Release 9.2.0 commit (#8640 )

[PR #8634/a78f7b1e backport][stable-9] #8572 - Updated docs to include pip >= 20.3b1 requirement (#8637 )
#8572 - Updated docs to include pip >= 20.3b1 requirement (#8634) * #8572 - Updated docs to include pip >= 20.3b1 requirement * Update plugins/modules/pip_package_info.py Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> --------- Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> (cherry picked from commit a78f7b1e6a) Co-authored-by: Daniel Poggenpohl <danowar2k@googlemail.com>
2026-04-28 09:26:44 +00:00 · 2024-07-15 08:11:49 +02:00 · 2024-07-14 22:29:06 +02:00 · 2024-07-14 14:22:48 +02:00 · 2024-07-14 14:11:01 +02:00 · 2024-07-14 12:17:49 +02:00
1481 changed files with 56573 additions and 24028 deletions
--- a/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ schedules:
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-7
-        - stable-6
+        - stable-9
+        - stable-8
  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-5
+        - stable-7

 variables:
  - name: checkoutPath
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ variables:
 resources:
  containers:
    - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:3.0.0
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:6.0.0

 pool: Standard

@@ -73,6 +73,32 @@ stages:
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
            - test: extra
+  - stage: Sanity_2_17
+    displayName: Sanity 2.17
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.17/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
+  - stage: Sanity_2_16
+    displayName: Sanity 2.16
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.16/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
  - stage: Sanity_2_15
    displayName: Sanity 2.15
    dependsOn: []
@@ -86,45 +112,6 @@ stages:
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_14
-    displayName: Sanity 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.14/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_13
-    displayName: Sanity 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.13/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_12
-    displayName: Sanity 2.12
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.12/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
 ### Units
  - stage: Units_devel
    displayName: Units devel
@@ -135,14 +122,35 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/units/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.5
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: 3.7
            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
            - test: '3.11'
+            - test: '3.12'
+            - test: '3.13'
+  - stage: Units_2_17
+    displayName: Units 2.17
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.17/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.7
+            - test: "3.12"
+  - stage: Units_2_16
+    displayName: Units 2.16
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.16/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: "3.11"
  - stage: Units_2_15
    displayName: Units 2.15
    dependsOn: []
@@ -152,39 +160,8 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: 2.15/units/{0}/1
          targets:
+            - test: 3.5
            - test: "3.10"
-  - stage: Units_2_14
-    displayName: Units 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.14/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 3.9
-  - stage: Units_2_13
-    displayName: Units 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.13/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.8
-  - stage: Units_2_12
-    displayName: Units 2.12
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.12/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 2.6
-            - test: 3.8

 ## Remote
  - stage: Remote_devel_extra_vms
@@ -195,14 +172,14 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.17
-              test: alpine/3.17
-            # - name: Fedora 37
-            #   test: fedora/37
-            # - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-            #   test: ubuntu/20.04
+            - name: Alpine 3.20
+              test: alpine/3.20
+            # - name: Fedora 40
+            #   test: fedora/40
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu/22.04
+            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
+              test: ubuntu/24.04
          groups:
            - vm
  - stage: Remote_devel
@@ -212,15 +189,51 @@ stages:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 14.3
+              test: macos/14.3
+            - name: RHEL 9.4
+              test: rhel/9.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 14.1
+              test: freebsd/14.1
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_17
+    displayName: Remote 2.17
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.17/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.3
+              test: freebsd/13.3
+            - name: RHEL 9.3
+              test: rhel/9.3
+            - name: FreeBSD 14.0
+              test: freebsd/14.0
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_16
+    displayName: Remote 2.16
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.16/{0}
          targets:
            - name: macOS 13.2
              test: macos/13.2
-            - name: RHEL 9.1
-              test: rhel/9.1
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
-              test: freebsd/13.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.4
-              test: freebsd/12.4
+            - name: RHEL 9.2
+              test: rhel/9.2
+            - name: RHEL 8.8
+              test: rhel/8.8
+            # - name: FreeBSD 13.2
+            #   test: freebsd/13.2
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -233,60 +246,16 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: 2.15/{0}
          targets:
+            - name: RHEL 9.1
+              test: rhel/9.1
+            - name: RHEL 8.7
+              test: rhel/8.7
            - name: RHEL 7.9
              test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
-              test: freebsd/13.1
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_14
-    displayName: Remote 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.14/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: RHEL 9.0
-              test: rhel/9.0
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.3
-              test: freebsd/12.3
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_13
-    displayName: Remote 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.13/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 12.0
-              test: macos/12.0
-            - name: RHEL 8.5
-              test: rhel/8.5
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_12
-    displayName: Remote 2.12
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.12/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 11.1
-              test: macos/11.1
-            - name: RHEL 8.4
-              test: rhel/8.4
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
-              test: freebsd/13.0
+            # - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+            #   test: freebsd/13.1
+            # - name: FreeBSD 12.4
+            #   test: freebsd/12.4
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -301,14 +270,48 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 37
-              test: fedora37
-            - name: openSUSE 15
-              test: opensuse15
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
+            - name: Fedora 40
+              test: fedora40
+            - name: Alpine 3.20
+              test: alpine320
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu2204
+            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
+              test: ubuntu2404
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_17
+    displayName: Docker 2.17
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.17/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 39
+              test: fedora39
+            - name: Alpine 3.19
+              test: alpine319
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_16
+    displayName: Docker 2.16
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.16/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 38
+              test: fedora38
+            - name: openSUSE 15
+              test: opensuse15
            - name: Alpine 3
              test: alpine3
          groups:
@@ -323,62 +326,14 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: 2.15/linux/{0}
          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 37
+              test: fedora37
            - name: CentOS 7
              test: centos7
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_14
-    displayName: Docker 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.14/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 36
-              test: fedora36
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_13
-    displayName: Docker 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.13/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 35
-              test: fedora35
-            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
-              test: opensuse15py2
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_12
-    displayName: Docker 2.12
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.12/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: CentOS 6
-              test: centos6
-            - name: Fedora 34
-              test: fedora34
-            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
-              test: ubuntu1804
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3

 ### Community Docker
  - stage: Docker_community_devel
@@ -391,10 +346,10 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - name: Debian Bullseye
              test: debian-bullseye/3.9
+            - name: Debian Bookworm
+              test: debian-bookworm/3.11
            - name: ArchLinux
-              test: archlinux/3.11
-            - name: CentOS Stream 8
-              test: centos-stream8/3.9
+              test: archlinux/3.12
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -410,7 +365,31 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
+            - test: '3.8'
+            - test: '3.11'
+            - test: '3.13'
+  - stage: Generic_2_17
+    displayName: Generic 2.17
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.17/generic/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: '3.7'
+            - test: '3.12'
+  - stage: Generic_2_16
+    displayName: Generic 2.16
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.16/generic/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: '2.7'
+            - test: '3.6'
            - test: '3.11'
  - stage: Generic_2_15
    displayName: Generic 2.15
@@ -421,68 +400,33 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: 2.15/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: 3.9
-  - stage: Generic_2_14
-    displayName: Generic 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.14/generic/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: '3.10'
-  - stage: Generic_2_13
-    displayName: Generic 2.13
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.13/generic/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 3.9
-  - stage: Generic_2_12
-    displayName: Generic 2.12
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.12/generic/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 3.8
+            - test: '3.9'

  - stage: Summary
    condition: succeededOrFailed()
    dependsOn:
      - Sanity_devel
-      - Sanity_2_12
-      - Sanity_2_13
-      - Sanity_2_14
+      - Sanity_2_17
+      - Sanity_2_16
      - Sanity_2_15
      - Units_devel
-      - Units_2_12
-      - Units_2_13
-      - Units_2_14
+      - Units_2_17
+      - Units_2_16
      - Units_2_15
      - Remote_devel_extra_vms
      - Remote_devel
-      - Remote_2_12
-      - Remote_2_13
-      - Remote_2_14
+      - Remote_2_17
+      - Remote_2_16
      - Remote_2_15
      - Docker_devel
-      - Docker_2_12
-      - Docker_2_13
-      - Docker_2_14
+      - Docker_2_17
+      - Docker_2_16
      - Docker_2_15
      - Docker_community_devel
 # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
 #      - Generic_devel
-#      - Generic_2_12
-#      - Generic_2_13
-#      - Generic_2_14
+#      - Generic_2_17
+#      - Generic_2_16
 #      - Generic_2_15
    jobs:
      - template: templates/coverage.yml
--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core
  $becomes/pmrun.py:
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core
+  $becomes/run0.py:
+    maintainers: konstruktoid
  $becomes/sesu.py:
    maintainers: nekonyuu
  $becomes/sudosu.py:
@@ -50,6 +52,8 @@ files:
  $callbacks/cgroup_memory_recap.py: {}
  $callbacks/context_demo.py: {}
  $callbacks/counter_enabled.py: {}
+  $callbacks/default_without_diff.py:
+    maintainers: felixfontein
  $callbacks/dense.py:
    maintainers: dagwieers
  $callbacks/diy.py:
@@ -87,6 +91,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: ryancurrah
  $callbacks/syslog_json.py:
    maintainers: imjoseangel
+  $callbacks/timestamp.py:
+    maintainers: kurokobo
  $callbacks/unixy.py:
    labels: unixy
    maintainers: akatch
@@ -97,6 +103,9 @@ files:
  $connections/funcd.py:
    maintainers: mscherer
  $connections/iocage.py: {}
+  $connections/incus.py:
+    labels: incus
+    maintainers: stgraber
  $connections/jail.py:
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core
  $connections/lxc.py: {}
@@ -112,6 +121,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core
  $doc_fragments/:
    labels: docs_fragments
+  $doc_fragments/django.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $doc_fragments/hpe3par.py:
    labels: hpe3par
    maintainers: farhan7500 gautamphegde
@@ -119,7 +130,7 @@ files:
    labels: hwc
    maintainers: $team_huawei
  $doc_fragments/nomad.py:
-    maintainers: chris93111
+    maintainers: chris93111 apecnascimento
  $doc_fragments/xenserver.py:
    labels: xenserver
    maintainers: bvitnik
@@ -133,6 +144,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: giner
  $filters/from_csv.py:
    maintainers: Ajpantuso
+  $filters/from_ini.py:
+    maintainers: sscheib
  $filters/groupby_as_dict.py:
    maintainers: felixfontein
  $filters/hashids.py:
@@ -144,15 +157,35 @@ files:
  $filters/jc.py:
    maintainers: kellyjonbrazil
  $filters/json_query.py: {}
+  $filters/keep_keys.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $filters/lists.py:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
+  $filters/lists_difference.yml:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
+  $filters/lists_intersect.yml:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
  $filters/lists_mergeby.py:
    maintainers: vbotka
+  $filters/lists_symmetric_difference.yml:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
+  $filters/lists_union.yml:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
  $filters/random_mac.py: {}
+  $filters/remove_keys.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $filters/replace_keys.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $filters/reveal_ansible_type.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
  $filters/time.py:
    maintainers: resmo
  $filters/to_days.yml:
    maintainers: resmo
  $filters/to_hours.yml:
    maintainers: resmo
+  $filters/to_ini.py:
+    maintainers: sscheib
  $filters/to_milliseconds.yml:
    maintainers: resmo
  $filters/to_minutes.yml:
@@ -193,7 +226,7 @@ files:
    labels: cloud opennebula
    maintainers: feldsam
  $inventories/proxmox.py:
-    maintainers: $team_virt ilijamt
+    maintainers: $team_virt ilijamt krauthosting
  $inventories/scaleway.py:
    labels: cloud scaleway
    maintainers: $team_scaleway
@@ -204,6 +237,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: ddelnano shinuza
  $lookups/:
    labels: lookups
+  $lookups/bitwarden_secrets_manager.py:
+    maintainers: jantari
  $lookups/bitwarden.py:
    maintainers: lungj
  $lookups/cartesian.py: {}
@@ -232,6 +267,8 @@ files:
  $lookups/filetree.py:
    maintainers: dagwieers
  $lookups/flattened.py: {}
+  $lookups/github_app_access_token.py:
+    maintainers: weisheng-p
  $lookups/hiera.py:
    maintainers: jparrill
  $lookups/keyring.py: {}
@@ -242,14 +279,16 @@ files:
    labels: manifold
    maintainers: galanoff
  $lookups/merge_variables.py:
-    maintainers: rlenferink m-a-r-k-e
+    maintainers: rlenferink m-a-r-k-e alpex8
  $lookups/onepass:
    labels: onepassword
    maintainers: samdoran
  $lookups/onepassword.py:
-    maintainers: azenk scottsb
+    ignore: scottsb
+    maintainers: azenk
  $lookups/onepassword_raw.py:
-    maintainers: azenk scottsb
+    ignore: scottsb
+    maintainers: azenk
  $lookups/passwordstore.py: {}
  $lookups/random_pet.py:
    maintainers: Akasurde
@@ -269,11 +308,17 @@ files:
    labels: module_utils
  $module_utils/btrfs.py:
    maintainers: gnfzdz
+  $module_utils/cmd_runner.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/deps.py:
    maintainers: russoz
+  $module_utils/django.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/gconftool2.py:
    labels: gconftool2
    maintainers: russoz
+  $module_utils/gio_mime.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/gitlab.py:
    keywords: gitlab source_control
    labels: gitlab
@@ -312,6 +357,8 @@ files:
  $module_utils/pipx.py:
    labels: pipx
    maintainers: russoz
+  $module_utils/python_runner.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/puppet.py:
    labels: puppet
    maintainers: russoz
@@ -326,6 +373,9 @@ files:
  $module_utils/scaleway.py:
    labels: cloud scaleway
    maintainers: $team_scaleway
+  $module_utils/snap.py:
+    labels: snap
+    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/ssh.py:
    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/storage/hpe3par/hpe3par.py:
@@ -333,6 +383,9 @@ files:
  $module_utils/utm_utils.py:
    labels: utm_utils
    maintainers: $team_e_spirit
+  $module_utils/vardict.py:
+    labels: vardict
+    maintainers: russoz
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    labels: wdc_redfish_utils
    maintainers: $team_wdc
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    ignore: resmo
    maintainers: dmtrs
  $modules/consul:
-    ignore: colin-nolan
+    ignore: colin-nolan Hakon
    maintainers: $team_consul
  $modules/copr.py:
    maintainers: schlupov
@@ -457,12 +510,20 @@ files:
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  $modules/discord.py:
    maintainers: cwollinger
+  $modules/django_check.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
+  $modules/django_command.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
+  $modules/django_createcachetable.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $modules/django_manage.py:
    ignore: scottanderson42 tastychutney
    labels: django_manage
    maintainers: russoz
  $modules/dnf_versionlock.py:
    maintainers: moreda
+  $modules/dnf_config_manager.py:
+    maintainers: ahyattdev
  $modules/dnsimple.py:
    maintainers: drcapulet
  $modules/dnsimple_info.py:
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  $modules/facter.py:
    labels: facter
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core gamethis
+  $modules/facter_facts.py:
+    labels: facter
+    maintainers: russoz $team_ansible_core gamethis
  $modules/filesize.py:
    maintainers: quidame
  $modules/filesystem.py:
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  $modules/gconftool2.py:
@@ -507,8 +569,12 @@ files:
  $modules/gem.py:
    labels: gem
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core johanwiren
+  $modules/gio_mime.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $modules/git_config.py:
    maintainers: djmattyg007 mgedmin
+  $modules/git_config_info.py:
+    maintainers: guenhter
  $modules/github_:
    maintainers: stpierre
  $modules/github_deploy_key.py:
@@ -527,14 +593,29 @@ files:
    keywords: gitlab source_control
    maintainers: $team_gitlab
    notify: jlozadad
+    ignore: dj-wasabi
  $modules/gitlab_branch.py:
    maintainers: paytroff
+  $modules/gitlab_issue.py:
+    maintainers: zvaraondrej
+  $modules/gitlab_label.py:
+    maintainers: gpongelli
+  $modules/gitlab_merge_request.py:
+    maintainers: zvaraondrej
+  $modules/gitlab_milestone.py:
+    maintainers: gpongelli
  $modules/gitlab_project_variable.py:
    maintainers: markuman
+  $modules/gitlab_instance_variable.py:
+    maintainers: benibr
  $modules/gitlab_runner.py:
    maintainers: SamyCoenen
  $modules/gitlab_user.py:
    maintainers: LennertMertens stgrace
+  $modules/gitlab_group_access_token.py:
+    maintainers: pixslx
+  $modules/gitlab_project_access_token.py:
+    maintainers: pixslx
  $modules/grove.py:
    maintainers: zimbatm
  $modules/gunicorn.py:
@@ -623,6 +704,9 @@ files:
    maintainers: bregman-arie
  $modules/ipa_:
    maintainers: $team_ipa
+    ignore: fxfitz
+  $modules/ipa_dnsrecord.py:
+    maintainers: $team_ipa jwbernin
  $modules/ipbase_info.py:
    maintainers: dominikkukacka
  $modules/ipa_pwpolicy.py:
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    maintainers: $team_jboss jhoekx
  $modules/jenkins_build.py:
-    maintainers: brettmilford unnecessary-username
+    maintainers: brettmilford unnecessary-username juanmcasanova
+  $modules/jenkins_build_info.py:
+    maintainers: juanmcasanova
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    maintainers: sermilrod
  $modules/jenkins_job_info.py:
@@ -669,9 +755,9 @@ files:
  $modules/jenkins_script.py:
    maintainers: hogarthj
  $modules/jira.py:
-    ignore: DWSR
+    ignore: DWSR tarka
    labels: jira
-    maintainers: Slezhuk tarka pertoft
+    maintainers: Slezhuk pertoft
  $modules/kdeconfig.py:
    maintainers: smeso
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@@ -680,8 +766,16 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_keycloak
  $modules/keycloak_authentication.py:
    maintainers: elfelip Gaetan2907
+  $modules/keycloak_authentication_required_actions.py:
+    maintainers: Skrekulko
  $modules/keycloak_authz_authorization_scope.py:
    maintainers: mattock
+  $modules/keycloak_authz_permission.py:
+    maintainers: mattock
+  $modules/keycloak_authz_custom_policy.py:
+    maintainers: mattock
+  $modules/keycloak_authz_permission_info.py:
+    maintainers: mattock
  $modules/keycloak_client_rolemapping.py:
    maintainers: Gaetan2907
  $modules/keycloak_clientscope.py:
@@ -700,12 +794,22 @@ files:
    maintainers: kris2kris
  $modules/keycloak_realm_info.py:
    maintainers: fynncfchen
+  $modules/keycloak_realm_key.py:
+    maintainers: mattock
  $modules/keycloak_role.py:
    maintainers: laurpaum
+  $modules/keycloak_user.py:
+    maintainers: elfelip
  $modules/keycloak_user_federation.py:
    maintainers: laurpaum
+  $modules/keycloak_component_info.py:
+    maintainers: desand01
+  $modules/keycloak_client_rolescope.py:
+    maintainers: desand01
  $modules/keycloak_user_rolemapping.py:
    maintainers: bratwurzt
+  $modules/keycloak_realm_rolemapping.py:
+    maintainers: agross mhuysamen Gaetan2907
  $modules/keyring.py:
    maintainers: ahussey-redhat
  $modules/keyring_info.py:
@@ -748,6 +852,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: nerzhul
  $modules/lvg.py:
    maintainers: abulimov
+  $modules/lvg_rename.py:
+    maintainers: lszomor
  $modules/lvol.py:
    maintainers: abulimov jhoekx zigaSRC unkaputtbar112
  $modules/lxc_container.py:
@@ -832,7 +938,7 @@ files:
  $modules/nmcli.py:
    maintainers: alcamie101
  $modules/nomad_:
-    maintainers: chris93111
+    maintainers: chris93111 apecnascimento
  $modules/nosh.py:
    maintainers: tacatac
  $modules/npm.py:
@@ -917,7 +1023,7 @@ files:
    labels: pagerduty
    maintainers: suprememoocow thaumos
  $modules/pagerduty_alert.py:
-    maintainers: ApsOps
+    maintainers: ApsOps xshen1
  $modules/pagerduty_change.py:
    maintainers: adamvaughan
  $modules/pagerduty_user.py:
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  $modules/pamd.py:
    maintainers: kevensen
  $modules/parted.py:
-    maintainers: ColOfAbRiX rosowiecki jake2184
+    maintainers: ColOfAbRiX jake2184
  $modules/pear.py:
    ignore: jle64
    labels: pear
@@ -960,6 +1066,9 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_solaris dermute
  $modules/pmem.py:
    maintainers: mizumm
+  $modules/pnpm.py:
+    ignore: chrishoffman
+    maintainers: aretrosen
  $modules/portage.py:
    ignore: sayap
    labels: portage
@@ -976,22 +1085,27 @@ files:
  $modules/proxmox:
    keywords: kvm libvirt proxmox qemu
    labels: proxmox virt
-    maintainers: $team_virt
+    maintainers: $team_virt UnderGreen krauthosting
+    ignore: tleguern
  $modules/proxmox.py:
    ignore: skvidal
-    maintainers: UnderGreen
+    maintainers: UnderGreen krauthosting
  $modules/proxmox_disk.py:
-    maintainers: castorsky
+    maintainers: castorsky krauthosting
  $modules/proxmox_kvm.py:
    ignore: skvidal
-    maintainers: helldorado
+    maintainers: helldorado krauthosting
  $modules/proxmox_nic.py:
-    maintainers: Kogelvis
+    maintainers: Kogelvis krauthosting
+  $modules/proxmox_node_info.py:
+    maintainers: jwbernin krauthosting
+  $modules/proxmox_storage_contents_info.py:
+    maintainers: l00ptr krauthosting
  $modules/proxmox_tasks_info:
-    maintainers: paginabianca
+    maintainers: paginabianca krauthosting
  $modules/proxmox_template.py:
    ignore: skvidal
-    maintainers: UnderGreen
+    maintainers: UnderGreen krauthosting
  $modules/pubnub_blocks.py:
    maintainers: parfeon pubnub
  $modules/pulp_repo.py:
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  $modules/python_requirements_info.py:
    ignore: ryansb
    maintainers: willthames
-  $modules/rax:
-    ignore: ryansb sivel
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-    maintainers: omgjlk sivel
-  $modules/rax_cbs.py:
-    maintainers: claco
-  $modules/rax_cbs_attachments.py:
-    maintainers: claco
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-    maintainers: jails
-  $modules/rax_cdb_database.py:
-    maintainers: jails
-  $modules/rax_cdb_user.py:
-    maintainers: jails
-  $modules/rax_clb.py:
-    maintainers: claco
-  $modules/rax_clb_nodes.py:
-    maintainers: neuroid
-  $modules/rax_clb_ssl.py:
-    maintainers: smashwilson
-  $modules/rax_files.py:
-    maintainers: angstwad
-  $modules/rax_files_objects.py:
-    maintainers: angstwad
-  $modules/rax_identity.py:
-    maintainers: claco
-  $modules/rax_mon_alarm.py:
-    maintainers: smashwilson
-  $modules/rax_mon_check.py:
-    maintainers: smashwilson
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-    maintainers: smashwilson
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-    maintainers: smashwilson
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-    maintainers: smashwilson
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-    maintainers: claco omgjlk
-  $modules/rax_queue.py:
-    maintainers: claco
  $modules/read_csv.py:
    maintainers: dagwieers
  $modules/redfish_:
@@ -1174,6 +1248,8 @@ files:
    ignore: ryansb
  $modules/shutdown.py:
    maintainers: nitzmahone samdoran aminvakil
+  $modules/simpleinit_msb.py:
+    maintainers: vaygr
  $modules/sl_vm.py:
    maintainers: mcltn
  $modules/slack.py:
@@ -1186,7 +1262,7 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_solaris
  $modules/snap.py:
    labels: snap
-    maintainers: angristan vcarceler
+    maintainers: angristan vcarceler russoz
  $modules/snap_alias.py:
    labels: snap
    maintainers: russoz
@@ -1208,8 +1284,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: farhan7500 gautamphegde
  $modules/ssh_config.py:
    maintainers: gaqzi Akasurde
-  $modules/stackdriver.py:
-    maintainers: bwhaley
  $modules/stacki_host.py:
    labels: stacki_host
    maintainers: bsanders bbyhuy
@@ -1264,6 +1338,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: nate-kingsley
  $modules/urpmi.py:
    maintainers: pmakowski
+  $modules/usb_facts.py:
+    maintainers: maxopoly
  $modules/utm_:
    keywords: sophos utm
    maintainers: $team_e_spirit
@@ -1300,8 +1376,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_wdc
  $modules/wdc_redfish_info.py:
    maintainers: $team_wdc
-  $modules/webfaction_:
-    maintainers: quentinsf
  $modules/xattr.py:
    labels: xattr
    maintainers: bcoca
@@ -1353,8 +1427,67 @@ files:
    ignore: matze
    labels: zypper
    maintainers: $team_suse
+  $plugin_utils/ansible_type.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $plugin_utils/keys_filter.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $plugin_utils/unsafe.py:
+    maintainers: felixfontein
  $tests/a_module.py:
    maintainers: felixfontein
+  $tests/ansible_type.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $tests/fqdn_valid.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+#########################
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst: {}
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst: {}
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst:
+    maintainers: keilr
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst:
+    maintainers: felixfontein giner
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst:
+    maintainers: felixfontein
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_lists_helper.rst:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-keep_keys.rst:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-remove_keys.rst:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-replace_keys.rst:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries.rst:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst:
+    maintainers: Ajpantuso kellyjonbrazil
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst:
+    maintainers: Ajpantuso
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst: {}
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst: {}
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst:
+    maintainers: resmo
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst:
+    maintainers: Ajpantuso
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst:
+    maintainers: ericzolf
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_alicloud.rst:
+    maintainers: xiaozhu36
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_cmdrunner.rst:
+    maintainers: russoz
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_deps.rst:
+    maintainers: russoz
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_online.rst:
+    maintainers: remyleone
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_packet.rst:
+    maintainers: baldwinSPC nurfet-becirevic t0mk teebes
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_scaleway.rst:
+    maintainers: $team_scaleway
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_vardict.rst:
+    maintainers: russoz
+  docs/docsite/rst/test_guide.rst:
+    maintainers: felixfontein
 #########################
  tests/:
    labels: tests
@@ -1372,7 +1505,6 @@ macros:
  becomes: plugins/become
  caches: plugins/cache
  callbacks: plugins/callback
-  cliconfs: plugins/cliconf
  connections: plugins/connection
  doc_fragments: plugins/doc_fragments
  filters: plugins/filter
@@ -1380,19 +1512,19 @@ macros:
  lookups: plugins/lookup
  module_utils: plugins/module_utils
  modules: plugins/modules
-  terminals: plugins/terminal
+  plugin_utils: plugins/plugin_utils
  tests: plugins/test
  team_ansible_core:
  team_aix: MorrisA bcoca d-little flynn1973 gforster kairoaraujo marvin-sinister mator molekuul ramooncamacho wtcross
  team_bsd: JoergFiedler MacLemon bcoca dch jasperla mekanix opoplawski overhacked tuxillo
-  team_consul: sgargan
+  team_consul: sgargan apollo13 Ilgmi
  team_cyberark_conjur: jvanderhoof ryanprior
  team_e_spirit: MatrixCrawler getjack
  team_flatpak: JayKayy oolongbrothers
-  team_gitlab: Lunik Shaps dj-wasabi marwatk waheedi zanssa scodeman metanovii sh0shin nejch lgatellier suukit
+  team_gitlab: Lunik Shaps marwatk waheedi zanssa scodeman metanovii sh0shin nejch lgatellier suukit
  team_hpux: bcoca davx8342
  team_huawei: QijunPan TommyLike edisonxiang freesky-edward hwDCN niuzhenguo xuxiaowei0512 yanzhangi zengchen1024 zhongjun2
-  team_ipa: Akasurde Nosmoht fxfitz justchris1
+  team_ipa: Akasurde Nosmoht justchris1
  team_jboss: Wolfant jairojunior wbrefvem
  team_keycloak: eikef ndclt mattock
  team_linode: InTheCloudDan decentral1se displague rmcintosh Charliekenney23 LBGarber
@@ -1408,5 +1540,5 @@ macros:
  team_scaleway: remyleone abarbare
  team_solaris: bcoca fishman jasperla jpdasma mator scathatheworm troy2914 xen0l
  team_suse: commel evrardjp lrupp toabctl AnderEnder alxgu andytom sealor
-  team_virt: joshainglis karmab tleguern Thulium-Drake Ajpantuso
+  team_virt: joshainglis karmab Thulium-Drake Ajpantuso
  team_wdc: mikemoerk
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
@@ -29,22 +29,20 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        ansible:
-          - '2.11'
+          - '2.13'
+          - '2.14'
    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: >-
-      ${{ contains(fromJson(
-          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
-      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Perform sanity testing
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
-          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: felixfontein/ansible
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
+          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
          testing-type: sanity
@@ -55,10 +53,7 @@ jobs:
    # 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: >-
-      ${{ contains(fromJson(
-          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
-      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: EOL Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+py${{ matrix.python }})
    strategy:
      # As soon as the first unit test fails, cancel the others to free up the CI queue
@@ -71,10 +66,16 @@ jobs:
        exclude:
          - ansible: ''
        include:
-          - ansible: '2.11'
+          - ansible: '2.13'
            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            python: '3.5'
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            python: '3.8'
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            python: '2.7'
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            python: '3.8'
+          - ansible: '2.14'
+            python: '3.9'

    steps:
      - name: >-
@@ -82,8 +83,8 @@ jobs:
          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 }}
+          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pre-test-cmd: >-
            mkdir -p ../../ansible
@@ -99,10 +100,7 @@ jobs:
    # 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: >-
-      ${{ contains(fromJson(
-          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
-      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: EOL I (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+${{ matrix.docker }}+py${{ matrix.python }}:${{ matrix.target }})
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
@@ -118,52 +116,66 @@ jobs:
        exclude:
          - ansible: ''
        include:
-          # 2.11
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora32
+          # 2.13
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: fedora35
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora32
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: fedora35
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora32
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: fedora35
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora33
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: opensuse15py2
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora33
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: opensuse15py2
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
-            docker: fedora33
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: opensuse15py2
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
+          - ansible: '2.13'
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
+          - ansible: '2.13'
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.11'
+          - ansible: '2.13'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          # 2.14
+          - ansible: '2.14'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.14'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.14'
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-          # - ansible: '2.11'
+          # - ansible: '2.13'
          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '2.7'
+          #   python: '3.9'
          #   target: azp/generic/1/
-          # - ansible: '2.11'
+          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
+          # - ansible: '2.14'
          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '3.5'
-          #   target: azp/generic/2/
+          #   python: '3.10'
+          #   target: azp/generic/1/

    steps:
      - name: >-
@@ -172,8 +184,8 @@ jobs:
          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 }}
+          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          docker-image: ${{ matrix.docker }}
          integration-continue-on-error: 'false'
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ jobs:

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

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

    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3
--- a/.github/workflows/import-galaxy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/import-galaxy.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+name: import-galaxy
+'on':
+  # Run CI against all pushes (direct commits, also merged PRs) to main, and all Pull Requests
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - stable-*
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  import-galaxy:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    name: Test to import built collection artifact with Galaxy importer
+    uses: ansible-community/github-action-test-galaxy-import/.github/workflows/test-galaxy-import.yml@main
--- a/.github/workflows/reuse.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reuse.yml
@@ -22,14 +22,9 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

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

-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          pip install reuse
-
-      - name: Check REUSE compliance
-        run: |
-          reuse lint
+      - name: REUSE Compliance Check
+        uses: fsfe/reuse-action@v4
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -512,3 +512,7 @@ $RECYCLE.BIN/

 # Integration tests cloud configs
 tests/integration/cloud-config-*.ini
+
+
+# VSCode specific extensions
+.vscode/settings.json
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-repos:
-  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.0.1
-    hooks:
-      - id: trailing-whitespace
-      - id: end-of-file-fixer
-      - id: mixed-line-ending
-        args: [--fix=lf]
-      - id: fix-encoding-pragma
-      - id: check-ast
-      - id: check-merge-conflict
-      - id: check-symlinks
-  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pygrep-hooks
-    rev: v1.9.0
-    hooks:
-      - id: rst-backticks
-        types: [file]
-        files: changelogs/fragments/.*\.(yml|yaml)$
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,495 @@
+# Community General Release Notes
+
+**Topics**
+
+- <a href="#v9-2-0">v9\.2\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#new-plugins">New Plugins</a>
+        - <a href="#filter">Filter</a>
+        - <a href="#test">Test</a>
+- <a href="#v9-1-0">v9\.1\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-1">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-1">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features">Deprecated Features</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-1">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#known-issues">Known Issues</a>
+    - <a href="#new-plugins-1">New Plugins</a>
+        - <a href="#filter-1">Filter</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules">New Modules</a>
+- <a href="#v9-0-1">v9\.0\.1</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-2">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-2">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-2">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v9-0-0">v9\.0\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-3">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-3">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#breaking-changes--porting-guide">Breaking Changes / Porting Guide</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features-1">Deprecated Features</a>
+    - <a href="#removed-features-previously-deprecated">Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)</a>
+    - <a href="#security-fixes">Security Fixes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-3">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#new-plugins-2">New Plugins</a>
+        - <a href="#become">Become</a>
+        - <a href="#callback">Callback</a>
+        - <a href="#connection">Connection</a>
+        - <a href="#filter-2">Filter</a>
+        - <a href="#lookup">Lookup</a>
+        - <a href="#test-1">Test</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules-1">New Modules</a>
+This changelog describes changes after version 8\.0\.0\.
+
+<a id="v9-2-0"></a>
+## v9\.2\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* CmdRunner module utils \- the parameter <code>force\_lang</code> now supports the special value <code>auto</code> which will automatically try and determine the best parsable locale in the system \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8517](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8517)\)\.
+* proxmox \- add <code>disk\_volume</code> and <code>mount\_volumes</code> keys for better readability \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542)\)\.
+* proxmox \- translate the old <code>disk</code> and <code>mounts</code> keys to the new handling internally \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542)\)\.
+* proxmox\_template \- small refactor in logic for determining whether a template exists or not \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8516](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8516)\)\.
+* redfish\_\* modules \- adds <code>ciphers</code> option for custom cipher selection \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8533](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8533)\)\.
+* sudosu become plugin \- added an option \(<code>alt\_method</code>\) to enhance compatibility with more versions of <code>su</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8214](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8214)\)\.
+* virtualbox inventory plugin \- expose a new parameter <code>enable\_advanced\_group\_parsing</code> to change how the VirtualBox dynamic inventory parses VM groups \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8508](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8508)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8510](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8510)\)\.
+* wdc\_redfish\_command \- minor change to handle upgrade file for Redfish WD platforms \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8444](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8444)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- fix <code>KeyError</code> in <code>search\_field</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8549](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8549)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8557](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8557)\)\.
+* keycloak\_clientscope \- remove IDs from clientscope and its protocol mappers on comparison for changed check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8545](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8545)\)\.
+* nsupdate \- fix \'index out of range\' error when changing NS records by falling back to authority section of the response \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8612](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8612)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8614](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8614)\)\.
+* proxmox \- fix idempotency on creation of mount volumes using Proxmox\' special <code>\<storage\>\:\<size\></code> syntax \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8407](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8407)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542)\)\.
+* redfish\_utils module utils \- do not fail when language is not exactly \"en\" \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8613](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8613)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-plugins"></a>
+### New Plugins
+
+<a id="filter"></a>
+#### Filter
+
+* community\.general\.reveal\_ansible\_type \- Return input type\.
+
+<a id="test"></a>
+#### Test
+
+* community\.general\.ansible\_type \- Validate input type\.
+
+<a id="v9-1-0"></a>
+## v9\.1\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-1"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular feature and bugfix release\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-1"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* CmdRunner module util \- argument formats can be specified as plain functions without calling <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_func\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479)\)\.
+* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- add upgrade feature \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8431](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8431)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8351](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8351)\)\.
+* cargo \- add option <code>directory</code>\, which allows source directory to be specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8480](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8480)\)\.
+* cmd\_runner module utils \- add decorator <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.stack</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8415](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8415)\)\.
+* cmd\_runner\_fmt module utils \- simplify implementation of <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_bool\_not\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8512](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8512)\)\.
+* ipa\_dnsrecord \- adds <code>SSHFP</code> record type for managing SSH fingerprints in FreeIPA DNS \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8404](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8404)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- assign auth flow by name \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8428](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8428)\)\.
+* openbsd\_pkg \- adds diff support to show changes in installed package list\. This does not yet work for check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8402](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8402)\)\.
+* proxmox \- allow specification of the API port when using proxmox\_\* \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8440](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8440)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8441](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8441)\)\.
+* proxmox\_vm\_info \- add <code>network</code> option to retrieve current network information \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8471](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8471)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add <code>wait</code> and <code>wait\_timeout</code> options to allow a user to block a command until a service is accessible after performing the requested command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add command <code>CheckAvailability</code> to check if a service is accessible \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434)\)\.
+* redis\_info \- adds support for getting cluster info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8464](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8464)\)\.
+
+<a id="deprecated-features"></a>
+### Deprecated Features
+
+* CmdRunner module util \- setting the value of the <code>ignore\_none</code> parameter within a <code>CmdRunner</code> context is deprecated and that feature should be removed in community\.general 12\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479)\)\.
+* git\_config \- the <code>list\_all</code> option has been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 11\.0\.0\. Use the <code>community\.general\.git\_config\_info</code> module instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453)\)\.
+* git\_config \- using <code>state\=present</code> without providing <code>value</code> is deprecated and will be disallowed in community\.general 11\.0\.0\. Use the <code>community\.general\.git\_config\_info</code> module instead to read a value \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-1"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* git\_config \- fix behavior of <code>state\=absent</code> if <code>value</code> is present \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8436](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8436)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8452](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8452)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm \- add normalizations for <code>attributes</code> and <code>protocol\_mappers</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8496](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8496)\)\.
+* launched \- correctly report changed status in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406)\)\.
+* opennebula inventory plugin \- fix invalid reference to IP when inventory runs against NICs with no IPv4 address \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8489](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8489)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback \- do not save the JSON response when using the <code>ansible\.builtin\.uri</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback \- do not save the content response when using the <code>ansible\.builtin\.slurp</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430)\)\.
+* paman \- do not fail if an empty list of packages has been provided and there is nothing to do \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8514](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8514)\)\.
+
+<a id="known-issues"></a>
+### Known Issues
+
+* homectl \- the module does not work under Python 3\.13 or newer\, since it relies on the removed <code>crypt</code> standard library module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4691](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4691)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497)\)\.
+* udm\_user \- the module does not work under Python 3\.13 or newer\, since it relies on the removed <code>crypt</code> standard library module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4690](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4690)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-plugins-1"></a>
+### New Plugins
+
+<a id="filter-1"></a>
+#### Filter
+
+* community\.general\.keep\_keys \- Keep specific keys from dictionaries in a list\.
+* community\.general\.remove\_keys \- Remove specific keys from dictionaries in a list\.
+* community\.general\.replace\_keys \- Replace specific keys in a list of dictionaries\.
+
+<a id="new-modules"></a>
+### New Modules
+
+* community\.general\.consul\_agent\_check \- Add\, modify\, and delete checks within a consul cluster\.
+* community\.general\.consul\_agent\_service \- Add\, modify and delete services within a consul cluster\.
+* community\.general\.django\_check \- Wrapper for C\(django\-admin check\)\.
+* community\.general\.django\_createcachetable \- Wrapper for C\(django\-admin createcachetable\)\.
+
+<a id="v9-0-1"></a>
+## v9\.0\.1
+
+<a id="release-summary-2"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 10\.0\.0rc1\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-2"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- minor refactor in the module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8413](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8413)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-2"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* cpanm \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* django module utils \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* gconftool2\_info \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* homebrew \- do not fail when brew prints warnings \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7044](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7044)\)\.
+* hponcfg \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* kernel\_blacklist \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- fix TypeError when sanitizing the <code>saml\.signing\.private\.key</code> attribute in the module\'s diff or state output\. The <code>sanitize\_cr</code> function expected a dict where in some cases a list might occur \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8403](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8403)\)\.
+* locale\_gen \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* mksysb \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* pipx\_info \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* snap \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* snap\_alias \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+
+<a id="v9-0-0"></a>
+## v9\.0\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-3"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+This is release 9\.0\.0 of <code>community\.general</code>\, released on 2024\-05\-20\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-3"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* PythonRunner module utils \- specialisation of <code>CmdRunner</code> to execute Python scripts \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8289](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8289)\)\.
+* Use offset\-aware <code>datetime\.datetime</code> objects \(with timezone UTC\) instead of offset\-naive UTC timestamps\, which are deprecated in Python 3\.12 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8222](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8222)\)\.
+* aix\_lvol \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- add new states <code>latest</code> and <code>present\_not\_latest</code>\. The value <code>latest</code> is equivalent to the current behavior of <code>present</code>\, which will upgrade a package if a newer version exists\. <code>present\_not\_latest</code> does what most users would expect <code>present</code> to do\: it does not upgrade if the package is already installed\. The current behavior of <code>present</code> will be deprecated in a later version\, and eventually changed to that of <code>present\_not\_latest</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8247](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8247)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- add <code>bw\_session</code> option\, to pass session key instead of reading from env \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7994](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7994)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- add support to filter by organization ID \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8188](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8188)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- allows to fetch all records of a given collection ID\, by allowing to pass an empty value for <code>search\_value</code> when <code>collection\_id</code> is provided \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8013](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8013)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- when looking for items using an item ID\, the item is now accessed directly with <code>bw get item</code> instead of searching through all items\. This doubles the lookup speed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7468](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7468)\)\.
+* btrfs\_subvolume \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* cmd\_runner module\_utils \- add validation for minimum and maximum length in the value passed to <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_list\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8288](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8288)\)\.
+* consul\_auth\_method\, consul\_binding\_rule\, consul\_policy\, consul\_role\, consul\_session\, consul\_token \- added action group <code>community\.general\.consul</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7897](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7897)\)\.
+* consul\_policy \- added support for diff and check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_policy\, consul\_role\, consul\_session \- removed dependency on <code>requests</code> and factored out common parts \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7826](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7826)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- <code>node\_identities</code> now expects a <code>node\_name</code> option to match the Consul API\, the old <code>name</code> is still supported as alias \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- <code>service\_identities</code> now expects a <code>service\_name</code> option to match the Consul API\, the old <code>name</code> is still supported as alias \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- added support for diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- added support for templated policies \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* elastic callback plugin \- close elastic client to not leak resources \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7517](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7517)\)\.
+* filesystem \- add bcachefs support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8126](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8126)\)\.
+* gandi\_livedns \- adds support for personal access tokens \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7639](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7639)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8337](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8337)\)\.
+* gconftool2 \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* git\_config \- allow multiple git configs for the same name with the new <code>add\_mode</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
+* git\_config \- the <code>after</code> and <code>before</code> fields in the <code>diff</code> of the return value can be a list instead of a string in case more configs with the same key are affected \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
+* git\_config \- when a value is unset\, all configs with the same key are unset \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
+* gitlab modules \- add <code>ca\_path</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7472](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7472)\)\.
+* gitlab modules \- remove duplicate <code>gitlab</code> package check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7486](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7486)\)\.
+* gitlab\_deploy\_key\, gitlab\_group\_members\, gitlab\_group\_variable\, gitlab\_hook\, gitlab\_instance\_variable\, gitlab\_project\_badge\, gitlab\_project\_variable\, gitlab\_user \- improve API pagination and compatibility with different versions of <code>python\-gitlab</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790)\)\.
+* gitlab\_hook \- adds <code>releases\_events</code> parameter for supporting Releases events triggers on GitLab hooks \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7956](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7956)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- add support for new runner creation workflow \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7199](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7199)\)\.
+* homebrew \- adds <code>force\_formula</code> parameter to disambiguate a formula from a cask of the same name \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8274](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8274)\)\.
+* homebrew\, homebrew\_cask \- refactor common argument validation logic into a dedicated <code>homebrew</code> module utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8323](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8323)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8324](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8324)\)\.
+* icinga2 inventory plugin \- add Jinja2 templating support to <code>url</code>\, <code>user</code>\, and <code>password</code> paramenters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7074](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7074)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7996](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7996)\)\.
+* icinga2 inventory plugin \- adds new parameter <code>group\_by\_hostgroups</code> in order to make grouping by Icinga2 hostgroups optional \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7998](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7998)\)\.
+* ini\_file \- add an optional parameter <code>section\_has\_values</code>\. If the target ini file contains more than one <code>section</code>\, use <code>section\_has\_values</code> to specify which one should be updated \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7505](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7505)\)\.
+* ini\_file \- support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding brackets \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8075](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8075)\)\.
+* installp \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* ipa\_config \- adds <code>passkey</code> choice to <code>ipauserauthtype</code> parameter\'s choices \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7588](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7588)\)\.
+* ipa\_dnsrecord \- adds ability to manage NS record types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7737](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7737)\)\.
+* ipa\_pwpolicy \- refactor module and exchange a sequence <code>if</code> statements with a <code>for</code> loop \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723)\)\.
+* ipa\_pwpolicy \- update module to support <code>maxrepeat</code>\, <code>maxsequence</code>\, <code>dictcheck</code>\, <code>usercheck</code>\, <code>gracelimit</code> parameters in FreeIPA password policies \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723)\)\.
+* ipa\_sudorule \- adds options to include denied commands or command groups \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7415](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7415)\)\.
+* ipa\_user \- adds <code>idp</code> and <code>passkey</code> choice to <code>ipauserauthtype</code> parameter\'s choices \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7589](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7589)\)\.
+* irc \- add <code>validate\_certs</code> option\, and rename <code>use\_ssl</code> to <code>use\_tls</code>\, while keeping <code>use\_ssl</code> as an alias\. The default value for <code>validate\_certs</code> is <code>false</code> for backwards compatibility\. We recommend to every user of this module to explicitly set <code>use\_tls\=true</code> and <em class="title-reference">validate\_certs\=true\`</em> whenever possible\, especially when communicating to IRC servers over the internet \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7550](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7550)\)\.
+* java\_cert \- add <code>cert\_content</code> argument \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8153](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8153)\)\.
+* java\_cert \- enable <code>owner</code>\, <code>group</code>\, <code>mode</code>\, and other generic file arguments \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8116)\)\.
+* kernel\_blacklist \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* keycloak module utils \- expose error message from Keycloak server for HTTP errors in some specific situations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7645](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7645)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client\, keycloak\_clientscope\, keycloak\_clienttemplate \- added <code>docker\-v2</code> protocol support\, enhancing alignment with Keycloak\'s protocol options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8215](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8215)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8216](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8216)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>config\.algorithm</code> option now supports 8 additional key algorithms \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>config\.certificate</code> option value is no longer defined with <code>no\_log\=True</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>provider\_id</code> option now supports RSA encryption key usage \(value <code>rsa\-enc</code>\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- add option for <code>krbPrincipalAttribute</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7538](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7538)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- allow custom user storage providers to be set through <code>provider\_id</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7789](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7789)\)\.
+* ldap\_attrs \- module now supports diff mode\, showing which attributes are changed within an operation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8073](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8073)\)\.
+* lvg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* lvol \- change <code>pvs</code> argument type to list of strings \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7676](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7676)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7504](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7504)\)\.
+* lvol \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* lxd connection plugin \- tighten the detection logic for lxd <code>Instance not found</code> errors\, to avoid false detection on unrelated errors such as <code>/usr/bin/python3\: not found</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7521](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7521)\)\.
+* lxd\_container \- uses <code>/1\.0/instances</code> API endpoint\, if available\. Falls back to <code>/1\.0/containers</code> or <code>/1\.0/virtual\-machines</code>\. Fixes issue when using Incus or LXD 5\.19 due to migrating to <code>/1\.0/instances</code> endpoint \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7980](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7980)\)\.
+* macports \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* mail \- add <code>Message\-ID</code> header\; which is required by some mail servers \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7740](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7740)\)\.
+* mail module\, mail callback plugin \- allow to configure the domain name of the Message\-ID header with a new <code>message\_id\_domain</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7765](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7765)\)\.
+* mssql\_script \- adds transactional \(rollback/commit\) support via optional boolean param <code>transaction</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7976](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7976)\)\.
+* netcup\_dns \- adds support for record types <code>OPENPGPKEY</code>\, <code>SMIMEA</code>\, and <code>SSHFP</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7489](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7489)\)\.
+* nmcli \- add support for new connection type <code>loopback</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6572](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6572)\)\.
+* nmcli \- adds OpenvSwitch support with new <code>type</code> values <code>ovs\-port</code>\, <code>ovs\-interface</code>\, and <code>ovs\-bridge</code>\, and new <code>slave\_type</code> value <code>ovs\-port</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8154](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8154)\)\.
+* nmcli \- allow for <code>infiniband</code> slaves of <code>bond</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7569](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7569)\)\.
+* nmcli \- allow for the setting of <code>MTU</code> for <code>infiniband</code> and <code>bond</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7499](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7499)\)\.
+* nmcli \- allow setting <code>MTU</code> for <code>bond\-slave</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8118](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8118)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect\_host and connect\_token parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116)\)\.
+* onepassword\_raw lookup plugin \- support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect\_host and connect\_token parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116)\)
+* opentelemetry \- add support for HTTP trace\_exporter and configures the behavior via <code>OTEL\_EXPORTER\_OTLP\_TRACES\_PROTOCOL</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8321](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8321)\)\.
+* opentelemetry \- add support for exporting spans in a file via <code>ANSIBLE\_OPENTELEMETRY\_STORE\_SPANS\_IN\_FILE</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8363](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8363)\)\.
+* opkg \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* osx\_defaults \- add option <code>check\_types</code> to enable changing the type of existing defaults on the fly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8173](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8173)\)\.
+* parted \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* passwordstore \- adds <code>timestamp</code> and <code>preserve</code> parameters to modify the stored password format \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7426](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7426)\)\.
+* passwordstore lookup \- add <code>missing\_subkey</code> parameter defining the behavior of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8166](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8166)\)\.
+* pipx \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* pkg5 \- add support for non\-silent execution \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8379](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8379)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8382](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8382)\)\.
+* pkgin \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* portage \- adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages to world file \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6226)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8236](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8236)\)\.
+* portinstall \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* proxmox \- adds <code>startup</code> parameters to configure startup order\, startup delay and shutdown delay \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8038](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8038)\)\.
+* proxmox \- adds <code>template</code> value to the <code>state</code> parameter\, allowing conversion of container to a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143)\)\.
+* proxmox \- adds <code>update</code> parameter\, allowing update of an already existing containers configuration \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7540](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7540)\)\.
+* proxmox inventory plugin \- adds an option to exclude nodes from the dynamic inventory generation\. The new setting is optional\, not using this option will behave as usual \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6714](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6714)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7461](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7461)\)\.
+* proxmox\* modules \- there is now a <code>community\.general\.proxmox</code> module defaults group that can be used to set default options for all Proxmox modules \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8334](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8334)\)\.
+* proxmox\_disk \- add ability to manipulate CD\-ROM drive \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7495](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7495)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- add parameter <code>update\_unsafe</code> to avoid limitations when updating dangerous values \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7843](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7843)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- adds <code>template</code> value to the <code>state</code> parameter\, allowing conversion of a VM to a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- adds\`\`usb\`\` parameter for setting USB devices on proxmox KVM VMs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8199](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8199)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- support the <code>hookscript</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7600](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7600)\)\.
+* proxmox\_ostype \- it is now possible to specify the <code>ostype</code> when creating an LXC container \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7462](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7462)\)\.
+* proxmox\_vm\_info \- add ability to retrieve configuration info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7485](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7485)\)\.
+* puppet \- new feature to set <code>\-\-waitforlock</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8282](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8282)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add command <code>ResetToDefaults</code> to reset manager to default state \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8163](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8163)\)\.
+* redfish\_config \- add command <code>SetServiceIdentification</code> to set service identification \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7916](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7916)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add boolean return value <code>MultipartHttpPush</code> to <code>GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8194](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8194)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8195](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8195)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add command <code>GetServiceIdentification</code> to get service identification \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7882](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7882)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- adding the <code>BootProgress</code> property when getting <code>Systems</code> info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7626](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7626)\)\.
+* revbitspss lookup plugin \- removed a redundant unicode prefix\. The prefix was not necessary for Python 3 and has been cleaned up to streamline the code \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8087](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8087)\)\.
+* rundeck module utils \- allow to pass <code>Content\-Type</code> to API requests \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7684](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7684)\)\.
+* slackpkg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- adds <code>controlmaster</code>\, <code>controlpath</code> and <code>controlpersist</code> parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7456](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7456)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- allow <code>accept\-new</code> as valid value for <code>strict\_host\_key\_checking</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8257](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8257)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- new feature to set <code>AddKeysToAgent</code> option to <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7703](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7703)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- new feature to set <code>IdentitiesOnly</code> option to <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7704](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7704)\)\.
+* sudoers \- add support for the <code>NOEXEC</code> tag in sudoers rules \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7983](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7983)\)\.
+* svr4pkg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* swdepot \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* terraform \- add support for <code>diff\_mode</code> for terraform resource\_changes \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7896](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7896)\)\.
+* terraform \- fix <code>diff\_mode</code> in state <code>absent</code> and when terraform <code>resource\_changes</code> does not exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7963](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7963)\)\.
+* xcc\_redfish\_command \- added support for raw POSTs \(<code>command\=PostResource</code> in <code>category\=Raw</code>\) without a specific action info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7746](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7746)\)\.
+* xfconf \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* xfconf\_info \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+
+<a id="breaking-changes--porting-guide"></a>
+### Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+
+* cpanm \- the default of the <code>mode</code> option changed from <code>compatibility</code> to <code>new</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- the module now requires Django \>\= 4\.1 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- the module will now fail if <code>virtualenv</code> is specified but no virtual environment exists at that location \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* redfish\_command\, redfish\_config\, redfish\_info \- change the default for <code>timeout</code> from 10 to 60 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+
+<a id="deprecated-features-1"></a>
+### Deprecated Features
+
+* MH DependencyCtxMgr module\_utils \- deprecate <code>module\_utils\.mh\.mixin\.deps\.DependencyCtxMgr</code> in favour of <code>module\_utils\.deps</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.AnsibleModule</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.DependencyCtxMgr</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.StateMixin</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarDict\,</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarMeta</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarsMixin</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate use of <code>VarsMixin</code> in favor of using the <code>VardDict</code> module\_utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper vars module\_utils \- bump deprecation of <code>VarMeta</code>\, <code>VarDict</code> and <code>VarsMixin</code> to version 11\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- the behavior of <code>state\=present</code> and <code>state\=installed</code> is deprecated and will change in community\.general 11\.0\.0\. Right now the module will upgrade a package to the latest version if one of these two states is used\. You should explicitly use <code>state\=latest</code> if you want this behavior\, and switch to <code>state\=present\_not\_latest</code> if you do not want to upgrade the package if it is already installed\. In community\.general 11\.0\.0 the behavior of <code>state\=present</code> and <code>state\=installed</code> will change to that of <code>state\=present\_not\_latest</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8285](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8285)\)\.
+* consul\_acl \- the module has been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0\. <code>consul\_token</code> and <code>consul\_policy</code> can be used instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7901](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7901)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- the <code>ack\_venv\_creation\_deprecation</code> option has no more effect and will be removed from community\.general 11\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* gitlab modules \- the basic auth method on GitLab API have been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8383](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8383)\)\.
+* hipchat callback plugin \- the hipchat service has been discontinued and the self\-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020\. The callback plugin is therefore deprecated and will be removed from community\.general 10\.0\.0 if nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8184](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8184)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8189](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8189)\)\.
+* irc \- the defaults <code>false</code> for <code>use\_tls</code> and <code>validate\_certs</code> have been deprecated and will change to <code>true</code> in community\.general 10\.0\.0 to improve security\. You can already improve security now by explicitly setting them to <code>true</code>\. Specifying values now disables the deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7578](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7578)\)\.
+
+<a id="removed-features-previously-deprecated"></a>
+### Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)
+
+* The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed\. These internal redirects were extra\-long FQCNs like <code>community\.general\.packaging\.os\.apt\_rpm</code> that redirect to the short FQCN <code>community\.general\.apt\_rpm</code>\. They were originally needed to implement flatmapping\; as various tooling started to recommend users to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection and redirects were added for users who already followed these incorrect recommendations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7835](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7835)\)\.
+* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- the <code>ack\_ansible29</code> and <code>ack\_min\_ansiblecore211</code> options have been removed\. They no longer had any effect \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* cloudflare\_dns \- remove support for SPF records\. These are no longer supported by CloudFlare \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7782](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7782)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- support for the <code>command</code> values <code>cleanup</code>\, <code>syncdb</code>\, and <code>validate</code> were removed\. Use <code>clearsessions</code>\, <code>migrate</code>\, and <code>check</code> instead\, respectively \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* flowdock \- this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* mh\.mixins\.deps module utils \- the <code>DependencyMixin</code> has been removed\. Use the <code>deps</code> module utils instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* proxmox \- the <code>proxmox\_default\_behavior</code> option has been removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* rax\* modules\, rax module utils\, rax docs fragment \- the Rackspace modules relied on the deprecated package <code>pyrax</code> and were thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* redhat module utils \- the classes <code>Rhsm</code>\, <code>RhsmPool</code>\, and <code>RhsmPools</code> have been removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- the alias <code>autosubscribe</code> of the <code>auto\_attach</code> option was removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* stackdriver \- this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* webfaction\_\* modules \- these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and were thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+
+<a id="security-fixes"></a>
+### Security Fixes
+
+* cobbler\, gitlab\_runners\, icinga2\, linode\, lxd\, nmap\, online\, opennebula\, proxmox\, scaleway\, stackpath\_compute\, virtualbox\, and xen\_orchestra inventory plugin \- make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe\, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible \([https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/](https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098)\)\.
+* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- the client secret was not correctly sanitized by the module\. The return values <code>proposed</code>\, <code>existing</code>\, and <code>end\_state</code>\, as well as the diff\, did contain the client secret unmasked \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8355](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8355)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-3"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* aix\_filesystem \- fix <code>\_validate\_vg</code> not passing VG name to <code>lsvg\_cmd</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151)\)\.
+* aix\_filesystem \- fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052)\)\.
+* apt\-rpm \- the module did not upgrade packages if a newer version exists\. Now the package will be reinstalled if the candidate is newer than the installed version \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- when checking whether packages were installed after running <code>apt\-get \-y install \<packages\></code>\, only the last package name was checked \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263)\)\.
+* bitwarden\_secrets\_manager lookup plugin \- implements retry with exponential backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn\'s API rate limiting is encountered \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238)\)\.
+* cargo \- fix idempotency issues when using a custom installation path for packages \(using the <code>\-\-path</code> parameter\)\. The initial installation runs fine\, but subsequent runs use the <code>get\_installed\(\)</code> function which did not check the given installation location\, before running <code>cargo install</code>\. This resulted in a false <code>changed</code> state\. Also the removal of packeges using <code>state\: absent</code> failed\, as the installation check did not use the given parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970)\)\.
+* cloudflare\_dns \- fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652)\)\.
+* consul\_token \- fix token creation without <code>accessor\_id</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8091](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8091)\)\.
+* from\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of <code>ConfigParser</code> to allow converting values with a <code>\%</code> sign \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185)\)\.
+* gitlab\_group\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_group\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_issue \- fix behavior to search GitLab issue\, using <code>search</code> keyword instead of <code>title</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7846](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7846)\)\.
+* gitlab\_issue\, gitlab\_label\, gitlab\_milestone \- avoid crash during version comparison when the python\-gitlab Python module is not installed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_project\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_protected\_branches \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_protected\_branches</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- fix pagination when checking for existing runners \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790)\)\.
+* gitlab\_user \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_user</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* haproxy \- fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092)\)\.
+* homebrew \- detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from <code>brew info</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864)\)\.
+* homebrew \- error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse empty JSON\. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error message to users \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047)\)\.
+* incus connection plugin \- treats <code>inventory\_hostname</code> as a variable instead of a literal in remote connections \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7874](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7874)\)\.
+* interface\_files \- also consider <code>address\_family</code> when changing <code>option\=method</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612)\)\.
+* inventory plugins \- add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain <code>\{</code> or <code>\}</code> as unsafe\, to work around a bug in AWX \(\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225)\)\.
+* ipa \- fix get version regex in IPA module\_utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175)\)\.
+* ipa\_hbacrule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
+* ipa\_otptoken \- the module expect <code>ipatokendisabled</code> as string but the <code>ipatokendisabled</code> value is returned as a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795)\)\.
+* ipa\_sudorule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
+* iptables\_state \- fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables dumps \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029)\)\.
+* irc \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
+* keycloak\_\* \- fix Keycloak API client to quote <code>/</code> properly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641)\)\.
+* keycloak\_authz\_permission \- resource payload variable for scope\-based permission was constructed as a string\, when it needs to be a list\, even for a single item \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- add sorted <code>defaultClientScopes</code> and <code>optionalClientScopes</code> to normalizations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when task is in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881)\)\.
+* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- <code>mappers</code> processing was not idempotent if the mappers configuration list had not been sorted by name \(in ascending order\)\. Fix resolves the issue by sorting mappers in the desired state using the same key which is used for obtaining existing state \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
+* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- it was not possible to reconfigure \(add\, remove\) <code>mappers</code> once they were created initially\. Removal was ignored\, adding new ones resulted in dropping the pre\-existing unmodified mappers\. Fix resolves the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm \- add normalizations for <code>enabledEventTypes</code> and <code>supportedLocales</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user \- when <code>force</code> is set\, but user does not exist\, do not try to delete it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- fix diff of empty <code>krbPrincipalAttribute</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8320](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8320)\)\.
+* ldap \- previously the order number \(if present\) was expected to follow an equals sign in the DN\. This makes it so the order number string is identified correctly anywhere within the DN \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646)\)\.
+* linode inventory plugin \- add descriptive error message for linode inventory plugin \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133)\)\.
+* log\_entries callback plugin \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
+* lvol \- test for output messages in both <code>stdout</code> and <code>stderr</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182)\)\.
+* merge\_variables lookup plugin \- fixing cross host merge\: providing access to foreign hosts variables to the perspective of the host that is performing the merge \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8303](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8303)\)\.
+* modprobe \- listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError if <code>/etc/modprobe\.d</code> or <code>/etc/modules\-load\.d</code> did not exist\. Relevant functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid crashing the module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717)\)\.
+* mssql\_script \- make the module work with Python 2 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821)\)\.
+* nmcli \- fix <code>connection\.slave\-type</code> wired to <code>bond</code> and not with parameter <code>slave\_type</code> in case of connection type <code>wifi</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389)\)\.
+* ocapi\_utils\, oci\_utils\, redfish\_utils module utils \- replace <code>type\(\)</code> calls with <code>isinstance\(\)</code> calls \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- failed for fields that were in sections and had uppercase letters in the label/ID\. Field lookups are now case insensitive in all cases \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- field and section titles are now case insensitive when using op CLI version two or later\. This matches the behavior of version one \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback plugin \- close spans always \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8367](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8367)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback plugin \- honour the <code>disable\_logs</code> option to avoid storing task results since they are not used regardless \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8373](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8373)\)\.
+* pacemaker\_cluster \- actually implement check mode\, which the module claims to support\. This means that until now the module also did changes in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081)\)\.
+* pam\_limits \- when the file does not exist\, do not create it in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057)\)\.
+* pipx module utils \- change the CLI argument formatter for the <code>pip\_args</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506)\)\.
+* pkgin \- pkgin \(pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS\) raises erratic exceptions and spurious <code>changed\=true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971)\)\.
+* proxmox \- fix updating a container config if the setting does not already exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- fixed status check getting from node\-specific API endpoint \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- running <code>state\=template</code> will first check whether VM is already a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7792](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7792)\)\.
+* proxmox\_pool\_member \- absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464)\)\.
+* puppet \- add option <code>environment\_lang</code> to set the environment language encoding\. Defaults to lang <code>C</code>\. It is recommended to set it to <code>C\.UTF\-8</code> or <code>en\_US\.UTF\-8</code> depending on what is available on your system\. \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000)\)
+* redfish\_command \- fix usage of message parsing in <code>SimpleUpdate</code> and <code>MultipartHTTPPushUpdate</code> commands to treat the lack of a <code>MessageId</code> as no message \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- allow for a GET operation invoked by <code>GetUpdateStatus</code> to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No Content \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve <code>Chassis</code> information \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- use the D\-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7\.4 and
+  greater\; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622)\,
+  [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624)\)\.
+* riak \- support <code>riak admin</code> sub\-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy <code>riak\-admin</code> main command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211)\)\.
+* statusio\_maintenance \- fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload\. Was raising \"Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request\" caused by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754)\)\.
+* terraform \- fix multiline string handling in complex variables \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535)\)\.
+* to\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of <code>ConfigParser</code> to allow converting values with a <code>\%</code> sign \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185)\)\.
+* xml \- make module work with lxml 5\.1\.1\, which removed some internals that the module was relying on \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-plugins-2"></a>
+### New Plugins
+
+<a id="become"></a>
+#### Become
+
+* community\.general\.run0 \- Systemd\'s run0\.
+
+<a id="callback"></a>
+#### Callback
+
+* community\.general\.default\_without\_diff \- The default ansible callback without diff output\.
+* community\.general\.timestamp \- Adds simple timestamp for each header\.
+
+<a id="connection"></a>
+#### Connection
+
+* community\.general\.incus \- Run tasks in Incus instances via the Incus CLI\.
+
+<a id="filter-2"></a>
+#### Filter
+
+* community\.general\.from\_ini \- Converts INI text input into a dictionary\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_difference \- Difference of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_intersect \- Intersection of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_symmetric\_difference \- Symmetric Difference of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_union \- Union of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.to\_ini \- Converts a dictionary to the INI file format\.
+
+<a id="lookup"></a>
+#### Lookup
+
+* community\.general\.github\_app\_access\_token \- Obtain short\-lived Github App Access tokens\.
+* community\.general\.onepassword\_doc \- Fetch documents stored in 1Password\.
+
+<a id="test-1"></a>
+#### Test
+
+* community\.general\.fqdn\_valid \- Validates fully\-qualified domain names against RFC 1123\.
+
+<a id="new-modules-1"></a>
+### New Modules
+
+* community\.general\.consul\_acl\_bootstrap \- Bootstrap ACLs in Consul\.
+* community\.general\.consul\_auth\_method \- Manipulate Consul auth methods\.
+* community\.general\.consul\_binding\_rule \- Manipulate Consul binding rules\.
+* community\.general\.consul\_token \- Manipulate Consul tokens\.
+* community\.general\.django\_command \- Run Django admin commands\.
+* community\.general\.dnf\_config\_manager \- Enable or disable dnf repositories using config\-manager\.
+* community\.general\.git\_config\_info \- Read git configuration\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_group\_access\_token \- Manages GitLab group access tokens\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_issue \- Create\, update\, or delete GitLab issues\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_label \- Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Labels belonging to project or group\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_milestone \- Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Milestones belonging to project or group\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_project\_access\_token \- Manages GitLab project access tokens\.
+* community\.general\.keycloak\_client\_rolescope \- Allows administration of Keycloak client roles scope to restrict the usage of certain roles to a other specific client applications\.
+* community\.general\.keycloak\_component\_info \- Retrive component info in Keycloak\.
+* community\.general\.keycloak\_realm\_rolemapping \- Allows administration of Keycloak realm role mappings into groups with the Keycloak API\.
+* community\.general\.nomad\_token \- Manage Nomad ACL tokens\.
+* community\.general\.proxmox\_node\_info \- Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE nodes\.
+* community\.general\.proxmox\_storage\_contents\_info \- List content from a Proxmox VE storage\.
+* community\.general\.usb\_facts \- Allows listing information about USB devices\.
--- a/tests/sanity/ignore-2.11.txt.license
+++ b/tests/sanity/ignore-2.11.txt.license
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,461 @@
-Placeholder changelog
-=====================
+===============================
+Community General Release Notes
+===============================

-This file is a placeholder; a version-specific ``CHANGELOG-vX.rst`` will be generated during releases from fragments
-under ``changelogs/fragments``. On release branches once a release has been created, consult the branch's version-specific
-file for changes that have occurred in that branch.
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+This changelog describes changes after version 8.0.0.
+
+v9.2.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- CmdRunner module utils - the parameter ``force_lang`` now supports the special value ``auto`` which will automatically try and determine the best parsable locale in the system (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8517).
+- proxmox - add ``disk_volume`` and ``mount_volumes`` keys for better readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
+- proxmox - translate the old ``disk`` and ``mounts`` keys to the new handling internally (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
+- proxmox_template - small refactor in logic for determining whether a template exists or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8516).
+- redfish_* modules - adds ``ciphers`` option for custom cipher selection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8533).
+- sudosu become plugin - added an option (``alt_method``) to enhance compatibility with more versions of ``su`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8214).
+- virtualbox inventory plugin - expose a new parameter ``enable_advanced_group_parsing`` to change how the VirtualBox dynamic inventory parses VM groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8508, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8510).
+- wdc_redfish_command - minor change to handle upgrade file for Redfish WD platforms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8444).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - fix ``KeyError`` in ``search_field`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8549, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8557).
+- keycloak_clientscope - remove IDs from clientscope and its protocol mappers on comparison for changed check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8545).
+- nsupdate - fix 'index out of range' error when changing NS records by falling back to authority section of the response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8612, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8614).
+- proxmox - fix idempotency on creation of mount volumes using Proxmox' special ``<storage>:<size>`` syntax (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8407, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
+- redfish_utils module utils - do not fail when language is not exactly "en" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8613).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.reveal_ansible_type - Return input type.
+
+Test
+~~~~
+
+- community.general.ansible_type - Validate input type.
+
+v9.1.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular feature and bugfix release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- CmdRunner module util - argument formats can be specified as plain functions without calling ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_func()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8479).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - add upgrade feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8431, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8351).
+- cargo - add option ``directory``, which allows source directory to be specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8480).
+- cmd_runner module utils - add decorator ``cmd_runner_fmt.stack`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8415).
+- cmd_runner_fmt module utils - simplify implementation of ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool_not()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8512).
+- ipa_dnsrecord - adds ``SSHFP`` record type for managing SSH fingerprints in FreeIPA DNS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8404).
+- keycloak_client - assign auth flow by name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8428).
+- openbsd_pkg - adds diff support to show changes in installed package list. This does not yet work for check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8402).
+- proxmox - allow specification of the API port when using proxmox_* (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8440, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8441).
+- proxmox_vm_info - add ``network`` option to retrieve current network information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8471).
+- redfish_command - add ``wait`` and ``wait_timeout`` options to allow a user to block a command until a service is accessible after performing the requested command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8051, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8434).
+- redfish_info - add command ``CheckAvailability`` to check if a service is accessible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8051, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8434).
+- redis_info - adds support for getting cluster info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8464).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- CmdRunner module util - setting the value of the ``ignore_none`` parameter within a ``CmdRunner`` context is deprecated and that feature should be removed in community.general 12.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8479).
+- git_config - the ``list_all`` option has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 11.0.0. Use the ``community.general.git_config_info`` module instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8453).
+- git_config - using ``state=present`` without providing ``value`` is deprecated and will be disallowed in community.general 11.0.0. Use the ``community.general.git_config_info`` module instead to read a value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8453).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- git_config - fix behavior of ``state=absent`` if ``value`` is present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8436, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8452).
+- keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``attributes`` and ``protocol_mappers`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8496).
+- launched - correctly report changed status in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8406).
+- opennebula inventory plugin - fix invalid reference to IP when inventory runs against NICs with no IPv4 address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8489).
+- opentelemetry callback - do not save the JSON response when using the ``ansible.builtin.uri`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8430).
+- opentelemetry callback - do not save the content response when using the ``ansible.builtin.slurp`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8430).
+- paman - do not fail if an empty list of packages has been provided and there is nothing to do (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8514).
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- homectl - the module does not work under Python 3.13 or newer, since it relies on the removed ``crypt`` standard library module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4691, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8497).
+- udm_user - the module does not work under Python 3.13 or newer, since it relies on the removed ``crypt`` standard library module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4690, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8497).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.keep_keys - Keep specific keys from dictionaries in a list.
+- community.general.remove_keys - Remove specific keys from dictionaries in a list.
+- community.general.replace_keys - Replace specific keys in a list of dictionaries.
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- community.general.consul_agent_check - Add, modify, and delete checks within a consul cluster.
+- community.general.consul_agent_service - Add, modify and delete services within a consul cluster.
+- community.general.django_check - Wrapper for C(django-admin check).
+- community.general.django_createcachetable - Wrapper for C(django-admin createcachetable).
+
+v9.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 10.0.0rc1.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible_galaxy_install - minor refactor in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8413).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cpanm - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- django module utils - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- gconftool2_info - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- homebrew - do not fail when brew prints warnings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8406, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7044).
+- hponcfg - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- kernel_blacklist - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- keycloak_client - fix TypeError when sanitizing the ``saml.signing.private.key`` attribute in the module's diff or state output. The ``sanitize_cr`` function expected a dict where in some cases a list might occur (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8403).
+- locale_gen - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- mksysb - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- pipx_info - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- snap - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- snap_alias - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+
+v9.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This is release 9.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2024-05-20.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- PythonRunner module utils - specialisation of ``CmdRunner`` to execute Python scripts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8289).
+- Use offset-aware ``datetime.datetime`` objects (with timezone UTC) instead of offset-naive UTC timestamps, which are deprecated in Python 3.12 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8222).
+- aix_lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- apt_rpm - add new states ``latest`` and ``present_not_latest``. The value ``latest`` is equivalent to the current behavior of ``present``, which will upgrade a package if a newer version exists. ``present_not_latest`` does what most users would expect ``present`` to do: it does not upgrade if the package is already installed. The current behavior of ``present`` will be deprecated in a later version, and eventually changed to that of ``present_not_latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8247).
+- apt_rpm - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - add ``bw_session`` option, to pass session key instead of reading from env (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7994).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - add support to filter by organization ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8188).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - allows to fetch all records of a given collection ID, by allowing to pass an empty value for ``search_value`` when ``collection_id`` is provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8013).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - when looking for items using an item ID, the item is now accessed directly with ``bw get item`` instead of searching through all items. This doubles the lookup speed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7468).
+- btrfs_subvolume - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- cmd_runner module_utils - add validation for minimum and maximum length in the value passed to ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_list()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8288).
+- consul_auth_method, consul_binding_rule, consul_policy, consul_role, consul_session, consul_token - added action group ``community.general.consul`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7897).
+- consul_policy - added support for diff and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_policy, consul_role, consul_session - removed dependency on ``requests`` and factored out common parts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7826, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - ``node_identities`` now expects a ``node_name`` option to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - ``service_identities`` now expects a ``service_name`` option to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - added support for diff mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - added support for templated policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- elastic callback plugin - close elastic client to not leak resources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7517).
+- filesystem - add bcachefs support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8126).
+- gandi_livedns - adds support for personal access tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7639, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8337).
+- gconftool2 - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- git_config - allow multiple git configs for the same name with the new ``add_mode`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+- git_config - the ``after`` and ``before`` fields in the ``diff`` of the return value can be a list instead of a string in case more configs with the same key are affected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+- git_config - when a value is unset, all configs with the same key are unset (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+- gitlab modules - add ``ca_path`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7472).
+- gitlab modules - remove duplicate ``gitlab`` package check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7486).
+- gitlab_deploy_key, gitlab_group_members, gitlab_group_variable, gitlab_hook, gitlab_instance_variable, gitlab_project_badge, gitlab_project_variable, gitlab_user - improve API pagination and compatibility with different versions of ``python-gitlab`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
+- gitlab_hook - adds ``releases_events`` parameter for supporting Releases events triggers on GitLab hooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7956).
+- gitlab_runner - add support for new runner creation workflow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7199).
+- homebrew - adds ``force_formula`` parameter to disambiguate a formula from a cask of the same name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8274).
+- homebrew, homebrew_cask - refactor common argument validation logic into a dedicated ``homebrew`` module utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8323, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8324).
+- icinga2 inventory plugin - add Jinja2 templating support to ``url``, ``user``, and ``password`` paramenters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7074, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7996).
+- icinga2 inventory plugin - adds new parameter ``group_by_hostgroups`` in order to make grouping by Icinga2 hostgroups optional (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7998).
+- ini_file - add an optional parameter ``section_has_values``. If the target ini file contains more than one ``section``, use ``section_has_values`` to specify which one should be updated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7505).
+- ini_file - support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding brackets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8075).
+- installp - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- ipa_config - adds ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7588).
+- ipa_dnsrecord - adds ability to manage NS record types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7737).
+- ipa_pwpolicy - refactor module and exchange a sequence ``if`` statements with a ``for`` loop (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
+- ipa_pwpolicy - update module to support ``maxrepeat``, ``maxsequence``, ``dictcheck``, ``usercheck``, ``gracelimit`` parameters in FreeIPA password policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
+- ipa_sudorule - adds options to include denied commands or command groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7415).
+- ipa_user - adds ``idp`` and ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7589).
+- irc - add ``validate_certs`` option, and rename ``use_ssl`` to ``use_tls``, while keeping ``use_ssl`` as an alias. The default value for ``validate_certs`` is ``false`` for backwards compatibility. We recommend to every user of this module to explicitly set ``use_tls=true`` and `validate_certs=true`` whenever possible, especially when communicating to IRC servers over the internet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7550).
+- java_cert - add ``cert_content`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8153).
+- java_cert - enable ``owner``, ``group``, ``mode``, and other generic file arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8116).
+- kernel_blacklist - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- keycloak module utils - expose error message from Keycloak server for HTTP errors in some specific situations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7645).
+- keycloak_client, keycloak_clientscope, keycloak_clienttemplate - added ``docker-v2`` protocol support, enhancing alignment with Keycloak's protocol options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8215, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8216).
+- keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.algorithm`` option now supports 8 additional key algorithms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+- keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.certificate`` option value is no longer defined with ``no_log=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+- keycloak_realm_key - the ``provider_id`` option now supports RSA encryption key usage (value ``rsa-enc``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+- keycloak_user_federation - add option for ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7538).
+- keycloak_user_federation - allow custom user storage providers to be set through ``provider_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7789).
+- ldap_attrs - module now supports diff mode, showing which attributes are changed within an operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8073).
+- lvg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- lvol - change ``pvs`` argument type to list of strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7676, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7504).
+- lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- lxd connection plugin - tighten the detection logic for lxd ``Instance not found`` errors, to avoid false detection on unrelated errors such as ``/usr/bin/python3: not found`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7521).
+- lxd_container - uses ``/1.0/instances`` API endpoint, if available. Falls back to ``/1.0/containers`` or ``/1.0/virtual-machines``. Fixes issue when using Incus or LXD 5.19 due to migrating to ``/1.0/instances`` endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7980).
+- macports - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- mail - add ``Message-ID`` header; which is required by some mail servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7740).
+- mail module, mail callback plugin - allow to configure the domain name of the Message-ID header with a new ``message_id_domain`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7765).
+- mssql_script - adds transactional (rollback/commit) support via optional boolean param ``transaction`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7976).
+- netcup_dns - adds support for record types ``OPENPGPKEY``, ``SMIMEA``, and ``SSHFP`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7489).
+- nmcli - add support for new connection type ``loopback`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6572).
+- nmcli - adds OpenvSwitch support with new ``type`` values ``ovs-port``, ``ovs-interface``, and ``ovs-bridge``, and new ``slave_type`` value ``ovs-port`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8154).
+- nmcli - allow for ``infiniband`` slaves of ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7569).
+- nmcli - allow for the setting of ``MTU`` for ``infiniband`` and ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7499).
+- nmcli - allow setting ``MTU`` for ``bond-slave`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8118).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116).
+- onepassword_raw lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116)
+- opentelemetry - add support for HTTP trace_exporter and configures the behavior via ``OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8321).
+- opentelemetry - add support for exporting spans in a file via ``ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_STORE_SPANS_IN_FILE`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8363).
+- opkg - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- osx_defaults - add option ``check_types`` to enable changing the type of existing defaults on the fly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8173).
+- parted - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- passwordstore - adds ``timestamp`` and ``preserve`` parameters to modify the stored password format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7426).
+- passwordstore lookup - add ``missing_subkey`` parameter defining the behavior of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8166).
+- pipx - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- pkg5 - add support for non-silent execution (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8379, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8382).
+- pkgin - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- portage - adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages to world file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6226, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8236).
+- portinstall - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- proxmox - adds ``startup`` parameters to configure startup order, startup delay and shutdown delay (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8038).
+- proxmox - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion of container to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
+- proxmox - adds ``update`` parameter, allowing update of an already existing containers configuration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7540).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - adds an option to exclude nodes from the dynamic inventory generation. The new setting is optional, not using this option will behave as usual (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6714, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7461).
+- proxmox* modules - there is now a ``community.general.proxmox`` module defaults group that can be used to set default options for all Proxmox modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8334).
+- proxmox_disk - add ability to manipulate CD-ROM drive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7495).
+- proxmox_kvm - add parameter ``update_unsafe`` to avoid limitations when updating dangerous values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7843).
+- proxmox_kvm - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion of a VM to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
+- proxmox_kvm - adds``usb`` parameter for setting USB devices on proxmox KVM VMs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8199).
+- proxmox_kvm - support the ``hookscript`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7600).
+- proxmox_ostype - it is now possible to specify the ``ostype`` when creating an LXC container (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7462).
+- proxmox_vm_info - add ability to retrieve configuration info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7485).
+- puppet - new feature to set ``--waitforlock`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8282).
+- redfish_command - add command ``ResetToDefaults`` to reset manager to default state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8163).
+- redfish_config - add command ``SetServiceIdentification`` to set service identification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7916).
+- redfish_info - add boolean return value ``MultipartHttpPush`` to ``GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8194, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8195).
+- redfish_info - add command ``GetServiceIdentification`` to get service identification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7882).
+- redfish_info - adding the ``BootProgress`` property when getting ``Systems`` info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7626).
+- revbitspss lookup plugin - removed a redundant unicode prefix. The prefix was not necessary for Python 3 and has been cleaned up to streamline the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8087).
+- rundeck module utils - allow to pass ``Content-Type`` to API requests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7684).
+- slackpkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- ssh_config - adds ``controlmaster``, ``controlpath`` and ``controlpersist`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7456).
+- ssh_config - allow ``accept-new`` as valid value for ``strict_host_key_checking`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8257).
+- ssh_config - new feature to set ``AddKeysToAgent`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7703).
+- ssh_config - new feature to set ``IdentitiesOnly`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7704).
+- sudoers - add support for the ``NOEXEC`` tag in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7983).
+- svr4pkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- swdepot - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- terraform - add support for ``diff_mode`` for terraform resource_changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7896).
+- terraform - fix ``diff_mode`` in state ``absent`` and when terraform ``resource_changes`` does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7963).
+- xcc_redfish_command - added support for raw POSTs (``command=PostResource`` in ``category=Raw``) without a specific action info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7746).
+- xfconf - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- xfconf_info - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- cpanm - the default of the ``mode`` option changed from ``compatibility`` to ``new`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- django_manage - the module now requires Django >= 4.1 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- django_manage - the module will now fail if ``virtualenv`` is specified but no virtual environment exists at that location (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- redfish_command, redfish_config, redfish_info - change the default for ``timeout`` from 10 to 60 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- MH DependencyCtxMgr module_utils - deprecate ``module_utils.mh.mixin.deps.DependencyCtxMgr`` in favour of ``module_utils.deps`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.DependencyCtxMgr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.StateMixin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarDict,`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarMeta`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarsMixin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate use of ``VarsMixin`` in favor of using the ``VardDict`` module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- ModuleHelper vars module_utils - bump deprecation of ``VarMeta``, ``VarDict`` and ``VarsMixin`` to version 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- apt_rpm - the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` is deprecated and will change in community.general 11.0.0. Right now the module will upgrade a package to the latest version if one of these two states is used. You should explicitly use ``state=latest`` if you want this behavior, and switch to ``state=present_not_latest`` if you do not want to upgrade the package if it is already installed. In community.general 11.0.0 the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` will change to that of ``state=present_not_latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8285).
+- consul_acl - the module has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0. ``consul_token`` and ``consul_policy`` can be used instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7901).
+- django_manage - the ``ack_venv_creation_deprecation`` option has no more effect and will be removed from community.general 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- gitlab modules - the basic auth method on GitLab API have been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8383).
+- hipchat callback plugin - the hipchat service has been discontinued and the self-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020. The callback plugin is therefore deprecated and will be removed from community.general 10.0.0 if nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8184, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8189).
+- irc - the defaults ``false`` for ``use_tls`` and ``validate_certs`` have been deprecated and will change to ``true`` in community.general 10.0.0 to improve security. You can already improve security now by explicitly setting them to ``true``. Specifying values now disables the deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7578).
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed. These internal redirects were extra-long FQCNs like ``community.general.packaging.os.apt_rpm`` that redirect to the short FQCN ``community.general.apt_rpm``. They were originally needed to implement flatmapping; as various tooling started to recommend users to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection and redirects were added for users who already followed these incorrect recommendations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7835).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - the ``ack_ansible29`` and ``ack_min_ansiblecore211`` options have been removed. They no longer had any effect (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- cloudflare_dns - remove support for SPF records. These are no longer supported by CloudFlare (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7782).
+- django_manage - support for the ``command`` values ``cleanup``, ``syncdb``, and ``validate`` were removed. Use ``clearsessions``, ``migrate``, and ``check`` instead, respectively (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- flowdock - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- mh.mixins.deps module utils - the ``DependencyMixin`` has been removed. Use the ``deps`` module utils instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- proxmox - the ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- rax* modules, rax module utils, rax docs fragment - the Rackspace modules relied on the deprecated package ``pyrax`` and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- redhat module utils - the classes ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools`` have been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- redhat_subscription - the alias ``autosubscribe`` of the ``auto_attach`` option was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- stackdriver - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- webfaction_* modules - these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- cobbler, gitlab_runners, icinga2, linode, lxd, nmap, online, opennebula, proxmox, scaleway, stackpath_compute, virtualbox, and xen_orchestra inventory plugin - make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible (https://www.die-welt.net/2024/03/remote-code-execution-in-ansible-dynamic-inventory-plugins/, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8098).
+- keycloak_identity_provider - the client secret was not correctly sanitized by the module. The return values ``proposed``, ``existing``, and ``end_state``, as well as the diff, did contain the client secret unmasked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8355).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- aix_filesystem - fix ``_validate_vg`` not passing VG name to ``lsvg_cmd`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8151).
+- aix_filesystem - fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8052).
+- apt-rpm - the module did not upgrade packages if a newer version exists. Now the package will be reinstalled if the candidate is newer than the installed version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7414).
+- apt_rpm - when checking whether packages were installed after running ``apt-get -y install <packages>``, only the last package name was checked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8263).
+- bitwarden_secrets_manager lookup plugin - implements retry with exponential backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn's API rate limiting is encountered (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8230, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8238).
+- cargo - fix idempotency issues when using a custom installation path for packages (using the ``--path`` parameter). The initial installation runs fine, but subsequent runs use the ``get_installed()`` function which did not check the given installation location, before running ``cargo install``. This resulted in a false ``changed`` state. Also the removal of packeges using ``state: absent`` failed, as the installation check did not use the given parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7970).
+- cloudflare_dns - fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7652).
+- consul_token - fix token creation without ``accessor_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8091).
+- from_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to allow converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185).
+- gitlab_group_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_group_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_issue - fix behavior to search GitLab issue, using ``search`` keyword instead of ``title`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7846).
+- gitlab_issue, gitlab_label, gitlab_milestone - avoid crash during version comparison when the python-gitlab Python module is not installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8158).
+- gitlab_project_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_project_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_protected_branches - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_protected_branches`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_runner - fix pagination when checking for existing runners (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
+- gitlab_user - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_user`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- haproxy - fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8092).
+- homebrew - detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from ``brew info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/864).
+- homebrew - error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse empty JSON. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error message to users (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8047).
+- incus connection plugin - treats ``inventory_hostname`` as a variable instead of a literal in remote connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7874).
+- interface_files - also consider ``address_family`` when changing ``option=method`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7610, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7612).
+- inventory plugins - add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain ``{`` or ``}`` as unsafe, to work around a bug in AWX ((https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8212, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8225).
+- ipa - fix get version regex in IPA module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8175).
+- ipa_hbacrule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+- ipa_otptoken - the module expect ``ipatokendisabled`` as string but the ``ipatokendisabled`` value is returned as a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7795).
+- ipa_sudorule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+- iptables_state - fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables dumps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8029).
+- irc - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+- keycloak_* - fix Keycloak API client to quote ``/`` properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7641).
+- keycloak_authz_permission - resource payload variable for scope-based permission was constructed as a string, when it needs to be a list, even for a single item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7151).
+- keycloak_client - add sorted ``defaultClientScopes`` and ``optionalClientScopes`` to normalizations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8223).
+- keycloak_client - fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when task is in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1226, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7881).
+- keycloak_identity_provider - ``mappers`` processing was not idempotent if the mappers configuration list had not been sorted by name (in ascending order). Fix resolves the issue by sorting mappers in the desired state using the same key which is used for obtaining existing state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7418).
+- keycloak_identity_provider - it was not possible to reconfigure (add, remove) ``mappers`` once they were created initially. Removal was ignored, adding new ones resulted in dropping the pre-existing unmodified mappers. Fix resolves the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7418).
+- keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``enabledEventTypes`` and ``supportedLocales`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8224).
+- keycloak_user - when ``force`` is set, but user does not exist, do not try to delete it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7696).
+- keycloak_user_federation - fix diff of empty ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8320).
+- ldap - previously the order number (if present) was expected to follow an equals sign in the DN. This makes it so the order number string is identified correctly anywhere within the DN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7646).
+- linode inventory plugin - add descriptive error message for linode inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8133).
+- log_entries callback plugin - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+- lvol - test for output messages in both ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7601, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7182).
+- merge_variables lookup plugin - fixing cross host merge: providing access to foreign hosts variables to the perspective of the host that is performing the merge (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8303).
+- modprobe - listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError if ``/etc/modprobe.d`` or ``/etc/modules-load.d`` did not exist. Relevant functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid crashing the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7717).
+- mssql_script - make the module work with Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7818, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7821).
+- nmcli - fix ``connection.slave-type`` wired to ``bond`` and not with parameter ``slave_type`` in case of connection type ``wifi`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7389).
+- ocapi_utils, oci_utils, redfish_utils module utils - replace ``type()`` calls with ``isinstance()`` calls (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7501).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - failed for fields that were in sections and had uppercase letters in the label/ID. Field lookups are now case insensitive in all cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7919).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - field and section titles are now case insensitive when using op CLI version two or later. This matches the behavior of version one (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7564).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - close spans always (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8367).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - honour the ``disable_logs`` option to avoid storing task results since they are not used regardless (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8373).
+- pacemaker_cluster - actually implement check mode, which the module claims to support. This means that until now the module also did changes in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8081).
+- pam_limits - when the file does not exist, do not create it in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8050, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8057).
+- pipx module utils - change the CLI argument formatter for the ``pip_args`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7497, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7506).
+- pkgin - pkgin (pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS) raises erratic exceptions and spurious ``changed=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7971).
+- proxmox - fix updating a container config if the setting does not already exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7872).
+- proxmox_kvm - fixed status check getting from node-specific API endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7817).
+- proxmox_kvm - running ``state=template`` will first check whether VM is already a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7792).
+- proxmox_pool_member - absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7464).
+- puppet - add option ``environment_lang`` to set the environment language encoding. Defaults to lang ``C``. It is recommended to set it to ``C.UTF-8`` or ``en_US.UTF-8`` depending on what is available on your system. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8000)
+- redfish_command - fix usage of message parsing in ``SimpleUpdate`` and ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` commands to treat the lack of a ``MessageId`` as no message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7465, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7471).
+- redfish_info - allow for a GET operation invoked by ``GetUpdateStatus`` to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No Content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8003).
+- redfish_info - correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve ``Chassis`` information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7952).
+- redhat_subscription - use the D-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7.4 and
+  greater; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7622,
+  https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7624).
+- riak - support ``riak admin`` sub-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy ``riak-admin`` main command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8211).
+- statusio_maintenance - fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload. Was raising "Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request" caused by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7754).
+- terraform - fix multiline string handling in complex variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7535).
+- to_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to allow converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185).
+- xml - make module work with lxml 5.1.1, which removed some internals that the module was relying on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8169).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Become
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.run0 - Systemd's run0.
+
+Callback
+~~~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.default_without_diff - The default ansible callback without diff output.
+- community.general.timestamp - Adds simple timestamp for each header.
+
+Connection
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.incus - Run tasks in Incus instances via the Incus CLI.
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.from_ini - Converts INI text input into a dictionary.
+- community.general.lists_difference - Difference of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.lists_intersect - Intersection of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.lists_symmetric_difference - Symmetric Difference of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.lists_union - Union of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.to_ini - Converts a dictionary to the INI file format.
+
+Lookup
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.github_app_access_token - Obtain short-lived Github App Access tokens.
+- community.general.onepassword_doc - Fetch documents stored in 1Password.
+
+Test
+~~~~
+
+- community.general.fqdn_valid - Validates fully-qualified domain names against RFC 1123.
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- community.general.consul_acl_bootstrap - Bootstrap ACLs in Consul.
+- community.general.consul_auth_method - Manipulate Consul auth methods.
+- community.general.consul_binding_rule - Manipulate Consul binding rules.
+- community.general.consul_token - Manipulate Consul tokens.
+- community.general.django_command - Run Django admin commands.
+- community.general.dnf_config_manager - Enable or disable dnf repositories using config-manager.
+- community.general.git_config_info - Read git configuration.
+- community.general.gitlab_group_access_token - Manages GitLab group access tokens.
+- community.general.gitlab_issue - Create, update, or delete GitLab issues.
+- community.general.gitlab_label - Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Labels belonging to project or group.
+- community.general.gitlab_milestone - Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Milestones belonging to project or group.
+- community.general.gitlab_project_access_token - Manages GitLab project access tokens.
+- community.general.keycloak_client_rolescope - Allows administration of Keycloak client roles scope to restrict the usage of certain roles to a other specific client applications.
+- community.general.keycloak_component_info - Retrive component info in Keycloak.
+- community.general.keycloak_realm_rolemapping - Allows administration of Keycloak realm role mappings into groups with the Keycloak API.
+- community.general.nomad_token - Manage Nomad ACL tokens.
+- community.general.proxmox_node_info - Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE nodes.
+- community.general.proxmox_storage_contents_info - List content from a Proxmox VE storage.
+- community.general.usb_facts - Allows listing information about USB devices.
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ 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 :) )
+* Make sure your PR includes a [changelog fragment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/collection_development_process.html#creating-a-changelog-fragment).
+  * 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 :) )
+  * Please always include a link to the pull request itself, and if the PR is about an issue, also a link to the issue. Also make sure the fragment ends with a period, and begins with a lower-case letter after `-`. (Again, if you don't do this, we'll add suggestions to fix it, so don't worry too much :) )
 * 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).
@@ -121,19 +123,3 @@ Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Reques
   listed as `maintainers` will be pinged for new issues and PRs that modify the module/plugin or its tests.

   When you add a new plugin/module, we expect that you perform maintainer duty for at least some time after contributing it.
-
-## pre-commit
-
-To help ensure high-quality contributions this repository includes a [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) configuration which
-corrects and tests against common issues that would otherwise cause CI to fail. To begin using these pre-commit hooks see
-the [Installation](#installation) section below.
-
-This is optional and not required to contribute to this repository.
-
-### Installation
-
-Follow the [instructions](https://pre-commit.com/#install) provided with pre-commit and run `pre-commit install` under the repository base. If for any reason you would like to disable the pre-commit hooks run `pre-commit uninstall`.
-
-This is optional to run it locally.
-
-You can trigger it locally with `pre-commit run --all-files` or even to run only for a given file `pre-commit run --files YOUR_FILE`.
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ 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=main)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-9)](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)
 [![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://codecov.io/gh/ansible-collections/community.general)
+[![REUSE status](https://api.reuse.software/badge/github.com/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://api.reuse.software/info/github.com/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 +25,7 @@ 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-core 2.13, ansible-core 2.14, ansible-core 2.15, ansible-core 2.16, ansible-core 2.17 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible-core versions before 2.13.0 are not supported. This includes all ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 releases.

 ## External requirements

@@ -34,13 +33,13 @@ Some modules and plugins require external libraries. Please check the requiremen

 ## Included content

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

 ## Using this collection

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

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

    ansible-galaxy collection install community.general

@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ Note that if you install the collection manually, it will not be upgraded automa
 ansible-galaxy collection install community.general --upgrade
 ```

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

 ```bash
 ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==X.Y.Z
@@ -117,7 +116,7 @@ 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/main/CHANGELOG.rst).
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/CHANGELOG.md).

 ## Roadmap

@@ -136,8 +135,8 @@ See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues

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

-See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/COPYING) for the full text.
+See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/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/main/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).
+Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/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/).
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -1,2 +1,974 @@
-ancestor: 6.0.0
-releases: {}
+---
+ancestor: 8.0.0
+releases:
+  9.0.0:
+    changes:
+      breaking_changes:
+        - cpanm - the default of the ``mode`` option changed from ``compatibility``
+          to ``new`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - django_manage - the module now requires Django >= 4.1 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - django_manage - the module will now fail if ``virtualenv`` is specified
+          but no virtual environment exists at that location (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - redfish_command, redfish_config, redfish_info - change the default for ``timeout``
+          from 10 to 60 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      bugfixes:
+        - aix_filesystem - fix ``_validate_vg`` not passing VG name to ``lsvg_cmd``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8151).
+        - aix_filesystem - fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option
+          order (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8052).
+        - apt-rpm - the module did not upgrade packages if a newer version exists.
+          Now the package will be reinstalled if the candidate is newer than the installed
+          version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7414).
+        - apt_rpm - when checking whether packages were installed after running ``apt-get
+          -y install <packages>``, only the last package name was checked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8263).
+        - bitwarden_secrets_manager lookup plugin - implements retry with exponential
+          backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn's API rate limiting is encountered
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8230, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8238).
+        - 'cargo - fix idempotency issues when using a custom installation path for
+          packages (using the ``--path`` parameter). The initial installation runs
+          fine, but subsequent runs use the ``get_installed()`` function which did
+          not check the given installation location, before running ``cargo install``.
+          This resulted in a false ``changed`` state. Also the removal of packeges
+          using ``state: absent`` failed, as the installation check did not use the
+          given parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7970).'
+        - cloudflare_dns - fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7652).
+        - consul_token - fix token creation without ``accessor_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8091).
+        - from_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to
+          allow converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185).
+        - gitlab_group_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_group_members``
+          module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+        - gitlab_issue - fix behavior to search GitLab issue, using ``search`` keyword
+          instead of ``title`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7846).
+        - gitlab_issue, gitlab_label, gitlab_milestone - avoid crash during version
+          comparison when the python-gitlab Python module is not installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8158).
+        - gitlab_project_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_project_members``
+          module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+        - gitlab_protected_branches - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_protected_branches``
+          module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+        - gitlab_runner - fix pagination when checking for existing runners (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
+        - gitlab_user - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_user`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+        - haproxy - fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when
+          the backend was unreachable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8092).
+        - homebrew - detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output
+          from ``brew info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/864).
+        - homebrew - error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse
+          empty JSON. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error
+          message to users (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8047).
+        - incus connection plugin - treats ``inventory_hostname`` as a variable instead
+          of a literal in remote connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7874).
+        - interface_files - also consider ``address_family`` when changing ``option=method``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7610, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7612).
+        - inventory plugins - add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do
+          not contain ``{`` or ``}`` as unsafe, to work around a bug in AWX ((https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8212,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8225).
+        - ipa - fix get version regex in IPA module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8175).
+        - ipa_hbacrule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA
+          versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+        - ipa_otptoken - the module expect ``ipatokendisabled`` as string but the
+          ``ipatokendisabled`` value is returned as a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7795).
+        - ipa_sudorule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA
+          versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+        - iptables_state - fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables
+          dumps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8029).
+        - irc - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with
+          code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+        - keycloak_* - fix Keycloak API client to quote ``/`` properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7641).
+        - keycloak_authz_permission - resource payload variable for scope-based permission
+          was constructed as a string, when it needs to be a list, even for a single
+          item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7151).
+        - keycloak_client - add sorted ``defaultClientScopes`` and ``optionalClientScopes``
+          to normalizations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8223).
+        - keycloak_client - fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state
+          when task is in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1226,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7881).
+        - keycloak_identity_provider - ``mappers`` processing was not idempotent if
+          the mappers configuration list had not been sorted by name (in ascending
+          order). Fix resolves the issue by sorting mappers in the desired state using
+          the same key which is used for obtaining existing state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7418).
+        - keycloak_identity_provider - it was not possible to reconfigure (add, remove)
+          ``mappers`` once they were created initially. Removal was ignored, adding
+          new ones resulted in dropping the pre-existing unmodified mappers. Fix resolves
+          the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7418).
+        - keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``enabledEventTypes`` and ``supportedLocales``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8224).
+        - keycloak_user - when ``force`` is set, but user does not exist, do not try
+          to delete it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7696).
+        - keycloak_user_federation - fix diff of empty ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8320).
+        - ldap - previously the order number (if present) was expected to follow an
+          equals sign in the DN. This makes it so the order number string is identified
+          correctly anywhere within the DN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7646).
+        - linode inventory plugin - add descriptive error message for linode inventory
+          plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8133).
+        - log_entries callback plugin - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed
+          from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+        - lvol - test for output messages in both ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7601,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7182).
+        - 'merge_variables lookup plugin - fixing cross host merge: providing access
+          to foreign hosts variables to the perspective of the host that is performing
+          the merge (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8303).'
+        - modprobe - listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError
+          if ``/etc/modprobe.d`` or ``/etc/modules-load.d`` did not exist. Relevant
+          functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid
+          crashing the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7717).
+        - mssql_script - make the module work with Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7818,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7821).
+        - nmcli - fix ``connection.slave-type`` wired to ``bond`` and not with parameter
+          ``slave_type`` in case of connection type ``wifi`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7389).
+        - ocapi_utils, oci_utils, redfish_utils module utils - replace ``type()``
+          calls with ``isinstance()`` calls (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7501).
+        - onepassword lookup plugin - failed for fields that were in sections and
+          had uppercase letters in the label/ID. Field lookups are now case insensitive
+          in all cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7919).
+        - onepassword lookup plugin - field and section titles are now case insensitive
+          when using op CLI version two or later. This matches the behavior of version
+          one (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7564).
+        - opentelemetry callback plugin - close spans always (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8367).
+        - opentelemetry callback plugin - honour the ``disable_logs`` option to avoid
+          storing task results since they are not used regardless (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8373).
+        - pacemaker_cluster - actually implement check mode, which the module claims
+          to support. This means that until now the module also did changes in check
+          mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8081).
+        - pam_limits - when the file does not exist, do not create it in check mode
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8050, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8057).
+        - pipx module utils - change the CLI argument formatter for the ``pip_args``
+          parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7497,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7506).
+        - pkgin - pkgin (pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS) raises erratic exceptions
+          and spurious ``changed=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7971).
+        - proxmox - fix updating a container config if the setting does not already
+          exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7872).
+        - proxmox_kvm - fixed status check getting from node-specific API endpoint
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7817).
+        - proxmox_kvm - running ``state=template`` will first check whether VM is
+          already a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7792).
+        - proxmox_pool_member - absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the
+          pools (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7464).
+        - puppet - add option ``environment_lang`` to set the environment language
+          encoding. Defaults to lang ``C``. It is recommended to set it to ``C.UTF-8``
+          or ``en_US.UTF-8`` depending on what is available on your system. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8000)
+        - redfish_command - fix usage of message parsing in ``SimpleUpdate`` and ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate``
+          commands to treat the lack of a ``MessageId`` as no message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7465,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7471).
+        - redfish_info - allow for a GET operation invoked by ``GetUpdateStatus``
+          to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204
+          No Content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8003).
+        - redfish_info - correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve ``Chassis``
+          information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7952).
+        - 'redhat_subscription - use the D-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7.4
+          and
+
+          greater; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
+
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7622,
+
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7624).
+
+          '
+        - riak - support ``riak admin`` sub-command in newer Riak KV versions beside
+          the legacy ``riak-admin`` main command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8211).
+        - statusio_maintenance - fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload.
+          Was raising "Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request" caused
+          by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7754).
+        - terraform - fix multiline string handling in complex variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7535).
+        - to_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to allow
+          converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185).
+        - xml - make module work with lxml 5.1.1, which removed some internals that
+          the module was relying on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8169).
+      deprecated_features:
+        - MH DependencyCtxMgr module_utils - deprecate ``module_utils.mh.mixin.deps.DependencyCtxMgr``
+          in favour of ``module_utils.deps`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+        - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.AnsibleModule``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+        - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.DependencyCtxMgr``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+        - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.StateMixin``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+        - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarDict,``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+        - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarMeta``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+        - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarsMixin``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+        - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate use of ``VarsMixin`` in favor of using
+          the ``VardDict`` module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+        - ModuleHelper vars module_utils - bump deprecation of ``VarMeta``, ``VarDict``
+          and ``VarsMixin`` to version 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+        - apt_rpm - the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` is deprecated
+          and will change in community.general 11.0.0. Right now the module will upgrade
+          a package to the latest version if one of these two states is used. You
+          should explicitly use ``state=latest`` if you want this behavior, and switch
+          to ``state=present_not_latest`` if you do not want to upgrade the package
+          if it is already installed. In community.general 11.0.0 the behavior of
+          ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` will change to that of ``state=present_not_latest``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8285).
+        - consul_acl - the module has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general
+          10.0.0. ``consul_token`` and ``consul_policy`` can be used instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7901).
+        - django_manage - the ``ack_venv_creation_deprecation`` option has no more
+          effect and will be removed from community.general 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - gitlab modules - the basic auth method on GitLab API have been deprecated
+          and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8383).
+        - hipchat callback plugin - the hipchat service has been discontinued and
+          the self-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020. The callback plugin
+          is therefore deprecated and will be removed from community.general 10.0.0
+          if nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8184,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8189).
+        - irc - the defaults ``false`` for ``use_tls`` and ``validate_certs`` have
+          been deprecated and will change to ``true`` in community.general 10.0.0
+          to improve security. You can already improve security now by explicitly
+          setting them to ``true``. Specifying values now disables the deprecation
+          warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7578).
+      minor_changes:
+        - PythonRunner module utils - specialisation of ``CmdRunner`` to execute Python
+          scripts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8289).
+        - Use offset-aware ``datetime.datetime`` objects (with timezone UTC) instead
+          of offset-naive UTC timestamps, which are deprecated in Python 3.12 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8222).
+        - aix_lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - 'apt_rpm - add new states ``latest`` and ``present_not_latest``. The value
+          ``latest`` is equivalent to the current behavior of ``present``, which will
+          upgrade a package if a newer version exists. ``present_not_latest`` does
+          what most users would expect ``present`` to do: it does not upgrade if the
+          package is already installed. The current behavior of ``present`` will be
+          deprecated in a later version, and eventually changed to that of ``present_not_latest``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8247).'
+        - apt_rpm - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - bitwarden lookup plugin - add ``bw_session`` option, to pass session key
+          instead of reading from env (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7994).
+        - bitwarden lookup plugin - add support to filter by organization ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8188).
+        - bitwarden lookup plugin - allows to fetch all records of a given collection
+          ID, by allowing to pass an empty value for ``search_value`` when ``collection_id``
+          is provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8013).
+        - bitwarden lookup plugin - when looking for items using an item ID, the item
+          is now accessed directly with ``bw get item`` instead of searching through
+          all items. This doubles the lookup speed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7468).
+        - btrfs_subvolume - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - cmd_runner module_utils - add validation for minimum and maximum length
+          in the value passed to ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_list()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8288).
+        - consul_auth_method, consul_binding_rule, consul_policy, consul_role, consul_session,
+          consul_token - added action group ``community.general.consul`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7897).
+        - consul_policy - added support for diff and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+        - consul_policy, consul_role, consul_session - removed dependency on ``requests``
+          and factored out common parts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7826,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+        - consul_role - ``node_identities`` now expects a ``node_name`` option to
+          match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+        - consul_role - ``service_identities`` now expects a ``service_name`` option
+          to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+        - consul_role - added support for diff mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+        - consul_role - added support for templated policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+        - elastic callback plugin - close elastic client to not leak resources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7517).
+        - filesystem - add bcachefs support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8126).
+        - gandi_livedns - adds support for personal access tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7639,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8337).
+        - gconftool2 - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+        - git_config - allow multiple git configs for the same name with the new ``add_mode``
+          option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+        - git_config - the ``after`` and ``before`` fields in the ``diff`` of the
+          return value can be a list instead of a string in case more configs with
+          the same key are affected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+        - git_config - when a value is unset, all configs with the same key are unset
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+        - gitlab modules - add ``ca_path`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7472).
+        - gitlab modules - remove duplicate ``gitlab`` package check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7486).
+        - gitlab_deploy_key, gitlab_group_members, gitlab_group_variable, gitlab_hook,
+          gitlab_instance_variable, gitlab_project_badge, gitlab_project_variable,
+          gitlab_user - improve API pagination and compatibility with different versions
+          of ``python-gitlab`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
+        - gitlab_hook - adds ``releases_events`` parameter for supporting Releases
+          events triggers on GitLab hooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7956).
+        - gitlab_runner - add support for new runner creation workflow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7199).
+        - homebrew - adds ``force_formula`` parameter to disambiguate a formula from
+          a cask of the same name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8274).
+        - homebrew, homebrew_cask - refactor common argument validation logic into
+          a dedicated ``homebrew`` module utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8323,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8324).
+        - icinga2 inventory plugin - add Jinja2 templating support to ``url``, ``user``,
+          and ``password`` paramenters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7074,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7996).
+        - icinga2 inventory plugin - adds new parameter ``group_by_hostgroups`` in
+          order to make grouping by Icinga2 hostgroups optional (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7998).
+        - ini_file - add an optional parameter ``section_has_values``. If the target
+          ini file contains more than one ``section``, use ``section_has_values``
+          to specify which one should be updated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7505).
+        - ini_file - support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding
+          brackets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8075).
+        - installp - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - ipa_config - adds ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's
+          choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7588).
+        - ipa_dnsrecord - adds ability to manage NS record types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7737).
+        - ipa_pwpolicy - refactor module and exchange a sequence ``if`` statements
+          with a ``for`` loop (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
+        - ipa_pwpolicy - update module to support ``maxrepeat``, ``maxsequence``,
+          ``dictcheck``, ``usercheck``, ``gracelimit`` parameters in FreeIPA password
+          policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
+        - ipa_sudorule - adds options to include denied commands or command groups
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7415).
+        - ipa_user - adds ``idp`` and ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's
+          choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7589).
+        - irc - add ``validate_certs`` option, and rename ``use_ssl`` to ``use_tls``,
+          while keeping ``use_ssl`` as an alias. The default value for ``validate_certs``
+          is ``false`` for backwards compatibility. We recommend to every user of
+          this module to explicitly set ``use_tls=true`` and `validate_certs=true``
+          whenever possible, especially when communicating to IRC servers over the
+          internet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7550).
+        - java_cert - add ``cert_content`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8153).
+        - java_cert - enable ``owner``, ``group``, ``mode``, and other generic file
+          arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8116).
+        - kernel_blacklist - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+        - keycloak module utils - expose error message from Keycloak server for HTTP
+          errors in some specific situations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7645).
+        - keycloak_client, keycloak_clientscope, keycloak_clienttemplate - added ``docker-v2``
+          protocol support, enhancing alignment with Keycloak's protocol options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8215,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8216).
+        - keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.algorithm`` option now supports 8 additional
+          key algorithms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+        - keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.certificate`` option value is no longer
+          defined with ``no_log=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+        - keycloak_realm_key - the ``provider_id`` option now supports RSA encryption
+          key usage (value ``rsa-enc``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+        - keycloak_user_federation - add option for ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7538).
+        - keycloak_user_federation - allow custom user storage providers to be set
+          through ``provider_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7789).
+        - ldap_attrs - module now supports diff mode, showing which attributes are
+          changed within an operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8073).
+        - lvg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - lvol - change ``pvs`` argument type to list of strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7676,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7504).
+        - lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - 'lxd connection plugin - tighten the detection logic for lxd ``Instance
+          not found`` errors, to avoid false detection on unrelated errors such as
+          ``/usr/bin/python3: not found`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7521).'
+        - lxd_container - uses ``/1.0/instances`` API endpoint, if available. Falls
+          back to ``/1.0/containers`` or ``/1.0/virtual-machines``. Fixes issue when
+          using Incus or LXD 5.19 due to migrating to ``/1.0/instances`` endpoint
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7980).
+        - macports - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - mail - add ``Message-ID`` header; which is required by some mail servers
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7740).
+        - mail module, mail callback plugin - allow to configure the domain name of
+          the Message-ID header with a new ``message_id_domain`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7765).
+        - mssql_script - adds transactional (rollback/commit) support via optional
+          boolean param ``transaction`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7976).
+        - netcup_dns - adds support for record types ``OPENPGPKEY``, ``SMIMEA``, and
+          ``SSHFP`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7489).
+        - nmcli - add support for new connection type ``loopback`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6572).
+        - nmcli - adds OpenvSwitch support with new ``type`` values ``ovs-port``,
+          ``ovs-interface``, and ``ovs-bridge``, and new ``slave_type`` value ``ovs-port``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8154).
+        - nmcli - allow for ``infiniband`` slaves of ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7569).
+        - nmcli - allow for the setting of ``MTU`` for ``infiniband`` and ``bond``
+          interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7499).
+        - nmcli - allow setting ``MTU`` for ``bond-slave`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8118).
+        - onepassword lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client
+          by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116).
+        - onepassword_raw lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2
+          client by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116)
+        - opentelemetry - add support for HTTP trace_exporter and configures the behavior
+          via ``OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8321).
+        - opentelemetry - add support for exporting spans in a file via ``ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_STORE_SPANS_IN_FILE``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8363).
+        - opkg - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+        - osx_defaults - add option ``check_types`` to enable changing the type of
+          existing defaults on the fly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8173).
+        - parted - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - passwordstore - adds ``timestamp`` and ``preserve`` parameters to modify
+          the stored password format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7426).
+        - passwordstore lookup - add ``missing_subkey`` parameter defining the behavior
+          of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8166).
+        - pipx - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+        - pkg5 - add support for non-silent execution (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8379,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8382).
+        - pkgin - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - portage - adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages
+          to world file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6226,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8236).
+        - portinstall - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - proxmox - adds ``startup`` parameters to configure startup order, startup
+          delay and shutdown delay (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8038).
+        - proxmox - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion
+          of container to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
+        - proxmox - adds ``update`` parameter, allowing update of an already existing
+          containers configuration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7540).
+        - proxmox inventory plugin - adds an option to exclude nodes from the dynamic
+          inventory generation. The new setting is optional, not using this option
+          will behave as usual (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6714,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7461).
+        - proxmox* modules - there is now a ``community.general.proxmox`` module defaults
+          group that can be used to set default options for all Proxmox modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8334).
+        - proxmox_disk - add ability to manipulate CD-ROM drive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7495).
+        - proxmox_kvm - add parameter ``update_unsafe`` to avoid limitations when
+          updating dangerous values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7843).
+        - proxmox_kvm - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing
+          conversion of a VM to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
+        - proxmox_kvm - adds``usb`` parameter for setting USB devices on proxmox KVM
+          VMs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8199).
+        - proxmox_kvm - support the ``hookscript`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7600).
+        - proxmox_ostype - it is now possible to specify the ``ostype`` when creating
+          an LXC container (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7462).
+        - proxmox_vm_info - add ability to retrieve configuration info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7485).
+        - puppet - new feature to set ``--waitforlock`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8282).
+        - redfish_command - add command ``ResetToDefaults`` to reset manager to default
+          state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8163).
+        - redfish_config - add command ``SetServiceIdentification`` to set service
+          identification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7916).
+        - redfish_info - add boolean return value ``MultipartHttpPush`` to ``GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8194, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8195).
+        - redfish_info - add command ``GetServiceIdentification`` to get service identification
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7882).
+        - redfish_info - adding the ``BootProgress`` property when getting ``Systems``
+          info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7626).
+        - revbitspss lookup plugin - removed a redundant unicode prefix. The prefix
+          was not necessary for Python 3 and has been cleaned up to streamline the
+          code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8087).
+        - rundeck module utils - allow to pass ``Content-Type`` to API requests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7684).
+        - slackpkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - ssh_config - adds ``controlmaster``, ``controlpath`` and ``controlpersist``
+          parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7456).
+        - ssh_config - allow ``accept-new`` as valid value for ``strict_host_key_checking``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8257).
+        - ssh_config - new feature to set ``AddKeysToAgent`` option to ``yes`` or
+          ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7703).
+        - ssh_config - new feature to set ``IdentitiesOnly`` option to ``yes`` or
+          ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7704).
+        - sudoers - add support for the ``NOEXEC`` tag in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7983).
+        - svr4pkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - swdepot - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+          instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+        - terraform - add support for ``diff_mode`` for terraform resource_changes
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7896).
+        - terraform - fix ``diff_mode`` in state ``absent`` and when terraform ``resource_changes``
+          does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7963).
+        - xcc_redfish_command - added support for raw POSTs (``command=PostResource``
+          in ``category=Raw``) without a specific action info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7746).
+        - xfconf - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+        - xfconf_info - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+      release_summary: This is release 9.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on
+        2024-05-20.
+      removed_features:
+        - The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed. These
+          internal redirects were extra-long FQCNs like ``community.general.packaging.os.apt_rpm``
+          that redirect to the short FQCN ``community.general.apt_rpm``. They were
+          originally needed to implement flatmapping; as various tooling started to
+          recommend users to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection
+          and redirects were added for users who already followed these incorrect
+          recommendations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7835).
+        - ansible_galaxy_install - the ``ack_ansible29`` and ``ack_min_ansiblecore211``
+          options have been removed. They no longer had any effect (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - cloudflare_dns - remove support for SPF records. These are no longer supported
+          by CloudFlare (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7782).
+        - django_manage - support for the ``command`` values ``cleanup``, ``syncdb``,
+          and ``validate`` were removed. Use ``clearsessions``, ``migrate``, and ``check``
+          instead, respectively (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - flowdock - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and
+          was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - mh.mixins.deps module utils - the ``DependencyMixin`` has been removed.
+          Use the ``deps`` module utils instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - proxmox - the ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - rax* modules, rax module utils, rax docs fragment - the Rackspace modules
+          relied on the deprecated package ``pyrax`` and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - redhat module utils - the classes ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools``
+          have been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - redhat_subscription - the alias ``autosubscribe`` of the ``auto_attach``
+          option was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - stackdriver - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore
+          and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+        - webfaction_* modules - these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist
+          anymore and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      security_fixes:
+        - cobbler, gitlab_runners, icinga2, linode, lxd, nmap, online, opennebula,
+          proxmox, scaleway, stackpath_compute, virtualbox, and xen_orchestra inventory
+          plugin - make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as
+          unsafe, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated
+          as templates is not possible (https://www.die-welt.net/2024/03/remote-code-execution-in-ansible-dynamic-inventory-plugins/,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8098).
+        - keycloak_identity_provider - the client secret was not correctly sanitized
+          by the module. The return values ``proposed``, ``existing``, and ``end_state``,
+          as well as the diff, did contain the client secret unmasked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8355).
+    fragments:
+      - 000-redhat_subscription-dbus-on-7.4-plus.yaml
+      - 5588-support-1password-connect.yml
+      - 6572-nmcli-add-support-loopback-type.yml
+      - 7143-proxmox-template.yml
+      - 7151-fix-keycloak_authz_permission-incorrect-resource-payload.yml
+      - 7199-gitlab-runner-new-creation-workflow.yml
+      - 7242-multi-values-for-same-name-in-git-config.yml
+      - 7389-nmcli-issue-with-creating-a-wifi-bridge-slave.yml
+      - 7418-kc_identity_provider-mapper-reconfiguration-fixes.yml
+      - 7426-add-timestamp-and-preserve-options-for-passwordstore.yaml
+      - 7456-add-ssh-control-master.yml
+      - 7461-proxmox-inventory-add-exclude-nodes.yaml
+      - 7462-Add-ostype-parameter-in-LXC-container-clone-of-ProxmoxVE.yaml
+      - 7464-fix-vm-removal-in-proxmox_pool_member.yml
+      - 7465-redfish-firmware-update-message-id-hardening.yml
+      - 7467-fix-gitlab-constants-calls.yml
+      - 7472-gitlab-add-ca-path-option.yml
+      - 7485-proxmox_vm_info-config.yml
+      - 7486-gitlab-refactor-package-check.yml
+      - 7489-netcup-dns-record-types.yml
+      - 7495-proxmox_disk-manipulate-cdrom.yml
+      - 7499-allow-mtu-setting-on-bond-and-infiniband-interfaces.yml
+      - 7501-type.yml
+      - 7505-ini_file-section_has.yml
+      - 7506-pipx-pipargs.yml
+      - 7517-elastic-close-client.yaml
+      - 7535-terraform-fix-multiline-string-handling-in-complex-variables.yml
+      - 7538-add-krbprincipalattribute-option.yml
+      - 7540-proxmox-update-config.yml
+      - 7542-irc-logentries-ssl.yml
+      - 7550-irc-use_tls-validate_certs.yml
+      - 7564-onepassword-lookup-case-insensitive.yaml
+      - 7569-infiniband-slave-support.yml
+      - 7577-fix-apt_rpm-module.yml
+      - 7578-irc-tls.yml
+      - 7588-ipa-config-new-choice-passkey-to-ipauserauthtype.yml
+      - 7589-ipa-config-new-choices-idp-and-passkey-to-ipauserauthtype.yml
+      - 7600-proxmox_kvm-hookscript.yml
+      - 7601-lvol-fix.yml
+      - 7612-interface_file-method.yml
+      - 7626-redfish-info-add-boot-progress-property.yml
+      - 7641-fix-keycloak-api-client-to-quote-properly.yml
+      - 7645-Keycloak-print-error-msg-from-server.yml
+      - 7646-fix-order-number-detection-in-dn.yml
+      - 7653-fix-cloudflare-lookup.yml
+      - 7676-lvol-pvs-as-list.yml
+      - 7683-added-contenttype-parameter.yml
+      - 7696-avoid-attempt-to-delete-non-existing-user.yml
+      - 7698-improvements-to-keycloak_realm_key.yml
+      - 7703-ssh_config_add_keys_to_agent_option.yml
+      - 7704-ssh_config_identities_only_option.yml
+      - 7717-prevent-modprobe-error.yml
+      - 7723-ipa-pwpolicy-update-pwpolicy-module.yml
+      - 7737-add-ipa-dnsrecord-ns-type.yml
+      - 7740-add-message-id-header-to-mail-module.yml
+      - 7746-raw_post-without-actions.yml
+      - 7754-fixed-payload-format.yml
+      - 7765-mail-message-id.yml
+      - 7782-cloudflare_dns-spf.yml
+      - 7789-keycloak-user-federation-custom-provider-type.yml
+      - 7790-gitlab-runner-api-pagination.yml
+      - 7791-proxmox_kvm-state-template-will-check-status-first.yaml
+      - 7797-ipa-fix-otp-idempotency.yml
+      - 7821-mssql_script-py2.yml
+      - 7826-consul-modules-refactoring.yaml
+      - 7843-proxmox_kvm-update_unsafe.yml
+      - 7847-gitlab-issue-title.yml
+      - 7870-homebrew-cask-installed-detection.yml
+      - 7872-proxmox_fix-update-if-setting-doesnt-exist.yaml
+      - 7874-incus_connection_treats_inventory_hostname_as_literal_in_remotes.yml
+      - 7880-ipa-fix-sudo-and-hbcalrule-idempotence.yml
+      - 7881-fix-keycloak-client-ckeckmode.yml
+      - 7882-add-redfish-get-service-identification.yml
+      - 7896-add-terraform-diff-mode.yml
+      - 7897-consul-action-group.yaml
+      - 7901-consul-acl-deprecation.yaml
+      - 7916-add-redfish-set-service-identification.yml
+      - 7919-onepassword-fieldname-casing.yaml
+      - 7951-fix-redfish_info-exception.yml
+      - 7953-proxmox_kvm-fix_status_check.yml
+      - 7956-adding-releases_events-option-to-gitlab_hook-module.yaml
+      - 7963-fix-terraform-diff-absent.yml
+      - 7970-fix-cargo-path-idempotency.yaml
+      - 7976-add-mssql_script-transactional-support.yml
+      - 7983-sudoers-add-support-noexec.yml
+      - 7994-bitwarden-session-arg.yaml
+      - 7996-add-templating-support-to-icinga2-inventory.yml
+      - 7998-icinga2-inventory-group_by_hostgroups-parameter.yml
+      - 8003-redfish-get-update-status-empty-response.yml
+      - 8013-bitwarden-full-collection-item-list.yaml
+      - 8029-iptables-state-restore-check-mode.yml
+      - 8038-proxmox-startup.yml
+      - 8048-fix-homebrew-module-error-reporting-on-become-true.yaml
+      - 8057-pam_limits-check-mode.yml
+      - 8073-ldap-attrs-diff.yml
+      - 8075-optional-space-around-section-names.yaml
+      - 8087-removed-redundant-unicode-prefixes.yml
+      - 8091-consul-token-fixes.yaml
+      - 8100-haproxy-drain-fails-on-down-backend.yml
+      - 8116-java_cert-enable-owner-group-mode-args.yml
+      - 8118-fix-bond-slave-honoring-mtu.yml
+      - 8126-filesystem-bcachefs-support.yaml
+      - 8133-add-error-message-for-linode-inventory-plugin.yaml
+      - 8151-fix-lsvg_cmd-failed.yml
+      - 8153-java_cert-add-cert_content-arg.yml
+      - 8154-add-ovs-commands-to-nmcli-module.yml
+      - 8158-gitlab-version-check.yml
+      - 8163-redfish-implementing-reset-to-defaults.yml
+      - 8166-password-store-lookup-missing-subkey.yml
+      - 8169-lxml.yml
+      - 8173-osx_defaults-check_type.yml
+      - 8175-get_ipa_version_regex.yml
+      - 8183-from_ini_to_ini.yml
+      - 8188-bitwarden-add-organization_id.yml
+      - 8194-redfish-add-multipart-to-capabilities.yml
+      - 8199-added-usb-support-to-proxmox-module.yml
+      - 8211-riak-admin-sub-command-support.yml
+      - 8215-add-docker-v2-protocol.yml
+      - 8222-datetime.yml
+      - 8223-keycloak_client-additional-normalizations.yaml
+      - 8224-keycloak_realm-add-normalizations.yaml
+      - 8225-unsafe.yml
+      - 8226-mh-vardict.yml
+      - 8236-portage-select-feature.yml
+      - 8238-bitwarden-secrets-manager-rate-limit-retry-with-backoff.yml
+      - 8247-apt_rpm-latest.yml
+      - 8257-ssh-config-hostkey-support-accept-new.yaml
+      - 8263-apt_rpm-install-check.yml
+      - 8264-run_command.yml
+      - 8274-homebrew-force-formula.yml
+      - 8280-mh-deprecations.yml
+      - 8281-puppet-waitforlock.yaml
+      - 8285-apt_rpm-state-deprecate.yml
+      - 8288-cmdrunner-fmt-list-len-limits.yml
+      - 8289-python-runner.yml
+      - 8290-gandi-livedns-personal-access-token.yml
+      - 8303-fix-rendering-foreign-variables.yaml
+      - 8320-keycloak_user_federation-fix-diff-krbPrincipalAttribute.yaml
+      - 8321-fix-opentelemetry-callback.yml
+      - 8323-refactor-homebrew-logic-module-utils.yml
+      - 8334-proxmox-action-group.yml
+      - 8355-keycloak-idp-sanitize.yaml
+      - 8363-opentelemetry-export-to-a-file.yml
+      - 8367-fix-close-span-if-no-logs.yaml
+      - 8373-honour-disable-logs.yaml
+      - 8379-verbose-mode-pkg5.yml
+      - 8383-deprecate-gitlab-basic-auth.yml
+      - 9.0.0.yml
+      - add-ipa-sudorule-deny-cmd.yml
+      - aix_filesystem-crfs-issue.yml
+      - bitwarden-lookup-performance.yaml
+      - hipchat.yml
+      - internal-redirects.yml
+      - inventory-rce.yml
+      - lxd-instance-not-found-avoid-false-positives.yml
+      - lxd-instances-api-endpoint-added.yml
+      - pacemaker-cluster.yml
+      - pkgin.yml
+      - puppet_lang_force.yml
+      - remove_deprecated.yml
+    modules:
+      - description: Bootstrap ACLs in Consul.
+        name: consul_acl_bootstrap
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Manipulate Consul auth methods.
+        name: consul_auth_method
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Manipulate Consul binding rules.
+        name: consul_binding_rule
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Manipulate Consul tokens.
+        name: consul_token
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Run Django admin commands.
+        name: django_command
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Enable or disable dnf repositories using config-manager.
+        name: dnf_config_manager
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Read git configuration.
+        name: git_config_info
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Manages GitLab group access tokens.
+        name: gitlab_group_access_token
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Create, update, or delete GitLab issues.
+        name: gitlab_issue
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Labels belonging to project or
+          group.
+        name: gitlab_label
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Milestones belonging to project
+          or group.
+        name: gitlab_milestone
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Manages GitLab project access tokens.
+        name: gitlab_project_access_token
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Allows administration of Keycloak client roles scope to restrict
+          the usage of certain roles to a other specific client applications.
+        name: keycloak_client_rolescope
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Retrive component info in Keycloak.
+        name: keycloak_component_info
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Allows administration of Keycloak realm role mappings into groups
+          with the Keycloak API.
+        name: keycloak_realm_rolemapping
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Manage Nomad ACL tokens.
+        name: nomad_token
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE nodes.
+        name: proxmox_node_info
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: List content from a Proxmox VE storage.
+        name: proxmox_storage_contents_info
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Allows listing information about USB devices.
+        name: usb_facts
+        namespace: ''
+    plugins:
+      become:
+        - description: Systemd's run0.
+          name: run0
+          namespace: null
+      callback:
+        - description: The default ansible callback without diff output.
+          name: default_without_diff
+          namespace: null
+        - description: Adds simple timestamp for each header.
+          name: timestamp
+          namespace: null
+      connection:
+        - description: Run tasks in Incus instances via the Incus CLI.
+          name: incus
+          namespace: null
+      filter:
+        - description: Converts INI text input into a dictionary.
+          name: from_ini
+          namespace: null
+        - description: Difference of lists with a predictive order.
+          name: lists_difference
+          namespace: null
+        - description: Intersection of lists with a predictive order.
+          name: lists_intersect
+          namespace: null
+        - description: Symmetric Difference of lists with a predictive order.
+          name: lists_symmetric_difference
+          namespace: null
+        - description: Union of lists with a predictive order.
+          name: lists_union
+          namespace: null
+        - description: Converts a dictionary to the INI file format.
+          name: to_ini
+          namespace: null
+      lookup:
+        - description: Obtain short-lived Github App Access tokens.
+          name: github_app_access_token
+          namespace: null
+        - description: Fetch documents stored in 1Password.
+          name: onepassword_doc
+          namespace: null
+      test:
+        - description: Validates fully-qualified domain names against RFC 1123.
+          name: fqdn_valid
+          namespace: null
+    release_date: '2024-05-20'
+  9.0.1:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+        - cpanm - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+        - django module utils - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+        - gconftool2_info - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+        - homebrew - do not fail when brew prints warnings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8406,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7044).
+        - hponcfg - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+        - kernel_blacklist - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+        - keycloak_client - fix TypeError when sanitizing the ``saml.signing.private.key``
+          attribute in the module's diff or state output. The ``sanitize_cr`` function
+          expected a dict where in some cases a list might occur (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8403).
+        - locale_gen - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+        - mksysb - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+        - pipx_info - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+        - snap - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+        - snap_alias - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+      minor_changes:
+        - ansible_galaxy_install - minor refactor in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8413).
+      release_summary: Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 10.0.0rc1.
+    fragments:
+      - 8403-fix-typeerror-in-keycloak-client.yaml
+      - 8406-fix-homebrew-cask-warning.yaml
+      - 8411-locale-gen-vardict.yml
+      - 8413-galaxy-refactor.yml
+      - 9.0.1.yml
+    release_date: '2024-05-27'
+  9.1.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+        - git_config - fix behavior of ``state=absent`` if ``value`` is present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8436,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8452).
+        - keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``attributes`` and ``protocol_mappers``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8496).
+        - launched - correctly report changed status in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8406).
+        - opennebula inventory plugin - fix invalid reference to IP when inventory
+          runs against NICs with no IPv4 address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8489).
+        - opentelemetry callback - do not save the JSON response when using the ``ansible.builtin.uri``
+          module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8430).
+        - opentelemetry callback - do not save the content response when using the
+          ``ansible.builtin.slurp`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8430).
+        - paman - do not fail if an empty list of packages has been provided and there
+          is nothing to do (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8514).
+      deprecated_features:
+        - CmdRunner module util - setting the value of the ``ignore_none`` parameter
+          within a ``CmdRunner`` context is deprecated and that feature should be
+          removed in community.general 12.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8479).
+        - git_config - the ``list_all`` option has been deprecated and will be removed
+          in community.general 11.0.0. Use the ``community.general.git_config_info``
+          module instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8453).
+        - git_config - using ``state=present`` without providing ``value`` is deprecated
+          and will be disallowed in community.general 11.0.0. Use the ``community.general.git_config_info``
+          module instead to read a value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8453).
+      known_issues:
+        - homectl - the module does not work under Python 3.13 or newer, since it
+          relies on the removed ``crypt`` standard library module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4691,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8497).
+        - udm_user - the module does not work under Python 3.13 or newer, since it
+          relies on the removed ``crypt`` standard library module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4690,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8497).
+      minor_changes:
+        - CmdRunner module util - argument formats can be specified as plain functions
+          without calling ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_func()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8479).
+        - ansible_galaxy_install - add upgrade feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8431,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8351).
+        - cargo - add option ``directory``, which allows source directory to be specified
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8480).
+        - cmd_runner module utils - add decorator ``cmd_runner_fmt.stack`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8415).
+        - cmd_runner_fmt module utils - simplify implementation of ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool_not()``
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8512).
+        - ipa_dnsrecord - adds ``SSHFP`` record type for managing SSH fingerprints
+          in FreeIPA DNS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8404).
+        - keycloak_client - assign auth flow by name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8428).
+        - openbsd_pkg - adds diff support to show changes in installed package list.
+          This does not yet work for check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8402).
+        - proxmox - allow specification of the API port when using proxmox_* (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8440,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8441).
+        - proxmox_vm_info - add ``network`` option to retrieve current network information
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8471).
+        - redfish_command - add ``wait`` and ``wait_timeout`` options to allow a user
+          to block a command until a service is accessible after performing the requested
+          command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8051,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8434).
+        - redfish_info - add command ``CheckAvailability`` to check if a service is
+          accessible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8051,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8434).
+        - redis_info - adds support for getting cluster info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8464).
+      release_summary: Regular feature and bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+      - 8051-Redfish-Wait-For-Service.yml
+      - 8402-add-diif-mode-openbsd-pkg.yml
+      - 8404-ipa_dnsrecord_sshfp.yml
+      - 8415-cmd-runner-stack.yml
+      - 8428-assign-auth-flow-by-name-keycloak-client.yaml
+      - 8430-fix-opentelemetry-when-using-logs-with-uri-or-slurp-tasks.yaml
+      - 8431-galaxy-upgrade.yml
+      - 8440-allow-api-port-specification.yaml
+      - 8452-git_config-absent.yml
+      - 8453-git_config-deprecate-read.yml
+      - 8464-redis-add-cluster-info.yml
+      - 8471-proxmox-vm-info-network.yml
+      - 8476-launchd-check-mode-changed.yaml
+      - 8479-cmdrunner-improvements.yml
+      - 8480-directory-feature-cargo.yml
+      - 8489-fix-opennebula-inventory-crash-when-nic-has-no-ip.yml
+      - 8496-keycloak_clientscope-add-normalizations.yaml
+      - 8497-crypt.yml
+      - 8512-as-bool-not.yml
+      - 8514-pacman-empty.yml
+      - 9.1.0.yml
+    modules:
+      - description: Add, modify, and delete checks within a consul cluster.
+        name: consul_agent_check
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Add, modify and delete services within a consul cluster.
+        name: consul_agent_service
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Wrapper for C(django-admin check).
+        name: django_check
+        namespace: ''
+      - description: Wrapper for C(django-admin createcachetable).
+        name: django_createcachetable
+        namespace: ''
+    plugins:
+      filter:
+        - description: Keep specific keys from dictionaries in a list.
+          name: keep_keys
+          namespace: null
+        - description: Remove specific keys from dictionaries in a list.
+          name: remove_keys
+          namespace: null
+        - description: Replace specific keys in a list of dictionaries.
+          name: replace_keys
+          namespace: null
+    release_date: '2024-06-17'
+  9.2.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+        - bitwarden lookup plugin - fix ``KeyError`` in ``search_field`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8549,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8557).
+        - keycloak_clientscope - remove IDs from clientscope and its protocol mappers
+          on comparison for changed check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8545).
+        - nsupdate - fix 'index out of range' error when changing NS records by falling
+          back to authority section of the response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8612,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8614).
+        - proxmox - fix idempotency on creation of mount volumes using Proxmox' special
+          ``<storage>:<size>`` syntax (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8407,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
+        - redfish_utils module utils - do not fail when language is not exactly "en"
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8613).
+      minor_changes:
+        - CmdRunner module utils - the parameter ``force_lang`` now supports the special
+          value ``auto`` which will automatically try and determine the best parsable
+          locale in the system (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8517).
+        - proxmox - add ``disk_volume`` and ``mount_volumes`` keys for better readability
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
+        - proxmox - translate the old ``disk`` and ``mounts`` keys to the new handling
+          internally (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
+        - proxmox_template - small refactor in logic for determining whether a template
+          exists or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8516).
+        - redfish_* modules - adds ``ciphers`` option for custom cipher selection
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8533).
+        - sudosu become plugin - added an option (``alt_method``) to enhance compatibility
+          with more versions of ``su`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8214).
+        - virtualbox inventory plugin - expose a new parameter ``enable_advanced_group_parsing``
+          to change how the VirtualBox dynamic inventory parses VM groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8508,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8510).
+        - wdc_redfish_command - minor change to handle upgrade file for Redfish WD
+          platforms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8444).
+      release_summary: Regular bugfix and feature release.
+    fragments:
+      - 8214-sudosu-not-working-on-some-BSD-machines.yml
+      - 8444-fix-redfish-gen2-upgrade.yaml
+      - 8508-virtualbox-inventory.yml
+      - 8516-proxmox-template-refactor.yml
+      - 8517-cmd-runner-lang-auto.yml
+      - 8533-add-ciphers-option.yml
+      - 8542-fix-proxmox-volume-handling.yml
+      - 8545-keycloak-clientscope-remove-id-on-compare.yml
+      - 8557-fix-bug-with-bitwarden.yml
+      - 8613-redfish_utils-language.yaml
+      - 8614-nsupdate-index-out-of-range.yml
+      - 9.2.0.yml
+    plugins:
+      filter:
+        - description: Return input type.
+          name: reveal_ansible_type
+          namespace: null
+      test:
+        - description: Validate input type.
+          name: ansible_type
+          namespace: null
+    release_date: '2024-07-15'
--- a/changelogs/config.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/config.yaml
@@ -12,23 +12,31 @@ mention_ancestor: true
 flatmap: true
 new_plugins_after_name: removed_features
 notesdir: fragments
+output_formats:
+  - md
+  - rst
 prelude_section_name: release_summary
 prelude_section_title: Release Summary
 sections:
- - major_changes
-  - Major Changes
- - minor_changes
-  - Minor Changes
- - breaking_changes
-  - Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
- - deprecated_features
-  - Deprecated Features
- - removed_features
-  - Removed Features (previously deprecated)
- - security_fixes
-  - Security Fixes
- - bugfixes
-  - Bugfixes
- - known_issues
-  - Known Issues
+  - - major_changes
+    - Major Changes
+  - - minor_changes
+    - Minor Changes
+  - - breaking_changes
+    - Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+  - - deprecated_features
+    - Deprecated Features
+  - - removed_features
+    - Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+  - - security_fixes
+    - Security Fixes
+  - - bugfixes
+    - Bugfixes
+  - - known_issues
+    - Known Issues
 title: Community General
+trivial_section_name: trivial
+use_fqcn: true
+add_plugin_period: true
+changelog_nice_yaml: true
+changelog_sort: version
--- a/changelogs/fragments/2090-idrac-redfish-resource-id-fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2090-idrac-redfish-resource-id-fix.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-    - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/3216-nmcli-bridge-idempotency-fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/3216-nmcli-bridge-idempotency-fix.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/3910-redfish-add-operation-apply-time-to-simple-update.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/3910-redfish-add-operation-apply-time-to-simple-update.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redfish_command - add ``update_apply_time`` to ``SimpleUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3910).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/3935-add-gitlab-group-runner.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/3935-add-gitlab-group-runner.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-    - 'gitlab_runner - allow to register group runner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3935).'
--- a/changelogs/fragments/4028-modprobe-persistent-option.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/4028-modprobe-persistent-option.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-minor_changes:
-  - modprobe - add ``persistent`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/542).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/4276-redfish-command-updates-for-full-simple-update-workflow.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/4276-redfish-command-updates-for-full-simple-update-workflow.yml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redfish_command - add ``update_status`` to output of ``SimpleUpdate`` command to allow a user monitor the update in progress (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
-  - redfish_info - add ``GetUpdateStatus`` command to check the progress of a previous update request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
-  - redfish_command - add ``PerformRequestedOperations`` command to perform any operations necessary to continue the update flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/4387-nmcli-mtu-for-vlan-connection-fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/4387-nmcli-mtu-for-vlan-connection-fix.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - nmcli - implemented changing mtu value on vlan interfaces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4387).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/473-nmcli-slave-type-implemented.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/473-nmcli-slave-type-implemented.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5143-fix-xfs-quota-project-init.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5143-fix-xfs-quota-project-init.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5431-nmcli-wifi.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5431-nmcli-wifi.yml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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 - fix change handling of values specified as an integer 0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5486-snap-alias-cmd-runner.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5486-snap-alias-cmd-runner.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - snap_alias - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``snap`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5486).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5489-nonetype-in-get-vm-by-label.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5489-nonetype-in-get-vm-by-label.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - one_vm - avoid splitting labels that are ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5489).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5490-adding-put-functionality.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5490-adding-put-functionality.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redfish_utils module utils - added PUT (``put_request()``) functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5490).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5493-proxmox.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5493-proxmox.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "proxmox_disk - avoid duplicate ``vmid`` reference (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5493)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5502-xfconf-facts-deprecation.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5502-xfconf-facts-deprecation.yml
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-removed_features:
-  - >
-    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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5506-onepassword_raw-missing-param.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5506-onepassword_raw-missing-param.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-   - onepassword_raw - add missing parameter to plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5506).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5514-fix-logical-flaw-when-deleting-jenkins-build.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5514-fix-logical-flaw-when-deleting-jenkins-build.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - jenkins_build - fix the logical flaw when deleting a Jenkins build (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5514).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5538-cmd-runner-as-fixed.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5538-cmd-runner-as-fixed.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5543-dependent-template.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5543-dependent-template.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "dependent lookup plugin - avoid warning on deprecated parameter for ``Templar.template()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5543)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5545-gconftool-cmd-runner.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5545-gconftool-cmd-runner.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - gconftool2 - refactor using ``ModuleHelper`` and ``CmdRunner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5545).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5549-lxd-project-sanity.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5549-lxd-project-sanity.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - lxd_project - refactored code out to module utils to clear sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5549).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5550-java_certs-not-enough-info-on-error.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5550-java_certs-not-enough-info-on-error.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-   - java_certs - add more detailed error output when extracting certificate from PKCS12 fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5550).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5553-spotinst-aws-elasticgroup-sanity.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5553-spotinst-aws-elasticgroup-sanity.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - spotinst_aws_elastigroup - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5553).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5557-udm-share-sanity.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5557-udm-share-sanity.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - udm_share - added ``elements`` attribute to ``list`` type parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5557).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5559-udm-user-sanity.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5559-udm-user-sanity.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - udm_user - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5559).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5563-rax-scaling-group-sanity.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5563-rax-scaling-group-sanity.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5565-jenkins-plugin-sanity.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5565-jenkins-plugin-sanity.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - jenkins_plugin - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5565).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5566-additional-flags-nmap.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5566-additional-flags-nmap.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
-  
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5570-chroot-plugin-fix-default-inventory_hostname.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5570-chroot-plugin-fix-default-inventory_hostname.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "chroot connection plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` to vars under ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5570)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5583-redhat_subscription-subscribe-parameters.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5583-redhat_subscription-subscribe-parameters.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5592-redirect-remove-sap-modules.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5592-redirect-remove-sap-modules.yml
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-removed_features:
-  - |
-    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
-breaking_changes:
-  - |
-    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.
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5601-unixy-callback-use-config-manager.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5601-unixy-callback-use-config-manager.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5602-proxmox-tags.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5602-proxmox-tags.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "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)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5603-redfish-idrac-job-id-in-response.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5603-redfish-idrac-job-id-in-response.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-    - idrac_redfish_command - add ``job_id`` to ``CreateBiosConfigJob`` response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5603).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5605-ssh-config-add-host-key-algorithms.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5605-ssh-config-add-host-key-algorithms.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ssh_config - add ``host_key_algorithms`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5605).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5612-puppet-cmd-runner.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5612-puppet-cmd-runner.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - puppet - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` for executing ``puppet`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5612).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5615-zypper-transactional-update.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5615-zypper-transactional-update.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "zypper - make package managing work on readonly filesystem of openSUSE MicroOS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5615)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5619-keycloak-improvements.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5619-keycloak-improvements.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "keycloak_client_rolemapping - remove only listed mappings with ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619)."
-  - "keycloak_client_rolemapping - calculate ``proposed`` and ``after`` return values properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5627-redhat_subscription-subscribe-parameters-2.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5627-redhat_subscription-subscribe-parameters-2.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5628-fix-vmadm-off-by-one.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5628-fix-vmadm-off-by-one.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - vmadm - fix for index out of range error in ``get_vm_uuid`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5628).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5629-add-prepend-hash-option-for-channel-id.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5629-add-prepend-hash-option-for-channel-id.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "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)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5632-vdo-Use-yaml-safe-load-instead-of-yaml-load.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5632-vdo-Use-yaml-safe-load-instead-of-yaml-load.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5640-fix-typo-proxmox-inventory.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5640-fix-typo-proxmox-inventory.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "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)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5647-cmd-runner-as-bool-false.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5647-cmd-runner-as-bool-false.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - cmd_runner module utils - ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool()`` can now take an extra parameter to format when value is false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5647).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5659-fix-lxc_container-command.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5659-fix-lxc_container-command.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5662-redhat_subscription-server_proxy_scheme.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5662-redhat_subscription-server_proxy_scheme.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5664-redhat_subscription-credentials-when-needed.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5664-redhat_subscription-credentials-when-needed.yaml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5666-gitlab-variables.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5666-gitlab-variables.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5672-proxmox.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5672-proxmox.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "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)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5680-ansible_galaxy_install-fx-locale.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5680-ansible_galaxy_install-fx-locale.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5688-opkg-module-install-certain-version.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5688-opkg-module-install-certain-version.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - opkg - allow installing a package in a certain version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5688).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5694-add-custom-fields-to-bitwarden.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5694-add-custom-fields-to-bitwarden.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - bitwarden lookup plugin - can now retrieve secrets from custom fields (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5694).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5703-sudoers-host-support.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5703-sudoers-host-support.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - sudoers - adds ``host`` parameter for setting hostname restrictions in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5702).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5705-opkg-fix-force-reinstall.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5705-opkg-fix-force-reinstall.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - opkg - fix issue that ``force=reinstall`` would not reinstall an existing package (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5705).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5706-add-builds-forks-container-registry.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5706-add-builds-forks-container-registry.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - gitlab_project - add ``builds_access_level``, ``container_registry_access_level`` and ``forking_access_level`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5706).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5714-proxmox-lxc-tag-support.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5714-proxmox-lxc-tag-support.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-minor_changes:
- proxmox - added new module parameter ``tags`` for use with PVE 7+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5714).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5718-opkg-refactor.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5718-opkg-refactor.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - opkg - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` for executing ``opkg`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5718).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5719-xfconf-facts-deprecation.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5719-xfconf-facts-deprecation.yml
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-removed_features:
-  - >
-    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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5720-ssh_config-plugin-sanity.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5720-ssh_config-plugin-sanity.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ssh_config - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5720).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5721-manageiq-policies-deprecate-list-state.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5721-manageiq-policies-deprecate-list-state.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - manageiq_policies - deprecate ``state=list`` in favour of using ``community.general.manageiq_policies_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5721).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5725-redhat_subscription-add-red-hat-api-token.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5725-redhat_subscription-add-red-hat-api-token.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redhat_subscription - adds ``token`` parameter for subscription-manager authentication using Red Hat API token (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5725).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5727-manageiq-tags-deprecate-list-state.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5727-manageiq-tags-deprecate-list-state.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - manageiq_tags - deprecate ``state=list`` in favour of using ``community.general.manageiq_tags_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5727).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5732-bugfix-keycloak-userfed-idempotency.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5732-bugfix-keycloak-userfed-idempotency.yml
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - >
-    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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5735-terraform-init-fix-when-default-workspace-doesnt-exists.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5735-terraform-init-fix-when-default-workspace-doesnt-exists.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5744-unixy-callback-fix-config-manager-typo.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5744-unixy-callback-fix-config-manager-typo.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5750-bugfixing-keycloak-usrfed-fail-when-update-default-mapper-simultaneously.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5750-bugfixing-keycloak-usrfed-fail-when-update-default-mapper-simultaneously.yml
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - >-
-    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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5751-gem-fix-uninstall-hang.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5751-gem-fix-uninstall-hang.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - gem - fix hang due to interactive prompt for confirmation on specific version uninstall (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5751).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5752-rax-deprecation.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5752-rax-deprecation.yml
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - 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_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_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 - 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_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 - 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_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_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_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_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_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_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 - 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).
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5755-mh-fix-output-conflict.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5755-mh-fix-output-conflict.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - ModuleHelper - fix bug when adjusting the name of reserved output variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5755).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5761-callback-types.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5761-callback-types.yml
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "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)."
-  - "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)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5765-mh-lax-output-conflict.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5765-mh-lax-output-conflict.yml
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-breaking_changes:
-  - >
-    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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5772-consul-deprecate-params-when-absent.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5772-consul-deprecate-params-when-absent.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - consul - deprecate using parameters unused for ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5772).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5773-snap-mh-execute.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5773-snap-mh-execute.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - snap - minor refactor when executing module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5773).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5793-apache2-module-npm-warnings.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5793-apache2-module-npm-warnings.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5794-alternatives-fedora37.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5794-alternatives-fedora37.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "alternatives - support subcommands on Fedora 37, which uses ``follower`` instead of ``slave`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5794)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5803-proxmox-read-timeout.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5803-proxmox-read-timeout.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - proxmox_disk - fixed issue with read timeout on import action (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5803).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5804-minor-changes-to-hpe-ilo-collection.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5804-minor-changes-to-hpe-ilo-collection.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5808-xml-children-parameter-does-not-exist.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5808-xml-children-parameter-does-not-exist.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- xml - fixed a bug where empty ``children`` list would not be set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5808).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5811-clarify-bitwarden-error.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5811-clarify-bitwarden-error.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - bitwarden lookup plugin - clarify what to do, if the bitwarden vault is not unlocked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5811).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5812-implement-updateconf-api-call.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5812-implement-updateconf-api-call.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - one_vm - add a new ``updateconf`` option which implements the ``one.vm.updateconf`` API call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5812).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5814-support-keycloak-subgroups.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5814-support-keycloak-subgroups.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - keycloak_group - add new optional module parameter ``parents`` to properly handle keycloak subgroups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5814).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5818-nsupdate-fix-zone-lookup.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5818-nsupdate-fix-zone-lookup.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5822-gem-uninstall-force.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5822-gem-uninstall-force.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - gem - fix force parameter not being passed to gem command when uninstalling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5822).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5829-fix-yarn-global.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5829-fix-yarn-global.yml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - yarn - fix ``state=latest`` not working with ``global=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5712).
-  - 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 ``state=absent`` not working with ``global=true`` when the package does not include a binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5829)
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5830-sefcontext-path-subs.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/5830-sefcontext-path-subs.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - sefcontext - add support for path substitutions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1193).
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More