- Updated network integration auth timeout to 90 secs.
- ansible-test - Remove ``pytest < 6.0.0`` constraint for managed installations on Python 3.x now that pytest 6 is supported.
- known_hosts - fix reference to non-existent parameter in example (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71417)
Security Fixes
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- The fix for CVE-2020-1736 has been reverted. Users are encouraged to specify a ``mode`` parameter in their file-based tasks when the files being manipulated contain sensitive data.
- dnf - Previously, regardless of the ``disable_gpg_check`` option, packages were not GPG validated. They are now. (CVE-2020-14365)
Bugfixes
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- Confirmed commit fails with TypeError in IOS XR netconf plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.iosxr/issues/74)
- Fix an exit code for a non-failing playbook (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71306)
- Fix execution of the meta tasks 'clear_facts', 'clear_host_errors', 'end_play', 'end_host', and 'reset_connection' when the CLI flag '--flush-cache' is provided.
- Fix statistics reporting when rescue block contains another block (issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/61253).
- Fixed Ansible reporting validate not supported by netconf server when enabled in netconf - (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/issues/119).
- TOML inventory - Ensure we register dump functions for ``AnsibleUnsafe`` to support dumping unsafe values. Note that the TOML format has no functionality to mark that the data is unsafe for re-consumption. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71307)
- ansible-test units - fixed collection location code to work under pytest >= 6.0.0
- aws_acm_info - fix `KeyError` failure when retrieving keys with a `Failed` status (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/198)
- cron - cron file should not be empty after adding var (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71207)
- mongodb_replicaset - fixes authentication to determine replicaset name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mongodb/issues/136).
- powershell - fix escaping of strings that broken modules like fetch when dealing with special chars - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62781
- powershell - fix the CLIXML parser when it contains nested CLIXML objects - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69550
- psrp - Use native PSRP mechanism when copying files to support custom endpoints
- setup - Add a null check for ``Win32_Bios.ReleaseData`` to avoid a failure when that value is not set - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69736
- strftime filter - Input epoch is allowed to be a float (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71257)
- systemd - fixed chroot usage on new versions of systemd, that broke because of upstream changes in systemctl output
- systemd - made the systemd module work correctly when the SYSTEMD_OFFLINE environment variable is set
- zabbix_host - fixed inventory_mode key error, which occurs with Zabbix 4.4.1 or more (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65304).