New release v2.7.0v2.7.0

5 files changed, 167 insertions, 310 deletions

diff --git a/changelogs/.changes.yaml b/changelogs/.changes.yaml
index 4e65865732..8019ae5c2c 100644
--- a/changelogs/.changes.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/.changes.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 releases:
+  2.7.0:
+    codename: In the Light
+    fragments:
+    - v2.7.0_summary.yaml
+    release_date: '2018-10-03'
   2.7.0.a1:
     codename: In the Light
     fragments:
diff --git a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst
index 6abd4f3f30..eedeb35609 100644
--- a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst
+++ b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst
@@ -5,319 +5,13 @@ Ansible 2.7 "In the Light" Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics
 
 
-v2.7.0rc4
-=========
+v2.7.0
+======
 
 Release Summary
 ---------------
 
-| Release Date: 2018-09-27
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Change the pypi metadata to specify that Python-2.7 or greater is needed on the controller.  This will prevent pip from installing or upgrading to Ansible-2.7 when run under Python-2.6.  Python-2.6 users will get Ansible-2.6.x updates instead.
-
-v2.7.0rc3
-=========
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2018-09-20
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- ec2_group - Sanitize the ingress and egress rules before operating on them by flattening any lists within lists describing the target CIDR(s) into a list of strings. Prior to Ansible 2.6 the ec2_group module accepted a list of strings, a list of lists, or a combination of strings and lists within a list. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45594
-- fix nxos_facts indefinite hang for text based output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45845).
-
-v2.7.0rc2
-=========
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2018-09-13
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- Fix timer in exponential backoff algorithm in vmware.py.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Add ambiguous command check as the error message is not persistent on nexus devices (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45337).
-- cloudfront_distribution - replace call to nonexistent method 'validate_distribution_id_from_caller_reference' with 'validate_distribution_from_caller_reference' and set the distribution_id variable to the distribution's 'Id' key.
-- fix azure storage blob cannot create blob container in non-public azure cloud environment. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35223)
-- fix azure_rm_autoscale module can use dict to identify target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45477)
-- get_url - Don't re-download files unnecessarily when force=no (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45491)
-- get_url - support remote checksum files with paths specified with leading dots (`./path/to/file`)
-- loop - Ensure that a loop with a when condition that evaluates to false and delegate_to, will short circuit if the loop references an undefined variable. This matches the behavior in the same scenario without delegate_to (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45189)
-- script inventory plugin - Don't pass file_name to DataLoader.load, which will prevent misleading error messages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/34164)
-- win_group_membership - fix intermittent issue where it failed to convert the ADSI object to the .NET object after using it once
-- win_say - fix syntax error in module and get tests working
-
-New Plugins
------------
-
-Strategy
-~~~~~~~~
-
-- host_pinned - Executes tasks on each host without interruption
-
-v2.7.0rc1
-=========
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2018-09-06
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- dnf - group removal does not work if group was installed with Ansible because of dnf upstream bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1620324
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Add argspec to aws_application_scaling_policy module to handle metric specifications, scaling cooldowns, and target values. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45235
-- Allow arbitrary ``log_driver`` for docker_container (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/33579).
-- Fix ec2_group support for multi-account and peered VPC security groups. Reported in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issue/44788 and fixed in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45296
-- Fix ecs_taskdefinition handling of changed role_arn. If the task role in a ECS task definition changes ansible should create a new revsion of the task definition. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45317
-- Fix health check parameter handling in elb_target_group per https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43244 about health_check_port. Fixed in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45314
-- Fix lambda_policy updates when principal is an account number. Backport of https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44871
-- Fix python2.6 `nothing to repeat` nxos terminal plugin bug (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45271).
-- Fix s3_lifecycle module backwards compatibility without providing prefix. Blank prefixes regression was introduced in boto3 rewrite. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45318
-- Fix terminal plugin regex nxos, iosxr (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45135).
-- Remove spurious `changed=True` returns when ec2_group module is used with numeric ports. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45240
-- Support key names that contain spaces in ec2_metadata_facts module. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45313
-- The docker_* modules respect the DOCKER_* environment variables again (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42641).
-- corrected and clarified 'user' option deprecation in systemd module in favor of 'scope' option.
-- docker_container: fixing ``working_dir`` idempotency problem (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42857)
-- docker_container: makes unit parsing for memory sizes more consistent, and fixes idempotency problem when ``kernel_memory`` is set (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/16748 and https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42692)
-- ec2_vpc_route_table - check the origin before replacing routes. Routes with the origin 'EnableVgwRoutePropagation' may not be replaced.
-- elb_target_group - cast target ports to integers before making API calls after the key 'Targets' is in params.
-- fixed typo in config that prevented keys matching
-- fixes docker_container check and debug mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42380)
-- improves docker_container idempotency (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44808)
-
-New Modules
------------
-
-Cloud
-~~~~~
-
-online
-^^^^^^
-
-- online_user_facts - Gather facts about Online user.
-
-v2.7.0b1
-========
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2018-08-31
-| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
-
-
-Minor Changes
--------------
-
-- GCP Modules will do home path expansion on service account file paths
-- action plugins strictly accept valid parameters and report invalid parameters
-- import_tasks - Do not allow import_tasks to transition to dynamic if the file is missing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44822)
-- onepassword/onepassword_raw - accept subdomain and vault_password to allow Ansible to unlock 1Password vaults
-- win_disk_image - return a list of mount paths with the return value ``mount_paths``, this will always be a list and contain all mount points in an image
-- win_psexec - Added the ``session`` option to specify a session to start the process in
-
-Deprecated Features
--------------------
-
-- win_disk_image - the return value ``mount_path`` is deprecated and will be removed in 2.11, this can be accessed through ``mount_paths[0]`` instead.
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- delegate_to - ensure if we get a non-Task object in _get_delegated_vars, we return early (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44934)
-- get_url / uri - Use custom rfc2822 date format function instead of locale specific strftime (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44857)
-- improved block docs
-- include - Change order of where the new block is inserted with apply so that apply args are not applied to the include also (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44912)
-- includes - ensure we do not double register handlers from includes to prevent exception (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44848)
-- loop - Ensure we only cache the loop when the task had a loop and delegate_to was templated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44874)
-- win_psexec - changed code to not escape the command option when building the args - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43839
-- win_uri: Fix support for JSON output when charset is set
-- win_wait_for - fix issue where timeout doesn't wait unless state=drained - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43446
-
-New Plugins
------------
-
-Lookup
-~~~~~~
-
-- cpm_metering - Get Power and Current data from WTI OOB/Combo and PDU devices
-
-New Modules
------------
-
-Cloud
-~~~~~
-
-amazon
-^^^^^^
-
-- elb_target_facts - Gathers which target groups a target is associated with.
-- rds_instance - Manage RDS instances
-
-azure
-^^^^^
-
-- azure_rm_autoscale - Manage Azure autoscale setting.
-- azure_rm_autoscale_facts - Get Azure Auto Scale Setting facts.
-- azure_rm_containerregistry_facts - Get Azure Container Registry facts.
-- azure_rm_sqlfirewallrule - Manage Firewall Rule instance.
-- azure_rm_trafficmanagerendpoint - Manage Azure Traffic Manager endpoint.
-- azure_rm_trafficmanagerendpoint_facts - Get Azure Traffic Manager endpoint facts
-- azure_rm_trafficmanagerprofile - Manage Azure Traffic Manager profile.
-- azure_rm_trafficmanagerprofile_facts - Get Azure Traffic Manager profile facts
-- azure_rm_webapp_facts - Get azure web app facts.
-
-google
-^^^^^^
-
-- gcp_compute_router - Creates a GCP Router
-- gcp_spanner_database - Creates a GCP Database
-- gcp_spanner_instance - Creates a GCP Instance
-- gcp_sql_database - Creates a GCP Database
-- gcp_sql_instance - Creates a GCP Instance
-- gcp_sql_user - Creates a GCP User
-
-vmware
-^^^^^^
-
-- vmware_host_ntp_facts - Gathers facts about NTP configuration on an ESXi host
-
-Identity
-~~~~~~~~
-
-- onepassword_facts - Fetch facts from 1Password items
-
-Network
-~~~~~~~
-
-fortimanager
-^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-- fmgr_provisioning - Provision devices via FortiMananger
-
-ftd
-^^^
-
-- ftd_configuration - Manages configuration on Cisco FTD devices over REST API
-- ftd_file_download - Downloads files from Cisco FTD devices over HTTP(S)
-- ftd_file_upload - Uploads files to Cisco FTD devices over HTTP(S)
-
-opx
-^^^
-
-- opx_cps - CPS operations on networking device running Openswitch (OPX)
-
-Remote Management
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-cpm
-^^^
-
-- cpm_user - Get various status and parameters from WTI OOB and PDU devices
-
-redfish
-^^^^^^^
-
-- redfish_command - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
-- redfish_config - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
-
-Storage
-~~~~~~~
-
-ibm
-^^^
-
-- ibm_sa_host - Adds hosts to or removes them from IBM Spectrum Accelerate storage systems.
-- ibm_sa_pool - Handles pools on an IBM Spectrum Accelerate storage array.
-
-netapp
-^^^^^^
-
-- na_elementsw_access_group - NetApp Element Software Manage Access Groups
-- na_elementsw_account - NetApp Element Software Manage Accounts
-- na_elementsw_admin_users - NetApp Element Software Manage Admin Users
-- na_elementsw_check_connections - NetApp Element Software Check connectivity to MVIP and SVIP.
-- na_elementsw_cluster - NetApp Element Software Create Cluster
-- na_elementsw_drive - NetApp Element Software Manage Node Drives
-- na_elementsw_ldap - NetApp Element Software Manage ldap admin users
-- na_elementsw_network_interfaces - NetApp Element Software Configure Node Network Interfaces
-- na_elementsw_node - NetApp Element Software Node Operation
-- na_elementsw_snapshot - NetApp Element Software Manage Snapshots
-- na_elementsw_snapshot_restore - NetApp Element Software Restore Snapshot
-- na_elementsw_volume_clone - NetApp Element Software Create Volume Clone
-- na_ontap_autosupport - NetApp ONTAP manage Autosupport
-- na_ontap_cluster_peer - NetApp ONTAP Manage Cluster peering
-- na_ontap_command - NetApp ONTAP Run any cli command
-- na_ontap_disks - NetApp ONTAP Assign disks to nodes
-- na_ontap_firewall_policy - NetApp ONTAP Manage a firewall policy
-- na_ontap_gather_facts - NetApp information gatherer
-- na_ontap_motd - Setup motd on cDOT
-- na_ontap_node - NetApp ONTAP Rename a node.
-- netapp_e_alerts - NetApp E-Series manage email notification settings
-- netapp_e_asup - NetApp E-Series manage auto-support settings
-- netapp_e_auditlog - NetApp E-Series manage audit-log configuration
-- netapp_e_global - NetApp E-Series manage global settings configuration
-- netapp_e_iscsi_interface - NetApp E-Series manage iSCSI interface configuration
-- netapp_e_iscsi_target - NetApp E-Series manage iSCSI target configuration
-- netapp_e_ldap - NetApp E-Series manage LDAP integration to use for authentication
-- netapp_e_mgmt_interface - NetApp E-Series management interface configuration
-- netapp_e_syslog - NetApp E-Series manage syslog settings
-
-purestorage
-^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-- purefb_facts - Collect facts from Pure Storage FlashBlade
-
-Web Infrastructure
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-ansible_tower
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-- tower_credential_type - Create, update, or destroy custom Ansible Tower credential type.
-- tower_settings - Modify Ansible Tower settings.
-- tower_workflow_template - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower workflow template.
-
-Windows
-~~~~~~~
-
-- win_wait_for_process - Waits for a process to exist or not exist before continuing.
-- win_xml - Add XML fragment to an XML parent
-
-v2.7.0.a1
-=========
-
-Release Summary
----------------
-
-| Release Date: 2018-08-31
+| Release Date: 2018-10-04
 | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
 
 
@@ -351,8 +45,10 @@ Minor Changes
 - Explicit encoding for the output of the template module, to be able to generate non-utf8 files from a utf-8 template. (https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/121)
 - File locking feature added, making it possible to gain exclusive access to given file through module_utils.common.file.FileLock (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29962)
 - Fix dnf handling of autoremove to be compatible with yum
+- Fix timer in exponential backoff algorithm in vmware.py.
 - Fixed group action idempotent transactions in dnf backend
 - Fixed group actions in check mode to report correct changed state
+- GCP Modules will do home path expansion on service account file paths
 - In Ansible-2.4 and above, Ansible passes the temporary directory a module should use to the module.  This is done via a module parameter (_ansible_tmpdir).  An earlier version of this which was also prototyped in Ansible-2.4 development used an environment variable, ANSIBLE_REMOTE_TMP to pass this information to the module instead.  When we switched to using a module parameter, the environment variable was left in by mistake. Ansible-2.7 removes that variable.  Any third party modules which relied on it should use the module parameter instead.
 - New config options `display_ok_hosts` and `display_failed_stderr` (along with the existing `display_skipped_hosts` option) allow more fine-grained control over the way that ansible displays output from a playbook (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41058)
 - Removed an unnecessary import from the AnsiballZ wrapper
@@ -362,15 +58,19 @@ Minor Changes
 - The acme_account and acme_certificate modules now support two backends: the Python cryptograpy module or the OpenSSL binary. By default, the modules detect if a new enough cryptography module is available and use it, with the OpenSSL binary being a fallback. If the detection fails for some reason, the OpenSSL binary backend can be explicitly selected by setting select_crypto_backend to openssl.
 - The apt, ec2_elb_lb, elb_classic_lb, and unarchive modules have been ported away from using __file__.  This is futureproofing as__file__ won't work if we switch to using python -m to invoke modules in the future or if we figure out a way to make a module never touch disk for pipelining purposes.
 - The password_hash filter supports all parameters of passlib. This allows users to provide a rounds parameter. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/15326)
+- action plugins strictly accept valid parameters and report invalid parameters
 - allow user to customize default ansible-console prompt/msg default color
 - aws_caller_facts - The module now outputs the "account_alias" as well
 - aws_rds - Add new inventory plugin for RDS instances and clusters to match behavior in the ec2 inventory script.
 - command module - Add support for check mode when passing creates or removes arguments. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40428)
+- dnf - group removal does not work if group was installed with Ansible because of dnf upstream bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1620324
 - ec2_group - Add diff mode support with and without check mode. This feature is preview and may change when a common framework is adopted for AWS modules.
 - elasticsearch_plugin - Add the possibility to use the elasticsearch_plugin installation batch mode to install plugins with advanced privileges without user interaction.
 - gather_subset - removed deprecated functionality for using comma separated list with gather_subset (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44320)
 - get_url - implement [expend checksum format to <algorithm>:(<checksum>|<url>)] (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27617)
+- import_tasks - Do not allow import_tasks to transition to dynamic if the file is missing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44822)
 - lineinfile - add warning when using an empty regexp (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29443)
+- onepassword/onepassword_raw - accept subdomain and vault_password to allow Ansible to unlock 1Password vaults
 - password_hash is not restricted to the subset provided by crypt.crypt (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17266)
 - passwordstore - Add backup option when overwriting password (off by default)
 - puppet - Add support for --debug, --verbose, --summarize https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/37986
@@ -393,6 +93,8 @@ Minor Changes
 - win_chocolatey - Removed the need to manually escape double quotes in the proxy username and password
 - win_chocolatey - Will no longer upgrade Chocolatey in check mode
 - win_chocolatey - set the rc return value to always be returned, default to 0 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41758
+- win_disk_image - return a list of mount paths with the return value ``mount_paths``, this will always be a list and contain all mount points in an image
+- win_psexec - Added the ``session`` option to specify a session to start the process in
 - winrm - change the _reset() method to use reset() that is part of ConnectionBase
 
 Deprecated Features
@@ -400,6 +102,7 @@ Deprecated Features
 
 - Modules will no longer be able to rely on the __file__ attribute pointing to a real file.  If your third party module is using __file__ for something it should be changed before 2.8.  See the 2.7 porting guide for more information.
 - The `skippy`, `full_skip`, `actionable`, and `stderr` callback plugins have been deprecated in favor of config options that influence the behavior of the `default` callback plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41058)
+- win_disk_image - the return value ``mount_path`` is deprecated and will be removed in 2.11, this can be accessed through ``mount_paths[0]`` instead.
 
 Removed Features (previously deprecated)
 ----------------------------------------
@@ -414,18 +117,31 @@ Bugfixes
 - **Security Fix** - Some connection exceptions would cause no_log specified on a task to be ignored.  If this happened, the task information, including any private information could have been displayed to stdout and (if enabled, not the default) logged to a log file specified in ansible.cfg's log_path. Additionally, sites which redirected stdout from ansible runs to a log file may have stored that private information onto disk that way as well. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41414)
 - **Security Fix** - avoid loading host/group vars from cwd when not specifying a playbook or playbook base dir
 - **Security Fix** - avoid using ansible.cfg in a world writable dir.
+- Add ambiguous command check as the error message is not persistent on nexus devices (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45337).
+- Add argspec to aws_application_scaling_policy module to handle metric specifications, scaling cooldowns, and target values. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45235
 - Additional checks ensure that there is always a result of hashing passwords in the password_hash filter and vars_prompt, otherwise an error is returned. Some modules (like user module) interprets None as no password at all, which can be dangerous if the password given above is passed directly into those modules.
+- Allow arbitrary ``log_driver`` for docker_container (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/33579).
 - Avoids deprecated functionality of passlib with newer library versions.
 - Changed the admin_users config option to not include "admin" by default as admin is frequently used for a non-privileged account  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41164)
 - Fix alt linux detection/matching
 - Fix an atomic_move error that is 'true', but  misleading. Now we show all 3 files involved and clarify what happened.
+- Fix ec2_group support for multi-account and peered VPC security groups. Reported in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issue/44788 and fixed in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45296
+- Fix ecs_taskdefinition handling of changed role_arn. If the task role in a ECS task definition changes ansible should create a new revsion of the task definition. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45317
 - Fix glob path of rc.d Some distribtuions like SUSE has the rc%.d directories under /etc/init.d
+- Fix health check parameter handling in elb_target_group per https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43244 about health_check_port. Fixed in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45314
+- Fix lambda_policy updates when principal is an account number. Backport of https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44871
 - Fix lxd module to be idempotent when the given configuration for the lxd container has not changed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38166)
+- Fix python2.6 `nothing to repeat` nxos terminal plugin bug (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45271).
+- Fix s3_lifecycle module backwards compatibility without providing prefix. Blank prefixes regression was introduced in boto3 rewrite. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45318
+- Fix terminal plugin regex nxos, iosxr (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45135).
 - Fix the mount module's handling of swap entries in fstab (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42837)
 - Fixed an issue where ``ansible_facts.pkg_mgr`` would incorrectly set to ``zypper`` on Debian/Ubuntu systems that happened to have the command installed.
 - Fixed runtime module to be able to handle syslog_facility properly when python systemd module installed in a target system. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41078)
 - Grafana dashboard module compatible with grafana 5 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41249)
 - On Python2, loading config values from environment variables could lead to a traceback if there were nonascii characters present.  Converted them to text strings so that no traceback will occur (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43468)
+- Remove spurious `changed=True` returns when ec2_group module is used with numeric ports. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45240
+- Support key names that contain spaces in ec2_metadata_facts module. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45313
+- The docker_* modules respect the DOCKER_* environment variables again (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42641).
 - The fix for `CVE-2018-10875 <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10875>`__ prints out a warning message about skipping a config file from a world writable current working directory.  However, if the user explicitly specifies that the config file should be used via the ANSIBLE_CONFIG environment variable then Ansible would honor that but still print out the warning message.  This has been fixed so that Ansible honors the user's explicit wishes and does not print a warning message in that circumstance.
 - The fix for `CVE-2018-10875 <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10875>`__ prints out a warning message about skipping a config file from a world writable current working directory.  However, if the user is in a world writable current working directory which does not contain a config file, it should not print a warning message.  This release fixes that extaneous warning.
 - The ssh connection plugin was categorizing all 255 exit statuses as an ssh error but modules can return exit code 255 as well.  The connection plugin has now been changed to know that certain instances of exit code 255 are not ssh-related.  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41716)
@@ -436,21 +152,43 @@ Bugfixes
 - authorized_key now have an option for following symlinks, default behaviour (False) can be changed by setting follow True/False
 - basic.py - catch ValueError in case a FIPS enabled platform raises this exception - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44447
 - become runas - changed runas process so it does not create a temporary file on the disk during execution
+- cloudfront_distribution - replace call to nonexistent method 'validate_distribution_id_from_caller_reference' with 'validate_distribution_from_caller_reference' and set the distribution_id variable to the distribution's 'Id' key.
+- corrected and clarified 'user' option deprecation in systemd module in favor of 'scope' option.
+- delegate_to - ensure if we get a non-Task object in _get_delegated_vars, we return early (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44934)
+- docker_container: fixing ``working_dir`` idempotency problem (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42857)
+- docker_container: makes unit parsing for memory sizes more consistent, and fixes idempotency problem when ``kernel_memory`` is set (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/16748 and https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42692)
+- ec2_group - Sanitize the ingress and egress rules before operating on them by flattening any lists within lists describing the target CIDR(s) into a list of strings. Prior to Ansible 2.6 the ec2_group module accepted a list of strings, a list of lists, or a combination of strings and lists within a list. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45594
+- ec2_vpc_route_table - check the origin before replacing routes. Routes with the origin 'EnableVgwRoutePropagation' may not be replaced.
 - elasticsearch_plugin - Improve error messages and show stderr of elasticsearch commands
 - elb_application_lb - Fix a dangerous behavior of deleting an ELB if state was omitted from the task. Now state defaults to 'present', which is typical throughout AWS modules.
+- elb_target_group - cast target ports to integers before making API calls after the key 'Targets' is in params.
 - file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the 2.6.x development cycle.  The patch to fix that broke check mode. This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42111)
 - file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the 2.6.x development cycle.  This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41755)
 - fix async for the aws_s3 module by adding async support to the action plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40826)
+- fix azure storage blob cannot create blob container in non-public azure cloud environment. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35223)
+- fix azure_rm_autoscale module can use dict to identify target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45477)
 - fix decrypting vault files for the aws_s3 module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39634)
 - fix default SSL version for docker modules https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42897
 - fix for the bundled selectors module (used in the ssh and local connection plugins) when a syscall is restarted after being interrupted by a signal (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41630)
 - fix mail module for python 3.7.0 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44552)
+- fix nxos_facts indefinite hang for text based output (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45845).
 - fix the enable_snat parameter that is only supposed to be used by an user with the right policies. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44418
 - fix the remote tmp folder permissions issue when becoming a non admin user - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41340, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42117
+- fixed typo in config that prevented keys matching
+- fixes docker_container check and debug mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42380)
 - flatten filter - use better method of type checking allowing flattening of mutable and non-mutable sequences (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44331)
 - gce_net - Fix sorting of allowed ports (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41567)
+- get_url - Don't re-download files unnecessarily when force=no (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45491)
 - get_url - fix the bug that get_url does not change mode when checksum matches (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29614)
+- get_url - support remote checksum files with paths specified with leading dots (`./path/to/file`)
+- get_url / uri - Use custom rfc2822 date format function instead of locale specific strftime (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44857)
+- improved block docs
+- improves docker_container idempotency (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44808)
+- include - Change order of where the new block is inserted with apply so that apply args are not applied to the include also (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44912)
+- includes - ensure we do not double register handlers from includes to prevent exception (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44848)
 - inventory - When using an inventory directory, ensure extension comparison uses text types (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42475)
+- loop - Ensure that a loop with a when condition that evaluates to false and delegate_to, will short circuit if the loop references an undefined variable. This matches the behavior in the same scenario without delegate_to (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45189)
+- loop - Ensure we only cache the loop when the task had a loop and delegate_to was templated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44874)
 - made irc module python3 compatible https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42256
 - nclu - no longer runs net on empty lines in templates (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43024)
 - nicer message when we are missing interpreter
@@ -460,6 +198,7 @@ Bugfixes
 - plugins/inventory/openstack.py - Do not create group with empty name if region is not set
 - preseve delegation info on nolog https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42344
 - remove ambiguity when it comes to 'the source'
+- script inventory plugin - Don't pass file_name to DataLoader.load, which will prevent misleading error messages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/34164)
 - urls - Only assume GET method if data is empty, otherwise POST
 - user - Strip trailing comments in /etc/default/passwd (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43931)
 - user - fix bug that resulted in module always reporting a change when specifiying the home directory on FreeBSD (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42484)
@@ -473,15 +212,20 @@ Bugfixes
 - win_domain - fixes typo in one of the AD cmdlets https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41536
 - win_domain_computer - fixed deletion of computer active directory object that have dependent objects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44500)
 - win_domain_controller - ensure the Netlogon service is up and running after promoting host to controller - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39235
+- win_group_membership - fix intermittent issue where it failed to convert the ADSI object to the .NET object after using it once
 - win_iis_webapppool - redirect some module output to null so Ansible can read the output JSON https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40874
 - win_lineinfile - changed `-Path` to `-LiteralPath` so that square brackes in the path are interpreted literally -  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44508
+- win_psexec - changed code to not escape the command option when building the args - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43839
 - win_reboot - fix for handling an already scheduled reboot and other minor log formatting issues
 - win_reboot - fix issue when overridding connection timeout hung the post reboot uptime check - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42185 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42294
 - win_reboot - handle post reboots when running test_command - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41713
+- win_say - fix syntax error in module and get tests working
 - win_security_policy - allows an empty string to reset a policy value https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40869
 - win_updates - Fixed issue where running win_updates on async fails without any error
 - win_updates - fixed module return value is lost in error in some cases (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42647)
+- win_uri: Fix support for JSON output when charset is set
 - win_user - Use LogonUser to validate the password as it does not rely on SMB/RPC to be available https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/24884
+- win_wait_for - fix issue where timeout doesn't wait unless state=drained - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43446
 - winrm - ensure pexpect is set to not echo the input on a failure and have a manual sanity check afterwards https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41865
 - winrm - running async with become on a Server 2008 or 2008 R2 host will now work
 
@@ -508,10 +252,16 @@ Inventory
 Lookup
 ~~~~~~
 
+- cpm_metering - Get Power and Current data from WTI OOB/Combo and PDU devices
 - cpm_status - Get status and parameters from WTI OOB and PDU devices.
 - grafana_dashboard - list or search grafana dashboards
 - nios_next_network - Return the next available network range for a network-container
 
+Strategy
+~~~~~~~~
+
+- host_pinned - Executes tasks on each host without interruption
+
 New Modules
 -----------
 
@@ -523,6 +273,8 @@ amazon
 
 - aws_eks_cluster - Manage Elastic Kubernetes Service Clusters
 - cloudformation_stack_set - Manage groups of CloudFormation stacks
+- elb_target_facts - Gathers which target groups a target is associated with.
+- rds_instance - Manage RDS instances
 
 azure
 ^^^^^
@@ -530,6 +282,9 @@ azure
 - azure_rm_appgateway - Manage Application Gateway instance.
 - azure_rm_appserviceplan - Manage App Service Plan
 - azure_rm_appserviceplan_facts - Get azure app service plan facts.
+- azure_rm_autoscale - Manage Azure autoscale setting.
+- azure_rm_autoscale_facts - Get Azure Auto Scale Setting facts.
+- azure_rm_containerregistry_facts - Get Azure Container Registry facts.
 - azure_rm_mysqldatabase_facts - Get Azure MySQL Database facts.
 - azure_rm_mysqlserver_facts - Get Azure MySQL Server facts.
 - azure_rm_postgresqldatabase_facts - Get Azure PostgreSQL Database facts.
@@ -537,8 +292,14 @@ azure
 - azure_rm_route - Manage Azure route resource.
 - azure_rm_routetable - Manage Azure route table resource.
 - azure_rm_routetable_facts - Get route table facts.
+- azure_rm_sqlfirewallrule - Manage Firewall Rule instance.
+- azure_rm_trafficmanagerendpoint - Manage Azure Traffic Manager endpoint.
+- azure_rm_trafficmanagerendpoint_facts - Get Azure Traffic Manager endpoint facts
+- azure_rm_trafficmanagerprofile - Manage Azure Traffic Manager profile.
+- azure_rm_trafficmanagerprofile_facts - Get Azure Traffic Manager profile facts
 - azure_rm_virtualmachine_facts - Get virtual machine facts.
 - azure_rm_webapp - Manage Web App instance.
+- azure_rm_webapp_facts - Get azure web app facts.
 
 cloudstack
 ^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -572,6 +333,7 @@ google
 - gcp_compute_instance_template_facts - Gather facts for GCP InstanceTemplate
 - gcp_compute_network_facts - Gather facts for GCP Network
 - gcp_compute_route_facts - Gather facts for GCP Route
+- gcp_compute_router - Creates a GCP Router
 - gcp_compute_router_facts - Gather facts for GCP Router
 - gcp_compute_ssl_certificate_facts - Gather facts for GCP SslCertificate
 - gcp_compute_ssl_policy - Creates a GCP SslPolicy
@@ -587,6 +349,16 @@ google
 - gcp_compute_url_map_facts - Gather facts for GCP UrlMap
 - gcp_compute_vpn_tunnel - Creates a GCP VpnTunnel
 - gcp_compute_vpn_tunnel_facts - Gather facts for GCP VpnTunnel
+- gcp_spanner_database - Creates a GCP Database
+- gcp_spanner_instance - Creates a GCP Instance
+- gcp_sql_database - Creates a GCP Database
+- gcp_sql_instance - Creates a GCP Instance
+- gcp_sql_user - Creates a GCP User
+
+online
+^^^^^^
+
+- online_user_facts - Gather facts about Online user.
 
 openstack
 ^^^^^^^^^
@@ -621,6 +393,7 @@ vmware
 - vmware_guest_custom_attribute_defs - Manage custom attributes definitions for virtual machine from VMWare
 - vmware_guest_custom_attributes - Manage custom attributes from VMWare for the given virtual machine
 - vmware_guest_move - Moves virtual machines in vCenter
+- vmware_host_ntp_facts - Gathers facts about NTP configuration on an ESXi host
 - vmware_host_ssl_facts - Gather facts of ESXi host system about SSL
 - vmware_local_role_facts - Gather facts about local roles on an ESXi host
 
@@ -665,6 +438,8 @@ acme
 Identity
 ~~~~~~~~
 
+- onepassword_facts - Fetch facts from 1Password items
+
 ipa
 ^^^
 
@@ -738,6 +513,18 @@ f5
 - bigip_tunnel - Manage tunnels on a BIG-IP
 - bigiq_utility_license_assignment - Manage utility license assignment on BIG-IPs from a BIG-IQ
 
+fortimanager
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- fmgr_provisioning - Provision devices via FortiMananger
+
+ftd
+^^^
+
+- ftd_configuration - Manages configuration on Cisco FTD devices over REST API
+- ftd_file_download - Downloads files from Cisco FTD devices over HTTP(S)
+- ftd_file_upload - Uploads files to Cisco FTD devices over HTTP(S)
+
 meraki
 ^^^^^^
 
@@ -766,6 +553,11 @@ onyx
 
 - onyx_igmp - Configures IGMP globl parameters
 
+opx
+^^^
+
+- opx_cps - CPS operations on networking device running Openswitch (OPX)
+
 panos
 ^^^^^
 
@@ -796,9 +588,16 @@ cobbler
 - cobbler_sync - Sync Cobbler
 - cobbler_system - Manage system objects in Cobbler
 
+cpm
+^^^
+
+- cpm_user - Get various status and parameters from WTI OOB and PDU devices
+
 redfish
 ^^^^^^^
 
+- redfish_command - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
+- redfish_config - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
 - redfish_facts - Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs
 
 ucs
@@ -820,24 +619,60 @@ emc
 ibm
 ^^^
 
+- ibm_sa_host - Adds hosts to or removes them from IBM Spectrum Accelerate storage systems.
+- ibm_sa_pool - Handles pools on an IBM Spectrum Accelerate storage array.
 - ibm_sa_vol - Handle volumes on an IBM Spectrum Accelerate storage array
 
 netapp
 ^^^^^^
 
+- na_elementsw_access_group - NetApp Element Software Manage Access Groups
+- na_elementsw_account - NetApp Element Software Manage Accounts
+- na_elementsw_admin_users - NetApp Element Software Manage Admin Users
 - na_elementsw_backup - NetApp Element Software Create Backups
+- na_elementsw_check_connections - NetApp Element Software Check connectivity to MVIP and SVIP.
+- na_elementsw_cluster - NetApp Element Software Create Cluster
 - na_elementsw_cluster_pair - NetApp Element Software Manage Cluster Pair
+- na_elementsw_drive - NetApp Element Software Manage Node Drives
+- na_elementsw_ldap - NetApp Element Software Manage ldap admin users
+- na_elementsw_network_interfaces - NetApp Element Software Configure Node Network Interfaces
+- na_elementsw_node - NetApp Element Software Node Operation
+- na_elementsw_snapshot - NetApp Element Software Manage Snapshots
+- na_elementsw_snapshot_restore - NetApp Element Software Restore Snapshot
 - na_elementsw_snapshot_schedule - NetApp Element Software Snapshot Schedules
 - na_elementsw_vlan - NetApp Element Software Manage VLAN
 - na_elementsw_volume - NetApp Element Software Manage Volumes
+- na_elementsw_volume_clone - NetApp Element Software Create Volume Clone
 - na_elementsw_volume_pair - NetApp Element Software Volume Pair
+- na_ontap_autosupport - NetApp ONTAP manage Autosupport
 - na_ontap_cg_snapshot - NetApp ONTAP manage consistency group snapshot
+- na_ontap_cluster_peer - NetApp ONTAP Manage Cluster peering
+- na_ontap_command - NetApp ONTAP Run any cli command
+- na_ontap_disks - NetApp ONTAP Assign disks to nodes
 - na_ontap_dns - NetApp ONTAP Create, delete, modify DNS servers.
 - na_ontap_fcp - NetApp ONTAP Start, Stop and Enable FCP services.
+- na_ontap_firewall_policy - NetApp ONTAP Manage a firewall policy
+- na_ontap_gather_facts - NetApp information gatherer
+- na_ontap_motd - Setup motd on cDOT
+- na_ontap_node - NetApp ONTAP Rename a node.
 - na_ontap_snapmirror - NetApp ONTAP Manage SnapMirror
 - na_ontap_software_update - NetApp ONTAP Update Software
 - na_ontap_svm_options - NetApp ONTAP Modify SVM Options
 - na_ontap_vserver_peer - NetApp ONTAP Vserver peering
+- netapp_e_alerts - NetApp E-Series manage email notification settings
+- netapp_e_asup - NetApp E-Series manage auto-support settings
+- netapp_e_auditlog - NetApp E-Series manage audit-log configuration
+- netapp_e_global - NetApp E-Series manage global settings configuration
+- netapp_e_iscsi_interface - NetApp E-Series manage iSCSI interface configuration
+- netapp_e_iscsi_target - NetApp E-Series manage iSCSI target configuration
+- netapp_e_ldap - NetApp E-Series manage LDAP integration to use for authentication
+- netapp_e_mgmt_interface - NetApp E-Series management interface configuration
+- netapp_e_syslog - NetApp E-Series manage syslog settings
+
+purestorage
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- purefb_facts - Collect facts from Pure Storage FlashBlade
 
 System
 ~~~~~~
@@ -852,7 +687,10 @@ Web Infrastructure
 ansible_tower
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+- tower_credential_type - Create, update, or destroy custom Ansible Tower credential type.
 - tower_inventory_source - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower inventory source.
+- tower_settings - Modify Ansible Tower settings.
+- tower_workflow_template - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower workflow template.
 
 Windows
 ~~~~~~~
@@ -860,3 +698,5 @@ Windows
 - win_chocolatey_config - Manages Chocolatey config settings
 - win_chocolatey_feature - Manages Chocolatey features
 - win_chocolatey_source - Manages Chocolatey sources
+- win_wait_for_process - Waits for a process to exist or not exist before continuing.
+- win_xml - Add XML fragment to an XML parent
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/v2.7.0_summary.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/v2.7.0_summary.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b59accf28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.7.0_summary.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2018-10-04
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/v2.7.0rc4_summary.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/v2.7.0rc4_summary.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6df65dd8cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.7.0rc4_summary.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2018-09-27
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+bugfixes:
+  - Change the pypi metadata to specify that Python-2.7 or greater is needed on
+    the controller.  This will prevent pip from installing or upgrading to Ansible-2.7
+    when run under Python-2.6.  Python-2.6 users will get Ansible-2.6.x updates instead.
diff --git a/lib/ansible/release.py b/lib/ansible/release.py
index f758e034d6..2485538ca8 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/release.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/release.py
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-__version__ = '2.7.0rc4.post0'
+__version__ = '2.7.0'
 __author__ = 'Ansible, Inc.'
 __codename__ = 'In the Light'