Release 7.2.1.

[stable-7] Revert new features to be able to do 7.2.1 release (#7042 )
* Revert "[PR #7020/b46d5d81 backport][stable-7] redfish_utils: Add support for "nextLink" property tag pagination (#7026)" This reverts commit 1dad95370e. * Revert "[PR #6914/17b4219b backport][stable-7] proxmox_kvm: enable 'force' restart of vm (as documented) (#6997)" This reverts commit 7d68af57af. * Revert "[PR #6976/d7c1a814 backport][stable-7] [proxmox_vm_info] Re-use cluster resources API to use module without requiring node param (#6993)" This reverts commit fb3768aada.
2026-04-29 01:46:53 +00:00 · 2023-07-31 15:49:21 +02:00 · 2023-07-31 15:45:08 +02:00 · 2023-07-31 15:44:55 +02:00 · 2023-07-31 08:47:47 +02:00 · 2023-07-31 08:37:15 +02:00
321 changed files with 4886 additions and 10804 deletions
--- a/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ schedules:
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-8
        - stable-7
+        - stable-6
  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-6
+        - stable-5

 variables:
  - name: checkoutPath
@@ -73,19 +73,6 @@ stages:
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
            - test: extra
-  - stage: Sanity_2_16
-    displayName: Sanity 2.16
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
  - stage: Sanity_2_15
    displayName: Sanity 2.15
    dependsOn: []
@@ -112,6 +99,19 @@ stages:
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
+  - stage: Sanity_2_13
+    displayName: Sanity 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
 ### Units
  - stage: Units_devel
    displayName: Units devel
@@ -122,24 +122,13 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/units/{0}/1
          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
            - test: 3.7
            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
            - test: '3.11'
-            - test: '3.12'
-  - stage: Units_2_16
-    displayName: Units 2.16
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: "3.11"
  - stage: Units_2_15
    displayName: Units 2.15
    dependsOn: []
@@ -161,6 +150,17 @@ stages:
          testFormat: 2.14/units/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Units_2_13
+    displayName: Units 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.8

 ## Remote
  - stage: Remote_devel_extra_vms
@@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.18
-              test: alpine/3.18
+            - name: Alpine 3.17
+              test: alpine/3.17
            # - name: Fedora 38
            #   test: fedora/38
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
@@ -191,26 +191,10 @@ stages:
              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
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
+              test: freebsd/13.2
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -245,12 +229,28 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: 2.14/{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: FreeBSD 12.3
+              test: freebsd/12.3
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_13
+    displayName: Remote 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.13/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 12.0
+              test: macos/12.0
+            - name: RHEL 8.5
+              test: rhel/8.5
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+              test: freebsd/13.0
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - name: Fedora 38
              test: fedora38
+            - name: openSUSE 15
+              test: opensuse15
            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
              test: ubuntu2004
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
@@ -277,20 +279,6 @@ stages:
            - 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: []
@@ -321,6 +309,24 @@ stages:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_13
+    displayName: Docker 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.13/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 35
+              test: fedora35
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3

 ### Community Docker
  - stage: Docker_community_devel
@@ -337,6 +343,8 @@ stages:
              test: debian-bookworm/3.11
            - name: ArchLinux
              test: archlinux/3.11
+            - name: CentOS Stream 8
+              test: centos-stream8/3.9
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -352,19 +360,7 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '3.7'
-            - test: '3.12'
-  - stage: Generic_2_16
-    displayName: Generic 2.16
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/generic/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: '2.7'
-            - test: '3.6'
+            - test: 2.7
            - test: '3.11'
  - stage: Generic_2_15
    displayName: Generic 2.15
@@ -375,7 +371,7 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: 2.15/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '3.9'
+            - test: 3.9
  - stage: Generic_2_14
    displayName: Generic 2.14
    dependsOn: []
@@ -386,32 +382,42 @@ stages:
          testFormat: 2.14/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: '3.10'
+  - stage: Generic_2_13
+    displayName: Generic 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/generic/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.9

  - stage: Summary
    condition: succeededOrFailed()
    dependsOn:
      - Sanity_devel
-      - Sanity_2_16
-      - Sanity_2_15
+      - Sanity_2_13
      - Sanity_2_14
+      - Sanity_2_15
      - Units_devel
-      - Units_2_16
-      - Units_2_15
+      - Units_2_13
      - Units_2_14
+      - Units_2_15
      - Remote_devel_extra_vms
      - Remote_devel
-      - Remote_2_16
-      - Remote_2_15
+      - Remote_2_13
      - Remote_2_14
+      - Remote_2_15
      - Docker_devel
-      - Docker_2_16
-      - Docker_2_15
+      - Docker_2_13
      - Docker_2_14
+      - Docker_2_15
      - Docker_community_devel
 # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
 #      - Generic_devel
-#      - Generic_2_16
-#      - Generic_2_15
+#      - Generic_2_13
 #      - Generic_2_14
+#      - Generic_2_15
    jobs:
      - template: templates/coverage.yml
--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
@@ -249,11 +249,9 @@ files:
    labels: onepassword
    maintainers: samdoran
  $lookups/onepassword.py:
-    ignore: scottsb
-    maintainers: azenk
+    maintainers: azenk scottsb
  $lookups/onepassword_raw.py:
-    ignore: scottsb
-    maintainers: azenk
+    maintainers: azenk scottsb
  $lookups/passwordstore.py: {}
  $lookups/random_pet.py:
    maintainers: Akasurde
@@ -278,8 +276,6 @@ files:
  $module_utils/gconftool2.py:
    labels: gconftool2
    maintainers: russoz
-  $module_utils/gio_mime.py:
-    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/gitlab.py:
    keywords: gitlab source_control
    labels: gitlab
@@ -332,9 +328,6 @@ files:
  $module_utils/scaleway.py:
    labels: cloud scaleway
    maintainers: $team_scaleway
-  $module_utils/snap.py:
-    labels: snap
-    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/ssh.py:
    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/storage/hpe3par/hpe3par.py:
@@ -497,9 +490,6 @@ files:
  $modules/facter.py:
    labels: facter
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core gamethis
-  $modules/facter_facts.py:
-    labels: facter
-    maintainers: russoz $team_ansible_core gamethis
  $modules/filesize.py:
    maintainers: quidame
  $modules/filesystem.py:
@@ -522,8 +512,6 @@ files:
  $modules/gem.py:
    labels: gem
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core johanwiren
-  $modules/gio_mime.py:
-    maintainers: russoz
  $modules/git_config.py:
    maintainers: djmattyg007 mgedmin
  $modules/github_:
@@ -681,9 +669,7 @@ files:
    labels: jboss
    maintainers: $team_jboss jhoekx
  $modules/jenkins_build.py:
-    maintainers: brettmilford unnecessary-username juanmcasanova
-  $modules/jenkins_build_info.py:
-    maintainers: juanmcasanova
+    maintainers: brettmilford unnecessary-username
  $modules/jenkins_job.py:
    maintainers: sermilrod
  $modules/jenkins_job_info.py:
@@ -710,8 +696,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: mattock
  $modules/keycloak_authz_permission.py:
    maintainers: mattock
-  $modules/keycloak_authz_custom_policy.py:
-    maintainers: mattock
  $modules/keycloak_authz_permission_info.py:
    maintainers: mattock
  $modules/keycloak_client_rolemapping.py:
@@ -732,8 +716,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: kris2kris
  $modules/keycloak_realm_info.py:
    maintainers: fynncfchen
-  $modules/keycloak_realm_key.py:
-    maintainers: mattock
  $modules/keycloak_role.py:
    maintainers: laurpaum
  $modules/keycloak_user.py:
@@ -955,7 +937,7 @@ files:
    labels: pagerduty
    maintainers: suprememoocow thaumos
  $modules/pagerduty_alert.py:
-    maintainers: ApsOps xshen1
+    maintainers: ApsOps
  $modules/pagerduty_change.py:
    maintainers: adamvaughan
  $modules/pagerduty_user.py:
@@ -998,9 +980,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_solaris dermute
  $modules/pmem.py:
    maintainers: mizumm
-  $modules/pnpm.py:
-    ignore: chrishoffman
-    maintainers: aretrosen
  $modules/portage.py:
    ignore: sayap
    labels: portage
@@ -1216,8 +1195,6 @@ files:
    ignore: ryansb
  $modules/shutdown.py:
    maintainers: nitzmahone samdoran aminvakil
-  $modules/simpleinit_msb.py:
-    maintainers: vaygr
  $modules/sl_vm.py:
    maintainers: mcltn
  $modules/slack.py:
@@ -1230,7 +1207,7 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_solaris
  $modules/snap.py:
    labels: snap
-    maintainers: angristan vcarceler russoz
+    maintainers: angristan vcarceler
  $modules/snap_alias.py:
    labels: snap
    maintainers: russoz
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ on:
      - main
      - stable-*
  pull_request:
-  # Run EOL CI once per day (at 08:00 UTC)
+  # Run EOL CI once per day (at 10:00 UTC)
  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 8 * * *'
+    - cron: '0 10 * * *'

 concurrency:
  # Make sure there is at most one active run per PR, but do not cancel any non-PR runs
@@ -29,17 +29,22 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        ansible:
-          - '2.13'
+          - '2.11'
+          - '2.12'
    # 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
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
    steps:
      - name: Perform sanity testing
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: ${{ contains(fromJson('["2.10", "2.11"]'), matrix.ansible) && 'felixfontein/ansible' || 'ansible/ansible' }}
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
@@ -51,7 +56,10 @@ jobs:
    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
    name: EOL Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+py${{ matrix.python }})
    strategy:
      # As soon as the first unit test fails, cancel the others to free up the CI queue
@@ -64,13 +72,13 @@ jobs:
        exclude:
          - ansible: ''
        include:
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '3.8'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            python: '3.5'
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            python: '2.6'
+          - ansible: '2.12'
            python: '3.8'

    steps:
@@ -79,6 +87,7 @@ jobs:
          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: ${{ contains(fromJson('["2.10", "2.11"]'), matrix.ansible) && 'felixfontein/ansible' || 'ansible/ansible' }}
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pre-test-cmd: >-
@@ -95,7 +104,10 @@ jobs:
    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
    name: EOL I (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+${{ matrix.docker }}+py${{ matrix.python }}:${{ matrix.target }})
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
@@ -111,47 +123,93 @@ jobs:
        exclude:
          - ansible: ''
        include:
-          # 2.13
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
+          # 2.11
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora32
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora32
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora32
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora33
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora33
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora33
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-          # - ansible: '2.13'
+          # - ansible: '2.11'
          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '3.9'
+          #   python: '2.7'
+          #   target: azp/generic/1/
+          # - ansible: '2.11'
+          #   docker: default
+          #   python: '3.5'
+          #   target: azp/generic/1/
+          # 2.12
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: centos6
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: centos6
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: centos6
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: fedora34
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: fedora34
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: fedora34
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: ubuntu1804
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: ubuntu1804
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: ubuntu1804
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
+          # - ansible: '2.12'
+          #   docker: default
+          #   python: '3.8'
          #   target: azp/generic/1/

    steps:
@@ -161,6 +219,7 @@ jobs:
          under Python ${{ matrix.python }}
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: ${{ contains(fromJson('["2.10", "2.11"]'), matrix.ansible) && 'felixfontein/ansible' || 'ansible/ansible' }}
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          docker-image: ${{ matrix.docker }}
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:

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

    # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
    - name: Initialize CodeQL
--- a/.github/workflows/reuse.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reuse.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

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

--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -4,157 +4,54 @@ Community General Release Notes

 .. contents:: Topics

-This changelog describes changes after version 7.0.0.
+This changelog describes changes after version 6.0.0.

-v8.0.2
+v7.2.1
 ======

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

-Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 9.0.0rc1.
+Bugfix release.

 Bugfixes
 --------

- ocapi_utils, oci_utils, redfish_utils module utils - replace ``type()`` calls with ``isinstance()`` calls (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7501).
- pipx module utils - change the CLI argument formatter for the ``pip_args`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7497, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7506).
+- cmd_runner module utils - when a parameter in ``argument_spec`` has no type, meaning it is implicitly a ``str``, ``CmdRunner`` would fail trying to find the ``type`` key in that dictionary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6968).
+- ejabberd_user - provide meaningful error message when the ``ejabberdctl`` command is not found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6949).
+- proxmox module utils - fix proxmoxer library version check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6974, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6975, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6980).
+- proxmox_kvm - when ``name`` option is provided without ``vmid`` and VM with that name already exists then no new VM will be created (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6911, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6981).
+- rundeck - fix ``TypeError`` on 404 API response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6983).

-v8.0.1
+v7.2.0
 ======

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

-Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 9.0.0b1.
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- gitlab_group_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_group_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
- gitlab_project_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_project_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
- gitlab_protected_branches - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_protected_branches`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
- gitlab_user - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_user`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
- proxmox_pool_member - absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7464).
- redfish_command - fix usage of message parsing in ``SimpleUpdate`` and ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` commands to treat the lack of a ``MessageId`` as no message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7465, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7471).
-
-v8.0.0
-======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-This is release 8.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2023-11-01.
+Regular bugfix and feature 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``
@@ -162,42 +59,127 @@ Minor Changes
  (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
--------------------------------
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------

- 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).
+- flowdock - module relies entirely on no longer responsive API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6930).
+- proxmox - old feature flag ``proxmox_default_behavior`` will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6836).
+- stackdriver - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6887).
+- webfaction_app - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_db - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_domain - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_mailbox - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_site - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cobbler inventory plugin - fix calculation of cobbler_ipv4/6_address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6925).
+- datadog_downtime - presence of ``rrule`` param lead to the Datadog API returning Bad Request due to a missing recurrence type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6811).
+- ipa_dnszone - fix 'idnsallowsyncptr' key error for reverse zone (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6906, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6905).
+- keycloak_authentication - fix Keycloak authentication flow (step or sub-flow) indexing during update, if not specified by the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6734).
+- locale_gen - now works for locales without the underscore character such as ``C.UTF-8`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6774, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5142, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4305).
+- machinectl become plugin - mark plugin as ``require_tty`` to automatically disable pipelining, with which this plugin is not compatible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6932, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6935).
+- nmcli - fix support for empty list (in compare and scrape) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6769).
+- openbsd_pkg - the pkg_info(1) behavior has changed in OpenBSD >7.3. The error message ``Can't find`` should not lead to an error case (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6785).
+- pacman - module recognizes the output of ``yay`` running as ``root`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6713).
+- proxmox - fix error when a configuration had no ``template`` field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6838, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5372).
+- proxmox module utils - add logic to detect whether an old Promoxer complains about the ``token_name`` and ``token_value`` parameters and provide a better error message when that happens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6839, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5371).
+- proxmox_disk - fix unable to create ``cdrom`` media due to ``size`` always being appended (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6770).
+- proxmox_kvm - ``absent`` state with ``force`` specified failed to stop the VM due to the ``timeout`` value not being passed to ``stop_vm`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6827).
+- proxmox_kvm - ``restarted`` state did not actually restart a VM in some VM configurations. The state now uses the Proxmox reboot endpoint instead of calling the ``stop_vm`` and ``start_vm`` functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6773).
+- proxmox_template - require ``requests_toolbelt`` module to fix issue with uploading large templates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5579, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6757).
+- redfish_info - fix ``ListUsers`` to not show empty account slots (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6771, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6772).
+- refish_utils module utils - changing variable names to avoid issues occuring when fetching Volumes data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6883).
+- snap - assume default track ``latest`` in parameter ``channel`` when not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6835, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6821).
+- snap - fix the processing of the commands' output, stripping spaces and newlines from it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6826, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6803).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Lookup
+~~~~~~
+
+- bitwarden_secrets_manager - Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden Secrets Manager
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- consul_policy - Manipulate Consul policies
+- keycloak_authz_permission - Allows administration of Keycloak client authorization permissions via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_authz_permission_info - Query Keycloak client authorization permissions information
+- proxmox_vm_info - Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE virtual machines
+
+v7.1.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+From this version on, community.general is using the new `Ansible semantic markup
+<https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_documenting.html#semantic-markup-within-module-documentation>`__
+in its documentation. If you look at documentation with the ansible-doc CLI tool
+from ansible-core before 2.15, please note that it does not render the markup
+correctly. You should be still able to read it in most cases, but you need
+ansible-core 2.15 or later to see it as it is intended. Alternatively you can
+look at `the devel docsite <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/general/>`__
+for the rendered HTML version of the documentation of the latest release.
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- The collection will start using semantic markup (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6539).
+- VarDict module utils - add method ``VarDict.as_dict()`` to convert to a plain ``dict`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6602).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` option to allow using the system name for the inventory hostname (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6502).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``want_ip_addresses`` option to collect all interface DNS name to IP address mapping (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6711).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add primary IP addess to ``cobbler_ipv4_address`` and IPv6 address to ``cobbler_ipv6_address`` host variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6711).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add warning for systems with empty profiles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6502).
+- copr - respawn module to use the system python interpreter when the ``dnf`` python module is not available in ``ansible_python_interpreter`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6522).
+- datadog_monitor - adds ``notification_preset_name``, ``renotify_occurrences`` and ``renotify_statuses`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6521,https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5823).
+- filesystem - add ``uuid`` parameter for UUID change feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6680).
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - adds support for subgroups with additional parameter ``parents`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6687).
+- keycloak_role - add composite roles support for realm and client roles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6469).
+- ldap_* - add new arguments ``client_cert`` and ``client_key`` to the LDAP modules in order to allow certificate authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6668).
+- ldap_search - add a new ``page_size`` option to enable paged searches (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6648).
+- lvg - add ``active`` and ``inactive`` values to the ``state`` option for active state management feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6682).
+- lvg - add ``reset_vg_uuid``, ``reset_pv_uuid`` options for UUID reset feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6682).
+- mas - disable sign-in check for macOS 12+ as ``mas account`` is non-functional (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6520).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - add service account support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6635, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6660).
+- onepassword_raw lookup plugin - add service account support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6635, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6660).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - add span attributes in the span event (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6531).
+- opkg - remove default value ``""`` for parameter ``force`` as it causes the same behaviour of not having that parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6513).
+- proxmox - support ``timezone`` parameter at container creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6510).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - add composite variables support for Proxmox nodes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6640).
+- proxmox_kvm - added support for ``tpmstate0`` parameter to configure TPM (Trusted Platform Module) disk. TPM is required for Windows 11 installations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6533).
+- proxmox_kvm - re-use ``timeout`` module param to forcefully shutdown a virtual machine when ``state`` is ``stopped`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6257).
+- proxmox_snap - add ``retention`` parameter to delete old snapshots (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6576).
+- redfish_command - add ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6471, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6612).
+- redhat_subscription - the internal ``RegistrationBase`` class was folded
+  into the other internal ``Rhsm`` class, as the separation had no purpose
+  anymore
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6658).
+- rhsm_release - improve/harden the way ``subscription-manager`` is run;
+  no behaviour change is expected
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6669).
+- snap - module is now aware of channel when deciding whether to install or refresh the snap (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6435, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1606).
+- sorcery - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6525).
+- tss lookup plugin - allow to fetch secret IDs which are in a folder based on folder ID. Previously, we could not fetch secrets based on folder ID but now use ``fetch_secret_ids_from_folder`` option to indicate to fetch secret IDs based on folder ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6223).

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

 - CmdRunner module utils - deprecate ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_default_type()`` formatter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6601).
 - MH VarsMixin module utils - deprecates ``VarsMixin`` and supporting classes in favor of plain ``vardict`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6649).
- 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
@@ -220,145 +202,375 @@ Deprecated Features
  ``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).

 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 Modules
+-----------
+
+- gitlab_instance_variable - Creates, updates, or deletes GitLab instance variables
+- gitlab_merge_request - Create, update, or delete GitLab merge requests
+- keycloak_authentication_required_actions - Allows administration of Keycloak authentication required actions
+- keycloak_user - Create and configure a user in Keycloak
+- lvg_rename - Renames LVM volume groups
+- proxmox_pool - Pool management for Proxmox VE cluster
+- proxmox_pool_member - Add or delete members from Proxmox VE cluster pools
+
+v7.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release for Ansible 8.0.0rc1.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- nmcli - fix bond option ``xmit_hash_policy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6527).
+- portage - fix ``changed_use`` and ``newuse`` not triggering rebuilds (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6008, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6548).
+- proxmox_tasks_info - remove ``api_user`` + ``api_password`` constraint from ``required_together`` as it causes to require ``api_password`` even when API token param is used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6201).
+- zypper - added handling of zypper exitcode 102. Changed state is set correctly now and rc 102 is still preserved to be evaluated by the playbook (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6534).
+
+v7.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This is release 7.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2023-05-09.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- apache2_module - add module argument ``warn_mpm_absent`` to control whether warning are raised in some edge cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5793).
+- apt_rpm - adds ``clean``, ``dist_upgrade`` and ``update_kernel``  parameters for clear caches, complete upgrade system, and upgrade kernel packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5867).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - can now retrieve secrets from custom fields (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5694).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - implement filtering results by ``collection_id`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5849).
+- cmd_runner module utils - ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool()`` can now take an extra parameter to format when value is false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5647).
+- cpanm - minor change, use feature from ``ModuleHelper`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6385).
+- dconf - be forgiving about boolean values: convert them to GVariant booleans automatically (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6206).
+- dconf - if ``gi.repository.GLib`` is missing, try to respawn in a Python interpreter that has it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6491).
+- dconf - minor refactoring improving parameters and dependencies validation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6336).
+- dconf - parse GVariants for equality comparison when the Python module ``gi.repository`` is available (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6049).
+- deps module utils - add function ``failed()`` providing the ability to check the dependency check result without triggering an exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6383).
+- dig lookup plugin - Support multiple domains to be queried as indicated in docs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6334).
+- dig lookup plugin - support CAA record type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5913).
+- dnsimple - set custom User-Agent for API requests to DNSimple (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5927).
+- dnsimple_info - minor refactor in the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6440).
+- flatpak_remote - add new boolean option ``enabled``. It controls, whether the remote is enabled or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5926).
+- gconftool2 - refactor using ``ModuleHelper`` and ``CmdRunner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5545).
+- gitlab_group_variable, gitlab_project_variable - refactor function out to module utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6384).
+- gitlab_project - add ``builds_access_level``, ``container_registry_access_level`` and ``forking_access_level`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5706).
+- gitlab_project - add ``releases_access_level``, ``environments_access_level``, ``feature_flags_access_level``, ``infrastructure_access_level``, ``monitor_access_level``, and ``security_and_compliance_access_level`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5986).
+- gitlab_project - add new option ``topics`` for adding topics to GitLab projects (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6278).
+- gitlab_runner - add new boolean option ``access_level_on_creation``. It controls, whether the value of ``access_level`` is used for runner registration or not. The option ``access_level`` has been ignored on registration so far and was only used on updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5907, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5908).
+- gitlab_runner - allow to register group runner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3935).
+- homebrew_cask - allows passing ``--greedy`` option to ``upgrade_all`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6267).
+- idrac_redfish_command - add ``job_id`` to ``CreateBiosConfigJob`` response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5603).
+- ilo_redfish_utils module utils - change implementation of DNS Server IP and NTP Server IP update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5804).
+- ipa_group - allow to add and remove external users with the ``external_user`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5897).
+- ipa_hostgroup - add ``append`` parameter for adding a new hosts to existing hostgroups without changing existing hostgroup members (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6203).
+- iptables_state - minor refactoring within the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5844).
+- java_certs - add more detailed error output when extracting certificate from PKCS12 fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5550).
+- jc filter plugin - added the ability to use parser plugins (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6043).
+- jenkins_plugin - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5565).
+- jira - add worklog functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6209, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6210).
+- keycloak_authentication - add flow type option to sub flows to allow the creation of 'form-flow' sub flows like in Keycloak's built-in registration flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6318).
+- keycloak_group - add new optional module parameter ``parents`` to properly handle keycloak subgroups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5814).
+- keycloak_user_federation - make ``org.keycloak.storage.ldap.mappers.LDAPStorageMapper`` the default value for mappers ``providerType`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5863).
+- ldap modules - add ``ca_path`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6185).
+- ldap modules - add ``xorder_discovery`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6045, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6109).
+- ldap_search - the new ``base64_attributes`` allows to specify which attribute values should be Base64 encoded (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6473).
+- lxd_container - add diff and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5866).
+- lxd_project - refactored code out to module utils to clear sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5549).
+- make - add ``command`` return value to the module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6160).
+- mattermost, rocketchat, slack - replace missing default favicon with docs.ansible.com favicon (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5928).
+- mksysb - improved the output of the module in case of errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6263).
+- modprobe - add ``persistent`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/542).
+- module_helper module utils - updated the imports to make more MH features available at ``plugins/module_utils/module_helper.py`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6464).
+- mssql_script - allow for ``GO`` statement to be mixed-case for scripts not using strict syntax (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6457).
+- mssql_script - handle error condition for empty resultsets to allow for non-returning SQL statements (for example ``UPDATE`` and ``INSERT``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6457).
+- mssql_script - improve batching logic to allow a wider variety of input scripts. For example, SQL scripts slurped from Windows machines which may contain carriage return (''\r'') characters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6457).
+- nmap inventory plugin - add new option ``open`` for only returning open ports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6200).
+- nmap inventory plugin - add new option ``port`` for port specific scan (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6165).
+- nmap inventory plugin - add new options ``udp_scan``, ``icmp_timestamp``, and ``dns_resolve`` for different types of scans (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5566).
+- nmap inventory plugin - added environment variables for configure ``address`` and ``exclude`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6351).
+- nmcli - add ``default`` and ``default-or-eui64`` to the list of valid choices for ``addr_gen_mode6`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5974).
+- nmcli - add ``macvlan`` connection type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6312).
+- nmcli - add support for ``team.runner-fast-rate`` parameter for ``team`` connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6065).
+- nmcli - new module option ``slave_type`` added to allow creation of various types of slave devices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/473, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6108).
+- one_vm - add a new ``updateconf`` option which implements the ``one.vm.updateconf`` API call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5812).
+- openbsd_pkg - set ``TERM`` to ``'dumb'`` in ``execute_command()`` to make module less dependant on the ``TERM`` environment variable set on the Ansible controller (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6149).
+- opkg - allow installing a package in a certain version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5688).
+- opkg - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` for executing ``opkg`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5718).
+- osx_defaults - include stderr in error messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6011).
+- pipx - add ``system_site_packages`` parameter to give application access to system-wide packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6308).
+- pipx - ensure ``include_injected`` parameter works with ``state=upgrade`` and ``state=latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6212).
+- pipx - optional ``install_apps`` parameter added to install applications from injected packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6198).
+- proxmox - added new module parameter ``tags`` for use with PVE 7+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5714).
+- proxmox - suppress urllib3 ``InsecureRequestWarnings`` when ``validate_certs`` option is ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5931).
+- proxmox_kvm - add new ``archive`` parameter. This is needed to create a VM from an archive (backup) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6159).
+- proxmox_kvm - adds ``migrate`` parameter to manage online migrations between hosts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6448)
+- puppet - add new options ``skip_tags`` to exclude certain tagged resources during a puppet agent or apply (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6293).
+- puppet - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` for executing ``puppet`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5612).
+- rax_scaling_group - refactored out code to the ``rax`` module utils to clear the sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5563).
+- redfish_command - add ``PerformRequestedOperations`` command to perform any operations necessary to continue the update flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_command - add ``update_apply_time`` to ``SimpleUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3910).
+- redfish_command - add ``update_status`` to output of ``SimpleUpdate`` command to allow a user monitor the update in progress (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_command - adding ``EnableSecureBoot`` functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5899).
+- redfish_command - adding ``VerifyBiosAttributes`` functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5900).
+- redfish_info - add ``GetUpdateStatus`` command to check the progress of a previous update request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_info - adds commands to retrieve the HPE ThermalConfiguration and FanPercentMinimum settings from iLO (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6208).
+- redfish_utils module utils - added PUT (``put_request()``) functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5490).
+- redhat_subscription - add a ``server_proxy_scheme`` parameter to configure the scheme for the proxy server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5662).
+- redhat_subscription - adds ``token`` parameter for subscription-manager authentication using Red Hat API token (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5725).
+- redhat_subscription - credentials (``username``, ``activationkey``, and so on) are required now only if a system needs to be registered, or ``force_register`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5664).
+- redhat_subscription - the registration is done using the D-Bus ``rhsm`` service instead of spawning a ``subscription-manager register`` command, if possible; this avoids passing plain-text credentials as arguments to ``subscription-manager register``, which can be seen while that command runs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6122).
+- sefcontext - add support for path substitutions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1193).
+- shutdown - if no shutdown commands are found in the ``search_paths`` then the module will attempt to shutdown the system using ``systemctl shutdown`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4269, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6171).
+- slack - add option ``prepend_hash`` which allows to control whether a ``#`` is prepended to ``channel_id``. The current behavior (value ``auto``) is to prepend ``#`` unless some specific prefixes are found. That list of prefixes is incomplete, and there does not seem to exist a documented condition on when exactly ``#`` must not be prepended. We recommend to explicitly set ``prepend_hash=always`` or ``prepend_hash=never`` to avoid any ambiguity (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5629).
+- snap - minor refactor when executing module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5773).
+- snap - refactor module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute external commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6468).
+- snap_alias - refactor code to module utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6441).
+- snap_alias - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``snap`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5486).
+- spotinst_aws_elastigroup - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5553).
+- ssh_config - add ``host_key_algorithms`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5605).
+- ssh_config - add ``proxyjump`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5970).
+- ssh_config - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5720).
+- ssh_config - vendored StormSSH's config parser to avoid having to install StormSSH to use the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6117).
+- sudoers - add ``setenv`` parameters to support passing environment variables via sudo. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5883)
+- sudoers - adds ``host`` parameter for setting hostname restrictions in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5702).
+- terraform - remove state file check condition and error block, because in the native implementation of terraform will not cause errors due to the non-existent file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6296).
+- udm_dns_record - minor refactor to the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6382).
+- udm_share - added ``elements`` attribute to ``list`` type parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5557).
+- udm_user - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5559).
+- znode module - optional ``use_tls`` parameter added for encrypted communication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6154).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- If you are not using this collection as part of Ansible, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.sap_libs`` if you are using any of the ``sapcar_extract``, ``sap_task_list_execute``, and ``hana_query`` modules.
+  Without that collection installed, the redirects for these modules do not work.
+- ModuleHelper module utils - when the module sets output variables named ``msg``, ``exception``, ``output``, ``vars``, or ``changed``, the actual output will prefix those names with ``_`` (underscore symbol) only when they clash with output variables generated by ModuleHelper itself, which only occurs when handling exceptions. Please note that this breaking change does not require a new major release since before this release, it was not possible to add such variables to the output `due to a bug <https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5755>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5765).
+- gconftool2 - fix processing of ``gconftool-2`` when ``key`` does not exist, returning ``null`` instead of empty string for both ``value`` and ``previous_value`` return values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6028).
+- gitlab_runner - the default of ``access_level_on_creation`` changed from ``false`` to ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+- ldap_search - convert all string-like values to UTF-8 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5704, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6473).
+- nmcli - the default of the ``hairpin`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+- proxmox - the default of the ``unprivileged`` option changed from ``false`` to ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - ``deps`` mixin for MH classes deprecated in favour of using the ``deps`` module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6465).
+- consul - deprecate using parameters unused for ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5772).
+- gitlab_runner - the default of the new option ``access_level_on_creation`` will change from ``false`` to ``true`` in community.general 7.0.0. This will cause ``access_level`` to be used during runner registration as well, and not only during updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5908).
+- gitlab_runner - the option ``access_level`` will lose its default value in community.general 8.0.0. From that version on, you have set this option to ``ref_protected`` explicitly, if you want to have a protected runner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5925).
+- manageiq_policies - deprecate ``state=list`` in favour of using ``community.general.manageiq_policies_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5721).
+- manageiq_tags - deprecate ``state=list`` in favour of using ``community.general.manageiq_tags_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5727).
+- rax - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax module utils - module utils code relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_cbs - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_cbs_attachments - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_cdb - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_cdb_database - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_cdb_user - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_clb - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_clb_nodes - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_clb_ssl - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_dns - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_dns_record - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_facts - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_files - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_files_objects - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_identity - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_keypair - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_meta - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_mon_alarm - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_mon_check - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_mon_entity - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_mon_notification - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_mon_notification_plan - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_network - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_queue - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_scaling_group - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_scaling_policy - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rhn_channel, rhn_register - RHN hosted at redhat.com was discontinued years
+  ago, and Spacewalk 5 (which uses RHN) is EOL since 2020, May 31st;
+  while these modules could work on Uyuni / SUSE Manager (fork of Spacewalk 5),
+  we have not heard about anyone using them in those setups. Hence, these
+  modules are deprecated, and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0
+  in case there are no reports about being still useful, and potentially
+  noone that steps up to maintain them
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6493).
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- All ``sap`` modules have been removed from this collection.
+  They have been migrated to the `community.sap_libs <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/sap_libs>`_ collection.
+  Redirections have been provided.
+  Following modules are affected:
+  - sapcar_extract
+  - sap_task_list_execute
+  - hana_query
+- cmd_runner module utils - the ``fmt`` alias of ``cmd_runner_fmt`` has been removed. Use ``cmd_runner_fmt`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+- newrelic_deployment - the ``appname`` and ``environment`` options have been removed. They did not do anything (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+- puppet - the alias ``show-diff`` of the ``show_diff`` option has been removed. Use ``show_diff`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+- xfconf - generating facts was deprecated in community.general 3.0.0, however three factoids, ``property``, ``channel`` and ``value`` continued to be generated by mistake. This behaviour has been removed and ``xfconf`` generate no facts whatsoever (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5502).
+- xfconf - generating facts was deprecated in community.general 3.0.0, however two factoids, ``previous_value`` and ``type`` continued to be generated by mistake. This behaviour has been removed and ``xfconf`` generate no facts whatsoever (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5502).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- ModuleHelper - fix bug when adjusting the name of reserved output variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5755).
+- alternatives - support subcommands on Fedora 37, which uses ``follower`` instead of ``slave`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5794).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - set default to raise exception if command's return code is different from zero (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5680).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - try ``C.UTF-8`` and then fall back to ``en_US.UTF-8`` before failing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5680).
+- archive - avoid deprecated exception class on Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6180).
+- archive - reduce RAM usage by generating CRC32 checksum over chunks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6274).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - clarify what to do, if the bitwarden vault is not unlocked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5811).
+- cartesian and flattened lookup plugins - adjust to parameter deprecation in ansible-core 2.14's ``listify_lookup_plugin_terms`` helper function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6074).
+- chroot connection plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` to vars under ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5570).
+- cloudflare_dns - fixed the idempotency for SRV DNS records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5972).
+- cloudflare_dns - fixed the possiblity of setting a root-level SRV DNS record (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5972).
+- cmd_runner module utils - fixed bug when handling default cases in ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_map()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
+- cmd_runner module utils - formatting arguments ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_fixed()`` was expecting an non-existing argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
+- dependent lookup plugin - avoid warning on deprecated parameter for ``Templar.template()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5543).
+- deps module utils - do not fail when dependency cannot be found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6479).
+- dig lookup plugin - correctly handle DNSKEY record type's ``algorithm`` field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5914).
+- flatpak - fixes idempotency detection issues. In some cases the module could fail to properly detect already existing Flatpaks because of a parameter witch only checks the installed apps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6289).
+- gconftool2 - fix ``changed`` result always being ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6028).
+- gconftool2 - remove requirement of parameter ``value`` when ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6028).
+- gem - fix force parameter not being passed to gem command when uninstalling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5822).
+- gem - fix hang due to interactive prompt for confirmation on specific version uninstall (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5751).
+- github_webhook - fix always changed state when no secret is provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5994).
+- gitlab_deploy_key - also update ``title`` and not just ``can_push`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5888).
+- gitlab_group_variables - fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5667).
+- gitlab_project_variables - fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5667).
+- gitlab_runner - fix ``KeyError`` on runner creation and update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6112).
+- icinga2_host - fix the data structure sent to Icinga to make use of host templates and template vars (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6286).
+- idrac_redfish_command - allow user to specify ``resource_id`` for ``CreateBiosConfigJob`` to specify an exact manager (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2090).
+- influxdb_user - fix running in check mode when the user does not exist yet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6111).
+- ini_file - make ``section`` parameter not required so it is possible to pass ``null`` as a value. This only was possible in the past due to a bug in ansible-core that now has been fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6404).
+- interfaces_file - fix reading options in lines not starting with a space (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6120).
+- jail connection plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` to vars under ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6118).
+- jenkins_build - fix the logical flaw when deleting a Jenkins build (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5514).
+- jenkins_plugin - fix error due to undefined variable when updates file is not downloaded (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6100).
+- keycloak - improve error messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6318).
+- keycloak_client - fix accidental replacement of value for attribute ``saml.signing.private.key`` with ``no_log`` in wrong contexts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5934).
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - calculate ``proposed`` and ``after`` return values properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - remove only listed mappings with ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
+- keycloak_user_federation - fixes federation creation issue. When a new federation was created and at the same time a default / standard mapper was also changed / updated the creation process failed as a bad None set variable led to a bad malformed url request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5750).
+- keycloak_user_federation - fixes idempotency detection issues. In some cases the module could fail to properly detect already existing user federations because of a buggy seemingly superflous extra query parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5732).
+- loganalytics callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- logdna callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- logstash callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- lxc_container - fix the arguments of the lxc command which broke the creation and cloning of containers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5578).
+- lxd_* modules, lxd inventory plugin - fix TLS/SSL certificate validation problems by using the correct purpose when creating the TLS context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5616, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6034).
+- memset - fix memset urlerror handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6114).
+- nmcli - fix change handling of values specified as an integer 0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
+- nmcli - fix failure to handle WIFI settings when connection type not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
+- nmcli - fix improper detection of changes to ``wifi.wake-on-wlan`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
+- nmcli - fixed idempotency issue for bridge connections. Module forced default value of ``bridge.priority`` to nmcli if not set; if ``bridge.stp`` is disabled nmcli ignores it and keep default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3216, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4683).
+- nmcli - fixed idempotency issue when module params is set to ``may_fail4=false`` and ``method4=disabled``; in this case nmcli ignores change and keeps their own default value ``yes`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6106).
+- nmcli - implemented changing mtu value on vlan interfaces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4387).
+- nmcli - order is significant for lists of addresses (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6048).
+- nsupdate - fix zone lookup. The SOA record for an existing zone is returned as an answer RR and not as an authority RR (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5817, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5818).
+- one_vm - avoid splitting labels that are ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5489).
+- one_vm - fix syntax error when creating VMs with a more complex template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6225).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - Changed to ignore errors from "op account get" calls. Previously, errors would prevent auto-signin code from executing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5942).
+- onepassword_raw - add missing parameter to plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5506).
+- opkg - fix issue that ``force=reinstall`` would not reinstall an existing package (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5705).
+- opkg - fixes bug when using ``update_cache=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6004).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - make compatible with ansible-core 2.16 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6447).
+- pipx - fixed handling of ``install_deps=true`` with ``state=latest`` and ``state=upgrade`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6303).
+- portage - update the logic for generating the emerge command arguments to ensure that ``withbdeps: false`` results in a passing an ``n`` argument with the ``--with-bdeps`` emerge flag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6451, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6456).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fix bug while templating when using templates for the ``url``, ``user``, ``password``, ``token_id``, or ``token_secret`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5640).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - handle tags delimited by semicolon instead of comma, which happens from Proxmox 7.3 on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5602).
+- proxmox_disk - avoid duplicate ``vmid`` reference (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5493).
+- proxmox_disk - fixed issue with read timeout on import action (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5803).
+- proxmox_disk - fixed possible issues with redundant ``vmid`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
+- proxmox_nic - fixed possible issues with redundant ``vmid`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
+- puppet - handling ``noop`` parameter was not working at all, now it is has been fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6452, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6458).
+- redfish_utils - removed basic auth HTTP header when performing a GET on the service root resource and when performing a POST to the session collection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5886).
+- redhat_subscription - do not ignore ``consumer_name`` and other variables if ``activationkey`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3486, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5627).
+- redhat_subscription - do not pass arguments to ``subscription-manager register`` for things already configured; now a specified ``rhsm_baseurl`` is properly set for subscription-manager (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5583).
+- redhat_subscription - do not use D-Bus for registering when ``environment`` is specified, so it possible to specify again the environment names for registering, as the D-Bus APIs work only with IDs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6319).
+- redhat_subscription - try to unregister only when already registered when ``force_register`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6258, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6259).
+- redhat_subscription - use the right D-Bus options for environments when registering a CentOS Stream 8 system and using ``environment`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6275).
+- redhat_subscription, rhsm_release, rhsm_repository - cleanly fail when not running as root, rather than hanging on an interactive ``console-helper`` prompt; they all interact with ``subscription-manager``, which already requires to be run as root (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/734, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6211).
+- rhsm_release - make ``release`` parameter not required so it is possible to pass ``null`` as a value. This only was possible in the past due to a bug in ansible-core that now has been fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6401).
+- rundeck module utils - fix errors caused by the API empty responses (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6300)
+- rundeck_acl_policy - fix ``TypeError - byte indices must be integers or slices, not str`` error caused by empty API response. Update the module to use ``module_utils.rundeck`` functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5887, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6300).
+- rundeck_project - update the module to use ``module_utils.rundeck`` functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5742) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6300)
+- snap_alias - module would only recognize snap names containing letter, numbers or the underscore character, failing to identify valid snap names such as ``lxd.lxc`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6361).
+- splunk callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- sumologic callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- syslog_json callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- terraform - fix ``current`` workspace never getting appended to the ``all`` key in the ``workspace_ctf`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5735).
+- terraform - fix ``terraform init`` failure when there are multiple workspaces on the remote backend and when ``default`` workspace is missing by setting ``TF_WORKSPACE`` environmental variable to the value of ``workspace`` when used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5735).
+- terraform - fix broken ``warn()`` call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6497).
+- terraform and timezone - slight refactoring to avoid linter reporting potentially undefined variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5933).
+- terraform module - disable ANSI escape sequences during validation phase (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5843).
+- tss lookup plugin - allow to download secret attachments. Previously, we could not download secret attachments but now use ``fetch_attachments`` and ``file_download_path`` variables to download attachments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6224).
+- unixy callback plugin - fix plugin to work with ansible-core 2.14 by using Ansible's configuration manager for handling options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5600).
+- unixy callback plugin - fix typo introduced when updating to use Ansible's configuration manager for handling options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5600).
+- various plugins and modules - remove unnecessary imports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5940).
+- vdo - now uses ``yaml.safe_load()`` to parse command output instead of the deprecated ``yaml.load()`` which is potentially unsafe. Using ``yaml.load()`` without explicitely setting a ``Loader=`` is also an error in pyYAML 6.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5632).
+- vmadm - fix for index out of range error in ``get_vm_uuid`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5628).
+- xenorchestra inventory plugin - fix failure to receive objects from server due to not checking the id of the response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6227).
+- xfs_quota - in case of a project quota, the call to ``xfs_quota`` did not initialize/reset the project (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5143).
+- xml - fixed a bug where empty ``children`` list would not be set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5808).
+- yarn - fix ``global=true`` to check for the configured global folder instead of assuming the default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5829)
+- yarn - fix ``global=true`` to not fail when `executable` wasn't specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6132)
+- yarn - fix ``state=absent`` not working with ``global=true`` when the package does not include a binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5829)
+- yarn - fix ``state=latest`` not working with ``global=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5712).
+- yarn - fixes bug where yarn module tasks would fail when warnings were emitted from Yarn. The ``yarn.list`` method was not filtering out warnings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6127).
+- zfs_delegate_admin - zfs allow output can now be parsed when uids/gids are not known to the host system (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5943).
+- zypper - make package managing work on readonly filesystem of openSUSE MicroOS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5615).
+
 New Plugins
 -----------

 Lookup
 ~~~~~~

- bitwarden_secrets_manager - Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden Secrets Manager
+- merge_variables - merge variables with a certain suffix

 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
+- btrfs_info - Query btrfs filesystem info
+- btrfs_subvolume - Manage btrfs subvolumes
+- gitlab_project_badge - Manage project badges on GitLab Server
+- ilo_redfish_command - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
+- ipbase_info - Retrieve IP geolocation and other facts of a host's IP address using the ipbase.com API
+- kdeconfig - Manage KDE configuration files
+- keycloak_authz_authorization_scope - Allows administration of Keycloak client authorization scopes via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_clientscope_type - Set the type of aclientscope in realm or client via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_clientsecret_info - Retrieve client secret via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_clientsecret_regenerate - Regenerate Keycloak client secret via Keycloak API
+- ocapi_command - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Open Composable API (OCAPI)
+- ocapi_info - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Open Composable API (OCAPI)
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ 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)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-7)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
 [![EOL CI](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/workflows/EOL%20CI/badge.svg?event=push)](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/actions)
 [![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://codecov.io/gh/ansible-collections/community.general)

@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ If you encounter abusive behavior violating the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https:

 ## 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-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, ansible-core 2.14, ansible-core 2.15 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible-core versions before 2.11.0 are not supported. This includes all ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 releases.
+
+Parts of this collection will not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+.

 ## External requirements

@@ -32,13 +34,13 @@ Some modules and plugins require external libraries. Please check the requiremen

 ## Included content

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

    ansible-galaxy collection install community.general

@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@ Note that if you install the collection manually, it will not be upgraded automa
 ansible-galaxy collection install community.general --upgrade
 ```

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

 ```bash
 ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==X.Y.Z
@@ -71,13 +73,13 @@ We are actively accepting new contributors.

 All types of contributions are very welcome.

-You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)!
+You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/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.
+The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/commit-rights.md#people) file. If you have questions or need help, feel free to mention them in the proposals.

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

 ### Running tests

@@ -87,7 +89,7 @@ See [here](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collectio

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

-* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md).
+* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/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:
@@ -115,7 +117,7 @@ See the [Releasing guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/ma

 ## Release notes

-See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-8/CHANGELOG.rst).
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/CHANGELOG.rst).

 ## Roadmap

@@ -134,8 +136,8 @@ See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues

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

-See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/COPYING) for the full text.
+See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/COPYING) for the full text.

-Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).
+Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).

 All files have a machine readable `SDPX-License-Identifier:` comment denoting its respective license(s) or an equivalent entry in an accompanying `.license` file. Only changelog fragments (which will not be part of a release) are covered by a blanket statement in `.reuse/dep5`. This conforms to the [REUSE specification](https://reuse.software/spec/).
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 Counting elements in a sequence
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-The :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.
+The ``community.general.counter`` filter plugin allows you to count (hashable) elements in a sequence. Elements are returned as dictionary keys and their counts are stored as dictionary values.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

 .. versionadded:: 2.0.0

-If you need to convert a list of key-value pairs to a dictionary, you can use the ``dict`` function. Unfortunately, this function cannot be used with ``map``. For this, the :ansplugin:`community.general.dict filter <community.general.dict#filter>` can be used:
+If you need to convert a list of key-value pairs to a dictionary, you can use the ``dict`` function. Unfortunately, this function cannot be used with ``map``. For this, the ``community.general.dict`` filter can be used:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 Grouping
 ^^^^^^^^

-If you have a list of dictionaries, the Jinja2 ``groupby`` filter allows to group the list by an attribute. This results in a list of ``(grouper, list)`` namedtuples, where ``list`` contains all dictionaries where the selected attribute equals ``grouper``. If you know that for every ``grouper``, there will be a most one entry in that list, you can use the :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.
+If you have a list of dictionaries, the Jinja2 ``groupby`` filter allows to group the list by an attribute. This results in a list of ``(grouper, list)`` namedtuples, where ``list`` contains all dictionaries where the selected attribute equals ``grouper``. If you know that for every ``grouper``, there will be a most one entry in that list, you can use the ``community.general.groupby_as_dict`` filter to convert the original list into a dictionary which maps ``grouper`` to the corresponding dictionary.

 One example is ``ansible_facts.mounts``, which is a list of dictionaries where each has one ``device`` element to indicate the device which is mounted. Therefore, ``ansible_facts.mounts | community.general.groupby_as_dict('device')`` is a dictionary mapping a device to the mount information:

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 Merging lists of dictionaries
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-If you have two or more lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where the dictionaries are merged by an attribute, you can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_mergeby filter <community.general.lists_mergeby#filter>`.
+If you have two or more lists of dictionaries and want to combine them into a list of merged dictionaries, where the dictionaries are merged by an attribute, you can use the ``lists_mergeby`` filter.

 .. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See :ref:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <ansible_collections.community.general.yaml_callback>`.

@@ -76,15 +76,15 @@ This produces the same result as in the previous example:
    name: meh


-The filter also accepts two optional parameters: :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.
+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 :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``.
+    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 :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.
+    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 :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.
+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

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Conversions
 Parsing CSV files
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-Ansible offers the :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.
+Ansible offers the :ref:`community.general.read_csv module <ansible_collections.community.general.read_csv_module>` to read CSV files. Sometimes you need to convert strings to CSV files instead. For this, the ``from_csv`` filter exists.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

-The :ansplugin:`community.general.from_csv filter <community.general.from_csv#filter>` has several keyword arguments to control its behavior:
+The ``from_csv`` filter has several keyword arguments to control its behavior:

 :dialect: Dialect of the CSV file. Default is ``excel``. Other possible choices are ``excel-tab`` and ``unix``. If one of ``delimiter``, ``skipinitialspace`` or ``strict`` is specified, ``dialect`` is ignored.
 :fieldnames: A set of column names to use. If not provided, the first line of the CSV is assumed to contain the column names.
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The :ansplugin:`community.general.from_csv filter <community.general.from_csv#fi
 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.
+`JC <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ is a CLI tool and Python library which allows to interpret output of various CLI programs as JSON. It is also available as a filter in community.general. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The following filters allow to create identifiers.
 Hashids
 ^^^^^^^

-`Hashids <https://hashids.org/>`_ allow to convert sequences of integers to short unique string identifiers. 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.
+`Hashids <https://hashids.org/>`_ allow to convert sequences of integers to short unique string identifiers. This filter needs the `hashids Python library <https://pypi.org/project/hashids/>`_ installed on the controller.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ The hashids filters accept keyword arguments to allow fine-tuning the hashids ge
 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.
+You can use the ``random_mac`` filter to complete a partial `MAC address <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>`_ to a random 6-byte MAC address.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
@@ -6,4 +6,14 @@
 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>`.
+The ``path_join`` filter has been added in ansible-base 2.10. If you want to use this filter, but also need to support Ansible 2.9, you can use ``community.general``'s ``path_join`` shim, ``community.general.path_join``. This filter redirects to ``path_join`` for ansible-base 2.10 and ansible-core 2.11 or newer, and re-implements the filter for Ansible 2.9.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    # ansible-base 2.10 or newer:
+    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | path_join }}
+
+    # Also works with Ansible 2.9:
+    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | community.general.path_join }}
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.0.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 Selecting JSON data: JSON queries
 ---------------------------------

-To select a single element or a data subset from a complex data structure in JSON format (for example, Ansible facts), use the :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.
+To select a single element or a data subset from a complex data structure in JSON format (for example, Ansible facts), use the ``json_query`` filter.  The ``json_query`` filter lets you query a complex JSON structure and iterate over it using a loop structure.

 .. note:: You must manually install the **jmespath** dependency on the Ansible controller before using this filter. This filter is built upon **jmespath**, and you can use the same syntax. For examples, see `jmespath examples <http://jmespath.org/examples.html>`_.

@@ -146,4 +146,4 @@ To extract ports from all clusters with name containing 'server1':
      vars:
        server_name_query: "domain.server[?contains(name,'server1')].port"

-.. note:: while using ``starts_with`` and ``contains``, you have to use ``to_json | from_json`` filter for correct parsing of data structure.
+.. note:: while using ``starts_with`` and ``contains``, you have to use `` to_json | from_json `` filter for correct parsing of data structure.
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 Working with times
 ------------------

-The :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.
+The ``to_time_unit`` filter allows to convert times from a human-readable string to a unit. For example, ``'4h 30min 12second' | community.general.to_time_unit('hour')`` gives the number of hours that correspond to 4 hours, 30 minutes and 12 seconds.

-There are shorthands to directly convert to various units, like :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:
+There are shorthands to directly convert to various units, like ``to_hours``, ``to_minutes``, ``to_seconds``, and so on. The following table lists all units that can be used:

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

-Note that months and years are using a simplified representation: a month is 30 days, and a year is 365 days. If you need different definitions of months or years, you can pass them as keyword arguments. For example, if you want a year to be 365.25 days, and a month to be 30.5 days, you can write ``'11months 4' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25, month=30.5)``. These keyword arguments can be specified to :ansplugin:`community.general.to_time_unit#filter` and to all shorthand filters.
+Note that months and years are using a simplified representation: a month is 30 days, and a year is 365 days. If you need different definitions of months or years, you can pass them as keyword arguments. For example, if you want a year to be 365.25 days, and a month to be 30.5 days, you can write ``'11months 4' | community.general.to_years(year=365.25, month=30.5)``. These keyword arguments can be specified to ``to_time_unit`` and to all shorthand filters.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 Working with Unicode
 ---------------------

-`Unicode <https://unicode.org/main.html>`_ makes it possible to produce two strings which may be visually equivalent, but are comprised of distinctly different characters/character sequences. To address this Unicode defines `normalization forms <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ which avoid these distinctions by choosing a unique character sequence for a given visual representation.
+`Unicode <https://unicode.org/main.html>`_ makes it possible to produce two strings which may be visually equivalent, but are comprised of distinctly different characters/character sequences. To address this ``Unicode`` defines `normalization forms <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ which avoid these distinctions by choosing a unique character sequence for a given visual representation.

-You can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.unicode_normalize filter <community.general.unicode_normalize#filter>` to normalize Unicode strings within your playbooks.
+You can use the ``community.general.unicode_normalize`` filter to normalize ``Unicode`` strings within your playbooks.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 :form: One of ``'NFC'`` (default), ``'NFD'``, ``'NFKC'``, or ``'NFKD'``. See the `Unicode reference <https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/>`_ for more information.

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 Working with versions
 ---------------------

-If you need to sort a list of version numbers, the Jinja ``sort`` filter is problematic. Since it sorts lexicographically, ``2.10`` will come before ``2.9``. To treat version numbers correctly, you can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.version_sort filter <community.general.version_sort#filter>`:
+If you need to sort a list of version numbers, the Jinja ``sort`` filter is problematic. Since it sorts lexicographically, ``2.10`` will come before ``2.9``. To treat version numbers correctly, you can use the ``version_sort`` filter:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

 namespace: community
 name: general
-version: 8.0.2
+version: 7.2.1
 readme: README.md
 authors:
  - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)
--- a/meta/runtime.yml
+++ b/meta/runtime.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # 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

-requires_ansible: '>=2.13.0'
+requires_ansible: '>=2.11.0'
 plugin_routing:
  connection:
    docker:
--- a/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
+++ b/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):

    def _async_result(self, async_status_args, task_vars, timeout):
        '''
-        Retrieve results of the asynchronous task, and display them in place of
+        Retrieve results of the asynchonous task, and display them in place of
        the async wrapper results (those with the ansible_job_id key).
        '''
        async_status = self._task.copy()
--- a/plugins/action/shutdown.py
+++ b/plugins/action/shutdown.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
    SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = {
        'alpine': '',
        'void': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'freebsd': '-p +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
+        'freebsd': '-h +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
        'linux': DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS,
        'macosx': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
        'openbsd': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
--- a/plugins/cache/redis.py
+++ b/plugins/cache/redis.py
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ class CacheModule(BaseCacheModule):
        # format: "localhost:26379;localhost2:26379;0:changeme"
        connections = uri.split(';')
        connection_args = connections.pop(-1)
-        if len(connection_args) > 0:  # handle if no db nr is given
+        if len(connection_args) > 0:  # hanle if no db nr is given
            connection_args = connection_args.split(':')
            kw['db'] = connection_args.pop(0)
            try:
--- a/plugins/callback/nrdp.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/nrdp.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    short_description: Post task results to a Nagios server through nrdp
    description:
        - This callback send playbook result to Nagios.
-        - Nagios shall use NRDP to receive passive events.
+        - Nagios shall use NRDP to recive passive events.
        - The passive check is sent to a dedicated host/service for Ansible.
    options:
        url:
--- a/plugins/callback/null.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/null.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      - set as main display callback
    short_description: Don't display stuff to screen
    description:
-        - This callback prevents outputting events to screen.
+        - This callback prevents outputing events to screen.
 '''

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

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

    CALLBACK_VERSION = 2.0
--- a/plugins/callback/selective.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/selective.py
@@ -44,17 +44,26 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text

+try:
+    codeCodes = C.COLOR_CODES
+except AttributeError:
+    # This constant was moved to ansible.constants in
+    # https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/1202dd000f10b0e8959019484f1c3b3f9628fc67
+    # (will be included in ansible-core 2.11.0). For older Ansible/ansible-base versions,
+    # we include from the original location.
+    from ansible.utils.color import codeCodes
+

 DONT_COLORIZE = False
 COLORS = {
    'normal': '\033[0m',
-    'ok': '\033[{0}m'.format(C.COLOR_CODES[C.COLOR_OK]),
+    'ok': '\033[{0}m'.format(codeCodes[C.COLOR_OK]),
    'bold': '\033[1m',
    'not_so_bold': '\033[1m\033[34m',
-    'changed': '\033[{0}m'.format(C.COLOR_CODES[C.COLOR_CHANGED]),
-    'failed': '\033[{0}m'.format(C.COLOR_CODES[C.COLOR_ERROR]),
+    'changed': '\033[{0}m'.format(codeCodes[C.COLOR_CHANGED]),
+    'failed': '\033[{0}m'.format(codeCodes[C.COLOR_ERROR]),
    'endc': '\033[0m',
-    'skipped': '\033[{0}m'.format(C.COLOR_CODES[C.COLOR_SKIP]),
+    'skipped': '\033[{0}m'.format(codeCodes[C.COLOR_SKIP]),
 }


@@ -106,8 +115,8 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
            line_length = 120
            if self.last_skipped:
                print()
-            line = "# {0} ".format(task_name)
-            msg = colorize("{0}{1}".format(line, '*' * (line_length - len(line))), 'bold')
+            msg = colorize("# {0} {1}".format(task_name,
+                                              '*' * (line_length - len(task_name))), 'bold')
            print(msg)

    def _indent_text(self, text, indent_level):
--- a/plugins/callback/unixy.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/unixy.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2023, Al Bowles <@akatch>
+# Copyright (c) 2017, Allyson Bowles <@akatch>
 # Copyright (c) 2012-2014, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 DOCUMENTATION = '''
    name: unixy
    type: stdout
-    author: Al Bowles (@akatch)
+    author: Allyson Bowles (@akatch)
    short_description: condensed Ansible output
    description:
      - Consolidated Ansible output in the style of LINUX/UNIX startup logs.
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackModule_default):
    - Only display task names if the task runs on at least one host
    - Add option to display all hostnames on a single line in the appropriate result color (failures may have a separate line)
    - Consolidate stats display
+    - Display whether run is in --check mode
    - Don't show play name if no hosts found
    '''

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

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

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

        self._display.display(msg)

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

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

        # show CLI arguments
        if self._display.verbosity > 3:
--- a/plugins/connection/chroot.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/chroot.py
@@ -46,26 +46,11 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        vars:
          - name: ansible_chroot_exe
        default: chroot
-      disable_root_check:
-        description:
-            - Do not check that the user is not root.
-        ini:
-          - section: chroot_connection
-            key: disable_root_check
-        env:
-          - name: ANSIBLE_CHROOT_DISABLE_ROOT_CHECK
-        vars:
-          - name: ansible_chroot_disable_root_check
-        default: false
-        type: bool
-        version_added: 7.3.0
 '''

 EXAMPLES = r"""
-# Plugin requires root privileges for chroot, -E preserves your env (and location of ~/.ansible):
-# sudo -E ansible-playbook ...
-#
 # Static inventory file
+#
 # [chroots]
 # /path/to/debootstrap
 # /path/to/feboostrap
@@ -115,7 +100,11 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):

        self.chroot = self._play_context.remote_addr

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

@@ -129,11 +118,6 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):

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

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

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

    def _connect(self):
@@ -68,15 +67,12 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        super(Connection, self)._connect()

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

-        container_name = self.get_option('remote_addr')
-        if self.container and self.container_name == container_name:
+        if self.container:
            return

-        self.container_name = container_name
-
        self._display.vvv("THIS IS A LOCAL LXC DIR", host=self.container_name)
        self.container = _lxc.Container(self.container_name)
        if self.container.state == "STOPPED":
@@ -121,7 +117,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        super(Connection, self).exec_command(cmd, in_data=in_data, sudoable=sudoable)

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

        read_stdout, write_stdout = None, None
--- a/plugins/connection/lxd.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/lxd.py
@@ -16,9 +16,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    options:
      remote_addr:
        description:
-            - Instance (container/VM) identifier.
-            - Since community.general 8.0.0, a FQDN can be provided; in that case, the first component (the part before C(.))
-              is used as the instance identifier.
+            - Container identifier.
        default: inventory_hostname
        vars:
            - name: inventory_hostname
@@ -73,30 +71,26 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        if self._play_context.remote_user is not None and self._play_context.remote_user != 'root':
            self._display.warning('lxd does not support remote_user, using container default: root')

-    def _host(self):
-        """ translate remote_addr to lxd (short) hostname """
-        return self.get_option("remote_addr").split(".", 1)[0]
-
    def _connect(self):
        """connect to lxd (nothing to do here) """
        super(Connection, self)._connect()

        if not self._connected:
-            self._display.vvv(u"ESTABLISH LXD CONNECTION FOR USER: root", host=self._host())
+            self._display.vvv(u"ESTABLISH LXD CONNECTION FOR USER: root", host=self.get_option('remote_addr'))
            self._connected = True

    def exec_command(self, cmd, in_data=None, sudoable=True):
        """ execute a command on the lxd host """
        super(Connection, self).exec_command(cmd, in_data=in_data, sudoable=sudoable)

-        self._display.vvv(u"EXEC {0}".format(cmd), host=self._host())
+        self._display.vvv(u"EXEC {0}".format(cmd), host=self.get_option('remote_addr'))

        local_cmd = [self._lxc_cmd]
        if self.get_option("project"):
            local_cmd.extend(["--project", self.get_option("project")])
        local_cmd.extend([
            "exec",
-            "%s:%s" % (self.get_option("remote"), self._host()),
+            "%s:%s" % (self.get_option("remote"), self.get_option("remote_addr")),
            "--",
            self.get_option("executable"), "-c", cmd
        ])
@@ -110,11 +104,11 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        stdout = to_text(stdout)
        stderr = to_text(stderr)

-        if "is not running" in stderr:
-            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("instance not running: %s" % self._host())
+        if stderr == "error: Container is not running.\n":
+            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("container not running: %s" % self.get_option('remote_addr'))

-        if "not found" in stderr:
-            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("instance not found: %s" % self._host())
+        if stderr == "error: not found\n":
+            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("container not found: %s" % self.get_option('remote_addr'))

        return process.returncode, stdout, stderr

@@ -122,7 +116,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        """ put a file from local to lxd """
        super(Connection, self).put_file(in_path, out_path)

-        self._display.vvv(u"PUT {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path), host=self._host())
+        self._display.vvv(u"PUT {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path), host=self.get_option('remote_addr'))

        if not os.path.isfile(to_bytes(in_path, errors='surrogate_or_strict')):
            raise AnsibleFileNotFound("input path is not a file: %s" % in_path)
@@ -133,7 +127,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        local_cmd.extend([
            "file", "push",
            in_path,
-            "%s:%s/%s" % (self.get_option("remote"), self._host(), out_path)
+            "%s:%s/%s" % (self.get_option("remote"), self.get_option("remote_addr"), out_path)
        ])

        local_cmd = [to_bytes(i, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for i in local_cmd]
@@ -145,14 +139,14 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        """ fetch a file from lxd to local """
        super(Connection, self).fetch_file(in_path, out_path)

-        self._display.vvv(u"FETCH {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path), host=self._host())
+        self._display.vvv(u"FETCH {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path), host=self.get_option('remote_addr'))

        local_cmd = [self._lxc_cmd]
        if self.get_option("project"):
            local_cmd.extend(["--project", self.get_option("project")])
        local_cmd.extend([
            "file", "pull",
-            "%s:%s/%s" % (self.get_option("remote"), self._host(), in_path),
+            "%s:%s/%s" % (self.get_option("remote"), self.get_option("remote_addr"), in_path),
            out_path
        ])

--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/nomad.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/nomad.py
@@ -18,12 +18,6 @@ options:
        - FQDN of Nomad server.
      required: true
      type: str
-    port:
-      description:
-        - Port of Nomad server.
-      type: int
-      default: 4646
-      version_added: 8.0.0
    use_ssl:
      description:
        - Use TLS/SSL connection.
@@ -53,6 +47,6 @@ options:
      type: str
    token:
      description:
-        - ACL token for authentication.
+        - ACL token for authentification.
      type: str
 '''
--- a/plugins/filter/from_csv.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/from_csv.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
 - name: Parse a CSV file's contents
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: >-
-      {{ csv_data | community.general.from_csv(dialect='unix') }}
+      {{ csv_data | community.genera.from_csv(dialect='unix') }}
  vars:
    csv_data: |
      Column 1,Value
--- a/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py
@@ -42,12 +42,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        description: Fallback to cached results if connection to cobbler fails.
        type: boolean
        default: false
-      exclude_mgmt_classes:
-        description: Management classes to exclude from inventory.
-        type: list
-        default: []
-        elements: str
-        version_added: 7.4.0
      exclude_profiles:
        description:
          - Profiles to exclude from inventory.
@@ -55,12 +49,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        type: list
        default: []
        elements: str
-      include_mgmt_classes:
-        description: Management classes to include from inventory.
-        type: list
-        default: []
-        elements: str
-        version_added: 7.4.0
      include_profiles:
        description:
          - Profiles to include from inventory.
@@ -228,8 +216,6 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
        self.cache_key = self.get_cache_key(path)
        self.use_cache = cache and self.get_option('cache')

-        self.exclude_mgmt_classes = self.get_option('exclude_mgmt_classes')
-        self.include_mgmt_classes = self.get_option('include_mgmt_classes')
        self.exclude_profiles = self.get_option('exclude_profiles')
        self.include_profiles = self.get_option('include_profiles')
        self.group_by = self.get_option('group_by')
@@ -279,16 +265,9 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
                hostname = host['hostname']  # None
            interfaces = host['interfaces']

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

            # hostname is often empty for non-static IP hosts
            if hostname == '':
--- a/plugins/inventory/lxd.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/lxd.py
@@ -41,27 +41,13 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
            aliases: [ cert_file ]
            default: $HOME/.config/lxc/client.crt
            type: path
-        server_cert:
-            description:
-            - The server certificate file path.
-            type: path
-            version_added: 8.0.0
-        server_check_hostname:
-            description:
-            - This option controls if the server's hostname is checked as part of the HTTPS connection verification.
-              This can be useful to disable, if for example, the server certificate provided (see O(server_cert) option)
-              does not cover a name matching the one used to communicate with the server. Such mismatch is common as LXD
-              generates self-signed server certificates by default.
-            type: bool
-            default: true
-            version_added: 8.0.0
        trust_password:
            description:
            - The client trusted password.
            - You need to set this password on the lxd server before
                running this module using the following command
                C(lxc config set core.trust_password <some random password>)
-                See U(https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/authentication/#adding-client-certificates-using-a-trust-password).
+                See U(https://www.stgraber.org/2016/04/18/lxd-api-direct-interaction/).
            - If O(trust_password) is set, this module send a request for authentication before sending any requests.
            type: str
        state:
@@ -84,7 +70,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
            version_added: 4.2.0
        prefered_instance_network_interface:
            description:
-            - If an instance has multiple network interfaces, select which one is the preferred as pattern.
+            - If an instance has multiple network interfaces, select which one is the prefered as pattern.
            - Combined with the first number that can be found e.g. 'eth' + 0.
            - The option has been renamed from O(prefered_container_network_interface) to O(prefered_instance_network_interface)
              in community.general 3.8.0. The old name still works as an alias.
@@ -94,7 +80,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
              - prefered_container_network_interface
        prefered_instance_network_family:
            description:
-            - If an instance has multiple network interfaces, which one is the preferred by family.
+            - If an instance has multiple network interfaces, which one is the prefered by family.
            - Specify V(inet) for IPv4 and V(inet6) for IPv6.
            type: str
            default: inet
@@ -300,7 +286,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
        urls = (url for url in url_list if self.validate_url(url))
        for url in urls:
            try:
-                socket_connection = LXDClient(url, self.client_key, self.client_cert, self.debug, self.server_cert, self.server_check_hostname)
+                socket_connection = LXDClient(url, self.client_key, self.client_cert, self.debug)
                return socket_connection
            except LXDClientException as err:
                error_storage[url] = err
@@ -373,7 +359,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
        Kwargs:
            None
        Source:
-            https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/rest-api/
+            https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/rest-api.md
        Raises:
            None
        Returns:
@@ -390,7 +376,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
    def get_instance_data(self, names):
        """Create Inventory of the instance

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

        Args:
            list(names): List of instance names
@@ -412,7 +398,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
    def get_network_data(self, names):
        """Create Inventory of the instance

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

        Args:
            list(names): List of instance names
@@ -465,9 +451,9 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
        return network_configuration

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

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

        Args:
            str(containe_name): name of instance
@@ -577,7 +563,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
            else:
                path[instance_name][key] = value
        except KeyError as err:
-            raise AnsibleParserError("Unable to store Information: {0}".format(to_native(err)))
+            raise AnsibleParserError("Unable to store Informations: {0}".format(to_native(err)))

    def extract_information_from_instance_configs(self):
        """Process configuration information
@@ -697,7 +683,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
                    continue
            # add instance
            self.inventory.add_host(instance_name)
-            # add network information
+            # add network informations
            self.build_inventory_network(instance_name)
            # add os
            v = self._get_data_entry('inventory/{0}/os'.format(instance_name))
@@ -1092,8 +1078,6 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
        try:
            self.client_key = self.get_option('client_key')
            self.client_cert = self.get_option('client_cert')
-            self.server_cert = self.get_option('server_cert')
-            self.server_check_hostname = self.get_option('server_check_hostname')
            self.project = self.get_option('project')
            self.debug = self.DEBUG
            self.data = {}  # store for inventory-data
--- a/plugins/inventory/nmap.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/nmap.py
@@ -85,11 +85,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            type: boolean
            default: false
            version_added: 6.1.0
-        use_arp_ping:
-            description: Whether to always (V(true)) use the quick ARP ping or (V(false)) a slower but more reliable method.
-            type: boolean
-            default: true
-            version_added: 7.4.0
    notes:
        - At least one of ipv4 or ipv6 is required to be True, both can be True, but they cannot both be False.
        - 'TODO: add OS fingerprinting'
@@ -201,43 +196,40 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
            # setup command
            cmd = [self._nmap]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-            if not self.get_option('use_arp_ping'):
-                cmd.append('--disable-arp-ping')
-
-            cmd.append(self.get_option('address'))
+            cmd.append(self._options['address'])
            try:
                # execute
                p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
--- a/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        type: bool
      qemu_extended_statuses:
        description:
-          - Requires O(want_facts) to be set to V(true) to function. This will allow you to differentiate between C(paused) and C(prelaunch)
+          - Requires O(want_facts) to be set to V(true) to function. This will allow you to differentiate betweend C(paused) and C(prelaunch)
            statuses of the QEMU VMs.
          - This introduces multiple groups [prefixed with O(group_prefix)] C(prelaunch) and C(paused).
        default: false
--- a/plugins/lookup/bitwarden.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/bitwarden.py
@@ -132,29 +132,20 @@ class Bitwarden(object):
        If field is None, return the whole record for each match.
        """
        matches = self._get_matches(search_value, search_field, collection_id)
-        if not field:
+
+        if field in ['autofillOnPageLoad', 'password', 'passwordRevisionDate', 'totp', 'uris', 'username']:
+            return [match['login'][field] for match in matches]
+        elif not field:
            return matches
-        field_matches = []
-        for match in matches:
-            # if there are no custom fields, then `match` has no key 'fields'
-            if 'fields' in match:
-                custom_field_found = False
+        else:
+            custom_field_matches = []
+            for match in matches:
                for custom_field in match['fields']:
-                    if field == custom_field['name']:
-                        field_matches.append(custom_field['value'])
-                        custom_field_found = True
-                        break
-                if custom_field_found:
-                    continue
-            if 'login' in match and field in match['login']:
-                field_matches.append(match['login'][field])
-                continue
-            if field in match:
-                field_matches.append(match[field])
-                continue
-        if matches and not field_matches:
-            raise AnsibleError("field {field} does not exist in {search_value}".format(field=field, search_value=search_value))
-        return field_matches
+                    if custom_field['name'] == field:
+                        custom_field_matches.append(custom_field['value'])
+            if matches and not custom_field_matches:
+                raise AnsibleError("Custom field {field} does not exist in {search_value}".format(field=field, search_value=search_value))
+            return custom_field_matches


 class LookupModule(LookupBase):
--- a/plugins/lookup/collection_version.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/collection_version.py
@@ -98,10 +98,15 @@ def load_collection_meta(collection_pkg, no_version='*'):
    if os.path.exists(manifest_path):
        return load_collection_meta_manifest(manifest_path)

-    # Try to load galaxy.yml
+    # Try to load galaxy.y(a)ml
    galaxy_path = os.path.join(path, 'galaxy.yml')
-    if os.path.exists(galaxy_path):
-        return load_collection_meta_galaxy(galaxy_path, no_version=no_version)
+    galaxy_alt_path = os.path.join(path, 'galaxy.yaml')
+    # galaxy.yaml was only supported in ansible-base 2.10 and ansible-core 2.11. Support was removed
+    # in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/595413d11346b6f26bb3d9df2d8e05f2747508a3 for
+    # ansible-core 2.12.
+    for path in (galaxy_path, galaxy_alt_path):
+        if os.path.exists(path):
+            return load_collection_meta_galaxy(path, no_version=no_version)

    return {}

--- a/plugins/lookup/dig.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/dig.py
@@ -70,11 +70,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
          - "Class."
        type: str
        default: 'IN'
-      tcp:
-        description: Use TCP to lookup DNS records.
-        default: false
-        type: bool
-        version_added: 7.5.0
    notes:
      - ALL is not a record per-se, merely the listed fields are available for any record results you retrieve in the form of a dictionary.
      - While the 'dig' lookup plugin supports anything which dnspython supports out of the box, only a subset can be converted into a dictionary.
@@ -334,7 +329,6 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
        flat = self.get_option('flat')
        fail_on_error = self.get_option('fail_on_error')
        real_empty = self.get_option('real_empty')
-        tcp = self.get_option('tcp')
        try:
            rdclass = dns.rdataclass.from_text(self.get_option('class'))
        except Exception as e:
@@ -381,8 +375,6 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
                    fail_on_error = boolean(arg)
                elif opt == 'real_empty':
                    real_empty = boolean(arg)
-                elif opt == 'tcp':
-                    tcp = boolean(arg)

                continue

@@ -416,7 +408,7 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):

        for domain in domains:
            try:
-                answers = myres.query(domain, qtype, rdclass=rdclass, tcp=tcp)
+                answers = myres.query(domain, qtype, rdclass=rdclass)
                for rdata in answers:
                    s = rdata.to_text()
                    if qtype.upper() == 'TXT':
--- a/plugins/lookup/onepassword.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/onepassword.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2018, Scott Buchanan <scott@buchanan.works>
+# Copyright (c) 2018, Scott Buchanan <sbuchanan@ri.pn>
 # Copyright (c) 2016, Andrew Zenk <azenk@umn.edu> (lastpass.py used as starting point)
 # 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)
@@ -38,10 +38,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        type: str
      subdomain:
        description: The 1Password subdomain to authenticate against.
-      account_id:
-        description: The account ID to target.
-        type: str
-        version_added: 7.5.0
      username:
        description: The username used to sign in.
      secret_key:
@@ -59,7 +55,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        performed an initial sign in (meaning C(~/.op/config), C(~/.config/op/config) or C(~/.config/.op/config) exists), then only the
        C(master_password) is required. You may optionally specify O(subdomain) in this scenario, otherwise the last used subdomain will be used by C(op).
      - This lookup can perform an initial login by providing O(subdomain), O(username), O(secret_key), and O(master_password).
-      - Can target a specific account by providing the O(account_id).
      - Due to the B(very) sensitive nature of these credentials, it is B(highly) recommended that you only pass in the minimal credentials
        needed at any given time. Also, store these credentials in an Ansible Vault using a key that is equal to or greater in strength
        to the 1Password master password.
@@ -98,12 +93,6 @@ EXAMPLES = """
                master_password=vault_master_password,
                username='tweety@acme.com',
                secret_key=vault_secret_key)
-
- name: Retrieve password from specific account
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    var: lookup('community.general.onepassword',
-                'HAL 9000',
-                account_id='abc123')
 """

 RETURN = """
@@ -130,23 +119,13 @@ from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.onepassword impo
 class OnePassCLIBase(with_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta, object)):
    bin = "op"

-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        subdomain=None,
-        domain="1password.com",
-        username=None,
-        secret_key=None,
-        master_password=None,
-        service_account_token=None,
-        account_id=None,
-    ):
+    def __init__(self, subdomain=None, domain="1password.com", username=None, secret_key=None, master_password=None, service_account_token=None):
        self.subdomain = subdomain
        self.domain = domain
        self.username = username
        self.master_password = master_password
        self.secret_key = secret_key
        self.service_account_token = service_account_token
-        self.account_id = account_id

        self._path = None
        self._version = None
@@ -314,9 +293,7 @@ class OnePassCLIv1(OnePassCLIBase):

    def assert_logged_in(self):
        args = ["get", "account"]
-        if self.account_id:
-            args.extend(["--account", self.account_id])
-        elif self.subdomain:
+        if self.subdomain:
            account = "{subdomain}.{domain}".format(subdomain=self.subdomain, domain=self.domain)
            args.extend(["--account", account])

@@ -349,10 +326,6 @@ class OnePassCLIv1(OnePassCLIBase):

    def get_raw(self, item_id, vault=None, token=None):
        args = ["get", "item", item_id]
-
-        if self.account_id:
-            args.extend(["--account", self.account_id])
-
        if vault is not None:
            args += ["--vault={0}".format(vault)]

@@ -489,12 +462,12 @@ class OnePassCLIv2(OnePassCLIBase):
                # If the field name doesn't exist in the section, match on the value of "label"
                # then "id" and return "value"
                if field.get("label") == field_name:
-                    return field.get("value", "")
+                    return field["value"]

                if field.get("id") == field_name:
-                    return field.get("value", "")
+                    return field["value"]

-            # Look at the section data and get an identifier. The value of 'id' is either a unique ID
+            # Look at the section data and get an indentifier. The value of 'id' is either a unique ID
            # or a human-readable string. If a 'label' field exists, prefer that since
            # it is the value visible in the 1Password UI when both 'id' and 'label' exist.
            section = field.get("section", {})
@@ -502,10 +475,10 @@ class OnePassCLIv2(OnePassCLIBase):
            if section_title == current_section_title:
                # In the correct section. Check "label" then "id" for the desired field_name
                if field.get("label") == field_name:
-                    return field.get("value", "")
+                    return field["value"]

                if field.get("id") == field_name:
-                    return field.get("value", "")
+                    return field["value"]

        return ""

@@ -529,9 +502,7 @@ class OnePassCLIv2(OnePassCLIBase):
            # an interactive prompt. Only run 'op account get' after first listing accounts to see
            # if there are any previously configured accounts.
            args = ["account", "get"]
-            if self.account_id:
-                args.extend(["--account", self.account_id])
-            elif self.subdomain:
+            if self.subdomain:
                account = "{subdomain}.{domain}".format(subdomain=self.subdomain, domain=self.domain)
                args.extend(["--account", account])

@@ -562,10 +533,6 @@ class OnePassCLIv2(OnePassCLIBase):

    def get_raw(self, item_id, vault=None, token=None):
        args = ["item", "get", item_id, "--format", "json"]
-
-        if self.account_id:
-            args.extend(["--account", self.account_id])
-
        if vault is not None:
            args += ["--vault={0}".format(vault)]

@@ -592,14 +559,13 @@ class OnePassCLIv2(OnePassCLIBase):

 class OnePass(object):
    def __init__(self, subdomain=None, domain="1password.com", username=None, secret_key=None, master_password=None,
-                 service_account_token=None, account_id=None):
+                 service_account_token=None):
        self.subdomain = subdomain
        self.domain = domain
        self.username = username
        self.secret_key = secret_key
        self.master_password = master_password
        self.service_account_token = service_account_token
-        self.account_id = account_id

        self.logged_in = False
        self.token = None
@@ -612,7 +578,7 @@ class OnePass(object):
        for cls in OnePassCLIBase.__subclasses__():
            if cls.supports_version == version.split(".")[0]:
                try:
-                    return cls(self.subdomain, self.domain, self.username, self.secret_key, self.master_password, self.service_account_token, self.account_id)
+                    return cls(self.subdomain, self.domain, self.username, self.secret_key, self.master_password, self.service_account_token)
                except TypeError as e:
                    raise AnsibleLookupError(e)

@@ -676,9 +642,8 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
        secret_key = self.get_option("secret_key")
        master_password = self.get_option("master_password")
        service_account_token = self.get_option("service_account_token")
-        account_id = self.get_option("account_id")

-        op = OnePass(subdomain, domain, username, secret_key, master_password, service_account_token, account_id)
+        op = OnePass(subdomain, domain, username, secret_key, master_password, service_account_token)
        op.assert_logged_in()

        values = []
--- a/plugins/lookup/onepassword_raw.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/onepassword_raw.py
@@ -35,10 +35,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        version_added: 6.0.0
        default: '1password.com'
        type: str
-      account_id:
-        description: The account ID to target.
-        type: str
-        version_added: 7.5.0
      username:
        description: The username used to sign in.
      secret_key:
@@ -56,7 +52,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        performed an initial sign in (meaning C(~/.op/config exists)), then only the O(master_password) is required.
        You may optionally specify O(subdomain) in this scenario, otherwise the last used subdomain will be used by C(op).
      - This lookup can perform an initial login by providing O(subdomain), O(username), O(secret_key), and O(master_password).
-      - Can target a specific account by providing the O(account_id).
      - Due to the B(very) sensitive nature of these credentials, it is B(highly) recommended that you only pass in the minimal credentials
        needed at any given time. Also, store these credentials in an Ansible Vault using a key that is equal to or greater in strength
        to the 1Password master password.
@@ -101,9 +96,8 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
        secret_key = self.get_option("secret_key")
        master_password = self.get_option("master_password")
        service_account_token = self.get_option("service_account_token")
-        account_id = self.get_option("account_id")

-        op = OnePass(subdomain, domain, username, secret_key, master_password, service_account_token, account_id)
+        op = OnePass(subdomain, domain, username, secret_key, master_password, service_account_token)
        op.assert_logged_in()

        values = []
--- a/plugins/lookup/random_string.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/random_string.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r"""
        type: int
      override_special:
        description:
-        - Override a list of special characters to use in the string.
+        - Overide a list of special characters to use in the string.
        - If set O(min_special) should be set to a non-default value.
        type: str
      override_all:
@@ -80,19 +80,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r"""
        - Override all values of O(numbers), O(upper), O(lower), and O(special) with
          the given list of characters.
        type: str
-      ignore_similar_chars:
-        description:
-        - Ignore similar characters, such as V(l) and V(1), or V(O) and V(0).
-        - These characters can be configured in O(similar_chars).
-        default: false
-        type: bool
-        version_added: 7.5.0
-      similar_chars:
-        description:
-        - Override a list of characters not to be use in the string.
-        default: "il1LoO0"
-        type: str
-        version_added: 7.5.0
      base64:
        description:
        - Returns base64 encoded string.
@@ -116,7 +103,7 @@ EXAMPLES = r"""
    var: lookup('community.general.random_string', base64=True)
  # Example result: ['NHZ6eWN5Qk0=']

- name: Generate a random string with 1 lower, 1 upper, 1 number and 1 special char (at least)
+- name: Generate a random string with 1 lower, 1 upper, 1 number and 1 special char (atleast)
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    var: lookup('community.general.random_string', min_lower=1, min_upper=1, min_special=1, min_numeric=1)
  # Example result: ['&Qw2|E[-']
@@ -186,17 +173,9 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
        length = self.get_option("length")
        base64_flag = self.get_option("base64")
        override_all = self.get_option("override_all")
-        ignore_similar_chars = self.get_option("ignore_similar_chars")
-        similar_chars = self.get_option("similar_chars")
        values = ""
        available_chars_set = ""

-        if ignore_similar_chars:
-            number_chars = "".join([sc for sc in number_chars if sc not in similar_chars])
-            lower_chars = "".join([sc for sc in lower_chars if sc not in similar_chars])
-            upper_chars = "".join([sc for sc in upper_chars if sc not in similar_chars])
-            special_chars = "".join([sc for sc in special_chars if sc not in similar_chars])
-
        if override_all:
            # Override all the values
            available_chars_set = override_all
--- a/plugins/module_utils/cmd_runner.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/cmd_runner.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type

-import os
 from functools import wraps

 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
@@ -205,17 +204,12 @@ class CmdRunner(object):
            environ_update = {}
        self.environ_update = environ_update

-        _cmd = self.command[0]
-        self.command[0] = _cmd if (os.path.isabs(_cmd) or '/' in _cmd) else module.get_bin_path(_cmd, opt_dirs=path_prefix, required=True)
+        self.command[0] = module.get_bin_path(self.command[0], opt_dirs=path_prefix, required=True)

        for mod_param_name, spec in iteritems(module.argument_spec):
            if mod_param_name not in self.arg_formats:
                self.arg_formats[mod_param_name] = _Format.as_default_type(spec.get('type', 'str'), mod_param_name)

-    @property
-    def binary(self):
-        return self.command[0]
-
    def __call__(self, args_order=None, output_process=None, ignore_value_none=True, check_mode_skip=False, check_mode_return=None, **kwargs):
        if output_process is None:
            output_process = _process_as_is
--- a/plugins/module_utils/consul.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/consul.py
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# Copyright (c) 2022, Håkon Lerring
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING 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
-
-
-def get_consul_url(configuration):
-    return '%s://%s:%s/v1' % (configuration.scheme,
-                              configuration.host, configuration.port)
-
-
-def get_auth_headers(configuration):
-    if configuration.token is None:
-        return {}
-    else:
-        return {'X-Consul-Token': configuration.token}
-
-
-class RequestError(Exception):
-    pass
-
-
-def handle_consul_response_error(response):
-    if 400 <= response.status_code < 600:
-        raise RequestError('%d %s' % (response.status_code, response.content))
--- a/plugins/module_utils/dimensiondata.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/dimensiondata.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ except ImportError:
    LIBCLOUD_IMP_ERR = traceback.format_exc()
    HAS_LIBCLOUD = False

-# MCP 2.x version pattern for location (datacenter) names.
+# MCP 2.x version patten for location (datacenter) names.
 #
 # Note that this is not a totally reliable way of determining MCP version.
 # Unfortunately, libcloud's NodeLocation currently makes no provision for extended properties.
--- a/plugins/module_utils/gio_mime.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/gio_mime.py
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2022, Alexei Znamensky <russoz@gmail.com>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.cmd_runner import CmdRunner, cmd_runner_fmt
-
-
-def gio_mime_runner(module, **kwargs):
-    return CmdRunner(
-        module,
-        command=['gio', 'mime'],
-        arg_formats=dict(
-            mime_type=cmd_runner_fmt.as_list(),
-            handler=cmd_runner_fmt.as_list(),
-        ),
-        **kwargs
-    )
-
-
-def gio_mime_get(runner, mime_type):
-    def process(rc, out, err):
-        if err.startswith("No default applications for"):
-            return None
-        out = out.splitlines()[0]
-        return out.split()[-1]
-
-    with runner("mime_type", output_process=process) as ctx:
-        return ctx.run(mime_type=mime_type)
--- a/plugins/module_utils/gitlab.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/gitlab.py
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def gitlab_authentication(module):
 def filter_returned_variables(gitlab_variables):
    # pop properties we don't know
    existing_variables = [dict(x.attributes) for x in gitlab_variables]
-    KNOWN = ['key', 'value', 'masked', 'protected', 'variable_type', 'environment_scope', 'raw']
+    KNOWN = ['key', 'value', 'masked', 'protected', 'variable_type', 'environment_scope']
    for item in existing_variables:
        for key in list(item.keys()):
            if key not in KNOWN:
@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ def vars_to_variables(vars, module):
                    "value": str(value),
                    "masked": False,
                    "protected": False,
-                    "raw": False,
                    "variable_type": "env_var",
                }
            )
@@ -146,7 +145,6 @@ def vars_to_variables(vars, module):
                "value": value.get('value'),
                "masked": value.get('masked'),
                "protected": value.get('protected'),
-                "raw": value.get('raw'),
                "variable_type": value.get('variable_type'),
            }

--- a/plugins/module_utils/hwc_utils.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/hwc_utils.py
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ class Config(object):

        if url == "":
            raise HwcClientException(
-                0, "Cannot find the endpoint for %s" % service_type)
+                0, "Can not find the enpoint for %s" % service_type)

        if url[-1] != "/":
            url += "/"
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ def wait_to_finish(target, pending, refresh, timeout, min_interval=1, delay=3):

            if pending and status not in pending:
                raise HwcModuleException(
-                    "unexpected status(%s) occurred" % status)
+                    "unexpect status(%s) occurred" % status)

        if not is_last_time:
            wait *= 2
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ def wait_to_finish(target, pending, refresh, timeout, min_interval=1, delay=3):

            time.sleep(wait)

-    raise HwcModuleException("async wait timeout after %d seconds" % timeout)
+    raise HwcModuleException("asycn wait timeout after %d seconds" % timeout)


 def navigate_value(data, index, array_index=None):
--- a/plugins/module_utils/identity/keycloak/keycloak.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/identity/keycloak/keycloak.py
@@ -116,9 +116,6 @@ URL_AUTHZ_PERMISSIONS = "{url}/admin/realms/{realm}/clients/{client_id}/authz/re

 URL_AUTHZ_RESOURCES = "{url}/admin/realms/{realm}/clients/{client_id}/authz/resource-server/resource"

-URL_AUTHZ_CUSTOM_POLICY = "{url}/admin/realms/{realm}/clients/{client_id}/authz/resource-server/policy/{policy_type}"
-URL_AUTHZ_CUSTOM_POLICIES = "{url}/admin/realms/{realm}/clients/{client_id}/authz/resource-server/policy"
-

 def keycloak_argument_spec():
    """
@@ -544,7 +541,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
        return None

    def get_client_group_available_rolemappings(self, gid, cid, realm="master"):
-        """ Fetch the available role of a client in a specified group on the Keycloak server.
+        """ Fetch the available role of a client in a specified goup on the Keycloak server.

        :param gid: ID of the group from which to obtain the rolemappings.
        :param cid: ID of the client from which to obtain the rolemappings.
@@ -627,7 +624,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
                                      % (rid, realm, str(e)))

    def add_group_rolemapping(self, gid, cid, role_rep, realm="master"):
-        """ Fetch the composite role of a client in a specified group on the Keycloak server.
+        """ Fetch the composite role of a client in a specified goup on the Keycloak server.

        :param gid: ID of the group from which to obtain the rolemappings.
        :param cid: ID of the client from which to obtain the rolemappings.
@@ -780,8 +777,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
        users_url += '?username=%s&exact=true' % username
        try:
            userrep = None
-            users = json.loads(to_native(open_url(users_url, method='GET', http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders,
-                                                  timeout=self.connection_timeout,
+            users = json.loads(to_native(open_url(users_url, method='GET', headers=self.restheaders, timeout=self.connection_timeout,
                                                  validate_certs=self.validate_certs).read()))
            for user in users:
                if user['username'] == username:
@@ -807,8 +803,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):

        service_account_user_url = URL_CLIENT_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_USER.format(url=self.baseurl, realm=realm, id=cid)
        try:
-            return json.loads(to_native(open_url(service_account_user_url, method='GET', http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders,
-                                                 timeout=self.connection_timeout,
+            return json.loads(to_native(open_url(service_account_user_url, method='GET', headers=self.restheaders, timeout=self.connection_timeout,
                                                 validate_certs=self.validate_certs).read()))
        except ValueError as e:
            self.module.fail_json(msg='API returned incorrect JSON when trying to obtain the service-account-user for realm %s and client_id %s: %s'
@@ -1238,7 +1233,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):

        :param realm: Realm in which the clientscope resides.
        :param client_id: The client in which the clientscope resides.
-        :return The optional clientscopes of this realm or client
+        :return The optinal clientscopes of this realm or client
        """
        url = URL_OPTIONAL_CLIENTSCOPES if client_id is None else URL_CLIENT_OPTIONAL_CLIENTSCOPES
        return self._get_clientscopes_of_type(realm, url, 'optional', client_id)
@@ -1251,7 +1246,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):

        :param realm: Realm in which the clientscope resides.
        :param url_template the template for the right type
-        :param scope_type this can be either optional or default
+        :param scope_type this can be either optinal or default
        :param client_id: The client in which the clientscope resides.
        :return The clientscopes of the specified type of this realm
        """
@@ -1273,7 +1268,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):

    def _decide_url_type_clientscope(self, client_id=None, scope_type="default"):
        """Decides which url to use.
-        :param scope_type this can be either optional or default
+        :param scope_type this can be either optinal or default
        :param client_id: The client in which the clientscope resides.
        """
        if client_id is None:
@@ -1352,8 +1347,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
        clientsecret_url = URL_CLIENTSECRET.format(url=self.baseurl, realm=realm, id=id)

        try:
-            return json.loads(to_native(open_url(clientsecret_url, method='POST', http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders,
-                                                 timeout=self.connection_timeout,
+            return json.loads(to_native(open_url(clientsecret_url, method='POST', headers=self.restheaders, timeout=self.connection_timeout,
                                                 validate_certs=self.validate_certs).read()))

        except HTTPError as e:
@@ -1376,8 +1370,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
        clientsecret_url = URL_CLIENTSECRET.format(url=self.baseurl, realm=realm, id=id)

        try:
-            return json.loads(to_native(open_url(clientsecret_url, method='GET', http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders,
-                                                 timeout=self.connection_timeout,
+            return json.loads(to_native(open_url(clientsecret_url, method='GET', headers=self.restheaders, timeout=self.connection_timeout,
                                                 validate_certs=self.validate_certs).read()))

        except HTTPError as e:
@@ -1520,7 +1513,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
    def get_subgroup_direct_parent(self, parents, realm="master", children_to_resolve=None):
        """ Get keycloak direct parent group API object for a given chain of parents.

-        To successfully work the API for subgroups we actually don't need
+        To succesfully work the API for subgroups we actually dont need
        to "walk the whole tree" for nested groups but only need to know
        the ID for the direct predecessor of current subgroup. This
        method will guarantee us this information getting there with
@@ -2685,9 +2678,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
                open_url(
                    user_url,
                    method='GET',
-                    http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders,
-                    timeout=self.connection_timeout,
-                    validate_certs=self.validate_certs))
+                    headers=self.restheaders))
            return userrep
        except Exception as e:
            self.module.fail_json(msg='Could not get user %s in realm %s: %s'
@@ -2709,10 +2700,8 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
                realm=realm)
            open_url(users_url,
                     method='POST',
-                     http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders,
-                     data=json.dumps(userrep),
-                     timeout=self.connection_timeout,
-                     validate_certs=self.validate_certs)
+                     headers=self.restheaders,
+                     data=json.dumps(userrep))
            created_user = self.get_user_by_username(
                username=userrep['username'],
                realm=realm)
@@ -2755,10 +2744,8 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
            open_url(
                user_url,
                method='PUT',
-                http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders,
-                data=json.dumps(userrep),
-                timeout=self.connection_timeout,
-                validate_certs=self.validate_certs)
+                headers=self.restheaders,
+                data=json.dumps(userrep))
            updated_user = self.get_user_by_id(
                user_id=userrep['id'],
                realm=realm)
@@ -2782,9 +2769,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
            return open_url(
                user_url,
                method='DELETE',
-                http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders,
-                timeout=self.connection_timeout,
-                validate_certs=self.validate_certs)
+                headers=self.restheaders)
        except Exception as e:
            self.module.fail_json(msg='Could not delete user %s in realm %s: %s'
                                      % (user_id, realm, str(e)))
@@ -2806,9 +2791,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
                open_url(
                    user_groups_url,
                    method='GET',
-                    http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders,
-                    timeout=self.connection_timeout,
-                    validate_certs=self.validate_certs))
+                    headers=self.restheaders))
            for user_group in user_groups:
                groups.append(user_group["name"])
            return groups
@@ -2833,9 +2816,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
            return open_url(
                user_group_url,
                method='PUT',
-                http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders,
-                timeout=self.connection_timeout,
-                validate_certs=self.validate_certs)
+                headers=self.restheaders)
        except Exception as e:
            self.module.fail_json(msg='Could not add user %s in group %s in realm %s: %s'
                                      % (user_id, group_id, realm, str(e)))
@@ -2857,9 +2838,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
            return open_url(
                user_group_url,
                method='DELETE',
-                http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders,
-                timeout=self.connection_timeout,
-                validate_certs=self.validate_certs)
+                headers=self.restheaders)
        except Exception as e:
            self.module.fail_json(msg='Could not remove user %s from group %s in realm %s: %s'
                                      % (user_id, group_id, realm, str(e)))
@@ -2879,7 +2858,7 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
            groups_to_add_and_remove = self.extract_groups_to_add_to_and_remove_from_user(groups)
            # If group membership need to be changed
            if not is_struct_included(groups_to_add_and_remove['add'], user_existing_groups):
-                # Get available groups in the realm
+                # Get available goups in the realm
                realm_groups = self.get_groups(realm=realm)
                for realm_group in realm_groups:
                    if "name" in realm_group and realm_group["name"] in groups_to_add_and_remove['add']:
@@ -2925,27 +2904,6 @@ class KeycloakAPI(object):
                    list_of_groups.append(group_dict)
        return list_of_groups

-    def create_authz_custom_policy(self, policy_type, payload, client_id, realm):
-        """Create a custom policy for a Keycloak client"""
-        url = URL_AUTHZ_CUSTOM_POLICY.format(url=self.baseurl, policy_type=policy_type, client_id=client_id, realm=realm)
-
-        try:
-            return open_url(url, method='POST', http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders, timeout=self.connection_timeout,
-                            data=json.dumps(payload), validate_certs=self.validate_certs)
-        except Exception as e:
-            self.module.fail_json(msg='Could not create permission %s for client %s in realm %s: %s' % (payload['name'], client_id, realm, str(e)))
-
-    def remove_authz_custom_policy(self, policy_id, client_id, realm):
-        """Remove a custom policy from a Keycloak client"""
-        url = URL_AUTHZ_CUSTOM_POLICIES.format(url=self.baseurl, client_id=client_id, realm=realm)
-        delete_url = "%s/%s" % (url, policy_id)
-
-        try:
-            return open_url(delete_url, method='DELETE', http_agent=self.http_agent, headers=self.restheaders, timeout=self.connection_timeout,
-                            validate_certs=self.validate_certs)
-        except Exception as e:
-            self.module.fail_json(msg='Could not delete custom policy %s for client %s in realm %s: %s' % (id, client_id, realm, str(e)))
-
    def get_authz_permission_by_name(self, name, client_id, realm):
        """Get authorization permission by name"""
        url = URL_AUTHZ_POLICIES.format(url=self.baseurl, client_id=client_id, realm=realm)
--- a/plugins/module_utils/lxd.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/lxd.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class LXDClientException(Exception):


 class LXDClient(object):
-    def __init__(self, url, key_file=None, cert_file=None, debug=False, server_cert_file=None, server_check_hostname=True):
+    def __init__(self, url, key_file=None, cert_file=None, debug=False):
        """LXD Client.

        :param url: The URL of the LXD server. (e.g. unix:/var/lib/lxd/unix.socket or https://127.0.0.1)
@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@ class LXDClient(object):
        :type cert_file: ``str``
        :param debug: The debug flag. The request and response are stored in logs when debug is true.
        :type debug: ``bool``
-        :param server_cert_file: The path of the server certificate file.
-        :type server_cert_file: ``str``
-        :param server_check_hostname: Whether to check the server's hostname as part of TLS verification.
-        :type debug: ``bool``
        """
        self.url = url
        self.debug = debug
@@ -65,10 +61,6 @@ class LXDClient(object):
            self.key_file = key_file
            parts = generic_urlparse(urlparse(self.url))
            ctx = ssl.create_default_context(ssl.Purpose.SERVER_AUTH)
-            if server_cert_file:
-                # Check that the received cert is signed by the provided server_cert_file
-                ctx.load_verify_locations(cafile=server_cert_file)
-            ctx.check_hostname = server_check_hostname
            ctx.load_cert_chain(cert_file, keyfile=key_file)
            self.connection = HTTPSConnection(parts.get('netloc'), context=ctx)
        elif url.startswith('unix:'):
--- a/plugins/module_utils/memset.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/memset.py
@@ -14,9 +14,8 @@ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
-from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
+from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url, urllib_error
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import json
-import ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.error as urllib_error


 class Response(object):
@@ -79,7 +78,7 @@ def memset_api_call(api_key, api_method, payload=None):
            msg = "Memset API returned an error ({0}, {1})." . format(response.json()['error_type'], response.json()['error'])
    except urllib_error.URLError as e:
        has_failed = True
-        msg = "An URLError occurred ({0})." . format(type(e))
+        msg = "An URLError occured ({0})." . format(type(e))
        response.stderr = "{0}" . format(e)

    if msg is None:
--- a/plugins/module_utils/mh/mixins/cmd.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/mh/mixins/cmd.py
@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# (c) 2020, Alexei Znamensky <russoz@gmail.com>
+# Copyright (c) 2020, Ansible Project
+# Simplified BSD License (see LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt or https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from functools import partial
+
+
+class ArgFormat(object):
+    """
+    Argument formatter for use as a command line parameter. Used in CmdMixin.
+    """
+    BOOLEAN = 0
+    PRINTF = 1
+    FORMAT = 2
+    BOOLEAN_NOT = 3
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def stars_deco(num):
+        if num == 1:
+            def deco(f):
+                return lambda v: f(*v)
+            return deco
+        elif num == 2:
+            def deco(f):
+                return lambda v: f(**v)
+            return deco
+
+        return lambda f: f
+
+    def __init__(self, name, fmt=None, style=FORMAT, stars=0):
+        """
+        THIS CLASS IS BEING DEPRECATED.
+        It was never meant to be used outside the scope of CmdMixin, and CmdMixin is being deprecated.
+        See the deprecation notice in ``CmdMixin.__init__()`` below.
+
+        Creates a CLI-formatter for one specific argument. The argument may be a module parameter or just a named parameter for
+        the CLI command execution.
+        :param name: Name of the argument to be formatted
+        :param fmt: Either a str to be formatted (using or not printf-style) or a callable that does that
+        :param style: Whether arg_format (as str) should use printf-style formatting.
+                             Ignored if arg_format is None or not a str (should be callable).
+        :param stars: A int with 0, 1 or 2 value, indicating to formatting the value as: value, *value or **value
+        """
+        def printf_fmt(_fmt, v):
+            try:
+                return [_fmt % v]
+            except TypeError as e:
+                if e.args[0] != 'not all arguments converted during string formatting':
+                    raise
+                return [_fmt]
+
+        _fmts = {
+            ArgFormat.BOOLEAN: lambda _fmt, v: ([_fmt] if bool(v) else []),
+            ArgFormat.BOOLEAN_NOT: lambda _fmt, v: ([] if bool(v) else [_fmt]),
+            ArgFormat.PRINTF: printf_fmt,
+            ArgFormat.FORMAT: lambda _fmt, v: [_fmt.format(v)],
+        }
+
+        self.name = name
+        self.stars = stars
+        self.style = style
+
+        if fmt is None:
+            fmt = "{0}"
+            style = ArgFormat.FORMAT
+
+        if isinstance(fmt, str):
+            func = _fmts[style]
+            self.arg_format = partial(func, fmt)
+        elif isinstance(fmt, list) or isinstance(fmt, tuple):
+            self.arg_format = lambda v: [_fmts[style](f, v)[0] for f in fmt]
+        elif hasattr(fmt, '__call__'):
+            self.arg_format = fmt
+        else:
+            raise TypeError('Parameter fmt must be either: a string, a list/tuple of '
+                            'strings or a function: type={0}, value={1}'.format(type(fmt), fmt))
+
+        if stars:
+            self.arg_format = (self.stars_deco(stars))(self.arg_format)
+
+    def to_text(self, value):
+        if value is None and self.style != ArgFormat.BOOLEAN_NOT:
+            return []
+        func = self.arg_format
+        return [str(p) for p in func(value)]
+
+
+class CmdMixin(object):
+    """
+    THIS CLASS IS BEING DEPRECATED.
+    See the deprecation notice in ``CmdMixin.__init__()`` below.
+
+    Mixin for mapping module options to running a CLI command with its arguments.
+    """
+    command = None
+    command_args_formats = {}
+    run_command_fixed_options = {}
+    check_rc = False
+    force_lang = "C"
+
+    @property
+    def module_formats(self):
+        result = {}
+        for param in self.module.params.keys():
+            result[param] = ArgFormat(param)
+        return result
+
+    @property
+    def custom_formats(self):
+        result = {}
+        for param, fmt_spec in self.command_args_formats.items():
+            result[param] = ArgFormat(param, **fmt_spec)
+        return result
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super(CmdMixin, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.module.deprecate(
+            'The CmdMixin used in classes CmdModuleHelper and CmdStateModuleHelper is being deprecated. '
+            'Modules should use community.general.plugins.module_utils.cmd_runner.CmdRunner instead.',
+            version='8.0.0',
+            collection_name='community.general',
+        )
+
+    def _calculate_args(self, extra_params=None, params=None):
+        def add_arg_formatted_param(_cmd_args, arg_format, _value):
+            args = list(arg_format.to_text(_value))
+            return _cmd_args + args
+
+        def find_format(_param):
+            return self.custom_formats.get(_param, self.module_formats.get(_param))
+
+        extra_params = extra_params or dict()
+        cmd_args = list([self.command]) if isinstance(self.command, str) else list(self.command)
+        try:
+            cmd_args[0] = self.module.get_bin_path(cmd_args[0], required=True)
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+        param_list = params if params else self.vars.keys()
+
+        for param in param_list:
+            if isinstance(param, dict):
+                if len(param) != 1:
+                    self.do_raise("run_command parameter as a dict must contain only one key: {0}".format(param))
+                _param = list(param.keys())[0]
+                fmt = find_format(_param)
+                value = param[_param]
+            elif isinstance(param, str):
+                if param in self.vars.keys():
+                    fmt = find_format(param)
+                    value = self.vars[param]
+                elif param in extra_params:
+                    fmt = find_format(param)
+                    value = extra_params[param]
+                else:
+                    self.do_raise('Cannot determine value for parameter: {0}'.format(param))
+            else:
+                self.do_raise("run_command parameter must be either a str or a dict: {0}".format(param))
+            cmd_args = add_arg_formatted_param(cmd_args, fmt, value)
+
+        return cmd_args
+
+    def process_command_output(self, rc, out, err):
+        return rc, out, err
+
+    def run_command(self,
+                    extra_params=None,
+                    params=None,
+                    process_output=None,
+                    publish_rc=True,
+                    publish_out=True,
+                    publish_err=True,
+                    publish_cmd=True,
+                    *args, **kwargs):
+        cmd_args = self._calculate_args(extra_params, params)
+        options = dict(self.run_command_fixed_options)
+        options['check_rc'] = options.get('check_rc', self.check_rc)
+        options.update(kwargs)
+        env_update = dict(options.get('environ_update', {}))
+        if self.force_lang:
+            env_update.update({
+                'LANGUAGE': self.force_lang,
+                'LC_ALL': self.force_lang,
+            })
+            self.update_output(force_lang=self.force_lang)
+            options['environ_update'] = env_update
+        rc, out, err = self.module.run_command(cmd_args, *args, **options)
+        if publish_rc:
+            self.update_output(rc=rc)
+        if publish_out:
+            self.update_output(stdout=out)
+        if publish_err:
+            self.update_output(stderr=err)
+        if publish_cmd:
+            self.update_output(cmd_args=cmd_args)
+        if process_output is None:
+            _process = self.process_command_output
+        else:
+            _process = process_output
+
+        return _process(rc, out, err)
--- a/plugins/module_utils/mh/module_helper.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/mh/module_helper.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.common.dict_transformations import dict_merge

 # (TODO: remove AnsibleModule!) pylint: disable-next=unused-import
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.base import ModuleHelperBase, AnsibleModule  # noqa: F401
+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.cmd import CmdMixin
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.state import StateMixin
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.deps import DependencyMixin
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.vars import VarsMixin
@@ -65,3 +66,19 @@ class ModuleHelper(DeprecateAttrsMixin, VarsMixin, DependencyMixin, ModuleHelper

 class StateModuleHelper(StateMixin, ModuleHelper):
    pass
+
+
+class CmdModuleHelper(CmdMixin, ModuleHelper):
+    """
+    THIS CLASS IS BEING DEPRECATED.
+    See the deprecation notice in ``CmdMixin.__init__()``.
+    """
+    pass
+
+
+class CmdStateModuleHelper(CmdMixin, StateMixin, ModuleHelper):
+    """
+    THIS CLASS IS BEING DEPRECATED.
+    See the deprecation notice in ``CmdMixin.__init__()``.
+    """
+    pass
--- a/plugins/module_utils/module_helper.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/module_helper.py
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ __metaclass__ = type


 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.module_helper import (
-    ModuleHelper, StateModuleHelper, AnsibleModule
+    ModuleHelper, StateModuleHelper, CmdModuleHelper, CmdStateModuleHelper, AnsibleModule
 )
+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.cmd import CmdMixin, ArgFormat  # noqa: F401
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.state import StateMixin  # noqa: F401
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.deps import DependencyCtxMgr, DependencyMixin  # noqa: F401
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.exceptions import ModuleHelperException  # noqa: F401
--- a/plugins/module_utils/net_tools/pritunl/api.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/net_tools/pritunl/api.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def _post_pritunl_organization(
        api_secret=api_secret,
        base_url=base_url,
        method="POST",
-        path="/organization",
+        path="/organization/%s",
        headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
        data=json.dumps(organization_data),
        validate_certs=validate_certs,
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ def post_pritunl_organization(
        api_secret=api_secret,
        base_url=base_url,
        organization_data={"name": organization_name},
-        validate_certs=validate_certs,
+        validate_certs=True,
    )

    if response.getcode() != 200:
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ def post_pritunl_user(
            base_url=base_url,
            organization_id=organization_id,
            user_data=user_data,
-            validate_certs=validate_certs,
+            validate_certs=True,
        )

        if response.getcode() != 200:
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ def post_pritunl_user(
            organization_id=organization_id,
            user_data=user_data,
            user_id=user_id,
-            validate_certs=validate_certs,
+            validate_certs=True,
        )

        if response.getcode() != 200:
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ def delete_pritunl_organization(
        api_secret=api_secret,
        base_url=base_url,
        organization_id=organization_id,
-        validate_certs=validate_certs,
+        validate_certs=True,
    )

    if response.getcode() != 200:
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ def delete_pritunl_user(
        base_url=base_url,
        organization_id=organization_id,
        user_id=user_id,
-        validate_certs=validate_certs,
+        validate_certs=True,
    )

    if response.getcode() != 200:
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ def pritunl_auth_request(
 ):
    """
    Send an API call to a Pritunl server.
-    Taken from https://pritunl.com/api and adapted to work with Ansible open_url
+    Taken from https://pritunl.com/api and adaped work with Ansible open_url
    """
    auth_timestamp = str(int(time.time()))
    auth_nonce = uuid.uuid4().hex
--- a/plugins/module_utils/ocapi_utils.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/ocapi_utils.py
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ class OcapiUtils(object):
            else:
                return response
        details = response["data"]["Status"].get("Details")
-        if isinstance(details, str):
+        if type(details) is str:
            details = [details]
        health_list = response["data"]["Status"]["Health"]
        return_value = {
--- a/plugins/module_utils/oracle/oci_utils.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/oracle/oci_utils.py
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ def check_and_update_attributes(
    target_instance, attr_name, input_value, existing_value, changed
 ):
    """
-    This function checks the difference between two resource attributes of literal types and sets the attribute
+    This function checks the difference between two resource attributes of literal types and sets the attrbute
    value in the target instance type holding the attribute.
    :param target_instance: The instance which contains the attribute whose values to be compared
    :param attr_name: Name of the attribute whose value required to be compared
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ def are_lists_equal(s, t):
    if s is None and t is None:
        return True

-    if s is None or t is None or (len(s) != len(t)):
+    if (s is None and len(t) >= 0) or (t is None and len(s) >= 0) or (len(s) != len(t)):
        return False

    if len(s) == 0:
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ def are_lists_equal(s, t):
    s = to_dict(s)
    t = to_dict(t)

-    if isinstance(s[0], dict):
+    if type(s[0]) == dict:
        # Handle list of dicts. Dictionary returned by the API may have additional keys. For example, a get call on
        # service gateway has an attribute `services` which is a list of `ServiceIdResponseDetails`. This has a key
        # `service_name` which is not provided in the list of `services` by a user while making an update call; only
@@ -604,9 +604,9 @@ def get_attr_to_update(get_fn, kwargs_get, module, update_attributes):
        user_provided_attr_value = module.params.get(attr, None)

        unequal_list_attr = (
-            isinstance(resources_attr_value, list) or isinstance(user_provided_attr_value, list)
+            type(resources_attr_value) == list or type(user_provided_attr_value) == list
        ) and not are_lists_equal(user_provided_attr_value, resources_attr_value)
-        unequal_attr = not isinstance(resources_attr_value, list) and to_dict(
+        unequal_attr = type(resources_attr_value) != list and to_dict(
            resources_attr_value
        ) != to_dict(user_provided_attr_value)
        if unequal_list_attr or unequal_attr:
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ def _get_attributes_to_consider(exclude_attributes, model, module):
        attributes_to_consider = list(model.attribute_map)
        if "freeform_tags" in attributes_to_consider:
            attributes_to_consider.remove("freeform_tags")
-        # Temporarily removing node_count as the existing resource does not reflect it
+        # Temporarily removing node_count as the exisiting resource does not reflect it
        if "node_count" in attributes_to_consider:
            attributes_to_consider.remove("node_count")
    _debug("attributes to consider: {0}".format(attributes_to_consider))
@@ -936,9 +936,9 @@ def tuplize(d):
    list_of_tuples = []
    key_list = sorted(list(d.keys()))
    for key in key_list:
-        if isinstance(d[key], list):
+        if type(d[key]) == list:
            # Convert a value which is itself a list of dict to a list of tuples.
-            if d[key] and isinstance(d[key][0], dict):
+            if d[key] and type(d[key][0]) == dict:
                sub_tuples = []
                for sub_dict in d[key]:
                    sub_tuples.append(tuplize(sub_dict))
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ def tuplize(d):
                list_of_tuples.append((sub_tuples is None, key, sub_tuples))
            else:
                list_of_tuples.append((d[key] is None, key, d[key]))
-        elif isinstance(d[key], dict):
+        elif type(d[key]) == dict:
            tupled_value = tuplize(d[key])
            list_of_tuples.append((tupled_value is None, key, tupled_value))
        else:
@@ -969,13 +969,13 @@ def sort_dictionary(d):
    """
    sorted_d = {}
    for key in d:
-        if isinstance(d[key], list):
-            if d[key] and isinstance(d[key][0], dict):
+        if type(d[key]) == list:
+            if d[key] and type(d[key][0]) == dict:
                sorted_value = sort_list_of_dictionary(d[key])
                sorted_d[key] = sorted_value
            else:
                sorted_d[key] = sorted(d[key])
-        elif isinstance(d[key], dict):
+        elif type(d[key]) == dict:
            sorted_d[key] = sort_dictionary(d[key])
        else:
            sorted_d[key] = d[key]
@@ -1026,7 +1026,10 @@ def check_if_user_value_matches_resources_attr(
            return

        if (
-            resources_value_for_attr is None or user_provided_value_for_attr is None
+            resources_value_for_attr is None
+            and len(user_provided_value_for_attr) >= 0
+            or user_provided_value_for_attr is None
+            and len(resources_value_for_attr) >= 0
        ):
            res[0] = False
            return
@@ -1041,7 +1044,7 @@ def check_if_user_value_matches_resources_attr(

        if (
            user_provided_value_for_attr
-            and isinstance(user_provided_value_for_attr[0], dict)
+            and type(user_provided_value_for_attr[0]) == dict
        ):
            # Process a list of dict
            sorted_user_provided_value_for_attr = sort_list_of_dictionary(
@@ -1529,7 +1532,7 @@ def delete_and_wait(
                                result[resource_type] = resource
                                return result
                        # oci.wait_until() returns an instance of oci.util.Sentinel in case the resource is not found.
-                        if not isinstance(wait_response, Sentinel):
+                        if type(wait_response) is not Sentinel:
                            resource = to_dict(wait_response.data)
                        else:
                            resource["lifecycle_state"] = "DELETED"
@@ -1544,7 +1547,7 @@ def delete_and_wait(
    except ServiceError as ex:
        # DNS API throws a 400 InvalidParameter when a zone id is provided for zone_name_or_id and if the zone
        # resource is not available, instead of the expected 404. So working around this for now.
-        if isinstance(client, oci.dns.DnsClient):
+        if type(client) == oci.dns.DnsClient:
            if ex.status == 400 and ex.code == "InvalidParameter":
                _debug(
                    "Resource {0} with {1} already deleted. So returning changed=False".format(
@@ -1771,7 +1774,7 @@ def update_class_type_attr_difference(
 ):
    """
    Checks the difference and updates an attribute which is represented by a class
-    instance. Not applicable if the attribute type is a primitive value.
+    instance. Not aplicable if the attribute type is a primitive value.
    For example, if a class name is A with an attribute x, then if A.x = X(), then only
    this method works.
    :param update_class_details The instance which should be updated if there is change in
@@ -1933,7 +1936,7 @@ def get_target_resource_from_list(
    module, list_resource_fn, target_resource_id=None, **kwargs
 ):
    """
-    Returns a resource filtered by identifier from a list of resources. This method should be
+    Returns a resource filtered by identifer from a list of resources. This method should be
    used as an alternative of 'get resource' method when 'get resource' is nor provided by
    resource api. This method returns a wrapper of response object but that should not be
    used as an input to 'wait_until' utility as this is only a partial wrapper of response object.
--- a/plugins/module_utils/pipx.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/pipx.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def pipx_runner(module, command, **kwargs):
            system_site_packages=fmt.as_bool("--system-site-packages"),
            _list=fmt.as_fixed(['list', '--include-injected', '--json']),
            editable=fmt.as_bool("--editable"),
-            pip_args=fmt.as_opt_eq_val('--pip-args'),
+            pip_args=fmt.as_opt_val('--pip-args'),
        ),
        environ_update={'USE_EMOJI': '0'},
        check_rc=True,
--- a/plugins/module_utils/proxmox.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/proxmox.py
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type

+# (TODO: remove next line!)
+import atexit  # noqa: F401, pylint: disable=unused-import
+# (TODO: remove next line!)
+import time  # noqa: F401, pylint: disable=unused-import
+# (TODO: remove next line!)
+import re  # noqa: F401, pylint: disable=unused-import
 import traceback

 PROXMOXER_IMP_ERR = None
@@ -20,6 +26,8 @@ except ImportError:


 from ansible.module_utils.basic import env_fallback, missing_required_lib
+# (TODO: remove next line!)
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native  # noqa: F401, pylint: disable=unused-import
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.version import LooseVersion


--- a/plugins/module_utils/redfish_utils.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/redfish_utils.py
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ import json
 import os
 import random
 import string
-import gzip
-from io import BytesIO
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
@@ -130,10 +128,8 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
        return resp

    # The following functions are to send GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE requests
-    def get_request(self, uri, override_headers=None):
+    def get_request(self, uri):
        req_headers = dict(GET_HEADERS)
-        if override_headers:
-            req_headers.update(override_headers)
        username, password, basic_auth = self._auth_params(req_headers)
        try:
            # Service root is an unauthenticated resource; remove credentials
@@ -145,13 +141,8 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
                            force_basic_auth=basic_auth, validate_certs=False,
                            follow_redirects='all',
                            use_proxy=True, timeout=self.timeout)
-            if override_headers:
-                resp = gzip.open(BytesIO(resp.read()), 'rt', encoding='utf-8')
-                data = json.loads(to_native(resp.read()))
-                headers = req_headers
-            else:
-                data = json.loads(to_native(resp.read()))
-                headers = dict((k.lower(), v) for (k, v) in resp.info().items())
+            data = json.loads(to_native(resp.read()))
+            headers = dict((k.lower(), v) for (k, v) in resp.info().items())
        except HTTPError as e:
            msg = self._get_extended_message(e)
            return {'ret': False,
@@ -327,7 +318,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
        found in ansible.module_utils.urls, but it takes files and encodes them
        as Base64 strings, which is not expected by Redfish services.  It also
        adds escaping of certain bytes in the payload, such as inserting '\r'
-        any time it finds a standalone '\n', which corrupts the image payload
+        any time it finds a standlone '\n', which corrupts the image payload
        send to the service.  This implementation is simplified to Redfish's
        usage and doesn't necessarily represent an exhaustive method of
        building multipart requests.
@@ -726,8 +717,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
        properties = ['CacheSummary', 'FirmwareVersion', 'Identifiers',
                      'Location', 'Manufacturer', 'Model', 'Name', 'Id',
                      'PartNumber', 'SerialNumber', 'SpeedGbps', 'Status']
-        key = "Controllers"
-        deprecated_key = "StorageControllers"
+        key = "StorageControllers"

        # Find Storage service
        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + systems_uri)
@@ -755,30 +745,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
                data = response['data']

                if key in data:
-                    controllers_uri = data[key][u'@odata.id']
-
-                    response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + controllers_uri)
-                    if response['ret'] is False:
-                        return response
-                    result['ret'] = True
-                    data = response['data']
-
-                    if data[u'Members']:
-                        for controller_member in data[u'Members']:
-                            controller_member_uri = controller_member[u'@odata.id']
-                            response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + controller_member_uri)
-                            if response['ret'] is False:
-                                return response
-                            result['ret'] = True
-                            data = response['data']
-
-                            controller_result = {}
-                            for property in properties:
-                                if property in data:
-                                    controller_result[property] = data[property]
-                            controller_results.append(controller_result)
-                elif deprecated_key in data:
-                    controller_list = data[deprecated_key]
+                    controller_list = data[key]
                    for controller in controller_list:
                        controller_result = {}
                        for property in properties:
@@ -800,7 +767,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
        properties = ['BlockSizeBytes', 'CapableSpeedGbs', 'CapacityBytes',
                      'EncryptionAbility', 'EncryptionStatus',
                      'FailurePredicted', 'HotspareType', 'Id', 'Identifiers',
-                      'Links', 'Manufacturer', 'MediaType', 'Model', 'Name',
+                      'Manufacturer', 'MediaType', 'Model', 'Name',
                      'PartNumber', 'PhysicalLocation', 'Protocol', 'Revision',
                      'RotationSpeedRPM', 'SerialNumber', 'Status']

@@ -833,25 +800,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
                        return response
                    data = response['data']
                    controller_name = 'Controller 1'
-                    if 'Controllers' in data:
-                        controllers_uri = data['Controllers'][u'@odata.id']
-
-                        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + controllers_uri)
-                        if response['ret'] is False:
-                            return response
-                        result['ret'] = True
-                        cdata = response['data']
-
-                        if cdata[u'Members']:
-                            controller_member_uri = cdata[u'Members'][0][u'@odata.id']
-
-                            response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + controller_member_uri)
-                            if response['ret'] is False:
-                                return response
-                            result['ret'] = True
-                            cdata = response['data']
-                            controller_name = cdata['Name']
-                    elif 'StorageControllers' in data:
+                    if 'StorageControllers' in data:
                        sc = data['StorageControllers']
                        if sc:
                            if 'Name' in sc[0]:
@@ -870,12 +819,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
                            for property in properties:
                                if property in data:
                                    if data[property] is not None:
-                                        if property == "Links":
-                                            if "Volumes" in data["Links"].keys():
-                                                volumes = [v["@odata.id"] for v in data["Links"]["Volumes"]]
-                                                drive_result["Volumes"] = volumes
-                                        else:
-                                            drive_result[property] = data[property]
+                                        drive_result[property] = data[property]
                            drive_results.append(drive_result)
                    drives = {'Controller': controller_name,
                              'Drives': drive_results}
@@ -960,7 +904,15 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
                        return response
                    data = response['data']
                    controller_name = 'Controller %s' % str(idx)
-                    if 'Controllers' in data:
+                    if 'StorageControllers' in data:
+                        sc = data['StorageControllers']
+                        if sc:
+                            if 'Name' in sc[0]:
+                                controller_name = sc[0]['Name']
+                            else:
+                                sc_id = sc[0].get('Id', '1')
+                                controller_name = 'Controller %s' % sc_id
+                    elif 'Controllers' in data:
                        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + data['Controllers'][u'@odata.id'])
                        if response['ret'] is False:
                            return response
@@ -978,14 +930,6 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
                                else:
                                    controller_id = member_data.get('Id', '1')
                                    controller_name = 'Controller %s' % controller_id
-                    elif 'StorageControllers' in data:
-                        sc = data['StorageControllers']
-                        if sc:
-                            if 'Name' in sc[0]:
-                                controller_name = sc[0]['Name']
-                            else:
-                                sc_id = sc[0].get('Id', '1')
-                                controller_name = 'Controller %s' % sc_id
                    volume_results = []
                    volume_list = []
                    if 'Volumes' in data:
@@ -1088,12 +1032,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
        # command should be PowerOn, PowerForceOff, etc.
        if not command.startswith('Power'):
            return {'ret': False, 'msg': 'Invalid Command (%s)' % command}
-
-        # Commands (except PowerCycle) will be stripped of the 'Power' prefix
-        if command == 'PowerCycle':
-            reset_type = command
-        else:
-            reset_type = command[5:]
+        reset_type = command[5:]

        # map Reboot to a ResetType that does a reboot
        if reset_type == 'Reboot':
@@ -1560,37 +1499,29 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):

    def _software_inventory(self, uri):
        result = {}
-        result['entries'] = []
+        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + uri)
+        if response['ret'] is False:
+            return response
+        result['ret'] = True
+        data = response['data']

-        while uri:
-            response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + uri)
+        result['entries'] = []
+        for member in data[u'Members']:
+            uri = self.root_uri + member[u'@odata.id']
+            # Get details for each software or firmware member
+            response = self.get_request(uri)
            if response['ret'] is False:
                return response
            result['ret'] = True
-
            data = response['data']
-            if data.get('Members@odata.nextLink'):
-                uri = data.get('Members@odata.nextLink')
-            else:
-                uri = None
-
-            for member in data[u'Members']:
-                fw_uri = self.root_uri + member[u'@odata.id']
-                # Get details for each software or firmware member
-                response = self.get_request(fw_uri)
-                if response['ret'] is False:
-                    return response
-                result['ret'] = True
-                data = response['data']
-                software = {}
-                # Get these standard properties if present
-                for key in ['Name', 'Id', 'Status', 'Version', 'Updateable',
-                            'SoftwareId', 'LowestSupportedVersion', 'Manufacturer',
-                            'ReleaseDate']:
-                    if key in data:
-                        software[key] = data.get(key)
-                result['entries'].append(software)
-
+            software = {}
+            # Get these standard properties if present
+            for key in ['Name', 'Id', 'Status', 'Version', 'Updateable',
+                        'SoftwareId', 'LowestSupportedVersion', 'Manufacturer',
+                        'ReleaseDate']:
+                if key in data:
+                    software[key] = data.get(key)
+            result['entries'].append(software)
        return result

    def get_firmware_inventory(self):
@@ -1658,10 +1589,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):

            # Scan the messages to see if next steps are needed
            for message in operation_results['messages']:
-                message_id = message.get('MessageId')
-                if message_id is None:
-                    # While this is invalid, treat the lack of a MessageId as "no message"
-                    continue
+                message_id = message['MessageId']

                if message_id.startswith('Update.1.') and message_id.endswith('.OperationTransitionedToJob'):
                    # Operation rerouted to a job; update the status and handle
@@ -1757,7 +1685,6 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
        image_file = update_opts.get('update_image_file')
        targets = update_opts.get('update_targets')
        apply_time = update_opts.get('update_apply_time')
-        oem_params = update_opts.get('update_oem_params')

        # Ensure the image file is provided
        if not image_file:
@@ -1788,8 +1715,6 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
            payload["Targets"] = targets
        if apply_time:
            payload["@Redfish.OperationApplyTime"] = apply_time
-        if oem_params:
-            payload["Oem"] = oem_params
        multipart_payload = {
            'UpdateParameters': {'content': json.dumps(payload), 'mime_type': 'application/json'},
            'UpdateFile': {'filename': image_file, 'content': image_payload, 'mime_type': 'application/octet-stream'}
@@ -2475,7 +2400,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
        result = {}
        properties = ['Name', 'Id', 'Description', 'FQDN', 'IPv4Addresses', 'IPv6Addresses',
                      'NameServers', 'MACAddress', 'PermanentMACAddress',
-                      'SpeedMbps', 'MTUSize', 'AutoNeg', 'Status', 'LinkStatus']
+                      'SpeedMbps', 'MTUSize', 'AutoNeg', 'Status']
        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + resource_uri)
        if response['ret'] is False:
            return response
@@ -3364,7 +3289,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
        result = {}
        inventory = {}
        # Get these entries, but does not fail if not found
-        properties = ['Id', 'FirmwareVersion', 'ManagerType', 'Manufacturer', 'Model',
+        properties = ['FirmwareVersion', 'ManagerType', 'Manufacturer', 'Model',
                      'PartNumber', 'PowerState', 'SerialNumber', 'Status', 'UUID']

        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + manager_uri)
@@ -3447,25 +3372,6 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):

        return self.patch_request(self.root_uri + secure_boot_url, body, check_pyld=True)

-    def set_secure_boot(self, secure_boot_enable):
-        # This function enable Secure Boot on an OOB controller
-
-        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + self.systems_uri)
-        if response["ret"] is False:
-            return response
-
-        server_details = response["data"]
-        secure_boot_url = server_details["SecureBoot"]["@odata.id"]
-
-        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + secure_boot_url)
-        if response["ret"] is False:
-            return response
-
-        body = {}
-        body["SecureBootEnable"] = secure_boot_enable
-
-        return self.patch_request(self.root_uri + secure_boot_url, body, check_pyld=True)
-
    def get_hpe_thermal_config(self):
        result = {}
        key = "Thermal"
@@ -3497,238 +3403,3 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
            fan_percent_min_config = hpe.get('FanPercentMinimum')
        result["fan_percent_min"] = fan_percent_min_config
        return result
-
-    def delete_volumes(self, storage_subsystem_id, volume_ids):
-        # Find the Storage resource from the requested ComputerSystem resource
-        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + self.systems_uri)
-        if response['ret'] is False:
-            return response
-        data = response['data']
-        storage_uri = data.get('Storage', {}).get('@odata.id')
-        if storage_uri is None:
-            return {'ret': False, 'msg': 'Storage resource not found'}
-
-        # Get Storage Collection
-        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + storage_uri)
-        if response['ret'] is False:
-            return response
-        data = response['data']
-
-        # Collect Storage Subsystems
-        self.storage_subsystems_uris = [i['@odata.id'] for i in response['data'].get('Members', [])]
-        if not self.storage_subsystems_uris:
-            return {
-                'ret': False,
-                'msg': "StorageCollection's Members array is either empty or missing"}
-
-        # Matching Storage Subsystem ID with user input
-        self.storage_subsystem_uri = ""
-        for storage_subsystem_uri in self.storage_subsystems_uris:
-            if storage_subsystem_uri.split("/")[-2] == storage_subsystem_id:
-                self.storage_subsystem_uri = storage_subsystem_uri
-
-        if not self.storage_subsystem_uri:
-            return {
-                'ret': False,
-                'msg': "Provided Storage Subsystem ID %s does not exist on the server" % storage_subsystem_id}
-
-        # Get Volume Collection
-        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + self.storage_subsystem_uri)
-        if response['ret'] is False:
-            return response
-        data = response['data']
-
-        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + data['Volumes']['@odata.id'])
-        if response['ret'] is False:
-            return response
-        data = response['data']
-
-        # Collect Volumes
-        self.volume_uris = [i['@odata.id'] for i in response['data'].get('Members', [])]
-        if not self.volume_uris:
-            return {
-                'ret': True, 'changed': False,
-                'msg': "VolumeCollection's Members array is either empty or missing"}
-
-        # Delete each volume
-        for volume in self.volume_uris:
-            if volume.split("/")[-1] in volume_ids:
-                response = self.delete_request(self.root_uri + volume)
-                if response['ret'] is False:
-                    return response
-
-        return {'ret': True, 'changed': True,
-                'msg': "The following volumes were deleted: %s" % str(volume_ids)}
-
-    def create_volume(self, volume_details, storage_subsystem_id):
-        # Find the Storage resource from the requested ComputerSystem resource
-        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + self.systems_uri)
-        if response['ret'] is False:
-            return response
-        data = response['data']
-        storage_uri = data.get('Storage', {}).get('@odata.id')
-        if storage_uri is None:
-            return {'ret': False, 'msg': 'Storage resource not found'}
-
-        # Get Storage Collection
-        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + storage_uri)
-        if response['ret'] is False:
-            return response
-        data = response['data']
-
-        # Collect Storage Subsystems
-        self.storage_subsystems_uris = [i['@odata.id'] for i in response['data'].get('Members', [])]
-        if not self.storage_subsystems_uris:
-            return {
-                'ret': False,
-                'msg': "StorageCollection's Members array is either empty or missing"}
-
-        # Matching Storage Subsystem ID with user input
-        self.storage_subsystem_uri = ""
-        for storage_subsystem_uri in self.storage_subsystems_uris:
-            if storage_subsystem_uri.split("/")[-2] == storage_subsystem_id:
-                self.storage_subsystem_uri = storage_subsystem_uri
-
-        if not self.storage_subsystem_uri:
-            return {
-                'ret': False,
-                'msg': "Provided Storage Subsystem ID %s does not exist on the server" % storage_subsystem_id}
-
-        # Validate input parameters
-        required_parameters = ['RAIDType', 'Drives', 'CapacityBytes']
-        allowed_parameters = ['DisplayName', 'InitializeMethod', 'MediaSpanCount',
-                              'Name', 'ReadCachePolicy', 'StripSizeBytes', 'VolumeUsage', 'WriteCachePolicy']
-
-        for parameter in required_parameters:
-            if not volume_details.get(parameter):
-                return {
-                    'ret': False,
-                    'msg': "%s are required parameter to create a volume" % str(required_parameters)}
-
-        # Navigate to the volume uri of the correct storage subsystem
-        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + self.storage_subsystem_uri)
-        if response['ret'] is False:
-            return response
-        data = response['data']
-
-        # Deleting any volumes of RAIDType None present on the Storage Subsystem
-        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + data['Volumes']['@odata.id'])
-        if response['ret'] is False:
-            return response
-        volume_data = response['data']
-
-        if "Members" in volume_data:
-            for member in volume_data["Members"]:
-                response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + member['@odata.id'])
-                if response['ret'] is False:
-                    return response
-                member_data = response['data']
-
-                if member_data["RAIDType"] == "None":
-                    response = self.delete_request(self.root_uri + member['@odata.id'])
-                    if response['ret'] is False:
-                        return response
-
-        # Construct payload and issue POST command to create volume
-        volume_details["Links"] = {}
-        volume_details["Links"]["Drives"] = []
-        for drive in volume_details["Drives"]:
-            volume_details["Links"]["Drives"].append({"@odata.id": drive})
-        del volume_details["Drives"]
-        payload = volume_details
-        response = self.post_request(self.root_uri + data['Volumes']['@odata.id'], payload)
-        if response['ret'] is False:
-            return response
-
-        return {'ret': True, 'changed': True,
-                'msg': "Volume Created"}
-
-    def get_bios_registries(self):
-        # Get /redfish/v1
-        response = self.get_request(self.root_uri + self.systems_uri)
-        if not response["ret"]:
-            return response
-
-        server_details = response["data"]
-
-        # Get Registries URI
-        if "Bios" not in server_details:
-            msg = "Getting BIOS URI failed, Key 'Bios' not found in /redfish/v1/Systems/1/ response: %s"
-            return {
-                "ret": False,
-                "msg": msg % str(server_details)
-            }
-
-        bios_uri = server_details["Bios"]["@odata.id"]
-        bios_resp = self.get_request(self.root_uri + bios_uri)
-        if not bios_resp["ret"]:
-            return bios_resp
-
-        bios_data = bios_resp["data"]
-        attribute_registry = bios_data["AttributeRegistry"]
-
-        reg_uri = self.root_uri + self.service_root + "Registries/" + attribute_registry
-        reg_resp = self.get_request(reg_uri)
-        if not reg_resp["ret"]:
-            return reg_resp
-
-        reg_data = reg_resp["data"]
-
-        # Get BIOS attribute registry URI
-        lst = []
-
-        # Get the location URI
-        response = self.check_location_uri(reg_data, reg_uri)
-        if not response["ret"]:
-            return response
-
-        rsp_data, rsp_uri = response["rsp_data"], response["rsp_uri"]
-
-        if "RegistryEntries" not in rsp_data:
-            return {
-                "msg": "'RegistryEntries' not present in %s response, %s" % (rsp_uri, str(rsp_data)),
-                "ret": False
-            }
-
-        return {
-            "bios_registry": rsp_data,
-            "bios_registry_uri": rsp_uri,
-            "ret": True
-        }
-
-    def check_location_uri(self, resp_data, resp_uri):
-        # Get the location URI response
-        # return {"msg": self.creds, "ret": False}
-        vendor = self._get_vendor()['Vendor']
-        rsp_uri = ""
-        for loc in resp_data['Location']:
-            if loc['Language'] == "en":
-                rsp_uri = loc['Uri']
-                if vendor == 'HPE':
-                    # WORKAROUND
-                    # HPE systems with iLO 4 will have BIOS Attribute Registries location URI as a dictionary with key 'extref'
-                    # Hence adding condition to fetch the Uri
-                    if isinstance(loc['Uri'], dict) and "extref" in loc['Uri'].keys():
-                        rsp_uri = loc['Uri']['extref']
-        if not rsp_uri:
-            msg = "Language 'en' not found in BIOS Attribute Registries location, URI: %s, response: %s"
-            return {
-                "ret": False,
-                "msg": msg % (resp_uri, str(resp_data))
-            }
-
-        res = self.get_request(self.root_uri + rsp_uri)
-        if res['ret'] is False:
-            # WORKAROUND
-            # HPE systems with iLO 4 or iLO5 compresses (gzip) for some URIs
-            # Hence adding encoding to the header
-            if vendor == 'HPE':
-                override_headers = {"Accept-Encoding": "gzip"}
-                res = self.get_request(self.root_uri + rsp_uri, override_headers=override_headers)
-        if res['ret']:
-            return {
-                "ret": True,
-                "rsp_data": res["data"],
-                "rsp_uri": rsp_uri
-            }
-        return res
--- a/plugins/module_utils/scaleway.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/scaleway.py
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ class Scaleway(object):
        wait_timeout = self.module.params["wait_timeout"]
        wait_sleep_time = self.module.params["wait_sleep_time"]

-        # Prevent requesting the resource status too soon
+        # Prevent requesting the ressource status too soon
        time.sleep(wait_sleep_time)

        start = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
--- a/plugins/module_utils/vardict.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/vardict.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class _Variable(object):
            output (bool, optional): flag indicating whether the variable should be in the output of the module. Defaults to None.
            diff (bool, optional): flag indicating whether to generate diff mode output for this variable. Defaults to None.
            change (bool, optional): flag indicating whether to track if changes happened to this variable. Defaults to None.
-            fact (bool, optional): flag indicating whether the variable should be exposed as a fact of the module. Defaults to None.
+            fact (bool, optional): flag indicating whether the varaiable should be exposed as a fact of the module. Defaults to None.
            initial_value (any, optional): initial value of the variable, to be used with `change`. Defaults to NOTHING.
            verbosity (int, optional): level of verbosity in which this variable is reported by the module as `output`, `fact` or `diff`. Defaults to None.
        """
@@ -66,19 +66,6 @@ class _Variable(object):
        if verbosity is not None:
            self.verbosity = verbosity

-    def as_dict(self, meta_only=False):
-        d = {
-            "diff": self.diff,
-            "change": self.change,
-            "output": self.output,
-            "fact": self.fact,
-            "verbosity": self.verbosity,
-        }
-        if not meta_only:
-            d["initial_value"] = copy.deepcopy(self.initial_value)
-            d["value"] = self.value
-        return d
-
    def set_value(self, value):
        if not self.init:
            self.initial_value = copy.deepcopy(value)
@@ -106,7 +93,7 @@ class _Variable(object):


 class VarDict(object):
-    reserved_names = ('__vars__', '_var', 'var', 'set_meta', 'get_meta', 'set', 'output', 'diff', 'facts', 'has_changed', 'as_dict')
+    reserved_names = ('__vars__', 'var', 'set_meta', 'set', 'output', 'diff', 'facts', 'has_changed')

    def __init__(self):
        self.__vars__ = dict()
@@ -132,9 +119,6 @@ class VarDict(object):
    def _var(self, name):
        return self.__vars__[name]

-    def var(self, name):
-        return self._var(name).as_dict()
-
    def set_meta(self, name, **kwargs):
        """Set the metadata for the variable

@@ -143,15 +127,12 @@ class VarDict(object):
            output (bool, optional): flag indicating whether the variable should be in the output of the module. Defaults to None.
            diff (bool, optional): flag indicating whether to generate diff mode output for this variable. Defaults to None.
            change (bool, optional): flag indicating whether to track if changes happened to this variable. Defaults to None.
-            fact (bool, optional): flag indicating whether the variable should be exposed as a fact of the module. Defaults to None.
+            fact (bool, optional): flag indicating whether the varaiable should be exposed as a fact of the module. Defaults to None.
            initial_value (any, optional): initial value of the variable, to be used with `change`. Defaults to NOTHING.
            verbosity (int, optional): level of verbosity in which this variable is reported by the module as `output`, `fact` or `diff`. Defaults to None.
        """
        self._var(name).set_meta(**kwargs)

-    def get_meta(self, name):
-        return self._var(name).as_dict(meta_only=True)
-
    def set(self, name, value, **kwargs):
        """Set the value and optionally metadata for a variable. The variable is not required to exist prior to calling `set`.

@@ -191,7 +172,7 @@ class VarDict(object):

    @property
    def has_changed(self):
-        return any(var.has_changed for var in self.__vars__.values())
+        return any(True for var in self.__vars__.values() if var.has_changed)

    def as_dict(self):
        return dict((name, var.value) for name, var in self.__vars__.items())
--- a/plugins/module_utils/version.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/version.py
@@ -10,4 +10,13 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type


-from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion  # noqa: F401, pylint: disable=unused-import
+from ansible.module_utils.six import raise_from
+
+try:
+    from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion  # noqa: F401, pylint: disable=unused-import
+except ImportError:
+    try:
+        from distutils.version import LooseVersion  # noqa: F401, pylint: disable=unused-import
+    except ImportError as exc:
+        msg = 'To use this plugin or module with ansible-core 2.11, you need to use Python < 3.12 with distutils.version present'
+        raise_from(ImportError(msg), exc)
--- a/plugins/module_utils/wdc_redfish_utils.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/wdc_redfish_utils.py
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ class WdcRedfishUtils(RedfishUtils):

        :param str bundle_uri:  HTTP URI of the firmware bundle.
        :return: Firmware version number contained in the bundle, and whether or not the bundle is multi-tenant.
-        Either value will be None if unable to determine.
+        Either value will be None if unable to deterine.
        :rtype: str or None, bool or None
        """
        bundle_temp_filename = fetch_file(module=self.module,
--- a/plugins/modules/aix_inittab.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/aix_inittab.py
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ def main():
            ":" + module.params['action'] + ":" + module.params['command']

        # If current entry exists or fields are different(if the entry does not
-        # exists, then the entry will be created
+        # exists, then the entry wil be created
        if (not current_entry['exist']) or (
                module.params['runlevel'] != current_entry['runlevel'] or
                module.params['action'] != current_entry['action'] or
--- a/plugins/modules/ansible_galaxy_install.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/ansible_galaxy_install.py
@@ -17,13 +17,15 @@ version_added: 3.5.0
 description:
  - This module allows the installation of Ansible collections or roles using C(ansible-galaxy).
 notes:
-  - Support for B(Ansible 2.9/2.10) was removed in community.general 8.0.0.
+  - >
+    B(Ansible 2.9/2.10): The C(ansible-galaxy) command changed significantly between Ansible 2.9 and
+    ansible-base 2.10 (later ansible-core 2.11). See comments in the parameters.
  - >
    The module will try and run using the C(C.UTF-8) locale.
    If that fails, it will try C(en_US.UTF-8).
    If that one also fails, the module will fail.
 requirements:
-  - ansible-core 2.11 or newer
+  - Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, or ansible-core 2.11 or newer
 extends_documentation_fragment:
  - community.general.attributes
 attributes:
@@ -73,16 +75,24 @@ options:
    description:
      - Force overwriting an existing role or collection.
      - Using O(force=true) is mandatory when downgrading.
+      - "B(Ansible 2.9 and 2.10): Must be V(true) to upgrade roles and collections."
    type: bool
    default: false
  ack_ansible29:
    description:
-      - This option has no longer any effect and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0.
+      - Acknowledge using Ansible 2.9 with its limitations, and prevents the module from generating warnings about them.
+      - This option is completely ignored if using a version of Ansible greater than C(2.9.x).
+      - Note that this option will be removed without any further deprecation warning once support
+        for Ansible 2.9 is removed from this module.
    type: bool
    default: false
  ack_min_ansiblecore211:
    description:
-      - This option has no longer any effect and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0.
+      - Acknowledge the module is deprecating support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10.
+      - Support for those versions will be removed in community.general 8.0.0.
+        At the same time, this option will be removed without any deprecation warning!
+      - This option is completely ignored if using a version of ansible-core/ansible-base/Ansible greater than C(2.11).
+      - For the sake of conciseness, setting this parameter to V(true) implies O(ack_ansible29=true).
    type: bool
    default: false
 """
@@ -137,6 +147,7 @@ RETURN = """
    description:
      - If O(requirements_file) is specified instead, returns dictionary with all the roles installed per path.
      - If O(name) is specified, returns that role name and the version installed per path.
+      - "B(Ansible 2.9): Returns empty because C(ansible-galaxy) has no C(list) subcommand."
    type: dict
    returned: always when installing roles
    contains:
@@ -153,6 +164,7 @@ RETURN = """
    description:
      - If O(requirements_file) is specified instead, returns dictionary with all the collections installed per path.
      - If O(name) is specified, returns that collection name and the version installed per path.
+      - "B(Ansible 2.9): Returns empty because C(ansible-galaxy) has no C(list) subcommand."
    type: dict
    returned: always when installing collections
    contains:
@@ -194,6 +206,7 @@ class AnsibleGalaxyInstall(ModuleHelper):
    _RE_LIST_ROLE = re.compile(r'^- (?P<elem>\w+\.\w+),\s+(?P<version>[\d\.]+)\s*$')
    _RE_INSTALL_OUTPUT = None  # Set after determining ansible version, see __init_module__()
    ansible_version = None
+    is_ansible29 = None

    output_params = ('type', 'name', 'dest', 'requirements_file', 'force', 'no_deps')
    module = dict(
@@ -204,18 +217,8 @@ class AnsibleGalaxyInstall(ModuleHelper):
            dest=dict(type='path'),
            force=dict(type='bool', default=False),
            no_deps=dict(type='bool', default=False),
-            ack_ansible29=dict(
-                type='bool',
-                default=False,
-                removed_in_version='9.0.0',
-                removed_from_collection='community.general',
-            ),
-            ack_min_ansiblecore211=dict(
-                type='bool',
-                default=False,
-                removed_in_version='9.0.0',
-                removed_from_collection='community.general',
-            ),
+            ack_ansible29=dict(type='bool', default=False),
+            ack_min_ansiblecore211=dict(type='bool', default=False),
        ),
        mutually_exclusive=[('name', 'requirements_file')],
        required_one_of=[('name', 'requirements_file')],
@@ -265,22 +268,26 @@ class AnsibleGalaxyInstall(ModuleHelper):
    def __init_module__(self):
        # self.runner = CmdRunner(self.module, command=self.command, arg_formats=self.command_args_formats, force_lang=self.force_lang)
        self.runner, self.ansible_version = self._get_ansible_galaxy_version()
-        if self.ansible_version < (2, 11):
-            self.module.fail_json(
-                msg="Support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 has ben removed."
+        if self.ansible_version < (2, 11) and not self.vars.ack_min_ansiblecore211:
+            self.module.deprecate(
+                "Support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 is being deprecated. "
+                "At the same time support for them is ended, also the ack_ansible29 option will be removed. "
+                "Upgrading is strongly recommended, or set 'ack_min_ansiblecore211' to suppress this message.",
+                version="8.0.0",
+                collection_name="community.general",
            )
-        # Collection install output changed:
-        # ansible-base 2.10:  "coll.name (x.y.z)"
-        # ansible-core 2.11+: "coll.name:x.y.z"
-        self._RE_INSTALL_OUTPUT = re.compile(r'^(?:(?P<collection>\w+\.\w+)(?: \(|:)(?P<cversion>[\d\.]+)\)?'
-                                             r'|- (?P<role>\w+\.\w+) \((?P<rversion>[\d\.]+)\))'
-                                             r' was installed successfully$')
-        self.vars.set("new_collections", {}, change=True)
-        self.vars.set("new_roles", {}, change=True)
-        if self.vars.type != "collection":
-            self.vars.installed_roles = self._list_roles()
-        if self.vars.type != "roles":
-            self.vars.installed_collections = self._list_collections()
+        self.is_ansible29 = self.ansible_version < (2, 10)
+        if self.is_ansible29:
+            self._RE_INSTALL_OUTPUT = re.compile(r"^(?:.*Installing '(?P<collection>\w+\.\w+):(?P<cversion>[\d\.]+)'.*"
+                                                 r'|- (?P<role>\w+\.\w+) \((?P<rversion>[\d\.]+)\)'
+                                                 r' was installed successfully)$')
+        else:
+            # Collection install output changed:
+            # ansible-base 2.10:  "coll.name (x.y.z)"
+            # ansible-core 2.11+: "coll.name:x.y.z"
+            self._RE_INSTALL_OUTPUT = re.compile(r'^(?:(?P<collection>\w+\.\w+)(?: \(|:)(?P<cversion>[\d\.]+)\)?'
+                                                 r'|- (?P<role>\w+\.\w+) \((?P<rversion>[\d\.]+)\))'
+                                                 r' was installed successfully$')

    def _list_element(self, _type, path_re, elem_re):
        def process(rc, out, err):
@@ -315,8 +322,24 @@ class AnsibleGalaxyInstall(ModuleHelper):
    def _list_roles(self):
        return self._list_element('role', self._RE_LIST_PATH, self._RE_LIST_ROLE)

-    def __run__(self):
+    def _setup29(self):
+        self.vars.set("new_collections", {})
+        self.vars.set("new_roles", {})
+        self.vars.set("ansible29_change", False, change=True, output=False)
+        if not (self.vars.ack_ansible29 or self.vars.ack_min_ansiblecore211):
+            self.warn("Ansible 2.9 or older: unable to retrieve lists of roles and collections already installed")
+            if self.vars.requirements_file is not None and self.vars.type == 'both':
+                self.warn("Ansible 2.9 or older: will install only roles from requirement files")

+    def _setup210plus(self):
+        self.vars.set("new_collections", {}, change=True)
+        self.vars.set("new_roles", {}, change=True)
+        if self.vars.type != "collection":
+            self.vars.installed_roles = self._list_roles()
+        if self.vars.type != "roles":
+            self.vars.installed_collections = self._list_collections()
+
+    def __run__(self):
        def process(rc, out, err):
            for line in out.splitlines():
                match = self._RE_INSTALL_OUTPUT.match(line)
@@ -324,9 +347,19 @@ class AnsibleGalaxyInstall(ModuleHelper):
                    continue
                if match.group("collection"):
                    self.vars.new_collections[match.group("collection")] = match.group("cversion")
+                    if self.is_ansible29:
+                        self.vars.ansible29_change = True
                elif match.group("role"):
                    self.vars.new_roles[match.group("role")] = match.group("rversion")
+                    if self.is_ansible29:
+                        self.vars.ansible29_change = True

+        if self.is_ansible29:
+            if self.vars.type == 'both':
+                raise ValueError("Type 'both' not supported in Ansible 2.9")
+            self._setup29()
+        else:
+            self._setup210plus()
        with self.runner("type galaxy_cmd force no_deps dest requirements_file name", output_process=process) as ctx:
            ctx.run(galaxy_cmd="install")
            if self.verbosity > 2:
--- a/plugins/modules/apache2_module.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/apache2_module.py
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def _get_ctl_binary(module):
        if ctl_binary is not None:
            return ctl_binary

-    module.fail_json(msg="Neither of apache2ctl nor apachectl found. At least one apache control binary is necessary.")
+    module.fail_json(msg="Neither of apache2ctl nor apachctl found. At least one apache control binary is necessary.")


 def _module_is_enabled(module):
--- a/plugins/modules/apt_rpm.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/apt_rpm.py
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ options:
  package:
    description:
      - List of packages to install, upgrade, or remove.
-      - Since community.general 8.0.0, may include paths to local C(.rpm) files
-        if O(state=installed) or O(state=present), requires C(rpm) python
-        module.
    aliases: [ name, pkg ]
    type: list
    elements: str
@@ -66,9 +63,6 @@ options:
    type: bool
    default: false
    version_added: 6.5.0
-requirements:
-  - C(rpm) python package (rpm bindings), optional. Required if O(package)
-    option includes local files.
 author:
 - Evgenii Terechkov (@evgkrsk)
 '''
@@ -115,22 +109,8 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
 '''

 import os
-import traceback

-from ansible.module_utils.basic import (
-    AnsibleModule,
-    missing_required_lib,
-)
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
-
-try:
-    import rpm
-except ImportError:
-    HAS_RPM_PYTHON = False
-    RPM_PYTHON_IMPORT_ERROR = traceback.format_exc()
-else:
-    HAS_RPM_PYTHON = True
-    RPM_PYTHON_IMPORT_ERROR = None
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule

 APT_PATH = "/usr/bin/apt-get"
 RPM_PATH = "/usr/bin/rpm"
@@ -138,23 +118,6 @@ APT_GET_ZERO = "\n0 upgraded, 0 newly installed"
 UPDATE_KERNEL_ZERO = "\nTry to install new kernel "


-def local_rpm_package_name(path):
-    """return package name of a local rpm passed in.
-    Inspired by ansible.builtin.yum"""
-
-    ts = rpm.TransactionSet()
-    ts.setVSFlags(rpm._RPMVSF_NOSIGNATURES)
-    fd = os.open(path, os.O_RDONLY)
-    try:
-        header = ts.hdrFromFdno(fd)
-    except rpm.error as e:
-        return None
-    finally:
-        os.close(fd)
-
-    return to_native(header[rpm.RPMTAG_NAME])
-
-
 def query_package(module, name):
    # rpm -q returns 0 if the package is installed,
    # 1 if it is not installed
@@ -168,16 +131,6 @@ def query_package(module, name):
 def query_package_provides(module, name):
    # rpm -q returns 0 if the package is installed,
    # 1 if it is not installed
-    if name.endswith('.rpm'):
-        # Likely a local RPM file
-        if not HAS_RPM_PYTHON:
-            module.fail_json(
-                msg=missing_required_lib('rpm'),
-                exception=RPM_PYTHON_IMPORT_ERROR,
-            )
-
-        name = local_rpm_package_name(name)
-
    rc, out, err = module.run_command("%s -q --provides %s" % (RPM_PATH, name))
    return rc == 0

--- a/plugins/modules/cargo.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/cargo.py
@@ -25,12 +25,6 @@ attributes:
  diff_mode:
    support: none
 options:
-  executable:
-    description:
-      - Path to the C(cargo) installed in the system.
-      - If not specified, the module will look C(cargo) in E(PATH).
-    type: path
-    version_added: 7.5.0
  name:
    description:
      - The name of a Rust package to install.
@@ -50,14 +44,6 @@ options:
      try to install all of them in this version.
    type: str
    required: false
-  locked:
-    description:
-      - Install with locked dependencies.
-      - This is only used when installing packages.
-    required: false
-    type: bool
-    default: false
-    version_added: 7.5.0
  state:
    description:
      - The state of the Rust package.
@@ -66,7 +52,7 @@ options:
    default: present
    choices: [ "present", "absent", "latest" ]
 requirements:
-    - cargo installed
+    - cargo installed in bin path (recommended /usr/local/bin)
 """

 EXAMPLES = r"""
@@ -74,11 +60,6 @@ EXAMPLES = r"""
  community.general.cargo:
    name: ludusavi

- name: Install "ludusavi" Rust package with locked dependencies
-  community.general.cargo:
-    name: ludusavi
-    locked: true
-
 - name: Install "ludusavi" Rust package in version 0.10.0
  community.general.cargo:
    name: ludusavi
@@ -109,12 +90,12 @@ from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 class Cargo(object):
    def __init__(self, module, **kwargs):
        self.module = module
-        self.executable = [kwargs["executable"] or module.get_bin_path("cargo", True)]
        self.name = kwargs["name"]
        self.path = kwargs["path"]
        self.state = kwargs["state"]
        self.version = kwargs["version"]
-        self.locked = kwargs["locked"]
+
+        self.executable = [module.get_bin_path("cargo", True)]

    @property
    def path(self):
@@ -151,8 +132,6 @@ class Cargo(object):
    def install(self, packages=None):
        cmd = ["install"]
        cmd.extend(packages or self.name)
-        if self.locked:
-            cmd.append("--locked")
        if self.path:
            cmd.append("--root")
            cmd.append(self.path)
@@ -181,16 +160,15 @@ class Cargo(object):

 def main():
    arg_spec = dict(
-        executable=dict(default=None, type="path"),
        name=dict(required=True, type="list", elements="str"),
        path=dict(default=None, type="path"),
        state=dict(default="present", choices=["present", "absent", "latest"]),
        version=dict(default=None, type="str"),
-        locked=dict(default=False, type="bool"),
    )
    module = AnsibleModule(argument_spec=arg_spec, supports_check_mode=True)

    name = module.params["name"]
+    path = module.params["path"]
    state = module.params["state"]
    version = module.params["version"]

@@ -202,7 +180,7 @@ def main():
        LANG="C", LC_ALL="C", LC_MESSAGES="C", LC_CTYPE="C"
    )

-    cargo = Cargo(module, **module.params)
+    cargo = Cargo(module, name=name, path=path, state=state, version=version)
    changed, out, err = False, None, None
    installed_packages = cargo.get_installed()
    if state == "present":
--- a/plugins/modules/clc_server.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/clc_server.py
@@ -1501,7 +1501,7 @@ class ClcServer:
        return aa_policy_id

    #
-    #  This is the function that gets patched to the Request.server object using a lambda closure
+    #  This is the function that gets patched to the Request.server object using a lamda closure
    #

    @staticmethod
--- a/plugins/modules/cloudflare_dns.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/cloudflare_dns.py
@@ -59,20 +59,6 @@ options:
    - Required for O(type=TLSA) when O(state=present).
    type: int
    choices: [ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]
-  flag:
-    description:
-    - Issuer Critical Flag.
-    - Required for O(type=CAA) when O(state=present).
-    type: int
-    choices: [ 0, 1 ]
-    version_added: 8.0.0
-  tag:
-    description:
-    - CAA issue restriction.
-    - Required for O(type=CAA) when O(state=present).
-    type: str
-    choices: [ issue, issuewild, iodef ]
-    version_added: 8.0.0
  hash_type:
    description:
    - Hash type number.
@@ -153,7 +139,7 @@ options:
      - The type of DNS record to create. Required if O(state=present).
      - O(type=DS), O(type=SSHFP), and O(type=TLSA) were added in Ansible 2.7.
    type: str
-    choices: [ A, AAAA, CNAME, DS, MX, NS, SPF, SRV, SSHFP, TLSA, CAA, TXT ]
+    choices: [ A, AAAA, CNAME, DS, MX, NS, SPF, SRV, SSHFP, TLSA, TXT ]
  value:
    description:
    - The record value.
@@ -276,15 +262,6 @@ EXAMPLES = r'''
    hash_type: 1
    value: 6b76d034492b493e15a7376fccd08e63befdad0edab8e442562f532338364bf3

- name: Create a CAA record subdomain.example.com
-  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
-    zone: example.com
-    record: subdomain
-    type: CAA
-    flag: 0
-    tag: issue
-    value: ca.example.com
-
 - name: Create a DS record for subdomain.example.com
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    zone: example.com
@@ -314,7 +291,7 @@ record:
            sample: "2016-03-25T19:09:42.516553Z"
        data:
            description: Additional record data.
-            returned: success, if type is SRV, DS, SSHFP TLSA or CAA
+            returned: success, if type is SRV, DS, SSHFP or TLSA
            type: dict
            sample: {
                name: "jabber",
@@ -414,8 +391,6 @@ class CloudflareAPI(object):
        self.algorithm = module.params['algorithm']
        self.cert_usage = module.params['cert_usage']
        self.hash_type = module.params['hash_type']
-        self.flag = module.params['flag']
-        self.tag = module.params['tag']
        self.key_tag = module.params['key_tag']
        self.port = module.params['port']
        self.priority = module.params['priority']
@@ -620,7 +595,7 @@ class CloudflareAPI(object):
    def delete_dns_records(self, **kwargs):
        params = {}
        for param in ['port', 'proto', 'service', 'solo', 'type', 'record', 'value', 'weight', 'zone',
-                      'algorithm', 'cert_usage', 'hash_type', 'selector', 'key_tag', 'flag', 'tag']:
+                      'algorithm', 'cert_usage', 'hash_type', 'selector', 'key_tag']:
            if param in kwargs:
                params[param] = kwargs[param]
            else:
@@ -665,7 +640,7 @@ class CloudflareAPI(object):
    def ensure_dns_record(self, **kwargs):
        params = {}
        for param in ['port', 'priority', 'proto', 'proxied', 'service', 'ttl', 'type', 'record', 'value', 'weight', 'zone',
-                      'algorithm', 'cert_usage', 'hash_type', 'selector', 'key_tag', 'flag', 'tag']:
+                      'algorithm', 'cert_usage', 'hash_type', 'selector', 'key_tag']:
            if param in kwargs:
                params[param] = kwargs[param]
            else:
@@ -782,36 +757,12 @@ class CloudflareAPI(object):
            }
            search_value = str(params['cert_usage']) + '\t' + str(params['selector']) + '\t' + str(params['hash_type']) + '\t' + params['value']

-        if params['type'] == 'CAA':
-            for attr in [params['flag'], params['tag'], params['value']]:
-                if (attr is None) or (attr == ''):
-                    self.module.fail_json(msg="You must provide flag, tag and a value to create this record type")
-            caa_data = {
-                "flags": params['flag'],
-                "tag": params['tag'],
-                "value": params['value'],
-            }
-            new_record = {
-                "type": params['type'],
-                "name": params['record'],
-                'data': caa_data,
-                "ttl": params['ttl'],
-            }
-            search_value = None
-
        zone_id = self._get_zone_id(params['zone'])
        records = self.get_dns_records(params['zone'], params['type'], search_record, search_value)
        # in theory this should be impossible as cloudflare does not allow
        # the creation of duplicate records but lets cover it anyways
        if len(records) > 1:
-            # As Cloudflare API cannot filter record containing quotes
-            # CAA records must be compared locally
-            if params['type'] == 'CAA':
-                for rr in records:
-                    if rr['data']['flags'] == caa_data['flags'] and rr['data']['tag'] == caa_data['tag'] and rr['data']['value'] == caa_data['value']:
-                        return rr, self.changed
-            else:
-                self.module.fail_json(msg="More than one record already exists for the given attributes. That should be impossible, please open an issue!")
+            self.module.fail_json(msg="More than one record already exists for the given attributes. That should be impossible, please open an issue!")
        # record already exists, check if it must be updated
        if len(records) == 1:
            cur_record = records[0]
@@ -860,8 +811,6 @@ def main():
            hash_type=dict(type='int', choices=[1, 2]),
            key_tag=dict(type='int', no_log=False),
            port=dict(type='int'),
-            flag=dict(type='int', choices=[0, 1]),
-            tag=dict(type='str', choices=['issue', 'issuewild', 'iodef']),
            priority=dict(type='int', default=1),
            proto=dict(type='str'),
            proxied=dict(type='bool', default=False),
@@ -872,7 +821,7 @@ def main():
            state=dict(type='str', default='present', choices=['absent', 'present']),
            timeout=dict(type='int', default=30),
            ttl=dict(type='int', default=1),
-            type=dict(type='str', choices=['A', 'AAAA', 'CNAME', 'DS', 'MX', 'NS', 'SPF', 'SRV', 'SSHFP', 'TLSA', 'CAA', 'TXT']),
+            type=dict(type='str', choices=['A', 'AAAA', 'CNAME', 'DS', 'MX', 'NS', 'SPF', 'SRV', 'SSHFP', 'TLSA', 'TXT']),
            value=dict(type='str', aliases=['content']),
            weight=dict(type='int', default=1),
            zone=dict(type='str', required=True, aliases=['domain']),
@@ -883,7 +832,6 @@ def main():
            ('state', 'absent', ['record']),
            ('type', 'SRV', ['proto', 'service']),
            ('type', 'TLSA', ['proto', 'port']),
-            ('type', 'CAA', ['flag', 'tag']),
        ],
    )

@@ -910,13 +858,6 @@ def main():
                    and (module.params['value'] is None or module.params['value'] == ''))):
            module.fail_json(msg="For TLSA records the params cert_usage, selector, hash_type and value all need to be defined, or not at all.")

-    if module.params['type'] == 'CAA':
-        if not ((module.params['flag'] is not None and module.params['tag'] is not None
-                 and not (module.params['value'] is None or module.params['value'] == ''))
-                or (module.params['flag'] is None and module.params['tag'] is None
-                    and (module.params['value'] is None or module.params['value'] == ''))):
-            module.fail_json(msg="For CAA records the params flag, tag and value all need to be defined, or not at all.")
-
    if module.params['type'] == 'DS':
        if not ((module.params['key_tag'] is not None and module.params['algorithm'] is not None and module.params['hash_type'] is not None
                 and not (module.params['value'] is None or module.params['value'] == ''))
--- a/plugins/modules/composer.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/composer.py
@@ -170,15 +170,10 @@ def get_available_options(module, command='install'):
    return command_help_json['definition']['options']


-def composer_command(module, command, arguments="", options=None):
+def composer_command(module, command, arguments="", options=None, global_command=False):
    if options is None:
        options = []

-    global_command = module.params['global_command']
-
-    if not global_command:
-        options.extend(['--working-dir', "'%s'" % module.params['working_dir']])
-
    if module.params['executable'] is None:
        php_path = module.get_bin_path("php", True, ["/usr/local/bin"])
    else:
@@ -222,6 +217,7 @@ def main():
        module.fail_json(msg="Use the 'arguments' param for passing arguments with the 'command'")

    arguments = module.params['arguments']
+    global_command = module.params['global_command']
    available_options = get_available_options(module=module, command=command)

    options = []
@@ -238,6 +234,9 @@ def main():
            option = "--%s" % option
            options.append(option)

+    if not global_command:
+        options.extend(['--working-dir', "'%s'" % module.params['working_dir']])
+
    option_params = {
        'prefer_source': 'prefer-source',
        'prefer_dist': 'prefer-dist',
@@ -261,7 +260,7 @@ def main():
        else:
            module.exit_json(skipped=True, msg="command '%s' does not support check mode, skipping" % command)

-    rc, out, err = composer_command(module, command, arguments, options)
+    rc, out, err = composer_command(module, command, arguments, options, global_command)

    if rc != 0:
        output = parse_out(err)
--- a/plugins/modules/consul.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/consul.py
@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ options:
        description:
          - The script/command that will be run periodically to check the health of the service.
          - Requires O(interval) to be provided.
-          - Mutually exclusive with O(ttl), O(tcp) and O(http).
    interval:
        type: str
        description:
@@ -132,7 +131,6 @@ options:
            Similar to the interval this is a number with a V(s) or V(m) suffix to
            signify the units of seconds or minutes, for example V(15s) or V(1m).
            If no suffix is supplied V(s) will be used by default, for example V(10) will be V(10s).
-          - Mutually exclusive with O(script), O(tcp) and O(http).
    tcp:
        type: str
        description:
@@ -140,7 +138,6 @@ options:
            will check if the connection attempt to that port is successful (that is, the port is currently accepting connections).
            The format is V(host:port), for example V(localhost:80).
          - Requires O(interval) to be provided.
-          - Mutually exclusive with O(script), O(ttl) and O(http).
        version_added: '1.3.0'
    http:
        type: str
@@ -148,7 +145,6 @@ options:
          - Checks can be registered with an HTTP endpoint. This means that consul
            will check that the http endpoint returns a successful HTTP status.
          - Requires O(interval) to be provided.
-          - Mutually exclusive with O(script), O(ttl) and O(tcp).
    timeout:
        type: str
        description:
@@ -163,7 +159,7 @@ options:
    ack_params_state_absent:
        type: bool
        description:
-          - This parameter has no more effect and is deprecated. It will be removed in community.general 10.0.0.
+          - Disable deprecation warning when using parameters incompatible with O(state=absent).
 '''

 EXAMPLES = '''
@@ -381,7 +377,13 @@ def get_service_by_id_or_name(consul_api, service_id_or_name):


 def parse_check(module):
-    if module.params['check_id'] or any(module.params[p] is not None for p in ('script', 'ttl', 'tcp', 'http')):
+    _checks = [module.params[p] for p in ('script', 'ttl', 'tcp', 'http') if module.params[p]]
+
+    if len(_checks) > 1:
+        module.fail_json(
+            msg='checks are either script, tcp, http or ttl driven, supplying more than one does not make sense')
+
+    if module.params['check_id'] or _checks:
        return ConsulCheck(
            module.params['check_id'],
            module.params['check_name'],
@@ -499,9 +501,15 @@ class ConsulCheck(object):
            self.check = consul.Check.ttl(self.ttl)

        if http:
+            if interval is None:
+                raise Exception('http check must specify interval')
+
            self.check = consul.Check.http(http, self.interval, self.timeout)

        if tcp:
+            if interval is None:
+                raise Exception('tcp check must specify interval')
+
            regex = r"(?P<host>.*):(?P<port>(?:[0-9]+))$"
            match = re.match(regex, tcp)

@@ -588,33 +596,30 @@ def main():
            timeout=dict(type='str'),
            tags=dict(type='list', elements='str'),
            token=dict(no_log=True),
-            ack_params_state_absent=dict(
-                type='bool',
-                removed_in_version='10.0.0',
-                removed_from_collection='community.general',
-            ),
+            ack_params_state_absent=dict(type='bool'),
        ),
-        mutually_exclusive=[
-            ('script', 'ttl', 'tcp', 'http'),
-        ],
        required_if=[
            ('state', 'present', ['service_name']),
            ('state', 'absent', ['service_id', 'service_name', 'check_id', 'check_name'], True),
        ],
-        required_by={
-            'script': 'interval',
-            'http': 'interval',
-            'tcp': 'interval',
-        },
        supports_check_mode=False,
    )
    p = module.params

    test_dependencies(module)
-    if p['state'] == 'absent' and any(p[x] for x in ['script', 'ttl', 'tcp', 'http', 'interval']):
-        module.fail_json(
-            msg="The use of parameters 'script', 'ttl', 'tcp', 'http', 'interval' along with 'state=absent' is no longer allowed."
+    if p['state'] == 'absent' and any(p[x] for x in ['script', 'ttl', 'tcp', 'http', 'interval']) and not p['ack_params_state_absent']:
+        module.deprecate(
+            "The use of parameters 'script', 'ttl', 'tcp', 'http', 'interval' along with 'state=absent' is deprecated. "
+            "In community.general 8.0.0 their use will become an error. "
+            "To suppress this deprecation notice, set parameter ack_params_state_absent=true.",
+            version="8.0.0",
+            collection_name="community.general",
        )
+        # When reaching c.g 8.0.0:
+        # - Replace the deprecation with a fail_json(), remove the "ack_params_state_absent" condition from the "if"
+        # - Add mutually_exclusive for ('script', 'ttl', 'tcp', 'http'), then remove that validation from parse_check()
+        # - Add required_by {'script': 'interval', 'http': 'interval', 'tcp': 'interval'}, then remove checks for 'interval' in ConsulCheck.__init__()
+        # - Deprecate the parameter ack_params_state_absent

    try:
        register_with_consul(module)
--- a/plugins/modules/consul_role.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/consul_role.py
@@ -1,644 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# Copyright (c) 2022, Håkon Lerring
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING 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
-
-DOCUMENTATION = '''
-module: consul_role
-short_description: Manipulate Consul roles
-version_added: 7.5.0
-description:
- - Allows the addition, modification and deletion of roles in a consul
-   cluster via the agent. For more details on using and configuring ACLs,
-   see U(https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/acl.html).
-author:
-  - Håkon Lerring (@Hakon)
-extends_documentation_fragment:
-  - community.general.attributes
-attributes:
-  check_mode:
-    support: full
-  diff_mode:
-    support: none
-options:
-  name:
-    description:
-      - A name used to identify the role.
-    required: true
-    type: str
-  state:
-    description:
-      - whether the role should be present or absent.
-    required: false
-    choices: ['present', 'absent']
-    default: present
-    type: str
-  description:
-    description:
-      - Description of the role.
-      - If not specified, the assigned description will not be changed.
-    required: false
-    type: str
-  policies:
-    type: list
-    elements: dict
-    description:
-      - List of policies to attach to the role. Each policy is a dict.
-      - If the parameter is left blank, any policies currently assigned will not be changed.
-      - Any empty array (V([])) will clear any policies previously set.
-    required: false
-    suboptions:
-      name:
-        description:
-          - The name of the policy to attach to this role; see M(community.general.consul_policy) for more info.
-          - Either this or O(policies[].id) must be specified.
-        type: str
-      id:
-        description:
-          - The ID of the policy to attach to this role; see M(community.general.consul_policy) for more info.
-          - Either this or O(policies[].name) must be specified.
-        type: str
-  service_identities:
-    type: list
-    elements: dict
-    description:
-      - List of service identities to attach to the role.
-      - If not specified, any service identities currently assigned will not be changed.
-      - If the parameter is an empty array (V([])), any node identities assigned will be unassigned.
-    required: false
-    suboptions:
-      name:
-        description:
-          - The name of the node.
-          - Must not be longer than 256 characters, must start and end with a lowercase alphanumeric character.
-          - May only contain lowercase alphanumeric characters as well as - and _.
-        type: str
-        required: true
-      datacenters:
-        description:
-          - The datacenters the policies will be effective.
-          - This will result in effective policy only being valid in this datacenter.
-          - If an empty array (V([])) is specified, the policies will valid in all datacenters.
-          - including those which do not yet exist but may in the future.
-        type: list
-        elements: str
-        required: true
-  node_identities:
-    type: list
-    elements: dict
-    description:
-      - List of node identities to attach to the role.
-      - If not specified, any node identities currently assigned will not be changed.
-      - If the parameter is an empty array (V([])), any node identities assigned will be unassigned.
-    required: false
-    suboptions:
-      name:
-        description:
-          - The name of the node.
-          - Must not be longer than 256 characters, must start and end with a lowercase alphanumeric character.
-          - May only contain lowercase alphanumeric characters as well as - and _.
-        type: str
-        required: true
-      datacenter:
-        description:
-          - The nodes datacenter.
-          - This will result in effective policy only being valid in this datacenter.
-        type: str
-        required: true
-  host:
-    description:
-      - Host of the consul agent, defaults to V(localhost).
-    required: false
-    default: localhost
-    type: str
-  port:
-    type: int
-    description:
-      - The port on which the consul agent is running.
-    required: false
-    default: 8500
-  scheme:
-    description:
-      - The protocol scheme on which the consul agent is running.
-    required: false
-    default: http
-    type: str
-  token:
-    description:
-      - A management token is required to manipulate the roles.
-    type: str
-  validate_certs:
-    type: bool
-    description:
-      - Whether to verify the TLS certificate of the consul agent.
-    required: false
-    default: true
-requirements:
-  - requests
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = """
- name: Create a role with 2 policies
-  community.general.consul_role:
-    host: consul1.example.com
-    token: some_management_acl
-    name: foo-role
-    policies:
-      - id: 783beef3-783f-f41f-7422-7087dc272765
-      - name: "policy-1"
-
- name: Create a role with service identity
-  community.general.consul_role:
-    host: consul1.example.com
-    token: some_management_acl
-    name: foo-role-2
-    service_identities:
-      - name: web
-        datacenters:
-          - dc1
-
- name: Create a role with node identity
-  community.general.consul_role:
-    host: consul1.example.com
-    token: some_management_acl
-    name: foo-role-3
-    node_identities:
-      - name: node-1
-        datacenter: dc2
-
- name: Remove a role
-  community.general.consul_role:
-    host: consul1.example.com
-    token: some_management_acl
-    name: foo-role-3
-    state: absent
-"""
-
-RETURN = """
-role:
-    description: The role object.
-    returned: success
-    type: dict
-    sample:
-        {
-            "CreateIndex": 39,
-            "Description": "",
-            "Hash": "Trt0QJtxVEfvTTIcdTUbIJRr6Dsi6E4EcwSFxx9tCYM=",
-            "ID": "9a300b8d-48db-b720-8544-a37c0f5dafb5",
-            "ModifyIndex": 39,
-            "Name": "foo-role",
-            "Policies": [
-                {"ID": "b1a00172-d7a1-0e66-a12e-7a4045c4b774", "Name": "foo-access"}
-            ]
-        }
-operation:
-    description: The operation performed on the role.
-    returned: changed
-    type: str
-    sample: update
-"""
-
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import missing_required_lib
-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.consul import (
-    get_consul_url, get_auth_headers, handle_consul_response_error)
-import traceback
-
-REQUESTS_IMP_ERR = None
-
-try:
-    from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError
-    import requests
-    HAS_REQUESTS = True
-except ImportError:
-    HAS_REQUESTS = False
-    REQUESTS_IMP_ERR = traceback.format_exc()
-
-TOKEN_PARAMETER_NAME = "token"
-HOST_PARAMETER_NAME = "host"
-SCHEME_PARAMETER_NAME = "scheme"
-VALIDATE_CERTS_PARAMETER_NAME = "validate_certs"
-NAME_PARAMETER_NAME = "name"
-DESCRIPTION_PARAMETER_NAME = "description"
-PORT_PARAMETER_NAME = "port"
-POLICIES_PARAMETER_NAME = "policies"
-SERVICE_IDENTITIES_PARAMETER_NAME = "service_identities"
-NODE_IDENTITIES_PARAMETER_NAME = "node_identities"
-STATE_PARAMETER_NAME = "state"
-
-PRESENT_STATE_VALUE = "present"
-ABSENT_STATE_VALUE = "absent"
-
-REMOVE_OPERATION = "remove"
-UPDATE_OPERATION = "update"
-CREATE_OPERATION = "create"
-
-POLICY_RULE_SPEC = dict(
-    name=dict(type='str'),
-    id=dict(type='str'),
-)
-
-NODE_ID_RULE_SPEC = dict(
-    name=dict(type='str', required=True),
-    datacenter=dict(type='str', required=True),
-)
-
-SERVICE_ID_RULE_SPEC = dict(
-    name=dict(type='str', required=True),
-    datacenters=dict(type='list', elements='str', required=True),
-)
-
-_ARGUMENT_SPEC = {
-    TOKEN_PARAMETER_NAME: dict(no_log=True),
-    PORT_PARAMETER_NAME: dict(default=8500, type='int'),
-    HOST_PARAMETER_NAME: dict(default='localhost'),
-    SCHEME_PARAMETER_NAME: dict(default='http'),
-    VALIDATE_CERTS_PARAMETER_NAME: dict(type='bool', default=True),
-    NAME_PARAMETER_NAME: dict(required=True),
-    DESCRIPTION_PARAMETER_NAME: dict(required=False, type='str', default=None),
-    POLICIES_PARAMETER_NAME: dict(type='list', elements='dict', options=POLICY_RULE_SPEC,
-                                  mutually_exclusive=[('name', 'id')], required_one_of=[('name', 'id')], default=None),
-    SERVICE_IDENTITIES_PARAMETER_NAME: dict(type='list', elements='dict', options=SERVICE_ID_RULE_SPEC, default=None),
-    NODE_IDENTITIES_PARAMETER_NAME: dict(type='list', elements='dict', options=NODE_ID_RULE_SPEC, default=None),
-    STATE_PARAMETER_NAME: dict(default=PRESENT_STATE_VALUE, choices=[PRESENT_STATE_VALUE, ABSENT_STATE_VALUE]),
-}
-
-
-def compare_consul_api_role_policy_objects(first, second):
-    # compare two lists of dictionaries, ignoring the ID element
-    for x in first:
-        x.pop('ID', None)
-
-    for x in second:
-        x.pop('ID', None)
-
-    return first == second
-
-
-def update_role(role, configuration):
-    url = '%s/acl/role/%s' % (get_consul_url(configuration),
-                              role['ID'])
-    headers = get_auth_headers(configuration)
-
-    update_role_data = {
-        'Name': configuration.name,
-        'Description': configuration.description,
-    }
-
-    # check if the user omitted the description,  policies, service identities, or node identities
-
-    description_specified = configuration.description is not None
-
-    policy_specified = True
-    if len(configuration.policies) == 1 and configuration.policies[0] is None:
-        policy_specified = False
-
-    service_id_specified = True
-    if len(configuration.service_identities) == 1 and configuration.service_identities[0] is None:
-        service_id_specified = False
-
-    node_id_specified = True
-    if len(configuration.node_identities) == 1 and configuration.node_identities[0] is None:
-        node_id_specified = False
-
-    if description_specified:
-        update_role_data["Description"] = configuration.description
-
-    if policy_specified:
-        update_role_data["Policies"] = [x.to_dict() for x in configuration.policies]
-
-    if configuration.version >= ConsulVersion("1.5.0") and service_id_specified:
-        update_role_data["ServiceIdentities"] = [
-            x.to_dict() for x in configuration.service_identities]
-
-    if configuration.version >= ConsulVersion("1.8.0") and node_id_specified:
-        update_role_data["NodeIdentities"] = [
-            x.to_dict() for x in configuration.node_identities]
-
-    if configuration.check_mode:
-        description_changed = False
-        if description_specified:
-            description_changed = role.get('Description') != update_role_data["Description"]
-        else:
-            update_role_data["Description"] = role.get("Description")
-
-        policies_changed = False
-        if policy_specified:
-            policies_changed = not (
-                compare_consul_api_role_policy_objects(role.get('Policies', []), update_role_data.get('Policies', [])))
-        else:
-            if role.get('Policies') is not None:
-                update_role_data["Policies"] = role.get('Policies')
-
-        service_ids_changed = False
-        if service_id_specified:
-            service_ids_changed = role.get('ServiceIdentities') != update_role_data.get('ServiceIdentities')
-        else:
-            if role.get('ServiceIdentities') is not None:
-                update_role_data["ServiceIdentities"] = role.get('ServiceIdentities')
-
-        node_ids_changed = False
-        if node_id_specified:
-            node_ids_changed = role.get('NodeIdentities') != update_role_data.get('NodeIdentities')
-        else:
-            if role.get('NodeIdentities'):
-                update_role_data["NodeIdentities"] = role.get('NodeIdentities')
-
-        changed = (
-            description_changed or
-            policies_changed or
-            service_ids_changed or
-            node_ids_changed
-        )
-        return Output(changed=changed, operation=UPDATE_OPERATION, role=update_role_data)
-    else:
-        # if description, policies, service or node id are not specified; we need to get the existing value and apply it
-        if not description_specified and role.get('Description') is not None:
-            update_role_data["Description"] = role.get('Description')
-
-        if not policy_specified and role.get('Policies') is not None:
-            update_role_data["Policies"] = role.get('Policies')
-
-        if not service_id_specified and role.get('ServiceIdentities') is not None:
-            update_role_data["ServiceIdentities"] = role.get('ServiceIdentities')
-
-        if not node_id_specified and role.get('NodeIdentities') is not None:
-            update_role_data["NodeIdentities"] = role.get('NodeIdentities')
-
-        response = requests.put(url, headers=headers, json=update_role_data, verify=configuration.validate_certs)
-        handle_consul_response_error(response)
-
-        resulting_role = response.json()
-        changed = (
-            role['Description'] != resulting_role['Description'] or
-            role.get('Policies', None) != resulting_role.get('Policies', None) or
-            role.get('ServiceIdentities', None) != resulting_role.get('ServiceIdentities', None) or
-            role.get('NodeIdentities', None) != resulting_role.get('NodeIdentities', None)
-        )
-
-        return Output(changed=changed, operation=UPDATE_OPERATION, role=resulting_role)
-
-
-def create_role(configuration):
-    url = '%s/acl/role' % get_consul_url(configuration)
-    headers = get_auth_headers(configuration)
-
-    # check if the user omitted policies, service identities, or node identities
-    policy_specified = True
-    if len(configuration.policies) == 1 and configuration.policies[0] is None:
-        policy_specified = False
-
-    service_id_specified = True
-    if len(configuration.service_identities) == 1 and configuration.service_identities[0] is None:
-        service_id_specified = False
-
-    node_id_specified = True
-    if len(configuration.node_identities) == 1 and configuration.node_identities[0] is None:
-        node_id_specified = False
-
-    # get rid of None item so we can set an empty list for policies, service identities and node identities
-    if not policy_specified:
-        configuration.policies.pop()
-
-    if not service_id_specified:
-        configuration.service_identities.pop()
-
-    if not node_id_specified:
-        configuration.node_identities.pop()
-
-    create_role_data = {
-        'Name': configuration.name,
-        'Description': configuration.description,
-        'Policies': [x.to_dict() for x in configuration.policies],
-    }
-    if configuration.version >= ConsulVersion("1.5.0"):
-        create_role_data["ServiceIdentities"] = [x.to_dict() for x in configuration.service_identities]
-
-    if configuration.version >= ConsulVersion("1.8.0"):
-        create_role_data["NodeIdentities"] = [x.to_dict() for x in configuration.node_identities]
-
-    if not configuration.check_mode:
-        response = requests.put(url, headers=headers, json=create_role_data, verify=configuration.validate_certs)
-        handle_consul_response_error(response)
-
-        resulting_role = response.json()
-
-        return Output(changed=True, operation=CREATE_OPERATION, role=resulting_role)
-    else:
-        return Output(changed=True, operation=CREATE_OPERATION)
-
-
-def remove_role(configuration):
-    roles = get_roles(configuration)
-
-    if configuration.name in roles:
-
-        role_id = roles[configuration.name]['ID']
-
-        if not configuration.check_mode:
-            url = '%s/acl/role/%s' % (get_consul_url(configuration), role_id)
-            headers = get_auth_headers(configuration)
-            response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers, verify=configuration.validate_certs)
-            handle_consul_response_error(response)
-
-        changed = True
-    else:
-        changed = False
-    return Output(changed=changed, operation=REMOVE_OPERATION)
-
-
-def get_roles(configuration):
-    url = '%s/acl/roles' % get_consul_url(configuration)
-    headers = get_auth_headers(configuration)
-    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, verify=configuration.validate_certs)
-    handle_consul_response_error(response)
-    roles = response.json()
-    existing_roles_mapped_by_id = dict((role['Name'], role) for role in roles if role['Name'] is not None)
-    return existing_roles_mapped_by_id
-
-
-def get_consul_version(configuration):
-    url = '%s/agent/self' % get_consul_url(configuration)
-    headers = get_auth_headers(configuration)
-    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, verify=configuration.validate_certs)
-    handle_consul_response_error(response)
-    config = response.json()["Config"]
-    return ConsulVersion(config["Version"])
-
-
-def set_role(configuration):
-    roles = get_roles(configuration)
-
-    if configuration.name in roles:
-        role = roles[configuration.name]
-        return update_role(role, configuration)
-    else:
-        return create_role(configuration)
-
-
-class ConsulVersion:
-    def __init__(self, version_string):
-        split = version_string.split('.')
-        self.major = split[0]
-        self.minor = split[1]
-        self.patch = split[2]
-
-    def __ge__(self, other):
-        return int(self.major + self.minor +
-                   self.patch) >= int(other.major + other.minor + other.patch)
-
-    def __le__(self, other):
-        return int(self.major + self.minor +
-                   self.patch) <= int(other.major + other.minor + other.patch)
-
-
-class ServiceIdentity:
-    def __init__(self, input):
-        if not isinstance(input, dict) or 'name' not in input:
-            raise ValueError(
-                "Each element of service_identities must be a dict with the keys name and optionally datacenters")
-        self.name = input["name"]
-        self.datacenters = input["datacenters"] if "datacenters" in input else None
-
-    def to_dict(self):
-        return {
-            "ServiceName": self.name,
-            "Datacenters": self.datacenters
-        }
-
-
-class NodeIdentity:
-    def __init__(self, input):
-        if not isinstance(input, dict) or 'name' not in input:
-            raise ValueError(
-                "Each element of node_identities must be a dict with the keys name and optionally datacenter")
-        self.name = input["name"]
-        self.datacenter = input["datacenter"] if "datacenter" in input else None
-
-    def to_dict(self):
-        return {
-            "NodeName": self.name,
-            "Datacenter": self.datacenter
-        }
-
-
-class RoleLink:
-    def __init__(self, dict):
-        self.id = dict.get("id", None)
-        self.name = dict.get("name", None)
-
-    def to_dict(self):
-        return {
-            "ID": self.id,
-            "Name": self.name
-        }
-
-
-class PolicyLink:
-    def __init__(self, dict):
-        self.id = dict.get("id", None)
-        self.name = dict.get("name", None)
-
-    def to_dict(self):
-        return {
-            "ID": self.id,
-            "Name": self.name
-        }
-
-
-class Configuration:
-    """
-    Configuration for this module.
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, token=None, host=None, scheme=None, validate_certs=None, name=None, description=None, port=None,
-                 policies=None, service_identities=None, node_identities=None, state=None, check_mode=None):
-        self.token = token                                                              # type: str
-        self.host = host                                                                # type: str
-        self.port = port                                                                # type: int
-        self.scheme = scheme                                                            # type: str
-        self.validate_certs = validate_certs                                            # type: bool
-        self.name = name                                                                # type: str
-        self.description = description                                                  # type: str
-        if policies is not None:
-            self.policies = [PolicyLink(p) for p in policies]                           # type: list(PolicyLink)
-        else:
-            self.policies = [None]
-        if service_identities is not None:
-            self.service_identities = [ServiceIdentity(s) for s in service_identities]  # type: list(ServiceIdentity)
-        else:
-            self.service_identities = [None]
-        if node_identities is not None:
-            self.node_identities = [NodeIdentity(n) for n in node_identities]           # type: list(NodeIdentity)
-        else:
-            self.node_identities = [None]
-        self.state = state                                                              # type: str
-        self.check_mode = check_mode                                                    # type: bool
-
-
-class Output:
-    """
-    Output of an action of this module.
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, changed=None, operation=None, role=None):
-        self.changed = changed      # type: bool
-        self.operation = operation  # type: str
-        self.role = role          # type: dict
-
-
-def main():
-    """
-    Main method.
-    """
-    module = AnsibleModule(_ARGUMENT_SPEC, supports_check_mode=True)
-
-    if not HAS_REQUESTS:
-        module.fail_json(msg=missing_required_lib("requests"),
-                         exception=REQUESTS_IMP_ERR)
-
-    try:
-        configuration = Configuration(
-            token=module.params.get(TOKEN_PARAMETER_NAME),
-            host=module.params.get(HOST_PARAMETER_NAME),
-            port=module.params.get(PORT_PARAMETER_NAME),
-            scheme=module.params.get(SCHEME_PARAMETER_NAME),
-            validate_certs=module.params.get(VALIDATE_CERTS_PARAMETER_NAME),
-            name=module.params.get(NAME_PARAMETER_NAME),
-            description=module.params.get(DESCRIPTION_PARAMETER_NAME),
-            policies=module.params.get(POLICIES_PARAMETER_NAME),
-            service_identities=module.params.get(SERVICE_IDENTITIES_PARAMETER_NAME),
-            node_identities=module.params.get(NODE_IDENTITIES_PARAMETER_NAME),
-            state=module.params.get(STATE_PARAMETER_NAME),
-            check_mode=module.check_mode
-
-        )
-    except ValueError as err:
-        module.fail_json(msg='Configuration error: %s' % str(err))
-        return
-
-    try:
-
-        version = get_consul_version(configuration)
-        configuration.version = version
-
-        if configuration.state == PRESENT_STATE_VALUE:
-            output = set_role(configuration)
-        else:
-            output = remove_role(configuration)
-    except ConnectionError as e:
-        module.fail_json(msg='Could not connect to consul agent at %s:%s, error was %s' % (
-            configuration.host, configuration.port, str(e)))
-        raise
-
-    return_values = dict(changed=output.changed, operation=output.operation, role=output.role)
-    module.exit_json(**return_values)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
--- a/plugins/modules/cpanm.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/cpanm.py
@@ -183,9 +183,8 @@ class CPANMinus(ModuleHelper):
            if v.name and v.from_path:
                self.do_raise("Parameters 'name' and 'from_path' are mutually exclusive when 'mode=new'")

-        self.command = v.executable if v.executable else self.command
-        self.runner = CmdRunner(self.module, self.command, self.command_args_formats, check_rc=True)
-        self.vars.binary = self.runner.binary
+        self.command = self.get_bin_path(v.executable if v.executable else self.command)
+        self.vars.set("binary", self.command)

    def _is_package_installed(self, name, locallib, version):
        def process(rc, out, err):
@@ -221,6 +220,8 @@ class CPANMinus(ModuleHelper):
                self.do_raise(msg=err, cmd=self.vars.cmd_args)
            return 'is up to date' not in err and 'is up to date' not in out

+        runner = CmdRunner(self.module, self.command, self.command_args_formats, check_rc=True)
+
        v = self.vars
        pkg_param = 'from_path' if v.from_path else 'name'

@@ -234,7 +235,7 @@ class CPANMinus(ModuleHelper):
                return
            pkg_spec = self.sanitize_pkg_spec_version(v[pkg_param], v.version)

-        with self.runner(['notest', 'locallib', 'mirror', 'mirror_only', 'installdeps', 'pkg_spec'], output_process=process) as ctx:
+        with runner(['notest', 'locallib', 'mirror', 'mirror_only', 'installdeps', 'pkg_spec'], output_process=process) as ctx:
            self.changed = ctx.run(pkg_spec=pkg_spec)


--- a/plugins/modules/dconf.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/dconf.py
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ class DconfPreference(object):
        rc, out, err = dbus_wrapper.run_command(command)

        if rc != 0:
-            self.module.fail_json(msg='dconf failed while resetting the value with error: %s' % err,
+            self.module.fail_json(msg='dconf failed while reseting the value with error: %s' % err,
                                  out=out,
                                  err=err)

--- a/plugins/modules/dnsimple.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/dnsimple.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class DNSimpleV2():
            client = Client(sandbox=self.sandbox, email=self.account_email, access_token=self.account_api_token, user_agent="ansible/community.general")
        else:
            msg = "Option account_email or account_api_token not provided. " \
-                  "Dnsimple authentication with a .dnsimple config file is not " \
+                  "Dnsimple authentiction with a .dnsimple config file is not " \
                  "supported with dnsimple-python>=2.0.0"
            raise DNSimpleException(msg)
        client.identity.whoami()
@@ -225,24 +225,24 @@ class DNSimpleV2():
        self.client.domains.delete_domain(self.account.id, domain)

    def get_records(self, zone, dnsimple_filter=None):
-        """return dns resource records which match a specified filter"""
+        """return dns ressource records which match a specified filter"""
        records_list = self._get_paginated_result(self.client.zones.list_records,
                                                  account_id=self.account.id,
                                                  zone=zone, filter=dnsimple_filter)
        return [d.__dict__ for d in records_list]

    def delete_record(self, domain, rid):
-        """delete a single dns resource record"""
+        """delete a single dns ressource record"""
        self.client.zones.delete_record(self.account.id, domain, rid)

    def update_record(self, domain, rid, ttl=None, priority=None):
-        """update a single dns resource record"""
+        """update a single dns ressource record"""
        zr = ZoneRecordUpdateInput(ttl=ttl, priority=priority)
        result = self.client.zones.update_record(self.account.id, str(domain), str(rid), zr).data.__dict__
        return result

    def create_record(self, domain, name, record_type, content, ttl=None, priority=None):
-        """create a single dns resource record"""
+        """create a single dns ressource record"""
        zr = ZoneRecordInput(name=name, type=record_type, content=content, ttl=ttl, priority=priority)
        return self.client.zones.create_record(self.account.id, str(domain), zr).data.__dict__

--- a/plugins/modules/dnsmadeeasy.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/dnsmadeeasy.py
@@ -509,15 +509,15 @@ class DME2(object):
        return json.dumps(data, separators=(',', ':'))

    def createRecord(self, data):
-        # @TODO update the cache w/ resultant record + id when implemented
+        # @TODO update the cache w/ resultant record + id when impleneted
        return self.query(self.record_url, 'POST', data)

    def updateRecord(self, record_id, data):
-        # @TODO update the cache w/ resultant record + id when implemented
+        # @TODO update the cache w/ resultant record + id when impleneted
        return self.query(self.record_url + '/' + str(record_id), 'PUT', data)

    def deleteRecord(self, record_id):
-        # @TODO remove record from the cache when implemented
+        # @TODO remove record from the cache when impleneted
        return self.query(self.record_url + '/' + str(record_id), 'DELETE')

    def getMonitor(self, record_id):
--- a/plugins/modules/ejabberd_user.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/ejabberd_user.py
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
 import syslog

 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.cmd_runner import CmdRunner, cmd_runner_fmt


 class EjabberdUser(object):
@@ -96,17 +95,6 @@ class EjabberdUser(object):
        self.host = module.params.get('host')
        self.user = module.params.get('username')
        self.pwd = module.params.get('password')
-        self.runner = CmdRunner(
-            module,
-            command="ejabberdctl",
-            arg_formats=dict(
-                cmd=cmd_runner_fmt.as_list(),
-                host=cmd_runner_fmt.as_list(),
-                user=cmd_runner_fmt.as_list(),
-                pwd=cmd_runner_fmt.as_list(),
-            ),
-            check_rc=False,
-        )

    @property
    def changed(self):
@@ -114,7 +102,7 @@ class EjabberdUser(object):
        changed.   It will return True if the user does not match the supplied
        credentials and False if it does not
        """
-        return self.run_command('check_password', 'user host pwd', (lambda rc, out, err: bool(rc)))
+        return self.run_command('check_password', [self.user, self.host, self.pwd])

    @property
    def exists(self):
@@ -122,7 +110,7 @@ class EjabberdUser(object):
        host specified.  If the user exists True is returned, otherwise False
        is returned
        """
-        return self.run_command('check_account', 'user host', (lambda rc, out, err: not bool(rc)))
+        return self.run_command('check_account', [self.user, self.host])

    def log(self, entry):
        """ This method will log information to the local syslog facility """
@@ -130,36 +118,29 @@ class EjabberdUser(object):
            syslog.openlog('ansible-%s' % self.module._name)
            syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_NOTICE, entry)

-    def run_command(self, cmd, options, process=None):
+    def run_command(self, cmd, options):
        """ This method will run the any command specified and return the
        returns using the Ansible common module
        """
-        def _proc(*a):
-            return a
-
-        if process is None:
-            process = _proc
-
-        with self.runner("cmd " + options, output_process=process) as ctx:
-            res = ctx.run(cmd=cmd, host=self.host, user=self.user, pwd=self.pwd)
-            self.log('command: %s' % " ".join(ctx.run_info['cmd']))
-        return res
+        cmd = [self.module.get_bin_path('ejabberdctl', required=True), cmd] + options
+        self.log('command: %s' % " ".join(cmd))
+        return self.module.run_command(cmd)

    def update(self):
        """ The update method will update the credentials for the user provided
        """
-        return self.run_command('change_password', 'user host pwd')
+        return self.run_command('change_password', [self.user, self.host, self.pwd])

    def create(self):
        """ The create method will create a new user on the host with the
        password provided
        """
-        return self.run_command('register', 'user host pwd')
+        return self.run_command('register', [self.user, self.host, self.pwd])

    def delete(self):
        """ The delete method will delete the user from the host
        """
-        return self.run_command('unregister', 'user host')
+        return self.run_command('unregister', [self.user, self.host])


 def main():
@@ -169,7 +150,7 @@ def main():
            username=dict(required=True, type='str'),
            password=dict(type='str', no_log=True),
            state=dict(default='present', choices=['present', 'absent']),
-            logging=dict(default=False, type='bool', removed_in_version='10.0.0', removed_from_collection='community.general'),
+            logging=dict(default=False, type='bool')  # deprecate in favour of c.g.syslogger?
        ),
        required_if=[
            ('state', 'present', ['password']),
--- a/plugins/modules/facter_facts.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/facter_facts.py
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# Copyright (c) 2023, Alexei Znamensky
-# Copyright (c) 2012, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-DOCUMENTATION = '''
---
-module: facter_facts
-short_description: Runs the discovery program C(facter) on the remote system and return Ansible facts
-version_added: 8.0.0
-description:
-    - Runs the C(facter) discovery program
-      (U(https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter)) on the remote system, returning Ansible facts from the
-      JSON data that can be useful for inventory purposes.
-extends_documentation_fragment:
-    - community.general.attributes
-    - community.general.attributes.facts
-    - community.general.attributes.facts_module
-options:
-    arguments:
-        description:
-            - Specifies arguments for facter.
-        type: list
-        elements: str
-requirements:
-    - facter
-    - ruby-json
-author:
-    - Ansible Core Team
-    - Michael DeHaan
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = '''
- name: Execute facter no arguments
-  community.general.facter_facts:
-
- name: Execute facter with arguments
-  community.general.facter_facts:
-    arguments:
-        - -p
-        - system_uptime
-        - timezone
-        - is_virtual
-'''
-
-RETURN = r'''
-ansible_facts:
-  description: Dictionary with one key C(facter).
-  returned: always
-  type: dict
-  contains:
-    facter:
-      description: Dictionary containing facts discovered in the remote system.
-      returned: always
-      type: dict
-'''
-
-import json
-
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-
-
-def main():
-    module = AnsibleModule(
-        argument_spec=dict(
-            arguments=dict(type='list', elements='str'),
-        ),
-        supports_check_mode=True,
-    )
-
-    facter_path = module.get_bin_path(
-        'facter',
-        opt_dirs=['/opt/puppetlabs/bin'])
-
-    cmd = [facter_path, "--json"]
-    if module.params['arguments']:
-        cmd += module.params['arguments']
-
-    rc, out, err = module.run_command(cmd, check_rc=True)
-    module.exit_json(ansible_facts=dict(facter=json.loads(out)))
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()
--- a/plugins/modules/gconftool2.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gconftool2.py
@@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ options:
    type: str
    description:
    - The action to take upon the key/value.
+    - State V(get) is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 8.0.0. Please use the module M(community.general.gconftool2_info) instead.
    required: true
-    choices: [ absent, present ]
+    choices: [ absent, get, present ]
  config_source:
    type: str
    description:
@@ -113,7 +114,7 @@ class GConftool(StateModuleHelper):
            key=dict(type='str', required=True, no_log=False),
            value_type=dict(type='str', choices=['bool', 'float', 'int', 'string']),
            value=dict(type='str'),
-            state=dict(type='str', required=True, choices=['absent', 'present']),
+            state=dict(type='str', required=True, choices=['absent', 'get', 'present']),
            direct=dict(type='bool', default=False),
            config_source=dict(type='str'),
        ),
@@ -148,6 +149,12 @@ class GConftool(StateModuleHelper):
    def _get(self):
        return self.runner("state key", output_process=self._make_process(False)).run(state="get")

+    def state_get(self):
+        self.deprecate(
+            msg="State 'get' is deprecated. Please use the module community.general.gconftool2_info instead",
+            version="8.0.0", collection_name="community.general"
+        )
+
    def state_absent(self):
        with self.runner("state key", output_process=self._make_process(False)) as ctx:
            ctx.run()
--- a/plugins/modules/gio_mime.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gio_mime.py
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2022, Alexei Znamensky <russoz@gmail.com>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-DOCUMENTATION = '''
-module: gio_mime
-author:
-  - "Alexei Znamensky (@russoz)"
-short_description: Set default handler for MIME type, for applications using Gnome GIO
-version_added: 7.5.0
-description:
-  - This module allows configuring the default handler for a specific MIME type, to be used by applications built with th Gnome GIO API.
-extends_documentation_fragment:
-  - community.general.attributes
-attributes:
-  check_mode:
-    support: full
-  diff_mode:
-    support: full
-options:
-  mime_type:
-    description:
-      - MIME type for which a default handler will be set.
-    type: str
-    required: true
-  handler:
-    description:
-      - Default handler will be set for the MIME type.
-    type: str
-    required: true
-notes:
-  - This module is a thin wrapper around the C(gio mime) command (and subcommand).
-  - See man gio(1) for more details.
-seealso:
-  - name: GIO Documentation
-    description: Reference documentation for the GIO API..
-    link: https://docs.gtk.org/gio/
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = """
- name: Set chrome as the default handler for https
-  community.general.gio_mime:
-    mime_type: x-scheme-handler/https
-    handler: google-chrome.desktop
-  register: result
-"""
-
-RETURN = '''
-  handler:
-    description:
-    - The handler set as default.
-    returned: success
-    type: str
-    sample: google-chrome.desktop
-  stdout:
-    description:
-    - The output of the C(gio) command.
-    returned: success
-    type: str
-    sample: Set google-chrome.desktop as the default for x-scheme-handler/https
-  stderr:
-    description:
-    - The error output of the C(gio) command.
-    returned: failure
-    type: str
-    sample: 'gio: Failed to load info for handler "never-existed.desktop"'
-'''
-
-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.module_helper import ModuleHelper
-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.gio_mime import gio_mime_runner, gio_mime_get
-
-
-class GioMime(ModuleHelper):
-    output_params = ['handler']
-    module = dict(
-        argument_spec=dict(
-            mime_type=dict(type='str', required=True),
-            handler=dict(type='str', required=True),
-        ),
-        supports_check_mode=True,
-    )
-
-    def __init_module__(self):
-        self.runner = gio_mime_runner(self.module, check_rc=True)
-        self.vars.set_meta("handler", initial_value=gio_mime_get(self.runner, self.vars.mime_type), diff=True, change=True)
-
-    def __run__(self):
-        check_mode_return = (0, 'Module executed in check mode', '')
-        if self.vars.has_changed("handler"):
-            with self.runner.context(args_order=["mime_type", "handler"], check_mode_skip=True, check_mode_return=check_mode_return) as ctx:
-                rc, out, err = ctx.run()
-                self.vars.stdout = out
-                self.vars.stderr = err
-                if self.verbosity >= 4:
-                    self.vars.run_info = ctx.run_info
-
-
-def main():
-    GioMime.execute()
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()
--- a/plugins/modules/github_deploy_key.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/github_deploy_key.py
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ class GithubDeployKey(object):
                yield self.module.from_json(resp.read())

                links = {}
-                for x, y in findall(r'<([^>]+)>;\s*rel="(\w+)"', info.get("link", '')):
+                for x, y in findall(r'<([^>]+)>;\s*rel="(\w+)"', info["link"]):
                    links[y] = x

                url = links.get('next')
--- a/plugins/modules/gitlab_group.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gitlab_group.py
@@ -94,13 +94,6 @@ options:
      - This option is only used on creation, not for updates.
    type: path
    version_added: 4.2.0
-  force_delete:
-    description:
-      - Force delete group even if projects in it.
-      - Used only when O(state=absent).
-    type: bool
-    default: false
-    version_added: 7.5.0
 '''

 EXAMPLES = '''
@@ -286,18 +279,12 @@ class GitLabGroup(object):

        return (changed, group)

-    '''
-    @param force To delete even if projects inside
-    '''
-    def delete_group(self, force=False):
+    def delete_group(self):
        group = self.group_object

-        if not force and len(group.projects.list(all=False)) >= 1:
+        if len(group.projects.list(all=False)) >= 1:
            self._module.fail_json(
-                msg=("There are still projects in this group. "
-                     "These needs to be moved or deleted before this group can be removed. "
-                     "Use 'force_delete' to 'true' to force deletion of existing projects.")
-            )
+                msg="There are still projects in this group. These needs to be moved or deleted before this group can be removed.")
        else:
            if self._module.check_mode:
                return True
@@ -308,7 +295,7 @@ class GitLabGroup(object):
                self._module.fail_json(msg="Failed to delete group: %s " % to_native(e))

    '''
-    @param name Name of the group
+    @param name Name of the groupe
    @param full_path Complete path of the Group including parent group path. <parent_path>/<group_path>
    '''
    def exists_group(self, project_identifier):
@@ -335,7 +322,6 @@ def main():
        subgroup_creation_level=dict(type='str', choices=['maintainer', 'owner']),
        require_two_factor_authentication=dict(type='bool'),
        avatar_path=dict(type='path'),
-        force_delete=dict(type='bool', default=False),
    ))

    module = AnsibleModule(
@@ -368,7 +354,6 @@ def main():
    subgroup_creation_level = module.params['subgroup_creation_level']
    require_two_factor_authentication = module.params['require_two_factor_authentication']
    avatar_path = module.params['avatar_path']
-    force_delete = module.params['force_delete']

    gitlab_instance = gitlab_authentication(module)

@@ -390,7 +375,7 @@ def main():

    if state == 'absent':
        if group_exists:
-            gitlab_group.delete_group(force=force_delete)
+            gitlab_group.delete_group()
            module.exit_json(changed=True, msg="Successfully deleted group %s" % group_name)
        else:
            module.exit_json(changed=False, msg="Group deleted or does not exists")
--- a/plugins/modules/gitlab_group_members.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gitlab_group_members.py
@@ -276,11 +276,11 @@ def main():
    ensure_gitlab_package(module)

    access_level_int = {
-        'guest': gitlab.const.GUEST_ACCESS,
-        'reporter': gitlab.const.REPORTER_ACCESS,
-        'developer': gitlab.const.DEVELOPER_ACCESS,
-        'maintainer': gitlab.const.MAINTAINER_ACCESS,
-        'owner': gitlab.const.OWNER_ACCESS,
+        'guest': gitlab.GUEST_ACCESS,
+        'reporter': gitlab.REPORTER_ACCESS,
+        'developer': gitlab.DEVELOPER_ACCESS,
+        'maintainer': gitlab.MAINTAINER_ACCESS,
+        'owner': gitlab.OWNER_ACCESS,
    }

    gitlab_group = module.params['gitlab_group']
--- a/plugins/modules/gitlab_group_variable.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gitlab_group_variable.py
@@ -53,14 +53,13 @@ options:
    type: bool
  vars:
    description:
-      - When the list element is a simple key-value pair, masked, raw and protected will be set to false.
-      - When the list element is a dict with the keys C(value), C(masked), C(raw) and C(protected), the user can
-        have full control about whether a value should be masked, raw, protected or both.
+      - When the list element is a simple key-value pair, set masked and protected to false.
+      - When the list element is a dict with the keys C(value), C(masked) and C(protected), the user can
+        have full control about whether a value should be masked, protected or both.
      - Support for group variables requires GitLab >= 9.5.
      - Support for environment_scope requires GitLab Premium >= 13.11.
      - Support for protected values requires GitLab >= 9.3.
      - Support for masked values requires GitLab >= 11.10.
-      - Support for raw values requires GitLab >= 15.7.
      - A C(value) must be a string or a number.
      - Field C(variable_type) must be a string with either V(env_var), which is the default, or V(file).
      - When a value is masked, it must be in Base64 and have a length of at least 8 characters.
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ options:
    version_added: 4.5.0
    description:
      - A list of dictionaries that represents CI/CD variables.
-      - This modules works internal with this structure, even if the older O(vars) parameter is used.
+      - This modules works internal with this sructure, even if the older O(vars) parameter is used.
    default: []
    type: list
    elements: dict
@@ -88,24 +87,17 @@ options:
        type: str
      masked:
        description:
-          - Whether variable value is masked or not.
+          - Wether variable value is masked or not.
        type: bool
        default: false
      protected:
        description:
-          - Whether variable value is protected or not.
+          - Wether variable value is protected or not.
        type: bool
        default: false
-      raw:
-        description:
-          - Whether variable value is raw or not.
-          - Support for raw values requires GitLab >= 15.7.
-        type: bool
-        default: false
-        version_added: '7.4.0'
      variable_type:
        description:
-          - Whether a variable is an environment variable (V(env_var)) or a file (V(file)).
+          - Wether a variable is an environment variable (V(env_var)) or a file (V(file)).
        type: str
        choices: [ "env_var", "file" ]
        default: env_var
@@ -134,38 +126,6 @@ EXAMPLES = r'''
        variable_type: env_var
        environment_scope: production

- name: Set or update some CI/CD variables with raw value
-  community.general.gitlab_group_variable:
-    api_url: https://gitlab.com
-    api_token: secret_access_token
-    group: scodeman/testgroup/
-    purge: false
-    vars:
-      ACCESS_KEY_ID: abc123
-      SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:
-        value: 3214cbad
-        masked: true
-        protected: true
-        raw: true
-        variable_type: env_var
-        environment_scope: '*'
-
- name: Set or update some CI/CD variables with expandable value
-  community.general.gitlab_group_variable:
-    api_url: https://gitlab.com
-    api_token: secret_access_token
-    group: scodeman/testgroup/
-    purge: false
-    vars:
-      ACCESS_KEY_ID: abc123
-      SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:
-        value: '$MY_OTHER_VARIABLE'
-        masked: true
-        protected: true
-        raw: false
-        variable_type: env_var
-        environment_scope: '*'
-
 - name: Delete one variable
  community.general.gitlab_group_variable:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
@@ -239,7 +199,6 @@ class GitlabGroupVariables(object):
            "value": var_obj.get('value'),
            "masked": var_obj.get('masked'),
            "protected": var_obj.get('protected'),
-            "raw": var_obj.get('raw'),
            "variable_type": var_obj.get('variable_type'),
        }
        if var_obj.get('environment_scope') is not None:
@@ -308,8 +267,6 @@ def native_python_main(this_gitlab, purge, requested_variables, state, module):
        item['value'] = str(item.get('value'))
        if item.get('protected') is None:
            item['protected'] = False
-        if item.get('raw') is None:
-            item['raw'] = False
        if item.get('masked') is None:
            item['masked'] = False
        if item.get('environment_scope') is None:
@@ -381,14 +338,11 @@ def main():
        group=dict(type='str', required=True),
        purge=dict(type='bool', required=False, default=False),
        vars=dict(type='dict', required=False, default=dict(), no_log=True),
-        # please mind whenever changing the variables dict to also change module_utils/gitlab.py's
-        # KNOWN dict in filter_returned_variables or bad evil will happen
        variables=dict(type='list', elements='dict', required=False, default=list(), options=dict(
            name=dict(type='str', required=True),
            value=dict(type='str', no_log=True),
            masked=dict(type='bool', default=False),
            protected=dict(type='bool', default=False),
-            raw=dict(type='bool', default=False),
            environment_scope=dict(type='str', default='*'),
            variable_type=dict(type='str', default='env_var', choices=["env_var", "file"])
        )),
--- a/plugins/modules/gitlab_instance_variable.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gitlab_instance_variable.py
@@ -67,17 +67,17 @@ options:
        type: str
      masked:
        description:
-          - Whether variable value is masked or not.
+          - Wether variable value is masked or not.
        type: bool
        default: false
      protected:
        description:
-          - Whether variable value is protected or not.
+          - Wether variable value is protected or not.
        type: bool
        default: false
      variable_type:
        description:
-          - Whether a variable is an environment variable (V(env_var)) or a file (V(file)).
+          - Wether a variable is an environment variable (V(env_var)) or a file (V(file)).
        type: str
        choices: [ "env_var", "file" ]
        default: env_var
--- a/plugins/modules/gitlab_merge_request.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gitlab_merge_request.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ options:
  description:
    description:
      - A description for the merge request.
-      - Gets overridden by a content of file specified at O(description_path), if found.
+      - Gets overriden by a content of file specified at O(description_path), if found.
    type: str
  description_path:
    description:
--- a/plugins/modules/gitlab_project.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gitlab_project.py
@@ -175,10 +175,8 @@ options:
    version_added: "4.2.0"
  default_branch:
    description:
-      - The default branch name for this project.
-      - For project creation, this option requires O(initialize_with_readme=true).
-      - For project update, the branch must exist.
-      - Supports project's default branch update since community.general 8.0.0.
+      - Default branch name for a new project.
+      - This option is only used on creation, not for updates. This is also only used if O(initialize_with_readme=true).
    type: str
    version_added: "4.2.0"
  builds_access_level:
@@ -357,7 +355,7 @@ class GitLabProject(object):
    @param namespace Namespace Object (User or Group)
    @param options Options of the project
    '''
-    def create_or_update_project(self, module, project_name, namespace, options):
+    def create_or_update_project(self, project_name, namespace, options):
        changed = False
        project_options = {
            'name': project_name,
@@ -397,8 +395,6 @@ class GitLabProject(object):

        # Because we have already call userExists in main()
        if self.project_object is None:
-            if options['default_branch'] and not options['initialize_with_readme']:
-                module.fail_json(msg="Param default_branch need param initialize_with_readme set to true")
            project_options.update({
                'path': options['path'],
                'import_url': options['import_url'],
@@ -420,8 +416,6 @@ class GitLabProject(object):

            changed = True
        else:
-            if options['default_branch']:
-                project_options['default_branch'] = options['default_branch']
            changed, project = self.update_project(self.project_object, project_options)

        self.project_object = project
@@ -596,6 +590,9 @@ def main():
    security_and_compliance_access_level = module.params['security_and_compliance_access_level']
    topics = module.params['topics']

+    if default_branch and not initialize_with_readme:
+        module.fail_json(msg="Param default_branch need param initialize_with_readme set to true")
+
    gitlab_instance = gitlab_authentication(module)

    # Set project_path to project_name if it is empty.
@@ -639,7 +636,7 @@ def main():

    if state == 'present':

-        if gitlab_project.create_or_update_project(module, project_name, namespace, {
+        if gitlab_project.create_or_update_project(project_name, namespace, {
            "path": project_path,
            "description": project_description,
            "initialize_with_readme": initialize_with_readme,
--- a/plugins/modules/gitlab_project_members.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gitlab_project_members.py
@@ -282,10 +282,10 @@ def main():
    ensure_gitlab_package(module)

    access_level_int = {
-        'guest': gitlab.const.GUEST_ACCESS,
-        'reporter': gitlab.const.REPORTER_ACCESS,
-        'developer': gitlab.const.DEVELOPER_ACCESS,
-        'maintainer': gitlab.const.MAINTAINER_ACCESS,
+        'guest': gitlab.GUEST_ACCESS,
+        'reporter': gitlab.REPORTER_ACCESS,
+        'developer': gitlab.DEVELOPER_ACCESS,
+        'maintainer': gitlab.MAINTAINER_ACCESS,
    }

    gitlab_project = module.params['project']
--- a/plugins/modules/gitlab_project_variable.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gitlab_project_variable.py
@@ -51,12 +51,11 @@ options:
    type: bool
  vars:
    description:
-      - When the list element is a simple key-value pair, masked, raw and protected will be set to false.
-      - When the list element is a dict with the keys C(value), C(masked), C(raw) and C(protected), the user can
-        have full control about whether a value should be masked, raw, protected or both.
+      - When the list element is a simple key-value pair, masked and protected will be set to false.
+      - When the list element is a dict with the keys C(value), C(masked) and C(protected), the user can
+        have full control about whether a value should be masked, protected or both.
      - Support for protected values requires GitLab >= 9.3.
      - Support for masked values requires GitLab >= 11.10.
-      - Support for raw values requires GitLab >= 15.7.
      - Support for environment_scope requires GitLab Premium >= 13.11.
      - Support for variable_type requires GitLab >= 11.11.
      - A C(value) must be a string or a number.
@@ -87,26 +86,19 @@ options:
        type: str
      masked:
        description:
-          - Whether variable value is masked or not.
+          - Wether variable value is masked or not.
          - Support for masked values requires GitLab >= 11.10.
        type: bool
        default: false
      protected:
        description:
-          - Whether variable value is protected or not.
+          - Wether variable value is protected or not.
          - Support for protected values requires GitLab >= 9.3.
        type: bool
        default: false
-      raw:
-        description:
-          - Whether variable value is raw or not.
-          - Support for raw values requires GitLab >= 15.7.
-        type: bool
-        default: false
-        version_added: '7.4.0'
      variable_type:
        description:
-          - Whether a variable is an environment variable (V(env_var)) or a file (V(file)).
+          - Wether a variable is an environment variable (V(env_var)) or a file (V(file)).
          - Support for O(variables[].variable_type) requires GitLab >= 11.11.
        type: str
        choices: ["env_var", "file"]
@@ -151,38 +143,6 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
        variable_type: env_var
        environment_scope: '*'

- name: Set or update some CI/CD variables with raw value
-  community.general.gitlab_project_variable:
-    api_url: https://gitlab.com
-    api_token: secret_access_token
-    project: markuman/dotfiles
-    purge: false
-    vars:
-      ACCESS_KEY_ID: abc123
-      SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:
-        value: 3214cbad
-        masked: true
-        protected: true
-        raw: true
-        variable_type: env_var
-        environment_scope: '*'
-
- name: Set or update some CI/CD variables with expandable value
-  community.general.gitlab_project_variable:
-    api_url: https://gitlab.com
-    api_token: secret_access_token
-    project: markuman/dotfiles
-    purge: false
-    vars:
-      ACCESS_KEY_ID: abc123
-      SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:
-        value: '$MY_OTHER_VARIABLE'
-        masked: true
-        protected: true
-        raw: false
-        variable_type: env_var
-        environment_scope: '*'
-
 - name: Delete one variable
  community.general.gitlab_project_variable:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
@@ -260,7 +220,6 @@ class GitlabProjectVariables(object):
            "value": var_obj.get('value'),
            "masked": var_obj.get('masked'),
            "protected": var_obj.get('protected'),
-            "raw": var_obj.get('raw'),
            "variable_type": var_obj.get('variable_type'),
        }

@@ -331,8 +290,6 @@ def native_python_main(this_gitlab, purge, requested_variables, state, module):
        item['value'] = str(item.get('value'))
        if item.get('protected') is None:
            item['protected'] = False
-        if item.get('raw') is None:
-            item['raw'] = False
        if item.get('masked') is None:
            item['masked'] = False
        if item.get('environment_scope') is None:
@@ -404,14 +361,11 @@ def main():
        project=dict(type='str', required=True),
        purge=dict(type='bool', required=False, default=False),
        vars=dict(type='dict', required=False, default=dict(), no_log=True),
-        # please mind whenever changing the variables dict to also change module_utils/gitlab.py's
-        # KNOWN dict in filter_returned_variables or bad evil will happen
        variables=dict(type='list', elements='dict', required=False, default=list(), options=dict(
            name=dict(type='str', required=True),
            value=dict(type='str', no_log=True),
            masked=dict(type='bool', default=False),
            protected=dict(type='bool', default=False),
-            raw=dict(type='bool', default=False),
            environment_scope=dict(type='str', default='*'),
            variable_type=dict(type='str', default='env_var', choices=["env_var", "file"]),
        )),
--- a/plugins/modules/gitlab_protected_branch.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gitlab_protected_branch.py
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ class GitlabProtectedBranch(object):
        self._module = module
        self.project = self.get_project(project)
        self.ACCESS_LEVEL = {
-            'nobody': gitlab.const.NO_ACCESS,
-            'developer': gitlab.const.DEVELOPER_ACCESS,
-            'maintainer': gitlab.const.MAINTAINER_ACCESS
+            'nobody': gitlab.NO_ACCESS,
+            'developer': gitlab.DEVELOPER_ACCESS,
+            'maintainer': gitlab.MAINTAINER_ACCESS
        }

    def get_project(self, project_name):
--- a/plugins/modules/gitlab_runner.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gitlab_runner.py
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ options:
        is only applied on updates.
      - If set to V(not_protected), runner can pick up jobs from both protected and unprotected branches.
      - If set to V(ref_protected), runner can pick up jobs only from protected branches.
-      - Before community.general 8.0.0 the default was V(ref_protected). This was changed to no default in community.general 8.0.0.
-        If this option is not specified explicitly, GitLab will use V(not_protected) on creation, and the value set
-        will not be changed on any updates.
+      - The current default is V(ref_protected). This will change to no default in community.general 8.0.0.
+        From that version on, if this option is not specified explicitly, GitLab will use V(not_protected)
+        on creation, and the value set will not be changed on any updates.
    required: false
    choices: ["not_protected", "ref_protected"]
    type: str
@@ -398,6 +398,15 @@ def main():
    project = module.params['project']
    group = module.params['group']

+    if access_level is None:
+        message = "The option 'access_level' is unspecified, so 'ref_protected' is assumed. "\
+                  "In order to align the module with GitLab's runner API, this option will lose "\
+                  "its default value in community.general 8.0.0. From that version on, you must set "\
+                  "this option to 'ref_protected' explicitly, if you want to have a protected runner, "\
+                  "otherwise GitLab's default access level gets applied, which is 'not_protected'"
+        module.deprecate(message, version='8.0.0', collection_name='community.general')
+        access_level = 'ref_protected'
+
    gitlab_instance = gitlab_authentication(module)
    gitlab_project = None
    gitlab_group = None
--- a/plugins/modules/gitlab_user.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/gitlab_user.py
@@ -244,12 +244,12 @@ class GitLabUser(object):
        self._gitlab = gitlab_instance
        self.user_object = None
        self.ACCESS_LEVEL = {
-            'guest': gitlab.const.GUEST_ACCESS,
-            'reporter': gitlab.const.REPORTER_ACCESS,
-            'developer': gitlab.const.DEVELOPER_ACCESS,
-            'master': gitlab.const.MAINTAINER_ACCESS,
-            'maintainer': gitlab.const.MAINTAINER_ACCESS,
-            'owner': gitlab.const.OWNER_ACCESS,
+            'guest': gitlab.GUEST_ACCESS,
+            'reporter': gitlab.REPORTER_ACCESS,
+            'developer': gitlab.DEVELOPER_ACCESS,
+            'master': gitlab.MAINTAINER_ACCESS,
+            'maintainer': gitlab.MAINTAINER_ACCESS,
+            'owner': gitlab.OWNER_ACCESS,
        }

    '''
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ class GitLabUser(object):

    '''
    @param user User object
-    @param identities List of identities to be added/updated
+    @param identites List of identities to be added/updated
    @param overwrite_identities Overwrite user identities with identities passed to this module
    '''
    def add_identities(self, user, identities, overwrite_identities=False):
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ class GitLabUser(object):

    '''
    @param user User object
-    @param identities List of identities to be added/updated
+    @param identites List of identities to be added/updated
    '''
    def delete_identities(self, user, identities):
        changed = False
--- a/plugins/modules/homectl.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/homectl.py
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ class Homectl(object):
            user_metadata.pop('status', None)
            # Let last change Usec be updated by homed when command runs.
            user_metadata.pop('lastChangeUSec', None)
-            # Now only change fields that are called on leaving what's currently in the record intact.
+            # Now only change fields that are called on leaving whats currently in the record intact.
            record = user_metadata

        record['userName'] = self.name
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ class Homectl(object):
            self.result['changed'] = True

        if self.disksize:
-            # convert human readable to bytes
+            # convert humand readble to bytes
            if self.disksize != record.get('diskSize'):
                record['diskSize'] = human_to_bytes(self.disksize)
                self.result['changed'] = True
--- a/plugins/modules/htpasswd.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/htpasswd.py
@@ -106,16 +106,22 @@ EXAMPLES = """

 import os
 import tempfile
-
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils import deps
+import traceback
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule, missing_required_lib
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native

+from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.version import LooseVersion

-with deps.declare("passlib"):
+PASSLIB_IMP_ERR = None
+try:
    from passlib.apache import HtpasswdFile, htpasswd_context
    from passlib.context import CryptContext
-
+    import passlib
+except ImportError:
+    PASSLIB_IMP_ERR = traceback.format_exc()
+    passlib_installed = False
+else:
+    passlib_installed = True

 apache_hashes = ["apr_md5_crypt", "des_crypt", "ldap_sha1", "plaintext"]

@@ -140,20 +146,36 @@ def present(dest, username, password, hash_scheme, create, check_mode):
        if check_mode:
            return ("Create %s" % dest, True)
        create_missing_directories(dest)
-        ht = HtpasswdFile(dest, new=True, default_scheme=hash_scheme, context=context)
-        ht.set_password(username, password)
+        if LooseVersion(passlib.__version__) >= LooseVersion('1.6'):
+            ht = HtpasswdFile(dest, new=True, default_scheme=hash_scheme, context=context)
+        else:
+            ht = HtpasswdFile(dest, autoload=False, default=hash_scheme, context=context)
+        if getattr(ht, 'set_password', None):
+            ht.set_password(username, password)
+        else:
+            ht.update(username, password)
        ht.save()
        return ("Created %s and added %s" % (dest, username), True)
    else:
-        ht = HtpasswdFile(dest, new=False, default_scheme=hash_scheme, context=context)
+        if LooseVersion(passlib.__version__) >= LooseVersion('1.6'):
+            ht = HtpasswdFile(dest, new=False, default_scheme=hash_scheme, context=context)
+        else:
+            ht = HtpasswdFile(dest, default=hash_scheme, context=context)

-        found = ht.check_password(username, password)
+        found = None
+        if getattr(ht, 'check_password', None):
+            found = ht.check_password(username, password)
+        else:
+            found = ht.verify(username, password)

        if found:
            return ("%s already present" % username, False)
        else:
            if not check_mode:
-                ht.set_password(username, password)
+                if getattr(ht, 'set_password', None):
+                    ht.set_password(username, password)
+                else:
+                    ht.update(username, password)
                ht.save()
            return ("Add/update %s" % username, True)

@@ -162,7 +184,10 @@ def absent(dest, username, check_mode):
    """ Ensures user is absent

    Returns (msg, changed) """
-    ht = HtpasswdFile(dest, new=False)
+    if LooseVersion(passlib.__version__) >= LooseVersion('1.6'):
+        ht = HtpasswdFile(dest, new=False)
+    else:
+        ht = HtpasswdFile(dest)

    if username not in ht.users():
        return ("%s not present" % username, False)
@@ -208,13 +233,20 @@ def main():
    create = module.params['create']
    check_mode = module.check_mode

-    deps.validate(module)
+    if not passlib_installed:
+        module.fail_json(msg=missing_required_lib("passlib"), exception=PASSLIB_IMP_ERR)

-    # TODO double check if this hack below is still needed.
    # Check file for blank lines in effort to avoid "need more than 1 value to unpack" error.
    try:
-        with open(path, "r") as f:
+        f = open(path, "r")
+    except IOError:
+        # No preexisting file to remove blank lines from
+        f = None
+    else:
+        try:
            lines = f.readlines()
+        finally:
+            f.close()

        # If the file gets edited, it returns true, so only edit the file if it has blank lines
        strip = False
@@ -228,12 +260,11 @@ def main():
            if check_mode:
                temp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
                path = temp.name
-            with open(path, "w") as f:
-                f.writelines(line for line in lines if line.strip())
-
-    except IOError:
-        # No preexisting file to remove blank lines from
-        pass
+            f = open(path, "w")
+            try:
+                [f.write(line) for line in lines if line.strip()]
+            finally:
+                f.close()

    try:
        if state == 'present':
--- a/plugins/modules/icinga2_host.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/icinga2_host.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ options:
    type: str
    description:
      - The IP address of the host.
-      - This is no longer required since community.general 8.0.0.
+    required: true
  variables:
    type: dict
    description:
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ def main():
        template=dict(default=None),
        check_command=dict(default="hostalive"),
        display_name=dict(default=None),
-        ip=dict(),
+        ip=dict(required=True),
        variables=dict(type='dict', default=None),
    )

--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More