- ansible-test - Allow float values for the ``--timeout`` option to the ``env`` command. This simplifies testing.
- ansible-test - Refactored ``env`` command logic and timeout handling.
- ansible-test - Use ``datetime.datetime.now`` with ``tz`` specified instead of ``datetime.datetime.utcnow``.
Bugfixes
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- Display - Defensively configure writing to stdout and stderr with the replace encoding error handler that will replace invalid characters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80258)
- Properly disable ``jinja2_native`` in the template module when jinja2 override is used in the template (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80605)
- ansible-galaxy - fix installing signed collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80648).
- ansible-galaxy collection verify - fix verifying signed collections when the keyring is not configured.
- ansible-test - Fix handling of timeouts exceeding one day.
- ansible-test - Fix various cases where the test timeout could expire without terminating the tests.
- ansible-test - When bootstrapping remote FreeBSD instances, use the OS packaged ``setuptools`` instead of installing the latest version from PyPI.
- pep517 build backend - Copy symlinks when copying the source tree. This avoids tracebacks in various scenarios, such as when a venv is present in the source tree.