Release 4.2.0.

Add additional auth support to Gitlab (#705 ) (#3918 ) (#3929 )
* Add additional auth support to Gitlab (#705) - removed unused imports from module_utils.gitlab - fix bug in gitlab_project to check if avatar_path is provided * add doc_fragment and argument_spec for gitlab auth * doc fixes and remove avatar_path bug fix * small doc changes, pass validate_certs to requests call * update changelog (cherry picked from commit 52ad0a5fbb) Co-authored-by: Josh <josham@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-04-29 01:46:53 +00:00 · 2021-12-21 11:58:13 +01:00 · 2021-12-20 22:20:40 +01:00 · 2021-12-20 20:22:29 +01:00 · 2021-12-20 10:58:42 +01:00 · 2021-12-20 10:15:24 +01:00
1081 changed files with 7912 additions and 20927 deletions
--- a/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -24,14 +24,15 @@ schedules:
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-5
+        - stable-3
        - stable-4
  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-3
+        - stable-1
+        - stable-2

 variables:
  - name: checkoutPath
@@ -68,19 +69,6 @@ stages:
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
            - test: extra
-  - stage: Sanity_2_13
-    displayName: Sanity 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.13/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
  - stage: Sanity_2_12
    displayName: Sanity 2.12
    dependsOn: []
@@ -107,6 +95,32 @@ stages:
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
+  - stage: Sanity_2_10
+    displayName: Sanity 2.10
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
+  - stage: Sanity_2_9
+    displayName: Sanity 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.9/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
 ### Units
  - stage: Units_devel
    displayName: Units devel
@@ -124,19 +138,6 @@ stages:
            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
-  - stage: Units_2_13
-    displayName: Units 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.13/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: 3.8
-            - test: 3.9
  - stage: Units_2_12
    displayName: Units 2.12
    dependsOn: []
@@ -147,8 +148,12 @@ stages:
          testFormat: 2.12/units/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: 2.6
+            - test: 2.7
            - test: 3.5
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
            - test: 3.8
+            - test: '3.10'
  - stage: Units_2_11
    displayName: Units 2.11
    dependsOn: []
@@ -162,7 +167,35 @@ stages:
            - test: 2.7
            - test: 3.5
            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
+            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Units_2_10
+    displayName: Units 2.10
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+  - 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
@@ -173,32 +206,16 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: macOS 12.0
-              test: macos/12.0
+            - name: macOS 11.1
+              test: macos/11.1
            - name: RHEL 7.9
              test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: RHEL 9.0
-              test: rhel/9.0
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.3
-              test: freebsd/12.3
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
-              test: freebsd/13.1
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_13
-    displayName: Remote 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.13/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 12.0
-              test: macos/12.0
            - name: RHEL 8.5
              test: rhel/8.5
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+              test: freebsd/13.0
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -220,7 +237,6 @@ stages:
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
-            - 3
  - stage: Remote_2_11
    displayName: Remote 2.11
    dependsOn: []
@@ -233,12 +249,43 @@ stages:
              test: rhel/7.9
            - name: RHEL 8.3
              test: rhel/8.3
-            #- name: FreeBSD 12.2
-            #  test: freebsd/12.2
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+  - stage: Remote_2_10
+    displayName: Remote 2.10
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.10/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: OS X 10.11
+              test: osx/10.11
+            - name: macOS 10.15
+              test: macos/10.15
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+  - stage: Remote_2_9
+    displayName: Remote 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.9/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: RHEL 8.2
+              test: rhel/8.2
+            - name: RHEL 7.8
+              test: rhel/7.8
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.0
+              test: freebsd/12.0
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
-            - 3

 ### Docker
  - stage: Docker_devel
@@ -251,36 +298,18 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - name: CentOS 7
              test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 35
-              test: fedora35
-            - name: Fedora 36
-              test: fedora36
-            - name: openSUSE 15
-              test: opensuse15
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu2204
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_13
-    displayName: Docker 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.13/linux/{0}
-          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 34
+              test: fedora34
            - name: Fedora 35
              test: fedora35
            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
              test: opensuse15py2
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -295,10 +324,14 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - name: CentOS 6
              test: centos6
+            - name: CentOS 8
+              test: centos8
            - name: Fedora 34
              test: fedora34
-            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
-              test: ubuntu1804
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -311,34 +344,43 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: 2.11/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 32
-              test: fedora32
+            - name: CentOS 7
+              test: centos7
            - name: Fedora 33
              test: fedora33
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
          groups:
-            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-
-### Community Docker
-  - stage: Docker_community_devel
-    displayName: Docker (community images) devel
+  - stage: Docker_2_10
+    displayName: Docker 2.10
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/linux-community/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Debian Bullseye
-              test: debian-bullseye/3.9
-            - name: ArchLinux
-              test: archlinux/3.10
-            - name: CentOS Stream 8
-              test: centos-stream8/3.8
+            - name: Fedora 32
+              test: fedora32
+            - name: Ubuntu 16.04
+              test: ubuntu1604
+          groups:
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_9
+    displayName: Docker 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.9/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 31
+              test: fedora31
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
          groups:
-            - 1
            - 2
            - 3

@@ -353,16 +395,6 @@ stages:
          testFormat: devel/cloud/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: 2.7
-            - test: '3.10'
-  - stage: Cloud_2_13
-    displayName: Cloud 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.13/cloud/{0}/1
-          targets:
            - test: 3.9
  - stage: Cloud_2_12
    displayName: Cloud 2.12
@@ -383,32 +415,54 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: 2.11/cloud/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+  - stage: Cloud_2_10
+    displayName: Cloud 2.10
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/cloud/{0}/1
+          targets:
            - test: 3.5
-
+  - stage: Cloud_2_9
+    displayName: Cloud 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.9/cloud/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
  - stage: Summary
    condition: succeededOrFailed()
    dependsOn:
      - Sanity_devel
+      - Sanity_2_9
+      - Sanity_2_10
      - Sanity_2_11
      - Sanity_2_12
-      - Sanity_2_13
      - Units_devel
+      - Units_2_9
+      - Units_2_10
      - Units_2_11
      - Units_2_12
-      - Units_2_13
      - Remote_devel
+      - Remote_2_9
+      - Remote_2_10
      - Remote_2_11
      - Remote_2_12
-      - Remote_2_13
      - Docker_devel
+      - Docker_2_9
+      - Docker_2_10
      - Docker_2_11
      - Docker_2_12
-      - Docker_2_13
-      - Docker_community_devel
      - Cloud_devel
+      - Cloud_2_9
+      - Cloud_2_10
      - Cloud_2_11
      - Cloud_2_12
-      - Cloud_2_13
    jobs:
      - template: templates/coverage.yml
--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
@@ -118,50 +118,28 @@ files:
  $doc_fragments/xenserver.py:
    maintainers: bvitnik
    labels: xenserver
-  $filters/counter.py:
-    maintainers: keilr
  $filters/dict.py:
    maintainers: felixfontein
  $filters/dict_kv.py:
    maintainers: giner
  $filters/from_csv.py:
    maintainers: Ajpantuso
-  $filters/groupby_as_dict.py:
+  $filters/groupby:
    maintainers: felixfontein
-  $filters/hashids.py:
-    maintainers: Ajpantuso
-  $filters/hashids_decode.yml:
-    maintainers: Ajpantuso
-  $filters/hashids_encode.yml:
+  $filters/hashids:
    maintainers: Ajpantuso
  $filters/jc.py:
    maintainers: kellyjonbrazil
  $filters/json_query.py: {}
-  $filters/lists_mergeby.py:
+  $filters/list.py:
    maintainers: vbotka
+  $filters/path_join_shim.py:
+    maintainers: felixfontein
  $filters/random_mac.py: {}
  $filters/time.py:
    maintainers: resmo
  $filters/unicode_normalize.py:
    maintainers: Ajpantuso
-  $filters/to_days.yml:
-    maintainers: resmo
-  $filters/to_hours.yml:
-    maintainers: resmo
-  $filters/to_milliseconds.yml:
-    maintainers: resmo
-  $filters/to_minutes.yml:
-    maintainers: resmo
-  $filters/to_months.yml:
-    maintainers: resmo
-  $filters/to_seconds.yml:
-    maintainers: resmo
-  $filters/to_time_unit.yml:
-    maintainers: resmo
-  $filters/to_weeks.yml:
-    maintainers: resmo
-  $filters/to_years.yml:
-    maintainers: resmo
  $filters/version_sort.py:
    maintainers: ericzolf
  $inventories/:
@@ -186,9 +164,9 @@ files:
  $inventories/proxmox.py:
    maintainers: $team_virt ilijamt
  $inventories/xen_orchestra.py:
-    maintainers: ddelnano shinuza
+    maintainers: shinuza
  $inventories/icinga2.py:
-    maintainers: BongoEADGC6
+    maintainers: bongoeadgc6
  $inventories/scaleway.py:
    maintainers: $team_scaleway
    labels: cloud scaleway
@@ -280,8 +258,6 @@ files:
  $module_utils/module_helper.py:
    maintainers: russoz
    labels: module_helper
-  $module_utils/net_tools/pritunl/:
-    maintainers: Lowess
  $module_utils/oracle/oci_utils.py:
    maintainers: $team_oracle
    labels: cloud
@@ -332,8 +308,6 @@ files:
    ignore: hnakamur
  $modules/cloud/lxd/lxd_profile.py:
    maintainers: conloos
-  $modules/cloud/lxd/lxd_project.py:
-    maintainers: we10710aa
  $modules/cloud/memset/:
    maintainers: glitchcrab
  $modules/cloud/misc/cloud_init_data_facts.py:
@@ -348,10 +322,6 @@ files:
  $modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_kvm.py:
    maintainers: helldorado
    ignore: skvidal
-  $modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_nic.py:
-    maintainers: Kogelvis
-  $modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_tasks_info:
-    maintainers: paginabianca
  $modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_template.py:
    maintainers: UnderGreen
    ignore: skvidal
@@ -442,8 +412,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: Spredzy
  $modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_organization_info.py:
    maintainers: Spredzy
-  $modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_private_network.py:
-    maintainers: pastral
  $modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_security_group.py:
    maintainers: DenBeke
  $modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_security_group_info.py:
@@ -566,8 +534,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: adamgoossens
  $modules/identity/keycloak/keycloak_identity_provider.py:
    maintainers: laurpaum
-  $modules/identity/keycloak/keycloak_realm_info.py:
-    maintainers: fynncfchen
  $modules/identity/keycloak/keycloak_realm.py:
    maintainers: kris2kris
  $modules/identity/keycloak/keycloak_role.py:
@@ -582,8 +548,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: phumpal
    labels: airbrake_deployment
    ignore: bpennypacker
-  $modules/monitoring/alerta_customer.py:
-    maintainers: cwollinger
  $modules/monitoring/bigpanda.py:
    maintainers: hkariti
  $modules/monitoring/circonus_annotation.py:
@@ -615,7 +579,7 @@ files:
  $modules/monitoring/nagios.py:
    maintainers: tbielawa tgoetheyn
  $modules/monitoring/newrelic_deployment.py:
-    ignore: mcodd
+    maintainers: mcodd
  $modules/monitoring/pagerduty.py:
    maintainers: suprememoocow thaumos
    labels: pagerduty
@@ -707,7 +671,7 @@ files:
  $modules/notification/discord.py:
    maintainers: cwollinger
  $modules/notification/flowdock.py:
-    ignore: mcodd
+    maintainers: mcodd
  $modules/notification/grove.py:
    maintainers: zimbatm
  $modules/notification/hipchat.py:
@@ -758,8 +722,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: mwarkentin
  $modules/packaging/language/bundler.py:
    maintainers: thoiberg
-  $modules/packaging/language/cargo.py:
-    maintainers: radek-sprta
  $modules/packaging/language/composer.py:
    maintainers: dmtrs
    ignore: resmo
@@ -847,7 +809,7 @@ files:
  $modules/packaging/os/opkg.py:
    maintainers: skinp
  $modules/packaging/os/pacman.py:
-    maintainers: elasticdog indrajitr tchernomax jraby
+    maintainers: elasticdog indrajitr tchernomax
    labels: pacman
    ignore: elasticdog
  $modules/packaging/os/pacman_key.py:
@@ -941,10 +903,6 @@ files:
  $modules/remote_management/manageiq/:
    labels: manageiq
    maintainers: $team_manageiq
-  $modules/remote_management/manageiq/manageiq_alert_profiles.py:
-    maintainers: elad661
-  $modules/remote_management/manageiq/manageiq_alerts.py:
-    maintainers: elad661
  $modules/remote_management/manageiq/manageiq_group.py:
    maintainers: evertmulder
  $modules/remote_management/manageiq/manageiq_tenant.py:
@@ -1005,8 +963,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: farhan7500 gautamphegde
  $modules/storage/ibm/:
    maintainers: tzure
-  $modules/storage/pmem/pmem.py:
-    maintainers: mizumm
  $modules/storage/vexata/:
    maintainers: vexata
  $modules/storage/zfs/:
@@ -1052,8 +1008,6 @@ files:
  $modules/system/gconftool2.py:
    maintainers: Akasurde kevensen
    labels: gconftool2
-  $modules/system/homectl.py:
-    maintainers: jameslivulpi
  $modules/system/interfaces_file.py:
    maintainers: obourdon hryamzik
    labels: interfaces_file
@@ -1136,8 +1090,6 @@ files:
    keywords: beadm dladm illumos ipadm nexenta omnios openindiana pfexec smartos solaris sunos zfs zpool
  $modules/system/ssh_config.py:
    maintainers: gaqzi Akasurde
-  $modules/system/sudoers.py:
-    maintainers: JonEllis
  $modules/system/svc.py:
    maintainers: bcoca
  $modules/system/syspatch.py:
@@ -1194,8 +1146,7 @@ files:
  $modules/web_infrastructure/jenkins_script.py:
    maintainers: hogarthj
  $modules/web_infrastructure/jira.py:
-    maintainers: Slezhuk tarka pertoft
-    ignore: DWSR
+    maintainers: Slezhuk tarka pertoft DWSR
    labels: jira
  $modules/web_infrastructure/nginx_status_info.py:
    maintainers: resmo
@@ -1264,7 +1215,7 @@ macros:
  team_cyberark_conjur: jvanderhoof ryanprior
  team_e_spirit: MatrixCrawler getjack
  team_flatpak: JayKayy oolongbrothers
-  team_gitlab: Lunik Shaps dj-wasabi marwatk waheedi zanssa scodeman metanovii sh0shin nejch lgatellier suukit
+  team_gitlab: Lunik Shaps dj-wasabi marwatk waheedi zanssa scodeman metanovii sh0shin
  team_hpux: bcoca davx8342
  team_huawei: QijunPan TommyLike edisonxiang freesky-edward hwDCN niuzhenguo xuxiaowei0512 yanzhangi zengchen1024 zhongjun2
  team_ipa: Akasurde Nosmoht fxfitz justchris1
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
---
 version: 2
 updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "weekly"
+    interval:
+      schedule: "weekly"
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.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
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.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
-# Edit at https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore?templates=vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
+# Created by https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv
+# Edit at https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore?templates=git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv

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

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

 ### Linux ###

@@ -99,39 +87,6 @@ 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
 # Reference: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544839
@@ -196,9 +151,6 @@ 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 +164,20 @@ fabric.properties
 .idea/caches/build_file_checksums.ser

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

-.idea/*
+.idea/

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

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

 # Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints

 # IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py

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

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

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

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

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

 # Cursive Clojure plugin

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

 # Editor-based Rest Client
@@ -505,4 +443,4 @@ $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.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.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)$
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -4,362 +4,674 @@ Community General Release Notes

 .. contents:: Topics

-This changelog describes changes after version 4.0.0.
+This changelog describes changes after version 3.0.0.

-v5.0.2
+v4.2.0
 ======

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

-Maintenance and bugfix release for Ansible 6.0.0.
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- Include ``simplified_bsd.txt`` license file for various module utils, the ``lxca_common`` docs fragment, and the ``utm_utils`` unit tests.
-
-v5.0.1
-======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-Regular bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 6.0.0.
+Regular bugfix and feature release.

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

- cpanm - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
- mksysb - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
- pipx - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
- snap - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
- xfconf - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- consul - fixed bug introduced in PR 4590 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4680).
- filesystem - handle ``fatresize --info`` output lines without ``:`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4700).
- filesystem - improve error messages when output cannot be parsed by including newlines in escaped form (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4700).
- keycloak_realm - fix default groups and roles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4241).
- redis* modules - fix call to ``module.fail_json`` when failing because of missing Python libraries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4733).
- xcc_redfish_command - for compatibility due to Redfish spec changes the virtualMedia resource location changed from Manager to System (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4682).
- zfs - fix wrong quoting of properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4707, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4726).
-
-v5.0.0
-======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-This is release 5.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2022-05-17.
-
-Major Changes
-------------
-
- The community.general collection no longer supports Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10. While we take no active measures to prevent usage, we will remove a lot of compatibility code and other compatility measures that will effectively prevent using most content from this collection with Ansible 2.9, and some content of this collection with ansible-base 2.10. Both Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 will very soon be End of Life and if you are still using them, you should consider upgrading to ansible-core 2.11 or later as soon as possible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
-
-Minor Changes
-------------
-
- Avoid internal ansible-core module_utils in favor of equivalent public API available since at least Ansible 2.9. This fixes some instances added since the last time this was fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4232).
- ModuleHelper module utils - ``ModuleHelperBase` now delegates the attributes ``check_mode``, ``get_bin_path``, ``warn``, and ``deprecate`` to the underlying ``AnsibleModule`` instance (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4600).
- ModuleHelper module utils - ``ModuleHelperBase`` now has a convenience method ``do_raise`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4660).
- Remove vendored copy of ``distutils.version`` in favor of vendored copy included with ansible-core 2.12+. For ansible-core 2.11, uses ``distutils.version`` for Python < 3.12. There is no support for ansible-core 2.11 with Python 3.12+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3988).
 - aix_filesystem - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3833).
 - aix_lvg - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3834).
- alternatives - add ``state`` parameter, which provides control over whether the alternative should be set as the active selection for its alternatives group (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4543, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4557).
- ansible_galaxy_install - added option ``no_deps`` to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4174).
- atomic_container - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
- clc_alert_policy - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
- clc_group - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
- clc_loadbalancer - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
- clc_server - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
- cmd_runner module util - reusable command runner with consistent argument formatting and sensible defaults (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4476).
- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``include_profiles`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4068).
- datadog_monitor - support new datadog event monitor of type `event-v2 alert` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4457)
- filesystem - add support for resizing btrfs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4465).
 - gitlab - add more token authentication support with the new options ``api_oauth_token`` and ``api_job_token`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/705).
- gitlab - clean up modules and utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3694).
 - gitlab_group, gitlab_project - add new option ``avatar_path`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3792).
- gitlab_group_variable - new ``variables`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038 and https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4074).
 - gitlab_project - add new option ``default_branch`` to gitlab_project (if ``readme = true``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3792).
- gitlab_project_variable - new ``variables`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
 - hponcfg - revamped module using ModuleHelper (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3840).
 - icinga2 inventory plugin - added the ``display_name`` field to variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3875, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3906).
- icinga2 inventory plugin - implemented constructed interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4088).
 - icinga2 inventory plugin - inventory object names are changable using ``inventory_attr`` in your config file to the host object name, address, or display_name fields (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3875, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3906).
 - ip_netns - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3822).
- ipa_dnsrecord - add new argument ``record_values``, mutually exclusive to ``record_value``, which supports multiple values for one record (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4578).
- ipa_dnszone - ``dynamicupdate`` is now a boolean parameter, instead of a string parameter accepting ``"true"`` and ``"false"``. Also the module is now idempotent with respect to ``dynamicupdate`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3374).
- ipa_dnszone - add DNS zone synchronization support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3374).
- ipa_service - add ``skip_host_check`` parameter. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4417).
- ipmi_boot - add support for user-specified IPMI encryption key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3698).
- ipmi_power - add ``machine`` option to ensure the power state via the remote target address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3968).
- ipmi_power - add support for user-specified IPMI encryption key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3698).
 - iso_extract - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3805).
 - java_cert - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3835).
 - jira - add support for Bearer token auth (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3838).
- jira - when creating a comment, ``fields`` now is used for additional data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4304).
- keycloak_* modules - added connection timeout parameter when calling server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4168).
- keycloak_client - add ``always_display_in_console`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4390).
- keycloak_client - add ``default_client_scopes`` and ``optional_client_scopes`` parameters. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4385).
 - keycloak_user_federation - add sssd user federation support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3767).
- ldap_entry - add support for recursive deletion (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3613).
- linode inventory plugin - add support for caching inventory results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4179).
- linode inventory plugin - allow templating of ``access_token`` variable in Linode inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4040).
- listen_ports_facts - add support for ``ss`` command besides ``netstat`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3708).
- lists_mergeby filter plugin - add parameters ``list_merge`` and ``recursive``. These are only supported when used with ansible-base 2.10 or ansible-core, but not with Ansible 2.9 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4058).
 - logentries - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3807).
 - logstash_plugin - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3808).
- lxc_container - added ``wait_for_container`` parameter. If ``true`` the module will wait until the running task reports success as the status (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4039).
 - lxc_container - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3851).
 - lxd connection plugin - make sure that ``ansible_lxd_host``, ``ansible_executable``, and ``ansible_lxd_executable`` work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3798).
 - lxd inventory plugin - support virtual machines (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3519).
- lxd_container - adds ``project`` option to allow selecting project for LXD instance (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4479).
- lxd_container - adds ``type`` option which also allows to operate on virtual machines and not just containers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3661).
- lxd_profile - adds ``project`` option to allow selecting project for LXD profile (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4479).
- mail callback plugin - add ``Message-ID`` and ``Date`` headers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4055, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4056).
- mail callback plugin - properly use Ansible's option handling to split lists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4140).
- mattermost - add the possibility to send attachments instead of text messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3946).
- mksysb - revamped the module using ``ModuleHelper`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3295).
 - module_helper module utils - added decorators ``check_mode_skip`` and ``check_mode_skip_returns`` for skipping methods when ``check_mode=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3849).
 - monit - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3821).
- nmap inventory plugin - add ``sudo`` option in plugin in order to execute ``sudo nmap`` so that ``nmap`` runs with elevated privileges (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4506).
- nmcli - add ``wireguard`` connection type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3985).
- nmcli - add missing connection aliases ``802-3-ethernet`` and ``802-11-wireless`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4108).
- nmcli - add multiple addresses support for ``ip4`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1088, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3738).
 - nmcli - add multiple addresses support for ``ip6`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1088).
 - nmcli - add support for ``eui64`` and ``ipv6privacy`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3357).
- nmcli - adds ``routes6`` and ``route_metric6`` parameters for supporting IPv6 routes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4059).
- nmcli - remove nmcli modify dependency on ``type`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2858).
- nomad_job - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
- nomad_job_info - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
- npm - add ability to use ``production`` flag when ``ci`` is set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4299).
- open_iscsi - extended module to allow rescanning of established session for one or all targets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3763).
- opennebula - add the release action for VMs in the ``HOLD`` state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4036).
- opentelemetry_plugin - enrich service when using the ``docker_login`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4104).
- opentelemetry_plugin - enrich service when using the ``jenkins``, ``hetzner`` or ``jira`` modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4105).
- packet_device - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
- packet_sshkey - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
- packet_volume - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
- pacman - add ``remove_nosave`` parameter to avoid saving modified configuration files as ``.pacsave`` files. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4316, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4315).
- pacman - add ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` as return values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3758).
- pacman - now implements proper change detection for ``update_cache=true``. Adds ``cache_updated`` return value to when ``update_cache=true`` to report this result independently of the module's overall changed return value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4337).
- pacman - the module has been rewritten and is now much faster when using ``state=latest``. Operations are now done all packages at once instead of package per package and the configured output format of ``pacman`` no longer affect the module's operation. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3907, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3783, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4079)
- passwordstore lookup plugin - add configurable ``lock`` and ``locktimeout`` options to avoid race conditions in itself and in the ``pass`` utility it calls. By default, the plugin now locks on write operations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4194).
- pipx - added options ``editable`` and ``pip_args`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4300).
- pritunl_user - add ``mac_addresses`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4535).
- profitbricks - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
- proxmox - add ``clone`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3930).
- proxmox - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
- proxmox inventory plugin - add support for client-side jinja filters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3553).
- proxmox inventory plugin - add support for templating the ``url``, ``user``, and ``password`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4418).
- proxmox inventory plugin - add token authentication as an alternative to username/password (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4540).
- proxmox inventory plugin - parse LXC configs returned by the proxmox API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4472).
- proxmox modules - move ``HAS_PROXMOXER`` check into ``module_utils`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4030).
- proxmox modules - move common code into ``module_utils`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4029).
- proxmox_kvm - added EFI disk support when creating VM with OVMF UEFI BIOS with new ``efidisk0`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4106, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1638).
- proxmox_kwm - add ``win11`` to ``ostype`` parameter for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4023, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4191).
- proxmox_snap - add restore snapshot option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4377).
- proxmox_snap - fixed timeout value to correctly reflect time in seconds. The timeout was off by one second (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4377).
- puppet - remove deprecation for ``show_diff`` parameter. Its alias ``show-diff`` is still deprecated and will be removed in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3980).
 - python_requirements_info - returns python version broken down into its components, and some minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3797).
- rax_files_objects - minor refactoring improving code quality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4649).
- redfish_* modules - the contents of ``@Message.ExtendedInfo`` will be returned as a string in the event that ``@Message.ExtendedInfo.Messages`` does not exist. This is likely more useful than the standard HTTP error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4596).
- redfish_command - add ``GetHostInterfaces`` command to enable reporting Redfish Host Interface information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3693).
- redfish_command - add ``IndicatorLedOn``, ``IndicatorLedOff``, and ``IndicatorLedBlink`` commands to the Systems category for controling system LEDs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4084).
- redfish_command - add ``SetHostInterface`` command to enable configuring the Redfish Host Interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3632).
- redis - add authentication parameters ``login_user``, ``tls``, ``validate_certs``, and ``ca_certs`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4207).
- scaleway inventory plugin - add profile parameter ``scw_profile`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4049).
- scaleway_compute - add possibility to use project identifier (new ``project`` option) instead of deprecated organization identifier (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3951).
- scaleway_volume - all volumes are systematically created on par1 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3964).
- seport - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4471).
- smartos_image_info - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
- snap - add option ``options`` permitting to set options using the ``snap set`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3943).
- sudoers - add support for ``runas`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4379).
 - svc - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3829).
- syslog_json - add option to skip logging of ``gather_facts`` playbook tasks; use v2 callback API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4223).
- terraform - adds ``terraform_upgrade`` parameter which allows ``terraform init`` to satisfy new provider constraints in an existing Terraform project (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4333).
- to_time_unit filter plugins - the time filters has been extended to also allow ``0`` as input (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4612).
- udm_group - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
- udm_share - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4556).
- vmadm - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
- vmadm - minor refactoring and improvement on the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4581).
- vmadm - minor refactoring and improvement on the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4648).
- webfaction_app - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
- webfaction_db - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4567).
 - xattr - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3806).
- xfconf - added missing value types ``char``, ``uchar``, ``int64`` and ``uint64`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4534).
 - xfconf - minor refactor on the base class for the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3919).
- zfs - minor refactoring in the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4650).
- zypper - add support for ``--clean-deps`` option to remove packages that depend on a package being removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4195).
-
-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
--------------------------------
-
- Parts of this collection do not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+. Please either upgrade to ansible-core 2.12+, or use Python 3.11 or earlier (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3988).
- The symbolic links used to implement flatmapping for all modules were removed and replaced by ``meta/runtime.yml`` redirects. This effectively breaks compatibility with Ansible 2.9 for all modules (without using their "long" names, which is discouraged and which can change without previous notice since they are considered an implementation detail) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
- a_module test plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
- archive - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
- git_config - remove Ansible 2.9 and early ansible-base 2.10 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
- java_keystore - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
- lists_mergeby and groupby_as_dict filter plugins - adjust filter plugin filename. This change is not visible to end-users, it only affects possible other collections importing Python paths (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4625).
- lists_mergeby filter plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
- maven_artifact - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
- memcached cache plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
- path_join filter plugin shim - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
- redis cache plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4548).
- yarn - remove unsupported and unnecessary ``--no-emoji`` flag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4662).

 Deprecated Features
 -------------------

- ansible_galaxy_install - deprecated support for ``ansible`` 2.9 and ``ansible-base`` 2.10 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4601).
- dig lookup plugin - the ``DLV`` record type has been decommissioned in 2017 and support for it will be removed from community.general 6.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4618).
- gem - the default of the ``norc`` option has been deprecated and will change to ``true`` in community.general 6.0.0. Explicitly specify a value to avoid a deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4517).
- mail callback plugin - not specifying ``sender`` is deprecated and will be disallowed in community.general 6.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4140).
 - module_helper module utils - deprecated the attribute ``ModuleHelper.VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3801).
- nmcli - deprecate default hairpin mode for a bridge. This so we can change it to ``false`` in community.general 7.0.0, as this is also the default in ``nmcli`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4334).
- pacman - from community.general 5.0.0 on, the ``changed`` status of ``update_cache`` will no longer be ignored if ``name`` or ``upgrade`` is specified. To keep the old behavior, add something like ``register: result`` and ``changed_when: result.packages | length > 0`` to your task (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4329).
- proxmox inventory plugin - the current default ``true`` of the ``want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host`` option has been deprecated. The default will change to ``false`` in community.general 6.0.0. To keep the current behavior, explicitly set ``want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host`` to ``true`` in your inventory configuration. We suggest to already switch to the new behavior by explicitly setting it to ``false``, and by using ``compose:`` to set ``ansible_host`` to the correct value. See the examples in the plugin documentation for details (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4466).
- vmadm - deprecated module parameter ``debug`` that was not used anywhere (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4580).
-
-Removed Features (previously deprecated)
----------------------------------------
-
- ali_instance_info - removed the options ``availability_zone``, ``instance_ids``, and ``instance_names``. Use filter item ``zone_id`` instead of ``availability_zone``, filter item ``instance_ids`` instead of ``instance_ids``, and filter item ``instance_name`` instead of ``instance_names`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- apt_rpm - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- compose - removed various deprecated aliases. Use the version with ``_`` instead of ``-`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- dnsimple - remove support for dnsimple < 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- github_deploy_key - removed the deprecated alias ``2fa_token`` of ``otp`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- homebrew, homebrew_cask - removed the deprecated alias ``update-brew`` of ``update_brew`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- linode - removed the ``backupsenabled`` option. Use ``backupweeklyday`` or ``backupwindow`` to enable backups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- opkg - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- pacman - if ``update_cache=true`` is used with ``name`` or ``upgrade``, the changed state will now also indicate if only the cache was updated. To keep the old behavior - only indicate ``changed`` when a package was installed/upgraded -, use ``changed_when`` as indicated in the module examples (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- pacman - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- proxmox, proxmox_kvm, proxmox_snap - no longer allow to specify a VM name that matches multiple VMs. If this happens, the modules now fail (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- serverless - removed the ``functions`` option. It was not used by the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- slackpkg - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- urpmi - removed the deprecated alias ``no-recommends`` of ``no_recommends`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- urpmi - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- xbps - removed the deprecated alias ``update-cache`` of ``update_cache`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).
- xfconf - the ``get`` state has been removed. Use the ``xfconf_info`` module instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4516).

 Bugfixes
 --------

- Various modules and plugins - use vendored version of ``distutils.version`` instead of the deprecated Python standard library ``distutils`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3936).
- a_module test plugin - fix crash when testing a module name that was tombstoned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3660).
- alternatives - fix output parsing for alternatives groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3976).
- cargo - fix detection of outdated packages when ``state=latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4052).
- cargo - fix incorrectly reported changed status for packages with a name containing a hyphen (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4044, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4052).
- consul - fixed bug where class ``ConsulService`` was overwriting the field ``checks``, preventing the addition of checks to a service (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4590).
- counter_enabled callback plugin - fix output to correctly display host and task counters in serial mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3709).
- dconf - skip processes that disappeared while we inspected them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4151).
- dnsmadeeasy - fix failure on deleting DNS entries when API response does not contain monitor value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3620).
- dsv lookup plugin - raise an Ansible error if the wrong ``python-dsv-sdk`` version is installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4422).
- filesize - add support for busybox dd implementation, that is used by default on Alpine linux (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4288, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4259).
- gconftool2 - properly escape values when passing them to ``gconftool-2`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4647).
- git_branch - remove deprecated and unnecessary branch ``unprotect`` method (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4496).
- github_repo - ``private`` and ``description`` attributes should not be set to default values when the repo already exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2386).
- gitlab_group - improve searching for projects inside group on deletion (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
- gitlab_group_members - handle more than 20 groups when finding a group (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4460, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3729).
- gitlab_group_variable - add missing documentation about GitLab versions that support ``environment_scope`` and ``variable_type`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038).
- gitlab_group_variable - allow to set same variable name under different environment scopes. Due this change, the return value ``group_variable`` differs from previous version in check mode. It was counting ``updated`` values, because it was accidentally overwriting environment scopes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038).
- gitlab_group_variable - fix idempotent change behaviour for float and integer variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038).
- gitlab_hook - avoid errors during idempotency check when an attribute does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4668).
- gitlab_hook - handle more than 20 hooks when finding a hook (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
- gitlab_project - handle more than 20 namespaces when finding a namespace (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
- gitlab_project_members - handle more than 20 projects and users when finding a project resp. user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
- gitlab_project_variable - ``value`` is not necessary when deleting variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4150).
- gitlab_project_variable - add missing documentation about GitLab versions that support ``environment_scope`` and ``variable_type`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
- gitlab_project_variable - allow to set same variable name under different environment scopes. Due this change, the return value ``project_variable`` differs from previous version in check mode. It was counting ``updated`` values, because it was accidentally overwriting environment scopes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
- gitlab_project_variable - fix idempotent change behaviour for float and integer variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4038).
- gitlab_runner - make ``project`` and ``owned`` mutually exclusive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4136).
- gitlab_runner - use correct API endpoint to create and retrieve project level runners when using ``project`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3965).
- gitlab_user - handle more than 20 users and SSH keys when finding a user resp. SSH key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4491).
- homebrew_cask - fix force install operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3703).
 - icinga2 inventory plugin - handle 404 error when filter produces no results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3875, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3906).
- imc_rest - fixes the module failure due to the usage of ``itertools.izip_longest`` which is not available in Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4206).
- ini_file - when removing nothing do not report changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4154).
 - interfaces_file - fixed the check for existing option in interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3841).
- jail connection plugin - replace deprecated ``distutils.spawn.find_executable`` with Ansible's ``get_bin_path`` to find the executable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3934).
 - jira - fixed bug where module returns error related to dictionary key ``body`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3419).
- keycloak - fix parameters types for ``defaultDefaultClientScopes`` and ``defaultOptionalClientScopes`` from list of dictionaries to list of strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4526).
- keycloak_* - the documented ``validate_certs`` parameter was not taken into account when calling the ``open_url`` function in some cases, thus enforcing certificate validation even when ``validate_certs`` was set to ``false``. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4382)
- keycloak_user_federation - creating a user federation while specifying an ID (that does not exist yet) no longer fail with a 404 Not Found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4212).
- keycloak_user_federation - mappers auto-created by keycloak are matched and merged by their name and no longer create duplicated entries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4212).
- ldap_search - allow it to be used even in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3619).
- linode inventory plugin - fix configuration handling relating to inventory filtering (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4336).
- listen_ports_facts - local port regex was not handling well IPv6 only binding. Fixes the regex for ``ss`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4092).
- lvol - allows logical volumes to be created with certain size arguments prefixed with ``+`` to preserve behavior of older versions of this module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3665).
- lxd connection plugin - replace deprecated ``distutils.spawn.find_executable`` with Ansible's ``get_bin_path`` to find the ``lxc`` executable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3934).
- lxd inventory plugin - do not crash if OS and release metadata are not present
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4351).
- mail callback plugin - fix crash on Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4025, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4026).
- mail callback plugin - fix encoding of the name of sender and recipient (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4060, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4061).
- mksysb - fixed bug for parameter ``backup_dmapi_fs`` was passing the wrong CLI argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3295).
 - nmcli - fix returning "changed" when no mask set for IPv4 or IPv6 addresses on task rerun (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3768).
- nmcli - fix returning "changed" when routes parameters set, also suggest new routes4 and routes6 format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4131).
- nmcli - fixed falsely reported changed status when ``mtu`` is omitted with ``dummy`` connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3612, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3625).
 - nmcli - pass ``flags``, ``ingress``, ``egress`` params to ``nmcli`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1086).
 - nrdp callback plugin - fix error ``string arguments without an encoding`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3903).
- onepassword - search all valid configuration locations and use the first found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4640).
- opennebula inventory plugin - complete the implementation of ``constructable`` for opennebula inventory plugin. Now ``keyed_groups``, ``compose``, ``groups`` actually work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4497).
- opentelemetry - fix generating a trace with a task containing ``no_log: true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4043).
- opentelemetry callback plugin - fix task message attribute that is reported failed regardless of the task result (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4624).
- opentelemetry callback plugin - fix warning for the include_tasks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4623).
 - opentelemetry_plugin - honour ``ignore_errors`` when a task has failed instead of reporting an error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3837).
- pacman - Use ``--groups`` instead of ``--group`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4312).
- pacman - fix URL based package installation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4286, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4285).
- pacman - fix ``upgrade=yes`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4275, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4274).
- pacman - fixed bug where ``absent`` state did not work for locally installed packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4464).
- pacman - make sure that ``packages`` is always returned when ``name`` or ``upgrade`` is specified, also if nothing is done (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4329).
- pacman - when the ``update_cache`` option is combined with another option such as ``upgrade``, report ``changed`` based on the actions performed by the latter option. This was the behavior in community.general 4.4.0 and before. In community.general 4.5.0, a task combining these options would always report ``changed`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4318).
- passwordstore lookup plugin - fix error detection for non-English locales (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4219).
- passwordstore lookup plugin - prevent returning path names as passwords by accident (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4185, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4192).
- passwordstore lookup plugin - replace deprecated ``distutils.util.strtobool`` with Ansible's ``convert_bool.boolean`` to interpret values for the ``create``, ``returnall``, ``overwrite``, 'backup``, and ``nosymbols`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3934).
 - pipx - passes the correct command line option ``--include-apps`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3791).
- pritunl - fixed bug where pritunl plugin api add unneeded data in ``auth_string`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4527).
 - proxmox - fixed ``onboot`` parameter causing module failures when undefined (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3844).
- proxmox inventory plugin - always convert strings that follow the ``key=value[,key=value[...]]`` form into dictionaries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4349).
- proxmox inventory plugin - fix error when parsing container with LXC configs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4472, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4472).
- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed the ``description`` field being ignored if it contained a comma (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4348).
- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed the ``tags_parsed`` field when Proxmox returns a single space for the ``tags`` entry (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4378).
- proxmox_kvm - fix a bug when getting a state of VM without name will fail (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4508).
- proxmox_kvm - fix error in check when creating or cloning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4306).
- proxmox_kvm - fix error when checking whether Proxmox VM exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4287).
 - python_requirements_info - fails if version operator used without version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3785).
- python_requirements_info - store ``mismatched`` return values per package as documented in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4078).
- redfish_command - the iLO4 Redfish implementation only supports the ``image_url`` parameter in the underlying API calls to ``VirtualMediaInsert`` and ``VirtualMediaEject``. Any values set (or the defaults) for ``write_protected`` or ``inserted`` will be ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4596).
- say callback plugin - replace deprecated ``distutils.spawn.find_executable`` with Ansible's ``get_bin_path`` to find the ``say`` resp. ``espeak`` executables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3934).
- scaleway_user_data - fix double-quote added where no double-quote is needed to user data in scaleway's server (``Content-type`` -> ``Content-Type``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3940).
- slack - add ``charset`` to HTTP headers to avoid Slack API warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3932).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+Net Tools
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+- dnsimple_info - Pull basic info from DNSimple API
+
+Remote Management
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+redfish
+^^^^^^^
+
+- ilo_redfish_config - Sets or updates configuration attributes on HPE iLO with Redfish OEM extensions
+- ilo_redfish_info - Gathers server information through iLO using Redfish APIs
+
+Source Control
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+gitlab
+^^^^^^
+
+- gitlab_branch - Create or delete a branch
+
+v4.1.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- gitlab - clean up modules and utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3694).
+- ipmi_boot - add support for user-specified IPMI encryption key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3698).
+- ipmi_power - add support for user-specified IPMI encryption key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3698).
+- listen_ports_facts - add support for ``ss`` command besides ``netstat`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3708).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- open_iscsi - extended module to allow rescanning of established session for one or all targets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3763).
+- pacman - add ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` as return values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3758).
+- redfish_command - add ``GetHostInterfaces`` command to enable reporting Redfish Host Interface information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3693).
+- redfish_command - add ``SetHostInterface`` command to enable configuring the Redfish Host Interface (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3632).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- 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).
 - terraform - fix command options being ignored during planned/plan in function ``build_plan`` such as ``lock`` or ``lock_timeout`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3707, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3726).
- terraform - fix list initialization to support both Python 2 and Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4531).
- vdo - fix options error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4163).
- xattr - fix exception caused by ``_run_xattr()`` raising a ``ValueError`` due to a mishandling of base64-encoded value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3673).
- xbps - fix error message that is reported when installing packages fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4438).
- yarn - fix incorrect handling of ``yarn list`` and ``yarn global list`` output that could result in fatal error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4050).
- yarn - fix incorrectly reported status when installing a package globally (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4045, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4050).
- yarn - fix missing ``~`` expansion in yarn global install folder which resulted in incorrect task status (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4045, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4048).
- yum_versionlock - fix matching of existing entries with names passed to the module. Match yum and dnf lock format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4183).
- zone connection plugin - replace deprecated ``distutils.spawn.find_executable`` with Ansible's ``get_bin_path`` to find the executable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3934).
- zypper - fix undefined variable when running in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4667).
- zypper - fixed bug that caused zypper to always report [ok] and do nothing on ``state=present`` when all packages in ``name`` had a version specification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4371, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4421).
-
-Known Issues
------------
-
- pacman - ``update_cache`` cannot differentiate between up to date and outdated package lists and will report ``changed`` in both situations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4318).
- pacman - binaries specified in the ``executable`` parameter must support ``--print-format`` in order to be used by this module. In particular, AUR helper ``yay`` is known not to currently support it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4312).

 New Plugins
 -----------

+Inventory
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+- xen_orchestra - Xen Orchestra inventory source
+
+Lookup
+~~~~~~
+
+- revbitspss - Get secrets from RevBits PAM server
+
+v4.0.2
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release for today's Ansible 5.0.0 beta 2.
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- Support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 is deprecated, and will be removed in the next major release (community.general 5.0.0) next spring. While most content will probably still work with ansible-base 2.10, we will remove symbolic links for modules and action plugins, which will make it impossible to use them with Ansible 2.9 anymore. Please use community.general 4.x.y with Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10, as these releases will continue to support Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 even after they are End of Life (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/50, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3723).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- 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).
+- ldap_search - allow it to be used even in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3619).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+
+v4.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release for today's Ansible 5.0.0 beta 1.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- a_module test plugin - fix crash when testing a module name that was tombstoned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3660).
+- xattr - fix exception caused by ``_run_xattr()`` raising a ``ValueError`` due to a mishandling of base64-encoded value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3673).
+
+v4.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This is release 4.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2021-11-02.
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- bitbucket_* modules - ``client_id`` is no longer marked as ``no_log=true``. If you relied on its value not showing up in logs and output, please mark the whole tasks with ``no_log: true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2045).
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Avoid internal ansible-core module_utils in favor of equivalent public API available since at least Ansible 2.9 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2877).
+- ModuleHelper module utils - improved mechanism for customizing the calculation of ``changed`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2514).
+- Remove unnecessary ``__init__.py`` files from ``plugins/`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2632).
+- apache2_module - minor refactoring improving code quality, readability and speed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3106).
+- archive - added ``dest_state`` return value to describe final state of ``dest`` after successful task execution (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2913).
+- archive - added ``exclusion_patterns`` option to exclude files or subdirectories from archives (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2616).
+- archive - refactoring prior to fix for idempotency checks. The fix will be a breaking change and only appear in community.general 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2987).
+- bitbucket_* modules - add ``user`` and ``password`` options for Basic authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2045).
+- chroot connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- cloud_init_data_facts - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- cmd (Module Helper) module utils - ``CmdMixin`` now pulls the value for ``run_command()`` params from ``self.vars``, as opposed to previously retrieving those from ``self.module.params`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2517).
+- composer - add ``composer_executable`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2649).
+- datadog_event - adding parameter ``api_host`` to allow selecting a datadog API endpoint instead of using the default one (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2774, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2775).
+- datadog_monitor - allow creation of composite datadog monitors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2956).
+- dig lookup plugin - add ``retry_servfail`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3247).
+- dnsimple - module rewrite to include support for python-dnsimple>=2.0.0; also add ``sandbox`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2946).
+- elastic callback plugin - enriched the stacktrace information with the ``message``, ``exception`` and ``stderr`` fields from the failed task (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3556).
+- filesystem - cleanup and revamp module, tests and doc. Pass all commands to ``module.run_command()`` as lists. Move the device-vs-mountpoint logic to ``grow()`` method. Give to all ``get_fs_size()`` the same logic and error handling. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2472).
+- filesystem - extend support for FreeBSD. Avoid potential data loss by checking existence of a filesystem with ``fstyp`` (native command) if ``blkid`` (foreign command) doesn't find one. Add support for character devices and ``ufs`` filesystem type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2902).
+- flatpak - add ``no_dependencies`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/55452, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2751).
+- flatpak - allows installing or uninstalling a list of packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2521).
+- funcd connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- gem - add ``bindir`` option to specify an installation path for executables such as ``/home/user/bin`` or ``/home/user/.local/bin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2837).
+- gem - add ``norc`` option to avoid loading any ``.gemrc`` file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2837).
+- github_repo - add new option ``api_url``  to allow working with on premises installations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3038).
+- gitlab_group - add new options ``project_creation_level``, ``auto_devops_enabled``, ``subgroup_creation_level`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3248).
+- gitlab_group - add new property ``require_two_factor_authentication`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3367).
+- gitlab_group_members - ``gitlab_user`` can now also be a list of users (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3047).
+- gitlab_group_members - added functionality to set all members exactly as given (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3047).
+- gitlab_project - add new options ``allow_merge_on_skipped_pipeline``, ``only_allow_merge_if_all_discussions_are_resolved``, ``only_allow_merge_if_pipeline_succeeds``, ``packages_enabled``, ``remove_source_branch_after_merge``, ``squash_option`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3002).
+- gitlab_project - add new properties ``ci_config_path`` and ``shared_runners_enabled`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3379).
+- gitlab_project - projects can be created under other user's namespaces with the new ``username`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2824).
+- gitlab_project_members - ``gitlab_user`` can now also be a list of users (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3319).
+- gitlab_project_members - added functionality to set all members exactly as given (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3319).
+- gitlab_runner - support project-scoped gitlab.com runners registration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/634).
+- gitlab_user - add ``expires_at`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2325).
+- gitlab_user - add functionality for adding external identity providers to a GitLab user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2691).
+- gitlab_user - allow to reset an existing password with the new ``reset_password`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2691).
+- gitlab_user - specifying a password is no longer necessary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2691).
+- gunicorn - search for ``gunicorn`` binary in more paths (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3092).
+- hana_query - added the abillity to use hdbuserstore (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3125).
+- hpilo_info - added ``host_power_status`` return value to report power state of machine with ``OFF``, ``ON`` or ``UNKNOWN`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3079).
+- idrac_redfish_config - modified set_manager_attributes function to skip invalid attribute instead of returning. Added skipped attributes to output. Modified module exit to add warning variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1995).
+- influxdb_retention_policy - add ``state`` parameter with allowed values ``present`` and ``absent`` to support deletion of existing retention policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2383).
+- influxdb_retention_policy - simplify duration logic parsing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2385).
+- ini_file - add abbility to define multiple options with the same name but different values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/273, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1204).
+- ini_file - add module option ``exclusive`` (boolean) for the ability to add/remove single ``option=value`` entries without overwriting existing options with the same name but different values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3033).
+- ini_file - opening file with encoding ``utf-8-sig`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2189).
+- interfaces_file - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3328).
+- iocage connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- ipa_config - add ``ipaselinuxusermaporder`` option to set the SELinux user map order (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3178).
+- ipa_group - add ``append`` option for adding group and users members, instead of replacing the respective lists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3545).
+- jail connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- java_keystore - added ``ssl_backend`` parameter for using the cryptography library instead of the OpenSSL binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2485).
+- java_keystore - replace envvar by stdin to pass secret to ``keytool`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2526).
+- jenkins_build - support stopping a running jenkins build (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2850).
+- jenkins_job_info - the ``password`` and ``token`` parameters can also be omitted to retrieve only public information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2948).
+- jenkins_plugin - add fallback url(s) for failure of plugin installation/download (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1334).
+- jira - add comment visibility parameter for comment operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2556).
+- kernel_blacklist - revamped the module using ``ModuleHelper`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3329).
+- keycloak_* modules - refactor many of the ``keycloak_*`` modules to have similar structures, comments, and documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3280).
+- keycloak_authentication - enhanced diff mode to also return before and after state when the authentication flow is updated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2963).
+- keycloak_client - add ``authentication_flow_binding_overrides`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2949).
+- keycloak_realm - add ``events_enabled`` parameter to allow activation or deactivation of login events (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3231).
+- linode - added proper traceback when failing due to exceptions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2410).
+- linode - parameter ``additional_disks`` is now validated as a list of dictionaries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2410).
+- linode inventory plugin - adds the ``ip_style`` configuration key. Set to ``api`` to get more detailed network details back from the remote Linode host (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3203).
+- lxc connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- lxd_container - add ``ignore_volatile_options`` option which allows to disable the behavior that the module ignores options starting with ``volatile.`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3331).
+- mail - added the ``ehlohost`` parameter which allows for manual override of the host used in SMTP EHLO (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3425).
+- maven_artifact - added ``checksum_alg`` option to support SHA1 checksums in order to support FIPS systems (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2662).
+- module_helper cmd module utils - added the ``ArgFormat`` style ``BOOLEAN_NOT``, to add CLI parameters when the module argument is false-ish (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3290).
+- module_helper module utils - added feature flag parameter to ``CmdMixin`` to control whether ``cmd_args`` is automatically added to the module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3648).
+- module_helper module utils - added feature flag parameters to ``CmdMixin`` to control whether ``rc``, ``out`` and ``err`` are automatically added to the module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2922).
+- module_helper module utils - break down of the long file into smaller pieces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2393).
+- module_helper module utils - method ``CmdMixin.run_command()`` now accepts ``process_output`` specifying a function to process the outcome of the underlying ``module.run_command()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2564).
+- module_helper module_utils - added classmethod to trigger the execution of MH modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3206).
+- nmcli - add ``disabled`` value to ``method6`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2730).
+- nmcli - add ``dummy`` interface support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/724).
+- nmcli - add ``gre`` tunnel support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3105, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3262).
+- nmcli - add ``gsm`` support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3313).
+- nmcli - add ``routing_rules4`` and ``may_fail4`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2730).
+- nmcli - add ``runner`` and ``runner_hwaddr_policy`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2901).
+- nmcli - add ``wifi-sec`` option change detection to support managing secure Wi-Fi connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3136).
+- nmcli - add ``wifi`` option to support managing Wi-Fi settings such as ``hidden`` or ``mode`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3081).
+- nmcli - add new options to ignore automatic DNS servers and gateways (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1087).
+- nmcli - query ``nmcli`` directly to determine available WiFi options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3141).
+- nmcli - remove dead code, ``options`` never contains keys from ``param_alias`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2417).
+- nmcli - the option ``routing_rules4`` can now be specified as a list of strings, instead of as a single string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3401).
+- nrdp callback plugin - parameters are now converted to strings, except ``validate_certs`` which is converted to boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2878).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - add ``domain`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2734).
+- open-iscsi - adding support for mutual authentication between target and initiator (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3422).
+- open_iscsi - add ``auto_portal_startup`` parameter to allow ``node.startup`` setting per portal (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2685).
+- open_iscsi - also consider ``portal`` and ``port`` to check if already logged in or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2683).
+- open_iscsi - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3286).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - added option ``enable_from_environment`` to support enabling the plugin only if the given environment variable exists and it is set to true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3498).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - enriched the span attributes with HTTP metadata for those Ansible tasks that interact with third party systems (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3448).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - enriched the stacktrace information for loops with the ``message``, ``exception`` and ``stderr`` fields from the failed item in the tasks in addition to the name of the task and failed item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3599).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - enriched the stacktrace information with the ``message``, ``exception`` and ``stderr`` fields from the failed task (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3496).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - transformed args in a list of span attributes in addition it redacted username and password from any URLs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3564).
+- openwrt_init - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3284).
+- opkg - allow ``name`` to be a YAML list of strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/572, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3554).
+- pacman - add ``executable`` option to use an alternative pacman binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2524).
+- pacman - speed up checking if the package is installed, when the latest version check is not needed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3606).
+- pamd - minor refactorings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3285).
+- passwordstore lookup - add option ``missing`` to choose what to do if the password file is missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2500).
+- pids - refactor to add support for older ``psutil`` versions to the ``pattern`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3315).
+- pipx - minor refactor on the ``changed`` logic (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3647).
+- pkgin - in case of ``pkgin`` tool failue, display returned standard output ``stdout`` and standard error ``stderr`` to ease debugging (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3146).
+- pkgng - ``annotation`` can now also be a YAML list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3526).
+- pkgng - packages being installed (or upgraded) are acted on in one command (per action) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2265).
+- pkgng - status message specifies number of packages installed and/or upgraded separately. Previously, all changes were reported as one count of packages "added" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3393).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - added snapshots to host facts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3044).
+- proxmox_group_info - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- proxmox_kvm - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- qubes connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- rax_mon_notification_plan - fixed validation checks by specifying type ``str`` as the ``elements`` of parameters ``ok_state``, ``warning_state`` and ``critical_state`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2955).
+- redfish_command - add ``boot_override_mode`` argument to BootSourceOverride commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3134).
+- redfish_command and redfish_config and redfish_utils module utils - add parameter to strip etag of quotes before patch, since some vendors do not properly ``If-Match`` etag with quotes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3296).
+- redfish_config - modified module exit to add warning variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1995).
+- redfish_info - include ``Status`` property for Thermal objects when querying Thermal properties via ``GetChassisThermals`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3232).
+- redfish_utils module utils - modified set_bios_attributes function to skip invalid attribute instead of returning. Added skipped attributes to output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1995).
+- redhat_subscription - add ``server_prefix`` and ``server_port`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2779).
+- redis - allow to use the term ``replica`` instead of ``slave``, which has been the official Redis terminology since 2018 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2867).
+- rhevm - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- saltstack connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- scaleway plugin inventory - parse scw-cli config file for ``oauth_token`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3250).
+- serverless - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- slack - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3205).
+- snap - added ``enabled`` and ``disabled`` states (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1990).
+- snap - improved module error handling, especially for the case when snap server is down (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2970).
+- splunk callback plugin - add ``batch`` option for user-configurable correlation ID's (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2790).
+- spotinst_aws_elastigroup - elements of list parameters are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2355).
+- ssh_config - new feature to set ``ForwardAgent`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2473).
+- stacki_host - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2681).
+- supervisorctl - add the possibility to restart all programs and program groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3551).
+- supervisorctl - using standard Ansible mechanism to validate ``signalled`` state required parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3068).
+- terraform - add ``check_destroy`` optional parameter to check for deletion of resources before it is applied (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2874).
+- terraform - add ``parallelism`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3540).
+- terraform - add option ``overwrite_init`` to skip init if exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2573).
+- terraform - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- timezone - print error message to debug instead of warning when timedatectl fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1942).
+- tss lookup plugin - added ``token`` parameter for token authorization; ``username`` and ``password`` are optional when ``token`` is provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3327).
+- tss lookup plugin - added new parameter for domain authorization (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3228).
+- tss lookup plugin - refactored to decouple the supporting third-party library (``python-tss-sdk``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3252).
+- ufw - if ``delete=true`` and ``insert`` option is present, then ``insert`` is now ignored rather than failing with a syntax error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3514).
+- vdo - minor refactoring of the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3191).
+- zfs - added diff mode support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/502).
+- zfs_delegate_admin - drop choices from permissions, allowing any permission supported by the underlying zfs commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2540).
+- zone connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- zpool_facts - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3332).
+- zypper - prefix zypper commands with ``/sbin/transactional-update --continue --drop-if-no-change --quiet run`` if transactional updates are detected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3159).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- archive - adding idempotency checks for changes to file names and content within the ``destination`` file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3075).
+- lxd inventory plugin - when used with Python 2, the plugin now needs ``ipaddress`` installed `from pypi <https://pypi.org/project/ipaddress/>`_ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2441).
+- scaleway_security_group_rule - when used with Python 2, the module now needs ``ipaddress`` installed `from pypi <https://pypi.org/project/ipaddress/>`_ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2441).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- ali_instance_info - marked removal version of deprecated parameters ``availability_zone`` and ``instance_names`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2429).
+- bitbucket_* modules - ``username`` options have been deprecated in favor of ``workspace`` and will be removed in community.general 6.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2045).
+- dnsimple - python-dnsimple < 2.0.0 is deprecated and support for it will be removed in community.general 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2946#discussion_r667624693).
+- gitlab_group_members - setting ``gitlab_group`` to ``name`` or ``path`` is deprecated. Use ``full_path`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3451).
+- keycloak_authentication - the return value ``flow`` is now deprecated and will be removed in community.general 6.0.0; use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3280).
+- keycloak_group - the return value ``group`` is now deprecated and will be removed in community.general 6.0.0; use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3280).
+- linode - parameter ``backupsenabled`` is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2410).
+- lxd_container - the current default value ``true`` of ``ignore_volatile_options`` is deprecated and will change to ``false`` in community.general 6.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3429).
+- serverless - deprecating parameter ``functions`` because it was not used in the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2845).
+- xfconf - deprecate the ``get`` state. The new module ``xfconf_info`` should be used instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3049).
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- All inventory and vault scripts contained in community.general were moved to the `contrib-scripts GitHub repository <https://github.com/ansible-community/contrib-scripts>`_ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2696).
+- ModuleHelper module utils - remove fallback when value could not be determined for a parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- Removed deprecated netapp module utils and doc fragments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3197).
+- The nios, nios_next_ip, nios_next_network lookup plugins, the nios documentation fragment, and the nios_host_record, nios_ptr_record, nios_mx_record, nios_fixed_address, nios_zone, nios_member, nios_a_record, nios_aaaa_record, nios_network, nios_dns_view, nios_txt_record, nios_naptr_record, nios_srv_record, nios_cname_record, nios_nsgroup, and nios_network_view module have been removed from community.general 4.0.0 and were replaced by redirects to the `infoblox.nios_modules <https://galaxy.ansible.com/infoblox/nios_modules>`_ collection. Please install the ``infoblox.nios_modules`` collection to continue using these plugins and modules, and update your FQCNs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3592).
+- The vendored copy of ``ipaddress`` has been removed. Please use ``ipaddress`` from the Python 3 standard library, or `from pypi <https://pypi.org/project/ipaddress/>`_. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2441).
+- cpanm - removed the deprecated ``system_lib`` option. Use Ansible's privilege escalation mechanism instead; the option basically used ``sudo`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- grove - removed the deprecated alias ``message`` of the ``message_content`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- proxmox - default value of ``proxmox_default_behavior`` changed to ``no_defaults`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- proxmox_kvm - default value of ``proxmox_default_behavior`` changed to ``no_defaults`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- runit - removed the deprecated ``dist`` option which was not used by the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- telegram - removed the deprecated ``msg``, ``msg_format`` and ``chat_id`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- xfconf - the default value of ``disable_facts`` changed to ``true``, and the value ``false`` is no longer allowed. Register the module results instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- nmcli - do not pass WiFi secrets on the ``nmcli`` command line. Use ``nmcli con edit`` instead and pass secrets as ``stdin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3145).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- _mount module utils - fixed the sanity checks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2883).
+- ali_instance_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - the output value ``cmd_args`` was bringing the intermediate command used to gather the state, instead of the command that actually performed the state change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3655).
+- apache2_module - fix ``a2enmod``/``a2dismod`` detection, and error message when not found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3253).
+- archive - fixed ``exclude_path`` values causing incorrect archive root (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2816).
+- archive - fixed improper file names for single file zip archives (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2818).
+- archive - fixed incorrect ``state`` result value documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2816).
+- archive - fixed task failure when using the ``remove`` option with a ``path`` containing nested files for ``format``s other than ``zip`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2919).
+- archive - fixing archive root determination when longest common root is ``/`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3036).
+- composer - use ``no-interaction`` option when discovering available options to avoid an issue where composer hangs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2348).
+- consul_acl - update the hcl allowlist to include all supported options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2495).
+- consul_kv lookup plugin - allow to set ``recurse``, ``index``, ``datacenter`` and ``token`` as keyword arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2124).
+- copr - fix chroot naming issues, ``centos-stream`` changed naming to ``centos-stream-<number>`` (for exmaple ``centos-stream-8``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2084, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3237).
+- cpanm - also use ``LC_ALL`` to enforce locale choice (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2731).
+- deploy_helper - improved parameter checking by using standard Ansible construct (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3104).
+- django_manage - argument ``command`` is being splitted again as it should (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3215).
+- django_manage - parameters ``apps`` and ``fixtures`` are now splitted instead of being used as a single argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3333).
+- django_manage - refactor to call ``run_command()`` passing command as a list instead of string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3098).
+- ejabberd_user - replaced in-code check with ``required_if``, using ``get_bin_path()`` for the command, passing args to ``run_command()`` as list instead of string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3093).
+- filesystem - repair ``reiserfs`` fstype support after adding it to integration tests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2472).
+- gitlab_deploy_key - fix idempotency on projects with multiple deploy keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3473).
+- gitlab_deploy_key - fix the SSH Deploy Key being deleted accidentally while running task in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3621, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3622).
+- gitlab_group - avoid passing wrong value for ``require_two_factor_authentication`` on creation when the option has not been specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3453).
+- gitlab_group_members - ``get_group_id`` return the group ID by matching ``full_path``, ``path`` or ``name`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3400).
+- gitlab_group_members - fixes issue when gitlab group has more then 20 members, pagination problem (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3041).
+- gitlab_project - user projects are created using namespace ID now, instead of user ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2881).
+- gitlab_project_members - ``get_project_id`` return the project id by matching ``full_path`` or ``name`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3602).
+- gitlab_project_members - fixes issue when gitlab group has more then 20 members, pagination problem (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3041).
+- idrac_redfish_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- influxdb_retention_policy - fix bug where ``INF`` duration values failed parsing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2385).
+- influxdb_user - allow creation of admin users when InfluxDB authentication is enabled but no other user exists on the database. In this scenario, InfluxDB 1.x allows only ``CREATE USER`` queries and rejects any other query (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2364).
+- influxdb_user - fix bug where an influxdb user has no privileges for 2 or more databases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2499).
+- influxdb_user - fix bug which removed current privileges instead of appending them to existing ones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2609, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2614).
+- ini_file - fix Unicode processing for Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2875).
+- ini_file - fix inconsistency between empty value and no value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3031).
+- interfaces_file - no longer reporting change when none happened (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3328).
+- inventory and vault scripts - change file permissions to make vendored inventory and vault scripts exectuable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2337).
+- ipa_* modules - fix environment fallback for ``ipa_host`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3560).
+- ipa_sudorule - call ``sudorule_add_allow_command`` method instead of  ``sudorule_add_allow_command_group`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2442).
+- iptables_state - call ``async_status`` action plugin rather than its module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2700).
+- iptables_state - fix a 'FutureWarning' in a regex and do some basic code clean up (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2525).
+- iptables_state - fix a broken query of ``async_status`` result with current ansible-core development version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2627, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2671).
+- iptables_state - fix initialization of iptables from null state when adressing more than one table (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2523).
+- java_cert - fix issue with incorrect alias used on PKCS#12 certificate import (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2560).
+- java_cert - import private key as well as public certificate from PKCS#12 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2460).
+- java_keystore - add parameter ``keystore_type`` to control output file format and override ``keytool``'s default, which depends on Java version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2515).
+- jboss - fix the deployment file permission issue when Jboss server is running under non-root user. The deployment file is copied with file content only. The file permission is set to ``440`` and belongs to root user. When the JBoss ``WildFly`` server is running under non-root user, it is unable to read the deployment file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3426).
+- jenkins_build - examine presence of ``build_number`` before deleting a jenkins build (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2850).
+- jenkins_plugin - use POST method for sending request to jenkins API when ``state`` option is one of ``enabled``, ``disabled``, ``pinned``, ``unpinned``, or ``absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2510).
+- json_query filter plugin - avoid 'unknown type' errors for more Ansible internal types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2607).
+- keycloak_authentication - fix bug when two identical executions are in the same authentication flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2904).
+- keycloak_authentication - fix bug, the requirement was always on ``DISABLED`` when creating a new authentication flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3330).
+- keycloak_client - update the check mode to not show differences resulting from sorting and default values relating to the properties, ``redirectUris``, ``attributes``, and ``protocol_mappers`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3610).
+- keycloak_identity_provider - fix change detection when updating identity provider mappers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3538, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3537).
+- keycloak_realm - ``ssl_required`` changed from a boolean type to accept the strings ``none``, ``external`` or ``all``. This is not a breaking change since the module always failed when a boolean was supplied (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2693).
+- keycloak_realm - element type for ``events_listeners`` parameter should be ``string`` instead of ``dict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3231).
+- keycloak_realm - remove warning that ``reset_password_allowed`` needs to be marked as ``no_log`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2694).
+- keycloak_role - quote role name when used in URL path to avoid errors when role names contain special characters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3535, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3536).
+- launchd - fixed sanity check in the module's code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2960).
+- launchd - use private attribute to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- linode inventory plugin - fix default value of new option ``ip_style`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3337).
+- linode_v4 - changed the error message to point to the correct bugtracker URL (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2430).
+- logdns callback plugin - improve split call to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- logstash callback plugin - replace ``_option`` with ``context.CLIARGS`` to fix the plugin on ansible-base and ansible-core (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2692).
+- lvol - fixed rounding errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2370).
+- lvol - fixed size unit capitalization to match units used between different tools for comparison (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2360).
+- lvol - honor ``check_mode`` on thinpool (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2934).
+- macports - add ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` to return values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3499).
+- maven_artifact - improve split call to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- memcached cache plugin - change function argument names to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- memset_memstore_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- memset_server_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- modprobe - added additional checks to ensure module load/unload is effective (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1608).
+- module_helper module utils - ``CmdMixin`` must also use ``LC_ALL`` to enforce locale choice (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2731).
+- module_helper module utils - avoid failing when non-zero ``rc`` is present on regular exit (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2912).
+- module_helper module utils - fixed change-tracking for dictionaries and lists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2951).
+- netapp module utils - remove always-true conditional to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- netcup_dns - use ``str(ex)`` instead of unreliable ``ex.message`` in exception handling to fix ``AttributeError`` in error cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2590).
+- nmap inventory plugin - fix local variable error when cache is disabled (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2512).
+- nmcli - added ip4/ip6 configuration arguments for ``sit`` and ``ipip`` tunnels (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3238, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3239).
+- nmcli - compare MAC addresses case insensitively to fix idempotency issue (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2409).
+- nmcli - fixed ``dns6`` option handling so that it is treated as a list internally (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3563).
+- nmcli - fixed ``ipv4.route-metric`` being in properties of type list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3563).
+- nmcli - fixes team-slave configuration by adding connection.slave-type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/766).
+- nmcli - if type is ``bridge-slave`` add ``slave-type bridge`` to ``nmcli`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2408).
+- npm - correctly handle cases where a dependency does not have a ``version`` property because it is either missing or invalid (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2917).
+- npm - when the ``version`` option is used the comparison of installed vs missing will use name@version instead of just name, allowing version specific updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2021).
+- one_image - fix error message when renaming an image (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3626).
+- one_template - change function argument name to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- one_vm - Allow missing NIC keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2435).
+- oneview_datacenter_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_enclosure_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_ethernet_network_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_fc_network_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_fcoe_network_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_logical_interconnect_group_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_network_set_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_san_manager_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- online inventory plugin - improve split call to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- online module utils - improve split call to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- open_iscsi - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3286).
+- openbsd_pkg - fix crash from ``KeyError`` exception when package installs, but ``pkg_add`` returns with a non-zero exit code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3336).
+- openbsd_pkg - fix regexp matching crash. This bug could trigger on package names with special characters, for example ``g++`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3161).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - validated the task result exception without crashing. Also simplifying code a bit (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3450, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75726).
+- openwrt_init - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3284).
+- ovir4 inventory script - improve configparser creation to avoid crashes for options without values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/674).
+- packet_device - use generator to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- packet_sshkey - use generator to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- pacman - fix changed status when ignorepkg has been defined (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1758).
+- pamd - code for ``state=updated`` when dealing with the pam module arguments, made no distinction between ``None`` and an empty list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3260).
+- pamd - fixed problem with files containing only one or two lines (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2925).
+- pids - avoid crashes for older ``psutil`` versions, like on RHEL6 and RHEL7 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2808).
+- pipx - ``state=inject`` was failing to parse the list of injected packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3611).
+- pipx - set environment variable ``USE_EMOJI=0`` to prevent errors in platforms that do not support ``UTF-8`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3611).
+- pipx - the output value ``cmd_args`` was bringing the intermediate command used to gather the state, instead of the command that actually performed the state change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3655).
+- pkgin - Fix exception encountered when all packages are already installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3583).
+- pkgng - ``name=* state=latest`` check for upgrades did not count "Number of packages to be reinstalled" as a `changed` action, giving incorrect results in both regular and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3526).
+- pkgng - an `earlier PR <https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3393>`_ broke check mode so that the module always reports `not changed`. This is now fixed so that the module reports number of upgrade or install actions that would be performed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3526).
+- pkgng - the ``annotation`` functionality was broken and is now fixed, and now also works with check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3526).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed parsing failures when some cluster nodes are offline (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2931).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed plugin failure when a ``qemu`` guest has no ``template`` key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3052).
+- proxmox_group_info - fix module crash if a ``group`` parameter is used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3649).
+- proxmox_kvm - clone operation should return the VMID of the target VM and not that of the source VM. This was failing when the target VM with the chosen name already existed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3266).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix parsing of Proxmox VM information with device info not containing a comma, like disks backed by ZFS zvols (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2840).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix result of clone, now returns ``newid`` instead of ``vmid`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3034).
+- proxmox_kvm - fixed ``vmid`` return value when VM with ``name`` already exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2648).
+- puppet - replace ``console` with ``stdout`` in ``logdest`` option when ``all`` has been chosen (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1190).
+- rax_facts - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- redfish_command - fix extraneous error caused by missing ``bootdevice`` argument when using the ``DisableBootOverride`` sub-command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3005).
+- redfish_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- redfish_utils module utils - do not attempt to change the boot source override mode if not specified by the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3509/).
+- redfish_utils module utils - if a manager network property is not specified in the service, attempt to change the requested settings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3404/).
+- redfish_utils module utils - if given, add account ID of user that should be created to HTTP request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3343/).
+- redis cache - improved connection string parsing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/497).
+- rhsm_release - fix the issue that module considers 8, 7Client and 7Workstation as invalid releases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2571).
+- saltstack connection plugin - fix function signature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- scaleway module utils - improve split call to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- scaleway plugin inventory - fix ``JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'`` with Python 3.5 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2769).
+- smartos_image_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- snap - also use ``LC_ALL`` to enforce locale choice (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2731).
+- snap - fix formatting of ``--channel`` argument when the ``channel`` option is used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3028).
+- snap - fix various bugs which prevented the module from working at all, and which resulted in ``state=absent`` fail on absent snaps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2835, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2906, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2912).
+- snap - fixed the order of the ``--classic`` parameter in the command line invocation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2916).
+- snap_alias - the output value ``cmd_args`` was bringing the intermediate command used to gather the state, instead of the command that actually performed the state change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3655).
+- snmp_facts - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- ssh_config - reduce stormssh searches based on host (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2568/).
+- stacki_host - when adding a new server, ``rack`` and ``rank`` must be passed, and network parameters are optional (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2681).
+- stackpath_compute inventory script - fix broken validation checks for client ID and client secret (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2448).
+- supervisorctl - state ``signalled`` was not working (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3068).
+- svr4pkg - convert string to a bytes-like object to avoid ``TypeError`` with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2373).
+- taiga - some constructs in the module fixed to work also in Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3067).
+- terraform - ensure the workspace is set back to its previous value when the apply fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2634).
+- tss lookup plugin - fixed backwards compatibility issue with ``python-tss-sdk`` version <=0.0.5 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3192, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3199).
+- tss lookup plugin - fixed incompatibility with ``python-tss-sdk`` version 1.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3057, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3139).
+- udm_dns_record - fixed managing of PTR records, which can never have worked before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3256).
+- ufw - use generator to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- utm_aaa_group_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- utm_ca_host_key_cert_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- utm_network_interface_address_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- utm_proxy_frontend_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- utm_proxy_location_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- vdo - boolean arguments now compared with proper ``true`` and ``false`` values instead of string representations like ``"yes"`` or ``"no"`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3191).
+- xenserver_facts - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- xfconf - also use ``LC_ALL`` to enforce locale choice (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2715).
+- xfconf_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- yaml callback plugin - avoid modifying PyYAML so that other plugins using it on the controller, like the ``to_yaml`` filter, do not produce different output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3471, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3478).
+- yum_versionlock - fix idempotency when using wildcard (asterisk) in ``name`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2761).
+- zfs - certain ZFS properties, especially sizes, would lead to a task being falsely marked as "changed" even when no actual change was made (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/975, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2454).
+- zfs - treated received properties as local (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/502).
+- zypper_repository - fix idempotency on adding repository with ``$releasever`` and ``$basearch`` variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1985).
+- zypper_repository - when an URL to a .repo file was provided in option ``repo=`` and ``state=present`` only the first run was successful, future runs failed due to missing checks prior starting zypper. Usage of ``state=absent`` in combination with a .repo file was not working either (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1791, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3466).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Callback
+~~~~~~~~
+
+- elastic - Create distributed traces for each Ansible task in Elastic APM
+- opentelemetry - Create distributed traces with OpenTelemetry
+
 Filter
 ~~~~~~

- counter - Counts hashable elements in a sequence
+- groupby_as_dict - Transform a sequence of dictionaries to a dictionary where the dictionaries are indexed by an attribute
+- unicode_normalize - Normalizes unicode strings to facilitate comparison of characters with normalized forms
+
+Inventory
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+- icinga2 - Icinga2 inventory source
+- opennebula - OpenNebula inventory source
+
+Lookup
+~~~~~~
+
+- collection_version - Retrieves the version of an installed collection
+- dependent - Composes a list with nested elements of other lists or dicts which can depend on previous loop variables
+- random_pet - Generates random pet names
+- random_string - Generates random string
+- random_words - Return a number of random words
+
+Test
+~~~~
+
+- a_module - Check whether the given string refers to an available module or action plugin
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+Cloud
+~~~~~
+
+misc
+^^^^
+
+- proxmox_nic - Management of a NIC of a Qemu(KVM) VM in a Proxmox VE cluster.
+- proxmox_tasks_info - Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE tasks
+
+Database
+~~~~~~~~
+
+misc
+^^^^
+
+- redis_data - Set key value pairs in Redis
+- redis_data_incr - Increment keys in Redis
+- redis_data_info - Get value of key in Redis database
+
+mssql
+^^^^^
+
+- mssql_script - Execute SQL scripts on a MSSQL database
+
+saphana
+^^^^^^^
+
+- hana_query - Execute SQL on HANA
+
+Files
+~~~~~
+
+- sapcar_extract - Manages SAP SAPCAR archives
+
+Identity
+~~~~~~~~
+
+keycloak
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- keycloak_authentication - Configure authentication in Keycloak
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - Allows administration of Keycloak client_rolemapping with the Keycloak API
+- keycloak_clientscope - Allows administration of Keycloak client_scopes via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_identity_provider - Allows administration of Keycloak identity providers via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_role - Allows administration of Keycloak roles via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_user_federation - Allows administration of Keycloak user federations via Keycloak API
+
+Notification
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- discord - Send Discord messages
+
+Packaging
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+language
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- ansible_galaxy_install - Install Ansible roles or collections using ansible-galaxy
+- pipx - Manages applications installed with pipx
+
+os
+^^
+
+- dnf_versionlock - Locks package versions in C(dnf) based systems
+- pacman_key - Manage pacman's list of trusted keys
+- snap_alias - Manages snap aliases
+
+Source Control
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+gitlab
+^^^^^^
+
+- gitlab_protected_branch - (un)Marking existing branches for protection
+
+System
+~~~~~~
+
+- sap_task_list_execute - Perform SAP Task list execution
+- xfconf_info - Retrieve XFCE4 configurations
+
+Web Infrastructure
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- rundeck_job_executions_info - Query executions for a Rundeck job
+- rundeck_job_run - Run a Rundeck job
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Also, consider taking up a valuable, reviewed, but abandoned pull request which

 * Try committing your changes with an informative but short commit message.
 * Do not squash your commits and force-push to your branch if not needed. Reviews of your pull request are much easier with individual commits to comprehend the pull request history. All commits of your pull request branch will be squashed into one commit by GitHub upon merge.
-* Do not add merge commits to your PR. The bot will complain and you will have to rebase ([instructions for rebasing](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_rebasing.html)) to remove them before your PR can be merged. To avoid that git automatically does merges during pulls, you can configure it to do rebases instead by running `git config pull.rebase true` inside the repository checkout.
+* Do not add merge commits to your PR. The bot will complain and you will have to rebase ([instructions for rebasing](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_rebasing.html)) to remove them before your PR can be merged. To avoid that git automatically does merges during pulls, you can configure it to do rebases instead by running `git config pull.rebase true` inside the respository checkout.
 * Make sure your PR includes a [changelog fragment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/development_process.html#changelogs-how-to). (You must not include a fragment for new modules or new plugins, except for test and filter plugins. Also you shouldn't include one for docs-only changes. If you're not sure, simply don't include one, we'll tell you whether one is needed or not :) )
 * Avoid reformatting unrelated parts of the codebase in your PR. These types of changes will likely be requested for reversion, create additional work for reviewers, and may cause approval to be delayed.

@@ -36,54 +36,6 @@ If you want to test a PR locally, refer to [our testing guide](https://github.co

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

-## Run sanity, unit or integration tests locally
-
-You have to check out the repository into a specific path structure to be able to run `ansible-test`. The path to the git checkout must end with `.../ansible_collections/community/general`. Please see [our testing guide](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/test_pr_locally_guide.rst) for instructions on how to check out the repository into a correct path structure. The short version of these instructions is:
-
-```.bash
-mkdir -p ~/dev/ansible_collections/community
-git clone https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general.git ~/dev/ansible_collections/community/general
-cd ~/dev/ansible_collections/community/general
-```
-
-Then you can run `ansible-test` (which is a part of [ansible-core](https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core/)) inside the checkout. The following example commands expect that you have installed Docker or Podman. Note that Podman has only been supported by more recent ansible-core releases. If you are using Docker, the following will work with Ansible 2.9+.
-
-The following commands show how to run sanity tests:
-
-```.bash
-# Run sanity tests for all files in the collection:
-ansible-test sanity --docker -v
-
-# Run sanity tests for the given files and directories:
-ansible-test sanity --docker -v plugins/modules/system/pids.py tests/integration/targets/pids/
-```
-
-The following commands show how to run unit tests:
-
-```.bash
-# Run all unit tests:
-ansible-test units --docker -v
-
-# Run all unit tests for one Python version (a lot faster):
-ansible-test units --docker -v --python 3.8
-
-# Run a specific unit test (for the nmcli module) for one Python version:
-ansible-test units --docker -v --python 3.8 tests/unit/plugins/modules/net_tools/test_nmcli.py
-```
-
-The following commands show how to run integration tests:
-
-```.bash
-# Run integration tests for the interfaces_files module in a Docker container using the
-# fedora35 operating system image (the supported images depend on your ansible-core version):
-ansible-test integration --docker fedora35 -v interfaces_file
-
-# Run integration tests for the flattened lookup **without any isolation**:
-ansible-test integration -v lookup_flattened
-```
-
-If you are unsure about the integration test target name for a module or plugin, you can take a look in `tests/integration/targets/`. Tests for plugins have the plugin type prepended.
-
 ## Creating new modules or plugins

 Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Requests.
@@ -106,15 +58,9 @@ Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Reques
   - Make sure that new plugins and modules have tests (unit tests, integration tests, or both); it is preferable to have some tests
     which run in CI.

-4. 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!
+4. For modules and action plugins, make sure to create your module/plugin in the correct subdirectory, and create a symbolic link
+   from `plugins/modules/` respectively `plugins/action/` to the actual module/plugin code. (Other plugin types should not use
+   subdirectories.)

   - 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/`
@@ -125,19 +71,3 @@ Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Reques
   listed as `maintainers` will be pinged for new issues and PRs that modify the module/plugin or its tests.

   When you add a new plugin/module, we expect that you perform maintainer duty for at least some time after contributing it.
-
-## pre-commit
-
-To help ensure high-quality contributions this repository includes a [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) configuration which
-corrects and tests against common issues that would otherwise cause CI to fail. To begin using these pre-commit hooks see
-the [Installation](#installation) section below.
-
-This is optional and not required to contribute to this repository.
-
-### Installation
-
-Follow the [instructions](https://pre-commit.com/#install) provided with pre-commit and run `pre-commit install` under the repository base. If for any reason you would like to disable the pre-commit hooks run `pre-commit uninstall`.
-
-This is optional to run it locally.
-
-You can trigger it locally with `pre-commit run --all-files` or even to run only for a given file `pre-commit run --files YOUR_FILE`.
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # 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-4)](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.
@@ -17,9 +17,7 @@ If you encounter abusive behavior violating the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https:

 ## 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.
-
-Parts of this collection will not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+.
+Tested with the current Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible versions before 2.9.10 are not supported.

 ## External requirements

@@ -66,13 +64,13 @@ We are actively accepting new contributors.

 All types of contributions are very welcome.

-You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)!
+You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-4/CONTRIBUTING.md)!

-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.
+The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-4/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).
+Also for some notes specific to this collection see [our CONTRIBUTING documentation](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-4/CONTRIBUTING.md).

 ### Running tests

@@ -82,7 +80,7 @@ See [here](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collectio

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

-* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md).
+* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-4/commit-rights.md).
 * [Maintainer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/maintaining.rst).

 It is necessary for maintainers of this collection to be subscribed to:
@@ -110,7 +108,7 @@ See the [Releasing guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/ma

 ## 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-4/CHANGELOG.rst).

 ## Roadmap

--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-common.yml
+++ b/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
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/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}]
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001.yml
+++ b/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
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/default-common.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/default-common.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-common.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ list1|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002.yml
@@ -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
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/default-common.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/default-common.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-common.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003.yml
@@ -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
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true) }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004.yml
@@ -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
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='keep') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005.yml
@@ -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
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='append') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006.yml
@@ -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
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='prepend') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007.yml
@@ -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
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='append_rp') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008.yml
@@ -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
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='prepend_rp') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples.yml
@@ -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'
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples_all.rst.j2
+++ b/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 %}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
@@ -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 %}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/list3.out.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/list3.out.j2
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-list3:
-{{ list3|to_nice_yaml(indent=0) }}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml
+++ b/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
--- a/docs/docsite/links.yml
+++ b/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
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 .. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.filter_guide:

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

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

-.. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 2
+.. contents:: Topics

-   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
+Paths
+-----
+
+The ``path_join`` filter has been added in ansible-base 2.10. If you want to use this filter, but also need to support Ansible 2.9, you can use ``community.general``'s ``path_join`` shim, ``community.general.path_join``. This filter redirects to ``path_join`` for ansible-base 2.10 and ansible-core 2.11 or newer, and re-implements the filter for Ansible 2.9.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    # ansible-base 2.10 or newer:
+    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | path_join }}
+
+    # Also works with Ansible 2.9:
+    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | community.general.path_join }}
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.0.0
+
+Abstract transformations
+------------------------
+
+Dictionaries
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+You can use the ``dict_kv`` filter to create a single-entry dictionary with ``value | community.general.dict_kv(key)``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Create a single-entry dictionary
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ myvar | community.general.dict_kv('thatsmyvar') }}"
+      vars:
+        myvar: myvalue
+
+    - name: Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list
+      debug:
+        msg: >-
+          {{ myservers | map('community.general.dict_kv', 'server')
+                       | map('combine', common_config) }}
+      vars:
+        common_config:
+          type: host
+          database: all
+        myservers:
+        - server1
+        - server2
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Create a single-entry dictionary]  **************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": {
+            "thatsmyvar": "myvalue"
+        }
+    }
+
+    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list]  *******
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "database": "all",
+                "server": "server1",
+                "type": "host"
+            },
+            {
+                "database": "all",
+                "server": "server2",
+                "type": "host"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.0.0
+
+If you need to convert a list of key-value pairs to a dictionary, you can use the ``dict`` function. Unfortunately, this function cannot be used with ``map``. For this, the ``community.general.dict`` filter can be used:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Create a dictionary with the dict function
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ dict([[1, 2], ['a', 'b']]) }}"
+
+    - name: Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ [[1, 2], ['a', 'b']] | community.general.dict }}"
+
+    - name: Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter
+      debug:
+        msg: >-
+          {{ values | map('zip', ['k1', 'k2', 'k3'])
+                    | map('map', 'reverse')
+                    | map('community.general.dict') }}
+      vars:
+        values:
+          - - foo
+            - 23
+            - a
+          - - bar
+            - 42
+            - b
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Create a dictionary with the dict function]  ****************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": {
+            "1": 2,
+            "a": "b"
+        }
+    }
+
+    TASK [Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter]  ************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": {
+            "1": 2,
+            "a": "b"
+        }
+    }
+
+    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter]  ******
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "k1": "foo",
+                "k2": 23,
+                "k3": "a"
+            },
+            {
+                "k1": "bar",
+                "k2": 42,
+                "k3": "b"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.0.0
+
+Grouping
+^^^^^^^^
+
+If you have a list of dictionaries, the Jinja2 ``groupby`` filter allows to group the list by an attribute. This results in a list of ``(grouper, list)`` namedtuples, where ``list`` contains all dictionaries where the selected attribute equals ``grouper``. If you know that for every ``grouper``, there will be a most one entry in that list, you can use the ``community.general.groupby_as_dict`` filter to convert the original list into a dictionary which maps ``grouper`` to the corresponding dictionary.
+
+One example is ``ansible_facts.mounts``, which is a list of dictionaries where each has one ``device`` element to indicate the device which is mounted. Therefore, ``ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')`` is a dictionary mapping a device to the mount information:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Output mount facts grouped by device name
+      debug:
+        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')
+
+    - name: Output mount facts grouped by mount point
+      debug:
+        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Output mount facts grouped by device name] ******************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')": {
+            "/dev/sda1": {
+                "block_available": 2000,
+                "block_size": 4096,
+                "block_total": 2345,
+                "block_used": 345,
+                "device": "/dev/sda1",
+                "fstype": "ext4",
+                "inode_available": 500,
+                "inode_total": 512,
+                "inode_used": 12,
+                "mount": "/boot",
+                "options": "rw,relatime,data=ordered",
+                "size_available": 56821,
+                "size_total": 543210,
+                "uuid": "ab31cade-d9c1-484d-8482-8a4cbee5241a"
+            },
+            "/dev/sda2": {
+                "block_available": 1234,
+                "block_size": 4096,
+                "block_total": 12345,
+                "block_used": 11111,
+                "device": "/dev/sda2",
+                "fstype": "ext4",
+                "inode_available": 1111,
+                "inode_total": 1234,
+                "inode_used": 123,
+                "mount": "/",
+                "options": "rw,relatime",
+                "size_available": 42143,
+                "size_total": 543210,
+                "uuid": "abcdef01-2345-6789-0abc-def012345678"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    TASK [Output mount facts grouped by mount point] ******************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')": {
+            "/": {
+                "block_available": 1234,
+                "block_size": 4096,
+                "block_total": 12345,
+                "block_used": 11111,
+                "device": "/dev/sda2",
+                "fstype": "ext4",
+                "inode_available": 1111,
+                "inode_total": 1234,
+                "inode_used": 123,
+                "mount": "/",
+                "options": "rw,relatime",
+                "size_available": 42143,
+                "size_total": 543210,
+                "uuid": "bdf50b7d-4859-40af-8665-c637ee7a7808"
+            },
+            "/boot": {
+                "block_available": 2000,
+                "block_size": 4096,
+                "block_total": 2345,
+                "block_used": 345,
+                "device": "/dev/sda1",
+                "fstype": "ext4",
+                "inode_available": 500,
+                "inode_total": 512,
+                "inode_used": 12,
+                "mount": "/boot",
+                "options": "rw,relatime,data=ordered",
+                "size_available": 56821,
+                "size_total": 543210,
+                "uuid": "ab31cade-d9c1-484d-8482-8a4cbee5241a"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 3.0.0
+
+Merging lists of dictionaries
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If you have two lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where two dictionaries are merged if they coincide in one attribute, you can use the ``lists_mergeby`` filter.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Merge two lists by common attribute 'name'
+      debug:
+        var: list1 | community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name')
+      vars:
+        list1:
+          - name: foo
+            extra: true
+          - name: bar
+            extra: false
+          - name: meh
+            extra: true
+        list2:
+          - name: foo
+            path: /foo
+          - name: baz
+            path: /bazzz
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Merge two lists by common attribute 'name']  ****************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "list1 | community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name')": [
+            {
+                "extra": false,
+                "name": "bar"
+            },
+            {
+                "name": "baz",
+                "path": "/bazzz"
+            },
+            {
+                "extra": true,
+                "name": "foo",
+                "path": "/foo"
+            },
+            {
+                "extra": true,
+                "name": "meh"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 2.0.0
+
+Working with times
+------------------
+
+The ``to_time_unit`` filter allows to convert times from a human-readable string to a unit. For example, ``'4h 30min 12second' | community.general.to_time_unit('hour')`` gives the number of hours that correspond to 4 hours, 30 minutes and 12 seconds.
+
+There are shorthands to directly convert to various units, like ``to_hours``, ``to_minutes``, ``to_seconds``, and so on. The following table lists all units that can be used:
+
+.. list-table:: Units
+   :widths: 25 25 25 25
+   :header-rows: 1
+
+   * - Unit name
+     - Unit value in seconds
+     - Unit strings for filter
+     - Shorthand filter
+   * - Millisecond
+     - 1/1000 second
+     - ``ms``, ``millisecond``, ``milliseconds``, ``msec``, ``msecs``, ``msecond``, ``mseconds``
+     - ``to_milliseconds``
+   * - Second
+     - 1 second
+     - ``s``, ``sec``, ``secs``, ``second``, ``seconds``
+     - ``to_seconds``
+   * - Minute
+     - 60 seconds
+     - ``m``, ``min``, ``mins``, ``minute``, ``minutes``
+     - ``to_minutes``
+   * - Hour
+     - 60*60 seconds
+     - ``h``, ``hour``, ``hours``
+     - ``to_hours``
+   * - Day
+     - 24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``d``, ``day``, ``days``
+     - ``to_days``
+   * - Week
+     - 7*24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``w``, ``week``, ``weeks``
+     - ``to_weeks``
+   * - Month
+     - 30*24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``mo``, ``month``, ``months``
+     - ``to_months``
+   * - Year
+     - 365*24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``y``, ``year``, ``years``
+     - ``to_years``
+
+Note that months and years are using a simplified representation: a month is 30 days, and a year is 365 days. If you need different definitions of months or years, you can pass them as keyword arguments. For example, if you want a year to be 365.25 days, and a month to be 30.5 days, you can write ``'11months 4' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25, month=30.5)``. These keyword arguments can be specified to ``to_time_unit`` and to all shorthand filters.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Convert string to seconds
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_time_unit('seconds') }}"
+
+    - name: Convert string to hours
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_hours }}"
+
+    - name: Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '400d 15h' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25) }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Convert string to seconds] **********************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "109210.123"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Convert string to hours] ************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "30.336145277778"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)] ******************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "1.096851471595"
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 0.2.0
+
+Working with versions
+---------------------
+
+If you need to sort a list of version numbers, the Jinja ``sort`` filter is problematic. Since it sorts lexicographically, ``2.10`` will come before ``2.9``. To treat version numbers correctly, you can use the ``version_sort`` filter:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Sort list by version number
+      debug:
+        var: ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort
+      vars:
+        ansible_versions:
+          - '2.8.0'
+          - '2.11.0'
+          - '2.7.0'
+          - '2.10.0'
+          - '2.9.0'
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Sort list by version number] ********************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort": [
+            "2.7.0",
+            "2.8.0",
+            "2.9.0",
+            "2.10.0",
+            "2.11.0"
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 2.2.0
+
+Creating identifiers
+--------------------
+
+The following filters allow to create identifiers.
+
+Hashids
+^^^^^^^
+
+`Hashids <https://hashids.org/>`_ allow to convert sequences of integers to short unique string identifiers. This filter needs the `hashids Python library <https://pypi.org/project/hashids/>`_ installed on the controller.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: "Create hashid"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ [1234, 5, 6] | community.general.hashids_encode }}"
+
+    - name: "Decode hashid"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ 'jm2Cytn' | community.general.hashids_decode }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Create hashid] **********************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "jm2Cytn"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Decode hashid] **********************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            1234,
+            5,
+            6
+        ]
+    }
+
+The hashids filters accept keyword arguments to allow fine-tuning the hashids generated:
+
+:salt: String to use as salt when hashing.
+:alphabet: String of 16 or more unique characters to produce a hash.
+:min_length: Minimum length of hash produced.
+
+.. versionadded: 3.0.0
+
+Random MACs
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+You can use the ``random_mac`` filter to complete a partial `MAC address <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>`_ to a random 6-byte MAC address.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with ff:"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ 'FF' | community.general.random_mac }}"
+
+    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '00:11:22' | community.general.random_mac }}"
+  
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with ff:] **********************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "ff:69:d3:78:7f:b4"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:] ****************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "00:11:22:71:5d:3b"
+    }
+
+You can also initialize the random number generator from a seed to create random-but-idempotent MAC addresses:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    "{{ '52:54:00' | community.general.random_mac(seed=inventory_hostname) }}"
+
+Conversions
+-----------
+
+Parsing CSV files
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Ansible offers the :ref:`community.general.read_csv module <ansible_collections.community.general.read_csv_module>` to read CSV files. Sometimes you need to convert strings to CSV files instead. For this, the ``from_csv`` filter exists.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: "Parse CSV from string"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ csv_string | community.general.from_csv }}"
+      vars:
+        csv_string: |
+          foo,bar,baz
+          1,2,3
+          you,this,then
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Parse CSV from string] **************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "bar": "2",
+                "baz": "3",
+                "foo": "1"
+            },
+            {
+                "bar": "this",
+                "baz": "then",
+                "foo": "you"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+The ``from_csv`` filter has several keyword arguments to control its behavior:
+
+:dialect: Dialect of the CSV file. Default is ``excel``. Other possible choices are ``excel-tab`` and ``unix``. If one of ``delimiter``, ``skipinitialspace`` or ``strict`` is specified, ``dialect`` is ignored.
+:fieldnames: A set of column names to use. If not provided, the first line of the CSV is assumed to contain the column names.
+:delimiter: Sets the delimiter to use. Default depends on the dialect used.
+:skipinitialspace: Set to ``true`` to ignore space directly after the delimiter. Default depends on the dialect used (usually ``false``).
+:strict: Set to ``true`` to error out on invalid CSV input.
+
+.. versionadded: 3.0.0
+
+Converting to JSON
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+`JC <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ is a CLI tool and Python library which allows to interpret output of various CLI programs as JSON. It is also available as a filter in community.general. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Run 'ls' to list files in /
+      command: ls /
+      register: result
+
+    - name: Parse the ls output
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ result.stdout | community.general.jc('ls') }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Run 'ls' to list files in /] ********************************************************
+    changed: [localhost]
+
+    TASK [Parse the ls output] ****************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "filename": "bin"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "boot"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "dev"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "etc"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "home"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "lib"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "proc"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "root"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "run"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "tmp"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 2.0.0
+
+.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.json_query_filter:
+
+Selecting JSON data: JSON queries
+---------------------------------
+
+To select a single element or a data subset from a complex data structure in JSON format (for example, Ansible facts), use the ``json_query`` filter.  The ``json_query`` filter lets you query a complex JSON structure and iterate over it using a loop structure.
+
+.. note:: You must manually install the **jmespath** dependency on the Ansible controller before using this filter. This filter is built upon **jmespath**, and you can use the same syntax. For examples, see `jmespath examples <http://jmespath.org/examples.html>`_.
+
+Consider this data structure:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    {
+        "domain_definition": {
+            "domain": {
+                "cluster": [
+                    {
+                        "name": "cluster1"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "cluster2"
+                    }
+                ],
+                "server": [
+                    {
+                        "name": "server11",
+                        "cluster": "cluster1",
+                        "port": "8080"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "server12",
+                        "cluster": "cluster1",
+                        "port": "8090"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "server21",
+                        "cluster": "cluster2",
+                        "port": "9080"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "server22",
+                        "cluster": "cluster2",
+                        "port": "9090"
+                    }
+                ],
+                "library": [
+                    {
+                        "name": "lib1",
+                        "target": "cluster1"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "lib2",
+                        "target": "cluster2"
+                    }
+                ]
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+To extract all clusters from this structure, you can use the following query:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all cluster names
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.cluster[*].name') }}"
+
+To extract all server names:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all server names
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[*].name') }}"
+
+To extract ports from cluster1:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
+      vars:
+        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster1'].port"
+
+.. note:: You can use a variable to make the query more readable.
+
+To print out the ports from cluster1 in a comma separated string:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1 as a string
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        msg: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==`cluster1`].port') | join(', ') }}"
+
+.. note:: In the example above, quoting literals using backticks avoids escaping quotes and maintains readability.
+
+You can use YAML `single quote escaping <https://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2534365>`_:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==''cluster1''].port') }}"
+
+.. note:: Escaping single quotes within single quotes in YAML is done by doubling the single quote.
+
+To get a hash map with all ports and names of a cluster:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all server ports and names from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
+      vars:
+        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster2'].{name: name, port: port}"
+
+To extract ports from all clusters with name starting with 'server1':
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
+      vars:
+        server_name_query: "domain.server[?starts_with(name,'server1')].port"
+
+To extract ports from all clusters with name containing 'server1':
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
+      vars:
+        server_name_query: "domain.server[?contains(name,'server1')].port"
+
+.. note:: while using ``starts_with`` and ``contains``, you have to use `` to_json | from_json `` filter for correct parsing of data structure.
+
+Working with Unicode
+---------------------
+
+`Unicode <https://unicode.org/main.html>`_ makes it possible to produce two strings which may be visually equivalent, but are comprised of distinctly different characters/character sequences. To address this ``Unicode`` defines `normalization forms <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ which avoid these distinctions by choosing a unique character sequence for a given visual representation.
+
+You can use the ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter to normalize ``Unicode`` strings within your playbooks.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Compare Unicode representations
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ with_combining_character | community.general.unicode_normalize == without_combining_character }}"
+      vars:
+        with_combining_character: "{{ 'Mayagu\u0308ez' }}"
+        without_combining_character: Mayagüez
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Compare Unicode representations] ********************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": true
+    }
+
+The ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter accepts a keyword argument to select the ``Unicode`` form used to normalize the input string.
+
+:form: One of ``'NFC'`` (default), ``'NFD'``, ``'NFKC'``, or ``'NFKD'``. See the `Unicode reference <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ for more information.
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.7.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst
+++ b/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
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
@@ -1,77 +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
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/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
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst
+++ b/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
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
@@ -1,292 +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
-
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst
+++ b/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
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst
+++ b/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) }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
+++ b/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
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst
+++ b/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.
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst
+++ b/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
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst
+++ b/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
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst
+++ b/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
--- a/galaxy.yml
+++ b/galaxy.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 namespace: community
 name: general
-version: 5.0.2
+version: 4.2.0
 readme: README.md
 authors:
  - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)
--- a/meta/runtime.yml
+++ b/meta/runtime.yml
--- a/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
+++ b/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+./system/iptables_state.py
--- a/plugins/action/shutdown.py
+++ b/plugins/action/shutdown.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+./system/shutdown.py
--- a/plugins/cache/memcached.py
+++ b/plugins/cache/memcached.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ 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:
@@ -176,11 +175,20 @@ class CacheModule(BaseCacheModule):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        connection = ['127.0.0.1:11211']

-        super(CacheModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-        if self.get_option('_uri'):
-            connection = self.get_option('_uri')
-        self._timeout = self.get_option('_timeout')
-        self._prefix = self.get_option('_prefix')
+        try:
+            super(CacheModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+            if self.get_option('_uri'):
+                connection = self.get_option('_uri')
+            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")
--- a/plugins/cache/redis.py
+++ b/plugins/cache/redis.py
@@ -99,13 +99,23 @@ class CacheModule(BaseCacheModule):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        uri = ''

-        super(CacheModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-        if self.get_option('_uri'):
-            uri = self.get_option('_uri')
-        self._timeout = float(self.get_option('_timeout'))
-        self._prefix = self.get_option('_prefix')
-        self._keys_set = self.get_option('_keyset_name')
-        self._sentinel_service_name = self.get_option('_sentinel_service_name')
+        try:
+            super(CacheModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+            if self.get_option('_uri'):
+                uri = self.get_option('_uri')
+            self._timeout = float(self.get_option('_timeout'))
+            self._prefix = self.get_option('_prefix')
+            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'")
--- a/plugins/callback/logstash.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/logstash.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
            version_added: 1.0.0
        default: ansible
      pre_command:
-        description: Executes command before run and its result is added to the C(ansible_pre_command_output) logstash field.
+        description: Executes command before run and result put to ansible_pre_command_output field.
        version_added: 2.0.0
        ini:
          - section: callback_logstash
--- a/plugins/callback/mail.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/mail.py
@@ -11,16 +11,14 @@ name: mail
 type: notification
 short_description: Sends failure events via email
 description:
- This callback will report failures via email.
+- This callback will report failures via email
 author:
 - Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)
 requirements:
 - whitelisting in configuration
 options:
  mta:
-    description:
-        - Mail Transfer Agent, server that accepts SMTP.
-    type: str
+    description: Mail Transfer Agent, server that accepts SMTP
    env:
        - name: SMTPHOST
    ini:
@@ -28,53 +26,39 @@ options:
          key: smtphost
    default: localhost
  mtaport:
-    description:
-        - Mail Transfer Agent Port.
-        - Port at which server SMTP.
-    type: int
+    description: Mail Transfer Agent Port, port at which server SMTP
    ini:
        - section: callback_mail
          key: smtpport
    default: 25
  to:
-    description:
-        - Mail recipient.
-    type: list
-    elements: str
+    description: Mail recipient
    ini:
        - section: callback_mail
          key: to
-    default: [root]
+    default: root
  sender:
-    description:
-        - Mail sender.
-        - Note that this will be required from community.general 6.0.0 on.
-    type: str
+    description: Mail sender
    ini:
        - section: callback_mail
          key: sender
  cc:
-    description:
-        - CC'd recipients.
-    type: list
-    elements: str
+    description: CC'd recipient
    ini:
        - section: callback_mail
          key: cc
  bcc:
-    description:
-        - BCC'd recipients.
-    type: list
-    elements: str
+    description: BCC'd recipient
    ini:
        - section: callback_mail
          key: bcc
+notes:
+- "TODO: expand configuration options now that plugins can leverage Ansible's configuration"
 '''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        smtp.quit()

--- a/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):

        task = tasks_data[task_uuid]

-        if self.ansible_version is None and hasattr(result, '_task_fields') and result._task_fields['args'].get('_ansible_version'):
+        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))
@@ -258,9 +258,8 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
            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)
+                message = self.get_error_message(res)
+                enriched_error_message = self.enrich_error_message(res)

            if host_data.status == 'failed':
                status = Status(status_code=StatusCode.ERROR, description=message)
@@ -320,9 +319,9 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
    @staticmethod
    def url_from_args(args):
        # the order matters
-        url_args = ("url", "api_url", "baseurl", "repo", "server_url", "chart_repo_url", "registry_url", "endpoint", "uri", "updates_url")
+        url_args = ("url", "api_url", "baseurl", "repo", "server_url", "chart_repo_url")
        for arg in url_args:
-            if args is not None and args.get(arg):
+            if args.get(arg):
                return args.get(arg)
        return ""

--- a/plugins/callback/osx_say.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/osx_say.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+say.py
--- a/plugins/callback/say.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/say.py
@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      - In 2.8, this callback has been renamed from C(osx_say) into M(community.general.say).
 '''

+import distutils.spawn
 import platform
 import subprocess
 import os

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


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

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

        # plugin disable itself if say is not present
        # ansible will not call any callback if disabled is set to True
--- a/plugins/callback/syslog_json.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/syslog_json.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    short_description: sends JSON events to syslog
    description:
      - This plugin logs ansible-playbook and ansible runs to a syslog server in JSON format
-      - Before Ansible 2.9 only environment variables were available for configuration
+      - Before 2.9 only environment variables were available for configuration
    options:
      server:
        description: syslog server that will receive the event
@@ -41,16 +41,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        ini:
          - section: callback_syslog_json
            key: syslog_facility
-      setup:
-        description: Log setup tasks.
-        env:
-          - name: ANSIBLE_SYSLOG_SETUP
-        type: bool
-        default: true
-        ini:
-          - section: callback_syslog_json
-            key: syslog_setup
-        version_added: 4.5.0
 '''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-    def v2_playbook_on_not_import_for_host(self, result, missing_file):
-        host = result._host.get_name()
+    def playbook_on_not_import_for_host(self, host, missing_file):
        self.logger.info('%s ansible-command: playbook NOT IMPORTED; host: %s; message: missing file %s', self.hostname, host, missing_file)
--- a/plugins/connection/jail.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/jail.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            - name: ansible_jail_user
 '''

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

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

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

    def list_jails(self):
        p = subprocess.Popen([self.jls_cmd, '-q', 'name'],
--- a/plugins/connection/lxd.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/lxd.py
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 '''

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

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

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

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

        if self._play_context.remote_user is not None and self._play_context.remote_user != 'root':
--- a/plugins/connection/zone.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/zone.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            - name: ansible_zone_host
 '''

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

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

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

    def list_zones(self):
        process = subprocess.Popen([self.zoneadm_cmd, 'list', '-ip'],
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/keycloak.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/keycloak.py
@@ -61,11 +61,4 @@ options:
            - Verify TLS certificates (do not disable this in production).
        type: bool
        default: yes
-
-    connection_timeout:
-        description:
-            - Controls the HTTP connections timeout period (in seconds) to Keycloak API.
-        type: int
-        default: 10
-        version_added: 4.5.0
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/ldap.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/ldap.py
@@ -38,10 +38,8 @@ options:
    version_added: 2.0.0
  server_uri:
    description:
-      - The I(server_uri) parameter may be a comma- or whitespace-separated list of URIs containing only the schema, the host, and the port fields.
+      - A URI to the LDAP server.
      - The default value lets the underlying LDAP client library look for a UNIX domain socket in its default location.
-      - Note that when using multiple URIs you cannot determine to which URI your client gets connected.
-      - For URIs containing additional fields, particularly when using commas, behavior is undefined.
    type: str
    default: ldapi:///
  start_tls:
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/lxca_common.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/lxca_common.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

--- a/plugins/filter/groupby_as_dict.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/groupby_as_dict.py
@@ -5,52 +5,6 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

-DOCUMENTATION = '''
-  name: groupby_as_dict
-  short_description: Transform a sequence of dictionaries to a dictionary where the dictionaries are indexed by an attribute
-  version_added: 3.1.0
-  author: Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)
-  description:
-    - Transform a sequence of dictionaries to a dictionary where the dictionaries are indexed by an attribute.
-  positional: attribute
-  options:
-    _input:
-      description: A list of dictionaries
-      type: list
-      elements: dictionary
-      required: true
-    attribute:
-      description: The attribute to use as the key.
-      type: str
-      required: true
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = '''
- name: Arrange a list of dictionaries as a dictionary of dictionaries
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    msg: "{{ sequence | community.general.groupby_as_dict('key') }}"
-  vars:
-    sequence:
-      - key: value
-        foo: bar
-      - key: other_value
-        baz: bar
-  # Produces the following nested structure:
-  #
-  #  value:
-  #    key: value
-  #    foo: bar
-  #  other_value:
-  #    key: other_value
-  #    baz: bar
-'''
-
-RETURN = '''
-  _value:
-    description: A dictionary containing the dictionaries from the list as values.
-    type: dictionary
-'''
-
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
 from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import Mapping, Sequence

--- a/plugins/filter/hashids_decode.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/hashids_decode.yml
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-DOCUMENTATION:
-  name: hashids_decode
-  short_description: Decodes a sequence of numbers from a YouTube-like hash
-  version_added: 3.0.0
-  author: Andrew Pantuso (@Ajpantuso)
-  description:
-    - Decodes a sequence of numbers from a YouTube-like hash.
-  options:
-    _input:
-      description: A YouTube-like hash.
-      type: string
-      required: true
-    salt:
-      description:
-        - String to use as salt when hashing.
-      type: str
-      default: excel
-    alphabet:
-      description:
-        - String of 16 or more unique characters to produce a hash.
-      type: list
-      elements: str
-    min_length:
-      description:
-        - Minimum length of hash produced.
-      type: integer
-
-EXAMPLES: |
-  - name: Convert hash to list of integers
-    ansible.builtin.debug:
-      msg: "{{ 'o2fXhV' | community.general.hashids_decode }}"
-      # Produces: [1, 2, 3]
-
-RETURN:
-  _value:
-    description: A list of integers.
-    type: list
-    elements: integer
--- a/plugins/filter/hashids_encode.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/hashids_encode.yml
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-DOCUMENTATION:
-  name: hashids_encode
-  short_description: Encodes YouTube-like hashes from a sequence of integers
-  version_added: 3.0.0
-  author: Andrew Pantuso (@Ajpantuso)
-  description:
-    - Encodes YouTube-like hashes from a sequence of integers.
-  options:
-    _input:
-      description: A list of integers.
-      type: list
-      elements: integer
-      required: true
-    salt:
-      description:
-        - String to use as salt when hashing.
-      type: str
-      default: excel
-    alphabet:
-      description:
-        - String of 16 or more unique characters to produce a hash.
-      type: list
-      elements: str
-    min_length:
-      description:
-        - Minimum length of hash produced.
-      type: integer
-
-EXAMPLES: |
-  - name: Convert list of integers to hash
-    ansible.builtin.debug:
-      msg: "{{ [1, 2, 3] | community.general.hashids_encode }}"
-      # Produces: 'o2fXhV'
-
-RETURN:
-  _value:
-    description: A YouTube-like hash.
-    type: string
--- a/plugins/filter/jc.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/jc.py
@@ -21,67 +21,6 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

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

--- a/plugins/filter/json_query.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/json_query.py
@@ -19,107 +19,6 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

-DOCUMENTATION = '''
-  name: json_query
-  short_description: Select a single element or a data subset from a complex data structure
-  description:
-    - This filter lets you query a complex JSON structure and iterate over it using a loop structure.
-  positional: expr
-  options:
-    _input:
-      description:
-        - The JSON data to query.
-      type: any
-      required: true
-    expr:
-      description:
-        - The query expression.
-        - See U(http://jmespath.org/examples.html) for examples.
-      type: string
-      required: true
-  requirements:
-    - jmespath
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = '''
- name: Define data to work on in the examples below
-  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
-    domain_definition:
-      domain:
-        cluster:
-          - name: cluster1
-          - name: cluster2
-        server:
-          - name: server11
-            cluster: cluster1
-            port: '8080'
-          - name: server12
-            cluster: cluster1
-            port: '8090'
-          - name: server21
-            cluster: cluster2
-            port: '9080'
-          - name: server22
-            cluster: cluster2
-            port: '9090'
-        library:
-          - name: lib1
-            target: cluster1
-          - name: lib2
-            target: cluster2
-
- name: Display all cluster names
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    var: item
-  loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.cluster[*].name') }}"
-
- name: Display all server names
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    var: item
-  loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[*].name') }}"
-
- name: Display all ports from cluster1
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    var: item
-  loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
-  vars:
-    server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster1'].port"
-
- name: Display all ports from cluster1 as a string
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    msg: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==`cluster1`].port') | join(', ') }}"
-
- name: Display all ports from cluster1
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    var: item
-  loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==''cluster1''].port') }}"
-
- name: Display all server ports and names from cluster1
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    var: item
-  loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
-  vars:
-    server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster2'].{name: name, port: port}"
-
- name: Display all ports from cluster1
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
-  vars:
-    server_name_query: "domain.server[?starts_with(name,'server1')].port"
-
- name: Display all ports from cluster1
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
-  vars:
-    server_name_query: "domain.server[?contains(name,'server1')].port"
-'''
-
-RETURN = '''
-  _value:
-    description: The result of the query.
-    type: any
-'''
-
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFilterError

 try:
--- a/plugins/filter/list.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/list.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright (c) 2020, Vladimir Botka <vbotka@gmail.com>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFilterError
+from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
+from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import Mapping, Sequence
+from collections import defaultdict
+from operator import itemgetter
+
+
+def lists_mergeby(l1, l2, index):
+    ''' merge lists by attribute index. Example:
+        - debug: msg="{{ l1|community.general.lists_mergeby(l2, 'index')|list }}" '''
+
+    if not isinstance(l1, Sequence):
+        raise AnsibleFilterError('First argument for community.general.lists_mergeby must be list. %s is %s' %
+                                 (l1, type(l1)))
+
+    if not isinstance(l2, Sequence):
+        raise AnsibleFilterError('Second argument for community.general.lists_mergeby must be list. %s is %s' %
+                                 (l2, type(l2)))
+
+    if not isinstance(index, string_types):
+        raise AnsibleFilterError('Third argument for community.general.lists_mergeby must be string. %s is %s' %
+                                 (index, type(index)))
+
+    d = defaultdict(dict)
+    for l in (l1, l2):
+        for elem in l:
+            if not isinstance(elem, Mapping):
+                raise AnsibleFilterError('Elements of list arguments for lists_mergeby must be dictionaries. Found {0!r}.'.format(elem))
+            if index in elem.keys():
+                d[elem[index]].update(elem)
+    return sorted(d.values(), key=itemgetter(index))
+
+
+class FilterModule(object):
+    ''' Ansible list filters '''
+
+    def filters(self):
+        return {
+            'lists_mergeby': lists_mergeby,
+        }
--- a/plugins/filter/lists_mergeby.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/lists_mergeby.py
@@ -1,193 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2020-2022, Vladimir Botka <vbotka@gmail.com>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-DOCUMENTATION = '''
-  name: lists_mergeby
-  short_description: Merge two or more lists of dictionaries by a given attribute
-  version_added: 2.0.0
-  author: Vladimir Botka (@vbotka)
-  description:
-    - Merge two or more lists by attribute I(index). Optional parameters 'recursive' and 'list_merge'
-      control the merging of the lists in values. The function merge_hash from ansible.utils.vars
-      is used. To learn details on how to use the parameters 'recursive' and 'list_merge' see
-      Ansible User's Guide chapter "Using filters to manipulate data" section "Combining
-      hashes/dictionaries".
-  positional: another_list, index
-  options:
-    _input:
-      description: A list of dictionaries.
-      type: list
-      elements: dictionary
-      required: true
-    another_list:
-      description: Another list of dictionaries. This parameter can be specified multiple times.
-      type: list
-      elements: dictionary
-    index:
-      description:
-        - The dictionary key that must be present in every dictionary in every list that is used to
-          merge the lists.
-      type: string
-      required: true
-    recursive:
-      description:
-        - Should the combine recursively merge nested dictionaries (hashes).
-        - "B(Note:) It does not depend on the value of the C(hash_behaviour) setting in C(ansible.cfg)."
-      type: boolean
-      default: false
-    list_merge:
-      description:
-        - Modifies the behaviour when the dictionaries (hashes) to merge contain arrays/lists.
-      type: string
-      default: replace
-      choices:
-        - replace
-        - keep
-        - append
-        - prepend
-        - append_rp
-        - prepend_rp
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = '''
- name: Merge two lists
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    msg: >-
-      {{ list1 | community.general.lists_mergeby(
-                    list2,
-                    'index',
-                    recursive=True,
-                    list_merge='append'
-                 ) }}"
-  vars:
-    list1:
-      - index: a
-        value: 123
-      - index: b
-        value: 42
-    list2:
-      - index: a
-        foo: bar
-      - index: c
-        foo: baz
-  # Produces the following list of dictionaries:
-  #   {
-  #     "index": "a",
-  #     "foo": "bar",
-  #     "value": 123
-  #   },
-  #   {
-  #     "index": "b",
-  #     "value": 42
-  #   },
-  #   {
-  #     "index": "c",
-  #     "foo": "baz"
-  #   }
-'''
-
-RETURN = '''
-  _value:
-    description: The merged list.
-    type: list
-    elements: dictionary
-'''
-
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import Mapping, Sequence
-from ansible.utils.vars import merge_hash
-from ansible.release import __version__ as ansible_version
-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.version import LooseVersion
-
-from collections import defaultdict
-from operator import itemgetter
-
-
-def list_mergeby(x, y, index, recursive=False, list_merge='replace'):
-    ''' Merge 2 lists by attribute 'index'. The function merge_hash from ansible.utils.vars is used.
-        This function is used by the function lists_mergeby.
-    '''
-
-    d = defaultdict(dict)
-    for l in (x, y):
-        for elem in l:
-            if not isinstance(elem, Mapping):
-                msg = "Elements of list arguments for lists_mergeby must be dictionaries. %s is %s"
-                raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (elem, type(elem)))
-            if index in elem.keys():
-                d[elem[index]].update(merge_hash(d[elem[index]], elem, recursive, list_merge))
-    return sorted(d.values(), key=itemgetter(index))
-
-
-def lists_mergeby(*terms, **kwargs):
-    ''' Merge 2 or more lists by attribute 'index'. Optional parameters 'recursive' and 'list_merge'
-        control the merging of the lists in values. The function merge_hash from ansible.utils.vars
-        is used. To learn details on how to use the parameters 'recursive' and 'list_merge' see
-        Ansible User's Guide chapter "Using filters to manipulate data" section "Combining
-        hashes/dictionaries".
-
-        Example:
-        - debug:
-            msg: "{{ list1|
-                     community.general.lists_mergeby(list2,
-                                                     'index',
-                                                     recursive=True,
-                                                     list_merge='append')|
-                     list }}"
-    '''
-
-    recursive = kwargs.pop('recursive', False)
-    list_merge = kwargs.pop('list_merge', 'replace')
-    if kwargs:
-        raise AnsibleFilterError("'recursive' and 'list_merge' are the only valid keyword arguments.")
-    if len(terms) < 2:
-        raise AnsibleFilterError("At least one list and index are needed.")
-
-    # allow the user to do `[list1, list2, ...] | lists_mergeby('index')`
-    flat_list = []
-    for sublist in terms[:-1]:
-        if not isinstance(sublist, Sequence):
-            msg = ("All arguments before the argument index for community.general.lists_mergeby "
-                   "must be lists. %s is %s")
-            raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (sublist, type(sublist)))
-        if len(sublist) > 0:
-            if all(isinstance(l, Sequence) for l in sublist):
-                for item in sublist:
-                    flat_list.append(item)
-            else:
-                flat_list.append(sublist)
-    lists = flat_list
-
-    if not lists:
-        return []
-
-    if len(lists) == 1:
-        return lists[0]
-
-    index = terms[-1]
-
-    if not isinstance(index, string_types):
-        msg = ("First argument after the lists for community.general.lists_mergeby must be string. "
-               "%s is %s")
-        raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (index, type(index)))
-
-    high_to_low_prio_list_iterator = reversed(lists)
-    result = next(high_to_low_prio_list_iterator)
-    for list in high_to_low_prio_list_iterator:
-        result = list_mergeby(list, result, index, recursive, list_merge)
-
-    return result
-
-
-class FilterModule(object):
-    ''' Ansible list filters '''
-
-    def filters(self):
-        return {
-            'lists_mergeby': lists_mergeby,
-        }
--- a/plugins/filter/path_join_shim.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/path_join_shim.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright: (c) 2020-2021, Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
+# 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
+
+
+import os.path
+
+
+def path_join(list):
+    '''Join list of paths.
+
+    This is a minimal shim for ansible.builtin.path_join included in ansible-base 2.10.
+    This should only be called by Ansible 2.9 or earlier. See meta/runtime.yml for details.
+    '''
+    return os.path.join(*list)
+
+
+class FilterModule(object):
+    '''Ansible jinja2 filters'''
+
+    def filters(self):
+        return {
+            'path_join': path_join,
+        }
--- a/plugins/filter/random_mac.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/random_mac.py
@@ -20,41 +20,6 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

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

--- a/plugins/filter/time.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/time.py
@@ -46,11 +46,6 @@ def multiply(factors):

 def to_time_unit(human_time, unit='ms', **kwargs):
    ''' Return a time unit from a human readable string '''
-
-    # No need to handle 0
-    if human_time == "0":
-        return 0
-
    unit_to_short_form = UNIT_TO_SHORT_FORM
    unit_factors = UNIT_FACTORS

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

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

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

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


 def version_sort(value, reverse=False):
--- a/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py
@@ -40,25 +40,13 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        type: boolean
        default: no
      exclude_profiles:
-        description:
-          - Profiles to exclude from inventory.
-          - Ignored if I(include_profiles) is specified.
+        description: Profiles to exclude from inventory
        type: list
        default: []
        elements: str
-      include_profiles:
-        description:
-          - Profiles to include from inventory.
-          - If specified, all other profiles will be excluded.
-          - I(exclude_profiles) is ignored if I(include_profiles) is specified.
-        type: list
-        default: []
-        elements: str
-        version_added: 4.4.0
      group_by:
        description: Keys to group hosts by
        type: list
-        elements: string
        default: [ 'mgmt_classes', 'owners', 'status' ]
      group:
        description: Group to place all hosts into
@@ -80,10 +68,12 @@ user: ansible-tester
 password: secure
 '''

+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 import socket

 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import MutableMapping
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable, to_safe_group_name

@@ -105,9 +95,18 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
    NAME = 'community.general.cobbler'

    def __init__(self):
+
        super(InventoryModule, self).__init__()
-        self.cache_key = None
+
+        # from config
+        self.cobbler_url = None
+        self.exclude_profiles = []  # A list of profiles to exclude
+
        self.connection = None
+        self.token = None
+
+        self.cache_key = None
+        self.use_cache = None

    def verify_file(self, path):
        valid = False
@@ -179,12 +178,6 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
            self.inventory.add_child(group_name, child)
        return group_name

-    def _exclude_profile(self, profile):
-        if self.include_profiles:
-            return profile not in self.include_profiles
-        else:
-            return profile in self.exclude_profiles
-
    def parse(self, inventory, loader, path, cache=True):

        super(InventoryModule, self).parse(inventory, loader, path)
@@ -198,16 +191,15 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
        self.use_cache = cache and self.get_option('cache')

        self.exclude_profiles = self.get_option('exclude_profiles')
-        self.include_profiles = self.get_option('include_profiles')
        self.group_by = self.get_option('group_by')

        for profile in self._get_profiles():
            if profile['parent']:
                self.display.vvvv('Processing profile %s with parent %s\n' % (profile['name'], profile['parent']))
-                if not self._exclude_profile(profile['parent']):
+                if profile['parent'] not in self.exclude_profiles:
                    parent_group_name = self._add_safe_group_name(profile['parent'])
                    self.display.vvvv('Added profile parent group %s\n' % parent_group_name)
-                    if not self._exclude_profile(profile['name']):
+                    if profile['name'] not in self.exclude_profiles:
                        group_name = self._add_safe_group_name(profile['name'])
                        self.display.vvvv('Added profile group %s\n' % group_name)
                        self.inventory.add_child(parent_group_name, group_name)
@@ -219,7 +211,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
                while i < len(profile_elements) - 1:
                    profile_group = '-'.join(profile_elements[0:i + 1])
                    profile_group_child = '-'.join(profile_elements[0:i + 2])
-                    if self._exclude_profile(profile_group):
+                    if profile_group in self.exclude_profiles:
                        self.display.vvvv('Excluding profile %s\n' % profile_group)
                        break
                    group_name = self._add_safe_group_name(profile_group)
@@ -240,7 +232,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
            hostname = host['hostname']  # None
            interfaces = host['interfaces']

-            if self._exclude_profile(host['profile']):
+            if host['profile'] in self.exclude_profiles:
                self.display.vvvv('Excluding host %s in profile %s\n' % (host['name'], host['profile']))
                continue

--- a/plugins/inventory/gitlab_runners.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/gitlab_runners.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
                version_added: 1.0.0
            type: str
            required: true
+            default: https://gitlab.com
        api_token:
            description: GitLab token for logging in.
            env:
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More