New release v2.12.5 (#77628)

(cherry picked from commit ff184b0815)

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -27,11 +27,14 @@ variables:
   - name: coverageBranches
     value: devel
   - name: entryPoint
-    value: .azure-pipelines/commands/entry-point.sh
+    value: test/utils/shippable/shippable.sh
   - name: fetchDepth
     value: 500
-  - name: defaultContainer
-    value: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:6.0.0
+
+resources:
+  containers:
+    - container: default
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:1.9.0
 
 pool: Standard
 
@@ -46,6 +49,9 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - test: 1
             - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
+            - test: 5
   - stage: Units
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -54,14 +60,14 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: units/{0}
           targets:
+            - test: 2.6
             - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
             - test: 3.6
             - test: 3.7
             - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
-            - test: 3.11
-            - test: 3.12
   - stage: Windows
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -70,62 +76,35 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Server {0}
           testFormat: windows/{0}/1
           targets:
+            - test: 2012
+            - test: 2012-R2
             - test: 2016
             - test: 2019
             - test: 2022
   - stage: Remote
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/target
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           targets:
-            - name: macOS 13.2
-              test: macos/13.2
+            - name: macOS 11.1
+              test: macos/11.1
             - 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 8.4 py36
+              test: rhel/8.4@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.4 py38
+              test: rhel/8.4@3.8
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+              test: freebsd/13.0
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller
-        parameters:
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 13.2
-              test: macos/13.2
-            - name: RHEL 8.8
-              test: rhel/8.8
-            - name: RHEL 9.2
-              test: rhel/9.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
-              test: freebsd/13.2
-          groups:
             - 3
             - 4
             - 5
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml  # context/controller (ansible-test container management)
-        parameters:
-          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.18
-              test: alpine/3.18
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora/38
-            - name: RHEL 8.8
-              test: rhel/8.8
-            - name: RHEL 9.2
-              test: rhel/9.2
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu/22.04
-          groups:
-            - 6
   - stage: Docker
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -135,30 +114,25 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - name: Alpine 3
               test: alpine3
+            - name: CentOS 6
+              test: centos6
             - name: CentOS 7
               test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora38
-            - name: openSUSE 15
+            - name: Fedora 33
+              test: fedora33
+            - name: Fedora 34
+              test: fedora34
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
               test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
             - name: Ubuntu 20.04
               test: ubuntu2004
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu2204
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora38
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu2204
-          groups:
             - 3
             - 4
             - 5
@@ -170,9 +144,9 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: galaxy/{0}/1
           targets:
+            - test: 3.8
+            - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
-            - test: 3.11
-            - test: 3.12
   - stage: Generic
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
@@ -181,9 +155,53 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: generic/{0}/1
           targets:
+            - test: 3.8
+            - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
-            - test: 3.11
-            - test: 3.12
+  - stage: Incidental_Remote
+    displayName: Incidental Remote
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: i/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 11.1
+              test: macos/11.1
+            - name: RHEL 7.9
+              test: rhel/7.9
+            - name: RHEL 8.4 py36
+              test: rhel/8.4@3.6
+            - name: RHEL 8.4 py38
+              test: rhel/8.4@3.8
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+              test: freebsd/13.0
+  - stage: Incidental_Docker
+    displayName: Incidental Docker
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: i/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: CentOS 6
+              test: centos6
+            - name: CentOS 7
+              test: centos7
+            - name: Fedora 33
+              test: fedora33
+            - name: Fedora 34
+              test: fedora34
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
   - stage: Incidental_Windows
     displayName: Incidental Windows
     dependsOn: []
@@ -193,6 +211,8 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Server {0}
           testFormat: i/windows/{0}
           targets:
+            - test: 2012
+            - test: 2012-R2
             - test: 2016
             - test: 2019
             - test: 2022
@@ -207,6 +227,12 @@ stages:
               test: ios/csr1000v/
             - name: VyOS Python
               test: vyos/1.1.8/
+            - name: AWS Python 2.7
+              test: aws/2.7
+            - name: AWS Python 3.6
+              test: aws/3.6
+            - name: Cloud Python
+              test: cloud/
   - stage: Summary
     condition: succeededOrFailed()
     dependsOn:
@@ -217,6 +243,8 @@ stages:
       - Docker
       - Galaxy
       - Generic
+      - Incidental_Remote
+      - Incidental_Docker
       - Incidental_Windows
       - Incidental
     jobs:

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

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

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

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -o pipefail -eux
-
-declare -a args
-IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
-
-version="${args[1]}"
-
-target="shippable/windows/incidental/"
-
-stage="${S:-prod}"
-provider="${P:-default}"
-
-# python version to run full tests on while other versions run minimal tests
-python_default="$(PYTHONPATH="${PWD}/test/lib" python -c 'from ansible_test._internal import constants; print(constants.CONTROLLER_MIN_PYTHON_VERSION)')"
-
-# version to test when only testing a single version
-single_version=2022
-
-# shellcheck disable=SC2086
-ansible-test windows-integration --list-targets -v ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} > /tmp/explain.txt 2>&1 || { cat /tmp/explain.txt && false; }
-{ grep ' windows-integration: .* (targeted)$' /tmp/explain.txt || true; } > /tmp/windows.txt
-
-if [ -s /tmp/windows.txt ] || [ "${CHANGED:+$CHANGED}" == "" ]; then
-    echo "Detected changes requiring integration tests specific to Windows:"
-    cat /tmp/windows.txt
-
-    echo "Running Windows integration tests for multiple versions concurrently."
-
-    platforms=(
-        --windows "${version}"
-    )
-else
-    echo "No changes requiring integration tests specific to Windows were detected."
-    echo "Running Windows integration tests for a single version only: ${single_version}"
-
-    if [ "${version}" != "${single_version}" ]; then
-        echo "Skipping this job since it is for: ${version}"
-        exit 0
-    fi
-
-    platforms=(
-        --windows "${version}"
-    )
-fi
-
-# shellcheck disable=SC2086
-ansible-test windows-integration --color -v --retry-on-error "${target}" ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} \
-    "${platforms[@]}" \
-    --docker default --python "${python_default}" \
-    --remote-terminate always --remote-stage "${stage}" --remote-provider "${provider}"

.azure-pipelines/commands/sanity.sh

@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -o pipefail -eux
-
-declare -a args
-IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
-
-group="${args[1]}"
-
-group2_include=(
-    ansible-doc
-    changelog
-    package-data
-    pep8
-    pylint
-    validate-modules
-)
-
-group1_exclude=(
-    "${group2_include[@]}"
-)
-
-options=()
-
-case "${group}" in
-    1)
-        for name in "${group1_exclude[@]}"; do
-            options+=(--skip-test "${name}")
-        done
-        ;;
-    2)
-        for name in "${group2_include[@]}"; do
-            options+=(--test "${name}")
-        done
-        ;;
-esac
-
-# shellcheck disable=SC2086
-ansible-test sanity --color -v --junit ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} \
-    --docker \
-    "${options[@]}" --allow-disabled

.azure-pipelines/commands/windows.sh

@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -o pipefail -eux
-
-declare -a args
-IFS='/:' read -ra args <<< "$1"
-
-version="${args[1]}"
-group="${args[2]}"
-
-target="shippable/windows/group${group}/"
-
-stage="${S:-prod}"
-provider="${P:-default}"
-
-# python versions to test in order
-IFS=' ' read -r -a python_versions <<< \
-    "$(PYTHONPATH="${PWD}/test/lib" python -c 'from ansible_test._internal import constants; print(" ".join(constants.CONTROLLER_PYTHON_VERSIONS))')"
-
-# python version to run full tests on while other versions run minimal tests
-python_default="$(PYTHONPATH="${PWD}/test/lib" python -c 'from ansible_test._internal import constants; print(constants.CONTROLLER_MIN_PYTHON_VERSION)')"
-
-# version to test when only testing a single version
-single_version=2022
-
-# shellcheck disable=SC2086
-ansible-test windows-integration --list-targets -v ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} > /tmp/explain.txt 2>&1 || { cat /tmp/explain.txt && false; }
-{ grep ' windows-integration: .* (targeted)$' /tmp/explain.txt || true; } > /tmp/windows.txt
-
-if [ -s /tmp/windows.txt ] || [ "${CHANGED:+$CHANGED}" == "" ]; then
-    echo "Detected changes requiring integration tests specific to Windows:"
-    cat /tmp/windows.txt
-
-    echo "Running Windows integration tests for multiple versions concurrently."
-
-    platforms=(
-        --windows "${version}"
-    )
-else
-    echo "No changes requiring integration tests specific to Windows were detected."
-    echo "Running Windows integration tests for a single version only: ${single_version}"
-
-    if [ "${version}" != "${single_version}" ]; then
-        echo "Skipping this job since it is for: ${version}"
-        exit 0
-    fi
-
-    platforms=(
-        --windows "${version}"
-    )
-fi
-
-for version in "${python_versions[@]}"; do
-    changed_all_target="all"
-    changed_all_mode="default"
-
-    if [ "${version}" == "${python_default}" ]; then
-        # smoketest tests
-        if [ "${CHANGED}" ]; then
-            # with change detection enabled run tests for anything changed
-            # use the smoketest tests for any change that triggers all tests
-            ci="${target}"
-            changed_all_target="shippable/windows/smoketest/"
-            if [ "${target}" == "shippable/windows/group1/" ]; then
-                # only run smoketest tests for group1
-                changed_all_mode="include"
-            else
-                # smoketest tests already covered by group1
-                changed_all_mode="exclude"
-            fi
-        else
-            # without change detection enabled run entire test group
-            ci="${target}"
-        fi
-    else
-        # only run minimal tests for group1
-        if [ "${target}" != "shippable/windows/group1/" ]; then continue; fi
-        # minimal tests for other python versions
-        ci="shippable/windows/minimal/"
-    fi
-
-    # terminate remote instances on the final python version tested
-    if [ "${version}" = "${python_versions[-1]}" ]; then
-        terminate="always"
-    else
-        terminate="never"
-    fi
-
-    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-    ansible-test windows-integration --color -v --retry-on-error "${ci}" ${COVERAGE:+"$COVERAGE"} ${CHANGED:+"$CHANGED"} ${UNSTABLE:+"$UNSTABLE"} \
-        "${platforms[@]}" --changed-all-target "${changed_all_target}" --changed-all-mode "${changed_all_mode}" \
-        --docker default --python "${version}" \
-        --remote-terminate "${terminate}" --remote-stage "${stage}" --remote-provider "${provider}"
-done

.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 jobs:
   - job: Coverage
     displayName: Code Coverage
-    container: $[ variables.defaultContainer ]
+    container: default
     workspace:
       clean: all
     steps:

.azure-pipelines/templates/test.yml

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

.git-blame-ignore-revs

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# .git-blame-ignore-revs
-# Bulk PowerShell sanity fixes
-6def4a3180fe03981ba64c6d8db28fed3bb39c0c
-716631189cb5a3f66b3add98f39e64e98bc17bf7

.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

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ body:
     label: Ansible Version
     description: >-
       Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` below, under
-      the prompt line. Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
+      the prompt line. Please don't wrap it with tripple backticks — your
       whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
     render: console
     value: |
@@ -119,17 +119,15 @@ body:
   attributes:
     label: Configuration
     description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all` below, under the prompt line.
-      (if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all')
-      Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed`
+      below, under the prompt line.
+      Please don't wrap it with tripple backticks — your
       whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
     render: console
     value: |
-      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
     placeholder: |
-      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
       DEFAULT_GATHERING(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = smart
       DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['~/src/github/ansible/ansible/hosts']
       DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ~/src/github/ansible/ansible/vault/print-password.sh
@@ -193,7 +191,7 @@ body:
     description: |
       Describe what actually happened. If possible run with extra verbosity (`-vvvv`).
 
-      Paste verbatim command output and don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
+      Paste verbatim command output and don't wrap it with tripple backticks — your
       whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
     render: console
     placeholder: >-
@@ -249,7 +247,7 @@ body:
 
 
       [ansibot help]:
-      /ansible/ansibotmini#ansibotmini
+      /ansible/ansibullbot/blob/master/ISSUE_HELP.md#for-issue-submitters
 
 
 - type: checkboxes

.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:
@@ -70,7 +44,7 @@ body:
 
 
       **HINT:** Did you know the documentation has a `View on GitHub`
-      link on some pages? Feel free to use it to start a pull request
+      link on every page? Feel free to use it to start a pull request
       right from the GitHub UI!
     placeholder: >-
       I was reading the ansible-core documentation of version X and I'm having
@@ -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
 
@@ -117,7 +106,7 @@ body:
     label: Ansible Version
     description: >-
       Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` below, under
-      the prompt line. Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
+      the prompt line. Please don't wrap it with tripple backticks — your
       whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
     render: console
     value: |
@@ -140,17 +129,15 @@ body:
   attributes:
     label: Configuration
     description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all` below, under the prompt line.
-      (if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all')
-      Please don't wrap it with triple backticks — your
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed`
+      below, under the prompt line.
+      Please don't wrap it with tripple backticks — your
       whole input will be turned into a code snippet automatically.
     render: console
     value: |
-      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
     placeholder: |
-      # if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
       DEFAULT_GATHERING(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = smart
       DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['~/src/github/ansible/ansible/hosts']
       DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(~/src/github/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ~/src/github/ansible/ansible/vault/print-password.sh
@@ -196,7 +183,7 @@ body:
 
 
       [ansibot help]:
-      /ansible/ansibotmini#ansibotmini
+      /ansible/ansibullbot/blob/master/ISSUE_HELP.md#for-issue-submitters
 
 
 - type: checkboxes

.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

.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
 
 ```

.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

.github/RELEASE_NAMES.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+---
+- 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

.gitignore

@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ docs/docsite/rst/cli/ansible-*.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/cli/ansible.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/collections_galaxy_meta.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/index.rst.new
-docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/index.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/modules/*.rst
 docs/docsite/rst/collections/*.rst
 !docs/docsite/rst/collections/all_plugins.rst
@@ -53,10 +52,12 @@ docs/docsite/searchindex.js
 docs/docsite/_static/*.gif
 docs/docsite/_static/*.png
 docs/docsite/_static/websupport.js
+# deb building stuff...
+/debian/
+deb-build
 # Vim swap files
 *.swp
 *.swo
-[._]*.un~
 credentials.yml
 # test output
 *.retry
@@ -73,16 +74,7 @@ coverage.xml
 /test/cache/*
 # Development
 /test/develop
-# Environments
-.env
-.venv
-env/
-venv/
-ENV/
-env.bak/
-venv.bak/
 venv
-env
 Vagrantfile
 .vagrant
 # Backwards compatibility with `stable-2.9` and earlier branches.
@@ -99,6 +91,8 @@ 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/

COPYING

@@ -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>.
+

MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,11 +1,40 @@
+include README.rst
 include COPYING
-include bin/*
+include SYMLINK_CACHE.json
+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
+recursive-exclude docs/docsite/_build *
+recursive-exclude docs/docsite/_extensions *.pyc *.pyo
+include examples/hosts
+include examples/ansible.cfg
+include examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1
+include examples/scripts/upgrade_to_ps3.ps1
+include lib/ansible/keyword_desc.yml
+recursive-include lib/ansible/executor/powershell *.ps1
+recursive-include lib/ansible/module_utils/csharp *.cs
+recursive-include lib/ansible/module_utils/powershell *.psm1
+recursive-include lib/ansible/modules/windows *.ps1
+recursive-include lib/ansible/galaxy/data *.yml *.j2 README.md ansible.cfg inventory .git_keep
+recursive-include lib/ansible/config *.yml
+recursive-include licenses *.txt
+recursive-include packaging *
+recursive-include test/ansible_test *.py Makefile
+recursive-include test/integration *
+recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/config *.yml *.template
+recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_data *.cfg *.ini *.ps1 *.txt *.yml coveragerc
+recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_util *.cfg *.json *.ps1 *.psd1 *.py *.sh *.txt *.yml
+recursive-include test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules validate-modules
+recursive-include test/sanity *.json *.py *.txt
+recursive-include test/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs
+exclude test/sanity/code-smell/botmeta.*
+recursive-include test/units *
+include Makefile
+include MANIFEST.in
 include changelogs/CHANGELOG*.rst
 include changelogs/changelog.yaml
-include licenses/*.txt
-include requirements.txt
-recursive-include packaging *.py *.j2
-recursive-include test/integration *
-recursive-include test/sanity *.in *.json *.py *.txt
-recursive-include test/support *.py *.ps1 *.psm1 *.cs *.md
-recursive-include test/units *
+recursive-include hacking/build_library *.py
+include hacking/build-ansible.py

Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,312 @@
+# WARN: gmake syntax
+########################################################
+# Makefile for Ansible
+#
+# useful targets:
+#   make clean ---------------- clean up
+#   make webdocs -------------- produce ansible doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
+#   make coredocs ------------- produce core doc at docs/docsite/_build/html
+#   make sdist ---------------- produce a tarball
+#   make deb-src -------------- produce a DEB source
+#   make deb ------------------ produce a DEB
+#   make docs ----------------- rebuild the manpages (results are checked in)
+#   make gettext -------------- produce POT files for docs
+#   make generate-po ---------- generate language specific po file
+#   make needs-translation ---- generate list of file with unstranlated or fuzzy string for a specific language
+#   make tests ---------------- run the tests (see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/testing_units.html for requirements)
+
+########################################################
+# variable section
+
+NAME = ansible-core
+OS = $(shell uname -s)
+PREFIX ?= '/usr/local'
+SDIST_DIR ?= 'dist'
+
+# This doesn't evaluate until it's called. The -D argument is the
+# directory of the target file ($@), kinda like `dirname`.
+MANPAGES ?= $(patsubst %.rst.in,%,$(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1.rst.in))
+ifneq ($(shell which rst2man 2>/dev/null),)
+ASCII2MAN = rst2man $< $@
+else ifneq ($(shell which rst2man.py 2>/dev/null),)
+ASCII2MAN = rst2man.py $< $@
+else
+ASCII2MAN = @echo "ERROR: rst2man from docutils command is not installed but is required to build $(MANPAGES)" && exit 1
+endif
+
+PYTHON ?= python
+GENERATE_CLI = hacking/build-ansible.py generate-man
+
+# fetch version from project release.py as single source-of-truth
+VERSION := $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --raw || echo error)
+ifeq ($(findstring error,$(VERSION)), error)
+$(error "version_helper failed")
+endif
+
+# Get the branch information from git
+ifneq ($(shell which git),)
+GIT_DATE := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ci")
+GIT_HASH := $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%h")
+GIT_BRANCH := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | sed 's/[-_.\/]//g')
+GITINFO = .$(GIT_HASH).$(GIT_BRANCH)
+else
+GITINFO = ""
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(shell echo $(OS) | egrep -c 'Darwin|FreeBSD|OpenBSD|DragonFly'),1)
+DATE := $(shell date -j -r $(shell git log -n 1 --format="%ct") +%Y%m%d%H%M)
+CPUS ?= $(shell sysctl hw.ncpu|awk '{print $$2}')
+else
+DATE := $(shell date --utc --date="$(GIT_DATE)" +%Y%m%d%H%M)
+CPUS ?= $(shell nproc)
+endif
+
+# Intenationalisation and Localisation
+LANGUAGES ?=
+
+# DEB build parameters
+DEBUILD_BIN ?= debuild
+DEBUILD_OPTS = --source-option="-I"
+DPUT_BIN ?= dput
+DPUT_OPTS ?=
+DEB_DATE := $(shell LC_TIME=C date +"%a, %d %b %Y %T %z")
+DEB_VERSION ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debversion)
+ifeq ($(OFFICIAL),yes)
+    DEB_RELEASE ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) packaging/release/versionhelper/version_helper.py --debrelease)ppa
+    # Sign OFFICIAL builds using 'DEBSIGN_KEYID'
+    # DEBSIGN_KEYID is required when signing
+    ifneq ($(DEBSIGN_KEYID),)
+        DEBUILD_OPTS += -k$(DEBSIGN_KEYID)
+    endif
+else
+    DEB_RELEASE ?= 100.git$(DATE)$(GITINFO)
+    # Do not sign unofficial builds
+    DEBUILD_OPTS += -uc -us
+    DPUT_OPTS += -u
+endif
+DEBUILD = $(DEBUILD_BIN) $(DEBUILD_OPTS)
+DEB_PPA ?= ppa
+# Choose the desired Ubuntu release: lucid precise saucy trusty
+DEB_DIST ?= unstable
+
+# pbuilder parameters
+PBUILDER_ARCH ?= amd64
+PBUILDER_CACHE_DIR = /var/cache/pbuilder
+PBUILDER_BIN ?= pbuilder
+PBUILDER_OPTS ?= --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd --architecture $(PBUILDER_ARCH) --debbuildopts -b
+
+# ansible-test parameters
+ANSIBLE_TEST ?= bin/ansible-test
+TEST_FLAGS ?=
+
+# ansible-test units parameters (make test / make test-py3)
+PYTHON_VERSION ?= $(shell python2 -c 'import sys; print("%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:2])')
+PYTHON3_VERSION ?= $(shell python3 -c 'import sys; print("%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:2])')
+
+# ansible-test integration parameters (make integration)
+IMAGE ?= centos7
+TARGET ?=
+
+########################################################
+
+.PHONY: all
+all: clean python
+
+.PHONY: tests
+tests:
+	$(ANSIBLE_TEST) units -v --python $(PYTHON_VERSION) $(TEST_FLAGS)
+
+.PHONY: tests-py3
+tests-py3:
+	$(ANSIBLE_TEST) units -v --python $(PYTHON3_VERSION) $(TEST_FLAGS)
+
+.PHONY: integration
+integration:
+	$(ANSIBLE_TEST) integration -v --docker $(IMAGE) $(TARGET) $(TEST_FLAGS)
+
+# Regenerate %.1.rst if %.1.rst.in has been modified more
+# recently than %.1.rst.
+%.1.rst: %.1.rst.in
+	sed "s/%VERSION%/$(VERSION)/" $< > $@
+	rm $<
+
+# Regenerate %.1 if %.1.rst or release.py has been modified more
+# recently than %.1. (Implicitly runs the %.1.rst recipe)
+%.1: %.1.rst lib/ansible/release.py
+	$(ASCII2MAN)
+
+.PHONY: clean
+clean:
+	@echo "Cleaning up distutils stuff"
+	rm -rf build
+	rm -rf dist
+	rm -rf lib/ansible*.egg-info/
+	@echo "Cleaning up byte compiled python stuff"
+	find . -type f -regex ".*\.py[co]$$" -delete
+	find . -type d -name "__pycache__" -delete
+	@echo "Cleaning up editor backup files"
+	find . -type f -not -path ./test/units/inventory_test_data/group_vars/noparse/all.yml~ \( -name "*~" -or -name "#*" \) -delete
+	find . -type f \( -name "*.swp" \) -delete
+	@echo "Cleaning up manpage stuff"
+	find ./docs/man -type f -name "*.xml" -delete
+	find ./docs/man -type f -name "*.rst" -delete
+	find ./docs/man/man3 -type f -name "*.3" -delete
+	rm -f ./docs/man/man1/*
+	@echo "Cleaning up output from test runs"
+	rm -rf test/test_data
+	rm -rf logs/
+	rm -rf .cache/
+	rm -f test/units/.coverage*
+	rm -rf test/results/*/*
+	find test/ -type f -name '*.retry' -delete
+	@echo "Cleaning up symlink cache"
+	rm -f SYMLINK_CACHE.json
+	@echo "Cleaning up Debian building stuff"
+	rm -rf debian
+	rm -rf deb-build
+	rm -rf docs/json
+	rm -rf docs/js
+	@echo "Cleaning up docsite"
+	$(MAKE) -C docs/docsite clean
+
+.PHONY: python
+python:
+	$(PYTHON) setup.py build
+
+.PHONY: install
+install:
+	$(PYTHON) setup.py install
+
+install_manpages:
+	gzip -9 $(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1)
+	cp $(wildcard ./docs/man/man1/ansible*.1.gz) $(PREFIX)/man/man1/
+
+.PHONY: sdist_check
+sdist_check:
+	$(PYTHON) -c 'import setuptools, sys; sys.exit(int(not (tuple(map(int, setuptools.__version__.split("."))) > (39, 2, 0))))'
+	$(PYTHON) packaging/sdist/check-link-behavior.py
+
+.PHONY: sdist
+sdist: sdist_check clean docs
+	_ANSIBLE_SDIST_FROM_MAKEFILE=1 $(PYTHON) setup.py sdist --dist-dir=$(SDIST_DIR)
+
+# Official releases generate the changelog as the last commit before the release.
+# Snapshots shouldn't result in new checkins so the changelog is generated as
+# part of creating the tarball.
+.PHONY: snapshot
+snapshot: sdist_check clean docs changelog
+	_ANSIBLE_SDIST_FROM_MAKEFILE=1 $(PYTHON) setup.py sdist --dist-dir=$(SDIST_DIR)
+
+.PHONY: sdist_upload
+sdist_upload: clean docs
+	$(PYTHON) setup.py sdist upload 2>&1 |tee upload.log
+
+.PHONY: changelog
+changelog:
+	PYTHONPATH=./lib antsibull-changelog release -vv --use-ansible-doc && PYTHONPATH=./lib antsibull-changelog generate -vv --use-ansible-doc
+
+.PHONY: debian
+debian: sdist
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    mkdir -p deb-build/$${DIST} ; \
+	    tar -C deb-build/$${DIST} -xvf dist/$(NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.gz ; \
+	    cp -a packaging/debian deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ ; \
+        sed -ie "s|%VERSION%|$(DEB_VERSION)|g;s|%RELEASE%|$(DEB_RELEASE)|;s|%DIST%|$${DIST}|g;s|%DATE%|$(DEB_DATE)|g" deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/debian/changelog ; \
+	done
+
+.PHONY: deb
+deb: deb-src
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    PBUILDER_OPTS="$(PBUILDER_OPTS) --distribution $${DIST} --basetgz $(PBUILDER_CACHE_DIR)/$${DIST}-$(PBUILDER_ARCH)-base.tgz --buildresult $(CURDIR)/deb-build/$${DIST}" ; \
+	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) create $${PBUILDER_OPTS} --othermirror "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $${DIST} universe" ; \
+	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) update $${PBUILDER_OPTS} ; \
+	    $(PBUILDER_BIN) build $${PBUILDER_OPTS} deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}.dsc ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_amd64.changes ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+
+# Build package outside of pbuilder, with locally installed dependencies.
+# Install BuildRequires as noted in packaging/debian/control.
+.PHONY: local_deb
+local_deb: debian
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    (cd deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ && $(DEBUILD) -b) ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_amd64.changes ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+
+.PHONY: deb-src
+deb-src: debian
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    (cd deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)-$(VERSION)/ && $(DEBUILD) -S) ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+	@echo "Ansible DEB artifacts:"
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    echo deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_source.changes ; \
+	done
+	@echo "#############################################"
+
+.PHONY: deb-upload
+deb-upload: deb
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    $(DPUT_BIN) $(DPUT_OPTS) $(DEB_PPA) deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_amd64.changes ; \
+	done
+
+.PHONY: deb-src-upload
+deb-src-upload: deb-src
+	@for DIST in $(DEB_DIST) ; do \
+	    $(DPUT_BIN) $(DPUT_OPTS) $(DEB_PPA) deb-build/$${DIST}/$(NAME)_$(DEB_VERSION)-$(DEB_RELEASE)~$${DIST}_source.changes ; \
+	done
+
+.PHONY: epub
+epub:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) epub)
+
+# for arch or gentoo, read instructions in the appropriate 'packaging' subdirectory directory
+.PHONY: webdocs
+webdocs:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) docs)
+
+.PHONY: coredocs
+coredocs:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) coredocs)
+
+.PHONY: gettext
+gettext:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) gettext)
+
+.PHONY: generate-po
+generate-po:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) LANGUAGES=$(LANGUAGES) $(MAKE) generate-po)
+
+.PHONY: needs-translation
+needs-translation:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) LANGUAGES=$(LANGUAGES) $(MAKE) needs-translation)
+
+.PHONY: linkcheckdocs
+linkcheckdocs:
+	(cd docs/docsite/; CPUS=$(CPUS) $(MAKE) linkcheckdocs)
+
+.PHONY: generate_rst
+generate_rst: lib/ansible/cli/*.py
+	mkdir -p ./docs/man/man1/ ; \
+	$(PYTHON) $(GENERATE_CLI) --template-file=docs/templates/man.j2 --output-dir=docs/man/man1/ --output-format man lib/ansible/cli/*.py
+
+
+docs: generate_rst
+	$(MAKE) $(MANPAGES)
+
+.PHONY: alldocs
+alldocs: docs webdocs
+
+version:
+	@echo $(VERSION)

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-[![Ansible Code of Conduct](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20of%20conduct-Ansible-silver.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html)
-[![Ansible mailing lists](https://img.shields.io/badge/mailing%20lists-Ansible-orange.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html#mailing-list-information)
-[![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
-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.

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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
+   :target: https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core
+.. |Docs badge| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg
+   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/
+.. |Build Status| image:: https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=devel
+   :target: https://dev.azure.com/ansible/ansible/_build/latest?definitionId=20&branchName=devel
+.. |Chat badge| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/chat-IRC-brightgreen.svg
+   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html
+.. |Code Of Conduct| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20of%20conduct-Ansible-silver.svg
+   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html
+   :alt: Ansible Code of Conduct
+.. |Mailing Lists| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/mailing%20lists-Ansible-orange.svg
+   :target: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html#mailing-list-information
+   :alt: Ansible mailing lists
+.. |License| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL%20v3.0-brightgreen.svg
+   :target: COPYING
+   :alt: Repository License
+.. |CII Best Practices| image:: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372/badge
+   :target: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/2372
+   :alt: Ansible CII Best Practices certification

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

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-ansible-core 2.16 "All My Love" Release Notes
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-v2.16.9
-=======
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2024-07-15
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
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-
-Bugfixes
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-- dnf, dnf5 - fix for installing a set of packages by specifying them using a wildcard character (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83373)
-- linear strategy now provides a properly templated task name to the v2_runner_on_started callback event.
-- templating hostvars under native jinja will not cause serialization errors anymore.
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-v2.16.8
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2024-06-17
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
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-Minor Changes
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-- ansible-test - Update ``pypi-test-container`` to version 3.1.0.
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-Bugfixes
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-- Fix the task attribute ``resolved_action`` to show the FQCN instead of ``None`` when ``action`` or ``local_action`` is used in the playbook.
-- Fix using ``module_defaults`` with ``local_action``/``action`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81905).
-- fixed unit test test_borken_cowsay to address mock not been properly applied when existing unix system already have cowsay installed.
-- powershell - Implement more robust deletion mechanism for C# code compilation temporary files. This should avoid scenarios where the underlying temporary directory may be temporarily locked by antivirus tools or other IO problems. A failure to delete one of these temporary directories will result in a warning rather than an outright failure.
-
-v2.16.7
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-
-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2024-05-20
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
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-Minor Changes
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-- ansible.builtin.user - Remove user not found warning (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80267)
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-Bugfixes
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-- 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.
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-v2.16.6
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-
-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2024-04-15
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
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-Bugfixes
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-- 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
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-v2.16.5
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2024-03-25
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
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-
-Minor Changes
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-- 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``.
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-Bugfixes
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-- 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
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-v2.16.4
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2024-02-26
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
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-
-Bugfixes
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-- 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)
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-v2.16.3
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-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2024-01-29
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
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-
-Security Fixes
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-- ANSIBLE_NO_LOG - Address issue where ANSIBLE_NO_LOG was ignored (CVE-2024-0690)
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-Bugfixes
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-- 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)
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-v2.16.2
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-
-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2023-12-11
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
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-
-- 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``
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-v2.16.1
-=======
-
-Release Summary
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-| Release Date: 2023-12-04
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
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-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
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-- assert - Nested templating may result in an inability for the conditional to be evaluated. See the porting guide for more information.
-
-Security Fixes
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-- templating - Address issues where internal templating can cause unsafe variables to lose their unsafe designation (CVE-2023-5764)
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-Bugfixes
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-- 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.
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-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).

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.

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.

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

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

changelogs/fragments/2.16.0_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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

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>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.8_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-06-17
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.8rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-06-10
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.9_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-07-15
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/2.16.9rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: |
-   | Release Date: 2024-07-09
-   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

changelogs/fragments/20802-until-default.yml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/212-py26-deprecation.yml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/27816-fetch-unreachable.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/29457-deprecate-remote_checksum.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/39029_unarchive.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/50594_ini.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/50603-tty-check.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/55994_testcases.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/56249_recursive_diff.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/65227.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/65386-validate-hosts.yml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/66432_hostname_check_mode_writes.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/67340-slurp_error_message.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/67943_collection_skip.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/71343_yum_repository.yml

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/72607.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/73264-pause-emacs.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/73284-yum-multiarch.yml

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

changelogs/fragments/73503_dnf_whatprovides.yml

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

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

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

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

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

changelogs/fragments/73814-host_label.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/73819-git-accept_new_host_key.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/73820-yumdnf-add_cacheonly_option.yaml

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

changelogs/fragments/73821-user-add_umask_option.yaml

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