Release 2.1.0.

* Pushing my WIP

* Update DOCUMENTATION

* Update EXAMPLES

* More friendly name

* Finish up the counter and gauge logic

* Cleanup DOCUMENTATION and add metric_type

* Apply autopep8

* Fixup the exits

* Stubbing out unit tests

* Whitespace

* Whitespace

* Removing unused modules

* Remove unused modules

* Might have have a prefix

* Rearrange imported modules

* Cleanup the if/elif blob

* Require python >= 2.7

* Update DOCUMENTATION

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

* Update DOCUMENTATION

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

* Add import guarding on statsd

* Add missing future import

* Include missing_required_lib

* Fixing sanity tests

* Fixing delta default and choices

* Formatting

* Close tcp connection

* Refactoring and unit tests

* Fix pep8 sanity tests

* Putting requirements.txt back to main

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Mark Mercado <mmercado@digitalocean.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
(cherry picked from commit 6165438689)

Co-authored-by: Mark Mercado <mamercad@gmail.com>

.azure-pipelines/README.md

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

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 trigger:
   batch: true
   branches:
@@ -18,25 +13,13 @@ pr:
       - stable-*
 
 schedules:
-  - cron: 0 8 * * *
-    displayName: Nightly (main)
+  - cron: 0 9 * * *
+    displayName: Nightly
     always: true
     branches:
       include:
         - main
-  - cron: 0 10 * * *
-    displayName: Nightly (active stable branches)
-    always: true
-    branches:
-      include:
-        - stable-8
-        - stable-7
-  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
-    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
-    always: true
-    branches:
-      include:
-        - stable-6
+        - stable-*
 
 variables:
   - name: checkoutPath
@@ -53,7 +36,7 @@ variables:
 resources:
   containers:
     - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:4.0.1
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:1.8.0
 
 pool: Standard
 
@@ -73,40 +56,27 @@ stages:
             - test: 3
             - test: 4
             - test: extra
-  - stage: Sanity_2_16
-    displayName: Sanity 2.16
+  - stage: Sanity_2_10
+    displayName: Sanity 2.10
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/sanity/{0}
           targets:
             - test: 1
             - test: 2
             - test: 3
             - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_15
-    displayName: Sanity 2.15
+  - stage: Sanity_2_9
+    displayName: Sanity 2.9
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_14
-    displayName: Sanity 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.14/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.9/sanity/{0}
           targets:
             - test: 1
             - test: 2
@@ -122,63 +92,46 @@ stages:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
           testFormat: devel/units/{0}/1
           targets:
+            - test: 2.6
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
+            - test: 3.6
             - test: 3.7
             - test: 3.8
             - test: 3.9
-            - test: '3.10'
-            - test: '3.11'
-            - test: '3.12'
-  - stage: Units_2_16
-    displayName: Units 2.16
+  - stage: Units_2_10
+    displayName: Units 2.10
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.10/units/{0}/1
           targets:
+            - test: 2.6
             - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: "3.11"
-  - stage: Units_2_15
-    displayName: Units 2.15
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
             - test: 3.5
-            - test: "3.10"
-  - stage: Units_2_14
-    displayName: Units 2.14
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
+            - test: 3.8
+            - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Units_2_9
+    displayName: Units 2.9
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.14/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.9/units/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: 3.9
+            - test: 2.6
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
+            - test: 3.8
 
 ## Remote
-  - stage: Remote_devel_extra_vms
-    displayName: Remote devel extra VMs
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.18
-              test: alpine/3.18
-            # - name: Fedora 38
-            #   test: fedora/38
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu/22.04
-          groups:
-            - vm
   - stage: Remote_devel
     displayName: Remote devel
     dependsOn: []
@@ -187,74 +140,58 @@ stages:
         parameters:
           testFormat: devel/{0}
           targets:
-            - name: macOS 13.2
-              test: macos/13.2
-            - name: RHEL 9.2
-              test: rhel/9.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
-              test: freebsd/13.2
-          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 8.8
-              test: rhel/8.8
-            #- name: FreeBSD 13.2
-            #  test: freebsd/13.2
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_15
-    displayName: Remote 2.15
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.15/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: RHEL 9.1
-              test: rhel/9.1
-            - name: RHEL 8.7
-              test: rhel/8.7
+            - name: macOS 11.1
+              test: macos/11.1
             - name: RHEL 7.9
               test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
-              test: freebsd/13.1
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.4
-              test: freebsd/12.4
+            - name: RHEL 8.3
+              test: rhel/8.3
+            - name: FreeBSD 11.4
+              test: freebsd/11.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.2
+              test: freebsd/12.2
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
             - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_14
-    displayName: Remote 2.14
+  - stage: Remote_2_10
+    displayName: Remote 2.10
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.14/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/{0}
           targets:
-            #- name: macOS 12.0
-            #  test: macos/12.0
-            - name: RHEL 9.0
-              test: rhel/9.0
-            #- name: FreeBSD 12.4
-            #  test: freebsd/12.4
+            - name: OS X 10.11
+              test: osx/10.11
+            - name: macOS 10.15
+              test: macos/10.15
+            - name: macOS 11.1
+              test: macos/11.1
+            - name: RHEL 7.8
+              test: rhel/7.8
+            - name: RHEL 8.2
+              test: rhel/8.2
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.1
+              test: freebsd/12.1
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+  - stage: Remote_2_9
+    displayName: Remote 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.9/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: RHEL 8.2
+              test: rhel/8.2
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.0
+              test: freebsd/12.0
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
-            - 3
 
 ### Docker
   - stage: Docker_devel
@@ -265,153 +202,114 @@ stages:
         parameters:
           testFormat: devel/linux/{0}
           targets:
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora38
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu2204
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
-          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: openSUSE 15
-              test: opensuse15
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_15
-    displayName: Docker 2.15
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.15/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 37
-              test: fedora37
+            - name: CentOS 6
+              test: centos6
             - name: CentOS 7
               test: centos7
+            - name: CentOS 8
+              test: centos8
+            - name: Fedora 32
+              test: fedora32
+            - name: Fedora 33
+              test: fedora33
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
           groups:
             - 1
             - 2
             - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_14
-    displayName: Docker 2.14
+  - stage: Docker_2_10
+    displayName: Docker 2.10
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.14/linux/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.10/linux/{0}
           targets:
-            - name: Fedora 36
-              test: fedora36
+            - name: CentOS 8
+              test: centos8
+            - name: Fedora 32
+              test: fedora32
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 16.04
+              test: ubuntu1604
+          groups:
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_9
+    displayName: Docker 2.9
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.9/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: CentOS 8
+              test: centos8
+            - name: Fedora 31
+              test: fedora31
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py3
+              test: opensuse15
           groups:
-            - 1
             - 2
             - 3
 
-### Community Docker
-  - stage: Docker_community_devel
-    displayName: Docker (community images) devel
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/linux-community/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Debian Bullseye
-              test: debian-bullseye/3.9
-            - name: Debian Bookworm
-              test: debian-bookworm/3.11
-            - name: ArchLinux
-              test: archlinux/3.11
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-
-### Generic
-  - stage: Generic_devel
-    displayName: Generic devel
+### Cloud
+  - stage: Cloud_devel
+    displayName: Cloud devel
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: devel/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: devel/cloud/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: '3.7'
-            - test: '3.12'
-  - stage: Generic_2_16
-    displayName: Generic 2.16
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+  - stage: Cloud_2_10
+    displayName: Cloud 2.10
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.10/cloud/{0}/1
           targets:
-            - test: '2.7'
-            - test: '3.6'
-            - test: '3.11'
-  - stage: Generic_2_15
-    displayName: Generic 2.15
+            - test: 3.6
+  - stage: Cloud_2_9
+    displayName: Cloud 2.9
     dependsOn: []
     jobs:
       - template: templates/matrix.yml
         parameters:
           nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.9/cloud/{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'
-
+            - test: 3.6
   - stage: Summary
     condition: succeededOrFailed()
     dependsOn:
       - Sanity_devel
-      - Sanity_2_16
-      - Sanity_2_15
-      - Sanity_2_14
+      - Sanity_2_9
+      - Sanity_2_10
       - Units_devel
-      - Units_2_16
-      - Units_2_15
-      - Units_2_14
-      - Remote_devel_extra_vms
+      - Units_2_9
+      - Units_2_10
       - Remote_devel
-      - Remote_2_16
-      - Remote_2_15
-      - Remote_2_14
+      - Remote_2_9
+      - Remote_2_10
       - Docker_devel
-      - Docker_2_16
-      - Docker_2_15
-      - Docker_2_14
-      - Docker_community_devel
-# Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-#      - Generic_devel
-#      - Generic_2_16
-#      - Generic_2_15
-#      - Generic_2_14
+      - Docker_2_9
+      - Docker_2_10
+      - Cloud_devel
+      - Cloud_2_9
+      - Cloud_2_10
     jobs:
       - template: templates/coverage.yml

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

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Aggregate code coverage results for later processing.
 
 set -o pipefail -eu
@@ -15,7 +11,7 @@ mkdir "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/"
 
 options=(--venv --venv-system-site-packages --color -v)
 
-ansible-test coverage combine --group-by command --export "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/" "${options[@]}"
+ansible-test coverage combine --export "${agent_temp_directory}/coverage/" "${options[@]}"
 
 if ansible-test coverage analyze targets generate --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     # Only analyze coverage if the installed version of ansible-test supports it.

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

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

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

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

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

@@ -1,105 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-"""
-Upload code coverage reports to codecov.io.
-Multiple coverage files from multiple languages are accepted and aggregated after upload.
-Python coverage, as well as PowerShell and Python stubs can all be uploaded.
-"""
-
-import argparse
-import dataclasses
-import pathlib
-import shutil
-import subprocess
-import tempfile
-import typing as t
-import urllib.request
-
-
-@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
-class CoverageFile:
-    name: str
-    path: pathlib.Path
-    flags: t.List[str]
-
-
-@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
-class Args:
-    dry_run: bool
-    path: pathlib.Path
-
-
-def parse_args() -> Args:
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument('-n', '--dry-run', action='store_true')
-    parser.add_argument('path', type=pathlib.Path)
-
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    # Store arguments in a typed dataclass
-    fields = dataclasses.fields(Args)
-    kwargs = {field.name: getattr(args, field.name) for field in fields}
-
-    return Args(**kwargs)
-
-
-def process_files(directory: pathlib.Path) -> t.Tuple[CoverageFile, ...]:
-    processed = []
-    for file in directory.joinpath('reports').glob('coverage*.xml'):
-        name = file.stem.replace('coverage=', '')
-
-        # Get flags from name
-        flags = name.replace('-powershell', '').split('=')  # Drop '-powershell' suffix
-        flags = [flag if not flag.startswith('stub') else flag.split('-')[0] for flag in flags]  # Remove "-01" from stub files
-
-        processed.append(CoverageFile(name, file, flags))
-
-    return tuple(processed)
-
-
-def upload_files(codecov_bin: pathlib.Path, files: t.Tuple[CoverageFile, ...], dry_run: bool = False) -> None:
-    for file in files:
-        cmd = [
-            str(codecov_bin),
-            '--name', file.name,
-            '--file', str(file.path),
-        ]
-        for flag in file.flags:
-            cmd.extend(['--flags', flag])
-
-        if dry_run:
-            print(f'DRY-RUN: Would run command: {cmd}')
-            continue
-
-        subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)
-
-
-def download_file(url: str, dest: pathlib.Path, flags: int, dry_run: bool = False) -> None:
-    if dry_run:
-        print(f'DRY-RUN: Would download {url} to {dest} and set mode to {flags:o}')
-        return
-
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as resp:
-        with dest.open('w+b') as f:
-            # Read data in chunks rather than all at once
-            shutil.copyfileobj(resp, f, 64 * 1024)
-
-    dest.chmod(flags)
-
-
-def main():
-    args = parse_args()
-    url = 'https://ansible-ci-files.s3.amazonaws.com/codecov/linux/codecov'
-    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix='codecov-') as tmpdir:
-        codecov_bin = pathlib.Path(tmpdir) / 'codecov'
-        download_file(url, codecov_bin, 0o755, args.dry_run)
-
-        files = process_files(args.path)
-        upload_files(codecov_bin, files, args.dry_run)
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()

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

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Upload code coverage reports to codecov.io.
+# Multiple coverage files from multiple languages are accepted and aggregated after upload.
+# Python coverage, as well as PowerShell and Python stubs can all be uploaded.
+
+set -o pipefail -eu
+
+output_path="$1"
+
+curl --silent --show-error https://codecov.io/bash > codecov.sh
+
+for file in "${output_path}"/reports/coverage*.xml; do
+    name="${file}"
+    name="${name##*/}"  # remove path
+    name="${name##coverage=}"  # remove 'coverage=' prefix if present
+    name="${name%.xml}"  # remove '.xml' suffix
+
+    bash codecov.sh \
+        -f "${file}" \
+        -n "${name}" \
+        -X coveragepy \
+        -X gcov \
+        -X fix \
+        -X search \
+        -X xcode \
+        || echo "Failed to upload code coverage report to codecov.io: ${file}"
+done

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

@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # Generate code coverage reports for uploading to Azure Pipelines and codecov.io.
 
 set -o pipefail -eu
@@ -16,4 +12,4 @@ if ! ansible-test --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     pip install https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/devel.tar.gz --disable-pip-version-check
 fi
 
-ansible-test coverage xml --group-by command --stub --venv --venv-system-site-packages --color -v
+ansible-test coverage xml --stub --venv --venv-system-site-packages --color -v

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

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

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

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

.azure-pipelines/templates/coverage.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # This template adds a job for processing code coverage data.
 # It will upload results to Azure Pipelines and codecov.io.
 # Use it from a job stage that completes after all other jobs have completed.
@@ -38,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
           summaryFileLocation: "$(outputPath)/reports/$(pipelinesCoverage).xml"
         displayName: Publish to Azure Pipelines
         condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
-      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.py "$(outputPath)"
+      - bash: .azure-pipelines/scripts/publish-codecov.sh "$(outputPath)"
         displayName: Publish to codecov.io
         condition: gt(variables.coverageFileCount, 0)
         continueOnError: true

.azure-pipelines/templates/matrix.yml

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

.azure-pipelines/templates/test.yml

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

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -1,153 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-name: Bug report
-description: Create a report to help us improve
-
-body:
-- type: markdown
-  attributes:
-    value: |
-      ⚠
-      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
-      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
-      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
-
-      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
-
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Summary
-    description: Explain the problem briefly below.
-    placeholder: >-
-      When I try to do X with the collection from the main branch on GitHub, Y
-      breaks in a way Z under the env E. Here are all the details I know
-      about this problem...
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: dropdown
-  attributes:
-    label: Issue Type
-    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
-    options:
-    - Bug Report
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    # For smaller collections we could use a multi-select and hardcode the list
-    # May generate this list via GitHub action and walking files under https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/tree/main/plugins
-    # Select from list, filter as you type (`mysql` would only show the 3 mysql components)
-    # OR freeform - doesn't seem to be supported in adaptivecards
-    label: Component Name
-    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
-      *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
-    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Ansible Version
-    description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` between
-      tripple backticks.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible --version
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Community.general Version
-    description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from "ansible-galaxy collection list community.general"
-      between tripple backticks.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Configuration
-    description: >-
-      If this issue has an example piece of YAML that can help to reproduce this problem, please provide it.
-      This can be a piece of YAML from, e.g., an automation, script, scene or configuration.
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed` between quotes
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
-
-      ```
-
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: OS / Environment
-    description: >-
-      Provide all relevant information below, e.g. target OS versions,
-      network device firmware, etc.
-    placeholder: RHEL 8, CentOS Stream etc.
-  validations:
-    required: false
-
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Steps to Reproduce
-    description: |
-      Describe exactly how to reproduce the problem, using a minimal test-case. It would *really* help us understand your problem if you could also passed any playbooks, configs and commands you used.
-
-      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
-    value: |
-      <!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
-      ```yaml (paste below)
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Expected Results
-    description: >-
-      Describe what you expected to happen when running the steps above.
-    placeholder: >-
-      I expected X to happen because I assumed Y.
-      that it did not.
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Actual Results
-    description: |
-      Describe what actually happened. If possible run with extra verbosity (`-vvvv`).
-
-      Paste verbatim command output between quotes.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-
-      ```
-- type: checkboxes
-  attributes:
-    label: Code of Conduct
-    description: |
-      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
-    options:
-    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-      required: true
-...

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml

@@ -1,31 +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
-
-# Ref: https://help.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository#configuring-the-template-chooser
-blank_issues_enabled: false  # default: true
-contact_links:
-- name: Security bug report
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
-  about: |
-    Please learn how to report security vulnerabilities here.
-
-    For all security related bugs, email security@ansible.com
-    instead of using this issue tracker and you will receive
-    a prompt response.
-
-    For more information, see
-    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/reporting_bugs_and_features.html
-- name: Ansible Code of Conduct
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
-  about: Be nice to other members of the community.
-- name: Talks to the community
-  url: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser#mailing-list-information
-  about: Please ask and answer usage questions here
-- name: Working groups
-  url: https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki
-  about: Interested in improving a specific area? Become a part of a working group!
-- name: For Enterprise
-  url: https://www.ansible.com/products/engine?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_template_chooser_ansible_collections
-  about: Red Hat offers support for the Ansible Automation Platform

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml

@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-name: Documentation Report
-description: Ask us about docs
-# NOTE: issue body is enabled to allow screenshots
-
-body:
-- type: markdown
-  attributes:
-    value: |
-      ⚠
-      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
-      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
-      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
-
-      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
-
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Summary
-    description: |
-      Explain the problem briefly below, add suggestions to wording or structure.
-
-      **HINT:** Did you know the documentation has an `Edit on GitHub` link on every page?
-    placeholder: >-
-      I was reading the Collection documentation of version X and I'm having
-      problems understanding Y. It would be very helpful if that got
-      rephrased as Z.
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: dropdown
-  attributes:
-    label: Issue Type
-    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
-    options:
-    - Documentation Report
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: input
-  attributes:
-    label: Component Name
-    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the file, module, plugin, task or feature below,
-      *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
-    placeholder: mysql_user
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Ansible Version
-    description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible --version` between
-      tripple backticks.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible --version
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: false
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Community.general Version
-    description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from "ansible-galaxy collection list community.general"
-      between tripple backticks.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Configuration
-    description: >-
-      Paste verbatim output from `ansible-config dump --only-changed` between quotes.
-    value: |
-      ```console (paste below)
-      $ ansible-config dump --only-changed
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: false
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: OS / Environment
-    description: >-
-      Provide all relevant information below, e.g. OS version,
-      browser, etc.
-    placeholder: Fedora 33, Firefox etc.
-  validations:
-    required: false
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Additional Information
-    description: |
-      Describe how this improves the documentation, e.g. before/after situation or screenshots.
-
-      **Tip:** It's not possible to upload the screenshot via this field directly but you can use the last textarea in this form to attach them.
-
-      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
-    placeholder: >-
-      When the improvement is applied, it makes it more straightforward
-      to understand X.
-  validations:
-    required: false
-
-- type: checkboxes
-  attributes:
-    label: Code of Conduct
-    description: |
-      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
-    options:
-    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-      required: true
-...

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml

@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-name: Feature request
-description: Suggest an idea for this project
-
-body:
-- type: markdown
-  attributes:
-    value: |
-      ⚠
-      Verify first that your issue is not [already reported on GitHub][issue search].
-      Also test if the latest release and devel branch are affected too.
-      *Complete **all** sections as described, this form is processed automatically.*
-
-      [issue search]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/search?q=is%3Aissue&type=issues
-
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Summary
-    description: Describe the new feature/improvement briefly below.
-    placeholder: >-
-      I am trying to do X with the collection from the main branch on GitHub and
-      I think that implementing a feature Y would be very helpful for me and
-      every other user of community.general because of Z.
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: dropdown
-  attributes:
-    label: Issue Type
-    # FIXME: Once GitHub allows defining the default choice, update this
-    options:
-    - Feature Idea
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: input
-  attributes:
-    label: Component Name
-    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the module or plugin, or which other part(s) of the collection this feature affects.
-      *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
-    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
-  validations:
-    required: true
-
-- type: textarea
-  attributes:
-    label: Additional Information
-    description: |
-      Describe how the feature would be used, why it is needed and what it would solve.
-
-      **HINT:** You can paste https://gist.github.com links for larger files.
-    value: |
-      <!--- Paste example playbooks or commands between quotes below -->
-      ```yaml (paste below)
-
-      ```
-  validations:
-    required: false
-- type: checkboxes
-  attributes:
-    label: Code of Conduct
-    description: |
-      Read the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html?utm_medium=github&utm_source=issue_form--ansible-collections) first.
-    options:
-    - label: I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct
-      required: true
-...

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -1,11 +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
-
-version: 2
-updates:
-  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
-    directory: "/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "weekly"

.github/patchback.yml

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

.github/pull_request_template.md

@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-##### SUMMARY
-<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale and design decisions -->
-
-<!--- HINT: Include "Fixes #nnn" if you are fixing an existing issue -->
-
-<!--- Please do not forget to include a changelog fragment:
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/collection_development_process.html#creating-changelog-fragments
-      No need to include one for docs-only or test-only PR, and for new plugin/module PRs.
-      Read about more details in CONTRIBUTING.md.
-      -->
-
-##### ISSUE TYPE
-<!--- Pick one or more below and delete the rest.
-      'Test Pull Request' is for PRs that add/extend tests without code changes. -->
-- Bugfix Pull Request
-- Docs Pull Request
-- Feature Pull Request
-- New Module/Plugin Pull Request
-- Refactoring Pull Request
-- Test Pull Request
-
-##### COMPONENT NAME
-<!--- Write the SHORT NAME of the module, plugin, task or feature below. -->
-
-##### ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-<!--- Include additional information to help people understand the change here -->
-<!--- A step-by-step reproduction of the problem is helpful if there is no related issue -->
-
-<!--- Paste verbatim command output below, e.g. before and after your change -->
-```paste below
-
-```

.github/pull_request_template.md.license

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

.github/settings.yml

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

.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml

@@ -1,181 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-# For the comprehensive list of the inputs supported by the ansible-community/ansible-test-gh-action GitHub Action, see
-# https://github.com/marketplace/actions/ansible-test
-
-name: EOL CI
-on:
-  # Run EOL CI against all pushes (direct commits, also merged PRs), Pull Requests
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-      - stable-*
-  pull_request:
-  # Run EOL CI once per day (at 08:00 UTC)
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 8 * * *'
-
-concurrency:
-  # Make sure there is at most one active run per PR, but do not cancel any non-PR runs
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ (github.head_ref && github.event.number) || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  sanity:
-    name: EOL Sanity (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }})
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - '2.13'
-    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
-    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
-    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
-    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
-    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Perform sanity testing
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          testing-type: sanity
-
-  units:
-    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
-    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
-    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
-    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
-    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: EOL Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+py${{ matrix.python }})
-    strategy:
-      # As soon as the first unit test fails, cancel the others to free up the CI queue
-      fail-fast: true
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - ''
-        python:
-          - ''
-        exclude:
-          - ansible: ''
-        include:
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '3.8'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '3.8'
-
-    steps:
-      - name: >-
-          Perform unit testing against
-          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          pre-test-cmd: >-
-            mkdir -p ../../ansible
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools.git ../../community/internal_test_tools
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          target-python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
-          testing-type: units
-
-  integration:
-    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
-    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
-    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
-    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
-    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: EOL I (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+${{ matrix.docker }}+py${{ matrix.python }}:${{ matrix.target }})
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - ''
-        docker:
-          - ''
-        python:
-          - ''
-        target:
-          - ''
-        exclude:
-          - ansible: ''
-        include:
-          # 2.13
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: alpine3
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: alpine3
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: alpine3
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-          # - ansible: '2.13'
-          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '3.9'
-          #   target: azp/generic/1/
-
-    steps:
-      - name: >-
-          Perform integration testing against
-          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          under Python ${{ matrix.python }}
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          docker-image: ${{ matrix.docker }}
-          integration-continue-on-error: 'false'
-          integration-diff: 'false'
-          integration-retry-on-error: 'true'
-          pre-test-cmd: >-
-            mkdir -p ../../ansible
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix.git ../../ansible/posix
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto.git ../../community/crypto
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools.git ../../community/internal_test_tools
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          target: ${{ matrix.target }}
-          target-python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
-          testing-type: integration

.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml

@@ -1,36 +1,49 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 name: "Code scanning - action"
 
 on:
   schedule:
     - cron: '26 19 * * 1'
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
 
 jobs:
   CodeQL-Build:
 
-    permissions:
-      actions: read  # for github/codeql-action/init to get workflow details
-      contents: read  # for actions/checkout to fetch code
-      security-events: write  # for github/codeql-action/autobuild to send a status report
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
     - name: Checkout repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      with:
+        # We must fetch at least the immediate parents so that if this is
+        # a pull request then we can checkout the head.
+        fetch-depth: 2
+
+    # If this run was triggered by a pull request event, then checkout
+    # the head of the pull request instead of the merge commit.
+    - run: git checkout HEAD^2
+      if: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
 
     # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
     - name: Initialize CodeQL
-      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
-      with:
-        languages: python
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v1
+      # Override language selection by uncommenting this and choosing your languages
+      # with:
+      #   languages: go, javascript, csharp, python, cpp, java
+
+    # Autobuild attempts to build any compiled languages  (C/C++, C#, or Java).
+    # If this step fails, then you should remove it and run the build manually (see below)
+    - name: Autobuild
+      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v1
+
+    # ℹ️ Command-line programs to run using the OS shell.
+    # 📚 https://git.io/JvXDl
+
+    # ✏️ If the Autobuild fails above, remove it and uncomment the following three lines
+    #    and modify them (or add more) to build your code if your project
+    #    uses a compiled language
+
+    #- run: |
+    #   make bootstrap
+    #   make release
 
     - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v1

.github/workflows/reuse.yml

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-name: Verify REUSE
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [main]
-  pull_request_target:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    branches: [main]
-  # Run CI once per day (at 07:30 UTC)
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '30 7 * * *'
-
-jobs:
-  check:
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || '' }}
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          pip install reuse
-
-      - name: Check REUSE compliance
-        run: |
-          reuse lint

.gitignore

@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
-# Created by https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
-# Edit at https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore?templates=vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
+# Created by https://www.gitignore.io/api/git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv
+# Edit at https://www.gitignore.io/?templates=git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv
 
 ### dotenv ###
 .env
@@ -74,19 +71,7 @@ flycheck_*.el
 *_LOCAL_*.txt
 *_REMOTE_*.txt
 
-### JupyterNotebooks ###
-# gitignore template for Jupyter Notebooks
-# website: http://jupyter.org/
-
-.ipynb_checkpoints
-*/.ipynb_checkpoints/*
-
-# IPython
-profile_default/
-ipython_config.py
-
-# Remove previous ipynb_checkpoints
-#   git rm -r .ipynb_checkpoints/
+#!! ERROR: jupyternotebook is undefined. Use list command to see defined gitignore types !!#
 
 ### Linux ###
 
@@ -102,41 +87,8 @@ ipython_config.py
 # .nfs files are created when an open file is removed but is still being accessed
 .nfs*
 
-### macOS ###
-# General
-.DS_Store
-.AppleDouble
-.LSOverride
-
-# Icon must end with two \r
-Icon
-
-
-# Thumbnails
-._*
-
-# Files that might appear in the root of a volume
-.DocumentRevisions-V100
-.fseventsd
-.Spotlight-V100
-.TemporaryItems
-.Trashes
-.VolumeIcon.icns
-.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent
-
-# Directories potentially created on remote AFP share
-.AppleDB
-.AppleDesktop
-Network Trash Folder
-Temporary Items
-.apdisk
-
-### macOS Patch ###
-# iCloud generated files
-*.icloud
-
 ### PyCharm+all ###
-# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio, WebStorm and Rider
+# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio and WebStorm
 # Reference: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544839
 
 # User-specific stuff
@@ -146,9 +98,6 @@ Temporary Items
 .idea/**/dictionaries
 .idea/**/shelf
 
-# AWS User-specific
-.idea/**/aws.xml
-
 # Generated files
 .idea/**/contentModel.xml
 
@@ -169,9 +118,6 @@ Temporary Items
 # When using Gradle or Maven with auto-import, you should exclude module files,
 # since they will be recreated, and may cause churn.  Uncomment if using
 # auto-import.
-# .idea/artifacts
-# .idea/compiler.xml
-# .idea/jarRepositories.xml
 # .idea/modules.xml
 # .idea/*.iml
 # .idea/modules
@@ -199,9 +145,6 @@ atlassian-ide-plugin.xml
 # Cursive Clojure plugin
 .idea/replstate.xml
 
-# SonarLint plugin
-.idea/sonarlint/
-
 # Crashlytics plugin (for Android Studio and IntelliJ)
 com_crashlytics_export_strings.xml
 crashlytics.properties
@@ -215,13 +158,20 @@ fabric.properties
 .idea/caches/build_file_checksums.ser
 
 ### PyCharm+all Patch ###
-# Ignore everything but code style settings and run configurations
-# that are supposed to be shared within teams.
+# Ignores the whole .idea folder and all .iml files
+# See https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/issues/186 and https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/issues/360
 
-.idea/*
+.idea/
 
-!.idea/codeStyles
-!.idea/runConfigurations
+# Reason: https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/issues/186#issuecomment-249601023
+
+*.iml
+modules.xml
+.idea/misc.xml
+*.ipr
+
+# Sonarlint plugin
+.idea/sonarlint
 
 ### pydev ###
 .pydevproject
@@ -248,6 +198,7 @@ parts/
 sdist/
 var/
 wheels/
+pip-wheel-metadata/
 share/python-wheels/
 *.egg-info/
 .installed.cfg
@@ -274,25 +225,13 @@ htmlcov/
 nosetests.xml
 coverage.xml
 *.cover
-*.py,cover
 .hypothesis/
 .pytest_cache/
-cover/
 
 # Translations
 *.mo
 *.pot
 
-# Django stuff:
-*.log
-local_settings.py
-db.sqlite3
-db.sqlite3-journal
-
-# Flask stuff:
-instance/
-.webassets-cache
-
 # Scrapy stuff:
 .scrapy
 
@@ -300,17 +239,10 @@ instance/
 docs/_build/
 
 # PyBuilder
-.pybuilder/
 target/
 
-# Jupyter Notebook
-
-# IPython
-
 # pyenv
-#   For a library or package, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
-#   intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
-# .python-version
+.python-version
 
 # pipenv
 #   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
@@ -319,39 +251,12 @@ target/
 #   install all needed dependencies.
 #Pipfile.lock
 
-# poetry
-#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include poetry.lock in version control.
-#   This is especially recommended for binary packages to ensure reproducibility, and is more
-#   commonly ignored for libraries.
-#   https://python-poetry.org/docs/basic-usage/#commit-your-poetrylock-file-to-version-control
-#poetry.lock
-
-# pdm
-#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include pdm.lock in version control.
-#pdm.lock
-#   pdm stores project-wide configurations in .pdm.toml, but it is recommended to not include it
-#   in version control.
-#   https://pdm.fming.dev/#use-with-ide
-.pdm.toml
-
-# PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow and github.com/pdm-project/pdm
-__pypackages__/
-
-# Celery stuff
+# celery beat schedule file
 celerybeat-schedule
-celerybeat.pid
 
 # SageMath parsed files
 *.sage.py
 
-# Environments
-.venv
-env/
-venv/
-ENV/
-env.bak/
-venv.bak/
-
 # Spyder project settings
 .spyderproject
 .spyproject
@@ -359,6 +264,10 @@ venv.bak/
 # Rope project settings
 .ropeproject
 
+# Mr Developer
+.mr.developer.cfg
+.project
+
 # mkdocs documentation
 /site
 
@@ -370,23 +279,9 @@ dmypy.json
 # Pyre type checker
 .pyre/
 
-# pytype static type analyzer
-.pytype/
-
-# Cython debug symbols
-cython_debug/
-
-# PyCharm
-#  JetBrains specific template is maintained in a separate JetBrains.gitignore that can
-#  be found at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
-#  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
-#  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
-#.idea/
-
 ### Vim ###
 # Swap
 [._]*.s[a-v][a-z]
-!*.svg  # comment out if you don't need vector files
 [._]*.sw[a-p]
 [._]s[a-rt-v][a-z]
 [._]ss[a-gi-z]
@@ -404,13 +299,11 @@ tags
 [._]*.un~
 
 ### WebStorm ###
-# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio, WebStorm and Rider
+# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio and WebStorm
 # Reference: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544839
 
 # User-specific stuff
 
-# AWS User-specific
-
 # Generated files
 
 # Sensitive or high-churn files
@@ -421,9 +314,6 @@ tags
 # When using Gradle or Maven with auto-import, you should exclude module files,
 # since they will be recreated, and may cause churn.  Uncomment if using
 # auto-import.
-# .idea/artifacts
-# .idea/compiler.xml
-# .idea/jarRepositories.xml
 # .idea/modules.xml
 # .idea/*.iml
 # .idea/modules
@@ -444,8 +334,6 @@ tags
 
 # Cursive Clojure plugin
 
-# SonarLint plugin
-
 # Crashlytics plugin (for Android Studio and IntelliJ)
 
 # Editor-based Rest Client
@@ -461,27 +349,15 @@ tags
 # *.ipr
 
 # Sonarlint plugin
-# https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7973-sonarlint
 .idea/**/sonarlint/
 
 # SonarQube Plugin
-# https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7238-sonarqube-community-plugin
 .idea/**/sonarIssues.xml
 
 # Markdown Navigator plugin
-# https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7896-markdown-navigator-enhanced
 .idea/**/markdown-navigator.xml
-.idea/**/markdown-navigator-enh.xml
 .idea/**/markdown-navigator/
 
-# Cache file creation bug
-# See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-2257
-.idea/$CACHE_FILE$
-
-# CodeStream plugin
-# https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12206-codestream
-.idea/codestream.xml
-
 ### Windows ###
 # Windows thumbnail cache files
 Thumbs.db
@@ -508,7 +384,4 @@ $RECYCLE.BIN/
 # Windows shortcuts
 *.lnk
 
-# End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/vim,git,macos,linux,pydev,emacs,dotenv,python,windows,webstorm,pycharm+all,jupyternotebooks
-
-# Integration tests cloud configs
-tests/integration/cloud-config-*.ini
+# End of https://www.gitignore.io/api/git,linux,pydev,python,windows,pycharm+all,jupyternotebook,vim,webstorm,emacs,dotenv

.reuse/dep5

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

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -4,329 +4,639 @@ Community General Release Notes
 
 .. contents:: Topics
 
-This changelog describes changes after version 7.0.0.
+This changelog describes changes after version 1.0.0.
 
-v8.0.0
+v2.1.0
 ======
 
 Release Summary
 ---------------
 
-This is release 9.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2023-11-01.
+Regular feature and bugfix release.
 
 Minor Changes
 -------------
 
-- The collection will start using semantic markup (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6539).
-- VarDict module utils - add method ``VarDict.as_dict()`` to convert to a plain ``dict`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6602).
-- apt_rpm - extract package name from local ``.rpm`` path when verifying
-  installation success. Allows installing packages from local ``.rpm`` files
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7396).
-- cargo - add option ``executable``, which allows user to specify path to the cargo binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7352).
-- cargo - add option ``locked`` which allows user to specify install the locked version of dependency instead of latest compatible version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6134).
-- chroot connection plugin - add ``disable_root_check`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7099).
-- cloudflare_dns - add CAA record support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7399).
-- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``exclude_mgmt_classes`` and ``include_mgmt_classes`` options to exclude or include hosts based on management classes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7184).
-- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` option to allow using the system name for the inventory hostname (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6502).
-- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``want_ip_addresses`` option to collect all interface DNS name to IP address mapping (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6711).
-- cobbler inventory plugin - add primary IP addess to ``cobbler_ipv4_address`` and IPv6 address to ``cobbler_ipv6_address`` host variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6711).
-- cobbler inventory plugin - add warning for systems with empty profiles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6502).
-- cobbler inventory plugin - convert Ansible unicode strings to native Python unicode strings before passing user/password to XMLRPC client (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6923).
-- consul_session - drops requirement for the ``python-consul`` library to communicate with the Consul API, instead relying on the existing ``requests`` library requirement (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6755).
-- copr - respawn module to use the system python interpreter when the ``dnf`` python module is not available in ``ansible_python_interpreter`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6522).
-- cpanm - minor refactor when creating the ``CmdRunner`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7231).
-- datadog_monitor - adds ``notification_preset_name``, ``renotify_occurrences`` and ``renotify_statuses`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6521,https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5823).
-- dig lookup plugin - add TCP option to enable the use of TCP connection during DNS lookup (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7343).
-- ejabberd_user - module now using ``CmdRunner`` to execute external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7075).
-- filesystem - add ``uuid`` parameter for UUID change feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6680).
-- gitlab_group - add option ``force_delete`` (default: false) which allows delete group even if projects exists in it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7364).
-- gitlab_group_variable - add support for ``raw`` variables suboption (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7132).
-- gitlab_project_variable - add support for ``raw`` variables suboption (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7132).
-- gitlab_project_variable - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
-- gitlab_runner - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6927).
-- htpasswd - minor code improvements in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6901).
-- htpasswd - the parameter ``crypt_scheme`` is being renamed as ``hash_scheme`` and added as an alias to it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6841).
-- icinga2_host - the ``ip`` option is no longer required, since Icinga 2 allows for an empty address attribute (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7452).
-- ini_file - add ``ignore_spaces`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7273).
-- ini_file - add ``modify_inactive_option`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7401).
-- ipa_config - add module parameters to manage FreeIPA user and group objectclasses (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7019).
-- ipa_config - adds ``idp`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7051).
-- jenkins_build - add new ``detach`` option, which allows the module to exit successfully as long as the build is created (default functionality is still waiting for the build to end before exiting) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7204).
-- jenkins_build - add new ``time_between_checks`` option, which allows to configure the wait time between requests to the Jenkins server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7204).
-- keycloak_authentication - added provider ID choices, since Keycloak supports only those two specific ones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6763).
-- keycloak_client_rolemapping - adds support for subgroups with additional parameter ``parents`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6687).
-- keycloak_role - add composite roles support for realm and client roles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6469).
-- keyring - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6927).
-- ldap_* - add new arguments ``client_cert`` and ``client_key`` to the LDAP modules in order to allow certificate authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6668).
-- ldap_search - add a new ``page_size`` option to enable paged searches (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6648).
-- locale_gen - module has been refactored to use ``ModuleHelper`` and ``CmdRunner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6903).
-- locale_gen - module now using ``CmdRunner`` to execute external commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6820).
-- lvg - add ``active`` and ``inactive`` values to the ``state`` option for active state management feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6682).
-- lvg - add ``reset_vg_uuid``, ``reset_pv_uuid`` options for UUID reset feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6682).
-- lxc connection plugin - properly handle a change of the ``remote_addr`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7373).
-- lxd connection plugin - automatically translate ``remote_addr`` from FQDN to (short) hostname (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7360).
-- lxd connection plugin - update error parsing to work with newer messages mentioning instances (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7360).
-- lxd inventory plugin - add ``server_cert`` option for trust anchor to use for TLS verification of server certificates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7392).
-- lxd inventory plugin - add ``server_check_hostname`` option to disable hostname verification of server certificates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7392).
-- make - add new ``targets`` parameter allowing multiple targets to be used with ``make`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6882, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4919).
-- make - allows ``params`` to be used without value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7180).
-- mas - disable sign-in check for macOS 12+ as ``mas account`` is non-functional (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6520).
-- newrelic_deployment - add option ``app_name_exact_match``, which filters results for the exact app_name provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7355).
-- nmap inventory plugin - now has a ``use_arp_ping`` option to allow the user to disable the default ARP ping query for a more reliable form (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7119).
-- nmcli - add support for ``ipv4.dns-options`` and ``ipv6.dns-options`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6902).
-- nomad_job, nomad_job_info - add ``port`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7412).
-- npm - minor improvement on parameter validation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6848).
-- npm - module now using ``CmdRunner`` to execute external commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6989).
-- onepassword lookup plugin - add service account support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6635, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6660).
-- onepassword lookup plugin - introduce ``account_id`` option which allows specifying which account to use (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7308).
-- onepassword_raw lookup plugin - add service account support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6635, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6660).
-- onepassword_raw lookup plugin - introduce ``account_id`` option which allows specifying which account to use (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7308).
-- opentelemetry callback plugin - add span attributes in the span event (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6531).
-- opkg - add ``executable`` parameter allowing to specify the path of the ``opkg`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6862).
-- opkg - remove default value ``""`` for parameter ``force`` as it causes the same behaviour of not having that parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6513).
-- pagerduty - adds in option to use v2 API for creating pagerduty incidents (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6151)
-- parted - on resize, use ``--fix`` option if available (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7304).
-- pnpm - set correct version when state is latest or version is not mentioned. Resolves previous idempotency problem (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7339).
-- pritunl module utils - ensure ``validate_certs`` parameter is honoured in all methods (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7156).
-- proxmox - add ``vmid`` (and ``taskid`` when possible) to return values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7263).
-- proxmox - support ``timezone`` parameter at container creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6510).
-- proxmox inventory plugin - add composite variables support for Proxmox nodes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6640).
-- proxmox_kvm - added support for ``tpmstate0`` parameter to configure TPM (Trusted Platform Module) disk. TPM is required for Windows 11 installations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6533).
-- proxmox_kvm - enabled force restart of VM, bringing the ``force`` parameter functionality in line with what is described in the docs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6914).
-- proxmox_kvm - re-use ``timeout`` module param to forcefully shutdown a virtual machine when ``state`` is ``stopped`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6257).
-- proxmox_snap - add ``retention`` parameter to delete old snapshots (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6576).
-- proxmox_vm_info - ``node`` parameter is no longer required. Information can be obtained for the whole cluster (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6976).
-- proxmox_vm_info - non-existing provided by name/vmid VM would return empty results instead of failing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7049).
-- pubnub_blocks - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
-- random_string - added new ``ignore_similar_chars`` and ``similar_chars`` option to ignore certain chars (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7242).
-- redfish_command - add ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6471, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6612).
-- redfish_command - add ``account_types`` and ``oem_account_types`` as optional inputs to ``AddUser`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6823, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6871).
-- redfish_command - add new option ``update_oem_params`` for the ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7331).
-- redfish_config - add ``CreateVolume`` command to allow creation of volumes on servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6813).
-- redfish_config - add ``DeleteAllVolumes`` command to allow deletion of all volumes on servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6814).
-- redfish_config - adding ``SetSecureBoot`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7129).
-- redfish_info - add ``AccountTypes`` and ``OEMAccountTypes`` to the output of ``ListUsers`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6823, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6871).
-- redfish_info - add support for ``GetBiosRegistries`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7144).
-- redfish_info - adds ``LinkStatus`` to NIC inventory (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7318).
-- redfish_info - adds ``ProcessorArchitecture`` to CPU inventory (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6864).
-- redfish_info - fix for ``GetVolumeInventory``, Controller name was getting populated incorrectly and duplicates were seen in the volumes retrieved (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6719).
-- redfish_info - report ``Id`` in the output of ``GetManagerInventory`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7140).
-- redfish_utils - use ``Controllers`` key in redfish data to obtain Storage controllers properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7081).
-- redfish_utils module utils - add support for ``PowerCycle`` reset type for ``redfish_command`` responses feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7083).
-- redfish_utils module utils - add support for following ``@odata.nextLink`` pagination in ``software_inventory`` responses feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7020).
-- redfish_utils module utils - support ``Volumes`` in response for ``GetDiskInventory`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6819).
-- redhat_subscription - the internal ``RegistrationBase`` class was folded
-  into the other internal ``Rhsm`` class, as the separation had no purpose
-  anymore
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6658).
-- redis_info - refactor the redis_info module to use the redis module_utils enabling to pass TLS parameters to the Redis client (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7267).
-- rhsm_release - improve/harden the way ``subscription-manager`` is run;
-  no behaviour change is expected
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6669).
-- rhsm_repository - the interaction with ``subscription-manager`` was
-  refactored by grouping things together, removing unused bits, and hardening
-  the way it is run; also, the parsing of ``subscription-manager repos --list``
-  was improved and made slightly faster; no behaviour change is expected
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6783,
-  https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6837).
-- scaleway_security_group_rule - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
-- shutdown - use ``shutdown -p ...`` with FreeBSD to halt and power off machine (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7102).
-- snap - add option ``dangerous`` to the module, that will map into the command line argument ``--dangerous``, allowing unsigned snap files to be installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6908, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5715).
-- snap - module is now aware of channel when deciding whether to install or refresh the snap (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6435, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1606).
-- sorcery - add grimoire (repository) management support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).
-- sorcery - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6525).
-- supervisorctl - allow to stop matching running processes before removing them with ``stop_before_removing=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7284).
-- tss lookup plugin - allow to fetch secret IDs which are in a folder based on folder ID. Previously, we could not fetch secrets based on folder ID but now use ``fetch_secret_ids_from_folder`` option to indicate to fetch secret IDs based on folder ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6223).
-- tss lookup plugin - allow to fetch secret by path. Previously, we could not fetch secret by path but now use ``secret_path`` option to indicate to fetch secret by secret path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6881).
-- unixy callback plugin - add support for ``check_mode_markers`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7179).
-- vardict module utils - added convenience methods to ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6647).
-- xenserver_guest_info - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
-- xenserver_guest_powerstate - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
-- yum_versionlock - add support to pin specific package versions instead of only the package itself (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6861, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4470).
-
-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
---------------------------------
-
-- collection_version lookup plugin - remove compatibility code for ansible-base 2.10 and ansible-core 2.11 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7269).
-- gitlab_project - add ``default_branch`` support for project update. If you used the module so far with ``default_branch`` to update a project, the value of ``default_branch`` was ignored. Make sure that you either do not pass a value if you are not sure whether it is the one you want to have to avoid unexpected breaking changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7158).
-- selective callback plugin - remove compatibility code for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-core 2.10 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7269).
-- vardict module utils - ``VarDict`` will no longer accept variables named ``_var``, ``get_meta``, and ``as_dict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6647).
-- version module util - remove fallback for ansible-core 2.11. All modules and plugins that do version collections no longer work with ansible-core 2.11 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7269).
+- clc_* modules - elements of list parameters are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1771).
+- datadog_monitor - add missing monitor types ``query alert``, ``trace-analytics alert``, ``rum alert`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1723).
+- dnsimple - add CAA records to the whitelist of valid record types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1814).
+- dnsimple - elements of list parameters ``record_ids`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- gitlab_runner - elements of list parameters ``tag_list`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- homebrew_tap - add support to specify search path for ``brew`` executable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1702).
+- keycloak_client - elements of list parameters ``default_roles``, ``redirect_uris``, ``web_origins`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- librato_annotation - elements of list parameters ``links`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- lxd_container - ``client_key`` and ``client_cert`` are now of type ``path`` and no longer ``str``. A side effect is that certain expansions are made, like ``~`` is replaced by the user's home directory, and environment variables like ``$HOME`` or ``$TEMP`` are evaluated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1741).
+- lxd_container - elements of list parameter ``profiles`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- lxd_profile - ``client_key`` and ``client_cert`` are now of type ``path`` and no longer ``str``. A side effect is that certain expansions are made, like ``~`` is replaced by the user's home directory, and environment variables like ``$HOME`` or ``$TEMP`` are evaluated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1741).
+- lxd_profile - added ``merge_profile`` parameter to merge configurations from the play to an existing profile (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1813).
+- mail - elements of list parameters ``to``, ``cc``, ``bcc``, ``attach``, ``headers`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- na_ontap_gather_facts - elements of list parameters ``gather_subset`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- nexmo - elements of list parameters ``dest`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- nsupdate - elements of list parameters ``value`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- oci_vcn - ``api_user_key_file`` is now of type ``path`` and no longer ``str``. A side effect is that certain expansions are made, like ``~`` is replaced by the user's home directory, and environment variables like ``$HOME`` or ``$TEMP`` are evaluated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1741).
+- omapi_host - elements of list parameters ``statements`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- onepassword_info - elements of list parameters ``search_terms`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- packet_device - elements of list parameters ``device_ids``, ``hostnames`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- pagerduty - elements of list parameters ``service`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- plugins/module_utils/oracle/oci_utils.py - elements of list parameter ``key_by`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- proxmox_kvm module - actually implemented ``vmid`` and ``status`` return values. Updated documentation to reflect current situation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1715).
+- pubnub_blocks - elements of list parameters ``event_handlers`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- redfish modules - explicitly setting lists' elements to ``str`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1761).
+- redfish_config - case insensitive search for situations where the hostname/FQDN case on iLO doesn't match variable's case (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1744).
+- redhat_subscription - elements of list parameters ``pool_ids``, ``addons`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- rocketchat - elements of list parameters ``attachments`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- sendgrid - elements of list parameters ``to_addresses``, ``cc``, ``bcc``, ``attachments`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- sl_vm - elements of list parameters ``disks``, ``ssh_keys`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- slack - elements of list parameters ``attachments`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- statusio_maintenance - elements of list parameters ``components``, ``containers`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- timezone - add Gentoo and Alpine Linux support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/781).
+- twilio - elements of list parameters ``to_numbers`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- vmadm - elements of list parameters ``disks``, ``nics``, ``resolvers``, ``filesystems`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- xfconf - added option ``disable_facts`` to disable facts and its associated deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1475).
+- xml - elements of list parameters ``add_children``, ``set_children`` are now validated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
 
 Deprecated Features
 -------------------
 
-- CmdRunner module utils - deprecate ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_default_type()`` formatter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6601).
-- MH VarsMixin module utils - deprecates ``VarsMixin`` and supporting classes in favor of plain ``vardict`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6649).
-- ansible_galaxy_install - the ``ack_ansible29`` and ``ack_min_ansiblecore211`` options have been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- consul - the ``ack_params_state_absent`` option has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- cpanm - value ``compatibility`` is deprecated as default for parameter ``mode`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6512).
-- ejabberd_user - deprecate the parameter ``logging`` in favour of producing more detailed information in the module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7043).
-- flowdock - module relies entirely on no longer responsive API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6930).
-- proxmox - old feature flag ``proxmox_default_behavior`` will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6836).
-- proxmox_kvm - deprecate the option ``proxmox_default_behavior`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7377).
-- redfish_info, redfish_config, redfish_command - the default value ``10`` for the ``timeout`` option is deprecated and will change to ``60`` in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7295).
-- redhat module utils - the ``module_utils.redhat`` module is deprecated, as
-  effectively unused: the ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools`` classes
-  will be removed in community.general 9.0.0; the ``RegistrationBase`` class
-  will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 together with the
-  ``rhn_register`` module, as it is the only user of this class; this means
-  that the whole ``module_utils.redhat`` module will be dropped in
-  community.general 10.0.0, so importing it without even using anything of it
-  will fail
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6663).
-- redhat_subscription - the ``autosubscribe`` alias for the ``auto_attach`` option has been
-  deprecated for many years, although only in the documentation. Officially mark this alias
-  as deprecated, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6646).
-- redhat_subscription - the ``pool`` option is deprecated in favour of the
-  more precise and flexible ``pool_ids`` option
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6650).
-- rhsm_repository - ``state=present`` has not been working as expected for many years,
-  and it seems it was not noticed so far; also, "presence" is not really a valid concept
-  for subscription repositories, which can only be enabled or disabled. Hence, mark the
-  ``present`` and ``absent`` values of the ``state`` option as deprecated, slating them
-  for removal in community.general 10.0.0
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6673).
-- stackdriver - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6887).
-- webfaction_app - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
-- webfaction_db - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
-- webfaction_domain - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
-- webfaction_mailbox - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
-- webfaction_site - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
-
-Removed Features (previously deprecated)
-----------------------------------------
-
-- The collection no longer supports ansible-core 2.11 and ansible-core 2.12. Parts of the collection might still work on these ansible-core versions, but others might not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7269).
-- ansible_galaxy_install - support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- consul - when ``state=absent``, the options ``script``, ``ttl``, ``tcp``, ``http``, and ``interval`` can no longer be specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- gconftool2 - ``state=get`` has been removed. Use the module ``community.general.gconftool2_info`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- gitlab_runner - remove the default value for the ``access_level`` option. To restore the previous behavior, explicitly set it to ``ref_protected`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- htpasswd - removed code for passlib <1.6 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6901).
-- manageiq_polices - ``state=list`` has been removed. Use the module ``community.general.manageiq_policies_info`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- manageiq_tags - ``state=list`` has been removed. Use the module ``community.general.manageiq_tags_info`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- mh.mixins.cmd module utils - the ``ArgFormat`` class has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- mh.mixins.cmd module utils - the ``CmdMixin`` mixin has been removed. Use ``community.general.plugins.module_utils.cmd_runner.CmdRunner`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- mh.mixins.cmd module utils - the mh.mixins.cmd module utils has been removed after all its contents were removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- mh.module_helper module utils - the ``CmdModuleHelper`` and ``CmdStateModuleHelper`` classes have been removed. Use ``community.general.plugins.module_utils.cmd_runner.CmdRunner`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
-- proxmox module utils - removed unused imports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6873).
-- xfconf - the deprecated ``disable_facts`` option was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7358).
+- xfconf - returning output as facts is deprecated, this will be removed in community.general 4.0.0. Please register the task output in a variable and use it instead. You can already switch to the new behavior now by using the new ``disable_facts`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1747).
 
 Bugfixes
 --------
 
-- CmdRunner module utils - does not attempt to resolve path if executable is a relative or absolute path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7200).
-- MH DependencyMixin module utils - deprecation notice was popping up for modules not using dependencies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6644, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6639).
-- bitwarden lookup plugin - the plugin made assumptions about the structure of a Bitwarden JSON object which may have been broken by an update in the Bitwarden API. Remove assumptions, and allow queries for general fields such as ``notes`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7061).
-- cmd_runner module utils - when a parameter in ``argument_spec`` has no type, meaning it is implicitly a ``str``, ``CmdRunner`` would fail trying to find the ``type`` key in that dictionary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6968).
-- cobbler inventory plugin - fix calculation of cobbler_ipv4/6_address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6925).
-- composer - fix impossible to run ``working_dir`` dependent commands. The module was throwing an error when trying to run a ``working_dir`` dependent command, because it tried to get the command help without passing the ``working_dir`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3787).
-- csv module utils - detects and remove unicode BOM markers from incoming CSV content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6662).
-- datadog_downtime - presence of ``rrule`` param lead to the Datadog API returning Bad Request due to a missing recurrence type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6811).
-- ejabberd_user - module was failing to detect whether user was already created and/or password was changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7033).
-- ejabberd_user - provide meaningful error message when the ``ejabberdctl`` command is not found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6949).
-- github_deploy_key - fix pagination behaviour causing a crash when only a single page of deploy keys exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7375).
-- gitlab_group - the module passed parameters to the API call even when not set. The module is now filtering out ``None`` values to remediate this (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6712).
-- gitlab_group_variable - deleted all variables when used with ``purge=true`` due to missing ``raw`` property in KNOWN attributes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7250).
-- gitlab_project_variable - deleted all variables when used with ``purge=true`` due to missing ``raw`` property in KNOWN attributes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7250).
-- icinga2_host - fix a key error when updating an existing host (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6748).
-- ini_file - add the ``follow`` paramter to follow the symlinks instead of replacing them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6546).
-- ini_file - fix a bug where the inactive options were not used when possible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6575).
-- ipa_dnszone - fix 'idnsallowsyncptr' key error for reverse zone (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6906, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6905).
-- kernel_blacklist - simplified the mechanism to update the file, fixing the error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7382, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7362).
-- keycloak module util - fix missing ``http_agent``, ``timeout``, and ``validate_certs`` ``open_url()`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7067).
-- keycloak module utils - fix ``is_struct_included`` handling of lists of lists/dictionaries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6688).
-- keycloak module utils - the function ``get_user_by_username`` now return the user representation or ``None`` as stated in the documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6758).
-- keycloak_authentication - fix Keycloak authentication flow (step or sub-flow) indexing during update, if not specified by the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6734).
-- keycloak_client inventory plugin - fix missing client secret (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6931).
-- ldap_search - fix string normalization and the ``base64_attributes`` option on Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5704, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7264).
-- locale_gen - now works for locales without the underscore character such as ``C.UTF-8`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6774, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5142, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4305).
-- lvol - add support for percentage of origin size specification when creating snapshot volumes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1630, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7053).
-- lxc connection plugin - now handles ``remote_addr`` defaulting to ``inventory_hostname`` correctly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7104).
-- lxc connection plugin - properly evaluate options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7369).
-- machinectl become plugin - mark plugin as ``require_tty`` to automatically disable pipelining, with which this plugin is not compatible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6932, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6935).
-- mail - skip headers containing equals characters due to missing ``maxsplit`` on header key/value parsing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7303).
-- memset module utils - make compatible with ansible-core 2.17 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7379).
-- nmap inventory plugin - fix ``get_option`` calls (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7323).
-- nmap inventory plugin - now uses ``get_option`` in all cases to get its configuration information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7119).
-- nmcli - fix bond option ``xmit_hash_policy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6527).
-- nmcli - fix support for empty list (in compare and scrape) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6769).
-- nsupdate - fix a possible ``list index out of range`` exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/836).
-- oci_utils module util - fix inappropriate logical comparison expressions and makes them simpler. The previous checks had logical short circuits (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7125).
-- oci_utils module utils - avoid direct type comparisons (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7085).
-- onepassword - fix KeyError exception when trying to access value of a field that is not filled out in OnePassword item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7241).
-- openbsd_pkg - the pkg_info(1) behavior has changed in OpenBSD >7.3. The error message ``Can't find`` should not lead to an error case (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6785).
-- pacman - module recognizes the output of ``yay`` running as ``root`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6713).
-- portage - fix ``changed_use`` and ``newuse`` not triggering rebuilds (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6008, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6548).
-- pritunl module utils - fix incorrect URL parameter for orgnization add method (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7161).
-- proxmox - fix error when a configuration had no ``template`` field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6838, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5372).
-- proxmox module utils - add logic to detect whether an old Promoxer complains about the ``token_name`` and ``token_value`` parameters and provide a better error message when that happens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6839, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5371).
-- proxmox module utils - fix proxmoxer library version check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6974, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6975, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6980).
-- proxmox_disk - fix unable to create ``cdrom`` media due to ``size`` always being appended (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6770).
-- proxmox_kvm - ``absent`` state with ``force`` specified failed to stop the VM due to the ``timeout`` value not being passed to ``stop_vm`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6827).
-- proxmox_kvm - ``restarted`` state did not actually restart a VM in some VM configurations. The state now uses the Proxmox reboot endpoint instead of calling the ``stop_vm`` and ``start_vm`` functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6773).
-- proxmox_kvm - allow creation of VM with existing name but new vmid (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6155, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6709).
-- proxmox_kvm - when ``name`` option is provided without ``vmid`` and VM with that name already exists then no new VM will be created (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6911, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6981).
-- proxmox_tasks_info - remove ``api_user`` + ``api_password`` constraint from ``required_together`` as it causes to require ``api_password`` even when API token param is used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6201).
-- proxmox_template - require ``requests_toolbelt`` module to fix issue with uploading large templates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5579, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6757).
-- proxmox_user_info - avoid direct type comparisons (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7085).
-- redfish_info - fix ``ListUsers`` to not show empty account slots (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6771, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6772).
-- redhat_subscription - use the right D-Bus options for the consumer type when
-  registering a RHEL system older than 9 or a RHEL 9 system older than 9.2
-  and using ``consumer_type``
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7378).
-- refish_utils module utils - changing variable names to avoid issues occuring when fetching Volumes data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6883).
-- rhsm_repository - when using the ``purge`` option, the ``repositories``
-  dictionary element in the returned JSON is now properly updated according
-  to the pruning operation
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6676).
-- rundeck - fix ``TypeError`` on 404 API response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6983).
-- selective callback plugin - fix length of task name lines in output always being 3 characters longer than desired (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7374).
-- snap - an exception was being raised when snap list was empty (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7124, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7120).
-- snap - assume default track ``latest`` in parameter ``channel`` when not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6835, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6821).
-- snap - change the change detection mechanism from "parsing installation" to "comparing end state with initial state" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7340, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7265).
-- snap - fix crash when multiple snaps are specified and one has ``---`` in its description (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7046).
-- snap - fix the processing of the commands' output, stripping spaces and newlines from it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6826, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6803).
-- sorcery - fix interruption of the multi-stage process (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).
-- sorcery - fix queue generation before the whole system rebuild (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).
-- sorcery - latest state no longer triggers update_cache (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).
-- terraform - prevents ``-backend-config`` option double encapsulating with ``shlex_quote`` function. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7301).
-- tss lookup plugin - fix multiple issues when using ``fetch_attachments=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6720).
-- zypper - added handling of zypper exitcode 102. Changed state is set correctly now and rc 102 is still preserved to be evaluated by the playbook (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6534).
-
-Known Issues
-------------
-
-- Ansible markup will show up in raw form on ansible-doc text output for ansible-core before 2.15. If you have trouble deciphering the documentation markup, please upgrade to ansible-core 2.15 (or newer), or read the HTML documentation on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/general/ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6539).
-
-New Plugins
------------
-
-Lookup
-~~~~~~
-
-- bitwarden_secrets_manager - Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden Secrets Manager
+- aerospike_migration - fix typo that caused ``migrate_tx_key`` instead of ``migrate_rx_key`` being used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1739).
+- alternatives - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- beadm - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- cronvar - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- dconf - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- elasticsearch_plugin - ``state`` parameter choices must use ``list()`` in python3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1830).
+- filesystem - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- filesystem - remove ``swap`` from list of FS supported by ``resizefs=yes`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/790).
+- git_config - prevent ``run_command`` from expanding values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1776).
+- gitlab_runner - parameter ``registration_token`` was required but is used only when ``state`` is ``present`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1714).
+- hipchat - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- interfaces_file - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- iso_extract - use proper alias deprecation mechanism for ``thirsty`` alias of ``force`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1830).
+- java_cert - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- kibana_plugin - ``state`` parameter choices must use ``list()`` in python3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1830).
+- logstash_plugin - wrapped ``dict.keys()`` with ``list`` for use in ``choices`` setting (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1830).
+- lvg - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- lvol - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- lxc - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- lxc_container - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- nios_host_record - allow DNS Bypass for views other than default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1786).
+- nomad_job_info - fix module failure when nomad client returns no jobs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1721).
+- parted - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- proxmox lxc - only add the features flag when module parameter ``features`` is set. Before an empty string was send to proxmox in case the parameter was not used, which required to use ``root@pam`` for module execution (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1763).
+- proxmox* modules - refactored some parameter validation code into use of ``env_fallback``, ``required_if``, ``required_together``, ``required_one_of`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1765).
+- proxmox_kvm - do not add ``args`` if ``proxmox_default_behavior`` is set to no_defaults  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1641).
+- proxmox_kvm - stop implicitly adding ``force`` equal to ``false``. Proxmox API requires not implemented parameters otherwise, and assumes ``force`` to be ``false`` by default anyways (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1783).
+- redhat_subscription - ``mutually_exclusive`` was referring to parameter alias instead of name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1795).
+- riak - parameters ``wait_for_handoffs`` and ``wait_for_ring`` are ``int`` but the default value was ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1830).
+- rundeck_acl_policy - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- runit - removed unused code, and passing command as ``list`` instead of ``str`` to ``run_command()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1830).
+- selective callback plugin - adjust import so that the plugin also works with ansible-core 2.11 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1807).
+- statusio_maintenance - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- timezone - internal refactoring: replaced uses of ``_`` with ``dummy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1819).
+- zfs_delegate_admin - the elements of ``users``, ``groups`` and ``permissions`` are now enforced to be strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1766).
 
 New Modules
 -----------
 
-- consul_policy - Manipulate Consul policies
-- consul_role - Manipulate Consul roles
-- facter_facts - Runs the discovery program C(facter) on the remote system and return Ansible facts
-- gio_mime - Set default handler for MIME type, for applications using Gnome GIO
-- gitlab_instance_variable - Creates, updates, or deletes GitLab instance variables
-- gitlab_merge_request - Create, update, or delete GitLab merge requests
-- jenkins_build_info - Get information about Jenkins builds
-- keycloak_authentication_required_actions - Allows administration of Keycloak authentication required actions
-- keycloak_authz_custom_policy - Allows administration of Keycloak client custom Javascript policies via Keycloak API
-- keycloak_authz_permission - Allows administration of Keycloak client authorization permissions via Keycloak API
-- keycloak_authz_permission_info - Query Keycloak client authorization permissions information
-- keycloak_realm_key - Allows administration of Keycloak realm keys via Keycloak API
-- keycloak_user - Create and configure a user in Keycloak
-- lvg_rename - Renames LVM volume groups
-- pnpm - Manage node.js packages with pnpm
-- proxmox_pool - Pool management for Proxmox VE cluster
-- proxmox_pool_member - Add or delete members from Proxmox VE cluster pools
-- proxmox_vm_info - Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE virtual machines
-- simpleinit_msb - Manage services on Source Mage GNU/Linux
+Monitoring
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- statsd - Send metrics to StatsD
+
+v2.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix and security bugfix (potential information leaks in multiple modules, CVE-2021-20191) release.
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- For community.general 3.0.0, the ``ome_device_info``, ``idrac_firmware`` and ``idrac_server_config_profile`` modules will be moved to the `dellemc.openmanage <https://galaxy.ansible.com/dellemc/openmanage>`_ collection.
+  A redirection will be inserted so that users using ansible-base 2.10 or newer do not have to change anything.
+
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and explicitly use the DellEMC modules mentioned above from this collection, you will need to adjust your playbooks and roles to use FQCNs starting with ``dellemc.openmanage.`` instead of ``community.general.``,
+  for example replace ``community.general.ome_device_info`` in a task by ``dellemc.openmanage.ome_device_info``.
+
+  If you use ansible-base and installed ``community.general`` manually and rely on the DellEMC modules mentioned above, you have to make sure to install the ``dellemc.openmanage`` collection as well.
+  If you are using FQCNs, for example ``community.general.ome_device_info`` instead of ``ome_device_info``, it will continue working, but we still recommend to adjust the FQCNs as well.
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- utm_proxy_auth_profile - the ``frontend_cookie_secret`` return value now contains a placeholder string instead of the module's ``frontend_cookie_secret`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- dnsmadeeasy - mark the ``account_key`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- gitlab_runner - mark the ``registration_token`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- hwc_ecs_instance - mark the ``admin_pass`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- ibm_sa_host - mark the ``iscsi_chap_secret`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- keycloak_* modules - mark the ``auth_client_secret`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- keycloak_client - mark the ``registration_access_token`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- librato_annotation - mark the ``api_key`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- logentries_msg - mark the ``token`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- module_utils/_netapp, na_ontap_gather_facts - enabled ``no_log`` for the options ``api_key`` and ``secret_key`` to prevent accidental disclosure (CVE-2021-20191, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1725).
+- module_utils/identity/keycloak, keycloak_client, keycloak_clienttemplate, keycloak_group - enabled ``no_log`` for the option ``auth_client_secret`` to prevent accidental disclosure (CVE-2021-20191, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1725).
+- nios_nsgroup - mark the ``tsig_key`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- oneandone_firewall_policy, oneandone_load_balancer, oneandone_monitoring_policy, oneandone_private_network, oneandone_public_ip - mark the ``auth_token`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- ovirt - mark the ``instance_key`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- ovirt - mark the ``instance_rootpw`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- pagerduty_alert - mark the ``api_key``, ``service_key`` and ``integration_key`` parameters as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- pagerduty_change - mark the ``integration_key`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- pingdom - mark the ``key`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- pulp_repo - mark the ``feed_client_key`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- rax_clb_ssl - mark the ``private_key`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- redfish_command - mark the ``update_creds.password`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- rollbar_deployment - mark the ``token`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- spotinst_aws_elastigroup - mark the ``multai_token`` and ``token`` parameters as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- stackdriver - mark the ``key`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+- utm_proxy_auth_profile - enabled ``no_log`` for the option ``frontend_cookie_secret`` to prevent accidental disclosure (CVE-2021-20191, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1725).
+- utm_proxy_auth_profile - mark the ``frontend_cookie_secret`` parameter as ``no_log`` to avoid leakage of secrets. This causes the ``utm_proxy_auth_profile`` return value to no longer containing the correct value, but a placeholder (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1736).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- filesystem - do not fail when ``resizefs=yes`` and ``fstype=xfs`` if there is nothing to do, even if the filesystem is not mounted. This only covers systems supporting access to unmounted XFS filesystems. Others will still fail (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1457, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1478).
+- gitlab_user - make updates to the ``isadmin``, ``password`` and ``confirm`` options of an already existing GitLab user work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1724).
+- parted - change the regex that decodes the partition size to better support different formats that parted uses. Change the regex that validates parted's version string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1695).
+- redfish_info module, redfish_utils module utils - add ``Name`` and ``Id`` properties to output of Redfish inventory commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1650).
+- sensu-silence module - fix json parsing of sensu API responses on Python 3.5 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1703).
+
+v2.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This is release 2.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2021-01-28.
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- The community.general collection no longer depends on the ansible.netcommon collection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1561).
+- The community.general collection no longer depends on the ansible.posix collection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1157).
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- A new filter ``lists_mergeby`` to merge two lists of dictionaries by an attribute.
+  For example:
+
+  .. code-block:: yaml
+
+      [{'n': 'n1', 'p1': 'A', 'p2': 'F'},
+       {'n': 'n2', 'p2': 'B'}] | community.general.lists_mergeby(
+      [{'n': 'n1', 'p1': 'C'},
+       {'n': 'n2', 'p2': 'D'},
+       {'n': 'n3', 'p3': 'E'}], 'n') | list
+
+  evaluates to
+
+  .. code-block:: yaml
+
+      [{'n': 'n1', 'p1': 'C', 'p2': 'F'},
+       {'n': 'n2', 'p2': 'D'},
+       {'n': 'n3', 'p3': 'E'}]
+
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/604).
+- Add new filter plugin ``dict_kv`` which returns a single key-value pair from two arguments. Useful for generating complex dictionaries without using loops. For example ``'value' | community.general.dict_kv('key'))`` evaluates to ``{'key': 'value'}`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1264).
+- The collection dependencies were adjusted so that ``community.kubernetes`` is required to be of version 1.0.0 or newer (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/774).
+- The collection is now actively tested in CI with the latest Ansible 2.9 release.
+- airbrake_deployment - add ``version`` param; clarified docs on ``revision`` param (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/583).
+- apk - added ``no_cache`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/548).
+- archive - fix paramater types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1039).
+- cloudflare_dns - add support for environment variable ``CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1238).
+- consul - added support for tcp checks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1128).
+- datadog - mark ``notification_message`` as ``no_log`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1338).
+- datadog_monitor - add ``include_tags`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57441).
+- dconf - update documentation and logic code refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1585).
+- django_manage - renamed parameter ``app_path`` to ``project_path``, adding ``app_path`` and ``chdir`` as aliases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1044).
+- facter - added option for ``arguments`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/768).
+- firewalld - the module has been moved to the ``ansible.posix`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/623).
+- git_config - added parameter and scope ``file`` allowing user to change parameters in a custom file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1021).
+- gitlab_project - add parameter ``lfs_enabled`` to specify Git LFS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1506).
+- gitlab_project - add support for merge_method on projects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/66813).
+- gitlab_project_variable - add support for ``environment_scope`` on projects variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1197).
+- gitlab_runner - add ``owned`` option to allow non-admin use (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1491).
+- gitlab_runners inventory plugin - permit environment variable input for ``server_url``, ``api_token`` and ``filter`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/611).
+- haproxy - add options to dis/enable health and agent checks.  When health and agent checks are enabled for a service, a disabled service will re-enable itself automatically.  These options also change the state of the agent checks to match the requested state for the backend (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/684).
+- homebrew_cask - Homebrew will be deprecating use of ``brew cask`` commands as of version 2.6.0, see https://brew.sh/2020/12/01/homebrew-2.6.0/. Added logic to stop using ``brew cask`` for brew version >= 2.6.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1481).
+- homebrew_tap - provide error message to user when module fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1411).
+- influxdb_retention_policy - add shard group duration parameter ``shard_group_duration`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1590).
+- infoblox inventory script - use stderr for reporting errors, and allow use of environment for configuration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/436).
+- ini_file - module now can create an empty section (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/479).
+- ipa_host - silence warning about non-secret ``random_password`` option not having ``no_log`` set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1339).
+- ipa_sudorule - added option to use command groups inside sudo rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1555).
+- ipa_user - add ``userauthtype`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/951).
+- ipa_user - silence warning about non-secret ``krbpasswordexpiration`` and ``update_password`` options not having ``no_log`` set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1339).
+- iptables_state - use FQCN when calling a module from action plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/967).
+- jc - new filter to convert the output of many shell commands and file-types to JSON. Uses the jc library at https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc. For example, filtering the STDOUT output of ``uname -a`` via ``{{ result.stdout | community.general.jc('uname') }}``. Requires Python 3.6+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/750).
+- jira - added the traceback output to ``fail_json()`` calls deriving from exceptions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1536).
+- ldap modules - allow to configure referral chasing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1618).
+- linode inventory plugin - add support for ``keyed_groups``, ``groups``, and ``compose`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1326).
+- linode inventory plugin - add support for ``tags`` option to filter instances by tag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1549).
+- linode_v4 - added support for Linode StackScript usage when creating instances (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/723).
+- log_plays callback - use v2 methods (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/442).
+- logstash callback - add ini config (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/610).
+- logstash callback - improve logstash message structure, needs to be enabled with the ``format_version`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/641).
+- logstash callback - migrate to python3-logstash (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/641).
+- lvol - fix idempotency issue when using lvol with ``%VG`` or ``%PVS`` size options and VG is fully allocated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/229).
+- lxd_container - added support of ``--target`` flag for cluster deployments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/637).
+- make - add ``jobs`` parameter to allow specification of number of simultaneous jobs for make to run (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1550).
+- maven_artifact - added ``client_cert`` and ``client_key`` parameters to the maven_artifact module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1123).
+- module_helper - added ModuleHelper class and a couple of convenience tools for module developers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1322).
+- module_helper module utils - multiple convenience features added (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1480).
+- nagios - add the ``acknowledge`` action (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/820).
+- nagios - add the ``host`` and ``all`` values for the ``forced_check`` action (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/998).
+- nagios - add the ``service_check`` action (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/820).
+- nagios - rename the ``service_check`` action to ``forced_check`` since we now are able to check both a particular service, all services of a particular host and the host itself (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/998).
+- nios modules - clean up module argument spec processing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1598).
+- nios_network - no longer requires the ansible.netcommon collection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1561).
+- nmcli - add ``ipv4.routes``,  ``ipv4.route-metric`` and ``ipv4.never-default`` support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1260).
+- nmcli - add ``zone`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/949, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1426).
+- nmcli - add infiniband type support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1260).
+- nmcli - refactor internal methods for simplicity and enhance reuse to support existing and future connection types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1113).
+- nmcli - remove Python DBus and GTK Object library dependencies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1112).
+- nmcli - the ``dns4``, ``dns4_search``, ``dns6``, and ``dns6_search`` arguments are retained internally as lists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1113).
+- npm - add ``no-optional`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1421).
+- odbc - added a parameter ``commit`` which allows users to disable the explicit commit after the execute call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1139).
+- openbsd_pkg - added ``snapshot`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/965).
+- pacman - improve group expansion speed: query list of pacman groups once (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/349).
+- pam_limits - add support for nice and priority limits (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47680).
+- pam_limits - adds check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/827).
+- pam_limits - adds diff mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/828).
+- parted - accept negative numbers in ``part_start`` and ``part_end``
+- parted - add ``resize`` option to resize existing partitions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/773).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - added ``umask`` option to set the desired file permisions on creation. This is done via the ``PASSWORD_STORE_UMASK`` environment variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1156).
+- pkgin - add support for installation of full versioned package names (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1256).
+- pkgng - added ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` attributes to the result (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/560).
+- pkgng - added support for upgrading all packages using ``name: *, state: latest``, similar to other package providers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/569).
+- pkgng - present the ``ignore_osver`` option to pkg (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1243).
+- pkgutil - module can now accept a list of packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/799).
+- pkgutil - module has a new option, ``force``, equivalent to the ``-f`` option to the `pkgutil <http://pkgutil.net/>`_ command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/799).
+- pkgutil - module now supports check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/799).
+- portage - add ``getbinpkgonly`` option, remove unnecessary note on internal portage behaviour (getbinpkg=yes), and remove the undocumented exclusiveness of the pkg options as portage makes no such restriction (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1169).
+- proxmox - add ``features`` option to LXC (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/816).
+- proxmox - add new ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/850).
+- proxmox - add support for API tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1206).
+- proxmox - extract common code and documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1331).
+- proxmox - improve and extract more common documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1404).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - add environment variable passthrough (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1645).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - ignore QEMU templates altogether instead of skipping the creation of the host in the inventory (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1185).
+- proxmox_kvm - add cloud-init support (new options: ``cicustom``, ``cipassword``, ``citype``, ``ciuser``, ``ipconfig``, ``nameservers``, ``searchdomains``, ``sshkeys``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/797).
+- proxmox_kvm - add new ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/850).
+- proxmox_kvm - add support for API tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1206).
+- proxmox_kvm - improve and extract more common documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1404).
+- proxmox_kvm - improve code readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/934).
+- proxmox_template - add support for API tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1206).
+- proxmox_template - download proxmox applicance templates (pveam) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1046).
+- proxmox_template - improve documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1404).
+- pushover - add device parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/802).
+- redfish_command - add sub-command for ``EnableContinuousBootOverride`` and ``DisableBootOverride`` to allow setting BootSourceOverrideEnabled Redfish property (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/824).
+- redfish_command - support same reset actions on Managers as on Systems (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/901).
+- redis cache plugin - add redis sentinel functionality to cache plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1055).
+- redis cache plugin - make the redis cache keyset name configurable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1036).
+- rhn_register - added ``force`` parameter to allow forced registering (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1454).
+- rundeck_acl_policy - add check for rundeck_acl_policy name parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/612).
+- scaleway modules and inventory plugin - update regions and zones to add the new ones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1690).
+- slack - add support for sending messages built with block kit (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/380).
+- slack - add support for updating messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/304).
+- splunk callback - add an option to allow not to validate certificate from HEC (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/596).
+- splunk callback - new parameter ``include_milliseconds`` to add milliseconds to existing timestamp field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1462).
+- telegram - now can call any methods in Telegram bot API. Previously this module was hardcoded to use "SendMessage" only. Usage of "SendMessage" API method was also librated, and now you can specify any arguments you need, for example, "disable_notificaton" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1642).
+- terraform - add ``init_reconfigure`` option, which controls the ``-reconfigure`` flag (backend reconfiguration) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/823).
+- xfconf - add arrays support (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46308).
+- xfconf - add support for ``double`` type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/744).
+- xfconf - add support for ``uint`` type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/696).
+- xfconf - removed unnecessary second execution of ``xfconf-query`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1305).
+- xml - fixed issue were changed was returned when removing non-existent xpath (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1007).
+- zypper_repository - proper failure when python-xml is missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/939).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the Google cloud plugins or modules from this collection, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the Google cloud content by FQCN, like ``community.general.gce_img``.
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCNs (``community.google.gce_img`` for the previous example) and to make sure that you have ``community.google`` installed.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install the ``community.google`` or ``google.cloud`` collections if you are using any of the Google cloud plugins or modules.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (such as community.google) must be installed for them to work.
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the Kubevirt plugins or modules from this collection, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the Kubevirt content by FQCN, like ``community.general.kubevirt_vm``.
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCNs (``community.kubevirt.kubevirt_vm`` for the previous example) and to make sure that you have ``community.kubevirt`` installed.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install the ``community.kubevirt`` collection if you are using any of the Kubevirt plugins or modules.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (such as community.google) must be installed for them to work.
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the ``docker`` plugins or modules from this collections, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the docker content by FQCN, like ``community.general.docker_container``.
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCNs (``community.docker.docker_container`` for the previous example) and to make sure that you have ``community.docker`` installed.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.docker`` if you are using any of the ``docker`` plugins or modules.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (community.docker) must be installed for them to work.
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the ``hashi_vault`` lookup plugin from this collections, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the Hashi Vault content by FQCN, like ``community.general.hashi_vault``.
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your inventories, variable files, playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCN (``community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault``) and to make sure that you have ``community.hashi_vault`` installed.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.hashi_vault`` if you are using the ``hashi_vault`` plugin.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (community.hashi_vault) must be installed for them to work.
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the ``hetzner`` modules from this collections, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the hetzner content by FQCN, like ``community.general.hetzner_firewall``.
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCNs (``community.hrobot.firewall`` for the previous example) and to make sure that you have ``community.hrobot`` installed.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.hrobot`` if you are using any of the ``hetzner`` modules.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (community.hrobot) must be installed for them to work.
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the ``oc`` connection plugin from this collections, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the oc content by FQCN, like ``community.general.oc``.
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your inventories, variable files, playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCN (``community.okd.oc``) and to make sure that you have ``community.okd`` installed.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.okd`` if you are using the ``oc`` plugin.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (community.okd) must be installed for them to work.
+- If you use Ansible 2.9 and the ``postgresql`` modules from this collections, community.general 2.0.0 results in errors when trying to use the postgresql content by FQCN, like ``community.general.postgresql_info``.
+  Since Ansible 2.9 is not able to use redirections, you will have to adjust your playbooks and roles manually to use the new FQCNs (``community.postgresql.postgresql_info`` for the previous example) and to make sure that you have ``community.postgresql`` installed.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer and did not install Ansible 3.0.0, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.postgresql`` if you are using any of the ``postgresql`` modules.
+  While ansible-base 2.10 or newer can use the redirects that community.general 2.0.0 adds, the collection they point to (community.postgresql) must be installed for them to work.
+- The Google cloud inventory script ``gce.py`` has been migrated to the ``community.google`` collection. Install the ``community.google`` collection in order to continue using it.
+- archive - remove path folder itself when ``remove`` paramater is true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1041).
+- log_plays callback - add missing information to the logs generated by the callback plugin. This changes the log message format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/442).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - now parsing a password store entry as YAML if possible, skipping the first line (which by convention only contains the password and nothing else). If it cannot be parsed as YAML, the old ``key: value`` parser will be used to process the entry. Can break backwards compatibility if YAML formatted code was parsed in a non-YAML interpreted way, e.g. ``foo: [bar, baz]`` will become a list with two elements in the new version, but a string ``'[bar, baz]'`` in the old (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1673).
+- pkgng - passing ``name: *`` with ``state: absent`` will no longer remove every installed package from the system. It is now a noop. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/569).
+- pkgng - passing ``name: *`` with ``state: latest`` or ``state: present`` will no longer install every package from the configured package repositories. Instead, ``name: *, state: latest`` will upgrade all already-installed packages, and ``name: *, state: present`` is a noop. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/569).
+- proxmox_kvm - recognize ``force=yes`` in conjunction with ``state=absent`` to forcibly remove a running VM (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/849).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- The ``gluster_heal_info``, ``gluster_peer`` and ``gluster_volume`` modules have migrated to the `gluster.gluster <https://galaxy.ansible.com/gluster/gluster>`_ collection. Ansible-base 2.10.1 adjusted the routing target to point to the modules in that collection, so we will remove these modules in community.general 3.0.0. If you use Ansible 2.9, or use FQCNs ``community.general.gluster_*`` in your playbooks and/or roles, please update them to use the modules from ``gluster.gluster`` instead.
+- The ldap_attr module has been deprecated and will be removed in a later release; use ldap_attrs instead.
+- django_manage - the parameter ``liveserver`` relates to a no longer maintained third-party module for django. It is now deprecated, and will be remove in community.general 3.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1154).
+- proxmox - the default of the new ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option will change from ``compatibility`` to ``no_defaults`` in community.general 4.0.0. Set the option to an explicit value to avoid a deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/850).
+- proxmox_kvm - the default of the new ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option will change from ``compatibility`` to ``no_defaults`` in community.general 4.0.0. Set the option to an explicit value to avoid a deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/850).
+- syspatch - deprecate the redundant ``apply`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/360).
+- xbps - the ``force`` option never had any effect. It is now deprecated, and will be removed in 3.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/568).
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- All Google cloud modules and plugins have now been migrated away from this collection.
+  They can be found in either the `community.google <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/google>`_ or `google.cloud <https://galaxy.ansible.com/google/cloud>`_ collections.
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
+
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.gce_img`` → ``community.google.gce_img``) and make sure to install the community.google or google.cloud collections as appropriate.
+- All Kubevirt modules and plugins have now been migrated from community.general to the `community.kubevirt <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/kubevirt>`_ Ansible collection.
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
+
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.kubevirt_vm`` → ``community.kubevirt.kubevirt_vm``) and make sure to install the community.kubevirt collection.
+- All ``docker`` modules and plugins have been removed from this collection.
+  They have been migrated to the `community.docker <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/docker>`_ collection.
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
+
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.docker_container`` → ``community.docker.docker_container``) and make sure to install the community.docker collection.
+- All ``hetzner`` modules have been removed from this collection.
+  They have been migrated to the `community.hrobot <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/hrobot>`_ collection.
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
+
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.hetzner_firewall`` → ``community.hrobot.firewall``) and make sure to install the community.hrobot collection.
+- All ``postgresql`` modules have been removed from this collection.
+  They have been migrated to the `community.postgresql <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/postgresql>`_ collection.
+
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.postgresql_info`` → ``community.postgresql.postgresql_info``) and make sure to install the community.postgresql collection.
+- The Google cloud inventory script ``gce.py`` has been migrated to the ``community.google`` collection. Install the ``community.google`` collection in order to continue using it.
+- The ``hashi_vault`` lookup plugin has been removed from this collection.
+  It has been migrated to the `community.hashi_vault <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/hashi_vault>`_ collection.
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
+
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.hashi_vault`` → ``community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault``) and make sure to install the community.hashi_vault collection.
+- The ``oc`` connection plugin has been removed from this collection.
+  It has been migrated to the `community.okd <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/okd>`_ collection.
+  If you use ansible-base 2.10 or newer, redirections have been provided.
+
+  If you use Ansible 2.9 and installed this collection, you need to adjust the FQCNs (``community.general.oc`` → ``community.okd.oc``) and make sure to install the community.okd collection.
+- The deprecated ``actionable`` callback plugin has been removed. Use the ``ansible.builtin.default`` callback plugin with ``display_skipped_hosts = no`` and ``display_ok_hosts = no`` options instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``foreman`` module has been removed. Use the modules from the theforeman.foreman collection instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``full_skip`` callback plugin has been removed. Use the ``ansible.builtin.default`` callback plugin with ``display_skipped_hosts = no`` option instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``gcdns_record`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_dns_resource_record_set`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcdns_zone`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_dns_managed_zone`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gce`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_instance`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcp_backend_service`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_backend_service`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcp_forwarding_rule`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_forwarding_rule`` or ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_global_forwarding_rule`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcp_healthcheck`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_health_check``, ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_http_health_check`` or ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_https_health_check`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcp_target_proxy`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_target_http_proxy`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcp_url_map`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_compute_url_map`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``gcspanner`` module has been removed. Use ``google.cloud.gcp_spanner_database`` and/or ``google.cloud.gcp_spanner_instance`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1370).
+- The deprecated ``github_hooks`` module has been removed. Use ``community.general.github_webhook`` and ``community.general.github_webhook_info`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``katello`` module has been removed. Use the modules from the theforeman.foreman collection instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_aggregate`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_aggregate instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_license`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_license instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_lun`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_lun instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_qtree`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_qtree instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_svm`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_svm instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_user_role`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_user_role instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_user`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_user instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``na_cdot_volume`` module has been removed. Use netapp.ontap.na_ontap_volume instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``sf_account_manager`` module has been removed. Use netapp.elementsw.na_elementsw_account instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``sf_check_connections`` module has been removed. Use netapp.elementsw.na_elementsw_check_connections instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``sf_snapshot_schedule_manager`` module has been removed. Use netapp.elementsw.na_elementsw_snapshot_schedule instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``sf_volume_access_group_manager`` module has been removed. Use netapp.elementsw.na_elementsw_access_group instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``sf_volume_manager`` module has been removed. Use netapp.elementsw.na_elementsw_volume instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The deprecated ``stderr`` callback plugin has been removed. Use the ``ansible.builtin.default`` callback plugin with ``display_failed_stderr = yes`` option instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1347).
+- The redirect of the ``conjur_variable`` lookup plugin to ``cyberark.conjur.conjur_variable`` collection was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- The redirect of the ``firewalld`` module and the ``firewalld`` module_utils to the ``ansible.posix`` collection was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- The redirect to the ``community.digitalocean`` collection was removed for: the ``digital_ocean`` doc fragment, the ``digital_ocean`` module_utils, and the following modules: ``digital_ocean``, ``digital_ocean_account_facts``, ``digital_ocean_account_info``, ``digital_ocean_block_storage``, ``digital_ocean_certificate``, ``digital_ocean_certificate_facts``, ``digital_ocean_certificate_info``, ``digital_ocean_domain``, ``digital_ocean_domain_facts``, ``digital_ocean_domain_info``, ``digital_ocean_droplet``, ``digital_ocean_firewall_facts``, ``digital_ocean_firewall_info``, ``digital_ocean_floating_ip``, ``digital_ocean_floating_ip_facts``, ``digital_ocean_floating_ip_info``, ``digital_ocean_image_facts``, ``digital_ocean_image_info``, ``digital_ocean_load_balancer_facts``, ``digital_ocean_load_balancer_info``, ``digital_ocean_region_facts``, ``digital_ocean_region_info``, ``digital_ocean_size_facts``, ``digital_ocean_size_info``, ``digital_ocean_snapshot_facts``, ``digital_ocean_snapshot_info``, ``digital_ocean_sshkey``, ``digital_ocean_sshkey_facts``, ``digital_ocean_sshkey_info``, ``digital_ocean_tag``, ``digital_ocean_tag_facts``, ``digital_ocean_tag_info``, ``digital_ocean_volume_facts``, ``digital_ocean_volume_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- The redirect to the ``community.mysql`` collection was removed for: the ``mysql`` doc fragment, the ``mysql`` module_utils, and the following modules: ``mysql_db``, ``mysql_info``, ``mysql_query``, ``mysql_replication``, ``mysql_user``, ``mysql_variables`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- The redirect to the ``community.proxysql`` collection was removed for: the ``proxysql`` doc fragment, and the following modules: ``proxysql_backend_servers``, ``proxysql_global_variables``, ``proxysql_manage_config``, ``proxysql_mysql_users``, ``proxysql_query_rules``, ``proxysql_replication_hostgroups``, ``proxysql_scheduler`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- The redirect to the ``infinidat.infinibox`` collection was removed for: the ``infinibox`` doc fragment, the ``infinibox`` module_utils, and the following modules: ``infini_export``, ``infini_export_client``, ``infini_fs``, ``infini_host``, ``infini_pool``, ``infini_vol`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1346).
+- conjur_variable lookup - has been moved to the ``cyberark.conjur`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/570).
+- digital_ocean_* - all DigitalOcean modules have been moved to the ``community.digitalocean`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/622).
+- infini_* - all infinidat modules have been moved to the ``infinidat.infinibox`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/607).
+- iptables_state - the ``ANSIBLE_ASYNC_DIR`` environment is no longer supported, use the ``async_dir`` shell option instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1371).
+- logicmonitor - the module has been removed in 1.0.0 since it is unmaintained and the API used by the module has been turned off in 2017 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/539, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/541).
+- logicmonitor_facts - the module has been removed in 1.0.0 since it is unmaintained and the API used by the module has been turned off in 2017 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/539, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/541).
+- memcached cache plugin - do not import ``CacheModule``s directly. Use ``ansible.plugins.loader.cache_loader`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1371).
+- mysql_* - all MySQL modules have been moved to the ``community.mysql`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/633).
+- proxysql_* - all ProxySQL modules have been moved to the ``community.proxysql`` collection. A redirection is active, which will be removed in version 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/624).
+- redis cache plugin - do not import ``CacheModule``s directly. Use ``ansible.plugins.loader.cache_loader`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1371).
+- xml - when ``content=attribute``, the ``attribute`` option is ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1371).
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- bitbucket_pipeline_variable - **CVE-2021-20180** - hide user sensitive information which are marked as ``secured`` from logging into the console (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1635).
+- snmp_facts - **CVE-2021-20178** - hide user sensitive information such as ``privkey`` and ``authkey`` from logging into the console (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1621).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- aerospike_migrations - handle exception when unstable-cluster is returned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/900).
+- aix_filesystem - fix issues with ismount module_util pathing for Ansible 2.9 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/567).
+- apache2_module - amend existing module identifier workaround to also apply to updated Shibboleth modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1379).
+- beadm - fixed issue "list object has no attribute split" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/791).
+- bigpanda - removed the dynamic default for ``host`` param (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1423).
+- bitbucket_pipeline_variable - change pagination logic for pipeline variable get API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1425).
+- capabilities - fix for a newer version of libcap release (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1061).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - ``name`` needed FQCN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/722).
+- cobbler inventory script - add Python 3 support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/638).
+- composer - fix bug in command idempotence with composer v2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1179).
+- consul_kv lookup - fix ``ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL`` environment variable handling (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51960).
+- consul_kv lookup - fix arguments handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/303).
+- digital_ocean_tag_info - fix crash when querying for an individual tag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/615).
+- django_manage - fix idempotence for ``createcachetable`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/699).
+- dnsmadeeasy - fix HTTP 400 errors when creating a TXT record (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1237).
+- doas become plugin - address a bug with the parameters handling that was breaking the plugin in community.general when ``become_flags`` and ``become_user`` were not explicitly specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/704).
+- dsv lookup - use correct dict usage (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/743).
+- dzdo become plugin - address a bug with the parameters handling that was breaking the plugin in community.general when ``become_user`` was not explicitly specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/708).
+- filesystem - add option ``state`` with default ``present``. When set to ``absent``, filesystem signatures are removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/355).
+- filesystem - resizefs of xfs filesystems is fixed. Filesystem needs to be mounted.
+- flatpak - use of the ``--non-interactive`` argument instead of ``-y`` when possible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1246).
+- gcp_storage_files lookup plugin - make sure that plugin errors out on initialization if the required library is not found, and not on load-time (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1297).
+- gem - fix get_installed_versions: correctly parse ``default`` version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/783).
+- git_config - now raises an error for non-existent repository paths (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/630).
+- git_config - using list instead of string as first parameter in the ``run_command()`` call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1021).
+- gitlab_group - added description parameter to ``createGroup()`` call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/138).
+- gitlab_group_variable - support for GitLab pagination limitation by iterating over GitLab variable pages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/968).
+- gitlab_project_variable - support for GitLab pagination limitation by iterating over GitLab variable pages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/968).
+- gitlab_runner - fix compatiblity with some versions of python-gitlab (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1491).
+- homebrew - add default search path for ``brew`` on Apple silicon hardware (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1679).
+- homebrew - fix package name validation for packages containing hypen ``-`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1037).
+- homebrew_cask - add default search path for ``brew`` on Apple silicon hardware (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1679).
+- homebrew_cask - fix package name validation for casks containing hypen ``-`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1037).
+- homebrew_cask - fixed issue where a cask with ``@`` in the name is incorrectly reported as invalid (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/733).
+- homebrew_tap - add default search path for ``brew`` on Apple silicon hardware (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1679).
+- icinga2_host - fix returning error codes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/335).
+- influxdb - fix usage of path for older version of python-influxdb (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/997).
+- ini_file - check for parameter ``value`` if ``state`` is ``present`` and ``allow_no_value`` is ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/479).
+- interfaces_file - escape regular expression characters in old value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/777).
+- inventory plugins - allow FQCN in ``plugin`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/722).
+- ipa_hostgroup - fix an issue with load-balanced ipa and cookie handling with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/737).
+- iptables_state - fix race condition between module and its action plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1136).
+- jenkins_plugin - replace MD5 checksum verification with SHA1 due to MD5 being disabled on systems with FIPS-only algorithms enabled (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/34304).
+- jira - ``fetch`` and ``search`` no longer indicate that something changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1536).
+- jira - ensured parameter ``issue`` is mandatory for operation ``transition`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1536).
+- jira - improve error message handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/311).
+- jira - improve error message handling with multiple errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/707).
+- jira - module no longer incorrectly reports change for information gathering operations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1536).
+- jira - provide error message raised from exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1504).
+- jira - replaced custom parameter validation with ``required_if`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1536).
+- json_query - handle ``AnsibleUnicode`` and ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/320).
+- keycloak module_utils - provide meaningful error message to user when auth URL does not start with http or https (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/331).
+- launchd - fix for user-level services (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/896).
+- launchd - handle deprecated APIs like ``readPlist`` and ``writePlist`` in ``plistlib`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1552).
+- ldap modules - add ``sasl_class`` parameter to support passwordless SASL authentication via GSSAPI (kerberos), next to external (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1523).
+- ldap_entry - improvements in documentation, simplifications and replaced code with better ``AnsibleModule`` arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1516).
+- ldap_search - ignore returned referrals (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1067).
+- ldap_search - the module no longer incorrectly reports a change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1040).
+- linode inventory plugin - make sure that plugin errors out on initialization if the required library is not found, and not on load-time (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1297).
+- lldp - use ``get_bin_path`` to locate the ``lldpctl`` executable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1643).
+- lxc_container - fix the type of the ``container_config`` parameter. It is now processed as a list and not a string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/216).
+- macports - fix failure to install a package whose name is contained within an already installed package's name or variant (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1307).
+- make - fixed ``make`` parameter used for check mode when running a non-GNU ``make`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1574).
+- mas - fix ``invalid literal`` when no app can be found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1436).
+- maven_artifact - handle timestamped snapshot version strings properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/709).
+- memcached cache plugin - make sure that plugin errors out on initialization if the required library is not found, and not on load-time (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1297).
+- monit - add support for all monit service checks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1532).
+- monit - fix modules ability to determine the current state of the monitored process (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1107).
+- nios_fixed_address, nios_host_record, nios_zone - removed redundant parameter aliases causing warning messages to incorrectly appear in task output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/852).
+- nios_host_record - fix to remove ``aliases`` (CNAMES) for configuration comparison (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1335).
+- nios_member - fix Python 3 compatibility with nios api ``member_normalize`` function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1526).
+- nmcli - cannot modify ``ifname`` after connection creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1089).
+- nmcli - fix idempotetency when modifying an existing connection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/481).
+- nmcli - remove ``bridge-slave`` from list of IP based connections ((https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1500).
+- nmcli - set ``C`` locale when executing ``nmcli`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/989).
+- nmcli - use consistent autoconnect parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/459).
+- npm - handle json decode exception while parsing command line output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1614).
+- oc connection plugin - ``transport`` needed FQCN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/722).
+- omapi_host - fix compatibility with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/787).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - updated to support password items, which place the password field directly in the payload's ``details`` attribute (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1610).
+- osx_defaults - fix handling negative integers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/134).
+- osx_defaults - unquote values and unescape double quotes when reading array values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/358).
+- packet_net.py inventory script - fixed failure w.r.t. operating system retrieval by changing array subscription back to attribute access (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/891).
+- pacman - treat package names containing .zst as package files during installation (https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/650).
+- pamd - added logic to retain the comment line (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1394).
+- parted - fix creating partition when label is changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/522).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - always use explicit ``show`` command to retrieve password. This ensures compatibility with ``gopass`` and avoids problems when password names equal ``pass`` commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1493).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - fix compatibility with gopass when used with ``create=true``. While pass returns 1 on a non-existent password, gopass returns 10, or 11, depending on whether a similar named password was stored. We now just check standard output and that the return code is not zero (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1589).
+- pbrun become plugin - address a bug with the parameters handling that was breaking the plugin in community.general when ``become_user`` was not explicitly specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/708).
+- pkg5 - now works when Python 3 is used on the target (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/789).
+- profitbricks_nic - removed the dynamic default for ``name`` param (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1423).
+- profitbricks_nic - replaced code with ``required`` and ``required_if`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1423).
+- proxmox_kvm - defer error-checking for non-existent VMs in order to fix idempotency of tasks using ``state=absent`` and properly recognize a success (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/811).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix issue causing linked clones not being create by allowing ``format=unspecified`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1027).
+- proxmox_kvm - ignore unsupported ``pool`` parameter on update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1258).
+- proxmox_kvm - improve handling of long-running tasks by creating a dedicated function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/831).
+- redfish_info module, redfish_utils module utils - correct ``PartNumber`` property name in Redfish ``GetMemoryInventory`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1483).
+- redfish_info, redfish_config, redfish_command - Fix Redfish response payload decode on Python 3.5 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/686)
+- redis - fixes parsing of config values which should not be converted to bytes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1079).
+- redis cache plugin - make sure that plugin errors out on initialization if the required library is not found, and not on load-time (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1297).
+- rhn_channel - Python 2.7.5 fails if the certificate should not be validated. Fixed this by creating the correct ``ssl_context`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/470).
+- saltstack connection plugin - use ``hashutil.base64_decodefile`` to ensure that the file checksum is preserved (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1472).
+- selective - mark task failed correctly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63767).
+- sendgrid - update documentation and warn user about sendgrid Python library version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1553).
+- slack - avoid trying to update existing message when sending messages that contain the string "ts" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1097).
+- slack - fix ``xox[abp]`` token identification to capture everything after ``xox[abp]``, as the token is the only thing that should be in this argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/862).
+- snmp_facts - skip ``EndOfMibView`` values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49044).
+- solaris_zone - fixed issue trying to configure zone in Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1081).
+- syslogger - update ``syslog.openlog`` API call for older Python versions, and improve error handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/953).
+- syspatch - fix bug where not setting ``apply=true`` would result in error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/360).
+- terraform - fix ``init_reconfigure`` option for proper CLI args (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1620).
+- terraform - fix incorrectly reporting a status of unchanged when number of resources added or destroyed are multiples of 10 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/561).
+- terraform - improve result code checking when executing terraform commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1632).
+- timezone - support Python3 on macos/darwin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/945).
+- udm_user - removed the dynamic default for ``userexpiry`` param (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1423).
+- utm_network_interface_address - changed param type from invalid 'boolean' to valid 'bool' (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1423).
+- utm_proxy_exception - four parameters had elements types set as 'string' (invalid), changed to 'str' (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1399).
+- vmadm - simplification of code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1415).
+- xfconf - add in missing return values that are specified in the documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1418).
+- xfconf - make it work in non-english locales (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/744).
+- xfconf - parameter ``value`` no longer required for state ``absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1329).
+- xfconf - xfconf no longer passing the command args as a string, but rather as a list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1328).
+- yaml callback plugin - do not remove non-ASCII Unicode characters from multiline string output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1519).
+- yarn - fixed an index out of range error when no outdated packages where returned by yarn executable (see https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/474).
+- yarn - fixed an too many values to unpack error when scoped packages are installed (see https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/474).
+- zfs - fixed ``invalid character '@' in pool name"`` error when working with snapshots on a root zvol (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/932).
+- zypper - force ``LANG=C`` to as zypper is looking in XML output where attribute could be translated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1175).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+Cloud
+~~~~~
+
+misc
+^^^^
+
+- proxmox_snap - Snapshot management of instances in Proxmox VE cluster
+
+Identity
+~~~~~~~~
+
+ipa
+^^^
+
+- ipa_pwpolicy - Manage FreeIPA password policies
+
+Monitoring
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+datadog
+^^^^^^^
+
+- datadog_downtime - Manages Datadog downtimes
+
+Packaging
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+os
+^^
+
+- copr - Manage one of the Copr repositories
+- rpm_ostree_pkg - Install or uninstall overlay additional packages
+- yum_versionlock - Locks / unlocks a installed package(s) from being updated by yum package manager
+
+System
+~~~~~~
+
+- ssh_config - Manage SSH config for user
+- sysrc - Manage FreeBSD using sysrc

CHANGELOG.rst.license

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

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,123 +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
--->
-
-# Contributing
-
-We follow [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html) in all our contributions and interactions within this repository.
-
-If you are a committer, also refer to the [collection's committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md).
-
-## Issue tracker
-
-Whether you are looking for an opportunity to contribute or you found a bug and already know how to solve it, please go to the [issue tracker](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues).
-There you can find feature ideas to implement, reports about bugs to solve, or submit an issue to discuss your idea before implementing it which can help choose a right direction at the beginning of your work and potentially save a lot of time and effort.
-Also somebody may already have started discussing or working on implementing the same or a similar idea,
-so you can cooperate to create a better solution together.
-
-* If you are interested in starting with an easy issue, look for [issues with an `easyfix` label](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/labels/easyfix).
-* Often issues that are waiting for contributors to pick up have [the `waiting_on_contributor` label](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/labels/waiting_on_contributor).
-
-## Open pull requests
-
-Look through currently [open pull requests](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pulls).
-You can help by reviewing them. Reviews help move pull requests to merge state. Some good pull requests cannot be merged only due to a lack of reviews. And it is always worth saying that good reviews are often more valuable than pull requests themselves.
-Note that reviewing does not only mean code review, but also offering comments on new interfaces added to existing plugins/modules, interfaces of new plugins/modules, improving language (not everyone is a native english speaker), or testing bugfixes and new features!
-
-Also, consider taking up a valuable, reviewed, but abandoned pull request which you could politely ask the original authors to complete yourself.
-
-* 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 :) )
-* 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).
-
-## Test pull requests
-
-If you want to test a PR locally, refer to [our testing guide](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/test_pr_locally_guide.rst) for instructions on how do it quickly.
-
-If you find any inconsistencies or places in this document which can be improved, feel free to raise an issue or pull request to fix it.
-
-## Run sanity, unit or integration tests locally
-
-You have to check out the repository into a specific path structure to be able to run `ansible-test`. The path to the git checkout must end with `.../ansible_collections/community/general`. Please see [our testing guide](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/test_pr_locally_guide.rst) for instructions on how to check out the repository into a correct path structure. The short version of these instructions is:
-
-```.bash
-mkdir -p ~/dev/ansible_collections/community
-git clone https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general.git ~/dev/ansible_collections/community/general
-cd ~/dev/ansible_collections/community/general
-```
-
-Then you can run `ansible-test` (which is a part of [ansible-core](https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core/)) inside the checkout. The following example commands expect that you have installed Docker or Podman. Note that Podman has only been supported by more recent ansible-core releases. If you are using Docker, the following will work with Ansible 2.9+.
-
-The following commands show how to run sanity tests:
-
-```.bash
-# Run sanity tests for all files in the collection:
-ansible-test sanity --docker -v
-
-# Run sanity tests for the given files and directories:
-ansible-test sanity --docker -v plugins/modules/system/pids.py tests/integration/targets/pids/
-```
-
-The following commands show how to run unit tests:
-
-```.bash
-# Run all unit tests:
-ansible-test units --docker -v
-
-# Run all unit tests for one Python version (a lot faster):
-ansible-test units --docker -v --python 3.8
-
-# Run a specific unit test (for the nmcli module) for one Python version:
-ansible-test units --docker -v --python 3.8 tests/unit/plugins/modules/net_tools/test_nmcli.py
-```
-
-The following commands show how to run integration tests:
-
-```.bash
-# Run integration tests for the interfaces_files module in a Docker container using the
-# fedora35 operating system image (the supported images depend on your ansible-core version):
-ansible-test integration --docker fedora35 -v interfaces_file
-
-# Run integration tests for the flattened lookup **without any isolation**:
-ansible-test integration -v lookup_flattened
-```
-
-If you are unsure about the integration test target name for a module or plugin, you can take a look in `tests/integration/targets/`. Tests for plugins have the plugin type prepended.
-
-## Creating new modules or plugins
-
-Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Requests.
-
-1. Please make sure that your new module or plugin is of interest to a larger audience. Very specialized modules or plugins that
-   can only be used by very few people should better be added to more specialized collections.
-
-2. Please do not add more than one plugin/module in one PR, especially if it is the first plugin/module you are contributing.
-   That makes it easier for reviewers, and increases the chance that your PR will get merged. If you plan to contribute a group
-   of plugins/modules (say, more than a module and a corresponding ``_info`` module), please mention that in the first PR. In
-   such cases, you also have to think whether it is better to publish the group of plugins/modules in a new collection.
-
-3. When creating a new module or plugin, please make sure that you follow various guidelines:
-
-   - Follow [development conventions](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_best_practices.html);
-   - Follow [documentation standards](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_documenting.html) and
-     the [Ansible style guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/style_guide/index.html#style-guide);
-   - Make sure your modules and plugins are [GPL-3.0-or-later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html) licensed
-     (new module_utils can also be [BSD-2-clause](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause) licensed);
-   - Make sure that new plugins and modules have tests (unit tests, integration tests, or both); it is preferable to have some tests
-     which run in CI.
-
-4. Action plugins need to be accompanied by a module, even if the module file only contains documentation
-   (`DOCUMENTATION`, `EXAMPLES` and `RETURN`). The module must have the same name and directory path in `plugins/modules/`
-   than the action plugin has in `plugins/action/`.
-
-5. Make sure to add a BOTMETA entry for your new module/plugin in `.github/BOTMETA.yml`. Search for other plugins/modules in the
-   same directory to see how entries could look. You should list all authors either as `maintainers` or under `ignore`. People
-   listed as `maintainers` will be pinged for new issues and PRs that modify the module/plugin or its tests.
-
-   When you add a new plugin/module, we expect that you perform maintainer duty for at least some time after contributing it.

LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt

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

LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt

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

LICENSES/MIT.txt

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

LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt

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

README.md

@@ -1,30 +1,15 @@
-<!--
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--->
-
 # Community General Collection
 
-[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-8)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
-[![EOL CI](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/workflows/EOL%20CI/badge.svg?event=push)](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/actions)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-2)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
 [![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://codecov.io/gh/ansible-collections/community.general)
 
-This repository contains the `community.general` Ansible Collection. The collection is a part of the Ansible package and includes many modules and plugins supported by Ansible community which are not part of more specialized community collections.
+This repo contains the `community.general` Ansible Collection. The collection includes many modules and plugins supported by Ansible community which are not part of more specialized community collections.
 
 You can find [documentation for this collection on the Ansible docs site](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/).
 
-Please note that this collection does **not** support Windows targets. Only connection plugins included in this collection might support Windows targets, and will explicitly mention that in their documentation if they do so.
-
-## Code of Conduct
-
-We follow [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html) in all our interactions within this project.
-
-If you encounter abusive behavior violating the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html), please refer to the [policy violations](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html#policy-violations) section of the Code of Conduct for information on how to raise a complaint.
-
 ## Tested with Ansible
 
-Tested with the current ansible-core 2.13, ansible-core 2.14, ansible-core 2.15, ansible-core 2.16 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.
+Tested with the current Ansible 2.9 and 2.10 releases and the current development version of Ansible. Ansible versions before 2.9.10 are not supported.
 
 ## External requirements
 
@@ -32,13 +17,11 @@ 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/ui/repo/published/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/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/ui/repo/published/community/general/) manually with the `ansible-galaxy` command-line tool:
+Before using the General community collection, you need to install the collection with the `ansible-galaxy` CLI:
 
     ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
 
@@ -49,79 +32,57 @@ collections:
 - name: community.general
 ```
 
-Note that if you install the collection manually, it will not be upgraded automatically when you upgrade the Ansible package. To upgrade the collection to the latest available version, run the following command:
-
-```bash
-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/ui/repo/published/community/general/):
-
-```bash
-ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==X.Y.Z
-```
-
 See [Ansible Using collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/collections_using.html) for more details.
 
 ## Contributing to this collection
 
-The content of this collection is made by good people just like you, a community of individuals collaborating on making the world better through developing automation software.
+If you want to develop new content for this collection or improve what is already here, the easiest way to work on the collection is to clone it into one of the configured [`COLLECTIONS_PATH`](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#collections-paths), and work on it there.
 
-We are actively accepting new contributors.
+For example, if you are working in the `~/dev` directory:
 
-All types of contributions are very welcome.
-
-You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)!
-
-The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md#people) file. If you have questions or need help, feel free to mention them in the proposals.
+```
+cd ~/dev
+git clone git@github.com:ansible-collections/community.general.git collections/ansible_collections/community/general
+export COLLECTIONS_PATH=$(pwd)/collections:$COLLECTIONS_PATH
+```
 
 You can find more information in the [developer guide for collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collections.html#contributing-to-collections), and in the [Ansible Community Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/index.html).
 
-Also for some notes specific to this collection see [our CONTRIBUTING documentation](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
-
 ### Running tests
 
 See [here](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collections.html#testing-collections).
 
-## Collection maintenance
+### Communication
 
-To learn how to maintain / become a maintainer of this collection, refer to:
+We have a dedicated Working Group for Ansible development.
 
-* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md).
-* [Maintainer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/maintaining.rst).
-
-It is necessary for maintainers of this collection to be subscribed to:
-
-* The collection itself (the `Watch` button → `All Activity` in the upper right corner of the repository's homepage).
-* The "Changes Impacting Collection Contributors and Maintainers" [issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/issues/45).
-
-They also should be subscribed to Ansible's [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#the-bullhorn).
-
-## Communication
-
-We announce important development changes and releases through Ansible's [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://eepurl.com/gZmiEP). If you are a collection developer, be sure you are subscribed.
-
-Join us in the `#ansible` (general use questions and support), `#ansible-community` (community and collection development questions), and other [IRC channels](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#irc-channels) on [Libera.chat](https://libera.chat).
-
-We take part in the global quarterly [Ansible Contributor Summit](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Contributor-Summit) virtually or in-person. Track [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://eepurl.com/gZmiEP) and join us.
+You can find other people interested on the following Freenode IRC channels -
+- `#ansible` - For general use questions and support.
+- `#ansible-devel` - For discussions on developer topics and code related to features or bugs.
+- `#ansible-community` - For discussions on community topics and community meetings.
 
 For more information about communities, meetings and agendas see [Community Wiki](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Community).
 
-For more information about communication, refer to Ansible's the [Communication guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html).
+For more information about [communication](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html)
 
-## Publishing New Version
+### Publishing New Version
 
-See the [Releasing guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/releasing_collections.rst) to learn how to release this collection.
+Basic instructions without release branches:
+
+1. Create `changelogs/fragments/<version>.yml` with `release_summary:` section (which must be a string, not a list).
+2. Run `antsibull-changelog release --collection-flatmap yes`
+3. Make sure `CHANGELOG.rst` and `changelogs/changelog.yaml` are added to git, and the deleted fragments have been removed.
+4. Tag the commit with `<version>`. Push changes and tag to the main repository.
 
 ## Release notes
 
-See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-8/CHANGELOG.rst).
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-2/CHANGELOG.rst).
 
 ## Roadmap
 
-In general, we plan to release a major version every six months, and minor versions every two months. Major versions can contain breaking changes, while minor versions only contain new features and bugfixes.
+See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/582) for information on releasing, versioning and deprecation.
 
-See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/582) for information on releasing, versioning, and deprecation.
+In general, we plan to release a major version every six months, and minor versions every two months. Major versions can contain breaking changes, while minor versions only contain new features and bugfixes.
 
 ## More information
 
@@ -132,10 +93,6 @@ See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues
 
 ## Licensing
 
-This collection is primarily licensed and distributed as a whole under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
+GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
 
-See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/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).
-
-All files have a machine readable `SDPX-License-Identifier:` comment denoting its respective license(s) or an equivalent entry in an accompanying `.license` file. Only changelog fragments (which will not be part of a release) are covered by a blanket statement in `.reuse/dep5`. This conforms to the [REUSE specification](https://reuse.software/spec/).
+See [COPYING](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) to see the full text.

changelogs/.gitignore

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

changelogs/changelog.yaml.license

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

changelogs/config.yaml

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

commit-rights.md

@@ -1,80 +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
--->
-
-Committers Guidelines for community.general
-===========================================
-
-This document is based on the [Ansible committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/b57444af14062ec96e0af75fdfc2098c74fe2d9a/docs/docsite/rst/community/committer_guidelines.rst) ([latest version](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/committer_guidelines.html)).
-
-These are the guidelines for people with commit privileges on the Ansible Community General Collection GitHub repository. Please read the guidelines before you commit.
-
-These guidelines apply to everyone. At the same time, this is NOT a process document. So just use good judgment. You have been given commit access because we trust your judgment.
-
-That said, use the trust wisely.
-
-If you abuse the trust and break components and builds, and so on, the trust level falls and you may be asked not to commit or you may lose your commit privileges.
-
-Our workflow on GitHub
-----------------------
-
-As a committer, you may already know this, but our workflow forms a lot of our team policies. Please ensure you are aware of the following workflow steps:
-
-* Fork the repository upon which you want to do some work to your own personal repository
-* Work on the specific branch upon which you need to commit
-* Create a Pull Request back to the collection repository and await reviews
-* Adjust code as necessary based on the Comments provided
-* Ask someone from the other committers to do a final review and merge
-
-Sometimes, committers merge their own pull requests. This section is a set of guidelines. If you are changing a comma in a doc or making a very minor change, you can use your best judgement. This is another trust thing. The process is critical for any major change, but for little things or getting something done quickly, use your best judgement and make sure people on the team are aware of your work.
-
-Roles
------
-* Release managers: Merge pull requests to `stable-X` branches, create tags to do releases.
-* Committers: Fine to do PRs for most things, but we should have a timebox. Hanging PRs may merge on the judgement of these devs.
-* Module maintainers: Module maintainers own specific modules and have indirect commit access through the current module PR mechanisms. This is primary [ansibullbot](https://github.com/ansibullbot)'s `shipit` mechanism.
-
-General rules
--------------
-Individuals with direct commit access to this collection repository are entrusted with powers that allow them to do a broad variety of things--probably more than we can write down. Rather than rules, treat these as general *guidelines*, individuals with this power are expected to use their best judgement.
-
-* Do NOTs:
-
-  - Do not commit directly.
-  - Do not merge your own PRs. Someone else should have a chance to review and approve the PR merge. You have a small amount of leeway here for very minor changes.
-  - Do not forget about non-standard / alternate environments. Consider the alternatives. Yes, people have bad/unusual/strange environments (like binaries from multiple init systems installed), but they are the ones who need us the most.
-  - Do not drag your community team members down. Discuss the technical merits of any pull requests you review. Avoid negativity and personal comments. For more guidance on being a good community member, read the [Ansible Community Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html).
-  - Do not forget about the maintenance burden. High-maintenance features may not be worth adding.
-  - Do not break playbooks. Always keep backwards compatibility in mind.
-  - Do not forget to keep it simple. Complexity breeds all kinds of problems.
-  - Do not merge to branches other than `main`, especially not to `stable-X`, if you do not have explicit permission to do so.
-  - Do not create tags. Tags are used in the release process, and should only be created by the people responsible for managing the stable branches.
-
-* Do:
-
-  - Squash, avoid merges whenever possible, use GitHub's squash commits or cherry pick if needed (bisect thanks you).
-  - Be active. Committers who have no activity on the project (through merges, triage, commits, and so on) will have their permissions suspended.
-  - Consider backwards compatibility (goes back to "do not break existing playbooks").
-  - Write tests. PRs with tests are looked at with more priority than PRs without tests that should have them included. While not all changes require tests, be sure to add them for bug fixes or functionality changes.
-  - Discuss with other committers, specially when you are unsure of something.
-  - Document! If your PR is a new feature or a change to behavior, make sure you've updated all associated documentation or have notified the right people to do so.
-  - Consider scope, sometimes a fix can be generalized.
-  - Keep it simple, then things are maintainable, debuggable and intelligible.
-
-Committers are expected to continue to follow the same community and contribution guidelines followed by the rest of the Ansible community.
-
-
-People
-------
-
-Individuals who have been asked to become a part of this group have generally been contributing in significant ways to the community.general collection for some time. Should they agree, they are requested to add their names and GitHub IDs to this file, in the section below, through a pull request. Doing so indicates that these individuals agree to act in the ways that their fellow committers trust that they will act.
-
-| Name                | GitHub ID            | IRC Nick           | Other                |
-| ------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------ | -------------------- |
-| Alexei Znamensky    | russoz               | russoz             |                      |
-| Andrew Klychkov     | andersson007         | andersson007_      |                      |
-| Andrew Pantuso      | Ajpantuso            | ajpantuso          |                      |
-| Felix Fontein       | felixfontein         | felixfontein       |                      |
-| John R Barker       | gundalow             | gundalow           |                      |

docs/docsite/extra-docs.yml

@@ -1,10 +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
-
-sections:
-  - title: Guides
-    toctree:
-      - filter_guide
-      - test_guide

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples.yml

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml

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

docs/docsite/links.yml

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst

@@ -1,23 +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
-
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.filter_guide:
-
-community.general Filter Guide
-==============================
-
-The :ref:`community.general collection <plugins_in_community.general>` offers several useful filter plugins.
-
-.. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 2
-
-   filter_guide_paths
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations
-   filter_guide_working_with_times
-   filter_guide_working_with_versions
-   filter_guide_creating_identifiers
-   filter_guide_conversions
-   filter_guide_selecting_json_data
-   filter_guide_working_with_unicode

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Paths
------
-
-The :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.path_join filter <ansible.builtin.path_join#filter>` has been added in ansible-base 2.10. Community.general 3.0.0 and newer contains an alias ``community.general.path_join`` for this filter that could be used on Ansible 2.9 as well. Since community.general no longer supports Ansible 2.9, this is now a simple redirect to :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.path_join filter <ansible.builtin.path_join#filter>`.

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst

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

docs/docsite/rst/test_guide.rst

@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.test_guide:
-
-community.general Test (Plugin) Guide
-=====================================
-
-The :ref:`community.general collection <plugins_in_community.general>` offers currently one test plugin.
-
-.. contents:: Topics
-
-Feature Tests
--------------
-
-The :ansplugin:`community.general.a_module test <community.general.a_module#test>` allows to check whether a given string refers to an existing module or action plugin. This can be useful in roles, which can use this to ensure that required modules are present ahead of time.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Make sure that community.aws.route53 is available
-      assert:
-        that:
-          - >
-            'community.aws.route53' is community.general.a_module
-
-    - name: Make sure that community.general.does_not_exist is not a module or action plugin
-      assert:
-        that:
-          - "'community.general.does_not_exist' is not community.general.a_module"
-
-.. versionadded:: 4.0.0

galaxy.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
----
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 namespace: community
 name: general
-version: 8.0.0
+version: 2.1.0
 readme: README.md
 authors:
   - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)

plugins/action/iptables_state.py

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

plugins/action/iptables_state.py

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

plugins/action/shutdown.py

@@ -1,233 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2020, Amin Vakil <info@aminvakil.com>
-# Copyright (c) 2016-2018, Matt Davis <mdavis@ansible.com>
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Sam Doran <sdoran@redhat.com>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_string
-from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
-from ansible.utils.display import Display
-
-display = Display()
-
-
-class TimedOutException(Exception):
-    pass
-
-
-class ActionModule(ActionBase):
-    TRANSFERS_FILES = False
-    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset((
-        'msg',
-        'delay',
-        'search_paths'
-    ))
-
-    DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = None
-    DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY = 0
-    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE = 'Shut down initiated by Ansible'
-    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND = 'shutdown'
-    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = '-h {delay_min} "{message}"'
-    DEFAULT_SUDOABLE = True
-
-    SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS = {
-        'alpine': 'poweroff',
-        'vmkernel': 'halt',
-    }
-
-    SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = {
-        'alpine': '',
-        'void': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'freebsd': '-p +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
-        'linux': DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS,
-        'macosx': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'openbsd': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'solaris': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
-        'sunos': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
-        'vmkernel': '-d {delay_sec}',
-        'aix': '-Fh',
-    }
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        super(ActionModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-
-    @property
-    def delay(self):
-        return self._check_delay('delay', self.DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY)
-
-    def _check_delay(self, key, default):
-        """Ensure that the value is positive or zero"""
-        value = int(self._task.args.get(key, default))
-        if value < 0:
-            value = 0
-        return value
-
-    def _get_value_from_facts(self, variable_name, distribution, default_value):
-        """Get dist+version specific args first, then distribution, then family, lastly use default"""
-        attr = getattr(self, variable_name)
-        value = attr.get(
-            distribution['name'] + distribution['version'],
-            attr.get(
-                distribution['name'],
-                attr.get(
-                    distribution['family'],
-                    getattr(self, default_value))))
-        return value
-
-    def get_distribution(self, task_vars):
-        # FIXME: only execute the module if we don't already have the facts we need
-        distribution = {}
-        display.debug('{action}: running setup module to get distribution'.format(action=self._task.action))
-        module_output = self._execute_module(
-            task_vars=task_vars,
-            module_name='ansible.legacy.setup',
-            module_args={'gather_subset': 'min'})
-        try:
-            if module_output.get('failed', False):
-                raise AnsibleError('Failed to determine system distribution. {0}, {1}'.format(
-                    to_native(module_output['module_stdout']).strip(),
-                    to_native(module_output['module_stderr']).strip()))
-            distribution['name'] = module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution'].lower()
-            distribution['version'] = to_text(
-                module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution_version'].split('.')[0])
-            distribution['family'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_os_family'].lower())
-            display.debug("{action}: distribution: {dist}".format(action=self._task.action, dist=distribution))
-            return distribution
-        except KeyError as ke:
-            raise AnsibleError('Failed to get distribution information. Missing "{0}" in output.'.format(ke.args[0]))
-
-    def get_shutdown_command(self, task_vars, distribution):
-        def find_command(command, find_search_paths):
-            display.debug('{action}: running find module looking in {paths} to get path for "{command}"'.format(
-                action=self._task.action,
-                command=command,
-                paths=find_search_paths))
-            find_result = self._execute_module(
-                task_vars=task_vars,
-                # prevent collection search by calling with ansible.legacy (still allows library/ override of find)
-                module_name='ansible.legacy.find',
-                module_args={
-                    'paths': find_search_paths,
-                    'patterns': [command],
-                    'file_type': 'any'
-                }
-            )
-            return [x['path'] for x in find_result['files']]
-
-        shutdown_bin = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND')
-        default_search_paths = ['/sbin', '/usr/sbin', '/usr/local/sbin']
-        search_paths = self._task.args.get('search_paths', default_search_paths)
-
-        # FIXME: switch all this to user arg spec validation methods when they are available
-        # Convert bare strings to a list
-        if is_string(search_paths):
-            search_paths = [search_paths]
-
-        # Error if we didn't get a list
-        err_msg = "'search_paths' must be a string or flat list of strings, got {0}"
-        try:
-            incorrect_type = any(not is_string(x) for x in search_paths)
-            if not isinstance(search_paths, list) or incorrect_type:
-                raise TypeError
-        except TypeError:
-            raise AnsibleError(err_msg.format(search_paths))
-
-        full_path = find_command(shutdown_bin, search_paths)  # find the path to the shutdown command
-        if not full_path:  # if we could not find the shutdown command
-            display.vvv('Unable to find command "{0}" in search paths: {1}, will attempt a shutdown using systemd '
-                        'directly.'.format(shutdown_bin, search_paths))  # tell the user we will try with systemd
-            systemctl_search_paths = ['/bin', '/usr/bin']
-            full_path = find_command('systemctl', systemctl_search_paths)  # find the path to the systemctl command
-            if not full_path:  # if we couldn't find systemctl
-                raise AnsibleError(
-                    'Could not find command "{0}" in search paths: {1} or systemctl command in search paths: {2}, unable to shutdown.'.
-                    format(shutdown_bin, search_paths, systemctl_search_paths))  # we give up here
-            else:
-                return "{0} poweroff".format(full_path[0])  # done, since we cannot use args with systemd shutdown
-
-        # systemd case taken care of, here we add args to the command
-        args = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS')
-        # Convert seconds to minutes. If less that 60, set it to 0.
-        delay_sec = self.delay
-        shutdown_message = self._task.args.get('msg', self.DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE)
-        return '{0} {1}'. \
-            format(
-                full_path[0],
-                args.format(
-                    delay_sec=delay_sec,
-                    delay_min=delay_sec // 60,
-                    message=shutdown_message
-                )
-            )
-
-    def perform_shutdown(self, task_vars, distribution):
-        result = {}
-        shutdown_result = {}
-        shutdown_command_exec = self.get_shutdown_command(task_vars, distribution)
-
-        self.cleanup(force=True)
-        try:
-            display.vvv("{action}: shutting down server...".format(action=self._task.action))
-            display.debug("{action}: shutting down server with command '{command}'".
-                          format(action=self._task.action, command=shutdown_command_exec))
-            if self._play_context.check_mode:
-                shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
-            else:
-                shutdown_result = self._low_level_execute_command(shutdown_command_exec, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
-        except AnsibleConnectionFailure as e:
-            # If the connection is closed too quickly due to the system being shutdown, carry on
-            display.debug(
-                '{action}: AnsibleConnectionFailure caught and handled: {error}'.format(action=self._task.action,
-                                                                                        error=to_text(e)))
-            shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
-
-        if shutdown_result['rc'] != 0:
-            result['failed'] = True
-            result['shutdown'] = False
-            result['msg'] = "Shutdown command failed. Error was {stdout}, {stderr}".format(
-                stdout=to_native(shutdown_result['stdout'].strip()),
-                stderr=to_native(shutdown_result['stderr'].strip()))
-            return result
-
-        result['failed'] = False
-        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_command_exec
-        return result
-
-    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
-        self._supports_check_mode = True
-        self._supports_async = True
-
-        # If running with local connection, fail so we don't shutdown ourself
-        if self._connection.transport == 'local' and (not self._play_context.check_mode):
-            msg = 'Running {0} with local connection would shutdown the control node.'.format(self._task.action)
-            return {'changed': False, 'elapsed': 0, 'shutdown': False, 'failed': True, 'msg': msg}
-
-        if task_vars is None:
-            task_vars = {}
-
-        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
-
-        if result.get('skipped', False) or result.get('failed', False):
-            return result
-
-        distribution = self.get_distribution(task_vars)
-
-        # Initiate shutdown
-        shutdown_result = self.perform_shutdown(task_vars, distribution)
-
-        if shutdown_result['failed']:
-            result = shutdown_result
-            return result
-
-        result['shutdown'] = True
-        result['changed'] = True
-        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_result['shutdown_command']
-
-        return result

plugins/action/shutdown.py

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

plugins/action/system/iptables_state.py

@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+# Copyright: (c) 2020, quidame <quidame@poivron.org>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import time
+
+from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleActionFail, AnsibleConnectionFailure
+from ansible.utils.vars import merge_hash
+from ansible.utils.display import Display
+
+display = Display()
+
+
+class ActionModule(ActionBase):
+
+    # Keep internal params away from user interactions
+    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset(('path', 'state', 'table', 'noflush', 'counters', 'modprobe', 'ip_version', 'wait'))
+    DEFAULT_SUDOABLE = True
+
+    MSG_ERROR__ASYNC_AND_POLL_NOT_ZERO = (
+        "This module doesn't support async>0 and poll>0 when its 'state' param "
+        "is set to 'restored'. To enable its rollback feature (that needs the "
+        "module to run asynchronously on the remote), please set task attribute "
+        "'poll' (=%s) to 0, and 'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than "
+        "'ansible_timeout' (=%s) (recommended).")
+    MSG_WARNING__NO_ASYNC_IS_NO_ROLLBACK = (
+        "Attempts to restore iptables state without rollback in case of mistake "
+        "may lead the ansible controller to loose access to the hosts and never "
+        "regain it before fixing firewall rules through a serial console, or any "
+        "other way except SSH. Please set task attribute 'poll' (=%s) to 0, and "
+        "'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than 'ansible_timeout' (=%s) "
+        "(recommended).")
+    MSG_WARNING__ASYNC_GREATER_THAN_TIMEOUT = (
+        "You attempt to restore iptables state with rollback in case of mistake, "
+        "but with settings that will lead this rollback to happen AFTER that the "
+        "controller will reach its own timeout. Please set task attribute 'poll' "
+        "(=%s) to 0, and 'async' (=%s) to a value >2 and not greater than "
+        "'ansible_timeout' (=%s) (recommended).")
+
+    def _async_result(self, module_args, task_vars, timeout):
+        '''
+        Retrieve results of the asynchonous task, and display them in place of
+        the async wrapper results (those with the ansible_job_id key).
+        '''
+        # At least one iteration is required, even if timeout is 0.
+        for i in range(max(1, timeout)):
+            async_result = self._execute_module(
+                module_name='ansible.builtin.async_status',
+                module_args=module_args,
+                task_vars=task_vars,
+                wrap_async=False)
+            if async_result['finished'] == 1:
+                break
+            time.sleep(min(1, timeout))
+
+        return async_result
+
+    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
+
+        self._supports_check_mode = True
+        self._supports_async = True
+
+        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
+        del tmp  # tmp no longer has any effect
+
+        if not result.get('skipped'):
+
+            # FUTURE: better to let _execute_module calculate this internally?
+            wrap_async = self._task.async_val and not self._connection.has_native_async
+
+            # Set short names for values we'll have to compare or reuse
+            task_poll = self._task.poll
+            task_async = self._task.async_val
+            check_mode = self._play_context.check_mode
+            max_timeout = self._connection._play_context.timeout
+            module_name = self._task.action
+            module_args = self._task.args
+
+            if module_args.get('state', None) == 'restored':
+                if not wrap_async:
+                    if not check_mode:
+                        display.warning(self.MSG_WARNING__NO_ASYNC_IS_NO_ROLLBACK % (
+                            task_poll,
+                            task_async,
+                            max_timeout))
+                elif task_poll:
+                    raise AnsibleActionFail(self.MSG_ERROR__ASYNC_AND_POLL_NOT_ZERO % (
+                        task_poll,
+                        task_async,
+                        max_timeout))
+                else:
+                    if task_async > max_timeout and not check_mode:
+                        display.warning(self.MSG_WARNING__ASYNC_GREATER_THAN_TIMEOUT % (
+                            task_poll,
+                            task_async,
+                            max_timeout))
+
+                    # inject the async directory based on the shell option into the
+                    # module args
+                    async_dir = self.get_shell_option('async_dir', default="~/.ansible_async")
+
+                    # Bind the loop max duration to consistent values on both
+                    # remote and local sides (if not the same, make the loop
+                    # longer on the controller); and set a backup file path.
+                    module_args['_timeout'] = task_async
+                    module_args['_back'] = '%s/iptables.state' % async_dir
+                    async_status_args = dict(_async_dir=async_dir)
+                    confirm_cmd = 'rm -f %s' % module_args['_back']
+                    starter_cmd = 'touch %s.starter' % module_args['_back']
+                    remaining_time = max(task_async, max_timeout)
+
+            # do work!
+            result = merge_hash(result, self._execute_module(module_args=module_args, task_vars=task_vars, wrap_async=wrap_async))
+
+            # Then the 3-steps "go ahead or rollback":
+            # 1. Catch early errors of the module (in asynchronous task) if any.
+            #    Touch a file on the target to signal the module to process now.
+            # 2. Reset connection to ensure a persistent one will not be reused.
+            # 3. Confirm the restored state by removing the backup on the remote.
+            #    Retrieve the results of the asynchronous task to return them.
+            if '_back' in module_args:
+                async_status_args['jid'] = result.get('ansible_job_id', None)
+                if async_status_args['jid'] is None:
+                    raise AnsibleActionFail("Unable to get 'ansible_job_id'.")
+
+                # Catch early errors due to missing mandatory option, bad
+                # option type/value, missing required system command, etc.
+                result = merge_hash(result, self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, 0))
+
+                # The module is aware to not process the main iptables-restore
+                # command before finding (and deleting) the 'starter' cookie on
+                # the host, so the previous query will not reach ssh timeout.
+                garbage = self._low_level_execute_command(starter_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
+
+                # As the main command is not yet executed on the target, here
+                # 'finished' means 'failed before main command be executed'.
+                if not result['finished']:
+                    try:
+                        self._connection.reset()
+                    except AttributeError:
+                        pass
+
+                    for x in range(max_timeout):
+                        time.sleep(1)
+                        remaining_time -= 1
+                        # - AnsibleConnectionFailure covers rejected requests (i.e.
+                        #   by rules with '--jump REJECT')
+                        # - ansible_timeout is able to cover dropped requests (due
+                        #   to a rule or policy DROP) if not lower than async_val.
+                        try:
+                            garbage = self._low_level_execute_command(confirm_cmd, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
+                            break
+                        except AnsibleConnectionFailure:
+                            continue
+
+                    result = merge_hash(result, self._async_result(async_status_args, task_vars, remaining_time))
+
+                # Cleanup async related stuff and internal params
+                for key in ('ansible_job_id', 'results_file', 'started', 'finished'):
+                    if result.get(key):
+                        del result[key]
+
+                if result.get('invocation', {}).get('module_args'):
+                    if '_timeout' in result['invocation']['module_args']:
+                        del result['invocation']['module_args']['_back']
+                        del result['invocation']['module_args']['_timeout']
+
+                async_status_args['mode'] = 'cleanup'
+                garbage = self._execute_module(
+                    module_name='ansible.builtin.async_status',
+                    module_args=async_status_args,
+                    task_vars=task_vars,
+                    wrap_async=False)
+
+        if not wrap_async:
+            # remove a temporary path we created
+            self._remove_tmp_path(self._connection._shell.tmpdir)
+
+        return result

plugins/action/system/shutdown.py

@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+# Copyright: (c) 2020, Amin Vakil <info@aminvakil.com>
+# Copyright: (c) 2016-2018, Matt Davis <mdavis@ansible.com>
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Sam Doran <sdoran@redhat.com>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_string
+from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
+from ansible.utils.display import Display
+
+display = Display()
+
+
+class TimedOutException(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+class ActionModule(ActionBase):
+    TRANSFERS_FILES = False
+    _VALID_ARGS = frozenset((
+        'msg',
+        'delay',
+        'search_paths'
+    ))
+
+    DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = None
+    DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY = 0
+    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE = 'Shut down initiated by Ansible'
+    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND = 'shutdown'
+    DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = '-h {delay_min} "{message}"'
+    DEFAULT_SUDOABLE = True
+
+    SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS = {
+        'alpine': 'poweroff',
+        'vmkernel': 'halt',
+    }
+
+    SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = {
+        'alpine': '',
+        'void': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
+        'freebsd': '-h +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
+        'linux': DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS,
+        'macosx': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
+        'openbsd': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
+        'solaris': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
+        'sunos': '-y -g {delay_sec} -i 5 "{message}"',
+        'vmkernel': '-d {delay_sec}',
+        'aix': '-Fh',
+    }
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super(ActionModule, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    @property
+    def delay(self):
+        return self._check_delay('delay', self.DEFAULT_PRE_SHUTDOWN_DELAY)
+
+    def _check_delay(self, key, default):
+        """Ensure that the value is positive or zero"""
+        value = int(self._task.args.get(key, default))
+        if value < 0:
+            value = 0
+        return value
+
+    def _get_value_from_facts(self, variable_name, distribution, default_value):
+        """Get dist+version specific args first, then distribution, then family, lastly use default"""
+        attr = getattr(self, variable_name)
+        value = attr.get(
+            distribution['name'] + distribution['version'],
+            attr.get(
+                distribution['name'],
+                attr.get(
+                    distribution['family'],
+                    getattr(self, default_value))))
+        return value
+
+    def get_shutdown_command_args(self, distribution):
+        args = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS')
+        # Convert seconds to minutes. If less that 60, set it to 0.
+        delay_sec = self.delay
+        shutdown_message = self._task.args.get('msg', self.DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE)
+        return args.format(delay_sec=delay_sec, delay_min=delay_sec // 60, message=shutdown_message)
+
+    def get_distribution(self, task_vars):
+        # FIXME: only execute the module if we don't already have the facts we need
+        distribution = {}
+        display.debug('{action}: running setup module to get distribution'.format(action=self._task.action))
+        module_output = self._execute_module(
+            task_vars=task_vars,
+            module_name='ansible.legacy.setup',
+            module_args={'gather_subset': 'min'})
+        try:
+            if module_output.get('failed', False):
+                raise AnsibleError('Failed to determine system distribution. {0}, {1}'.format(
+                    to_native(module_output['module_stdout']).strip(),
+                    to_native(module_output['module_stderr']).strip()))
+            distribution['name'] = module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution'].lower()
+            distribution['version'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution_version'].split('.')[0])
+            distribution['family'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_os_family'].lower())
+            display.debug("{action}: distribution: {dist}".format(action=self._task.action, dist=distribution))
+            return distribution
+        except KeyError as ke:
+            raise AnsibleError('Failed to get distribution information. Missing "{0}" in output.'.format(ke.args[0]))
+
+    def get_shutdown_command(self, task_vars, distribution):
+        shutdown_bin = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND')
+        default_search_paths = ['/sbin', '/usr/sbin', '/usr/local/sbin']
+        search_paths = self._task.args.get('search_paths', default_search_paths)
+
+        # FIXME: switch all this to user arg spec validation methods when they are available
+        # Convert bare strings to a list
+        if is_string(search_paths):
+            search_paths = [search_paths]
+
+        # Error if we didn't get a list
+        err_msg = "'search_paths' must be a string or flat list of strings, got {0}"
+        try:
+            incorrect_type = any(not is_string(x) for x in search_paths)
+            if not isinstance(search_paths, list) or incorrect_type:
+                raise TypeError
+        except TypeError:
+            raise AnsibleError(err_msg.format(search_paths))
+
+        display.debug('{action}: running find module looking in {paths} to get path for "{command}"'.format(
+            action=self._task.action,
+            command=shutdown_bin,
+            paths=search_paths))
+        find_result = self._execute_module(
+            task_vars=task_vars,
+            # prevent collection search by calling with ansible.legacy (still allows library/ override of find)
+            module_name='ansible.legacy.find',
+            module_args={
+                'paths': search_paths,
+                'patterns': [shutdown_bin],
+                'file_type': 'any'
+            }
+        )
+
+        full_path = [x['path'] for x in find_result['files']]
+        if not full_path:
+            raise AnsibleError('Unable to find command "{0}" in search paths: {1}'.format(shutdown_bin, search_paths))
+        self._shutdown_command = full_path[0]
+        return self._shutdown_command
+
+    def perform_shutdown(self, task_vars, distribution):
+        result = {}
+        shutdown_result = {}
+        shutdown_command = self.get_shutdown_command(task_vars, distribution)
+        shutdown_command_args = self.get_shutdown_command_args(distribution)
+        shutdown_command_exec = '{0} {1}'.format(shutdown_command, shutdown_command_args)
+
+        self.cleanup(force=True)
+        try:
+            display.vvv("{action}: shutting down server...".format(action=self._task.action))
+            display.debug("{action}: shutting down server with command '{command}'".format(action=self._task.action, command=shutdown_command_exec))
+            if self._play_context.check_mode:
+                shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
+            else:
+                shutdown_result = self._low_level_execute_command(shutdown_command_exec, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
+        except AnsibleConnectionFailure as e:
+            # If the connection is closed too quickly due to the system being shutdown, carry on
+            display.debug('{action}: AnsibleConnectionFailure caught and handled: {error}'.format(action=self._task.action, error=to_text(e)))
+            shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
+
+        if shutdown_result['rc'] != 0:
+            result['failed'] = True
+            result['shutdown'] = False
+            result['msg'] = "Shutdown command failed. Error was {stdout}, {stderr}".format(
+                stdout=to_native(shutdown_result['stdout'].strip()),
+                stderr=to_native(shutdown_result['stderr'].strip()))
+            return result
+
+        result['failed'] = False
+        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_command_exec
+        return result
+
+    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
+        self._supports_check_mode = True
+        self._supports_async = True
+
+        # If running with local connection, fail so we don't shutdown ourself
+        if self._connection.transport == 'local' and (not self._play_context.check_mode):
+            msg = 'Running {0} with local connection would shutdown the control node.'.format(self._task.action)
+            return {'changed': False, 'elapsed': 0, 'shutdown': False, 'failed': True, 'msg': msg}
+
+        if task_vars is None:
+            task_vars = {}
+
+        result = super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
+
+        if result.get('skipped', False) or result.get('failed', False):
+            return result
+
+        distribution = self.get_distribution(task_vars)
+
+        # Initiate shutdown
+        shutdown_result = self.perform_shutdown(task_vars, distribution)
+
+        if shutdown_result['failed']:
+            result = shutdown_result
+            return result
+
+        result['shutdown'] = True
+        result['changed'] = True
+        result['shutdown_command'] = shutdown_result['shutdown_command']
+
+        return result

plugins/become/doas.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
@@ -10,7 +9,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
     short_description: Do As user
     description:
         - This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the doas utility.
-    author: Ansible Core Team
+    author: ansible (@core)
     options:
         become_user:
             description: User you 'become' to execute the task
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
               - name: ANSIBLE_DOAS_FLAGS
         become_pass:
             description: password for doas prompt
-            required: false
+            required: False
             vars:
               - name: ansible_become_password
               - name: ansible_become_pass
@@ -82,7 +81,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 
 import re
 
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
 
 

plugins/become/dzdo.py

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Ansible Project # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
@@ -10,7 +8,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
     short_description: Centrify's Direct Authorize
     description:
         - This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the dzdo utility.
-    author: Ansible Core Team
+    author: ansible (@core)
     options:
         become_user:
             description: User you 'become' to execute the task
@@ -55,7 +53,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
               - name: ANSIBLE_DZDO_FLAGS
         become_pass:
             description: Options to pass to dzdo
-            required: false
+            required: False
             vars:
               - name: ansible_become_password
               - name: ansible_become_pass