Prep 5.4.2 release (#1083) (#1087)

Merging changes from stable-5 back into main.

Reviewed-by: Hannah DeFazio <h2defazio@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bikouo Aubin

changelogs/fragments/1033-warnings-deprecations.yaml

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-bugfixes:
-  - Replace passing ``warnings`` to ``exit_json`` with ``AnsibleModule.warn`` in the ``k8s_drain``, ``k8s_rollback.py`` and ``k8s_scale.py`` modules as it deprecated in ``ansible-core>=2.19.0`` and will be removed in ``ansible-core>=2.23.0`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/1033).

changelogs/fragments/20251002-fix-k8s-actiongroup.yaml

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-bugfixes:
-- meta - Add ``k8s_cluster_info``, ``k8s_json_patch`` and ``k8s_rollback`` to k8s action group (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/992).

changelogs/fragments/20251007-selective-kubeconfig-redaction.yaml

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-security_fixes:
-  - Selectively redact sensitive info from kubeconfig instead of applying blanket ``no_log=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/1014).

changelogs/fragments/20251115-limit-versions-of-helm.yaml

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-bugfixes:
-  - Limit supported versions of Helm to <4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/1039).

changelogs/fragments/20251220-fix-K8S_AUTH_VERIFY_SSL-in-kubectl-connecton-plugion.yaml

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-bugfixes:
-  - Fixed a bug where setting K8S_AUTH_VERIFY_SSL=true (or any string value) caused the value to be treated as a separate kubectl command argument. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/1049).

changelogs/fragments/20260107-add-idempodency-for-helm-pull.yaml

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-bugfixes:
-  - Add idempotency for ``helm_pull`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/1055).

changelogs/fragments/20260108-fix-sanity-failures.yml

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-bugfixes:
-  - k8s - Fix return block from the module documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/1056).
-deprecated_features:
-  - helm - the ``status.values`` return value has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2027-01-08.
-    Use ``status.release_values`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/1056).
-  - helm_info - the ``status.values`` return value has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2027-01-08.
-    Use ``status.release_values`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/1056).
-minor_changes:
-  - helm - added ``release_values`` key to ``status`` return value that can be accessed using Jinja2 dot notation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/1056).
-  - helm_info - added ``release_values`` key to ``status`` return value that can be accessed using Jinja2 dot notation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/1056).