Release 4.0.2.

(cherry picked from commit bf7a954f00)

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

.azure-pipelines/README.md

@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--->
-
 ## Azure Pipelines Configuration
 
 Please see the [Documentation](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Testing:-Azure-Pipelines) for more information.

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 trigger:
   batch: true
   branches:
@@ -29,14 +24,14 @@ schedules:
     always: true
     branches:
       include:
-        - stable-6
-        - stable-5
+        - stable-2
+        - stable-3
   - cron: 0 11 * * 0
     displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
     always: true
     branches:
       include:
-        - stable-4
+        - stable-1
 
 variables:
   - name: checkoutPath
@@ -53,7 +48,7 @@ variables:
 resources:
   containers:
     - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:3.0.0
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:1.9.0
 
 pool: Standard
 
@@ -73,32 +68,6 @@ stages:
             - test: 3
             - test: 4
             - test: extra
-  - stage: Sanity_2_14
-    displayName: Sanity 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.14/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
-  - 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: []
@@ -125,6 +94,32 @@ 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
@@ -142,29 +137,6 @@ stages:
             - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
             - test: '3.10'
-            - test: '3.11'
-  - stage: Units_2_14
-    displayName: Units 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.14/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.9
-  - 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: 3.8
   - stage: Units_2_12
     displayName: Units 2.12
     dependsOn: []
@@ -175,7 +147,12 @@ 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: []
@@ -185,28 +162,41 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: 2.11/units/{0}/1
           targets:
+            - test: 2.6
             - test: 2.7
             - test: 3.5
-
-## Remote
-  - stage: Remote_devel_extra_vms
-    displayName: Remote devel extra VMs
+            - 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:
-          testFormat: devel/{0}
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/units/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.16
-              test: alpine/3.16
-            # - name: Fedora 36
-            #   test: fedora/36
-            # - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-            #   test: ubuntu/20.04
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu/22.04
-          groups:
-            - vm
+            - 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
     displayName: Remote devel
     dependsOn: []
@@ -215,46 +205,16 @@ 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 13.1
-              test: freebsd/13.1
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_14
-    displayName: Remote 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.14/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: RHEL 9.0
-              test: rhel/9.0
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.3
-              test: freebsd/12.3
-          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: RHEL 8.4
+              test: rhel/8.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+              test: freebsd/13.0
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
@@ -276,7 +236,6 @@ stages:
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
-            - 3
   - stage: Remote_2_11
     displayName: Remote 2.11
     dependsOn: []
@@ -289,10 +248,43 @@ stages:
               test: rhel/7.9
             - name: RHEL 8.3
               test: rhel/8.3
+            - 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
@@ -305,48 +297,18 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - name: CentOS 7
               test: centos7
-            - 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_14
-    displayName: Docker 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.14/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
-          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
@@ -361,10 +323,14 @@ 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
@@ -377,120 +343,125 @@ 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-stream8/3.9
+            - 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
 
-### Generic
-  - stage: Generic_devel
-    displayName: Generic devel
+### Cloud
+  - stage: Cloud_devel
+    displayName: Cloud devel
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: devel/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: devel/cloud/{0}/1
           targets:
             - test: 2.7
-            - test: '3.11'
-  - stage: Generic_2_14
-    displayName: Generic 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.14/generic/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: '3.10'
-  - stage: Generic_2_13
-    displayName: Generic 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.13/generic/{0}/1
-          targets:
             - test: 3.9
-  - stage: Generic_2_12
-    displayName: Generic 2.12
+  - stage: Cloud_2_12
+    displayName: Cloud 2.12
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.12/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.12/cloud/{0}/1
           targets:
             - test: 3.8
-  - stage: Generic_2_11
-    displayName: Generic 2.11
+  - stage: Cloud_2_11
+    displayName: Cloud 2.11
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.11/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.11/cloud/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - 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
-            - test: 3.5
-
   - stage: Summary
     condition: succeededOrFailed()
     dependsOn:
       - Sanity_devel
+      - Sanity_2_9
+      - Sanity_2_10
       - Sanity_2_11
       - Sanity_2_12
-      - Sanity_2_13
-      - Sanity_2_14
       - Units_devel
+      - Units_2_9
+      - Units_2_10
       - Units_2_11
       - Units_2_12
-      - Units_2_13
-      - Units_2_14
-      - Remote_devel_extra_vms
       - Remote_devel
+      - Remote_2_9
+      - Remote_2_10
       - Remote_2_11
       - Remote_2_12
-      - Remote_2_13
-      - Remote_2_14
       - Docker_devel
+      - Docker_2_9
+      - Docker_2_10
       - Docker_2_11
       - Docker_2_12
-      - Docker_2_13
-      - Docker_2_14
-      - Docker_community_devel
-      - Generic_devel
-      - Generic_2_11
-      - Generic_2_12
-      - Generic_2_13
-      - Generic_2_14
+      - Cloud_devel
+      - Cloud_2_9
+      - Cloud_2_10
+      - Cloud_2_11
+      - Cloud_2_12
     jobs:
       - template: templates/coverage.yml

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

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Aggregate code coverage results for later processing.
 
 set -o pipefail -eu

.azure-pipelines/scripts/combine-coverage.py

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 """
 Combine coverage data from multiple jobs, keeping the data only from the most recent attempt from each job.
 Coverage artifacts must be named using the format: "Coverage $(System.JobAttempt) {StableUniqueNameForEachJob}"

.azure-pipelines/scripts/process-results.sh

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Check the test results and set variables for use in later steps.
 
 set -o pipefail -eu

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

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 """
 Upload code coverage reports to codecov.io.
 Multiple coverage files from multiple languages are accepted and aggregated after upload.

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

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Generate code coverage reports for uploading to Azure Pipelines and codecov.io.
 
 set -o pipefail -eu

.azure-pipelines/scripts/run-tests.sh

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

.azure-pipelines/scripts/time-command.py

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 """Prepends a relative timestamp to each input line from stdin and writes it to stdout."""
 
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)

.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # This template adds a job for processing code coverage data.
 # It will upload results to Azure Pipelines and codecov.io.
 # Use it from a job stage that completes after all other jobs have completed.

.azure-pipelines/templates/matrix.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # This template uses the provided targets and optional groups to generate a matrix which is then passed to the test template.
 # If this matrix template does not provide the required functionality, consider using the test template directly instead.
 

.azure-pipelines/templates/test.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # This template uses the provided list of jobs to create test one or more test jobs.
 # It can be used directly if needed, or through the matrix template.
 

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: Bug report
 description: Create a report to help us improve
 
@@ -109,7 +105,7 @@ body:
   attributes:
     label: Steps to Reproduce
     description: |
-      Describe exactly how to reproduce the problem, using a minimal test-case. It would *really* help us understand your problem if you could also passed any playbooks, configs and commands you used.
+      Describe exactly how to reproduce the problem, using a minimal test-case. It would *really* help us understand your problem if you could also pased any playbooks, configs and commands you used.
 
       **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
     value: |

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Ref: https://help.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository#configuring-the-template-chooser
 blank_issues_enabled: false  # default: true
 contact_links:

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: Documentation Report
 description: Ask us about docs
 # NOTE: issue body is enabled to allow screenshots

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: Feature request
 description: Suggest an idea for this project
 

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 version: 2
 updates:
   - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
     directory: "/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "weekly"
+    interval:
+      schedule: "weekly"

.github/patchback.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 backport_branch_prefix: patchback/backports/
 backport_label_prefix: backport-
 target_branch_prefix: stable-

.github/settings.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # DO NOT MODIFY
 
 # Settings: https://probot.github.io/apps/settings/

.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml

@@ -1,29 +1,17 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: "Code scanning - action"
 
 on:
   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.
@@ -36,7 +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
@@ -44,7 +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
@@ -58,4 +46,4 @@ jobs:
     #   make release
 
     - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v1

.github/workflows/reuse.yml

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-name: Verify REUSE
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [main]
-  pull_request_target:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    branches: [main]
-  # Run CI once per day (at 07:30 UTC)
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '30 7 * * *'
-
-jobs:
-  check:
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || '' }}
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          pip install reuse
-
-      - name: Check REUSE compliance
-        run: |
-          reuse lint

.gitignore

@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
-# 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
@@ -74,19 +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 ###
 
@@ -102,39 +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
@@ -199,9 +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
@@ -215,13 +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
@@ -304,13 +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.
@@ -319,22 +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
@@ -376,13 +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]
@@ -444,8 +381,6 @@ tags
 
 # Cursive Clojure plugin
 
-# SonarLint plugin
-
 # Crashlytics plugin (for Android Studio and IntelliJ)
 
 # Editor-based Rest Client
@@ -508,7 +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
-
-# Integration tests cloud configs
-tests/integration/cloud-config-*.ini
+# End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-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)$

.reuse/dep5

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
-
-Files: changelogs/fragments/*
-Copyright: Ansible Project
-License: GPL-3.0-or-later

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -4,412 +4,551 @@ Community General Release Notes
 
 .. contents:: Topics
 
-This changelog describes changes after version 5.0.0.
+This changelog describes changes after version 3.0.0.
 
-v6.2.0
+v4.0.2
 ======
 
 Release Summary
 ---------------
 
-Regular bugfix and feature release.
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- opkg - allow installing a package in a certain version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5688).
-- proxmox - added new module parameter ``tags`` for use with PVE 7+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5714).
-- puppet - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` for executing ``puppet`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5612).
-- redhat_subscription - add a ``server_proxy_scheme`` parameter to configure the scheme for the proxy server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5662).
-- ssh_config - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5720).
-- sudoers - adds ``host`` parameter for setting hostname restrictions in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5702).
+Bugfix release for today's Ansible 5.0.0 beta 2.
 
 Deprecated Features
 -------------------
 
-- manageiq_policies - deprecate ``state=list`` in favour of using ``community.general.manageiq_policies_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5721).
-- rax - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_cbs - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_cbs_attachments - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_cdb - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_cdb_database - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_cdb_user - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_clb - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_clb_nodes - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_clb_ssl - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_dns - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_dns_record - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_facts - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_files - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_files_objects - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_identity - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_keypair - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_meta - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_mon_alarm - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_mon_check - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_mon_entity - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_mon_notification - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_mon_notification_plan - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_network - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_queue - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_scaling_group - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
-- rax_scaling_policy - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- 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
 --------
 
-- ansible_galaxy_install - set default to raise exception if command's return code is different from zero (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5680).
-- ansible_galaxy_install - try ``C.UTF-8`` and then fall back to ``en_US.UTF-8`` before failing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5680).
-- gitlab_group_variables - fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5667).
-- gitlab_project_variables - fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5667).
-- lxc_container - fix the arguments of the lxc command which broke the creation and cloning of containers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5578).
-- opkg - fix issue that ``force=reinstall`` would not reinstall an existing package (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5705).
-- proxmox_disk - fixed possible issues with redundant ``vmid`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
-- proxmox_nic - fixed possible issues with redundant ``vmid`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
-- unixy callback plugin - fix typo introduced when updating to use Ansible's configuration manager for handling options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5600).
+- 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).
 
-v6.1.0
+v4.0.1
 ======
 
 Release Summary
 ---------------
 
-Regular bugfix and feature release.
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- cmd_runner module utils - ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool()`` can now take an extra parameter to format when value is false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5647).
-- gconftool2 - refactor using ``ModuleHelper`` and ``CmdRunner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5545).
-- java_certs - add more detailed error output when extracting certificate from PKCS12 fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5550).
-- jenkins_plugin - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5565).
-- lxd_project - refactored code out to module utils to clear sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5549).
-- nmap inventory plugin - add new options ``udp_scan``, ``icmp_timestamp``, and ``dns_resolve`` for different types of scans (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5566).
-- rax_scaling_group - refactored out code to the ``rax`` module utils to clear the sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5563).
-- redfish_command - add ``PerformRequestedOperations`` command to perform any operations necessary to continue the update flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
-- redfish_command - add ``update_apply_time`` to ``SimpleUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3910).
-- redfish_command - add ``update_status`` to output of ``SimpleUpdate`` command to allow a user monitor the update in progress (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
-- redfish_info - add ``GetUpdateStatus`` command to check the progress of a previous update request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
-- redfish_utils module utils - added PUT (``put_request()``) functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5490).
-- slack - add option ``prepend_hash`` which allows to control whether a ``#`` is prepended to ``channel_id``. The current behavior (value ``auto``) is to prepend ``#`` unless some specific prefixes are found. That list of prefixes is incomplete, and there does not seem to exist a documented condition on when exactly ``#`` must not be prepended. We recommend to explicitly set ``prepend_hash=always`` or ``prepend_hash=never`` to avoid any ambiguity (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5629).
-- spotinst_aws_elastigroup - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5553).
-- ssh_config - add ``host_key_algorithms`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5605).
-- udm_share - added ``elements`` attribute to ``list`` type parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5557).
-- udm_user - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5559).
-
-Deprecated Features
--------------------
-
-- The ``sap`` modules ``sapcar_extract``, ``sap_task_list_execute``, and ``hana_query``, will be removed from this collection in community.general 7.0.0 and replaced with redirects to ``community.sap_libs``. If you want to continue using these modules, make sure to also install ``community.sap_libs`` (it is part of the Ansible package) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5614).
+Bugfix release for today's Ansible 5.0.0 beta 1.
 
 Bugfixes
 --------
 
-- chroot connection plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` to vars under ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5570).
-- cmd_runner module utils - fixed bug when handling default cases in ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_map()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
-- cmd_runner module utils - formatting arguments ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_fixed()`` was expecting an non-existing argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
-- keycloak_client_rolemapping - calculate ``proposed`` and ``after`` return values properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
-- keycloak_client_rolemapping - remove only listed mappings with ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - fix bug while templating when using templates for the ``url``, ``user``, ``password``, ``token_id``, or ``token_secret`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5640).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - handle tags delimited by semicolon instead of comma, which happens from Proxmox 7.3 on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5602).
-- redhat_subscription - do not ignore ``consumer_name`` and other variables if ``activationkey`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3486, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5627).
-- redhat_subscription - do not pass arguments to ``subscription-manager register`` for things already configured; now a specified ``rhsm_baseurl`` is properly set for subscription-manager (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5583).
-- unixy callback plugin - fix plugin to work with ansible-core 2.14 by using Ansible's configuration manager for handling options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5600).
-- vdo - now uses ``yaml.safe_load()`` to parse command output instead of the deprecated ``yaml.load()`` which is potentially unsafe. Using ``yaml.load()`` without explicitely setting a ``Loader=`` is also an error in pyYAML 6.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5632).
-- vmadm - fix for index out of range error in ``get_vm_uuid`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5628).
+- 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).
 
-New Modules
------------
-
-- gitlab_project_badge - Manage project badges on GitLab Server
-- keycloak_clientsecret_info - Retrieve client secret via Keycloak API
-- keycloak_clientsecret_regenerate - Regenerate Keycloak client secret via Keycloak API
-
-v6.0.1
+v4.0.0
 ======
 
 Release Summary
 ---------------
 
-Bugfix release for Ansible 7.0.0.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- dependent lookup plugin - avoid warning on deprecated parameter for ``Templar.template()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5543).
-- jenkins_build - fix the logical flaw when deleting a Jenkins build (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5514).
-- one_vm - avoid splitting labels that are ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5489).
-- onepassword_raw - add missing parameter to plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5506).
-- proxmox_disk - avoid duplicate ``vmid`` reference (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5493).
-
-v6.0.0
-======
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-New major release of community.general with lots of bugfixes, new features, some removed deprecated features, and some other breaking changes. Please check the coresponding sections of the changelog for more details.
+This is release 4.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2021-11-02.
 
 Major Changes
 -------------
 
-- The internal structure of the collection was changed for modules and action plugins. These no longer live in a directory hierarchy ordered by topic, but instead are now all in a single (flat) directory. This has no impact on users *assuming they did not use internal FQCNs*. These will still work, but result in deprecation warnings. They were never officially supported and thus the redirects are kept as a courtsey, and this is not labelled as a breaking change. Note that for example the Ansible VScode plugin started recommending these internal names. If you followed its recommendation, you will now have to change back to the short names to avoid deprecation warnings, and potential errors in the future as these redirects will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5461).
-- newrelic_deployment - removed New Relic v1 API, added support for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).
+- 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
 -------------
 
-- Added MIT license as ``LICENSES/MIT.txt`` for tests/unit/plugins/modules/packaging/language/test_gem.py (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5065).
-- All software licenses are now in the ``LICENSES/`` directory of the collection root (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5065, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5079, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5080, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5083, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5087, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5095, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5098, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5106).
-- ModuleHelper module utils - added property ``verbosity`` to base class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5035).
-- ModuleHelper module utils - improved ``ModuleHelperException``, using ``to_native()`` for the exception message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4755).
-- The collection repository conforms to the `REUSE specification <https://reuse.software/spec/>`__ except for the changelog fragments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5138).
-- ali_instance - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5240).
-- ali_instance_info - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5240).
-- alternatives - add ``state=absent`` to be able to remove an alternative (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4654).
-- alternatives - add ``subcommands`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4654).
-- ansible_galaxy_install - minor refactoring using latest ``ModuleHelper`` updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4752).
-- ansible_galaxy_install - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``ansible-galaxy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5477).
-- apk - add ``world`` parameter for supporting a custom world file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4976).
-- bitwarden lookup plugin - add option ``search`` to search for other attributes than name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5297).
-- cartesian lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- cmd_runner module util - added parameters ``check_mode_skip`` and ``check_mode_return`` to ``CmdRunner.context()``, so that the command is not executed when ``check_mode=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4736).
-- cmd_runner module utils - add ``__call__`` method to invoke context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4791).
-- consul - adds ``ttl`` parameter for session  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4996).
-- consul - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5367).
-- consul_session - adds ``token`` parameter for session (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5193).
-- cpanm - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``cpanm`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5485).
-- cpanm - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
-- credstash lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- dependent lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- dig lookup plugin - add option ``fail_on_error`` to allow stopping execution on lookup failures (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4973).
-- dig lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options. All documented options can now also be passed as lookup parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- dnstxt lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- filetree lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- flattened lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- gitlab module util - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_branch - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_deploy_key - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_group - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_group_members - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_group_variable - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_hook - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_hook - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5271).
-- gitlab_project - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_project_members - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_project_variable - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_protected_branch - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_runner - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- gitlab_user - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
-- hiera lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options. The Hiera executable and config file can now also be passed as lookup parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- homebrew, homebrew_tap - added Homebrew on Linux path to defaults (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5241).
-- hponcfg - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``hponcfg`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5483).
-- keycloak_* modules - add ``http_agent`` parameter with default value ``Ansible`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5023).
-- keyring lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- lastpass - use config manager for handling plugin options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5022).
-- ldap_attrs - allow for DNs to have ``{x}`` prefix on first RDN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/977, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5450).
-- linode inventory plugin - simplify option handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5438).
-- listen_ports_facts - add new ``include_non_listening`` option which adds ``-a`` option to ``netstat`` and ``ss``. This shows both listening and non-listening (for TCP this means established connections) sockets, and returns ``state`` and ``foreign_address`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4762, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4953).
-- lmdb_kv lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- lxc_container - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5358).
-- machinectl become plugin - can now be used with a password from another user than root, if a polkit rule is present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4849).
-- machinectl become plugin - combine the success command when building the become command to be consistent with other become plugins (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5287).
-- manifold lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- maven_artifact - add a new ``unredirected_headers`` option that can be used with ansible-core 2.12 and above. The default value is to not use ``Authorization`` and ``Cookie`` headers on redirects for security reasons. With ansible-core 2.11, all headers are still passed on for redirects (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4812).
-- mksysb - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``mksysb`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5484).
-- mksysb - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
-- nagios - minor refactoring on parameter validation for different actions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5239).
-- netcup_dnsapi - add ``timeout`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5301).
-- nmcli - add ``transport_mode`` configuration for Infiniband devices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5361).
-- nmcli - add bond option ``xmit_hash_policy`` to bond options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5148).
-- nmcli - adds ``vpn`` type and parameter for supporting VPN with service type L2TP and PPTP (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4746).
-- nmcli - honor IP options for VPNs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5228).
-- onepassword - support version 2 of the OnePassword CLI (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4728)
-- opentelemetry callback plugin - allow configuring opentelementry callback via config file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4916).
-- opentelemetry callback plugin - send logs. This can be disabled by setting ``disable_logs=false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4175).
-- pacman - added parameters ``reason`` and ``reason_for`` to set/change the install reason of packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4956).
-- passwordstore lookup plugin - allow options to be passed lookup options instead of being part of the term strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5444).
-- passwordstore lookup plugin - allow using alternative password managers by detecting wrapper scripts, allow explicit configuration of pass and gopass backends (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4766).
-- passwordstore lookup plugin - improve error messages to include stderr (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5436)
-- pipx - added state ``latest`` to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5105).
-- pipx - changed implementation to use ``cmd_runner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5085).
-- pipx - module fails faster when ``name`` is missing for states ``upgrade`` and ``reinstall`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5100).
-- pipx - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
-- pipx module utils - created new module util ``pipx`` providing a ``cmd_runner`` specific for the ``pipx`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5085).
-- portage - add knobs for Portage's ``--backtrack`` and ``--with-bdeps`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5349).
-- portage - use Portage's python module instead of calling gentoolkit-provided program in shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5349).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - added new flag ``qemu_extended_statuses`` and new groups ``<group_prefix>prelaunch``, ``<group_prefix>paused``. They will be populated only when ``want_facts=true``, ``qemu_extended_statuses=true`` and only for ``QEMU`` machines (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4723).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - simplify option handling code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5437).
-- proxmox module utils, the proxmox* modules - add ``api_task_ok`` helper to standardize API task status checks across all proxmox modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5274).
-- proxmox_kvm - allow ``agent`` argument to be a string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5107).
-- proxmox_snap - add ``unbind`` param to support snapshotting containers with configured mountpoints (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5274).
-- puppet - adds ``confdir`` parameter to configure a custom confir location (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4740).
-- redfish - added new command GetVirtualMedia, VirtualMediaInsert and VirtualMediaEject to Systems category due to Redfish spec changes the virtualMedia resource location from Manager to System (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5124).
-- redfish_config - add ``SetSessionService`` to set default session timeout policy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5008).
-- redfish_info - add ``GetManagerInventory`` to report list of Manager inventory information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4899).
-- seport - added new argument ``local`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5203)
-- snap - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
-- sudoers - will attempt to validate the proposed sudoers rule using visudo if available, optionally skipped, or required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4794, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4745).
-- terraform - adds capability to handle complex variable structures for ``variables`` parameter in the module. This must be enabled with the new ``complex_vars`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4797).
-- terraform - run ``terraform init`` with ``-no-color`` not to mess up the stdout of the task (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5147).
-- wdc_redfish_command - add ``IndicatorLedOn`` and ``IndicatorLedOff`` commands for ``Chassis`` category (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5059).
-- wdc_redfish_command - add ``PowerModeLow`` and ``PowerModeNormal`` commands for ``Chassis`` category (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5145).
-- xfconf - add ``stdout``, ``stderr`` and ``cmd`` to the module results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5037).
-- xfconf - changed implementation to use ``cmd_runner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
-- xfconf - use ``do_raise()`` instead of defining custom exception class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4975).
-- xfconf - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
-- xfconf module utils - created new module util ``xfconf`` providing a ``cmd_runner`` specific for ``xfconf`` modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
-- xfconf_info - changed implementation to use ``cmd_runner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
-- xfconf_info - use ``do_raise()`` instead of defining custom exception class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4975).
-- znode - possibility to use ZooKeeper ACL authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5306).
+- 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
 --------------------------------
 
-- newrelic_deployment - ``revision`` is required for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).
-- scaleway_container_registry_info - no longer replace ``secret_environment_variables`` in the output by ``SENSITIVE_VALUE`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5497).
+- 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
 -------------------
 
-- ArgFormat module utils - deprecated along ``CmdMixin``, in favor of the ``cmd_runner_fmt`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
-- CmdMixin module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
-- CmdModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
-- CmdStateModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
-- cmd_runner module utils - deprecated ``fmt`` in favour of ``cmd_runner_fmt`` as the parameter format object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4777).
-- django_manage - support for Django releases older than 4.1 has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400).
-- django_manage - support for the commands ``cleanup``, ``syncdb`` and ``validate`` that have been deprecated in Django long time ago will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400).
-- django_manage - the behavior of "creating the virtual environment when missing" is being deprecated and will be removed in community.general version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5405).
-- gconftool2 - deprecates ``state=get`` in favor of using the module ``gconftool2_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4778).
-- lxc_container - the module will no longer make any effort to support Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5304).
-- newrelic_deployment - ``appname`` and ``environment`` are no longer valid options in the v2 API. They will be removed in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).
-- proxmox - deprecated the current ``unprivileged`` default value, will be changed to ``true`` in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/pull/5224).
-- xfconf - deprecated parameter ``disable_facts``, as since version 4.0.0 it only allows value ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4520).
+- 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)
 ----------------------------------------
 
-- bitbucket* modules - ``username`` is no longer an alias of ``workspace``, but of ``user`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
-- gem - the default of the ``norc`` option changed from ``false`` to ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
-- gitlab_group_members - ``gitlab_group`` must now always contain the full path, and no longer just the name or path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
-- keycloak_authentication - the return value ``flow`` has been removed. Use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
-- keycloak_group - the return value ``group`` has been removed. Use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
-- lxd_container - the default of the ``ignore_volatile_options`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
-- mail callback plugin - the ``sender`` option is now required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
-- module_helper module utils - remove the ``VarDict`` attribute from ``ModuleHelper``. Import ``VarDict`` from ``ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.vars`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - the default of the ``want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
-- vmadm - the ``debug`` option has been removed. It was not used anyway (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- 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
 --------
 
-- Include ``PSF-license.txt`` file for ``plugins/module_utils/_mount.py``.
-- Include ``simplified_bsd.txt`` license file for various module utils, the ``lxca_common`` docs fragment, and the ``utm_utils`` unit tests.
-- alternatives - do not set the priority if the priority was not set by the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4810).
-- alternatives - only pass subcommands when they are specified as module arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4803, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4804, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4836).
-- alternatives - when ``subcommands`` is specified, ``link`` must be given for every subcommand. This was already mentioned in the documentation, but not enforced by the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4836).
-- apache2_mod_proxy - avoid crash when reporting inability to parse balancer_member_page HTML caused by using an undefined variable in the error message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
-- archive - avoid crash when ``lzma`` is not present and ``format`` is not ``xz`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5393).
-- cmd_runner module utils - fix bug caused by using the ``command`` variable instead of ``self.command`` when looking for binary path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4903).
-- consul - fixed bug introduced in PR 4590 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4680).
-- credstash lookup plugin - pass plugin options to credstash for all terms, not just for the first (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
-- dig lookup plugin - add option to return empty result without empty strings, and return empty list instead of ``NXDOMAIN`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5439, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5428).
-- dig lookup plugin - fix evaluation of falsy values for boolean parameters ``fail_on_error`` and ``retry_servfail`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5129).
-- dnsimple_info - correctly report missing library as ``requests`` and not ``another_library`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
-- dnstxt lookup plugin - add option to return empty result without empty strings, and return empty list instead of ``NXDOMAIN`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5457, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5428).
-- dsv lookup plugin - do not ignore the ``tld`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4911).
-- 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).
-- funcd connection plugin - fix signature of ``exec_command`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
-- ini_file - minor refactor fixing a python lint error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5307).
-- iso_create - the module somtimes failed to add folders for Joliet and UDF formats (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5275).
-- keycloak_realm - fix default groups and roles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4241).
-- keyring_info - fix the result from the keyring library never getting returned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4964).
-- ldap_attrs - fix bug which caused a ``Bad search filter`` error. The error was occuring when the ldap attribute value contained special characters such as ``(`` or ``*`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5434, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5435).
-- ldap_attrs - fix ordering issue by ignoring the ``{x}`` prefix on attribute values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/977, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5385).
-- listen_ports_facts - removed leftover ``EnvironmentError`` . The ``else`` clause had a wrong indentation. The check is now handled in the ``split_pid_name`` function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5202).
-- locale_gen - fix support for Ubuntu (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5281).
-- lxc_container - the module has been updated to support Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5304).
-- lxd connection plugin - fix incorrect ``inventory_hostname`` in ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4886).
-- manageiq_alert_profiles - avoid crash when reporting unknown profile caused by trying to return an undefined variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
-- nmcli - avoid changed status for most cases with VPN connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5126).
-- nmcli - fix error caused by adding undefined module arguments for list options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4373, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4813).
-- nmcli - fix error when setting previously unset MAC address, ``gsm.apn`` or ``vpn.data``: current values were being normalized without checking if they might be ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5291).
-- nmcli - fix int options idempotence (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4998).
-- nsupdate - compatibility with NS records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5112).
-- nsupdate - fix silent failures when updating ``NS`` entries from Bind9 managed DNS zones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4657).
-- opentelemetry callback plugin - support opentelemetry-api 1.13.0 that removed support for ``_time_ns`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5342).
-- osx_defaults - no longer expand ``~`` in ``value`` to the user's home directory, or expand environment variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5234, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5243).
-- packet_ip_subnet - fix error reporting in case of invalid CIDR prefix lengths (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
-- pacman - fixed name resolution of URL packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4959).
-- passwordstore lookup plugin - fix ``returnall`` for gopass (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5027).
-- passwordstore lookup plugin - fix password store path detection for gopass (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4955).
-- pfexec become plugin - remove superflous quotes preventing exe wrap from working as expected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3671, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3889).
-- pip_package_info - remove usage of global variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
-- pkgng - fix case when ``pkg`` fails when trying to upgrade all packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5363).
-- proxmox - fix error handling when getting VM by name when ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4945).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - fix crash when ``enabled=1`` is used in agent config string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4910).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed extended status detection for qemu (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4816).
-- proxmox_kvm - fix ``agent`` parameter when boolean value is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5198).
-- proxmox_kvm - fix error handling when getting VM by name when ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4945).
-- proxmox_kvm - fix exception when no ``agent`` argument is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5194).
-- proxmox_kvm - fix wrong condition (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5108).
-- proxmox_kvm - replace new condition with proper condition to allow for using ``vmid`` on update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5206).
-- rax_clb_nodes - fix code to be compatible with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4933).
-- redfish_command - fix the check if a virtual media is unmounted to just check for ``instered= false`` caused by Supermicro hardware that does not clear the ``ImageName`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4839).
-- redfish_command - the Supermicro Redfish implementation only supports the ``image_url`` parameter in the underlying API calls to ``VirtualMediaInsert`` and ``VirtualMediaEject``. Any values set (or the defaults) for ``write_protected`` or ``inserted`` will be ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4839).
-- redfish_info - fix to ``GetChassisPower`` to correctly report power information when multiple chassis exist, but not all chassis report power information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4901).
-- redfish_utils module utils - centralize payload checking when performing modification requests to a Redfish service (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5210/).
-- redhat_subscription - fix unsubscribing on RHEL 9 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4741).
-- redhat_subscription - make module idempotent when ``pool_ids`` are used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5313).
-- redis* modules - fix call to ``module.fail_json`` when failing because of missing Python libraries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4733).
-- slack - fix incorrect channel prefix ``#`` caused by incomplete pattern detection by adding ``G0`` and ``GF`` as channel ID patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5019).
-- slack - fix message update for channels which start with ``CP``. When ``message-id`` was passed it failed for channels which started with ``CP`` because the ``#`` symbol was added before the ``channel_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5249).
-- snap - allow values in the ``options`` parameter to contain whitespaces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5475).
-- sudoers - ensure sudoers config files are created with the permissions requested by sudoers (0440) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4814).
-- sudoers - fix incorrect handling of ``state: absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4852).
-- tss lookup plugin - adding support for updated Delinea library (https://github.com/DelineaXPM/python-tss-sdk/issues/9, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5151).
-- virtualbox inventory plugin - skip parsing values with keys that have both a value and nested data. Skip parsing values that are nested more than two keys deep (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5332, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5348).
-- 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).
-- xenserver_facts - fix broken ``AnsibleModule`` call that prevented the module from working at all (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5383).
-- xfconf - fix setting of boolean values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4999, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5007).
-- zfs - fix wrong quoting of properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4707, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4726).
+- _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
 ~~~~~~
 
-- bitwarden - Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden
+- 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
 -----------
 
-- gconftool2_info - Retrieve GConf configurations
-- iso_customize - Add/remove/change files in ISO file
-- keycloak_user_rolemapping - Allows administration of Keycloak user_rolemapping with the Keycloak API
-- keyring - Set or delete a passphrase using the Operating System's native keyring
-- keyring_info - Get a passphrase using the Operating System's native keyring
-- manageiq_policies_info - Listing of resource policy_profiles in ManageIQ
-- manageiq_tags_info - Retrieve resource tags in ManageIQ
-- pipx_info - Rretrieves information about applications installed with pipx
-- proxmox_disk - Management of a disk of a Qemu(KVM) VM in a Proxmox VE cluster.
-- scaleway_compute_private_network - Scaleway compute - private network management
-- scaleway_container - Scaleway Container management
-- scaleway_container_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Container
-- scaleway_container_namespace - Scaleway Container namespace management
-- scaleway_container_namespace_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Container namespace
-- scaleway_container_registry - Scaleway Container registry management module
-- scaleway_container_registry_info - Scaleway Container registry info module
-- scaleway_function - Scaleway Function management
-- scaleway_function_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Function
-- scaleway_function_namespace - Scaleway Function namespace management
-- scaleway_function_namespace_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Function namespace
-- wdc_redfish_command - Manages WDC UltraStar Data102 Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
-- wdc_redfish_info - Manages WDC UltraStar Data102 Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
+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

CHANGELOG.rst.license

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Ansible Project

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--->
-
 # Contributing
 
 We follow [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html) in all our contributions and interactions within this repository.
@@ -30,8 +24,8 @@ Also, consider taking up a valuable, reviewed, but abandoned pull request which
 
 * Try committing your changes with an informative but short commit message.
 * Do not squash your commits and force-push to your branch if not needed. Reviews of your pull request are much easier with individual commits to comprehend the pull request history. All commits of your pull request branch will be squashed into one commit by GitHub upon merge.
-* Do not add merge commits to your PR. The bot will complain and you will have to rebase ([instructions for rebasing](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_rebasing.html)) to remove them before your PR can be merged. To avoid that git automatically does merges during pulls, you can configure it to do rebases instead by running `git config pull.rebase true` inside the repository checkout.
-* Make sure your PR includes a [changelog fragment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/development_process.html#creating-changelog-fragments). (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 :) )
+* 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.
 
 You can also read [our Quick-start development guide](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/create_pr_quick_start_guide.rst).
@@ -42,54 +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.
@@ -112,28 +58,16 @@ Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Reques
    - Make sure that new plugins and modules have tests (unit tests, integration tests, or both); it is preferable to have some tests
      which run in CI.
 
-4. Action plugins need to be accompanied by a module, even if the module file only contains documentation
-   (`DOCUMENTATION`, `EXAMPLES` and `RETURN`). The module must have the same name and directory path in `plugins/modules/`
-   than the action plugin has in `plugins/action/`.
+4. For modules and action plugins, make sure to create your module/plugin in the correct subdirectory, and 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/`
+     than the action plugin has in `plugins/action/`.
 
 5. Make sure to add a BOTMETA entry for your new module/plugin in `.github/BOTMETA.yml`. Search for other plugins/modules in the
    same directory to see how entries could look. You should list all authors either as `maintainers` or under `ignore`. People
    listed as `maintainers` will be pinged for new issues and PRs that modify the module/plugin or its tests.
 
    When you add a new plugin/module, we expect that you perform maintainer duty for at least some time after contributing it.
-
-## pre-commit
-
-To help ensure high-quality contributions this repository includes a [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) configuration which
-corrects and tests against common issues that would otherwise cause CI to fail. To begin using these pre-commit hooks see
-the [Installation](#installation) section below.
-
-This is optional and not required to contribute to this repository.
-
-### Installation
-
-Follow the [instructions](https://pre-commit.com/#install) provided with pre-commit and run `pre-commit install` under the repository base. If for any reason you would like to disable the pre-commit hooks run `pre-commit uninstall`.
-
-This is optional to run it locally.
-
-You can trigger it locally with `pre-commit run --all-files` or even to run only for a given file `pre-commit run --files YOUR_FILE`.

LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
-
-1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-
-2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-
-THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-

LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../COPYING

LICENSES/MIT.txt

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-MIT License
-
-Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt

@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LICENSE VERSION 2
---------------------------------------------
-
-1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between the Python Software Foundation
-("PSF"), and the Individual or Organization ("Licensee") accessing and
-otherwise using this software ("Python") in source or binary form and
-its associated documentation.
-
-2. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, PSF hereby
-grants Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide license to reproduce,
-analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly, prepare derivative works,
-distribute, and otherwise use Python alone or in any derivative version,
-provided, however, that PSF's License Agreement and PSF's notice of copyright,
-i.e., "Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
-2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Python Software Foundation;
-All Rights Reserved" are retained in Python alone or in any derivative version
-prepared by Licensee.
-
-3. In the event Licensee prepares a derivative work that is based on
-or incorporates Python or any part thereof, and wants to make
-the derivative work available to others as provided herein, then
-Licensee hereby agrees to include in any such work a brief summary of
-the changes made to Python.
-
-4. PSF is making Python available to Licensee on an "AS IS"
-basis.  PSF MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED.  BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PSF MAKES NO AND
-DISCLAIMS ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS
-FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF PYTHON WILL NOT
-INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.
-
-5. PSF SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO LICENSEE OR ANY OTHER USERS OF PYTHON
-FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSS AS
-A RESULT OF MODIFYING, DISTRIBUTING, OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON,
-OR ANY DERIVATIVE THEREOF, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF.
-
-6. This License Agreement will automatically terminate upon a material
-breach of its terms and conditions.
-
-7. Nothing in this License Agreement shall be deemed to create any
-relationship of agency, partnership, or joint venture between PSF and
-Licensee.  This License Agreement does not grant permission to use PSF
-trademarks or trade name in a trademark sense to endorse or promote
-products or services of Licensee, or any third party.
-
-8. By copying, installing or otherwise using Python, Licensee
-agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this License
-Agreement.

README.md

@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--->
-
 # Community General Collection
 
-[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-6)](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.
@@ -23,9 +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, ansible-core 2.14 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
 
@@ -72,13 +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/stable-6/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/stable-6/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/stable-6/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
 
@@ -88,7 +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/stable-6/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:
@@ -116,7 +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-6/CHANGELOG.rst).
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-4/CHANGELOG.rst).
 
 ## Roadmap
 
@@ -133,10 +125,6 @@ See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues
 
 ## Licensing
 
-This collection is primarily licensed and distributed as a whole under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
+GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
 
-See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/COPYING) for the full text.
-
-Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).
-
-All files have a machine readable `SDPX-License-Identifier:` comment denoting its respective license(s) or an equivalent entry in an accompanying `.license` file. Only changelog fragments (which will not be part of a release) are covered by a blanket statement in `.reuse/dep5`. This conforms to the [REUSE specification](https://reuse.software/spec/).
+See [COPYING](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) to see the full text.

changelogs/.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1 @@
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 /.plugin-cache.yaml

changelogs/changelog.yaml.license

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Ansible Project

changelogs/config.yaml

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 changelog_filename_template: ../CHANGELOG.rst
 changelog_filename_version_depth: 0
 changes_file: changelog.yaml

commit-rights.md

@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--->
-
 Committers Guidelines for community.general
 ===========================================
 

docs/docsite/extra-docs.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 sections:
   - title: Guides
     toctree:

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

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list1:
-  - name: foo
-    extra: true
-  - name: bar
-    extra: false
-  - name: meh
-    extra: true
-
-list2:
-  - name: foo
-    path: /foo
-  - name: baz
-    path: /baz

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

@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list1:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      x: default_value
-      y: default_value
-      list:
-        - default_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01: [1, 1, 2, 3]
-
-list2:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-      list:
-        - patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01: [3, 4, 4, {key: value}]

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

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-- name: 1. Merge two lists by common attribute 'name'
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-001_vars
-- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
-- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-001.out

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

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

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

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ list1|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name') }}"

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

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-- name: 2. Merge two lists by common attribute 'name'
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-002_vars
-- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
-- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-002.out

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

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

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

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"

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

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-- name: 3. Merge recursive by 'name', replace lists (default)
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-003_vars
-- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
-- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-003.out

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

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

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

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true) }}"

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

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-- name: 4. Merge recursive by 'name', keep lists
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-004_vars
-- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
-- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-004.out

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

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

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

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='keep') }}"

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

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-- name: 5. Merge recursive by 'name', append lists
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-005_vars
-- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
-- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-005.out

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

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

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

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='append') }}"

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

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-- name: 6. Merge recursive by 'name', prepend lists
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-006_vars
-- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
-- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-006.out

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

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

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

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='prepend') }}"

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

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-- name: 7. Merge recursive by 'name', append lists 'remove present'
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-007_vars
-- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
-- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-007.out

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

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

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

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='append_rp') }}"

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

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-- name: 8. Merge recursive by 'name', prepend lists 'remove present'
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-008_vars
-- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
-- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-008.out

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

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

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

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='prepend_rp') }}"

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples.yml

@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-examples:
-  - label: 'In the example below the lists are merged by the attribute ``name``:'
-    file: example-001_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-001.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'It is possible to use a list of lists as an input of the filter:'
-    file: example-002_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces the same result as in the previous example:'
-    file: example-002.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=replace`` (default):'
-    file: example-003_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-003.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=keep``:'
-    file: example-004_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-004.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=append``:'
-    file: example-005_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-005.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=prepend``:'
-    file: example-006_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-006.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=append_rp``:'
-    file: example-007_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-007.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=prepend_rp``:'
-    file: example-008_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-008.out
-    lang: 'yaml'

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

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-{% for i in examples %}
-{{ i.label }}
-
-.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
-
-  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
-
-{% endfor %}

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

@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Merging lists of dictionaries
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-If you have two or more lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where the dictionaries are merged by an attribute, you can use the ``lists_mergeby`` filter.
-
-.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See :ref:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <ansible_collections.community.general.yaml_callback>`.
-
-Let us use the lists below in the following examples:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  {{ lookup('file', 'default-common.yml')|indent(2) }}
-
-{% for i in examples[0:2] %}
-{{ i.label }}
-
-.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
-
-  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-.. versionadded:: 2.0.0
-
-{% for i in examples[2:4] %}
-{{ i.label }}
-
-.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
-
-  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-The filter also accepts two optional parameters: ``recursive`` and ``list_merge``. These parameters are only supported when used with ansible-base 2.10 or ansible-core, but not with Ansible 2.9. This is available since community.general 4.4.0.
-
-**recursive**
-    Is a boolean, default to ``False``. Should the ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` recursively merge nested hashes. Note: It does not depend on the value of the ``hash_behaviour`` setting in ``ansible.cfg``.
-
-**list_merge**
-    Is a string, its possible values are ``replace`` (default), ``keep``, ``append``, ``prepend``, ``append_rp`` or ``prepend_rp``. It modifies the behaviour of ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` when the hashes to merge contain arrays/lists.
-
-The examples below set ``recursive=true`` and display the differences among all six options of ``list_merge``. Functionality of the parameters is exactly the same as in the filter ``combine``. See :ref:`Combining hashes/dictionaries <combine_filter>` to learn details about these options.
-
-Let us use the lists below in the following examples
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  {{ lookup('file', 'default-recursive-true.yml')|indent(2) }}
-
-{% for i in examples[4:16] %}
-{{ i.label }}
-
-.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
-
-  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
-
-{% endfor %}

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

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-{#
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-#}
-list3:
-{{ list3|to_nice_yaml(indent=0) }}

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml

@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-# 1) Run all examples and create example-XXX.out
-# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e examples=true
-#
-# 2) Optionally, for testing, create examples_all.rst
-# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e examples_all=true
-#
-# 3) Create docs REST files
-# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e merging_lists_of_dictionaries=true
-#
-# Notes:
-# * Use YAML callback, e.g. set ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=community.general.yaml
-# * Use sphinx-view to render and review the REST files
-#   shell> sphinx-view <path_to_helper>/examples_all.rst
-# * Proofread and copy completed docs *.rst files into the directory rst.
-# * Then delete the *.rst and *.out files from this directory. Do not
-#   add *.rst and *.out in this directory to the version control.
-#
-# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-# community.general/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml
-
-- hosts: localhost
-  gather_facts: false
-  tasks:
-
-    - block:
-        - import_tasks: example-001.yml
-          tags: t001
-        - import_tasks: example-002.yml
-          tags: t002
-        - import_tasks: example-003.yml
-          tags: t003
-        - import_tasks: example-004.yml
-          tags: t004
-        - import_tasks: example-005.yml
-          tags: t005
-        - import_tasks: example-006.yml
-          tags: t006
-        - import_tasks: example-007.yml
-          tags: t007
-        - import_tasks: example-008.yml
-          tags: t008
-      when: examples|d(false)|bool
-
-    - block:
-        - include_vars: examples.yml
-        - template:
-            src: examples_all.rst.j2
-            dest: examples_all.rst
-      when: examples_all|d(false)|bool
-
-    - block:
-        - include_vars: examples.yml
-        - template:
-            src: filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
-            dest: filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
-      when: merging_lists_of_dictionaries|d(false)|bool

docs/docsite/links.yml

@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-edit_on_github:
-  repository: ansible-collections/community.general
-  branch: main
-  path_prefix: ''
-
-extra_links:
-  - description: Submit a bug report
-    url: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=bug_report.yml
-  - description: Request a feature
-    url: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.yml
-
-communication:
-  matrix_rooms:
-    - topic: General usage and support questions
-      room: '#users:ansible.im'
-  irc_channels:
-    - topic: General usage and support questions
-      network: Libera
-      channel: '#ansible'
-  mailing_lists:
-    - topic: Ansible Project List
-      url: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-project

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 .. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.filter_guide:
 
 community.general Filter Guide
@@ -10,14 +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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Abstract transformations
-------------------------
-
-.. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 1
-
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst

@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Counting elements in a sequence
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-The ``community.general.counter`` filter plugin allows you to count (hashable) elements in a sequence. Elements are returned as dictionary keys and their counts are stored as dictionary values.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Count character occurrences in a string
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ 'abccbaabca' | community.general.counter }}"
-
-    - name: Count items in a list
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ ['car', 'car', 'bike', 'plane', 'bike'] | community.general.counter }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Count character occurrences in a string] ********************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "a": 4,
-            "b": 3,
-            "c": 3
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Count items in a list] **************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "bike": 2,
-            "car": 2,
-            "plane": 1
-        }
-    }
-
-This plugin is useful for selecting resources based on current allocation:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Get ID of SCSI controller(s) with less than 4 disks attached and choose the one with the least disks
-      debug:
-        msg: >-
-          {{
-             ( disks | dict2items | map(attribute='value.adapter') | list
-               | community.general.counter | dict2items
-               | rejectattr('value', '>=', 4) | sort(attribute='value') | first
-             ).key
-          }}
-      vars:
-        disks:
-          sda:
-            adapter: scsi_1
-          sdb:
-            adapter: scsi_1
-          sdc:
-            adapter: scsi_1
-          sdd:
-            adapter: scsi_1
-          sde:
-            adapter: scsi_2
-          sdf:
-            adapter: scsi_3
-          sdg:
-            adapter: scsi_3
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Get ID of SCSI controller(s) with less than 4 disks attached and choose the one with the least disks]
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "scsi_2"
-    }
-
-.. versionadded:: 4.3.0

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst

@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Dictionaries
-^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-You can use the ``dict_kv`` filter to create a single-entry dictionary with ``value | community.general.dict_kv(key)``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Create a single-entry dictionary
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ myvar | community.general.dict_kv('thatsmyvar') }}"
-      vars:
-        myvar: myvalue
-
-    - name: Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list
-      debug:
-        msg: >-
-          {{ myservers | map('community.general.dict_kv', 'server')
-                       | map('combine', common_config) }}
-      vars:
-        common_config:
-          type: host
-          database: all
-        myservers:
-        - server1
-        - server2
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Create a single-entry dictionary]  **************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "thatsmyvar": "myvalue"
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list]  *******
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "database": "all",
-                "server": "server1",
-                "type": "host"
-            },
-            {
-                "database": "all",
-                "server": "server2",
-                "type": "host"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded:: 2.0.0
-
-If you need to convert a list of key-value pairs to a dictionary, you can use the ``dict`` function. Unfortunately, this function cannot be used with ``map``. For this, the ``community.general.dict`` filter can be used:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Create a dictionary with the dict function
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ dict([[1, 2], ['a', 'b']]) }}"
-
-    - name: Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ [[1, 2], ['a', 'b']] | community.general.dict }}"
-
-    - name: Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter
-      debug:
-        msg: >-
-          {{ values | map('zip', ['k1', 'k2', 'k3'])
-                    | map('map', 'reverse')
-                    | map('community.general.dict') }}
-      vars:
-        values:
-          - - foo
-            - 23
-            - a
-          - - bar
-            - 42
-            - b
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Create a dictionary with the dict function]  ****************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "1": 2,
-            "a": "b"
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter]  ************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "1": 2,
-            "a": "b"
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter]  ******
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "k1": "foo",
-                "k2": 23,
-                "k3": "a"
-            },
-            {
-                "k1": "bar",
-                "k2": 42,
-                "k3": "b"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded:: 3.0.0

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst

@@ -1,103 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Grouping
-^^^^^^^^
-
-If you have a list of dictionaries, the Jinja2 ``groupby`` filter allows to group the list by an attribute. This results in a list of ``(grouper, list)`` namedtuples, where ``list`` contains all dictionaries where the selected attribute equals ``grouper``. If you know that for every ``grouper``, there will be a most one entry in that list, you can use the ``community.general.groupby_as_dict`` filter to convert the original list into a dictionary which maps ``grouper`` to the corresponding dictionary.
-
-One example is ``ansible_facts.mounts``, which is a list of dictionaries where each has one ``device`` element to indicate the device which is mounted. Therefore, ``ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')`` is a dictionary mapping a device to the mount information:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Output mount facts grouped by device name
-      debug:
-        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')
-
-    - name: Output mount facts grouped by mount point
-      debug:
-        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Output mount facts grouped by device name] ******************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')": {
-            "/dev/sda1": {
-                "block_available": 2000,
-                "block_size": 4096,
-                "block_total": 2345,
-                "block_used": 345,
-                "device": "/dev/sda1",
-                "fstype": "ext4",
-                "inode_available": 500,
-                "inode_total": 512,
-                "inode_used": 12,
-                "mount": "/boot",
-                "options": "rw,relatime,data=ordered",
-                "size_available": 56821,
-                "size_total": 543210,
-                "uuid": "ab31cade-d9c1-484d-8482-8a4cbee5241a"
-            },
-            "/dev/sda2": {
-                "block_available": 1234,
-                "block_size": 4096,
-                "block_total": 12345,
-                "block_used": 11111,
-                "device": "/dev/sda2",
-                "fstype": "ext4",
-                "inode_available": 1111,
-                "inode_total": 1234,
-                "inode_used": 123,
-                "mount": "/",
-                "options": "rw,relatime",
-                "size_available": 42143,
-                "size_total": 543210,
-                "uuid": "abcdef01-2345-6789-0abc-def012345678"
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Output mount facts grouped by mount point] ******************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')": {
-            "/": {
-                "block_available": 1234,
-                "block_size": 4096,
-                "block_total": 12345,
-                "block_used": 11111,
-                "device": "/dev/sda2",
-                "fstype": "ext4",
-                "inode_available": 1111,
-                "inode_total": 1234,
-                "inode_used": 123,
-                "mount": "/",
-                "options": "rw,relatime",
-                "size_available": 42143,
-                "size_total": 543210,
-                "uuid": "bdf50b7d-4859-40af-8665-c637ee7a7808"
-            },
-            "/boot": {
-                "block_available": 2000,
-                "block_size": 4096,
-                "block_total": 2345,
-                "block_used": 345,
-                "device": "/dev/sda1",
-                "fstype": "ext4",
-                "inode_available": 500,
-                "inode_total": 512,
-                "inode_used": 12,
-                "mount": "/boot",
-                "options": "rw,relatime,data=ordered",
-                "size_available": 56821,
-                "size_total": 543210,
-                "uuid": "ab31cade-d9c1-484d-8482-8a4cbee5241a"
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 3.0.0

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst

@@ -1,297 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Merging lists of dictionaries
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-If you have two or more lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where the dictionaries are merged by an attribute, you can use the ``lists_mergeby`` filter.
-
-.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See :ref:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <ansible_collections.community.general.yaml_callback>`.
-
-Let us use the lists below in the following examples:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list1:
-    - name: foo
-      extra: true
-    - name: bar
-      extra: false
-    - name: meh
-      extra: true
-
-  list2:
-    - name: foo
-      path: /foo
-    - name: baz
-      path: /baz
-
-In the example below the lists are merged by the attribute ``name``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ list1|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - extra: false
-    name: bar
-  - name: baz
-    path: /baz
-  - extra: true
-    name: foo
-    path: /foo
-  - extra: true
-    name: meh
-
-
-.. versionadded:: 2.0.0
-
-It is possible to use a list of lists as an input of the filter:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"
-
-This produces the same result as in the previous example:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - extra: false
-    name: bar
-  - name: baz
-    path: /baz
-  - extra: true
-    name: foo
-    path: /foo
-  - extra: true
-    name: meh
-
-
-The filter also accepts two optional parameters: ``recursive`` and ``list_merge``. These parameters are only supported when used with ansible-base 2.10 or ansible-core, but not with Ansible 2.9. This is available since community.general 4.4.0.
-
-**recursive**
-    Is a boolean, default to ``False``. Should the ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` recursively merge nested hashes. Note: It does not depend on the value of the ``hash_behaviour`` setting in ``ansible.cfg``.
-
-**list_merge**
-    Is a string, its possible values are ``replace`` (default), ``keep``, ``append``, ``prepend``, ``append_rp`` or ``prepend_rp``. It modifies the behaviour of ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` when the hashes to merge contain arrays/lists.
-
-The examples below set ``recursive=true`` and display the differences among all six options of ``list_merge``. Functionality of the parameters is exactly the same as in the filter ``combine``. See :ref:`Combining hashes/dictionaries <combine_filter>` to learn details about these options.
-
-Let us use the lists below in the following examples
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list1:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        x: default_value
-        y: default_value
-        list:
-          - default_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01: [1, 1, 2, 3]
-
-  list2:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        y: patch_value
-        z: patch_value
-        list:
-          - patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01: [3, 4, 4, {key: value}]
-
-Example ``list_merge=replace`` (default):
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true) }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - patch_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 3
-    - 4
-    - 4
-    - key: value
-
-Example ``list_merge=keep``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true,
-                                             list_merge='keep') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - default_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 1
-    - 1
-    - 2
-    - 3
-
-Example ``list_merge=append``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true,
-                                             list_merge='append') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - default_value
-      - patch_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 1
-    - 1
-    - 2
-    - 3
-    - 3
-    - 4
-    - 4
-    - key: value
-
-Example ``list_merge=prepend``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true,
-                                             list_merge='prepend') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - patch_value
-      - default_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 3
-    - 4
-    - 4
-    - key: value
-    - 1
-    - 1
-    - 2
-    - 3
-
-Example ``list_merge=append_rp``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true,
-                                             list_merge='append_rp') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - default_value
-      - patch_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 1
-    - 1
-    - 2
-    - 3
-    - 4
-    - 4
-    - key: value
-
-Example ``list_merge=prepend_rp``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true,
-                                             list_merge='prepend_rp') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - patch_value
-      - default_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 3
-    - 4
-    - 4
-    - key: value
-    - 1
-    - 1
-    - 2
-

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst

@@ -1,113 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Conversions
------------
-
-Parsing CSV files
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Ansible offers the :ref:`community.general.read_csv module <ansible_collections.community.general.read_csv_module>` to read CSV files. Sometimes you need to convert strings to CSV files instead. For this, the ``from_csv`` filter exists.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: "Parse CSV from string"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ csv_string | community.general.from_csv }}"
-      vars:
-        csv_string: |
-          foo,bar,baz
-          1,2,3
-          you,this,then
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Parse CSV from string] **************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "bar": "2",
-                "baz": "3",
-                "foo": "1"
-            },
-            {
-                "bar": "this",
-                "baz": "then",
-                "foo": "you"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-The ``from_csv`` filter has several keyword arguments to control its behavior:
-
-:dialect: Dialect of the CSV file. Default is ``excel``. Other possible choices are ``excel-tab`` and ``unix``. If one of ``delimiter``, ``skipinitialspace`` or ``strict`` is specified, ``dialect`` is ignored.
-:fieldnames: A set of column names to use. If not provided, the first line of the CSV is assumed to contain the column names.
-:delimiter: Sets the delimiter to use. Default depends on the dialect used.
-:skipinitialspace: Set to ``true`` to ignore space directly after the delimiter. Default depends on the dialect used (usually ``false``).
-:strict: Set to ``true`` to error out on invalid CSV input.
-
-.. versionadded: 3.0.0
-
-Converting to JSON
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-`JC <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ is a CLI tool and Python library which allows to interpret output of various CLI programs as JSON. It is also available as a filter in community.general. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Run 'ls' to list files in /
-      command: ls /
-      register: result
-
-    - name: Parse the ls output
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ result.stdout | community.general.jc('ls') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Run 'ls' to list files in /] ********************************************************
-    changed: [localhost]
-
-    TASK [Parse the ls output] ****************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "filename": "bin"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "boot"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "dev"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "etc"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "home"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "lib"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "proc"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "root"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "run"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "tmp"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 2.0.0

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst

@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Creating identifiers
---------------------
-
-The following filters allow to create identifiers.
-
-Hashids
-^^^^^^^
-
-`Hashids <https://hashids.org/>`_ allow to convert sequences of integers to short unique string identifiers. This filter needs the `hashids Python library <https://pypi.org/project/hashids/>`_ installed on the controller.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: "Create hashid"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ [1234, 5, 6] | community.general.hashids_encode }}"
-
-    - name: "Decode hashid"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ 'jm2Cytn' | community.general.hashids_decode }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Create hashid] **********************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "jm2Cytn"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Decode hashid] **********************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            1234,
-            5,
-            6
-        ]
-    }
-
-The hashids filters accept keyword arguments to allow fine-tuning the hashids generated:
-
-:salt: String to use as salt when hashing.
-:alphabet: String of 16 or more unique characters to produce a hash.
-:min_length: Minimum length of hash produced.
-
-.. versionadded: 3.0.0
-
-Random MACs
-^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-You can use the ``random_mac`` filter to complete a partial `MAC address <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>`_ to a random 6-byte MAC address.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with ff:"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ 'FF' | community.general.random_mac }}"
-
-    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '00:11:22' | community.general.random_mac }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with ff:] **********************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "ff:69:d3:78:7f:b4"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:] ****************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "00:11:22:71:5d:3b"
-    }
-
-You can also initialize the random number generator from a seed to create random-but-idempotent MAC addresses:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    "{{ '52:54:00' | community.general.random_mac(seed=inventory_hostname) }}"

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Paths
------
-
-The ``path_join`` filter has been added in ansible-base 2.10. If you want to use this filter, but also need to support Ansible 2.9, you can use ``community.general``'s ``path_join`` shim, ``community.general.path_join``. This filter redirects to ``path_join`` for ansible-base 2.10 and ansible-core 2.11 or newer, and re-implements the filter for Ansible 2.9.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    # ansible-base 2.10 or newer:
-    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | path_join }}
-
-    # Also works with Ansible 2.9:
-    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | community.general.path_join }}
-
-.. versionadded:: 3.0.0

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst

@@ -1,149 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.json_query_filter:
-
-Selecting JSON data: JSON queries
----------------------------------
-
-To select a single element or a data subset from a complex data structure in JSON format (for example, Ansible facts), use the ``json_query`` filter.  The ``json_query`` filter lets you query a complex JSON structure and iterate over it using a loop structure.
-
-.. note:: You must manually install the **jmespath** dependency on the Ansible controller before using this filter. This filter is built upon **jmespath**, and you can use the same syntax. For examples, see `jmespath examples <http://jmespath.org/examples.html>`_.
-
-Consider this data structure:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    {
-        "domain_definition": {
-            "domain": {
-                "cluster": [
-                    {
-                        "name": "cluster1"
-                    },
-                    {
-                        "name": "cluster2"
-                    }
-                ],
-                "server": [
-                    {
-                        "name": "server11",
-                        "cluster": "cluster1",
-                        "port": "8080"
-                    },
-                    {
-                        "name": "server12",
-                        "cluster": "cluster1",
-                        "port": "8090"
-                    },
-                    {
-                        "name": "server21",
-                        "cluster": "cluster2",
-                        "port": "9080"
-                    },
-                    {
-                        "name": "server22",
-                        "cluster": "cluster2",
-                        "port": "9090"
-                    }
-                ],
-                "library": [
-                    {
-                        "name": "lib1",
-                        "target": "cluster1"
-                    },
-                    {
-                        "name": "lib2",
-                        "target": "cluster2"
-                    }
-                ]
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-To extract all clusters from this structure, you can use the following query:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all cluster names
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.cluster[*].name') }}"
-
-To extract all server names:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all server names
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[*].name') }}"
-
-To extract ports from cluster1:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
-      vars:
-        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster1'].port"
-
-.. note:: You can use a variable to make the query more readable.
-
-To print out the ports from cluster1 in a comma separated string:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1 as a string
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        msg: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==`cluster1`].port') | join(', ') }}"
-
-.. note:: In the example above, quoting literals using backticks avoids escaping quotes and maintains readability.
-
-You can use YAML `single quote escaping <https://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2534365>`_:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==''cluster1''].port') }}"
-
-.. note:: Escaping single quotes within single quotes in YAML is done by doubling the single quote.
-
-To get a hash map with all ports and names of a cluster:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all server ports and names from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
-      vars:
-        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster2'].{name: name, port: port}"
-
-To extract ports from all clusters with name starting with 'server1':
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
-      vars:
-        server_name_query: "domain.server[?starts_with(name,'server1')].port"
-
-To extract ports from all clusters with name containing 'server1':
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
-      vars:
-        server_name_query: "domain.server[?contains(name,'server1')].port"
-
-.. note:: while using ``starts_with`` and ``contains``, you have to use `` to_json | from_json `` filter for correct parsing of data structure.

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst

@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Working with times
-------------------
-
-The ``to_time_unit`` filter allows to convert times from a human-readable string to a unit. For example, ``'4h 30min 12second' | community.general.to_time_unit('hour')`` gives the number of hours that correspond to 4 hours, 30 minutes and 12 seconds.
-
-There are shorthands to directly convert to various units, like ``to_hours``, ``to_minutes``, ``to_seconds``, and so on. The following table lists all units that can be used:
-
-.. list-table:: Units
-   :widths: 25 25 25 25
-   :header-rows: 1
-
-   * - Unit name
-     - Unit value in seconds
-     - Unit strings for filter
-     - Shorthand filter
-   * - Millisecond
-     - 1/1000 second
-     - ``ms``, ``millisecond``, ``milliseconds``, ``msec``, ``msecs``, ``msecond``, ``mseconds``
-     - ``to_milliseconds``
-   * - Second
-     - 1 second
-     - ``s``, ``sec``, ``secs``, ``second``, ``seconds``
-     - ``to_seconds``
-   * - Minute
-     - 60 seconds
-     - ``m``, ``min``, ``mins``, ``minute``, ``minutes``
-     - ``to_minutes``
-   * - Hour
-     - 60*60 seconds
-     - ``h``, ``hour``, ``hours``
-     - ``to_hours``
-   * - Day
-     - 24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``d``, ``day``, ``days``
-     - ``to_days``
-   * - Week
-     - 7*24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``w``, ``week``, ``weeks``
-     - ``to_weeks``
-   * - Month
-     - 30*24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``mo``, ``month``, ``months``
-     - ``to_months``
-   * - Year
-     - 365*24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``y``, ``year``, ``years``
-     - ``to_years``
-
-Note that months and years are using a simplified representation: a month is 30 days, and a year is 365 days. If you need different definitions of months or years, you can pass them as keyword arguments. For example, if you want a year to be 365.25 days, and a month to be 30.5 days, you can write ``'11months 4' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25, month=30.5)``. These keyword arguments can be specified to ``to_time_unit`` and to all shorthand filters.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Convert string to seconds
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_time_unit('seconds') }}"
-
-    - name: Convert string to hours
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_hours }}"
-
-    - name: Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '400d 15h' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25) }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Convert string to seconds] **********************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "109210.123"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Convert string to hours] ************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "30.336145277778"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)] ******************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "1.096851471595"
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 0.2.0

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Working with Unicode
----------------------
-
-`Unicode <https://unicode.org/main.html>`_ makes it possible to produce two strings which may be visually equivalent, but are comprised of distinctly different characters/character sequences. To address this ``Unicode`` defines `normalization forms <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ which avoid these distinctions by choosing a unique character sequence for a given visual representation.
-
-You can use the ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter to normalize ``Unicode`` strings within your playbooks.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Compare Unicode representations
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ with_combining_character | community.general.unicode_normalize == without_combining_character }}"
-      vars:
-        with_combining_character: "{{ 'Mayagu\u0308ez' }}"
-        without_combining_character: Mayagüez
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Compare Unicode representations] ********************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": true
-    }
-
-The ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter accepts a keyword argument to select the ``Unicode`` form used to normalize the input string.
-
-:form: One of ``'NFC'`` (default), ``'NFD'``, ``'NFKC'``, or ``'NFKD'``. See the `Unicode reference <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ for more information.
-
-.. versionadded:: 3.7.0

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst

@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Working with versions
----------------------
-
-If you need to sort a list of version numbers, the Jinja ``sort`` filter is problematic. Since it sorts lexicographically, ``2.10`` will come before ``2.9``. To treat version numbers correctly, you can use the ``version_sort`` filter:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Sort list by version number
-      debug:
-        var: ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort
-      vars:
-        ansible_versions:
-          - '2.8.0'
-          - '2.11.0'
-          - '2.7.0'
-          - '2.10.0'
-          - '2.9.0'
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Sort list by version number] ********************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort": [
-            "2.7.0",
-            "2.8.0",
-            "2.9.0",
-            "2.10.0",
-            "2.11.0"
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 2.2.0

docs/docsite/rst/test_guide.rst

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 .. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.test_guide:
 
 community.general Test (Plugin) Guide

galaxy.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 namespace: community
 name: general
-version: 6.2.0
+version: 4.0.2
 readme: README.md
 authors:
   - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)

plugins/action/iptables_state.py

@@ -1,187 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2020, quidame <quidame@poivron.org>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-import time
-
-from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleActionFail, AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.utils.vars import merge_hash
-from ansible.utils.display import Display
-
-display = Display()
-
-
-class ActionModule(ActionBase):
-
-    # Keep internal params away from user interactions
-    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset(('path', 'state', 'table', 'noflush', 'counters', 'modprobe', 'ip_version', 'wait'))
-    DEFAULT_SUDOABLE = True
-
-    MSG_ERROR__ASYNC_AND_POLL_NOT_ZERO = (
-        "This module doesn't support async>0 and poll>0 when its 'state' param "
-        "is set to 'restored'. To enable its rollback feature (that needs the "
-        "module to run asynchronously on the remote), please set task attribute "
-        "'poll' (=%s) to 0, and 'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than "
-        "'ansible_timeout' (=%s) (recommended).")
-    MSG_WARNING__NO_ASYNC_IS_NO_ROLLBACK = (
-        "Attempts to restore iptables state without rollback in case of mistake "
-        "may lead the ansible controller to loose access to the hosts and never "
-        "regain it before fixing firewall rules through a serial console, or any "
-        "other way except SSH. Please set task attribute 'poll' (=%s) to 0, and "
-        "'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than 'ansible_timeout' (=%s) "
-        "(recommended).")
-    MSG_WARNING__ASYNC_GREATER_THAN_TIMEOUT = (
-        "You attempt to restore iptables state with rollback in case of mistake, "
-        "but with settings that will lead this rollback to happen AFTER that the "
-        "controller will reach its own timeout. Please set task attribute 'poll' "
-        "(=%s) to 0, and 'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than "
-        "'ansible_timeout' (=%s) (recommended).")
-
-    def _async_result(self, async_status_args, task_vars, timeout):
-        '''
-        Retrieve results of the asynchonous task, and display them in place of
-        the async wrapper results (those with the ansible_job_id key).
-        '''
-        async_status = self._task.copy()
-        async_status.args = async_status_args
-        async_status.action = 'ansible.builtin.async_status'
-        async_status.async_val = 0
-        async_action = self._shared_loader_obj.action_loader.get(
-            async_status.action, task=async_status, connection=self._connection,
-            play_context=self._play_context, loader=self._loader, templar=self._templar,
-            shared_loader_obj=self._shared_loader_obj)
-
-        if async_status.args['mode'] == 'cleanup':
-            return async_action.run(task_vars=task_vars)
-
-        # At least one iteration is required, even if timeout is 0.
-        for dummy in range(max(1, timeout)):
-            async_result = async_action.run(task_vars=task_vars)
-            if async_result.get('finished', 0) == 1:
-                break
-            time.sleep(min(1, timeout))
-
-        return async_result
-
-    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
-
-        self._supports_check_mode = True
-        self._supports_async = True
-
-        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
-        del tmp  # tmp no longer has any effect
-
-        if not result.get('skipped'):
-
-            # FUTURE: better to let _execute_module calculate this internally?
-            wrap_async = self._task.async_val and not self._connection.has_native_async
-
-            # Set short names for values we'll have to compare or reuse
-            task_poll = self._task.poll
-            task_async = self._task.async_val
-            check_mode = self._play_context.check_mode
-            max_timeout = self._connection._play_context.timeout
-            module_args = self._task.args
-
-            if module_args.get('state', None) == 'restored':
-                if not wrap_async:
-                    if not check_mode:
-                        display.warning(self.MSG_WARNING__NO_ASYNC_IS_NO_ROLLBACK % (
-                            task_poll,
-                            task_async,
-                            max_timeout))
-                elif task_poll:
-                    raise AnsibleActionFail(self.MSG_ERROR__ASYNC_AND_POLL_NOT_ZERO % (
-                        task_poll,
-                        task_async,
-                        max_timeout))
-                else:
-                    if task_async > max_timeout and not check_mode:
-                        display.warning(self.MSG_WARNING__ASYNC_GREATER_THAN_TIMEOUT % (
-                            task_poll,
-                            task_async,
-                            max_timeout))
-
-                    # inject the async directory based on the shell option into the
-                    # module args
-                    async_dir = self.get_shell_option('async_dir', default="~/.ansible_async")
-
-                    # Bind the loop max duration to consistent values on both
-                    # remote and local sides (if not the same, make the loop
-                    # longer on the controller); and set a backup file path.
-                    module_args['_timeout'] = task_async
-                    module_args['_back'] = '%s/iptables.state' % async_dir
-                    async_status_args = dict(mode='status')
-                    confirm_cmd = 'rm -f %s' % module_args['_back']
-                    starter_cmd = 'touch %s.starter' % module_args['_back']
-                    remaining_time = max(task_async, max_timeout)
-
-            # do work!
-            result = merge_hash(result, self._execute_module(module_args=module_args, task_vars=task_vars, wrap_async=wrap_async))
-
-            # Then the 3-steps "go ahead or rollback":
-            # 1. Catch early errors of the module (in asynchronous task) if any.
-            #    Touch a file on the target to signal the module to process now.
-            # 2. Reset connection to ensure a persistent one will not be reused.
-            # 3. Confirm the restored state by removing the backup on the remote.
-            #    Retrieve the results of the asynchronous task to return them.
-            if '_back' in module_args:
-                async_status_args['jid'] = result.get('ansible_job_id', None)
-                if async_status_args['jid'] is None:
-                    raise AnsibleActionFail("Unable to get 'ansible_job_id'.")
-
-                # Catch early errors due to missing mandatory option, bad
-                # option type/value, missing required system command, etc.
-                result = merge_hash(result, self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, 0))
-
-                # The module is aware to not process the main iptables-restore
-                # command before finding (and deleting) the 'starter' cookie on
-                # the host, so the previous query will not reach ssh timeout.
-                dummy = self._low_level_execute_command(starter_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
-
-                # As the main command is not yet executed on the target, here
-                # 'finished' means 'failed before main command be executed'.
-                if not result['finished']:
-                    try:
-                        self._connection.reset()
-                    except AttributeError:
-                        pass
-
-                    for dummy in range(max_timeout):
-                        time.sleep(1)
-                        remaining_time -= 1
-                        # - AnsibleConnectionFailure covers rejected requests (i.e.
-                        #   by rules with '--jump REJECT')
-                        # - ansible_timeout is able to cover dropped requests (due
-                        #   to a rule or policy DROP) if not lower than async_val.
-                        try:
-                            dummy = self._low_level_execute_command(confirm_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
-                            break
-                        except AnsibleConnectionFailure:
-                            continue
-
-                    result = merge_hash(result, self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, remaining_time))
-
-                # Cleanup async related stuff and internal params
-                for key in ('ansible_job_id', 'results_file', 'started', 'finished'):
-                    if result.get(key):
-                        del result[key]
-
-                if result.get('invocation', {}).get('module_args'):
-                    for key in ('_back', '_timeout', '_async_dir', 'jid'):
-                        if result['invocation']['module_args'].get(key):
-                            del result['invocation']['module_args'][key]
-
-                async_status_args['mode'] = 'cleanup'
-                dummy = self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, 0)
-
-        if not wrap_async:
-            # remove a temporary path we created
-            self._remove_tmp_path(self._connection._shell.tmpdir)
-
-        return result

plugins/action/iptables_state.py

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

plugins/action/shutdown.py

@@ -1,213 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2020, Amin Vakil <info@aminvakil.com>
-# Copyright (c) 2016-2018, Matt Davis <mdavis@ansible.com>
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Sam Doran <sdoran@redhat.com>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_string
-from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
-from ansible.utils.display import Display
-
-display = Display()
-
-
-class TimedOutException(Exception):
-    pass
-
-
-class ActionModule(ActionBase):
-    TRANSFERS_FILES = False
-    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset((
-        'msg',
-        'delay',
-        'search_paths'
-    ))
-
-    DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = None
-    DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY = 0
-    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE = 'Shut down initiated by Ansible'
-    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND = 'shutdown'
-    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = '-h {delay_min} "{message}"'
-    DEFAULT_SUDOABLE = True
-
-    SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS = {
-        'alpine': 'poweroff',
-        'vmkernel': 'halt',
-    }
-
-    SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = {
-        'alpine': '',
-        'void': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'freebsd': '-h +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
-        'linux': DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS,
-        'macosx': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'openbsd': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'solaris': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
-        'sunos': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
-        'vmkernel': '-d {delay_sec}',
-        'aix': '-Fh',
-    }
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        super(ActionModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-
-    @property
-    def delay(self):
-        return self._check_delay('delay', self.DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY)
-
-    def _check_delay(self, key, default):
-        """Ensure that the value is positive or zero"""
-        value = int(self._task.args.get(key, default))
-        if value < 0:
-            value = 0
-        return value
-
-    def _get_value_from_facts(self, variable_name, distribution, default_value):
-        """Get dist+version specific args first, then distribution, then family, lastly use default"""
-        attr = getattr(self, variable_name)
-        value = attr.get(
-            distribution['name'] + distribution['version'],
-            attr.get(
-                distribution['name'],
-                attr.get(
-                    distribution['family'],
-                    getattr(self, default_value))))
-        return value
-
-    def get_shutdown_command_args(self, distribution):
-        args = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS')
-        # Convert seconds to minutes. If less that 60, set it to 0.
-        delay_sec = self.delay
-        shutdown_message = self._task.args.get('msg', self.DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE)
-        return args.format(delay_sec=delay_sec, delay_min=delay_sec // 60, message=shutdown_message)
-
-    def get_distribution(self, task_vars):
-        # FIXME: only execute the module if we don't already have the facts we need
-        distribution = {}
-        display.debug('{action}: running setup module to get distribution'.format(action=self._task.action))
-        module_output = self._execute_module(
-            task_vars=task_vars,
-            module_name='ansible.legacy.setup',
-            module_args={'gather_subset': 'min'})
-        try:
-            if module_output.get('failed', False):
-                raise AnsibleError('Failed to determine system distribution. {0}, {1}'.format(
-                    to_native(module_output['module_stdout']).strip(),
-                    to_native(module_output['module_stderr']).strip()))
-            distribution['name'] = module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution'].lower()
-            distribution['version'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution_version'].split('.')[0])
-            distribution['family'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_os_family'].lower())
-            display.debug("{action}: distribution: {dist}".format(action=self._task.action, dist=distribution))
-            return distribution
-        except KeyError as ke:
-            raise AnsibleError('Failed to get distribution information. Missing "{0}" in output.'.format(ke.args[0]))
-
-    def get_shutdown_command(self, task_vars, distribution):
-        shutdown_bin = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND')
-        default_search_paths = ['/sbin', '/usr/sbin', '/usr/local/sbin']
-        search_paths = self._task.args.get('search_paths', default_search_paths)
-
-        # FIXME: switch all this to user arg spec validation methods when they are available
-        # Convert bare strings to a list
-        if is_string(search_paths):
-            search_paths = [search_paths]
-
-        # Error if we didn't get a list
-        err_msg = "'search_paths' must be a string or flat list of strings, got {0}"
-        try:
-            incorrect_type = any(not is_string(x) for x in search_paths)
-            if not isinstance(search_paths, list) or incorrect_type:
-                raise TypeError
-        except TypeError:
-            raise AnsibleError(err_msg.format(search_paths))
-
-        display.debug('{action}: running find module looking in {paths} to get path for "{command}"'.format(
-            action=self._task.action,
-            command=shutdown_bin,
-            paths=search_paths))
-        find_result = self._execute_module(
-            task_vars=task_vars,
-            # prevent collection search by calling with ansible.legacy (still allows library/ override of find)
-            module_name='ansible.legacy.find',
-            module_args={
-                'paths': search_paths,
-                'patterns': [shutdown_bin],
-                'file_type': 'any'
-            }
-        )
-
-        full_path = [x['path'] for x in find_result['files']]
-        if not full_path:
-            raise AnsibleError('Unable to find command "{0}" in search paths: {1}'.format(shutdown_bin, search_paths))
-        self._shutdown_command = full_path[0]
-        return self._shutdown_command
-
-    def perform_shutdown(self, task_vars, distribution):
-        result = {}
-        shutdown_result = {}
-        shutdown_command = self.get_shutdown_command(task_vars, distribution)
-        shutdown_command_args = self.get_shutdown_command_args(distribution)
-        shutdown_command_exec = '{0} {1}'.format(shutdown_command, shutdown_command_args)
-
-        self.cleanup(force=True)
-        try:
-            display.vvv("{action}: shutting down server...".format(action=self._task.action))
-            display.debug("{action}: shutting down server with command '{command}'".format(action=self._task.action, command=shutdown_command_exec))
-            if self._play_context.check_mode:
-                shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
-            else:
-                shutdown_result = self._low_level_execute_command(shutdown_command_exec, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
-        except AnsibleConnectionFailure as e:
-            # If the connection is closed too quickly due to the system being shutdown, carry on
-            display.debug('{action}: AnsibleConnectionFailure caught and handled: {error}'.format(action=self._task.action, error=to_text(e)))
-            shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
-
-        if shutdown_result['rc'] != 0:
-            result['failed'] = True
-            result['shutdown'] = False
-            result['msg'] = "Shutdown command failed. Error was {stdout}, {stderr}".format(
-                stdout=to_native(shutdown_result['stdout'].strip()),
-                stderr=to_native(shutdown_result['stderr'].strip()))
-            return result
-
-        result['failed'] = False
-        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_command_exec
-        return result
-
-    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
-        self._supports_check_mode = True
-        self._supports_async = True
-
-        # If running with local connection, fail so we don't shutdown ourself
-        if self._connection.transport == 'local' and (not self._play_context.check_mode):
-            msg = 'Running {0} with local connection would shutdown the control node.'.format(self._task.action)
-            return {'changed': False, 'elapsed': 0, 'shutdown': False, 'failed': True, 'msg': msg}
-
-        if task_vars is None:
-            task_vars = {}
-
-        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
-
-        if result.get('skipped', False) or result.get('failed', False):
-            return result
-
-        distribution = self.get_distribution(task_vars)
-
-        # Initiate shutdown
-        shutdown_result = self.perform_shutdown(task_vars, distribution)
-
-        if shutdown_result['failed']:
-            result = shutdown_result
-            return result
-
-        result['shutdown'] = True
-        result['changed'] = True
-        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_result['shutdown_command']
-
-        return result

plugins/action/shutdown.py

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

plugins/action/system/iptables_state.py

@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright: (c) 2020, quidame <quidame@poivron.org>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import time
+
+from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleActionFail, AnsibleConnectionFailure
+from ansible.utils.vars import merge_hash
+from ansible.utils.display import Display
+
+display = Display()
+
+
+class ActionModule(ActionBase):
+
+    # Keep internal params away from user interactions
+    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset(('path', 'state', 'table', 'noflush', 'counters', 'modprobe', 'ip_version', 'wait'))
+    DEFAULT_SUDOABLE = True
+
+    MSG_ERROR__ASYNC_AND_POLL_NOT_ZERO = (
+        "This module doesn't support async>0 and poll>0 when its 'state' param "
+        "is set to 'restored'. To enable its rollback feature (that needs the "
+        "module to run asynchronously on the remote), please set task attribute "
+        "'poll' (=%s) to 0, and 'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than "
+        "'ansible_timeout' (=%s) (recommended).")
+    MSG_WARNING__NO_ASYNC_IS_NO_ROLLBACK = (
+        "Attempts to restore iptables state without rollback in case of mistake "
+        "may lead the ansible controller to loose access to the hosts and never "
+        "regain it before fixing firewall rules through a serial console, or any "
+        "other way except SSH. Please set task attribute 'poll' (=%s) to 0, and "
+        "'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than 'ansible_timeout' (=%s) "
+        "(recommended).")
+    MSG_WARNING__ASYNC_GREATER_THAN_TIMEOUT = (
+        "You attempt to restore iptables state with rollback in case of mistake, "
+        "but with settings that will lead this rollback to happen AFTER that the "
+        "controller will reach its own timeout. Please set task attribute 'poll' "
+        "(=%s) to 0, and 'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than "
+        "'ansible_timeout' (=%s) (recommended).")
+
+    def _async_result(self, async_status_args, task_vars, timeout):
+        '''
+        Retrieve results of the asynchonous task, and display them in place of
+        the async wrapper results (those with the ansible_job_id key).
+        '''
+        async_status = self._task.copy()
+        async_status.args = async_status_args
+        async_status.action = 'ansible.builtin.async_status'
+        async_status.async_val = 0
+        async_action = self._shared_loader_obj.action_loader.get(
+            async_status.action, task=async_status, connection=self._connection,
+            play_context=self._play_context, loader=self._loader, templar=self._templar,
+            shared_loader_obj=self._shared_loader_obj)
+
+        if async_status.args['mode'] == 'cleanup':
+            return async_action.run(task_vars=task_vars)
+
+        # At least one iteration is required, even if timeout is 0.
+        for dummy in range(max(1, timeout)):
+            async_result = async_action.run(task_vars=task_vars)
+            if async_result.get('finished', 0) == 1:
+                break
+            time.sleep(min(1, timeout))
+
+        return async_result
+
+    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
+
+        self._supports_check_mode = True
+        self._supports_async = True
+
+        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
+        del tmp  # tmp no longer has any effect
+
+        if not result.get('skipped'):
+
+            # FUTURE: better to let _execute_module calculate this internally?
+            wrap_async = self._task.async_val and not self._connection.has_native_async
+
+            # Set short names for values we'll have to compare or reuse
+            task_poll = self._task.poll
+            task_async = self._task.async_val
+            check_mode = self._play_context.check_mode
+            max_timeout = self._connection._play_context.timeout
+            module_args = self._task.args
+
+            if module_args.get('state', None) == 'restored':
+                if not wrap_async:
+                    if not check_mode:
+                        display.warning(self.MSG_WARNING__NO_ASYNC_IS_NO_ROLLBACK % (
+                            task_poll,
+                            task_async,
+                            max_timeout))
+                elif task_poll:
+                    raise AnsibleActionFail(self.MSG_ERROR__ASYNC_AND_POLL_NOT_ZERO % (
+                        task_poll,
+                        task_async,
+                        max_timeout))
+                else:
+                    if task_async > max_timeout and not check_mode:
+                        display.warning(self.MSG_WARNING__ASYNC_GREATER_THAN_TIMEOUT % (
+                            task_poll,
+                            task_async,
+                            max_timeout))
+
+                    # inject the async directory based on the shell option into the
+                    # module args
+                    async_dir = self.get_shell_option('async_dir', default="~/.ansible_async")
+
+                    # Bind the loop max duration to consistent values on both
+                    # remote and local sides (if not the same, make the loop
+                    # longer on the controller); and set a backup file path.
+                    module_args['_timeout'] = task_async
+                    module_args['_back'] = '%s/iptables.state' % async_dir
+                    async_status_args = dict(mode='status')
+                    confirm_cmd = 'rm -f %s' % module_args['_back']
+                    starter_cmd = 'touch %s.starter' % module_args['_back']
+                    remaining_time = max(task_async, max_timeout)
+
+            # do work!
+            result = merge_hash(result, self._execute_module(module_args=module_args, task_vars=task_vars, wrap_async=wrap_async))
+
+            # Then the 3-steps "go ahead or rollback":
+            # 1. Catch early errors of the module (in asynchronous task) if any.
+            #    Touch a file on the target to signal the module to process now.
+            # 2. Reset connection to ensure a persistent one will not be reused.
+            # 3. Confirm the restored state by removing the backup on the remote.
+            #    Retrieve the results of the asynchronous task to return them.
+            if '_back' in module_args:
+                async_status_args['jid'] = result.get('ansible_job_id', None)
+                if async_status_args['jid'] is None:
+                    raise AnsibleActionFail("Unable to get 'ansible_job_id'.")
+
+                # Catch early errors due to missing mandatory option, bad
+                # option type/value, missing required system command, etc.
+                result = merge_hash(result, self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, 0))
+
+                # The module is aware to not process the main iptables-restore
+                # command before finding (and deleting) the 'starter' cookie on
+                # the host, so the previous query will not reach ssh timeout.
+                dummy = self._low_level_execute_command(starter_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
+
+                # As the main command is not yet executed on the target, here
+                # 'finished' means 'failed before main command be executed'.
+                if not result['finished']:
+                    try:
+                        self._connection.reset()
+                    except AttributeError:
+                        pass
+
+                    for dummy in range(max_timeout):
+                        time.sleep(1)
+                        remaining_time -= 1
+                        # - AnsibleConnectionFailure covers rejected requests (i.e.
+                        #   by rules with '--jump REJECT')
+                        # - ansible_timeout is able to cover dropped requests (due
+                        #   to a rule or policy DROP) if not lower than async_val.
+                        try:
+                            dummy = self._low_level_execute_command(confirm_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
+                            break
+                        except AnsibleConnectionFailure:
+                            continue
+
+                    result = merge_hash(result, self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, remaining_time))
+
+                # Cleanup async related stuff and internal params
+                for key in ('ansible_job_id', 'results_file', 'started', 'finished'):
+                    if result.get(key):
+                        del result[key]
+
+                if result.get('invocation', {}).get('module_args'):
+                    for key in ('_back', '_timeout', '_async_dir', 'jid'):
+                        if result['invocation']['module_args'].get(key):
+                            del result['invocation']['module_args'][key]
+
+                async_status_args['mode'] = 'cleanup'
+                dummy = self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, 0)
+
+        if not wrap_async:
+            # remove a temporary path we created
+            self._remove_tmp_path(self._connection._shell.tmpdir)
+
+        return result

plugins/action/system/shutdown.py

@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright: (c) 2020, Amin Vakil <info@aminvakil.com>
+# Copyright: (c) 2016-2018, Matt Davis <mdavis@ansible.com>
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Sam Doran <sdoran@redhat.com>
+# 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, AnsibleConnectionFailure
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_string
+from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
+from ansible.utils.display import Display
+
+display = Display()
+
+
+class TimedOutException(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+class ActionModule(ActionBase):
+    TRANSFERS_FILES = False
+    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset((
+        'msg',
+        'delay',
+        'search_paths'
+    ))
+
+    DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = None
+    DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY = 0
+    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE = 'Shut down initiated by Ansible'
+    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND = 'shutdown'
+    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = '-h {delay_min} "{message}"'
+    DEFAULT_SUDOABLE = True
+
+    SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS = {
+        'alpine': 'poweroff',
+        'vmkernel': 'halt',
+    }
+
+    SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = {
+        'alpine': '',
+        'void': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
+        'freebsd': '-h +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
+        'linux': DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS,
+        'macosx': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
+        'openbsd': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
+        'solaris': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
+        'sunos': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
+        'vmkernel': '-d {delay_sec}',
+        'aix': '-Fh',
+    }
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super(ActionModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    @property
+    def delay(self):
+        return self._check_delay('delay', self.DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY)
+
+    def _check_delay(self, key, default):
+        """Ensure that the value is positive or zero"""
+        value = int(self._task.args.get(key, default))
+        if value < 0:
+            value = 0
+        return value
+
+    def _get_value_from_facts(self, variable_name, distribution, default_value):
+        """Get dist+version specific args first, then distribution, then family, lastly use default"""
+        attr = getattr(self, variable_name)
+        value = attr.get(
+            distribution['name'] + distribution['version'],
+            attr.get(
+                distribution['name'],
+                attr.get(
+                    distribution['family'],
+                    getattr(self, default_value))))
+        return value
+
+    def get_shutdown_command_args(self, distribution):
+        args = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS')
+        # Convert seconds to minutes. If less that 60, set it to 0.
+        delay_sec = self.delay
+        shutdown_message = self._task.args.get('msg', self.DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE)
+        return args.format(delay_sec=delay_sec, delay_min=delay_sec // 60, message=shutdown_message)
+
+    def get_distribution(self, task_vars):
+        # FIXME: only execute the module if we don't already have the facts we need
+        distribution = {}
+        display.debug('{action}: running setup module to get distribution'.format(action=self._task.action))
+        module_output = self._execute_module(
+            task_vars=task_vars,
+            module_name='ansible.legacy.setup',
+            module_args={'gather_subset': 'min'})
+        try:
+            if module_output.get('failed', False):
+                raise AnsibleError('Failed to determine system distribution. {0}, {1}'.format(
+                    to_native(module_output['module_stdout']).strip(),
+                    to_native(module_output['module_stderr']).strip()))
+            distribution['name'] = module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution'].lower()
+            distribution['version'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution_version'].split('.')[0])
+            distribution['family'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_os_family'].lower())
+            display.debug("{action}: distribution: {dist}".format(action=self._task.action, dist=distribution))
+            return distribution
+        except KeyError as ke:
+            raise AnsibleError('Failed to get distribution information. Missing "{0}" in output.'.format(ke.args[0]))
+
+    def get_shutdown_command(self, task_vars, distribution):
+        shutdown_bin = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND')
+        default_search_paths = ['/sbin', '/usr/sbin', '/usr/local/sbin']
+        search_paths = self._task.args.get('search_paths', default_search_paths)
+
+        # FIXME: switch all this to user arg spec validation methods when they are available
+        # Convert bare strings to a list
+        if is_string(search_paths):
+            search_paths = [search_paths]
+
+        # Error if we didn't get a list
+        err_msg = "'search_paths' must be a string or flat list of strings, got {0}"
+        try:
+            incorrect_type = any(not is_string(x) for x in search_paths)
+            if not isinstance(search_paths, list) or incorrect_type:
+                raise TypeError
+        except TypeError:
+            raise AnsibleError(err_msg.format(search_paths))
+
+        display.debug('{action}: running find module looking in {paths} to get path for "{command}"'.format(
+            action=self._task.action,
+            command=shutdown_bin,
+            paths=search_paths))
+        find_result = self._execute_module(
+            task_vars=task_vars,
+            # prevent collection search by calling with ansible.legacy (still allows library/ override of find)
+            module_name='ansible.legacy.find',
+            module_args={
+                'paths': search_paths,
+                'patterns': [shutdown_bin],
+                'file_type': 'any'
+            }
+        )
+
+        full_path = [x['path'] for x in find_result['files']]
+        if not full_path:
+            raise AnsibleError('Unable to find command "{0}" in search paths: {1}'.format(shutdown_bin, search_paths))
+        self._shutdown_command = full_path[0]
+        return self._shutdown_command
+
+    def perform_shutdown(self, task_vars, distribution):
+        result = {}
+        shutdown_result = {}
+        shutdown_command = self.get_shutdown_command(task_vars, distribution)
+        shutdown_command_args = self.get_shutdown_command_args(distribution)
+        shutdown_command_exec = '{0} {1}'.format(shutdown_command, shutdown_command_args)
+
+        self.cleanup(force=True)
+        try:
+            display.vvv("{action}: shutting down server...".format(action=self._task.action))
+            display.debug("{action}: shutting down server with command '{command}'".format(action=self._task.action, command=shutdown_command_exec))
+            if self._play_context.check_mode:
+                shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
+            else:
+                shutdown_result = self._low_level_execute_command(shutdown_command_exec, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
+        except AnsibleConnectionFailure as e:
+            # If the connection is closed too quickly due to the system being shutdown, carry on
+            display.debug('{action}: AnsibleConnectionFailure caught and handled: {error}'.format(action=self._task.action, error=to_text(e)))
+            shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
+
+        if shutdown_result['rc'] != 0:
+            result['failed'] = True
+            result['shutdown'] = False
+            result['msg'] = "Shutdown command failed. Error was {stdout}, {stderr}".format(
+                stdout=to_native(shutdown_result['stdout'].strip()),
+                stderr=to_native(shutdown_result['stderr'].strip()))
+            return result
+
+        result['failed'] = False
+        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_command_exec
+        return result
+
+    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
+        self._supports_check_mode = True
+        self._supports_async = True
+
+        # If running with local connection, fail so we don't shutdown ourself
+        if self._connection.transport == 'local' and (not self._play_context.check_mode):
+            msg = 'Running {0} with local connection would shutdown the control node.'.format(self._task.action)
+            return {'changed': False, 'elapsed': 0, 'shutdown': False, 'failed': True, 'msg': msg}
+
+        if task_vars is None:
+            task_vars = {}
+
+        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
+
+        if result.get('skipped', False) or result.get('failed', False):
+            return result
+
+        distribution = self.get_distribution(task_vars)
+
+        # Initiate shutdown
+        shutdown_result = self.perform_shutdown(task_vars, distribution)
+
+        if shutdown_result['failed']:
+            result = shutdown_result
+            return result
+
+        result['shutdown'] = True
+        result['changed'] = True
+        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_result['shutdown_command']
+
+        return result

plugins/become/doas.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
               - name: ANSIBLE_DOAS_FLAGS
         become_pass:
             description: password for doas prompt
-            required: false
+            required: False
             vars:
               - name: ansible_become_password
               - name: ansible_become_pass

plugins/become/dzdo.py

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
@@ -55,7 +53,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
               - name: ANSIBLE_DZDO_FLAGS
         become_pass:
             description: Options to pass to dzdo
-            required: false
+            required: False
             vars:
               - name: ansible_become_password
               - name: ansible_become_pass

plugins/become/ksu.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
             env:
               - name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_USER
               - name: ANSIBLE_KSU_USER
-            required: true
+            required: True
         become_exe:
             description: Su executable
             default: ksu
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
               - name: ANSIBLE_KSU_FLAGS
         become_pass:
             description: ksu password
-            required: false
+            required: False
             vars:
               - name: ansible_ksu_pass
               - name: ansible_become_pass

plugins/become/machinectl.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
               - name: ANSIBLE_MACHINECTL_FLAGS
         become_pass:
             description: Password for machinectl
-            required: false
+            required: False
             vars:
               - name: ansible_become_password
               - name: ansible_become_pass
@@ -67,46 +66,15 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
             ini:
               - section: machinectl_become_plugin
                 key: password
-    notes:
-      - When not using this plugin with user C(root), it only works correctly with a polkit rule which will alter
-        the behaviour of machinectl. This rule must alter the prompt behaviour to ask directly for the user credentials,
-        if the user is allowed to perform the action (take a look at the examples section).
-        If such a rule is not present the plugin only work if it is used in context with the root user,
-        because then no further prompt will be shown by machinectl.
 '''
 
-EXAMPLES = r'''
-# A polkit rule needed to use the module with a non-root user.
-# See the Notes section for details.
-60-machinectl-fast-user-auth.rules: |
-    polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
-        if(action.id == "org.freedesktop.machine1.host-shell" && subject.isInGroup("wheel")) {
-            return polkit.Result.AUTH_SELF_KEEP;
-        }
-    });
-'''
-
-from re import compile as re_compile
-
 from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
-
-
-ansi_color_codes = re_compile(to_bytes(r'\x1B\[[0-9;]+m'))
 
 
 class BecomeModule(BecomeBase):
 
     name = 'community.general.machinectl'
 
-    prompt = 'Password: '
-    fail = ('==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ====',)
-    success = ('==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====',)
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def remove_ansi_codes(line):
-        return ansi_color_codes.sub(b"", line)
-
     def build_become_command(self, cmd, shell):
         super(BecomeModule, self).build_become_command(cmd, shell)
 
@@ -117,16 +85,4 @@ class BecomeModule(BecomeBase):
 
         flags = self.get_option('become_flags')
         user = self.get_option('become_user')
-        return '%s -q shell %s %s@ %s' % (become, flags, user, self._build_success_command(cmd, shell))
-
-    def check_success(self, b_output):
-        b_output = self.remove_ansi_codes(b_output)
-        return super().check_success(b_output)
-
-    def check_incorrect_password(self, b_output):
-        b_output = self.remove_ansi_codes(b_output)
-        return super().check_incorrect_password(b_output)
-
-    def check_missing_password(self, b_output):
-        b_output = self.remove_ansi_codes(b_output)
-        return super().check_missing_password(b_output)
+        return '%s -q shell %s %s@ %s' % (become, flags, user, cmd)

plugins/become/pbrun.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
               - name: ANSIBLE_PBRUN_FLAGS
         become_pass:
             description: Password for pbrun
-            required: false
+            required: False
             vars:
               - name: ansible_become_password
               - name: ansible_become_pass
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
                 key: password
         wrap_exe:
             description: Toggle to wrap the command pbrun calls in 'shell -c' or not
-            default: false
+            default: False
             type: bool
             ini:
               - section: pbrun_become_plugin

plugins/become/pfexec.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
@@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
               - name: ANSIBLE_PFEXEC_FLAGS
         become_pass:
             description: pfexec password
-            required: false
+            required: False
             vars:
               - name: ansible_become_password
               - name: ansible_become_pass
@@ -72,7 +71,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
                 key: password
         wrap_exe:
             description: Toggle to wrap the command pfexec calls in 'shell -c' or not
-            default: false
+            default: False
             type: bool
             ini:
               - section: pfexec_become_plugin
@@ -102,4 +101,4 @@ class BecomeModule(BecomeBase):
 
         flags = self.get_option('become_flags')
         noexe = not self.get_option('wrap_exe')
-        return '%s %s %s' % (exe, flags, self._build_success_command(cmd, shell, noexe=noexe))
+        return '%s %s "%s"' % (exe, flags, self._build_success_command(cmd, shell, noexe=noexe))

plugins/become/pmrun.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
               - name: ANSIBLE_PMRUN_FLAGS
         become_pass:
             description: pmrun password
-            required: false
+            required: False
             vars:
               - name: ansible_become_password
               - name: ansible_become_pass