Release 6.5.0.

[PR #5815/5e1e8d06 backport][stable-6] ldap_entry documentation is lacking examples (#6255 )
ldap_entry documentation is lacking examples (#5815) * Add changelog fragment * Add documentation for possible values of LDAP entry attributes * Add PR information * Update plugins/modules/ldap_entry.py Co-authored-by: Alexei Znamensky <103110+russoz@users.noreply.github.com> * remove changlog * Update docstring * Align ldap_attrs doc to ldap_entry module * Update plugins/modules/ldap_attrs.py Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> * Change formulations. --------- Co-authored-by: Alexei Znamensky <103110+russoz@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de> (cherry picked from commit 5e1e8d06ef) Co-authored-by: Cédric Servais <cedric.servais@outlook.com>
2026-04-30 18:36:28 +00:00 · 2023-03-27 21:39:20 +02:00 · 2023-03-27 19:20:57 +00:00 · 2023-03-26 14:02:59 +00:00 · 2023-03-26 13:36:46 +02:00 · 2023-03-26 10:21:49 +02:00
1248 changed files with 26321 additions and 55684 deletions
--- a/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ schedules:
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-9
-        - stable-8
+        - stable-6
+        - stable-5
  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-7
+        - stable-4

 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:3.0.0

 pool: Standard

@@ -73,40 +73,40 @@ stages:
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            - test: 4
            - test: extra
-  - stage: Sanity_2_17
-    displayName: Sanity 2.17
+  - stage: Sanity_2_14
+    displayName: Sanity 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.17/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.14/sanity/{0}
          targets:
            - test: 1
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_16
-    displayName: Sanity 2.16
+  - stage: Sanity_2_13
+    displayName: Sanity 2.13
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/sanity/{0}
          targets:
            - test: 1
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_15
-    displayName: Sanity 2.15
+  - stage: Sanity_2_12
+    displayName: Sanity 2.12
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.12/sanity/{0}
          targets:
            - test: 1
            - test: 2
@@ -122,45 +122,47 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/units/{0}/1
          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
            - test: '3.11'
-            - test: '3.12'
-  - stage: Units_2_17
-    displayName: Units 2.17
+  - stage: Units_2_14
+    displayName: Units 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.17/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 3.7
-            - test: "3.12"
-  - stage: Units_2_16
-    displayName: Units 2.16
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.14/units/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: "3.11"
-  - stage: Units_2_15
-    displayName: Units 2.15
+            - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Units_2_13
+    displayName: Units 2.13
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.13/units/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: 3.5
-            - test: "3.10"
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.8
+  - stage: Units_2_12
+    displayName: Units 2.12
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.12/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.6
+            - test: 3.8

 ## Remote
  - stage: Remote_devel_extra_vms
@@ -171,10 +173,12 @@ stages:
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          testFormat: devel/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.19
-              test: alpine/3.19
-            # - name: Fedora 39
-            #   test: fedora/39
+            - name: Alpine 3.17
+              test: alpine/3.17
+            # - name: Fedora 37
+            #   test: fedora/37
+            # - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+            #   test: ubuntu/20.04
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu/22.04
          groups:
@@ -186,69 +190,67 @@ stages:
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        parameters:
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-          targets:
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-              test: macos/14.3
-            - name: RHEL 9.3
-              test: rhel/9.3
-            - name: FreeBSD 14.0
-              test: freebsd/14.0
-          groups:
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-            - 3
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-    displayName: Remote 2.17
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-    jobs:
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-        parameters:
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-          targets:
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.3
-              test: freebsd/13.3
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_16
-    displayName: Remote 2.16
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
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          targets:
            - 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: RHEL 7.9
+              test: rhel/7.9
+            - name: RHEL 9.1
+              test: rhel/9.1
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.1
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.4
+              test: freebsd/12.4
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_15
-    displayName: Remote 2.15
+  - stage: Remote_2_14
+    displayName: Remote 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.15/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.14/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: RHEL 9.1
-              test: rhel/9.1
-            - name: RHEL 8.7
-              test: rhel/8.7
-            - name: RHEL 7.9
-              test: rhel/7.9
-            # - name: FreeBSD 13.1
-            #   test: freebsd/13.1
-            # - name: FreeBSD 12.4
-            #   test: freebsd/12.4
+            - name: RHEL 9.0
+              test: rhel/9.0
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.3
+              test: freebsd/12.3
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_13
+    displayName: Remote 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.13/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 12.0
+              test: macos/12.0
+            - name: RHEL 8.5
+              test: rhel/8.5
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_12
+    displayName: Remote 2.12
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.12/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 11.1
+              test: macos/11.1
+            - name: RHEL 8.4
+              test: rhel/8.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+              test: freebsd/13.0
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -263,60 +265,68 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 39
-              test: fedora39
+            - name: CentOS 7
+              test: centos7
+            - name: Fedora 37
+              test: fedora37
+            - name: openSUSE 15
+              test: opensuse15
            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
              test: ubuntu2004
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu2204
-          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: Alpine 3.19
-              test: alpine319
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_16
-    displayName: Docker 2.16
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.16/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora38
-            - name: openSUSE 15
-              test: opensuse15
            - name: Alpine 3
              test: alpine3
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_15
-    displayName: Docker 2.15
+  - stage: Docker_2_14
+    displayName: Docker 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.15/linux/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.14/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 37
-              test: fedora37
-            - name: CentOS 7
-              test: centos7
+            - name: Fedora 36
+              test: fedora36
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_13
+    displayName: Docker 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.13/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 35
+              test: fedora35
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_12
+    displayName: Docker 2.12
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.12/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: CentOS 6
+              test: centos6
+            - name: Fedora 34
+              test: fedora34
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -333,10 +343,10 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - name: Debian Bullseye
              test: debian-bullseye/3.9
-            - name: Debian Bookworm
-              test: debian-bookworm/3.11
            - name: ArchLinux
-              test: archlinux/3.12
+              test: archlinux/3.10
+            - name: CentOS Stream 8
+              test: centos-stream8/3.9
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -352,67 +362,64 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '3.8'
+            - test: 2.7
            - test: '3.11'
-  - stage: Generic_2_17
-    displayName: Generic 2.17
+  - stage: Generic_2_14
+    displayName: Generic 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.17/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.14/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '3.7'
-            - test: '3.12'
-  - stage: Generic_2_16
-    displayName: Generic 2.16
+            - test: '3.10'
+  - stage: Generic_2_13
+    displayName: Generic 2.13
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.13/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '2.7'
-            - test: '3.6'
-            - test: '3.11'
-  - stage: Generic_2_15
-    displayName: Generic 2.15
+            - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Generic_2_12
+    displayName: Generic 2.12
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.12/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '3.9'
+            - test: 3.8

  - stage: Summary
    condition: succeededOrFailed()
    dependsOn:
      - Sanity_devel
-      - Sanity_2_17
-      - Sanity_2_16
-      - Sanity_2_15
+      - Sanity_2_12
+      - Sanity_2_13
+      - Sanity_2_14
      - Units_devel
-      - Units_2_17
-      - Units_2_16
-      - Units_2_15
+      - Units_2_12
+      - Units_2_13
+      - Units_2_14
      - Remote_devel_extra_vms
      - Remote_devel
-      - Remote_2_17
-      - Remote_2_16
-      - Remote_2_15
+      - Remote_2_12
+      - Remote_2_13
+      - Remote_2_14
      - Docker_devel
-      - Docker_2_17
-      - Docker_2_16
-      - Docker_2_15
+      - Docker_2_12
+      - Docker_2_13
+      - 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_12
+#      - Generic_2_13
+#      - Generic_2_14
    jobs:
      - template: templates/coverage.yml
--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ files:
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-    maintainers: pixslx
  $modules/grove.py:
    maintainers: zimbatm
  $modules/gunicorn.py:
    maintainers: agmezr
+  $modules/hana_query.py:
+    maintainers: rainerleber
  $modules/haproxy.py:
    maintainers: ravibhure Normo
  $modules/heroku_collaborator.py:
@@ -660,7 +589,7 @@ files:
    ignore: jose-delarosa
    maintainers: $team_redfish
  $modules/ilo_:
-    ignore: jose-delarosa varini-hp
+    ignore: jose-delarosa
    maintainers: $team_redfish
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-    ignore: fxfitz
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-    maintainers: brettmilford unnecessary-username juanmcasanova
-  $modules/jenkins_build_info.py:
-    maintainers: juanmcasanova
+    maintainers: brettmilford unnecessary-username
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  $modules/jenkins_job_info.py:
@@ -743,9 +665,9 @@ files:
  $modules/jenkins_script.py:
    maintainers: hogarthj
  $modules/jira.py:
-    ignore: DWSR tarka
+    ignore: DWSR
    labels: jira
-    maintainers: Slezhuk pertoft
+    maintainers: Slezhuk tarka pertoft
  $modules/kdeconfig.py:
    maintainers: smeso
  $modules/kernel_blacklist.py:
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    maintainers: $team_keycloak
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    maintainers: elfelip Gaetan2907
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-    maintainers: Skrekulko
-  $modules/keycloak_authz_authorization_scope.py:
-    maintainers: mattock
-  $modules/keycloak_authz_permission.py:
-    maintainers: mattock
-  $modules/keycloak_authz_custom_policy.py:
-    maintainers: mattock
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-    maintainers: mattock
  $modules/keycloak_client_rolemapping.py:
    maintainers: Gaetan2907
  $modules/keycloak_clientscope.py:
    maintainers: Gaetan2907
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-    maintainers: simonpahl
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    maintainers: fynncfchen johncant
  $modules/keycloak_clientsecret_regenerate.py:
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    maintainers: kris2kris
  $modules/keycloak_realm_info.py:
    maintainers: fynncfchen
-  $modules/keycloak_realm_key.py:
-    maintainers: mattock
  $modules/keycloak_role.py:
    maintainers: laurpaum
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-    maintainers: elfelip
  $modules/keycloak_user_federation.py:
    maintainers: laurpaum
-  $modules/keycloak_component_info.py:
-    maintainers: desand01
-  $modules/keycloak_client_rolescope.py:
-    maintainers: desand01
  $modules/keycloak_user_rolemapping.py:
    maintainers: bratwurzt
-  $modules/keycloak_realm_rolemapping.py:
-    maintainers: agross mhuysamen Gaetan2907
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    maintainers: ahussey-redhat
  $modules/keyring_info.py:
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-    maintainers: lszomor
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  $modules/lxc_container.py:
@@ -926,7 +824,7 @@ files:
  $modules/nmcli.py:
    maintainers: alcamie101
  $modules/nomad_:
-    maintainers: chris93111 apecnascimento
+    maintainers: chris93111
  $modules/nosh.py:
    maintainers: tacatac
  $modules/npm.py:
@@ -1011,7 +909,7 @@ files:
    labels: pagerduty
    maintainers: suprememoocow thaumos
  $modules/pagerduty_alert.py:
-    maintainers: ApsOps xshen1
+    maintainers: ApsOps
  $modules/pagerduty_change.py:
    maintainers: adamvaughan
  $modules/pagerduty_user.py:
@@ -1023,7 +921,7 @@ files:
  $modules/pamd.py:
    maintainers: kevensen
  $modules/parted.py:
-    maintainers: ColOfAbRiX jake2184
+    maintainers: ColOfAbRiX rosowiecki jake2184
  $modules/pear.py:
    ignore: jle64
    labels: pear
@@ -1054,9 +952,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_solaris dermute
  $modules/pmem.py:
    maintainers: mizumm
-  $modules/pnpm.py:
-    ignore: chrishoffman
-    maintainers: aretrosen
  $modules/portage.py:
    ignore: sayap
    labels: portage
@@ -1073,34 +968,29 @@ files:
  $modules/proxmox:
    keywords: kvm libvirt proxmox qemu
    labels: proxmox virt
-    maintainers: $team_virt UnderGreen krauthosting
-    ignore: tleguern
+    maintainers: $team_virt
  $modules/proxmox.py:
    ignore: skvidal
-    maintainers: UnderGreen krauthosting
+    maintainers: UnderGreen
  $modules/proxmox_disk.py:
-    maintainers: castorsky krauthosting
+    maintainers: castorsky
  $modules/proxmox_kvm.py:
    ignore: skvidal
-    maintainers: helldorado krauthosting
+    maintainers: helldorado
  $modules/proxmox_nic.py:
-    maintainers: Kogelvis krauthosting
-  $modules/proxmox_node_info.py:
-    maintainers: jwbernin krauthosting
-  $modules/proxmox_storage_contents_info.py:
-    maintainers: l00ptr krauthosting
+    maintainers: Kogelvis
  $modules/proxmox_tasks_info:
-    maintainers: paginabianca krauthosting
+    maintainers: paginabianca
  $modules/proxmox_template.py:
    ignore: skvidal
-    maintainers: UnderGreen krauthosting
+    maintainers: UnderGreen
  $modules/pubnub_blocks.py:
    maintainers: parfeon pubnub
  $modules/pulp_repo.py:
    maintainers: sysadmind
  $modules/puppet.py:
    labels: puppet
-    maintainers: emonty
+    maintainers: nibalizer emonty
  $modules/pushbullet.py:
    maintainers: willybarro
  $modules/pushover.py:
@@ -1108,6 +998,46 @@ files:
  $modules/python_requirements_info.py:
    ignore: ryansb
    maintainers: willthames
+  $modules/rax:
+    ignore: ryansb sivel
+  $modules/rax.py:
+    maintainers: omgjlk sivel
+  $modules/rax_cbs.py:
+    maintainers: claco
+  $modules/rax_cbs_attachments.py:
+    maintainers: claco
+  $modules/rax_cdb.py:
+    maintainers: jails
+  $modules/rax_cdb_database.py:
+    maintainers: jails
+  $modules/rax_cdb_user.py:
+    maintainers: jails
+  $modules/rax_clb.py:
+    maintainers: claco
+  $modules/rax_clb_nodes.py:
+    maintainers: neuroid
+  $modules/rax_clb_ssl.py:
+    maintainers: smashwilson
+  $modules/rax_files.py:
+    maintainers: angstwad
+  $modules/rax_files_objects.py:
+    maintainers: angstwad
+  $modules/rax_identity.py:
+    maintainers: claco
+  $modules/rax_mon_alarm.py:
+    maintainers: smashwilson
+  $modules/rax_mon_check.py:
+    maintainers: smashwilson
+  $modules/rax_mon_entity.py:
+    maintainers: smashwilson
+  $modules/rax_mon_notification.py:
+    maintainers: smashwilson
+  $modules/rax_mon_notification_plan.py:
+    maintainers: smashwilson
+  $modules/rax_network.py:
+    maintainers: claco omgjlk
+  $modules/rax_queue.py:
+    maintainers: claco
  $modules/read_csv.py:
    maintainers: dagwieers
  $modules/redfish_:
@@ -1115,8 +1045,7 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_redfish TSKushal
  $modules/redhat_subscription.py:
    labels: redhat_subscription
-    maintainers: $team_rhsm
-    ignore: barnabycourt alikins kahowell
+    maintainers: barnabycourt alikins kahowell
  $modules/redis.py:
    maintainers: slok
  $modules/redis_data.py:
@@ -1139,9 +1068,9 @@ files:
    labels: rhn_register
    maintainers: jlaska $team_rhn
  $modules/rhsm_release.py:
-    maintainers: seandst $team_rhsm
+    maintainers: seandst
  $modules/rhsm_repository.py:
-    maintainers: giovannisciortino $team_rhsm
+    maintainers: giovannisciortino
  $modules/riak.py:
    maintainers: drewkerrigan jsmartin
  $modules/rocketchat.py:
@@ -1162,6 +1091,10 @@ files:
    maintainers: nerzhul
  $modules/runit.py:
    maintainers: jsumners
+  $modules/sap_task_list_execute:
+    maintainers: rainerleber
+  $modules/sapcar_extract.py:
+    maintainers: RainerLeber
  $modules/say.py:
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core
    ignore: mpdehaan
@@ -1236,8 +1169,6 @@ files:
    ignore: ryansb
  $modules/shutdown.py:
    maintainers: nitzmahone samdoran aminvakil
-  $modules/simpleinit_msb.py:
-    maintainers: vaygr
  $modules/sl_vm.py:
    maintainers: mcltn
  $modules/slack.py:
@@ -1250,7 +1181,7 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_solaris
  $modules/snap.py:
    labels: snap
-    maintainers: angristan vcarceler russoz
+    maintainers: angristan vcarceler
  $modules/snap_alias.py:
    labels: snap
    maintainers: russoz
@@ -1272,6 +1203,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: farhan7500 gautamphegde
  $modules/ssh_config.py:
    maintainers: gaqzi Akasurde
+  $modules/stackdriver.py:
+    maintainers: bwhaley
  $modules/stacki_host.py:
    labels: stacki_host
    maintainers: bsanders bbyhuy
@@ -1326,8 +1259,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: nate-kingsley
  $modules/urpmi.py:
    maintainers: pmakowski
-  $modules/usb_facts.py:
-    maintainers: maxopoly
  $modules/utm_:
    keywords: sophos utm
    maintainers: $team_e_spirit
@@ -1364,6 +1295,8 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_wdc
  $modules/wdc_redfish_info.py:
    maintainers: $team_wdc
+  $modules/webfaction_:
+    maintainers: quentinsf
  $modules/xattr.py:
    labels: xattr
    maintainers: bcoca
@@ -1415,47 +1348,8 @@ files:
    ignore: matze
    labels: zypper
    maintainers: $team_suse
-  $plugin_utils/unsafe.py:
-    maintainers: felixfontein
  $tests/a_module.py:
    maintainers: felixfontein
-  $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_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_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/test_guide.rst:
-    maintainers: felixfontein
 #########################
  tests/:
    labels: tests
@@ -1473,6 +1367,7 @@ macros:
  becomes: plugins/become
  caches: plugins/cache
  callbacks: plugins/callback
+  cliconfs: plugins/cliconf
  connections: plugins/connection
  doc_fragments: plugins/doc_fragments
  filters: plugins/filter
@@ -1480,21 +1375,21 @@ macros:
  lookups: plugins/lookup
  module_utils: plugins/module_utils
  modules: plugins/modules
-  plugin_utils: plugins/plugin_utils
+  terminals: plugins/terminal
  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 apollo13
+  team_consul: sgargan
  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_gitlab: Lunik Shaps dj-wasabi 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 justchris1
+  team_ipa: Akasurde Nosmoht fxfitz justchris1
  team_jboss: Wolfant jairojunior wbrefvem
-  team_keycloak: eikef ndclt mattock
+  team_keycloak: eikef ndclt
  team_linode: InTheCloudDan decentral1se displague rmcintosh Charliekenney23 LBGarber
  team_macos: Akasurde kyleabenson martinm82 danieljaouen indrajitr
  team_manageiq: abellotti cben gtanzillo yaacov zgalor dkorn evertmulder
@@ -1504,9 +1399,8 @@ macros:
  team_purestorage: bannaych dnix101 genegr lionmax opslounge raekins sdodsley sile16
  team_redfish: mraineri tomasg2012 xmadsen renxulei rajeevkallur bhavya06 jyundt
  team_rhn: FlossWare alikins barnabycourt vritant
-  team_rhsm: cnsnyder ptoscano
  team_scaleway: remyleone abarbare
  team_solaris: bcoca fishman jasperla jpdasma mator scathatheworm troy2914 xen0l
  team_suse: commel evrardjp lrupp toabctl AnderEnder alxgu andytom sealor
-  team_virt: joshainglis karmab Thulium-Drake Ajpantuso
+  team_virt: joshainglis karmab tleguern Thulium-Drake Ajpantuso
  team_wdc: mikemoerk
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ body:
    label: Component Name
    description: >-
      Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
-      *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
+      *use your best guess if unsure*.
    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
  validations:
    required: true
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ body:
  attributes:
    label: Component Name
    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the file, module, plugin, task or feature below,
-      *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
+      Write the short name of the rst file, module, plugin, task or
+      feature below, *use your best guess if unsure*.
    placeholder: mysql_user
  validations:
    required: true
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ body:
  attributes:
    label: Component Name
    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the module or plugin, or which other part(s) of the collection this feature affects.
-      *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
+      Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
+      *use your best guess if unsure*.
    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
  validations:
    required: true
--- a/.github/pull_request_template.md
+++ b/.github/pull_request_template.md
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-##### SUMMARY
-<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale and design decisions -->
-
-<!--- HINT: Include "Fixes #nnn" if you are fixing an existing issue -->
-
-<!--- Please do not forget to include a changelog fragment:
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/collection_development_process.html#creating-changelog-fragments
-      No need to include one for docs-only or test-only PR, and for new plugin/module PRs.
-      Read about more details in CONTRIBUTING.md.
-      -->
-
-##### ISSUE TYPE
-<!--- Pick one or more below and delete the rest.
-      'Test Pull Request' is for PRs that add/extend tests without code changes. -->
- Bugfix Pull Request
- Docs Pull Request
- Feature Pull Request
- New Module/Plugin Pull Request
- Refactoring Pull Request
- Test Pull Request
-
-##### COMPONENT NAME
-<!--- Write the SHORT NAME of the module, plugin, task or feature below. -->
-
-##### ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-<!--- Include additional information to help people understand the change here -->
-<!--- A step-by-step reproduction of the problem is helpful if there is no related issue -->
-
-<!--- Paste verbatim command output below, e.g. before and after your change -->
-```paste below
-
-```
--- a/.github/pull_request_template.md.license
+++ b/.github/pull_request_template.md.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ on:
      - main
      - stable-*
  pull_request:
-  # Run EOL CI once per day (at 08:00 UTC)
+  # Run EOL CI once per day (at 10:00 UTC)
  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 8 * * *'
+    - cron: '0 10 * * *'

 concurrency:
  # Make sure there is at most one active run per PR, but do not cancel any non-PR runs
@@ -29,20 +29,22 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        ansible:
-          - '2.13'
-          - '2.14'
+          - '2.11'
    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
    steps:
      - name: Perform sanity testing
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: felixfontein/ansible
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
          testing-type: sanity
@@ -53,7 +55,10 @@ jobs:
    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
    name: EOL Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+py${{ matrix.python }})
    strategy:
      # As soon as the first unit test fails, cancel the others to free up the CI queue
@@ -66,16 +71,10 @@ jobs:
        exclude:
          - ansible: ''
        include:
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '3.8'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '3.8'
-          - ansible: '2.14'
-            python: '3.9'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            python: '3.5'

    steps:
      - name: >-
@@ -83,8 +82,8 @@ jobs:
          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: felixfontein/ansible
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pre-test-cmd: >-
            mkdir -p ../../ansible
@@ -100,7 +99,10 @@ jobs:
    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
    name: EOL I (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+${{ matrix.docker }}+py${{ matrix.python }}:${{ matrix.target }})
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
@@ -116,66 +118,52 @@ jobs:
        exclude:
          - ansible: ''
        include:
-          # 2.13
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
+          # 2.11
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora32
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora32
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora32
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora33
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora33
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora33
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            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'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-          # - ansible: '2.13'
+          # - ansible: '2.11'
          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '3.9'
+          #   python: '2.7'
          #   target: azp/generic/1/
-          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-          # - ansible: '2.14'
+          # - ansible: '2.11'
          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '3.10'
-          #   target: azp/generic/1/
+          #   python: '3.5'
+          #   target: azp/generic/2/

    steps:
      - name: >-
@@ -184,8 +172,8 @@ jobs:
          under Python ${{ matrix.python }}
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: felixfontein/ansible
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          docker-image: ${{ matrix.docker }}
          integration-continue-on-error: 'false'
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ name: "Code scanning - action"
 on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '26 19 * * 1'
-  workflow_dispatch:

 permissions:
  contents: read
@@ -24,13 +23,39 @@ jobs:

    steps:
    - name: Checkout repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      with:
+        # We must fetch at least the immediate parents so that if this is
+        # a pull request then we can checkout the head.
+        fetch-depth: 2
+
+    # If this run was triggered by a pull request event, then checkout
+    # the head of the pull request instead of the merge commit.
+    - run: git checkout HEAD^2
+      if: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}

    # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
    - name: Initialize CodeQL
-      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v3
-      with:
-        languages: python
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
+      # Override language selection by uncommenting this and choosing your languages
+      # with:
+      #   languages: go, javascript, csharp, python, cpp, java
+
+    # Autobuild attempts to build any compiled languages  (C/C++, C#, or Java).
+    # If this step fails, then you should remove it and run the build manually (see below)
+    - name: Autobuild
+      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v2
+
+    # ℹ️ Command-line programs to run using the OS shell.
+    # 📚 https://git.io/JvXDl
+
+    # ✏️ If the Autobuild fails above, remove it and uncomment the following three lines
+    #    and modify them (or add more) to build your code if your project
+    #    uses a compiled language
+
+    #- run: |
+    #   make bootstrap
+    #   make release

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

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

-      - name: REUSE Compliance Check
-        uses: fsfe/reuse-action@v3
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip install reuse
+
+      - name: Check REUSE compliance
+        run: |
+          reuse lint
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -512,7 +512,3 @@ $RECYCLE.BIN/

 # Integration tests cloud configs
 tests/integration/cloud-config-*.ini
-
-
-# VSCode specific extensions
-.vscode/settings.json
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+---
+# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v4.0.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: trailing-whitespace
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer
+      - id: mixed-line-ending
+        args: [--fix=lf]
+      - id: fix-encoding-pragma
+      - id: check-ast
+      - id: check-merge-conflict
+      - id: check-symlinks
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pygrep-hooks
+    rev: v1.9.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: rst-backticks
+        types: [file]
+        files: changelogs/fragments/.*\.(yml|yaml)$
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,337 +0,0 @@
-# Community General Release Notes
-
-**Topics**
-
- <a href="#v9-0-0">v9\.0\.0</a>
-    - <a href="#release-summary">Release Summary</a>
-    - <a href="#minor-changes">Minor Changes</a>
-    - <a href="#breaking-changes--porting-guide">Breaking Changes / Porting Guide</a>
-    - <a href="#deprecated-features">Deprecated Features</a>
-    - <a href="#removed-features-previously-deprecated">Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)</a>
-    - <a href="#security-fixes">Security Fixes</a>
-    - <a href="#bugfixes">Bugfixes</a>
-    - <a href="#new-plugins">New Plugins</a>
-        - <a href="#become">Become</a>
-        - <a href="#callback">Callback</a>
-        - <a href="#connection">Connection</a>
-        - <a href="#filter">Filter</a>
-        - <a href="#lookup">Lookup</a>
-        - <a href="#test">Test</a>
-    - <a href="#new-modules">New Modules</a>
-This changelog describes changes after version 8\.0\.0\.
-
-<a id="v9-0-0"></a>
-## v9\.0\.0
-
-<a id="release-summary"></a>
-### Release Summary
-
-This is release 9\.0\.0 of <code>community\.general</code>\, released on 2024\-05\-20\.
-
-<a id="minor-changes"></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> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
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-<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"></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 \(previously deprecated\)
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-* 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"></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 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169)\)\.
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-<a id="new-plugins"></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"></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\.
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-<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"></a>
-#### Test
-
-* community\.general\.fqdn\_valid \- Validates fully\-qualified domain names against RFC 1123\.
-
-<a id="new-modules"></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/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -4,320 +4,599 @@ Community General Release Notes

 .. contents:: Topics

-This changelog describes changes after version 8.0.0.
+This changelog describes changes after version 5.0.0.

-v9.0.0
+v6.5.0
 ======

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

-This is release 9.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2024-05-20.
+Feature and bugfix release.

 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).
+- apt_rpm - adds ``clean``, ``dist_upgrade`` and ``update_kernel``  parameters for clear caches, complete upgrade system, and upgrade kernel packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5867).
+- dconf - parse GVariants for equality comparison when the Python module ``gi.repository`` is available (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6049).
+- gitlab_runner - allow to register group runner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3935).
+- jira - add worklog functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6209, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6210).
+- ldap modules - add ``ca_path`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6185).
+- make - add ``command`` return value to the module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6160).
+- nmap inventory plugin - add new option ``open`` for only returning open ports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6200).
+- nmap inventory plugin - add new option ``port`` for port specific scan (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6165).
+- nmcli - add ``default`` and ``default-or-eui64`` to the list of valid choices for ``addr_gen_mode6`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5974).
+- nmcli - add support for ``team.runner-fast-rate`` parameter for ``team`` connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6065).
+- openbsd_pkg - set ``TERM`` to ``'dumb'`` in ``execute_command()`` to make module less dependant on the ``TERM`` environment variable set on the Ansible controller (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6149).
+- pipx - optional ``install_apps`` parameter added to install applications from injected packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6198).
+- proxmox_kvm - add new ``archive`` parameter. This is needed to create a VM from an archive (backup) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6159).
+- redfish_info - adds commands to retrieve the HPE ThermalConfiguration and FanPercentMinimum settings from iLO (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6208).
+- redhat_subscription - credentials (``username``, ``activationkey``, and so on) are required now only if a system needs to be registered, or ``force_register`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5664).
+- redhat_subscription - the registration is done using the D-Bus ``rhsm`` service instead of spawning a ``subscription-manager register`` command, if possible; this avoids passing plain-text credentials as arguments to ``subscription-manager register``, which can be seen while that command runs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6122).
+- ssh_config - add ``proxyjump`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5970).
+- ssh_config - vendored StormSSH's config parser to avoid having to install StormSSH to use the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6117).
+- znode module - optional ``use_tls`` parameter added for encrypted communication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6154).

 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).
+- archive - avoid deprecated exception class on Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6180).
+- gitlab_runner - fix ``KeyError`` on runner creation and update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6112).
+- influxdb_user - fix running in check mode when the user does not exist yet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6111).
+- interfaces_file - fix reading options in lines not starting with a space (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6120).
+- jail connection plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` to vars under ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6118).
+- memset - fix memset urlerror handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6114).
+- nmcli - fixed idempotency issue for bridge connections. Module forced default value of ``bridge.priority`` to nmcli if not set; if ``bridge.stp`` is disabled nmcli ignores it and keep default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3216, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4683).
+- nmcli - fixed idempotency issue when module params is set to ``may_fail4=false`` and ``method4=disabled``; in this case nmcli ignores change and keeps their own default value ``yes`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6106).
+- nmcli - implemented changing mtu value on vlan interfaces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4387).
+- opkg - fixes bug when using ``update_cache=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6004).
+- redhat_subscription, rhsm_release, rhsm_repository - cleanly fail when not running as root, rather than hanging on an interactive ``console-helper`` prompt; they all interact with ``subscription-manager``, which already requires to be run as root (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/734, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6211).
+- xenorchestra inventory plugin - fix failure to receive objects from server due to not checking the id of the response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6227).
+- yarn - fix ``global=true`` to not fail when `executable` wasn't specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6132)
+- yarn - fixes bug where yarn module tasks would fail when warnings were emitted from Yarn. The ``yarn.list`` method was not filtering out warnings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6127).

 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.
+- merge_variables - merge variables with a certain suffix

 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.
+- kdeconfig - Manage KDE configuration files
+
+v6.4.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular feature and bugfix release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- dnsimple - set custom User-Agent for API requests to DNSimple (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5927).
+- flatpak_remote - add new boolean option ``enabled``. It controls, whether the remote is enabled or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5926).
+- gitlab_project - add ``releases_access_level``, ``environments_access_level``, ``feature_flags_access_level``, ``infrastructure_access_level``, ``monitor_access_level``, and ``security_and_compliance_access_level`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5986).
+- jc filter plugin - added the ability to use parser plugins (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6043).
+- keycloak_group - add new optional module parameter ``parents`` to properly handle keycloak subgroups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5814).
+- keycloak_user_federation - make ``org.keycloak.storage.ldap.mappers.LDAPStorageMapper`` the default value for mappers ``providerType`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5863).
+- ldap modules - add ``xorder_discovery`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6045, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6109).
+- lxd_container - add diff and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5866).
+- mattermost, rocketchat, slack - replace missing default favicon with docs.ansible.com favicon (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5928).
+- modprobe - add ``persistent`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/542).
+- osx_defaults - include stderr in error messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6011).
+- proxmox - suppress urllib3 ``InsecureRequestWarnings`` when ``validate_certs`` option is ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5931).
+- redfish_command - adding ``EnableSecureBoot`` functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5899).
+- redfish_command - adding ``VerifyBiosAttributes`` functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5900).
+- sefcontext - add support for path substitutions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1193).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- gitlab_runner - the option ``access_level`` will lose its default value in community.general 8.0.0. From that version on, you have set this option to ``ref_protected`` explicitly, if you want to have a protected runner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5925).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cartesian and flattened lookup plugins - adjust to parameter deprecation in ansible-core 2.14's ``listify_lookup_plugin_terms`` helper function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6074).
+- cloudflare_dns - fixed the idempotency for SRV DNS records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5972).
+- cloudflare_dns - fixed the possiblity of setting a root-level SRV DNS record (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5972).
+- github_webhook - fix always changed state when no secret is provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5994).
+- jenkins_plugin - fix error due to undefined variable when updates file is not downloaded (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6100).
+- keycloak_client - fix accidental replacement of value for attribute ``saml.signing.private.key`` with ``no_log`` in wrong contexts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5934).
+- lxd_* modules, lxd inventory plugin - fix TLS/SSL certificate validation problems by using the correct purpose when creating the TLS context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5616, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6034).
+- nmcli - fix change handling of values specified as an integer 0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
+- nmcli - fix failure to handle WIFI settings when connection type not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
+- nmcli - fix improper detection of changes to ``wifi.wake-on-wlan`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
+- nmcli - order is significant for lists of addresses (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6048).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - Changed to ignore errors from "op account get" calls. Previously, errors would prevent auto-signin code from executing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5942).
+- terraform and timezone - slight refactoring to avoid linter reporting potentially undefined variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5933).
+- various plugins and modules - remove unnecessary imports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5940).
+- yarn - fix ``global=true`` to check for the configured global folder instead of assuming the default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5829)
+- yarn - fix ``state=absent`` not working with ``global=true`` when the package does not include a binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5829)
+- yarn - fix ``state=latest`` not working with ``global=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5712).
+- zfs_delegate_admin - zfs allow output can now be parsed when uids/gids are not known to the host system (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5943).
+- zypper - make package managing work on readonly filesystem of openSUSE MicroOS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5615).
+
+v6.3.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- apache2_module - add module argument ``warn_mpm_absent`` to control whether warning are raised in some edge cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5793).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - can now retrieve secrets from custom fields (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5694).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - implement filtering results by ``collection_id`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5849).
+- dig lookup plugin - support CAA record type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5913).
+- gitlab_project - add ``builds_access_level``, ``container_registry_access_level`` and ``forking_access_level`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5706).
+- gitlab_runner - add new boolean option ``access_level_on_creation``. It controls, whether the value of ``access_level`` is used for runner registration or not. The option ``access_level`` has been ignored on registration so far and was only used on updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5907, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5908).
+- ilo_redfish_utils module utils - change implementation of DNS Server IP and NTP Server IP update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5804).
+- ipa_group - allow to add and remove external users with the ``external_user`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5897).
+- iptables_state - minor refactoring within the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5844).
+- one_vm - add a new ``updateconf`` option which implements the ``one.vm.updateconf`` API call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5812).
+- opkg - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` for executing ``opkg`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5718).
+- redhat_subscription - adds ``token`` parameter for subscription-manager authentication using Red Hat API token (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5725).
+- snap - minor refactor when executing module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5773).
+- snap_alias - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``snap`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5486).
+- sudoers - add ``setenv`` parameters to support passing environment variables via sudo. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5883)
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- ModuleHelper module utils - when the module sets output variables named ``msg``, ``exception``, ``output``, ``vars``, or ``changed``, the actual output will prefix those names with ``_`` (underscore symbol) only when they clash with output variables generated by ModuleHelper itself, which only occurs when handling exceptions. Please note that this breaking change does not require a new major release since before this release, it was not possible to add such variables to the output `due to a bug <https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5755>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5765).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- consul - deprecate using parameters unused for ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5772).
+- gitlab_runner - the default of the new option ``access_level_on_creation`` will change from ``false`` to ``true`` in community.general 7.0.0. This will cause ``access_level`` to be used during runner registration as well, and not only during updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5908).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- ModuleHelper - fix bug when adjusting the name of reserved output variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5755).
+- alternatives - support subcommands on Fedora 37, which uses ``follower`` instead of ``slave`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5794).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - clarify what to do, if the bitwarden vault is not unlocked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5811).
+- dig lookup plugin - correctly handle DNSKEY record type's ``algorithm`` field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5914).
+- gem - fix force parameter not being passed to gem command when uninstalling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5822).
+- gem - fix hang due to interactive prompt for confirmation on specific version uninstall (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5751).
+- gitlab_deploy_key - also update ``title`` and not just ``can_push`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5888).
+- keycloak_user_federation - fixes federation creation issue. When a new federation was created and at the same time a default / standard mapper was also changed / updated the creation process failed as a bad None set variable led to a bad malformed url request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5750).
+- keycloak_user_federation - fixes idempotency detection issues. In some cases the module could fail to properly detect already existing user federations because of a buggy seemingly superflous extra query parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5732).
+- loganalytics callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- logdna callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- logstash callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- nsupdate - fix zone lookup. The SOA record for an existing zone is returned as an answer RR and not as an authority RR (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5817, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5818).
+- proxmox_disk - fixed issue with read timeout on import action (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5803).
+- redfish_utils - removed basic auth HTTP header when performing a GET on the service root resource and when performing a POST to the session collection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5886).
+- splunk callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- sumologic callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- syslog_json callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- terraform - fix ``current`` workspace never getting appended to the ``all`` key in the ``workspace_ctf`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5735).
+- terraform - fix ``terraform init`` failure when there are multiple workspaces on the remote backend and when ``default`` workspace is missing by setting ``TF_WORKSPACE`` environmental variable to the value of ``workspace`` when used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5735).
+- terraform module - disable ANSI escape sequences during validation phase (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5843).
+- xml - fixed a bug where empty ``children`` list would not be set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5808).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- ocapi_command - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Open Composable API (OCAPI)
+- ocapi_info - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Open Composable API (OCAPI)
+
+v6.2.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- opkg - allow installing a package in a certain version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5688).
+- proxmox - added new module parameter ``tags`` for use with PVE 7+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5714).
+- puppet - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` for executing ``puppet`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5612).
+- redhat_subscription - add a ``server_proxy_scheme`` parameter to configure the scheme for the proxy server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5662).
+- ssh_config - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5720).
+- sudoers - adds ``host`` parameter for setting hostname restrictions in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5702).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- manageiq_policies - deprecate ``state=list`` in favour of using ``community.general.manageiq_policies_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5721).
+- rax - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_cbs - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_cbs_attachments - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_cdb - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_cdb_database - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_cdb_user - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_clb - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_clb_nodes - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_clb_ssl - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_dns - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_dns_record - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_facts - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_files - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_files_objects - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_identity - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_keypair - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_meta - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_mon_alarm - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_mon_check - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_mon_entity - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_mon_notification - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_mon_notification_plan - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_network - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_queue - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_scaling_group - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+- rax_scaling_policy - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- ansible_galaxy_install - set default to raise exception if command's return code is different from zero (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5680).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - try ``C.UTF-8`` and then fall back to ``en_US.UTF-8`` before failing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5680).
+- gitlab_group_variables - fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5667).
+- gitlab_project_variables - fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5667).
+- lxc_container - fix the arguments of the lxc command which broke the creation and cloning of containers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5578).
+- opkg - fix issue that ``force=reinstall`` would not reinstall an existing package (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5705).
+- proxmox_disk - fixed possible issues with redundant ``vmid`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
+- proxmox_nic - fixed possible issues with redundant ``vmid`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
+- unixy callback plugin - fix typo introduced when updating to use Ansible's configuration manager for handling options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5600).
+
+v6.1.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- cmd_runner module utils - ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool()`` can now take an extra parameter to format when value is false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5647).
+- gconftool2 - refactor using ``ModuleHelper`` and ``CmdRunner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5545).
+- java_certs - add more detailed error output when extracting certificate from PKCS12 fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5550).
+- jenkins_plugin - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5565).
+- lxd_project - refactored code out to module utils to clear sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5549).
+- nmap inventory plugin - add new options ``udp_scan``, ``icmp_timestamp``, and ``dns_resolve`` for different types of scans (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5566).
+- rax_scaling_group - refactored out code to the ``rax`` module utils to clear the sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5563).
+- redfish_command - add ``PerformRequestedOperations`` command to perform any operations necessary to continue the update flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_command - add ``update_apply_time`` to ``SimpleUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3910).
+- redfish_command - add ``update_status`` to output of ``SimpleUpdate`` command to allow a user monitor the update in progress (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_info - add ``GetUpdateStatus`` command to check the progress of a previous update request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_utils module utils - added PUT (``put_request()``) functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5490).
+- slack - add option ``prepend_hash`` which allows to control whether a ``#`` is prepended to ``channel_id``. The current behavior (value ``auto``) is to prepend ``#`` unless some specific prefixes are found. That list of prefixes is incomplete, and there does not seem to exist a documented condition on when exactly ``#`` must not be prepended. We recommend to explicitly set ``prepend_hash=always`` or ``prepend_hash=never`` to avoid any ambiguity (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5629).
+- spotinst_aws_elastigroup - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5553).
+- ssh_config - add ``host_key_algorithms`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5605).
+- udm_share - added ``elements`` attribute to ``list`` type parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5557).
+- udm_user - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5559).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- The ``sap`` modules ``sapcar_extract``, ``sap_task_list_execute``, and ``hana_query``, will be removed from this collection in community.general 7.0.0 and replaced with redirects to ``community.sap_libs``. If you want to continue using these modules, make sure to also install ``community.sap_libs`` (it is part of the Ansible package) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5614).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- chroot connection plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` to vars under ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5570).
+- cmd_runner module utils - fixed bug when handling default cases in ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_map()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
+- cmd_runner module utils - formatting arguments ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_fixed()`` was expecting an non-existing argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - calculate ``proposed`` and ``after`` return values properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - remove only listed mappings with ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fix bug while templating when using templates for the ``url``, ``user``, ``password``, ``token_id``, or ``token_secret`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5640).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - handle tags delimited by semicolon instead of comma, which happens from Proxmox 7.3 on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5602).
+- redhat_subscription - do not ignore ``consumer_name`` and other variables if ``activationkey`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3486, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5627).
+- redhat_subscription - do not pass arguments to ``subscription-manager register`` for things already configured; now a specified ``rhsm_baseurl`` is properly set for subscription-manager (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5583).
+- unixy callback plugin - fix plugin to work with ansible-core 2.14 by using Ansible's configuration manager for handling options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5600).
+- vdo - now uses ``yaml.safe_load()`` to parse command output instead of the deprecated ``yaml.load()`` which is potentially unsafe. Using ``yaml.load()`` without explicitely setting a ``Loader=`` is also an error in pyYAML 6.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5632).
+- vmadm - fix for index out of range error in ``get_vm_uuid`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5628).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- gitlab_project_badge - Manage project badges on GitLab Server
+- keycloak_clientsecret_info - Retrieve client secret via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_clientsecret_regenerate - Regenerate Keycloak client secret via Keycloak API
+
+v6.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release for Ansible 7.0.0.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- dependent lookup plugin - avoid warning on deprecated parameter for ``Templar.template()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5543).
+- jenkins_build - fix the logical flaw when deleting a Jenkins build (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5514).
+- one_vm - avoid splitting labels that are ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5489).
+- onepassword_raw - add missing parameter to plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5506).
+- proxmox_disk - avoid duplicate ``vmid`` reference (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5493).
+
+v6.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+New major release of community.general with lots of bugfixes, new features, some removed deprecated features, and some other breaking changes. Please check the coresponding sections of the changelog for more details.
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- The internal structure of the collection was changed for modules and action plugins. These no longer live in a directory hierarchy ordered by topic, but instead are now all in a single (flat) directory. This has no impact on users *assuming they did not use internal FQCNs*. These will still work, but result in deprecation warnings. They were never officially supported and thus the redirects are kept as a courtsey, and this is not labelled as a breaking change. Note that for example the Ansible VScode plugin started recommending these internal names. If you followed its recommendation, you will now have to change back to the short names to avoid deprecation warnings, and potential errors in the future as these redirects will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5461).
+- newrelic_deployment - removed New Relic v1 API, added support for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Added MIT license as ``LICENSES/MIT.txt`` for tests/unit/plugins/modules/packaging/language/test_gem.py (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5065).
+- All software licenses are now in the ``LICENSES/`` directory of the collection root (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5065, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5079, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5080, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5083, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5087, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5095, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5098, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5106).
+- ModuleHelper module utils - added property ``verbosity`` to base class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5035).
+- ModuleHelper module utils - improved ``ModuleHelperException``, using ``to_native()`` for the exception message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4755).
+- The collection repository conforms to the `REUSE specification <https://reuse.software/spec/>`__ except for the changelog fragments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5138).
+- ali_instance - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5240).
+- ali_instance_info - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5240).
+- alternatives - add ``state=absent`` to be able to remove an alternative (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4654).
+- alternatives - add ``subcommands`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4654).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - minor refactoring using latest ``ModuleHelper`` updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4752).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``ansible-galaxy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5477).
+- apk - add ``world`` parameter for supporting a custom world file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4976).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - add option ``search`` to search for other attributes than name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5297).
+- cartesian lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- cmd_runner module util - added parameters ``check_mode_skip`` and ``check_mode_return`` to ``CmdRunner.context()``, so that the command is not executed when ``check_mode=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4736).
+- cmd_runner module utils - add ``__call__`` method to invoke context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4791).
+- consul - adds ``ttl`` parameter for session  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4996).
+- consul - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5367).
+- consul_session - adds ``token`` parameter for session (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5193).
+- cpanm - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``cpanm`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5485).
+- cpanm - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- credstash lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- dependent lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- dig lookup plugin - add option ``fail_on_error`` to allow stopping execution on lookup failures (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4973).
+- dig lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options. All documented options can now also be passed as lookup parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- dnstxt lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- filetree lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- flattened lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- gitlab module util - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_branch - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_deploy_key - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_group - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_group_members - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_group_variable - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_hook - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_hook - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5271).
+- gitlab_project - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_project_members - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_project_variable - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_protected_branch - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_runner - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_user - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- hiera lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options. The Hiera executable and config file can now also be passed as lookup parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- homebrew, homebrew_tap - added Homebrew on Linux path to defaults (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5241).
+- hponcfg - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``hponcfg`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5483).
+- keycloak_* modules - add ``http_agent`` parameter with default value ``Ansible`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5023).
+- keyring lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- lastpass - use config manager for handling plugin options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5022).
+- ldap_attrs - allow for DNs to have ``{x}`` prefix on first RDN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/977, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5450).
+- linode inventory plugin - simplify option handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5438).
+- listen_ports_facts - add new ``include_non_listening`` option which adds ``-a`` option to ``netstat`` and ``ss``. This shows both listening and non-listening (for TCP this means established connections) sockets, and returns ``state`` and ``foreign_address`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4762, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4953).
+- lmdb_kv lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- lxc_container - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5358).
+- machinectl become plugin - can now be used with a password from another user than root, if a polkit rule is present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4849).
+- machinectl become plugin - combine the success command when building the become command to be consistent with other become plugins (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5287).
+- manifold lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- maven_artifact - add a new ``unredirected_headers`` option that can be used with ansible-core 2.12 and above. The default value is to not use ``Authorization`` and ``Cookie`` headers on redirects for security reasons. With ansible-core 2.11, all headers are still passed on for redirects (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4812).
+- mksysb - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``mksysb`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5484).
+- mksysb - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- nagios - minor refactoring on parameter validation for different actions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5239).
+- netcup_dnsapi - add ``timeout`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5301).
+- nmcli - add ``transport_mode`` configuration for Infiniband devices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5361).
+- nmcli - add bond option ``xmit_hash_policy`` to bond options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5148).
+- nmcli - adds ``vpn`` type and parameter for supporting VPN with service type L2TP and PPTP (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4746).
+- nmcli - honor IP options for VPNs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5228).
+- onepassword - support version 2 of the OnePassword CLI (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4728)
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - allow configuring opentelementry callback via config file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4916).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - send logs. This can be disabled by setting ``disable_logs=false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4175).
+- pacman - added parameters ``reason`` and ``reason_for`` to set/change the install reason of packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4956).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - allow options to be passed lookup options instead of being part of the term strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5444).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - allow using alternative password managers by detecting wrapper scripts, allow explicit configuration of pass and gopass backends (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4766).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - improve error messages to include stderr (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5436)
+- pipx - added state ``latest`` to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5105).
+- pipx - changed implementation to use ``cmd_runner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5085).
+- pipx - module fails faster when ``name`` is missing for states ``upgrade`` and ``reinstall`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5100).
+- pipx - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- pipx module utils - created new module util ``pipx`` providing a ``cmd_runner`` specific for the ``pipx`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5085).
+- portage - add knobs for Portage's ``--backtrack`` and ``--with-bdeps`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5349).
+- portage - use Portage's python module instead of calling gentoolkit-provided program in shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5349).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - added new flag ``qemu_extended_statuses`` and new groups ``<group_prefix>prelaunch``, ``<group_prefix>paused``. They will be populated only when ``want_facts=true``, ``qemu_extended_statuses=true`` and only for ``QEMU`` machines (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4723).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - simplify option handling code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5437).
+- proxmox module utils, the proxmox* modules - add ``api_task_ok`` helper to standardize API task status checks across all proxmox modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5274).
+- proxmox_kvm - allow ``agent`` argument to be a string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5107).
+- proxmox_snap - add ``unbind`` param to support snapshotting containers with configured mountpoints (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5274).
+- puppet - adds ``confdir`` parameter to configure a custom confir location (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4740).
+- redfish - added new command GetVirtualMedia, VirtualMediaInsert and VirtualMediaEject to Systems category due to Redfish spec changes the virtualMedia resource location from Manager to System (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5124).
+- redfish_config - add ``SetSessionService`` to set default session timeout policy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5008).
+- redfish_info - add ``GetManagerInventory`` to report list of Manager inventory information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4899).
+- seport - added new argument ``local`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5203)
+- snap - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- sudoers - will attempt to validate the proposed sudoers rule using visudo if available, optionally skipped, or required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4794, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4745).
+- terraform - adds capability to handle complex variable structures for ``variables`` parameter in the module. This must be enabled with the new ``complex_vars`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4797).
+- terraform - run ``terraform init`` with ``-no-color`` not to mess up the stdout of the task (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5147).
+- wdc_redfish_command - add ``IndicatorLedOn`` and ``IndicatorLedOff`` commands for ``Chassis`` category (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5059).
+- wdc_redfish_command - add ``PowerModeLow`` and ``PowerModeNormal`` commands for ``Chassis`` category (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5145).
+- xfconf - add ``stdout``, ``stderr`` and ``cmd`` to the module results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5037).
+- xfconf - changed implementation to use ``cmd_runner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
+- xfconf - use ``do_raise()`` instead of defining custom exception class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4975).
+- xfconf - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- xfconf module utils - created new module util ``xfconf`` providing a ``cmd_runner`` specific for ``xfconf`` modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
+- xfconf_info - changed implementation to use ``cmd_runner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
+- xfconf_info - use ``do_raise()`` instead of defining custom exception class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4975).
+- znode - possibility to use ZooKeeper ACL authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5306).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- newrelic_deployment - ``revision`` is required for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).
+- scaleway_container_registry_info - no longer replace ``secret_environment_variables`` in the output by ``SENSITIVE_VALUE`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5497).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- ArgFormat module utils - deprecated along ``CmdMixin``, in favor of the ``cmd_runner_fmt`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
+- CmdMixin module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
+- CmdModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
+- CmdStateModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
+- cmd_runner module utils - deprecated ``fmt`` in favour of ``cmd_runner_fmt`` as the parameter format object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4777).
+- django_manage - support for Django releases older than 4.1 has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400).
+- django_manage - support for the commands ``cleanup``, ``syncdb`` and ``validate`` that have been deprecated in Django long time ago will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400).
+- django_manage - the behavior of "creating the virtual environment when missing" is being deprecated and will be removed in community.general version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5405).
+- gconftool2 - deprecates ``state=get`` in favor of using the module ``gconftool2_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4778).
+- lxc_container - the module will no longer make any effort to support Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5304).
+- newrelic_deployment - ``appname`` and ``environment`` are no longer valid options in the v2 API. They will be removed in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).
+- proxmox - deprecated the current ``unprivileged`` default value, will be changed to ``true`` in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/pull/5224).
+- xfconf - deprecated parameter ``disable_facts``, as since version 4.0.0 it only allows value ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4520).
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- bitbucket* modules - ``username`` is no longer an alias of ``workspace``, but of ``user`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- gem - the default of the ``norc`` option changed from ``false`` to ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- gitlab_group_members - ``gitlab_group`` must now always contain the full path, and no longer just the name or path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- keycloak_authentication - the return value ``flow`` has been removed. Use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- keycloak_group - the return value ``group`` has been removed. Use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- lxd_container - the default of the ``ignore_volatile_options`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- mail callback plugin - the ``sender`` option is now required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- module_helper module utils - remove the ``VarDict`` attribute from ``ModuleHelper``. Import ``VarDict`` from ``ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.vars`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - the default of the ``want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- vmadm - the ``debug`` option has been removed. It was not used anyway (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Include ``PSF-license.txt`` file for ``plugins/module_utils/_mount.py``.
+- Include ``simplified_bsd.txt`` license file for various module utils, the ``lxca_common`` docs fragment, and the ``utm_utils`` unit tests.
+- alternatives - do not set the priority if the priority was not set by the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4810).
+- alternatives - only pass subcommands when they are specified as module arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4803, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4804, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4836).
+- alternatives - when ``subcommands`` is specified, ``link`` must be given for every subcommand. This was already mentioned in the documentation, but not enforced by the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4836).
+- apache2_mod_proxy - avoid crash when reporting inability to parse balancer_member_page HTML caused by using an undefined variable in the error message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- archive - avoid crash when ``lzma`` is not present and ``format`` is not ``xz`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5393).
+- cmd_runner module utils - fix bug caused by using the ``command`` variable instead of ``self.command`` when looking for binary path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4903).
+- consul - fixed bug introduced in PR 4590 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4680).
+- credstash lookup plugin - pass plugin options to credstash for all terms, not just for the first (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- dig lookup plugin - add option to return empty result without empty strings, and return empty list instead of ``NXDOMAIN`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5439, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5428).
+- dig lookup plugin - fix evaluation of falsy values for boolean parameters ``fail_on_error`` and ``retry_servfail`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5129).
+- dnsimple_info - correctly report missing library as ``requests`` and not ``another_library`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- dnstxt lookup plugin - add option to return empty result without empty strings, and return empty list instead of ``NXDOMAIN`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5457, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5428).
+- dsv lookup plugin - do not ignore the ``tld`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4911).
+- filesystem - handle ``fatresize --info`` output lines without ``:`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4700).
+- filesystem - improve error messages when output cannot be parsed by including newlines in escaped form (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4700).
+- funcd connection plugin - fix signature of ``exec_command`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- ini_file - minor refactor fixing a python lint error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5307).
+- iso_create - the module somtimes failed to add folders for Joliet and UDF formats (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5275).
+- keycloak_realm - fix default groups and roles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4241).
+- keyring_info - fix the result from the keyring library never getting returned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4964).
+- ldap_attrs - fix bug which caused a ``Bad search filter`` error. The error was occuring when the ldap attribute value contained special characters such as ``(`` or ``*`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5434, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5435).
+- ldap_attrs - fix ordering issue by ignoring the ``{x}`` prefix on attribute values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/977, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5385).
+- listen_ports_facts - removed leftover ``EnvironmentError`` . The ``else`` clause had a wrong indentation. The check is now handled in the ``split_pid_name`` function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5202).
+- locale_gen - fix support for Ubuntu (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5281).
+- lxc_container - the module has been updated to support Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5304).
+- lxd connection plugin - fix incorrect ``inventory_hostname`` in ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4886).
+- manageiq_alert_profiles - avoid crash when reporting unknown profile caused by trying to return an undefined variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- nmcli - avoid changed status for most cases with VPN connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5126).
+- nmcli - fix error caused by adding undefined module arguments for list options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4373, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4813).
+- nmcli - fix error when setting previously unset MAC address, ``gsm.apn`` or ``vpn.data``: current values were being normalized without checking if they might be ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5291).
+- nmcli - fix int options idempotence (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4998).
+- nsupdate - compatibility with NS records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5112).
+- nsupdate - fix silent failures when updating ``NS`` entries from Bind9 managed DNS zones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4657).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - support opentelemetry-api 1.13.0 that removed support for ``_time_ns`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5342).
+- osx_defaults - no longer expand ``~`` in ``value`` to the user's home directory, or expand environment variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5234, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5243).
+- packet_ip_subnet - fix error reporting in case of invalid CIDR prefix lengths (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- pacman - fixed name resolution of URL packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4959).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - fix ``returnall`` for gopass (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5027).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - fix password store path detection for gopass (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4955).
+- pfexec become plugin - remove superflous quotes preventing exe wrap from working as expected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3671, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3889).
+- pip_package_info - remove usage of global variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- pkgng - fix case when ``pkg`` fails when trying to upgrade all packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5363).
+- proxmox - fix error handling when getting VM by name when ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4945).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fix crash when ``enabled=1`` is used in agent config string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4910).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed extended status detection for qemu (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4816).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix ``agent`` parameter when boolean value is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5198).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix error handling when getting VM by name when ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4945).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix exception when no ``agent`` argument is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5194).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix wrong condition (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5108).
+- proxmox_kvm - replace new condition with proper condition to allow for using ``vmid`` on update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5206).
+- rax_clb_nodes - fix code to be compatible with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4933).
+- redfish_command - fix the check if a virtual media is unmounted to just check for ``instered= false`` caused by Supermicro hardware that does not clear the ``ImageName`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4839).
+- redfish_command - the Supermicro Redfish implementation only supports the ``image_url`` parameter in the underlying API calls to ``VirtualMediaInsert`` and ``VirtualMediaEject``. Any values set (or the defaults) for ``write_protected`` or ``inserted`` will be ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4839).
+- redfish_info - fix to ``GetChassisPower`` to correctly report power information when multiple chassis exist, but not all chassis report power information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4901).
+- redfish_utils module utils - centralize payload checking when performing modification requests to a Redfish service (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5210/).
+- redhat_subscription - fix unsubscribing on RHEL 9 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4741).
+- redhat_subscription - make module idempotent when ``pool_ids`` are used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5313).
+- redis* modules - fix call to ``module.fail_json`` when failing because of missing Python libraries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4733).
+- slack - fix incorrect channel prefix ``#`` caused by incomplete pattern detection by adding ``G0`` and ``GF`` as channel ID patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5019).
+- slack - fix message update for channels which start with ``CP``. When ``message-id`` was passed it failed for channels which started with ``CP`` because the ``#`` symbol was added before the ``channel_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5249).
+- snap - allow values in the ``options`` parameter to contain whitespaces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5475).
+- sudoers - ensure sudoers config files are created with the permissions requested by sudoers (0440) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4814).
+- sudoers - fix incorrect handling of ``state: absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4852).
+- tss lookup plugin - adding support for updated Delinea library (https://github.com/DelineaXPM/python-tss-sdk/issues/9, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5151).
+- virtualbox inventory plugin - skip parsing values with keys that have both a value and nested data. Skip parsing values that are nested more than two keys deep (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5332, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5348).
+- xcc_redfish_command - for compatibility due to Redfish spec changes the virtualMedia resource location changed from Manager to System (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4682).
+- xenserver_facts - fix broken ``AnsibleModule`` call that prevented the module from working at all (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5383).
+- xfconf - fix setting of boolean values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4999, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5007).
+- zfs - fix wrong quoting of properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4707, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4726).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- counter - Counts hashable elements in a sequence
+
+Lookup
+~~~~~~
+
+- bitwarden - Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- gconftool2_info - Retrieve GConf configurations
+- iso_customize - Add/remove/change files in ISO file
+- keycloak_user_rolemapping - Allows administration of Keycloak user_rolemapping with the Keycloak API
+- keyring - Set or delete a passphrase using the Operating System's native keyring
+- keyring_info - Get a passphrase using the Operating System's native keyring
+- manageiq_policies_info - Listing of resource policy_profiles in ManageIQ
+- manageiq_tags_info - Retrieve resource tags in ManageIQ
+- pipx_info - Rretrieves information about applications installed with pipx
+- proxmox_disk - Management of a disk of a Qemu(KVM) VM in a Proxmox VE cluster.
+- scaleway_compute_private_network - Scaleway compute - private network management
+- scaleway_container - Scaleway Container management
+- scaleway_container_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Container
+- scaleway_container_namespace - Scaleway Container namespace management
+- scaleway_container_namespace_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Container namespace
+- scaleway_container_registry - Scaleway Container registry management module
+- scaleway_container_registry_info - Scaleway Container registry info module
+- scaleway_function - Scaleway Function management
+- scaleway_function_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Function
+- scaleway_function_namespace - Scaleway Function namespace management
+- scaleway_function_namespace_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Function namespace
+- wdc_redfish_command - Manages WDC UltraStar Data102 Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
+- wdc_redfish_info - Manages WDC UltraStar Data102 Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@ 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/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 :) )
+* 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, except for test and filter plugins. Also you shouldn't include one for docs-only changes. If you're not sure, simply don't include one, we'll tell you whether one is needed or not :) )
 * Avoid reformatting unrelated parts of the codebase in your PR. These types of changes will likely be requested for reversion, create additional work for reviewers, and may cause approval to be delayed.

 You can also read [our Quick-start development guide](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/create_pr_quick_start_guide.rst).
@@ -123,3 +121,19 @@ Creating new modules and plugins requires a bit more work than other Pull Reques
   listed as `maintainers` will be pinged for new issues and PRs that modify the module/plugin or its tests.

   When you add a new plugin/module, we expect that you perform maintainer duty for at least some time after contributing it.
+
+## pre-commit
+
+To help ensure high-quality contributions this repository includes a [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) configuration which
+corrects and tests against common issues that would otherwise cause CI to fail. To begin using these pre-commit hooks see
+the [Installation](#installation) section below.
+
+This is optional and not required to contribute to this repository.
+
+### Installation
+
+Follow the [instructions](https://pre-commit.com/#install) provided with pre-commit and run `pre-commit install` under the repository base. If for any reason you would like to disable the pre-commit hooks run `pre-commit uninstall`.
+
+This is optional to run it locally.
+
+You can trigger it locally with `pre-commit run --all-files` or even to run only for a given file `pre-commit run --files YOUR_FILE`.
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,10 +6,9 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

 # Community General Collection

-[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-9)](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-6)](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.

@@ -25,7 +24,9 @@ If you encounter abusive behavior violating the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https:

 ## Tested with Ansible

-Tested with the current ansible-core 2.13, ansible-core 2.14, ansible-core 2.15, ansible-core 2.16, 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.
+Tested with the current ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, ansible-core 2.14 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible-core versions before 2.11.0 are not supported. This includes all ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 releases.
+
+Parts of this collection will not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+.

 ## External requirements

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

 ## Included content

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

 ## Using this collection

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

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

    ansible-galaxy collection install community.general

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

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

 ```bash
 ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==X.Y.Z
@@ -72,13 +73,13 @@ We are actively accepting new contributors.

 All types of contributions are very welcome.

-You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)!
+You don't know how to start? Refer to our [contribution guide](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/CONTRIBUTING.md)!

-The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md#people) file. If you have questions or need help, feel free to mention them in the proposals.
+The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/commit-rights.md#people) file. If you have questions or need help, feel free to mention them in the proposals.

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

-Also for some notes specific to this collection see [our CONTRIBUTING documentation](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+Also for some notes specific to this collection see [our CONTRIBUTING documentation](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/CONTRIBUTING.md).

 ### Running tests

@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ See [here](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collectio

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

-* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md).
+* [Committer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/commit-rights.md).
 * [Maintainer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/maintaining.rst).

 It is necessary for maintainers of this collection to be subscribed to:
@@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ See the [Releasing guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/ma

 ## Release notes

-See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/CHANGELOG.md).
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/CHANGELOG.rst).

 ## Roadmap

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

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

-See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/COPYING) for the full text.
+See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/COPYING) for the full text.

-Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-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).
+Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/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
@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ 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:
@@ -35,6 +32,3 @@ sections:
 - - known_issues
  - Known Issues
 title: Community General
-trivial_section_name: trivial
-use_fqcn: true
-add_plugin_period: true
--- a/docs/docsite/extra-docs.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/extra-docs.yml
@@ -8,9 +8,3 @@ sections:
    toctree:
      - filter_guide
      - test_guide
-  - title: Cloud Guides
-    toctree:
-      - guide_alicloud
-      - guide_online
-      - guide_packet
-      - guide_scaleway
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst
@@ -12,5 +12,4 @@ Abstract transformations
   filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries
   filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping
   filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries
-   filter_guide_abstract_informations_lists_helper
   filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_counting_elements_in_sequence.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 Counting elements in a sequence
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

 .. versionadded:: 2.0.0

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

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

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_lists_helper.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_lists_helper.rst
@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-Union, intersection and difference of lists
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Starting with Ansible Core 2.16, the builtin filters :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.union#filter`, :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.intersect#filter`, :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.difference#filter` and :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.symmetric_difference#filter` began to behave differently and do no longer preserve the item order. Items in the resulting lists are returned in arbitrary order and the order can vary between subsequent runs.
-
-The Ansible community.general collection provides the following additional list filters:
-
- :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_union#filter`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_intersect#filter`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_difference#filter`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_symmetric_difference#filter`
-
-These filters preserve the item order, eliminate duplicates and are an extended version of the builtin ones, because they can operate on more than two lists.
-
-.. note:: Stick to the builtin filters, when item order is not important or when you do not need the n-ary operating mode. The builtin filters are faster, because they rely mostly on sets as their underlying datastructure.
-
-Let us use the lists below in the following examples:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  A: [9, 5, 7, 1, 9, 4, 10, 5, 9, 7]
-  B: [4, 1, 2, 8, 3, 1, 7]
-  C: [10, 2, 1, 9, 1]
-
-The union of ``A`` and ``B`` can be written as:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  result: "{{ A | community.general.lists_union(B) }}"
-
-This statement produces:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  result: [9, 5, 7, 1, 4, 10, 2, 8, 3]
-
-If you want to calculate the intersection of ``A``, ``B`` and ``C``, you can use the following statement:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  result: "{{ A | community.general.lists_intersect(B, C) }}"
-
-Alternatively, you can use a list of lists as an input of the filter
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  result: "{{ [A, B] | community.general.lists_intersect(C) }}"
-
-or
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  result: "{{ [A, B, C] | community.general.lists_intersect(flatten=true) }}"
-
-All three statements are equivalent and give:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  result: [1]
-
-.. note:: Be aware that in most cases, filter calls without any argument require ``flatten=true``, otherwise the input is returned as result. The reason for this is, that the input is considered as a variable argument and is wrapped by an additional outer list. ``flatten=true`` ensures that this list is removed before the input is processed by the filter logic.
-
-The filters ansplugin:`community.general.lists_difference#filter` or :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_symmetric_difference#filter` can be used in the same way as the filters in the examples above. They calculate the difference or the symmetric difference between two or more lists and preserve the item order.
-
-For example, the symmetric difference of ``A``, ``B`` and ``C`` may be written as:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  result: "{{ A | community.general.lists_symmetric_difference(B, C) }}"
-
-This gives:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  result: [5, 8, 3, 1]
-
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 Merging lists of dictionaries
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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

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

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


-The filter also accepts two optional parameters: :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:recursive` and :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge`. This is available since community.general 4.4.0.
+The filter also accepts two optional parameters: ``recursive`` and ``list_merge``. These parameters are only supported when used with ansible-base 2.10 or ansible-core, but not with Ansible 2.9. This is available since community.general 4.4.0.

 **recursive**
-    Is a boolean, default to ``false``. Should the :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter` filter recursively merge nested hashes. Note: It does not depend on the value of the ``hash_behaviour`` setting in ``ansible.cfg``.
+    Is a boolean, default to ``False``. Should the ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` recursively merge nested hashes. Note: It does not depend on the value of the ``hash_behaviour`` setting in ``ansible.cfg``.

 **list_merge**
-    Is a string, its possible values are :ansval:`replace` (default), :ansval:`keep`, :ansval:`append`, :ansval:`prepend`, :ansval:`append_rp` or :ansval:`prepend_rp`. It modifies the behaviour of :ansplugin:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter` when the hashes to merge contain arrays/lists.
+    Is a string, its possible values are ``replace`` (default), ``keep``, ``append``, ``prepend``, ``append_rp`` or ``prepend_rp``. It modifies the behaviour of ``community.general.lists_mergeby`` when the hashes to merge contain arrays/lists.

-The examples below set :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:recursive=true` and display the differences among all six options of :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge`. Functionality of the parameters is exactly the same as in the filter :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.combine#filter`. See :ref:`Combining hashes/dictionaries <combine_filter>` to learn details about these options.
+The examples below set ``recursive=true`` and display the differences among all six options of ``list_merge``. Functionality of the parameters is exactly the same as in the filter ``combine``. See :ref:`Combining hashes/dictionaries <combine_filter>` to learn details about these options.

 Let us use the lists below in the following examples

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

 :dialect: Dialect of the CSV file. Default is ``excel``. Other possible choices are ``excel-tab`` and ``unix``. If one of ``delimiter``, ``skipinitialspace`` or ``strict`` is specified, ``dialect`` is ignored.
 :fieldnames: A set of column names to use. If not provided, the first line of the CSV is assumed to contain the column names.
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The :ansplugin:`community.general.from_csv filter <community.general.from_csv#fi
 Converting to JSON
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-`JC <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ is a CLI tool and Python library which allows to interpret output of various CLI programs as JSON. It is also available as a filter in community.general, called :ansplugin:`community.general.jc#filter`. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.
+`JC <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ is a CLI tool and Python library which allows to interpret output of various CLI programs as JSON. It is also available as a filter in community.general. This filter needs the `jc Python library <https://pypi.org/project/jc/>`_ installed on the controller.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

-`Hashids <https://hashids.org/>`_ allow to convert sequences of integers to short unique string identifiers. The :ansplugin:`community.general.hashids_encode#filter` and :ansplugin:`community.general.hashids_decode#filter` filters need the `hashids Python library <https://pypi.org/project/hashids/>`_ installed on the controller.
+`Hashids <https://hashids.org/>`_ allow to convert sequences of integers to short unique string identifiers. This filter needs the `hashids Python library <https://pypi.org/project/hashids/>`_ installed on the controller.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ The hashids filters accept keyword arguments to allow fine-tuning the hashids ge
 Random MACs
 ^^^^^^^^^^^

-You can use the :ansplugin:`community.general.random_mac filter <community.general.random_mac#filter>` to complete a partial `MAC address <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>`_ to a random 6-byte MAC address.
+You can use the ``random_mac`` filter to complete a partial `MAC address <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address>`_ to a random 6-byte MAC address.

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_paths.rst
@@ -6,4 +6,14 @@
 Paths
 -----

-The :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.path_join filter <ansible.builtin.path_join#filter>` has been added in ansible-base 2.10. Community.general 3.0.0 and newer contains an alias ``community.general.path_join`` for this filter that could be used on Ansible 2.9 as well. Since community.general no longer supports Ansible 2.9, this is now a simple redirect to :ansplugin:`ansible.builtin.path_join filter <ansible.builtin.path_join#filter>`.
+The ``path_join`` filter has been added in ansible-base 2.10. If you want to use this filter, but also need to support Ansible 2.9, you can use ``community.general``'s ``path_join`` shim, ``community.general.path_join``. This filter redirects to ``path_join`` for ansible-base 2.10 and ansible-core 2.11 or newer, and re-implements the filter for Ansible 2.9.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
+
+    # ansible-base 2.10 or newer:
+    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | path_join }}
+
+    # Also works with Ansible 2.9:
+    path: {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | community.general.path_join }}
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.0.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_selecting_json_data.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 Selecting JSON data: JSON queries
 ---------------------------------

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

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

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

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

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

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/docs/docsite/rst/guide_alicloud.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/guide_alicloud.rst
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.guide_alicloud:
-
-Alibaba Cloud Compute Services Guide
-====================================
-
-Introduction
-````````````
-
-The community.general collection contains several modules for controlling and managing Alibaba Cloud Compute Services (Alicloud).  This guide
-explains how to use the Alicloud Ansible modules together.
-
-All Alicloud modules require ``footmark`` - install it on your control machine with ``pip install footmark``.
-
-Cloud modules, including Alicloud modules, are usually executed on your local machine (the control machine) with ``connection: local``, rather than on remote machines defined in your hosts.
-
-Normally, you'll use the following pattern for plays that provision Alicloud resources:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-    - hosts: localhost
-      connection: local
-      vars:
-        - ...
-      tasks:
-        - ...
-
-Authentication
-``````````````
-
-You can specify your Alicloud authentication credentials (access key and secret key) by passing them as
-environment variables or by storing them in a vars file.
-
-To pass authentication credentials as environment variables:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-    export ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY='Alicloud123'
-    export ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY='AlicloudSecret123'
-
-To store authentication credentials in a vars file, encrypt them with :ref:`Ansible Vault <vault>` to keep them secure, then list them:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-    ---
-    alicloud_access_key: "--REMOVED--"
-    alicloud_secret_key: "--REMOVED--"
-
-Note that if you store your credentials in a vars file, you need to refer to them in each Alicloud module. For example:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - community.general.ali_instance:
-        alicloud_access_key: "{{ alicloud_access_key }}"
-        alicloud_secret_key: "{{ alicloud_secret_key }}"
-        image_id: "..."
-
-Provisioning
-````````````
-
-Alicloud modules create Alicloud ECS instances (:ansplugin:`community.general.ali_instance#module`) and retrieve information on these (:ansplugin:`community.general.ali_instance_info#module`).
-
-You can use the ``count`` parameter to control the number of resources you create or terminate. For example, if you want exactly 5 instances tagged ``NewECS``, set the ``count`` of instances to 5 and the ``count_tag`` to ``NewECS``, as shown in the last task of the example playbook below. If there are no instances with the tag ``NewECS``, the task creates 5 new instances. If there are 2 instances with that tag, the task creates 3 more. If there are 8 instances with that tag, the task terminates 3 of those instances.
-
-If you do not specify a ``count_tag``, the task creates the number of instances you specify in ``count`` with the ``instance_name`` you provide.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    # alicloud_setup.yml
-
-    - hosts: localhost
-      connection: local
-
-      tasks:
-        - name: Create a set of instances
-          community.general.ali_instance:
-             instance_type: ecs.n4.small
-             image_id: "{{ ami_id }}"
-             instance_name: "My-new-instance"
-             instance_tags:
-                 Name: NewECS
-                 Version: 0.0.1
-             count: 5
-             count_tag:
-                 Name: NewECS
-             allocate_public_ip: true
-             max_bandwidth_out: 50
-          register: create_instance
-
-In the example playbook above, data about the instances created by this playbook is saved in the variable defined by the ``register`` keyword in the task.
-
-Each Alicloud module offers a variety of parameter options. Not all options are demonstrated in the above example. See each individual module for further details and examples.
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/guide_online.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/guide_online.rst
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.guide_online:
-
-****************
-Online.net Guide
-****************
-
-Introduction
-============
-
-Online is a French hosting company mainly known for providing bare-metal servers named Dedibox.
-Check it out: `https://www.online.net/en <https://www.online.net/en>`_
-
-Dynamic inventory for Online resources
--------------------------------------
-
-Ansible has a dynamic inventory plugin that can list your resources.
-
-1. Create a YAML configuration such as ``online_inventory.yml`` with this content:
-
-   .. code-block:: yaml
-
-       plugin: community.general.online
-
-2. Set your ``ONLINE_TOKEN`` environment variable with your token.
-
-   You need to open an account and log into it before you can get a token.
-   You can find your token at the following page: `https://console.online.net/en/api/access <https://console.online.net/en/api/access>`_
-
-3. You can test that your inventory is working by running:
-
-   .. code-block:: console
-
-       $ ansible-inventory -v -i online_inventory.yml --list
-
-
-4. Now you can run your playbook or any other module with this inventory:
-
-   .. code-block:: ansible-output
-
-       $ ansible all -i online_inventory.yml -m ping
-       sd-96735 | SUCCESS => {
-           "changed": false,
-           "ping": "pong"
-       }
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/guide_packet.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/guide_packet.rst
@@ -1,214 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.guide_packet:
-
-**********************************
-Packet.net Guide
-**********************************
-
-Introduction
-============
-
-`Packet.net <https://packet.net>`_ is a bare metal infrastructure host that is supported by the community.general collection through six cloud modules. The six modules are:
-
- :ansplugin:`community.general.packet_device#module`: manages servers on Packet. You can use this module to create, restart and delete devices.
- :ansplugin:`community.general.packet_ip_subnet#module`: assign IP subnet to a bare metal server
- :ansplugin:`community.general.packet_project#module`: create/delete a project in Packet host
- :ansplugin:`community.general.packet_sshkey#module`: adds a public SSH key from file or value to the Packet infrastructure. Every subsequently-created device will have this public key installed in .ssh/authorized_keys.
- :ansplugin:`community.general.packet_volume#module`: create/delete a volume in Packet host
- :ansplugin:`community.general.packet_volume_attachment#module`: attach/detach a volume to a device in the Packet host
-
-Note, this guide assumes you are familiar with Ansible and how it works. If you are not, have a look at their :ref:`docs <ansible_documentation>` before getting started.
-
-Requirements
-============
-
-The Packet modules connect to the Packet API using the `packet-python package <https://pypi.org/project/packet-python/>`_. You can install it with pip:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-    $ pip install packet-python
-
-In order to check the state of devices created by Ansible on Packet, it is a good idea to install one of the `Packet CLI clients <https://www.packet.net/developers/integrations/>`_. Otherwise you can check them through the `Packet portal <https://app.packet.net/portal>`_.
-
-To use the modules you will need a Packet API token. You can generate an API token through the Packet portal `here <https://app.packet.net/portal#/api-keys>`__. The simplest way to authenticate yourself is to set the Packet API token in an environment variable:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-    $ export PACKET_API_TOKEN=Bfse9F24SFtfs423Gsd3ifGsd43sSdfs
-
-If you are not comfortable exporting your API token, you can pass it as a parameter to the modules.
-
-On Packet, devices and reserved IP addresses belong to `projects <https://www.packet.com/developers/api/#projects>`_. In order to use the packet_device module, you need to specify the UUID of the project in which you want to create or manage devices. You can find a project's UUID in the Packet portal `here <https://app.packet.net/portal#/projects/list/table/>`_ (it is just under the project table) or through one of the available `CLIs <https://www.packet.net/developers/integrations/>`_.
-
-
-If you want to use a new SSH key pair in this tutorial, you can generate it to ``./id_rsa`` and ``./id_rsa.pub`` as:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-    $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ./id_rsa
-
-If you want to use an existing key pair, just copy the private and public key over to the playbook directory.
-
-
-Device Creation
-===============
-
-The following code block is a simple playbook that creates one `Type 0 <https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/t1-small/>`_ server (the ``plan`` parameter). You have to supply ``plan`` and ``operating_system``. ``location`` defaults to ``ewr1`` (Parsippany, NJ). You can find all the possible values for the parameters through a `CLI client <https://www.packet.net/developers/integrations/>`_.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    # playbook_create.yml
-
-    - name: Create Ubuntu device
-      hosts: localhost
-      tasks:
-
-      - community.general.packet_sshkey:
-          key_file: ./id_rsa.pub
-          label: tutorial key
-
-      - community.general.packet_device:
-          project_id: <your_project_id>
-          hostnames: myserver
-          operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
-          plan: baremetal_0
-          facility: sjc1
-
-After running ``ansible-playbook playbook_create.yml``, you should have a server provisioned on Packet. You can verify through a CLI or in the `Packet portal <https://app.packet.net/portal#/projects/list/table>`__.
-
-If you get an error with the message "failed to set machine state present, error: Error 404: Not Found", please verify your project UUID.
-
-
-Updating Devices
-================
-
-The two parameters used to uniquely identify Packet devices are: "device_ids" and "hostnames". Both parameters accept either a single string (later converted to a one-element list), or a list of strings.
-
-The ``device_ids`` and ``hostnames`` parameters are mutually exclusive. The following values are all acceptable:
-
- device_ids: ``a27b7a83-fc93-435b-a128-47a5b04f2dcf``
-
- hostnames: ``mydev1``
-
- device_ids: ``[a27b7a83-fc93-435b-a128-47a5b04f2dcf, 4887130f-0ccd-49a0-99b0-323c1ceb527b]``
-
- hostnames: ``[mydev1, mydev2]``
-
-In addition, hostnames can contain a special ``%d`` formatter along with a ``count`` parameter that lets you easily expand hostnames that follow a simple name and number pattern; in other words, ``hostnames: "mydev%d", count: 2`` will expand to [mydev1, mydev2].
-
-If your playbook acts on existing Packet devices, you can only pass the ``hostname`` and ``device_ids`` parameters. The following playbook shows how you can reboot a specific Packet device by setting the ``hostname`` parameter:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    # playbook_reboot.yml
-
-    - name: reboot myserver
-      hosts: localhost
-      tasks:
-
-      - community.general.packet_device:
-          project_id: <your_project_id>
-          hostnames: myserver
-          state: rebooted
-
-You can also identify specific Packet devices with the ``device_ids`` parameter. The device's UUID can be found in the `Packet Portal <https://app.packet.net/portal>`_ or by using a `CLI <https://www.packet.net/developers/integrations/>`_. The following playbook removes a Packet device using the ``device_ids`` field:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    # playbook_remove.yml
-
-    - name: remove a device
-      hosts: localhost
-      tasks:
-
-      - community.general.packet_device:
-          project_id: <your_project_id>
-          device_ids: <myserver_device_id>
-          state: absent
-
-
-More Complex Playbooks
-======================
-
-In this example, we will create a CoreOS cluster with `user data <https://packet.com/developers/docs/servers/key-features/user-data/>`_.
-
-
-The CoreOS cluster will use `etcd <https://etcd.io/>`_ for discovery of other servers in the cluster. Before provisioning your servers, you will need to generate a discovery token for your cluster:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-    $ curl -w "\n" 'https://discovery.etcd.io/new?size=3'
-
-The following playbook will create an SSH key, 3 Packet servers, and then wait until SSH is ready (or until 5 minutes passed). Make sure to substitute the discovery token URL in ``user_data``, and the ``project_id`` before running ``ansible-playbook``. Also, feel free to change ``plan`` and ``facility``.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    # playbook_coreos.yml
-
-    - name: Start 3 CoreOS nodes in Packet and wait until SSH is ready
-      hosts: localhost
-      tasks:
-
-      - community.general.packet_sshkey:
-          key_file: ./id_rsa.pub
-          label: new
-
-      - community.general.packet_device:
-          hostnames: [coreos-one, coreos-two, coreos-three]
-          operating_system: coreos_beta
-          plan: baremetal_0
-          facility: ewr1
-          project_id: <your_project_id>
-          wait_for_public_IPv: 4
-          user_data: |
-            #cloud-config
-            coreos:
-              etcd2:
-                discovery: https://discovery.etcd.io/<token>
-                advertise-client-urls: http://$private_ipv4:2379,http://$private_ipv4:4001
-                initial-advertise-peer-urls: http://$private_ipv4:2380
-                listen-client-urls: http://0.0.0.0:2379,http://0.0.0.0:4001
-                listen-peer-urls: http://$private_ipv4:2380
-              fleet:
-                public-ip: $private_ipv4
-              units:
-                - name: etcd2.service
-                  command: start
-                - name: fleet.service
-                  command: start
-        register: newhosts
-
-      - name: wait for ssh
-        ansible.builtin.wait_for:
-          delay: 1
-          host: "{{ item.public_ipv4 }}"
-          port: 22
-          state: started
-          timeout: 500
-        loop: "{{ newhosts.results[0].devices }}"
-
-
-As with most Ansible modules, the default states of the Packet modules are idempotent, meaning the resources in your project will remain the same after re-runs of a playbook. Thus, we can keep the ``packet_sshkey`` module call in our playbook. If the public key is already in your Packet account, the call will have no effect.
-
-The second module call provisions 3 Packet Type 0 (specified using the ``plan`` parameter) servers in the project identified by the ``project_id`` parameter. The servers are all provisioned with CoreOS beta (the ``operating_system`` parameter) and are customized with cloud-config user data passed to the ``user_data`` parameter.
-
-The ``packet_device`` module has a ``wait_for_public_IPv`` that is used to specify the version of the IP address to wait for (valid values are ``4`` or ``6`` for IPv4 or IPv6). If specified, Ansible will wait until the GET API call for a device contains an Internet-routeable IP address of the specified version. When referring to an IP address of a created device in subsequent module calls, it is wise to use the ``wait_for_public_IPv`` parameter, or ``state: active`` in the packet_device module call.
-
-Run the playbook:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-    $ ansible-playbook playbook_coreos.yml
-
-Once the playbook quits, your new devices should be reachable through SSH. Try to connect to one and check if etcd has started properly:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-    tomk@work $ ssh -i id_rsa core@$one_of_the_servers_ip
-    core@coreos-one ~ $ etcdctl cluster-health
-
-If you have any questions or comments let us know! help@packet.net
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/guide_scaleway.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/guide_scaleway.rst
@@ -1,320 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.guide_scaleway:
-
-**************
-Scaleway Guide
-**************
-
-Introduction
-============
-
-`Scaleway <https://scaleway.com>`_ is a cloud provider supported by the community.general collection through a set of plugins and modules.
-Those modules are:
-
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_compute#module`: manages servers on Scaleway. You can use this module to create, restart and delete servers.
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_compute_private_network#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_container#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_container_info#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_container_namespace_info#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_container_namespace#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_container_registry_info#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_container_registry#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_database_backup#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_function#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_function_info#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_function_namespace_info#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_function_namespace#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_image_info#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_ip#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_ip_info#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_lb#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_organization_info#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_private_network#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_security_group#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_security_group_info#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_security_group_rule#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_server_info#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_snapshot_info#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_sshkey#module`: adds a public SSH key from a file or value to the Packet infrastructure. Every subsequently-created device will have this public key installed in .ssh/authorized_keys.
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_user_data#module`
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_volume#module`: manages volumes on Scaleway.
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_volume_info#module`
-
-The plugins are:
-
- :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway#inventory`: inventory plugin
-
-
-.. note::
-   This guide assumes you are familiar with Ansible and how it works.
-   If you are not, have a look at :ref:`ansible_documentation` before getting started.
-
-Requirements
-============
-
-The Scaleway modules and inventory script connect to the Scaleway API using `Scaleway REST API <https://developer.scaleway.com>`_.
-To use the modules and inventory script you will need a Scaleway API token.
-You can generate an API token through the `Scaleway console's credential page <https://cloud.scaleway.com/#/credentials>`__.
-The simplest way to authenticate yourself is to set the Scaleway API token in an environment variable:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-    $ export SCW_TOKEN=00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444
-
-If you are not comfortable exporting your API token, you can pass it as a parameter to the modules using the ``api_token`` argument.
-
-If you want to use a new SSH key pair in this tutorial, you can generate it to ``./id_rsa`` and ``./id_rsa.pub`` as:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-    $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ./id_rsa
-
-If you want to use an existing key pair, just copy the private and public key over to the playbook directory.
-
-How to add an SSH key?
-======================
-
-Connection to Scaleway Compute nodes use Secure Shell.
-SSH keys are stored at the account level, which means that you can reuse the same SSH key in multiple nodes.
-The first step to configure Scaleway compute resources is to have at least one SSH key configured.
-
-:ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_sshkey#module` is a module that manages SSH keys on your Scaleway account.
-You can add an SSH key to your account by including the following task in a playbook:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: "Add SSH key"
-      community.general.scaleway_sshkey:
-        ssh_pub_key: "ssh-rsa AAAA..."
-        state: "present"
-
-The ``ssh_pub_key`` parameter contains your ssh public key as a string. Here is an example inside a playbook:
-
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Test SSH key lifecycle on a Scaleway account
-      hosts: localhost
-      gather_facts: false
-      environment:
-        SCW_API_KEY: ""
-
-      tasks:
-
-        - community.general.scaleway_sshkey:
-            ssh_pub_key: "ssh-rsa AAAAB...424242 developer@example.com"
-            state: present
-          register: result
-
-        - ansible.builtin.assert:
-            that:
-              - result is success and result is changed
-
-How to create a compute instance?
-=================================
-
-Now that we have an SSH key configured, the next step is to spin up a server!
-:ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway_compute#module` is a module that can create, update and delete Scaleway compute instances:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Create a server
-      community.general.scaleway_compute:
-        name: foobar
-        state: present
-        image: 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444
-        organization: 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444
-        region: ams1
-        commercial_type: START1-S
-
-Here are the parameter details for the example shown above:
-
- ``name`` is the name of the instance (the one that will show up in your web console).
- ``image`` is the UUID of the system image you would like to use.
-  A list of all images is available for each availability zone.
- ``organization`` represents the organization that your account is attached to.
- ``region`` represents the Availability Zone which your instance is in (for this example, ``par1`` and ``ams1``).
- ``commercial_type`` represents the name of the commercial offers.
-  You can check out the Scaleway pricing page to find which instance is right for you.
-
-Take a look at this short playbook to see a working example using ``scaleway_compute``:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - name: Test compute instance lifecycle on a Scaleway account
-      hosts: localhost
-      gather_facts: false
-      environment:
-        SCW_API_KEY: ""
-
-      tasks:
-
-        - name: Create a server
-          register: server_creation_task
-          community.general.scaleway_compute:
-            name: foobar
-            state: present
-            image: 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444
-            organization: 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444
-            region: ams1
-            commercial_type: START1-S
-            wait: true
-
-        - ansible.builtin.debug:
-            var: server_creation_task
-
-        - ansible.builtin.assert:
-            that:
-              - server_creation_task is success
-              - server_creation_task is changed
-
-        - name: Run it
-          community.general.scaleway_compute:
-            name: foobar
-            state: running
-            image: 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444
-            organization: 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444
-            region: ams1
-            commercial_type: START1-S
-            wait: true
-            tags:
-              - web_server
-          register: server_run_task
-
-        - ansible.builtin.debug:
-            var: server_run_task
-
-        - ansible.builtin.assert:
-            that:
-              - server_run_task is success
-              - server_run_task is changed
-
-Dynamic Inventory Plugin
-========================
-
-Ansible ships with :ansplugin:`community.general.scaleway#inventory`.
-You can now get a complete inventory of your Scaleway resources through this plugin and filter it on
-different parameters (``regions`` and ``tags`` are currently supported).
-
-Let us create an example!
-Suppose that we want to get all hosts that got the tag web_server.
-Create a file named ``scaleway_inventory.yml`` with the following content:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    plugin: community.general.scaleway
-    regions:
-      - ams1
-      - par1
-    tags:
-      - web_server
-
-This inventory means that we want all hosts that got the tag ``web_server`` on the zones ``ams1`` and ``par1``.
-Once you have configured this file, you can get the information using the following command:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-    $ ansible-inventory --list -i scaleway_inventory.yml
-
-The output will be:
-
-.. code-block:: json
-
-    {
-        "_meta": {
-            "hostvars": {
-                "dd8e3ae9-0c7c-459e-bc7b-aba8bfa1bb8d": {
-                    "ansible_verbosity": 6,
-                    "arch": "x86_64",
-                    "commercial_type": "START1-S",
-                    "hostname": "foobar",
-                    "ipv4": "192.0.2.1",
-                    "organization": "00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444",
-                    "state": "running",
-                    "tags": [
-                        "web_server"
-                    ]
-                }
-            }
-        },
-        "all": {
-            "children": [
-                "ams1",
-                "par1",
-                "ungrouped",
-                "web_server"
-            ]
-        },
-        "ams1": {},
-        "par1": {
-            "hosts": [
-                "dd8e3ae9-0c7c-459e-bc7b-aba8bfa1bb8d"
-            ]
-        },
-        "ungrouped": {},
-        "web_server": {
-            "hosts": [
-                "dd8e3ae9-0c7c-459e-bc7b-aba8bfa1bb8d"
-            ]
-        }
-    }
-
-As you can see, we get different groups of hosts.
-``par1`` and ``ams1`` are groups based on location.
-``web_server`` is a group based on a tag.
-
-In case a filter parameter is not defined, the plugin supposes all values possible are wanted.
-This means that for each tag that exists on your Scaleway compute nodes, a group based on each tag will be created.
-
-Scaleway S3 object storage
-==========================
-
-`Object Storage <https://www.scaleway.com/object-storage>`_ allows you to store any kind of objects (documents, images, videos, and so on).
-As the Scaleway API is S3 compatible, Ansible supports it natively through the amazon.aws modules: :ansplugin:`amazon.aws.s3_bucket#module`, :ansplugin:`amazon.aws.s3_object#module`.
-
-You can find many examples in the `scaleway_s3 integration tests <https://github.com/ansible/ansible-legacy-tests/tree/devel/test/legacy/roles/scaleway_s3>`_.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-    - hosts: myserver
-      vars:
-        scaleway_region: nl-ams
-        s3_url: https://s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud
-      environment:
-        # AWS_ACCESS_KEY matches your scaleway organization id available at https://cloud.scaleway.com/#/account
-        AWS_ACCESS_KEY: 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444
-        # AWS_SECRET_KEY matches a secret token that you can retrieve at https://cloud.scaleway.com/#/credentials
-        AWS_SECRET_KEY: aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-eeeeeeeeeeee
-      module_defaults:
-        group/amazon.aws.aws:
-          s3_url: '{{ s3_url }}'
-          region: '{{ scaleway_region }}'
-      tasks:
-       # use a fact instead of a variable, otherwise template is evaluate each time variable is used
-        - ansible.builtin.set_fact:
-            bucket_name: "{{ 99999999 | random | to_uuid }}"
-
-        # "requester_pays:" is mandatory because Scaleway does not implement related API
-        # another way is to use amazon.aws.s3_object and "mode: create" !
-        - amazon.aws.s3_bucket:
-            name: '{{ bucket_name }}'
-            requester_pays:
-
-        - name: Another way to create the bucket
-          amazon.aws.s3_object:
-            bucket: '{{ bucket_name }}'
-            mode: create
-            encrypt: false
-          register: bucket_creation_check
-
-        - name: add something in the bucket
-          amazon.aws.s3_object:
-            mode: put
-            bucket: '{{ bucket_name }}'
-            src: /tmp/test.txt  #  needs to be created before
-            object: test.txt
-            encrypt: false  # server side encryption must be disabled
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/test_guide.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/test_guide.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ The :ref:`community.general collection <plugins_in_community.general>` offers cu
 Feature Tests
 -------------

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

--- a/galaxy.yml
+++ b/galaxy.yml
@@ -5,17 +5,17 @@

 namespace: community
 name: general
-version: 9.0.0
+version: 6.5.0
 readme: README.md
 authors:
  - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)
-description: >-
-  The community.general 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.
+description: null
 license_file: COPYING
-tags:
-  - community
+tags: [community]
+# NOTE: No dependencies are expected to be added here
+# dependencies:
 repository: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general
 documentation: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/
 homepage: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general
 issues: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues
+#type: flatmap
--- a/meta/runtime.yml
+++ b/meta/runtime.yml
--- a/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
+++ b/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):

    def _async_result(self, async_status_args, task_vars, timeout):
        '''
-        Retrieve results of the asynchronous task, and display them in place of
+        Retrieve results of the asynchonous task, and display them in place of
        the async wrapper results (those with the ansible_job_id key).
        '''
        async_status = self._task.copy()
--- a/plugins/action/shutdown.py
+++ b/plugins/action/shutdown.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-
 __metaclass__ = type

 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
    SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS = {
        'alpine': '',
        'void': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
-        'freebsd': '-p +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
+        'freebsd': '-h +{delay_sec}s "{message}"',
        'linux': DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS,
        'macosx': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
        'openbsd': '-h +{delay_min} "{message}"',
@@ -81,6 +80,13 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
                    getattr(self, default_value))))
        return value

+    def get_shutdown_command_args(self, distribution):
+        args = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS')
+        # Convert seconds to minutes. If less that 60, set it to 0.
+        delay_sec = self.delay
+        shutdown_message = self._task.args.get('msg', self.DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE)
+        return args.format(delay_sec=delay_sec, delay_min=delay_sec // 60, message=shutdown_message)
+
    def get_distribution(self, task_vars):
        # FIXME: only execute the module if we don't already have the facts we need
        distribution = {}
@@ -95,8 +101,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
                    to_native(module_output['module_stdout']).strip(),
                    to_native(module_output['module_stderr']).strip()))
            distribution['name'] = module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution'].lower()
-            distribution['version'] = to_text(
-                module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution_version'].split('.')[0])
+            distribution['version'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_distribution_version'].split('.')[0])
            distribution['family'] = to_text(module_output['ansible_facts']['ansible_os_family'].lower())
            display.debug("{action}: distribution: {dist}".format(action=self._task.action, dist=distribution))
            return distribution
@@ -104,23 +109,6 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
            raise AnsibleError('Failed to get distribution information. Missing "{0}" in output.'.format(ke.args[0]))

    def get_shutdown_command(self, task_vars, distribution):
-        def find_command(command, find_search_paths):
-            display.debug('{action}: running find module looking in {paths} to get path for "{command}"'.format(
-                action=self._task.action,
-                command=command,
-                paths=find_search_paths))
-            find_result = self._execute_module(
-                task_vars=task_vars,
-                # prevent collection search by calling with ansible.legacy (still allows library/ override of find)
-                module_name='ansible.legacy.find',
-                module_args={
-                    'paths': find_search_paths,
-                    'patterns': [command],
-                    'file_type': 'any'
-                }
-            )
-            return [x['path'] for x in find_result['files']]
-
        shutdown_bin = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMANDS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND')
        default_search_paths = ['/sbin', '/usr/sbin', '/usr/local/sbin']
        search_paths = self._task.args.get('search_paths', default_search_paths)
@@ -139,53 +127,45 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
        except TypeError:
            raise AnsibleError(err_msg.format(search_paths))

-        full_path = find_command(shutdown_bin, search_paths)  # find the path to the shutdown command
-        if not full_path:  # if we could not find the shutdown command
-            display.vvv('Unable to find command "{0}" in search paths: {1}, will attempt a shutdown using systemd '
-                        'directly.'.format(shutdown_bin, search_paths))  # tell the user we will try with systemd
-            systemctl_search_paths = ['/bin', '/usr/bin']
-            full_path = find_command('systemctl', systemctl_search_paths)  # find the path to the systemctl command
-            if not full_path:  # if we couldn't find systemctl
-                raise AnsibleError(
-                    'Could not find command "{0}" in search paths: {1} or systemctl command in search paths: {2}, unable to shutdown.'.
-                    format(shutdown_bin, search_paths, systemctl_search_paths))  # we give up here
-            else:
-                return "{0} poweroff".format(full_path[0])  # done, since we cannot use args with systemd shutdown
+        display.debug('{action}: running find module looking in {paths} to get path for "{command}"'.format(
+            action=self._task.action,
+            command=shutdown_bin,
+            paths=search_paths))
+        find_result = self._execute_module(
+            task_vars=task_vars,
+            # prevent collection search by calling with ansible.legacy (still allows library/ override of find)
+            module_name='ansible.legacy.find',
+            module_args={
+                'paths': search_paths,
+                'patterns': [shutdown_bin],
+                'file_type': 'any'
+            }
+        )

-        # systemd case taken care of, here we add args to the command
-        args = self._get_value_from_facts('SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS', distribution, 'DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND_ARGS')
-        # Convert seconds to minutes. If less that 60, set it to 0.
-        delay_sec = self.delay
-        shutdown_message = self._task.args.get('msg', self.DEFAULT_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE)
-        return '{0} {1}'. \
-            format(
-                full_path[0],
-                args.format(
-                    delay_sec=delay_sec,
-                    delay_min=delay_sec // 60,
-                    message=shutdown_message
-                )
-            )
+        full_path = [x['path'] for x in find_result['files']]
+        if not full_path:
+            raise AnsibleError('Unable to find command "{0}" in search paths: {1}'.format(shutdown_bin, search_paths))
+        self._shutdown_command = full_path[0]
+        return self._shutdown_command

    def perform_shutdown(self, task_vars, distribution):
        result = {}
        shutdown_result = {}
-        shutdown_command_exec = self.get_shutdown_command(task_vars, distribution)
+        shutdown_command = self.get_shutdown_command(task_vars, distribution)
+        shutdown_command_args = self.get_shutdown_command_args(distribution)
+        shutdown_command_exec = '{0} {1}'.format(shutdown_command, shutdown_command_args)

        self.cleanup(force=True)
        try:
            display.vvv("{action}: shutting down server...".format(action=self._task.action))
-            display.debug("{action}: shutting down server with command '{command}'".
-                          format(action=self._task.action, command=shutdown_command_exec))
+            display.debug("{action}: shutting down server with command '{command}'".format(action=self._task.action, command=shutdown_command_exec))
            if self._play_context.check_mode:
                shutdown_result['rc'] = 0
            else:
                shutdown_result = self._low_level_execute_command(shutdown_command_exec, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
        except AnsibleConnectionFailure as e:
            # If the connection is closed too quickly due to the system being shutdown, carry on
-            display.debug(
-                '{action}: AnsibleConnectionFailure caught and handled: {error}'.format(action=self._task.action,
-                                                                                        error=to_text(e)))
+            display.debug('{action}: AnsibleConnectionFailure caught and handled: {error}'.format(action=self._task.action, error=to_text(e)))
            shutdown_result['rc'] = 0

        if shutdown_result['rc'] != 0:
--- a/plugins/become/machinectl.py
+++ b/plugins/become/machinectl.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
              - section: machinectl_become_plugin
                key: password
    notes:
-      - When not using this plugin with user V(root), it only works correctly with a polkit rule which will alter
+      - When not using this plugin with user C(root), it only works correctly with a polkit rule which will alter
        the behaviour of machinectl. This rule must alter the prompt behaviour to ask directly for the user credentials,
        if the user is allowed to perform the action (take a look at the examples section).
        If such a rule is not present the plugin only work if it is used in context with the root user,
@@ -78,13 +78,12 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 EXAMPLES = r'''
 # A polkit rule needed to use the module with a non-root user.
 # See the Notes section for details.
-/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/60-machinectl-fast-user-auth.rules: |
-  polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
-    if(action.id == "org.freedesktop.machine1.host-shell" &&
-      subject.isInGroup("wheel")) {
-        return polkit.Result.AUTH_SELF_KEEP;
-    }
-  });
+60-machinectl-fast-user-auth.rules: |
+    polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
+        if(action.id == "org.freedesktop.machine1.host-shell" && subject.isInGroup("wheel")) {
+            return polkit.Result.AUTH_SELF_KEEP;
+        }
+    });
 '''

 from re import compile as re_compile
@@ -103,7 +102,6 @@ class BecomeModule(BecomeBase):
    prompt = 'Password: '
    fail = ('==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ====',)
    success = ('==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====',)
-    require_tty = True  # see https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6932

    @staticmethod
    def remove_ansi_codes(line):
--- a/plugins/become/pfexec.py
+++ b/plugins/become/pfexec.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            env:
              - name: ANSIBLE_PFEXEC_WRAP_EXECUTION
    notes:
-      - This plugin ignores O(become_user) as pfexec uses it's own C(exec_attr) to figure this out.
+      - This plugin ignores I(become_user) as pfexec uses it's own C(exec_attr) to figure this out.
 '''

 from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
--- a/plugins/become/run0.py
+++ b/plugins/become/run0.py
@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2024, 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
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-DOCUMENTATION = """
-    name: run0
-    short_description: Systemd's run0
-    description:
-        - This become plugins allows your remote/login user to execute commands as another user via the C(run0) utility.
-    author:
-        - Thomas Sjögren (@konstruktoid)
-    version_added: '9.0.0'
-    options:
-        become_user:
-            description: User you 'become' to execute the task.
-            default: root
-            ini:
-              - section: privilege_escalation
-                key: become_user
-              - section: run0_become_plugin
-                key: user
-            vars:
-              - name: ansible_become_user
-              - name: ansible_run0_user
-            env:
-              - name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_USER
-              - name: ANSIBLE_RUN0_USER
-            type: string
-        become_exe:
-            description: The C(run0) executable.
-            default: run0
-            ini:
-              - section: privilege_escalation
-                key: become_exe
-              - section: run0_become_plugin
-                key: executable
-            vars:
-              - name: ansible_become_exe
-              - name: ansible_run0_exe
-            env:
-              - name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_EXE
-              - name: ANSIBLE_RUN0_EXE
-            type: string
-        become_flags:
-            description: Options to pass to run0.
-            default: ''
-            ini:
-              - section: privilege_escalation
-                key: become_flags
-              - section: run0_become_plugin
-                key: flags
-            vars:
-              - name: ansible_become_flags
-              - name: ansible_run0_flags
-            env:
-              - name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_FLAGS
-              - name: ANSIBLE_RUN0_FLAGS
-            type: string
-    notes:
-      - This plugin will only work when a polkit rule is in place.
-"""
-
-EXAMPLES = r"""
-# An example polkit rule that allows the user 'ansible' in the 'wheel' group
-# to execute commands using run0 without authentication.
-/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/60-run0-fast-user-auth.rules: |
-  polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
-    if(action.id == "org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units" &&
-      subject.isInGroup("wheel") &&
-      subject.user == "ansible") {
-        return polkit.Result.YES;
-    }
-  });
-"""
-
-from re import compile as re_compile
-
-from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
-
-ansi_color_codes = re_compile(to_bytes(r"\x1B\[[0-9;]+m"))
-
-
-class BecomeModule(BecomeBase):
-
-    name = "community.general.run0"
-
-    prompt = "Password: "
-    fail = ("==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ====",)
-    success = ("==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====",)
-    require_tty = (
-        True  # see https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6932
-    )
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def remove_ansi_codes(line):
-        return ansi_color_codes.sub(b"", line)
-
-    def build_become_command(self, cmd, shell):
-        super().build_become_command(cmd, shell)
-
-        if not cmd:
-            return cmd
-
-        become = self.get_option("become_exe")
-        flags = self.get_option("become_flags")
-        user = self.get_option("become_user")
-
-        return (
-            f"{become} --user={user} {flags} {self._build_success_command(cmd, shell)}"
-        )
-
-    def check_success(self, b_output):
-        b_output = self.remove_ansi_codes(b_output)
-        return super().check_success(b_output)
-
-    def check_incorrect_password(self, b_output):
-        b_output = self.remove_ansi_codes(b_output)
-        return super().check_incorrect_password(b_output)
-
-    def check_missing_password(self, b_output):
-        b_output = self.remove_ansi_codes(b_output)
-        return super().check_missing_password(b_output)
--- a/plugins/cache/redis.py
+++ b/plugins/cache/redis.py
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      _uri:
        description:
          - A colon separated string of connection information for Redis.
-          - The format is V(host:port:db:password), for example V(localhost:6379:0:changeme).
-          - To use encryption in transit, prefix the connection with V(tls://), as in V(tls://localhost:6379:0:changeme).
-          - To use redis sentinel, use separator V(;), for example V(localhost:26379;localhost:26379;0:changeme). Requires redis>=2.9.0.
+          - The format is C(host:port:db:password), for example C(localhost:6379:0:changeme).
+          - To use encryption in transit, prefix the connection with C(tls://), as in C(tls://localhost:6379:0:changeme).
+          - To use redis sentinel, use separator C(;), for example C(localhost:26379;localhost:26379;0:changeme). Requires redis>=2.9.0.
        required: true
        env:
          - name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ class CacheModule(BaseCacheModule):
        # format: "localhost:26379;localhost2:26379;0:changeme"
        connections = uri.split(';')
        connection_args = connections.pop(-1)
-        if len(connection_args) > 0:  # handle if no db nr is given
+        if len(connection_args) > 0:  # hanle if no db nr is given
            connection_args = connection_args.split(':')
            kw['db'] = connection_args.pop(0)
            try:
--- a/plugins/callback/cgroup_memory_recap.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/cgroup_memory_recap.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    options:
      max_mem_file:
        required: true
-        description: Path to cgroups C(memory.max_usage_in_bytes) file. Example V(/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.max_usage_in_bytes).
+        description: Path to cgroups C(memory.max_usage_in_bytes) file. Example C(/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.max_usage_in_bytes).
        env:
          - name: CGROUP_MAX_MEM_FILE
        ini:
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            key: max_mem_file
      cur_mem_file:
        required: true
-        description: Path to C(memory.usage_in_bytes) file. Example V(/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.usage_in_bytes).
+        description: Path to C(memory.usage_in_bytes) file. Example C(/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ansible_profile/memory.usage_in_bytes).
        env:
          - name: CGROUP_CUR_MEM_FILE
        ini:
--- a/plugins/callback/default_without_diff.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/default_without_diff.py
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# Copyright (c) 2024, Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-DOCUMENTATION = r'''
-  name: default_without_diff
-  type: stdout
-  short_description: The default ansible callback without diff output
-  version_added: 8.4.0
-  description:
-    - This is basically the default ansible callback plugin (P(ansible.builtin.default#callback)) without
-      showing diff output. This can be useful when using another callback which sends more detailed information
-      to another service, like the L(ARA, https://ara.recordsansible.org/) callback, and you want diff output
-      sent to that plugin but not shown on the console output.
-  author: Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)
-  extends_documentation_fragment:
-    - ansible.builtin.default_callback
-    - ansible.builtin.result_format_callback
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = r'''
-# Enable callback in ansible.cfg:
-ansible_config: |
-  [defaults]
-  stdout_callback = community.general.default_without_diff
-
-# Enable callback with environment variables:
-environment_variable: |
-  ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=community.general.default_without_diff
-'''
-
-from ansible.plugins.callback.default import CallbackModule as Default
-
-
-class CallbackModule(Default):
-    CALLBACK_VERSION = 2.0
-    CALLBACK_TYPE = 'stdout'
-    CALLBACK_NAME = 'community.general.default_without_diff'
-
-    def v2_on_file_diff(self, result):
-        pass
--- a/plugins/callback/diy.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/diy.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
  extends_documentation_fragment:
    - default_callback
  notes:
-    - Uses the P(ansible.builtin.default#callback) callback plugin output when a custom callback V(message(msg\)) is not provided.
+    - Uses the C(default) callback plugin output when a custom callback message(C(msg)) is not provided.
    - Makes the callback event data available via the C(ansible_callback_diy) dictionary, which can be used in the templating context for the options.
      The dictionary is only available in the templating context for the options. It is not a variable that is available via the other
      various execution contexts, such as playbook, play, task etc.
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''
                    if value C(is not None and not omit and length is greater than 0),
                    then the option is being used with output.
       **Effect**: render value as template and output"
-    - "Valid color values: V(black), V(bright gray), V(blue), V(white), V(green), V(bright blue), V(cyan), V(bright green), V(red), V(bright cyan),
-      V(purple), V(bright red), V(yellow), V(bright purple), V(dark gray), V(bright yellow), V(magenta), V(bright magenta), V(normal)"
+    - "Valid color values: C(black), C(bright gray), C(blue), C(white), C(green), C(bright blue), C(cyan), C(bright green), C(red), C(bright cyan),
+      C(purple), C(bright red), C(yellow), C(bright purple), C(dark gray), C(bright yellow), C(magenta), C(bright magenta), C(normal)"
  seealso:
    - name: default – default Ansible screen output
      description: The official documentation on the B(default) callback plugin.
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    on_any_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(on_any_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(on_any_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_failed_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_failed_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_failed_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_ok_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_ok_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_ok_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_skipped_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_skipped_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_skipped_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_unreachable_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_unreachable_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_unreachable_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_start_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_start_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_start_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_notify_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_notify_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_notify_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_no_hosts_matched_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_no_hosts_matched_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_no_hosts_matched_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_no_hosts_remaining_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_no_hosts_remaining_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_no_hosts_remaining_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_task_start_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_task_start_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_task_start_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_handler_task_start_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_handler_task_start_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_handler_task_start_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_vars_prompt_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_vars_prompt_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_vars_prompt_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_play_start_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_play_start_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_play_start_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_stats_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_stats_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_stats_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    on_file_diff_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(on_file_diff_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(on_file_diff_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_include_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_include_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_include_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_item_on_ok_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(runner_item_on_ok_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(runner_item_on_ok_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_item_on_failed_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(runner_item_on_failed_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(runner_item_on_failed_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_item_on_skipped_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(runner_item_on_skipped_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(runner_item_on_skipped_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_retry_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(runner_retry_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(runner_retry_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_start_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_start_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_start_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    runner_on_no_hosts_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(runner_on_no_hosts_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(runner_on_no_hosts_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = r'''

    playbook_on_setup_msg_color:
      description:
-        - Output color to be used for O(playbook_on_setup_msg).
+        - Output color to be used for I(playbook_on_setup_msg).
        - Template should render a L(valid color value,#notes).
      ini:
        - section: callback_diy
--- a/plugins/callback/elastic.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/elastic.py
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ import time
 import uuid

 from collections import OrderedDict
-from contextlib import closing
 from os.path import basename

 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleRuntimeError
@@ -202,25 +201,24 @@ class ElasticSource(object):

        apm_cli = self.init_apm_client(apm_server_url, apm_service_name, apm_verify_server_cert, apm_secret_token, apm_api_key)
        if apm_cli:
-            with closing(apm_cli):
-                instrument()  # Only call this once, as early as possible.
-                if traceparent:
-                    parent = trace_parent_from_string(traceparent)
-                    apm_cli.begin_transaction("Session", trace_parent=parent, start=parent_start_time)
-                else:
-                    apm_cli.begin_transaction("Session", start=parent_start_time)
-                # Populate trace metadata attributes
-                if self.ansible_version is not None:
-                    label(ansible_version=self.ansible_version)
-                label(ansible_session=self.session, ansible_host_name=self.host, ansible_host_user=self.user)
-                if self.ip_address is not None:
-                    label(ansible_host_ip=self.ip_address)
+            instrument()  # Only call this once, as early as possible.
+            if traceparent:
+                parent = trace_parent_from_string(traceparent)
+                apm_cli.begin_transaction("Session", trace_parent=parent, start=parent_start_time)
+            else:
+                apm_cli.begin_transaction("Session", start=parent_start_time)
+            # Populate trace metadata attributes
+            if self.ansible_version is not None:
+                label(ansible_version=self.ansible_version)
+            label(ansible_session=self.session, ansible_host_name=self.host, ansible_host_user=self.user)
+            if self.ip_address is not None:
+                label(ansible_host_ip=self.ip_address)

-                for task_data in tasks:
-                    for host_uuid, host_data in task_data.host_data.items():
-                        self.create_span_data(apm_cli, task_data, host_data)
+            for task_data in tasks:
+                for host_uuid, host_data in task_data.host_data.items():
+                    self.create_span_data(apm_cli, task_data, host_data)

-                apm_cli.end_transaction(name=__name__, result=status, duration=end_time - parent_start_time)
+            apm_cli.end_transaction(name=__name__, result=status, duration=end_time - parent_start_time)

    def create_span_data(self, apm_cli, task_data, host_data):
        """ create the span with the given TaskData and HostData """
--- a/plugins/callback/hipchat.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/hipchat.py
@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    description:
      - This callback plugin sends status updates to a HipChat channel during playbook execution.
      - Before 2.4 only environment variables were available for configuring this plugin.
-    deprecated:
-      removed_in: 10.0.0
-      why: The hipchat service has been discontinued and the self-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020.
-      alternative: There is none.
    options:
      token:
        description: HipChat API token for v1 or v2 API.
--- a/plugins/callback/loganalytics.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/loganalytics.py
@@ -59,16 +59,13 @@ import uuid
 import socket
 import getpass

+from datetime import datetime
 from os.path import basename

 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.parsing.ajson import AnsibleJSONEncoder
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase

-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.datetime import (
-    now,
-)
-

 class AzureLogAnalyticsSource(object):
    def __init__(self):
@@ -96,7 +93,7 @@ class AzureLogAnalyticsSource(object):
        return "https://{0}.ods.opinsights.azure.com/api/logs?api-version=2016-04-01".format(workspace_id)

    def __rfc1123date(self):
-        return now().strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT')
+        return datetime.utcnow().strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT')

    def send_event(self, workspace_id, shared_key, state, result, runtime):
        if result._task_fields['args'].get('_ansible_check_mode') is True:
@@ -170,7 +167,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):

    def _seconds_since_start(self, result):
        return (
-            now() -
+            datetime.utcnow() -
            self.start_datetimes[result._task._uuid]
        ).total_seconds()

@@ -188,10 +185,10 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
        self.loganalytics.ansible_playbook = basename(playbook._file_name)

    def v2_playbook_on_task_start(self, task, is_conditional):
-        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = now()
+        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = datetime.utcnow()

    def v2_playbook_on_handler_task_start(self, task):
-        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = now()
+        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = datetime.utcnow()

    def v2_runner_on_ok(self, result, **kwargs):
        self.loganalytics.send_event(
--- a/plugins/callback/logentries.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/logentries.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    requirements:
      - whitelisting in configuration
      - certifi (Python library)
-      - flatdict (Python library), if you want to use the O(flatten) option
+      - flatdict (Python library), if you want to use the 'flatten' option
    options:
      api:
        description: URI to the Logentries API.
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ examples: >
    api = data.logentries.com
    port = 10000
    tls_port = 20000
-    use_tls = true
+    use_tls = no
    token = dd21fc88-f00a-43ff-b977-e3a4233c53af
-    flatten = false
+    flatten = False
 '''

 import os
@@ -196,11 +196,15 @@ else:
    class TLSSocketAppender(PlainTextSocketAppender):
        def open_connection(self):
            sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
-            context = ssl.create_default_context(
-                purpose=ssl.Purpose.SERVER_AUTH,
-                cafile=certifi.where(), )
-            sock = context.wrap_socket(
+            sock = ssl.wrap_socket(
                sock=sock,
+                keyfile=None,
+                certfile=None,
+                server_side=False,
+                cert_reqs=ssl.CERT_REQUIRED,
+                ssl_version=getattr(
+                    ssl, 'PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2', ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1),
+                ca_certs=certifi.where(),
                do_handshake_on_connect=True,
                suppress_ragged_eofs=True, )
            sock.connect((self.LE_API, self.LE_TLS_PORT))
--- a/plugins/callback/logstash.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/logstash.py
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ from ansible import context
 import socket
 import uuid
 import logging
+from datetime import datetime

 try:
    import logstash
@@ -108,10 +109,6 @@ except ImportError:

 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase

-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.datetime import (
-    now,
-)
-

 class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):

@@ -129,7 +126,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
                                  "pip install python-logstash for Python 2"
                                  "pip install python3-logstash for Python 3")

-        self.start_time = now()
+        self.start_time = datetime.utcnow()

    def _init_plugin(self):
        if not self.disabled:
@@ -188,7 +185,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
            self.logger.info("ansible start", extra=data)

    def v2_playbook_on_stats(self, stats):
-        end_time = now()
+        end_time = datetime.utcnow()
        runtime = end_time - self.start_time
        summarize_stat = {}
        for host in stats.processed.keys():
--- a/plugins/callback/mail.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/mail.py
@@ -71,16 +71,6 @@ options:
    ini:
        - section: callback_mail
          key: bcc
-  message_id_domain:
-    description:
-        - The domain name to use for the L(Message-ID header, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message-ID).
-        - The default is the hostname of the control node.
-    type: str
-    ini:
-        - section: callback_mail
-          key: message_id_domain
-    version_added: 8.2.0
-
 '''

 import json
@@ -141,7 +131,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
            content += 'To: %s\n' % ', '.join([email.utils.formataddr(pair) for pair in to_addresses])
        if self.cc:
            content += 'Cc: %s\n' % ', '.join([email.utils.formataddr(pair) for pair in cc_addresses])
-        content += 'Message-ID: %s\n' % email.utils.make_msgid(domain=self.get_option('message_id_domain'))
+        content += 'Message-ID: %s\n' % email.utils.make_msgid()
        content += 'Subject: %s\n\n' % subject.strip()
        content += body

--- a/plugins/callback/nrdp.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/nrdp.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    short_description: Post task results to a Nagios server through nrdp
    description:
        - This callback send playbook result to Nagios.
-        - Nagios shall use NRDP to receive passive events.
+        - Nagios shall use NRDP to recive passive events.
        - The passive check is sent to a dedicated host/service for Ansible.
    options:
        url:
--- a/plugins/callback/null.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/null.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      - set as main display callback
    short_description: Don't display stuff to screen
    description:
-        - This callback prevents outputting events to screen.
+        - This callback prevents outputing events to screen.
 '''

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

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

    CALLBACK_VERSION = 2.0
--- a/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      enable_from_environment:
        type: str
        description:
-          - Whether to enable this callback only if the given environment variable exists and it is set to V(true).
+          - Whether to enable this callback only if the given environment variable exists and it is set to C(true).
          - This is handy when you use Configuration as Code and want to send distributed traces
            if running in the CI rather when running Ansible locally.
-          - For such, it evaluates the given O(enable_from_environment) value as environment variable
+          - For such, it evaluates the given I(enable_from_environment) value as environment variable
            and if set to true this plugin will be enabled.
        env:
          - name: ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_ENABLE_FROM_ENVIRONMENT
@@ -73,44 +73,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
          - section: callback_opentelemetry
            key: disable_logs
        version_added: 5.8.0
-      disable_attributes_in_logs:
-        default: false
-        type: bool
-        description:
-          - Disable populating span attributes to the logs.
-        env:
-          - name: ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_DISABLE_ATTRIBUTES_IN_LOGS
-        ini:
-          - section: callback_opentelemetry
-            key: disable_attributes_in_logs
-        version_added: 7.1.0
-      store_spans_in_file:
-        default: None
-        type: str
-        description:
-          -  It stores the exported spans in the given file
-        env:
-          - name: ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_STORE_SPANS_IN_FILE
-        ini:
-          - section: callback_opentelemetry
-            key: store_spans_in_file
-        version_added: 9.0.0
-      otel_exporter_otlp_traces_protocol:
-        type: str
-        description:
-          - E(OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL) represents the the transport protocol for spans.
-          - See
-            U(https://opentelemetry-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sdk/environment_variables.html#envvar-OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL).
-        default: grpc
-        choices:
-          - grpc
-          - http/protobuf
-        env:
-          - name: OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL
-        ini:
-          - section: callback_opentelemetry
-            key: otel_exporter_otlp_traces_protocol
-        version_added: 9.0.0
    requirements:
      - opentelemetry-api (Python library)
      - opentelemetry-exporter-otlp (Python library)
@@ -134,7 +96,6 @@ examples: |
 '''

 import getpass
-import json
 import os
 import socket
 import sys
@@ -152,19 +113,15 @@ from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
 try:
    from opentelemetry import trace
    from opentelemetry.trace import SpanKind
-    from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter as GRPCOTLPSpanExporter
-    from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter as HTTPOTLPSpanExporter
+    from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
    from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import SERVICE_NAME, Resource
    from opentelemetry.trace.status import Status, StatusCode
    from opentelemetry.trace.propagation.tracecontext import TraceContextTextMapPropagator
    from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
    from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import (
-        BatchSpanProcessor,
-        SimpleSpanProcessor
-    )
-    from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export.in_memory_span_exporter import (
-        InMemorySpanExporter
+        BatchSpanProcessor
    )
+
    # Support for opentelemetry-api <= 1.12
    try:
        from opentelemetry.util._time import _time_ns
@@ -287,16 +244,7 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
        task.dump = dump
        task.add_host(HostData(host_uuid, host_name, status, result))

-    def generate_distributed_traces(self,
-                                    otel_service_name,
-                                    ansible_playbook,
-                                    tasks_data,
-                                    status,
-                                    traceparent,
-                                    disable_logs,
-                                    disable_attributes_in_logs,
-                                    otel_exporter_otlp_traces_protocol,
-                                    store_spans_in_file):
+    def generate_distributed_traces(self, otel_service_name, ansible_playbook, tasks_data, status, traceparent, disable_logs):
        """ generate distributed traces from the collected TaskData and HostData """

        tasks = []
@@ -312,16 +260,7 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
            )
        )

-        otel_exporter = None
-        if store_spans_in_file:
-            otel_exporter = InMemorySpanExporter()
-            processor = SimpleSpanProcessor(otel_exporter)
-        else:
-            if otel_exporter_otlp_traces_protocol == 'grpc':
-                otel_exporter = GRPCOTLPSpanExporter()
-            else:
-                otel_exporter = HTTPOTLPSpanExporter()
-            processor = BatchSpanProcessor(otel_exporter)
+        processor = BatchSpanProcessor(OTLPSpanExporter())

        trace.get_tracer_provider().add_span_processor(processor)

@@ -341,11 +280,9 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
            for task in tasks:
                for host_uuid, host_data in task.host_data.items():
                    with tracer.start_as_current_span(task.name, start_time=task.start, end_on_exit=False) as span:
-                        self.update_span_data(task, host_data, span, disable_logs, disable_attributes_in_logs)
+                        self.update_span_data(task, host_data, span, disable_logs)

-        return otel_exporter
-
-    def update_span_data(self, task_data, host_data, span, disable_logs, disable_attributes_in_logs):
+    def update_span_data(self, task_data, host_data, span, disable_logs):
        """ update the span with the given TaskData and HostData """

        name = '[%s] %s: %s' % (host_data.name, task_data.play, task_data.name)
@@ -378,48 +315,39 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
                status = Status(status_code=StatusCode.UNSET)

        span.set_status(status)
-
-        # Create the span and log attributes
-        attributes = {
-            "ansible.task.module": task_data.action,
-            "ansible.task.message": message,
-            "ansible.task.name": name,
-            "ansible.task.result": rc,
-            "ansible.task.host.name": host_data.name,
-            "ansible.task.host.status": host_data.status
-        }
        if isinstance(task_data.args, dict) and "gather_facts" not in task_data.action:
            names = tuple(self.transform_ansible_unicode_to_str(k) for k in task_data.args.keys())
            values = tuple(self.transform_ansible_unicode_to_str(k) for k in task_data.args.values())
-            attributes[("ansible.task.args.name")] = names
-            attributes[("ansible.task.args.value")] = values
-
-        self.set_span_attributes(span, attributes)
-
+            self.set_span_attribute(span, ("ansible.task.args.name"), names)
+            self.set_span_attribute(span, ("ansible.task.args.value"), values)
+        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.module", task_data.action)
+        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.message", message)
+        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.name", name)
+        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.result", rc)
+        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.host.name", host_data.name)
+        self.set_span_attribute(span, "ansible.task.host.status", host_data.status)
        # This will allow to enrich the service map
        self.add_attributes_for_service_map_if_possible(span, task_data)
        # Send logs
        if not disable_logs:
-            # This will avoid populating span attributes to the logs
-            span.add_event(task_data.dump, attributes={} if disable_attributes_in_logs else attributes)
-        # Close span always
+            span.add_event(task_data.dump)
        span.end(end_time=host_data.finish)

-    def set_span_attributes(self, span, attributes):
-        """ update the span attributes with the given attributes if not None """
+    def set_span_attribute(self, span, attributeName, attributeValue):
+        """ update the span attribute with the given attribute and value if not None """

        if span is None and self._display is not None:
            self._display.warning('span object is None. Please double check if that is expected.')
        else:
-            if attributes is not None:
-                span.set_attributes(attributes)
+            if attributeValue is not None:
+                span.set_attribute(attributeName, attributeValue)

    def add_attributes_for_service_map_if_possible(self, span, task_data):
        """Update the span attributes with the service that the task interacted with, if possible."""

        redacted_url = self.parse_and_redact_url_if_possible(task_data.args)
        if redacted_url:
-            span.set_attribute("http.url", redacted_url.geturl())
+            self.set_span_attribute(span, "http.url", redacted_url.geturl())

    @staticmethod
    def parse_and_redact_url_if_possible(args):
@@ -506,7 +434,6 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
    def __init__(self, display=None):
        super(CallbackModule, self).__init__(display=display)
        self.hide_task_arguments = None
-        self.disable_attributes_in_logs = None
        self.disable_logs = None
        self.otel_service_name = None
        self.ansible_playbook = None
@@ -515,8 +442,6 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
        self.errors = 0
        self.disabled = False
        self.traceparent = False
-        self.store_spans_in_file = False
-        self.otel_exporter_otlp_traces_protocol = None

        if OTEL_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR:
            raise_from(
@@ -540,12 +465,8 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):

        self.hide_task_arguments = self.get_option('hide_task_arguments')

-        self.disable_attributes_in_logs = self.get_option('disable_attributes_in_logs')
-
        self.disable_logs = self.get_option('disable_logs')

-        self.store_spans_in_file = self.get_option('store_spans_in_file')
-
        self.otel_service_name = self.get_option('otel_service_name')

        if not self.otel_service_name:
@@ -554,14 +475,6 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
        # See https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/issues/740
        self.traceparent = self.get_option('traceparent')

-        self.otel_exporter_otlp_traces_protocol = self.get_option('otel_exporter_otlp_traces_protocol')
-
-    def dump_results(self, result):
-        """ dump the results if disable_logs is not enabled """
-        if self.disable_logs:
-            return ""
-        return self._dump_results(result._result)
-
    def v2_playbook_on_start(self, playbook):
        self.ansible_playbook = basename(playbook._file_name)

@@ -611,7 +524,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
            self.tasks_data,
            status,
            result,
-            self.dump_results(result)
+            self._dump_results(result._result)
        )

    def v2_runner_on_ok(self, result):
@@ -619,7 +532,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
            self.tasks_data,
            'ok',
            result,
-            self.dump_results(result)
+            self._dump_results(result._result)
        )

    def v2_runner_on_skipped(self, result):
@@ -627,7 +540,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
            self.tasks_data,
            'skipped',
            result,
-            self.dump_results(result)
+            self._dump_results(result._result)
        )

    def v2_playbook_on_include(self, included_file):
@@ -643,22 +556,14 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
            status = Status(status_code=StatusCode.OK)
        else:
            status = Status(status_code=StatusCode.ERROR)
-        otel_exporter = self.opentelemetry.generate_distributed_traces(
+        self.opentelemetry.generate_distributed_traces(
            self.otel_service_name,
            self.ansible_playbook,
            self.tasks_data,
            status,
            self.traceparent,
-            self.disable_logs,
-            self.disable_attributes_in_logs,
-            self.otel_exporter_otlp_traces_protocol,
-            self.store_spans_in_file
+            self.disable_logs
        )

-        if self.store_spans_in_file:
-            spans = [json.loads(span.to_json()) for span in otel_exporter.get_finished_spans()]
-            with open(self.store_spans_in_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as output:
-                json.dump({"spans": spans}, output, indent=4)
-
    def v2_runner_on_async_failed(self, result, **kwargs):
        self.errors += 1
--- a/plugins/callback/say.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/say.py
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    short_description: notify using software speech synthesizer
    description:
      - This plugin will use the C(say) or C(espeak) program to "speak" about play events.
+    notes:
+      - In Ansible 2.8, this callback has been renamed from C(osx_say) into M(community.general.say).
 '''

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

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

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


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

    def _indent_text(self, text, indent_level):
--- a/plugins/callback/slack.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/slack.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    short_description: Sends play events to a Slack channel
    description:
        - This is an ansible callback plugin that sends status updates to a Slack channel during playbook execution.
+        - Before Ansible 2.4 only environment variables were available for configuring this plugin.
    options:
      webhook_url:
        required: true
--- a/plugins/callback/splunk.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/splunk.py
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            key: authtoken
      validate_certs:
        description: Whether to validate certificates for connections to HEC. It is not recommended to set to
-                     V(false) except when you are sure that nobody can intercept the connection
-                     between this plugin and HEC, as setting it to V(false) allows man-in-the-middle attacks!
+                     C(false) except when you are sure that nobody can intercept the connection
+                     between this plugin and HEC, as setting it to C(false) allows man-in-the-middle attacks!
        env:
          - name: SPLUNK_VALIDATE_CERTS
        ini:
@@ -88,16 +88,13 @@ import uuid
 import socket
 import getpass

+from datetime import datetime
 from os.path import basename

 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.parsing.ajson import AnsibleJSONEncoder
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase

-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.datetime import (
-    now,
-)
-

 class SplunkHTTPCollectorSource(object):
    def __init__(self):
@@ -137,7 +134,7 @@ class SplunkHTTPCollectorSource(object):
        else:
            time_format = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S +0000'

-        data['timestamp'] = now().strftime(time_format)
+        data['timestamp'] = datetime.utcnow().strftime(time_format)
        data['host'] = self.host
        data['ip_address'] = self.ip_address
        data['user'] = self.user
@@ -184,7 +181,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):

    def _runtime(self, result):
        return (
-            now() -
+            datetime.utcnow() -
            self.start_datetimes[result._task._uuid]
        ).total_seconds()

@@ -223,10 +220,10 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
        self.splunk.ansible_playbook = basename(playbook._file_name)

    def v2_playbook_on_task_start(self, task, is_conditional):
-        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = now()
+        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = datetime.utcnow()

    def v2_playbook_on_handler_task_start(self, task):
-        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = now()
+        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = datetime.utcnow()

    def v2_runner_on_ok(self, result, **kwargs):
        self.splunk.send_event(
--- a/plugins/callback/sumologic.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/sumologic.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type

-DOCUMENTATION = r'''
+DOCUMENTATION = '''
 name: sumologic
 type: notification
 short_description: Sends task result events to Sumologic
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ description:
  - This callback plugin will send task results as JSON formatted events to a Sumologic HTTP collector source.
 requirements:
  - Whitelisting this callback plugin
-  - 'Create a HTTP collector source in Sumologic and specify a custom timestamp format of V(yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZ) and a custom timestamp locator
-    of V("timestamp": "(.*\)")'
+  - 'Create a HTTP collector source in Sumologic and specify a custom timestamp format of C(yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZ) and a custom timestamp locator
+    of C("timestamp": "(.*)")'
 options:
  url:
    description: URL to the Sumologic HTTP collector source.
@@ -46,16 +46,13 @@ import uuid
 import socket
 import getpass

+from datetime import datetime
 from os.path import basename

 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.parsing.ajson import AnsibleJSONEncoder
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase

-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.datetime import (
-    now,
-)
-

 class SumologicHTTPCollectorSource(object):
    def __init__(self):
@@ -87,7 +84,8 @@ class SumologicHTTPCollectorSource(object):
        data['uuid'] = result._task._uuid
        data['session'] = self.session
        data['status'] = state
-        data['timestamp'] = now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S +0000')
+        data['timestamp'] = datetime.utcnow().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S '
+                                                       '+0000')
        data['host'] = self.host
        data['ip_address'] = self.ip_address
        data['user'] = self.user
@@ -125,7 +123,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):

    def _runtime(self, result):
        return (
-            now() -
+            datetime.utcnow() -
            self.start_datetimes[result._task._uuid]
        ).total_seconds()

@@ -146,10 +144,10 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
        self.sumologic.ansible_playbook = basename(playbook._file_name)

    def v2_playbook_on_task_start(self, task, is_conditional):
-        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = now()
+        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = datetime.utcnow()

    def v2_playbook_on_handler_task_start(self, task):
-        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = now()
+        self.start_datetimes[task._uuid] = datetime.utcnow()

    def v2_runner_on_ok(self, result, **kwargs):
        self.sumologic.send_event(
--- a/plugins/callback/syslog_json.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/syslog_json.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
    short_description: sends JSON events to syslog
    description:
      - This plugin logs ansible-playbook and ansible runs to a syslog server in JSON format.
+      - Before Ansible 2.9 only environment variables were available for configuration.
    options:
      server:
        description: Syslog server that will receive the event.
--- a/plugins/callback/timestamp.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/timestamp.py
@@ -1,127 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# Copyright (c) 2024, kurokobo <kurokobo@protonmail.com>
-# Copyright (c) 2014, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-DOCUMENTATION = r"""
-  name: timestamp
-  type: stdout
-  short_description: Adds simple timestamp for each header
-  version_added: 9.0.0
-  description:
-    - This callback adds simple timestamp for each header.
-  author: kurokobo (@kurokobo)
-  options:
-    timezone:
-      description:
-        - Timezone to use for the timestamp in IANA time zone format.
-        - For example C(America/New_York), C(Asia/Tokyo)). Ignored on Python < 3.9.
-      ini:
-        - section: callback_timestamp
-          key: timezone
-      env:
-        - name: ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_TIMESTAMP_TIMEZONE
-      type: string
-    format_string:
-      description:
-        - Format of the timestamp shown to user in 1989 C standard format.
-        - >
-          Refer to L(the Python documentation,https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes)
-          for the available format codes.
-      ini:
-        - section: callback_timestamp
-          key: format_string
-      env:
-        - name: ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT_STRING
-      default: "%H:%M:%S"
-      type: string
-  seealso:
-    - plugin: ansible.posix.profile_tasks
-      plugin_type: callback
-      description: >
-        You can use P(ansible.posix.profile_tasks#callback) callback plugin to time individual tasks and overall execution time
-        with detailed timestamps.
-  extends_documentation_fragment:
-    - ansible.builtin.default_callback
-    - ansible.builtin.result_format_callback
-"""
-
-
-from ansible.plugins.callback.default import CallbackModule as Default
-from ansible.utils.display import get_text_width
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
-from datetime import datetime
-import types
-import sys
-
-# Store whether the zoneinfo module is available
-_ZONEINFO_AVAILABLE = sys.version_info >= (3, 9)
-
-
-def get_datetime_now(tz):
-    """
-    Returns the current timestamp with the specified timezone
-    """
-    return datetime.now(tz=tz)
-
-
-def banner(self, msg, color=None, cows=True):
-    """
-    Prints a header-looking line with cowsay or stars with length depending on terminal width (3 minimum) with trailing timestamp
-
-    Based on the banner method of Display class from ansible.utils.display
-
-    https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/4403519afe89138042108e237aef317fd5f09c33/lib/ansible/utils/display.py#L511
-    """
-    timestamp = get_datetime_now(self.timestamp_tzinfo).strftime(self.timestamp_format_string)
-    timestamp_len = get_text_width(timestamp) + 1  # +1 for leading space
-
-    msg = to_text(msg)
-    if self.b_cowsay and cows:
-        try:
-            self.banner_cowsay("%s @ %s" % (msg, timestamp))
-            return
-        except OSError:
-            self.warning("somebody cleverly deleted cowsay or something during the PB run.  heh.")
-
-    msg = msg.strip()
-    try:
-        star_len = self.columns - get_text_width(msg) - timestamp_len
-    except EnvironmentError:
-        star_len = self.columns - len(msg) - timestamp_len
-    if star_len <= 3:
-        star_len = 3
-    stars = "*" * star_len
-    self.display("\n%s %s %s" % (msg, stars, timestamp), color=color)
-
-
-class CallbackModule(Default):
-    CALLBACK_VERSION = 2.0
-    CALLBACK_TYPE = "stdout"
-    CALLBACK_NAME = "community.general.timestamp"
-
-    def __init__(self):
-        super(CallbackModule, self).__init__()
-
-        # Replace the banner method of the display object with the custom one
-        self._display.banner = types.MethodType(banner, self._display)
-
-    def set_options(self, task_keys=None, var_options=None, direct=None):
-        super(CallbackModule, self).set_options(task_keys=task_keys, var_options=var_options, direct=direct)
-
-        # Store zoneinfo for specified timezone if available
-        tzinfo = None
-        if _ZONEINFO_AVAILABLE and self.get_option("timezone"):
-            from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
-
-            tzinfo = ZoneInfo(self.get_option("timezone"))
-
-        # Inject options into the display object
-        setattr(self._display, "timestamp_tzinfo", tzinfo)
-        setattr(self._display, "timestamp_format_string", self.get_option("format_string"))
--- a/plugins/callback/unixy.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/unixy.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2023, Al Bowles <@akatch>
+# Copyright (c) 2017, Allyson Bowles <@akatch>
 # Copyright (c) 2012-2014, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 DOCUMENTATION = '''
    name: unixy
    type: stdout
-    author: Al Bowles (@akatch)
+    author: Allyson Bowles (@akatch)
    short_description: condensed Ansible output
    description:
      - Consolidated Ansible output in the style of LINUX/UNIX startup logs.
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackModule_default):
    - Only display task names if the task runs on at least one host
    - Add option to display all hostnames on a single line in the appropriate result color (failures may have a separate line)
    - Consolidate stats display
+    - Display whether run is in --check mode
    - Don't show play name if no hosts found
    '''

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

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

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

        self._display.display(msg)

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

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

        # show CLI arguments
        if self._display.verbosity > 3:
--- a/plugins/connection/chroot.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/chroot.py
@@ -46,42 +46,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        vars:
          - name: ansible_chroot_exe
        default: chroot
-      disable_root_check:
-        description:
-            - Do not check that the user is not root.
-        ini:
-          - section: chroot_connection
-            key: disable_root_check
-        env:
-          - name: ANSIBLE_CHROOT_DISABLE_ROOT_CHECK
-        vars:
-          - name: ansible_chroot_disable_root_check
-        default: false
-        type: bool
-        version_added: 7.3.0
 '''

-EXAMPLES = r"""
-# Plugin requires root privileges for chroot, -E preserves your env (and location of ~/.ansible):
-# sudo -E ansible-playbook ...
-#
-# Static inventory file
-# [chroots]
-# /path/to/debootstrap
-# /path/to/feboostrap
-# /path/to/lxc-image
-# /path/to/chroot
-
-# playbook
---
- hosts: chroots
-  connection: community.general.chroot
-  tasks:
-    - debug:
-        msg: "This is coming from chroot environment"
-
-"""
-
 import os
 import os.path
 import subprocess
@@ -115,7 +81,11 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):

        self.chroot = self._play_context.remote_addr

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

@@ -129,11 +99,6 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):

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

-        # totally ignores privilege escalation
+        # totally ignores privlege escalation
        display.vvv("EXEC %s" % cmd, host=self.host)
        p = self.client.command.run(cmd)[self.host]
        return p[0], p[1], p[2]
--- a/plugins/connection/incus.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/incus.py
@@ -1,169 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Based on lxd.py (c) 2016, Matt Clay <matt@mystile.com>
-# (c) 2023, Stephane Graber <stgraber@stgraber.org>
-# Copyright (c) 2023 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
-
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-DOCUMENTATION = """
-    author: Stéphane Graber (@stgraber)
-    name: incus
-    short_description: Run tasks in Incus instances via the Incus CLI.
-    description:
-        - Run commands or put/fetch files to an existing Incus instance using Incus CLI.
-    version_added: "8.2.0"
-    options:
-      remote_addr:
-        description:
-            - The instance identifier.
-        default: inventory_hostname
-        vars:
-            - name: inventory_hostname
-            - name: ansible_host
-            - name: ansible_incus_host
-      executable:
-        description:
-            - The shell to use for execution inside the instance.
-        default: /bin/sh
-        vars:
-            - name: ansible_executable
-            - name: ansible_incus_executable
-      remote:
-        description:
-            - The name of the Incus remote to use (per C(incus remote list)).
-            - Remotes are used to access multiple servers from a single client.
-        default: local
-        vars:
-            - name: ansible_incus_remote
-      project:
-        description:
-            - The name of the Incus project to use (per C(incus project list)).
-            - Projects are used to divide the instances running on a server.
-        default: default
-        vars:
-            - name: ansible_incus_project
-"""
-
-import os
-from subprocess import call, Popen, PIPE
-
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure, AnsibleFileNotFound
-from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
-from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase
-
-
-class Connection(ConnectionBase):
-    """ Incus based connections """
-
-    transport = "incus"
-    has_pipelining = True
-    default_user = 'root'
-
-    def __init__(self, play_context, new_stdin, *args, **kwargs):
-        super(Connection, self).__init__(play_context, new_stdin, *args, **kwargs)
-
-        self._incus_cmd = get_bin_path("incus")
-
-        if not self._incus_cmd:
-            raise AnsibleError("incus command not found in PATH")
-
-    def _connect(self):
-        """connect to Incus (nothing to do here) """
-        super(Connection, self)._connect()
-
-        if not self._connected:
-            self._display.vvv(u"ESTABLISH Incus CONNECTION FOR USER: root",
-                              host=self._instance())
-            self._connected = True
-
-    def _instance(self):
-        # Return only the leading part of the FQDN as the instance name
-        # as Incus instance names cannot be a FQDN.
-        return self.get_option('remote_addr').split(".")[0]
-
-    def exec_command(self, cmd, in_data=None, sudoable=True):
-        """ execute a command on the Incus host """
-        super(Connection, self).exec_command(cmd, in_data=in_data, sudoable=sudoable)
-
-        self._display.vvv(u"EXEC {0}".format(cmd),
-                          host=self._instance())
-
-        local_cmd = [
-            self._incus_cmd,
-            "--project", self.get_option("project"),
-            "exec",
-            "%s:%s" % (self.get_option("remote"), self._instance()),
-            "--",
-            self._play_context.executable, "-c", cmd]
-
-        local_cmd = [to_bytes(i, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for i in local_cmd]
-        in_data = to_bytes(in_data, errors='surrogate_or_strict', nonstring='passthru')
-
-        process = Popen(local_cmd, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
-        stdout, stderr = process.communicate(in_data)
-
-        stdout = to_text(stdout)
-        stderr = to_text(stderr)
-
-        if stderr == "Error: Instance is not running.\n":
-            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("instance not running: %s" %
-                                           self._instance())
-
-        if stderr == "Error: Instance not found\n":
-            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("instance not found: %s" %
-                                           self._instance())
-
-        return process.returncode, stdout, stderr
-
-    def put_file(self, in_path, out_path):
-        """ put a file from local to Incus """
-        super(Connection, self).put_file(in_path, out_path)
-
-        self._display.vvv(u"PUT {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path),
-                          host=self._instance())
-
-        if not os.path.isfile(to_bytes(in_path, errors='surrogate_or_strict')):
-            raise AnsibleFileNotFound("input path is not a file: %s" % in_path)
-
-        local_cmd = [
-            self._incus_cmd,
-            "--project", self.get_option("project"),
-            "file", "push", "--quiet",
-            in_path,
-            "%s:%s/%s" % (self.get_option("remote"),
-                          self._instance(),
-                          out_path)]
-
-        local_cmd = [to_bytes(i, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for i in local_cmd]
-
-        call(local_cmd)
-
-    def fetch_file(self, in_path, out_path):
-        """ fetch a file from Incus to local """
-        super(Connection, self).fetch_file(in_path, out_path)
-
-        self._display.vvv(u"FETCH {0} TO {1}".format(in_path, out_path),
-                          host=self._instance())
-
-        local_cmd = [
-            self._incus_cmd,
-            "--project", self.get_option("project"),
-            "file", "pull", "--quiet",
-            "%s:%s/%s" % (self.get_option("remote"),
-                          self._instance(),
-                          in_path),
-            out_path]
-
-        local_cmd = [to_bytes(i, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for i in local_cmd]
-
-        call(local_cmd)
-
-    def close(self):
-        """ close the connection (nothing to do here) """
-        super(Connection, self).close()
-
-        self._connected = False
--- a/plugins/connection/lxc.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/lxc.py
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            - Container identifier
        default: inventory_hostname
        vars:
-            - name: inventory_hostname
            - name: ansible_host
            - name: ansible_lxc_host
      executable:
@@ -60,7 +59,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
    def __init__(self, play_context, new_stdin, *args, **kwargs):
        super(Connection, self).__init__(play_context, new_stdin, *args, **kwargs)

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

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

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

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

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

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

        read_stdout, write_stdout = None, None
--- a/plugins/connection/lxd.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/lxd.py
@@ -10,15 +10,13 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 DOCUMENTATION = '''
    author: Matt Clay (@mattclay) <matt@mystile.com>
    name: lxd
-    short_description: Run tasks in LXD instances via C(lxc) CLI
+    short_description: Run tasks in lxc containers via lxc CLI
    description:
-        - Run commands or put/fetch files to an existing instance using C(lxc) CLI.
+        - Run commands or put/fetch files to an existing lxc container using lxc CLI
    options:
      remote_addr:
        description:
-            - Instance (container/VM) identifier.
-            - Since community.general 8.0.0, a FQDN can be provided; in that case, the first component (the part before C(.))
-              is used as the instance identifier.
+            - Container identifier.
        default: inventory_hostname
        vars:
            - name: inventory_hostname
@@ -26,7 +24,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
            - name: ansible_lxd_host
      executable:
        description:
-            - Shell to use for execution inside instance.
+            - shell to use for execution inside container
        default: /bin/sh
        vars:
            - name: ansible_executable
@@ -71,38 +69,32 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
            raise AnsibleError("lxc command not found in PATH")

        if self._play_context.remote_user is not None and self._play_context.remote_user != 'root':
-            self._display.warning('lxd does not support remote_user, using default: root')
-
-    def _host(self):
-        """ translate remote_addr to lxd (short) hostname """
-        return self.get_option("remote_addr").split(".", 1)[0]
+            self._display.warning('lxd does not support remote_user, using container default: root')

    def _connect(self):
        """connect to lxd (nothing to do here) """
        super(Connection, self)._connect()

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

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

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

        local_cmd = [self._lxc_cmd]
        if self.get_option("project"):
            local_cmd.extend(["--project", self.get_option("project")])
        local_cmd.extend([
            "exec",
-            "%s:%s" % (self.get_option("remote"), self._host()),
+            "%s:%s" % (self.get_option("remote"), self.get_option("remote_addr")),
            "--",
            self.get_option("executable"), "-c", cmd
        ])

-        self._display.vvvvv(u"EXEC {0}".format(local_cmd), host=self._host())
-
        local_cmd = [to_bytes(i, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for i in local_cmd]
        in_data = to_bytes(in_data, errors='surrogate_or_strict', nonstring='passthru')

@@ -112,13 +104,11 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        stdout = to_text(stdout)
        stderr = to_text(stderr)

-        self._display.vvvvv(u"EXEC lxc output: {0} {1}".format(stdout, stderr), host=self._host())
+        if stderr == "error: Container is not running.\n":
+            raise AnsibleConnectionFailure("container not running: %s" % self.get_option('remote_addr'))

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

        return process.returncode, stdout, stderr

@@ -126,7 +116,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        """ put a file from local to lxd """
        super(Connection, self).put_file(in_path, out_path)

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

        if not os.path.isfile(to_bytes(in_path, errors='surrogate_or_strict')):
            raise AnsibleFileNotFound("input path is not a file: %s" % in_path)
@@ -137,7 +127,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        local_cmd.extend([
            "file", "push",
            in_path,
-            "%s:%s/%s" % (self.get_option("remote"), self._host(), out_path)
+            "%s:%s/%s" % (self.get_option("remote"), self.get_option("remote_addr"), out_path)
        ])

        local_cmd = [to_bytes(i, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for i in local_cmd]
@@ -149,14 +139,14 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
        """ fetch a file from lxd to local """
        super(Connection, self).fetch_file(in_path, out_path)

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

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

--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/alicloud.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/alicloud.py
@@ -15,40 +15,40 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
 options:
  alicloud_access_key:
    description:
-      - Alibaba Cloud access key. If not set then the value of environment variable E(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY),
-        E(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID) will be used instead.
+      - Alibaba Cloud access key. If not set then the value of environment variable C(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY),
+        C(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID) will be used instead.
    aliases: ['access_key_id', 'access_key']
    type: str
  alicloud_secret_key:
    description:
-      - Alibaba Cloud secret key. If not set then the value of environment variable E(ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY),
-        E(ALICLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) will be used instead.
+      - Alibaba Cloud secret key. If not set then the value of environment variable C(ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY),
+        C(ALICLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) will be used instead.
    aliases: ['secret_access_key', 'secret_key']
    type: str
  alicloud_region:
    description:
      - The Alibaba Cloud region to use. If not specified then the value of environment variable
-        E(ALICLOUD_REGION), E(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID) will be used instead.
+        C(ALICLOUD_REGION), C(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID) will be used instead.
    aliases: ['region', 'region_id']
    required: true
    type: str
  alicloud_security_token:
    description:
      - The Alibaba Cloud security token. If not specified then the value of environment variable
-        E(ALICLOUD_SECURITY_TOKEN) will be used instead.
+        C(ALICLOUD_SECURITY_TOKEN) will be used instead.
    aliases: ['security_token']
    type: str
  alicloud_assume_role:
    description:
      - If provided with a role ARN, Ansible will attempt to assume this role using the supplied credentials.
-      - The nested assume_role block supports C(alicloud_assume_role_arn), C(alicloud_assume_role_session_name),
-        C(alicloud_assume_role_session_expiration) and C(alicloud_assume_role_policy).
+      - The nested assume_role block supports I(alicloud_assume_role_arn), I(alicloud_assume_role_session_name),
+        I(alicloud_assume_role_session_expiration) and I(alicloud_assume_role_policy)
    type: dict
    aliases: ['assume_role']
  alicloud_assume_role_arn:
    description:
-      - The Alibaba Cloud C(role_arn). The ARN of the role to assume. If ARN is set to an empty string,
-        it does not perform role switching. It supports environment variable E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN).
+      - The Alibaba Cloud role_arn. The ARN of the role to assume. If ARN is set to an empty string,
+        it does not perform role switching. It supports environment variable ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN.
        ansible will execute with provided credentials.
    aliases: ['assume_role_arn']
    type: str
@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@ options:
    description:
      - The Alibaba Cloud session_name. The session name to use when assuming the role. If omitted,
        'ansible' is passed to the AssumeRole call as session name. It supports environment variable
-        E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME).
+        ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME
    aliases: ['assume_role_session_name']
    type: str
  alicloud_assume_role_session_expiration:
    description:
-      - The Alibaba Cloud C(session_expiration). The time after which the established session for assuming
+      - The Alibaba Cloud session_expiration. The time after which the established session for assuming
        role expires. Valid value range 900-3600 seconds. Default to 3600 (in this case Alicloud use own default
-        value). It supports environment variable E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_EXPIRATION).
+        value). It supports environment variable ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_EXPIRATION
    aliases: ['assume_role_session_expiration']
    type: int
  ecs_role_name:
@@ -79,31 +79,31 @@ options:
  profile:
    description:
      - This is the Alicloud profile name as set in the shared credentials file. It can also be sourced from the
-        E(ALICLOUD_PROFILE) environment variable.
+        ALICLOUD_PROFILE environment variable.
    type: str
  shared_credentials_file:
    description:
-      - This is the path to the shared credentials file. It can also be sourced from the E(ALICLOUD_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE)
+      - This is the path to the shared credentials file. It can also be sourced from the ALICLOUD_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE
        environment variable.
-      - If this is not set and a profile is specified, C(~/.aliyun/config.json) will be used.
+      - If this is not set and a profile is specified,  ~/.aliyun/config.json will be used.
    type: str
 author:
    - "He Guimin (@xiaozhu36)"
 requirements:
-    - "Python >= 3.6"
+    - "python >= 3.6"
 notes:
  - If parameters are not set within the module, the following
    environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence
-    E(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY) or E(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID),
-    E(ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY) or E(ALICLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY),
-    E(ALICLOUD_REGION) or E(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID),
-    E(ALICLOUD_SECURITY_TOKEN),
-    E(ALICLOUD_ECS_ROLE_NAME),
-    E(ALICLOUD_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE),
-    E(ALICLOUD_PROFILE),
-    E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN),
-    E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME),
-    E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_EXPIRATION).
-  - E(ALICLOUD_REGION) or E(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID) can be typically be used to specify the
-    Alicloud region, when required, but this can also be configured in the footmark config file
+    C(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY) or C(ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID),
+    C(ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY) or C(ALICLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY),
+    C(ALICLOUD_REGION) or C(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID),
+    C(ALICLOUD_SECURITY_TOKEN),
+    C(ALICLOUD_ECS_ROLE_NAME),
+    C(ALICLOUD_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE),
+    C(ALICLOUD_PROFILE),
+    C(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN),
+    C(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME),
+    C(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_EXPIRATION),
+  - C(ALICLOUD_REGION) or C(ALICLOUD_REGION_ID) can be typically be used to specify the
+    ALICLOUD region, when required, but this can also be configured in the footmark config file
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/auth_basic.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/auth_basic.py
@@ -14,19 +14,19 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
 options:
  api_url:
    description:
-      - The resolvable endpoint for the API.
+      - The resolvable endpoint for the API
    type: str
  api_username:
    description:
-      - The username to use for authentication against the API.
+      - The username to use for authentication against the API
    type: str
  api_password:
    description:
-      - The password to use for authentication against the API.
+      - The password to use for authentication against the API
    type: str
  validate_certs:
    description:
-      - Whether or not to validate SSL certs when supplying a HTTPS endpoint.
+      - Whether or not to validate SSL certs when supplying a https endpoint.
    type: bool
    default: true
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/bitbucket.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/bitbucket.py
@@ -16,25 +16,25 @@ options:
  client_id:
    description:
      - The OAuth consumer key.
-      - If not set the environment variable E(BITBUCKET_CLIENT_ID) will be used.
+      - If not set the environment variable C(BITBUCKET_CLIENT_ID) will be used.
    type: str
  client_secret:
    description:
      - The OAuth consumer secret.
-      - If not set the environment variable E(BITBUCKET_CLIENT_SECRET) will be used.
+      - If not set the environment variable C(BITBUCKET_CLIENT_SECRET) will be used.
    type: str
  user:
    description:
      - The username.
-      - If not set the environment variable E(BITBUCKET_USERNAME) will be used.
-      - O(ignore:username) is an alias of O(user) since community.general 6.0.0. It was an alias of O(workspace) before.
+      - If not set the environment variable C(BITBUCKET_USERNAME) will be used.
+      - I(username) is an alias of I(user) since community.genreal 6.0.0. It was an alias of I(workspace) before.
    type: str
    version_added: 4.0.0
    aliases: [ username ]
  password:
    description:
      - The App password.
-      - If not set the environment variable E(BITBUCKET_PASSWORD) will be used.
+      - If not set the environment variable C(BITBUCKET_PASSWORD) will be used.
    type: str
    version_added: 4.0.0
 notes:
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/consul.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/consul.py
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# 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
-
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-
-class ModuleDocFragment:
-    # Common parameters for Consul modules
-    DOCUMENTATION = r"""
-options:
-  host:
-    description:
-      - Host of the consul agent, defaults to V(localhost).
-    default: localhost
-    type: str
-  port:
-    type: int
-    description:
-      - The port on which the consul agent is running.
-    default: 8500
-  scheme:
-    description:
-      - The protocol scheme on which the consul agent is running.
-        Defaults to V(http) and can be set to V(https) for secure connections.
-    default: http
-    type: str
-  validate_certs:
-    type: bool
-    description:
-      - Whether to verify the TLS certificate of the consul agent.
-    default: true
-  ca_path:
-    description:
-      - The CA bundle to use for https connections
-    type: str
-"""
-
-    TOKEN = r"""
-options:
-  token:
-    description:
-      - The token to use for authorization.
-    type: str
-"""
-
-    ACTIONGROUP_CONSUL = r"""
-options: {}
-attributes:
-  action_group:
-    description: Use C(group/community.general.consul) in C(module_defaults) to set defaults for this module.
-    support: full
-    membership:
-      - community.general.consul
-"""
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/dimensiondata.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/dimensiondata.py
@@ -20,22 +20,22 @@ options:
  region:
    description:
      - The target region.
-      - Regions are defined in Apache libcloud project [libcloud/common/dimensiondata.py].
-      - They are also listed in U(https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compute/drivers/dimensiondata.html).
-      - Note that the default value C(na) stands for "North America".
-      - The module prepends C(dd-) to the region choice.
+      - Regions are defined in Apache libcloud project [libcloud/common/dimensiondata.py]
+      - They are also listed in U(https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compute/drivers/dimensiondata.html)
+      - Note that the default value "na" stands for "North America".
+      - The module prepends 'dd-' to the region choice.
    type: str
    default: na
  mcp_user:
    description:
      - The username used to authenticate to the CloudControl API.
-      - If not specified, will fall back to E(MCP_USER) from environment variable or C(~/.dimensiondata).
+      - If not specified, will fall back to C(MCP_USER) from environment variable or C(~/.dimensiondata).
    type: str
  mcp_password:
    description:
      - The password used to authenticate to the CloudControl API.
-      - If not specified, will fall back to E(MCP_PASSWORD) from environment variable or C(~/.dimensiondata).
-      - Required if O(mcp_user) is specified.
+      - If not specified, will fall back to C(MCP_PASSWORD) from environment variable or C(~/.dimensiondata).
+      - Required if I(mcp_user) is specified.
    type: str
  location:
    description:
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ options:
    required: true
  validate_certs:
    description:
-      - If V(false), SSL certificates will not be validated.
+      - If C(false), SSL certificates will not be validated.
      - This should only be used on private instances of the CloudControl API that use self-signed certificates.
    type: bool
    default: true
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/dimensiondata_wait.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/dimensiondata_wait.py
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ options:
  wait_time:
    description:
      - The maximum amount of time (in seconds) to wait for the task to complete.
-      - Only applicable if O(wait=true).
+      - Only applicable if I(wait=true).
    type: int
    default: 600
  wait_poll_interval:
    description:
      - The amount of time (in seconds) to wait between checks for task completion.
-      - Only applicable if O(wait=true).
+      - Only applicable if I(wait=true).
    type: int
    default: 2
-'''
+    '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/django.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/django.py
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Copyright (c) 2024, Alexei Znamensky <russoz@gmail.com>
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-
-class ModuleDocFragment(object):
-    DOCUMENTATION = r'''
-options:
-  venv:
-    description:
-      - Use the the Python interpreter from this virtual environment.
-      - Pass the path to the root of the virtualenv, not the C(bin/) directory nor the C(python) executable.
-    type: path
-  settings:
-    description:
-      - Specifies the settings module to use.
-      - The value will be passed as is to the C(--settings) argument in C(django-admin).
-    type: str
-    required: true
-  pythonpath:
-    description:
-      - Adds the given filesystem path to the Python import search path.
-      - The value will be passed as is to the C(--pythonpath) argument in C(django-admin).
-    type: path
-  traceback:
-    description:
-      - Provides a full stack trace in the output when a C(CommandError) is raised.
-    type: bool
-  verbosity:
-    description:
-      - Specifies the amount of notification and debug information in the output of C(django-admin).
-    type: int
-    choices: [0, 1, 2, 3]
-  skip_checks:
-    description:
-      - Skips running system checks prior to running the command.
-    type: bool
-
-
-notes:
-  - The C(django-admin) command is always executed using the C(C) locale, and the option C(--no-color) is always passed.
-
-seealso:
-  - name: django-admin and manage.py in official Django documentation
-    description: >-
-      Refer to this documentation for the builtin commands and options of C(django-admin).
-      Please make sure that you select the right version of Django in the version selector on that page.
-    link: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/django-admin/
-'''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/emc.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/emc.py
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ options:
        default: sysadmin
 requirements:
  - An EMC VNX Storage device.
-  - storops (0.5.10 or greater). Install using C(pip install storops).
+  - Ansible 2.7.
+  - storops (0.5.10 or greater). Install using 'pip install storops'.
 notes:
-  - The modules prefixed with C(emc_vnx) are built to support the EMC VNX storage platform.
+  - The modules prefixed with emc_vnx are built to support the EMC VNX storage platform.
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/gitlab.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/gitlab.py
@@ -29,9 +29,4 @@ options:
      - GitLab CI job token for logging in.
    type: str
    version_added: 4.2.0
-  ca_path:
-    description:
-      - The CA certificates bundle to use to verify GitLab server certificate.
-    type: str
-    version_added: 8.1.0
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/hwc.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/hwc.py
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ options:
        required: true
    user:
        description:
-            - The user name to login with.
-            - Currently only user names are supported, and not user IDs.
+            - The user name to login with (currently only user names are
+              supported, and not user IDs).
        type: str
        required: true
    password:
@@ -31,13 +31,14 @@ options:
    domain:
        description:
            - The name of the Domain to scope to (Identity v3).
-            - Currently only domain names are supported, and not domain IDs.
+              (currently only domain names are supported, and not domain IDs).
        type: str
        required: true
    project:
        description:
            - The name of the Tenant (Identity v2) or Project (Identity v3).
-            - Currently only project names are supported, and not project IDs.
+              (currently only project names are supported, and not
+               project IDs).
        type: str
        required: true
    region:
@@ -46,20 +47,20 @@ options:
        type: str
    id:
        description:
-            - The ID of resource to be managed.
+            - The id of resource to be managed.
        type: str
 notes:
  - For authentication, you can set identity_endpoint using the
-    E(ANSIBLE_HWC_IDENTITY_ENDPOINT) environment variable.
+    C(ANSIBLE_HWC_IDENTITY_ENDPOINT) env variable.
  - For authentication, you can set user using the
-    E(ANSIBLE_HWC_USER) environment variable.
-  - For authentication, you can set password using the E(ANSIBLE_HWC_PASSWORD) environment
+    C(ANSIBLE_HWC_USER) env variable.
+  - For authentication, you can set password using the C(ANSIBLE_HWC_PASSWORD) env
    variable.
-  - For authentication, you can set domain using the E(ANSIBLE_HWC_DOMAIN) environment
+  - For authentication, you can set domain using the C(ANSIBLE_HWC_DOMAIN) env
    variable.
-  - For authentication, you can set project using the E(ANSIBLE_HWC_PROJECT) environment
+  - For authentication, you can set project using the C(ANSIBLE_HWC_PROJECT) env
    variable.
-  - For authentication, you can set region using the E(ANSIBLE_HWC_REGION) environment variable.
+  - For authentication, you can set region using the C(ANSIBLE_HWC_REGION) env variable.
  - Environment variables values will only be used if the playbook values are
    not set.
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/ibm_storage.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/ibm_storage.py
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ options:
        required: true
 notes:
  - This module requires pyxcli python library.
-    Use C(pip install pyxcli) in order to get pyxcli.
+    Use 'pip install pyxcli' in order to get pyxcli.
 requirements:
+  - python >= 2.7
  - pyxcli
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/influxdb.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/influxdb.py
@@ -16,36 +16,39 @@ options:
  hostname:
    description:
    - The hostname or IP address on which InfluxDB server is listening.
+    - Since Ansible 2.5, defaulted to localhost.
    type: str
    default: localhost
  username:
    description:
    - Username that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server.
+    - Alias C(login_username) added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    default: root
    aliases: [ login_username ]
  password:
    description:
    - Password that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server.
+    - Alias C(login_password) added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    default: root
    aliases: [ login_password ]
  port:
    description:
-    - The port on which InfluxDB server is listening.
+    - The port on which InfluxDB server is listening
    type: int
    default: 8086
  path:
    description:
-    - The path on which InfluxDB server is accessible.
-    - Only available when using python-influxdb >= 5.1.0.
+    - The path on which InfluxDB server is accessible
+    - Only available when using python-influxdb >= 5.1.0
    type: str
    default: ''
    version_added: '0.2.0'
  validate_certs:
    description:
-    - If set to V(false), the SSL certificates will not be validated.
-    - This should only set to V(false) used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
+    - If set to C(false), the SSL certificates will not be validated.
+    - This should only set to C(false) used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
    type: bool
    default: true
  ssl:
@@ -60,8 +63,8 @@ options:
  retries:
    description:
    - Number of retries client will try before aborting.
-    - V(0) indicates try until success.
-    - Only available when using python-influxdb >= 4.1.0.
+    - C(0) indicates try until success.
+    - Only available when using python-influxdb >= 4.1.0
    type: int
    default: 3
  use_udp:
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/ipa.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/ipa.py
@@ -16,56 +16,61 @@ options:
  ipa_port:
    description:
    - Port of FreeIPA / IPA server.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_PORT) will be used instead.
-    - If both the environment variable E(IPA_PORT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_PORT) will be used instead.
+    - If both the environment variable C(IPA_PORT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
+    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: int
    default: 443
  ipa_host:
    description:
    - IP or hostname of IPA server.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_HOST) will be used instead.
-    - If both the environment variable E(IPA_HOST) and the value are not specified in the task, then DNS will be used to try to discover the FreeIPA server.
-    - The relevant entry needed in FreeIPA is the C(ipa-ca) entry.
-    - If neither the DNS entry, nor the environment E(IPA_HOST), nor the value are available in the task, then the default value will be used.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_HOST) will be used instead.
+    - If both the environment variable C(IPA_HOST) and the value are not specified in the task, then DNS will be used to try to discover the FreeIPA server.
+    - The relevant entry needed in FreeIPA is the 'ipa-ca' entry.
+    - If neither the DNS entry, nor the environment C(IPA_HOST), nor the value are available in the task, then the default value will be used.
+    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    default: ipa.example.com
  ipa_user:
    description:
    - Administrative account used on IPA server.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_USER) will be used instead.
-    - If both the environment variable E(IPA_USER) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_USER) will be used instead.
+    - If both the environment variable C(IPA_USER) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
+    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    default: admin
  ipa_pass:
    description:
    - Password of administrative user.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_PASS) will be used instead.
-    - Note that if the C(urllib_gssapi) library is available, it is possible to use GSSAPI to authenticate to FreeIPA.
-    - If the environment variable E(KRB5CCNAME) is available, the module will use this kerberos credentials cache to authenticate to the FreeIPA server.
-    - If the environment variable E(KRB5_CLIENT_KTNAME) is available, and E(KRB5CCNAME) is not; the module will use this kerberos keytab to authenticate.
-    - If GSSAPI is not available, the usage of O(ipa_pass) is required.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_PASS) will be used instead.
+    - Note that if the 'urllib_gssapi' library is available, it is possible to use GSSAPI to authenticate to FreeIPA.
+    - If the environment variable C(KRB5CCNAME) is available, the module will use this kerberos credentials cache to authenticate to the FreeIPA server.
+    - If the environment variable C(KRB5_CLIENT_KTNAME) is available, and C(KRB5CCNAME) is not; the module will use this kerberos keytab to authenticate.
+    - If GSSAPI is not available, the usage of 'ipa_pass' is required.
+    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
  ipa_prot:
    description:
    - Protocol used by IPA server.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_PROT) will be used instead.
-    - If both the environment variable E(IPA_PROT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_PROT) will be used instead.
+    - If both the environment variable C(IPA_PROT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
+    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    choices: [ http, https ]
    default: https
  validate_certs:
    description:
-    - This only applies if O(ipa_prot) is V(https).
-    - If set to V(false), the SSL certificates will not be validated.
-    - This should only set to V(false) used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
+    - This only applies if C(ipa_prot) is I(https).
+    - If set to C(false), the SSL certificates will not be validated.
+    - This should only set to C(false) used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
    type: bool
    default: true
  ipa_timeout:
    description:
    - Specifies idle timeout (in seconds) for the connection.
    - For bulk operations, you may want to increase this in order to avoid timeout from IPA server.
-    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(IPA_TIMEOUT) will be used instead.
-    - If both the environment variable E(IPA_TIMEOUT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
+    - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(IPA_TIMEOUT) will be used instead.
+    - If both the environment variable C(IPA_TIMEOUT) and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.
    type: int
    default: 10
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/keycloak.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/keycloak.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ options:

    auth_client_id:
        description:
-            - OpenID Connect C(client_id) to authenticate to the API with.
+            - OpenID Connect I(client_id) to authenticate to the API with.
        type: str
        default: admin-cli

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ options:

    auth_client_secret:
        description:
-            - Client Secret to use in conjunction with O(auth_client_id) (if required).
+            - Client Secret to use in conjunction with I(auth_client_id) (if required).
        type: str

    auth_username:
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ options:
        type: int
        default: 10
        version_added: 4.5.0
-
    http_agent:
        description:
            - Configures the HTTP User-Agent header.
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/ldap.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/ldap.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ options:
    type: str
  bind_pw:
    description:
-      - The password to use with O(bind_dn).
+      - The password to use with I(bind_dn).
    type: str
    default: ''
  ca_path:
@@ -29,18 +29,6 @@ options:
      - Set the path to PEM file with CA certs.
    type: path
    version_added: "6.5.0"
-  client_cert:
-    type: path
-    description:
-      - PEM formatted certificate chain file to be used for SSL client authentication.
-      - Required if O(client_key) is defined.
-    version_added: "7.1.0"
-  client_key:
-    type: path
-    description:
-      - PEM formatted file that contains your private key to be used for SSL client authentication.
-      - Required if O(client_cert) is defined.
-    version_added: "7.1.0"
  dn:
    required: true
    description:
@@ -52,12 +40,12 @@ options:
    type: str
    description:
      - Set the referrals chasing behavior.
-      - V(anonymous) follow referrals anonymously. This is the default behavior.
-      - V(disabled) disable referrals chasing. This sets C(OPT_REFERRALS) to off.
+      - C(anonymous) follow referrals anonymously. This is the default behavior.
+      - C(disabled) disable referrals chasing. This sets C(OPT_REFERRALS) to off.
    version_added: 2.0.0
  server_uri:
    description:
-      - The O(server_uri) parameter may be a comma- or whitespace-separated list of URIs containing only the schema, the host, and the port fields.
+      - The I(server_uri) parameter may be a comma- or whitespace-separated list of URIs containing only the schema, the host, and the port fields.
      - The default value lets the underlying LDAP client library look for a UNIX domain socket in its default location.
      - Note that when using multiple URIs you cannot determine to which URI your client gets connected.
      - For URIs containing additional fields, particularly when using commas, behavior is undefined.
@@ -70,13 +58,14 @@ options:
    default: false
  validate_certs:
    description:
-      - If set to V(false), SSL certificates will not be validated.
+      - If set to C(false), SSL certificates will not be validated.
      - This should only be used on sites using self-signed certificates.
    type: bool
    default: true
  sasl_class:
    description:
      - The class to use for SASL authentication.
+      - Possible choices are C(external), C(gssapi).
    type: str
    choices: ['external', 'gssapi']
    default: external
@@ -84,9 +73,10 @@ options:
  xorder_discovery:
    description:
      - Set the behavior on how to process Xordered DNs.
-      - V(enable) will perform a C(ONELEVEL) search below the superior RDN to find the matching DN.
-      - V(disable) will always use the DN unmodified (as passed by the O(dn) parameter).
-      - V(auto) will only perform a search if the first RDN does not contain an index number (C({x})).
+      - C(enable) will perform a C(ONELEVEL) search below the superior RDN to find the matching DN.
+      - C(disable) will always use the DN unmodified (as passed by the I(dn) parameter).
+      - C(auto) will only perform a search if the first RDN does not contain an index number (C({x})).
+      - Possible choices are C(enable), C(auto), C(disable).
    type: str
    choices: ['enable', 'auto', 'disable']
    default: auto
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/lxca_common.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/lxca_common.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ options:

  auth_url:
    description:
-    - lxca HTTPS full web address.
+    - lxca https full web address
    type: str
    required: true

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ requirements:
  - pylxca

 notes:
-  - Additional detail about pylxca can be found at U(https://github.com/lenovo/pylxca).
-  - Playbooks using these modules can be found at U(https://github.com/lenovo/ansible.lenovo-lxca).
+  -  Additional detail about pylxca can be found at U(https://github.com/lenovo/pylxca)
+  -  Playbooks using these modules can be found at U(https://github.com/lenovo/ansible.lenovo-lxca)
+  -  Check mode is not supported.
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/manageiq.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/manageiq.py
@@ -21,30 +21,30 @@ options:
    suboptions:
      url:
        description:
-          - ManageIQ environment URL. E(MIQ_URL) environment variable if set. Otherwise, it is required to pass it.
+          - ManageIQ environment url. C(MIQ_URL) env var if set. otherwise, it is required to pass it.
        type: str
        required: false
      username:
        description:
-          - ManageIQ username. E(MIQ_USERNAME) environment variable if set. Otherwise, required if no token is passed in.
+          - ManageIQ username. C(MIQ_USERNAME) env var if set. otherwise, required if no token is passed in.
        type: str
      password:
        description:
-          - ManageIQ password. E(MIQ_PASSWORD) environment variable if set. Otherwise, required if no token is passed in.
+          - ManageIQ password. C(MIQ_PASSWORD) env var if set. otherwise, required if no token is passed in.
        type: str
      token:
        description:
-          - ManageIQ token. E(MIQ_TOKEN) environment variable if set. Otherwise, required if no username or password is passed in.
+          - ManageIQ token. C(MIQ_TOKEN) env var if set. otherwise, required if no username or password is passed in.
        type: str
      validate_certs:
        description:
-          - Whether SSL certificates should be verified for HTTPS requests.
+          - Whether SSL certificates should be verified for HTTPS requests. defaults to True.
        type: bool
        default: true
        aliases: [ verify_ssl ]
      ca_cert:
        description:
-          - The path to a CA bundle file or directory with certificates.
+          - The path to a CA bundle file or directory with certificates. defaults to None.
        type: str
        aliases: [ ca_bundle_path ]

--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/nomad.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/nomad.py
@@ -18,12 +18,6 @@ options:
        - FQDN of Nomad server.
      required: true
      type: str
-    port:
-      description:
-        - Port of Nomad server.
-      type: int
-      default: 4646
-      version_added: 8.0.0
    use_ssl:
      description:
        - Use TLS/SSL connection.
@@ -53,6 +47,6 @@ options:
      type: str
    token:
      description:
-        - ACL token for authentication.
+        - ACL token for authentification.
      type: str
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/onepassword.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/onepassword.py
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# Copyright (c) 2023, 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
-
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-
-class ModuleDocFragment(object):
-    DOCUMENTATION = r'''
-requirements:
-  - See U(https://support.1password.com/command-line/)
-options:
-  master_password:
-    description: The password used to unlock the specified vault.
-    aliases: ['vault_password']
-    type: str
-  section:
-    description: Item section containing the field to retrieve (case-insensitive). If absent will return first match from any section.
-  domain:
-    description: Domain of 1Password.
-    default: '1password.com'
-    type: str
-  subdomain:
-    description: The 1Password subdomain to authenticate against.
-    type: str
-  account_id:
-    description: The account ID to target.
-    type: str
-  username:
-    description: The username used to sign in.
-    type: str
-  secret_key:
-    description: The secret key used when performing an initial sign in.
-    type: str
-  service_account_token:
-    description:
-      - The access key for a service account.
-      - Only works with 1Password CLI version 2 or later.
-    type: str
-  vault:
-    description: Vault containing the item to retrieve (case-insensitive). If absent will search all vaults.
-    type: str
-  connect_host:
-    description: The host for 1Password Connect. Must be used in combination with O(connect_token).
-    type: str
-    env:
-      - name: OP_CONNECT_HOST
-    version_added: 8.1.0
-  connect_token:
-    description: The token for 1Password Connect. Must be used in combination with O(connect_host).
-    type: str
-    env:
-      - name: OP_CONNECT_TOKEN
-    version_added: 8.1.0
-'''
-
-    LOOKUP = r'''
-options:
-  service_account_token:
-    env:
-      - name: OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN
-        version_added: 8.2.0
-notes:
-  - This lookup will use an existing 1Password session if one exists. If not, and you have already
-    performed an initial sign in (meaning C(~/.op/config), C(~/.config/op/config) or C(~/.config/.op/config) exists), then only the
-    O(master_password) is required. You may optionally specify O(subdomain) in this scenario, otherwise the last used subdomain will be used by C(op).
-  - This lookup can perform an initial login by providing O(subdomain), O(username), O(secret_key), and O(master_password).
-  - Can target a specific account by providing the O(account_id).
-  - Due to the B(very) sensitive nature of these credentials, it is B(highly) recommended that you only pass in the minimal credentials
-    needed at any given time. Also, store these credentials in an Ansible Vault using a key that is equal to or greater in strength
-    to the 1Password master password.
-  - This lookup stores potentially sensitive data from 1Password as Ansible facts.
-    Facts are subject to caching if enabled, which means this data could be stored in clear text
-    on disk or in a database.
-  - Tested with C(op) version 2.7.2.
-'''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oneview.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oneview.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
 options:
    config:
        description:
-        - Path to a JSON configuration file containing the OneView client configuration.
+        - Path to a .json configuration file containing the OneView client configuration.
          The configuration file is optional and when used should be present in the host running the ansible commands.
          If the file path is not provided, the configuration will be loaded from environment variables.
          For links to example configuration files or how to use the environment variables verify the notes section.
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ options:
        type: str

 requirements:
-  - Python >= 2.7.9
+  - python >= 2.7.9

 notes:
    - "A sample configuration file for the config parameter can be found at:
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ options:
 options:
    params:
        description:
-        - List of parameters to delimit, filter and sort the list of resources.
-        - "Parameter keys allowed are:"
-        - "C(start): The first item to return, using 0-based indexing."
-        - "C(count): The number of resources to return."
-        - "C(filter): A general filter/query string to narrow the list of items returned."
-        - "C(sort): The sort order of the returned data set."
+        - List of params to delimit, filter and sort the list of resources.
+        - "params allowed:
+            - C(start): The first item to return, using 0-based indexing.
+            - C(count): The number of resources to return.
+            - C(filter): A general filter/query string to narrow the list of items returned.
+            - C(sort): The sort order of the returned data set."
        type: dict
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/online.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/online.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ options:
    aliases: [ oauth_token ]
  api_url:
    description:
-      - Online API URL.
+      - Online API URL
    type: str
    default: 'https://api.online.net'
    aliases: [ base_url ]
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ options:
    type: bool
    default: true
 notes:
-  - Also see the API documentation on U(https://console.online.net/en/api/).
-  - If O(api_token) is not set within the module, the following
+  - Also see the API documentation on U(https://console.online.net/en/api/)
+  - If C(api_token) is not set within the module, the following
    environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence
-    E(ONLINE_TOKEN), E(ONLINE_API_KEY), E(ONLINE_OAUTH_TOKEN), E(ONLINE_API_TOKEN).
-  - If one wants to use a different O(api_url) one can also set the E(ONLINE_API_URL)
+    C(ONLINE_TOKEN), C(ONLINE_API_KEY), C(ONLINE_OAUTH_TOKEN), C(ONLINE_API_TOKEN)
+  - If one wants to use a different C(api_url) one can also set the C(ONLINE_API_URL)
    environment variable.
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/opennebula.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/opennebula.py
@@ -15,26 +15,26 @@ options:
    api_url:
        description:
            - The ENDPOINT URL of the XMLRPC server.
-            - If not specified then the value of the E(ONE_URL) environment variable, if any, is used.
+            - If not specified then the value of the ONE_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
        type: str
        aliases:
            - api_endpoint
    api_username:
        description:
            - The name of the user for XMLRPC authentication.
-            - If not specified then the value of the E(ONE_USERNAME) environment variable, if any, is used.
+            - If not specified then the value of the ONE_USERNAME environment variable, if any, is used.
        type: str
    api_password:
        description:
            - The password or token for XMLRPC authentication.
-            - If not specified then the value of the E(ONE_PASSWORD) environment variable, if any, is used.
+            - If not specified then the value of the ONE_PASSWORD environment variable, if any, is used.
        type: str
        aliases:
            - api_token
    validate_certs:
        description:
-            - Whether to validate the TLS/SSL certificates or not.
-            - This parameter is ignored if E(PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY) environment variable is used.
+            - Whether to validate the SSL certificates or not.
+            - This parameter is ignored if PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY environment variable is used.
        type: bool
        default: true
    wait_timeout:
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/openswitch.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/openswitch.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ options:
  port:
    description:
      - Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote
-        device.  This value applies to either O(transport=cli) or O(transport=rest).  The port
+        device.  This value applies to either I(cli) or I(rest).  The port
        value will default to the appropriate transport common port if
        none is provided in the task.  (cli=22, http=80, https=443).  Note
        this argument does not affect the SSH transport.
@@ -36,15 +36,15 @@ options:
        either the CLI login or the eAPI authentication depending on which
        transport is used. Note this argument does not affect the SSH
        transport. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of
-        environment variable E(ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME) will be used instead.
+        environment variable C(ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME) will be used instead.
    type: str
  password:
    description:
      - Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to
-        the remote device.  This is a common argument used for either O(transport=cli)
-        or O(transport=rest).  Note this argument does not affect the SSH
+        the remote device.  This is a common argument used for either I(cli)
+        or I(rest) transports.  Note this argument does not affect the SSH
        transport. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of
-        environment variable E(ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD) will be used instead.
+        environment variable C(ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD) will be used instead.
    type: str
  timeout:
    description:
@@ -56,29 +56,29 @@ options:
  ssh_keyfile:
    description:
      - Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to
-        the remote device.  This argument is only used for O(transport=cli).
-        If the value is not specified in the task, the value of
-        environment variable E(ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE) will be used instead.
+        the remote device.  This argument is only used for the I(cli)
+        transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of
+        environment variable C(ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE) will be used instead.
    type: path
  transport:
    description:
      - Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the
        remote device.  The transport argument supports connectivity to the
-        device over SSH (V(ssh)), CLI (V(cli)), or REST (V(rest)).
+        device over ssh, cli or REST.
    required: true
    type: str
    choices: [ cli, rest, ssh ]
    default: ssh
  use_ssl:
    description:
-      - Configures the O(transport) to use SSL if set to V(true) only when the
-        O(transport) argument is configured as rest.  If the transport
-        argument is not V(rest), this value is ignored.
+      - Configures the I(transport) to use SSL if set to C(true) only when the
+        I(transport) argument is configured as rest.  If the transport
+        argument is not I(rest), this value is ignored.
    type: bool
    default: true
  provider:
    description:
-      - Convenience method that allows all C(openswitch) arguments to be passed as
+      - Convenience method that allows all I(openswitch) arguments to be passed as
        a dict object.  All constraints (required, choices, etc) must be
        met either by individual arguments or values in this dict.
    type: dict
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle.py
@@ -10,35 +10,36 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 class ModuleDocFragment(object):
    DOCUMENTATION = """
    requirements:
-        - Python SDK for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure U(https://oracle-cloud-infrastructure-python-sdk.readthedocs.io)
+        - "python >= 2.7"
+        -  Python SDK for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure U(https://oracle-cloud-infrastructure-python-sdk.readthedocs.io)
    notes:
-        - For OCI Python SDK configuration, please refer to
-          U(https://oracle-cloud-infrastructure-python-sdk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html).
+        - For OCI python sdk configuration, please refer to
+          U(https://oracle-cloud-infrastructure-python-sdk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html)
    options:
        config_file_location:
            description:
-                - Path to configuration file. If not set then the value of the E(OCI_CONFIG_FILE) environment variable,
-                  if any, is used. Otherwise, defaults to C(~/.oci/config).
+                - Path to configuration file. If not set then the value of the OCI_CONFIG_FILE environment variable,
+                  if any, is used. Otherwise, defaults to ~/.oci/config.
            type: str
        config_profile_name:
            description:
-                - The profile to load from the config file referenced by O(config_file_location). If not set, then the
-                  value of the E(OCI_CONFIG_PROFILE) environment variable, if any, is used. Otherwise, defaults to the
-                  C(DEFAULT) profile in O(config_file_location).
+                - The profile to load from the config file referenced by C(config_file_location). If not set, then the
+                  value of the OCI_CONFIG_PROFILE environment variable, if any, is used. Otherwise, defaults to the
+                  "DEFAULT" profile in C(config_file_location).
            default: "DEFAULT"
            type: str
        api_user:
            description:
                - The OCID of the user, on whose behalf, OCI APIs are invoked. If not set, then the
-                  value of the E(OCI_USER_OCID) environment variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the user
-                  is not specified through a configuration file (See O(config_file_location)). To get the user's OCID,
+                  value of the OCI_USER_OCID environment variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the user
+                  is not specified through a configuration file (See C(config_file_location)). To get the user's OCID,
                  please refer U(https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/API/Concepts/apisigningkey.htm).
            type: str
        api_user_fingerprint:
            description:
-                - Fingerprint for the key pair being used. If not set, then the value of the E(OCI_USER_FINGERPRINT)
+                - Fingerprint for the key pair being used. If not set, then the value of the OCI_USER_FINGERPRINT
                  environment variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the key fingerprint is not
-                  specified through a configuration file (See O(config_file_location)). To get the key pair's
+                  specified through a configuration file (See C(config_file_location)). To get the key pair's
                  fingerprint value please refer
                  U(https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/API/Concepts/apisigningkey.htm).
            type: str
@@ -46,21 +47,21 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
            description:
                - Full path and filename of the private key (in PEM format). If not set, then the value of the
                  OCI_USER_KEY_FILE variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the private key is
-                  not specified through a configuration file (See O(config_file_location)). If the key is encrypted
-                  with a pass-phrase, the O(api_user_key_pass_phrase) option must also be provided.
+                  not specified through a configuration file (See C(config_file_location)). If the key is encrypted
+                  with a pass-phrase, the C(api_user_key_pass_phrase) option must also be provided.
            type: path
        api_user_key_pass_phrase:
            description:
-                - Passphrase used by the key referenced in O(api_user_key_file), if it is encrypted. If not set, then
+                - Passphrase used by the key referenced in C(api_user_key_file), if it is encrypted. If not set, then
                  the value of the OCI_USER_KEY_PASS_PHRASE variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the
-                  key passphrase is not specified through a configuration file (See O(config_file_location)).
+                  key passphrase is not specified through a configuration file (See C(config_file_location)).
            type: str
        auth_type:
            description:
-                - The type of authentication to use for making API requests. By default O(auth_type=api_key) based
-                  authentication is performed and the API key (see O(api_user_key_file)) in your config file will be
+                - The type of authentication to use for making API requests. By default C(auth_type="api_key") based
+                  authentication is performed and the API key (see I(api_user_key_file)) in your config file will be
                  used. If this 'auth_type' module option is not specified, the value of the OCI_ANSIBLE_AUTH_TYPE,
-                  if any, is used. Use O(auth_type=instance_principal) to use instance principal based authentication
+                  if any, is used. Use C(auth_type="instance_principal") to use instance principal based authentication
                  when running ansible playbooks within an OCI compute instance.
            choices: ['api_key', 'instance_principal']
            default: 'api_key'
@@ -69,14 +70,14 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
            description:
                - OCID of your tenancy. If not set, then the value of the OCI_TENANCY variable, if any, is
                  used. This option is required if the tenancy OCID is not specified through a configuration file
-                  (See O(config_file_location)). To get the tenancy OCID, please refer to
-                  U(https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/API/Concepts/apisigningkey.htm).
+                  (See C(config_file_location)). To get the tenancy OCID, please refer
+                  U(https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/API/Concepts/apisigningkey.htm)
            type: str
        region:
            description:
                - The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region to use for all OCI API requests. If not set, then the
                  value of the OCI_REGION variable, if any, is used. This option is required if the region is
-                  not specified through a configuration file (See O(config_file_location)). Please refer to
+                  not specified through a configuration file (See C(config_file_location)). Please refer to
                  U(https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/General/Concepts/regions.htm) for more information
                  on OCI regions.
            type: str
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_creatable_resource.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_creatable_resource.py
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
            description: Whether to attempt non-idempotent creation of a resource. By default, create resource is an
                         idempotent operation, and doesn't create the resource if it already exists. Setting this option
                         to true, forcefully creates a copy of the resource, even if it already exists.This option is
-                         mutually exclusive with O(key_by).
+                         mutually exclusive with I(key_by).
            default: false
            type: bool
        key_by:
            description: The list of comma-separated attributes of this resource which should be used to uniquely
                         identify an instance of the resource. By default, all the attributes of a resource except
-                         O(freeform_tags) are used to uniquely identify a resource.
+                         I(freeform_tags) are used to uniquely identify a resource.
            type: list
            elements: str
    """
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_display_name_option.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_display_name_option.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
    DOCUMENTATION = """
    options:
        display_name:
-            description: Use O(display_name) along with the other options to return only resources that match the given
+            description: Use I(display_name) along with the other options to return only resources that match the given
                         display name exactly.
            type: str
    """
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_name_option.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_name_option.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
    DOCUMENTATION = """
    options:
        name:
-            description: Use O(name) along with the other options to return only resources that match the given name
+            description: Use I(name) along with the other options to return only resources that match the given name
                         exactly.
            type: str
    """
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_wait_options.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_wait_options.py
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
            default: true
            type: bool
        wait_timeout:
-            description: Time, in seconds, to wait when O(wait=true).
+            description: Time, in seconds, to wait when I(wait=true).
            default: 1200
            type: int
        wait_until:
-            description: The lifecycle state to wait for the resource to transition into when O(wait=true). By default,
-                         when O(wait=true), we wait for the resource to get into ACTIVE/ATTACHED/AVAILABLE/PROVISIONED/
-                         RUNNING applicable lifecycle state during create operation and to get into DELETED/DETACHED/
+            description: The lifecycle state to wait for the resource to transition into when I(wait=true). By default,
+                         when I(wait=true), we wait for the resource to get into ACTIVE/ATTACHED/AVAILABLE/PROVISIONED/
+                         RUNNING applicable lifecycle state during create operation & to get into DELETED/DETACHED/
                         TERMINATED lifecycle state during delete operation.
            type: str
    """
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/pritunl.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/pritunl.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ options:
        default: true
        description:
        - If certificates should be validated or not.
-        - This should never be set to V(false), except if you are very sure that
+        - This should never be set to C(false), except if you are very sure that
          your connection to the server can not be subject to a Man In The Middle
          attack.
 """
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More