Log message:
ansible-core: updated to 2.16.6

v2.16.6

Bugfixes

- Consolidated the list of internal static vars, centralized them as constant \ 
and completed from some missing entries.
- Fix check for missing _sub_plugin attribute in older connection plugins \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82954)
- Fixes permission for cache json file from 600 to 644 \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82683).
- Slight optimization to hostvars (instantiate template only once per host, vs \ 
per call to var).
- allow_duplicates - fix evaluating if the current role allows duplicates \ 
instead of using the initial value from the duplicate's cached role.
- ansible-config will now properly template defaults before dumping them.
- ansible-test ansible-doc sanity test - do not remove underscores from plugin \ 
names in collections before calling ``ansible-doc`` \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82574).
- async - Fix bug that stopped running async task in ``--check`` when \ 
``check_mode: False`` was set as a task attribute - \ 
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82811
- blockinfile - when ``create=true`` is used with a filename without path, the \ 
module crashed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81638).
- dnf - fix an issue when cached RPMs were left in the cache directory even when \ 
the keepcache setting was unset \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81954)
- dnf5 - replace removed API calls
- facts - add a generic detection for VMware in product name.
- fetch - add error message when using ``dest`` with a trailing slash that \ 
becomes a local directory - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82878
- find - do not fail on Permission errors \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82027).
- unarchive modules now uses zipinfo options without relying on implementation \ 
defaults, making it more compatible with all OS/distributions.
- winrm - Do not raise another exception during cleanup when a task is timed out \ 
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81095

Log message:
ansible-core: updated to 2.16.5

v2.16.5
=======

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

- ansible-test - Add a work-around for permission denied errors when using \ 
``pytest >= 8`` on multi-user systems with an installed version of \ 
``ansible-test``.

Bugfixes
--------

- Fix an issue when setting a plugin name from an unsafe source resulted in \ 
``ValueError: unmarshallable object`` \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82708)
- Harden python templates for respawn and ansiballz around str literal quoting
- ansible-test - The ``libexpat`` package is automatically upgraded during \ 
remote bootstrapping to maintain compatibility with newer Python packages.
- template - Fix error when templating an unsafe string which corresponds to an \ 
invalid type in Python (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82600).
- winrm - does not hang when attempting to get process output when stdin write failed

Log message:
ansible-core: updated to 2.16.4

v2.16.4

Bugfixes

- Fix loading vars_plugins in roles \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82239).
- expect - fix argument spec error using timeout=null \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80982).
- include_vars - fix calculating ``depth`` relative to the root and ensure all \ 
files are included (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80987).
- templating - ensure syntax errors originating from a template being compiled \ 
into Python code object result in a failure \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82606)

Log message:
ansible-core: updated to 2.16.3

v2.16.3
=======

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

| Release Date: 2024-01-29
| `Porting Guide \ 
<https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

Security Fixes
--------------

- ANSIBLE_NO_LOG - Address issue where ANSIBLE_NO_LOG was ignored (CVE-2024-0690)

Bugfixes
--------

- Run all handlers with the same ``listen`` topic, even when notified from \ 
another handler (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82363).
- ``ansible-galaxy role import`` - fix using the ``role_name`` in a standalone \ 
role's ``galaxy_info`` metadata by disabling automatic removal of the \ 
``ansible-role-`` prefix. This matches the behavior of the Galaxy UI which also \ 
no longer implicitly removes the ``ansible-role-`` prefix. Use the \ 
``--role-name`` option or add a ``role_name`` to the ``galaxy_info`` dictionary \ 
in the role's ``meta/main.yml`` to use an alternate role name.
- ``ansible-test sanity --test runtime-metadata`` - add ``action_plugin`` as a \ 
valid field for modules in the schema \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82562).
- ansible-config init will now dedupe ini entries from plugins.
- ansible-galaxy role import - exit with 1 when the import fails \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82175).
- ansible-galaxy role install - normalize tarfile paths and symlinks using \ 
``ansible.utils.path.unfrackpath`` and consider them valid as long as the \ 
realpath is in the tarfile's role directory \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81965).
- delegate_to when set to an empty or undefined variable will now give a proper \ 
error.
- dwim functions for lookups should be better at detectging role context even in \ 
abscense of tasks/main.
- roles, code cleanup and performance optimization of dependencies, now cached,  \ 
and ``public`` setting is now determined once, at role instantiation.
- roles, the ``static`` property is now correctly set, this will fix issues with \ 
``public`` and ``DEFAULT_PRIVATE_ROLE_VARS`` controls on exporting vars.
- unsafe data - Enable directly using ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` with Python \ 
``pathlib`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82414)

Log message:
ansible-core: updated to 2.16.2

v2.16.2

Bugfixes

- unsafe data - Address an incompatibility when iterating or getting a single \ 
index from ``AnsibleUnsafeBytes``
- unsafe data - Address an incompatibility with ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` and \ 
``AnsibleUnsafeBytes`` when pickling with ``protocol=0``

Log message:
ansible-core: updated to 2.16.1

v2.16.1
=======

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

- assert - Nested templating may result in an inability for the conditional to \ 
be evaluated. See the porting guide for more information.

Security Fixes
--------------

- templating - Address issues where internal templating can cause unsafe \ 
variables to lose their unsafe designation (CVE-2023-5764)

Bugfixes
--------

- Fix issue where an ``include_tasks`` handler in a role was not able to locate \ 
a file in ``tasks/`` when ``tasks_from`` was used as a role entry point and \ 
``main.yml`` was not present (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82241)
- Plugin loader does not dedupe nor cache filter/test plugins by file basename, \ 
but full path name.
- Restoring the ability of filters/tests can have same file base name but \ 
different tests/filters defined inside.
- ansible-pull now will expand relative paths for the ``-d|--directory`` option \ 
is now expanded before use.
- ansible-pull will now correctly handle become and connection password file \ 
options for ansible-playbook.
- flush_handlers - properly handle a handler failure in a nested block when \ 
``force_handlers`` is set (http://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81532)
- module no_log will no longer affect top level booleans, for example \ 
``no_log_module_parameter='a'`` will no longer hide ``changed=False`` as a 'no \ 
log value' (matches 'a').
- role params now have higher precedence than host facts again, matching \ 
documentation, this had unintentionally changed in 2.15.
- wait_for should not handle 'non mmapable files' again.

Log message:
ansible-core: updated to 2.16.0

v2.16.0
=======

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

- Add Python type hints to the Display class \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80841)
- Add ``GALAXY_COLLECTIONS_PATH_WARNING`` option to disable the warning given by \ 
``ansible-galaxy collection install`` when installing a collection to a path \ 
that isn't in the configured collection paths.
- Add ``python3.12`` to the default ``INTERPRETER_PYTHON_FALLBACK`` list.
- Add ``utcfromtimestamp`` and ``utcnow`` to \ 
``ansible.module_utils.compat.datetime`` to return fixed offset datetime \ 
objects.
- Add a general ``GALAXY_SERVER_TIMEOUT`` config option for distribution servers \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79833).
- Added Python type annotation to connection plugins
- CLI argument parsing - Automatically prepend to the help of CLI arguments that \ 
support being specified multiple times. \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/22396)
- DEFAULT_TRANSPORT now defaults to 'ssh', the old 'smart' option is being \ 
deprecated as versions of OpenSSH without control persist are basically not \ 
present anymore.
- Documentation for set filters ``intersect``, ``difference``, \ 
``symmetric_difference`` and ``union`` now states that the returned list items \ 
are in arbitrary order.
- Record ``removal_date`` in runtime metadata as a string instead of a date.
- Remove the ``CleansingNodeVisitor`` class and its usage due to the templating \ 
changes that made it superfluous. Also simplify the ``Conditional`` class.
- Removed ``exclude`` and ``recursive-exclude`` commands for generated files \ 
from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These excludes were unnecessary since releases \ 
are expected to be built with a clean worktree.
- Removed ``exclude`` commands for sanity test files from the ``MANIFEST.in`` \ 
file. These tests were previously excluded because they did not pass when run \ 
from an sdist. However, sanity tests are not expected to pass from an sdist, so \ 
excluding some (but not all) of the failing tests makes little sense.
- Removed redundant ``include`` commands from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These \ 
includes either duplicated default behavior or another command.
- The ``ansible-core`` sdist no longer contains pre-generated man pages. \ 
Instead, a ``packaging/cli-doc/build.py`` script is included in the sdist. This \ 
script can generate man pages and standalone RST documentation for \ 
``ansible-core`` CLI programs.
- The ``docs`` and ``examples`` directories are no longer included in the \ 
``ansible-core`` sdist. These directories have been moved to the \ 
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation repository.
- The minimum required ``setuptools`` version is now 66.1.0, as it is the oldest \ 
version to support Python 3.12.
- Update ``ansible_service_mgr`` fact to include init system for SMGL OS family
- Use ``ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters`` instead of \ 
``ansible.module_utils._text``.
- Use ``importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources`` instead of deprecated \ 
``importlib.abc.TraversableResources`` where available \ 
(https:/github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81082).
- Use ``include`` where ``recursive-include`` is unnecessary in the \ 
``MANIFEST.in`` file.
- Use ``package_data`` instead of ``include_package_data`` for ``setup.cfg`` to \ 
avoid ``setuptools`` warnings.
- Utilize gpg check provided internally by the ``transaction.run`` method as \ 
oppose to calling it manually.
- ``Templar`` - do not add the ``dict`` constructor to ``globals`` as all \ 
required Jinja2 versions already do so
- ansible-doc - allow to filter listing of collections and metadata dump by more \ 
than one collection (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81450).
- ansible-galaxy - Add a plural option to improve ignoring multiple signature \ 
error status codes when installing or verifying collections. A space-separated \ 
list of error codes can follow --ignore-signature-status-codes in addition to \ 
specifying --ignore-signature-status-code multiple times (for example, \ 
``--ignore-signature-status-codes NO_PUBKEY UNEXPECTED``).
- ansible-galaxy - Remove internal configuration argument ``v3`` \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80721)
- ansible-galaxy - add note to the collection dependency resolver error message \ 
about pre-releases if ``--pre`` was not provided \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80048).
- ansible-galaxy - used to crash out with a "Errno 20 Not a directory" \ 
error when extracting files from a role when hitting a file with an illegal name \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81553). Now it gives a warning \ 
identifying the culprit file and the rule violation (e.g., ``my$class.jar`` has \ 
a ``$`` in the name) before crashing out, giving the user a chance to remove the \ 
invalid file and try again. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81555).
- ansible-test - Add Alpine 3.18 to remotes
- ansible-test - Add Fedora 38 container.
- ansible-test - Add Fedora 38 remote.
- ansible-test - Add FreeBSD 13.2 remote.
- ansible-test - Add new pylint checker for new ``# deprecated:`` comments \ 
within code to trigger errors when time to remove code that has no user facing \ 
deprecation message. Only supported in ansible-core, not collections.
- ansible-test - Add support for RHEL 8.8 remotes.
- ansible-test - Add support for RHEL 9.2 remotes.
- ansible-test - Add support for testing with Python 3.12.
- ansible-test - Allow float values for the ``--timeout`` option to the ``env`` \ 
command. This simplifies testing.
- ansible-test - Enable ``thread`` code coverage in addition to the existing \ 
``multiprocessing`` coverage.
- ansible-test - Make Python 3.12 the default version used in the ``base`` and \ 
``default`` containers.
- ansible-test - RHEL 8.8 provisioning can now be used with the ``--python \ 
3.11`` option.
- ansible-test - RHEL 9.2 provisioning can now be used with the ``--python \ 
3.11`` option.
- ansible-test - Refactored ``env`` command logic and timeout handling.
- ansible-test - Remove Fedora 37 remote support.
- ansible-test - Remove Fedora 37 test container.
- ansible-test - Remove Python 3.8 and 3.9 from RHEL 8.8.
- ansible-test - Remove obsolete embedded script for configuring WinRM on \ 
Windows remotes.
- ansible-test - Removed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS image from the `--remote` option.
- ansible-test - Removed `freebsd/12.4` remote.
- ansible-test - Removed `freebsd/13.1` remote.
- ansible-test - Removed test remotes: rhel/8.7, rhel/9.1
- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``--docker-no-pull`` option.
- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``--no-pip-check`` option.
- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``foreman`` test plugin.
- ansible-test - Removed the deprecated ``govcsim`` support from the ``vcenter`` \ 
test plugin.
- ansible-test - Replace the ``pytest-forked`` pytest plugin with a custom plugin.
- ansible-test - The ``no-get-exception`` sanity test is now limited to plugins \ 
in collections. Previously any Python file in a collection was checked for \ 
``get_exception`` usage.
- ansible-test - The ``replace-urlopen`` sanity test is now limited to plugins \ 
in collections. Previously any Python file in a collection was checked for \ 
``urlopen`` usage.
- ansible-test - The ``use-compat-six`` sanity test is now limited to plugins in \ 
collections. Previously any Python file in a collection was checked for ``six`` \ 
usage.
- ansible-test - The openSUSE test container has been updated to openSUSE Leap 15.5.
- ansible-test - Update pip to ``23.1.2`` and setuptools to ``67.7.2``.
- ansible-test - Update the ``default`` containers.
- ansible-test - Update the ``nios-test-container`` to version 2.0.0, which \ 
supports API version 2.9.
- ansible-test - Update the logic used to detect when ``ansible-test`` is \ 
running from source.
- ansible-test - Updated the CloudStack test container to version 1.6.1.
- ansible-test - Updated the distro test containers to version 6.3.0 to include \ 
coverage 7.3.2 for Python 3.8+. The alpine3 container is now based on 3.18 \ 
instead of 3.17 and includes Python 3.11 instead of Python 3.10.
- ansible-test - Use ``datetime.datetime.now`` with ``tz`` specified instead of \ 
``datetime.datetime.utcnow``.
- ansible-test - Use a context manager to perform cleanup at exit instead of \ 
using the built-in ``atexit`` module.
- ansible-test - When invoking ``sleep`` in containers during container setup, \ 
the ``env`` command is used to avoid invoking the shell builtin, if present.
- ansible-test - remove Alpine 3.17 from remotes
- ansible-test — Python 3.8–3.12 will use ``coverage`` v7.3.2.
- ansible-test — ``coverage`` v6.5.0 is to be used only under Python 3.7.
- ansible-vault create: Now raises an error when opening the editor without tty. \ 
The flag --skip-tty-check restores previous behaviour.
- ansible_user_module - tweaked macos user defaults to reflect expected defaults \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44316)
- apt - return calculated diff while running apt clean operation.
- blockinfile - add append_newline and prepend_newline options \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80835).
- cli - Added short option '-J' for asking for vault password \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80523).
- command - Add option ``expand_argument_vars`` to disable argument expansion \ 
and use literal values - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54162
- config lookup new option show_origin to also return the origin of a \ 
configuration value.
- display methods for warning and deprecation are now proxied to main process \ 
when issued from a fork. This allows for the deduplication of warnings and \ 
deprecations to work globally.
- dnf5 - enable environment groups installation testing in CI as its support was \ 
added.
- dnf5 - enable now implemented ``cacheonly`` functionality
- executor now skips persistent connection when it detects an action that does \ 
not require a connection.
- find module - Add ability to filter based on modes
- gather_facts now will use gather_timeout setting to limit parallel execution \ 
of modules that do not themselves use gather_timeout.
- group - remove extraneous warning shown when user does not exist \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77049).
- include_vars - os.walk now follows symbolic links when traversing directories \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80460)
- module compression is now sourced directly via config, bypassing play_context \ 
possibly stale values.
- reboot - show last error message in verbose logs \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81574).
- service_facts now returns more info for rcctl managed systesm (OpenBSD).
- tasks - the ``retries`` keyword can be specified without ``until`` in which \ 
case the task is retried until it succeeds but at most ``retries`` times \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/20802)
- user - add new option ``password_expire_warn`` (supported on Linux only) to \ 
set the number of days of warning before a password change is required \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79882).
- yum_repository - Align module documentation with parameters

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

- Any plugin using the config system and the `cli` entry to use the `timeout` \ 
from the command line, will see the value change if the use had configured it in \ 
any of the lower precedence methods. If relying on this behaviour to consume the \ 
global/generic timeout from the DEFAULT_TIMEOUT constant, please consult the \ 
documentation on plugin configuration to add the overlaping entries.
- ansible-test - Test plugins that rely on containers no longer support reusing \ 
running containers. The previous behavior was an undocumented, untested feature.
- service module will not permanently configure variables/flags for openbsd when \ 
doing enable/disable operation anymore, this module was never meant to do this \ 
type of work, just to manage the service state itself. A rcctl_config or similar \ 
module should be created and used instead.

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

- Deprecated ini config option ``collections_paths``, use the singular form \ 
``collections_path`` instead
- Deprecated the env var ``ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS``, use the singular form \ 
``ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH`` instead
- Old style vars plugins which use the entrypoints `get_host_vars` or \ 
`get_group_vars` are deprecated. The plugin should be updated to inherit from \ 
`BaseVarsPlugin` and define a `get_vars` method as the entrypoint.
- Support for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 has been removed as the support \ 
end of life from Microsoft is October 10th 2023. These versions of Windows will \ 
no longer be tested in this Ansible release and it cannot be guaranteed that \ 
they will continue to work going forward.
- ``STRING_CONVERSION_ACTION`` config option is deprecated as it is no longer \ 
used in the Ansible Core code base.
- the 'smart' option for setting a connection plugin is being removed as it's \ 
main purpose (choosing between ssh and paramiko) is now irrelevant.
- vault and unfault filters - the undocumented ``vaultid`` parameter is \ 
deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core 2.20. Use ``vault_id`` instead.
- yum_repository - deprecated parameter 'keepcache' \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78693).

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

- ActionBase - remove deprecated ``_remote_checksum`` method
- PlayIterator - remove deprecated ``cache_block_tasks`` and \ 
``get_original_task`` methods
- Remove deprecated ``FileLock`` class
- Removed Python 3.9 as a supported version on the controller. Python 3.10 or \ 
newer is required.
- Removed ``include`` which has been deprecated in Ansible 2.12. Use \ 
``include_tasks`` or ``import_tasks`` instead.
- ``Templar`` - remove deprecated ``shared_loader_obj`` parameter of ``__init__``
- ``fetch_url`` - remove auto disabling ``decompress`` when gzip is not available
- ``get_action_args_with_defaults`` - remove deprecated ``redirected_names`` \ 
method parameter
- ansible-test - Removed support for the remote Windows targets 2012 and 2012-R2
- inventory_cache - remove deprecated ``default.fact_caching_prefix`` ini \ 
configuration option, use ``defaults.fact_caching_prefix`` instead.
- module_utils/basic.py - Removed Python 3.5 as a supported remote version. \ 
Python 2.7 or Python 3.6+ is now required.
- stat - removed unused `get_md5` parameter.

Security Fixes
--------------

- ansible-galaxy - Prevent roles from using symlinks to overwrite files outside \ 
of the installation directory (CVE-2023-5115)

Bugfixes
--------

- Allow for searching handler subdir for included task via include_role \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81722)
- AnsibleModule.run_command - Only use selectors when needed, and rely on Python \ 
stdlib subprocess for the simple task of collecting stdout/stderr when prompt \ 
matching is not required.
- Cache host_group_vars after instantiating it once and limit the amount of \ 
repetitive work it needs to do every time it runs.
- Call PluginLoader.all() once for vars plugins, and load vars plugins that run \ 
automatically or are enabled specifically by name subsequently.
- Display - Defensively configure writing to stdout and stderr with a custom \ 
encoding error handler that will replace invalid characters while providing a \ 
deprecation warning that non-utf8 text will result in an error in a future \ 
version.
- Exclude internal options from man pages and docs.
- Fix ``ansible-config init`` man page option indentation.
- Fix ``ast`` deprecation warnings for ``Str`` and ``value.s`` when using Python \ 
3.12.
- Fix ``run_once`` being incorrectly interpreted on handlers \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81666)
- Fix exceptions caused by various inputs when performing arg splitting or \ 
parsing key/value pairs. Resolves issue \ 
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46379 and issue \ 
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61497
- Fix incorrect parsing of multi-line Jinja2 blocks when performing arg \ 
splitting or parsing key/value pairs.
- Fix post-validating looped task fields so the strategy uses the correct values \ 
after task execution.
- Fixed `pip` module failure in case of usage quotes for `virtualenv_command` \ 
option for the venv command. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76372)
- From issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80880, when notifying a \ 
handler from another handler, handler notifications must be registered \ 
immediately as the flush_handler call is not recursive.
- Import ``FILE_ATTRIBUTES`` from ``ansible.module_utils.common.file`` in \ 
``ansible.module_utils.basic`` instead of defining it twice.
- Inventory scripts parser not treat exception when getting hostsvar \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81103)
- On Python 3 use datetime methods ``fromtimestamp`` and ``now`` with UTC \ 
timezone instead of ``utcfromtimestamp`` and ``utcnow``, which are deprecated in \ 
Python 3.12.
- PluginLoader - fix Jinja plugin performance issues \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79652)
- PowerShell - Remove some code which is no longer valid for dotnet 5+
- Prevent running same handler multiple times when included via ``include_role`` \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73643)
- Prompting - add a short sleep between polling for user input to reduce CPU \ 
consumption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81516).
- Properly disable ``jinja2_native`` in the template module when jinja2 override \ 
is used in the template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80605)
- Properly template tags in parent blocks \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81053)
- Remove unreachable parser error for removed ``static`` parameter of \ 
``include_role``
- Replace uses of ``configparser.ConfigParser.readfp()`` which was removed in \ 
Python 3.12 with ``configparser.ConfigParser.read_file()`` \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81656)
- Set filters ``intersect``, ``difference``, ``symmetric_difference`` and \ 
``union`` now always return a ``list``, never a ``set``. Previously, a ``set`` \ 
would be returned if the inputs were a hashable type such as ``str``, instead of \ 
a collection, such as a ``list`` or ``tuple``.
- Set filters ``intersect``, ``difference``, ``symmetric_difference`` and \ 
``union`` now use set operations when the given items are hashable. Previously, \ 
list operations were performed unless the inputs were a hashable type such as \ 
``str``, instead of a collection, such as a ``list`` or ``tuple``.
- Switch result queue from a ``multiprocessing.queues.Queue` to \ 
``multiprocessing.queues.SimpleQueue``, primarily to allow properly handling \ 
pickling errors, to prevent an infinite hang waiting for task results
- The ``ansible-config init`` command now has a documentation description.
- The ``ansible-galaxy collection download`` command now has a documentation \ 
description.
- The ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` command documentation is now visible \ 
(previously hidden by a decorator).
- The ``ansible-galaxy collection verify`` command now has a documentation \ 
description.
- The ``ansible-galaxy role install`` command documentation is now visible \ 
(previously hidden by a decorator).
- The ``ansible-inventory`` command command now has a documentation description \ 
(previously used as the epilog).
- The ``hostname`` module now also updates both current and permanent hostname \ 
on OpenBSD. Before it only updated the permanent hostname \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80520).
- Update module_utils.urls unit test to work with cryptography >= 41.0.0.
- When generating man pages, use ``func`` to find the command function instead \ 
of looking it up by the command name.
- ``StrategyBase._process_pending_results`` - create a ``Templar`` on demand for \ 
templating ``changed_when``/``failed_when``.
- ``ansible-galaxy`` now considers all collection paths when identifying which \ 
collection requirements are already installed. Use the ``COLLECTIONS_PATHS`` and \ 
``COLLECTIONS_SCAN_SYS_PATHS`` config options to modify these. Previously only \ 
the install path was considered when resolving the candidates. The install path \ 
will remain the only one potentially modified. \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79767, \ 
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81163)
- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - ensure binary data transmission in \ 
``daemonize()``
- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - fix inter-process communication in \ 
``daemonize()``
- ``import_role`` reverts to previous behavior of exporting vars at compile time.
- ``pkg_mgr`` - fix the default dnf version detection
- ansiballz - Prevent issue where the time on the control host could change part \ 
way through building the ansiballz file, potentially causing a pre-1980 date to \ 
be used during ansiballz unpacking leading to a zip file error \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80089)
- ansible terminal color settings were incorrectly limited to 16 options via \ 
'choices', removing so all 256 can be accessed.
- ansible-console - fix filtering by collection names when a collection search \ 
path was set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81450).
- ansible-galaxy - Enabled the ``data`` tarfile filter during role installation \ 
for Python versions that support it. A probing mechanism is used to avoid Python \ 
versions with a broken implementation.
- ansible-galaxy - Fix issue installing collections containing directories with \ 
more than 100 characters on python versions before 3.10.6
- ansible-galaxy - Fix variable type error when installing subdir collections \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80943)
- ansible-galaxy - Provide a better error message when using a requirements file \ 
with an invalid format - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81901
- ansible-galaxy - fix installing collections from directories that have a \ 
trailing path separator (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77803).
- ansible-galaxy - fix installing signed collections \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80648).
- ansible-galaxy - reduce API calls to servers by fetching signatures only for \ 
final candidates.
- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for collections that \ 
do not have any stable versions published. \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for dependencies on \ 
any level of the dependency tree that specifically demand exact pre-release \ 
versions of collections and not version ranges. \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
- ansible-galaxy collection verify - fix verifying signed collections when the \ 
keyring is not configured.
- ansible-galaxy info - fix reporting no role found when lookup_role_by_name \ 
returns None.
- ansible-inventory - index available_hosts for major performance boost when \ 
dumping large inventories
- ansible-test - Add a ``pylint`` plugin to work around a known issue on Python 3.12.
- ansible-test - Add support for ``argcomplete`` version 3.
- ansible-test - All containers created by ansible-test now include the current \ 
test session ID in their name. This avoids conflicts between concurrent \ 
ansible-test invocations using the same container host.
- ansible-test - Always use ansible-test managed entry points for ansible-core \ 
CLI tools when not running from source. This fixes issues where CLI entry points \ 
created during install are not compatible with ansible-test.
- ansible-test - Fix a traceback that occurs when attempting to test Ansible \ 
source using a different ansible-test. A clear error message is now given when \ 
this scenario occurs.
- ansible-test - Fix handling of timeouts exceeding one day.
- ansible-test - Fix parsing of cgroup entries which contain a ``:`` in the path \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81977).
- ansible-test - Fix several possible tracebacks when using the ``-e`` option \ 
with sanity tests.
- ansible-test - Fix various cases where the test timeout could expire without \ 
terminating the tests.
- ansible-test - Include missing ``pylint`` requirements for Python 3.10.
- ansible-test - Pre-build a PyYAML wheel before installing requirements to \ 
avoid a potential Cython build failure.
- ansible-test - Remove redundant warning about missing programs before \ 
attempting to execute them.
- ansible-test - The ``import`` sanity test now checks the collection loader for \ 
remote-only Python support when testing ansible-core.
- ansible-test - Unit tests now report warnings generated during test runs. \ 
Previously only warnings generated during test collection were reported.
- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.2 to resolve several possible false \ 
positives.
- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to 2.17.3 to resolve several possible false \ 
positives.
- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` to version 3.0.1.
- ansible-test - Use ``raise ... from ...`` when raising exceptions from within \ 
an exception handler.
- ansible-test - When bootstrapping remote FreeBSD instances, use the OS \ 
packaged ``setuptools`` instead of installing the latest version from PyPI.
- ansible-test local change detection - use ``git merge-base <branch> \ 
HEAD`` instead of ``git merge-base --fork-point <branch>`` \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79734).
- ansible-vault - fail when the destination file location is not writable before \ 
performing encryption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81455).
- apt - ignore fail_on_autoremove and allow_downgrade parameters when using \ 
aptitude (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77868).
- blockinfile - avoid crash with Python 3 if creating the directory fails when \ 
``create=true`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81662).
- connection timeouts defined in ansible.cfg will now be properly used, the \ 
--timeout cli option was obscuring them by always being set.
- copy - print correct destination filename when using `content` and `--diff` \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79749).
- copy unit tests - Fixing "dir all perms" documentation and \ 
formatting for easier reading.
- core will now also look at the connection plugin to force 'local' interpreter \ 
for networking path compatibility as just ansible_network_os could be \ 
misleading.
- deb822_repository - use http-agent for receiving content \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80809).
- debconf - idempotency in questions with type 'password' \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47676).
- distribution facts - fix Source Mage family mapping
- dnf - fix a failure when a package from URI was specified and ``update_only`` \ 
was set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81376).
- dnf5 - Update dnf5 module to handle API change for setting the download \ 
directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80887)
- dnf5 - Use ``transaction.check_gpg_signatures`` API call to check package \ 
signatures AND possibly to recover from when keys are missing.
- dnf5 - fix module and package names in the message following failed module \ 
respawn attempt
- dnf5 - use the logs API to determine transaction problems
- dpkg_selections - check if the package exists before performing the selection \ 
operation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81404).
- encrypt - deprecate passlib_or_crypt API \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55839).
- fetch - Handle unreachable errors properly \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27816)
- file modules - Make symbolic modes with X use the computed permission, not \ 
original file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80128)
- file modules - fix validating invalid symbolic modes.
- first found lookup has been updated to use the normalized argument parsing \ 
(pythonic) matching the documented examples.
- first found lookup, fixed an issue with subsequent items clobbering \ 
information from previous ones.
- first_found lookup now gets 'untemplated' loop entries and handles templating \ 
itself as task_executor was removing even 'templatable' entries and breaking \ 
functionality. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70772
- galaxy - check if the target for symlink exists \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81586).
- galaxy - cross check the collection type and collection source \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79463).
- gather_facts parallel option was doing the reverse of what was stated, now it \ 
does run modules in parallel when True and serially when False.
- handlers - fix ``v2_playbook_on_notify`` callback not being called when \ 
notifying handlers
- handlers - the ``listen`` keyword can affect only one handler with the same \ 
name, the last one defined as it is a case with the ``notify`` keyword \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81013)
- include_role - expose variables from parent roles to role's handlers \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80459)
- inventory_ini - handle SyntaxWarning while parsing ini file in inventory \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81457).
- iptables - remove default rule creation when creating iptables chain to be \ 
more similar to the command line utility \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80256).
- lib/ansible/utils/encrypt.py - remove unused private ``_LOCK`` \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81613)
- lookup/url.py - Fix incorrect var/env/ini entry for `force_basic_auth`
- man page build - Remove the dependency on the ``docs`` directory for building \ 
man pages.
- man page build - Sub commands of ``ansible-galaxy role`` and ``ansible-galaxy \ 
collection`` are now documented.
- module responses - Ensure that module responses are utf-8 adhereing to JSON \ 
RFC and expectations of the core code.
- module/role argument spec - validate the type for options that are None when \ 
the option is required or has a non-None default \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79656).
- modules/user.py - Add check for valid directory when creating new user homedir \ 
(allows /dev/null as skeleton) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75063)
- paramiko_ssh, psrp, and ssh connection plugins - ensure that all values for \ 
options that should be strings are actually converted to strings \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81029).
- password_hash - fix salt format for ``crypt``  (only used if ``passlib`` is \ 
not installed) for the ``bcrypt`` algorithm.
- pep517 build backend - Copy symlinks when copying the source tree. This avoids \ 
tracebacks in various scenarios, such as when a venv is present in the source \ 
tree.
- pep517 build backend - Use the documented ``import_module`` import from \ 
``importlib``.
- pip module - Update module to prefer use of the python ``packaging`` and \ 
``importlib.metadata`` modules due to ``pkg_resources`` being deprecated \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80488)
- pkg_mgr.py - Fix `ansible_pkg_mgr` incorrect in TencentOS Server Linux
- pkg_mgr.py - Fix `ansible_pkg_mgr` is unknown in Kylin Linux \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81332)
- powershell modules - Only set an rc of 1 if the PowerShell pipeline signaled \ 
an error occurred AND there are error records present. Previously it would do so \ 
only if the error signal was present without checking the error count.
- replace - handle exception when bad escape character is provided in replace \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79364).
- role deduplication - don't deduplicate before a role has had a task run for \ 
that particular host (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81486).
- service module, does not permanently configure flags flags on Openbsd when \ 
enabling/disabling a service.
- service module, enable/disable is not a exclusive action in checkmode anymore.
- setup gather_timeout - Fix timeout in get_mounts_facts for linux.
- setup module (fact gathering) will now try to be smarter about different \ 
versions of facter emitting error when --puppet flag is used w/o puppet.
- syntax check - Limit ``--syntax-check`` to ``ansible-playbook`` only, as that \ 
is the only CLI affected by this argument \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80506)
- tarfile - handle data filter deprecation warning message for extract and \ 
extractall (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80832).
- template - Fix for formatting issues when a template path contains valid \ 
jinja/strftime pattern (especially line break one) and using the template path \ 
in ansible_managed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79129)
- templating - In the template action and lookup, use local jinja2 environment \ 
overlay overrides instead of mutating the templars environment
- templating - prevent setting arbitrary attributes on Jinja2 environments via \ 
Jinja2 overrides in templates
- templating escape and single var optimization now use correct delimiters when \ 
custom ones are provided either via task or template header.
- unarchive - fix unarchiving sources that are copied to the remote node using a \ 
relative temporory directory path \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80710).
- uri - fix search for JSON type to include complex strings containing '+'
- uri/urls - Add compat function to handle the ability to parse the filename \ 
from a Content-Disposition header \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81806)
- urls.py - fixed cert_file and key_file parameters when running on Python 3.12 \ 
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80490
- user - set expiration value correctly when unable to retrieve the current \ 
value from the system (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71916)
- validate-modules sanity test - replace semantic markup parsing and validating \ 
code with the code from `antsibull-docs-parser 0.2.0 \ 
<https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-docs-parser/releases/tag/0.2.0>`__ \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/80406).
- vars_prompt - internally convert the ``unsafe`` value to ``bool``
- vault and unvault filters now properly take ``vault_id`` parameter.
- win_fetch - Add support for using file with wildcards in file name. \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73128)
- winrm - Better handle send input failures when communicating with hosts under load

Log message:
ansible-core: updated to 2.15.5

v2.15.5
=======

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

- ansible-galaxy dependency resolution messages have changed the unexplained \ 
'virtual' collection for the specific type ('scm', 'dir', etc) that is more user \ 
friendly

Security Fixes
--------------

- ansible-galaxy - Prevent roles from using symlinks to overwrite files outside \ 
of the installation directory (CVE-2023-5115)

Bugfixes
--------

- Allow for searching handler subdir for included task via include_role \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81722)
- PluginLoader - fix Jinja plugin performance issues \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79652)
- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - ensure binary data transmission in \ 
``daemonize()``
- ``ansible.module_utils.service`` - fix inter-process communication in \ 
``daemonize()``
- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for collections that \ 
do not have any stable versions published. \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
- ansible-galaxy - started allowing the use of pre-releases for dependencies on \ 
any level of the dependency tree that specifically demand exact pre-release \ 
versions of collections and not version ranges. \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81606)
- ansible-galaxy error on dependency resolution will not error itself due to \ 
'virtual' collections not having a name/namespace.
- ansible-galaxy info - fix reporting no role found when lookup_role_by_name \ 
returns None.
- role deduplication - don't deduplicate before a role has had a task run for \ 
that particular host (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81486).
- uri/urls - Add compat function to handle the ability to parse the filename \ 
from a Content-Disposition header \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81806)
- winrm - Better handle send input failures when communicating with hosts under load

Log message:
ansible-core: updated to 2.15.4

v2.15.4
=======

Deprecated Features
-------------------
- vault and unfault filters - the undocumented ``vaultid`` parameter is \ 
deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core 2.20. Use ``vault_id`` instead.

Bugfixes
--------
- PowerShell - Remove some code which is no longer valid for dotnet 5+
- Prompting - add a short sleep between polling for user input to reduce CPU \ 
consumption (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81516).
- ansible-galaxy - Enabled the ``data`` tarfile filter during role installation \ 
for Python versions that support it. A probing mechanism is used to avoid Python \ 
versions with a broken implementation.
- ansible-test - Always use ansible-test managed entry points for ansible-core \ 
CLI tools when not running from source. This fixes issues where CLI entry points \ 
created during install are not compatible with ansible-test.
- first found lookup has been updated to use the normalized argument parsing \ 
(pythonic) matching the documented examples.
- handlers - the ``listen`` keyword can affect only one handler with the same \ 
name, the last one defined as it is a case with the ``notify`` keyword \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81013)
- include_role - expose variables from parent roles to role's handlers \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80459)
- tarfile - handle data filter deprecation warning message for extract and \ 
extractall (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80832).
- vault and unvault filters now properly take ``vault_id`` parameter.

Log message:
ansible-core: updated to 2.15.3

v2.15.3
=======

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

- Removed ``exclude`` and ``recursive-exclude`` commands for generated files \ 
from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These excludes were unnecessary since releases \ 
are expected to be built with a clean worktree.
- Removed ``exclude`` commands for sanity test files from the ``MANIFEST.in`` \ 
file. These tests were previously excluded because they did not pass when run \ 
from an sdist. However, sanity tests are not expected to pass from an sdist, so \ 
excluding some (but not all) of the failing tests makes little sense.
- Removed redundant ``include`` commands from the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. These \ 
includes either duplicated default behavior or another command.
- The ``ansible-core`` sdist no longer contains pre-generated man pages. \ 
Instead, a ``packaging/cli-doc/build.py`` script is included in the sdist. This \ 
script can generate man pages and standalone RST documentation for \ 
``ansible-core`` CLI programs.
- The ``docs`` and ``examples`` directories are no longer included in the \ 
``ansible-core`` sdist. These directories have been moved to the \ 
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation repository.
- Use ``include`` where ``recursive-include`` is unnecessary in the \ 
``MANIFEST.in`` file.
- ansible-test - Update the logic used to detect when ``ansible-test`` is \ 
running from source.
- ansible-test - Updated the CloudStack test container to version 1.6.1.

Bugfixes
--------

- Exclude internal options from man pages and docs.
- Fix ``ansible-config init`` man page option indentation.
- The ``ansible-config init`` command now has a documentation description.
- The ``ansible-galaxy collection download`` command now has a documentation \ 
description.
- The ``ansible-galaxy collection install`` command documentation is now visible \ 
(previously hidden by a decorator).
- The ``ansible-galaxy collection verify`` command now has a documentation \ 
description.
- The ``ansible-galaxy role install`` command documentation is now visible \ 
(previously hidden by a decorator).
- The ``ansible-inventory`` command command now has a documentation description \ 
(previously used as the epilog).
- Update module_utils.urls unit test to work with cryptography >= 41.0.0.
- When generating man pages, use ``func`` to find the command function instead \ 
of looking it up by the command name.
- ``ansible-galaxy`` now considers all collection paths when identifying which \ 
collection requirements are already installed. Use the ``COLLECTIONS_PATHS`` and \ 
``COLLECTIONS_SCAN_SYS_PATHS`` config options to modify these. Previously only \ 
the install path was considered when resolving the candidates. The install path \ 
will remain the only one potentially modified. \ 
(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79767, \ 
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81163)
- ansible-test - Fix several possible tracebacks when using the ``-e`` option \ 
with sanity tests.
- ansible-test - Pre-build a PyYAML wheel before installing requirements to \ 
avoid a potential Cython build failure.
- ansible-test - Remove redundant warning about missing programs before \ 
attempting to execute them.
- core will now also look at the connection plugin to force 'local' interpreter \ 
for networking path compatibility as just ansible_network_os could be \ 
misleading.
- man page build - Sub commands of ``ansible-galaxy role`` and ``ansible-galaxy \ 
collection`` are now documented.
- password_hash - fix salt format for ``crypt``  (only used if ``passlib`` is \ 
not installed) for the ``bcrypt`` algorithm.
- urls.py - fixed cert_file and key_file parameters when running on Python 3.12 \ 
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80490