New release v2.15.2 (#81283 )

Replace reboot_command integration test with unit tests (#78956 ) (#81266 )
Co-authored-by: Matt Clay <matt@mystile.com> (cherry picked from commit b6ebb9d41a)
2023-07-17 19:07:12 -07:00 · 2023-07-14 14:27:46 -07:00 · 2023-07-11 17:13:15 -07:00 · 2023-07-11 16:28:22 -07:00 · 2023-07-10 19:39:43 +00:00 · 2023-07-10 20:52:05 +02:00
2077 changed files with 137968 additions and 14067 deletions
--- a/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - test: 1
            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
  - stage: Units
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
@ -55,13 +56,13 @@ stages:
          testFormat: units/{0}
          targets:
            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
            - test: 3.6
            - test: 3.7
            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
            - test: 3.11
-            - test: 3.12
  - stage: Windows
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
@ -70,6 +71,8 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Server {0}
          testFormat: windows/{0}/1
          targets:
+            - test: 2012
+            - test: 2012-R2
            - test: 2016
            - test: 2019
            - test: 2022
@ -83,16 +86,16 @@ stages:
              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: RHEL 8.7 py36
+              test: rhel/8.7@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.7 py39
+              test: rhel/8.7@3.9
+            - name: RHEL 9.1
+              test: rhel/9.1
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.4
+              test: freebsd/12.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.1
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@ -101,12 +104,12 @@ stages:
          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: RHEL 8.7
+              test: rhel/8.7
+            - name: RHEL 9.1
+              test: rhel/9.1
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.1
          groups:
            - 3
            - 4
@ -114,14 +117,16 @@ stages:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller (ansible-test container management)
        parameters:
          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.18
-              test: alpine/3.18
+            - name: Alpine 3.17
+              test: alpine/3.17
            - name: Fedora 38
              test: fedora/38
-            - name: RHEL 8.8
-              test: rhel/8.8
-            - name: RHEL 9.2
-              test: rhel/9.2
+            - name: RHEL 8.7
+              test: rhel/8.7
+            - name: RHEL 9.1
+              test: rhel/9.1
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu/20.04
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu/22.04
          groups:
@ -137,8 +142,8 @@ stages:
              test: alpine3
            - name: CentOS 7
              test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora38
+            - name: Fedora 37
+              test: fedora37
            - name: openSUSE 15
              test: opensuse15
            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
@ -154,8 +159,8 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - name: Alpine 3
              test: alpine3
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora38
+            - name: Fedora 37
+              test: fedora37
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu2204
          groups:
@ -170,9 +175,9 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: galaxy/{0}/1
          targets:
+            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
            - test: 3.11
-            - test: 3.12
  - stage: Generic
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
@ -181,9 +186,9 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: generic/{0}/1
          targets:
+            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
            - test: 3.11
-            - test: 3.12
  - stage: Incidental_Windows
    displayName: Incidental Windows
    dependsOn: []
@ -193,6 +198,8 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Server {0}
          testFormat: i/windows/{0}
          targets:
+            - test: 2012
+            - test: 2012-R2
            - test: 2016
            - test: 2019
            - test: 2022
--- a/.azure-pipelines/commands/incidental/windows.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/commands/incidental/windows.sh
@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ provider="${P:-default}"
 python_default="$(PYTHONPATH="${PWD}/test/lib" python -c 'from ansible_test._internal import constants; print(constants.CONTROLLER_MIN_PYTHON_VERSION)')"

 # version to test when only testing a single version
-single_version=2022
+single_version=2012-R2

 # shellcheck disable=SC2086
 ansible-test windows-integration --list-targets -v ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} > /tmp/explain.txt 2>&1 || { cat /tmp/explain.txt && false; }
--- a/.azure-pipelines/commands/sanity.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/commands/sanity.sh
@ -16,8 +16,14 @@ group2_include=(
    validate-modules
 )

+group3_include=(
+    docs-build
+    sanity-docs
+)
+
 group1_exclude=(
    "${group2_include[@]}"
+    "${group3_include[@]}"
 )

 options=()
@ -33,6 +39,11 @@ case "${group}" in
            options+=(--test "${name}")
        done
        ;;
+    3)
+        for name in "${group3_include[@]}"; do
+            options+=(--test "${name}")
+        done
+        ;;
 esac

 # shellcheck disable=SC2086
--- a/.azure-pipelines/commands/windows.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/commands/windows.sh
@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ IFS=' ' read -r -a python_versions <<< \
 python_default="$(PYTHONPATH="${PWD}/test/lib" python -c 'from ansible_test._internal import constants; print(constants.CONTROLLER_MIN_PYTHON_VERSION)')"

 # version to test when only testing a single version
-single_version=2022
+single_version=2012-R2

 # shellcheck disable=SC2086
 ansible-test windows-integration --list-targets -v ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} > /tmp/explain.txt 2>&1 || { cat /tmp/explain.txt && false; }
--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+automerge: false
+collection_redirect: true
+notifications: false
+files:
+  $module_utils/csharp: &id001
+    labels: windows
+    maintainers: $team_windows_core
+    support: core
+  $module_utils/network:
+    labels: networking
+  $module_utils/network/common:
+    maintainers: $team_networking
+    support: network
+  $module_utils/powershell: *id001
+  $modules:
+    ignored: ryansb tomaszkiewicz
+  $modules/lineinfile.py: $team_ansible samdoran
+  $modules/stat.py:
+    ignored: bpennypacker
+  $modules/unarchive.py:
+    ignored: dagwieers
+    labels: m:unarchive
+    maintainers: pileofrogs
+  $modules/add_host.py:
+    ignored: skvidal
+    maintainers: $team_ansible
+  $modules/get_url.py: ptux
+  $modules/uri.py:
+    ignored: romeotheriault
+    maintainers: $team_ansible
+  $modules/pip.py: Lujeni webknjaz
+  $modules//yum.py:
+    ignored: skvidal
+    maintainers: $team_ansible kustodian
+  $modules/user.py: $team_ansible samdoran
+  $modules/pause.py: samdoran
+  $modules/wait_for.py: gregswift
+  $plugins/cliconf/:
+    labels: networking
+  $plugins/connection/psrp.py: *id001
+  $plugins/connection/winrm.py: *id001
+  $plugins/doc_fragments/url_windows.py:
+    labels: windows
+    maintainers: $team_windows_core
+    support: core
+  $plugins/httpapi:
+    labels: networking
+    maintainers: $team_networking
+    support: network
+  $plugins/netconf/:
+    labels: networking
+    maintainers: $team_networking
+    support: network
+  $plugins/shell/powershell.py: *id001
+  $plugins/terminal/:
+    labels: networking
+  $plugins/terminal/__init__.py:
+    support: network
+  .github/BOTMETA.yml:
+    labels: botmeta
+    support: core
+  docs/:
+    maintainers:
+    - acozine
+  docs/docsite/rst/community/:
+    maintainers:
+    - gundalow
+  docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/:
+    maintainers:
+    - gundalow
+  docs/docsite/rst/network/:
+    labels: networking
+    maintainers:
+    - samccann
+  docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/windows: *id001
+  hacking/report.py:
+    notified: mattclay
+  hacking/shippable/:
+    notified: mattclay
+  lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py:
+    keywords:
+    - persistent connection
+    labels: networking
+  lib/ansible/config/ansible_builtin_runtime.yml:
+    labels: runtime
+    maintainers: gundalow
+  lib/ansible/executor/powershell: *id001
+  lib/ansible/inventory:
+    keywords:
+    - core inventory
+    - inventory
+    - inventory parsing
+  lib/ansible/playbook/handler.py:
+    keywords:
+    - handlers
+  lib/ansible/playbook/role:
+    keywords:
+    - roles path
+    - roles_path
+    - role
+    - role path
+  lib/ansible/playbook/role/include.py:
+    keywords:
+    - include role
+    - include_role
+    - role include
+  lib/ansible/playbook/role/requirement.py:
+    keywords:
+    - role dependencies
+    - role dep
+    - role dependency
+  lib/ansible/release.py:
+    notified: mattclay nitzmahone
+  lib/ansible/template:
+    keywords:
+    - jinja
+    - jinja2
+  lib/ansible/utils/collection_loader.py:
+    notified: mattclay nitzmahone
+  test/integration/targets/incidental_:
+    notified: mattclay
+  test/lib/:
+    notified: mattclay
+  test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules:
+    keywords:
+    - validate-modules
+    notified:
+    - mattclay
+  test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/main.py:
+    notified:
+    - gundalow
+    - sivel
+  test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/schema.py:
+    notified:
+    - gundalow
+    - sivel
+  test/sanity/:
+    notified: mattclay
+  test/sanity/ignore.txt:
+    notified: tremble
+  test/support/:
+    notified: mattclay
+  test/utils/shippable/:
+    notified: mattclay
+macros:
+  module_utils: lib/ansible/module_utils
+  modules: lib/ansible/modules
+  plugins: lib/ansible/plugins
+  team_ansible: []
+  team_networking: Qalthos ganeshrn trishnaguha justjais NilashishC danielmellado rohitthakur2590 GomathiselviS
+  team_windows_core: nitzmahone jborean93
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+/docs/ @ansible/ansible-release-managers
+/examples/ @ansible/ansible-release-managers
+/hacking/ @ansible/ansible-release-managers
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ body:


      [ansibot help]:
-      /ansible/ansibotmini#ansibotmini
+      /ansible/ansibullbot/blob/master/ISSUE_HELP.md#for-issue-submitters


 - type: checkboxes
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml
@ -34,32 +34,6 @@ body:
      [submit a pull request]:
      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/documentation_contributions.html

- type: markdown
-  attributes:
-    value: >
-      **Check the repository for your issue.**
-
-      Source files for Ansible community documentation are
-      hosted in different repositories. Please make sure to file an
-      issue in the correct project.
-
-      Documentation for modules/plugins/etc that are officially
-      supported by the Ansible Core Engineering team is available
-      in this (`ansible/ansible`) repository.
-
-      The Installation Guide, Playbook Guide, Developer Guide,
-      and other documentation is available in the
-      [ansible/ansible-documentation] repository.
-      Documentation for other modules/plugins/etc is likely to be
-      available in one of the [Ansible Collections][collections index].
-      If available in the collection documentation, select the
-      **Issue Tracker** button to go directly to the GitHub issues.
-
-
-      [ansible/ansible-documentation]: /ansible/ansible-documentation
-
-      [collections index]:
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/index.html

 - type: textarea
  attributes:
@ -90,6 +64,9 @@ body:
          <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!_
@ -108,7 +85,19 @@ body:
      Write the short name of the rst file, module, plugin, task or
      feature below, *use your best guess if unsure*.

-    placeholder: lib/ansible/modules/copy.py
+
+      **Tip:** Be advised that the source for some parts of the
+      documentation are hosted outside of this repository. If the page
+      you are reporting describes modules/plugins/etc that are not
+      officially supported by the Ansible Core Engineering team, there
+      is a good chance that it is coming from one of the [Ansible
+      Collections maintained by the community][collections org]. If this
+      is the case, please make sure to file an issue under the
+      appropriate project there instead.
+
+
+      [collections org]: /ansible-collections
+    placeholder: docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/debugging.rst
  validations:
    required: true

@ -196,7 +185,7 @@ body:


      [ansibot help]:
-      /ansible/ansibotmini#ansibotmini
+      /ansible/ansibullbot/blob/master/ISSUE_HELP.md#for-issue-submitters


 - type: checkboxes
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml
@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ body:


      [ansibot help]:
-      /ansible/ansibotmini#ansibotmini
+      /ansible/ansibullbot/blob/master/ISSUE_HELP.md#for-issue-submitters


 - type: checkboxes
--- a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
+++ b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
@ -1,25 +1,23 @@
 ##### 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
+##### COMPONENT NAME
+<!--- Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below -->

+##### 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

 ```
--- a/.github/RELEASE_NAMES.txt
+++ b/.github/RELEASE_NAMES.txt
@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-2.16.0  All My Love
-2.15.0  Ten Years Gone
-2.14.0  C'mon Everybody
-2.13.0  Nobody's Fault but Mine
-2.12.0  Dazed and Confused
-2.11.0  Hey Hey, What Can I Do
-2.10.0  When the Levee Breaks
-2.9.0   Immigrant Song
-2.8.0   How Many More Times
-2.7.0   In the Light
-2.6.0   Heartbreaker
-2.5.0   Kashmir
-2.4.0   Dancing Days
-2.3.0   Ramble On
-2.2.0   The Battle of Evermore
-2.1.0   The Song Remains the Same
-2.0.0   Over the Hills and Far Away
--- a/.github/RELEASE_NAMES.yml
+++ b/.github/RELEASE_NAMES.yml
@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+---
+- 2.15.0  Ten Years Gone
+- 2.14.0  C'mon Everybody
+- 2.13.0  Nobody's Fault but Mine
+- 2.12.0  Dazed and Confused
+- 2.11.0  Hey Hey, What Can I Do
+- 2.10.0  When the Levee Breaks
+- 2.9.0   Immigrant Song
+- 2.8.0   How Many More Times
+- 2.7.0   In the Light
+- 2.6.0   Heartbreaker
+- 2.5.0   Kashmir
+- 2.4.0   Dancing Days
+- 2.3.0   Ramble On
+- 2.2.0   The Battle of Evermore
+- 2.1.0   The Song Remains the Same
+- 2.0.0   Over the Hills and Far Away
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ lib/ansible/_vendor/*
 /test/integration/cloud-config-*.*
 !/test/integration/cloud-config-*.*.template
 .python-version
+/hacking/tests/selinux/*.mod
+/hacking/tests/selinux/*.pp
 # Release directory
 packaging/release/ansible_release
 /.cache/
--- a/9
+++ b/9
@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                       Version 3, 29 June 2007

- Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/>
+ Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-    along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

@ -664,11 +664,12 @@ might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an "about box".
  You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
 if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary.
 For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
-<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

  The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
 into proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you
 may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
 the library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
 Public License instead of this License.  But first, please read
-<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html>.
+<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
+
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@ -1,11 +1,38 @@
+include README.rst
 include COPYING
-include bin/*
-include changelogs/CHANGELOG*.rst
-include changelogs/changelog.yaml
-include licenses/*.txt
 include requirements.txt
+recursive-include docs *
+include docs/docsite/rst/collections/all_plugins.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst_warnings
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/conf.py
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/index.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/index.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/bin-symlinks.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/botmeta.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/integration-aliases.rst
+exclude docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/release-names.rst
+recursive-exclude docs/docsite/_build *
+recursive-exclude docs/docsite/_extensions *.pyc *.pyo
+include examples/hosts
+include examples/ansible.cfg
+include examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1
+include examples/scripts/upgrade_to_ps3.ps1
+recursive-include licenses *.txt
 recursive-include packaging *.py *.j2
 recursive-include test/integration *
 recursive-include test/sanity *.in *.json *.py *.txt
 recursive-include test/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs *.md
+exclude test/sanity/code-smell/botmeta.*
+exclude test/sanity/code-smell/release-names.*
+exclude test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/commands/sanity/bin_symlinks.py
+exclude test/lib/ansible_test/_internal/commands/sanity/integration_aliases.py
 recursive-include test/units *
+include MANIFEST.in
+include changelogs/CHANGELOG*.rst
+include changelogs/changelog.yaml
+recursive-include hacking/build_library *.py
+include hacking/build-ansible.py
+include hacking/test-module.py
+include hacking/update-sanity-requirements.py
+include hacking/templates/*.j2
+include bin/*
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-[![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/)
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-[![Ansible mailing lists](https://img.shields.io/badge/mailing%20lists-Ansible-orange.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html#mailing-list-information)
-[![Repository License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL%20v3.0-brightgreen.svg)](COPYING)
-[![Ansible CII Best Practices certification](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372)
-
-# Ansible
-
-Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles
-configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning,
-ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex
-changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy. More information on the Ansible [website](https://ansible.com/).
-
-## Design Principles
-
-* Have an extremely simple setup process with a minimal learning curve.
-* Manage machines quickly and in parallel.
-* Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by
-  leveraging the existing SSH daemon.
-* Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human
-  friendly.
-* Focus on security and easy auditability/review/rewriting of content.
-* Manage new remote machines instantly, without bootstrapping any
-  software.
-* Allow module development in any dynamic language, not just Python.
-* Be usable as non-root.
-* Be the easiest IT automation system to use, ever.
-
-## Use Ansible
-
-You can install a released version of Ansible with `pip` or a package manager. See our
-[installation guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html) for details on installing Ansible
-on a variety of platforms.
-
-Power users and developers can run the `devel` branch, which has the latest
-features and fixes, directly. Although it is reasonably stable, you are more likely to encounter
-breaking changes when running the `devel` branch. We recommend getting involved
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-
-## Get Involved
-
-* Read [Community Information](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community) for all
-  kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project,
-  including mailing list information and how to submit bug reports and
-  code to Ansible.
-* Join a [Working Group](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki),
-  an organized community devoted to a specific technology domain or platform.
-* Submit a proposed code update through a pull request to the `devel` branch.
-* Talk to us before making larger changes
-  to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps everyone
-  know what is going on, but it also helps save time and effort if we decide
-  some changes are needed.
-* For a list of email lists, IRC channels and Working Groups, see the
-  [Communication page](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html)
-
-## Coding Guidelines
-
-We document our Coding Guidelines in the [Developer Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/). We particularly suggest you review:
-
-* [Contributing your module to Ansible](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_checklist.html)
-* [Conventions, tips, and pitfalls](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_best_practices.html)
-
-## Branch Info
-
-* The `devel` branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
-* The `stable-2.X` branches correspond to stable releases.
-* Create a branch based on `devel` and set up a [dev environment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html#common-environment-setup) if you want to open a PR.
-* See the [Ansible release and maintenance](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html) page for information about active branches.
-
-## Roadmap
-
-Based on team and community feedback, an initial roadmap will be published for a major or minor version (ex: 2.7, 2.8).
-The [Ansible Roadmap page](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/) details what is planned and how to influence the roadmap.
-
-## Authors
-
-Ansible was created by [Michael DeHaan](https://github.com/mpdehaan)
-and has contributions from over 5000 users (and growing). Thanks everyone!
-
-[Ansible](https://www.ansible.com) is sponsored by [Red Hat, Inc.](https://www.redhat.com)
-
-## License
-
-GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
-
-See [COPYING](COPYING) to see the full text.
--- a/README.rst
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+|PyPI version| |Docs badge| |Chat badge| |Build Status| |Code Of Conduct| |Mailing Lists| |License| |CII Best Practices|
+
+*******
+Ansible
+*******
+
+Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles
+configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning,
+ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex
+changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy. More information on the Ansible `website <https://ansible.com/>`_.
+
+Design Principles
+=================
+
+*  Have an extremely simple setup process with a minimal learning curve.
+*  Manage machines quickly and in parallel.
+*  Avoid custom-agents and additional open ports, be agentless by
+   leveraging the existing SSH daemon.
+*  Describe infrastructure in a language that is both machine and human
+   friendly.
+*  Focus on security and easy auditability/review/rewriting of content.
+*  Manage new remote machines instantly, without bootstrapping any
+   software.
+*  Allow module development in any dynamic language, not just Python.
+*  Be usable as non-root.
+*  Be the easiest IT automation system to use, ever.
+
+Use Ansible
+===========
+
+You can install a released version of Ansible with ``pip`` or a package manager. See our
+`installation guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html>`_ for details on installing Ansible
+on a variety of platforms.
+
+Power users and developers can run the ``devel`` branch, which has the latest
+features and fixes, directly. Although it is reasonably stable, you are more likely to encounter
+breaking changes when running the ``devel`` branch. We recommend getting involved
+in the Ansible community if you want to run the ``devel`` branch.
+
+Get Involved
+============
+
+*  Read `Community
+   Information <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community>`_ for all
+   kinds of ways to contribute to and interact with the project,
+   including mailing list information and how to submit bug reports and
+   code to Ansible.
+*  Join a `Working Group
+   <https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki>`_, an organized community devoted to a specific technology domain or platform.
+*  Submit a proposed code update through a pull request to the ``devel`` branch.
+*  Talk to us before making larger changes
+   to avoid duplicate efforts. This not only helps everyone
+   know what is going on, but it also helps save time and effort if we decide
+   some changes are needed.
+*  For a list of email lists, IRC channels and Working Groups, see the
+   `Communication page <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html>`_
+
+Coding Guidelines
+=================
+
+We document our Coding Guidelines in the `Developer Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/>`_. We particularly suggest you review:
+
+* `Contributing your module to Ansible <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_checklist.html>`_
+* `Conventions, tips, and pitfalls <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_best_practices.html>`_
+
+Branch Info
+===========
+
+*  The ``devel`` branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
+*  The ``stable-2.X`` branches correspond to stable releases.
+*  Create a branch based on ``devel`` and set up a `dev environment <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html#common-environment-setup>`_ if you want to open a PR.
+*  See the `Ansible release and maintenance <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html>`_ page for information about active branches.
+
+Roadmap
+=======
+
+Based on team and community feedback, an initial roadmap will be published for a major or minor version (ex: 2.7, 2.8).
+The `Ansible Roadmap page <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/>`_ details what is planned and how to influence the roadmap.
+
+Authors
+=======
+
+Ansible was created by `Michael DeHaan <https://github.com/mpdehaan>`_
+and has contributions from over 5000 users (and growing). Thanks everyone!
+
+`Ansible <https://www.ansible.com>`_ is sponsored by `Red Hat, Inc.
+<https://www.redhat.com>`_
+
+License
+=======
+
+GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
+
+See `COPYING <COPYING>`_ to see the full text.
+
+.. |PyPI version| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ansible-core.svg
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+.. |Docs badge| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg
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+.. |Chat badge| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-IRC-brightgreen.svg
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+   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html#mailing-list-information
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+   :target: COPYING
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+   :target: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372
+   :alt: Ansible CII Best Practices certification
--- a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.15.rst
+++ b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.15.rst
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+================================================
+ansible-core 2.15 "Ten Years Gone" Release Notes
+================================================
+
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+
+v2.15.2
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-07-18
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Utilize gpg check provided internally by the ``transaction.run`` method as oppose to calling it manually.
+- ansible-test - Add Fedora 38 remote.
+- ansible-test - Use a context manager to perform cleanup at exit instead of using the built-in ``atexit`` module.
+- dnf5 - enable environment groups installation testing in CI as its support was added.
+- dnf5 - enable now implemented ``cacheonly`` functionality
+
+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.
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix issue installing collections containing directories with more than 100 characters on python versions before 3.10.6
+- 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).
+- templating - In the template action and lookup, use local jinja2 environment overlay overrides instead of mutating the templars environment
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- ansible-test - The Fedora 37 remote is known to occasionally hang during boot. It is no longer routinely tested as a result. If possible, use the Fedora 38 remote instead.
+
+v2.15.1
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-06-20
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - Allow float values for the ``--timeout`` option to the ``env`` command. This simplifies testing.
+- ansible-test - Refactored ``env`` command logic and timeout handling.
+- ansible-test - Use ``datetime.datetime.now`` with ``tz`` specified instead of ``datetime.datetime.utcnow``.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Properly disable ``jinja2_native`` in the template module when jinja2 override is used in the template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80605)
+- ansible-galaxy - Fix variable type error when installing subdir collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80943)
+- ansible-test - Fix a traceback that occurs when attempting to test Ansible source using a different ansible-test. A clear error message is now given when this scenario occurs.
+- ansible-test - Fix handling of timeouts exceeding one day.
+- ansible-test - Fix various cases where the test timeout could expire without terminating the tests.
+- 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).
+- deb822_repository - use http-agent for receiving content (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80809).
+- dnf5 - Update dnf5 module to handle API change for setting the download directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80887)
+- man page build - Remove the dependency on the ``docs`` directory for building man pages.
+- pep517 build backend - Copy symlinks when copying the source tree. This avoids tracebacks in various scenarios, such as when a venv is present in the source tree.
+- uri - fix search for JSON type to include complex strings containing '+'
+
+v2.15.0
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2023-05-15
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
+
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - Docker Desktop on WSL2 is now supported (additional configuration required).
+- ansible-test - Docker and Podman are now supported on hosts with cgroup v2 unified. Previously only cgroup v1 and cgroup v2 hybrid were supported.
+- ansible-test - Podman now works on container hosts without systemd. Previously only some containers worked, while others required rootfull or rootless Podman, but would not work with both. Some containers did not work at all.
+- ansible-test - Podman on WSL2 is now supported.
+- ansible-test - When additional cgroup setup is required on the container host, this will be automatically detected. Instructions on how to configure the host will be provided in the error message shown.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Add support for custom salt for vault encoding to make it deterministic (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35480).
+- Added the conditional that was False if ``when`` caused a task to skip under ``false_condition``.
+- Allow force deletion of a group even when it is the primary group of a user. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77849)
+- Ansible.ModuleUtils.AddType - Add support for compiling ``unsafe`` code with the ``//AllowUnsafe`` directive
+- Cache field attributes list on the playbook classes
+- Cleaned up unused imports in core.
+- Get user input for ``pause`` and ``paramiko_ssh`` from the strategy rather than access ``sys.stdin`` in the WorkerProcess.
+- Introduce ``Delegatable`` and ``Notifiable`` mixin classes for playbook objects
+- Make using blocks as handlers a parser error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79968)
+- Playbook objects - Replace deprecated stacked ``@classmethod`` and ``@property``
+- Raise an error when an incorrect ``isa`` type is passed to ``FieldAttribute``.
+- Remove fallback code for when ``defined``/``undefined`` tests were used on objects containing nested undefined variables; due to changes in lazy evalution of Jinja2 expressions it is no longer needed.
+- Remove unused Python stdlib imports from module_utils which were not present for backwards compatibility in: common.file, compat.selectors, facts.network.iscsi, facts.network.nvme, yumdnf
+- Remove unused internal imports from module_utils which were not present for backwards compatibility in: common.file, common.parameters, facts.system.caps, yumdnf
+- Removed ``straight.plugin`` from the build and packaging requirements.
+- Removed unused imports from the following action plugins: async_status, command, pause, set_stats, uri, validate_argument_spec
+- Removed unused imports from the following lookup plugins: fileglob, template
+- Removed unused imports from the following modules: apt, dnf, expect, pip, slurp, user, yum
+- Removed unused imports from the following set of test plugins: files
+- Removed unused imports from the following strategy plugins: debug
+- Removed unused imports from the following vars plugins: host_group_vars
+- The minimum required ``setuptools`` version is now 45.2.0, as it is the oldest version to support Python 3.10.
+- Use ``ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat`` in modules and module_utils.
+- Use ``collections.abc`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat`` in controller code.
+- Use ``package_data`` instead of ``include_package_data`` for ``setup.cfg`` to avoid ``setuptools`` warnings.
+- ``AnsibleJ2Vars`` class that acts as a storage for all variables for templating purposes now uses ``collections.ChainMap`` internally.
+- add parameter ``numeric`` to the iptables module to disable dns lookups when running list -action internally (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78793).
+- allow user to set ansible specific env vars for selecting pager and editor, but still fall back to commonly used defaults.
+- ansible-doc - support role extension for semantic markup spec so that ``O()`` and ``RV()`` referring to role entrypoints are rendered more readable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80305).
+- ansible-doc - support semantic markup in text output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80242).
+- ansible-doc text output - support ``seealso`` plugin record that was added for filter and test plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80212).
+- ansible-galaxy - Add ability to specify collection versions on the CLI without the need for a colon. Such as ``namespace.name==1.2.3`` vs ``namespace.name:1.2.3``.
+- ansible-galaxy - Use Python's native ``raise ... from`` instead of ``six.raise_from``.
+- ansible-galaxy - support ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 0.10.0``.
+- ansible-galaxy - support ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 1.1.0``.
+- ansible-inventory now supports the limit command line options.
+- ansible-test - A new ``audit`` option is available when running custom containers. This option can be used to indicate whether a container requires the AUDIT_WRITE capability. The default is ``required``, which most containers will need when using Podman. If necessary, the ``none`` option can be used to opt-out of the capability. This has no effect on Docker, which always provides the capability.
+- ansible-test - A new ``cgroup`` option is available when running custom containers. This option can be used to indicate a container requires cgroup v1 or that it does not use cgroup. The default behavior assumes the container works with cgroup v2 (as well as v1).
+- ansible-test - Add Alpine 3.17 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add Fedora 37 container.
+- ansible-test - Add Fedora 37 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add FreeBSD 12.4 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add RHEL 8.7 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add RHEL 9.1 remote.
+- ansible-test - Add macOS 13.2 remote.
+- ansible-test - Additional log details are shown when containers fail to start or SSH connections to containers fail.
+- ansible-test - Connection failures to remote provisioned hosts now show failure details as a warning.
+- ansible-test - Containers included with ansible-test no longer disable seccomp by default.
+- ansible-test - Disabled the ``ansible-format-automatic-specification`` rule from the ``pylint`` sanity test, now that Python 2.6 is no longer supported.
+- ansible-test - Enable the ``trailing-comma-tuple`` rule in the ``pylint`` sanity test.
+- ansible-test - Enable the ``unused-import`` rule for the ``pylint`` sanity test for collections.
+- ansible-test - Failure to connect to a container over SSH now results in a clear error. Previously tests would be attempted even after initial connection attempts failed.
+- ansible-test - Improve consistency of executed ``pylint`` commands by making the plugins ordered.
+- ansible-test - Improve consistency of version specific documentation links.
+- ansible-test - Integration tests can be excluded from retries triggered by the ``--retry-on-error`` option by adding the ``retry/never`` alias. This is useful for tests that cannot pass on a retry or are too slow to make retries useful.
+- ansible-test - Minor cleanup and package updates in distro containers.
+- ansible-test - More details are provided about an instance when provisioning fails.
+- ansible-test - Moved git handling out of the validate-modules sanity test and into ansible-test.
+- ansible-test - Reduce the polling limit for SSHD startup in containers from 60 retries to 10. The one second delay between retries remains in place.
+- ansible-test - Removed test containers: fedora36
+- ansible-test - Removed test remotes: alpine/3.16, fedora/36, freebsd/12.3, rhel/8.6, rhel/9.0, macos/12.0
+- ansible-test - Removed the ``--keep-git`` sanity test option, which was limited to testing ansible-core itself.
+- ansible-test - SSH connections from OpenSSH 8.8+ to CentOS 6 containers now work without additional configuration. However, clients older than OpenSSH 7.0 can no longer connect to CentOS 6 containers as a result. The container must have ``centos6`` in the image name for this work-around to be applied.
+- ansible-test - SSH shell connections from OpenSSH 8.8+ to ansible-test provisioned network instances now work without additional configuration. However, clients older than OpenSSH 7.0 can no longer open shell sessions for ansible-test provisioned network instances as a result.
+- ansible-test - Specify the configuration file location required by test plugins when the config file is not found. This resolves issue: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79411
+- ansible-test - The ``ansible-test env`` command now detects and reports the container ID if running in a container.
+- ansible-test - The ``pep8`` sanity test rule ``E203`` is now disabled since it is not PEP 8 compliant. This provides compatibility with output generated by the ``black`` code formatter.
+- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test no longer limits the ``__future__`` imports that can be used. Other sanity tests that check ``__future__`` imports remain unchanged. As a result, the error code ``illegal-future-imports`` is no longer used.
+- ansible-test - Unit tests now support network disconnect by default when running under Podman. Previously this feature only worked by default under Docker.
+- ansible-test - Update Alpine 3 container to 3.17.
+- ansible-test - Update Python requirements used for sanity tests.
+- ansible-test - Update ``base`` and ``default`` containers to include Python 3.11.0.
+- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to include new ``docs-build`` sanity test requirements.
+- ansible-test - Update error handling code to use Python 3.x constructs, avoiding direct use of ``errno``.
+- ansible-test - Update test container to ``7.4.0`` which includes the new PSScriptAnalyzer versions
+- ansible-test - Update the CloudStack test plugin to use a newer test container with CloudStack 4.18.0.
+- ansible-test - Update the NIOS test plugin to use a newer multi-arch test container.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``ansible-bad-import-from`` rule in the ``pylint`` sanity test to recommend ``ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat``.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` test containers with the latest requirements.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to include the ``package-data`` requirements update.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers to include the ``pylint`` requirements update.
+- ansible-test - Updated the Azure Pipelines CI plugin to work with newer versions of git.
+- ansible-test - Use ``stop --time 0`` followed by ``rm`` to remove ephemeral containers instead of ``rm -f``. This speeds up teardown of ephemeral containers.
+- ansible-test - Warnings are now shown when using containers that were built with VOLUME instructions.
+- ansible-test - When setting the max open files for containers, the container host's limit will be checked. If the host limit is lower than the preferred value, it will be used and a warning will be shown.
+- ansible-test - When using Podman, ansible-test will detect if the loginuid used in containers is incorrect. When this occurs a warning is displayed and the container is run with the AUDIT_CONTROL capability. Previously containers would fail under this situation, with no useful warnings or errors given.
+- ansible-test acme test container - update version to update used Pebble version, underlying Python and Go base containers, and Python requirements (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79783).
+- ansible-test pslint - Upgrade PSScriptAnalyzer to ``1.21.0`` which enables the ``AvoidMultipleTypeAttributes``, ``AvoidSemicolonsAsLineTerminators``, and ``AvoidUsingBrokenHashAlgorithms`` rules
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata sanity test - ensure that ``redirect`` entries in ``meta/runtime.yml`` contain collection names, except for ``module_utils`` plugin redirects and ``import_redirect`` redirects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78802).
+- ansible-test sanity --test ansible-doc - now also lists documentation for test and filter plugins that are documented (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77737).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - Added support for validating module documentation stored in a sidecar file alongside the module (``{module}.yml`` or ``{module}.yaml``). Previously these files were ignored and documentation had to be placed in ``{module}.py``.
+- ansible-test validate-modules - no longer treat falsy non-``False`` values for defaults as ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79267).
+- apt - add allow-change-held-packages option to apt remove (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78131)
+- apt_repository - adds ``sources_added`` and ``sources_removed`` to the return of the module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79306).
+- apt_repository will use the trust repo directories in order of preference (more appropriate to less) as they exist on the target.
+- collections - Add additional ignores for commonly rejected file extensions
+- collections - Add additional includes for REUSE license files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79368)
+- deb822_repository - Add new module for managing DEB822 formatted apt repositories
+- debug - Perform argspec valdiation in debug action plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79862)
+- dnf5 - Add new module for managing packages and other artifacts via the next version of DNF (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78898)
+- galaxy - include ``license_file`` in the default manifest directives (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull-request/79420)
+- optimized var loading by caching results as there is no variance in input during run.
+- pycompat24 module_utils - Remove support for Python 2.5 and earlier.
+- sanity tests - updates the collection-deprecated-version tests to ignore the ``prerelease`` component of the collection version ().
+- strftime filter, additional docs and links to source of truth.
+- updated the vendored distro library to upstream version (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79227)
+- validate-modules sanity test - add support for semantic markup (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80243).
+- validate-modules sanity test - if the ``check_mode`` attribute is present, check that it coincides with the ``support_check_mode`` parameter of ``AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80090).
+- validate-modules sanity test - remove support for the never implemented ``forced_action_plugin`` attribute (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79317).
+- validate-modules sanity test - support the ``plugin`` see-also part of the semantic markup specification (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80244).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- ansible-doc - no longer treat plugins in collections whose name starts with ``_`` as deprecated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79362).
+- ansible-test - Integration tests which depend on specific file permissions when running in an ansible-test managed host environment may require changes. Tests that require permissions other than ``755`` or ``644`` may need to be updated to set the necessary permissions as part of the test run.
+- ansible-test - The ``vcenter`` test plugin now defaults to using a user-provided static configuration instead of the ``govcsim`` simulator for collections. Set the ``ANSIBLE_VCSIM_CONTAINER`` environment variable to ``govcsim`` to use the simulator. Keep in mind that the simulator is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
+- ansible-test sanity - previously plugins and modules in collections whose name started with ``_`` were treated as deprecated, even when they were not marked as deprecated in ``meta/runtime.yml``. This is no longer the case (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79362).
+- ansible-test validate-modules - Removed the ``missing-python-doc`` error code in validate modules, ``missing-documentation`` is used instead for missing PowerShell module documentation.
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- The ``ConnectionBase()._new_stdin`` attribute is deprecated, use ``display.prompt_until(msg)`` instead.
+- ansible-test - The ``foreman`` test plugin is now deprecated. It will be removed in a future release.
+- ansible-test - The ``govcsim`` simulator in the ``vcenter`` test plugin is now deprecated. It will be removed in a future release. Users should switch to providing their own test environment through a static configuration file.
+- password_hash - deprecate using passlib.hash.hashtype if hashtype isn't in the list of documented choices.
+- vars - Specifying a list of dictionaries for ``vars:`` is deprecated in favor of specifying a dictionary.
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- Remove deprecated ``ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_WHITELIST`` configuration environment variable, use ``ANSIBLE_CALLBACKS_ENABLED`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78821)
+- Remove deprecated ``ANSIBLE_COW_WHITELIST`` configuration environment variable, use ``ANSIBLE_COW_ACCEPTLIST`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78819)
+- Remove deprecated ``callback_whitelist`` configuration option, use ``callbacks_enabled`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78822)
+- Remove deprecated ``cow_whitelist`` configuration option, use ``cowsay_enabled_stencils`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78820)
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Ansible.Basic.cs - Ignore compiler warning (reported as an error) when running under PowerShell 7.3.x.
+- AnsibleModule.run_command - Only use selectors when needed, and rely on Python stdlib subprocess for the simple task of collecting stdout/stderr when prompt matching is not required.
+- BSD network facts - Do not assume column indexes, look for ``netmask`` and ``broadcast`` for determining the correct columns when parsing ``inet`` line (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79117)
+- Correctly count rescued tasks in play recap (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79711)
+- 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.
+- Do not crash when templating an expression with a test or filter that is not a valid Ansible filter name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78912, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78913).
+- Fix ``MANIFEST.in`` to exclude unwanted files in the ``packaging/`` directory.
+- Fix ``MANIFEST.in`` to include ``*.md`` files in the ``test/support/`` directory.
+- Fix a traceback occuring when a task is named ``meta`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79459)
+- Fix an issue where the value of ``become`` was ignored when used on a role used as a dependency in ``main/meta.yml`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79777)
+- Fix bug in `vars` applied to roles, they were being incorrectly exported among others while only vars/main.yml was meant to be. Also adjusted the precedence to act the same as inline params.
+- Fix conditionally notifying ``include_tasks` handlers when ``force_handlers`` is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79776)
+- Fix post-validating looped task fields so the strategy uses the correct values after task execution.
+- Fix reusing a connection in a task loop that uses a redirected or aliased name - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78425
+- Fix setting become activation in a task loop - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78425
+- Fix traceback when using the ``template`` module and running with ``ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79763)
+- Fix using ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` in conjunction with collections in requirements files which specify a specific ``source`` that isn't in the configured servers.
+- Fix using ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` when downloading tarballs from Galaxy servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79557).
+- Fixes leftover _valid_attrs usage.
+- Fixes the password lookup to not rewrite files if they are not changed when using the "encrypt" parameter (#79430).
+- Module and role argument validation - include the valid suboption choices in the error when an invalid suboption is provided.
+- Perform type check on data passed to Display.display to enforce the requirement of being given a python3 unicode string
+- Prevent running same handler multiple times when included via ``include_role`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73643)
+- TaskExecutor - don't ignore templated _raw_params that k=v parser failed to parse (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79862)
+- Windows - Display a warning if the module failed to cleanup any temporary files rather than failing the task. The warning contains a brief description of what failed to be deleted.
+- Windows - Ensure the module temp directory contains more unique values to avoid conflicts with concurrent runs - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80294
+- Windows - Improve temporary file cleanup used by modules. Will use a more reliable delete operation on Windows Server 2016 and newer to delete files that might still be open by other software like Anti Virus scanners. There are still scenarios where a file or directory cannot be deleted but the new method should work in more scenarios.
+- ``ansible-galaxy search rolename`` - give a warning instead of non-zero return code when search results are empty. This is similar to the behavior when listing roles, which gives a warning if a role cannot be found and exits with a return code of ``0``.
+- ``ansible_eval_concat`` - avoid redundant unsafe wrapping of templated strings converted to Python types
+- ``pkg_mgr`` - fix the default dnf version detection
+- ansible-config limit shorthand format to assigned values
+- ansible-doc - stop generating wrong module URLs for module see-alsos. The URLs for modules in ansible.builtin do now work, and URLs for modules outside ansible.builtin are no longer added (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80280).
+- ansible-doc now will correctly display short descriptions on listing filters/tests no matter the directory sorting.
+- ansible-galaxy - Improve retries for collection installs, to properly retry, and extend retry logic to common URL related connection errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80170 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80174)
+- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections from directories that have a trailing path separator (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77803).
+- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections in git repositories/directories which contain a MANIFEST.json file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79796).
+- ansible-galaxy - fix installing signed collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80648).
+- ansible-galaxy - make initial call to Galaxy server on-demand only when installing, getting info about, and listing roles.
+- ansible-galaxy - reduce API calls to servers by fetching signatures only for final candidates.
+- ansible-galaxy collection install - respect symlinks when installing from source or local repository (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78442)
+- ansible-galaxy collection verify - fix verifying signed collections when the keyring is not configured.
+- ansible-galaxy collection/role init - preserve symlinks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39334).
+- ansible-galaxy role info - fix unhandled AttributeError by catching the correct exception.
+- ansible-inventory will no longer duplicate host entries if they were part of a group's childrens tree.
+- ansible-inventory will not explicitly sort groups/hosts anymore, giving a chance (depending on output format) to match the order in the input sources.
+- ansible-playbook -K breaks when passwords have quotes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79836).
+- ansible-test - Add ``wheel < 0.38.0`` constraint for Python 3.6 and earlier.
+- ansible-test - Add support for ``argcomplete`` version 3.
+- ansible-test - Add support for ``pytest`` assertion rewriting when running unit tests on Python 3.5 and later. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68032
+- ansible-test - Added a work-around for a traceback under Python 3.11 when completing certain command line options.
+- ansible-test - Allow disabled, unsupported, unstable and destructive integration test targets to be selected using their respective prefixes.
+- ansible-test - Allow unstable tests to run when targeted changes are made and the ``--allow-unstable-changed`` option is specified (resolves https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74213).
+- ansible-test - Always indicate the Python version being used before installing requirements. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72855
+- ansible-test - Avoid using ``exec`` after container startup when possible. This improves container startup performance and avoids intermittent startup issues with some old containers.
+- ansible-test - Connection attempts to managed remote instances no longer abort on ``Permission denied`` errors.
+- ansible-test - Detection for running in a Podman or Docker container has been fixed to detect more scenarios. The new detection relies on ``/proc/self/mountinfo`` instead of ``/proc/self/cpuset``. Detection now works with custom cgroups and private cgroup namespaces.
+- ansible-test - Exclude ansible-core vendored Python packages from ansible-test payloads.
+- ansible-test - Fix broken documentation link for ``aws`` test plugin error messages.
+- ansible-test - Fix validate-modules error when retrieving PowerShell argspec when retrieved inside a Cmdlet
+- ansible-test - Handle server errors when executing the ``docker info`` command.
+- ansible-test - Integration test target prefixes defined in a ``tests/integration/target-prefixes.{group}`` file can now contain an underscore (``_``) character. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79225
+- ansible-test - Multiple containers now work under Podman without specifying the ``--docker-network`` option.
+- ansible-test - Pass the ``XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`` environment variable through to container commands.
+- ansible-test - Perform PyPI proxy configuration after instances are ready and bootstrapping has been completed. Only target instances are affected, as controller instances were already handled this way. This avoids proxy configuration errors when target instances are not yet ready for use.
+- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent / repeat inspections of the same container image.
+- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent / repeat pulls of the same container image.
+- ansible-test - Prevent concurrent execution of cached methods.
+- ansible-test - Removed pointless comparison in diff evaluation logic.
+- ansible-test - Set ``PYLINTHOME`` for the ``pylint`` sanity test to prevent failures due to ``pylint`` checking for the existence of an obsolete home directory.
+- ansible-test - Show the exception type when reporting errors during instance provisioning.
+- ansible-test - Support Podman 4.4.0+ by adding the ``SYS_CHROOT`` capability when running containers.
+- ansible-test - Support loading of vendored Python packages from ansible-core.
+- ansible-test - The ``validate-modules`` sanity test now properly enforces documentation before imports for plugins. Previously this was only enforced for modules due to a coding error.
+- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.2 to resolve several possible false positives.
+- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.3 to resolve several possible false positives.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test requirements to resolve crashes on Python 3.11. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78882)
+- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 2.15.4.
+- ansible-test - Update the ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 2.15.5.
+- ansible-test - Use consistent file permissions when delegating tests to a container or remote host. Files with any execute bit set will use permissions ``755``. All other files will use permissions ``644``. (Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75079)
+- ansible-test - When bootstrapping remote FreeBSD instances, use the OS packaged ``setuptools`` instead of installing the latest version from PyPI.
+- ansible-test - fix warning message about failing to run an image to include the image name
+- ansible-test runtime-metadata sanity test - do not crash on YAML parsing errors without a context mark (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78802).
+- ansible-test sanity - correctly report invalid YAML in validate-modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75837).
+- ansible-vault encrypt_string - started appending a line feed at the end of the encrypted string output. Missing newline character caused problems identifying where the string ends in some shells (like bash) or accidentally copying an extra trailing terminator symbol (e.g., zsh prints out a ``%`` sign to signal where the original output stops) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78932).
+- ansible_facts.hardware - Define all processor facts on s390x (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/19755)
+- apt - set locale to fix updating the cache (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79523).
+- apt module should not traceback on invalid type given as package. issue 78663.
+- apt_repository will no longer fail to detect key when unrelated errors/warnings are issued by apt-key.
+- argument spec validation - again report deprecated parameters for Python-based modules. This was accidentally removed in ansible-core 2.11 when argument spec validation was refactored (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79680, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79681).
+- argument spec validation - ensure that deprecated aliases in suboptions are also reported (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79740).
+- argument spec validation - fix warning message when two aliases of the same option are used for suboptions to also mention the option's name they are in (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79740).
+- basic.py module_utils - Perform Python version check much earlier to ensure it runs before other errors occur.
+- connection local now avoids traceback on invalid user being used to execuet ansible (valid in host, but not in container).
+- copy - fix creating the dest directory in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78611).
+- copy - fix reporting changes to file attributes in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77957).
+- copy module will no longer move 'non files' set as src when remote_src=true.
+- copy remote_src=true - fix copying subdirs recursively when the dest exists and the src and dest have multiple common subdirectories in a common directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74536).
+- copy remote_src=true - fix reporting changed for copying empty directories.
+- display - reduce risk of post-fork output deadlocks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79522)
+- dnf5 - Use ``transaction.check_gpg_signatures`` API call to check package signatures AND possibly to recover from when keys are missing.
+- dnf5 - fix module and package names in the message following failed module respawn attempt
+- dnf5 - use the logs API to determine transaction problems
+- file - touch action in check mode was always returning ok. Fix now evaluates the different conditions and returns the appropriate changed status. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79360)
+- file lookup now handles missing files more gracefully.
+- file lookup now plays nice with generic lookup ``errors`` option.
+- get_url - Ensure we are passing ciphers to all url_get calls (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79717)
+- get_url module - Added a documentation reference to ``hashlib`` regarding algorithms, as well as a note about ``md5`` support on systems running in FIPS compliant mode.
+- get_url module - Removed out-of-date documentation stating that ``hashlib`` is a third-party library.
+- handlers - fix ``v2_playbook_on_notify`` callback not being called when notifying handlers
+- handlers - fix an issue where the ``flush_handlers`` meta task could not be used with FQCN: ``ansible.builtin.meta`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79023)
+- include_role - Inherit from role parents beyond a depth of 3 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47023).
+- jinja2_native - fix intermittent 'could not find job' failures when a value of ``ansible_job_id`` from a result of an async task was inadvertently changed during execution; to prevent this a format of ``ansible_job_id`` was changed.
+- jinja2_native: preserve quotes in strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79083)
+- keyword inheritance - Ensure that we do not squash keywords in validate (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79021)
+- known_hosts - do not return changed status when a non-existing key is removed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78598)
+- list-tags now shows the 'never' tag, which was being excluded by default. To list all tasks you still need to add `--list-tasks --tags never,all`.
+- loops/delegate_to - Do not double calculate the values of loops and ``delegate_to`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80038)
+- module responses - Ensure that module responses are utf-8 adhereing to JSON RFC and expectations of the core code.
+- module/role argument spec - validate the type for options that are None when the option is required or has a non-None default (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79656).
+- module_utils/basic.py - Fix detection of available hashing algorithms on Python 3.x. All supported algorithms are now available instead of being limited to a hard-coded list. This affects modules such as ``get_url`` which accept an arbitrary checksum algorithm.
+- normal action plugin - remove obsolete ``if`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79690).
+- omit on keywords was resetting to default value, ignoring inheritance.
+- paramiko - Add a new option to allow paramiko >= 2.9 to easily work with all devices now that rsa-sha2 support was added to paramiko, which prevented communication with numerous platforms. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76737)
+- paramiko - Add back support for ``ssh_args``, ``ssh_common_args``, and ``ssh_extra_args`` for parsing the ``ProxyCommand`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78750)
+- paramiko connection was still using outdated playcontext, this should bring it up to date to use the 'correct' data for each task/loop.
+- password lookup now correctly reads stored ident fields.
+- password_hash - handle errors using unknown passlib hashtypes more gracefully (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45392).
+- pep517 build backend - Use the documented ``import_module`` import from ``importlib``.
+- plugin loader, fix detection for existing configuration before initializing for a plugin
+- role deduplication - Always create new role object, regardless of deduplication. Deduplication will only affect whether a duplicate call to a role will execute, as opposed to re-using the same object. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78661)
+- roles - Fix templating ``public``, ``allow_duplicates`` and ``rolespec_validate`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80304).
+- service_facts - Use python re to parse service output instead of grep (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78541)
+- strategy plugins now correctly identify bad registered variables, even on skip.
+- strategy plugins: get the correctly templated and validated run_once value on strategy linear (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78492)
+- 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)
+- systemd - daemon-reload and daemon-reexec ignore errors when running in a chroot (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79643)
+- templates - Fixed ``TypeError`` when a lookup plugin has an option called ``name``.
+- unarchive - allow relative path for ``dest`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64612)
+- unarchive - log errors from commands to assist in debugging (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64612)
+- updated error messages to include 'acl' and not just mode changes when failing to set required permissions on remote.
+- uri - improve JSON content type detection
+- user - fix comparing group IDs to existing group names so groups are not always updated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79956).
+- user module - Removed ``password_expire_max`` from the return docs, as it is not returned.
+- user module - Removed ``password_expire_min`` from the return docs, as it is not returned.
+- 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).
+- vault - show filename additionally if missing secrets prevents decryption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79723)
+- winrm - Increase the read timeout to 10 seconds later than the operation timeout reducing the chances of a false read timeout
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- ansible-test - Additional configuration may be required for certain container host and container combinations. Further details are available in the testing documentation.
+- ansible-test - Custom containers with ``VOLUME`` instructions may be unable to start, when previously the containers started correctly. Remove the ``VOLUME`` instructions to resolve the issue. Containers with this condition will cause ``ansible-test`` to emit a warning.
+- ansible-test - Systems with Podman networking issues may be unable to run containers, when previously the issue went unreported. Correct the networking issues to continue using ``ansible-test`` with Podman.
+- ansible-test - Unit tests for collections do not support ``pytest`` assertion rewriting on Python 2.7.
+- ansible-test - Using Docker on systems with SELinux may require setting SELinux to permissive mode. Podman should work with SELinux in enforcing mode.
+- dnf5 - The DNF5 package manager currently does not provide all functionality to ensure feature parity between the existing ``dnf`` and the new ``dnf5`` module. As a result the following ``dnf5`` options are effectively a no-op: ``cacheonly``, ``enable_plugin``, ``disable_plugin`` and ``lock_timeout``.
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- commonpath - gets the common path
+- normpath - Normalize a pathname
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+Lib
+~~~
+
+ansible.modules
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- deb822_repository - Add and remove deb822 formatted repositories
+- dnf5 - Manages packages with the I(dnf5) package manager
--- a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.16.rst
+++ b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.16.rst
@ -1,491 +0,0 @@
-=============================================
-ansible-core 2.16 "All My Love" Release Notes
-=============================================
-
-.. contents:: Topics
-
-
-v2.16.7
-=======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-| Release Date: 2024-05-20
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
-------------
-
- ansible.builtin.user - Remove user not found warning (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80267)
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- Add a version ceiling constraint for pypsrp to avoid potential breaking changes in the 1.0.0 release.
- Fix NEVRA parsing of package names that include digit(s) in them (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76463, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81018)
- Fix handlers not being executed in lockstep using the linear strategy in some cases (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82307)
- Give the tombstone error for ``include`` pre-fork like other tombstoned action/module plugins.
- Include the task location when a module or action plugin is deprecated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82450).
- Mirror the behavior of dnf on the command line when handling NEVRAs with omitted epoch (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71808)
- ansible-test - Automatically enable the PyPI proxy for the ``centos7`` container to restore the ability to use ``pip`` in that container.
- ansible_managed restored it's 'templatability' by ensuring the possible injection routes are cut off earlier in the process.
- assemble - fixed missing parameter 'content' in _get_diff_data API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82359).
- dnf - fix an issue when installing a package by specifying a file it provides could result in installing a different package providing the same file than the package already installed resulting in resolution failure (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82461)
- uri - update the documentation for follow_redirects.
-
-v2.16.6
-=======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-| Release Date: 2024-04-15
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- Consolidated the list of internal static vars, centralized them as constant and completed from some missing entries.
- Fix check for missing _sub_plugin attribute in older connection plugins (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82954)
- Fixes permission for cache json file from 600 to 644 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82683).
- Slight optimization to hostvars (instantiate template only once per host, vs per call to var).
- allow_duplicates - fix evaluating if the current role allows duplicates instead of using the initial value from the duplicate's cached role.
- ansible-config will now properly template defaults before dumping them.
- ansible-test ansible-doc sanity test - do not remove underscores from plugin names in collections before calling ``ansible-doc`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82574).
- async - Fix bug that stopped running async task in ``--check`` when ``check_mode: False`` was set as a task attribute - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82811
- blockinfile - when ``create=true`` is used with a filename without path, the module crashed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81638).
- dnf - fix an issue when cached RPMs were left in the cache directory even when the keepcache setting was unset (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81954)
- dnf5 - replace removed API calls
- facts - add a generic detection for VMware in product name.
- fetch - add error message when using ``dest`` with a trailing slash that becomes a local directory - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82878
- find - do not fail on Permission errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82027).
- unarchive modules now uses zipinfo options without relying on implementation defaults, making it more compatible with all OS/distributions.
- winrm - Do not raise another exception during cleanup when a task is timed out - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81095
-
-v2.16.5
-=======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-| Release Date: 2024-03-25
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
-------------
-
- ansible-test - Add a work-around for permission denied errors when using ``pytest >= 8`` on multi-user systems with an installed version of ``ansible-test``.
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- Fix an issue when setting a plugin name from an unsafe source resulted in ``ValueError: unmarshallable object`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82708)
- Harden python templates for respawn and ansiballz around str literal quoting
- ansible-test - The ``libexpat`` package is automatically upgraded during remote bootstrapping to maintain compatibility with newer Python packages.
- template - Fix error when templating an unsafe string which corresponds to an invalid type in Python (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82600).
- winrm - does not hang when attempting to get process output when stdin write failed
-
-v2.16.4
-=======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-| Release Date: 2024-02-26
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- Fix loading vars_plugins in roles (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82239).
- expect - fix argument spec error using timeout=null (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80982).
- include_vars - fix calculating ``depth`` relative to the root and ensure all files are included (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80987).
- templating - ensure syntax errors originating from a template being compiled into Python code object result in a failure (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82606)
-
-v2.16.3
-=======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-| Release Date: 2024-01-29
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
-
-
-Security Fixes
--------------
-
- ANSIBLE_NO_LOG - Address issue where ANSIBLE_NO_LOG was ignored (CVE-2024-0690)
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- Run all handlers with the same ``listen`` topic, even when notified from another handler (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82363).
- ``ansible-galaxy role import`` - fix using the ``role_name`` in a standalone role's ``galaxy_info`` metadata by disabling automatic removal of the ``ansible-role-`` prefix. This matches the behavior of the Galaxy UI which also no longer implicitly removes the ``ansible-role-`` prefix. Use the ``--role-name`` option or add a ``role_name`` to the ``galaxy_info`` dictionary in the role's ``meta/main.yml`` to use an alternate role name.
- ``ansible-test sanity --test runtime-metadata`` - add ``action_plugin`` as a valid field for modules in the schema (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82562).
- ansible-config init will now dedupe ini entries from plugins.
- ansible-galaxy role import - exit with 1 when the import fails (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82175).
- ansible-galaxy role install - fix symlinks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82702, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81965).
- ansible-galaxy role install - normalize tarfile paths and symlinks using ``ansible.utils.path.unfrackpath`` and consider them valid as long as the realpath is in the tarfile's role directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81965).
- delegate_to when set to an empty or undefined variable will now give a proper error.
- dwim functions for lookups should be better at detectging role context even in abscense of tasks/main.
- roles, code cleanup and performance optimization of dependencies, now cached,  and ``public`` setting is now determined once, at role instantiation.
- roles, the ``static`` property is now correctly set, this will fix issues with ``public`` and ``DEFAULT_PRIVATE_ROLE_VARS`` controls on exporting vars.
- unsafe data - Enable directly using ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` with Python ``pathlib`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82414)
-
-v2.16.2
-=======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-12-11
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- unsafe data - Address an incompatibility when iterating or getting a single index from ``AnsibleUnsafeBytes``
- unsafe data - Address an incompatibility with ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` and ``AnsibleUnsafeBytes`` when pickling with ``protocol=0``
-
-v2.16.1
-=======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-12-04
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
-
-
-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
--------------------------------
-
- assert - Nested templating may result in an inability for the conditional to be evaluated. See the porting guide for more information.
-
-Security Fixes
--------------
-
- templating - Address issues where internal templating can cause unsafe variables to lose their unsafe designation (CVE-2023-5764)
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- Fix issue where an ``include_tasks`` handler in a role was not able to locate a file in ``tasks/`` when ``tasks_from`` was used as a role entry point and ``main.yml`` was not present (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82241)
- Plugin loader does not dedupe nor cache filter/test plugins by file basename, but full path name.
- Restoring the ability of filters/tests can have same file base name but different tests/filters defined inside.
- ansible-pull now will expand relative paths for the ``-d|--directory`` option is now expanded before use.
- ansible-pull will now correctly handle become and connection password file options for ansible-playbook.
- flush_handlers - properly handle a handler failure in a nested block when ``force_handlers`` is set (http://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81532)
- module no_log will no longer affect top level booleans, for example ``no_log_module_parameter='a'`` will no longer hide ``changed=False`` as a 'no log value' (matches 'a').
- role params now have higher precedence than host facts again, matching documentation, this had unintentionally changed in 2.15.
- wait_for should not handle 'non mmapable files' again.
-
-v2.16.0
-=======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-| Release Date: 2023-11-06
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
-------------
-
- Add Python type hints to the Display class (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80841)
- Add ``GALAXY_COLLECTIONS_PATH_WARNING`` option to disable the warning given by ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` when installing a collection to a path that isn't in the configured collection paths.
- Add ``python3.12`` to the default ``INTERPRETER_PYTHON_FALLBACK`` list.
- Add ``utcfromtimestamp`` and ``utcnow`` to ``ansible.module_utils.compat.datetime`` to return fixed offset datetime objects.
- Add a general ``GALAXY_SERVER_TIMEOUT`` config option for distribution servers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79833).
- Added Python type annotation to connection plugins
- CLI argument parsing - Automatically prepend to the help of CLI arguments that support being specified multiple times. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/22396)
- DEFAULT_TRANSPORT now defaults to 'ssh', the old 'smart' option is being deprecated as versions of OpenSSH without control persist are basically not present anymore.
- Documentation for set filters ``intersect``, ``difference``, ``symmetric_difference`` and ``union`` now states that the returned list items are in arbitrary order.
- Record ``removal_date`` in runtime metadata as a string instead of a date.
- Remove the ``CleansingNodeVisitor`` class and its usage due to the templating changes that made it superfluous. Also simplify the ``Conditional`` class.
- Removed ``exclude`` and ``recursive-exclude`` commands for generated files from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These excludes were unnecessary since releases are expected to be built with a clean worktree.
- Removed ``exclude`` commands for sanity test files from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These tests were previously excluded because they did not pass when run from an sdist. However, sanity tests are not expected to pass from an sdist, so excluding some (but not all) of the failing tests makes little sense.
- Removed redundant ``include`` commands from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These includes either duplicated default behavior or another command.
- The ``ansible-core`` sdist no longer contains pre-generated man pages. Instead, a ``packaging/cli-doc/build.py`` script is included in the sdist. This script can generate man pages and standalone RST documentation for ``ansible-core`` CLI programs.
- The ``docs`` and ``examples`` directories are no longer included in the ``ansible-core`` sdist. These directories have been moved to the https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation repository.
- The minimum required ``setuptools`` version is now 66.1.0, as it is the oldest version to support Python 3.12.
- Update ``ansible_service_mgr`` fact to include init system for SMGL OS family
- Use ``ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils._text``.
- Use ``importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources`` instead of deprecated ``importlib.abc.TraversableResources`` where available (https:/github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81082).
- Use ``include`` where ``recursive-include`` is unnecessary in the ``MANIFEST.in`` file.
- Use ``package_data`` instead of ``include_package_data`` for ``setup.cfg`` to avoid ``setuptools`` warnings.
- Utilize gpg check provided internally by the ``transaction.run`` method as oppose to calling it manually.
- ``Templar`` - do not add the ``dict`` constructor to ``globals`` as all required Jinja2 versions already do so
- ansible-doc - allow to filter listing of collections and metadata dump by more than one collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81450).
- ansible-galaxy - Add a plural option to improve ignoring multiple signature error status codes when installing or verifying collections. A space-separated list of error codes can follow --ignore-signature-status-codes in addition to specifying --ignore-signature-status-code multiple times (for example, ``--ignore-signature-status-codes NO_PUBKEY UNEXPECTED``).
- ansible-galaxy - Remove internal configuration argument ``v3`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80721)
- ansible-galaxy - add note to the collection dependency resolver error message about pre-releases if ``--pre`` was not provided (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80048).
- ansible-galaxy - used to crash out with a "Errno 20 Not a directory" error when extracting files from a role when hitting a file with an illegal name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81553). Now it gives a warning identifying the culprit file and the rule violation (e.g., ``my$class.jar`` has a ``$`` in the name) before crashing out, giving the user a chance to remove the invalid file and try again. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81555).
- ansible-test - Add Alpine 3.18 to remotes
- ansible-test - Add Fedora 38 container.
- ansible-test - Add Fedora 38 remote.
- ansible-test - Add FreeBSD 13.2 remote.
- ansible-test - Add new pylint checker for new ``# deprecated:`` comments within code to trigger errors when time to remove code that has no user facing deprecation message. Only supported in ansible-core, not collections.
- ansible-test - Add support for RHEL 8.8 remotes.
- ansible-test - Add support for RHEL 9.2 remotes.
- ansible-test - Add support for testing with Python 3.12.
- ansible-test - Allow float values for the ``--timeout`` option to the ``env`` command. This simplifies testing.
- ansible-test - Enable ``thread`` code coverage in addition to the existing ``multiprocessing`` coverage.
- ansible-test - Make Python 3.12 the default version used in the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
- ansible-test - RHEL 8.8 provisioning can now be used with the ``--python 3.11`` option.
- ansible-test - RHEL 9.2 provisioning can now be used with the ``--python 3.11`` option.
- ansible-test - Refactored ``env`` command logic and timeout handling.
- ansible-test - Remove Fedora 37 remote support.
- ansible-test - Remove Fedora 37 test container.
- ansible-test - Remove Python 3.8 and 3.9 from RHEL 8.8.
- ansible-test - Remove obsolete embedded script for configuring WinRM on Windows remotes.
- ansible-test - Removed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS image from the `--remote` option.
- ansible-test - Removed `freebsd/12.4` remote.
- ansible-test - Removed `freebsd/13.1` remote.
- ansible-test - Removed test remotes: rhel/8.7, rhel/9.1
- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``--docker-no-pull`` option.
- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``--no-pip-check`` option.
- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``foreman`` test plugin.
- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``govcsim`` support from the ``vcenter`` test plugin.
- ansible-test - Replace the ``pytest-forked`` pytest plugin with a custom plugin.
- ansible-test - The ``no-get-exception`` sanity test is now limited to plugins in collections. Previously any Python file in a collection was checked for ``get_exception`` usage.
- ansible-test - The ``replace-urlopen`` sanity test is now limited to plugins in collections. Previously any Python file in a collection was checked for ``urlopen`` usage.
- ansible-test - The ``use-compat-six`` sanity test is now limited to plugins in collections. Previously any Python file in a collection was checked for ``six`` usage.
- ansible-test - The openSUSE test container has been updated to openSUSE Leap 15.5.
- ansible-test - Update pip to ``23.1.2`` and setuptools to ``67.7.2``.
- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers.
- ansible-test - Update the ``nios-test-container`` to version 2.0.0, which supports API version 2.9.
- ansible-test - Update the logic used to detect when ``ansible-test`` is running from source.
- ansible-test - Updated the CloudStack test container to version 1.6.1.
- ansible-test - Updated the distro test containers to version 6.3.0 to include coverage 7.3.2 for Python 3.8+. The alpine3 container is now based on 3.18 instead of 3.17 and includes Python 3.11 instead of Python 3.10.
- ansible-test - Use ``datetime.datetime.now`` with ``tz`` specified instead of ``datetime.datetime.utcnow``.
- ansible-test - Use a context manager to perform cleanup at exit instead of using the built-in ``atexit`` module.
- ansible-test - When invoking ``sleep`` in containers during container setup, the ``env`` command is used to avoid invoking the shell builtin, if present.
- ansible-test - remove Alpine 3.17 from remotes
- ansible-test — Python 3.8–3.12 will use ``coverage`` v7.3.2.
- ansible-test — ``coverage`` v6.5.0 is to be used only under Python 3.7.
- ansible-vault create: Now raises an error when opening the editor without tty. The flag --skip-tty-check restores previous behaviour.
- ansible_user_module - tweaked macos user defaults to reflect expected defaults (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44316)
- apt - return calculated diff while running apt clean operation.
- blockinfile - add append_newline and prepend_newline options (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80835).
- cli - Added short option '-J' for asking for vault password (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80523).
- command - Add option ``expand_argument_vars`` to disable argument expansion and use literal values - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54162
- config lookup new option show_origin to also return the origin of a configuration value.
- display methods for warning and deprecation are now proxied to main process when issued from a fork. This allows for the deduplication of warnings and deprecations to work globally.
- dnf5 - enable environment groups installation testing in CI as its support was added.
- dnf5 - enable now implemented ``cacheonly`` functionality
- executor now skips persistent connection when it detects an action that does not require a connection.
- find module - Add ability to filter based on modes
- gather_facts now will use gather_timeout setting to limit parallel execution of modules that do not themselves use gather_timeout.
- group - remove extraneous warning shown when user does not exist (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77049).
- include_vars - os.walk now follows symbolic links when traversing directories (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80460)
- module compression is now sourced directly via config, bypassing play_context possibly stale values.
- reboot - show last error message in verbose logs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81574).
- service_facts now returns more info for rcctl managed systesm (OpenBSD).
- tasks - the ``retries`` keyword can be specified without ``until`` in which case the task is retried until it succeeds but at most ``retries`` times (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/20802)
- user - add new option ``password_expire_warn`` (supported on Linux only) to set the number of days of warning before a password change is required (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79882).
- yum_repository - Align module documentation with parameters
-
-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
--------------------------------
-
- Any plugin using the config system and the `cli` entry to use the `timeout` from the command line, will see the value change if the use had configured it in any of the lower precedence methods. If relying on this behaviour to consume the global/generic timeout from the DEFAULT_TIMEOUT constant, please consult the documentation on plugin configuration to add the overlaping entries.
- ansible-test - Test plugins that rely on containers no longer support reusing running containers. The previous behavior was an undocumented, untested feature.
- service module will not permanently configure variables/flags for openbsd when doing enable/disable operation anymore, this module was never meant to do this type of work, just to manage the service state itself. A rcctl_config or similar module should be created and used instead.
-
-Deprecated Features
-------------------
-
- Deprecated ini config option ``collections_paths``, use the singular form ``collections_path`` instead
- Deprecated the env var ``ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS``, use the singular form ``ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH`` instead
- Old style vars plugins which use the entrypoints `get_host_vars` or `get_group_vars` are deprecated. The plugin should be updated to inherit from `BaseVarsPlugin` and define a `get_vars` method as the entrypoint.
- Support for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 has been removed as the support end of life from Microsoft is October 10th 2023. These versions of Windows will no longer be tested in this Ansible release and it cannot be guaranteed that they will continue to work going forward.
- ``STRING_CONVERSION_ACTION`` config option is deprecated as it is no longer used in the Ansible Core code base.
- the 'smart' option for setting a connection plugin is being removed as its main purpose (choosing between ssh and paramiko) is now irrelevant.
- vault and unfault filters - the undocumented ``vaultid`` parameter is deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core 2.20. Use ``vault_id`` instead.
- yum_repository - deprecated parameter 'keepcache' (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78693).
-
-Removed Features (previously deprecated)
----------------------------------------
-
- ActionBase - remove deprecated ``_remote_checksum`` method
- PlayIterator - remove deprecated ``cache_block_tasks`` and ``get_original_task`` methods
- Remove deprecated ``FileLock`` class
- Removed Python 3.9 as a supported version on the controller. Python 3.10 or newer is required.
- Removed ``include`` which has been deprecated in Ansible 2.12. Use ``include_tasks`` or ``import_tasks`` instead.
- ``Templar`` - remove deprecated ``shared_loader_obj`` parameter of ``__init__``
- ``fetch_url`` - remove auto disabling ``decompress`` when gzip is not available
- ``get_action_args_with_defaults`` - remove deprecated ``redirected_names`` method parameter
- ansible-test - Removed support for the remote Windows targets 2012 and 2012-R2
- inventory_cache - remove deprecated ``default.fact_caching_prefix`` ini configuration option, use ``defaults.fact_caching_prefix`` instead.
- module_utils/basic.py - Removed Python 3.5 as a supported remote version. Python 2.7 or Python 3.6+ is now required.
- stat - removed unused `get_md5` parameter.
-
-Security Fixes
--------------
-
- ansible-galaxy - Prevent roles from using symlinks to overwrite files outside of the installation directory (CVE-2023-5115)
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- Allow for searching handler subdir for included task via include_role (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81722)
- AnsibleModule.run_command - Only use selectors when needed, and rely on Python stdlib subprocess for the simple task of collecting stdout/stderr when prompt matching is not required.
- Cache host_group_vars after instantiating it once and limit the amount of repetitive work it needs to do every time it runs.
- Call PluginLoader.all() once for vars plugins, and load vars plugins that run automatically or are enabled specifically by name subsequently.
- Display - Defensively configure writing to stdout and stderr with a custom encoding error handler that will replace invalid characters while providing a deprecation warning that non-utf8 text will result in an error in a future version.
- Exclude internal options from man pages and docs.
- Fix ``ansible-config init`` man page option indentation.
- Fix ``ast`` deprecation warnings for ``Str`` and ``value.s`` when using Python 3.12.
- Fix ``run_once`` being incorrectly interpreted on handlers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81666)
- Fix exceptions caused by various inputs when performing arg splitting or parsing key/value pairs. Resolves issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46379 and issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61497
- Fix incorrect parsing of multi-line Jinja2 blocks when performing arg splitting or parsing key/value pairs.
- Fix post-validating looped task fields so the strategy uses the correct values after task execution.
- Fixed `pip` module failure in case of usage quotes for `virtualenv_command` option for the venv command. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76372)
- From issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80880, when notifying a handler from another handler, handler notifications must be registered immediately as the flush_handler call is not recursive.
- Import ``FILE_ATTRIBUTES`` from ``ansible.module_utils.common.file`` in ``ansible.module_utils.basic`` instead of defining it twice.
- Inventory scripts parser not treat exception when getting hostsvar (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81103)
- On Python 3 use datetime methods ``fromtimestamp`` and ``now`` with UTC timezone instead of ``utcfromtimestamp`` and ``utcnow``, which are deprecated in Python 3.12.
- PluginLoader - fix Jinja plugin performance issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79652)
- PowerShell - Remove some code which is no longer valid for dotnet 5+
- Prevent running same handler multiple times when included via ``include_role`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73643)
- Prompting - add a short sleep between polling for user input to reduce CPU consumption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81516).
- Properly disable ``jinja2_native`` in the template module when jinja2 override is used in the template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80605)
- Properly template tags in parent blocks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81053)
- Remove unreachable parser error for removed ``static`` parameter of ``include_role``
- Replace uses of ``configparser.ConfigParser.readfp()`` which was removed in Python 3.12 with ``configparser.ConfigParser.read_file()`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81656)
- Set filters ``intersect``, ``difference``, ``symmetric_difference`` and ``union`` now always return a ``list``, never a ``set``. Previously, a ``set`` would be returned if the inputs were a hashable type such as ``str``, instead of a collection, such as a ``list`` or ``tuple``.
- Set filters ``intersect``, ``difference``, ``symmetric_difference`` and ``union`` now use set operations when the given items are hashable. Previously, list operations were performed unless the inputs were a hashable type such as ``str``, instead of a collection, such as a ``list`` or ``tuple``.
- Switch result queue from a ``multiprocessing.queues.Queue` to ``multiprocessing.queues.SimpleQueue``, primarily to allow properly handling pickling errors, to prevent an infinite hang waiting for task results
- The ``ansible-config init`` command now has a documentation description.
- The ``ansible-galaxy collection download`` command now has a documentation description.
- The ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` command documentation is now visible (previously hidden by a decorator).
- The ``ansible-galaxy collection verify`` command now has a documentation description.
- The ``ansible-galaxy role install`` command documentation is now visible (previously hidden by a decorator).
- The ``ansible-inventory`` command command now has a documentation description (previously used as the epilog).
- The ``hostname`` module now also updates both current and permanent hostname on OpenBSD. Before it only updated the permanent hostname (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80520).
- Update module_utils.urls unit test to work with cryptography >= 41.0.0.
- When generating man pages, use ``func`` to find the command function instead of looking it up by the command name.
- ``StrategyBase._process_pending_results`` - create a ``Templar`` on demand for templating ``changed_when``/``failed_when``.
- ``ansible-galaxy`` now considers all collection paths when identifying which collection requirements are already installed. Use the ``COLLECTIONS_PATHS`` and ``COLLECTIONS_SCAN_SYS_PATHS`` config options to modify these. Previously only the install path was considered when resolving the candidates. The install path will remain the only one potentially modified. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79767, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81163)
- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - ensure binary data transmission in ``daemonize()``
- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - fix inter-process communication in ``daemonize()``
- ``import_role`` reverts to previous behavior of exporting vars at compile time.
- ``pkg_mgr`` - fix the default dnf version detection
- ansiballz - Prevent issue where the time on the control host could change part way through building the ansiballz file, potentially causing a pre-1980 date to be used during ansiballz unpacking leading to a zip file error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80089)
- ansible terminal color settings were incorrectly limited to 16 options via 'choices', removing so all 256 can be accessed.
- ansible-console - fix filtering by collection names when a collection search path was set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81450).
- ansible-galaxy - Enabled the ``data`` tarfile filter during role installation for Python versions that support it. A probing mechanism is used to avoid Python versions with a broken implementation.
- ansible-galaxy - Fix issue installing collections containing directories with more than 100 characters on python versions before 3.10.6
- ansible-galaxy - Fix variable type error when installing subdir collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80943)
- ansible-galaxy - Provide a better error message when using a requirements file with an invalid format - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81901
- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections from directories that have a trailing path separator (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77803).
- ansible-galaxy - fix installing signed collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80648).
- ansible-galaxy - reduce API calls to servers by fetching signatures only for final candidates.
- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for collections that do not have any stable versions published. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for dependencies on any level of the dependency tree that specifically demand exact pre-release versions of collections and not version ranges. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
- ansible-galaxy collection verify - fix verifying signed collections when the keyring is not configured.
- ansible-galaxy info - fix reporting no role found when lookup_role_by_name returns None.
- ansible-inventory - index available_hosts for major performance boost when dumping large inventories
- ansible-test - Add a ``pylint`` plugin to work around a known issue on Python 3.12.
- ansible-test - Add support for ``argcomplete`` version 3.
- ansible-test - All containers created by ansible-test now include the current test session ID in their name. This avoids conflicts between concurrent ansible-test invocations using the same container host.
- ansible-test - Always use ansible-test managed entry points for ansible-core CLI tools when not running from source. This fixes issues where CLI entry points created during install are not compatible with ansible-test.
- ansible-test - Fix a traceback that occurs when attempting to test Ansible source using a different ansible-test. A clear error message is now given when this scenario occurs.
- ansible-test - Fix handling of timeouts exceeding one day.
- ansible-test - Fix parsing of cgroup entries which contain a ``:`` in the path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81977).
- ansible-test - Fix several possible tracebacks when using the ``-e`` option with sanity tests.
- ansible-test - Fix various cases where the test timeout could expire without terminating the tests.
- ansible-test - Include missing ``pylint`` requirements for Python 3.10.
- ansible-test - Pre-build a PyYAML wheel before installing requirements to avoid a potential Cython build failure.
- ansible-test - Remove redundant warning about missing programs before attempting to execute them.
- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test now checks the collection loader for remote-only Python support when testing ansible-core.
- ansible-test - Unit tests now report warnings generated during test runs. Previously only warnings generated during test collection were reported.
- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.2 to resolve several possible false positives.
- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.3 to resolve several possible false positives.
- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to version 3.0.1.
- ansible-test - Use ``raise ... from ...`` when raising exceptions from within an exception handler.
- ansible-test - When bootstrapping remote FreeBSD instances, use the OS packaged ``setuptools`` instead of installing the latest version from PyPI.
- ansible-test local change detection - use ``git merge-base <branch> HEAD`` instead of ``git merge-base --fork-point <branch>`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79734).
- ansible-vault - fail when the destination file location is not writable before performing encryption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81455).
- apt - ignore fail_on_autoremove and allow_downgrade parameters when using aptitude (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77868).
- blockinfile - avoid crash with Python 3 if creating the directory fails when ``create=true`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81662).
- connection timeouts defined in ansible.cfg will now be properly used, the --timeout cli option was obscuring them by always being set.
- copy - print correct destination filename when using `content` and `--diff` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79749).
- copy unit tests - Fixing "dir all perms" documentation and formatting for easier reading.
- core will now also look at the connection plugin to force 'local' interpreter for networking path compatibility as just ansible_network_os could be misleading.
- deb822_repository - use http-agent for receiving content (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80809).
- debconf - idempotency in questions with type 'password' (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47676).
- distribution facts - fix Source Mage family mapping
- dnf - fix a failure when a package from URI was specified and ``update_only`` was set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81376).
- dnf5 - Update dnf5 module to handle API change for setting the download directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80887)
- dnf5 - Use ``transaction.check_gpg_signatures`` API call to check package signatures AND possibly to recover from when keys are missing.
- dnf5 - fix module and package names in the message following failed module respawn attempt
- dnf5 - use the logs API to determine transaction problems
- dpkg_selections - check if the package exists before performing the selection operation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81404).
- encrypt - deprecate passlib_or_crypt API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55839).
- fetch - Handle unreachable errors properly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27816)
- file modules - Make symbolic modes with X use the computed permission, not original file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80128)
- file modules - fix validating invalid symbolic modes.
- first found lookup has been updated to use the normalized argument parsing (pythonic) matching the documented examples.
- first found lookup, fixed an issue with subsequent items clobbering information from previous ones.
- first_found lookup now gets 'untemplated' loop entries and handles templating itself as task_executor was removing even 'templatable' entries and breaking functionality. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70772
- galaxy - check if the target for symlink exists (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81586).
- galaxy - cross check the collection type and collection source (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79463).
- gather_facts parallel option was doing the reverse of what was stated, now it does run modules in parallel when True and serially when False.
- handlers - fix ``v2_playbook_on_notify`` callback not being called when notifying handlers
- handlers - the ``listen`` keyword can affect only one handler with the same name, the last one defined as it is a case with the ``notify`` keyword (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81013)
- include_role - expose variables from parent roles to role's handlers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80459)
- inventory_ini - handle SyntaxWarning while parsing ini file in inventory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81457).
- iptables - remove default rule creation when creating iptables chain to be more similar to the command line utility (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80256).
- lib/ansible/utils/encrypt.py - remove unused private ``_LOCK`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81613)
- lookup/url.py - Fix incorrect var/env/ini entry for `force_basic_auth`
- man page build - Remove the dependency on the ``docs`` directory for building man pages.
- man page build - Sub commands of ``ansible-galaxy role`` and ``ansible-galaxy collection`` are now documented.
- module responses - Ensure that module responses are utf-8 adhereing to JSON RFC and expectations of the core code.
- module/role argument spec - validate the type for options that are None when the option is required or has a non-None default (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79656).
- modules/user.py - Add check for valid directory when creating new user homedir (allows /dev/null as skeleton) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75063)
- paramiko_ssh, psrp, and ssh connection plugins - ensure that all values for options that should be strings are actually converted to strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81029).
- password_hash - fix salt format for ``crypt``  (only used if ``passlib`` is not installed) for the ``bcrypt`` algorithm.
- pep517 build backend - Copy symlinks when copying the source tree. This avoids tracebacks in various scenarios, such as when a venv is present in the source tree.
- pep517 build backend - Use the documented ``import_module`` import from ``importlib``.
- pip module - Update module to prefer use of the python ``packaging`` and ``importlib.metadata`` modules due to ``pkg_resources`` being deprecated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80488)
- pkg_mgr.py - Fix `ansible_pkg_mgr` incorrect in TencentOS Server Linux
- pkg_mgr.py - Fix `ansible_pkg_mgr` is unknown in Kylin Linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81332)
- powershell modules - Only set an rc of 1 if the PowerShell pipeline signaled an error occurred AND there are error records present. Previously it would do so only if the error signal was present without checking the error count.
- replace - handle exception when bad escape character is provided in replace (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79364).
- role deduplication - don't deduplicate before a role has had a task run for that particular host (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81486).
- service module, does not permanently configure flags flags on Openbsd when enabling/disabling a service.
- service module, enable/disable is not a exclusive action in checkmode anymore.
- setup gather_timeout - Fix timeout in get_mounts_facts for linux.
- setup module (fact gathering) will now try to be smarter about different versions of facter emitting error when --puppet flag is used w/o puppet.
- syntax check - Limit ``--syntax-check`` to ``ansible-playbook`` only, as that is the only CLI affected by this argument (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80506)
- tarfile - handle data filter deprecation warning message for extract and extractall (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80832).
- template - Fix for formatting issues when a template path contains valid jinja/strftime pattern (especially line break one) and using the template path in ansible_managed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79129)
- templating - In the template action and lookup, use local jinja2 environment overlay overrides instead of mutating the templars environment
- templating - prevent setting arbitrary attributes on Jinja2 environments via Jinja2 overrides in templates
- templating escape and single var optimization now use correct delimiters when custom ones are provided either via task or template header.
- unarchive - fix unarchiving sources that are copied to the remote node using a relative temporory directory path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80710).
- uri - fix search for JSON type to include complex strings containing '+'
- uri/urls - Add compat function to handle the ability to parse the filename from a Content-Disposition header (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81806)
- urls.py - fixed cert_file and key_file parameters when running on Python 3.12 - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80490
- user - set expiration value correctly when unable to retrieve the current value from the system (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71916)
- validate-modules sanity test - replace semantic markup parsing and validating code with the code from `antsibull-docs-parser 0.2.0 <https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-docs-parser/releases/tag/0.2.0>`__ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80406).
- vars_prompt - internally convert the ``unsafe`` value to ``bool``
- vault and unvault filters now properly take ``vault_id`` parameter.
- win_fetch - Add support for using file with wildcards in file name. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73128)
- winrm - Better handle send input failures when communicating with hosts under load
-
-Known Issues
------------
-
- ansible-galaxy - dies in the middle of installing a role when that role contains Java inner classes (files with $ in the file name).  This is by design, to exclude temporary or backup files. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81553).
- ansible-test - The ``pep8`` sanity test is unable to detect f-string spacing issues (E201, E202) on Python 3.10 and 3.11. They are correctly detected under Python 3.12. See (https://github.com/PyCQA/pycodestyle/issues/1190).
--- a/changelogs/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/changelogs/CHANGELOG.rst
@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Placeholder changelog
+=====================
+
+This file is a placeholder; a version-specific ``CHANGELOG-vX.Y.rst`` will be generated during releases from fragments
+under changelogs/fragments. On release branches once a release has been created, consult the branch's version-specific
+file for changes that have occurred in that branch.
--- a/changelogs/README.md
+++ b/changelogs/README.md
@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-Changelogs
-==========
-
-As part of the release process a version-specific `CHANGELOG-vX.Y.rst` will be generated from fragments in
-the `fragments` directory.
-
-On release branches once a release has been created, consult the branch's version-specific file for changes that have
-occurred in that branch. The `devel` branch does not have a generated changelog, only changelog fragments.
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
--- a/changelogs/fragments/19755-ansible_processor-s390x.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/19755-ansible_processor-s390x.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - ansible_facts.hardware - Define all processor facts on s390x (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/19755)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-05-15
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b1_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-04-04
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b2_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b2_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-04-10
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b3_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0b3_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-04-17
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0rc1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0rc1_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-04-25
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0rc2_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.15.0rc2_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-05-01
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.15.1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.15.1_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-06-20
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.15.1rc1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.15.1rc1_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-06-12
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.15.2_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.15.2_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-07-18
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.15.2rc1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.15.2rc1_summary.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2023-07-10
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.15/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.15.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.0_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.0_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-11-06
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.0b1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.0b1_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-09-26
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.0b2_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.0b2_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-10-03
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.0rc1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.0rc1_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-10-16
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.1_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-12-04
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.1rc1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.1rc1_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-11-27
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.2_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.2_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2023-12-11
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.3_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.3_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-01-29
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.3rc1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.3rc1_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-01-22
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.4_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.4_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-02-26
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.4rc1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.4rc1_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-02-19
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.5_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.5_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-03-25
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.5rc1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.5rc1_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-03-18
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.6_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.6_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-04-15
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.7_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.7_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-05-20
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2.16.7rc1_summary.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2.16.7rc1_summary.yaml
@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-05-13
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
--- a/changelogs/fragments/20221021-deprecated-sanity.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/20221021-deprecated-sanity.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- sanity tests - updates the collection-deprecated-version tests to ignore the ``prerelease`` component of the collection version ().
--- a/changelogs/fragments/20802-until-default.yml
+++ b/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)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/22396-indicate-which-args-are-multi.yml
+++ b/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)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/27816-fetch-unreachable.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/27816-fetch-unreachable.yml
@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- fetch - Handle unreachable errors properly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27816)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/50603-tty-check.yaml
+++ b/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."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/64612-unarchive-log-command-output.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/64612-unarchive-log-command-output.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - unarchive - log errors from commands to assist in debugging (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64612)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/64612-unarchive-relative-path-dest.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/64612-unarchive-relative-path-dest.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - unarchive - allow relative path for ``dest`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64612)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/71424-deterministic-vault-encode.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/71424-deterministic-vault-encode.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - Add support for custom salt for vault encoding to make it deterministic (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35480).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/71916-user-expires-int.yml
+++ b/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)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/74723-support-wildcard-win_fetch.yml
+++ b/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)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/75063-allow-dev-nul-as-skeleton-for-new-homedir.yml
+++ b/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)
-  
--- a/changelogs/fragments/75837-validate-modules-invalid-yaml.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/75837-validate-modules-invalid-yaml.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - ansible-test sanity - correctly report invalid YAML in validate-modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75837).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/76372-fix-pip-virtualenv-command-parsing.yml
+++ b/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)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/76578-fix-role-argspec-suboptions-error.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/76578-fix-role-argspec-suboptions-error.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Module and role argument validation - include the valid suboption choices in the error when an invalid suboption is provided.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/76737-paramiko-rsa-sha2.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/76737-paramiko-rsa-sha2.yml
@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+bugfixes:
+- paramiko - Add a new option to allow paramiko >= 2.9 to easily work with
+  all devices now that rsa-sha2 support was added to paramiko, which
+  prevented communication with numerous platforms.
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76737)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/76997-fix-copy-subdirs-with-remote-src.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/76997-fix-copy-subdirs-with-remote-src.yml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - copy remote_src=true - fix copying subdirs recursively when the dest exists and the src and dest have
+    multiple common subdirectories in a common directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74536).
+  - copy remote_src=true - fix reporting changed for copying empty directories.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/77737-ansible-doc-test-filters-tests.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/77737-ansible-doc-test-filters-tests.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - "ansible-test sanity --test ansible-doc - now also lists documentation for test and filter plugins that are documented (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77737)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78172-allow-force-deletion-of-group.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78172-allow-force-deletion-of-group.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - Allow force deletion of a group even when it is the primary group of a user. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77849)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78487-galaxy-collections-path-warnings.yml
+++ b/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.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78492-fix-invalid-run_once-value.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78492-fix-invalid-run_once-value.yml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - "strategy plugins: get the correctly templated and validated run_once value on strategy linear (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78492)"
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78541-service-facts-re.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78541-service-facts-re.yml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- service_facts - Use python re to parse service output instead of grep
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78541)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78624-copy-remote-src-check-mode.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78624-copy-remote-src-check-mode.yml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - copy - fix reporting changes to file attributes in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77957).
+  - copy - fix creating the dest directory in check mode with remote_src=True (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78611).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78748-fix-known-hosts-wrong-changed-status.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78748-fix-known-hosts-wrong-changed-status.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - known_hosts - do not return changed status when a non-existing key is removed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78598)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78750-paramiko-ssh-args-compat.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78750-paramiko-ssh-args-compat.yml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- paramiko - Add back support for ``ssh_args``, ``ssh_common_args``, and ``ssh_extra_args`` for parsing the ``ProxyCommand``
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78750)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78802-sanity-meta-runtime.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78802-sanity-meta-runtime.yml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - "ansible-test runtime-metadata sanity test - ensure that ``redirect`` entries in ``meta/runtime.yml`` contain collection names, except for ``module_utils`` plugin redirects and ``import_redirect`` redirects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78802)."
+bugfixes:
+  - "ansible-test runtime-metadata sanity test - do not crash on YAML parsing errors without a context mark (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78802)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78819-78820-remove-deprecated-cow-options.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78819-78820-remove-deprecated-cow-options.yml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+removed_features:
+  - Remove deprecated ``ANSIBLE_COW_WHITELIST`` configuration environment variable, use ``ANSIBLE_COW_ACCEPTLIST`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78819)
+  - Remove deprecated ``cow_whitelist`` configuration option, use ``cowsay_enabled_stencils`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78820)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78821-78822-remove-callback_whitelist.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78821-78822-remove-callback_whitelist.yml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+removed_features:
+  - Remove deprecated ``ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_WHITELIST`` configuration environment variable, use ``ANSIBLE_CALLBACKS_ENABLED`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78821)
+  - Remove deprecated ``callback_whitelist`` configuration option, use ``callbacks_enabled`` instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78822)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78828-iptables-option-to-disable-dns-lookups.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78828-iptables-option-to-disable-dns-lookups.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - add parameter ``numeric`` to the iptables module to disable dns lookups when running list -action internally (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78793).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78913-template-missing-filter-test.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78913-template-missing-filter-test.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "Do not crash when templating an expression with a test or filter that is not a valid Ansible filter name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78912, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78913)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/78983-fix-collection-install-from-source-respects-dir-symlinks.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/78983-fix-collection-install-from-source-respects-dir-symlinks.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - ansible-galaxy collection install - respect symlinks when installing from source or local repository (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78442)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79017-ansible-vault-string-encryption-ending-with-newline.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79017-ansible-vault-string-encryption-ending-with-newline.yml
@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - >-
+    ansible-vault encrypt_string - started appending a line feed at the end of the encrypted string output. Missing newline
+    character caused problems identifying where the string ends in some shells (like bash) or accidentally copying an
+    extra trailing terminator symbol (e.g., zsh prints out a ``%`` sign to signal where the original output stops)
+    (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78932).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79021-dont-squash-in-validate.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79021-dont-squash-in-validate.yml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- keyword inheritance - Ensure that we do not squash keywords in validate
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79021)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79023-fix-flush_handlers-fqcn.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79023-fix-flush_handlers-fqcn.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "handlers - fix an issue where the ``flush_handlers`` meta task could not be used with FQCN: ``ansible.builtin.meta`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79023)"
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79079-fix-role-dep-chain.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79079-fix-role-dep-chain.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - include_role - Inherit from role parents beyond a depth of 3 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47023).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79083-jinja2_native-preserve-quotes-in-strings.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79083-jinja2_native-preserve-quotes-in-strings.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "jinja2_native: preserve quotes in strings (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79083)"
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79117-bsd-ifconfig-inet-fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79117-bsd-ifconfig-inet-fix.yml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bugfixes:
+- BSD network facts - Do not assume column indexes, look for ``netmask`` and
+  ``broadcast`` for determining the correct columns when parsing ``inet`` line
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79117)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79129-ansible-managed-filename-format.yaml
+++ b/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)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79134-ansible-galaxy-init-symlinks.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79134-ansible-galaxy-init-symlinks.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - ansible-galaxy collection/role init - preserve symlinks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39334).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79187--wheel-0.38.0.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79187--wheel-0.38.0.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - ansible-test - Add ``wheel < 0.38.0`` constraint for Python 3.6 and earlier.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79227-update-vendored-distro.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79227-update-vendored-distro.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - updated the vendored distro library to upstream version (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79227)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79267-validate-modules-defaults.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79267-validate-modules-defaults.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - "ansible-test validate-modules - no longer treat falsy non-``False`` values for defaults as ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79267)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79362-validate-modules-underscore.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79362-validate-modules-underscore.yml
@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+breaking_changes:
+  - "ansible-doc - no longer treat plugins in collections whose name starts with ``_`` as deprecated
+     (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79362)."
+  - "ansible-test sanity - previously plugins and modules in collections whose name started with ``_``
+     were treated as deprecated, even when they were not marked as deprecated in ``meta/runtime.yml``.
+     This is no longer the case (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79362)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79364_replace.yml
+++ b/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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79368-galaxy-manifest-reuse-licenses.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79368-galaxy-manifest-reuse-licenses.yml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+minor_changes:
+- collections - Add additional includes for REUSE license files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79368)
+- collections - Add additional ignores for commonly rejected file extensions
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79376-replace-valid-attrs-with-fattributes.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79376-replace-valid-attrs-with-fattributes.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Fixes leftover _valid_attrs usage.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79399-resolvelib_lt_0_10_0.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79399-resolvelib_lt_0_10_0.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - ansible-galaxy - support ``resolvelib >= 0.5.3, < 0.10.0``.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79420-galaxy-manifest-license.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79420-galaxy-manifest-license.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+  - galaxy - include ``license_file`` in the default manifest directives
+    (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull-request/79420)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79422-fix-file-touch-check-mode-status.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79422-fix-file-touch-check-mode-status.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - file - touch action in check mode was always returning ok. Fix now evaluates the different conditions and
+    returns the appropriate changed status. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79360)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79431-fix-password-lookup-rewrites.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79431-fix-password-lookup-rewrites.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - Fixes the password lookup to not rewrite files if they are not changed when using the "encrypt" parameter (#79430).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79459-fix-meta-task-check.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79459-fix-meta-task-check.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "Fix a traceback occuring when a task is named ``meta`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79459)"
--- a/changelogs/fragments/79546-apt-fix-setting-locale.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/79546-apt-fix-setting-locale.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - apt - set locale to fix updating the cache (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79523).
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More