diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,73 +2,133 @@
**Topics**
-- v8\.5\.0
+- v8\.6\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- - Security Fixes
+ - Deprecated Features
- Bugfixes
- New Modules
-- v8\.4\.0
+- v8\.5\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
+ - Security Fixes
- Bugfixes
+ - New Modules
+- v8\.4\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+ - Bugfixes
- New Plugins
- Callback
- Filter
- - New Modules
-- v8\.3\.0
- - Release Summary
- - Minor Changes
- - Deprecated Features
- - Bugfixes
- New Modules
-- v8\.2\.0
+- v8\.3\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
+ - Deprecated Features
- Bugfixes
+ - New Modules
+- v8\.2\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+ - Bugfixes
- New Plugins
- Connection
- Filter
- Lookup
- - New Modules
+ - New Modules
- v8\.1\.0
- - Release Summary
- - Minor Changes
- - Bugfixes
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+ - Bugfixes
- New Plugins
- Lookup
- Test
- - New Modules
+ - New Modules
- v8\.0\.2
- - Release Summary
- - Bugfixes
-- v8\.0\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
-- v8\.0\.0
+- v8\.0\.1
- Release Summary
- - Minor Changes
- - Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
- - Deprecated Features
- - Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)
- Bugfixes
+- v8\.0\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+ - Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+ - Deprecated Features
+ - Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)
+ - Bugfixes
- Known Issues
- New Plugins
- Lookup
- - New Modules
+ - New Modules
This changelog describes changes after version 7\.0\.0\.
-
-## v8\.5\.0
+
+## v8\.6\.0
### Release Summary
-Regular feature and bugfix release with security fixes\.
+Regular bugfix and features release\.
### Minor Changes
+* Use offset\-aware datetime\.datetime
objects \(with timezone UTC\) instead of offset\-naive UTC timestamps\, which are deprecated in Python 3\.12 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8222](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8222)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- add new states latest
and present\_not\_latest
\. The value latest
is equivalent to the current behavior of present
\, which will upgrade a package if a newer version exists\. present\_not\_latest
does what most users would expect present
to do\: it does not upgrade if the package is already installed\. The current behavior of present
will be deprecated in a later version\, and eventually changed to that of present\_not\_latest
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8247](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8247)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- add support to filter by organization ID \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8188](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8188)\)\.
+* filesystem \- add bcachefs support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8126](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8126)\)\.
+* ini\_file \- add an optional parameter section\_has\_values
\. If the target ini file contains more than one section
\, use section\_has\_values
to specify which one should be updated \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7505](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7505)\)\.
+* java\_cert \- add cert\_content
argument \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8153](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8153)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client\, keycloak\_clientscope\, keycloak\_clienttemplate \- added docker\-v2
protocol support\, enhancing alignment with Keycloak\'s protocol options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8215](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8215)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8216](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8216)\)\.
+* nmcli \- adds OpenvSwitch support with new type
values ovs\-port
\, ovs\-interface
\, and ovs\-bridge
\, and new slave\_type
value ovs\-port
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8154](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8154)\)\.
+* osx\_defaults \- add option check\_types
to enable changing the type of existing defaults on the fly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8173](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8173)\)\.
+* passwordstore lookup \- add missing\_subkey
parameter defining the behavior of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8166](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8166)\)\.
+* portage \- adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages to world file \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6226)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8236](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8236)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add command ResetToDefaults
to reset manager to default state \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8163](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8163)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add boolean return value MultipartHttpPush
to GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8194](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8194)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8195](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8195)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- allow accept\-new
as valid value for strict\_host\_key\_checking
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8257](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8257)\)\.
+
+
+### Deprecated Features
+
+* hipchat callback plugin \- the hipchat service has been discontinued and the self\-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020\. The callback plugin is therefore deprecated and will be removed from community\.general 10\.0\.0 if nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8184](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8184)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8189](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8189)\)\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* aix\_filesystem \- fix \_validate\_vg
not passing VG name to lsvg\_cmd
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- when checking whether packages were installed after running apt\-get \-y install \
\, only the last package name was checked \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8263)\)\.
+* bitwarden\_secrets\_manager lookup plugin \- implements retry with exponential backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn\'s API rate limiting is encountered \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238)\)\.
+* from\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of ConfigParser
to allow converting values with a \%
sign \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185)\)\.
+* gitlab\_issue\, gitlab\_label\, gitlab\_milestone \- avoid crash during version comparison when the python\-gitlab Python module is not installed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158)\)\.
+* haproxy \- fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092)\)\.
+* inventory plugins \- add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain \{
or \}
as unsafe\, to work around a bug in AWX \(\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8212)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8225)\)\.
+* ipa \- fix get version regex in IPA module\_utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- add sorted defaultClientScopes
and optionalClientScopes
to normalizations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm \- add normalizations for enabledEventTypes
and supportedLocales
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224)\)\.
+* puppet \- add option environment\_lang
to set the environment language encoding\. Defaults to lang C
\. It is recommended to set it to C\.UTF\-8
or en\_US\.UTF\-8
depending on what is available on your system\. \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000)\)
+* riak \- support riak admin
sub\-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy riak\-admin
main command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211)\)\.
+* to\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of ConfigParser
to allow converting values with a \%
sign \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8183)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8185)\)\.
+* xml \- make module work with lxml 5\.1\.1\, which removed some internals that the module was relying on \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169)\)\.
+
+
+### New Modules
+
+* keycloak\_client\_rolescope \- Allows administration of Keycloak client roles scope to restrict the usage of certain roles to a other specific client applications\.
+
+
+## v8\.5\.0
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular feature and bugfix release with security fixes\.
+
+
+### Minor Changes
+
* bitwarden lookup plugin \- allows to fetch all records of a given collection ID\, by allowing to pass an empty value for search\_value
when collection\_id
is provided \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8013](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8013)\)\.
* icinga2 inventory plugin \- adds new parameter group\_by\_hostgroups
in order to make grouping by Icinga2 hostgroups optional \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7998](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7998)\)\.
* ini\_file \- support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding brackets \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8075](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8075)\)\.
@@ -84,7 +144,7 @@ Regular feature and bugfix release with security fixes\.
* cobbler\, gitlab\_runners\, icinga2\, linode\, lxd\, nmap\, online\, opennebula\, proxmox\, scaleway\, stackpath\_compute\, virtualbox\, and xen\_orchestra inventory plugin \- make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe\, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible \([https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/](https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098)\)\.
-
+
### Bugfixes
* aix\_filesystem \- fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052)\)\.
@@ -98,7 +158,7 @@ Regular feature and bugfix release with security fixes\.
* pam\_limits \- when the file does not exist\, do not create it in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057)\)\.
* proxmox\_kvm \- fixed status check getting from node\-specific API endpoint \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817)\)\.
-
+
### New Modules
* usb\_facts \- Allows listing information about USB devices
@@ -106,12 +166,12 @@ Regular feature and bugfix release with security fixes\.
## v8\.4\.0
-
+
### Release Summary
Regular bugfix and feature release\.
-
+
### Minor Changes
* bitwarden lookup plugin \- add bw\_session
option\, to pass session key instead of reading from env \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7994](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7994)\)\.
@@ -124,7 +184,7 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
* sudoers \- add support for the NOEXEC
tag in sudoers rules \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7983](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7983)\)\.
* terraform \- fix diff\_mode
in state absent
and when terraform resource\_changes
does not exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7963](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7963)\)\.
-
+
### Bugfixes
* cargo \- fix idempotency issues when using a custom installation path for packages \(using the \-\-path
parameter\)\. The initial installation runs fine\, but subsequent runs use the get\_installed\(\)
function which did not check the given installation location\, before running cargo install
\. This resulted in a false changed
state\. Also the removal of packeges using state\: absent
failed\, as the installation check did not use the given parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970)\)\.
@@ -153,7 +213,7 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
* lists\_symmetric\_difference \- Symmetric Difference of lists with a predictive order
* lists\_union \- Union of lists with a predictive order
-
+
### New Modules
* gitlab\_group\_access\_token \- Manages GitLab group access tokens
@@ -162,12 +222,12 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
## v8\.3\.0
-
+
### Release Summary
Regular bugfix and feature release\.
-
+
### Minor Changes
* consul\_auth\_method\, consul\_binding\_rule\, consul\_policy\, consul\_role\, consul\_session\, consul\_token \- added action group community\.general\.consul
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7897](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7897)\)\.
@@ -180,12 +240,12 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
* redfish\_info \- add command GetServiceIdentification
to get service identification \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7882](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7882)\)\.
* terraform \- add support for diff\_mode
for terraform resource\_changes \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7896](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7896)\)\.
-
+
### Deprecated Features
* consul\_acl \- the module has been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0\. consul\_token
and consul\_policy
can be used instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7901](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7901)\)\.
-
+
### Bugfixes
* homebrew \- detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from brew info
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864)\)\.
@@ -196,7 +256,7 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
* nmcli \- fix connection\.slave\-type
wired to bond
and not with parameter slave\_type
in case of connection type wifi
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389)\)\.
* proxmox \- fix updating a container config if the setting does not already exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872)\)\.
-
+
### New Modules
* consul\_acl\_bootstrap \- Bootstrap ACLs in Consul
@@ -209,12 +269,12 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
## v8\.2\.0
-
+
### Release Summary
Regular bugfix and feature release\.
-
+
### Minor Changes
* ipa\_dnsrecord \- adds ability to manage NS record types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7737](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7737)\)\.
@@ -230,7 +290,7 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
* ssh\_config \- new feature to set IdentitiesOnly
option to yes
or no
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7704](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7704)\)\.
* xcc\_redfish\_command \- added support for raw POSTs \(command\=PostResource
in category\=Raw
\) without a specific action info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7746](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7746)\)\.
-
+
### Bugfixes
* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- mappers
processing was not idempotent if the mappers configuration list had not been sorted by name \(in ascending order\)\. Fix resolves the issue by sorting mappers in the desired state using the same key which is used for obtaining existing state \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
@@ -258,7 +318,7 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
* github\_app\_access\_token \- Obtain short\-lived Github App Access tokens
-
+
### New Modules
* dnf\_config\_manager \- Enable or disable dnf repositories using config\-manager
@@ -270,12 +330,12 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
## v8\.1\.0
-
+
### Release Summary
Regular bugfix and feature release\.
-
+
### Minor Changes
* bitwarden lookup plugin \- when looking for items using an item ID\, the item is now accessed directly with bw get item
instead of searching through all items\. This doubles the lookup speed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7468](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7468)\)\.
@@ -312,7 +372,7 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
* redfish\_info \- adding the BootProgress
property when getting Systems
info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7626](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7626)\)\.
* ssh\_config \- adds controlmaster
\, controlpath
and controlpersist
parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7456](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7456)\)\.
-
+
### Bugfixes
* apt\-rpm \- the module did not upgrade packages if a newer version exists\. Now the package will be reinstalled if the candidate is newer than the installed version \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414)\)\.
@@ -343,7 +403,7 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
* fqdn\_valid \- Validates fully\-qualified domain names against RFC 1123
-
+
### New Modules
* git\_config\_info \- Read git configuration
@@ -353,12 +413,12 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
## v8\.0\.2
-
+
### Release Summary
Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 9\.0\.0rc1\.
-
+
### Bugfixes
* ocapi\_utils\, oci\_utils\, redfish\_utils module utils \- replace type\(\)
calls with isinstance\(\)
calls \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501)\)\.
@@ -367,12 +427,12 @@ Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 9\.0\.0rc1\.
## v8\.0\.1
-
+
### Release Summary
Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 9\.0\.0b1\.
-
+
### Bugfixes
* gitlab\_group\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in gitlab\_group\_members
module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
@@ -385,12 +445,12 @@ Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 9\.0\.0b1\.
## v8\.0\.0
-
+
### Release Summary
This is release 8\.0\.0 of community\.general
\, released on 2023\-11\-01\.
-
+
### Minor Changes
* The collection will start using semantic markup \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6539](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6539)\)\.
@@ -529,7 +589,7 @@ This is release 8\.0\.0 of community\.general
\, released on 2023\-1
* vardict module utils \- VarDict
will no longer accept variables named \_var
\, get\_meta
\, and as\_dict
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6647](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6647)\)\.
* version module util \- remove fallback for ansible\-core 2\.11\. All modules and plugins that do version collections no longer work with ansible\-core 2\.11 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7269](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7269)\)\.
-
+
### Deprecated Features
* CmdRunner module utils \- deprecate cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_default\_type\(\)
formatter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6601](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6601)\)\.
@@ -589,7 +649,7 @@ This is release 8\.0\.0 of community\.general
\, released on 2023\-1
* proxmox module utils \- removed unused imports \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6873](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/6873)\)\.
* xfconf \- the deprecated disable\_facts
option was removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7358](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7358)\)\.
-
+
### Bugfixes
* CmdRunner module utils \- does not attempt to resolve path if executable is a relative or absolute path \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7200](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7200)\)\.
@@ -684,7 +744,7 @@ This is release 8\.0\.0 of community\.general
\, released on 2023\-1
* bitwarden\_secrets\_manager \- Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden Secrets Manager
-
+
### New Modules
* consul\_policy \- Manipulate Consul policies
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index da10a021bf..5a5a0cb7c6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,60 @@ Community General Release Notes
This changelog describes changes after version 7.0.0.
+v8.6.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix and features release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- Use offset-aware ``datetime.datetime`` objects (with timezone UTC) instead of offset-naive UTC timestamps, which are deprecated in Python 3.12 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8222).
+- apt_rpm - add new states ``latest`` and ``present_not_latest``. The value ``latest`` is equivalent to the current behavior of ``present``, which will upgrade a package if a newer version exists. ``present_not_latest`` does what most users would expect ``present`` to do: it does not upgrade if the package is already installed. The current behavior of ``present`` will be deprecated in a later version, and eventually changed to that of ``present_not_latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8247).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - add support to filter by organization ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8188).
+- filesystem - add bcachefs support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8126).
+- ini_file - add an optional parameter ``section_has_values``. If the target ini file contains more than one ``section``, use ``section_has_values`` to specify which one should be updated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7505).
+- java_cert - add ``cert_content`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8153).
+- keycloak_client, keycloak_clientscope, keycloak_clienttemplate - added ``docker-v2`` protocol support, enhancing alignment with Keycloak's protocol options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8215, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8216).
+- nmcli - adds OpenvSwitch support with new ``type`` values ``ovs-port``, ``ovs-interface``, and ``ovs-bridge``, and new ``slave_type`` value ``ovs-port`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8154).
+- osx_defaults - add option ``check_types`` to enable changing the type of existing defaults on the fly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8173).
+- passwordstore lookup - add ``missing_subkey`` parameter defining the behavior of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8166).
+- portage - adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages to world file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6226, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8236).
+- redfish_command - add command ``ResetToDefaults`` to reset manager to default state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8163).
+- redfish_info - add boolean return value ``MultipartHttpPush`` to ``GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8194, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8195).
+- ssh_config - allow ``accept-new`` as valid value for ``strict_host_key_checking`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8257).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- hipchat callback plugin - the hipchat service has been discontinued and the self-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020. The callback plugin is therefore deprecated and will be removed from community.general 10.0.0 if nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8184, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8189).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- aix_filesystem - fix ``_validate_vg`` not passing VG name to ``lsvg_cmd`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8151).
+- apt_rpm - when checking whether packages were installed after running ``apt-get -y install ``, only the last package name was checked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8263).
+- bitwarden_secrets_manager lookup plugin - implements retry with exponential backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn's API rate limiting is encountered (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8230, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8238).
+- from_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to allow converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185).
+- gitlab_issue, gitlab_label, gitlab_milestone - avoid crash during version comparison when the python-gitlab Python module is not installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8158).
+- haproxy - fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8092).
+- inventory plugins - add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain ``{`` or ``}`` as unsafe, to work around a bug in AWX ((https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8212, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8225).
+- ipa - fix get version regex in IPA module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8175).
+- keycloak_client - add sorted ``defaultClientScopes`` and ``optionalClientScopes`` to normalizations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8223).
+- keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``enabledEventTypes`` and ``supportedLocales`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8224).
+- puppet - add option ``environment_lang`` to set the environment language encoding. Defaults to lang ``C``. It is recommended to set it to ``C.UTF-8`` or ``en_US.UTF-8`` depending on what is available on your system. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8000)
+- riak - support ``riak admin`` sub-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy ``riak-admin`` main command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8211).
+- to_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to allow converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185).
+- xml - make module work with lxml 5.1.1, which removed some internals that the module was relying on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8169).
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- keycloak_client_rolescope - Allows administration of Keycloak client roles scope to restrict the usage of certain roles to a other specific client applications.
+
v8.5.0
======
diff --git a/changelogs/changelog.yaml b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
index 411df6ed2a..b45d412768 100644
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -1320,3 +1320,115 @@ releases:
name: usb_facts
namespace: ''
release_date: '2024-03-25'
+ 8.6.0:
+ changes:
+ bugfixes:
+ - aix_filesystem - fix ``_validate_vg`` not passing VG name to ``lsvg_cmd``
+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8151).
+ - apt_rpm - when checking whether packages were installed after running ``apt-get
+ -y install ``, only the last package name was checked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8263).
+ - bitwarden_secrets_manager lookup plugin - implements retry with exponential
+ backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn's API rate limiting is encountered
+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8230, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8238).
+ - from_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to allow
+ converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183,
+ https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185).
+ - gitlab_issue, gitlab_label, gitlab_milestone - avoid crash during version
+ comparison when the python-gitlab Python module is not installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8158).
+ - haproxy - fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the
+ backend was unreachable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8092).
+ - inventory plugins - add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not
+ contain ``{`` or ``}`` as unsafe, to work around a bug in AWX ((https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8212,
+ https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8225).
+ - ipa - fix get version regex in IPA module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8175).
+ - keycloak_client - add sorted ``defaultClientScopes`` and ``optionalClientScopes``
+ to normalizations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8223).
+ - keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``enabledEventTypes`` and ``supportedLocales``
+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8224).
+ - puppet - add option ``environment_lang`` to set the environment language encoding.
+ Defaults to lang ``C``. It is recommended to set it to ``C.UTF-8`` or ``en_US.UTF-8``
+ depending on what is available on your system. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8000)
+ - riak - support ``riak admin`` sub-command in newer Riak KV versions beside
+ the legacy ``riak-admin`` main command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8211).
+ - to_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to allow
+ converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183,
+ https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185).
+ - xml - make module work with lxml 5.1.1, which removed some internals that
+ the module was relying on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8169).
+ deprecated_features:
+ - hipchat callback plugin - the hipchat service has been discontinued and the
+ self-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020. The callback plugin is
+ therefore deprecated and will be removed from community.general 10.0.0 if
+ nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8184,
+ https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8189).
+ minor_changes:
+ - Use offset-aware ``datetime.datetime`` objects (with timezone UTC) instead
+ of offset-naive UTC timestamps, which are deprecated in Python 3.12 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8222).
+ - 'apt_rpm - add new states ``latest`` and ``present_not_latest``. The value
+ ``latest`` is equivalent to the current behavior of ``present``, which will
+ upgrade a package if a newer version exists. ``present_not_latest`` does what
+ most users would expect ``present`` to do: it does not upgrade if the package
+ is already installed. The current behavior of ``present`` will be deprecated
+ in a later version, and eventually changed to that of ``present_not_latest``
+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8247).'
+ - bitwarden lookup plugin - add support to filter by organization ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8188).
+ - filesystem - add bcachefs support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8126).
+ - ini_file - add an optional parameter ``section_has_values``. If the target
+ ini file contains more than one ``section``, use ``section_has_values`` to
+ specify which one should be updated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7505).
+ - java_cert - add ``cert_content`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8153).
+ - keycloak_client, keycloak_clientscope, keycloak_clienttemplate - added ``docker-v2``
+ protocol support, enhancing alignment with Keycloak's protocol options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8215,
+ https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8216).
+ - nmcli - adds OpenvSwitch support with new ``type`` values ``ovs-port``, ``ovs-interface``,
+ and ``ovs-bridge``, and new ``slave_type`` value ``ovs-port`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8154).
+ - osx_defaults - add option ``check_types`` to enable changing the type of existing
+ defaults on the fly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8173).
+ - passwordstore lookup - add ``missing_subkey`` parameter defining the behavior
+ of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8166).
+ - portage - adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages
+ to world file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6226,
+ https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8236).
+ - redfish_command - add command ``ResetToDefaults`` to reset manager to default
+ state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8163).
+ - redfish_info - add boolean return value ``MultipartHttpPush`` to ``GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities``
+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8194, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8195).
+ - ssh_config - allow ``accept-new`` as valid value for ``strict_host_key_checking``
+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8257).
+ release_summary: Regular bugfix and features release.
+ fragments:
+ - 7505-ini_file-section_has.yml
+ - 8.6.0.yml
+ - 8100-haproxy-drain-fails-on-down-backend.yml
+ - 8126-filesystem-bcachefs-support.yaml
+ - 8151-fix-lsvg_cmd-failed.yml
+ - 8153-java_cert-add-cert_content-arg.yml
+ - 8154-add-ovs-commands-to-nmcli-module.yml
+ - 8158-gitlab-version-check.yml
+ - 8163-redfish-implementing-reset-to-defaults.yml
+ - 8166-password-store-lookup-missing-subkey.yml
+ - 8169-lxml.yml
+ - 8173-osx_defaults-check_type.yml
+ - 8175-get_ipa_version_regex.yml
+ - 8183-from_ini_to_ini.yml
+ - 8188-bitwarden-add-organization_id.yml
+ - 8194-redfish-add-multipart-to-capabilities.yml
+ - 8211-riak-admin-sub-command-support.yml
+ - 8215-add-docker-v2-protocol.yml
+ - 8222-datetime.yml
+ - 8223-keycloak_client-additional-normalizations.yaml
+ - 8224-keycloak_realm-add-normalizations.yaml
+ - 8225-unsafe.yml
+ - 8236-portage-select-feature.yml
+ - 8238-bitwarden-secrets-manager-rate-limit-retry-with-backoff.yml
+ - 8247-apt_rpm-latest.yml
+ - 8257-ssh-config-hostkey-support-accept-new.yaml
+ - 8263-apt_rpm-install-check.yml
+ - hipchat.yml
+ - puppet_lang_force.yml
+ modules:
+ - description: Allows administration of Keycloak client roles scope to restrict
+ the usage of certain roles to a other specific client applications.
+ name: keycloak_client_rolescope
+ namespace: ''
+ release_date: '2024-04-22'
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7505-ini_file-section_has.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7505-ini_file-section_has.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0424764fd0..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7505-ini_file-section_has.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - "ini_file - add an optional parameter ``section_has_values``. If the
- target ini file contains more than one ``section``, use ``section_has_values``
- to specify which one should be updated
- (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7505)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8.6.0.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8.6.0.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d053a55cf..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8.6.0.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: Regular bugfix and features release.
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8100-haproxy-drain-fails-on-down-backend.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8100-haproxy-drain-fails-on-down-backend.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 58f1478914..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8100-haproxy-drain-fails-on-down-backend.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - "haproxy - fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8092)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8126-filesystem-bcachefs-support.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8126-filesystem-bcachefs-support.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 32ff5c64da..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8126-filesystem-bcachefs-support.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - filesystem - add bcachefs support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8126).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8151-fix-lsvg_cmd-failed.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8151-fix-lsvg_cmd-failed.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0eeee752df..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8151-fix-lsvg_cmd-failed.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - aix_filesystem - fix ``_validate_vg`` not passing VG name to ``lsvg_cmd`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8151).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8153-java_cert-add-cert_content-arg.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8153-java_cert-add-cert_content-arg.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 40ae1f84a4..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8153-java_cert-add-cert_content-arg.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - java_cert - add ``cert_content`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8153).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8154-add-ovs-commands-to-nmcli-module.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8154-add-ovs-commands-to-nmcli-module.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d1fb344ba5..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8154-add-ovs-commands-to-nmcli-module.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - nmcli - adds OpenvSwitch support with new ``type`` values ``ovs-port``, ``ovs-interface``, and ``ovs-bridge``, and new ``slave_type`` value ``ovs-port`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8154).
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8158-gitlab-version-check.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8158-gitlab-version-check.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 046bca938f..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8158-gitlab-version-check.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - "gitlab_issue, gitlab_label, gitlab_milestone - avoid crash during version comparison when the python-gitlab Python module is not installed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8158)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8163-redfish-implementing-reset-to-defaults.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8163-redfish-implementing-reset-to-defaults.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 212ecc9fd8..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8163-redfish-implementing-reset-to-defaults.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - redfish_command - add command ``ResetToDefaults`` to reset manager to default state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8163).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8166-password-store-lookup-missing-subkey.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8166-password-store-lookup-missing-subkey.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index da5be9c9e0..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8166-password-store-lookup-missing-subkey.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - passwordstore lookup - add ``missing_subkey`` parameter defining the behavior of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8166).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8169-lxml.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8169-lxml.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index e2c1b8b952..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8169-lxml.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - "xml - make module work with lxml 5.1.1, which removed some internals that the module was relying on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8169)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8173-osx_defaults-check_type.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8173-osx_defaults-check_type.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index a35f609bf3..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8173-osx_defaults-check_type.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - osx_defaults - add option ``check_types`` to enable changing the type of existing defaults on the fly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8173).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8175-get_ipa_version_regex.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8175-get_ipa_version_regex.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index e2a51d1b91..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8175-get_ipa_version_regex.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - ipa - fix get version regex in IPA module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8175).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8183-from_ini_to_ini.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8183-from_ini_to_ini.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ff455f6ee..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8183-from_ini_to_ini.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - "to_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to allow converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185)."
- - "from_ini filter plugin - disabling interpolation of ``ConfigParser`` to allow converting values with a ``%`` sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8183, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8185)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8188-bitwarden-add-organization_id.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8188-bitwarden-add-organization_id.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c57ba3a479..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8188-bitwarden-add-organization_id.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- bitwarden lookup plugin - add support to filter by organization ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8188).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8194-redfish-add-multipart-to-capabilities.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8194-redfish-add-multipart-to-capabilities.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b96d98a7f..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8194-redfish-add-multipart-to-capabilities.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - redfish_info - add boolean return value ``MultipartHttpPush`` to ``GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8194, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8195).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8211-riak-admin-sub-command-support.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8211-riak-admin-sub-command-support.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index dc6eb00e45..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8211-riak-admin-sub-command-support.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - "riak - support ``riak admin`` sub-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy ``riak-admin`` main command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8211)."
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8215-add-docker-v2-protocol.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8215-add-docker-v2-protocol.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a9cc60556..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8215-add-docker-v2-protocol.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - keycloak_client, keycloak_clientscope, keycloak_clienttemplate - added ``docker-v2`` protocol support, enhancing alignment with Keycloak's protocol options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8215, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8216).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8222-datetime.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8222-datetime.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 00bf862186..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8222-datetime.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - "Use offset-aware ``datetime.datetime`` objects (with timezone UTC) instead of offset-naive UTC timestamps,
- which are deprecated in Python 3.12 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8222)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8223-keycloak_client-additional-normalizations.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8223-keycloak_client-additional-normalizations.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 47f7e6bd7b..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8223-keycloak_client-additional-normalizations.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - keycloak_client - add sorted ``defaultClientScopes`` and ``optionalClientScopes`` to normalizations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8223).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8224-keycloak_realm-add-normalizations.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8224-keycloak_realm-add-normalizations.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0574141f61..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8224-keycloak_realm-add-normalizations.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``enabledEventTypes`` and ``supportedLocales`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8224).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8225-unsafe.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8225-unsafe.yml
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index 496797ef74..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8225-unsafe.yml
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - "inventory plugins - add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain ``{`` or ``}`` as unsafe, to work around a bug in AWX ((https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8212, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8225)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8236-portage-select-feature.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8236-portage-select-feature.yml
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index 742d5cc966..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8236-portage-select-feature.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - portage - adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages to world file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6226, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8236).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8238-bitwarden-secrets-manager-rate-limit-retry-with-backoff.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8238-bitwarden-secrets-manager-rate-limit-retry-with-backoff.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b9d80a7cba..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8238-bitwarden-secrets-manager-rate-limit-retry-with-backoff.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - "bitwarden_secrets_manager lookup plugin - implements retry with exponential backoff to avoid lookup errors when Bitwardn's API rate limiting is encountered (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8230, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8238)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8247-apt_rpm-latest.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8247-apt_rpm-latest.yml
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index d62fb40340..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8247-apt_rpm-latest.yml
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@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - "apt_rpm - add new states ``latest`` and ``present_not_latest``. The value ``latest`` is equivalent to the current behavior of
- ``present``, which will upgrade a package if a newer version exists. ``present_not_latest`` does what most users would expect ``present``
- to do: it does not upgrade if the package is already installed. The current behavior of ``present`` will be deprecated in a later version,
- and eventually changed to that of ``present_not_latest``
- (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8247)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8257-ssh-config-hostkey-support-accept-new.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8257-ssh-config-hostkey-support-accept-new.yaml
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index ca1d61aefd..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8257-ssh-config-hostkey-support-accept-new.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - ssh_config - allow ``accept-new`` as valid value for ``strict_host_key_checking`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8257).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8263-apt_rpm-install-check.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8263-apt_rpm-install-check.yml
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index ae44616e79..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8263-apt_rpm-install-check.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - "apt_rpm - when checking whether packages were installed after running ``apt-get -y install ``, only the last package name was checked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8263)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/hipchat.yml b/changelogs/fragments/hipchat.yml
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index 0260c09c84..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/hipchat.yml
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
- - "hipchat callback plugin - the hipchat service has been discontinued and the self-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020.
- The callback plugin is therefore deprecated and will be removed from community.general 10.0.0 if nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it
- (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8184, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8189)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/puppet_lang_force.yml b/changelogs/fragments/puppet_lang_force.yml
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index b826c8dba4..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/puppet_lang_force.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
- - puppet - add option ``environment_lang`` to set the environment language encoding. Defaults to lang ``C``. It is recommended
- to set it to ``C.UTF-8`` or ``en_US.UTF-8`` depending on what is available on your system. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8000)