- Handle improper variable substitution that was happening in safe_eval, it was always meant to just do 'type enforcement' and have Jinja2 deal with all variable interpolation. Also see CVE-2019-10156
- nxos_igmp_snooping group-timeout fails when igmp snooping disabled (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/53079).
- nxos_igmp_snooping more group-timeout fixes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/53553).
- nxos_interface DI delay only when operation state check is requested (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/54862).
- nxos_interfaces_ospf fix passive-interface states & check_mode (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/54260).
- nxos_linkagg `group` type mismatch causes idempotency failure (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/53653).
- nxos_user fails to remove usernames with embedded rawstring (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/53149).
- pass correct loading context to persistent connections
- psrp - Fix blank newlines appearing before ``stdout`` when using ``script`` or ``raw`` with the ``psrp`` connection plugin
- psrp - Fix issues when fetching large files causing a memory leak - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55239
- psrp - Fix issues with propagating errors back to Ansible with ``raw`` tasks
- redfish_utils - expose timeout option for redfish implementations that exceed the 10 second default
- redfish_utils - fix "406 Not Acceptable" issue with some OOB controllers (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55078)
- redhat_subscription - For compatibility using the redhat_subscription module on hosts set to use a python 3 interpreter, use string values when updating yum plugin configuration files.
- remove become plugins reference introduced in backport fix
- sysctl: the module now also checks the output of STDERR to report if values are correctly set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/55695)
- udm_dns_record - Fix issues when state is absent with undefined variable diff at the module return.
- udm_dns_zone - Fix issues when state is absent with undefined variable diff at the module return.
- udm_group - Fix issues when state is absent with undefined variable diff at the module return.
- udm_share - Fix issues when state is absent with undefined variable diff at the module return.
- udm_user - Fix issues when state is absent with undefined variable diff at the module return.
- ufw - when ``default`` is specified, ``direction`` does not needs to be specified. This was accidentally introduced in Ansible 2.7.8.
- user - properly parse the shadow file on AIX (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54461)
- vsphere_guest - creating machines without vm_extra_config allowed
- vsphere_guest - powering on/off absent virtual machine will fail
- vultr_server - Fix idempotency for options ``ipv6_enabled`` and ``private_network_enabled``.
- win_acl - Fix qualifier parser when using UNC paths - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55875
- win_domain - Fix checking for a domain introduced in a recent patch
- win_reboot - pass return value for ``test_command`` result when using the ``psrp`` connection plugin
- win_region - Fix the check for ``format`` when running on the ``psrp`` connection plugin
- yum allows comparison operators like '>=' for selecting package version
- Catch all connection timeout related exceptions and raise AnsibleConnectionError instead
- openssl_pkcs12, openssl_privatekey, openssl_publickey - These modules no longer delete the output file before starting to regenerate the output, or when generating the output failed.
Bugfixes
--------
- Backport of https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/54105, pamd - fix idempotence issue when removing rules
- Use custom JSON encoder in conneciton.py so that ansible objects (AnsibleVaultEncryptedUnicode, for example) can be sent to the persistent connection process
- allow 'dict()' jinja2 global to function the same even though it has changed in jinja2 versions
- flatpak_remote - Handle empty output in remote_exists, fixes https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51481
- foreman - fix Foreman returning host parameters
- get_url - Fix issue with checksum validation when using a file to ensure we skip lines in the file that do not contain exactly 2 parts. Also restrict exception handling to the minimum number of necessary lines (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/48790)
- grafana_datasource - Fixed an issue when running Python3 and using basic auth (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49147)
- include_tasks - Fixed an unexpected exception if no file was given to include.
- openssl_certificate - fix ``state=absent``.
- openssl_certificate, openssl_csr, openssl_pkcs12, openssl_privatekey, openssl_publickey - The modules are now able to overwrite write-protected files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/48656).
- openssl_dhparam - fix ``state=absent`` idempotency and ``changed`` flag.
- openssl_pkcs12, openssl_privatekey - These modules now accept the output file mode in symbolic form or as a octal string (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/53476).
- openssl_publickey - fixed crash on Python 3 when OpenSSH private keys were used with passphrases.
- openstack inventory plugin: allow "constructed" functionality (``compose``, ``groups``, and ``keyed_groups``) to work as documented.
- random_mac - generate a proper MAC address when the provided vendor prefix is two or four characters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50838)
- replace - fix behavior when ``before`` and ``after`` are used together (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/31354)
- report correct CPU information on ARM systems (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/52884)
- slurp - Fix issues when using paths on Windows with glob like characters, e.g. ``[``, ``]``
- ssh - Check the return code of the ssh process before raising AnsibleConnectionFailure, as the error message for the ssh process will likely contain more useful information. This will improve the missing interpreter messaging when using modules such as setup which have a larger payload to transfer when combined with pipelining. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/53487)
- tower_settings - 'name' and 'value' parameters are always required, module can not be used in order to get a setting
- win_acl - Fix issues when using paths with glob like characters, e.g. ``[``, ``]``
- win_acl_inheritance - Fix issues when using paths with glob like characters, e.g. ``[``, ``]``
- win_certificate_store - Fix issues when using paths with glob like characters, e.g. ``[``, ``]``
- win_chocolatey - Fix incompatibilities with the latest release of Chocolatey ``v0.10.12+``
- win_copy - Fix issues when using paths with glob like characters, e.g. ``[``, ``]``
- win_file - Fix issues when using paths with glob like characters, e.g. ``[``, ``]``
- win_find - Ensure found files are sorted alphabetically by the path instead of it being random
- win_find - Fix issues when using paths with glob like characters, e.g. ``[``, ``]``
- win_owner - Fix issues when using paths with glob like characters, e.g. ``[``, ``]``
- win_psexec - Support executables with a space in the path
- win_reboot - Fix reboot command validation failure when running under the psrp connection plugin
- win_tempfile - Always return the full NTFS absolute path and not a DOS 8.3 path.
- win_user_right - Fix output containing non json data - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54413
- windows - Fixed various module utils that did not work with path that had glob like chars
- yum - fix disable_excludes on systems with yum rhn plugin enabled (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/53134)
- Add missing import for ConnectionError in edge and routeros module_utils.
-``to_yaml`` filter updated to maintain formatting consistency when used with ``pyyaml`` versions 5.1 and later (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/53772)
- docker_image - set ``changed`` to ``false`` when using ``force: yes`` to tag or push an image that ends up being identical to one already present on the Docker host or Docker registry.
- jenkins_plugin - Set new default value for the update_url parameter (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/52086)
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix bug where some inventory parsing tracebacks were missing or reported under the wrong plugin.
- Fix rabbitmq_plugin idempotence due to information message in new version of rabbitmq (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/52166)
- Fixed KeyError issue in vmware_host_config_manager when a supported option isn't already set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44561).
- Fixed issue related to --yaml flag in vmware_vm_inventory. Also fixed caching issue in vmware_vm_inventory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/52381).
- If large integers are passed as options to modules under Python 2, module argument parsing will reject them as they are of type ``long`` and not of type ``int``.
- allow nice error to work when auto plugin reads file w/o `plugin` field
- ansible-doc - Fix traceback on providing arguemnt --all to ansible-doc command
- azure_rm_virtualmachine_facts - fixed crash related to attached managed disks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/52181)
- basic - modify the correct variable when determining available hashing algorithms to avoid errors when md5 is not available (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51355)
- cloudscale - Fix compatibilty with Python3 in version 3.5 and lower.
- convert input into text to ensure valid comparisons in nmap inventory plugin
- dict2items - Allow dict2items to work with hostvars
- dnsimple - fixed a KeyError exception related to record types handling.
- docker_container - now returns warnings from docker daemon on container creation and updating.
- docker_swarm - Fixed node_id parameter not working for node removal (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/53501)
- docker_swarm - do not crash with older docker daemons (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51175).
- docker_swarm - fixes idempotency for the ``ca_force_rotate`` option.
- docker_swarm - improve Swarm detection.
- docker_swarm - improve idempotency checking; ``rotate_worker_token`` and ``rotate_manager_token`` are now also used when all other parameters have not changed.
- docker_swarm - now supports docker-py 1.10.0 and newer for most operations, instead only docker 2.6.0 and newer.
- docker_swarm - the ``force`` option was ignored when ``state: present``.
- docker_swarm_service - do basic validation of ``publish`` option if specified (must be list of dicts).
- docker_swarm_service - don't crash when ``publish`` is not specified.
- docker_swarm_service - fix problem with docker daemons which do not return ``UpdateConfig`` in the swarm service spec.
- docker_swarm_service - the return value was documented as ``ansible_swarm_service``, but the module actually returned ``ansible_docker_service``. Documentation and code have been updated so that the variable is now called ``swarm_service``. In Ansible 2.7.x, the old name ``ansible_docker_service`` can still be used to access the result.
- ec2 - if the private_ip has been provided for the new network interface it shouldn't also be added to top level parameters for run_instances()
- fix DNSimple to ensure check works even when the number of records is larger than 100
- get_url - return no change in check mode when checksum matches
- inventory plugins - Fix creating groups from composed variables by getting the latest host variables
- inventory_aws_ec2 - fix no_log indentation so AWS temporary credentials aren't displayed in tests
- jenkins_plugin - Prevent plugin to be reinstalled when state=present (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43728)
- lvol - fixed ValueError when using float size (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32886, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29429)
- mysql - MySQLdb doesn't import the cursors module for its own purposes so it has to be imported in MySQL module utilities before it can be used in dependent modules like the proxysql module family.
- mysql - fixing unexpected keyword argument 'cursorclass' issue after migration from MySQLdb to PyMySQL.
- mysql_user: match backticks, single and double quotes when checking user privileges.
- onepassword_facts - Fixes issues which prevented this module working with 1Password CLI version 0.5.5 (or greater). Older versions of the CLI were deprecated by 1Password and will no longer function.
- openssl_certificate - ``has_expired`` correctly checks if the certificate is expired or not
- openssl_certificate - fix Python 3 string/bytes problems for `notBefore`/`notAfter` for self-signed and ownCA providers.
- openssl_certificate - make sure that extensions are actually present when their values should be checked.
- openssl_csr - improve ``subject`` validation.
- openssl_csr - improve error messages for invalid SANs.
- play order is now applied under all circumstances, fixes
- remote_management foreman - Fixed issue where it was impossible to createdelete a product because product was missing in dict choices ( https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/48594 )
- rhsm_repository - handle systems without any repos
- win_chocolatey - Fix issue when parsing a beta Chocolatey install - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/52331
- win_chocolatey_source - fix bug where a Chocolatey source could not be disabled unless ``source`` was also set - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50133
- win_domain - Do not fail if DC is already promoted but a reboot is required, return ``reboot_required: True``
- win_domain - Fix when running without credential delegated authentication - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/53182
- win_file - Fix issue when managing hidden files and directories - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42466
- winrm - attempt to recover from a WinRM send input failure if possible
- zabbix_hostmacro: fixes truncation of macro contexts that contain colons (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/51853)
- Raise AnsibleConnectionError on winrm connnection errors
Bugfixes
--------
- Backport of https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46478 , fixes name collision in haproxy module
- Fix aws_ec2 inventory plugin code to automatically populate regions when missing as documentation states, also leverage config system vs self default/type validation
- Fix unexpected error when using Jinja2 native types with non-strict constructed keyed_groups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/52158).
- If an ios module uses a section filter on a device which does not support it, retry the command without the filter.
- acme_challenge_cert_helper - the module no longer crashes when the required ``cryptography`` library cannot be found.
- azure_rm_managed_disk_facts - added missing implementation of listing managed disks by resource group
- azure_rm_mysqlserver - fixed issues with passing parameters while updating existing server instance
- azure_rm_postgresqlserver - fixed issues with passing parameters while updating existing server instance
- azure_rm_sqlserver - fix for tags support
- azure_rm_virtualmachine - fixed several crashes in module
- azure_rm_virtualmachine_facts - fix crash when vm created from custom image
- azure_rm_virtualmachine_facts - fixed crash related to VM with managed disk attached
- ec2 - Correctly sets the end date of the Spot Instance request. Sets `ValidUntil` value in proper way so it will be auto-canceled through `spot_wait_timeout` interval.
- openssl_csr - fixes idempotence problem with PyOpenSSL backend when no Subject Alternative Names were specified.
- openstack inventory plugin - send logs from sdk to stderr so they do not combine with output
- psrp - do not display bootstrap wrapper for each module exec run
- redfish_utils - get standard properties for firmware entries (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49832)
- remote home directory - Disallow use of remote home directories that include relative pathing by means of `..` (CVE-2019-3828) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/52133)
- ufw - when using ``state: reset`` in check mode, ``ufw --dry-run reset`` was executed, which causes a loss of firewall rules. The ``ufw`` module was adjusted to no longer run ``ufw --dry-run reset`` to prevent this from happening.
- ufw: make sure that only valid values for ``direction`` are passed on.
- update GetBiosBootOrder to use standard Redfish resources (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47571)
- win become - Fix some scenarios where become failed to create an elevated process
- win_psmodule - the NuGet package provider will be updated, if needed, to avoid issue under adding a repository
- yum - Remove incorrect disable_includes error message when using disable_excludes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51697)
- yum - properly handle a proxy config in yum.conf for an unauthenticated proxy
- Allow check_mode with supports_generate_diff capability in cli_config. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/51417)
- Fixed typo in vmware documentation fragment. Changed "supported added" to "support added".
Bugfixes
--------
- All K8S_AUTH_* environment variables are now properly loaded by the k8s lookup plugin
- Change backup file globbing for network _config modules so backing up one host's config will not delete the backed up config of any host whose hostname is a subset of the first host's hostname (e.g., switch1 and switch11)
- Fixes bug where nios_a_record wasn't getting deleted if an uppercase named a_record was being passed. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/51539)
- aci_aaa_user - Fix setting user description (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/51406)
- apt_repository - fixed failure under Python 3.7 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47219)
- archive - Fix check if archive is created in path to be removed
- Added documentation about using VMware dynamic inventory plugin.
- Fixed bug around populating host_ip in hostvars in vmware_vm_inventory.
- Image reference change in Azure VMSS is detected and applied correctly.
- docker_volume - reverted changed behavior of ``force``, which was released in Ansible 2.7.1 to 2.7.5, and Ansible 2.6.8 to 2.6.11. Volumes are now only recreated if the parameters changed **and**``force`` is set to ``true`` (instead of or). This is the behavior which has been described in the documentation all the time.
- set ansible_os_family from name variable in os-release
- yum and dnf can now handle installing packages from URIs that are proxy redirects and don't end in the .rpm file extension
Bugfixes
--------
- Added log message at -vvvv when using netconf connection listing connection details.
- Changes how ansible-connection names socket lock files. They now use the same name as the socket itself, and as such do not lock other attempts on connections to the same host, or cause issues with overly-long hostnames.
- Fix mandatory statement error for junos modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/50138)
- Moved error in netconf connection plugin from at import to on connection.
- This reverts some changes from commit 723daf3. If a line is found in the file, exactly or via regexp matching, it must not be added again. `insertafter`/`insertbefore` options are used only when a line is to be inserted, to specify where it must be added.
- allow using openstack inventory plugin w/o a cache
- callbacks - Do not filter out exception, warnings, deprecations on failure when using debug (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47576)
- certificate_complete_chain - fix behavior when invalid file is parsed while reading intermediate or root certificates.
- copy - Ensure that the src file contents is converted to unicode in diff information so that it is properly wrapped by AnsibleUnsafeText to prevent unexpected templating of diff data in Python3 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45717)
- correct behaviour of verify_file for vmware inventory plugin, it was always returning True
- dnf - fix issue where ``conf_file`` was not being loaded properly
- dnf - fix update_cache combined with install operation to not cause dnf transaction failure
- docker_container - fix ``network_mode`` idempotency if the ``container:<container-name>`` form is used (as opposed to ``container:<container-id>``) (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49794)
- docker_container - warning when non-string env values are found, avoiding YAML parsing issues. Will be made an error in Ansible 2.8. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49802)
- docker_swarm_service - Document ``labels`` and ``container_labels`` with correct type.
- docker_swarm_service - Document ``limit_memory`` and ``reserve_memory`` correctly on how to specify sizes.
- docker_swarm_service - Document minimal API version for ``configs`` and ``secrets``.
- docker_swarm_service - fix use of Docker API so that services are not detected as present if there is an existing service whose name is a substring of the desired service
- docker_swarm_service - fixing falsely reporting ``update_order`` as changed when option is not used.
- document old option that was initally missed
- ec2_instance now respects check mode https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46774
- fix for network_cli - ansible_command_timeout not working as expected (#49466)
- fix handling of firewalld port if protocol is missing
- fix lastpass lookup failure on python 3 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42062)
- flatpak - Fixed Python 2/3 compatibility
- flatpak - Fixed issue where newer versions of flatpak failed on flatpak removal
- flatpak_remote - Fixed Python 2/3 compatibility
- gcp_compute_instance - fix crash when the instance metadata is not set
- grafana_dashboard - Fix a pair of unicode string handling issues with version checking (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49194)
- host execution order - Fix ``reverse_inventory`` not to change the order of the items before reversing on python2 and to not backtrace on python3
- icinga2_host - fixed the issue with not working ``use_proxy`` option of the module.
- influxdb_user - An unspecified password now sets the password to blank, except on existing users. This previously caused an unhandled exception.
- influxdb_user - Fixed unhandled exception when using invalid login credentials (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50131)
- openssl_* - fix error when ``path`` contains a file name without path.
- openssl_csr - fix problem with idempotency of keyUsage option.
- openssl_pkcs12 - now does proper path expansion for ``ca_certificates``.
- os_security_group_rule - os_security_group_rule doesn't exit properly when secgroup doesn't exist and state=absent (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50057)
- paramiko_ssh - add auth_timeout parameter to ssh.connect when supported by installed paramiko version. This will prevent "Authentication timeout" errors when a slow authentication step (>30s) happens with a host (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42596)
- purefa_facts and purefb_facts now correctly adds facts into main ansible_fact dictionary (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/50349)
- reboot - add appropriate commands to make the plugin work with VMware ESXi (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/48425)
- reboot - add support for rebooting AIX (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49712)
- reboot - gather distribution information in order to support Alpine and other distributions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46723)
- reboot - search common paths for the shutdown command and use the full path to the binary rather than depending on the PATH of the remote system (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47131)
- reboot - use a common set of commands for older and newer Solaris and SunOS variants (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/48986)
- redfish_utils - fix reference to local variable 'systems_service'
- setup - fix the rounding of the ansible_memtotal_mb value on VMWare vm's (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49608)
- vultr_server - fixed multiple ssh keys were not handled.
- win_copy - Fix copy of a dir that contains an empty directory - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50077
- Fix issues with nxos_install_os module for nxapi (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/48811).
- Fix lldp and cdp neighbors information (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/48318)(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/48087)(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49024).
- Fix nxos_interface and nxos_linkagg Idempotence issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46437).
- Fix traceback when updating facts and the fact cache plugin was nonfunctional
- Fix using vault encrypted data with jinja2_native (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/48950)
- Fixed: Make sure that the files excluded when extracting the archive are not checked. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45122
- Fixes issue where a password parameter was not set to no_log
- Respect no_log on retry and high verbosity (CVE-2018-16876)
- aci_rest - Fix issue ignoring custom port
- acme_account, acme_account_facts - in some cases, it could happen that the modules return information on disabled accounts accidentally returned by the ACME server.
- docker_swarm - decreased minimal required API version from 1.35 to 1.25; some features require API version 1.30 though.
- docker_swarm_service: fails because of default "user: root" (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49199)
- ec2_metadata_facts - Parse IAM role name from the security credential field since the instance profile name is different
- fix azure_rm_image module use positional parameter (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49394)
- fixes an issue with dict_merge in network utils (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49474)
- gcp_utils - fix google auth scoping issue with application default credentials or google cloud engine credentials. Only scope credentials that can be scoped.
- mail - fix python 2.7 regression
- openstack - fix parameter handling when cloud provided as dict https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42858
- os_user - Include domain parameter in user deletion https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42901
- os_user - Include domain parameter in user lookup https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42901
- ovirt_storage_connection - comparing passwords breaks idempotency in update_check (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/48933)
- paramiko_ssh - improve log message to state the connection type
- reboot - use IndexError instead of TypeError in exception
- redis cache - Support version 3 of the redis python library (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/49341)
- sensu_silence - Cast int for expire field to avoid call failure to sensu API.
- vmware_host_service_facts - handle exception when service package does not have package name.
- win_nssm - Switched to Argv-ToString for escaping NSSM credentials (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/48728)
- zabbix_hostmacro - Added missing validate_certs logic for running module against Zabbix servers with untrused SSL certificates (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47611)
- zabbix_hostmacro - Fixed support for user macros with context (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46953)
- Document Path and Port are mutually exclusive parameters in wait_for module.
- Puppet module remove ``--ignorecache`` to allow Puppet 6 support
- dnf properly support modularity appstream installation via overloaded group modifier syntax
- proxmox_kvm - fix exception.
- win_security_policy - warn users to use win_user_right instead when editing ``Privilege Rights``
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix the issue that FTD HTTP API retries authentication-related HTTP requests.
- Fix the issue that module fails when the Swagger model does not have required fields.
- Fix the issue with comparing string-like objects.
- Fix using omit on play keywords (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/48673)
- Windows - prevent sensitive content from appearing in scriptblock logging (CVE 2018-16859)
- apt_key - Disable TTY requirement in GnuPG for the module to work correctly when SSH pipelining is enabled (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/48580)
- better error message when bad type in config, deal with EVNAR= more gracefully https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/22470
- configuration retrieval would fail on non primed plugins
- cs_template - Fixed a KeyError on state=extracted.
- docker_container - fix idempotency problems with docker-py caused by previous ``init`` idempotency fix.
- docker_container - fix interplay of docker-py version check with argument_spec validation improvements.
- docker_network - ``driver_options`` containing Python booleans would cause Docker to throw exceptions.
- ec2_group - Fix comparison of determining which rules to purge by ignoring descriptions - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47904
- Parsing plugin filter may raise TypeError, gracefully handle this exception and let user know about the syntax error in plugin filter file.
- Scenario guide for VMware HTTP API usage.
- Update plugin filter documentation.
- fix yum and dnf autoremove input sanitization to properly warn user if invalid options passed and update documentation to match
- improve readability and fix privileges names on vmware scenario_clone_template.
- k8s - updated module documentation to mention how to avoid SSL validation errors
- yum - when checking for updates, now properly include Obsoletes (both old and new) package data in the module JSON output, fixes https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39978
Bugfixes
--------
- ACME modules support `POST-as-GET <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-scheduled-deprecation-of-unauthenticated-resource-gets/74380>`__ and will be able to access Let's Encrypt ACME v2 endpoint after November 1st, 2019.
- Add force disruptive option nxos_instal_os module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47694).
- Avoid misleading PyVmomi error if requests import fails in vmware module utils.
- Fix argument spec for NetApp modules that are using the old version
- Fix consistency issue in grafana_dashboard module where the module would detect absence of 'dashboard' key on dashboard create but not dashboard update.
- Fix idempotency issues when setting BIOS attributes via redfish_config module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47462)
- Fix issue getting output from failed ios commands when ``check_rc=False``
- Fix issue with HTTP redirects with redfish_facts module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45704)
- Fix the password lookup when run from a FIPS enabled system. FIPS forbids the use of md5 but we can use sha1 instead. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47297
- Fix trailing command in net_neighbors nxos_facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47548).
- Fixed an issue where ``os_router`` would attempt to recreate router, because lack of ``enabled_snat`` parameter was treated as difference, if default Neutron policy for snat is set. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29903)
- Fixes issues with source and destination location for na_ontap_snapmirror
- Handle exception when there is no snapshot available in virtual machine or template while cloning using vmware_guest.
- Provides flexibility when retrieving redfish facts by not assuming that certains keys exist. Checks first if key exists before attempting to read from it.
- Restore timeout in set_vm_power_state operation in vmware_guest_powerstate module.
- aci_access_port_to_interface_policy_leaf_profile - Support missing policy_group
- aci_interface_policy_leaf_policy_group - Support missing aep
- aci_switch_leaf_selector - Support empty policy_group
- ansible-galaxy - support yaml extension for meta file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46505)
- assert - add 'success_msg' to valid args (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47030)
- delegate_to - Fix issue where delegate_to was upplied via ``apply`` on an include, where a loop was present on the include
- django_manage - Changed the return type of the changed variable to bool.
- docker_container - ``init`` and ``shm_size`` are now checked for idempotency.
- docker_container - do not fail when removing a container which has ``auto_remove: yes``.
- docker_container - fix ``ipc_mode`` and ``pid_mode`` idempotency if the ``host:<container-name>`` form is used (as opposed to ``host:<container-id>``).
- docker_container - fix ``paused`` option (which never worked).
- docker_container - fixing race condition when ``detach`` and ``auto_remove`` are both ``true``.
- docker_container - refactored minimal docker-py/API version handling, and fixing such handling of some options.
- docker_container - some docker versions require containers to be unpaused before stopping or removing. Adds check to do this when docker returns a corresponding error on stopping or removing.
- docker_swarm - making ``advertise_addr`` optional, as it was already documented.
- docker_swarm_service - The ``publish``.``mode`` parameter was being ignored if docker-py version was < 3.0.0. Added a parameter validation test.
- docker_volume - ``labels`` now work (and are a ``dict`` and no longer a ``list``).
- ec2_instance: - Fixed issue where ebs_optimized was considered sub-option of the network parameter. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/48159)
- fix mail notification module when using starttls and py3.7
- ini_file: Options within no sections aren't included, deleted or modified. These are just unmanged. This pull request solves this. (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44324)
- ldap_attr map to list (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/48009)
- lvg - fixed an idempotency regression in the lvg module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47301)
- net_put - fix when net_put module leaves temp files in some network OS cases e.g. routerOS
- dnf properly honor disable_gpg_check for local (on local disk of remote node) package installation
- fix yum module to handle list argument optional empty strings properly
- netconf_config - Make default_operation optional in netconf_config module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46333)
- win_nssm - Drop support of literal YAML dictionnary for ``app_parameters`` option. Use the ``key=value;`` string form instead
- yum - properly handle proxy password and username embedded in url
- yum/dnf - fail when space separated string of names (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47109)
Bugfixes
--------
- Ansible JSON Decoder - Switch from decode to object_hook to support nested use of __ansible_vault and __ansible_unsafe (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45514)
- Don't parse parameters and options when ``state`` is ``absent`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45700).
- FieldAttribute - Do not use mutable defaults, instead allow supplying a callable for defaults of mutable types (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46824)
- Fix an issue with the default telnet prompt handling. The value needs to be escaped otherwise it does not work when converted to bytes.
- Fix calling deprecate with correct arguments (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46062).
- Fix iterator to list conversion in ldap_entry module.
- Fix pip module so that it can recognize multiple extras
- Fix prompt mismatch issue for ios (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47004)
- Fix the issue with refreshing the token by storing Authorization header inside HttpApi connection plugin.
- Fix the quoting of vhost and other names in rabbitmq_binding
- Fix the win_reboot plugin so that the post_reboot_delay parameter is honored
- Fixed an issue with ansible-doc -l failing when parsing some plugin documentation.
- Fixed: Appropriate code to expand value was missing so assigning SSL certificate is not working as described in the documentation. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45830
- Fixes an error that occurs when attempting to see if the netns already exists on the remote device. This change will now execute ``ip netns list`` and check if the desired namespace is in the output.
- Give user better error messages and more information on verbose about inventory plugin behaviour
- Hardware fact gathering now completes on Solaris 8. Previously, it aborted with error `Argument 'args' to run_command must be list or string`.
- Ignore empty result of rabbitmqctl list_user_permissions.
- In systemd module, allow scope to default to 'system'
- In systemd module, fix check if a systemd+initd service is enabled - disabled in systemd means disabled
- Only access EC2 volume tags when set
- Only delete host key from redis in-memory cache if present.
- PLUGIN_FILTERS_CFG - Ensure that the value is treated as type=path, and that we use the standard section of ``defaults`` instead of ``default`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45994)
- Refactor virtual machine disk logic.
- Restore SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL when creating subprocesses to avoid it being ignored under Python 2.
- Rewrite get_resource_pool method for correct resource_pool selection.
- The docker_* modules more uniformly check versions of docker-py/docker and (if necessary) the docker API.
- Update callbacks to use Ansible's JSON encoder to avoid known serialization issues
- Update the signatures of many cliconf plugins' get() methods to support the check_all paramter. Specifically, aireos, aruba, asa, ce, cnos, dellos6, dellos9, dellos10, edgeos, enos, exos, ironware, nos, onyx, routeros, slxos, and voss were updated. This fixes the cli_command module for these platforms
- Vultr - fix for unreliable API behaviors resulting in timeouts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45712/).
- ansible-connection - Clean up socket files if playbook aborted before connection is started.
- ansible-doc, removed local hardcoded listing, now uses the 'central' list from constants and other minor issues
- aws_ec2 - fixed issue where cache did not contain the computed groups
- aws_ssm_parameter_store - AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store may reach an internal limit before finding the expected parameter, causing misleading results. This is resolved by paginating the describe_parameters call.
- azure_rm_deployment - fixed regression that prevents resource group from being created (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45941)
- blockinfile - use bytes rather than a native string to prevent a stacktrace in Python 3 when writing to the file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46237)
- chroot connection - Support empty files with copying to target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36725)
- cs_instance - Fix docs and typo in examples (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46035).
- cs_instance - Fix host migration without volume (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46115).
- delegate_to - When templating ``delegate_to`` in a loop, don't use the task for a cache, return a special cache through ``get_vars`` allowing looping over a hostvar (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47207)
- docker connection - Support empty files with copying to target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36725)
- docker_container - Fix idempotency problems with ``cap_drop`` and ``groups`` (when numeric group IDs were used).
- docker_container - Fix type conversion errors for ``log_options``.
- docker_container - Fixing various comparison/idempotency problems related to wrong comparisons. In particular, comparisons for ``command`` and ``entrypoint`` (both lists) no longer ignore missing elements during idempotency checks.
- docker_container - Makes ``blkio_weight``, ``cpuset_mems``, ``dns_opts`` and ``uts`` options actually work.
- docker_container - ``publish_ports: all`` was not used correctly when checking idempotency.
- docker_container - fail if ``ipv4_address`` or ``ipv6_address`` is used with a too old docker-py version.
- docker_container - fix behavior of ``detach: yes`` if ``auto_remove: yes`` is specified.
- docker_container - fix idempotency check for published_ports in some special cases.
- docker_container - the behavior is improved in case ``image`` is not specified, but needed for (re-)creating the container.
- docker_network - fixes idempotency issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/33045) and name substring issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/32926).
- docker_service - correctly parse string values for the `scale` parameter https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45508
- docker_volume - fix ``force`` and change detection logic. If not both evaluated to ``True``, the volume was not recreated.
- dynamic includes - Use the copied and merged task for calculating task vars in the free strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47024)
- ec2_group - There can be multiple security groups with the same name in different VPCs. Prior to 2.6 if a target group name was provided, the group matching the name and VPC had highest precedence. Restore this behavior by updated the dictionary with the groups matching the VPC last.
- ec2_group - support EC2-Classic by not assuming security groups have VPCs.
- ec2_metadata_facts - Parse IAM role name from metadata ARN instead of security credential field.
- fetch_url did not always return lower-case header names in case of HTTP errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45628).
- fix azure_rm_autoscale module can create a schedule with fixed start/end date (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47186)
- fix flatten to properly handle multiple lists in lists https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46343
- get_url - improve code that parses checksums from a file so it is not fragile and reports a helpful error when no matching checksum is found
- handlers - fix crash when handler task include tasks
- jail connection - Support empty files with copying to target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36725)
- nmcli - fix syntax of vlan modification command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42322)
- nxos_file_copy fix for binary files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46822).
- openssl_csr - fix byte encoding issue on Python 3
- openssl_pkcs12 - fix byte encoding issue on Python 3
- os_router - ``enable_snat: no`` was ignored.
- ovirt_host_network - check for empty user_opts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47283).
- ovirt_vm - Check next_run configuration update if exist (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47282/).
- ovirt_vm - Fix initialization of cloud init (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47354).
- ovirt_vm - Fix issue in SSO option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47312).
- ovirt_vm - Fix issue in setting the custom_compatibility_version to NULL (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47388).
- pamd: add delete=False to NamedTemporaryFile() fixes OSError on module completion, and removes print statement from module code. (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47281 and https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47080)
- pamd: use module.tmpdir for NamedTemporaryFile() (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47133 and https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36954)
- postgresql_user - create pretty error message when creating a user without an encrypted password on newer PostgreSQL versions
- psrp - Fix issue when dealing with unicode values in the output for Python 2
- reboot - add reboot_timeout parameter to the list of parameters so it can be used.
- reboot - add support for OpenBSD
- reboot - use correct syntax for fetching a value from a dict and account for bare Linux systems (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45607#issuecomment-422403177)
- reboot - use unicode instead of bytes for stdout and stderr to match the type returned from low_level_execute()
- roles - Ensure that we don't overwrite roles that have been registered (from imports) while parsing roles under the roles header (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47454)
- route53 - fix CAA record ordering for idempotency.
- ssh connection - Support empty files with piped transfer_method (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45426)
- templar - Do not strip new lines in native jinja - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46743
- unsafe - Add special casing to sets, to support wrapping elements of sets correctly in Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47372)
- use proper module_util to get Ansible version for Azure requests
- user - add documentation on what underlying tools are used on each platform (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44266)
- user module - do not pass ssh_key_passphrase on cmdline (CVE-2018-16837)
- vmware - honor "wait_for_ip_address" when powering on a VM
- vultr_server - fix diff for user data (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45753/).
- vyos_facts - fix vyos_facts not returning version number issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39115)
- win_copy - Fix issue where the dest return value would be enclosed in single quote when dest is a folder - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45281
- win_nssm - Add missing space between parameters with ``app_parameters``
- win_nssm - Correctly escape argument line when a parameter contains spaces, quotes or backslashes
- win_nssm - Fix error when several services were given to the ``dependencies`` option
- win_nssm - Fix extra space added in argument line with ``app_parameters`` or ``app_parameters_free_form`` when a parameter start by a dash and is followed by a period (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44079)
- win_nssm - Fix service not started when ``state=started`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35442)
- win_nssm - Fix several issues and idempotency problems (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44755)
- winrm - Only use pexpect for auto kerb auth if it is installed and contains the required kwargs - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43462
- zabbix_host - module was failing when zabbix host was updated with new interface and template depending on that interface at the same time
- zone connection - Support empty files with copying to target (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/36725)
- Allow config to enable native jinja types (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/32738)
- Extends `module_defaults` by adding a prefix to defaults `group/` which denotes a builtin or user-specified list of modules, such as `group/aws` or `group/gcp`
- New keyword `ignore_unreachable` for plays and blocks. Allows ignoring tasks that fail due to unreachable hosts, and check results with `is unreachable` test.
- New yumdnf module defines the shared argument specification for both yum and dnf modules and provides an entry point to share code when applicable
- Remove support for simplejson (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42761)
- Support for running an Ansible controller with Python-2.6 has been dropped. You can still manage machines which use Python-2.6 but you will have to manage them from a machine which has Python-2.7 or Python-3.5 or greater installed. See the `porting guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.7.html>`_ if you need more information.
- new yum action plugin enables the yum module to work with both yum3 and dnf-based yum4 by detecting the backend package manager and routing commands through the correct Ansible module for that python API
- Add `is_boto3_error_code` function to `module_utils/aws/core.py` to make it easier for modules to handle special AWS error codes.
- Add use_backend to yum module/action plugin
- Added PrivilegeUtil PowerShell module util to easily control Windows Privileges in a process
- Added capability to skip ssl verification on zabbix host with dynamic inventory
- Added inventory.any_unparsed_is_failed configuration setting. In an inventory with a static hosts file and (say) ec2.py, enabling this setting will cause a failure instead of a warning if ec2.py fails.
- Added new filter to generate random MAC addresses from a given string acting as a prefix. Refer to the appropriate entry which has been added to user_guide playbook_filters.rst document.
- Added the from_yaml_all filter to parse multi-document yaml strings. Refer to the appropriate entry which as been added to user_guide playbooks_filters.rst document.
- Ansible-2.7 changes the Ansiballz strategy for running modules remotely so that invoking a module only needs to invoke python once per module on the remote machine instead of twice.
- Better error handling for depsolve and transaction errors in DNF
- Changed the prefix of all Vultr modules from vr to vultr (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42942).
- Enable installroot tests for yum4(dnf) integration testing, dnf backend now supports that
- Explicit encoding for the output of the template module, to be able to generate non-utf8 files from a utf-8 template. (https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/121)
- File locking feature added, making it possible to gain exclusive access to given file through module_utils.common.file.FileLock (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29962)
- Fix dnf handling of autoremove to be compatible with yum
- In Ansible-2.4 and above, Ansible passes the temporary directory a module should use to the module. This is done via a module parameter (_ansible_tmpdir). An earlier version of this which was also prototyped in Ansible-2.4 development used an environment variable, ANSIBLE_REMOTE_TMP to pass this information to the module instead. When we switched to using a module parameter, the environment variable was left in by mistake. Ansible-2.7 removes that variable. Any third party modules which relied on it should use the module parameter instead.
- New config options `display_ok_hosts` and `display_failed_stderr` (along with the existing `display_skipped_hosts` option) allow more fine-grained control over the way that ansible displays output from a playbook (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41058)
- Removed an unnecessary import from the AnsiballZ wrapper
- Restore module_utils.basic.BOOLEANS variable for backwards compatibility with the module API in older ansible releases.
- Setting file attributes (via the file module amongst others) now accepts + and - modifiers to add or remove individual attributes. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/33838)
- Switch from zip to bc for certain package install/remove test cases in yum integration tests. The dnf depsolver downgrades python when you uninstall zip which alters the test environment and we have no control over that.
- The acme_account and acme_certificate modules now support two backends: the Python cryptograpy module or the OpenSSL binary. By default, the modules detect if a new enough cryptography module is available and use it, with the OpenSSL binary being a fallback. If the detection fails for some reason, the OpenSSL binary backend can be explicitly selected by setting select_crypto_backend to openssl.
- The apt, ec2_elb_lb, elb_classic_lb, and unarchive modules have been ported away from using __file__. This is futureproofing as__file__ won't work if we switch to using python -m to invoke modules in the future or if we figure out a way to make a module never touch disk for pipelining purposes.
- The password_hash filter supports all parameters of passlib. This allows users to provide a rounds parameter. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/15326)
- dnf - group removal does not work if group was installed with Ansible because of dnf upstream bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1620324
- ec2_group - Add diff mode support with and without check mode. This feature is preview and may change when a common framework is adopted for AWS modules.
- elasticsearch_plugin - Add the possibility to use the elasticsearch_plugin installation batch mode to install plugins with advanced privileges without user interaction.
- gather_subset - removed deprecated functionality for using comma separated list with gather_subset (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44320)
- get_url - implement [expend checksum format to <algorithm>:(<checksum>|<url>)] (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27617)
- roles - removed deprecated functionality for non YAML role specs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44320)
- roles - removed deprecated special casing functionality of connection, port, and remote_user for role params (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44320)
- service - removed deprecated state=running (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44320)
- shell module - Add support for check mode when passing creates or removes arguments. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40428)
- sns_topic - Port sns_topic module to boto3 and add an integration test suite.
- ssh - reset connection will show a warning instead of failing for older OpenSSH versions
- to_nice_json - specify separators to json.dumps to normalize the output between python2 and python3 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42633)
- user - backup shadow file on platforms where the module modifies it directly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40696)
- user module - add a sanity check for the user's password and a more helpful warning message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43615)
- win_disk_image - return a list of mount paths with the return value ``mount_paths``, this will always be a list and contain all mount points in an image
- win_psexec - Added the ``session`` option to specify a session to start the process in
- winrm - change the _reset() method to use reset() that is part of ConnectionBase
Deprecated Features
-------------------
- Modules will no longer be able to rely on the __file__ attribute pointing to a real file. If your third party module is using __file__ for something it should be changed before 2.8. See the 2.7 porting guide for more information.
- The `skippy`, `full_skip`, `actionable`, and `stderr` callback plugins have been deprecated in favor of config options that influence the behavior of the `default` callback plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41058)
- The configuration toggle, ``merge_multiple_cli_tags``, has been removed. This setting controlled whether specifying ``--tags`` or ``--skip-tags`` multiple times on the commandline would merge the specified tags or use the old behaviour of overwriting the previous entry. The overwriting behaviour was deprecated in 2.3 and the default value of the config option became merge in 2.4.
-**Security Fix** - Some connection exceptions would cause no_log specified on a task to be ignored. If this happened, the task information, including any private information could have been displayed to stdout and (if enabled, not the default) logged to a log file specified in ansible.cfg's log_path. Additionally, sites which redirected stdout from ansible runs to a log file may have stored that private information onto disk that way as well. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41414)
-**Security Fix** - avoid loading host/group vars from cwd when not specifying a playbook or playbook base dir
-**Security Fix** - avoid using ansible.cfg in a world writable dir.
- Additional checks ensure that there is always a result of hashing passwords in the password_hash filter and vars_prompt, otherwise an error is returned. Some modules (like user module) interprets None as no password at all, which can be dangerous if the password given above is passed directly into those modules.
- Avoids deprecated functionality of passlib with newer library versions.
- Changed the admin_users config option to not include "admin" by default as admin is frequently used for a non-privileged account (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41164)
- Fix alt linux detection/matching
- Fix an atomic_move error that is 'true', but misleading. Now we show all 3 files involved and clarify what happened.
- Fix ec2_group support for multi-account and peered VPC security groups. Reported in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issue/44788 and fixed in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45296
- Fix ecs_taskdefinition handling of changed role_arn. If the task role in a ECS task definition changes ansible should create a new revsion of the task definition. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45317
- Fix health check parameter handling in elb_target_group per https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43244 about health_check_port. Fixed in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45314
- Fix lambda_policy updates when principal is an account number. Backport of https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44871
- Fix the mount module's handling of swap entries in fstab (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42837)
- Fixed an issue where ``ansible_facts.pkg_mgr`` would incorrectly set to ``zypper`` on Debian/Ubuntu systems that happened to have the command installed.
- Fixed runtime module to be able to handle syslog_facility properly when python systemd module installed in a target system. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41078)
- Grafana dashboard module compatible with grafana 5 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41249)
- On Python2, loading config values from environment variables could lead to a traceback if there were nonascii characters present. Converted them to text strings so that no traceback will occur (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43468)
- The fix for `CVE-2018-10875 <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10875>`__ prints out a warning message about skipping a config file from a world writable current working directory. However, if the user explicitly specifies that the config file should be used via the ANSIBLE_CONFIG environment variable then Ansible would honor that but still print out the warning message. This has been fixed so that Ansible honors the user's explicit wishes and does not print a warning message in that circumstance.
- The fix for `CVE-2018-10875 <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10875>`__ prints out a warning message about skipping a config file from a world writable current working directory. However, if the user is in a world writable current working directory which does not contain a config file, it should not print a warning message. This release fixes that extaneous warning.
- The ssh connection plugin was categorizing all 255 exit statuses as an ssh error but modules can return exit code 255 as well. The connection plugin has now been changed to know that certain instances of exit code 255 are not ssh-related. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41716)
- allow custom endpoints to be used in the aws_s3 module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36832)
- allow gathering env exception to work even when injection is off
- always correctly template no log for tasks https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43294
- ansible-galaxy - properly list all roles in roles_path (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43010)
- authorized_key now have an option for following symlinks, default behaviour (False) can be changed by setting follow True/False
- basic.py - catch ValueError in case a FIPS enabled platform raises this exception - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44447
- become runas - changed runas process so it does not create a temporary file on the disk during execution
- cloudfront_distribution - replace call to nonexistent method 'validate_distribution_id_from_caller_reference' with 'validate_distribution_from_caller_reference' and set the distribution_id variable to the distribution's 'Id' key.
- corrected and clarified 'user' option deprecation in systemd module in favor of 'scope' option.
- delegate_to - ensure if we get a non-Task object in _get_delegated_vars, we return early (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44934)
- docker_container: fixing ``working_dir`` idempotency problem (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42857)
- docker_container: makes unit parsing for memory sizes more consistent, and fixes idempotency problem when ``kernel_memory`` is set (see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/16748 and https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42692)
- ec2_group - Sanitize the ingress and egress rules before operating on them by flattening any lists within lists describing the target CIDR(s) into a list of strings. Prior to Ansible 2.6 the ec2_group module accepted a list of strings, a list of lists, or a combination of strings and lists within a list. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/45594
- ec2_vpc_route_table - check the origin before replacing routes. Routes with the origin 'EnableVgwRoutePropagation' may not be replaced.
- elasticsearch_plugin - Improve error messages and show stderr of elasticsearch commands
- elb_application_lb - Fix a dangerous behavior of deleting an ELB if state was omitted from the task. Now state defaults to 'present', which is typical throughout AWS modules.
- file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the 2.6.x development cycle. The patch to fix that broke check mode. This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42111)
- file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the 2.6.x development cycle. This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41755)
- fix async for the aws_s3 module by adding async support to the action plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40826)
- fix decrypting vault files for the aws_s3 module (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39634)
- fix default SSL version for docker modules https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42897
- fix for the bundled selectors module (used in the ssh and local connection plugins) when a syscall is restarted after being interrupted by a signal (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41630)
- fix mail module for python 3.7.0 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44552)
- fix the enable_snat parameter that is only supposed to be used by an user with the right policies. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44418
- fix the remote tmp folder permissions issue when becoming a non admin user - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41340, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42117
- flatten filter - use better method of type checking allowing flattening of mutable and non-mutable sequences (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44331)
- gce_net - Fix sorting of allowed ports (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41567)
- include - Change order of where the new block is inserted with apply so that apply args are not applied to the include also (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44912)
- includes - ensure we do not double register handlers from includes to prevent exception (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44848)
- loop - Ensure that a loop with a when condition that evaluates to false and delegate_to, will short circuit if the loop references an undefined variable. This matches the behavior in the same scenario without delegate_to (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/45189)
- loop - Ensure we only cache the loop when the task had a loop and delegate_to was templated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44874)
- urls - Only assume GET method if data is empty, otherwise POST
- user - Strip trailing comments in /etc/default/passwd (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43931)
- user - fix bug that resulted in module always reporting a change when specifiying the home directory on FreeBSD (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42484)
- user - use correct attribute name in FreeBSD for creat_home (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42711)
- vars_prompt - properly template play level variables in vars_prompt (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/37984)
- vars_prompt with encrypt does not require passlib for the algorithms supported by crypt.
- vault - fix error message encoding, and ensure we present a friendlier error when the EDITOR is missing (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44423)
- win_chocolatey - enable TLSv1.2 support when downloading the Chocolatey installer https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41906
- win_chocolatey - fix issue where state=downgrade would upgrade a package if no version was set
- win_domain - ensure the Netlogon service is up and running after promoting host to controller - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39235
- win_domain - fixes typo in one of the AD cmdlets https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41536
- win_domain_computer - fixed deletion of computer active directory object that have dependent objects (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/44500)
- win_domain_controller - ensure the Netlogon service is up and running after promoting host to controller - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/39235
- win_iis_webapppool - redirect some module output to null so Ansible can read the output JSON https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40874
- win_lineinfile - changed `-Path` to `-LiteralPath` so that square brackes in the path are interpreted literally - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/44508
- winrm - ensure pexpect is set to not echo the input on a failure and have a manual sanity check afterwards https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41865
- winrm - running async with become on a Server 2008 or 2008 R2 host will now work
New Plugins
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Callback
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- counter_enabled - adds counters to the output items (tasks and hosts/task)
- logdna - Sends playbook logs to LogDNA
- splunk - Sends task result events to Splunk HTTP Event Collector
Connection
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- psrp - Run tasks over Microsoft PowerShell Remoting Protocol
Inventory
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- tower - Ansible dynamic inventory plugin for Ansible Tower.
