New release v2.9.18rc1v2.9.18rc1

4 files changed, 128 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/changelogs/.changes.yaml b/changelogs/.changes.yaml
index 98e943fe41..8da75b5084 100644
--- a/changelogs/.changes.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/.changes.yaml
@@ -1718,6 +1718,30 @@ releases:
     - systemd-preserve-full-unit-name.yml
     - v2.9.17rc1_summary.yaml
     release_date: '2021-01-11'
+  2.9.18rc1:
+    codename: Immigrant Song
+    fragments:
+    - 16456-correct-YAML-error-message-when-file-load-failed.yml
+    - 42-postgresql_set_add_message_when_parameter_not_found.yml
+    - 43-postgresql_modules_fix_version_parsing.yml
+    - 46-postgresql_query_fix_decimal_handling.yml
+    - 51-postgresql_query_fix_datetime_timedelta_type_handling.yml
+    - 58466-FIX_win_find-Bug-Get-FileStat_fails_on_large_files.yml
+    - 72615-jinja-import-context-fix.yml
+    - 73167-bhyve-facts.yml
+    - 87-mysql_user_update_valid_privs_frozen_set.yml
+    - ansible-test-pip-bootstrap-s3.yml
+    - ansible-test-pip-bootstrap.yml
+    - ansible-test-pylint-python-3.8.yml
+    - cve_bitbucket_pipeline_variable.yml
+    - inventory-cache-file-missing-warning.yaml
+    - new-nolog-entries.yml
+    - no_log-fallback.yml
+    - pause-do-not-warn-background-with-seconds.yml
+    - psrp-json-loads-bytes.yml
+    - snmp_facts.yml
+    - v2.9.18rc1_summary.yaml
+    release_date: '2021-02-08'
   2.9.2:
     codename: Immigrant Song
     fragments:
diff --git a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
index 69003e8b11..17a90d2345 100644
--- a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
+++ b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,106 @@ Ansible 2.9 "Immigrant Song" Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics
 
 
+v2.9.18rc1
+==========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2021-02-08
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - The ``pylint`` sanity test is now supported on Python 3.8.
+- inventory cache - do not show a warning when the cache file does not (yet) exist.
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- **security issue** - Mask default and fallback values for ``no_log`` module options (CVE-2021-20228)
+- _sf_account_manager - `initiator_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- _sf_account_manager - `target_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- aws_netapp_cvs_active_directory - `api_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- aws_netapp_cvs_active_directory - `secret_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- aws_netapp_cvs_filesystems - `api_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- aws_netapp_cvs_filesystems - `secret_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- aws_netapp_cvs_pool - `api_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- aws_netapp_cvs_pool - `secret_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- aws_netapp_cvs_snapshots - `api_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- aws_netapp_cvs_snapshots - `secret_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- bitbucket_pipeline_variable - hide user sensitive information which are marked as ``secured`` from logging into the console (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1635) (CVE-2021-20180).
+- ce_vrrp - `auth_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- cp_mgmt_vpn_community_meshed - `shared_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- cp_mgmt_vpn_community_star - `shared_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- docker_swarm - `signing_ca_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_backend_service - `oauth2_client_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_disk - `disk_encryption_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_disk - `source_image_encryption_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_disk - `source_snapshot_encryption_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_image - `image_encryption_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_image - `source_disk_encryption_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_instance_template - `disk_encryption_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_instance_template - `source_image_encryption_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_region_disk - `disk_encryption_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_region_disk - `source_snapshot_encryption_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_snapshot - `snapshot_encryption_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_snapshot - `source_disk_encryption_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_ssl_certificate - `private_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_compute_vpn_tunnel - `shared_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gcp_sql_instance - `client_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- gitlab_runner - `registration_token` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- iap_start_workflow - `token_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- ibm_sa_host - `iscsi_chap_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- keycloak_client - `auth_client_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- keycloak_client - `registration_access_token` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- keycloak_clienttemplate - `auth_client_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- keycloak_group - `auth_client_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- librato_annotation - `api_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- na_elementsw_account - `initiator_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- na_elementsw_account - `target_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- netscaler_lb_monitor - `radkey` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- nios_nsgroup - `tsig_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- nxos_aaa_server - `global_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- nxos_pim_interface - `hello_auth_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- oneandone_firewall_policy - `auth_token` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- oneandone_load_balancer - `auth_token` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- oneandone_monitoring_policy - `auth_token` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- oneandone_private_network - `auth_token` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- oneandone_public_ip - `auth_token` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- ovirt - `instance_rootpw` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- pagerduty_alert - `api_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- pagerduty_alert - `integration_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- pagerduty_alert - `service_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- pulp_repo - `feed_client_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- rax_clb_ssl - `private_key` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- snmp_facts - hide user sensitive information such as ``privkey`` and ``authkey`` from logging into the console (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1621) (CVE-2021-20178).
+- spotinst_aws_elastigroup - `multai_token` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- spotinst_aws_elastigroup - `token` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+- utm_proxy_auth_profile - `frontend_cookie_secret` is now masked with no_log and no longer emitted in logging/output (CVE-2021-20191).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix incorrect variable scoping when using ``import with context`` in Jinja2 templates. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72615)
+- ansible-test - The ``--remote`` option has been updated for Python 2.7 to work around breaking changes in the newly released ``get-pip.py`` bootstrapper.
+- ansible-test - The ``--remote`` option has been updated to use a versioned ``get-pip.py`` bootstrapper to avoid issues with future releases.
+- display correct error information when an error exists in the last line of the file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16456)
+- facts - properly report virtualization facts for Linux guests running on bhyve (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73167)
+- mysql_user - add ``INVOKE LAMBDA`` privilege support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/283).
+- mysql_user - add ``SHOW_ROUTINE`` privilege support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/issues/86).
+- mysql_user - add missed privileges to support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/617).
+- pause - do not warn when running in the background if a timeout is provided (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73042)
+- postgresql_info - fix crash caused by wrong PgSQL version parsing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.postgresql/issues/40).
+- postgresql_ping - fix crash caused by wrong PgSQL version parsing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.postgresql/issues/40).
+- postgresql_query - fix datetime.timedelta type handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.postgresql/issues/47).
+- postgresql_query - fix decimal handling (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.postgresql/issues/45).
+- postgresql_set - return a message instead of traceback when a passed parameter has not been found (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.postgresql/issues/41).
+- psrp connection plugin - ``to_text(stdout)`` before json.loads in psrp.Connection.put_file in case stdout is bytes.
+- win_find - Get-FileStat used [int] instead of [int64] for file size calculations
+
 v2.9.17
 =======
 
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/v2.9.18rc1_summary.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/v2.9.18rc1_summary.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c863c94e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.9.18rc1_summary.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2021-02-08
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
diff --git a/lib/ansible/release.py b/lib/ansible/release.py
index bafe95622d..619997f500 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__ = '2.9.17.post0'
+__version__ = '2.9.18rc1'
 __author__ = 'Ansible, Inc.'
 __codename__ = 'Immigrant Song'