v2.10.17
========
Bugfixes
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- ansible-galaxy collection build - Ignore any existing ``MANIFEST.json`` and ``FILES.json`` in the root directory when building a collection.
- ansible-test - Fix traceback in the ``validate-modules`` sanity test when testing an Ansible module without any callables.
- backwards compatiblity copy of doc fragment action_common_attributes
This flag should be set for packages that import pkg_resources
and thus need setuptools after the build step.
Set this flag for packages that need it and bump PKGREVISION.
v2.10.15
Security Fixes
- Do not include params in exception when a call to ``set_options`` fails. Additionally, block the exception that is returned from being displayed to stdout. (CVE-2021-3620)
Bugfixes
- PowerShell - Ignore the ``LIB`` environment variable when compiling C# Ansible code
- ansible-test - Remove obsolete ``--remote`` entry ``power/centos/7``
- ansible-test - Update ``isort`` constraint from version 4.3.15 to 4.3.16 to prevent ``pylint`` from failing with warnings reported as errors.
- netconf - catch and handle exception to prevent stack trace when running in FIPS mode
v2.10.14
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Bugfixes
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- Restructured pipelining settings to be at the connection plugins leaving base config as global and for backwards compatiblity.
- command module, clarify order of remove/creates checks.
- command module, correctly handles chdir to symlinks.
- command module, move to standarized messages in 'msg' vs abusing 'stdout'.
- command module, now all options work in ad-hoc execution.
- command module, now always returns what we documented as 'returns always'.
- make previous versions compatible we new attributres w/o implementing them.
v2.10.13
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Minor Changes
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- Allow unsafe_writes to be set on target via env var, for those targets that need a blanket setting.
Bugfixes
--------
- Setup virtualization_facts - add RHV and oVirt type. This change will fully work for VMs in clusters at cluster level 4.4 or newer (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/72876).
- ansible-test - allow to ignore ``rstcheck`` errors (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75272).
- callback default, now uses task delegate_to instead of delegate vars to display delegate to host
- callbacks, restores missing delegate_vars
- dnf module - Use all components of a package name to determine if it's installed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/75311).
v2.10.12
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Minor Changes
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- ansible-test - aws creates and exposes a new tiny_prefix variable to provide a shorter prefix for the AWS tests.
- get_url - allow checksum urls to point to file:// resources, moving scheme test to function
- get_url - handle same SHA sum for checksum file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71420).
Bugfixes
--------
- ansible-doc - in text output, do not show empty ``version_added_collection`` values (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74999).
- ansible-test - restrict ``packaging`` to ``< 21.0`` for Python ``< 3.6`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/75186).
- get_url - Fixed checksum validation for binary files (leading asterisk) in checksum files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74502).
v2.10.11
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Security Fixes
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- templating engine fix for not preserving usnafe status when trying to preserve newlines. CVE-2021-3583
Bugfixes
--------
- gather_facts, package, service - fix using module_defaults for the modules in addition to the action plugins. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/72918)
- psrp - Always cleanup the last run pipeline if a second pipeline is invoked to avoid violating any resource limits.
- psrp - Fix error when resetting a connection that was initialised but not connected - (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74092).
- psrp - Try to clean up any server-side resources when resetting a connection.
v2.10.9
Major Changes
- ansible-test - Tests run with the ``centos6`` and ``default`` test containers now use a PyPI proxy container to access PyPI when Python 2.6 is used. This allows tests running under Python 2.6 to continue functioning even though PyPI is discontinuing support for non-SNI capable clients.
Minor Changes
- Switch to hashlib.sha256() for ansible-test to allow for FIPs mode.
Bugfixes
- Prevent ``ansible_failed_task`` from further templating (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74036)
- ansible-test - Avoid publishing the port used by the ``pypi-test-container`` since it is only accessed by other containers. This avoids issues when trying to run tests in parallel on a single host.
- ansible-test - Fix docker container IP address detection. The ``bridge`` network is no longer assumed to be the default.
- ansible-test - ensure the correct unit test target is given when the ``__init__.py`` file is modified inside the connection plugins directory
- ansible.utils.encrypt now handles missing or unusable 'crypt' library.
- facts - detect homebrew installed at /opt/homebrew/bin/brew
- interpreter discovery - Debian 8 and lower will avoid unsupported Python3 version in interpreter discovery
- undeprecate hash_merge setting and add more docs clarifying its use and why not to use it.
- wait_for module, move missing socket into function to get proper comparrison in time.
v2.10.8
=======
Minor Changes
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- module payload builder - module_utils imports in any nested block (eg, ``try``, ``if``) are treated as optional during module payload builds; this allows modules to implement runtime fallback behavior for module_utils that do not exist in older versions of Ansible.
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix adding unrelated candidate names to the plugin loader redirect list.
- Strategy - When building the task in the Strategy from the Worker, ensure it is properly marked as finalized and squashed. Addresses an issue with ``ansible_failed_task``. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57399)
- ansible-test - The ``--export`` option for ``ansible-test coverage`` is now limited to the ``combine`` command. It was previously available for reporting commands on which it had no effect.
- ansible-test - The ``ansible-test coverage combine`` option ``--export`` now exports relative paths. This avoids loss of coverage data when aggregating across systems with different absolute paths. Paths will be converted back to absolute when generating reports.
- ansible-test - ensure unit test paths for connection and inventory plugins are correctly identified for collections (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73876).
- apt - fix policy_rc_d parameter throwing an exception when restoring original file (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/66211)
- debug action - prevent setting facts when displaying ansible_facts (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74060).
- find - fix default pattern when use_regex is true (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/50067).
- restrict module valid JSON parsed output to objects as lists are not valid responses.
- setup - fix error handling on bad subset given.
- setup, don't give up on all local facts gathering if one script file fails.
- su become plugin - ensure correct type for localization option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73837).
v2.10.7
Minor Changes
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- ansible-test - Generation of an ``egg-info`` directory, if needed, is now done after installing test dependencies and before running tests. When running from an installed version of ``ansible-test`` a temporary directory is used to avoid permissions issues. Previously it was done before installing test dependencies and adjacent to the installed directory.
- ansible-test - now makes a better attempt to support podman when calling ``docker images`` and asking for JSON format.
Bugfixes
--------
- ConfigManager - Normalize ConfigParser between Python2 and Python3 to for handling comments (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73709)
- InventoryManager - Fix unhandled exception when given limit file was actually a directory.
- InventoryManager - Fix unhandled exception when inventory directory was empty or contained empty subdirectories (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73658).
- add AlmaLinux to fact gathering (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73458)
- ansible-galaxy - fixed galaxy role init command (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71977).
- ansible-inventory CLI - Deal with failures when sorting JSON and you have incompatible key types (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68950).
- ansible-test - Running tests using an installed version of ``ansible-test`` against one Python version from another no longer fails due to a missing ``egg-info`` directory. This could occur when testing plugins which import ``pkg_resources``.
- ansible-test - Running tests using an installed version of ``ansible-test`` no longer generates an error attempting to create an ``egg-info`` directory when an existing one is not found in the expected location. This could occur if the existing ``egg-info`` directory included a Python version specifier in the name.
- default callback - Ensure that the ``host_pinned`` strategy is not treated as lockstep (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73364)
- ensure find_mount_point consistently returns text.
- ensure we don't clobber role vars data when getting an empty file
- find module - Stop traversing directories past the requested depth. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73627)
- hostname - add Almalinux support (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73619)
- runtime routing - redirect ``firewalld`` to ``ansible.posix.firewalld`` FQCN (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73689).
- the unvault lookup plugin returned a byte string. Now returns a real string.
- yamllint - do not raise an ``AttributeError`` if a value is assigned to a module attribute at the top of the module.
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