New release v2.19.0b4 (#85133)

changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.19.rst

@@ -4,6 +4,39 @@ ansible-core 2.19 "What Is and What Should Never Be" Release Notes
 
 .. contents:: Topics
 
+v2.19.0b4
+=========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2025-05-12
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- facts - add "CloudStack KVM Hypervisor" for Linux VM in virtual facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/85089).
+- modules - use ``AnsibleModule.warn`` instead of passing ``warnings`` to ``exit_json`` or ``fail_json`` which is deprecated.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- ansible-test - Updated the ``pylint`` sanity test to skip some deprecation validation checks when all arguments are dynamic.
+- config - Preserve or apply Origin tag to values returned by config.
+- config - Prevented fatal errors when ``MODULE_IGNORE_EXTS`` configuration was set.
+- config - Templating failures on config defaults now issue a warning. Previously, failures silently returned an unrendered and untrusted template to the caller.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` correctly propagates trust and other tags on returned values.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` now converts mappings to ``dict`` when requested, instead of returning the mapping.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` now converts sequences to ``list`` when requested, instead of returning the sequence.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` now correctly errors when ``pathlist`` or ``pathspec`` types encounter non-string list items.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` now reports an error when ``bytes`` are provided for any known ``value_type``. Previously, the behavior was undefined, but often resulted in an unhandled exception or incorrect return type.
+- config - ``ensure_type`` with expected type ``int`` now properly converts ``True`` and ``False`` values to ``int``. Previously, these values were silently returned unmodified.
+- convert_bool.boolean API conversion function - Unhashable values passed to ``boolean`` behave like other non-boolean convertible values, returning False or raising ``TypeError`` depending on the value of ``strict``. Previously, unhashable values always raised ``ValueError`` due to an invalid set membership check.
+- dnf5 - when ``bugfix`` and/or ``security`` is specified, skip packages that do not have any such updates, even for new versions of libdnf5 where this functionality changed and it is considered failure
+- plugin loader - Apply template trust to strings loaded from plugin configuration definitions and doc fragments.
+- template action - Template files where the entire file's output renders as ``None`` are no longer emitted as the string "None", but instead render to an empty file as in previous releases.
+
 v2.19.0b3
 =========
 
@@ -327,7 +360,7 @@ Bugfixes
 - get_url - fix honoring ``filename`` from the ``content-disposition`` header even when the type is ``inline`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83690)
 - host_group_vars - fixed defining the 'key' variable if the get_vars method is called with cache=False (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84384)
 - include_vars - fix including previously undefined hash variables with hash_behaviour merge (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84295).
-- iptables - Allows the wait paramater to be used with iptables chain creation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84490)
+- iptables - Allows the wait parameter to be used with iptables chain creation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84490)
 - linear strategy - fix executing ``end_role`` meta tasks for each host, instead of handling these as implicit run_once tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84660).
 - local connection plugin - Become timeout errors now include all received data. Previously, the most recently-received data was discarded.
 - local connection plugin - Ensure ``become`` success validation always occurs, even when an active plugin does not set ``prompt``.

changelogs/changelog.yaml

@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ releases:
         is called with cache=False (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84384)
       - include_vars - fix including previously undefined hash variables with hash_behaviour
         merge (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84295).
-      - iptables - Allows the wait paramater to be used with iptables chain creation
+      - iptables - Allows the wait parameter to be used with iptables chain creation
         (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84490)
       - linear strategy - fix executing ``end_role`` meta tasks for each host, instead
         of handling these as implicit run_once tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84660).
@@ -853,3 +853,61 @@ releases:
     - deprecator.yml
     - ensure_remote_perms.yml
     release_date: '2025-05-06'
+  2.19.0b4:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - ansible-test - Updated the ``pylint`` sanity test to skip some deprecation
+        validation checks when all arguments are dynamic.
+      - config - Preserve or apply Origin tag to values returned by config.
+      - config - Prevented fatal errors when ``MODULE_IGNORE_EXTS`` configuration
+        was set.
+      - config - Templating failures on config defaults now issue a warning. Previously,
+        failures silently returned an unrendered and untrusted template to the caller.
+      - config - ``ensure_type`` correctly propagates trust and other tags on returned
+        values.
+      - config - ``ensure_type`` now converts mappings to ``dict`` when requested,
+        instead of returning the mapping.
+      - config - ``ensure_type`` now converts sequences to ``list`` when requested,
+        instead of returning the sequence.
+      - config - ``ensure_type`` now correctly errors when ``pathlist`` or ``pathspec``
+        types encounter non-string list items.
+      - config - ``ensure_type`` now reports an error when ``bytes`` are provided
+        for any known ``value_type``. Previously, the behavior was undefined, but
+        often resulted in an unhandled exception or incorrect return type.
+      - config - ``ensure_type`` with expected type ``int`` now properly converts
+        ``True`` and ``False`` values to ``int``. Previously, these values were silently
+        returned unmodified.
+      - convert_bool.boolean API conversion function - Unhashable values passed to
+        ``boolean`` behave like other non-boolean convertible values, returning False
+        or raising ``TypeError`` depending on the value of ``strict``. Previously,
+        unhashable values always raised ``ValueError`` due to an invalid set membership
+        check.
+      - dnf5 - when ``bugfix`` and/or ``security`` is specified, skip packages that
+        do not have any such updates, even for new versions of libdnf5 where this
+        functionality changed and it is considered failure
+      - plugin loader - Apply template trust to strings loaded from plugin configuration
+        definitions and doc fragments.
+      - template action - Template files where the entire file's output renders as
+        ``None`` are no longer emitted as the string "None", but instead render to
+        an empty file as in previous releases.
+      minor_changes:
+      - facts - add "CloudStack KVM Hypervisor" for Linux VM in virtual facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/85089).
+      - modules - use ``AnsibleModule.warn`` instead of passing ``warnings`` to ``exit_json``
+        or ``fail_json`` which is deprecated.
+      release_summary: '| Release Date: 2025-05-12
+
+        | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__
+
+        '
+    codename: What Is and What Should Never Be
+    fragments:
+    - 2.19.0b4_summary.yaml
+    - 85117-add-cloudstack-kvm-for-linux-facts.yml
+    - ansible-test-pylint-deprecated-fix.yml
+    - dnf5-advisory-type.yml
+    - ensure_type.yml
+    - plugin-loader-trust-docs.yml
+    - preserve_config_origin.yml
+    - remove-warnings-retval.yml
+    - template-none.yml
+    release_date: '2025-05-12'

changelogs/fragments/2.19.0b4_summary.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2025-05-12
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.19.html>`__

lib/ansible/release.py

@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = '2.19.0b3.post0'
+__version__ = '2.19.0b4'
 __author__ = 'Ansible, Inc.'
 __codename__ = "What Is and What Should Never Be"

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools >= 66.1.0, <= 80.3.1", "wheel == 0.45.1"]  # lower bound to support controller Python versions, upper bound for latest version tested at release
+requires = ["setuptools >= 66.1.0, <= 80.4.0", "wheel == 0.45.1"]  # lower bound to support controller Python versions, upper bound for latest version tested at release
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]