- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.6.2.
- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.7.0.
- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.8.0.
- ansible-test - Update ``default`` containers to version 5.9.0.
- ansible-test - Update ``pip`` used to bootstrap remote FreeBSD instances from version 20.3.4 to 21.3.1.
- ansible-test - Update sanity test requirements.
- ansible-test - Update the NIOS test plugin container to version 1.4.0.
@ -220,11 +184,13 @@ Bugfixes
- Interpreter discovery - Add ``RHEL`` to ``OS_FAMILY_MAP`` for correct family fallback for interpreter discovery (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77368)
- Make include_role/include_tasks work with any_errors_fatal (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50897)
- Parser errors from within includes should not be rescueable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73657)
- Prevent losing unsafe on results returned from lookups (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77535)
- Templating - Ensure we catch exceptions when getting ``.filters`` and ``.tests`` attributes on their respective plugins and properly error, instead of aborting which results in no filters being added to the jinja2 environment
- Trigger an undefined error when an undefined variable is detected within a dictionary and/or list (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75587)
- _run_loop - Add the task name to the warning (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76011)
- ``Templar.copy_with_new_env`` - set the ``finalize`` method of the new ``Templar`` object for the new environment (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76379)
- add_host/group_by: fix using changed_when in a loop (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71627)
- ansible - Exclude Python 2.6 from Python interpreter discovery.
- ansible-config avoid showing _terms and _input when --only-changed.
- ansible_facts.devices - Fix parsing of device serial number detected via sg_inq for rhel8 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75420)
- apt - fails to deploy deb file to old debian systems using python-apt < 0.8.9 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/47277)
- arg_spec - Fix incorrect ``no_log`` warning when a parameter alias is used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/77576)
- async - Improve performance of sending async callback events by never sending the full task through the queue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76729)
- catch the case that cowsay is broken which would lead to missing output
- cleaning facts will now only warn about the variable name and not post the content, which can be undesireable to disclose
@ -344,6 +311,7 @@ Bugfixes
- user - allow password min and max to be set at the same time (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75017)
- user - update logic to check if user exists or not in MacOS.
- validate_argument_spec - Skip suboption validation if the top level option is an invalid type (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75612).
- variablemanager, more efficient read of vars files
- vault - Warn instead of fail for missing vault IDs if at least one valid vault secret is found.
- winrm - Ensure ``kinit`` is run with the same ``PATH`` env var as the Ansible process
- yum - prevent storing unnecessary cache data by running `yum makecache fast` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76336)