CHANGELOG.rst

Community General Release Notes

Topics

• v5.0.0-a1
  • Release Summary
  • Major Changes
  • Minor Changes
  • Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
  • Deprecated Features
  • Removed Features (previously deprecated)
  • Bugfixes
  • Known Issues
  • New Plugins
    • Filter

This changelog describes changes after version 4.0.0.

v5.0.0-a1

Release Summary

Alpha release for community.general 5.0.0.

Major Changes

• The community.general collection no longer supports Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10. While we take no active measures to prevent usage, we will remove a lot of compatibility code and other compatility measures that will effectively prevent using most content from this collection with Ansible 2.9, and some content of this collection with ansible-base 2.10. Both Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 will very soon be End of Life and if you are still using them, you should consider upgrading to ansible-core 2.11 or later as soon as possible (ansible-collections#4548).

Minor Changes

• Avoid internal ansible-core module_utils in favor of equivalent public API available since at least Ansible 2.9. This fixes some instances added since the last time this was fixed (ansible-collections#4232).
• Remove vendored copy of distutils.version in favor of vendored copy included with ansible-core 2.12+. For ansible-core 2.11, uses distutils.version for Python < 3.12. There is no support for ansible-core 2.11 with Python 3.12+ (ansible-collections#3988).
• aix_filesystem - calling run_command with arguments as list instead of str (ansible-collections#3833).
• aix_lvg - calling run_command with arguments as list instead of str (ansible-collections#3834).
• alternatives - add state parameter, which provides control over whether the alternative should be set as the active selection for its alternatives group (ansible-collections#4543, ansible-collections#4557).
• ansible_galaxy_install - added option no_deps to the module (ansible-collections#4174).
• atomic_container - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• clc_alert_policy - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4556).
• clc_group - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4556).
• clc_loadbalancer - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4556).
• clc_server - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4556).
• cmd_runner module util - reusable command runner with consistent argument formatting and sensible defaults (ansible-collections#4476).
• cobbler inventory plugin - add include_profiles option (ansible-collections#4068).
• datadog_monitor - support new datadog event monitor of type event-v2 alert (ansible-collections#4457)
• filesystem - add support for resizing btrfs (ansible-collections#4465).
• gitlab - add more token authentication support with the new options api_oauth_token and api_job_token (ansible-collections#705).
• gitlab - clean up modules and utils (ansible-collections#3694).
• gitlab_group, gitlab_project - add new option avatar_path (ansible-collections#3792).
• gitlab_group_variable - new variables parameter (ansible-collections#4038 and ansible-collections#4074).
• gitlab_project - add new option default_branch to gitlab_project (if readme = true) (ansible-collections#3792).
• gitlab_project_variable - new variables parameter (ansible-collections#4038).
• hponcfg - revamped module using ModuleHelper (ansible-collections#3840).
• icinga2 inventory plugin - added the display_name field to variables (ansible-collections#3875, ansible-collections#3906).
• icinga2 inventory plugin - implemented constructed interface (ansible-collections#4088).
• icinga2 inventory plugin - inventory object names are changable using inventory_attr in your config file to the host object name, address, or display_name fields (ansible-collections#3875, ansible-collections#3906).
• ip_netns - calling run_command with arguments as list instead of str (ansible-collections#3822).
• ipa_dnszone - dynamicupdate is now a boolean parameter, instead of a string parameter accepting "true" and "false". Also the module is now idempotent with respect to dynamicupdate (ansible-collections#3374).
• ipa_dnszone - add DNS zone synchronization support (ansible-collections#3374).
• ipa_service - add skip_host_check parameter. (ansible-collections#4417).
• ipmi_boot - add support for user-specified IPMI encryption key (ansible-collections#3698).
• ipmi_power - add machine option to ensure the power state via the remote target address (ansible-collections#3968).
• ipmi_power - add support for user-specified IPMI encryption key (ansible-collections#3698).
• iso_extract - calling run_command with arguments as list instead of str (ansible-collections#3805).
• java_cert - calling run_command with arguments as list instead of str (ansible-collections#3835).
• jira - add support for Bearer token auth (ansible-collections#3838).
• jira - when creating a comment, fields now is used for additional data (ansible-collections#4304).
• keycloak_* modules - added connection timeout parameter when calling server (ansible-collections#4168).
• keycloak_client - add always_display_in_console parameter (ansible-collections#4390).
• keycloak_client - add default_client_scopes and optional_client_scopes parameters. (ansible-collections#4385).
• keycloak_user_federation - add sssd user federation support (ansible-collections#3767).
• ldap_entry - add support for recursive deletion (ansible-collections#3613).
• linode inventory plugin - add support for caching inventory results (ansible-collections#4179).
• linode inventory plugin - allow templating of access_token variable in Linode inventory plugin (ansible-collections#4040).
• listen_ports_facts - add support for ss command besides netstat (ansible-collections#3708).
• lists_mergeby filter plugin - add parameters list_merge and recursive. These are only supported when used with ansible-base 2.10 or ansible-core, but not with Ansible 2.9 (ansible-collections#4058).
• logentries - calling run_command with arguments as list instead of str (ansible-collections#3807).
• logstash_plugin - calling run_command with arguments as list instead of str (ansible-collections#3808).
• lxc_container - added wait_for_container parameter. If true the module will wait until the running task reports success as the status (ansible-collections#4039).
• lxc_container - calling run_command with arguments as list instead of str (ansible-collections#3851).
• lxd connection plugin - make sure that ansible_lxd_host, ansible_executable, and ansible_lxd_executable work (ansible-collections#3798).
• lxd inventory plugin - support virtual machines (ansible-collections#3519).
• lxd_container - adds project option to allow selecting project for LXD instance (ansible-collections#4479).
• lxd_container - adds type option which also allows to operate on virtual machines and not just containers (ansible-collections#3661).
• lxd_profile - adds project option to allow selecting project for LXD profile (ansible-collections#4479).
• mail callback plugin - add Message-ID and Date headers (ansible-collections#4055, ansible-collections#4056).
• mail callback plugin - properly use Ansible's option handling to split lists (ansible-collections#4140).
• mattermost - add the possibility to send attachments instead of text messages (ansible-collections#3946).
• mksysb - revamped the module using ModuleHelper (ansible-collections#3295).
• module_helper module utils - added decorators check_mode_skip and check_mode_skip_returns for skipping methods when check_mode=True (ansible-collections#3849).
• monit - calling run_command with arguments as list instead of str (ansible-collections#3821).
• nmap inventory plugin - add sudo option in plugin in order to execute sudo nmap so that nmap runs with elevated privileges (ansible-collections#4506).
• nmcli - add wireguard connection type (ansible-collections#3985).
• nmcli - add missing connection aliases 802-3-ethernet and 802-11-wireless (ansible-collections#4108).
• nmcli - add multiple addresses support for ip4 parameter (ansible-collections#1088, ansible-collections#3738).
• nmcli - add multiple addresses support for ip6 parameter (ansible-collections#1088).
• nmcli - add support for eui64 and ipv6privacy parameters (ansible-collections#3357).
• nmcli - adds routes6 and route_metric6 parameters for supporting IPv6 routes (ansible-collections#4059).
• nmcli - remove nmcli modify dependency on type parameter (ansible-collections#2858).
• nomad_job - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• nomad_job_info - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• npm - add ability to use production flag when ci is set (ansible-collections#4299).
• open_iscsi - extended module to allow rescanning of established session for one or all targets (ansible-collections#3763).
• opennebula - add the release action for VMs in the HOLD state (ansible-collections#4036).
• opentelemetry_plugin - enrich service when using the docker_login (ansible-collections#4104).
• opentelemetry_plugin - enrich service when using the jenkins, hetzner or jira modules (ansible-collections#4105).
• packet_device - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• packet_sshkey - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• packet_volume - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• pacman - add remove_nosave parameter to avoid saving modified configuration files as .pacsave files. (ansible-collections#4316, ansible-collections#4315).
• pacman - add stdout and stderr as return values (ansible-collections#3758).
• pacman - now implements proper change detection for update_cache=true. Adds cache_updated return value to when update_cache=true to report this result independently of the module's overall changed return value (ansible-collections#4337).
• pacman - the module has been rewritten and is now much faster when using state=latest. Operations are now done all packages at once instead of package per package and the configured output format of pacman no longer affect the module's operation. (ansible-collections#3907, ansible-collections#3783, ansible-collections#4079)
• passwordstore lookup plugin - add configurable lock and locktimeout options to avoid race conditions in itself and in the pass utility it calls. By default, the plugin now locks on write operations (ansible-collections#4194).
• pipx - added options editable and pip_args (ansible-collections#4300).
• profitbricks - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• proxmox - add clone parameter (ansible-collections#3930).
• proxmox - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• proxmox inventory plugin - add support for client-side jinja filters (ansible-collections#3553).
• proxmox inventory plugin - add support for templating the url, user, and password options (ansible-collections#4418).
• proxmox inventory plugin - add token authentication as an alternative to username/password (ansible-collections#4540).
• proxmox inventory plugin - parse LXC configs returned by the proxmox API (ansible-collections#4472).
• proxmox modules - move HAS_PROXMOXER check into module_utils (ansible-collections#4030).
• proxmox modules - move common code into module_utils (ansible-collections#4029).
• proxmox_kvm - added EFI disk support when creating VM with OVMF UEFI BIOS with new efidisk0 option (ansible-collections#4106, ansible-collections#1638).
• proxmox_kwm - add win11 to ostype parameter for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 support (ansible-collections#4023, ansible-collections#4191).
• proxmox_snap - add restore snapshot option (ansible-collections#4377).
• proxmox_snap - fixed timeout value to correctly reflect time in seconds. The timeout was off by one second (ansible-collections#4377).
• puppet - remove deprecation for show_diff parameter. Its alias show-diff is still deprecated and will be removed in community.general 7.0.0 (ansible-collections#3980).
• python_requirements_info - returns python version broken down into its components, and some minor refactoring (ansible-collections#3797).
• redfish_command - add GetHostInterfaces command to enable reporting Redfish Host Interface information (ansible-collections#3693).
• redfish_command - add IndicatorLedOn, IndicatorLedOff, and IndicatorLedBlink commands to the Systems category for controling system LEDs (ansible-collections#4084).
• redfish_command - add SetHostInterface command to enable configuring the Redfish Host Interface (ansible-collections#3632).
• redis - add authentication parameters login_user, tls, validate_certs, and ca_certs (ansible-collections#4207).
• scaleway inventory plugin - add profile parameter scw_profile (ansible-collections#4049).
• scaleway_compute - add possibility to use project identifier (new project option) instead of deprecated organization identifier (ansible-collections#3951).
• scaleway_volume - all volumes are systematically created on par1 (ansible-collections#3964).
• seport - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4471).
• smartos_image_info - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• snap - add option options permitting to set options using the snap set command (ansible-collections#3943).
• sudoers - add support for runas parameter (ansible-collections#4379).
• svc - calling run_command with arguments as list instead of str (ansible-collections#3829).
• syslog_json - add option to skip logging of gather_facts playbook tasks; use v2 callback API (ansible-collections#4223).
• terraform - adds terraform_upgrade parameter which allows terraform init to satisfy new provider constraints in an existing Terraform project (ansible-collections#4333).
• udm_group - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4556).
• udm_share - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4556).
• vmadm - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• webfaction_app - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• webfaction_db - minor refactoring (ansible-collections#4567).
• xattr - calling run_command with arguments as list instead of str (ansible-collections#3806).
• xfconf - added missing value types char, uchar, int64 and uint64 (ansible-collections#4534).
• xfconf - minor refactor on the base class for the module (ansible-collections#3919).
• zypper - add support for --clean-deps option to remove packages that depend on a package being removed (ansible-collections#4195).

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

• Parts of this collection do not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+. Please either upgrade to ansible-core 2.12+, or use Python 3.11 or earlier (ansible-collections#3988).
• The symbolic links used to implement flatmapping for all modules were removed and replaced by meta/runtime.yml redirects. This effectively breaks compatibility with Ansible 2.9 for all modules (without using their "long" names, which is discouraged and which can change without previous notice since they are considered an implementation detail) (ansible-collections#4548).
• a_module test plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (ansible-collections#4548).
• archive - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (ansible-collections#4548).
• git_config - remove Ansible 2.9 and early ansible-base 2.10 compatibility code (ansible-collections#4548).
• java_keystore - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (ansible-collections#4548).
• lists_mergeby filter plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (ansible-collections#4548).
• maven_artifact - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (ansible-collections#4548).
• memcached cache plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (ansible-collections#4548).
• path_join filter plugin shim - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (ansible-collections#4548).
• redis cache plugin - remove Ansible 2.9 compatibility code (ansible-collections#4548).

Deprecated Features

• gem - the default of the norc option has been deprecated and will change to true in community.general 6.0.0. Explicitly specify a value to avoid a deprecation warning (ansible-collections#4517).
• mail callback plugin - not specifying sender is deprecated and will be disallowed in community.general 6.0.0 (ansible-collections#4140).
• module_helper module utils - deprecated the attribute ModuleHelper.VarDict (ansible-collections#3801).
• nmcli - deprecate default hairpin mode for a bridge. This so we can change it to false in community.general 7.0.0, as this is also the default in nmcli (ansible-collections#4334).
• pacman - from community.general 5.0.0 on, the changed status of update_cache will no longer be ignored if name or upgrade is specified. To keep the old behavior, add something like register: result and changed_when: result.packages | length > 0 to your task (ansible-collections#4329).
• proxmox inventory plugin - the current default true of the want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host option has been deprecated. The default will change to false in community.general 6.0.0. To keep the current behavior, explicitly set want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host to true in your inventory configuration. We suggest to already switch to the new behavior by explicitly setting it to false, and by using compose: to set ansible_host to the correct value. See the examples in the plugin documentation for details (ansible-collections#4466).
• vmadm - deprecated module parameter debug that was not used anywhere (ansible-collections#4580).

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

• ali_instance_info - removed the options availability_zone, instance_ids, and instance_names. Use filter item zone_id instead of availability_zone, filter item instance_ids instead of instance_ids, and filter item instance_name instead of instance_names (ansible-collections#4516).
• apt_rpm - removed the deprecated alias update-cache of update_cache (ansible-collections#4516).
• compose - removed various deprecated aliases. Use the version with _ instead of - instead (ansible-collections#4516).
• dnsimple - remove support for dnsimple < 2.0.0 (ansible-collections#4516).
• github_deploy_key - removed the deprecated alias 2fa_token of otp (ansible-collections#4516).
• homebrew, homebrew_cask - removed the deprecated alias update-brew of update_brew (ansible-collections#4516).
• linode - removed the backupsenabled option. Use backupweeklyday or backupwindow to enable backups (ansible-collections#4516).
• opkg - removed the deprecated alias update-cache of update_cache (ansible-collections#4516).
• pacman - if update_cache=true is used with name or upgrade, the changed state will now also indicate if only the cache was updated. To keep the old behavior - only indicate changed when a package was installed/upgraded -, use changed_when as indicated in the module examples (ansible-collections#4516).
• pacman - removed the deprecated alias update-cache of update_cache (ansible-collections#4516).
• proxmox, proxmox_kvm, proxmox_snap - no longer allow to specify a VM name that matches multiple VMs. If this happens, the modules now fail (ansible-collections#4516).
• serverless - removed the functions option. It was not used by the module (ansible-collections#4516).
• slackpkg - removed the deprecated alias update-cache of update_cache (ansible-collections#4516).
• urpmi - removed the deprecated alias no-recommends of no_recommends (ansible-collections#4516).
• urpmi - removed the deprecated alias update-cache of update_cache (ansible-collections#4516).
• xbps - removed the deprecated alias update-cache of update_cache (ansible-collections#4516).
• xfconf - the get state has been removed. Use the xfconf_info module instead (ansible-collections#4516).

Bugfixes

• Various modules and plugins - use vendored version of distutils.version instead of the deprecated Python standard library distutils (ansible-collections#3936).
• a_module test plugin - fix crash when testing a module name that was tombstoned (ansible-collections#3660).
• alternatives - fix output parsing for alternatives groups (ansible-collections#3976).
• cargo - fix detection of outdated packages when state=latest (ansible-collections#4052).
• cargo - fix incorrectly reported changed status for packages with a name containing a hyphen (ansible-collections#4044, ansible-collections#4052).
• counter_enabled callback plugin - fix output to correctly display host and task counters in serial mode (ansible-collections#3709).
• dconf - skip processes that disappeared while we inspected them (ansible-collections#4151).
• dnsmadeeasy - fix failure on deleting DNS entries when API response does not contain monitor value (ansible-collections#3620).
• dsv lookup plugin - raise an Ansible error if the wrong python-dsv-sdk version is installed (ansible-collections#4422).
• filesize - add support for busybox dd implementation, that is used by default on Alpine linux (ansible-collections#4288, ansible-collections#4259).
• git_branch - remove deprecated and unnecessary branch unprotect method (ansible-collections#4496).
• github_repo - private and description attributes should not be set to default values when the repo already exists (ansible-collections#2386).
• gitlab_group - improve searching for projects inside group on deletion (ansible-collections#4491).
• gitlab_group_members - handle more than 20 groups when finding a group (ansible-collections#4491, ansible-collections#4460, ansible-collections#3729).
• gitlab_group_variable - add missing documentation about GitLab versions that support environment_scope and variable_type (ansible-collections#4038).
• gitlab_group_variable - allow to set same variable name under different environment scopes. Due this change, the return value group_variable differs from previous version in check mode. It was counting updated values, because it was accidentally overwriting environment scopes (ansible-collections#4038).
• gitlab_group_variable - fix idempotent change behaviour for float and integer variables (ansible-collections#4038).
• gitlab_hook - handle more than 20 hooks when finding a hook (ansible-collections#4491).
• gitlab_project - handle more than 20 namespaces when finding a namespace (ansible-collections#4491).
• gitlab_project_members - handle more than 20 projects and users when finding a project resp. user (ansible-collections#4491).
• gitlab_project_variable - value is not necessary when deleting variables (ansible-collections#4150).
• gitlab_project_variable - add missing documentation about GitLab versions that support environment_scope and variable_type (ansible-collections#4038).
• gitlab_project_variable - allow to set same variable name under different environment scopes. Due this change, the return value project_variable differs from previous version in check mode. It was counting updated values, because it was accidentally overwriting environment scopes (ansible-collections#4038).
• gitlab_project_variable - fix idempotent change behaviour for float and integer variables (ansible-collections#4038).
• gitlab_runner - make project and owned mutually exclusive (ansible-collections#4136).
• gitlab_runner - use correct API endpoint to create and retrieve project level runners when using project (ansible-collections#3965).
• gitlab_user - handle more than 20 users and SSH keys when finding a user resp. SSH key (ansible-collections#4491).
• homebrew_cask - fix force install operation (ansible-collections#3703).
• icinga2 inventory plugin - handle 404 error when filter produces no results (ansible-collections#3875, ansible-collections#3906).
• imc_rest - fixes the module failure due to the usage of itertools.izip_longest which is not available in Python 3 (ansible-collections#4206).
• ini_file - when removing nothing do not report changed (ansible-collections#4154).
• interfaces_file - fixed the check for existing option in interface (ansible-collections#3841).
• jail connection plugin - replace deprecated distutils.spawn.find_executable with Ansible's get_bin_path to find the executable (ansible-collections#3934).
• jira - fixed bug where module returns error related to dictionary key body (ansible-collections#3419).
• keycloak - fix parameters types for defaultDefaultClientScopes and defaultOptionalClientScopes from list of dictionaries to list of strings (ansible-collections#4526).
• keycloak_* - the documented validate_certs parameter was not taken into account when calling the open_url function in some cases, thus enforcing certificate validation even when validate_certs was set to false. (ansible-collections#4382)
• keycloak_user_federation - creating a user federation while specifying an ID (that does not exist yet) no longer fail with a 404 Not Found (ansible-collections#4212).
• keycloak_user_federation - mappers auto-created by keycloak are matched and merged by their name and no longer create duplicated entries (ansible-collections#4212).
• ldap_search - allow it to be used even in check mode (ansible-collections#3619).
• linode inventory plugin - fix configuration handling relating to inventory filtering (ansible-collections#4336).
• listen_ports_facts - local port regex was not handling well IPv6 only binding. Fixes the regex for ss (ansible-collections#4092).
• lvol - allows logical volumes to be created with certain size arguments prefixed with + to preserve behavior of older versions of this module (ansible-collections#3665).
• lxd connection plugin - replace deprecated distutils.spawn.find_executable with Ansible's get_bin_path to find the lxc executable (ansible-collections#3934).
• lxd inventory plugin - do not crash if OS and release metadata are not present (ansible-collections#4351).
• mail callback plugin - fix crash on Python 3 (ansible-collections#4025, ansible-collections#4026).
• mail callback plugin - fix encoding of the name of sender and recipient (ansible-collections#4060, ansible-collections#4061).
• mksysb - fixed bug for parameter backup_dmapi_fs was passing the wrong CLI argument (ansible-collections#3295).
• nmcli - fix returning "changed" when no mask set for IPv4 or IPv6 addresses on task rerun (ansible-collections#3768).
• nmcli - fix returning "changed" when routes parameters set, also suggest new routes4 and routes6 format (ansible-collections#4131).
• nmcli - fixed falsely reported changed status when mtu is omitted with dummy connections (ansible-collections#3612, ansible-collections#3625).
• nmcli - pass flags, ingress, egress params to nmcli (ansible-collections#1086).
• nrdp callback plugin - fix error string arguments without an encoding (ansible-collections#3903).
• opennebula inventory plugin - complete the implementation of constructable for opennebula inventory plugin. Now keyed_groups, compose, groups actually work (ansible-collections#4497).
• opentelemetry - fix generating a trace with a task containing no_log: true (ansible-collections#4043).
• opentelemetry_plugin - honour ignore_errors when a task has failed instead of reporting an error (ansible-collections#3837).
• pacman - Use --groups instead of --group (ansible-collections#4312).
• pacman - fix URL based package installation (ansible-collections#4286, ansible-collections#4285).
• pacman - fix upgrade=yes (ansible-collections#4275, ansible-collections#4274).
• pacman - fixed bug where absent state did not work for locally installed packages (ansible-collections#4464).
• pacman - make sure that packages is always returned when name or upgrade is specified, also if nothing is done (ansible-collections#4329).
• pacman - when the update_cache option is combined with another option such as upgrade, report changed based on the actions performed by the latter option. This was the behavior in community.general 4.4.0 and before. In community.general 4.5.0, a task combining these options would always report changed (ansible-collections#4318).
• passwordstore lookup plugin - fix error detection for non-English locales (ansible-collections#4219).
• passwordstore lookup plugin - prevent returning path names as passwords by accident (ansible-collections#4185, ansible-collections#4192).
• passwordstore lookup plugin - replace deprecated distutils.util.strtobool with Ansible's convert_bool.boolean to interpret values for the create, returnall, overwrite, 'backup``, and nosymbols options (ansible-collections#3934).
• pipx - passes the correct command line option --include-apps (ansible-collections#3791).
• pritunl - fixed bug where pritunl plugin api add unneeded data in auth_string parameter (ansible-collections#4527).
• proxmox - fixed onboot parameter causing module failures when undefined (ansible-collections#3844).
• proxmox inventory plugin - always convert strings that follow the key=value[,key=value[...]] form into dictionaries (ansible-collections#4349).
• proxmox inventory plugin - fix error when parsing container with LXC configs (ansible-collections#4472, ansible-collections#4472).
• proxmox inventory plugin - fixed the description field being ignored if it contained a comma (ansible-collections#4348).
• proxmox inventory plugin - fixed the tags_parsed field when Proxmox returns a single space for the tags entry (ansible-collections#4378).
• proxmox_kvm - fix a bug when getting a state of VM without name will fail (ansible-collections#4508).
• proxmox_kvm - fix error in check when creating or cloning (ansible-collections#4306).
• proxmox_kvm - fix error when checking whether Proxmox VM exists (ansible-collections#4287).
• python_requirements_info - fails if version operator used without version (ansible-collections#3785).
• python_requirements_info - store mismatched return values per package as documented in the module (ansible-collections#4078).
• say callback plugin - replace deprecated distutils.spawn.find_executable with Ansible's get_bin_path to find the say resp. espeak executables (ansible-collections#3934).
• scaleway_user_data - fix double-quote added where no double-quote is needed to user data in scaleway's server (Content-type -> Content-Type) (ansible-collections#3940).
• slack - add charset to HTTP headers to avoid Slack API warning (ansible-collections#3932).
• terraform - fix command options being ignored during planned/plan in function build_plan such as lock or lock_timeout (ansible-collections#3707, ansible-collections#3726).
• vdo - fix options error (ansible-collections#4163).
• xattr - fix exception caused by _run_xattr() raising a ValueError due to a mishandling of base64-encoded value (ansible-collections#3673).
• xbps - fix error message that is reported when installing packages fails (ansible-collections#4438).
• yarn - fix incorrect handling of yarn list and yarn global list output that could result in fatal error (ansible-collections#4050).
• yarn - fix incorrectly reported status when installing a package globally (ansible-collections#4045, ansible-collections#4050).
• yarn - fix missing ~ expansion in yarn global install folder which resulted in incorrect task status (ansible-collections#4045, ansible-collections#4048).
• yum_versionlock - fix matching of existing entries with names passed to the module. Match yum and dnf lock format (ansible-collections#4183).
• zone connection plugin - replace deprecated distutils.spawn.find_executable with Ansible's get_bin_path to find the executable (ansible-collections#3934).
• zypper - fixed bug that caused zypper to always report [ok] and do nothing on state=present when all packages in name had a version specification (ansible-collections#4371, ansible-collections#4421).

Known Issues

• pacman - update_cache cannot differentiate between up to date and outdated package lists and will report changed in both situations (ansible-collections#4318).
• pacman - binaries specified in the executable parameter must support --print-format in order to be used by this module. In particular, AUR helper yay is known not to currently support it (ansible-collections#4312).

New Plugins

Filter

• counter - Counts hashable elements in a sequence