Release 6.1.0.

[PR #5507/b22638ba backport][stable-6] Adding PUT functionality to redfish_utils (Updated) (#5660 )
Adding PUT functionality to redfish_utils (Updated) (#5507) * adding changelog fragment * adding PUT functionality * sanity fix Co-authored-by: Kushal <t-s.kushal@hpe.com> (cherry picked from commit b22638ba0c) Co-authored-by: TSKushal <44438079+TSKushal@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-05-01 10:53:20 +00:00 · 2022-12-06 07:30:35 +01:00 · 2022-12-05 18:42:37 +01:00 · 2022-12-05 05:47:23 +00:00 · 2022-12-05 05:47:11 +00:00 · 2022-12-04 21:44:59 +01:00
1836 changed files with 27925 additions and 77735 deletions
--- a/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ schedules:
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-9
-        - stable-8
+        - stable-6
+        - stable-5
  - cron: 0 11 * * 0
    displayName: Weekly (old stable branches)
    always: true
    branches:
      include:
-        - stable-7
+        - stable-4

 variables:
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@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ variables:
 resources:
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    - container: default
-      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:6.0.0
+      image: quay.io/ansible/azure-pipelines-test-container:3.0.0

 pool: Standard

@@ -73,40 +73,53 @@ stages:
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            - test: 4
            - test: extra
-  - stage: Sanity_2_17
-    displayName: Sanity 2.17
+  - stage: Sanity_2_14
+    displayName: Sanity 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.17/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.14/sanity/{0}
          targets:
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            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_16
-    displayName: Sanity 2.16
+  - stage: Sanity_2_13
+    displayName: Sanity 2.13
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.13/sanity/{0}
          targets:
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            - test: 2
            - test: 3
            - test: 4
-  - stage: Sanity_2_15
-    displayName: Sanity 2.15
+  - stage: Sanity_2_12
+    displayName: Sanity 2.12
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Test {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/sanity/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.12/sanity/{0}
+          targets:
+            - test: 1
+            - test: 2
+            - test: 3
+            - test: 4
+  - stage: Sanity_2_11
+    displayName: Sanity 2.11
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Test {0}
+          testFormat: 2.11/sanity/{0}
          targets:
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@@ -122,66 +135,60 @@ stages:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
          testFormat: devel/units/{0}/1
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+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
+            - test: 3.6
+            - test: 3.7
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-            - test: '3.12'
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-    displayName: Units 2.17
+  - stage: Units_2_14
+    displayName: Units 2.14
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-            - test: "3.12"
-  - stage: Units_2_16
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-    dependsOn: []
-    jobs:
-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.14/units/{0}/1
          targets:
            - test: 2.7
-            - test: 3.6
-            - test: "3.11"
-  - stage: Units_2_15
-    displayName: Units 2.15
+            - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Units_2_13
+    displayName: Units 2.13
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/units/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.13/units/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: 3.5
-            - test: "3.10"
-
-## Remote
-  - stage: Remote_devel_extra_vms
-    displayName: Remote devel extra VMs
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.8
+  - stage: Units_2_12
+    displayName: Units 2.12
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: devel/{0}
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.12/units/{0}/1
          targets:
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-              test: alpine/3.20
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-            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
-              test: ubuntu/22.04
-            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
-              test: ubuntu/24.04
-          groups:
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+            - test: 2.6
+            - test: 3.8
+  - stage: Units_2_11
+    displayName: Units 2.11
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.11/units/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5
+
+## Remote
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-              test: rhel/9.1
-            - name: RHEL 8.7
-              test: rhel/8.7
+            - name: macOS 12.0
+              test: macos/12.0
            - name: RHEL 7.9
              test: rhel/7.9
-            # - name: FreeBSD 13.1
-            #   test: freebsd/13.1
-            # - name: FreeBSD 12.4
-            #   test: freebsd/12.4
+            - name: RHEL 9.0
+              test: rhel/9.0
+            - name: FreeBSD 12.3
+              test: freebsd/12.3
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.1
+          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 13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.1
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_13
+    displayName: Remote 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.13/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 12.0
+              test: macos/12.0
+            - name: RHEL 8.5
+              test: rhel/8.5
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_12
+    displayName: Remote 2.12
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.12/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: macOS 11.1
+              test: macos/11.1
+            - name: RHEL 8.4
+              test: rhel/8.4
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.0
+              test: freebsd/13.0
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Remote_2_11
+    displayName: Remote 2.11
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.11/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: RHEL 7.9
+              test: rhel/7.9
+            - name: RHEL 8.3
+              test: rhel/8.3
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@@ -270,66 +287,86 @@ stages:
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-            - name: Ubuntu 24.04
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-            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
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-      - template: templates/matrix.yml
-        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.16/linux/{0}
-          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora38
+            - name: CentOS 7
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+            - name: Fedora 36
+              test: fedora36
            - name: openSUSE 15
              test: opensuse15
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
+            - name: Ubuntu 22.04
+              test: ubuntu2204
            - name: Alpine 3
              test: alpine3
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
            - 3
-  - stage: Docker_2_15
-    displayName: Docker 2.15
+  - stage: Docker_2_14
+    displayName: Docker 2.14
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    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
-          testFormat: 2.15/linux/{0}
+          testFormat: 2.14/linux/{0}
          targets:
-            - name: Fedora 37
-              test: fedora37
-            - name: CentOS 7
-              test: centos7
+            - name: Ubuntu 20.04
+              test: ubuntu2004
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_13
+    displayName: Docker 2.13
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.13/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 35
+              test: fedora35
+            - name: openSUSE 15 py2
+              test: opensuse15py2
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_12
+    displayName: Docker 2.12
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.12/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: CentOS 6
+              test: centos6
+            - name: Fedora 34
+              test: fedora34
+            - name: Ubuntu 18.04
+              test: ubuntu1804
+          groups:
+            - 1
+            - 2
+            - 3
+  - stage: Docker_2_11
+    displayName: Docker 2.11
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          testFormat: 2.11/linux/{0}
+          targets:
+            - name: Fedora 32
+              test: fedora32
+            - name: Fedora 33
+              test: fedora33
+            - name: Alpine 3
+              test: alpine3
          groups:
            - 1
            - 2
@@ -346,10 +383,10 @@ stages:
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              test: debian-bullseye/3.9
-            - name: Debian Bookworm
-              test: debian-bookworm/3.11
            - name: ArchLinux
-              test: archlinux/3.12
+              test: archlinux/3.10
+            - name: CentOS Stream 8
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@@ -365,68 +402,78 @@ stages:
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          testFormat: devel/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '3.8'
+            - test: 2.7
            - test: '3.11'
-            - test: '3.13'
-  - stage: Generic_2_17
-    displayName: Generic 2.17
+  - stage: Generic_2_14
+    displayName: Generic 2.14
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.17/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.14/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '3.7'
-            - test: '3.12'
-  - stage: Generic_2_16
-    displayName: Generic 2.16
+            - test: '3.10'
+  - stage: Generic_2_13
+    displayName: Generic 2.13
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.16/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.13/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '2.7'
-            - test: '3.6'
-            - test: '3.11'
-  - stage: Generic_2_15
-    displayName: Generic 2.15
+            - test: 3.9
+  - stage: Generic_2_12
+    displayName: Generic 2.12
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: templates/matrix.yml
        parameters:
          nameFormat: Python {0}
-          testFormat: 2.15/generic/{0}/1
+          testFormat: 2.12/generic/{0}/1
          targets:
-            - test: '3.9'
+            - test: 3.8
+  - stage: Generic_2_11
+    displayName: Generic 2.11
+    dependsOn: []
+    jobs:
+      - template: templates/matrix.yml
+        parameters:
+          nameFormat: Python {0}
+          testFormat: 2.11/generic/{0}/1
+          targets:
+            - test: 2.7
+            - test: 3.5

  - stage: Summary
    condition: succeededOrFailed()
    dependsOn:
      - Sanity_devel
-      - Sanity_2_17
-      - Sanity_2_16
-      - Sanity_2_15
+      - Sanity_2_11
+      - Sanity_2_12
+      - Sanity_2_13
+      - Sanity_2_14
      - Units_devel
-      - Units_2_17
-      - Units_2_16
-      - Units_2_15
-      - Remote_devel_extra_vms
+      - Units_2_11
+      - Units_2_12
+      - Units_2_13
+      - Units_2_14
      - Remote_devel
-      - Remote_2_17
-      - Remote_2_16
-      - Remote_2_15
+      - Remote_2_11
+      - Remote_2_12
+      - Remote_2_13
+      - Remote_2_14
      - Docker_devel
-      - Docker_2_17
-      - Docker_2_16
-      - Docker_2_15
+      - Docker_2_11
+      - Docker_2_12
+      - Docker_2_13
+      - Docker_2_14
      - Docker_community_devel
-# Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-#      - Generic_devel
-#      - Generic_2_17
-#      - Generic_2_16
-#      - Generic_2_15
+      - Generic_devel
+      - Generic_2_11
+      - Generic_2_12
+      - Generic_2_13
+      - Generic_2_14
    jobs:
      - template: templates/coverage.yml
--- a/.github/BOTMETA.yml
+++ b/.github/BOTMETA.yml
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ files:
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  validations:
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--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation_report.yml
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ body:
  attributes:
    label: Component Name
    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the file, module, plugin, task or feature below,
-      *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
+      Write the short name of the rst file, module, plugin, task or
+      feature below, *use your best guess if unsure*.
    placeholder: mysql_user
  validations:
    required: true
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ body:
  attributes:
    label: Component Name
    description: >-
-      Write the short name of the module or plugin, or which other part(s) of the collection this feature affects.
-      *use your best guess if unsure*. Do not include `community.general.`!
+      Write the short name of the module, plugin, task or feature below,
+      *use your best guess if unsure*.
    placeholder: dnf, apt, yum, pip, user etc.
  validations:
    required: true
--- a/.github/pull_request_template.md
+++ b/.github/pull_request_template.md
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-##### SUMMARY
-<!--- Describe the change below, including rationale and design decisions -->
-
-<!--- HINT: Include "Fixes #nnn" if you are fixing an existing issue -->
-
-<!--- Please do not forget to include a changelog fragment:
-      https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/collection_development_process.html#creating-changelog-fragments
-      No need to include one for docs-only or test-only PR, and for new plugin/module PRs.
-      Read about more details in CONTRIBUTING.md.
-      -->
-
-##### ISSUE TYPE
-<!--- Pick one or more below and delete the rest.
-      'Test Pull Request' is for PRs that add/extend tests without code changes. -->
- Bugfix Pull Request
- Docs Pull Request
- Feature Pull Request
- New Module/Plugin Pull Request
- Refactoring Pull Request
- Test Pull Request
-
-##### COMPONENT NAME
-<!--- Write the SHORT NAME of the module, plugin, task or feature below. -->
-
-##### ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-<!--- Include additional information to help people understand the change here -->
-<!--- A step-by-step reproduction of the problem is helpful if there is no related issue -->
-
-<!--- Paste verbatim command output below, e.g. before and after your change -->
-```paste below
-
-```
--- a/.github/pull_request_template.md.license
+++ b/.github/pull_request_template.md.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
@@ -1,205 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-# For the comprehensive list of the inputs supported by the ansible-community/ansible-test-gh-action GitHub Action, see
-# https://github.com/marketplace/actions/ansible-test
-
-name: EOL CI
-on:
-  # Run EOL CI against all pushes (direct commits, also merged PRs), Pull Requests
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-      - stable-*
-  pull_request:
-  # Run EOL CI once per day (at 08:00 UTC)
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 8 * * *'
-
-concurrency:
-  # Make sure there is at most one active run per PR, but do not cancel any non-PR runs
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ (github.head_ref && github.event.number) || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  sanity:
-    name: EOL Sanity (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }})
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - '2.13'
-          - '2.14'
-    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
-    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
-    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
-    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
-    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Perform sanity testing
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          testing-type: sanity
-
-  units:
-    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
-    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
-    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
-    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
-    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: EOL Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+py${{ matrix.python }})
-    strategy:
-      # As soon as the first unit test fails, cancel the others to free up the CI queue
-      fail-fast: true
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - ''
-        python:
-          - ''
-        exclude:
-          - ansible: ''
-        include:
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '3.8'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '2.7'
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            python: '3.8'
-          - ansible: '2.14'
-            python: '3.9'
-
-    steps:
-      - name: >-
-          Perform unit testing against
-          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          pre-test-cmd: >-
-            mkdir -p ../../ansible
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools.git ../../community/internal_test_tools
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          target-python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
-          testing-type: units
-
-  integration:
-    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
-    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
-    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
-    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
-    # for the latest list.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: EOL I (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+${{ matrix.docker }}+py${{ matrix.python }}:${{ matrix.target }})
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        ansible:
-          - ''
-        docker:
-          - ''
-        python:
-          - ''
-        target:
-          - ''
-        exclude:
-          - ansible: ''
-        include:
-          # 2.13
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: fedora35
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: opensuse15py2
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: alpine3
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: alpine3
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.13'
-            docker: alpine3
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          # 2.14
-          - ansible: '2.14'
-            docker: alpine3
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/1/
-          - ansible: '2.14'
-            docker: alpine3
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/2/
-          - ansible: '2.14'
-            docker: alpine3
-            python: ''
-            target: azp/posix/3/
-          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-          # - ansible: '2.13'
-          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '3.9'
-          #   target: azp/generic/1/
-          # Right now all generic tests are disabled. Uncomment when at least one of them is re-enabled.
-          # - ansible: '2.14'
-          #   docker: default
-          #   python: '3.10'
-          #   target: azp/generic/1/
-
-    steps:
-      - name: >-
-          Perform integration testing against
-          Ansible version ${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          under Python ${{ matrix.python }}
-        uses: felixfontein/ansible-test-gh-action@main
-        with:
-          ansible-core-version: stable-${{ matrix.ansible }}
-          codecov-token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
-          coverage: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'always' || 'never' }}
-          docker-image: ${{ matrix.docker }}
-          integration-continue-on-error: 'false'
-          integration-diff: 'false'
-          integration-retry-on-error: 'true'
-          pre-test-cmd: >-
-            mkdir -p ../../ansible
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix.git ../../ansible/posix
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto.git ../../community/crypto
-            ;
-            git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.internal_test_tools.git ../../community/internal_test_tools
-          pull-request-change-detection: 'true'
-          target: ${{ matrix.target }}
-          target-python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
-          testing-type: integration
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ name: "Code scanning - action"
 on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '26 19 * * 1'
-  workflow_dispatch:

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

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

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

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

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

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

 # Integration tests cloud configs
 tests/integration/cloud-config-*.ini
-
-
-# VSCode specific extensions
-.vscode/settings.json
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+---
+# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v4.0.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: trailing-whitespace
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer
+      - id: mixed-line-ending
+        args: [--fix=lf]
+      - id: fix-encoding-pragma
+      - id: check-ast
+      - id: check-merge-conflict
+      - id: check-symlinks
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pygrep-hooks
+    rev: v1.9.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: rst-backticks
+        types: [file]
+        files: changelogs/fragments/.*\.(yml|yaml)$
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,495 +0,0 @@
-# Community General Release Notes
-
-**Topics**
-
- <a href="#v9-2-0">v9\.2\.0</a>
-    - <a href="#release-summary">Release Summary</a>
-    - <a href="#minor-changes">Minor Changes</a>
-    - <a href="#bugfixes">Bugfixes</a>
-    - <a href="#new-plugins">New Plugins</a>
-        - <a href="#filter">Filter</a>
-        - <a href="#test">Test</a>
- <a href="#v9-1-0">v9\.1\.0</a>
-    - <a href="#release-summary-1">Release Summary</a>
-    - <a href="#minor-changes-1">Minor Changes</a>
-    - <a href="#deprecated-features">Deprecated Features</a>
-    - <a href="#bugfixes-1">Bugfixes</a>
-    - <a href="#known-issues">Known Issues</a>
-    - <a href="#new-plugins-1">New Plugins</a>
-        - <a href="#filter-1">Filter</a>
-    - <a href="#new-modules">New Modules</a>
- <a href="#v9-0-1">v9\.0\.1</a>
-    - <a href="#release-summary-2">Release Summary</a>
-    - <a href="#minor-changes-2">Minor Changes</a>
-    - <a href="#bugfixes-2">Bugfixes</a>
- <a href="#v9-0-0">v9\.0\.0</a>
-    - <a href="#release-summary-3">Release Summary</a>
-    - <a href="#minor-changes-3">Minor Changes</a>
-    - <a href="#breaking-changes--porting-guide">Breaking Changes / Porting Guide</a>
-    - <a href="#deprecated-features-1">Deprecated Features</a>
-    - <a href="#removed-features-previously-deprecated">Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)</a>
-    - <a href="#security-fixes">Security Fixes</a>
-    - <a href="#bugfixes-3">Bugfixes</a>
-    - <a href="#new-plugins-2">New Plugins</a>
-        - <a href="#become">Become</a>
-        - <a href="#callback">Callback</a>
-        - <a href="#connection">Connection</a>
-        - <a href="#filter-2">Filter</a>
-        - <a href="#lookup">Lookup</a>
-        - <a href="#test-1">Test</a>
-    - <a href="#new-modules-1">New Modules</a>
-This changelog describes changes after version 8\.0\.0\.
-
-<a id="v9-2-0"></a>
-## v9\.2\.0
-
-<a id="release-summary"></a>
-### Release Summary
-
-Regular bugfix and feature release\.
-
-<a id="minor-changes"></a>
-### Minor Changes
-
-* CmdRunner module utils \- the parameter <code>force\_lang</code> now supports the special value <code>auto</code> which will automatically try and determine the best parsable locale in the system \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8517](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8517)\)\.
-* proxmox \- add <code>disk\_volume</code> and <code>mount\_volumes</code> keys for better readability \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542)\)\.
-* proxmox \- translate the old <code>disk</code> and <code>mounts</code> keys to the new handling internally \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542)\)\.
-* proxmox\_template \- small refactor in logic for determining whether a template exists or not \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8516](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8516)\)\.
-* redfish\_\* modules \- adds <code>ciphers</code> option for custom cipher selection \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8533](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8533)\)\.
-* sudosu become plugin \- added an option \(<code>alt\_method</code>\) to enhance compatibility with more versions of <code>su</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8214](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8214)\)\.
-* virtualbox inventory plugin \- expose a new parameter <code>enable\_advanced\_group\_parsing</code> to change how the VirtualBox dynamic inventory parses VM groups \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8508](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8508)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8510](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8510)\)\.
-* wdc\_redfish\_command \- minor change to handle upgrade file for Redfish WD platforms \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8444](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8444)\)\.
-
-<a id="bugfixes"></a>
-### Bugfixes
-
-* bitwarden lookup plugin \- fix <code>KeyError</code> in <code>search\_field</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8549](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8549)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8557](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8557)\)\.
-* keycloak\_clientscope \- remove IDs from clientscope and its protocol mappers on comparison for changed check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8545](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8545)\)\.
-* nsupdate \- fix \'index out of range\' error when changing NS records by falling back to authority section of the response \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8612](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8612)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8614](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8614)\)\.
-* proxmox \- fix idempotency on creation of mount volumes using Proxmox\' special <code>\<storage\>\:\<size\></code> syntax \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8407](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8407)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8542)\)\.
-* redfish\_utils module utils \- do not fail when language is not exactly \"en\" \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8613](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8613)\)\.
-
-<a id="new-plugins"></a>
-### New Plugins
-
-<a id="filter"></a>
-#### Filter
-
-* community\.general\.reveal\_ansible\_type \- Return input type\.
-
-<a id="test"></a>
-#### Test
-
-* community\.general\.ansible\_type \- Validate input type\.
-
-<a id="v9-1-0"></a>
-## v9\.1\.0
-
-<a id="release-summary-1"></a>
-### Release Summary
-
-Regular feature and bugfix release\.
-
-<a id="minor-changes-1"></a>
-### Minor Changes
-
-* CmdRunner module util \- argument formats can be specified as plain functions without calling <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_func\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479)\)\.
-* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- add upgrade feature \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8431](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8431)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8351](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8351)\)\.
-* cargo \- add option <code>directory</code>\, which allows source directory to be specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8480](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8480)\)\.
-* cmd\_runner module utils \- add decorator <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.stack</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8415](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8415)\)\.
-* cmd\_runner\_fmt module utils \- simplify implementation of <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_bool\_not\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8512](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8512)\)\.
-* ipa\_dnsrecord \- adds <code>SSHFP</code> record type for managing SSH fingerprints in FreeIPA DNS \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8404](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8404)\)\.
-* keycloak\_client \- assign auth flow by name \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8428](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8428)\)\.
-* openbsd\_pkg \- adds diff support to show changes in installed package list\. This does not yet work for check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8402](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8402)\)\.
-* proxmox \- allow specification of the API port when using proxmox\_\* \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8440](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8440)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8441](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8441)\)\.
-* proxmox\_vm\_info \- add <code>network</code> option to retrieve current network information \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8471](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8471)\)\.
-* redfish\_command \- add <code>wait</code> and <code>wait\_timeout</code> options to allow a user to block a command until a service is accessible after performing the requested command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434)\)\.
-* redfish\_info \- add command <code>CheckAvailability</code> to check if a service is accessible \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8051)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8434)\)\.
-* redis\_info \- adds support for getting cluster info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8464](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8464)\)\.
-
-<a id="deprecated-features"></a>
-### Deprecated Features
-
-* CmdRunner module util \- setting the value of the <code>ignore\_none</code> parameter within a <code>CmdRunner</code> context is deprecated and that feature should be removed in community\.general 12\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8479)\)\.
-* git\_config \- the <code>list\_all</code> option has been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 11\.0\.0\. Use the <code>community\.general\.git\_config\_info</code> module instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453)\)\.
-* git\_config \- using <code>state\=present</code> without providing <code>value</code> is deprecated and will be disallowed in community\.general 11\.0\.0\. Use the <code>community\.general\.git\_config\_info</code> module instead to read a value \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8453)\)\.
-
-<a id="bugfixes-1"></a>
-### Bugfixes
-
-* git\_config \- fix behavior of <code>state\=absent</code> if <code>value</code> is present \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8436](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8436)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8452](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8452)\)\.
-* keycloak\_realm \- add normalizations for <code>attributes</code> and <code>protocol\_mappers</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8496](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8496)\)\.
-* launched \- correctly report changed status in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406)\)\.
-* opennebula inventory plugin \- fix invalid reference to IP when inventory runs against NICs with no IPv4 address \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8489](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8489)\)\.
-* opentelemetry callback \- do not save the JSON response when using the <code>ansible\.builtin\.uri</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430)\)\.
-* opentelemetry callback \- do not save the content response when using the <code>ansible\.builtin\.slurp</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8430)\)\.
-* paman \- do not fail if an empty list of packages has been provided and there is nothing to do \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8514](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8514)\)\.
-
-<a id="known-issues"></a>
-### Known Issues
-
-* homectl \- the module does not work under Python 3\.13 or newer\, since it relies on the removed <code>crypt</code> standard library module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4691](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4691)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497)\)\.
-* udm\_user \- the module does not work under Python 3\.13 or newer\, since it relies on the removed <code>crypt</code> standard library module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4690](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4690)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8497)\)\.
-
-<a id="new-plugins-1"></a>
-### New Plugins
-
-<a id="filter-1"></a>
-#### Filter
-
-* community\.general\.keep\_keys \- Keep specific keys from dictionaries in a list\.
-* community\.general\.remove\_keys \- Remove specific keys from dictionaries in a list\.
-* community\.general\.replace\_keys \- Replace specific keys in a list of dictionaries\.
-
-<a id="new-modules"></a>
-### New Modules
-
-* community\.general\.consul\_agent\_check \- Add\, modify\, and delete checks within a consul cluster\.
-* community\.general\.consul\_agent\_service \- Add\, modify and delete services within a consul cluster\.
-* community\.general\.django\_check \- Wrapper for C\(django\-admin check\)\.
-* community\.general\.django\_createcachetable \- Wrapper for C\(django\-admin createcachetable\)\.
-
-<a id="v9-0-1"></a>
-## v9\.0\.1
-
-<a id="release-summary-2"></a>
-### Release Summary
-
-Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 10\.0\.0rc1\.
-
-<a id="minor-changes-2"></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-2"></a>
-### Bugfixes
-
-* cpanm \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* django module utils \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* gconftool2\_info \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* homebrew \- do not fail when brew prints warnings \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8406)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7044](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7044)\)\.
-* hponcfg \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* kernel\_blacklist \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* keycloak\_client \- fix TypeError when sanitizing the <code>saml\.signing\.private\.key</code> attribute in the module\'s diff or state output\. The <code>sanitize\_cr</code> function expected a dict where in some cases a list might occur \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8403](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8403)\)\.
-* locale\_gen \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* mksysb \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* pipx\_info \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* snap \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-* snap\_alias \- use new <code>VarDict</code> to prevent deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8410)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8411)\)\.
-
-<a id="v9-0-0"></a>
-## v9\.0\.0
-
-<a id="release-summary-3"></a>
-### Release Summary
-
-This is release 9\.0\.0 of <code>community\.general</code>\, released on 2024\-05\-20\.
-
-<a id="minor-changes-3"></a>
-### Minor Changes
-
-* PythonRunner module utils \- specialisation of <code>CmdRunner</code> to execute Python scripts \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8289](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8289)\)\.
-* Use offset\-aware <code>datetime\.datetime</code> objects \(with timezone UTC\) instead of offset\-naive UTC timestamps\, which are deprecated in Python 3\.12 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8222](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8222)\)\.
-* aix\_lvol \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* apt\_rpm \- add new states <code>latest</code> and <code>present\_not\_latest</code>\. The value <code>latest</code> is equivalent to the current behavior of <code>present</code>\, which will upgrade a package if a newer version exists\. <code>present\_not\_latest</code> does what most users would expect <code>present</code> to do\: it does not upgrade if the package is already installed\. The current behavior of <code>present</code> will be deprecated in a later version\, and eventually changed to that of <code>present\_not\_latest</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8247](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8247)\)\.
-* apt\_rpm \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* bitwarden lookup plugin \- add <code>bw\_session</code> option\, to pass session key instead of reading from env \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7994](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7994)\)\.
-* bitwarden lookup plugin \- add support to filter by organization ID \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8188](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8188)\)\.
-* bitwarden lookup plugin \- allows to fetch all records of a given collection ID\, by allowing to pass an empty value for <code>search\_value</code> when <code>collection\_id</code> is provided \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8013](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8013)\)\.
-* bitwarden lookup plugin \- when looking for items using an item ID\, the item is now accessed directly with <code>bw get item</code> instead of searching through all items\. This doubles the lookup speed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7468](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7468)\)\.
-* btrfs\_subvolume \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* cmd\_runner module\_utils \- add validation for minimum and maximum length in the value passed to <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_list\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8288](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8288)\)\.
-* consul\_auth\_method\, consul\_binding\_rule\, consul\_policy\, consul\_role\, consul\_session\, consul\_token \- added action group <code>community\.general\.consul</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7897](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7897)\)\.
-* consul\_policy \- added support for diff and check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
-* consul\_policy\, consul\_role\, consul\_session \- removed dependency on <code>requests</code> and factored out common parts \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7826](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7826)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
-* consul\_role \- <code>node\_identities</code> now expects a <code>node\_name</code> option to match the Consul API\, the old <code>name</code> is still supported as alias \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
-* consul\_role \- <code>service\_identities</code> now expects a <code>service\_name</code> option to match the Consul API\, the old <code>name</code> is still supported as alias \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
-* consul\_role \- added support for diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
-* consul\_role \- added support for templated policies \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
-* elastic callback plugin \- close elastic client to not leak resources \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7517](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7517)\)\.
-* filesystem \- add bcachefs support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8126](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8126)\)\.
-* gandi\_livedns \- adds support for personal access tokens \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7639](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7639)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8337](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8337)\)\.
-* gconftool2 \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
-* git\_config \- allow multiple git configs for the same name with the new <code>add\_mode</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
-* git\_config \- the <code>after</code> and <code>before</code> fields in the <code>diff</code> of the return value can be a list instead of a string in case more configs with the same key are affected \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
-* git\_config \- when a value is unset\, all configs with the same key are unset \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
-* gitlab modules \- add <code>ca\_path</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7472](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7472)\)\.
-* gitlab modules \- remove duplicate <code>gitlab</code> package check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7486](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7486)\)\.
-* gitlab\_deploy\_key\, gitlab\_group\_members\, gitlab\_group\_variable\, gitlab\_hook\, gitlab\_instance\_variable\, gitlab\_project\_badge\, gitlab\_project\_variable\, gitlab\_user \- improve API pagination and compatibility with different versions of <code>python\-gitlab</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790)\)\.
-* gitlab\_hook \- adds <code>releases\_events</code> parameter for supporting Releases events triggers on GitLab hooks \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7956](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7956)\)\.
-* gitlab\_runner \- add support for new runner creation workflow \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7199](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7199)\)\.
-* homebrew \- adds <code>force\_formula</code> parameter to disambiguate a formula from a cask of the same name \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8274](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8274)\)\.
-* homebrew\, homebrew\_cask \- refactor common argument validation logic into a dedicated <code>homebrew</code> module utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8323](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8323)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8324](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8324)\)\.
-* icinga2 inventory plugin \- add Jinja2 templating support to <code>url</code>\, <code>user</code>\, and <code>password</code> paramenters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7074](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7074)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7996](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7996)\)\.
-* icinga2 inventory plugin \- adds new parameter <code>group\_by\_hostgroups</code> in order to make grouping by Icinga2 hostgroups optional \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7998](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7998)\)\.
-* ini\_file \- add an optional parameter <code>section\_has\_values</code>\. If the target ini file contains more than one <code>section</code>\, use <code>section\_has\_values</code> to specify which one should be updated \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7505](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7505)\)\.
-* ini\_file \- support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding brackets \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8075](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8075)\)\.
-* installp \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* ipa\_config \- adds <code>passkey</code> choice to <code>ipauserauthtype</code> parameter\'s choices \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7588](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7588)\)\.
-* ipa\_dnsrecord \- adds ability to manage NS record types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7737](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7737)\)\.
-* ipa\_pwpolicy \- refactor module and exchange a sequence <code>if</code> statements with a <code>for</code> loop \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723)\)\.
-* ipa\_pwpolicy \- update module to support <code>maxrepeat</code>\, <code>maxsequence</code>\, <code>dictcheck</code>\, <code>usercheck</code>\, <code>gracelimit</code> parameters in FreeIPA password policies \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723)\)\.
-* ipa\_sudorule \- adds options to include denied commands or command groups \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7415](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7415)\)\.
-* ipa\_user \- adds <code>idp</code> and <code>passkey</code> choice to <code>ipauserauthtype</code> parameter\'s choices \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7589](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7589)\)\.
-* irc \- add <code>validate\_certs</code> option\, and rename <code>use\_ssl</code> to <code>use\_tls</code>\, while keeping <code>use\_ssl</code> as an alias\. The default value for <code>validate\_certs</code> is <code>false</code> for backwards compatibility\. We recommend to every user of this module to explicitly set <code>use\_tls\=true</code> and <em class="title-reference">validate\_certs\=true\`</em> whenever possible\, especially when communicating to IRC servers over the internet \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7550](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7550)\)\.
-* java\_cert \- add <code>cert\_content</code> argument \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8153](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8153)\)\.
-* java\_cert \- enable <code>owner</code>\, <code>group</code>\, <code>mode</code>\, and other generic file arguments \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8116)\)\.
-* kernel\_blacklist \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
-* keycloak module utils \- expose error message from Keycloak server for HTTP errors in some specific situations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7645](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7645)\)\.
-* keycloak\_client\, keycloak\_clientscope\, keycloak\_clienttemplate \- added <code>docker\-v2</code> protocol support\, enhancing alignment with Keycloak\'s protocol options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8215](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8215)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8216](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8216)\)\.
-* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>config\.algorithm</code> option now supports 8 additional key algorithms \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
-* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>config\.certificate</code> option value is no longer defined with <code>no\_log\=True</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
-* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>provider\_id</code> option now supports RSA encryption key usage \(value <code>rsa\-enc</code>\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
-* keycloak\_user\_federation \- add option for <code>krbPrincipalAttribute</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7538](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7538)\)\.
-* keycloak\_user\_federation \- allow custom user storage providers to be set through <code>provider\_id</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7789](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7789)\)\.
-* ldap\_attrs \- module now supports diff mode\, showing which attributes are changed within an operation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8073](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8073)\)\.
-* lvg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* lvol \- change <code>pvs</code> argument type to list of strings \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7676](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7676)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7504](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7504)\)\.
-* lvol \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* lxd connection plugin \- tighten the detection logic for lxd <code>Instance not found</code> errors\, to avoid false detection on unrelated errors such as <code>/usr/bin/python3\: not found</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7521](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7521)\)\.
-* lxd\_container \- uses <code>/1\.0/instances</code> API endpoint\, if available\. Falls back to <code>/1\.0/containers</code> or <code>/1\.0/virtual\-machines</code>\. Fixes issue when using Incus or LXD 5\.19 due to migrating to <code>/1\.0/instances</code> endpoint \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7980](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7980)\)\.
-* macports \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* mail \- add <code>Message\-ID</code> header\; which is required by some mail servers \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7740](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7740)\)\.
-* mail module\, mail callback plugin \- allow to configure the domain name of the Message\-ID header with a new <code>message\_id\_domain</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7765](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7765)\)\.
-* mssql\_script \- adds transactional \(rollback/commit\) support via optional boolean param <code>transaction</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7976](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7976)\)\.
-* netcup\_dns \- adds support for record types <code>OPENPGPKEY</code>\, <code>SMIMEA</code>\, and <code>SSHFP</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7489](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7489)\)\.
-* nmcli \- add support for new connection type <code>loopback</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6572](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6572)\)\.
-* nmcli \- adds OpenvSwitch support with new <code>type</code> values <code>ovs\-port</code>\, <code>ovs\-interface</code>\, and <code>ovs\-bridge</code>\, and new <code>slave\_type</code> value <code>ovs\-port</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8154](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8154)\)\.
-* nmcli \- allow for <code>infiniband</code> slaves of <code>bond</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7569](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7569)\)\.
-* nmcli \- allow for the setting of <code>MTU</code> for <code>infiniband</code> and <code>bond</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7499](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7499)\)\.
-* nmcli \- allow setting <code>MTU</code> for <code>bond\-slave</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8118](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8118)\)\.
-* onepassword lookup plugin \- support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect\_host and connect\_token parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116)\)\.
-* onepassword\_raw lookup plugin \- support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect\_host and connect\_token parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116)\)
-* opentelemetry \- add support for HTTP trace\_exporter and configures the behavior via <code>OTEL\_EXPORTER\_OTLP\_TRACES\_PROTOCOL</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8321](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8321)\)\.
-* opentelemetry \- add support for exporting spans in a file via <code>ANSIBLE\_OPENTELEMETRY\_STORE\_SPANS\_IN\_FILE</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8363](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8363)\)\.
-* opkg \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
-* osx\_defaults \- add option <code>check\_types</code> to enable changing the type of existing defaults on the fly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8173](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8173)\)\.
-* parted \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* passwordstore \- adds <code>timestamp</code> and <code>preserve</code> parameters to modify the stored password format \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7426](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7426)\)\.
-* passwordstore lookup \- add <code>missing\_subkey</code> parameter defining the behavior of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8166](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8166)\)\.
-* pipx \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
-* pkg5 \- add support for non\-silent execution \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8379](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8379)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8382](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8382)\)\.
-* pkgin \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* portage \- adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages to world file \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6226)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8236](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8236)\)\.
-* portinstall \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* proxmox \- adds <code>startup</code> parameters to configure startup order\, startup delay and shutdown delay \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8038](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8038)\)\.
-* proxmox \- adds <code>template</code> value to the <code>state</code> parameter\, allowing conversion of container to a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143)\)\.
-* proxmox \- adds <code>update</code> parameter\, allowing update of an already existing containers configuration \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7540](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7540)\)\.
-* proxmox inventory plugin \- adds an option to exclude nodes from the dynamic inventory generation\. The new setting is optional\, not using this option will behave as usual \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6714](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6714)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7461](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7461)\)\.
-* proxmox\* modules \- there is now a <code>community\.general\.proxmox</code> module defaults group that can be used to set default options for all Proxmox modules \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8334](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8334)\)\.
-* proxmox\_disk \- add ability to manipulate CD\-ROM drive \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7495](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7495)\)\.
-* proxmox\_kvm \- add parameter <code>update\_unsafe</code> to avoid limitations when updating dangerous values \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7843](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7843)\)\.
-* proxmox\_kvm \- adds <code>template</code> value to the <code>state</code> parameter\, allowing conversion of a VM to a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143)\)\.
-* proxmox\_kvm \- adds\`\`usb\`\` parameter for setting USB devices on proxmox KVM VMs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8199](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8199)\)\.
-* proxmox\_kvm \- support the <code>hookscript</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7600](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7600)\)\.
-* proxmox\_ostype \- it is now possible to specify the <code>ostype</code> when creating an LXC container \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7462](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7462)\)\.
-* proxmox\_vm\_info \- add ability to retrieve configuration info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7485](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7485)\)\.
-* puppet \- new feature to set <code>\-\-waitforlock</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8282](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8282)\)\.
-* redfish\_command \- add command <code>ResetToDefaults</code> to reset manager to default state \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8163](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8163)\)\.
-* redfish\_config \- add command <code>SetServiceIdentification</code> to set service identification \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7916](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7916)\)\.
-* redfish\_info \- add boolean return value <code>MultipartHttpPush</code> to <code>GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8194](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8194)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8195](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8195)\)\.
-* redfish\_info \- add command <code>GetServiceIdentification</code> to get service identification \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7882](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7882)\)\.
-* redfish\_info \- adding the <code>BootProgress</code> property when getting <code>Systems</code> info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7626](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7626)\)\.
-* revbitspss lookup plugin \- removed a redundant unicode prefix\. The prefix was not necessary for Python 3 and has been cleaned up to streamline the code \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8087](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8087)\)\.
-* rundeck module utils \- allow to pass <code>Content\-Type</code> to API requests \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7684](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7684)\)\.
-* slackpkg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* ssh\_config \- adds <code>controlmaster</code>\, <code>controlpath</code> and <code>controlpersist</code> parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7456](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7456)\)\.
-* ssh\_config \- allow <code>accept\-new</code> as valid value for <code>strict\_host\_key\_checking</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8257](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8257)\)\.
-* ssh\_config \- new feature to set <code>AddKeysToAgent</code> option to <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7703](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7703)\)\.
-* ssh\_config \- new feature to set <code>IdentitiesOnly</code> option to <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7704](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7704)\)\.
-* sudoers \- add support for the <code>NOEXEC</code> tag in sudoers rules \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7983](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7983)\)\.
-* svr4pkg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* swdepot \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
-* terraform \- add support for <code>diff\_mode</code> for terraform resource\_changes \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7896](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7896)\)\.
-* terraform \- fix <code>diff\_mode</code> in state <code>absent</code> and when terraform <code>resource\_changes</code> does not exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7963](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7963)\)\.
-* xcc\_redfish\_command \- added support for raw POSTs \(<code>command\=PostResource</code> in <code>category\=Raw</code>\) without a specific action info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7746](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7746)\)\.
-* xfconf \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
-* xfconf\_info \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
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-### 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 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
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-### Deprecated Features
-
-* MH DependencyCtxMgr module\_utils \- deprecate <code>module\_utils\.mh\.mixin\.deps\.DependencyCtxMgr</code> in favour of <code>module\_utils\.deps</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
-* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.AnsibleModule</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
-* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.DependencyCtxMgr</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
-* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.StateMixin</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
-* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarDict\,</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
-* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarMeta</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
-* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarsMixin</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
-* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate use of <code>VarsMixin</code> in favor of using the <code>VardDict</code> module\_utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
-* ModuleHelper vars module\_utils \- bump deprecation of <code>VarMeta</code>\, <code>VarDict</code> and <code>VarsMixin</code> to version 11\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
-* apt\_rpm \- the behavior of <code>state\=present</code> and <code>state\=installed</code> is deprecated and will change in community\.general 11\.0\.0\. Right now the module will upgrade a package to the latest version if one of these two states is used\. You should explicitly use <code>state\=latest</code> if you want this behavior\, and switch to <code>state\=present\_not\_latest</code> if you do not want to upgrade the package if it is already installed\. In community\.general 11\.0\.0 the behavior of <code>state\=present</code> and <code>state\=installed</code> will change to that of <code>state\=present\_not\_latest</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8285](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8285)\)\.
-* consul\_acl \- the module has been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0\. <code>consul\_token</code> and <code>consul\_policy</code> can be used instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7901](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7901)\)\.
-* django\_manage \- the <code>ack\_venv\_creation\_deprecation</code> option has no more effect and will be removed from community\.general 11\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
-* gitlab modules \- the basic auth method on GitLab API have been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8383](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8383)\)\.
-* hipchat callback plugin \- the hipchat service has been discontinued and the self\-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020\. The callback plugin is therefore deprecated and will be removed from community\.general 10\.0\.0 if nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8184](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8184)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8189](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8189)\)\.
-* irc \- the defaults <code>false</code> for <code>use\_tls</code> and <code>validate\_certs</code> have been deprecated and will change to <code>true</code> in community\.general 10\.0\.0 to improve security\. You can already improve security now by explicitly setting them to <code>true</code>\. Specifying values now disables the deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7578](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7578)\)\.
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-<a id="removed-features-previously-deprecated"></a>
-### Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)
-
-* The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed\. These internal redirects were extra\-long FQCNs like <code>community\.general\.packaging\.os\.apt\_rpm</code> that redirect to the short FQCN <code>community\.general\.apt\_rpm</code>\. They were originally needed to implement flatmapping\; as various tooling started to recommend users to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection and redirects were added for users who already followed these incorrect recommendations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7835](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7835)\)\.
-* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- the <code>ack\_ansible29</code> and <code>ack\_min\_ansiblecore211</code> options have been removed\. They no longer had any effect \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
-* cloudflare\_dns \- remove support for SPF records\. These are no longer supported by CloudFlare \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7782](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7782)\)\.
-* django\_manage \- support for the <code>command</code> values <code>cleanup</code>\, <code>syncdb</code>\, and <code>validate</code> were removed\. Use <code>clearsessions</code>\, <code>migrate</code>\, and <code>check</code> instead\, respectively \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
-* flowdock \- this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
-* mh\.mixins\.deps module utils \- the <code>DependencyMixin</code> has been removed\. Use the <code>deps</code> module utils instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
-* proxmox \- the <code>proxmox\_default\_behavior</code> option has been removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
-* rax\* modules\, rax module utils\, rax docs fragment \- the Rackspace modules relied on the deprecated package <code>pyrax</code> and were thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
-* redhat module utils \- the classes <code>Rhsm</code>\, <code>RhsmPool</code>\, and <code>RhsmPools</code> have been removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
-* redhat\_subscription \- the alias <code>autosubscribe</code> of the <code>auto\_attach</code> option was removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
-* stackdriver \- this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
-* webfaction\_\* modules \- these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and were thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
-
-<a id="security-fixes"></a>
-### Security Fixes
-
-* cobbler\, gitlab\_runners\, icinga2\, linode\, lxd\, nmap\, online\, opennebula\, proxmox\, scaleway\, stackpath\_compute\, virtualbox\, and xen\_orchestra inventory plugin \- make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe\, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible \([https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/](https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098)\)\.
-* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- the client secret was not correctly sanitized by the module\. The return values <code>proposed</code>\, <code>existing</code>\, and <code>end\_state</code>\, as well as the diff\, did contain the client secret unmasked \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8355](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8355)\)\.
-
-<a id="bugfixes-3"></a>
-### Bugfixes
-
-* aix\_filesystem \- fix <code>\_validate\_vg</code> not passing VG name to <code>lsvg\_cmd</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151)\)\.
-* aix\_filesystem \- fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052)\)\.
-* apt\-rpm \- the module did not upgrade packages if a newer version exists\. Now the package will be reinstalled if the candidate is newer than the installed version \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414)\)\.
-* apt\_rpm \- when checking whether packages were installed after running <code>apt\-get \-y install \<packages\></code>\, only the last package name was checked \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263)\)\.
-* bitwarden\_secrets\_manager lookup plugin \- implements retry with exponential backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn\'s API rate limiting is encountered \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238)\)\.
-* cargo \- fix idempotency issues when using a custom installation path for packages \(using the <code>\-\-path</code> parameter\)\. The initial installation runs fine\, but subsequent runs use the <code>get\_installed\(\)</code> function which did not check the given installation location\, before running <code>cargo install</code>\. This resulted in a false <code>changed</code> state\. Also the removal of packeges using <code>state\: absent</code> failed\, as the installation check did not use the given parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970)\)\.
-* cloudflare\_dns \- fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652)\)\.
-* consul\_token \- fix token creation without <code>accessor\_id</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8091](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8091)\)\.
-* from\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of <code>ConfigParser</code> to allow converting values with a <code>\%</code> sign \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185)\)\.
-* gitlab\_group\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_group\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
-* gitlab\_issue \- fix behavior to search GitLab issue\, using <code>search</code> keyword instead of <code>title</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7846](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7846)\)\.
-* gitlab\_issue\, gitlab\_label\, gitlab\_milestone \- avoid crash during version comparison when the python\-gitlab Python module is not installed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158)\)\.
-* gitlab\_project\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_project\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
-* gitlab\_protected\_branches \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_protected\_branches</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
-* gitlab\_runner \- fix pagination when checking for existing runners \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790)\)\.
-* gitlab\_user \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_user</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
-* haproxy \- fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092)\)\.
-* homebrew \- detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from <code>brew info</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864)\)\.
-* homebrew \- error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse empty JSON\. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error message to users \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047)\)\.
-* incus connection plugin \- treats <code>inventory\_hostname</code> as a variable instead of a literal in remote connections \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7874](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7874)\)\.
-* interface\_files \- also consider <code>address\_family</code> when changing <code>option\=method</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612)\)\.
-* inventory plugins \- add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain <code>\{</code> or <code>\}</code> as unsafe\, to work around a bug in AWX \(\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225)\)\.
-* ipa \- fix get version regex in IPA module\_utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175)\)\.
-* ipa\_hbacrule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
-* ipa\_otptoken \- the module expect <code>ipatokendisabled</code> as string but the <code>ipatokendisabled</code> value is returned as a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795)\)\.
-* ipa\_sudorule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
-* iptables\_state \- fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables dumps \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029)\)\.
-* irc \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
-* keycloak\_\* \- fix Keycloak API client to quote <code>/</code> properly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641)\)\.
-* keycloak\_authz\_permission \- resource payload variable for scope\-based permission was constructed as a string\, when it needs to be a list\, even for a single item \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151)\)\.
-* keycloak\_client \- add sorted <code>defaultClientScopes</code> and <code>optionalClientScopes</code> to normalizations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223)\)\.
-* keycloak\_client \- fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when task is in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881)\)\.
-* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- <code>mappers</code> processing was not idempotent if the mappers configuration list had not been sorted by name \(in ascending order\)\. Fix resolves the issue by sorting mappers in the desired state using the same key which is used for obtaining existing state \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
-* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- it was not possible to reconfigure \(add\, remove\) <code>mappers</code> once they were created initially\. Removal was ignored\, adding new ones resulted in dropping the pre\-existing unmodified mappers\. Fix resolves the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
-* keycloak\_realm \- add normalizations for <code>enabledEventTypes</code> and <code>supportedLocales</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224)\)\.
-* keycloak\_user \- when <code>force</code> is set\, but user does not exist\, do not try to delete it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696)\)\.
-* keycloak\_user\_federation \- fix diff of empty <code>krbPrincipalAttribute</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8320](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8320)\)\.
-* ldap \- previously the order number \(if present\) was expected to follow an equals sign in the DN\. This makes it so the order number string is identified correctly anywhere within the DN \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646)\)\.
-* linode inventory plugin \- add descriptive error message for linode inventory plugin \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133)\)\.
-* log\_entries callback plugin \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
-* lvol \- test for output messages in both <code>stdout</code> and <code>stderr</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182)\)\.
-* merge\_variables lookup plugin \- fixing cross host merge\: providing access to foreign hosts variables to the perspective of the host that is performing the merge \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8303](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8303)\)\.
-* modprobe \- listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError if <code>/etc/modprobe\.d</code> or <code>/etc/modules\-load\.d</code> did not exist\. Relevant functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid crashing the module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717)\)\.
-* mssql\_script \- make the module work with Python 2 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821)\)\.
-* nmcli \- fix <code>connection\.slave\-type</code> wired to <code>bond</code> and not with parameter <code>slave\_type</code> in case of connection type <code>wifi</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389)\)\.
-* ocapi\_utils\, oci\_utils\, redfish\_utils module utils \- replace <code>type\(\)</code> calls with <code>isinstance\(\)</code> calls \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501)\)\.
-* onepassword lookup plugin \- failed for fields that were in sections and had uppercase letters in the label/ID\. Field lookups are now case insensitive in all cases \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919)\)\.
-* onepassword lookup plugin \- field and section titles are now case insensitive when using op CLI version two or later\. This matches the behavior of version one \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564)\)\.
-* opentelemetry callback plugin \- close spans always \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8367](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8367)\)\.
-* opentelemetry callback plugin \- honour the <code>disable\_logs</code> option to avoid storing task results since they are not used regardless \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8373](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8373)\)\.
-* pacemaker\_cluster \- actually implement check mode\, which the module claims to support\. This means that until now the module also did changes in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081)\)\.
-* pam\_limits \- when the file does not exist\, do not create it in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057)\)\.
-* pipx module utils \- change the CLI argument formatter for the <code>pip\_args</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506)\)\.
-* pkgin \- pkgin \(pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS\) raises erratic exceptions and spurious <code>changed\=true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971)\)\.
-* proxmox \- fix updating a container config if the setting does not already exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872)\)\.
-* proxmox\_kvm \- fixed status check getting from node\-specific API endpoint \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817)\)\.
-* proxmox\_kvm \- running <code>state\=template</code> will first check whether VM is already a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7792](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7792)\)\.
-* proxmox\_pool\_member \- absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464)\)\.
-* puppet \- add option <code>environment\_lang</code> to set the environment language encoding\. Defaults to lang <code>C</code>\. It is recommended to set it to <code>C\.UTF\-8</code> or <code>en\_US\.UTF\-8</code> depending on what is available on your system\. \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000)\)
-* redfish\_command \- fix usage of message parsing in <code>SimpleUpdate</code> and <code>MultipartHTTPPushUpdate</code> commands to treat the lack of a <code>MessageId</code> as no message \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471)\)\.
-* redfish\_info \- allow for a GET operation invoked by <code>GetUpdateStatus</code> to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No Content \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003)\)\.
-* redfish\_info \- correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve <code>Chassis</code> information \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952)\)\.
-* redhat\_subscription \- use the D\-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7\.4 and
-  greater\; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
-  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622)\,
-  [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624)\)\.
-* riak \- support <code>riak admin</code> sub\-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy <code>riak\-admin</code> main command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211)\)\.
-* statusio\_maintenance \- fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload\. Was raising \"Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request\" caused by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754)\)\.
-* terraform \- fix multiline string handling in complex variables \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535)\)\.
-* to\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of <code>ConfigParser</code> to allow converting values with a <code>\%</code> sign \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185)\)\.
-* xml \- make module work with lxml 5\.1\.1\, which removed some internals that the module was relying on \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169)\)\.
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-### New Plugins
-
-<a id="become"></a>
-#### Become
-
-* community\.general\.run0 \- Systemd\'s run0\.
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-<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\.
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-<a id="connection"></a>
-#### Connection
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-* community\.general\.incus \- Run tasks in Incus instances via the Incus CLI\.
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-#### Filter
-
-* community\.general\.from\_ini \- Converts INI text input into a dictionary\.
-* community\.general\.lists\_difference \- Difference of lists with a predictive order\.
-* community\.general\.lists\_intersect \- Intersection of lists with a predictive order\.
-* community\.general\.lists\_symmetric\_difference \- Symmetric Difference of lists with a predictive order\.
-* community\.general\.lists\_union \- Union of lists with a predictive order\.
-* community\.general\.to\_ini \- Converts a dictionary to the INI file format\.
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-<a id="lookup"></a>
-#### Lookup
-
-* community\.general\.github\_app\_access\_token \- Obtain short\-lived Github App Access tokens\.
-* community\.general\.onepassword\_doc \- Fetch documents stored in 1Password\.
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-<a id="test-1"></a>
-#### Test
-
-* community\.general\.fqdn\_valid \- Validates fully\-qualified domain names against RFC 1123\.
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-<a id="new-modules-1"></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
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Community General Release Notes

 .. contents:: Topics

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

-v9.2.0
+v6.1.0
 ======

 Release Summary
@@ -17,445 +17,337 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release.
 Minor Changes
 -------------

- CmdRunner module utils - the parameter ``force_lang`` now supports the special value ``auto`` which will automatically try and determine the best parsable locale in the system (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8517).
- proxmox - add ``disk_volume`` and ``mount_volumes`` keys for better readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
- proxmox - translate the old ``disk`` and ``mounts`` keys to the new handling internally (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
- proxmox_template - small refactor in logic for determining whether a template exists or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8516).
- redfish_* modules - adds ``ciphers`` option for custom cipher selection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8533).
- sudosu become plugin - added an option (``alt_method``) to enhance compatibility with more versions of ``su`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8214).
- virtualbox inventory plugin - expose a new parameter ``enable_advanced_group_parsing`` to change how the VirtualBox dynamic inventory parses VM groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8508, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8510).
- wdc_redfish_command - minor change to handle upgrade file for Redfish WD platforms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8444).
-
-Bugfixes
--------
-
- bitwarden lookup plugin - fix ``KeyError`` in ``search_field`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8549, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8557).
- keycloak_clientscope - remove IDs from clientscope and its protocol mappers on comparison for changed check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8545).
- nsupdate - fix 'index out of range' error when changing NS records by falling back to authority section of the response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8612, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8614).
- proxmox - fix idempotency on creation of mount volumes using Proxmox' special ``<storage>:<size>`` syntax (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8407, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
- redfish_utils module utils - do not fail when language is not exactly "en" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8613).
-
-New Plugins
-----------
-
-Filter
-~~~~~~
-
- community.general.reveal_ansible_type - Return input type.
-
-Test
-~~~~
-
- community.general.ansible_type - Validate input type.
-
-v9.1.0
-======
-
-Release Summary
---------------
-
-Regular feature and bugfix release.
-
-Minor Changes
-------------
-
- CmdRunner module util - argument formats can be specified as plain functions without calling ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_func()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8479).
- ansible_galaxy_install - add upgrade feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8431, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8351).
- cargo - add option ``directory``, which allows source directory to be specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8480).
- cmd_runner module utils - add decorator ``cmd_runner_fmt.stack`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8415).
- cmd_runner_fmt module utils - simplify implementation of ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool_not()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8512).
- ipa_dnsrecord - adds ``SSHFP`` record type for managing SSH fingerprints in FreeIPA DNS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8404).
- keycloak_client - assign auth flow by name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8428).
- openbsd_pkg - adds diff support to show changes in installed package list. This does not yet work for check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8402).
- proxmox - allow specification of the API port when using proxmox_* (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8440, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8441).
- proxmox_vm_info - add ``network`` option to retrieve current network information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8471).
- redfish_command - add ``wait`` and ``wait_timeout`` options to allow a user to block a command until a service is accessible after performing the requested command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8051, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8434).
- redfish_info - add command ``CheckAvailability`` to check if a service is accessible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8051, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8434).
- redis_info - adds support for getting cluster info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8464).
+- cmd_runner module utils - ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool()`` can now take an extra parameter to format when value is false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5647).
+- gconftool2 - refactor using ``ModuleHelper`` and ``CmdRunner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5545).
+- java_certs - add more detailed error output when extracting certificate from PKCS12 fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5550).
+- jenkins_plugin - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5565).
+- lxd_project - refactored code out to module utils to clear sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5549).
+- nmap inventory plugin - add new options ``udp_scan``, ``icmp_timestamp``, and ``dns_resolve`` for different types of scans (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5566).
+- rax_scaling_group - refactored out code to the ``rax`` module utils to clear the sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5563).
+- redfish_command - add ``PerformRequestedOperations`` command to perform any operations necessary to continue the update flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_command - add ``update_apply_time`` to ``SimpleUpdate`` command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3910).
+- redfish_command - add ``update_status`` to output of ``SimpleUpdate`` command to allow a user monitor the update in progress (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_info - add ``GetUpdateStatus`` command to check the progress of a previous update request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
+- redfish_utils module utils - added PUT (``put_request()``) functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5490).
+- slack - add option ``prepend_hash`` which allows to control whether a ``#`` is prepended to ``channel_id``. The current behavior (value ``auto``) is to prepend ``#`` unless some specific prefixes are found. That list of prefixes is incomplete, and there does not seem to exist a documented condition on when exactly ``#`` must not be prepended. We recommend to explicitly set ``prepend_hash=always`` or ``prepend_hash=never`` to avoid any ambiguity (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5629).
+- spotinst_aws_elastigroup - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5553).
+- ssh_config - add ``host_key_algorithms`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5605).
+- udm_share - added ``elements`` attribute to ``list`` type parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5557).
+- udm_user - add ``elements`` attribute when missing in ``list`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5559).

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

- CmdRunner module util - setting the value of the ``ignore_none`` parameter within a ``CmdRunner`` context is deprecated and that feature should be removed in community.general 12.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8479).
- git_config - the ``list_all`` option has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 11.0.0. Use the ``community.general.git_config_info`` module instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8453).
- git_config - using ``state=present`` without providing ``value`` is deprecated and will be disallowed in community.general 11.0.0. Use the ``community.general.git_config_info`` module instead to read a value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8453).
+- The ``sap`` modules ``sapcar_extract``, ``sap_task_list_execute``, and ``hana_query``, will be removed from this collection in community.general 7.0.0 and replaced with redirects to ``community.sap_libs``. If you want to continue using these modules, make sure to also install ``community.sap_libs`` (it is part of the Ansible package) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5614).

 Bugfixes
 --------

- git_config - fix behavior of ``state=absent`` if ``value`` is present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8436, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8452).
- keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``attributes`` and ``protocol_mappers`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8496).
- launched - correctly report changed status in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8406).
- opennebula inventory plugin - fix invalid reference to IP when inventory runs against NICs with no IPv4 address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8489).
- opentelemetry callback - do not save the JSON response when using the ``ansible.builtin.uri`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8430).
- opentelemetry callback - do not save the content response when using the ``ansible.builtin.slurp`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8430).
- paman - do not fail if an empty list of packages has been provided and there is nothing to do (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8514).
-
-Known Issues
------------
-
- homectl - the module does not work under Python 3.13 or newer, since it relies on the removed ``crypt`` standard library module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4691, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8497).
- udm_user - the module does not work under Python 3.13 or newer, since it relies on the removed ``crypt`` standard library module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4690, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8497).
-
-New Plugins
-----------
-
-Filter
-~~~~~~
-
- community.general.keep_keys - Keep specific keys from dictionaries in a list.
- community.general.remove_keys - Remove specific keys from dictionaries in a list.
- community.general.replace_keys - Replace specific keys in a list of dictionaries.
+- chroot connection plugin - add ``inventory_hostname`` to vars under ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5570).
+- cmd_runner module utils - fixed bug when handling default cases in ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_map()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
+- cmd_runner module utils - formatting arguments ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_fixed()`` was expecting an non-existing argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - calculate ``proposed`` and ``after`` return values properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
+- keycloak_client_rolemapping - remove only listed mappings with ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fix bug while templating when using templates for the ``url``, ``user``, ``password``, ``token_id``, or ``token_secret`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5640).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - handle tags delimited by semicolon instead of comma, which happens from Proxmox 7.3 on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5602).
+- redhat_subscription - do not ignore ``consumer_name`` and other variables if ``activationkey`` is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3486, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5627).
+- redhat_subscription - do not pass arguments to ``subscription-manager register`` for things already configured; now a specified ``rhsm_baseurl`` is properly set for subscription-manager (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5583).
+- unixy callback plugin - fix plugin to work with ansible-core 2.14 by using Ansible's configuration manager for handling options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5600).
+- vdo - now uses ``yaml.safe_load()`` to parse command output instead of the deprecated ``yaml.load()`` which is potentially unsafe. Using ``yaml.load()`` without explicitely setting a ``Loader=`` is also an error in pyYAML 6.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5632).
+- vmadm - fix for index out of range error in ``get_vm_uuid`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5628).

 New Modules
 -----------

- community.general.consul_agent_check - Add, modify, and delete checks within a consul cluster.
- community.general.consul_agent_service - Add, modify and delete services within a consul cluster.
- community.general.django_check - Wrapper for C(django-admin check).
- community.general.django_createcachetable - Wrapper for C(django-admin createcachetable).
+- gitlab_project_badge - Manage project badges on GitLab Server
+- keycloak_clientsecret_info - Retrieve client secret via Keycloak API
+- keycloak_clientsecret_regenerate - Regenerate Keycloak client secret via Keycloak API

-v9.0.1
+v6.0.1
 ======

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

-Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 10.0.0rc1.
-
-Minor Changes
-------------
-
- ansible_galaxy_install - minor refactor in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8413).
+Bugfix release for Ansible 7.0.0.

 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).
+- dependent lookup plugin - avoid warning on deprecated parameter for ``Templar.template()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5543).
+- jenkins_build - fix the logical flaw when deleting a Jenkins build (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5514).
+- one_vm - avoid splitting labels that are ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5489).
+- onepassword_raw - add missing parameter to plugin documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5506).
+- proxmox_disk - avoid duplicate ``vmid`` reference (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5493).

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

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

-This is release 9.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2024-05-20.
+New major release of community.general with lots of bugfixes, new features, some removed deprecated features, and some other breaking changes. Please check the coresponding sections of the changelog for more details.
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- The internal structure of the collection was changed for modules and action plugins. These no longer live in a directory hierarchy ordered by topic, but instead are now all in a single (flat) directory. This has no impact on users *assuming they did not use internal FQCNs*. These will still work, but result in deprecation warnings. They were never officially supported and thus the redirects are kept as a courtsey, and this is not labelled as a breaking change. Note that for example the Ansible VScode plugin started recommending these internal names. If you followed its recommendation, you will now have to change back to the short names to avoid deprecation warnings, and potential errors in the future as these redirects will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5461).
+- newrelic_deployment - removed New Relic v1 API, added support for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).

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

- 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).
+- Added MIT license as ``LICENSES/MIT.txt`` for tests/unit/plugins/modules/packaging/language/test_gem.py (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5065).
+- All software licenses are now in the ``LICENSES/`` directory of the collection root (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5065, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5079, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5080, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5083, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5087, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5095, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5098, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5106).
+- ModuleHelper module utils - added property ``verbosity`` to base class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5035).
+- ModuleHelper module utils - improved ``ModuleHelperException``, using ``to_native()`` for the exception message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4755).
+- The collection repository conforms to the `REUSE specification <https://reuse.software/spec/>`__ except for the changelog fragments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5138).
+- ali_instance - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5240).
+- ali_instance_info - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5240).
+- alternatives - add ``state=absent`` to be able to remove an alternative (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4654).
+- alternatives - add ``subcommands`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4654).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - minor refactoring using latest ``ModuleHelper`` updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4752).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``ansible-galaxy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5477).
+- apk - add ``world`` parameter for supporting a custom world file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4976).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - add option ``search`` to search for other attributes than name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5297).
+- cartesian lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- cmd_runner module util - added parameters ``check_mode_skip`` and ``check_mode_return`` to ``CmdRunner.context()``, so that the command is not executed when ``check_mode=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4736).
+- cmd_runner module utils - add ``__call__`` method to invoke context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4791).
+- consul - adds ``ttl`` parameter for session  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4996).
+- consul - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5367).
+- consul_session - adds ``token`` parameter for session (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5193).
+- cpanm - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``cpanm`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5485).
+- cpanm - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- credstash lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- dependent lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- dig lookup plugin - add option ``fail_on_error`` to allow stopping execution on lookup failures (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4973).
+- dig lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options. All documented options can now also be passed as lookup parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- dnstxt lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- filetree lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- flattened lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- gitlab module util - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_branch - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_deploy_key - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_group - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_group_members - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_group_variable - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_hook - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_hook - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5271).
+- gitlab_project - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_project_members - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_project_variable - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_protected_branch - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_runner - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- gitlab_user - minor refactor when checking for installed dependency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5259).
+- hiera lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options. The Hiera executable and config file can now also be passed as lookup parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- homebrew, homebrew_tap - added Homebrew on Linux path to defaults (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5241).
+- hponcfg - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``hponcfg`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5483).
+- keycloak_* modules - add ``http_agent`` parameter with default value ``Ansible`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5023).
+- keyring lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- lastpass - use config manager for handling plugin options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5022).
+- ldap_attrs - allow for DNs to have ``{x}`` prefix on first RDN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/977, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5450).
+- linode inventory plugin - simplify option handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5438).
+- listen_ports_facts - add new ``include_non_listening`` option which adds ``-a`` option to ``netstat`` and ``ss``. This shows both listening and non-listening (for TCP this means established connections) sockets, and returns ``state`` and ``foreign_address`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4762, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4953).
+- lmdb_kv lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- lxc_container - minor refactoring (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5358).
+- machinectl become plugin - can now be used with a password from another user than root, if a polkit rule is present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4849).
+- machinectl become plugin - combine the success command when building the become command to be consistent with other become plugins (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5287).
+- manifold lookup plugin - start using Ansible's configuration manager to parse options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- maven_artifact - add a new ``unredirected_headers`` option that can be used with ansible-core 2.12 and above. The default value is to not use ``Authorization`` and ``Cookie`` headers on redirects for security reasons. With ansible-core 2.11, all headers are still passed on for redirects (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4812).
+- mksysb - refactored module to use ``CmdRunner`` to execute ``mksysb`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5484).
+- mksysb - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- nagios - minor refactoring on parameter validation for different actions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5239).
+- netcup_dnsapi - add ``timeout`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5301).
+- nmcli - add ``transport_mode`` configuration for Infiniband devices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5361).
+- nmcli - add bond option ``xmit_hash_policy`` to bond options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5148).
+- nmcli - adds ``vpn`` type and parameter for supporting VPN with service type L2TP and PPTP (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4746).
+- nmcli - honor IP options for VPNs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5228).
+- onepassword - support version 2 of the OnePassword CLI (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4728)
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - allow configuring opentelementry callback via config file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4916).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - send logs. This can be disabled by setting ``disable_logs=false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4175).
+- pacman - added parameters ``reason`` and ``reason_for`` to set/change the install reason of packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4956).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - allow options to be passed lookup options instead of being part of the term strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5444).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - allow using alternative password managers by detecting wrapper scripts, allow explicit configuration of pass and gopass backends (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4766).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - improve error messages to include stderr (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5436)
+- pipx - added state ``latest`` to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5105).
+- pipx - changed implementation to use ``cmd_runner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5085).
+- pipx - module fails faster when ``name`` is missing for states ``upgrade`` and ``reinstall`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5100).
+- pipx - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- pipx module utils - created new module util ``pipx`` providing a ``cmd_runner`` specific for the ``pipx`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5085).
+- portage - add knobs for Portage's ``--backtrack`` and ``--with-bdeps`` options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5349).
+- portage - use Portage's python module instead of calling gentoolkit-provided program in shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5349).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - added new flag ``qemu_extended_statuses`` and new groups ``<group_prefix>prelaunch``, ``<group_prefix>paused``. They will be populated only when ``want_facts=true``, ``qemu_extended_statuses=true`` and only for ``QEMU`` machines (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4723).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - simplify option handling code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5437).
+- proxmox module utils, the proxmox* modules - add ``api_task_ok`` helper to standardize API task status checks across all proxmox modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5274).
+- proxmox_kvm - allow ``agent`` argument to be a string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5107).
+- proxmox_snap - add ``unbind`` param to support snapshotting containers with configured mountpoints (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5274).
+- puppet - adds ``confdir`` parameter to configure a custom confir location (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4740).
+- redfish - added new command GetVirtualMedia, VirtualMediaInsert and VirtualMediaEject to Systems category due to Redfish spec changes the virtualMedia resource location from Manager to System (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5124).
+- redfish_config - add ``SetSessionService`` to set default session timeout policy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5008).
+- redfish_info - add ``GetManagerInventory`` to report list of Manager inventory information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4899).
+- seport - added new argument ``local`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5203)
+- snap - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- sudoers - will attempt to validate the proposed sudoers rule using visudo if available, optionally skipped, or required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4794, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4745).
+- terraform - adds capability to handle complex variable structures for ``variables`` parameter in the module. This must be enabled with the new ``complex_vars`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4797).
+- terraform - run ``terraform init`` with ``-no-color`` not to mess up the stdout of the task (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5147).
+- wdc_redfish_command - add ``IndicatorLedOn`` and ``IndicatorLedOff`` commands for ``Chassis`` category (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5059).
+- wdc_redfish_command - add ``PowerModeLow`` and ``PowerModeNormal`` commands for ``Chassis`` category (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5145).
+- xfconf - add ``stdout``, ``stderr`` and ``cmd`` to the module results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5037).
+- xfconf - changed implementation to use ``cmd_runner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
+- xfconf - use ``do_raise()`` instead of defining custom exception class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4975).
+- xfconf - using ``do_raise()`` to raise exceptions in ``ModuleHelper`` derived modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4674).
+- xfconf module utils - created new module util ``xfconf`` providing a ``cmd_runner`` specific for ``xfconf`` modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
+- xfconf_info - changed implementation to use ``cmd_runner`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4776).
+- xfconf_info - use ``do_raise()`` instead of defining custom exception class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4975).
+- znode - possibility to use ZooKeeper ACL authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5306).

 Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
 --------------------------------

- 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).
+- newrelic_deployment - ``revision`` is required for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).
+- scaleway_container_registry_info - no longer replace ``secret_environment_variables`` in the output by ``SENSITIVE_VALUE`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5497).

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

- 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).
+- ArgFormat module utils - deprecated along ``CmdMixin``, in favor of the ``cmd_runner_fmt`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
+- CmdMixin module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
+- CmdModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
+- CmdStateModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
+- cmd_runner module utils - deprecated ``fmt`` in favour of ``cmd_runner_fmt`` as the parameter format object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4777).
+- django_manage - support for Django releases older than 4.1 has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400).
+- django_manage - support for the commands ``cleanup``, ``syncdb`` and ``validate`` that have been deprecated in Django long time ago will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400).
+- django_manage - the behavior of "creating the virtual environment when missing" is being deprecated and will be removed in community.general version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5405).
+- gconftool2 - deprecates ``state=get`` in favor of using the module ``gconftool2_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4778).
+- lxc_container - the module will no longer make any effort to support Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5304).
+- newrelic_deployment - ``appname`` and ``environment`` are no longer valid options in the v2 API. They will be removed in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).
+- proxmox - deprecated the current ``unprivileged`` default value, will be changed to ``true`` in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/pull/5224).
+- xfconf - deprecated parameter ``disable_facts``, as since version 4.0.0 it only allows value ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4520).

 Removed Features (previously deprecated)
 ----------------------------------------

- The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed. These internal redirects were extra-long FQCNs like ``community.general.packaging.os.apt_rpm`` that redirect to the short FQCN ``community.general.apt_rpm``. They were originally needed to implement flatmapping; as various tooling started to recommend users to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection and redirects were added for users who already followed these incorrect recommendations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7835).
- ansible_galaxy_install - the ``ack_ansible29`` and ``ack_min_ansiblecore211`` options have been removed. They no longer had any effect (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- cloudflare_dns - remove support for SPF records. These are no longer supported by CloudFlare (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7782).
- django_manage - support for the ``command`` values ``cleanup``, ``syncdb``, and ``validate`` were removed. Use ``clearsessions``, ``migrate``, and ``check`` instead, respectively (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- flowdock - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- mh.mixins.deps module utils - the ``DependencyMixin`` has been removed. Use the ``deps`` module utils instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- proxmox - the ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- rax* modules, rax module utils, rax docs fragment - the Rackspace modules relied on the deprecated package ``pyrax`` and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- redhat module utils - the classes ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools`` have been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- redhat_subscription - the alias ``autosubscribe`` of the ``auto_attach`` option was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- stackdriver - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- webfaction_* modules - these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
-
-Security Fixes
--------------
-
- cobbler, gitlab_runners, icinga2, linode, lxd, nmap, online, opennebula, proxmox, scaleway, stackpath_compute, virtualbox, and xen_orchestra inventory plugin - make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible (https://www.die-welt.net/2024/03/remote-code-execution-in-ansible-dynamic-inventory-plugins/, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8098).
- keycloak_identity_provider - the client secret was not correctly sanitized by the module. The return values ``proposed``, ``existing``, and ``end_state``, as well as the diff, did contain the client secret unmasked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8355).
+- bitbucket* modules - ``username`` is no longer an alias of ``workspace``, but of ``user`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- gem - the default of the ``norc`` option changed from ``false`` to ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- gitlab_group_members - ``gitlab_group`` must now always contain the full path, and no longer just the name or path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- keycloak_authentication - the return value ``flow`` has been removed. Use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- keycloak_group - the return value ``group`` has been removed. Use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- lxd_container - the default of the ``ignore_volatile_options`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- mail callback plugin - the ``sender`` option is now required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- module_helper module utils - remove the ``VarDict`` attribute from ``ModuleHelper``. Import ``VarDict`` from ``ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.vars`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - the default of the ``want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
+- vmadm - the ``debug`` option has been removed. It was not used anyway (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).

 Bugfixes
 --------

- 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).
+- Include ``PSF-license.txt`` file for ``plugins/module_utils/_mount.py``.
+- Include ``simplified_bsd.txt`` license file for various module utils, the ``lxca_common`` docs fragment, and the ``utm_utils`` unit tests.
+- alternatives - do not set the priority if the priority was not set by the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4810).
+- alternatives - only pass subcommands when they are specified as module arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4803, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4804, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4836).
+- alternatives - when ``subcommands`` is specified, ``link`` must be given for every subcommand. This was already mentioned in the documentation, but not enforced by the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4836).
+- apache2_mod_proxy - avoid crash when reporting inability to parse balancer_member_page HTML caused by using an undefined variable in the error message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- archive - avoid crash when ``lzma`` is not present and ``format`` is not ``xz`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5393).
+- cmd_runner module utils - fix bug caused by using the ``command`` variable instead of ``self.command`` when looking for binary path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4903).
+- consul - fixed bug introduced in PR 4590 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4680).
+- credstash lookup plugin - pass plugin options to credstash for all terms, not just for the first (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5440).
+- dig lookup plugin - add option to return empty result without empty strings, and return empty list instead of ``NXDOMAIN`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5439, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5428).
+- dig lookup plugin - fix evaluation of falsy values for boolean parameters ``fail_on_error`` and ``retry_servfail`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5129).
+- dnsimple_info - correctly report missing library as ``requests`` and not ``another_library`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- dnstxt lookup plugin - add option to return empty result without empty strings, and return empty list instead of ``NXDOMAIN`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5457, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5428).
+- dsv lookup plugin - do not ignore the ``tld`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4911).
+- filesystem - handle ``fatresize --info`` output lines without ``:`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4700).
+- filesystem - improve error messages when output cannot be parsed by including newlines in escaped form (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4700).
+- funcd connection plugin - fix signature of ``exec_command`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- ini_file - minor refactor fixing a python lint error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5307).
+- iso_create - the module somtimes failed to add folders for Joliet and UDF formats (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5275).
+- keycloak_realm - fix default groups and roles (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4241).
+- keyring_info - fix the result from the keyring library never getting returned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4964).
+- ldap_attrs - fix bug which caused a ``Bad search filter`` error. The error was occuring when the ldap attribute value contained special characters such as ``(`` or ``*`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5434, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5435).
+- ldap_attrs - fix ordering issue by ignoring the ``{x}`` prefix on attribute values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/977, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5385).
+- listen_ports_facts - removed leftover ``EnvironmentError`` . The ``else`` clause had a wrong indentation. The check is now handled in the ``split_pid_name`` function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5202).
+- locale_gen - fix support for Ubuntu (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5281).
+- lxc_container - the module has been updated to support Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5304).
+- lxd connection plugin - fix incorrect ``inventory_hostname`` in ``remote_addr``. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4886).
+- manageiq_alert_profiles - avoid crash when reporting unknown profile caused by trying to return an undefined variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- nmcli - avoid changed status for most cases with VPN connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5126).
+- nmcli - fix error caused by adding undefined module arguments for list options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4373, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4813).
+- nmcli - fix error when setting previously unset MAC address, ``gsm.apn`` or ``vpn.data``: current values were being normalized without checking if they might be ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5291).
+- nmcli - fix int options idempotence (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4998).
+- nsupdate - compatibility with NS records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5112).
+- nsupdate - fix silent failures when updating ``NS`` entries from Bind9 managed DNS zones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4657).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - support opentelemetry-api 1.13.0 that removed support for ``_time_ns`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5342).
+- osx_defaults - no longer expand ``~`` in ``value`` to the user's home directory, or expand environment variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5234, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5243).
+- packet_ip_subnet - fix error reporting in case of invalid CIDR prefix lengths (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- pacman - fixed name resolution of URL packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4959).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - fix ``returnall`` for gopass (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5027).
+- passwordstore lookup plugin - fix password store path detection for gopass (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4955).
+- pfexec become plugin - remove superflous quotes preventing exe wrap from working as expected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3671, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3889).
+- pip_package_info - remove usage of global variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5111).
+- pkgng - fix case when ``pkg`` fails when trying to upgrade all packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5363).
+- proxmox - fix error handling when getting VM by name when ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4945).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fix crash when ``enabled=1`` is used in agent config string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4910).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - fixed extended status detection for qemu (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4816).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix ``agent`` parameter when boolean value is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5198).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix error handling when getting VM by name when ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4945).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix exception when no ``agent`` argument is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5194).
+- proxmox_kvm - fix wrong condition (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5108).
+- proxmox_kvm - replace new condition with proper condition to allow for using ``vmid`` on update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5206).
+- rax_clb_nodes - fix code to be compatible with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4933).
+- redfish_command - fix the check if a virtual media is unmounted to just check for ``instered= false`` caused by Supermicro hardware that does not clear the ``ImageName`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4839).
+- redfish_command - the Supermicro Redfish implementation only supports the ``image_url`` parameter in the underlying API calls to ``VirtualMediaInsert`` and ``VirtualMediaEject``. Any values set (or the defaults) for ``write_protected`` or ``inserted`` will be ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4839).
+- redfish_info - fix to ``GetChassisPower`` to correctly report power information when multiple chassis exist, but not all chassis report power information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4901).
+- redfish_utils module utils - centralize payload checking when performing modification requests to a Redfish service (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5210/).
+- redhat_subscription - fix unsubscribing on RHEL 9 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4741).
+- redhat_subscription - make module idempotent when ``pool_ids`` are used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5313).
+- redis* modules - fix call to ``module.fail_json`` when failing because of missing Python libraries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4733).
+- slack - fix incorrect channel prefix ``#`` caused by incomplete pattern detection by adding ``G0`` and ``GF`` as channel ID patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5019).
+- slack - fix message update for channels which start with ``CP``. When ``message-id`` was passed it failed for channels which started with ``CP`` because the ``#`` symbol was added before the ``channel_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5249).
+- snap - allow values in the ``options`` parameter to contain whitespaces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5475).
+- sudoers - ensure sudoers config files are created with the permissions requested by sudoers (0440) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4814).
+- sudoers - fix incorrect handling of ``state: absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4852).
+- tss lookup plugin - adding support for updated Delinea library (https://github.com/DelineaXPM/python-tss-sdk/issues/9, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5151).
+- virtualbox inventory plugin - skip parsing values with keys that have both a value and nested data. Skip parsing values that are nested more than two keys deep (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5332, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5348).
+- xcc_redfish_command - for compatibility due to Redfish spec changes the virtualMedia resource location changed from Manager to System (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4682).
+- xenserver_facts - fix broken ``AnsibleModule`` call that prevented the module from working at all (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5383).
+- xfconf - fix setting of boolean values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4999, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5007).
+- zfs - fix wrong quoting of properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4707, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4726).

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

-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.
+- counter - Counts hashable elements in a sequence

 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 - Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden

 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.
+- gconftool2_info - Retrieve GConf configurations
+- iso_customize - Add/remove/change files in ISO file
+- keycloak_user_rolemapping - Allows administration of Keycloak user_rolemapping with the Keycloak API
+- keyring - Set or delete a passphrase using the Operating System's native keyring
+- keyring_info - Get a passphrase using the Operating System's native keyring
+- manageiq_policies_info - Listing of resource policy_profiles in ManageIQ
+- manageiq_tags_info - Retrieve resource tags in ManageIQ
+- pipx_info - Rretrieves information about applications installed with pipx
+- proxmox_disk - Management of a disk of a Qemu(KVM) VM in a Proxmox VE cluster.
+- scaleway_compute_private_network - Scaleway compute - private network management
+- scaleway_container - Scaleway Container management
+- scaleway_container_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Container
+- scaleway_container_namespace - Scaleway Container namespace management
+- scaleway_container_namespace_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Container namespace
+- scaleway_container_registry - Scaleway Container registry management module
+- scaleway_container_registry_info - Scaleway Container registry info module
+- scaleway_function - Scaleway Function management
+- scaleway_function_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Function
+- scaleway_function_namespace - Scaleway Function namespace management
+- scaleway_function_namespace_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Function namespace
+- wdc_redfish_command - Manages WDC UltraStar Data102 Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
+- wdc_redfish_info - Manages WDC UltraStar Data102 Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@ Also, consider taking up a valuable, reviewed, but abandoned pull request which
 * Try committing your changes with an informative but short commit message.
 * Do not squash your commits and force-push to your branch if not needed. Reviews of your pull request are much easier with individual commits to comprehend the pull request history. All commits of your pull request branch will be squashed into one commit by GitHub upon merge.
 * Do not add merge commits to your PR. The bot will complain and you will have to rebase ([instructions for rebasing](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_rebasing.html)) to remove them before your PR can be merged. To avoid that git automatically does merges during pulls, you can configure it to do rebases instead by running `git config pull.rebase true` inside the repository checkout.
-* Make sure your PR includes a [changelog fragment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/collection_development_process.html#creating-a-changelog-fragment).
-  * You must not include a fragment for new modules or new plugins. Also you shouldn't include one for docs-only changes. (If you're not sure, simply don't include one, we'll tell you whether one is needed or not :) )
-  * Please always include a link to the pull request itself, and if the PR is about an issue, also a link to the issue. Also make sure the fragment ends with a period, and begins with a lower-case letter after `-`. (Again, if you don't do this, we'll add suggestions to fix it, so don't worry too much :) )
+* Make sure your PR includes a [changelog fragment](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/development_process.html#creating-changelog-fragments). (You must not include a fragment for new modules or new plugins, except for test and filter plugins. Also you shouldn't include one for docs-only changes. If you're not sure, simply don't include one, we'll tell you whether one is needed or not :) )
 * Avoid reformatting unrelated parts of the codebase in your PR. These types of changes will likely be requested for reversion, create additional work for reviewers, and may cause approval to be delayed.

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

   When you add a new plugin/module, we expect that you perform maintainer duty for at least some time after contributing it.
+
+## pre-commit
+
+To help ensure high-quality contributions this repository includes a [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) configuration which
+corrects and tests against common issues that would otherwise cause CI to fail. To begin using these pre-commit hooks see
+the [Installation](#installation) section below.
+
+This is optional and not required to contribute to this repository.
+
+### Installation
+
+Follow the [instructions](https://pre-commit.com/#install) provided with pre-commit and run `pre-commit install` under the repository base. If for any reason you would like to disable the pre-commit hooks run `pre-commit uninstall`.
+
+This is optional to run it locally.
+
+You can trigger it locally with `pre-commit run --all-files` or even to run only for a given file `pre-commit run --files YOUR_FILE`.
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,10 +6,8 @@ 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)
-[![EOL CI](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/workflows/EOL%20CI/badge.svg?event=push)](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/actions)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-6)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
 [![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://codecov.io/gh/ansible-collections/community.general)
-[![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 +23,9 @@ If you encounter abusive behavior violating the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https:

 ## Tested with Ansible

-Tested with the current ansible-core 2.13, ansible-core 2.14, ansible-core 2.15, ansible-core 2.16, ansible-core 2.17 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible-core versions before 2.13.0 are not supported. This includes all ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 releases.
+Tested with the current ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, ansible-core 2.14 releases and the current development version of ansible-core. Ansible-core versions before 2.11.0 are not supported. This includes all ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 releases.
+
+Parts of this collection will not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+.

 ## External requirements

@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ 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 +56,7 @@ 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 +72,13 @@ We are actively accepting new contributors.

 All types of contributions are very welcome.

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

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

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

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

 ### Running tests

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

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

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

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

 ## Release notes

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

 ## Roadmap

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

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

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

-Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).
+Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-6/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).

 All files have a machine readable `SDPX-License-Identifier:` comment denoting its respective license(s) or an equivalent entry in an accompanying `.license` file. Only changelog fragments (which will not be part of a release) are covered by a blanket statement in `.reuse/dep5`. This conforms to the [REUSE specification](https://reuse.software/spec/).
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
--- a/changelogs/config.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/config.yaml
@@ -12,31 +12,23 @@ mention_ancestor: true
 flatmap: true
 new_plugins_after_name: removed_features
 notesdir: fragments
-output_formats:
-  - md
-  - rst
 prelude_section_name: release_summary
 prelude_section_title: Release Summary
 sections:
-  - - major_changes
-    - Major Changes
-  - - minor_changes
-    - Minor Changes
-  - - breaking_changes
-    - Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
-  - - deprecated_features
-    - Deprecated Features
-  - - removed_features
-    - Removed Features (previously deprecated)
-  - - security_fixes
-    - Security Fixes
-  - - bugfixes
-    - Bugfixes
-  - - known_issues
-    - Known Issues
+- - major_changes
+  - Major Changes
+- - minor_changes
+  - Minor Changes
+- - breaking_changes
+  - Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+- - deprecated_features
+  - Deprecated Features
+- - removed_features
+  - Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+- - security_fixes
+  - Security Fixes
+- - bugfixes
+  - Bugfixes
+- - known_issues
+  - Known Issues
 title: Community General
-trivial_section_name: trivial
-use_fqcn: true
-add_plugin_period: true
-changelog_nice_yaml: true
-changelog_sort: version
--- a/docs/docsite/extra-docs.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/extra-docs.yml
@@ -8,14 +8,3 @@ sections:
    toctree:
      - filter_guide
      - test_guide
-  - title: Cloud Guides
-    toctree:
-      - guide_alicloud
-      - guide_online
-      - guide_packet
-      - guide_scaleway
-  - title: Developer Guides
-    toctree:
-      - guide_deps
-      - guide_vardict
-      - guide_cmdrunner
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/README.md
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/README.md
@@ -1,61 +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
-->
-
-# Docs helper. Create RST file.
-
-The playbook `playbook.yml` writes a RST file that can be used in
-docs/docsite/rst. The usage of this helper is recommended but not
-mandatory. You can stop reading here and update the RST file manually
-if you don't want to use this helper.
-
-## Run the playbook
-
-If you want to generate the RST file by this helper fit the variables
-in the playbook and the template to your needs. Then, run the play
-
-```sh
-shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml
-```
-
-## Copy RST to docs/docsite/rst
-
-Copy the RST file to `docs/docsite/rst` and remove it from this
-directory.
-
-## Update the checksums
-
-Substitute the variables and run the below commands
-
-```sh
-shell> sha1sum {{ target_vars }} > {{ target_sha1 }}
-shell> sha1sum {{ file_rst }} > {{ file_sha1 }}
-```
-
-## Playbook explained
-
-The playbook includes the variable *tests* from the integration tests
-and creates the RST file from the template. The playbook will
-terminate if:
-
-* The file with the variable *tests* was changed
-* The RST file was changed
-
-This means that this helper is probably not up to date.
-
-### The file with the variable *tests* was changed
-
-This means that somebody updated the integration tests. Review the
-changes and update the template if needed. Update the checksum to pass
-the integrity test. The playbook message provides you with the
-command.
-
-### The RST file was changed
-
-This means that somebody updated the RST file manually. Review the
-changes and update the template. Update the checksum to pass the
-integrity test. The playbook message provides you with the
-command. Make sure that the updated template will create identical RST
-file. Only then apply your changes.
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-keep_keys.rst.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-keep_keys.rst.j2
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-keep_keys
-"""""""""
-
-Use the filter :ansplugin:`community.general.keep_keys#filter` if you have a list of dictionaries and want to keep certain keys only.
-
-.. 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 :ansplugin:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
-
-
-Let us use the below list in the following examples:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   input:
-     {{ tests.0.input | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-
-{% for i in tests[0:1]|subelements('group') %}
-* {{ i.1.d }}
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1
-
-   target: {{ i.1.tt }}
-   result: "{{ lookup('file', target ~ '/templates/' ~ i.0.template) }}"
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-gives
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     {{ tests.0.result | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
- 
-.. versionadded:: 9.1.0
-
-* The results of the below examples 1-5 are all the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     {{ tests.1.result | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-
-{% for i in tests[1:2]|subelements('group') %}
-{{ loop.index }}. {{ i.1.d }}
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: {{ i.1.mp }}
-   target: {{ i.1.tt }}
-   result: "{{ lookup('file', target ~ '/templates/' ~ i.0.template) }}"
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-* The results of the below examples 6-9 are all the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     {{ tests.2.result | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-
-{% for i in tests[2:3]|subelements('group') %}
-{{ loop.index + 5 }}. {{ i.1.d }}
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: {{ i.1.mp }}
-   target: {{ i.1.tt }}
-   result: "{{ lookup('file', target ~ '/templates/' ~ i.0.template) }}"
-
-{% endfor %}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/keep_keys.rst.sha1
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/keep_keys.rst.sha1
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-8690afce792abc95693c2f61f743ee27388b1592  ../../rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-keep_keys.rst
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/keep_keys.rst.sha1.license
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/keep_keys.rst.sha1.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/playbook.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/playbook.yml
@@ -1,79 +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
-
-# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-# Create docs REST files
-# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml
-#
-# Proofread and copy created *.rst file into the directory
-# docs/docsite/rst. Do not add *.rst in this directory to the version
-# control.
-#
-# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-# community.general/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/playbook.yml
-
- name: Create RST file for docs/docsite/rst
-  hosts: localhost
-  gather_facts: false
-
-  vars:
-
-    plugin: keep_keys
-    plugin_type: filter
-    docs_path:
-      - filter_guide
-      - abstract_informations
-      - lists_of_dictionaries
-
-    file_base: "{{ (docs_path + [plugin]) | join('-') }}"
-    file_rst: ../../rst/{{ file_base }}.rst
-    file_sha1: "{{ plugin }}.rst.sha1"
-
-    target: "../../../../tests/integration/targets/{{ plugin_type }}_{{ plugin }}"
-    target_vars: "{{ target }}/vars/main/tests.yml"
-    target_sha1: tests.yml.sha1
-
-  tasks:
-
-    - name: Test integrity tests.yml
-      when:
-        - integrity | d(true) | bool
-        - lookup('file', target_sha1) != lookup('pipe', 'sha1sum ' ~  target_vars)
-      block:
-
-        - name: Changed tests.yml
-          ansible.builtin.debug:
-            msg: |
-              Changed {{ target_vars }}
-              Review the changes and update {{ target_sha1 }}
-              shell> sha1sum {{ target_vars }} > {{ target_sha1 }}
-
-        - name: Changed tests.yml end host
-          ansible.builtin.meta: end_play
-
-    - name: Test integrity RST file
-      when:
-        - integrity | d(true) | bool
-        - lookup('file', file_sha1) != lookup('pipe', 'sha1sum ' ~ file_rst)
-      block:
-
-        - name: Changed RST file
-          ansible.builtin.debug:
-            msg: |
-              Changed {{ file_rst }}
-              Review the changes and update {{ file_sha1 }}
-              shell> sha1sum {{ file_rst }} > {{ file_sha1 }}
-
-        - name: Changed RST file end host
-          ansible.builtin.meta: end_play
-
-    - name: Include target vars
-      include_vars:
-        file: "{{ target_vars }}"
-
-    - name: Create RST file
-      ansible.builtin.template:
-        src: "{{ file_base }}.rst.j2"
-        dest: "{{ file_base }}.rst"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/tests.yml.sha1
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/tests.yml.sha1
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-c6fc4ee2017d9222675bcd13cc4f88ba8d14f38d  ../../../../tests/integration/targets/filter_keep_keys/vars/main/tests.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/tests.yml.sha1.license
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/keep_keys/tests.yml.sha1.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-common.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-common.yml
@@ -2,11 +2,17 @@
 # Copyright (c) Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
 list1:
-  - {name: foo, extra: true}
-  - {name: bar, extra: false}
-  - {name: meh, extra: true}
+  - name: foo
+    extra: true
+  - name: bar
+    extra: false
+  - name: meh
+    extra: true

 list2:
-  - {name: foo, path: /foo}
-  - {name: baz, path: /baz}
+  - name: foo
+    path: /foo
+  - name: baz
+    path: /baz
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-recursive-true.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/default-recursive-true.yml
@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@
 # Copyright (c) Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
 list1:
  - name: myname01
    param01:
      x: default_value
      y: default_value
-      list: [default_value]
+      list:
+        - default_value
  - name: myname02
    param01: [1, 1, 2, 3]

@@ -16,6 +18,7 @@ list2:
    param01:
      y: patch_value
      z: patch_value
-      list: [patch_value]
+      list:
+        - patch_value
  - name: myname02
-    param01: [3, 4, 4]
+    param01: [3, 4, 4, {key: value}]
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    dir: example-001_vars
 - debug:
    var: list3
-  when: debug | d(false) | bool
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
 - template:
    src: list3.out.j2
    dest: example-001.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-001_vars/list3.yml
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-list3: "{{ list1 |
+
+list3: "{{ list1|
           community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    dir: example-002_vars
 - debug:
    var: list3
-  when: debug | d(false) | bool
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
 - template:
    src: list3.out.j2
    dest: example-002.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-002_vars/list3.yml
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
           community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    dir: example-003_vars
 - debug:
    var: list3
-  when: debug | d(false) | bool
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
 - template:
    src: list3.out.j2
    dest: example-003.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-003_vars/list3.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) Ansible Project
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                           recursive=true) }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    dir: example-004_vars
 - debug:
    var: list3
-  when: debug | d(false) | bool
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
 - template:
    src: list3.out.j2
    dest: example-004.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-004_vars/list3.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # 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
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                           recursive=true,
                                           list_merge='keep') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    dir: example-005_vars
 - debug:
    var: list3
-  when: debug | d(false) | bool
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
 - template:
    src: list3.out.j2
    dest: example-005.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-005_vars/list3.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # 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
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                           recursive=true,
                                           list_merge='append') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    dir: example-006_vars
 - debug:
    var: list3
-  when: debug | d(false) | bool
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
 - template:
    src: list3.out.j2
    dest: example-006.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-006_vars/list3.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # 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
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                           recursive=true,
                                           list_merge='prepend') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    dir: example-007_vars
 - debug:
    var: list3
-  when: debug|d(false) | bool
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
 - template:
    src: list3.out.j2
    dest: example-007.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-007_vars/list3.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # 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
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                           recursive=true,
                                           list_merge='append_rp') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    dir: example-008_vars
 - debug:
    var: list3
-  when: debug | d(false) | bool
+  when: debug|d(false)|bool
 - template:
    src: list3.out.j2
    dest: example-008.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-008_vars/list3.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # 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
-list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+
+list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
           community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                           recursive=true,
                                           list_merge='prepend_rp') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-009.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-009.yml
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
- name: 9. Merge single list by common attribute 'name'
-  include_vars:
-    dir: example-009_vars
- debug:
-    var: list3
-  when: debug | d(false) | bool
- template:
-    src: list3.out.j2
-    dest: example-009.out
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-009_vars/default-common.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-009_vars/default-common.yml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../default-common.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-009_vars/list3.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/example-009_vars/list3.yml
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
---
-# Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-list3: "{{ [list1 + list2, []] |
-           community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples.yml
@@ -4,75 +4,51 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

 examples:
-  - title: Two lists
-    description: 'In the example below the lists are merged by the attribute ``name``:'
+  - label: 'In the example below the lists are merged by the attribute ``name``:'
    file: example-001_vars/list3.yml
    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - title:
-    description: 'This produces:'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
    file: example-001.out
    lang: 'yaml'
-  - title: List of two lists
-    description: 'It is possible to use a list of lists as an input of the filter:'
+  - label: 'It is possible to use a list of lists as an input of the filter:'
    file: example-002_vars/list3.yml
    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - title:
-    description: 'This produces the same result as in the previous example:'
+  - label: 'This produces the same result as in the previous example:'
    file: example-002.out
    lang: 'yaml'
-  - title: Single list
-    description: 'It is possible to merge single list:'
-    file: example-009_vars/list3.yml
-    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - title:
-    description: 'This produces the same result as in the previous example:'
-    file: example-009.out
-    lang: 'yaml'
-  - title: list_merge=replace (default)
-    description: 'Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=replace` (default):'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=replace`` (default):'
    file: example-003_vars/list3.yml
    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - title:
-    description: 'This produces:'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
    file: example-003.out
    lang: 'yaml'
-  - title: list_merge=keep
-    description: 'Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=keep`:'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=keep``:'
    file: example-004_vars/list3.yml
    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - title:
-    description: 'This produces:'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
    file: example-004.out
    lang: 'yaml'
-  - title: list_merge=append
-    description: 'Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=append`:'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=append``:'
    file: example-005_vars/list3.yml
    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - title:
-    description: 'This produces:'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
    file: example-005.out
    lang: 'yaml'
-  - title: list_merge=prepend
-    description: 'Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=prepend`:'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=prepend``:'
    file: example-006_vars/list3.yml
    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - title:
-    description: 'This produces:'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
    file: example-006.out
    lang: 'yaml'
-  - title: list_merge=append_rp
-    description: 'Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=append_rp`:'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=append_rp``:'
    file: example-007_vars/list3.yml
    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - title:
-    description: 'This produces:'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
    file: example-007.out
    lang: 'yaml'
-  - title: list_merge=prepend_rp
-    description: 'Example :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge=prepend_rp`:'
+  - label: 'Example ``list_merge=prepend_rp``:'
    file: example-008_vars/list3.yml
    lang: 'yaml+jinja'
-  - title:
-    description: 'This produces:'
+  - label: 'This produces:'
    file: example-008.out
    lang: 'yaml'
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples_all.rst.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/examples_all.rst.j2
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

 {% for i in examples %}
-{{ i.description }}
+{{ i.label }}

 .. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}

-  {{ lookup('file', i.file) | split('\n') | reject('match', '^(#|---)') | join ('\n') | indent(2) }}
+  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}

 {% endfor %}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/extra-vars.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/extra-vars.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
-examples_one: true
-examples_all: true
-merging_lists_of_dictionaries: true
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
@@ -6,69 +6,57 @@
 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 <community.general.lists_mergeby#filter>` 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 the documentation for the :ansplugin:`community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
+.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See :ref:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <ansible_collections.community.general.yaml_callback>`.

 Let us use the lists below in the following examples:

 .. code-block:: yaml

-  {{ lookup('file', 'default-common.yml') | split('\n') | reject('match', '^(#|---)') | join ('\n')  | indent(2) }}
+  {{ lookup('file', 'default-common.yml')|indent(2) }}

 {% for i in examples[0:2] %}
-{% if i.title | d('', true) | length > 0 %}
-{{ i.title }}
-{{ "%s" % ('"' * i.title|length) }}
-{% endif %}
-{{ i.description }}
+{{ i.label }}

 .. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}

-  {{ lookup('file', i.file) | split('\n') | reject('match', '^(#|---)') | join ('\n') | indent(2) }}
+  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}

 {% endfor %}

 .. versionadded:: 2.0.0

-{% for i in examples[2:6] %}
-{% if i.title | d('', true) | length > 0 %}
-{{ i.title }}
-{{ "%s" % ('"' * i.title|length) }}
-{% endif %}
-{{ i.description }}
+{% for i in examples[2:4] %}
+{{ i.label }}

 .. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}

-  {{ lookup('file', i.file) | split('\n') | reject('match', '^(#|---)') | join ('\n') | indent(2) }}
+  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}

 {% endfor %}

-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

 .. code-block:: yaml

-  {{ lookup('file', 'default-recursive-true.yml') | split('\n') | reject('match', '^(#|---)') | join ('\n') |indent(2) }}
+  {{ lookup('file', 'default-recursive-true.yml')|indent(2) }}

-{% for i in examples[6:] %}
-{% if i.title | d('', true) | length > 0 %}
-{{ i.title }}
-{{ "%s" % ('"' * i.title|length) }}
-{% endif %}
-{{ i.description }}
+{% for i in examples[4:16] %}
+{{ i.label }}

 .. code-block:: {{ i.lang }}

-  {{ lookup('file', i.file) | split('\n') | reject('match', '^(#|---)') | join ('\n') |indent(2) }}
+  {{ lookup('file', i.file)|indent(2) }}

 {% endfor %}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/list3.out.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/list3.out.j2
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://w
 SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 #}
 list3:
-  {{ list3 | to_yaml(indent=2, sort_keys=false) | indent(2) }}
+{{ list3|to_nice_yaml(indent=0) }}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/lists_mergeby/playbook.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@

 # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 # 1) Run all examples and create example-XXX.out
-# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e examples_one=true
+# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e examples=true
 #
 # 2) Optionally, for testing, create examples_all.rst
 # shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e examples_all=true
@@ -45,20 +45,18 @@
          tags: t007
        - import_tasks: example-008.yml
          tags: t008
-        - import_tasks: example-009.yml
-          tags: t009
-      when: examples_one | d(false) | bool
+      when: examples|d(false)|bool

    - block:
        - include_vars: examples.yml
        - template:
            src: examples_all.rst.j2
            dest: examples_all.rst
-      when: examples_all | d(false) | bool
+      when: examples_all|d(false)|bool

    - block:
        - include_vars: examples.yml
        - template:
            src: filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst.j2
            dest: filter_guide_abstract_informations_merging_lists_of_dictionaries.rst
-      when: merging_lists_of_dictionaries | d(false) | bool
+      when: merging_lists_of_dictionaries|d(false)|bool
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/README.md
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/README.md
@@ -1,61 +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
-->
-
-# Docs helper. Create RST file.
-
-The playbook `playbook.yml` writes a RST file that can be used in
-docs/docsite/rst. The usage of this helper is recommended but not
-mandatory. You can stop reading here and update the RST file manually
-if you don't want to use this helper.
-
-## Run the playbook
-
-If you want to generate the RST file by this helper fit the variables
-in the playbook and the template to your needs. Then, run the play
-
-```sh
-shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml
-```
-
-## Copy RST to docs/docsite/rst
-
-Copy the RST file to `docs/docsite/rst` and remove it from this
-directory.
-
-## Update the checksums
-
-Substitute the variables and run the below commands
-
-```sh
-shell> sha1sum {{ target_vars }} > {{ target_sha1 }}
-shell> sha1sum {{ file_rst }} > {{ file_sha1 }}
-```
-
-## Playbook explained
-
-The playbook includes the variable *tests* from the integration tests
-and creates the RST file from the template. The playbook will
-terminate if:
-
-* The file with the variable *tests* was changed
-* The RST file was changed
-
-This means that this helper is probably not up to date.
-
-### The file with the variable *tests* was changed
-
-This means that somebody updated the integration tests. Review the
-changes and update the template if needed. Update the checksum to pass
-the integrity test. The playbook message provides you with the
-command.
-
-### The RST file was changed
-
-This means that somebody updated the RST file manually. Review the
-changes and update the template. Update the checksum to pass the
-integrity test. The playbook message provides you with the
-command. Make sure that the updated template will create identical RST
-file. Only then apply your changes.
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-remove_keys.rst.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-remove_keys.rst.j2
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-remove_keys
-"""""""""""
-
-Use the filter :ansplugin:`community.general.remove_keys#filter` if you have a list of dictionaries and want to remove certain keys.
-
-.. 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 See :ansplugin:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
-
-
-Let us use the below list in the following examples:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   input:
-     {{ tests.0.input | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-
-{% for i in tests[0:1]|subelements('group') %}
-* {{ i.1.d }}
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1
-
-   target: {{ i.1.tt }}
-   result: "{{ lookup('file', target ~ '/templates/' ~ i.0.template) }}"
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-gives
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     {{ tests.0.result | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
- 
-.. versionadded:: 9.1.0
-
-* The results of the below examples 1-5 are all the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     {{ tests.1.result | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-
-{% for i in tests[1:2]|subelements('group') %}
-{{ loop.index }}. {{ i.1.d }}
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: {{ i.1.mp }}
-   target: {{ i.1.tt }}
-   result: "{{ lookup('file', target ~ '/templates/' ~ i.0.template) }}"
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-* The results of the below examples 6-9 are all the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     {{ tests.2.result | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-
-{% for i in tests[2:3]|subelements('group') %}
-{{ loop.index + 5 }}. {{ i.1.d }}
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: {{ i.1.mp }}
-   target: {{ i.1.tt }}
-   result: "{{ lookup('file', target ~ '/templates/' ~ i.0.template) }}"
-
-{% endfor %}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/playbook.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/playbook.yml
@@ -1,79 +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
-
-# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-# Create docs REST files
-# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml
-#
-# Proofread and copy created *.rst file into the directory
-# docs/docsite/rst. Do not add *.rst in this directory to the version
-# control.
-#
-# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-# community.general/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/playbook.yml
-
- name: Create RST file for docs/docsite/rst
-  hosts: localhost
-  gather_facts: false
-
-  vars:
-
-    plugin: remove_keys
-    plugin_type: filter
-    docs_path:
-      - filter_guide
-      - abstract_informations
-      - lists_of_dictionaries
-
-    file_base: "{{ (docs_path + [plugin]) | join('-') }}"
-    file_rst: ../../rst/{{ file_base }}.rst
-    file_sha1: "{{ plugin }}.rst.sha1"
-
-    target: "../../../../tests/integration/targets/{{ plugin_type }}_{{ plugin }}"
-    target_vars: "{{ target }}/vars/main/tests.yml"
-    target_sha1: tests.yml.sha1
-
-  tasks:
-
-    - name: Test integrity tests.yml
-      when:
-        - integrity | d(true) | bool
-        - lookup('file', target_sha1) != lookup('pipe', 'sha1sum ' ~  target_vars)
-      block:
-
-        - name: Changed tests.yml
-          ansible.builtin.debug:
-            msg: |
-              Changed {{ target_vars }}
-              Review the changes and update {{ target_sha1 }}
-              shell> sha1sum {{ target_vars }} > {{ target_sha1 }}
-
-        - name: Changed tests.yml end host
-          ansible.builtin.meta: end_play
-
-    - name: Test integrity RST file
-      when:
-        - integrity | d(true) | bool
-        - lookup('file', file_sha1) != lookup('pipe', 'sha1sum ' ~ file_rst)
-      block:
-
-        - name: Changed RST file
-          ansible.builtin.debug:
-            msg: |
-              Changed {{ file_rst }}
-              Review the changes and update {{ file_sha1 }}
-              shell> sha1sum {{ file_rst }} > {{ file_sha1 }}
-
-        - name: Changed RST file end host
-          ansible.builtin.meta: end_play
-
-    - name: Include target vars
-      include_vars:
-        file: "{{ target_vars }}"
-
-    - name: Create RST file
-      ansible.builtin.template:
-        src: "{{ file_base }}.rst.j2"
-        dest: "{{ file_base }}.rst"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/remove_keys.rst.sha1
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/remove_keys.rst.sha1
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-3cc606b42e3d450cf6323f25930f7c5a591fa086  ../../rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-remove_keys.rst
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/remove_keys.rst.sha1.license
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/remove_keys.rst.sha1.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/tests.yml.sha1
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/tests.yml.sha1
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0554335045f02d8c37b824355b0cf86864cee9a5  ../../../../tests/integration/targets/filter_remove_keys/vars/main/tests.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/tests.yml.sha1.license
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/remove_keys/tests.yml.sha1.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/README.md
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/README.md
@@ -1,61 +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
-->
-
-# Docs helper. Create RST file.
-
-The playbook `playbook.yml` writes a RST file that can be used in
-docs/docsite/rst. The usage of this helper is recommended but not
-mandatory. You can stop reading here and update the RST file manually
-if you don't want to use this helper.
-
-## Run the playbook
-
-If you want to generate the RST file by this helper fit the variables
-in the playbook and the template to your needs. Then, run the play
-
-```sh
-shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml
-```
-
-## Copy RST to docs/docsite/rst
-
-Copy the RST file to `docs/docsite/rst` and remove it from this
-directory.
-
-## Update the checksums
-
-Substitute the variables and run the below commands
-
-```sh
-shell> sha1sum {{ target_vars }} > {{ target_sha1 }}
-shell> sha1sum {{ file_rst }} > {{ file_sha1 }}
-```
-
-## Playbook explained
-
-The playbook includes the variable *tests* from the integration tests
-and creates the RST file from the template. The playbook will
-terminate if:
-
-* The file with the variable *tests* was changed
-* The RST file was changed
-
-This means that this helper is probably not up to date.
-
-### The file with the variable *tests* was changed
-
-This means that somebody updated the integration tests. Review the
-changes and update the template if needed. Update the checksum to pass
-the integrity test. The playbook message provides you with the
-command.
-
-### The RST file was changed
-
-This means that somebody updated the RST file manually. Review the
-changes and update the template. Update the checksum to pass the
-integrity test. The playbook message provides you with the
-command. Make sure that the updated template will create identical RST
-file. Only then apply your changes.
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-replace_keys.rst.j2
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-replace_keys.rst.j2
@@ -1,110 +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
-
-replace_keys
-""""""""""""
-
-Use the filter :ansplugin:`community.general.replace_keys#filter` if you have a list of dictionaries and want to replace certain keys.
-
-.. 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 :ansplugin:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
-
-
-Let us use the below list in the following examples:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   input:
-     {{ tests.0.input | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-
-{% for i in tests[0:1]|subelements('group') %}
-* {{ i.1.d }}
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-3
-
-   target:
-     {{ i.1.tt | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-   result: "{{ lookup('file', target ~ '/templates/' ~ i.0.template) }}"
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-gives
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     {{ tests.0.result | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
- 
-.. versionadded:: 9.1.0
-
-* The results of the below examples 1-3 are all the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     {{ tests.1.result | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-
-{% for i in tests[1:2]|subelements('group') %}
-{{ loop.index }}. {{ i.1.d }}
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-4
-
-   mp: {{ i.1.mp }}
-   target:
-     {{ i.1.tt | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-   result: "{{ lookup('file', target ~ '/templates/' ~ i.0.template) }}"
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-* The results of the below examples 4-5 are the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     {{ tests.2.result | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-
-{% for i in tests[2:3]|subelements('group') %}
-{{ loop.index + 3 }}. {{ i.1.d }}
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-3
-
-   mp: {{ i.1.mp }}
-   target:
-     {{ i.1.tt | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-   result: "{{ lookup('file', target ~ '/templates/' ~ i.0.template) }}"
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-{% for i in tests[3:4]|subelements('group') %}
-{{ loop.index + 5 }}. {{ i.1.d }}
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   input:
-     {{ i.0.input | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-4
-
-   mp: {{ i.1.mp }}
-   target:
-     {{ i.1.tt | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-   result: "{{ lookup('file', target ~ '/templates/' ~ i.0.template) }}"
-
-gives
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     {{ i.0.result | to_yaml(indent=2) | indent(5) }}
-
-{% endfor %}
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/playbook.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/playbook.yml
@@ -1,79 +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
-
-# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-# Create docs REST files
-# shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml
-#
-# Proofread and copy created *.rst file into the directory
-# docs/docsite/rst. Do not add *.rst in this directory to the version
-# control.
-#
-# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-# community.general/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/playbook.yml
-
- name: Create RST file for docs/docsite/rst
-  hosts: localhost
-  gather_facts: false
-
-  vars:
-
-    plugin: replace_keys
-    plugin_type: filter
-    docs_path:
-      - filter_guide
-      - abstract_informations
-      - lists_of_dictionaries
-
-    file_base: "{{ (docs_path + [plugin]) | join('-') }}"
-    file_rst: ../../rst/{{ file_base }}.rst
-    file_sha1: "{{ plugin }}.rst.sha1"
-
-    target: "../../../../tests/integration/targets/{{ plugin_type }}_{{ plugin }}"
-    target_vars: "{{ target }}/vars/main/tests.yml"
-    target_sha1: tests.yml.sha1
-
-  tasks:
-
-    - name: Test integrity tests.yml
-      when:
-        - integrity | d(true) | bool
-        - lookup('file', target_sha1) != lookup('pipe', 'sha1sum ' ~  target_vars)
-      block:
-
-        - name: Changed tests.yml
-          ansible.builtin.debug:
-            msg: |
-              Changed {{ target_vars }}
-              Review the changes and update {{ target_sha1 }}
-              shell> sha1sum {{ target_vars }} > {{ target_sha1 }}
-
-        - name: Changed tests.yml end host
-          ansible.builtin.meta: end_play
-
-    - name: Test integrity RST file
-      when:
-        - integrity | d(true) | bool
-        - lookup('file', file_sha1) != lookup('pipe', 'sha1sum ' ~ file_rst)
-      block:
-
-        - name: Changed RST file
-          ansible.builtin.debug:
-            msg: |
-              Changed {{ file_rst }}
-              Review the changes and update {{ file_sha1 }}
-              shell> sha1sum {{ file_rst }} > {{ file_sha1 }}
-
-        - name: Changed RST file end host
-          ansible.builtin.meta: end_play
-
-    - name: Include target vars
-      include_vars:
-        file: "{{ target_vars }}"
-
-    - name: Create RST file
-      ansible.builtin.template:
-        src: "{{ file_base }}.rst.j2"
-        dest: "{{ file_base }}.rst"
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/replace_keys.rst.sha1
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/replace_keys.rst.sha1
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-403f23c02ac02b1c3b611cb14f9b3ba59dc3f587  ../../rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-replace_keys.rst
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/replace_keys.rst.sha1.license
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/replace_keys.rst.sha1.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/tests.yml.sha1
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/tests.yml.sha1
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2e54f3528c95cca746d5748f1ed7ada56ad0890e  ../../../../tests/integration/targets/filter_replace_keys/vars/main/tests.yml
--- a/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/tests.yml.sha1.license
+++ b/docs/docsite/helper/replace_keys/tests.yml.sha1.license
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
--- a/docs/docsite/links.yml
+++ b/docs/docsite/links.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,3 @@ communication:
  mailing_lists:
    - topic: Ansible Project List
      url: https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-project
-  forums:
-    - topic: Ansible Forum
-      # The following URL directly points to the "Get Help" section
-      url: https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6/none
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-keep_keys.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-keep_keys.rst
@@ -1,151 +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
-
-keep_keys
-"""""""""
-
-Use the filter :ansplugin:`community.general.keep_keys#filter` if you have a list of dictionaries and want to keep certain keys only.
-
-.. 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 :ansplugin:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
-
-
-Let us use the below list in the following examples:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   input:
-     - k0_x0: A0
-       k1_x1: B0
-       k2_x2: [C0]
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k0_x0: A1
-       k1_x1: B1
-       k2_x2: [C1]
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-* By default, match keys that equal any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1
-
-   target: ['k0_x0', 'k1_x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target) }}"
-
-
-gives
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - {k0_x0: A0, k1_x1: B0}
-     - {k0_x0: A1, k1_x1: B1}
-
- 
-.. versionadded:: 9.1.0
-
-* The results of the below examples 1-5 are all the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - {k0_x0: A0, k1_x1: B0}
-     - {k0_x0: A1, k1_x1: B1}
-
-
-1. Match keys that equal any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: equal
-   target: ['k0_x0', 'k1_x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-2. Match keys that start with any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target: ['k0', 'k1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-3. Match keys that end with any of the items in target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: ends_with
-   target: ['x0', 'x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-4. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ['^.*[01]_x.*$']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-5. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ^.*[01]_x.*$
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-
-* The results of the below examples 6-9 are all the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - {k0_x0: A0}
-     - {k0_x0: A1}
-
-
-6. Match keys that equal the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: equal
-   target: k0_x0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-7. Match keys that start with the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target: k0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-8. Match keys that end with the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: ends_with
-   target: x0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-9. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ^.*0_x.*$
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.keep_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-remove_keys.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-remove_keys.rst
@@ -1,159 +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
-
-remove_keys
-"""""""""""
-
-Use the filter :ansplugin:`community.general.remove_keys#filter` if you have a list of dictionaries and want to remove certain keys.
-
-.. 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 See :ansplugin:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
-
-
-Let us use the below list in the following examples:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   input:
-     - k0_x0: A0
-       k1_x1: B0
-       k2_x2: [C0]
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k0_x0: A1
-       k1_x1: B1
-       k2_x2: [C1]
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-* By default, match keys that equal any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1
-
-   target: ['k0_x0', 'k1_x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target) }}"
-
-
-gives
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - k2_x2: [C0]
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k2_x2: [C1]
-       k3_x3: bar
-
- 
-.. versionadded:: 9.1.0
-
-* The results of the below examples 1-5 are all the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - k2_x2: [C0]
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k2_x2: [C1]
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-1. Match keys that equal any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: equal
-   target: ['k0_x0', 'k1_x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-2. Match keys that start with any of the items in the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target: ['k0', 'k1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-3. Match keys that end with any of the items in target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: ends_with
-   target: ['x0', 'x1']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-4. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ['^.*[01]_x.*$']
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-5. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ^.*[01]_x.*$
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-
-* The results of the below examples 6-9 are all the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - k1_x1: B0
-       k2_x2: [C0]
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k1_x1: B1
-       k2_x2: [C1]
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-6. Match keys that equal the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: equal
-   target: k0_x0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-7. Match keys that start with the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target: k0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-8. Match keys that end with the target.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: ends_with
-   target: x0
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-9. Match keys by the regex.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1,2
-
-   mp: regex
-   target: ^.*0_x.*$
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.remove_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-replace_keys.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-replace_keys.rst
@@ -1,175 +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
-
-replace_keys
-""""""""""""
-
-Use the filter :ansplugin:`community.general.replace_keys#filter` if you have a list of dictionaries and want to replace certain keys.
-
-.. 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 :ansplugin:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
-
-
-Let us use the below list in the following examples:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-   input:
-     - k0_x0: A0
-       k1_x1: B0
-       k2_x2: [C0]
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - k0_x0: A1
-       k1_x1: B1
-       k2_x2: [C1]
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-* By default, match keys that equal any of the attributes before.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-3
-
-   target:
-     - {after: a0, before: k0_x0}
-     - {after: a1, before: k1_x1}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target) }}"
-
-
-gives
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - a0: A0
-       a1: B0
-       k2_x2: [C0]
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - a0: A1
-       a1: B1
-       k2_x2: [C1]
-       k3_x3: bar
-
- 
-.. versionadded:: 9.1.0
-
-* The results of the below examples 1-3 are all the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - a0: A0
-       a1: B0
-       k2_x2: [C0]
-       k3_x3: foo
-     - a0: A1
-       a1: B1
-       k2_x2: [C1]
-       k3_x3: bar
-
-
-1. Replace keys that starts with any of the attributes before.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-4
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target:
-     - {after: a0, before: k0}
-     - {after: a1, before: k1}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-2. Replace keys that ends with any of the attributes before.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-4
-
-   mp: ends_with
-   target:
-     - {after: a0, before: x0}
-     - {after: a1, before: x1}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-3. Replace keys that match any regex of the attributes before.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-4
-
-   mp: regex
-   target:
-     - {after: a0, before: ^.*0_x.*$}
-     - {after: a1, before: ^.*1_x.*$}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-
-* The results of the below examples 4-5 are the same:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - {X: foo}
-     - {X: bar}
-
-
-4. If more keys match the same attribute before the last one will be used.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-3
-
-   mp: regex
-   target:
-     - {after: X, before: ^.*_x.*$}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-5. If there are items with equal attribute before the first one will be used.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-3
-
-   mp: regex
-   target:
-     - {after: X, before: ^.*_x.*$}
-     - {after: Y, before: ^.*_x.*$}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-
-6. If there are more matches for a key the first one will be used.
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   input:
-     - {aaa1: A, bbb1: B, ccc1: C}
-     - {aaa2: D, bbb2: E, ccc2: F}
-
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-4
-
-   mp: starts_with
-   target:
-     - {after: X, before: a}
-     - {after: Y, before: aa}
-
-   result: "{{ input | community.general.replace_keys(target=target, matching_parameter=mp) }}"
-
-gives
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-   :emphasize-lines: 1-
-
-   result:
-     - {X: A, bbb1: B, ccc1: C}
-     - {X: D, bbb2: E, ccc2: F}
-
-
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries.rst
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-..
-  Copyright (c) Ansible Project
-  GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.filter_guide.filter_guide_abstract_informations.lists_of_dicts:
-  
-Lists of dictionaries
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Filters to manage keys in a list of dictionaries:
-
-.. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 1
-
-   filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-keep_keys
-   filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-remove_keys
-   filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries-replace_keys
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/filter_guide_abstract_informations.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,5 @@ Abstract transformations

   filter_guide_abstract_informations_dictionaries
   filter_guide_abstract_informations_grouping
-   filter_guide-abstract_informations-lists_of_dictionaries
   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
@@ -6,30 +6,33 @@
 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 <community.general.lists_mergeby#filter>` 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 the documentation for the :ansplugin:`community.general.yaml callback plugin <community.general.yaml#callback>`.
+.. note:: The output of the examples in this section use the YAML callback plugin. Quoting: "Ansible output that can be quite a bit easier to read than the default JSON formatting." See :ref:`the documentation for the community.general.yaml callback plugin <ansible_collections.community.general.yaml_callback>`.

 Let us use the lists below in the following examples:

 .. code-block:: yaml

  list1:
-    - {name: foo, extra: true}
-    - {name: bar, extra: false}
-    - {name: meh, extra: true}
+    - name: foo
+      extra: true
+    - name: bar
+      extra: false
+    - name: meh
+      extra: true

  list2:
-    - {name: foo, path: /foo}
-    - {name: baz, path: /baz}
+    - name: foo
+      path: /foo
+    - name: baz
+      path: /baz

-Two lists
-"""""""""
 In the example below the lists are merged by the attribute ``name``:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ list1 |
+  list3: "{{ list1|
             community.general.lists_mergeby(list2, 'name') }}"

 This produces:
@@ -37,21 +40,24 @@ This produces:
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - {name: bar, extra: false}
-    - {name: baz, path: /baz}
-    - {name: foo, extra: true, path: /foo}
-    - {name: meh, extra: true}
+  - extra: false
+    name: bar
+  - name: baz
+    path: /baz
+  - extra: true
+    name: foo
+    path: /foo
+  - extra: true
+    name: meh


 .. versionadded:: 2.0.0

-List of two lists
-"""""""""""""""""
 It is possible to use a list of lists as an input of the filter:

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"

 This produces the same result as in the previous example:
@@ -59,40 +65,26 @@ This produces the same result as in the previous example:
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - {name: bar, extra: false}
-    - {name: baz, path: /baz}
-    - {name: foo, extra: true, path: /foo}
-    - {name: meh, extra: true}
-
-Single list
-"""""""""""
-It is possible to merge single list:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
-
-  list3: "{{ [list1 + list2, []] |
-             community.general.lists_mergeby('name') }}"
-
-This produces the same result as in the previous example:
-
-.. code-block:: yaml
-
-  list3:
-    - {name: bar, extra: false}
-    - {name: baz, path: /baz}
-    - {name: foo, extra: true, path: /foo}
-    - {name: meh, extra: true}
+  - extra: false
+    name: bar
+  - name: baz
+    path: /baz
+  - extra: true
+    name: foo
+    path: /foo
+  - extra: true
+    name: meh


-The filter also accepts two optional parameters: :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:recursive` and :ansopt:`community.general.lists_mergeby#filter:list_merge`. This is available since community.general 4.4.0.
+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

@@ -103,7 +95,8 @@ Let us use the lists below in the following examples
      param01:
        x: default_value
        y: default_value
-        list: [default_value]
+        list:
+          - default_value
    - name: myname02
      param01: [1, 1, 2, 3]

@@ -112,17 +105,16 @@ Let us use the lists below in the following examples
      param01:
        y: patch_value
        z: patch_value
-        list: [patch_value]
+        list:
+          - patch_value
    - name: myname02
-      param01: [3, 4, 4]
+      param01: [3, 4, 4, {key: value}]

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true) }}"

@@ -131,22 +123,25 @@ This produces:
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        list: [patch_value]
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01: [3, 4, 4]
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - patch_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 3
+    - 4
+    - 4
+    - key: value

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true,
                                             list_merge='keep') }}"
@@ -156,22 +151,25 @@ This produces:
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        list: [default_value]
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01: [1, 1, 2, 3]
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - default_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2
+    - 3

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true,
                                             list_merge='append') }}"
@@ -181,22 +179,30 @@ This produces:
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        list: [default_value, patch_value]
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01: [1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4]
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - default_value
+      - patch_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2
+    - 3
+    - 3
+    - 4
+    - 4
+    - key: value

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true,
                                             list_merge='prepend') }}"
@@ -206,22 +212,30 @@ This produces:
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        list: [patch_value, default_value]
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01: [3, 4, 4, 1, 1, 2, 3]
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - patch_value
+      - default_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 3
+    - 4
+    - 4
+    - key: value
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2
+    - 3

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true,
                                             list_merge='append_rp') }}"
@@ -231,22 +245,29 @@ This produces:
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        list: [default_value, patch_value]
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01: [1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4]
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - default_value
+      - patch_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2
+    - 3
+    - 4
+    - 4
+    - key: value

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

 .. code-block:: yaml+jinja

-  list3: "{{ [list1, list2] |
+  list3: "{{ [list1, list2]|
             community.general.lists_mergeby('name',
                                             recursive=true,
                                             list_merge='prepend_rp') }}"
@@ -256,12 +277,21 @@ This produces:
 .. code-block:: yaml

  list3:
-    - name: myname01
-      param01:
-        x: default_value
-        y: patch_value
-        list: [patch_value, default_value]
-        z: patch_value
-    - name: myname02
-      param01: [3, 4, 4, 1, 1, 2]
+  - name: myname01
+    param01:
+      list:
+      - patch_value
+      - default_value
+      x: default_value
+      y: patch_value
+      z: patch_value
+  - name: myname02
+    param01:
+    - 3
+    - 4
+    - 4
+    - key: value
+    - 1
+    - 1
+    - 2

--- 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_cmdrunner.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/guide_cmdrunner.rst
@@ -1,463 +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_cmdrunner:
-
-
-Command Runner guide
-====================
-
-
-Introduction
-^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-The ``ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.cmd_runner`` module util provides the
-``CmdRunner`` class to help execute external commands. The class is a wrapper around
-the standard ``AnsibleModule.run_command()`` method, handling command arguments, localization setting,
-output processing output, check mode, and other features.
-
-It is even more useful when one command is used in multiple modules, so that you can define all options
-in a module util file, and each module uses the same runner with different arguments.
-
-For the sake of clarity, throughout this guide, unless otherwise specified, we use the term *option* when referring to
-Ansible module options, and the term *argument* when referring to the command line arguments for the external command.
-
-
-Quickstart
-""""""""""
-
-``CmdRunner`` defines a command and a set of coded instructions on how to format
-the command-line arguments, in which specific order, for a particular execution.
-It relies on ``ansible.module_utils.basic.AnsibleModule.run_command()`` to actually execute the command.
-There are other features, see more details throughout this document.
-
-To use ``CmdRunner`` you must start by creating an object. The example below is a simplified
-version of the actual code in :ansplugin:`community.general.ansible_galaxy_install#module`:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.cmd_runner import CmdRunner, cmd_runner_fmt
-
-    runner = CmdRunner(
-        module,
-        command="ansible-galaxy",
-        arg_formats=dict(
-            type=cmd_runner_fmt.as_func(lambda v: [] if v == 'both' else [v]),
-            galaxy_cmd=cmd_runner_fmt.as_list(),
-            upgrade=cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool("--upgrade"),
-            requirements_file=cmd_runner_fmt.as_opt_val('-r'),
-            dest=cmd_runner_fmt.as_opt_val('-p'),
-            force=cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool("--force"),
-            no_deps=cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool("--no-deps"),
-            version=cmd_runner_fmt.as_fixed("--version"),
-            name=cmd_runner_fmt.as_list(),
-        )
-    )
-
-This is meant to be done once, then every time you need to execute the command you create a context and pass values as needed:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-        # Run the command with these arguments, when values exist for them
-        with runner("type galaxy_cmd upgrade force no_deps dest requirements_file name", output_process=process) as ctx:
-            ctx.run(galaxy_cmd="install", upgrade=upgrade)
-
-        # version is fixed, requires no value
-        with runner("version") as ctx:
-            dummy, stdout, dummy = ctx.run()
-
-        # Another way of expressing it
-        dummy, stdout, dummy = runner("version").run()
-
-Note that you can pass values for the arguments when calling ``run()``,
-otherwise ``CmdRunner`` uses the module options with the exact same names to
-provide values for the runner arguments. If no value is passed and no module option
-is found for the name specified, then an exception is raised, unless the
-argument is using ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_fixed`` as format function like the
-``version`` in the example above. See more about it below.
-
-In the first example, values of ``type``, ``force``, ``no_deps`` and others
-are taken straight from the module, whilst ``galaxy_cmd`` and ``upgrade`` are
-passed explicitly.
-
-That generates a resulting command line similar to (example taken from the
-output of an integration test):
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-        [
-            "<venv>/bin/ansible-galaxy",
-            "collection",
-            "install",
-            "--upgrade",
-            "-p",
-            "<collection-install-path>",
-            "netbox.netbox",
-        ]
-
-
-Argument formats
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-As seen in the example, ``CmdRunner`` expects a parameter named ``arg_formats``
-defining how to format each CLI named argument.
-An "argument format" is nothing but a function to transform the value of a variable
-into something formatted for the command line.
-
-
-Argument format function
-""""""""""""""""""""""""
-
-An ``arg_format`` function should be of the form:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    def func(value):
-        return ["--some-param-name", value]
-
-The parameter ``value`` can be of any type - although there are convenience
-mechanisms to help handling sequence and mapping objects.
-
-The result is expected to be of the type ``Sequence[str]`` type (most commonly
-``list[str]`` or ``tuple[str]``), otherwise it is considered to be a ``str``,
-and it is coerced into ``list[str]``.
-This resulting sequence of strings is added to the command line when that
-argument is actually used.
-
-For example, if ``func`` returns:
-
- ``["nee", 2, "shruberries"]``, the command line adds arguments ``"nee" "2" "shruberries"``.
- ``2 == 2``, the command line adds argument ``True``.
- ``None``, the command line adds argument ``None``.
- ``[]``, the command line adds no command line argument for that particular argument.
-
-
-Convenience format methods
-""""""""""""""""""""""""""
-
-In the same module as ``CmdRunner`` there is a class ``cmd_runner_fmt`` which
-provides a set of convenience methods that return format functions for common cases.
-In the first block of code in the `Quickstart`_ section you can see the importing of
-that class:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.cmd_runner import CmdRunner, cmd_runner_fmt
-
-The same example shows how to make use of some of them in the instantiation of the ``CmdRunner`` object.
-A description of each one of the convenience methods available and examples of how to use them is found below.
-In these descriptions ``value`` refers to the single parameter passed to the formatting function.
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_list()``
-    This method does not receive any parameter, function returns ``value`` as-is.
-
-    - Creation:
-        ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_list()``
-    - Example:
-        +----------------------+---------------------+
-        | Value                | Outcome             |
-        +======================+=====================+
-        | ``["foo", "bar"]``   | ``["foo", "bar"]``  |
-        +----------------------+---------------------+
-        | ``"foobar"``         | ``["foobar"]``      |
-        +----------------------+---------------------+
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool()``
-    This method receives two different parameters: ``args_true`` and ``args_false``, latter being optional.
-    If the boolean evaluation of ``value`` is ``True``, the format function returns ``args_true``.
-    If the boolean evaluation is ``False``, then the function returns ``args_false``
-    if it was provided, or ``[]`` otherwise.
-
-    - Creation:
-        ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool("--force")``
-    - Example:
-        +------------+--------------------+
-        | Value      | Outcome            |
-        +============+====================+
-        | ``True``   | ``["--force"]``    |
-        +------------+--------------------+
-        | ``False``  | ``[]``             |
-        +------------+--------------------+
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool_not()``
-    This method receives one parameter, which is returned by the function when the boolean evaluation
-    of ``value`` is ``False``.
-
-    - Creation:
-        ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool_not("--no-deps")``
-    - Example:
-        +-------------+---------------------+
-        | Value       | Outcome             |
-        +=============+=====================+
-        | ``True``    | ``[]``              |
-        +-------------+---------------------+
-        | ``False``   | ``["--no-deps"]``   |
-        +-------------+---------------------+
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_optval()``
-    This method receives one parameter ``arg``, the function returns the string concatenation
-    of ``arg`` and ``value``.
-
-    - Creation:
-        ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_optval("-i")``
-    - Example:
-        +---------------+---------------------+
-        | Value         | Outcome             |
-        +===============+=====================+
-        | ``3``         | ``["-i3"]``         |
-        +---------------+---------------------+
-        | ``foobar``    | ``["-ifoobar"]``    |
-        +---------------+---------------------+
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_opt_val()``
-    This method receives one parameter ``arg``, the function returns ``[arg, value]``.
-
-    - Creation:
-        ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_opt_val("--name")``
-    - Example:
-        +--------------+--------------------------+
-        | Value        | Outcome                  |
-        +==============+==========================+
-        | ``abc``      | ``["--name", "abc"]``    |
-        +--------------+--------------------------+
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_opt_eq_val()``
-    This method receives one parameter ``arg``, the function returns the string of the form
-    ``{arg}={value}``.
-
-    - Creation:
-        ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_opt_eq_val("--num-cpus")``
-    - Example:
-        +------------+-------------------------+
-        | Value      | Outcome                 |
-        +============+=========================+
-        | ``10``     | ``["--num-cpus=10"]``   |
-        +------------+-------------------------+
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_fixed()``
-    This method receives one parameter ``arg``, the function expects no ``value`` - if one
-    is provided then it is ignored.
-    The function returns ``arg`` as-is.
-
-    - Creation:
-        ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_fixed("--version")``
-    - Example:
-        +---------+-----------------------+
-        | Value   | Outcome               |
-        +=========+=======================+
-        |         | ``["--version"]``     |
-        +---------+-----------------------+
-        | 57      | ``["--version"]``     |
-        +---------+-----------------------+
-
-    - Note:
-        This is the only special case in which a value can be missing for the formatting function.
-        The example also comes from the code in `Quickstart`_.
-        In that case, the module has code to determine the command's version so that it can assert compatibility.
-        There is no *value* to be passed for that CLI argument.
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_map()``
-    This method receives one parameter ``arg`` which must be a dictionary, and an optional parameter ``default``.
-    The function returns the evaluation of ``arg[value]``.
-    If ``value not in arg``, then it returns ``default`` if defined, otherwise ``[]``.
-
-    - Creation:
-        ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_map(dict(a=1, b=2, c=3), default=42)``
-    - Example:
-        +---------------------+---------------+
-        | Value               | Outcome       |
-        +=====================+===============+
-        | ``"b"``             | ``["2"]``     |
-        +---------------------+---------------+
-        | ``"yabadabadoo"``   | ``["42"]``    |
-        +---------------------+---------------+
-
-    - Note:
-        If ``default`` is not specified, invalid values return an empty list, meaning they are silently ignored.
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_func()``
-    This method receives one parameter ``arg`` which is itself is a format function and it must abide by the rules described above.
-
-    - Creation:
-        ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_func(lambda v: [] if v == 'stable' else ['--channel', '{0}'.format(v)])``
-    - Note:
-        The outcome for that depends entirely on the function provided by the developer.
-
-
-Other features for argument formatting
-""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
-
-Some additional features are available as decorators:
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.unpack args()``
-    This decorator unpacks the incoming ``value`` as a list of elements.
-
-    For example, in ``ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.puppet``, it is used as:
-
-    .. code-block:: python
-
-          @cmd_runner_fmt.unpack_args
-          def execute_func(execute, manifest):
-              if execute:
-                  return ["--execute", execute]
-              else:
-                  return [manifest]
-
-          runner = CmdRunner(
-              module,
-              command=_prepare_base_cmd(),
-              path_prefix=_PUPPET_PATH_PREFIX,
-              arg_formats=dict(
-                  # ...
-                  _execute=cmd_runner_fmt.as_func(execute_func),
-                  # ...
-              ),
-          )
-
-    Then, in :ansplugin:`community.general.puppet#module` it is put to use with:
-
-    .. code-block:: python
-
-          with runner(args_order) as ctx:
-              rc, stdout, stderr = ctx.run(_execute=[p['execute'], p['manifest']])
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.unpack_kwargs()``
-    Conversely, this decorator unpacks the incoming ``value`` as a ``dict``-like object.
-
- ``cmd_runner_fmt.stack()``
-    This decorator assumes ``value`` is a sequence and concatenates the output
-    of the wrapped function applied to each element of the sequence.
-
-    For example, in :ansplugin:`community.general.django_check#module`, the argument format for ``database``
-    is defined as:
-
-    .. code-block:: python
-
-          arg_formats = dict(
-              # ...
-              database=cmd_runner_fmt.stack(cmd_runner_fmt.as_opt_val)("--database"),
-              # ...
-          )
-
-    When receiving a list ``["abc", "def"]``, the output is:
-
-    .. code-block:: python
-
-          ["--database", "abc", "--database", "def"]
-
-
-Command Runner
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Settings that can be passed to the ``CmdRunner`` constructor are:
-
- ``module: AnsibleModule``
-    Module instance. Mandatory parameter.
- ``command: str | list[str]``
-    Command to be executed. It can be a single string, the executable name, or a list
-    of strings containing the executable name as the first element and, optionally, fixed parameters.
-    Those parameters are used in all executions of the runner.
- ``arg_formats: dict``
-    Mapping of argument names to formatting functions.
- ``default_args_order: str``
-    As the name suggests, a default ordering for the arguments. When
-    this is passed, the context can be created without specifying ``args_order``. Defaults to ``()``.
- ``check_rc: bool``
-    When ``True``, if the return code from the command is not zero, the module exits
-    with an error. Defaults to ``False``.
- ``path_prefix: list[str]``
-    If the command being executed is installed in a non-standard directory path,
-    additional paths might be provided to search for the executable. Defaults to ``None``.
- ``environ_update: dict``
-    Pass additional environment variables to be set during the command execution.
-    Defaults to ``None``.
- ``force_lang: str``
-    It is usually important to force the locale to one specific value, so that responses are consistent and, therefore, parseable.
-    Please note that using this option (which is enabled by default) overwrites the environment variables ``LANGUAGE`` and ``LC_ALL``.
-    To disable this mechanism, set this parameter to ``None``.
-    In community.general 9.1.0 a special value ``auto`` was introduced for this parameter, with the effect
-    that ``CmdRunner`` then tries to determine the best parseable locale for the runtime.
-    It should become the default value in the future, but for the time being the default value is ``C``.
-
-When creating a context, the additional settings that can be passed to the call are:
-
- ``args_order: str``
-    Establishes the order in which the arguments are rendered in the command line.
-    This parameter is mandatory unless ``default_args_order`` was provided to the runner instance.
- ``output_process: func``
-    Function to transform the output of the executable into different values or formats.
-    See examples in section below.
- ``check_mode_skip: bool``
-    Whether to skip the actual execution of the command when the module is in check mode.
-    Defaults to ``False``.
- ``check_mode_return: any``
-    If ``check_mode_skip=True``, then return this value instead.
-
-Additionally, any other valid parameters for ``AnsibleModule.run_command()`` may be passed, but unexpected behavior
-might occur if redefining options already present in the runner or its context creation. Use with caution.
-
-
-Processing results
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-As mentioned, ``CmdRunner`` uses ``AnsibleModule.run_command()`` to execute the external command,
-and it passes the return value from that method back to caller. That means that,
-by default, the result is going to be a tuple ``(rc, stdout, stderr)``.
-
-If you need to transform or process that output, you can pass a function to the context,
-as the ``output_process`` parameter. It must be a function like:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    def process(rc, stdout, stderr):
-        # do some magic
-        return processed_value    # whatever that is
-
-In that case, the return of ``run()`` is the ``processed_value`` returned by the function.
-
-
-PythonRunner
-^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-The ``PythonRunner`` class is a specialized version of ``CmdRunner``, geared towards the execution of
-Python scripts. It features two extra and  mutually exclusive parameters ``python`` and ``venv`` in its constructor:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.python_runner import PythonRunner
-    from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.cmd_runner import cmd_runner_fmt
-
-    runner = PythonRunner(
-        module,
-        command=["-m", "django"],
-        arg_formats=dict(...),
-        python="python",
-        venv="/path/to/some/venv",
-    )
-
-The default value for ``python`` is the string ``python``, and the for ``venv`` it is ``None``.
-
-The command line produced by such a command with ``python="python3.12"`` is something like:
-
-.. code-block:: shell
-
-    /usr/bin/python3.12 -m django <arg1> <arg2> ...
-
-And the command line for ``venv="/work/venv"`` is like:
-
-.. code-block:: shell
-
-    /work/venv/bin/python -m django <arg1> <arg2> ...
-
-You may provide the value of the ``command`` argument as a string (in that case the string is used as a script name)
-or as a list, in which case the elements of the list must be valid arguments for the Python interpreter, as in the example above.
-See `Command line and environment <https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html>`_ for more details.
-
-If the parameter ``python`` is an absolute path, or contains directory separators, such as ``/``, then it is used
-as-is, otherwise the runtime ``PATH`` is searched for that command name.
-
-Other than that, everything else works as in ``CmdRunner``.
-
-.. versionadded:: 4.8.0
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/guide_deps.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/guide_deps.rst
@@ -1,74 +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_deps:
-
-``deps`` Guide
-==============
-
-
-Using ``deps``
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-The ``ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.deps`` module util simplifies
-the importing of code as described in :ref:`Importing and using shared code <shared_code>`.
-Please notice that ``deps`` is meant to be used specifically with Ansible modules, and not other types of plugins.
-
-The same example from the Developer Guide would become:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils import deps
-
-    with deps.declare("foo"):
-        import foo
-
-Then in ``main()``, just after the argspec (or anywhere in the code, for that matter), do
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    deps.validate(module)  # assuming module is a valid AnsibleModule instance
-
-By default, ``deps`` will rely on ``ansible.module_utils.basic.missing_required_lib`` to generate
-a message about a failing import. That function accepts parameters ``reason`` and ``url``, and
-and so does ``deps```:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    with deps.declare("foo", reason="foo is needed to properly bar", url="https://foo.bar.io"):
-        import foo
-
-If you would rather write a custom message instead of using ``missing_required_lib`` then do:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    with deps.declare("foo", msg="Custom msg explaining why foo is needed"):
-        import foo
-
-``deps`` allows for multiple dependencies to be declared:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    with deps.declare("foo"):
-        import foo
-
-    with deps.declare("bar"):
-        import bar
-
-    with deps.declare("doe"):
-        import doe
-
-By default, ``deps.validate()`` will check on all the declared dependencies, but if so desired,
-they can be validated selectively by doing:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    deps.validate(module, "foo")       # only validates the "foo" dependency
-
-    deps.validate(module, "doe:bar")   # only validates the "doe" and "bar" dependencies
-
-    deps.validate(module, "-doe:bar")  # validates all dependencies except "doe" and "bar"
-
-.. versionadded:: 6.1.0
--- 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/guide_vardict.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/guide_vardict.rst
@@ -1,176 +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_vardict:
-
-VarDict Guide
-=============
-
-Introduction
-^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-The ``ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.vardict`` module util provides the
-``VarDict`` class to help manage the module variables. That class is a container for module variables,
-especially the ones for which the module must keep track of state changes, and the ones that should
-be published as return values.
-
-Each variable has extra behaviors controlled by associated metadata, simplifying the generation of
-output values from the module.
-
-Quickstart
-""""""""""
-
-The simplest way of using ``VarDict`` is:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.vardict import VarDict
-
-Then in ``main()``, or any other function called from there:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    vars = VarDict()
-
-    # Next 3 statements are equivalent
-    vars.abc = 123
-    vars["abc"] = 123
-    vars.set("abc", 123)
-
-    vars.xyz = "bananas"
-    vars.ghi = False
-
-And by the time the module is about to exit:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    results = vars.output()
-    module.exit_json(**results)
-
-That makes the return value of the module:
-
-.. code-block:: javascript
-
-    {
-        "abc": 123,
-        "xyz": "bananas",
-        "ghi": false
-    }
-
-Metadata
-""""""""
-
-The metadata values associated with each variable are:
-
- ``output: bool`` - marks the variable for module output as a module return value.
- ``fact: bool`` - marks the variable for module output as an Ansible fact.
- ``verbosity: int`` - sets the minimum level of verbosity for which the variable will be included in the output.
- ``change: bool`` - controls the detection of changes in the variable value.
- ``initial_value: any`` - when using ``change`` and need to forcefully set an intial value to the variable.
- ``diff: bool`` - used along with ``change``, this generates an Ansible-style diff ``dict``.
-
-See the sections below for more details on how to use the metadata.
-
-
-Using VarDict
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Basic Usage
-"""""""""""
-
-As shown above, variables can be accessed using the ``[]`` operator, as in a ``dict`` object,
-and also as an object attribute, such as ``vars.abc``. The form using the ``set()``
-method is special in the sense that you can use it to set metadata values:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    vars.set("abc", 123, output=False)
-    vars.set("abc", 123, output=True, change=True)
-
-Another way to set metadata after the variables have been created is:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    vars.set_meta("abc", output=False)
-    vars.set_meta("abc", output=True, change=True, diff=True)
-
-You can use either operator and attribute forms to access the value of the variable. Other ways to
-access its value and its metadata are:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    print("abc value = {0}".format(vars.var("abc")["value"]))        # get the value
-    print("abc output? {0}".format(vars.get_meta("abc")["output"]))  # get the metadata like this
-
-The names of methods, such as ``set``, ``get_meta``, ``output`` amongst others, are reserved and
-cannot be used as variable names. If you try to use a reserved name a ``ValueError`` exception
-is raised with the message "Name <var> is reserved".
-
-Generating output
-"""""""""""""""""
-
-By default, every variable create will be enable for output with minimum verbosity set to zero, in
-other words, they will always be in the output by default.
-
-You can control that when creating the variable for the first time or later in the code:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    vars.set("internal", x + 4, output=False)
-    vars.set_meta("internal", output=False)
-
-You can also set the verbosity of some variable, like:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    vars.set("abc", x + 4)
-    vars.set("debug_x", x, verbosity=3)
-
-    results = vars.output(module._verbosity)
-    module.exit_json(**results)
-
-If the module was invoked with verbosity lower than 3, then the output will only contain
-the variable ``abc``. If running at higher verbosity, as in ``ansible-playbook -vvv``,
-then the output will also contain ``debug_x``.
-
-Generating facts is very similar to regular output, but variables are not marked as facts by default.
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    vars.set("modulefact", x + 4, fact=True)
-    vars.set("debugfact", x, fact=True, verbosity=3)
-
-    results = vars.output(module._verbosity)
-    results["ansible_facts"] = {"module_name": vars.facts(module._verbosity)}
-    module.exit_json(**results)
-
-Handling change
-"""""""""""""""
-
-You can use ``VarDict`` to determine whether variables have had their values changed.
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    vars.set("abc", 42, change=True)
-    vars.abc = 90
-
-    results = vars.output()
-    results["changed"] = vars.has_changed
-    module.exit_json(**results)
-
-If tracking changes in variables, you may want to present the difference between the initial and the final
-values of it. For that, you want to use:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    vars.set("abc", 42, change=True, diff=True)
-    vars.abc = 90
-
-    results = vars.output()
-    results["changed"] = vars.has_changed
-    results["diff"] = vars.diff()
-    module.exit_json(**results)
-
-.. versionadded:: 7.1.0
--- 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: 9.2.0
+version: 6.1.0
 readme: README.md
 authors:
  - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)
-description: >-
-  The community.general collection is a part of the Ansible package and includes many modules and
-  plugins supported by Ansible community which are not part of more specialized community collections.
+description: null
 license_file: COPYING
-tags:
-  - community
+tags: [community]
+# NOTE: No dependencies are expected to be added here
+# dependencies:
 repository: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general
 documentation: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/
 homepage: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general
 issues: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues
+#type: flatmap
--- a/meta/runtime.yml
+++ b/meta/runtime.yml
--- a/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
+++ b/plugins/action/iptables_state.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More
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