community.general/CHANGELOG.md

Community General Release Notes

Topics

• v6.6.9
  • Release Summary
  • Security Fixes
  • Bugfixes
• v6.6.8
  • Release Summary
  • Security Fixes
  • Bugfixes
• v6.6.7
  • Release Summary
  • Bugfixes
• v6.6.6
  • Release Summary
  • Bugfixes
• v6.6.5
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
• v6.6.4
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
• v6.6.3
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
• v6.6.2
  • Release Summary
  • Bugfixes
• v6.6.1
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
• v6.6.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
  • New Modules
• v6.5.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
  • New Plugins
    • Lookup
  • New Modules
• v6.4.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Deprecated Features
  • Bugfixes
• v6.3.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
  • Deprecated Features
  • Bugfixes
  • New Modules
• v6.2.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Deprecated Features
  • Bugfixes
• v6.1.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Deprecated Features
  • Bugfixes
  • New Modules
• v6.0.1
  • Release Summary
  • Bugfixes
• v6.0.0
  • Release Summary
  • Major Changes
  • Minor Changes
  • Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
  • Deprecated Features
  • Removed Features (previously deprecated)
  • Bugfixes
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  • New Modules This changelog describes changes after version 5.0.0.

v6.6.9

Release Summary

Maintenance release.

This is the last 6.x.y release. The 6.x.y release train is now effectively End of Life. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the community.general 6.x.y releases!

Security Fixes

• keycloak_identity_provider - the client secret was not correctly sanitized by the module. The return values proposed, existing, and end_state, as well as the diff, did contain the client secret unmasked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8355).

Bugfixes

• 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).
• 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).

v6.6.8

Release Summary

Security and bugfix release.

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).

Bugfixes

• aix_filesystem - fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8052).
• 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).

v6.6.7

Release Summary

Bugfix release.

From now on, community.general 6.x.y will only receive major bugfixes and security fixes anymore.

Bugfixes

• composer - fix impossible to run working_dir dependent commands. The module was throwing an error when trying to run a working_dir dependent command, because it tried to get the command help without passing the working_dir (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3787).
• github_deploy_key - fix pagination behaviour causing a crash when only a single page of deploy keys exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7375).
• gitlab_group_members - fix gitlab constants call in gitlab_group_members module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
• gitlab_project_members - fix gitlab constants call in gitlab_project_members module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
• gitlab_protected_branches - fix gitlab constants call in gitlab_protected_branches module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
• gitlab_user - fix gitlab constants call in gitlab_user module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
• lxc connection plugin - properly evaluate options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7369).
• memset module utils - make compatible with ansible-core 2.17 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7379).
• redhat_subscription - use the right D-Bus options for the consumer type when registering a RHEL system older than 9 or a RHEL 9 system older than 9.2 and using consumer_type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7378).
• selective callback plugin - fix length of task name lines in output always being 3 characters longer than desired (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7374).

v6.6.6

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Bugfixes

• mail - skip headers containing equals characters due to missing maxsplit on header key/value parsing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7303).
• onepassword - fix KeyError exception when trying to access value of a field that is not filled out in OnePassword item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7241).
• terraform - prevents -backend-config option double encapsulating with shlex_quote function. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7301).

v6.6.5

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• make - allows params to be used without value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7180).
• pritunl module utils - ensure validate_certs parameter is honoured in all methods (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7156).

Bugfixes

• CmdRunner module utils - does not attempt to resolve path if executable is a relative or absolute path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7200).
• lxc connection plugin - now handles remote_addr defaulting to inventory_hostname correctly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7104).
• nsupdate - fix a possible list index out of range exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/836).
• oci_utils module util - fix inappropriate logical comparison expressions and makes them simpler. The previous checks had logical short circuits (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7125).
• pritunl module utils - fix incorrect URL parameter for orgnization add method (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7161).

v6.6.4

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• redfish_utils - use Controllers key in redfish data to obtain Storage controllers properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7081).

Bugfixes

• bitwarden lookup plugin - the plugin made assumptions about the structure of a Bitwarden JSON object which may have been broken by an update in the Bitwarden API. Remove assumptions, and allow queries for general fields such as notes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7061).
• cmd_runner module utils - when a parameter in argument_spec has no type, meaning it is implicitly a str, CmdRunner would fail trying to find the type key in that dictionary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6968).
• ejabberd_user - module was failing to detect whether user was already created and/or password was changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7033).
• ejabberd_user - provide meaningful error message when the ejabberdctl command is not found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6949).
• oci_utils module utils - avoid direct type comparisons (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7085).
• proxmox module utils - fix proxmoxer library version check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6974, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6975, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6980).
• proxmox_kvm - when name option is provided without vmid and VM with that name already exists then no new VM will be created (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6911, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6981).
• proxmox_user_info - avoid direct type comparisons (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7085).
• rundeck - fix TypeError on 404 API response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6983).

v6.6.3

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• cobbler inventory plugin - convert Ansible unicode strings to native Python unicode strings before passing user/password to XMLRPC client (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6923).
• redfish_info - fix for GetVolumeInventory, Controller name was getting populated incorrectly and duplicates were seen in the volumes retrieved (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6719).

Bugfixes

• datadog_downtime - presence of rrule param lead to the Datadog API returning Bad Request due to a missing recurrence type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6811).
• icinga2_host - fix a key error when updating an existing host (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6748).
• ipa_dnszone - fix 'idnsallowsyncptr' key error for reverse zone (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6906, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6905).
• locale_gen - now works for locales without the underscore character such as C.UTF-8 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6774, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5142, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4305).
• machinectl become plugin - mark plugin as require_tty to automatically disable pipelining, with which this plugin is not compatible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6932, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6935).
• nmcli - fix support for empty list (in compare and scrape) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6769).
• openbsd_pkg - the pkg_info(1) behavior has changed in OpenBSD >7.3. The error message Can't find should not lead to an error case (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6785).
• pacman - module recognizes the output of yay running as root (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6713).
• proxmox - fix error when a configuration had no template field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6838, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5372).
• proxmox module utils - add logic to detect whether an old Promoxer complains about the token_name and token_value parameters and provide a better error message when that happens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6839, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5371).
• proxmox_disk - fix unable to create cdrom media due to size always being appended (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6770).
• proxmox_kvm - absent state with force specified failed to stop the VM due to the timeout value not being passed to stop_vm (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6827).
• redfish_info - fix ListUsers to not show empty account slots (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6771, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6772).
• refish_utils module utils - changing variable names to avoid issues occuring when fetching Volumes data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6883).
• rhsm_repository - when using the purge option, the repositories dictionary element in the returned JSON is now properly updated according to the pruning operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6676).

v6.6.2

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Bugfixes

• csv module utils - detects and remove unicode BOM markers from incoming CSV content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6662).
• gitlab_group - the module passed parameters to the API call even when not set. The module is now filtering out None values to remediate this (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6712).
• ini_file - fix a bug where the inactive options were not used when possible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6575).
• keycloak module utils - fix is_struct_included handling of lists of lists/dictionaries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6688).
• keycloak module utils - the function get_user_by_username now return the user representation or None as stated in the documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6758).

v6.6.1

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• dconf - if gi.repository.GLib is missing, try to respawn in a Python interpreter that has it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6491).

Bugfixes

• deps module utils - do not fail when dependency cannot be found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6479).
• nmcli - fix bond option xmit_hash_policy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6527).
• passwordstore lookup plugin - make compatible with ansible-core 2.16 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6447).
• portage - fix changed_use and newuse not triggering rebuilds (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6008, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6548).
• portage - update the logic for generating the emerge command arguments to ensure that withbdeps: false results in a passing an n argument with the --with-bdeps emerge flag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6451, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6456).
• proxmox_tasks_info - remove api_user + api_password constraint from required_together as it causes to require api_password even when API token param is used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6201).
• puppet - handling noop parameter was not working at all, now it is has been fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6452, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6458).
• terraform - fix broken warn() call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6497).
• xfs_quota - in case of a project quota, the call to xfs_quota did not initialize/reset the project (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5143).
• zypper - added handling of zypper exitcode 102. Changed state is set correctly now and rc 102 is still preserved to be evaluated by the playbook (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6534).

v6.6.0

Release Summary

Bugfix and feature release.

Minor Changes

• cpanm - minor change, use feature from ModuleHelper (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6385).
• dconf - be forgiving about boolean values: convert them to GVariant booleans automatically (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6206).
• dconf - minor refactoring improving parameters and dependencies validation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6336).
• deps module utils - add function failed() providing the ability to check the dependency check result without triggering an exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6383).
• dig lookup plugin - Support multiple domains to be queried as indicated in docs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6334).
• gitlab_project - add new option topics for adding topics to GitLab projects (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6278).
• homebrew_cask - allows passing --greedy option to upgrade_all (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6267).
• idrac_redfish_command - add job_id to CreateBiosConfigJob response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5603).
• ipa_hostgroup - add append parameter for adding a new hosts to existing hostgroups without changing existing hostgroup members (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6203).
• keycloak_authentication - add flow type option to sub flows to allow the creation of 'form-flow' sub flows like in Keycloak's built-in registration flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6318).
• mksysb - improved the output of the module in case of errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6263).
• nmap inventory plugin - added environment variables for configure address and exclude (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6351).
• nmcli - add macvlan connection type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6312).
• pipx - add system_site_packages parameter to give application access to system-wide packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6308).
• pipx - ensure include_injected parameter works with state=upgrade and state=latest (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6212).
• puppet - add new options skip_tags to exclude certain tagged resources during a puppet agent or apply (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6293).
• terraform - remove state file check condition and error block, because in the native implementation of terraform will not cause errors due to the non-existent file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6296).
• udm_dns_record - minor refactor to the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6382).

Bugfixes

• archive - reduce RAM usage by generating CRC32 checksum over chunks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6274).
• flatpak - fixes idempotency detection issues. In some cases the module could fail to properly detect already existing Flatpaks because of a parameter witch only checks the installed apps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6289).
• icinga2_host - fix the data structure sent to Icinga to make use of host templates and template vars (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6286).
• idrac_redfish_command - allow user to specify resource_id for CreateBiosConfigJob to specify an exact manager (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2090).
• ini_file - make section parameter not required so it is possible to pass null as a value. This only was possible in the past due to a bug in ansible-core that now has been fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6404).
• keycloak - improve error messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6318).
• one_vm - fix syntax error when creating VMs with a more complex template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6225).
• pipx - fixed handling of install_deps=true with state=latest and state=upgrade (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6303).
• redhat_subscription - do not use D-Bus for registering when environment is specified, so it possible to specify again the environment names for registering, as the D-Bus APIs work only with IDs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6319).
• redhat_subscription - try to unregister only when already registered when force_register is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6258, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6259).
• redhat_subscription - use the right D-Bus options for environments when registering a CentOS Stream 8 system and using environment (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6275).
• rhsm_release - make release parameter not required so it is possible to pass null as a value. This only was possible in the past due to a bug in ansible-core that now has been fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6401).
• rundeck module utils - fix errors caused by the API empty responses (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6300)
• rundeck_acl_policy - fix TypeError - byte indices must be integers or slices, not str error caused by empty API response. Update the module to use module_utils.rundeck functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5887, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6300).
• rundeck_project - update the module to use module_utils.rundeck functions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5742) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6300)
• snap_alias - module would only recognize snap names containing letter, numbers or the underscore character, failing to identify valid snap names such as lxd.lxc (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6361).

New Modules

• btrfs_info - Query btrfs filesystem info
• btrfs_subvolume - Manage btrfs subvolumes
• ilo_redfish_command - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
• keycloak_authz_authorization_scope - Allows administration of Keycloak client authorization scopes via Keycloak API
• keycloak_clientscope_type - Set the type of aclientscope in realm or client via Keycloak API

v6.5.0

Release Summary

Feature and bugfix release.

Minor Changes

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

Bugfixes

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

New Plugins

Lookup

• merge_variables - merge variables with a certain suffix

New Modules

• kdeconfig - Manage KDE configuration files

v6.4.0

Release Summary

Regular feature and bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• dnsimple - set custom User-Agent for API requests to DNSimple (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5927).
• flatpak_remote - add new boolean option enabled. It controls, whether the remote is enabled or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5926).
• gitlab_project - add releases_access_level, environments_access_level, feature_flags_access_level, infrastructure_access_level, monitor_access_level, and security_and_compliance_access_level options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5986).
• jc filter plugin - added the ability to use parser plugins (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6043).
• keycloak_group - add new optional module parameter parents to properly handle keycloak subgroups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5814).
• keycloak_user_federation - make org.keycloak.storage.ldap.mappers.LDAPStorageMapper the default value for mappers providerType (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5863).
• ldap modules - add xorder_discovery option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6045, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6109).
• lxd_container - add diff and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5866).
• mattermost, rocketchat, slack - replace missing default favicon with docs.ansible.com favicon (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5928).
• modprobe - add persistent option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/542).
• osx_defaults - include stderr in error messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6011).
• proxmox - suppress urllib3 InsecureRequestWarnings when validate_certs option is false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5931).
• redfish_command - adding EnableSecureBoot functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5899).
• redfish_command - adding VerifyBiosAttributes functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5900).
• sefcontext - add support for path substitutions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1193).

Deprecated Features

• gitlab_runner - the option access_level will lose its default value in community.general 8.0.0. From that version on, you have set this option to ref_protected explicitly, if you want to have a protected runner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5925).

Bugfixes

• cartesian and flattened lookup plugins - adjust to parameter deprecation in ansible-core 2.14's listify_lookup_plugin_terms helper function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6074).
• cloudflare_dns - fixed the idempotency for SRV DNS records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5972).
• cloudflare_dns - fixed the possiblity of setting a root-level SRV DNS record (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5972).
• github_webhook - fix always changed state when no secret is provided (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5994).
• jenkins_plugin - fix error due to undefined variable when updates file is not downloaded (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6100).
• keycloak_client - fix accidental replacement of value for attribute saml.signing.private.key with no_log in wrong contexts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5934).
• lxd_* modules, lxd inventory plugin - fix TLS/SSL certificate validation problems by using the correct purpose when creating the TLS context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5616, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6034).
• nmcli - fix change handling of values specified as an integer 0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
• nmcli - fix failure to handle WIFI settings when connection type not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
• nmcli - fix improper detection of changes to wifi.wake-on-wlan (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5431).
• nmcli - order is significant for lists of addresses (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6048).
• onepassword lookup plugin - Changed to ignore errors from "op account get" calls. Previously, errors would prevent auto-signin code from executing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5942).
• terraform and timezone - slight refactoring to avoid linter reporting potentially undefined variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5933).
• various plugins and modules - remove unnecessary imports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5940).
• yarn - fix global=true to check for the configured global folder instead of assuming the default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5829)
• yarn - fix state=absent not working with global=true when the package does not include a binary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5829)
• yarn - fix state=latest not working with global=true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5712).
• zfs_delegate_admin - zfs allow output can now be parsed when uids/gids are not known to the host system (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5943).
• zypper - make package managing work on readonly filesystem of openSUSE MicroOS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5615).

v6.3.0

Release Summary

Regular bugfix and feature release.

Minor Changes

• apache2_module - add module argument warn_mpm_absent to control whether warning are raised in some edge cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5793).
• bitwarden lookup plugin - can now retrieve secrets from custom fields (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5694).
• bitwarden lookup plugin - implement filtering results by collection_id parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5849).
• dig lookup plugin - support CAA record type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5913).
• gitlab_project - add builds_access_level, container_registry_access_level and forking_access_level options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5706).
• gitlab_runner - add new boolean option access_level_on_creation. It controls, whether the value of access_level is used for runner registration or not. The option access_level has been ignored on registration so far and was only used on updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5907, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5908).
• ilo_redfish_utils module utils - change implementation of DNS Server IP and NTP Server IP update (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5804).
• ipa_group - allow to add and remove external users with the external_user option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5897).
• iptables_state - minor refactoring within the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5844).
• one_vm - add a new updateconf option which implements the one.vm.updateconf API call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5812).
• opkg - refactored module to use CmdRunner for executing opkg (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5718).
• redhat_subscription - adds token parameter for subscription-manager authentication using Red Hat API token (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5725).
• snap - minor refactor when executing module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5773).
• snap_alias - refactored module to use CmdRunner to execute snap (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5486).
• sudoers - add setenv parameters to support passing environment variables via sudo. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5883)

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

• ModuleHelper module utils - when the module sets output variables named msg, exception, output, vars, or changed, the actual output will prefix those names with _ (underscore symbol) only when they clash with output variables generated by ModuleHelper itself, which only occurs when handling exceptions. Please note that this breaking change does not require a new major release since before this release, it was not possible to add such variables to the output due to a bug (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5765).

Deprecated Features

• consul - deprecate using parameters unused for state=absent (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5772).
• gitlab_runner - the default of the new option access_level_on_creation will change from false to true in community.general 7.0.0. This will cause access_level to be used during runner registration as well, and not only during updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5908).

Bugfixes

• ModuleHelper - fix bug when adjusting the name of reserved output variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5755).
• alternatives - support subcommands on Fedora 37, which uses follower instead of slave (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5794).
• bitwarden lookup plugin - clarify what to do, if the bitwarden vault is not unlocked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5811).
• dig lookup plugin - correctly handle DNSKEY record type's algorithm field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5914).
• gem - fix force parameter not being passed to gem command when uninstalling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5822).
• gem - fix hang due to interactive prompt for confirmation on specific version uninstall (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5751).
• gitlab_deploy_key - also update title and not just can_push (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5888).
• keycloak_user_federation - fixes federation creation issue. When a new federation was created and at the same time a default / standard mapper was also changed / updated the creation process failed as a bad None set variable led to a bad malformed url request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5750).
• keycloak_user_federation - fixes idempotency detection issues. In some cases the module could fail to properly detect already existing user federations because of a buggy seemingly superflous extra query parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5732).
• loganalytics callback plugin - adjust type of callback to notification, it was incorrectly classified as aggregate before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
• logdna callback plugin - adjust type of callback to notification, it was incorrectly classified as aggregate before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
• logstash callback plugin - adjust type of callback to notification, it was incorrectly classified as aggregate before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
• nsupdate - fix zone lookup. The SOA record for an existing zone is returned as an answer RR and not as an authority RR (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5817, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5818).
• proxmox_disk - fixed issue with read timeout on import action (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5803).
• redfish_utils - removed basic auth HTTP header when performing a GET on the service root resource and when performing a POST to the session collection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5886).
• splunk callback plugin - adjust type of callback to notification, it was incorrectly classified as aggregate before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
• sumologic callback plugin - adjust type of callback to notification, it was incorrectly classified as aggregate before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
• syslog_json callback plugin - adjust type of callback to notification, it was incorrectly classified as aggregate before (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5761).
• terraform - fix current workspace never getting appended to the all key in the workspace_ctf object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5735).
• terraform - fix terraform init failure when there are multiple workspaces on the remote backend and when default workspace is missing by setting TF_WORKSPACE environmental variable to the value of workspace when used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5735).
• terraform module - disable ANSI escape sequences during validation phase (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5843).
• xml - fixed a bug where empty children list would not be set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5808).

New Modules

• ocapi_command - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Open Composable API (OCAPI)
• ocapi_info - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Open Composable API (OCAPI)

v6.2.0

Release Summary

Regular bugfix and feature release.

Minor Changes

• opkg - allow installing a package in a certain version (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5688).
• proxmox - added new module parameter tags for use with PVE 7+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5714).
• puppet - refactored module to use CmdRunner for executing puppet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5612).
• redhat_subscription - add a server_proxy_scheme parameter to configure the scheme for the proxy server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5662).
• ssh_config - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5720).
• sudoers - adds host parameter for setting hostname restrictions in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5702).

Deprecated Features

• manageiq_policies - deprecate state=list in favour of using community.general.manageiq_policies_info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5721).
• rax - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_cbs - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_cbs_attachments - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_cdb - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_cdb_database - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_cdb_user - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_clb - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_clb_nodes - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_clb_ssl - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_dns - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_dns_record - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_facts - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_files - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_files_objects - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_identity - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_keypair - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_meta - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_mon_alarm - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_mon_check - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_mon_entity - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_mon_notification - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_mon_notification_plan - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_network - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_queue - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_scaling_group - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
• rax_scaling_policy - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).

Bugfixes

• ansible_galaxy_install - set default to raise exception if command's return code is different from zero (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5680).
• ansible_galaxy_install - try C.UTF-8 and then fall back to en_US.UTF-8 before failing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5680).
• gitlab_group_variables - fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5667).
• gitlab_project_variables - fix dropping variables accidentally when GitLab introduced new properties (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5667).
• lxc_container - fix the arguments of the lxc command which broke the creation and cloning of containers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5578).
• opkg - fix issue that force=reinstall would not reinstall an existing package (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5705).
• proxmox_disk - fixed possible issues with redundant vmid parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
• proxmox_nic - fixed possible issues with redundant vmid parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5492, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5672).
• unixy callback plugin - fix typo introduced when updating to use Ansible's configuration manager for handling options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5600).

v6.1.0

Release Summary

Regular bugfix and feature release.

Minor Changes

• cmd_runner module utils - cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool() can now take an extra parameter to format when value is false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5647).
• gconftool2 - refactor using ModuleHelper and CmdRunner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5545).
• java_certs - add more detailed error output when extracting certificate from PKCS12 fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5550).
• jenkins_plugin - refactor code to module util to fix sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5565).
• lxd_project - refactored code out to module utils to clear sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5549).
• nmap inventory plugin - add new options udp_scan, icmp_timestamp, and dns_resolve for different types of scans (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5566).
• rax_scaling_group - refactored out code to the rax module utils to clear the sanity check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5563).
• redfish_command - add PerformRequestedOperations command to perform any operations necessary to continue the update flow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
• redfish_command - add update_apply_time to SimpleUpdate command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3910).
• redfish_command - add update_status to output of SimpleUpdate command to allow a user monitor the update in progress (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
• redfish_info - add GetUpdateStatus command to check the progress of a previous update request (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4276).
• redfish_utils module utils - added PUT (put_request()) functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5490).
• slack - add option prepend_hash which allows to control whether a # is prepended to channel_id. The current behavior (value auto) is to prepend # unless some specific prefixes are found. That list of prefixes is incomplete, and there does not seem to exist a documented condition on when exactly # must not be prepended. We recommend to explicitly set prepend_hash=always or prepend_hash=never to avoid any ambiguity (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5629).
• spotinst_aws_elastigroup - add elements attribute when missing in list parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5553).
• ssh_config - add host_key_algorithms option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5605).
• udm_share - added elements attribute to list type parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5557).
• udm_user - add elements attribute when missing in list parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5559).

Deprecated Features

• The sap modules sapcar_extract, sap_task_list_execute, and hana_query, will be removed from this collection in community.general 7.0.0 and replaced with redirects to community.sap_libs. If you want to continue using these modules, make sure to also install community.sap_libs (it is part of the Ansible package) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5614).

Bugfixes

• chroot connection plugin - add inventory_hostname to vars under remote_addr. This is needed for compatibility with ansible-core 2.13 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5570).
• cmd_runner module utils - fixed bug when handling default cases in cmd_runner_fmt.as_map() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
• cmd_runner module utils - formatting arguments cmd_runner_fmt.as_fixed() was expecting an non-existing argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5538).
• keycloak_client_rolemapping - calculate proposed and after return values properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
• keycloak_client_rolemapping - remove only listed mappings with state=absent (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5619).
• proxmox inventory plugin - fix bug while templating when using templates for the url, user, password, token_id, or token_secret options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5640).
• proxmox inventory plugin - handle tags delimited by semicolon instead of comma, which happens from Proxmox 7.3 on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5602).
• redhat_subscription - do not ignore consumer_name and other variables if activationkey is specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3486, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5627).
• redhat_subscription - do not pass arguments to subscription-manager register for things already configured; now a specified rhsm_baseurl is properly set for subscription-manager (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5583).
• unixy callback plugin - fix plugin to work with ansible-core 2.14 by using Ansible's configuration manager for handling options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5600).
• vdo - now uses yaml.safe_load() to parse command output instead of the deprecated yaml.load() which is potentially unsafe. Using yaml.load() without explicitely setting a Loader= is also an error in pyYAML 6.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5632).
• vmadm - fix for index out of range error in get_vm_uuid (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5628).

New Modules

• gitlab_project_badge - Manage project badges on GitLab Server
• keycloak_clientsecret_info - Retrieve client secret via Keycloak API
• keycloak_clientsecret_regenerate - Regenerate Keycloak client secret via Keycloak API

v6.0.1

Release Summary

Bugfix release for Ansible 7.0.0.

Bugfixes

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

v6.0.0

Release Summary

New major release of community.general with lots of bugfixes, new features, some removed deprecated features, and some other breaking changes. Please check the coresponding sections of the changelog for more details.

Major Changes

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

Minor Changes

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

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

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

Deprecated Features

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

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

• bitbucket* modules - username is no longer an alias of workspace, but of user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
• gem - the default of the norc option changed from false to true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
• gitlab_group_members - gitlab_group must now always contain the full path, and no longer just the name or path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
• keycloak_authentication - the return value flow has been removed. Use end_state instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
• keycloak_group - the return value group has been removed. Use end_state instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
• lxd_container - the default of the ignore_volatile_options option changed from true to false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
• mail callback plugin - the sender option is now required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
• module_helper module utils - remove the VarDict attribute from ModuleHelper. Import VarDict from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.vars instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
• proxmox inventory plugin - the default of the want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host option changed from true to false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
• vmadm - the debug option has been removed. It was not used anyway (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).

Bugfixes

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

New Plugins

Filter

• counter - Counts hashable elements in a sequence

Lookup

• bitwarden - Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden

New Modules

• gconftool2_info - Retrieve GConf configurations
• iso_customize - Add/remove/change files in ISO file
• keycloak_user_rolemapping - Allows administration of Keycloak user_rolemapping with the Keycloak API
• keyring - Set or delete a passphrase using the Operating System's native keyring
• keyring_info - Get a passphrase using the Operating System's native keyring
• manageiq_policies_info - Listing of resource policy_profiles in ManageIQ
• manageiq_tags_info - Retrieve resource tags in ManageIQ
• pipx_info - Rretrieves information about applications installed with pipx
• proxmox_disk - Management of a disk of a Qemu(KVM) VM in a Proxmox VE cluster.
• scaleway_compute_private_network - Scaleway compute - private network management
• scaleway_container - Scaleway Container management
• scaleway_container_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Container
• scaleway_container_namespace - Scaleway Container namespace management
• scaleway_container_namespace_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Container namespace
• scaleway_container_registry - Scaleway Container registry management module
• scaleway_container_registry_info - Scaleway Container registry info module
• scaleway_function - Scaleway Function management
• scaleway_function_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Function
• scaleway_function_namespace - Scaleway Function namespace management
• scaleway_function_namespace_info - Retrieve information on Scaleway Function namespace
• wdc_redfish_command - Manages WDC UltraStar Data102 Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
• wdc_redfish_info - Manages WDC UltraStar Data102 Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs