- include_vars action - Ensure that result masking is correctly requested when vault-encrypted files are read. (CVE-2024-8775)
- task result processing - Ensure that action-sourced result masking (``_ansible_no_log=True``) is preserved. (CVE-2024-8775)
- user action won't allow ssh-keygen, chown and chmod to run on existing ssh public key file, avoiding traversal on existing symlinks (CVE-2024-9902).
Bugfixes
--------
- user action will now require O(force) to overwrite the public part of an ssh key when generating ssh keys, as was already the case for the private part.
- ansible-test - Default to Python 3.13 in the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
- ansible-test - Disable the ``deprecated-`` prefixed ``pylint`` rules as their results vary by Python version.
- ansible-test - Improve container runtime probe error handling. When unexpected probe output is encountered, an error with more useful debugging information is provided.
- ansible-test - Update ``pylint`` sanity test to use version 3.3.1.
- ansible-test - Update the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
Bugfixes
--------
- Errors now preserve stacked error messages even when YAML is involved.
- Fix disabling SSL verification when installing collections and roles from git repositories. If ``--ignore-certs`` isn't provided, the value for the ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` configuration option will be used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83326).
- Improve performance on large inventories by reducing the number of implicit meta tasks.
- Use the requested error message in the ansible.module_utils.facts.timeout timeout function instead of hardcoding one.
- ``package``/``dnf`` action plugins - provide the reason behind the failure to gather the ``ansible_pkg_mgr`` fact to identify the package backend
- ansible-test - Enable the ``sys.unraisablehook`` work-around for the ``pylint`` sanity test on Python 3.11. Previously the work-around was only enabled for Python 3.12 and later. However, the same issue has been discovered on Python 3.11.
- debconf - set empty password values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83214).
- dnf5 - fix traceback when ``enable_plugins``/``disable_plugins`` is used on ``python3-libdnf5`` versions that do not support this functionality
- facts - skip if distribution file path is directory, instead of raising error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84006).
- user module now avoids changing ownership of files symlinked in provided home dir skeleton
- ansible-test - An ``ansible_core.egg-info`` directory is no longer generated when running tests.
- ansible-test - Connection options can be set for ansible-test managed remote Windows instances.
- ansible-test - Default to Python 3.13 in the ``base`` and ``default`` containers.
- ansible-test - Disable the ``deprecated-`` prefixed ``pylint`` rules as their results vary by Python version.
- ansible-test - Improve container runtime probe error handling. When unexpected probe output is encountered, an error with more useful debugging information is provided.
- ansible-test - Improve the error message shown when an unknown ``--remote`` or ``--docker`` option is given.
- utils/listify - remove deprecated 'loader' argument from listify_lookup_plugin_terms API (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82949).
Security Fixes
--------------
- include_vars action - Ensure that result masking is correctly requested when vault-encrypted files are read. (CVE-2024-8775)
- task result processing - Ensure that action-sourced result masking (``_ansible_no_log=True``) is preserved. (CVE-2024-8775)
- user action won't allow ssh-keygen, chown and chmod to run on existing ssh public key file, avoiding traversal on existing symlinks (CVE-2024-9902).
Bugfixes
--------
@ -170,23 +129,28 @@ Bugfixes
- COLOR_SKIP will not alter "included" events color display anymore.
- Callbacks now correctly get the resolved connection plugin name as the connection used.
- Darwin - add unit tests for Darwin hardware fact gathering.
- Errors now preserve stacked error messages even when YAML is involved.
- Fix ``SemanticVersion.parse()`` to store the version string so that ``__repr__`` reports it instead of ``None`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83831).
- Fix a traceback when an environment variable contains certain special characters (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83498)
- Fix an issue when setting a plugin name from an unsafe source resulted in ``ValueError: unmarshallable object`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82708)
- Fix an issue where registered variable was not available for templating in ``loop_control.label`` on skipped looped tasks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83619)
- Fix disabling SSL verification when installing collections and roles from git repositories. If ``--ignore-certs`` isn't provided, the value for the ``GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS`` configuration option will be used (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83326).
- Fix for ``meta`` tasks breaking host/fork affinity with ``host_pinned`` strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83294)
- Fix handlers not being executed in lockstep using the linear strategy in some cases (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82307)
- Fix rapid memory usage growth when notifying handlers using the ``listen`` keyword (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83392)
- Fix the task attribute ``resolved_action`` to show the FQCN instead of ``None`` when ``action`` or ``local_action`` is used in the playbook.
- Fix using ``module_defaults`` with ``local_action``/``action`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81905).
- Fix using the current task's directory for looking up relative paths within roles (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82695).
- Improve performance on large inventories by reducing the number of implicit meta tasks.
- Remove deprecated config options DEFAULT_FACT_PATH, DEFAULT_GATHER_SUBSET, and DEFAULT_GATHER_TIMEOUT in favor of setting ``fact_path``, ``gather_subset`` and ``gather_timeout`` as ``module_defaults`` for ``ansible.builtin.setup``.
These will apply to both the ``gather_facts`` play keyword, and any ``ansible.builtin.setup`` tasks.
To configure these options only for the ``gather_facts`` keyword, set these options as play keywords also.
- Set LANGUAGE environment variable is set to a non-English locale (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83608).
- Use the requested error message in the ansible.module_utils.facts.timeout timeout function instead of hardcoding one.
- ``ansible-galaxy install --help`` - Fix the usage text and document that the requirements file passed to ``-r`` can include collections and roles.
- ``ansible-galaxy role install`` - update the default timeout to download archive URLs from 20 seconds to 60 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83521).
- ``end_host`` - fix incorrect return code when executing ``end_host`` in the ``rescue`` section (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83447)
- ``package``/``dnf`` action plugins - provide the reason behind the failure to gather the ``ansible_pkg_mgr`` fact to identify the package backend
- addressed issue of trailing text been ignored, non-ASCII characters are parsed, enhance white space handling and fixed overly permissive issue of human_to_bytes filter(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82075)
- ansible-config will now properly template defaults before dumping them.
- ansible-doc - fixed "inicates" typo in output
@ -195,6 +159,7 @@ Bugfixes
- ansible-doc - make colors configurable.
- ansible-galaxy collection install - remove old installation info when installing collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83182).
- ansible-galaxy role install - fix symlinks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82702, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81965).
- ansible-test - Enable the ``sys.unraisablehook`` work-around for the ``pylint`` sanity test on Python 3.11. Previously the work-around was only enabled for Python 3.12 and later. However, the same issue has been discovered on Python 3.11.
- ansible-test - The ``pylint`` sanity test now includes the controller/target context of files when grouping them. This allows the ``--py-version`` option to be passed to ``pylint`` to indicate the minimum supported Python version for each test context, preventing ``pylint`` from defaulting to the Python version used to invoke the test.
- ansible-test action-plugin-docs - Fix to check for sidecar documentation for action plugins
- ansible_managed restored it's 'templatability' by ensuring the possible injection routes are cut off earlier in the process.
@ -207,6 +172,7 @@ Bugfixes
- copy - mtime/atime not updated. Fix now update mtime/atime(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83013)
- csvfile lookup - give an error when no search term is provided using modern config syntax (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83689).
- debconf - fix normalization of value representation for boolean vtypes in new packages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83594)
- debconf - set empty password values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83214).
- delay keyword is now a float, matching the underlying 'time' API and user expectations.
- display - warn user about empty log filepath (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/79959).
- display now does a better job of mapping warnings/errors to the proper log severity when using ansible.log. We still use color as a fallback mapping (now prioritiezed by severity) but mostly rely on it beind directly set by warnning/errors calls.
@ -217,12 +183,14 @@ Bugfixes
- dnf - honor installroot for ``cachedir``, ``logdir`` and ``persistdir``
- dnf - perform variable substitutions in ``logdir`` and ``persistdir``
- dnf, dnf5 - fix for installing a set of packages by specifying them using a wildcard character (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83373)
- dnf5 - fix traceback when ``enable_plugins``/``disable_plugins`` is used on ``python3-libdnf5`` versions that do not support this functionality
- dnf5 - re-introduce the ``state: installed`` alias to ``state: present`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83960)
- dnf5 - replace removed API calls
- ensure we have logger before we log when we have increased verbosity.
- facts - `support_discard` now returns `0` if either `discard_granularity` or `discard_max_hw_bytes` is zero; otherwise it returns the value of `discard_granularity`, as before (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83480).
- facts - add a generic detection for VMware in product name.
- facts - add facts about x86_64 flags to detect microarchitecture (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83331).
- facts - skip if distribution file path is directory, instead of raising error (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84006).
- fetch - add error message when using ``dest`` with a trailing slash that becomes a local directory - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82878
- file - retrieve the link's full path when hard linking a soft link with follow (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/33911).
- fixed the issue of creating user directory using tilde(~) always reported "changed".(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82490)
@ -268,6 +236,8 @@ Bugfixes
- unsafe data - Address an incompatibility with ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` and ``AnsibleUnsafeBytes`` when pickling with ``protocol=0``
- unsafe data - Enable directly using ``AnsibleUnsafeText`` with Python ``pathlib`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82414)
- uri - deprecate 'yes' and 'no' value for 'follow_redirects' parameter.
- user action will now require O(force) to overwrite the public part of an ssh key when generating ssh keys, as was already the case for the private part.
- user module now avoids changing ownership of files symlinked in provided home dir skeleton
- vault - handle vault password file value when it is directory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42960).
- vault.is_encrypted_file is now optimized to be called in runtime and not for being called in tests
- vault_encrypted test documentation, name and examples have been fixed, other parts were clarified
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