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-# Placeholder changelog
+# Community General Release Notes
 
-This file is a placeholder; a version-specific `CHANGELOG-vX.md` will be generated during releases from fragments
-under `changelogs/fragments`. On release branches once a release has been created, consult the branch's version-specific
-file for changes that have occurred in that branch.
+**Topics**
+
+- <a href="#v9-0-0">v9\.0\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#breaking-changes--porting-guide">Breaking Changes / Porting Guide</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features">Deprecated Features</a>
+    - <a href="#removed-features-previously-deprecated">Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)</a>
+    - <a href="#security-fixes">Security Fixes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#new-plugins">New Plugins</a>
+        - <a href="#become">Become</a>
+        - <a href="#callback">Callback</a>
+        - <a href="#connection">Connection</a>
+        - <a href="#filter">Filter</a>
+        - <a href="#lookup">Lookup</a>
+        - <a href="#test">Test</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules">New Modules</a>
+This changelog describes changes after version 8\.0\.0\.
+
+<a id="v9-0-0"></a>
+## v9\.0\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+This is release 9\.0\.0 of <code>community\.general</code>\, released on 2024\-05\-20\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
+* PythonRunner module utils \- specialisation of <code>CmdRunner</code> to execute Python scripts \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8289](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8289)\)\.
+* Use offset\-aware <code>datetime\.datetime</code> objects \(with timezone UTC\) instead of offset\-naive UTC timestamps\, which are deprecated in Python 3\.12 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8222](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8222)\)\.
+* aix\_lvol \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- add new states <code>latest</code> and <code>present\_not\_latest</code>\. The value <code>latest</code> is equivalent to the current behavior of <code>present</code>\, which will upgrade a package if a newer version exists\. <code>present\_not\_latest</code> does what most users would expect <code>present</code> to do\: it does not upgrade if the package is already installed\. The current behavior of <code>present</code> will be deprecated in a later version\, and eventually changed to that of <code>present\_not\_latest</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8247](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8247)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- add <code>bw\_session</code> option\, to pass session key instead of reading from env \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7994](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7994)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- add support to filter by organization ID \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8188](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8188)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- allows to fetch all records of a given collection ID\, by allowing to pass an empty value for <code>search\_value</code> when <code>collection\_id</code> is provided \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8013](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8013)\)\.
+* bitwarden lookup plugin \- when looking for items using an item ID\, the item is now accessed directly with <code>bw get item</code> instead of searching through all items\. This doubles the lookup speed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7468](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7468)\)\.
+* btrfs\_subvolume \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* cmd\_runner module\_utils \- add validation for minimum and maximum length in the value passed to <code>cmd\_runner\_fmt\.as\_list\(\)</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8288](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8288)\)\.
+* consul\_auth\_method\, consul\_binding\_rule\, consul\_policy\, consul\_role\, consul\_session\, consul\_token \- added action group <code>community\.general\.consul</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7897](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7897)\)\.
+* consul\_policy \- added support for diff and check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_policy\, consul\_role\, consul\_session \- removed dependency on <code>requests</code> and factored out common parts \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7826](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7826)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- <code>node\_identities</code> now expects a <code>node\_name</code> option to match the Consul API\, the old <code>name</code> is still supported as alias \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- <code>service\_identities</code> now expects a <code>service\_name</code> option to match the Consul API\, the old <code>name</code> is still supported as alias \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- added support for diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* consul\_role \- added support for templated policies \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7878)\)\.
+* elastic callback plugin \- close elastic client to not leak resources \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7517](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7517)\)\.
+* filesystem \- add bcachefs support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8126](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8126)\)\.
+* gandi\_livedns \- adds support for personal access tokens \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7639](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7639)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8337](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8337)\)\.
+* gconftool2 \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* git\_config \- allow multiple git configs for the same name with the new <code>add\_mode</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
+* git\_config \- the <code>after</code> and <code>before</code> fields in the <code>diff</code> of the return value can be a list instead of a string in case more configs with the same key are affected \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
+* git\_config \- when a value is unset\, all configs with the same key are unset \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7260)\)\.
+* gitlab modules \- add <code>ca\_path</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7472](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7472)\)\.
+* gitlab modules \- remove duplicate <code>gitlab</code> package check \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7486](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7486)\)\.
+* gitlab\_deploy\_key\, gitlab\_group\_members\, gitlab\_group\_variable\, gitlab\_hook\, gitlab\_instance\_variable\, gitlab\_project\_badge\, gitlab\_project\_variable\, gitlab\_user \- improve API pagination and compatibility with different versions of <code>python\-gitlab</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790)\)\.
+* gitlab\_hook \- adds <code>releases\_events</code> parameter for supporting Releases events triggers on GitLab hooks \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7956](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7956)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- add support for new runner creation workflow \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7199](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7199)\)\.
+* homebrew \- adds <code>force\_formula</code> parameter to disambiguate a formula from a cask of the same name \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8274](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8274)\)\.
+* homebrew\, homebrew\_cask \- refactor common argument validation logic into a dedicated <code>homebrew</code> module utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8323](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8323)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8324](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8324)\)\.
+* icinga2 inventory plugin \- add Jinja2 templating support to <code>url</code>\, <code>user</code>\, and <code>password</code> paramenters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7074](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7074)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7996](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7996)\)\.
+* icinga2 inventory plugin \- adds new parameter <code>group\_by\_hostgroups</code> 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 \- add an optional parameter <code>section\_has\_values</code>\. If the target ini file contains more than one <code>section</code>\, use <code>section\_has\_values</code> to specify which one should be updated \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7505](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7505)\)\.
+* ini\_file \- support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding brackets \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8075](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8075)\)\.
+* installp \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* ipa\_config \- adds <code>passkey</code> choice to <code>ipauserauthtype</code> parameter\'s choices \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7588](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7588)\)\.
+* ipa\_dnsrecord \- adds ability to manage NS record types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7737](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7737)\)\.
+* ipa\_pwpolicy \- refactor module and exchange a sequence <code>if</code> statements with a <code>for</code> loop \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723)\)\.
+* ipa\_pwpolicy \- update module to support <code>maxrepeat</code>\, <code>maxsequence</code>\, <code>dictcheck</code>\, <code>usercheck</code>\, <code>gracelimit</code> parameters in FreeIPA password policies \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7723)\)\.
+* ipa\_sudorule \- adds options to include denied commands or command groups \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7415](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7415)\)\.
+* ipa\_user \- adds <code>idp</code> and <code>passkey</code> choice to <code>ipauserauthtype</code> parameter\'s choices \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7589](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7589)\)\.
+* irc \- add <code>validate\_certs</code> option\, and rename <code>use\_ssl</code> to <code>use\_tls</code>\, while keeping <code>use\_ssl</code> as an alias\. The default value for <code>validate\_certs</code> is <code>false</code> for backwards compatibility\. We recommend to every user of this module to explicitly set <code>use\_tls\=true</code> and <em class="title-reference">validate\_certs\=true\`</em> whenever possible\, especially when communicating to IRC servers over the internet \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7550](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7550)\)\.
+* java\_cert \- add <code>cert\_content</code> argument \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8153](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8153)\)\.
+* java\_cert \- enable <code>owner</code>\, <code>group</code>\, <code>mode</code>\, and other generic file arguments \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8116)\)\.
+* kernel\_blacklist \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* keycloak module utils \- expose error message from Keycloak server for HTTP errors in some specific situations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7645](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7645)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client\, keycloak\_clientscope\, keycloak\_clienttemplate \- added <code>docker\-v2</code> protocol support\, enhancing alignment with Keycloak\'s protocol options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8215](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8215)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8216](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8216)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>config\.algorithm</code> option now supports 8 additional key algorithms \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>config\.certificate</code> option value is no longer defined with <code>no\_log\=True</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm\_key \- the <code>provider\_id</code> option now supports RSA encryption key usage \(value <code>rsa\-enc</code>\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7698)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- add option for <code>krbPrincipalAttribute</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7538](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7538)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- allow custom user storage providers to be set through <code>provider\_id</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7789](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7789)\)\.
+* ldap\_attrs \- module now supports diff mode\, showing which attributes are changed within an operation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8073](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8073)\)\.
+* lvg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* lvol \- change <code>pvs</code> argument type to list of strings \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7676](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7676)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7504](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7504)\)\.
+* lvol \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* lxd connection plugin \- tighten the detection logic for lxd <code>Instance not found</code> errors\, to avoid false detection on unrelated errors such as <code>/usr/bin/python3\: not found</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7521](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7521)\)\.
+* lxd\_container \- uses <code>/1\.0/instances</code> API endpoint\, if available\. Falls back to <code>/1\.0/containers</code> or <code>/1\.0/virtual\-machines</code>\. Fixes issue when using Incus or LXD 5\.19 due to migrating to <code>/1\.0/instances</code> endpoint \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7980](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7980)\)\.
+* macports \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* mail \- add <code>Message\-ID</code> header\; which is required by some mail servers \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7740](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7740)\)\.
+* mail module\, mail callback plugin \- allow to configure the domain name of the Message\-ID header with a new <code>message\_id\_domain</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7765](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7765)\)\.
+* mssql\_script \- adds transactional \(rollback/commit\) support via optional boolean param <code>transaction</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7976](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7976)\)\.
+* netcup\_dns \- adds support for record types <code>OPENPGPKEY</code>\, <code>SMIMEA</code>\, and <code>SSHFP</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7489](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7489)\)\.
+* nmcli \- add support for new connection type <code>loopback</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6572](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6572)\)\.
+* nmcli \- adds OpenvSwitch support with new <code>type</code> values <code>ovs\-port</code>\, <code>ovs\-interface</code>\, and <code>ovs\-bridge</code>\, and new <code>slave\_type</code> value <code>ovs\-port</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8154](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8154)\)\.
+* nmcli \- allow for <code>infiniband</code> slaves of <code>bond</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7569](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7569)\)\.
+* nmcli \- allow for the setting of <code>MTU</code> for <code>infiniband</code> and <code>bond</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7499](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7499)\)\.
+* nmcli \- allow setting <code>MTU</code> for <code>bond\-slave</code> interface types \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8118](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8118)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect\_host and connect\_token parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116)\)\.
+* onepassword\_raw lookup plugin \- support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect\_host and connect\_token parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7116)\)
+* opentelemetry \- add support for HTTP trace\_exporter and configures the behavior via <code>OTEL\_EXPORTER\_OTLP\_TRACES\_PROTOCOL</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8321](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8321)\)\.
+* opentelemetry \- add support for exporting spans in a file via <code>ANSIBLE\_OPENTELEMETRY\_STORE\_SPANS\_IN\_FILE</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7888)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8363](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8363)\)\.
+* opkg \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* osx\_defaults \- add option <code>check\_types</code> to enable changing the type of existing defaults on the fly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8173](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8173)\)\.
+* parted \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* passwordstore \- adds <code>timestamp</code> and <code>preserve</code> parameters to modify the stored password format \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7426](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7426)\)\.
+* passwordstore lookup \- add <code>missing\_subkey</code> parameter defining the behavior of the lookup when a passwordstore subkey is missing \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8166](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8166)\)\.
+* pipx \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* pkg5 \- add support for non\-silent execution \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8379](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8379)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8382](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8382)\)\.
+* pkgin \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* portage \- adds the possibility to explicitely tell portage to write packages to world file \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6226)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8236](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8236)\)\.
+* portinstall \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* proxmox \- adds <code>startup</code> parameters to configure startup order\, startup delay and shutdown delay \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8038](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8038)\)\.
+* proxmox \- adds <code>template</code> value to the <code>state</code> parameter\, allowing conversion of container to a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143)\)\.
+* proxmox \- adds <code>update</code> parameter\, allowing update of an already existing containers configuration \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7540](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7540)\)\.
+* proxmox inventory plugin \- adds an option to exclude nodes from the dynamic inventory generation\. The new setting is optional\, not using this option will behave as usual \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6714](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/6714)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7461](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7461)\)\.
+* proxmox\* modules \- there is now a <code>community\.general\.proxmox</code> module defaults group that can be used to set default options for all Proxmox modules \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8334](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8334)\)\.
+* proxmox\_disk \- add ability to manipulate CD\-ROM drive \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7495](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7495)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- add parameter <code>update\_unsafe</code> to avoid limitations when updating dangerous values \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7843](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7843)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- adds <code>template</code> value to the <code>state</code> parameter\, allowing conversion of a VM to a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7143)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- adds\`\`usb\`\` parameter for setting USB devices on proxmox KVM VMs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8199](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8199)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- support the <code>hookscript</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7600](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7600)\)\.
+* proxmox\_ostype \- it is now possible to specify the <code>ostype</code> when creating an LXC container \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7462](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7462)\)\.
+* proxmox\_vm\_info \- add ability to retrieve configuration info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7485](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7485)\)\.
+* puppet \- new feature to set <code>\-\-waitforlock</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8282](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8282)\)\.
+* redfish\_command \- add command <code>ResetToDefaults</code> 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\_config \- add command <code>SetServiceIdentification</code> to set service identification \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7916](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7916)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add boolean return value <code>MultipartHttpPush</code> to <code>GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8194](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8194)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8195](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8195)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- add command <code>GetServiceIdentification</code> to get service identification \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7882](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7882)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- adding the <code>BootProgress</code> property when getting <code>Systems</code> info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7626](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7626)\)\.
+* revbitspss lookup plugin \- removed a redundant unicode prefix\. The prefix was not necessary for Python 3 and has been cleaned up to streamline the code \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8087](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8087)\)\.
+* rundeck module utils \- allow to pass <code>Content\-Type</code> to API requests \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7684](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7684)\)\.
+* slackpkg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- adds <code>controlmaster</code>\, <code>controlpath</code> and <code>controlpersist</code> parameters \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7456](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7456)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- allow <code>accept\-new</code> as valid value for <code>strict\_host\_key\_checking</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8257](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8257)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- new feature to set <code>AddKeysToAgent</code> option to <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7703](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7703)\)\.
+* ssh\_config \- new feature to set <code>IdentitiesOnly</code> option to <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7704](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7704)\)\.
+* sudoers \- add support for the <code>NOEXEC</code> tag in sudoers rules \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7983](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7983)\)\.
+* svr4pkg \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* swdepot \- refactor module to pass list of arguments to <code>module\.run\_command\(\)</code> instead of relying on interpretation by a shell \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8264)\)\.
+* terraform \- add support for <code>diff\_mode</code> for terraform resource\_changes \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7896](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7896)\)\.
+* terraform \- fix <code>diff\_mode</code> in state <code>absent</code> and when terraform <code>resource\_changes</code> does not exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7963](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7963)\)\.
+* xcc\_redfish\_command \- added support for raw POSTs \(<code>command\=PostResource</code> in <code>category\=Raw</code>\) without a specific action info \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7746](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7746)\)\.
+* xfconf \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* xfconf\_info \- use <code>ModuleHelper</code> with <code>VarDict</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+
+<a id="breaking-changes--porting-guide"></a>
+### Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+
+* cpanm \- the default of the <code>mode</code> option changed from <code>compatibility</code> to <code>new</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- the module now requires Django \>\= 4\.1 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- the module will now fail if <code>virtualenv</code> is specified but no virtual environment exists at that location \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* redfish\_command\, redfish\_config\, redfish\_info \- change the default for <code>timeout</code> from 10 to 60 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+
+<a id="deprecated-features"></a>
+### Deprecated Features
+
+* MH DependencyCtxMgr module\_utils \- deprecate <code>module\_utils\.mh\.mixin\.deps\.DependencyCtxMgr</code> in favour of <code>module\_utils\.deps</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.AnsibleModule</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.DependencyCtxMgr</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.StateMixin</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarDict\,</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarMeta</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate <code>plugins\.module\_utils\.module\_helper\.VarsMixin</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8280)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper module\_utils \- deprecate use of <code>VarsMixin</code> in favor of using the <code>VardDict</code> module\_utils \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* ModuleHelper vars module\_utils \- bump deprecation of <code>VarMeta</code>\, <code>VarDict</code> and <code>VarsMixin</code> to version 11\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8226)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- the behavior of <code>state\=present</code> and <code>state\=installed</code> is deprecated and will change in community\.general 11\.0\.0\. Right now the module will upgrade a package to the latest version if one of these two states is used\. You should explicitly use <code>state\=latest</code> if you want this behavior\, and switch to <code>state\=present\_not\_latest</code> if you do not want to upgrade the package if it is already installed\. In community\.general 11\.0\.0 the behavior of <code>state\=present</code> and <code>state\=installed</code> will change to that of <code>state\=present\_not\_latest</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8217)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8285](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8285)\)\.
+* consul\_acl \- the module has been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0\. <code>consul\_token</code> and <code>consul\_policy</code> can be used instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7901](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7901)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- the <code>ack\_venv\_creation\_deprecation</code> option has no more effect and will be removed from community\.general 11\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* gitlab modules \- the basic auth method on GitLab API have been deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 10\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8383](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8383)\)\.
+* 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 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8184](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8184)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8189](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8189)\)\.
+* irc \- the defaults <code>false</code> for <code>use\_tls</code> and <code>validate\_certs</code> have been deprecated and will change to <code>true</code> in community\.general 10\.0\.0 to improve security\. You can already improve security now by explicitly setting them to <code>true</code>\. Specifying values now disables the deprecation warning \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7578](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7578)\)\.
+
+<a id="removed-features-previously-deprecated"></a>
+### Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)
+
+* The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed\. These internal redirects were extra\-long FQCNs like <code>community\.general\.packaging\.os\.apt\_rpm</code> that redirect to the short FQCN <code>community\.general\.apt\_rpm</code>\. They were originally needed to implement flatmapping\; as various tooling started to recommend users to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection and redirects were added for users who already followed these incorrect recommendations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7835](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7835)\)\.
+* ansible\_galaxy\_install \- the <code>ack\_ansible29</code> and <code>ack\_min\_ansiblecore211</code> options have been removed\. They no longer had any effect \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* cloudflare\_dns \- remove support for SPF records\. These are no longer supported by CloudFlare \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7782](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7782)\)\.
+* django\_manage \- support for the <code>command</code> values <code>cleanup</code>\, <code>syncdb</code>\, and <code>validate</code> were removed\. Use <code>clearsessions</code>\, <code>migrate</code>\, and <code>check</code> instead\, respectively \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* flowdock \- this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* mh\.mixins\.deps module utils \- the <code>DependencyMixin</code> has been removed\. Use the <code>deps</code> module utils instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* proxmox \- the <code>proxmox\_default\_behavior</code> option has been removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* rax\* modules\, rax module utils\, rax docs fragment \- the Rackspace modules relied on the deprecated package <code>pyrax</code> and were thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* redhat module utils \- the classes <code>Rhsm</code>\, <code>RhsmPool</code>\, and <code>RhsmPools</code> have been removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- the alias <code>autosubscribe</code> of the <code>auto\_attach</code> option was removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* stackdriver \- this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+* webfaction\_\* modules \- these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and were thus removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8198)\)\.
+
+<a id="security-fixes"></a>
+### 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 \([https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/](https\://www\.die\-welt\.net/2024/03/remote\-code\-execution\-in\-ansible\-dynamic\-inventory\-plugins/)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8098)\)\.
+* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- the client secret was not correctly sanitized by the module\. The return values <code>proposed</code>\, <code>existing</code>\, and <code>end\_state</code>\, as well as the diff\, did contain the client secret unmasked \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8355](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8355)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* aix\_filesystem \- fix <code>\_validate\_vg</code> not passing VG name to <code>lsvg\_cmd</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8151)\)\.
+* aix\_filesystem \- fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8052)\)\.
+* 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 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7414)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- when checking whether packages were installed after running <code>apt\-get \-y install \<packages\></code>\, 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 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8230)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8238)\)\.
+* cargo \- fix idempotency issues when using a custom installation path for packages \(using the <code>\-\-path</code> parameter\)\. The initial installation runs fine\, but subsequent runs use the <code>get\_installed\(\)</code> function which did not check the given installation location\, before running <code>cargo install</code>\. This resulted in a false <code>changed</code> state\. Also the removal of packeges using <code>state\: absent</code> failed\, as the installation check did not use the given parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7970)\)\.
+* cloudflare\_dns \- fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7652)\)\.
+* consul\_token \- fix token creation without <code>accessor\_id</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8091](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8091)\)\.
+* from\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of <code>ConfigParser</code> to allow converting values with a <code>\%</code> 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\_group\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_group\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_issue \- fix behavior to search GitLab issue\, using <code>search</code> keyword instead of <code>title</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7846](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7846)\)\.
+* gitlab\_issue\, gitlab\_label\, gitlab\_milestone \- avoid crash during version comparison when the python\-gitlab Python module is not installed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8158)\)\.
+* gitlab\_project\_members \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_project\_members</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_protected\_branches \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_protected\_branches</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* gitlab\_runner \- fix pagination when checking for existing runners \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7790)\)\.
+* gitlab\_user \- fix gitlab constants call in <code>gitlab\_user</code> module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7467)\)\.
+* haproxy \- fix an issue where HAProxy could get stuck in DRAIN mode when the backend was unreachable \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8092)\)\.
+* homebrew \- detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from <code>brew info</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/864)\)\.
+* homebrew \- error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse empty JSON\. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error message to users \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8047)\)\.
+* incus connection plugin \- treats <code>inventory\_hostname</code> as a variable instead of a literal in remote connections \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7874](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7874)\)\.
+* interface\_files \- also consider <code>address\_family</code> when changing <code>option\=method</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7610)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7612)\)\.
+* inventory plugins \- add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain <code>\{</code> or <code>\}</code> 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 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8175)\)\.
+* ipa\_hbacrule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
+* ipa\_otptoken \- the module expect <code>ipatokendisabled</code> as string but the <code>ipatokendisabled</code> value is returned as a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7795)\)\.
+* ipa\_sudorule \- the module uses a string for <code>ipaenabledflag</code> for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7880)\)\.
+* iptables\_state \- fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables dumps \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8029)\)\.
+* irc \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
+* keycloak\_\* \- fix Keycloak API client to quote <code>/</code> properly \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7641)\)\.
+* keycloak\_authz\_permission \- resource payload variable for scope\-based permission was constructed as a string\, when it needs to be a list\, even for a single item \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7151)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- add sorted <code>defaultClientScopes</code> and <code>optionalClientScopes</code> to normalizations \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8223)\)\.
+* keycloak\_client \- fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when task is in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1226)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7881)\)\.
+* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- <code>mappers</code> 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 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
+* keycloak\_identity\_provider \- it was not possible to reconfigure \(add\, remove\) <code>mappers</code> once they were created initially\. Removal was ignored\, adding new ones resulted in dropping the pre\-existing unmodified mappers\. Fix resolves the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7418)\)\.
+* keycloak\_realm \- add normalizations for <code>enabledEventTypes</code> and <code>supportedLocales</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8224)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user \- when <code>force</code> is set\, but user does not exist\, do not try to delete it \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7696)\)\.
+* keycloak\_user\_federation \- fix diff of empty <code>krbPrincipalAttribute</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8320](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8320)\)\.
+* ldap \- previously the order number \(if present\) was expected to follow an equals sign in the DN\. This makes it so the order number string is identified correctly anywhere within the DN \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7646)\)\.
+* linode inventory plugin \- add descriptive error message for linode inventory plugin \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8133)\)\.
+* log\_entries callback plugin \- replace <code>ssl\.wrap\_socket</code> that was removed from Python 3\.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7542)\)\.
+* lvol \- test for output messages in both <code>stdout</code> and <code>stderr</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7601)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7182)\)\.
+* merge\_variables lookup plugin \- fixing cross host merge\: providing access to foreign hosts variables to the perspective of the host that is performing the merge \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8303](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8303)\)\.
+* modprobe \- listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError if <code>/etc/modprobe\.d</code> or <code>/etc/modules\-load\.d</code> did not exist\. Relevant functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid crashing the module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7717)\)\.
+* mssql\_script \- make the module work with Python 2 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7818)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7821)\)\.
+* nmcli \- fix <code>connection\.slave\-type</code> wired to <code>bond</code> and not with parameter <code>slave\_type</code> in case of connection type <code>wifi</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7389)\)\.
+* ocapi\_utils\, oci\_utils\, redfish\_utils module utils \- replace <code>type\(\)</code> calls with <code>isinstance\(\)</code> calls \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7501)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- failed for fields that were in sections and had uppercase letters in the label/ID\. Field lookups are now case insensitive in all cases \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7919)\)\.
+* onepassword lookup plugin \- field and section titles are now case insensitive when using op CLI version two or later\. This matches the behavior of version one \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7564)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback plugin \- close spans always \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8367](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8367)\)\.
+* opentelemetry callback plugin \- honour the <code>disable\_logs</code> option to avoid storing task results since they are not used regardless \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8373](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8373)\)\.
+* pacemaker\_cluster \- actually implement check mode\, which the module claims to support\. This means that until now the module also did changes in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8081)\)\.
+* pam\_limits \- when the file does not exist\, do not create it in check mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8050)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8057)\)\.
+* pipx module utils \- change the CLI argument formatter for the <code>pip\_args</code> parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7497)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7506)\)\.
+* pkgin \- pkgin \(pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS\) raises erratic exceptions and spurious <code>changed\=true</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7971)\)\.
+* proxmox \- fix updating a container config if the setting does not already exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7872)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- fixed status check getting from node\-specific API endpoint \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7817)\)\.
+* proxmox\_kvm \- running <code>state\=template</code> will first check whether VM is already a template \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7792](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7792)\)\.
+* proxmox\_pool\_member \- absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7464)\)\.
+* puppet \- add option <code>environment\_lang</code> to set the environment language encoding\. Defaults to lang <code>C</code>\. It is recommended to set it to <code>C\.UTF\-8</code> or <code>en\_US\.UTF\-8</code> depending on what is available on your system\. \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8000)\)
+* redfish\_command \- fix usage of message parsing in <code>SimpleUpdate</code> and <code>MultipartHTTPPushUpdate</code> commands to treat the lack of a <code>MessageId</code> as no message \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7465)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7471)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- allow for a GET operation invoked by <code>GetUpdateStatus</code> to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No Content \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8003)\)\.
+* redfish\_info \- correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve <code>Chassis</code> information \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7952)\)\.
+* redhat\_subscription \- use the D\-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7\.4 and
+  greater\; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
+  \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7622)\,
+  [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7624)\)\.
+* riak \- support <code>riak admin</code> sub\-command in newer Riak KV versions beside the legacy <code>riak\-admin</code> main command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8211)\)\.
+* statusio\_maintenance \- fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload\. Was raising \"Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request\" caused by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7754)\)\.
+* terraform \- fix multiline string handling in complex variables \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/7535)\)\.
+* to\_ini filter plugin \- disabling interpolation of <code>ConfigParser</code> to allow converting values with a <code>\%</code> 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 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/8169)\)\.
+
+<a id="new-plugins"></a>
+### New Plugins
+
+<a id="become"></a>
+#### Become
+
+* community\.general\.run0 \- Systemd\'s run0\.
+
+<a id="callback"></a>
+#### Callback
+
+* community\.general\.default\_without\_diff \- The default ansible callback without diff output\.
+* community\.general\.timestamp \- Adds simple timestamp for each header\.
+
+<a id="connection"></a>
+#### Connection
+
+* community\.general\.incus \- Run tasks in Incus instances via the Incus CLI\.
+
+<a id="filter"></a>
+#### Filter
+
+* community\.general\.from\_ini \- Converts INI text input into a dictionary\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_difference \- Difference of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_intersect \- Intersection of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_symmetric\_difference \- Symmetric Difference of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.lists\_union \- Union of lists with a predictive order\.
+* community\.general\.to\_ini \- Converts a dictionary to the INI file format\.
+
+<a id="lookup"></a>
+#### Lookup
+
+* community\.general\.github\_app\_access\_token \- Obtain short\-lived Github App Access tokens\.
+* community\.general\.onepassword\_doc \- Fetch documents stored in 1Password\.
+
+<a id="test"></a>
+#### Test
+
+* community\.general\.fqdn\_valid \- Validates fully\-qualified domain names against RFC 1123\.
+
+<a id="new-modules"></a>
+### New Modules
+
+* community\.general\.consul\_acl\_bootstrap \- Bootstrap ACLs in Consul\.
+* community\.general\.consul\_auth\_method \- Manipulate Consul auth methods\.
+* community\.general\.consul\_binding\_rule \- Manipulate Consul binding rules\.
+* community\.general\.consul\_token \- Manipulate Consul tokens\.
+* community\.general\.django\_command \- Run Django admin commands\.
+* community\.general\.dnf\_config\_manager \- Enable or disable dnf repositories using config\-manager\.
+* community\.general\.git\_config\_info \- Read git configuration\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_group\_access\_token \- Manages GitLab group access tokens\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_issue \- Create\, update\, or delete GitLab issues\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_label \- Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Labels belonging to project or group\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_milestone \- Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Milestones belonging to project or group\.
+* community\.general\.gitlab\_project\_access\_token \- Manages GitLab project access tokens\.
+* community\.general\.keycloak\_client\_rolescope \- Allows administration of Keycloak client roles scope to restrict the usage of certain roles to a other specific client applications\.
+* community\.general\.keycloak\_component\_info \- Retrive component info in Keycloak\.
+* community\.general\.keycloak\_realm\_rolemapping \- Allows administration of Keycloak realm role mappings into groups with the Keycloak API\.
+* community\.general\.nomad\_token \- Manage Nomad ACL tokens\.
+* community\.general\.proxmox\_node\_info \- Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE nodes\.
+* community\.general\.proxmox\_storage\_contents\_info \- List content from a Proxmox VE storage\.
+* community\.general\.usb\_facts \- Allows listing information about USB devices\.
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 119e04e170..a0ae7eafdd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,323 @@
-Placeholder changelog
-=====================
+===============================
+Community General Release Notes
+===============================
 
-This file is a placeholder; a version-specific ``CHANGELOG-vX.rst`` will be generated during releases from fragments
-under ``changelogs/fragments``. On release branches once a release has been created, consult the branch's version-specific
-file for changes that have occurred in that branch.
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+This changelog describes changes after version 8.0.0.
+
+v9.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This is release 9.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2024-05-20.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- PythonRunner module utils - specialisation of ``CmdRunner`` to execute Python scripts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8289).
+- 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).
+- aix_lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- 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).
+- apt_rpm - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- 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).
+- bitwarden lookup plugin - add support to filter by organization ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8188).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- btrfs_subvolume - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- cmd_runner module_utils - add validation for minimum and maximum length in the value passed to ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_list()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8288).
+- 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).
+- consul_policy - added support for diff and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_policy, consul_role, consul_session - removed dependency on ``requests`` and factored out common parts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7826, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - ``node_identities`` now expects a ``node_name`` option to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - ``service_identities`` now expects a ``service_name`` option to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - added support for diff mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- consul_role - added support for templated policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+- elastic callback plugin - close elastic client to not leak resources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7517).
+- filesystem - add bcachefs support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8126).
+- gandi_livedns - adds support for personal access tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7639, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8337).
+- gconftool2 - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- git_config - allow multiple git configs for the same name with the new ``add_mode`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+- git_config - the ``after`` and ``before`` fields in the ``diff`` of the return value can be a list instead of a string in case more configs with the same key are affected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+- git_config - when a value is unset, all configs with the same key are unset (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+- gitlab modules - add ``ca_path`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7472).
+- gitlab modules - remove duplicate ``gitlab`` package check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7486).
+- gitlab_deploy_key, gitlab_group_members, gitlab_group_variable, gitlab_hook, gitlab_instance_variable, gitlab_project_badge, gitlab_project_variable, gitlab_user - improve API pagination and compatibility with different versions of ``python-gitlab`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
+- gitlab_hook - adds ``releases_events`` parameter for supporting Releases events triggers on GitLab hooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7956).
+- gitlab_runner - add support for new runner creation workflow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7199).
+- homebrew - adds ``force_formula`` parameter to disambiguate a formula from a cask of the same name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8274).
+- homebrew, homebrew_cask - refactor common argument validation logic into a dedicated ``homebrew`` module utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8323, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8324).
+- icinga2 inventory plugin - add Jinja2 templating support to ``url``, ``user``, and ``password`` paramenters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7074, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7996).
+- 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).
+- 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).
+- ini_file - support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding brackets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8075).
+- installp - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- ipa_config - adds ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7588).
+- ipa_dnsrecord - adds ability to manage NS record types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7737).
+- ipa_pwpolicy - refactor module and exchange a sequence ``if`` statements with a ``for`` loop (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
+- ipa_pwpolicy - update module to support ``maxrepeat``, ``maxsequence``, ``dictcheck``, ``usercheck``, ``gracelimit`` parameters in FreeIPA password policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
+- ipa_sudorule - adds options to include denied commands or command groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7415).
+- ipa_user - adds ``idp`` and ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7589).
+- irc - add ``validate_certs`` option, and rename ``use_ssl`` to ``use_tls``, while keeping ``use_ssl`` as an alias. The default value for ``validate_certs`` is ``false`` for backwards compatibility. We recommend to every user of this module to explicitly set ``use_tls=true`` and `validate_certs=true`` whenever possible, especially when communicating to IRC servers over the internet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7550).
+- java_cert - add ``cert_content`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8153).
+- java_cert - enable ``owner``, ``group``, ``mode``, and other generic file arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8116).
+- kernel_blacklist - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- keycloak module utils - expose error message from Keycloak server for HTTP errors in some specific situations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7645).
+- 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).
+- keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.algorithm`` option now supports 8 additional key algorithms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+- keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.certificate`` option value is no longer defined with ``no_log=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+- keycloak_realm_key - the ``provider_id`` option now supports RSA encryption key usage (value ``rsa-enc``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+- keycloak_user_federation - add option for ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7538).
+- keycloak_user_federation - allow custom user storage providers to be set through ``provider_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7789).
+- ldap_attrs - module now supports diff mode, showing which attributes are changed within an operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8073).
+- lvg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- lvol - change ``pvs`` argument type to list of strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7676, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7504).
+- lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- lxd connection plugin - tighten the detection logic for lxd ``Instance not found`` errors, to avoid false detection on unrelated errors such as ``/usr/bin/python3: not found`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7521).
+- lxd_container - uses ``/1.0/instances`` API endpoint, if available. Falls back to ``/1.0/containers`` or ``/1.0/virtual-machines``. Fixes issue when using Incus or LXD 5.19 due to migrating to ``/1.0/instances`` endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7980).
+- macports - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- mail - add ``Message-ID`` header; which is required by some mail servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7740).
+- mail module, mail callback plugin - allow to configure the domain name of the Message-ID header with a new ``message_id_domain`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7765).
+- mssql_script - adds transactional (rollback/commit) support via optional boolean param ``transaction`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7976).
+- netcup_dns - adds support for record types ``OPENPGPKEY``, ``SMIMEA``, and ``SSHFP`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7489).
+- nmcli - add support for new connection type ``loopback`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6572).
+- 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).
+- nmcli - allow for ``infiniband`` slaves of ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7569).
+- nmcli - allow for the setting of ``MTU`` for ``infiniband`` and ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7499).
+- nmcli - allow setting ``MTU`` for ``bond-slave`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8118).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116).
+- onepassword_raw lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116)
+- opentelemetry - add support for HTTP trace_exporter and configures the behavior via ``OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8321).
+- opentelemetry - add support for exporting spans in a file via ``ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_STORE_SPANS_IN_FILE`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8363).
+- opkg - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- 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).
+- parted - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- passwordstore - adds ``timestamp`` and ``preserve`` parameters to modify the stored password format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7426).
+- 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).
+- pipx - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- pkg5 - add support for non-silent execution (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8379, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8382).
+- pkgin - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- 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).
+- portinstall - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- proxmox - adds ``startup`` parameters to configure startup order, startup delay and shutdown delay (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8038).
+- proxmox - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion of container to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
+- proxmox - adds ``update`` parameter, allowing update of an already existing containers configuration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7540).
+- proxmox inventory plugin - adds an option to exclude nodes from the dynamic inventory generation. The new setting is optional, not using this option will behave as usual (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6714, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7461).
+- proxmox* modules - there is now a ``community.general.proxmox`` module defaults group that can be used to set default options for all Proxmox modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8334).
+- proxmox_disk - add ability to manipulate CD-ROM drive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7495).
+- proxmox_kvm - add parameter ``update_unsafe`` to avoid limitations when updating dangerous values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7843).
+- proxmox_kvm - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion of a VM to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
+- proxmox_kvm - adds``usb`` parameter for setting USB devices on proxmox KVM VMs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8199).
+- proxmox_kvm - support the ``hookscript`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7600).
+- proxmox_ostype - it is now possible to specify the ``ostype`` when creating an LXC container (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7462).
+- proxmox_vm_info - add ability to retrieve configuration info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7485).
+- puppet - new feature to set ``--waitforlock`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8282).
+- redfish_command - add command ``ResetToDefaults`` to reset manager to default state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8163).
+- redfish_config - add command ``SetServiceIdentification`` to set service identification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7916).
+- 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).
+- redfish_info - add command ``GetServiceIdentification`` to get service identification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7882).
+- redfish_info - adding the ``BootProgress`` property when getting ``Systems`` info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7626).
+- revbitspss lookup plugin - removed a redundant unicode prefix. The prefix was not necessary for Python 3 and has been cleaned up to streamline the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8087).
+- rundeck module utils - allow to pass ``Content-Type`` to API requests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7684).
+- slackpkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- ssh_config - adds ``controlmaster``, ``controlpath`` and ``controlpersist`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7456).
+- ssh_config - allow ``accept-new`` as valid value for ``strict_host_key_checking`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8257).
+- ssh_config - new feature to set ``AddKeysToAgent`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7703).
+- ssh_config - new feature to set ``IdentitiesOnly`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7704).
+- sudoers - add support for the ``NOEXEC`` tag in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7983).
+- svr4pkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- swdepot - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+- terraform - add support for ``diff_mode`` for terraform resource_changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7896).
+- terraform - fix ``diff_mode`` in state ``absent`` and when terraform ``resource_changes`` does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7963).
+- 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).
+- xfconf - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- xfconf_info - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+
+Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
+--------------------------------
+
+- cpanm - the default of the ``mode`` option changed from ``compatibility`` to ``new`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- django_manage - the module now requires Django >= 4.1 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- django_manage - the module will now fail if ``virtualenv`` is specified but no virtual environment exists at that location (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- redfish_command, redfish_config, redfish_info - change the default for ``timeout`` from 10 to 60 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+
+Deprecated Features
+-------------------
+
+- MH DependencyCtxMgr module_utils - deprecate ``module_utils.mh.mixin.deps.DependencyCtxMgr`` in favour of ``module_utils.deps`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.DependencyCtxMgr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.StateMixin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarDict,`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarMeta`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarsMixin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate use of ``VarsMixin`` in favor of using the ``VardDict`` module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- ModuleHelper vars module_utils - bump deprecation of ``VarMeta``, ``VarDict`` and ``VarsMixin`` to version 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+- apt_rpm - the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` is deprecated and will change in community.general 11.0.0. Right now the module will upgrade a package to the latest version if one of these two states is used. You should explicitly use ``state=latest`` if you want this behavior, and switch to ``state=present_not_latest`` if you do not want to upgrade the package if it is already installed. In community.general 11.0.0 the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` will change to that of ``state=present_not_latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8285).
+- 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).
+- django_manage - the ``ack_venv_creation_deprecation`` option has no more effect and will be removed from community.general 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- gitlab modules - the basic auth method on GitLab API have been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8383).
+- 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).
+- irc - the defaults ``false`` for ``use_tls`` and ``validate_certs`` have been deprecated and will change to ``true`` in community.general 10.0.0 to improve security. You can already improve security now by explicitly setting them to ``true``. Specifying values now disables the deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7578).
+
+Removed Features (previously deprecated)
+----------------------------------------
+
+- The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed. These internal redirects were extra-long FQCNs like ``community.general.packaging.os.apt_rpm`` that redirect to the short FQCN ``community.general.apt_rpm``. They were originally needed to implement flatmapping; as various tooling started to recommend users to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection and redirects were added for users who already followed these incorrect recommendations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7835).
+- ansible_galaxy_install - the ``ack_ansible29`` and ``ack_min_ansiblecore211`` options have been removed. They no longer had any effect (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- cloudflare_dns - remove support for SPF records. These are no longer supported by CloudFlare (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7782).
+- django_manage - support for the ``command`` values ``cleanup``, ``syncdb``, and ``validate`` were removed. Use ``clearsessions``, ``migrate``, and ``check`` instead, respectively (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- flowdock - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- mh.mixins.deps module utils - the ``DependencyMixin`` has been removed. Use the ``deps`` module utils instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- proxmox - the ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- rax* modules, rax module utils, rax docs fragment - the Rackspace modules relied on the deprecated package ``pyrax`` and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- redhat module utils - the classes ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools`` have been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- redhat_subscription - the alias ``autosubscribe`` of the ``auto_attach`` option was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- stackdriver - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+- webfaction_* modules - these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- cobbler, gitlab_runners, icinga2, linode, lxd, nmap, online, opennebula, proxmox, scaleway, stackpath_compute, virtualbox, and xen_orchestra inventory plugin - make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible (https://www.die-welt.net/2024/03/remote-code-execution-in-ansible-dynamic-inventory-plugins/, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8098).
+- keycloak_identity_provider - the client secret was not correctly sanitized by the module. The return values ``proposed``, ``existing``, and ``end_state``, as well as the diff, did contain the client secret unmasked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8355).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- aix_filesystem - fix ``_validate_vg`` not passing VG name to ``lsvg_cmd`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8151).
+- aix_filesystem - fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8052).
+- 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).
+- apt_rpm - when checking whether packages were installed after running ``apt-get -y install <packages>``, 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).
+- 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).
+- cloudflare_dns - fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7652).
+- consul_token - fix token creation without ``accessor_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8091).
+- 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_group_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_group_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_issue - fix behavior to search GitLab issue, using ``search`` keyword instead of ``title`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7846).
+- 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).
+- gitlab_project_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_project_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_protected_branches - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_protected_branches`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- gitlab_runner - fix pagination when checking for existing runners (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
+- gitlab_user - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_user`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+- 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).
+- homebrew - detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from ``brew info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/864).
+- homebrew - error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse empty JSON. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error message to users (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8047).
+- incus connection plugin - treats ``inventory_hostname`` as a variable instead of a literal in remote connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7874).
+- interface_files - also consider ``address_family`` when changing ``option=method`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7610, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7612).
+- 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).
+- ipa_hbacrule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+- ipa_otptoken - the module expect ``ipatokendisabled`` as string but the ``ipatokendisabled`` value is returned as a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7795).
+- ipa_sudorule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+- iptables_state - fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables dumps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8029).
+- irc - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+- keycloak_* - fix Keycloak API client to quote ``/`` properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7641).
+- keycloak_authz_permission - resource payload variable for scope-based permission was constructed as a string, when it needs to be a list, even for a single item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7151).
+- keycloak_client - add sorted ``defaultClientScopes`` and ``optionalClientScopes`` to normalizations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8223).
+- keycloak_client - fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when task is in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1226, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7881).
+- 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).
+- keycloak_identity_provider - it was not possible to reconfigure (add, remove) ``mappers`` once they were created initially. Removal was ignored, adding new ones resulted in dropping the pre-existing unmodified mappers. Fix resolves the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7418).
+- keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``enabledEventTypes`` and ``supportedLocales`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8224).
+- keycloak_user - when ``force`` is set, but user does not exist, do not try to delete it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7696).
+- keycloak_user_federation - fix diff of empty ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8320).
+- ldap - previously the order number (if present) was expected to follow an equals sign in the DN. This makes it so the order number string is identified correctly anywhere within the DN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7646).
+- linode inventory plugin - add descriptive error message for linode inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8133).
+- log_entries callback plugin - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+- lvol - test for output messages in both ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7601, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7182).
+- merge_variables lookup plugin - fixing cross host merge: providing access to foreign hosts variables to the perspective of the host that is performing the merge (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8303).
+- modprobe - listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError if ``/etc/modprobe.d`` or ``/etc/modules-load.d`` did not exist. Relevant functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid crashing the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7717).
+- mssql_script - make the module work with Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7818, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7821).
+- 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).
+- ocapi_utils, oci_utils, redfish_utils module utils - replace ``type()`` calls with ``isinstance()`` calls (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7501).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - failed for fields that were in sections and had uppercase letters in the label/ID. Field lookups are now case insensitive in all cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7919).
+- onepassword lookup plugin - field and section titles are now case insensitive when using op CLI version two or later. This matches the behavior of version one (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7564).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - close spans always (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8367).
+- opentelemetry callback plugin - honour the ``disable_logs`` option to avoid storing task results since they are not used regardless (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8373).
+- pacemaker_cluster - actually implement check mode, which the module claims to support. This means that until now the module also did changes in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8081).
+- pam_limits - when the file does not exist, do not create it in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8050, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8057).
+- pipx module utils - change the CLI argument formatter for the ``pip_args`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7497, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7506).
+- pkgin - pkgin (pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS) raises erratic exceptions and spurious ``changed=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7971).
+- proxmox - fix updating a container config if the setting does not already exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7872).
+- proxmox_kvm - fixed status check getting from node-specific API endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7817).
+- proxmox_kvm - running ``state=template`` will first check whether VM is already a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7792).
+- proxmox_pool_member - absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7464).
+- 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)
+- redfish_command - fix usage of message parsing in ``SimpleUpdate`` and ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` commands to treat the lack of a ``MessageId`` as no message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7465, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7471).
+- redfish_info - allow for a GET operation invoked by ``GetUpdateStatus`` to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No Content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8003).
+- redfish_info - correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve ``Chassis`` information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7952).
+- redhat_subscription - use the D-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7.4 and
+  greater; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7622,
+  https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7624).
+- 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).
+- statusio_maintenance - fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload. Was raising "Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request" caused by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7754).
+- terraform - fix multiline string handling in complex variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7535).
+- 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 Plugins
+-----------
+
+Become
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.run0 - Systemd's run0.
+
+Callback
+~~~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.default_without_diff - The default ansible callback without diff output.
+- community.general.timestamp - Adds simple timestamp for each header.
+
+Connection
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.incus - Run tasks in Incus instances via the Incus CLI.
+
+Filter
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.from_ini - Converts INI text input into a dictionary.
+- community.general.lists_difference - Difference of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.lists_intersect - Intersection of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.lists_symmetric_difference - Symmetric Difference of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.lists_union - Union of lists with a predictive order.
+- community.general.to_ini - Converts a dictionary to the INI file format.
+
+Lookup
+~~~~~~
+
+- community.general.github_app_access_token - Obtain short-lived Github App Access tokens.
+- community.general.onepassword_doc - Fetch documents stored in 1Password.
+
+Test
+~~~~
+
+- community.general.fqdn_valid - Validates fully-qualified domain names against RFC 1123.
+
+New Modules
+-----------
+
+- community.general.consul_acl_bootstrap - Bootstrap ACLs in Consul.
+- community.general.consul_auth_method - Manipulate Consul auth methods.
+- community.general.consul_binding_rule - Manipulate Consul binding rules.
+- community.general.consul_token - Manipulate Consul tokens.
+- community.general.django_command - Run Django admin commands.
+- community.general.dnf_config_manager - Enable or disable dnf repositories using config-manager.
+- community.general.git_config_info - Read git configuration.
+- community.general.gitlab_group_access_token - Manages GitLab group access tokens.
+- community.general.gitlab_issue - Create, update, or delete GitLab issues.
+- community.general.gitlab_label - Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Labels belonging to project or group.
+- community.general.gitlab_milestone - Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Milestones belonging to project or group.
+- community.general.gitlab_project_access_token - Manages GitLab project access tokens.
+- community.general.keycloak_client_rolescope - Allows administration of Keycloak client roles scope to restrict the usage of certain roles to a other specific client applications.
+- community.general.keycloak_component_info - Retrive component info in Keycloak.
+- community.general.keycloak_realm_rolemapping - Allows administration of Keycloak realm role mappings into groups with the Keycloak API.
+- community.general.nomad_token - Manage Nomad ACL tokens.
+- community.general.proxmox_node_info - Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE nodes.
+- community.general.proxmox_storage_contents_info - List content from a Proxmox VE storage.
+- community.general.usb_facts - Allows listing information about USB devices.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b5a6fcfa24..fb95bf0c7a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 # Community General Collection
 
-[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=main)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
+[![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_apis/build/status/CI?branchName=stable-9)](https://dev.azure.com/ansible/community.general/_build?definitionId=31)
 [![EOL CI](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/workflows/EOL%20CI/badge.svg?event=push)](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/actions)
 [![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://codecov.io/gh/ansible-collections/community.general)
 [![REUSE status](https://api.reuse.software/badge/github.com/ansible-collections/community.general)](https://api.reuse.software/info/github.com/ansible-collections/community.general)
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ See the [Releasing guidelines](https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/ma
 
 ## Release notes
 
-See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md).
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/CHANGELOG.md).
 
 ## Roadmap
 
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ See [this issue](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues
 
 This collection is primarily licensed and distributed as a whole under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
 
-See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/COPYING) for the full text.
+See [LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/COPYING) for the full text.
 
-Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).
+Parts of the collection are licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt), the [MIT license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/LICENSES/MIT.txt), and the [PSF 2.0 license](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/stable-9/LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt).
 
 All files have a machine readable `SDPX-License-Identifier:` comment denoting its respective license(s) or an equivalent entry in an accompanying `.license` file. Only changelog fragments (which will not be part of a release) are covered by a blanket statement in `.reuse/dep5`. This conforms to the [REUSE specification](https://reuse.software/spec/).
diff --git a/changelogs/changelog.yaml b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
index 02bd8e7803..f74ad5504c 100644
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -1,2 +1,757 @@
 ancestor: 8.0.0
-releases: {}
+releases:
+  9.0.0:
+    changes:
+      breaking_changes:
+      - cpanm - the default of the ``mode`` option changed from ``compatibility``
+        to ``new`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - django_manage - the module now requires Django >= 4.1 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - django_manage - the module will now fail if ``virtualenv`` is specified but
+        no virtual environment exists at that location (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - redfish_command, redfish_config, redfish_info - change the default for ``timeout``
+        from 10 to 60 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      bugfixes:
+      - aix_filesystem - fix ``_validate_vg`` not passing VG name to ``lsvg_cmd``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8151).
+      - aix_filesystem - fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option
+        order (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8052).
+      - 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).
+      - apt_rpm - when checking whether packages were installed after running ``apt-get
+        -y install <packages>``, 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).
+      - '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).'
+      - cloudflare_dns - fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7652).
+      - consul_token - fix token creation without ``accessor_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8091).
+      - 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_group_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_group_members``
+        module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+      - gitlab_issue - fix behavior to search GitLab issue, using ``search`` keyword
+        instead of ``title`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7846).
+      - 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).
+      - gitlab_project_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_project_members``
+        module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+      - gitlab_protected_branches - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_protected_branches``
+        module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+      - gitlab_runner - fix pagination when checking for existing runners (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
+      - gitlab_user - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_user`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).
+      - 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).
+      - homebrew - detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from
+        ``brew info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/864).
+      - homebrew - error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse
+        empty JSON. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error
+        message to users (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8047).
+      - incus connection plugin - treats ``inventory_hostname`` as a variable instead
+        of a literal in remote connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7874).
+      - interface_files - also consider ``address_family`` when changing ``option=method``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7610, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7612).
+      - 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).
+      - ipa_hbacrule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA
+        versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+      - ipa_otptoken - the module expect ``ipatokendisabled`` as string but the ``ipatokendisabled``
+        value is returned as a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7795).
+      - ipa_sudorule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA
+        versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
+      - iptables_state - fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables
+        dumps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8029).
+      - irc - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with code
+        for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+      - keycloak_* - fix Keycloak API client to quote ``/`` properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7641).
+      - keycloak_authz_permission - resource payload variable for scope-based permission
+        was constructed as a string, when it needs to be a list, even for a single
+        item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7151).
+      - keycloak_client - add sorted ``defaultClientScopes`` and ``optionalClientScopes``
+        to normalizations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8223).
+      - keycloak_client - fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when
+        task is in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1226,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7881).
+      - 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).
+      - keycloak_identity_provider - it was not possible to reconfigure (add, remove)
+        ``mappers`` once they were created initially. Removal was ignored, adding
+        new ones resulted in dropping the pre-existing unmodified mappers. Fix resolves
+        the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7418).
+      - keycloak_realm - add normalizations for ``enabledEventTypes`` and ``supportedLocales``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8224).
+      - keycloak_user - when ``force`` is set, but user does not exist, do not try
+        to delete it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7696).
+      - keycloak_user_federation - fix diff of empty ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8320).
+      - ldap - previously the order number (if present) was expected to follow an
+        equals sign in the DN. This makes it so the order number string is identified
+        correctly anywhere within the DN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7646).
+      - linode inventory plugin - add descriptive error message for linode inventory
+        plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8133).
+      - log_entries callback plugin - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed
+        from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542).
+      - lvol - test for output messages in both ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7601,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7182).
+      - 'merge_variables lookup plugin - fixing cross host merge: providing access
+        to foreign hosts variables to the perspective of the host that is performing
+        the merge (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8303).'
+      - modprobe - listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError
+        if ``/etc/modprobe.d`` or ``/etc/modules-load.d`` did not exist. Relevant
+        functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid
+        crashing the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7717).
+      - mssql_script - make the module work with Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7818,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7821).
+      - 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).
+      - ocapi_utils, oci_utils, redfish_utils module utils - replace ``type()`` calls
+        with ``isinstance()`` calls (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7501).
+      - onepassword lookup plugin - failed for fields that were in sections and had
+        uppercase letters in the label/ID. Field lookups are now case insensitive
+        in all cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7919).
+      - onepassword lookup plugin - field and section titles are now case insensitive
+        when using op CLI version two or later. This matches the behavior of version
+        one (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7564).
+      - opentelemetry callback plugin - close spans always (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8367).
+      - opentelemetry callback plugin - honour the ``disable_logs`` option to avoid
+        storing task results since they are not used regardless (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8373).
+      - pacemaker_cluster - actually implement check mode, which the module claims
+        to support. This means that until now the module also did changes in check
+        mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8081).
+      - pam_limits - when the file does not exist, do not create it in check mode
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8050, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8057).
+      - pipx module utils - change the CLI argument formatter for the ``pip_args``
+        parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7497,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7506).
+      - pkgin - pkgin (pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS) raises erratic exceptions
+        and spurious ``changed=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7971).
+      - proxmox - fix updating a container config if the setting does not already
+        exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7872).
+      - proxmox_kvm - fixed status check getting from node-specific API endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7817).
+      - proxmox_kvm - running ``state=template`` will first check whether VM is already
+        a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7792).
+      - proxmox_pool_member - absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the
+        pools (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7464).
+      - 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)
+      - redfish_command - fix usage of message parsing in ``SimpleUpdate`` and ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate``
+        commands to treat the lack of a ``MessageId`` as no message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7465,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7471).
+      - redfish_info - allow for a GET operation invoked by ``GetUpdateStatus`` to
+        allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No
+        Content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8003).
+      - redfish_info - correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve ``Chassis``
+        information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7952).
+      - 'redhat_subscription - use the D-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7.4 and
+
+        greater; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
+
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7622,
+
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7624).
+
+        '
+      - 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).
+      - statusio_maintenance - fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload.
+        Was raising "Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request" caused
+        by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7754).
+      - terraform - fix multiline string handling in complex variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7535).
+      - 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:
+      - MH DependencyCtxMgr module_utils - deprecate ``module_utils.mh.mixin.deps.DependencyCtxMgr``
+        in favour of ``module_utils.deps`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+      - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.AnsibleModule``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+      - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.DependencyCtxMgr``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+      - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.StateMixin``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+      - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarDict,``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+      - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarMeta``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+      - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarsMixin``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
+      - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate use of ``VarsMixin`` in favor of using
+        the ``VardDict`` module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+      - ModuleHelper vars module_utils - bump deprecation of ``VarMeta``, ``VarDict``
+        and ``VarsMixin`` to version 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+      - apt_rpm - the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` is deprecated
+        and will change in community.general 11.0.0. Right now the module will upgrade
+        a package to the latest version if one of these two states is used. You should
+        explicitly use ``state=latest`` if you want this behavior, and switch to ``state=present_not_latest``
+        if you do not want to upgrade the package if it is already installed. In community.general
+        11.0.0 the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` will change
+        to that of ``state=present_not_latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8285).
+      - 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).
+      - django_manage - the ``ack_venv_creation_deprecation`` option has no more effect
+        and will be removed from community.general 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - gitlab modules - the basic auth method on GitLab API have been deprecated
+        and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8383).
+      - 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).
+      - irc - the defaults ``false`` for ``use_tls`` and ``validate_certs`` have been
+        deprecated and will change to ``true`` in community.general 10.0.0 to improve
+        security. You can already improve security now by explicitly setting them
+        to ``true``. Specifying values now disables the deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7578).
+      minor_changes:
+      - PythonRunner module utils - specialisation of ``CmdRunner`` to execute Python
+        scripts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8289).
+      - 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).
+      - aix_lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - '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).'
+      - apt_rpm - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - 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).
+      - bitwarden lookup plugin - add support to filter by organization ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8188).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - btrfs_subvolume - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - cmd_runner module_utils - add validation for minimum and maximum length in
+        the value passed to ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_list()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8288).
+      - 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).
+      - consul_policy - added support for diff and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+      - consul_policy, consul_role, consul_session - removed dependency on ``requests``
+        and factored out common parts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7826,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+      - consul_role - ``node_identities`` now expects a ``node_name`` option to match
+        the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+      - consul_role - ``service_identities`` now expects a ``service_name`` option
+        to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+      - consul_role - added support for diff mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+      - consul_role - added support for templated policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
+      - elastic callback plugin - close elastic client to not leak resources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7517).
+      - filesystem - add bcachefs support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8126).
+      - gandi_livedns - adds support for personal access tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7639,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8337).
+      - gconftool2 - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+      - git_config - allow multiple git configs for the same name with the new ``add_mode``
+        option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+      - git_config - the ``after`` and ``before`` fields in the ``diff`` of the return
+        value can be a list instead of a string in case more configs with the same
+        key are affected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+      - git_config - when a value is unset, all configs with the same key are unset
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260).
+      - gitlab modules - add ``ca_path`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7472).
+      - gitlab modules - remove duplicate ``gitlab`` package check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7486).
+      - gitlab_deploy_key, gitlab_group_members, gitlab_group_variable, gitlab_hook,
+        gitlab_instance_variable, gitlab_project_badge, gitlab_project_variable, gitlab_user
+        - improve API pagination and compatibility with different versions of ``python-gitlab``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
+      - gitlab_hook - adds ``releases_events`` parameter for supporting Releases events
+        triggers on GitLab hooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7956).
+      - gitlab_runner - add support for new runner creation workflow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7199).
+      - homebrew - adds ``force_formula`` parameter to disambiguate a formula from
+        a cask of the same name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8274).
+      - homebrew, homebrew_cask - refactor common argument validation logic into a
+        dedicated ``homebrew`` module utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8323,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8324).
+      - icinga2 inventory plugin - add Jinja2 templating support to ``url``, ``user``,
+        and ``password`` paramenters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7074,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7996).
+      - 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).
+      - 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).
+      - ini_file - support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding
+        brackets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8075).
+      - installp - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - ipa_config - adds ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7588).
+      - ipa_dnsrecord - adds ability to manage NS record types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7737).
+      - ipa_pwpolicy - refactor module and exchange a sequence ``if`` statements with
+        a ``for`` loop (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
+      - ipa_pwpolicy - update module to support ``maxrepeat``, ``maxsequence``, ``dictcheck``,
+        ``usercheck``, ``gracelimit`` parameters in FreeIPA password policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
+      - ipa_sudorule - adds options to include denied commands or command groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7415).
+      - ipa_user - adds ``idp`` and ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's
+        choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7589).
+      - irc - add ``validate_certs`` option, and rename ``use_ssl`` to ``use_tls``,
+        while keeping ``use_ssl`` as an alias. The default value for ``validate_certs``
+        is ``false`` for backwards compatibility. We recommend to every user of this
+        module to explicitly set ``use_tls=true`` and `validate_certs=true`` whenever
+        possible, especially when communicating to IRC servers over the internet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7550).
+      - java_cert - add ``cert_content`` argument (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8153).
+      - java_cert - enable ``owner``, ``group``, ``mode``, and other generic file
+        arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8116).
+      - kernel_blacklist - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+      - keycloak module utils - expose error message from Keycloak server for HTTP
+        errors in some specific situations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7645).
+      - 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).
+      - keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.algorithm`` option now supports 8 additional
+        key algorithms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+      - keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.certificate`` option value is no longer
+        defined with ``no_log=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+      - keycloak_realm_key - the ``provider_id`` option now supports RSA encryption
+        key usage (value ``rsa-enc``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
+      - keycloak_user_federation - add option for ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7538).
+      - keycloak_user_federation - allow custom user storage providers to be set through
+        ``provider_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7789).
+      - ldap_attrs - module now supports diff mode, showing which attributes are changed
+        within an operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8073).
+      - lvg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - lvol - change ``pvs`` argument type to list of strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7676,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7504).
+      - lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - 'lxd connection plugin - tighten the detection logic for lxd ``Instance not
+        found`` errors, to avoid false detection on unrelated errors such as ``/usr/bin/python3:
+        not found`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7521).'
+      - lxd_container - uses ``/1.0/instances`` API endpoint, if available. Falls
+        back to ``/1.0/containers`` or ``/1.0/virtual-machines``. Fixes issue when
+        using Incus or LXD 5.19 due to migrating to ``/1.0/instances`` endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7980).
+      - macports - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - mail - add ``Message-ID`` header; which is required by some mail servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7740).
+      - mail module, mail callback plugin - allow to configure the domain name of
+        the Message-ID header with a new ``message_id_domain`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7765).
+      - mssql_script - adds transactional (rollback/commit) support via optional boolean
+        param ``transaction`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7976).
+      - netcup_dns - adds support for record types ``OPENPGPKEY``, ``SMIMEA``, and
+        ``SSHFP`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7489).
+      - nmcli - add support for new connection type ``loopback`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6572).
+      - 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).
+      - nmcli - allow for ``infiniband`` slaves of ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7569).
+      - nmcli - allow for the setting of ``MTU`` for ``infiniband`` and ``bond`` interface
+        types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7499).
+      - nmcli - allow setting ``MTU`` for ``bond-slave`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8118).
+      - onepassword lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client
+        by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116).
+      - onepassword_raw lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client
+        by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116)
+      - opentelemetry - add support for HTTP trace_exporter and configures the behavior
+        via ``OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8321).
+      - opentelemetry - add support for exporting spans in a file via ``ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_STORE_SPANS_IN_FILE``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8363).
+      - opkg - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+      - 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).
+      - parted - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - passwordstore - adds ``timestamp`` and ``preserve`` parameters to modify the
+        stored password format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7426).
+      - 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).
+      - pipx - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+      - pkg5 - add support for non-silent execution (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8379,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8382).
+      - pkgin - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - 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).
+      - portinstall - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - proxmox - adds ``startup`` parameters to configure startup order, startup
+        delay and shutdown delay (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8038).
+      - proxmox - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion
+        of container to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
+      - proxmox - adds ``update`` parameter, allowing update of an already existing
+        containers configuration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7540).
+      - proxmox inventory plugin - adds an option to exclude nodes from the dynamic
+        inventory generation. The new setting is optional, not using this option will
+        behave as usual (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6714,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7461).
+      - proxmox* modules - there is now a ``community.general.proxmox`` module defaults
+        group that can be used to set default options for all Proxmox modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8334).
+      - proxmox_disk - add ability to manipulate CD-ROM drive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7495).
+      - proxmox_kvm - add parameter ``update_unsafe`` to avoid limitations when updating
+        dangerous values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7843).
+      - proxmox_kvm - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing
+        conversion of a VM to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
+      - proxmox_kvm - adds``usb`` parameter for setting USB devices on proxmox KVM
+        VMs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8199).
+      - proxmox_kvm - support the ``hookscript`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7600).
+      - proxmox_ostype - it is now possible to specify the ``ostype`` when creating
+        an LXC container (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7462).
+      - proxmox_vm_info - add ability to retrieve configuration info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7485).
+      - puppet - new feature to set ``--waitforlock`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8282).
+      - redfish_command - add command ``ResetToDefaults`` to reset manager to default
+        state (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8163).
+      - redfish_config - add command ``SetServiceIdentification`` to set service identification
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7916).
+      - 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).
+      - redfish_info - add command ``GetServiceIdentification`` to get service identification
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7882).
+      - redfish_info - adding the ``BootProgress`` property when getting ``Systems``
+        info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7626).
+      - revbitspss lookup plugin - removed a redundant unicode prefix. The prefix
+        was not necessary for Python 3 and has been cleaned up to streamline the code
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8087).
+      - rundeck module utils - allow to pass ``Content-Type`` to API requests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7684).
+      - slackpkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - ssh_config - adds ``controlmaster``, ``controlpath`` and ``controlpersist``
+        parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7456).
+      - ssh_config - allow ``accept-new`` as valid value for ``strict_host_key_checking``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8257).
+      - ssh_config - new feature to set ``AddKeysToAgent`` option to ``yes`` or ``no``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7703).
+      - ssh_config - new feature to set ``IdentitiesOnly`` option to ``yes`` or ``no``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7704).
+      - sudoers - add support for the ``NOEXEC`` tag in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7983).
+      - svr4pkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - swdepot - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()``
+        instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264).
+      - terraform - add support for ``diff_mode`` for terraform resource_changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7896).
+      - terraform - fix ``diff_mode`` in state ``absent`` and when terraform ``resource_changes``
+        does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7963).
+      - 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).
+      - xfconf - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+      - xfconf_info - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
+      release_summary: This is release 9.0.0 of ``community.general``, released on 2024-05-20.
+      removed_features:
+      - The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed. These
+        internal redirects were extra-long FQCNs like ``community.general.packaging.os.apt_rpm``
+        that redirect to the short FQCN ``community.general.apt_rpm``. They were originally
+        needed to implement flatmapping; as various tooling started to recommend users
+        to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection and redirects
+        were added for users who already followed these incorrect recommendations
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7835).
+      - ansible_galaxy_install - the ``ack_ansible29`` and ``ack_min_ansiblecore211``
+        options have been removed. They no longer had any effect (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - cloudflare_dns - remove support for SPF records. These are no longer supported
+        by CloudFlare (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7782).
+      - django_manage - support for the ``command`` values ``cleanup``, ``syncdb``,
+        and ``validate`` were removed. Use ``clearsessions``, ``migrate``, and ``check``
+        instead, respectively (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - flowdock - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and
+        was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - mh.mixins.deps module utils - the ``DependencyMixin`` has been removed. Use
+        the ``deps`` module utils instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - proxmox - the ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - rax* modules, rax module utils, rax docs fragment - the Rackspace modules
+        relied on the deprecated package ``pyrax`` and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - redhat module utils - the classes ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools``
+        have been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - redhat_subscription - the alias ``autosubscribe`` of the ``auto_attach`` option
+        was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - stackdriver - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and
+        was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      - webfaction_* modules - these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist
+        anymore and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
+      security_fixes:
+      - cobbler, gitlab_runners, icinga2, linode, lxd, nmap, online, opennebula, proxmox,
+        scaleway, stackpath_compute, virtualbox, and xen_orchestra inventory plugin
+        - make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe,
+        so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates
+        is not possible (https://www.die-welt.net/2024/03/remote-code-execution-in-ansible-dynamic-inventory-plugins/,
+        https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8098).
+      - keycloak_identity_provider - the client secret was not correctly sanitized
+        by the module. The return values ``proposed``, ``existing``, and ``end_state``,
+        as well as the diff, did contain the client secret unmasked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8355).
+    fragments:
+    - 000-redhat_subscription-dbus-on-7.4-plus.yaml
+    - 5588-support-1password-connect.yml
+    - 6572-nmcli-add-support-loopback-type.yml
+    - 7143-proxmox-template.yml
+    - 7151-fix-keycloak_authz_permission-incorrect-resource-payload.yml
+    - 7199-gitlab-runner-new-creation-workflow.yml
+    - 7242-multi-values-for-same-name-in-git-config.yml
+    - 7389-nmcli-issue-with-creating-a-wifi-bridge-slave.yml
+    - 7418-kc_identity_provider-mapper-reconfiguration-fixes.yml
+    - 7426-add-timestamp-and-preserve-options-for-passwordstore.yaml
+    - 7456-add-ssh-control-master.yml
+    - 7461-proxmox-inventory-add-exclude-nodes.yaml
+    - 7462-Add-ostype-parameter-in-LXC-container-clone-of-ProxmoxVE.yaml
+    - 7464-fix-vm-removal-in-proxmox_pool_member.yml
+    - 7465-redfish-firmware-update-message-id-hardening.yml
+    - 7467-fix-gitlab-constants-calls.yml
+    - 7472-gitlab-add-ca-path-option.yml
+    - 7485-proxmox_vm_info-config.yml
+    - 7486-gitlab-refactor-package-check.yml
+    - 7489-netcup-dns-record-types.yml
+    - 7495-proxmox_disk-manipulate-cdrom.yml
+    - 7499-allow-mtu-setting-on-bond-and-infiniband-interfaces.yml
+    - 7501-type.yml
+    - 7505-ini_file-section_has.yml
+    - 7506-pipx-pipargs.yml
+    - 7517-elastic-close-client.yaml
+    - 7535-terraform-fix-multiline-string-handling-in-complex-variables.yml
+    - 7538-add-krbprincipalattribute-option.yml
+    - 7540-proxmox-update-config.yml
+    - 7542-irc-logentries-ssl.yml
+    - 7550-irc-use_tls-validate_certs.yml
+    - 7564-onepassword-lookup-case-insensitive.yaml
+    - 7569-infiniband-slave-support.yml
+    - 7577-fix-apt_rpm-module.yml
+    - 7578-irc-tls.yml
+    - 7588-ipa-config-new-choice-passkey-to-ipauserauthtype.yml
+    - 7589-ipa-config-new-choices-idp-and-passkey-to-ipauserauthtype.yml
+    - 7600-proxmox_kvm-hookscript.yml
+    - 7601-lvol-fix.yml
+    - 7612-interface_file-method.yml
+    - 7626-redfish-info-add-boot-progress-property.yml
+    - 7641-fix-keycloak-api-client-to-quote-properly.yml
+    - 7645-Keycloak-print-error-msg-from-server.yml
+    - 7646-fix-order-number-detection-in-dn.yml
+    - 7653-fix-cloudflare-lookup.yml
+    - 7676-lvol-pvs-as-list.yml
+    - 7683-added-contenttype-parameter.yml
+    - 7696-avoid-attempt-to-delete-non-existing-user.yml
+    - 7698-improvements-to-keycloak_realm_key.yml
+    - 7703-ssh_config_add_keys_to_agent_option.yml
+    - 7704-ssh_config_identities_only_option.yml
+    - 7717-prevent-modprobe-error.yml
+    - 7723-ipa-pwpolicy-update-pwpolicy-module.yml
+    - 7737-add-ipa-dnsrecord-ns-type.yml
+    - 7740-add-message-id-header-to-mail-module.yml
+    - 7746-raw_post-without-actions.yml
+    - 7754-fixed-payload-format.yml
+    - 7765-mail-message-id.yml
+    - 7782-cloudflare_dns-spf.yml
+    - 7789-keycloak-user-federation-custom-provider-type.yml
+    - 7790-gitlab-runner-api-pagination.yml
+    - 7791-proxmox_kvm-state-template-will-check-status-first.yaml
+    - 7797-ipa-fix-otp-idempotency.yml
+    - 7821-mssql_script-py2.yml
+    - 7826-consul-modules-refactoring.yaml
+    - 7843-proxmox_kvm-update_unsafe.yml
+    - 7847-gitlab-issue-title.yml
+    - 7870-homebrew-cask-installed-detection.yml
+    - 7872-proxmox_fix-update-if-setting-doesnt-exist.yaml
+    - 7874-incus_connection_treats_inventory_hostname_as_literal_in_remotes.yml
+    - 7880-ipa-fix-sudo-and-hbcalrule-idempotence.yml
+    - 7881-fix-keycloak-client-ckeckmode.yml
+    - 7882-add-redfish-get-service-identification.yml
+    - 7896-add-terraform-diff-mode.yml
+    - 7897-consul-action-group.yaml
+    - 7901-consul-acl-deprecation.yaml
+    - 7916-add-redfish-set-service-identification.yml
+    - 7919-onepassword-fieldname-casing.yaml
+    - 7951-fix-redfish_info-exception.yml
+    - 7953-proxmox_kvm-fix_status_check.yml
+    - 7956-adding-releases_events-option-to-gitlab_hook-module.yaml
+    - 7963-fix-terraform-diff-absent.yml
+    - 7970-fix-cargo-path-idempotency.yaml
+    - 7976-add-mssql_script-transactional-support.yml
+    - 7983-sudoers-add-support-noexec.yml
+    - 7994-bitwarden-session-arg.yaml
+    - 7996-add-templating-support-to-icinga2-inventory.yml
+    - 7998-icinga2-inventory-group_by_hostgroups-parameter.yml
+    - 8003-redfish-get-update-status-empty-response.yml
+    - 8013-bitwarden-full-collection-item-list.yaml
+    - 8029-iptables-state-restore-check-mode.yml
+    - 8038-proxmox-startup.yml
+    - 8048-fix-homebrew-module-error-reporting-on-become-true.yaml
+    - 8057-pam_limits-check-mode.yml
+    - 8073-ldap-attrs-diff.yml
+    - 8075-optional-space-around-section-names.yaml
+    - 8087-removed-redundant-unicode-prefixes.yml
+    - 8091-consul-token-fixes.yaml
+    - 8100-haproxy-drain-fails-on-down-backend.yml
+    - 8116-java_cert-enable-owner-group-mode-args.yml
+    - 8118-fix-bond-slave-honoring-mtu.yml
+    - 8126-filesystem-bcachefs-support.yaml
+    - 8133-add-error-message-for-linode-inventory-plugin.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
+    - 8199-added-usb-support-to-proxmox-module.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
+    - 8226-mh-vardict.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
+    - 8264-run_command.yml
+    - 8274-homebrew-force-formula.yml
+    - 8280-mh-deprecations.yml
+    - 8281-puppet-waitforlock.yaml
+    - 8285-apt_rpm-state-deprecate.yml
+    - 8288-cmdrunner-fmt-list-len-limits.yml
+    - 8289-python-runner.yml
+    - 8290-gandi-livedns-personal-access-token.yml
+    - 8303-fix-rendering-foreign-variables.yaml
+    - 8320-keycloak_user_federation-fix-diff-krbPrincipalAttribute.yaml
+    - 8321-fix-opentelemetry-callback.yml
+    - 8323-refactor-homebrew-logic-module-utils.yml
+    - 8334-proxmox-action-group.yml
+    - 8355-keycloak-idp-sanitize.yaml
+    - 8363-opentelemetry-export-to-a-file.yml
+    - 8367-fix-close-span-if-no-logs.yaml
+    - 8373-honour-disable-logs.yaml
+    - 8379-verbose-mode-pkg5.yml
+    - 8383-deprecate-gitlab-basic-auth.yml
+    - 9.0.0.yml
+    - add-ipa-sudorule-deny-cmd.yml
+    - aix_filesystem-crfs-issue.yml
+    - bitwarden-lookup-performance.yaml
+    - hipchat.yml
+    - internal-redirects.yml
+    - inventory-rce.yml
+    - lxd-instance-not-found-avoid-false-positives.yml
+    - lxd-instances-api-endpoint-added.yml
+    - pacemaker-cluster.yml
+    - pkgin.yml
+    - puppet_lang_force.yml
+    - remove_deprecated.yml
+    modules:
+    - description: Bootstrap ACLs in Consul.
+      name: consul_acl_bootstrap
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Manipulate Consul auth methods.
+      name: consul_auth_method
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Manipulate Consul binding rules.
+      name: consul_binding_rule
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Manipulate Consul tokens.
+      name: consul_token
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Run Django admin commands.
+      name: django_command
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Enable or disable dnf repositories using config-manager.
+      name: dnf_config_manager
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Read git configuration.
+      name: git_config_info
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Manages GitLab group access tokens.
+      name: gitlab_group_access_token
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Create, update, or delete GitLab issues.
+      name: gitlab_issue
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Labels belonging to project or group.
+      name: gitlab_label
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Milestones belonging to project
+        or group.
+      name: gitlab_milestone
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Manages GitLab project access tokens.
+      name: gitlab_project_access_token
+      namespace: ''
+    - 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: ''
+    - description: Retrive component info in Keycloak.
+      name: keycloak_component_info
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Allows administration of Keycloak realm role mappings into groups
+        with the Keycloak API.
+      name: keycloak_realm_rolemapping
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Manage Nomad ACL tokens.
+      name: nomad_token
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE nodes.
+      name: proxmox_node_info
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: List content from a Proxmox VE storage.
+      name: proxmox_storage_contents_info
+      namespace: ''
+    - description: Allows listing information about USB devices.
+      name: usb_facts
+      namespace: ''
+    plugins:
+      become:
+      - description: Systemd's run0.
+        name: run0
+        namespace: null
+      callback:
+      - description: The default ansible callback without diff output.
+        name: default_without_diff
+        namespace: null
+      - description: Adds simple timestamp for each header.
+        name: timestamp
+        namespace: null
+      connection:
+      - description: Run tasks in Incus instances via the Incus CLI.
+        name: incus
+        namespace: null
+      filter:
+      - description: Converts INI text input into a dictionary.
+        name: from_ini
+        namespace: null
+      - description: Difference of lists with a predictive order.
+        name: lists_difference
+        namespace: null
+      - description: Intersection of lists with a predictive order.
+        name: lists_intersect
+        namespace: null
+      - description: Symmetric Difference of lists with a predictive order.
+        name: lists_symmetric_difference
+        namespace: null
+      - description: Union of lists with a predictive order.
+        name: lists_union
+        namespace: null
+      - description: Converts a dictionary to the INI file format.
+        name: to_ini
+        namespace: null
+      lookup:
+      - description: Obtain short-lived Github App Access tokens.
+        name: github_app_access_token
+        namespace: null
+      - description: Fetch documents stored in 1Password.
+        name: onepassword_doc
+        namespace: null
+      test:
+      - description: Validates fully-qualified domain names against RFC 1123.
+        name: fqdn_valid
+        namespace: null
+    release_date: '2024-05-20'
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/000-redhat_subscription-dbus-on-7.4-plus.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/000-redhat_subscription-dbus-on-7.4-plus.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 64390308d7..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/000-redhat_subscription-dbus-on-7.4-plus.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - |
-    redhat_subscription - use the D-Bus registration on RHEL 7 only on 7.4 and
-    greater; older versions of RHEL 7 do not have it
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7622,
-    https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7624).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/5588-support-1password-connect.yml b/changelogs/fragments/5588-support-1password-connect.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index bec2300d3f..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/5588-support-1password-connect.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - onepassword lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116).
-  - onepassword_raw lookup plugin - support 1Password Connect with the opv2 client by setting the connect_host and connect_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7116)
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/6572-nmcli-add-support-loopback-type.yml b/changelogs/fragments/6572-nmcli-add-support-loopback-type.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4382851d68..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/6572-nmcli-add-support-loopback-type.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - nmcli - add support for new connection type ``loopback`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6572).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7143-proxmox-template.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7143-proxmox-template.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 89d44594d3..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7143-proxmox-template.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion of container to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
-  - proxmox_kvm - adds ``template`` value to the ``state`` parameter, allowing conversion of a VM to a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7143).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7151-fix-keycloak_authz_permission-incorrect-resource-payload.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7151-fix-keycloak_authz_permission-incorrect-resource-payload.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2fa50a47ee..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7151-fix-keycloak_authz_permission-incorrect-resource-payload.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - keycloak_authz_permission - resource payload variable for scope-based permission was constructed as a string, when it needs to be a list, even for a single item (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7151).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7199-gitlab-runner-new-creation-workflow.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7199-gitlab-runner-new-creation-workflow.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d4c5f96f9d..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7199-gitlab-runner-new-creation-workflow.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - gitlab_runner - add support for new runner creation workflow (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7199).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7242-multi-values-for-same-name-in-git-config.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7242-multi-values-for-same-name-in-git-config.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index be3dfdcac9..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7242-multi-values-for-same-name-in-git-config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-    - "git_config - allow multiple git configs for the same name with the new ``add_mode`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260)."
-    - "git_config - the ``after`` and ``before`` fields in the ``diff`` of the return value can be a list instead of a string in case more configs with the same key are affected (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260)."
-    - "git_config - when a value is unset, all configs with the same key are unset (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7260)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7389-nmcli-issue-with-creating-a-wifi-bridge-slave.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7389-nmcli-issue-with-creating-a-wifi-bridge-slave.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index f5f07dc230..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7389-nmcli-issue-with-creating-a-wifi-bridge-slave.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - 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).
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7418-kc_identity_provider-mapper-reconfiguration-fixes.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7418-kc_identity_provider-mapper-reconfiguration-fixes.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 30f3673499..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7418-kc_identity_provider-mapper-reconfiguration-fixes.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - keycloak_identity_provider - it was not possible to reconfigure (add, remove) ``mappers`` once they were created initially. Removal was ignored, adding new ones resulted in dropping the pre-existing unmodified mappers. Fix resolves the issue by supplying correct input to the internal update call (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7418).
-  - 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).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7426-add-timestamp-and-preserve-options-for-passwordstore.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7426-add-timestamp-and-preserve-options-for-passwordstore.yaml
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index 59e22b450f..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7426-add-timestamp-and-preserve-options-for-passwordstore.yaml
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - passwordstore - adds ``timestamp`` and ``preserve`` parameters to modify the stored password format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7426).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7456-add-ssh-control-master.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7456-add-ssh-control-master.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/7456-add-ssh-control-master.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ssh_config - adds ``controlmaster``, ``controlpath`` and ``controlpersist`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7456).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7461-proxmox-inventory-add-exclude-nodes.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7461-proxmox-inventory-add-exclude-nodes.yaml
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index 40391342f7..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7461-proxmox-inventory-add-exclude-nodes.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox inventory plugin - adds an option to exclude nodes from the dynamic inventory generation. The new setting is optional, not using this option will behave as usual (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6714, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7461).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7462-Add-ostype-parameter-in-LXC-container-clone-of-ProxmoxVE.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7462-Add-ostype-parameter-in-LXC-container-clone-of-ProxmoxVE.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 20a9b1d144..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7462-Add-ostype-parameter-in-LXC-container-clone-of-ProxmoxVE.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox_ostype - it is now possible to specify the ``ostype`` when creating an LXC container (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7462).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7464-fix-vm-removal-in-proxmox_pool_member.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7464-fix-vm-removal-in-proxmox_pool_member.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b42abc88c0..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7464-fix-vm-removal-in-proxmox_pool_member.yml
+++ /dev/null
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-bugfixes:
-  - proxmox_pool_member - absent state for type VM did not delete VMs from the pools (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7464).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7465-redfish-firmware-update-message-id-hardening.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7465-redfish-firmware-update-message-id-hardening.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 01a98c2225..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7465-redfish-firmware-update-message-id-hardening.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - redfish_command - fix usage of message parsing in ``SimpleUpdate`` and ``MultipartHTTPPushUpdate`` commands to treat the lack of a ``MessageId`` as no message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7465, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7471).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7467-fix-gitlab-constants-calls.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7467-fix-gitlab-constants-calls.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 77466f75e6..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7467-fix-gitlab-constants-calls.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - gitlab_group_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_group_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).  
-  - gitlab_project_members - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_project_members`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).  
-  - gitlab_protected_branches - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_protected_branches`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).  
-  - gitlab_user - fix gitlab constants call in ``gitlab_user`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7467).  
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7472-gitlab-add-ca-path-option.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7472-gitlab-add-ca-path-option.yml
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index 48c041ea31..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7472-gitlab-add-ca-path-option.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - gitlab modules - add ``ca_path`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7472).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7485-proxmox_vm_info-config.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7485-proxmox_vm_info-config.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index ca2fd3dc57..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7485-proxmox_vm_info-config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox_vm_info - add ability to retrieve configuration info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7485).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7486-gitlab-refactor-package-check.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7486-gitlab-refactor-package-check.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 25b52ac45c..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7486-gitlab-refactor-package-check.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - gitlab modules - remove duplicate ``gitlab`` package check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7486).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7489-netcup-dns-record-types.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7489-netcup-dns-record-types.yml
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index b065a4d239..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7489-netcup-dns-record-types.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - netcup_dns - adds support for record types ``OPENPGPKEY``, ``SMIMEA``, and ``SSHFP`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7489).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7495-proxmox_disk-manipulate-cdrom.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7495-proxmox_disk-manipulate-cdrom.yml
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index f3a5b27609..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7495-proxmox_disk-manipulate-cdrom.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox_disk - add ability to manipulate CD-ROM drive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7495).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7499-allow-mtu-setting-on-bond-and-infiniband-interfaces.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7499-allow-mtu-setting-on-bond-and-infiniband-interfaces.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index f12aa55760..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7499-allow-mtu-setting-on-bond-and-infiniband-interfaces.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - nmcli - allow for the setting of ``MTU`` for ``infiniband`` and ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7499).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7501-type.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7501-type.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 994c31ce5a..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7501-type.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "ocapi_utils, oci_utils, redfish_utils module utils - replace ``type()`` calls with ``isinstance()`` calls (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7501)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7505-ini_file-section_has.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7505-ini_file-section_has.yml
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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/7506-pipx-pipargs.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7506-pipx-pipargs.yml
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index fb5cb52e6f..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7506-pipx-pipargs.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - pipx module utils - change the CLI argument formatter for the ``pip_args`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7497, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7506).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7517-elastic-close-client.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7517-elastic-close-client.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index ee383d26a6..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7517-elastic-close-client.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - elastic callback plugin - close elastic client to not leak resources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7517).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7535-terraform-fix-multiline-string-handling-in-complex-variables.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7535-terraform-fix-multiline-string-handling-in-complex-variables.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b991522dd6..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7535-terraform-fix-multiline-string-handling-in-complex-variables.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "terraform - fix multiline string handling in complex variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7535)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7538-add-krbprincipalattribute-option.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7538-add-krbprincipalattribute-option.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index e2e2ce61c2..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7538-add-krbprincipalattribute-option.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - keycloak_user_federation - add option for ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7538).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7540-proxmox-update-config.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7540-proxmox-update-config.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d89c26115f..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7540-proxmox-update-config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox - adds ``update`` parameter, allowing update of an already existing containers configuration (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7540).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7542-irc-logentries-ssl.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7542-irc-logentries-ssl.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6897087dfb..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7542-irc-logentries-ssl.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "log_entries callback plugin - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542)."
-  - "irc - replace ``ssl.wrap_socket`` that was removed from Python 3.12 with code for creating a proper SSL context (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7542)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7550-irc-use_tls-validate_certs.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7550-irc-use_tls-validate_certs.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c99d8fd6f..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7550-irc-use_tls-validate_certs.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "irc - add ``validate_certs`` option, and rename ``use_ssl`` to ``use_tls``, while keeping ``use_ssl`` as an alias.
-     The default value for ``validate_certs`` is ``false`` for backwards compatibility. We recommend to every user of
-     this module to explicitly set ``use_tls=true`` and `validate_certs=true`` whenever possible, especially when
-     communicating to IRC servers over the internet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7550)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7564-onepassword-lookup-case-insensitive.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7564-onepassword-lookup-case-insensitive.yaml
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index d2eaf2ff11..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7564-onepassword-lookup-case-insensitive.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - >-
-    onepassword lookup plugin - field and section titles are now case insensitive when using
-    op CLI version two or later. This matches the behavior of version one (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7564).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7569-infiniband-slave-support.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7569-infiniband-slave-support.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index f54460842d..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7569-infiniband-slave-support.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - nmcli - allow for ``infiniband`` slaves of ``bond`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7569).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7577-fix-apt_rpm-module.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7577-fix-apt_rpm-module.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index ef55eb5bd2..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7577-fix-apt_rpm-module.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-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).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7578-irc-tls.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7578-irc-tls.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index a7fcbbca29..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7578-irc-tls.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - "irc - the defaults ``false`` for ``use_tls`` and ``validate_certs`` have been deprecated and will change to ``true`` in community.general 10.0.0
-     to improve security. You can already improve security now by explicitly setting them to ``true``. Specifying values now disables the deprecation
-     warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7578)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7588-ipa-config-new-choice-passkey-to-ipauserauthtype.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7588-ipa-config-new-choice-passkey-to-ipauserauthtype.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c9d83c761a..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7588-ipa-config-new-choice-passkey-to-ipauserauthtype.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - ipa_config - adds ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7588).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7589-ipa-config-new-choices-idp-and-passkey-to-ipauserauthtype.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7589-ipa-config-new-choices-idp-and-passkey-to-ipauserauthtype.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index bf584514ae..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7589-ipa-config-new-choices-idp-and-passkey-to-ipauserauthtype.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
- - ipa_user - adds ``idp`` and ``passkey`` choice to ``ipauserauthtype`` parameter's choices (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7589).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7600-proxmox_kvm-hookscript.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7600-proxmox_kvm-hookscript.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d79e71657..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7600-proxmox_kvm-hookscript.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "proxmox_kvm - support the ``hookscript`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7600)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7601-lvol-fix.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7601-lvol-fix.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b83fe15683..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7601-lvol-fix.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - lvol - test for output messages in both ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7601, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7182).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7612-interface_file-method.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7612-interface_file-method.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 38fcb71503..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7612-interface_file-method.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "interface_files - also consider ``address_family`` when changing ``option=method`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7610, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7612)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7626-redfish-info-add-boot-progress-property.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7626-redfish-info-add-boot-progress-property.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 919383686b..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7626-redfish-info-add-boot-progress-property.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redfish_info - adding the ``BootProgress`` property when getting ``Systems`` info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7626).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7641-fix-keycloak-api-client-to-quote-properly.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7641-fix-keycloak-api-client-to-quote-properly.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c11cbf3b06..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7641-fix-keycloak-api-client-to-quote-properly.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - keycloak_* - fix Keycloak API client to quote ``/`` properly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7641).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7645-Keycloak-print-error-msg-from-server.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7645-Keycloak-print-error-msg-from-server.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 509ab0fd81..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7645-Keycloak-print-error-msg-from-server.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - keycloak module utils - expose error message from Keycloak server for HTTP errors in some specific situations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7645).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7646-fix-order-number-detection-in-dn.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7646-fix-order-number-detection-in-dn.yml
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index f2d2379872..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7646-fix-order-number-detection-in-dn.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - ldap - previously the order number (if present) was expected to follow an equals sign in the DN. This makes it so the order number string is identified correctly anywhere within the DN (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7646).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7653-fix-cloudflare-lookup.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7653-fix-cloudflare-lookup.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index f370a1c1d1..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7653-fix-cloudflare-lookup.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - cloudflare_dns - fix Cloudflare lookup of SHFP records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7652).  
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7676-lvol-pvs-as-list.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7676-lvol-pvs-as-list.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index aa28fff59d..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7676-lvol-pvs-as-list.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - lvol - change ``pvs`` argument type to list of strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7676, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7504).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7683-added-contenttype-parameter.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7683-added-contenttype-parameter.yml
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index 52f4b6b0c5..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7683-added-contenttype-parameter.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - rundeck module utils - allow to pass ``Content-Type`` to API requests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7684).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7696-avoid-attempt-to-delete-non-existing-user.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7696-avoid-attempt-to-delete-non-existing-user.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index db57d68233..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7696-avoid-attempt-to-delete-non-existing-user.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - keycloak_user - when ``force`` is set, but user does not exist, do not try to delete it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7696).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7698-improvements-to-keycloak_realm_key.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7698-improvements-to-keycloak_realm_key.yml
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index 0cd996c510..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7698-improvements-to-keycloak_realm_key.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - keycloak_realm_key - the ``provider_id`` option now supports RSA encryption key usage (value ``rsa-enc``) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
-  - keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.algorithm`` option now supports 8 additional key algorithms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
-  - keycloak_realm_key - the ``config.certificate`` option value is no longer defined with ``no_log=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7698).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7703-ssh_config_add_keys_to_agent_option.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7703-ssh_config_add_keys_to_agent_option.yml
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index 99893a0ff3..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7703-ssh_config_add_keys_to_agent_option.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ssh_config - new feature to set ``AddKeysToAgent`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7703).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7704-ssh_config_identities_only_option.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7704-ssh_config_identities_only_option.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9efa10b70f..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7704-ssh_config_identities_only_option.yml
+++ /dev/null
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-minor_changes:
-  - ssh_config - new feature to set ``IdentitiesOnly`` option to ``yes`` or ``no`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7704).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7717-prevent-modprobe-error.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7717-prevent-modprobe-error.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index bfef30e67b..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7717-prevent-modprobe-error.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - modprobe - listing modules files or modprobe files could trigger a FileNotFoundError if ``/etc/modprobe.d`` or ``/etc/modules-load.d`` did not exist. Relevant functions now return empty lists if the directories do not exist to avoid crashing the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7717).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7723-ipa-pwpolicy-update-pwpolicy-module.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7723-ipa-pwpolicy-update-pwpolicy-module.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index bffd40efcd..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7723-ipa-pwpolicy-update-pwpolicy-module.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ipa_pwpolicy - update module to support ``maxrepeat``, ``maxsequence``, ``dictcheck``, ``usercheck``, ``gracelimit`` parameters in FreeIPA password policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
-  - ipa_pwpolicy - refactor module and exchange a sequence ``if`` statements with a ``for`` loop (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7723).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7737-add-ipa-dnsrecord-ns-type.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7737-add-ipa-dnsrecord-ns-type.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 534d96e123..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7737-add-ipa-dnsrecord-ns-type.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ipa_dnsrecord - adds ability to manage NS record types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7737).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7740-add-message-id-header-to-mail-module.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7740-add-message-id-header-to-mail-module.yml
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/7740-add-message-id-header-to-mail-module.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - mail - add ``Message-ID`` header; which is required by some mail servers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7740).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7746-raw_post-without-actions.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7746-raw_post-without-actions.yml
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index 10dc110c5e..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7746-raw_post-without-actions.yml
+++ /dev/null
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-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7754-fixed-payload-format.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7754-fixed-payload-format.yml
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index 01458053e5..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7754-fixed-payload-format.yml
+++ /dev/null
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-bugfixes:
-  - statusio_maintenance - fix error caused by incorrectly formed API data payload. Was raising "Failed to create maintenance HTTP Error 400 Bad Request" caused by bad data type for date/time and deprecated dict keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7754).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7765-mail-message-id.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7765-mail-message-id.yml
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index 54af767ecf..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7765-mail-message-id.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "mail module, mail callback plugin - allow to configure the domain name of the Message-ID header with a new ``message_id_domain`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7765)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7782-cloudflare_dns-spf.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7782-cloudflare_dns-spf.yml
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index 83e7fe79bb..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7782-cloudflare_dns-spf.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-removed_features:
-  - "cloudflare_dns - remove support for SPF records. These are no longer supported by CloudFlare (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7782)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7789-keycloak-user-federation-custom-provider-type.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7789-keycloak-user-federation-custom-provider-type.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index dd20a4ea18..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7789-keycloak-user-federation-custom-provider-type.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - keycloak_user_federation - allow custom user storage providers to be set through ``provider_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7789).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7790-gitlab-runner-api-pagination.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7790-gitlab-runner-api-pagination.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 59a65ea8ef..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7790-gitlab-runner-api-pagination.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - gitlab_runner - fix pagination when checking for existing runners (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
-
-minor_changes:
-  - gitlab_deploy_key, gitlab_group_members, gitlab_group_variable, gitlab_hook,
-    gitlab_instance_variable, gitlab_project_badge, gitlab_project_variable,
-    gitlab_user - improve API pagination and compatibility with different versions
-    of ``python-gitlab`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7790).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7791-proxmox_kvm-state-template-will-check-status-first.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7791-proxmox_kvm-state-template-will-check-status-first.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e061ce6af..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7791-proxmox_kvm-state-template-will-check-status-first.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - proxmox_kvm - running ``state=template`` will first check whether VM is already a template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7792).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7797-ipa-fix-otp-idempotency.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7797-ipa-fix-otp-idempotency.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 43fd4f5251..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7797-ipa-fix-otp-idempotency.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - ipa_otptoken - the module expect ``ipatokendisabled`` as string but the ``ipatokendisabled`` value is returned as a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7795).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7821-mssql_script-py2.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7821-mssql_script-py2.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 79de688628..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7821-mssql_script-py2.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "mssql_script - make the module work with Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7818, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7821)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7826-consul-modules-refactoring.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7826-consul-modules-refactoring.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index a51352d88e..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7826-consul-modules-refactoring.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 'consul_policy, consul_role, consul_session - removed dependency on ``requests`` and factored out common parts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7826, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).'
-  - consul_policy - added support for diff and check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
-  - consul_role - added support for diff mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
-  - consul_role - added support for templated policies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
-  - consul_role - ``service_identities`` now expects a ``service_name`` option to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
-  - consul_role - ``node_identities`` now expects a ``node_name`` option to match the Consul API, the old ``name`` is still supported as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7878).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7843-proxmox_kvm-update_unsafe.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7843-proxmox_kvm-update_unsafe.yml
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index dcb1ebb218..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7843-proxmox_kvm-update_unsafe.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox_kvm - add parameter ``update_unsafe`` to avoid limitations when updating dangerous values (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7843).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7847-gitlab-issue-title.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7847-gitlab-issue-title.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c8b8e49905..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7847-gitlab-issue-title.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - gitlab_issue - fix behavior to search GitLab issue, using ``search`` keyword instead of ``title`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7846).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7870-homebrew-cask-installed-detection.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7870-homebrew-cask-installed-detection.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c70c9a2d4..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7870-homebrew-cask-installed-detection.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - homebrew - detect already installed formulae and casks using JSON output from ``brew info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/864).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7872-proxmox_fix-update-if-setting-doesnt-exist.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7872-proxmox_fix-update-if-setting-doesnt-exist.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 82b4fe31d9..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7872-proxmox_fix-update-if-setting-doesnt-exist.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - proxmox - fix updating a container config if the setting does not already exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7872).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7874-incus_connection_treats_inventory_hostname_as_literal_in_remotes.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7874-incus_connection_treats_inventory_hostname_as_literal_in_remotes.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 83d302e9b9..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7874-incus_connection_treats_inventory_hostname_as_literal_in_remotes.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "incus connection plugin - treats ``inventory_hostname`` as a variable instead of a literal in remote connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7874)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7880-ipa-fix-sudo-and-hbcalrule-idempotence.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7880-ipa-fix-sudo-and-hbcalrule-idempotence.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index cb2caa3780..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7880-ipa-fix-sudo-and-hbcalrule-idempotence.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - ipa_sudorule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
-  - ipa_hbacrule - the module uses a string for ``ipaenabledflag`` for new FreeIPA versions while the returned value is a boolean (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7880).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7881-fix-keycloak-client-ckeckmode.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7881-fix-keycloak-client-ckeckmode.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 485950c11c..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7881-fix-keycloak-client-ckeckmode.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - keycloak_client - fixes issue when metadata is provided in desired state when task is in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1226, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7881).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7882-add-redfish-get-service-identification.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7882-add-redfish-get-service-identification.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 463c9a2bc5..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7882-add-redfish-get-service-identification.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redfish_info - add command ``GetServiceIdentification`` to get service identification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7882).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7896-add-terraform-diff-mode.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7896-add-terraform-diff-mode.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c0834efa5..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7896-add-terraform-diff-mode.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - terraform - add support for ``diff_mode`` for terraform resource_changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7896).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7897-consul-action-group.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7897-consul-action-group.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1764e1970d..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7897-consul-action-group.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-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).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7901-consul-acl-deprecation.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7901-consul-acl-deprecation.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9480b04ce9..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7901-consul-acl-deprecation.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-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)."
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7916-add-redfish-set-service-identification.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7916-add-redfish-set-service-identification.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b1f2ca7b3..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7916-add-redfish-set-service-identification.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - redfish_config - add command ``SetServiceIdentification`` to set service identification (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7916).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7919-onepassword-fieldname-casing.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7919-onepassword-fieldname-casing.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9119f896f0..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7919-onepassword-fieldname-casing.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - onepassword lookup plugin - failed for fields that were in sections and had uppercase letters in the label/ID. Field lookups are now case insensitive in all cases (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7919).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7951-fix-redfish_info-exception.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7951-fix-redfish_info-exception.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index cd5707da4b..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7951-fix-redfish_info-exception.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "redfish_info - correct uncaught exception when attempting to retrieve ``Chassis`` information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7952)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7953-proxmox_kvm-fix_status_check.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7953-proxmox_kvm-fix_status_check.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 10f8e6d26a..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7953-proxmox_kvm-fix_status_check.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - proxmox_kvm - fixed status check getting from node-specific API endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7817).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7956-adding-releases_events-option-to-gitlab_hook-module.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7956-adding-releases_events-option-to-gitlab_hook-module.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 30186804d4..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7956-adding-releases_events-option-to-gitlab_hook-module.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - gitlab_hook - adds ``releases_events`` parameter for supporting Releases events triggers on GitLab hooks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7956).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7963-fix-terraform-diff-absent.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7963-fix-terraform-diff-absent.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e2cf53c9b..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7963-fix-terraform-diff-absent.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - terraform - fix ``diff_mode`` in state ``absent`` and when terraform ``resource_changes`` does not exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7963).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7970-fix-cargo-path-idempotency.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7970-fix-cargo-path-idempotency.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 143247bc91..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7970-fix-cargo-path-idempotency.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-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)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7976-add-mssql_script-transactional-support.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7976-add-mssql_script-transactional-support.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index dc6f335247..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7976-add-mssql_script-transactional-support.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - mssql_script - adds transactional (rollback/commit) support via optional boolean param ``transaction`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7976).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7983-sudoers-add-support-noexec.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7983-sudoers-add-support-noexec.yml
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index f58e6f7ec8..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7983-sudoers-add-support-noexec.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - sudoers - add support for the ``NOEXEC`` tag in sudoers rules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7983).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7994-bitwarden-session-arg.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/7994-bitwarden-session-arg.yaml
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index 36f9622ac0..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7994-bitwarden-session-arg.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-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)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7996-add-templating-support-to-icinga2-inventory.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7996-add-templating-support-to-icinga2-inventory.yml
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index 9998583b83..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/7996-add-templating-support-to-icinga2-inventory.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - icinga2 inventory plugin - add Jinja2 templating support to ``url``, ``user``, and ``password`` paramenters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7074, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7996).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7998-icinga2-inventory-group_by_hostgroups-parameter.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7998-icinga2-inventory-group_by_hostgroups-parameter.yml
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/7998-icinga2-inventory-group_by_hostgroups-parameter.yml
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - 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).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8003-redfish-get-update-status-empty-response.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8003-redfish-get-update-status-empty-response.yml
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index 21796e7a0e..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8003-redfish-get-update-status-empty-response.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - redfish_info - allow for a GET operation invoked by ``GetUpdateStatus`` to allow for an empty response body for cases where a service returns 204 No Content (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8003).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8013-bitwarden-full-collection-item-list.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8013-bitwarden-full-collection-item-list.yaml
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index 7337233aea..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8013-bitwarden-full-collection-item-list.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-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)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8029-iptables-state-restore-check-mode.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8029-iptables-state-restore-check-mode.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/8029-iptables-state-restore-check-mode.yml
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-bugfixes:
-  - iptables_state - fix idempotency issues when restoring incomplete iptables dumps (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8029).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8038-proxmox-startup.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8038-proxmox-startup.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/8038-proxmox-startup.yml
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-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox - adds ``startup`` parameters to configure startup order, startup delay and shutdown delay (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8038).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8048-fix-homebrew-module-error-reporting-on-become-true.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8048-fix-homebrew-module-error-reporting-on-become-true.yaml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/8048-fix-homebrew-module-error-reporting-on-become-true.yaml
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-bugfixes:
-  - homebrew - error returned from brew command was ignored and tried to parse empty JSON. Fix now checks for an error and raises it to give accurate error message to users (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8047).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8057-pam_limits-check-mode.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8057-pam_limits-check-mode.yml
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index f6f034e9b8..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8057-pam_limits-check-mode.yml
+++ /dev/null
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-bugfixes:
-  - "pam_limits - when the file does not exist, do not create it in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8050, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8057)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8073-ldap-attrs-diff.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8073-ldap-attrs-diff.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/8073-ldap-attrs-diff.yml
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-minor_changes:
-  - ldap_attrs - module now supports diff mode, showing which attributes are changed within an operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8073).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8075-optional-space-around-section-names.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8075-optional-space-around-section-names.yaml
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index 2e44555f08..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8075-optional-space-around-section-names.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "ini_file - support optional spaces between section names and their surrounding brackets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8075)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8087-removed-redundant-unicode-prefixes.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8087-removed-redundant-unicode-prefixes.yml
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index 1224ebdfa2..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8087-removed-redundant-unicode-prefixes.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "revbitspss lookup plugin - removed a redundant unicode prefix. The prefix was not necessary for Python 3 and has been cleaned up to streamline the code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8087)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8091-consul-token-fixes.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8091-consul-token-fixes.yaml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/8091-consul-token-fixes.yaml
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-bugfixes:
-  - "consul_token - fix token creation without ``accessor_id`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8091)."
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8100-haproxy-drain-fails-on-down-backend.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8100-haproxy-drain-fails-on-down-backend.yml
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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/8116-java_cert-enable-owner-group-mode-args.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8116-java_cert-enable-owner-group-mode-args.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/8116-java_cert-enable-owner-group-mode-args.yml
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - java_cert - enable ``owner``, ``group``, ``mode``, and other generic file arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8116).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8118-fix-bond-slave-honoring-mtu.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8118-fix-bond-slave-honoring-mtu.yml
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index 47f8af9ac3..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8118-fix-bond-slave-honoring-mtu.yml
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - nmcli - allow setting ``MTU`` for ``bond-slave`` interface types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8118).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8126-filesystem-bcachefs-support.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8126-filesystem-bcachefs-support.yaml
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--- 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/8133-add-error-message-for-linode-inventory-plugin.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8133-add-error-message-for-linode-inventory-plugin.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 755d7ed4fe..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8133-add-error-message-for-linode-inventory-plugin.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - linode inventory plugin - add descriptive error message for linode inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8133).
-    
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8151-fix-lsvg_cmd-failed.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8151-fix-lsvg_cmd-failed.yml
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--- 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
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--- 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
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--- 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).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8158-gitlab-version-check.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8158-gitlab-version-check.yml
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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
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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
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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
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--- 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/8199-added-usb-support-to-proxmox-module.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8199-added-usb-support-to-proxmox-module.yml
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/8199-added-usb-support-to-proxmox-module.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "proxmox_kvm - adds``usb`` parameter for setting USB devices on proxmox KVM VMs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8199)."
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)."
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8215-add-docker-v2-protocol.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8215-add-docker-v2-protocol.yml
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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
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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
deleted file mode 100644
index 496797ef74..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8225-unsafe.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -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/8226-mh-vardict.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8226-mh-vardict.yml
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index c7c62c7db0..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8226-mh-vardict.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - ModuleHelper vars module_utils - bump deprecation of ``VarMeta``, ``VarDict`` and ``VarsMixin`` to version 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
-  - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate use of ``VarsMixin`` in favor of using the ``VardDict`` module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
-minor_changes:
-  - gconftool2 - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
-  - kernel_blacklist - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
-  - opkg - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
-  - pipx - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
-  - xfconf - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
-  - xfconf_info - use ``ModuleHelper`` with ``VarDict`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8236-portage-select-feature.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8236-portage-select-feature.yml
deleted file mode 100644
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
+++ /dev/null
@@ -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
deleted file mode 100644
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
deleted file mode 100644
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 <packages>``, only the last package name was checked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8263)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8264-run_command.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8264-run_command.yml
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index dd66cd6123..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8264-run_command.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "aix_lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "apt_rpm - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "btrfs_subvolume - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "installp - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "lvg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "lvol - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "macports - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "parted - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "pkgin - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "portinstall - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "slackpkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "svr4pkg - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
-  - "swdepot - refactor module to pass list of arguments to ``module.run_command()`` instead of relying on interpretation by a shell (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8264)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8274-homebrew-force-formula.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8274-homebrew-force-formula.yml
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-minor_changes:
-  - "homebrew - adds ``force_formula`` parameter to disambiguate a formula from a cask of the same name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8274)."
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8280-mh-deprecations.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8280-mh-deprecations.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/8280-mh-deprecations.yml
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-deprecated_features:
-  - MH DependencyCtxMgr module_utils - deprecate ``module_utils.mh.mixin.deps.DependencyCtxMgr`` in favour of ``module_utils.deps`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
-  - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
-  - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.StateMixin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
-  - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.DependencyCtxMgr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
-  - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarMeta`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
-  - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarDict,`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
-  - ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarsMixin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8281-puppet-waitforlock.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8281-puppet-waitforlock.yaml
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index bd8a820170..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8281-puppet-waitforlock.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - puppet - new feature to set ``--waitforlock`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8282).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8285-apt_rpm-state-deprecate.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8285-apt_rpm-state-deprecate.yml
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index 19f3415841..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8285-apt_rpm-state-deprecate.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - "apt_rpm - the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` is deprecated and will change in community.general 11.0.0.
-     Right now the module will upgrade a package to the latest version if one of these two states is used. You should explicitly
-     use ``state=latest`` if you want this behavior, and switch to ``state=present_not_latest`` if you do not want to upgrade the
-     package if it is already installed. In community.general 11.0.0 the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` will
-     change to that of ``state=present_not_latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217,
-     https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8285)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8288-cmdrunner-fmt-list-len-limits.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8288-cmdrunner-fmt-list-len-limits.yml
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index 94de04740b..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8288-cmdrunner-fmt-list-len-limits.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - cmd_runner module_utils - add validation for minimum and maximum length in the value passed to ``cmd_runner_fmt.as_list()`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8288).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8289-python-runner.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8289-python-runner.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 97a45fd8f3..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8289-python-runner.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - PythonRunner module utils - specialisation of ``CmdRunner`` to execute Python scripts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8289).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8290-gandi-livedns-personal-access-token.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8290-gandi-livedns-personal-access-token.yml
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index 3168bf20fd..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8290-gandi-livedns-personal-access-token.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - gandi_livedns - adds support for personal access tokens (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7639, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8337).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8303-fix-rendering-foreign-variables.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8303-fix-rendering-foreign-variables.yaml
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index c2162771f2..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8303-fix-rendering-foreign-variables.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "merge_variables lookup plugin - fixing cross host merge: providing access to foreign hosts variables to the perspective of the host that is performing the merge (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8303)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8320-keycloak_user_federation-fix-diff-krbPrincipalAttribute.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8320-keycloak_user_federation-fix-diff-krbPrincipalAttribute.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index df4a892733..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8320-keycloak_user_federation-fix-diff-krbPrincipalAttribute.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - keycloak_user_federation - fix diff of empty ``krbPrincipalAttribute`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8320).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8321-fix-opentelemetry-callback.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8321-fix-opentelemetry-callback.yml
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index a02f12c6b9..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8321-fix-opentelemetry-callback.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - opentelemetry - add support for HTTP trace_exporter and configures the behavior via ``OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8321).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8323-refactor-homebrew-logic-module-utils.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8323-refactor-homebrew-logic-module-utils.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d29aed5ae4..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8323-refactor-homebrew-logic-module-utils.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "homebrew, homebrew_cask - refactor common argument validation logic into a dedicated ``homebrew`` module utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8323, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8324)."
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8334-proxmox-action-group.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8334-proxmox-action-group.yml
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index 0e5aeeccde..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8334-proxmox-action-group.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "proxmox* modules - there is now a ``community.general.proxmox`` module defaults group that can be used to set default options for all Proxmox modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8334)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8355-keycloak-idp-sanitize.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8355-keycloak-idp-sanitize.yaml
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index 3a7942bb88..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8355-keycloak-idp-sanitize.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-security_fixes:
-  - keycloak_identity_provider - the client secret was not correctly sanitized by the module. The return values ``proposed``, ``existing``, and ``end_state``, as well as the diff, did contain the client secret unmasked (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8355).
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diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8363-opentelemetry-export-to-a-file.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8363-opentelemetry-export-to-a-file.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b62521ec9f..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8363-opentelemetry-export-to-a-file.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - opentelemetry - add support for exporting spans in a file via ``ANSIBLE_OPENTELEMETRY_STORE_SPANS_IN_FILE`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7888, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8363).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8367-fix-close-span-if-no-logs.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8367-fix-close-span-if-no-logs.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index e0a90be311..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8367-fix-close-span-if-no-logs.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "opentelemetry callback plugin - close spans always (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8367)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8373-honour-disable-logs.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/8373-honour-disable-logs.yaml
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index 112b10a9f4..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8373-honour-disable-logs.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - opentelemetry callback plugin - honour the ``disable_logs`` option to avoid storing task results since they are not used regardless (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8373).
-    
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8379-verbose-mode-pkg5.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8379-verbose-mode-pkg5.yml
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index abc1c61dce..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8379-verbose-mode-pkg5.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - pkg5 - add support for non-silent execution (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8379, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8382).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8383-deprecate-gitlab-basic-auth.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8383-deprecate-gitlab-basic-auth.yml
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index b9c35cd0e4..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/8383-deprecate-gitlab-basic-auth.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-deprecated_features:
-  - "gitlab modules - the basic auth method on GitLab API have been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8383)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/9.0.0.yml b/changelogs/fragments/9.0.0.yml
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index 8de366f74c..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/9.0.0.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: This is release 9.0.0 of `community.general`, released on 2024-05-20.
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/add-ipa-sudorule-deny-cmd.yml b/changelogs/fragments/add-ipa-sudorule-deny-cmd.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d5dc6205c..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/add-ipa-sudorule-deny-cmd.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ipa_sudorule - adds options to include denied commands or command groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7415).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/aix_filesystem-crfs-issue.yml b/changelogs/fragments/aix_filesystem-crfs-issue.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b3ddfb0d6..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/aix_filesystem-crfs-issue.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-  - aix_filesystem - fix issue with empty list items in crfs logic and option order (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8052).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/bitwarden-lookup-performance.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/bitwarden-lookup-performance.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index cb0405b1cb..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/bitwarden-lookup-performance.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-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)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/hipchat.yml b/changelogs/fragments/hipchat.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0260c09c84..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/hipchat.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -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/internal-redirects.yml b/changelogs/fragments/internal-redirects.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 23ce456d4e..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/internal-redirects.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-removed_features:
-  - "The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed.
-     These internal redirects were extra-long FQCNs like ``community.general.packaging.os.apt_rpm`` that redirect to the short FQCN ``community.general.apt_rpm``.
-     They were originally needed to implement flatmapping; as various tooling started to recommend users to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection
-     and redirects were added for users who already followed these incorrect recommendations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7835)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/inventory-rce.yml b/changelogs/fragments/inventory-rce.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9eee6dff52..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/inventory-rce.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-security_fixes:
-  - "cobbler, gitlab_runners, icinga2, linode, lxd, nmap, online, opennebula, proxmox, scaleway, stackpath_compute, virtualbox,
-     and xen_orchestra inventory plugin - make sure all data received from the remote servers is marked as unsafe, so remote
-     code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible
-     (https://www.die-welt.net/2024/03/remote-code-execution-in-ansible-dynamic-inventory-plugins/,
-      https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8098)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/lxd-instance-not-found-avoid-false-positives.yml b/changelogs/fragments/lxd-instance-not-found-avoid-false-positives.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 03ac8ee01b..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/lxd-instance-not-found-avoid-false-positives.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "lxd connection plugin - tighten the detection logic for lxd ``Instance not found`` errors, to avoid false detection on unrelated errors such as ``/usr/bin/python3: not found`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7521)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/lxd-instances-api-endpoint-added.yml b/changelogs/fragments/lxd-instances-api-endpoint-added.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e7aa3b50e..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/lxd-instances-api-endpoint-added.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - "lxd_container - uses ``/1.0/instances`` API endpoint, if available. Falls back to ``/1.0/containers`` or ``/1.0/virtual-machines``. Fixes issue when using Incus or LXD 5.19 due to migrating to ``/1.0/instances`` endpoint (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7980)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/pacemaker-cluster.yml b/changelogs/fragments/pacemaker-cluster.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 07e1ff3e04..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/pacemaker-cluster.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "pacemaker_cluster - actually implement check mode, which the module claims to support. This means that until now the module
-     also did changes in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8081)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/pkgin.yml b/changelogs/fragments/pkgin.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 60eff0bfe5..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/pkgin.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - pkgin - pkgin (pkgsrc package manager used by SmartOS) raises erratic exceptions and spurious ``changed=true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7971).
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)
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/remove_deprecated.yml b/changelogs/fragments/remove_deprecated.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index e777bf14e2..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/remove_deprecated.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-removed_features:
-  - "rax* modules, rax module utils, rax docs fragment - the Rackspace modules relied on the deprecated package ``pyrax`` and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "stackdriver - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "webfaction_* modules - these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "flowdock - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "redhat_subscription - the alias ``autosubscribe`` of the ``auto_attach`` option was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "redhat module utils - the classes ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools`` have been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "mh.mixins.deps module utils - the ``DependencyMixin`` has been removed. Use the ``deps`` module utils instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "proxmox - the ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "ansible_galaxy_install - the ``ack_ansible29`` and ``ack_min_ansiblecore211`` options have been removed. They no longer had any effect (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "django_manage - support for the ``command`` values ``cleanup``, ``syncdb``, and ``validate`` were removed. Use ``clearsessions``, ``migrate``, and ``check`` instead, respectively (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-deprecated_features:
-  - "django_manage - the ``ack_venv_creation_deprecation`` option has no more effect and will be removed from community.general 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-breaking_changes:
-  - "redfish_command, redfish_config, redfish_info - change the default for ``timeout`` from 10 to 60 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "cpanm - the default of the ``mode`` option changed from ``compatibility`` to ``new`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "django_manage - the module will now fail if ``virtualenv`` is specified but no virtual environment exists at that location (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."
-  - "django_manage - the module now requires Django >= 4.1 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198)."