- ansible-test - Additional configuration may be required for certain container host and container combinations. Further details are available in the testing documentation.
- ansible-test - Custom containers with ``VOLUME`` instructions may be unable to start, when previously the containers started correctly. Remove the ``VOLUME`` instructions to resolve the issue. Containers with this condition will cause ``ansible-test`` to emit a warning.
- ansible-test - Systems with Podman networking issues may be unable to run containers, when previously the issue went unreported. Correct the networking issues to continue using ``ansible-test`` with Podman.
- ansible-test - Using Docker on systems with SELinux may require setting SELinux to permissive mode. Podman should work with SELinux in enforcing mode.
cisco.meraki
~~~~~~~~~~~~
- meraki_network - Updated documentation for `local_status_page_enabled` and `remote_status_page_enabled` as these no longer work.
Breaking Changes
----------------
community.general
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ModuleHelper module utils - when the module sets output variables named ``msg``, ``exception``, ``output``, ``vars``, or ``changed``, the actual output will prefix those names with ``_`` (underscore symbol) only when they clash with output variables generated by ModuleHelper itself, which only occurs when handling exceptions. Please note that this breaking change does not require a new major release since before this release, it was not possible to add such variables to the output `due to a bug <https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5755>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5765).
Major Changes
-------------
Ansible-core
~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ansible-test - Docker Desktop on WSL2 is now supported (additional configuration required).
- ansible-test - Docker and Podman are now supported on hosts with cgroup v2 unified. Previously only cgroup v1 and cgroup v2 hybrid were supported.
- ansible-test - Podman now works on container hosts without systemd. Previously only some containers worked, while others required rootfull or rootless Podman, but would not work with both. Some containers did not work at all.
- ansible-test - Podman on WSL2 is now supported.
- ansible-test - When additional cgroup setup is required on the container host, this will be automatically detected. Instructions on how to configure the host will be provided in the error message shown.
ansible.windows
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Set the minimum Ansible version supported by this collection to Ansible 2.12
chocolatey.chocolatey
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- win_chocolatey - Allow users to select the TLS versions used for bootstrapping Chocolatey installation.
Deprecated Features
-------------------
- The cisco.nso collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 9 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 9. 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/155).
- The community.fortios collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 9 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 9. 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/162).
- The community.google collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 9 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 9. 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/160).
- The community.skydive collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 9 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 9. 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/171).
- ios_bgp_address_family - deprecate neighbors.address/tag/ipv6_adddress with neighbor_address which enables common attributes for facts rendering
- ios_bgp_address_family - deprecate neighbors.password with password_options which allows encryption and password
- ios_bgp_address_family - deprecate slow_peer with slow_peer_options which supports a dict attribute
community.dns
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The default of the newly added option ``txt_character_encoding`` will change from ``octal`` to ``decimal`` in community.dns 3.0.0. The new default will be compatible with `RFC 1035 <https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt>`__ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/pull/134).
community.general
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- consul - deprecate using parameters unused for ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5772).
- gitlab_runner - the default of the new option ``access_level_on_creation`` will change from ``false`` to ``true`` in community.general 7.0.0. This will cause ``access_level`` to be used during runner registration as well, and not only during updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5908).
- manageiq_policies - deprecate ``state=list`` in favour of using ``community.general.manageiq_policies_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5721).
- rax - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_cbs - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_cbs_attachments - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_cdb - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_cdb_database - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_cdb_user - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_clb - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_clb_nodes - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_clb_ssl - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_dns - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_dns_record - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_facts - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_files - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_files_objects - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_identity - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_keypair - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_meta - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_mon_alarm - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_mon_check - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_mon_entity - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_mon_notification - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_mon_notification_plan - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_network - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_queue - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_scaling_group - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
- rax_scaling_policy - module relies on deprecates library ``pyrax``. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
community.hashi_vault
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ansible-core - support for ``ansible-core`` versions ``2.11`` and ``2.12`` will be dropped in collection version ``5.0.0``, making ``2.13`` the minimum supported version of ``ansible-core`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/340).
- hvac - the minimum version of ``hvac`` to be supported in collection version ``5.0.0`` will be at least ``1.0.2``; this minimum may be raised before ``5.0.0`` is released, so please subscribe to the linked issue and look out for new notices in the changelog (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/324).
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