New release v2.19.0b5 (#85255)

* fix key conversion on legacy JSON profiles

* restore stdlib silent str conversion behavior for int/float/bool/None dict key types
* remove most conversions for non-scalar keys
* add key conversion cases to JSON profile test suite

* typo

* Fix sanity test failures

* Fix _handle_key_str_fallback implementation

---------

Co-authored-by: Matt Clay <matt@mystile.com>
(cherry picked from commit bbbfbd57e2)

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ variables:
   - name: fetchDepth
     value: 500
   - name: defaultContainer
-    value: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:4.0.1
+    value: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:6.0.0
 
 pool: Standard
 
@@ -54,14 +54,12 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: units/{0}
           targets:
-            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: 3.7
             - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
             - test: 3.11
             - test: 3.12
+            - test: 3.13
   - stage: Windows
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -70,43 +68,54 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Server {0}
           testFormat: windows/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 2016
-            - test: 2019
-            - test: 2022
+            - name: 2016 WinRM HTTP
+              test: 2016/winrm/http
+            - name: 2019 WinRM HTTPS
+              test: 2019/winrm/https
+            - name: 2022 WinRM HTTPS
+              test: 2022/winrm/https
+            - name: 2022 PSRP HTTP
+              test: 2022/psrp/http
+            - name: 2022 SSH Key
+              test: 2022/ssh/key
+            - name: 2025 PSRP HTTP
+              test: 2025/psrp/http
+            - name: 2025 SSH Key
+              test: 2025/ssh/key
   - stage: Remote
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/target
         parameters:
           targets:
-            - name: macOS 13.2
-              test: macos/13.2
-            - name: RHEL 7.9
-              test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: RHEL 8.8 py36
-              test: rhel/8.8@3.6
-            - name: RHEL 8.8 py311
-              test: rhel/8.8@3.11
-            - name: RHEL 9.2 py39
-              test: rhel/9.2@3.9
-            - name: RHEL 9.2 py311
-              test: rhel/9.2@3.11
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
-              test: freebsd/13.2
+            - name: macOS 15.3
+              test: macos/15.3
+            - name: RHEL 9.5 py39
+              test: rhel/9.5@3.9
+            - name: RHEL 9.5 py312
+              test: rhel/9.5@3.12
+            - name: RHEL 10.0
+              test: rhel/10.0
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.5
+              test: freebsd/13.5
+            - name: FreeBSD 14.2
+              test: freebsd/14.2
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
       - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller
         parameters:
           targets:
-            - name: macOS 13.2
-              test: macos/13.2
-            - name: RHEL 8.8
-              test: rhel/8.8
-            - name: RHEL 9.2
-              test: rhel/9.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
-              test: freebsd/13.2
+            - name: macOS 15.3
+              test: macos/15.3
+            - name: RHEL 9.5
+              test: rhel/9.5
+            - name: RHEL 10.0
+              test: rhel/10.0
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.5
+              test: freebsd/13.5
+            - name: FreeBSD 14.2
+              test: freebsd/14.2
           groups:
             - 3
             - 4
@@ -114,50 +123,46 @@ stages:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller (ansible-test container management)
         parameters:
           targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.18
-              test: alpine/3.18
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora/38
-            - name: RHEL 8.8
-              test: rhel/8.8
-            - name: RHEL 9.2
-              test: rhel/9.2
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu/22.04
+            - name: Alpine 3.21
+              test: alpine/3.21
+            - name: Fedora 41
+              test: fedora/41
+            - name: RHEL 9.5
+              test: rhel/9.5
+            - name: RHEL 10.0
+              test: rhel/10.0
+            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
+              test: ubuntu/24.04
           groups:
             - 6
   - stage: Docker
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/target
         parameters:
           testFormat: linux/{0}
           targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-            - name: CentOS 7
-              test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora38
-            - name: openSUSE 15
-              test: opensuse15
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
+            - name: Alpine 3.21
+              test: alpine321
+            - name: Fedora 41
+              test: fedora41
             - name: Ubuntu 22.04
               test: ubuntu2204
+            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
+              test: ubuntu2404
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller
         parameters:
           testFormat: linux/{0}
           targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora38
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu2204
+            - name: Alpine 3.21
+              test: alpine321
+            - name: Fedora 41
+              test: fedora41
+            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
+              test: ubuntu2404
           groups:
             - 3
             - 4
@@ -170,9 +175,9 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: galaxy/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: '3.10'
             - test: 3.11
             - test: 3.12
+            - test: 3.13
   - stage: Generic
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -181,9 +186,9 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: generic/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: '3.10'
             - test: 3.11
             - test: 3.12
+            - test: 3.13
   - stage: Incidental_Windows
     displayName: Incidental Windows
     dependsOn: []
@@ -193,9 +198,20 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Server {0}
           testFormat: i/windows/{0}
           targets:
-            - test: 2016
-            - test: 2019
-            - test: 2022
+            - name: 2016 WinRM HTTP
+              test: 2016/winrm/http
+            - name: 2019 WinRM HTTPS
+              test: 2019/winrm/https
+            - name: 2022 WinRM HTTPS
+              test: 2022/winrm/https
+            - name: 2022 PSRP HTTP
+              test: 2022/psrp/http
+            - name: 2022 SSH Key
+              test: 2022/ssh/key
+            - name: 2025 PSRP HTTP
+              test: 2025/psrp/http
+            - name: 2025 SSH Key
+              test: 2025/ssh/key
   - stage: Incidental
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -205,8 +221,6 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - name: IOS Python
               test: ios/csr1000v/
-            - name: VyOS Python
-              test: vyos/1.1.8/
   - stage: Summary
     condition: succeededOrFailed()
     dependsOn:

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

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-network.sh

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

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ declare -a args
 IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
 
 version="${args[1]}"
+connection="${args[2]}"
+connection_setting="${args[3]}"
 
 target="shippable/windows/incidental/"
 
@@ -26,11 +28,7 @@ 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}"
-    )
+    echo "Running Windows integration tests for the version ${version}."
 else
     echo "No changes requiring integration tests specific to Windows were detected."
     echo "Running Windows integration tests for a single version only: ${single_version}"
@@ -39,14 +37,10 @@ else
         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}"
+    --controller "docker:default,python=${python_default}" \
+    --target "remote:windows/${version},connection=${connection}+${connection_setting},provider=${provider}" \
+    --remote-terminate always --remote-stage "${stage}"

.azure-pipelines/commands/windows.sh

@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ declare -a args
 IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
 
 version="${args[1]}"
-group="${args[2]}"
+connection="${args[2]}"
+connection_setting="${args[3]}"
+group="${args[4]}"
 
 target="shippable/windows/group${group}/"
 
@@ -31,11 +33,7 @@ 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}"
-    )
+    echo "Running Windows integration tests for the version ${version}."
 else
     echo "No changes requiring integration tests specific to Windows were detected."
     echo "Running Windows integration tests for a single version only: ${single_version}"
@@ -44,17 +42,13 @@ else
         echo "Skipping this job since it is for: ${version}"
         exit 0
     fi
-
-    platforms=(
-        --windows "${version}"
-    )
 fi
 
-for version in "${python_versions[@]}"; do
+for py_version in "${python_versions[@]}"; do
     changed_all_target="all"
     changed_all_mode="default"
 
-    if [ "${version}" == "${python_default}" ]; then
+    if [ "${py_version}" == "${python_default}" ]; then
         # smoketest tests
         if [ "${CHANGED}" ]; then
             # with change detection enabled run tests for anything changed
@@ -80,7 +74,7 @@ for version in "${python_versions[@]}"; do
     fi
 
     # terminate remote instances on the final python version tested
-    if [ "${version}" = "${python_versions[-1]}" ]; then
+    if [ "${py_version}" = "${python_versions[-1]}" ]; then
         terminate="always"
     else
         terminate="never"
@@ -88,7 +82,8 @@ for version in "${python_versions[@]}"; do
 
     # 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 "${provider}"
+        --changed-all-target "${changed_all_target}" --changed-all-mode "${changed_all_mode}" \
+        --controller "docker:default,python=${py_version}" \
+        --target "remote:windows/${version},connection=${connection}+${connection_setting},provider=${provider}" \
+        --remote-terminate "${terminate}" --remote-stage "${stage}"
 done

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

@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ Keep in mind that Azure Pipelines does not enforce unique job display names (onl
 It is up to pipeline authors to avoid name collisions when deviating from the recommended format.
 """
 
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
+from __future__ import annotations
 
 import os
 import re

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

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Upload code coverage reports to codecov.io.
 Multiple coverage files from multiple languages are accepted and aggregated after upload.
 Python coverage, as well as PowerShell and Python stubs can all be uploaded.
 """
+from __future__ import annotations
 
 import argparse
 import dataclasses
@@ -60,9 +61,12 @@ def upload_files(codecov_bin: pathlib.Path, files: t.Tuple[CoverageFile, ...], d
     for file in files:
         cmd = [
             str(codecov_bin),
-            '--name', file.name,
-            '--file', str(file.path),
+            '--name',
+            file.name,
+            '--file',
+            str(file.path),
         ]
+
         for flag in file.flags:
             cmd.extend(['--flags', flag])
 

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

@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ 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
+# Generate stubs using docker.
+# The use of docker is mandatory when Powershell code is present.
+ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --docker --color -v

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

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 """Prepends a relative timestamp to each input line from stdin and writes it to stdout."""
 
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
+from __future__ import annotations
 
 import sys
 import time

.git-blame-ignore-revs

@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 # Bulk PowerShell sanity fixes
 6def4a3180fe03981ba64c6d8db28fed3bb39c0c
 716631189cb5a3f66b3add98f39e64e98bc17bf7
+# Bulk update of strings from triple single quotes to triple double quotes
+a0495fc31497798a7a833ba7406a9729e1528dd8

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

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

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -19,13 +19,14 @@ body:
       Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
 
 
-      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please consider
-      [starting a mailing list thread or chatting in IRC][ML||IRC].
+      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please see
+      [Communicating with the Ansible community][communication] to
+      get in touch and ask questions.
 
 
 
-      [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
+      [communication]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html
 
       [issue search]: ../search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
 
@@ -46,23 +47,7 @@ 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
+    description: This is a marker for our automatic bot. Do not change it.
     options:
     - Bug Report
   validations:
@@ -87,7 +72,7 @@ body:
 
 
       [collections org]: /ansible-collections
-    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
+    placeholder: dnf, apt, pip, user etc.
   validations:
     required: true
 
@@ -258,7 +243,7 @@ body:
     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
+      [CoC]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--bug_report.yml
     options:
     - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
       required: true

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 blank_issues_enabled: false  # default: true
 contact_links:
 - name: 🔐 Security bug report 🔥
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser
+  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser
   about: |
     Please learn how to report security vulnerabilities here.
 
@@ -11,15 +11,15 @@ contact_links:
     a prompt response.
 
     For more information, see
-    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html
+    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html
 - name: 📝 Ansible Code of Conduct
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser
+  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser
   about: ❤ Be nice to other members of the community. ☮ Behave.
-- name: 💬 Talks to the community
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser#mailing-list-information
+- name: 💬 Talk to the community
+  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser#forum
   about: Please ask and answer usage questions here
 - name: ⚡ Working groups
-  url: https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki
+  url: https://forum.ansible.com/g?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser
   about: Interested in improving a specific area? Become a part of a working group!
 - name: 💼 For Enterprise
   url: https://www.ansible.com/products/engine?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml

@@ -22,12 +22,14 @@ body:
       Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
 
 
-      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please consider
-      [starting a mailing list thread or chatting in IRC][ML||IRC].
+      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please see
+      [Communicating with the Ansible community][communication] to
+      get in touch and ask questions.
 
 
-      [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
+
+      [communication]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html
 
       [issue search]: ../search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
 
@@ -82,20 +84,7 @@ 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 will make it easier in the future, once GitHub
-        supports dropdown defaults. Promise!_
-
-      </details>
-    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
+    description: This is a marker for our automatic bot. Do not change it.
     options:
     - Documentation Report
   validations:
@@ -205,7 +194,7 @@ body:
     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
+      [CoC]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--documentation_report.yml
     options:
     - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
       required: true

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml

@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ body:
 
       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.
+      start a discussion in the [Ansible forum][forum].
 
 
       <details>
@@ -44,21 +43,22 @@ body:
       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].
+      **Tip:** If you are seeking community support, please see
+      [Communicating with the Ansible community][communication] to
+      get in touch and ask questions.
 
 
 
       [contribute to collections]:
       https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/contributing_maintained_collections.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--feature_request.yml
 
-      [IRC meetings]:
-        https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--feature_request.yml#irc-meetings
+      [communication]:
+      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html
 
       [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
+      [forum help]:
+      https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6
 
       [new proposal]: ../../proposals/issues/new
 
@@ -101,23 +101,7 @@ 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
+    description: This is a marker for our automatic bot. Do not change it.
     options:
     - Feature Idea
   validations:
@@ -139,7 +123,7 @@ body:
 
 
       [collections org]: /ansible-collections
-    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
+    placeholder: dnf, apt, pip, user etc.
   validations:
     required: true
 
@@ -185,7 +169,7 @@ body:
     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
+      [CoC]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--feature_request.yml
     options:
     - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
       required: true

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/internal_issue.md

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

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/pre_release.yml

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

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-##### SUMMARY
-
-<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale and design decisions -->
-
-<!--- HINT: Include "Fixes #nnn" if you are fixing an existing issue -->
-
-##### ISSUE TYPE
-
-<!--- Pick one below and delete the rest -->
-
-- Bugfix Pull Request
-- Docs Pull Request
-- Feature Pull Request
-- Test Pull Request
-
-##### ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-
-<!--- Include additional information to help people understand the change here -->
-<!--- A step-by-step reproduction of the problem is helpful if there is no related issue -->
-
-<!--- Paste verbatim command output below, e.g. before and after your change -->
-
-```paste below
-
-```

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

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

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/Bug fix.md

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

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/Documentation change.md

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

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/New feature.md

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

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

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

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/Tests.md

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

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/Unclear purpose or motivation.md

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

.github/RELEASE_NAMES.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2.19.0  What Is and What Should Never Be
+2.18.0  Fool in the Rain
+2.17.0  Gallows Pole
 2.16.0  All My Love
 2.15.0  Ten Years Gone
 2.14.0  C'mon Everybody

.gitignore

@@ -92,9 +92,14 @@ Vagrantfile
 /lib/ansible_base.egg-info/
 # First used in the `devel` branch during Ansible 2.11 development.
 /lib/ansible_core.egg-info/
+# First used in the `devel` branch during Ansible 2.18 development.
+/ansible_core.egg-info/
 # vendored lib dir
 lib/ansible/_vendor/*
 !lib/ansible/_vendor/__init__.py
+# PowerShell signed hashlist
+lib/ansible/config/powershell_signatures.psd1
+*.authenticode
 # test stuff
 /test/integration/cloud-config-*.*
 !/test/integration/cloud-config-*.*.template

MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 include COPYING
-include bin/*
 include changelogs/CHANGELOG*.rst
 include changelogs/changelog.yaml
 include licenses/*.txt
 include requirements.txt
 recursive-include packaging *.py *.j2
 recursive-include test/integration *
-recursive-include test/sanity *.in *.json *.py *.txt
+recursive-include test/sanity *.in *.json *.py *.txt *.ini
 recursive-include test/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs *.md
 recursive-include test/units *

README.md

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 [![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ansible-core.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core)
 [![Docs badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/)
-[![Chat badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-IRC-brightgreen.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html)
+[![Chat badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-IRC-brightgreen.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html)
 [![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=devel)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_build/latest?definitionId=20&branchName=devel)
-[![Ansible Code of Conduct](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20of%20conduct-Ansible-silver.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html)
-[![Ansible mailing lists](https://img.shields.io/badge/mailing%20lists-Ansible-orange.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html#mailing-list-information)
+[![Ansible Code of Conduct](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20of%20conduct-Ansible-silver.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/code_of_conduct.html)
+[![Ansible mailing lists](https://img.shields.io/badge/mailing%20lists-Ansible-orange.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#mailing-list-information)
 [![Repository License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL%20v3.0-brightgreen.svg)](COPYING)
 [![Ansible CII Best Practices certification](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372)
 
@@ -40,21 +40,33 @@ features and fixes, directly. Although it is reasonably stable, you are more lik
 breaking changes when running the `devel` branch. We recommend getting involved
 in the Ansible community if you want to run the `devel` branch.
 
-## Get Involved
+## Communication
 
-* Read [Community Information](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community) for all
+Join the Ansible forum to ask questions, get help, and interact with the
+community.
+
+* [Get Help](https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6): Find help or share your Ansible knowledge to help others.
+  Use tags to filter and subscribe to posts, such as the following:
+  * Posts tagged with [ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/ansible)
+  * Posts tagged with [ansible-core](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/ansible-core)
+  * Posts tagged with [playbook](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/playbook)
+* [Social Spaces](https://forum.ansible.com/c/chat/4): Meet and interact with fellow enthusiasts.
+* [News & Announcements](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/5): Track project-wide announcements including social events.
+* [Bullhorn newsletter](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#the-bullhorn): Get release announcements and important changes.
+
+For more ways to get in touch, see [Communicating with the Ansible community](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html).
+
+## Contribute to Ansible
+
+* Check out the [Contributor's Guide](./.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+* Read [Community Information](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community) for all
   kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project,
-  including mailing list information and how to submit bug reports and
-  code to Ansible.
-* Join a [Working Group](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki),
-  an organized community devoted to a specific technology domain or platform.
+  including how to submit bug reports and code to Ansible.
 * Submit a proposed code update through a pull request to the `devel` branch.
 * Talk to us before making larger changes
   to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps everyone
   know what is going on, but it also helps save time and effort if we decide
   some changes are needed.
-* For a list of email lists, IRC channels and Working Groups, see the
-  [Communication page](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html)
 
 ## Coding Guidelines
 
@@ -67,7 +79,7 @@ We document our Coding Guidelines in the [Developer Guide](https://docs.ansible.
 
 * The `devel` branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
 * The `stable-2.X` branches correspond to stable releases.
-* Create a branch based on `devel` and set up a [dev environment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html#common-environment-setup) if you want to open a PR.
+* Create a branch based on `devel` and set up a [dev environment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html#common-environment-setup) if you want to open a PR.
 * See the [Ansible release and maintenance](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html) page for information about active branches.
 
 ## Roadmap

bin/ansible-connection

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py

changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.19.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,463 @@
+==================================================================
+ansible-core 2.19 "What Is and What Should Never Be" Release Notes
+==================================================================
+
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+v2.19.0b5
+=========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2025-06-03
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Improved SUSE distribution detection in distribution.py by parsing VARIANT_ID from /etc/os-release for identifying SLES_SAP and SL-Micro. Falls back to /etc/products.d/baseproduct symlink for older systems.
+- Remove unnecessary shebang from the ``hostname`` module.
+- Use ``importlib.metadata.version()`` to detect Jinja version as jinja2.__version__ is deprecated and will be removed in Jinja 3.3.
+- ansible-doc - Return dynamic stub when reporting on Jinja filters and tests not explicitly documented in Ansible
+- ansible-doc - Skip listing the internal ``ansible._protomatter`` plugins unless explicitly requested
+- ansible-test - Add RHEL 10.0 as a remote platform for testing.
+- apt_repository - remove Python 2 support
+- csvfile lookup - remove Python 2 compat
+- display - Add ``help_text`` and ``obj`` to ``Display.error_as_warning``.
+- display - Replace Windows newlines (``\r\n``) in display output with Unix newlines (``\n``). This ensures proper display of strings sourced from Windows hosts in environments which treat ``\r`` as ``\n``, such as Azure Pipelines.
+- facts - add "Linode" for Linux VM in virtual facts
+- module_utils - Add ``AnsibleModule.error_as_warning``.
+- module_utils - Add ``ansible.module_utils.common.warnings.error_as_warning``.
+- module_utils - Add optional ``help_text`` argument to ``AnsibleModule.warn``.
+- ssh agent - Added ``SSH_AGENT_EXECUTABLE`` config to allow override of ssh-agent.
+- ssh connection plugin - Added ``verbosity`` config to decouple SSH debug output verbosity from Ansible verbosity. Previously, the Ansible verbosity value was always applied to the SSH client command-line, leading to excessively verbose output. Set the ``ANSIBLE_SSH_VERBOSITY`` envvar or ``ansible_ssh_verbosity`` Ansible variable to a positive integer to increase SSH client verbosity.
+- task timeout - Specifying a timeout greater than 100,000,000 now results in an error.
+- templating - Added ``_ANSIBLE_TEMPLAR_SANDBOX_MODE=allow_unsafe_attributes`` environment variable to disable Jinja template attribute sandbox. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/85202)
+- windows - Added support for ``#AnsibleRequires -Wrapper`` to request a PowerShell module be run through the execution wrapper scripts without any module utils specified.
+- windows - Added support for running signed modules and scripts with a Windows host protected by Windows App Control/WDAC. This is a tech preview and the interface may be subject to change.
+- windows - Script modules will preserve UTF-8 encoding when executing the script.
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- The ``ShellModule.checksum`` method is now deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core 2.23. Use ``ActionBase._execute_remote_stat()`` instead.
+- The ``ansible.module_utils.common.collections.count()`` function is deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core 2.23. Use ``collections.Counter()`` from the Python standard library instead.
+- ``ansible.compat.importlib_resources`` is deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core 2.23. Use ``importlib.resources`` from the Python standard library instead.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Core Jinja test plugins - Builtin test plugins now always return ``bool`` to avoid spurious deprecation warnings for some malformed inputs.
+- ansible-test - Disabled the ``bad-super-call`` pylint rule due to false positives.
+- ansible-test - Fix incorrect handling of options with optional args (e.g. ``--color``), when followed by other options which are omitted during arg filtering (e.g. ``--docker``). Previously it was possible for non-option arguments to be incorrectly omitted in these cases. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/85173)
+- ansible-test - Improve type inference for pylint deprecated checks to accommodate some type annotations.
+- async_status module - The ``started`` and ``finished`` return values are now ``True`` or ``False`` instead of ``1`` or ``0``.
+- constructed inventory - Use the ``default_value`` or ``trailing_separator`` in a ``keyed_groups`` entry if the expression result of ``key`` is ``None`` and not just an empty string.
+- dnf5 - handle all libdnf5 specific exceptions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84634)
+- error handling - Error details and tracebacks from connection and built-in action exceptions are preserved. Previously, much of the detail was lost or mixed into the error message.
+- from_yaml_all filter - `None` and empty string inputs now always return an empty list. Previously, `None` was returned in Jinja native mode and empty list in classic mode.
+- local connection plugin - The command-line used to create subprocesses is now always ``str`` to avoid issues with debuggers and profilers.
+- ssh agent - Fixed several potential startup hangs for badly-behaved or overloaded ssh agents.
+- task timeout - Specifying a negative task timeout now results in an error.
+
+v2.19.0b4
+=========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2025-05-12
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- facts - add "CloudStack KVM Hypervisor" for Linux VM in virtual facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/85089).
+- modules - use ``AnsibleModule.warn`` instead of passing ``warnings`` to ``exit_json`` or ``fail_json`` which is deprecated.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- ansible-test - Updated the ``pylint`` sanity test to skip some deprecation validation checks when all arguments are dynamic.
+- config - Preserve or apply Origin tag to values returned by config.
+- config - Prevented fatal errors when ``MODULE_IGNORE_EXTS`` configuration was set.
+- config - Templating failures on config defaults now issue a warning. Previously, failures silently returned an unrendered and untrusted template to the caller.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` correctly propagates trust and other tags on returned values.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` now converts mappings to ``dict`` when requested, instead of returning the mapping.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` now converts sequences to ``list`` when requested, instead of returning the sequence.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` now correctly errors when ``pathlist`` or ``pathspec`` types encounter non-string list items.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` now reports an error when ``bytes`` are provided for any known ``value_type``. Previously, the behavior was undefined, but often resulted in an unhandled exception or incorrect return type.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` with expected type ``int`` now properly converts ``True`` and ``False`` values to ``int``. Previously, these values were silently returned unmodified.
+- convert_bool.boolean API conversion function - Unhashable values passed to ``boolean`` behave like other non-boolean convertible values, returning False or raising ``TypeError`` depending on the value of ``strict``. Previously, unhashable values always raised ``ValueError`` due to an invalid set membership check.
+- dnf5 - when ``bugfix`` and/or ``security`` is specified, skip packages that do not have any such updates, even for new versions of libdnf5 where this functionality changed and it is considered failure
+- plugin loader - Apply template trust to strings loaded from plugin configuration definitions and doc fragments.
+- template action - Template files where the entire file's output renders as ``None`` are no longer emitted as the string "None", but instead render to an empty file as in previous releases.
+
+v2.19.0b3
+=========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2025-05-06
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-config will now show internal, but not test configuration entries. This allows for debugging but still denoting the configurations as internal use only (_ prefix).
+- ansible-test - Improved ``pylint`` checks for Ansible-specific deprecation functions.
+- ansible-test - Use the ``-t`` option to set the stop timeout when stopping a container. This avoids use of the ``--time`` option which was deprecated in Docker v28.0.
+- collection metadata - The collection loader now parses scalar values from ``meta/runtime.yml`` as strings. This avoids issues caused by unquoted values such as versions or dates being parsed as types other than strings.
+- deprecation warnings - Deprecation warning APIs automatically capture the identity of the deprecating plugin. The ``collection_name`` argument is only required to correctly attribute deprecations that occur in module_utils or other non-plugin code.
+- deprecation warnings - Improved deprecation messages to more clearly indicate the affected content, including plugin name when available.
+- deprecations - Collection name strings not of the form ``ns.coll`` passed to deprecation API functions will result in an error.
+- deprecations - Removed support for specifying deprecation dates as a ``datetime.date``, which was included in an earlier 2.19 pre-release.
+- deprecations - Some argument names to ``deprecate_value`` for consistency with existing APIs. An earlier 2.19 pre-release included a ``removal_`` prefix on the ``date`` and ``version`` arguments.
+- modules - The ``AnsibleModule.deprecate`` function no longer sends deprecation messages to the target host's logging system.
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- Passing a ``warnings` or ``deprecations`` key to ``exit_json`` or ``fail_json`` is deprecated. Use ``AnsibleModule.warn`` or ``AnsibleModule.deprecate`` instead.
+- plugins - Accessing plugins with ``_``-prefixed filenames without the ``_`` prefix is deprecated.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Ansible will now ensure predictable permissions on remote artifacts, until now it only ensured executable and relied on system masks for the rest.
+- dnf5 - avoid generating excessive transaction entries in the dnf5 history (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/85046)
+
+v2.19.0b2
+=========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2025-04-24
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- comment filter - Improve the error message shown when an invalid ``style`` argument is provided.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Remove use of `required` parameter in `get_bin_path` which has been deprecated.
+- ansible-doc - fix indentation for first line of descriptions of suboptions and sub-return values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84690).
+- ansible-doc - fix line wrapping for first line of description of options and return values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84690).
+
+v2.19.0b1
+=========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2025-04-14
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- Jinja plugins - Jinja builtin filter and test plugins are now accessible via their fully-qualified names ``ansible.builtin.{name}``.
+- Task Execution / Forks - Forks no longer inherit stdio from the parent ``ansible-playbook`` process. ``stdout``, ``stderr``, and ``stdin`` within a worker are detached from the terminal, and non-functional. All needs to access stdio from a fork for controller side plugins requires use of ``Display``.
+- ansible-test - Packages beneath ``module_utils`` can now contain ``__init__.py`` files.
+- variables - The type system underlying Ansible's variable storage has been significantly overhauled and formalized. Attempts to store unsupported Python object types in variables now more consistently yields early warnings or errors.
+- variables - To support new Ansible features, many variable objects are now represented by subclasses of their respective native Python types. In most cases, they behave indistinguishably from their original types, but some Python libraries do not handle builtin object subclasses properly. Custom plugins that interact with such libraries may require changes to convert and pass the native types.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Added a -vvvvv log message indicating when a host fails to produce output within the timeout period.
+- AnsibleModule.uri - Add option ``multipart_encoding`` for ``form-multipart`` files in body to change default base64 encoding for files
+- INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS config, removed ``ini`` from the default list, inventory scripts using a corresponding .ini configuration are rare now and inventory.ini files are more common. Those that need to ignore the ini files for inventory scripts can still add it to configuration.
+- Jinja plugins - Plugins can declare support for undefined values.
+- Jinja2 version 3.1.0 or later is now required on the controller.
+- Move ``follow_redirects`` parameter to module_utils so external modules can reuse it.
+- PlayIterator - do not return tasks from already executed roles so specific strategy plugins do not have to do the filtering of such tasks themselves
+- SSH Escalation-related -vvv log messages now include the associated host information.
+- Windows - Add support for Windows Server 2025 to Ansible and as an ``ansible-test`` remote target - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84229
+- Windows - refactor the async implementation to better handle errors during bootstrapping and avoid WMI when possible.
+- ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` — the collection dependency resolver now prints out conflicts it hits during dependency resolution when it's taking too long and it ends up backtracking a lot. It also displays suggestions on how to help it compute the result more quickly.
+- ansible, ansible-console, ansible-pull - add --flush-cache option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83749).
+- ansible-galaxy - Add support for Keycloak service accounts
+- ansible-galaxy - support ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 2.0.0`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84217).
+- ansible-test - Added a macOS 15.3 remote VM, replacing 14.3.
+- ansible-test - Automatically retry HTTP GET/PUT/DELETE requests on exceptions.
+- ansible-test - Default to Python 3.13 in the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
+- ansible-test - Disable the ``deprecated-`` prefixed ``pylint`` rules as their results vary by Python version.
+- ansible-test - Disable the ``pep8`` sanity test rules ``E701`` and ``E704`` to improve compatibility with ``black``.
+- ansible-test - Improve container runtime probe error handling. When unexpected probe output is encountered, an error with more useful debugging information is provided.
+- ansible-test - Replace container Alpine 3.20 with 3.21.
+- ansible-test - Replace container Fedora 40 with 41.
+- ansible-test - Replace remote Alpine 3.20 with 3.21.
+- ansible-test - Replace remote Fedora 40 with 41.
+- ansible-test - Replace remote FreeBSD 13.3 with 13.5.
+- ansible-test - Replace remote FreeBSD 14.1 with 14.2.
+- ansible-test - Replace remote RHEL 9.4 with 9.5.
+- ansible-test - Show a more user-friendly error message when a ``runme.sh`` script is not executable.
+- ansible-test - The ``yamllint`` sanity test now enforces string values for the ``!vault`` tag.
+- ansible-test - Update ``nios-test-container`` to version 7.0.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 3.3.1.
+- ansible-test - Update distro containers to remove unnecessary pakages (apache2, subversion, ruby).
+- ansible-test - Update sanity test requirements to latest available versions.
+- ansible-test - Update the HTTP test container.
+- ansible-test - Update the PyPI test container.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
+- ansible-test - Update the utility container.
+- ansible-test - Use Python's ``urllib`` instead of ``curl`` for HTTP requests.
+- ansible-test - When detection of the current container network fails, a warning is now issued and execution continues. This simplifies usage in cases where the current container cannot be inspected, such as when running in GitHub Codespaces.
+- ansible-test acme test container - bump `version to 2.3.0 <https://github.com/ansible/acme-test-container/releases/tag/2.3.0>`__ to include newer versions of Pebble, dependencies, and runtimes. This adds support for ACME profiles, ``dns-account-01`` support, and some smaller improvements (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84547).
+- apt_key module - add notes to docs and errors to point at the CLI tool deprecation by Debian and alternatives
+- apt_repository module - add notes to errors to point at the CLI tool deprecation by Debian and alternatives
+- become plugins get new property 'pipelining' to show support or lack there of for the feature.
+- callback plugins - add has_option() to CallbackBase to match other functions overloaded from AnsiblePlugin
+- callback plugins - fix get_options() for CallbackBase
+- copy - fix sanity test failures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83643).
+- copy - parameter ``local_follow`` was incorrectly documented as having default value ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83643).
+- cron - Provide additional error information while writing cron file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83223).
+- csvfile - let the config system do the typecasting (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82263).
+- display - Deduplication of warning and error messages considers the full content of the message (including source and traceback contexts, if enabled). This may result in fewer messages being omitted.
+- distribution - Added openSUSE MicroOS to Suse OS family (#84685).
+- dnf5, apt - add ``auto_install_module_deps`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84206)
+- docs - add collection name in message from which the module is being deprecated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84116).
+- env lookup - The error message generated for a missing environment variable when ``default`` is an undefined value (e.g. ``undef('something')``) will contain the hint from that undefined value, except when the undefined value is the default of ``undef()`` with no arguments. Previously, any existing undefined hint would be ignored.
+- file - enable file module to disable diff_mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80817).
+- file - make code more readable and simple.
+- filter - add support for URL-safe encoding and decoding in b64encode and b64decode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84147).
+- find - add a checksum_algorithm parameter to specify which type of checksum the module will return
+- from_json filter - The filter accepts a ``profile`` argument, which defaults to ``tagless``.
+- handlers - Templated handler names with syntax errors, or that resolve to ``omit`` are now skipped like handlers with undefined variables in their name.
+- improved error message for yaml parsing errors in plugin documentation
+- local connection plugin - A new ``become_strip_preamble`` config option (default True) was added; disable to preserve diagnostic ``become`` output in task results.
+- local connection plugin - A new ``become_success_timeout`` operation-wide timeout config (default 10s) was added for ``become``.
+- local connection plugin - When a ``become`` plugin's ``prompt`` value is a non-string after the ``check_password_prompt`` callback has completed, no prompt stripping will occur on stderr.
+- lookup_template - add an option to trim blocks while templating (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75962).
+- module - set ipv4 and ipv6 rules simultaneously in iptables module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84404).
+- module_utils - Add ``NoReturn`` type annotations to functions which never return.
+- modules - PowerShell modules can now receive ``datetime.date``, ``datetime.time`` and ``datetime.datetime`` values as ISO 8601 strings.
+- modules - PowerShell modules can now receive strings sourced from inline vault-encrypted strings.
+- modules - Unhandled exceptions during Python module execution are now returned as structured data from the target. This allows the new traceback handling to be applied to exceptions raised on targets.
+- pipelining logic has mostly moved to connection plugins so they can decide/override settings.
+- plugin error handling - When raising exceptions in an exception handler, be sure to use ``raise ... from`` as appropriate. This supersedes the use of the ``AnsibleError`` arg ``orig_exc`` to represent the cause. Specifying ``orig_exc`` as the cause is still permitted. Failure to use ``raise ... from`` when ``orig_exc`` is set will result in a warning. Additionally, if the two cause exceptions do not match, a warning will be issued.
+- removed harcoding of su plugin as it now works with pipelining.
+- runtime-metadata sanity test - improve validation of ``action_groups`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83965).
+- service_facts module got freebsd support added.
+- ssh connection plugin - Support ``SSH_ASKPASS`` mechanism to provide passwords, making it the default, but still offering an explicit choice to use ``sshpass`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83936)
+- ssh connection plugin now overrides pipelining when a tty is requested.
+- ssh-agent - ``ansible``, ``ansible-playbook`` and ``ansible-console`` are capable of spawning or reusing an ssh-agent, allowing plugins to interact with the ssh-agent. Additionally a pure python ssh-agent client has been added, enabling easy interaction with the agent. The ssh connection plugin contains new functionality via ``ansible_ssh_private_key`` and ``ansible_ssh_private_key_passphrase``, for loading an SSH private key into the agent from a variable.
+- templating - Access to an undefined variable from inside a lookup, filter, or test (which raises MarkerError) no longer ends processing of the current template. The triggering undefined value is returned as the result of the offending plugin invocation, and the template continues to execute.
+- templating - Embedding ``range()`` values in containers such as lists will result in an error on use. Previously the value would be converted to a string representing the range parameters, such as ``range(0, 3)``.
+- templating - Handling of omitted values is now a first-class feature of the template engine, and is usable in all Ansible Jinja template contexts. Any template that resolves to ``omit`` is automatically removed from its parent container during templating.
+- templating - Template evaluation is lazier than in previous versions. Template expressions which resolve only portions of a data structure no longer result in the entire structure being templated.
+- templating - Templating errors now provide more information about both the location and context of the error, especially for deeply-nested and/or indirected templating scenarios.
+- templating - Unified ``omit`` behavior now requires that plugins calling ``Templar.template()`` handle cases where the entire template result is omitted, by catching the ``AnsibleValueOmittedError`` that is raised. Previously, this condition caused a randomly-generated string marker to appear in the template result.
+- templating - Variables of type ``set`` and ``tuple`` are now converted to ``list`` when exiting the final pass of templating.
+- to_json / to_nice_json filters - The filters accept a ``profile`` argument, which defaults to ``tagless``.
+- troubleshooting - Tracebacks can be collected and displayed for most errors, warnings, and deprecation warnings (including those generated by modules). Tracebacks are no longer enabled with ``-vvv``; the behavior is directly configurable via the ``DISPLAY_TRACEBACK`` config option. Module tracebacks passed to ``fail_json`` via the ``exception`` kwarg will not be included in the task result unless error tracebacks are configured.
+- undef jinja function - The ``undef`` jinja function now raises an error if a non-string hint is given. Attempting to use an undefined hint also results in an error, ensuring incorrect use of the function can be distinguished from the function's normal behavior.
+- validate-modules sanity test - make sure that ``module`` and ``plugin`` ``seealso`` entries use FQCNs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84325).
+- vault - improved vault filter documentation by adding missing example content for dump_template_data.j2, refining examples for clarity, and ensuring variable consistency (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83583).
+- warnings - All warnings (including deprecation warnings) issued during a task's execution are now accessible via the ``warnings`` and ``deprecations`` keys on the task result.
+- when the ``dict`` lookup is given a non-dict argument, show the value of the argument and its type in the error message.
+- windows - add hard minimum limit for PowerShell to 5.1. Ansible dropped support for older versions of PowerShell in the 2.16 release but this reqirement is now enforced at runtime.
+- windows - refactor windows exec runner to improve efficiency and add better error reporting on failures.
+- winrm - Remove need for pexpect on macOS hosts when using ``kinit`` to retrieve the Kerberos TGT. By default the code will now only use the builtin ``subprocess`` library which should handle issues with select and a high fd count and also simplify the code.
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- Support for the ``toml`` library has been removed from TOML inventory parsing and dumping. Use ``tomli`` for parsing on Python 3.10. Python 3.11 and later have built-in support for parsing. Use ``tomli-w`` to support outputting inventory in TOML format.
+- assert - The ``quiet`` argument must be a commonly-accepted boolean value. Previously, unrecognized values were silently treated as False.
+- conditionals - Conditional expressions that result in non-boolean values are now an error by default. Such results often indicate unintentional use of templates where they are not supported, resulting in a conditional that is always true. When this option is enabled, conditional expressions which are a literal ``None`` or empty string will evaluate as true, for backwards compatibility. The error can be temporarily changed to a deprecation warning by enabling the ``ALLOW_BROKEN_CONDITIONALS`` config option.
+- first_found lookup - When specifying ``files`` or ``paths`` as a templated list containing undefined values, the undefined list elements will be discarded with a warning. Previously, the entire list would be discarded without any warning.
+- internals - The ``AnsibleLoader`` and ``AnsibleDumper`` classes for working with YAML are now factory functions and cannot be extended.
+- internals - The ``ansible.utils.native_jinja`` Python module has been removed.
+- inventory - Invalid variable names provided by inventories result in an inventory parse failure. This behavior is now consistent with other variable name usages throughout Ansible.
+- lookup plugins - Lookup plugins called as `with_(lookup)` will no longer have the `_subdir` attribute set.
+- lookup plugins - ``terms`` will always be passed to ``run`` as the first positional arg, where previously it was sometimes passed as a keyword arg when using ``with_`` syntax.
+- loops - Omit placeholders no longer leak between loop item templating and task templating. Previously, ``omit`` placeholders could remain embedded in loop items after templating and be used as an ``omit`` for task templating. Now, values resolving to ``omit`` are dropped immediately when loop items are templated. To turn missing values into an ``omit`` for task templating, use ``| default(omit)``. This solution is backward-compatible with previous versions of ansible-core.
+- modules - Ansible modules using ``sys.excepthook`` must use a standard ``try/except`` instead.
+- plugins - Any plugin that sources or creates templates must properly tag them as trusted.
+- plugins - Custom Jinja plugins that accept undefined top-level arguments must opt in to receiving them.
+- plugins - Custom Jinja plugins that use ``environment.getitem`` to retrieve undefined values will now trigger a ``MarkerError`` exception. This exception must be handled to allow the plugin to return a ``Marker``, or the plugin must opt-in to accepting ``Marker`` values.
+- public API - The ``ansible.vars.fact_cache.FactCache`` wrapper has been removed.
+- serialization of ``omit`` sentinel - Serialization of variables containing ``omit`` sentinels (e.g., by the ``to_json`` and ``to_yaml`` filters or ``ansible-inventory``) will fail if the variable has not completed templating. Previously, serialization succeeded with placeholder strings emitted in the serialized output.
+- set_fact - The string values "yes", "no", "true" and "false" were previously converted (ignoring case) to boolean values when not using Jinja2 native mode. Since Jinja2 native mode is always used, this conversion no longer occurs. When boolean values are required, native boolean syntax should be used where variables are defined, such as in YAML. When native boolean syntax is not an option, the ``bool`` filter can be used to parse string values into booleans.
+- template lookup - The ``convert_data`` option is deprecated and no longer has any effect. Use the ``from_json`` filter on the lookup result instead.
+- templating - Access to ``_`` prefixed attributes and methods, and methods with known side effects, is no longer permitted. In cases where a matching mapping key is present, the associated value will be returned instead of an error. This increases template environment isolation and ensures more consistent behavior between the ``.`` and ``[]`` operators.
+- templating - Conditionals and lookups which use embedded inline templates in Jinja string constants now display a warning. These templates should be converted to their expression equivalent.
+- templating - Many Jinja plugins (filters, lookups, tests) and methods previously silently ignored undefined inputs, which often masked subtle errors. Passing an undefined argument to a Jinja plugin or method that does not declare undefined support now results in an undefined value.
+- templating - Templates are always rendered in Jinja2 native mode. As a result, non-string values are no longer automatically converted to strings.
+- templating - Templates resulting in ``None`` are no longer automatically converted to an empty string.
+- templating - Templates with embedded inline templates that were not contained within a Jinja string constant now result in an error, as support for multi-pass templating was removed for security reasons. In most cases, such templates can be easily rewritten to avoid the use of embedded inline templates.
+- templating - The ``allow_unsafe_lookups`` option no longer has any effect. Lookup plugins are responsible for tagging strings containing templates to allow evaluation as a template.
+- templating - The result of the ``range()`` global function cannot be returned from a template- it should always be passed to a filter (e.g., ``random``). Previously, range objects returned from an intermediate template were always converted to a list, which is inconsistent with inline consumption of range objects.
+- templating - ``#jinja2:`` overrides in templates with invalid override names or types are now templating errors.
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- CLI - The ``--inventory-file`` option alias is deprecated. Use the ``-i`` or ``--inventory`` option instead.
+- Stategy Plugins - Use of strategy plugins not provided in ``ansible.builtin`` are deprecated and do not carry any backwards compatibility guarantees going forward. A future release will remove the ability to use external strategy plugins. No alternative for third party strategy plugins is currently planned.
+- ``ansible.module_utils.compat.datetime`` - The datetime compatibility shims are now deprecated. They are scheduled to be removed in ``ansible-core`` v2.21. This includes ``UTC``, ``utcfromtimestamp()`` and ``utcnow`` importable from said module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81874).
+- bool filter - Support for coercing unrecognized input values (including None) has been deprecated. Consult the filter documentation for acceptable values, or consider use of the ``truthy`` and ``falsy`` tests.
+- cache plugins - The `ansible.plugins.cache.base` Python module is deprecated. Use `ansible.plugins.cache` instead.
+- callback plugins - The `v2_on_any` callback method is deprecated. Use specific callback methods instead.
+- callback plugins - The v1 callback API (callback methods not prefixed with `v2_`) is deprecated. Use `v2_` prefixed methods instead.
+- conditionals - Conditionals using Jinja templating delimiters (e.g., ``{{``, ``{%``) should be rewritten as expressions without delimiters, unless the entire conditional value is a single template that resolves to a trusted string expression. This is useful for dynamic indirection of conditional expressions, but is limited to trusted literal string expressions.
+- config - The ``ACTION_WARNINGS`` config has no effect. It previously disabled command warnings, which have since been removed.
+- config - The ``DEFAULT_JINJA2_NATIVE`` option has no effect. Jinja2 native mode is now the default and only option.
+- config - The ``DEFAULT_NULL_REPRESENTATION`` option has no effect. Null values are no longer automatically converted to another value during templating of single variable references.
+- display - The ``Display.get_deprecation_message`` method has been deprecated. Call ``Display.deprecated`` to display a deprecation message, or call it with ``removed=True`` to raise an ``AnsibleError``.
+- file loading - Loading text files with ``DataLoader`` containing data that cannot be decoded under the expected encoding is deprecated. In most cases the encoding must be UTF-8, although some plugins allow choosing a different encoding. Previously, invalid data was silently wrapped in Unicode surrogate escape sequences, often resulting in later errors or other data corruption.
+- first_found lookup - Splitting of file paths on ``,;:`` is deprecated. Pass a list of paths instead. The ``split`` method on strings can be used to split variables into a list as needed.
+- interpreter discovery - The ``auto_legacy`` and ``auto_legacy_silent`` options for ``INTERPRETER_PYTHON`` are deprecated. Use ``auto`` or ``auto_silent`` options instead, as they have the same effect.
+- oneline callback - The ``oneline`` callback and its associated ad-hoc CLI args (``-o``, ``--one-line``) are deprecated.
+- paramiko - The paramiko connection plugin has been deprecated with planned removal in 2.21.
+- playbook variables - The ``play_hosts`` variable has been deprecated, use ``ansible_play_batch`` instead.
+- plugin error handling - The ``AnsibleError`` constructor arg ``suppress_extended_error`` is deprecated. Using ``suppress_extended_error=True`` has the same effect as ``show_content=False``.
+- template lookup - The jinja2_native option is no longer used in the Ansible Core code base. Jinja2 native mode is now the default and only option.
+- templating - Support for enabling Jinja2 extensions (not plugins) has been deprecated.
+- templating - The ``ansible_managed`` variable available for certain templating scenarios, such as the ``template`` action and ``template`` lookup has been deprecated. Define and use a custom variable instead of relying on ``ansible_managed``.
+- templating - The ``disable_lookups`` option has no effect, since plugins must be updated to apply trust before any templating can be performed.
+- to_yaml/to_nice_yaml filters - Implicit YAML dumping of vaulted value ciphertext is deprecated. Set `dump_vault_tags` to explicitly specify the desired behavior.
+- tree callback - The ``tree`` callback and its associated ad-hoc CLI args (``-t``, ``--tree``) are deprecated.
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- Remove deprecated plural form of collection path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84156).
+- Removed deprecated STRING_CONVERSION_ACTION (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84220).
+- encrypt - passing unsupported passlib hashtype now raises AnsibleFilterError.
+- manager - remove deprecated include_delegate_to parameter from get_vars API.
+- modules - Modules returning non-UTF8 strings now result in an error. The ``MODULE_STRICT_UTF8_RESPONSE`` setting can be used to disable this check.
+- removed deprecated pycompat24 and compat.importlib.
+- selector - remove deprecated compat.selector related files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84155).
+- windows - removed common module functions ``ConvertFrom-AnsibleJson``, ``Format-AnsibleException`` from Windows modules as they are not used and add uneeded complexity to the code.
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- include_vars action - Ensure that result masking is correctly requested when vault-encrypted files are read. (CVE-2024-8775)
+- task result processing - Ensure that action-sourced result masking (``_ansible_no_log=True``) is preserved. (CVE-2024-8775)
+- templating - Ansible's template engine no longer processes Jinja templates in strings unless they are marked as coming from a trusted source. Untrusted strings containing Jinja template markers are ignored with a warning. Examples of trusted sources include playbooks, vars files, and many inventory sources. Examples of untrusted sources include module results and facts. Plugins which have not been updated to preserve trust while manipulating strings may inadvertently cause them to lose their trusted status.
+- templating - Changes to conditional expression handling removed numerous instances of insecure multi-pass templating (which could result in execution of untrusted template expressions).
+- user action won't allow ssh-keygen, chown and chmod to run on existing ssh public key file, avoiding traversal on existing symlinks (CVE-2024-9902).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Ansible will now also warn when reserved keywords are set via a module (set_fact, include_vars, etc).
+- Ansible.Basic - Fix ``required_if`` check when the option value to check is unset or set to null.
+- Correctly return ``False`` when using the ``filter`` and ``test`` Jinja tests on plugin names which are not filters or tests, respectively. (resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82084)
+- Do not run implicit ``flush_handlers`` meta tasks when the whole play is excluded from the run due to tags specified.
+- Errors now preserve stacked error messages even when YAML is involved.
+- Fix a display.debug statement with the wrong param in _get_diff_data() method
+- Fix disabling SSL verification when installing collections and roles from git repositories. If ``--ignore-certs`` isn't provided, the value for the ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` configuration option will be used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83326).
+- Fix ipv6 pattern bug in lib/ansible/parsing/utils/addresses.py (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84237)
+- Fix returning 'unreachable' for the overall task result. This prevents false positives when a looped task has unignored unreachable items (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84019).
+- Implicit ``meta: flush_handlers`` tasks now have a parent block to prevent potential tracebacks when calling methods like ``get_play()`` on them internally.
+- Improve performance on large inventories by reducing the number of implicit meta tasks.
+- Jinja plugins - Errors raised will always be derived from ``AnsibleTemplatePluginError``.
+- Optimize the way tasks from within ``include_tasks``/``include_role`` are inserted into the play.
+- Time out waiting on become is an unreachable error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84468)
+- Use consistent multiprocessing context for action write locks
+- Use the requested error message in the ansible.module_utils.facts.timeout timeout function instead of hardcoding one.
+- Windows - add support for running on system where WDAC is in audit mode with ``Dynamic Code Security`` enabled.
+- YAML parsing - The `!unsafe` tag no longer coerces non-string scalars to strings.
+- ``ansible-galaxy`` — the collection dependency resolver now treats version specifiers starting with ``!=`` as unpinned.
+- ``package``/``dnf`` action plugins - provide the reason behind the failure to gather the ``ansible_pkg_mgr`` fact to identify the package backend
+- action plugins - Action plugins that raise unhandled exceptions no longer terminate playbook loops. Previously, exceptions raised by an action plugin caused abnormal loop termination and loss of loop iteration results.
+- ansible-config - format galaxy server configs while dumping in JSON format (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84840).
+- ansible-doc - If none of the files in files exists, path will be undefined and a direct reference will throw an UnboundLocalError (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84464).
+- ansible-galaxy - Small adjustments to URL building for ``download_url`` and relative redirects.
+- ansible-pull change detection will now work independently of callback or result format settings.
+- ansible-test - Enable the ``sys.unraisablehook`` work-around for the ``pylint`` sanity test on Python 3.11. Previously the work-around was only enabled for Python 3.12 and later. However, the same issue has been discovered on Python 3.11.
+- ansible-test - Ensure CA certificates are installed on managed FreeBSD instances.
+- ansible-test - Fix support for PowerShell module_util imports with the ``-Optional`` flag.
+- ansible-test - Fix support for detecting PowerShell modules importing module utils with the newer ``#AnsibleRequires`` format.
+- ansible-test - Fix traceback that occurs after an interactive command fails.
+- ansible-test - Fix up coverage reporting to properly translate the temporary path of integration test modules to the expected static test module path.
+- ansible-test - Fixed traceback when handling certain YAML errors in the ``yamllint`` sanity test.
+- ansible-test - Managed macOS instances now use the ``sudo_chdir`` option for the ``sudo`` become plugin to avoid permission errors when dropping privileges.
+- ansible-vault will now correctly handle `--prompt`, previously it would issue an error about stdin if no 2nd argument was passed
+- ansible_uptime_second - added ansible_uptime_seconds fact support for AIX (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84321).
+- apt_key module - prevent tests from running when apt-key was removed
+- base.yml - deprecated libvirt_lxc_noseclabel config.
+- build - Pin ``wheel`` in ``pyproject.toml`` to ensure compatibility with supported ``setuptools`` versions.
+- config - various fixes to config lookup plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84398).
+- copy - refactor copy module for simplicity.
+- copy action now prevents user from setting internal options.
+- debconf - set empty password values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83214).
+- debug - hide loop vars in debug var display (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65856).
+- default callback - Error context is now shown for failing tasks that use the ``debug`` action.
+- display - The ``Display.deprecated`` method once again properly handles the ``removed=True`` argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82358).
+- distro - add support for Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84934).
+- distro - detect Debian as os_family for LMDE 6 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84934).
+- dnf5 - Handle forwarded exceptions from dnf5-5.2.13 where a generic ``RuntimeError`` was previously raised
+- dnf5 - fix ``is_installed`` check for packages that are not installed but listed as provided by an installed package (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84578)
+- dnf5 - fix installing a package using ``state=latest`` when a binary of the same name as the package is already installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84259)
+- dnf5 - fix traceback when ``enable_plugins``/``disable_plugins`` is used on ``python3-libdnf5`` versions that do not support this functionality
+- dnf5 - libdnf5 - use ``conf.pkg_gpgcheck`` instead of deprecated ``conf.gpgcheck`` which is used only as a fallback
+- dnf5 - matching on a binary can be achieved only by specifying a full path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84334)
+- facts - gather pagesize and calculate respective values depending upon architecture (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84773).
+- facts - skip if distribution file path is directory, instead of raising error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84006).
+- find - skip ENOENT error code while recursively enumerating files. find module will now be tolerant to race conditions that remove files or directories from the target it is currently inspecting. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84873).
+- first_found lookup - Corrected return value documentation to reflect None (not empty string) for no files found.
+- gather_facts action now defaults to `ansible.legacy.setup` if `smart` was set, no network OS was found and no other alias for `setup` was present.
+- gather_facts action will now issues errors and warnings as appropriate if a network OS is detected but no facts modules are defined for it.
+- gather_facts action, will now add setup when 'smart' appears with other modules in the FACTS_MODULES setting (#84750).
+- get_url - add support for BSD-style checksum digest file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84476).
+- get_url - fix honoring ``filename`` from the ``content-disposition`` header even when the type is ``inline`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83690)
+- host_group_vars - fixed defining the 'key' variable if the get_vars method is called with cache=False (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84384)
+- include_vars - fix including previously undefined hash variables with hash_behaviour merge (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84295).
+- iptables - Allows the wait parameter to be used with iptables chain creation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84490)
+- linear strategy - fix executing ``end_role`` meta tasks for each host, instead of handling these as implicit run_once tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84660).
+- local connection plugin - Become timeout errors now include all received data. Previously, the most recently-received data was discarded.
+- local connection plugin - Ensure ``become`` success validation always occurs, even when an active plugin does not set ``prompt``.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed cases where the internal ``BECOME-SUCCESS`` message appeared in task output.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed hang or spurious failure when data arrived concurrently on stdout and stderr during a successful ``become`` operation validation.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed hang when a become plugin expects a prompt but a password was not provided.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed hang when an active become plugin incorrectly signals lack of prompt.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed hang when an internal become read timeout expired before the password prompt was written.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed hang when only one of stdout or stderr was closed by the ``become_exe`` subprocess.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed long timeout/hang for ``become`` plugins that repeat their prompt on failure (e.g., ``sudo``, some ``su`` implementations).
+- local connection plugin - Fixed silent ignore of ``become`` failures and loss of task output when data arrived concurrently on stdout and stderr during ``become`` operation validation.
+- local connection plugin - Fixed task output header truncation when post-become data arrived before ``become`` operation validation had completed.
+- lookup plugins - The ``terms`` arg to the ``run`` method is now always a list. Previously, there were cases where a non-list could be received.
+- module arg templating - When using a templated raw task arg and a templated ``args`` keyword, args are now merged. Previously use of templated raw task args silently ignored all values from the templated ``args`` keyword.
+- module defaults - Module defaults are no longer templated unless they are used by a task that does not override them. Previously, all module defaults for all modules were templated for every task.
+- module respawn - limit to supported Python versions
+- package_facts module when using 'auto' will return the first package manager found that provides an output, instead of just the first one, as this can be foreign and not have any packages.
+- psrp - Improve stderr parsing when running raw commands that emit error records or stderr lines.
+- regex_search filter - Corrected return value documentation to reflect None (not empty string) for no match.
+- respawn - use copy of env variables to update existing PYTHONPATH value (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84954).
+- runas become - Fix up become logic to still get the SYSTEM token with the most privileges when running as SYSTEM.
+- sequence lookup - sequence query/lookups without positional arguments now return a valid list if their kwargs comprise a valid sequence expression (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82921).
+- service_facts - skip lines which does not contain service names in openrc output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84512).
+- ssh - Improve the logic for parsing CLIXML data in stderr when working with Windows host. This fixes issues when the raw stderr contains invalid UTF-8 byte sequences and improves embedded CLIXML sequences.
+- ssh - Raise exception when sshpass returns error code (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/58133).
+- ssh - connection options were incorrectly templated during ``reset_connection`` tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84238).
+- stability - Fixed silent process failure on unhandled IOError/OSError under ``linear`` strategy.
+- su become plugin - Ensure generated regex from ``prompt_l10n`` config values is properly escaped.
+- su become plugin - Ensure that password prompts are correctly detected in the presence of leading output. Previously, this case resulted in a timeout or hang.
+- su become plugin - Ensure that trailing colon is expected on all ``prompt_l10n`` config values.
+- sudo become plugin - The `sudo_chdir` config option allows the current directory to be set to the specified value before executing sudo to avoid permission errors when dropping privileges.
+- sunos - remove hard coding of virtinfo command in facts gathering code (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84357).
+- to_yaml/to_nice_yaml filters - Eliminated possibility of keyword arg collisions with internally-set defaults.
+- unarchive - Clamp timestamps from beyond y2038 to representible values when unpacking zip files on platforms that use 32-bit time_t (e.g. Debian i386).
+- uri - Form location correctly when the server returns a relative redirect (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84540)
+- uri - Handle HTTP exceptions raised while reading the content (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83794).
+- uri - mark ``url`` as required (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83642).
+- user - Create Buildroot subclass as alias to Busybox (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83665).
+- user - Set timeout for passphrase interaction.
+- user - Update prompt for SSH key passphrase (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84484).
+- user - Use higher precedence HOME_MODE as UMASK for path provided (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84482).
+- user action will now require O(force) to overwrite the public part of an ssh key when generating ssh keys, as was already the case for the private part.
+- user module now avoids changing ownership of files symlinked in provided home dir skeleton
+- vars lookup - The ``default`` substitution only applies when trying to look up a variable which is not defined. If the variable is defined, but templates to an undefined value, the ``default`` substitution will not apply. Use the ``default`` filter to coerce those values instead.
+- wait_for_connection - a warning was displayed if any hosts used a local connection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84419)

changelogs/fragments/2.19.0b1_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.19.0b2_summary.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/2.19.0b3_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2025-05-06
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.19.0b4_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2025-05-12
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.19.0b5_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2025-06-03
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/20802-until-default.yml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/27816-fetch-unreachable.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/50603-tty-check.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/71916-user-expires-int.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - user - set expiration value correctly when unable to retrieve the current value from the system (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71916)

changelogs/fragments/73643-handlers-prevent-multiple-runs.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Prevent running same handler multiple times when included via ``include_role`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73643)

changelogs/fragments/74723-support-wildcard-win_fetch.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- win_fetch - Add support for using file with wildcards in file name.
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73128)

changelogs/fragments/75063-allow-dev-nul-as-skeleton-for-new-homedir.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - modules/user.py - Add check for valid directory when creating new user homedir (allows /dev/null as skeleton) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75063)
-  

changelogs/fragments/76372-fix-pip-virtualenv-command-parsing.yml

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-  - >-
-    Fixed `pip` module failure in case of usage quotes for
-    `virtualenv_command` option for the venv command.
-    (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76372)

changelogs/fragments/78487-galaxy-collections-path-warnings.yml

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
----
-minor_changes:
-- >-
-  Add ``GALAXY_COLLECTIONS_PATH_WARNING`` option to disable the warning
-  given by ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` when installing a collection
-  to a path that isn't in the configured collection paths.

changelogs/fragments/79129-ansible-managed-filename-format.yaml

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-  - template - Fix for formatting issues when a template path contains
-    valid jinja/strftime pattern (especially line break one) and
-    using the template path in ansible_managed
-    (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79129)

changelogs/fragments/79364_replace.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- replace - handle exception when bad escape character is provided in replace (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79364).

changelogs/fragments/79677-fix-argspec-type-check.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - module/role argument spec - validate the type for options that are None when the option is required or has a non-None default (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79656).

changelogs/fragments/79734-ansible-test-change-detection.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "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)."

changelogs/fragments/79844-fix-timeout-mounts-linux.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - setup gather_timeout - Fix timeout in get_mounts_facts for linux.

changelogs/fragments/79999-ansible-user-tweak-macos-defaults.yaml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 'ansible_user_module - tweaked macos user defaults to reflect expected defaults (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44316)'

changelogs/fragments/80089-prevent-module-build-date-issue.yml

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- ansiballz - Prevent issue where the time on the control host could
-  change part way through building the ansiballz file, potentially causing
-  a pre-1980 date to be used during ansiballz unpacking leading to a zip
-  file error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80089)

changelogs/fragments/80128-symbolic-modes-X-use-computed.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - file modules - Make symbolic modes with X use the computed permission, not original file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80128)
-  - copy unit tests - Fixing "dir all perms" documentation and formatting for easier reading.

changelogs/fragments/80257-iptables-chain-creation-does-not-populate-a-rule.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - iptables - remove default rule creation when creating iptables chain to be more similar to the command line utility (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80256).

changelogs/fragments/80258-defensive-display-non-utf8.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- Display - Defensively configure writing to stdout and stderr with a custom encoding error handler that will replace invalid characters
-  while providing a deprecation warning that non-utf8 text will result in an error in a future version.
-- module responses - Ensure that module responses are utf-8 adhereing to JSON RFC and expectations of the core code.

changelogs/fragments/80334-reduce-ansible-galaxy-api-calls.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - ansible-galaxy - reduce API calls to servers by fetching signatures only for final candidates.

changelogs/fragments/80406-validate-modules-semantic-markup.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "validate-modules sanity test - replace semantic markup parsing and validating code with the code from `antsibull-docs-parser 0.2.0 <https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-docs-parser/releases/tag/0.2.0>`__ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80406)."

changelogs/fragments/80449-fix-symbolic-mode-error-msg.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - file modules - fix validating invalid symbolic modes.

changelogs/fragments/80459-handlers-nested-includes-vars.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - include_role - expose variables from parent roles to role's handlers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80459)

changelogs/fragments/80460-add-symbolic-links-with-dir.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-minor_changes:
-  - include_vars - os.walk now follows symbolic links when traversing directories (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80460)

changelogs/fragments/80476-fix-loop-task-post-validation.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Fix post-validating looped task fields so the strategy uses the correct values after task execution.

changelogs/fragments/80488-pip-pkg-resources.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- pip module - Update module to prefer use of the python ``packaging`` and ``importlib.metadata`` modules due to ``pkg_resources`` being deprecated
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80488)

changelogs/fragments/80506-syntax-check-playbook-only.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- 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)

changelogs/fragments/80520-fix-current-hostname-openbsd.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - The ``hostname`` module now also updates both current and permanent hostname on OpenBSD. Before it only updated the permanent hostname (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80520).

changelogs/fragments/80523_-_adding_short_option_for_--ask-vault-pass.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - cli - Added short option '-J' for asking for vault password (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80523).

changelogs/fragments/80605-template-overlay-native-jinja.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "Properly disable ``jinja2_native`` in the template module when jinja2 override is used in the template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80605)"

changelogs/fragments/80648-fix-ansible-galaxy-cache-signatures-bug.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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.

changelogs/fragments/80721-ansible-galaxy.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- ansible-galaxy - Remove internal configuration argument ``v3`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80721)

changelogs/fragments/80738-abs-unarachive-src.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - unarchive - fix unarchiving sources that are copied to the remote node using a relative temporory directory path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80710).

changelogs/fragments/80841-display-type-annotation.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - Add Python type hints to the Display class (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80841)
-bugfixes:
-  - vars_prompt - internally convert the ``unsafe`` value to ``bool``

changelogs/fragments/80880-register-handlers-immediately-if-iterating-handlers.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- "From issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80880, when notifying a
-  handler from another handler, handler notifications must be registered
-  immediately as the flush_handler call is not recursive."

changelogs/fragments/80887-dnf5-api-change.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- dnf5 - Update dnf5 module to handle API change for setting the download directory
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80887)

changelogs/fragments/80943-ansible-galaxy-collection-subdir-install.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- ansible-galaxy - Fix variable type error when installing subdir collections
-  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80943)

changelogs/fragments/80968-replace-deprecated-ast-attr.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Fix ``ast`` deprecation warnings for ``Str`` and ``value.s`` when using Python 3.12.

changelogs/fragments/80985-fix-smgl-family-mapping.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - distribution facts - fix Source Mage family mapping

changelogs/fragments/81005-use-overlay-overrides.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- templating - In the template action and lookup, use local jinja2 environment overlay overrides instead of mutating the templars environment

changelogs/fragments/81013-handlers-listen-last-defined-only.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - handlers - the ``listen`` keyword can affect only one handler with the same name, the last one defined as it is a case with the ``notify`` keyword (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81013)

changelogs/fragments/81029-connection-types.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "paramiko_ssh, psrp, and ssh connection plugins - ensure that all values for options that should be strings are actually converted to strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81029)."

changelogs/fragments/81064-daemonize-fixes.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "``ansible.module_utils.service`` - fix inter-process communication in ``daemonize()``"

changelogs/fragments/81082-deprecated-importlib-abc.yml

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
----
-minor_changes:
-  - Use ``importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources`` instead of deprecated
-    ``importlib.abc.TraversableResources`` where available
-    (https:/github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81082).

changelogs/fragments/81083-add-blockinfile-append-and-prepend-new-line-options.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - blockinfile - add append_newline and prepend_newline options (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80835).

changelogs/fragments/81104-inventory-script-plugin-raise-execution-error.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- Inventory scripts parser not treat exception when getting hostsvar (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81103)

changelogs/fragments/81319-cloudstack-test-container-bump-version.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ansible-test - Updated the CloudStack test container to version 1.6.1.

changelogs/fragments/81332-fix-pkg-mgr-in-kylin.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - pkg_mgr.py - Fix `ansible_pkg_mgr` is unknown in Kylin Linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81332)

changelogs/fragments/81450-list-filters.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "ansible-console - fix filtering by collection names when a collection search path was set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81450)."
-minor_changes:
-  - "ansible-doc - allow to filter listing of collections and metadata dump by more than one collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81450)."

changelogs/fragments/81494-remove-duplicated-file-attribute-constant.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Import ``FILE_ATTRIBUTES`` from ``ansible.module_utils.common.file`` in ``ansible.module_utils.basic`` instead of defining it twice.

changelogs/fragments/81555-add-warning-for-illegal-filenames-in-roles.yaml

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ansible-galaxy - used to crash out with a "Errno 20 Not a directory" error when extracting files from a role when hitting a file with an illegal name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81553). Now it gives a warning identifying the culprit file and the rule violation (e.g., ``my$class.jar`` has a ``$`` in the name) before crashing out, giving the user a chance to remove the invalid file and try again. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81555).
-
-known_issues:
-  - ansible-galaxy - dies in the middle of installing a role when that role contains Java inner classes (files with $ in the file name).  This is by design, to exclude temporary or backup files. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81553).

changelogs/fragments/81613-remove-unusued-private-lock.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - lib/ansible/utils/encrypt.py - remove unused private ``_LOCK`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81613)

changelogs/fragments/81656-cf_readfp-deprecated.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - Replace uses of ``configparser.ConfigParser.readfp()`` which was removed in Python 3.12 with ``configparser.ConfigParser.read_file()`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81656)

changelogs/fragments/81662-blockinfile-exc.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "blockinfile - avoid crash with Python 3 if creating the directory fails when ``create=true`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81662)."

changelogs/fragments/81709-ansible-galaxy-slow-resolution-hints.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+
+minor_changes:
+- >-
+  ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` — the collection dependency resolver
+  now prints out conflicts it hits during dependency resolution when it's
+  taking too long and it ends up backtracking a lot. It also displays
+  suggestions on how to help it compute the result more quickly.
+
+...

changelogs/fragments/81812-ansible-galaxy-negative-spec-is-pinned.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+
+bugfixes:
+- >-
+  ``ansible-galaxy`` — the collection dependency resolver now treats
+  version specifiers starting with ``!=`` as unpinned.
+
+...

changelogs/fragments/81874-deprecate-datetime-compat.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+
+deprecated_features:
+- >-
+  ``ansible.module_utils.compat.datetime`` - The datetime compatibility
+  shims are now deprecated. They are scheduled to be removed in
+  ``ansible-core`` v2.21. This includes ``UTC``, ``utcfromtimestamp()``
+  and ``utcnow`` importable from said module
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81874).
+
+...

changelogs/fragments/83642-fix-sanity-ignore-for-uri.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - uri - mark ``url`` as required (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83642).

changelogs/fragments/83643-fix-sanity-ignore-for-copy.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - copy - parameter ``local_follow`` was incorrectly documented as having default value ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83643).
+  - copy - fix sanity test failures (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83643).

changelogs/fragments/83690-get_url-content-disposition-filename.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - get_url - fix honoring ``filename`` from the ``content-disposition`` header even when the type is ``inline`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83690)

changelogs/fragments/83700-enable-file-disable-diff.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - file - enable file module to disable diff_mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80817).

changelogs/fragments/83757-deprecate-paramiko.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+deprecated_features:
+- paramiko - The paramiko connection plugin has been deprecated with planned removal in 2.21.

changelogs/fragments/83936-ssh-askpass.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+minor_changes:
+- ssh connection plugin - Support ``SSH_ASKPASS`` mechanism to provide passwords, making it the default, but still offering an explicit choice to use ``sshpass``
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83936)