Release 4.8.9.

Drop stable-3 from weekly CI; migrate stable-4 from nightly to weekly.
(cherry picked from commit 90ac53d150)
2026-04-28 09:26:44 +00:00 · 2022-11-06 12:55:53 +01:00 · 2022-11-06 12:53:38 +01:00 · 2022-11-06 12:51:22 +01:00 · 2022-11-06 11:46:22 +01:00 · 2022-11-01 20:09:31 +01:00
635 changed files with 21050 additions and 5040 deletions
--- a/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -24,15 +24,13 @@ schedules:
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-3
-        - stable-4
+        - stable-5
  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-1
-        - stable-2
+        - stable-4

 variables:
  - name: checkoutPath
@@ -49,26 +47,39 @@ variables:
 resources:
  containers:
    - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:1.9.0
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:3.0.0

 pool: Standard

 stages:
 ### Sanity
-  - stage: Sanity_devel
-    displayName: Sanity devel
+  - stage: Sanity_2_14
+    displayName: Sanity 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: devel/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.14/sanity/{0}
          targets:
            - test: 1
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
            - test: extra
+  - stage: Sanity_2_13
+    displayName: Sanity 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
  - stage: Sanity_2_12
    displayName: Sanity 2.12
    dependsOn: []
@@ -122,14 +133,14 @@ stages:
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
 ### Units
-  - stage: Units_devel
-    displayName: Units devel
+  - stage: Units_2_14
+    displayName: Units 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: devel/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.14/units/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: 2.7
            - test: 3.5
@@ -138,6 +149,19 @@ stages:
            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
+  - stage: Units_2_13
+    displayName: Units 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.8
+            - test: 3.9
  - stage: Units_2_12
    displayName: Units 2.12
    dependsOn: []
@@ -148,12 +172,8 @@ stages:
          testFormat: 2.12/units/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: 2.6
-            - test: 2.7
            - test: 3.5
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: 3.7
            - test: 3.8
-            - test: '3.10'
  - stage: Units_2_11
    displayName: Units 2.11
    dependsOn: []
@@ -166,9 +186,6 @@ stages:
            - test: 2.6
            - test: 2.7
            - test: 3.5
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: 3.7
-            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
  - stage: Units_2_10
    displayName: Units 2.10
@@ -191,31 +208,43 @@ stages:
          testFormat: 2.9/units/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: 2.6
-            - test: 2.7
            - test: 3.5
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: 3.7
-            - test: 3.8

 ## Remote
-  - stage: Remote_devel
-    displayName: Remote devel
+  - stage: Remote_2_14
+    displayName: Remote 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.14/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: macOS 11.1
-              test: macos/11.1
+            - 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_13
+    displayName: Remote 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.13/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 12.0
+              test: macos/12.0
            - name: RHEL 8.5
              test: rhel/8.5
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
-              test: freebsd/12.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
-              test: freebsd/13.0
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -249,8 +278,8 @@ stages:
              test: rhel/7.9
            - name: RHEL 8.3
              test: rhel/8.3
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
-              test: freebsd/12.2
+            #- name: FreeBSD 12.2
+            #  test: freebsd/12.2
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -281,35 +310,51 @@ stages:
              test: rhel/8.2
            - name: RHEL 7.8
              test: rhel/7.8
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.0
-              test: freebsd/12.0
+            #- name: FreeBSD 12.0
+            #  test: freebsd/12.0
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2

 ### Docker
-  - stage: Docker_devel
-    displayName: Docker devel
+  - stage: Docker_2_14
+    displayName: Docker 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/linux/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.14/linux/{0}
          targets:
            - name: CentOS 7
              test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 34
-              test: fedora34
+            - name: Fedora 36
+              test: fedora36
+            - name: openSUSE 15
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu2204
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_13
+    displayName: Docker 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.13/linux/{0}
+          targets:
            - name: Fedora 35
              test: fedora35
            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
              test: opensuse15py2
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
-              test: opensuse15
-            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
-              test: ubuntu1804
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -324,14 +369,10 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - name: CentOS 6
              test: centos6
-            - name: CentOS 8
-              test: centos8
            - name: Fedora 34
              test: fedora34
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
-              test: opensuse15
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -344,12 +385,10 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: 2.11/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: CentOS 7
-              test: centos7
            - name: Fedora 33
              test: fedora33
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
-              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
          groups:
            - 2
            - 3
@@ -378,23 +417,51 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - name: Fedora 31
              test: fedora31
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
-              test: opensuse15
          groups:
            - 2
            - 3

+### Community Docker
+  - stage: Docker_community_2_14
+    displayName: Docker (community images) 2.14
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.14/linux-community/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Debian Bullseye
+              test: debian-bullseye/3.9
+            - name: ArchLinux
+              test: archlinux/3.10
+            - name: CentOS Stream 8
+              test: centos-stream8/3.8
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+
 ### Cloud
-  - stage: Cloud_devel
-    displayName: Cloud devel
+  - stage: Cloud_2_14
+    displayName: Cloud 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: devel/cloud/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.14/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
@@ -439,30 +506,36 @@ stages:
  - stage: Summary
    condition: succeededOrFailed()
    dependsOn:
-      - Sanity_devel
+      - Sanity_2_14
      - Sanity_2_9
      - Sanity_2_10
      - Sanity_2_11
      - Sanity_2_12
-      - Units_devel
+      - Sanity_2_13
+      - Units_2_14
      - Units_2_9
      - Units_2_10
      - Units_2_11
      - Units_2_12
-      - Remote_devel
+      - Units_2_13
+      - Remote_2_14
      - Remote_2_9
      - Remote_2_10
      - Remote_2_11
      - Remote_2_12
-      - Docker_devel
+      - Remote_2_13
+      - Docker_2_14
      - Docker_2_9
      - Docker_2_10
      - Docker_2_11
      - Docker_2_12
-      - Cloud_devel
+      - Docker_2_13
+      - Docker_community_2_14
+      - Cloud_2_14
      - Cloud_2_9
      - Cloud_2_10
      - 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
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ PATH="${PWD}/bin:${PATH}"

 mkdir "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/"

+if [[ "$(ansible --version)" =~ \ 2\.9\. ]]; then
+    exit
+fi
+
 options=(--venv --venv-system-site-packages --color -v)

 ansible-test coverage combine --group-by command --export "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/" "${options[@]}"
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ set -o pipefail -eu

 PATH="${PWD}/bin:${PATH}"

+if [[ "$(ansible --version)" =~ \ 2\.9\. ]]; then
+    exit
+fi
+
 if ! ansible-test --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    # Install the devel version of ansible-test for generating code coverage reports.
    # This is only used by Ansible Collections, which are typically tested against multiple Ansible versions (in separate jobs).
--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
@@ -118,21 +118,31 @@ files:
  $doc_fragments/xenserver.py:
    maintainers: bvitnik
    labels: xenserver
+  $filters/counter.py:
+    maintainers: keilr
  $filters/dict.py:
    maintainers: felixfontein
  $filters/dict_kv.py:
    maintainers: giner
  $filters/from_csv.py:
    maintainers: Ajpantuso
-  $filters/groupby:
+  $filters/groupby.py:
    maintainers: felixfontein
-  $filters/hashids:
+  $filters/groupby_as_dict.yml:
+    maintainers: felixfontein
+  $filters/hashids.py:
+    maintainers: Ajpantuso
+  $filters/hashids_decode.yml:
+    maintainers: Ajpantuso
+  $filters/hashids_encode.yml:
    maintainers: Ajpantuso
  $filters/jc.py:
    maintainers: kellyjonbrazil
  $filters/json_query.py: {}
  $filters/list.py:
    maintainers: vbotka
+  $filters/lists_mergeby.yml:
+    maintainers: vbotka
  $filters/path_join_shim.py:
    maintainers: felixfontein
  $filters/random_mac.py: {}
@@ -140,6 +150,24 @@ files:
    maintainers: resmo
  $filters/unicode_normalize.py:
    maintainers: Ajpantuso
+  $filters/to_days.yml:
+    maintainers: resmo
+  $filters/to_hours.yml:
+    maintainers: resmo
+  $filters/to_milliseconds.yml:
+    maintainers: resmo
+  $filters/to_minutes.yml:
+    maintainers: resmo
+  $filters/to_months.yml:
+    maintainers: resmo
+  $filters/to_seconds.yml:
+    maintainers: resmo
+  $filters/to_time_unit.yml:
+    maintainers: resmo
+  $filters/to_weeks.yml:
+    maintainers: resmo
+  $filters/to_years.yml:
+    maintainers: resmo
  $filters/version_sort.py:
    maintainers: ericzolf
  $inventories/:
@@ -164,9 +192,9 @@ files:
  $inventories/proxmox.py:
    maintainers: $team_virt ilijamt
  $inventories/xen_orchestra.py:
-    maintainers: shinuza
+    maintainers: ddelnano shinuza
  $inventories/icinga2.py:
-    maintainers: bongoeadgc6
+    maintainers: BongoEADGC6
  $inventories/scaleway.py:
    maintainers: $team_scaleway
    labels: cloud scaleway
@@ -192,7 +220,8 @@ files:
  $lookups/dnstxt.py:
    maintainers: jpmens
  $lookups/dsv.py:
-    maintainers: amigus endlesstrax
+    maintainers: delineaKrehl tylerezimmerman
+    ignore: amigus
  $lookups/etcd3.py:
    maintainers: eric-belhomme
  $lookups/etcd.py:
@@ -229,7 +258,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: RevBits
  $lookups/shelvefile.py: {}
  $lookups/tss.py:
-    maintainers: amigus endlesstrax
+    maintainers: delineaKrehl tylerezimmerman
+    ignore: amigus
  $module_utils/:
    labels: module_utils
  $module_utils/gitlab.py:
@@ -258,6 +288,8 @@ files:
  $module_utils/module_helper.py:
    maintainers: russoz
    labels: module_helper
+  $module_utils/net_tools/pritunl/:
+    maintainers: Lowess
  $module_utils/oracle/oci_utils.py:
    maintainers: $team_oracle
    labels: cloud
@@ -308,6 +340,8 @@ files:
    ignore: hnakamur
  $modules/cloud/lxd/lxd_profile.py:
    maintainers: conloos
+  $modules/cloud/lxd/lxd_project.py:
+    maintainers: we10710aa
  $modules/cloud/memset/:
    maintainers: glitchcrab
  $modules/cloud/misc/cloud_init_data_facts.py:
@@ -322,6 +356,10 @@ files:
  $modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_kvm.py:
    maintainers: helldorado
    ignore: skvidal
+  $modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_nic.py:
+    maintainers: Kogelvis
+  $modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_tasks_info:
+    maintainers: paginabianca
  $modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_template.py:
    maintainers: UnderGreen
    ignore: skvidal
@@ -412,6 +450,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: Spredzy
  $modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_organization_info.py:
    maintainers: Spredzy
+  $modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_private_network.py:
+    maintainers: pastral
  $modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_security_group.py:
    maintainers: DenBeke
  $modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_security_group_info.py:
@@ -534,6 +574,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: adamgoossens
  $modules/identity/keycloak/keycloak_identity_provider.py:
    maintainers: laurpaum
+  $modules/identity/keycloak/keycloak_realm_info.py:
+    maintainers: fynncfchen
  $modules/identity/keycloak/keycloak_realm.py:
    maintainers: kris2kris
  $modules/identity/keycloak/keycloak_role.py:
@@ -548,6 +590,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: phumpal
    labels: airbrake_deployment
    ignore: bpennypacker
+  $modules/monitoring/alerta_customer.py:
+    maintainers: cwollinger
  $modules/monitoring/bigpanda.py:
    maintainers: hkariti
  $modules/monitoring/circonus_annotation.py:
@@ -579,7 +623,7 @@ files:
  $modules/monitoring/nagios.py:
    maintainers: tbielawa tgoetheyn
  $modules/monitoring/newrelic_deployment.py:
-    maintainers: mcodd
+    ignore: mcodd
  $modules/monitoring/pagerduty.py:
    maintainers: suprememoocow thaumos
    labels: pagerduty
@@ -671,7 +715,7 @@ files:
  $modules/notification/discord.py:
    maintainers: cwollinger
  $modules/notification/flowdock.py:
-    maintainers: mcodd
+    ignore: mcodd
  $modules/notification/grove.py:
    maintainers: zimbatm
  $modules/notification/hipchat.py:
@@ -722,6 +766,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: mwarkentin
  $modules/packaging/language/bundler.py:
    maintainers: thoiberg
+  $modules/packaging/language/cargo.py:
+    maintainers: radek-sprta
  $modules/packaging/language/composer.py:
    maintainers: dmtrs
    ignore: resmo
@@ -809,7 +855,7 @@ files:
  $modules/packaging/os/opkg.py:
    maintainers: skinp
  $modules/packaging/os/pacman.py:
-    maintainers: elasticdog indrajitr tchernomax
+    maintainers: elasticdog indrajitr tchernomax jraby
    labels: pacman
    ignore: elasticdog
  $modules/packaging/os/pacman_key.py:
@@ -877,7 +923,7 @@ files:
  $modules/packaging/os/xbps.py:
    maintainers: dinoocch the-maldridge
  $modules/packaging/os/yum_versionlock.py:
-    maintainers: florianpaulhoberg aminvakil
+    maintainers: gyptazy aminvakil
  $modules/packaging/os/zypper.py:
    maintainers: $team_suse
    labels: zypper
@@ -903,6 +949,10 @@ files:
  $modules/remote_management/manageiq/:
    labels: manageiq
    maintainers: $team_manageiq
+  $modules/remote_management/manageiq/manageiq_alert_profiles.py:
+    maintainers: elad661
+  $modules/remote_management/manageiq/manageiq_alerts.py:
+    maintainers: elad661
  $modules/remote_management/manageiq/manageiq_group.py:
    maintainers: evertmulder
  $modules/remote_management/manageiq/manageiq_tenant.py:
@@ -963,6 +1013,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: farhan7500 gautamphegde
  $modules/storage/ibm/:
    maintainers: tzure
+  $modules/storage/pmem/pmem.py:
+    maintainers: mizumm
  $modules/storage/vexata/:
    maintainers: vexata
  $modules/storage/zfs/:
@@ -1008,6 +1060,8 @@ files:
  $modules/system/gconftool2.py:
    maintainers: Akasurde kevensen
    labels: gconftool2
+  $modules/system/homectl.py:
+    maintainers: jameslivulpi
  $modules/system/interfaces_file.py:
    maintainers: obourdon hryamzik
    labels: interfaces_file
@@ -1090,6 +1144,8 @@ files:
    keywords: beadm dladm illumos ipadm nexenta omnios openindiana pfexec smartos solaris sunos zfs zpool
  $modules/system/ssh_config.py:
    maintainers: gaqzi Akasurde
+  $modules/system/sudoers.py:
+    maintainers: JonEllis
  $modules/system/svc.py:
    maintainers: bcoca
  $modules/system/syspatch.py:
@@ -1146,7 +1202,8 @@ files:
  $modules/web_infrastructure/jenkins_script.py:
    maintainers: hogarthj
  $modules/web_infrastructure/jira.py:
-    maintainers: Slezhuk tarka pertoft DWSR
+    maintainers: Slezhuk tarka pertoft
+    ignore: DWSR
    labels: jira
  $modules/web_infrastructure/nginx_status_info.py:
    maintainers: resmo
@@ -1215,7 +1272,7 @@ macros:
  team_cyberark_conjur: jvanderhoof ryanprior
  team_e_spirit: MatrixCrawler getjack
  team_flatpak: JayKayy oolongbrothers
-  team_gitlab: Lunik Shaps dj-wasabi marwatk waheedi zanssa scodeman metanovii sh0shin
+  team_gitlab: Lunik Shaps dj-wasabi marwatk waheedi zanssa scodeman metanovii sh0shin nejch lgatellier suukit
  team_hpux: bcoca davx8342
  team_huawei: QijunPan TommyLike edisonxiang freesky-edward hwDCN niuzhenguo xuxiaowei0512 yanzhangi zengchen1024 zhongjun2
  team_ipa: Akasurde Nosmoht fxfitz justchris1
@@ -1232,5 +1289,5 @@ macros:
  team_rhn: FlossWare alikins barnabycourt vritant
  team_scaleway: remyleone abarbare
  team_solaris: bcoca fishman jasperla jpdasma mator scathatheworm troy2914 xen0l
-  team_suse: commel dcermak evrardjp lrupp toabctl AnderEnder alxgu andytom sealor
+  team_suse: commel evrardjp lrupp toabctl AnderEnder alxgu andytom sealor
  team_virt: joshainglis karmab tleguern Thulium-Drake Ajpantuso
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@

-# Created by https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv
-# Edit at https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore?templates=git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv
+# 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

 ### dotenv ###
 .env
@@ -71,7 +71,19 @@ flycheck_*.el
 *_LOCAL_*.txt
 *_REMOTE_*.txt

-#!! ERROR: jupyternotebook is undefined. Use list command to see defined gitignore types !!#
+### JupyterNotebooks ###
+# gitignore template for Jupyter Notebooks
+# website: http://jupyter.org/
+
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+*/.ipynb_checkpoints/*
+
+# IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py
+
+# Remove previous ipynb_checkpoints
+#   git rm -r .ipynb_checkpoints/

 ### Linux ###

@@ -87,6 +99,39 @@ flycheck_*.el
 # .nfs files are created when an open file is removed but is still being accessed
 .nfs*

+### macOS ###
+# General
+.DS_Store
+.AppleDouble
+.LSOverride
+
+# Icon must end with two \r
+Icon
+
+
+# Thumbnails
+._*
+
+# Files that might appear in the root of a volume
+.DocumentRevisions-V100
+.fseventsd
+.Spotlight-V100
+.TemporaryItems
+.Trashes
+.VolumeIcon.icns
+.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent
+
+# Directories potentially created on remote AFP share
+.AppleDB
+.AppleDesktop
+Network Trash Folder
+Temporary Items
+.apdisk
+
+### macOS Patch ###
+# iCloud generated files
+*.icloud
+
 ### PyCharm+all ###
 # Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio, WebStorm and Rider
 # Reference: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544839
@@ -151,6 +196,9 @@ atlassian-ide-plugin.xml
 # Cursive Clojure plugin
 .idea/replstate.xml

+# SonarLint plugin
+.idea/sonarlint/
+
 # Crashlytics plugin (for Android Studio and IntelliJ)
 com_crashlytics_export_strings.xml
 crashlytics.properties
@@ -164,20 +212,13 @@ fabric.properties
 .idea/caches/build_file_checksums.ser

 ### PyCharm+all Patch ###
-# Ignores the whole .idea folder and all .iml files
-# See https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/issues/186 and https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/issues/360
+# Ignore everything but code style settings and run configurations
+# that are supposed to be shared within teams.

-.idea/
+.idea/*

-# Reason: https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/issues/186#issuecomment-249601023
-
-*.iml
-modules.xml
-.idea/misc.xml
-*.ipr
-
-# Sonarlint plugin
-.idea/sonarlint
+!.idea/codeStyles
+!.idea/runConfigurations

 ### pydev ###
 .pydevproject
@@ -260,16 +301,13 @@ docs/_build/
 target/

 # Jupyter Notebook
-.ipynb_checkpoints

 # IPython
-profile_default/
-ipython_config.py

 # pyenv
 #   For a library or package, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
 #   intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
-.python-version
+# .python-version

 # pipenv
 #   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
@@ -278,7 +316,22 @@ ipython_config.py
 #   install all needed dependencies.
 #Pipfile.lock

-# PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow
+# poetry
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include poetry.lock in version control.
+#   This is especially recommended for binary packages to ensure reproducibility, and is more
+#   commonly ignored for libraries.
+#   https://python-poetry.org/docs/basic-usage/#commit-your-poetrylock-file-to-version-control
+#poetry.lock
+
+# pdm
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include pdm.lock in version control.
+#pdm.lock
+#   pdm stores project-wide configurations in .pdm.toml, but it is recommended to not include it
+#   in version control.
+#   https://pdm.fming.dev/#use-with-ide
+.pdm.toml
+
+# PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow and github.com/pdm-project/pdm
 __pypackages__/

 # Celery stuff
@@ -320,6 +373,13 @@ dmypy.json
 # Cython debug symbols
 cython_debug/

+# PyCharm
+#  JetBrains specific template is maintained in a separate JetBrains.gitignore that can
+#  be found at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
+#  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
+#  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
+#.idea/
+
 ### Vim ###
 # Swap
 [._]*.s[a-v][a-z]
@@ -381,6 +441,8 @@ tags

 # Cursive Clojure plugin

+# SonarLint plugin
+
 # Crashlytics plugin (for Android Studio and IntelliJ)

 # Editor-based Rest Client
@@ -443,4 +505,4 @@ $RECYCLE.BIN/
 # Windows shortcuts
 *.lnk

-# End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv
+# End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,553 @@ Community General Release Notes

 This changelog describes changes after version 3.0.0.

+v4.8.9
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release.
+
+Note that from now on, community.general 4.x.y only receives security fixes and major bugfixes, but no longer regular bugfixes.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- ldap_attrs - fix bug which caused a ``Bad search filter`` error. The error was occuring when the ldap attribute value contained special characters such as ``(`` or ``*`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5434, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5435).
+- ldap_attrs - fix ordering issue by ignoring the ``{x}`` prefix on attribute values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/977, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5385).
+
+v4.8.8
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- archive - avoid crash when ``lzma`` is not present and ``format`` is not ``xz`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5393).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - support opentelemetry-api 1.13.0 that removed support for ``_time_ns`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5342).
+- pfexec become plugin - remove superflous quotes preventing exe wrap from working as expected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3671, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3889).
+- pkgng - fix case when ``pkg`` fails when trying to upgrade all packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5363).
+- redhat_subscription - make module idempotent when ``pool_ids`` are used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5313).
+- xenserver_facts - fix broken ``AnsibleModule`` call that prevented the module from working at all (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5383).
+
+v4.8.7
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- gitlab module util - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_branch - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_deploy_key - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_group - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_group_members - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_group_variable - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_hook - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_project - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_project_members - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_project_variable - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_protected_branch - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_runner - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_user - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- locale_gen - fix support for Ubuntu (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5281).
+- tss lookup plugin - adding support for updated Delinea library (https://github.com/DelineaXPM/python-tss-sdk/issues/9, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5151).
+
+v4.8.6
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix and maintenance release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Added MIT license as ``MIT-license.txt`` for ``tests/unit/plugins/modules/packaging/language/test_gem.py`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5065, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5072).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- apache2_mod_proxy - avoid crash when reporting inability to parse balancer_member_page HTML caused by using an undefined variable in the error message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- dnsimple_info - correctly report missing library as ``requests`` and not ``another_library`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- funcd connection plugin - fix signature of ``exec_command`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- manageiq_alert_profiles - avoid crash when reporting unknown profile caused by trying to return an undefined variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- nsupdate - compatibility with NS records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5112).
+- packet_ip_subnet - fix error reporting in case of invalid CIDR prefix lengths (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- pip_package_info - remove usage of global variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+
+v4.8.5
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- pacman - fixed name resolution of URL packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4959).
+- proxmox - fix error handling when getting VM by name when ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4945).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fix crash when ``enabled=1`` is used in agent config string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4910).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix error handling when getting VM by name when ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4945).
+- slack - fix incorrect channel prefix ``#`` caused by incomplete pattern detection by adding ``G0`` and ``GF`` as channel ID patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5019).
+
+v4.8.4
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cmd_runner module utils - fix bug caused by using the ``command`` variable instead of ``self.command`` when looking for binary path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4903).
+- dsv lookup plugin - do not ignore the ``tld`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4911).
+- lxd connection plugin - fix incorrect ``inventory_hostname`` in ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4886).
+- rax_clb_nodes - fix code to be compatible with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4933).
+- redfish_info - fix to ``GetChassisPower`` to correctly report power information when multiple chassis exist, but not all chassis report power information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4901).
+
+v4.8.3
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ModuleHelper module utils - improved ``ModuleHelperException``, using ``to_native()`` for the exception message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4755).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- sudoers - fix incorrect handling of ``state: absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4852).
+
+v4.8.2
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular maintenance and bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Include ``simplified_bsd.txt`` license file for various module utils, the ``lxca_common`` docs fragment, and the ``utm_utils`` unit tests.
+- 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).
+- gitlab_hook - avoid errors during idempotency check when an attribute does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4668).
+- 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).
+
+v4.8.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release. From now on, only bugfix release will be made of the community.general 4.x.y release stream.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Include ``PSF-license.txt`` file for ``plugins/module_utils/_version.py``.
+- 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).
+- gconftool2 - properly escape values when passing them to ``gconftool-2`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4647).
+- onepassword - search all valid configuration locations and use the first found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4640).
+- 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).
+- terraform - fix list initialization to support both Python 2 and Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4531).
+
+v4.8.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular feature and bugfix release. Please note that this is the last minor 4.x.0 release. Further releases with major version 4 will be bugfix releases 4.8.y.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- lxd_container - adds ``project`` option to allow selecting project for LXD instance (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4479).
+- lxd_profile - adds ``project`` option to allow selecting project for LXD profile (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4479).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- profitbricks - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- proxmox - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- 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_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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- xfconf - added missing value types ``char``, ``uchar``, ``int64`` and ``uint64`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4534).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- 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).
+- 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).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- dnsmadeeasy - fix failure on deleting DNS entries when API response does not contain monitor value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3620).
+- git_branch - remove deprecated and unnecessary branch ``unprotect`` method (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4496).
+- 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_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_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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- pacman - fixed bug where ``absent`` state did not work for locally installed packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4464).
+- pritunl - fixed bug where pritunl plugin api add unneeded data in ``auth_string`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4527).
+- 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_kvm - fix a bug when getting a state of VM without name will fail (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4508).
+- xbps - fix error message that is reported when installing packages fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4438).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+Cloud
+~~~~~
+
+lxd
+^^^
+
+- lxd_project - Manage LXD projects
+
+Monitoring
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- alerta_customer - Manage customers in Alerta
+
+v4.7.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ipa_service - add ``skip_host_check`` parameter. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4417).
+- 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).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - add support for templating the ``url``, ``user``, and ``password`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4418).
+- sudoers - add support for ``runas`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4379).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- 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).
+- 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)
+- nmcli - fix returning "changed" when routes parameters set, also suggest new routes4 and routes6 format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4131).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+
+v4.6.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Extraordinary bugfix release to fix a breaking change in ``terraform``.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- lxd inventory plugin - do not crash if OS and release metadata are not present
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4351).
+- terraform - revert bugfix https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4281 that tried to fix ``variable`` handling to allow complex values. It turned out that this was breaking several valid use-cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4367, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4370).
+
+v4.6.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular feature and bugfix release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- jira - when creating a comment, ``fields`` now is used for additional data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4304).
+- ldap_entry - add support for recursive deletion (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3613).
+- mksysb - revamped the module using ``ModuleHelper`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3295).
+- nmcli - add missing connection aliases ``802-3-ethernet`` and ``802-11-wireless`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4108).
+- nmcli - remove nmcli modify dependency on ``type`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2858).
+- npm - add ability to use ``production`` flag when ``ci`` is set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4299).
+- 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 - 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).
+- pipx - added options ``editable`` and ``pip_args`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4300).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - add support for client-side jinja filters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3553).
+- redis - add authentication parameters ``login_user``, ``tls``, ``validate_certs``, and ``ca_certs`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4207).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- 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).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- 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).
+- linode inventory plugin - fix configuration handling relating to inventory filtering (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4336).
+- mksysb - fixed bug for parameter ``backup_dmapi_fs`` was passing the wrong CLI argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3295).
+- 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 - 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).
+- 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 - fixed the ``description`` field being ignored if it contained a comma (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4348).
+- 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).
+- terraform - fix ``variable`` handling to allow complex values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4281).
+
+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).
+
+v4.5.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular feature and bugfix release.
+
+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).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - added option ``no_deps`` to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4174).
+- 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).
+- keycloak_* modules - added connection timeout parameter when calling server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4168).
+- linode inventory plugin - add support for caching inventory results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4179).
+- opentelemetry_plugin - enrich service when using the ``jenkins``, ``hetzner`` or ``jira`` modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4105).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- dconf - skip processes that disappeared while we inspected them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4151).
+- 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_project_variable - ``value`` is not necessary when deleting variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4150).
+- gitlab_runner - make ``project`` and ``owned`` mutually exclusive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4136).
+- homebrew_cask - fix force install operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3703).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- vdo - fix options error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4163).
+- 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).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+Cloud
+~~~~~
+
+scaleway
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- scaleway_private_network - Scaleway private network management
+
+Storage
+~~~~~~~
+
+pmem
+^^^^
+
+- pmem - Configure Intel Optane Persistent Memory modules
+
+v4.4.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular features and bugfixes release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``include_profiles`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4068).
+- gitlab_project_variable - new ``variables`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
+- icinga2 inventory plugin - implemented constructed interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4088).
+- linode inventory plugin - allow templating of ``access_token`` variable in Linode inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4040).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- nmcli - adds ``routes6`` and ``route_metric6`` parameters for supporting IPv6 routes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4059).
+- 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).
+- proxmox modules - move ``HAS_PROXMOXER`` check into ``module_utils`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4030).
+- scaleway inventory plugin - add profile parameter ``scw_profile`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4049).
+- snap - add option ``options`` permitting to set options using the ``snap set`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3943).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- 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).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- 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).
+- 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 - use correct API endpoint to create and retrieve project level runners when using ``project`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3965).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- opentelemetry - fix generating a trace with a task containing ``no_log: true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4043).
+- python_requirements_info - store ``mismatched`` return values per package as documented in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4078).
+- 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).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+System
+~~~~~~
+
+- homectl - Manage user accounts with systemd-homed
+
+v4.3.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular feature and bugfix release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- 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).
+- ipmi_power - add ``machine`` option to ensure the power state via the remote target address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3968).
+- mattermost - add the possibility to send attachments instead of text messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3946).
+- nmcli - add ``wireguard`` connection type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3985).
+- proxmox - add ``clone`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3930).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+
+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).
+- alternatives - fix output parsing for alternatives groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3976).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- counter - Counts hashable elements in a sequence
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+Identity
+~~~~~~~~
+
+keycloak
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- keycloak_realm_info - Allows obtaining Keycloak realm public information via Keycloak API
+
+Packaging
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+language
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- cargo - Manage Rust packages with cargo
+
+System
+~~~~~~
+
+- sudoers - Manage sudoers files
+
 v4.2.0
 ======

--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ 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 respository checkout.
+* 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/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.

@@ -36,6 +36,54 @@ 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.

+## 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:
+
+```.bash
+mkdir -p ~/dev/ansible_collections/community
+git clone https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general.git ~/dev/ansible_collections/community/general
+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+.
+
+The following commands show how to run sanity tests:
+
+```.bash
+# Run sanity tests for all files in the collection:
+ansible-test sanity --docker -v
+
+# Run sanity tests for the given files and directories:
+ansible-test sanity --docker -v plugins/modules/system/pids.py tests/integration/targets/pids/
+```
+
+The following commands show how to run unit tests:
+
+```.bash
+# Run all unit tests:
+ansible-test units --docker -v
+
+# Run all unit tests for one Python version (a lot faster):
+ansible-test units --docker -v --python 3.8
+
+# Run a specific unit test (for the nmcli module) for one Python version:
+ansible-test units --docker -v --python 3.8 tests/unit/plugins/modules/net_tools/test_nmcli.py
+```
+
+The following commands show how to run integration tests:
+
+```.bash
+# 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
+
+# Run integration tests for the flattened lookup **without any isolation**:
+ansible-test integration -v lookup_flattened
+```
+
+If you are unsure about the integration test target name for a module or plugin, you can take a look in `tests/integration/targets/`. Tests for plugins have the plugin type prepended.
+
 ## Creating new modules or plugins

 Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Requests.
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ If you encounter abusive behavior violating the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https:

 ## Tested with Ansible

-Tested with the current Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible versions before 2.9.10 are not supported.
+Tested with the current Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, and ansible-core 2.14 releases of ansible-core. Ansible versions before 2.9.10 are not supported.

 ## External requirements

--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -1238,3 +1238,764 @@ releases:
      name: ilo_redfish_info
      namespace: remote_management.redfish
    release_date: '2021-12-21'
+  4.3.0:
+    changes:
+      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).
+      - alternatives - fix output parsing for alternatives groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3976).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      minor_changes:
+      - 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).
+      - ipmi_power - add ``machine`` option to ensure the power state via the remote
+        target address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3968).
+      - mattermost - add the possibility to send attachments instead of text messages
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3946).
+      - nmcli - add ``wireguard`` connection type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3985).
+      - proxmox - add ``clone`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3930).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      release_summary: Regular feature and bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+    - 3374-add-ipa-ptr-sync-support.yml
+    - 3921-add-counter-filter-plugin.yml
+    - 3930-proxmox-add-clone.yaml
+    - 3933-slack-charset-header.yaml
+    - 3934-distutils.yml
+    - 3936-distutils.version.yml
+    - 3940_fix_contenttype_scaleway_user_data.yml
+    - 3946-mattermost_attachments.yml
+    - 3951-scaleway_compute_add_project_id.yml
+    - 3964-scaleway_volume_add_region.yml
+    - 3968-ipmi_power-add-machine-option.yaml
+    - 3976-fix-alternatives-parsing.yml
+    - 3980-puppet-show_diff.yml
+    - 3985-nmcli-add-wireguard-connection-type.yml
+    - 4.3.0.yml
+    modules:
+    - description: Manage Rust packages with cargo
+      name: cargo
+      namespace: packaging.language
+    - description: Allows obtaining Keycloak realm public information via Keycloak
+        API
+      name: keycloak_realm_info
+      namespace: identity.keycloak
+    - description: Manage sudoers files
+      name: sudoers
+      namespace: system
+    plugins:
+      filter:
+      - description: Counts hashable elements in a sequence
+        name: counter
+        namespace: null
+    release_date: '2022-01-11'
+  4.4.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - 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).
+      - 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 - use correct API endpoint to create and retrieve project level
+        runners when using ``project`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3965).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 'opentelemetry - fix generating a trace with a task containing ``no_log: true``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4043).'
+      - python_requirements_info - store ``mismatched`` return values per package
+        as documented in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4078).
+      - 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).
+      deprecated_features:
+      - 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).
+      minor_changes:
+      - cobbler inventory plugin - add ``include_profiles`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4068).
+      - gitlab_project_variable - new ``variables`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
+      - icinga2 inventory plugin - implemented constructed interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4088).
+      - linode inventory plugin - allow templating of ``access_token`` variable in
+        Linode inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4040).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - nmcli - adds ``routes6`` and ``route_metric6`` parameters for supporting IPv6
+        routes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4059).
+      - 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).
+      - proxmox modules - move ``HAS_PROXMOXER`` check into ``module_utils`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4030).
+      - scaleway inventory plugin - add profile parameter ``scw_profile`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4049).
+      - snap - add option ``options`` permitting to set options using the ``snap set``
+        command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3943).
+      release_summary: Regular features and bugfixes release.
+    fragments:
+    - 3935-use-gitlab-instance-runner-to-create-runner.yml
+    - 3943-add-option-options-to-snap-module.yml
+    - 4.4.0.yml
+    - 4026-fix-mail-callback.yml
+    - 4030-proxmox-has-proxmoxer.yml
+    - 4036-onevm-add-release-action.yaml
+    - 4038-fix-and-rework-gitlb-project-variable.yml
+    - 4039-cluster-container-wait.yml
+    - 4040-linode-token-templating.yaml
+    - 4043-fix-no-log-opentelemetry.yml
+    - 4048-expand-tilde-in-yarn-global-install-folder.yaml
+    - 4049-profile-for-scaleway-inventory.yml
+    - 4050-properly-parse-json-lines-output-from-yarn.yaml
+    - 4052-fix-detection-of-installed-cargo-packages-with-hyphens.yaml
+    - 4056-add-missing-mail-headers.yml
+    - 4058-lists_mergeby-add-parameters.yml
+    - 4062-nmcli-ipv6-routes-support.yml
+    - 4068-add-include_file-option.yml
+    - 4078-python_requirements_info.yaml
+    - 4088-add-constructed-interface-for-icinga2-inventory.yml
+    - 4092-fix_local_ports_regex_listen_ports_facts.yaml
+    - 4104-opentelemetry_plugin-enrich_docker_login.yaml
+    - 4140-mail-callback-options.yml
+    modules:
+    - description: Manage user accounts with systemd-homed
+      name: homectl
+      namespace: system
+    release_date: '2022-02-01'
+  4.5.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - dconf - skip processes that disappeared while we inspected them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4151).
+      - 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_project_variable - ``value`` is not necessary when deleting variables
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4150).
+      - gitlab_runner - make ``project`` and ``owned`` mutually exclusive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4136).
+      - homebrew_cask - fix force install operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3703).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - vdo - fix options error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4163).
+      - 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).
+      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).
+      - ansible_galaxy_install - added option ``no_deps`` to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4174).
+      - 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).
+      - keycloak_* modules - added connection timeout parameter when calling server
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4168).
+      - linode inventory plugin - add support for caching inventory results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4179).
+      - opentelemetry_plugin - enrich service when using the ``jenkins``, ``hetzner``
+        or ``jira`` modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4105).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      release_summary: Regular feature and bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+    - 3703-force-install-homebrew-cask.yml
+    - 3907-pacman-speedup.yml
+    - 3916-fix-vdo-options-type.yml
+    - 4.5.0.yml
+    - 4029-proxmox-refactor.yml
+    - 4061-fix-mail-recipient-encoding.yml
+    - 4086-rework_of_gitlab_proyect_variable_over_gitlab_group_variable.yml
+    - 4105-opentelemetry_plugin-enrich_jira_hetzner_jenkins_services.yaml
+    - 4106-proxmox-efidisk0-support.yaml
+    - 4136-gitlab_runner-make-project-owned-mutually-exclusive.yml
+    - 4150-gitlab-project-variable-absent-fix.yml
+    - 4151-dconf-catch-psutil-nosuchprocess.yaml
+    - 4154-ini_file_changed.yml
+    - 4168-add-keycloak-url-timeout.yml
+    - 4179-linode-inventory-cache.yaml
+    - 4183-fix-yum_versionlock.yaml
+    - 4191-proxmox-add-win11.yml
+    - 4192-improve-passwordstore-consistency.yml
+    - 4194-configurable-passwordstore-locking.yml
+    - 4206-imc-rest-module.yaml
+    - 4212-fixes-for-keycloak-user-federation.yml
+    - 4219-passwordstore-locale-fix.yml
+    - 4232-text-converter-import.yml
+    - 4240-ansible_galaxy_install-no_deps.yml
+    modules:
+    - description: Configure Intel Optane Persistent Memory modules
+      name: pmem
+      namespace: storage.pmem
+    - description: Scaleway private network management
+      name: scaleway_private_network
+      namespace: cloud.scaleway
+    release_date: '2022-02-22'
+  4.6.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - 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).
+      - linode inventory plugin - fix configuration handling relating to inventory
+        filtering (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4336).
+      - mksysb - fixed bug for parameter ``backup_dmapi_fs`` was passing the wrong
+        CLI argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3295).
+      - 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 - 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).
+      - 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 - fixed the ``description`` field being ignored if
+        it contained a comma (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4348).
+      - 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).
+      - terraform - fix ``variable`` handling to allow complex values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4281).
+      deprecated_features:
+      - '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).'
+      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).
+      minor_changes:
+      - jira - when creating a comment, ``fields`` now is used for additional data
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4304).
+      - ldap_entry - add support for recursive deletion (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3613).
+      - mksysb - revamped the module using ``ModuleHelper`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3295).
+      - nmcli - add missing connection aliases ``802-3-ethernet`` and ``802-11-wireless``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4108).
+      - nmcli - remove nmcli modify dependency on ``type`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2858).
+      - npm - add ability to use ``production`` flag when ``ci`` is set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4299).
+      - 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 - 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).
+      - pipx - added options ``editable`` and ``pip_args`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4300).
+      - proxmox inventory plugin - add support for client-side jinja filters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3553).
+      - redis - add authentication parameters ``login_user``, ``tls``, ``validate_certs``,
+        and ``ca_certs`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4207).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      release_summary: Regular feature and bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+    - 3295-mksysb-revamp.yaml
+    - 4.6.0.yml
+    - 4108-nmcli-support-modifcation-without-type-param.yml
+    - 4192-zypper-add-clean-deps.yml
+    - 4207-add-redis-tls-support.yml
+    - 4223-syslog-json-skip-syslog-option.yml
+    - 4275-pacman-sysupgrade.yml
+    - 4281-terraform-complex-variables.yml
+    - 4286-pacman-url-pkgs.yml
+    - 4287-fix-proxmox-vm-chek.yml
+    - 4288-fix-4259-support-busybox-dd.yml
+    - 4299-npm-add-production-with-ci-flag.yml
+    - 4303-pipx-editable.yml
+    - 4304-jira-fields-in-comment.yml
+    - 4306-proxmox-fix-error-on-vm-clone.yml
+    - 4312-pacman-groups.yml
+    - 4316-pacman-remove-nosave.yml
+    - 4318-pacman-restore-old-changed-behavior.yml
+    - 4330-pacman-packages-update_cache.yml
+    - 4336-linode-inventory-filtering.yaml
+    - 4337-pacman-update_cache.yml
+    - 4349-proxmox-inventory-dict-facts.yml
+    - 4352-proxmox-inventory-filters.yml
+    - 4355-ldap-recursive-delete.yml
+    release_date: '2022-03-15'
+  4.6.1:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - 'lxd inventory plugin - do not crash if OS and release metadata are not present
+
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4351).
+
+        '
+      - terraform - revert bugfix https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4281
+        that tried to fix ``variable`` handling to allow complex values. It turned
+        out that this was breaking several valid use-cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4367,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4370).
+      release_summary: Extraordinary bugfix release to fix a breaking change in ``terraform``.
+    fragments:
+    - 4.6.1.yml
+    - 4351-inventory-lxd-handling_metadata_wo_os_and_release.yml
+    - 4368-reverts-4281.yml
+    release_date: '2022-03-16'
+  4.7.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - 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).
+      - 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)
+      - nmcli - fix returning "changed" when routes parameters set, also suggest new
+        routes4 and routes6 format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4131).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      minor_changes:
+      - ipa_service - add ``skip_host_check`` parameter. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4417).
+      - 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).
+      - proxmox inventory plugin - add support for templating the ``url``, ``user``,
+        and ``password`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4418).
+      - sudoers - add support for ``runas`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4379).
+      release_summary: Regular bugfix and feature release.
+    fragments:
+    - 4.7.0.yml
+    - 4131-nmcli_fix_reports_changed_for_routes4_parameter.yml
+    - 4378-proxmox-inventory-tags.yml
+    - 4380-sudoers-runas-parameter.yml
+    - 4382-keycloak-add-missing-validate_certs-parameters.yml
+    - 4385-keycloak-client-default-optional-scopes.yml
+    - 4386-proxmox-support-templating-in-inventory-file.yml
+    - 4417-ipa_service-add-skip_host_check.yml
+    - 4421-zypper_package_version_handling_fix.yml
+    - 4422-warn-user-if-incorrect-SDK-version-is-installed.yaml
+    - 4429-keycloak-client-add-always-display-in-console.yml
+    release_date: '2022-04-05'
+  4.8.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - dnsmadeeasy - fix failure on deleting DNS entries when API response does not
+        contain monitor value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3620).
+      - git_branch - remove deprecated and unnecessary branch ``unprotect`` method
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4496).
+      - '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_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_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).
+
+        '
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - pacman - fixed bug where ``absent`` state did not work for locally installed
+        packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4464).
+      - pritunl - fixed bug where pritunl plugin api add unneeded data in ``auth_string``
+        parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4527).
+      - 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_kvm - fix a bug when getting a state of VM without name will fail
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4508).
+      - xbps - fix error message that is reported when installing packages fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4438).
+      deprecated_features:
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      minor_changes:
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - lxd_container - adds ``project`` option to allow selecting project for LXD
+        instance (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4479).
+      - lxd_profile - adds ``project`` option to allow selecting project for LXD profile
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4479).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - profitbricks - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+      - proxmox - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+      - 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_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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - xfconf - added missing value types ``char``, ``uchar``, ``int64`` and ``uint64``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4534).
+      release_summary: Regular feature and bugfix release. Please note that this is
+        the last minor 4.x.0 release. Further releases with major version 4 will be
+        bugfix releases 4.8.y.
+    fragments:
+    - 4.8.0.yml
+    - 4084-add-redfish-system-indicator-led.yml
+    - 4320-nmcli-hairpin.yml
+    - 4377-allow-proxmox-snapshot-restoring.yml
+    - 4438-fix-error-message.yaml
+    - 4455-terraform-provider-upgrade.yml
+    - 4457-support-datadog-monitors-type-event-v2.yaml
+    - 4459-only-get-monitor-if-it-is-not-null-api-response.yaml
+    - 4464-pacman-fix-local-remove.yaml
+    - 4465-btrfs-resize.yml
+    - 4466-proxmox-ansible_host-deprecation.yml
+    - 4471-seport-refactor.yaml
+    - 4476-cmd_runner.yml
+    - 4479-add-project-support-for-lxd_container-and-lxd_profile.yml
+    - 4491-specify_all_in_list_calls.yaml
+    - 4492-proxmox_kvm_fix_vm_without_name.yaml
+    - 4496-remove-deprecated-method-in-gitlab-branch-module.yml
+    - 4506-sudo-in-nmap-inv-plugin.yaml
+    - 4524-update-opennebula-inventory-plugin-to-match-documentation.yaml
+    - 4526-keycloak-realm-types.yaml
+    - 4530-fix-unauthorized-pritunl-request.yaml
+    - 4534-xfconf-added-value-types.yaml
+    - 4540-proxmox-inventory-token-auth.yml
+    - 4555-proxmox-lxc-key.yml
+    - 4556-remove-default-none-1.yml
+    - 4557-alternatives-add-state-parameter.yml
+    - 4567-remove-default-none-2.yml
+    modules:
+    - description: Manage customers in Alerta
+      name: alerta_customer
+      namespace: monitoring
+    - description: Manage LXD projects
+      name: lxd_project
+      namespace: cloud.lxd
+    release_date: '2022-04-26'
+  4.8.1:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - Include ``PSF-license.txt`` file for ``plugins/module_utils/_version.py``.
+      - 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).
+      - gconftool2 - properly escape values when passing them to ``gconftool-2`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4647).
+      - onepassword - search all valid configuration locations and use the first found
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4640).
+      - 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).
+      - terraform - fix list initialization to support both Python 2 and Python 3
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4531).
+      release_summary: Regular bugfix release. From now on, only bugfix release will
+        be made of the community.general 4.x.y release stream.
+    fragments:
+    - 4.8.1.yml
+    - 4065-onepassword-config.yml
+    - 4590-consul-fix-service-checks.yaml
+    - 4621-terraform-py2-compat.yml
+    - 4623-opentelemetry_bug_fix_include_tasks.yml
+    - 4624-opentelemetry_bug_fix_hardcoded_value.yml
+    - 4647-gconftool2-command-arg.yaml
+    - psf-license.yml
+    release_date: '2022-05-16'
+  4.8.2:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - Include ``simplified_bsd.txt`` license file for various module utils, the
+        ``lxca_common`` docs fragment, and the ``utm_utils`` unit tests.
+      - 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).
+      - gitlab_hook - avoid errors during idempotency check when an attribute does
+        not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4668).
+      - 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).
+      release_summary: Regular maintenance and bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+    - 4.8.2.yml
+    - 4668-gitlab_hook-use-None-for-non-existent-attr.yml
+    - 4682-compatibility-virtualmedia-resource-location.yaml
+    - 4700-code-changes.yml
+    - 4712-consul-bugfix.yaml
+    - 4719-fix-keycloak-realm.yaml
+    - 4733-redis-fail.yml
+    - simplified-bsd-license.yml
+    release_date: '2022-06-06'
+  4.8.3:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - 'sudoers - fix incorrect handling of ``state: absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4852).'
+      minor_changes:
+      - ModuleHelper module utils - improved ``ModuleHelperException``, using ``to_native()``
+        for the exception message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4755).
+      release_summary: Bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+    - 4.8.3.yml
+    - 4755-mhexception-improvement.yml
+    - 4809-redhat_subscription-unsubscribe.yaml
+    - 4813-fix-nmcli-convert-list.yaml
+    - 4814-sudoers-file-permissions.yml
+    - 4852-sudoers-state-absent.yml
+    release_date: '2022-06-20'
+  4.8.4:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - cmd_runner module utils - fix bug caused by using the ``command`` variable
+        instead of ``self.command`` when looking for binary path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4903).
+      - dsv lookup plugin - do not ignore the ``tld`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4911).
+      - lxd connection plugin - fix incorrect ``inventory_hostname`` in ``remote_addr``.
+        This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4886).
+      - rax_clb_nodes - fix code to be compatible with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4933).
+      - redfish_info - fix to ``GetChassisPower`` to correctly report power information
+        when multiple chassis exist, but not all chassis report power information
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4901).
+      release_summary: Regular bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+    - 4.8.4.yml
+    - 4886-fix-lxd-inventory-hostname.yml
+    - 4901-fix-redfish-chassispower.yml
+    - 4903-cmdrunner-bugfix.yaml
+    - 4911-dsv-honor-tld-option.yml
+    - 4933-fix-rax-clb-nodes.yaml
+    release_date: '2022-07-12'
+  4.8.5:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - pacman - fixed name resolution of URL packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4959).
+      - proxmox - fix error handling when getting VM by name when ``state=absent``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4945).
+      - proxmox inventory plugin - fix crash when ``enabled=1`` is used in agent config
+        string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4910).
+      - proxmox_kvm - fix error handling when getting VM by name when ``state=absent``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4945).
+      - slack - fix incorrect channel prefix ``#`` caused by incomplete pattern detection
+        by adding ``G0`` and ``GF`` as channel ID patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5019).
+      release_summary: Regular bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+    - 4.8.5.yml
+    - 4910-fix-for-agent-enabled.yml
+    - 4945-fix-get_vm-int-parse-handling.yaml
+    - 4959-pacman-fix-url-packages-name.yaml
+    - 5019-slack-support-more-groups.yml
+    release_date: '2022-08-01'
+  4.8.6:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - apache2_mod_proxy - avoid crash when reporting inability to parse balancer_member_page
+        HTML caused by using an undefined variable in the error message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+      - dnsimple_info - correctly report missing library as ``requests`` and not ``another_library``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+      - funcd connection plugin - fix signature of ``exec_command`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+      - manageiq_alert_profiles - avoid crash when reporting unknown profile caused
+        by trying to return an undefined variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+      - nsupdate - compatibility with NS records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5112).
+      - packet_ip_subnet - fix error reporting in case of invalid CIDR prefix lengths
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+      - pip_package_info - remove usage of global variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+      minor_changes:
+      - Added MIT license as ``MIT-license.txt`` for ``tests/unit/plugins/modules/packaging/language/test_gem.py``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5065, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5072).
+      release_summary: Bugfix and maintenance release.
+    fragments:
+    - 4.8.6.yml
+    - 5111-fixes.yml
+    - 5112-fix-nsupdate-ns-entry.yaml
+    - licenses.yml
+    release_date: '2022-08-22'
+  4.8.7:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - locale_gen - fix support for Ubuntu (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5281).
+      - tss lookup plugin - adding support for updated Delinea library (https://github.com/DelineaXPM/python-tss-sdk/issues/9,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5151).
+      minor_changes:
+      - gitlab module util - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_branch - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_deploy_key - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_group - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_group_members - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_group_variable - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_hook - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_project - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_project_members - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_project_variable - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_protected_branch - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_runner - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      - gitlab_user - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+      release_summary: Regular bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+    - 4.8.7.yml
+    - 5151-add-delinea-support-tss-lookup.yml
+    - 5259-gitlab-imports.yaml
+    - 5282-locale_gen.yaml
+    release_date: '2022-10-03'
+  4.8.8:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - archive - avoid crash when ``lzma`` is not present and ``format`` is not ``xz``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5393).
+      - opentelemetry callback plugin - support opentelemetry-api 1.13.0 that removed
+        support for ``_time_ns`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5342).
+      - pfexec become plugin - remove superflous quotes preventing exe wrap from working
+        as expected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3671,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3889).
+      - pkgng - fix case when ``pkg`` fails when trying to upgrade all packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5363).
+      - redhat_subscription - make module idempotent when ``pool_ids`` are used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5313).
+      - xenserver_facts - fix broken ``AnsibleModule`` call that prevented the module
+        from working at all (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5383).
+      release_summary: Regular bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+    - 3671-illumos-pfexec.yml
+    - 4.8.8.yml
+    - 5313-fix-redhat_subscription-idempotency-pool_ids.yml
+    - 5342-opentelemetry_bug_fix_opentelemetry-api-1.13.yml
+    - 5369-pkgng-fix-update-all.yaml
+    - 5383-xenserver_facts.yml
+    - 5393-archive.yml
+    release_date: '2022-10-24'
+  4.8.9:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - ldap_attrs - fix bug which caused a ``Bad search filter`` error. The error
+        was occuring when the ldap attribute value contained special characters such
+        as ``(`` or ``*`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5434,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5435).
+      - ldap_attrs - fix ordering issue by ignoring the ``{x}`` prefix on attribute
+        values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/977,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5385).
+      release_summary: 'Bugfix release.
+
+
+        Note that from now on, community.general 4.x.y only receives security fixes
+        and major bugfixes, but no longer regular bugfixes.'
+    fragments:
+    - 4.8.9.yml
+    - 5385-search_s-based-_is_value_present.yaml
+    - 5435-escape-ldap-param.yml
+    release_date: '2022-11-06'
--- 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
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+---
+edit_on_github:
+  repository: ansible-collections/community.general
+  branch: main
+  path_prefix: ''
+
+extra_links:
+  - 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
+    url: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.yml
+
+communication:
+  matrix_rooms:
+    - topic: General usage and support questions
+      room: '#users:ansible.im'
+  irc_channels:
+    - topic: General usage and support questions
+      network: Libera
+      channel: '#ansible'
+  mailing_lists:
+    - topic: Ansible Project List
+      url: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-project
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+
 .. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.filter_guide:

 community.general Filter Guide
@@ -5,780 +6,14 @@ community.general Filter Guide

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

-.. contents:: Topics
-
-Paths
-----
-
-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
-
-Abstract transformations
------------------------
-
-Dictionaries
-^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-You can use the ``dict_kv`` filter to create a single-entry dictionary with ``value | community.general.dict_kv(key)``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Create a single-entry dictionary
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ myvar | community.general.dict_kv('thatsmyvar') }}"
-      vars:
-        myvar: myvalue
-
-    - name: Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list
-      debug:
-        msg: >-
-          {{ myservers | map('community.general.dict_kv', 'server')
-                       | map('combine', common_config) }}
-      vars:
-        common_config:
-          type: host
-          database: all
-        myservers:
-        - server1
-        - server2
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    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]  *******
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "database": "all",
-                "server": "server1",
-                "type": "host"
-            },
-            {
-                "database": "all",
-                "server": "server2",
-                "type": "host"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. 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 ``community.general.dict`` filter can be used:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Create a dictionary with the dict function
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ dict([[1, 2], ['a', 'b']]) }}"
-
-    - name: Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ [[1, 2], ['a', 'b']] | community.general.dict }}"
-
-    - name: Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter
-      debug:
-        msg: >-
-          {{ values | map('zip', ['k1', 'k2', 'k3'])
-                    | map('map', 'reverse')
-                    | map('community.general.dict') }}
-      vars:
-        values:
-          - - foo
-            - 23
-            - a
-          - - bar
-            - 42
-            - b
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Create a dictionary with the dict function]  ****************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "1": 2,
-            "a": "b"
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter]  ************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "1": 2,
-            "a": "b"
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter]  ******
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "k1": "foo",
-                "k2": 23,
-                "k3": "a"
-            },
-            {
-                "k1": "bar",
-                "k2": 42,
-                "k3": "b"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded:: 3.0.0
-
-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 ``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:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Output mount facts grouped by device name
-      debug:
-        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')
-
-    - name: Output mount facts grouped by mount point
-      debug:
-        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Output mount facts grouped by device name] ******************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')": {
-            "/dev/sda1": {
-                "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"
-            },
-            "/dev/sda2": {
-                "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 [Output mount facts grouped by mount point] ******************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')": {
-            "/": {
-                "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": "bdf50b7d-4859-40af-8665-c637ee7a7808"
-            },
-            "/boot": {
-                "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"
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 3.0.0
-
-Merging lists of dictionaries
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-If you have two lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where two dictionaries are merged if they coincide in one attribute, you can use the ``lists_mergeby`` filter.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Merge two lists by common attribute 'name'
-      debug:
-        var: list1 | community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name')
-      vars:
-        list1:
-          - name: foo
-            extra: true
-          - name: bar
-            extra: false
-          - name: meh
-            extra: true
-        list2:
-          - name: foo
-            path: /foo
-          - name: baz
-            path: /bazzz
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Merge two lists by common attribute 'name']  ****************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "list1 | community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name')": [
-            {
-                "extra": false,
-                "name": "bar"
-            },
-            {
-                "name": "baz",
-                "path": "/bazzz"
-            },
-            {
-                "extra": true,
-                "name": "foo",
-                "path": "/foo"
-            },
-            {
-                "extra": true,
-                "name": "meh"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 2.0.0
-
-Working with times
------------------
-
-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 ``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
-   :header-rows: 1
-
-   * - Unit name
-     - Unit value in seconds
-     - Unit strings for filter
-     - Shorthand filter
-   * - Millisecond
-     - 1/1000 second
-     - ``ms``, ``millisecond``, ``milliseconds``, ``msec``, ``msecs``, ``msecond``, ``mseconds``
-     - ``to_milliseconds``
-   * - Second
-     - 1 second
-     - ``s``, ``sec``, ``secs``, ``second``, ``seconds``
-     - ``to_seconds``
-   * - Minute
-     - 60 seconds
-     - ``m``, ``min``, ``mins``, ``minute``, ``minutes``
-     - ``to_minutes``
-   * - Hour
-     - 60*60 seconds
-     - ``h``, ``hour``, ``hours``
-     - ``to_hours``
-   * - Day
-     - 24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``d``, ``day``, ``days``
-     - ``to_days``
-   * - Week
-     - 7*24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``w``, ``week``, ``weeks``
-     - ``to_weeks``
-   * - Month
-     - 30*24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``mo``, ``month``, ``months``
-     - ``to_months``
-   * - Year
-     - 365*24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``y``, ``year``, ``years``
-     - ``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 ``to_time_unit`` and to all shorthand filters.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Convert string to seconds
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_time_unit('seconds') }}"
-
-    - name: Convert string to hours
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_hours }}"
-
-    - name: Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '400d 15h' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25) }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Convert string to seconds] **********************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "109210.123"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Convert string to hours] ************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "30.336145277778"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)] ******************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "1.096851471595"
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 0.2.0
-
-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 ``version_sort`` filter:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Sort list by version number
-      debug:
-        var: ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort
-      vars:
-        ansible_versions:
-          - '2.8.0'
-          - '2.11.0'
-          - '2.7.0'
-          - '2.10.0'
-          - '2.9.0'
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Sort list by version number] ********************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort": [
-            "2.7.0",
-            "2.8.0",
-            "2.9.0",
-            "2.10.0",
-            "2.11.0"
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 2.2.0
-
-Creating identifiers
--------------------
-
-The following filters allow to create identifiers.
-
-Hashids
-^^^^^^^
-
-`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
-
-    - name: "Create hashid"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ [1234, 5, 6] | community.general.hashids_encode }}"
-
-    - name: "Decode hashid"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ 'jm2Cytn' | community.general.hashids_decode }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Create hashid] **********************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "jm2Cytn"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Decode hashid] **********************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            1234,
-            5,
-            6
-        ]
-    }
-
-The hashids filters accept keyword arguments to allow fine-tuning the hashids generated:
-
-:salt: String to use as salt when hashing.
-:alphabet: String of 16 or more unique characters to produce a hash.
-:min_length: Minimum length of hash produced.
-
-.. versionadded: 3.0.0
-
-Random MACs
-^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-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
-
-    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with ff:"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ 'FF' | community.general.random_mac }}"
-
-    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '00:11:22' | community.general.random_mac }}"
-  
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with ff:] **********************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "ff:69:d3:78:7f:b4"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:] ****************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "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:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    "{{ '52:54:00' | community.general.random_mac(seed=inventory_hostname) }}"
-
-Conversions
-----------
-
-Parsing CSV files
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-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
-
-    - name: "Parse CSV from string"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ csv_string | community.general.from_csv }}"
-      vars:
-        csv_string: |
-          foo,bar,baz
-          1,2,3
-          you,this,then
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Parse CSV from string] **************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "bar": "2",
-                "baz": "3",
-                "foo": "1"
-            },
-            {
-                "bar": "this",
-                "baz": "then",
-                "foo": "you"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-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.
-:delimiter: Sets the delimiter to use. Default depends on the dialect used.
-:skipinitialspace: Set to ``true`` to ignore space directly after the delimiter. Default depends on the dialect used (usually ``false``).
-:strict: Set to ``true`` to error out on invalid CSV input.
-
-.. versionadded: 3.0.0
-
-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. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Run 'ls' to list files in /
-      command: ls /
-      register: result
-
-    - name: Parse the ls output
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ result.stdout | community.general.jc('ls') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Run 'ls' to list files in /] ********************************************************
-    changed: [localhost]
-
-    TASK [Parse the ls output] ****************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "filename": "bin"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "boot"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "dev"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "etc"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "home"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "lib"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "proc"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "root"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "run"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "tmp"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 2.0.0
-
-.. _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 ``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>`_.
-
-Consider this data structure:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    {
-        "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"
-                    }
-                ]
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-To extract all clusters from this structure, you can use the following query:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all cluster names
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.cluster[*].name') }}"
-
-To extract all server names:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all server names
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[*].name') }}"
-
-To extract ports from cluster1:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
-      vars:
-        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster1'].port"
-
-.. note:: You can use a variable to make the query more readable.
-
-To print out the ports from cluster1 in a comma separated string:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1 as a string
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        msg: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==`cluster1`].port') | join(', ') }}"
-
-.. note:: In the example above, quoting literals using backticks avoids escaping quotes and maintains readability.
-
-You can use YAML `single quote escaping <https://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2534365>`_:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==''cluster1''].port') }}"
-
-.. note:: Escaping single quotes within single quotes in YAML is done by doubling the single quote.
-
-To get a hash map with all ports and names of a cluster:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all server ports and names from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
-      vars:
-        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster2'].{name: name, port: port}"
-
-To extract ports from all clusters with name starting with 'server1':
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
-      vars:
-        server_name_query: "domain.server[?starts_with(name,'server1')].port"
-
-To extract ports from all clusters with name containing 'server1':
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
-      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.
-
-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.
-
-You can use the ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter to normalize ``Unicode`` strings within your playbooks.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Compare Unicode representations
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ with_combining_character | community.general.unicode_normalize == without_combining_character }}"
-      vars:
-        with_combining_character: "{{ 'Mayagu\u0308ez' }}"
-        without_combining_character: Mayagüez
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Compare Unicode representations] ********************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": true
-    }
-
-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.
-
-.. versionadded:: 3.7.0
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   filter_guide_paths
+   filter_guide_abstract_informations
+   filter_guide_working_with_times
+   filter_guide_working_with_versions
+   filter_guide_creating_identifiers
+   filter_guide_conversions
+   filter_guide_selecting_json_data
+   filter_guide_working_with_unicode
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Abstract transformations
+------------------------
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries
+   filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping
+   filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries
+   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
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+Counting elements in a sequence
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+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
+
+    - name: Count character occurrences in a string
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ 'abccbaabca' | community.general.counter }}"
+
+    - name: Count items in a list
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ ['car', 'car', 'bike', 'plane', 'bike'] | community.general.counter }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Count character occurrences in a string] ********************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": {
+            "a": 4,
+            "b": 3,
+            "c": 3
+        }
+    }
+
+    TASK [Count items in a list] **************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": {
+            "bike": 2,
+            "car": 2,
+            "plane": 1
+        }
+    }
+
+This plugin is useful for selecting resources based on current allocation:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Get ID of SCSI controller(s) with less than 4 disks attached and choose the one with the least disks
+      debug:
+        msg: >-
+          {{
+             ( disks | dict2items | map(attribute='value.adapter') | list
+               | community.general.counter | dict2items
+               | rejectattr('value', '>=', 4) | sort(attribute='value') | first
+             ).key
+          }}
+      vars:
+        disks:
+          sda:
+            adapter: scsi_1
+          sdb:
+            adapter: scsi_1
+          sdc:
+            adapter: scsi_1
+          sdd:
+            adapter: scsi_1
+          sde:
+            adapter: scsi_2
+          sdf:
+            adapter: scsi_3
+          sdg:
+            adapter: scsi_3
+
+This produces:
+
+.. 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]
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "scsi_2"
+    }
+
+.. versionadded:: 4.3.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+Dictionaries
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+You can use the ``dict_kv`` filter to create a single-entry dictionary with ``value | community.general.dict_kv(key)``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Create a single-entry dictionary
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ myvar | community.general.dict_kv('thatsmyvar') }}"
+      vars:
+        myvar: myvalue
+
+    - name: Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list
+      debug:
+        msg: >-
+          {{ myservers | map('community.general.dict_kv', 'server')
+                       | map('combine', common_config) }}
+      vars:
+        common_config:
+          type: host
+          database: all
+        myservers:
+        - server1
+        - server2
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    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]  *******
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "database": "all",
+                "server": "server1",
+                "type": "host"
+            },
+            {
+                "database": "all",
+                "server": "server2",
+                "type": "host"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. 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 ``community.general.dict`` filter can be used:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Create a dictionary with the dict function
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ dict([[1, 2], ['a', 'b']]) }}"
+
+    - name: Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ [[1, 2], ['a', 'b']] | community.general.dict }}"
+
+    - name: Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter
+      debug:
+        msg: >-
+          {{ values | map('zip', ['k1', 'k2', 'k3'])
+                    | map('map', 'reverse')
+                    | map('community.general.dict') }}
+      vars:
+        values:
+          - - foo
+            - 23
+            - a
+          - - bar
+            - 42
+            - b
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Create a dictionary with the dict function]  ****************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": {
+            "1": 2,
+            "a": "b"
+        }
+    }
+
+    TASK [Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter]  ************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": {
+            "1": 2,
+            "a": "b"
+        }
+    }
+
+    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter]  ******
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "k1": "foo",
+                "k2": 23,
+                "k3": "a"
+            },
+            {
+                "k1": "bar",
+                "k2": 42,
+                "k3": "b"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.0.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+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 ``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:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Output mount facts grouped by device name
+      debug:
+        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')
+
+    - name: Output mount facts grouped by mount point
+      debug:
+        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Output mount facts grouped by device name] ******************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')": {
+            "/dev/sda1": {
+                "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"
+            },
+            "/dev/sda2": {
+                "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 [Output mount facts grouped by mount point] ******************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')": {
+            "/": {
+                "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": "bdf50b7d-4859-40af-8665-c637ee7a7808"
+            },
+            "/boot": {
+                "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"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 3.0.0
--- 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
@@ -0,0 +1,292 @@
+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
+
+  list1:
+    - name: foo
+      extra: true
+    - name: bar
+      extra: false
+    - name: meh
+      extra: true
+
+  list2:
+    - name: foo
+      path: /foo
+    - name: baz
+      path: /baz
+
+In the example below the lists are merged by the attribute ``name``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+  list3: "{{ list1|
+             community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name') }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+  list3:
+  - extra: false
+    name: bar
+  - name: baz
+    path: /baz
+  - extra: true
+    name: foo
+    path: /foo
+  - extra: true
+    name: meh
+
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.0.0
+
+It is possible to use a list of lists as an input of the filter:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+             community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"
+
+This produces the same result as in the previous example:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+  list3:
+  - 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: ``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
+
+  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}]
+
+Example ``list_merge=replace`` (default):
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                             recursive=true) }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. 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
+    - key: value
+
+Example ``list_merge=keep``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                             recursive=true,
+                                             list_merge='keep') }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. 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
+
+Example ``list_merge=append``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                             recursive=true,
+                                             list_merge='append') }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. 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
+    - key: value
+
+Example ``list_merge=prepend``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                             recursive=true,
+                                             list_merge='prepend') }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. 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
+    - key: value
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2
+    - 3
+
+Example ``list_merge=append_rp``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                             recursive=true,
+                                             list_merge='append_rp') }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. 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
+    - key: value
+
+Example ``list_merge=prepend_rp``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
+             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
+                                             recursive=true,
+                                             list_merge='prepend_rp') }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. 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
+    - key: value
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2
+
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+Conversions
+-----------
+
+Parsing CSV files
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+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
+
+    - name: "Parse CSV from string"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ csv_string | community.general.from_csv }}"
+      vars:
+        csv_string: |
+          foo,bar,baz
+          1,2,3
+          you,this,then
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Parse CSV from string] **************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "bar": "2",
+                "baz": "3",
+                "foo": "1"
+            },
+            {
+                "bar": "this",
+                "baz": "then",
+                "foo": "you"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+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.
+:delimiter: Sets the delimiter to use. Default depends on the dialect used.
+:skipinitialspace: Set to ``true`` to ignore space directly after the delimiter. Default depends on the dialect used (usually ``false``).
+:strict: Set to ``true`` to error out on invalid CSV input.
+
+.. versionadded: 3.0.0
+
+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. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Run 'ls' to list files in /
+      command: ls /
+      register: result
+
+    - name: Parse the ls output
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ result.stdout | community.general.jc('ls') }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Run 'ls' to list files in /] ********************************************************
+    changed: [localhost]
+
+    TASK [Parse the ls output] ****************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "filename": "bin"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "boot"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "dev"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "etc"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "home"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "lib"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "proc"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "root"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "run"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "tmp"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 2.0.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+Creating identifiers
+--------------------
+
+The following filters allow to create identifiers.
+
+Hashids
+^^^^^^^
+
+`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
+
+    - name: "Create hashid"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ [1234, 5, 6] | community.general.hashids_encode }}"
+
+    - name: "Decode hashid"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ 'jm2Cytn' | community.general.hashids_decode }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Create hashid] **********************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "jm2Cytn"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Decode hashid] **********************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            1234,
+            5,
+            6
+        ]
+    }
+
+The hashids filters accept keyword arguments to allow fine-tuning the hashids generated:
+
+:salt: String to use as salt when hashing.
+:alphabet: String of 16 or more unique characters to produce a hash.
+:min_length: Minimum length of hash produced.
+
+.. versionadded: 3.0.0
+
+Random MACs
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+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
+
+    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with ff:"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ 'FF' | community.general.random_mac }}"
+
+    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '00:11:22' | community.general.random_mac }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with ff:] **********************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "ff:69:d3:78:7f:b4"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:] ****************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "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:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    "{{ '52:54:00' | community.general.random_mac(seed=inventory_hostname) }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Paths
+-----
+
+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
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+.. _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 ``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>`_.
+
+Consider this data structure:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    {
+        "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"
+                    }
+                ]
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+To extract all clusters from this structure, you can use the following query:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all cluster names
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.cluster[*].name') }}"
+
+To extract all server names:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all server names
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[*].name') }}"
+
+To extract ports from cluster1:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
+      vars:
+        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster1'].port"
+
+.. note:: You can use a variable to make the query more readable.
+
+To print out the ports from cluster1 in a comma separated string:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1 as a string
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        msg: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==`cluster1`].port') | join(', ') }}"
+
+.. note:: In the example above, quoting literals using backticks avoids escaping quotes and maintains readability.
+
+You can use YAML `single quote escaping <https://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2534365>`_:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==''cluster1''].port') }}"
+
+.. note:: Escaping single quotes within single quotes in YAML is done by doubling the single quote.
+
+To get a hash map with all ports and names of a cluster:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all server ports and names from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
+      vars:
+        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster2'].{name: name, port: port}"
+
+To extract ports from all clusters with name starting with 'server1':
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
+      vars:
+        server_name_query: "domain.server[?starts_with(name,'server1')].port"
+
+To extract ports from all clusters with name containing 'server1':
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
+      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.
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+Working with times
+------------------
+
+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 ``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
+   :header-rows: 1
+
+   * - Unit name
+     - Unit value in seconds
+     - Unit strings for filter
+     - Shorthand filter
+   * - Millisecond
+     - 1/1000 second
+     - ``ms``, ``millisecond``, ``milliseconds``, ``msec``, ``msecs``, ``msecond``, ``mseconds``
+     - ``to_milliseconds``
+   * - Second
+     - 1 second
+     - ``s``, ``sec``, ``secs``, ``second``, ``seconds``
+     - ``to_seconds``
+   * - Minute
+     - 60 seconds
+     - ``m``, ``min``, ``mins``, ``minute``, ``minutes``
+     - ``to_minutes``
+   * - Hour
+     - 60*60 seconds
+     - ``h``, ``hour``, ``hours``
+     - ``to_hours``
+   * - Day
+     - 24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``d``, ``day``, ``days``
+     - ``to_days``
+   * - Week
+     - 7*24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``w``, ``week``, ``weeks``
+     - ``to_weeks``
+   * - Month
+     - 30*24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``mo``, ``month``, ``months``
+     - ``to_months``
+   * - Year
+     - 365*24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``y``, ``year``, ``years``
+     - ``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 ``to_time_unit`` and to all shorthand filters.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Convert string to seconds
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_time_unit('seconds') }}"
+
+    - name: Convert string to hours
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_hours }}"
+
+    - name: Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '400d 15h' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25) }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Convert string to seconds] **********************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "109210.123"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Convert string to hours] ************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "30.336145277778"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)] ******************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "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
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+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.
+
+You can use the ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter to normalize ``Unicode`` strings within your playbooks.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Compare Unicode representations
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ with_combining_character | community.general.unicode_normalize == without_combining_character }}"
+      vars:
+        with_combining_character: "{{ 'Mayagu\u0308ez' }}"
+        without_combining_character: Mayagüez
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Compare Unicode representations] ********************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": true
+    }
+
+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.
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.7.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+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 ``version_sort`` filter:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Sort list by version number
+      debug:
+        var: ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort
+      vars:
+        ansible_versions:
+          - '2.8.0'
+          - '2.11.0'
+          - '2.7.0'
+          - '2.10.0'
+          - '2.9.0'
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Sort list by version number] ********************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort": [
+            "2.7.0",
+            "2.8.0",
+            "2.9.0",
+            "2.10.0",
+            "2.11.0"
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 2.2.0
--- a/galaxy.yml
+++ b/galaxy.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 namespace: community
 name: general
-version: 4.2.0
+version: 4.8.9
 readme: README.md
 authors:
  - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)
--- a/plugins/become/pfexec.py
+++ b/plugins/become/pfexec.py
@@ -101,4 +101,4 @@ class BecomeModule(BecomeBase):

        flags = self.get_option('become_flags')
        noexe = not self.get_option('wrap_exe')
-        return '%s %s "%s"' % (exe, flags, self._build_success_command(cmd, shell, noexe=noexe))
+        return '%s %s %s' % (exe, flags, self._build_success_command(cmd, shell, noexe=noexe))
--- a/plugins/become/sudosu.py
+++ b/plugins/become/sudosu.py
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
    name: sudosu
    short_description: Run tasks using sudo su -
    description:
-        - This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the C(sudo) and C(su) utilities combined.
+      - This become plugin allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the C(sudo) and C(su) utilities combined.
    author:
-    - Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)
+      - Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)
    version_added: 2.4.0
    options:
        become_user:
--- a/plugins/cache/memcached.py
+++ b/plugins/cache/memcached.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
          - List of connection information for the memcached DBs
        default: ['127.0.0.1:11211']
        type: list
+        elements: string
        env:
          - name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION
        ini:
--- a/plugins/callback/dense.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/dense.py
@@ -232,13 +232,13 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackModule_default):
        # Remove non-essential attributes
        for attr in self.removed_attributes:
            if attr in result:
-                del(result[attr])
+                del result[attr]

        # Remove empty attributes (list, dict, str)
        for attr in result.copy():
            if isinstance(result[attr], (MutableSequence, MutableMapping, binary_type, text_type)):
                if not result[attr]:
-                    del(result[attr])
+                    del result[attr]

    def _handle_exceptions(self, result):
        if 'exception' in result:
--- a/plugins/callback/log_plays.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/log_plays.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    type: notification
    short_description: write playbook output to log file
    description:
-      - This callback writes playbook output to a file per host in the `/var/log/ansible/hosts` directory
+      - This callback writes playbook output to a file per host in the C(/var/log/ansible/hosts) directory
    requirements:
     - Whitelist in configuration
     - A writeable /var/log/ansible/hosts directory by the user executing Ansible on the controller
--- a/plugins/callback/logstash.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/logstash.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
            version_added: 1.0.0
        default: ansible
      pre_command:
-        description: Executes command before run and result put to ansible_pre_command_output field.
+        description: Executes command before run and its result is added to the C(ansible_pre_command_output) logstash field.
        version_added: 2.0.0
        ini:
          - section: callback_logstash
--- a/plugins/callback/mail.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/mail.py
@@ -11,14 +11,16 @@ name: mail
 type: notification
 short_description: Sends failure events via email
 description:
- This callback will report failures via email
+- This callback will report failures via email.
 author:
 - Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)
 requirements:
 - whitelisting in configuration
 options:
  mta:
-    description: Mail Transfer Agent, server that accepts SMTP
+    description:
+        - Mail Transfer Agent, server that accepts SMTP.
+    type: str
    env:
        - name: SMTPHOST
    ini:
@@ -26,39 +28,53 @@ options:
          key: smtphost
    default: localhost
  mtaport:
-    description: Mail Transfer Agent Port, port at which server SMTP
+    description:
+        - Mail Transfer Agent Port.
+        - Port at which server SMTP.
+    type: int
    ini:
        - section: callback_mail
          key: smtpport
    default: 25
  to:
-    description: Mail recipient
+    description:
+        - Mail recipient.
+    type: list
+    elements: str
    ini:
        - section: callback_mail
          key: to
-    default: root
+    default: [root]
  sender:
-    description: Mail sender
+    description:
+        - Mail sender.
+        - Note that this will be required from community.general 6.0.0 on.
+    type: str
    ini:
        - section: callback_mail
          key: sender
  cc:
-    description: CC'd recipient
+    description:
+        - CC'd recipients.
+    type: list
+    elements: str
    ini:
        - section: callback_mail
          key: cc
  bcc:
-    description: BCC'd recipient
+    description:
+        - BCC'd recipients.
+    type: list
+    elements: str
    ini:
        - section: callback_mail
          key: bcc
-notes:
- "TODO: expand configuration options now that plugins can leverage Ansible's configuration"
 '''

 import json
 import os
 import re
+import email.utils
 import smtplib

 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
@@ -88,9 +104,13 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
        super(CallbackModule, self).set_options(task_keys=task_keys, var_options=var_options, direct=direct)

        self.sender = self.get_option('sender')
+        if self.sender is None:
+            self._display.deprecated(
+                'The sender for the mail callback has not been specified. This will be an error in the future',
+                version='6.0.0', collection_name='community.general')
        self.to = self.get_option('to')
        self.smtphost = self.get_option('mta')
-        self.smtpport = int(self.get_option('mtaport'))
+        self.smtpport = self.get_option('mtaport')
        self.cc = self.get_option('cc')
        self.bcc = self.get_option('bcc')

@@ -100,28 +120,34 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):

        smtp = smtplib.SMTP(self.smtphost, port=self.smtpport)

-        b_sender = to_bytes(self.sender)
-        b_to = to_bytes(self.to)
-        b_cc = to_bytes(self.cc)
-        b_bcc = to_bytes(self.bcc)
-        b_subject = to_bytes(subject)
-        b_body = to_bytes(body)
-
-        b_content = b'From: %s\n' % b_sender
-        b_content += b'To: %s\n' % b_to
+        sender_address = email.utils.parseaddr(self.sender)
+        if self.to:
+            to_addresses = email.utils.getaddresses(self.to)
        if self.cc:
-            b_content += b'Cc: %s\n' % b_cc
-        b_content += b'Subject: %s\n\n' % b_subject
-        b_content += b_body
-
-        b_addresses = b_to.split(b',')
-        if self.cc:
-            b_addresses += b_cc.split(b',')
+            cc_addresses = email.utils.getaddresses(self.cc)
        if self.bcc:
-            b_addresses += b_bcc.split(b',')
+            bcc_addresses = email.utils.getaddresses(self.bcc)

-        for b_address in b_addresses:
-            smtp.sendmail(b_sender, b_address, b_content)
+        content = 'Date: %s\n' % email.utils.formatdate()
+        content += 'From: %s\n' % email.utils.formataddr(sender_address)
+        if self.to:
+            content += 'To: %s\n' % ', '.join([email.utils.formataddr(pair) for pair in to_addresses])
+        if self.cc:
+            content += 'Cc: %s\n' % ', '.join([email.utils.formataddr(pair) for pair in cc_addresses])
+        content += 'Message-ID: %s\n' % email.utils.make_msgid()
+        content += 'Subject: %s\n\n' % subject.strip()
+        content += body
+
+        addresses = to_addresses
+        if self.cc:
+            addresses += cc_addresses
+        if self.bcc:
+            addresses += bcc_addresses
+
+        if not addresses:
+            self._display.warning('No receiver has been specified for the mail callback plugin.')
+
+        smtp.sendmail(self.sender, [address for name, address in addresses], to_bytes(content))

        smtp.quit()

--- a/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py
@@ -94,13 +94,32 @@ try:
    from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import (
        BatchSpanProcessor
    )
-    from opentelemetry.util._time import _time_ns
+
+    # Support for opentelemetry-api <= 1.12
+    try:
+        from opentelemetry.util._time import _time_ns
+    except ImportError as imp_exc:
+        OTEL_LIBRARY_TIME_NS_ERROR = imp_exc
+    else:
+        OTEL_LIBRARY_TIME_NS_ERROR = None
+
 except ImportError as imp_exc:
    OTEL_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR = imp_exc
+    OTEL_LIBRARY_TIME_NS_ERROR = imp_exc
 else:
    OTEL_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR = None


+if sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
+    time_ns = time.time_ns
+elif not OTEL_LIBRARY_TIME_NS_ERROR:
+    time_ns = _time_ns
+else:
+    def time_ns():
+        # Support versions older than 3.7 with opentelemetry-api > 1.12
+        return int(time.time() * 1e9)
+
+
 class TaskData:
    """
    Data about an individual task.
@@ -112,10 +131,7 @@ class TaskData:
        self.path = path
        self.play = play
        self.host_data = OrderedDict()
-        if sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
-            self.start = time.time_ns()
-        else:
-            self.start = _time_ns()
+        self.start = time_ns()
        self.action = action
        self.args = args

@@ -140,10 +156,7 @@ class HostData:
        self.name = name
        self.status = status
        self.result = result
-        if sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
-            self.finish = time.time_ns()
-        else:
-            self.finish = _time_ns()
+        self.finish = time_ns()


 class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
@@ -197,7 +210,7 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):

        task = tasks_data[task_uuid]

-        if self.ansible_version is None and result._task_fields['args'].get('_ansible_version'):
+        if self.ansible_version is None and hasattr(result, '_task_fields') and result._task_fields['args'].get('_ansible_version'):
            self.ansible_version = result._task_fields['args'].get('_ansible_version')

        task.add_host(HostData(host_uuid, host_name, status, result))
@@ -258,8 +271,9 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
            else:
                res = host_data.result._result
                rc = res.get('rc', 0)
-                message = self.get_error_message(res)
-                enriched_error_message = self.enrich_error_message(res)
+                if host_data.status == 'failed':
+                    message = self.get_error_message(res)
+                    enriched_error_message = self.enrich_error_message(res)

            if host_data.status == 'failed':
                status = Status(status_code=StatusCode.ERROR, description=message)
@@ -319,9 +333,9 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
    @staticmethod
    def url_from_args(args):
        # the order matters
-        url_args = ("url", "api_url", "baseurl", "repo", "server_url", "chart_repo_url")
+        url_args = ("url", "api_url", "baseurl", "repo", "server_url", "chart_repo_url", "registry_url", "endpoint", "uri", "updates_url")
        for arg in url_args:
-            if args.get(arg):
+            if args is not None and args.get(arg):
                return args.get(arg)
        return ""

--- a/plugins/callback/say.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/say.py
@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      - In 2.8, this callback has been renamed from C(osx_say) into M(community.general.say).
 '''

-import distutils.spawn
 import platform
 import subprocess
 import os

+from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase


@@ -47,21 +47,24 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
        self.HAPPY_VOICE = None
        self.LASER_VOICE = None

-        self.synthesizer = distutils.spawn.find_executable('say')
-        if not self.synthesizer:
-            self.synthesizer = distutils.spawn.find_executable('espeak')
-            if self.synthesizer:
+        try:
+            self.synthesizer = get_bin_path('say')
+            if platform.system() != 'Darwin':
+                # 'say' binary available, it might be GNUstep tool which doesn't support 'voice' parameter
+                self._display.warning("'say' executable found but system is '%s': ignoring voice parameter" % platform.system())
+            else:
+                self.FAILED_VOICE = 'Zarvox'
+                self.REGULAR_VOICE = 'Trinoids'
+                self.HAPPY_VOICE = 'Cellos'
+                self.LASER_VOICE = 'Princess'
+        except ValueError:
+            try:
+                self.synthesizer = get_bin_path('espeak')
                self.FAILED_VOICE = 'klatt'
                self.HAPPY_VOICE = 'f5'
                self.LASER_VOICE = 'whisper'
-        elif platform.system() != 'Darwin':
-            # 'say' binary available, it might be GNUstep tool which doesn't support 'voice' parameter
-            self._display.warning("'say' executable found but system is '%s': ignoring voice parameter" % platform.system())
-        else:
-            self.FAILED_VOICE = 'Zarvox'
-            self.REGULAR_VOICE = 'Trinoids'
-            self.HAPPY_VOICE = 'Cellos'
-            self.LASER_VOICE = 'Princess'
+            except ValueError:
+                self.synthesizer = None

        # plugin disable itself if say is not present
        # ansible will not call any callback if disabled is set to True
--- a/plugins/callback/selective.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/selective.py
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      - set as main display callback
    short_description: only print certain tasks
    description:
-      - This callback only prints tasks that have been tagged with `print_action` or that have failed.
+      - This callback only prints tasks that have been tagged with C(print_action) or that have failed.
        This allows operators to focus on the tasks that provide value only.
-      - Tasks that are not printed are placed with a '.'.
+      - Tasks that are not printed are placed with a C(.).
      - If you increase verbosity all tasks are printed.
    options:
      nocolor:
--- a/plugins/callback/syslog_json.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/syslog_json.py
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        ini:
          - section: callback_syslog_json
            key: syslog_facility
+      setup:
+        description: Log setup tasks.
+        env:
+          - name: ANSIBLE_SYSLOG_SETUP
+        type: bool
+        default: true
+        ini:
+          - section: callback_syslog_json
+            key: syslog_setup
+        version_added: 4.5.0
 '''

 import os
@@ -86,23 +96,36 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
        self.logger.addHandler(self.handler)
        self.hostname = socket.gethostname()

-    def runner_on_failed(self, host, res, ignore_errors=False):
+    def v2_runner_on_failed(self, result, ignore_errors=False):
+        res = result._result
+        host = result._host.get_name()
        self.logger.error('%s ansible-command: task execution FAILED; host: %s; message: %s', self.hostname, host, self._dump_results(res))

-    def runner_on_ok(self, host, res):
-        self.logger.info('%s ansible-command: task execution OK; host: %s; message: %s', self.hostname, host, self._dump_results(res))
+    def v2_runner_on_ok(self, result):
+        res = result._result
+        host = result._host.get_name()
+        if result._task.action != "gather_facts" or self.get_option("setup"):
+            self.logger.info('%s ansible-command: task execution OK; host: %s; message: %s', self.hostname, host, self._dump_results(res))

-    def runner_on_skipped(self, host, item=None):
+    def v2_runner_on_skipped(self, result):
+        host = result._host.get_name()
        self.logger.info('%s ansible-command: task execution SKIPPED; host: %s; message: %s', self.hostname, host, 'skipped')

-    def runner_on_unreachable(self, host, res):
+    def v2_runner_on_unreachable(self, result):
+        res = result._result
+        host = result._host.get_name()
        self.logger.error('%s ansible-command: task execution UNREACHABLE; host: %s; message: %s', self.hostname, host, self._dump_results(res))

-    def runner_on_async_failed(self, host, res, jid):
+    def v2_runner_on_async_failed(self, result):
+        res = result._result
+        host = result._host.get_name()
+        jid = result._result.get('ansible_job_id')
        self.logger.error('%s ansible-command: task execution FAILED; host: %s; message: %s', self.hostname, host, self._dump_results(res))

-    def playbook_on_import_for_host(self, host, imported_file):
+    def v2_playbook_on_import_for_host(self, result, imported_file):
+        host = result._host.get_name()
        self.logger.info('%s ansible-command: playbook IMPORTED; host: %s; message: imported file %s', self.hostname, host, imported_file)

-    def playbook_on_not_import_for_host(self, host, missing_file):
+    def v2_playbook_on_not_import_for_host(self, result, missing_file):
+        host = result._host.get_name()
        self.logger.info('%s ansible-command: playbook NOT IMPORTED; host: %s; message: missing file %s', self.hostname, host, missing_file)
--- a/plugins/connection/funcd.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/funcd.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        self.client = fc.Client(self.host)
        return self

-    def exec_command(self, cmd, become_user=None, sudoable=False, executable='/bin/sh', in_data=None):
+    def exec_command(self, cmd, in_data=None, sudoable=True):
        """ run a command on the remote minion """

        if in_data:
--- a/plugins/connection/jail.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/jail.py
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            - name: ansible_jail_user
 '''

-import distutils.spawn
 import os
 import os.path
 import subprocess
@@ -39,6 +38,7 @@ import traceback

 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
+from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase, BUFSIZE
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
@@ -75,10 +75,10 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):

    @staticmethod
    def _search_executable(executable):
-        cmd = distutils.spawn.find_executable(executable)
-        if not cmd:
+        try:
+            return get_bin_path(executable)
+        except ValueError:
            raise AnsibleError("%s command not found in PATH" % executable)
-        return cmd

    def list_jails(self):
        p = subprocess.Popen([self.jls_cmd, '-q', 'name'],
--- a/plugins/connection/lxd.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/lxd.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            - Container identifier.
        default: inventory_hostname
        vars:
+            - name: inventory_hostname
            - name: ansible_host
            - name: ansible_lxd_host
      executable:
@@ -43,10 +44,10 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 '''

 import os
-from distutils.spawn import find_executable
 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure, AnsibleFileNotFound
+from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase

@@ -61,10 +62,9 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
    def __init__(self, play_context, new_stdin, *args, **kwargs):
        super(Connection, self).__init__(play_context, new_stdin, *args, **kwargs)

-        self._host = self._play_context.remote_addr
-        self._lxc_cmd = find_executable("lxc")
-
-        if not self._lxc_cmd:
+        try:
+            self._lxc_cmd = get_bin_path("lxc")
+        except ValueError:
            raise AnsibleError("lxc command not found in PATH")

        if self._play_context.remote_user is not None and self._play_context.remote_user != 'root':
@@ -75,14 +75,14 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        super(Connection, self)._connect()

        if not self._connected:
-            self._display.vvv(u"ESTABLISH LXD CONNECTION FOR USER: root", host=self._host)
+            self._display.vvv(u"ESTABLISH LXD CONNECTION FOR USER: root", host=self.get_option('remote_addr'))
            self._connected = True

    def exec_command(self, cmd, in_data=None, sudoable=True):
        """ execute a command on the lxd host """
        super(Connection, self).exec_command(cmd, in_data=in_data, sudoable=sudoable)

-        self._display.vvv(u"EXEC {0}".format(cmd), host=self._host)
+        self._display.vvv(u"EXEC {0}".format(cmd), host=self.get_option('remote_addr'))

        local_cmd = [self._lxc_cmd]
        if self.get_option("project"):
@@ -104,10 +104,10 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        stderr = to_text(stderr)

        if stderr == "error: Container is not running.\n":
-            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("container not running: %s" % self._host)
+            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("container not running: %s" % self.get_option('remote_addr'))

        if stderr == "error: not found\n":
-            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("container not found: %s" % self._host)
+            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("container not found: %s" % self.get_option('remote_addr'))

        return process.returncode, stdout, stderr

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        """ put a file from local to lxd """
        super(Connection, self).put_file(in_path, out_path)

-        self._display.vvv(u"PUT {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path), host=self._host)
+        self._display.vvv(u"PUT {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path), host=self.get_option('remote_addr'))

        if not os.path.isfile(to_bytes(in_path, errors='surrogate_or_strict')):
            raise AnsibleFileNotFound("input path is not a file: %s" % in_path)
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        """ fetch a file from lxd to local """
        super(Connection, self).fetch_file(in_path, out_path)

-        self._display.vvv(u"FETCH {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path), host=self._host)
+        self._display.vvv(u"FETCH {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path), host=self.get_option('remote_addr'))

        local_cmd = [self._lxc_cmd]
        if self.get_option("project"):
--- a/plugins/connection/zone.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/zone.py
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            - name: ansible_zone_host
 '''

-import distutils.spawn
 import os
 import os.path
 import subprocess
@@ -34,6 +33,7 @@ import traceback

 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
+from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase, BUFSIZE
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
@@ -64,10 +64,10 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):

    @staticmethod
    def _search_executable(executable):
-        cmd = distutils.spawn.find_executable(executable)
-        if not cmd:
+        try:
+            return get_bin_path(executable)
+        except ValueError:
            raise AnsibleError("%s command not found in PATH" % executable)
-        return cmd

    def list_zones(self):
        process = subprocess.Popen([self.zoneadm_cmd, 'list', '-ip'],
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/influxdb.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/influxdb.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ options:
    - The path on which InfluxDB server is accessible
    - Only available when using python-influxdb >= 5.1.0
    type: str
+    default: ''
    version_added: '0.2.0'
  validate_certs:
    description:
@@ -79,4 +80,5 @@ options:
    description:
    - HTTP(S) proxy to use for Requests to connect to InfluxDB server.
    type: dict
+    default: {}
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/keycloak.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/keycloak.py
@@ -61,4 +61,11 @@ options:
            - Verify TLS certificates (do not disable this in production).
        type: bool
        default: yes
+
+    connection_timeout:
+        description:
+            - Controls the HTTP connections timeout period (in seconds) to Keycloak API.
+        type: int
+        default: 10
+        version_added: 4.5.0
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/ldap.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/ldap.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ options:
    description:
      - The password to use with I(bind_dn).
    type: str
+    default: ''
  dn:
    required: true
    description:
@@ -38,8 +39,10 @@ options:
    version_added: 2.0.0
  server_uri:
    description:
-      - A URI to the LDAP server.
+      - The I(server_uri) parameter may be a comma- or whitespace-separated list of URIs containing only the schema, the host, and the port fields.
      - The default value lets the underlying LDAP client library look for a UNIX domain socket in its default location.
+      - Note that when using multiple URIs you cannot determine to which URI your client gets connected.
+      - For URIs containing additional fields, particularly when using commas, behavior is undefined.
    type: str
    default: ldapi:///
  start_tls:
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/lxca_common.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/lxca_common.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

 # Copyright (C) 2017 Lenovo, Inc.
-# Simplified BSD License (see licenses/simplified_bsd.txt or https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)
+# Simplified BSD License (see simplified_bsd.txt or https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)

 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/utm.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/utm.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ options:
          - Is needed for some modules
        type: dict
        required: false
+        default: {}
    utm_host:
        description:
          - The REST Endpoint of the Sophos UTM.
--- a/plugins/filter/counter.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/counter.py
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright (c) 2021, Remy Keil <remy.keil@gmail.com>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+  name: counter
+  short_description: Counts hashable elements in a sequence
+  version_added: 4.3.0
+  author: Rémy Keil (@keilr)
+  description:
+    - Counts hashable elements in a sequence.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: A sequence.
+      type: list
+      elements: any
+      required: true
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+- name: Count occurences
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: >-
+      {{ [1, 'a', 2, 2, 'a', 'b', 'a'] | community.general.counter }}
+    # Produces: {1: 1, 'a': 3, 2: 2, 'b': 1}
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+  _value:
+    description: A dictionary with the elements of the sequence as keys, and their number of occurance in the sequence as values.
+    type: dictionary
+'''
+
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
+from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import Sequence
+from collections import Counter
+
+
+def counter(sequence):
+    ''' Count elements in a sequence. Returns dict with count result. '''
+    if not isinstance(sequence, Sequence):
+        raise AnsibleFilterError('Argument for community.general.counter must be a sequence (string or list). %s is %s' %
+                                 (sequence, type(sequence)))
+
+    try:
+        result = dict(Counter(sequence))
+    except TypeError as e:
+        raise AnsibleFilterError(
+            "community.general.counter needs a sequence with hashable elements (int, float or str) - %s" % (e)
+        )
+    return result
+
+
+class FilterModule(object):
+    ''' Ansible counter jinja2 filters '''
+
+    def filters(self):
+        filters = {
+            'counter': counter,
+        }
+
+        return filters
--- a/plugins/filter/dict.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/dict.py
@@ -6,6 +6,60 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type

+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+  name: dict
+  short_description: Convert a list of tuples into a dictionary
+  version_added: 3.0.0
+  author: Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)
+  description:
+    - Convert a list of tuples into a dictionary. This is a filter version of the C(dict) function.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: A list of tuples (with exactly two elements).
+      type: list
+      elements: tuple
+      required: true
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+- name: Convert list of tuples into dictionary
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    dictionary: "{{ [[1, 2], ['a', 'b']] | community.general.dict }}"
+    # Result is {1: 2, 'a': 'b'}
+
+- name: Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: >-
+      {{ values | map('zip', ['k1', 'k2', 'k3'])
+                | map('map', 'reverse')
+                | map('community.general.dict') }}
+  vars:
+    values:
+      - - foo
+        - 23
+        - a
+      - - bar
+        - 42
+        - b
+  # Produces the following list of dictionaries:
+  #   {
+  #     "k1": "foo",
+  #     "k2": 23,
+  #     "k3": "a"
+  #   },
+  #   {
+  #     "k1": "bar",
+  #     "k2": 42,
+  #     "k3": "b"
+  #   }
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+  _value:
+    description: The dictionary having the provided key-value pairs.
+    type: boolean
+'''
+

 def dict_filter(sequence):
    '''Convert a list of tuples to a dictionary.
--- a/plugins/filter/dict_kv.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/dict_kv.py
@@ -5,6 +5,38 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+  name: dict_kv
+  short_description: Convert a value to a dictionary with a single key-value pair
+  version_added: 1.3.0
+  author: Stanislav German-Evtushenko (@giner)
+  description:
+    - Convert a value to a dictionary with a single key-value pair.
+  positional: key
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: The value for the single key-value pair.
+      type: any
+      required: true
+    key:
+      description: The key for the single key-value pair.
+      type: any
+      required: true
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+- name: Create a one-element dictionary from a value
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: "{{ 'myvalue' | dict_kv('mykey') }}"
+    # Produces the dictionary {'mykey': 'myvalue'}
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+  _value:
+    description: A dictionary with a single key-value pair.
+    type: dictionary
+'''
+

 def dict_kv(value, key):
    '''Return a dictionary with a single key-value pair
--- a/plugins/filter/from_csv.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/from_csv.py
@@ -7,6 +7,78 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type

+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+  name: from_csv
+  short_description: Converts CSV text input into list of dicts
+  version_added: 2.3.0
+  author: Andrew Pantuso (@Ajpantuso)
+  description:
+    - Converts CSV text input into list of dictionaries.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: A string containing a CSV document.
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    dialect:
+      description:
+        - The CSV dialect to use when parsing the CSV file.
+        - Possible values include C(excel), C(excel-tab) or C(unix).
+      type: str
+      default: excel
+    fieldnames:
+      description:
+        - A list of field names for every column.
+        - This is needed if the CSV does not have a header.
+      type: list
+      elements: str
+    delimiter:
+      description:
+        - A one-character string used to separate fields.
+        - When using this parameter, you change the default value used by I(dialect).
+        - The default value depends on the dialect used.
+      type: str
+    skipinitialspace:
+      description:
+        - Whether to ignore any whitespaces immediately following the delimiter.
+        - When using this parameter, you change the default value used by I(dialect).
+        - The default value depends on the dialect used.
+      type: bool
+    strict:
+      description:
+        - Whether to raise an exception on bad CSV input.
+        - When using this parameter, you change the default value used by I(dialect).
+        - The default value depends on the dialect used.
+      type: bool
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+- name: Parse a CSV file's contents
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: >-
+      {{ csv_data | community.genera.from_csv(dialect='unix') }}
+  vars:
+    csv_data: |
+      Column 1,Value
+      foo,23
+      bar,42
+  # Produces the following list of dictionaries:
+  #   {
+  #     "Column 1": "foo",
+  #     "Value": "23",
+  #   },
+  #   {
+  #     "Column 1": "bar",
+  #     "Value": "42",
+  #   }
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+  _value:
+    description: A list with one dictionary per row.
+    type: list
+    elements: dictionary
+'''
+
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native

--- a/plugins/filter/groupby_as_dict.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/groupby_as_dict.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: groupby_as_dict
+  short_description: Transform a sequence of dictionaries to a dictionary where the dictionaries are indexed by an attribute
+  version_added: 3.1.0
+  author: Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)
+  description:
+    - Transform a sequence of dictionaries to a dictionary where the dictionaries are indexed by an attribute.
+  positional: attribute
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: A list of dictionaries
+      type: list
+      elements: dictionary
+      required: true
+    attribute:
+      description: The attribute to use as the key.
+      type: str
+      required: true
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Arrange a list of dictionaries as a dictionary of dictionaries
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ sequence | community.general.groupby_as_dict('key') }}"
+    vars:
+      sequence:
+        - key: value
+          foo: bar
+        - key: other_value
+          baz: bar
+    # Produces the following nested structure:
+    #
+    #  value:
+    #    key: value
+    #    foo: bar
+    #  other_value:
+    #    key: other_value
+    #    baz: bar
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: A dictionary containing the dictionaries from the list as values.
+    type: dictionary
--- a/plugins/filter/hashids_decode.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/hashids_decode.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: hashids_decode
+  short_description: Decodes a sequence of numbers from a YouTube-like hash
+  version_added: 3.0.0
+  author: Andrew Pantuso (@Ajpantuso)
+  description:
+    - Decodes a sequence of numbers from a YouTube-like hash.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: A YouTube-like hash.
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    salt:
+      description:
+        - String to use as salt when hashing.
+      type: str
+      default: excel
+    alphabet:
+      description:
+        - String of 16 or more unique characters to produce a hash.
+      type: list
+      elements: str
+    min_length:
+      description:
+        - Minimum length of hash produced.
+      type: integer
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Convert hash to list of integers
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ 'o2fXhV' | community.general.hashids_decode }}"
+      # Produces: [1, 2, 3]
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: A list of integers.
+    type: list
+    elements: integer
--- a/plugins/filter/hashids_encode.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/hashids_encode.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: hashids_encode
+  short_description: Encodes YouTube-like hashes from a sequence of integers
+  version_added: 3.0.0
+  author: Andrew Pantuso (@Ajpantuso)
+  description:
+    - Encodes YouTube-like hashes from a sequence of integers.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: A list of integers.
+      type: list
+      elements: integer
+      required: true
+    salt:
+      description:
+        - String to use as salt when hashing.
+      type: str
+      default: excel
+    alphabet:
+      description:
+        - String of 16 or more unique characters to produce a hash.
+      type: list
+      elements: str
+    min_length:
+      description:
+        - Minimum length of hash produced.
+      type: integer
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Convert list of integers to hash
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ [1, 2, 3] | community.general.hashids_encode }}"
+      # Produces: 'o2fXhV'
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: A YouTube-like hash.
+    type: string
--- a/plugins/filter/jc.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/jc.py
@@ -21,6 +21,73 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+  name: jc
+  short_description: Convert output of many shell commands and file-types to JSON
+  version_added: 1.1.0
+  author: Kelly Brazil (@kellyjonbrazil)
+  description:
+    - Convert output of many shell commands and file-types to JSON.
+    - Uses the L(jc library,https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc).
+  positional: parser
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: The data to convert.
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    parser:
+      description:
+        - The correct parser for the input data.
+        - For exmaple C(ifconfig).
+        - See U(https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc#parsers) for the latest list of parsers.
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    quiet:
+      description: Set to C(false) to not suppress warnings.
+      type: boolean
+      default: true
+    raw:
+      description: Set to C(true) to return pre-processed JSON.
+      type: boolean
+      default: false
+  requirements:
+    - jc installed as a Python library (U(https://pypi.org/project/jc/))
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+- name: Install the prereqs of the jc filter (jc Python package) on the Ansible controller
+  delegate_to: localhost
+  ansible.builtin.pip:
+    name: jc
+    state: present
+
+- name: Run command
+  ansible.builtin.command: uname -a
+  register: result
+
+- name: Convert command's result to JSON
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: "{{ result.stdout | community.general.jc('uname') }}"
+  # Possible output:
+  #
+  # "msg": {
+  #   "hardware_platform": "x86_64",
+  #   "kernel_name": "Linux",
+  #   "kernel_release": "4.15.0-112-generic",
+  #   "kernel_version": "#113-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 9 23:41:39 UTC 2020",
+  #   "machine": "x86_64",
+  #   "node_name": "kbrazil-ubuntu",
+  #   "operating_system": "GNU/Linux",
+  #   "processor": "x86_64"
+  # }
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+  _value:
+    description: The processed output.
+    type: any
+'''
+
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFilterError
 import importlib

@@ -46,15 +113,19 @@ def jc(data, parser, quiet=True, raw=False):
        dictionary or list of dictionaries

    Example:
-
        - name: run date command
          hosts: ubuntu
          tasks:
-          - shell: date
+          - name: install the prereqs of the jc filter (jc Python package) on the Ansible controller
+            delegate_to: localhost
+            ansible.builtin.pip:
+              name: jc
+              state: present
+          - ansible.builtin.shell: date
            register: result
-          - set_fact:
+          - ansible.builtin.set_fact:
              myvar: "{{ result.stdout | community.general.jc('date') }}"
-          - debug:
+          - ansible.builtin.debug:
              msg: "{{ myvar }}"

        produces:
@@ -76,7 +147,7 @@ def jc(data, parser, quiet=True, raw=False):
    """

    if not HAS_LIB:
-        raise AnsibleError('You need to install "jc" prior to running jc filter')
+        raise AnsibleError('You need to install "jc" as a Python library on the Ansible controller prior to running jc filter')

    try:
        jc_parser = importlib.import_module('jc.parsers.' + parser)
--- a/plugins/filter/json_query.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/json_query.py
@@ -19,6 +19,107 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+  name: json_query
+  short_description: Select a single element or a data subset from a complex data structure
+  description:
+    - This filter lets you query a complex JSON structure and iterate over it using a loop structure.
+  positional: expr
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description:
+        - The JSON data to query.
+      type: any
+      required: true
+    expr:
+      description:
+        - The query expression.
+        - See U(http://jmespath.org/examples.html) for examples.
+      type: string
+      required: true
+  requirements:
+    - jmespath
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+- name: Define data to work on in the examples below
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    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
+
+- name: Display all cluster names
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    var: item
+  loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.cluster[*].name') }}"
+
+- name: Display all server names
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    var: item
+  loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[*].name') }}"
+
+- name: Display all ports from cluster1
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    var: item
+  loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
+  vars:
+    server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster1'].port"
+
+- name: Display all ports from cluster1 as a string
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==`cluster1`].port') | join(', ') }}"
+
+- name: Display all ports from cluster1
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    var: item
+  loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==''cluster1''].port') }}"
+
+- name: Display all server ports and names from cluster1
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    var: item
+  loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
+  vars:
+    server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster2'].{name: name, port: port}"
+
+- name: Display all ports from cluster1
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
+  vars:
+    server_name_query: "domain.server[?starts_with(name,'server1')].port"
+
+- name: Display all ports from cluster1
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
+  vars:
+    server_name_query: "domain.server[?contains(name,'server1')].port"
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+  _value:
+    description: The result of the query.
+    type: any
+'''
+
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFilterError

 try:
--- a/plugins/filter/list.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/list.py
@@ -1,43 +1,113 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2020, Vladimir Botka <vbotka@gmail.com>
+# Copyright (c) 2020-2022, Vladimir Botka <vbotka@gmail.com>
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)

 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

-from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFilterError
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import Mapping, Sequence
+from ansible.utils.vars import merge_hash
+from ansible.release import __version__ as ansible_version
+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.version import LooseVersion
+
 from collections import defaultdict
 from operator import itemgetter


-def lists_mergeby(l1, l2, index):
-    ''' merge lists by attribute index. Example:
-        - debug: msg="{{ l1|community.general.lists_mergeby(l2, 'index')|list }}" '''
+def merge_hash_wrapper(x, y, recursive=False, list_merge='replace'):
+    ''' Wrapper of the function merge_hash from ansible.utils.vars. Only 2 paramaters are allowed
+        for Ansible 2.9 and lower.'''

-    if not isinstance(l1, Sequence):
-        raise AnsibleFilterError('First argument for community.general.lists_mergeby must be list. %s is %s' %
-                                 (l1, type(l1)))
+    if LooseVersion(ansible_version) < LooseVersion('2.10'):
+        if list_merge != 'replace' or recursive:
+            msg = ("Non default options of list_merge(default=replace) or recursive(default=False) "
+                   "are not allowed in Ansible version 2.9 or lower. Ansible version is %s, "
+                   "recursive=%s, and list_merge=%s.")
+            raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (ansible_version, recursive, list_merge))
+        else:
+            return merge_hash(x, y)
+    else:
+        return merge_hash(x, y, recursive, list_merge)

-    if not isinstance(l2, Sequence):
-        raise AnsibleFilterError('Second argument for community.general.lists_mergeby must be list. %s is %s' %
-                                 (l2, type(l2)))

-    if not isinstance(index, string_types):
-        raise AnsibleFilterError('Third argument for community.general.lists_mergeby must be string. %s is %s' %
-                                 (index, type(index)))
+def list_mergeby(x, y, index, recursive=False, list_merge='replace'):
+    ''' Merge 2 lists by attribute 'index'. The function merge_hash from ansible.utils.vars is used.
+        This function is used by the function lists_mergeby.
+    '''

    d = defaultdict(dict)
-    for l in (l1, l2):
+    for l in (x, y):
        for elem in l:
            if not isinstance(elem, Mapping):
-                raise AnsibleFilterError('Elements of list arguments for lists_mergeby must be dictionaries. Found {0!r}.'.format(elem))
+                msg = "Elements of list arguments for lists_mergeby must be dictionaries. %s is %s"
+                raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (elem, type(elem)))
            if index in elem.keys():
-                d[elem[index]].update(elem)
+                d[elem[index]].update(merge_hash_wrapper(d[elem[index]], elem, recursive, list_merge))
    return sorted(d.values(), key=itemgetter(index))


+def lists_mergeby(*terms, **kwargs):
+    ''' Merge 2 or more lists by attribute 'index'. Optional parameters 'recursive' and 'list_merge'
+        control the merging of the lists in values. The function merge_hash from ansible.utils.vars
+        is used. To learn details on how to use the parameters 'recursive' and 'list_merge' see
+        Ansible User's Guide chapter "Using filters to manipulate data" section "Combining
+        hashes/dictionaries".
+
+        Example:
+        - debug:
+            msg: "{{ list1|
+                     community.general.lists_mergeby(list2,
+                                                     'index',
+                                                     recursive=True,
+                                                     list_merge='append')|
+                     list }}"
+    '''
+
+    recursive = kwargs.pop('recursive', False)
+    list_merge = kwargs.pop('list_merge', 'replace')
+    if kwargs:
+        raise AnsibleFilterError("'recursive' and 'list_merge' are the only valid keyword arguments.")
+    if len(terms) < 2:
+        raise AnsibleFilterError("At least one list and index are needed.")
+
+    # allow the user to do `[list1, list2, ...] | lists_mergeby('index')`
+    flat_list = []
+    for sublist in terms[:-1]:
+        if not isinstance(sublist, Sequence):
+            msg = ("All arguments before the argument index for community.general.lists_mergeby "
+                   "must be lists. %s is %s")
+            raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (sublist, type(sublist)))
+        if len(sublist) > 0:
+            if all(isinstance(l, Sequence) for l in sublist):
+                for item in sublist:
+                    flat_list.append(item)
+            else:
+                flat_list.append(sublist)
+    lists = flat_list
+
+    if not lists:
+        return []
+
+    if len(lists) == 1:
+        return lists[0]
+
+    index = terms[-1]
+
+    if not isinstance(index, string_types):
+        msg = ("First argument after the lists for community.general.lists_mergeby must be string. "
+               "%s is %s")
+        raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (index, type(index)))
+
+    high_to_low_prio_list_iterator = reversed(lists)
+    result = next(high_to_low_prio_list_iterator)
+    for list in high_to_low_prio_list_iterator:
+        result = list_mergeby(list, result, index, recursive, list_merge)
+
+    return result
+
+
 class FilterModule(object):
    ''' Ansible list filters '''

--- a/plugins/filter/lists_mergeby.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/lists_mergeby.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: lists_mergeby
+  short_description: Merge two or more lists of dictionaries by a given attribute
+  version_added: 2.0.0
+  author: Vladimir Botka (@vbotka)
+  description:
+    - Merge two or more lists by attribute I(index). Optional parameters 'recursive' and 'list_merge'
+      control the merging of the lists in values. The function merge_hash from ansible.utils.vars
+      is used. To learn details on how to use the parameters 'recursive' and 'list_merge' see
+      Ansible User's Guide chapter "Using filters to manipulate data" section "Combining
+      hashes/dictionaries".
+  positional: another_list, index
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: A list of dictionaries.
+      type: list
+      elements: dictionary
+      required: true
+    another_list:
+      description: Another list of dictionaries. This parameter can be specified multiple times.
+      type: list
+      elements: dictionary
+    index:
+      description:
+        - The dictionary key that must be present in every dictionary in every list that is used to
+          merge the lists.
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    recursive:
+      description:
+        - Should the combine recursively merge nested dictionaries (hashes).
+        - "B(Note:) It does not depend on the value of the C(hash_behaviour) setting in C(ansible.cfg)."
+      type: boolean
+      default: false
+    list_merge:
+      description:
+        - Modifies the behaviour when the dictionaries (hashes) to merge contain arrays/lists.
+      type: string
+      default: replace
+      choices:
+        - replace
+        - keep
+        - append
+        - prepend
+        - append_rp
+        - prepend_rp
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Merge two lists
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: >-
+        {{ list1 | community.general.lists_mergeby(
+                      list2,
+                      'index',
+                      recursive=True,
+                      list_merge='append'
+                   ) }}"
+    vars:
+      list1:
+        - index: a
+          value: 123
+        - index: b
+          value: 42
+      list2:
+        - index: a
+          foo: bar
+        - index: c
+          foo: baz
+    # Produces the following list of dictionaries:
+    #   {
+    #     "index": "a",
+    #     "foo": "bar",
+    #     "value": 123
+    #   },
+    #   {
+    #     "index": "b",
+    #     "value": 42
+    #   },
+    #   {
+    #     "index": "c",
+    #     "foo": "baz"
+    #   }
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: The merged list.
+    type: list
+    elements: dictionary
--- a/plugins/filter/random_mac.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/random_mac.py
@@ -20,6 +20,41 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+  name: random_mac
+  short_description: Generate a random MAC address
+  description:
+    - Generates random networking interfaces MAC addresses for a given prefix.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: A string prefix to use as a basis for the random MAC generated.
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    seed:
+      description:
+        - A randomization seed to initialize the process, used to get repeatable results.
+        - If no seed is provided, a system random source such as C(/dev/urandom) is used.
+      required: false
+      type: string
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+- name: Random MAC given a prefix
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: "{{ '52:54:00' | community.general.random_mac }}"
+    # => '52:54:00:ef:1c:03'
+
+- name: With a seed
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: "{{ '52:54:00' | community.general.random_mac(seed=inventory_hostname) }}"
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+  _value:
+    description: The generated MAC.
+    type: string
+'''
+
 import re
 from random import Random, SystemRandom

--- a/plugins/filter/to_days.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_days.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: to_days
+  short_description: Converte a duration string to days
+  version_added: 0.2.0
+  description:
+    - Parse a human readable time duration string and convert to days.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description:
+        - The time string to convert.
+        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
+          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
+          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
+        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    year:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per year.
+      default: 365
+      type: float
+    month:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per month.
+      default: 30
+      type: float
+  author:
+    - René Moser (@resmo)
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Convert a duration into days
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ '1y 7m 5d 30h' | community.general.to_days }}"
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: Number of days.
+    type: float
--- a/plugins/filter/to_hours.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_hours.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: to_hours
+  short_description: Converte a duration string to hours
+  version_added: 0.2.0
+  description:
+    - Parse a human readable time duration string and convert to hours.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description:
+        - The time string to convert.
+        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
+          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
+          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
+        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    year:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per year.
+      default: 365
+      type: float
+    month:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per month.
+      default: 30
+      type: float
+  author:
+    - René Moser (@resmo)
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Convert a duration into hours
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ '7d 30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_hours }}"
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: Number of hours.
+    type: float
--- a/plugins/filter/to_milliseconds.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_milliseconds.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: to_milliseconds
+  short_description: Converte a duration string to milliseconds
+  version_added: 0.2.0
+  description:
+    - Parse a human readable time duration string and convert to milliseconds.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description:
+        - The time string to convert.
+        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
+          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
+          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
+        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    year:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per year.
+      default: 365
+      type: float
+    month:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per month.
+      default: 30
+      type: float
+  author:
+    - René Moser (@resmo)
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Convert a duration into milliseconds
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_milliseconds }}"
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: Number of milliseconds.
+    type: float
--- a/plugins/filter/to_minutes.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_minutes.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: to_minutes
+  short_description: Converte a duration string to minutes
+  version_added: 0.2.0
+  description:
+    - Parse a human readable time duration string and convert to minutes.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description:
+        - The time string to convert.
+        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
+          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
+          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
+        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    year:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per year.
+      default: 365
+      type: float
+    month:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per month.
+      default: 30
+      type: float
+  author:
+    - René Moser (@resmo)
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Convert a duration into minutes
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_minutes }}"
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: Number of minutes.
+    type: float
--- a/plugins/filter/to_months.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_months.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: to_months
+  short_description: Converte a duration string to months
+  version_added: 0.2.0
+  description:
+    - Parse a human readable time duration string and convert to months.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description:
+        - The time string to convert.
+        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
+          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
+          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
+        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    year:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per year.
+      default: 365
+      type: float
+    month:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per month.
+      default: 30
+      type: float
+  author:
+    - René Moser (@resmo)
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Convert a duration into months
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ '1y 7m 5d 30h' | community.general.to_months }}"
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: Number of months.
+    type: float
--- a/plugins/filter/to_seconds.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_seconds.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: to_seconds
+  short_description: Converte a duration string to seconds
+  version_added: 0.2.0
+  description:
+    - Parse a human readable time duration string and convert to seconds.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description:
+        - The time string to convert.
+        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
+          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
+          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
+        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    year:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per year.
+      default: 365
+      type: float
+    month:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per month.
+      default: 30
+      type: float
+  author:
+    - René Moser (@resmo)
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Convert a duration into seconds
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_seconds }}"
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: Number of seconds.
+    type: float
--- a/plugins/filter/to_time_unit.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_time_unit.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: to_time_unit
+  short_description: Converte a duration string to the given time unit
+  version_added: 0.2.0
+  description:
+    - Parse a human readable time duration string and convert to the given time unit.
+  positional: unit
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description:
+        - The time string to convert.
+        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
+          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
+          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
+        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    unit:
+      description:
+        - Time unit to convert the duration to.
+      default: ms
+      choices:
+        - millisecond
+        - milliseconds
+        - ms
+        - msec
+        - msecs
+        - msecond
+        - mseconds
+        - s
+        - sec
+        - secs
+        - second
+        - seconds
+        - h
+        - hour
+        - hours
+        - hs
+        - m
+        - min
+        - mins
+        - minute
+        - minutes
+        - d
+        - ds
+        - day
+        - days
+        - w
+        - ws
+        - week
+        - weeks
+        - mo
+        - mos
+        - month
+        - months
+        - y
+        - ys
+        - year
+        - years
+      type: string
+    year:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per year.
+      default: 365
+      type: float
+    month:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per month.
+      default: 30
+      type: float
+  author:
+    - René Moser (@resmo)
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Convert a duration into seconds
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ '1053d 17h 53m -10s 391ms' | community.general.to_time_unit('s') }}"
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: Number of time units.
+    type: float
--- a/plugins/filter/to_weeks.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_weeks.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: to_weeks
+  short_description: Converte a duration string to weeks
+  version_added: 0.2.0
+  description:
+    - Parse a human readable time duration string and convert to weeks.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description:
+        - The time string to convert.
+        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
+          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
+          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
+        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    year:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per year.
+      default: 365
+      type: float
+    month:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per month.
+      default: 30
+      type: float
+  author:
+    - René Moser (@resmo)
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Convert a duration into weeks
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ '1y 7m 5d 30h' | community.general.to_weeks }}"
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: Number of weeks.
+    type: float
--- a/plugins/filter/to_years.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_years.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+DOCUMENTATION:
+  name: to_years
+  short_description: Converte a duration string to years
+  version_added: 0.2.0
+  description:
+    - Parse a human readable time duration string and convert to years.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description:
+        - The time string to convert.
+        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
+          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
+          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
+        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    year:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per year.
+      default: 365
+      type: float
+    month:
+      description:
+        - Number of days per month.
+      default: 30
+      type: float
+  author:
+    - René Moser (@resmo)
+
+EXAMPLES: |
+  - name: Convert a duration into years
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: "{{ '1053d 30h' | community.general.to_years }}"
+
+RETURN:
+  _value:
+    description: Number of years.
+    type: float
--- a/plugins/filter/unicode_normalize.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/unicode_normalize.py
@@ -6,6 +6,46 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type

+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+  name: unicode_normalize
+  short_description: Normalizes unicode strings to facilitate comparison of characters with normalized forms
+  version_added: 3.7.0
+  author: Andrew Pantuso (@Ajpantuso)
+  description:
+    - Normalizes unicode strings to facilitate comparison of characters with normalized forms.
+  positional: form
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: A unicode string.
+      type: string
+      required: true
+    form:
+      description:
+        - The normal form to use.
+        - See U(https://docs.python.org/3/library/unicodedata.html#unicodedata.normalize) for details.
+      type: string
+      default: NFC
+      choices:
+        - NFC
+        - NFD
+        - NFKC
+        - NFKD
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+- name: Normalize unicode string
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    dictionary: "{{ 'ä' | community.general.unicode_normalize('NFKD') }}"
+    # The resulting string has length 2: one letter is 'a', the other
+    # the diacritic combiner.
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+  _value:
+    description: The normalized unicode string of the specified normal form.
+    type: string
+'''
+
 from unicodedata import normalize

 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError, AnsibleFilterTypeError
--- a/plugins/filter/version_sort.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/version_sort.py
@@ -5,7 +5,36 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+  name: version_sort
+  short_description: Sort a list according to version order instead of pure alphabetical one
+  version_added: 2.2.0
+  author: Eric L. (@ericzolf)
+  description:
+    - Sort a list according to version order instead of pure alphabetical one.
+  options:
+    _input:
+      description: A list of strings to sort.
+      type: list
+      elements: string
+      required: true
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+- name: Convert list of tuples into dictionary
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
+    dictionary: "{{ ['2.1', '2.10', '2.9'] | community.general.version_sort }}"
+    # Result is ['2.1', '2.9', '2.10']
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+  _value:
+    description: The list of strings sorted by version.
+    type: list
+    elements: string
+'''
+
+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.version import LooseVersion


 def version_sort(value, reverse=False):
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+++ b/Show More