- ansible-galaxy CLI - ``collection verify`` command now exits with a non-zero exit code on verification failure
- ansible-galaxy CLI - ``collection verify`` command now supports a ``--offline`` option for local-only verification
Bugfixes
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- Correctly set template_path and template_fullpath for usage in template lookup and action plugins.
- Try to avoid kernel 'blocking' state on reading files while fact gathering.
- apt - fix policy_rc_d parameter throwing an exception when restoring original file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66211)
- argument spec validation - fix behavior of ``apply_defaults=True`` when an empty dictionary is specified for such an option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74029).
- pause - do not accept enter to continue when a timeout is set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73948)
- setup module, fix error handling on bad subset given
- wait_for module, move missing socket into function to get proper comparrison in time.