- Updated virtual machine facts with instanceUUID which is unique for each VM irrespective of name and BIOS UUID.
Bugfixes
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- EOS can not check configuration without use of config session (ANSIBLE_EOS_USE_SESSIONS=0). Fix is to throw error when hiting into this exception case. Configs would neither be checked nor be played on the eos device.
- Adds exception handling which is raised when user does not have correct set of permissions/privileges to read virtual machine facts.
- onyx_pfc_interface - Add support for changes in pfc output in onyx 3.6.6000 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37651
- Fix mlag summary json parsing for onyx version 3.6.6000 and above https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38191
- Update documentation related to datacenter in vmware_guest_find module. Mark datacenter as optional.
- Set default network type as 'dhcp' if user has not specified any.
- nmcli change default value of autoconnect
- azure_rm_image - Allow Azure images to be created with tags, bug was introduced in Ansible v2.5.0
- azure_rm_networkinterface - fixed examples in module documentation and added fix to allow an IP configuration with no public IP (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36824)
- azure_rm_virtualmachine - removed docs note that says on marketplace images can be used, custom images were added in 2.5
- Improve keyed groups for complex inventory
- Made separator configurable
- Fixed some exception types
- Better error messages
- backup options doc change to reflect backup directory location in case playbook is run from a role
- edgeos_command - add action plugin to backup config (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37619)
- eos_vlan - fixed eos_vlan not working when having more than 6 interfaces (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38347)
- Various grafana_* modules - Port away from the deprecated b64encodestring function to the b64encode function instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38388)
- Fix onyx_config action plugin when used on Python 3 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38343
- openssl_certificate - Handle dump() in check_mode https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38386
- Fix traceback when creating or stopping ovirt vms (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37249)
- Fix for consul_kv idempotence on Python3 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/35893
- Fix csvfile lookup plugin when used on Python3 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37625
- ec2 - Fix ec2 user_data parameter to properly convert to base64 on python3 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37628)
- Fix to send and receive bytes over a socket in the haproxy module which was causing tracebacks on Python3 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35176
- ovirt_* - various bugfixes (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38341)
- ansible-vault no longer requires '--encrypt-vault-id' with edit (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35923)
- k8s lookup plugin now uses same auth method as other k8s modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37533)
- ansible-inventory now properly displays group_var graph (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38744)
- setup - FreeBSD fact gathering no longer fails on missing dmesg, sysctl, etc (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37194)
- inventory scripts now read passwords without byte interpolation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35582)
- user - fixed password expiration support in FreeBSD
- meta - inventory_refresh now works properly on YAML inventory plugins (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38242)
- foreman callback plugin - fixed API options (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38138)
- win_certificate_store - fixed a typo that stopped it from getting the key_storage values
- win_copy - Preserve the local tmp folder instead of deleting it so future tasks can use it (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37964)
- powershell - fixed issue with passing in a bool and int to the Windows environment block, also allow special chars in the env key name (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37215)
- Ansible.ModuleUtils.FileUtil - Catch DirectoryNotFoundException with Test-AnsiblePath (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37968)
- win_exec_wrapper - support loading of Windows modules different different line endings than the core modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37291)
- win_reboot - fix deprecated warning message to show version in correct spot (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37898)
- win_regedit - wait for garbage collection to finish before trying to unload the hive in case handles didn't unload in time (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38912)
- win_service - Fix bug with win_service not being able to handle special chars like '[' (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37897)
- win_setup - Use connection name for network interfaces as interface name isn't helpful (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37327)
- win_setup - fix bug where getting the machine SID would take a long time in large domain environments (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38646)
- win_updates - handle if the module fails to load and return the error message (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38363)
- win_uri - do not override existing header when using the ``headers`` key. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37845)
- win_uri - convert status code values to an int before validating them in server response (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38080)
- windows - display UTF-8 characters correctly in Windows return json (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37229)
- winrm - when managing Kerberos tickets in Ansible, get a forwardable ticket if delegation is set (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37815)
v2.5.0
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Major Changes
Major Changes
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@ -642,7 +839,7 @@ Bugfixes
- znode - fixed a bug calling the zookeeper API under Python3 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36999
- znode - fixed a bug calling the zookeeper API under Python3 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36999
- Fix for unarchive when users use the --strip-components extra_opt to tar causing ansible to set permissions on the wrong directory. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37048
- Fix for unarchive when users use the --strip-components extra_opt to tar causing ansible to set permissions on the wrong directory. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37048)
- fixed templating issues in loop_control (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36124)
- fixed templating issues in loop_control (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36124)
- Various grafana_* modules - Port away from the deprecated b64encodestring
- Various grafana_* modules - Port away from the deprecated b64encodestring function to the b64encode function instead. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38388)
function to the b64encode function instead. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38388
- Connection error messages may contain characters that jinja2 would
- Connection error messages may contain characters that jinja2 would interpret as a template. Wrap the error string so this doesn't happen (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37329)
interpret as a template. Wrap the error string so this doesn't happen
- Fix for ansible_*_interpreter on Python3 when using non-newstyle modules.
- Fix for ansible_*_interpreter on Python3 when using non-newstyle modules. Those include old-style ansible modules and Ansible modules written in non-python scripting languages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36541)
Those include old-style ansible modules and Ansible modules written in
non-python scripting languages (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/36541)
- Fix to send and receive bytes over a socket in the haproxy module which was
- Fix to send and receive bytes over a socket in the haproxy module which was causing tracebacks on Python3 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35176
causing tracebacks on Python3 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/35176
- Fix for unarchive when users use the --strip-components extra_opt to tar
- Fix for unarchive when users use the --strip-components extra_opt to tar causing ansible to set permissions on the wrong directory. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37048)
causing ansible to set permissions on the wrong directory.
- win_exec_wrapper - support loading of Windows modules different different line endings than the core modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37291)
- win_exec_wrapper - support loading of Windows modules different different line endings than the core modules (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37291)