community.general/CHANGELOG.md

Community General Release Notes

Topics

• v9.5.7
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
  • Known Issues
• v9.5.6
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
• v9.5.5
  • Release Summary
  • Bugfixes
• v9.5.4
  • Security Fixes
  • Bugfixes
• v9.5.3
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Security Fixes
  • Bugfixes
• v9.5.2
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
• v9.5.1
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
• v9.5.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Deprecated Features
  • Bugfixes
  • New Modules
• v9.4.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Deprecated Features
  • Bugfixes
  • New Modules
• v9.3.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
  • New Modules
• v9.2.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
  • New Plugins
    • Filter
    • Test
• v9.1.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Deprecated Features
  • Bugfixes
  • Known Issues
  • New Plugins
    • Filter
  • New Modules
• v9.0.1
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Bugfixes
• v9.0.0
  • Release Summary
  • Minor Changes
  • Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
  • Deprecated Features
  • Removed Features (previously deprecated)
  • Security Fixes
  • Bugfixes
  • New Plugins
    • Become
    • Callback
    • Connection
    • Filter
    • Lookup
    • Test
  • New Modules This changelog describes changes after version 8.0.0.

v9.5.7

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• apache2_module - added workaround for new PHP module name, from php7_module to php_module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9951).

Bugfixes

• dependent look plugin - make compatible with ansible-core's Data Tagging feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9833).
• diy callback plugin - make compatible with ansible-core's Data Tagging feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9833).
• github_deploy_key - check that key really exists on 422 to avoid masking other errors (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/6718, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10011).
• hashids and unicode_normalize filter plugins - avoid deprecated AnsibleFilterTypeError on ansible-core 2.19 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9992).
• keycloak_authentication - fix authentification config duplication for Keycloak < 26.2.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9987).
• keycloak_client - fix the idempotency regression by normalizing the Keycloak response for after_client (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9905, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9976).
• proxmox inventory plugin - fix ansible_host staying empty for certain Proxmox nodes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5906, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9952).
• proxmox_disk - fail gracefully if storage is required but not provided by the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9941, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9963).
• reveal_ansible_type filter plugin and ansible_type test plugin - make compatible with ansible-core's Data Tagging feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9833).
• sysrc - no longer always reporting changed=true when state=absent. This fixes the method exists() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10004, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10005).
• yaml callback plugin - use ansible-core internals to avoid breakage with Data Tagging (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9833).

Known Issues

• reveal_ansible_type filter plugin and ansible_type test plugin - note that ansible-core's Data Tagging feature implements new aliases, such as _AnsibleTaggedStr for str, _AnsibleTaggedInt for int, and _AnsibleTaggedFloat for float (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9833).

v9.5.6

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• consul_token - fix idempotency when policies or roles are supplied by name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9841, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9845).

Bugfixes

• cloudlare_dns - handle exhausted response stream in case of HTTP errors to show nice error message to the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9782, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9818).
• dnf_versionlock - add support for dnf5 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9556).
• homebrew_cask - handle unusual brew version strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8432, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9881).
• ipa_host - module revoked existing host certificates even if user_certificate was not given (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9694).
• nmcli - enable changing only the order of DNS servers or search suffixes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8724, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9880).
• proxmox_vm_info - the module no longer expects that the key template exists in a dictionary returned by Proxmox (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9875, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9910).
• sudoers - display stdout and stderr raised while failed validation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9674, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9871).

v9.5.5

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Bugfixes

• apache2_mod_proxy - make compatible with Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9762).
• apache2_mod_proxy - passing the cluster's page as referer for the member's pages. This makes the module actually work again for halfway modern Apache versions. According to some comments founds on the net the referer was required since at least 2019 for some versions of Apache 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9762).
• cloudflare_dns - fix crash when deleting a DNS record or when updating a record with solo=true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9652, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9649).
• elasticsearch_plugin - fix ERROR: D is not a recognized option issue when configuring proxy settings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9774, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9773).
• keycloak_client - fix and improve existing tests. The module showed a diff without actual changes, solved by improving the normalise_cr() function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9644).
• keycloak_client - in check mode, detect whether the lists in before client for example redirect URI list contain items that the lists in the desired client do not contain (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9739).
• passwordstore lookup plugin - fix subkey creation even when create=false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9105, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9106).
• proxmox inventory plugin - plugin did not update cache correctly after meta: refresh_inventory (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9710, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9760).
• redhat_subscription - use the "enable_content" option when available when registering using D-Bus, to ensure that subscription-manager enables the content on registration; this is particular important on EL 10+ and Fedora 41+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9778).
• xml - ensure file descriptor is closed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9695).

v9.5.4

Security Fixes

• keycloak_client - Sanitize saml.encryption.private.key so it does not show in the logs (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9621).

Bugfixes

• redhat_subscription - do not try to unsubscribe i\.e\. remove subscriptions when unregistering a system: newer versions of subscription-manager, as available in EL 10 and Fedora 41+, do not support entitlements anymore, and thus unsubscribing will fail (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9578).

v9.5.3

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• proxmox module utils - add method api_task_complete that can wait for task completion and return error message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9256).

Security Fixes

• keycloak_authentication - API calls did not properly set the priority during update resulting in incorrectly sorted authentication flows. This apparently only affects Keycloak 25 or newer (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9263).

Bugfixes

• dig lookup plugin - correctly handle NoNameserver exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9363, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9362).
• htpasswd - report changes when file permissions are adjusted (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9485, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9490).
• proxmox_disk - fix async method and make resize_disk method handle errors correctly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9256).
• proxmox_template - fix the wrong path called on proxmox_template.task_status (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9276, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9277).
• qubes connection plugin - fix the printing of debug information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9334).
• redfish_utils module utils - Fix VerifyBiosAttributes command on multi system resource nodes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9234).

v9.5.2

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• proxmox inventory plugin - fix urllib3 InsecureRequestWarnings not being suppressed when a token is used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9099).

Bugfixes

• dnf_config_manager - fix hanging when prompting to import GPG keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9124, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8830).
• dnf_config_manager - forces locale to C before module starts. If the locale was set to non-English, the output of the dnf config-manager could not be parsed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9157, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9046).
• flatpak - force the locale language to C when running the flatpak command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9187, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8883).
• github_key - in check mode, a faulty call to `datetime.strftime(...)` was being made which generated an exception (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9185).
• homebrew_cask - allow + symbol in Homebrew cask name validation regex (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9128).
• keycloak_client - fix diff by removing code that turns the attributes dict which contains additional settings into a list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9077).
• keycloak_clientscope - fix diff and end_state by removing the code that turns the attributes dict, which contains additional config items, into a list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9082).
• keycloak_clientscope_type - sort the default and optional clientscope lists to improve the diff (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9202).
• redfish_utils module utils - remove undocumented default applytime (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9114).
• slack - fail if Slack API response is not OK with error message (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9198).

v9.5.1

Release Summary

Regular bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• redfish_utils module utils - schedule a BIOS configuration job at next reboot when the BIOS config is changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9012).

Bugfixes

• bitwarden lookup plugin - support BWS v0.3.0 syntax breaking change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9028).
• collection_version lookup plugin - use importlib directly instead of the deprecated and in ansible-core 2.19 removed ansible.module_utils.compat.importlib (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9084).
• gitlab_label - update label's color (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9010).
• keycloak_clientscope_type - fix detect changes in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9092, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9093).
• keycloak_group - fix crash caused in subgroup creation. The crash was caused by a missing or empty subGroups property in Keycloak ≥23 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8788, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8979).
• modprobe - fix check mode not being honored for persistent option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9051, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9052).
• one_host - fix if statements for cases when ID=0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1199, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8907).
• one_image - fix module failing due to a class method typo (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9056).
• one_image_info - fix module failing due to a class method typo (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9056).
• one_vnet - fix module failing due to a variable typo (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9019).
• redfish_utils module utils - fix issue with URI parsing to gracefully handling trailing slashes when extracting member identifiers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9047, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9057).

v9.5.0

Release Summary

Regular bugfix and feature release.

Please note that this is the last feature release for community.general 9.x.y. From now on, new features will only go into community.general 10.x.y.

Minor Changes

• dig lookup plugin - add port option to specify DNS server port (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8966).
• flatpak - improve the parsing of Flatpak application IDs based on official guidelines (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8909).
• gio_mime - adjust code ahead of the old VardDict deprecation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8855).
• gitlab_deploy_key - better construct when using dict.items() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• gitlab_group - add many new parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8908).
• gitlab_group - better construct when using dict.items() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• gitlab_issue - better construct when using dict.items() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• gitlab_merge_request - better construct when using dict.items() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• gitlab_runner - better construct when using dict.items() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• icinga2_host - replace loop with dict comprehension (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• jira - adjust code ahead of the old VardDict deprecation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8856).
• keycloak_client - add client-x509 choice to client_authenticator_type (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8973).
• keycloak_user_federation - add the user federation config parameter referral to the module arguments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8954).
• memset_dns_reload - replace loop with dict() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• memset_memstore_info - replace loop with dict() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• memset_server_info - replace loop with dict() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• memset_zone - replace loop with dict() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• memset_zone_domain - replace loop with dict() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• memset_zone_record - replace loop with dict() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• nmcli - add conn_enable param to reload connection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3752, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8704, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8897).
• nmcli - add state=up and state=down to enable/disable connections (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3752, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8704, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7152, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8897).
• nmcli - better construct when using dict.items() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• npm - add force parameter to allow --force (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8885).
• one_image - add option persistent to manage image persistence (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3578, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8889).
• one_image - extend xsd scheme to make it return a lot more info about image (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8889).
• one_image - refactor code to make it more similar to one_template and one_vnet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8889).
• one_image_info - extend xsd scheme to make it return a lot more info about image (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8889).
• one_image_info - refactor code to make it more similar to one_template and one_vnet (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8889).
• open_iscsi - allow login to a portal with multiple targets without specifying any of them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8719).
• opennebula.py - add VM id and VM host to inventory host data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8532).
• passwordstore lookup plugin - add subkey creation/update support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8952).
• proxmox inventory plugin - clean up authentication code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8917).
• redfish_command - add handling of the PasswordChangeRequired message from services in the UpdateUserPassword command to directly modify the user's password if the requested user is the one invoking the operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8652, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8653).
• redfish_confg - remove CapacityBytes from required paramaters of the CreateVolume command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8956).
• redfish_config - add parameter storage_none_volume_deletion to CreateVolume command in order to control the automatic deletion of non-RAID volumes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8990).
• redfish_info - adds RedfishURI and StorageId to Disk inventory (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8937).
• scaleway_container - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8858).
• scaleway_container_info - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8858).
• scaleway_container_namespace - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8858).
• scaleway_container_namespace_info - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8858).
• scaleway_container_registry - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8858).
• scaleway_container_registry_info - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8858).
• scaleway_function - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8858).
• scaleway_function_info - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8858).
• scaleway_function_namespace - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8858).
• scaleway_function_namespace_info - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8858).
• scaleway_user_data - better construct when using dict.items() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).
• udm_dns_record - replace loop with dict.update() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8876).

Deprecated Features

• hipchat - the hipchat service has been discontinued and the self-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020. The module is therefore deprecated and will be removed from community.general 11.0.0 if nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8919).

Bugfixes

• cloudflare_dns - fix changing Cloudflare SRV records (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8679, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8948).
• cmd_runner module utils - call to get_best_parsable_locales() was missing parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8929).
• dig lookup plugin - fix using only the last nameserver specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8970).
• django_command - option command is now split lexically before passed to underlying PythonRunner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8944).
• homectl - the module now tries to use legacycrypt on Python 3.13+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4691, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8987).
• ini_file - pass absolute paths to module.atomic_move() (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83950, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8925).
• ipa_host - add force_create, fix enabled and disabled states (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1094, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8920).
• ipa_hostgroup - fix enabled `` and ``disabled states (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8408, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8900).
• java_keystore - pass absolute paths to module.atomic_move() (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83950, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8925).
• jenkins_plugin - pass absolute paths to module.atomic_move() (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83950, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8925).
• kdeconfig - pass absolute paths to module.atomic_move() (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83950, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8925).
• keycloak_realm - fix change detection in check mode by sorting the lists in the realms beforehand (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8877).
• keycloak_user_federation - add module argument allowing users to configure the update mode for the parameter bindCredential (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8898).
• keycloak_user_federation - minimize change detection by setting krbPrincipalAttribute to '' in Keycloak responses if missing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8785).
• keycloak_user_federation - remove lastSync parameter from Keycloak responses to minimize diff/changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8812).
• keycloak_userprofile - fix empty response when fetching userprofile component by removing parent=parent_id filter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8923).
• keycloak_userprofile - improve diff by deserializing the fetched kc.user.profile.config and serialize it only when sending back (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8940).
• lxd_container - fix bug introduced in previous commit (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8895, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8888).
• one_service - fix service creation after it was deleted with unique parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3137, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8887).
• pam_limits - pass absolute paths to module.atomic_move() (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83950, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8925).
• python_runner module utils - parameter path_prefix was being handled as string when it should be a list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8944).
• udm_user - the module now tries to use legacycrypt on Python 3.13+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4690, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8987).

New Modules

• community.general.ipa_getkeytab - Manage keytab file in FreeIPA.

v9.4.0

Release Summary

Bugfix and feature release.

Minor Changes

• MH module utils - add parameter when to cause_changes decorator (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8766).
• MH module utils - minor refactor in decorators (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8766).
• alternatives - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• apache2_mod_proxy - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• apache2_mod_proxy - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• consul_acl - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• copr - Added includepkgs and excludepkgs parameters to limit the list of packages fetched or excluded from the repository(https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8779).
• credstash lookup plugin - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• csv module utils - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• deco MH module utils - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• etcd3 - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• gio_mime - mute the old VarDict deprecation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8776).
• gitlab_group - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• gitlab_project - add option issues_access_level to enable/disable project issues (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8760).
• gitlab_project - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• gitlab_project - sorted parameters in order to avoid future merge conflicts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8759).
• hashids filter plugin - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• hwc_ecs_instance - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• hwc_evs_disk - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• hwc_vpc_eip - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• hwc_vpc_peering_connect - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• hwc_vpc_port - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• hwc_vpc_subnet - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• imc_rest - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• ipa_otptoken - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• jira - mute the old VarDict deprecation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8776).
• jira - replace deprecated params when using decorator cause_changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8791).
• keep_keys filter plugin - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• keycloak module utils - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• keycloak_client - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• keycloak_clientscope - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• keycloak_identity_provider - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• keycloak_user_federation - add module argument allowing users to optout of the removal of unspecified mappers, for example to keep the keycloak default mappers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8764).
• keycloak_user_federation - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• keycloak_user_federation - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• keycloak_user_federation - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• linode - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• lxc_container - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• lxd_container - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• manageiq_provider - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• ocapi_utils - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• one_service - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• one_vm - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• onepassword lookup plugin - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• pids - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• pipx - added new states install_all, uninject, upgrade_shared, pin, and unpin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8809).
• pipx - added parameter global to module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8793).
• pipx - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• pipx_info - added parameter global to module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8793).
• pipx_info - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• pkg5_publisher - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• proxmox - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• proxmox_disk - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• proxmox_kvm - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• proxmox_kvm - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• redfish_utils - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• redfish_utils module utils - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• redis cache plugin - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• remove_keys filter plugin - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• replace_keys filter plugin - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• scaleway - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• scaleway module utils - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• scaleway_compute - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• scaleway_ip - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• scaleway_lb - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• scaleway_security_group - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• scaleway_security_group - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• scaleway_user_data - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• sensu_silence - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• snmp_facts - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• sorcery - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8833).
• ufw - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).
• unsafe plugin utils - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• vardict module utils - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• vars MH module utils - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8814).
• vmadm - replace Python 2.6 construct with dict comprehensions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8822).

Deprecated Features

• MH decorator cause_changes module utils - deprecate parameters on_success and on_failure (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8791).
• pipx - support for versions of the command line tool pipx older than 1.7.0 is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8793).
• pipx_info - support for versions of the command line tool pipx older than 1.7.0 is deprecated and will be removed in community.general 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8793).

Bugfixes

• gitlab_group_access_token - fix crash in check mode caused by attempted access to a newly created access token (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8796).
• gitlab_project - fix container_expiration_policy not being applied when creating a new project (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8790).
• gitlab_project - fix crash caused by old Gitlab projects not having a container_expiration_policy attribute (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8790).
• gitlab_project_access_token - fix crash in check mode caused by attempted access to a newly created access token (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8796).
• keycloak_realm_key - fix invalid usage of parent_id (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7850, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8823).
• keycloak_user_federation - fix key error when removing mappers during an update and new mappers are specified in the module args (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8762).
• keycloak_user_federation - fix the UnboundLocalError that occurs when an ID is provided for a user federation mapper (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8831).
• keycloak_user_federation - sort desired and after mapper list by name analog to before mapper list to minimize diff and make change detection more accurate (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8761).
• proxmox inventory plugin - fixed a possible error on concatenating responses from proxmox. In case an API call unexpectedly returned an empty result, the inventory failed with a fatal error. Added check for empty response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8798, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8794).

New Modules

• community.general.keycloak_userprofile - Allows managing Keycloak User Profiles.
• community.general.one_vnet - Manages OpenNebula virtual networks.

v9.3.0

Release Summary

Regular bugfix and feature release.

Minor Changes

• cgroup_memory_recap, hipchat, jabber, log_plays, loganalytics, logentries, logstash, slack, splunk, sumologic, syslog_json callback plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8628).
• chef_databag, consul_kv, cyberarkpassword, dsv, etcd, filetree, hiera, onepassword, onepassword_doc, onepassword_raw, passwordstore, redis, shelvefile, tss lookup plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8626).
• chroot, funcd, incus, iocage, jail, lxc, lxd, qubes, zone connection plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8627).
• cobbler, linode, lxd, nmap, online, scaleway, stackpath_compute, virtualbox inventory plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8625).
• doas, dzdo, ksu, machinectl, pbrun, pfexec, pmrun, sesu, sudosu become plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8623).
• gconftool2 - make use of ModuleHelper features to simplify code (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8711).
• gitlab_project - add option container_expiration_policy to schedule container registry cleanup (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8674).
• gitlab_project - add option model_registry_access_level to disable model registry (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8688).
• gitlab_project - add option pages_access_level to disable project pages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8688).
• gitlab_project - add option repository_access_level to disable project repository (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8674).
• gitlab_project - add option service_desk_enabled to disable service desk (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8688).
• locale_gen - add support for multiple locales (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8677, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8682).
• memcached, pickle, redis, yaml cache plugins - make sure that all options are typed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8624).
• opentelemetry callback plugin - fix default value for store_spans_in_file causing traces to be produced to a file named None (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8566, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8741).
• passwordstore lookup plugin - add the current user to the lockfile file name to address issues on multi-user systems (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8689).
• pipx - add parameter suffix to module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8675, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8656).
• pkgng - add option use_globs default <code>true</code> to optionally disable glob patterns (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8632, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8633).
• proxmox inventory plugin - add new fact for LXC interface details (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8713).
• redis, redis_info - add client_cert and client_key options to specify path to certificate for Redis authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8654).

Bugfixes

• gitlab_runner - fix paused parameter being ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8648).
• homebrew_cask - fix upgrade_all returns changed when nothing upgraded (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8707, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8708).
• keycloak_user_federation - get cleartext IDP clientSecret from full realm info to detect changes to it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8294, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8735).
• keycloak_user_federation - remove existing user federation mappers if they are not present in the federation configuration and will not be updated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7169, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8695).
• proxmox - fixed an issue where the new volume handling incorrectly converted null values into "None" strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8646).
• proxmox - fixed an issue where volume strings where overwritten instead of appended to in the new build_volume() method (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8646).
• proxmox - removed the forced conversion of non-string values to strings to be consistent with the module documentation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8646).

New Modules

• community.general.bootc_manage - Bootc Switch and Upgrade.
• community.general.homebrew_services - Services manager for Homebrew.
• community.general.keycloak_realm_keys_metadata_info - Allows obtaining Keycloak realm keys metadata via Keycloak API.

v9.2.0

Release Summary

Regular bugfix and feature release.

Minor Changes

• CmdRunner module utils - the parameter force_lang now supports the special value auto which will automatically try and determine the best parsable locale in the system (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8517).
• proxmox - add disk_volume and mount_volumes keys for better readability (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
• proxmox - translate the old disk and mounts keys to the new handling internally (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
• proxmox_template - small refactor in logic for determining whether a template exists or not (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8516).
• redfish_* modules - adds ciphers option for custom cipher selection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8533).
• sudosu become plugin - added an option <code>alt\_method</code> to enhance compatibility with more versions of su (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8214).
• virtualbox inventory plugin - expose a new parameter enable_advanced_group_parsing to change how the VirtualBox dynamic inventory parses VM groups (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8508, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8510).
• wdc_redfish_command - minor change to handle upgrade file for Redfish WD platforms (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8444).

Bugfixes

• bitwarden lookup plugin - fix KeyError in search_field (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8549, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8557).
• keycloak_clientscope - remove IDs from clientscope and its protocol mappers on comparison for changed check (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8545).
• nsupdate - fix 'index out of range' error when changing NS records by falling back to authority section of the response (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8612, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8614).
• proxmox - fix idempotency on creation of mount volumes using Proxmox' special <storage>:<size> syntax (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8407, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8542).
• redfish_utils module utils - do not fail when language is not exactly "en" (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8613).

New Plugins

Filter

• community.general.reveal_ansible_type - Return input type.

Test

• community.general.ansible_type - Validate input type.

v9.1.0

Release Summary

Regular feature and bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• CmdRunner module util - argument formats can be specified as plain functions without calling cmd_runner_fmt.as_func() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8479).
• ansible_galaxy_install - add upgrade feature (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8431, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8351).
• cargo - add option directory, which allows source directory to be specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8480).
• cmd_runner module utils - add decorator cmd_runner_fmt.stack (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8415).
• cmd_runner_fmt module utils - simplify implementation of cmd_runner_fmt.as_bool_not() (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8512).
• ipa_dnsrecord - adds SSHFP record type for managing SSH fingerprints in FreeIPA DNS (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8404).
• keycloak_client - assign auth flow by name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8428).
• openbsd_pkg - adds diff support to show changes in installed package list. This does not yet work for check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8402).
• proxmox - allow specification of the API port when using proxmox_* (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8440, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8441).
• proxmox_vm_info - add network option to retrieve current network information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8471).
• redfish_command - add wait and wait_timeout options to allow a user to block a command until a service is accessible after performing the requested command (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8051, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8434).
• redfish_info - add command CheckAvailability to check if a service is accessible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8051, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8434).
• redis_info - adds support for getting cluster info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8464).

Deprecated Features

• CmdRunner module util - setting the value of the ignore_none parameter within a CmdRunner context is deprecated and that feature should be removed in community.general 12.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8479).
• git_config - the list_all option has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 11.0.0. Use the community.general.git_config_info module instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8453).
• git_config - using state=present without providing value is deprecated and will be disallowed in community.general 11.0.0. Use the community.general.git_config_info module instead to read a value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8453).

Bugfixes

• git_config - fix behavior of state=absent if value is present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8436, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8452).
• keycloak_realm - add normalizations for attributes and protocol_mappers (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8496).
• launched - correctly report changed status in check mode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8406).
• opennebula inventory plugin - fix invalid reference to IP when inventory runs against NICs with no IPv4 address (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8489).
• opentelemetry callback - do not save the JSON response when using the ansible.builtin.uri module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8430).
• opentelemetry callback - do not save the content response when using the ansible.builtin.slurp module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8430).
• paman - do not fail if an empty list of packages has been provided and there is nothing to do (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8514).

Known Issues

• homectl - the module does not work under Python 3.13 or newer, since it relies on the removed crypt standard library module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4691, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8497).
• udm_user - the module does not work under Python 3.13 or newer, since it relies on the removed crypt standard library module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4690, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8497).

New Plugins

Filter

• community.general.keep_keys - Keep specific keys from dictionaries in a list.
• community.general.remove_keys - Remove specific keys from dictionaries in a list.
• community.general.replace_keys - Replace specific keys in a list of dictionaries.

New Modules

• community.general.consul_agent_check - Add, modify, and delete checks within a consul cluster.
• community.general.consul_agent_service - Add, modify and delete services within a consul cluster.
• community.general.django_check - Wrapper for C(django-admin check).
• community.general.django_createcachetable - Wrapper for C(django-admin createcachetable).

v9.0.1

Release Summary

Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 10.0.0rc1.

Minor Changes

• ansible_galaxy_install - minor refactor in the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8413).

Bugfixes

• cpanm - use new VarDict to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
• django module utils - use new VarDict to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
• gconftool2_info - use new VarDict to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
• homebrew - do not fail when brew prints warnings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8406, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7044).
• hponcfg - use new VarDict to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
• kernel_blacklist - use new VarDict to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
• keycloak_client - fix TypeError when sanitizing the saml.signing.private.key attribute in the module's diff or state output. The sanitize_cr function expected a dict where in some cases a list might occur (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8403).
• locale_gen - use new VarDict to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
• mksysb - use new VarDict to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
• pipx_info - use new VarDict to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
• snap - use new VarDict to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).
• snap_alias - use new VarDict to prevent deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8410, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8411).

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 <code>rsa\-enc</code> (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](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 <code>command\=PostResource</code> in <code>category\=Raw</code> 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](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.