Release 7.3.0.

Prepare 7.3.0 release.
[PR #7113/6a558734 backport][stable-7] Add support for Redfish PowerCycle reset type (#7115 )
2026-04-30 18:36:28 +00:00 · 2023-08-15 07:06:17 +02:00 · 2023-08-15 07:04:32 +02:00 · 2023-08-14 22:15:44 +02:00 · 2023-08-14 21:19:16 +02:00 · 2023-08-14 19:19:05 +00:00
844 changed files with 21567 additions and 31032 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-7
+        - stable-6
  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-7
+        - stable-5

 variables:
  - name: checkoutPath
@@ -73,32 +73,6 @@ stages:
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
            - test: extra
-  - stage: Sanity_2_17
-    displayName: Sanity 2.17
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.17/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_16
-    displayName: Sanity 2.16
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/sanity/{0}
-          targets:
-            - test: 1
-            - test: 2
-            - test: 3
-            - test: 4
  - stage: Sanity_2_15
    displayName: Sanity 2.15
    dependsOn: []
@@ -112,6 +86,32 @@ stages:
            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
+  - stage: Sanity_2_14
+    displayName: Sanity 2.14
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.14/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
+  - stage: Sanity_2_13
+    displayName: Sanity 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
 ### Units
  - stage: Units_devel
    displayName: Units devel
@@ -122,34 +122,13 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/units/{0}/1
          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
            - test: 3.8
            - test: 3.9
            - test: '3.10'
            - test: '3.11'
-            - test: '3.12'
-  - stage: Units_2_17
-    displayName: Units 2.17
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.17/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 3.7
-            - test: "3.12"
-  - stage: Units_2_16
-    displayName: Units 2.16
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/units/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: "3.11"
  - stage: Units_2_15
    displayName: Units 2.15
    dependsOn: []
@@ -161,6 +140,27 @@ stages:
          targets:
            - test: 3.5
            - test: "3.10"
+  - stage: Units_2_14
+    displayName: Units 2.14
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.14/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Units_2_13
+    displayName: Units 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.8

 ## Remote
  - stage: Remote_devel_extra_vms
@@ -171,10 +171,10 @@ stages:
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Alpine 3.19
-              test: alpine/3.19
-            # - name: Fedora 39
-            #   test: fedora/39
+            - name: Alpine 3.18
+              test: alpine/3.18
+            # - name: Fedora 38
+            #   test: fedora/38
            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
              test: ubuntu/22.04
          groups:
@@ -186,38 +186,6 @@ stages:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: macOS 14.3
-              test: macos/14.3
-            - name: RHEL 9.3
-              test: rhel/9.3
-            - name: FreeBSD 14.0
-              test: freebsd/14.0
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_17
-    displayName: Remote 2.17
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.17/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.3
-              test: freebsd/13.3
-          groups:
-            - 1
-            - 2
-            - 3
-  - stage: Remote_2_16
-    displayName: Remote 2.16
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.16/{0}
          targets:
            - name: macOS 13.2
              test: macos/13.2
@@ -245,10 +213,44 @@ stages:
              test: rhel/8.7
            - name: RHEL 7.9
              test: rhel/7.9
-            # - name: FreeBSD 13.1
-            #   test: freebsd/13.1
-            # - name: FreeBSD 12.4
-            #   test: freebsd/12.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.1
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.4
+              test: freebsd/12.4
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_14
+    displayName: Remote 2.14
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.14/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: RHEL 9.0
+              test: rhel/9.0
+            #- name: FreeBSD 12.4
+            #  test: freebsd/12.4
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_13
+    displayName: Remote 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.13/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 12.0
+              test: macos/12.0
+            - name: RHEL 8.5
+              test: rhel/8.5
+            #- name: FreeBSD 13.1
+            #  test: freebsd/13.1
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -262,43 +264,15 @@ stages:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          testFormat: devel/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 39
-              test: fedora39
-            - 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: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu2204
            - name: Alpine 3
              test: alpine3
          groups:
@@ -321,6 +295,38 @@ stages:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_14
+    displayName: Docker 2.14
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.14/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 36
+              test: fedora36
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_13
+    displayName: Docker 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.13/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 35
+              test: fedora35
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3

 ### Community Docker
  - stage: Docker_community_devel
@@ -336,7 +342,9 @@ stages:
            - name: Debian Bookworm
              test: debian-bookworm/3.11
            - name: ArchLinux
-              test: archlinux/3.12
+              test: archlinux/3.11
+            - name: CentOS Stream 8
+              test: centos-stream8/3.9
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -352,30 +360,7 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '3.8'
-            - test: '3.11'
-  - stage: Generic_2_17
-    displayName: Generic 2.17
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.17/generic/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: '3.7'
-            - test: '3.12'
-  - stage: Generic_2_16
-    displayName: Generic 2.16
-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/generic/{0}/1
-          targets:
-            - test: '2.7'
-            - test: '3.6'
+            - test: 2.7
            - test: '3.11'
  - stage: Generic_2_15
    displayName: Generic 2.15
@@ -386,33 +371,53 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: 2.15/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '3.9'
+            - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Generic_2_14
+    displayName: Generic 2.14
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.14/generic/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: '3.10'
+  - stage: Generic_2_13
+    displayName: Generic 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/generic/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 3.9

  - stage: Summary
    condition: succeededOrFailed()
    dependsOn:
      - Sanity_devel
-      - Sanity_2_17
-      - Sanity_2_16
+      - Sanity_2_13
+      - Sanity_2_14
      - Sanity_2_15
      - Units_devel
-      - Units_2_17
-      - Units_2_16
+      - Units_2_13
+      - Units_2_14
      - Units_2_15
      - Remote_devel_extra_vms
      - Remote_devel
-      - Remote_2_17
-      - Remote_2_16
+      - Remote_2_13
+      - Remote_2_14
      - Remote_2_15
      - Docker_devel
-      - Docker_2_17
-      - Docker_2_16
+      - Docker_2_13
+      - Docker_2_14
      - Docker_2_15
      - Docker_community_devel
 # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
 #      - Generic_devel
-#      - Generic_2_17
-#      - Generic_2_16
+#      - Generic_2_13
+#      - Generic_2_14
 #      - Generic_2_15
    jobs:
      - template: templates/coverage.yml
--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core
  $becomes/pmrun.py:
    maintainers: $team_ansible_core
-  $becomes/run0.py:
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  $becomes/sesu.py:
    maintainers: nekonyuu
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@@ -52,8 +50,6 @@ files:
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  $callbacks/context_demo.py: {}
  $callbacks/counter_enabled.py: {}
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+    maintainers: chris93111
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    maintainers: suprememoocow thaumos
  $modules/pagerduty_alert.py:
-    maintainers: ApsOps xshen1
+    maintainers: ApsOps
  $modules/pagerduty_change.py:
    maintainers: adamvaughan
  $modules/pagerduty_user.py:
@@ -1054,9 +980,6 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_solaris dermute
  $modules/pmem.py:
    maintainers: mizumm
-  $modules/pnpm.py:
-    ignore: chrishoffman
-    maintainers: aretrosen
  $modules/portage.py:
    ignore: sayap
    labels: portage
@@ -1073,27 +996,23 @@ files:
  $modules/proxmox:
    keywords: kvm libvirt proxmox qemu
    labels: proxmox virt
-    maintainers: $team_virt UnderGreen krauthosting
+    maintainers: $team_virt UnderGreen
    ignore: tleguern
  $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:
@@ -1108,6 +1027,46 @@ 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_:
@@ -1236,8 +1195,6 @@ files:
    ignore: ryansb
  $modules/shutdown.py:
    maintainers: nitzmahone samdoran aminvakil
-  $modules/simpleinit_msb.py:
-    maintainers: vaygr
  $modules/sl_vm.py:
    maintainers: mcltn
  $modules/slack.py:
@@ -1250,7 +1207,7 @@ files:
    maintainers: $team_solaris
  $modules/snap.py:
    labels: snap
-    maintainers: angristan vcarceler russoz
+    maintainers: angristan vcarceler
  $modules/snap_alias.py:
    labels: snap
    maintainers: russoz
@@ -1272,6 +1229,8 @@ 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 +1285,6 @@ 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 +1321,8 @@ 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 +1374,8 @@ 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 +1393,7 @@ macros:
  becomes: plugins/become
  caches: plugins/cache
  callbacks: plugins/callback
+  cliconfs: plugins/cliconf
  connections: plugins/connection
  doc_fragments: plugins/doc_fragments
  filters: plugins/filter
@@ -1480,19 +1401,19 @@ 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_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_linode: InTheCloudDan decentral1se displague rmcintosh Charliekenney23 LBGarber
--- 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 +29,23 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        ansible:
-          - '2.13'
-          - '2.14'
+          - '2.11'
+          - '2.12'
    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
    steps:
      - name: Perform sanity testing
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: ${{ contains(fromJson('["2.10", "2.11"]'), matrix.ansible) && 'felixfontein/ansible' || 'ansible/ansible' }}
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
          testing-type: sanity
@@ -53,7 +56,10 @@ jobs:
    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
    name: EOL Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+py${{ matrix.python }})
    strategy:
      # As soon as the first unit test fails, cancel the others to free up the CI queue
@@ -66,16 +72,14 @@ jobs:
        exclude:
          - ansible: ''
        include:
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            python: '3.5'
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            python: '2.6'
+          - ansible: '2.12'
            python: '3.8'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '3.8'
-          - ansible: '2.14'
-            python: '3.9'

    steps:
      - name: >-
@@ -83,8 +87,8 @@ jobs:
          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: ${{ contains(fromJson('["2.10", "2.11"]'), matrix.ansible) && 'felixfontein/ansible' || 'ansible/ansible' }}
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          pre-test-cmd: >-
            mkdir -p ../../ansible
@@ -100,7 +104,10 @@ jobs:
    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["2.9", "2.10", "2.11"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
    name: EOL I (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+${{ matrix.docker }}+py${{ matrix.python }}:${{ matrix.target }})
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
@@ -116,65 +123,93 @@ jobs:
        exclude:
          - ansible: ''
        include:
-          # 2.13
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
+          # 2.11
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora32
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora32
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora32
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora33
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora33
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
+          - ansible: '2.11'
+            docker: fedora33
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
+          - ansible: '2.11'
            docker: alpine3
            python: ''
            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            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'
+          #   python: '3.5'
+          #   target: azp/generic/1/
+          # 2.12
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: centos6
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: centos6
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: centos6
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: fedora34
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: fedora34
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: fedora34
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: ubuntu1804
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/1/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: ubuntu1804
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/2/
+          - ansible: '2.12'
+            docker: ubuntu1804
+            python: ''
+            target: azp/posix/3/
+          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
+          # - ansible: '2.12'
+          #   docker: default
+          #   python: '3.8'
          #   target: azp/generic/1/

    steps:
@@ -184,8 +219,8 @@ jobs:
          under Python ${{ matrix.python }}
        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
        with:
+          ansible-core-github-repository-slug: ${{ contains(fromJson('["2.10", "2.11"]'), matrix.ansible) && 'felixfontein/ansible' || 'ansible/ansible' }}
          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
          docker-image: ${{ matrix.docker }}
          integration-continue-on-error: 'false'
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ jobs:

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

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

    - 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/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,370 +0,0 @@
-# Community General Release Notes
-
-**Topics**
-
- <a href="#v9-0-1">v9\.0\.1</a>
-    - <a href="#release-summary">Release Summary</a>
-    - <a href="#minor-changes">Minor Changes</a>
-    - <a href="#bugfixes">Bugfixes</a>
- <a href="#v9-0-0">v9\.0\.0</a>
-    - <a href="#release-summary-1">Release Summary</a>
-    - <a href="#minor-changes-1">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-1">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="v9-0-1"></a>
-## v9\.0\.1
-
-<a id="release-summary"></a>
-### Release Summary
-
-Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 10\.0\.0rc1\.
-
-<a id="minor-changes"></a>
-### Minor Changes
-
-* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- minor refactor in the module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8413](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8413)\)\.
-
-<a id="bugfixes"></a>
-### Bugfixes
-
-* cpanm \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* django module utils \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* gconftool2\_info \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* homebrew \- do not fail when brew prints warnings \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7044](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7044)\)\.
-* hponcfg \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* kernel\_blacklist \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* keycloak\_client \- fix TypeError when sanitizing the <code>saml\.signing\.private\.key</code> attribute in the module\'s diff or state output\. The <code>sanitize\_cr</code> function expected a dict where in some cases a list might occur \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8403](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8403)\)\.
-* locale\_gen \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* mksysb \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* pipx\_info \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* snap \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* snap\_alias \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
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-## v9\.0\.0
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-### Release Summary
-
-This is release 9\.0\.0 of <code>community\.general</code>\, released on 2024\-05\-20\.
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-### 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
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-* 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 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
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-<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-1"></a>
-### Bugfixes
-
-* aix\_filesystem \- fix <code>\_validate\_vg</code> not passing VG name to <code>lsvg\_cmd</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151)\)\.
-* aix\_filesystem \- fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052)\)\.
-* apt\-rpm \- the module did not upgrade packages if a newer version exists\. Now the package will be reinstalled if the candidate is newer than the installed version \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414)\)\.
-* apt\_rpm \- when checking whether packages were installed after running <code>apt\-get \-y install \<packages\></code>\, only the last package name was checked \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263)\)\.
-* bitwarden\_secrets\_manager lookup plugin \- implements retry with exponential backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn\'s API rate limiting is encountered \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238)\)\.
-* cargo \- fix idempotency issues when using a custom installation path for packages \(using the <code>\-\-path</code> parameter\)\. The initial installation runs fine\, but subsequent runs use the <code>get\_installed\(\)</code> function which did not check the given installation location\, before running <code>cargo install</code>\. This resulted in a false <code>changed</code> state\. Also the removal of packeges using <code>state\: absent</code> failed\, as the installation check did not use the given parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970)\)\.
-* cloudflare\_dns \- fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652)\)\.
-* consul\_token \- fix token creation without <code>accessor\_id</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8091](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8091)\)\.
-* from\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of <code>ConfigParser</code> to allow converting values with a <code>\%</code> sign \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185)\)\.
-* gitlab\_group\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_group\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
-* gitlab\_issue \- fix behavior to search GitLab issue\, using <code>search</code> keyword instead of <code>title</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7846](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7846)\)\.
-* gitlab\_issue\, gitlab\_label\, gitlab\_milestone \- avoid crash during version comparison when the python\-gitlab Python module is not installed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158)\)\.
-* gitlab\_project\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_project\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
-* gitlab\_protected\_branches \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_protected\_branches</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
-* gitlab\_runner \- fix pagination when checking for existing runners \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790)\)\.
-* gitlab\_user \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_user</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
-* haproxy \- fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092)\)\.
-* homebrew \- detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from <code>brew info</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864)\)\.
-* homebrew \- error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse empty JSON\. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error message to users \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047)\)\.
-* incus connection plugin \- treats <code>inventory\_hostname</code> as a variable instead of a literal in remote connections \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7874](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7874)\)\.
-* interface\_files \- also consider <code>address\_family</code> when changing <code>option\=method</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612)\)\.
-* inventory plugins \- add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain <code>\{</code> or <code>\}</code> as unsafe\, to work around a bug in AWX \(\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225)\)\.
-* ipa \- fix get version regex in IPA module\_utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175)\)\.
-* ipa\_hbacrule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
-* ipa\_otptoken \- the module expect <code>ipatokendisabled</code> as string but the <code>ipatokendisabled</code> value is returned as a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795)\)\.
-* ipa\_sudorule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
-* iptables\_state \- fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables dumps \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029)\)\.
-* irc \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
-* keycloak\_\* \- fix Keycloak API client to quote <code>/</code> properly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641)\)\.
-* keycloak\_authz\_permission \- resource payload variable for scope\-based permission was constructed as a string\, when it needs to be a list\, even for a single item \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151)\)\.
-* keycloak\_client \- add sorted <code>defaultClientScopes</code> and <code>optionalClientScopes</code> to normalizations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223)\)\.
-* keycloak\_client \- fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when task is in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881)\)\.
-* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- <code>mappers</code> processing was not idempotent if the mappers configuration list had not been sorted by name \(in ascending order\)\. Fix resolves the issue by sorting mappers in the desired state using the same key which is used for obtaining existing state \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
-* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- it was not possible to reconfigure \(add\, remove\) <code>mappers</code> once they were created initially\. Removal was ignored\, adding new ones resulted in dropping the pre\-existing unmodified mappers\. Fix resolves the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
-* keycloak\_realm \- add normalizations for <code>enabledEventTypes</code> and <code>supportedLocales</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224)\)\.
-* keycloak\_user \- when <code>force</code> is set\, but user does not exist\, do not try to delete it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696)\)\.
-* keycloak\_user\_federation \- fix diff of empty <code>krbPrincipalAttribute</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8320](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8320)\)\.
-* ldap \- previously the order number \(if present\) was expected to follow an equals sign in the DN\. This makes it so the order number string is identified correctly anywhere within the DN \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646)\)\.
-* linode inventory plugin \- add descriptive error message for linode inventory plugin \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133)\)\.
-* log\_entries callback plugin \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
-* lvol \- test for output messages in both <code>stdout</code> and <code>stderr</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182)\)\.
-* merge\_variables lookup plugin \- fixing cross host merge\: providing access to foreign hosts variables to the perspective of the host that is performing the merge \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8303](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8303)\)\.
-* modprobe \- listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError if <code>/etc/modprobe\.d</code> or <code>/etc/modules\-load\.d</code> did not exist\. Relevant functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid crashing the module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717)\)\.
-* mssql\_script \- make the module work with Python 2 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821)\)\.
-* nmcli \- fix <code>connection\.slave\-type</code> wired to <code>bond</code> and not with parameter <code>slave\_type</code> in case of connection type <code>wifi</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389)\)\.
-* ocapi\_utils\, oci\_utils\, redfish\_utils module utils \- replace <code>type\(\)</code> calls with <code>isinstance\(\)</code> calls \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501)\)\.
-* onepassword lookup plugin \- failed for fields that were in sections and had uppercase letters in the label/ID\. Field lookups are now case insensitive in all cases \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919)\)\.
-* onepassword lookup plugin \- field and section titles are now case insensitive when using op CLI version two or later\. This matches the behavior of version one \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564)\)\.
-* opentelemetry callback plugin \- close spans always \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8367](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8367)\)\.
-* opentelemetry callback plugin \- honour the <code>disable\_logs</code> option to avoid storing task results since they are not used regardless \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8373](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8373)\)\.
-* pacemaker\_cluster \- actually implement check mode\, which the module claims to support\. This means that until now the module also did changes in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081)\)\.
-* pam\_limits \- when the file does not exist\, do not create it in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057)\)\.
-* pipx module utils \- change the CLI argument formatter for the <code>pip\_args</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506)\)\.
-* pkgin \- pkgin \(pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS\) raises erratic exceptions and spurious <code>changed\=true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971)\)\.
-* proxmox \- fix updating a container config if the setting does not already exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872)\)\.
-* proxmox\_kvm \- fixed status check getting from node\-specific API endpoint \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817)\)\.
-* proxmox\_kvm \- running <code>state\=template</code> will first check whether VM is already a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7792](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7792)\)\.
-* proxmox\_pool\_member \- absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464)\)\.
-* puppet \- add option <code>environment\_lang</code> to set the environment language encoding\. Defaults to lang <code>C</code>\. It is recommended to set it to <code>C\.UTF\-8</code> or <code>en\_US\.UTF\-8</code> depending on what is available on your system\. \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000)\)
-* redfish\_command \- fix usage of message parsing in <code>SimpleUpdate</code> and <code>MultipartHTTPPushUpdate</code> commands to treat the lack of a <code>MessageId</code> as no message \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471)\)\.
-* redfish\_info \- allow for a GET operation invoked by <code>GetUpdateStatus</code> to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No Content \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003)\)\.
-* redfish\_info \- correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve <code>Chassis</code> information \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952)\)\.
-* redhat\_subscription \- use the D\-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7\.4 and
-  greater\; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
-  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622)\,
-  [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624)\)\.
-* riak \- support <code>riak admin</code> sub\-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy <code>riak\-admin</code> main command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211)\)\.
-* statusio\_maintenance \- fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload\. Was raising \"Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request\" caused by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754)\)\.
-* terraform \- fix multiline string handling in complex variables \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535)\)\.
-* to\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of <code>ConfigParser</code> to allow converting values with a <code>\%</code> sign \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185)\)\.
-* xml \- make module work with lxml 5\.1\.1\, which removed some internals that the module was relying on \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169)\)\.
-
-<a id="new-plugins"></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\.
-
-<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
@@ -4,349 +4,620 @@ Community General Release Notes

 .. contents:: Topics

-This changelog describes changes after version 8.0.0.
+This changelog describes changes after version 6.0.0.

-v9.0.1
+v7.3.0
 ======

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

-Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 10.0.0rc1.
+Feature and bugfix release.

 Minor Changes
 -------------

- ansible_galaxy_install - minor refactor in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8413).
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- cpanm - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
- django module utils - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
- gconftool2_info - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
- homebrew - do not fail when brew prints warnings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8406, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7044).
- hponcfg - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
- kernel_blacklist - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
- keycloak_client - fix TypeError when sanitizing the ``saml.signing.private.key`` attribute in the module's diff or state output. The ``sanitize_cr`` function expected a dict where in some cases a list might occur (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8403).
- locale_gen - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
- mksysb - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
- pipx_info - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
- snap - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
- snap_alias - use new ``VarDict`` to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
-
-v9.0.0
-======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-This is release 9.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2024-05-20.
-
-Minor Changes
-------------
-
- PythonRunner module utils - specialisation of ``CmdRunner`` to execute Python scripts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8289).
- Use offset-aware ``datetime.datetime`` objects (with timezone UTC) instead of offset-naive UTC timestamps, which are deprecated in Python 3.12 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8222).
- aix_lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- apt_rpm - add new states ``latest`` and ``present_not_latest``. The value ``latest`` is equivalent to the current behavior of ``present``, which will upgrade a package if a newer version exists. ``present_not_latest`` does what most users would expect ``present`` to do: it does not upgrade if the package is already installed. The current behavior of ``present`` will be deprecated in a later version, and eventually changed to that of ``present_not_latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8247).
- apt_rpm - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- bitwarden lookup plugin - add ``bw_session`` option, to pass session key instead of reading from env (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7994).
- bitwarden lookup plugin - add support to filter by organization ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8188).
- bitwarden lookup plugin - allows to fetch all records of a given collection ID, by allowing to pass an empty value for ``search_value`` when ``collection_id`` is provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8013).
- bitwarden lookup plugin - when looking for items using an item ID, the item is now accessed directly with ``bw get item`` instead of searching through all items. This doubles the lookup speed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7468).
- btrfs_subvolume - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- cmd_runner module_utils - add validation for minimum and maximum length in the value passed to ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_list()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8288).
- consul_auth_method, consul_binding_rule, consul_policy, consul_role, consul_session, consul_token - added action group ``community.general.consul`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7897).
- consul_policy - added support for diff and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
- consul_policy, consul_role, consul_session - removed dependency on ``requests`` and factored out common parts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7826, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
- consul_role - ``node_identities`` now expects a ``node_name`` option to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
- consul_role - ``service_identities`` now expects a ``service_name`` option to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
- consul_role - added support for diff mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
- consul_role - added support for templated policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
- elastic callback plugin - close elastic client to not leak resources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7517).
- filesystem - add bcachefs support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8126).
- gandi_livedns - adds support for personal access tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7639, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8337).
- gconftool2 - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
- git_config - allow multiple git configs for the same name with the new ``add_mode`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
- git_config - the ``after`` and ``before`` fields in the ``diff`` of the return value can be a list instead of a string in case more configs with the same key are affected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
- git_config - when a value is unset, all configs with the same key are unset (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
- gitlab modules - add ``ca_path`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7472).
- gitlab modules - remove duplicate ``gitlab`` package check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7486).
- gitlab_deploy_key, gitlab_group_members, gitlab_group_variable, gitlab_hook, gitlab_instance_variable, gitlab_project_badge, gitlab_project_variable, gitlab_user - improve API pagination and compatibility with different versions of ``python-gitlab`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
- gitlab_hook - adds ``releases_events`` parameter for supporting Releases events triggers on GitLab hooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7956).
- gitlab_runner - add support for new runner creation workflow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7199).
- homebrew - adds ``force_formula`` parameter to disambiguate a formula from a cask of the same name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8274).
- homebrew, homebrew_cask - refactor common argument validation logic into a dedicated ``homebrew`` module utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8323, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8324).
- icinga2 inventory plugin - add Jinja2 templating support to ``url``, ``user``, and ``password`` paramenters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7074, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7996).
- icinga2 inventory plugin - adds new parameter ``group_by_hostgroups`` in order to make grouping by Icinga2 hostgroups optional (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7998).
- ini_file - add an optional parameter ``section_has_values``. If the target ini file contains more than one ``section``, use ``section_has_values`` to specify which one should be updated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7505).
- ini_file - support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding brackets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8075).
- installp - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- ipa_config - adds ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7588).
- ipa_dnsrecord - adds ability to manage NS record types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7737).
- ipa_pwpolicy - refactor module and exchange a sequence ``if`` statements with a ``for`` loop (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
- ipa_pwpolicy - update module to support ``maxrepeat``, ``maxsequence``, ``dictcheck``, ``usercheck``, ``gracelimit`` parameters in FreeIPA password policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
- ipa_sudorule - adds options to include denied commands or command groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7415).
- ipa_user - adds ``idp`` and ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7589).
- irc - add ``validate_certs`` option, and rename ``use_ssl`` to ``use_tls``, while keeping ``use_ssl`` as an alias. The default value for ``validate_certs`` is ``false`` for backwards compatibility. We recommend to every user of this module to explicitly set ``use_tls=true`` and `validate_certs=true`` whenever possible, especially when communicating to IRC servers over the internet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7550).
- java_cert - add ``cert_content`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8153).
- java_cert - enable ``owner``, ``group``, ``mode``, and other generic file arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8116).
- kernel_blacklist - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
- keycloak module utils - expose error message from Keycloak server for HTTP errors in some specific situations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7645).
- keycloak_client, keycloak_clientscope, keycloak_clienttemplate - added ``docker-v2`` protocol support, enhancing alignment with Keycloak's protocol options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8215, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8216).
- keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.algorithm`` option now supports 8 additional key algorithms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
- keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.certificate`` option value is no longer defined with ``no_log=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
- keycloak_realm_key - the ``provider_id`` option now supports RSA encryption key usage (value ``rsa-enc``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
- keycloak_user_federation - add option for ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7538).
- keycloak_user_federation - allow custom user storage providers to be set through ``provider_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7789).
- ldap_attrs - module now supports diff mode, showing which attributes are changed within an operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8073).
- lvg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- lvol - change ``pvs`` argument type to list of strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7676, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7504).
- lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- lxd connection plugin - tighten the detection logic for lxd ``Instance not found`` errors, to avoid false detection on unrelated errors such as ``/usr/bin/python3: not found`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7521).
- lxd_container - uses ``/1.0/instances`` API endpoint, if available. Falls back to ``/1.0/containers`` or ``/1.0/virtual-machines``. Fixes issue when using Incus or LXD 5.19 due to migrating to ``/1.0/instances`` endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7980).
- macports - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- mail - add ``Message-ID`` header; which is required by some mail servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7740).
- mail module, mail callback plugin - allow to configure the domain name of the Message-ID header with a new ``message_id_domain`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7765).
- mssql_script - adds transactional (rollback/commit) support via optional boolean param ``transaction`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7976).
- netcup_dns - adds support for record types ``OPENPGPKEY``, ``SMIMEA``, and ``SSHFP`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7489).
- nmcli - add support for new connection type ``loopback`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6572).
- nmcli - adds OpenvSwitch support with new ``type`` values ``ovs-port``, ``ovs-interface``, and ``ovs-bridge``, and new ``slave_type`` value ``ovs-port`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8154).
- nmcli - allow for ``infiniband`` slaves of ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7569).
- nmcli - allow for the setting of ``MTU`` for ``infiniband`` and ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7499).
- nmcli - allow setting ``MTU`` for ``bond-slave`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8118).
- onepassword lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116).
- onepassword_raw lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116)
- opentelemetry - add support for HTTP trace_exporter and configures the behavior via ``OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8321).
- opentelemetry - add support for exporting spans in a file via ``ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_STORE_SPANS_IN_FILE`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8363).
- opkg - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
- osx_defaults - add option ``check_types`` to enable changing the type of existing defaults on the fly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8173).
- parted - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- passwordstore - adds ``timestamp`` and ``preserve`` parameters to modify the stored password format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7426).
- passwordstore lookup - add ``missing_subkey`` parameter defining the behavior of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8166).
- pipx - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
- pkg5 - add support for non-silent execution (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8379, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8382).
- pkgin - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- portage - adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages to world file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6226, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8236).
- portinstall - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- proxmox - adds ``startup`` parameters to configure startup order, startup delay and shutdown delay (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8038).
- proxmox - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion of container to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
- proxmox - adds ``update`` parameter, allowing update of an already existing containers configuration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7540).
- proxmox inventory plugin - adds an option to exclude nodes from the dynamic inventory generation. The new setting is optional, not using this option will behave as usual (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6714, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7461).
- proxmox* modules - there is now a ``community.general.proxmox`` module defaults group that can be used to set default options for all Proxmox modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8334).
- proxmox_disk - add ability to manipulate CD-ROM drive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7495).
- proxmox_kvm - add parameter ``update_unsafe`` to avoid limitations when updating dangerous values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7843).
- proxmox_kvm - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion of a VM to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
- proxmox_kvm - adds``usb`` parameter for setting USB devices on proxmox KVM VMs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8199).
- proxmox_kvm - support the ``hookscript`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7600).
- proxmox_ostype - it is now possible to specify the ``ostype`` when creating an LXC container (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7462).
- proxmox_vm_info - add ability to retrieve configuration info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7485).
- puppet - new feature to set ``--waitforlock`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8282).
- redfish_command - add command ``ResetToDefaults`` to reset manager to default state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8163).
- redfish_config - add command ``SetServiceIdentification`` to set service identification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7916).
- redfish_info - add boolean return value ``MultipartHttpPush`` to ``GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8194, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8195).
- redfish_info - add command ``GetServiceIdentification`` to get service identification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7882).
- redfish_info - adding the ``BootProgress`` property when getting ``Systems`` info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7626).
- revbitspss lookup plugin - removed a redundant unicode prefix. The prefix was not necessary for Python 3 and has been cleaned up to streamline the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8087).
- rundeck module utils - allow to pass ``Content-Type`` to API requests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7684).
- slackpkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- ssh_config - adds ``controlmaster``, ``controlpath`` and ``controlpersist`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7456).
- ssh_config - allow ``accept-new`` as valid value for ``strict_host_key_checking`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8257).
- ssh_config - new feature to set ``AddKeysToAgent`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7703).
- ssh_config - new feature to set ``IdentitiesOnly`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7704).
- sudoers - add support for the ``NOEXEC`` tag in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7983).
- svr4pkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- swdepot - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
- terraform - add support for ``diff_mode`` for terraform resource_changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7896).
- terraform - fix ``diff_mode`` in state ``absent`` and when terraform ``resource_changes`` does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7963).
- xcc_redfish_command - added support for raw POSTs (``command=PostResource`` in ``category=Raw``) without a specific action info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7746).
- xfconf - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
- xfconf_info - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
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-Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
--------------------------------
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- 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).
+- chroot connection plugin - add ``disable_root_check`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7099).
+- ejabberd_user - module now using ``CmdRunner`` to execute external command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7075).
+- ipa_config - add module parameters to manage FreeIPA user and group objectclasses (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7019).
+- ipa_config - adds ``idp`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7051).
+- npm - module now using ``CmdRunner`` to execute external commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6989).
+- proxmox_kvm - enabled force restart of VM, bringing the ``force`` parameter functionality in line with what is described in the docs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6914).
+- proxmox_vm_info - ``node`` parameter is no longer required. Information can be obtained for the whole cluster (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6976).
+- proxmox_vm_info - non-existing provided by name/vmid VM would return empty results instead of failing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7049).
+- redfish_config - add ``DeleteAllVolumes`` command to allow deletion of all volumes on servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6814).
+- redfish_utils - use ``Controllers`` key in redfish data to obtain Storage controllers properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7081).
+- redfish_utils module utils - add support for ``PowerCycle`` reset type for ``redfish_command`` responses feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7083).
+- redfish_utils module utils - add support for following ``@odata.nextLink`` pagination in ``software_inventory`` responses feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7020).
+- shutdown - use ``shutdown -p ...`` with FreeBSD to halt and power off machine (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7102).
+- sorcery - add grimoire (repository) management support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).

 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).
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-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
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- 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).
+- ejabberd_user - deprecate the parameter ``logging`` in favour of producing more detailed information in the module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7043).

 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).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - the plugin made assumptions about the structure of a Bitwarden JSON object which may have been broken by an update in the Bitwarden API. Remove assumptions, and allow queries for general fields such as ``notes`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7061).
+- ejabberd_user - module was failing to detect whether user was already created and/or password was changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7033).
+- keycloak module util - fix missing ``http_agent``, ``timeout``, and ``validate_certs`` ``open_url()`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7067).
+- keycloak_client inventory plugin - fix missing client secret (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6931).
+- lvol - add support for percentage of origin size specification when creating snapshot volumes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1630, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7053).
+- lxc connection plugin - now handles ``remote_addr`` defaulting to ``inventory_hostname`` correctly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7104).
+- oci_utils module utils - avoid direct type comparisons (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7085).
+- proxmox_user_info - avoid direct type comparisons (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7085).
+- snap - fix crash when multiple snaps are specified and one has ``---`` in its description (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7046).
+- sorcery - fix interruption of the multi-stage process (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).
+- sorcery - fix queue generation before the whole system rebuild (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).
+- sorcery - latest state no longer triggers update_cache (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7012).
+
+v7.2.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cmd_runner module utils - when a parameter in ``argument_spec`` has no type, meaning it is implicitly a ``str``, ``CmdRunner`` would fail trying to find the ``type`` key in that dictionary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6968).
+- ejabberd_user - provide meaningful error message when the ``ejabberdctl`` command is not found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6949).
+- proxmox module utils - fix proxmoxer library version check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6974, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6975, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6980).
+- proxmox_kvm - when ``name`` option is provided without ``vmid`` and VM with that name already exists then no new VM will be created (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6911, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6981).
+- rundeck - fix ``TypeError`` on 404 API response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6983).
+
+v7.2.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- cobbler inventory plugin - convert Ansible unicode strings to native Python unicode strings before passing user/password to XMLRPC client (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6923).
+- consul_session - drops requirement for the ``python-consul`` library to communicate with the Consul API, instead relying on the existing ``requests`` library requirement (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6755).
+- gitlab_project_variable - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
+- gitlab_runner - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6927).
+- htpasswd - the parameter ``crypt_scheme`` is being renamed as ``hash_scheme`` and added as an alias to it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6841).
+- keycloak_authentication - added provider ID choices, since Keycloak supports only those two specific ones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6763).
+- keyring - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6927).
+- locale_gen - module has been refactored to use ``ModuleHelper`` and ``CmdRunner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6903).
+- locale_gen - module now using ``CmdRunner`` to execute external commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6820).
+- make - add new ``targets`` parameter allowing multiple targets to be used with ``make`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6882, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4919).
+- nmcli - add support for ``ipv4.dns-options`` and ``ipv6.dns-options`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6902).
+- npm - minor improvement on parameter validation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6848).
+- opkg - add ``executable`` parameter allowing to specify the path of the ``opkg`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6862).
+- pubnub_blocks - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
+- redfish_command - add ``account_types`` and ``oem_account_types`` as optional inputs to ``AddUser`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6823, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6871).
+- redfish_info - add ``AccountTypes`` and ``OEMAccountTypes`` to the output of ``ListUsers`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6823, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6871).
+- redfish_info - adds ``ProcessorArchitecture`` to CPU inventory (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6864).
+- redfish_info - fix for ``GetVolumeInventory``, Controller name was getting populated incorrectly and duplicates were seen in the volumes retrieved (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6719).
+- rhsm_repository - the interaction with ``subscription-manager`` was
+  refactored by grouping things together, removing unused bits, and hardening
+  the way it is run; also, the parsing of ``subscription-manager repos --list``
+  was improved and made slightly faster; no behaviour change is expected
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6783,
+  https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6837).
+- scaleway_security_group_rule - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
+- snap - add option ``dangerous`` to the module, that will map into the command line argument ``--dangerous``, allowing unsigned snap files to be installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6908, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5715).
+- tss lookup plugin - allow to fetch secret by path. Previously, we could not fetch secret by path but now use ``secret_path`` option to indicate to fetch secret by secret path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6881).
+- xenserver_guest_info - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
+- xenserver_guest_powerstate - minor refactor removing unnecessary code statements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6928).
+- yum_versionlock - add support to pin specific package versions instead of only the package itself (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6861, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4470).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- flowdock - module relies entirely on no longer responsive API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6930).
+- proxmox - old feature flag ``proxmox_default_behavior`` will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6836).
+- stackdriver - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6887).
+- webfaction_app - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_db - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_domain - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_mailbox - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+- webfaction_site - module relies entirely on no longer existent API endpoints, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6909).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cobbler inventory plugin - fix calculation of cobbler_ipv4/6_address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6925).
+- datadog_downtime - presence of ``rrule`` param lead to the Datadog API returning Bad Request due to a missing recurrence type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6811).
+- ipa_dnszone - fix 'idnsallowsyncptr' key error for reverse zone (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6906, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6905).
+- keycloak_authentication - fix Keycloak authentication flow (step or sub-flow) indexing during update, if not specified by the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6734).
+- locale_gen - now works for locales without the underscore character such as ``C.UTF-8`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6774, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5142, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4305).
+- machinectl become plugin - mark plugin as ``require_tty`` to automatically disable pipelining, with which this plugin is not compatible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6932, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6935).
+- nmcli - fix support for empty list (in compare and scrape) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6769).
+- openbsd_pkg - the pkg_info(1) behavior has changed in OpenBSD >7.3. The error message ``Can't find`` should not lead to an error case (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6785).
+- pacman - module recognizes the output of ``yay`` running as ``root`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6713).
+- proxmox - fix error when a configuration had no ``template`` field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6838, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5372).
+- proxmox module utils - add logic to detect whether an old Promoxer complains about the ``token_name`` and ``token_value`` parameters and provide a better error message when that happens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6839, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5371).
+- proxmox_disk - fix unable to create ``cdrom`` media due to ``size`` always being appended (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6770).
+- proxmox_kvm - ``absent`` state with ``force`` specified failed to stop the VM due to the ``timeout`` value not being passed to ``stop_vm`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6827).
+- proxmox_kvm - ``restarted`` state did not actually restart a VM in some VM configurations. The state now uses the Proxmox reboot endpoint instead of calling the ``stop_vm`` and ``start_vm`` functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6773).
+- proxmox_template - require ``requests_toolbelt`` module to fix issue with uploading large templates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5579, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6757).
+- redfish_info - fix ``ListUsers`` to not show empty account slots (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6771, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6772).
+- refish_utils module utils - changing variable names to avoid issues occuring when fetching Volumes data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6883).
+- snap - assume default track ``latest`` in parameter ``channel`` when not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6835, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6821).
+- snap - fix the processing of the commands' output, stripping spaces and newlines from it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6826, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6803).

 New Plugins
 -----------

-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.
+- bitwarden_secrets_manager - Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden Secrets Manager

 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.
+- consul_policy - Manipulate Consul policies
+- keycloak_authz_permission - Allows administration of Keycloak client authorization permissions via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_authz_permission_info - Query Keycloak client authorization permissions information
+- proxmox_vm_info - Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE virtual machines
+
+v7.1.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release.
+
+From this version on, community.general is using the new `Ansible semantic markup
+<https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_modules_documenting.html#semantic-markup-within-module-documentation>`__
+in its documentation. If you look at documentation with the ansible-doc CLI tool
+from ansible-core before 2.15, please note that it does not render the markup
+correctly. You should be still able to read it in most cases, but you need
+ansible-core 2.15 or later to see it as it is intended. Alternatively you can
+look at `the devel docsite <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/general/>`__
+for the rendered HTML version of the documentation of the latest release.
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- The collection will start using semantic markup (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6539).
+- VarDict module utils - add method ``VarDict.as_dict()`` to convert to a plain ``dict`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6602).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` option to allow using the system name for the inventory hostname (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6502).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add ``want_ip_addresses`` option to collect all interface DNS name to IP address mapping (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6711).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add primary IP addess to ``cobbler_ipv4_address`` and IPv6 address to ``cobbler_ipv6_address`` host variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6711).
+- cobbler inventory plugin - add warning for systems with empty profiles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6502).
+- copr - respawn module to use the system python interpreter when the ``dnf`` python module is not available in ``ansible_python_interpreter`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6522).
+- datadog_monitor - adds ``notification_preset_name``, ``renotify_occurrences`` and ``renotify_statuses`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6521,https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5823).
+- filesystem - add ``uuid`` parameter for UUID change feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6680).
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - adds support for subgroups with additional parameter ``parents`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6687).
+- keycloak_role - add composite roles support for realm and client roles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6469).
+- ldap_* - add new arguments ``client_cert`` and ``client_key`` to the LDAP modules in order to allow certificate authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6668).
+- ldap_search - add a new ``page_size`` option to enable paged searches (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6648).
+- lvg - add ``active`` and ``inactive`` values to the ``state`` option for active state management feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6682).
+- lvg - add ``reset_vg_uuid``, ``reset_pv_uuid`` options for UUID reset feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6682).
+- mas - disable sign-in check for macOS 12+ as ``mas account`` is non-functional (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6520).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - add service account support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6635, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6660).
+- onepassword_raw lookup plugin - add service account support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6635, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6660).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - add span attributes in the span event (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6531).
+- opkg - remove default value ``""`` for parameter ``force`` as it causes the same behaviour of not having that parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6513).
+- proxmox - support ``timezone`` parameter at container creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6510).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - add composite variables support for Proxmox nodes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6640).
+- proxmox_kvm - added support for ``tpmstate0`` parameter to configure TPM (Trusted Platform Module) disk. TPM is required for Windows 11 installations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6533).
+- proxmox_kvm - re-use ``timeout`` module param to forcefully shutdown a virtual machine when ``state`` is ``stopped`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6257).
+- proxmox_snap - add ``retention`` parameter to delete old snapshots (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6576).
+- redfish_command - add ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6471, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6612).
+- redhat_subscription - the internal ``RegistrationBase`` class was folded
+  into the other internal ``Rhsm`` class, as the separation had no purpose
+  anymore
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6658).
+- rhsm_release - improve/harden the way ``subscription-manager`` is run;
+  no behaviour change is expected
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6669).
+- snap - module is now aware of channel when deciding whether to install or refresh the snap (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6435, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1606).
+- sorcery - minor refactor (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6525).
+- tss lookup plugin - allow to fetch secret IDs which are in a folder based on folder ID. Previously, we could not fetch secrets based on folder ID but now use ``fetch_secret_ids_from_folder`` option to indicate to fetch secret IDs based on folder ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6223).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- CmdRunner module utils - deprecate ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_default_type()`` formatter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6601).
+- MH VarsMixin module utils - deprecates ``VarsMixin`` and supporting classes in favor of plain ``vardict`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6649).
+- cpanm - value ``compatibility`` is deprecated as default for parameter ``mode`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6512).
+- redhat module utils - the ``module_utils.redhat`` module is deprecated, as
+  effectively unused: the ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools`` classes
+  will be removed in community.general 9.0.0; the ``RegistrationBase`` class
+  will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 together with the
+  ``rhn_register`` module, as it is the only user of this class; this means
+  that the whole ``module_utils.redhat`` module will be dropped in
+  community.general 10.0.0, so importing it without even using anything of it
+  will fail
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6663).
+- redhat_subscription - the ``autosubscribe`` alias for the ``auto_attach`` option has been
+  deprecated for many years, although only in the documentation. Officially mark this alias
+  as deprecated, and it will be removed in community.general 9.0.0
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6646).
+- redhat_subscription - the ``pool`` option is deprecated in favour of the
+  more precise and flexible ``pool_ids`` option
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6650).
+- rhsm_repository - ``state=present`` has not been working as expected for many years,
+  and it seems it was not noticed so far; also, "presence" is not really a valid concept
+  for subscription repositories, which can only be enabled or disabled. Hence, mark the
+  ``present`` and ``absent`` values of the ``state`` option as deprecated, slating them
+  for removal in community.general 10.0.0
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6673).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- MH DependencyMixin module utils - deprecation notice was popping up for modules not using dependencies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6644, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6639).
+- csv module utils - detects and remove unicode BOM markers from incoming CSV content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6662).
+- gitlab_group - the module passed parameters to the API call even when not set. The module is now filtering out ``None`` values to remediate this (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6712).
+- icinga2_host - fix a key error when updating an existing host (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6748).
+- ini_file - add the ``follow`` paramter to follow the symlinks instead of replacing them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6546).
+- ini_file - fix a bug where the inactive options were not used when possible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6575).
+- keycloak module utils - fix ``is_struct_included`` handling of lists of lists/dictionaries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6688).
+- keycloak module utils - the function ``get_user_by_username`` now return the user representation or ``None`` as stated in the documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6758).
+- proxmox_kvm - allow creation of VM with existing name but new vmid (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6155, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6709).
+- rhsm_repository - when using the ``purge`` option, the ``repositories``
+  dictionary element in the returned JSON is now properly updated according
+  to the pruning operation
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6676).
+- tss lookup plugin - fix multiple issues when using ``fetch_attachments=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6720).
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- Ansible markup will show up in raw form on ansible-doc text output for ansible-core before 2.15. If you have trouble deciphering the documentation markup, please upgrade to ansible-core 2.15 (or newer), or read the HTML documentation on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/general/ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6539).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- gitlab_instance_variable - Creates, updates, or deletes GitLab instance variables
+- gitlab_merge_request - Create, update, or delete GitLab merge requests
+- keycloak_authentication_required_actions - Allows administration of Keycloak authentication required actions
+- keycloak_user - Create and configure a user in Keycloak
+- lvg_rename - Renames LVM volume groups
+- proxmox_pool - Pool management for Proxmox VE cluster
+- proxmox_pool_member - Add or delete members from Proxmox VE cluster pools
+
+v7.0.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Bugfix release for Ansible 8.0.0rc1.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- nmcli - fix bond option ``xmit_hash_policy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6527).
+- portage - fix ``changed_use`` and ``newuse`` not triggering rebuilds (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6008, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6548).
+- proxmox_tasks_info - remove ``api_user`` + ``api_password`` constraint from ``required_together`` as it causes to require ``api_password`` even when API token param is used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6201).
+- zypper - added handling of zypper exitcode 102. Changed state is set correctly now and rc 102 is still preserved to be evaluated by the playbook (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6534).
+
+v7.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This is release 7.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2023-05-09.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- apache2_module - add module argument ``warn_mpm_absent`` to control whether warning are raised in some edge cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5793).
+- apt_rpm - adds ``clean``, ``dist_upgrade`` and ``update_kernel``  parameters for clear caches, complete upgrade system, and upgrade kernel packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5867).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - can now retrieve secrets from custom fields (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5694).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - implement filtering results by ``collection_id`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5849).
+- cmd_runner module utils - ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool()`` can now take an extra parameter to format when value is false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5647).
+- cpanm - minor change, use feature from ``ModuleHelper`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6385).
+- dconf - be forgiving about boolean values: convert them to GVariant booleans automatically (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6206).
+- dconf - if ``gi.repository.GLib`` is missing, try to respawn in a Python interpreter that has it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6491).
+- dconf - minor refactoring improving parameters and dependencies validation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6336).
+- dconf - parse GVariants for equality comparison when the Python module ``gi.repository`` is available (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6049).
+- deps module utils - add function ``failed()`` providing the ability to check the dependency check result without triggering an exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6383).
+- dig lookup plugin - Support multiple domains to be queried as indicated in docs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6334).
+- dig lookup plugin - support CAA record type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5913).
+- dnsimple - set custom User-Agent for API requests to DNSimple (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5927).
+- dnsimple_info - minor refactor in the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6440).
+- flatpak_remote - add new boolean option ``enabled``. It controls, whether the remote is enabled or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5926).
+- gconftool2 - refactor using ``ModuleHelper`` and ``CmdRunner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5545).
+- gitlab_group_variable, gitlab_project_variable - refactor function out to module utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6384).
+- gitlab_project - add ``builds_access_level``, ``container_registry_access_level`` and ``forking_access_level`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5706).
+- gitlab_project - add ``releases_access_level``, ``environments_access_level``, ``feature_flags_access_level``, ``infrastructure_access_level``, ``monitor_access_level``, and ``security_and_compliance_access_level`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5986).
+- gitlab_project - add new option ``topics`` for adding topics to GitLab projects (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6278).
+- gitlab_runner - add new boolean option ``access_level_on_creation``. It controls, whether the value of ``access_level`` is used for runner registration or not. The option ``access_level`` has been ignored on registration so far and was only used on updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5907, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5908).
+- gitlab_runner - allow to register group runner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3935).
+- homebrew_cask - allows passing ``--greedy`` option to ``upgrade_all`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6267).
+- idrac_redfish_command - add ``job_id`` to ``CreateBiosConfigJob`` response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5603).
+- ilo_redfish_utils module utils - change implementation of DNS Server IP and NTP Server IP update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5804).
+- ipa_group - allow to add and remove external users with the ``external_user`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5897).
+- ipa_hostgroup - add ``append`` parameter for adding a new hosts to existing hostgroups without changing existing hostgroup members (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6203).
+- iptables_state - minor refactoring within the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5844).
+- java_certs - add more detailed error output when extracting certificate from PKCS12 fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5550).
+- jc filter plugin - added the ability to use parser plugins (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6043).
+- jenkins_plugin - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5565).
+- jira - add worklog functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6209, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6210).
+- keycloak_authentication - add flow type option to sub flows to allow the creation of 'form-flow' sub flows like in Keycloak's built-in registration flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6318).
+- keycloak_group - add new optional module parameter ``parents`` to properly handle keycloak subgroups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5814).
+- keycloak_user_federation - make ``org.keycloak.storage.ldap.mappers.LDAPStorageMapper`` the default value for mappers ``providerType`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5863).
+- ldap modules - add ``ca_path`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6185).
+- ldap modules - add ``xorder_discovery`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6045, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6109).
+- ldap_search - the new ``base64_attributes`` allows to specify which attribute values should be Base64 encoded (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6473).
+- lxd_container - add diff and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5866).
+- lxd_project - refactored code out to module utils to clear sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5549).
+- make - add ``command`` return value to the module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6160).
+- mattermost, rocketchat, slack - replace missing default favicon with docs.ansible.com favicon (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5928).
+- mksysb - improved the output of the module in case of errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6263).
+- modprobe - add ``persistent`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/542).
+- module_helper module utils - updated the imports to make more MH features available at ``plugins/module_utils/module_helper.py`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6464).
+- mssql_script - allow for ``GO`` statement to be mixed-case for scripts not using strict syntax (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6457).
+- mssql_script - handle error condition for empty resultsets to allow for non-returning SQL statements (for example ``UPDATE`` and ``INSERT``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6457).
+- mssql_script - improve batching logic to allow a wider variety of input scripts. For example, SQL scripts slurped from Windows machines which may contain carriage return (''\r'') characters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6457).
+- nmap inventory plugin - add new option ``open`` for only returning open ports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6200).
+- nmap inventory plugin - add new option ``port`` for port specific scan (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6165).
+- nmap inventory plugin - add new options ``udp_scan``, ``icmp_timestamp``, and ``dns_resolve`` for different types of scans (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5566).
+- nmap inventory plugin - added environment variables for configure ``address`` and ``exclude`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6351).
+- nmcli - add ``default`` and ``default-or-eui64`` to the list of valid choices for ``addr_gen_mode6`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5974).
+- nmcli - add ``macvlan`` connection type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6312).
+- nmcli - add support for ``team.runner-fast-rate`` parameter for ``team`` connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6065).
+- nmcli - new module option ``slave_type`` added to allow creation of various types of slave devices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/473, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6108).
+- one_vm - add a new ``updateconf`` option which implements the ``one.vm.updateconf`` API call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5812).
+- openbsd_pkg - set ``TERM`` to ``'dumb'`` in ``execute_command()`` to make module less dependant on the ``TERM`` environment variable set on the Ansible controller (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6149).
+- opkg - allow installing a package in a certain version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5688).
+- opkg - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` for executing ``opkg`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5718).
+- osx_defaults - include stderr in error messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6011).
+- pipx - add ``system_site_packages`` parameter to give application access to system-wide packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6308).
+- pipx - ensure ``include_injected`` parameter works with ``state=upgrade`` and ``state=latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6212).
+- pipx - optional ``install_apps`` parameter added to install applications from injected packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6198).
+- proxmox - added new module parameter ``tags`` for use with PVE 7+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5714).
+- proxmox - suppress urllib3 ``InsecureRequestWarnings`` when ``validate_certs`` option is ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5931).
+- proxmox_kvm - add new ``archive`` parameter. This is needed to create a VM from an archive (backup) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6159).
+- proxmox_kvm - adds ``migrate`` parameter to manage online migrations between hosts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6448)
+- puppet - add new options ``skip_tags`` to exclude certain tagged resources during a puppet agent or apply (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6293).
+- puppet - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` for executing ``puppet`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5612).
+- rax_scaling_group - refactored out code to the ``rax`` module utils to clear the sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5563).
+- redfish_command - add ``PerformRequestedOperations`` command to perform any operations necessary to continue the update flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_command - add ``update_apply_time`` to ``SimpleUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3910).
+- redfish_command - add ``update_status`` to output of ``SimpleUpdate`` command to allow a user monitor the update in progress (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_command - adding ``EnableSecureBoot`` functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5899).
+- redfish_command - adding ``VerifyBiosAttributes`` functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5900).
+- redfish_info - add ``GetUpdateStatus`` command to check the progress of a previous update request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_info - adds commands to retrieve the HPE ThermalConfiguration and FanPercentMinimum settings from iLO (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6208).
+- redfish_utils module utils - added PUT (``put_request()``) functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5490).
+- redhat_subscription - add a ``server_proxy_scheme`` parameter to configure the scheme for the proxy server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5662).
+- redhat_subscription - adds ``token`` parameter for subscription-manager authentication using Red Hat API token (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5725).
+- redhat_subscription - credentials (``username``, ``activationkey``, and so on) are required now only if a system needs to be registered, or ``force_register`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5664).
+- redhat_subscription - the registration is done using the D-Bus ``rhsm`` service instead of spawning a ``subscription-manager register`` command, if possible; this avoids passing plain-text credentials as arguments to ``subscription-manager register``, which can be seen while that command runs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6122).
+- sefcontext - add support for path substitutions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1193).
+- shutdown - if no shutdown commands are found in the ``search_paths`` then the module will attempt to shutdown the system using ``systemctl shutdown`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4269, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6171).
+- slack - add option ``prepend_hash`` which allows to control whether a ``#`` is prepended to ``channel_id``. The current behavior (value ``auto``) is to prepend ``#`` unless some specific prefixes are found. That list of prefixes is incomplete, and there does not seem to exist a documented condition on when exactly ``#`` must not be prepended. We recommend to explicitly set ``prepend_hash=always`` or ``prepend_hash=never`` to avoid any ambiguity (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5629).
+- snap - minor refactor when executing module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5773).
+- snap - refactor module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute external commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6468).
+- snap_alias - refactor code to module utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6441).
+- snap_alias - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``snap`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5486).
+- spotinst_aws_elastigroup - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5553).
+- ssh_config - add ``host_key_algorithms`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5605).
+- ssh_config - add ``proxyjump`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5970).
+- ssh_config - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5720).
+- ssh_config - vendored StormSSH's config parser to avoid having to install StormSSH to use the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6117).
+- sudoers - add ``setenv`` parameters to support passing environment variables via sudo. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5883)
+- sudoers - adds ``host`` parameter for setting hostname restrictions in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5702).
+- terraform - remove state file check condition and error block, because in the native implementation of terraform will not cause errors due to the non-existent file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6296).
+- udm_dns_record - minor refactor to the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6382).
+- udm_share - added ``elements`` attribute to ``list`` type parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5557).
+- udm_user - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5559).
+- znode module - optional ``use_tls`` parameter added for encrypted communication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6154).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- If you are not using this collection as part of Ansible, but installed (and/or upgraded) community.general manually, you need to make sure to also install ``community.sap_libs`` if you are using any of the ``sapcar_extract``, ``sap_task_list_execute``, and ``hana_query`` modules.
+  Without that collection installed, the redirects for these modules do not work.
+- ModuleHelper module utils - when the module sets output variables named ``msg``, ``exception``, ``output``, ``vars``, or ``changed``, the actual output will prefix those names with ``_`` (underscore symbol) only when they clash with output variables generated by ModuleHelper itself, which only occurs when handling exceptions. Please note that this breaking change does not require a new major release since before this release, it was not possible to add such variables to the output `due to a bug <https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5755>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5765).
+- gconftool2 - fix processing of ``gconftool-2`` when ``key`` does not exist, returning ``null`` instead of empty string for both ``value`` and ``previous_value`` return values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6028).
+- gitlab_runner - the default of ``access_level_on_creation`` changed from ``false`` to ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+- ldap_search - convert all string-like values to UTF-8 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5704, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6473).
+- nmcli - the default of the ``hairpin`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+- proxmox - the default of the ``unprivileged`` option changed from ``false`` to ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - ``deps`` mixin for MH classes deprecated in favour of using the ``deps`` module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6465).
+- consul - deprecate using parameters unused for ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5772).
+- gitlab_runner - the default of the new option ``access_level_on_creation`` will change from ``false`` to ``true`` in community.general 7.0.0. This will cause ``access_level`` to be used during runner registration as well, and not only during updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5908).
+- gitlab_runner - the option ``access_level`` will lose its default value in community.general 8.0.0. From that version on, you have set this option to ``ref_protected`` explicitly, if you want to have a protected runner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5925).
+- manageiq_policies - deprecate ``state=list`` in favour of using ``community.general.manageiq_policies_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5721).
+- manageiq_tags - deprecate ``state=list`` in favour of using ``community.general.manageiq_tags_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5727).
+- rax - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax module utils - module utils code relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_cbs - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_cbs_attachments - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_cdb - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_cdb_database - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_cdb_user - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_clb - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_clb_nodes - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_clb_ssl - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_dns - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_dns_record - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_facts - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_files - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_files_objects - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_identity - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_keypair - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_meta - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_mon_alarm - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_mon_check - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_mon_entity - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_mon_notification - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_mon_notification_plan - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_network - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_queue - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_scaling_group - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rax_scaling_policy - module relies on deprecated library ``pyrax`` and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5752).
+- rhn_channel, rhn_register - RHN hosted at redhat.com was discontinued years
+  ago, and Spacewalk 5 (which uses RHN) is EOL since 2020, May 31st;
+  while these modules could work on Uyuni / SUSE Manager (fork of Spacewalk 5),
+  we have not heard about anyone using them in those setups. Hence, these
+  modules are deprecated, and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0
+  in case there are no reports about being still useful, and potentially
+  noone that steps up to maintain them
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6493).
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- All ``sap`` modules have been removed from this collection.
+  They have been migrated to the `community.sap_libs <https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/sap_libs>`_ collection.
+  Redirections have been provided.
+  Following modules are affected:
+  - sapcar_extract
+  - sap_task_list_execute
+  - hana_query
+- cmd_runner module utils - the ``fmt`` alias of ``cmd_runner_fmt`` has been removed. Use ``cmd_runner_fmt`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+- newrelic_deployment - the ``appname`` and ``environment`` options have been removed. They did not do anything (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+- puppet - the alias ``show-diff`` of the ``show_diff`` option has been removed. Use ``show_diff`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6428).
+- xfconf - generating facts was deprecated in community.general 3.0.0, however three factoids, ``property``, ``channel`` and ``value`` continued to be generated by mistake. This behaviour has been removed and ``xfconf`` generate no facts whatsoever (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5502).
+- xfconf - generating facts was deprecated in community.general 3.0.0, however two factoids, ``previous_value`` and ``type`` continued to be generated by mistake. This behaviour has been removed and ``xfconf`` generate no facts whatsoever (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5502).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- ModuleHelper - fix bug when adjusting the name of reserved output variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5755).
+- alternatives - support subcommands on Fedora 37, which uses ``follower`` instead of ``slave`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5794).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - set default to raise exception if command's return code is different from zero (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5680).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - try ``C.UTF-8`` and then fall back to ``en_US.UTF-8`` before failing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5680).
+- archive - avoid deprecated exception class on Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6180).
+- archive - reduce RAM usage by generating CRC32 checksum over chunks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6274).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - clarify what to do, if the bitwarden vault is not unlocked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5811).
+- cartesian and flattened lookup plugins - adjust to parameter deprecation in ansible-core 2.14's ``listify_lookup_plugin_terms`` helper function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6074).
+- chroot connection plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` to vars under ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5570).
+- cloudflare_dns - fixed the idempotency for SRV DNS records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5972).
+- cloudflare_dns - fixed the possiblity of setting a root-level SRV DNS record (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5972).
+- cmd_runner module utils - fixed bug when handling default cases in ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_map()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
+- cmd_runner module utils - formatting arguments ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_fixed()`` was expecting an non-existing argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
+- dependent lookup plugin - avoid warning on deprecated parameter for ``Templar.template()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5543).
+- deps module utils - do not fail when dependency cannot be found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6479).
+- dig lookup plugin - correctly handle DNSKEY record type's ``algorithm`` field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5914).
+- flatpak - fixes idempotency detection issues. In some cases the module could fail to properly detect already existing Flatpaks because of a parameter witch only checks the installed apps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6289).
+- gconftool2 - fix ``changed`` result always being ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6028).
+- gconftool2 - remove requirement of parameter ``value`` when ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6028).
+- gem - fix force parameter not being passed to gem command when uninstalling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5822).
+- gem - fix hang due to interactive prompt for confirmation on specific version uninstall (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5751).
+- github_webhook - fix always changed state when no secret is provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5994).
+- gitlab_deploy_key - also update ``title`` and not just ``can_push`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5888).
+- gitlab_group_variables - fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5667).
+- gitlab_project_variables - fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5667).
+- gitlab_runner - fix ``KeyError`` on runner creation and update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6112).
+- icinga2_host - fix the data structure sent to Icinga to make use of host templates and template vars (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6286).
+- idrac_redfish_command - allow user to specify ``resource_id`` for ``CreateBiosConfigJob`` to specify an exact manager (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2090).
+- influxdb_user - fix running in check mode when the user does not exist yet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6111).
+- ini_file - make ``section`` parameter not required so it is possible to pass ``null`` as a value. This only was possible in the past due to a bug in ansible-core that now has been fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6404).
+- interfaces_file - fix reading options in lines not starting with a space (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6120).
+- jail connection plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` to vars under ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6118).
+- jenkins_build - fix the logical flaw when deleting a Jenkins build (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5514).
+- jenkins_plugin - fix error due to undefined variable when updates file is not downloaded (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6100).
+- keycloak - improve error messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6318).
+- keycloak_client - fix accidental replacement of value for attribute ``saml.signing.private.key`` with ``no_log`` in wrong contexts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5934).
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - calculate ``proposed`` and ``after`` return values properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - remove only listed mappings with ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
+- keycloak_user_federation - fixes federation creation issue. When a new federation was created and at the same time a default / standard mapper was also changed / updated the creation process failed as a bad None set variable led to a bad malformed url request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5750).
+- keycloak_user_federation - fixes idempotency detection issues. In some cases the module could fail to properly detect already existing user federations because of a buggy seemingly superflous extra query parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5732).
+- loganalytics callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- logdna callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- logstash callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- lxc_container - fix the arguments of the lxc command which broke the creation and cloning of containers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5578).
+- lxd_* modules, lxd inventory plugin - fix TLS/SSL certificate validation problems by using the correct purpose when creating the TLS context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5616, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6034).
+- memset - fix memset urlerror handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6114).
+- nmcli - fix change handling of values specified as an integer 0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
+- nmcli - fix failure to handle WIFI settings when connection type not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
+- nmcli - fix improper detection of changes to ``wifi.wake-on-wlan`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
+- nmcli - fixed idempotency issue for bridge connections. Module forced default value of ``bridge.priority`` to nmcli if not set; if ``bridge.stp`` is disabled nmcli ignores it and keep default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3216, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4683).
+- nmcli - fixed idempotency issue when module params is set to ``may_fail4=false`` and ``method4=disabled``; in this case nmcli ignores change and keeps their own default value ``yes`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6106).
+- nmcli - implemented changing mtu value on vlan interfaces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4387).
+- nmcli - order is significant for lists of addresses (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6048).
+- nsupdate - fix zone lookup. The SOA record for an existing zone is returned as an answer RR and not as an authority RR (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5817, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5818).
+- one_vm - avoid splitting labels that are ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5489).
+- one_vm - fix syntax error when creating VMs with a more complex template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6225).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - Changed to ignore errors from "op account get" calls. Previously, errors would prevent auto-signin code from executing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5942).
+- onepassword_raw - add missing parameter to plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5506).
+- opkg - fix issue that ``force=reinstall`` would not reinstall an existing package (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5705).
+- opkg - fixes bug when using ``update_cache=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6004).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - make compatible with ansible-core 2.16 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6447).
+- pipx - fixed handling of ``install_deps=true`` with ``state=latest`` and ``state=upgrade`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6303).
+- portage - update the logic for generating the emerge command arguments to ensure that ``withbdeps: false`` results in a passing an ``n`` argument with the ``--with-bdeps`` emerge flag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6451, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6456).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fix bug while templating when using templates for the ``url``, ``user``, ``password``, ``token_id``, or ``token_secret`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5640).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - handle tags delimited by semicolon instead of comma, which happens from Proxmox 7.3 on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5602).
+- proxmox_disk - avoid duplicate ``vmid`` reference (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5493).
+- proxmox_disk - fixed issue with read timeout on import action (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5803).
+- proxmox_disk - fixed possible issues with redundant ``vmid`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
+- proxmox_nic - fixed possible issues with redundant ``vmid`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
+- puppet - handling ``noop`` parameter was not working at all, now it is has been fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6452, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6458).
+- redfish_utils - removed basic auth HTTP header when performing a GET on the service root resource and when performing a POST to the session collection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5886).
+- redhat_subscription - do not ignore ``consumer_name`` and other variables if ``activationkey`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3486, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5627).
+- redhat_subscription - do not pass arguments to ``subscription-manager register`` for things already configured; now a specified ``rhsm_baseurl`` is properly set for subscription-manager (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5583).
+- redhat_subscription - do not use D-Bus for registering when ``environment`` is specified, so it possible to specify again the environment names for registering, as the D-Bus APIs work only with IDs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6319).
+- redhat_subscription - try to unregister only when already registered when ``force_register`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6258, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6259).
+- redhat_subscription - use the right D-Bus options for environments when registering a CentOS Stream 8 system and using ``environment`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6275).
+- redhat_subscription, rhsm_release, rhsm_repository - cleanly fail when not running as root, rather than hanging on an interactive ``console-helper`` prompt; they all interact with ``subscription-manager``, which already requires to be run as root (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/734, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6211).
+- rhsm_release - make ``release`` parameter not required so it is possible to pass ``null`` as a value. This only was possible in the past due to a bug in ansible-core that now has been fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6401).
+- rundeck module utils - fix errors caused by the API empty responses (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6300)
+- rundeck_acl_policy - fix ``TypeError - byte indices must be integers or slices, not str`` error caused by empty API response. Update the module to use ``module_utils.rundeck`` functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5887, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6300).
+- rundeck_project - update the module to use ``module_utils.rundeck`` functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5742) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6300)
+- snap_alias - module would only recognize snap names containing letter, numbers or the underscore character, failing to identify valid snap names such as ``lxd.lxc`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6361).
+- splunk callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- sumologic callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- syslog_json callback plugin - adjust type of callback to ``notification``, it was incorrectly classified as ``aggregate`` before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
+- terraform - fix ``current`` workspace never getting appended to the ``all`` key in the ``workspace_ctf`` object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5735).
+- terraform - fix ``terraform init`` failure when there are multiple workspaces on the remote backend and when ``default`` workspace is missing by setting ``TF_WORKSPACE`` environmental variable to the value of ``workspace`` when used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5735).
+- terraform - fix broken ``warn()`` call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6497).
+- terraform and timezone - slight refactoring to avoid linter reporting potentially undefined variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5933).
+- terraform module - disable ANSI escape sequences during validation phase (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5843).
+- tss lookup plugin - allow to download secret attachments. Previously, we could not download secret attachments but now use ``fetch_attachments`` and ``file_download_path`` variables to download attachments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6224).
+- unixy callback plugin - fix plugin to work with ansible-core 2.14 by using Ansible's configuration manager for handling options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5600).
+- unixy callback plugin - fix typo introduced when updating to use Ansible's configuration manager for handling options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5600).
+- various plugins and modules - remove unnecessary imports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5940).
+- vdo - now uses ``yaml.safe_load()`` to parse command output instead of the deprecated ``yaml.load()`` which is potentially unsafe. Using ``yaml.load()`` without explicitely setting a ``Loader=`` is also an error in pyYAML 6.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5632).
+- vmadm - fix for index out of range error in ``get_vm_uuid`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5628).
+- xenorchestra inventory plugin - fix failure to receive objects from server due to not checking the id of the response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6227).
+- xfs_quota - in case of a project quota, the call to ``xfs_quota`` did not initialize/reset the project (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5143).
+- xml - fixed a bug where empty ``children`` list would not be set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5808).
+- yarn - fix ``global=true`` to check for the configured global folder instead of assuming the default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5829)
+- yarn - fix ``global=true`` to not fail when `executable` wasn't specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6132)
+- yarn - fix ``state=absent`` not working with ``global=true`` when the package does not include a binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5829)
+- yarn - fix ``state=latest`` not working with ``global=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5712).
+- yarn - fixes bug where yarn module tasks would fail when warnings were emitted from Yarn. The ``yarn.list`` method was not filtering out warnings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6127).
+- zfs_delegate_admin - zfs allow output can now be parsed when uids/gids are not known to the host system (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5943).
+- zypper - make package managing work on readonly filesystem of openSUSE MicroOS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5615).
+
+New Plugins
+-----------
+
+Lookup
+~~~~~~
+
+- merge_variables - merge variables with a certain suffix
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- btrfs_info - Query btrfs filesystem info
+- btrfs_subvolume - Manage btrfs subvolumes
+- gitlab_project_badge - Manage project badges on GitLab Server
+- ilo_redfish_command - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
+- ipbase_info - Retrieve IP geolocation and other facts of a host's IP address using the ipbase.com API
+- kdeconfig - Manage KDE configuration files
+- keycloak_authz_authorization_scope - Allows administration of Keycloak client authorization scopes via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_clientscope_type - Set the type of aclientscope in realm or client via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_clientsecret_info - Retrieve client secret via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_clientsecret_regenerate - Regenerate Keycloak client secret via Keycloak API
+- ocapi_command - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Open Composable API (OCAPI)
+- ocapi_info - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Open Composable API (OCAPI)
--- a/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. 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).
--- 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-7)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
 [![EOL CI](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/workflows/EOL%20CI/badge.svg?event=push)](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/actions)
 [![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://codecov.io/gh/ansible-collections/community.general)
-[![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, ansible-core 2.15 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible-core versions before 2.11.0 are not supported. This includes all ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 releases.
+
+Parts of this collection will not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+.

 ## External requirements

@@ -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-7/CONTRIBUTING.md)!

-The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/commit-rights.md#people) file. If you have questions or need help, feel free to mention them in the proposals.
+The current maintainers are listed in the [commit-rights.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-7/commit-rights.md#people) file. If you have questions or need help, feel free to mention them in the proposals.

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

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

 ### Running tests

@@ -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-7/commit-rights.md).
 * [Maintainer guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/maintaining.rst).

 It is necessary for maintainers of this collection to be subscribed to:
@@ -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-7/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-7/COPYING) for the full text.

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

 All files have a machine readable `SDPX-License-Identifier:` comment denoting its respective license(s) or an equivalent entry in an accompanying `.license` file. Only changelog fragments (which will not be part of a release) are covered by a blanket statement in `.reuse/dep5`. This conforms to the [REUSE specification](https://reuse.software/spec/).
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
--- a/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/config.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/config.yml
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-changelog:
-  write_changelog: 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: 9.0.1
+version: 7.3.0
 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/become/machinectl.py
+++ b/plugins/become/machinectl.py
@@ -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
--- 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
@@ -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/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/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
@@ -84,33 +84,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
          - 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 +107,6 @@ examples: |
 '''

 import getpass
-import json
 import os
 import socket
 import sys
@@ -152,19 +124,15 @@ 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 +255,7 @@ 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, disable_attributes_in_logs):
        """ generate distributed traces from the collected TaskData and HostData """

        tasks = []
@@ -312,16 +271,7 @@ 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)

@@ -343,8 +293,6 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
                    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)

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

@@ -402,8 +350,7 @@ class OpenTelemetrySource(object):
        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.end(end_time=host_data.finish)
+            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 """
@@ -515,8 +462,6 @@ 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(
@@ -544,8 +489,6 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):

        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 +497,6 @@ 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 +546,7 @@ 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 +554,7 @@ 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 +562,7 @@ 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 +578,15 @@ 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_attributes_in_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
@@ -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
@@ -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/callback/yaml.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/yaml.py
@@ -19,16 +19,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      - default_callback
    requirements:
      - set as stdout in configuration
-    seealso:
-      - plugin: ansible.builtin.default
-        plugin_type: callback
-        description: >
-          There is a parameter O(ansible.builtin.default#callback:result_format) in P(ansible.builtin.default#callback)
-          that allows you to change the output format to YAML.
-    notes:
-      - >
-        With ansible-core 2.13 or newer, you can instead specify V(yaml) for the parameter O(ansible.builtin.default#callback:result_format)
-        in P(ansible.builtin.default#callback).
 '''

 import yaml
--- 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
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ 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 +68,12 @@ 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 +118,7 @@ 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
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ options:
    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,
+      - 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 E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN).
        ansible will execute with provided credentials.
    aliases: ['assume_role_arn']
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ options:
    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).
    aliases: ['assume_role_session_expiration']
@@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ options:
    description:
      - This is the path to the shared credentials file. It can also be sourced from the E(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
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ notes:
    E(ALICLOUD_PROFILE),
    E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN),
    E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME),
-    E(ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_EXPIRATION).
+    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
+    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/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
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ 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:
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/dimensiondata_wait.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/dimensiondata_wait.py
@@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ options:
      - Only applicable if O(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.
+    E(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
+    E(ANSIBLE_HWC_USER) env variable.
+  - For authentication, you can set password using the E(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 E(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 E(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 E(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
@@ -16,29 +16,32 @@ 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 O(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 O(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'
@@ -61,7 +64,7 @@ options:
    description:
    - Number of retries client will try before aborting.
    - V(0) indicates try until success.
-    - Only available when using python-influxdb >= 4.1.0.
+    - 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
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ options:
    - 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.
+    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: int
    default: 443
  ipa_host:
@@ -25,8 +26,9 @@ options:
    - 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.
+    - The relevant entry needed in FreeIPA is the '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.
+    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    default: ipa.example.com
  ipa_user:
@@ -34,6 +36,7 @@ options:
    - 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.
+    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    default: admin
  ipa_pass:
@@ -44,12 +47,14 @@ options:
    - 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.
+    - 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.
+    - Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.
    type: str
    choices: [ http, https ]
    default: https
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/keycloak.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/keycloak.py
@@ -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/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/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 ]
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ options:
    type: bool
    default: true
 notes:
-  - Also see the API documentation on U(https://console.online.net/en/api/).
+  - 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
    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).
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/openswitch.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/openswitch.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ options:
    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 ]
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle.py
@@ -10,21 +10,22 @@ __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).
+                  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).
+                  "DEFAULT" profile in O(config_file_location).
            default: "DEFAULT"
            type: str
        api_user:
@@ -69,8 +70,8 @@ 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 O(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:
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_wait_options.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/oracle_wait_options.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class ModuleDocFragment(object):
        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/
+                         RUNNING applicable lifecycle state during create operation & to get into DELETED/DETACHED/
                         TERMINATED lifecycle state during delete operation.
            type: str
    """
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/proxmox.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/proxmox.py
@@ -65,13 +65,3 @@ options:
      - Add the new VM to the specified pool.
    type: str
 '''
-
-    ACTIONGROUP_PROXMOX = r"""
-options: {}
-attributes:
-  action_group:
-    description: Use C(group/community.general.proxmox) in C(module_defaults) to set defaults for this module.
-    support: full
-    membership:
-      - community.general.proxmox
-"""
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/purestorage.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/purestorage.py
@@ -32,10 +32,11 @@ options:
      - FlashBlade API token for admin privileged user.
    type: str
 notes:
-  - This module requires the C(purity_fb) Python library.
+  - This module requires the C(purity_fb) Python library
  - You must set E(PUREFB_URL) and E(PUREFB_API) environment variables
-    if O(fb_url) and O(api_token) arguments are not passed to the module directly.
+    if O(fb_url) and O(api_token) arguments are not passed to the module directly
 requirements:
+  - python >= 2.7
  - purity_fb >= 1.1
 '''

@@ -53,9 +54,10 @@ options:
    type: str
    required: true
 notes:
-  - This module requires the C(purestorage) Python library.
+  - This module requires the C(purestorage) Python library
  - You must set E(PUREFA_URL) and E(PUREFA_API) environment variables
-    if O(fa_url) and O(api_token) arguments are not passed to the module directly.
+    if O(fa_url) and O(api_token) arguments are not passed to the module directly
 requirements:
+  - python >= 2.7
  - purestorage
 '''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/rackspace.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/rackspace.py
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright (c) 2014, Matt Martz <matt@sivel.net>
+# 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):
+
+    # Standard Rackspace only documentation fragment
+    DOCUMENTATION = r'''
+options:
+  api_key:
+    description:
+      - Rackspace API key, overrides O(credentials).
+    type: str
+    aliases: [ password ]
+  credentials:
+    description:
+      - File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if O(api_key) and
+        O(username) are provided.
+    type: path
+    aliases: [ creds_file ]
+  env:
+    description:
+      - Environment as configured in C(~/.pyrax.cfg),
+        see U(https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration).
+    type: str
+  region:
+    description:
+      - Region to create an instance in.
+    type: str
+  username:
+    description:
+      - Rackspace username, overrides O(credentials).
+    type: str
+  validate_certs:
+    description:
+      - Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints.
+    type: bool
+    aliases: [ verify_ssl ]
+requirements:
+  - python >= 2.6
+  - pyrax
+notes:
+  - The following environment variables can be used, E(RAX_USERNAME),
+    E(RAX_API_KEY), E(RAX_CREDS_FILE), E(RAX_CREDENTIALS), E(RAX_REGION).
+  - E(RAX_CREDENTIALS) and E(RAX_CREDS_FILE) point to a credentials file
+    appropriate for pyrax. See U(https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticating)
+  - E(RAX_USERNAME) and E(RAX_API_KEY) obviate the use of a credentials file
+  - E(RAX_REGION) defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, ...)
+'''
+
+    # Documentation fragment including attributes to enable communication
+    # of other OpenStack clouds. Not all rax modules support this.
+    OPENSTACK = r'''
+options:
+  api_key:
+    type: str
+    description:
+      - Rackspace API key, overrides O(credentials).
+    aliases: [ password ]
+  auth_endpoint:
+    type: str
+    description:
+      - The URI of the authentication service.
+      - If not specified will be set to U(https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/)
+  credentials:
+    type: path
+    description:
+      - File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if O(api_key) and
+        O(username) are provided.
+    aliases: [ creds_file ]
+  env:
+    type: str
+    description:
+      - Environment as configured in C(~/.pyrax.cfg),
+        see U(https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration).
+  identity_type:
+    type: str
+    description:
+      - Authentication mechanism to use, such as rackspace or keystone.
+    default: rackspace
+  region:
+    type: str
+    description:
+      - Region to create an instance in.
+  tenant_id:
+    type: str
+    description:
+      - The tenant ID used for authentication.
+  tenant_name:
+    type: str
+    description:
+      - The tenant name used for authentication.
+  username:
+    type: str
+    description:
+      - Rackspace username, overrides O(credentials).
+  validate_certs:
+    description:
+      - Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints.
+    type: bool
+    aliases: [ verify_ssl ]
+deprecated:
+  removed_in: 9.0.0
+  why: This module relies on the deprecated package pyrax.
+  alternative: Use the Openstack modules instead.
+requirements:
+  - python >= 2.6
+  - pyrax
+notes:
+  - The following environment variables can be used, E(RAX_USERNAME),
+    E(RAX_API_KEY), E(RAX_CREDS_FILE), E(RAX_CREDENTIALS), E(RAX_REGION).
+  - E(RAX_CREDENTIALS) and E(RAX_CREDS_FILE) points to a credentials file
+    appropriate for pyrax. See U(https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticating)
+  - E(RAX_USERNAME) and E(RAX_API_KEY) obviate the use of a credentials file
+  - E(RAX_REGION) defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, ...)
+'''
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/scaleway.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/scaleway.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ options:
    type: bool
    default: true
 notes:
-  - Also see the API documentation on U(https://developer.scaleway.com/).
+  - Also see the API documentation on U(https://developer.scaleway.com/)
  - If O(api_token) is not set within the module, the following
    environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence
    E(SCW_TOKEN), E(SCW_API_KEY), E(SCW_OAUTH_TOKEN) or E(SCW_API_TOKEN).
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/utm.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/utm.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ options:
    headers:
        description:
          - A dictionary of additional headers to be sent to POST and PUT requests.
-          - Is needed for some modules.
+          - Is needed for some modules
        type: dict
        required: false
        default: {}
@@ -30,9 +30,8 @@ options:
        default: 4444
    utm_token:
        description:
-          - "The token used to identify at the REST-API. See
-            U(https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/documentation/UTMonAWS/Sophos-UTM-RESTful-API.pdf?la=en),
-            Chapter 2.4.2."
+          - "The token used to identify at the REST-API. See U(https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/\
+            PDFs/documentation/UTMonAWS/Sophos-UTM-RESTful-API.pdf?la=en), Chapter 2.4.2."
        type: str
        required: true
    utm_protocol:
@@ -49,8 +48,8 @@ options:
    state:
        description:
          - The desired state of the object.
-          - V(present) will create or update an object.
-          - V(absent) will delete an object if it was present.
+          - V(present) will create or update an object
+          - V(absent) will delete an object if it was present
        type: str
        choices: [ absent, present ]
        default: present
--- a/plugins/doc_fragments/vexata.py
+++ b/plugins/doc_fragments/vexata.py
@@ -30,13 +30,11 @@ options:
  user:
    description:
      - Vexata API user with administrative privileges.
-      - Uses the E(VEXATA_USER) environment variable as a fallback.
    required: false
    type: str
  password:
    description:
      - Vexata API user password.
-      - Uses the E(VEXATA_PASSWORD) environment variable as a fallback.
    required: false
    type: str
  validate_certs:
@@ -50,6 +48,7 @@ options:
 requirements:
  - Vexata VX100 storage array with VXOS >= v3.5.0 on storage array
  - vexatapi >= 0.0.1
-  - E(VEXATA_USER) and E(VEXATA_PASSWORD) environment variables must be set if
+  - python >= 2.7
+  - VEXATA_USER and VEXATA_PASSWORD environment variables must be set if
    user and password arguments are not passed to the module directly.
 '''
--- a/plugins/filter/from_csv.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/from_csv.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
 - name: Parse a CSV file's contents
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: >-
-      {{ csv_data | community.general.from_csv(dialect='unix') }}
+      {{ csv_data | community.genera.from_csv(dialect='unix') }}
  vars:
    csv_data: |
      Column 1,Value
--- a/plugins/filter/from_ini.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/from_ini.py
@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# Copyright (c) 2023, Steffen Scheib <steffen@scheib.me>
-# 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
-
-DOCUMENTATION = r'''
-  name: from_ini
-  short_description: Converts INI text input into a dictionary
-  version_added: 8.2.0
-  author: Steffen Scheib (@sscheib)
-  description:
-    - Converts INI text input into a dictionary.
-  options:
-    _input:
-      description: A string containing an INI document.
-      type: string
-      required: true
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = r'''
-  - name: Slurp an INI file
-    ansible.builtin.slurp:
-      src: /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf
-    register: rhsm_conf
-
-  - name: Display the INI file as dictionary
-    ansible.builtin.debug:
-      var: rhsm_conf.content | b64decode | community.general.from_ini
-
-  - name: Set a new dictionary fact with the contents of the INI file
-    ansible.builtin.set_fact:
-      rhsm_dict: >-
-        {{
-            rhsm_conf.content | b64decode | community.general.from_ini
-        }}
-'''
-
-RETURN = '''
-  _value:
-    description: A dictionary representing the INI file.
-    type: dictionary
-'''
-
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import StringIO
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.configparser import ConfigParser
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
-
-
-class IniParser(ConfigParser):
-    ''' Implements a configparser which is able to return a dict '''
-
-    def __init__(self):
-        super().__init__(interpolation=None)
-        self.optionxform = str
-
-    def as_dict(self):
-        d = dict(self._sections)
-        for k in d:
-            d[k] = dict(self._defaults, **d[k])
-            d[k].pop('__name__', None)
-
-        if self._defaults:
-            d['DEFAULT'] = dict(self._defaults)
-
-        return d
-
-
-def from_ini(obj):
-    ''' Read the given string as INI file and return a dict '''
-
-    if not isinstance(obj, string_types):
-        raise AnsibleFilterError(f'from_ini requires a str, got {type(obj)}')
-
-    parser = IniParser()
-
-    try:
-        parser.read_file(StringIO(obj))
-    except Exception as ex:
-        raise AnsibleFilterError(f'from_ini failed to parse given string: '
-                                 f'{to_native(ex)}', orig_exc=ex)
-
-    return parser.as_dict()
-
-
-class FilterModule(object):
-    ''' Query filter '''
-
-    def filters(self):
-
-        return {
-            'from_ini': from_ini
-        }
--- a/plugins/filter/lists.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/lists.py
@@ -1,210 +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
-
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
-from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
-
-
-def remove_duplicates(lst):
-    seen = set()
-    seen_add = seen.add
-    result = []
-    for item in lst:
-        try:
-            if item not in seen:
-                seen_add(item)
-                result.append(item)
-        except TypeError:
-            # This happens for unhashable values `item`. If this happens,
-            # convert `seen` to a list and continue.
-            seen = list(seen)
-            seen_add = seen.append
-            if item not in seen:
-                seen_add(item)
-                result.append(item)
-    return result
-
-
-def flatten_list(lst):
-    result = []
-    for sublist in lst:
-        if not is_sequence(sublist):
-            msg = ("All arguments must be lists. %s is %s")
-            raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (sublist, type(sublist)))
-        if len(sublist) > 0:
-            if all(is_sequence(sub) for sub in sublist):
-                for item in sublist:
-                    result.append(item)
-            else:
-                result.append(sublist)
-    return result
-
-
-def lists_union(*args, **kwargs):
-    lists = args
-    flatten = kwargs.pop('flatten', False)
-
-    if kwargs:
-        # Some unused kwargs remain
-        raise AnsibleFilterError(
-            "lists_union() got unexpected keywords arguments: {0}".format(
-                ", ".join(kwargs.keys())
-            )
-        )
-
-    if flatten:
-        lists = flatten_list(args)
-
-    if not lists:
-        return []
-
-    if len(lists) == 1:
-        return lists[0]
-
-    a = lists[0]
-    for b in lists[1:]:
-        a = do_union(a, b)
-    return remove_duplicates(a)
-
-
-def do_union(a, b):
-    return a + b
-
-
-def lists_intersect(*args, **kwargs):
-    lists = args
-    flatten = kwargs.pop('flatten', False)
-
-    if kwargs:
-        # Some unused kwargs remain
-        raise AnsibleFilterError(
-            "lists_intersect() got unexpected keywords arguments: {0}".format(
-                ", ".join(kwargs.keys())
-            )
-        )
-
-    if flatten:
-        lists = flatten_list(args)
-
-    if not lists:
-        return []
-
-    if len(lists) == 1:
-        return lists[0]
-
-    a = remove_duplicates(lists[0])
-    for b in lists[1:]:
-        a = do_intersect(a, b)
-    return a
-
-
-def do_intersect(a, b):
-    isect = []
-    try:
-        other = set(b)
-        isect = [item for item in a if item in other]
-    except TypeError:
-        # This happens for unhashable values,
-        # use a list instead and redo.
-        other = list(b)
-        isect = [item for item in a if item in other]
-    return isect
-
-
-def lists_difference(*args, **kwargs):
-    lists = args
-    flatten = kwargs.pop('flatten', False)
-
-    if kwargs:
-        # Some unused kwargs remain
-        raise AnsibleFilterError(
-            "lists_difference() got unexpected keywords arguments: {0}".format(
-                ", ".join(kwargs.keys())
-            )
-        )
-
-    if flatten:
-        lists = flatten_list(args)
-
-    if not lists:
-        return []
-
-    if len(lists) == 1:
-        return lists[0]
-
-    a = remove_duplicates(lists[0])
-    for b in lists[1:]:
-        a = do_difference(a, b)
-    return a
-
-
-def do_difference(a, b):
-    diff = []
-    try:
-        other = set(b)
-        diff = [item for item in a if item not in other]
-    except TypeError:
-        # This happens for unhashable values,
-        # use a list instead and redo.
-        other = list(b)
-        diff = [item for item in a if item not in other]
-    return diff
-
-
-def lists_symmetric_difference(*args, **kwargs):
-    lists = args
-    flatten = kwargs.pop('flatten', False)
-
-    if kwargs:
-        # Some unused kwargs remain
-        raise AnsibleFilterError(
-            "lists_difference() got unexpected keywords arguments: {0}".format(
-                ", ".join(kwargs.keys())
-            )
-        )
-
-    if flatten:
-        lists = flatten_list(args)
-
-    if not lists:
-        return []
-
-    if len(lists) == 1:
-        return lists[0]
-
-    a = lists[0]
-    for b in lists[1:]:
-        a = do_symmetric_difference(a, b)
-    return a
-
-
-def do_symmetric_difference(a, b):
-    sym_diff = []
-    union = lists_union(a, b)
-    try:
-        isect = set(a) & set(b)
-        sym_diff = [item for item in union if item not in isect]
-    except TypeError:
-        # This happens for unhashable values,
-        # build the intersection of `a` and `b` backed
-        # by a list instead of a set and redo.
-        isect = lists_intersect(a, b)
-        sym_diff = [item for item in union if item not in isect]
-    return sym_diff
-
-
-class FilterModule(object):
-    ''' Ansible lists jinja2 filters '''
-
-    def filters(self):
-        return {
-            'lists_union': lists_union,
-            'lists_intersect': lists_intersect,
-            'lists_difference': lists_difference,
-            'lists_symmetric_difference': lists_symmetric_difference,
-        }
--- a/plugins/filter/lists_difference.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/lists_difference.yml
@@ -1,48 +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
-
-DOCUMENTATION:
-  name: lists_difference
-  short_description: Difference of lists with a predictive order
-  version_added: 8.4.0
-  description:
-    - Provide a unique list of all the elements from the first which do not appear in the other lists.
-    - The order of the items in the resulting list is preserved.
-  options:
-    _input:
-      description: A list.
-      type: list
-      elements: any
-      required: true
-    flatten:
-      description: Whether to remove one hierarchy level from the input list.
-      type: boolean
-      default: false
-  author:
-    - Christoph Fiehe (@cfiehe)
-
-EXAMPLES: |
-  - name: Return the difference of list1 and list2.
-    ansible.builtin.debug:
-      msg: "{{ list1 | community.general.lists_difference(list2) }}"
-    vars:
-      list1: [1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 10]
-      list2: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 99]
-  # => [10]
-  
-  - name: Return the difference of list1, list2 and list3.
-    ansible.builtin.debug:
-      msg: "{{ [list1, list2, list3] | community.general.lists_difference(flatten=true) }}"
-    vars:
-      list1: [1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 10]
-      list2: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 99]
-      list3: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 99, 101]
-  # => []
-
-RETURN:
-  _value:
-    description: A unique list of all the elements from the first list that do not appear on the other lists.
-    type: list
-    elements: any
--- a/plugins/filter/lists_intersect.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/lists_intersect.yml
@@ -1,48 +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
-
-DOCUMENTATION:
-  name: lists_intersect
-  short_description: Intersection of lists with a predictive order
-  version_added: 8.4.0
-  description:
-    - Provide a unique list of all the common elements of two or more lists.
-    - The order of the items in the resulting list is preserved.
-  options:
-    _input:
-      description: A list.
-      type: list
-      elements: any
-      required: true
-    flatten:
-      description: Whether to remove one hierarchy level from the input list.
-      type: boolean
-      default: false
-  author:
-    - Christoph Fiehe (@cfiehe)
-
-EXAMPLES: |
-  - name: Return the intersection of list1 and list2.
-    ansible.builtin.debug:
-      msg: "{{ list1 | community.general.lists_intersect(list2) }}"
-    vars:
-      list1: [1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 10]
-      list2: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 99]
-  # => [1, 2, 5, 3, 4]
-  
-  - name: Return the intersection of list1, list2 and list3.
-    ansible.builtin.debug:
-      msg: "{{ [list1, list2, list3] | community.general.lists_intersect(flatten=true) }}"
-    vars:
-      list1: [1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 10]
-      list2: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 99]
-      list3: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 99, 101]
-  # => [1, 2, 5, 3, 4]
-
-RETURN:
-  _value:
-    description: A unique list of all the common elements from the provided lists.
-    type: list
-    elements: any
--- a/plugins/filter/lists_symmetric_difference.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/lists_symmetric_difference.yml
@@ -1,48 +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
-
-DOCUMENTATION:
-  name: lists_symmetric_difference
-  short_description: Symmetric Difference of lists with a predictive order
-  version_added: 8.4.0
-  description:
-    - Provide a unique list containing the symmetric difference of two or more lists.
-    - The order of the items in the resulting list is preserved.
-  options:
-    _input:
-      description: A list.
-      type: list
-      elements: any
-      required: true
-    flatten:
-      description: Whether to remove one hierarchy level from the input list.
-      type: boolean
-      default: false
-  author:
-    - Christoph Fiehe (@cfiehe)
-
-EXAMPLES: |
-  - name: Return the symmetric difference of list1 and list2.
-    ansible.builtin.debug:
-      msg: "{{ list1 | community.general.lists_symmetric_difference(list2) }}"
-    vars:
-      list1: [1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 10]
-      list2: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 99]
-  # => [10, 11, 99]
-  
-  - name: Return the symmetric difference of list1, list2 and list3.
-    ansible.builtin.debug:
-      msg: "{{ [list1, list2, list3] | community.general.lists_symmetric_difference(flatten=true) }}"
-    vars:
-      list1: [1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 10]
-      list2: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 99]
-      list3: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 99, 101]
-  # => [11, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 101]
-
-RETURN:
-  _value:
-    description: A unique list containing the symmetric difference of two or more lists.
-    type: list
-    elements: any
--- a/plugins/filter/lists_union.yml
+++ b/plugins/filter/lists_union.yml
@@ -1,48 +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
-
-DOCUMENTATION:
-  name: lists_union
-  short_description: Union of lists with a predictive order
-  version_added: 8.4.0
-  description:
-    - Provide a unique list of all the elements of two or more lists.
-    - The order of the items in the resulting list is preserved.
-  options:
-    _input:
-      description: A list.
-      type: list
-      elements: any
-      required: true
-    flatten:
-      description: Whether to remove one hierarchy level from the input list.
-      type: boolean
-      default: false
-  author:
-    - Christoph Fiehe (@cfiehe)
-
-EXAMPLES: |
-  - name: Return the union of list1, list2 and list3.
-    ansible.builtin.debug:
-      msg: "{{ list1 | community.general.lists_union(list2, list3) }}"
-    vars:
-      list1: [1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 10]
-      list2: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 99]
-      list3: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 99, 101]
-  # => [1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 10, 11, 99, 101]
-  
-  - name: Return the union of list1 and list2.
-    ansible.builtin.debug:
-      msg: "{{ [list1, list2] | community.general.lists_union(flatten=true) }}"
-    vars:
-      list1: [1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 10]
-      list2: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 99]
-  # => [1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 10, 11, 99]
-
-RETURN:
-  _value:
-    description: A unique list of all the elements from the provided lists.
-    type: list
-    elements: any
--- a/plugins/filter/to_ini.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_ini.py
@@ -1,105 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# Copyright (c) 2023, Steffen Scheib <steffen@scheib.me>
-# 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
-
-DOCUMENTATION = r'''
-  name: to_ini
-  short_description: Converts a dictionary to the INI file format
-  version_added: 8.2.0
-  author: Steffen Scheib (@sscheib)
-  description:
-    - Converts a dictionary to the INI file format.
-  options:
-    _input:
-      description: The dictionary that should be converted to the INI format.
-      type: dictionary
-      required: true
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = r'''
-  - name: Define a dictionary
-    ansible.builtin.set_fact:
-      my_dict:
-        section_name:
-          key_name: 'key value'
-
-        another_section:
-          connection: 'ssh'
-
-  - name: Write dictionary to INI file
-    ansible.builtin.copy:
-      dest: /tmp/test.ini
-      content: '{{ my_dict | community.general.to_ini }}'
-
-  # /tmp/test.ini will look like this:
-  # [section_name]
-  # key_name = key value
-  #
-  # [another_section]
-  # connection = ssh
-'''
-
-RETURN = r'''
-  _value:
-    description: A string formatted as INI file.
-    type: string
-'''
-
-
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
-from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import Mapping
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import StringIO
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.configparser import ConfigParser
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
-
-
-class IniParser(ConfigParser):
-    ''' Implements a configparser which sets the correct optionxform '''
-
-    def __init__(self):
-        super().__init__(interpolation=None)
-        self.optionxform = str
-
-
-def to_ini(obj):
-    ''' Read the given dict and return an INI formatted string '''
-
-    if not isinstance(obj, Mapping):
-        raise AnsibleFilterError(f'to_ini requires a dict, got {type(obj)}')
-
-    ini_parser = IniParser()
-
-    try:
-        ini_parser.read_dict(obj)
-    except Exception as ex:
-        raise AnsibleFilterError('to_ini failed to parse given dict:'
-                                 f'{to_native(ex)}', orig_exc=ex)
-
-    # catching empty dicts
-    if obj == dict():
-        raise AnsibleFilterError('to_ini received an empty dict. '
-                                 'An empty dict cannot be converted.')
-
-    config = StringIO()
-    ini_parser.write(config)
-
-    # config.getvalue() returns two \n at the end
-    # with the below insanity, we remove the very last character of
-    # the resulting string
-    return ''.join(config.getvalue().rsplit(config.getvalue()[-1], 1))
-
-
-class FilterModule(object):
-    ''' Query filter '''
-
-    def filters(self):
-
-        return {
-            'to_ini': to_ini
-        }
--- a/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py
@@ -42,12 +42,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        description: Fallback to cached results if connection to cobbler fails.
        type: boolean
        default: false
-      exclude_mgmt_classes:
-        description: Management classes to exclude from inventory.
-        type: list
-        default: []
-        elements: str
-        version_added: 7.4.0
      exclude_profiles:
        description:
          - Profiles to exclude from inventory.
@@ -55,12 +49,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        type: list
        default: []
        elements: str
-      include_mgmt_classes:
-        description: Management classes to include from inventory.
-        type: list
-        default: []
-        elements: str
-        version_added: 7.4.0
      include_profiles:
        description:
          - Profiles to include from inventory.
@@ -118,8 +106,6 @@ from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable, to_safe_group_name
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type

-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
-
 # xmlrpc
 try:
    import xmlrpclib as xmlrpc_client
@@ -230,8 +216,6 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
        self.cache_key = self.get_cache_key(path)
        self.use_cache = cache and self.get_option('cache')

-        self.exclude_mgmt_classes = self.get_option('exclude_mgmt_classes')
-        self.include_mgmt_classes = self.get_option('include_mgmt_classes')
        self.exclude_profiles = self.get_option('exclude_profiles')
        self.include_profiles = self.get_option('include_profiles')
        self.group_by = self.get_option('group_by')
@@ -276,21 +260,14 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
        for host in self._get_systems():
            # Get the FQDN for the host and add it to the right groups
            if self.inventory_hostname == 'system':
-                hostname = make_unsafe(host['name'])  # None
+                hostname = host['name']  # None
            else:
-                hostname = make_unsafe(host['hostname'])  # None
+                hostname = host['hostname']  # None
            interfaces = host['interfaces']

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

            # hostname is often empty for non-static IP hosts
            if hostname == '':
@@ -298,7 +275,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
                    if ivalue['management'] or not ivalue['static']:
                        this_dns_name = ivalue.get('dns_name', None)
                        if this_dns_name is not None and this_dns_name != "":
-                            hostname = make_unsafe(this_dns_name)
+                            hostname = this_dns_name
                            self.display.vvvv('Set hostname to %s from %s\n' % (hostname, iname))

            if hostname == '':
@@ -363,18 +340,18 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
            if ip_address is None and ip_address_first is not None:
                ip_address = ip_address_first
            if ip_address is not None:
-                self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, 'cobbler_ipv4_address', make_unsafe(ip_address))
+                self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, 'cobbler_ipv4_address', ip_address)
            if ipv6_address is None and ipv6_address_first is not None:
                ipv6_address = ipv6_address_first
            if ipv6_address is not None:
-                self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, 'cobbler_ipv6_address', make_unsafe(ipv6_address))
+                self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, 'cobbler_ipv6_address', ipv6_address)

            if self.get_option('want_facts'):
                try:
-                    self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, 'cobbler', make_unsafe(host))
+                    self.inventory.set_variable(hostname, 'cobbler', host)
                except ValueError as e:
                    self.display.warning("Could not set host info for %s: %s" % (hostname, to_text(e)))

        if self.get_option('want_ip_addresses'):
-            self.inventory.set_variable(self.group, 'cobbler_ipv4_addresses', make_unsafe(ip_addresses))
-            self.inventory.set_variable(self.group, 'cobbler_ipv6_addresses', make_unsafe(ipv6_addresses))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(self.group, 'cobbler_ipv4_addresses', ip_addresses)
+            self.inventory.set_variable(self.group, 'cobbler_ipv6_addresses', ipv6_addresses)
--- a/plugins/inventory/gitlab_runners.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/gitlab_runners.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
      - Stefan Heitmüller (@morph027) <stefan.heitmueller@gmx.com>
    short_description: Ansible dynamic inventory plugin for GitLab runners.
    requirements:
+        - python >= 2.7
        - python-gitlab > 1.8.0
    extends_documentation_fragment:
        - constructed
@@ -84,8 +85,6 @@ from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable

-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
-
 try:
    import gitlab
    HAS_GITLAB = True
@@ -107,11 +106,11 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
            else:
                runners = gl.runners.all()
            for runner in runners:
-                host = make_unsafe(str(runner['id']))
+                host = str(runner['id'])
                ip_address = runner['ip_address']
-                host_attrs = make_unsafe(vars(gl.runners.get(runner['id']))['_attrs'])
+                host_attrs = vars(gl.runners.get(runner['id']))['_attrs']
                self.inventory.add_host(host, group='gitlab_runners')
-                self.inventory.set_variable(host, 'ansible_host', make_unsafe(ip_address))
+                self.inventory.set_variable(host, 'ansible_host', ip_address)
                if self.get_option('verbose_output', True):
                    self.inventory.set_variable(host, 'gitlab_runner_attributes', host_attrs)

--- a/plugins/inventory/icinga2.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/icinga2.py
@@ -63,12 +63,6 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
        default: address
        choices: ['name', 'display_name', 'address']
        version_added: 4.2.0
-      group_by_hostgroups:
-        description:
-          - Uses Icinga2 hostgroups as groups.
-        type: boolean
-        default: true
-        version_added: 8.4.0
 '''

 EXAMPLES = r'''
@@ -78,7 +72,7 @@ url: http://localhost:5665
 user: ansible
 password: secure
 host_filter: \"linux-servers\" in host.groups
-validate_certs: false  # only do this when connecting to localhost!
+validate_certs: false
 inventory_attr: name
 groups:
  # simple name matching
@@ -103,8 +97,6 @@ from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.error import HTTPError

-from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
-

 class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
    ''' Host inventory parser for ansible using Icinga2 as source. '''
@@ -122,7 +114,6 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
        self.ssl_verify = None
        self.host_filter = None
        self.inventory_attr = None
-        self.group_by_hostgroups = None

        self.cache_key = None
        self.use_cache = None
@@ -242,32 +233,31 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
        """Convert Icinga2 API data to JSON format for Ansible"""
        groups_dict = {"_meta": {"hostvars": {}}}
        for entry in json_data:
-            host_attrs = make_unsafe(entry['attrs'])
+            host_attrs = entry['attrs']
            if self.inventory_attr == "name":
-                host_name = make_unsafe(entry.get('name'))
+                host_name = entry.get('name')
            if self.inventory_attr == "address":
                # When looking for address for inventory, if missing fallback to object name
                if host_attrs.get('address', '') != '':
-                    host_name = make_unsafe(host_attrs.get('address'))
+                    host_name = host_attrs.get('address')
                else:
-                    host_name = make_unsafe(entry.get('name'))
+                    host_name = entry.get('name')
            if self.inventory_attr == "display_name":
                host_name = host_attrs.get('display_name')
            if host_attrs['state'] == 0:
                host_attrs['state'] = 'on'
            else:
                host_attrs['state'] = 'off'
+            host_groups = host_attrs.get('groups')
            self.inventory.add_host(host_name)
-            if self.group_by_hostgroups:
-                host_groups = host_attrs.get('groups')
-                for group in host_groups:
-                    if group not in self.inventory.groups.keys():
-                        self.inventory.add_group(group)
-                    self.inventory.add_child(group, host_name)
+            for group in host_groups:
+                if group not in self.inventory.groups.keys():
+                    self.inventory.add_group(group)
+                self.inventory.add_child(group, host_name)
            # If the address attribute is populated, override ansible_host with the value
            if host_attrs.get('address') != '':
                self.inventory.set_variable(host_name, 'ansible_host', host_attrs.get('address'))
-            self.inventory.set_variable(host_name, 'hostname', make_unsafe(entry.get('name')))
+            self.inventory.set_variable(host_name, 'hostname', entry.get('name'))
            self.inventory.set_variable(host_name, 'display_name', host_attrs.get('display_name'))
            self.inventory.set_variable(host_name, 'state',
                                        host_attrs['state'])
@@ -287,23 +277,12 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
        self._read_config_data(path)

        # Store the options from the YAML file
-        self.icinga2_url = self.get_option('url')
+        self.icinga2_url = self.get_option('url').rstrip('/') + '/v1'
        self.icinga2_user = self.get_option('user')
        self.icinga2_password = self.get_option('password')
        self.ssl_verify = self.get_option('validate_certs')
        self.host_filter = self.get_option('host_filter')
        self.inventory_attr = self.get_option('inventory_attr')
-        self.group_by_hostgroups = self.get_option('group_by_hostgroups')
-
-        if self.templar.is_template(self.icinga2_url):
-            self.icinga2_url = self.templar.template(variable=self.icinga2_url, disable_lookups=False)
-        if self.templar.is_template(self.icinga2_user):
-            self.icinga2_user = self.templar.template(variable=self.icinga2_user, disable_lookups=False)
-        if self.templar.is_template(self.icinga2_password):
-            self.icinga2_password = self.templar.template(variable=self.icinga2_password, disable_lookups=False)
-
-        self.icinga2_url = self.icinga2_url.rstrip('/') + '/v1'
-
        # Not currently enabled
        # self.cache_key = self.get_cache_key(path)
        # self.use_cache = cache and self.get_option('cache')
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More