Fix setting become activation in a task loop - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78425
-- Fix traceback when installing a collection from a git repository and git is not installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77479).
-- GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS reworked to allow each server entry to override
-- More gracefully handle separator errors in jinja2 template overrides (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77495).
-- Move undefined check from concat to finalize (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78156)
-- Prevent losing unsafe on results returned from lookups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77535)
-- Propagate ``ansible_failed_task`` and ``ansible_failed_result`` to an outer rescue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43191)
-- Properly execute rescue section when an include task fails in all loop iterations (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/23161)
-- Properly send a skipped message when a list in a ``loop`` is empty and comes from a template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77934)
-- Support colons in jinja2 template override values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77495).
-- ``ansible-galaxy`` - remove extra server api call during dependency resolution for requirements and dependencies that are already satisfied (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77443).
-- `ansible-config init -f vars` will now use shorthand format
-- action plugins now pass cannonical info to modules instead of 'temporary' info from play_context
-- ansible - Exclude Python 2.6 from Python interpreter discovery.
-- ansible-config dump - Only display plugin type headers when plugin options are changed if --only-changed is specified.
-- ansible-config limit shorthand format to assigned values
-- ansible-configi init should now skip internal reserved config entries
-- ansible-connection - decrypt vaulted parameters before sending over the socket, as vault secrets are not available on the other side.
-- ansible-console - Renamed the first argument of ``ConsoleCLI.default`` from ``arg`` to ``line`` to match the first argument of the same method on the base class ``Cmd``.
-- ansible-console commands now all have a help entry.
-- ansible-console fixed to load modules via fqcn, short names and handle redirects.
-- ansible-console now shows installed collection modules.
-- ansible-doc - fix listing plugins.
-- ansible-doc will not add 'website for' in ":ref:" substitutions as it made them confusing.
-- ansible-doc will not again warn and skip when missing docs, always show the doc file (for edit on github) and match legacy plugins.
-- ansible-doc will not traceback when legacy plugins don't have docs nor adjacent file with docs
-- ansible-doc will now also display until as an 'implicit' templating keyword.
-- ansible-doc will now not display version_added_collection under same conditions it does not display version_added.
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix detection of ``--role-file`` in arguments for implicit role invocation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78204)
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix exit codes for role search and delete (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78516)
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix loading boolean server options so False doesn't become a truthy string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77416).
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix reinitializing the whole collection directory with ``ansible-galaxy collection init ns.coll --force``. Now directories and files that are not included in the collection skeleton will be removed.
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix unhandled traceback if a role's dependencies in meta/main.yml or meta/requirements.yml are not lists.
-- ansible-galaxy - do not require mandatory keys in the ``galaxy.yml`` of source collections when listing them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70180).
-- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections that have dependencies in the metadata set to null instead of an empty dictionary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77560).
-- ansible-galaxy - fix listing collections that contains metadata but the namespace or name are not strings.
-- ansible-galaxy - fix missing meta/runtime.yml in default galaxy skeleton used for ansible-galaxy collection init
-- ansible-galaxy - fix setting the cache for paginated responses from Galaxy NG/AH (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77911).
-- ansible-galaxy - handle unsupported versions of resolvelib gracefully.
-- ansible-galaxy --ignore-certs now has proper precedence over configuration
-- ansible-test - Add ``wheel < 0.38.0`` constraint for Python 3.6 and earlier.
-- ansible-test - Allow disabled, unsupported, unstable and destructive integration test targets to be selected using their respective prefixes.
-- ansible-test - Allow unstable tests to run when targeted changes are made and the ``--allow-unstable-changed`` option is specified (resolves https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74213).
-- ansible-test - Always remove containers after failing to create/run them. This avoids leaving behind created containers when using podman.
-- ansible-test - Correctly detect when running as the ``root`` user (UID 0) on the origin host. The result of the detection was incorrectly being inverted.
-- ansible-test - Delegation for commands which generate output for programmatic consumption no longer redirect all output to stdout. The affected commands and options are ``shell``, ``sanity --lint``, ``sanity --list-tests``, ``integration --list-targets``, ``coverage analyze``
-- ansible-test - Delegation now properly handles arguments given after ``--`` on the command line.
-- ansible-test - Don't fail if network cannot be disconnected (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77472)
-- ansible-test - Fix bootstrapping of Python 3.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 remotes.
-- ansible-test - Fix broken documentation link for ``aws`` test plugin error messages.
-- ansible-test - Fix change detection for ansible-test's own integration tests.
-- ansible-test - Fix internal validation of remote completion configuration.
-- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/python`` on the origin host.
-- ansible-test - Fix skipping of tests marked ``needs/root`` on the origin host.
-- ansible-test - Prevent ``--target-`` prefixed options for the ``shell`` command from being combined with legacy environment options.
-- ansible-test - Sanity test output with the ``--lint`` option is no longer mixed in with bootstrapping output.
-- ansible-test - Subprocesses are now isolated from the stdin, stdout and stderr of ansible-test. This avoids issues with subprocesses tampering with the file descriptors, such as SSH making them non-blocking. As a result of this change, subprocess output from unit and integration tests on stderr now go to stdout.
-- ansible-test - Subprocesses no longer have access to the TTY ansible-test is connected to, if any. This maintains consistent behavior between local testing and CI systems, which typically do not provide a TTY. Tests which require a TTY should use pexpect or another mechanism to create a PTY.
-- ansible-test - Temporary executables are now verified as executable after creation. Without this check, path injected scripts may not be found, typically on systems with ``/tmp`` mounted using the "noexec" option. This can manifest as a missing Python interpreter, or use of the wrong Python interpreter, as well as other error conditions.
-- ansible-test - Test configuration for collections is now parsed only once, prior to delegation. Fixes issue: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78334
-- ansible-test - Test containers are now run with the ``--tmpfs`` option for ``/tmp``, ``/run`` and ``/run/lock``. This allows use of containers built without the ``VOLUME`` instruction. Additionally, containers with those volumes defined no longer create anonymous volumes for them. This avoids leaving behind volumes on the container host after the container is stopped and deleted.
-- ansible-test - The ``shell`` command no longer redirects all output to stdout when running a provided command. Any command output written to stderr will be mixed with the stderr output from ansible-test.
-- ansible-test - The ``shell`` command no longer requests a TTY when using delegation unless an interactive shell is being used. An interactive shell is the default behavior when no command is given to pass to the shell.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test requirements to resolve crashes on Python 3.11. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78882)
-- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 2.15.4.
-- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 2.15.5.
-- ansible-test - ansible-doc sanity test - Correctly determine the fully-qualified collection name for plugins in subdirectories, resolving https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78490.
-- ansible-test - validate-modules - Documentation-only modules, used for documenting actions, are now allowed to have docstrings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77972).
-- ansible-test compile sanity test - do not crash if a column could not be determined for an error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77465).
-- apt - Fix module failure when a package is not installed and only_upgrade=True. Skip that package and check the remaining requested packages for upgrades. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78762)
-- apt - don't actually update the cache in check mode with update_cache=true.
-- apt - don't mark existing packages as manually installed in check mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66413).
-- apt - fix package selection to include /etc/apt/preferences(.d) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77969)
-- apt module now correctly handles virtual packages.
-- apt module should not traceback on invalid type given as package. issue 78663.
-- arg_spec - Fix incorrect ``no_log`` warning when a parameter alias is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77576)
-- callback plugins - do not crash when ``exception`` passed from a module is not a string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75726, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77781).
-- cli now emits clearer error on no hosts selected
-- config, ensure that pulling values from configmanager are templated if possible.
-- display itself should be single source of 'verbosity' level to the engine.
-- dnf - Condense a few internal boolean returns.
-- dnf - The ``nobest`` option now also works for ``state=latest``.
-- dnf - The ``skip_broken`` option is now used in installs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73072).
-- dnf - fix output parsing on systems with ``LANGUAGE`` set to a language other than English (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78193)
-- facts - fix IP address discovery for specific interface names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77792).
-- facts - fix processor facts on AIX: correctly detect number of cores and threads, turn ``processor`` into a list (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78223).
-- fetch_file - Ensure we only use the filename when calculating a tempfile, and do not incude the query string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29680)
-- fetch_file - properly split files with multiple file extensions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75257)
-- file - setting attributes of symbolic links or files that are hard linked no longer fails when the link target is unspecified (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76142).
-- file backed cache plugins now handle concurrent access by making atomic updates to the files.
-- git module fix docs and proper use of ssh wrapper script and GIT_SSH_COMMAND depending on version.
-- handlers - fix an issue where the ``flush_handlers`` meta task could not be used with FQCN: ``ansible.builtin.meta`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79023)
-- if a config setting prevents running ansible it should at least show it's "origin".
-- include module - add docs url to include deprecation message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76684).
-- items2dict - Handle error if an item is not a dictionary or is missing the required keys (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70337).
-- keyword inheritance - Ensure that we do not squash keywords in validate (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79021)
-- known_hosts - do not return changed status when a non-existing key is removed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78598)
-- local facts - if a local fact in the facts directory cannot be stated, store an error message as the fact value and emit a warning just as if just as if the facts execution has failed. The stat can fail e.g. on dangling symlinks.
-- lookup plugin - catch KeyError when lookup returns dictionary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77789).
-- module_utils - Make distro.id() report newer versions of OpenSuSE (at least >=15) also report as ``opensuse``. They report themselves as ``opensuse-leap``.
-- module_utils.service - daemonize - Avoid modifying the list of file descriptors while iterating over it.
-- null_representation config entry changed to 'raw' as it must allow 'none/null' and empty string.
-- omit on keywords was resetting to default value, ignoring inheritance.
-- paramiko - Add a new option to allow paramiko >= 2.9 to easily work with all devices now that rsa-sha2 support was added to paramiko, which prevented communication with numerous platforms. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76737)
-- paramiko - Add back support for ``ssh_args``, ``ssh_common_args``, and ``ssh_extra_args`` for parsing the ``ProxyCommand`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78750)
-- password lookup does not ignore k=v arguments anymore.
-- pause module will now report proper 'echo' vs always being true.
-- pip - fix cases where resolution of pip Python module fails when importlib.util has not already been imported
-- plugin loader - Sort results when fuzzy matching plugin names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77966).
-- plugin loader will now load config data for plugin by name instead of by file to avoid issues with the same file being loaded under different names (fqcn + short name).
-- plugin loader, fix detection for existing configuration before initializing for a plugin
-- plugin loader, now when skipping a plugin due to an abstract method error we provide that in 'verbose' mode instead of totally obscuring the error. The current implementation assumed only the base classes would trigger this and failed to consider 'in development' plugins.
-- prevent lusermod from using group name instead of group id (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77914)
-- prevent type annotation shim failures from causing runtime failures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77860)
-- psrp connection now handles default to inventory_hostname correctly.
-- roles, fixed issue with roles loading paths not contained in the role itself when using the `_from` options.
-- service_facts - Use python re to parse service output instead of grep (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78541)
-- setup - Adds a default value to ``lvm_facts`` when lvm or lvm2 is not installed on linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17393)
-- shell plugins now give a more user friendly error when fed the wrong type of data.
-- template module/lookup - fix ``convert_data`` option that was effectively always set to True for Jinja macros (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78141)
-- unarchive - if unzip is available but zipinfo is not, use unzip -Z instead of zipinfo (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76959).
-- uri - properly use uri parameter use_proxy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58632)
-- uri module - failed status when Authentication Bearer used with netrc, because Basic authentication was by default. Fix now allows to ignore netrc by changing use_netrc=False (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74397).
-- urls - Guard imports of ``urllib3`` by catching ``Exception`` instead of ``ImportError`` to prevent exceptions in the import process of optional dependencies from preventing use of ``urls.py`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78648)
-- user - Fix error "Permission denied" in user module while generating SSH keys (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78017).
-- user - fix creating a local user if the user group already exists (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75042)
-- user module - Replace uses of the deprecated ``spwd`` python module with ctypes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78050)
-- validate-modules - fix validating version_added for new options.
-- variablemanager, more efficient read of vars files
-- vault secrets file now executes in the correct context when it is a symlink (not resolved to canonical file).
-- wait_for - Read file and perform comparisons using bytes to avoid decode errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78214)
-- winrm - Ensure ``kinit`` is run with the same ``PATH`` env var as the Ansible process
-- winrm connection now handles default to inventory_hostname correctly.
-- yaml inventory plugin - fix the error message for non-string hostnames (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77519).
-- yum - fix traceback when ``releasever`` is specified with ``latest`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78058)
-
-New Plugins
------------
-
-Test
-~~~~
-
-- uri - is the string a valid URI
-- url - is the string a valid URL
-- urn - is the string a valid URN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/17268-inventory-hostnames.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/17393-fix_silently_failing_lvm_facts.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.14.4_summary.yaml

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-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-03-27
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.14.4rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-03-21
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.14.5_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-04-24
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.14.5rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-04-17
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.14.6_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-05-22
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.14.6rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-05-15
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.14.7_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-06-20
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.14.7rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-06-12
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.14.8_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-07-18
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.14.8rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-07-10
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.14/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.14.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/22599_svn_validate_certs.yml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/23958-cleanup.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/29351-expect-bytes.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/32386_debconf_password.yml

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/38182_subelements.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/43739_dragonflybsd_disto.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/45475_galaxy.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/565_default_callback.yml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/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/58752_argument_aliases.yml

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/61234-yum-dnf-version-comp-doc.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/61369_get_url.yml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/62136_strip_spaces_from_action_names.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "task parsing - strip spaces from action name when using ``action: foo bar=baz`` form. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62136)"

changelogs/fragments/63105-wcswidth.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Display - Use wcswidth to calculate printable width of a text string
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63105)

changelogs/fragments/63378_find_module_regex_whole_file.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - find module - Now has a ``read_whole_file`` boolean parameter which allows for reading the whole file and doing an ``re.search()`` regex evaluation on it when searching using the ``contains`` option. This allows (for example) for ensuring the very end of the file matches a pattern.

changelogs/fragments/63417-unique-filter-preserve-order.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Ensure Ansible's unique filter preserves order (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63417)

changelogs/fragments/64469_git_no_raw.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - git - Only pass ``--raw`` flag to git verify commands (verify-tag, verify-commit) when ``gpg_whitelist`` is in use. Otherwise don't pass it so that non-whitelist GPG validation still works on older Git versions. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64469)

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

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-bugfixes:
-  - fetch_file - properly split files with multiple file extensions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75257)

changelogs/fragments/64625-show-file-path-on-task-failure-callback-option.yml

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+minor_changes:
+  - >-
+    default callback - add ``show_task_path_on_failure`` option to display file and
+    line number of tasks only on failed tasks when running at
+    normal verbosity level (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64625)

changelogs/fragments/65262_ansible_inventory.yml

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+bugfixes:
+- Suppress warning when user directory used in --playbook-dir option with ansible-inventory command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65262).

changelogs/fragments/65499-no_inventory_parsed.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/65710-find-include-parent.yml

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+bugfixes:
+- Includes - Explicitly get the include task, and not assume it is the parent
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65710)

changelogs/fragments/65812-paramiko-attribute-error.yml

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+bugfixes:
+- paramiko connection plugin - Ensure we only reset the connection when one has been
+  previously established (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65812)

changelogs/fragments/66132_dnf_show_pkgs_in_check_mode.yml

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+minor_changes:
+  - dnf - now shows specific package changes (installations/removals) under ``results`` in check_mode. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66132)

changelogs/fragments/66147_rhev_vdsm_vdsmd.yml

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+minor_changes:
+  - virtualization facts - Detect ``vdsmd`` in addition to ``vdsm`` when trying to detect RHEV hosts. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66147)

changelogs/fragments/66304-facts_containerd.yml

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+minor_changes:
+  - virtual facts - containerd cgroup is now recognized as container tech (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66304).

changelogs/fragments/67340-slurp_error_message.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/67508-meta-task-tags.yaml

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+breaking_changes:
+  - The ``meta`` module now supports tags for user-defined tasks. Internal ``meta`` tasks continue to always run. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64558)

changelogs/fragments/68275-vault-module-args.yml

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+bugfixes:
+- Vault - Allow single vault encrypted values to be used directly as module
+  parameters. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68275)

changelogs/fragments/68402_galaxy.yml

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+minor_changes:
+- galaxy - add documentation about galaxy parameters in examples/ansible.cfg (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68402).

changelogs/fragments/68551_allow_list_of_filters_for_the_setup_module.yml

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+minor_changes:
+  - setup - allow list of filters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68551).