And all of core module changes added

CHANGELOG.md

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 * Fix skipped tasks to not display their parameters if no_log is specified.
 
+* Many fixes to unicode support, standarized functions to make it easier to add to input/output boundries.
+
+* Added travis integration to github for basic tests, this should speed up ticket triage and merging.
+
+* environment: directive now can also be applied to play and is inhertited by tasks, which can still overridde it.
+
+* expanded facts and OS/distribution support for existing facts and improved performance with pypy.
+
+* new 'wantlist' option to lookups allows for selecting a list typed variable vs a commad delimited string as the return.
+
+* the shared module code for file backups now uses a timestamp resolution of seconds (previouslly minutes).
+
+* allow for empty inventories, this is now a warning and not an error (for those using localhost and cloud modules).
+
+* sped up YAML parsing in ansible by up to 25% by switching to CParser loader.
+
+* new filters:
+   * ternary: allows for trueval/falseval assignement dependint on conditional
+   * cartesian: returns the cartesian product of 2 lists
+   * to_uuid: given a string it will return an ansible domain specific UUID
+   * checksum: uses the ansible internal checksum to return a hash from a string
+   * hash: get a hash from a string (md5, sha1, etc)
+   * password_hash: get a hash form as string that can be used as a password in the user module (and others)
+   * A whole set of ip/network manipulation filters: ipaddr,ipwrap,ipv4,ipv6ipsubnet,nthhost,hwaddr,macaddr
+
+* new lookup plugins (allow fetching data for use in plays):
+   * dig: does dns resolution and returns IPs.
+   * url: allows pulling data from a url.
+
+* new callback plugins:
+  * syslog_json: allows logging play output to a syslog network server using json format
+
+* new task modules:
+  * cryptab: manages linux encrypted block devices
+  * gce_img:  for utilizing GCE image resources
+  * gluster_volume: manage glusterfs volumes
+  * haproxy: for the load balancer of same name
+  * known_hosts: manages the ssh known_hosts file
+  * lxc_container: manage lxc containers
+  * patch: allows for patching files on target systems
+  * pkg5:  installing and uninstalling packages on Solaris
+  * pkg5_publisher: manages Solaris pkg5 repository configuration
+  * postgresql_ext: manage postgresql extensions
+  * snmp_facts: gather facts via snmp
+  * svc: manages daemontools based services
+  * uptimerobot: manage monitoring with this service
+
+
+* module enhancements and notable changes
+  * vsphere_guest now supports deploying guests from a template
+  * Multiple new enhancements to the amazon web service modules:
+    * ec2 now applies all specified security groups when creating a new instance.  Previously it was only applying one
+    * ec2_vol gained the ability to specify the EBS volume type
+    * ec2_vol can now detach volumes by specifying instance=None
+    * Fix ec2_group to purge specific grants rather than whole rules
+    * Added tenancy support for the ec2 module
+    * rds module has gained the ability to manage tags and set charset and public accessibility
+    * ec2_snapshot module gained the capability to remove snapshots
+    * Add alias support for route53
+    * Add private_zones support to route53
+    * ec2_asg: Add wait_for_instances parameter that waits until an instance is ready before ending the ansible task
+  * gce gained the ip_forward parameter to forward ip packets
+  * disk_auto_delete parameter to gce that will remove the boot disk after an instance is destroyed
+  * gce can now spawn instances with no external ip
+  * gce_pd gained the ability to choose a disk type
+  * gce_net gained target_tags parameter for creating firewall rules
+  * rax module has new parameters for making use of a boot volume
+  * Add scheduler_hints to the nova_compute module for optional parameters
+  * Several important docker changes:
+    * restart_policy parameters to configure when the container automatically restarts
+    * If the docker client or server doesn't support an option, the task will now fail instead of silently ignoring the option
+    * Add insecure_registry parameter for connecting to registries via http
+    * New parameter to set a container's domainname
+    * Undeprecated docker_image module until there's replacement functionality
+    * Allow setting the container's pid namespace
+    * Add a pull parameter that chooses when ansible will look for more recent images in the registry
+    * docker module states have been greatly enhanced.  The reworked and new states are:
+      * present now creates but does not start containers
+      * restarted always restarts a container
+      * reloaded restarts a container if ansible detects that the configuration is different than what is spcified
+        * reloaded accounts for exposed ports, env vars, and volumes
+    * Can now connect to the docker server using TLS
+  * Many fixes for hardlink and softlink handling in file-related modules
+  * Implement user, group, mode, and selinux parameters for the unarchive module
+  * authorized_keys can now use url as a key source
+  * authorized_keys has a new exclusive paameter that determines if keys that weren't specified in the task
+  * The selinux module now sets the current running state to permissive if state='disabled'
+  * Can now set accounts to expire via the user module
+  * Overhaul of the service module to make code simpler and behave better for systems running several popular init systems
+  * yum module now has a parameter to refresh its cache of package metadata
+  * apt module gained a build_dep parameter to install a package's build dependencies
+  * Add parameters to the postgres modules to specify a unix socket to connect to the db
+  * The mount module now supports bind mounts
+  * django_manage can now handle 
+  * Add a clone parameter to git module that allows you to get information about a remote repo even if it doesn't exist locally.
+  * Add a refspec argument to the git module that allows pulling commits that aren't part of a branch
+  * Safety changes: several modules have force parameters that defaulted to true.
+    These have been changed to default to false so as not to accidentally lose
+    work.  Playbooks that depended on the former behaviour simply need to add
+    force=True to the task that needs it.  Affected modules:
+    * bzr: When local modifications exist in a checkout, the bzr module used to
+      default to removing the modifications on any operation.  Now the module
+      will not remove the modifications unless force=yes is specified.
+      Operations that depend on a clean working tree may fail unless force=yes is
+      added.
+    * git: When local modifications exist in a checkout, the git module will now
+      fail unless force is explictly specified.  Specifying force=yes will allow
+      the module to revert and overwrite local modifications to make git actions
+      succeed.
+    * hg: When local modifications exist in a checkout, the hg module used to
+      default to removing the modifications on any operation.  Now the module
+      will not remove the modifications unless force=yes is specified.
+    * subversion: When updating a checkout with local modifications, you now need
+      to add force=yes so the module will revert the modifications before updating.
+
+
+* new inventory scripts:
+  * vbox: virtualbox
+  * consul: use consul as an inventory source
+
+* Many documentation additions and fixes.
+
 ## 1.8.4 "You Really Got Me" - Feb 19, 2015
 
 * Fixed regressions in ec2 and mount modules, introduced in 1.8.3