Release 7.5.7.

[stable-2.7] apt_rpm: fix package install check (#8263 ) (#8271 )
apt_rpm: fix package install check (#8263) Fix package install check. (cherry picked from commit 17e11d7d7e)
2026-04-29 18:06:53 +00:00 · 2024-04-22 18:22:49 +02:00 · 2024-04-22 06:53:24 +02:00 · 2024-04-21 15:09:57 +02:00 · 2024-04-21 09:10:44 +02:00 · 2024-04-21 09:10:33 +02:00
889 changed files with 32048 additions and 7511 deletions
--- a/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ schedules:
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
+        - stable-8
        - stable-7
-        - stable-6
  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-5
+        - stable-6

 variables:
  - name: checkoutPath
@@ -53,26 +53,39 @@ variables:
 resources:
  containers:
    - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:3.0.0
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:4.0.1

 pool: Standard

 stages:
 ### Sanity
-  - stage: Sanity_devel
-    displayName: Sanity devel
+  - stage: Sanity_2_17
+    displayName: Sanity 2.17
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: devel/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.17/sanity/{0}
          targets:
            - test: 1
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
            - test: extra
+  - stage: Sanity_2_16
+    displayName: Sanity 2.16
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.16/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
  - stage: Sanity_2_15
    displayName: Sanity 2.15
    dependsOn: []
@@ -86,63 +99,34 @@ stages:
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
-  - 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: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.12/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
 ### Units
-  - stage: Units_devel
-    displayName: Units devel
+  - stage: Units_2_17
+    displayName: Units 2.17
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: devel/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.17/units/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.5
-            - test: 3.6
            - test: 3.7
            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
            - test: '3.11'
+            - test: '3.12'
+  - stage: Units_2_16
+    displayName: Units 2.16
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.16/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: "3.11"
  - stage: Units_2_15
    displayName: Units 2.15
    dependsOn: []
@@ -152,75 +136,62 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: 2.15/units/{0}/1
          targets:
+            - test: 3.5
            - test: "3.10"
-  - 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: 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: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.12/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 2.6
-            - test: 3.8

 ## Remote
-  - stage: Remote_devel_extra_vms
-    displayName: Remote devel extra VMs
+  - stage: Remote_2_17_extra_vms
+    displayName: Remote 2.17 extra VMs
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.17/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.17
-              test: alpine/3.17
-            # - name: Fedora 37
-            #   test: fedora/37
-            # - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-            #   test: ubuntu/20.04
+            - name: Alpine 3.19
+              test: alpine/3.19
+            # - name: Fedora 39
+            #   test: fedora/39
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu/22.04
          groups:
            - vm
-  - stage: Remote_devel
-    displayName: Remote devel
+  - stage: Remote_2_17
+    displayName: Remote 2.17
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.17/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 14.3
+              test: macos/14.3
+            - name: RHEL 9.3
+              test: rhel/9.3
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.3
+              test: freebsd/13.3
+            - name: FreeBSD 14.0
+              test: freebsd/14.0
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_16
+    displayName: Remote 2.16
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.16/{0}
          targets:
            - name: macOS 13.2
              test: macos/13.2
-            - name: RHEL 9.1
-              test: rhel/9.1
+            - name: RHEL 9.2
+              test: rhel/9.2
+            - name: RHEL 8.8
+              test: rhel/8.8
            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
              test: freebsd/13.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.4
-              test: freebsd/12.4
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -233,82 +204,54 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: 2.15/{0}
          targets:
+            - name: RHEL 9.1
+              test: rhel/9.1
+            - name: RHEL 8.7
+              test: rhel/8.7
            - name: RHEL 7.9
              test: rhel/7.9
-            - 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
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_12
-    displayName: Remote 2.12
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.12/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 11.1
-              test: macos/11.1
-            - name: RHEL 8.4
-              test: rhel/8.4
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
-              test: freebsd/13.0
+            # - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+            #   test: freebsd/13.1
+            # - name: FreeBSD 12.4
+            #   test: freebsd/12.4
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3

 ### Docker
-  - stage: Docker_devel
-    displayName: Docker devel
+  - stage: Docker_2_17
+    displayName: Docker 2.17
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/linux/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.17/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 37
-              test: fedora37
-            - name: openSUSE 15
-              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Fedora 39
+              test: fedora39
            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
              test: ubuntu2004
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu2204
+            - name: Alpine 3.19
+              test: alpine319
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_16
+    displayName: Docker 2.16
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.16/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 38
+              test: fedora38
+            - name: openSUSE 15
+              test: opensuse15
            - name: Alpine 3
              test: alpine3
          groups:
@@ -323,94 +266,58 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: 2.15/linux/{0}
          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 37
+              test: fedora37
            - name: CentOS 7
              test: centos7
          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: Fedora 36
-              test: fedora36
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_13
-    displayName: Docker 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.13/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 35
-              test: fedora35
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
-              test: opensuse15py2
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_12
-    displayName: Docker 2.12
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.12/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: CentOS 6
-              test: centos6
-            - name: Fedora 34
-              test: fedora34
-            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
-              test: ubuntu1804
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3

 ### Community Docker
-  - stage: Docker_community_devel
-    displayName: Docker (community images) devel
+  - stage: Docker_community_2_17
+    displayName: Docker (community images) 2.17
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/linux-community/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.17/linux-community/{0}
          targets:
            - name: Debian Bullseye
              test: debian-bullseye/3.9
+            - name: Debian Bookworm
+              test: debian-bookworm/3.11
            - name: ArchLinux
              test: archlinux/3.11
-            - name: CentOS Stream 8
-              test: centos-stream8/3.9
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3

 ### Generic
-  - stage: Generic_devel
-    displayName: Generic devel
+  - stage: Generic_2_17
+    displayName: Generic 2.17
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: devel/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.17/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
+            - test: '3.7'
+            - test: '3.12'
+  - stage: Generic_2_16
+    displayName: Generic 2.16
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.16/generic/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: '2.7'
+            - test: '3.6'
            - test: '3.11'
  - stage: Generic_2_15
    displayName: Generic 2.15
@@ -421,68 +328,28 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: 2.15/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: 3.9
-  - 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
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.12/generic/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 3.8
+            - test: '3.9'

  - stage: Summary
    condition: succeededOrFailed()
    dependsOn:
-      - Sanity_devel
-      - Sanity_2_12
-      - Sanity_2_13
-      - Sanity_2_14
+      - Sanity_2_17
+      - Sanity_2_16
      - Sanity_2_15
-      - Units_devel
-      - Units_2_12
-      - Units_2_13
-      - Units_2_14
+      - Units_2_17
+      - Units_2_16
      - Units_2_15
-      - Remote_devel_extra_vms
-      - Remote_devel
-      - Remote_2_12
-      - Remote_2_13
-      - Remote_2_14
+      - Remote_2_17_extra_vms
+      - Remote_2_17
+      - Remote_2_16
      - Remote_2_15
-      - Docker_devel
-      - Docker_2_12
-      - Docker_2_13
-      - Docker_2_14
+      - Docker_2_17
+      - Docker_2_16
      - Docker_2_15
-      - Docker_community_devel
+      - Docker_community_2_17
 # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-#      - Generic_devel
-#      - Generic_2_12
-#      - Generic_2_13
-#      - Generic_2_14
+#      - Generic_2_17
+#      - Generic_2_16
 #      - Generic_2_15
    jobs:
      - template: templates/coverage.yml
--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: ddelnano shinuza
  $lookups/:
    labels: lookups
+  $lookups/bitwarden_secrets_manager.py:
+    maintainers: jantari
  $lookups/bitwarden.py:
    maintainers: lungj
  $lookups/cartesian.py: {}
@@ -247,9 +249,11 @@ files:
    labels: onepassword
    maintainers: samdoran
  $lookups/onepassword.py:
-    maintainers: azenk scottsb
+    ignore: scottsb
+    maintainers: azenk
  $lookups/onepassword_raw.py:
-    maintainers: azenk scottsb
+    ignore: scottsb
+    maintainers: azenk
  $lookups/passwordstore.py: {}
  $lookups/random_pet.py:
    maintainers: Akasurde
@@ -274,6 +278,8 @@ files:
  $module_utils/gconftool2.py:
    labels: gconftool2
    maintainers: russoz
+  $module_utils/gio_mime.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/gitlab.py:
    keywords: gitlab source_control
    labels: gitlab
@@ -326,6 +332,9 @@ files:
  $module_utils/scaleway.py:
    labels: cloud scaleway
    maintainers: $team_scaleway
+  $module_utils/snap.py:
+    labels: snap
+    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/ssh.py:
    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/storage/hpe3par/hpe3par.py:
@@ -333,6 +342,9 @@ files:
  $module_utils/utm_utils.py:
    labels: utm_utils
    maintainers: $team_e_spirit
+  $module_utils/vardict.py:
+    labels: vardict
+    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/wdc_redfish_utils.py:
    labels: wdc_redfish_utils
    maintainers: $team_wdc
@@ -428,7 +440,7 @@ files:
    ignore: resmo
    maintainers: dmtrs
  $modules/consul:
-    ignore: colin-nolan
+    ignore: colin-nolan Hakon
    maintainers: $team_consul
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    maintainers: schlupov
@@ -507,6 +519,8 @@ files:
  $modules/gem.py:
    labels: gem
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core johanwiren
+  $modules/gio_mime.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $modules/git_config.py:
    maintainers: djmattyg007 mgedmin
  $modules/github_:
@@ -527,10 +541,15 @@ files:
    keywords: gitlab source_control
    maintainers: $team_gitlab
    notify: jlozadad
+    ignore: dj-wasabi
  $modules/gitlab_branch.py:
    maintainers: paytroff
+  $modules/gitlab_merge_request.py:
+    maintainers: zvaraondrej
  $modules/gitlab_project_variable.py:
    maintainers: markuman
+  $modules/gitlab_instance_variable.py:
+    maintainers: benibr
  $modules/gitlab_runner.py:
    maintainers: SamyCoenen
  $modules/gitlab_user.py:
@@ -623,6 +642,7 @@ files:
    maintainers: bregman-arie
  $modules/ipa_:
    maintainers: $team_ipa
+    ignore: fxfitz
  $modules/ipbase_info.py:
    maintainers: dominikkukacka
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@@ -659,7 +679,9 @@ files:
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    maintainers: $team_jboss jhoekx
  $modules/jenkins_build.py:
-    maintainers: brettmilford unnecessary-username
+    maintainers: brettmilford unnecessary-username juanmcasanova
+  $modules/jenkins_build_info.py:
+    maintainers: juanmcasanova
  $modules/jenkins_job.py:
    maintainers: sermilrod
  $modules/jenkins_job_info.py:
@@ -669,9 +691,9 @@ files:
  $modules/jenkins_script.py:
    maintainers: hogarthj
  $modules/jira.py:
-    ignore: DWSR
+    ignore: DWSR tarka
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+    maintainers: Slezhuk pertoft
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@@ -680,8 +702,16 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_keycloak
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    maintainers: elfelip Gaetan2907
+  $modules/keycloak_authentication_required_actions.py:
+    maintainers: Skrekulko
  $modules/keycloak_authz_authorization_scope.py:
    maintainers: mattock
+  $modules/keycloak_authz_permission.py:
+    maintainers: mattock
+  $modules/keycloak_authz_custom_policy.py:
+    maintainers: mattock
+  $modules/keycloak_authz_permission_info.py:
+    maintainers: mattock
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    maintainers: Gaetan2907
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@@ -700,8 +730,12 @@ files:
    maintainers: kris2kris
  $modules/keycloak_realm_info.py:
    maintainers: fynncfchen
+  $modules/keycloak_realm_key.py:
+    maintainers: mattock
  $modules/keycloak_role.py:
    maintainers: laurpaum
+  $modules/keycloak_user.py:
+    maintainers: elfelip
  $modules/keycloak_user_federation.py:
    maintainers: laurpaum
  $modules/keycloak_user_rolemapping.py:
@@ -748,6 +782,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: nerzhul
  $modules/lvg.py:
    maintainers: abulimov
+  $modules/lvg_rename.py:
+    maintainers: lszomor
  $modules/lvol.py:
    maintainers: abulimov jhoekx zigaSRC unkaputtbar112
  $modules/lxc_container.py:
@@ -917,7 +953,7 @@ files:
    labels: pagerduty
    maintainers: suprememoocow thaumos
  $modules/pagerduty_alert.py:
-    maintainers: ApsOps
+    maintainers: ApsOps xshen1
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    maintainers: adamvaughan
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    maintainers: kevensen
  $modules/parted.py:
-    maintainers: ColOfAbRiX rosowiecki jake2184
+    maintainers: ColOfAbRiX jake2184
  $modules/pear.py:
    ignore: jle64
    labels: pear
@@ -960,6 +996,9 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_solaris dermute
  $modules/pmem.py:
    maintainers: mizumm
+  $modules/pnpm.py:
+    ignore: chrishoffman
+    maintainers: aretrosen
  $modules/portage.py:
    ignore: sayap
    labels: portage
@@ -976,7 +1015,8 @@ files:
  $modules/proxmox:
    keywords: kvm libvirt proxmox qemu
    labels: proxmox virt
-    maintainers: $team_virt
+    maintainers: $team_virt UnderGreen
+    ignore: tleguern
  $modules/proxmox.py:
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    maintainers: UnderGreen
@@ -1174,6 +1214,8 @@ files:
    ignore: ryansb
  $modules/shutdown.py:
    maintainers: nitzmahone samdoran aminvakil
+  $modules/simpleinit_msb.py:
+    maintainers: vaygr
  $modules/sl_vm.py:
    maintainers: mcltn
  $modules/slack.py:
@@ -1186,7 +1228,7 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_solaris
  $modules/snap.py:
    labels: snap
-    maintainers: angristan vcarceler
+    maintainers: angristan vcarceler russoz
  $modules/snap_alias.py:
    labels: snap
    maintainers: russoz
@@ -1353,6 +1395,8 @@ files:
    ignore: matze
    labels: zypper
    maintainers: $team_suse
+  $plugin_utils/unsafe.py:
+    maintainers: felixfontein
  $tests/a_module.py:
    maintainers: felixfontein
 #########################
@@ -1372,7 +1416,6 @@ macros:
  becomes: plugins/become
  caches: plugins/cache
  callbacks: plugins/callback
-  cliconfs: plugins/cliconf
  connections: plugins/connection
  doc_fragments: plugins/doc_fragments
  filters: plugins/filter
@@ -1380,7 +1423,7 @@ macros:
  lookups: plugins/lookup
  module_utils: plugins/module_utils
  modules: plugins/modules
-  terminals: plugins/terminal
+  plugin_utils: plugins/plugin_utils
  tests: plugins/test
  team_ansible_core:
  team_aix: MorrisA bcoca d-little flynn1973 gforster kairoaraujo marvin-sinister mator molekuul ramooncamacho wtcross
@@ -1389,10 +1432,10 @@ macros:
  team_cyberark_conjur: jvanderhoof ryanprior
  team_e_spirit: MatrixCrawler getjack
  team_flatpak: JayKayy oolongbrothers
-  team_gitlab: Lunik Shaps dj-wasabi marwatk waheedi zanssa scodeman metanovii sh0shin nejch lgatellier suukit
+  team_gitlab: Lunik Shaps marwatk waheedi zanssa scodeman metanovii sh0shin nejch lgatellier suukit
  team_hpux: bcoca davx8342
  team_huawei: QijunPan TommyLike edisonxiang freesky-edward hwDCN niuzhenguo xuxiaowei0512 yanzhangi zengchen1024 zhongjun2
-  team_ipa: Akasurde Nosmoht fxfitz justchris1
+  team_ipa: Akasurde Nosmoht justchris1
  team_jboss: Wolfant jairojunior wbrefvem
  team_keycloak: eikef ndclt mattock
  team_linode: InTheCloudDan decentral1se displague rmcintosh Charliekenney23 LBGarber
@@ -1408,5 +1451,5 @@ macros:
  team_scaleway: remyleone abarbare
  team_solaris: bcoca fishman jasperla jpdasma mator scathatheworm troy2914 xen0l
  team_suse: commel evrardjp lrupp toabctl AnderEnder alxgu andytom sealor
-  team_virt: joshainglis karmab tleguern Thulium-Drake Ajpantuso
+  team_virt: joshainglis karmab Thulium-Drake Ajpantuso
  team_wdc: mikemoerk
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ on:
      - main
      - stable-*
  pull_request:
-  # Run EOL CI once per day (at 08:00 UTC)
+  # Run EOL CI once per day (at 10:00 UTC)
  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 8 * * *'
+    - cron: '0 10 * * *'

 concurrency:
  # Make sure there is at most one active run per PR, but do not cancel any non-PR runs
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ jobs:
      matrix:
        ansible:
          - '2.11'
+          - '2.12'
+          - '2.13'
+          - '2.14'
    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
@@ -43,7 +46,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: Perform sanity testing
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
-          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: felixfontein/ansible
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: ${{ contains(fromJson('["2.10", "2.11"]'), matrix.ansible) && 'felixfontein/ansible' || 'ansible/ansible' }}
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
@@ -75,6 +78,16 @@ jobs:
            python: '2.7'
          - ansible: '2.11'
            python: '3.5'
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            python: '2.6'
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            python: '3.8'
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            python: '2.7'
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            python: '3.8'
+          - ansible: '2.14'
+            python: '3.9'

    steps:
      - name: >-
@@ -82,7 +95,7 @@ jobs:
          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
-          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: felixfontein/ansible
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: ${{ contains(fromJson('["2.10", "2.11"]'), matrix.ansible) && 'felixfontein/ansible' || 'ansible/ansible' }}
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pre-test-cmd: >-
@@ -163,7 +176,109 @@ jobs:
          # - ansible: '2.11'
          #   docker: default
          #   python: '3.5'
-          #   target: azp/generic/2/
+          #   target: azp/generic/1/
+          # 2.12
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: centos6
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: centos6
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: centos6
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: fedora34
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: fedora34
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: fedora34
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: ubuntu1804
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: ubuntu1804
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: ubuntu1804
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
+          # - ansible: '2.12'
+          #   docker: default
+          #   python: '3.8'
+          #   target: azp/generic/1/
+          # 2.13
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: fedora35
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: fedora35
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: fedora35
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: opensuse15py2
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: opensuse15py2
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: opensuse15py2
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
+          # - ansible: '2.13'
+          #   docker: default
+          #   python: '3.9'
+          #   target: azp/generic/1/
+          # 2.14
+          - ansible: '2.14'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.14'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.14'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
+          # - ansible: '2.14'
+          #   docker: default
+          #   python: '3.10'
+          #   target: azp/generic/1/

    steps:
      - name: >-
@@ -172,7 +287,7 @@ jobs:
          under Python ${{ matrix.python }}
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
-          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: felixfontein/ansible
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: ${{ contains(fromJson('["2.10", "2.11"]'), matrix.ansible) && 'felixfontein/ansible' || 'ansible/ansible' }}
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          docker-image: ${{ matrix.docker }}
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ jobs:

    steps:
    - name: Checkout repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4

    # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
    - name: Initialize CodeQL
-      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v3
      with:
        languages: python

    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3
--- a/.github/workflows/import-galaxy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/import-galaxy.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+# 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: import-galaxy
+'on':
+  # Run CI against all pushes (direct commits, also merged PRs) to main, and all Pull Requests
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - stable-*
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  import-galaxy:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    name: Test to import built collection artifact with Galaxy importer
+    uses: ansible-community/github-action-test-galaxy-import/.github/workflows/test-galaxy-import.yml@main
--- a/.github/workflows/reuse.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reuse.yml
@@ -22,14 +22,9 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || '' }}

-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          pip install reuse
-
-      - name: Check REUSE compliance
-        run: |
-          reuse lint
+      - name: REUSE Compliance Check
+        uses: fsfe/reuse-action@v3
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.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)$
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,952 @@
+# Community General Release Notes
+
+**Topics**
+
+- <a href="#v7-5-7">v7\.5\.7</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v7-5-6">v7\.5\.6</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-1">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#security-fixes">Security Fixes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-1">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v7-5-5">v7\.5\.5</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-2">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-2">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v7-5-4">v7\.5\.4</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-3">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-3">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v7-5-3">v7\.5\.3</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-4">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-4">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v7-5-2">v7\.5\.2</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-5">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-5">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v7-5-1">v7\.5\.1</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-6">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-6">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v7-5-0">v7\.5\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-7">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-1">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features">Deprecated Features</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-7">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules">New Modules</a>
+- <a href="#v7-4-0">v7\.4\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-8">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-2">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-8">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules-1">New Modules</a>
+- <a href="#v7-3-0">v7\.3\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-9">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-3">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features-1">Deprecated Features</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-9">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v7-2-1">v7\.2\.1</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-10">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-10">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v7-2-0">v7\.2\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-11">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-4">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features-2">Deprecated Features</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-11">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#new-plugins">New Plugins</a>
+        - <a href="#lookup">Lookup</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules-2">New Modules</a>
+- <a href="#v7-1-0">v7\.1\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-12">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-5">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features-3">Deprecated Features</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-12">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#known-issues">Known Issues</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules-3">New Modules</a>
+- <a href="#v7-0-1">v7\.0\.1</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-13">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-13">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v7-0-0">v7\.0\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-14">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-6">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#breaking-changes--porting-guide">Breaking Changes / Porting Guide</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features-4">Deprecated Features</a>
+    - <a href="#removed-features-previously-deprecated">Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-14">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#new-plugins-1">New Plugins</a>
+        - <a href="#lookup-1">Lookup</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules-4">New Modules</a>
+This changelog describes changes after version 6\.0\.0\.
+
+<a id="v7-5-7"></a>
+## v7\.5\.7
+
+<a id="release-summary"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix release\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* aix\_filesystem \- fix <code>\_validate\_vg</code> not passing VG name to <code>lsvg\_cmd</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- when checking whether packages were installed after running <code>apt\-get \-y install \<packages\></code>\, only the last package name was checked \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263)\)\.
+* bitwarden\_secrets\_manager lookup plugin \- implements retry with exponential backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn\'s API rate limiting is encountered \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238)\)\.
+* haproxy \- fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092)\)\.
+* inventory plugins \- add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain <code>\{</code> or <code>\}</code> as unsafe\, to work around a bug in AWX \(\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225)\)\.
+* ipa \- fix get version regex in IPA module\_utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- add sorted <code>defaultClientScopes</code> and <code>optionalClientScopes</code> to normalizations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm \- add normalizations for <code>enabledEventTypes</code> and <code>supportedLocales</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224)\)\.
+* puppet \- add option <code>environment\_lang</code> to set the environment language encoding\. Defaults to lang <code>C</code>\. It is recommended to set it to <code>C\.UTF\-8</code> or <code>en\_US\.UTF\-8</code> depending on what is available on your system\. \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000)\)
+* riak \- support <code>riak admin</code> sub\-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy <code>riak\-admin</code> main command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211)\)\.
+* xml \- make module work with lxml 5\.1\.1\, which removed some internals that the module was relying on \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169)\)\.
+
+<a id="v7-5-6"></a>
+## v7\.5\.6
+
+<a id="release-summary-1"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix release with security fixes\.
+
+<a id="security-fixes"></a>
+### Security Fixes
+
+* cobbler\, gitlab\_runners\, icinga2\, linode\, lxd\, nmap\, online\, opennebula\, proxmox\, scaleway\, stackpath\_compute\, virtualbox\, and xen\_orchestra inventory plugin \- make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe\, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible \([https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/](https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-1"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* aix\_filesystem \- fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052)\)\.
+* homebrew \- error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse empty JSON\. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error message to users \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047)\)\.
+* ipa\_hbacrule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
+* ipa\_sudorule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
+* iptables\_state \- fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables dumps \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029)\)\.
+* linode inventory plugin \- add descriptive error message for linode inventory plugin \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133)\)\.
+* pacemaker\_cluster \- actually implement check mode\, which the module claims to support\. This means that until now the module also did changes in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081)\)\.
+* pam\_limits \- when the file does not exist\, do not create it in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- fixed status check getting from node\-specific API endpoint \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817)\)\.
+
+<a id="v7-5-5"></a>
+## v7\.5\.5
+
+<a id="release-summary-2"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix release\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-2"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* cargo \- fix idempotency issues when using a custom installation path for packages \(using the <code>\-\-path</code> parameter\)\. The initial installation runs fine\, but subsequent runs use the <code>get\_installed\(\)</code> function which did not check the given installation location\, before running <code>cargo install</code>\. This resulted in a false <code>changed</code> state\. Also the removal of packeges using <code>state\: absent</code> failed\, as the installation check did not use the given parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when task is in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881)\)\.
+* modprobe \- listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError if <code>/etc/modprobe\.d</code> or <code>/etc/modules\-load\.d</code> did not exist\. Relevant functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid crashing the module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- failed for fields that were in sections and had uppercase letters in the label/ID\. Field lookups are now case insensitive in all cases \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919)\)\.
+* pkgin \- pkgin \(pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS\) raises erratic exceptions and spurious <code>changed\=true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- allow for a GET operation invoked by <code>GetUpdateStatus</code> to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No Content \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve <code>Chassis</code> information \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952)\)\.
+
+<a id="v7-5-4"></a>
+## v7\.5\.4
+
+<a id="release-summary-3"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix release\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-3"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* homebrew \- detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from <code>brew info</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864)\)\.
+* ipa\_otptoken \- the module expect <code>ipatokendisabled</code> as string but the <code>ipatokendisabled</code> value is returned as a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795)\)\.
+* ldap \- previously the order number \(if present\) was expected to follow an equals sign in the DN\. This makes it so the order number string is identified correctly anywhere within the DN \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646)\)\.
+* mssql\_script \- make the module work with Python 2 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821)\)\.
+* nmcli \- fix <code>connection\.slave\-type</code> wired to <code>bond</code> and not with parameter <code>slave\_type</code> in case of connection type <code>wifi</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389)\)\.
+
+<a id="v7-5-3"></a>
+## v7\.5\.3
+
+<a id="release-summary-4"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix release\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-4"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- <code>mappers</code> processing was not idempotent if the mappers configuration list had not been sorted by name \(in ascending order\)\. Fix resolves the issue by sorting mappers in the desired state using the same key which is used for obtaining existing state \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
+* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- it was not possible to reconfigure \(add\, remove\) <code>mappers</code> once they were created initially\. Removal was ignored\, adding new ones resulted in dropping the pre\-existing unmodified mappers\. Fix resolves the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user \- when <code>force</code> is set\, but user does not exist\, do not try to delete it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696)\)\.
+* statusio\_maintenance \- fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload\. Was raising \"Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request\" caused by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754)\)\.
+
+<a id="v7-5-2"></a>
+## v7\.5\.2
+
+<a id="release-summary-5"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix release\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* elastic callback plugin \- close elastic client to not leak resources \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7517](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7517)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-5"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* cloudflare\_dns \- fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652)\)\.
+* interface\_files \- also consider <code>address\_family</code> when changing <code>option\=method</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612)\)\.
+* irc \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
+* keycloak\_\* \- fix Keycloak API client to quote <code>/</code> properly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641)\)\.
+* keycloak\_authz\_permission \- resource payload variable for scope\-based permission was constructed as a string\, when it needs to be a list\, even for a single item \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151)\)\.
+* log\_entries callback plugin \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
+* lvol \- test for output messages in both <code>stdout</code> and <code>stderr</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182)\)\.
+* ocapi\_utils\, oci\_utils\, redfish\_utils module utils \- replace <code>type\(\)</code> calls with <code>isinstance\(\)</code> calls \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- field and section titles are now case insensitive when using op CLI version two or later\. This matches the behavior of version one \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564)\)\.
+* pipx module utils \- change the CLI argument formatter for the <code>pip\_args</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- use the D\-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7\.4 and
+  greater\; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622)\,
+  [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624)\)\.
+* terraform \- fix multiline string handling in complex variables \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535)\)\.
+
+<a id="v7-5-1"></a>
+## v7\.5\.1
+
+<a id="release-summary-6"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix release\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-6"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* composer \- fix impossible to run <code>working\_dir</code> dependent commands\. The module was throwing an error when trying to run a <code>working\_dir</code> dependent command\, because it tried to get the command help without passing the <code>working\_dir</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/3787](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/3787)\)\.
+* github\_deploy\_key \- fix pagination behaviour causing a crash when only a single page of deploy keys exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7375](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7375)\)\.
+* gitlab\_group\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_group\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_project\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_protected\_branches \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_protected\_branches</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_user \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_user</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* kernel\_blacklist \- simplified the mechanism to update the file\, fixing the error \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7382](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7382)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7362](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7362)\)\.
+* memset module utils \- make compatible with ansible\-core 2\.17 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7379](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7379)\)\.
+* proxmox\_pool\_member \- absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- fix usage of message parsing in <code>SimpleUpdate</code> and <code>MultipartHTTPPushUpdate</code> commands to treat the lack of a <code>MessageId</code> as no message \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- use the right D\-Bus options for the consumer type when
+  registering a RHEL system older than 9 or a RHEL 9 system older than 9\.2
+  and using <code>consumer\_type</code>
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7378](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7378)\)\.
+* selective callback plugin \- fix length of task name lines in output always being 3 characters longer than desired \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7374](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7374)\)\.
+
+<a id="v7-5-0"></a>
+## v7\.5\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-7"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release\.
+
+Please note that this is the last minor 7\.x\.0 release\. Further releases
+with major version 7 will be bugfix releases 7\.5\.y\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-1"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* cargo \- add option <code>executable</code>\, which allows user to specify path to the cargo binary \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7352](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7352)\)\.
+* cargo \- add option <code>locked</code> which allows user to specify install the locked version of dependency instead of latest compatible version \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6134](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6134)\)\.
+* dig lookup plugin \- add TCP option to enable the use of TCP connection during DNS lookup \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7343](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7343)\)\.
+* gitlab\_group \- add option <code>force\_delete</code> \(default\: false\) which allows delete group even if projects exists in it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7364](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7364)\)\.
+* ini\_file \- add <code>ignore\_spaces</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7273)\)\.
+* newrelic\_deployment \- add option <code>app\_name\_exact\_match</code>\, which filters results for the exact app\_name provided \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7355](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7355)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- introduce <code>account\_id</code> option which allows specifying which account to use \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7308](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7308)\)\.
+* onepassword\_raw lookup plugin \- introduce <code>account\_id</code> option which allows specifying which account to use \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7308](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7308)\)\.
+* parted \- on resize\, use <code>\-\-fix</code> option if available \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7304](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7304)\)\.
+* pnpm \- set correct version when state is latest or version is not mentioned\. Resolves previous idempotency problem \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7339](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7339)\)\.
+* proxmox \- add <code>vmid</code> \(and <code>taskid</code> when possible\) to return values \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7263](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7263)\)\.
+* random\_string \- added new <code>ignore\_similar\_chars</code> and <code>similar\_chars</code> option to ignore certain chars \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7242](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7242)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add new option <code>update\_oem\_params</code> for the <code>MultipartHTTPPushUpdate</code> command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7331](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7331)\)\.
+* redfish\_config \- add <code>CreateVolume</code> command to allow creation of volumes on servers \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6813](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6813)\)\.
+* redfish\_config \- adding <code>SetSecureBoot</code> command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7129](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7129)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add support for <code>GetBiosRegistries</code> command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7144](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7144)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- adds <code>LinkStatus</code> to NIC inventory \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7318](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7318)\)\.
+* redis\_info \- refactor the redis\_info module to use the redis module\_utils enabling to pass TLS parameters to the Redis client \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7267](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7267)\)\.
+* supervisorctl \- allow to stop matching running processes before removing them with <code>stop\_before\_removing\=true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7284](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7284)\)\.
+
+<a id="deprecated-features"></a>
+### Deprecated Features
+
+* The next major release\, community\.general 8\.0\.0\, will drop support for ansible\-core 2\.11 and 2\.12\, which have been End of Life for some time now\. This means that this collection no longer supports Python 2\.6 on the target\. Individual content might still work with unsupported ansible\-core versions\, but that can change at any time\. Also please note that from now on\, for every new major community\.general release\, we will drop support for all ansible\-core versions that have been End of Life for more than a few weeks on the date of the major release \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-community/community\-topics/discussions/271](https\://github\.com/ansible\-community/community\-topics/discussions/271)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7259](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7259)\)\.
+* redfish\_info\, redfish\_config\, redfish\_command \- the default value <code>10</code> for the <code>timeout</code> option is deprecated and will change to <code>60</code> in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7295](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7295)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-7"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* gitlab\_group\_variable \- deleted all variables when used with <code>purge\=true</code> due to missing <code>raw</code> property in KNOWN attributes \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7250](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7250)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project\_variable \- deleted all variables when used with <code>purge\=true</code> due to missing <code>raw</code> property in KNOWN attributes \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7250](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7250)\)\.
+* ldap\_search \- fix string normalization and the <code>base64\_attributes</code> option on Python 3 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5704](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5704)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7264)\)\.
+* lxc connection plugin \- properly evaluate options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7369](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7369)\)\.
+* mail \- skip headers containing equals characters due to missing <code>maxsplit</code> on header key/value parsing \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7303](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7303)\)\.
+* nmap inventory plugin \- fix <code>get\_option</code> calls \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7323](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7323)\)\.
+* onepassword \- fix KeyError exception when trying to access value of a field that is not filled out in OnePassword item \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7241](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7241)\)\.
+* snap \- change the change detection mechanism from \"parsing installation\" to \"comparing end state with initial state\" \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7340](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7340)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7265](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7265)\)\.
+* terraform \- prevents <code>\-backend\-config</code> option double encapsulating with <code>shlex\_quote</code> function\. \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7301](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7301)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-modules"></a>
+### New Modules
+
+* consul\_role \- Manipulate Consul roles
+* gio\_mime \- Set default handler for MIME type\, for applications using Gnome GIO
+* keycloak\_authz\_custom\_policy \- Allows administration of Keycloak client custom Javascript policies via Keycloak API
+* keycloak\_realm\_key \- Allows administration of Keycloak realm keys via Keycloak API
+* simpleinit\_msb \- Manage services on Source Mage GNU/Linux
+
+<a id="v7-4-0"></a>
+## v7\.4\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-8"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Bugfix and feature release\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-2"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* cobbler inventory plugin \- add <code>exclude\_mgmt\_classes</code> and <code>include\_mgmt\_classes</code> options to exclude or include hosts based on management classes \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7184](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7184)\)\.
+* cpanm \- minor refactor when creating the <code>CmdRunner</code> object \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7231](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7231)\)\.
+* gitlab\_group\_variable \- add support for <code>raw</code> variables suboption \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7132](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7132)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project\_variable \- add support for <code>raw</code> variables suboption \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7132](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7132)\)\.
+* jenkins\_build \- add new <code>detach</code> option\, which allows the module to exit successfully as long as the build is created \(default functionality is still waiting for the build to end before exiting\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7204](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7204)\)\.
+* jenkins\_build \- add new <code>time\_between\_checks</code> option\, which allows to configure the wait time between requests to the Jenkins server \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7204](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7204)\)\.
+* make \- allows <code>params</code> to be used without value \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7180](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7180)\)\.
+* nmap inventory plugin \- now has a <code>use\_arp\_ping</code> option to allow the user to disable the default ARP ping query for a more reliable form \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7119](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7119)\)\.
+* pagerduty \- adds in option to use v2 API for creating pagerduty incidents \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6151)\)
+* pritunl module utils \- ensure <code>validate\_certs</code> parameter is honoured in all methods \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7156](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7156)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- report <code>Id</code> in the output of <code>GetManagerInventory</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7140](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7140)\)\.
+* redfish\_utils module utils \- support <code>Volumes</code> in response for <code>GetDiskInventory</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6819](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6819)\)\.
+* unixy callback plugin \- add support for <code>check\_mode\_markers</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7179](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7179)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-8"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* CmdRunner module utils \- does not attempt to resolve path if executable is a relative or absolute path \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7200](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7200)\)\.
+* nmap inventory plugin \- now uses <code>get\_option</code> in all cases to get its configuration information \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7119](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7119)\)\.
+* nsupdate \- fix a possible <code>list index out of range</code> exception \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/836](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/836)\)\.
+* oci\_utils module util \- fix inappropriate logical comparison expressions and makes them simpler\. The previous checks had logical short circuits \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7125](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7125)\)\.
+* pritunl module utils \- fix incorrect URL parameter for orgnization add method \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7161](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7161)\)\.
+* snap \- an exception was being raised when snap list was empty \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7124](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7124)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7120](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7120)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-modules-1"></a>
+### New Modules
+
+* jenkins\_build\_info \- Get information about Jenkins builds
+* pnpm \- Manage node\.js packages with pnpm
+
+<a id="v7-3-0"></a>
+## v7\.3\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-9"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Feature and bugfix release\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-3"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* chroot connection plugin \- add <code>disable\_root\_check</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7099](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7099)\)\.
+* ejabberd\_user \- module now using <code>CmdRunner</code> to execute external command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7075](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7075)\)\.
+* ipa\_config \- add module parameters to manage FreeIPA user and group objectclasses \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7019](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7019)\)\.
+* ipa\_config \- adds <code>idp</code> choice to <code>ipauserauthtype</code> parameter\'s choices \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7051](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7051)\)\.
+* npm \- module now using <code>CmdRunner</code> to execute external commands \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6989](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6989)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- enabled force restart of VM\, bringing the <code>force</code> parameter functionality in line with what is described in the docs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6914](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6914)\)\.
+* proxmox\_vm\_info \- <code>node</code> parameter is no longer required\. Information can be obtained for the whole cluster \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6976](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6976)\)\.
+* proxmox\_vm\_info \- non\-existing provided by name/vmid VM would return empty results instead of failing \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7049](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7049)\)\.
+* redfish\_config \- add <code>DeleteAllVolumes</code> command to allow deletion of all volumes on servers \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6814](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6814)\)\.
+* redfish\_utils \- use <code>Controllers</code> key in redfish data to obtain Storage controllers properties \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7081](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7081)\)\.
+* redfish\_utils module utils \- add support for <code>PowerCycle</code> reset type for <code>redfish\_command</code> responses feature \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7083](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7083)\)\.
+* redfish\_utils module utils \- add support for following <code>\@odata\.nextLink</code> pagination in <code>software\_inventory</code> responses feature \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7020](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7020)\)\.
+* shutdown \- use <code>shutdown \-p \.\.\.</code> with FreeBSD to halt and power off machine \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7102](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7102)\)\.
+* sorcery \- add grimoire \(repository\) management support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7012](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7012)\)\.
+
+<a id="deprecated-features-1"></a>
+### Deprecated Features
+
+* ejabberd\_user \- deprecate the parameter <code>logging</code> in favour of producing more detailed information in the module output \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7043](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7043)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-9"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- the plugin made assumptions about the structure of a Bitwarden JSON object which may have been broken by an update in the Bitwarden API\. Remove assumptions\, and allow queries for general fields such as <code>notes</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7061](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7061)\)\.
+* ejabberd\_user \- module was failing to detect whether user was already created and/or password was changed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7033](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7033)\)\.
+* keycloak module util \- fix missing <code>http\_agent</code>\, <code>timeout</code>\, and <code>validate\_certs</code> <code>open\_url\(\)</code> parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7067](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7067)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client inventory plugin \- fix missing client secret \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6931](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6931)\)\.
+* lvol \- add support for percentage of origin size specification when creating snapshot volumes \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1630](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1630)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7053](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7053)\)\.
+* lxc connection plugin \- now handles <code>remote\_addr</code> defaulting to <code>inventory\_hostname</code> correctly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7104](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7104)\)\.
+* oci\_utils module utils \- avoid direct type comparisons \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7085](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7085)\)\.
+* proxmox\_user\_info \- avoid direct type comparisons \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7085](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7085)\)\.
+* snap \- fix crash when multiple snaps are specified and one has <code>\-\-\-</code> in its description \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7046](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7046)\)\.
+* sorcery \- fix interruption of the multi\-stage process \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7012](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7012)\)\.
+* sorcery \- fix queue generation before the whole system rebuild \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7012](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7012)\)\.
+* sorcery \- latest state no longer triggers update\_cache \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7012](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7012)\)\.
+
+<a id="v7-2-1"></a>
+## v7\.2\.1
+
+<a id="release-summary-10"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Bugfix release\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-10"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* cmd\_runner module utils \- when a parameter in <code>argument\_spec</code> has no type\, meaning it is implicitly a <code>str</code>\, <code>CmdRunner</code> would fail trying to find the <code>type</code> key in that dictionary \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6968](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6968)\)\.
+* ejabberd\_user \- provide meaningful error message when the <code>ejabberdctl</code> command is not found \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7028](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7028)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6949](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6949)\)\.
+* proxmox module utils \- fix proxmoxer library version check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6974](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6974)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6975](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6975)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6980](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6980)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- when <code>name</code> option is provided without <code>vmid</code> and VM with that name already exists then no new VM will be created \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6911](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6911)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6981](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6981)\)\.
+* rundeck \- fix <code>TypeError</code> on 404 API response \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6983](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6983)\)\.
+
+<a id="v7-2-0"></a>
+## v7\.2\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-11"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-4"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* cobbler inventory plugin \- convert Ansible unicode strings to native Python unicode strings before passing user/password to XMLRPC client \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6923](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6923)\)\.
+* consul\_session \- drops requirement for the <code>python\-consul</code> library to communicate with the Consul API\, instead relying on the existing <code>requests</code> library requirement \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6755](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6755)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project\_variable \- minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6928](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6928)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6927](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6927)\)\.
+* htpasswd \- the parameter <code>crypt\_scheme</code> is being renamed as <code>hash\_scheme</code> and added as an alias to it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6841](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6841)\)\.
+* keycloak\_authentication \- added provider ID choices\, since Keycloak supports only those two specific ones \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6763](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6763)\)\.
+* keyring \- minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6927](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6927)\)\.
+* locale\_gen \- module has been refactored to use <code>ModuleHelper</code> and <code>CmdRunner</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6903](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6903)\)\.
+* locale\_gen \- module now using <code>CmdRunner</code> to execute external commands \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6820](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6820)\)\.
+* make \- add new <code>targets</code> parameter allowing multiple targets to be used with <code>make</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6882](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6882)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4919](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4919)\)\.
+* nmcli \- add support for <code>ipv4\.dns\-options</code> and <code>ipv6\.dns\-options</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6902](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6902)\)\.
+* npm \- minor improvement on parameter validation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6848](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6848)\)\.
+* opkg \- add <code>executable</code> parameter allowing to specify the path of the <code>opkg</code> command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6862](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6862)\)\.
+* pubnub\_blocks \- minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6928](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6928)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add <code>account\_types</code> and <code>oem\_account\_types</code> as optional inputs to <code>AddUser</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6823](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6823)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6871](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6871)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add <code>AccountTypes</code> and <code>OEMAccountTypes</code> to the output of <code>ListUsers</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6823](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6823)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6871](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6871)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- adds <code>ProcessorArchitecture</code> to CPU inventory \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6864](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6864)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- fix for <code>GetVolumeInventory</code>\, Controller name was getting populated incorrectly and duplicates were seen in the volumes retrieved \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6719](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6719)\)\.
+* rhsm\_repository \- the interaction with <code>subscription\-manager</code> was
+  refactored by grouping things together\, removing unused bits\, and hardening
+  the way it is run\; also\, the parsing of <code>subscription\-manager repos \-\-list</code>
+  was improved and made slightly faster\; no behaviour change is expected
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6783](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6783)\,
+  [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6837](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6837)\)\.
+* scaleway\_security\_group\_rule \- minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6928](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6928)\)\.
+* snap \- add option <code>dangerous</code> to the module\, that will map into the command line argument <code>\-\-dangerous</code>\, allowing unsigned snap files to be installed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6908](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6908)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5715](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5715)\)\.
+* tss lookup plugin \- allow to fetch secret by path\. Previously\, we could not fetch secret by path but now use <code>secret\_path</code> option to indicate to fetch secret by secret path \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6881](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6881)\)\.
+* xenserver\_guest\_info \- minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6928](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6928)\)\.
+* xenserver\_guest\_powerstate \- minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6928](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6928)\)\.
+* yum\_versionlock \- add support to pin specific package versions instead of only the package itself \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6861](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6861)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4470](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4470)\)\.
+
+<a id="deprecated-features-2"></a>
+### Deprecated Features
+
+* flowdock \- module relies entirely on no longer responsive API endpoints\, and it will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6930](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6930)\)\.
+* proxmox \- old feature flag <code>proxmox\_default\_behavior</code> will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6836](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6836)\)\.
+* stackdriver \- module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints\, and it will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6887](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6887)\)\.
+* webfaction\_app \- module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints\, and it will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6909](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6909)\)\.
+* webfaction\_db \- module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints\, and it will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6909](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6909)\)\.
+* webfaction\_domain \- module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints\, and it will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6909](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6909)\)\.
+* webfaction\_mailbox \- module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints\, and it will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6909](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6909)\)\.
+* webfaction\_site \- module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints\, and it will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6909](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6909)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-11"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* cobbler inventory plugin \- fix calculation of cobbler\_ipv4/6\_address \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6925](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6925)\)\.
+* datadog\_downtime \- presence of <code>rrule</code> param lead to the Datadog API returning Bad Request due to a missing recurrence type \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6811](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6811)\)\.
+* ipa\_dnszone \- fix \'idnsallowsyncptr\' key error for reverse zone \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6906](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6906)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6905](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6905)\)\.
+* keycloak\_authentication \- fix Keycloak authentication flow \(step or sub\-flow\) indexing during update\, if not specified by the user \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6734](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6734)\)\.
+* locale\_gen \- now works for locales without the underscore character such as <code>C\.UTF\-8</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6774](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6774)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5142](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5142)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4305](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4305)\)\.
+* machinectl become plugin \- mark plugin as <code>require\_tty</code> to automatically disable pipelining\, with which this plugin is not compatible \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6932](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6932)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6935](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6935)\)\.
+* nmcli \- fix support for empty list \(in compare and scrape\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6769](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6769)\)\.
+* openbsd\_pkg \- the pkg\_info\(1\) behavior has changed in OpenBSD \>7\.3\. The error message <code>Can\'t find</code> should not lead to an error case \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6785](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6785)\)\.
+* pacman \- module recognizes the output of <code>yay</code> running as <code>root</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6713](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6713)\)\.
+* proxmox \- fix error when a configuration had no <code>template</code> field \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6838](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6838)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5372](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5372)\)\.
+* proxmox module utils \- add logic to detect whether an old Promoxer complains about the <code>token\_name</code> and <code>token\_value</code> parameters and provide a better error message when that happens \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6839](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6839)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5371](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5371)\)\.
+* proxmox\_disk \- fix unable to create <code>cdrom</code> media due to <code>size</code> always being appended \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6770](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6770)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- <code>absent</code> state with <code>force</code> specified failed to stop the VM due to the <code>timeout</code> value not being passed to <code>stop\_vm</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6827](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6827)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- <code>restarted</code> state did not actually restart a VM in some VM configurations\. The state now uses the Proxmox reboot endpoint instead of calling the <code>stop\_vm</code> and <code>start\_vm</code> functions \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6773](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6773)\)\.
+* proxmox\_template \- require <code>requests\_toolbelt</code> module to fix issue with uploading large templates \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5579](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5579)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6757](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6757)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- fix <code>ListUsers</code> to not show empty account slots \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6771](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6771)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6772](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6772)\)\.
+* refish\_utils module utils \- changing variable names to avoid issues occuring when fetching Volumes data \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6883](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6883)\)\.
+* snap \- assume default track <code>latest</code> in parameter <code>channel</code> when not specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6835](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6835)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6821](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6821)\)\.
+* snap \- fix the processing of the commands\' output\, stripping spaces and newlines from it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6826](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6826)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6803](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6803)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-plugins"></a>
+### New Plugins
+
+<a id="lookup"></a>
+#### Lookup
+
+* bitwarden\_secrets\_manager \- Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden Secrets Manager
+
+<a id="new-modules-2"></a>
+### New Modules
+
+* consul\_policy \- Manipulate Consul policies
+* keycloak\_authz\_permission \- Allows administration of Keycloak client authorization permissions via Keycloak API
+* keycloak\_authz\_permission\_info \- Query Keycloak client authorization permissions information
+* proxmox\_vm\_info \- Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE virtual machines
+
+<a id="v7-1-0"></a>
+## v7\.1\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-12"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release\.
+
+From this version on\, community\.general is using the new [Ansible semantic markup](https\://docs\.ansible\.com/ansible/devel/dev\_guide/developing\_modules\_documenting\.html\#semantic\-markup\-within\-module\-documentation)
+in its documentation\. If you look at documentation with the ansible\-doc CLI tool
+from ansible\-core before 2\.15\, please note that it does not render the markup
+correctly\. You should be still able to read it in most cases\, but you need
+ansible\-core 2\.15 or later to see it as it is intended\. Alternatively you can
+look at [the devel docsite](https\://docs\.ansible\.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/general/)
+for the rendered HTML version of the documentation of the latest release\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-5"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* The collection will start using semantic markup \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6539](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6539)\)\.
+* VarDict module utils \- add method <code>VarDict\.as\_dict\(\)</code> to convert to a plain <code>dict</code> object \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6602](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6602)\)\.
+* cobbler inventory plugin \- add <code>inventory\_hostname</code> option to allow using the system name for the inventory hostname \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6502](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6502)\)\.
+* cobbler inventory plugin \- add <code>want\_ip\_addresses</code> option to collect all interface DNS name to IP address mapping \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6711](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6711)\)\.
+* cobbler inventory plugin \- add primary IP addess to <code>cobbler\_ipv4\_address</code> and IPv6 address to <code>cobbler\_ipv6\_address</code> host variable \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6711](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6711)\)\.
+* cobbler inventory plugin \- add warning for systems with empty profiles \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6502](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6502)\)\.
+* copr \- respawn module to use the system python interpreter when the <code>dnf</code> python module is not available in <code>ansible\_python\_interpreter</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6522](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6522)\)\.
+* datadog\_monitor \- adds <code>notification\_preset\_name</code>\, <code>renotify\_occurrences</code> and <code>renotify\_statuses</code> parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6521\,https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5823](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6521\,https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5823)\)\.
+* filesystem \- add <code>uuid</code> parameter for UUID change feature \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6680](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6680)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client\_rolemapping \- adds support for subgroups with additional parameter <code>parents</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6687](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6687)\)\.
+* keycloak\_role \- add composite roles support for realm and client roles \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6469](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6469)\)\.
+* ldap\_\* \- add new arguments <code>client\_cert</code> and <code>client\_key</code> to the LDAP modules in order to allow certificate authentication \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6668](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6668)\)\.
+* ldap\_search \- add a new <code>page\_size</code> option to enable paged searches \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6648](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6648)\)\.
+* lvg \- add <code>active</code> and <code>inactive</code> values to the <code>state</code> option for active state management feature \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6682](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6682)\)\.
+* lvg \- add <code>reset\_vg\_uuid</code>\, <code>reset\_pv\_uuid</code> options for UUID reset feature \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6682](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6682)\)\.
+* mas \- disable sign\-in check for macOS 12\+ as <code>mas account</code> is non\-functional \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6520](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6520)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- add service account support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6635](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6635)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6660](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6660)\)\.
+* onepassword\_raw lookup plugin \- add service account support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6635](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6635)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6660](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6660)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback plugin \- add span attributes in the span event \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6531](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6531)\)\.
+* opkg \- remove default value <code>\"\"</code> for parameter <code>force</code> as it causes the same behaviour of not having that parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6513](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6513)\)\.
+* proxmox \- support <code>timezone</code> parameter at container creation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6510](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6510)\)\.
+* proxmox inventory plugin \- add composite variables support for Proxmox nodes \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6640](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6640)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- added support for <code>tpmstate0</code> parameter to configure TPM \(Trusted Platform Module\) disk\. TPM is required for Windows 11 installations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6533](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6533)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- re\-use <code>timeout</code> module param to forcefully shutdown a virtual machine when <code>state</code> is <code>stopped</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6257](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6257)\)\.
+* proxmox\_snap \- add <code>retention</code> parameter to delete old snapshots \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6576](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6576)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add <code>MultipartHTTPPushUpdate</code> command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6471](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6471)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6612](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6612)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- the internal <code>RegistrationBase</code> class was folded
+  into the other internal <code>Rhsm</code> class\, as the separation had no purpose
+  anymore
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6658](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6658)\)\.
+* rhsm\_release \- improve/harden the way <code>subscription\-manager</code> is run\;
+  no behaviour change is expected
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6669](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6669)\)\.
+* snap \- module is now aware of channel when deciding whether to install or refresh the snap \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6435](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6435)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1606](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1606)\)\.
+* sorcery \- minor refactor \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6525](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6525)\)\.
+* tss lookup plugin \- allow to fetch secret IDs which are in a folder based on folder ID\. Previously\, we could not fetch secrets based on folder ID but now use <code>fetch\_secret\_ids\_from\_folder</code> option to indicate to fetch secret IDs based on folder ID \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6223](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6223)\)\.
+
+<a id="deprecated-features-3"></a>
+### Deprecated Features
+
+* CmdRunner module utils \- deprecate <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_default\_type\(\)</code> formatter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6601](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6601)\)\.
+* MH VarsMixin module utils \- deprecates <code>VarsMixin</code> and supporting classes in favor of plain <code>vardict</code> module util \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6649](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6649)\)\.
+* cpanm \- value <code>compatibility</code> is deprecated as default for parameter <code>mode</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6512](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6512)\)\.
+* redhat module utils \- the <code>module\_utils\.redhat</code> module is deprecated\, as
+  effectively unused\: the <code>Rhsm</code>\, <code>RhsmPool</code>\, and <code>RhsmPools</code> classes
+  will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0\; the <code>RegistrationBase</code> class
+  will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0 together with the
+  <code>rhn\_register</code> module\, as it is the only user of this class\; this means
+  that the whole <code>module\_utils\.redhat</code> module will be dropped in
+  community\.general 10\.0\.0\, so importing it without even using anything of it
+  will fail
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6663](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6663)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- the <code>autosubscribe</code> alias for the <code>auto\_attach</code> option has been
+  deprecated for many years\, although only in the documentation\. Officially mark this alias
+  as deprecated\, and it will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6646)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- the <code>pool</code> option is deprecated in favour of the
+  more precise and flexible <code>pool\_ids</code> option
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6650](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6650)\)\.
+* rhsm\_repository \- <code>state\=present</code> has not been working as expected for many years\,
+  and it seems it was not noticed so far\; also\, \"presence\" is not really a valid concept
+  for subscription repositories\, which can only be enabled or disabled\. Hence\, mark the
+  <code>present</code> and <code>absent</code> values of the <code>state</code> option as deprecated\, slating them
+  for removal in community\.general 10\.0\.0
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6673](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6673)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-12"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* MH DependencyMixin module utils \- deprecation notice was popping up for modules not using dependencies \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6644](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6644)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6639](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6639)\)\.
+* csv module utils \- detects and remove unicode BOM markers from incoming CSV content \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6662](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6662)\)\.
+* gitlab\_group \- the module passed parameters to the API call even when not set\. The module is now filtering out <code>None</code> values to remediate this \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6712](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6712)\)\.
+* icinga2\_host \- fix a key error when updating an existing host \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6748](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6748)\)\.
+* ini\_file \- add the <code>follow</code> paramter to follow the symlinks instead of replacing them \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6546](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6546)\)\.
+* ini\_file \- fix a bug where the inactive options were not used when possible \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6575](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6575)\)\.
+* keycloak module utils \- fix <code>is\_struct\_included</code> handling of lists of lists/dictionaries \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6688](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6688)\)\.
+* keycloak module utils \- the function <code>get\_user\_by\_username</code> now return the user representation or <code>None</code> as stated in the documentation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6758](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6758)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- allow creation of VM with existing name but new vmid \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6155](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6155)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6709](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6709)\)\.
+* rhsm\_repository \- when using the <code>purge</code> option\, the <code>repositories</code>
+  dictionary element in the returned JSON is now properly updated according
+  to the pruning operation
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6676](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6676)\)\.
+* tss lookup plugin \- fix multiple issues when using <code>fetch\_attachments\=true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6720](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6720)\)\.
+
+<a id="known-issues"></a>
+### Known Issues
+
+* Ansible markup will show up in raw form on ansible\-doc text output for ansible\-core before 2\.15\. If you have trouble deciphering the documentation markup\, please upgrade to ansible\-core 2\.15 \(or newer\)\, or read the HTML documentation on [https\://docs\.ansible\.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/general/](https\://docs\.ansible\.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/general/) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6539](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6539)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-modules-3"></a>
+### New Modules
+
+* gitlab\_instance\_variable \- Creates\, updates\, or deletes GitLab instance variables
+* gitlab\_merge\_request \- Create\, update\, or delete GitLab merge requests
+* keycloak\_authentication\_required\_actions \- Allows administration of Keycloak authentication required actions
+* keycloak\_user \- Create and configure a user in Keycloak
+* lvg\_rename \- Renames LVM volume groups
+* proxmox\_pool \- Pool management for Proxmox VE cluster
+* proxmox\_pool\_member \- Add or delete members from Proxmox VE cluster pools
+
+<a id="v7-0-1"></a>
+## v7\.0\.1
+
+<a id="release-summary-13"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Bugfix release for Ansible 8\.0\.0rc1\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-13"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* nmcli \- fix bond option <code>xmit\_hash\_policy</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6527](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6527)\)\.
+* portage \- fix <code>changed\_use</code> and <code>newuse</code> not triggering rebuilds \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6008](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6008)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6548](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6548)\)\.
+* proxmox\_tasks\_info \- remove <code>api\_user</code> \+ <code>api\_password</code> constraint from <code>required\_together</code> as it causes to require <code>api\_password</code> even when API token param is used \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6201](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6201)\)\.
+* zypper \- added handling of zypper exitcode 102\. Changed state is set correctly now and rc 102 is still preserved to be evaluated by the playbook \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6534](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6534)\)\.
+
+<a id="v7-0-0"></a>
+## v7\.0\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-14"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+This is release 7\.0\.0 of <code>community\.general</code>\, released on 2023\-05\-09\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-6"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* apache2\_module \- add module argument <code>warn\_mpm\_absent</code> to control whether warning are raised in some edge cases \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5793](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5793)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- adds <code>clean</code>\, <code>dist\_upgrade</code> and <code>update\_kernel</code>  parameters for clear caches\, complete upgrade system\, and upgrade kernel packages \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5867](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5867)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- can now retrieve secrets from custom fields \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5694](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5694)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- implement filtering results by <code>collection\_id</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5849](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5849)\)\.
+* cmd\_runner module utils \- <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_bool\(\)</code> can now take an extra parameter to format when value is false \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5647](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5647)\)\.
+* cpanm \- minor change\, use feature from <code>ModuleHelper</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6385](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6385)\)\.
+* dconf \- be forgiving about boolean values\: convert them to GVariant booleans automatically \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6206](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6206)\)\.
+* dconf \- if <code>gi\.repository\.GLib</code> is missing\, try to respawn in a Python interpreter that has it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6491](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6491)\)\.
+* dconf \- minor refactoring improving parameters and dependencies validation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6336](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6336)\)\.
+* dconf \- parse GVariants for equality comparison when the Python module <code>gi\.repository</code> is available \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6049](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6049)\)\.
+* deps module utils \- add function <code>failed\(\)</code> providing the ability to check the dependency check result without triggering an exception \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6383](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6383)\)\.
+* dig lookup plugin \- Support multiple domains to be queried as indicated in docs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6334](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6334)\)\.
+* dig lookup plugin \- support CAA record type \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5913](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5913)\)\.
+* dnsimple \- set custom User\-Agent for API requests to DNSimple \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5927](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5927)\)\.
+* dnsimple\_info \- minor refactor in the code \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6440](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6440)\)\.
+* flatpak\_remote \- add new boolean option <code>enabled</code>\. It controls\, whether the remote is enabled or not \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5926](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5926)\)\.
+* gconftool2 \- refactor using <code>ModuleHelper</code> and <code>CmdRunner</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5545](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5545)\)\.
+* gitlab\_group\_variable\, gitlab\_project\_variable \- refactor function out to module utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6384](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6384)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project \- add <code>builds\_access\_level</code>\, <code>container\_registry\_access\_level</code> and <code>forking\_access\_level</code> options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5706](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5706)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project \- add <code>releases\_access\_level</code>\, <code>environments\_access\_level</code>\, <code>feature\_flags\_access\_level</code>\, <code>infrastructure\_access\_level</code>\, <code>monitor\_access\_level</code>\, and <code>security\_and\_compliance\_access\_level</code> options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5986](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5986)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project \- add new option <code>topics</code> for adding topics to GitLab projects \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6278](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6278)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- add new boolean option <code>access\_level\_on\_creation</code>\. It controls\, whether the value of <code>access\_level</code> is used for runner registration or not\. The option <code>access\_level</code> has been ignored on registration so far and was only used on updates \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5907](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5907)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5908](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5908)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- allow to register group runner \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/3935](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/3935)\)\.
+* homebrew\_cask \- allows passing <code>\-\-greedy</code> option to <code>upgrade\_all</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6267](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6267)\)\.
+* idrac\_redfish\_command \- add <code>job\_id</code> to <code>CreateBiosConfigJob</code> response \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5603](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5603)\)\.
+* ilo\_redfish\_utils module utils \- change implementation of DNS Server IP and NTP Server IP update \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5804](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5804)\)\.
+* ipa\_group \- allow to add and remove external users with the <code>external\_user</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5897](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5897)\)\.
+* ipa\_hostgroup \- add <code>append</code> parameter for adding a new hosts to existing hostgroups without changing existing hostgroup members \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6203](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6203)\)\.
+* iptables\_state \- minor refactoring within the module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5844](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5844)\)\.
+* java\_certs \- add more detailed error output when extracting certificate from PKCS12 fails \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5550](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5550)\)\.
+* jc filter plugin \- added the ability to use parser plugins \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6043](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6043)\)\.
+* jenkins\_plugin \- refactor code to module util to fix sanity check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5565](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5565)\)\.
+* jira \- add worklog functionality \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6209](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6209)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6210](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6210)\)\.
+* keycloak\_authentication \- add flow type option to sub flows to allow the creation of \'form\-flow\' sub flows like in Keycloak\'s built\-in registration flow \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6318](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6318)\)\.
+* keycloak\_group \- add new optional module parameter <code>parents</code> to properly handle keycloak subgroups \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5814](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5814)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- make <code>org\.keycloak\.storage\.ldap\.mappers\.LDAPStorageMapper</code> the default value for mappers <code>providerType</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5863](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5863)\)\.
+* ldap modules \- add <code>ca\_path</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6185](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6185)\)\.
+* ldap modules \- add <code>xorder\_discovery</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6045](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6045)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6109](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6109)\)\.
+* ldap\_search \- the new <code>base64\_attributes</code> allows to specify which attribute values should be Base64 encoded \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6473](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6473)\)\.
+* lxd\_container \- add diff and check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5866](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5866)\)\.
+* lxd\_project \- refactored code out to module utils to clear sanity check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5549](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5549)\)\.
+* make \- add <code>command</code> return value to the module output \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6160](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6160)\)\.
+* mattermost\, rocketchat\, slack \- replace missing default favicon with docs\.ansible\.com favicon \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5928](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5928)\)\.
+* mksysb \- improved the output of the module in case of errors \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6263](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6263)\)\.
+* modprobe \- add <code>persistent</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4028](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4028)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/542)\)\.
+* module\_helper module utils \- updated the imports to make more MH features available at <code>plugins/module\_utils/module\_helper\.py</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6464](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6464)\)\.
+* mssql\_script \- allow for <code>GO</code> statement to be mixed\-case for scripts not using strict syntax \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6457](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6457)\)\.
+* mssql\_script \- handle error condition for empty resultsets to allow for non\-returning SQL statements \(for example <code>UPDATE</code> and <code>INSERT</code>\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6457](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6457)\)\.
+* mssql\_script \- improve batching logic to allow a wider variety of input scripts\. For example\, SQL scripts slurped from Windows machines which may contain carriage return \(\'\'r\'\'\) characters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6457](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6457)\)\.
+* nmap inventory plugin \- add new option <code>open</code> for only returning open ports \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6200](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6200)\)\.
+* nmap inventory plugin \- add new option <code>port</code> for port specific scan \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6165](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6165)\)\.
+* nmap inventory plugin \- add new options <code>udp\_scan</code>\, <code>icmp\_timestamp</code>\, and <code>dns\_resolve</code> for different types of scans \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5566](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5566)\)\.
+* nmap inventory plugin \- added environment variables for configure <code>address</code> and <code>exclude</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6351](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6351)\)\.
+* nmcli \- add <code>default</code> and <code>default\-or\-eui64</code> to the list of valid choices for <code>addr\_gen\_mode6</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5974](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5974)\)\.
+* nmcli \- add <code>macvlan</code> connection type \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6312](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6312)\)\.
+* nmcli \- add support for <code>team\.runner\-fast\-rate</code> parameter for <code>team</code> connections \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6065](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6065)\)\.
+* nmcli \- new module option <code>slave\_type</code> added to allow creation of various types of slave devices \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/473](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/473)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6108](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6108)\)\.
+* one\_vm \- add a new <code>updateconf</code> option which implements the <code>one\.vm\.updateconf</code> API call \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5812](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5812)\)\.
+* openbsd\_pkg \- set <code>TERM</code> to <code>\'dumb\'</code> in <code>execute\_command\(\)</code> to make module less dependant on the <code>TERM</code> environment variable set on the Ansible controller \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6149](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6149)\)\.
+* opkg \- allow installing a package in a certain version \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5688](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5688)\)\.
+* opkg \- refactored module to use <code>CmdRunner</code> for executing <code>opkg</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5718](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5718)\)\.
+* osx\_defaults \- include stderr in error messages \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6011](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6011)\)\.
+* pipx \- add <code>system\_site\_packages</code> parameter to give application access to system\-wide packages \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6308](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6308)\)\.
+* pipx \- ensure <code>include\_injected</code> parameter works with <code>state\=upgrade</code> and <code>state\=latest</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6212](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6212)\)\.
+* pipx \- optional <code>install\_apps</code> parameter added to install applications from injected packages \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6198)\)\.
+* proxmox \- added new module parameter <code>tags</code> for use with PVE 7\+ \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5714](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5714)\)\.
+* proxmox \- suppress urllib3 <code>InsecureRequestWarnings</code> when <code>validate\_certs</code> option is <code>false</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5931](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5931)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- add new <code>archive</code> parameter\. This is needed to create a VM from an archive \(backup\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6159](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6159)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- adds <code>migrate</code> parameter to manage online migrations between hosts \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6448](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6448)\)
+* puppet \- add new options <code>skip\_tags</code> to exclude certain tagged resources during a puppet agent or apply \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6293](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6293)\)\.
+* puppet \- refactored module to use <code>CmdRunner</code> for executing <code>puppet</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5612](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5612)\)\.
+* rax\_scaling\_group \- refactored out code to the <code>rax</code> module utils to clear the sanity check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5563](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5563)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add <code>PerformRequestedOperations</code> command to perform any operations necessary to continue the update flow \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4276](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4276)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add <code>update\_apply\_time</code> to <code>SimpleUpdate</code> command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/3910](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/3910)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add <code>update\_status</code> to output of <code>SimpleUpdate</code> command to allow a user monitor the update in progress \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4276](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4276)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- adding <code>EnableSecureBoot</code> functionality \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5899](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5899)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- adding <code>VerifyBiosAttributes</code> functionality \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5900](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5900)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add <code>GetUpdateStatus</code> command to check the progress of a previous update request \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4276](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4276)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- adds commands to retrieve the HPE ThermalConfiguration and FanPercentMinimum settings from iLO \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6208](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6208)\)\.
+* redfish\_utils module utils \- added PUT \(<code>put\_request\(\)</code>\) functionality \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5490](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5490)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- add a <code>server\_proxy\_scheme</code> parameter to configure the scheme for the proxy server \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5662](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5662)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- adds <code>token</code> parameter for subscription\-manager authentication using Red Hat API token \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5725](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5725)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- credentials \(<code>username</code>\, <code>activationkey</code>\, and so on\) are required now only if a system needs to be registered\, or <code>force\_register</code> is specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5664](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5664)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- the registration is done using the D\-Bus <code>rhsm</code> service instead of spawning a <code>subscription\-manager register</code> command\, if possible\; this avoids passing plain\-text credentials as arguments to <code>subscription\-manager register</code>\, which can be seen while that command runs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6122](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6122)\)\.
+* sefcontext \- add support for path substitutions \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1193](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1193)\)\.
+* shutdown \- if no shutdown commands are found in the <code>search\_paths</code> then the module will attempt to shutdown the system using <code>systemctl shutdown</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4269](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4269)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6171](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6171)\)\.
+* slack \- add option <code>prepend\_hash</code> which allows to control whether a <code>\#</code> is prepended to <code>channel\_id</code>\. The current behavior \(value <code>auto</code>\) is to prepend <code>\#</code> 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 <code>\#</code> must not be prepended\. We recommend to explicitly set <code>prepend\_hash\=always</code> or <code>prepend\_hash\=never</code> to avoid any ambiguity \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5629](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5629)\)\.
+* snap \- minor refactor when executing module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5773](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5773)\)\.
+* snap \- refactor module to use <code>CmdRunner</code> to execute external commands \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6468](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6468)\)\.
+* snap\_alias \- refactor code to module utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6441](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6441)\)\.
+* snap\_alias \- refactored module to use <code>CmdRunner</code> to execute <code>snap</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5486](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5486)\)\.
+* spotinst\_aws\_elastigroup \- add <code>elements</code> attribute when missing in <code>list</code> parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5553](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5553)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- add <code>host\_key\_algorithms</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5605](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5605)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- add <code>proxyjump</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5970](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5970)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- refactor code to module util to fix sanity check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5720](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5720)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- vendored StormSSH\'s config parser to avoid having to install StormSSH to use the module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6117](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6117)\)\.
+* sudoers \- add <code>setenv</code> parameters to support passing environment variables via sudo\. \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5883](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5883)\)
+* sudoers \- adds <code>host</code> parameter for setting hostname restrictions in sudoers rules \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5702](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5702)\)\.
+* terraform \- remove state file check condition and error block\, because in the native implementation of terraform will not cause errors due to the non\-existent file \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6296](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6296)\)\.
+* udm\_dns\_record \- minor refactor to the code \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6382](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6382)\)\.
+* udm\_share \- added <code>elements</code> attribute to <code>list</code> type parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5557](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5557)\)\.
+* udm\_user \- add <code>elements</code> attribute when missing in <code>list</code> parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5559](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5559)\)\.
+* znode module \- optional <code>use\_tls</code> parameter added for encrypted communication \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6154](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6154)\)\.
+
+<a id="breaking-changes--porting-guide"></a>
+### Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+
+* If you are not using this collection as part of Ansible\, but installed \(and/or upgraded\) community\.general manually\, you need to make sure to also install <code>community\.sap\_libs</code> if you are using any of the <code>sapcar\_extract</code>\, <code>sap\_task\_list\_execute</code>\, and <code>hana\_query</code> modules\.
+  Without that collection installed\, the redirects for these modules do not work\.
+* ModuleHelper module utils \- when the module sets output variables named <code>msg</code>\, <code>exception</code>\, <code>output</code>\, <code>vars</code>\, or <code>changed</code>\, the actual output will prefix those names with <code>\_</code> \(underscore symbol\) only when they clash with output variables generated by ModuleHelper itself\, which only occurs when handling exceptions\. Please note that this breaking change does not require a new major release since before this release\, it was not possible to add such variables to the output [due to a bug](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5755) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5765](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5765)\)\.
+* gconftool2 \- fix processing of <code>gconftool\-2</code> when <code>key</code> does not exist\, returning <code>null</code> instead of empty string for both <code>value</code> and <code>previous\_value</code> return values \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6028](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6028)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- the default of <code>access\_level\_on\_creation</code> changed from <code>false</code> to <code>true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428)\)\.
+* ldap\_search \- convert all string\-like values to UTF\-8 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5704](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5704)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6473](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6473)\)\.
+* nmcli \- the default of the <code>hairpin</code> option changed from <code>true</code> to <code>false</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428)\)\.
+* proxmox \- the default of the <code>unprivileged</code> option changed from <code>false</code> to <code>true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428)\)\.
+
+<a id="deprecated-features-4"></a>
+### Deprecated Features
+
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- <code>deps</code> mixin for MH classes deprecated in favour of using the <code>deps</code> module\_utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6465](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6465)\)\.
+* consul \- deprecate using parameters unused for <code>state\=absent</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5772](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5772)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- the default of the new option <code>access\_level\_on\_creation</code> will change from <code>false</code> to <code>true</code> in community\.general 7\.0\.0\. This will cause <code>access\_level</code> to be used during runner registration as well\, and not only during updates \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5908](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5908)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- the option <code>access\_level</code> will lose its default value in community\.general 8\.0\.0\. From that version on\, you have set this option to <code>ref\_protected</code> explicitly\, if you want to have a protected runner \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5925](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5925)\)\.
+* manageiq\_policies \- deprecate <code>state\=list</code> in favour of using <code>community\.general\.manageiq\_policies\_info</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5721](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5721)\)\.
+* manageiq\_tags \- deprecate <code>state\=list</code> in favour of using <code>community\.general\.manageiq\_tags\_info</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5727](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5727)\)\.
+* rax \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax module utils \- module utils code relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_cbs \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_cbs\_attachments \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_cdb \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_cdb\_database \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_cdb\_user \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_clb \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_clb\_nodes \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_clb\_ssl \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_dns \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_dns\_record \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_facts \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_files \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_files\_objects \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_identity \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_keypair \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_meta \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_mon\_alarm \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_mon\_check \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_mon\_entity \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_mon\_notification \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_mon\_notification\_plan \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_network \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_queue \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_scaling\_group \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rax\_scaling\_policy \- module relies on deprecated library <code>pyrax</code> and will be removed in community\.general 9\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5752)\)\.
+* rhn\_channel\, rhn\_register \- RHN hosted at redhat\.com was discontinued years
+  ago\, and Spacewalk 5 \(which uses RHN\) is EOL since 2020\, May 31st\;
+  while these modules could work on Uyuni / SUSE Manager \(fork of Spacewalk 5\)\,
+  we have not heard about anyone using them in those setups\. Hence\, these
+  modules are deprecated\, and will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0
+  in case there are no reports about being still useful\, and potentially
+  no one that steps up to maintain them
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6493](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6493)\)\.
+
+<a id="removed-features-previously-deprecated"></a>
+### Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)
+
+* All <code>sap</code> modules have been removed from this collection\.
+  They have been migrated to the [community\.sap\_libs](https\://galaxy\.ansible\.com/community/sap\_libs) collection\.
+  Redirections have been provided\.
+  Following modules are affected\:
+  \- sapcar\_extract
+  \- sap\_task\_list\_execute
+  \- hana\_query
+* cmd\_runner module utils \- the <code>fmt</code> alias of <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt</code> has been removed\. Use <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt</code> instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428)\)\.
+* newrelic\_deployment \- the <code>appname</code> and <code>environment</code> options have been removed\. They did not do anything \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428)\)\.
+* puppet \- the alias <code>show\-diff</code> of the <code>show\_diff</code> option has been removed\. Use <code>show\_diff</code> instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6428)\)\.
+* xfconf \- generating facts was deprecated in community\.general 3\.0\.0\, however three factoids\, <code>property</code>\, <code>channel</code> and <code>value</code> continued to be generated by mistake\. This behaviour has been removed and <code>xfconf</code> generate no facts whatsoever \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5502](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5502)\)\.
+* xfconf \- generating facts was deprecated in community\.general 3\.0\.0\, however two factoids\, <code>previous\_value</code> and <code>type</code> continued to be generated by mistake\. This behaviour has been removed and <code>xfconf</code> generate no facts whatsoever \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5502](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5502)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-14"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* ModuleHelper \- fix bug when adjusting the name of reserved output variables \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5755](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5755)\)\.
+* alternatives \- support subcommands on Fedora 37\, which uses <code>follower</code> instead of <code>slave</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5794](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5794)\)\.
+* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- set default to raise exception if command\'s return code is different from zero \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5680](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5680)\)\.
+* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- try <code>C\.UTF\-8</code> and then fall back to <code>en\_US\.UTF\-8</code> before failing \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5680](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5680)\)\.
+* archive \- avoid deprecated exception class on Python 3 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6180](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6180)\)\.
+* archive \- reduce RAM usage by generating CRC32 checksum over chunks \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6274](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6274)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- clarify what to do\, if the bitwarden vault is not unlocked \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5811](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5811)\)\.
+* cartesian and flattened lookup plugins \- adjust to parameter deprecation in ansible\-core 2\.14\'s <code>listify\_lookup\_plugin\_terms</code> helper function \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6074](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6074)\)\.
+* chroot connection plugin \- add <code>inventory\_hostname</code> to vars under <code>remote\_addr</code>\. This is needed for compatibility with ansible\-core 2\.13 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5570](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5570)\)\.
+* cloudflare\_dns \- fixed the idempotency for SRV DNS records \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5972](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5972)\)\.
+* cloudflare\_dns \- fixed the possiblity of setting a root\-level SRV DNS record \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5972](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5972)\)\.
+* cmd\_runner module utils \- fixed bug when handling default cases in <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_map\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5538](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5538)\)\.
+* cmd\_runner module utils \- formatting arguments <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_fixed\(\)</code> was expecting an non\-existing argument \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5538](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5538)\)\.
+* dependent lookup plugin \- avoid warning on deprecated parameter for <code>Templar\.template\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5543](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5543)\)\.
+* deps module utils \- do not fail when dependency cannot be found \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6479](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6479)\)\.
+* dig lookup plugin \- correctly handle DNSKEY record type\'s <code>algorithm</code> field \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5914](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5914)\)\.
+* flatpak \- fixes idempotency detection issues\. In some cases the module could fail to properly detect already existing Flatpaks because of a parameter witch only checks the installed apps \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6289](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6289)\)\.
+* gconftool2 \- fix <code>changed</code> result always being <code>true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6028](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6028)\)\.
+* gconftool2 \- remove requirement of parameter <code>value</code> when <code>state\=absent</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6028](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6028)\)\.
+* gem \- fix force parameter not being passed to gem command when uninstalling \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5822](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5822)\)\.
+* gem \- fix hang due to interactive prompt for confirmation on specific version uninstall \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5751](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5751)\)\.
+* github\_webhook \- fix always changed state when no secret is provided \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5994](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5994)\)\.
+* gitlab\_deploy\_key \- also update <code>title</code> and not just <code>can\_push</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5888](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5888)\)\.
+* gitlab\_group\_variables \- fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5667](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5667)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project\_variables \- fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5667](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5667)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- fix <code>KeyError</code> on runner creation and update \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6112](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6112)\)\.
+* icinga2\_host \- fix the data structure sent to Icinga to make use of host templates and template vars \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6286](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6286)\)\.
+* idrac\_redfish\_command \- allow user to specify <code>resource\_id</code> for <code>CreateBiosConfigJob</code> to specify an exact manager \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/2090](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/2090)\)\.
+* influxdb\_user \- fix running in check mode when the user does not exist yet \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6111](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6111)\)\.
+* ini\_file \- make <code>section</code> parameter not required so it is possible to pass <code>null</code> as a value\. This only was possible in the past due to a bug in ansible\-core that now has been fixed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6404](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6404)\)\.
+* interfaces\_file \- fix reading options in lines not starting with a space \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6120](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6120)\)\.
+* jail connection plugin \- add <code>inventory\_hostname</code> to vars under <code>remote\_addr</code>\. This is needed for compatibility with ansible\-core 2\.13 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6118](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6118)\)\.
+* jenkins\_build \- fix the logical flaw when deleting a Jenkins build \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5514](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5514)\)\.
+* jenkins\_plugin \- fix error due to undefined variable when updates file is not downloaded \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6100](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6100)\)\.
+* keycloak \- improve error messages \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6318](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6318)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- fix accidental replacement of value for attribute <code>saml\.signing\.private\.key</code> with <code>no\_log</code> in wrong contexts \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5934](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5934)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client\_rolemapping \- calculate <code>proposed</code> and <code>after</code> return values properly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5619](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5619)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client\_rolemapping \- remove only listed mappings with <code>state\=absent</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5619](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5619)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- fixes federation creation issue\. When a new federation was created and at the same time a default / standard mapper was also changed / updated the creation process failed as a bad None set variable led to a bad malformed url request \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5750](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5750)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- fixes idempotency detection issues\. In some cases the module could fail to properly detect already existing user federations because of a buggy seemingly superflous extra query parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5732](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5732)\)\.
+* loganalytics callback plugin \- adjust type of callback to <code>notification</code>\, it was incorrectly classified as <code>aggregate</code> before \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761)\)\.
+* logdna callback plugin \- adjust type of callback to <code>notification</code>\, it was incorrectly classified as <code>aggregate</code> before \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761)\)\.
+* logstash callback plugin \- adjust type of callback to <code>notification</code>\, it was incorrectly classified as <code>aggregate</code> before \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761)\)\.
+* lxc\_container \- fix the arguments of the lxc command which broke the creation and cloning of containers \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5578](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5578)\)\.
+* lxd\_\* modules\, lxd inventory plugin \- fix TLS/SSL certificate validation problems by using the correct purpose when creating the TLS context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5616](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5616)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6034](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6034)\)\.
+* memset \- fix memset urlerror handling \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6114](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6114)\)\.
+* nmcli \- fix change handling of values specified as an integer 0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5431](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5431)\)\.
+* nmcli \- fix failure to handle WIFI settings when connection type not specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5431](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5431)\)\.
+* nmcli \- fix improper detection of changes to <code>wifi\.wake\-on\-wlan</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5431](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5431)\)\.
+* nmcli \- fixed idempotency issue for bridge connections\. Module forced default value of <code>bridge\.priority</code> to nmcli if not set\; if <code>bridge\.stp</code> is disabled nmcli ignores it and keep default \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/3216](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/3216)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4683](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4683)\)\.
+* nmcli \- fixed idempotency issue when module params is set to <code>may\_fail4\=false</code> and <code>method4\=disabled</code>\; in this case nmcli ignores change and keeps their own default value <code>yes</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6106](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6106)\)\.
+* nmcli \- implemented changing mtu value on vlan interfaces \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4387](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4387)\)\.
+* nmcli \- order is significant for lists of addresses \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6048](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6048)\)\.
+* nsupdate \- fix zone lookup\. The SOA record for an existing zone is returned as an answer RR and not as an authority RR \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5817](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5817)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5818](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5818)\)\.
+* one\_vm \- avoid splitting labels that are <code>None</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5489](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5489)\)\.
+* one\_vm \- fix syntax error when creating VMs with a more complex template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6225](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6225)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- Changed to ignore errors from \"op account get\" calls\. Previously\, errors would prevent auto\-signin code from executing \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5942](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5942)\)\.
+* onepassword\_raw \- add missing parameter to plugin documentation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5506](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5506)\)\.
+* opkg \- fix issue that <code>force\=reinstall</code> would not reinstall an existing package \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5705](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5705)\)\.
+* opkg \- fixes bug when using <code>update\_cache\=true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6004](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6004)\)\.
+* passwordstore lookup plugin \- make compatible with ansible\-core 2\.16 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6447](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6447)\)\.
+* pipx \- fixed handling of <code>install\_deps\=true</code> with <code>state\=latest</code> and <code>state\=upgrade</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6303](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6303)\)\.
+* portage \- update the logic for generating the emerge command arguments to ensure that <code>withbdeps\: false</code> results in a passing an <code>n</code> argument with the <code>\-\-with\-bdeps</code> emerge flag \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6451](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6451)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6456](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6456)\)\.
+* proxmox inventory plugin \- fix bug while templating when using templates for the <code>url</code>\, <code>user</code>\, <code>password</code>\, <code>token\_id</code>\, or <code>token\_secret</code> options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5640](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5640)\)\.
+* proxmox inventory plugin \- handle tags delimited by semicolon instead of comma\, which happens from Proxmox 7\.3 on \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5602](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5602)\)\.
+* proxmox\_disk \- avoid duplicate <code>vmid</code> reference \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5492](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5492)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5493](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5493)\)\.
+* proxmox\_disk \- fixed issue with read timeout on import action \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5803](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5803)\)\.
+* proxmox\_disk \- fixed possible issues with redundant <code>vmid</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5492](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5492)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5672](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5672)\)\.
+* proxmox\_nic \- fixed possible issues with redundant <code>vmid</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5492](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5492)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5672](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5672)\)\.
+* puppet \- handling <code>noop</code> parameter was not working at all\, now it is has been fixed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6452](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6452)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6458](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6458)\)\.
+* redfish\_utils \- removed basic auth HTTP header when performing a GET on the service root resource and when performing a POST to the session collection \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5886](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5886)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- do not ignore <code>consumer\_name</code> and other variables if <code>activationkey</code> is specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/3486](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/3486)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5627](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5627)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- do not pass arguments to <code>subscription\-manager register</code> for things already configured\; now a specified <code>rhsm\_baseurl</code> is properly set for subscription\-manager \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5583](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5583)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- do not use D\-Bus for registering when <code>environment</code> is specified\, so it possible to specify again the environment names for registering\, as the D\-Bus APIs work only with IDs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6319](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6319)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- try to unregister only when already registered when <code>force\_register</code> is specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6258](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6258)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6259](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6259)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- use the right D\-Bus options for environments when registering a CentOS Stream 8 system and using <code>environment</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6275](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6275)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription\, rhsm\_release\, rhsm\_repository \- cleanly fail when not running as root\, rather than hanging on an interactive <code>console\-helper</code> prompt\; they all interact with <code>subscription\-manager</code>\, which already requires to be run as root \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/734](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/734)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6211](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6211)\)\.
+* rhsm\_release \- make <code>release</code> parameter not required so it is possible to pass <code>null</code> as a value\. This only was possible in the past due to a bug in ansible\-core that now has been fixed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6401](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6401)\)\.
+* rundeck module utils \- fix errors caused by the API empty responses \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6300](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6300)\)
+* rundeck\_acl\_policy \- fix <code>TypeError \- byte indices must be integers or slices\, not str</code> error caused by empty API response\. Update the module to use <code>module\_utils\.rundeck</code> functions \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5887](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5887)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6300](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6300)\)\.
+* rundeck\_project \- update the module to use <code>module\_utils\.rundeck</code> functions \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5742](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5742)\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6300](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6300)\)
+* snap\_alias \- module would only recognize snap names containing letter\, numbers or the underscore character\, failing to identify valid snap names such as <code>lxd\.lxc</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6361](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6361)\)\.
+* splunk callback plugin \- adjust type of callback to <code>notification</code>\, it was incorrectly classified as <code>aggregate</code> before \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761)\)\.
+* sumologic callback plugin \- adjust type of callback to <code>notification</code>\, it was incorrectly classified as <code>aggregate</code> before \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761)\)\.
+* syslog\_json callback plugin \- adjust type of callback to <code>notification</code>\, it was incorrectly classified as <code>aggregate</code> before \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5761)\)\.
+* terraform \- fix <code>current</code> workspace never getting appended to the <code>all</code> key in the <code>workspace\_ctf</code> object \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5735](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5735)\)\.
+* terraform \- fix <code>terraform init</code> failure when there are multiple workspaces on the remote backend and when <code>default</code> workspace is missing by setting <code>TF\_WORKSPACE</code> environmental variable to the value of <code>workspace</code> when used \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5735](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5735)\)\.
+* terraform \- fix broken <code>warn\(\)</code> call \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6497)\)\.
+* terraform and timezone \- slight refactoring to avoid linter reporting potentially undefined variables \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5933](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5933)\)\.
+* terraform module \- disable ANSI escape sequences during validation phase \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5843](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5843)\)\.
+* tss lookup plugin \- allow to download secret attachments\. Previously\, we could not download secret attachments but now use <code>fetch\_attachments</code> and <code>file\_download\_path</code> variables to download attachments \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6224](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6224)\)\.
+* unixy callback plugin \- fix plugin to work with ansible\-core 2\.14 by using Ansible\'s configuration manager for handling options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5600](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5600)\)\.
+* unixy callback plugin \- fix typo introduced when updating to use Ansible\'s configuration manager for handling options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5600](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5600)\)\.
+* various plugins and modules \- remove unnecessary imports \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5940](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5940)\)\.
+* vdo \- now uses <code>yaml\.safe\_load\(\)</code> to parse command output instead of the deprecated <code>yaml\.load\(\)</code> which is potentially unsafe\. Using <code>yaml\.load\(\)</code> without explicitely setting a <code>Loader\=</code> is also an error in pyYAML 6\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5632](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5632)\)\.
+* vmadm \- fix for index out of range error in <code>get\_vm\_uuid</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5628](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5628)\)\.
+* xenorchestra inventory plugin \- fix failure to receive objects from server due to not checking the id of the response \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6227](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6227)\)\.
+* xfs\_quota \- in case of a project quota\, the call to <code>xfs\_quota</code> did not initialize/reset the project \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5143](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5143)\)\.
+* xml \- fixed a bug where empty <code>children</code> list would not be set \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5808](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5808)\)\.
+* yarn \- fix <code>global\=true</code> to check for the configured global folder instead of assuming the default \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5829](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5829)\)
+* yarn \- fix <code>global\=true</code> to not fail when <em class="title-reference">executable</em> wasn\'t specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6132](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6132)\)
+* yarn \- fix <code>state\=absent</code> not working with <code>global\=true</code> when the package does not include a binary \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5829](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5829)\)
+* yarn \- fix <code>state\=latest</code> not working with <code>global\=true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5712](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5712)\)\.
+* yarn \- fixes bug where yarn module tasks would fail when warnings were emitted from Yarn\. The <code>yarn\.list</code> method was not filtering out warnings \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6127](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6127)\)\.
+* zfs\_delegate\_admin \- zfs allow output can now be parsed when uids/gids are not known to the host system \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5943](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5943)\)\.
+* zypper \- make package managing work on readonly filesystem of openSUSE MicroOS \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5615](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/5615)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-plugins-1"></a>
+### New Plugins
+
+<a id="lookup-1"></a>
+#### Lookup
+
+* merge\_variables \- merge variables with a certain suffix
+
+<a id="new-modules-4"></a>
+### New Modules
+
+* btrfs\_info \- Query btrfs filesystem info
+* btrfs\_subvolume \- Manage btrfs subvolumes
+* gitlab\_project\_badge \- Manage project badges on GitLab Server
+* ilo\_redfish\_command \- Manages Out\-Of\-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
+* ipbase\_info \- Retrieve IP geolocation and other facts of a host\'s IP address using the ipbase\.com API
+* kdeconfig \- Manage KDE configuration files
+* keycloak\_authz\_authorization\_scope \- Allows administration of Keycloak client authorization scopes via Keycloak API
+* keycloak\_clientscope\_type \- Set the type of aclientscope in realm or client via Keycloak API
+* keycloak\_clientsecret\_info \- Retrieve client secret via Keycloak API
+* keycloak\_clientsecret\_regenerate \- Regenerate Keycloak client secret via Keycloak API
+* ocapi\_command \- Manages Out\-Of\-Band controllers using Open Composable API \(OCAPI\)
+* ocapi\_info \- Manages Out\-Of\-Band controllers using Open Composable API \(OCAPI\)
--- a/CHANGELOG.md.license
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md.license
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+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
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,562 @@ Community General Release Notes

 This changelog describes changes after version 6.0.0.

+v7.5.7
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- aix_filesystem - fix ``_validate_vg`` not passing VG name to ``lsvg_cmd`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8151).
+- apt_rpm - when checking whether packages were installed after running ``apt-get -y install <packages>``, only the last package name was checked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8263).
+- bitwarden_secrets_manager lookup plugin - implements retry with exponential backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn's API rate limiting is encountered (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8230, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8238).
+- haproxy - fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8092).
+- inventory plugins - add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain ``{`` or ``}`` as unsafe, to work around a bug in AWX ((https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8212, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8225).
+- ipa - fix get version regex in IPA module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8175).
+- keycloak_client - add sorted ``defaultClientScopes`` and ``optionalClientScopes`` to normalizations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8223).
+- keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``enabledEventTypes`` and ``supportedLocales`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8224).
+- puppet - add option ``environment_lang`` to set the environment language encoding. Defaults to lang ``C``. It is recommended to set it to ``C.UTF-8`` or ``en_US.UTF-8`` depending on what is available on your system. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8000)
+- riak - support ``riak admin`` sub-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy ``riak-admin`` main command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8211).
+- xml - make module work with lxml 5.1.1, which removed some internals that the module was relying on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8169).
+
+v7.5.6
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release with security fixes.
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- cobbler, gitlab_runners, icinga2, linode, lxd, nmap, online, opennebula, proxmox, scaleway, stackpath_compute, virtualbox, and xen_orchestra inventory plugin - make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible (https://www.die-welt.net/2024/03/remote-code-execution-in-ansible-dynamic-inventory-plugins/, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8098).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- aix_filesystem - fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8052).
+- homebrew - error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse empty JSON. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error message to users (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8047).
+- ipa_hbacrule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+- ipa_sudorule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+- iptables_state - fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables dumps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8029).
+- linode inventory plugin - add descriptive error message for linode inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8133).
+- pacemaker_cluster - actually implement check mode, which the module claims to support. This means that until now the module also did changes in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8081).
+- pam_limits - when the file does not exist, do not create it in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8050, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8057).
+- proxmox_kvm - fixed status check getting from node-specific API endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7817).
+
+v7.5.5
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cargo - fix idempotency issues when using a custom installation path for packages (using the ``--path`` parameter). The initial installation runs fine, but subsequent runs use the ``get_installed()`` function which did not check the given installation location, before running ``cargo install``. This resulted in a false ``changed`` state. Also the removal of packeges using ``state: absent`` failed, as the installation check did not use the given parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7970).
+- keycloak_client - fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when task is in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1226, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7881).
+- modprobe - listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError if ``/etc/modprobe.d`` or ``/etc/modules-load.d`` did not exist. Relevant functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid crashing the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7717).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - failed for fields that were in sections and had uppercase letters in the label/ID. Field lookups are now case insensitive in all cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7919).
+- pkgin - pkgin (pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS) raises erratic exceptions and spurious ``changed=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7971).
+- redfish_info - allow for a GET operation invoked by ``GetUpdateStatus`` to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No Content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8003).
+- redfish_info - correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve ``Chassis`` information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7952).
+
+v7.5.4
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- homebrew - detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from ``brew info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/864).
+- ipa_otptoken - the module expect ``ipatokendisabled`` as string but the ``ipatokendisabled`` value is returned as a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7795).
+- ldap - previously the order number (if present) was expected to follow an equals sign in the DN. This makes it so the order number string is identified correctly anywhere within the DN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7646).
+- mssql_script - make the module work with Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7818, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7821).
+- nmcli - fix ``connection.slave-type`` wired to ``bond`` and not with parameter ``slave_type`` in case of connection type ``wifi`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7389).
+
+v7.5.3
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- keycloak_identity_provider - ``mappers`` processing was not idempotent if the mappers configuration list had not been sorted by name (in ascending order). Fix resolves the issue by sorting mappers in the desired state using the same key which is used for obtaining existing state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7418).
+- keycloak_identity_provider - it was not possible to reconfigure (add, remove) ``mappers`` once they were created initially. Removal was ignored, adding new ones resulted in dropping the pre-existing unmodified mappers. Fix resolves the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7418).
+- keycloak_user - when ``force`` is set, but user does not exist, do not try to delete it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7696).
+- statusio_maintenance - fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload. Was raising "Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request" caused by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7754).
+
+v7.5.2
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- elastic callback plugin - close elastic client to not leak resources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7517).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cloudflare_dns - fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7652).
+- interface_files - also consider ``address_family`` when changing ``option=method`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7610, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7612).
+- irc - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+- keycloak_* - fix Keycloak API client to quote ``/`` properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7641).
+- keycloak_authz_permission - resource payload variable for scope-based permission was constructed as a string, when it needs to be a list, even for a single item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7151).
+- log_entries callback plugin - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+- lvol - test for output messages in both ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7601, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7182).
+- ocapi_utils, oci_utils, redfish_utils module utils - replace ``type()`` calls with ``isinstance()`` calls (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7501).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - field and section titles are now case insensitive when using op CLI version two or later. This matches the behavior of version one (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7564).
+- pipx module utils - change the CLI argument formatter for the ``pip_args`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7497, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7506).
+- redhat_subscription - use the D-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7.4 and
+  greater; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7622,
+  https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7624).
+- terraform - fix multiline string handling in complex variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7535).
+
+v7.5.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- composer - fix impossible to run ``working_dir`` dependent commands. The module was throwing an error when trying to run a ``working_dir`` dependent command, because it tried to get the command help without passing the ``working_dir`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3787).
+- github_deploy_key - fix pagination behaviour causing a crash when only a single page of deploy keys exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7375).
+- gitlab_group_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_group_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_project_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_project_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_protected_branches - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_protected_branches`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_user - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_user`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- kernel_blacklist - simplified the mechanism to update the file, fixing the error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7382, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7362).
+- memset module utils - make compatible with ansible-core 2.17 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7379).
+- proxmox_pool_member - absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7464).
+- redfish_command - fix usage of message parsing in ``SimpleUpdate`` and ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` commands to treat the lack of a ``MessageId`` as no message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7465, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7471).
+- redhat_subscription - use the right D-Bus options for the consumer type when
+  registering a RHEL system older than 9 or a RHEL 9 system older than 9.2
+  and using ``consumer_type``
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7378).
+- selective callback plugin - fix length of task name lines in output always being 3 characters longer than desired (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7374).
+
+v7.5.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Please note that this is the last minor 7.x.0 release. Further releases
+with major version 7 will be bugfix releases 7.5.y.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- cargo - add option ``executable``, which allows user to specify path to the cargo binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7352).
+- cargo - add option ``locked`` which allows user to specify install the locked version of dependency instead of latest compatible version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6134).
+- dig lookup plugin - add TCP option to enable the use of TCP connection during DNS lookup (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7343).
+- gitlab_group - add option ``force_delete`` (default: false) which allows delete group even if projects exists in it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7364).
+- ini_file - add ``ignore_spaces`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7273).
+- newrelic_deployment - add option ``app_name_exact_match``, which filters results for the exact app_name provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7355).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - introduce ``account_id`` option which allows specifying which account to use (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7308).
+- onepassword_raw lookup plugin - introduce ``account_id`` option which allows specifying which account to use (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7308).
+- parted - on resize, use ``--fix`` option if available (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7304).
+- pnpm - set correct version when state is latest or version is not mentioned. Resolves previous idempotency problem (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7339).
+- proxmox - add ``vmid`` (and ``taskid`` when possible) to return values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7263).
+- random_string - added new ``ignore_similar_chars`` and ``similar_chars`` option to ignore certain chars (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7242).
+- redfish_command - add new option ``update_oem_params`` for the ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7331).
+- redfish_config - add ``CreateVolume`` command to allow creation of volumes on servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6813).
+- redfish_config - adding ``SetSecureBoot`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7129).
+- redfish_info - add support for ``GetBiosRegistries`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7144).
+- redfish_info - adds ``LinkStatus`` to NIC inventory (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7318).
+- redis_info - refactor the redis_info module to use the redis module_utils enabling to pass TLS parameters to the Redis client (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7267).
+- supervisorctl - allow to stop matching running processes before removing them with ``stop_before_removing=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7284).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- The next major release, community.general 8.0.0, will drop support for ansible-core 2.11 and 2.12, which have been End of Life for some time now. This means that this collection no longer supports Python 2.6 on the target. Individual content might still work with unsupported ansible-core versions, but that can change at any time. Also please note that from now on, for every new major community.general release, we will drop support for all ansible-core versions that have been End of Life for more than a few weeks on the date of the major release (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/discussions/271, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7259).
+- redfish_info, redfish_config, redfish_command - the default value ``10`` for the ``timeout`` option is deprecated and will change to ``60`` in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7295).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- gitlab_group_variable - deleted all variables when used with ``purge=true`` due to missing ``raw`` property in KNOWN attributes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7250).
+- gitlab_project_variable - deleted all variables when used with ``purge=true`` due to missing ``raw`` property in KNOWN attributes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7250).
+- ldap_search - fix string normalization and the ``base64_attributes`` option on Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5704, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7264).
+- lxc connection plugin - properly evaluate options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7369).
+- mail - skip headers containing equals characters due to missing ``maxsplit`` on header key/value parsing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7303).
+- nmap inventory plugin - fix ``get_option`` calls (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7323).
+- onepassword - fix KeyError exception when trying to access value of a field that is not filled out in OnePassword item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7241).
+- snap - change the change detection mechanism from "parsing installation" to "comparing end state with initial state" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7340, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7265).
+- terraform - prevents ``-backend-config`` option double encapsulating with ``shlex_quote`` function. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7301).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- consul_role - Manipulate Consul roles
+- gio_mime - Set default handler for MIME type, for applications using Gnome GIO
+- keycloak_authz_custom_policy - Allows administration of Keycloak client custom Javascript policies via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_realm_key - Allows administration of Keycloak realm keys via Keycloak API
+- simpleinit_msb - Manage services on Source Mage GNU/Linux
+
+v7.4.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``exclude_mgmt_classes`` and ``include_mgmt_classes`` options to exclude or include hosts based on management classes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7184).
+- cpanm - minor refactor when creating the ``CmdRunner`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7231).
+- gitlab_group_variable - add support for ``raw`` variables suboption (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7132).
+- gitlab_project_variable - add support for ``raw`` variables suboption (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7132).
+- jenkins_build - add new ``detach`` option, which allows the module to exit successfully as long as the build is created (default functionality is still waiting for the build to end before exiting) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7204).
+- jenkins_build - add new ``time_between_checks`` option, which allows to configure the wait time between requests to the Jenkins server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7204).
+- make - allows ``params`` to be used without value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7180).
+- nmap inventory plugin - now has a ``use_arp_ping`` option to allow the user to disable the default ARP ping query for a more reliable form (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7119).
+- pagerduty - adds in option to use v2 API for creating pagerduty incidents (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6151)
+- pritunl module utils - ensure ``validate_certs`` parameter is honoured in all methods (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7156).
+- redfish_info - report ``Id`` in the output of ``GetManagerInventory`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7140).
+- redfish_utils module utils - support ``Volumes`` in response for ``GetDiskInventory`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6819).
+- unixy callback plugin - add support for ``check_mode_markers`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7179).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- CmdRunner module utils - does not attempt to resolve path if executable is a relative or absolute path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7200).
+- nmap inventory plugin - now uses ``get_option`` in all cases to get its configuration information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7119).
+- nsupdate - fix a possible ``list index out of range`` exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/836).
+- oci_utils module util - fix inappropriate logical comparison expressions and makes them simpler. The previous checks had logical short circuits (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7125).
+- pritunl module utils - fix incorrect URL parameter for orgnization add method (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7161).
+- snap - an exception was being raised when snap list was empty (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7124, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7120).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- jenkins_build_info - Get information about Jenkins builds
+- pnpm - Manage node.js packages with pnpm
+
+v7.3.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Feature and bugfix release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- chroot connection plugin - add ``disable_root_check`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7099).
+- ejabberd_user - module now using ``CmdRunner`` to execute external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7075).
+- ipa_config - add module parameters to manage FreeIPA user and group objectclasses (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7019).
+- ipa_config - adds ``idp`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7051).
+- npm - module now using ``CmdRunner`` to execute external commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6989).
+- proxmox_kvm - enabled force restart of VM, bringing the ``force`` parameter functionality in line with what is described in the docs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6914).
+- proxmox_vm_info - ``node`` parameter is no longer required. Information can be obtained for the whole cluster (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6976).
+- proxmox_vm_info - non-existing provided by name/vmid VM would return empty results instead of failing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7049).
+- redfish_config - add ``DeleteAllVolumes`` command to allow deletion of all volumes on servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6814).
+- redfish_utils - use ``Controllers`` key in redfish data to obtain Storage controllers properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7081).
+- redfish_utils module utils - add support for ``PowerCycle`` reset type for ``redfish_command`` responses feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7083).
+- redfish_utils module utils - add support for following ``@odata.nextLink`` pagination in ``software_inventory`` responses feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7020).
+- shutdown - use ``shutdown -p ...`` with FreeBSD to halt and power off machine (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7102).
+- sorcery - add grimoire (repository) management support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- ejabberd_user - deprecate the parameter ``logging`` in favour of producing more detailed information in the module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7043).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - the plugin made assumptions about the structure of a Bitwarden JSON object which may have been broken by an update in the Bitwarden API. Remove assumptions, and allow queries for general fields such as ``notes`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7061).
+- ejabberd_user - module was failing to detect whether user was already created and/or password was changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7033).
+- keycloak module util - fix missing ``http_agent``, ``timeout``, and ``validate_certs`` ``open_url()`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7067).
+- keycloak_client inventory plugin - fix missing client secret (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6931).
+- lvol - add support for percentage of origin size specification when creating snapshot volumes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1630, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7053).
+- lxc connection plugin - now handles ``remote_addr`` defaulting to ``inventory_hostname`` correctly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7104).
+- oci_utils module utils - avoid direct type comparisons (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7085).
+- proxmox_user_info - avoid direct type comparisons (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7085).
+- snap - fix crash when multiple snaps are specified and one has ``---`` in its description (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7046).
+- sorcery - fix interruption of the multi-stage process (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).
+- sorcery - fix queue generation before the whole system rebuild (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).
+- sorcery - latest state no longer triggers update_cache (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).
+
+v7.2.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cmd_runner module utils - when a parameter in ``argument_spec`` has no type, meaning it is implicitly a ``str``, ``CmdRunner`` would fail trying to find the ``type`` key in that dictionary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6968).
+- ejabberd_user - provide meaningful error message when the ``ejabberdctl`` command is not found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6949).
+- proxmox module utils - fix proxmoxer library version check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6974, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6975, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6980).
+- proxmox_kvm - when ``name`` option is provided without ``vmid`` and VM with that name already exists then no new VM will be created (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6911, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6981).
+- rundeck - fix ``TypeError`` on 404 API response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6983).
+
+v7.2.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- cobbler inventory plugin - convert Ansible unicode strings to native Python unicode strings before passing user/password to XMLRPC client (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6923).
+- consul_session - drops requirement for the ``python-consul`` library to communicate with the Consul API, instead relying on the existing ``requests`` library requirement (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6755).
+- gitlab_project_variable - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
+- gitlab_runner - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6927).
+- htpasswd - the parameter ``crypt_scheme`` is being renamed as ``hash_scheme`` and added as an alias to it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6841).
+- keycloak_authentication - added provider ID choices, since Keycloak supports only those two specific ones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6763).
+- keyring - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6927).
+- locale_gen - module has been refactored to use ``ModuleHelper`` and ``CmdRunner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6903).
+- locale_gen - module now using ``CmdRunner`` to execute external commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6820).
+- make - add new ``targets`` parameter allowing multiple targets to be used with ``make`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6882, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4919).
+- nmcli - add support for ``ipv4.dns-options`` and ``ipv6.dns-options`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6902).
+- npm - minor improvement on parameter validation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6848).
+- opkg - add ``executable`` parameter allowing to specify the path of the ``opkg`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6862).
+- pubnub_blocks - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
+- redfish_command - add ``account_types`` and ``oem_account_types`` as optional inputs to ``AddUser`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6823, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6871).
+- redfish_info - add ``AccountTypes`` and ``OEMAccountTypes`` to the output of ``ListUsers`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6823, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6871).
+- redfish_info - adds ``ProcessorArchitecture`` to CPU inventory (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6864).
+- redfish_info - fix for ``GetVolumeInventory``, Controller name was getting populated incorrectly and duplicates were seen in the volumes retrieved (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6719).
+- rhsm_repository - the interaction with ``subscription-manager`` was
+  refactored by grouping things together, removing unused bits, and hardening
+  the way it is run; also, the parsing of ``subscription-manager repos --list``
+  was improved and made slightly faster; no behaviour change is expected
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6783,
+  https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6837).
+- scaleway_security_group_rule - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
+- snap - add option ``dangerous`` to the module, that will map into the command line argument ``--dangerous``, allowing unsigned snap files to be installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6908, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5715).
+- tss lookup plugin - allow to fetch secret by path. Previously, we could not fetch secret by path but now use ``secret_path`` option to indicate to fetch secret by secret path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6881).
+- xenserver_guest_info - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
+- xenserver_guest_powerstate - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
+- yum_versionlock - add support to pin specific package versions instead of only the package itself (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6861, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4470).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- flowdock - module relies entirely on no longer responsive API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6930).
+- proxmox - old feature flag ``proxmox_default_behavior`` will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6836).
+- stackdriver - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6887).
+- webfaction_app - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_db - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_domain - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_mailbox - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_site - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cobbler inventory plugin - fix calculation of cobbler_ipv4/6_address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6925).
+- datadog_downtime - presence of ``rrule`` param lead to the Datadog API returning Bad Request due to a missing recurrence type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6811).
+- ipa_dnszone - fix 'idnsallowsyncptr' key error for reverse zone (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6906, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6905).
+- keycloak_authentication - fix Keycloak authentication flow (step or sub-flow) indexing during update, if not specified by the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6734).
+- locale_gen - now works for locales without the underscore character such as ``C.UTF-8`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6774, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5142, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4305).
+- machinectl become plugin - mark plugin as ``require_tty`` to automatically disable pipelining, with which this plugin is not compatible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6932, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6935).
+- nmcli - fix support for empty list (in compare and scrape) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6769).
+- openbsd_pkg - the pkg_info(1) behavior has changed in OpenBSD >7.3. The error message ``Can't find`` should not lead to an error case (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6785).
+- pacman - module recognizes the output of ``yay`` running as ``root`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6713).
+- proxmox - fix error when a configuration had no ``template`` field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6838, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5372).
+- proxmox module utils - add logic to detect whether an old Promoxer complains about the ``token_name`` and ``token_value`` parameters and provide a better error message when that happens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6839, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5371).
+- proxmox_disk - fix unable to create ``cdrom`` media due to ``size`` always being appended (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6770).
+- proxmox_kvm - ``absent`` state with ``force`` specified failed to stop the VM due to the ``timeout`` value not being passed to ``stop_vm`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6827).
+- proxmox_kvm - ``restarted`` state did not actually restart a VM in some VM configurations. The state now uses the Proxmox reboot endpoint instead of calling the ``stop_vm`` and ``start_vm`` functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6773).
+- proxmox_template - require ``requests_toolbelt`` module to fix issue with uploading large templates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5579, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6757).
+- redfish_info - fix ``ListUsers`` to not show empty account slots (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6771, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6772).
+- refish_utils module utils - changing variable names to avoid issues occuring when fetching Volumes data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6883).
+- snap - assume default track ``latest`` in parameter ``channel`` when not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6835, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6821).
+- snap - fix the processing of the commands' output, stripping spaces and newlines from it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6826, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6803).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Lookup
+~~~~~~
+
+- bitwarden_secrets_manager - Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden Secrets Manager
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- consul_policy - Manipulate Consul policies
+- keycloak_authz_permission - Allows administration of Keycloak client authorization permissions via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_authz_permission_info - Query Keycloak client authorization permissions information
+- proxmox_vm_info - Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE virtual machines
+
+v7.1.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+From this version on, community.general is using the new `Ansible semantic markup
+<https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_documenting.html#semantic-markup-within-module-documentation>`__
+in its documentation. If you look at documentation with the ansible-doc CLI tool
+from ansible-core before 2.15, please note that it does not render the markup
+correctly. You should be still able to read it in most cases, but you need
+ansible-core 2.15 or later to see it as it is intended. Alternatively you can
+look at `the devel docsite <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/general/>`__
+for the rendered HTML version of the documentation of the latest release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- The collection will start using semantic markup (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6539).
+- VarDict module utils - add method ``VarDict.as_dict()`` to convert to a plain ``dict`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6602).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` option to allow using the system name for the inventory hostname (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6502).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``want_ip_addresses`` option to collect all interface DNS name to IP address mapping (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6711).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add primary IP addess to ``cobbler_ipv4_address`` and IPv6 address to ``cobbler_ipv6_address`` host variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6711).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add warning for systems with empty profiles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6502).
+- copr - respawn module to use the system python interpreter when the ``dnf`` python module is not available in ``ansible_python_interpreter`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6522).
+- datadog_monitor - adds ``notification_preset_name``, ``renotify_occurrences`` and ``renotify_statuses`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6521,https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5823).
+- filesystem - add ``uuid`` parameter for UUID change feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6680).
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - adds support for subgroups with additional parameter ``parents`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6687).
+- keycloak_role - add composite roles support for realm and client roles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6469).
+- ldap_* - add new arguments ``client_cert`` and ``client_key`` to the LDAP modules in order to allow certificate authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6668).
+- ldap_search - add a new ``page_size`` option to enable paged searches (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6648).
+- lvg - add ``active`` and ``inactive`` values to the ``state`` option for active state management feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6682).
+- lvg - add ``reset_vg_uuid``, ``reset_pv_uuid`` options for UUID reset feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6682).
+- mas - disable sign-in check for macOS 12+ as ``mas account`` is non-functional (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6520).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - add service account support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6635, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6660).
+- onepassword_raw lookup plugin - add service account support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6635, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6660).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - add span attributes in the span event (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6531).
+- opkg - remove default value ``""`` for parameter ``force`` as it causes the same behaviour of not having that parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6513).
+- proxmox - support ``timezone`` parameter at container creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6510).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - add composite variables support for Proxmox nodes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6640).
+- proxmox_kvm - added support for ``tpmstate0`` parameter to configure TPM (Trusted Platform Module) disk. TPM is required for Windows 11 installations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6533).
+- proxmox_kvm - re-use ``timeout`` module param to forcefully shutdown a virtual machine when ``state`` is ``stopped`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6257).
+- proxmox_snap - add ``retention`` parameter to delete old snapshots (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6576).
+- redfish_command - add ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6471, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6612).
+- redhat_subscription - the internal ``RegistrationBase`` class was folded
+  into the other internal ``Rhsm`` class, as the separation had no purpose
+  anymore
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6658).
+- rhsm_release - improve/harden the way ``subscription-manager`` is run;
+  no behaviour change is expected
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6669).
+- snap - module is now aware of channel when deciding whether to install or refresh the snap (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6435, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1606).
+- sorcery - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6525).
+- tss lookup plugin - allow to fetch secret IDs which are in a folder based on folder ID. Previously, we could not fetch secrets based on folder ID but now use ``fetch_secret_ids_from_folder`` option to indicate to fetch secret IDs based on folder ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6223).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- CmdRunner module utils - deprecate ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_default_type()`` formatter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6601).
+- MH VarsMixin module utils - deprecates ``VarsMixin`` and supporting classes in favor of plain ``vardict`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6649).
+- cpanm - value ``compatibility`` is deprecated as default for parameter ``mode`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6512).
+- redhat module utils - the ``module_utils.redhat`` module is deprecated, as
+  effectively unused: the ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools`` classes
+  will be removed in community.general 9.0.0; the ``RegistrationBase`` class
+  will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 together with the
+  ``rhn_register`` module, as it is the only user of this class; this means
+  that the whole ``module_utils.redhat`` module will be dropped in
+  community.general 10.0.0, so importing it without even using anything of it
+  will fail
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6663).
+- redhat_subscription - the ``autosubscribe`` alias for the ``auto_attach`` option has been
+  deprecated for many years, although only in the documentation. Officially mark this alias
+  as deprecated, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6646).
+- redhat_subscription - the ``pool`` option is deprecated in favour of the
+  more precise and flexible ``pool_ids`` option
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6650).
+- rhsm_repository - ``state=present`` has not been working as expected for many years,
+  and it seems it was not noticed so far; also, "presence" is not really a valid concept
+  for subscription repositories, which can only be enabled or disabled. Hence, mark the
+  ``present`` and ``absent`` values of the ``state`` option as deprecated, slating them
+  for removal in community.general 10.0.0
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6673).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- MH DependencyMixin module utils - deprecation notice was popping up for modules not using dependencies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6644, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6639).
+- csv module utils - detects and remove unicode BOM markers from incoming CSV content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6662).
+- gitlab_group - the module passed parameters to the API call even when not set. The module is now filtering out ``None`` values to remediate this (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6712).
+- icinga2_host - fix a key error when updating an existing host (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6748).
+- ini_file - add the ``follow`` paramter to follow the symlinks instead of replacing them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6546).
+- ini_file - fix a bug where the inactive options were not used when possible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6575).
+- keycloak module utils - fix ``is_struct_included`` handling of lists of lists/dictionaries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6688).
+- keycloak module utils - the function ``get_user_by_username`` now return the user representation or ``None`` as stated in the documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6758).
+- proxmox_kvm - allow creation of VM with existing name but new vmid (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6155, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6709).
+- rhsm_repository - when using the ``purge`` option, the ``repositories``
+  dictionary element in the returned JSON is now properly updated according
+  to the pruning operation
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6676).
+- tss lookup plugin - fix multiple issues when using ``fetch_attachments=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6720).
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- Ansible markup will show up in raw form on ansible-doc text output for ansible-core before 2.15. If you have trouble deciphering the documentation markup, please upgrade to ansible-core 2.15 (or newer), or read the HTML documentation on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/general/ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6539).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- gitlab_instance_variable - Creates, updates, or deletes GitLab instance variables
+- gitlab_merge_request - Create, update, or delete GitLab merge requests
+- keycloak_authentication_required_actions - Allows administration of Keycloak authentication required actions
+- keycloak_user - Create and configure a user in Keycloak
+- lvg_rename - Renames LVM volume groups
+- proxmox_pool - Pool management for Proxmox VE cluster
+- proxmox_pool_member - Add or delete members from Proxmox VE cluster pools
+
+v7.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release for Ansible 8.0.0rc1.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- nmcli - fix bond option ``xmit_hash_policy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6527).
+- portage - fix ``changed_use`` and ``newuse`` not triggering rebuilds (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6008, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6548).
+- proxmox_tasks_info - remove ``api_user`` + ``api_password`` constraint from ``required_together`` as it causes to require ``api_password`` even when API token param is used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6201).
+- zypper - added handling of zypper exitcode 102. Changed state is set correctly now and rc 102 is still preserved to be evaluated by the playbook (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6534).
+
 v7.0.0
 ======

@@ -175,7 +731,7 @@ Deprecated Features
  we have not heard about anyone using them in those setups. Hence, these
  modules are deprecated, and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0
  in case there are no reports about being still useful, and potentially
-  noone that steps up to maintain them
+  no one that steps up to maintain them
  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6493).

 Removed Features (previously deprecated)
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -121,19 +121,3 @@ Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Reques
   listed as `maintainers` will be pinged for new issues and PRs that modify the module/plugin or its tests.

   When you add a new plugin/module, we expect that you perform maintainer duty for at least some time after contributing it.
-
-## pre-commit
-
-To help ensure high-quality contributions this repository includes a [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) configuration which
-corrects and tests against common issues that would otherwise cause CI to fail. To begin using these pre-commit hooks see
-the [Installation](#installation) section below.
-
-This is optional and not required to contribute to this repository.
-
-### Installation
-
-Follow the [instructions](https://pre-commit.com/#install) provided with pre-commit and run `pre-commit install` under the repository base. If for any reason you would like to disable the pre-commit hooks run `pre-commit uninstall`.
-
-This is optional to run it locally.
-
-You can trigger it locally with `pre-commit run --all-files` or even to run only for a given file `pre-commit run --files YOUR_FILE`.
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ 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.
+Tested with the current ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, ansible-core 2.14, ansible-core 2.15, ansible-core 2.16, and ansible-core 2.17 releases. 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+.

@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ Some modules and plugins require external libraries. Please check the requiremen

 ## Included content

-Please check the included content on the [Ansible Galaxy page for this collection](https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/general) or the [documentation on the Ansible docs site](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/).
+Please check the included content on the [Ansible Galaxy page for this collection](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/community/general/) or the [documentation on the Ansible docs site](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/).

 ## Using this collection

 This collection is shipped with the Ansible package. So if you have it installed, no more action is required.

-If you have a minimal installation (only Ansible Core installed) or you want to use the latest version of the collection along with the whole Ansible package, you need to install the collection from [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/general) manually with the `ansible-galaxy` command-line tool:
+If you have a minimal installation (only Ansible Core installed) or you want to use the latest version of the collection along with the whole Ansible package, you need to install the collection from [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/community/general/) manually with the `ansible-galaxy` command-line tool:

    ansible-galaxy collection install community.general

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Note that if you install the collection manually, it will not be upgraded automa
 ansible-galaxy collection install community.general --upgrade
 ```

-You can also install a specific version of the collection, for example, if you need to downgrade when something is broken in the latest version (please report an issue in this repository). Use the following syntax where `X.Y.Z` can be any [available version](https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/general):
+You can also install a specific version of the collection, for example, if you need to downgrade when something is broken in the latest version (please report an issue in this repository). Use the following syntax where `X.Y.Z` can be any [available version](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/community/general/):

 ```bash
 ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==X.Y.Z
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ 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-7/CHANGELOG.rst).
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/CHANGELOG.md).

 ## Roadmap

--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
--- a/changelogs/config.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/config.yaml
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ mention_ancestor: true
 flatmap: true
 new_plugins_after_name: removed_features
 notesdir: fragments
+output_formats:
+  - md
+  - rst
 prelude_section_name: release_summary
 prelude_section_title: Release Summary
 sections:
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 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.
+The :ansplugin:`community.general.counter filter plugin <community.general.counter#filter>` 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

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 Dictionaries
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^

-You can use the ``dict_kv`` filter to create a single-entry dictionary with ``value | community.general.dict_kv(key)``:
+You can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.dict_kv filter <community.general.dict_kv#filter>` to create a single-entry dictionary with ``value | community.general.dict_kv(key)``:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ This produces:

 .. 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:
+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 :ansplugin:`community.general.dict filter <community.general.dict#filter>` can be used:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 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.
+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 :ansplugin:`community.general.groupby_as_dict filter <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:

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 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.
+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 :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_mergeby filter <community.general.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>`.

@@ -76,15 +76,15 @@ This produces the same result as in the previous example:
    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.
+The filter also accepts two optional parameters: :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:recursive` and :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge`. 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``.
+    Is a boolean, default to ``false``. Should the :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter` filter 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.
+    Is a string, its possible values are :ansval:`replace` (default), :ansval:`keep`, :ansval:`append`, :ansval:`prepend`, :ansval:`append_rp` or :ansval:`prepend_rp`. It modifies the behaviour of :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter` 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.
+The examples below set :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:recursive=true` and display the differences among all six options of :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge`. Functionality of the parameters is exactly the same as in the filter :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.combine#filter`. See :ref:`Combining hashes/dictionaries <combine_filter>` to learn details about these options.

 Let us use the lists below in the following examples

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Let us use the lists below in the following examples
    - name: myname02
      param01: [3, 4, 4, {key: value}]

-Example ``list_merge=replace`` (default):
+Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=replace` (default):

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ This produces:
    - 4
    - key: value

-Example ``list_merge=keep``:
+Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=keep`:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ This produces:
    - 2
    - 3

-Example ``list_merge=append``:
+Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=append`:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ This produces:
    - 4
    - key: value

-Example ``list_merge=prepend``:
+Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=prepend`:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ This produces:
    - 2
    - 3

-Example ``list_merge=append_rp``:
+Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=append_rp`:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ This produces:
    - 4
    - key: value

-Example ``list_merge=prepend_rp``:
+Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=prepend_rp`:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ 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.
+Ansible offers the :ansplugin:`community.general.read_csv module <community.general.read_csv#module>` to read CSV files. Sometimes you need to convert strings to CSV files instead. For this, the :ansplugin:`community.general.from_csv filter <community.general.from_csv#filter>` exists.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ This produces:
        ]
    }

-The ``from_csv`` filter has several keyword arguments to control its behavior:
+The :ansplugin:`community.general.from_csv filter <community.general.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.
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The ``from_csv`` filter has several keyword arguments to control its behavior:
 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.
+`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, called :ansplugin:`community.general.jc#filter`. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ 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.
+`Hashids <https://hashids.org/>`_ allow to convert sequences of integers to short unique string identifiers. The :ansplugin:`community.general.hashids_encode#filter` and :ansplugin:`community.general.hashids_decode#filter` filters need the `hashids Python library <https://pypi.org/project/hashids/>`_ installed on the controller.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ The hashids filters accept keyword arguments to allow fine-tuning the hashids ge
 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.
+You can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.random_mac filter <community.general.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

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
@@ -6,14 +6,4 @@
 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
+The :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.path_join filter <ansible.builtin.path_join#filter>` has been added in ansible-base 2.10. Community.general 3.0.0 and newer contains an alias ``community.general.path_join`` for this filter that could be used on Ansible 2.9 as well. Since community.general no longer supports Ansible 2.9, this is now a simple redirect to :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.path_join filter <ansible.builtin.path_join#filter>`.
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 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.
+To select a single element or a data subset from a complex data structure in JSON format (for example, Ansible facts), use the :ansplugin:`community.general.json_query filter <community.general.json_query#filter>`.  The :ansplugin:`community.general.json_query#filter` 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>`_.

@@ -146,4 +146,4 @@ To extract ports from all clusters with name containing 'server1':
      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.
+.. note:: while using ``starts_with`` and ``contains``, you have to use ``to_json | from_json`` filter for correct parsing of data structure.
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 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.
+The :ansplugin:`community.general.to_time_unit filter <community.general.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:
+There are shorthands to directly convert to various units, like :ansplugin:`community.general.to_hours#filter`, :ansplugin:`community.general.to_minutes#filter`, :ansplugin:`community.general.to_seconds#filter`, and so on. The following table lists all units that can be used:

 .. list-table:: Units
   :widths: 25 25 25 25
@@ -21,37 +21,37 @@ There are shorthands to directly convert to various units, like ``to_hours``, ``
   * - Millisecond
     - 1/1000 second
     - ``ms``, ``millisecond``, ``milliseconds``, ``msec``, ``msecs``, ``msecond``, ``mseconds``
-     - ``to_milliseconds``
+     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_milliseconds#filter`
   * - Second
     - 1 second
     - ``s``, ``sec``, ``secs``, ``second``, ``seconds``
-     - ``to_seconds``
+     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_seconds#filter`
   * - Minute
     - 60 seconds
     - ``m``, ``min``, ``mins``, ``minute``, ``minutes``
-     - ``to_minutes``
+     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_minutes#filter`
   * - Hour
     - 60*60 seconds
     - ``h``, ``hour``, ``hours``
-     - ``to_hours``
+     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_hours#filter`
   * - Day
     - 24*60*60 seconds
     - ``d``, ``day``, ``days``
-     - ``to_days``
+     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_days#filter`
   * - Week
     - 7*24*60*60 seconds
     - ``w``, ``week``, ``weeks``
-     - ``to_weeks``
+     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_weeks#filter`
   * - Month
     - 30*24*60*60 seconds
     - ``mo``, ``month``, ``months``
-     - ``to_months``
+     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_months#filter`
   * - Year
     - 365*24*60*60 seconds
     - ``y``, ``year``, ``years``
-     - ``to_years``
+     - :ansplugin:`community.general.to_years#filter`

-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.
+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 :ansplugin:`community.general.to_time_unit#filter` and to all shorthand filters.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 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.
+`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.
+You can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.unicode_normalize filter <community.general.unicode_normalize#filter>` to normalize Unicode strings within your playbooks.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ This produces:
        "msg": true
    }

-The ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter accepts a keyword argument to select the ``Unicode`` form used to normalize the input string.
+The :ansplugin:`community.general.unicode_normalize filter <community.general.unicode_normalize#filter>` accepts a keyword argument :ansopt:`community.general.unicode_normalize#filter:form` 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.

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 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:
+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 :ansplugin:`community.general.version_sort filter <community.general.version_sort#filter>`:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/test_guide.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/test_guide.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ The :ref:`community.general collection <plugins_in_community.general>` offers cu
 Feature Tests
 -------------

-The ``a_module`` test allows to check whether a given string refers to an existing module or action plugin. This can be useful in roles, which can use this to ensure that required modules are present ahead of time.
+The :ansplugin:`community.general.a_module test <community.general.a_module#test>` allows to check whether a given string refers to an existing module or action plugin. This can be useful in roles, which can use this to ensure that required modules are present ahead of time.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/galaxy.yml
+++ b/galaxy.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@

 namespace: community
 name: general
-version: 7.0.0
+version: 7.5.7
 readme: README.md
 authors:
  - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)
--- a/meta/runtime.yml
+++ b/meta/runtime.yml
@@ -150,6 +150,12 @@ plugin_routing:
        warning_text: You are using an internal name to access the community.general.airbrake_deployment
          modules. This has never been supported or documented, and will stop working
          in community.general 9.0.0.
+    stackdriver:
+      deprecation:
+        removal_version: 9.0.0
+        warning_text: >
+          This module relies on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore, and any new development in the
+          direction of providing an alternative should happen in the context of the google.cloud collection.
    system.aix_devices:
      redirect: community.general.aix_devices
      deprecation:
@@ -798,6 +804,10 @@ plugin_routing:
        warning_text: You are using an internal name to access the community.general.flatpak_remote
          modules. This has never been supported or documented, and will stop working
          in community.general 9.0.0.
+    flowdock:
+      deprecation:
+        removal_version: 9.0.0
+        warning_text: This module relies on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and there is no clear path to update.
    notification.flowdock:
      redirect: community.general.flowdock
      deprecation:
@@ -4433,6 +4443,10 @@ plugin_routing:
        warning_text: You are using an internal name to access the community.general.wdc_redfish_info
          modules. This has never been supported or documented, and will stop working
          in community.general 9.0.0.
+    webfaction_app:
+      deprecation:
+        removal_version: 9.0.0
+        warning_text: This module relies on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and there is no clear path to update.
    cloud.webfaction.webfaction_app:
      redirect: community.general.webfaction_app
      deprecation:
@@ -4440,6 +4454,10 @@ plugin_routing:
        warning_text: You are using an internal name to access the community.general.webfaction_app
          modules. This has never been supported or documented, and will stop working
          in community.general 9.0.0.
+    webfaction_db:
+      deprecation:
+        removal_version: 9.0.0
+        warning_text: This module relies on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and there is no clear path to update.
    cloud.webfaction.webfaction_db:
      redirect: community.general.webfaction_db
      deprecation:
@@ -4447,6 +4465,10 @@ plugin_routing:
        warning_text: You are using an internal name to access the community.general.webfaction_db
          modules. This has never been supported or documented, and will stop working
          in community.general 9.0.0.
+    webfaction_domain:
+      deprecation:
+        removal_version: 9.0.0
+        warning_text: This module relies on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and there is no clear path to update.
    cloud.webfaction.webfaction_domain:
      redirect: community.general.webfaction_domain
      deprecation:
@@ -4454,6 +4476,10 @@ plugin_routing:
        warning_text: You are using an internal name to access the community.general.webfaction_domain
          modules. This has never been supported or documented, and will stop working
          in community.general 9.0.0.
+    webfaction_mailbox:
+      deprecation:
+        removal_version: 9.0.0
+        warning_text: This module relies on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and there is no clear path to update.
    cloud.webfaction.webfaction_mailbox:
      redirect: community.general.webfaction_mailbox
      deprecation:
@@ -4461,6 +4487,10 @@ plugin_routing:
        warning_text: You are using an internal name to access the community.general.webfaction_mailbox
          modules. This has never been supported or documented, and will stop working
          in community.general 9.0.0.
+    webfaction_site:
+      deprecation:
+        removal_version: 9.0.0
+        warning_text: This module relies on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and there is no clear path to update.
    cloud.webfaction.webfaction_site:
      redirect: community.general.webfaction_site
      deprecation:
--- a/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
+++ b/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):

    def _async_result(self, async_status_args, task_vars, timeout):
        '''
-        Retrieve results of the asynchonous task, and display them in place of
+        Retrieve results of the asynchronous task, and display them in place of
        the async wrapper results (those with the ansible_job_id key).
        '''
        async_status = self._task.copy()
--- a/plugins/action/shutdown.py
+++ b/plugins/action/shutdown.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
    SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = {
        'alpine': '',
        'void': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'freebsd': '-h +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
+        'freebsd': '-p +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
        'linux': DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS,
        'macosx': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
        'openbsd': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
--- a/plugins/become/machinectl.py
+++ b/plugins/become/machinectl.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
              - 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
+      - When not using this plugin with user V(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,
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ class BecomeModule(BecomeBase):
    prompt = 'Password: '
    fail = ('==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ====',)
    success = ('==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====',)
+    require_tty = True  # see https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6932

    @staticmethod
    def remove_ansi_codes(line):
--- a/plugins/become/pfexec.py
+++ b/plugins/become/pfexec.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            env:
              - name: ANSIBLE_PFEXEC_WRAP_EXECUTION
    notes:
-      - This plugin ignores I(become_user) as pfexec uses it's own C(exec_attr) to figure this out.
+      - This plugin ignores O(become_user) as pfexec uses it's own C(exec_attr) to figure this out.
 '''

 from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
--- a/plugins/cache/redis.py
+++ b/plugins/cache/redis.py
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      _uri:
        description:
          - A colon separated string of connection information for Redis.
-          - The format is C(host:port:db:password), for example C(localhost:6379:0:changeme).
-          - To use encryption in transit, prefix the connection with C(tls://), as in C(tls://localhost:6379:0:changeme).
-          - To use redis sentinel, use separator C(;), for example C(localhost:26379;localhost:26379;0:changeme). Requires redis>=2.9.0.
+          - The format is V(host:port:db:password), for example V(localhost:6379:0:changeme).
+          - To use encryption in transit, prefix the connection with V(tls://), as in V(tls://localhost:6379:0:changeme).
+          - To use redis sentinel, use separator V(;), for example V(localhost:26379;localhost:26379;0:changeme). Requires redis>=2.9.0.
        required: true
        env:
          - name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ class CacheModule(BaseCacheModule):
        # format: "localhost:26379;localhost2:26379;0:changeme"
        connections = uri.split(';')
        connection_args = connections.pop(-1)
-        if len(connection_args) > 0:  # hanle if no db nr is given
+        if len(connection_args) > 0:  # handle if no db nr is given
            connection_args = connection_args.split(':')
            kw['db'] = connection_args.pop(0)
            try:
--- a/plugins/callback/cgroup_memory_recap.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/cgroup_memory_recap.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    options:
      max_mem_file:
        required: true
-        description: Path to cgroups C(memory.max_usage_in_bytes) file. Example C(/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.max_usage_in_bytes).
+        description: Path to cgroups C(memory.max_usage_in_bytes) file. Example V(/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.max_usage_in_bytes).
        env:
          - name: CGROUP_MAX_MEM_FILE
        ini:
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            key: max_mem_file
      cur_mem_file:
        required: true
-        description: Path to C(memory.usage_in_bytes) file. Example C(/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.usage_in_bytes).
+        description: Path to C(memory.usage_in_bytes) file. Example V(/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.usage_in_bytes).
        env:
          - name: CGROUP_CUR_MEM_FILE
        ini:
--- a/plugins/callback/diy.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/diy.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
  extends_documentation_fragment:
    - default_callback
  notes:
-    - Uses the C(default) callback plugin output when a custom callback message(C(msg)) is not provided.
+    - Uses the P(ansible.builtin.default#callback) callback plugin output when a custom callback V(message(msg\)) is not provided.
    - Makes the callback event data available via the C(ansible_callback_diy) dictionary, which can be used in the templating context for the options.
      The dictionary is only available in the templating context for the options. It is not a variable that is available via the other
      various execution contexts, such as playbook, play, task etc.
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
                    if value C(is not None and not omit and length is greater than 0),
                    then the option is being used with output.
       **Effect**: render value as template and output"
-    - "Valid color values: C(black), C(bright gray), C(blue), C(white), C(green), C(bright blue), C(cyan), C(bright green), C(red), C(bright cyan),
-      C(purple), C(bright red), C(yellow), C(bright purple), C(dark gray), C(bright yellow), C(magenta), C(bright magenta), C(normal)"
+    - "Valid color values: V(black), V(bright gray), V(blue), V(white), V(green), V(bright blue), V(cyan), V(bright green), V(red), V(bright cyan),
+      V(purple), V(bright red), V(yellow), V(bright purple), V(dark gray), V(bright yellow), V(magenta), V(bright magenta), V(normal)"
  seealso:
    - name: default – default Ansible screen output
      description: The official documentation on the B(default) callback plugin.
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    on_any_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(on_any_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(on_any_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_failed_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_failed_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_failed_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_ok_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_ok_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_ok_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_skipped_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_skipped_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_skipped_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_unreachable_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_unreachable_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_unreachable_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_start_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_start_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_start_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_notify_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_notify_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_notify_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_no_hosts_matched_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_no_hosts_matched_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_no_hosts_matched_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_no_hosts_remaining_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_no_hosts_remaining_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_no_hosts_remaining_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_task_start_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_task_start_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_task_start_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_handler_task_start_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_handler_task_start_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_handler_task_start_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_vars_prompt_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_vars_prompt_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_vars_prompt_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_play_start_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_play_start_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_play_start_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_stats_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_stats_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_stats_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    on_file_diff_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(on_file_diff_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(on_file_diff_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_include_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_include_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_include_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_item_on_ok_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(runner_item_on_ok_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(runner_item_on_ok_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_item_on_failed_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(runner_item_on_failed_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(runner_item_on_failed_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_item_on_skipped_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(runner_item_on_skipped_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(runner_item_on_skipped_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_retry_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(runner_retry_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(runner_retry_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_start_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_start_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_start_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_no_hosts_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_no_hosts_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_no_hosts_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_setup_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_setup_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_setup_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
--- a/plugins/callback/elastic.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/elastic.py
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ import time
 import uuid

 from collections import OrderedDict
+from contextlib import closing
 from os.path import basename

 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleRuntimeError
@@ -201,24 +202,25 @@ class ElasticSource(object):

        apm_cli = self.init_apm_client(apm_server_url, apm_service_name, apm_verify_server_cert, apm_secret_token, apm_api_key)
        if apm_cli:
-            instrument()  # Only call this once, as early as possible.
-            if traceparent:
-                parent = trace_parent_from_string(traceparent)
-                apm_cli.begin_transaction("Session", trace_parent=parent, start=parent_start_time)
-            else:
-                apm_cli.begin_transaction("Session", start=parent_start_time)
-            # Populate trace metadata attributes
-            if self.ansible_version is not None:
-                label(ansible_version=self.ansible_version)
-            label(ansible_session=self.session, ansible_host_name=self.host, ansible_host_user=self.user)
-            if self.ip_address is not None:
-                label(ansible_host_ip=self.ip_address)
+            with closing(apm_cli):
+                instrument()  # Only call this once, as early as possible.
+                if traceparent:
+                    parent = trace_parent_from_string(traceparent)
+                    apm_cli.begin_transaction("Session", trace_parent=parent, start=parent_start_time)
+                else:
+                    apm_cli.begin_transaction("Session", start=parent_start_time)
+                # Populate trace metadata attributes
+                if self.ansible_version is not None:
+                    label(ansible_version=self.ansible_version)
+                label(ansible_session=self.session, ansible_host_name=self.host, ansible_host_user=self.user)
+                if self.ip_address is not None:
+                    label(ansible_host_ip=self.ip_address)

-            for task_data in tasks:
-                for host_uuid, host_data in task_data.host_data.items():
-                    self.create_span_data(apm_cli, task_data, host_data)
+                for task_data in tasks:
+                    for host_uuid, host_data in task_data.host_data.items():
+                        self.create_span_data(apm_cli, task_data, host_data)

-            apm_cli.end_transaction(name=__name__, result=status, duration=end_time - parent_start_time)
+                apm_cli.end_transaction(name=__name__, result=status, duration=end_time - parent_start_time)

    def create_span_data(self, apm_cli, task_data, host_data):
        """ create the span with the given TaskData and HostData """
--- a/plugins/callback/logentries.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/logentries.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    requirements:
      - whitelisting in configuration
      - certifi (Python library)
-      - flatdict (Python library), if you want to use the 'flatten' option
+      - flatdict (Python library), if you want to use the O(flatten) option
    options:
      api:
        description: URI to the Logentries API.
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ examples: >
    api = data.logentries.com
    port = 10000
    tls_port = 20000
-    use_tls = no
+    use_tls = true
    token = dd21fc88-f00a-43ff-b977-e3a4233c53af
-    flatten = False
+    flatten = false
 '''

 import os
@@ -196,15 +196,11 @@ else:
    class TLSSocketAppender(PlainTextSocketAppender):
        def open_connection(self):
            sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
-            sock = ssl.wrap_socket(
+            context = ssl.create_default_context(
+                purpose=ssl.Purpose.SERVER_AUTH,
+                cafile=certifi.where(), )
+            sock = context.wrap_socket(
                sock=sock,
-                keyfile=None,
-                certfile=None,
-                server_side=False,
-                cert_reqs=ssl.CERT_REQUIRED,
-                ssl_version=getattr(
-                    ssl, 'PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2', ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1),
-                ca_certs=certifi.where(),
                do_handshake_on_connect=True,
                suppress_ragged_eofs=True, )
            sock.connect((self.LE_API, self.LE_TLS_PORT))
--- a/plugins/callback/nrdp.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/nrdp.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    short_description: Post task results to a Nagios server through nrdp
    description:
        - This callback send playbook result to Nagios.
-        - Nagios shall use NRDP to recive passive events.
+        - Nagios shall use NRDP to receive passive events.
        - The passive check is sent to a dedicated host/service for Ansible.
    options:
        url:
--- a/plugins/callback/null.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/null.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      - set as main display callback
    short_description: Don't display stuff to screen
    description:
-        - This callback prevents outputing events to screen.
+        - This callback prevents outputting events to screen.
 '''

 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
 class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):

    '''
-    This callback wont print messages to stdout when new callback events are received.
+    This callback won't print messages to stdout when new callback events are received.
    '''

    CALLBACK_VERSION = 2.0
--- a/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      enable_from_environment:
        type: str
        description:
-          - Whether to enable this callback only if the given environment variable exists and it is set to C(true).
+          - Whether to enable this callback only if the given environment variable exists and it is set to V(true).
          - This is handy when you use Configuration as Code and want to send distributed traces
            if running in the CI rather when running Ansible locally.
-          - For such, it evaluates the given I(enable_from_environment) value as environment variable
+          - For such, it evaluates the given O(enable_from_environment) value as environment variable
            and if set to true this plugin will be enabled.
        env:
          - name: ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_ENABLE_FROM_ENVIRONMENT
@@ -73,6 +73,17 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
          - section: callback_opentelemetry
            key: disable_logs
        version_added: 5.8.0
+      disable_attributes_in_logs:
+        default: false
+        type: bool
+        description:
+          - Disable populating span attributes to the logs.
+        env:
+          - name: ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_DISABLE_ATTRIBUTES_IN_LOGS
+        ini:
+          - section: callback_opentelemetry
+            key: disable_attributes_in_logs
+        version_added: 7.1.0
    requirements:
      - opentelemetry-api (Python library)
      - opentelemetry-exporter-otlp (Python library)
@@ -244,7 +255,7 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
        task.dump = dump
        task.add_host(HostData(host_uuid, host_name, status, result))

-    def generate_distributed_traces(self, otel_service_name, ansible_playbook, tasks_data, status, traceparent, disable_logs):
+    def generate_distributed_traces(self, otel_service_name, ansible_playbook, tasks_data, status, traceparent, disable_logs, disable_attributes_in_logs):
        """ generate distributed traces from the collected TaskData and HostData """

        tasks = []
@@ -280,9 +291,9 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
            for task in tasks:
                for host_uuid, host_data in task.host_data.items():
                    with tracer.start_as_current_span(task.name, start_time=task.start, end_on_exit=False) as span:
-                        self.update_span_data(task, host_data, span, disable_logs)
+                        self.update_span_data(task, host_data, span, disable_logs, disable_attributes_in_logs)

-    def update_span_data(self, task_data, host_data, span, disable_logs):
+    def update_span_data(self, task_data, host_data, span, disable_logs, disable_attributes_in_logs):
        """ update the span with the given TaskData and HostData """

        name = '[%s] %s: %s' % (host_data.name, task_data.play, task_data.name)
@@ -315,39 +326,47 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
                status = Status(status_code=StatusCode.UNSET)

        span.set_status(status)
+
+        # Create the span and log attributes
+        attributes = {
+            "ansible.task.module": task_data.action,
+            "ansible.task.message": message,
+            "ansible.task.name": name,
+            "ansible.task.result": rc,
+            "ansible.task.host.name": host_data.name,
+            "ansible.task.host.status": host_data.status
+        }
        if isinstance(task_data.args, dict) and "gather_facts" not in task_data.action:
            names = tuple(self.transform_ansible_unicode_to_str(k) for k in task_data.args.keys())
            values = tuple(self.transform_ansible_unicode_to_str(k) for k in task_data.args.values())
-            self.set_span_attribute(span, ("ansible.task.args.name"), names)
-            self.set_span_attribute(span, ("ansible.task.args.value"), values)
-        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.module", task_data.action)
-        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.message", message)
-        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.name", name)
-        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.result", rc)
-        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.host.name", host_data.name)
-        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.host.status", host_data.status)
+            attributes[("ansible.task.args.name")] = names
+            attributes[("ansible.task.args.value")] = values
+
+        self.set_span_attributes(span, attributes)
+
        # This will allow to enrich the service map
        self.add_attributes_for_service_map_if_possible(span, task_data)
        # Send logs
        if not disable_logs:
-            span.add_event(task_data.dump)
-        span.end(end_time=host_data.finish)
+            # This will avoid populating span attributes to the logs
+            span.add_event(task_data.dump, attributes={} if disable_attributes_in_logs else attributes)
+            span.end(end_time=host_data.finish)

-    def set_span_attribute(self, span, attributeName, attributeValue):
-        """ update the span attribute with the given attribute and value if not None """
+    def set_span_attributes(self, span, attributes):
+        """ update the span attributes with the given attributes if not None """

        if span is None and self._display is not None:
            self._display.warning('span object is None. Please double check if that is expected.')
        else:
-            if attributeValue is not None:
-                span.set_attribute(attributeName, attributeValue)
+            if attributes is not None:
+                span.set_attributes(attributes)

    def add_attributes_for_service_map_if_possible(self, span, task_data):
        """Update the span attributes with the service that the task interacted with, if possible."""

        redacted_url = self.parse_and_redact_url_if_possible(task_data.args)
        if redacted_url:
-            self.set_span_attribute(span, "http.url", redacted_url.geturl())
+            span.set_attribute("http.url", redacted_url.geturl())

    @staticmethod
    def parse_and_redact_url_if_possible(args):
@@ -434,6 +453,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
    def __init__(self, display=None):
        super(CallbackModule, self).__init__(display=display)
        self.hide_task_arguments = None
+        self.disable_attributes_in_logs = None
        self.disable_logs = None
        self.otel_service_name = None
        self.ansible_playbook = None
@@ -465,6 +485,8 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):

        self.hide_task_arguments = self.get_option('hide_task_arguments')

+        self.disable_attributes_in_logs = self.get_option('disable_attributes_in_logs')
+
        self.disable_logs = self.get_option('disable_logs')

        self.otel_service_name = self.get_option('otel_service_name')
@@ -562,7 +584,8 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
            self.tasks_data,
            status,
            self.traceparent,
-            self.disable_logs
+            self.disable_logs,
+            self.disable_attributes_in_logs
        )

    def v2_runner_on_async_failed(self, result, **kwargs):
--- a/plugins/callback/selective.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/selective.py
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
            line_length = 120
            if self.last_skipped:
                print()
-            msg = colorize("# {0} {1}".format(task_name,
-                                              '*' * (line_length - len(task_name))), 'bold')
+            line = "# {0} ".format(task_name)
+            msg = colorize("{0}{1}".format(line, '*' * (line_length - len(line))), 'bold')
            print(msg)

    def _indent_text(self, text, indent_level):
--- a/plugins/callback/splunk.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/splunk.py
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            key: authtoken
      validate_certs:
        description: Whether to validate certificates for connections to HEC. It is not recommended to set to
-                     C(false) except when you are sure that nobody can intercept the connection
-                     between this plugin and HEC, as setting it to C(false) allows man-in-the-middle attacks!
+                     V(false) except when you are sure that nobody can intercept the connection
+                     between this plugin and HEC, as setting it to V(false) allows man-in-the-middle attacks!
        env:
          - name: SPLUNK_VALIDATE_CERTS
        ini:
--- a/plugins/callback/sumologic.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/sumologic.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

-DOCUMENTATION = '''
+DOCUMENTATION = r'''
 name: sumologic
 type: notification
 short_description: Sends task result events to Sumologic
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ description:
  - This callback plugin will send task results as JSON formatted events to a Sumologic HTTP collector source.
 requirements:
  - Whitelisting this callback plugin
-  - 'Create a HTTP collector source in Sumologic and specify a custom timestamp format of C(yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZ) and a custom timestamp locator
-    of C("timestamp": "(.*)")'
+  - 'Create a HTTP collector source in Sumologic and specify a custom timestamp format of V(yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZ) and a custom timestamp locator
+    of V("timestamp": "(.*\)")'
 options:
  url:
    description: URL to the Sumologic HTTP collector source.
--- a/plugins/callback/unixy.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/unixy.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2017, Allyson Bowles <@akatch>
+# Copyright (c) 2023, Al Bowles <@akatch>
 # Copyright (c) 2012-2014, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.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
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 DOCUMENTATION = '''
    name: unixy
    type: stdout
-    author: Allyson Bowles (@akatch)
+    author: Al Bowles (@akatch)
    short_description: condensed Ansible output
    description:
      - Consolidated Ansible output in the style of LINUX/UNIX startup logs.
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackModule_default):
    - Only display task names if the task runs on at least one host
    - Add option to display all hostnames on a single line in the appropriate result color (failures may have a separate line)
    - Consolidate stats display
-    - Display whether run is in --check mode
    - Don't show play name if no hosts found
    '''

@@ -92,19 +91,31 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackModule_default):
    def v2_playbook_on_task_start(self, task, is_conditional):
        self._get_task_display_name(task)
        if self.task_display_name is not None:
-            self._display.display("%s..." % self.task_display_name)
+            if task.check_mode and self.get_option('check_mode_markers'):
+                self._display.display("%s (check mode)..." % self.task_display_name)
+            else:
+                self._display.display("%s..." % self.task_display_name)

    def v2_playbook_on_handler_task_start(self, task):
        self._get_task_display_name(task)
        if self.task_display_name is not None:
-            self._display.display("%s (via handler)... " % self.task_display_name)
+            if task.check_mode and self.get_option('check_mode_markers'):
+                self._display.display("%s (via handler in check mode)... " % self.task_display_name)
+            else:
+                self._display.display("%s (via handler)... " % self.task_display_name)

    def v2_playbook_on_play_start(self, play):
        name = play.get_name().strip()
-        if name and play.hosts:
-            msg = u"\n- %s on hosts: %s -" % (name, ",".join(play.hosts))
+        if play.check_mode and self.get_option('check_mode_markers'):
+            if name and play.hosts:
+                msg = u"\n- %s (in check mode) on hosts: %s -" % (name, ",".join(play.hosts))
+            else:
+                msg = u"- check mode -"
        else:
-            msg = u"---"
+            if name and play.hosts:
+                msg = u"\n- %s on hosts: %s -" % (name, ",".join(play.hosts))
+            else:
+                msg = u"---"

        self._display.display(msg)

@@ -227,8 +238,10 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackModule_default):
        self._display.display("  Ran out of hosts!", color=C.COLOR_ERROR)

    def v2_playbook_on_start(self, playbook):
-        # TODO display whether this run is happening in check mode
-        self._display.display("Executing playbook %s" % basename(playbook._file_name))
+        if context.CLIARGS['check'] and self.get_option('check_mode_markers'):
+            self._display.display("Executing playbook %s in check mode" % basename(playbook._file_name))
+        else:
+            self._display.display("Executing playbook %s" % basename(playbook._file_name))

        # show CLI arguments
        if self._display.verbosity > 3:
--- a/plugins/connection/chroot.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/chroot.py
@@ -46,8 +46,42 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        vars:
          - name: ansible_chroot_exe
        default: chroot
+      disable_root_check:
+        description:
+            - Do not check that the user is not root.
+        ini:
+          - section: chroot_connection
+            key: disable_root_check
+        env:
+          - name: ANSIBLE_CHROOT_DISABLE_ROOT_CHECK
+        vars:
+          - name: ansible_chroot_disable_root_check
+        default: false
+        type: bool
+        version_added: 7.3.0
 '''

+EXAMPLES = r"""
+# Plugin requires root privileges for chroot, -E preserves your env (and location of ~/.ansible):
+# sudo -E ansible-playbook ...
+#
+# Static inventory file
+# [chroots]
+# /path/to/debootstrap
+# /path/to/feboostrap
+# /path/to/lxc-image
+# /path/to/chroot
+
+# playbook
+---
+- hosts: chroots
+  connection: community.general.chroot
+  tasks:
+    - debug:
+        msg: "This is coming from chroot environment"
+
+"""
+
 import os
 import os.path
 import subprocess
@@ -81,11 +115,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):

        self.chroot = self._play_context.remote_addr

-        if os.geteuid() != 0:
-            raise AnsibleError("chroot connection requires running as root")
-
-        # we're running as root on the local system so do some
-        # trivial checks for ensuring 'host' is actually a chroot'able dir
+        # do some trivial checks for ensuring 'host' is actually a chroot'able dir
        if not os.path.isdir(self.chroot):
            raise AnsibleError("%s is not a directory" % self.chroot)

@@ -99,6 +129,11 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):

    def _connect(self):
        """ connect to the chroot """
+        if not self.get_option('disable_root_check') and os.geteuid() != 0:
+            raise AnsibleError(
+                "chroot connection requires running as root. "
+                "You can override this check with the `disable_root_check` option.")
+
        if os.path.isabs(self.get_option('chroot_exe')):
            self.chroot_cmd = self.get_option('chroot_exe')
        else:
--- a/plugins/connection/funcd.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/funcd.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        if in_data:
            raise AnsibleError("Internal Error: this module does not support optimized module pipelining")

-        # totally ignores privlege escalation
+        # totally ignores privilege escalation
        display.vvv("EXEC %s" % cmd, host=self.host)
        p = self.client.command.run(cmd)[self.host]
        return p[0], p[1], p[2]
--- a/plugins/connection/lxc.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/lxc.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            - Container identifier
        default: inventory_hostname
        vars:
+            - name: inventory_hostname
            - name: ansible_host
            - name: ansible_lxc_host
      executable:
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
    def __init__(self, play_context, new_stdin, *args, **kwargs):
        super(Connection, self).__init__(play_context, new_stdin, *args, **kwargs)

-        self.container_name = self._play_context.remote_addr
+        self.container_name = None
        self.container = None

    def _connect(self):
@@ -67,12 +68,14 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        super(Connection, self)._connect()

        if not HAS_LIBLXC:
-            msg = "lxc bindings for python2 are not installed"
+            msg = "lxc python bindings are not installed"
            raise errors.AnsibleError(msg)

        if self.container:
            return

+        self.container_name = self.get_option('remote_addr')
+
        self._display.vvv("THIS IS A LOCAL LXC DIR", host=self.container_name)
        self.container = _lxc.Container(self.container_name)
        if self.container.state == "STOPPED":
@@ -117,7 +120,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        super(Connection, self).exec_command(cmd, in_data=in_data, sudoable=sudoable)

        # python2-lxc needs bytes. python3-lxc needs text.
-        executable = to_native(self._play_context.executable, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
+        executable = to_native(self.get_option('executable'), errors='surrogate_or_strict')
        local_cmd = [executable, '-c', to_native(cmd, errors='surrogate_or_strict')]

        read_stdout, write_stdout = None, None
--- a/plugins/connection/lxd.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/lxd.py
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 DOCUMENTATION = '''
    author: Matt Clay (@mattclay) <matt@mystile.com>
    name: lxd
-    short_description: Run tasks in lxc containers via lxc CLI
+    short_description: Run tasks in LXD instances via C(lxc) CLI
    description:
-        - Run commands or put/fetch files to an existing lxc container using lxc CLI
+        - Run commands or put/fetch files to an existing instance using C(lxc) CLI.
    options:
      remote_addr:
        description:
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            - name: ansible_lxd_host
      executable:
        description:
-            - shell to use for execution inside container
+            - Shell to use for execution inside instance.
        default: /bin/sh
        vars:
            - name: ansible_executable
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
            raise AnsibleError("lxc command not found in PATH")

        if self._play_context.remote_user is not None and self._play_context.remote_user != 'root':
-            self._display.warning('lxd does not support remote_user, using container default: root')
+            self._display.warning('lxd does not support remote_user, using default: root')

    def _connect(self):
        """connect to lxd (nothing to do here) """
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/alicloud.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/alicloud.py
@@ -15,40 +15,40 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
 options:
  alicloud_access_key:
    description:
-      - Alibaba Cloud access key. If not set then the value of environment variable C(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY),
-        C(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID) will be used instead.
+      - Alibaba Cloud access key. If not set then the value of environment variable E(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY),
+        E(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID) will be used instead.
    aliases: ['access_key_id', 'access_key']
    type: str
  alicloud_secret_key:
    description:
-      - Alibaba Cloud secret key. If not set then the value of environment variable C(ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY),
-        C(ALICLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) will be used instead.
+      - Alibaba Cloud secret key. If not set then the value of environment variable E(ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY),
+        E(ALICLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) will be used instead.
    aliases: ['secret_access_key', 'secret_key']
    type: str
  alicloud_region:
    description:
      - The Alibaba Cloud region to use. If not specified then the value of environment variable
-        C(ALICLOUD_REGION), C(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID) will be used instead.
+        E(ALICLOUD_REGION), E(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID) will be used instead.
    aliases: ['region', 'region_id']
    required: true
    type: str
  alicloud_security_token:
    description:
      - The Alibaba Cloud security token. If not specified then the value of environment variable
-        C(ALICLOUD_SECURITY_TOKEN) will be used instead.
+        E(ALICLOUD_SECURITY_TOKEN) will be used instead.
    aliases: ['security_token']
    type: str
  alicloud_assume_role:
    description:
      - If provided with a role ARN, Ansible will attempt to assume this role using the supplied credentials.
-      - The nested assume_role block supports I(alicloud_assume_role_arn), I(alicloud_assume_role_session_name),
-        I(alicloud_assume_role_session_expiration) and I(alicloud_assume_role_policy)
+      - The nested assume_role block supports C(alicloud_assume_role_arn), C(alicloud_assume_role_session_name),
+        C(alicloud_assume_role_session_expiration) and C(alicloud_assume_role_policy).
    type: dict
    aliases: ['assume_role']
  alicloud_assume_role_arn:
    description:
      - The Alibaba Cloud role_arn. The ARN of the role to assume. If ARN is set to an empty string,
-        it does not perform role switching. It supports environment variable ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN.
+        it does not perform role switching. It supports environment variable E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN).
        ansible will execute with provided credentials.
    aliases: ['assume_role_arn']
    type: str
@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@ options:
    description:
      - The Alibaba Cloud session_name. The session name to use when assuming the role. If omitted,
        'ansible' is passed to the AssumeRole call as session name. It supports environment variable
-        ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME
+        E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME).
    aliases: ['assume_role_session_name']
    type: str
  alicloud_assume_role_session_expiration:
    description:
      - The Alibaba Cloud session_expiration. The time after which the established session for assuming
        role expires. Valid value range 900-3600 seconds. Default to 3600 (in this case Alicloud use own default
-        value). It supports environment variable ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_EXPIRATION
+        value). It supports environment variable E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_EXPIRATION).
    aliases: ['assume_role_session_expiration']
    type: int
  ecs_role_name:
@@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ options:
  profile:
    description:
      - This is the Alicloud profile name as set in the shared credentials file. It can also be sourced from the
-        ALICLOUD_PROFILE environment variable.
+        E(ALICLOUD_PROFILE) environment variable.
    type: str
  shared_credentials_file:
    description:
-      - This is the path to the shared credentials file. It can also be sourced from the ALICLOUD_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE
+      - This is the path to the shared credentials file. It can also be sourced from the E(ALICLOUD_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE)
        environment variable.
      - If this is not set and a profile is specified,  ~/.aliyun/config.json will be used.
    type: str
@@ -94,16 +94,16 @@ requirements:
 notes:
  - If parameters are not set within the module, the following
    environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence
-    C(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY) or C(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID),
-    C(ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY) or C(ALICLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY),
-    C(ALICLOUD_REGION) or C(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID),
-    C(ALICLOUD_SECURITY_TOKEN),
-    C(ALICLOUD_ECS_ROLE_NAME),
-    C(ALICLOUD_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE),
-    C(ALICLOUD_PROFILE),
-    C(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN),
-    C(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME),
-    C(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_EXPIRATION),
-  - C(ALICLOUD_REGION) or C(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID) can be typically be used to specify the
+    E(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY) or E(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID),
+    E(ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY) or E(ALICLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY),
+    E(ALICLOUD_REGION) or E(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID),
+    E(ALICLOUD_SECURITY_TOKEN),
+    E(ALICLOUD_ECS_ROLE_NAME),
+    E(ALICLOUD_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE),
+    E(ALICLOUD_PROFILE),
+    E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN),
+    E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME),
+    E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_EXPIRATION),
+  - E(ALICLOUD_REGION) or E(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID) can be typically be used to specify the
    ALICLOUD region, when required, but this can also be configured in the footmark config file
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/bitbucket.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/bitbucket.py
@@ -16,25 +16,25 @@ options:
  client_id:
    description:
      - The OAuth consumer key.
-      - If not set the environment variable C(BITBUCKET_CLIENT_ID) will be used.
+      - If not set the environment variable E(BITBUCKET_CLIENT_ID) will be used.
    type: str
  client_secret:
    description:
      - The OAuth consumer secret.
-      - If not set the environment variable C(BITBUCKET_CLIENT_SECRET) will be used.
+      - If not set the environment variable E(BITBUCKET_CLIENT_SECRET) will be used.
    type: str
  user:
    description:
      - The username.
-      - If not set the environment variable C(BITBUCKET_USERNAME) will be used.
-      - I(username) is an alias of I(user) since community.genreal 6.0.0. It was an alias of I(workspace) before.
+      - If not set the environment variable E(BITBUCKET_USERNAME) will be used.
+      - O(ignore:username) is an alias of O(user) since community.general 6.0.0. It was an alias of O(workspace) before.
    type: str
    version_added: 4.0.0
    aliases: [ username ]
  password:
    description:
      - The App password.
-      - If not set the environment variable C(BITBUCKET_PASSWORD) will be used.
+      - If not set the environment variable E(BITBUCKET_PASSWORD) will be used.
    type: str
    version_added: 4.0.0
 notes:
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/dimensiondata.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/dimensiondata.py
@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ options:
  mcp_user:
    description:
      - The username used to authenticate to the CloudControl API.
-      - If not specified, will fall back to C(MCP_USER) from environment variable or C(~/.dimensiondata).
+      - If not specified, will fall back to E(MCP_USER) from environment variable or C(~/.dimensiondata).
    type: str
  mcp_password:
    description:
      - The password used to authenticate to the CloudControl API.
-      - If not specified, will fall back to C(MCP_PASSWORD) from environment variable or C(~/.dimensiondata).
-      - Required if I(mcp_user) is specified.
+      - If not specified, will fall back to E(MCP_PASSWORD) from environment variable or C(~/.dimensiondata).
+      - Required if O(mcp_user) is specified.
    type: str
  location:
    description:
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ options:
    required: true
  validate_certs:
    description:
-      - If C(false), SSL certificates will not be validated.
+      - If V(false), SSL certificates will not be validated.
      - This should only be used on private instances of the CloudControl API that use self-signed certificates.
    type: bool
    default: true
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/dimensiondata_wait.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/dimensiondata_wait.py
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ options:
  wait_time:
    description:
      - The maximum amount of time (in seconds) to wait for the task to complete.
-      - Only applicable if I(wait=true).
+      - Only applicable if O(wait=true).
    type: int
    default: 600
  wait_poll_interval:
    description:
      - The amount of time (in seconds) to wait between checks for task completion.
-      - Only applicable if I(wait=true).
+      - Only applicable if O(wait=true).
    type: int
    default: 2
    '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/hwc.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/hwc.py
@@ -51,16 +51,16 @@ options:
        type: str
 notes:
  - For authentication, you can set identity_endpoint using the
-    C(ANSIBLE_HWC_IDENTITY_ENDPOINT) env variable.
+    E(ANSIBLE_HWC_IDENTITY_ENDPOINT) env variable.
  - For authentication, you can set user using the
-    C(ANSIBLE_HWC_USER) env variable.
-  - For authentication, you can set password using the C(ANSIBLE_HWC_PASSWORD) env
+    E(ANSIBLE_HWC_USER) env variable.
+  - For authentication, you can set password using the E(ANSIBLE_HWC_PASSWORD) env
    variable.
-  - For authentication, you can set domain using the C(ANSIBLE_HWC_DOMAIN) env
+  - For authentication, you can set domain using the E(ANSIBLE_HWC_DOMAIN) env
    variable.
-  - For authentication, you can set project using the C(ANSIBLE_HWC_PROJECT) env
+  - For authentication, you can set project using the E(ANSIBLE_HWC_PROJECT) env
    variable.
-  - For authentication, you can set region using the C(ANSIBLE_HWC_REGION) env variable.
+  - For authentication, you can set region using the E(ANSIBLE_HWC_REGION) env variable.
  - Environment variables values will only be used if the playbook values are
    not set.
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/influxdb.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/influxdb.py
@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@ options:
  username:
    description:
    - Username that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server.
-    - Alias C(login_username) added in Ansible 2.5.
+    - Alias O(login_username) added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    default: root
    aliases: [ login_username ]
  password:
    description:
    - Password that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server.
-    - Alias C(login_password) added in Ansible 2.5.
+    - Alias O(login_password) added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    default: root
    aliases: [ login_password ]
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ options:
    version_added: '0.2.0'
  validate_certs:
    description:
-    - If set to C(false), the SSL certificates will not be validated.
-    - This should only set to C(false) used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
+    - If set to V(false), the SSL certificates will not be validated.
+    - This should only set to V(false) used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
    type: bool
    default: true
  ssl:
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ options:
  retries:
    description:
    - Number of retries client will try before aborting.
-    - C(0) indicates try until success.
+    - V(0) indicates try until success.
    - Only available when using python-influxdb >= 4.1.0
    type: int
    default: 3
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/ipa.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/ipa.py
@@ -16,61 +16,61 @@ options:
  ipa_port:
    description:
    - Port of FreeIPA / IPA server.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_PORT) will be used instead.
-    - If both the environment variable C(IPA_PORT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_PORT) will be used instead.
+    - If both the environment variable E(IPA_PORT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: int
    default: 443
  ipa_host:
    description:
    - IP or hostname of IPA server.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_HOST) will be used instead.
-    - If both the environment variable C(IPA_HOST) and the value are not specified in the task, then DNS will be used to try to discover the FreeIPA server.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_HOST) will be used instead.
+    - If both the environment variable E(IPA_HOST) and the value are not specified in the task, then DNS will be used to try to discover the FreeIPA server.
    - The relevant entry needed in FreeIPA is the 'ipa-ca' entry.
-    - If neither the DNS entry, nor the environment C(IPA_HOST), nor the value are available in the task, then the default value will be used.
+    - If neither the DNS entry, nor the environment E(IPA_HOST), nor the value are available in the task, then the default value will be used.
    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    default: ipa.example.com
  ipa_user:
    description:
    - Administrative account used on IPA server.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_USER) will be used instead.
-    - If both the environment variable C(IPA_USER) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_USER) will be used instead.
+    - If both the environment variable E(IPA_USER) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    default: admin
  ipa_pass:
    description:
    - Password of administrative user.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_PASS) will be used instead.
-    - Note that if the 'urllib_gssapi' library is available, it is possible to use GSSAPI to authenticate to FreeIPA.
-    - If the environment variable C(KRB5CCNAME) is available, the module will use this kerberos credentials cache to authenticate to the FreeIPA server.
-    - If the environment variable C(KRB5_CLIENT_KTNAME) is available, and C(KRB5CCNAME) is not; the module will use this kerberos keytab to authenticate.
-    - If GSSAPI is not available, the usage of 'ipa_pass' is required.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_PASS) will be used instead.
+    - Note that if the C(urllib_gssapi) library is available, it is possible to use GSSAPI to authenticate to FreeIPA.
+    - If the environment variable E(KRB5CCNAME) is available, the module will use this kerberos credentials cache to authenticate to the FreeIPA server.
+    - If the environment variable E(KRB5_CLIENT_KTNAME) is available, and E(KRB5CCNAME) is not; the module will use this kerberos keytab to authenticate.
+    - If GSSAPI is not available, the usage of O(ipa_pass) is required.
    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
  ipa_prot:
    description:
    - Protocol used by IPA server.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_PROT) will be used instead.
-    - If both the environment variable C(IPA_PROT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_PROT) will be used instead.
+    - If both the environment variable E(IPA_PROT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    choices: [ http, https ]
    default: https
  validate_certs:
    description:
-    - This only applies if C(ipa_prot) is I(https).
-    - If set to C(false), the SSL certificates will not be validated.
-    - This should only set to C(false) used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
+    - This only applies if O(ipa_prot) is V(https).
+    - If set to V(false), the SSL certificates will not be validated.
+    - This should only set to V(false) used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
    type: bool
    default: true
  ipa_timeout:
    description:
    - Specifies idle timeout (in seconds) for the connection.
    - For bulk operations, you may want to increase this in order to avoid timeout from IPA server.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_TIMEOUT) will be used instead.
-    - If both the environment variable C(IPA_TIMEOUT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_TIMEOUT) will be used instead.
+    - If both the environment variable E(IPA_TIMEOUT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
    type: int
    default: 10
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/keycloak.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/keycloak.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ options:

    auth_client_id:
        description:
-            - OpenID Connect I(client_id) to authenticate to the API with.
+            - OpenID Connect C(client_id) to authenticate to the API with.
        type: str
        default: admin-cli

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ options:

    auth_client_secret:
        description:
-            - Client Secret to use in conjunction with I(auth_client_id) (if required).
+            - Client Secret to use in conjunction with O(auth_client_id) (if required).
        type: str

    auth_username:
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/ldap.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/ldap.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ options:
    type: str
  bind_pw:
    description:
-      - The password to use with I(bind_dn).
+      - The password to use with O(bind_dn).
    type: str
    default: ''
  ca_path:
@@ -29,6 +29,18 @@ options:
      - Set the path to PEM file with CA certs.
    type: path
    version_added: "6.5.0"
+  client_cert:
+    type: path
+    description:
+      - PEM formatted certificate chain file to be used for SSL client authentication.
+      - Required if O(client_key) is defined.
+    version_added: "7.1.0"
+  client_key:
+    type: path
+    description:
+      - PEM formatted file that contains your private key to be used for SSL client authentication.
+      - Required if O(client_cert) is defined.
+    version_added: "7.1.0"
  dn:
    required: true
    description:
@@ -40,12 +52,12 @@ options:
    type: str
    description:
      - Set the referrals chasing behavior.
-      - C(anonymous) follow referrals anonymously. This is the default behavior.
-      - C(disabled) disable referrals chasing. This sets C(OPT_REFERRALS) to off.
+      - V(anonymous) follow referrals anonymously. This is the default behavior.
+      - V(disabled) disable referrals chasing. This sets C(OPT_REFERRALS) to off.
    version_added: 2.0.0
  server_uri:
    description:
-      - The I(server_uri) parameter may be a comma- or whitespace-separated list of URIs containing only the schema, the host, and the port fields.
+      - The O(server_uri) parameter may be a comma- or whitespace-separated list of URIs containing only the schema, the host, and the port fields.
      - The default value lets the underlying LDAP client library look for a UNIX domain socket in its default location.
      - Note that when using multiple URIs you cannot determine to which URI your client gets connected.
      - For URIs containing additional fields, particularly when using commas, behavior is undefined.
@@ -58,14 +70,13 @@ options:
    default: false
  validate_certs:
    description:
-      - If set to C(false), SSL certificates will not be validated.
+      - If set to V(false), SSL certificates will not be validated.
      - This should only be used on sites using self-signed certificates.
    type: bool
    default: true
  sasl_class:
    description:
      - The class to use for SASL authentication.
-      - Possible choices are C(external), C(gssapi).
    type: str
    choices: ['external', 'gssapi']
    default: external
@@ -73,10 +84,9 @@ options:
  xorder_discovery:
    description:
      - Set the behavior on how to process Xordered DNs.
-      - C(enable) will perform a C(ONELEVEL) search below the superior RDN to find the matching DN.
-      - C(disable) will always use the DN unmodified (as passed by the I(dn) parameter).
-      - C(auto) will only perform a search if the first RDN does not contain an index number (C({x})).
-      - Possible choices are C(enable), C(auto), C(disable).
+      - V(enable) will perform a C(ONELEVEL) search below the superior RDN to find the matching DN.
+      - V(disable) will always use the DN unmodified (as passed by the O(dn) parameter).
+      - V(auto) will only perform a search if the first RDN does not contain an index number (C({x})).
    type: str
    choices: ['enable', 'auto', 'disable']
    default: auto
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/manageiq.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/manageiq.py
@@ -21,30 +21,30 @@ options:
    suboptions:
      url:
        description:
-          - ManageIQ environment url. C(MIQ_URL) env var if set. otherwise, it is required to pass it.
+          - ManageIQ environment URL. E(MIQ_URL) environment variable if set. Otherwise, it is required to pass it.
        type: str
        required: false
      username:
        description:
-          - ManageIQ username. C(MIQ_USERNAME) env var if set. otherwise, required if no token is passed in.
+          - ManageIQ username. E(MIQ_USERNAME) environment variable if set. Otherwise, required if no token is passed in.
        type: str
      password:
        description:
-          - ManageIQ password. C(MIQ_PASSWORD) env var if set. otherwise, required if no token is passed in.
+          - ManageIQ password. E(MIQ_PASSWORD) environment variable if set. Otherwise, required if no token is passed in.
        type: str
      token:
        description:
-          - ManageIQ token. C(MIQ_TOKEN) env var if set. otherwise, required if no username or password is passed in.
+          - ManageIQ token. E(MIQ_TOKEN) environment variable if set. Otherwise, required if no username or password is passed in.
        type: str
      validate_certs:
        description:
-          - Whether SSL certificates should be verified for HTTPS requests. defaults to True.
+          - Whether SSL certificates should be verified for HTTPS requests.
        type: bool
        default: true
        aliases: [ verify_ssl ]
      ca_cert:
        description:
-          - The path to a CA bundle file or directory with certificates. defaults to None.
+          - The path to a CA bundle file or directory with certificates.
        type: str
        aliases: [ ca_bundle_path ]

--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/nomad.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/nomad.py
@@ -47,6 +47,6 @@ options:
      type: str
    token:
      description:
-        - ACL token for authentification.
+        - ACL token for authentication.
      type: str
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/online.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/online.py
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ options:
    default: true
 notes:
  - Also see the API documentation on U(https://console.online.net/en/api/)
-  - If C(api_token) is not set within the module, the following
+  - If O(api_token) is not set within the module, the following
    environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence
-    C(ONLINE_TOKEN), C(ONLINE_API_KEY), C(ONLINE_OAUTH_TOKEN), C(ONLINE_API_TOKEN)
-  - If one wants to use a different C(api_url) one can also set the C(ONLINE_API_URL)
+    E(ONLINE_TOKEN), E(ONLINE_API_KEY), E(ONLINE_OAUTH_TOKEN), E(ONLINE_API_TOKEN).
+  - If one wants to use a different O(api_url) one can also set the E(ONLINE_API_URL)
    environment variable.
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/opennebula.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/opennebula.py
@@ -15,26 +15,26 @@ options:
    api_url:
        description:
            - The ENDPOINT URL of the XMLRPC server.
-            - If not specified then the value of the ONE_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
+            - If not specified then the value of the E(ONE_URL) environment variable, if any, is used.
        type: str
        aliases:
            - api_endpoint
    api_username:
        description:
            - The name of the user for XMLRPC authentication.
-            - If not specified then the value of the ONE_USERNAME environment variable, if any, is used.
+            - If not specified then the value of the E(ONE_USERNAME) environment variable, if any, is used.
        type: str
    api_password:
        description:
            - The password or token for XMLRPC authentication.
-            - If not specified then the value of the ONE_PASSWORD environment variable, if any, is used.
+            - If not specified then the value of the E(ONE_PASSWORD) environment variable, if any, is used.
        type: str
        aliases:
            - api_token
    validate_certs:
        description:
-            - Whether to validate the SSL certificates or not.
-            - This parameter is ignored if PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY environment variable is used.
+            - Whether to validate the TLS/SSL certificates or not.
+            - This parameter is ignored if E(PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY) environment variable is used.
        type: bool
        default: true
    wait_timeout:
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/openswitch.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/openswitch.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ options:
  port:
    description:
      - Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote
-        device.  This value applies to either I(cli) or I(rest).  The port
+        device.  This value applies to either O(transport=cli) or O(transport=rest).  The port
        value will default to the appropriate transport common port if
        none is provided in the task.  (cli=22, http=80, https=443).  Note
        this argument does not affect the SSH transport.
@@ -36,15 +36,15 @@ options:
        either the CLI login or the eAPI authentication depending on which
        transport is used. Note this argument does not affect the SSH
        transport. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of
-        environment variable C(ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME) will be used instead.
+        environment variable E(ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME) will be used instead.
    type: str
  password:
    description:
      - Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to
-        the remote device.  This is a common argument used for either I(cli)
-        or I(rest) transports.  Note this argument does not affect the SSH
+        the remote device.  This is a common argument used for either O(transport=cli)
+        or O(transport=rest).  Note this argument does not affect the SSH
        transport. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of
-        environment variable C(ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD) will be used instead.
+        environment variable E(ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD) will be used instead.
    type: str
  timeout:
    description:
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ options:
  ssh_keyfile:
    description:
      - Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to
-        the remote device.  This argument is only used for the I(cli)
-        transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of
-        environment variable C(ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE) will be used instead.
+        the remote device.  This argument is only used for O(transport=cli).
+        If the value is not specified in the task, the value of
+        environment variable E(ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE) will be used instead.
    type: path
  transport:
    description:
@@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ options:
    default: ssh
  use_ssl:
    description:
-      - Configures the I(transport) to use SSL if set to C(true) only when the
-        I(transport) argument is configured as rest.  If the transport
-        argument is not I(rest), this value is ignored.
+      - Configures the O(transport) to use SSL if set to V(true) only when the
+        O(transport) argument is configured as rest.  If the transport
+        argument is not V(rest), this value is ignored.
    type: bool
    default: true
  provider:
    description:
-      - Convenience method that allows all I(openswitch) arguments to be passed as
+      - Convenience method that allows all C(openswitch) arguments to be passed as
        a dict object.  All constraints (required, choices, etc) must be
        met either by individual arguments or values in this dict.
    type: dict
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle.py
@@ -18,28 +18,28 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
    options:
        config_file_location:
            description:
-                - Path to configuration file. If not set then the value of the OCI_CONFIG_FILE environment variable,
+                - Path to configuration file. If not set then the value of the E(OCI_CONFIG_FILE) environment variable,
                  if any, is used. Otherwise, defaults to ~/.oci/config.
            type: str
        config_profile_name:
            description:
-                - The profile to load from the config file referenced by C(config_file_location). If not set, then the
-                  value of the OCI_CONFIG_PROFILE environment variable, if any, is used. Otherwise, defaults to the
-                  "DEFAULT" profile in C(config_file_location).
+                - The profile to load from the config file referenced by O(config_file_location). If not set, then the
+                  value of the E(OCI_CONFIG_PROFILE) environment variable, if any, is used. Otherwise, defaults to the
+                  "DEFAULT" profile in O(config_file_location).
            default: "DEFAULT"
            type: str
        api_user:
            description:
                - The OCID of the user, on whose behalf, OCI APIs are invoked. If not set, then the
-                  value of the OCI_USER_OCID environment variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the user
-                  is not specified through a configuration file (See C(config_file_location)). To get the user's OCID,
+                  value of the E(OCI_USER_OCID) environment variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the user
+                  is not specified through a configuration file (See O(config_file_location)). To get the user's OCID,
                  please refer U(https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/API/Concepts/apisigningkey.htm).
            type: str
        api_user_fingerprint:
            description:
-                - Fingerprint for the key pair being used. If not set, then the value of the OCI_USER_FINGERPRINT
+                - Fingerprint for the key pair being used. If not set, then the value of the E(OCI_USER_FINGERPRINT)
                  environment variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the key fingerprint is not
-                  specified through a configuration file (See C(config_file_location)). To get the key pair's
+                  specified through a configuration file (See O(config_file_location)). To get the key pair's
                  fingerprint value please refer
                  U(https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/API/Concepts/apisigningkey.htm).
            type: str
@@ -47,21 +47,21 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
            description:
                - Full path and filename of the private key (in PEM format). If not set, then the value of the
                  OCI_USER_KEY_FILE variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the private key is
-                  not specified through a configuration file (See C(config_file_location)). If the key is encrypted
-                  with a pass-phrase, the C(api_user_key_pass_phrase) option must also be provided.
+                  not specified through a configuration file (See O(config_file_location)). If the key is encrypted
+                  with a pass-phrase, the O(api_user_key_pass_phrase) option must also be provided.
            type: path
        api_user_key_pass_phrase:
            description:
-                - Passphrase used by the key referenced in C(api_user_key_file), if it is encrypted. If not set, then
+                - Passphrase used by the key referenced in O(api_user_key_file), if it is encrypted. If not set, then
                  the value of the OCI_USER_KEY_PASS_PHRASE variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the
-                  key passphrase is not specified through a configuration file (See C(config_file_location)).
+                  key passphrase is not specified through a configuration file (See O(config_file_location)).
            type: str
        auth_type:
            description:
-                - The type of authentication to use for making API requests. By default C(auth_type="api_key") based
-                  authentication is performed and the API key (see I(api_user_key_file)) in your config file will be
+                - The type of authentication to use for making API requests. By default O(auth_type=api_key) based
+                  authentication is performed and the API key (see O(api_user_key_file)) in your config file will be
                  used. If this 'auth_type' module option is not specified, the value of the OCI_ANSIBLE_AUTH_TYPE,
-                  if any, is used. Use C(auth_type="instance_principal") to use instance principal based authentication
+                  if any, is used. Use O(auth_type=instance_principal) to use instance principal based authentication
                  when running ansible playbooks within an OCI compute instance.
            choices: ['api_key', 'instance_principal']
            default: 'api_key'
@@ -70,14 +70,14 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
            description:
                - OCID of your tenancy. If not set, then the value of the OCI_TENANCY variable, if any, is
                  used. This option is required if the tenancy OCID is not specified through a configuration file
-                  (See C(config_file_location)). To get the tenancy OCID, please refer
+                  (See O(config_file_location)). To get the tenancy OCID, please refer
                  U(https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/API/Concepts/apisigningkey.htm)
            type: str
        region:
            description:
                - The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region to use for all OCI API requests. If not set, then the
                  value of the OCI_REGION variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the region is
-                  not specified through a configuration file (See C(config_file_location)). Please refer to
+                  not specified through a configuration file (See O(config_file_location)). Please refer to
                  U(https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/General/Concepts/regions.htm) for more information
                  on OCI regions.
            type: str
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_creatable_resource.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_creatable_resource.py
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
            description: Whether to attempt non-idempotent creation of a resource. By default, create resource is an
                         idempotent operation, and doesn't create the resource if it already exists. Setting this option
                         to true, forcefully creates a copy of the resource, even if it already exists.This option is
-                         mutually exclusive with I(key_by).
+                         mutually exclusive with O(key_by).
            default: false
            type: bool
        key_by:
            description: The list of comma-separated attributes of this resource which should be used to uniquely
                         identify an instance of the resource. By default, all the attributes of a resource except
-                         I(freeform_tags) are used to uniquely identify a resource.
+                         O(freeform_tags) are used to uniquely identify a resource.
            type: list
            elements: str
    """
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_display_name_option.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_display_name_option.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
    DOCUMENTATION = """
    options:
        display_name:
-            description: Use I(display_name) along with the other options to return only resources that match the given
+            description: Use O(display_name) along with the other options to return only resources that match the given
                         display name exactly.
            type: str
    """
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_name_option.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_name_option.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
    DOCUMENTATION = """
    options:
        name:
-            description: Use I(name) along with the other options to return only resources that match the given name
+            description: Use O(name) along with the other options to return only resources that match the given name
                         exactly.
            type: str
    """
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_wait_options.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_wait_options.py
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
            default: true
            type: bool
        wait_timeout:
-            description: Time, in seconds, to wait when I(wait=true).
+            description: Time, in seconds, to wait when O(wait=true).
            default: 1200
            type: int
        wait_until:
-            description: The lifecycle state to wait for the resource to transition into when I(wait=true). By default,
-                         when I(wait=true), we wait for the resource to get into ACTIVE/ATTACHED/AVAILABLE/PROVISIONED/
+            description: The lifecycle state to wait for the resource to transition into when O(wait=true). By default,
+                         when O(wait=true), we wait for the resource to get into ACTIVE/ATTACHED/AVAILABLE/PROVISIONED/
                         RUNNING applicable lifecycle state during create operation & to get into DELETED/DETACHED/
                         TERMINATED lifecycle state during delete operation.
            type: str
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/pritunl.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/pritunl.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ options:
        default: true
        description:
        - If certificates should be validated or not.
-        - This should never be set to C(false), except if you are very sure that
+        - This should never be set to V(false), except if you are very sure that
          your connection to the server can not be subject to a Man In The Middle
          attack.
 """
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/proxmox.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/proxmox.py
@@ -24,21 +24,23 @@ options:
  api_password:
    description:
      - Specify the password to authenticate with.
-      - You can use C(PROXMOX_PASSWORD) environment variable.
+      - You can use E(PROXMOX_PASSWORD) environment variable.
    type: str
  api_token_id:
    description:
      - Specify the token ID.
+      - Requires C(proxmoxer>=1.1.0) to work.
    type: str
    version_added: 1.3.0
  api_token_secret:
    description:
      - Specify the token secret.
+      - Requires C(proxmoxer>=1.1.0) to work.
    type: str
    version_added: 1.3.0
  validate_certs:
    description:
-      - If C(false), SSL certificates will not be validated.
+      - If V(false), SSL certificates will not be validated.
      - This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
    type: bool
    default: false
@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@ options:
  node:
    description:
      - Proxmox VE node on which to operate.
-      - Only required for I(state=present).
+      - Only required for O(state=present).
      - For every other states it will be autodiscovered.
    type: str
  pool:
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/purestorage.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/purestorage.py
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ options:
    type: str
 notes:
  - This module requires the C(purity_fb) Python library
-  - You must set C(PUREFB_URL) and C(PUREFB_API) environment variables
-    if I(fb_url) and I(api_token) arguments are not passed to the module directly
+  - You must set E(PUREFB_URL) and E(PUREFB_API) environment variables
+    if O(fb_url) and O(api_token) arguments are not passed to the module directly
 requirements:
  - python >= 2.7
  - purity_fb >= 1.1
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ options:
    required: true
 notes:
  - This module requires the C(purestorage) Python library
-  - You must set C(PUREFA_URL) and C(PUREFA_API) environment variables
-    if I(fa_url) and I(api_token) arguments are not passed to the module directly
+  - You must set E(PUREFA_URL) and E(PUREFA_API) environment variables
+    if O(fa_url) and O(api_token) arguments are not passed to the module directly
 requirements:
  - python >= 2.7
  - purestorage
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/rackspace.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/rackspace.py
@@ -15,18 +15,18 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
 options:
  api_key:
    description:
-      - Rackspace API key, overrides I(credentials).
+      - Rackspace API key, overrides O(credentials).
    type: str
    aliases: [ password ]
  credentials:
    description:
-      - File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if I(api_key) and
-        I(username) are provided.
+      - File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if O(api_key) and
+        O(username) are provided.
    type: path
    aliases: [ creds_file ]
  env:
    description:
-      - Environment as configured in I(~/.pyrax.cfg),
+      - Environment as configured in C(~/.pyrax.cfg),
        see U(https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration).
    type: str
  region:
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ options:
    type: str
  username:
    description:
-      - Rackspace username, overrides I(credentials).
+      - Rackspace username, overrides O(credentials).
    type: str
  validate_certs:
    description:
@@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ requirements:
  - python >= 2.6
  - pyrax
 notes:
-  - The following environment variables can be used, C(RAX_USERNAME),
-    C(RAX_API_KEY), C(RAX_CREDS_FILE), C(RAX_CREDENTIALS), C(RAX_REGION).
-  - C(RAX_CREDENTIALS) and C(RAX_CREDS_FILE) points to a credentials file
+  - The following environment variables can be used, E(RAX_USERNAME),
+    E(RAX_API_KEY), E(RAX_CREDS_FILE), E(RAX_CREDENTIALS), E(RAX_REGION).
+  - E(RAX_CREDENTIALS) and E(RAX_CREDS_FILE) point to a credentials file
    appropriate for pyrax. See U(https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticating)
-  - C(RAX_USERNAME) and C(RAX_API_KEY) obviate the use of a credentials file
-  - C(RAX_REGION) defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, ...)
+  - E(RAX_USERNAME) and E(RAX_API_KEY) obviate the use of a credentials file
+  - E(RAX_REGION) defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, ...)
 '''

    # Documentation fragment including attributes to enable communication
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ options:
  api_key:
    type: str
    description:
-      - Rackspace API key, overrides I(credentials).
+      - Rackspace API key, overrides O(credentials).
    aliases: [ password ]
  auth_endpoint:
    type: str
@@ -71,13 +71,13 @@ options:
  credentials:
    type: path
    description:
-      - File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if I(api_key) and
-        I(username) are provided.
+      - File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if O(api_key) and
+        O(username) are provided.
    aliases: [ creds_file ]
  env:
    type: str
    description:
-      - Environment as configured in I(~/.pyrax.cfg),
+      - Environment as configured in C(~/.pyrax.cfg),
        see U(https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration).
  identity_type:
    type: str
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ options:
  username:
    type: str
    description:
-      - Rackspace username, overrides I(credentials).
+      - Rackspace username, overrides O(credentials).
  validate_certs:
    description:
      - Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints.
@@ -113,10 +113,10 @@ requirements:
  - python >= 2.6
  - pyrax
 notes:
-  - The following environment variables can be used, C(RAX_USERNAME),
-    C(RAX_API_KEY), C(RAX_CREDS_FILE), C(RAX_CREDENTIALS), C(RAX_REGION).
-  - C(RAX_CREDENTIALS) and C(RAX_CREDS_FILE) points to a credentials file
+  - The following environment variables can be used, E(RAX_USERNAME),
+    E(RAX_API_KEY), E(RAX_CREDS_FILE), E(RAX_CREDENTIALS), E(RAX_REGION).
+  - E(RAX_CREDENTIALS) and E(RAX_CREDS_FILE) points to a credentials file
    appropriate for pyrax. See U(https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticating)
-  - C(RAX_USERNAME) and C(RAX_API_KEY) obviate the use of a credentials file
-  - C(RAX_REGION) defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, ...)
+  - E(RAX_USERNAME) and E(RAX_API_KEY) obviate the use of a credentials file
+  - E(RAX_REGION) defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, ...)
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/redis.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/redis.py
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ options:
    default: true
  ca_certs:
    description:
-      - Path to root certificates file. If not set and I(tls) is
-        set to C(true), certifi ca-certificates will be used.
+      - Path to root certificates file. If not set and O(tls) is
+        set to V(true), certifi ca-certificates will be used.
    type: str
 requirements: [ "redis", "certifi" ]

--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/scaleway.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/scaleway.py
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ options:
    default: true
 notes:
  - Also see the API documentation on U(https://developer.scaleway.com/)
-  - If C(api_token) is not set within the module, the following
+  - If O(api_token) is not set within the module, the following
    environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence
-    C(SCW_TOKEN), C(SCW_API_KEY), C(SCW_OAUTH_TOKEN) or C(SCW_API_TOKEN).
-  - If one wants to use a different C(api_url) one can also set the C(SCW_API_URL)
+    E(SCW_TOKEN), E(SCW_API_KEY), E(SCW_OAUTH_TOKEN) or E(SCW_API_TOKEN).
+  - If one wants to use a different O(api_url) one can also set the E(SCW_API_URL)
    environment variable.
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/utm.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/utm.py
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ options:
    state:
        description:
          - The desired state of the object.
-          - C(present) will create or update an object
-          - C(absent) will delete an object if it was present
+          - V(present) will create or update an object
+          - V(absent) will delete an object if it was present
        type: str
        choices: [ absent, present ]
        default: present
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/vexata.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/vexata.py
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ options:
    type: str
  validate_certs:
    description:
-      - Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to C(false) when certificates are not trusted.
-      - If set to C(true), please make sure Python >= 2.7.9 is installed on the given machine.
+      - Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to V(false) when certificates are not trusted.
+      - If set to V(true), please make sure Python >= 2.7.9 is installed on the given machine.
    required: false
    type: bool
    default: false
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/xenserver.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/xenserver.py
@@ -15,27 +15,27 @@ options:
  hostname:
    description:
    - The hostname or IP address of the XenServer host or XenServer pool master.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(XENSERVER_HOST) will be used instead.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(XENSERVER_HOST) will be used instead.
    type: str
    default: localhost
    aliases: [ host, pool ]
  username:
    description:
    - The username to use for connecting to XenServer.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(XENSERVER_USER) will be used instead.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(XENSERVER_USER) will be used instead.
    type: str
    default: root
    aliases: [ admin, user ]
  password:
    description:
    - The password to use for connecting to XenServer.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(XENSERVER_PASSWORD) will be used instead.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(XENSERVER_PASSWORD) will be used instead.
    type: str
    aliases: [ pass, pwd ]
  validate_certs:
    description:
-    - Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to C(false) when certificates are not trusted.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(XENSERVER_VALIDATE_CERTS) will be used instead.
+    - Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to V(false) when certificates are not trusted.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(XENSERVER_VALIDATE_CERTS) will be used instead.
    type: bool
    default: true
 '''
--- a/plugins/filter/from_csv.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/from_csv.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    dialect:
      description:
        - The CSV dialect to use when parsing the CSV file.
-        - Possible values include C(excel), C(excel-tab) or C(unix).
+        - Possible values include V(excel), V(excel-tab) or V(unix).
      type: str
      default: excel
    fieldnames:
@@ -35,19 +35,19 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    delimiter:
      description:
        - A one-character string used to separate fields.
-        - When using this parameter, you change the default value used by I(dialect).
+        - When using this parameter, you change the default value used by O(dialect).
        - The default value depends on the dialect used.
      type: str
    skipinitialspace:
      description:
        - Whether to ignore any whitespaces immediately following the delimiter.
-        - When using this parameter, you change the default value used by I(dialect).
+        - When using this parameter, you change the default value used by O(dialect).
        - The default value depends on the dialect used.
      type: bool
    strict:
      description:
        - Whether to raise an exception on bad CSV input.
-        - When using this parameter, you change the default value used by I(dialect).
+        - When using this parameter, you change the default value used by O(dialect).
        - The default value depends on the dialect used.
      type: bool
 '''
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
 - name: Parse a CSV file's contents
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: >-
-      {{ csv_data | community.genera.from_csv(dialect='unix') }}
+      {{ csv_data | community.general.from_csv(dialect='unix') }}
  vars:
    csv_data: |
      Column 1,Value
--- a/plugins/filter/jc.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/jc.py
@@ -25,17 +25,17 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    parser:
      description:
        - The correct parser for the input data.
-        - For example C(ifconfig).
+        - For example V(ifconfig).
        - "Note: use underscores instead of dashes (if any) in the parser module name."
        - See U(https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc#parsers) for the latest list of parsers.
      type: string
      required: true
    quiet:
-      description: Set to C(false) to not suppress warnings.
+      description: Set to V(false) to not suppress warnings.
      type: boolean
      default: true
    raw:
-      description: Set to C(true) to return pre-processed JSON.
+      description: Set to V(true) to return pre-processed JSON.
      type: boolean
      default: false
  requirements:
--- a/plugins/filter/lists_mergeby.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/lists_mergeby.py
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
  version_added: 2.0.0
  author: Vladimir Botka (@vbotka)
  description:
-    - Merge two or more lists by attribute I(index). Optional parameters 'recursive' and 'list_merge'
+    - Merge two or more lists by attribute O(index). Optional parameters O(recursive) and O(list_merge)
      control the merging of the lists in values. The function merge_hash from ansible.utils.vars
-      is used. To learn details on how to use the parameters 'recursive' and 'list_merge' see
+      is used. To learn details on how to use the parameters O(recursive) and O(list_merge) see
      Ansible User's Guide chapter "Using filters to manipulate data" section "Combining
      hashes/dictionaries".
  positional: another_list, index
--- a/plugins/filter/to_days.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_days.yml
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ DOCUMENTATION:
    _input:
      description:
        - The time string to convert.
-        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
-          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
-          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
-          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Can use the units V(y) and V(year) for a year, V(mo) and V(month) for a month, V(w) and V(week) for a week,
+          V(d) and V(day) for a day, V(h) and V(hour) for a hour, V(m), V(min) and V(minute) for minutes, V(s), V(sec)
+          and V(second) for seconds, V(ms), V(msec), V(msecond) and V(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix V(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so V(seconds) is the same as V(second).
        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
-        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+        - Examples are V(1h), V(-5m), and V(3h -5m 6s).
      type: string
      required: true
    year:
--- a/plugins/filter/to_hours.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_hours.yml
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ DOCUMENTATION:
    _input:
      description:
        - The time string to convert.
-        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
-          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
-          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
-          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Can use the units V(y) and V(year) for a year, V(mo) and V(month) for a month, V(w) and V(week) for a week,
+          V(d) and V(day) for a day, V(h) and V(hour) for a hour, V(m), V(min) and V(minute) for minutes, V(s), V(sec)
+          and V(second) for seconds, V(ms), V(msec), V(msecond) and V(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix V(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so V(seconds) is the same as V(second).
        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
-        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+        - Examples are V(1h), V(-5m), and V(3h -5m 6s).
      type: string
      required: true
    year:
--- a/plugins/filter/to_milliseconds.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_milliseconds.yml
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ DOCUMENTATION:
    _input:
      description:
        - The time string to convert.
-        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
-          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
-          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
-          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Can use the units V(y) and V(year) for a year, V(mo) and V(month) for a month, V(w) and V(week) for a week,
+          V(d) and V(day) for a day, V(h) and V(hour) for a hour, V(m), V(min) and V(minute) for minutes, V(s), V(sec)
+          and V(second) for seconds, V(ms), V(msec), V(msecond) and V(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix V(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so V(seconds) is the same as V(second).
        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
-        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+        - Examples are V(1h), V(-5m), and V(3h -5m 6s).
      type: string
      required: true
    year:
--- a/plugins/filter/to_minutes.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_minutes.yml
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ DOCUMENTATION:
    _input:
      description:
        - The time string to convert.
-        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
-          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
-          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
-          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Can use the units V(y) and V(year) for a year, V(mo) and V(month) for a month, V(w) and V(week) for a week,
+          V(d) and V(day) for a day, V(h) and V(hour) for a hour, V(m), V(min) and V(minute) for minutes, V(s), V(sec)
+          and V(second) for seconds, V(ms), V(msec), V(msecond) and V(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix V(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so V(seconds) is the same as V(second).
        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
-        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+        - Examples are V(1h), V(-5m), and V(3h -5m 6s).
      type: string
      required: true
    year:
--- a/plugins/filter/to_months.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_months.yml
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ DOCUMENTATION:
    _input:
      description:
        - The time string to convert.
-        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
-          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
-          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
-          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Can use the units V(y) and V(year) for a year, V(mo) and V(month) for a month, V(w) and V(week) for a week,
+          V(d) and V(day) for a day, V(h) and V(hour) for a hour, V(m), V(min) and V(minute) for minutes, V(s), V(sec)
+          and V(second) for seconds, V(ms), V(msec), V(msecond) and V(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix V(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so V(seconds) is the same as V(second).
        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
-        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+        - Examples are V(1h), V(-5m), and V(3h -5m 6s).
      type: string
      required: true
    year:
--- a/plugins/filter/to_seconds.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_seconds.yml
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ DOCUMENTATION:
    _input:
      description:
        - The time string to convert.
-        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
-          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
-          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
-          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Can use the units V(y) and V(year) for a year, V(mo) and V(month) for a month, V(w) and V(week) for a week,
+          V(d) and V(day) for a day, V(h) and V(hour) for a hour, V(m), V(min) and V(minute) for minutes, V(s), V(sec)
+          and V(second) for seconds, V(ms), V(msec), V(msecond) and V(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix V(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so V(seconds) is the same as V(second).
        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
-        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+        - Examples are V(1h), V(-5m), and V(3h -5m 6s).
      type: string
      required: true
    year:
--- a/plugins/filter/to_time_unit.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_time_unit.yml
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ DOCUMENTATION:
    _input:
      description:
        - The time string to convert.
-        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
-          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
-          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
-          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Can use the units V(y) and V(year) for a year, V(mo) and V(month) for a month, V(w) and V(week) for a week,
+          V(d) and V(day) for a day, V(h) and V(hour) for a hour, V(m), V(min) and V(minute) for minutes, V(s), V(sec)
+          and V(second) for seconds, V(ms), V(msec), V(msecond) and V(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix V(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so V(seconds) is the same as V(second).
        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
-        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+        - Examples are V(1h), V(-5m), and V(3h -5m 6s).
      type: string
      required: true
    unit:
--- a/plugins/filter/to_weeks.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_weeks.yml
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ DOCUMENTATION:
    _input:
      description:
        - The time string to convert.
-        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
-          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
-          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
-          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Can use the units V(y) and V(year) for a year, V(mo) and V(month) for a month, V(w) and V(week) for a week,
+          V(d) and V(day) for a day, V(h) and V(hour) for a hour, V(m), V(min) and V(minute) for minutes, V(s), V(sec)
+          and V(second) for seconds, V(ms), V(msec), V(msecond) and V(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix V(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so V(seconds) is the same as V(second).
        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
-        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+        - Examples are V(1h), V(-5m), and V(3h -5m 6s).
      type: string
      required: true
    year:
--- a/plugins/filter/to_years.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_years.yml
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ DOCUMENTATION:
    _input:
      description:
        - The time string to convert.
-        - Can use the units C(y) and C(year) for a year, C(mo) and C(month) for a month, C(w) and C(week) for a week,
-          C(d) and C(day) for a day, C(h) and C(hour) for a hour, C(m), C(min) and C(minute) for minutes, C(s), C(sec)
-          and C(second) for seconds, C(ms), C(msec), C(msecond) and C(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix C(s)
-          can be added to a unit as well, so C(seconds) is the same as C(second).
+        - Can use the units V(y) and V(year) for a year, V(mo) and V(month) for a month, V(w) and V(week) for a week,
+          V(d) and V(day) for a day, V(h) and V(hour) for a hour, V(m), V(min) and V(minute) for minutes, V(s), V(sec)
+          and V(second) for seconds, V(ms), V(msec), V(msecond) and V(millisecond) for milliseconds. The suffix V(s)
+          can be added to a unit as well, so V(seconds) is the same as V(second).
        - Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.
-        - Examples are C(1h), C(-5m), and C(3h -5m 6s).
+        - Examples are V(1h), V(-5m), and V(3h -5m 6s).
      type: string
      required: true
    year:
--- a/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py
@@ -13,12 +13,14 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    version_added: 1.0.0
    description:
        - Get inventory hosts from the cobbler service.
-        - "Uses a configuration file as an inventory source, it must end in C(.cobbler.yml) or C(.cobbler.yaml) and has a C(plugin: cobbler) entry."
+        - "Uses a configuration file as an inventory source, it must end in C(.cobbler.yml) or C(.cobbler.yaml) and have a C(plugin: cobbler) entry."
+        - Adds the primary IP addresses to C(cobbler_ipv4_address) and C(cobbler_ipv6_address) host variables if defined in Cobbler.  The primary IP address is
+          defined as the management interface if defined, or the interface who's DNS name matches the hostname of the system, or else the first interface found.
    extends_documentation_fragment:
        - inventory_cache
    options:
      plugin:
-        description: The name of this plugin, it should always be set to C(community.general.cobbler) for this plugin to recognize it as it's own.
+        description: The name of this plugin, it should always be set to V(community.general.cobbler) for this plugin to recognize it as it's own.
        required: true
        choices: [ 'cobbler', 'community.general.cobbler' ]
      url:
@@ -32,45 +34,73 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        env:
            - name: COBBLER_USER
      password:
-        description: Cobbler authentication password
+        description: Cobbler authentication password.
        required: false
        env:
            - name: COBBLER_PASSWORD
      cache_fallback:
-        description: Fallback to cached results if connection to cobbler fails
+        description: Fallback to cached results if connection to cobbler fails.
        type: boolean
        default: false
-      exclude_profiles:
-        description:
-          - Profiles to exclude from inventory.
-          - Ignored if I(include_profiles) is specified.
+      exclude_mgmt_classes:
+        description: Management classes to exclude from inventory.
        type: list
        default: []
        elements: str
+        version_added: 7.4.0
+      exclude_profiles:
+        description:
+          - Profiles to exclude from inventory.
+          - Ignored if O(include_profiles) is specified.
+        type: list
+        default: []
+        elements: str
+      include_mgmt_classes:
+        description: Management classes to include from inventory.
+        type: list
+        default: []
+        elements: str
+        version_added: 7.4.0
      include_profiles:
        description:
          - Profiles to include from inventory.
          - If specified, all other profiles will be excluded.
-          - I(exclude_profiles) is ignored if I(include_profiles) is specified.
+          - O(exclude_profiles) is ignored if O(include_profiles) is specified.
        type: list
        default: []
        elements: str
        version_added: 4.4.0
+      inventory_hostname:
+        description:
+          - What to use for the ansible inventory hostname.
+          - By default the networking hostname is used if defined, otherwise the DNS name of the management or first non-static interface.
+          - If set to V(system), the cobbler system name is used.
+        type: str
+        choices: [ 'hostname', 'system' ]
+        default: hostname
+        version_added: 7.1.0
      group_by:
-        description: Keys to group hosts by
+        description: Keys to group hosts by.
        type: list
        elements: string
        default: [ 'mgmt_classes', 'owners', 'status' ]
      group:
-        description: Group to place all hosts into
+        description: Group to place all hosts into.
        default: cobbler
      group_prefix:
-        description: Prefix to apply to cobbler groups
+        description: Prefix to apply to cobbler groups.
        default: cobbler_
      want_facts:
-        description: Toggle, if C(true) the plugin will retrieve host facts from the server
+        description: Toggle, if V(true) the plugin will retrieve host facts from the server.
        type: boolean
        default: true
+      want_ip_addresses:
+        description:
+          - Toggle, if V(true) the plugin will add a C(cobbler_ipv4_addresses) and C(cobbleer_ipv6_addresses) dictionary to the defined O(group) mapping
+            interface DNS names to IP addresses.
+        type: boolean
+        default: true
+        version_added: 7.1.0
 '''

 EXAMPLES = '''
@@ -85,8 +115,10 @@ import socket

 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable, to_safe_group_name
+from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
+
+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe

 # xmlrpc
 try:
@@ -128,7 +160,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
            self.connection = xmlrpc_client.Server(self.cobbler_url, allow_none=True)
            self.token = None
            if self.get_option('user') is not None:
-                self.token = self.connection.login(self.get_option('user'), self.get_option('password'))
+                self.token = self.connection.login(text_type(self.get_option('user')), text_type(self.get_option('password')))
        return self.connection

    def _init_cache(self):
@@ -198,9 +230,12 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
        self.cache_key = self.get_cache_key(path)
        self.use_cache = cache and self.get_option('cache')

+        self.exclude_mgmt_classes = self.get_option('exclude_mgmt_classes')
+        self.include_mgmt_classes = self.get_option('include_mgmt_classes')
        self.exclude_profiles = self.get_option('exclude_profiles')
        self.include_profiles = self.get_option('include_profiles')
        self.group_by = self.get_option('group_by')
+        self.inventory_hostname = self.get_option('inventory_hostname')

        for profile in self._get_profiles():
            if profile['parent']:
@@ -236,22 +271,34 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
            self.inventory.add_group(self.group)
            self.display.vvvv('Added site group %s\n' % self.group)

+        ip_addresses = {}
+        ipv6_addresses = {}
        for host in self._get_systems():
            # Get the FQDN for the host and add it to the right groups
-            hostname = host['hostname']  # None
+            if self.inventory_hostname == 'system':
+                hostname = make_unsafe(host['name'])  # None
+            else:
+                hostname = make_unsafe(host['hostname'])  # None
            interfaces = host['interfaces']

-            if self._exclude_profile(host['profile']):
-                self.display.vvvv('Excluding host %s in profile %s\n' % (host['name'], host['profile']))
-                continue
+            if set(host['mgmt_classes']) & set(self.include_mgmt_classes):
+                self.display.vvvv('Including host %s in mgmt_classes %s\n' % (host['name'], host['mgmt_classes']))
+            else:
+                if self._exclude_profile(host['profile']):
+                    self.display.vvvv('Excluding host %s in profile %s\n' % (host['name'], host['profile']))
+                    continue
+
+                if set(host['mgmt_classes']) & set(self.exclude_mgmt_classes):
+                    self.display.vvvv('Excluding host %s in mgmt_classes %s\n' % (host['name'], host['mgmt_classes']))
+                    continue

            # hostname is often empty for non-static IP hosts
            if hostname == '':
-                for (iname, ivalue) in iteritems(interfaces):
+                for iname, ivalue in interfaces.items():
                    if ivalue['management'] or not ivalue['static']:
                        this_dns_name = ivalue.get('dns_name', None)
                        if this_dns_name is not None and this_dns_name != "":
-                            hostname = this_dns_name
+                            hostname = make_unsafe(this_dns_name)
                            self.display.vvvv('Set hostname to %s from %s\n' % (hostname, iname))

            if hostname == '':
@@ -262,8 +309,11 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
            self.display.vvvv('Added host %s hostname %s\n' % (host['name'], hostname))

            # Add host to profile group
-            group_name = self._add_safe_group_name(host['profile'], child=hostname)
-            self.display.vvvv('Added host %s to profile group %s\n' % (hostname, group_name))
+            if host['profile'] != '':
+                group_name = self._add_safe_group_name(host['profile'], child=hostname)
+                self.display.vvvv('Added host %s to profile group %s\n' % (hostname, group_name))
+            else:
+                self.display.warning('Host %s has an empty profile\n' % (hostname))

            # Add host to groups specified by group_by fields
            for group_by in self.group_by:
@@ -280,8 +330,51 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
                self.inventory.add_child(self.group, hostname)

            # Add host variables
+            ip_address = None
+            ip_address_first = None
+            ipv6_address = None
+            ipv6_address_first = None
+            for iname, ivalue in interfaces.items():
+                # Set to first interface or management interface if defined or hostname matches dns_name
+                if ivalue['ip_address'] != "":
+                    if ip_address_first is None:
+                        ip_address_first = ivalue['ip_address']
+                    if ivalue['management']:
+                        ip_address = ivalue['ip_address']
+                    elif ivalue['dns_name'] == hostname and ip_address is None:
+                        ip_address = ivalue['ip_address']
+                if ivalue['ipv6_address'] != "":
+                    if ipv6_address_first is None:
+                        ipv6_address_first = ivalue['ipv6_address']
+                    if ivalue['management']:
+                        ipv6_address = ivalue['ipv6_address']
+                    elif ivalue['dns_name'] == hostname and ipv6_address is None:
+                        ipv6_address = ivalue['ipv6_address']
+
+                # Collect all interface name mappings for adding to group vars
+                if self.get_option('want_ip_addresses'):
+                    if ivalue['dns_name'] != "":
+                        if ivalue['ip_address'] != "":
+                            ip_addresses[ivalue['dns_name']] = ivalue['ip_address']
+                        if ivalue['ipv6_address'] != "":
+                            ip_addresses[ivalue['dns_name']] = ivalue['ipv6_address']
+
+            # Add ip_address to host if defined, use first if no management or matched dns_name
+            if ip_address is None and ip_address_first is not None:
+                ip_address = ip_address_first
+            if ip_address is not None:
+                self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, 'cobbler_ipv4_address', make_unsafe(ip_address))
+            if ipv6_address is None and ipv6_address_first is not None:
+                ipv6_address = ipv6_address_first
+            if ipv6_address is not None:
+                self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, 'cobbler_ipv6_address', make_unsafe(ipv6_address))
+
            if self.get_option('want_facts'):
                try:
-                    self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, 'cobbler', host)
+                    self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, 'cobbler', make_unsafe(host))
                except ValueError as e:
                    self.display.warning("Could not set host info for %s: %s" % (hostname, to_text(e)))
+
+        if self.get_option('want_ip_addresses'):
+            self.inventory.set_variable(self.group, 'cobbler_ipv4_addresses', make_unsafe(ip_addresses))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(self.group, 'cobbler_ipv6_addresses', make_unsafe(ipv6_addresses))
--- a/plugins/inventory/gitlab_runners.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/gitlab_runners.py
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable

+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
+
 try:
    import gitlab
    HAS_GITLAB = True
@@ -106,11 +108,11 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
            else:
                runners = gl.runners.all()
            for runner in runners:
-                host = str(runner['id'])
+                host = make_unsafe(str(runner['id']))
                ip_address = runner['ip_address']
-                host_attrs = vars(gl.runners.get(runner['id']))['_attrs']
+                host_attrs = make_unsafe(vars(gl.runners.get(runner['id']))['_attrs'])
                self.inventory.add_host(host, group='gitlab_runners')
-                self.inventory.set_variable(host, 'ansible_host', ip_address)
+                self.inventory.set_variable(host, 'ansible_host', make_unsafe(ip_address))
                if self.get_option('verbose_output', True):
                    self.inventory.set_variable(host, 'gitlab_runner_attributes', host_attrs)

--- a/plugins/inventory/icinga2.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/icinga2.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        description:
          - Allows the override of the inventory name based on different attributes.
          - This allows for changing the way limits are used.
-          - The current default, C(address), is sometimes not unique or present. We recommend to use C(name) instead.
+          - The current default, V(address), is sometimes not unique or present. We recommend to use V(name) instead.
        type: string
        default: address
        choices: ['name', 'display_name', 'address']
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.error import HTTPError

+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
+

 class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
    ''' Host inventory parser for ansible using Icinga2 as source. '''
@@ -233,15 +235,15 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
        """Convert Icinga2 API data to JSON format for Ansible"""
        groups_dict = {"_meta": {"hostvars": {}}}
        for entry in json_data:
-            host_attrs = entry['attrs']
+            host_attrs = make_unsafe(entry['attrs'])
            if self.inventory_attr == "name":
-                host_name = entry.get('name')
+                host_name = make_unsafe(entry.get('name'))
            if self.inventory_attr == "address":
                # When looking for address for inventory, if missing fallback to object name
                if host_attrs.get('address', '') != '':
-                    host_name = host_attrs.get('address')
+                    host_name = make_unsafe(host_attrs.get('address'))
                else:
-                    host_name = entry.get('name')
+                    host_name = make_unsafe(entry.get('name'))
            if self.inventory_attr == "display_name":
                host_name = host_attrs.get('display_name')
            if host_attrs['state'] == 0:
@@ -257,7 +259,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
            # If the address attribute is populated, override ansible_host with the value
            if host_attrs.get('address') != '':
                self.inventory.set_variable(host_name, 'ansible_host', host_attrs.get('address'))
-            self.inventory.set_variable(host_name, 'hostname', entry.get('name'))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(host_name, 'hostname', make_unsafe(entry.get('name')))
            self.inventory.set_variable(host_name, 'display_name', host_attrs.get('display_name'))
            self.inventory.set_variable(host_name, 'state',
                                        host_attrs['state'])
--- a/plugins/inventory/linode.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/linode.py
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ compose:
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable

+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
+

 try:
    from linode_api4 import LinodeClient
@@ -199,20 +201,21 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
    def _add_instances_to_groups(self):
        """Add instance names to their dynamic inventory groups."""
        for instance in self.instances:
-            self.inventory.add_host(instance.label, group=instance.group)
+            self.inventory.add_host(make_unsafe(instance.label), group=instance.group)

    def _add_hostvars_for_instances(self):
        """Add hostvars for instances in the dynamic inventory."""
        ip_style = self.get_option('ip_style')
        for instance in self.instances:
            hostvars = instance._raw_json
+            hostname = make_unsafe(instance.label)
            for hostvar_key in hostvars:
                if ip_style == 'api' and hostvar_key in ['ipv4', 'ipv6']:
                    continue
                self.inventory.set_variable(
-                    instance.label,
+                    hostname,
                    hostvar_key,
-                    hostvars[hostvar_key]
+                    make_unsafe(hostvars[hostvar_key])
                )
            if ip_style == 'api':
                ips = instance.ips.ipv4.public + instance.ips.ipv4.private
@@ -221,9 +224,9 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):

                for ip_type in set(ip.type for ip in ips):
                    self.inventory.set_variable(
-                        instance.label,
+                        hostname,
                        ip_type,
-                        self._ip_data([ip for ip in ips if ip.type == ip_type])
+                        make_unsafe(self._ip_data([ip for ip in ips if ip.type == ip_type]))
                    )

    def _ip_data(self, ip_list):
@@ -254,30 +257,44 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
        self._add_instances_to_groups()
        self._add_hostvars_for_instances()
        for instance in self.instances:
-            variables = self.inventory.get_host(instance.label).get_vars()
+            hostname = make_unsafe(instance.label)
+            variables = self.inventory.get_host(hostname).get_vars()
            self._add_host_to_composed_groups(
                self.get_option('groups'),
                variables,
-                instance.label,
+                hostname,
                strict=strict)
            self._add_host_to_keyed_groups(
                self.get_option('keyed_groups'),
                variables,
-                instance.label,
+                hostname,
                strict=strict)
            self._set_composite_vars(
                self.get_option('compose'),
                variables,
-                instance.label,
+                hostname,
                strict=strict)

    def verify_file(self, path):
-        """Verify the Linode configuration file."""
+        """Verify the Linode configuration file.
+
+        Return true/false if the config-file is valid for this plugin
+
+        Args:
+            str(path): path to the config
+        Kwargs:
+            None
+        Raises:
+            None
+        Returns:
+            bool(valid): is valid config file"""
+        valid = False
        if super(InventoryModule, self).verify_file(path):
-            endings = ('linode.yaml', 'linode.yml')
-            if any((path.endswith(ending) for ending in endings)):
-                return True
-        return False
+            if path.endswith(("linode.yaml", "linode.yml")):
+                valid = True
+            else:
+                self.display.vvv('Inventory source not ending in "linode.yaml" or "linode.yml"')
+        return valid

    def parse(self, inventory, loader, path, cache=True):
        """Dynamically parse Linode the cloud inventory."""
--- a/plugins/inventory/lxd.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/lxd.py
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
            - You need to set this password on the lxd server before
                running this module using the following command
                C(lxc config set core.trust_password <some random password>)
-                See U(https://www.stgraber.org/2016/04/18/lxd-api-direct-interaction/).
-            - If I(trust_password) is set, this module send a request for authentication before sending any requests.
+                See U(https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/authentication/#adding-client-certificates-using-a-trust-password).
+            - If O(trust_password) is set, this module send a request for authentication before sending any requests.
            type: str
        state:
            description: Filter the instance according to the current status.
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
            version_added: 6.2.0
        type_filter:
            description:
-            - Filter the instances by type C(virtual-machine), C(container) or C(both).
+            - Filter the instances by type V(virtual-machine), V(container) or V(both).
            - The first version of the inventory only supported containers.
            type: str
            default: container
@@ -70,18 +70,18 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
            version_added: 4.2.0
        prefered_instance_network_interface:
            description:
-            - If an instance has multiple network interfaces, select which one is the prefered as pattern.
+            - If an instance has multiple network interfaces, select which one is the preferred as pattern.
            - Combined with the first number that can be found e.g. 'eth' + 0.
-            - The option has been renamed from I(prefered_container_network_interface) to I(prefered_instance_network_interface) in community.general 3.8.0.
-              The old name still works as an alias.
+            - The option has been renamed from O(prefered_container_network_interface) to O(prefered_instance_network_interface)
+              in community.general 3.8.0. The old name still works as an alias.
            type: str
            default: eth
            aliases:
              - prefered_container_network_interface
        prefered_instance_network_family:
            description:
-            - If an instance has multiple network interfaces, which one is the prefered by family.
-            - Specify C(inet) for IPv4 and C(inet6) for IPv6.
+            - If an instance has multiple network interfaces, which one is the preferred by family.
+            - Specify V(inet) for IPv4 and V(inet6) for IPv6.
            type: str
            default: inet
            choices: [ 'inet', 'inet6' ]
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.six import raise_from
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.lxd import LXDClient, LXDClientException
+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe

 try:
    import ipaddress
@@ -359,7 +360,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
        Kwargs:
            None
        Source:
-            https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/rest-api.md
+            https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/rest-api/
        Raises:
            None
        Returns:
@@ -376,7 +377,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
    def get_instance_data(self, names):
        """Create Inventory of the instance

-        Iterate through the different branches of the instances and collect Informations.
+        Iterate through the different branches of the instances and collect Information.

        Args:
            list(names): List of instance names
@@ -398,7 +399,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
    def get_network_data(self, names):
        """Create Inventory of the instance

-        Iterate through the different branches of the instances and collect Informations.
+        Iterate through the different branches of the instances and collect Information.

        Args:
            list(names): List of instance names
@@ -451,12 +452,12 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
        return network_configuration

    def get_prefered_instance_network_interface(self, instance_name):
-        """Helper to get the prefered interface of thr instance
+        """Helper to get the preferred interface of thr instance

-        Helper to get the prefered interface provide by neme pattern from 'prefered_instance_network_interface'.
+        Helper to get the preferred interface provide by neme pattern from 'prefered_instance_network_interface'.

        Args:
-            str(containe_name): name of instance
+            str(instance_name): name of instance
        Kwargs:
            None
        Raises:
@@ -481,7 +482,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
        Helper to get the VLAN_ID from the instance

        Args:
-            str(containe_name): name of instance
+            str(instance_name): name of instance
        Kwargs:
            None
        Raises:
@@ -563,7 +564,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
            else:
                path[instance_name][key] = value
        except KeyError as err:
-            raise AnsibleParserError("Unable to store Informations: {0}".format(to_native(err)))
+            raise AnsibleParserError("Unable to store Information: {0}".format(to_native(err)))

    def extract_information_from_instance_configs(self):
        """Process configuration information
@@ -656,7 +657,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):

        if self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/network_interfaces'.format(instance_name)):  # instance have network interfaces
            self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_connection', 'ssh')
-            self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_host', interface_selection(instance_name))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_host', make_unsafe(interface_selection(instance_name)))
        else:
            self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_connection', 'local')

@@ -682,31 +683,39 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
                if self.filter.lower() != instance_state:
                    continue
            # add instance
+            instance_name = make_unsafe(instance_name)
            self.inventory.add_host(instance_name)
-            # add network informations
+            # add network information
            self.build_inventory_network(instance_name)
            # add os
            v = self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/os'.format(instance_name))
            if v:
-                self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_os', v.lower())
+                self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_os', make_unsafe(v.lower()))
            # add release
            v = self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/release'.format(instance_name))
            if v:
-                self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_release', v.lower())
+                self.inventory.set_variable(
+                    instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_release', make_unsafe(v.lower()))
            # add profile
-            self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_profile', self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/profile'.format(instance_name)))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(
+                instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_profile', make_unsafe(self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/profile'.format(instance_name))))
            # add state
-            self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_state', instance_state)
+            self.inventory.set_variable(
+                instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_state', make_unsafe(instance_state))
            # add type
-            self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_type', self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/type'.format(instance_name)))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(
+                instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_type', make_unsafe(self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/type'.format(instance_name))))
            # add location information
            if self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/location'.format(instance_name)) != "none":  # wrong type by lxd 'none' != 'None'
-                self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_location', self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/location'.format(instance_name)))
+                self.inventory.set_variable(
+                    instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_location', make_unsafe(self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/location'.format(instance_name))))
            # add VLAN_ID information
            if self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/vlan_ids'.format(instance_name)):
-                self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_vlan_ids', self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/vlan_ids'.format(instance_name)))
+                self.inventory.set_variable(
+                    instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_vlan_ids', make_unsafe(self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/vlan_ids'.format(instance_name))))
            # add project
-            self.inventory.set_variable(instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_project', self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/project'.format(instance_name)))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(
+                instance_name, 'ansible_lxd_project', make_unsafe(self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/project'.format(instance_name))))

    def build_inventory_groups_location(self, group_name):
        """create group by attribute: location
@@ -979,7 +988,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
            for group_name in self.groupby:
                if not group_name.isalnum():
                    raise AnsibleParserError('Invalid character(s) in groupname: {0}'.format(to_native(group_name)))
-                group_type(group_name)
+                group_type(make_unsafe(group_name))

    def build_inventory(self):
        """Build dynamic inventory
--- a/plugins/inventory/nmap.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/nmap.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            required: true
            choices: ['nmap', 'community.general.nmap']
        sudo:
-            description: Set to C(true) to execute a C(sudo nmap) plugin scan.
+            description: Set to V(true) to execute a C(sudo nmap) plugin scan.
            version_added: 4.8.0
            default: false
            type: boolean
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        exclude:
            description:
              - List of addresses to exclude.
-              - For example C(10.2.2.15-25) or C(10.2.2.15,10.2.2.16).
+              - For example V(10.2.2.15-25) or V(10.2.2.15,10.2.2.16).
            type: list
            elements: string
            env:
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        port:
            description:
                - Only scan specific port or port range (C(-p)).
-                - For example, you could pass C(22) for a single port, C(1-65535) for a range of ports,
-                  or C(U:53,137,T:21-25,139,8080,S:9) to check port 53 with UDP, ports 21-25 with TCP, port 9 with SCTP, and ports 137, 139, and 8080 with all.
+                - For example, you could pass V(22) for a single port, V(1-65535) for a range of ports,
+                  or V(U:53,137,T:21-25,139,8080,S:9) to check port 53 with UDP, ports 21-25 with TCP, port 9 with SCTP, and ports 137, 139, and 8080 with all.
            type: string
            version_added: 6.5.0
        ports:
@@ -64,14 +64,14 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        udp_scan:
            description:
                - Scan via UDP.
-                - Depending on your system you might need I(sudo=true) for this to work.
+                - Depending on your system you might need O(sudo=true) for this to work.
            type: boolean
            default: false
            version_added: 6.1.0
        icmp_timestamp:
            description:
                - Scan via ICMP Timestamp (C(-PP)).
-                - Depending on your system you might need I(sudo=true) for this to work.
+                - Depending on your system you might need O(sudo=true) for this to work.
            type: boolean
            default: false
            version_added: 6.1.0
@@ -81,10 +81,15 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            default: false
            version_added: 6.5.0
        dns_resolve:
-            description: Whether to always (C(true)) or never (C(false)) do DNS resolution.
+            description: Whether to always (V(true)) or never (V(false)) do DNS resolution.
            type: boolean
            default: false
            version_added: 6.1.0
+        use_arp_ping:
+            description: Whether to always (V(true)) use the quick ARP ping or (V(false)) a slower but more reliable method.
+            type: boolean
+            default: true
+            version_added: 7.4.0
    notes:
        - At least one of ipv4 or ipv6 is required to be True, both can be True, but they cannot both be False.
        - 'TODO: add OS fingerprinting'
@@ -122,6 +127,8 @@ from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path

+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
+

 class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):

@@ -138,6 +145,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
        strict = self.get_option('strict')

        for host in hosts:
+            host = make_unsafe(host)
            hostname = host['name']
            self.inventory.add_host(hostname)
            for var, value in host.items():
@@ -196,40 +204,43 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
            # setup command
            cmd = [self._nmap]

-            if self._options['sudo']:
+            if self.get_option('sudo'):
                cmd.insert(0, 'sudo')

-            if self._options['port']:
+            if self.get_option('port'):
                cmd.append('-p')
-                cmd.append(self._options['port'])
+                cmd.append(self.get_option('port'))

-            if not self._options['ports']:
+            if not self.get_option('ports'):
                cmd.append('-sP')

-            if self._options['ipv4'] and not self._options['ipv6']:
+            if self.get_option('ipv4') and not self.get_option('ipv6'):
                cmd.append('-4')
-            elif self._options['ipv6'] and not self._options['ipv4']:
+            elif self.get_option('ipv6') and not self.get_option('ipv4'):
                cmd.append('-6')
-            elif not self._options['ipv6'] and not self._options['ipv4']:
+            elif not self.get_option('ipv6') and not self.get_option('ipv4'):
                raise AnsibleParserError('One of ipv4 or ipv6 must be enabled for this plugin')

-            if self._options['exclude']:
+            if self.get_option('exclude'):
                cmd.append('--exclude')
-                cmd.append(','.join(self._options['exclude']))
+                cmd.append(','.join(self.get_option('exclude')))

-            if self._options['dns_resolve']:
+            if self.get_option('dns_resolve'):
                cmd.append('-n')

-            if self._options['udp_scan']:
+            if self.get_option('udp_scan'):
                cmd.append('-sU')

-            if self._options['icmp_timestamp']:
+            if self.get_option('icmp_timestamp'):
                cmd.append('-PP')

-            if self._options['open']:
+            if self.get_option('open'):
                cmd.append('--open')

-            cmd.append(self._options['address'])
+            if not self.get_option('use_arp_ping'):
+                cmd.append('--disable-arp-ping')
+
+            cmd.append(self.get_option('address'))
            try:
                # execute
                p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
--- a/plugins/inventory/online.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/online.py
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.ansible_release import __version__ as ansible_version
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin

+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
+

 class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
    NAME = 'community.general.online'
@@ -169,20 +171,20 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
            "support"
        )
        for attribute in targeted_attributes:
-            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, attribute, host_infos[attribute])
+            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, attribute, make_unsafe(host_infos[attribute]))

        if self.extract_public_ipv4(host_infos=host_infos):
-            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, "public_ipv4", self.extract_public_ipv4(host_infos=host_infos))
-            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, "ansible_host", self.extract_public_ipv4(host_infos=host_infos))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, "public_ipv4", make_unsafe(self.extract_public_ipv4(host_infos=host_infos)))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, "ansible_host", make_unsafe(self.extract_public_ipv4(host_infos=host_infos)))

        if self.extract_private_ipv4(host_infos=host_infos):
-            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, "public_ipv4", self.extract_private_ipv4(host_infos=host_infos))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, "public_ipv4", make_unsafe(self.extract_private_ipv4(host_infos=host_infos)))

        if self.extract_os_name(host_infos=host_infos):
-            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, "os_name", self.extract_os_name(host_infos=host_infos))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, "os_name", make_unsafe(self.extract_os_name(host_infos=host_infos)))

        if self.extract_os_version(host_infos=host_infos):
-            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, "os_version", self.extract_os_name(host_infos=host_infos))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, "os_version", make_unsafe(self.extract_os_name(host_infos=host_infos)))

    def _filter_host(self, host_infos, hostname_preferences):

@@ -201,6 +203,8 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
        if not hostname:
            return

+        hostname = make_unsafe(hostname)
+
        self.inventory.add_host(host=hostname)
        self._fill_host_variables(hostname=hostname, host_infos=host_infos)

@@ -210,6 +214,8 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
            if not group:
                return

+            group = make_unsafe(group)
+
            self.inventory.add_group(group=group)
            self.inventory.add_host(group=group, host=hostname)

--- a/plugins/inventory/opennebula.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/opennebula.py
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
        - constructed
    description:
        - Get inventory hosts from OpenNebula cloud.
-        - Uses an YAML configuration file ending with either I(opennebula.yml) or I(opennebula.yaml)
+        - Uses an YAML configuration file ending with either C(opennebula.yml) or C(opennebula.yaml)
          to set parameter values.
-        - Uses I(api_authfile), C(~/.one/one_auth), or C(ONE_AUTH) pointing to a OpenNebula credentials file.
+        - Uses O(api_authfile), C(~/.one/one_auth), or E(ONE_AUTH) pointing to a OpenNebula credentials file.
    options:
        plugin:
            description: Token that ensures this is a source file for the 'opennebula' plugin.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
              - URL of the OpenNebula RPC server.
              - It is recommended to use HTTPS so that the username/password are not
                transferred over the network unencrypted.
-              - If not set then the value of the C(ONE_URL) environment variable is used.
+              - If not set then the value of the E(ONE_URL) environment variable is used.
            env:
              - name: ONE_URL
            required: true
@@ -39,29 +39,29 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
        api_username:
            description:
              - Name of the user to login into the OpenNebula RPC server. If not set
-                then the value of the C(ONE_USERNAME) environment variable is used.
+                then the value of the E(ONE_USERNAME) environment variable is used.
            env:
              - name: ONE_USERNAME
            type: string
        api_password:
            description:
              - Password or a token of the user to login into OpenNebula RPC server.
-              - If not set, the value of the C(ONE_PASSWORD) environment variable is used.
+              - If not set, the value of the E(ONE_PASSWORD) environment variable is used.
            env:
              - name: ONE_PASSWORD
            required: false
            type: string
        api_authfile:
            description:
-              - If both I(api_username) or I(api_password) are not set, then it will try
+              - If both O(api_username) or O(api_password) are not set, then it will try
                authenticate with ONE auth file. Default path is C(~/.one/one_auth).
-              - Set environment variable C(ONE_AUTH) to override this path.
+              - Set environment variable E(ONE_AUTH) to override this path.
            env:
              - name: ONE_AUTH
            required: false
            type: string
        hostname:
-            description: Field to match the hostname. Note C(v4_first_ip) corresponds to the first IPv4 found on VM.
+            description: Field to match the hostname. Note V(v4_first_ip) corresponds to the first IPv4 found on VM.
            type: string
            default: v4_first_ip
            choices:
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native

+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
+
 from collections import namedtuple
 import os

@@ -215,6 +217,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
        filter_by_label = self.get_option('filter_by_label')
        servers = self._retrieve_servers(filter_by_label)
        for server in servers:
+            server = make_unsafe(server)
            hostname = server['name']
            # check for labels
            if group_by_labels and server['LABELS']:
--- a/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py
@@ -25,15 +25,15 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        - inventory_cache
    options:
      plugin:
-        description: The name of this plugin, it should always be set to C(community.general.proxmox) for this plugin to recognize it as it's own.
+        description: The name of this plugin, it should always be set to V(community.general.proxmox) for this plugin to recognize it as it's own.
        required: true
        choices: ['community.general.proxmox']
        type: str
      url:
        description:
          - URL to Proxmox cluster.
-          - If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable C(PROXMOX_URL) will be used instead.
-          - Since community.general 4.7.0 you can also use templating to specify the value of the I(url).
+          - If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable E(PROXMOX_URL) will be used instead.
+          - Since community.general 4.7.0 you can also use templating to specify the value of the O(url).
        default: 'http://localhost:8006'
        type: str
        env:
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      user:
        description:
          - Proxmox authentication user.
-          - If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable C(PROXMOX_USER) will be used instead.
-          - Since community.general 4.7.0 you can also use templating to specify the value of the I(user).
+          - If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable E(PROXMOX_USER) will be used instead.
+          - Since community.general 4.7.0 you can also use templating to specify the value of the O(user).
        required: true
        type: str
        env:
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      password:
        description:
          - Proxmox authentication password.
-          - If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable C(PROXMOX_PASSWORD) will be used instead.
-          - Since community.general 4.7.0 you can also use templating to specify the value of the I(password).
-          - If you do not specify a password, you must set I(token_id) and I(token_secret) instead.
+          - If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable E(PROXMOX_PASSWORD) will be used instead.
+          - Since community.general 4.7.0 you can also use templating to specify the value of the O(password).
+          - If you do not specify a password, you must set O(token_id) and O(token_secret) instead.
        type: str
        env:
          - name: PROXMOX_PASSWORD
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      token_id:
        description:
          - Proxmox authentication token ID.
-          - If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable C(PROXMOX_TOKEN_ID) will be used instead.
-          - To use token authentication, you must also specify I(token_secret). If you do not specify I(token_id) and I(token_secret),
+          - If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable E(PROXMOX_TOKEN_ID) will be used instead.
+          - To use token authentication, you must also specify O(token_secret). If you do not specify O(token_id) and O(token_secret),
            you must set a password instead.
          - Make sure to grant explicit pve permissions to the token or disable 'privilege separation' to use the users' privileges instead.
        version_added: 4.8.0
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      token_secret:
        description:
          - Proxmox authentication token secret.
-          - If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable C(PROXMOX_TOKEN_SECRET) will be used instead.
-          - To use token authentication, you must also specify I(token_id). If you do not specify I(token_id) and I(token_secret),
+          - If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable E(PROXMOX_TOKEN_SECRET) will be used instead.
+          - To use token authentication, you must also specify O(token_id). If you do not specify O(token_id) and O(token_secret),
            you must set a password instead.
        version_added: 4.8.0
        type: str
@@ -95,25 +95,25 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      want_facts:
        description:
          - Gather LXC/QEMU configuration facts.
-          - When I(want_facts) is set to C(true) more details about QEMU VM status are possible, besides the running and stopped states.
+          - When O(want_facts) is set to V(true) more details about QEMU VM status are possible, besides the running and stopped states.
            Currently if the VM is running and it is suspended, the status will be running and the machine will be in C(running) group,
-            but its actual state will be paused. See I(qemu_extended_statuses) for how to retrieve the real status.
+            but its actual state will be paused. See O(qemu_extended_statuses) for how to retrieve the real status.
        default: false
        type: bool
      qemu_extended_statuses:
        description:
-          - Requires I(want_facts) to be set to C(true) to function. This will allow you to differentiate betweend C(paused) and C(prelaunch)
+          - Requires O(want_facts) to be set to V(true) to function. This will allow you to differentiate between C(paused) and C(prelaunch)
            statuses of the QEMU VMs.
-          - This introduces multiple groups [prefixed with I(group_prefix)] C(prelaunch) and C(paused).
+          - This introduces multiple groups [prefixed with O(group_prefix)] C(prelaunch) and C(paused).
        default: false
        type: bool
        version_added: 5.1.0
      want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host:
        version_added: 3.0.0
        description:
-          - Whether to set C(ansbile_host) for proxmox nodes.
-          - When set to C(true) (default), will use the first available interface. This can be different from what you expect.
-          - The default of this option changed from C(true) to C(false) in community.general 6.0.0.
+          - Whether to set C(ansible_host) for proxmox nodes.
+          - When set to V(true) (default), will use the first available interface. This can be different from what you expect.
+          - The default of this option changed from V(true) to V(false) in community.general 6.0.0.
        type: bool
        default: false
      filters:
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
 from ansible.utils.display import Display

 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.version import LooseVersion
+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe

 # 3rd party imports
 try:
@@ -330,7 +331,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):

            self._cache[self.cache_key][url] = data

-        return self._cache[self.cache_key][url]
+        return make_unsafe(self._cache[self.cache_key][url])

    def _get_nodes(self):
        return self._get_json("%s/api2/json/nodes" % self.proxmox_url)
@@ -590,6 +591,10 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
                ip = self._get_node_ip(node['node'])
                self.inventory.set_variable(node['node'], 'ansible_host', ip)

+            # Setting composite variables
+            variables = self.inventory.get_host(node['node']).get_vars()
+            self._set_composite_vars(self.get_option('compose'), variables, node['node'], strict=self.strict)
+
            # add LXC/Qemu groups for the node
            for ittype in ('lxc', 'qemu'):
                node_type_group = self._group('%s_%s' % (node['node'], ittype))
--- a/plugins/inventory/scaleway.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/scaleway.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
        scw_profile:
            description:
            - The config profile to use in config file.
-            - By default uses the one specified as C(active_profile) in the config file, or falls back to C(default) if that is not defined.
+            - By default uses the one specified as C(active_profile) in the config file, or falls back to V(default) if that is not defined.
            type: string
            version_added: 4.4.0
        oauth_token:
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ else:
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.scaleway import SCALEWAY_LOCATION, parse_pagination_link
+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import raise_from
@@ -279,7 +280,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
        zone_info = SCALEWAY_LOCATION[zone]

        url = _build_server_url(zone_info["api_endpoint"])
-        raw_zone_hosts_infos = _fetch_information(url=url, token=token)
+        raw_zone_hosts_infos = make_unsafe(_fetch_information(url=url, token=token))

        for host_infos in raw_zone_hosts_infos:

@@ -341,4 +342,4 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
        hostname_preference = self.get_option("hostnames")

        for zone in self._get_zones(config_zones):
-            self.do_zone_inventory(zone=zone, token=token, tags=tags, hostname_preferences=hostname_preference)
+            self.do_zone_inventory(zone=make_unsafe(zone), token=token, tags=tags, hostname_preferences=hostname_preference)
--- a/plugins/inventory/stackpath_compute.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/stackpath_compute.py
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ from ansible.plugins.inventory import (
 )
 from ansible.utils.display import Display

+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
+

 display = Display()

@@ -271,7 +273,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
        if not cache or cache_needs_update:
            results = self._query()

-        self._populate(results)
+        self._populate(make_unsafe(results))

        # If the cache has expired/doesn't exist or
        # if refresh_inventory/flush cache is used
--- a/plugins/inventory/virtualbox.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/virtualbox.py
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import MutableMapping
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path

+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
+

 class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
    ''' Host inventory parser for ansible using local virtualbox. '''
@@ -116,6 +118,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
            self._add_host_to_keyed_groups(self.get_option('keyed_groups'), hostvars[host], host, strict=strict)

    def _populate_from_cache(self, source_data):
+        source_data = make_unsafe(source_data)
        hostvars = source_data.pop('_meta', {}).get('hostvars', {})
        for group in source_data:
            if group == 'all':
@@ -162,7 +165,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
            v = v.strip()
            # found host
            if k.startswith('Name') and ',' not in v:  # some setting strings appear in Name
-                current_host = v
+                current_host = make_unsafe(v)
                if current_host not in hostvars:
                    hostvars[current_host] = {}
                    self.inventory.add_host(current_host)
@@ -170,12 +173,13 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
                # try to get network info
                netdata = self._query_vbox_data(current_host, netinfo)
                if netdata:
-                    self.inventory.set_variable(current_host, 'ansible_host', netdata)
+                    self.inventory.set_variable(current_host, 'ansible_host', make_unsafe(netdata))

            # found groups
            elif k == 'Groups':
                for group in v.split('/'):
                    if group:
+                        group = make_unsafe(group)
                        group = self.inventory.add_group(group)
                        self.inventory.add_child(group, current_host)
                        if group not in cacheable_results:
@@ -185,17 +189,17 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):

            else:
                # found vars, accumulate in hostvars for clean inventory set
-                pref_k = 'vbox_' + k.strip().replace(' ', '_')
+                pref_k = make_unsafe('vbox_' + k.strip().replace(' ', '_'))
                leading_spaces = len(k) - len(k.lstrip(' '))
                if 0 < leading_spaces <= 2:
                    if prevkey not in hostvars[current_host] or not isinstance(hostvars[current_host][prevkey], dict):
                        hostvars[current_host][prevkey] = {}
-                    hostvars[current_host][prevkey][pref_k] = v
+                    hostvars[current_host][prevkey][pref_k] = make_unsafe(v)
                elif leading_spaces > 2:
                    continue
                else:
                    if v != '':
-                        hostvars[current_host][pref_k] = v
+                        hostvars[current_host][pref_k] = make_unsafe(v)
                if self._ungrouped_host(current_host, cacheable_results):
                    if 'ungrouped' not in cacheable_results:
                        cacheable_results['ungrouped'] = {'hosts': []}
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More