Release 4.0.1.

* Replace Fedora 33 with Fedora 35 for devel tests.

* Skip Fedora 35 for reiserfs tests.

(cherry picked from commit fc99893f10)

Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -297,10 +297,10 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - name: CentOS 7
               test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 33
-              test: fedora33
             - name: Fedora 34
               test: fedora34
+            - name: Fedora 35
+              test: fedora35
             - name: openSUSE 15 py2
               test: opensuse15py2
             - name: openSUSE 15 py3

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -6,6 +6,20 @@ Community General Release Notes
 
 This changelog describes changes after version 3.0.0.
 
+v4.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release for today's Ansible 5.0.0 beta 1.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- a_module test plugin - fix crash when testing a module name that was tombstoned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3660).
+- 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).
+
 v4.0.0
 ======
 

changelogs/changelog.yaml

@@ -1027,3 +1027,16 @@ releases:
         name: a_module
         namespace: null
     release_date: '2021-11-02'
+  4.0.1:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - a_module test plugin - fix crash when testing a module name that was tombstoned
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3660).
+      - 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).
+      release_summary: Bugfix release for today's Ansible 5.0.0 beta 1.
+    fragments:
+    - 3660-a_module-tombstone.yml
+    - 3675-xattr-handle-base64-values.yml
+    - 4.0.1.yml
+    release_date: '2021-11-09'

galaxy.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 namespace: community
 name: general
-version: 4.0.0
+version: 4.0.1
 readme: README.md
 authors:
   - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)

plugins/modules/files/xattr.py

@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ def _run_xattr(module, cmd, check_rc=True):
         if line.startswith('#') or line == '':
             pass
         elif '=' in line:
-            (key, val) = line.split('=')
+            (key, val) = line.split('=', 1)
             result[key] = val.strip('"')
         else:
             result[line] = ''

plugins/test/a_module.py

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 from ansible.plugins.loader import action_loader, module_loader
 
+try:
+    from ansible.errors import AnsiblePluginRemovedError
+except ImportError:
+    AnsiblePluginRemovedError = Exception
+
 
 def a_module(term):
     """
@@ -14,14 +19,17 @@ def a_module(term):
       - 'community.general.ufw' is community.general.a_module
       - 'community.general.does_not_exist' is not community.general.a_module
     """
-    for loader in (action_loader, module_loader):
+    try:
-        data = loader.find_plugin(term)
+        for loader in (action_loader, module_loader):
-        # Ansible 2.9 returns a tuple
+            data = loader.find_plugin(term)
-        if isinstance(data, tuple):
+            # Ansible 2.9 returns a tuple
-            data = data[0]
+            if isinstance(data, tuple):
-        if data is not None:
+                data = data[0]
-            return True
+            if data is not None:
-    return False
+                return True
+        return False
+    except AnsiblePluginRemovedError:
+        return False
 
 
 class TestModule(object):

tests/integration/targets/filesystem/tasks/main.yml

@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
     - 'not (ansible_distribution in ["CentOS", "RedHat"] and item.0.key in ["f2fs", "reiserfs"])'
     - 'not (ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_distribution_major_version is version("8", ">=") and
             item.0.key == "btrfs")'
+    # reiserfs-utils package not available with Fedora 35 on CI
+    - 'not (ansible_distribution == "Fedora" and (ansible_facts.distribution_major_version | int >= 35) and
+            item.0.key == "reiserfs")'
     # ocfs2 only available on Debian based distributions
     - 'not (item.0.key == "ocfs2" and ansible_os_family != "Debian")'
     # Tests use losetup which can not be used inside unprivileged container

tests/integration/targets/filesystem/tasks/setup.yml

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     name: reiserfs-utils
     state: present
   when:
-    - ansible_distribution == 'Fedora'
+    - ansible_distribution == 'Fedora' and (ansible_facts.distribution_major_version | int < 35)
 
 - name: "Install reiserfs (OpenSuse)"
   ansible.builtin.package:

tests/integration/targets/test_a_module/runme.yml

@@ -23,3 +23,15 @@
           # Local collection module (that exist or not)
           - "'testns.testcoll.collection_module' is community.general.a_module"
           - "'testns.testcoll.foobar' is not community.general.a_module"
+
+    - name: Test a_module in case of routing
+      assert:
+        that:
+          # Redirected module
+          - "'ufw' is community.general.a_module"
+          # Redirected module where target collection does not exist
+          # (the target collection must not have been installed in CI!)
+          - "'onyx_pfc_interface' is not community.general.a_module"
+          # Tombstoned module
+          - "'community.general.docker_image_facts' is not community.general.a_module"
+      when: ansible_version.string is version('2.10.0', '>=')