Release 9.3.0.

[PR #8756/34519a5e backport][stable-9] Improve communication info (#8758 )
Improve communication info (#8756) Improve communication info. (cherry picked from commit 34519a5ecb) Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
2026-04-29 01:46:53 +00:00 · 2024-08-12 17:27:14 +02:00 · 2024-08-12 17:23:17 +02:00 · 2024-08-12 12:44:25 +02:00 · 2024-08-12 08:07:31 +02:00 · 2024-08-12 08:07:18 +02:00
1041 changed files with 32642 additions and 18499 deletions
--- a/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ schedules:
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-7
-        - stable-6
+        - stable-9
+        - stable-8
  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-5
+        - stable-7

 variables:
  - name: checkoutPath
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ variables:
 resources:
  containers:
    - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:4.0.1
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:6.0.0

 pool: Standard

@@ -73,6 +73,19 @@ stages:
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
            - test: extra
+  - stage: Sanity_2_17
+    displayName: Sanity 2.17
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.17/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
  - stage: Sanity_2_16
    displayName: Sanity 2.16
    dependsOn: []
@@ -99,19 +112,6 @@ stages:
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_14
-    displayName: Sanity 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.14/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
 ### Units
  - stage: Units_devel
    displayName: Units devel
@@ -122,12 +122,23 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/units/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: 3.7
            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
            - test: '3.11'
            - test: '3.12'
+            - test: '3.13'
+  - stage: Units_2_17
+    displayName: Units 2.17
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.17/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.7
+            - test: "3.12"
  - stage: Units_2_16
    displayName: Units 2.16
    dependsOn: []
@@ -151,16 +162,6 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - test: 3.5
            - test: "3.10"
-  - stage: Units_2_14
-    displayName: Units 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.14/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 3.9

 ## Remote
  - stage: Remote_devel_extra_vms
@@ -171,12 +172,14 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.18
-              test: alpine/3.18
-            # - name: Fedora 38
-            #   test: fedora/38
+            - name: Alpine 3.20
+              test: alpine/3.20
+            # - name: Fedora 40
+            #   test: fedora/40
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu/22.04
+            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
+              test: ubuntu/24.04
          groups:
            - vm
  - stage: Remote_devel
@@ -187,12 +190,30 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: macOS 13.2
-              test: macos/13.2
-            - name: RHEL 9.2
-              test: rhel/9.2
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
-              test: freebsd/13.2
+            - name: macOS 14.3
+              test: macos/14.3
+            - name: RHEL 9.4
+              test: rhel/9.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 14.1
+              test: freebsd/14.1
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_17
+    displayName: Remote 2.17
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.17/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.3
+              test: freebsd/13.3
+            - name: RHEL 9.3
+              test: rhel/9.3
+            - name: FreeBSD 14.0
+              test: freebsd/14.0
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -205,12 +226,14 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: 2.16/{0}
          targets:
-            #- name: macOS 13.2
-            #  test: macos/13.2
+            - name: macOS 13.2
+              test: macos/13.2
+            - name: RHEL 9.2
+              test: rhel/9.2
            - name: RHEL 8.8
              test: rhel/8.8
-            #- name: FreeBSD 13.2
-            #  test: freebsd/13.2
+            # - name: FreeBSD 13.2
+            #   test: freebsd/13.2
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -229,28 +252,10 @@ stages:
              test: rhel/8.7
            - name: RHEL 7.9
              test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
-              test: freebsd/13.1
-            - name: FreeBSD 12.4
-              test: freebsd/12.4
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_14
-    displayName: Remote 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.14/{0}
-          targets:
-            #- name: 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 13.1
+            #   test: freebsd/13.1
+            # - name: FreeBSD 12.4
+            #   test: freebsd/12.4
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -265,14 +270,32 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora38
-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
-              test: ubuntu2004
+            - name: Fedora 40
+              test: fedora40
+            - name: Alpine 3.20
+              test: alpine320
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu2204
-            - name: Alpine 3
-              test: alpine3
+            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
+              test: ubuntu2404
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_17
+    displayName: Docker 2.17
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.17/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 39
+              test: fedora39
+            - name: Alpine 3.19
+              test: alpine319
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -285,8 +308,12 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: 2.16/linux/{0}
          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 38
+              test: fedora38
            - name: openSUSE 15
              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -307,20 +334,6 @@ stages:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_14
-    displayName: Docker 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.14/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 36
-              test: fedora36
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3

 ### Community Docker
  - stage: Docker_community_devel
@@ -336,7 +349,7 @@ stages:
            - name: Debian Bookworm
              test: debian-bookworm/3.11
            - name: ArchLinux
-              test: archlinux/3.11
+              test: archlinux/3.12
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -351,6 +364,18 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/generic/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: '3.8'
+            - test: '3.11'
+            - test: '3.13'
+  - stage: Generic_2_17
+    displayName: Generic 2.17
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.17/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: '3.7'
            - test: '3.12'
@@ -376,42 +401,32 @@ stages:
          testFormat: 2.15/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: '3.9'
-  - stage: Generic_2_14
-    displayName: Generic 2.14
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.14/generic/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: '3.10'

  - stage: Summary
    condition: succeededOrFailed()
    dependsOn:
      - Sanity_devel
+      - Sanity_2_17
      - Sanity_2_16
      - Sanity_2_15
-      - Sanity_2_14
      - Units_devel
+      - Units_2_17
      - Units_2_16
      - Units_2_15
-      - Units_2_14
      - Remote_devel_extra_vms
      - Remote_devel
+      - Remote_2_17
      - Remote_2_16
      - Remote_2_15
-      - Remote_2_14
      - Docker_devel
+      - Docker_2_17
      - Docker_2_16
      - Docker_2_15
-      - Docker_2_14
      - Docker_community_devel
 # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
 #      - Generic_devel
+#      - Generic_2_17
 #      - Generic_2_16
 #      - Generic_2_15
-#      - Generic_2_14
    jobs:
      - template: templates/coverage.yml
--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core
  $becomes/pmrun.py:
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core
+  $becomes/run0.py:
+    maintainers: konstruktoid
  $becomes/sesu.py:
    maintainers: nekonyuu
  $becomes/sudosu.py:
@@ -50,6 +52,8 @@ files:
  $callbacks/cgroup_memory_recap.py: {}
  $callbacks/context_demo.py: {}
  $callbacks/counter_enabled.py: {}
+  $callbacks/default_without_diff.py:
+    maintainers: felixfontein
  $callbacks/dense.py:
    maintainers: dagwieers
  $callbacks/diy.py:
@@ -87,6 +91,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: ryancurrah
  $callbacks/syslog_json.py:
    maintainers: imjoseangel
+  $callbacks/timestamp.py:
+    maintainers: kurokobo
  $callbacks/unixy.py:
    labels: unixy
    maintainers: akatch
@@ -97,6 +103,9 @@ files:
  $connections/funcd.py:
    maintainers: mscherer
  $connections/iocage.py: {}
+  $connections/incus.py:
+    labels: incus
+    maintainers: stgraber
  $connections/jail.py:
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core
  $connections/lxc.py: {}
@@ -112,6 +121,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core
  $doc_fragments/:
    labels: docs_fragments
+  $doc_fragments/django.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $doc_fragments/hpe3par.py:
    labels: hpe3par
    maintainers: farhan7500 gautamphegde
@@ -119,7 +130,7 @@ files:
    labels: hwc
    maintainers: $team_huawei
  $doc_fragments/nomad.py:
-    maintainers: chris93111
+    maintainers: chris93111 apecnascimento
  $doc_fragments/xenserver.py:
    labels: xenserver
    maintainers: bvitnik
@@ -133,6 +144,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: giner
  $filters/from_csv.py:
    maintainers: Ajpantuso
+  $filters/from_ini.py:
+    maintainers: sscheib
  $filters/groupby_as_dict.py:
    maintainers: felixfontein
  $filters/hashids.py:
@@ -144,15 +157,35 @@ files:
  $filters/jc.py:
    maintainers: kellyjonbrazil
  $filters/json_query.py: {}
+  $filters/keep_keys.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $filters/lists.py:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
+  $filters/lists_difference.yml:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
+  $filters/lists_intersect.yml:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
  $filters/lists_mergeby.py:
    maintainers: vbotka
+  $filters/lists_symmetric_difference.yml:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
+  $filters/lists_union.yml:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
  $filters/random_mac.py: {}
+  $filters/remove_keys.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $filters/replace_keys.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $filters/reveal_ansible_type.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
  $filters/time.py:
    maintainers: resmo
  $filters/to_days.yml:
    maintainers: resmo
  $filters/to_hours.yml:
    maintainers: resmo
+  $filters/to_ini.py:
+    maintainers: sscheib
  $filters/to_milliseconds.yml:
    maintainers: resmo
  $filters/to_minutes.yml:
@@ -193,7 +226,7 @@ files:
    labels: cloud opennebula
    maintainers: feldsam
  $inventories/proxmox.py:
-    maintainers: $team_virt ilijamt
+    maintainers: $team_virt ilijamt krauthosting
  $inventories/scaleway.py:
    labels: cloud scaleway
    maintainers: $team_scaleway
@@ -234,6 +267,8 @@ files:
  $lookups/filetree.py:
    maintainers: dagwieers
  $lookups/flattened.py: {}
+  $lookups/github_app_access_token.py:
+    maintainers: weisheng-p
  $lookups/hiera.py:
    maintainers: jparrill
  $lookups/keyring.py: {}
@@ -244,7 +279,7 @@ files:
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    maintainers: galanoff
  $lookups/merge_variables.py:
-    maintainers: rlenferink m-a-r-k-e
+    maintainers: rlenferink m-a-r-k-e alpex8
  $lookups/onepass:
    labels: onepassword
    maintainers: samdoran
@@ -273,8 +308,12 @@ files:
    labels: module_utils
  $module_utils/btrfs.py:
    maintainers: gnfzdz
+  $module_utils/cmd_runner.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/deps.py:
    maintainers: russoz
+  $module_utils/django.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/gconftool2.py:
    labels: gconftool2
    maintainers: russoz
@@ -318,6 +357,8 @@ files:
  $module_utils/pipx.py:
    labels: pipx
    maintainers: russoz
+  $module_utils/python_runner.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $module_utils/puppet.py:
    labels: puppet
    maintainers: russoz
@@ -407,6 +448,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: hkariti
  $modules/bitbucket_:
    maintainers: catcombo
+  $modules/bootc_manage.py:
+    maintainers: cooktheryan
  $modules/bower.py:
    maintainers: mwarkentin
  $modules/btrfs_:
@@ -469,12 +512,20 @@ files:
    maintainers: tintoy
  $modules/discord.py:
    maintainers: cwollinger
+  $modules/django_check.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
+  $modules/django_command.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
+  $modules/django_createcachetable.py:
+    maintainers: russoz
  $modules/django_manage.py:
    ignore: scottanderson42 tastychutney
    labels: django_manage
    maintainers: russoz
  $modules/dnf_versionlock.py:
    maintainers: moreda
+  $modules/dnf_config_manager.py:
+    maintainers: ahyattdev
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    maintainers: drcapulet
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    maintainers: $team_flatpak
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@@ -526,6 +575,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: russoz
  $modules/git_config.py:
    maintainers: djmattyg007 mgedmin
+  $modules/git_config_info.py:
+    maintainers: guenhter
  $modules/github_:
    maintainers: stpierre
  $modules/github_deploy_key.py:
@@ -547,8 +598,14 @@ files:
    ignore: dj-wasabi
  $modules/gitlab_branch.py:
    maintainers: paytroff
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+    maintainers: zvaraondrej
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+    maintainers: gpongelli
  $modules/gitlab_merge_request.py:
    maintainers: zvaraondrej
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    maintainers: markuman
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@@ -557,6 +614,10 @@ files:
    maintainers: SamyCoenen
  $modules/gitlab_user.py:
    maintainers: LennertMertens stgrace
+  $modules/gitlab_group_access_token.py:
+    maintainers: pixslx
+  $modules/gitlab_project_access_token.py:
+    maintainers: pixslx
  $modules/grove.py:
    maintainers: zimbatm
  $modules/gunicorn.py:
@@ -587,6 +648,11 @@ files:
    labels: homebrew_ macos
    maintainers: $team_macos
    notify: chris-short
+  $modules/homebrew_services.py:
+    ignore: ryansb
+    keywords: brew cask services darwin homebrew macosx macports osx
+    labels: homebrew_ macos
+    maintainers: $team_macos kitizz
  $modules/homectl.py:
    maintainers: jameslivulpi
  $modules/honeybadger_deployment.py:
@@ -645,6 +711,9 @@ files:
    maintainers: bregman-arie
  $modules/ipa_:
    maintainers: $team_ipa
+    ignore: fxfitz
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+    maintainers: $team_ipa jwbernin
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    maintainers: dominikkukacka
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@@ -740,8 +809,14 @@ files:
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+    maintainers: desand01
  $modules/keycloak_user_rolemapping.py:
    maintainers: bratwurzt
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+    maintainers: agross mhuysamen Gaetan2907
  $modules/keyring.py:
    maintainers: ahussey-redhat
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    maintainers: alcamie101
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+    maintainers: chris93111 apecnascimento
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    keywords: kvm libvirt proxmox qemu
    labels: proxmox virt
-    maintainers: $team_virt UnderGreen
+    maintainers: $team_virt UnderGreen krauthosting
    ignore: tleguern
  $modules/proxmox.py:
    ignore: skvidal
-    maintainers: UnderGreen
+    maintainers: UnderGreen krauthosting
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-    maintainers: castorsky
+    maintainers: castorsky krauthosting
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-    maintainers: helldorado
+    maintainers: helldorado krauthosting
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-    maintainers: Kogelvis
+    maintainers: Kogelvis krauthosting
+  $modules/proxmox_node_info.py:
+    maintainers: jwbernin krauthosting
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-    maintainers: paginabianca
+    maintainers: paginabianca krauthosting
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    ignore: skvidal
-    maintainers: UnderGreen
+    maintainers: UnderGreen krauthosting
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    maintainers: parfeon pubnub
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  $modules/redfish_:
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  $modules/ssh_config.py:
    maintainers: gaqzi Akasurde
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    maintainers: bsanders bbyhuy
@@ -1308,6 +1345,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: nate-kingsley
  $modules/urpmi.py:
    maintainers: pmakowski
+  $modules/usb_facts.py:
+    maintainers: maxopoly
  $modules/utm_:
    keywords: sophos utm
    maintainers: $team_e_spirit
@@ -1344,8 +1383,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_wdc
  $modules/wdc_redfish_info.py:
    maintainers: $team_wdc
-  $modules/webfaction_:
-    maintainers: quentinsf
  $modules/xattr.py:
    labels: xattr
    maintainers: bcoca
@@ -1397,8 +1434,67 @@ files:
    ignore: matze
    labels: zypper
    maintainers: $team_suse
+  $plugin_utils/ansible_type.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $plugin_utils/keys_filter.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $plugin_utils/unsafe.py:
+    maintainers: felixfontein
  $tests/a_module.py:
    maintainers: felixfontein
+  $tests/ansible_type.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  $tests/fqdn_valid.py:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+#########################
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide.rst: {}
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst: {}
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst:
+    maintainers: keilr
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries.rst:
+    maintainers: felixfontein giner
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping.rst:
+    maintainers: felixfontein
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_lists_helper.rst:
+    maintainers: cfiehe
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-keep_keys.rst:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-remove_keys.rst:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-replace_keys.rst:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries.rst:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst:
+    maintainers: vbotka
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_conversions.rst:
+    maintainers: Ajpantuso kellyjonbrazil
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_creating_identifiers.rst:
+    maintainers: Ajpantuso
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst: {}
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst: {}
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_times.rst:
+    maintainers: resmo
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_unicode.rst:
+    maintainers: Ajpantuso
+  docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_working_with_versions.rst:
+    maintainers: ericzolf
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_alicloud.rst:
+    maintainers: xiaozhu36
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_cmdrunner.rst:
+    maintainers: russoz
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_deps.rst:
+    maintainers: russoz
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_online.rst:
+    maintainers: remyleone
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_packet.rst:
+    maintainers: baldwinSPC nurfet-becirevic t0mk teebes
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_scaleway.rst:
+    maintainers: $team_scaleway
+  docs/docsite/rst/guide_vardict.rst:
+    maintainers: russoz
+  docs/docsite/rst/test_guide.rst:
+    maintainers: felixfontein
 #########################
  tests/:
    labels: tests
@@ -1416,7 +1512,6 @@ macros:
  becomes: plugins/become
  caches: plugins/cache
  callbacks: plugins/callback
-  cliconfs: plugins/cliconf
  connections: plugins/connection
  doc_fragments: plugins/doc_fragments
  filters: plugins/filter
@@ -1424,21 +1519,21 @@ macros:
  lookups: plugins/lookup
  module_utils: plugins/module_utils
  modules: plugins/modules
-  terminals: plugins/terminal
+  plugin_utils: plugins/plugin_utils
  tests: plugins/test
  team_ansible_core:
  team_aix: MorrisA bcoca d-little flynn1973 gforster kairoaraujo marvin-sinister mator molekuul ramooncamacho wtcross
  team_bsd: JoergFiedler MacLemon bcoca dch jasperla mekanix opoplawski overhacked tuxillo
-  team_consul: sgargan
+  team_consul: sgargan apollo13 Ilgmi
  team_cyberark_conjur: jvanderhoof ryanprior
  team_e_spirit: MatrixCrawler getjack
  team_flatpak: JayKayy oolongbrothers
  team_gitlab: Lunik Shaps marwatk waheedi zanssa scodeman metanovii sh0shin nejch lgatellier suukit
  team_hpux: bcoca davx8342
  team_huawei: QijunPan TommyLike edisonxiang freesky-edward hwDCN niuzhenguo xuxiaowei0512 yanzhangi zengchen1024 zhongjun2
-  team_ipa: Akasurde Nosmoht fxfitz justchris1
+  team_ipa: Akasurde Nosmoht justchris1
  team_jboss: Wolfant jairojunior wbrefvem
-  team_keycloak: eikef ndclt mattock
+  team_keycloak: eikef ndclt mattock thomasbach-dev
  team_linode: InTheCloudDan decentral1se displague rmcintosh Charliekenney23 LBGarber
  team_macos: Akasurde kyleabenson martinm82 danieljaouen indrajitr
  team_manageiq: abellotti cben gtanzillo yaacov zgalor dkorn evertmulder
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ jobs:
      matrix:
        ansible:
          - '2.13'
+          - '2.14'
    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
+          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
          testing-type: sanity
@@ -72,6 +74,8 @@ jobs:
            python: '2.7'
          - ansible: '2.13'
            python: '3.8'
+          - ansible: '2.14'
+            python: '3.9'

    steps:
      - name: >-
@@ -80,6 +84,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
+          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pre-test-cmd: >-
            mkdir -p ../../ansible
@@ -148,11 +153,29 @@ jobs:
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
+          # 2.14
+          - ansible: '2.14'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.14'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.14'
+            docker: alpine3
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
          # - ansible: '2.13'
          #   docker: default
          #   python: '3.9'
          #   target: azp/generic/1/
+          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
+          # - ansible: '2.14'
+          #   docker: default
+          #   python: '3.10'
+          #   target: azp/generic/1/

    steps:
      - name: >-
@@ -162,6 +185,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
+          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          docker-image: ${{ matrix.docker }}
          integration-continue-on-error: 'false'
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ jobs:

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

    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3
--- a/.github/workflows/import-galaxy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/import-galaxy.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+name: import-galaxy
+'on':
+  # Run CI against all pushes (direct commits, also merged PRs) to main, and all Pull Requests
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - stable-*
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  import-galaxy:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    name: Test to import built collection artifact with Galaxy importer
+    uses: ansible-community/github-action-test-galaxy-import/.github/workflows/test-galaxy-import.yml@main
--- a/.github/workflows/reuse.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reuse.yml
@@ -26,10 +26,5 @@ jobs:
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || '' }}

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

 # Integration tests cloud configs
 tests/integration/cloud-config-*.ini
+
+
+# VSCode specific extensions
+.vscode/settings.json
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,549 @@
+# Community General Release Notes
+
+**Topics**
+
+- <a href="#v9-3-0">v9\.3\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules">New Modules</a>
+- <a href="#v9-2-0">v9\.2\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-1">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-1">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-1">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#new-plugins">New Plugins</a>
+        - <a href="#filter">Filter</a>
+        - <a href="#test">Test</a>
+- <a href="#v9-1-0">v9\.1\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-2">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-2">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features">Deprecated Features</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-2">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#known-issues">Known Issues</a>
+    - <a href="#new-plugins-1">New Plugins</a>
+        - <a href="#filter-1">Filter</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules-1">New Modules</a>
+- <a href="#v9-0-1">v9\.0\.1</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-3">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-3">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-3">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v9-0-0">v9\.0\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-4">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-4">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#breaking-changes--porting-guide">Breaking Changes / Porting Guide</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features-1">Deprecated Features</a>
+    - <a href="#removed-features-previously-deprecated">Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)</a>
+    - <a href="#security-fixes">Security Fixes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-4">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#new-plugins-2">New Plugins</a>
+        - <a href="#become">Become</a>
+        - <a href="#callback">Callback</a>
+        - <a href="#connection">Connection</a>
+        - <a href="#filter-2">Filter</a>
+        - <a href="#lookup">Lookup</a>
+        - <a href="#test-1">Test</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules-2">New Modules</a>
+This changelog describes changes after version 8\.0\.0\.
+
+<a id="v9-3-0"></a>
+## v9\.3\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* cgroup\_memory\_recap\, hipchat\, jabber\, log\_plays\, loganalytics\, logentries\, logstash\, slack\, splunk\, sumologic\, syslog\_json callback plugins \- make sure that all options are typed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8628](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8628)\)\.
+* chef\_databag\, consul\_kv\, cyberarkpassword\, dsv\, etcd\, filetree\, hiera\, onepassword\, onepassword\_doc\, onepassword\_raw\, passwordstore\, redis\, shelvefile\, tss lookup plugins \- make sure that all options are typed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8626](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8626)\)\.
+* chroot\, funcd\, incus\, iocage\, jail\, lxc\, lxd\, qubes\, zone connection plugins \- make sure that all options are typed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8627](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8627)\)\.
+* cobbler\, linode\, lxd\, nmap\, online\, scaleway\, stackpath\_compute\, virtualbox inventory plugins \- make sure that all options are typed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8625](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8625)\)\.
+* doas\, dzdo\, ksu\, machinectl\, pbrun\, pfexec\, pmrun\, sesu\, sudosu become plugins \- make sure that all options are typed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8623](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8623)\)\.
+* gconftool2 \- make use of <code>ModuleHelper</code> features to simplify code \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8711](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8711)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project \- add option <code>container\_expiration\_policy</code> to schedule container registry cleanup \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8674](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8674)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project \- add option <code>model\_registry\_access\_level</code> to disable model registry \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8688](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8688)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project \- add option <code>pages\_access\_level</code> to disable project pages \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8688](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8688)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project \- add option <code>repository\_access\_level</code> to disable project repository \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8674](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8674)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project \- add option <code>service\_desk\_enabled</code> to disable service desk \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8688](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8688)\)\.
+* locale\_gen \- add support for multiple locales \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8677](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8677)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8682](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8682)\)\.
+* memcached\, pickle\, redis\, yaml cache plugins \- make sure that all options are typed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8624](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8624)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback plugin \- fix default value for <code>store\_spans\_in\_file</code> causing traces to be produced to a file named <code>None</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8566](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8566)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8741](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8741)\)\.
+* passwordstore lookup plugin \- add the current user to the lockfile file name to address issues on multi\-user systems \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8689](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8689)\)\.
+* pipx \- add parameter <code>suffix</code> to module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8675](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8675)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8656](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8656)\)\.
+* pkgng \- add option <code>use\_globs</code> \(default <code>true</code>\) to optionally disable glob patterns \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8632](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8632)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8633](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8633)\)\.
+* proxmox inventory plugin \- add new fact for LXC interface details \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8713](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8713)\)\.
+* redis\, redis\_info \- add <code>client\_cert</code> and <code>client\_key</code> options to specify path to certificate for Redis authentication  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8654](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8654)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* gitlab\_runner \- fix <code>paused</code> parameter being ignored \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8648](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8648)\)\.
+* homebrew\_cask \- fix <code>upgrade\_all</code> returns <code>changed</code> when nothing upgraded \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8707](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8707)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8708](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8708)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- get cleartext IDP <code>clientSecret</code> from full realm info to detect changes to it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8294](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8294)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8735](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8735)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- remove existing user federation mappers if they are not present in the federation configuration and will not be updated \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7169](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7169)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8695](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8695)\)\.
+* proxmox \- fixed an issue where the new volume handling incorrectly converted <code>null</code> values into <code>\"None\"</code> strings \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8646)\)\.
+* proxmox \- fixed an issue where volume strings where overwritten instead of appended to in the new <code>build\_volume\(\)</code> method \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8646)\)\.
+* proxmox \- removed the forced conversion of non\-string values to strings to be consistent with the module documentation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8646)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-modules"></a>
+### New Modules
+
+* community\.general\.bootc\_manage \- Bootc Switch and Upgrade\.
+* community\.general\.homebrew\_services \- Services manager for Homebrew\.
+* community\.general\.keycloak\_realm\_keys\_metadata\_info \- Allows obtaining Keycloak realm keys metadata via Keycloak API\.
+
+<a id="v9-2-0"></a>
+## v9\.2\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-1"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-1"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* CmdRunner module utils \- the parameter <code>force\_lang</code> now supports the special value <code>auto</code> which will automatically try and determine the best parsable locale in the system \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8517](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8517)\)\.
+* proxmox \- add <code>disk\_volume</code> and <code>mount\_volumes</code> keys for better readability \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542)\)\.
+* proxmox \- translate the old <code>disk</code> and <code>mounts</code> keys to the new handling internally \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542)\)\.
+* proxmox\_template \- small refactor in logic for determining whether a template exists or not \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8516](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8516)\)\.
+* redfish\_\* modules \- adds <code>ciphers</code> option for custom cipher selection \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8533](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8533)\)\.
+* sudosu become plugin \- added an option \(<code>alt\_method</code>\) to enhance compatibility with more versions of <code>su</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8214](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8214)\)\.
+* virtualbox inventory plugin \- expose a new parameter <code>enable\_advanced\_group\_parsing</code> to change how the VirtualBox dynamic inventory parses VM groups \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8508](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8508)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8510](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8510)\)\.
+* wdc\_redfish\_command \- minor change to handle upgrade file for Redfish WD platforms \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8444](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8444)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-1"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- fix <code>KeyError</code> in <code>search\_field</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8549](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8549)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8557](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8557)\)\.
+* keycloak\_clientscope \- remove IDs from clientscope and its protocol mappers on comparison for changed check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8545](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8545)\)\.
+* nsupdate \- fix \'index out of range\' error when changing NS records by falling back to authority section of the response \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8612](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8612)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8614](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8614)\)\.
+* proxmox \- fix idempotency on creation of mount volumes using Proxmox\' special <code>\<storage\>\:\<size\></code> syntax \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8407](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8407)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542)\)\.
+* redfish\_utils module utils \- do not fail when language is not exactly \"en\" \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8613](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8613)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-plugins"></a>
+### New Plugins
+
+<a id="filter"></a>
+#### Filter
+
+* community\.general\.reveal\_ansible\_type \- Return input type\.
+
+<a id="test"></a>
+#### Test
+
+* community\.general\.ansible\_type \- Validate input type\.
+
+<a id="v9-1-0"></a>
+## v9\.1\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-2"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular feature and bugfix release\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-2"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* CmdRunner module util \- argument formats can be specified as plain functions without calling <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_func\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479)\)\.
+* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- add upgrade feature \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8431](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8431)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8351](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8351)\)\.
+* cargo \- add option <code>directory</code>\, which allows source directory to be specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8480](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8480)\)\.
+* cmd\_runner module utils \- add decorator <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.stack</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8415](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8415)\)\.
+* cmd\_runner\_fmt module utils \- simplify implementation of <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_bool\_not\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8512](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8512)\)\.
+* ipa\_dnsrecord \- adds <code>SSHFP</code> record type for managing SSH fingerprints in FreeIPA DNS \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8404](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8404)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- assign auth flow by name \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8428](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8428)\)\.
+* openbsd\_pkg \- adds diff support to show changes in installed package list\. This does not yet work for check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8402](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8402)\)\.
+* proxmox \- allow specification of the API port when using proxmox\_\* \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8440](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8440)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8441](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8441)\)\.
+* proxmox\_vm\_info \- add <code>network</code> option to retrieve current network information \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8471](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8471)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add <code>wait</code> and <code>wait\_timeout</code> options to allow a user to block a command until a service is accessible after performing the requested command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add command <code>CheckAvailability</code> to check if a service is accessible \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434)\)\.
+* redis\_info \- adds support for getting cluster info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8464](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8464)\)\.
+
+<a id="deprecated-features"></a>
+### Deprecated Features
+
+* CmdRunner module util \- setting the value of the <code>ignore\_none</code> parameter within a <code>CmdRunner</code> context is deprecated and that feature should be removed in community\.general 12\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479)\)\.
+* git\_config \- the <code>list\_all</code> option has been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 11\.0\.0\. Use the <code>community\.general\.git\_config\_info</code> module instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453)\)\.
+* git\_config \- using <code>state\=present</code> without providing <code>value</code> is deprecated and will be disallowed in community\.general 11\.0\.0\. Use the <code>community\.general\.git\_config\_info</code> module instead to read a value \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-2"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* git\_config \- fix behavior of <code>state\=absent</code> if <code>value</code> is present \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8436](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8436)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8452](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8452)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm \- add normalizations for <code>attributes</code> and <code>protocol\_mappers</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8496](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8496)\)\.
+* launched \- correctly report changed status in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406)\)\.
+* opennebula inventory plugin \- fix invalid reference to IP when inventory runs against NICs with no IPv4 address \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8489](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8489)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback \- do not save the JSON response when using the <code>ansible\.builtin\.uri</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback \- do not save the content response when using the <code>ansible\.builtin\.slurp</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430)\)\.
+* paman \- do not fail if an empty list of packages has been provided and there is nothing to do \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8514](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8514)\)\.
+
+<a id="known-issues"></a>
+### Known Issues
+
+* homectl \- the module does not work under Python 3\.13 or newer\, since it relies on the removed <code>crypt</code> standard library module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4691](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4691)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497)\)\.
+* udm\_user \- the module does not work under Python 3\.13 or newer\, since it relies on the removed <code>crypt</code> standard library module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4690](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4690)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-plugins-1"></a>
+### New Plugins
+
+<a id="filter-1"></a>
+#### Filter
+
+* community\.general\.keep\_keys \- Keep specific keys from dictionaries in a list\.
+* community\.general\.remove\_keys \- Remove specific keys from dictionaries in a list\.
+* community\.general\.replace\_keys \- Replace specific keys in a list of dictionaries\.
+
+<a id="new-modules-1"></a>
+### New Modules
+
+* community\.general\.consul\_agent\_check \- Add\, modify\, and delete checks within a consul cluster\.
+* community\.general\.consul\_agent\_service \- Add\, modify and delete services within a consul cluster\.
+* community\.general\.django\_check \- Wrapper for C\(django\-admin check\)\.
+* community\.general\.django\_createcachetable \- Wrapper for C\(django\-admin createcachetable\)\.
+
+<a id="v9-0-1"></a>
+## v9\.0\.1
+
+<a id="release-summary-3"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 10\.0\.0rc1\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-3"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- minor refactor in the module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8413](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8413)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-3"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* cpanm \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* django module utils \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* gconftool2\_info \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* homebrew \- do not fail when brew prints warnings \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7044](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7044)\)\.
+* hponcfg \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* kernel\_blacklist \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- fix TypeError when sanitizing the <code>saml\.signing\.private\.key</code> attribute in the module\'s diff or state output\. The <code>sanitize\_cr</code> function expected a dict where in some cases a list might occur \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8403](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8403)\)\.
+* locale\_gen \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* mksysb \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* pipx\_info \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* snap \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+* snap\_alias \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
+
+<a id="v9-0-0"></a>
+## v9\.0\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-4"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+This is release 9\.0\.0 of <code>community\.general</code>\, released on 2024\-05\-20\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-4"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* PythonRunner module utils \- specialisation of <code>CmdRunner</code> to execute Python scripts \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8289](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8289)\)\.
+* Use offset\-aware <code>datetime\.datetime</code> objects \(with timezone UTC\) instead of offset\-naive UTC timestamps\, which are deprecated in Python 3\.12 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8222](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8222)\)\.
+* aix\_lvol \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- add new states <code>latest</code> and <code>present\_not\_latest</code>\. The value <code>latest</code> is equivalent to the current behavior of <code>present</code>\, which will upgrade a package if a newer version exists\. <code>present\_not\_latest</code> does what most users would expect <code>present</code> to do\: it does not upgrade if the package is already installed\. The current behavior of <code>present</code> will be deprecated in a later version\, and eventually changed to that of <code>present\_not\_latest</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8247](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8247)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- add <code>bw\_session</code> option\, to pass session key instead of reading from env \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7994](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7994)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- add support to filter by organization ID \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8188](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8188)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- allows to fetch all records of a given collection ID\, by allowing to pass an empty value for <code>search\_value</code> when <code>collection\_id</code> is provided \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8013](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8013)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- when looking for items using an item ID\, the item is now accessed directly with <code>bw get item</code> instead of searching through all items\. This doubles the lookup speed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7468](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7468)\)\.
+* btrfs\_subvolume \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* cmd\_runner module\_utils \- add validation for minimum and maximum length in the value passed to <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_list\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8288](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8288)\)\.
+* consul\_auth\_method\, consul\_binding\_rule\, consul\_policy\, consul\_role\, consul\_session\, consul\_token \- added action group <code>community\.general\.consul</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7897](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7897)\)\.
+* consul\_policy \- added support for diff and check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_policy\, consul\_role\, consul\_session \- removed dependency on <code>requests</code> and factored out common parts \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7826](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7826)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- <code>node\_identities</code> now expects a <code>node\_name</code> option to match the Consul API\, the old <code>name</code> is still supported as alias \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- <code>service\_identities</code> now expects a <code>service\_name</code> option to match the Consul API\, the old <code>name</code> is still supported as alias \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- added support for diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- added support for templated policies \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* elastic callback plugin \- close elastic client to not leak resources \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7517](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7517)\)\.
+* filesystem \- add bcachefs support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8126](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8126)\)\.
+* gandi\_livedns \- adds support for personal access tokens \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7639](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7639)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8337](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8337)\)\.
+* gconftool2 \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* git\_config \- allow multiple git configs for the same name with the new <code>add\_mode</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
+* git\_config \- the <code>after</code> and <code>before</code> fields in the <code>diff</code> of the return value can be a list instead of a string in case more configs with the same key are affected \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
+* git\_config \- when a value is unset\, all configs with the same key are unset \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
+* gitlab modules \- add <code>ca\_path</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7472](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7472)\)\.
+* gitlab modules \- remove duplicate <code>gitlab</code> package check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7486](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7486)\)\.
+* gitlab\_deploy\_key\, gitlab\_group\_members\, gitlab\_group\_variable\, gitlab\_hook\, gitlab\_instance\_variable\, gitlab\_project\_badge\, gitlab\_project\_variable\, gitlab\_user \- improve API pagination and compatibility with different versions of <code>python\-gitlab</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790)\)\.
+* gitlab\_hook \- adds <code>releases\_events</code> parameter for supporting Releases events triggers on GitLab hooks \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7956](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7956)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- add support for new runner creation workflow \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7199](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7199)\)\.
+* homebrew \- adds <code>force\_formula</code> parameter to disambiguate a formula from a cask of the same name \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8274](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8274)\)\.
+* homebrew\, homebrew\_cask \- refactor common argument validation logic into a dedicated <code>homebrew</code> module utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8323](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8323)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8324](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8324)\)\.
+* icinga2 inventory plugin \- add Jinja2 templating support to <code>url</code>\, <code>user</code>\, and <code>password</code> paramenters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7074](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7074)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7996](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7996)\)\.
+* icinga2 inventory plugin \- adds new parameter <code>group\_by\_hostgroups</code> in order to make grouping by Icinga2 hostgroups optional \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7998](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7998)\)\.
+* ini\_file \- add an optional parameter <code>section\_has\_values</code>\. If the target ini file contains more than one <code>section</code>\, use <code>section\_has\_values</code> to specify which one should be updated \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7505](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7505)\)\.
+* ini\_file \- support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding brackets \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8075](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8075)\)\.
+* installp \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* ipa\_config \- adds <code>passkey</code> choice to <code>ipauserauthtype</code> parameter\'s choices \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7588](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7588)\)\.
+* ipa\_dnsrecord \- adds ability to manage NS record types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7737](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7737)\)\.
+* ipa\_pwpolicy \- refactor module and exchange a sequence <code>if</code> statements with a <code>for</code> loop \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723)\)\.
+* ipa\_pwpolicy \- update module to support <code>maxrepeat</code>\, <code>maxsequence</code>\, <code>dictcheck</code>\, <code>usercheck</code>\, <code>gracelimit</code> parameters in FreeIPA password policies \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723)\)\.
+* ipa\_sudorule \- adds options to include denied commands or command groups \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7415](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7415)\)\.
+* ipa\_user \- adds <code>idp</code> and <code>passkey</code> choice to <code>ipauserauthtype</code> parameter\'s choices \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7589](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7589)\)\.
+* irc \- add <code>validate\_certs</code> option\, and rename <code>use\_ssl</code> to <code>use\_tls</code>\, while keeping <code>use\_ssl</code> as an alias\. The default value for <code>validate\_certs</code> is <code>false</code> for backwards compatibility\. We recommend to every user of this module to explicitly set <code>use\_tls\=true</code> and <em class="title-reference">validate\_certs\=true\`</em> whenever possible\, especially when communicating to IRC servers over the internet \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7550](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7550)\)\.
+* java\_cert \- add <code>cert\_content</code> argument \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8153](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8153)\)\.
+* java\_cert \- enable <code>owner</code>\, <code>group</code>\, <code>mode</code>\, and other generic file arguments \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8116)\)\.
+* kernel\_blacklist \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* keycloak module utils \- expose error message from Keycloak server for HTTP errors in some specific situations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7645](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7645)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client\, keycloak\_clientscope\, keycloak\_clienttemplate \- added <code>docker\-v2</code> protocol support\, enhancing alignment with Keycloak\'s protocol options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8215](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8215)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8216](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8216)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>config\.algorithm</code> option now supports 8 additional key algorithms \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>config\.certificate</code> option value is no longer defined with <code>no\_log\=True</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>provider\_id</code> option now supports RSA encryption key usage \(value <code>rsa\-enc</code>\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- add option for <code>krbPrincipalAttribute</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7538](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7538)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- allow custom user storage providers to be set through <code>provider\_id</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7789](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7789)\)\.
+* ldap\_attrs \- module now supports diff mode\, showing which attributes are changed within an operation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8073](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8073)\)\.
+* lvg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* lvol \- change <code>pvs</code> argument type to list of strings \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7676](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7676)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7504](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7504)\)\.
+* lvol \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* lxd connection plugin \- tighten the detection logic for lxd <code>Instance not found</code> errors\, to avoid false detection on unrelated errors such as <code>/usr/bin/python3\: not found</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7521](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7521)\)\.
+* lxd\_container \- uses <code>/1\.0/instances</code> API endpoint\, if available\. Falls back to <code>/1\.0/containers</code> or <code>/1\.0/virtual\-machines</code>\. Fixes issue when using Incus or LXD 5\.19 due to migrating to <code>/1\.0/instances</code> endpoint \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7980](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7980)\)\.
+* macports \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* mail \- add <code>Message\-ID</code> header\; which is required by some mail servers \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7740](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7740)\)\.
+* mail module\, mail callback plugin \- allow to configure the domain name of the Message\-ID header with a new <code>message\_id\_domain</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7765](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7765)\)\.
+* mssql\_script \- adds transactional \(rollback/commit\) support via optional boolean param <code>transaction</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7976](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7976)\)\.
+* netcup\_dns \- adds support for record types <code>OPENPGPKEY</code>\, <code>SMIMEA</code>\, and <code>SSHFP</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7489](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7489)\)\.
+* nmcli \- add support for new connection type <code>loopback</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6572](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6572)\)\.
+* nmcli \- adds OpenvSwitch support with new <code>type</code> values <code>ovs\-port</code>\, <code>ovs\-interface</code>\, and <code>ovs\-bridge</code>\, and new <code>slave\_type</code> value <code>ovs\-port</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8154](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8154)\)\.
+* nmcli \- allow for <code>infiniband</code> slaves of <code>bond</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7569](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7569)\)\.
+* nmcli \- allow for the setting of <code>MTU</code> for <code>infiniband</code> and <code>bond</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7499](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7499)\)\.
+* nmcli \- allow setting <code>MTU</code> for <code>bond\-slave</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8118](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8118)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect\_host and connect\_token parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116)\)\.
+* onepassword\_raw lookup plugin \- support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect\_host and connect\_token parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116)\)
+* opentelemetry \- add support for HTTP trace\_exporter and configures the behavior via <code>OTEL\_EXPORTER\_OTLP\_TRACES\_PROTOCOL</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8321](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8321)\)\.
+* opentelemetry \- add support for exporting spans in a file via <code>ANSIBLE\_OPENTELEMETRY\_STORE\_SPANS\_IN\_FILE</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8363](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8363)\)\.
+* opkg \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* osx\_defaults \- add option <code>check\_types</code> to enable changing the type of existing defaults on the fly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8173](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8173)\)\.
+* parted \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* passwordstore \- adds <code>timestamp</code> and <code>preserve</code> parameters to modify the stored password format \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7426](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7426)\)\.
+* passwordstore lookup \- add <code>missing\_subkey</code> parameter defining the behavior of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8166](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8166)\)\.
+* pipx \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* pkg5 \- add support for non\-silent execution \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8379](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8379)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8382](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8382)\)\.
+* pkgin \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* portage \- adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages to world file \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6226)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8236](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8236)\)\.
+* portinstall \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* proxmox \- adds <code>startup</code> parameters to configure startup order\, startup delay and shutdown delay \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8038](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8038)\)\.
+* proxmox \- adds <code>template</code> value to the <code>state</code> parameter\, allowing conversion of container to a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143)\)\.
+* proxmox \- adds <code>update</code> parameter\, allowing update of an already existing containers configuration \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7540](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7540)\)\.
+* proxmox inventory plugin \- adds an option to exclude nodes from the dynamic inventory generation\. The new setting is optional\, not using this option will behave as usual \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6714](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6714)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7461](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7461)\)\.
+* proxmox\* modules \- there is now a <code>community\.general\.proxmox</code> module defaults group that can be used to set default options for all Proxmox modules \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8334](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8334)\)\.
+* proxmox\_disk \- add ability to manipulate CD\-ROM drive \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7495](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7495)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- add parameter <code>update\_unsafe</code> to avoid limitations when updating dangerous values \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7843](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7843)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- adds <code>template</code> value to the <code>state</code> parameter\, allowing conversion of a VM to a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- adds\`\`usb\`\` parameter for setting USB devices on proxmox KVM VMs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8199](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8199)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- support the <code>hookscript</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7600](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7600)\)\.
+* proxmox\_ostype \- it is now possible to specify the <code>ostype</code> when creating an LXC container \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7462](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7462)\)\.
+* proxmox\_vm\_info \- add ability to retrieve configuration info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7485](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7485)\)\.
+* puppet \- new feature to set <code>\-\-waitforlock</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8282](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8282)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add command <code>ResetToDefaults</code> to reset manager to default state \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8163](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8163)\)\.
+* redfish\_config \- add command <code>SetServiceIdentification</code> to set service identification \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7916](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7916)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add boolean return value <code>MultipartHttpPush</code> to <code>GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8194](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8194)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8195](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8195)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add command <code>GetServiceIdentification</code> to get service identification \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7882](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7882)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- adding the <code>BootProgress</code> property when getting <code>Systems</code> info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7626](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7626)\)\.
+* revbitspss lookup plugin \- removed a redundant unicode prefix\. The prefix was not necessary for Python 3 and has been cleaned up to streamline the code \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8087](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8087)\)\.
+* rundeck module utils \- allow to pass <code>Content\-Type</code> to API requests \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7684](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7684)\)\.
+* slackpkg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- adds <code>controlmaster</code>\, <code>controlpath</code> and <code>controlpersist</code> parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7456](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7456)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- allow <code>accept\-new</code> as valid value for <code>strict\_host\_key\_checking</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8257](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8257)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- new feature to set <code>AddKeysToAgent</code> option to <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7703](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7703)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- new feature to set <code>IdentitiesOnly</code> option to <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7704](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7704)\)\.
+* sudoers \- add support for the <code>NOEXEC</code> tag in sudoers rules \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7983](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7983)\)\.
+* svr4pkg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* swdepot \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* terraform \- add support for <code>diff\_mode</code> for terraform resource\_changes \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7896](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7896)\)\.
+* terraform \- fix <code>diff\_mode</code> in state <code>absent</code> and when terraform <code>resource\_changes</code> does not exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7963](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7963)\)\.
+* xcc\_redfish\_command \- added support for raw POSTs \(<code>command\=PostResource</code> in <code>category\=Raw</code>\) without a specific action info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7746](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7746)\)\.
+* xfconf \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* xfconf\_info \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+
+<a id="breaking-changes--porting-guide"></a>
+### Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+
+* cpanm \- the default of the <code>mode</code> option changed from <code>compatibility</code> to <code>new</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- the module now requires Django \>\= 4\.1 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- the module will now fail if <code>virtualenv</code> is specified but no virtual environment exists at that location \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* redfish\_command\, redfish\_config\, redfish\_info \- change the default for <code>timeout</code> from 10 to 60 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+
+<a id="deprecated-features-1"></a>
+### Deprecated Features
+
+* MH DependencyCtxMgr module\_utils \- deprecate <code>module\_utils\.mh\.mixin\.deps\.DependencyCtxMgr</code> in favour of <code>module\_utils\.deps</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.AnsibleModule</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.DependencyCtxMgr</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.StateMixin</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarDict\,</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarMeta</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarsMixin</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate use of <code>VarsMixin</code> in favor of using the <code>VardDict</code> module\_utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper vars module\_utils \- bump deprecation of <code>VarMeta</code>\, <code>VarDict</code> and <code>VarsMixin</code> to version 11\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- the behavior of <code>state\=present</code> and <code>state\=installed</code> is deprecated and will change in community\.general 11\.0\.0\. Right now the module will upgrade a package to the latest version if one of these two states is used\. You should explicitly use <code>state\=latest</code> if you want this behavior\, and switch to <code>state\=present\_not\_latest</code> if you do not want to upgrade the package if it is already installed\. In community\.general 11\.0\.0 the behavior of <code>state\=present</code> and <code>state\=installed</code> will change to that of <code>state\=present\_not\_latest</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8285](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8285)\)\.
+* consul\_acl \- the module has been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0\. <code>consul\_token</code> and <code>consul\_policy</code> can be used instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7901](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7901)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- the <code>ack\_venv\_creation\_deprecation</code> option has no more effect and will be removed from community\.general 11\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* gitlab modules \- the basic auth method on GitLab API have been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8383](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8383)\)\.
+* hipchat callback plugin \- the hipchat service has been discontinued and the self\-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020\. The callback plugin is therefore deprecated and will be removed from community\.general 10\.0\.0 if nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8184](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8184)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8189](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8189)\)\.
+* irc \- the defaults <code>false</code> for <code>use\_tls</code> and <code>validate\_certs</code> have been deprecated and will change to <code>true</code> in community\.general 10\.0\.0 to improve security\. You can already improve security now by explicitly setting them to <code>true</code>\. Specifying values now disables the deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7578](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7578)\)\.
+
+<a id="removed-features-previously-deprecated"></a>
+### Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)
+
+* The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed\. These internal redirects were extra\-long FQCNs like <code>community\.general\.packaging\.os\.apt\_rpm</code> that redirect to the short FQCN <code>community\.general\.apt\_rpm</code>\. They were originally needed to implement flatmapping\; as various tooling started to recommend users to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection and redirects were added for users who already followed these incorrect recommendations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7835](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7835)\)\.
+* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- the <code>ack\_ansible29</code> and <code>ack\_min\_ansiblecore211</code> options have been removed\. They no longer had any effect \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* cloudflare\_dns \- remove support for SPF records\. These are no longer supported by CloudFlare \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7782](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7782)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- support for the <code>command</code> values <code>cleanup</code>\, <code>syncdb</code>\, and <code>validate</code> were removed\. Use <code>clearsessions</code>\, <code>migrate</code>\, and <code>check</code> instead\, respectively \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* flowdock \- this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* mh\.mixins\.deps module utils \- the <code>DependencyMixin</code> has been removed\. Use the <code>deps</code> module utils instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* proxmox \- the <code>proxmox\_default\_behavior</code> option has been removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* rax\* modules\, rax module utils\, rax docs fragment \- the Rackspace modules relied on the deprecated package <code>pyrax</code> and were thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* redhat module utils \- the classes <code>Rhsm</code>\, <code>RhsmPool</code>\, and <code>RhsmPools</code> have been removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- the alias <code>autosubscribe</code> of the <code>auto\_attach</code> option was removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* stackdriver \- this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* webfaction\_\* modules \- these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and were thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+
+<a id="security-fixes"></a>
+### Security Fixes
+
+* cobbler\, gitlab\_runners\, icinga2\, linode\, lxd\, nmap\, online\, opennebula\, proxmox\, scaleway\, stackpath\_compute\, virtualbox\, and xen\_orchestra inventory plugin \- make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe\, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible \([https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/](https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098)\)\.
+* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- the client secret was not correctly sanitized by the module\. The return values <code>proposed</code>\, <code>existing</code>\, and <code>end\_state</code>\, as well as the diff\, did contain the client secret unmasked \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8355](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8355)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes-4"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* aix\_filesystem \- fix <code>\_validate\_vg</code> not passing VG name to <code>lsvg\_cmd</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151)\)\.
+* aix\_filesystem \- fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052)\)\.
+* apt\-rpm \- the module did not upgrade packages if a newer version exists\. Now the package will be reinstalled if the candidate is newer than the installed version \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- when checking whether packages were installed after running <code>apt\-get \-y install \<packages\></code>\, only the last package name was checked \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263)\)\.
+* bitwarden\_secrets\_manager lookup plugin \- implements retry with exponential backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn\'s API rate limiting is encountered \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238)\)\.
+* cargo \- fix idempotency issues when using a custom installation path for packages \(using the <code>\-\-path</code> parameter\)\. The initial installation runs fine\, but subsequent runs use the <code>get\_installed\(\)</code> function which did not check the given installation location\, before running <code>cargo install</code>\. This resulted in a false <code>changed</code> state\. Also the removal of packeges using <code>state\: absent</code> failed\, as the installation check did not use the given parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970)\)\.
+* cloudflare\_dns \- fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652)\)\.
+* consul\_token \- fix token creation without <code>accessor\_id</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8091](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8091)\)\.
+* from\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of <code>ConfigParser</code> to allow converting values with a <code>\%</code> sign \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185)\)\.
+* gitlab\_group\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_group\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_issue \- fix behavior to search GitLab issue\, using <code>search</code> keyword instead of <code>title</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7846](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7846)\)\.
+* gitlab\_issue\, gitlab\_label\, gitlab\_milestone \- avoid crash during version comparison when the python\-gitlab Python module is not installed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_project\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_protected\_branches \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_protected\_branches</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- fix pagination when checking for existing runners \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790)\)\.
+* gitlab\_user \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_user</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* haproxy \- fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092)\)\.
+* homebrew \- detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from <code>brew info</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864)\)\.
+* homebrew \- error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse empty JSON\. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error message to users \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047)\)\.
+* incus connection plugin \- treats <code>inventory\_hostname</code> as a variable instead of a literal in remote connections \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7874](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7874)\)\.
+* interface\_files \- also consider <code>address\_family</code> when changing <code>option\=method</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612)\)\.
+* inventory plugins \- add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain <code>\{</code> or <code>\}</code> as unsafe\, to work around a bug in AWX \(\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225)\)\.
+* ipa \- fix get version regex in IPA module\_utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175)\)\.
+* ipa\_hbacrule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
+* ipa\_otptoken \- the module expect <code>ipatokendisabled</code> as string but the <code>ipatokendisabled</code> value is returned as a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795)\)\.
+* ipa\_sudorule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
+* iptables\_state \- fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables dumps \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029)\)\.
+* irc \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
+* keycloak\_\* \- fix Keycloak API client to quote <code>/</code> properly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641)\)\.
+* keycloak\_authz\_permission \- resource payload variable for scope\-based permission was constructed as a string\, when it needs to be a list\, even for a single item \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- add sorted <code>defaultClientScopes</code> and <code>optionalClientScopes</code> to normalizations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when task is in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881)\)\.
+* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- <code>mappers</code> processing was not idempotent if the mappers configuration list had not been sorted by name \(in ascending order\)\. Fix resolves the issue by sorting mappers in the desired state using the same key which is used for obtaining existing state \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
+* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- it was not possible to reconfigure \(add\, remove\) <code>mappers</code> once they were created initially\. Removal was ignored\, adding new ones resulted in dropping the pre\-existing unmodified mappers\. Fix resolves the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm \- add normalizations for <code>enabledEventTypes</code> and <code>supportedLocales</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user \- when <code>force</code> is set\, but user does not exist\, do not try to delete it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- fix diff of empty <code>krbPrincipalAttribute</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8320](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8320)\)\.
+* ldap \- previously the order number \(if present\) was expected to follow an equals sign in the DN\. This makes it so the order number string is identified correctly anywhere within the DN \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646)\)\.
+* linode inventory plugin \- add descriptive error message for linode inventory plugin \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133)\)\.
+* log\_entries callback plugin \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
+* lvol \- test for output messages in both <code>stdout</code> and <code>stderr</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182)\)\.
+* merge\_variables lookup plugin \- fixing cross host merge\: providing access to foreign hosts variables to the perspective of the host that is performing the merge \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8303](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8303)\)\.
+* modprobe \- listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError if <code>/etc/modprobe\.d</code> or <code>/etc/modules\-load\.d</code> did not exist\. Relevant functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid crashing the module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717)\)\.
+* mssql\_script \- make the module work with Python 2 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821)\)\.
+* nmcli \- fix <code>connection\.slave\-type</code> wired to <code>bond</code> and not with parameter <code>slave\_type</code> in case of connection type <code>wifi</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389)\)\.
+* ocapi\_utils\, oci\_utils\, redfish\_utils module utils \- replace <code>type\(\)</code> calls with <code>isinstance\(\)</code> calls \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- failed for fields that were in sections and had uppercase letters in the label/ID\. Field lookups are now case insensitive in all cases \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- field and section titles are now case insensitive when using op CLI version two or later\. This matches the behavior of version one \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback plugin \- close spans always \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8367](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8367)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback plugin \- honour the <code>disable\_logs</code> option to avoid storing task results since they are not used regardless \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8373](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8373)\)\.
+* pacemaker\_cluster \- actually implement check mode\, which the module claims to support\. This means that until now the module also did changes in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081)\)\.
+* pam\_limits \- when the file does not exist\, do not create it in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057)\)\.
+* pipx module utils \- change the CLI argument formatter for the <code>pip\_args</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506)\)\.
+* pkgin \- pkgin \(pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS\) raises erratic exceptions and spurious <code>changed\=true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971)\)\.
+* proxmox \- fix updating a container config if the setting does not already exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- fixed status check getting from node\-specific API endpoint \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- running <code>state\=template</code> will first check whether VM is already a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7792](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7792)\)\.
+* proxmox\_pool\_member \- absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464)\)\.
+* puppet \- add option <code>environment\_lang</code> to set the environment language encoding\. Defaults to lang <code>C</code>\. It is recommended to set it to <code>C\.UTF\-8</code> or <code>en\_US\.UTF\-8</code> depending on what is available on your system\. \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000)\)
+* redfish\_command \- fix usage of message parsing in <code>SimpleUpdate</code> and <code>MultipartHTTPPushUpdate</code> commands to treat the lack of a <code>MessageId</code> as no message \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- allow for a GET operation invoked by <code>GetUpdateStatus</code> to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No Content \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve <code>Chassis</code> information \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- use the D\-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7\.4 and
+  greater\; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622)\,
+  [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624)\)\.
+* riak \- support <code>riak admin</code> sub\-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy <code>riak\-admin</code> main command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211)\)\.
+* statusio\_maintenance \- fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload\. Was raising \"Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request\" caused by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754)\)\.
+* terraform \- fix multiline string handling in complex variables \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535)\)\.
+* to\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of <code>ConfigParser</code> to allow converting values with a <code>\%</code> sign \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185)\)\.
+* xml \- make module work with lxml 5\.1\.1\, which removed some internals that the module was relying on \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-plugins-2"></a>
+### New Plugins
+
+<a id="become"></a>
+#### Become
+
+* community\.general\.run0 \- Systemd\'s run0\.
+
+<a id="callback"></a>
+#### Callback
+
+* community\.general\.default\_without\_diff \- The default ansible callback without diff output\.
+* community\.general\.timestamp \- Adds simple timestamp for each header\.
+
+<a id="connection"></a>
+#### Connection
+
+* community\.general\.incus \- Run tasks in Incus instances via the Incus CLI\.
+
+<a id="filter-2"></a>
+#### Filter
+
+* community\.general\.from\_ini \- Converts INI text input into a dictionary\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_difference \- Difference of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_intersect \- Intersection of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_symmetric\_difference \- Symmetric Difference of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_union \- Union of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.to\_ini \- Converts a dictionary to the INI file format\.
+
+<a id="lookup"></a>
+#### Lookup
+
+* community\.general\.github\_app\_access\_token \- Obtain short\-lived Github App Access tokens\.
+* community\.general\.onepassword\_doc \- Fetch documents stored in 1Password\.
+
+<a id="test-1"></a>
+#### Test
+
+* community\.general\.fqdn\_valid \- Validates fully\-qualified domain names against RFC 1123\.
+
+<a id="new-modules-2"></a>
+### New Modules
+
+* community\.general\.consul\_acl\_bootstrap \- Bootstrap ACLs in Consul\.
+* community\.general\.consul\_auth\_method \- Manipulate Consul auth methods\.
+* community\.general\.consul\_binding\_rule \- Manipulate Consul binding rules\.
+* community\.general\.consul\_token \- Manipulate Consul tokens\.
+* community\.general\.django\_command \- Run Django admin commands\.
+* community\.general\.dnf\_config\_manager \- Enable or disable dnf repositories using config\-manager\.
+* community\.general\.git\_config\_info \- Read git configuration\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_group\_access\_token \- Manages GitLab group access tokens\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_issue \- Create\, update\, or delete GitLab issues\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_label \- Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Labels belonging to project or group\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_milestone \- Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Milestones belonging to project or group\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_project\_access\_token \- Manages GitLab project access tokens\.
+* community\.general\.keycloak\_client\_rolescope \- Allows administration of Keycloak client roles scope to restrict the usage of certain roles to a other specific client applications\.
+* community\.general\.keycloak\_component\_info \- Retrive component info in Keycloak\.
+* community\.general\.keycloak\_realm\_rolemapping \- Allows administration of Keycloak realm role mappings into groups with the Keycloak API\.
+* community\.general\.nomad\_token \- Manage Nomad ACL tokens\.
+* community\.general\.proxmox\_node\_info \- Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE nodes\.
+* community\.general\.proxmox\_storage\_contents\_info \- List content from a Proxmox VE storage\.
+* community\.general\.usb\_facts \- Allows listing information about USB devices\.
--- a/tests/sanity/ignore-2.11.txt.license
+++ b/tests/sanity/ignore-2.11.txt.license
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,510 @@
-Placeholder changelog
-=====================
+===============================
+Community General Release Notes
+===============================

-This file is a placeholder; a version-specific ``CHANGELOG-vX.rst`` will be generated during releases from fragments
-under ``changelogs/fragments``. On release branches once a release has been created, consult the branch's version-specific
-file for changes that have occurred in that branch.
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+This changelog describes changes after version 8.0.0.
+
+v9.3.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- cgroup_memory_recap, hipchat, jabber, log_plays, loganalytics, logentries, logstash, slack, splunk, sumologic, syslog_json callback plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8628).
+- chef_databag, consul_kv, cyberarkpassword, dsv, etcd, filetree, hiera, onepassword, onepassword_doc, onepassword_raw, passwordstore, redis, shelvefile, tss lookup plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8626).
+- chroot, funcd, incus, iocage, jail, lxc, lxd, qubes, zone connection plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8627).
+- cobbler, linode, lxd, nmap, online, scaleway, stackpath_compute, virtualbox inventory plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8625).
+- doas, dzdo, ksu, machinectl, pbrun, pfexec, pmrun, sesu, sudosu become plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8623).
+- gconftool2 - make use of ``ModuleHelper`` features to simplify code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8711).
+- gitlab_project - add option ``container_expiration_policy`` to schedule container registry cleanup (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8674).
+- gitlab_project - add option ``model_registry_access_level`` to disable model registry (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8688).
+- gitlab_project - add option ``pages_access_level`` to disable project pages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8688).
+- gitlab_project - add option ``repository_access_level`` to disable project repository (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8674).
+- gitlab_project - add option ``service_desk_enabled`` to disable service desk (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8688).
+- locale_gen - add support for multiple locales (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8677, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8682).
+- memcached, pickle, redis, yaml cache plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8624).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - fix default value for ``store_spans_in_file`` causing traces to be produced to a file named ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8566, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8741).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - add the current user to the lockfile file name to address issues on multi-user systems (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8689).
+- pipx - add parameter ``suffix`` to module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8675, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8656).
+- pkgng - add option ``use_globs`` (default ``true``) to optionally disable glob patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8632, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8633).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - add new fact for LXC interface details (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8713).
+- redis, redis_info - add ``client_cert`` and ``client_key`` options to specify path to certificate for Redis authentication  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8654).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- gitlab_runner - fix ``paused`` parameter being ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8648).
+- homebrew_cask - fix ``upgrade_all`` returns ``changed`` when nothing upgraded (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8707, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8708).
+- keycloak_user_federation - get cleartext IDP ``clientSecret`` from full realm info to detect changes to it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8294, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8735).
+- keycloak_user_federation - remove existing user federation mappers if they are not present in the federation configuration and will not be updated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7169, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8695).
+- proxmox - fixed an issue where the new volume handling incorrectly converted ``null`` values into ``"None"`` strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8646).
+- proxmox - fixed an issue where volume strings where overwritten instead of appended to in the new ``build_volume()`` method (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8646).
+- proxmox - removed the forced conversion of non-string values to strings to be consistent with the module documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8646).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- community.general.bootc_manage - Bootc Switch and Upgrade.
+- community.general.homebrew_services - Services manager for Homebrew.
+- community.general.keycloak_realm_keys_metadata_info - Allows obtaining Keycloak realm keys metadata via Keycloak API.
+
+v9.2.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- CmdRunner module utils - the parameter ``force_lang`` now supports the special value ``auto`` which will automatically try and determine the best parsable locale in the system (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8517).
+- proxmox - add ``disk_volume`` and ``mount_volumes`` keys for better readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
+- proxmox - translate the old ``disk`` and ``mounts`` keys to the new handling internally (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
+- proxmox_template - small refactor in logic for determining whether a template exists or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8516).
+- redfish_* modules - adds ``ciphers`` option for custom cipher selection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8533).
+- sudosu become plugin - added an option (``alt_method``) to enhance compatibility with more versions of ``su`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8214).
+- virtualbox inventory plugin - expose a new parameter ``enable_advanced_group_parsing`` to change how the VirtualBox dynamic inventory parses VM groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8508, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8510).
+- wdc_redfish_command - minor change to handle upgrade file for Redfish WD platforms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8444).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - fix ``KeyError`` in ``search_field`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8549, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8557).
+- keycloak_clientscope - remove IDs from clientscope and its protocol mappers on comparison for changed check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8545).
+- nsupdate - fix 'index out of range' error when changing NS records by falling back to authority section of the response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8612, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8614).
+- proxmox - fix idempotency on creation of mount volumes using Proxmox' special ``<storage>:<size>`` syntax (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8407, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
+- redfish_utils module utils - do not fail when language is not exactly "en" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8613).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.reveal_ansible_type - Return input type.
+
+Test
+~~~~
+
+- community.general.ansible_type - Validate input type.
+
+v9.1.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular feature and bugfix release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- CmdRunner module util - argument formats can be specified as plain functions without calling ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_func()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8479).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - add upgrade feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8431, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8351).
+- cargo - add option ``directory``, which allows source directory to be specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8480).
+- cmd_runner module utils - add decorator ``cmd_runner_fmt.stack`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8415).
+- cmd_runner_fmt module utils - simplify implementation of ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool_not()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8512).
+- ipa_dnsrecord - adds ``SSHFP`` record type for managing SSH fingerprints in FreeIPA DNS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8404).
+- keycloak_client - assign auth flow by name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8428).
+- openbsd_pkg - adds diff support to show changes in installed package list. This does not yet work for check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8402).
+- proxmox - allow specification of the API port when using proxmox_* (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8440, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8441).
+- proxmox_vm_info - add ``network`` option to retrieve current network information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8471).
+- redfish_command - add ``wait`` and ``wait_timeout`` options to allow a user to block a command until a service is accessible after performing the requested command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8051, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8434).
+- redfish_info - add command ``CheckAvailability`` to check if a service is accessible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8051, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8434).
+- redis_info - adds support for getting cluster info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8464).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- CmdRunner module util - setting the value of the ``ignore_none`` parameter within a ``CmdRunner`` context is deprecated and that feature should be removed in community.general 12.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8479).
+- git_config - the ``list_all`` option has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 11.0.0. Use the ``community.general.git_config_info`` module instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8453).
+- git_config - using ``state=present`` without providing ``value`` is deprecated and will be disallowed in community.general 11.0.0. Use the ``community.general.git_config_info`` module instead to read a value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8453).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- git_config - fix behavior of ``state=absent`` if ``value`` is present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8436, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8452).
+- keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``attributes`` and ``protocol_mappers`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8496).
+- launched - correctly report changed status in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8406).
+- opennebula inventory plugin - fix invalid reference to IP when inventory runs against NICs with no IPv4 address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8489).
+- opentelemetry callback - do not save the JSON response when using the ``ansible.builtin.uri`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8430).
+- opentelemetry callback - do not save the content response when using the ``ansible.builtin.slurp`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8430).
+- paman - do not fail if an empty list of packages has been provided and there is nothing to do (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8514).
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- homectl - the module does not work under Python 3.13 or newer, since it relies on the removed ``crypt`` standard library module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4691, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8497).
+- udm_user - the module does not work under Python 3.13 or newer, since it relies on the removed ``crypt`` standard library module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4690, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8497).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.keep_keys - Keep specific keys from dictionaries in a list.
+- community.general.remove_keys - Remove specific keys from dictionaries in a list.
+- community.general.replace_keys - Replace specific keys in a list of dictionaries.
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- community.general.consul_agent_check - Add, modify, and delete checks within a consul cluster.
+- community.general.consul_agent_service - Add, modify and delete services within a consul cluster.
+- community.general.django_check - Wrapper for C(django-admin check).
+- community.general.django_createcachetable - Wrapper for C(django-admin createcachetable).
+
+v9.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 10.0.0rc1.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible_galaxy_install - minor refactor in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8413).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cpanm - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- django module utils - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- gconftool2_info - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- homebrew - do not fail when brew prints warnings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8406, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7044).
+- hponcfg - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- kernel_blacklist - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- keycloak_client - fix TypeError when sanitizing the ``saml.signing.private.key`` attribute in the module's diff or state output. The ``sanitize_cr`` function expected a dict where in some cases a list might occur (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8403).
+- locale_gen - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- mksysb - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- pipx_info - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- snap - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+- snap_alias - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
+
+v9.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This is release 9.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2024-05-20.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- PythonRunner module utils - specialisation of ``CmdRunner`` to execute Python scripts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8289).
+- Use offset-aware ``datetime.datetime`` objects (with timezone UTC) instead of offset-naive UTC timestamps, which are deprecated in Python 3.12 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8222).
+- aix_lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- apt_rpm - add new states ``latest`` and ``present_not_latest``. The value ``latest`` is equivalent to the current behavior of ``present``, which will upgrade a package if a newer version exists. ``present_not_latest`` does what most users would expect ``present`` to do: it does not upgrade if the package is already installed. The current behavior of ``present`` will be deprecated in a later version, and eventually changed to that of ``present_not_latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8247).
+- apt_rpm - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - add ``bw_session`` option, to pass session key instead of reading from env (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7994).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - add support to filter by organization ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8188).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - allows to fetch all records of a given collection ID, by allowing to pass an empty value for ``search_value`` when ``collection_id`` is provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8013).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - when looking for items using an item ID, the item is now accessed directly with ``bw get item`` instead of searching through all items. This doubles the lookup speed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7468).
+- btrfs_subvolume - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- cmd_runner module_utils - add validation for minimum and maximum length in the value passed to ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_list()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8288).
+- consul_auth_method, consul_binding_rule, consul_policy, consul_role, consul_session, consul_token - added action group ``community.general.consul`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7897).
+- consul_policy - added support for diff and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_policy, consul_role, consul_session - removed dependency on ``requests`` and factored out common parts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7826, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - ``node_identities`` now expects a ``node_name`` option to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - ``service_identities`` now expects a ``service_name`` option to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - added support for diff mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - added support for templated policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- elastic callback plugin - close elastic client to not leak resources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7517).
+- filesystem - add bcachefs support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8126).
+- gandi_livedns - adds support for personal access tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7639, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8337).
+- gconftool2 - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- git_config - allow multiple git configs for the same name with the new ``add_mode`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+- git_config - the ``after`` and ``before`` fields in the ``diff`` of the return value can be a list instead of a string in case more configs with the same key are affected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+- git_config - when a value is unset, all configs with the same key are unset (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+- gitlab modules - add ``ca_path`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7472).
+- gitlab modules - remove duplicate ``gitlab`` package check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7486).
+- gitlab_deploy_key, gitlab_group_members, gitlab_group_variable, gitlab_hook, gitlab_instance_variable, gitlab_project_badge, gitlab_project_variable, gitlab_user - improve API pagination and compatibility with different versions of ``python-gitlab`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
+- gitlab_hook - adds ``releases_events`` parameter for supporting Releases events triggers on GitLab hooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7956).
+- gitlab_runner - add support for new runner creation workflow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7199).
+- homebrew - adds ``force_formula`` parameter to disambiguate a formula from a cask of the same name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8274).
+- homebrew, homebrew_cask - refactor common argument validation logic into a dedicated ``homebrew`` module utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8323, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8324).
+- icinga2 inventory plugin - add Jinja2 templating support to ``url``, ``user``, and ``password`` paramenters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7074, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7996).
+- icinga2 inventory plugin - adds new parameter ``group_by_hostgroups`` in order to make grouping by Icinga2 hostgroups optional (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7998).
+- ini_file - add an optional parameter ``section_has_values``. If the target ini file contains more than one ``section``, use ``section_has_values`` to specify which one should be updated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7505).
+- ini_file - support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding brackets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8075).
+- installp - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- ipa_config - adds ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7588).
+- ipa_dnsrecord - adds ability to manage NS record types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7737).
+- ipa_pwpolicy - refactor module and exchange a sequence ``if`` statements with a ``for`` loop (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
+- ipa_pwpolicy - update module to support ``maxrepeat``, ``maxsequence``, ``dictcheck``, ``usercheck``, ``gracelimit`` parameters in FreeIPA password policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
+- ipa_sudorule - adds options to include denied commands or command groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7415).
+- ipa_user - adds ``idp`` and ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7589).
+- irc - add ``validate_certs`` option, and rename ``use_ssl`` to ``use_tls``, while keeping ``use_ssl`` as an alias. The default value for ``validate_certs`` is ``false`` for backwards compatibility. We recommend to every user of this module to explicitly set ``use_tls=true`` and `validate_certs=true`` whenever possible, especially when communicating to IRC servers over the internet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7550).
+- java_cert - add ``cert_content`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8153).
+- java_cert - enable ``owner``, ``group``, ``mode``, and other generic file arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8116).
+- kernel_blacklist - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- keycloak module utils - expose error message from Keycloak server for HTTP errors in some specific situations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7645).
+- keycloak_client, keycloak_clientscope, keycloak_clienttemplate - added ``docker-v2`` protocol support, enhancing alignment with Keycloak's protocol options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8215, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8216).
+- keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.algorithm`` option now supports 8 additional key algorithms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+- keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.certificate`` option value is no longer defined with ``no_log=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+- keycloak_realm_key - the ``provider_id`` option now supports RSA encryption key usage (value ``rsa-enc``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+- keycloak_user_federation - add option for ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7538).
+- keycloak_user_federation - allow custom user storage providers to be set through ``provider_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7789).
+- ldap_attrs - module now supports diff mode, showing which attributes are changed within an operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8073).
+- lvg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- lvol - change ``pvs`` argument type to list of strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7676, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7504).
+- lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- lxd connection plugin - tighten the detection logic for lxd ``Instance not found`` errors, to avoid false detection on unrelated errors such as ``/usr/bin/python3: not found`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7521).
+- lxd_container - uses ``/1.0/instances`` API endpoint, if available. Falls back to ``/1.0/containers`` or ``/1.0/virtual-machines``. Fixes issue when using Incus or LXD 5.19 due to migrating to ``/1.0/instances`` endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7980).
+- macports - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- mail - add ``Message-ID`` header; which is required by some mail servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7740).
+- mail module, mail callback plugin - allow to configure the domain name of the Message-ID header with a new ``message_id_domain`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7765).
+- mssql_script - adds transactional (rollback/commit) support via optional boolean param ``transaction`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7976).
+- netcup_dns - adds support for record types ``OPENPGPKEY``, ``SMIMEA``, and ``SSHFP`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7489).
+- nmcli - add support for new connection type ``loopback`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6572).
+- nmcli - adds OpenvSwitch support with new ``type`` values ``ovs-port``, ``ovs-interface``, and ``ovs-bridge``, and new ``slave_type`` value ``ovs-port`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8154).
+- nmcli - allow for ``infiniband`` slaves of ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7569).
+- nmcli - allow for the setting of ``MTU`` for ``infiniband`` and ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7499).
+- nmcli - allow setting ``MTU`` for ``bond-slave`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8118).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116).
+- onepassword_raw lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116)
+- opentelemetry - add support for HTTP trace_exporter and configures the behavior via ``OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8321).
+- opentelemetry - add support for exporting spans in a file via ``ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_STORE_SPANS_IN_FILE`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8363).
+- opkg - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- osx_defaults - add option ``check_types`` to enable changing the type of existing defaults on the fly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8173).
+- parted - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- passwordstore - adds ``timestamp`` and ``preserve`` parameters to modify the stored password format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7426).
+- passwordstore lookup - add ``missing_subkey`` parameter defining the behavior of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8166).
+- pipx - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- pkg5 - add support for non-silent execution (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8379, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8382).
+- pkgin - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- portage - adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages to world file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6226, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8236).
+- portinstall - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- proxmox - adds ``startup`` parameters to configure startup order, startup delay and shutdown delay (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8038).
+- proxmox - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion of container to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
+- proxmox - adds ``update`` parameter, allowing update of an already existing containers configuration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7540).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - adds an option to exclude nodes from the dynamic inventory generation. The new setting is optional, not using this option will behave as usual (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6714, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7461).
+- proxmox* modules - there is now a ``community.general.proxmox`` module defaults group that can be used to set default options for all Proxmox modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8334).
+- proxmox_disk - add ability to manipulate CD-ROM drive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7495).
+- proxmox_kvm - add parameter ``update_unsafe`` to avoid limitations when updating dangerous values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7843).
+- proxmox_kvm - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion of a VM to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
+- proxmox_kvm - adds``usb`` parameter for setting USB devices on proxmox KVM VMs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8199).
+- proxmox_kvm - support the ``hookscript`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7600).
+- proxmox_ostype - it is now possible to specify the ``ostype`` when creating an LXC container (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7462).
+- proxmox_vm_info - add ability to retrieve configuration info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7485).
+- puppet - new feature to set ``--waitforlock`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8282).
+- redfish_command - add command ``ResetToDefaults`` to reset manager to default state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8163).
+- redfish_config - add command ``SetServiceIdentification`` to set service identification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7916).
+- redfish_info - add boolean return value ``MultipartHttpPush`` to ``GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8194, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8195).
+- redfish_info - add command ``GetServiceIdentification`` to get service identification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7882).
+- redfish_info - adding the ``BootProgress`` property when getting ``Systems`` info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7626).
+- revbitspss lookup plugin - removed a redundant unicode prefix. The prefix was not necessary for Python 3 and has been cleaned up to streamline the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8087).
+- rundeck module utils - allow to pass ``Content-Type`` to API requests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7684).
+- slackpkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- ssh_config - adds ``controlmaster``, ``controlpath`` and ``controlpersist`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7456).
+- ssh_config - allow ``accept-new`` as valid value for ``strict_host_key_checking`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8257).
+- ssh_config - new feature to set ``AddKeysToAgent`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7703).
+- ssh_config - new feature to set ``IdentitiesOnly`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7704).
+- sudoers - add support for the ``NOEXEC`` tag in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7983).
+- svr4pkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- swdepot - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- terraform - add support for ``diff_mode`` for terraform resource_changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7896).
+- terraform - fix ``diff_mode`` in state ``absent`` and when terraform ``resource_changes`` does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7963).
+- xcc_redfish_command - added support for raw POSTs (``command=PostResource`` in ``category=Raw``) without a specific action info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7746).
+- xfconf - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- xfconf_info - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- cpanm - the default of the ``mode`` option changed from ``compatibility`` to ``new`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- django_manage - the module now requires Django >= 4.1 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- django_manage - the module will now fail if ``virtualenv`` is specified but no virtual environment exists at that location (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- redfish_command, redfish_config, redfish_info - change the default for ``timeout`` from 10 to 60 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- MH DependencyCtxMgr module_utils - deprecate ``module_utils.mh.mixin.deps.DependencyCtxMgr`` in favour of ``module_utils.deps`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.DependencyCtxMgr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.StateMixin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarDict,`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarMeta`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarsMixin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate use of ``VarsMixin`` in favor of using the ``VardDict`` module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- ModuleHelper vars module_utils - bump deprecation of ``VarMeta``, ``VarDict`` and ``VarsMixin`` to version 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- apt_rpm - the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` is deprecated and will change in community.general 11.0.0. Right now the module will upgrade a package to the latest version if one of these two states is used. You should explicitly use ``state=latest`` if you want this behavior, and switch to ``state=present_not_latest`` if you do not want to upgrade the package if it is already installed. In community.general 11.0.0 the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` will change to that of ``state=present_not_latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8285).
+- consul_acl - the module has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0. ``consul_token`` and ``consul_policy`` can be used instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7901).
+- django_manage - the ``ack_venv_creation_deprecation`` option has no more effect and will be removed from community.general 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- gitlab modules - the basic auth method on GitLab API have been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8383).
+- hipchat callback plugin - the hipchat service has been discontinued and the self-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020. The callback plugin is therefore deprecated and will be removed from community.general 10.0.0 if nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8184, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8189).
+- irc - the defaults ``false`` for ``use_tls`` and ``validate_certs`` have been deprecated and will change to ``true`` in community.general 10.0.0 to improve security. You can already improve security now by explicitly setting them to ``true``. Specifying values now disables the deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7578).
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed. These internal redirects were extra-long FQCNs like ``community.general.packaging.os.apt_rpm`` that redirect to the short FQCN ``community.general.apt_rpm``. They were originally needed to implement flatmapping; as various tooling started to recommend users to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection and redirects were added for users who already followed these incorrect recommendations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7835).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - the ``ack_ansible29`` and ``ack_min_ansiblecore211`` options have been removed. They no longer had any effect (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- cloudflare_dns - remove support for SPF records. These are no longer supported by CloudFlare (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7782).
+- django_manage - support for the ``command`` values ``cleanup``, ``syncdb``, and ``validate`` were removed. Use ``clearsessions``, ``migrate``, and ``check`` instead, respectively (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- flowdock - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- mh.mixins.deps module utils - the ``DependencyMixin`` has been removed. Use the ``deps`` module utils instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- proxmox - the ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- rax* modules, rax module utils, rax docs fragment - the Rackspace modules relied on the deprecated package ``pyrax`` and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- redhat module utils - the classes ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools`` have been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- redhat_subscription - the alias ``autosubscribe`` of the ``auto_attach`` option was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- stackdriver - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- webfaction_* modules - these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- cobbler, gitlab_runners, icinga2, linode, lxd, nmap, online, opennebula, proxmox, scaleway, stackpath_compute, virtualbox, and xen_orchestra inventory plugin - make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible (https://www.die-welt.net/2024/03/remote-code-execution-in-ansible-dynamic-inventory-plugins/, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8098).
+- keycloak_identity_provider - the client secret was not correctly sanitized by the module. The return values ``proposed``, ``existing``, and ``end_state``, as well as the diff, did contain the client secret unmasked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8355).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- aix_filesystem - fix ``_validate_vg`` not passing VG name to ``lsvg_cmd`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8151).
+- aix_filesystem - fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8052).
+- apt-rpm - the module did not upgrade packages if a newer version exists. Now the package will be reinstalled if the candidate is newer than the installed version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7414).
+- apt_rpm - when checking whether packages were installed after running ``apt-get -y install <packages>``, only the last package name was checked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8263).
+- bitwarden_secrets_manager lookup plugin - implements retry with exponential backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn's API rate limiting is encountered (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8230, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8238).
+- cargo - fix idempotency issues when using a custom installation path for packages (using the ``--path`` parameter). The initial installation runs fine, but subsequent runs use the ``get_installed()`` function which did not check the given installation location, before running ``cargo install``. This resulted in a false ``changed`` state. Also the removal of packeges using ``state: absent`` failed, as the installation check did not use the given parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7970).
+- cloudflare_dns - fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7652).
+- consul_token - fix token creation without ``accessor_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8091).
+- from_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to allow converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185).
+- gitlab_group_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_group_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_issue - fix behavior to search GitLab issue, using ``search`` keyword instead of ``title`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7846).
+- gitlab_issue, gitlab_label, gitlab_milestone - avoid crash during version comparison when the python-gitlab Python module is not installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8158).
+- gitlab_project_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_project_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_protected_branches - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_protected_branches`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_runner - fix pagination when checking for existing runners (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
+- gitlab_user - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_user`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- haproxy - fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8092).
+- homebrew - detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from ``brew info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/864).
+- homebrew - error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse empty JSON. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error message to users (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8047).
+- incus connection plugin - treats ``inventory_hostname`` as a variable instead of a literal in remote connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7874).
+- interface_files - also consider ``address_family`` when changing ``option=method`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7610, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7612).
+- inventory plugins - add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain ``{`` or ``}`` as unsafe, to work around a bug in AWX ((https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8212, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8225).
+- ipa - fix get version regex in IPA module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8175).
+- ipa_hbacrule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+- ipa_otptoken - the module expect ``ipatokendisabled`` as string but the ``ipatokendisabled`` value is returned as a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7795).
+- ipa_sudorule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+- iptables_state - fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables dumps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8029).
+- irc - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+- keycloak_* - fix Keycloak API client to quote ``/`` properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7641).
+- keycloak_authz_permission - resource payload variable for scope-based permission was constructed as a string, when it needs to be a list, even for a single item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7151).
+- keycloak_client - add sorted ``defaultClientScopes`` and ``optionalClientScopes`` to normalizations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8223).
+- keycloak_client - fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when task is in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1226, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7881).
+- keycloak_identity_provider - ``mappers`` processing was not idempotent if the mappers configuration list had not been sorted by name (in ascending order). Fix resolves the issue by sorting mappers in the desired state using the same key which is used for obtaining existing state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7418).
+- keycloak_identity_provider - it was not possible to reconfigure (add, remove) ``mappers`` once they were created initially. Removal was ignored, adding new ones resulted in dropping the pre-existing unmodified mappers. Fix resolves the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7418).
+- keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``enabledEventTypes`` and ``supportedLocales`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8224).
+- keycloak_user - when ``force`` is set, but user does not exist, do not try to delete it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7696).
+- keycloak_user_federation - fix diff of empty ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8320).
+- ldap - previously the order number (if present) was expected to follow an equals sign in the DN. This makes it so the order number string is identified correctly anywhere within the DN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7646).
+- linode inventory plugin - add descriptive error message for linode inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8133).
+- log_entries callback plugin - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+- lvol - test for output messages in both ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7601, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7182).
+- merge_variables lookup plugin - fixing cross host merge: providing access to foreign hosts variables to the perspective of the host that is performing the merge (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8303).
+- modprobe - listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError if ``/etc/modprobe.d`` or ``/etc/modules-load.d`` did not exist. Relevant functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid crashing the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7717).
+- mssql_script - make the module work with Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7818, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7821).
+- nmcli - fix ``connection.slave-type`` wired to ``bond`` and not with parameter ``slave_type`` in case of connection type ``wifi`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7389).
+- ocapi_utils, oci_utils, redfish_utils module utils - replace ``type()`` calls with ``isinstance()`` calls (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7501).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - failed for fields that were in sections and had uppercase letters in the label/ID. Field lookups are now case insensitive in all cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7919).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - field and section titles are now case insensitive when using op CLI version two or later. This matches the behavior of version one (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7564).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - close spans always (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8367).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - honour the ``disable_logs`` option to avoid storing task results since they are not used regardless (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8373).
+- pacemaker_cluster - actually implement check mode, which the module claims to support. This means that until now the module also did changes in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8081).
+- pam_limits - when the file does not exist, do not create it in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8050, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8057).
+- pipx module utils - change the CLI argument formatter for the ``pip_args`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7497, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7506).
+- pkgin - pkgin (pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS) raises erratic exceptions and spurious ``changed=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7971).
+- proxmox - fix updating a container config if the setting does not already exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7872).
+- proxmox_kvm - fixed status check getting from node-specific API endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7817).
+- proxmox_kvm - running ``state=template`` will first check whether VM is already a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7792).
+- proxmox_pool_member - absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7464).
+- puppet - add option ``environment_lang`` to set the environment language encoding. Defaults to lang ``C``. It is recommended to set it to ``C.UTF-8`` or ``en_US.UTF-8`` depending on what is available on your system. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8000)
+- redfish_command - fix usage of message parsing in ``SimpleUpdate`` and ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` commands to treat the lack of a ``MessageId`` as no message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7465, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7471).
+- redfish_info - allow for a GET operation invoked by ``GetUpdateStatus`` to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No Content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8003).
+- redfish_info - correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve ``Chassis`` information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7952).
+- redhat_subscription - use the D-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7.4 and
+  greater; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7622,
+  https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7624).
+- riak - support ``riak admin`` sub-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy ``riak-admin`` main command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8211).
+- statusio_maintenance - fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload. Was raising "Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request" caused by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7754).
+- terraform - fix multiline string handling in complex variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7535).
+- to_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to allow converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185).
+- xml - make module work with lxml 5.1.1, which removed some internals that the module was relying on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8169).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Become
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.run0 - Systemd's run0.
+
+Callback
+~~~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.default_without_diff - The default ansible callback without diff output.
+- community.general.timestamp - Adds simple timestamp for each header.
+
+Connection
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.incus - Run tasks in Incus instances via the Incus CLI.
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.from_ini - Converts INI text input into a dictionary.
+- community.general.lists_difference - Difference of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.lists_intersect - Intersection of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.lists_symmetric_difference - Symmetric Difference of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.lists_union - Union of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.to_ini - Converts a dictionary to the INI file format.
+
+Lookup
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.github_app_access_token - Obtain short-lived Github App Access tokens.
+- community.general.onepassword_doc - Fetch documents stored in 1Password.
+
+Test
+~~~~
+
+- community.general.fqdn_valid - Validates fully-qualified domain names against RFC 1123.
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- community.general.consul_acl_bootstrap - Bootstrap ACLs in Consul.
+- community.general.consul_auth_method - Manipulate Consul auth methods.
+- community.general.consul_binding_rule - Manipulate Consul binding rules.
+- community.general.consul_token - Manipulate Consul tokens.
+- community.general.django_command - Run Django admin commands.
+- community.general.dnf_config_manager - Enable or disable dnf repositories using config-manager.
+- community.general.git_config_info - Read git configuration.
+- community.general.gitlab_group_access_token - Manages GitLab group access tokens.
+- community.general.gitlab_issue - Create, update, or delete GitLab issues.
+- community.general.gitlab_label - Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Labels belonging to project or group.
+- community.general.gitlab_milestone - Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Milestones belonging to project or group.
+- community.general.gitlab_project_access_token - Manages GitLab project access tokens.
+- community.general.keycloak_client_rolescope - Allows administration of Keycloak client roles scope to restrict the usage of certain roles to a other specific client applications.
+- community.general.keycloak_component_info - Retrive component info in Keycloak.
+- community.general.keycloak_realm_rolemapping - Allows administration of Keycloak realm role mappings into groups with the Keycloak API.
+- community.general.nomad_token - Manage Nomad ACL tokens.
+- community.general.proxmox_node_info - Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE nodes.
+- community.general.proxmox_storage_contents_info - List content from a Proxmox VE storage.
+- community.general.usb_facts - Allows listing information about USB devices.
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ Also, consider taking up a valuable, reviewed, but abandoned pull request which
 * Try committing your changes with an informative but short commit message.
 * Do not squash your commits and force-push to your branch if not needed. Reviews of your pull request are much easier with individual commits to comprehend the pull request history. All commits of your pull request branch will be squashed into one commit by GitHub upon merge.
 * Do not add merge commits to your PR. The bot will complain and you will have to rebase ([instructions for rebasing](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_rebasing.html)) to remove them before your PR can be merged. To avoid that git automatically does merges during pulls, you can configure it to do rebases instead by running `git config pull.rebase true` inside the repository checkout.
-* Make sure your PR includes a [changelog fragment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/development_process.html#creating-changelog-fragments). (You must not include a fragment for new modules or new plugins. Also you shouldn't include one for docs-only changes. If you're not sure, simply don't include one, we'll tell you whether one is needed or not :) )
+* Make sure your PR includes a [changelog fragment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/collection_development_process.html#creating-a-changelog-fragment).
+  * You must not include a fragment for new modules or new plugins. Also you shouldn't include one for docs-only changes. (If you're not sure, simply don't include one, we'll tell you whether one is needed or not :) )
+  * Please always include a link to the pull request itself, and if the PR is about an issue, also a link to the issue. Also make sure the fragment ends with a period, and begins with a lower-case letter after `-`. (Again, if you don't do this, we'll add suggestions to fix it, so don't worry too much :) )
 * Avoid reformatting unrelated parts of the codebase in your PR. These types of changes will likely be requested for reversion, create additional work for reviewers, and may cause approval to be delayed.

 You can also read [our Quick-start development guide](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/create_pr_quick_start_guide.rst).
@@ -54,6 +56,8 @@ cd ~/dev/ansible_collections/community/general

 Then you can run `ansible-test` (which is a part of [ansible-core](https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core/)) inside the checkout. The following example commands expect that you have installed Docker or Podman. Note that Podman has only been supported by more recent ansible-core releases. If you are using Docker, the following will work with Ansible 2.9+.

+### Sanity tests
+
 The following commands show how to run sanity tests:

 ```.bash
@@ -64,6 +68,8 @@ ansible-test sanity --docker -v
 ansible-test sanity --docker -v plugins/modules/system/pids.py tests/integration/targets/pids/
 ```

+### Unit tests
+
 The following commands show how to run unit tests:

 ```.bash
@@ -77,13 +83,32 @@ ansible-test units --docker -v --python 3.8
 ansible-test units --docker -v --python 3.8 tests/unit/plugins/modules/net_tools/test_nmcli.py
 ```

+### Integration tests
+
 The following commands show how to run integration tests:

-```.bash
-# Run integration tests for the interfaces_files module in a Docker container using the
-# fedora35 operating system image (the supported images depend on your ansible-core version):
-ansible-test integration --docker fedora35 -v interfaces_file
+#### In Docker

+Integration tests on Docker have the following parameters:
+- `image_name` (required): The name of the Docker image. To get the list of supported Docker images, run
+  `ansible-test integration --help` and look for _target docker images_.
+- `test_name` (optional): The name of the integration test.  
+  For modules, this equals the short name of the module; for example, `pacman` in case of `community.general.pacman`.  
+  For plugins, the plugin type is added before the plugin's short name, for example `callback_yaml` for the `community.general.yaml` callback.
+```.bash
+# Test all plugins/modules on fedora40
+ansible-test integration -v --docker fedora40
+
+# Template
+ansible-test integration -v --docker image_name test_name
+
+# Example community.general.ini_file module on fedora40 Docker image:
+ansible-test integration -v --docker fedora40 ini_file
+```
+
+#### Without isolation
+
+```.bash
 # Run integration tests for the flattened lookup **without any isolation**:
 ansible-test integration -v lookup_flattened
 ```
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

 # Community General Collection

-[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=main)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-9)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
 [![EOL CI](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/workflows/EOL%20CI/badge.svg?event=push)](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/actions)
 [![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://codecov.io/gh/ansible-collections/community.general)
+[![REUSE status](https://api.reuse.software/badge/github.com/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://api.reuse.software/info/github.com/ansible-collections/community.general)

 This repository contains the `community.general` Ansible Collection. The collection is a part of the Ansible package and includes many modules and plugins supported by Ansible community which are not part of more specialized community collections.

@@ -22,9 +23,21 @@ We follow [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/comm

 If you encounter abusive behavior violating the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html), please refer to the [policy violations](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html#policy-violations) section of the Code of Conduct for information on how to raise a complaint.

+## Communication
+
+* Join the Ansible forum:
+  * [Get Help](https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6): get help or help others. This is for questions about modules or plugins in the collection.
+  * [Tag `community-general`](https://forum.ansible.com/tag/community-general): discuss the *collection itself*, instead of specific modules or plugins.
+  * [Social Spaces](https://forum.ansible.com/c/chat/4): gather and interact with fellow enthusiasts.
+  * [News & Announcements](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/5): track project-wide announcements including social events.
+
+* The Ansible [Bullhorn newsletter](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#the-bullhorn): used to announce releases and important changes.
+
+For more information about communication, see the [Ansible communication guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html).
+
 ## 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 2.13, ansible-core 2.14, ansible-core 2.15, ansible-core 2.16, ansible-core 2.17 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible-core versions before 2.13.0 are not supported. This includes all ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 releases.

 ## External requirements

@@ -97,25 +110,13 @@ It is necessary for maintainers of this collection to be subscribed to:

 They also should be subscribed to Ansible's [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#the-bullhorn).

-## Communication
-
-We announce important development changes and releases through Ansible's [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://eepurl.com/gZmiEP). If you are a collection developer, be sure you are subscribed.
-
-Join us in the `#ansible` (general use questions and support), `#ansible-community` (community and collection development questions), and other [IRC channels](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html#irc-channels) on [Libera.chat](https://libera.chat).
-
-We take part in the global quarterly [Ansible Contributor Summit](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Contributor-Summit) virtually or in-person. Track [The Bullhorn newsletter](https://eepurl.com/gZmiEP) and join us.
-
-For more information about communities, meetings and agendas see [Community Wiki](https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/Community).
-
-For more information about communication, refer to Ansible's the [Communication guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/communication.html).
-
 ## Publishing New Version

 See the [Releasing guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/releasing_collections.rst) to learn how to release this collection.

 ## Release notes

-See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst).
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/CHANGELOG.md).

 ## Roadmap

@@ -134,8 +135,8 @@ See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues

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

-See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/COPYING) for the full text.
+See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/COPYING) for the full text.

-Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).
+Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).

 All files have a machine readable `SDPX-License-Identifier:` comment denoting its respective license(s) or an equivalent entry in an accompanying `.license` file. Only changelog fragments (which will not be part of a release) are covered by a blanket statement in `.reuse/dep5`. This conforms to the [REUSE specification](https://reuse.software/spec/).
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
--- a/changelogs/config.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/config.yaml
@@ -12,23 +12,31 @@ mention_ancestor: true
 flatmap: true
 new_plugins_after_name: removed_features
 notesdir: fragments
+output_formats:
+  - md
+  - rst
 prelude_section_name: release_summary
 prelude_section_title: Release Summary
 sections:
- - major_changes
-  - Major Changes
- - minor_changes
-  - Minor Changes
- - breaking_changes
-  - Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
- - deprecated_features
-  - Deprecated Features
- - removed_features
-  - Removed Features (previously deprecated)
- - security_fixes
-  - Security Fixes
- - bugfixes
-  - Bugfixes
- - known_issues
-  - Known Issues
+  - - major_changes
+    - Major Changes
+  - - minor_changes
+    - Minor Changes
+  - - breaking_changes
+    - Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+  - - deprecated_features
+    - Deprecated Features
+  - - removed_features
+    - Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+  - - security_fixes
+    - Security Fixes
+  - - bugfixes
+    - Bugfixes
+  - - known_issues
+    - Known Issues
 title: Community General
+trivial_section_name: trivial
+use_fqcn: true
+add_plugin_period: true
+changelog_nice_yaml: true
+changelog_sort: version
--- a/changelogs/fragments/3787-pass-composer-working-dir.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/3787-pass-composer-working-dir.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - composer - fix impossible to run ``working_dir`` dependent commands. The module was throwing an error when trying to run a ``working_dir`` dependent command, because it tried to get the command help without passing the ``working_dir`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3787).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6134-add-locked-option-for-cargo.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6134-add-locked-option-for-cargo.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "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)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6223-get-secret-ids-by-folderid.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6223-get-secret-ids-by-folderid.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6435-snap-channel-aware.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6435-snap-channel-aware.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6469-add-composites-support-for-keycloak-role.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6469-add-composites-support-for-keycloak-role.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - keycloak_role - add composite roles support for realm and client roles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6469).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6471-redfish-add-multipart-http-push-command.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6471-redfish-add-multipart-http-push-command.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redfish_command - add ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6471, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6612).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6502-cobbler-inventory_hostname.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6502-cobbler-inventory_hostname.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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 warning for systems with empty profiles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6502).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6510-proxmox-create-support_timezone.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6510-proxmox-create-support_timezone.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox - support ``timezone`` parameter at container creation
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6510).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6512-cpanm-default-mode.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6512-cpanm-default-mode.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - cpanm - value ``compatibility`` is deprecated as default for parameter ``mode`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6512).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6513-opkg-default-force.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6513-opkg-default-force.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6520-mas-disable-signin.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6520-mas-disable-signin.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-minor_changes:
-  - "mas - disable sign-in check for macOS 12+ as ``mas account`` is non-functional (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6520)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6522-copr-respawn.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6522-copr-respawn.yaml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
---
-minor_changes:
-  - "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)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6523-datadog-monitor-notification-preset-name-and-renotify.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6523-datadog-monitor-notification-preset-name-and-renotify.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6525-sorcery-import.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6525-sorcery-import.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - sorcery - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6525).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6527-nmcli-bond-fix-xmit_hash_policy.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6527-nmcli-bond-fix-xmit_hash_policy.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - nmcli - fix bond option ``xmit_hash_policy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6527).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6531-opentelemetry-add-event-attributes.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6531-opentelemetry-add-event-attributes.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - opentelemetry callback plugin - add span attributes in the span event (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6531).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6533-proxmox_kvm-tpmstate0-support.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6533-proxmox_kvm-tpmstate0-support.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6534-zypper-exitcode-102-handled.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6534-zypper-exitcode-102-handled.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6539-semantic-markup.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6539-semantic-markup.yml
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
---
-minor_changes:
-  - "The collection will start using semantic markup (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6539)."
-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)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6548-portage-changed_use-newuse.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6548-portage-changed_use-newuse.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6554-proxmox-tasks-info-fix-required-password.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6554-proxmox-tasks-info-fix-required-password.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6568-fix-get-user-by-username-in-keycloak-module-utils.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6568-fix-get-user-by-username-in-keycloak-module-utils.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6570-handle-shutdown-timeout.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6570-handle-shutdown-timeout.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6576-proxmox-snap-allow-to-remove-old-snapshots.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6576-proxmox-snap-allow-to-remove-old-snapshots.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-minor_changes:
-  - "proxmox_snap - add ``retention`` parameter to delete old snapshots (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6576)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6601-cmdrunner-deprecate-default-type.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6601-cmdrunner-deprecate-default-type.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - CmdRunner module utils - deprecate ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_default_type()`` formatter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6601).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6602-vardict-as-dict.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6602-vardict-as-dict.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - VarDict module utils - add method ``VarDict.as_dict()`` to convert to a plain ``dict`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6602).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6640-proxmox-composite-variables-support.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6640-proxmox-composite-variables-support.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox inventory plugin - add composite variables support for Proxmox nodes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6640).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6644-dependencymixin-fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6644-dependencymixin-fix.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - MH DependencyMixin module utils - deprecation notice was popping up for modules not using dependencies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6644, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6639).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6646-redhat_subscription-deprecate-autosubscribe.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6646-redhat_subscription-deprecate-autosubscribe.yml
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
- |
-  redhat_subscription - the ``autosubscribe`` alias for the ``auto_attach`` option has been
-  deprecated for many years, although only in the documentation. Officially mark this alias
-  as deprecated, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6646).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6647-vardict-methods.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6647-vardict-methods.yml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - vardict module utils - added convenience methods to ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6647).
-breaking_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6648_ldap_search_page_size.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6648_ldap_search_page_size.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ldap_search - add a new ``page_size`` option to enable paged searches (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6648).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6649-varsmixin-deprecation.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6649-varsmixin-deprecation.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6650-redhat_subscription-deprecate-pool.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6650-redhat_subscription-deprecate-pool.yml
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
- |
-  redhat_subscription - the ``pool`` option is deprecated in favour of the
-  more precise and flexible ``pool_ids`` option
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6650).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6658-redhat_subscription-internal-rhsm-refactor.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6658-redhat_subscription-internal-rhsm-refactor.yml
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - |
-    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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6660-onepassword-lookup-service-account.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6660-onepassword-lookup-service-account.yaml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6662-csv-bom.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6662-csv-bom.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - csv module utils - detects and remove unicode BOM markers from incoming CSV content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6662).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6663-deprecate-module_utils-redhat.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6663-deprecate-module_utils-redhat.yml
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - |
-    redhat module utils - the ``module_utils.redhat`` module is deprecated, as
-    effectively unused: the ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools`` classes
-    will be removed in community.general 9.0.0; the ``RegistrationBase`` class
-    will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 together with the
-    ``rhn_register`` module, as it is the only user of this class; this means
-    that the whole ``module_utils.redhat`` module will be dropped in
-    community.general 10.0.0, so importing it without even using anything of it
-    will fail
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6663).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6668-ldap-client-cert.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6668-ldap-client-cert.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6669-rhsm_release-internal-sub-man-exec.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6669-rhsm_release-internal-sub-man-exec.yml
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - |
-    rhsm_release - improve/harden the way ``subscription-manager`` is run;
-    no behaviour change is expected
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6669).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6673-rhsm_repository-deprecate-present-absent.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6673-rhsm_repository-deprecate-present-absent.yml
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
- |
-  rhsm_repository - ``state=present`` has not been working as expected for many years,
-  and it seems it was not noticed so far; also, "presence" is not really a valid concept
-  for subscription repositories, which can only be enabled or disabled. Hence, mark the
-  ``present`` and ``absent`` values of the ``state`` option as deprecated, slating them
-  for removal in community.general 10.0.0
-  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6673).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6676-rhsm_repository-fix-returned-repositories-with-purge.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6676-rhsm_repository-fix-returned-repositories-with-purge.yml
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - |
-    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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6680-filesystem-uuid-change.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6680-filesystem-uuid-change.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - filesystem - add ``uuid`` parameter for UUID change feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6680).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6682-lvg-clonesupport.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6682-lvg-clonesupport.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6687-support-subgroups-for-keycloak-client-rolemapping.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6687-support-subgroups-for-keycloak-client-rolemapping.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - keycloak_client_rolemapping - adds support for subgroups with additional parameter ``parents`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6687).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6688-is-struct-included-bug-in-keycloak-py.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6688-is-struct-included-bug-in-keycloak-py.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - keycloak module utils - fix ``is_struct_included`` handling of lists of lists/dictionaries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6688).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6709-proxmox-create-vm-with-existing-name.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6709-proxmox-create-vm-with-existing-name.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6711-cobbler-ip-address.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6711-cobbler-ip-address.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6712-gitlab_group-filtered-for-none-values.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6712-gitlab_group-filtered-for-none-values.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6713-yay-become.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6713-yay-become.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - pacman - module recognizes the output of ``yay`` running as ``root`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6713).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6719-redfish-utils-fix-for-get-volume-inventory.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6719-redfish-utils-fix-for-get-volume-inventory.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6720-tss-fix-fetch-attachments.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6720-tss-fix-fetch-attachments.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "tss lookup plugin - fix multiple issues when using ``fetch_attachments=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6720)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6734-keycloak-auth-management-indexing.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6734-keycloak-auth-management-indexing.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6748-icinga2_host-datafix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6748-icinga2_host-datafix.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "icinga2_host - fix a key error when updating an existing host (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6748)."
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6755-refactor-consul-session-to-use-requests-lib-instead-of-consul.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6755-refactor-consul-session-to-use-requests-lib-instead-of-consul.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6757-proxmox-template-fix-upload-error.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6757-proxmox-template-fix-upload-error.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
---
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6763-keycloak-auth-provider-choices.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6763-keycloak-auth-provider-choices.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - keycloak_authentication - added provider ID choices, since Keycloak supports only those two specific ones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6763).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6769-nmcli-fix-empty-list.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6769-nmcli-fix-empty-list.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
- bugfixes:
-  - nmcli - fix support for empty list (in compare and scrape) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6769).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6770-proxmox_disk_create_cdrom.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6770-proxmox_disk_create_cdrom.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - proxmox_disk - fix unable to create ``cdrom`` media due to ``size`` always being appended (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6770).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6771-redfish-filter-empty-account-slots.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6771-redfish-filter-empty-account-slots.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6773-proxmox_kvm-restarted-state-bug-fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6773-proxmox_kvm-restarted-state-bug-fix.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6774-locale-gen-fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6774-locale-gen-fix.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6783-6837-rhsm_repository-internal-refactor.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6783-6837-rhsm_repository-internal-refactor.yml
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - |
-    rhsm_repository - the interaction with ``subscription-manager`` was
-    refactored by grouping things together, removing unused bits, and hardening
-    the way it is run; also, the parsing of ``subscription-manager repos --list``
-    was improved and made slightly faster; no behaviour change is expected
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6783,
-    https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6837).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6785-openbsd_pkg_pkg_info_handling.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6785-openbsd_pkg_pkg_info_handling.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6811-datadog-downtime-rrule-type.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6811-datadog-downtime-rrule-type.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6813-redfish-config-add-create-volume.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6813-redfish-config-add-create-volume.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redfish_config - add ``CreateVolume`` command to allow creation of volumes on servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6813).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6814-redfish-config-add-delete-all-volumes.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6814-redfish-config-add-delete-all-volumes.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redfish_config - add ``DeleteAllVolumes`` command to allow deletion of all volumes on servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6814).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6819-redfish-utils-add-links-parameter-for-get_disk_inventory.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6819-redfish-utils-add-links-parameter-for-get_disk_inventory.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redfish_utils module utils - support ``Volumes`` in response for ``GetDiskInventory`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6819).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6820-locale-gen-cmdrunner.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6820-locale-gen-cmdrunner.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - locale_gen - module now using ``CmdRunner`` to execute external commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6820).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6823-redfish-add-account-type-management.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6823-redfish-add-account-type-management.yml
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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_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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6826-snap-out-strip.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6826-snap-out-strip.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6827-proxmox_kvm-force-delete-bug-fix.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6827-proxmox_kvm-force-delete-bug-fix.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6835-snap-missing-track.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6835-snap-missing-track.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6836-proxmox-deprecate-compatibility.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6836-proxmox-deprecate-compatibility.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6838-proxmox-dict-template.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6838-proxmox-dict-template.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6839-promoxer-tokens.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6839-promoxer-tokens.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6841-htpasswd-crypt-scheme.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6841-htpasswd-crypt-scheme.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6848-npm-required-if.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6848-npm-required-if.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - npm - minor improvement on parameter validation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6848).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6861-yum_versionlock_minor_change_add-pinning-specific-versions.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6861-yum_versionlock_minor_change_add-pinning-specific-versions.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6862-opkg-exec.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6862-opkg-exec.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - opkg - add ``executable`` parameter allowing to specify the path of the ``opkg`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6862).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6864-redfish-utils-fix-for-processorarchitecture-in-cpu-inventory.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6864-redfish-utils-fix-for-processorarchitecture-in-cpu-inventory.yaml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redfish_info - adds ``ProcessorArchitecture`` to CPU inventory (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6864).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6873-proxmox-imports.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6873-proxmox-imports.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-removed_features:
-  - proxmox module utils - removed unused imports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6873).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6882-make-multiple-targets.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6882-make-multiple-targets.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6883-redfish-utils-changing-variable-names-in-get-volume-inventory.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6883-redfish-utils-changing-variable-names-in-get-volume-inventory.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - refish_utils module utils - changing variable names to avoid issues occuring when fetching Volumes data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6883).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6887-deprecate-stackdrive.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6887-deprecate-stackdrive.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - 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).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6901-htpasswd-refactor.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6901-htpasswd-refactor.yml
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - htpasswd - minor code improvements in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6901).
-removed_features:
-  - htpasswd - removed code for passlib <1.6 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6901).
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6902-added-support-in-nmcli-for-ipvx-dns-options.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/6902-added-support-in-nmcli-for-ipvx-dns-options.yml
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - nmcli - add support for ``ipv4.dns-options`` and ``ipv6.dns-options`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6902).
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