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.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -13,25 +13,13 @@ pr:
       - stable-*
 
 schedules:
-  - cron: 0 8 * * *
+  - cron: 0 9 * * *
-    displayName: Nightly (main)
+    displayName: Nightly
     always: true
     branches:
       include:
         - main
-  - cron: 0 10 * * *
+        - stable-*
-    displayName: Nightly (active stable branches)
-    always: true
-    branches:
-      include:
-        - stable-5
-        - stable-4
-  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
-    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
-    always: true
-    branches:
-      include:
-        - stable-3
 
 variables:
   - name: checkoutPath
@@ -48,7 +36,7 @@ variables:
 resources:
   containers:
     - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:1.9.0
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:1.7.1
 
 pool: Standard
 
@@ -68,40 +56,27 @@ stages:
             - test: 3
             - test: 4
             - test: extra
-  - stage: Sanity_2_13
+  - stage: Sanity_2_10
-    displayName: Sanity 2.13
+    displayName: Sanity 2.10
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.13/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/sanity/{0}
           targets:
             - test: 1
             - test: 2
             - test: 3
             - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_12
+  - stage: Sanity_2_9
-    displayName: Sanity 2.12
+    displayName: Sanity 2.9
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.12/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.9/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_11
-    displayName: Sanity 2.11
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.11/sanity/{0}
           targets:
             - test: 1
             - test: 2
@@ -117,52 +92,44 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: devel/units/{0}/1
           targets:
+            - test: 2.6
             - test: 2.7
             - test: 3.5
             - test: 3.6
             - test: 3.7
             - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
-            - test: '3.10'
+  - stage: Units_2_10
-  - stage: Units_2_13
+    displayName: Units 2.10
-    displayName: Units 2.13
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.13/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.10/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: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.12/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 2.6
-            - test: 3.5
-            - test: 3.8
-  - stage: Units_2_11
-    displayName: Units 2.11
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.11/units/{0}/1
           targets:
             - test: 2.6
             - test: 2.7
             - test: 3.5
             - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
+            - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Units_2_9
+    displayName: Units 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          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
@@ -173,72 +140,56 @@ stages:
         parameters:
           testFormat: devel/{0}
           targets:
-            - name: macOS 12.0
+            - name: OS X 10.11
-              test: macos/12.0
+              test: osx/10.11
-            - name: RHEL 7.9
+            - name: macOS 10.15
-              test: rhel/7.9
+              test: macos/10.15
-            - name: RHEL 8.5
+            - name: macOS 11.1
-              test: rhel/8.5
+              test: macos/11.1
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.3
+            - name: RHEL 7.8
-              test: freebsd/12.3
+              test: rhel/7.8
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+            - name: RHEL 8.2
-              test: freebsd/13.0
+              test: rhel/8.2
+            - name: FreeBSD 11.4
+              test: freebsd/11.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
             - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_13
+  - stage: Remote_2_10
-    displayName: Remote 2.13
+    displayName: Remote 2.10
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.13/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 12.0
-              test: macos/12.0
-            - name: RHEL 8.5
-              test: rhel/8.5
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_12
-    displayName: Remote 2.12
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.12/{0}
           targets:
             - name: macOS 11.1
               test: macos/11.1
-            - name: RHEL 8.4
+            - name: RHEL 8.2
-              test: rhel/8.4
+              test: rhel/8.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.1
-              test: freebsd/13.0
+              test: freebsd/12.1
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
-            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_9
-  - stage: Remote_2_11
+    displayName: Remote 2.9
-    displayName: Remote 2.11
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.11/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.9/{0}
           targets:
-            - name: RHEL 7.9
+            - name: RHEL 8.2
-              test: rhel/7.9
+              test: rhel/8.2
-            - name: RHEL 8.3
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.0
-              test: rhel/8.3
+              test: freebsd/12.0
-            #- name: FreeBSD 12.2
-            #  test: freebsd/12.2
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
-            - 3
 
 ### Docker
   - stage: Docker_devel
@@ -249,96 +200,62 @@ stages:
         parameters:
           testFormat: devel/linux/{0}
           targets:
+            - name: CentOS 6
+              test: centos6
             - name: CentOS 7
               test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 34
+            - name: CentOS 8
-              test: fedora34
+              test: centos8
-            - name: Fedora 35
+            - name: Fedora 31
-              test: fedora35
+              test: fedora31
-            - name: openSUSE 15
+            - name: Fedora 32
+              test: fedora32
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
               test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 16.04
+              test: ubuntu1604
             - name: Ubuntu 18.04
               test: ubuntu1804
             - name: Ubuntu 20.04
               test: ubuntu2004
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
             - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_13
+  - stage: Docker_2_10
-    displayName: Docker 2.13
+    displayName: Docker 2.10
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.13/linux/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 35
-              test: fedora35
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
-              test: opensuse15py2
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_12
-    displayName: Docker 2.12
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.12/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: CentOS 6
-              test: centos6
-            - name: Fedora 34
-              test: fedora34
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_11
-    displayName: Docker 2.11
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.11/linux/{0}
           targets:
+            - name: CentOS 8
+              test: centos8
             - name: Fedora 32
               test: fedora32
-            - name: Fedora 33
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
-              test: fedora33
+              test: opensuse15
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
           groups:
-            - 1
             - 2
             - 3
-
+  - stage: Docker_2_9
-### Community Docker
+    displayName: Docker 2.9
-  - stage: Docker_community_devel
-    displayName: Docker (community images) devel
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/linux-community/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.9/linux/{0}
           targets:
-            - name: Debian Bullseye
+            - name: CentOS 8
-              test: debian-bullseye/3.9
+              test: centos8
-            - name: ArchLinux
+            - name: Fedora 31
-              test: archlinux/3.10
+              test: fedora31
-            - name: CentOS Stream 8
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
-              test: centos-stream8/3.8
+              test: opensuse15
           groups:
-            - 1
             - 2
             - 3
 
@@ -353,62 +270,44 @@ stages:
           testFormat: devel/cloud/{0}/1
           targets:
             - test: 2.7
-            - test: '3.10'
+            - test: 3.6
-  - stage: Cloud_2_13
+  - stage: Cloud_2_10
-    displayName: Cloud 2.13
+    displayName: Cloud 2.10
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.13/cloud/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.10/cloud/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 3.9
+            - test: 3.6
-  - stage: Cloud_2_12
+  - stage: Cloud_2_9
-    displayName: Cloud 2.12
+    displayName: Cloud 2.9
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.12/cloud/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.9/cloud/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 3.8
+            - test: 3.6
-  - stage: Cloud_2_11
-    displayName: Cloud 2.11
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.11/cloud/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.5
-
   - stage: Summary
     condition: succeededOrFailed()
     dependsOn:
       - Sanity_devel
-      - Sanity_2_11
+      - Sanity_2_9
-      - Sanity_2_12
+      - Sanity_2_10
-      - Sanity_2_13
       - Units_devel
-      - Units_2_11
+      - Units_2_9
-      - Units_2_12
+      - Units_2_10
-      - Units_2_13
       - Remote_devel
-      - Remote_2_11
+      - Remote_2_9
-      - Remote_2_12
+      - Remote_2_10
-      - Remote_2_13
       - Docker_devel
-      - Docker_2_11
+      - Docker_2_9
-      - Docker_2_12
+      - Docker_2_10
-      - Docker_2_13
-      - Docker_community_devel
       - Cloud_devel
-      - Cloud_2_11
+      - Cloud_2_9
-      - Cloud_2_12
+      - Cloud_2_10
-      - Cloud_2_13
     jobs:
       - template: templates/coverage.yml

.azure-pipelines/scripts/aggregate-coverage.sh

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ mkdir "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/"
 
 options=(--venv --venv-system-site-packages --color -v)
 
-ansible-test coverage combine --group-by command --export "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/" "${options[@]}"
+ansible-test coverage combine --export "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/" "${options[@]}"
 
 if ansible-test coverage analyze targets generate --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     # Only analyze coverage if the installed version of ansible-test supports it.

.azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py

@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-"""
-Upload code coverage reports to codecov.io.
-Multiple coverage files from multiple languages are accepted and aggregated after upload.
-Python coverage, as well as PowerShell and Python stubs can all be uploaded.
-"""
-
-import argparse
-import dataclasses
-import pathlib
-import shutil
-import subprocess
-import tempfile
-import typing as t
-import urllib.request
-
-
-@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
-class CoverageFile:
-    name: str
-    path: pathlib.Path
-    flags: t.List[str]
-
-
-@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
-class Args:
-    dry_run: bool
-    path: pathlib.Path
-
-
-def parse_args() -> Args:
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument('-n', '--dry-run', action='store_true')
-    parser.add_argument('path', type=pathlib.Path)
-
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    # Store arguments in a typed dataclass
-    fields = dataclasses.fields(Args)
-    kwargs = {field.name: getattr(args, field.name) for field in fields}
-
-    return Args(**kwargs)
-
-
-def process_files(directory: pathlib.Path) -> t.Tuple[CoverageFile, ...]:
-    processed = []
-    for file in directory.joinpath('reports').glob('coverage*.xml'):
-        name = file.stem.replace('coverage=', '')
-
-        # Get flags from name
-        flags = name.replace('-powershell', '').split('=')  # Drop '-powershell' suffix
-        flags = [flag if not flag.startswith('stub') else flag.split('-')[0] for flag in flags]  # Remove "-01" from stub files
-
-        processed.append(CoverageFile(name, file, flags))
-
-    return tuple(processed)
-
-
-def upload_files(codecov_bin: pathlib.Path, files: t.Tuple[CoverageFile, ...], dry_run: bool = False) -> None:
-    for file in files:
-        cmd = [
-            str(codecov_bin),
-            '--name', file.name,
-            '--file', str(file.path),
-        ]
-        for flag in file.flags:
-            cmd.extend(['--flags', flag])
-
-        if dry_run:
-            print(f'DRY-RUN: Would run command: {cmd}')
-            continue
-
-        subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)
-
-
-def download_file(url: str, dest: pathlib.Path, flags: int, dry_run: bool = False) -> None:
-    if dry_run:
-        print(f'DRY-RUN: Would download {url} to {dest} and set mode to {flags:o}')
-        return
-
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as resp:
-        with dest.open('w+b') as f:
-            # Read data in chunks rather than all at once
-            shutil.copyfileobj(resp, f, 64 * 1024)
-
-    dest.chmod(flags)
-
-
-def main():
-    args = parse_args()
-    url = 'https://ansible-ci-files.s3.amazonaws.com/codecov/linux/codecov'
-    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix='codecov-') as tmpdir:
-        codecov_bin = pathlib.Path(tmpdir) / 'codecov'
-        download_file(url, codecov_bin, 0o755, args.dry_run)
-
-        files = process_files(args.path)
-        upload_files(codecov_bin, files, args.dry_run)
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()

.azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Upload code coverage reports to codecov.io.
+# Multiple coverage files from multiple languages are accepted and aggregated after upload.
+# Python coverage, as well as PowerShell and Python stubs can all be uploaded.
+
+set -o pipefail -eu
+
+output_path="$1"
+
+curl --silent --show-error https://codecov.io/bash > codecov.sh
+
+for file in "${output_path}"/reports/coverage*.xml; do
+    name="${file}"
+    name="${name##*/}"  # remove path
+    name="${name##coverage=}"  # remove 'coverage=' prefix if present
+    name="${name%.xml}"  # remove '.xml' suffix
+
+    bash codecov.sh \
+        -f "${file}" \
+        -n "${name}" \
+        -X coveragepy \
+        -X gcov \
+        -X fix \
+        -X search \
+        -X xcode \
+        || echo "Failed to upload code coverage report to codecov.io: ${file}"
+done

.azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh

@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ if ! ansible-test --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     pip install https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/devel.tar.gz --disable-pip-version-check
 fi
 
-ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --venv --venv-system-site-packages --color -v
+ansible-test coverage xml --stub --venv --venv-system-site-packages --color -v

.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
           summaryFileLocation: "$(outputPath)/reports/$(pipelinesCoverage).xml"
         displayName: Publish to Azure Pipelines
         condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
-      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py "$(outputPath)"
+      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.sh "$(outputPath)"
         displayName: Publish to codecov.io
         condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
         continueOnError: true

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -1,149 +0,0 @@
----
-name: Bug report
-description: Create a report to help us improve
-
-body:
-- type: markdown
-  attributes:
-    value: |
-      ⚠
-      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
-      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
-      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
-
-      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
-
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Summary
-    description: Explain the problem briefly below.
-    placeholder: >-
-      When I try to do X with the collection from the main branch on GitHub, Y
-      breaks in a way Z under the env E. Here are all the details I know
-      about this problem...
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: dropdown
-  attributes:
-    label: Issue Type
-    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
-    options:
-    - Bug Report
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    # For smaller collections we could use a multi-select and hardcode the list
-    # May generate this list via GitHub action and walking files under https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/tree/main/plugins
-    # Select from list, filter as you type (`mysql` would only show the 3 mysql components)
-    # OR freeform - doesn't seem to be supported in adaptivecards
-    label: Component Name
-    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
-      *use your best guess if unsure*.
-    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Ansible Version
-    description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` between
-      tripple backticks.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible --version
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Community.general Version
-    description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from "ansible-galaxy collection list community.general"
-      between tripple backticks.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Configuration
-    description: >-
-      If this issue has an example piece of YAML that can help to reproduce this problem, please provide it.
-      This can be a piece of YAML from, e.g., an automation, script, scene or configuration.
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed` between quotes
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
-
-      ```
-
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: OS / Environment
-    description: >-
-      Provide all relevant information below, e.g. target OS versions,
-      network device firmware, etc.
-    placeholder: RHEL 8, CentOS Stream etc.
-  validations:
-    required: false
-
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Steps to Reproduce
-    description: |
-      Describe exactly how to reproduce the problem, using a minimal test-case. It would *really* help us understand your problem if you could also pased any playbooks, configs and commands you used.
-
-      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
-    value: |
-      <!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
-      ```yaml (paste below)
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Expected Results
-    description: >-
-      Describe what you expected to happen when running the steps above.
-    placeholder: >-
-      I expected X to happen because I assumed Y.
-      that it did not.
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Actual Results
-    description: |
-      Describe what actually happened. If possible run with extra verbosity (`-vvvv`).
-
-      Paste verbatim command output between quotes.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-
-      ```
-- type: checkboxes
-  attributes:
-    label: Code of Conduct
-    description: |
-      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
-    options:
-    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-      required: true
-...

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml

@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
----
-# Ref: https://help.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository#configuring-the-template-chooser
-blank_issues_enabled: false  # default: true
-contact_links:
-- name: Security bug report
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
-  about: |
-    Please learn how to report security vulnerabilities here.
-
-    For all security related bugs, email security@ansible.com
-    instead of using this issue tracker and you will receive
-    a prompt response.
-
-    For more information, see
-    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html
-- name: Ansible Code of Conduct
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
-  about: Be nice to other members of the community.
-- name: Talks to the community
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser#mailing-list-information
-  about: Please ask and answer usage questions here
-- name: Working groups
-  url: https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki
-  about: Interested in improving a specific area? Become a part of a working group!
-- name: For Enterprise
-  url: https://www.ansible.com/products/engine?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
-  about: Red Hat offers support for the Ansible Automation Platform

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml

@@ -1,125 +0,0 @@
----
-name: Documentation Report
-description: Ask us about docs
-# NOTE: issue body is enabled to allow screenshots
-
-body:
-- type: markdown
-  attributes:
-    value: |
-      ⚠
-      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
-      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
-      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
-
-      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
-
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Summary
-    description: |
-      Explain the problem briefly below, add suggestions to wording or structure.
-
-      **HINT:** Did you know the documentation has an `Edit on GitHub` link on every page?
-    placeholder: >-
-      I was reading the Collection documentation of version X and I'm having
-      problems understanding Y. It would be very helpful if that got
-      rephrased as Z.
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: dropdown
-  attributes:
-    label: Issue Type
-    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
-    options:
-    - Documentation Report
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: input
-  attributes:
-    label: Component Name
-    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the rst file, module, plugin, task or
-      feature below, *use your best guess if unsure*.
-    placeholder: mysql_user
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Ansible Version
-    description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` between
-      tripple backticks.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible --version
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: false
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Community.general Version
-    description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from "ansible-galaxy collection list community.general"
-      between tripple backticks.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Configuration
-    description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed` between quotes.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: false
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: OS / Environment
-    description: >-
-      Provide all relevant information below, e.g. OS version,
-      browser, etc.
-    placeholder: Fedora 33, Firefox etc.
-  validations:
-    required: false
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Additional Information
-    description: |
-      Describe how this improves the documentation, e.g. before/after situation or screenshots.
-
-      **Tip:** It's not possible to upload the screenshot via this field directly but you can use the last textarea in this form to attach them.
-
-      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
-    placeholder: >-
-      When the improvement is applied, it makes it more straightforward
-      to understand X.
-  validations:
-    required: false
-
-- type: checkboxes
-  attributes:
-    label: Code of Conduct
-    description: |
-      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
-    options:
-    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-      required: true
-...

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml

@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
----
-name: Feature request
-description: Suggest an idea for this project
-
-body:
-- type: markdown
-  attributes:
-    value: |
-      ⚠
-      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
-      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
-      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
-
-      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
-
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Summary
-    description: Describe the new feature/improvement briefly below.
-    placeholder: >-
-      I am trying to do X with the collection from the main branch on GitHub and
-      I think that implementing a feature Y would be very helpful for me and
-      every other user of community.general because of Z.
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: dropdown
-  attributes:
-    label: Issue Type
-    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
-    options:
-    - Feature Idea
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: input
-  attributes:
-    label: Component Name
-    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
-      *use your best guess if unsure*.
-    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Additional Information
-    description: |
-      Describe how the feature would be used, why it is needed and what it would solve.
-
-      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
-    value: |
-      <!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
-      ```yaml (paste below)
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: false
-- type: checkboxes
-  attributes:
-    label: Code of Conduct
-    description: |
-      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
-    options:
-    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-      required: true
-...

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
----
-version: 2
-updates:
-  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
-    directory: "/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "weekly"

.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml

@@ -4,21 +4,14 @@ on:
   schedule:
     - cron: '26 19 * * 1'
 
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
   CodeQL-Build:
 
-    permissions:
-      actions: read  # for github/codeql-action/init to get workflow details
-      contents: read  # for actions/checkout to fetch code
-      security-events: write  # for github/codeql-action/autobuild to send a status report
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
     - name: Checkout repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
       with:
         # We must fetch at least the immediate parents so that if this is
         # a pull request then we can checkout the head.
@@ -31,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
 
     # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
     - name: Initialize CodeQL
-      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v1
       # Override language selection by uncommenting this and choosing your languages
       # with:
       #   languages: go, javascript, csharp, python, cpp, java
@@ -39,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
     # Autobuild attempts to build any compiled languages  (C/C++, C#, or Java).
     # If this step fails, then you should remove it and run the build manually (see below)
     - name: Autobuild
-      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v2
+      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v1
 
     # ℹ️ Command-line programs to run using the OS shell.
     # 📚 https://git.io/JvXDl
@@ -53,4 +46,4 @@ jobs:
     #   make release
 
     - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v1

.gitignore

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
-# Created by https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
+# Created by https://www.gitignore.io/api/git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv
-# Edit at https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore?templates=vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
+# Edit at https://www.gitignore.io/?templates=git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv
 
 ### dotenv ###
 .env
@@ -71,19 +71,7 @@ flycheck_*.el
 *_LOCAL_*.txt
 *_REMOTE_*.txt
 
-### JupyterNotebooks ###
+#!! ERROR: jupyternotebook is undefined. Use list command to see defined gitignore types !!#
-# 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 ###
 
@@ -99,41 +87,8 @@ ipython_config.py
 # .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
+# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio and WebStorm
 # Reference: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544839
 
 # User-specific stuff
@@ -143,9 +98,6 @@ Temporary Items
 .idea/**/dictionaries
 .idea/**/shelf
 
-# AWS User-specific
-.idea/**/aws.xml
-
 # Generated files
 .idea/**/contentModel.xml
 
@@ -166,9 +118,6 @@ Temporary Items
 # When using Gradle or Maven with auto-import, you should exclude module files,
 # since they will be recreated, and may cause churn.  Uncomment if using
 # auto-import.
-# .idea/artifacts
-# .idea/compiler.xml
-# .idea/jarRepositories.xml
 # .idea/modules.xml
 # .idea/*.iml
 # .idea/modules
@@ -196,9 +145,6 @@ 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
@@ -212,13 +158,20 @@ fabric.properties
 .idea/caches/build_file_checksums.ser
 
 ### PyCharm+all Patch ###
-# Ignore everything but code style settings and run configurations
+# Ignores the whole .idea folder and all .iml files
-# that are supposed to be shared within teams.
+# See https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/issues/186 and https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/issues/360
 
-.idea/*
+.idea/
 
-!.idea/codeStyles
+# Reason: https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/issues/186#issuecomment-249601023
-!.idea/runConfigurations
+
+*.iml
+modules.xml
+.idea/misc.xml
+*.ipr
+
+# Sonarlint plugin
+.idea/sonarlint
 
 ### pydev ###
 .pydevproject
@@ -245,6 +198,7 @@ parts/
 sdist/
 var/
 wheels/
+pip-wheel-metadata/
 share/python-wheels/
 *.egg-info/
 .installed.cfg
@@ -271,25 +225,13 @@ htmlcov/
 nosetests.xml
 coverage.xml
 *.cover
-*.py,cover
 .hypothesis/
 .pytest_cache/
-cover/
 
 # Translations
 *.mo
 *.pot
 
-# Django stuff:
-*.log
-local_settings.py
-db.sqlite3
-db.sqlite3-journal
-
-# Flask stuff:
-instance/
-.webassets-cache
-
 # Scrapy stuff:
 .scrapy
 
@@ -297,17 +239,10 @@ instance/
 docs/_build/
 
 # PyBuilder
-.pybuilder/
 target/
 
-# Jupyter Notebook
-
-# IPython
-
 # pyenv
-#   For a library or package, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
+.python-version
-#   intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
-# .python-version
 
 # pipenv
 #   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
@@ -316,39 +251,12 @@ target/
 #   install all needed dependencies.
 #Pipfile.lock
 
-# poetry
+# celery beat schedule file
-#   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
 celerybeat-schedule
-celerybeat.pid
 
 # SageMath parsed files
 *.sage.py
 
-# Environments
-.venv
-env/
-venv/
-ENV/
-env.bak/
-venv.bak/
-
 # Spyder project settings
 .spyderproject
 .spyproject
@@ -356,6 +264,10 @@ venv.bak/
 # Rope project settings
 .ropeproject
 
+# Mr Developer
+.mr.developer.cfg
+.project
+
 # mkdocs documentation
 /site
 
@@ -367,23 +279,9 @@ dmypy.json
 # Pyre type checker
 .pyre/
 
-# pytype static type analyzer
-.pytype/
-
-# 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]
-!*.svg  # comment out if you don't need vector files
 [._]*.sw[a-p]
 [._]s[a-rt-v][a-z]
 [._]ss[a-gi-z]
@@ -401,13 +299,11 @@ tags
 [._]*.un~
 
 ### WebStorm ###
-# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio, WebStorm and Rider
+# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio and WebStorm
 # Reference: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544839
 
 # User-specific stuff
 
-# AWS User-specific
-
 # Generated files
 
 # Sensitive or high-churn files
@@ -418,9 +314,6 @@ tags
 # When using Gradle or Maven with auto-import, you should exclude module files,
 # since they will be recreated, and may cause churn.  Uncomment if using
 # auto-import.
-# .idea/artifacts
-# .idea/compiler.xml
-# .idea/jarRepositories.xml
 # .idea/modules.xml
 # .idea/*.iml
 # .idea/modules
@@ -441,8 +334,6 @@ tags
 
 # Cursive Clojure plugin
 
-# SonarLint plugin
-
 # Crashlytics plugin (for Android Studio and IntelliJ)
 
 # Editor-based Rest Client
@@ -458,27 +349,15 @@ tags
 # *.ipr
 
 # Sonarlint plugin
-# https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7973-sonarlint
 .idea/**/sonarlint/
 
 # SonarQube Plugin
-# https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7238-sonarqube-community-plugin
 .idea/**/sonarIssues.xml
 
 # Markdown Navigator plugin
-# https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7896-markdown-navigator-enhanced
 .idea/**/markdown-navigator.xml
-.idea/**/markdown-navigator-enh.xml
 .idea/**/markdown-navigator/
 
-# Cache file creation bug
-# See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-2257
-.idea/$CACHE_FILE$
-
-# CodeStream plugin
-# https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12206-codestream
-.idea/codestream.xml
-
 ### Windows ###
 # Windows thumbnail cache files
 Thumbs.db
@@ -505,4 +384,4 @@ $RECYCLE.BIN/
 # Windows shortcuts
 *.lnk
 
-# End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
+# End of https://www.gitignore.io/api/git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
----
-repos:
-  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.0.1
-    hooks:
-      - id: trailing-whitespace
-      - id: end-of-file-fixer
-      - id: mixed-line-ending
-        args: [--fix=lf]
-      - id: fix-encoding-pragma
-      - id: check-ast
-      - id: check-merge-conflict
-      - id: check-symlinks
-  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pygrep-hooks
-    rev: v1.9.0
-    hooks:
-      - id: rst-backticks
-        types: [file]
-        files: changelogs/fragments/.*\.(yml|yaml)$

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -4,321 +4,475 @@ Community General Release Notes
 
 .. contents:: Topics
 
-This changelog describes changes after version 4.0.0.
+This changelog describes changes after version 1.0.0.
 
-v5.0.0
+v2.0.0
 ======
 
 Release Summary
 ---------------
 
-This is release 5.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2022-05-17.
+This is release 2.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2021-01-28.
 
 Major Changes
 -------------
 
-- The community.general collection no longer supports Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10. While we take no active measures to prevent usage, we will remove a lot of compatibility code and other compatility measures that will effectively prevent using most content from this collection with Ansible 2.9, and some content of this collection with ansible-base 2.10. Both Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 will very soon be End of Life and if you are still using them, you should consider upgrading to ansible-core 2.11 or later as soon as possible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- The community.general collection no longer depends on the ansible.netcommon collection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1561).
+- The community.general collection no longer depends on the ansible.posix collection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1157).
 
 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).
+- A new filter ``lists_mergeby`` to merge two lists of dictionaries by an attribute.
-- ModuleHelper module utils - ``ModuleHelperBase` now delegates the attributes ``check_mode``, ``get_bin_path``, ``warn``, and ``deprecate`` to the underlying ``AnsibleModule`` instance (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4600).
+  For example:
-- ModuleHelper module utils - ``ModuleHelperBase`` now has a convenience method ``do_raise`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4660).
+
-- Remove vendored copy of ``distutils.version`` in favor of vendored copy included with ansible-core 2.12+. For ansible-core 2.11, uses ``distutils.version`` for Python < 3.12. There is no support for ansible-core 2.11 with Python 3.12+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3988).
+  .. code-block:: yaml
-- aix_filesystem - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3833).
+
-- aix_lvg - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3834).
+      [{'n': 'n1', 'p1': 'A', 'p2': 'F'},
-- 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).
+       {'n': 'n2', 'p2': 'B'}] | community.general.lists_mergeby(
-- ansible_galaxy_install - added option ``no_deps`` to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4174).
+      [{'n': 'n1', 'p1': 'C'},
-- atomic_container - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+       {'n': 'n2', 'p2': 'D'},
-- clc_alert_policy - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
+       {'n': 'n3', 'p3': 'E'}], 'n') | list
-- 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).
+  evaluates to
-- 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).
+  .. code-block:: yaml
-- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``include_profiles`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4068).
+
-- datadog_monitor - support new datadog event monitor of type `event-v2 alert` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4457)
+      [{'n': 'n1', 'p1': 'C', 'p2': 'F'},
-- filesystem - add support for resizing btrfs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4465).
+       {'n': 'n2', 'p2': 'D'},
-- gitlab - add more token authentication support with the new options ``api_oauth_token`` and ``api_job_token`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/705).
+       {'n': 'n3', 'p3': 'E'}]
-- gitlab - clean up modules and utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3694).
+
-- gitlab_group, gitlab_project - add new option ``avatar_path`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3792).
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/604).
-- 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).
+- Add new filter plugin ``dict_kv`` which returns a single key-value pair from two arguments. Useful for generating complex dictionaries without using loops. For example ``'value' | community.general.dict_kv('key'))`` evaluates to ``{'key': 'value'}`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1264).
-- gitlab_project - add new option ``default_branch`` to gitlab_project (if ``readme = true``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3792).
+- The collection dependencies were adjusted so that ``community.kubernetes`` is required to be of version 1.0.0 or newer (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/774).
-- gitlab_project_variable - new ``variables`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
+- The collection is now actively tested in CI with the latest Ansible 2.9 release.
-- hponcfg - revamped module using ModuleHelper (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3840).
+- airbrake_deployment - add ``version`` param; clarified docs on ``revision`` param (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/583).
-- icinga2 inventory plugin - added the ``display_name`` field to variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3875, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3906).
+- apk - added ``no_cache`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/548).
-- icinga2 inventory plugin - implemented constructed interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4088).
+- archive - fix paramater types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1039).
-- icinga2 inventory plugin - inventory object names are changable using ``inventory_attr`` in your config file to the host object name, address, or display_name fields (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3875, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3906).
+- cloudflare_dns - add support for environment variable ``CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1238).
-- ip_netns - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3822).
+- consul - added support for tcp checks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1128).
-- ipa_dnsrecord - add new argument ``record_values``, mutually exclusive to ``record_value``, which supports multiple values for one record (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4578).
+- datadog - mark ``notification_message`` as ``no_log`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1338).
-- 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).
+- datadog_monitor - add ``include_tags`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57441).
-- ipa_dnszone - add DNS zone synchronization support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3374).
+- dconf - update documentation and logic code refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1585).
-- ipa_service - add ``skip_host_check`` parameter. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4417).
+- django_manage - renamed parameter ``app_path`` to ``project_path``, adding ``app_path`` and ``chdir`` as aliases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1044).
-- ipmi_boot - add support for user-specified IPMI encryption key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3698).
+- facter - added option for ``arguments`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/768).
-- ipmi_power - add ``machine`` option to ensure the power state via the remote target address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3968).
+- firewalld - the module has been moved to the ``ansible.posix`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/623).
-- ipmi_power - add support for user-specified IPMI encryption key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3698).
+- git_config - added parameter and scope ``file`` allowing user to change parameters in a custom file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1021).
-- iso_extract - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3805).
+- gitlab_project - add parameter ``lfs_enabled`` to specify Git LFS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1506).
-- java_cert - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3835).
+- gitlab_project - add support for merge_method on projects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/66813).
-- jira - add support for Bearer token auth (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3838).
+- gitlab_project_variable - add support for ``environment_scope`` on projects variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1197).
-- jira - when creating a comment, ``fields`` now is used for additional data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4304).
+- gitlab_runner - add ``owned`` option to allow non-admin use (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1491).
-- keycloak_* modules - added connection timeout parameter when calling server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4168).
+- gitlab_runners inventory plugin - permit environment variable input for ``server_url``, ``api_token`` and ``filter`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/611).
-- keycloak_client - add ``always_display_in_console`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4390).
+- haproxy - add options to dis/enable health and agent checks.  When health and agent checks are enabled for a service, a disabled service will re-enable itself automatically.  These options also change the state of the agent checks to match the requested state for the backend (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/684).
-- keycloak_client - add ``default_client_scopes`` and ``optional_client_scopes`` parameters. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4385).
+- homebrew_cask - Homebrew will be deprecating use of ``brew cask`` commands as of version 2.6.0, see https://brew.sh/2020/12/01/homebrew-2.6.0/. Added logic to stop using ``brew cask`` for brew version >= 2.6.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1481).
-- keycloak_user_federation - add sssd user federation support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3767).
+- homebrew_tap - provide error message to user when module fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1411).
-- ldap_entry - add support for recursive deletion (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3613).
+- influxdb_retention_policy - add shard group duration parameter ``shard_group_duration`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1590).
-- linode inventory plugin - add support for caching inventory results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4179).
+- infoblox inventory script - use stderr for reporting errors, and allow use of environment for configuration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/436).
-- linode inventory plugin - allow templating of ``access_token`` variable in Linode inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4040).
+- ini_file - module now can create an empty section (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/479).
-- listen_ports_facts - add support for ``ss`` command besides ``netstat`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3708).
+- ipa_host - silence warning about non-secret ``random_password`` option not having ``no_log`` set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1339).
-- 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).
+- ipa_sudorule - added option to use command groups inside sudo rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1555).
-- logentries - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3807).
+- ipa_user - add ``userauthtype`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/951).
-- logstash_plugin - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3808).
+- ipa_user - silence warning about non-secret ``krbpasswordexpiration`` and ``update_password`` options not having ``no_log`` set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1339).
-- 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).
+- iptables_state - use FQCN when calling a module from action plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/967).
-- lxc_container - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3851).
+- jc - new filter to convert the output of many shell commands and file-types to JSON. Uses the jc library at https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc. For example, filtering the STDOUT output of ``uname -a`` via ``{{ result.stdout | community.general.jc('uname') }}``. Requires Python 3.6+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/750).
-- lxd connection plugin - make sure that ``ansible_lxd_host``, ``ansible_executable``, and ``ansible_lxd_executable`` work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3798).
+- jira - added the traceback output to ``fail_json()`` calls deriving from exceptions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1536).
-- lxd inventory plugin - support virtual machines (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3519).
+- ldap modules - allow to configure referral chasing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1618).
-- lxd_container - adds ``project`` option to allow selecting project for LXD instance (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4479).
+- linode inventory plugin - add support for ``keyed_groups``, ``groups``, and ``compose`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1326).
-- lxd_container - adds ``type`` option which also allows to operate on virtual machines and not just containers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3661).
+- linode inventory plugin - add support for ``tags`` option to filter instances by tag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1549).
-- lxd_profile - adds ``project`` option to allow selecting project for LXD profile (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4479).
+- linode_v4 - added support for Linode StackScript usage when creating instances (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/723).
-- 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).
+- log_plays callback - use v2 methods (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/442).
-- mail callback plugin - properly use Ansible's option handling to split lists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4140).
+- logstash callback - add ini config (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/610).
-- mattermost - add the possibility to send attachments instead of text messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3946).
+- logstash callback - improve logstash message structure, needs to be enabled with the ``format_version`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/641).
-- mksysb - revamped the module using ``ModuleHelper`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3295).
+- logstash callback - migrate to python3-logstash (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/641).
-- module_helper module utils - added decorators ``check_mode_skip`` and ``check_mode_skip_returns`` for skipping methods when ``check_mode=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3849).
+- lvol - fix idempotency issue when using lvol with ``%VG`` or ``%PVS`` size options and VG is fully allocated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/229).
-- monit - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3821).
+- lxd_container - added support of ``--target`` flag for cluster deployments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/637).
-- 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).
+- make - add ``jobs`` parameter to allow specification of number of simultaneous jobs for make to run (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1550).
-- nmcli - add ``wireguard`` connection type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3985).
+- maven_artifact - added ``client_cert`` and ``client_key`` parameters to the maven_artifact module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1123).
-- nmcli - add missing connection aliases ``802-3-ethernet`` and ``802-11-wireless`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4108).
+- module_helper - added ModuleHelper class and a couple of convenience tools for module developers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1322).
-- nmcli - add multiple addresses support for ``ip4`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1088, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3738).
+- module_helper module utils - multiple convenience features added (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1480).
-- nmcli - add multiple addresses support for ``ip6`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1088).
+- nagios - add the ``acknowledge`` action (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/820).
-- nmcli - add support for ``eui64`` and ``ipv6privacy`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3357).
+- nagios - add the ``host`` and ``all`` values for the ``forced_check`` action (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/998).
-- nmcli - adds ``routes6`` and ``route_metric6`` parameters for supporting IPv6 routes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4059).
+- nagios - add the ``service_check`` action (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/820).
-- nmcli - remove nmcli modify dependency on ``type`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2858).
+- nagios - rename the ``service_check`` action to ``forced_check`` since we now are able to check both a particular service, all services of a particular host and the host itself (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/998).
-- nomad_job - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- nios modules - clean up module argument spec processing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1598).
-- nomad_job_info - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- nios_network - no longer requires the ansible.netcommon collection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1561).
-- npm - add ability to use ``production`` flag when ``ci`` is set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4299).
+- nmcli - add ``ipv4.routes``,  ``ipv4.route-metric`` and ``ipv4.never-default`` support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1260).
-- open_iscsi - extended module to allow rescanning of established session for one or all targets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3763).
+- nmcli - add ``zone`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/949, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1426).
-- opennebula - add the release action for VMs in the ``HOLD`` state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4036).
+- nmcli - add infiniband type support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1260).
-- opentelemetry_plugin - enrich service when using the ``docker_login`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4104).
+- nmcli - refactor internal methods for simplicity and enhance reuse to support existing and future connection types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1113).
-- opentelemetry_plugin - enrich service when using the ``jenkins``, ``hetzner`` or ``jira`` modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4105).
+- nmcli - remove Python DBus and GTK Object library dependencies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1112).
-- packet_device - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- nmcli - the ``dns4``, ``dns4_search``, ``dns6``, and ``dns6_search`` arguments are retained internally as lists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1113).
-- packet_sshkey - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- npm - add ``no-optional`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1421).
-- packet_volume - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- odbc - added a parameter ``commit`` which allows users to disable the explicit commit after the execute call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1139).
-- 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).
+- openbsd_pkg - added ``snapshot`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/965).
-- pacman - add ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` as return values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3758).
+- pacman - improve group expansion speed: query list of pacman groups once (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/349).
-- 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).
+- pam_limits - add support for nice and priority limits (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47680).
-- 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)
+- pam_limits - adds check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/827).
-- 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).
+- pam_limits - adds diff mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/828).
-- pipx - added options ``editable`` and ``pip_args`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4300).
+- parted - accept negative numbers in ``part_start`` and ``part_end``
-- pritunl_user - add ``mac_addresses`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4535).
+- parted - add ``resize`` option to resize existing partitions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/773).
-- profitbricks - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - added ``umask`` option to set the desired file permisions on creation. This is done via the ``PASSWORD_STORE_UMASK`` environment variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1156).
-- proxmox - add ``clone`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3930).
+- pkgin - add support for installation of full versioned package names (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1256).
-- proxmox - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- pkgng - added ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` attributes to the result (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/560).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - add support for client-side jinja filters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3553).
+- pkgng - added support for upgrading all packages using ``name: *, state: latest``, similar to other package providers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/569).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - add support for templating the ``url``, ``user``, and ``password`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4418).
+- pkgng - present the ``ignore_osver`` option to pkg (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1243).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - add token authentication as an alternative to username/password (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4540).
+- pkgutil - module can now accept a list of packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/799).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - parse LXC configs returned by the proxmox API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4472).
+- pkgutil - module has a new option, ``force``, equivalent to the ``-f`` option to the `pkgutil <http://pkgutil.net/>`_ command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/799).
-- proxmox modules - move ``HAS_PROXMOXER`` check into ``module_utils`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4030).
+- pkgutil - module now supports check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/799).
-- proxmox modules - move common code into ``module_utils`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4029).
+- portage - add ``getbinpkgonly`` option, remove unnecessary note on internal portage behaviour (getbinpkg=yes), and remove the undocumented exclusiveness of the pkg options as portage makes no such restriction (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1169).
-- 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 - add ``features`` option to LXC (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/816).
-- proxmox_kwm - add ``win11`` to ``ostype`` parameter for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4023, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4191).
+- proxmox - add new ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/850).
-- proxmox_snap - add restore snapshot option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4377).
+- proxmox - add support for API tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1206).
-- 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).
+- proxmox - extract common code and documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1331).
-- 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).
+- proxmox - improve and extract more common documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1404).
-- python_requirements_info - returns python version broken down into its components, and some minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3797).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - add environment variable passthrough (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1645).
-- rax_files_objects - minor refactoring improving code quality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4649).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - ignore QEMU templates altogether instead of skipping the creation of the host in the inventory (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1185).
-- redfish_* modules - the contents of ``@Message.ExtendedInfo`` will be returned as a string in the event that ``@Message.ExtendedInfo.Messages`` does not exist. This is likely more useful than the standard HTTP error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4596).
+- proxmox_kvm - add cloud-init support (new options: ``cicustom``, ``cipassword``, ``citype``, ``ciuser``, ``ipconfig``, ``nameservers``, ``searchdomains``, ``sshkeys``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/797).
-- redfish_command - add ``GetHostInterfaces`` command to enable reporting Redfish Host Interface information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3693).
+- proxmox_kvm - add new ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/850).
-- 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).
+- proxmox_kvm - add support for API tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1206).
-- redfish_command - add ``SetHostInterface`` command to enable configuring the Redfish Host Interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3632).
+- proxmox_kvm - improve and extract more common documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1404).
-- redis - add authentication parameters ``login_user``, ``tls``, ``validate_certs``, and ``ca_certs`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4207).
+- proxmox_kvm - improve code readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/934).
-- scaleway inventory plugin - add profile parameter ``scw_profile`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4049).
+- proxmox_template - add support for API tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1206).
-- 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).
+- proxmox_template - download proxmox applicance templates (pveam) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1046).
-- scaleway_volume - all volumes are systematically created on par1 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3964).
+- proxmox_template - improve documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1404).
-- seport - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4471).
+- pushover - add device parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/802).
-- smartos_image_info - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- redfish_command - add sub-command for ``EnableContinuousBootOverride`` and ``DisableBootOverride`` to allow setting BootSourceOverrideEnabled Redfish property (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/824).
-- snap - add option ``options`` permitting to set options using the ``snap set`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3943).
+- redfish_command - support same reset actions on Managers as on Systems (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/901).
-- sudoers - add support for ``runas`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4379).
+- redis cache plugin - add redis sentinel functionality to cache plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1055).
-- svc - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3829).
+- redis cache plugin - make the redis cache keyset name configurable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1036).
-- 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).
+- rhn_register - added ``force`` parameter to allow forced registering (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1454).
-- 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).
+- rundeck_acl_policy - add check for rundeck_acl_policy name parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/612).
-- to_time_unit filter plugins - the time filters has been extended to also allow ``0`` as input (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4612).
+- scaleway modules and inventory plugin - update regions and zones to add the new ones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1690).
-- udm_group - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
+- slack - add support for sending messages built with block kit (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/380).
-- udm_share - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
+- slack - add support for updating messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/304).
-- vmadm - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- splunk callback - add an option to allow not to validate certificate from HEC (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/596).
-- vmadm - minor refactoring and improvement on the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4581).
+- splunk callback - new parameter ``include_milliseconds`` to add milliseconds to existing timestamp field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1462).
-- vmadm - minor refactoring and improvement on the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4648).
+- telegram - now can call any methods in Telegram bot API. Previously this module was hardcoded to use "SendMessage" only. Usage of "SendMessage" API method was also librated, and now you can specify any arguments you need, for example, "disable_notificaton" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1642).
-- webfaction_app - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- terraform - add ``init_reconfigure`` option, which controls the ``-reconfigure`` flag (backend reconfiguration) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/823).
-- webfaction_db - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
+- xfconf - add arrays support (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46308).
-- xattr - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3806).
+- xfconf - add support for ``double`` type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/744).
-- xfconf - added missing value types ``char``, ``uchar``, ``int64`` and ``uint64`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4534).
+- xfconf - add support for ``uint`` type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/696).
-- xfconf - minor refactor on the base class for the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3919).
+- xfconf - removed unnecessary second execution of ``xfconf-query`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1305).
-- zfs - minor refactoring in the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4650).
+- xml - fixed issue were changed was returned when removing non-existent xpath (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1007).
-- 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).
+- zypper_repository - proper failure when python-xml is missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/939).
 
 Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
 --------------------------------
 
-- Parts of this collection do not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+. Please either upgrade to ansible-core 2.12+, or use Python 3.11 or earlier (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3988).
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the Google cloud plugins or modules from this collection, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the Google cloud content by FQCN, like ``community.general.gce_img``.
-- The symbolic links used to implement flatmapping for all modules were removed and replaced by ``meta/runtime.yml`` redirects. This effectively breaks compatibility with Ansible 2.9 for all modules (without using their "long" names, which is discouraged and which can change without previous notice since they are considered an implementation detail) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCNs (``community.google.gce_img`` for the previous example) and to make sure that you have ``community.google`` installed.
-- a_module test plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+
-- archive - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install the ``community.google`` or ``google.cloud`` collections if you are using any of the Google cloud plugins or modules.
-- git_config - remove Ansible 2.9 and early ansible-base 2.10 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (such as community.google) must be installed for them to work.
-- java_keystore - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the Kubevirt plugins or modules from this collection, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the Kubevirt content by FQCN, like ``community.general.kubevirt_vm``.
-- lists_mergeby and groupby_as_dict filter plugins - adjust filter plugin filename. This change is not visible to end-users, it only affects possible other collections importing Python paths (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4625).
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCNs (``community.kubevirt.kubevirt_vm`` for the previous example) and to make sure that you have ``community.kubevirt`` installed.
-- lists_mergeby filter plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+
-- maven_artifact - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install the ``community.kubevirt`` collection if you are using any of the Kubevirt plugins or modules.
-- memcached cache plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (such as community.google) must be installed for them to work.
-- path_join filter plugin shim - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the ``docker`` plugins or modules from this collections, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the docker content by FQCN, like ``community.general.docker_container``.
-- redis cache plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCNs (``community.docker.docker_container`` for the previous example) and to make sure that you have ``community.docker`` installed.
-- yarn - remove unsupported and unnecessary ``--no-emoji`` flag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4662).
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.docker`` if you are using any of the ``docker`` plugins or modules.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (community.docker) must be installed for them to work.
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the ``hashi_vault`` lookup plugin from this collections, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the Hashi Vault content by FQCN, like ``community.general.hashi_vault``.
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your inventories, variable files, playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCN (``community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault``) and to make sure that you have ``community.hashi_vault`` installed.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.hashi_vault`` if you are using the ``hashi_vault`` plugin.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (community.hashi_vault) must be installed for them to work.
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the ``hetzner`` modules from this collections, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the hetzner content by FQCN, like ``community.general.hetzner_firewall``.
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCNs (``community.hrobot.firewall`` for the previous example) and to make sure that you have ``community.hrobot`` installed.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.hrobot`` if you are using any of the ``hetzner`` modules.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (community.hrobot) must be installed for them to work.
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the ``oc`` connection plugin from this collections, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the oc content by FQCN, like ``community.general.oc``.
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your inventories, variable files, playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCN (``community.okd.oc``) and to make sure that you have ``community.okd`` installed.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.okd`` if you are using the ``oc`` plugin.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (community.okd) must be installed for them to work.
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the ``postgresql`` modules from this collections, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the postgresql content by FQCN, like ``community.general.postgresql_info``.
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCNs (``community.postgresql.postgresql_info`` for the previous example) and to make sure that you have ``community.postgresql`` installed.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.postgresql`` if you are using any of the ``postgresql`` modules.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (community.postgresql) must be installed for them to work.
+- The Google cloud inventory script ``gce.py`` has been migrated to the ``community.google`` collection. Install the ``community.google`` collection in order to continue using it.
+- archive - remove path folder itself when ``remove`` paramater is true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1041).
+- log_plays callback - add missing information to the logs generated by the callback plugin. This changes the log message format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/442).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - now parsing a password store entry as YAML if possible, skipping the first line (which by convention only contains the password and nothing else). If it cannot be parsed as YAML, the old ``key: value`` parser will be used to process the entry. Can break backwards compatibility if YAML formatted code was parsed in a non-YAML interpreted way, e.g. ``foo: [bar, baz]`` will become a list with two elements in the new version, but a string ``'[bar, baz]'`` in the old (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1673).
+- pkgng - passing ``name: *`` with ``state: absent`` will no longer remove every installed package from the system. It is now a noop. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/569).
+- pkgng - passing ``name: *`` with ``state: latest`` or ``state: present`` will no longer install every package from the configured package repositories. Instead, ``name: *, state: latest`` will upgrade all already-installed packages, and ``name: *, state: present`` is a noop. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/569).
+- proxmox_kvm - recognize ``force=yes`` in conjunction with ``state=absent`` to forcibly remove a running VM (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/849).
 
 Deprecated Features
 -------------------
 
-- ansible_galaxy_install - deprecated support for ``ansible`` 2.9 and ``ansible-base`` 2.10 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4601).
+- The ``gluster_heal_info``, ``gluster_peer`` and ``gluster_volume`` modules have migrated to the `gluster.gluster <https://galaxy.ansible.com/gluster/gluster>`_ collection. Ansible-base 2.10.1 adjusted the routing target to point to the modules in that collection, so we will remove these modules in community.general 3.0.0. If you use Ansible 2.9, or use FQCNs ``community.general.gluster_*`` in your playbooks and/or roles, please update them to use the modules from ``gluster.gluster`` instead.
-- dig lookup plugin - the ``DLV`` record type has been decommissioned in 2017 and support for it will be removed from community.general 6.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4618).
+- The ldap_attr module has been deprecated and will be removed in a later release; use ldap_attrs instead.
-- gem - the default of the ``norc`` option has been deprecated and will change to ``true`` in community.general 6.0.0. Explicitly specify a value to avoid a deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4517).
+- django_manage - the parameter ``liveserver`` relates to a no longer maintained third-party module for django. It is now deprecated, and will be remove in community.general 3.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1154).
-- 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).
+- proxmox - the default of the new ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option will change from ``compatibility`` to ``no_defaults`` in community.general 4.0.0. Set the option to an explicit value to avoid a deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/850).
-- module_helper module utils - deprecated the attribute ``ModuleHelper.VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3801).
+- proxmox_kvm - the default of the new ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option will change from ``compatibility`` to ``no_defaults`` in community.general 4.0.0. Set the option to an explicit value to avoid a deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/850).
-- 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).
+- syspatch - deprecate the redundant ``apply`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/360).
-- 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).
+- xbps - the ``force`` option never had any effect. It is now deprecated, and will be removed in 3.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/568).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - the current default ``true`` of the ``want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host`` option has been deprecated. The default will change to ``false`` in community.general 6.0.0. To keep the current behavior, explicitly set ``want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host`` to ``true`` in your inventory configuration. We suggest to already switch to the new behavior by explicitly setting it to ``false``, and by using ``compose:`` to set ``ansible_host`` to the correct value. See the examples in the plugin documentation for details (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4466).
-- vmadm - deprecated module parameter ``debug`` that was not used anywhere (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4580).
 
 Removed Features (previously deprecated)
 ----------------------------------------
 
-- ali_instance_info - removed the options ``availability_zone``, ``instance_ids``, and ``instance_names``. Use filter item ``zone_id`` instead of ``availability_zone``, filter item ``instance_ids`` instead of ``instance_ids``, and filter item ``instance_name`` instead of ``instance_names`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- All Google cloud modules and plugins have now been migrated away from this collection.
-- apt_rpm - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+  They can be found in either the `community.google <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/google>`_ or `google.cloud <https://galaxy.ansible.com/google/cloud>`_ collections.
-- compose - removed various deprecated aliases. Use the version with ``_`` instead of ``-`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
-- dnsimple - remove support for dnsimple < 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+
-- github_deploy_key - removed the deprecated alias ``2fa_token`` of ``otp`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.gce_img`` → ``community.google.gce_img``) and make sure to install the community.google or google.cloud collections as appropriate.
-- homebrew, homebrew_cask - removed the deprecated alias ``update-brew`` of ``update_brew`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- All Kubevirt modules and plugins have now been migrated from community.general to the `community.kubevirt <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/kubevirt>`_ Ansible collection.
-- linode - removed the ``backupsenabled`` option. Use ``backupweeklyday`` or ``backupwindow`` to enable backups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
-- opkg - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+
-- pacman - if ``update_cache=true`` is used with ``name`` or ``upgrade``, the changed state will now also indicate if only the cache was updated. To keep the old behavior - only indicate ``changed`` when a package was installed/upgraded -, use ``changed_when`` as indicated in the module examples (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.kubevirt_vm`` → ``community.kubevirt.kubevirt_vm``) and make sure to install the community.kubevirt collection.
-- pacman - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- All ``docker`` modules and plugins have been removed from this collection.
-- proxmox, proxmox_kvm, proxmox_snap - no longer allow to specify a VM name that matches multiple VMs. If this happens, the modules now fail (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+  They have been migrated to the `community.docker <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/docker>`_ collection.
-- serverless - removed the ``functions`` option. It was not used by the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
-- slackpkg - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+
-- urpmi - removed the deprecated alias ``no-recommends`` of ``no_recommends`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.docker_container`` → ``community.docker.docker_container``) and make sure to install the community.docker collection.
-- urpmi - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+- All ``hetzner`` modules have been removed from this collection.
-- xbps - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+  They have been migrated to the `community.hrobot <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/hrobot>`_ collection.
-- xfconf - the ``get`` state has been removed. Use the ``xfconf_info`` module instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
+
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.hetzner_firewall`` → ``community.hrobot.firewall``) and make sure to install the community.hrobot collection.
+- All ``postgresql`` modules have been removed from this collection.
+  They have been migrated to the `community.postgresql <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/postgresql>`_ collection.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.postgresql_info`` → ``community.postgresql.postgresql_info``) and make sure to install the community.postgresql collection.
+- The Google cloud inventory script ``gce.py`` has been migrated to the ``community.google`` collection. Install the ``community.google`` collection in order to continue using it.
+- The ``hashi_vault`` lookup plugin has been removed from this collection.
+  It has been migrated to the `community.hashi_vault <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/hashi_vault>`_ collection.
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
+
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.hashi_vault`` → ``community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault``) and make sure to install the community.hashi_vault collection.
+- The ``oc`` connection plugin has been removed from this collection.
+  It has been migrated to the `community.okd <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/okd>`_ collection.
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
+
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.oc`` → ``community.okd.oc``) and make sure to install the community.okd collection.
+- The deprecated ``actionable`` callback plugin has been removed. Use the ``ansible.builtin.default`` callback plugin with ``display_skipped_hosts = no`` and ``display_ok_hosts = no`` options instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``foreman`` module has been removed. Use the modules from the theforeman.foreman collection instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``full_skip`` callback plugin has been removed. Use the ``ansible.builtin.default`` callback plugin with ``display_skipped_hosts = no`` option instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``gcdns_record`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_dns_resource_record_set`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcdns_zone`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_dns_managed_zone`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gce`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_instance`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcp_backend_service`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_backend_service`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcp_forwarding_rule`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_forwarding_rule`` or ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_global_forwarding_rule`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcp_healthcheck`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_health_check``, ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_http_health_check`` or ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_https_health_check`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcp_target_proxy`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_target_http_proxy`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcp_url_map`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_url_map`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcspanner`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_spanner_database`` and/or ``google.cloud.gcp_spanner_instance`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``github_hooks`` module has been removed. Use ``community.general.github_webhook`` and ``community.general.github_webhook_info`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``katello`` module has been removed. Use the modules from the theforeman.foreman collection instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_aggregate`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_aggregate instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_license`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_license instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_lun`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_lun instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_qtree`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_qtree instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_svm`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_svm instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_user_role`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_user_role instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_user`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_user instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_volume`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_volume instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``sf_account_manager`` module has been removed. Use netapp.elementsw.na_elementsw_account instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``sf_check_connections`` module has been removed. Use netapp.elementsw.na_elementsw_check_connections instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``sf_snapshot_schedule_manager`` module has been removed. Use netapp.elementsw.na_elementsw_snapshot_schedule instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``sf_volume_access_group_manager`` module has been removed. Use netapp.elementsw.na_elementsw_access_group instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``sf_volume_manager`` module has been removed. Use netapp.elementsw.na_elementsw_volume instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``stderr`` callback plugin has been removed. Use the ``ansible.builtin.default`` callback plugin with ``display_failed_stderr = yes`` option instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The redirect of the ``conjur_variable`` lookup plugin to ``cyberark.conjur.conjur_variable`` collection was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- The redirect of the ``firewalld`` module and the ``firewalld`` module_utils to the ``ansible.posix`` collection was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- The redirect to the ``community.digitalocean`` collection was removed for: the ``digital_ocean`` doc fragment, the ``digital_ocean`` module_utils, and the following modules: ``digital_ocean``, ``digital_ocean_account_facts``, ``digital_ocean_account_info``, ``digital_ocean_block_storage``, ``digital_ocean_certificate``, ``digital_ocean_certificate_facts``, ``digital_ocean_certificate_info``, ``digital_ocean_domain``, ``digital_ocean_domain_facts``, ``digital_ocean_domain_info``, ``digital_ocean_droplet``, ``digital_ocean_firewall_facts``, ``digital_ocean_firewall_info``, ``digital_ocean_floating_ip``, ``digital_ocean_floating_ip_facts``, ``digital_ocean_floating_ip_info``, ``digital_ocean_image_facts``, ``digital_ocean_image_info``, ``digital_ocean_load_balancer_facts``, ``digital_ocean_load_balancer_info``, ``digital_ocean_region_facts``, ``digital_ocean_region_info``, ``digital_ocean_size_facts``, ``digital_ocean_size_info``, ``digital_ocean_snapshot_facts``, ``digital_ocean_snapshot_info``, ``digital_ocean_sshkey``, ``digital_ocean_sshkey_facts``, ``digital_ocean_sshkey_info``, ``digital_ocean_tag``, ``digital_ocean_tag_facts``, ``digital_ocean_tag_info``, ``digital_ocean_volume_facts``, ``digital_ocean_volume_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- The redirect to the ``community.mysql`` collection was removed for: the ``mysql`` doc fragment, the ``mysql`` module_utils, and the following modules: ``mysql_db``, ``mysql_info``, ``mysql_query``, ``mysql_replication``, ``mysql_user``, ``mysql_variables`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- The redirect to the ``community.proxysql`` collection was removed for: the ``proxysql`` doc fragment, and the following modules: ``proxysql_backend_servers``, ``proxysql_global_variables``, ``proxysql_manage_config``, ``proxysql_mysql_users``, ``proxysql_query_rules``, ``proxysql_replication_hostgroups``, ``proxysql_scheduler`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- The redirect to the ``infinidat.infinibox`` collection was removed for: the ``infinibox`` doc fragment, the ``infinibox`` module_utils, and the following modules: ``infini_export``, ``infini_export_client``, ``infini_fs``, ``infini_host``, ``infini_pool``, ``infini_vol`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- conjur_variable lookup - has been moved to the ``cyberark.conjur`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/570).
+- digital_ocean_* - all DigitalOcean modules have been moved to the ``community.digitalocean`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/622).
+- infini_* - all infinidat modules have been moved to the ``infinidat.infinibox`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/607).
+- iptables_state - the ``ANSIBLE_ASYNC_DIR`` environment is no longer supported, use the ``async_dir`` shell option instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1371).
+- logicmonitor - the module has been removed in 1.0.0 since it is unmaintained and the API used by the module has been turned off in 2017 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/539, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/541).
+- logicmonitor_facts - the module has been removed in 1.0.0 since it is unmaintained and the API used by the module has been turned off in 2017 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/539, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/541).
+- memcached cache plugin - do not import ``CacheModule``s directly. Use ``ansible.plugins.loader.cache_loader`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1371).
+- mysql_* - all MySQL modules have been moved to the ``community.mysql`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/633).
+- proxysql_* - all ProxySQL modules have been moved to the ``community.proxysql`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/624).
+- redis cache plugin - do not import ``CacheModule``s directly. Use ``ansible.plugins.loader.cache_loader`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1371).
+- xml - when ``content=attribute``, the ``attribute`` option is ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1371).
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- bitbucket_pipeline_variable - **CVE-2021-20180** - hide user sensitive information which are marked as ``secured`` from logging into the console (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1635).
+- snmp_facts - **CVE-2021-20178** - hide user sensitive information such as ``privkey`` and ``authkey`` from logging into the console (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1621).
 
 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).
+- aerospike_migrations - handle exception when unstable-cluster is returned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/900).
-- a_module test plugin - fix crash when testing a module name that was tombstoned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3660).
+- aix_filesystem - fix issues with ismount module_util pathing for Ansible 2.9 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/567).
-- alternatives - fix output parsing for alternatives groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3976).
+- apache2_module - amend existing module identifier workaround to also apply to updated Shibboleth modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1379).
-- cargo - fix detection of outdated packages when ``state=latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4052).
+- beadm - fixed issue "list object has no attribute split" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/791).
-- 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).
+- bigpanda - removed the dynamic default for ``host`` param (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1423).
-- 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).
+- bitbucket_pipeline_variable - change pagination logic for pipeline variable get API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1425).
-- counter_enabled callback plugin - fix output to correctly display host and task counters in serial mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3709).
+- capabilities - fix for a newer version of libcap release (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1061).
-- dconf - skip processes that disappeared while we inspected them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4151).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - ``name`` needed FQCN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/722).
-- dnsmadeeasy - fix failure on deleting DNS entries when API response does not contain monitor value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3620).
+- cobbler inventory script - add Python 3 support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/638).
-- 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).
+- composer - fix bug in command idempotence with composer v2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1179).
-- 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).
+- consul_kv lookup - fix ``ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL`` environment variable handling (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51960).
-- gconftool2 - properly escape values when passing them to ``gconftool-2`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4647).
+- consul_kv lookup - fix arguments handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/303).
-- git_branch - remove deprecated and unnecessary branch ``unprotect`` method (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4496).
+- digital_ocean_tag_info - fix crash when querying for an individual tag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/615).
-- github_repo - ``private`` and ``description`` attributes should not be set to default values when the repo already exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2386).
+- django_manage - fix idempotence for ``createcachetable`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/699).
-- gitlab_group - improve searching for projects inside group on deletion (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
+- dnsmadeeasy - fix HTTP 400 errors when creating a TXT record (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1237).
-- 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).
+- doas become plugin - address a bug with the parameters handling that was breaking the plugin in community.general when ``become_flags`` and ``become_user`` were not explicitly specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/704).
-- 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).
+- dsv lookup - use correct dict usage (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/743).
-- 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).
+- dzdo become plugin - address a bug with the parameters handling that was breaking the plugin in community.general when ``become_user`` was not explicitly specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/708).
-- gitlab_group_variable - fix idempotent change behaviour for float and integer variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038).
+- filesystem - add option ``state`` with default ``present``. When set to ``absent``, filesystem signatures are removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/355).
-- gitlab_hook - avoid errors during idempotency check when an attribute does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4668).
+- filesystem - resizefs of xfs filesystems is fixed. Filesystem needs to be mounted.
-- gitlab_hook - handle more than 20 hooks when finding a hook (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
+- flatpak - use of the ``--non-interactive`` argument instead of ``-y`` when possible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1246).
-- gitlab_project - handle more than 20 namespaces when finding a namespace (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
+- gcp_storage_files lookup plugin - make sure that plugin errors out on initialization if the required library is not found, and not on load-time (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1297).
-- 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).
+- gem - fix get_installed_versions: correctly parse ``default`` version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/783).
-- gitlab_project_variable - ``value`` is not necessary when deleting variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4150).
+- git_config - now raises an error for non-existent repository paths (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/630).
-- 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).
+- git_config - using list instead of string as first parameter in the ``run_command()`` call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1021).
-- 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_group - added description parameter to ``createGroup()`` call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/138).
-- gitlab_project_variable - fix idempotent change behaviour for float and integer variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
+- gitlab_group_variable - support for GitLab pagination limitation by iterating over GitLab variable pages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/968).
-- gitlab_runner - make ``project`` and ``owned`` mutually exclusive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4136).
+- gitlab_project_variable - support for GitLab pagination limitation by iterating over GitLab variable pages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/968).
-- gitlab_runner - use correct API endpoint to create and retrieve project level runners when using ``project`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3965).
+- gitlab_runner - fix compatiblity with some versions of python-gitlab (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1491).
-- gitlab_user - handle more than 20 users and SSH keys when finding a user resp. SSH key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
+- homebrew - add default search path for ``brew`` on Apple silicon hardware (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1679).
-- homebrew_cask - fix force install operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3703).
+- homebrew - fix package name validation for packages containing hypen ``-`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1037).
-- icinga2 inventory plugin - handle 404 error when filter produces no results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3875, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3906).
+- homebrew_cask - add default search path for ``brew`` on Apple silicon hardware (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1679).
-- 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).
+- homebrew_cask - fix package name validation for casks containing hypen ``-`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1037).
-- ini_file - when removing nothing do not report changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4154).
+- homebrew_cask - fixed issue where a cask with ``@`` in the name is incorrectly reported as invalid (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/733).
-- interfaces_file - fixed the check for existing option in interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3841).
+- homebrew_tap - add default search path for ``brew`` on Apple silicon hardware (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1679).
-- 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).
+- icinga2_host - fix returning error codes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/335).
-- jira - fixed bug where module returns error related to dictionary key ``body`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3419).
+- influxdb - fix usage of path for older version of python-influxdb (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/997).
-- 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).
+- ini_file - check for parameter ``value`` if ``state`` is ``present`` and ``allow_no_value`` is ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/479).
-- 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)
+- interfaces_file - escape regular expression characters in old value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/777).
-- 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).
+- inventory plugins - allow FQCN in ``plugin`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/722).
-- 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).
+- ipa_hostgroup - fix an issue with load-balanced ipa and cookie handling with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/737).
-- ldap_search - allow it to be used even in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3619).
+- iptables_state - fix race condition between module and its action plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1136).
-- linode inventory plugin - fix configuration handling relating to inventory filtering (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4336).
+- jenkins_plugin - replace MD5 checksum verification with SHA1 due to MD5 being disabled on systems with FIPS-only algorithms enabled (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/34304).
-- 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).
+- jira - ``fetch`` and ``search`` no longer indicate that something changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1536).
-- lvol - allows logical volumes to be created with certain size arguments prefixed with ``+`` to preserve behavior of older versions of this module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3665).
+- jira - ensured parameter ``issue`` is mandatory for operation ``transition`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1536).
-- 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).
+- jira - improve error message handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/311).
-- lxd inventory plugin - do not crash if OS and release metadata are not present
+- jira - improve error message handling with multiple errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/707).
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4351).
+- jira - module no longer incorrectly reports change for information gathering operations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1536).
-- 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).
+- jira - provide error message raised from exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1504).
-- 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).
+- jira - replaced custom parameter validation with ``required_if`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1536).
-- mksysb - fixed bug for parameter ``backup_dmapi_fs`` was passing the wrong CLI argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3295).
+- json_query - handle ``AnsibleUnicode`` and ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/320).
-- nmcli - fix returning "changed" when no mask set for IPv4 or IPv6 addresses on task rerun (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3768).
+- keycloak module_utils - provide meaningful error message to user when auth URL does not start with http or https (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/331).
-- nmcli - fix returning "changed" when routes parameters set, also suggest new routes4 and routes6 format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4131).
+- launchd - fix for user-level services (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/896).
-- nmcli - fixed falsely reported changed status when ``mtu`` is omitted with ``dummy`` connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3612, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3625).
+- launchd - handle deprecated APIs like ``readPlist`` and ``writePlist`` in ``plistlib`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1552).
-- nmcli - pass ``flags``, ``ingress``, ``egress`` params to ``nmcli`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1086).
+- ldap modules - add ``sasl_class`` parameter to support passwordless SASL authentication via GSSAPI (kerberos), next to external (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1523).
-- nrdp callback plugin - fix error ``string arguments without an encoding`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3903).
+- ldap_entry - improvements in documentation, simplifications and replaced code with better ``AnsibleModule`` arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1516).
-- onepassword - search all valid configuration locations and use the first found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4640).
+- ldap_search - ignore returned referrals (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1067).
-- 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).
+- ldap_search - the module no longer incorrectly reports a change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1040).
-- opentelemetry - fix generating a trace with a task containing ``no_log: true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4043).
+- linode inventory plugin - make sure that plugin errors out on initialization if the required library is not found, and not on load-time (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1297).
-- 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).
+- lldp - use ``get_bin_path`` to locate the ``lldpctl`` executable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1643).
-- opentelemetry callback plugin - fix warning for the include_tasks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4623).
+- lxc_container - fix the type of the ``container_config`` parameter. It is now processed as a list and not a string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/216).
-- opentelemetry_plugin - honour ``ignore_errors`` when a task has failed instead of reporting an error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3837).
+- macports - fix failure to install a package whose name is contained within an already installed package's name or variant (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1307).
-- pacman - Use ``--groups`` instead of ``--group`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4312).
+- make - fixed ``make`` parameter used for check mode when running a non-GNU ``make`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1574).
-- pacman - fix URL based package installation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4286, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4285).
+- mas - fix ``invalid literal`` when no app can be found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1436).
-- pacman - fix ``upgrade=yes`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4275, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4274).
+- maven_artifact - handle timestamped snapshot version strings properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/709).
-- pacman - fixed bug where ``absent`` state did not work for locally installed packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4464).
+- memcached cache plugin - make sure that plugin errors out on initialization if the required library is not found, and not on load-time (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1297).
-- 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).
+- monit - add support for all monit service checks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1532).
-- 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).
+- monit - fix modules ability to determine the current state of the monitored process (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1107).
-- passwordstore lookup plugin - fix error detection for non-English locales (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4219).
+- nios_fixed_address, nios_host_record, nios_zone - removed redundant parameter aliases causing warning messages to incorrectly appear in task output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/852).
-- 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).
+- nios_host_record - fix to remove ``aliases`` (CNAMES) for configuration comparison (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1335).
-- 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).
+- nios_member - fix Python 3 compatibility with nios api ``member_normalize`` function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1526).
-- pipx - passes the correct command line option ``--include-apps`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3791).
+- nmcli - cannot modify ``ifname`` after connection creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1089).
-- pritunl - fixed bug where pritunl plugin api add unneeded data in ``auth_string`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4527).
+- nmcli - fix idempotetency when modifying an existing connection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/481).
-- proxmox - fixed ``onboot`` parameter causing module failures when undefined (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3844).
+- nmcli - remove ``bridge-slave`` from list of IP based connections ((https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1500).
-- 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).
+- nmcli - set ``C`` locale when executing ``nmcli`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/989).
-- 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).
+- nmcli - use consistent autoconnect parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/459).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed the ``description`` field being ignored if it contained a comma (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4348).
+- npm - handle json decode exception while parsing command line output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1614).
-- 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).
+- oc connection plugin - ``transport`` needed FQCN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/722).
-- proxmox_kvm - fix a bug when getting a state of VM without name will fail (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4508).
+- omapi_host - fix compatibility with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/787).
-- proxmox_kvm - fix error in check when creating or cloning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4306).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - updated to support password items, which place the password field directly in the payload's ``details`` attribute (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1610).
-- proxmox_kvm - fix error when checking whether Proxmox VM exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4287).
+- osx_defaults - fix handling negative integers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/134).
-- python_requirements_info - fails if version operator used without version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3785).
+- osx_defaults - unquote values and unescape double quotes when reading array values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/358).
-- python_requirements_info - store ``mismatched`` return values per package as documented in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4078).
+- packet_net.py inventory script - fixed failure w.r.t. operating system retrieval by changing array subscription back to attribute access (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/891).
-- redfish_command - the iLO4 Redfish implementation only supports the ``image_url`` parameter in the underlying API calls to ``VirtualMediaInsert`` and ``VirtualMediaEject``. Any values set (or the defaults) for ``write_protected`` or ``inserted`` will be ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4596).
+- pacman - treat package names containing .zst as package files during installation (https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/650).
-- 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).
+- pamd - added logic to retain the comment line (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1394).
-- 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).
+- parted - fix creating partition when label is changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/522).
-- slack - add ``charset`` to HTTP headers to avoid Slack API warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3932).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - always use explicit ``show`` command to retrieve password. This ensures compatibility with ``gopass`` and avoids problems when password names equal ``pass`` commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1493).
-- terraform - fix command options being ignored during planned/plan in function ``build_plan`` such as ``lock`` or ``lock_timeout`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3707, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3726).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - fix compatibility with gopass when used with ``create=true``. While pass returns 1 on a non-existent password, gopass returns 10, or 11, depending on whether a similar named password was stored. We now just check standard output and that the return code is not zero (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1589).
-- terraform - fix list initialization to support both Python 2 and Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4531).
+- pbrun become plugin - address a bug with the parameters handling that was breaking the plugin in community.general when ``become_user`` was not explicitly specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/708).
-- vdo - fix options error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4163).
+- pkg5 - now works when Python 3 is used on the target (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/789).
-- xattr - fix exception caused by ``_run_xattr()`` raising a ``ValueError`` due to a mishandling of base64-encoded value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3673).
+- profitbricks_nic - removed the dynamic default for ``name`` param (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1423).
-- xbps - fix error message that is reported when installing packages fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4438).
+- profitbricks_nic - replaced code with ``required`` and ``required_if`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1423).
-- 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).
+- proxmox_kvm - defer error-checking for non-existent VMs in order to fix idempotency of tasks using ``state=absent`` and properly recognize a success (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/811).
-- 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).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix issue causing linked clones not being create by allowing ``format=unspecified`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1027).
-- 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).
+- proxmox_kvm - ignore unsupported ``pool`` parameter on update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1258).
-- 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).
+- proxmox_kvm - improve handling of long-running tasks by creating a dedicated function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/831).
-- 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).
+- redfish_info module, redfish_utils module utils - correct ``PartNumber`` property name in Redfish ``GetMemoryInventory`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1483).
-- zypper - fix undefined variable when running in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4667).
+- redfish_info, redfish_config, redfish_command - Fix Redfish response payload decode on Python 3.5 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/686)
-- 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).
+- redis - fixes parsing of config values which should not be converted to bytes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1079).
+- redis cache plugin - make sure that plugin errors out on initialization if the required library is not found, and not on load-time (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1297).
+- rhn_channel - Python 2.7.5 fails if the certificate should not be validated. Fixed this by creating the correct ``ssl_context`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/470).
+- saltstack connection plugin - use ``hashutil.base64_decodefile`` to ensure that the file checksum is preserved (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1472).
+- selective - mark task failed correctly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63767).
+- sendgrid - update documentation and warn user about sendgrid Python library version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1553).
+- slack - avoid trying to update existing message when sending messages that contain the string "ts" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1097).
+- slack - fix ``xox[abp]`` token identification to capture everything after ``xox[abp]``, as the token is the only thing that should be in this argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/862).
+- snmp_facts - skip ``EndOfMibView`` values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49044).
+- solaris_zone - fixed issue trying to configure zone in Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1081).
+- syslogger - update ``syslog.openlog`` API call for older Python versions, and improve error handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/953).
+- syspatch - fix bug where not setting ``apply=true`` would result in error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/360).
+- terraform - fix ``init_reconfigure`` option for proper CLI args (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1620).
+- terraform - fix incorrectly reporting a status of unchanged when number of resources added or destroyed are multiples of 10 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/561).
+- terraform - improve result code checking when executing terraform commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1632).
+- timezone - support Python3 on macos/darwin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/945).
+- udm_user - removed the dynamic default for ``userexpiry`` param (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1423).
+- utm_network_interface_address - changed param type from invalid 'boolean' to valid 'bool' (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1423).
+- utm_proxy_exception - four parameters had elements types set as 'string' (invalid), changed to 'str' (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1399).
+- vmadm - simplification of code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1415).
+- xfconf - add in missing return values that are specified in the documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1418).
+- xfconf - make it work in non-english locales (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/744).
+- xfconf - parameter ``value`` no longer required for state ``absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1329).
+- xfconf - xfconf no longer passing the command args as a string, but rather as a list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1328).
+- yaml callback plugin - do not remove non-ASCII Unicode characters from multiline string output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1519).
+- yarn - fixed an index out of range error when no outdated packages where returned by yarn executable (see https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/474).
+- yarn - fixed an too many values to unpack error when scoped packages are installed (see https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/474).
+- zfs - fixed ``invalid character '@' in pool name"`` error when working with snapshots on a root zvol (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/932).
+- zypper - force ``LANG=C`` to as zypper is looking in XML output where attribute could be translated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1175).
 
-Known Issues
+New Modules
-------------
-
-- pacman - ``update_cache`` cannot differentiate between up to date and outdated package lists and will report ``changed`` in both situations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4318).
-- pacman - binaries specified in the ``executable`` parameter must support ``--print-format`` in order to be used by this module. In particular, AUR helper ``yay`` is known not to currently support it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4312).
-
-New Plugins
 -----------
 
-Filter
+Cloud
+~~~~~
+
+misc
+^^^^
+
+- proxmox_snap - Snapshot management of instances in Proxmox VE cluster
+
+Identity
+~~~~~~~~
+
+ipa
+^^^
+
+- ipa_pwpolicy - Manage FreeIPA password policies
+
+Monitoring
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+datadog
+^^^^^^^
+
+- datadog_downtime - Manages Datadog downtimes
+
+Packaging
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+os
+^^
+
+- copr - Manage one of the Copr repositories
+- rpm_ostree_pkg - Install or uninstall overlay additional packages
+- yum_versionlock - Locks / unlocks a installed package(s) from being updated by yum package manager
+
+System
 ~~~~~~
 
-- counter - Counts hashable elements in a sequence
+- ssh_config - Manage SSH config for user
+- sysrc - Manage FreeBSD using sysrc

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,143 +0,0 @@
-# Contributing
-
-We follow [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html) in all our contributions and interactions within this repository.
-
-If you are a committer, also refer to the [collection's committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md).
-
-## Issue tracker
-
-Whether you are looking for an opportunity to contribute or you found a bug and already know how to solve it, please go to the [issue tracker](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues).
-There you can find feature ideas to implement, reports about bugs to solve, or submit an issue to discuss your idea before implementing it which can help choose a right direction at the beginning of your work and potentially save a lot of time and effort.
-Also somebody may already have started discussing or working on implementing the same or a similar idea,
-so you can cooperate to create a better solution together.
-
-* If you are interested in starting with an easy issue, look for [issues with an `easyfix` label](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/labels/easyfix).
-* Often issues that are waiting for contributors to pick up have [the `waiting_on_contributor` label](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/labels/waiting_on_contributor).
-
-## Open pull requests
-
-Look through currently [open pull requests](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pulls).
-You can help by reviewing them. Reviews help move pull requests to merge state. Some good pull requests cannot be merged only due to a lack of reviews. And it is always worth saying that good reviews are often more valuable than pull requests themselves.
-Note that reviewing does not only mean code review, but also offering comments on new interfaces added to existing plugins/modules, interfaces of new plugins/modules, improving language (not everyone is a native english speaker), or testing bugfixes and new features!
-
-Also, consider taking up a valuable, reviewed, but abandoned pull request which you could politely ask the original authors to complete yourself.
-
-* Try committing your changes with an informative but short commit message.
-* Do not squash your commits and force-push to your branch if not needed. Reviews of your pull request are much easier with individual commits to comprehend the pull request history. All commits of your pull request branch will be squashed into one commit by GitHub upon merge.
-* Do not add merge commits to your PR. The bot will complain and you will have to rebase ([instructions for rebasing](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_rebasing.html)) to remove them before your PR can be merged. To avoid that git automatically does merges during pulls, you can configure it to do rebases instead by running `git config pull.rebase true` inside the repository checkout.
-* Make sure your PR includes a [changelog fragment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/development_process.html#changelogs-how-to). (You must not include a fragment for new modules or new plugins, except for test and filter plugins. Also you shouldn't include one for docs-only changes. If you're not sure, simply don't include one, we'll tell you whether one is needed or not :) )
-* Avoid reformatting unrelated parts of the codebase in your PR. These types of changes will likely be requested for reversion, create additional work for reviewers, and may cause approval to be delayed.
-
-You can also read [our Quick-start development guide](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/create_pr_quick_start_guide.rst).
-
-## Test pull requests
-
-If you want to test a PR locally, refer to [our testing guide](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/test_pr_locally_guide.rst) for instructions on how do it quickly.
-
-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.
-
-1. Please make sure that your new module or plugin is of interest to a larger audience. Very specialized modules or plugins that
-   can only be used by very few people should better be added to more specialized collections.
-
-2. Please do not add more than one plugin/module in one PR, especially if it is the first plugin/module you are contributing.
-   That makes it easier for reviewers, and increases the chance that your PR will get merged. If you plan to contribute a group
-   of plugins/modules (say, more than a module and a corresponding ``_info`` module), please mention that in the first PR. In
-   such cases, you also have to think whether it is better to publish the group of plugins/modules in a new collection.
-
-3. When creating a new module or plugin, please make sure that you follow various guidelines:
-
-   - Follow [development conventions](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_best_practices.html);
-   - Follow [documentation standards](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_documenting.html) and
-     the [Ansible style guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/style_guide/index.html#style-guide);
-   - Make sure your modules and plugins are [GPL-3.0-or-later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html) licensed
-     (new module_utils can also be [BSD-2-clause](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause) licensed);
-   - Make sure that new plugins and modules have tests (unit tests, integration tests, or both); it is preferable to have some tests
-     which run in CI.
-
-4. For modules and action plugins, make sure to create your module/plugin in the correct subdirectory, and add a redirect entry
-   in `meta/runtime.yml`. For example, for the `aerospike_migrations` module located in
-   `plugins/modules/database/aerospike/aerospike_migrations.py`, you need to create the following entry:
-   ```.yaml
-       aerospike_migrations:
-         redirect: community.general.database.aerospike.aerospike_migrations
-   ```
-   Here, the relative path `database/aerospike/` is inserted into the module's FQCN (Fully Qualified Collection Name) after the
-   collection's name and before the module's name. This must not be done for other plugin types but modules and action plugins!
-
-   - Action plugins need to be accompanied by a module, even if the module file only contains documentation
-     (`DOCUMENTATION`, `EXAMPLES` and `RETURN`). The module must have the same name and directory path in `plugins/modules/`
-     than the action plugin has in `plugins/action/`.
-
-5. Make sure to add a BOTMETA entry for your new module/plugin in `.github/BOTMETA.yml`. Search for other plugins/modules in the
-   same directory to see how entries could look. You should list all authors either as `maintainers` or under `ignore`. People
-   listed as `maintainers` will be pinged for new issues and PRs that modify the module/plugin or its tests.
-
-   When you add a new plugin/module, we expect that you perform maintainer duty for at least some time after contributing it.
-
-## pre-commit
-
-To help ensure high-quality contributions this repository includes a [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) configuration which
-corrects and tests against common issues that would otherwise cause CI to fail. To begin using these pre-commit hooks see
-the [Installation](#installation) section below.
-
-This is optional and not required to contribute to this repository.
-
-### Installation
-
-Follow the [instructions](https://pre-commit.com/#install) provided with pre-commit and run `pre-commit install` under the repository base. If for any reason you would like to disable the pre-commit hooks run `pre-commit uninstall`.
-
-This is optional to run it locally.
-
-You can trigger it locally with `pre-commit run --all-files` or even to run only for a given file `pre-commit run --files YOUR_FILE`.

README.md

@@ -1,25 +1,15 @@
 # Community General Collection
 
-[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-5)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-2)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
 [![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://codecov.io/gh/ansible-collections/community.general)
 
-This repository contains the `community.general` Ansible Collection. The collection is a part of the Ansible package and includes many modules and plugins supported by Ansible community which are not part of more specialized community collections.
+This repo contains the `community.general` Ansible Collection. The collection includes many modules and plugins supported by Ansible community which are not part of more specialized community collections.
 
 You can find [documentation for this collection on the Ansible docs site](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/).
 
-Please note that this collection does **not** support Windows targets. Only connection plugins included in this collection might support Windows targets, and will explicitly mention that in their documentation if they do so.
-
-## Code of Conduct
-
-We follow [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html) in all our interactions within this project.
-
-If you encounter abusive behavior violating the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html), please refer to the [policy violations](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html#policy-violations) section of the Code of Conduct for information on how to raise a complaint.
-
 ## Tested with Ansible
 
-Tested with the current ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible-core versions before 2.11.0 are not supported. This includes all ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 releases.
+Tested with the current Ansible 2.9 and 2.10 releases and the current development version of Ansible. Ansible versions before 2.9.10 are not supported.
-
-Parts of this collection will not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+.
 
 ## External requirements
 
@@ -31,9 +21,7 @@ Please check the included content on the [Ansible Galaxy page for this collectio
 
 ## Using this collection
 
-This collection is shipped with the Ansible package. So if you have it installed, no more action is required.
+Before using the General community collection, you need to install the collection with the `ansible-galaxy` CLI:
-
-If you have a minimal installation (only Ansible Core installed) or you want to use the latest version of the collection along with the whole Ansible package, you need to install the collection from [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/general) manually with the `ansible-galaxy` command-line tool:
 
     ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
 
@@ -44,79 +32,57 @@ collections:
 - name: community.general
 ```
 
-Note that if you install the collection manually, it will not be upgraded automatically when you upgrade the Ansible package. To upgrade the collection to the latest available version, run the following command:
-
-```bash
-ansible-galaxy collection install community.general --upgrade
-```
-
-You can also install a specific version of the collection, for example, if you need to downgrade when something is broken in the latest version (please report an issue in this repository). Use the following syntax where `X.Y.Z` can be any [available version](https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/general):
-
-```bash
-ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==X.Y.Z
-```
-
 See [Ansible Using collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/collections_using.html) for more details.
 
 ## Contributing to this collection
 
-The content of this collection is made by good people just like you, a community of individuals collaborating on making the world better through developing automation software.
+If you want to develop new content for this collection or improve what is already here, the easiest way to work on the collection is to clone it into one of the configured [`COLLECTIONS_PATH`](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#collections-paths), and work on it there.
 
-We are actively accepting new contributors.
+For example, if you are working in the `~/dev` directory:
 
-All types of contributions are very welcome.
+```
-
+cd ~/dev
-You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)!
+git clone git@github.com:ansible-collections/community.general.git collections/ansible_collections/community/general
-
+export COLLECTIONS_PATH=$(pwd)/collections:$COLLECTIONS_PATH
-The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md#people) file. If you have questions or need help, feel free to mention them in the proposals.
+```
 
 You can find more information in the [developer guide for collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collections.html#contributing-to-collections), and in the [Ansible Community Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/index.html).
 
-Also for some notes specific to this collection see [our CONTRIBUTING documentation](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
-
 ### Running tests
 
 See [here](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collections.html#testing-collections).
 
-## Collection maintenance
+### Communication
 
-To learn how to maintain / become a maintainer of this collection, refer to:
+We have a dedicated Working Group for Ansible development.
 
-* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md).
+You can find other people interested on the following Freenode IRC channels -
-* [Maintainer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/maintaining.rst).
+- `#ansible` - For general use questions and support.
-
+- `#ansible-devel` - For discussions on developer topics and code related to features or bugs.
-It is necessary for maintainers of this collection to be subscribed to:
+- `#ansible-community` - For discussions on community topics and community meetings.
-
-* The collection itself (the `Watch` button → `All Activity` in the upper right corner of the repository's homepage).
-* The "Changes Impacting Collection Contributors and Maintainers" [issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/issues/45).
-
-They also should be subscribed to Ansible's [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#the-bullhorn).
-
-## Communication
-
-We announce important development changes and releases through Ansible's [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://eepurl.com/gZmiEP). If you are a collection developer, be sure you are subscribed.
-
-Join us in the `#ansible` (general use questions and support), `#ansible-community` (community and collection development questions), and other [IRC channels](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#irc-channels) on [Libera.chat](https://libera.chat).
-
-We take part in the global quarterly [Ansible Contributor Summit](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Contributor-Summit) virtually or in-person. Track [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://eepurl.com/gZmiEP) and join us.
 
 For more information about communities, meetings and agendas see [Community Wiki](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Community).
 
-For more information about communication, refer to Ansible's the [Communication guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html).
+For more information about [communication](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html)
 
-## Publishing New Version
+### Publishing New Version
 
-See the [Releasing guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/releasing_collections.rst) to learn how to release this collection.
+Basic instructions without release branches:
+
+1. Create `changelogs/fragments/<version>.yml` with `release_summary:` section (which must be a string, not a list).
+2. Run `antsibull-changelog release --collection-flatmap yes`
+3. Make sure `CHANGELOG.rst` and `changelogs/changelog.yaml` are added to git, and the deleted fragments have been removed.
+4. Tag the commit with `<version>`. Push changes and tag to the main repository.
 
 ## Release notes
 
-See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-5/CHANGELOG.rst).
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-2/CHANGELOG.rst).
 
 ## Roadmap
 
-In general, we plan to release a major version every six months, and minor versions every two months. Major versions can contain breaking changes, while minor versions only contain new features and bugfixes.
+See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/582) for information on releasing, versioning and deprecation.
 
-See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/582) for information on releasing, versioning, and deprecation.
+In general, we plan to release a major version every six months, and minor versions every two months. Major versions can contain breaking changes, while minor versions only contain new features and bugfixes.
 
 ## More information
 

commit-rights.md

@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-Committers Guidelines for community.general
-===========================================
-
-This document is based on the [Ansible committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/b57444af14062ec96e0af75fdfc2098c74fe2d9a/docs/docsite/rst/community/committer_guidelines.rst) ([latest version](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/committer_guidelines.html)).
-
-These are the guidelines for people with commit privileges on the Ansible Community General Collection GitHub repository. Please read the guidelines before you commit.
-
-These guidelines apply to everyone. At the same time, this is NOT a process document. So just use good judgment. You have been given commit access because we trust your judgment.
-
-That said, use the trust wisely.
-
-If you abuse the trust and break components and builds, and so on, the trust level falls and you may be asked not to commit or you may lose your commit privileges.
-
-Our workflow on GitHub
-----------------------
-
-As a committer, you may already know this, but our workflow forms a lot of our team policies. Please ensure you are aware of the following workflow steps:
-
-* Fork the repository upon which you want to do some work to your own personal repository
-* Work on the specific branch upon which you need to commit
-* Create a Pull Request back to the collection repository and await reviews
-* Adjust code as necessary based on the Comments provided
-* Ask someone from the other committers to do a final review and merge
-
-Sometimes, committers merge their own pull requests. This section is a set of guidelines. If you are changing a comma in a doc or making a very minor change, you can use your best judgement. This is another trust thing. The process is critical for any major change, but for little things or getting something done quickly, use your best judgement and make sure people on the team are aware of your work.
-
-Roles
------
-* Release managers: Merge pull requests to `stable-X` branches, create tags to do releases.
-* Committers: Fine to do PRs for most things, but we should have a timebox. Hanging PRs may merge on the judgement of these devs.
-* Module maintainers: Module maintainers own specific modules and have indirect commit access through the current module PR mechanisms. This is primary [ansibullbot](https://github.com/ansibullbot)'s `shipit` mechanism.
-
-General rules
--------------
-Individuals with direct commit access to this collection repository are entrusted with powers that allow them to do a broad variety of things--probably more than we can write down. Rather than rules, treat these as general *guidelines*, individuals with this power are expected to use their best judgement.
-
-* Do NOTs:
-
-  - Do not commit directly.
-  - Do not merge your own PRs. Someone else should have a chance to review and approve the PR merge. You have a small amount of leeway here for very minor changes.
-  - Do not forget about non-standard / alternate environments. Consider the alternatives. Yes, people have bad/unusual/strange environments (like binaries from multiple init systems installed), but they are the ones who need us the most.
-  - Do not drag your community team members down. Discuss the technical merits of any pull requests you review. Avoid negativity and personal comments. For more guidance on being a good community member, read the [Ansible Community Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html).
-  - Do not forget about the maintenance burden. High-maintenance features may not be worth adding.
-  - Do not break playbooks. Always keep backwards compatibility in mind.
-  - Do not forget to keep it simple. Complexity breeds all kinds of problems.
-  - Do not merge to branches other than `main`, especially not to `stable-X`, if you do not have explicit permission to do so.
-  - Do not create tags. Tags are used in the release process, and should only be created by the people responsible for managing the stable branches.
-
-* Do:
-
-  - Squash, avoid merges whenever possible, use GitHub's squash commits or cherry pick if needed (bisect thanks you).
-  - Be active. Committers who have no activity on the project (through merges, triage, commits, and so on) will have their permissions suspended.
-  - Consider backwards compatibility (goes back to "do not break existing playbooks").
-  - Write tests. PRs with tests are looked at with more priority than PRs without tests that should have them included. While not all changes require tests, be sure to add them for bug fixes or functionality changes.
-  - Discuss with other committers, specially when you are unsure of something.
-  - Document! If your PR is a new feature or a change to behavior, make sure you've updated all associated documentation or have notified the right people to do so.
-  - Consider scope, sometimes a fix can be generalized.
-  - Keep it simple, then things are maintainable, debuggable and intelligible.
-
-Committers are expected to continue to follow the same community and contribution guidelines followed by the rest of the Ansible community.
-
-
-People
-------
-
-Individuals who have been asked to become a part of this group have generally been contributing in significant ways to the community.general collection for some time. Should they agree, they are requested to add their names and GitHub IDs to this file, in the section below, through a pull request. Doing so indicates that these individuals agree to act in the ways that their fellow committers trust that they will act.
-
-| Name                | GitHub ID            | IRC Nick           | Other                |
-| ------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------ | -------------------- |
-| Alexei Znamensky    | russoz               | russoz             |                      |
-| Andrew Klychkov     | andersson007         | andersson007_      |                      |
-| Andrew Pantuso      | Ajpantuso            | ajpantuso          |                      |
-| Felix Fontein       | felixfontein         | felixfontein       |                      |
-| John R Barker       | gundalow             | gundalow           |                      |

docs/docsite/extra-docs.yml

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
----
-sections:
-  - title: Guides
-    toctree:
-      - filter_guide
-      - test_guide

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-common.yml

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-list1:
-  - name: foo
-    extra: true
-  - name: bar
-    extra: false
-  - name: meh
-    extra: true
-
-list2:
-  - name: foo
-    path: /foo
-  - name: baz
-    path: /baz

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-recursive-true.yml

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-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}]

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001.yml

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-- 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

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/default-common.yml

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-common.yml

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/list3.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ list1|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name') }}"

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002.yml

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-- 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

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/default-common.yml

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-common.yml

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/list3.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003.yml

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-- 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

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/default-recursive-true.yml

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/list3.yml

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true) }}"

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004.yml

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-- 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

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/default-recursive-true.yml

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/list3.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='keep') }}"

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005.yml

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-- 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

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/default-recursive-true.yml

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/list3.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='append') }}"

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006.yml

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-- 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

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/default-recursive-true.yml

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/list3.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='prepend') }}"

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007.yml

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-- 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

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/default-recursive-true.yml

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/list3.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='append_rp') }}"

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008.yml

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-- 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

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/default-recursive-true.yml

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/list3.yml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='prepend_rp') }}"

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples.yml

@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
----
-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'

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples_all.rst.j2

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-{% for i in examples %}
-{{ i.label }}
-
-.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
-
-  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
-
-{% endfor %}

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2

@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-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 %}

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/list3.out.j2

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-list3:
-{{ list3|to_nice_yaml(indent=0) }}

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml

@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
----
-
-# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-# 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

docs/docsite/links.yml

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
----
-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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.filter_guide:
-
-community.general Filter Guide
-==============================
-
-The :ref:`community.general collection <plugins_in_community.general>` offers several useful filter plugins.
-
-.. 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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst

@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst

@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
-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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst

@@ -1,98 +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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst

@@ -1,292 +0,0 @@
-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
-

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst

@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst

@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-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) }}"

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst

@@ -1,144 +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.

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst

@@ -1,84 +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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst

@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-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

docs/docsite/rst/test_guide.rst

@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.test_guide:
-
-community.general Test (Plugin) Guide
-=====================================
-
-The :ref:`community.general collection <plugins_in_community.general>` offers currently one test plugin.
-
-.. contents:: Topics
-
-Feature Tests
--------------
-
-The ``a_module`` test allows to check whether a given string refers to an existing module or action plugin. This can be useful in roles, which can use this to ensure that required modules are present ahead of time.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Make sure that community.aws.route53 is available
-      assert:
-        that:
-          - >
-            'community.aws.route53' is community.general.a_module
-
-    - name: Make sure that community.general.does_not_exist is not a module or action plugin
-      assert:
-        that:
-          - "'community.general.does_not_exist' is not community.general.a_module"
-
-.. versionadded:: 4.0.0

galaxy.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 namespace: community
 name: general
-version: 5.0.0
+version: 2.0.0
 readme: README.md
 authors:
   - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)

plugins/action/iptables_state.py

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+./system/iptables_state.py

plugins/action/shutdown.py

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+./system/shutdown.py

plugins/action/system/iptables_state.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # Copyright: (c) 2020, quidame <quidame@poivron.org>
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 
@@ -8,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import time
 
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleActionFail, AnsibleConnectionFailure
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleActionFail, AnsibleConnectionFailure
 from ansible.utils.vars import merge_hash
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
@@ -41,27 +40,19 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
         "(=%s) to 0, and 'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than "
         "'ansible_timeout' (=%s) (recommended).")
 
-    def _async_result(self, async_status_args, task_vars, timeout):
+    def _async_result(self, module_args, task_vars, timeout):
         '''
         Retrieve results of the asynchonous task, and display them in place of
         the async wrapper results (those with the ansible_job_id key).
         '''
-        async_status = self._task.copy()
-        async_status.args = async_status_args
-        async_status.action = 'ansible.builtin.async_status'
-        async_status.async_val = 0
-        async_action = self._shared_loader_obj.action_loader.get(
-            async_status.action, task=async_status, connection=self._connection,
-            play_context=self._play_context, loader=self._loader, templar=self._templar,
-            shared_loader_obj=self._shared_loader_obj)
-
-        if async_status.args['mode'] == 'cleanup':
-            return async_action.run(task_vars=task_vars)
-
         # At least one iteration is required, even if timeout is 0.
-        for dummy in range(max(1, timeout)):
+        for i in range(max(1, timeout)):
-            async_result = async_action.run(task_vars=task_vars)
+            async_result = self._execute_module(
-            if async_result.get('finished', 0) == 1:
+                module_name='ansible.builtin.async_status',
+                module_args=module_args,
+                task_vars=task_vars,
+                wrap_async=False)
+            if async_result['finished'] == 1:
                 break
             time.sleep(min(1, timeout))
 
@@ -85,6 +76,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
             task_async = self._task.async_val
             check_mode = self._play_context.check_mode
             max_timeout = self._connection._play_context.timeout
+            module_name = self._task.action
             module_args = self._task.args
 
             if module_args.get('state', None) == 'restored':
@@ -115,7 +107,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
                     # longer on the controller); and set a backup file path.
                     module_args['_timeout'] = task_async
                     module_args['_back'] = '%s/iptables.state' % async_dir
-                    async_status_args = dict(mode='status')
+                    async_status_args = dict(_async_dir=async_dir)
                     confirm_cmd = 'rm -f %s' % module_args['_back']
                     starter_cmd = 'touch %s.starter' % module_args['_back']
                     remaining_time = max(task_async, max_timeout)
@@ -141,7 +133,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
                 # The module is aware to not process the main iptables-restore
                 # command before finding (and deleting) the 'starter' cookie on
                 # the host, so the previous query will not reach ssh timeout.
-                dummy = self._low_level_execute_command(starter_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
+                garbage = self._low_level_execute_command(starter_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
 
                 # As the main command is not yet executed on the target, here
                 # 'finished' means 'failed before main command be executed'.
@@ -151,7 +143,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
                     except AttributeError:
                         pass
 
-                    for dummy in range(max_timeout):
+                    for x in range(max_timeout):
                         time.sleep(1)
                         remaining_time -= 1
                         # - AnsibleConnectionFailure covers rejected requests (i.e.
@@ -159,7 +151,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
                         # - ansible_timeout is able to cover dropped requests (due
                         #   to a rule or policy DROP) if not lower than async_val.
                         try:
-                            dummy = self._low_level_execute_command(confirm_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
+                            garbage = self._low_level_execute_command(confirm_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
                             break
                         except AnsibleConnectionFailure:
                             continue
@@ -172,12 +164,16 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
                         del result[key]
 
                 if result.get('invocation', {}).get('module_args'):
-                    for key in ('_back', '_timeout', '_async_dir', 'jid'):
+                    if '_timeout' in result['invocation']['module_args']:
-                        if result['invocation']['module_args'].get(key):
+                        del result['invocation']['module_args']['_back']
-                            del result['invocation']['module_args'][key]
+                        del result['invocation']['module_args']['_timeout']
 
                 async_status_args['mode'] = 'cleanup'
-                dummy = self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, 0)
+                garbage = self._execute_module(
+                    module_name='ansible.builtin.async_status',
+                    module_args=async_status_args,
+                    task_vars=task_vars,
+                    wrap_async=False)
 
         if not wrap_async:
             # remove a temporary path we created

plugins/action/system/shutdown.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # Copyright: (c) 2020, Amin Vakil <info@aminvakil.com>
 # Copyright: (c) 2016-2018, Matt Davis <mdavis@ansible.com>
 # Copyright: (c) 2018, Sam Doran <sdoran@redhat.com>
@@ -8,7 +7,7 @@ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_string
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display

plugins/become/doas.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
     short_description: Do As user
     description:
         - This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the doas utility.
-    author: Ansible Core Team
+    author: ansible (@core)
     options:
         become_user:
             description: User you 'become' to execute the task
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 
 import re
 
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
 
 

plugins/become/dzdo.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
     short_description: Centrify's Direct Authorize
     description:
         - This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the dzdo utility.
-    author: Ansible Core Team
+    author: ansible (@core)
     options:
         become_user:
             description: User you 'become' to execute the task

plugins/become/ksu.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
     short_description: Kerberos substitute user
     description:
         - This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the ksu utility.
-    author: Ansible Core Team
+    author: ansible (@core)
     options:
         become_user:
             description: User you 'become' to execute the task
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 
 import re
 
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
 
 

plugins/become/machinectl.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
     short_description: Systemd's machinectl privilege escalation
     description:
         - This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the machinectl utility.
-    author: Ansible Core Team
+    author: ansible (@core)
     options:
         become_user:
             description: User you 'become' to execute the task

plugins/become/pbrun.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
     short_description: PowerBroker run
     description:
         - This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the pbrun utility.
-    author: Ansible Core Team
+    author: ansible (@core)
     options:
         become_user:
             description: User you 'become' to execute the task

plugins/become/pfexec.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
     short_description: profile based execution
     description:
         - This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the pfexec utility.
-    author: Ansible Core Team
+    author: ansible (@core)
     options:
         become_user:
             description:

plugins/become/pmrun.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
     short_description: Privilege Manager run
     description:
         - This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the pmrun utility.
-    author: Ansible Core Team
+    author: ansible (@core)
     options:
         become_exe:
             description: Sudo executable

plugins/become/sudosu.py

@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright: (c) 2021, Ansible Project
-# 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: 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.
-    author:
-    - Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)
-    version_added: 2.4.0
-    options:
-        become_user:
-            description: User you 'become' to execute the task.
-            default: root
-            ini:
-              - section: privilege_escalation
-                key: become_user
-              - section: sudo_become_plugin
-                key: user
-            vars:
-              - name: ansible_become_user
-              - name: ansible_sudo_user
-            env:
-              - name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_USER
-              - name: ANSIBLE_SUDO_USER
-        become_flags:
-            description: Options to pass to C(sudo).
-            default: -H -S -n
-            ini:
-              - section: privilege_escalation
-                key: become_flags
-              - section: sudo_become_plugin
-                key: flags
-            vars:
-              - name: ansible_become_flags
-              - name: ansible_sudo_flags
-            env:
-              - name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_FLAGS
-              - name: ANSIBLE_SUDO_FLAGS
-        become_pass:
-            description: Password to pass to C(sudo).
-            required: false
-            vars:
-              - name: ansible_become_password
-              - name: ansible_become_pass
-              - name: ansible_sudo_pass
-            env:
-              - name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_PASS
-              - name: ANSIBLE_SUDO_PASS
-            ini:
-              - section: sudo_become_plugin
-                key: password
-"""
-
-
-from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
-
-
-class BecomeModule(BecomeBase):
-
-    name = 'community.general.sudosu'
-
-    # messages for detecting prompted password issues
-    fail = ('Sorry, try again.',)
-    missing = ('Sorry, a password is required to run sudo', 'sudo: a password is required')
-
-    def build_become_command(self, cmd, shell):
-        super(BecomeModule, self).build_become_command(cmd, shell)
-
-        if not cmd:
-            return cmd
-
-        becomecmd = 'sudo'
-
-        flags = self.get_option('become_flags') or ''
-        prompt = ''
-        if self.get_option('become_pass'):
-            self.prompt = '[sudo via ansible, key=%s] password:' % self._id
-            if flags:  # this could be simplified, but kept as is for now for backwards string matching
-                flags = flags.replace('-n', '')
-            prompt = '-p "%s"' % (self.prompt)
-
-        user = self.get_option('become_user') or ''
-        if user:
-            user = '%s' % (user)
-
-        return ' '.join([becomecmd, flags, prompt, 'su -l', user, self._build_success_command(cmd, shell)])

plugins/cache/memcached.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # (c) 2014, Brian Coca, Josh Drake, et al
 # (c) 2017 Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
@@ -20,7 +19,6 @@ 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:
@@ -155,16 +153,16 @@ class CacheModuleKeys(MutableSet):
     def __len__(self):
         return len(self._keyset)
 
-    def add(self, value):
+    def add(self, key):
-        self._keyset[value] = time.time()
+        self._keyset[key] = time.time()
         self._cache.set(self.PREFIX, self._keyset)
 
-    def discard(self, value):
+    def discard(self, key):
-        del self._keyset[value]
+        del self._keyset[key]
         self._cache.set(self.PREFIX, self._keyset)
 
     def remove_by_timerange(self, s_min, s_max):
-        for k in list(self._keyset.keys()):
+        for k in self._keyset.keys():
             t = self._keyset[k]
             if s_min < t < s_max:
                 del self._keyset[k]
@@ -176,11 +174,20 @@ class CacheModule(BaseCacheModule):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         connection = ['127.0.0.1:11211']
 
-        super(CacheModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        try:
-        if self.get_option('_uri'):
+            super(CacheModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-            connection = self.get_option('_uri')
+            if self.get_option('_uri'):
-        self._timeout = self.get_option('_timeout')
+                connection = self.get_option('_uri')
-        self._prefix = self.get_option('_prefix')
+            self._timeout = self.get_option('_timeout')
+            self._prefix = self.get_option('_prefix')
+        except KeyError:
+            # TODO: remove once we no longer support Ansible 2.9
+            if not ansible_base_version.startswith('2.9.'):
+                raise AnsibleError("Do not import CacheModules directly. Use ansible.plugins.loader.cache_loader instead.")
+            if C.CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION:
+                connection = C.CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION.split(',')
+            self._timeout = C.CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT
+            self._prefix = C.CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX
 
         if not HAS_MEMCACHE:
             raise AnsibleError("python-memcached is required for the memcached fact cache")

plugins/cache/pickle.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # (c) 2017, Brian Coca
 # (c) 2017 Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)

plugins/cache/redis.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # (c) 2014, Brian Coca, Josh Drake, et al
 # (c) 2017 Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
@@ -62,13 +61,12 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
         type: integer
 '''
 
-import re
 import time
 import json
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
 from ansible.parsing.ajson import AnsibleJSONEncoder, AnsibleJSONDecoder
 from ansible.plugins.cache import BaseCacheModule
 from ansible.release import __version__ as ansible_base_version
@@ -93,19 +91,27 @@ class CacheModule(BaseCacheModule):
     performance.
     """
     _sentinel_service_name = None
-    re_url_conn = re.compile(r'^([^:]+|\[[^]]+\]):(\d+):(\d+)(?::(.*))?$')
-    re_sent_conn = re.compile(r'^(.*):(\d+)$')
 
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         uri = ''
 
-        super(CacheModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        try:
-        if self.get_option('_uri'):
+            super(CacheModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-            uri = self.get_option('_uri')
+            if self.get_option('_uri'):
-        self._timeout = float(self.get_option('_timeout'))
+                uri = self.get_option('_uri')
-        self._prefix = self.get_option('_prefix')
+            self._timeout = float(self.get_option('_timeout'))
-        self._keys_set = self.get_option('_keyset_name')
+            self._prefix = self.get_option('_prefix')
-        self._sentinel_service_name = self.get_option('_sentinel_service_name')
+            self._keys_set = self.get_option('_keyset_name')
+            self._sentinel_service_name = self.get_option('_sentinel_service_name')
+        except KeyError:
+            # TODO: remove once we no longer support Ansible 2.9
+            if not ansible_base_version.startswith('2.9.'):
+                raise AnsibleError("Do not import CacheModules directly. Use ansible.plugins.loader.cache_loader instead.")
+            if C.CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION:
+                uri = C.CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION
+            self._timeout = float(C.CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT)
+            self._prefix = C.CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX
+            self._keys_set = 'ansible_cache_keys'
 
         if not HAS_REDIS:
             raise AnsibleError("The 'redis' python module (version 2.4.5 or newer) is required for the redis fact cache, 'pip install redis'")
@@ -124,18 +130,11 @@ class CacheModule(BaseCacheModule):
             self._db = self._get_sentinel_connection(uri, kw)
         # normal connection
         else:
-            connection = self._parse_connection(self.re_url_conn, uri)
+            connection = uri.split(':')
             self._db = StrictRedis(*connection, **kw)
 
         display.vv('Redis connection: %s' % self._db)
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def _parse_connection(re_patt, uri):
-        match = re_patt.match(uri)
-        if not match:
-            raise AnsibleError("Unable to parse connection string")
-        return match.groups()
-
     def _get_sentinel_connection(self, uri, kw):
         """
         get sentinel connection details from _uri
@@ -159,7 +158,7 @@ class CacheModule(BaseCacheModule):
             except IndexError:
                 pass  # password is optional
 
-        sentinels = [self._parse_connection(self.re_sent_conn, shost) for shost in connections]
+        sentinels = [tuple(shost.split(':')) for shost in connections]
         display.vv('\nUsing redis sentinels: %s' % sentinels)
         scon = Sentinel(sentinels, **kw)
         try:
@@ -218,12 +217,14 @@ class CacheModule(BaseCacheModule):
         self._db.zrem(self._keys_set, key)
 
     def flush(self):
-        for key in list(self.keys()):
+        for key in self.keys():
             self.delete(key)
 
     def copy(self):
         # TODO: there is probably a better way to do this in redis
-        ret = dict([(k, self.get(k)) for k in self.keys()])
+        ret = dict()
+        for key in self.keys():
+            ret[key] = self.get(key)
         return ret
 
     def __getstate__(self):

plugins/cache/yaml.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # (c) 2017, Brian Coca
 # (c) 2017 Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)

plugins/callback/context_demo.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # (C) 2012, Michael DeHaan, <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
 # (c) 2017 Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)

plugins/callback/counter_enabled.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # (c) 2018, Ivan Aragones Muniesa <ivan.aragones.muniesa@gmail.com>
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 '''
@@ -45,8 +44,6 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
     _task_total = 0
     _host_counter = 1
     _host_total = 0
-    _current_batch_total = 0
-    _previous_batch_total = 0
 
     def __init__(self):
         super(CallbackModule, self).__init__()
@@ -78,11 +75,8 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
         self._display.banner(msg)
         self._play = play
 
-        self._previous_batch_total = self._current_batch_total
-        self._current_batch_total = self._previous_batch_total + len(self._all_vars()['vars']['ansible_play_batch'])
         self._host_total = len(self._all_vars()['vars']['ansible_play_hosts_all'])
         self._task_total = len(self._play.get_tasks()[0])
-        self._task_counter = 1
 
     def v2_playbook_on_stats(self, stats):
         self._display.banner("PLAY RECAP")
@@ -150,7 +144,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
             path = task.get_path()
             if path:
                 self._display.display("task path: %s" % path, color=C.COLOR_DEBUG)
-        self._host_counter = self._previous_batch_total
+        self._host_counter = 0
         self._task_counter += 1
 
     def v2_runner_on_ok(self, result):

plugins/callback/dense.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # (c) 2016, Dag Wieers <dag@wieers.com>
 # (c) 2017 Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)

plugins/callback/diy.py

@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ from ansible.utils.color import colorize, hostcolor
 from ansible.template import Templar
 from ansible.vars.manager import VariableManager
 from ansible.plugins.callback.default import CallbackModule as Default
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
 
 
 class DummyStdout(object):
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ class CallbackModule(Default):
             for attr in _stats_attributes:
                 _ret[self.DIY_NS]['stats'].update({attr: _get_value(obj=stats, attr=attr)})
 
-        _ret[self.DIY_NS].update({'top_level_var_names': list(_ret.keys())})
+        _ret[self.DIY_NS].update({'top_level_var_names': _ret.keys()})
 
         return _ret
 

plugins/callback/elastic.py

@@ -1,423 +0,0 @@
-# (C) 2021, Victor Martinez <VictorMartinezRubio@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 = '''
-    author: Victor Martinez (@v1v)  <VictorMartinezRubio@gmail.com>
-    name: elastic
-    type: notification
-    short_description: Create distributed traces for each Ansible task in Elastic APM
-    version_added: 3.8.0
-    description:
-      - This callback creates distributed traces for each Ansible task in Elastic APM.
-      - You can configure the plugin with environment variables.
-      - See U(https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/python/current/configuration.html).
-    options:
-      hide_task_arguments:
-        default: false
-        type: bool
-        description:
-          - Hide the arguments for a task.
-        env:
-          - name: ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_HIDE_TASK_ARGUMENTS
-      apm_service_name:
-        default: ansible
-        type: str
-        description:
-          - The service name resource attribute.
-        env:
-          - name: ELASTIC_APM_SERVICE_NAME
-      apm_server_url:
-        type: str
-        description:
-          - Use the APM server and its environment variables.
-        env:
-          - name: ELASTIC_APM_SERVER_URL
-      apm_secret_token:
-        type: str
-        description:
-          - Use the APM server token
-        env:
-          - name: ELASTIC_APM_SECRET_TOKEN
-      apm_api_key:
-        type: str
-        description:
-          - Use the APM API key
-        env:
-          - name: ELASTIC_APM_API_KEY
-      apm_verify_server_cert:
-        default: true
-        type: bool
-        description:
-          - Verifies the SSL certificate if an HTTPS connection.
-        env:
-          - name: ELASTIC_APM_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT
-      traceparent:
-        type: str
-        description:
-          - The L(W3C Trace Context header traceparent,https://www.w3.org/TR/trace-context-1/#traceparent-header).
-        env:
-          - name: TRACEPARENT
-    requirements:
-      - elastic-apm (Python library)
-'''
-
-
-EXAMPLES = '''
-examples: |
-  Enable the plugin in ansible.cfg:
-    [defaults]
-    callbacks_enabled = community.general.elastic
-
-  Set the environment variable:
-    export ELASTIC_APM_SERVER_URL=<your APM server URL)>
-    export ELASTIC_APM_SERVICE_NAME=your_service_name
-    export ELASTIC_APM_API_KEY=your_APM_API_KEY
-'''
-
-import getpass
-import socket
-import time
-import uuid
-
-from collections import OrderedDict
-from os.path import basename
-
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleRuntimeError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import raise_from
-from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
-
-try:
-    from elasticapm import Client, capture_span, trace_parent_from_string, instrument, label
-except ImportError as imp_exc:
-    ELASTIC_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR = imp_exc
-else:
-    ELASTIC_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR = None
-
-
-class TaskData:
-    """
-    Data about an individual task.
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, uuid, name, path, play, action, args):
-        self.uuid = uuid
-        self.name = name
-        self.path = path
-        self.play = play
-        self.host_data = OrderedDict()
-        self.start = time.time()
-        self.action = action
-        self.args = args
-
-    def add_host(self, host):
-        if host.uuid in self.host_data:
-            if host.status == 'included':
-                # concatenate task include output from multiple items
-                host.result = '%s\n%s' % (self.host_data[host.uuid].result, host.result)
-            else:
-                return
-
-        self.host_data[host.uuid] = host
-
-
-class HostData:
-    """
-    Data about an individual host.
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, uuid, name, status, result):
-        self.uuid = uuid
-        self.name = name
-        self.status = status
-        self.result = result
-        self.finish = time.time()
-
-
-class ElasticSource(object):
-    def __init__(self, display):
-        self.ansible_playbook = ""
-        self.ansible_version = None
-        self.session = str(uuid.uuid4())
-        self.host = socket.gethostname()
-        try:
-            self.ip_address = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
-        except Exception as e:
-            self.ip_address = None
-        self.user = getpass.getuser()
-
-        self._display = display
-
-    def start_task(self, tasks_data, hide_task_arguments, play_name, task):
-        """ record the start of a task for one or more hosts """
-
-        uuid = task._uuid
-
-        if uuid in tasks_data:
-            return
-
-        name = task.get_name().strip()
-        path = task.get_path()
-        action = task.action
-        args = None
-
-        if not task.no_log and not hide_task_arguments:
-            args = ', '.join(('%s=%s' % a for a in task.args.items()))
-
-        tasks_data[uuid] = TaskData(uuid, name, path, play_name, action, args)
-
-    def finish_task(self, tasks_data, status, result):
-        """ record the results of a task for a single host """
-
-        task_uuid = result._task._uuid
-
-        if hasattr(result, '_host') and result._host is not None:
-            host_uuid = result._host._uuid
-            host_name = result._host.name
-        else:
-            host_uuid = 'include'
-            host_name = 'include'
-
-        task = tasks_data[task_uuid]
-
-        if self.ansible_version is None 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))
-
-    def generate_distributed_traces(self, tasks_data, status, end_time, traceparent, apm_service_name,
-                                    apm_server_url, apm_verify_server_cert, apm_secret_token, apm_api_key):
-        """ generate distributed traces from the collected TaskData and HostData """
-
-        tasks = []
-        parent_start_time = None
-        for task_uuid, task in tasks_data.items():
-            if parent_start_time is None:
-                parent_start_time = task.start
-            tasks.append(task)
-
-        apm_cli = self.init_apm_client(apm_server_url, apm_service_name, apm_verify_server_cert, apm_secret_token, apm_api_key)
-        if apm_cli:
-            instrument()  # Only call this once, as early as possible.
-            if traceparent:
-                parent = trace_parent_from_string(traceparent)
-                apm_cli.begin_transaction("Session", trace_parent=parent, start=parent_start_time)
-            else:
-                apm_cli.begin_transaction("Session", start=parent_start_time)
-            # Populate trace metadata attributes
-            if self.ansible_version is not None:
-                label(ansible_version=self.ansible_version)
-            label(ansible_session=self.session, ansible_host_name=self.host, ansible_host_user=self.user)
-            if self.ip_address is not None:
-                label(ansible_host_ip=self.ip_address)
-
-            for task_data in tasks:
-                for host_uuid, host_data in task_data.host_data.items():
-                    self.create_span_data(apm_cli, task_data, host_data)
-
-            apm_cli.end_transaction(name=__name__, result=status, duration=end_time - parent_start_time)
-
-    def create_span_data(self, apm_cli, task_data, host_data):
-        """ create the span with the given TaskData and HostData """
-
-        name = '[%s] %s: %s' % (host_data.name, task_data.play, task_data.name)
-
-        message = "success"
-        status = "success"
-        enriched_error_message = None
-        if host_data.status == 'included':
-            rc = 0
-        else:
-            res = host_data.result._result
-            rc = res.get('rc', 0)
-            if host_data.status == 'failed':
-                message = self.get_error_message(res)
-                enriched_error_message = self.enrich_error_message(res)
-                status = "failure"
-            elif host_data.status == 'skipped':
-                if 'skip_reason' in res:
-                    message = res['skip_reason']
-                else:
-                    message = 'skipped'
-                status = "unknown"
-
-        with capture_span(task_data.name,
-                          start=task_data.start,
-                          span_type="ansible.task.run",
-                          duration=host_data.finish - task_data.start,
-                          labels={"ansible.task.args": task_data.args,
-                                  "ansible.task.message": message,
-                                  "ansible.task.module": task_data.action,
-                                  "ansible.task.name": name,
-                                  "ansible.task.result": rc,
-                                  "ansible.task.host.name": host_data.name,
-                                  "ansible.task.host.status": host_data.status}) as span:
-            span.outcome = status
-            if 'failure' in status:
-                exception = AnsibleRuntimeError(message="{0}: {1} failed with error message {2}".format(task_data.action, name, enriched_error_message))
-                apm_cli.capture_exception(exc_info=(type(exception), exception, exception.__traceback__), handled=True)
-
-    def init_apm_client(self, apm_server_url, apm_service_name, apm_verify_server_cert, apm_secret_token, apm_api_key):
-        if apm_server_url:
-            return Client(service_name=apm_service_name,
-                          server_url=apm_server_url,
-                          verify_server_cert=False,
-                          secret_token=apm_secret_token,
-                          api_key=apm_api_key,
-                          use_elastic_traceparent_header=True,
-                          debug=True)
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def get_error_message(result):
-        if result.get('exception') is not None:
-            return ElasticSource._last_line(result['exception'])
-        return result.get('msg', 'failed')
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def _last_line(text):
-        lines = text.strip().split('\n')
-        return lines[-1]
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def enrich_error_message(result):
-        message = result.get('msg', 'failed')
-        exception = result.get('exception')
-        stderr = result.get('stderr')
-        return ('message: "{0}"\nexception: "{1}"\nstderr: "{2}"').format(message, exception, stderr)
-
-
-class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
-    """
-    This callback creates distributed traces with Elastic APM.
-    """
-
-    CALLBACK_VERSION = 2.0
-    CALLBACK_TYPE = 'notification'
-    CALLBACK_NAME = 'community.general.elastic'
-    CALLBACK_NEEDS_ENABLED = True
-
-    def __init__(self, display=None):
-        super(CallbackModule, self).__init__(display=display)
-        self.hide_task_arguments = None
-        self.apm_service_name = None
-        self.ansible_playbook = None
-        self.traceparent = False
-        self.play_name = None
-        self.tasks_data = None
-        self.errors = 0
-        self.disabled = False
-
-        if ELASTIC_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR:
-            raise_from(
-                AnsibleError('The `elastic-apm` must be installed to use this plugin'),
-                ELASTIC_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR)
-
-        self.tasks_data = OrderedDict()
-
-        self.elastic = ElasticSource(display=self._display)
-
-    def set_options(self, task_keys=None, var_options=None, direct=None):
-        super(CallbackModule, self).set_options(task_keys=task_keys,
-                                                var_options=var_options,
-                                                direct=direct)
-
-        self.hide_task_arguments = self.get_option('hide_task_arguments')
-
-        self.apm_service_name = self.get_option('apm_service_name')
-        if not self.apm_service_name:
-            self.apm_service_name = 'ansible'
-
-        self.apm_server_url = self.get_option('apm_server_url')
-        self.apm_secret_token = self.get_option('apm_secret_token')
-        self.apm_api_key = self.get_option('apm_api_key')
-        self.apm_verify_server_cert = self.get_option('apm_verify_server_cert')
-        self.traceparent = self.get_option('traceparent')
-
-    def v2_playbook_on_start(self, playbook):
-        self.ansible_playbook = basename(playbook._file_name)
-
-    def v2_playbook_on_play_start(self, play):
-        self.play_name = play.get_name()
-
-    def v2_runner_on_no_hosts(self, task):
-        self.elastic.start_task(
-            self.tasks_data,
-            self.hide_task_arguments,
-            self.play_name,
-            task
-        )
-
-    def v2_playbook_on_task_start(self, task, is_conditional):
-        self.elastic.start_task(
-            self.tasks_data,
-            self.hide_task_arguments,
-            self.play_name,
-            task
-        )
-
-    def v2_playbook_on_cleanup_task_start(self, task):
-        self.elastic.start_task(
-            self.tasks_data,
-            self.hide_task_arguments,
-            self.play_name,
-            task
-        )
-
-    def v2_playbook_on_handler_task_start(self, task):
-        self.elastic.start_task(
-            self.tasks_data,
-            self.hide_task_arguments,
-            self.play_name,
-            task
-        )
-
-    def v2_runner_on_failed(self, result, ignore_errors=False):
-        self.errors += 1
-        self.elastic.finish_task(
-            self.tasks_data,
-            'failed',
-            result
-        )
-
-    def v2_runner_on_ok(self, result):
-        self.elastic.finish_task(
-            self.tasks_data,
-            'ok',
-            result
-        )
-
-    def v2_runner_on_skipped(self, result):
-        self.elastic.finish_task(
-            self.tasks_data,
-            'skipped',
-            result
-        )
-
-    def v2_playbook_on_include(self, included_file):
-        self.elastic.finish_task(
-            self.tasks_data,
-            'included',
-            included_file
-        )
-
-    def v2_playbook_on_stats(self, stats):
-        if self.errors == 0:
-            status = "success"
-        else:
-            status = "failure"
-        self.elastic.generate_distributed_traces(
-            self.tasks_data,
-            status,
-            time.time(),
-            self.traceparent,
-            self.apm_service_name,
-            self.apm_server_url,
-            self.apm_verify_server_cert,
-            self.apm_secret_token,
-            self.apm_api_key
-        )
-
-    def v2_runner_on_async_failed(self, result, **kwargs):
-        self.errors += 1

plugins/callback/hipchat.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # (C) 2014, Matt Martz <matt@sivel.net>
 # (c) 2017 Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
@@ -174,7 +173,8 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
         # Displays info about playbook being started by a person on an
         # inventory, as well as Tags, Skip Tags and Limits
         if not self.printed_playbook:
-            self.playbook_name, dummy = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(self.play.playbook.filename))
+            self.playbook_name, _ = os.path.splitext(
+                os.path.basename(self.play.playbook.filename))
             host_list = self.play.playbook.inventory.host_list
             inventory = os.path.basename(os.path.realpath(host_list))
             self.send_msg("%s: Playbook initiated by %s against %s" %

plugins/callback/jabber.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # Copyright (C) 2016 maxn nikolaev.makc@gmail.com
 # Copyright (c) 2017 Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)

plugins/callback/log_plays.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # (C) 2012, Michael DeHaan, <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
 # (c) 2017 Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ import time
 import json
 
 from ansible.utils.path import makedirs_safe
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import MutableMapping
 from ansible.parsing.ajson import AnsibleJSONEncoder
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase

plugins/callback/loganalytics.py

@@ -1,235 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# 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: loganalytics
-    type: aggregate
-    short_description: Posts task results to Azure Log Analytics
-    author: "Cyrus Li (@zhcli) <cyrus1006@gmail.com>"
-    description:
-      - This callback plugin will post task results in JSON formatted to an Azure Log Analytics workspace.
-      - Credits to authors of splunk callback plugin.
-    version_added: "2.4.0"
-    requirements:
-      - Whitelisting this callback plugin.
-      - An Azure log analytics work space has been established.
-    options:
-      workspace_id:
-        description: Workspace ID of the Azure log analytics workspace.
-        required: true
-        env:
-          - name: WORKSPACE_ID
-        ini:
-          - section: callback_loganalytics
-            key: workspace_id
-      shared_key:
-        description: Shared key to connect to Azure log analytics workspace.
-        required: true
-        env:
-          - name: WORKSPACE_SHARED_KEY
-        ini:
-          - section: callback_loganalytics
-            key: shared_key
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = '''
-examples: |
-  Whitelist the plugin in ansible.cfg:
-    [defaults]
-    callback_whitelist = community.general.loganalytics
-  Set the environment variable:
-    export WORKSPACE_ID=01234567-0123-0123-0123-01234567890a
-    export WORKSPACE_SHARED_KEY=dZD0kCbKl3ehZG6LHFMuhtE0yHiFCmetzFMc2u+roXIUQuatqU924SsAAAAPemhjbGlAemhjbGktTUJQAQIDBA==
-  Or configure the plugin in ansible.cfg in the callback_loganalytics block:
-    [callback_loganalytics]
-    workspace_id = 01234567-0123-0123-0123-01234567890a
-    shared_key = dZD0kCbKl3ehZG6LHFMuhtE0yHiFCmetzFMc2u+roXIUQuatqU924SsAAAAPemhjbGlAemhjbGktTUJQAQIDBA==
-'''
-
-import hashlib
-import hmac
-import base64
-import logging
-import json
-import uuid
-import socket
-import getpass
-
-from datetime import datetime
-from os.path import basename
-
-from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
-from ansible.parsing.ajson import AnsibleJSONEncoder
-from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
-
-
-class AzureLogAnalyticsSource(object):
-    def __init__(self):
-        self.ansible_check_mode = False
-        self.ansible_playbook = ""
-        self.ansible_version = ""
-        self.session = str(uuid.uuid4())
-        self.host = socket.gethostname()
-        self.user = getpass.getuser()
-        self.extra_vars = ""
-
-    def __build_signature(self, date, workspace_id, shared_key, content_length):
-        # Build authorisation signature for Azure log analytics API call
-        sigs = "POST\n{0}\napplication/json\nx-ms-date:{1}\n/api/logs".format(
-            str(content_length), date)
-        utf8_sigs = sigs.encode('utf-8')
-        decoded_shared_key = base64.b64decode(shared_key)
-        hmac_sha256_sigs = hmac.new(
-            decoded_shared_key, utf8_sigs, digestmod=hashlib.sha256).digest()
-        encoded_hash = base64.b64encode(hmac_sha256_sigs).decode('utf-8')
-        signature = "SharedKey {0}:{1}".format(workspace_id, encoded_hash)
-        return signature
-
-    def __build_workspace_url(self, workspace_id):
-        return "https://{0}.ods.opinsights.azure.com/api/logs?api-version=2016-04-01".format(workspace_id)
-
-    def __rfc1123date(self):
-        return datetime.utcnow().strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT')
-
-    def send_event(self, workspace_id, shared_key, state, result, runtime):
-        if result._task_fields['args'].get('_ansible_check_mode') is True:
-            self.ansible_check_mode = True
-
-        if result._task_fields['args'].get('_ansible_version'):
-            self.ansible_version = \
-                result._task_fields['args'].get('_ansible_version')
-
-        if result._task._role:
-            ansible_role = str(result._task._role)
-        else:
-            ansible_role = None
-
-        data = {}
-        data['uuid'] = result._task._uuid
-        data['session'] = self.session
-        data['status'] = state
-        data['timestamp'] = self.__rfc1123date()
-        data['host'] = self.host
-        data['user'] = self.user
-        data['runtime'] = runtime
-        data['ansible_version'] = self.ansible_version
-        data['ansible_check_mode'] = self.ansible_check_mode
-        data['ansible_host'] = result._host.name
-        data['ansible_playbook'] = self.ansible_playbook
-        data['ansible_role'] = ansible_role
-        data['ansible_task'] = result._task_fields
-        # Removing args since it can contain sensitive data
-        if 'args' in data['ansible_task']:
-            data['ansible_task'].pop('args')
-        data['ansible_result'] = result._result
-        if 'content' in data['ansible_result']:
-            data['ansible_result'].pop('content')
-
-        # Adding extra vars info
-        data['extra_vars'] = self.extra_vars
-
-        # Preparing the playbook logs as JSON format and send to Azure log analytics
-        jsondata = json.dumps({'event': data}, cls=AnsibleJSONEncoder, sort_keys=True)
-        content_length = len(jsondata)
-        rfc1123date = self.__rfc1123date()
-        signature = self.__build_signature(rfc1123date, workspace_id, shared_key, content_length)
-        workspace_url = self.__build_workspace_url(workspace_id)
-
-        open_url(
-            workspace_url,
-            jsondata,
-            headers={
-                'content-type': 'application/json',
-                'Authorization': signature,
-                'Log-Type': 'ansible_playbook',
-                'x-ms-date': rfc1123date
-            },
-            method='POST'
-        )
-
-
-class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
-    CALLBACK_VERSION = 2.0
-    CALLBACK_TYPE = 'aggregate'
-    CALLBACK_NAME = 'loganalytics'
-    CALLBACK_NEEDS_WHITELIST = True
-
-    def __init__(self, display=None):
-        super(CallbackModule, self).__init__(display=display)
-        self.start_datetimes = {}  # Collect task start times
-        self.workspace_id = None
-        self.shared_key = None
-        self.loganalytics = AzureLogAnalyticsSource()
-
-    def _seconds_since_start(self, result):
-        return (
-            datetime.utcnow() -
-            self.start_datetimes[result._task._uuid]
-        ).total_seconds()
-
-    def set_options(self, task_keys=None, var_options=None, direct=None):
-        super(CallbackModule, self).set_options(task_keys=task_keys, var_options=var_options, direct=direct)
-        self.workspace_id = self.get_option('workspace_id')
-        self.shared_key = self.get_option('shared_key')
-
-    def v2_playbook_on_play_start(self, play):
-        vm = play.get_variable_manager()
-        extra_vars = vm.extra_vars
-        self.loganalytics.extra_vars = extra_vars
-
-    def v2_playbook_on_start(self, playbook):
-        self.loganalytics.ansible_playbook = basename(playbook._file_name)
-
-    def v2_playbook_on_task_start(self, task, is_conditional):
-        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = datetime.utcnow()
-
-    def v2_playbook_on_handler_task_start(self, task):
-        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = datetime.utcnow()
-
-    def v2_runner_on_ok(self, result, **kwargs):
-        self.loganalytics.send_event(
-            self.workspace_id,
-            self.shared_key,
-            'OK',
-            result,
-            self._seconds_since_start(result)
-        )
-
-    def v2_runner_on_skipped(self, result, **kwargs):
-        self.loganalytics.send_event(
-            self.workspace_id,
-            self.shared_key,
-            'SKIPPED',
-            result,
-            self._seconds_since_start(result)
-        )
-
-    def v2_runner_on_failed(self, result, **kwargs):
-        self.loganalytics.send_event(
-            self.workspace_id,
-            self.shared_key,
-            'FAILED',
-            result,
-            self._seconds_since_start(result)
-        )
-
-    def runner_on_async_failed(self, result, **kwargs):
-        self.loganalytics.send_event(
-            self.workspace_id,
-            self.shared_key,
-            'FAILED',
-            result,
-            self._seconds_since_start(result)
-        )
-
-    def v2_runner_on_unreachable(self, result, **kwargs):
-        self.loganalytics.send_event(
-            self.workspace_id,
-            self.shared_key,
-            'UNREACHABLE',
-            result,
-            self._seconds_since_start(result)
-        )

plugins/callback/logdna.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # (c) 2018, Samir Musali <samir.musali@logdna.com>
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 
@@ -78,7 +77,7 @@ def get_mac():
 
 # Getting hostname of system:
 def get_hostname():
-    return str(socket.gethostname()).split('.local', 1)[0]
+    return str(socket.gethostname()).split('.local')[0]
 
 
 # Getting IP of system:

plugins/callback/logentries.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # (c) 2015, Logentries.com, Jimmy Tang <jimmy.tang@logentries.com>
 # (c) 2017 Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
@@ -112,7 +111,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     HAS_FLATDICT = False
 
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
 
 # Todo: