New release v2.16.11rc1 (#83890)

changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.16.rst

@@ -5,6 +5,33 @@ ansible-core 2.16 "All My Love" Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics
 
 
+v2.16.11rc1
+===========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2024-09-03
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix ``SemanticVersion.parse()`` to store the version string so that ``__repr__`` reports it instead of ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83831).
+- Fix an issue where registered variable was not available for templating in ``loop_control.label`` on skipped looped tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83619)
+- Fix for ``meta`` tasks breaking host/fork affinity with ``host_pinned`` strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83294)
+- Fix using the current task's directory for looking up relative paths within roles (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82695).
+- atomic_move - fix using the setgid bit on the parent directory when creating files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46742, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67177).
+- connection plugins using the 'extras' option feature would need variables to match the plugin's loaded name, sometimes requiring fqcn, which is not the same as the documented/declared/expected variables. Now we fall back to the 'basename' of the fqcn, but plugin authors can still set the expected value directly.
+- csvfile lookup - give an error when no search term is provided using modern config syntax (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83689).
+- include_tasks - Display location when attempting to load a task list where ``include_*`` did not specify any value - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83874
+- module respawn - Address an issue with Python 2 where a respawned module could not parse module args (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83812)
+- powershell - Improve CLIXML decoding to decode all control characters and unicode characters that are encoded as surrogate pairs.
+- psrp - Fix bug when attempting to fetch a file path that contains special glob characters like ``[]``
+- runtime-metadata sanity test - do not crash on deprecations if ``galaxy.yml`` contains an empty ``version`` field (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83831).
+- ssh - Fix bug when attempting to fetch a file path with characters that should be quoted when using the ``piped`` transfer method
+
 v2.16.10
 ========
 

changelogs/changelog.yaml

@@ -812,6 +812,58 @@ releases:
     - ansible-test-vyos.yml
     - mc_fix.yml
     release_date: '2024-08-05'
+  2.16.11rc1:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - Fix ``SemanticVersion.parse()`` to store the version string so that ``__repr__``
+        reports it instead of ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83831).
+      - Fix an issue where registered variable was not available for templating in
+        ``loop_control.label`` on skipped looped tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83619)
+      - Fix for ``meta`` tasks breaking host/fork affinity with ``host_pinned`` strategy
+        (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83294)
+      - Fix using the current task's directory for looking up relative paths within
+        roles (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82695).
+      - atomic_move - fix using the setgid bit on the parent directory when creating
+        files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46742, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67177).
+      - connection plugins using the 'extras' option feature would need variables
+        to match the plugin's loaded name, sometimes requiring fqcn, which is not
+        the same as the documented/declared/expected variables. Now we fall back to
+        the 'basename' of the fqcn, but plugin authors can still set the expected
+        value directly.
+      - csvfile lookup - give an error when no search term is provided using modern
+        config syntax (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83689).
+      - include_tasks - Display location when attempting to load a task list where
+        ``include_*`` did not specify any value - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83874
+      - module respawn - Address an issue with Python 2 where a respawned module could
+        not parse module args (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83812)
+      - powershell - Improve CLIXML decoding to decode all control characters and
+        unicode characters that are encoded as surrogate pairs.
+      - psrp - Fix bug when attempting to fetch a file path that contains special
+        glob characters like ``[]``
+      - runtime-metadata sanity test - do not crash on deprecations if ``galaxy.yml``
+        contains an empty ``version`` field (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83831).
+      - ssh - Fix bug when attempting to fetch a file path with characters that should
+        be quoted when using the ``piped`` transfer method
+      release_summary: '| Release Date: 2024-09-03
+
+        | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__
+
+        '
+    codename: All My Love
+    fragments:
+    - 2.16.11rc1_summary.yaml
+    - 46742-atomic_move-fix-setgid.yml
+    - 83294-meta-host_pinned-affinity.yml
+    - 83619-loop-label-register.yml
+    - 83812-py2-respawn.yml
+    - 83831-runtime-metadata-fix.yml
+    - 83874-include-parse-error-location.yml
+    - dwim_is_role_fix_task_relative.yml
+    - extras_fix.yml
+    - fetch-filename.yml
+    - fix-inconsistent-csvfile-missing-search-error.yml
+    - powershell-clixml.yml
+    release_date: '2024-09-03'
   2.16.1rc1:
     changes:
       breaking_changes:

changelogs/fragments/2.16.11rc1_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2024-09-03
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.16/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.16.html>`__

lib/ansible/release.py

@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-__version__ = '2.16.10.post0'
+__version__ = '2.16.11rc1'
 __author__ = 'Ansible, Inc.'
 __codename__ = "All My Love"