- ``ansible-galaxy`` - remove extra server api call during dependency resolution for requirements and dependencies that are already satisfied (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77443).
- ansible-test - Allow disabled, unsupported, unstable and destructive integration test targets to be selected using their respective prefixes.
- ansible-test - Allow unstable tests to run when targeted changes are made and the ``--allow-unstable-changed`` option is specified (resolves https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74213).
- known_hosts - do not return changed status when a non-existing key is removed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/78598)
- plugin loader, fix detection for existing configuration before initializing for a plugin