Community.General Release Notes

This changelog describes changes after version 13.0.0.

v14.0.0

Release Summary

This is release 14.0.0 of community.general, released on 2026-11-02.

Minor Changes

• The collection now depends on community.library_inventory_filtering_v1. This runtime dependency is used by inventory plugins only, and will be automatically installed by ansible-galaxy collection install. If you install community.general by cloning its repository or extracting its release tarball to a specific location, you also need to make sure to install community.library_inventory_filtering_v1 manually if you use one of the affected inventory plugins (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12302).

• _alicloud_ecs module utils - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12984).

• _hwc_utils module utils - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12984).

• _ipa module utils - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12984).

• _online module utils - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12984).

• _opennebula module utils - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12984).

• _pritunl_api module utils - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12984).

• _redfish_utils module utils - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12984).

• _scaleway module utils - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12984).

• _utm_utils module utils - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12984).

• _vexata module utils - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12984).

• airbrake_deployment - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• aix_filesystem - use string operations instead of regular expressions for plain-string patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12996).

• aix_lvol - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• alerta_customer - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• alternatives - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12966).

• ansible_type test plugin - remove compatibility code for < ansible-core 2.19 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12919).

• apk - refactor code to remove use of global (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12925).

• archive - add zstd as a format choice (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3455, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12497).

• archive - use context managers when reading tar checksums (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12569).

• awall - refactor code to remove use of global (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12926).

• bitwarden lookup plugin - add sync option to sync items from the vault before lookup (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12377).

• bundler - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12967).

• cloud_init_data_facts - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• cloudflare_dns - add diff mode support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10797, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12817).

• composer - relay composer’s own warning about running as root/super user as an Ansible warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2388, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12090).

• composer - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• consul - remove Python < 2.5 compatibility (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12893).

• consul modules - add a url option taking the address of the Consul agent as a whole; the existing host, port and scheme options each override the matching component of it. This does not cover community.general.consul (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12216).

• consul modules - connection options now fall back to the CONSUL_HTTP_ADDR, CONSUL_HTTP_SSL, CONSUL_HTTP_SSL_VERIFY, CONSUL_HTTP_TOKEN and CONSUL_CACERT environment variables when not specified. This applies to all consul modules except community.general.consul, which does not use the shared connection option handling yet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12216).

• consul_kv - refactored KV store helpers into shared _ConsulModule methods to prepare for the consul_kv_info module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12515).

• consul_kv - the module no longer requires the py-consul Python library, and is now part of the community.general.consul action group (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12221).

• consul_kv lookup plugin - add empty_value option to control what is returned for null Consul values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11039, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12120).

• consul_kv lookup plugin - the plugin no longer requires the py-consul Python library, it now uses ansible.module_utils.urls.open_url directly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5251, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12659).

• consul_session - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12967).

• copr - improve the error message when the dnf Python library is missing on systems where dnf5 is the default package manager (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12501, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12913).

• cronvar - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• dependent lookup plugin - remove compatibility code for < ansible-core 2.19 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12919).

• dnf_config_manager - lookup path to the dnf binary in PATH. It used to be fixed to /usr/bin/dnf (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12219).

• dnsimple - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12967).

• dpkg_divert - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• ejabberd_user - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• elastic callback plugin - internal refactoring that has no visible behavior changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12791).

• elastic callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12829).

• etcd3 - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• etcd3 lookup plugin - change the type of the ca_cert, cert_cert, and cert_key options from string to path, since they specify paths to certificates/keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12860).

• filesystem - adds GFS2 support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12285).

• filesystem - print a warning if blkid -c probe fails and show the error message from blkid (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12500).

• from_csv filter plugin - remove Python 2 compatibility (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12893).

• gem - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• github_app_access_token lookup plugin - add client_id as an alias for app_id so the GitHub App’s client ID can be specified without using a confusing option name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12802, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12804).

• github_deploy_key - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• github_deploy_key - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• github_key - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• github_release - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• github_repo - added visibility option to set repository visibility to public, private, or internal (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6219, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12557).

• github_secrets - add support for managing repository environment secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12756, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12755).

• github_secrets - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• github_secrets_info - add support for listing repository environment secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12756, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12755).

• github_webhook - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• github_webhook_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• gitlab_group - add new value unchanged for visibility parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12694).

• gitlab_hook - add branch_filter_strategy option to control how push_events_branch_filter filters push events, which allows filtering branches by a regular expression (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12618).

• gitlab_hook - add custom_webhook_template option to configure a custom webhook payload template on project hooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11233, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12496).

• gitlab_issue - add all as a valid value for the state_filter parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12821).

• gitlab_project - added archived and unarchived values for state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12698).

• gitlab_runners inventory plugin - wrap the Gitlab API object in a context mananger, and only create the gitlab_runners group after the API request was successful (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12378).

• homebrew - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• homebrew_cask - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• homebrew_cask - use string operations instead of regular expressions for plain-string patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12996).

• homebrew_services - replace NamedTuple with dataclass (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12094).

• homebrew_tap - add trust option to control whether Homebrew trusts the tapped repositories (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12220, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12503).

• honeybadger_deployment - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• hpilo_boot - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• hpilo_info - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• hpilo_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• hwc_ecs_instance - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12974).

• hwc_evs_disk - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12968).

• hwc_network_vpc - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• hwc_network_vpc - use string operations instead of regular expressions for plain-string patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12996).

• hwc_smn_topic - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• hwc_vpc_eip - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12953).

• hwc_vpc_peering_connect - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• hwc_vpc_port - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12953).

• hwc_vpc_private_ip - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• hwc_vpc_route - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• hwc_vpc_security_group - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• hwc_vpc_security_group_rule - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12966).

• hwc_vpc_subnet - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12953).

• ibm_sa_host_ports - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• ibm_sa_vol - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• ibm_sa_vol_map - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• icinga2_feature - use string operations instead of regular expressions for plain-string patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12996).

• icinga2_host - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• incus connection plugin - add remote_user_id_command option to configure the command used to retrieve the UID and GID of the remote user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12646).

• influxdb_query - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• influxdb_user - add force_password_update option to always update the password when user_password is set, working around InfluxDB installations that do not enforce authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3824, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12654).

• influxdb_write - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• ini_file - use named groups in the internal option-matching regular expressions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12493).

• installp - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• iocage inventory plugin - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• ip2location_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• ipa_config - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12968).

• ipa_dnsrecord - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• ipa_host - return all attributes of the host, including has_keytab and has_password, whenever the host exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4929, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13166).

• ipa_host - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• ipa_otpconfig - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• ipa_otptoken - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12968).

• ipa_pwpolicy - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12967).

• ipa_user - add enable_on_present option to keep disabled users disabled with state=present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8296, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13078).

• ipa_user - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12953).

• ipify_facts - refactor code to remove use of global (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12909).

• ipify_facts - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• ipinfoio_facts - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• iptables_state - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• irc - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• iso_create - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• jabber callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12785).

• java_cert - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12968).

• jenkins_build - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12967).

• jenkins_build_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• jenkins_job - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12953).

• jenkins_job_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12953).

• jenkins_node - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• kopia_repository, kopia_repository_info - normalize handling of CLI parameters across all kopia_* modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12360).

• ldap_* modules - add support for specifying a SASL authorization identity (equivalent to -X 'dn:...' flag) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12781).

• ldap_attrs - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• log_plays callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12785).

• loganalytics_ingestion callback plugin - refactor to use ansible-core 2.22’s new secrets API in order to properly mark and mask secrets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12758).

• logrotate - add diff mode support, showing before/after content of the configuration file when running with --diff (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12845, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12846).

• logrotate - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• logrotate - refactor without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12866).

• logrotate - refactor without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12873).

• logstash callback plugin - add ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_LOGSTASH_ prefixed environment variables and Ansible variables for all options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12939).

• logstash callback plugin - add support for sending events over HTTP(S), with Basic authentication and TLS client certificate options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12897, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12939).

• logstash callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12785).

• lvm_pv - add zero, metadatasize, dataalignment, and pvmetadatacopies options to control pvcreate behavior, and allocatable, metadataignore, and tags options to manage existing physical volume attributes with pvchange (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12701).

• lvol - add pool_metadata_size option to set the metadata volume size when creating a thin pool (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10050, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12936).

• lxc_container - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• lxd inventory plugin - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• lxd_container - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• lxd_profile - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• lxd_project - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• macports - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• macports - use string operations instead of regular expressions for plain-string patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12996).

• mail - add the inline option to embed images in the message body via Content-ID, so an HTML body can reference them with cid:... instead of an external URL (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12480).

• mail - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12974).

• mail callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12785).

• maven_artifact - add SHA-256 and SHA-512 support to checksum_alg (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12747).

• maven_artifact - add keep_name_only_when_resolved option to opt in to the documented scope of keep_name, where it only controls the destination filename when version is resolved dynamically (latest or version_by_spec); previously keep_name also affected the filename with a fixed version, contradicting its documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12606, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4796).

• maven_artifact - internal refactoring, no change in behavior (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12776).

• maven_artifact - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• maven_artifact - use Ansible construct to express the default value of parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12411).

• memset_zone - use existing module utils helper to look up zones (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12912).

• memset_zone_domain - use existing module utils helper to look up zone domains (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12912).

• mqtt - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12967).

• netcup_dns - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12966).

• nexmo - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• nginx_status_info - stop using a module-level global variable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12910).

• nginx_status_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• nmap inventory plugin - allow address to be a list of networks/IP ranges to scan, in addition to a single string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12379, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12384).

• nmcli - add route_table4 and route_table6 options to set the routing table of a connection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12454, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13052).

• nmcli - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• npm - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• nrdp callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12785).

• ocapi_command - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• ocapi_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• odbc - add autocommit option to support statements that must run outside of a transaction (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4173, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8577, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12595).

• odbc - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• one_service - replace function-local namedtuple with module-level dataclass (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12094).

• one_service - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• one_vm - add update_attributes parameter to merge USER_TEMPLATE key/value pairs onto existing VMs via the one.vm.update API with append/merge semantics, enabling idempotent attribute updates on running VMs without teardown (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12498, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12536).

• one_vm - replace function-local namedtuple with module-level dataclass (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12094).

• one_vm - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• onepassword_info - rewrite module to support op CLI v2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5303, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7321, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12089).

• onepassword_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• oneview_datacenter_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• oneview_ethernet_network_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• oneview_logical_interconnect_group_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• oneview_network_set_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• oneview_san_manager_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• open_iscsi - refactor code to remove use of global (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12927).

• openbsd_pkg - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• openbsd_pkg - use string operations instead of regular expressions for plain-string patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12996).

• opennebula inventory plugin - add prefer_existing_ansible_host option to skip setting ansible_host when the host already has one from an earlier inventory source (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12417).

• opennebula inventory plugin - add set_name_variable option to allow disabling the name host variable, avoiding the Found variable using reserved name 'name' warning. inventory_hostname is unaffected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12695).

• opennebula inventory plugin - add new option filter that allows to filter hosts by variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12302).

• opennebula inventory plugin - expose UNAME (VM owner) and GNAME (VM group) as host variables, enabling keyed_groups based on ownership (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12417).

• opennebula inventory plugin - replace function-local namedtuple with module-level dataclass (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12094).

• opentelemetry callback plugin - internal refactoring that has no visible behavior changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12791).

• opentelemetry callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12787).

• openwrt_init - refactor code to remove use of global (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12911).

• osx_defaults - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• ovh_ip_failover - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• ovh_ip_loadbalancing_backend - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• ovh_monthly_billing - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• pacemaker_cluster - add support for unmaintenance state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12362, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12364).

• pacemaker_cluster - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• packet_device - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12975).

• packet_ip_subnet - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12966).

• packet_project - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12953).

• packet_sshkey - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12968).

• packet_volume - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12966).

• packet_volume_attachment - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• pacman - replace namedtuple with dataclass for VersionTuple (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12094).

• pagerduty_alert - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12974).

• pam_limits - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• parted - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• passwordstore lookup plugin - add keep_trailing_newline option to preserve the trailing newline when returnall=true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12589, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3616).

• passwordstore lookup plugin - make directory configurable through ansible.cfg (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12298).

• pkg5 - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• pkgin - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• pkgng - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• pkgng - support installing packages from local package files (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3428, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12233).

• portage - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• portinstall - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• pritunl_org - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• pritunl_org_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• pritunl_user - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12966).

• pritunl_user_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• proton_pass lookup plugin - return fields inside custom sections of Custom, SSH Key, Wi-Fi, and Identity items (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12711, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13051).

• random_mac filter plugin - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• read_csv - remove Python 2 compatibility (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12893).

• redhat_subscription - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• reveal_ansible_type filter plugin - remove compatibility code for < ansible-core 2.19 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12919).

• rhevm - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12976).

• riak - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• rollbar_deployment - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• rundeck_acl_policy - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• say callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12785).

• scaleway_compute - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• scaleway_database_backup - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• selective callback plugin - refactor code to remove use of global (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12923).

• serverless - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12953).

• sl_vm - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12976).

• slack - add reply_broadcast option to allow a threaded reply (thread_id) to also be broadcast to the main channel (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12535).

• slack - added support for uploading files to channels and threads using the new Slack WebAPI (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12032).

• slack - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• slack callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12785).

• spectrum_device - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12966).

• splunk callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12785).

• sssd_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• statsd - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12953).

• sudoers - add defaults parameter to allow specifying Defaults directives scoped to the user or group in the generated sudoers file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12186).

• sumologic callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12785).

• supervisorctl - add wait option to wait for programs to reach the RUNNING state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5599, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13053).

• supervisorctl - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• svc - use string operations instead of regular expressions for plain-string patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12996).

• syslog_json callback plugin - redact sensitive output on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12785).

• terraform - refactor code to remove use of global (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12922).

• terraform - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12975).

• timezone - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• to_time_unit filter plugin - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• tss lookup plugin - cache the TSSClient per process and credential identity so OAuth2 token grants are reused across lookups (rebuilding the client and retrying the lookup once on a stale-token 4xx, while 5xx and other errors propagate unchanged), and add a token_path_source option whose auto value lets python-tss-sdk auto-detect the Secret Server or Delinea Platform token endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12328).

• ufw - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• usb_facts - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• uv_python - simplify result handling in the module code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12981).

• version_sort filter plugin - add style option to choose the version comparison strategy (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4451, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12657).

• vertica_* modules - remove Python < 2.5 compatibility (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12893).

• vexata module utils - refactor code to remove use of global (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12924).

• vexata_volume - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• vmadm - add bootrom option to support UEFI boot for bhyve VMs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12601, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4282).

• wdc_redfish_command - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• wdc_redfish_info - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12950).

• xattr - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12952).

• xbps - include stdout and stderr from the last executed command in module output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2478, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12234).

• xenserver_guest_info - add VDI uuid and vdi_type (VHD/QCOW2) fields to disk info output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11998, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12119).

• zfs - do not try to change create-only properties on existing datasets and compare size properties as byte counts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4699, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12868).

• zfs - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12951).

• zfs_delegate_admin - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12953).

• zpool - compile regular expressions once outside of loops (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12999).

• zpool - make vdevs optional when the pool already exists, leaving its vdev layout unchanged (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10766, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12816).

• zpool - update code to follow coding conventions, without changing functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12966).

• zypper - allow_vendor_change now also applies to the install, update and patch commands, not only to dist-upgrade (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10851, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13076).

• zypper - state=absent no longer silently ignores names containing the wildcards * or ?; they are now matched against the installed packages and removed like zypper remove does (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3138, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13075).

• zypper - add install_recommends option to explicitly control installation of recommended packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3497, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12648).

• zypper - add reboot_required return value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12960, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12977, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13180).

• zypper_repository - add allow_unsigned_metadata option to accept unsigned repository metadata while keeping the package GPG check (--gpgcheck-allow-unsigned-repo) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2519, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13092).

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

• pfexec become plugin - the default for wrap_exe changed from false to true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12891).

Deprecated Features

• All redirections of Dell iDRAC/OME content to dellemc.openmanage are deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• All redirections of Docker content to community.docker are deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• All redirections of Google Cloud content to community.google are deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• All redirections of HashiCorp Vault content to community.hashi_vault are deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• All redirections of Hetzner content to community.hrobot are deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• All redirections of Kubevirt content to community.kubevirt are deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• All redirections of NIOS content to infoblox.nios_modules are deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• All redirections of OKD content to community.okd are deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• All redirections of PostgreSQL content to community.postgresql are deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• All redirections of SAP/HANA content to community.sap_libs are deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• cisco_spark - the redirect to community.general.cisco_webex is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• django_check - the skip_checks option is ignored and deprecated, it will be removed in community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13001).

• django_command - the skip_checks option is ignored and deprecated, it will be removed in community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13001).

• django_createcachetable - the skip_checks option is ignored and deprecated, it will be removed in community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13001).

• keycloak_authentication - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authentication is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authentication_required_actions - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authentication_required_actions is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authentication_v2 - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authentication_v2 is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authz_authorization_scope - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authz_authorization_scope is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authz_custom_policy - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authz_custom_policy is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authz_permission - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authz_permission is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authz_permission_info - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authz_permission_info is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_client - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_client_rolemapping - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client_rolemapping is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_client_rolescope - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client_rolescope is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clientscope - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client_scope is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clientscope_rolemappings - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client_scope_rolemappings is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clientscope_type - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client_scope_type is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clientsecret_info - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_clientsecret_info is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clientsecret_regenerate - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_clientsecret_regenerate is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clienttemplate - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_clienttemplate is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_component - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_component is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_component_info - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_component_info is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_group - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_group is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_identity_provider - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_identity_provider is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_info - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_info is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_key - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_key is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_keys_metadata_info - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_keys_metadata_info is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_localization - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_localization is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_rolemapping - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_rolemapping is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_users_info - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_users_info is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_role - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_role is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_user - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_user is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_user_execute_actions_email - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_user_execute_actions_email is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_user_federation - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_user_federation is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_user_rolemapping - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_user_rolemapping is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_userprofile - the redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_userprofile is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• lldp - the redirect to community.general.lldp_facts is now deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0. Please update your roles and playbooks to use the new name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12488).

• osx_say - the redirect to community.general.say is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 18.0.0. Please update your roles/playbooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12489).

• yum_versionlock - the module is deprecated and will be removed from community.general 16.0.0. Use community.general.dnf_versionlock instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13173).

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

• The collection no longer supports ansible-core 2.18. It requires at least ansible-core 2.19.0+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12891).

• jboss - the deprecated module has been removed. Please migrate to the role middleware_automation.wildfly.wildfly_app_deploy instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12891).

• keycloak_authentication - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authentication. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authentication_required_actions - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authentication_required_actions. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authentication_v2 - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authentication_v2. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authz_authorization_scope - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authz_authorization_scope. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authz_custom_policy - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authz_custom_policy. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authz_permission - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authz_permission. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_authz_permission_info - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_authz_permission_info. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_client - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_client_rolemapping - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client_rolemapping. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_client_rolescope - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client_rolescope. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clientscope - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client_scope. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clientscope_rolemappings - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client_scope_rolemappings. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clientscope_type - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_client_scope_type. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clientsecret_info - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_clientsecret_info. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clientsecret_regenerate - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_clientsecret_regenerate. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_clienttemplate - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_clienttemplate. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_component - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_component. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_component_info - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_component_info. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_group - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_group. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_identity_provider - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_identity_provider. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_info - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_info. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_key - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_key. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_keys_metadata_info - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_keys_metadata_info. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_localization - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_localization. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_rolemapping - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_rolemapping. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_realm_users_info - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_realm_users_info. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_role - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_role. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_user - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_user. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_user_execute_actions_email - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_user_execute_actions_email. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_user_federation - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_user_federation. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_user_rolemapping - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_user_rolemapping. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• keycloak_userprofile - the module has been replaced by a redirect to middleware_automation.keycloak.keycloak_userprofile. You need to install middleware_automation.keycloak to make this redirect work (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12483).

• layman - the deprecated module has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12891).

• linode - the deprecated module has been removed. Use community.general.linode_v4 instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12891).

• loganalytics callback plugin - the deprecated plugin has been removed. Please migrate to the community.general.loganalytics_ingestion callback plugin instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12891).

• monit - no longer supports monit < 5.19 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12891).

• pacemaker_cluster - the deprecated cleanup state has been removed. Use the community.general.pacemaker_resource module instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12891).

• puppet - the deprecated timeout option has been removed. Use the task-level timeout instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12891).

Security Fixes

• proton_pass lookup plugin - no longer exposes the personal access token in error messages, verbose output, or the process list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12710, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12726).

Bugfixes

• aix_devices - fix chdev command failures being incorrectly reported as successful results, now properly fails the task when device attribute changes cannot be applied (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12185).

• apache2_module - determine changed from the output of a2enmod/a2dismod when ignore_configcheck=true and the Apache configuration check fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3510, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13147).

• apache2_module - fix state=absent doing nothing when ignore_configcheck=true and the Apache configuration check fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3510, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13147).

• apache2_module - fix false failures when ignore_configcheck is set and the configuration is broken for a reason unrelated to the module being changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4592, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12597).

• apk - fail cleanly when the world file cannot be read (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10739, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13179).

• apk - the upgrade operation no longer reports changed=true when nothing was upgraded but an apk commit hook (for example mrtest, or anything installed in /etc/apk/commit_hooks.d/) printed output before the trailing OK: summary line; the change status is now derived from the packages apk actually reports upgrading (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12223, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12376).

• bitwarden lookup plugin - mark the bw_session option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• bitwarden_secrets_manager lookup plugin - mark the bws_access_token option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• capabilities - fix idempotency when the installed libcap normalizes capability operators or flags, or when multiple capabilities are set at once (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4067, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12650).

• cloudflare_dns - fix detection of existing CAA, SRV, and TLSA records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7766, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7780, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13170).

• cloudflare_dns - fix failure when looking up records whose value contains a comma (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10208, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13119).

• cobbler inventory plugin - do not use TLS when connecting to http:// URLs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11246, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12847).

• cobbler inventory plugin - fix crash about a missing _cache attribute when inventory caching is disabled (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12848).

• cobbler inventory plugin - mark the password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• composer - fix apcu_autoloader never passing --apcu-autoloader to composer, because the option was mapped to the misspelled acpu-autoloader (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12988).

• composer - pass --apcu for apcu_autoloader to dump-autoload, which has no --apcu-autoloader flag (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12989).

• composer - restore compatibility with older compose versions when using working_dir (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12293, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12339).

• composer - the --working-dir option is now always placed first on the command line, before the subcommand, to ensure consistent behavior across all composer commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5204, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12084).

• composer - use file checksum to determine changed status when command=config, instead of relying on the command return output. The module now compares SHA256 checksums of relevant configuration files (composer.json, auth.json, or their global equivalents) before and after running the command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12084).

• consul_kv lookup plugin - mark the token option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• counter_enabled callback - fix missing output for looped tasks, including tasks using delegate_to (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8187, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12067).

• credstash lookup plugin - mark the aws_secret_access_key and aws_session_token options as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• diy callback plugin - no longer emits deprecation warnings about v2_on_any and convert_data with ansible-core 2.19 and later (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10545, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13093).

• django_createcachetable - do not pass the unsupported --noinput option to django-admin createcachetable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13002).

• dnf_config_manager - fix incompatibility with DNF5. The module was crashing on systems with DNF5 due to CLI changes since DNF4 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9127, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12206).

• doas become plugin - mark the become_pass option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• dsv lookup plugin - mark the client_secret option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• dzdo become plugin - mark the become_pass option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• elastic callback plugin - mark the apm_secret_token and apm_api_key options as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• etcd3 lookup plugin - mark the password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• filesystem - handle BusyBox blkid output to correctly detect existing filesystems on systems like Alpine Linux (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7283, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12235).

• filesystem - the module now also handles the output format of bcachefs-tools v1.38.4 and above (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12259, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12291).

• filetree lookup plugin - raise AnsibleLookupError when the exclude option contains an invalid regular expression instead of an uncaught re.error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12140).

• git_config and git_config_info - allow empty string values and preserve idempotency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12502, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12708).

• github_app_access_token lookup plugin - mark the private_key option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• github_app_access_token lookup plugin - mark the return value as a secret on ansible-core 2.22+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12884).

• github_deploy_key - do not delete an existing deploy key when running with state=absent in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12348, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13132).

• gitlab_instance_variable - ignore the hidden attribute that GitLab 19.1 and newer return for instance variables when comparing them with the requested variables. Before, purge=true deleted every instance variable, including the ones the task had just created, and every run reported a change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12349, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13029).

• gitlab_project - fix 'bool' object has no attribute 'attributes' (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12902, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12903).

• gitlab_project - return project in the result when running in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12689, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5689).

• gitlab_runner - do not fail with '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int' when python-gitlab cannot read the GitLab server version. The module now assumes that the server is new enough and emits a warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12707, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12899).

• gitlab_runners inventory plugin - mark the api_token option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• gitlab_user - fix lookup of existing users whose username contains uppercase letters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5999, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13064).

• haproxy - fix state=disabled with drain=true timing out instead of putting a server that is already down into maintenance mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9020, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12640).

• homebrew_cask - fix brew --version parsing to handle version strings with more than three dot-separated segments (for example, some vendor Homebrew builds report a fourth segment). The previous regex could silently drop the leading segment, misjudging whether the deprecated brew cask command syntax is still required and causing installs to fail with an unknown-command error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12559).

• htpasswd - fix hash_scheme aliases and Apache-compatible bcrypt hashes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6135, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12123).

• icinga2 inventory plugin - mark the password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• icinga2_host - fix JSONDecodeError raised when the Icinga2 API returns an HTTP error response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12687, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4948).

• idrac_redfish_config - fix setting attributes on iDRAC10 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10232, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13141).

• incus connection plugin - detect failed incus file push/incus file pull transfers and raise a clear error naming the instance and the CLI stderr, instead of silently reporting success and failing later with a misleading chmod: No such file or directory error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12464).

• incus connection plugin - improve Windows PowerShell argv handling by stripping wrapper quotes from payload arguments for -enc, -encodedcommand, -command, -c, -file and -f (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12161, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12158).

• incus connection plugin - return stdout/stderr as bytes instead of strings to restore compatibility with ansible-core 2.21 module execution (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12161, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12158).

• influxdb_retention_policy - fix TypeError when altering a retention policy without shard_group_duration set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3897, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12652).

• ini_file - do not add an option without value when allow_no_value=true and the requested values already exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9296, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13089).

• ini_file - do not delete comment-only lines that contain the option name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11919, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12083).

• ip_netns - fix namespace existence checks when one namespace name is a prefix of another (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12731, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12743).

• ip_netns - report no change in check mode for state=present when the requested namespace already exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12839, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12842).

• ipa_hostgroup - fix task failure when it actually succeeded (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12853, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12854).

• ipa_user - send only changed attributes when modifying a user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8296, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13078).

• ipa_user - set krbpasswordexpiration in a separate request after the password, because FreeIPA resets the expiration date when an administrator sets the password (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12850, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13171).

• iptables_state - refactor code to avoid unnecessary unused variables and improve internal state handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12093).

• iso_create - fix failure with non-conforming ISO9660 path characters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5103, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12028).

• jabber - do not send an unnecessary muc#user tag on groupchat messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12658, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5343).

• jabber callback plugin - mark the password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• java_cert - detect silent keytool failures by verifying the import outcome after the command exits with rc=0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6685, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12238).

• java_cert - fix NullPointerException when importing from a PKCS12 file with a password on Java 8 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3023, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12151).

• jenkins_job_info - fix KeyError: 'color' when filtering folder jobs by color (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12232), https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12369).

• ksu become plugin - mark the become_pass option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• launchd - fix restarted and reloaded states always reporting changed=False (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6199, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12122).

• ldap_attrs - when the server raises INAPPROPRIATE_MATCHING because an attribute has no EQUALITY matching rule (for example, certain olcTLS* attributes on older OpenLDAP versions), the module now falls back to Python-side value comparison instead of crashing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3559, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12596, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12628).

• linode inventory plugin - mark the access_token option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• log_plays callback plugin - change type of the log_folder option from str to path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5389, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13047).

• loganalytics_ingestion callback plugin - mark the shared_key option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• logdna callback plugin - mark the conf_key option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• logentries callback plugin - mark the token option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• lvol - fix a hang when ensuring an LVM snapshot that already exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12477, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12810).

• lxc_container - fix create_script to accept a single tuple argument, resolving a TypeError that silently prevented container_command from being executed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11360, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12106).

• lxc_container - fix archiving containers on LXC 2.1 and newer, which failed with KeyError because the module read the removed lxc.rootfs config key instead of lxc.rootfs.path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12562, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12982).

• lxd connection plugin - detect failed lxc file push/lxc file pull transfers and raise a clear error naming the instance and the CLI stderr, instead of silently reporting success and failing later with a misleading chmod: No such file or directory error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12464).

• lxd inventory plugin - mark the trust_password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• machinectl become plugin - mark the become_pass option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• mail - fail when an encrypted connection cannot be established with secure=always, instead of sending the mail unencrypted (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13068).

• mail - open only one connection to the SMTP server instead of two (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13069).

• mail - report connection errors such as a refused connection as a module failure instead of a traceback (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7122, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13067).

• modules using CmdRunner - environment variables set for a single command are no longer passed to subsequent commands (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12904, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12905).

• nmcli - add bond_mode_behavior to control whether omitted mode preserves the existing bond mode or uses the legacy balance-rr default on existing connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9201, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12114).

• nmcli - fail when the connection editor reports an error instead of reporting a change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9091, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13116).

• nmcli - fix wifi_sec flags options always reporting changes and failing with integer values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9121, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13080).

• nmcli - fix check/diff reporting changes for bond arp_interval and arp_ip_target options when they are already configured (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11588, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12085).

• nmcli - fix incorrectly reports diff for bond connections when mtu is unset and NetworkManager reports no explicit MTU value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12085).

• nmcli - fix list suboptions of wifi and wifi_sec being sent to nmcli one character at a time when given as a string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7500, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13072).

• nmcli - now handles connection names derived from MAC addresses, and generally names that contain : or \\ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12386, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12387).

• npm - fix JSONDecodeError when npm’s stdout output contains warnings or notices alongside the JSON payload (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12665, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4960).

• nrdp callback plugin - mark the token option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• onepassword lookup plugin - the op:// secret reference lookup returned raw bytes instead of a string, which broke passing the value into other modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11958).

• onepassword, onepassword_doc, onepassword_raw, and onepassword_ssh_key lookup plugins - mark the master_password, secret_key, service_account_token, and connect_token options as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• online inventory plugin - mark the oauth_token option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• open_iscsi - fix login to a single target ignoring login failures and the portal option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12928).

• opennebula inventory plugin - coerce SSH_PORT to an integer before setting ansible_port (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12437).

• opennebula inventory plugin - fix crash when retrieving VM without NIC (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12361).

• opennebula inventory plugin - mark the api_password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• opentelemetry callback plugin - each host’s span event now carries that host’s task result instead of the result of the host that reported last (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12987, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13011).

• opentelemetry callback plugin - fix KeyError when a meta task is skipped by its when condition (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12833, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12837).

• opkg - correctly set executable search path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12182).

• pacemaker_cluster - skip pcs cluster start in state=online when the cluster is already running, improving idempotency and allowing maintenance mode to be disabled without pcsd connectivity (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12362, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12403).

• pacemaker_resource - fix bug where the resource-ready state check did not recognize all valid ready states, causing the module to time out on resources that never reach the Started state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12351, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12355).

• pacemaker_resource - fix non-idempotent behaviour when state=cloned is applied to a resource or group that is already part of a clone set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12288).

• pacman - tolerate the AUR package age badge (for example [9d2h]) that AUR helpers such as yay append to the --query --upgrades output, instead of failing with an Invalid line error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12857).

• pamd - fix crash when removing a rule that is the only line in the file with state=absent (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13115).

• pamd - handle non-PAM lines such as authselect template directives without crashing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5850, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12137).

• parted - ignore MBR partition type codes (for example type=8e) reported as flags by some parted builds (for example on SUSE), which cannot be managed via the set command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6292, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12121).

• passwordstore lookup plugin - do not return the folder tree as the password when the passname is a folder with backend=gopass (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5028, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13167).

• passwordstore lookup plugin - mark the userpass option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• pbrun become plugin - mark the become_pass option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• pfexec become plugin - mark the become_pass option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• pkgng - fix state=latest for specific packages on FreeBSD 14.4+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11907, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12789).

• pkgng - fix failure to install packages when the package repository has never been updated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12507).

• pkgng - the module no longer hangs forever when pkg asks an interactive question, such as the one about an OS version mismatch; the question now takes its default answer, so the task fails instead of blocking (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12896, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12898).

• pmrun become plugin - mark the become_pass option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• portage - fix depclean: true crashing with AnsibleModule.fail_json() missing 1 required positional argument: 'msg' instead of reporting the actual emerge failure (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12168).

• proton_pass lookup plugin - mark the pat option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• proton_pass lookup plugin - use pass-cli info instead of the removed pass-cli test command when checking for an active session, restoring session detection with pass-cli 2.2.4 and later (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12639).

• redfish_command - add workaround in VirtualMediaInsert for Supermicro systems to treat slots marked as NotConnected as empty (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6969, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12537).

• redfish_config - fix KeyError: 'ret' when SetManagerNic cannot find a matching NIC (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5892, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12124).

• revbitspss lookup plugin - mark the api_key option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• scaleway inventory plugin - mark the oauth_token option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• scaleway_ip - fix failure when creating an IP with reverse set, and show the error details from the API when updating an IP fails (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11362, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13140).

• sefcontext - fix idempotence of <<none>> file contexts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12561)

• sesu become plugin - mark the become_pass option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• snap - enforce snap refresh --hold after installing at a specific revision (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12088, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12097).

• snap - fix IndexError when a single snap does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12375, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12570).

• splunk callback plugin - mark the authtoken option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• sudosu become plugin - mark the become_pass option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• supervisorctl - treat the BACKOFF process state as active so that state=started does not fail on a program still being retried by supervisord (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5599, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12688).

• sysrc - keep leading and trailing whitespace of the current value when comparing it, so setting a value that starts or ends with whitespace is idempotent, and report the correct change status for state=value_present and state=value_absent when a list item has leading or trailing whitespace (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/13108, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13117).

• terraform - allow project_path to be a relative path without a /, such as myproject (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6463, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12937).

• terraform - fix return value command, showing terraform plan name twice (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12530, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12540).

• terraform - pass state_file to the apply and destroy commands, not only to plan (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6490, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12997).

• timezone - fix failure when setting timezone aliases on Debian and Ubuntu without systemd (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7498, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13169).

• timezone - no longer requires the hwclock executable for name-only changes on non-systemd systems (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12516, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12526).

• timezone - update /etc/timezone when using timedatectl (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8784, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13074).

• tss lookup plugin - mark the password and token options as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• udm_dns_record - normalize IPv6 addresses in data to expanded form to fix idempotency (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/317, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12149).

• ufw - do not reload the default policy when it is already set to the requested value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1843, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12590).

• ufw - fix IPv6 rule determination and insert_relative_to (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12531).

• unixy callback - handle missing ansible_host in delegated vars when a task is delegated to a host without it set, such as localhost (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12112, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12113).

• wsl connection plugin - mark the password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• xen_orchestra inventory plugin - mark the password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12723).

• xenserver_guest - skip provisioning when existing VM is used as a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12576, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12717).

• xenserver_guest_info - use fallback chain for determining VDI format from sm_config keys image-format, vdi_type, type, defaulting to raw (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12119, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12215).

• xml - fix crash and idempotency of namespaced attribute values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10683, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13121).

• xml - preserve DOCTYPE declaration when writing modified XML files (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2762, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12148).

• zpool - fix idempotency of vdevs with short device names, symbolic links, partitions, multi-disk stripes, and role groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10771, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10744, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12948).

• zpool - fix idempotency of vdevs special and dedup (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12744, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12745).

• zypper - do not fail when zypper returns 102 (reboot needed) after a successful run, for example when applying patches with --with-interactive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12960, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12965).

• zypper - do not pass extra_args to the zypper search command used to determine the installed packages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4242, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12958).

• zypper - fail when zypper reports errors while run through transactional-update versions that return success regardless (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9011, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12957).

• zypper - fix version specifier parsing when the version contains non-numeric characters, which caused packages to not be removed or installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12588, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6564).

• zypper_repository - fix enabled, autorefresh, and gpgcheck module parameters being overridden by values read from a .repo file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8783, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12022).

• zypper_repository - fix idempotency when the repository URL contains $releasever on openSUSE Leap 16.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/13017).

New Plugins

Callback

• community.general.oneline - One-line Ansible screen output.

Filter

• community.general.from_toml - Convert TOML string into dictionary.

Lookup

• community.general.proton_pass - Fetch secrets from Proton Pass via the pass-cli command-line tool.

New Modules

• community.general.appimage - Manage AppImage packages.

• community.general.consul_kv_info - Retrieve entries from the key/value store of a Consul cluster.

• community.general.django_flush - Wrapper for django-admin flush.

• community.general.django_makemigrations - Wrapper for django-admin makemigrations.

• community.general.flatpak_mask - Mask Flatpak applications.

• community.general.gitlab_project_approvals - Manage project-level merge request approvals settings on GitLab Server.

• community.general.golang_package - Manage Go packages with go install.

• community.general.google_chat - Send Google Chat notifications.

• community.general.kopia_repository - Manage Kopia repository.

• community.general.kopia_repository_info - Gather information about a Kopia repository.

• community.general.packer - Manage HashiCorp Packer builds.

• community.general.serestorecon - Restore SELinux file contexts.

• community.general.write_binary_file - Write binary file from Base64 encoded input.

• community.general.xattr_info - Retrieve filesystem extended attributes.

• community.general.xml_info - Query XML files or strings.

• community.general.zypper_updates_info - List available Zypper updates.