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| author | Sandra McCann <samccann@redhat.com> | 2022-11-22 17:24:30 -0500 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-11-22 14:24:30 -0800 |
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Add Ansible community 7.0.0 porting guide (#79448) (#79449)
(cherry picked from commit 6ea058315f555bbedfaa9171f7de0d7915a37928)
Co-authored-by: Christian Adams <chadams@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_7.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_7.rst index 30f24f297b..5c3d6faecd 100644 --- a/docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_7.rst +++ b/docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_7.rst @@ -92,20 +92,17 @@ Networking No notable changes -Porting Guide for v7.0.0rc1 -=========================== +Porting Guide for v7.0.0 +======================== -Major Changes -------------- - -fortinet.fortimanager -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- Fix compatibility issue for ansible 2.9.x and ansible-base 2.10.x. -- support Ansible changelogs. +Added Collections +----------------- -Porting Guide for v7.0.0b1 -========================== +- ibm.spectrum_virtualize (version 1.10.0) +- inspur.ispim (version 1.2.0) +- lowlydba.sqlserver (version 1.0.4) +- purestorage.fusion (version 1.1.1) +- vultr.cloud (version 1.3.1) Known Issues ------------ @@ -119,163 +116,49 @@ dellemc.openmanage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - idrac_user - Issue(192043) The module may error out with the message ``unable to perform the import or export operation because there are pending attribute changes or a configuration job is in progress``. Wait for the job to complete and run the task again. +- ome_application_alerts_smtp - Issue(212310) - The module does not provide a proper error message if the destination_address is more than 255 characters. - ome_application_alerts_syslog - Issue(215374) - The module does not provide a proper error message if the destination_address is more than 255 characters. +- ome_device_local_access_configuration - Issue(215035) - The module reports ``Successfully updated the local access setting`` if an unsupported value is provided for the parameter timeout_limit. However, this value is not actually applied on OpenManage Enterprise Modular. +- ome_device_local_access_configuration - Issue(217865) - The module does not display a proper error message if an unsupported value is provided for the user_defined and lcd_language parameters. - ome_device_network_services - Issue(212681) - The module does not provide a proper error message if unsupported values are provided for the parameters- port_number, community_name, max_sessions, max_auth_retries, and idle_timeout. - ome_device_power_settings - Issue(212679) - The module displays the following message if the value provided for the parameter ``power_cap`` is not within the supported range of 0 to 32767, ``Unable to complete the request because PowerCap does not exist or is not applicable for the resource URI.`` +- ome_device_quick_deploy - Issue(216352) - The module does not display a proper error message if an unsupported value is provided for the ipv6_prefix_length and vlan_id parameters. - ome_smart_fabric_uplink - Issue(186024) - The module does not allow the creation of multiple uplinks of the same name even though it is supported by OpenManage Enterprise Modular. If an uplink is created using the same name as an existing uplink, the existing uplink is modified. -Breaking Changes ----------------- - -community.general -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- newrelic_deployment - ``revision`` is required for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341). -- scaleway_container_registry_info - no longer replace ``secret_environment_variables`` in the output by ``SENSITIVE_VALUE`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5497). - -community.hashi_vault -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- auth - the default value for ``token_validate`` has changed from ``true`` to ``false``, as previously announced (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/248). -- vault_kv2_get lookup - as previously announced, the default value for ``engine_mount_point`` in the ``vault_kv2_get`` lookup has changed from ``kv`` to ``secret`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/279). - -Major Changes -------------- - -community.general -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- The internal structure of the collection was changed for modules and action plugins. These no longer live in a directory hierarchy ordered by topic, but instead are now all in a single (flat) directory. This has no impact on users *assuming they did not use internal FQCNs*. These will still work, but result in deprecation warnings. They were never officially supported and thus the redirects are kept as a courtsey, and this is not labelled as a breaking change. Note that for example the Ansible VScode plugin started recommending these internal names. If you followed its recommendation, you will now have to change back to the short names to avoid deprecation warnings, and potential errors in the future as these redirects will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5461). -- newrelic_deployment - removed New Relic v1 API, added support for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341). - -community.network -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- The community.network collection no longer supports Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10. While we take no active measures to prevent usage, we will remove 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 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/426). -- The internal structure of the collection was changed for modules and action plugins. These no longer live in a directory hierarchy ordered by topic, but instead are now all in a single (flat) directory. This has no impact on users *assuming they did not use internal FQCNs*. These will still work, but result in deprecation warnings. They were never officially supported and thus the redirects are kept as a courtsey, and this is not labelled as a breaking change. Note that for example the Ansible VScode plugin started recommending these internal names. If you followed its recommendation, you will now have to change back to the short names to avoid deprecation warnings, and potential errors in the future as these redirects will be removed in community.network 8.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/482). - -dellemc.openmanage -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- idrac_redfish_storage_controller - This module is enhanced to support LockVirtualDisk operation. -- idrac_virtual_media - This module allows to configure Remote File Share settings. - -fortinet.fortimanager -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- Many fixes for Ansible sanity test warnings & errors. -- Support FortiManager Schema 7.2.0 , 98 new modules - -Removed Features ----------------- - -community.general -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- bitbucket* modules - ``username`` is no longer an alias of ``workspace``, but of ``user`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). -- gem - the default of the ``norc`` option changed from ``false`` to ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). -- gitlab_group_members - ``gitlab_group`` must now always contain the full path, and no longer just the name or path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). -- keycloak_authentication - the return value ``flow`` has been removed. Use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). -- keycloak_group - the return value ``group`` has been removed. Use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). -- lxd_container - the default of the ``ignore_volatile_options`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). -- mail callback plugin - the ``sender`` option is now required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). -- module_helper module utils - remove the ``VarDict`` attribute from ``ModuleHelper``. Import ``VarDict`` from ``ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.vars`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). -- proxmox inventory plugin - the default of the ``want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). -- vmadm - the ``debug`` option has been removed. It was not used anyway (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). - -community.network -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- aireos modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). -- aireos modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). -- aruba modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). -- aruba modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). -- ce modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). -- ce modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). -- enos modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). -- enos modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). -- ironware modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). -- ironware modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). -- sros modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). -- sros modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). - -Deprecated Features -------------------- - -amazon.aws -~~~~~~~~~~ - -- amazon.aws collection - Support for the ``EC2_ACCESS_KEY`` environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``access_key`` parameter or ``AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`` environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). -- amazon.aws collection - Support for the ``EC2_REGION`` environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``region`` parameter or ``AWS_REGION`` environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). -- amazon.aws collection - Support for the ``EC2_SECRET_KEY`` environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``secret_key`` parameter or ``AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`` environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). -- amazon.aws collection - Support for the ``EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN`` environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``session_token`` parameter or ``AWS_SESSION_TOKEN`` environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). -- amazon.aws collection - Support for the ``EC2_URL`` and ``S3_URL`` environment variables has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``endpoint_url`` parameter or ``AWS_ENDPOINT_URL`` environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). -- amazon.aws collection - The ``access_token`` alias for the ``session_token`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``session_token`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). -- amazon.aws collection - The ``aws_security_token`` alias for the ``session_token`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``session_token`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). -- amazon.aws collection - The ``ec2_access_key`` alias for the ``access_key`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``access_key`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). -- amazon.aws collection - The ``ec2_region`` alias for the ``region`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``region`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). -- amazon.aws collection - The ``ec2_secret_key`` alias for the ``secret_key`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``secret_key`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). -- amazon.aws collection - The ``security_token`` alias for the ``session_token`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``session_token`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). -- ec2_security_group - support for passing nested lists to ``cidr_ip`` and ``cidr_ipv6`` has been deprecated. Nested lists can be passed through the ``flatten`` filter instead ``cidr_ip: '{{ my_cidrs | flatten }}'`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1213). -- module_utils.url - ``ansible_collections.amazon.aws.module_utils.urls`` is believed to be unused and has been deprecated and will be removed in release 7.0.0. - -community.docker -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- docker_container - the ``ignore_image`` option is deprecated and will be removed in community.docker 4.0.0. Use ``image: ignore`` in ``comparisons`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/487). -- docker_container - the ``purge_networks`` option is deprecated and will be removed in community.docker 4.0.0. Use ``networks: strict`` in ``comparisons`` instead, and make sure to provide ``networks``, with value ``[]`` if all networks should be removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/487). - -community.general -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- ArgFormat module utils - deprecated along ``CmdMixin``, in favor of the ``cmd_runner_fmt`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). -- CmdMixin module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). -- CmdModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). -- CmdStateModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). -- cmd_runner module utils - deprecated ``fmt`` in favour of ``cmd_runner_fmt`` as the parameter format object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4777). -- django_manage - support for Django releases older than 4.1 has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400). -- django_manage - support for the commands ``cleanup``, ``syncdb`` and ``validate`` that have been deprecated in Django long time ago will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400). -- django_manage - the behavior of "creating the virtual environment when missing" is being deprecated and will be removed in community.general version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5405). -- gconftool2 - deprecates ``state=get`` in favor of using the module ``gconftool2_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4778). -- lxc_container - the module will no longer make any effort to support Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5304). -- newrelic_deployment - ``appname`` and ``environment`` are no longer valid options in the v2 API. They will be removed in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341). -- proxmox - deprecated the current ``unprivileged`` default value, will be changed to ``true`` in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/pull/5224). -- xfconf - deprecated parameter ``disable_facts``, as since version 4.0.0 it only allows value ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4520). - -Porting Guide for v7.0.0a2 -========================== - -Added Collections ------------------ - -- lowlydba.sqlserver (version 1.0.3) - -Known Issues ------------- - -dellemc.openmanage -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +netapp.ontap +~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- idrac_user - Issue(192043) The module may error out with the message ``unable to perform the import or export operation because there are pending attribute changes or a configuration job is in progress``. Wait for the job to complete and run the task again. -- ome_application_alerts_syslog - Issue(215374) - The module does not provide a proper error message if the destination_address is more than 255 characters. -- ome_device_network_services - Issue(212681) - The module does not provide a proper error message if unsupported values are provided for the parameters- port_number, community_name, max_sessions, max_auth_retries, and idle_timeout. -- ome_device_power_settings - Issue(212679) - The module displays the following message if the value provided for the parameter ``power_cap`` is not within the supported range of 0 to 32767, ``Unable to complete the request because PowerCap does not exist or is not applicable for the resource URI.`` -- ome_smart_fabric_uplink - Issue(186024) - The module does not allow the creation of multiple uplinks of the same name even though it is supported by OpenManage Enterprise Modular. If an uplink is created using the same name as an existing uplink, the existing uplink is modified. +- na_ontap_snapshot - added documentation to use UTC format for ``expiry_time``. Breaking Changes ---------------- +- Ansible 7 requires Python 3.9 on the controller, same as ansible-core 2.14. + Ansible-core ~~~~~~~~~~~~ +- Allow for lazy evaluation of Jinja2 expressions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56017) +- The default ansible-galaxy role skeletons no longer contain .travis.yml files. You can configure ansible-galaxy to use a custom role skeleton that contains a .travis.yml file to continue using Galaxy's integration with Travis CI. +- ansible - At startup the filesystem encoding and locale are checked to verify they are UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding. +- ansible - Increase minimum Python requirement to Python 3.9 for CLI utilities and controller code +- ansible-test - At startup the filesystem encoding is checked to verify it is UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding. +- ansible-test - At startup the locale is configured as ``en_US.UTF-8``, with a fallback to ``C.UTF-8``. If neither encoding is available the process exits with an error. If the fallback is used, a warning is displayed. In previous versions the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale was always requested. However, no startup checking was performed to verify the locale was successfully configured. - ansible-test validate-modules - Removed the ``missing-python-doc`` error code in validate modules, ``missing-documentation`` is used instead for missing PowerShell module documentation. +- strategy plugins - Make ``ignore_unreachable`` to increase ``ignored`` and ``ok`` and counter, not ``skipped`` and ``unreachable``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77690) amazon.aws ~~~~~~~~~~ +- Tags beginning with ``aws:`` will not be removed when purging tags, these tags are reserved by Amazon and may not be updated or deleted (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/817). - amazon.aws collection - Support for ansible-core < 2.11 has been dropped (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1087). - amazon.aws collection - The amazon.aws collection has dropped support for ``botocore<1.21.0`` and ``boto3<1.18.0``. Most modules will continue to work with older versions of the AWS SDK, however compatability with older versions of the SDK is not guaranteed and will not be tested. When using older versions of the SDK a warning will be emitted by Ansible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/934). +- amazon.aws collection - the ``profile`` parameter is now mutually exclusive with the ``aws_access_key``, ``aws_secret_key`` and ``security_token`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/834). +- aws_az_info - the module alias ``aws_az_facts`` was deprecated in Ansible 2.9 and has now been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/832). +- aws_s3 - the default value for ``ensure overwrite`` has been changed to ``different`` instead of ``always`` so that the module is idempotent by default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/811). +- aws_ssm - on_denied and on_missing now both default to error, for consistency with both aws_secret and the base Lookup class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/617). - doc_fragments - remove minimum collection requirements from doc_fragments/aws.py and allow pulling those from doc_fragments/aws_boto3.py instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/985). +- ec2 - The ``ec2`` module has been removed in release 4.0.0 and replaced by the ``ec2_instance`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/630). - ec2_ami - the default value for ``purge_tags`` has been changed from ``False`` to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916). - ec2_ami - the parameter aliases ``DeviceName``, ``VirtualName`` and ``NoDevice`` were previously deprecated and have been removed, please use ``device_name``, ``virtual_name`` and ``no_device`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/913). - ec2_eni_info - the mutual exclusivity of the ``eni_id`` and ``filters`` parameters is now enforced, previously ``filters`` would be ignored if ``eni_id`` was set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/954). @@ -284,17 +167,30 @@ amazon.aws - ec2_vol - the default value for ``purge_tags`` has been changed from ``False`` to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916). - ec2_vpc_dhcp_option_info - the parameter aliases ``DhcpOptionIds`` and ``DryRun`` were previously deprecated and have been removed, please use ``dhcp_options_ids`` and ``no_device`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/913). - ec2_vpc_endpoint - the default value for ``purge_tags`` has been changed from ``False`` to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916). +- ec2_vpc_igw_info - The default value for ``convert_tags`` has been changed to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/835). - ec2_vpc_net - the default value for ``purge_tags`` has been changed from ``False`` to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916). - ec2_vpc_route_table - the default value for ``purge_tags`` has been changed from ``False`` to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916). +- elb_classic_lb - the ``ec2_elb`` fact has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/827). +- module_utils - Support for the original AWS SDK aka ``boto`` has been removed, including all relevant helper functions. All modules should now use the ``boto3``/``botocore`` AWS SDK (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/630) - s3_bucket - the previously deprecated alias ``S3_URL`` for the ``s3_url`` parameter has been removed. Playbooks shuold be updated to use ``s3_url`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/908). - s3_object - the previously deprecated alias ``S3_URL`` for the ``s3_url`` parameter has been removed. Playbooks should be updated to use ``s3_url`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/908). +check_point.mgmt +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- cp_mgmt_access_role - the 'machines' parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter 'machines_list' of type dict has been added. the 'users' parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter 'users_list' of type dict has been added. +- cp_mgmt_access_rule - the 'vpn' parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter 'vpn_list' of type dict has been added. the 'position_by_rule' parameter has been changed to 'relative_position' with support of positioning above/below a section (and not just a rule). the 'relative_position' parameter has also 'top' and 'bottom' suboptions which allows positioning a rule at the top and bottom of a section respectively. a new parameter 'search_entire_rulebase' has been added to allow the relative positioning to be unlimited (was previously limited to 50 rules) +- cp_mgmt_administrator - the 'permissions_profile' parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter 'permissions_profile_list' of type dict has been added. +- cp_mgmt_publish - the 'uid' parameter has been removed. + community.aws ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +- Tags beginning with ``aws:`` will not be removed when purging tags, these tags are reserved by Amazon and may not be updated or deleted (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/817). - acm_certificate - the previously deprecated default value of ``purge_tags=False`` has been updated to ``purge_tags=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343). - autoscaling_group - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.autoscaling_group``. - autoscaling_group_info - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.autoscaling_group_info``. +- aws_secret - tags are no longer removed when the ``tags`` parameter is not set. To remove all tags set ``tags={}`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1146). - cloudfront_distribution - the previously deprecated default value of ``purge_tags=False`` has been updated to ``purge_tags=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343). - cloudtrail - The module has been migrated to the ``amazon.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.cloudtrail``. - cloudwatch_metric_alarm - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.cloudwatch_metric_alarm``. @@ -303,12 +199,18 @@ community.aws - cloudwatchlogs_log_group_info - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.cloudwatchlogs_log_group_info``. - cloudwatchlogs_log_group_metric_filter - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.cloudwatchlogs_log_group_metric_filter``. - community.aws collection - Support for ansible-core < 2.11 has been dropped (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1541). +- community.aws collection - The ``community.aws`` collection has now dropped support for and any requirements upon the original ``boto`` AWS SDK, and now uses the ``boto3``/``botocore`` AWS SDK (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/898). - community.aws collection - The community.aws collection has dropped support for ``botocore<1.21.0`` and ``boto3<1.18.0``. Most modules will continue to work with older versions of the AWS SDK, however compatability with older versions of the SDK is not guaranteed and will not be tested. When using older versions of the SDK a warning will be emitted by Ansible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1362). +- community.aws collection - the ``profile`` parameter is now mutually exclusive with the ``aws_access_key``, ``aws_secret_key`` and ``security_token`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/834). - ec2_eip - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.ec2_eip``. - ec2_eip_info - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.ec2_eip_info``. +- ec2_vpc_route_table - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.ec2_vpc_route_table``. +- ec2_vpc_route_table_info - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.ec2_vpc_route_table_info``. - ec2_vpc_vpn - the previously deprecated default value of ``purge_tags=False`` has been updated to ``purge_tags=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343). - elb_application_lb - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.elb_application_lb``. - elb_application_lb_info - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.elb_application_lb_info``. +- elb_instance - the ``ec2_elbs`` fact has been removed, ``updated_elbs`` has been added the return values and includes the same information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1173). +- elb_network_lb - the default value of ``state`` has changed from ``absent`` to ``present`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1167). - execute_lambda - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.execute_lambda``. - iam_policy - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.iam_policy``. - iam_policy_info - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.iam_policy_info``. @@ -344,12 +246,31 @@ community.aws - route53_info - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.route53_info``. - route53_zone - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.route53_zone``. - route53_zone - the previously deprecated default value of ``purge_tags=False`` has been updated to ``purge_tags=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343). +- script_inventory_ec2 - The ec2.py inventory script has been moved to a new repository. The script can now be downloaded from https://github.com/ansible-community/contrib-scripts/blob/main/inventory/ec2.py and has been removed from this collection. We recommend migrating from the script to the amazon.aws.ec2 inventory plugin. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/898) - sqs_queue - the previously deprecated default value of ``purge_tags=False`` has been updated to ``purge_tags=True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343). +community.docker +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- This collection does 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 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/271). +- docker_container - ``exposed_ports`` is no longer ignored in ``comparisons``. Before, its value was assumed to be identical with the value of ``published_ports`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422). +- docker_container - ``log_options`` can no longer be specified when ``log_driver`` is not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422). +- docker_container - ``publish_all_ports`` is no longer ignored in ``comparisons`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422). +- docker_container - ``restart_retries`` can no longer be specified when ``restart_policy`` is not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422). +- docker_container - ``stop_timeout`` is no longer ignored for idempotency if told to be not ignored in ``comparisons``. So far it defaulted to ``ignore`` there, and setting it to ``strict`` had no effect (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422). +- modules and plugins communicating directly with the Docker daemon - when connecting by SSH and not using ``use_ssh_client=true``, reject unknown host keys instead of accepting them. This is only a breaking change relative to older community.docker 3.0.0 pre-releases or with respect to Docker SDK for Python < 6.0.0. Docker SDK for Python 6.0.0 will also include this change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/434). + community.general ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - newrelic_deployment - ``revision`` is required for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341). +- scaleway_container_registry_info - no longer replace ``secret_environment_variables`` in the output by ``SENSITIVE_VALUE`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5497). + +community.hashi_vault +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- auth - the default value for ``token_validate`` has changed from ``true`` to ``false``, as previously announced (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/248). +- vault_kv2_get lookup - as previously announced, the default value for ``engine_mount_point`` in the ``vault_kv2_get`` lookup has changed from ``kv`` to ``secret`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/279). community.vmware ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -367,12 +288,30 @@ community.vmware - vmware_vm_config_option - Dict item names in result are changed from strings joined with spaces to strings joined with underlines, e.g. `Guest fullname` is changed to `guest_fullname` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/issues/1268). - vmware_vspan_session - Remove support for vSphere API less than 6.7. +dellemc.enterprise_sonic +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- bgp_af - Add the route_advertise_list dictionary to the argspec to replace the deleted, obsolete advertise_prefix attribute used for SONiC 3.x images on the 1.x branch of this collection. This change corresponds to a SONiC 4.0 OC YANG REST compliance change for the BGP AF REST API. It enables specification of a route map in conjunction with each route advertisement prefix (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/63). +- bgp_af - remove the obsolete 'advertise_prefix' attribute from argspec and config code. This and subsequent co-req replacement with the new route advertise list argument structure require corresponding changes in playbooks previoulsly used for configuring route advertise prefixes for SONiC 3.x images. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/60) +- bgp_neighbors - Replace the previously defined standalone "bfd" attribute with a bfd dictionary containing multiple attributes. This change corresponds to the revised SONiC 4.x implementation of OC YANG compatible REST APIs. Playbooks previously using the bfd attributes for SONiC 3.x images must be modified for useon SONiC 4.0 images to use the new definition for the bfd attribute argspec structure (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/72). +- bgp_neighbors - Replace, for BGP peer groups, the previously defined standalone "bfd" attribute with a bfd dictionary containing multiple attributes. This change corresponds to the revised SONiC 4.x implementation of OC YANG compatible REST APIs. Playbooks previously using the bfd attributes for SONiC 3.x images must be modified for useon SONiC 4.0 images to use the new definition for the bfd attribute argspec structure (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/81). + Major Changes ------------- +Ansible-core +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Move handler processing into new ``PlayIterator`` phase to use the configured strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65067) +- ansible - At startup the filesystem encoding and locale are checked to verify they are UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding. +- ansible - Increase minimum Python requirement to Python 3.9 for CLI utilities and controller code +- ansible-test - At startup the filesystem encoding is checked to verify it is UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding. +- ansible-test - At startup the locale is configured as ``en_US.UTF-8``, with a fallback to ``C.UTF-8``. If neither encoding is available the process exits with an error. If the fallback is used, a warning is displayed. In previous versions the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale was always requested. However, no startup checking was performed to verify the locale was successfully configured. + amazon.aws ~~~~~~~~~~ +- amazon.aws collection - The amazon.aws collection has dropped support for ``botocore<1.20.0`` and ``boto3<1.17.0``. Most modules will continue to work with older versions of the AWS SDK, however compatability with older versions of the SDK is not guaranteed and will not be tested. When using older versions of the SDK a warning will be emitted by Ansible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/574). - autoscaling_group - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.autoscaling_group``. - autoscaling_group_info - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.autoscaling_group_info``. - cloudtrail - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.cloudtrail``. @@ -426,6 +365,17 @@ arista.eos - eos_static_route - eos_vlan +check_point.mgmt +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- plugins/httpapi/checkpoint - Support for Smart-1 Cloud with new variable 'ansible_cloud_mgmt_id' + +chocolatey.chocolatey +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- win_chocolatey - Added bootstrap_script option to allow users to target a script URL for installing Chocolatey on clients. +- win_chocolatey_facts - Added outdated packages list to data returned. + cisco.asa ~~~~~~~~~ @@ -455,285 +405,6 @@ cisco.nxos - Please use either of the following connection types - network_cli, httpapi or netconf. - This release drops support for `connection: local` and provider dictionary. -community.general -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- newrelic_deployment - removed New Relic v1 API, added support for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341). - -dellemc.openmanage -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- idrac_bios - The module is enhanced to support clear pending BIOS attributes, reset BIOS to default settings, and configure BIOS attribute using Redfish. - -infoblox.nios_modules -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- Feature for extra layer security , with `cert` and `key` parameters in playbooks for authenticating using certificate and key ``*.pem`` file absolute path `#154 <https://github.com/infobloxopen/infoblox-ansible/pull/154>`_ -- Fix to remove issue causing due to template attr in deleting network using Ansible module nios network `#147 <https://github.com/infobloxopen/infoblox-ansible/pull/147>`_ - -junipernetworks.junos -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- Use of connection: local and the provider option are no longer valid on any modules in this collection. - -vyos.vyos -~~~~~~~~~ - -- Use of connection: local and the provider option are no longer valid on any modules in this collection. - -Removed Features ----------------- - -ansible.netcommon -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- napalm - Removed unused connection plugin. -- net_banner - Use <network_os>_banner instead. -- net_interface - Use <network_os>_interfaces instead. -- net_l2_interface - Use <network_os>_l2_interfaces instead. -- net_l3_interface - Use <network_os>_l3_interfaces instead. -- net_linkagg - Use <network_os>_lag_interfaces instead. -- net_lldp - Use <network_os>_lldp_global instead. -- net_lldp_interface - Use <network_os>_lldp_interfaces instead. -- net_logging - Use <network_os>_logging_global instead. -- net_static_route - Use <network_os>_static_routes instead. -- net_system - Use <network_os>_system instead. -- net_user - Use <network_os>_user instead. -- net_vlan - Use <network_os>_vlans instead. -- net_vrf - Use <network_os>_vrf instead. - -cisco.ios -~~~~~~~~~ - -- ios_interface - use ios_interfaces instead. -- ios_l2_interface - use ios_l2_interfaces instead. -- ios_l3_interface - use ios_l3_interfaces instead. -- ios_static_route - use ios_static_routes instead. -- ios_vlan - use ios_vlans instead. - -cisco.iosxr -~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- iosxr_interface - use iosxr_interfaces instead. - -cisco.nxos -~~~~~~~~~~ - -- This release removes the following deprecated plugins that have reached their end-of-life. -- nxos_acl -- nxos_acl_interface -- nxos_interface -- nxos_interface_ospf -- nxos_l2_interface -- nxos_l3_interface -- nxos_linkagg -- nxos_lldp -- nxos_ospf -- nxos_ospf_vrf -- nxos_smu -- nxos_static_route -- nxos_vlan - -community.vmware -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- vca_fw - The deprecated module ``vca_fw`` has been removed. -- vca_nat - The deprecated module ``vca_nat`` has been removed. -- vca_vapp - The deprecated module ``vca_vapp`` has been removed. -- vmware_dns_config - The deprecated module ``vmware_dns_config`` has been removed, you can use ``vmware_host_dns`` instead. -- vmware_guest_network - The deprecated parameter ``networks`` has been removed, use loops to handle multiple interfaces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1459). -- vmware_guest_vnc - The deprecated module ``vmware_guest_vnc`` has been removed. The VNC support has been dropped with vSphere 7 and later (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1454). -- vmware_host_firewall_manager - The module doesn't accept a list for ``allowed_hosts`` anymore, use a dict instead. Additionally, ``all_ip`` is now a required sub-option of ``allowed_hosts`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1463). -- vsphere_copy - The deprecated parameters ``host`` and ``login`` have been removed. Use ``hostname`` and ``username`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1456). - -junipernetworks.junos -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- Remove following deprecated Junos Modules. -- junos_interface -- junos_l2_interface -- junos_l3_interface -- junos_linkagg -- junos_lldp -- junos_lldp_interface -- junos_static_route -- junos_vlan - -vyos.vyos -~~~~~~~~~ - -- vyos_interface - use vyos_interfaces instead. -- vyos_l3_interface - use vyos_l3_interfaces instead. -- vyos_linkagg - use vyos_lag_interfaces instead. -- vyos_lldp - use vyos_lldp_global instead. -- vyos_lldp_interface - use vyos_lldp_interfaces instead. -- vyos_static_route - use vyos_static_routes instead. - -Deprecated Features -------------------- - -- The dellemc.os10 collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See `the removal process for details on how this works <https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#cancelling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/134). -- The dellemc.os6 collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See `the removal process for details on how this works <https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#cancelling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/132). -- The dellemc.os9 collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See `the removal process for details on how this works <https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#cancelling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/133). -- The mellanox.onyx collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See `the removal process for details on how this works <https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#cancelling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/136). - -amazon.aws -~~~~~~~~~~ - -- amazon.aws collection - due to the AWS SDKs announcing the end of support for Python less than 3.7 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/python-support-policy-updates-for-aws-sdks-and-tools/) support for Python less than 3.7 by this collection has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2023-05-31 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/935). -- inventory/aws_ec2 - the ``include_extra_api_calls`` is now deprecated, its value is silently ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1097). - -cisco.mso -~~~~~~~~~ - -- The mso_schema_template_contract_filter contract_filter_type attribute is deprecated. The value is now deduced from filter_type. - -community.aws -~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- community.aws collection - due to the AWS SDKs announcing the end of support for Python less than 3.7 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/python-support-policy-updates-for-aws-sdks-and-tools/) support for Python less than 3.7 by this collection has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2023-05-31 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1361). - -community.general -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- ArgFormat module utils - deprecated along ``CmdMixin``, in favor of the ``cmd_runner_fmt`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). -- CmdMixin module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). -- CmdModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). -- CmdStateModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). -- django_manage - support for Django releases older than 4.1 has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400). -- django_manage - support for the commands ``cleanup``, ``syncdb`` and ``validate`` that have been deprecated in Django long time ago will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400). -- django_manage - the behavior of "creating the virtual environment when missing" is being deprecated and will be removed in community.general version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5405). -- newrelic_deployment - ``appname`` and ``environment`` are no longer valid options in the v2 API. They will be removed in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341). - -Porting Guide for v7.0.0a1 -========================== - -Added Collections ------------------ - -- ibm.spectrum_virtualize (version 1.9.0) -- inspur.ispim (version 1.0.1) -- purestorage.fusion (version 1.1.1) -- vultr.cloud (version 1.1.0) - -Known Issues ------------- - -dellemc.openmanage -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- idrac_user - Issue(192043) The module may error out with the message ``unable to perform the import or export operation because there are pending attribute changes or a configuration job is in progress``. Wait for the job to complete and run the task again. -- ome_application_alerts_smtp - Issue(212310) - The module does not provide a proper error message if the destination_address is more than 255 characters. -- ome_application_alerts_syslog - Issue(215374) - The module does not provide a proper error message if the destination_address is more than 255 characters. -- ome_device_local_access_configuration - Issue(215035) - The module reports ``Successfully updated the local access setting`` if an unsupported value is provided for the parameter timeout_limit. However, this value is not actually applied on OpenManage Enterprise Modular. -- ome_device_local_access_configuration - Issue(217865) - The module does not display a proper error message if an unsupported value is provided for the user_defined and lcd_language parameters. -- ome_device_network_services - Issue(212681) - The module does not provide a proper error message if unsupported values are provided for the parameters- port_number, community_name, max_sessions, max_auth_retries, and idle_timeout. -- ome_device_power_settings - Issue(212679) - The module displays the following message if the value provided for the parameter ``power_cap`` is not within the supported range of 0 to 32767, ``Unable to complete the request because PowerCap does not exist or is not applicable for the resource URI.`` -- ome_device_quick_deploy - Issue(216352) - The module does not display a proper error message if an unsupported value is provided for the ipv6_prefix_length and vlan_id parameters. -- ome_smart_fabric_uplink - Issue(186024) - The module does not allow the creation of multiple uplinks of the same name even though it is supported by OpenManage Enterprise Modular. If an uplink is created using the same name as an existing uplink, the existing uplink is modified. - -netapp.ontap -~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- na_ontap_snapshot - added documentation to use UTC format for ``expiry_time``. - -Breaking Changes ----------------- - -- Ansible 7 requires Python 3.9 on the controller, same as ansible-core 2.14. - -Ansible-core -~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- Allow for lazy evaluation of Jinja2 expressions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56017) -- The default ansible-galaxy role skeletons no longer contain .travis.yml files. You can configure ansible-galaxy to use a custom role skeleton that contains a .travis.yml file to continue using Galaxy's integration with Travis CI. -- ansible - At startup the filesystem encoding and locale are checked to verify they are UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding. -- ansible - Increase minimum Python requirement to Python 3.9 for CLI utilities and controller code -- ansible-test - At startup the filesystem encoding is checked to verify it is UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding. -- ansible-test - At startup the locale is configured as ``en_US.UTF-8``, with a fallback to ``C.UTF-8``. If neither encoding is available the process exits with an error. If the fallback is used, a warning is displayed. In previous versions the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale was always requested. However, no startup checking was performed to verify the locale was successfully configured. -- strategy plugins - Make ``ignore_unreachable`` to increase ``ignored`` and ``ok`` and counter, not ``skipped`` and ``unreachable``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77690) - -amazon.aws -~~~~~~~~~~ - -- Tags beginning with ``aws:`` will not be removed when purging tags, these tags are reserved by Amazon and may not be updated or deleted (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/817). -- amazon.aws collection - the ``profile`` parameter is now mutually exclusive with the ``aws_access_key``, ``aws_secret_key`` and ``security_token`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/834). -- aws_az_info - the module alias ``aws_az_facts`` was deprecated in Ansible 2.9 and has now been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/832). -- aws_s3 - the default value for ``ensure overwrite`` has been changed to ``different`` instead of ``always`` so that the module is idempotent by default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/811). -- aws_ssm - on_denied and on_missing now both default to error, for consistency with both aws_secret and the base Lookup class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/617). -- ec2 - The ``ec2`` module has been removed in release 4.0.0 and replaced by the ``ec2_instance`` module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/630). -- ec2_vpc_igw_info - The default value for ``convert_tags`` has been changed to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/835). -- elb_classic_lb - the ``ec2_elb`` fact has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/827). -- module_utils - Support for the original AWS SDK aka ``boto`` has been removed, including all relevant helper functions. All modules should now use the ``boto3``/``botocore`` AWS SDK (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/630) - -check_point.mgmt -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- cp_mgmt_access_role - the 'machines' parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter 'machines_list' of type dict has been added. the 'users' parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter 'users_list' of type dict has been added. -- cp_mgmt_access_rule - the 'vpn' parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter 'vpn_list' of type dict has been added. the 'position_by_rule' parameter has been changed to 'relative_position' with support of positioning above/below a section (and not just a rule). the 'relative_position' parameter has also 'top' and 'bottom' suboptions which allows positioning a rule at the top and bottom of a section respectively. a new parameter 'search_entire_rulebase' has been added to allow the relative positioning to be unlimited (was previously limited to 50 rules) -- cp_mgmt_administrator - the 'permissions_profile' parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter 'permissions_profile_list' of type dict has been added. -- cp_mgmt_publish - the 'uid' parameter has been removed. - -community.aws -~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- Tags beginning with ``aws:`` will not be removed when purging tags, these tags are reserved by Amazon and may not be updated or deleted (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/817). -- aws_secret - tags are no longer removed when the ``tags`` parameter is not set. To remove all tags set ``tags={}`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1146). -- community.aws collection - The ``community.aws`` collection has now dropped support for and any requirements upon the original ``boto`` AWS SDK, and now uses the ``boto3``/``botocore`` AWS SDK (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/898). -- community.aws collection - the ``profile`` parameter is now mutually exclusive with the ``aws_access_key``, ``aws_secret_key`` and ``security_token`` parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/834). -- ec2_vpc_route_table - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.ec2_vpc_route_table``. -- ec2_vpc_route_table_info - The module has been migrated from the ``community.aws`` collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use ``amazon.aws.ec2_vpc_route_table_info``. -- elb_instance - the ``ec2_elbs`` fact has been removed, ``updated_elbs`` has been added the return values and includes the same information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1173). -- elb_network_lb - the default value of ``state`` has changed from ``absent`` to ``present`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1167). -- script_inventory_ec2 - The ec2.py inventory script has been moved to a new repository. The script can now be downloaded from https://github.com/ansible-community/contrib-scripts/blob/main/inventory/ec2.py and has been removed from this collection. We recommend migrating from the script to the amazon.aws.ec2 inventory plugin. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/898) - -community.docker -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- This collection does 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 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/271). -- docker_container - ``exposed_ports`` is no longer ignored in ``comparisons``. Before, its value was assumed to be identical with the value of ``published_ports`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422). -- docker_container - ``log_options`` can no longer be specified when ``log_driver`` is not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422). -- docker_container - ``publish_all_ports`` is no longer ignored in ``comparisons`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422). -- docker_container - ``restart_retries`` can no longer be specified when ``restart_policy`` is not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422). -- docker_container - ``stop_timeout`` is no longer ignored for idempotency if told to be not ignored in ``comparisons``. So far it defaulted to ``ignore`` there, and setting it to ``strict`` had no effect (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422). -- modules and plugins communicating directly with the Docker daemon - when connecting by SSH and not using ``use_ssh_client=true``, reject unknown host keys instead of accepting them. This is only a breaking change relative to older community.docker 3.0.0 pre-releases or with respect to Docker SDK for Python < 6.0.0. Docker SDK for Python 6.0.0 will also include this change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/434). - -dellemc.enterprise_sonic -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- bgp_af - Add the route_advertise_list dictionary to the argspec to replace the deleted, obsolete advertise_prefix attribute used for SONiC 3.x images on the 1.x branch of this collection. This change corresponds to a SONiC 4.0 OC YANG REST compliance change for the BGP AF REST API. It enables specification of a route map in conjunction with each route advertisement prefix (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/63). -- bgp_af - remove the obsolete 'advertise_prefix' attribute from argspec and config code. This and subsequent co-req replacement with the new route advertise list argument structure require corresponding changes in playbooks previoulsly used for configuring route advertise prefixes for SONiC 3.x images. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/60) -- bgp_neighbors - Replace the previously defined standalone "bfd" attribute with a bfd dictionary containing multiple attributes. This change corresponds to the revised SONiC 4.x implementation of OC YANG compatible REST APIs. Playbooks previously using the bfd attributes for SONiC 3.x images must be modified for useon SONiC 4.0 images to use the new definition for the bfd attribute argspec structure (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/72). -- bgp_neighbors - Replace, for BGP peer groups, the previously defined standalone "bfd" attribute with a bfd dictionary containing multiple attributes. This change corresponds to the revised SONiC 4.x implementation of OC YANG compatible REST APIs. Playbooks previously using the bfd attributes for SONiC 3.x images must be modified for useon SONiC 4.0 images to use the new definition for the bfd attribute argspec structure (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/81). - -Major Changes -------------- - -Ansible-core -~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- Move handler processing into new ``PlayIterator`` phase to use the configured strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65067) -- ansible - At startup the filesystem encoding and locale are checked to verify they are UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding. -- ansible - Increase minimum Python requirement to Python 3.9 for CLI utilities and controller code -- ansible-test - At startup the filesystem encoding is checked to verify it is UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding. -- ansible-test - At startup the locale is configured as ``en_US.UTF-8``, with a fallback to ``C.UTF-8``. If neither encoding is available the process exits with an error. If the fallback is used, a warning is displayed. In previous versions the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale was always requested. However, no startup checking was performed to verify the locale was successfully configured. - -amazon.aws -~~~~~~~~~~ - -- amazon.aws collection - The amazon.aws collection has dropped support for ``botocore<1.20.0`` and ``boto3<1.17.0``. Most modules will continue to work with older versions of the AWS SDK, however compatability with older versions of the SDK is not guaranteed and will not be tested. When using older versions of the SDK a warning will be emitted by Ansible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/574). - -check_point.mgmt -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- plugins/httpapi/checkpoint - Support for Smart-1 Cloud with new variable 'ansible_cloud_mgmt_id' - -chocolatey.chocolatey -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- win_chocolatey - Added bootstrap_script option to allow users to target a script URL for installing Chocolatey on clients. -- win_chocolatey_facts - Added outdated packages list to data returned. - community.aws ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -761,11 +432,23 @@ community.docker - docker_volume - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires ``requests`` to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/411). - docker_volume_info - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires ``requests`` to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/412). +community.general +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- The internal structure of the collection was changed for modules and action plugins. These no longer live in a directory hierarchy ordered by topic, but instead are now all in a single (flat) directory. This has no impact on users *assuming they did not use internal FQCNs*. These will still work, but result in deprecation warnings. They were never officially supported and thus the redirects are kept as a courtsey, and this is not labelled as a breaking change. Note that for example the Ansible VScode plugin started recommending these internal names. If you followed its recommendation, you will now have to change back to the short names to avoid deprecation warnings, and potential errors in the future as these redirects will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5461). +- newrelic_deployment - removed New Relic v1 API, added support for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341). + community.mysql ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - mysql_db - the ``pipefail`` argument's default value will be changed to ``true`` in community.mysql 4.0.0. If your target machines do not use ``bash`` as a default interpreter, set ``pipefail`` to ``false`` explicitly. However, we strongly recommend setting up ``bash`` as a default and ``pipefail=true`` as it will protect you from getting broken dumps you don't know about (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/issues/407). +community.network +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- The community.network collection no longer supports Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10. While we take no active measures to prevent usage, we will remove 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 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/426). +- The internal structure of the collection was changed for modules and action plugins. These no longer live in a directory hierarchy ordered by topic, but instead are now all in a single (flat) directory. This has no impact on users *assuming they did not use internal FQCNs*. These will still work, but result in deprecation warnings. They were never officially supported and thus the redirects are kept as a courtsey, and this is not labelled as a breaking change. Note that for example the Ansible VScode plugin started recommending these internal names. If you followed its recommendation, you will now have to change back to the short names to avoid deprecation warnings, and potential errors in the future as these redirects will be removed in community.network 8.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/482). + community.postgresql ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -785,10 +468,21 @@ dellemc.openmanage - Added collection metadata for creating execution environments. - Refactored the Markdown (MD) files and content for better readability. - The share parameters are deprecated from the following modules - idrac_network, idrac_timezone_ntp, dellemc_configure_idrac_eventing, dellemc_configure_idrac_services, dellemc_idrac_lc_attributes, dellemc_system_lockdown_mode. +- idrac_bios - The module is enhanced to support clear pending BIOS attributes, reset BIOS to default settings, and configure BIOS attribute using Redfish. - idrac_boot - Support for configuring the boot settings on iDRAC. +- idrac_redfish_storage_controller - This module is enhanced to support LockVirtualDisk operation. +- idrac_virtual_media - This module allows to configure Remote File Share settings. - ome_device_group - The module is enhanced to support the removal of devices from a static device group. - ome_devices - Support for performing device-specific operations on OpenManage Enterprise. +fortinet.fortimanager +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Fix compatibility issue for ansible 2.9.x and ansible-base 2.10.x. +- Many fixes for Ansible sanity test warnings & errors. +- Support FortiManager Schema 7.2.0 , 98 new modules +- support Ansible changelogs. + fortinet.fortios ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -798,9 +492,21 @@ fortinet.fortios infoblox.nios_modules ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +- Feature for extra layer security , with `cert` and `key` parameters in playbooks for authenticating using certificate and key ``*.pem`` file absolute path `#154 <https://github.com/infobloxopen/infoblox-ansible/pull/154>`_ +- Fix to remove issue causing due to template attr in deleting network using Ansible module nios network `#147 <https://github.com/infobloxopen/infoblox-ansible/pull/147>`_ - Update `text` field of TXT Record `#128 <https://github.com/infobloxopen/infoblox-ansible/pull/128>`_ - Update operation using `old_name` and `new_name` for the object with dummy name in `old_name` (which does not exist in system) will not create a new object in the system. An error will be thrown stating the object does not exist in the system `#129 <https://github.com/infobloxopen/infoblox-ansible/pull/129>`_ +junipernetworks.junos +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Use of connection: local and the provider option are no longer valid on any modules in this collection. + +vyos.vyos +~~~~~~~~~ + +- Use of connection: local and the provider option are no longer valid on any modules in this collection. + Removed Collections ------------------- @@ -838,6 +544,56 @@ amazon.aws - ec2_vol - the previously deprecated state ``list`` has been removed. To list volumes the ``ec2_vol_info`` module can be used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/828). - module_utils.batch - the class ``ansible_collections.amazon.aws.plugins.module_utils.batch.AWSConnection`` has been removed. Please use ``AnsibleAWSModule.client()`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/831). +ansible.netcommon +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- napalm - Removed unused connection plugin. +- net_banner - Use <network_os>_banner instead. +- net_interface - Use <network_os>_interfaces instead. +- net_l2_interface - Use <network_os>_l2_interfaces instead. +- net_l3_interface - Use <network_os>_l3_interfaces instead. +- net_linkagg - Use <network_os>_lag_interfaces instead. +- net_lldp - Use <network_os>_lldp_global instead. +- net_lldp_interface - Use <network_os>_lldp_interfaces instead. +- net_logging - Use <network_os>_logging_global instead. +- net_static_route - Use <network_os>_static_routes instead. +- net_system - Use <network_os>_system instead. +- net_user - Use <network_os>_user instead. +- net_vlan - Use <network_os>_vlans instead. +- net_vrf - Use <network_os>_vrf instead. + +cisco.ios +~~~~~~~~~ + +- ios_interface - use ios_interfaces instead. +- ios_l2_interface - use ios_l2_interfaces instead. +- ios_l3_interface - use ios_l3_interfaces instead. +- ios_static_route - use ios_static_routes instead. +- ios_vlan - use ios_vlans instead. + +cisco.iosxr +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- iosxr_interface - use iosxr_interfaces instead. + +cisco.nxos +~~~~~~~~~~ + +- This release removes the following deprecated plugins that have reached their end-of-life. +- nxos_acl +- nxos_acl_interface +- nxos_interface +- nxos_interface_ospf +- nxos_l2_interface +- nxos_l3_interface +- nxos_linkagg +- nxos_lldp +- nxos_ospf +- nxos_ospf_vrf +- nxos_smu +- nxos_static_route +- nxos_vlan + community.aws ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -940,10 +696,79 @@ community.docker - docker_container - the default of ``command_handling`` was changed from ``compatibility`` to ``correct``. Older versions were warning for every invocation of the module when this would result in a change of behavior (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/399). - docker_stack - the return values ``out`` and ``err`` have been removed. Use ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/363). +community.general +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- bitbucket* modules - ``username`` is no longer an alias of ``workspace``, but of ``user`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). +- gem - the default of the ``norc`` option changed from ``false`` to ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). +- gitlab_group_members - ``gitlab_group`` must now always contain the full path, and no longer just the name or path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). +- keycloak_authentication - the return value ``flow`` has been removed. Use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). +- keycloak_group - the return value ``group`` has been removed. Use ``end_state`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). +- lxd_container - the default of the ``ignore_volatile_options`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). +- mail callback plugin - the ``sender`` option is now required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). +- module_helper module utils - remove the ``VarDict`` attribute from ``ModuleHelper``. Import ``VarDict`` from ``ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.vars`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). +- proxmox inventory plugin - the default of the ``want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host`` option changed from ``true`` to ``false`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). +- vmadm - the ``debug`` option has been removed. It was not used anyway (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326). + +community.network +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- aireos modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). +- aireos modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). +- aruba modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). +- aruba modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). +- ce modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). +- ce modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). +- enos modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). +- enos modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). +- ironware modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). +- ironware modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). +- sros modules - removed deprecated ``connection: local`` support. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). +- sros modules - removed deprecated ``provider`` option. Use ``connection: network_cli`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440). + +community.vmware +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- vca_fw - The deprecated module ``vca_fw`` has been removed. +- vca_nat - The deprecated module ``vca_nat`` has been removed. +- vca_vapp - The deprecated module ``vca_vapp`` has been removed. +- vmware_dns_config - The deprecated module ``vmware_dns_config`` has been removed, you can use ``vmware_host_dns`` instead. +- vmware_guest_network - The deprecated parameter ``networks`` has been removed, use loops to handle multiple interfaces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1459). +- vmware_guest_vnc - The deprecated module ``vmware_guest_vnc`` has been removed. The VNC support has been dropped with vSphere 7 and later (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1454). +- vmware_host_firewall_manager - The module doesn't accept a list for ``allowed_hosts`` anymore, use a dict instead. Additionally, ``all_ip`` is now a required sub-option of ``allowed_hosts`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1463). +- vsphere_copy - The deprecated parameters ``host`` and ``login`` have been removed. Use ``hostname`` and ``username`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1456). + +junipernetworks.junos +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Remove following deprecated Junos Modules. +- junos_interface +- junos_l2_interface +- junos_l3_interface +- junos_linkagg +- junos_lldp +- junos_lldp_interface +- junos_static_route +- junos_vlan + +vyos.vyos +~~~~~~~~~ + +- vyos_interface - use vyos_interfaces instead. +- vyos_l3_interface - use vyos_l3_interfaces instead. +- vyos_linkagg - use vyos_lag_interfaces instead. +- vyos_lldp - use vyos_lldp_global instead. +- vyos_lldp_interface - use vyos_lldp_interfaces instead. +- vyos_static_route - use vyos_static_routes instead. + Deprecated Features ------------------- +- The dellemc.os10 collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See `the removal process for details on how this works <https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#cancelling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/134). +- The dellemc.os6 collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See `the removal process for details on how this works <https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#cancelling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/132). +- The dellemc.os9 collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See `the removal process for details on how this works <https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#cancelling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/133). - The google.cloud collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See `the removal process for details on how this works <https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#cancelling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/105). +- The mellanox.onyx collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See `the removal process for details on how this works <https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#cancelling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/136). Ansible-core ~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -960,6 +785,17 @@ Ansible-core amazon.aws ~~~~~~~~~~ +- amazon.aws collection - Support for the ``EC2_ACCESS_KEY`` environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``access_key`` parameter or ``AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`` environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). +- amazon.aws collection - Support for the ``EC2_REGION`` environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``region`` parameter or ``AWS_REGION`` environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). +- amazon.aws collection - Support for the ``EC2_SECRET_KEY`` environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``secret_key`` parameter or ``AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`` environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). +- amazon.aws collection - Support for the ``EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN`` environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``session_token`` parameter or ``AWS_SESSION_TOKEN`` environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). +- amazon.aws collection - Support for the ``EC2_URL`` and ``S3_URL`` environment variables has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``endpoint_url`` parameter or ``AWS_ENDPOINT_URL`` environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). +- amazon.aws collection - The ``access_token`` alias for the ``session_token`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``session_token`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). +- amazon.aws collection - The ``aws_security_token`` alias for the ``session_token`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``session_token`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). +- amazon.aws collection - The ``ec2_access_key`` alias for the ``access_key`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``access_key`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). +- amazon.aws collection - The ``ec2_region`` alias for the ``region`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``region`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). +- amazon.aws collection - The ``ec2_secret_key`` alias for the ``secret_key`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``secret_key`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). +- amazon.aws collection - The ``security_token`` alias for the ``session_token`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the ``session_token`` name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172). - amazon.aws collection - due to the AWS SDKs announcing the end of support for Python less than 3.7 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/python-support-policy-updates-for-aws-sdks-and-tools/) support for Python less than 3.7 by this collection has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2023-05-31 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/935). - aws_s3 - The ``S3_URL`` alias for the s3_url option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795). - ec2_ami - The ``DeviceName`` alias for the device_name option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795). @@ -969,13 +805,16 @@ amazon.aws - ec2_instance - The default value for ```instance_type``` has been deprecated, in the future release you must set an instance_type or a launch_template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/587). - ec2_instance - the current default value of ``False`` for ``purge_tags`` has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/849). - ec2_key - the current default value of ``False`` for ``purge_tags`` has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/846). +- ec2_security_group - support for passing nested lists to ``cidr_ip`` and ``cidr_ipv6`` has been deprecated. Nested lists can be passed through the ``flatten`` filter instead ``cidr_ip: '{{ my_cidrs | flatten }}'`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1213). - ec2_vol - the current default value of ``False`` for ``purge_tags`` has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/846). - ec2_vpc_dhcp_option_info - The ``DhcpOptionIds`` alias for the dhcp_option_ids option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795). - ec2_vpc_dhcp_option_info - The ``DryRun`` alias for the dry_run option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795). - ec2_vpc_endpoint - the current default value of ``False`` for ``purge_tags`` has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/846). - ec2_vpc_net - the current default value of ``False`` for ``purge_tags`` has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/848). - ec2_vpc_route_table - the current default value of ``False`` for ``purge_tags`` has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to ``True`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/846). +- inventory/aws_ec2 - the ``include_extra_api_calls`` is now deprecated, its value is silently ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1097). - module_utils.cloud - removal of the ``CloudRetry.backoff`` has been delayed until release 6.0.0. It is recommended to update custom modules to use ``jittered_backoff`` or ``exponential_backoff`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/951). +- module_utils.url - ``ansible_collections.amazon.aws.module_utils.urls`` is believed to be unused and has been deprecated and will be removed in release 7.0.0. - s3_bucket - The ``S3_URL`` alias for the s3_url option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795). - s3_object - Support for creation and deletion of S3 buckets has been deprecated. Please use the ``amazon.aws.s3_bucket`` module to create and delete buckets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/869). @@ -984,6 +823,11 @@ cisco.ios - Deprecated ios_linkagg_module in favor of ios_lag_interfaces. +cisco.mso +~~~~~~~~~ + +- The mso_schema_template_contract_filter contract_filter_type attribute is deprecated. The value is now deduced from filter_type. + community.aws ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -1013,11 +857,25 @@ community.docker - Support for Docker API version 1.20 to 1.24 has been deprecated and will be removed in community.docker 3.0.0. The first Docker version supporting API version 1.25 was Docker 1.13, released in January 2017. This affects the modules ``docker_container``, ``docker_container_exec``, ``docker_container_info``, ``docker_compose``, ``docker_login``, ``docker_image``, ``docker_image_info``, ``docker_image_load``, ``docker_host_info``, ``docker_network``, ``docker_network_info``, ``docker_node_info``, ``docker_swarm_info``, ``docker_swarm_service``, ``docker_swarm_service_info``, ``docker_volume_info``, and ``docker_volume``, whose minimally supported API version is between 1.20 and 1.24 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/396). - Support for Python 2.6 is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release (community.docker 3.0.0). Some modules might still work with Python 2.6, but we will no longer try to ensure compatibility (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/388). +- docker_container - the ``ignore_image`` option is deprecated and will be removed in community.docker 4.0.0. Use ``image: ignore`` in ``comparisons`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/487). +- docker_container - the ``purge_networks`` option is deprecated and will be removed in community.docker 4.0.0. Use ``networks: strict`` in ``comparisons`` instead, and make sure to provide ``networks``, with value ``[]`` if all networks should be removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/487). community.general ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +- ArgFormat module utils - deprecated along ``CmdMixin``, in favor of the ``cmd_runner_fmt`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). +- CmdMixin module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). +- CmdModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). +- CmdStateModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the ``CmdRunner`` module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370). +- cmd_runner module utils - deprecated ``fmt`` in favour of ``cmd_runner_fmt`` as the parameter format object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4777). +- django_manage - support for Django releases older than 4.1 has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400). +- django_manage - support for the commands ``cleanup``, ``syncdb`` and ``validate`` that have been deprecated in Django long time ago will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400). +- django_manage - the behavior of "creating the virtual environment when missing" is being deprecated and will be removed in community.general version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5405). +- gconftool2 - deprecates ``state=get`` in favor of using the module ``gconftool2_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4778). +- lxc_container - the module will no longer make any effort to support Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5304). +- newrelic_deployment - ``appname`` and ``environment`` are no longer valid options in the v2 API. They will be removed in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341). - proxmox - deprecated the current ``unprivileged`` default value, will be changed to ``true`` in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/pull/5224). +- xfconf - deprecated parameter ``disable_facts``, as since version 4.0.0 it only allows value ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4520). community.hashi_vault ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |