Disable opentelemetry installation for unit tests. (#4871 ) (#4873 )

(cherry picked from commit 1eee35dffb) Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
Release 5.2.0.
2026-04-30 02:16:50 +00:00 · 2022-06-21 21:39:38 +02:00 · 2022-06-21 21:24:42 +02:00 · 2022-06-21 15:03:51 +02:00 · 2022-06-21 12:52:21 +02:00 · 2022-06-20 20:29:04 +02:00
4035 changed files with 255915 additions and 338787 deletions
--- a/.azure-pipelines/README.md
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-->
-
 ## Azure Pipelines Configuration

 Please see the [Documentation](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Testing:-Azure-Pipelines) for more information.
--- a/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 trigger:
  batch: true
  branches:
@@ -29,19 +24,22 @@ schedules:
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-11
+        - stable-5
+        - stable-4
  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-10
+        - stable-3

 variables:
  - name: checkoutPath
    value: ansible_collections/community/general
  - name: coverageBranches
    value: main
+  - name: pipelinesCoverage
+    value: coverage
  - name: entryPoint
    value: tests/utils/shippable/shippable.sh
  - name: fetchDepth
@@ -50,7 +48,7 @@ variables:
 resources:
  containers:
    - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:7.0.0
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:3.0.0

 pool: Standard

@@ -69,40 +67,41 @@ stages:
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_20
-    displayName: Sanity 2.20
+            - test: extra
+  - stage: Sanity_2_13
+    displayName: Sanity 2.13
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.20/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/sanity/{0}
          targets:
            - test: 1
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_19
-    displayName: Sanity 2.19
+  - stage: Sanity_2_12
+    displayName: Sanity 2.12
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.19/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.12/sanity/{0}
          targets:
            - test: 1
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_18
-    displayName: Sanity 2.18
+  - stage: Sanity_2_11
+    displayName: Sanity 2.11
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.18/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.11/sanity/{0}
          targets:
            - test: 1
            - test: 2
@@ -118,68 +117,54 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/units/{0}/1
          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
+            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
-            - test: '3.11'
-            - test: '3.12'
-            - test: '3.13'
-            - test: '3.14'
-  - stage: Units_2_20
-    displayName: Units 2.20
+  - stage: Units_2_13
+    displayName: Units 2.13
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.20/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.13/units/{0}/1
          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
-            - test: "3.12"
-            - test: "3.14"
-  - stage: Units_2_19
-    displayName: Units 2.19
+  - stage: Units_2_12
+    displayName: Units 2.12
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.19/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.12/units/{0}/1
          targets:
+            - test: 2.6
+            - test: 3.5
            - test: 3.8
-            - test: "3.11"
-            - test: "3.13"
-  - stage: Units_2_18
-    displayName: Units 2.18
+  - stage: Units_2_11
+    displayName: Units 2.11
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.18/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.11/units/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: 3.8
-            - test: "3.11"
-            - test: "3.13"
+            - test: 2.6
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.9

 ## Remote
-  - stage: Remote_devel_extra_vms
-    displayName: Remote devel extra VMs
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.22
-              test: alpine/3.22
-            # - name: Fedora 42
-            #   test: fedora/42
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu/22.04
-            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
-              test: ubuntu/24.04
-          groups:
-            - vm
  - stage: Remote_devel
    displayName: Remote devel
    dependsOn: []
@@ -188,68 +173,68 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: macOS 15.3
-              test: macos/15.3
-            - name: RHEL 10.0
-              test: rhel/10.0
-            - name: RHEL 9.6
-              test: rhel/9.6
-            - name: FreeBSD 14.3
-              test: freebsd/14.3
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.5
-              test: freebsd/13.5
+            - name: macOS 12.0
+              test: macos/12.0
+            - name: RHEL 7.9
+              test: rhel/7.9
+            - name: RHEL 9.0
+              test: rhel/9.0
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.3
+              test: freebsd/12.3
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.1
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_20
-    displayName: Remote 2.20
+  - stage: Remote_2_13
+    displayName: Remote 2.13
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.20/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: RHEL 10.0
-              test: rhel/10.0
-            - name: FreeBSD 14.3
-              test: freebsd/14.3
+            - name: macOS 12.0
+              test: macos/12.0
+            - name: RHEL 8.5
+              test: rhel/8.5
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_19
-    displayName: Remote 2.19
+  - stage: Remote_2_12
+    displayName: Remote 2.12
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.19/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.12/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: RHEL 9.5
-              test: rhel/9.5
-            - name: RHEL 10.0
-              test: rhel/10.0
-            - name: FreeBSD 14.2
-              test: freebsd/14.2
+            - name: macOS 11.1
+              test: macos/11.1
+            - name: RHEL 8.4
+              test: rhel/8.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+              test: freebsd/13.0
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_18
-    displayName: Remote 2.18
+  - stage: Remote_2_11
+    displayName: Remote 2.11
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.18/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.11/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: macOS 14.3
-              test: macos/14.3
-            - name: RHEL 9.4
-              test: rhel/9.4
-            - name: FreeBSD 14.1
-              test: freebsd/14.1
+            - name: RHEL 7.9
+              test: rhel/7.9
+            - name: RHEL 8.3
+              test: rhel/8.3
+            #- name: FreeBSD 12.2
+            #  test: freebsd/12.2
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -264,64 +249,74 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 42
-              test: fedora42
-            - name: Alpine 3.22
-              test: alpine322
+            - name: CentOS 7
+              test: centos7
+            - name: Fedora 35
+              test: fedora35
+            - name: Fedora 36
+              test: fedora36
+            - name: openSUSE 15
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu2204
-            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
-              test: ubuntu2404
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_20
-    displayName: Docker 2.20
+  - stage: Docker_2_13
+    displayName: Docker 2.13
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.20/linux/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 42
-              test: fedora42
-            - name: Alpine 3.22
-              test: alpine322
+            - name: Fedora 35
+              test: fedora35
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_19
-    displayName: Docker 2.19
+  - stage: Docker_2_12
+    displayName: Docker 2.12
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.19/linux/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.12/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 41
-              test: fedora41
-            - name: Alpine 3.21
-              test: alpine321
+            - name: CentOS 6
+              test: centos6
+            - name: Fedora 34
+              test: fedora34
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_18
-    displayName: Docker 2.18
+  - stage: Docker_2_11
+    displayName: Docker 2.11
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.18/linux/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.11/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 40
-              test: fedora40
-            - name: Alpine 3.20
-              test: alpine320
-            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
-              test: ubuntu2404
+            - name: Fedora 32
+              test: fedora32
+            - name: Fedora 33
+              test: fedora33
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -336,92 +331,84 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/linux-community/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Debian 11 Bullseye
+            - name: Debian Bullseye
              test: debian-bullseye/3.9
-            - name: Debian 12 Bookworm
-              test: debian-bookworm/3.11
-            - name: Debian 13 Trixie
-              test: debian-13-trixie/3.13
            - name: ArchLinux
-              test: archlinux/3.13
+              test: archlinux/3.10
+            - name: CentOS Stream 8
+              test: centos-stream8/3.8
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3

-### Generic
-# Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-#  - stage: Generic_devel
-#    displayName: Generic devel
-#    dependsOn: []
-#    jobs:
-#      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-#        parameters:
-#          nameFormat: Python {0}
-#          testFormat: devel/generic/{0}/1
-#          targets:
-#            - test: '3.9'
-#            - test: '3.12'
-#            - test: '3.14'
-#  - stage: Generic_2_20
-#    displayName: Generic 2.20
-#    dependsOn: []
-#    jobs:
-#      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-#        parameters:
-#          nameFormat: Python {0}
-#          testFormat: 2.20/generic/{0}/1
-#          targets:
-#            - test: '3.10'
-#            - test: '3.14'
-#  - stage: Generic_2_19
-#    displayName: Generic 2.19
-#    dependsOn: []
-#    jobs:
-#      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-#        parameters:
-#          nameFormat: Python {0}
-#          testFormat: 2.19/generic/{0}/1
-#          targets:
-#            - test: '3.9'
-#            - test: '3.13'
-#  - stage: Generic_2_18
-#    displayName: Generic 2.18
-#    dependsOn: []
-#    jobs:
-#      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-#        parameters:
-#          nameFormat: Python {0}
-#          testFormat: 2.18/generic/{0}/1
-#          targets:
-#            - test: '3.8'
-#            - test: '3.13'
+### Cloud
+  - stage: Cloud_devel
+    displayName: Cloud devel
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: devel/cloud/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: '3.10'
+  - stage: Cloud_2_13
+    displayName: Cloud 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/cloud/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Cloud_2_12
+    displayName: Cloud 2.12
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.12/cloud/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.8
+  - stage: Cloud_2_11
+    displayName: Cloud 2.11
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.11/cloud/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5

  - stage: Summary
    condition: succeededOrFailed()
    dependsOn:
      - Sanity_devel
-      - Sanity_2_20
-      - Sanity_2_19
-      - Sanity_2_18
+      - Sanity_2_11
+      - Sanity_2_12
+      - Sanity_2_13
      - Units_devel
-      - Units_2_20
-      - Units_2_19
-      - Units_2_18
-      - Remote_devel_extra_vms
+      - Units_2_11
+      - Units_2_12
+      - Units_2_13
      - Remote_devel
-      - Remote_2_20
-      - Remote_2_19
-      - Remote_2_18
+      - Remote_2_11
+      - Remote_2_12
+      - Remote_2_13
      - Docker_devel
-      - Docker_2_20
-      - Docker_2_19
-      - Docker_2_18
+      - Docker_2_11
+      - Docker_2_12
+      - Docker_2_13
      - Docker_community_devel
-# Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-#      - Generic_devel
-#      - Generic_2_20
-#      - Generic_2_19
-#      - Generic_2_18
+      - Cloud_devel
+      - Cloud_2_11
+      - Cloud_2_12
+      - Cloud_2_13
    jobs:
      - template: templates/coverage.yml
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/aggregate-coverage.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/aggregate-coverage.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Aggregate code coverage results for later processing.

 set -o pipefail -eu
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/combine-coverage.py
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/combine-coverage.py
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 """
 Combine coverage data from multiple jobs, keeping the data only from the most recent attempt from each job.
 Coverage artifacts must be named using the format: "Coverage $(System.JobAttempt) {StableUniqueNameForEachJob}"
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/process-results.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/process-results.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Check the test results and set variables for use in later steps.

 set -o pipefail -eu
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 """
 Upload code coverage reports to codecov.io.
 Multiple coverage files from multiple languages are accepted and aggregated after upload.
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Generate code coverage reports for uploading to Azure Pipelines and codecov.io.

 set -o pipefail -eu
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/run-tests.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/run-tests.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Configure the test environment and run the tests.

 set -o pipefail -eu
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/time-command.py
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/time-command.py
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 """Prepends a relative timestamp to each input line from stdin and writes it to stdout."""

 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
--- a/.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # This template adds a job for processing code coverage data.
 # It will upload results to Azure Pipelines and codecov.io.
 # Use it from a job stage that completes after all other jobs have completed.
@@ -28,6 +23,16 @@ jobs:
      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh
        displayName: Generate Coverage Report
        condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
+      - task: PublishCodeCoverageResults@1
+        inputs:
+          codeCoverageTool: Cobertura
+          # Azure Pipelines only accepts a single coverage data file.
+          # That means only Python or PowerShell coverage can be uploaded, but not both.
+          # Set the "pipelinesCoverage" variable to determine which type is uploaded.
+          # Use "coverage" for Python and "coverage-powershell" for PowerShell.
+          summaryFileLocation: "$(outputPath)/reports/$(pipelinesCoverage).xml"
+        displayName: Publish to Azure Pipelines
+        condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py "$(outputPath)"
        displayName: Publish to codecov.io
        condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
--- a/.azure-pipelines/templates/matrix.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/templates/matrix.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # This template uses the provided targets and optional groups to generate a matrix which is then passed to the test template.
 # If this matrix template does not provide the required functionality, consider using the test template directly instead.

@@ -50,11 +45,11 @@ jobs:
    parameters:
      jobs:
        - ${{ if eq(length(parameters.groups), 0) }}:
-            - ${{ each target in parameters.targets }}:
-                - name: ${{ format(parameters.nameFormat, coalesce(target.name, target.test)) }}
-                  test: ${{ format(parameters.testFormat, coalesce(target.test, target.name)) }}
+          - ${{ each target in parameters.targets }}:
+            - name: ${{ format(parameters.nameFormat, coalesce(target.name, target.test)) }}
+              test: ${{ format(parameters.testFormat, coalesce(target.test, target.name)) }}
        - ${{ if not(eq(length(parameters.groups), 0)) }}:
-            - ${{ each group in parameters.groups }}:
-                - ${{ each target in parameters.targets }}:
-                    - name: ${{ format(format(parameters.nameGroupFormat, parameters.nameFormat), coalesce(target.name, target.test), group) }}
-                      test: ${{ format(format(parameters.testGroupFormat, parameters.testFormat), coalesce(target.test, target.name), group) }}
+          - ${{ each group in parameters.groups }}:
+            - ${{ each target in parameters.targets }}:
+              - name: ${{ format(format(parameters.nameGroupFormat, parameters.nameFormat), coalesce(target.name, target.test), group) }}
+                test: ${{ format(format(parameters.testGroupFormat, parameters.testFormat), coalesce(target.test, target.name), group) }}
--- a/.azure-pipelines/templates/test.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/templates/test.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # This template uses the provided list of jobs to create test one or more test jobs.
 # It can be used directly if needed, or through the matrix template.

@@ -14,37 +9,37 @@ parameters:

 jobs:
  - ${{ each job in parameters.jobs }}:
-      - job: test_${{ replace(replace(replace(job.test, '/', '_'), '.', '_'), '-', '_') }}
-        displayName: ${{ job.name }}
-        container: default
-        workspace:
-          clean: all
-        steps:
-          - checkout: self
-            fetchDepth: $(fetchDepth)
-            path: $(checkoutPath)
-          - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/run-tests.sh "$(entryPoint)" "${{ job.test }}" "$(coverageBranches)"
-            displayName: Run Tests
-          - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/process-results.sh
-            condition: succeededOrFailed()
-            displayName: Process Results
-          - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/aggregate-coverage.sh "$(Agent.TempDirectory)"
-            condition: eq(variables.haveCoverageData, 'true')
-            displayName: Aggregate Coverage Data
-          - task: PublishTestResults@2
-            condition: eq(variables.haveTestResults, 'true')
-            inputs:
-              testResultsFiles: "$(outputPath)/junit/*.xml"
-            displayName: Publish Test Results
-          - task: PublishPipelineArtifact@1
-            condition: eq(variables.haveBotResults, 'true')
-            displayName: Publish Bot Results
-            inputs:
-              targetPath: "$(outputPath)/bot/"
-              artifactName: "Bot $(System.JobAttempt) $(System.StageDisplayName) $(System.JobDisplayName)"
-          - task: PublishPipelineArtifact@1
-            condition: eq(variables.haveCoverageData, 'true')
-            displayName: Publish Coverage Data
-            inputs:
-              targetPath: "$(Agent.TempDirectory)/coverage/"
-              artifactName: "Coverage $(System.JobAttempt) $(System.StageDisplayName) $(System.JobDisplayName)"
+    - job: test_${{ replace(replace(replace(job.test, '/', '_'), '.', '_'), '-', '_') }}
+      displayName: ${{ job.name }}
+      container: default
+      workspace:
+        clean: all
+      steps:
+        - checkout: self
+          fetchDepth: $(fetchDepth)
+          path: $(checkoutPath)
+        - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/run-tests.sh "$(entryPoint)" "${{ job.test }}" "$(coverageBranches)"
+          displayName: Run Tests
+        - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/process-results.sh
+          condition: succeededOrFailed()
+          displayName: Process Results
+        - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/aggregate-coverage.sh "$(Agent.TempDirectory)"
+          condition: eq(variables.haveCoverageData, 'true')
+          displayName: Aggregate Coverage Data
+        - task: PublishTestResults@2
+          condition: eq(variables.haveTestResults, 'true')
+          inputs:
+            testResultsFiles: "$(outputPath)/junit/*.xml"
+          displayName: Publish Test Results
+        - task: PublishPipelineArtifact@1
+          condition: eq(variables.haveBotResults, 'true')
+          displayName: Publish Bot Results
+          inputs:
+            targetPath: "$(outputPath)/bot/"
+            artifactName: "Bot $(System.JobAttempt) $(System.StageDisplayName) $(System.JobDisplayName)"
+        - task: PublishPipelineArtifact@1
+          condition: eq(variables.haveCoverageData, 'true')
+          displayName: Publish Coverage Data
+          inputs:
+            targetPath: "$(Agent.TempDirectory)/coverage/"
+            artifactName: "Coverage $(System.JobAttempt) $(System.StageDisplayName) $(System.JobDisplayName)"
--- a/.git-blame-ignore-revs
+++ b/.git-blame-ignore-revs
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-# YAML reformatting
-d032de3b16eed11ea3a31cd3d96d78f7c46a2ee0
-e8f965fbf8154ea177c6622da149f2ae8533bd3c
-e938ca5f20651abc160ee6aba10014013d04dcc1
-eaa5e07b2866e05b6c7b5628ca92e9cb1142d008
-
-# Code reformatting
-340ff8586d4f1cb6a0f3c934eb42589bcc29c0ea
--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
@@ -1,153 +1,149 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: Bug report
 description: Create a report to help us improve

 body:
-  - type: markdown
-    attributes:
-      value: |
-        ⚠
-        Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
-        Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
-        *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
+- type: markdown
+  attributes:
+    value: |
+      ⚠
+      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
+      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
+      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*

-        [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
+      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues


-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Summary
-      description: Explain the problem briefly below.
-      placeholder: >-
-        When I try to do X with the collection from the main branch on GitHub, Y
-        breaks in a way Z under the env E. Here are all the details I know
-        about this problem...
-    validations:
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Summary
+    description: Explain the problem briefly below.
+    placeholder: >-
+      When I try to do X with the collection from the main branch on GitHub, Y
+      breaks in a way Z under the env E. Here are all the details I know
+      about this problem...
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: dropdown
+  attributes:
+    label: Issue Type
+    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
+    options:
+    - Bug Report
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    # For smaller collections we could use a multi-select and hardcode the list
+    # May generate this list via GitHub action and walking files under https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/tree/main/plugins
+    # Select from list, filter as you type (`mysql` would only show the 3 mysql components)
+    # OR freeform - doesn't seem to be supported in adaptivecards
+    label: Component Name
+    description: >-
+      Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
+      *use your best guess if unsure*.
+    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Ansible Version
+    description: >-
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` between
+      tripple backticks.
+    value: |
+      ```console (paste below)
+      $ ansible --version
+
+      ```
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Community.general Version
+    description: >-
+      Paste verbatim output from "ansible-galaxy collection list community.general"
+      between tripple backticks.
+    value: |
+      ```console (paste below)
+      $ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general
+
+      ```
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Configuration
+    description: >-
+      If this issue has an example piece of YAML that can help to reproduce this problem, please provide it.
+      This can be a piece of YAML from, e.g., an automation, script, scene or configuration.
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed` between quotes
+    value: |
+      ```console (paste below)
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
+
+      ```
+
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: OS / Environment
+    description: >-
+      Provide all relevant information below, e.g. target OS versions,
+      network device firmware, etc.
+    placeholder: RHEL 8, CentOS Stream etc.
+  validations:
+    required: false
+
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Steps to Reproduce
+    description: |
+      Describe exactly how to reproduce the problem, using a minimal test-case. It would *really* help us understand your problem if you could also pased any playbooks, configs and commands you used.
+
+      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
+    value: |
+      <!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
+      ```yaml (paste below)
+
+      ```
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Expected Results
+    description: >-
+      Describe what you expected to happen when running the steps above.
+    placeholder: >-
+      I expected X to happen because I assumed Y.
+      that it did not.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Actual Results
+    description: |
+      Describe what actually happened. If possible run with extra verbosity (`-vvvv`).
+
+      Paste verbatim command output between quotes.
+    value: |
+      ```console (paste below)
+
+      ```
+- type: checkboxes
+  attributes:
+    label: Code of Conduct
+    description: |
+      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
+    options:
+    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
      required: true
-
-  - type: dropdown
-    attributes:
-      label: Issue Type
-      # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
-      options:
-        - Bug Report
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      # For smaller collections we could use a multi-select and hardcode the list
-      # May generate this list via GitHub action and walking files under https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/tree/main/plugins
-      # Select from list, filter as you type (`mysql` would only show the 3 mysql components)
-      # OR freeform - doesn't seem to be supported in adaptivecards
-      label: Component Name
-      description: >-
-        Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
-        *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
-      placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Ansible Version
-      description: >-
-        Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` between
-        tripple backticks.
-      value: |
-        ```console (paste below)
-        $ ansible --version
-
-        ```
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Community.general Version
-      description: >-
-        Paste verbatim output from "ansible-galaxy collection list community.general"
-        between tripple backticks.
-      value: |
-        ```console (paste below)
-        $ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general
-
-        ```
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Configuration
-      description: >-
-        If this issue has an example piece of YAML that can help to reproduce this problem, please provide it.
-        This can be a piece of YAML from, e.g., an automation, script, scene or configuration.
-        Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed` between quotes
-      value: |
-        ```console (paste below)
-        $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
-
-        ```
-
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: OS / Environment
-      description: >-
-        Provide all relevant information below, e.g. target OS versions,
-        network device firmware, etc.
-      placeholder: RHEL 8, CentOS Stream etc.
-    validations:
-      required: false
-
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Steps to Reproduce
-      description: |
-        Describe exactly how to reproduce the problem, using a minimal test-case. It would *really* help us understand your problem if you could also passed any playbooks, configs and commands you used.
-
-        **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
-      value: |
-        <!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
-        ```yaml (paste below)
-
-        ```
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Expected Results
-      description: >-
-        Describe what you expected to happen when running the steps above.
-      placeholder: >-
-        I expected X to happen because I assumed Y.
-        that it did not.
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Actual Results
-      description: |
-        Describe what actually happened. If possible run with extra verbosity (`-vvvv`).
-
-        Paste verbatim command output between quotes.
-      value: |
-        ```console (paste below)
-
-        ```
-  - type: checkboxes
-    attributes:
-      label: Code of Conduct
-      description: |
-        Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
-      options:
-        - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-          required: true
 ...
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml
@@ -1,31 +1,27 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Ref: https://help.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository#configuring-the-template-chooser
 blank_issues_enabled: false  # default: true
 contact_links:
-  - name: Security bug report
-    url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
-    about: |
-      Please learn how to report security vulnerabilities here.
+- name: Security bug report
+  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
+  about: |
+    Please learn how to report security vulnerabilities here.

-      For all security related bugs, email security@ansible.com
-      instead of using this issue tracker and you will receive
-      a prompt response.
+    For all security related bugs, email security@ansible.com
+    instead of using this issue tracker and you will receive
+    a prompt response.

-      For more information, see
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html
-  - name: Ansible Code of Conduct
-    url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
-    about: Be nice to other members of the community.
-  - name: Talks to the community
-    url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser#mailing-list-information
-    about: Please ask and answer usage questions here
-  - name: Working groups
-    url: https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki
-    about: Interested in improving a specific area? Become a part of a working group!
-  - name: For Enterprise
-    url: https://www.ansible.com/products/engine?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
-    about: Red Hat offers support for the Ansible Automation Platform
+    For more information, see
+    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html
+- name: Ansible Code of Conduct
+  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
+  about: Be nice to other members of the community.
+- name: Talks to the community
+  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser#mailing-list-information
+  about: Please ask and answer usage questions here
+- name: Working groups
+  url: https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki
+  about: Interested in improving a specific area? Become a part of a working group!
+- name: For Enterprise
+  url: https://www.ansible.com/products/engine?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
+  about: Red Hat offers support for the Ansible Automation Platform
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml
@@ -1,129 +1,125 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: Documentation Report
 description: Ask us about docs
 # NOTE: issue body is enabled to allow screenshots

 body:
-  - type: markdown
-    attributes:
-      value: |
-        ⚠
-        Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
-        Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
-        *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
+- type: markdown
+  attributes:
+    value: |
+      ⚠
+      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
+      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
+      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*

-        [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
+      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues


-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Summary
-      description: |
-        Explain the problem briefly below, add suggestions to wording or structure.
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Summary
+    description: |
+      Explain the problem briefly below, add suggestions to wording or structure.

-        **HINT:** Did you know the documentation has an `Edit on GitHub` link on every page?
-      placeholder: >-
-        I was reading the Collection documentation of version X and I'm having
-        problems understanding Y. It would be very helpful if that got
-        rephrased as Z.
-    validations:
+      **HINT:** Did you know the documentation has an `Edit on GitHub` link on every page?
+    placeholder: >-
+      I was reading the Collection documentation of version X and I'm having
+      problems understanding Y. It would be very helpful if that got
+      rephrased as Z.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: dropdown
+  attributes:
+    label: Issue Type
+    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
+    options:
+    - Documentation Report
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: input
+  attributes:
+    label: Component Name
+    description: >-
+      Write the short name of the rst file, module, plugin, task or
+      feature below, *use your best guess if unsure*.
+    placeholder: mysql_user
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Ansible Version
+    description: >-
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` between
+      tripple backticks.
+    value: |
+      ```console (paste below)
+      $ ansible --version
+
+      ```
+  validations:
+    required: false
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Community.general Version
+    description: >-
+      Paste verbatim output from "ansible-galaxy collection list community.general"
+      between tripple backticks.
+    value: |
+      ```console (paste below)
+      $ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general
+
+      ```
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Configuration
+    description: >-
+      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed` between quotes.
+    value: |
+      ```console (paste below)
+      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
+
+      ```
+  validations:
+    required: false
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: OS / Environment
+    description: >-
+      Provide all relevant information below, e.g. OS version,
+      browser, etc.
+    placeholder: Fedora 33, Firefox etc.
+  validations:
+    required: false
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Additional Information
+    description: |
+      Describe how this improves the documentation, e.g. before/after situation or screenshots.
+
+      **Tip:** It's not possible to upload the screenshot via this field directly but you can use the last textarea in this form to attach them.
+
+      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
+    placeholder: >-
+      When the improvement is applied, it makes it more straightforward
+      to understand X.
+  validations:
+    required: false
+
+- type: checkboxes
+  attributes:
+    label: Code of Conduct
+    description: |
+      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
+    options:
+    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
      required: true
-
-  - type: dropdown
-    attributes:
-      label: Issue Type
-      # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
-      options:
-        - Documentation Report
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: input
-    attributes:
-      label: Component Name
-      description: >-
-        Write the short name of the file, module, plugin, task or feature below,
-        *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
-      placeholder: mysql_user
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Ansible Version
-      description: >-
-        Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` between
-        tripple backticks.
-      value: |
-        ```console (paste below)
-        $ ansible --version
-
-        ```
-    validations:
-      required: false
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Community.general Version
-      description: >-
-        Paste verbatim output from "ansible-galaxy collection list community.general"
-        between tripple backticks.
-      value: |
-        ```console (paste below)
-        $ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general
-
-        ```
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Configuration
-      description: >-
-        Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed` between quotes.
-      value: |
-        ```console (paste below)
-        $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
-
-        ```
-    validations:
-      required: false
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: OS / Environment
-      description: >-
-        Provide all relevant information below, e.g. OS version,
-        browser, etc.
-      placeholder: Fedora 33, Firefox etc.
-    validations:
-      required: false
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Additional Information
-      description: |
-        Describe how this improves the documentation, e.g. before/after situation or screenshots.
-
-        **Tip:** It's not possible to upload the screenshot via this field directly but you can use the last textarea in this form to attach them.
-
-        **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
-      placeholder: >-
-        When the improvement is applied, it makes it more straightforward
-        to understand X.
-    validations:
-      required: false
-
-  - type: checkboxes
-    attributes:
-      label: Code of Conduct
-      description: |
-        Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
-      options:
-        - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-          required: true
 ...
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml
@@ -1,73 +1,69 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: Feature request
 description: Suggest an idea for this project

 body:
-  - type: markdown
-    attributes:
-      value: |
-        ⚠
-        Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
-        Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
-        *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
+- type: markdown
+  attributes:
+    value: |
+      ⚠
+      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
+      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
+      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*

-        [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
+      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues


-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Summary
-      description: Describe the new feature/improvement briefly below.
-      placeholder: >-
-        I am trying to do X with the collection from the main branch on GitHub and
-        I think that implementing a feature Y would be very helpful for me and
-        every other user of community.general because of Z.
-    validations:
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Summary
+    description: Describe the new feature/improvement briefly below.
+    placeholder: >-
+      I am trying to do X with the collection from the main branch on GitHub and
+      I think that implementing a feature Y would be very helpful for me and
+      every other user of community.general because of Z.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: dropdown
+  attributes:
+    label: Issue Type
+    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
+    options:
+    - Feature Idea
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: input
+  attributes:
+    label: Component Name
+    description: >-
+      Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
+      *use your best guess if unsure*.
+    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
+  validations:
+    required: true
+
+- type: textarea
+  attributes:
+    label: Additional Information
+    description: |
+      Describe how the feature would be used, why it is needed and what it would solve.
+
+      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
+    value: |
+      <!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
+      ```yaml (paste below)
+
+      ```
+  validations:
+    required: false
+- type: checkboxes
+  attributes:
+    label: Code of Conduct
+    description: |
+      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
+    options:
+    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
      required: true
-
-  - type: dropdown
-    attributes:
-      label: Issue Type
-      # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
-      options:
-        - Feature Idea
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: input
-    attributes:
-      label: Component Name
-      description: >-
-        Write the short name of the module or plugin, or which other part(s) of the collection this feature affects.
-        *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
-      placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Additional Information
-      description: |
-        Describe how the feature would be used, why it is needed and what it would solve.
-
-        **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
-      value: |
-        <!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
-        ```yaml (paste below)
-
-        ```
-    validations:
-      required: false
-  - type: checkboxes
-    attributes:
-      label: Code of Conduct
-      description: |
-        Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
-      options:
-        - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-          required: true
 ...
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 version: 2
 updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"
-    groups:
-      ci:
-        patterns:
-          - "*"
--- a/.github/patchback.yml
+++ b/.github/patchback.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 backport_branch_prefix: patchback/backports/
 backport_label_prefix: backport-
 target_branch_prefix: stable-
--- a/.github/pull_request_template.md
+++ b/.github/pull_request_template.md
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-##### SUMMARY
-<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale and design decisions -->
-
-<!--- HINT: Include "Fixes #nnn" if you are fixing an existing issue -->
-
-<!--- Please do not forget to include a changelog fragment:
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/collection_development_process.html#creating-changelog-fragments
-      No need to include one for docs-only or test-only PR, and for new plugin/module PRs.
-      Read about more details in CONTRIBUTING.md.
-      -->
-
-##### ISSUE TYPE
-<!--- Pick one or more below and delete the rest.
-      'Test Pull Request' is for PRs that add/extend tests without code changes. -->
- Bugfix Pull Request
- Docs Pull Request
- Feature Pull Request
- New Module/Plugin Pull Request
- Refactoring Pull Request
- Test Pull Request
-
-##### COMPONENT NAME
-<!--- Write the SHORT NAME of the module, plugin, task or feature below. -->
-
-##### ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-<!--- Include additional information to help people understand the change here -->
-<!--- A step-by-step reproduction of the problem is helpful if there is no related issue -->
-
-<!--- Paste verbatim command output below, e.g. before and after your change -->
-```paste below
-
-```
--- a/.github/pull_request_template.md.license
+++ b/.github/pull_request_template.md.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--- a/.github/settings.yml
+++ b/.github/settings.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # DO NOT MODIFY

 # Settings: https://probot.github.io/apps/settings/
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
@@ -1,176 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-# For the comprehensive list of the inputs supported by the ansible-community/ansible-test-gh-action GitHub Action, see
-# https://github.com/marketplace/actions/ansible-test
-
-name: EOL CI
-"on":
-  # Run EOL CI against all pushes (direct commits, also merged PRs), Pull Requests
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-      - stable-*
-  pull_request:
-  # Run EOL CI once per day (at 08:00 UTC)
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 8 * * *'
-
-concurrency:
-  # Make sure there is at most one active run per PR, but do not cancel any non-PR runs
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ (github.head_ref && github.event.number) || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  sanity:
-    name: EOL Sanity (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }})
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - '2.17'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Perform sanity testing
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          testing-type: sanity
-          pre-test-cmd: >-
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools.git ../../community/internal_test_tools
-
-  units:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: EOL Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+py${{ matrix.python }})
-    strategy:
-      # As soon as the first unit test fails, cancel the others to free up the CI queue
-      fail-fast: true
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - ''
-        python:
-          - ''
-        exclude:
-          - ansible: ''
-        include:
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            python: '3.7'
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            python: '3.10'
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            python: '3.12'
-
-    steps:
-      - name: >-
-          Perform unit testing against
-          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          pre-test-cmd: >-
-            mkdir -p ../../ansible
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools.git ../../community/internal_test_tools
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          target-python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
-          testing-type: units
-
-  integration:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: EOL I (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+${{ matrix.docker }}+py${{ matrix.python }}:${{ matrix.target }})
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - ''
-        docker:
-          - ''
-        python:
-          - ''
-        target:
-          - ''
-        exclude:
-          - ansible: ''
-        include:
-          # 2.17
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            docker: fedora39
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            docker: fedora39
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            docker: fedora39
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            docker: ubuntu2004
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            docker: ubuntu2004
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            docker: ubuntu2004
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            docker: alpine319
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            docker: alpine319
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.17'
-            docker: alpine319
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-          # - ansible: '2.17'
-          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '3.7'
-          #   target: azp/generic/1/
-          # - ansible: '2.17'
-          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '3.12'
-          #   target: azp/generic/1/
-
-    steps:
-      - name: >-
-          Perform integration testing against
-          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          under Python ${{ matrix.python }}
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          docker-image: ${{ matrix.docker }}
-          integration-continue-on-error: 'false'
-          integration-diff: 'false'
-          integration-retry-on-error: 'true'
-          # TODO: remove "--branch stable-2" from community.crypto install once we're only using ansible-core 2.17 or newer!
-          pre-test-cmd: >-
-            mkdir -p ../../ansible
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix.git ../../ansible/posix
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch --branch stable-2 https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto.git ../../community/crypto
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker.git ../../community/docker
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools.git ../../community/internal_test_tools
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          target: ${{ matrix.target }}
-          target-python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
-          testing-type: integration
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -1,14 +1,8 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: "Code scanning - action"

-"on":
+on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '26 19 * * 1'
-  workflow_dispatch:

 permissions:
  contents: read
@@ -23,16 +17,40 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
-      - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      with:
+        # We must fetch at least the immediate parents so that if this is
+        # a pull request then we can checkout the head.
+        fetch-depth: 2

-      # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
-      - name: Initialize CodeQL
-        uses: github/codeql-action/init@v4
-        with:
-          languages: python
+    # If this run was triggered by a pull request event, then checkout
+    # the head of the pull request instead of the merge commit.
+    - run: git checkout HEAD^2
+      if: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}

-      - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v4
+    # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
+    - name: Initialize CodeQL
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
+      # Override language selection by uncommenting this and choosing your languages
+      # with:
+      #   languages: go, javascript, csharp, python, cpp, java
+
+    # Autobuild attempts to build any compiled languages  (C/C++, C#, or Java).
+    # If this step fails, then you should remove it and run the build manually (see below)
+    - name: Autobuild
+      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v2
+
+    # ℹ️ Command-line programs to run using the OS shell.
+    # 📚 https://git.io/JvXDl
+
+    # ✏️ If the Autobuild fails above, remove it and uncomment the following three lines
+    #    and modify them (or add more) to build your code if your project
+    #    uses a compiled language
+
+    #- run: |
+    #   make bootstrap
+    #   make release
+
+    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2
--- a/.github/workflows/docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-name: nox
-'on':
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-      - stable-*
-    paths:
-      - docs/**
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - docs/**
-  # Run CI once per day (at 08:00 UTC)
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 8 * * *'
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-jobs:
-  nox:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: "Validate generated Ansible output"
-    steps:
-      - name: Check out collection
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-      - name: Run nox
-        uses: ansible-community/antsibull-nox@main
-        with:
-          sessions: ansible-output
--- a/.github/workflows/nox.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nox.yml
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-name: nox
-'on':
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-      - stable-*
-  pull_request:
-  # Run CI once per day (at 08:00 UTC)
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 8 * * *'
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-jobs:
-  nox:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: "Run extra sanity tests"
-    steps:
-      - name: Check out collection
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-      - name: Run nox
-        uses: ansible-community/antsibull-nox@main
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

 # Created by https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
 # Edit at https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore?templates=vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
@@ -383,16 +380,6 @@ cython_debug/
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 #.idea/

-### Python Patch ###
-# Poetry local configuration file - https://python-poetry.org/docs/configuration/#local-configuration
-poetry.toml
-
-# ruff
-.ruff_cache/
-
-# LSP config files
-pyrightconfig.json
-
 ### Vim ###
 # Swap
 [._]*.s[a-v][a-z]
@@ -492,10 +479,6 @@ tags
 # https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12206-codestream
 .idea/codestream.xml

-# Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ plugin
-# https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8053-azure-toolkit-for-intellij
-.idea/**/azureSettings.xml
-
 ### Windows ###
 # Windows thumbnail cache files
 Thumbs.db
@@ -522,12 +505,4 @@ $RECYCLE.BIN/
 # Windows shortcuts
 *.lnk

-# End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
-
-# Integration tests cloud configs
-tests/integration/cloud-config-*.ini
-
-
-# VSCode specific extensions
-.vscode/settings.json
-.ansible
+# End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
--- a/.mypy.ini
+++ b/.mypy.ini
@@ -1,216 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-[mypy]
-# check_untyped_defs = True
-# disallow_untyped_defs = True
-
-# strict = True -- only try to enable once everything (including dependencies!) is typed
-strict_equality = True
-strict_bytes = True
-
-warn_redundant_casts = True
-# warn_return_any = True
-warn_unreachable = True
-
-[mypy-ansible.*]
-# ansible-core has partial typing information
-follow_untyped_imports = True
-
-# The following imports are Python packages that:
-# 1. We do not install (we can't install everything!);
-# 2. That have type stubs, but we don't install them (again, we can't install everything!); or
-# 3. That have no types and type stubs.
-[mypy-aerospike.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-boto3.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-bs4.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-cgi.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-chef.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-consul.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-credstash.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-crypt.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-datadog.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-dbus.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-delinea.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-dnf.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-dnsimple.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-etcd3.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-flatdict.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-footmark.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-fqdn.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-func.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-gi.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-github3.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-hashids.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-heroku3.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-hpe3parclient.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-hpe3par_sdk.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-hpilo.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-hpOneView.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-httmock.*]  # TODO!
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-influxdb.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-jc.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-jenkins.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-jmespath.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-jsonpatch.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-kazoo.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-keyring.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-keystoneauth1.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-layman.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-ldap.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-legacycrypt.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-libcloud.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-linode.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-[mypy-linode_api4.*]
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--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -4,447 +4,457 @@ Community General Release Notes

 .. contents:: Topics

-This changelog describes changes after version 11.0.0.
+This changelog describes changes after version 4.0.0.

-v12.0.0
-=======
+v5.2.0
+======

 Release Summary
 ---------------

-This is release 12.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2025-11-03.
+Regular bugfix and feature release.

 Minor Changes
 -------------

- Modernize code for Python 3.7+. This includes code reformatting, and adding new checks to CI, including a type checker (mypy). Most of the code does not have type hints yet, but now it is possible to add typing hints and have these validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10285, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10886, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10891, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10892, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10897, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10899, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10902, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10903, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10904, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10907, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10908, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10909, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10939, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10940, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10941, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10942, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10945, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10947, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10958, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10959, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10968, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10969, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10970, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10971, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10973, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10974, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10975, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10976, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10977, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10978, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10979, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10980, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10981, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10992, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10993, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10997, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10999, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11015, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11016, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11017).
- aerospike_migrations - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- airbrake_deployment - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- android_sdk - minor refactor to improve readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10712).
- apk - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10479, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10520).
- bigpanda - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- bootc_manage - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- bower - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- btrfs_subvolume - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- bundler - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- bzr - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10523).
- campfire - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- capabilities - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10524).
- cargo - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- catapult - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- cisco_webex - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- cloudflare_dns - adds support for PTR records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10267).
- cloudflare_dns - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- cloudflare_dns - simplify validations and refactor some code, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10269).
- composer - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10525).
- consul_kv - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- consul_policy - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- copr - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- crypttab - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- datadog_downtime - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- datadog_monitor - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- datadog_monitor - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- dconf - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- dimensiondata_network - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- dimensiondata_vlan - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- django module utils - remove deprecated parameter ``_DjangoRunner`` call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10574).
- django module utils - simplify/consolidate the common settings for the command line (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10684).
- django_check - rename parameter ``database`` to ``databases``, add alias for compatibility (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10700).
- django_check - simplify/consolidate the common settings for the command line (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10684).
- django_createcachetable - simplify/consolidate the common settings for the command line (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10684).
- dnf_config_manager - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- dnsmadeeasy - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- dpkg_divert - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- easy_install - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- easy_install - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10526).
- elasticsearch_plugin - minor refactor to improve readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10712).
- elasticsearch_plugin - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- facter - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- filesize - minor refactor to simplify string formatting (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10727).
- filesystem - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10494).
- filetree - add ``exclude`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10936, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10936).
- gem - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- git_config_info - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- github_app_access_token lookup plugin - add support for GitHub Enterprise Server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10879, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10880).
- github_app_access_token lookup plugin - support both ``jwt`` and ``pyjwt`` to avoid conflict with other modules requirements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10299).
- github_deploy_key - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- github_repo - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- github_webhook - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- github_webhook_info - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_branch - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_deploy_key - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- gitlab_group_access_token - add ``planner`` access level (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10679).
- gitlab_group_access_token - add missing scopes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10785).
- gitlab_group_access_token - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- gitlab_group_access_token - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_group_variable - add ``description`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10812).
- gitlab_group_variable - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_group_variable - support masked-and-hidden variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10787).
- gitlab_hook - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- gitlab_hook - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_instance_variable - add ``description`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10812).
- gitlab_instance_variable - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_issue - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_label - minor refactor to improve readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10711).
- gitlab_label - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_merge_request - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_milestone - minor refactor to improve readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10711).
- gitlab_milestone - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_project - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_project_access_token - add ``planner`` access level (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10679).
- gitlab_project_access_token - add missing scopes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10785).
- gitlab_project_access_token - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- gitlab_project_access_token - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_project_variable - add ``description`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10812, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8584, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10809).
- gitlab_project_variable - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- gitlab_project_variable - support masked-and-hidden variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10787).
- gitlab_protected_branch - add ``allow_force_push``, ``code_owner_approval_required`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10795, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6432, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10289, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10765).
- gitlab_protected_branch - update protected branches if possible instead of recreating them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10795).
- gitlab_runner - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- grove - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- hg - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- homebrew - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- homebrew_cask - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- homebrew_tap - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- honeybadger_deployment - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- htpasswd - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- icinga2_host - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- imgadm - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10536).
- influxdb_user - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- ini_file - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- iocage inventory plugin - minor refactor to improve readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10712).
- ipa_dnsrecord - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- ipa_dnszone - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- ipa_group - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- ipa_host - add ``userclass`` and ``locality`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10935).
- ipa_host - minor refactor to improve readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10711).
- ipa_service - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- ipbase_info - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- iptables_state - minor refactor to simplify string formatting (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10727).
- ipwcli_dns - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- irc - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- jabber - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- java_keystore - remove redundant function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10905).
- jenkins_build - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- jenkins_build_info - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- jenkins_credential - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- jenkins_job - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- jenkins_plugin - install dependencies for specific version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issue/4995, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10346).
- jenkins_script - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10505).
- keycloak - add support for ``grant_type=client_credentials`` to all keycloak modules, so that specifying ``auth_client_id`` and ``auth_client_secret`` is sufficient for authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10231).
- keycloak module utils - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- keycloak_authz_authorization_scope - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- keycloak_authz_permission - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- keycloak_client - add idempotent support for ``optional_client_scopes`` and ``optional_client_scopes``, and ensure consistent change detection between check mode and live run (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5495, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10842).
- keycloak_identity_provider – add support for ``fromUrl`` to automatically fetch OIDC endpoints from the well-known discovery URL, simplifying identity provider configuration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10527).
- keycloak_realm - add support for WebAuthn policy configuration options, including both regular and passwordless WebAuthn policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10791).
- keycloak_realm - add support for ``brute_force_strategy`` and ``max_temporary_lockouts`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10412, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10415).
- keycloak_realm - add support for client-related options and Oauth2 device (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10538).
- keycloak_role - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- keycloak_user - return user created boolean flag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10950).
- keycloak_userprofile - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- keyring - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- kibana_plugin - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- layman - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- ldap_attrs - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- ldap_inc - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- librato_annotation - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- linode module utils - remove redundant code for ancient versions of Ansible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10906).
- lldp - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- logentries - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- logstash callback plugin - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- logstash_plugin - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10479, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10520).
- lvg_rename - minor refactor to improve readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10711).
- lxca_cmms - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- lxca_nodes - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- macports - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- mail - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- manageiq - minor refactor to improve readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10712).
- manageiq_alert_profiles - minor refactor to improve readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10712).
- manageiq_alerts - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- manageiq_group - minor refactor to simplify string formatting (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10727).
- manageiq_group - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- manageiq_policies - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- manageiq_policies_info - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- manageiq_tags - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- manageiq_tenant - minor refactor to simplify string formatting (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10727).
- manageiq_tenant - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- matrix - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- mattermost - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- maven_artifact - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- memset_dns_reload - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- memset_zone - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- memset_zone_record - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- mqtt - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- mssql_db - minor refactor to simplify string formatting (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10727).
- mssql_db - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- mssql_script - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- nagios - make parameter ``services`` a ``list`` instead of a ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10493).
- netcup_dns - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- newrelic_deployment - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- nmcli - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- nmcli - simplify validations and refactor some code, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10323).
- npm - improve parameter validation using Ansible construct (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10983).
- nsupdate - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10507).
- oci_vcn - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- one_image_info - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- one_template - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- one_vm - minor refactor to improve readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10712).
- one_vnet - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- oneandone_firewall_policy - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- oneandone_load_balancer - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- oneandone_monitoring_policy - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- onepassword_info - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- onepassword_info - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- oneview_fc_network_info - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- open_iscsi - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10599).
- openbsd_pkg - add ``autoremove`` parameter to remove unused dependencies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10705).
- openbsd_pkg - minor refactor to simplify string formatting (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10727).
- opendj_backendprop - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- osx_defaults - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- ovh_ip_loadbalancing_backend - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- ovh_monthly_billing - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pacemaker_cluster - add ``state=maintenance`` for managing pacemaker maintenance mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10200, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10227).
- pacemaker_cluster - rename ``node`` to ``name`` and add ``node`` alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10227).
- pacemaker_resource - add ``state=cleanup`` for cleaning up pacemaker resources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10413)
- pacemaker_resource - add ``state=cloned`` for cloning pacemaker resources or groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10322, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10665).
- pacemaker_resource - enhance module by removing duplicative code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10227).
- pacemaker_resource - the parameter ``name`` is no longer a required parameter in community.general 11.3.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10413)
- packet_device - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- pagerduty - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- pagerduty - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pagerduty_change - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pagerduty_user - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pam_limits - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- parted - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10642).
- pear - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pear - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10601).
- pingdom - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- pipx module_utils - use ``PIPX_USE_EMOJI`` to disable emojis in the output of ``pipx`` 1.8.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10874).
- pkgng - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pnpm - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- portage - add a ``changed_deps`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11023).
- portage - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- portage - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10602).
- pritunl_org - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pritunl_org_info - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pritunl_user - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pritunl_user_info - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pubnub_blocks - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pushbullet - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- pushover - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- python_runner module utils - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- random_string lookup plugin - allow to specify seed while generating random string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5362, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10710).
- redis_data - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- redis_data_incr - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- rhevm - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- riak - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- riak - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10603).
- rocketchat - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- rocketchat - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- rollbar_deployment - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- say - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- scaleway modules - add a ``scaleway`` group to use ``module_defaults`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10647).
- scaleway_* modules, scaleway inventory plugin - update available zones and API URLs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10383, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10424).
- scaleway_container - add a ``cpu_limit`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10646).
- scaleway_database_backup - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- sendgrid - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- sensu_silence - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- sensu_silence - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- sensu_subscription - normalize quotes in the module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10483).
- sl_vm - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- solaris_zone - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10604).
- sorcery - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- ssh_config - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- statusio_maintenance - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- svr4pkg - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- swdepot - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- swupd - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10605).
- syslogger - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- sysrc - adjustments to the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10417).
- sysrc - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- systemd_creds_decrypt - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- systemd_creds_encrypt - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10512).
- taiga_issue - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- tasks_only callback plugin - add ``result_format`` and ``pretty_results`` options similarly to the default callback (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10422).
- terraform - minor refactor to improve readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10711).
- timezone - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10612).
- twilio - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- ufw - minor refactor to simplify string formatting (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10727).
- urpmi - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- urpmi - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10606).
- utm_aaa_group - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- utm_ca_host_key_cert - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- utm_dns_host - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- utm_network_interface_address - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- utm_proxy_auth_profile - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- utm_proxy_exception - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- utm_proxy_frontend - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- utm_proxy_location - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- vertica_configuration - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- vertica_info - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- vertica_role - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- xattr - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- xbps - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- xbps - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10608).
- xenserver module utils - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10769).
- xenserver_facts - minor refactor to simplify string formatting (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10727).
- xfconf - minor adjustments the the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10311).
- xfs_quota - using safer mechanism to run external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10609).
- xml - remove redundant brackets in conditionals, no functional changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10328).
- yarn - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- zfs_facts - minor refactor to simplify string formatting (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10727).
- zypper - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
- zypper - support the ``--gpg-auto-import-keys`` option in zypper (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10660, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10661).
- zypper_repository - remove redundant constructs from argument specs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10513).
-
-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
--------------------------------
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- mh.base module utils - ``debug`` will now always be delegated to the underlying ``AnsibleModule`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
- oneview module utils - remove import of standard library ``os`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10644).
- slack - the default of ``prepend_hash`` changed from ``auto`` to ``never`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
-
-Deprecated Features
-------------------
-
- catapult - module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10318, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10329).
- cpanm - deprecate ``mode=compatibility``, ``mode=new`` should be used instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10434).
- dimensiondata doc_fragments plugin - fragments is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10986).
- dimensiondata module_utils plugin - utils is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10986).
- dimensiondata_network - module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10986).
- dimensiondata_vlan - module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10986).
- dimensiondata_wait doc_fragments plugin - fragments is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10986).
- github_repo - deprecate ``force_defaults=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10435).
- hiera lookup plugin - retrieving data with Hiera has been deprecated a long time ago; because of that this plugin will be removed from community.general 13.0.0. If you disagree with this deprecation, please create an issue in the community.general repository (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4462, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10779).
- oci_utils module utils - utils is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10318, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10652).
- oci_vcn - module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10318, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10652).
- oneandone module utils - DNS fails to resolve the API endpoint used by the module. The module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10994).
- oneandone_firewall_policy - DNS fails to resolve the API endpoint used by the module. The module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10994).
- oneandone_load_balancer - DNS fails to resolve the API endpoint used by the module. The module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10994).
- oneandone_monitoring_policy - DNS fails to resolve the API endpoint used by the module. The module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10994).
- oneandone_private_network - DNS fails to resolve the API endpoint used by the module. The module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10994).
- oneandone_public_ip - DNS fails to resolve the API endpoint used by the module. The module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10994).
- oneandone_server - DNS fails to resolve the API endpoint used by the module. The module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10994).
- oracle* doc fragments - fragments are deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10318, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10652).
- pacemaker_cluster - the state ``cleanup`` will be removed from community.general 14.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10741).
- rocketchat - the default value for ``is_pre740``, currently ``true``, is deprecated and will change to ``false`` in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10490).
- typetalk - module is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9499).
-
-Removed Features (previously deprecated)
----------------------------------------
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- Ansible-core 2.16 is no longer supported. This also means that the collection now requires Python 3.7+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10884).
- bearychat - the module has been removed as the chat service is no longer available (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
- cmd_runner module utils - the parameter ``ignore_value_none`` to ``CmdRunner.__call__()`` has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
- cmd_runner_fmt module utils - the parameter ``ctx_ignore_none`` to argument formatters has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
- facter - the module has been replaced by ``community.general.facter_facts`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
- mh.deco module utils - the parameters ``on_success`` and ``on_failure`` of ``cause()`` have been removed; use ``when="success"`` and ``when="failure"`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
- opkg - the value ``""`` for the option ``force`` is no longer allowed. Omit ``force`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
- pacemaker_cluster - the option ``state`` is now required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
- pure module utils - the modules using this module utils have been removed from community.general 3.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
- purestorage doc fragment - the modules using this doc fragment have been removed from community.general 3.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
- yaml callback plugin - the deprecated plugin has been removed. Use the default callback with ``result_format=yaml`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10883).
-
-Security Fixes
--------------
-
- keycloak_user - the parameter ``credentials[].value`` is now marked as ``no_log=true``. Before it was logged by Ansible, unless the task was marked as ``no_log: true``. Since this parameter can be used for passwords, this resulted in credential leaking (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11000, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11005).
+- cmd_runner module utils - add ``__call__`` method to invoke context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4791).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - allow using alternative password managers by detecting wrapper scripts, allow explicit configuration of pass and gopass backends (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4766).
+- sudoers - will attempt to validate the proposed sudoers rule using visudo if available, optionally skipped, or required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4794, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4745).

 Bugfixes
 --------

- Avoid deprecated functionality in ansible-core 2.20 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10687).
- Avoid usage of deprecated ``ansible.module_utils.six`` in all code that does not have to support Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10873).
- Remove all usage of ``ansible.module_utils.six`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10888).
- apache2_module - avoid ansible-core 2.19 deprecation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10459).
- apache2_module - check the ``cgi`` module restrictions only during activation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10423).
- apk - fix check for empty/whitespace-only package names (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10532).
- apk - handle empty name strings properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10441, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10442).
- capabilities - using invalid path (symlink/directory/...) returned unrelated and incoherent error messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5649, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10455).
- cloudflare_dns - roll back changes to CAA record validation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10934, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10956).
- cloudflare_dns - roll back changes to SRV record validation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10934, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10937).
- cronvar - fix crash on missing ``cron_file`` parent directories (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10460, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10461).
- cronvar - handle empty strings on ``value`` properly  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10439, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10445).
- dependent lookup plugin - avoid deprecated ansible-core 2.19 functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10359).
- doas become plugin - disable pipelining on ansible-core 2.19+. The plugin does not work with pipelining, and since ansible-core 2.19 become plugins can indicate that they do not work with pipelining (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9977, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10537).
- gem - fix soundness issue when uninstalling default gems on Ubuntu  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10451, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10689).
- github_app_access_token lookup plugin - fix compatibility imports for using jwt (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10807, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10810).
- github_deploy_key - fix bug during error handling if no body was present in the result (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10853, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10857).
- github_release - support multiple types of GitHub tokens; no longer failing when ``ghs_`` token type is provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10338, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10339).
- gitlab_runner - fix exception in check mode when a new runner is created (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8854).
- homebrew - do not fail when cask or formula name has changed in homebrew repo (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10804, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10805).
- htpasswd - avoid ansible-core 2.19 deprecation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10459).
- icinga2 inventory plugin - avoid using deprecated option when templating options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10271).
- incus connection plugin - fix error handling to return more useful Ansible errors to the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10344, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10349).
- irc - pass hostname to ``wrap_socket()`` if ``use_tls=true`` and ``validate_certs=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10472, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10491).
- jenkins_plugin - install latest compatible version instead of latest (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/854, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10346).
- jenkins_plugin - separate Jenkins and external URL credentials (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4419, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10346).
- json_query filter plugin - make compatible with lazy evaluation list and dictionary types of ansible-core 2.19 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10539).
- kdeconfig - ``kwriteconfig`` executable could not be discovered automatically on systems with only ``kwriteconfig6`` installed. ``kwriteconfig6`` can now be discovered by Ansible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10746, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10751).
- keycloak_clientsecret, keycloak_clientsecret_info - make ``client_auth`` work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10932, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10933).
- keycloak_group - fixes an issue where module ignores realm when searching subgroups by name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10840).
- keycloak_realm - support setting ``adminPermissionsEnabled`` for a realm (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10962).
- keycloak_role - fixes an issue where the module incorrectly returns ``changed=true`` when using the alias ``clientId`` in composite roles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10829).
- linode inventory plugin - avoid using deprecated option when templating options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10271).
- listen_port_facts - avoid crash when required commands are missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10457, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10458).
- logstash callback plugin - remove reference to Python 2 library (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10345).
- lvm_pv - properly detect SCSI or NVMe devices to rescan (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10444, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10596).
- machinectl become plugin - disable pipelining on ansible-core 2.19+. The plugin does not work with pipelining, and since ansible-core 2.19 become plugins can indicate that they do not work with pipelining (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10537).
- merge_variables lookup plugin - avoid deprecated functionality from ansible-core 2.19 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10566).
- monit - fix crash caused by an unknown status value returned from the monit service (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10742, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10743).
- omapi_host - make return values compatible with ansible-core 2.19 and Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11001).
- onepassword_doc and onepassword_ssh_key lookup plugins - ensure that all connection parameters are passed to CLI class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10965).
- pacemaker - use regex for matching ``maintenance-mode`` output to determine cluster maintenance status (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10426, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10707).
- pacemaker_resource - fix ``resource_type`` parameter formatting (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10426, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10663).
- parted - variable is a list, not text (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10823, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10817).
- pids - prevent error when an empty string is provided for ``name`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10672, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10688).
- pritunl_user - improve resilience when comparing user parameters if remote fields are ``null`` or missing. List parameters (``groups``, ``mac_addresses``) now safely default to empty lists for comparison and avoids ``KeyError`` issues (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10954, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10955).
- random_string lookup plugin - replace ``random.SystemRandom()`` with ``secrets.SystemRandom()`` when generating strings. This has no practical effect, as both are the same (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10893).
- rocketchat - fix message delivery in Rocket Chat >= 7.5.3 by forcing ``Content-Type`` header to ``application/json`` instead of the default ``application/x-www-form-urlencoded`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10796, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10796).
- selective callback plugin - specify ``ansible_loop_var`` instead of the explicit value ``item`` when printing task result (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10752).
- syspatch - avoid ansible-core 2.19 deprecation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10459).
- sysrc - fixes parsing with multi-line variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10394, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10417).
- sysupgrade - avoid ansible-core 2.19 deprecation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10459).
- terraform - fix bug when ``null`` values inside complex vars are throwing error instead of being passed to terraform. Now terraform can handle ``null``s in ``complex_vars`` itself (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10961).
- wsl connection plugin - avoid deprecated ansible-core paramiko import helper, import paramiko directly instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10515, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10531).
- xfconf - fix handling of empty array properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11026).
- xfconf_info - fix handling of empty array properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11026).
- yaml cache plugin - make compatible with ansible-core 2.19 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10849, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10852).
- zypper_repository - avoid ansible-core 2.19 deprecation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10459).
-
-New Plugins
-----------
-
-Callback
-~~~~~~~~
-
- community.general.tasks_only - Only show tasks.
-
-Filter
-~~~~~~
-
- community.general.to_nice_yaml - Convert variable to YAML string.
- community.general.to_yaml - Convert variable to YAML string.
-
-Inventory
-~~~~~~~~~
-
- community.general.incus - Incus inventory source.
-
-Lookup
-~~~~~~
-
- community.general.binary_file - Read binary file and return it Base64 encoded.
+- Include ``PSF-license.txt`` file for ``plugins/module_utils/_mount.py``.
+- redfish_command - fix the check if a virtual media is unmounted to just check for ``instered= false`` caused by Supermicro hardware that does not clear the ``ImageName`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4839).
+- redfish_command - the Supermicro Redfish implementation only supports the ``image_url`` parameter in the underlying API calls to ``VirtualMediaInsert`` and ``VirtualMediaEject``. Any values set (or the defaults) for ``write_protected`` or ``inserted`` will be ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4839).
+- sudoers - fix incorrect handling of ``state: absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4852).

 New Modules
 -----------

- community.general.django_dumpdata - Wrapper for ``django-admin dumpdata``.
- community.general.django_loaddata - Wrapper for ``django-admin loaddata``.
- community.general.jenkins_credential - Manage Jenkins credentials and domains through API.
- community.general.kea_command - Submits generic command to ISC KEA server on target.
- community.general.keycloak_user_execute_actions_email - Send a Keycloak execute-actions email to a user.
- community.general.lvm_pv_move_data - Move data between LVM Physical Volumes (PVs).
- community.general.pacemaker_info - Gather information about Pacemaker cluster.
- community.general.pacemaker_stonith - Manage Pacemaker STONITH.
+Cloud
+~~~~~
+
+scaleway
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- scaleway_compute_private_network - Scaleway compute - private network management
+
+System
+~~~~~~
+
+- keyring - Set or delete a passphrase using the Operating System's native keyring
+- keyring_info - Get a passphrase using the Operating System's native keyring
+
+v5.1.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- alternatives - do not set the priority if the priority was not set by the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4810).
+- alternatives - only pass subcommands when they are specified as module arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4803, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4804, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4836).
+- alternatives - when ``subcommands`` is specified, ``link`` must be given for every subcommand. This was already mentioned in the documentation, but not enforced by the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4836).
+- nmcli - fix error caused by adding undefined module arguments for list options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4373, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4813).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed extended status detection for qemu (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4816).
+- redhat_subscription - fix unsubscribing on RHEL 9 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4741).
+- sudoers - ensure sudoers config files are created with the permissions requested by sudoers (0440) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4814).
+
+v5.1.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ModuleHelper module utils - improved ``ModuleHelperException``, using ``to_native()`` for the exception message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4755).
+- alternatives - add ``state=absent`` to be able to remove an alternative (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4654).
+- alternatives - add ``subcommands`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4654).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - minor refactoring using latest ``ModuleHelper`` updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4752).
+- cmd_runner module util - added parameters ``check_mode_skip`` and ``check_mode_return`` to ``CmdRunner.context()``, so that the command is not executed when ``check_mode=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4736).
+- nmcli - adds ``vpn`` type and parameter for supporting VPN with service type L2TP and PPTP (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4746).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - added new flag ``qemu_extended_statuses`` and new groups ``<group_prefix>prelaunch``, ``<group_prefix>paused``. They will be populated only when ``want_facts=true``, ``qemu_extended_statuses=true`` and only for ``QEMU`` machines (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4723).
+- puppet - adds ``confdir`` parameter to configure a custom confir location (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4740).
+- xfconf - changed implementation to use ``cmd_runner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
+- xfconf module utils - created new module util ``xfconf`` providing a ``cmd_runner`` specific for ``xfconf`` modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
+- xfconf_info - changed implementation to use ``cmd_runner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- cmd_runner module utils - deprecated ``fmt`` in favour of ``cmd_runner_fmt`` as the parameter format object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4777).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+System
+~~~~~~
+
+- gconftool2_info - Retrieve GConf configurations
+
+v5.0.2
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Maintenance and bugfix release for Ansible 6.0.0.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Include ``simplified_bsd.txt`` license file for various module utils, the ``lxca_common`` docs fragment, and the ``utm_utils`` unit tests.
+
+v5.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 6.0.0.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- cpanm - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- mksysb - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- pipx - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- snap - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- xfconf - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- consul - fixed bug introduced in PR 4590 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4680).
+- filesystem - handle ``fatresize --info`` output lines without ``:`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4700).
+- filesystem - improve error messages when output cannot be parsed by including newlines in escaped form (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4700).
+- keycloak_realm - fix default groups and roles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4241).
+- redis* modules - fix call to ``module.fail_json`` when failing because of missing Python libraries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4733).
+- xcc_redfish_command - for compatibility due to Redfish spec changes the virtualMedia resource location changed from Manager to System (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4682).
+- zfs - fix wrong quoting of properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4707, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4726).
+
+v5.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This is release 5.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2022-05-17.
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- The community.general collection no longer supports Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10. While we take no active measures to prevent usage, we will remove a lot of compatibility code and other compatility measures that will effectively prevent using most content from this collection with Ansible 2.9, and some content of this collection with ansible-base 2.10. Both Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 will very soon be End of Life and if you are still using them, you should consider upgrading to ansible-core 2.11 or later as soon as possible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Avoid internal ansible-core module_utils in favor of equivalent public API available since at least Ansible 2.9. This fixes some instances added since the last time this was fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4232).
+- ModuleHelper module utils - ``ModuleHelperBase` now delegates the attributes ``check_mode``, ``get_bin_path``, ``warn``, and ``deprecate`` to the underlying ``AnsibleModule`` instance (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4600).
+- ModuleHelper module utils - ``ModuleHelperBase`` now has a convenience method ``do_raise`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4660).
+- Remove vendored copy of ``distutils.version`` in favor of vendored copy included with ansible-core 2.12+. For ansible-core 2.11, uses ``distutils.version`` for Python < 3.12. There is no support for ansible-core 2.11 with Python 3.12+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3988).
+- aix_filesystem - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3833).
+- aix_lvg - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3834).
+- alternatives - add ``state`` parameter, which provides control over whether the alternative should be set as the active selection for its alternatives group (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4543, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4557).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - added option ``no_deps`` to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4174).
+- atomic_container - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- clc_alert_policy - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
+- clc_group - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
+- clc_loadbalancer - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
+- clc_server - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
+- cmd_runner module util - reusable command runner with consistent argument formatting and sensible defaults (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4476).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``include_profiles`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4068).
+- datadog_monitor - support new datadog event monitor of type `event-v2 alert` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4457)
+- filesystem - add support for resizing btrfs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4465).
+- gitlab - add more token authentication support with the new options ``api_oauth_token`` and ``api_job_token`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/705).
+- gitlab - clean up modules and utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3694).
+- gitlab_group, gitlab_project - add new option ``avatar_path`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3792).
+- gitlab_group_variable - new ``variables`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038 and https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4074).
+- gitlab_project - add new option ``default_branch`` to gitlab_project (if ``readme = true``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3792).
+- gitlab_project_variable - new ``variables`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
+- hponcfg - revamped module using ModuleHelper (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3840).
+- icinga2 inventory plugin - added the ``display_name`` field to variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3875, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3906).
+- icinga2 inventory plugin - implemented constructed interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4088).
+- icinga2 inventory plugin - inventory object names are changable using ``inventory_attr`` in your config file to the host object name, address, or display_name fields (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3875, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3906).
+- ip_netns - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3822).
+- ipa_dnsrecord - add new argument ``record_values``, mutually exclusive to ``record_value``, which supports multiple values for one record (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4578).
+- ipa_dnszone - ``dynamicupdate`` is now a boolean parameter, instead of a string parameter accepting ``"true"`` and ``"false"``. Also the module is now idempotent with respect to ``dynamicupdate`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3374).
+- ipa_dnszone - add DNS zone synchronization support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3374).
+- ipa_service - add ``skip_host_check`` parameter. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4417).
+- ipmi_boot - add support for user-specified IPMI encryption key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3698).
+- ipmi_power - add ``machine`` option to ensure the power state via the remote target address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3968).
+- ipmi_power - add support for user-specified IPMI encryption key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3698).
+- iso_extract - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3805).
+- java_cert - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3835).
+- jira - add support for Bearer token auth (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3838).
+- jira - when creating a comment, ``fields`` now is used for additional data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4304).
+- keycloak_* modules - added connection timeout parameter when calling server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4168).
+- keycloak_client - add ``always_display_in_console`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4390).
+- keycloak_client - add ``default_client_scopes`` and ``optional_client_scopes`` parameters. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4385).
+- keycloak_user_federation - add sssd user federation support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3767).
+- ldap_entry - add support for recursive deletion (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3613).
+- linode inventory plugin - add support for caching inventory results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4179).
+- linode inventory plugin - allow templating of ``access_token`` variable in Linode inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4040).
+- listen_ports_facts - add support for ``ss`` command besides ``netstat`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3708).
+- lists_mergeby filter plugin - add parameters ``list_merge`` and ``recursive``. These are only supported when used with ansible-base 2.10 or ansible-core, but not with Ansible 2.9 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4058).
+- logentries - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3807).
+- logstash_plugin - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3808).
+- lxc_container - added ``wait_for_container`` parameter. If ``true`` the module will wait until the running task reports success as the status (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4039).
+- lxc_container - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3851).
+- lxd connection plugin - make sure that ``ansible_lxd_host``, ``ansible_executable``, and ``ansible_lxd_executable`` work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3798).
+- lxd inventory plugin - support virtual machines (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3519).
+- lxd_container - adds ``project`` option to allow selecting project for LXD instance (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4479).
+- lxd_container - adds ``type`` option which also allows to operate on virtual machines and not just containers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3661).
+- lxd_profile - adds ``project`` option to allow selecting project for LXD profile (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4479).
+- mail callback plugin - add ``Message-ID`` and ``Date`` headers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4055, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4056).
+- mail callback plugin - properly use Ansible's option handling to split lists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4140).
+- mattermost - add the possibility to send attachments instead of text messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3946).
+- mksysb - revamped the module using ``ModuleHelper`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3295).
+- module_helper module utils - added decorators ``check_mode_skip`` and ``check_mode_skip_returns`` for skipping methods when ``check_mode=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3849).
+- monit - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3821).
+- nmap inventory plugin - add ``sudo`` option in plugin in order to execute ``sudo nmap`` so that ``nmap`` runs with elevated privileges (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4506).
+- nmcli - add ``wireguard`` connection type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3985).
+- nmcli - add missing connection aliases ``802-3-ethernet`` and ``802-11-wireless`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4108).
+- nmcli - add multiple addresses support for ``ip4`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1088, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3738).
+- nmcli - add multiple addresses support for ``ip6`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1088).
+- nmcli - add support for ``eui64`` and ``ipv6privacy`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3357).
+- nmcli - adds ``routes6`` and ``route_metric6`` parameters for supporting IPv6 routes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4059).
+- nmcli - remove nmcli modify dependency on ``type`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2858).
+- nomad_job - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- nomad_job_info - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- npm - add ability to use ``production`` flag when ``ci`` is set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4299).
+- open_iscsi - extended module to allow rescanning of established session for one or all targets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3763).
+- opennebula - add the release action for VMs in the ``HOLD`` state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4036).
+- opentelemetry_plugin - enrich service when using the ``docker_login`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4104).
+- opentelemetry_plugin - enrich service when using the ``jenkins``, ``hetzner`` or ``jira`` modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4105).
+- packet_device - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- packet_sshkey - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- packet_volume - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- pacman - add ``remove_nosave`` parameter to avoid saving modified configuration files as ``.pacsave`` files. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4316, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4315).
+- pacman - add ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` as return values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3758).
+- pacman - now implements proper change detection for ``update_cache=true``. Adds ``cache_updated`` return value to when ``update_cache=true`` to report this result independently of the module's overall changed return value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4337).
+- pacman - the module has been rewritten and is now much faster when using ``state=latest``. Operations are now done all packages at once instead of package per package and the configured output format of ``pacman`` no longer affect the module's operation. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3907, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3783, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4079)
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - add configurable ``lock`` and ``locktimeout`` options to avoid race conditions in itself and in the ``pass`` utility it calls. By default, the plugin now locks on write operations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4194).
+- pipx - added options ``editable`` and ``pip_args`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4300).
+- pritunl_user - add ``mac_addresses`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4535).
+- profitbricks - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- proxmox - add ``clone`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3930).
+- proxmox - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - add support for client-side jinja filters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3553).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - add support for templating the ``url``, ``user``, and ``password`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4418).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - add token authentication as an alternative to username/password (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4540).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - parse LXC configs returned by the proxmox API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4472).
+- proxmox modules - move ``HAS_PROXMOXER`` check into ``module_utils`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4030).
+- proxmox modules - move common code into ``module_utils`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4029).
+- proxmox_kvm - added EFI disk support when creating VM with OVMF UEFI BIOS with new ``efidisk0`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4106, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1638).
+- proxmox_kwm - add ``win11`` to ``ostype`` parameter for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4023, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4191).
+- proxmox_snap - add restore snapshot option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4377).
+- proxmox_snap - fixed timeout value to correctly reflect time in seconds. The timeout was off by one second (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4377).
+- puppet - remove deprecation for ``show_diff`` parameter. Its alias ``show-diff`` is still deprecated and will be removed in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3980).
+- python_requirements_info - returns python version broken down into its components, and some minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3797).
+- rax_files_objects - minor refactoring improving code quality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4649).
+- redfish_* modules - the contents of ``@Message.ExtendedInfo`` will be returned as a string in the event that ``@Message.ExtendedInfo.Messages`` does not exist. This is likely more useful than the standard HTTP error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4596).
+- redfish_command - add ``GetHostInterfaces`` command to enable reporting Redfish Host Interface information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3693).
+- redfish_command - add ``IndicatorLedOn``, ``IndicatorLedOff``, and ``IndicatorLedBlink`` commands to the Systems category for controling system LEDs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4084).
+- redfish_command - add ``SetHostInterface`` command to enable configuring the Redfish Host Interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3632).
+- redis - add authentication parameters ``login_user``, ``tls``, ``validate_certs``, and ``ca_certs`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4207).
+- scaleway inventory plugin - add profile parameter ``scw_profile`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4049).
+- scaleway_compute - add possibility to use project identifier (new ``project`` option) instead of deprecated organization identifier (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3951).
+- scaleway_volume - all volumes are systematically created on par1 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3964).
+- seport - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4471).
+- smartos_image_info - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- snap - add option ``options`` permitting to set options using the ``snap set`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3943).
+- sudoers - add support for ``runas`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4379).
+- svc - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3829).
+- syslog_json - add option to skip logging of ``gather_facts`` playbook tasks; use v2 callback API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4223).
+- terraform - adds ``terraform_upgrade`` parameter which allows ``terraform init`` to satisfy new provider constraints in an existing Terraform project (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4333).
+- to_time_unit filter plugins - the time filters has been extended to also allow ``0`` as input (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4612).
+- udm_group - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
+- udm_share - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
+- vmadm - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- vmadm - minor refactoring and improvement on the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4581).
+- vmadm - minor refactoring and improvement on the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4648).
+- webfaction_app - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- webfaction_db - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- xattr - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3806).
+- xfconf - added missing value types ``char``, ``uchar``, ``int64`` and ``uint64`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4534).
+- xfconf - minor refactor on the base class for the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3919).
+- zfs - minor refactoring in the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4650).
+- zypper - add support for ``--clean-deps`` option to remove packages that depend on a package being removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4195).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- Parts of this collection do not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+. Please either upgrade to ansible-core 2.12+, or use Python 3.11 or earlier (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3988).
+- The symbolic links used to implement flatmapping for all modules were removed and replaced by ``meta/runtime.yml`` redirects. This effectively breaks compatibility with Ansible 2.9 for all modules (without using their "long" names, which is discouraged and which can change without previous notice since they are considered an implementation detail) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- a_module test plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- archive - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- git_config - remove Ansible 2.9 and early ansible-base 2.10 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- java_keystore - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- lists_mergeby and groupby_as_dict filter plugins - adjust filter plugin filename. This change is not visible to end-users, it only affects possible other collections importing Python paths (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4625).
+- lists_mergeby filter plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- maven_artifact - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- memcached cache plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- path_join filter plugin shim - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- redis cache plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- yarn - remove unsupported and unnecessary ``--no-emoji`` flag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4662).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- ansible_galaxy_install - deprecated support for ``ansible`` 2.9 and ``ansible-base`` 2.10 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4601).
+- dig lookup plugin - the ``DLV`` record type has been decommissioned in 2017 and support for it will be removed from community.general 6.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4618).
+- gem - the default of the ``norc`` option has been deprecated and will change to ``true`` in community.general 6.0.0. Explicitly specify a value to avoid a deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4517).
+- mail callback plugin - not specifying ``sender`` is deprecated and will be disallowed in community.general 6.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4140).
+- module_helper module utils - deprecated the attribute ``ModuleHelper.VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3801).
+- nmcli - deprecate default hairpin mode for a bridge. This so we can change it to ``false`` in community.general 7.0.0, as this is also the default in ``nmcli`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4334).
+- pacman - from community.general 5.0.0 on, the ``changed`` status of ``update_cache`` will no longer be ignored if ``name`` or ``upgrade`` is specified. To keep the old behavior, add something like ``register: result`` and ``changed_when: result.packages | length > 0`` to your task (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4329).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - the current default ``true`` of the ``want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host`` option has been deprecated. The default will change to ``false`` in community.general 6.0.0. To keep the current behavior, explicitly set ``want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host`` to ``true`` in your inventory configuration. We suggest to already switch to the new behavior by explicitly setting it to ``false``, and by using ``compose:`` to set ``ansible_host`` to the correct value. See the examples in the plugin documentation for details (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4466).
+- vmadm - deprecated module parameter ``debug`` that was not used anywhere (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4580).
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- ali_instance_info - removed the options ``availability_zone``, ``instance_ids``, and ``instance_names``. Use filter item ``zone_id`` instead of ``availability_zone``, filter item ``instance_ids`` instead of ``instance_ids``, and filter item ``instance_name`` instead of ``instance_names`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- apt_rpm - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- compose - removed various deprecated aliases. Use the version with ``_`` instead of ``-`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- dnsimple - remove support for dnsimple < 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- github_deploy_key - removed the deprecated alias ``2fa_token`` of ``otp`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- homebrew, homebrew_cask - removed the deprecated alias ``update-brew`` of ``update_brew`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- linode - removed the ``backupsenabled`` option. Use ``backupweeklyday`` or ``backupwindow`` to enable backups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- opkg - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- pacman - if ``update_cache=true`` is used with ``name`` or ``upgrade``, the changed state will now also indicate if only the cache was updated. To keep the old behavior - only indicate ``changed`` when a package was installed/upgraded -, use ``changed_when`` as indicated in the module examples (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- pacman - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- proxmox, proxmox_kvm, proxmox_snap - no longer allow to specify a VM name that matches multiple VMs. If this happens, the modules now fail (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- serverless - removed the ``functions`` option. It was not used by the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- slackpkg - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- urpmi - removed the deprecated alias ``no-recommends`` of ``no_recommends`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- urpmi - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- xbps - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- xfconf - the ``get`` state has been removed. Use the ``xfconf_info`` module instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Various modules and plugins - use vendored version of ``distutils.version`` instead of the deprecated Python standard library ``distutils`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3936).
+- a_module test plugin - fix crash when testing a module name that was tombstoned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3660).
+- alternatives - fix output parsing for alternatives groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3976).
+- cargo - fix detection of outdated packages when ``state=latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4052).
+- cargo - fix incorrectly reported changed status for packages with a name containing a hyphen (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4044, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4052).
+- consul - fixed bug where class ``ConsulService`` was overwriting the field ``checks``, preventing the addition of checks to a service (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4590).
+- counter_enabled callback plugin - fix output to correctly display host and task counters in serial mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3709).
+- dconf - skip processes that disappeared while we inspected them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4151).
+- dnsmadeeasy - fix failure on deleting DNS entries when API response does not contain monitor value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3620).
+- dsv lookup plugin - raise an Ansible error if the wrong ``python-dsv-sdk`` version is installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4422).
+- filesize - add support for busybox dd implementation, that is used by default on Alpine linux (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4288, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4259).
+- gconftool2 - properly escape values when passing them to ``gconftool-2`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4647).
+- git_branch - remove deprecated and unnecessary branch ``unprotect`` method (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4496).
+- github_repo - ``private`` and ``description`` attributes should not be set to default values when the repo already exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2386).
+- gitlab_group - improve searching for projects inside group on deletion (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
+- gitlab_group_members - handle more than 20 groups when finding a group (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4460, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3729).
+- gitlab_group_variable - add missing documentation about GitLab versions that support ``environment_scope`` and ``variable_type`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038).
+- gitlab_group_variable - allow to set same variable name under different environment scopes. Due this change, the return value ``group_variable`` differs from previous version in check mode. It was counting ``updated`` values, because it was accidentally overwriting environment scopes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038).
+- gitlab_group_variable - fix idempotent change behaviour for float and integer variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038).
+- gitlab_hook - avoid errors during idempotency check when an attribute does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4668).
+- gitlab_hook - handle more than 20 hooks when finding a hook (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
+- gitlab_project - handle more than 20 namespaces when finding a namespace (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
+- gitlab_project_members - handle more than 20 projects and users when finding a project resp. user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
+- gitlab_project_variable - ``value`` is not necessary when deleting variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4150).
+- gitlab_project_variable - add missing documentation about GitLab versions that support ``environment_scope`` and ``variable_type`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
+- gitlab_project_variable - allow to set same variable name under different environment scopes. Due this change, the return value ``project_variable`` differs from previous version in check mode. It was counting ``updated`` values, because it was accidentally overwriting environment scopes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
+- gitlab_project_variable - fix idempotent change behaviour for float and integer variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
+- gitlab_runner - make ``project`` and ``owned`` mutually exclusive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4136).
+- gitlab_runner - use correct API endpoint to create and retrieve project level runners when using ``project`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3965).
+- gitlab_user - handle more than 20 users and SSH keys when finding a user resp. SSH key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
+- homebrew_cask - fix force install operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3703).
+- icinga2 inventory plugin - handle 404 error when filter produces no results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3875, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3906).
+- imc_rest - fixes the module failure due to the usage of ``itertools.izip_longest`` which is not available in Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4206).
+- ini_file - when removing nothing do not report changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4154).
+- interfaces_file - fixed the check for existing option in interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3841).
+- jail connection plugin - replace deprecated ``distutils.spawn.find_executable`` with Ansible's ``get_bin_path`` to find the executable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3934).
+- jira - fixed bug where module returns error related to dictionary key ``body`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3419).
+- keycloak - fix parameters types for ``defaultDefaultClientScopes`` and ``defaultOptionalClientScopes`` from list of dictionaries to list of strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4526).
+- keycloak_* - the documented ``validate_certs`` parameter was not taken into account when calling the ``open_url`` function in some cases, thus enforcing certificate validation even when ``validate_certs`` was set to ``false``. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4382)
+- keycloak_user_federation - creating a user federation while specifying an ID (that does not exist yet) no longer fail with a 404 Not Found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4212).
+- keycloak_user_federation - mappers auto-created by keycloak are matched and merged by their name and no longer create duplicated entries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4212).
+- ldap_search - allow it to be used even in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3619).
+- linode inventory plugin - fix configuration handling relating to inventory filtering (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4336).
+- listen_ports_facts - local port regex was not handling well IPv6 only binding. Fixes the regex for ``ss`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4092).
+- lvol - allows logical volumes to be created with certain size arguments prefixed with ``+`` to preserve behavior of older versions of this module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3665).
+- lxd connection plugin - replace deprecated ``distutils.spawn.find_executable`` with Ansible's ``get_bin_path`` to find the ``lxc`` executable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3934).
+- lxd inventory plugin - do not crash if OS and release metadata are not present
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4351).
+- mail callback plugin - fix crash on Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4025, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4026).
+- mail callback plugin - fix encoding of the name of sender and recipient (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4060, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4061).
+- mksysb - fixed bug for parameter ``backup_dmapi_fs`` was passing the wrong CLI argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3295).
+- nmcli - fix returning "changed" when no mask set for IPv4 or IPv6 addresses on task rerun (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3768).
+- nmcli - fix returning "changed" when routes parameters set, also suggest new routes4 and routes6 format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4131).
+- nmcli - fixed falsely reported changed status when ``mtu`` is omitted with ``dummy`` connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3612, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3625).
+- nmcli - pass ``flags``, ``ingress``, ``egress`` params to ``nmcli`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1086).
+- nrdp callback plugin - fix error ``string arguments without an encoding`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3903).
+- onepassword - search all valid configuration locations and use the first found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4640).
+- opennebula inventory plugin - complete the implementation of ``constructable`` for opennebula inventory plugin. Now ``keyed_groups``, ``compose``, ``groups`` actually work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4497).
+- opentelemetry - fix generating a trace with a task containing ``no_log: true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4043).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - fix task message attribute that is reported failed regardless of the task result (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4624).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - fix warning for the include_tasks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4623).
+- opentelemetry_plugin - honour ``ignore_errors`` when a task has failed instead of reporting an error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3837).
+- pacman - Use ``--groups`` instead of ``--group`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4312).
+- pacman - fix URL based package installation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4286, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4285).
+- pacman - fix ``upgrade=yes`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4275, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4274).
+- pacman - fixed bug where ``absent`` state did not work for locally installed packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4464).
+- pacman - make sure that ``packages`` is always returned when ``name`` or ``upgrade`` is specified, also if nothing is done (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4329).
+- pacman - when the ``update_cache`` option is combined with another option such as ``upgrade``, report ``changed`` based on the actions performed by the latter option. This was the behavior in community.general 4.4.0 and before. In community.general 4.5.0, a task combining these options would always report ``changed`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4318).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - fix error detection for non-English locales (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4219).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - prevent returning path names as passwords by accident (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4185, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4192).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - replace deprecated ``distutils.util.strtobool`` with Ansible's ``convert_bool.boolean`` to interpret values for the ``create``, ``returnall``, ``overwrite``, 'backup``, and ``nosymbols`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3934).
+- pipx - passes the correct command line option ``--include-apps`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3791).
+- pritunl - fixed bug where pritunl plugin api add unneeded data in ``auth_string`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4527).
+- proxmox - fixed ``onboot`` parameter causing module failures when undefined (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3844).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - always convert strings that follow the ``key=value[,key=value[...]]`` form into dictionaries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4349).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fix error when parsing container with LXC configs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4472, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4472).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed the ``description`` field being ignored if it contained a comma (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4348).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed the ``tags_parsed`` field when Proxmox returns a single space for the ``tags`` entry (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4378).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix a bug when getting a state of VM without name will fail (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4508).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix error in check when creating or cloning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4306).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix error when checking whether Proxmox VM exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4287).
+- python_requirements_info - fails if version operator used without version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3785).
+- python_requirements_info - store ``mismatched`` return values per package as documented in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4078).
+- redfish_command - the iLO4 Redfish implementation only supports the ``image_url`` parameter in the underlying API calls to ``VirtualMediaInsert`` and ``VirtualMediaEject``. Any values set (or the defaults) for ``write_protected`` or ``inserted`` will be ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4596).
+- say callback plugin - replace deprecated ``distutils.spawn.find_executable`` with Ansible's ``get_bin_path`` to find the ``say`` resp. ``espeak`` executables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3934).
+- scaleway_user_data - fix double-quote added where no double-quote is needed to user data in scaleway's server (``Content-type`` -> ``Content-Type``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3940).
+- slack - add ``charset`` to HTTP headers to avoid Slack API warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3932).
+- terraform - fix command options being ignored during planned/plan in function ``build_plan`` such as ``lock`` or ``lock_timeout`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3707, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3726).
+- terraform - fix list initialization to support both Python 2 and Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4531).
+- vdo - fix options error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4163).
+- xattr - fix exception caused by ``_run_xattr()`` raising a ``ValueError`` due to a mishandling of base64-encoded value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3673).
+- xbps - fix error message that is reported when installing packages fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4438).
+- yarn - fix incorrect handling of ``yarn list`` and ``yarn global list`` output that could result in fatal error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4050).
+- yarn - fix incorrectly reported status when installing a package globally (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4045, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4050).
+- yarn - fix missing ``~`` expansion in yarn global install folder which resulted in incorrect task status (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4045, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4048).
+- yum_versionlock - fix matching of existing entries with names passed to the module. Match yum and dnf lock format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4183).
+- zone connection plugin - replace deprecated ``distutils.spawn.find_executable`` with Ansible's ``get_bin_path`` to find the executable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3934).
+- zypper - fix undefined variable when running in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4667).
+- zypper - fixed bug that caused zypper to always report [ok] and do nothing on ``state=present`` when all packages in ``name`` had a version specification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4371, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4421).
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- pacman - ``update_cache`` cannot differentiate between up to date and outdated package lists and will report ``changed`` in both situations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4318).
+- pacman - binaries specified in the ``executable`` parameter must support ``--print-format`` in order to be used by this module. In particular, AUR helper ``yay`` is known not to currently support it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4312).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- counter - Counts hashable elements in a sequence
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst.license
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Ansible Project
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-->
-
 # Contributing

 We follow [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html) in all our contributions and interactions within this repository.
@@ -31,10 +25,8 @@ Also, consider taking up a valuable, reviewed, but abandoned pull request which
 * Try committing your changes with an informative but short commit message.
 * Do not squash your commits and force-push to your branch if not needed. Reviews of your pull request are much easier with individual commits to comprehend the pull request history. All commits of your pull request branch will be squashed into one commit by GitHub upon merge.
 * Do not add merge commits to your PR. The bot will complain and you will have to rebase ([instructions for rebasing](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_rebasing.html)) to remove them before your PR can be merged. To avoid that git automatically does merges during pulls, you can configure it to do rebases instead by running `git config pull.rebase true` inside the repository checkout.
-* Make sure your PR includes a [changelog fragment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/collection_development_process.html#creating-a-changelog-fragment).
-  * You must not include a fragment for new modules or new plugins. Also you shouldn't include one for docs-only changes. (If you're not sure, simply don't include one, we'll tell you whether one is needed or not :) )
-  * Please always include a link to the pull request itself, and if the PR is about an issue, also a link to the issue. Also make sure the fragment ends with a period, and begins with a lower-case letter after `-`. (Again, if you don't do this, we'll add suggestions to fix it, so don't worry too much :) )
-* Note that we format the code with `ruff format`. If your change does not match the formatters expectations, CI will fail and your PR will not get merged. See below for how to format code with antsibull-nox.
+* Make sure your PR includes a [changelog fragment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/development_process.html#changelogs-how-to). (You must not include a fragment for new modules or new plugins, except for test and filter plugins. Also you shouldn't include one for docs-only changes. If you're not sure, simply don't include one, we'll tell you whether one is needed or not :) )
+* Avoid reformatting unrelated parts of the codebase in your PR. These types of changes will likely be requested for reversion, create additional work for reviewers, and may cause approval to be delayed.

 You can also read [our Quick-start development guide](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/create_pr_quick_start_guide.rst).

@@ -44,62 +36,7 @@ If you want to test a PR locally, refer to [our testing guide](https://github.co

 If you find any inconsistencies or places in this document which can be improved, feel free to raise an issue or pull request to fix it.

-## Format code; and run sanity or unit tests locally (with antsibull-nox)
-
-The easiest way to format the code, and to run sanity and unit tests locally is to use [antsibull-nox](https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/antsibull-nox/).
-(If you have [nox](https://nox.thea.codes/en/stable/) installed, it will automatically install antsibull-nox in a virtual environment for you.)
-
-### Format code
-
-The following commands show how to run ansible-test sanity tests:
-
-```.bash
-# Run all configured formatters:
-nox -Re formatters
-
-# If you notice discrepancies between your local formatter and CI, you might
-# need to re-generate the virtual environment:
-nox -e formatters
-```
-
-### Sanity tests
-
-The following commands show how to run ansible-test sanity tests:
-
-```.bash
-# Run basic sanity tests for all files in the collection:
-nox -Re ansible-test-sanity-devel
-
-# Run basic sanity tests for the given files and directories:
-nox -Re ansible-test-sanity-devel -- plugins/modules/system/pids.py tests/integration/targets/pids/
-
-# Run all other sanity tests for all files in the collection:
-nox -R
-```
-
-If you replace `-Re` with `-e`, respectively. If you leave `-R` away, then the virtual environments will be re-created. The `-R` re-uses them (if they already exist).
-
-### Unit tests
-
-The following commands show how to run unit tests:
-
-```.bash
-# Run all unit tests:
-nox -Re ansible-test-units-devel
-
-# Run all unit tests for one Python version (a lot faster):
-nox -Re ansible-test-units-devel -- --python 3.13
-
-# Run a specific unit test (for the nmcli module) for one Python version:
-nox -Re ansible-test-units-devel -- --python 3.13 tests/unit/plugins/modules/net_tools/test_nmcli.py
-```
-
-If you replace `-Re` with `-e`, then the virtual environments will be re-created. The `-R` re-uses them (if they already exist).
-
-## Run basic sanity, unit or integration tests locally (with ansible-test)
-
-Instead of using antsibull-nox, you can also run sanity and unit tests with ansible-test directly.
-This also allows you to run integration tests.
+## Run sanity, unit or integration tests locally

 You have to check out the repository into a specific path structure to be able to run `ansible-test`. The path to the git checkout must end with `.../ansible_collections/community/general`. Please see [our testing guide](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/test_pr_locally_guide.rst) for instructions on how to check out the repository into a correct path structure. The short version of these instructions is:

@@ -111,27 +48,16 @@ cd ~/dev/ansible_collections/community/general

 Then you can run `ansible-test` (which is a part of [ansible-core](https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core/)) inside the checkout. The following example commands expect that you have installed Docker or Podman. Note that Podman has only been supported by more recent ansible-core releases. If you are using Docker, the following will work with Ansible 2.9+.

-### Basic sanity tests
-
-The following commands show how to run basic sanity tests:
+The following commands show how to run sanity tests:

 ```.bash
-# Run basic sanity tests for all files in the collection:
+# Run sanity tests for all files in the collection:
 ansible-test sanity --docker -v

-# Run basic sanity tests for the given files and directories:
+# Run sanity tests for the given files and directories:
 ansible-test sanity --docker -v plugins/modules/system/pids.py tests/integration/targets/pids/
 ```

-### Unit tests
-
-Note that for running unit tests, you need to install required collections in the same folder structure that `community.general` is checked out in.
-Right now, you need to install [`community.internal_test_tools`](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools).
-If you want to use the latest version from GitHub, you can run:
-```
-git clone https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools.git ~/dev/ansible_collections/community/internal_test_tools
-```
-
 The following commands show how to run unit tests:

 ```.bash
@@ -145,42 +71,13 @@ ansible-test units --docker -v --python 3.8
 ansible-test units --docker -v --python 3.8 tests/unit/plugins/modules/net_tools/test_nmcli.py
 ```

-### Integration tests
-
-Note that for running integration tests, you need to install required collections in the same folder structure that `community.general` is checked out in.
-Right now, depending on the test, you need to install [`ansible.posix`](https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix), [`community.crypto`](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto), and [`community.docker`](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker):
-If you want to use the latest versions from GitHub, you can run:
-```
-mkdir -p ~/dev/ansible_collections/ansible
-git clone https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix.git ~/dev/ansible_collections/ansible/posix
-git clone https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto.git ~/dev/ansible_collections/community/crypto
-git clone https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker.git ~/dev/ansible_collections/community/docker
-```
-
 The following commands show how to run integration tests:

-#### In Docker
-
-Integration tests on Docker have the following parameters:
- `image_name` (required): The name of the Docker image. To get the list of supported Docker images, run
-  `ansible-test integration --help` and look for _target docker images_.
- `test_name` (optional): The name of the integration test.
-  For modules, this equals the short name of the module; for example, `pacman` in case of `community.general.pacman`.
-  For plugins, the plugin type is added before the plugin's short name, for example `callback_yaml` for the `community.general.yaml` callback.
 ```.bash
-# Test all plugins/modules on fedora40
-ansible-test integration -v --docker fedora40
+# Run integration tests for the interfaces_files module in a Docker container using the
+# fedora35 operating system image (the supported images depend on your ansible-core version):
+ansible-test integration --docker fedora35 -v interfaces_file

-# Template
-ansible-test integration -v --docker image_name test_name
-
-# Example community.general.ini_file module on fedora40 Docker image:
-ansible-test integration -v --docker fedora40 ini_file
-```
-
-#### Without isolation
-
-```.bash
 # Run integration tests for the flattened lookup **without any isolation**:
 ansible-test integration -v lookup_flattened
 ```
@@ -209,12 +106,38 @@ Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Reques
   - Make sure that new plugins and modules have tests (unit tests, integration tests, or both); it is preferable to have some tests
     which run in CI.

-4. Action plugins need to be accompanied by a module, even if the module file only contains documentation
-   (`DOCUMENTATION`, `EXAMPLES` and `RETURN`). The module must have the same name and directory path in `plugins/modules/`
-   than the action plugin has in `plugins/action/`.
+4. For modules and action plugins, make sure to create your module/plugin in the correct subdirectory, and add a redirect entry
+   in `meta/runtime.yml`. For example, for the `aerospike_migrations` module located in
+   `plugins/modules/database/aerospike/aerospike_migrations.py`, you need to create the following entry:
+   ```.yaml
+       aerospike_migrations:
+         redirect: community.general.database.aerospike.aerospike_migrations
+   ```
+   Here, the relative path `database/aerospike/` is inserted into the module's FQCN (Fully Qualified Collection Name) after the
+   collection's name and before the module's name. This must not be done for other plugin types but modules and action plugins!
+
+   - Action plugins need to be accompanied by a module, even if the module file only contains documentation
+     (`DOCUMENTATION`, `EXAMPLES` and `RETURN`). The module must have the same name and directory path in `plugins/modules/`
+     than the action plugin has in `plugins/action/`.

 5. Make sure to add a BOTMETA entry for your new module/plugin in `.github/BOTMETA.yml`. Search for other plugins/modules in the
   same directory to see how entries could look. You should list all authors either as `maintainers` or under `ignore`. People
   listed as `maintainers` will be pinged for new issues and PRs that modify the module/plugin or its tests.

   When you add a new plugin/module, we expect that you perform maintainer duty for at least some time after contributing it.
+
+## pre-commit
+
+To help ensure high-quality contributions this repository includes a [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) configuration which
+corrects and tests against common issues that would otherwise cause CI to fail. To begin using these pre-commit hooks see
+the [Installation](#installation) section below.
+
+This is optional and not required to contribute to this repository.
+
+### Installation
+
+Follow the [instructions](https://pre-commit.com/#install) provided with pre-commit and run `pre-commit install` under the repository base. If for any reason you would like to disable the pre-commit hooks run `pre-commit uninstall`.
+
+This is optional to run it locally.
+
+You can trigger it locally with `pre-commit run --all-files` or even to run only for a given file `pre-commit run --files YOUR_FILE`.
--- a/LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
+++ b/LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../COPYING
--- a/LICENSES/MIT.txt
+++ b/LICENSES/MIT.txt
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-MIT License
-
-Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
--- a/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt
+++ b/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,17 +1,7 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-->
-
 # Community General Collection

-[![Documentation](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-brightgreen.svg)](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/general/)
-[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-12)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
-[![EOL CI](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/actions/workflows/ansible-test.yml/badge.svg?branch=stable-12)](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/actions)
-[![Nox CI](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/actions/workflows/nox.yml/badge.svg?branch=stable-12)](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/actions)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-5)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
 [![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://codecov.io/gh/ansible-collections/community.general)
-[![REUSE status](https://api.reuse.software/badge/github.com/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://api.reuse.software/info/github.com/ansible-collections/community.general)

 This repository contains the `community.general` Ansible Collection. The collection is a part of the Ansible package and includes many modules and plugins supported by Ansible community which are not part of more specialized community collections.

@@ -25,21 +15,11 @@ We follow [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/comm

 If you encounter abusive behavior violating the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html), please refer to the [policy violations](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html#policy-violations) section of the Code of Conduct for information on how to raise a complaint.

-## Communication
-
-* Join the Ansible forum:
-  * [Get Help](https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6): get help or help others. This is for questions about modules or plugins in the collection. Please add appropriate tags if you start new discussions.
-  * [Tag `community-general`](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/community-general): discuss the *collection itself*, instead of specific modules or plugins.
-  * [Social Spaces](https://forum.ansible.com/c/chat/4): gather and interact with fellow enthusiasts.
-  * [News & Announcements](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/5): track project-wide announcements including social events.
-
-* The Ansible [Bullhorn newsletter](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#the-bullhorn): used to announce releases and important changes.
-
-For more information about communication, see the [Ansible communication guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html).
-
 ## Tested with Ansible

-Tested with the current ansible-core 2.17, ansible-core 2.18, ansible-core 2.19, ansible-core 2.20 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible-core versions before 2.17.0 are not supported. This includes all ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 releases.
+Tested with the current ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible-core versions before 2.11.0 are not supported. This includes all ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 releases.
+
+Parts of this collection will not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+.

 ## External requirements

@@ -47,13 +27,13 @@ Some modules and plugins require external libraries. Please check the requiremen

 ## Included content

-Please check the included content on the [Ansible Galaxy page for this collection](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/community/general/) or the [documentation on the Ansible docs site](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/).
+Please check the included content on the [Ansible Galaxy page for this collection](https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/general) or the [documentation on the Ansible docs site](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/).

 ## Using this collection

 This collection is shipped with the Ansible package. So if you have it installed, no more action is required.

-If you have a minimal installation (only Ansible Core installed) or you want to use the latest version of the collection along with the whole Ansible package, you need to install the collection from [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/community/general/) manually with the `ansible-galaxy` command-line tool:
+If you have a minimal installation (only Ansible Core installed) or you want to use the latest version of the collection along with the whole Ansible package, you need to install the collection from [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/general) manually with the `ansible-galaxy` command-line tool:

    ansible-galaxy collection install community.general

@@ -70,7 +50,7 @@ Note that if you install the collection manually, it will not be upgraded automa
 ansible-galaxy collection install community.general --upgrade
 ```

-You can also install a specific version of the collection, for example, if you need to downgrade when something is broken in the latest version (please report an issue in this repository). Use the following syntax where `X.Y.Z` can be any [available version](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/community/general/):
+You can also install a specific version of the collection, for example, if you need to downgrade when something is broken in the latest version (please report an issue in this repository). Use the following syntax where `X.Y.Z` can be any [available version](https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/general):

 ```bash
 ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==X.Y.Z
@@ -86,13 +66,13 @@ We are actively accepting new contributors.

 All types of contributions are very welcome.

-You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-12/CONTRIBUTING.md)!
+You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)!

-The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-12/commit-rights.md#people) file. If you have questions or need help, feel free to mention them in the proposals.
+The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md#people) file. If you have questions or need help, feel free to mention them in the proposals.

 You can find more information in the [developer guide for collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collections.html#contributing-to-collections), and in the [Ansible Community Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/index.html).

-Also for some notes specific to this collection see [our CONTRIBUTING documentation](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-12/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+Also for some notes specific to this collection see [our CONTRIBUTING documentation](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).

 ### Running tests

@@ -102,8 +82,8 @@ See [here](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collectio

 To learn how to maintain / become a maintainer of this collection, refer to:

-* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-12/commit-rights.md).
-* [Maintainer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/stable-12/maintaining.rst).
+* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md).
+* [Maintainer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/maintaining.rst).

 It is necessary for maintainers of this collection to be subscribed to:

@@ -112,13 +92,25 @@ It is necessary for maintainers of this collection to be subscribed to:

 They also should be subscribed to Ansible's [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#the-bullhorn).

+## Communication
+
+We announce important development changes and releases through Ansible's [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://eepurl.com/gZmiEP). If you are a collection developer, be sure you are subscribed.
+
+Join us in the `#ansible` (general use questions and support), `#ansible-community` (community and collection development questions), and other [IRC channels](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#irc-channels) on [Libera.chat](https://libera.chat).
+
+We take part in the global quarterly [Ansible Contributor Summit](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Contributor-Summit) virtually or in-person. Track [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://eepurl.com/gZmiEP) and join us.
+
+For more information about communities, meetings and agendas see [Community Wiki](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Community).
+
+For more information about communication, refer to Ansible's the [Communication guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html).
+
 ## Publishing New Version

 See the [Releasing guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/releasing_collections.rst) to learn how to release this collection.

 ## Release notes

-See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-12/CHANGELOG.md).
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-5/CHANGELOG.rst).

 ## Roadmap

@@ -135,10 +127,6 @@ See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues

 ## Licensing

-This collection is primarily licensed and distributed as a whole under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
+GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

-See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-12/COPYING) for the full text.
-
-Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-12/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-12/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-12/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).
-
-All files have a machine readable `SDPX-License-Identifier:` comment denoting its respective license(s) or an equivalent entry in an accompanying `.license` file. Only changelog fragments (which will not be part of a release) are covered by a blanket statement in `REUSE.toml`. This conforms to the [REUSE specification](https://reuse.software/spec/).
+See [COPYING](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) to see the full text.
--- a/REUSE.toml
+++ b/REUSE.toml
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-version = 1
-
-[[annotations]]
-path = "changelogs/fragments/**"
-precedence = "aggregate"
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "Ansible Project"
-SPDX-License-Identifier = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
--- a/antsibull-nox.toml
+++ b/antsibull-nox.toml
@@ -1,116 +0,0 @@
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
-
-[collection_sources]
-"ansible.posix" = "git+https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix.git,main"
-"community.crypto" = "git+https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto.git,main"
-"community.docker" = "git+https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker.git,main"
-"community.internal_test_tools" = "git+https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools.git,main"
-
-[collection_sources_per_ansible.'2.16']
-# community.crypto's main branch needs ansible-core >= 2.17
-"community.crypto" = "git+https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto.git,stable-2"
-
-[vcs]
-vcs = "git"
-development_branch = "main"
-stable_branches = [ "stable-*" ]
-
-[sessions]
-
-[sessions.lint]
-run_isort = false
-run_black = false
-run_ruff_check = true
-ruff_check_config = "ruff.toml"
-run_ruff_format = true
-ruff_format_config = "ruff.toml"
-run_flake8 = false
-run_pylint = false
-run_yamllint = true
-yamllint_config = ".yamllint"
-# yamllint_config_plugins = ".yamllint-docs"
-# yamllint_config_plugins_examples = ".yamllint-examples"
-run_mypy = true
-mypy_ansible_core_package = "ansible-core>=2.19.0"
-mypy_config = ".mypy.ini"
-mypy_extra_deps = [
-    "cryptography",
-    "dnspython",
-    "lxml-stubs",
-    "types-mock",
-    "types-paramiko",
-    "types-passlib",
-    "types-psutil",
-    "types-PyYAML",
-    "types-requests",
-]
-
-[sessions.docs_check]
-validate_collection_refs="all"
-codeblocks_restrict_types = [
-    "ansible-output",
-    "console",
-    "ini",
-    "json",
-    "python",
-    "shell",
-    "yaml",
-    "yaml+jinja",
-    "text",
-]
-codeblocks_restrict_type_exact_case = true
-codeblocks_allow_without_type = false
-codeblocks_allow_literal_blocks = false
-
-[sessions.license_check]
-
-[sessions.extra_checks]
-run_no_unwanted_files = true
-no_unwanted_files_module_extensions = [".py"]
-no_unwanted_files_yaml_extensions = [".yml"]
-run_action_groups = true
-run_no_trailing_whitespace = true
-no_trailing_whitespace_skip_paths = [
-    "tests/integration/targets/iso_extract/files/test.iso",
-    "tests/integration/targets/java_cert/files/testpkcs.p12",
-    "tests/integration/targets/one_host/files/testhost/tmp/opennebula-fixtures.json.gz",
-    "tests/integration/targets/one_template/files/testhost/tmp/opennebula-fixtures.json.gz",
-    "tests/integration/targets/setup_flatpak_remote/files/repo.tar.xz",
-]
-no_trailing_whitespace_skip_directories = [
-    "tests/unit/plugins/modules/interfaces_file/interfaces_file_fixtures/golden_output/",
-    "tests/unit/plugins/modules/interfaces_file/interfaces_file_fixtures/input/",
-]
-
-[[sessions.extra_checks.action_groups_config]]
-name = "consul"
-pattern = "^consul_.*$"
-exclusions = [
-    "consul_acl_bootstrap",
-    "consul_kv",
-]
-doc_fragment = "community.general.consul.actiongroup_consul"
-
-[[sessions.extra_checks.action_groups_config]]
-name = "keycloak"
-pattern = "^keycloak_.*$"
-exclusions = [
-    "keycloak_realm_info",
-]
-doc_fragment = "community.general.keycloak.actiongroup_keycloak"
-
-[[sessions.extra_checks.action_groups_config]]
-name = "scaleway"
-pattern = "^scaleway_.*$"
-doc_fragment = "community.general.scaleway.actiongroup_scaleway"
-
-[sessions.build_import_check]
-run_galaxy_importer = true
-
-[sessions.ansible_test_sanity]
-include_devel = true
-
-[sessions.ansible_test_units]
-include_devel = true
--- a/changelogs/.gitignore
+++ b/changelogs/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1 @@
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 /.plugin-cache.yaml
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml.license
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Ansible Project
--- a/changelogs/config.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/config.yaml
@@ -1,43 +1,29 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 changelog_filename_template: ../CHANGELOG.rst
 changelog_filename_version_depth: 0
 changes_file: changelog.yaml
 changes_format: combined
-ignore_other_fragment_extensions: true
 keep_fragments: false
 mention_ancestor: true
+flatmap: true
 new_plugins_after_name: removed_features
 notesdir: fragments
-output_formats:
-  - md
-  - rst
 prelude_section_name: release_summary
 prelude_section_title: Release Summary
 sections:
-  - - major_changes
-    - Major Changes
-  - - minor_changes
-    - Minor Changes
-  - - breaking_changes
-    - Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
-  - - deprecated_features
-    - Deprecated Features
-  - - removed_features
-    - Removed Features (previously deprecated)
-  - - security_fixes
-    - Security Fixes
-  - - bugfixes
-    - Bugfixes
-  - - known_issues
-    - Known Issues
+- - major_changes
+  - Major Changes
+- - minor_changes
+  - Minor Changes
+- - breaking_changes
+  - Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+- - deprecated_features
+  - Deprecated Features
+- - removed_features
+  - Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+- - security_fixes
+  - Security Fixes
+- - bugfixes
+  - Bugfixes
+- - known_issues
+  - Known Issues
 title: Community General
-trivial_section_name: trivial
-use_fqcn: true
-add_plugin_period: true
-changelog_nice_yaml: true
-changelog_sort: version
-vcs: auto
--- a/commit-rights.md
+++ b/commit-rights.md
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-->
-
 Committers Guidelines for community.general
 ===========================================

--- a/docs/docsite/config.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/config.yml
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-changelog:
-  write_changelog: true
-
-ansible_output:
-  global_env:
-    ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK: community.general.tasks_only
-    ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_TASKS_ONLY_NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS: 90
-  global_postprocessors:
-    reformat-yaml:
-      command:
-        - python
-        - docs/docsite/reformat-yaml.py
--- a/docs/docsite/extra-docs.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/extra-docs.yml
@@ -1,24 +1,6 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 sections:
  - title: Guides
    toctree:
      - filter_guide
      - test_guide
-  - title: Technology Guides
-    toctree:
-      - guide_alicloud
-      - guide_iocage
-      - guide_online
-      - guide_packet
-      - guide_scaleway
-  - title: Developer Guides
-    toctree:
-      - guide_deps
-      - guide_vardict
-      - guide_cmdrunner
-      - guide_modulehelper
-      - guide_uthelper
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-common.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-common.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+list1:
+  - name: foo
+    extra: true
+  - name: bar
+    extra: false
+  - name: meh
+    extra: true
+
+list2:
+  - name: foo
+    path: /foo
+  - name: baz
+    path: /baz
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+list1:
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      x: default_value
+      y: default_value
+      list:
+        - default_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01: [1, 1, 2, 3]
+
+list2:
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+      list:
+        - patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01: [3, 4, 4, {key: value}]
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+- name: 1. Merge two lists by common attribute 'name'
+  include_vars:
+    dir: example-001_vars
+- debug:
+    var: list3
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
+- template:
+    src: list3.out.j2
+    dest: example-001.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/default-common.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/default-common.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../default-common.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/list3.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+list3: "{{ list1|
+           community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+- name: 2. Merge two lists by common attribute 'name'
+  include_vars:
+    dir: example-002_vars
+- debug:
+    var: list3
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
+- template:
+    src: list3.out.j2
+    dest: example-002.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/default-common.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/default-common.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../default-common.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/list3.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+           community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+- name: 3. Merge recursive by 'name', replace lists (default)
+  include_vars:
+    dir: example-003_vars
+- debug:
+    var: list3
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
+- template:
+    src: list3.out.j2
+    dest: example-003.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/list3.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                           recursive=true) }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+- name: 4. Merge recursive by 'name', keep lists
+  include_vars:
+    dir: example-004_vars
+- debug:
+    var: list3
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
+- template:
+    src: list3.out.j2
+    dest: example-004.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/list3.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                           recursive=true,
+                                           list_merge='keep') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+- name: 5. Merge recursive by 'name', append lists
+  include_vars:
+    dir: example-005_vars
+- debug:
+    var: list3
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
+- template:
+    src: list3.out.j2
+    dest: example-005.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/list3.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                           recursive=true,
+                                           list_merge='append') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+- name: 6. Merge recursive by 'name', prepend lists
+  include_vars:
+    dir: example-006_vars
+- debug:
+    var: list3
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
+- template:
+    src: list3.out.j2
+    dest: example-006.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/list3.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                           recursive=true,
+                                           list_merge='prepend') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+- name: 7. Merge recursive by 'name', append lists 'remove present'
+  include_vars:
+    dir: example-007_vars
+- debug:
+    var: list3
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
+- template:
+    src: list3.out.j2
+    dest: example-007.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/list3.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                           recursive=true,
+                                           list_merge='append_rp') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+- name: 8. Merge recursive by 'name', prepend lists 'remove present'
+  include_vars:
+    dir: example-008_vars
+- debug:
+    var: list3
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
+- template:
+    src: list3.out.j2
+    dest: example-008.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/list3.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                           recursive=true,
+                                           list_merge='prepend_rp') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+---
+examples:
+  - label: 'In the example below the lists are merged by the attribute ``name``:'
+    file: example-001_vars/list3.yml
+    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
+    file: example-001.out
+    lang: 'yaml'
+  - label: 'It is possible to use a list of lists as an input of the filter:'
+    file: example-002_vars/list3.yml
+    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
+  - label: 'This produces the same result as in the previous example:'
+    file: example-002.out
+    lang: 'yaml'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=replace`` (default):'
+    file: example-003_vars/list3.yml
+    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
+    file: example-003.out
+    lang: 'yaml'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=keep``:'
+    file: example-004_vars/list3.yml
+    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
+    file: example-004.out
+    lang: 'yaml'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=append``:'
+    file: example-005_vars/list3.yml
+    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
+    file: example-005.out
+    lang: 'yaml'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=prepend``:'
+    file: example-006_vars/list3.yml
+    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
+    file: example-006.out
+    lang: 'yaml'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=append_rp``:'
+    file: example-007_vars/list3.yml
+    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
+    file: example-007.out
+    lang: 'yaml'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=prepend_rp``:'
+    file: example-008_vars/list3.yml
+    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
+    file: example-008.out
+    lang: 'yaml'
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples_all.rst.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples_all.rst.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{% for i in examples %}
+{{ i.label }}
+
+.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
+
+  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
+
+{% endfor %}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+Merging lists of dictionaries
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If you have two or more lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where the dictionaries are merged by an attribute, you can use the ``lists_mergeby`` filter.
+
+.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See :ref:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <ansible_collections.community.general.yaml_callback>`.
+
+Let us use the lists below in the following examples:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+  {{ lookup('file', 'default-common.yml')|indent(2) }}
+
+{% for i in examples[0:2] %}
+{{ i.label }}
+
+.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
+
+  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
+
+{% endfor %}
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.0.0
+
+{% for i in examples[2:4] %}
+{{ i.label }}
+
+.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
+
+  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
+
+{% endfor %}
+
+The filter also accepts two optional parameters: ``recursive`` and ``list_merge``. These parameters are only supported when used with ansible-base 2.10 or ansible-core, but not with Ansible 2.9. This is available since community.general 4.4.0.
+
+**recursive**
+    Is a boolean, default to ``False``. Should the ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` recursively merge nested hashes. Note: It does not depend on the value of the ``hash_behaviour`` setting in ``ansible.cfg``.
+
+**list_merge**
+    Is a string, its possible values are ``replace`` (default), ``keep``, ``append``, ``prepend``, ``append_rp`` or ``prepend_rp``. It modifies the behaviour of ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` when the hashes to merge contain arrays/lists.
+
+The examples below set ``recursive=true`` and display the differences among all six options of ``list_merge``. Functionality of the parameters is exactly the same as in the filter ``combine``. See :ref:`Combining hashes/dictionaries <combine_filter>` to learn details about these options.
+
+Let us use the lists below in the following examples
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+  {{ lookup('file', 'default-recursive-true.yml')|indent(2) }}
+
+{% for i in examples[4:16] %}
+{{ i.label }}
+
+.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
+
+  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
+
+{% endfor %}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/list3.out.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/list3.out.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+list3:
+{{ list3|to_nice_yaml(indent=0) }}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+---
+
+# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
+# 1) Run all examples and create example-XXX.out
+# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e examples=true
+#
+# 2) Optionally, for testing, create examples_all.rst
+# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e examples_all=true
+#
+# 3) Create docs REST files
+# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e merging_lists_of_dictionaries=true
+#
+# Notes:
+# * Use YAML callback, e.g. set ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=community.general.yaml
+# * Use sphinx-view to render and review the REST files
+#   shell> sphinx-view <path_to_helper>/examples_all.rst
+# * Proofread and copy completed docs *.rst files into the directory rst.
+# * Then delete the *.rst and *.out files from this directory. Do not
+#   add *.rst and *.out in this directory to the version control.
+#
+# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
+# community.general/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml
+
+- hosts: localhost
+  gather_facts: false
+  tasks:
+
+    - block:
+        - import_tasks: example-001.yml
+          tags: t001
+        - import_tasks: example-002.yml
+          tags: t002
+        - import_tasks: example-003.yml
+          tags: t003
+        - import_tasks: example-004.yml
+          tags: t004
+        - import_tasks: example-005.yml
+          tags: t005
+        - import_tasks: example-006.yml
+          tags: t006
+        - import_tasks: example-007.yml
+          tags: t007
+        - import_tasks: example-008.yml
+          tags: t008
+      when: examples|d(false)|bool
+
+    - block:
+        - include_vars: examples.yml
+        - template:
+            src: examples_all.rst.j2
+            dest: examples_all.rst
+      when: examples_all|d(false)|bool
+
+    - block:
+        - include_vars: examples.yml
+        - template:
+            src: filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
+            dest: filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
+      when: merging_lists_of_dictionaries|d(false)|bool
--- a/docs/docsite/links.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/links.yml
@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 edit_on_github:
  repository: ansible-collections/community.general
  branch: main
  path_prefix: ''

 extra_links:
-  - description: Ask for help
-    url: https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6/none
  - description: Submit a bug report
    url: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=bug_report.yml
  - description: Request a feature
@@ -24,10 +18,6 @@ communication:
    - topic: General usage and support questions
      network: Libera
      channel: '#ansible'
-  forums:
-    - topic: "Ansible Forum: General usage and support questions"
-      # The following URL directly points to the "Get Help" section
-      url: https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6/none
-    - topic: "Ansible Forum: Discussions about the collection itself, not for specific modules or plugins"
-      # The following URL directly points to the "community-general" tag
-      url: https://forum.ansible.com/tag/community-general
+  mailing_lists:
+    - topic: Ansible Project List
+      url: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-project
--- a/docs/docsite/reformat-yaml.py
+++ b/docs/docsite/reformat-yaml.py
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-import sys
-from io import StringIO
-
-from ruamel.yaml import YAML
-
-
-def main() -> None:
-    yaml = YAML(typ='rt')
-    yaml.indent(mapping=2, sequence=4, offset=2)
-
-    # Load
-    data = yaml.load(sys.stdin)
-
-    # Dump
-    sio = StringIO()
-    yaml.dump(data, sio)
-    print(sio.getvalue().rstrip('\n'))
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-keep_keys.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-keep_keys.rst
@@ -1,218 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-keep_keys
-"""""""""
-
-Use the filter :ansplugin:`community.general.keep_keys#filter` if you have a list of dictionaries and want to keep certain keys only.
-
-.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See :ansplugin:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
-
-
-Let us use the below list in the following examples:
-
-.. ansible-output-meta::
-
-  actions:
-    - name: reset-previous-blocks
-    - name: set-template
-      template:
-        env:
-          ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_RESULT_FORMAT: yaml
-        variables:
-          data:
-            previous_code_block: yaml
-            previous_code_block_index: 0
-          computation:
-            previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-        postprocessors:
-          - name: reformat-yaml
-        language: yaml
-        skip_first_lines: 2
-        playbook: |-
-          - hosts: localhost
-            gather_facts: false
-            tasks:
-              - vars:
-                  @{{ data | indent(8) }}@
-                  @{{ computation | indent(8) }}@
-                ansible.builtin.debug:
-                  var: result
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   input:
-     - k0_x0: A0
-       k1_x1: B0
-       k2_x2: [C0]
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k0_x0: A1
-       k1_x1: B1
-       k2_x2: [C1]
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-* By default, match keys that equal any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1
-
-   target: ['k0_x0', 'k1_x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target) }}"
-
-
-gives
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - k0_x0: A0
-       k1_x1: B0
-     - k0_x0: A1
-       k1_x1: B1
-
-
-.. versionadded:: 9.1.0
-
-* The results of the below examples 1-5 are all the same:
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          - vars:
-              @{{ data | indent(8) }}@
-
-              # I picked one of the examples
-              mp: equal
-              target: ['k0_x0', 'k1_x1']
-              result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-            ansible.builtin.debug:
-              var: result
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - k0_x0: A0
-       k1_x1: B0
-     - k0_x0: A1
-       k1_x1: B1
-
-
-1. Match keys that equal any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: equal
-   target: ['k0_x0', 'k1_x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-2. Match keys that start with any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target: ['k0', 'k1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-3. Match keys that end with any of the items in target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: ends_with
-   target: ['x0', 'x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-4. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ['^.*[01]_x.*$']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-5. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ^.*[01]_x.*$
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-
-* The results of the below examples 6-9 are all the same:
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          - vars:
-              @{{ data | indent(8) }}@
-
-              # I picked one of the examples
-              mp: equal
-              target: k0_x0
-              result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-            ansible.builtin.debug:
-              var: result
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - k0_x0: A0
-     - k0_x0: A1
-
-
-6. Match keys that equal the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: equal
-   target: k0_x0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-7. Match keys that start with the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target: k0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-8. Match keys that end with the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: ends_with
-   target: x0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-9. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ^.*0_x.*$
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-remove_keys.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-remove_keys.rst
@@ -1,228 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-remove_keys
-"""""""""""
-
-Use the filter :ansplugin:`community.general.remove_keys#filter` if you have a list of dictionaries and want to remove certain keys.
-
-.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See See :ansplugin:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
-
-
-Let us use the below list in the following examples:
-
-.. ansible-output-meta::
-
-  actions:
-    - name: reset-previous-blocks
-    - name: set-template
-      template:
-        env:
-          ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_RESULT_FORMAT: yaml
-        variables:
-          data:
-            previous_code_block: yaml
-            previous_code_block_index: 0
-          computation:
-            previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-        postprocessors:
-          - name: reformat-yaml
-        language: yaml
-        skip_first_lines: 2
-        playbook: |-
-          - hosts: localhost
-            gather_facts: false
-            tasks:
-              - vars:
-                  @{{ data | indent(8) }}@
-                  @{{ computation | indent(8) }}@
-                ansible.builtin.debug:
-                  var: result
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   input:
-     - k0_x0: A0
-       k1_x1: B0
-       k2_x2: [C0]
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k0_x0: A1
-       k1_x1: B1
-       k2_x2: [C1]
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-* By default, match keys that equal any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1
-
-   target: ['k0_x0', 'k1_x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target) }}"
-
-
-gives
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - k2_x2:
-         - C0
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k2_x2:
-         - C1
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-.. versionadded:: 9.1.0
-
-* The results of the below examples 1-5 are all the same:
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          - vars:
-              @{{ data | indent(8) }}@
-
-              # I picked one of the examples
-              mp: equal
-              target: ['k0_x0', 'k1_x1']
-              result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-            ansible.builtin.debug:
-              var: result
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - k2_x2:
-         - C0
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k2_x2:
-         - C1
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-1. Match keys that equal any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: equal
-   target: ['k0_x0', 'k1_x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-2. Match keys that start with any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target: ['k0', 'k1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-3. Match keys that end with any of the items in target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: ends_with
-   target: ['x0', 'x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-4. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ['^.*[01]_x.*$']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-5. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ^.*[01]_x.*$
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-
-* The results of the below examples 6-9 are all the same:
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          - vars:
-              @{{ data | indent(8) }}@
-
-              # I picked one of the examples
-              mp: equal
-              target: k0_x0
-              result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-            ansible.builtin.debug:
-              var: result
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - k1_x1: B0
-       k2_x2:
-         - C0
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k1_x1: B1
-       k2_x2:
-         - C1
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-6. Match keys that equal the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: equal
-   target: k0_x0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-7. Match keys that start with the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target: k0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-8. Match keys that end with the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: ends_with
-   target: x0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-9. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ^.*0_x.*$
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-replace_keys.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-replace_keys.rst
@@ -1,257 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-replace_keys
-""""""""""""
-
-Use the filter :ansplugin:`community.general.replace_keys#filter` if you have a list of dictionaries and want to replace certain keys.
-
-.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See :ansplugin:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
-
-
-Let us use the below list in the following examples:
-
-.. ansible-output-meta::
-
-  actions:
-    - name: reset-previous-blocks
-    - name: set-template
-      template:
-        env:
-          ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_RESULT_FORMAT: yaml
-        variables:
-          data:
-            previous_code_block: yaml
-            previous_code_block_index: 0
-          computation:
-            previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-        postprocessors:
-          - name: reformat-yaml
-        language: yaml
-        skip_first_lines: 2
-        playbook: |-
-          - hosts: localhost
-            gather_facts: false
-            tasks:
-              - vars:
-                  @{{ data | indent(8) }}@
-                  @{{ computation | indent(8) }}@
-                ansible.builtin.debug:
-                  var: result
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   input:
-     - k0_x0: A0
-       k1_x1: B0
-       k2_x2: [C0]
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k0_x0: A1
-       k1_x1: B1
-       k2_x2: [C1]
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-* By default, match keys that equal any of the attributes before.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-3
-
-   target:
-     - {after: a0, before: k0_x0}
-     - {after: a1, before: k1_x1}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target) }}"
-
-
-gives
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - a0: A0
-       a1: B0
-       k2_x2:
-         - C0
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - a0: A1
-       a1: B1
-       k2_x2:
-         - C1
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-.. versionadded:: 9.1.0
-
-* The results of the below examples 1-3 are all the same:
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          - vars:
-              @{{ data | indent(8) }}@
-
-              # I picked one of the examples
-              mp: starts_with
-              target:
-                - {after: a0, before: k0}
-                - {after: a1, before: k1}
-              result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-            ansible.builtin.debug:
-              var: result
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - a0: A0
-       a1: B0
-       k2_x2:
-         - C0
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - a0: A1
-       a1: B1
-       k2_x2:
-         - C1
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-1. Replace keys that starts with any of the attributes before.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-4
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target:
-     - {after: a0, before: k0}
-     - {after: a1, before: k1}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-2. Replace keys that ends with any of the attributes before.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-4
-
-   mp: ends_with
-   target:
-     - {after: a0, before: x0}
-     - {after: a1, before: x1}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-3. Replace keys that match any regex of the attributes before.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-4
-
-   mp: regex
-   target:
-     - {after: a0, before: ^.*0_x.*$}
-     - {after: a1, before: ^.*1_x.*$}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-
-* The results of the below examples 4-5 are the same:
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          - vars:
-              @{{ data | indent(8) }}@
-
-              # I picked one of the examples
-              mp: regex
-              target:
-                - {after: X, before: ^.*_x.*$}
-              result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-            ansible.builtin.debug:
-              var: result
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - X: foo
-     - X: bar
-
-
-4. If more keys match the same attribute before the last one will be used.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-3
-
-   mp: regex
-   target:
-     - {after: X, before: ^.*_x.*$}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-5. If there are items with equal attribute before the first one will be used.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-3
-
-   mp: regex
-   target:
-     - {after: X, before: ^.*_x.*$}
-     - {after: Y, before: ^.*_x.*$}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-
-6. If there are more matches for a key the first one will be used.
-
-.. ansible-output-meta::
-
-  actions:
-    - name: reset-previous-blocks
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   input:
-     - {aaa1: A, bbb1: B, ccc1: C}
-     - {aaa2: D, bbb2: E, ccc2: F}
-
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-4
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target:
-     - {after: X, before: a}
-     - {after: Y, before: aa}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-gives
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - X: A
-       bbb1: B
-       ccc1: C
-     - X: D
-       bbb2: E
-       ccc2: F
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries.rst
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.filter_guide.filter_guide_abstract_informations.lists_of_dicts:
-
-Lists of dictionaries
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Filters to manage keys in a list of dictionaries:
-
-.. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 1
-
-   filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-keep_keys
-   filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-remove_keys
-   filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-replace_keys
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

 .. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.filter_guide:

 community.general Filter Guide
 ==============================

-The :anscollection:`community.general collection <community.general#collection>` offers several useful filter plugins.
+The :ref:`community.general collection <plugins_in_community.general>` offers several useful filter plugins.

 .. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 Abstract transformations
 ------------------------

@@ -11,7 +6,5 @@ Abstract transformations

   filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries
   filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping
-   filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries
   filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations_lists_helper
   filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 Counting elements in a sequence
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-The :ansplugin:`community.general.counter filter plugin <community.general.counter#filter>` allows you to count (hashable) elements in a sequence. Elements are returned as dictionary keys and their counts are stored as dictionary values.
+The ``community.general.counter`` filter plugin allows you to count (hashable) elements in a sequence. Elements are returned as dictionary keys and their counts are stored as dictionary values.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -20,17 +15,6 @@ The :ansplugin:`community.general.counter filter plugin <community.general.count

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    variables:
-      task:
-        previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          @{{ task | indent(4) }}@
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

    TASK [Count character occurrences in a string] ********************************************
@@ -83,20 +67,9 @@ This plugin is useful for selecting resources based on current allocation:

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    variables:
-      task:
-        previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          @{{ task | indent(4) }}@
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

-    TASK [Get ID of SCSI controller(s) with less than 4 disks attached and choose the one with the least disks] ***
+    TASK [Get ID of SCSI controller(s) with less than 4 disks attached and choose the one with the least disks]
    ok: [localhost] => {
        "msg": "scsi_2"
    }
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 Dictionaries
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^

-You can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.dict_kv filter <community.general.dict_kv#filter>` to create a single-entry dictionary with ``value | community.general.dict_kv(key)``:
+You can use the ``dict_kv`` filter to create a single-entry dictionary with ``value | community.general.dict_kv(key)``:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -26,32 +21,21 @@ You can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.dict_kv filter <community.general.
          type: host
          database: all
        myservers:
-          - server1
-          - server2
+        - server1
+        - server2

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    variables:
-      task:
-        previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          @{{ task | indent(4) }}@
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

-    TASK [Create a single-entry dictionary] ***************************************************
+    TASK [Create a single-entry dictionary]  **************************************************
    ok: [localhost] => {
        "msg": {
            "thatsmyvar": "myvalue"
        }
    }

-    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list] ********
+    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list]  *******
    ok: [localhost] => {
        "msg": [
            {
@@ -69,7 +53,7 @@ This produces:

 .. versionadded:: 2.0.0

-If you need to convert a list of key-value pairs to a dictionary, you can use the ``dict`` function. Unfortunately, this function cannot be used with ``map``. For this, the :ansplugin:`community.general.dict filter <community.general.dict#filter>` can be used:
+If you need to convert a list of key-value pairs to a dictionary, you can use the ``dict`` function. Unfortunately, this function cannot be used with ``map``. For this, the ``community.general.dict`` filter can be used:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -98,20 +82,9 @@ If you need to convert a list of key-value pairs to a dictionary, you can use th

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    variables:
-      task:
-        previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          @{{ task | indent(4) }}@
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

-    TASK [Create a dictionary with the dict function] *****************************************
+    TASK [Create a dictionary with the dict function]  ****************************************
    ok: [localhost] => {
        "msg": {
            "1": 2,
@@ -119,7 +92,7 @@ This produces:
        }
    }

-    TASK [Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter] *************************
+    TASK [Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter]  ************************
    ok: [localhost] => {
        "msg": {
            "1": 2,
@@ -127,7 +100,7 @@ This produces:
        }
    }

-    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter] *******
+    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter]  ******
    ok: [localhost] => {
        "msg": [
            {
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 Grouping
 ^^^^^^^^

-If you have a list of dictionaries, the Jinja2 ``groupby`` filter allows to group the list by an attribute. This results in a list of ``(grouper, list)`` namedtuples, where ``list`` contains all dictionaries where the selected attribute equals ``grouper``. If you know that for every ``grouper``, there will be a most one entry in that list, you can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.groupby_as_dict filter <community.general.groupby_as_dict#filter>` to convert the original list into a dictionary which maps ``grouper`` to the corresponding dictionary.
+If you have a list of dictionaries, the Jinja2 ``groupby`` filter allows to group the list by an attribute. This results in a list of ``(grouper, list)`` namedtuples, where ``list`` contains all dictionaries where the selected attribute equals ``grouper``. If you know that for every ``grouper``, there will be a most one entry in that list, you can use the ``community.general.groupby_as_dict`` filter to convert the original list into a dictionary which maps ``grouper`` to the corresponding dictionary.

 One example is ``ansible_facts.mounts``, which is a list of dictionaries where each has one ``device`` element to indicate the device which is mounted. Therefore, ``ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')`` is a dictionary mapping a device to the mount information:

@@ -22,49 +17,6 @@ One example is ``ansible_facts.mounts``, which is a list of dictionaries where e

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    variables:
-      task:
-        previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-    skip_first_lines: 3  # the set_fact task
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          - ansible.builtin.set_fact:
-              ansible_facts:
-                mounts:
-                  - block_available: 2000
-                    block_size: 4096
-                    block_total: 2345
-                    block_used: 345
-                    device: "/dev/sda1"
-                    fstype: "ext4"
-                    inode_available: 500
-                    inode_total: 512
-                    inode_used: 12
-                    mount: "/boot"
-                    options: "rw,relatime,data=ordered"
-                    size_available: 56821
-                    size_total: 543210
-                    uuid: "ab31cade-d9c1-484d-8482-8a4cbee5241a"
-                  - block_available: 1234
-                    block_size: 4096
-                    block_total: 12345
-                    block_used: 11111
-                    device: "/dev/sda2"
-                    fstype: "ext4"
-                    inode_available: 1111
-                    inode_total: 1234
-                    inode_used: 123
-                    mount: "/"
-                    options: "rw,relatime"
-                    size_available: 42143
-                    size_total: 543210
-                    uuid: "abcdef01-2345-6789-0abc-def012345678"
-          @{{ task | indent(4) }}@
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

    TASK [Output mount facts grouped by device name] ******************************************
@@ -122,7 +74,7 @@ This produces:
                "options": "rw,relatime",
                "size_available": 42143,
                "size_total": 543210,
-                "uuid": "abcdef01-2345-6789-0abc-def012345678"
+                "uuid": "bdf50b7d-4859-40af-8665-c637ee7a7808"
            },
            "/boot": {
                "block_available": 2000,
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_lists_helper.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_lists_helper.rst
@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Union, intersection and difference of lists
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Starting with Ansible Core 2.16, the builtin filters :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.union#filter`, :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.intersect#filter`, :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.difference#filter` and :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.symmetric_difference#filter` began to behave differently and do no longer preserve the item order. Items in the resulting lists are returned in arbitrary order and the order can vary between subsequent runs.
-
-The Ansible community.general collection provides the following additional list filters:
-
- :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_union#filter`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_intersect#filter`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_difference#filter`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_symmetric_difference#filter`
-
-These filters preserve the item order, eliminate duplicates and are an extended version of the builtin ones, because they can operate on more than two lists.
-
-.. note:: Stick to the builtin filters, when item order is not important or when you do not need the n-ary operating mode. The builtin filters are faster, because they rely mostly on sets as their underlying datastructure.
-
-Let us use the lists below in the following examples:
-
-.. ansible-output-meta::
-
-  actions:
-    - name: reset-previous-blocks
-    - name: set-template
-      template:
-        env:
-          ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_RESULT_FORMAT: yaml
-        variables:
-          data:
-            previous_code_block: yaml
-            previous_code_block_index: 0
-          computation:
-            previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-        postprocessors:
-          - name: reformat-yaml
-        language: yaml
-        skip_first_lines: 2
-        playbook: |-
-          - hosts: localhost
-            gather_facts: false
-            tasks:
-              - vars:
-                  @{{ data | indent(8) }}@
-                  @{{ computation | indent(8) }}@
-                ansible.builtin.debug:
-                  var: result
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  A: [9, 5, 7, 1, 9, 4, 10, 5, 9, 7]
-  B: [4, 1, 2, 8, 3, 1, 7]
-  C: [10, 2, 1, 9, 1]
-
-The union of ``A`` and ``B`` can be written as:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  result: "{{ A | community.general.lists_union(B) }}"
-
-This statement produces:
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  result:
-    - 9
-    - 5
-    - 7
-    - 1
-    - 4
-    - 10
-    - 2
-    - 8
-    - 3
-
-If you want to calculate the intersection of ``A``, ``B`` and ``C``, you can use the following statement:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  result: "{{ A | community.general.lists_intersect(B, C) }}"
-
-Alternatively, you can use a list of lists as an input of the filter
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  result: "{{ [A, B] | community.general.lists_intersect(C) }}"
-
-or
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  result: "{{ [A, B, C] | community.general.lists_intersect(flatten=true) }}"
-
-All three statements are equivalent and give:
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  result:
-    - 1
-
-.. note:: Be aware that in most cases, filter calls without any argument require ``flatten=true``, otherwise the input is returned as result. The reason for this is, that the input is considered as a variable argument and is wrapped by an additional outer list. ``flatten=true`` ensures that this list is removed before the input is processed by the filter logic.
-
-The filters :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_difference#filter` or :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_symmetric_difference#filter` can be used in the same way as the filters in the examples above. They calculate the difference or the symmetric difference between two or more lists and preserve the item order.
-
-For example, the symmetric difference of ``A``, ``B`` and ``C`` may be written as:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  result: "{{ A | community.general.lists_symmetric_difference(B, C) }}"
-
-This gives:
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  result:
-    - 5
-    - 8
-    - 3
-    - 1
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
@@ -1,161 +1,88 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 Merging lists of dictionaries
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-If you have two or more lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where the dictionaries are merged by an attribute, you can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_mergeby <community.general.lists_mergeby#filter>` filter.
+If you have two or more lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where the dictionaries are merged by an attribute, you can use the ``lists_mergeby`` filter.

-.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See the documentation for the :ansplugin:`community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
+.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See :ref:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <ansible_collections.community.general.yaml_callback>`.

 Let us use the lists below in the following examples:

-.. ansible-output-meta::
-
-  actions:
-    - name: reset-previous-blocks
-    - name: set-template
-      template:
-        env:
-          ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_RESULT_FORMAT: yaml
-        variables:
-          data:
-            previous_code_block: yaml
-            previous_code_block_index: 0
-          computation:
-            previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-        postprocessors:
-          - name: reformat-yaml
-        language: yaml
-        skip_first_lines: 2
-        playbook: |-
-          - hosts: localhost
-            gather_facts: false
-            tasks:
-              - vars:
-                  @{{ data | indent(8) }}@
-                  @{{ computation | indent(8) }}@
-                ansible.builtin.debug:
-                  var: list3
-
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list1:
-    - {name: foo, extra: true}
-    - {name: bar, extra: false}
-    - {name: meh, extra: true}
+    - name: foo
+      extra: true
+    - name: bar
+      extra: false
+    - name: meh
+      extra: true

  list2:
-    - {name: foo, path: /foo}
-    - {name: baz, path: /baz}
+    - name: foo
+      path: /foo
+    - name: baz
+      path: /baz

-Two lists
-"""""""""
 In the example below the lists are merged by the attribute ``name``:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ list1 |
+  list3: "{{ list1|
             community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name') }}"

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - extra: false
-      name: bar
-    - name: baz
-      path: /baz
-    - extra: true
-      name: foo
-      path: /foo
-    - extra: true
-      name: meh
+  - extra: false
+    name: bar
+  - name: baz
+    path: /baz
+  - extra: true
+    name: foo
+    path: /foo
+  - extra: true
+    name: meh


 .. versionadded:: 2.0.0

-List of two lists
-"""""""""""""""""
 It is possible to use a list of lists as an input of the filter:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"

 This produces the same result as in the previous example:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - extra: false
-      name: bar
-    - name: baz
-      path: /baz
-    - extra: true
-      name: foo
-      path: /foo
-    - extra: true
-      name: meh
-
-Single list
-"""""""""""
-It is possible to merge single list:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1 + list2, []] |
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"
-
-This produces the same result as in the previous example:
-
-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-    - extra: false
-      name: bar
-    - name: baz
-      path: /baz
-    - extra: true
-      name: foo
-      path: /foo
-    - extra: true
-      name: meh
+  - extra: false
+    name: bar
+  - name: baz
+    path: /baz
+  - extra: true
+    name: foo
+    path: /foo
+  - extra: true
+    name: meh


-The filter also accepts two optional parameters: :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:recursive` and :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge`. This is available since community.general 4.4.0.
+The filter also accepts two optional parameters: ``recursive`` and ``list_merge``. These parameters are only supported when used with ansible-base 2.10 or ansible-core, but not with Ansible 2.9. This is available since community.general 4.4.0.

 **recursive**
-    Is a boolean, default to ``false``. Should the :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter` filter recursively merge nested hashes. Note: It does not depend on the value of the ``hash_behaviour`` setting in ``ansible.cfg``.
+    Is a boolean, default to ``False``. Should the ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` recursively merge nested hashes. Note: It does not depend on the value of the ``hash_behaviour`` setting in ``ansible.cfg``.

 **list_merge**
-    Is a string, its possible values are :ansval:`replace` (default), :ansval:`keep`, :ansval:`append`, :ansval:`prepend`, :ansval:`append_rp` or :ansval:`prepend_rp`. It modifies the behaviour of :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter` when the hashes to merge contain arrays/lists.
+    Is a string, its possible values are ``replace`` (default), ``keep``, ``append``, ``prepend``, ``append_rp`` or ``prepend_rp``. It modifies the behaviour of ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` when the hashes to merge contain arrays/lists.

-The examples below set :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:recursive=true` and display the differences among all six options of :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge`. Functionality of the parameters is exactly the same as in the filter :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.combine#filter`. See :ref:`Combining hashes/dictionaries <combine_filter>` to learn details about these options.
+The examples below set ``recursive=true`` and display the differences among all six options of ``list_merge``. Functionality of the parameters is exactly the same as in the filter ``combine``. See :ref:`Combining hashes/dictionaries <combine_filter>` to learn details about these options.

 Let us use the lists below in the following examples

-.. ansible-output-meta::
-
-  actions:
-    - name: reset-previous-blocks
-
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list1:
@@ -163,7 +90,8 @@ Let us use the lists below in the following examples
      param01:
        x: default_value
        y: default_value
-        list: [default_value]
+        list:
+          - default_value
    - name: myname02
      param01: [1, 1, 2, 3]

@@ -172,222 +100,193 @@ Let us use the lists below in the following examples
      param01:
        y: patch_value
        z: patch_value
-        list: [patch_value]
+        list:
+          - patch_value
    - name: myname02
-      param01: [3, 4, 4]
+      param01: [3, 4, 4, {key: value}]

-list_merge=replace (default)
-""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
-Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=replace` (default):
+Example ``list_merge=replace`` (default):

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true) }}"

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        list:
-          - patch_value
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01:
-        - 3
-        - 4
-        - 4
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - patch_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 3
+    - 4
+    - 4
+    - key: value

-list_merge=keep
-"""""""""""""""
-Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=keep`:
+Example ``list_merge=keep``:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true,
                                             list_merge='keep') }}"

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        list:
-          - default_value
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01:
-        - 1
-        - 1
-        - 2
-        - 3
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - default_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2
+    - 3

-list_merge=append
-"""""""""""""""""
-Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=append`:
+Example ``list_merge=append``:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true,
                                             list_merge='append') }}"

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        list:
-          - default_value
-          - patch_value
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01:
-        - 1
-        - 1
-        - 2
-        - 3
-        - 3
-        - 4
-        - 4
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - default_value
+      - patch_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2
+    - 3
+    - 3
+    - 4
+    - 4
+    - key: value

-list_merge=prepend
-""""""""""""""""""
-Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=prepend`:
+Example ``list_merge=prepend``:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true,
                                             list_merge='prepend') }}"

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        list:
-          - patch_value
-          - default_value
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01:
-        - 3
-        - 4
-        - 4
-        - 1
-        - 1
-        - 2
-        - 3
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - patch_value
+      - default_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 3
+    - 4
+    - 4
+    - key: value
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2
+    - 3

-list_merge=append_rp
-""""""""""""""""""""
-Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=append_rp`:
+Example ``list_merge=append_rp``:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true,
                                             list_merge='append_rp') }}"

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        list:
-          - default_value
-          - patch_value
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01:
-        - 1
-        - 1
-        - 2
-        - 3
-        - 4
-        - 4
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - default_value
+      - patch_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2
+    - 3
+    - 4
+    - 4
+    - key: value

-list_merge=prepend_rp
-"""""""""""""""""""""
-Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=prepend_rp`:
+Example ``list_merge=prepend_rp``:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true,
                                             list_merge='prepend_rp') }}"

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: ~
-
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        list:
-          - patch_value
-          - default_value
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01:
-        - 3
-        - 4
-        - 4
-        - 1
-        - 1
-        - 2
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - patch_value
+      - default_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 3
+    - 4
+    - 4
+    - key: value
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2
+
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst
@@ -1,15 +1,10 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 Conversions
 -----------

 Parsing CSV files
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-Ansible offers the :ansplugin:`community.general.read_csv module <community.general.read_csv#module>` to read CSV files. Sometimes you need to convert strings to CSV files instead. For this, the :ansplugin:`community.general.from_csv filter <community.general.from_csv#filter>` exists.
+Ansible offers the :ref:`community.general.read_csv module <ansible_collections.community.general.read_csv_module>` to read CSV files. Sometimes you need to convert strings to CSV files instead. For this, the ``from_csv`` filter exists.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -24,17 +19,6 @@ Ansible offers the :ansplugin:`community.general.read_csv module <community.gene

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    variables:
-      task:
-        previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          @{{ task | indent(4) }}@
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

    TASK [Parse CSV from string] **************************************************************
@@ -53,7 +37,7 @@ This produces:
        ]
    }

-The :ansplugin:`community.general.from_csv filter <community.general.from_csv#filter>` has several keyword arguments to control its behavior:
+The ``from_csv`` filter has several keyword arguments to control its behavior:

 :dialect: Dialect of the CSV file. Default is ``excel``. Other possible choices are ``excel-tab`` and ``unix``. If one of ``delimiter``, ``skipinitialspace`` or ``strict`` is specified, ``dialect`` is ignored.
 :fieldnames: A set of column names to use. If not provided, the first line of the CSV is assumed to contain the column names.
@@ -66,7 +50,7 @@ The :ansplugin:`community.general.from_csv filter <community.general.from_csv#fi
 Converting to JSON
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-`JC <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ is a CLI tool and Python library which allows to interpret output of various CLI programs as JSON. It is also available as a filter in community.general, called :ansplugin:`community.general.jc#filter`. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.
+`JC <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ is a CLI tool and Python library which allows to interpret output of various CLI programs as JSON. It is also available as a filter in community.general. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -80,34 +64,6 @@ Converting to JSON

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    skip_first_lines: 3
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          - ansible.builtin.set_fact:
-              result_stdout: |-
-                bin
-                boot
-                dev
-                etc
-                home
-                lib
-                proc
-                root
-                run
-                tmp
-
-          - name: Run 'ls' to list files in /
-            command: ls /
-            register: result
-
-          - name: Parse the ls output
-            debug:
-              msg: "{{ result_stdout | community.general.jc('ls') }}"
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

    TASK [Run 'ls' to list files in /] ********************************************************
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 Creating identifiers
 --------------------

@@ -11,7 +6,7 @@ The following filters allow to create identifiers.
 Hashids
 ^^^^^^^

-`Hashids <https://hashids.org/>`_ allow to convert sequences of integers to short unique string identifiers. The :ansplugin:`community.general.hashids_encode#filter` and :ansplugin:`community.general.hashids_decode#filter` filters need the `hashids Python library <https://pypi.org/project/hashids/>`_ installed on the controller.
+`Hashids <https://hashids.org/>`_ allow to convert sequences of integers to short unique string identifiers. This filter needs the `hashids Python library <https://pypi.org/project/hashids/>`_ installed on the controller.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -25,17 +20,6 @@ Hashids

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    variables:
-      task:
-        previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          @{{ task | indent(4) }}@
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

    TASK [Create hashid] **********************************************************************
@@ -63,7 +47,7 @@ The hashids filters accept keyword arguments to allow fine-tuning the hashids ge
 Random MACs
 ^^^^^^^^^^^

-You can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.random_mac filter <community.general.random_mac#filter>` to complete a partial `MAC address <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>`_ to a random 6-byte MAC address.
+You can use the ``random_mac`` filter to complete a partial `MAC address <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>`_ to a random 6-byte MAC address.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -77,32 +61,16 @@ You can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.random_mac filter <community.gener

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          - name: "Create a random MAC starting with ff:"
-            debug:
-              # We're using a seed here to avoid randomness in the output
-              msg: "{{ 'FF' | community.general.random_mac(seed='') }}"
-
-          - name: "Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:"
-            debug:
-              # We're using a seed here to avoid randomness in the output
-              msg: "{{ '00:11:22' | community.general.random_mac(seed='') }}"
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with ff:] **********************************************
    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "ff:84:f5:d1:59:20"
+        "msg": "ff:69:d3:78:7f:b4"
    }

    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:] ****************************************
    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "00:11:22:84:f5:d1"
+        "msg": "00:11:22:71:5d:3b"
    }

 You can also initialize the random number generator from a seed to create random-but-idempotent MAC addresses:
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 Paths
 -----

-The :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.path_join filter <ansible.builtin.path_join#filter>` has been added in ansible-base 2.10. Community.general 3.0.0 and newer contains an alias ``community.general.path_join`` for this filter that could be used on Ansible 2.9 as well. Since community.general no longer supports Ansible 2.9, this is now a simple redirect to :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.path_join filter <ansible.builtin.path_join#filter>`.
+The ``path_join`` filter has been added in ansible-base 2.10. If you want to use this filter, but also need to support Ansible 2.9, you can use ``community.general``'s ``path_join`` shim, ``community.general.path_join``. This filter redirects to ``path_join`` for ansible-base 2.10 and ansible-core 2.11 or newer, and re-implements the filter for Ansible 2.9.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    # ansible-base 2.10 or newer:
+    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | path_join }}
+
+    # Also works with Ansible 2.9:
+    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | community.general.path_join }}
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.0.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 .. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.json_query_filter:

 Selecting JSON data: JSON queries
 ---------------------------------

-To select a single element or a data subset from a complex data structure in JSON format (for example, Ansible facts), use the :ansplugin:`community.general.json_query filter <community.general.json_query#filter>`.  The :ansplugin:`community.general.json_query#filter` filter lets you query a complex JSON structure and iterate over it using a loop structure.
+To select a single element or a data subset from a complex data structure in JSON format (for example, Ansible facts), use the ``json_query`` filter.  The ``json_query`` filter lets you query a complex JSON structure and iterate over it using a loop structure.

 .. note:: You must manually install the **jmespath** dependency on the Ansible controller before using this filter. This filter is built upon **jmespath**, and you can use the same syntax. For examples, see `jmespath examples <http://jmespath.org/examples.html>`_.

@@ -17,50 +12,50 @@ Consider this data structure:
 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

    {
-      "domain_definition": {
-        "domain": {
-          "cluster": [
-            {
-              "name": "cluster1"
-            },
-            {
-              "name": "cluster2"
+        "domain_definition": {
+            "domain": {
+                "cluster": [
+                    {
+                        "name": "cluster1"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "cluster2"
+                    }
+                ],
+                "server": [
+                    {
+                        "name": "server11",
+                        "cluster": "cluster1",
+                        "port": "8080"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "server12",
+                        "cluster": "cluster1",
+                        "port": "8090"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "server21",
+                        "cluster": "cluster2",
+                        "port": "9080"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "server22",
+                        "cluster": "cluster2",
+                        "port": "9090"
+                    }
+                ],
+                "library": [
+                    {
+                        "name": "lib1",
+                        "target": "cluster1"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "lib2",
+                        "target": "cluster2"
+                    }
+                ]
            }
-          ],
-          "server": [
-            {
-              "name": "server11",
-              "cluster": "cluster1",
-              "port": "8080"
-            },
-            {
-              "name": "server12",
-              "cluster": "cluster1",
-              "port": "8090"
-            },
-            {
-              "name": "server21",
-              "cluster": "cluster2",
-              "port": "9080"
-            },
-            {
-              "name": "server22",
-              "cluster": "cluster2",
-              "port": "9090"
-            }
-          ],
-          "library": [
-            {
-              "name": "lib1",
-              "target": "cluster1"
-            },
-            {
-              "name": "lib2",
-              "target": "cluster2"
-            }
-          ]
        }
-      }
    }

 To extract all clusters from this structure, you can use the following query:
@@ -124,7 +119,7 @@ To get a hash map with all ports and names of a cluster:
        var: item
      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
      vars:
-        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster1'].{name: name, port: port}"
+        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster2'].{name: name, port: port}"

 To extract ports from all clusters with name starting with 'server1':

@@ -146,4 +141,4 @@ To extract ports from all clusters with name containing 'server1':
      vars:
        server_name_query: "domain.server[?contains(name,'server1')].port"

-.. note:: while using ``starts_with`` and ``contains``, you have to use ``to_json | from_json`` filter for correct parsing of data structure.
+.. note:: while using ``starts_with`` and ``contains``, you have to use `` to_json | from_json `` filter for correct parsing of data structure.
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 Working with times
 ------------------

-The :ansplugin:`community.general.to_time_unit filter <community.general.to_time_unit#filter>` allows to convert times from a human-readable string to a unit. For example, ``'4h 30min 12second' | community.general.to_time_unit('hour')`` gives the number of hours that correspond to 4 hours, 30 minutes and 12 seconds.
+The ``to_time_unit`` filter allows to convert times from a human-readable string to a unit. For example, ``'4h 30min 12second' | community.general.to_time_unit('hour')`` gives the number of hours that correspond to 4 hours, 30 minutes and 12 seconds.

-There are shorthands to directly convert to various units, like :ansplugin:`community.general.to_hours#filter`, :ansplugin:`community.general.to_minutes#filter`, :ansplugin:`community.general.to_seconds#filter`, and so on. The following table lists all units that can be used:
+There are shorthands to directly convert to various units, like ``to_hours``, ``to_minutes``, ``to_seconds``, and so on. The following table lists all units that can be used:

 .. list-table:: Units
   :widths: 25 25 25 25
@@ -21,37 +16,37 @@ There are shorthands to directly convert to various units, like :ansplugin:`comm
   * - Millisecond
     - 1/1000 second
     - ``ms``, ``millisecond``, ``milliseconds``, ``msec``, ``msecs``, ``msecond``, ``mseconds``
-     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_milliseconds#filter`
+     - ``to_milliseconds``
   * - Second
     - 1 second
     - ``s``, ``sec``, ``secs``, ``second``, ``seconds``
-     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_seconds#filter`
+     - ``to_seconds``
   * - Minute
     - 60 seconds
     - ``m``, ``min``, ``mins``, ``minute``, ``minutes``
-     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_minutes#filter`
+     - ``to_minutes``
   * - Hour
     - 60*60 seconds
     - ``h``, ``hour``, ``hours``
-     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_hours#filter`
+     - ``to_hours``
   * - Day
     - 24*60*60 seconds
     - ``d``, ``day``, ``days``
-     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_days#filter`
+     - ``to_days``
   * - Week
     - 7*24*60*60 seconds
     - ``w``, ``week``, ``weeks``
-     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_weeks#filter`
+     - ``to_weeks``
   * - Month
     - 30*24*60*60 seconds
     - ``mo``, ``month``, ``months``
-     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_months#filter`
+     - ``to_months``
   * - Year
     - 365*24*60*60 seconds
     - ``y``, ``year``, ``years``
-     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_years#filter`
+     - ``to_years``

-Note that months and years are using a simplified representation: a month is 30 days, and a year is 365 days. If you need different definitions of months or years, you can pass them as keyword arguments. For example, if you want a year to be 365.25 days, and a month to be 30.5 days, you can write ``'11months 4' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25, month=30.5)``. These keyword arguments can be specified to :ansplugin:`community.general.to_time_unit#filter` and to all shorthand filters.
+Note that months and years are using a simplified representation: a month is 30 days, and a year is 365 days. If you need different definitions of months or years, you can pass them as keyword arguments. For example, if you want a year to be 365.25 days, and a month to be 30.5 days, you can write ``'11months 4' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25, month=30.5)``. These keyword arguments can be specified to ``to_time_unit`` and to all shorthand filters.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -69,32 +64,21 @@ Note that months and years are using a simplified representation: a month is 30

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    variables:
-      task:
-        previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          @{{ task | indent(4) }}@
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

    TASK [Convert string to seconds] **********************************************************
    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": 109210.123
+        "msg": "109210.123"
    }

    TASK [Convert string to hours] ************************************************************
    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": 30.336145277778
+        "msg": "30.336145277778"
    }

    TASK [Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)] ******************************
    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": 1.096851471595
+        "msg": "1.096851471595"
    }

 .. versionadded: 0.2.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 Working with Unicode
 ---------------------

-`Unicode <https://unicode.org/main.html>`_ makes it possible to produce two strings which may be visually equivalent, but are comprised of distinctly different characters/character sequences. To address this Unicode defines `normalization forms <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ which avoid these distinctions by choosing a unique character sequence for a given visual representation.
+`Unicode <https://unicode.org/main.html>`_ makes it possible to produce two strings which may be visually equivalent, but are comprised of distinctly different characters/character sequences. To address this ``Unicode`` defines `normalization forms <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ which avoid these distinctions by choosing a unique character sequence for a given visual representation.

-You can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.unicode_normalize filter <community.general.unicode_normalize#filter>` to normalize Unicode strings within your playbooks.
+You can use the ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter to normalize ``Unicode`` strings within your playbooks.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -21,25 +16,14 @@ You can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.unicode_normalize filter <communit

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    variables:
-      task:
-        previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          @{{ task | indent(4) }}@
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

-    TASK [Compare Unicode representations] ****************************************************
+    TASK [Compare Unicode representations] ********************************************************
    ok: [localhost] => {
        "msg": true
    }

-The :ansplugin:`community.general.unicode_normalize filter <community.general.unicode_normalize#filter>` accepts a keyword argument :ansopt:`community.general.unicode_normalize#filter:form` to select the Unicode form used to normalize the input string.
+The ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter accepts a keyword argument to select the ``Unicode`` form used to normalize the input string.

 :form: One of ``'NFC'`` (default), ``'NFD'``, ``'NFKC'``, or ``'NFKD'``. See the `Unicode reference <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ for more information.

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 Working with versions
 ---------------------

-If you need to sort a list of version numbers, the Jinja ``sort`` filter is problematic. Since it sorts lexicographically, ``2.10`` will come before ``2.9``. To treat version numbers correctly, you can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.version_sort filter <community.general.version_sort#filter>`:
+If you need to sort a list of version numbers, the Jinja ``sort`` filter is problematic. Since it sorts lexicographically, ``2.10`` will come before ``2.9``. To treat version numbers correctly, you can use the ``version_sort`` filter:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -23,17 +18,6 @@ If you need to sort a list of version numbers, the Jinja ``sort`` filter is prob

 This produces:

-.. ansible-output-data::
-
-    variables:
-      task:
-        previous_code_block: yaml+jinja
-    playbook: |-
-      - hosts: localhost
-        gather_facts: false
-        tasks:
-          @{{ task | indent(4) }}@
-
 .. code-block:: ansible-output

    TASK [Sort list by version number] ********************************************************
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More