Release 4.0.2.

Restrict redis version. (#3733 ) (#3736 )
(cherry picked from commit bf7a954f00) Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
2026-04-29 18:06:53 +00:00 · 2021-11-16 08:07:27 +01:00 · 2021-11-16 07:30:41 +01:00 · 2021-11-16 07:15:24 +01:00 · 2021-11-15 22:26:19 +01:00 · 2021-11-13 15:47:25 +01:00
3325 changed files with 195926 additions and 257811 deletions
--- a/.azure-pipelines/README.md
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-->
-
 ## Azure Pipelines Configuration

 Please see the [Documentation](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Testing:-Azure-Pipelines) for more information.
--- a/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 trigger:
  batch: true
  branches:
@@ -29,14 +24,14 @@ schedules:
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-7
-        - stable-6
+        - stable-2
+        - stable-3
  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-5
+        - stable-1

 variables:
  - name: checkoutPath
@@ -53,7 +48,7 @@ variables:
 resources:
  containers:
    - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:3.0.0
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:1.9.0

 pool: Standard

@@ -73,45 +68,6 @@ stages:
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
            - test: extra
-  - stage: Sanity_2_15
-    displayName: Sanity 2.15
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - 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: []
@@ -125,6 +81,45 @@ stages:
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
+  - stage: Sanity_2_11
+    displayName: Sanity 2.11
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.11/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
+  - stage: Sanity_2_10
+    displayName: Sanity 2.10
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
+  - stage: Sanity_2_9
+    displayName: Sanity 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.9/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
 ### Units
  - stage: Units_devel
    displayName: Units devel
@@ -142,38 +137,6 @@ stages:
            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
-            - test: '3.11'
-  - stage: Units_2_15
-    displayName: Units 2.15
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - 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: []
@@ -184,27 +147,56 @@ stages:
          testFormat: 2.12/units/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: 2.6
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
            - test: 3.8
-
-## Remote
-  - stage: Remote_devel_extra_vms
-    displayName: Remote devel extra VMs
+            - test: '3.10'
+  - stage: Units_2_11
+    displayName: Units 2.11
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/{0}
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.11/units/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.17
-              test: alpine/3.17
-            # - name: Fedora 37
-            #   test: fedora/37
-            # - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-            #   test: ubuntu/20.04
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu/22.04
-          groups:
-            - vm
+            - test: 2.6
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
+            - test: 3.8
+            - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Units_2_10
+    displayName: Units 2.10
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+  - stage: Units_2_9
+    displayName: Units 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.9/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.6
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
+            - test: 3.8
+
+## Remote
  - stage: Remote_devel
    displayName: Remote devel
    dependsOn: []
@@ -213,62 +205,16 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: macOS 13.2
-              test: macos/13.2
-            - name: RHEL 9.1
-              test: rhel/9.1
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
-              test: freebsd/13.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.4
-              test: freebsd/12.4
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_15
-    displayName: Remote 2.15
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.15/{0}
-          targets:
+            - name: macOS 11.1
+              test: macos/11.1
            - 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
+            - name: RHEL 8.4
+              test: rhel/8.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+              test: freebsd/13.0
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -290,7 +236,55 @@ stages:
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
-            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_11
+    displayName: Remote 2.11
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.11/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: RHEL 7.9
+              test: rhel/7.9
+            - name: RHEL 8.3
+              test: rhel/8.3
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+  - stage: Remote_2_10
+    displayName: Remote 2.10
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.10/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: OS X 10.11
+              test: osx/10.11
+            - name: macOS 10.15
+              test: macos/10.15
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+  - stage: Remote_2_9
+    displayName: Remote 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.9/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: RHEL 8.2
+              test: rhel/8.2
+            - name: RHEL 7.8
+              test: rhel/7.8
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.0
+              test: freebsd/12.0
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2

 ### Docker
  - stage: Docker_devel
@@ -300,63 +294,21 @@ stages:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 37
-              test: fedora37
-            - name: openSUSE 15
-              test: opensuse15
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu2204
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_15
-    displayName: Docker 2.15
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.15/linux/{0}
          targets:
            - 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 34
+              test: fedora34
            - name: Fedora 35
              test: fedora35
            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
              test: opensuse15py2
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -371,118 +323,145 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - name: CentOS 6
              test: centos6
+            - name: CentOS 8
+              test: centos8
            - name: Fedora 34
              test: fedora34
-            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
-              test: ubuntu1804
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-
-### Community Docker
-  - stage: Docker_community_devel
-    displayName: Docker (community images) devel
+  - stage: Docker_2_11
+    displayName: Docker 2.11
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/linux-community/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.11/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Debian Bullseye
-              test: debian-bullseye/3.9
-            - name: ArchLinux
-              test: archlinux/3.11
-            - name: CentOS Stream 8
-              test: centos-stream8/3.9
+            - name: CentOS 7
+              test: centos7
+            - name: Fedora 33
+              test: fedora33
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+          groups:
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_10
+    displayName: Docker 2.10
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.10/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 32
+              test: fedora32
+            - name: Ubuntu 16.04
+              test: ubuntu1604
+          groups:
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_9
+    displayName: Docker 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.9/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 31
+              test: fedora31
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
          groups:
-            - 1
            - 2
            - 3

-### Generic
-  - stage: Generic_devel
-    displayName: Generic devel
+### Cloud
+  - stage: Cloud_devel
+    displayName: Cloud devel
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: devel/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: devel/cloud/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: 2.7
-            - test: '3.11'
-  - stage: Generic_2_15
-    displayName: Generic 2.15
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/generic/{0}/1
-          targets:
            - test: 3.9
-  - stage: Generic_2_14
-    displayName: Generic 2.14
+  - stage: Cloud_2_12
+    displayName: Cloud 2.12
    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
+          testFormat: 2.12/cloud/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: 3.8
-
+  - stage: Cloud_2_11
+    displayName: Cloud 2.11
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.11/cloud/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.6
+  - stage: Cloud_2_10
+    displayName: Cloud 2.10
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/cloud/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.5
+  - stage: Cloud_2_9
+    displayName: Cloud 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.9/cloud/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
  - stage: Summary
    condition: succeededOrFailed()
    dependsOn:
      - Sanity_devel
+      - Sanity_2_9
+      - Sanity_2_10
+      - Sanity_2_11
      - Sanity_2_12
-      - Sanity_2_13
-      - Sanity_2_14
-      - Sanity_2_15
      - Units_devel
+      - Units_2_9
+      - Units_2_10
+      - Units_2_11
      - Units_2_12
-      - Units_2_13
-      - Units_2_14
-      - Units_2_15
-      - Remote_devel_extra_vms
      - Remote_devel
+      - Remote_2_9
+      - Remote_2_10
+      - Remote_2_11
      - Remote_2_12
-      - Remote_2_13
-      - Remote_2_14
-      - Remote_2_15
      - Docker_devel
+      - Docker_2_9
+      - Docker_2_10
+      - Docker_2_11
      - Docker_2_12
-      - Docker_2_13
-      - Docker_2_14
-      - Docker_2_15
-      - Docker_community_devel
-# 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_15
+      - Cloud_devel
+      - Cloud_2_9
+      - Cloud_2_10
+      - Cloud_2_11
+      - Cloud_2_12
    jobs:
      - template: templates/coverage.yml
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/aggregate-coverage.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/aggregate-coverage.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Aggregate code coverage results for later processing.

 set -o pipefail -eu
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/combine-coverage.py
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/combine-coverage.py
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 """
 Combine coverage data from multiple jobs, keeping the data only from the most recent attempt from each job.
 Coverage artifacts must be named using the format: "Coverage $(System.JobAttempt) {StableUniqueNameForEachJob}"
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/process-results.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/process-results.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Check the test results and set variables for use in later steps.

 set -o pipefail -eu
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 """
 Upload code coverage reports to codecov.io.
 Multiple coverage files from multiple languages are accepted and aggregated after upload.
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/report-coverage.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Generate code coverage reports for uploading to Azure Pipelines and codecov.io.

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

 set -o pipefail -eu
--- a/.azure-pipelines/scripts/time-command.py
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/scripts/time-command.py
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 """Prepends a relative timestamp to each input line from stdin and writes it to stdout."""

 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
--- a/.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # This template adds a job for processing code coverage data.
 # It will upload results to Azure Pipelines and codecov.io.
 # Use it from a job stage that completes after all other jobs have completed.
--- a/.azure-pipelines/templates/matrix.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/templates/matrix.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # This template uses the provided targets and optional groups to generate a matrix which is then passed to the test template.
 # If this matrix template does not provide the required functionality, consider using the test template directly instead.

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

--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: Bug report
 description: Create a report to help us improve

@@ -47,7 +43,7 @@ body:
    label: Component Name
    description: >-
      Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
-      *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
+      *use your best guess if unsure*.
    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
  validations:
    required: true
@@ -109,7 +105,7 @@ body:
  attributes:
    label: Steps to Reproduce
    description: |
-      Describe exactly how to reproduce the problem, using a minimal test-case. It would *really* help us understand your problem if you could also passed any playbooks, configs and commands you used.
+      Describe exactly how to reproduce the problem, using a minimal test-case. It would *really* help us understand your problem if you could also pased any playbooks, configs and commands you used.

      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
    value: |
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Ref: https://help.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository#configuring-the-template-chooser
 blank_issues_enabled: false  # default: true
 contact_links:
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: Documentation Report
 description: Ask us about docs
 # NOTE: issue body is enabled to allow screenshots
@@ -46,8 +42,8 @@ body:
  attributes:
    label: Component Name
    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the file, module, plugin, task or feature below,
-      *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
+      Write the short name of the rst file, module, plugin, task or
+      feature below, *use your best guess if unsure*.
    placeholder: mysql_user
  validations:
    required: true
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: Feature request
 description: Suggest an idea for this project

@@ -42,8 +38,8 @@ body:
  attributes:
    label: Component Name
    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the module or plugin, or which other part(s) of the collection this feature affects.
-      *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
+      Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
+      *use your best guess if unsure*.
    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
  validations:
    required: true
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 version: 2
 updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "weekly"
+    interval:
+      schedule: "weekly"
--- a/.github/patchback.yml
+++ b/.github/patchback.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 backport_branch_prefix: patchback/backports/
 backport_label_prefix: backport-
 target_branch_prefix: stable-
--- a/.github/pull_request_template.md
+++ b/.github/pull_request_template.md
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-##### SUMMARY
-<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale and design decisions -->
-
-<!--- HINT: Include "Fixes #nnn" if you are fixing an existing issue -->
-
-<!--- Please do not forget to include a changelog fragment:
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/collection_development_process.html#creating-changelog-fragments
-      No need to include one for docs-only or test-only PR, and for new plugin/module PRs.
-      Read about more details in CONTRIBUTING.md.
-      -->
-
-##### ISSUE TYPE
-<!--- Pick one or more below and delete the rest.
-      'Test Pull Request' is for PRs that add/extend tests without code changes. -->
- Bugfix Pull Request
- Docs Pull Request
- Feature Pull Request
- New Module/Plugin Pull Request
- Refactoring Pull Request
- Test Pull Request
-
-##### COMPONENT NAME
-<!--- Write the SHORT NAME of the module, plugin, task or feature below. -->
-
-##### ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-<!--- Include additional information to help people understand the change here -->
-<!--- A step-by-step reproduction of the problem is helpful if there is no related issue -->
-
-<!--- Paste verbatim command output below, e.g. before and after your change -->
-```paste below
-
-```
--- a/.github/pull_request_template.md.license
+++ b/.github/pull_request_template.md.license
@@ -1,3 +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
--- a/.github/settings.yml
+++ b/.github/settings.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # DO NOT MODIFY

 # Settings: https://probot.github.io/apps/settings/
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
@@ -1,193 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-# For the comprehensive list of the inputs supported by the ansible-community/ansible-test-gh-action GitHub Action, see
-# https://github.com/marketplace/actions/ansible-test
-
-name: EOL CI
-on:
-  # Run EOL CI against all pushes (direct commits, also merged PRs), Pull Requests
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-      - stable-*
-  pull_request:
-  # Run EOL CI once per day (at 08:00 UTC)
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 8 * * *'
-
-concurrency:
-  # Make sure there is at most one active run per PR, but do not cancel any non-PR runs
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ (github.head_ref && github.event.number) || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  sanity:
-    name: EOL Sanity (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }})
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - '2.11'
-    # 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
-    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
-    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: >-
-      ${{ contains(fromJson(
-          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
-      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
-    steps:
-      - name: Perform sanity testing
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: felixfontein/ansible
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          testing-type: sanity
-
-  units:
-    # 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
-    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
-    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: >-
-      ${{ contains(fromJson(
-          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
-      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
-    name: EOL Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+py${{ matrix.python }})
-    strategy:
-      # As soon as the first unit test fails, cancel the others to free up the CI queue
-      fail-fast: true
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - ''
-        python:
-          - ''
-        exclude:
-          - ansible: ''
-        include:
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            python: '3.5'
-
-    steps:
-      - name: >-
-          Perform unit testing against
-          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: felixfontein/ansible
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          pre-test-cmd: >-
-            mkdir -p ../../ansible
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools.git ../../community/internal_test_tools
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          target-python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
-          testing-type: units
-
-  integration:
-    # 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
-    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
-    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: >-
-      ${{ contains(fromJson(
-          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
-      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
-    name: EOL I (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+${{ matrix.docker }}+py${{ matrix.python }}:${{ matrix.target }})
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - ''
-        docker:
-          - ''
-        python:
-          - ''
-        target:
-          - ''
-        exclude:
-          - ansible: ''
-        include:
-          # 2.11
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora32
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora32
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora32
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora33
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora33
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora33
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: alpine3
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: alpine3
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            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: '2.11'
-          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '2.7'
-          #   target: azp/generic/1/
-          # - ansible: '2.11'
-          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '3.5'
-          #   target: azp/generic/2/
-
-    steps:
-      - name: >-
-          Perform integration testing against
-          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          under Python ${{ matrix.python }}
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: felixfontein/ansible
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          docker-image: ${{ matrix.docker }}
-          integration-continue-on-error: 'false'
-          integration-diff: 'false'
-          integration-retry-on-error: 'true'
-          pre-test-cmd: >-
-            mkdir -p ../../ansible
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix.git ../../ansible/posix
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto.git ../../community/crypto
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools.git ../../community/internal_test_tools
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          target: ${{ matrix.target }}
-          target-python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
-          testing-type: integration
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -1,36 +1,49 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: "Code scanning - action"

 on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '26 19 * * 1'
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read

 jobs:
  CodeQL-Build:

-    permissions:
-      actions: read  # for github/codeql-action/init to get workflow details
-      contents: read  # for actions/checkout to fetch code
-      security-events: write  # for github/codeql-action/autobuild to send a status report
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: Checkout repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      with:
+        # We must fetch at least the immediate parents so that if this is
+        # a pull request then we can checkout the head.
+        fetch-depth: 2
+
+    # If this run was triggered by a pull request event, then checkout
+    # the head of the pull request instead of the merge commit.
+    - run: git checkout HEAD^2
+      if: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}

    # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
    - name: Initialize CodeQL
-      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
-      with:
-        languages: python
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v1
+      # Override language selection by uncommenting this and choosing your languages
+      # with:
+      #   languages: go, javascript, csharp, python, cpp, java
+
+    # Autobuild attempts to build any compiled languages  (C/C++, C#, or Java).
+    # If this step fails, then you should remove it and run the build manually (see below)
+    - name: Autobuild
+      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v1
+
+    # ℹ️ Command-line programs to run using the OS shell.
+    # 📚 https://git.io/JvXDl
+
+    # ✏️ If the Autobuild fails above, remove it and uncomment the following three lines
+    #    and modify them (or add more) to build your code if your project
+    #    uses a compiled language
+
+    #- run: |
+    #   make bootstrap
+    #   make release

    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v1
--- a/.github/workflows/reuse.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reuse.yml
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-name: Verify REUSE
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [main]
-  pull_request_target:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    branches: [main]
-  # Run CI once per day (at 07:30 UTC)
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '30 7 * * *'
-
-jobs:
-  check:
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || '' }}
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          pip install reuse
-
-      - name: Check REUSE compliance
-        run: |
-          reuse lint
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

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

 ### dotenv ###
 .env
@@ -74,19 +71,7 @@ flycheck_*.el
 *_LOCAL_*.txt
 *_REMOTE_*.txt

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

 ### Linux ###

@@ -102,39 +87,6 @@ ipython_config.py
 # .nfs files are created when an open file is removed but is still being accessed
 .nfs*

-### macOS ###
-# General
-.DS_Store
-.AppleDouble
-.LSOverride
-
-# Icon must end with two \r
-Icon
-
-
-# Thumbnails
-._*
-
-# Files that might appear in the root of a volume
-.DocumentRevisions-V100
-.fseventsd
-.Spotlight-V100
-.TemporaryItems
-.Trashes
-.VolumeIcon.icns
-.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent
-
-# Directories potentially created on remote AFP share
-.AppleDB
-.AppleDesktop
-Network Trash Folder
-Temporary Items
-.apdisk
-
-### macOS Patch ###
-# iCloud generated files
-*.icloud
-
 ### PyCharm+all ###
 # Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio, WebStorm and Rider
 # Reference: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544839
@@ -199,9 +151,6 @@ atlassian-ide-plugin.xml
 # Cursive Clojure plugin
 .idea/replstate.xml

-# SonarLint plugin
-.idea/sonarlint/
-
 # Crashlytics plugin (for Android Studio and IntelliJ)
 com_crashlytics_export_strings.xml
 crashlytics.properties
@@ -215,13 +164,20 @@ fabric.properties
 .idea/caches/build_file_checksums.ser

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

-.idea/*
+.idea/

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

 ### pydev ###
 .pydevproject
@@ -304,13 +260,16 @@ docs/_build/
 target/

 # Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints

 # IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py

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

 # pipenv
 #   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
@@ -319,22 +278,7 @@ target/
 #   install all needed dependencies.
 #Pipfile.lock

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

 # Celery stuff
@@ -376,13 +320,6 @@ dmypy.json
 # Cython debug symbols
 cython_debug/

-# PyCharm
-#  JetBrains specific template is maintained in a separate JetBrains.gitignore that can
-#  be found at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
-#  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
-#  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
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-# Integration tests cloud configs
-tests/integration/cloud-config-*.ini
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-# 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
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-  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.0.1
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-Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
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-Files: changelogs/fragments/*
-Copyright: Ansible Project
-License: GPL-3.0-or-later
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@@ -4,326 +4,551 @@ Community General Release Notes

 .. contents:: Topics

-This changelog describes changes after version 6.0.0.
+This changelog describes changes after version 3.0.0.

-v7.0.0
+v4.0.2
 ======

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

-This is release 7.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2023-05-09.
-
-Minor Changes
-------------
-
- apache2_module - add module argument ``warn_mpm_absent`` to control whether warning are raised in some edge cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5793).
- apt_rpm - adds ``clean``, ``dist_upgrade`` and ``update_kernel``  parameters for clear caches, complete upgrade system, and upgrade kernel packages (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).
- bitwarden lookup plugin - implement filtering results by ``collection_id`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5849).
- cmd_runner module utils - ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool()`` can now take an extra parameter to format when value is false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5647).
- cpanm - minor change, use feature from ``ModuleHelper`` (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).
- dconf - if ``gi.repository.GLib`` is missing, try to respawn in a Python interpreter that has it (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).
- dconf - parse GVariants for equality comparison when the Python module ``gi.repository`` is available (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6049).
- deps module utils - add function ``failed()`` providing the ability to check the dependency check result without triggering an exception (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).
- dig lookup plugin - support CAA record type (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).
- dnsimple_info - minor refactor in the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6440).
- flatpak_remote - add new boolean option ``enabled``. It controls, whether the remote is enabled or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5926).
- gconftool2 - refactor using ``ModuleHelper`` and ``CmdRunner`` (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).
- gitlab_project - add ``builds_access_level``, ``container_registry_access_level`` and ``forking_access_level`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5706).
- gitlab_project - add ``releases_access_level``, ``environments_access_level``, ``feature_flags_access_level``, ``infrastructure_access_level``, ``monitor_access_level``, and ``security_and_compliance_access_level`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5986).
- gitlab_project - add new option ``topics`` for adding topics to GitLab projects (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6278).
- gitlab_runner - add new boolean option ``access_level_on_creation``. It controls, whether the value of ``access_level`` is used for runner registration or not. The option ``access_level`` 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/pull/5908).
- gitlab_runner - allow to register group runner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3935).
- homebrew_cask - allows passing ``--greedy`` option to ``upgrade_all`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6267).
- idrac_redfish_command - add ``job_id`` to ``CreateBiosConfigJob`` response (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).
- ipa_group - allow to add and remove external users with the ``external_user`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5897).
- ipa_hostgroup - add ``append`` parameter for adding a new hosts to existing hostgroups without changing existing hostgroup members (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).
- java_certs - add more detailed error output when extracting certificate from PKCS12 fails (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).
- jenkins_plugin - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (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/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).
- keycloak_group - add new optional module parameter ``parents`` to properly handle keycloak subgroups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5814).
- keycloak_user_federation - make ``org.keycloak.storage.ldap.mappers.LDAPStorageMapper`` the default value for mappers ``providerType`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5863).
- ldap modules - add ``ca_path`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6185).
- ldap modules - add ``xorder_discovery`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6045, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6109).
- ldap_search - the new ``base64_attributes`` allows to specify which attribute values should be Base64 encoded (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).
- lxd_project - refactored code out to module utils to clear sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5549).
- make - add ``command`` return value to the module output (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).
- mksysb - improved the output of the module in case of errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6263).
- modprobe - add ``persistent`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/542).
- module_helper module utils - updated the imports to make more MH features available at ``plugins/module_utils/module_helper.py`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6464).
- mssql_script - allow for ``GO`` statement to be mixed-case for scripts not using strict syntax (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 ``UPDATE`` and ``INSERT``) (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).
- nmap inventory plugin - add new option ``open`` for only returning open ports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6200).
- nmap inventory plugin - add new option ``port`` for port specific scan (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6165).
- nmap inventory plugin - add new options ``udp_scan``, ``icmp_timestamp``, and ``dns_resolve`` for different types of scans (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5566).
- nmap inventory plugin - added environment variables for configure ``address`` and ``exclude`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6351).
- nmcli - add ``default`` and ``default-or-eui64`` to the list of valid choices for ``addr_gen_mode6`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5974).
- nmcli - add ``macvlan`` connection type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6312).
- nmcli - add support for ``team.runner-fast-rate`` parameter for ``team`` connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6065).
- nmcli - new module option ``slave_type`` 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/pull/6108).
- one_vm - add a new ``updateconf`` option which implements the ``one.vm.updateconf`` API call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5812).
- openbsd_pkg - set ``TERM`` to ``'dumb'`` in ``execute_command()`` to make module less dependant on the ``TERM`` environment variable set on the Ansible controller (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).
- opkg - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` for executing ``opkg`` (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).
- pipx - add ``system_site_packages`` parameter to give application access to system-wide packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6308).
- pipx - ensure ``include_injected`` parameter works with ``state=upgrade`` and ``state=latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6212).
- pipx - optional ``install_apps`` parameter added to install applications from injected packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6198).
- proxmox - added new module parameter ``tags`` for use with PVE 7+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5714).
- proxmox - suppress urllib3 ``InsecureRequestWarnings`` when ``validate_certs`` option is ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5931).
- proxmox_kvm - add new ``archive`` parameter. This is needed to create a VM from an archive (backup) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6159).
- proxmox_kvm - adds ``migrate`` parameter to manage online migrations between hosts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6448)
- puppet - add new options ``skip_tags`` to exclude certain tagged resources during a puppet agent or apply (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6293).
- puppet - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` for executing ``puppet`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5612).
- rax_scaling_group - refactored out code to the ``rax`` module utils to clear the sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5563).
- redfish_command - add ``PerformRequestedOperations`` command to perform any operations necessary to continue the update flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
- redfish_command - add ``update_apply_time`` to ``SimpleUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3910).
- redfish_command - add ``update_status`` to output of ``SimpleUpdate`` command to allow a user monitor the update in progress (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
- redfish_command - adding ``EnableSecureBoot`` functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5899).
- redfish_command - adding ``VerifyBiosAttributes`` functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5900).
- redfish_info - add ``GetUpdateStatus`` command to check the progress of a previous update request (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).
- redfish_utils module utils - added PUT (``put_request()``) functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5490).
- redhat_subscription - add a ``server_proxy_scheme`` parameter to configure the scheme for the proxy server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5662).
- redhat_subscription - adds ``token`` parameter for subscription-manager authentication using Red Hat API token (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5725).
- redhat_subscription - credentials (``username``, ``activationkey``, and so on) are required now only if a system needs to be registered, or ``force_register`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5664).
- redhat_subscription - the registration is done using the D-Bus ``rhsm`` service instead of spawning a ``subscription-manager register`` command, if possible; this avoids passing plain-text credentials as arguments to ``subscription-manager register``, which can be seen while that command runs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6122).
- sefcontext - add support for path substitutions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1193).
- shutdown - if no shutdown commands are found in the ``search_paths`` then the module will attempt to shutdown the system using ``systemctl shutdown`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4269, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6171).
- slack - add option ``prepend_hash`` which allows to control whether a ``#`` is prepended to ``channel_id``. The current behavior (value ``auto``) is to prepend ``#`` unless some specific prefixes are found. That list of prefixes is incomplete, and there does not seem to exist a documented condition on when exactly ``#`` must not be prepended. We recommend to explicitly set ``prepend_hash=always`` or ``prepend_hash=never`` to avoid any ambiguity (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5629).
- snap - minor refactor when executing module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5773).
- snap - refactor module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute external commands (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).
- snap_alias - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``snap`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5486).
- spotinst_aws_elastigroup - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5553).
- ssh_config - add ``host_key_algorithms`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5605).
- ssh_config - add ``proxyjump`` option (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).
- 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).
- sudoers - add ``setenv`` parameters to support passing environment variables via sudo. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5883)
- sudoers - adds ``host`` parameter for setting hostname restrictions in sudoers rules (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).
- udm_dns_record - minor refactor to the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6382).
- udm_share - added ``elements`` attribute to ``list`` type parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5557).
- udm_user - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5559).
- znode module - optional ``use_tls`` parameter added for encrypted communication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6154).
-
-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 ``community.sap_libs`` if you are using any of the ``sapcar_extract``, ``sap_task_list_execute``, and ``hana_query`` modules.
-  Without that collection installed, the redirects for these modules do not work.
- ModuleHelper module utils - when the module sets output variables named ``msg``, ``exception``, ``output``, ``vars``, or ``changed``, the actual output will prefix those names with ``_`` (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).
- gconftool2 - fix processing of ``gconftool-2`` when ``key`` does not exist, returning ``null`` instead of empty string for both ``value`` and ``previous_value`` return values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6028).
- gitlab_runner - the default of ``access_level_on_creation`` changed from ``false`` to ``true`` (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/pull/6473).
- nmcli - the default of the ``hairpin`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
- proxmox - the default of the ``unprivileged`` option changed from ``false`` to ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+Bugfix release for today's Ansible 5.0.0 beta 2.

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

- ModuleHelper module_utils - ``deps`` mixin for MH classes deprecated in favour of using the ``deps`` module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6465).
- consul - deprecate using parameters unused for ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5772).
- gitlab_runner - the default of the new option ``access_level_on_creation`` will change from ``false`` to ``true`` in community.general 7.0.0. This will cause ``access_level`` to be used during runner registration as well, and not only during updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5908).
- gitlab_runner - the option ``access_level`` will lose its default value in community.general 8.0.0. From that version on, you have set this option to ``ref_protected`` explicitly, if you want to have a protected runner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5925).
- manageiq_policies - deprecate ``state=list`` in favour of using ``community.general.manageiq_policies_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5721).
- manageiq_tags - deprecate ``state=list`` in favour of using ``community.general.manageiq_tags_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5727).
- rax - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax module utils - module utils code relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_cbs - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_cbs_attachments - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_cdb - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_cdb_database - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_cdb_user - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_clb - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_clb_nodes - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_clb_ssl - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_dns - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_dns_record - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_facts - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_files - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_files_objects - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_identity - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_keypair - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_meta - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_mon_alarm - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_mon_check - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_mon_entity - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_mon_notification - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_mon_notification_plan - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_network - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_queue - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_scaling_group - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
- rax_scaling_policy - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (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
-  noone that steps up to maintain them
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6493).
-
-Removed Features (previously deprecated)
----------------------------------------
-
- All ``sap`` 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 ``fmt`` alias of ``cmd_runner_fmt`` has been removed. Use ``cmd_runner_fmt`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
- newrelic_deployment - the ``appname`` and ``environment`` options have been removed. They did not do anything (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
- puppet - the alias ``show-diff`` of the ``show_diff`` option has been removed. Use ``show_diff`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
- xfconf - generating facts was deprecated in community.general 3.0.0, however three factoids, ``property``, ``channel`` and ``value`` continued to be generated by mistake. This behaviour has been removed and ``xfconf`` generate no facts whatsoever (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5502).
- xfconf - generating facts was deprecated in community.general 3.0.0, however two factoids, ``previous_value`` and ``type`` continued to be generated by mistake. This behaviour has been removed and ``xfconf`` generate no facts whatsoever (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5502).
+- Support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 is deprecated, and will be removed in the next major release (community.general 5.0.0) next spring. While most content will probably still work with ansible-base 2.10, we will remove symbolic links for modules and action plugins, which will make it impossible to use them with Ansible 2.9 anymore. Please use community.general 4.x.y with Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10, as these releases will continue to support Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 even after they are End of Life (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/50, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3723).

 Bugfixes
 --------

- ModuleHelper - fix bug when adjusting the name of reserved output variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5755).
- alternatives - support subcommands on Fedora 37, which uses ``follower`` instead of ``slave`` (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).
- ansible_galaxy_install - try ``C.UTF-8`` and then fall back to ``en_US.UTF-8`` before failing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5680).
- archive - avoid deprecated exception class on Python 3 (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).
- bitwarden lookup plugin - clarify what to do, if the bitwarden vault is not unlocked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5811).
- cartesian and flattened lookup plugins - adjust to parameter deprecation in ansible-core 2.14's ``listify_lookup_plugin_terms`` helper function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6074).
- chroot connection plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` to vars under ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5570).
- cloudflare_dns - fixed the idempotency for SRV DNS records (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).
- cmd_runner module utils - fixed bug when handling default cases in ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_map()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
- cmd_runner module utils - formatting arguments ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_fixed()`` was expecting an non-existing argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
- dependent lookup plugin - avoid warning on deprecated parameter for ``Templar.template()`` (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).
- dig lookup plugin - correctly handle DNSKEY record type's ``algorithm`` field (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).
- gconftool2 - fix ``changed`` result always being ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6028).
- gconftool2 - remove requirement of parameter ``value`` when ``state=absent`` (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).
- gem - fix hang due to interactive prompt for confirmation on specific version uninstall (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).
- gitlab_deploy_key - also update ``title`` and not just ``can_push`` (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).
- gitlab_project_variables - fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5667).
- gitlab_runner - fix ``KeyError`` on runner creation and update (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).
- idrac_redfish_command - allow user to specify ``resource_id`` for ``CreateBiosConfigJob`` to specify an exact manager (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).
- ini_file - make ``section`` parameter not required so it is possible to pass ``null`` 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).
- interfaces_file - fix reading options in lines not starting with a space (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6120).
- jail connection plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` to vars under ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6118).
- jenkins_build - fix the logical flaw when deleting a Jenkins build (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).
- keycloak - improve error messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6318).
- keycloak_client - fix accidental replacement of value for attribute ``saml.signing.private.key`` with ``no_log`` in wrong contexts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5934).
- keycloak_client_rolemapping - calculate ``proposed`` and ``after`` return values properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
- keycloak_client_rolemapping - remove only listed mappings with ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
- 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).
- 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).
- loganalytics callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
- logdna callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
- logstash callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (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).
- 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/pull/6034).
- memset - fix memset urlerror handling (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).
- nmcli - fix failure to handle WIFI settings when connection type not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
- nmcli - fix improper detection of changes to ``wifi.wake-on-wlan`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
- nmcli - fixed idempotency issue for bridge connections. Module forced default value of ``bridge.priority`` to nmcli if not set; if ``bridge.stp`` 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/4683).
- nmcli - fixed idempotency issue when module params is set to ``may_fail4=false`` and ``method4=disabled``; in this case nmcli ignores change and keeps their own default value ``yes`` (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).
- nmcli - order is significant for lists of addresses (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/pull/5818).
- one_vm - avoid splitting labels that are ``None`` (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).
- 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).
- onepassword_raw - add missing parameter to plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5506).
- opkg - fix issue that ``force=reinstall`` would not reinstall an existing package (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5705).
- opkg - fixes bug when using ``update_cache=true`` (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).
- pipx - fixed handling of ``install_deps=true`` with ``state=latest`` and ``state=upgrade`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6303).
- portage - update the logic for generating the emerge command arguments to ensure that ``withbdeps: false`` results in a passing an ``n`` argument with the ``--with-bdeps`` emerge flag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6451, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6456).
- proxmox inventory plugin - fix bug while templating when using templates for the ``url``, ``user``, ``password``, ``token_id``, or ``token_secret`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5640).
- proxmox inventory plugin - handle tags delimited by semicolon instead of comma, which happens from Proxmox 7.3 on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5602).
- proxmox_disk - avoid duplicate ``vmid`` reference (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, 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).
- proxmox_disk - fixed possible issues with redundant ``vmid`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
- proxmox_nic - fixed possible issues with redundant ``vmid`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
- puppet - handling ``noop`` 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/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).
- redhat_subscription - do not ignore ``consumer_name`` and other variables if ``activationkey`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3486, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5627).
- redhat_subscription - do not pass arguments to ``subscription-manager register`` for things already configured; now a specified ``rhsm_baseurl`` is properly set for subscription-manager (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5583).
- redhat_subscription - do not use D-Bus for registering when ``environment`` 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).
- redhat_subscription - try to unregister only when already registered when ``force_register`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6258, 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 ``environment`` (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 ``console-helper`` prompt; they all interact with ``subscription-manager``, which already requires to be run as root (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/734, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6211).
- rhsm_release - make ``release`` parameter not required so it is possible to pass ``null`` 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).
- rundeck module utils - fix errors caused by the API empty responses (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6300)
- rundeck_acl_policy - fix ``TypeError - byte indices must be integers or slices, not str`` error caused by empty API response. Update the module to use ``module_utils.rundeck`` functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5887, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6300).
- rundeck_project - update the module to use ``module_utils.rundeck`` functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5742) (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 ``lxd.lxc`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6361).
- splunk callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
- sumologic callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
- syslog_json callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
- terraform - fix ``current`` workspace never getting appended to the ``all`` key in the ``workspace_ctf`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5735).
- terraform - fix ``terraform init`` failure when there are multiple workspaces on the remote backend and when ``default`` workspace is missing by setting ``TF_WORKSPACE`` environmental variable to the value of ``workspace`` when used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5735).
- terraform - fix broken ``warn()`` call (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).
- terraform module - disable ANSI escape sequences during validation phase (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 ``fetch_attachments`` and ``file_download_path`` variables to download attachments (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).
- 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).
- various plugins and modules - remove unnecessary imports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5940).
- vdo - now uses ``yaml.safe_load()`` to parse command output instead of the deprecated ``yaml.load()`` which is potentially unsafe. Using ``yaml.load()`` without explicitely setting a ``Loader=`` is also an error in pyYAML 6.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5632).
- vmadm - fix for index out of range error in ``get_vm_uuid`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5628).
- 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).
- xfs_quota - in case of a project quota, the call to ``xfs_quota`` did not initialize/reset the project (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5143).
- xml - fixed a bug where empty ``children`` list would not be set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5808).
- yarn - fix ``global=true`` to check for the configured global folder instead of assuming the default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5829)
- yarn - fix ``global=true`` to not fail when `executable` wasn't specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6132)
- yarn - fix ``state=absent`` not working with ``global=true`` when the package does not include a binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5829)
- yarn - fix ``state=latest`` not working with ``global=true`` (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 ``yarn.list`` method was not filtering out warnings (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).
- zypper - make package managing work on readonly filesystem of openSUSE MicroOS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5615).
+- counter_enabled callback plugin - fix output to correctly display host and task counters in serial mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3709).
+- ldap_search - allow it to be used even in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3619).
+- lvol - allows logical volumes to be created with certain size arguments prefixed with ``+`` to preserve behavior of older versions of this module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3665).
+- nmcli - fixed falsely reported changed status when ``mtu`` is omitted with ``dummy`` connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3612, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3625).
+
+v4.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release for today's Ansible 5.0.0 beta 1.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- a_module test plugin - fix crash when testing a module name that was tombstoned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3660).
+- xattr - fix exception caused by ``_run_xattr()`` raising a ``ValueError`` due to a mishandling of base64-encoded value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3673).
+
+v4.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This is release 4.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2021-11-02.
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- bitbucket_* modules - ``client_id`` is no longer marked as ``no_log=true``. If you relied on its value not showing up in logs and output, please mark the whole tasks with ``no_log: true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2045).
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Avoid internal ansible-core module_utils in favor of equivalent public API available since at least Ansible 2.9 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2877).
+- ModuleHelper module utils - improved mechanism for customizing the calculation of ``changed`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2514).
+- Remove unnecessary ``__init__.py`` files from ``plugins/`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2632).
+- apache2_module - minor refactoring improving code quality, readability and speed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3106).
+- archive - added ``dest_state`` return value to describe final state of ``dest`` after successful task execution (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2913).
+- archive - added ``exclusion_patterns`` option to exclude files or subdirectories from archives (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2616).
+- archive - refactoring prior to fix for idempotency checks. The fix will be a breaking change and only appear in community.general 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2987).
+- bitbucket_* modules - add ``user`` and ``password`` options for Basic authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2045).
+- chroot connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- cloud_init_data_facts - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- cmd (Module Helper) module utils - ``CmdMixin`` now pulls the value for ``run_command()`` params from ``self.vars``, as opposed to previously retrieving those from ``self.module.params`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2517).
+- composer - add ``composer_executable`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2649).
+- datadog_event - adding parameter ``api_host`` to allow selecting a datadog API endpoint instead of using the default one (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2774, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2775).
+- datadog_monitor - allow creation of composite datadog monitors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2956).
+- dig lookup plugin - add ``retry_servfail`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3247).
+- dnsimple - module rewrite to include support for python-dnsimple>=2.0.0; also add ``sandbox`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2946).
+- elastic callback plugin - enriched the stacktrace information with the ``message``, ``exception`` and ``stderr`` fields from the failed task (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3556).
+- filesystem - cleanup and revamp module, tests and doc. Pass all commands to ``module.run_command()`` as lists. Move the device-vs-mountpoint logic to ``grow()`` method. Give to all ``get_fs_size()`` the same logic and error handling. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2472).
+- filesystem - extend support for FreeBSD. Avoid potential data loss by checking existence of a filesystem with ``fstyp`` (native command) if ``blkid`` (foreign command) doesn't find one. Add support for character devices and ``ufs`` filesystem type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2902).
+- flatpak - add ``no_dependencies`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/55452, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2751).
+- flatpak - allows installing or uninstalling a list of packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2521).
+- funcd connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- gem - add ``bindir`` option to specify an installation path for executables such as ``/home/user/bin`` or ``/home/user/.local/bin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2837).
+- gem - add ``norc`` option to avoid loading any ``.gemrc`` file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2837).
+- github_repo - add new option ``api_url``  to allow working with on premises installations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3038).
+- gitlab_group - add new options ``project_creation_level``, ``auto_devops_enabled``, ``subgroup_creation_level`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3248).
+- gitlab_group - add new property ``require_two_factor_authentication`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3367).
+- gitlab_group_members - ``gitlab_user`` can now also be a list of users (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3047).
+- gitlab_group_members - added functionality to set all members exactly as given (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3047).
+- gitlab_project - add new options ``allow_merge_on_skipped_pipeline``, ``only_allow_merge_if_all_discussions_are_resolved``, ``only_allow_merge_if_pipeline_succeeds``, ``packages_enabled``, ``remove_source_branch_after_merge``, ``squash_option`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3002).
+- gitlab_project - add new properties ``ci_config_path`` and ``shared_runners_enabled`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3379).
+- gitlab_project - projects can be created under other user's namespaces with the new ``username`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2824).
+- gitlab_project_members - ``gitlab_user`` can now also be a list of users (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3319).
+- gitlab_project_members - added functionality to set all members exactly as given (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3319).
+- gitlab_runner - support project-scoped gitlab.com runners registration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/634).
+- gitlab_user - add ``expires_at`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2325).
+- gitlab_user - add functionality for adding external identity providers to a GitLab user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2691).
+- gitlab_user - allow to reset an existing password with the new ``reset_password`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2691).
+- gitlab_user - specifying a password is no longer necessary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2691).
+- gunicorn - search for ``gunicorn`` binary in more paths (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3092).
+- hana_query - added the abillity to use hdbuserstore (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3125).
+- hpilo_info - added ``host_power_status`` return value to report power state of machine with ``OFF``, ``ON`` or ``UNKNOWN`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3079).
+- idrac_redfish_config - modified set_manager_attributes function to skip invalid attribute instead of returning. Added skipped attributes to output. Modified module exit to add warning variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1995).
+- influxdb_retention_policy - add ``state`` parameter with allowed values ``present`` and ``absent`` to support deletion of existing retention policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2383).
+- influxdb_retention_policy - simplify duration logic parsing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2385).
+- ini_file - add abbility to define multiple options with the same name but different values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/273, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1204).
+- ini_file - add module option ``exclusive`` (boolean) for the ability to add/remove single ``option=value`` entries without overwriting existing options with the same name but different values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3033).
+- ini_file - opening file with encoding ``utf-8-sig`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2189).
+- interfaces_file - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3328).
+- iocage connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- ipa_config - add ``ipaselinuxusermaporder`` option to set the SELinux user map order (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3178).
+- ipa_group - add ``append`` option for adding group and users members, instead of replacing the respective lists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3545).
+- jail connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- java_keystore - added ``ssl_backend`` parameter for using the cryptography library instead of the OpenSSL binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2485).
+- java_keystore - replace envvar by stdin to pass secret to ``keytool`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2526).
+- jenkins_build - support stopping a running jenkins build (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2850).
+- jenkins_job_info - the ``password`` and ``token`` parameters can also be omitted to retrieve only public information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2948).
+- jenkins_plugin - add fallback url(s) for failure of plugin installation/download (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1334).
+- jira - add comment visibility parameter for comment operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2556).
+- kernel_blacklist - revamped the module using ``ModuleHelper`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3329).
+- keycloak_* modules - refactor many of the ``keycloak_*`` modules to have similar structures, comments, and documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3280).
+- keycloak_authentication - enhanced diff mode to also return before and after state when the authentication flow is updated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2963).
+- keycloak_client - add ``authentication_flow_binding_overrides`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2949).
+- keycloak_realm - add ``events_enabled`` parameter to allow activation or deactivation of login events (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3231).
+- linode - added proper traceback when failing due to exceptions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2410).
+- linode - parameter ``additional_disks`` is now validated as a list of dictionaries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2410).
+- linode inventory plugin - adds the ``ip_style`` configuration key. Set to ``api`` to get more detailed network details back from the remote Linode host (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3203).
+- lxc connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- lxd_container - add ``ignore_volatile_options`` option which allows to disable the behavior that the module ignores options starting with ``volatile.`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3331).
+- mail - added the ``ehlohost`` parameter which allows for manual override of the host used in SMTP EHLO (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3425).
+- maven_artifact - added ``checksum_alg`` option to support SHA1 checksums in order to support FIPS systems (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2662).
+- module_helper cmd module utils - added the ``ArgFormat`` style ``BOOLEAN_NOT``, to add CLI parameters when the module argument is false-ish (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3290).
+- module_helper module utils - added feature flag parameter to ``CmdMixin`` to control whether ``cmd_args`` is automatically added to the module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3648).
+- module_helper module utils - added feature flag parameters to ``CmdMixin`` to control whether ``rc``, ``out`` and ``err`` are automatically added to the module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2922).
+- module_helper module utils - break down of the long file into smaller pieces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2393).
+- module_helper module utils - method ``CmdMixin.run_command()`` now accepts ``process_output`` specifying a function to process the outcome of the underlying ``module.run_command()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2564).
+- module_helper module_utils - added classmethod to trigger the execution of MH modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3206).
+- nmcli - add ``disabled`` value to ``method6`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2730).
+- nmcli - add ``dummy`` interface support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/724).
+- nmcli - add ``gre`` tunnel support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3105, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3262).
+- nmcli - add ``gsm`` support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3313).
+- nmcli - add ``routing_rules4`` and ``may_fail4`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2730).
+- nmcli - add ``runner`` and ``runner_hwaddr_policy`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2901).
+- nmcli - add ``wifi-sec`` option change detection to support managing secure Wi-Fi connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3136).
+- nmcli - add ``wifi`` option to support managing Wi-Fi settings such as ``hidden`` or ``mode`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3081).
+- nmcli - add new options to ignore automatic DNS servers and gateways (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1087).
+- nmcli - query ``nmcli`` directly to determine available WiFi options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3141).
+- nmcli - remove dead code, ``options`` never contains keys from ``param_alias`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2417).
+- nmcli - the option ``routing_rules4`` can now be specified as a list of strings, instead of as a single string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3401).
+- nrdp callback plugin - parameters are now converted to strings, except ``validate_certs`` which is converted to boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2878).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - add ``domain`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2734).
+- open-iscsi - adding support for mutual authentication between target and initiator (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3422).
+- open_iscsi - add ``auto_portal_startup`` parameter to allow ``node.startup`` setting per portal (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2685).
+- open_iscsi - also consider ``portal`` and ``port`` to check if already logged in or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2683).
+- open_iscsi - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3286).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - added option ``enable_from_environment`` to support enabling the plugin only if the given environment variable exists and it is set to true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3498).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - enriched the span attributes with HTTP metadata for those Ansible tasks that interact with third party systems (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3448).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - enriched the stacktrace information for loops with the ``message``, ``exception`` and ``stderr`` fields from the failed item in the tasks in addition to the name of the task and failed item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3599).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - enriched the stacktrace information with the ``message``, ``exception`` and ``stderr`` fields from the failed task (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3496).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - transformed args in a list of span attributes in addition it redacted username and password from any URLs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3564).
+- openwrt_init - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3284).
+- opkg - allow ``name`` to be a YAML list of strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/572, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3554).
+- pacman - add ``executable`` option to use an alternative pacman binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2524).
+- pacman - speed up checking if the package is installed, when the latest version check is not needed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3606).
+- pamd - minor refactorings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3285).
+- passwordstore lookup - add option ``missing`` to choose what to do if the password file is missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2500).
+- pids - refactor to add support for older ``psutil`` versions to the ``pattern`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3315).
+- pipx - minor refactor on the ``changed`` logic (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3647).
+- pkgin - in case of ``pkgin`` tool failue, display returned standard output ``stdout`` and standard error ``stderr`` to ease debugging (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3146).
+- pkgng - ``annotation`` can now also be a YAML list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3526).
+- pkgng - packages being installed (or upgraded) are acted on in one command (per action) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2265).
+- pkgng - status message specifies number of packages installed and/or upgraded separately. Previously, all changes were reported as one count of packages "added" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3393).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - added snapshots to host facts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3044).
+- proxmox_group_info - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- proxmox_kvm - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- qubes connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- rax_mon_notification_plan - fixed validation checks by specifying type ``str`` as the ``elements`` of parameters ``ok_state``, ``warning_state`` and ``critical_state`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2955).
+- redfish_command - add ``boot_override_mode`` argument to BootSourceOverride commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3134).
+- redfish_command and redfish_config and redfish_utils module utils - add parameter to strip etag of quotes before patch, since some vendors do not properly ``If-Match`` etag with quotes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3296).
+- redfish_config - modified module exit to add warning variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1995).
+- redfish_info - include ``Status`` property for Thermal objects when querying Thermal properties via ``GetChassisThermals`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3232).
+- redfish_utils module utils - modified set_bios_attributes function to skip invalid attribute instead of returning. Added skipped attributes to output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1995).
+- redhat_subscription - add ``server_prefix`` and ``server_port`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2779).
+- redis - allow to use the term ``replica`` instead of ``slave``, which has been the official Redis terminology since 2018 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2867).
+- rhevm - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- saltstack connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- scaleway plugin inventory - parse scw-cli config file for ``oauth_token`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3250).
+- serverless - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- slack - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3205).
+- snap - added ``enabled`` and ``disabled`` states (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1990).
+- snap - improved module error handling, especially for the case when snap server is down (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2970).
+- splunk callback plugin - add ``batch`` option for user-configurable correlation ID's (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2790).
+- spotinst_aws_elastigroup - elements of list parameters are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2355).
+- ssh_config - new feature to set ``ForwardAgent`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2473).
+- stacki_host - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2681).
+- supervisorctl - add the possibility to restart all programs and program groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3551).
+- supervisorctl - using standard Ansible mechanism to validate ``signalled`` state required parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3068).
+- terraform - add ``check_destroy`` optional parameter to check for deletion of resources before it is applied (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2874).
+- terraform - add ``parallelism`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3540).
+- terraform - add option ``overwrite_init`` to skip init if exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2573).
+- terraform - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2557).
+- timezone - print error message to debug instead of warning when timedatectl fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1942).
+- tss lookup plugin - added ``token`` parameter for token authorization; ``username`` and ``password`` are optional when ``token`` is provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3327).
+- tss lookup plugin - added new parameter for domain authorization (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3228).
+- tss lookup plugin - refactored to decouple the supporting third-party library (``python-tss-sdk``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3252).
+- ufw - if ``delete=true`` and ``insert`` option is present, then ``insert`` is now ignored rather than failing with a syntax error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3514).
+- vdo - minor refactoring of the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3191).
+- zfs - added diff mode support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/502).
+- zfs_delegate_admin - drop choices from permissions, allowing any permission supported by the underlying zfs commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2540).
+- zone connection - minor refactor to make lints and IDEs happy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2520).
+- zpool_facts - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3332).
+- zypper - prefix zypper commands with ``/sbin/transactional-update --continue --drop-if-no-change --quiet run`` if transactional updates are detected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3159).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- archive - adding idempotency checks for changes to file names and content within the ``destination`` file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3075).
+- lxd inventory plugin - when used with Python 2, the plugin now needs ``ipaddress`` installed `from pypi <https://pypi.org/project/ipaddress/>`_ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2441).
+- scaleway_security_group_rule - when used with Python 2, the module now needs ``ipaddress`` installed `from pypi <https://pypi.org/project/ipaddress/>`_ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2441).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- ali_instance_info - marked removal version of deprecated parameters ``availability_zone`` and ``instance_names`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2429).
+- bitbucket_* modules - ``username`` options have been deprecated in favor of ``workspace`` and will be removed in community.general 6.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2045).
+- dnsimple - python-dnsimple < 2.0.0 is deprecated and support for it will be removed in community.general 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2946#discussion_r667624693).
+- gitlab_group_members - setting ``gitlab_group`` to ``name`` or ``path`` is deprecated. Use ``full_path`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3451).
+- keycloak_authentication - the return value ``flow`` is now deprecated and will be removed in community.general 6.0.0; use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3280).
+- keycloak_group - the return value ``group`` is now deprecated and will be removed in community.general 6.0.0; use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3280).
+- linode - parameter ``backupsenabled`` is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2410).
+- lxd_container - the current default value ``true`` of ``ignore_volatile_options`` is deprecated and will change to ``false`` in community.general 6.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3429).
+- serverless - deprecating parameter ``functions`` because it was not used in the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2845).
+- xfconf - deprecate the ``get`` state. The new module ``xfconf_info`` should be used instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3049).
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- All inventory and vault scripts contained in community.general were moved to the `contrib-scripts GitHub repository <https://github.com/ansible-community/contrib-scripts>`_ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2696).
+- ModuleHelper module utils - remove fallback when value could not be determined for a parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- Removed deprecated netapp module utils and doc fragments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3197).
+- The nios, nios_next_ip, nios_next_network lookup plugins, the nios documentation fragment, and the nios_host_record, nios_ptr_record, nios_mx_record, nios_fixed_address, nios_zone, nios_member, nios_a_record, nios_aaaa_record, nios_network, nios_dns_view, nios_txt_record, nios_naptr_record, nios_srv_record, nios_cname_record, nios_nsgroup, and nios_network_view module have been removed from community.general 4.0.0 and were replaced by redirects to the `infoblox.nios_modules <https://galaxy.ansible.com/infoblox/nios_modules>`_ collection. Please install the ``infoblox.nios_modules`` collection to continue using these plugins and modules, and update your FQCNs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3592).
+- The vendored copy of ``ipaddress`` has been removed. Please use ``ipaddress`` from the Python 3 standard library, or `from pypi <https://pypi.org/project/ipaddress/>`_. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2441).
+- cpanm - removed the deprecated ``system_lib`` option. Use Ansible's privilege escalation mechanism instead; the option basically used ``sudo`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- grove - removed the deprecated alias ``message`` of the ``message_content`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- proxmox - default value of ``proxmox_default_behavior`` changed to ``no_defaults`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- proxmox_kvm - default value of ``proxmox_default_behavior`` changed to ``no_defaults`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- runit - removed the deprecated ``dist`` option which was not used by the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- telegram - removed the deprecated ``msg``, ``msg_format`` and ``chat_id`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+- xfconf - the default value of ``disable_facts`` changed to ``true``, and the value ``false`` is no longer allowed. Register the module results instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3461).
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- nmcli - do not pass WiFi secrets on the ``nmcli`` command line. Use ``nmcli con edit`` instead and pass secrets as ``stdin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3145).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- _mount module utils - fixed the sanity checks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2883).
+- ali_instance_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - the output value ``cmd_args`` was bringing the intermediate command used to gather the state, instead of the command that actually performed the state change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3655).
+- apache2_module - fix ``a2enmod``/``a2dismod`` detection, and error message when not found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3253).
+- archive - fixed ``exclude_path`` values causing incorrect archive root (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2816).
+- archive - fixed improper file names for single file zip archives (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2818).
+- archive - fixed incorrect ``state`` result value documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2816).
+- archive - fixed task failure when using the ``remove`` option with a ``path`` containing nested files for ``format``s other than ``zip`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2919).
+- archive - fixing archive root determination when longest common root is ``/`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3036).
+- composer - use ``no-interaction`` option when discovering available options to avoid an issue where composer hangs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2348).
+- consul_acl - update the hcl allowlist to include all supported options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2495).
+- consul_kv lookup plugin - allow to set ``recurse``, ``index``, ``datacenter`` and ``token`` as keyword arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2124).
+- copr - fix chroot naming issues, ``centos-stream`` changed naming to ``centos-stream-<number>`` (for exmaple ``centos-stream-8``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2084, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3237).
+- cpanm - also use ``LC_ALL`` to enforce locale choice (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2731).
+- deploy_helper - improved parameter checking by using standard Ansible construct (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3104).
+- django_manage - argument ``command`` is being splitted again as it should (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3215).
+- django_manage - parameters ``apps`` and ``fixtures`` are now splitted instead of being used as a single argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3333).
+- django_manage - refactor to call ``run_command()`` passing command as a list instead of string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3098).
+- ejabberd_user - replaced in-code check with ``required_if``, using ``get_bin_path()`` for the command, passing args to ``run_command()`` as list instead of string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3093).
+- filesystem - repair ``reiserfs`` fstype support after adding it to integration tests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2472).
+- gitlab_deploy_key - fix idempotency on projects with multiple deploy keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3473).
+- gitlab_deploy_key - fix the SSH Deploy Key being deleted accidentally while running task in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3621, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3622).
+- gitlab_group - avoid passing wrong value for ``require_two_factor_authentication`` on creation when the option has not been specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3453).
+- gitlab_group_members - ``get_group_id`` return the group ID by matching ``full_path``, ``path`` or ``name`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3400).
+- gitlab_group_members - fixes issue when gitlab group has more then 20 members, pagination problem (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3041).
+- gitlab_project - user projects are created using namespace ID now, instead of user ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2881).
+- gitlab_project_members - ``get_project_id`` return the project id by matching ``full_path`` or ``name`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3602).
+- gitlab_project_members - fixes issue when gitlab group has more then 20 members, pagination problem (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3041).
+- idrac_redfish_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- influxdb_retention_policy - fix bug where ``INF`` duration values failed parsing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2385).
+- influxdb_user - allow creation of admin users when InfluxDB authentication is enabled but no other user exists on the database. In this scenario, InfluxDB 1.x allows only ``CREATE USER`` queries and rejects any other query (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2364).
+- influxdb_user - fix bug where an influxdb user has no privileges for 2 or more databases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2499).
+- influxdb_user - fix bug which removed current privileges instead of appending them to existing ones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2609, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2614).
+- ini_file - fix Unicode processing for Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2875).
+- ini_file - fix inconsistency between empty value and no value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3031).
+- interfaces_file - no longer reporting change when none happened (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3328).
+- inventory and vault scripts - change file permissions to make vendored inventory and vault scripts exectuable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2337).
+- ipa_* modules - fix environment fallback for ``ipa_host`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3560).
+- ipa_sudorule - call ``sudorule_add_allow_command`` method instead of  ``sudorule_add_allow_command_group`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2442).
+- iptables_state - call ``async_status`` action plugin rather than its module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2700).
+- iptables_state - fix a 'FutureWarning' in a regex and do some basic code clean up (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2525).
+- iptables_state - fix a broken query of ``async_status`` result with current ansible-core development version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2627, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2671).
+- iptables_state - fix initialization of iptables from null state when adressing more than one table (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2523).
+- java_cert - fix issue with incorrect alias used on PKCS#12 certificate import (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2560).
+- java_cert - import private key as well as public certificate from PKCS#12 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2460).
+- java_keystore - add parameter ``keystore_type`` to control output file format and override ``keytool``'s default, which depends on Java version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2515).
+- jboss - fix the deployment file permission issue when Jboss server is running under non-root user. The deployment file is copied with file content only. The file permission is set to ``440`` and belongs to root user. When the JBoss ``WildFly`` server is running under non-root user, it is unable to read the deployment file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3426).
+- jenkins_build - examine presence of ``build_number`` before deleting a jenkins build (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2850).
+- jenkins_plugin - use POST method for sending request to jenkins API when ``state`` option is one of ``enabled``, ``disabled``, ``pinned``, ``unpinned``, or ``absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2510).
+- json_query filter plugin - avoid 'unknown type' errors for more Ansible internal types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2607).
+- keycloak_authentication - fix bug when two identical executions are in the same authentication flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2904).
+- keycloak_authentication - fix bug, the requirement was always on ``DISABLED`` when creating a new authentication flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3330).
+- keycloak_client - update the check mode to not show differences resulting from sorting and default values relating to the properties, ``redirectUris``, ``attributes``, and ``protocol_mappers`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3610).
+- keycloak_identity_provider - fix change detection when updating identity provider mappers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3538, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3537).
+- keycloak_realm - ``ssl_required`` changed from a boolean type to accept the strings ``none``, ``external`` or ``all``. This is not a breaking change since the module always failed when a boolean was supplied (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2693).
+- keycloak_realm - element type for ``events_listeners`` parameter should be ``string`` instead of ``dict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3231).
+- keycloak_realm - remove warning that ``reset_password_allowed`` needs to be marked as ``no_log`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2694).
+- keycloak_role - quote role name when used in URL path to avoid errors when role names contain special characters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3535, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3536).
+- launchd - fixed sanity check in the module's code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2960).
+- launchd - use private attribute to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- linode inventory plugin - fix default value of new option ``ip_style`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3337).
+- linode_v4 - changed the error message to point to the correct bugtracker URL (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2430).
+- logdns callback plugin - improve split call to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- logstash callback plugin - replace ``_option`` with ``context.CLIARGS`` to fix the plugin on ansible-base and ansible-core (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2692).
+- lvol - fixed rounding errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2370).
+- lvol - fixed size unit capitalization to match units used between different tools for comparison (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2360).
+- lvol - honor ``check_mode`` on thinpool (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2934).
+- macports - add ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` to return values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3499).
+- maven_artifact - improve split call to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- memcached cache plugin - change function argument names to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- memset_memstore_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- memset_server_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- modprobe - added additional checks to ensure module load/unload is effective (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1608).
+- module_helper module utils - ``CmdMixin`` must also use ``LC_ALL`` to enforce locale choice (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2731).
+- module_helper module utils - avoid failing when non-zero ``rc`` is present on regular exit (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2912).
+- module_helper module utils - fixed change-tracking for dictionaries and lists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2951).
+- netapp module utils - remove always-true conditional to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- netcup_dns - use ``str(ex)`` instead of unreliable ``ex.message`` in exception handling to fix ``AttributeError`` in error cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2590).
+- nmap inventory plugin - fix local variable error when cache is disabled (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2512).
+- nmcli - added ip4/ip6 configuration arguments for ``sit`` and ``ipip`` tunnels (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3238, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3239).
+- nmcli - compare MAC addresses case insensitively to fix idempotency issue (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2409).
+- nmcli - fixed ``dns6`` option handling so that it is treated as a list internally (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3563).
+- nmcli - fixed ``ipv4.route-metric`` being in properties of type list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3563).
+- nmcli - fixes team-slave configuration by adding connection.slave-type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/766).
+- nmcli - if type is ``bridge-slave`` add ``slave-type bridge`` to ``nmcli`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2408).
+- npm - correctly handle cases where a dependency does not have a ``version`` property because it is either missing or invalid (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2917).
+- npm - when the ``version`` option is used the comparison of installed vs missing will use name@version instead of just name, allowing version specific updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2021).
+- one_image - fix error message when renaming an image (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3626).
+- one_template - change function argument name to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- one_vm - Allow missing NIC keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2435).
+- oneview_datacenter_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_enclosure_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_ethernet_network_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_fc_network_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_fcoe_network_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_logical_interconnect_group_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_network_set_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- oneview_san_manager_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- online inventory plugin - improve split call to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- online module utils - improve split call to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- open_iscsi - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3286).
+- openbsd_pkg - fix crash from ``KeyError`` exception when package installs, but ``pkg_add`` returns with a non-zero exit code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3336).
+- openbsd_pkg - fix regexp matching crash. This bug could trigger on package names with special characters, for example ``g++`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3161).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - validated the task result exception without crashing. Also simplifying code a bit (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3450, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75726).
+- openwrt_init - calling ``run_command`` with arguments as ``list`` instead of ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3284).
+- ovir4 inventory script - improve configparser creation to avoid crashes for options without values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/674).
+- packet_device - use generator to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- packet_sshkey - use generator to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- pacman - fix changed status when ignorepkg has been defined (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1758).
+- pamd - code for ``state=updated`` when dealing with the pam module arguments, made no distinction between ``None`` and an empty list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3260).
+- pamd - fixed problem with files containing only one or two lines (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2925).
+- pids - avoid crashes for older ``psutil`` versions, like on RHEL6 and RHEL7 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2808).
+- pipx - ``state=inject`` was failing to parse the list of injected packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3611).
+- pipx - set environment variable ``USE_EMOJI=0`` to prevent errors in platforms that do not support ``UTF-8`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3611).
+- pipx - the output value ``cmd_args`` was bringing the intermediate command used to gather the state, instead of the command that actually performed the state change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3655).
+- pkgin - Fix exception encountered when all packages are already installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3583).
+- pkgng - ``name=* state=latest`` check for upgrades did not count "Number of packages to be reinstalled" as a `changed` action, giving incorrect results in both regular and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3526).
+- pkgng - an `earlier PR <https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3393>`_ broke check mode so that the module always reports `not changed`. This is now fixed so that the module reports number of upgrade or install actions that would be performed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3526).
+- pkgng - the ``annotation`` functionality was broken and is now fixed, and now also works with check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3526).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed parsing failures when some cluster nodes are offline (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2931).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed plugin failure when a ``qemu`` guest has no ``template`` key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3052).
+- proxmox_group_info - fix module crash if a ``group`` parameter is used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3649).
+- proxmox_kvm - clone operation should return the VMID of the target VM and not that of the source VM. This was failing when the target VM with the chosen name already existed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3266).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix parsing of Proxmox VM information with device info not containing a comma, like disks backed by ZFS zvols (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2840).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix result of clone, now returns ``newid`` instead of ``vmid`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3034).
+- proxmox_kvm - fixed ``vmid`` return value when VM with ``name`` already exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2648).
+- puppet - replace ``console` with ``stdout`` in ``logdest`` option when ``all`` has been chosen (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1190).
+- rax_facts - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- redfish_command - fix extraneous error caused by missing ``bootdevice`` argument when using the ``DisableBootOverride`` sub-command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3005).
+- redfish_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- redfish_utils module utils - do not attempt to change the boot source override mode if not specified by the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3509/).
+- redfish_utils module utils - if a manager network property is not specified in the service, attempt to change the requested settings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3404/).
+- redfish_utils module utils - if given, add account ID of user that should be created to HTTP request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3343/).
+- redis cache - improved connection string parsing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/497).
+- rhsm_release - fix the issue that module considers 8, 7Client and 7Workstation as invalid releases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2571).
+- saltstack connection plugin - fix function signature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- scaleway module utils - improve split call to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- scaleway plugin inventory - fix ``JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'`` with Python 3.5 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2769).
+- smartos_image_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- snap - also use ``LC_ALL`` to enforce locale choice (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2731).
+- snap - fix formatting of ``--channel`` argument when the ``channel`` option is used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3028).
+- snap - fix various bugs which prevented the module from working at all, and which resulted in ``state=absent`` fail on absent snaps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2835, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2906, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2912).
+- snap - fixed the order of the ``--classic`` parameter in the command line invocation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2916).
+- snap_alias - the output value ``cmd_args`` was bringing the intermediate command used to gather the state, instead of the command that actually performed the state change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3655).
+- snmp_facts - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- ssh_config - reduce stormssh searches based on host (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2568/).
+- stacki_host - when adding a new server, ``rack`` and ``rank`` must be passed, and network parameters are optional (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2681).
+- stackpath_compute inventory script - fix broken validation checks for client ID and client secret (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2448).
+- supervisorctl - state ``signalled`` was not working (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3068).
+- svr4pkg - convert string to a bytes-like object to avoid ``TypeError`` with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2373).
+- taiga - some constructs in the module fixed to work also in Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3067).
+- terraform - ensure the workspace is set back to its previous value when the apply fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2634).
+- tss lookup plugin - fixed backwards compatibility issue with ``python-tss-sdk`` version <=0.0.5 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3192, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3199).
+- tss lookup plugin - fixed incompatibility with ``python-tss-sdk`` version 1.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3057, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3139).
+- udm_dns_record - fixed managing of PTR records, which can never have worked before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3256).
+- ufw - use generator to fix sanity errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3194).
+- utm_aaa_group_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- utm_ca_host_key_cert_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- utm_network_interface_address_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- utm_proxy_frontend_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- utm_proxy_location_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- vdo - boolean arguments now compared with proper ``true`` and ``false`` values instead of string representations like ``"yes"`` or ``"no"`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3191).
+- xenserver_facts - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- xfconf - also use ``LC_ALL`` to enforce locale choice (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2715).
+- xfconf_info - added support to check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3084).
+- yaml callback plugin - avoid modifying PyYAML so that other plugins using it on the controller, like the ``to_yaml`` filter, do not produce different output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3471, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3478).
+- yum_versionlock - fix idempotency when using wildcard (asterisk) in ``name`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2761).
+- zfs - certain ZFS properties, especially sizes, would lead to a task being falsely marked as "changed" even when no actual change was made (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/975, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/2454).
+- zfs - treated received properties as local (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/502).
+- zypper_repository - fix idempotency on adding repository with ``$releasever`` and ``$basearch`` variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1985).
+- zypper_repository - when an URL to a .repo file was provided in option ``repo=`` and ``state=present`` only the first run was successful, future runs failed due to missing checks prior starting zypper. Usage of ``state=absent`` in combination with a .repo file was not working either (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1791, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3466).

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

+Callback
+~~~~~~~~
+
+- elastic - Create distributed traces for each Ansible task in Elastic APM
+- opentelemetry - Create distributed traces with OpenTelemetry
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- groupby_as_dict - Transform a sequence of dictionaries to a dictionary where the dictionaries are indexed by an attribute
+- unicode_normalize - Normalizes unicode strings to facilitate comparison of characters with normalized forms
+
+Inventory
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+- icinga2 - Icinga2 inventory source
+- opennebula - OpenNebula inventory source
+
 Lookup
 ~~~~~~

- merge_variables - merge variables with a certain suffix
+- collection_version - Retrieves the version of an installed collection
+- dependent - Composes a list with nested elements of other lists or dicts which can depend on previous loop variables
+- random_pet - Generates random pet names
+- random_string - Generates random string
+- random_words - Return a number of random words
+
+Test
+~~~~
+
+- a_module - Check whether the given string refers to an available module or action plugin

 New Modules
 -----------

- 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)
+Cloud
+~~~~~
+
+misc
+^^^^
+
+- proxmox_nic - Management of a NIC of a Qemu(KVM) VM in a Proxmox VE cluster.
+- proxmox_tasks_info - Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE tasks
+
+Database
+~~~~~~~~
+
+misc
+^^^^
+
+- redis_data - Set key value pairs in Redis
+- redis_data_incr - Increment keys in Redis
+- redis_data_info - Get value of key in Redis database
+
+mssql
+^^^^^
+
+- mssql_script - Execute SQL scripts on a MSSQL database
+
+saphana
+^^^^^^^
+
+- hana_query - Execute SQL on HANA
+
+Files
+~~~~~
+
+- sapcar_extract - Manages SAP SAPCAR archives
+
+Identity
+~~~~~~~~
+
+keycloak
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- keycloak_authentication - Configure authentication in Keycloak
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - Allows administration of Keycloak client_rolemapping with the Keycloak API
+- keycloak_clientscope - Allows administration of Keycloak client_scopes via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_identity_provider - Allows administration of Keycloak identity providers via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_role - Allows administration of Keycloak roles via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_user_federation - Allows administration of Keycloak user federations via Keycloak API
+
+Notification
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- discord - Send Discord messages
+
+Packaging
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+language
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- ansible_galaxy_install - Install Ansible roles or collections using ansible-galaxy
+- pipx - Manages applications installed with pipx
+
+os
+^^
+
+- dnf_versionlock - Locks package versions in C(dnf) based systems
+- pacman_key - Manage pacman's list of trusted keys
+- snap_alias - Manages snap aliases
+
+Source Control
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+gitlab
+^^^^^^
+
+- gitlab_protected_branch - (un)Marking existing branches for protection
+
+System
+~~~~~~
+
+- sap_task_list_execute - Perform SAP Task list execution
+- xfconf_info - Retrieve XFCE4 configurations
+
+Web Infrastructure
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- rundeck_job_executions_info - Query executions for a Rundeck job
+- rundeck_job_run - Run a Rundeck job
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst.license
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Ansible Project
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-->
-
 # Contributing

 We follow [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html) in all our contributions and interactions within this repository.
@@ -30,8 +24,8 @@ Also, consider taking up a valuable, reviewed, but abandoned pull request which

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

 You can also read [our Quick-start development guide](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/create_pr_quick_start_guide.rst).
@@ -42,54 +36,6 @@ If you want to test a PR locally, refer to [our testing guide](https://github.co

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

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

 Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Requests.
@@ -112,28 +58,16 @@ Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Reques
   - Make sure that new plugins and modules have tests (unit tests, integration tests, or both); it is preferable to have some tests
     which run in CI.

-4. Action plugins need to be accompanied by a module, even if the module file only contains documentation
-   (`DOCUMENTATION`, `EXAMPLES` and `RETURN`). The module must have the same name and directory path in `plugins/modules/`
-   than the action plugin has in `plugins/action/`.
+4. For modules and action plugins, make sure to create your module/plugin in the correct subdirectory, and create a symbolic link
+   from `plugins/modules/` respectively `plugins/action/` to the actual module/plugin code. (Other plugin types should not use
+   subdirectories.)
+
+   - Action plugins need to be accompanied by a module, even if the module file only contains documentation
+     (`DOCUMENTATION`, `EXAMPLES` and `RETURN`). The module must have the same name and directory path in `plugins/modules/`
+     than the action plugin has in `plugins/action/`.

 5. Make sure to add a BOTMETA entry for your new module/plugin in `.github/BOTMETA.yml`. Search for other plugins/modules in the
   same directory to see how entries could look. You should list all authors either as `maintainers` or under `ignore`. People
   listed as `maintainers` will be pinged for new issues and PRs that modify the module/plugin or its tests.

   When you add a new plugin/module, we expect that you perform maintainer duty for at least some time after contributing it.
-
-## pre-commit
-
-To help ensure high-quality contributions this repository includes a [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) configuration which
-corrects and tests against common issues that would otherwise cause CI to fail. To begin using these pre-commit hooks see
-the [Installation](#installation) section below.
-
-This is optional and not required to contribute to this repository.
-
-### Installation
-
-Follow the [instructions](https://pre-commit.com/#install) provided with pre-commit and run `pre-commit install` under the repository base. If for any reason you would like to disable the pre-commit hooks run `pre-commit uninstall`.
-
-This is optional to run it locally.
-
-You can trigger it locally with `pre-commit run --all-files` or even to run only for a given file `pre-commit run --files YOUR_FILE`.
--- a/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt
+++ b/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
-
-1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-
-2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-
-THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-
--- a/LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
+++ b/LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../COPYING
--- a/LICENSES/MIT.txt
+++ b/LICENSES/MIT.txt
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-MIT License
-
-Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
--- a/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt
+++ b/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LICENSE VERSION 2
--------------------------------------------
-
-1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between the Python Software Foundation
-("PSF"), and the Individual or Organization ("Licensee") accessing and
-otherwise using this software ("Python") in source or binary form and
-its associated documentation.
-
-2. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, PSF hereby
-grants Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide license to reproduce,
-analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly, prepare derivative works,
-distribute, and otherwise use Python alone or in any derivative version,
-provided, however, that PSF's License Agreement and PSF's notice of copyright,
-i.e., "Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
-2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Python Software Foundation;
-All Rights Reserved" are retained in Python alone or in any derivative version
-prepared by Licensee.
-
-3. In the event Licensee prepares a derivative work that is based on
-or incorporates Python or any part thereof, and wants to make
-the derivative work available to others as provided herein, then
-Licensee hereby agrees to include in any such work a brief summary of
-the changes made to Python.
-
-4. PSF is making Python available to Licensee on an "AS IS"
-basis.  PSF MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED.  BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PSF MAKES NO AND
-DISCLAIMS ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS
-FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF PYTHON WILL NOT
-INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.
-
-5. PSF SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO LICENSEE OR ANY OTHER USERS OF PYTHON
-FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSS AS
-A RESULT OF MODIFYING, DISTRIBUTING, OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON,
-OR ANY DERIVATIVE THEREOF, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF.
-
-6. This License Agreement will automatically terminate upon a material
-breach of its terms and conditions.
-
-7. Nothing in this License Agreement shall be deemed to create any
-relationship of agency, partnership, or joint venture between PSF and
-Licensee.  This License Agreement does not grant permission to use PSF
-trademarks or trade name in a trademark sense to endorse or promote
-products or services of Licensee, or any third party.
-
-8. By copying, installing or otherwise using Python, Licensee
-agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this License
-Agreement.
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-->
-
 # Community General Collection

-[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-7)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
-[![EOL CI](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/workflows/EOL%20CI/badge.svg?event=push)](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/actions)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-4)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
 [![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://codecov.io/gh/ansible-collections/community.general)

 This repository contains the `community.general` Ansible Collection. The collection is a part of the Ansible package and includes many modules and plugins supported by Ansible community which are not part of more specialized community collections.
@@ -24,9 +17,7 @@ If you encounter abusive behavior violating the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https:

 ## Tested with Ansible

-Tested with the current ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, ansible-core 2.14 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible-core versions before 2.11.0 are not supported. This includes all ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 releases.
-
-Parts of this collection will not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+.
+Tested with the current Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible versions before 2.9.10 are not supported.

 ## External requirements

@@ -73,13 +64,13 @@ We are actively accepting new contributors.

 All types of contributions are very welcome.

-You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/CONTRIBUTING.md)!
+You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-4/CONTRIBUTING.md)!

-The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/commit-rights.md#people) file. If you have questions or need help, feel free to mention them in the proposals.
+The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-4/commit-rights.md#people) file. If you have questions or need help, feel free to mention them in the proposals.

 You can find more information in the [developer guide for collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collections.html#contributing-to-collections), and in the [Ansible Community Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/index.html).

-Also for some notes specific to this collection see [our CONTRIBUTING documentation](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+Also for some notes specific to this collection see [our CONTRIBUTING documentation](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-4/CONTRIBUTING.md).

 ### Running tests

@@ -89,7 +80,7 @@ See [here](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collectio

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

-* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/commit-rights.md).
+* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-4/commit-rights.md).
 * [Maintainer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/maintaining.rst).

 It is necessary for maintainers of this collection to be subscribed to:
@@ -117,7 +108,7 @@ See the [Releasing guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/ma

 ## Release notes

-See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/CHANGELOG.rst).
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-4/CHANGELOG.rst).

 ## Roadmap

@@ -134,10 +125,6 @@ See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues

 ## Licensing

-This collection is primarily licensed and distributed as a whole under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
+GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

-See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/COPYING) for the full text.
-
-Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).
-
-All files have a machine readable `SDPX-License-Identifier:` comment denoting its respective license(s) or an equivalent entry in an accompanying `.license` file. Only changelog fragments (which will not be part of a release) are covered by a blanket statement in `.reuse/dep5`. This conforms to the [REUSE specification](https://reuse.software/spec/).
+See [COPYING](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) to see the full text.
--- a/changelogs/.gitignore
+++ b/changelogs/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1 @@
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 /.plugin-cache.yaml
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml.license
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Ansible Project
--- a/changelogs/config.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/config.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 changelog_filename_template: ../CHANGELOG.rst
 changelog_filename_version_depth: 0
 changes_file: changelog.yaml
--- a/commit-rights.md
+++ b/commit-rights.md
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-->
-
 Committers Guidelines for community.general
 ===========================================

--- a/docs/docsite/extra-docs.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/extra-docs.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 ---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 sections:
  - title: Guides
    toctree:
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-common.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-common.yml
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list1:
-  - name: foo
-    extra: true
-  - name: bar
-    extra: false
-  - name: meh
-    extra: true
-
-list2:
-  - name: foo
-    path: /foo
-  - name: baz
-    path: /baz
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list1:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      x: default_value
-      y: default_value
-      list:
-        - default_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01: [1, 1, 2, 3]
-
-list2:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-      list:
-        - patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01: [3, 4, 4, {key: value}]
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001.yml
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
- name: 1. Merge two lists by common attribute 'name'
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-001_vars
- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-001.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/default-common.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/default-common.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-common.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ list1|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002.yml
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
- name: 2. Merge two lists by common attribute 'name'
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-002_vars
- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-002.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/default-common.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/default-common.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-common.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003.yml
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
- name: 3. Merge recursive by 'name', replace lists (default)
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-003_vars
- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-003.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true) }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004.yml
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
- name: 4. Merge recursive by 'name', keep lists
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-004_vars
- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-004.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='keep') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005.yml
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
- name: 5. Merge recursive by 'name', append lists
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-005_vars
- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-005.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='append') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006.yml
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
- name: 6. Merge recursive by 'name', prepend lists
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-006_vars
- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-006.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='prepend') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007.yml
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
- name: 7. Merge recursive by 'name', append lists 'remove present'
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-007_vars
- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-007.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='append_rp') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008.yml
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
- name: 8. Merge recursive by 'name', prepend lists 'remove present'
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-008_vars
- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false)|bool
- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-008.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-recursive-true.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                           recursive=true,
-                                           list_merge='prepend_rp') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples.yml
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-examples:
-  - label: 'In the example below the lists are merged by the attribute ``name``:'
-    file: example-001_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-001.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'It is possible to use a list of lists as an input of the filter:'
-    file: example-002_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces the same result as in the previous example:'
-    file: example-002.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=replace`` (default):'
-    file: example-003_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-003.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=keep``:'
-    file: example-004_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-004.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=append``:'
-    file: example-005_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-005.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=prepend``:'
-    file: example-006_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-006.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=append_rp``:'
-    file: example-007_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-007.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=prepend_rp``:'
-    file: example-008_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - label: 'This produces:'
-    file: example-008.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples_all.rst.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples_all.rst.j2
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-{% for i in examples %}
-{{ i.label }}
-
-.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
-
-  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
-
-{% endfor %}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Merging lists of dictionaries
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-If you have two or more lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where the dictionaries are merged by an attribute, you can use the ``lists_mergeby`` filter.
-
-.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See :ref:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <ansible_collections.community.general.yaml_callback>`.
-
-Let us use the lists below in the following examples:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  {{ lookup('file', 'default-common.yml')|indent(2) }}
-
-{% for i in examples[0:2] %}
-{{ i.label }}
-
-.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
-
-  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-.. versionadded:: 2.0.0
-
-{% for i in examples[2:4] %}
-{{ i.label }}
-
-.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
-
-  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-The filter also accepts two optional parameters: ``recursive`` and ``list_merge``. These parameters are only supported when used with ansible-base 2.10 or ansible-core, but not with Ansible 2.9. This is available since community.general 4.4.0.
-
-**recursive**
-    Is a boolean, default to ``False``. Should the ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` recursively merge nested hashes. Note: It does not depend on the value of the ``hash_behaviour`` setting in ``ansible.cfg``.
-
-**list_merge**
-    Is a string, its possible values are ``replace`` (default), ``keep``, ``append``, ``prepend``, ``append_rp`` or ``prepend_rp``. It modifies the behaviour of ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` when the hashes to merge contain arrays/lists.
-
-The examples below set ``recursive=true`` and display the differences among all six options of ``list_merge``. Functionality of the parameters is exactly the same as in the filter ``combine``. See :ref:`Combining hashes/dictionaries <combine_filter>` to learn details about these options.
-
-Let us use the lists below in the following examples
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  {{ lookup('file', 'default-recursive-true.yml')|indent(2) }}
-
-{% for i in examples[4:16] %}
-{{ i.label }}
-
-.. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}
-
-  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}
-
-{% endfor %}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/list3.out.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/list3.out.j2
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-{#
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-#}
-list3:
-{{ list3|to_nice_yaml(indent=0) }}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-# 1) Run all examples and create example-XXX.out
-# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e examples=true
-#
-# 2) Optionally, for testing, create examples_all.rst
-# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e examples_all=true
-#
-# 3) Create docs REST files
-# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e merging_lists_of_dictionaries=true
-#
-# Notes:
-# * Use YAML callback, e.g. set ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=community.general.yaml
-# * Use sphinx-view to render and review the REST files
-#   shell> sphinx-view <path_to_helper>/examples_all.rst
-# * Proofread and copy completed docs *.rst files into the directory rst.
-# * Then delete the *.rst and *.out files from this directory. Do not
-#   add *.rst and *.out in this directory to the version control.
-#
-# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-# community.general/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml
-
- hosts: localhost
-  gather_facts: false
-  tasks:
-
-    - block:
-        - import_tasks: example-001.yml
-          tags: t001
-        - import_tasks: example-002.yml
-          tags: t002
-        - import_tasks: example-003.yml
-          tags: t003
-        - import_tasks: example-004.yml
-          tags: t004
-        - import_tasks: example-005.yml
-          tags: t005
-        - import_tasks: example-006.yml
-          tags: t006
-        - import_tasks: example-007.yml
-          tags: t007
-        - import_tasks: example-008.yml
-          tags: t008
-      when: examples|d(false)|bool
-
-    - block:
-        - include_vars: examples.yml
-        - template:
-            src: examples_all.rst.j2
-            dest: examples_all.rst
-      when: examples_all|d(false)|bool
-
-    - block:
-        - include_vars: examples.yml
-        - template:
-            src: filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
-            dest: filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
-      when: merging_lists_of_dictionaries|d(false)|bool
--- a/docs/docsite/links.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/links.yml
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-edit_on_github:
-  repository: ansible-collections/community.general
-  branch: main
-  path_prefix: ''
-
-extra_links:
-  - description: Submit a bug report
-    url: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=bug_report.yml
-  - description: Request a feature
-    url: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.yml
-
-communication:
-  matrix_rooms:
-    - topic: General usage and support questions
-      room: '#users:ansible.im'
-  irc_channels:
-    - topic: General usage and support questions
-      network: Libera
-      channel: '#ansible'
-  mailing_lists:
-    - topic: Ansible Project List
-      url: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-project
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 .. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.filter_guide:

 community.general Filter Guide
@@ -10,14 +5,780 @@ community.general Filter Guide

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

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

-   filter_guide_paths
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations
-   filter_guide_working_with_times
-   filter_guide_working_with_versions
-   filter_guide_creating_identifiers
-   filter_guide_conversions
-   filter_guide_selecting_json_data
-   filter_guide_working_with_unicode
+Paths
+-----
+
+The ``path_join`` filter has been added in ansible-base 2.10. If you want to use this filter, but also need to support Ansible 2.9, you can use ``community.general``'s ``path_join`` shim, ``community.general.path_join``. This filter redirects to ``path_join`` for ansible-base 2.10 and ansible-core 2.11 or newer, and re-implements the filter for Ansible 2.9.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    # ansible-base 2.10 or newer:
+    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | path_join }}
+
+    # Also works with Ansible 2.9:
+    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | community.general.path_join }}
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.0.0
+
+Abstract transformations
+------------------------
+
+Dictionaries
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+You can use the ``dict_kv`` filter to create a single-entry dictionary with ``value | community.general.dict_kv(key)``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Create a single-entry dictionary
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ myvar | community.general.dict_kv('thatsmyvar') }}"
+      vars:
+        myvar: myvalue
+
+    - name: Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list
+      debug:
+        msg: >-
+          {{ myservers | map('community.general.dict_kv', 'server')
+                       | map('combine', common_config) }}
+      vars:
+        common_config:
+          type: host
+          database: all
+        myservers:
+        - server1
+        - server2
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Create a single-entry dictionary]  **************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": {
+            "thatsmyvar": "myvalue"
+        }
+    }
+
+    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list]  *******
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "database": "all",
+                "server": "server1",
+                "type": "host"
+            },
+            {
+                "database": "all",
+                "server": "server2",
+                "type": "host"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.0.0
+
+If you need to convert a list of key-value pairs to a dictionary, you can use the ``dict`` function. Unfortunately, this function cannot be used with ``map``. For this, the ``community.general.dict`` filter can be used:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Create a dictionary with the dict function
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ dict([[1, 2], ['a', 'b']]) }}"
+
+    - name: Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ [[1, 2], ['a', 'b']] | community.general.dict }}"
+
+    - name: Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter
+      debug:
+        msg: >-
+          {{ values | map('zip', ['k1', 'k2', 'k3'])
+                    | map('map', 'reverse')
+                    | map('community.general.dict') }}
+      vars:
+        values:
+          - - foo
+            - 23
+            - a
+          - - bar
+            - 42
+            - b
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Create a dictionary with the dict function]  ****************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": {
+            "1": 2,
+            "a": "b"
+        }
+    }
+
+    TASK [Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter]  ************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": {
+            "1": 2,
+            "a": "b"
+        }
+    }
+
+    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter]  ******
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "k1": "foo",
+                "k2": 23,
+                "k3": "a"
+            },
+            {
+                "k1": "bar",
+                "k2": 42,
+                "k3": "b"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.0.0
+
+Grouping
+^^^^^^^^
+
+If you have a list of dictionaries, the Jinja2 ``groupby`` filter allows to group the list by an attribute. This results in a list of ``(grouper, list)`` namedtuples, where ``list`` contains all dictionaries where the selected attribute equals ``grouper``. If you know that for every ``grouper``, there will be a most one entry in that list, you can use the ``community.general.groupby_as_dict`` filter to convert the original list into a dictionary which maps ``grouper`` to the corresponding dictionary.
+
+One example is ``ansible_facts.mounts``, which is a list of dictionaries where each has one ``device`` element to indicate the device which is mounted. Therefore, ``ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')`` is a dictionary mapping a device to the mount information:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Output mount facts grouped by device name
+      debug:
+        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')
+
+    - name: Output mount facts grouped by mount point
+      debug:
+        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Output mount facts grouped by device name] ******************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')": {
+            "/dev/sda1": {
+                "block_available": 2000,
+                "block_size": 4096,
+                "block_total": 2345,
+                "block_used": 345,
+                "device": "/dev/sda1",
+                "fstype": "ext4",
+                "inode_available": 500,
+                "inode_total": 512,
+                "inode_used": 12,
+                "mount": "/boot",
+                "options": "rw,relatime,data=ordered",
+                "size_available": 56821,
+                "size_total": 543210,
+                "uuid": "ab31cade-d9c1-484d-8482-8a4cbee5241a"
+            },
+            "/dev/sda2": {
+                "block_available": 1234,
+                "block_size": 4096,
+                "block_total": 12345,
+                "block_used": 11111,
+                "device": "/dev/sda2",
+                "fstype": "ext4",
+                "inode_available": 1111,
+                "inode_total": 1234,
+                "inode_used": 123,
+                "mount": "/",
+                "options": "rw,relatime",
+                "size_available": 42143,
+                "size_total": 543210,
+                "uuid": "abcdef01-2345-6789-0abc-def012345678"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    TASK [Output mount facts grouped by mount point] ******************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')": {
+            "/": {
+                "block_available": 1234,
+                "block_size": 4096,
+                "block_total": 12345,
+                "block_used": 11111,
+                "device": "/dev/sda2",
+                "fstype": "ext4",
+                "inode_available": 1111,
+                "inode_total": 1234,
+                "inode_used": 123,
+                "mount": "/",
+                "options": "rw,relatime",
+                "size_available": 42143,
+                "size_total": 543210,
+                "uuid": "bdf50b7d-4859-40af-8665-c637ee7a7808"
+            },
+            "/boot": {
+                "block_available": 2000,
+                "block_size": 4096,
+                "block_total": 2345,
+                "block_used": 345,
+                "device": "/dev/sda1",
+                "fstype": "ext4",
+                "inode_available": 500,
+                "inode_total": 512,
+                "inode_used": 12,
+                "mount": "/boot",
+                "options": "rw,relatime,data=ordered",
+                "size_available": 56821,
+                "size_total": 543210,
+                "uuid": "ab31cade-d9c1-484d-8482-8a4cbee5241a"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 3.0.0
+
+Merging lists of dictionaries
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If you have two lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where two dictionaries are merged if they coincide in one attribute, you can use the ``lists_mergeby`` filter.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Merge two lists by common attribute 'name'
+      debug:
+        var: list1 | community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name')
+      vars:
+        list1:
+          - name: foo
+            extra: true
+          - name: bar
+            extra: false
+          - name: meh
+            extra: true
+        list2:
+          - name: foo
+            path: /foo
+          - name: baz
+            path: /bazzz
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Merge two lists by common attribute 'name']  ****************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "list1 | community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name')": [
+            {
+                "extra": false,
+                "name": "bar"
+            },
+            {
+                "name": "baz",
+                "path": "/bazzz"
+            },
+            {
+                "extra": true,
+                "name": "foo",
+                "path": "/foo"
+            },
+            {
+                "extra": true,
+                "name": "meh"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 2.0.0
+
+Working with times
+------------------
+
+The ``to_time_unit`` filter allows to convert times from a human-readable string to a unit. For example, ``'4h 30min 12second' | community.general.to_time_unit('hour')`` gives the number of hours that correspond to 4 hours, 30 minutes and 12 seconds.
+
+There are shorthands to directly convert to various units, like ``to_hours``, ``to_minutes``, ``to_seconds``, and so on. The following table lists all units that can be used:
+
+.. list-table:: Units
+   :widths: 25 25 25 25
+   :header-rows: 1
+
+   * - Unit name
+     - Unit value in seconds
+     - Unit strings for filter
+     - Shorthand filter
+   * - Millisecond
+     - 1/1000 second
+     - ``ms``, ``millisecond``, ``milliseconds``, ``msec``, ``msecs``, ``msecond``, ``mseconds``
+     - ``to_milliseconds``
+   * - Second
+     - 1 second
+     - ``s``, ``sec``, ``secs``, ``second``, ``seconds``
+     - ``to_seconds``
+   * - Minute
+     - 60 seconds
+     - ``m``, ``min``, ``mins``, ``minute``, ``minutes``
+     - ``to_minutes``
+   * - Hour
+     - 60*60 seconds
+     - ``h``, ``hour``, ``hours``
+     - ``to_hours``
+   * - Day
+     - 24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``d``, ``day``, ``days``
+     - ``to_days``
+   * - Week
+     - 7*24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``w``, ``week``, ``weeks``
+     - ``to_weeks``
+   * - Month
+     - 30*24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``mo``, ``month``, ``months``
+     - ``to_months``
+   * - Year
+     - 365*24*60*60 seconds
+     - ``y``, ``year``, ``years``
+     - ``to_years``
+
+Note that months and years are using a simplified representation: a month is 30 days, and a year is 365 days. If you need different definitions of months or years, you can pass them as keyword arguments. For example, if you want a year to be 365.25 days, and a month to be 30.5 days, you can write ``'11months 4' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25, month=30.5)``. These keyword arguments can be specified to ``to_time_unit`` and to all shorthand filters.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Convert string to seconds
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_time_unit('seconds') }}"
+
+    - name: Convert string to hours
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_hours }}"
+
+    - name: Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '400d 15h' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25) }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Convert string to seconds] **********************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "109210.123"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Convert string to hours] ************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "30.336145277778"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)] ******************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "1.096851471595"
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 0.2.0
+
+Working with versions
+---------------------
+
+If you need to sort a list of version numbers, the Jinja ``sort`` filter is problematic. Since it sorts lexicographically, ``2.10`` will come before ``2.9``. To treat version numbers correctly, you can use the ``version_sort`` filter:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Sort list by version number
+      debug:
+        var: ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort
+      vars:
+        ansible_versions:
+          - '2.8.0'
+          - '2.11.0'
+          - '2.7.0'
+          - '2.10.0'
+          - '2.9.0'
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Sort list by version number] ********************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort": [
+            "2.7.0",
+            "2.8.0",
+            "2.9.0",
+            "2.10.0",
+            "2.11.0"
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 2.2.0
+
+Creating identifiers
+--------------------
+
+The following filters allow to create identifiers.
+
+Hashids
+^^^^^^^
+
+`Hashids <https://hashids.org/>`_ allow to convert sequences of integers to short unique string identifiers. This filter needs the `hashids Python library <https://pypi.org/project/hashids/>`_ installed on the controller.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: "Create hashid"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ [1234, 5, 6] | community.general.hashids_encode }}"
+
+    - name: "Decode hashid"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ 'jm2Cytn' | community.general.hashids_decode }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Create hashid] **********************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "jm2Cytn"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Decode hashid] **********************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            1234,
+            5,
+            6
+        ]
+    }
+
+The hashids filters accept keyword arguments to allow fine-tuning the hashids generated:
+
+:salt: String to use as salt when hashing.
+:alphabet: String of 16 or more unique characters to produce a hash.
+:min_length: Minimum length of hash produced.
+
+.. versionadded: 3.0.0
+
+Random MACs
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+You can use the ``random_mac`` filter to complete a partial `MAC address <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>`_ to a random 6-byte MAC address.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with ff:"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ 'FF' | community.general.random_mac }}"
+
+    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ '00:11:22' | community.general.random_mac }}"
+  
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with ff:] **********************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "ff:69:d3:78:7f:b4"
+    }
+
+    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:] ****************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": "00:11:22:71:5d:3b"
+    }
+
+You can also initialize the random number generator from a seed to create random-but-idempotent MAC addresses:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    "{{ '52:54:00' | community.general.random_mac(seed=inventory_hostname) }}"
+
+Conversions
+-----------
+
+Parsing CSV files
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Ansible offers the :ref:`community.general.read_csv module <ansible_collections.community.general.read_csv_module>` to read CSV files. Sometimes you need to convert strings to CSV files instead. For this, the ``from_csv`` filter exists.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: "Parse CSV from string"
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ csv_string | community.general.from_csv }}"
+      vars:
+        csv_string: |
+          foo,bar,baz
+          1,2,3
+          you,this,then
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Parse CSV from string] **************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "bar": "2",
+                "baz": "3",
+                "foo": "1"
+            },
+            {
+                "bar": "this",
+                "baz": "then",
+                "foo": "you"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+The ``from_csv`` filter has several keyword arguments to control its behavior:
+
+:dialect: Dialect of the CSV file. Default is ``excel``. Other possible choices are ``excel-tab`` and ``unix``. If one of ``delimiter``, ``skipinitialspace`` or ``strict`` is specified, ``dialect`` is ignored.
+:fieldnames: A set of column names to use. If not provided, the first line of the CSV is assumed to contain the column names.
+:delimiter: Sets the delimiter to use. Default depends on the dialect used.
+:skipinitialspace: Set to ``true`` to ignore space directly after the delimiter. Default depends on the dialect used (usually ``false``).
+:strict: Set to ``true`` to error out on invalid CSV input.
+
+.. versionadded: 3.0.0
+
+Converting to JSON
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+`JC <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ is a CLI tool and Python library which allows to interpret output of various CLI programs as JSON. It is also available as a filter in community.general. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Run 'ls' to list files in /
+      command: ls /
+      register: result
+
+    - name: Parse the ls output
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ result.stdout | community.general.jc('ls') }}"
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Run 'ls' to list files in /] ********************************************************
+    changed: [localhost]
+
+    TASK [Parse the ls output] ****************************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": [
+            {
+                "filename": "bin"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "boot"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "dev"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "etc"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "home"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "lib"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "proc"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "root"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "run"
+            },
+            {
+                "filename": "tmp"
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+
+.. versionadded: 2.0.0
+
+.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.json_query_filter:
+
+Selecting JSON data: JSON queries
+---------------------------------
+
+To select a single element or a data subset from a complex data structure in JSON format (for example, Ansible facts), use the ``json_query`` filter.  The ``json_query`` filter lets you query a complex JSON structure and iterate over it using a loop structure.
+
+.. note:: You must manually install the **jmespath** dependency on the Ansible controller before using this filter. This filter is built upon **jmespath**, and you can use the same syntax. For examples, see `jmespath examples <http://jmespath.org/examples.html>`_.
+
+Consider this data structure:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    {
+        "domain_definition": {
+            "domain": {
+                "cluster": [
+                    {
+                        "name": "cluster1"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "cluster2"
+                    }
+                ],
+                "server": [
+                    {
+                        "name": "server11",
+                        "cluster": "cluster1",
+                        "port": "8080"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "server12",
+                        "cluster": "cluster1",
+                        "port": "8090"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "server21",
+                        "cluster": "cluster2",
+                        "port": "9080"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "server22",
+                        "cluster": "cluster2",
+                        "port": "9090"
+                    }
+                ],
+                "library": [
+                    {
+                        "name": "lib1",
+                        "target": "cluster1"
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "name": "lib2",
+                        "target": "cluster2"
+                    }
+                ]
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+To extract all clusters from this structure, you can use the following query:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all cluster names
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.cluster[*].name') }}"
+
+To extract all server names:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all server names
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[*].name') }}"
+
+To extract ports from cluster1:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
+      vars:
+        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster1'].port"
+
+.. note:: You can use a variable to make the query more readable.
+
+To print out the ports from cluster1 in a comma separated string:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1 as a string
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        msg: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==`cluster1`].port') | join(', ') }}"
+
+.. note:: In the example above, quoting literals using backticks avoids escaping quotes and maintains readability.
+
+You can use YAML `single quote escaping <https://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2534365>`_:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==''cluster1''].port') }}"
+
+.. note:: Escaping single quotes within single quotes in YAML is done by doubling the single quote.
+
+To get a hash map with all ports and names of a cluster:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all server ports and names from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        var: item
+      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
+      vars:
+        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster2'].{name: name, port: port}"
+
+To extract ports from all clusters with name starting with 'server1':
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
+      vars:
+        server_name_query: "domain.server[?starts_with(name,'server1')].port"
+
+To extract ports from all clusters with name containing 'server1':
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
+      ansible.builtin.debug:
+        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
+      vars:
+        server_name_query: "domain.server[?contains(name,'server1')].port"
+
+.. note:: while using ``starts_with`` and ``contains``, you have to use `` to_json | from_json `` filter for correct parsing of data structure.
+
+Working with Unicode
+---------------------
+
+`Unicode <https://unicode.org/main.html>`_ makes it possible to produce two strings which may be visually equivalent, but are comprised of distinctly different characters/character sequences. To address this ``Unicode`` defines `normalization forms <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ which avoid these distinctions by choosing a unique character sequence for a given visual representation.
+
+You can use the ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter to normalize ``Unicode`` strings within your playbooks.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    - name: Compare Unicode representations
+      debug:
+        msg: "{{ with_combining_character | community.general.unicode_normalize == without_combining_character }}"
+      vars:
+        with_combining_character: "{{ 'Mayagu\u0308ez' }}"
+        without_combining_character: Mayagüez
+
+This produces:
+
+.. code-block:: ansible-output
+
+    TASK [Compare Unicode representations] ********************************************************
+    ok: [localhost] => {
+        "msg": true
+    }
+
+The ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter accepts a keyword argument to select the ``Unicode`` form used to normalize the input string.
+
+:form: One of ``'NFC'`` (default), ``'NFD'``, ``'NFKC'``, or ``'NFKD'``. See the `Unicode reference <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ for more information.
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.7.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Abstract transformations
------------------------
-
-.. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 1
-
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Counting elements in a sequence
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-The ``community.general.counter`` filter plugin allows you to count (hashable) elements in a sequence. Elements are returned as dictionary keys and their counts are stored as dictionary values.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Count character occurrences in a string
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ 'abccbaabca' | community.general.counter }}"
-
-    - name: Count items in a list
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ ['car', 'car', 'bike', 'plane', 'bike'] | community.general.counter }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Count character occurrences in a string] ********************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "a": 4,
-            "b": 3,
-            "c": 3
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Count items in a list] **************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "bike": 2,
-            "car": 2,
-            "plane": 1
-        }
-    }
-
-This plugin is useful for selecting resources based on current allocation:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Get ID of SCSI controller(s) with less than 4 disks attached and choose the one with the least disks
-      debug:
-        msg: >-
-          {{
-             ( disks | dict2items | map(attribute='value.adapter') | list
-               | community.general.counter | dict2items
-               | rejectattr('value', '>=', 4) | sort(attribute='value') | first
-             ).key
-          }}
-      vars:
-        disks:
-          sda:
-            adapter: scsi_1
-          sdb:
-            adapter: scsi_1
-          sdc:
-            adapter: scsi_1
-          sdd:
-            adapter: scsi_1
-          sde:
-            adapter: scsi_2
-          sdf:
-            adapter: scsi_3
-          sdg:
-            adapter: scsi_3
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Get ID of SCSI controller(s) with less than 4 disks attached and choose the one with the least disks]
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "scsi_2"
-    }
-
-.. versionadded:: 4.3.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst
@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Dictionaries
-^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-You can use the ``dict_kv`` filter to create a single-entry dictionary with ``value | community.general.dict_kv(key)``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Create a single-entry dictionary
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ myvar | community.general.dict_kv('thatsmyvar') }}"
-      vars:
-        myvar: myvalue
-
-    - name: Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list
-      debug:
-        msg: >-
-          {{ myservers | map('community.general.dict_kv', 'server')
-                       | map('combine', common_config) }}
-      vars:
-        common_config:
-          type: host
-          database: all
-        myservers:
-        - server1
-        - server2
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Create a single-entry dictionary]  **************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "thatsmyvar": "myvalue"
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries where the 'server' field is taken from a list]  *******
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "database": "all",
-                "server": "server1",
-                "type": "host"
-            },
-            {
-                "database": "all",
-                "server": "server2",
-                "type": "host"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded:: 2.0.0
-
-If you need to convert a list of key-value pairs to a dictionary, you can use the ``dict`` function. Unfortunately, this function cannot be used with ``map``. For this, the ``community.general.dict`` filter can be used:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Create a dictionary with the dict function
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ dict([[1, 2], ['a', 'b']]) }}"
-
-    - name: Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ [[1, 2], ['a', 'b']] | community.general.dict }}"
-
-    - name: Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter
-      debug:
-        msg: >-
-          {{ values | map('zip', ['k1', 'k2', 'k3'])
-                    | map('map', 'reverse')
-                    | map('community.general.dict') }}
-      vars:
-        values:
-          - - foo
-            - 23
-            - a
-          - - bar
-            - 42
-            - b
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Create a dictionary with the dict function]  ****************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "1": 2,
-            "a": "b"
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Create a dictionary with the community.general.dict filter]  ************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": {
-            "1": 2,
-            "a": "b"
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Create a list of dictionaries with map and the community.general.dict filter]  ******
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "k1": "foo",
-                "k2": 23,
-                "k3": "a"
-            },
-            {
-                "k1": "bar",
-                "k2": 42,
-                "k3": "b"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded:: 3.0.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst
@@ -1,103 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Grouping
-^^^^^^^^
-
-If you have a list of dictionaries, the Jinja2 ``groupby`` filter allows to group the list by an attribute. This results in a list of ``(grouper, list)`` namedtuples, where ``list`` contains all dictionaries where the selected attribute equals ``grouper``. If you know that for every ``grouper``, there will be a most one entry in that list, you can use the ``community.general.groupby_as_dict`` filter to convert the original list into a dictionary which maps ``grouper`` to the corresponding dictionary.
-
-One example is ``ansible_facts.mounts``, which is a list of dictionaries where each has one ``device`` element to indicate the device which is mounted. Therefore, ``ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')`` is a dictionary mapping a device to the mount information:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Output mount facts grouped by device name
-      debug:
-        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')
-
-    - name: Output mount facts grouped by mount point
-      debug:
-        var: ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Output mount facts grouped by device name] ******************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')": {
-            "/dev/sda1": {
-                "block_available": 2000,
-                "block_size": 4096,
-                "block_total": 2345,
-                "block_used": 345,
-                "device": "/dev/sda1",
-                "fstype": "ext4",
-                "inode_available": 500,
-                "inode_total": 512,
-                "inode_used": 12,
-                "mount": "/boot",
-                "options": "rw,relatime,data=ordered",
-                "size_available": 56821,
-                "size_total": 543210,
-                "uuid": "ab31cade-d9c1-484d-8482-8a4cbee5241a"
-            },
-            "/dev/sda2": {
-                "block_available": 1234,
-                "block_size": 4096,
-                "block_total": 12345,
-                "block_used": 11111,
-                "device": "/dev/sda2",
-                "fstype": "ext4",
-                "inode_available": 1111,
-                "inode_total": 1234,
-                "inode_used": 123,
-                "mount": "/",
-                "options": "rw,relatime",
-                "size_available": 42143,
-                "size_total": 543210,
-                "uuid": "abcdef01-2345-6789-0abc-def012345678"
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    TASK [Output mount facts grouped by mount point] ******************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('mount')": {
-            "/": {
-                "block_available": 1234,
-                "block_size": 4096,
-                "block_total": 12345,
-                "block_used": 11111,
-                "device": "/dev/sda2",
-                "fstype": "ext4",
-                "inode_available": 1111,
-                "inode_total": 1234,
-                "inode_used": 123,
-                "mount": "/",
-                "options": "rw,relatime",
-                "size_available": 42143,
-                "size_total": 543210,
-                "uuid": "bdf50b7d-4859-40af-8665-c637ee7a7808"
-            },
-            "/boot": {
-                "block_available": 2000,
-                "block_size": 4096,
-                "block_total": 2345,
-                "block_used": 345,
-                "device": "/dev/sda1",
-                "fstype": "ext4",
-                "inode_available": 500,
-                "inode_total": 512,
-                "inode_used": 12,
-                "mount": "/boot",
-                "options": "rw,relatime,data=ordered",
-                "size_available": 56821,
-                "size_total": 543210,
-                "uuid": "ab31cade-d9c1-484d-8482-8a4cbee5241a"
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 3.0.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
@@ -1,297 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Merging lists of dictionaries
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-If you have two or more lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where the dictionaries are merged by an attribute, you can use the ``lists_mergeby`` filter.
-
-.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See :ref:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <ansible_collections.community.general.yaml_callback>`.
-
-Let us use the lists below in the following examples:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list1:
-    - name: foo
-      extra: true
-    - name: bar
-      extra: false
-    - name: meh
-      extra: true
-
-  list2:
-    - name: foo
-      path: /foo
-    - name: baz
-      path: /baz
-
-In the example below the lists are merged by the attribute ``name``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ list1|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - extra: false
-    name: bar
-  - name: baz
-    path: /baz
-  - extra: true
-    name: foo
-    path: /foo
-  - extra: true
-    name: meh
-
-
-.. versionadded:: 2.0.0
-
-It is possible to use a list of lists as an input of the filter:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"
-
-This produces the same result as in the previous example:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - extra: false
-    name: bar
-  - name: baz
-    path: /baz
-  - extra: true
-    name: foo
-    path: /foo
-  - extra: true
-    name: meh
-
-
-The filter also accepts two optional parameters: ``recursive`` and ``list_merge``. These parameters are only supported when used with ansible-base 2.10 or ansible-core, but not with Ansible 2.9. This is available since community.general 4.4.0.
-
-**recursive**
-    Is a boolean, default to ``False``. Should the ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` recursively merge nested hashes. Note: It does not depend on the value of the ``hash_behaviour`` setting in ``ansible.cfg``.
-
-**list_merge**
-    Is a string, its possible values are ``replace`` (default), ``keep``, ``append``, ``prepend``, ``append_rp`` or ``prepend_rp``. It modifies the behaviour of ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` when the hashes to merge contain arrays/lists.
-
-The examples below set ``recursive=true`` and display the differences among all six options of ``list_merge``. Functionality of the parameters is exactly the same as in the filter ``combine``. See :ref:`Combining hashes/dictionaries <combine_filter>` to learn details about these options.
-
-Let us use the lists below in the following examples
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list1:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        x: default_value
-        y: default_value
-        list:
-          - default_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01: [1, 1, 2, 3]
-
-  list2:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        y: patch_value
-        z: patch_value
-        list:
-          - patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01: [3, 4, 4, {key: value}]
-
-Example ``list_merge=replace`` (default):
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true) }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - patch_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 3
-    - 4
-    - 4
-    - key: value
-
-Example ``list_merge=keep``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true,
-                                             list_merge='keep') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - default_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 1
-    - 1
-    - 2
-    - 3
-
-Example ``list_merge=append``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true,
-                                             list_merge='append') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - default_value
-      - patch_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 1
-    - 1
-    - 2
-    - 3
-    - 3
-    - 4
-    - 4
-    - key: value
-
-Example ``list_merge=prepend``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true,
-                                             list_merge='prepend') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - patch_value
-      - default_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 3
-    - 4
-    - 4
-    - key: value
-    - 1
-    - 1
-    - 2
-    - 3
-
-Example ``list_merge=append_rp``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true,
-                                             list_merge='append_rp') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - default_value
-      - patch_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 1
-    - 1
-    - 2
-    - 3
-    - 4
-    - 4
-    - key: value
-
-Example ``list_merge=prepend_rp``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
-                                             recursive=true,
-                                             list_merge='prepend_rp') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-  - name: myname01
-    param01:
-      list:
-      - patch_value
-      - default_value
-      x: default_value
-      y: patch_value
-      z: patch_value
-  - name: myname02
-    param01:
-    - 3
-    - 4
-    - 4
-    - key: value
-    - 1
-    - 1
-    - 2
-
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst
@@ -1,113 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Conversions
-----------
-
-Parsing CSV files
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Ansible offers the :ref:`community.general.read_csv module <ansible_collections.community.general.read_csv_module>` to read CSV files. Sometimes you need to convert strings to CSV files instead. For this, the ``from_csv`` filter exists.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: "Parse CSV from string"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ csv_string | community.general.from_csv }}"
-      vars:
-        csv_string: |
-          foo,bar,baz
-          1,2,3
-          you,this,then
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Parse CSV from string] **************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "bar": "2",
-                "baz": "3",
-                "foo": "1"
-            },
-            {
-                "bar": "this",
-                "baz": "then",
-                "foo": "you"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-The ``from_csv`` filter has several keyword arguments to control its behavior:
-
-:dialect: Dialect of the CSV file. Default is ``excel``. Other possible choices are ``excel-tab`` and ``unix``. If one of ``delimiter``, ``skipinitialspace`` or ``strict`` is specified, ``dialect`` is ignored.
-:fieldnames: A set of column names to use. If not provided, the first line of the CSV is assumed to contain the column names.
-:delimiter: Sets the delimiter to use. Default depends on the dialect used.
-:skipinitialspace: Set to ``true`` to ignore space directly after the delimiter. Default depends on the dialect used (usually ``false``).
-:strict: Set to ``true`` to error out on invalid CSV input.
-
-.. versionadded: 3.0.0
-
-Converting to JSON
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-`JC <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ is a CLI tool and Python library which allows to interpret output of various CLI programs as JSON. It is also available as a filter in community.general. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Run 'ls' to list files in /
-      command: ls /
-      register: result
-
-    - name: Parse the ls output
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ result.stdout | community.general.jc('ls') }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Run 'ls' to list files in /] ********************************************************
-    changed: [localhost]
-
-    TASK [Parse the ls output] ****************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            {
-                "filename": "bin"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "boot"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "dev"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "etc"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "home"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "lib"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "proc"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "root"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "run"
-            },
-            {
-                "filename": "tmp"
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 2.0.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Creating identifiers
--------------------
-
-The following filters allow to create identifiers.
-
-Hashids
-^^^^^^^
-
-`Hashids <https://hashids.org/>`_ allow to convert sequences of integers to short unique string identifiers. This filter needs the `hashids Python library <https://pypi.org/project/hashids/>`_ installed on the controller.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: "Create hashid"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ [1234, 5, 6] | community.general.hashids_encode }}"
-
-    - name: "Decode hashid"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ 'jm2Cytn' | community.general.hashids_decode }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Create hashid] **********************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "jm2Cytn"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Decode hashid] **********************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": [
-            1234,
-            5,
-            6
-        ]
-    }
-
-The hashids filters accept keyword arguments to allow fine-tuning the hashids generated:
-
-:salt: String to use as salt when hashing.
-:alphabet: String of 16 or more unique characters to produce a hash.
-:min_length: Minimum length of hash produced.
-
-.. versionadded: 3.0.0
-
-Random MACs
-^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-You can use the ``random_mac`` filter to complete a partial `MAC address <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>`_ to a random 6-byte MAC address.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with ff:"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ 'FF' | community.general.random_mac }}"
-
-    - name: "Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:"
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '00:11:22' | community.general.random_mac }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with ff:] **********************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "ff:69:d3:78:7f:b4"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Create a random MAC starting with 00:11:22:] ****************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "00:11:22:71:5d:3b"
-    }
-
-You can also initialize the random number generator from a seed to create random-but-idempotent MAC addresses:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    "{{ '52:54:00' | community.general.random_mac(seed=inventory_hostname) }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Paths
-----
-
-The ``path_join`` filter has been added in ansible-base 2.10. If you want to use this filter, but also need to support Ansible 2.9, you can use ``community.general``'s ``path_join`` shim, ``community.general.path_join``. This filter redirects to ``path_join`` for ansible-base 2.10 and ansible-core 2.11 or newer, and re-implements the filter for Ansible 2.9.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    # ansible-base 2.10 or newer:
-    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | path_join }}
-
-    # Also works with Ansible 2.9:
-    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | community.general.path_join }}
-
-.. versionadded:: 3.0.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst
@@ -1,149 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.json_query_filter:
-
-Selecting JSON data: JSON queries
---------------------------------
-
-To select a single element or a data subset from a complex data structure in JSON format (for example, Ansible facts), use the ``json_query`` filter.  The ``json_query`` filter lets you query a complex JSON structure and iterate over it using a loop structure.
-
-.. note:: You must manually install the **jmespath** dependency on the Ansible controller before using this filter. This filter is built upon **jmespath**, and you can use the same syntax. For examples, see `jmespath examples <http://jmespath.org/examples.html>`_.
-
-Consider this data structure:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    {
-        "domain_definition": {
-            "domain": {
-                "cluster": [
-                    {
-                        "name": "cluster1"
-                    },
-                    {
-                        "name": "cluster2"
-                    }
-                ],
-                "server": [
-                    {
-                        "name": "server11",
-                        "cluster": "cluster1",
-                        "port": "8080"
-                    },
-                    {
-                        "name": "server12",
-                        "cluster": "cluster1",
-                        "port": "8090"
-                    },
-                    {
-                        "name": "server21",
-                        "cluster": "cluster2",
-                        "port": "9080"
-                    },
-                    {
-                        "name": "server22",
-                        "cluster": "cluster2",
-                        "port": "9090"
-                    }
-                ],
-                "library": [
-                    {
-                        "name": "lib1",
-                        "target": "cluster1"
-                    },
-                    {
-                        "name": "lib2",
-                        "target": "cluster2"
-                    }
-                ]
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-To extract all clusters from this structure, you can use the following query:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all cluster names
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.cluster[*].name') }}"
-
-To extract all server names:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all server names
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[*].name') }}"
-
-To extract ports from cluster1:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
-      vars:
-        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster1'].port"
-
-.. note:: You can use a variable to make the query more readable.
-
-To print out the ports from cluster1 in a comma separated string:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1 as a string
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        msg: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==`cluster1`].port') | join(', ') }}"
-
-.. note:: In the example above, quoting literals using backticks avoids escaping quotes and maintains readability.
-
-You can use YAML `single quote escaping <https://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2534365>`_:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query('domain.server[?cluster==''cluster1''].port') }}"
-
-.. note:: Escaping single quotes within single quotes in YAML is done by doubling the single quote.
-
-To get a hash map with all ports and names of a cluster:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all server ports and names from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        var: item
-      loop: "{{ domain_definition | community.general.json_query(server_name_cluster1_query) }}"
-      vars:
-        server_name_cluster1_query: "domain.server[?cluster=='cluster2'].{name: name, port: port}"
-
-To extract ports from all clusters with name starting with 'server1':
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
-      vars:
-        server_name_query: "domain.server[?starts_with(name,'server1')].port"
-
-To extract ports from all clusters with name containing 'server1':
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Display all ports from cluster1
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        msg: "{{ domain_definition | to_json | from_json | community.general.json_query(server_name_query) }}"
-      vars:
-        server_name_query: "domain.server[?contains(name,'server1')].port"
-
-.. note:: while using ``starts_with`` and ``contains``, you have to use `` to_json | from_json `` filter for correct parsing of data structure.
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Working with times
------------------
-
-The ``to_time_unit`` filter allows to convert times from a human-readable string to a unit. For example, ``'4h 30min 12second' | community.general.to_time_unit('hour')`` gives the number of hours that correspond to 4 hours, 30 minutes and 12 seconds.
-
-There are shorthands to directly convert to various units, like ``to_hours``, ``to_minutes``, ``to_seconds``, and so on. The following table lists all units that can be used:
-
-.. list-table:: Units
-   :widths: 25 25 25 25
-   :header-rows: 1
-
-   * - Unit name
-     - Unit value in seconds
-     - Unit strings for filter
-     - Shorthand filter
-   * - Millisecond
-     - 1/1000 second
-     - ``ms``, ``millisecond``, ``milliseconds``, ``msec``, ``msecs``, ``msecond``, ``mseconds``
-     - ``to_milliseconds``
-   * - Second
-     - 1 second
-     - ``s``, ``sec``, ``secs``, ``second``, ``seconds``
-     - ``to_seconds``
-   * - Minute
-     - 60 seconds
-     - ``m``, ``min``, ``mins``, ``minute``, ``minutes``
-     - ``to_minutes``
-   * - Hour
-     - 60*60 seconds
-     - ``h``, ``hour``, ``hours``
-     - ``to_hours``
-   * - Day
-     - 24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``d``, ``day``, ``days``
-     - ``to_days``
-   * - Week
-     - 7*24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``w``, ``week``, ``weeks``
-     - ``to_weeks``
-   * - Month
-     - 30*24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``mo``, ``month``, ``months``
-     - ``to_months``
-   * - Year
-     - 365*24*60*60 seconds
-     - ``y``, ``year``, ``years``
-     - ``to_years``
-
-Note that months and years are using a simplified representation: a month is 30 days, and a year is 365 days. If you need different definitions of months or years, you can pass them as keyword arguments. For example, if you want a year to be 365.25 days, and a month to be 30.5 days, you can write ``'11months 4' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25, month=30.5)``. These keyword arguments can be specified to ``to_time_unit`` and to all shorthand filters.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Convert string to seconds
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_time_unit('seconds') }}"
-
-    - name: Convert string to hours
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_hours }}"
-
-    - name: Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ '400d 15h' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25) }}"
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Convert string to seconds] **********************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "109210.123"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Convert string to hours] ************************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "30.336145277778"
-    }
-
-    TASK [Convert string to years (using 365.25 days == 1 year)] ******************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": "1.096851471595"
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 0.2.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Working with Unicode
---------------------
-
-`Unicode <https://unicode.org/main.html>`_ makes it possible to produce two strings which may be visually equivalent, but are comprised of distinctly different characters/character sequences. To address this ``Unicode`` defines `normalization forms <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ which avoid these distinctions by choosing a unique character sequence for a given visual representation.
-
-You can use the ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter to normalize ``Unicode`` strings within your playbooks.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Compare Unicode representations
-      debug:
-        msg: "{{ with_combining_character | community.general.unicode_normalize == without_combining_character }}"
-      vars:
-        with_combining_character: "{{ 'Mayagu\u0308ez' }}"
-        without_combining_character: Mayagüez
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Compare Unicode representations] ********************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "msg": true
-    }
-
-The ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter accepts a keyword argument to select the ``Unicode`` form used to normalize the input string.
-
-:form: One of ``'NFC'`` (default), ``'NFD'``, ``'NFKC'``, or ``'NFKD'``. See the `Unicode reference <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ for more information.
-
-.. versionadded:: 3.7.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Working with versions
---------------------
-
-If you need to sort a list of version numbers, the Jinja ``sort`` filter is problematic. Since it sorts lexicographically, ``2.10`` will come before ``2.9``. To treat version numbers correctly, you can use the ``version_sort`` filter:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Sort list by version number
-      debug:
-        var: ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort
-      vars:
-        ansible_versions:
-          - '2.8.0'
-          - '2.11.0'
-          - '2.7.0'
-          - '2.10.0'
-          - '2.9.0'
-
-This produces:
-
-.. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-    TASK [Sort list by version number] ********************************************************
-    ok: [localhost] => {
-        "ansible_versions | community.general.version_sort": [
-            "2.7.0",
-            "2.8.0",
-            "2.9.0",
-            "2.10.0",
-            "2.11.0"
-        ]
-    }
-
-.. versionadded: 2.2.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/test_guide.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/test_guide.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 .. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.test_guide:

 community.general Test (Plugin) Guide
--- a/galaxy.yml
+++ b/galaxy.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 namespace: community
 name: general
-version: 7.0.0
+version: 4.0.2
 readme: README.md
 authors:
  - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)
--- a/meta/runtime.yml
+++ b/meta/runtime.yml
--- a/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
+++ b/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
@@ -1,187 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2020, quidame <quidame@poivron.org>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-import time
-
-from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleActionFail, AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.utils.vars import merge_hash
-from ansible.utils.display import Display
-
-display = Display()
-
-
-class ActionModule(ActionBase):
-
-    # Keep internal params away from user interactions
-    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset(('path', 'state', 'table', 'noflush', 'counters', 'modprobe', 'ip_version', 'wait'))
-    DEFAULT_SUDOABLE = True
-
-    MSG_ERROR__ASYNC_AND_POLL_NOT_ZERO = (
-        "This module doesn't support async>0 and poll>0 when its 'state' param "
-        "is set to 'restored'. To enable its rollback feature (that needs the "
-        "module to run asynchronously on the remote), please set task attribute "
-        "'poll' (=%s) to 0, and 'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than "
-        "'ansible_timeout' (=%s) (recommended).")
-    MSG_WARNING__NO_ASYNC_IS_NO_ROLLBACK = (
-        "Attempts to restore iptables state without rollback in case of mistake "
-        "may lead the ansible controller to loose access to the hosts and never "
-        "regain it before fixing firewall rules through a serial console, or any "
-        "other way except SSH. Please set task attribute 'poll' (=%s) to 0, and "
-        "'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than 'ansible_timeout' (=%s) "
-        "(recommended).")
-    MSG_WARNING__ASYNC_GREATER_THAN_TIMEOUT = (
-        "You attempt to restore iptables state with rollback in case of mistake, "
-        "but with settings that will lead this rollback to happen AFTER that the "
-        "controller will reach its own timeout. Please set task attribute 'poll' "
-        "(=%s) to 0, and 'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than "
-        "'ansible_timeout' (=%s) (recommended).")
-
-    def _async_result(self, async_status_args, task_vars, timeout):
-        '''
-        Retrieve results of the asynchonous task, and display them in place of
-        the async wrapper results (those with the ansible_job_id key).
-        '''
-        async_status = self._task.copy()
-        async_status.args = async_status_args
-        async_status.action = 'ansible.builtin.async_status'
-        async_status.async_val = 0
-        async_action = self._shared_loader_obj.action_loader.get(
-            async_status.action, task=async_status, connection=self._connection,
-            play_context=self._play_context, loader=self._loader, templar=self._templar,
-            shared_loader_obj=self._shared_loader_obj)
-
-        if async_status.args['mode'] == 'cleanup':
-            return async_action.run(task_vars=task_vars)
-
-        # At least one iteration is required, even if timeout is 0.
-        for dummy in range(max(1, timeout)):
-            async_result = async_action.run(task_vars=task_vars)
-            if async_result.get('finished', 0) == 1:
-                break
-            time.sleep(min(1, timeout))
-
-        return async_result
-
-    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
-
-        self._supports_check_mode = True
-        self._supports_async = True
-
-        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
-        del tmp  # tmp no longer has any effect
-
-        if not result.get('skipped'):
-
-            # FUTURE: better to let _execute_module calculate this internally?
-            wrap_async = self._task.async_val and not self._connection.has_native_async
-
-            # Set short names for values we'll have to compare or reuse
-            task_poll = self._task.poll
-            task_async = self._task.async_val
-            check_mode = self._play_context.check_mode
-            max_timeout = self._connection._play_context.timeout
-            module_args = self._task.args
-
-            if module_args.get('state', None) == 'restored':
-                if not wrap_async:
-                    if not check_mode:
-                        display.warning(self.MSG_WARNING__NO_ASYNC_IS_NO_ROLLBACK % (
-                            task_poll,
-                            task_async,
-                            max_timeout))
-                elif task_poll:
-                    raise AnsibleActionFail(self.MSG_ERROR__ASYNC_AND_POLL_NOT_ZERO % (
-                        task_poll,
-                        task_async,
-                        max_timeout))
-                else:
-                    if task_async > max_timeout and not check_mode:
-                        display.warning(self.MSG_WARNING__ASYNC_GREATER_THAN_TIMEOUT % (
-                            task_poll,
-                            task_async,
-                            max_timeout))
-
-                    # inject the async directory based on the shell option into the
-                    # module args
-                    async_dir = self.get_shell_option('async_dir', default="~/.ansible_async")
-
-                    # Bind the loop max duration to consistent values on both
-                    # remote and local sides (if not the same, make the loop
-                    # longer on the controller); and set a backup file path.
-                    module_args['_timeout'] = task_async
-                    module_args['_back'] = '%s/iptables.state' % async_dir
-                    async_status_args = dict(mode='status')
-                    confirm_cmd = 'rm -f %s' % module_args['_back']
-                    starter_cmd = 'touch %s.starter' % module_args['_back']
-                    remaining_time = max(task_async, max_timeout)
-
-            # do work!
-            result = merge_hash(result, self._execute_module(module_args=module_args, task_vars=task_vars, wrap_async=wrap_async))
-
-            # Then the 3-steps "go ahead or rollback":
-            # 1. Catch early errors of the module (in asynchronous task) if any.
-            #    Touch a file on the target to signal the module to process now.
-            # 2. Reset connection to ensure a persistent one will not be reused.
-            # 3. Confirm the restored state by removing the backup on the remote.
-            #    Retrieve the results of the asynchronous task to return them.
-            if '_back' in module_args:
-                async_status_args['jid'] = result.get('ansible_job_id', None)
-                if async_status_args['jid'] is None:
-                    raise AnsibleActionFail("Unable to get 'ansible_job_id'.")
-
-                # Catch early errors due to missing mandatory option, bad
-                # option type/value, missing required system command, etc.
-                result = merge_hash(result, self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, 0))
-
-                # The module is aware to not process the main iptables-restore
-                # command before finding (and deleting) the 'starter' cookie on
-                # the host, so the previous query will not reach ssh timeout.
-                dummy = self._low_level_execute_command(starter_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
-
-                # As the main command is not yet executed on the target, here
-                # 'finished' means 'failed before main command be executed'.
-                if not result['finished']:
-                    try:
-                        self._connection.reset()
-                    except AttributeError:
-                        pass
-
-                    for dummy in range(max_timeout):
-                        time.sleep(1)
-                        remaining_time -= 1
-                        # - AnsibleConnectionFailure covers rejected requests (i.e.
-                        #   by rules with '--jump REJECT')
-                        # - ansible_timeout is able to cover dropped requests (due
-                        #   to a rule or policy DROP) if not lower than async_val.
-                        try:
-                            dummy = self._low_level_execute_command(confirm_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
-                            break
-                        except AnsibleConnectionFailure:
-                            continue
-
-                    result = merge_hash(result, self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, remaining_time))
-
-                # Cleanup async related stuff and internal params
-                for key in ('ansible_job_id', 'results_file', 'started', 'finished'):
-                    if result.get(key):
-                        del result[key]
-
-                if result.get('invocation', {}).get('module_args'):
-                    for key in ('_back', '_timeout', '_async_dir', 'jid'):
-                        if result['invocation']['module_args'].get(key):
-                            del result['invocation']['module_args'][key]
-
-                async_status_args['mode'] = 'cleanup'
-                dummy = self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, 0)
-
-        if not wrap_async:
-            # remove a temporary path we created
-            self._remove_tmp_path(self._connection._shell.tmpdir)
-
-        return result
--- a/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
+++ b/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+./system/iptables_state.py
--- a/plugins/action/shutdown.py
+++ b/plugins/action/shutdown.py
@@ -1,233 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2020, Amin Vakil <info@aminvakil.com>
-# Copyright (c) 2016-2018, Matt Davis <mdavis@ansible.com>
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Sam Doran <sdoran@redhat.com>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_string
-from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
-from ansible.utils.display import Display
-
-display = Display()
-
-
-class TimedOutException(Exception):
-    pass
-
-
-class ActionModule(ActionBase):
-    TRANSFERS_FILES = False
-    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset((
-        'msg',
-        'delay',
-        'search_paths'
-    ))
-
-    DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = None
-    DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY = 0
-    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE = 'Shut down initiated by Ansible'
-    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND = 'shutdown'
-    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = '-h {delay_min} "{message}"'
-    DEFAULT_SUDOABLE = True
-
-    SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS = {
-        'alpine': 'poweroff',
-        'vmkernel': 'halt',
-    }
-
-    SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = {
-        'alpine': '',
-        'void': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'freebsd': '-h +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
-        'linux': DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS,
-        'macosx': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'openbsd': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'solaris': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
-        'sunos': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
-        'vmkernel': '-d {delay_sec}',
-        'aix': '-Fh',
-    }
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        super(ActionModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-
-    @property
-    def delay(self):
-        return self._check_delay('delay', self.DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY)
-
-    def _check_delay(self, key, default):
-        """Ensure that the value is positive or zero"""
-        value = int(self._task.args.get(key, default))
-        if value < 0:
-            value = 0
-        return value
-
-    def _get_value_from_facts(self, variable_name, distribution, default_value):
-        """Get dist+version specific args first, then distribution, then family, lastly use default"""
-        attr = getattr(self, variable_name)
-        value = attr.get(
-            distribution['name'] + distribution['version'],
-            attr.get(
-                distribution['name'],
-                attr.get(
-                    distribution['family'],
-                    getattr(self, default_value))))
-        return value
-
-    def get_distribution(self, task_vars):
-        # FIXME: only execute the module if we don't already have the facts we need
-        distribution = {}
-        display.debug('{action}: running setup module to get distribution'.format(action=self._task.action))
-        module_output = self._execute_module(
-            task_vars=task_vars,
-            module_name='ansible.legacy.setup',
-            module_args={'gather_subset': 'min'})
-        try:
-            if module_output.get('failed', False):
-                raise AnsibleError('Failed to determine system distribution. {0}, {1}'.format(
-                    to_native(module_output['module_stdout']).strip(),
-                    to_native(module_output['module_stderr']).strip()))
-            distribution['name'] = module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution'].lower()
-            distribution['version'] = to_text(
-                module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution_version'].split('.')[0])
-            distribution['family'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_os_family'].lower())
-            display.debug("{action}: distribution: {dist}".format(action=self._task.action, dist=distribution))
-            return distribution
-        except KeyError as ke:
-            raise AnsibleError('Failed to get distribution information. Missing "{0}" in output.'.format(ke.args[0]))
-
-    def get_shutdown_command(self, task_vars, distribution):
-        def find_command(command, find_search_paths):
-            display.debug('{action}: running find module looking in {paths} to get path for "{command}"'.format(
-                action=self._task.action,
-                command=command,
-                paths=find_search_paths))
-            find_result = self._execute_module(
-                task_vars=task_vars,
-                # prevent collection search by calling with ansible.legacy (still allows library/ override of find)
-                module_name='ansible.legacy.find',
-                module_args={
-                    'paths': find_search_paths,
-                    'patterns': [command],
-                    'file_type': 'any'
-                }
-            )
-            return [x['path'] for x in find_result['files']]
-
-        shutdown_bin = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND')
-        default_search_paths = ['/sbin', '/usr/sbin', '/usr/local/sbin']
-        search_paths = self._task.args.get('search_paths', default_search_paths)
-
-        # FIXME: switch all this to user arg spec validation methods when they are available
-        # Convert bare strings to a list
-        if is_string(search_paths):
-            search_paths = [search_paths]
-
-        # Error if we didn't get a list
-        err_msg = "'search_paths' must be a string or flat list of strings, got {0}"
-        try:
-            incorrect_type = any(not is_string(x) for x in search_paths)
-            if not isinstance(search_paths, list) or incorrect_type:
-                raise TypeError
-        except TypeError:
-            raise AnsibleError(err_msg.format(search_paths))
-
-        full_path = find_command(shutdown_bin, search_paths)  # find the path to the shutdown command
-        if not full_path:  # if we could not find the shutdown command
-            display.vvv('Unable to find command "{0}" in search paths: {1}, will attempt a shutdown using systemd '
-                        'directly.'.format(shutdown_bin, search_paths))  # tell the user we will try with systemd
-            systemctl_search_paths = ['/bin', '/usr/bin']
-            full_path = find_command('systemctl', systemctl_search_paths)  # find the path to the systemctl command
-            if not full_path:  # if we couldn't find systemctl
-                raise AnsibleError(
-                    'Could not find command "{0}" in search paths: {1} or systemctl command in search paths: {2}, unable to shutdown.'.
-                    format(shutdown_bin, search_paths, systemctl_search_paths))  # we give up here
-            else:
-                return "{0} poweroff".format(full_path[0])  # done, since we cannot use args with systemd shutdown
-
-        # systemd case taken care of, here we add args to the command
-        args = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS')
-        # Convert seconds to minutes. If less that 60, set it to 0.
-        delay_sec = self.delay
-        shutdown_message = self._task.args.get('msg', self.DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE)
-        return '{0} {1}'. \
-            format(
-                full_path[0],
-                args.format(
-                    delay_sec=delay_sec,
-                    delay_min=delay_sec // 60,
-                    message=shutdown_message
-                )
-            )
-
-    def perform_shutdown(self, task_vars, distribution):
-        result = {}
-        shutdown_result = {}
-        shutdown_command_exec = self.get_shutdown_command(task_vars, distribution)
-
-        self.cleanup(force=True)
-        try:
-            display.vvv("{action}: shutting down server...".format(action=self._task.action))
-            display.debug("{action}: shutting down server with command '{command}'".
-                          format(action=self._task.action, command=shutdown_command_exec))
-            if self._play_context.check_mode:
-                shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
-            else:
-                shutdown_result = self._low_level_execute_command(shutdown_command_exec, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
-        except AnsibleConnectionFailure as e:
-            # If the connection is closed too quickly due to the system being shutdown, carry on
-            display.debug(
-                '{action}: AnsibleConnectionFailure caught and handled: {error}'.format(action=self._task.action,
-                                                                                        error=to_text(e)))
-            shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
-
-        if shutdown_result['rc'] != 0:
-            result['failed'] = True
-            result['shutdown'] = False
-            result['msg'] = "Shutdown command failed. Error was {stdout}, {stderr}".format(
-                stdout=to_native(shutdown_result['stdout'].strip()),
-                stderr=to_native(shutdown_result['stderr'].strip()))
-            return result
-
-        result['failed'] = False
-        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_command_exec
-        return result
-
-    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
-        self._supports_check_mode = True
-        self._supports_async = True
-
-        # If running with local connection, fail so we don't shutdown ourself
-        if self._connection.transport == 'local' and (not self._play_context.check_mode):
-            msg = 'Running {0} with local connection would shutdown the control node.'.format(self._task.action)
-            return {'changed': False, 'elapsed': 0, 'shutdown': False, 'failed': True, 'msg': msg}
-
-        if task_vars is None:
-            task_vars = {}
-
-        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
-
-        if result.get('skipped', False) or result.get('failed', False):
-            return result
-
-        distribution = self.get_distribution(task_vars)
-
-        # Initiate shutdown
-        shutdown_result = self.perform_shutdown(task_vars, distribution)
-
-        if shutdown_result['failed']:
-            result = shutdown_result
-            return result
-
-        result['shutdown'] = True
-        result['changed'] = True
-        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_result['shutdown_command']
-
-        return result
--- a/plugins/action/shutdown.py
+++ b/plugins/action/shutdown.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+./system/shutdown.py
--- a/plugins/action/system/iptables_state.py
+++ b/plugins/action/system/iptables_state.py
@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright: (c) 2020, quidame <quidame@poivron.org>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import time
+
+from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleActionFail, AnsibleConnectionFailure
+from ansible.utils.vars import merge_hash
+from ansible.utils.display import Display
+
+display = Display()
+
+
+class ActionModule(ActionBase):
+
+    # Keep internal params away from user interactions
+    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset(('path', 'state', 'table', 'noflush', 'counters', 'modprobe', 'ip_version', 'wait'))
+    DEFAULT_SUDOABLE = True
+
+    MSG_ERROR__ASYNC_AND_POLL_NOT_ZERO = (
+        "This module doesn't support async>0 and poll>0 when its 'state' param "
+        "is set to 'restored'. To enable its rollback feature (that needs the "
+        "module to run asynchronously on the remote), please set task attribute "
+        "'poll' (=%s) to 0, and 'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than "
+        "'ansible_timeout' (=%s) (recommended).")
+    MSG_WARNING__NO_ASYNC_IS_NO_ROLLBACK = (
+        "Attempts to restore iptables state without rollback in case of mistake "
+        "may lead the ansible controller to loose access to the hosts and never "
+        "regain it before fixing firewall rules through a serial console, or any "
+        "other way except SSH. Please set task attribute 'poll' (=%s) to 0, and "
+        "'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than 'ansible_timeout' (=%s) "
+        "(recommended).")
+    MSG_WARNING__ASYNC_GREATER_THAN_TIMEOUT = (
+        "You attempt to restore iptables state with rollback in case of mistake, "
+        "but with settings that will lead this rollback to happen AFTER that the "
+        "controller will reach its own timeout. Please set task attribute 'poll' "
+        "(=%s) to 0, and 'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than "
+        "'ansible_timeout' (=%s) (recommended).")
+
+    def _async_result(self, async_status_args, task_vars, timeout):
+        '''
+        Retrieve results of the asynchonous task, and display them in place of
+        the async wrapper results (those with the ansible_job_id key).
+        '''
+        async_status = self._task.copy()
+        async_status.args = async_status_args
+        async_status.action = 'ansible.builtin.async_status'
+        async_status.async_val = 0
+        async_action = self._shared_loader_obj.action_loader.get(
+            async_status.action, task=async_status, connection=self._connection,
+            play_context=self._play_context, loader=self._loader, templar=self._templar,
+            shared_loader_obj=self._shared_loader_obj)
+
+        if async_status.args['mode'] == 'cleanup':
+            return async_action.run(task_vars=task_vars)
+
+        # At least one iteration is required, even if timeout is 0.
+        for dummy in range(max(1, timeout)):
+            async_result = async_action.run(task_vars=task_vars)
+            if async_result.get('finished', 0) == 1:
+                break
+            time.sleep(min(1, timeout))
+
+        return async_result
+
+    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
+
+        self._supports_check_mode = True
+        self._supports_async = True
+
+        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
+        del tmp  # tmp no longer has any effect
+
+        if not result.get('skipped'):
+
+            # FUTURE: better to let _execute_module calculate this internally?
+            wrap_async = self._task.async_val and not self._connection.has_native_async
+
+            # Set short names for values we'll have to compare or reuse
+            task_poll = self._task.poll
+            task_async = self._task.async_val
+            check_mode = self._play_context.check_mode
+            max_timeout = self._connection._play_context.timeout
+            module_args = self._task.args
+
+            if module_args.get('state', None) == 'restored':
+                if not wrap_async:
+                    if not check_mode:
+                        display.warning(self.MSG_WARNING__NO_ASYNC_IS_NO_ROLLBACK % (
+                            task_poll,
+                            task_async,
+                            max_timeout))
+                elif task_poll:
+                    raise AnsibleActionFail(self.MSG_ERROR__ASYNC_AND_POLL_NOT_ZERO % (
+                        task_poll,
+                        task_async,
+                        max_timeout))
+                else:
+                    if task_async > max_timeout and not check_mode:
+                        display.warning(self.MSG_WARNING__ASYNC_GREATER_THAN_TIMEOUT % (
+                            task_poll,
+                            task_async,
+                            max_timeout))
+
+                    # inject the async directory based on the shell option into the
+                    # module args
+                    async_dir = self.get_shell_option('async_dir', default="~/.ansible_async")
+
+                    # Bind the loop max duration to consistent values on both
+                    # remote and local sides (if not the same, make the loop
+                    # longer on the controller); and set a backup file path.
+                    module_args['_timeout'] = task_async
+                    module_args['_back'] = '%s/iptables.state' % async_dir
+                    async_status_args = dict(mode='status')
+                    confirm_cmd = 'rm -f %s' % module_args['_back']
+                    starter_cmd = 'touch %s.starter' % module_args['_back']
+                    remaining_time = max(task_async, max_timeout)
+
+            # do work!
+            result = merge_hash(result, self._execute_module(module_args=module_args, task_vars=task_vars, wrap_async=wrap_async))
+
+            # Then the 3-steps "go ahead or rollback":
+            # 1. Catch early errors of the module (in asynchronous task) if any.
+            #    Touch a file on the target to signal the module to process now.
+            # 2. Reset connection to ensure a persistent one will not be reused.
+            # 3. Confirm the restored state by removing the backup on the remote.
+            #    Retrieve the results of the asynchronous task to return them.
+            if '_back' in module_args:
+                async_status_args['jid'] = result.get('ansible_job_id', None)
+                if async_status_args['jid'] is None:
+                    raise AnsibleActionFail("Unable to get 'ansible_job_id'.")
+
+                # Catch early errors due to missing mandatory option, bad
+                # option type/value, missing required system command, etc.
+                result = merge_hash(result, self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, 0))
+
+                # The module is aware to not process the main iptables-restore
+                # command before finding (and deleting) the 'starter' cookie on
+                # the host, so the previous query will not reach ssh timeout.
+                dummy = self._low_level_execute_command(starter_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
+
+                # As the main command is not yet executed on the target, here
+                # 'finished' means 'failed before main command be executed'.
+                if not result['finished']:
+                    try:
+                        self._connection.reset()
+                    except AttributeError:
+                        pass
+
+                    for dummy in range(max_timeout):
+                        time.sleep(1)
+                        remaining_time -= 1
+                        # - AnsibleConnectionFailure covers rejected requests (i.e.
+                        #   by rules with '--jump REJECT')
+                        # - ansible_timeout is able to cover dropped requests (due
+                        #   to a rule or policy DROP) if not lower than async_val.
+                        try:
+                            dummy = self._low_level_execute_command(confirm_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
+                            break
+                        except AnsibleConnectionFailure:
+                            continue
+
+                    result = merge_hash(result, self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, remaining_time))
+
+                # Cleanup async related stuff and internal params
+                for key in ('ansible_job_id', 'results_file', 'started', 'finished'):
+                    if result.get(key):
+                        del result[key]
+
+                if result.get('invocation', {}).get('module_args'):
+                    for key in ('_back', '_timeout', '_async_dir', 'jid'):
+                        if result['invocation']['module_args'].get(key):
+                            del result['invocation']['module_args'][key]
+
+                async_status_args['mode'] = 'cleanup'
+                dummy = self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, 0)
+
+        if not wrap_async:
+            # remove a temporary path we created
+            self._remove_tmp_path(self._connection._shell.tmpdir)
+
+        return result
--- a/plugins/action/system/shutdown.py
+++ b/plugins/action/system/shutdown.py
@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright: (c) 2020, Amin Vakil <info@aminvakil.com>
+# Copyright: (c) 2016-2018, Matt Davis <mdavis@ansible.com>
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Sam Doran <sdoran@redhat.com>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_string
+from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
+from ansible.utils.display import Display
+
+display = Display()
+
+
+class TimedOutException(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+class ActionModule(ActionBase):
+    TRANSFERS_FILES = False
+    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset((
+        'msg',
+        'delay',
+        'search_paths'
+    ))
+
+    DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = None
+    DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY = 0
+    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE = 'Shut down initiated by Ansible'
+    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND = 'shutdown'
+    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = '-h {delay_min} "{message}"'
+    DEFAULT_SUDOABLE = True
+
+    SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS = {
+        'alpine': 'poweroff',
+        'vmkernel': 'halt',
+    }
+
+    SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = {
+        'alpine': '',
+        'void': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
+        'freebsd': '-h +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
+        'linux': DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS,
+        'macosx': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
+        'openbsd': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
+        'solaris': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
+        'sunos': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
+        'vmkernel': '-d {delay_sec}',
+        'aix': '-Fh',
+    }
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super(ActionModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    @property
+    def delay(self):
+        return self._check_delay('delay', self.DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY)
+
+    def _check_delay(self, key, default):
+        """Ensure that the value is positive or zero"""
+        value = int(self._task.args.get(key, default))
+        if value < 0:
+            value = 0
+        return value
+
+    def _get_value_from_facts(self, variable_name, distribution, default_value):
+        """Get dist+version specific args first, then distribution, then family, lastly use default"""
+        attr = getattr(self, variable_name)
+        value = attr.get(
+            distribution['name'] + distribution['version'],
+            attr.get(
+                distribution['name'],
+                attr.get(
+                    distribution['family'],
+                    getattr(self, default_value))))
+        return value
+
+    def get_shutdown_command_args(self, distribution):
+        args = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS')
+        # Convert seconds to minutes. If less that 60, set it to 0.
+        delay_sec = self.delay
+        shutdown_message = self._task.args.get('msg', self.DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE)
+        return args.format(delay_sec=delay_sec, delay_min=delay_sec // 60, message=shutdown_message)
+
+    def get_distribution(self, task_vars):
+        # FIXME: only execute the module if we don't already have the facts we need
+        distribution = {}
+        display.debug('{action}: running setup module to get distribution'.format(action=self._task.action))
+        module_output = self._execute_module(
+            task_vars=task_vars,
+            module_name='ansible.legacy.setup',
+            module_args={'gather_subset': 'min'})
+        try:
+            if module_output.get('failed', False):
+                raise AnsibleError('Failed to determine system distribution. {0}, {1}'.format(
+                    to_native(module_output['module_stdout']).strip(),
+                    to_native(module_output['module_stderr']).strip()))
+            distribution['name'] = module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution'].lower()
+            distribution['version'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution_version'].split('.')[0])
+            distribution['family'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_os_family'].lower())
+            display.debug("{action}: distribution: {dist}".format(action=self._task.action, dist=distribution))
+            return distribution
+        except KeyError as ke:
+            raise AnsibleError('Failed to get distribution information. Missing "{0}" in output.'.format(ke.args[0]))
+
+    def get_shutdown_command(self, task_vars, distribution):
+        shutdown_bin = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND')
+        default_search_paths = ['/sbin', '/usr/sbin', '/usr/local/sbin']
+        search_paths = self._task.args.get('search_paths', default_search_paths)
+
+        # FIXME: switch all this to user arg spec validation methods when they are available
+        # Convert bare strings to a list
+        if is_string(search_paths):
+            search_paths = [search_paths]
+
+        # Error if we didn't get a list
+        err_msg = "'search_paths' must be a string or flat list of strings, got {0}"
+        try:
+            incorrect_type = any(not is_string(x) for x in search_paths)
+            if not isinstance(search_paths, list) or incorrect_type:
+                raise TypeError
+        except TypeError:
+            raise AnsibleError(err_msg.format(search_paths))
+
+        display.debug('{action}: running find module looking in {paths} to get path for "{command}"'.format(
+            action=self._task.action,
+            command=shutdown_bin,
+            paths=search_paths))
+        find_result = self._execute_module(
+            task_vars=task_vars,
+            # prevent collection search by calling with ansible.legacy (still allows library/ override of find)
+            module_name='ansible.legacy.find',
+            module_args={
+                'paths': search_paths,
+                'patterns': [shutdown_bin],
+                'file_type': 'any'
+            }
+        )
+
+        full_path = [x['path'] for x in find_result['files']]
+        if not full_path:
+            raise AnsibleError('Unable to find command "{0}" in search paths: {1}'.format(shutdown_bin, search_paths))
+        self._shutdown_command = full_path[0]
+        return self._shutdown_command
+
+    def perform_shutdown(self, task_vars, distribution):
+        result = {}
+        shutdown_result = {}
+        shutdown_command = self.get_shutdown_command(task_vars, distribution)
+        shutdown_command_args = self.get_shutdown_command_args(distribution)
+        shutdown_command_exec = '{0} {1}'.format(shutdown_command, shutdown_command_args)
+
+        self.cleanup(force=True)
+        try:
+            display.vvv("{action}: shutting down server...".format(action=self._task.action))
+            display.debug("{action}: shutting down server with command '{command}'".format(action=self._task.action, command=shutdown_command_exec))
+            if self._play_context.check_mode:
+                shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
+            else:
+                shutdown_result = self._low_level_execute_command(shutdown_command_exec, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
+        except AnsibleConnectionFailure as e:
+            # If the connection is closed too quickly due to the system being shutdown, carry on
+            display.debug('{action}: AnsibleConnectionFailure caught and handled: {error}'.format(action=self._task.action, error=to_text(e)))
+            shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
+
+        if shutdown_result['rc'] != 0:
+            result['failed'] = True
+            result['shutdown'] = False
+            result['msg'] = "Shutdown command failed. Error was {stdout}, {stderr}".format(
+                stdout=to_native(shutdown_result['stdout'].strip()),
+                stderr=to_native(shutdown_result['stderr'].strip()))
+            return result
+
+        result['failed'] = False
+        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_command_exec
+        return result
+
+    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
+        self._supports_check_mode = True
+        self._supports_async = True
+
+        # If running with local connection, fail so we don't shutdown ourself
+        if self._connection.transport == 'local' and (not self._play_context.check_mode):
+            msg = 'Running {0} with local connection would shutdown the control node.'.format(self._task.action)
+            return {'changed': False, 'elapsed': 0, 'shutdown': False, 'failed': True, 'msg': msg}
+
+        if task_vars is None:
+            task_vars = {}
+
+        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
+
+        if result.get('skipped', False) or result.get('failed', False):
+            return result
+
+        distribution = self.get_distribution(task_vars)
+
+        # Initiate shutdown
+        shutdown_result = self.perform_shutdown(task_vars, distribution)
+
+        if shutdown_result['failed']:
+            result = shutdown_result
+            return result
+
+        result['shutdown'] = True
+        result['changed'] = True
+        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_result['shutdown_command']
+
+        return result
--- a/plugins/become/doas.py
+++ b/plugins/become/doas.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
              - name: ANSIBLE_DOAS_FLAGS
        become_pass:
            description: password for doas prompt
-            required: false
+            required: False
            vars:
              - name: ansible_become_password
              - name: ansible_become_pass
--- a/plugins/become/dzdo.py
+++ b/plugins/become/dzdo.py
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

@@ -55,7 +53,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
              - name: ANSIBLE_DZDO_FLAGS
        become_pass:
            description: Options to pass to dzdo
-            required: false
+            required: False
            vars:
              - name: ansible_become_password
              - name: ansible_become_pass
--- a/plugins/become/ksu.py
+++ b/plugins/become/ksu.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

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

@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
              - name: ANSIBLE_MACHINECTL_FLAGS
        become_pass:
            description: Password for machinectl
-            required: false
+            required: False
            vars:
              - name: ansible_become_password
              - name: ansible_become_pass
@@ -67,46 +66,15 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            ini:
              - section: machinectl_become_plugin
                key: password
-    notes:
-      - When not using this plugin with user C(root), it only works correctly with a polkit rule which will alter
-        the behaviour of machinectl. This rule must alter the prompt behaviour to ask directly for the user credentials,
-        if the user is allowed to perform the action (take a look at the examples section).
-        If such a rule is not present the plugin only work if it is used in context with the root user,
-        because then no further prompt will be shown by machinectl.
 '''

-EXAMPLES = r'''
-# A polkit rule needed to use the module with a non-root user.
-# See the Notes section for details.
-60-machinectl-fast-user-auth.rules: |
-    polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
-        if(action.id == "org.freedesktop.machine1.host-shell" && subject.isInGroup("wheel")) {
-            return polkit.Result.AUTH_SELF_KEEP;
-        }
-    });
-'''
-
-from re import compile as re_compile
-
 from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
-
-
-ansi_color_codes = re_compile(to_bytes(r'\x1B\[[0-9;]+m'))


 class BecomeModule(BecomeBase):

    name = 'community.general.machinectl'

-    prompt = 'Password: '
-    fail = ('==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ====',)
-    success = ('==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====',)
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def remove_ansi_codes(line):
-        return ansi_color_codes.sub(b"", line)
-
    def build_become_command(self, cmd, shell):
        super(BecomeModule, self).build_become_command(cmd, shell)

@@ -117,16 +85,4 @@ class BecomeModule(BecomeBase):

        flags = self.get_option('become_flags')
        user = self.get_option('become_user')
-        return '%s -q shell %s %s@ %s' % (become, flags, user, self._build_success_command(cmd, shell))
-
-    def check_success(self, b_output):
-        b_output = self.remove_ansi_codes(b_output)
-        return super().check_success(b_output)
-
-    def check_incorrect_password(self, b_output):
-        b_output = self.remove_ansi_codes(b_output)
-        return super().check_incorrect_password(b_output)
-
-    def check_missing_password(self, b_output):
-        b_output = self.remove_ansi_codes(b_output)
-        return super().check_missing_password(b_output)
+        return '%s -q shell %s %s@ %s' % (become, flags, user, cmd)
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Felix Fontein	174b00cd29	Release 4.0.2.	2021-11-16 08:07:27 +01:00
patchback[bot]	a7c92f491d	Restrict redis version. (#3733 ) (#3736 ) (cherry picked from commit `bf7a954f00`) Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>	2021-11-16 07:30:41 +01:00
Felix Fontein	592cd3747b	[stable-4] Announce deprecation of support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 (#3723 ) * Announce deprecation of support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10. * Update changelogs/fragments/deprecate-ansible-2.9-2.10.yml Co-authored-by: Brian Scholer <1260690+briantist@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Brian Scholer <1260690+briantist@users.noreply.github.com>	2021-11-16 07:15:24 +01:00
patchback[bot]	4295ee0bb4	Enable counter_enabled.py to support batch mode (#3709 ) (#3732 ) * Enable counter_enabled.py to support serial mode Enable counter_enabled.py to support batch playbook executions using the serial tag in plays. Currently, the host counter gets reset at the beginning of every task. However, during batch executions we want it to keep track of the previous batch executions and print the host counter based on the previous runs. This proposal keeps track of how many servers have been updated in previous batches and starts the host counter at that tracked value. ``` - hosts: allthethings gather_facts: no serial: - 3 - 15% - 20% - 35% - 55% - 90% - 100% tasks: - name: Ping Hello! ping: data: "Hello!!!!" ``` * Reset task counter on play start Reset task counter on play start for batch mode playbook executions. * Add changelog fragment * change changelog fragment after feedback Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> (cherry picked from commit `f5b4dcc564`) Co-authored-by: Nabheet Sandhu <nabheet@users.noreply.github.com>	2021-11-15 22:26:19 +01:00
Felix Fontein	7e1ff300f8	Prepare 4.0.2 release.	2021-11-13 15:47:25 +01:00
patchback[bot]	b3ddec2b29	Allow LDAP search to run in check mode (#3667 ) (#3725 ) * Allow ldap search to run in check mode always * Fix indentions * Remove Comments and Chg Fragment * Update changelogs/fragments/3667-ldap_search.yml Co-authored-by: Alexei Znamensky <103110+russoz@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Sebastian Trupiano <sebastian.trupiano@srpnet.com> Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> Co-authored-by: Alexei Znamensky <103110+russoz@users.noreply.github.com> (cherry picked from commit `115d435d2d`) Co-authored-by: sabman3 <sabman3@aol.com>	2021-11-13 15:27:50 +01:00
patchback[bot]	227f6e333e	Rework safety check on size arguments for when LV doesn't exist (#3681 ) (#3720 ) * Rework safety check on size arguments for when LV doesn't exist * Update changelogs/fragments/3681-lvol-fix-create.yml Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> Co-authored-by: Jake Reynolds <jake.reynolds@bidfx.com> Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> (cherry picked from commit `352047314b`) Co-authored-by: jake2184 <jake2184@users.noreply.github.com>	2021-11-13 15:27:35 +01:00
patchback[bot]	94711ca506	Example command has wrong arg in redfish_command (#3711 ) (#3722 ) Example command arg `boot_next` missing the underscore (cherry picked from commit `4fe5d54b9e`) Co-authored-by: bluikko <14869000+bluikko@users.noreply.github.com>	2021-11-13 14:58:53 +01:00
patchback[bot]	d53052f27a	Replace Bash codecov uploader by new Python codecov uploader. (#3713 ) (#3714 ) ci_coverage (cherry picked from commit `5948809162`) Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>	2021-11-13 13:21:56 +01:00
patchback[bot]	95d57c338a	BOTMETA.yml: add new maintainer to gitlab team (#3696 ) (#3705 ) (cherry picked from commit `18a17acaa4`) Co-authored-by: Andrew Klychkov <aklychko@redhat.com>	2021-11-13 10:37:04 +01:00
patchback[bot]	4fd7a65a52	Fix dummy interface returning changed (#3625 ) (#3688 ) * fix dummy interface bug * fix dummy interface bug * Update nmcli.py * Update nmcli.py * Update nmcli.py * Update nmcli.py * adding tests and requested conditional * Fix pylint problems and remove 2 lines from previous version of bugfix * Fix pep8 issue * add changelog * Update changelogs/fragments/3625-nmcli_false_changed_mtu_fix.yml Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> (cherry picked from commit `85085bcd53`) Co-authored-by: Alex Groshev <38885591+haddystuff@users.noreply.github.com>	2021-11-10 08:00:36 +01:00
patchback[bot]	0e3c1f867d	Fix docs issues. (#3682 ) (#3684 ) (cherry picked from commit `146af089e9`) Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>	2021-11-09 20:28:13 +01:00
Felix Fontein	fa24edf89c	Next release is probably 4.0.2.	2021-11-09 18:06:52 +01:00
Felix Fontein	ac3e803a36	Release 4.0.1.	2021-11-09 17:03:04 +01:00
Felix Fontein	8168ddca4f	Prepare 4.0.1.	2021-11-09 08:02:15 +01:00
patchback[bot]	cc264be644	Replace Fedora 33 with Fedora 35 for devel tests (#3674 ) (#3680 ) * Replace Fedora 33 with Fedora 35 for devel tests. * Skip Fedora 35 for reiserfs tests. (cherry picked from commit `fc99893f10`) Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>	2021-11-09 06:54:06 +01:00
patchback[bot]	9bd2d1ec90	Better handling of base64-encoded values in xattr module (#3675 ) (#3678 ) * Fix exception in xattr module when existing extended attribute's value contains non-printable characters and the base64-encoded string contains a '=' sign * Added changelog fragment for #3675 * Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> (cherry picked from commit `2f0ae0408d`) Co-authored-by: sc-anssi <sc-anssi@users.noreply.github.com>	2021-11-09 06:29:09 +01:00
patchback[bot]	01b2c48161	a_module test: fix crash in case of tombstoning (#3660 ) (#3662 ) * Fix crash in case of tombstoning. * Extend tests. (cherry picked from commit `c23bbb5c4a`) Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>	2021-11-04 13:02:18 +01:00
Felix Fontein	a26792418e	Next expected release will be 4.1.0.	2021-11-02 07:08:36 +01:00
Felix Fontein	485834526f	Release 4.0.0.	2021-11-02 06:23:51 +01:00
Felix Fontein	5e68ea41e9	Prepare 4.0.0 release.	2021-11-02 06:20:21 +01:00