Ansible 7 Porting Guide

Playbook
Command Line
Deprecated
Modules
Plugins
Porting custom scripts
Networking
Porting Guide for v7.7.0
Porting Guide for v7.6.0
Porting Guide for v7.5.0
- Added Collections
- Deprecated Features
Porting Guide for v7.4.0
Porting Guide for v7.3.0
Porting Guide for v7.2.0
Porting Guide for v7.1.0
Porting Guide for v7.0.0

Ansible 7 is based on Ansible-core 2.14.

We suggest you read this page along with the Ansible 7 Changelog to understand what updates you may need to make.

Playbook

Variables are now evaluated lazily; only when they are actually used. For example, in ansible-core 2.14 an expression {{ defined_variable or undefined_variable }} does not fail on undefined_variable if the first part of or is evaluated to True as it is not needed to evaluate the second part. One particular case of a change in behavior to note is the task below which uses the undefined test. Prior to version 2.14 this would result in a fatal error trying to access the undefined value in the dictionary. In 2.14 the assertion passes as the dictionary is evaluated as undefined through one of its undefined values:

- assert:
    that:
      - some_defined_dict_with_undefined_values is undefined
  vars:
    dict_value: 1
    some_defined_dict_with_undefined_values:
      key1: value1
      key2: '{{ dict_value }}'
      key3: '{{ undefined_dict_value }}'

Command Line

Python 3.9 on the controller node is a hard requirement for this release.
At startup the filesystem encoding and locale are checked to verify they are UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding. If you were previously using the C or POSIX locale, you may be able to use C.UTF-8. If you were previously using a locale such as en_US.ISO-8859-1, you may be able to use en_US.UTF-8. For simplicity it may be easiest to export the appropriate locale using the LC_ALL environment variable. An alternative to modifying your system locale is to run Python in UTF-8 mode; See the Python documentation for more information.

Deprecated

No notable changes

Modules

No notable changes

Modules removed

The following modules no longer exist:

No notable changes

Deprecation notices

No notable changes

Noteworthy module changes

No notable changes

Plugins

No notable changes

Porting custom scripts

No notable changes

Networking

No notable changes

Porting Guide for v7.7.0

Major Changes

cloudscale_ch.cloud

Bump minimum required Ansible version to 2.13.0

fortinet.fortimanager

Support all FortiManager versions in 6.2, 6.4, 7.0, 7.2 and 7.4. 139 new modules.
Support token based authentication.

fortinet.fortios

Improve the no_log feature in some modules;
Improve the documentation and example for seq_num in fortios_router_static;
Improve the documentation for member_path in all the modules;
Support new FOS versions.

Removed Features

community.ciscosmb

remove testing for Python 2.6 nad 2.7
remove testing for ansible 2.9

Deprecated Features

The gluster.gluster collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 10 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 10. See the removal process for details on how this works (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/225).
The netapp.aws collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 10 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 10. See the removal process for details on how this works (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/223).

community.ciscosmb

support for Python 2.6 nad 2.7
support for ansible 2.9

microsoft.ad

Deprecating support for Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2. These OS versions are reaching End of Life status from Microsoft and support for using them in Ansible are nearing its end.

purestorage.fusion

fusion_api_client - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_array - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_az - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_hap - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_hap - parameters nqn, wwns, host_password, host_user, target_password`and `target_user were deprecated
fusion_hw - FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_info - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_info - ‘hosts’ subset is deprecated in favor of ‘host_access_policies’ and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_info - ‘interfaces’ subset is deprecated in favor of ‘network_interfaces’ and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_info - ‘zones’ subset is deprecated in favor of ‘availability_zones’ and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_ni - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_nig - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_pg - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_pp - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_ra - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_region - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_sc - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_se - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_se - endpoint_type parameter is now deprecated and will be removed in version 2.0.0
fusion_ss - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_tenant - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_tn - FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_ts - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_volume - ‘app_id’ and ‘key_file’ parameters are deprecated in favor of ‘issuer_id’ and ‘private_key_file’ parameters and will be removed in the version 2.0.0, FUSION_APP_ID and FUSION_HOST env variables are deprecated in favor of FUSION_ISSUER_ID and FUSION_HOST and will be removed in the version 2.0.0

Porting Guide for v7.6.0

Known Issues

community.docker

The modules and plugins using the vendored code from Docker SDK for Python currently do not work with requests 2.29.0 and/or urllib3 2.0.0. The same is currently true for the latest version of Docker SDK for Python itself (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/issues/611, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/612).
docker_api connection plugin - does not work with TCP TLS sockets! This is caused by the inability to send an close_notify TLS alert without closing the connection with Python’s SSLSocket (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/issues/605, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/621).
docker_container_exec - does not work with TCP TLS sockets when the stdin option is used! This is caused by the inability to send an close_notify TLS alert without closing the connection with Python’s SSLSocket (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/issues/605, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/621).

Major Changes

community.postgresql

postgresql_privs - the password argument is deprecated and will be removed in community.postgresql 4.0.0, use the login_password argument instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.postgresql/issues/406).

infoblox.nios_modules

Added Grid Master Candidate feature #152
Added Member Assignment to network and ranges #152
Added NIOS Range module with Create, Update and Delete features #152
Fixes issue unable to update/delete EAs using Ansible plugin #180
Fixes static and dynamic allocation of IPV4 address of A Record #182
Fixes to Update host name of NIOS member #176
Updates default WAPI version to 2.9 #176

Deprecated Features

community.crypto

x509_crl - the mode option is deprecated; use crl_mode instead. The mode option will change its meaning in community.crypto 3.0.0, and will refer to the CRL file’s mode instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/issues/596).

Porting Guide for v7.5.0

Added Collections

microsoft.ad (version 1.0.0)

Deprecated Features

cisco.ios

ios_bgp_address_family - deprecate redistribute.ospf.match.external with redistribute.ospf.match.externals which enables attributes for OSPF type E1 and E2 routes
ios_bgp_address_family - deprecate redistribute.ospf.match.nssa_external with redistribute.ospf.match.nssa_externals which enables attributes for OSPF type N1 and N2 routes
ios_bgp_address_family - deprecate redistribute.ospf.match.type_1 with redistribute.ospf.match.nssa_externals.type_1
ios_bgp_address_family - deprecate redistribute.ospf.match.type_2 with redistribute.ospf.match.nssa_externals.type_2

Porting Guide for v7.4.0

Breaking Changes

Ansible-core

ansible-test - Integration tests which depend on specific file permissions when running in an ansible-test managed host environment may require changes. Tests that require permissions other than 755 or 644 may need to be updated to set the necessary permissions as part of the test run.

Major Changes

community.hrobot

firewall - Hetzner added output rules support to the firewall. This change unfortunately means that using old versions of the firewall module will always set the output rule list to empty, thus disallowing the server to send out packets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/issues/75, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/76).

community.vmware

Use true/false (lowercase) for boolean values in documentation and examples (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/issues/1660).

fortinet.fortios

Add annotations of member operation for every module.
Update fortios.py for higher performance;
supports temporary session key and pre/post login banner;
update the examples on how to use member operation in Q&A.

purestorage.fusion

Patching of resource properties was brought to parity with underlying Python SDK
fusion_volume - fixed and reorganized, arguments changed

Deprecated Features

amazon.aws

support for passing both profile and security tokens through a mix of environment variables and parameters has been deprecated and support will be removed in release 6.0.0. After release 6.0.0 it will only be possible to pass either a profile or security tokens, regardless of mechanism used to pass them. To explicitly block a parameter coming from an environment variable pass an empty string as the parameter value. Support for passing profile and security tokens together was originally deprecated in release 1.2.0, however only partially implemented in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1355).

community.aws

ecs_service - In a release after 2024-06-01, the default value of purge_placement_constraints will be change from false to true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1716).
ecs_service - In a release after 2024-06-01, the default value of purge_placement_strategy will be change from false to true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1716).
iam_role - All top level return values other than iam_role and changed have been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2023-12-01 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/551).
iam_role - In a release after 2023-12-01 the contents of assume_role_policy_document will no longer be converted from CamelCase to snake_case. The assume_role_policy_document_raw return value already returns the policy document in this future format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/551).
iam_role_info - In a release after 2023-12-01 the contents of assume_role_policy_document will no longer be converted from CamelCase to snake_case. The assume_role_policy_document_raw return value already returns the policy document in this future format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/551).

community.hashi_vault

hashi_vault lookup - in v5.0.0 duplicate term string options will raise an exception instead of showing a warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/356).

purestorage.fusion

fusion_hw - hardware module is being removed as changing hardware type has never been supported by Pure Storage Fusion
fusion_info - nigs subset is deprecated in favor of network_interface_groups and will be removed in the version 1.7.0
fusion_info - placements subset is deprecated in favor of placement_groups and will be removed in the version 1.7.0
fusion_pg - placement_engine option is deprecated because Fusion API does not longer support this parameter It will be removed in the version 2.0.0
fusion_se - parameters ‘addresses’, ‘gateway’ and ‘network_interface_groups’ are deprecated in favor of ‘iscsi’ and will be removed in version 2.0.0
fusion_tn - tenant networks are being replaced by storage endpoints `fusion_se` and Network Interface Groups `fusion_nig`

Porting Guide for v7.3.0

Breaking Changes

hetzner.hcloud

inventory plugin - Python v3.5+ is now required.

Major Changes

kubernetes.core

refactor K8sAnsibleMixin into module_utils/k8s/ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/pull/481).

Deprecated Features

Since the google.cloud collection seems to be maintained again, we cancelled the removal process. So contrary to an earlier announcement, this collection is NOT deprecated and will NOT be removed from Ansible 8 (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/105).

community.general

gitlab_runner - the option access_level will lose its default value in community.general 8.0.0. From that version on, you have set this option to ref_protected explicitly, if you want to have a protected runner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5925).

Porting Guide for v7.2.0

Added Collections

dellemc.powerflex (version 1.5.0)
dellemc.unity (version 1.5.0)

Known Issues

Ansible-core

ansible-test - Additional configuration may be required for certain container host and container combinations. Further details are available in the testing documentation.
ansible-test - Custom containers with VOLUME instructions may be unable to start, when previously the containers started correctly. Remove the VOLUME instructions to resolve the issue. Containers with this condition will cause ansible-test to emit a warning.
ansible-test - Systems with Podman networking issues may be unable to run containers, when previously the issue went unreported. Correct the networking issues to continue using ansible-test with Podman.
ansible-test - Using Docker on systems with SELinux may require setting SELinux to permissive mode. Podman should work with SELinux in enforcing mode.

cisco.meraki

meraki_network - Updated documentation for local_status_page_enabled and remote_status_page_enabled as these no longer work.

Breaking Changes

community.general

ModuleHelper module utils - when the module sets output variables named msg, exception, output, vars, or changed, the actual output will prefix those names with _ (underscore symbol) only when they clash with output variables generated by ModuleHelper itself, which only occurs when handling exceptions. Please note that this breaking change does not require a new major release since before this release, it was not possible to add such variables to the output due to a bug (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5765).

Major Changes

Ansible-core

ansible-test - Docker Desktop on WSL2 is now supported (additional configuration required).
ansible-test - Docker and Podman are now supported on hosts with cgroup v2 unified. Previously only cgroup v1 and cgroup v2 hybrid were supported.
ansible-test - Podman now works on container hosts without systemd. Previously only some containers worked, while others required rootfull or rootless Podman, but would not work with both. Some containers did not work at all.
ansible-test - Podman on WSL2 is now supported.
ansible-test - When additional cgroup setup is required on the container host, this will be automatically detected. Instructions on how to configure the host will be provided in the error message shown.

ansible.windows

Set the minimum Ansible version supported by this collection to Ansible 2.12

chocolatey.chocolatey

win_chocolatey - Allow users to select the TLS versions used for bootstrapping Chocolatey installation.

Deprecated Features

The cisco.nso collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 9 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 9. See the removal process for details on how this works (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/155).
The community.fortios collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 9 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 9. See the removal process for details on how this works (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/162).
The community.google collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 9 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 9. See the removal process for details on how this works (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/160).
The community.skydive collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 9 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 9. See the removal process for details on how this works (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/171).

chocolatey.chocolatey

win_chocolatey - Deprecate side-by-side installs.

cisco.ios

ios_bgp_address_family - deprecate neighbors.address/tag/ipv6_adddress with neighbor_address which enables common attributes for facts rendering
ios_bgp_address_family - deprecate neighbors.password with password_options which allows encryption and password
ios_bgp_address_family - deprecate slow_peer with slow_peer_options which supports a dict attribute

community.dns

The default of the newly added option txt_character_encoding will change from octal to decimal in community.dns 3.0.0. The new default will be compatible with RFC 1035 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/pull/134).

community.general

consul - deprecate using parameters unused for state=absent (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5772).
gitlab_runner - the default of the new option access_level_on_creation will change from false to true in community.general 7.0.0. This will cause access_level to be used during runner registration as well, and not only during updates (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5908).
manageiq_policies - deprecate state=list in favour of using community.general.manageiq_policies_info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5721).
rax - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_cbs - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_cbs_attachments - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_cdb - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_cdb_database - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_cdb_user - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_clb - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_clb_nodes - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_clb_ssl - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_dns - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_dns_record - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_facts - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_files - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_files_objects - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_identity - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_keypair - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_meta - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_mon_alarm - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_mon_check - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_mon_entity - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_mon_notification - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_mon_notification_plan - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_network - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_queue - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_scaling_group - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).
rax_scaling_policy - module relies on deprecates library pyrax. Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5733).

community.hashi_vault

ansible-core - support for ansible-core versions 2.11 and 2.12 will be dropped in collection version 5.0.0, making 2.13 the minimum supported version of ansible-core (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/340).
hvac - the minimum version of hvac to be supported in collection version 5.0.0 will be at least 1.0.2; this minimum may be raised before 5.0.0 is released, so please subscribe to the linked issue and look out for new notices in the changelog (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/324).

Porting Guide for v7.1.0

Added Collections

grafana.grafana (version 1.1.0)

Known Issues

community.routeros

api_modify - when limits for entries in queue tree are defined as human readable - for example 25M -, the configuration will be correctly set in ROS, but the module will indicate the item is changed on every run even when there was no change done. This is caused by the ROS API which returns the number in bytes - for example 25000000 (which is inconsistent with the CLI behavior). In order to mitigate that, the limits have to be defined in bytes (those will still appear as human readable in the ROS CLI) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.routeros/pull/131).
api_modify, api_info - routing ospf area, routing ospf area range, routing ospf instance, routing ospf interface-template paths are not fully implemented for ROS6 due to the significant changes between ROS6 and ROS7 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.routeros/pull/131).

Major Changes

cisco.meraki

meraki_mr_l7_firewall - New module
meraki_webhook_payload_template - New module

community.zabbix

all modules are opting away from zabbix-api and using httpapi ansible.netcommon plugin. We will support zabbix-api for backwards compatibility until next major release. See our README.md for more information about how to migrate
zabbix_agent and zabbix_proxy roles are opting away from zabbix-api and use httpapi ansible.netcommon plugin. We will support zabbix-api for backwards compatibility until next major release. See our README.md for more information about how to migrate

containers.podman

New become plugin - podman_unshare
Podman generate systemd module

fortinet.fortios

Support FortiOS v7.0.6, v7.0.7, v7.0.8, v7.2.1, v7.2.2.

Deprecated Features

community.general

The sap modules sapcar_extract, sap_task_list_execute, and hana_query, will be removed from this collection in community.general 7.0.0 and replaced with redirects to community.sap_libs. If you want to continue using these modules, make sure to also install community.sap_libs (it is part of the Ansible package) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5614).

Porting Guide for v7.0.0

Added Collections

ibm.spectrum_virtualize (version 1.10.0)
inspur.ispim (version 1.2.0)
lowlydba.sqlserver (version 1.0.4)
purestorage.fusion (version 1.1.1)
vultr.cloud (version 1.3.1)

Known Issues

community.routeros

The community.routeros.command module claims to support check mode. Since it cannot judge whether the commands executed modify state or not, this behavior is incorrect. Since this potentially breaks existing playbooks, we will not change this behavior until community.routeros 3.0.0.

dellemc.openmanage

idrac_user - Issue(192043) The module may error out with the message unable to perform the import or export operation because there are pending attribute changes or a configuration job is in progress. Wait for the job to complete and run the task again.
ome_application_alerts_smtp - Issue(212310) - The module does not provide a proper error message if the destination_address is more than 255 characters.
ome_application_alerts_syslog - Issue(215374) - The module does not provide a proper error message if the destination_address is more than 255 characters.
ome_device_local_access_configuration - Issue(215035) - The module reports Successfully updated the local access setting if an unsupported value is provided for the parameter timeout_limit. However, this value is not actually applied on OpenManage Enterprise Modular.
ome_device_local_access_configuration - Issue(217865) - The module does not display a proper error message if an unsupported value is provided for the user_defined and lcd_language parameters.
ome_device_network_services - Issue(212681) - The module does not provide a proper error message if unsupported values are provided for the parameters- port_number, community_name, max_sessions, max_auth_retries, and idle_timeout.
ome_device_power_settings - Issue(212679) - The module displays the following message if the value provided for the parameter power_cap is not within the supported range of 0 to 32767, Unable to complete the request because PowerCap does not exist or is not applicable for the resource URI.
ome_device_quick_deploy - Issue(216352) - The module does not display a proper error message if an unsupported value is provided for the ipv6_prefix_length and vlan_id parameters.
ome_smart_fabric_uplink - Issue(186024) - The module does not allow the creation of multiple uplinks of the same name even though it is supported by OpenManage Enterprise Modular. If an uplink is created using the same name as an existing uplink, the existing uplink is modified.

netapp.ontap

na_ontap_snapshot - added documentation to use UTC format for expiry_time.

Breaking Changes

Ansible 7 requires Python 3.9 on the controller, same as ansible-core 2.14.

Ansible-core

Allow for lazy evaluation of Jinja2 expressions (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/56017)
The default ansible-galaxy role skeletons no longer contain .travis.yml files. You can configure ansible-galaxy to use a custom role skeleton that contains a .travis.yml file to continue using Galaxy’s integration with Travis CI.
ansible - At startup the filesystem encoding and locale are checked to verify they are UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
ansible - Increase minimum Python requirement to Python 3.9 for CLI utilities and controller code
ansible-test - At startup the filesystem encoding is checked to verify it is UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
ansible-test - At startup the locale is configured as en_US.UTF-8, with a fallback to C.UTF-8. If neither encoding is available the process exits with an error. If the fallback is used, a warning is displayed. In previous versions the en_US.UTF-8 locale was always requested. However, no startup checking was performed to verify the locale was successfully configured.
ansible-test validate-modules - Removed the missing-python-doc error code in validate modules, missing-documentation is used instead for missing PowerShell module documentation.
strategy plugins - Make ignore_unreachable to increase ignored and ok and counter, not skipped and unreachable. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77690)

amazon.aws

Tags beginning with aws: will not be removed when purging tags, these tags are reserved by Amazon and may not be updated or deleted (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/817).
amazon.aws collection - Support for ansible-core < 2.11 has been dropped (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1087).
amazon.aws collection - The amazon.aws collection has dropped support for botocore<1.21.0 and boto3<1.18.0. Most modules will continue to work with older versions of the AWS SDK, however compatibility with older versions of the SDK is not guaranteed and will not be tested. When using older versions of the SDK a warning will be emitted by Ansible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/934).
amazon.aws collection - the profile parameter is now mutually exclusive with the aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/834).
aws_az_info - the module alias aws_az_facts was deprecated in Ansible 2.9 and has now been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/832).
aws_s3 - the default value for ensure overwrite has been changed to different instead of always so that the module is idempotent by default (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/811).
aws_ssm - on_denied and on_missing now both default to error, for consistency with both aws_secret and the base Lookup class (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/617).
doc_fragments - remove minimum collection requirements from doc_fragments/aws.py and allow pulling those from doc_fragments/aws_boto3.py instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/985).
ec2 - The ec2 module has been removed in release 4.0.0 and replaced by the ec2_instance module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/630).
ec2_ami - the default value for purge_tags has been changed from False to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916).
ec2_ami - the parameter aliases DeviceName, VirtualName and NoDevice were previously deprecated and have been removed, please use device_name, virtual_name and no_device instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/913).
ec2_eni_info - the mutual exclusivity of the eni_id and filters parameters is now enforced, previously filters would be ignored if eni_id was set (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/954).
ec2_instance - the default value for purge_tags has been changed from False to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916).
ec2_key - the default value for purge_tags has been changed from False to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916).
ec2_vol - the default value for purge_tags has been changed from False to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916).
ec2_vpc_dhcp_option_info - the parameter aliases DhcpOptionIds and DryRun were previously deprecated and have been removed, please use dhcp_options_ids and no_device instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/913).
ec2_vpc_endpoint - the default value for purge_tags has been changed from False to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916).
ec2_vpc_igw_info - The default value for convert_tags has been changed to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/835).
ec2_vpc_net - the default value for purge_tags has been changed from False to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916).
ec2_vpc_route_table - the default value for purge_tags has been changed from False to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/916).
elb_classic_lb - the ec2_elb fact has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/827).
module_utils - Support for the original AWS SDK aka boto has been removed, including all relevant helper functions. All modules should now use the boto3/botocore AWS SDK (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/630)
s3_bucket - the previously deprecated alias S3_URL for the s3_url parameter has been removed. Playbooks should be updated to use s3_url (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/908).
s3_object - the previously deprecated alias S3_URL for the s3_url parameter has been removed. Playbooks should be updated to use s3_url (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/908).

check_point.mgmt

cp_mgmt_access_role - the ‘machines’ parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter ‘machines_list’ of type dict has been added. the ‘users’ parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter ‘users_list’ of type dict has been added.
cp_mgmt_access_rule - the ‘vpn’ parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter ‘vpn_list’ of type dict has been added. the ‘position_by_rule’ parameter has been changed to ‘relative_position’ with support of positioning above/below a section (and not just a rule). the ‘relative_position’ parameter has also ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ suboptions which allows positioning a rule at the top and bottom of a section respectively. a new parameter ‘search_entire_rulebase’ has been added to allow the relative positioning to be unlimited (was previously limited to 50 rules)
cp_mgmt_administrator - the ‘permissions_profile’ parameter now accepts a single str and a new parameter ‘permissions_profile_list’ of type dict has been added.
cp_mgmt_publish - the ‘uid’ parameter has been removed.

community.aws

Tags beginning with aws: will not be removed when purging tags, these tags are reserved by Amazon and may not be updated or deleted (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/817).
acm_certificate - the previously deprecated default value of purge_tags=False has been updated to purge_tags=True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343).
autoscaling_group - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.autoscaling_group.
autoscaling_group_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.autoscaling_group_info.
aws_secret - tags are no longer removed when the tags parameter is not set. To remove all tags set tags={} (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1146).
cloudfront_distribution - the previously deprecated default value of purge_tags=False has been updated to purge_tags=True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343).
cloudtrail - The module has been migrated to the amazon.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudtrail.
cloudwatch_metric_alarm - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudwatch_metric_alarm.
cloudwatchevent_rule - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudwatchevent_rule.
cloudwatchlogs_log_group - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudwatchlogs_log_group.
cloudwatchlogs_log_group_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudwatchlogs_log_group_info.
cloudwatchlogs_log_group_metric_filter - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudwatchlogs_log_group_metric_filter.
community.aws collection - Support for ansible-core < 2.11 has been dropped (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1541).
community.aws collection - The community.aws collection has now dropped support for and any requirements upon the original boto AWS SDK, and now uses the boto3/botocore AWS SDK (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/898).
community.aws collection - The community.aws collection has dropped support for botocore<1.21.0 and boto3<1.18.0. Most modules will continue to work with older versions of the AWS SDK, however compatibility with older versions of the SDK is not guaranteed and will not be tested. When using older versions of the SDK a warning will be emitted by Ansible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1362).
community.aws collection - the profile parameter is now mutually exclusive with the aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token parameters (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/834).
ec2_eip - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.ec2_eip.
ec2_eip_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.ec2_eip_info.
ec2_vpc_route_table - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.ec2_vpc_route_table.
ec2_vpc_route_table_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.ec2_vpc_route_table_info.
ec2_vpc_vpn - the previously deprecated default value of purge_tags=False has been updated to purge_tags=True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343).
elb_application_lb - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.elb_application_lb.
elb_application_lb_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.elb_application_lb_info.
elb_instance - the ec2_elbs fact has been removed, updated_elbs has been added the return values and includes the same information (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1173).
elb_network_lb - the default value of state has changed from absent to present (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1167).
execute_lambda - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.execute_lambda.
iam_policy - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.iam_policy.
iam_policy_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.iam_policy_info.
iam_server_certificate - Passing file names to the cert, chain_cert and key parameters has been removed. We recommend using a lookup plugin to read the files instead, see the documentation for an example (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1265).
iam_server_certificate - the default value for the dup_ok parameter has been changed to true. To preserve the original behaviour explicitly set the dup_ok parameter to false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1265).
iam_user - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.iam_user.
iam_user_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.iam_user_info.
kms_key - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.kms_key.
kms_key - managing the KMS IAM Policy with policy_mode and policy_grant_types was previously deprecated and has been removed in favor of the policy option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1344).
kms_key - the previously deprecated default value of purge_tags=False has been updated to purge_tags=True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343).
kms_key_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.kms_key_info.
lambda - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda.
lambda_alias - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda_alias.
lambda_event - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda_event.
lambda_execute - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda_execute.
lambda_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda_info.
lambda_policy - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda_policy.
rds_cluster - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_cluster.
rds_cluster_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_cluster_info.
rds_cluster_snapshot - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_cluster_snapshot.
rds_instance - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_instance.
rds_instance_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_instance_info.
rds_instance_snapshot - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_instance_snapshot.
rds_option_group - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_option_group.
rds_option_group_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_option_group_info.
rds_param_group - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_param_group.
rds_param_group - the previously deprecated default value of purge_tags=False has been updated to purge_tags=True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343).
rds_snapshot_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_snapshot_info.
rds_subnet_group - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_subnet_group.
route53 - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.route53.
route53_health_check - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.route53_health_check.
route53_health_check - the previously deprecated default value of purge_tags=False has been updated to purge_tags=True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343).
route53_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.route53_info.
route53_zone - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.route53_zone.
route53_zone - the previously deprecated default value of purge_tags=False has been updated to purge_tags=True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343).
script_inventory_ec2 - The ec2.py inventory script has been moved to a new repository. The script can now be downloaded from https://github.com/ansible-community/contrib-scripts/blob/main/inventory/ec2.py and has been removed from this collection. We recommend migrating from the script to the amazon.aws.ec2 inventory plugin. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/898)
sqs_queue - the previously deprecated default value of purge_tags=False has been updated to purge_tags=True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1343).

community.docker

This collection does not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+. Please either upgrade to ansible-core 2.12+, or use Python 3.11 or earlier (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/271).
docker_container - exposed_ports is no longer ignored in comparisons. Before, its value was assumed to be identical with the value of published_ports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422).
docker_container - log_options can no longer be specified when log_driver is not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422).
docker_container - publish_all_ports is no longer ignored in comparisons (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422).
docker_container - restart_retries can no longer be specified when restart_policy is not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422).
docker_container - stop_timeout is no longer ignored for idempotency if told to be not ignored in comparisons. So far it defaulted to ignore there, and setting it to strict had no effect (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422).
modules and plugins communicating directly with the Docker daemon - when connecting by SSH and not using use_ssh_client=true, reject unknown host keys instead of accepting them. This is only a breaking change relative to older community.docker 3.0.0 pre-releases or with respect to Docker SDK for Python < 6.0.0. Docker SDK for Python 6.0.0 will also include this change (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/434).

community.general

newrelic_deployment - revision is required for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).
scaleway_container_registry_info - no longer replace secret_environment_variables in the output by SENSITIVE_VALUE (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5497).

community.hashi_vault

auth - the default value for token_validate has changed from true to false, as previously announced (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/248).
vault_kv2_get lookup - as previously announced, the default value for engine_mount_point in the vault_kv2_get lookup has changed from kv to secret (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/279).

community.vmware

Removed support for ansible-core version < 2.13.0.
vmware_dvs_portgroup - Add a new sub-option inherited to the in_traffic_shaping parameter. This means you can keep the setting as-is by not defining the parameter, but also that you have to define the setting as not inherited if you want to override it at the PG level (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1483).
vmware_dvs_portgroup - Add a new sub-option inherited to the out_traffic_shaping parameter. This means you can keep the setting as-is by not defining the parameter, but also that you have to define the setting as not inherited if you want to override it at the PG level (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1483).
vmware_dvs_portgroup - Change the type of net_flow to string to allow setting it implicitly to inherited or to keep the value as-is. This means you can keep the setting as-is by not defining the parameter, but also that while true or no still work, True or Off (uppercase) won’t (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1483).
vmware_dvs_portgroup - Remove support for vSphere API less than 6.7.
vmware_dvs_portgroup - Remove the default for network_policy and add a new sub-option inherited. This means you can keep the setting as-is by not defining the parameter, but also that you have to define the setting as not inherited if you want to override it at the PG level (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1483).
vmware_dvs_portgroup_info - Remove support for vSphere API less than 6.7.
vmware_dvswitch - Remove support for vSphere API less than 6.7.
vmware_dvswitch_uplink_pg - Remove support for vSphere API less than 6.7.
vmware_guest_boot_manager - Remove default for secure_boot_enabled parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/issues/1461).
vmware_vm_config_option - Dict item names in result are changed from strings joined with spaces to strings joined with underlines, e.g. Guest fullname is changed to guest_fullname (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/issues/1268).
vmware_vspan_session - Remove support for vSphere API less than 6.7.

dellemc.enterprise_sonic

bgp_af - Add the route_advertise_list dictionary to the argspec to replace the deleted, obsolete advertise_prefix attribute used for SONiC 3.x images on the 1.x branch of this collection. This change corresponds to a SONiC 4.0 OC YANG REST compliance change for the BGP AF REST API. It enables specification of a route map in conjunction with each route advertisement prefix (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/63).
bgp_af - remove the obsolete ‘advertise_prefix’ attribute from argspec and config code. This and subsequent co-req replacement with the new route advertise list argument structure require corresponding changes in playbooks previoulsly used for configuring route advertise prefixes for SONiC 3.x images. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/60)
bgp_neighbors - Replace the previously defined standalone “bfd” attribute with a bfd dictionary containing multiple attributes. This change corresponds to the revised SONiC 4.x implementation of OC YANG compatible REST APIs. Playbooks previously using the bfd attributes for SONiC 3.x images must be modified for useon SONiC 4.0 images to use the new definition for the bfd attribute argspec structure (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/72).
bgp_neighbors - Replace, for BGP peer groups, the previously defined standalone “bfd” attribute with a bfd dictionary containing multiple attributes. This change corresponds to the revised SONiC 4.x implementation of OC YANG compatible REST APIs. Playbooks previously using the bfd attributes for SONiC 3.x images must be modified for useon SONiC 4.0 images to use the new definition for the bfd attribute argspec structure (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/81).

Major Changes

Ansible-core

Move handler processing into new PlayIterator phase to use the configured strategy (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65067)
ansible - At startup the filesystem encoding and locale are checked to verify they are UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
ansible - Increase minimum Python requirement to Python 3.9 for CLI utilities and controller code
ansible-test - At startup the filesystem encoding is checked to verify it is UTF-8. If not, the process exits with an error reporting the errant encoding.
ansible-test - At startup the locale is configured as en_US.UTF-8, with a fallback to C.UTF-8. If neither encoding is available the process exits with an error. If the fallback is used, a warning is displayed. In previous versions the en_US.UTF-8 locale was always requested. However, no startup checking was performed to verify the locale was successfully configured.

amazon.aws

amazon.aws collection - The amazon.aws collection has dropped support for botocore<1.20.0 and boto3<1.17.0. Most modules will continue to work with older versions of the AWS SDK, however compatibility with older versions of the SDK is not guaranteed and will not be tested. When using older versions of the SDK a warning will be emitted by Ansible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/574).
autoscaling_group - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.autoscaling_group.
autoscaling_group_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.autoscaling_group_info.
cloudtrail - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudtrail.
cloudwatch_metric_alarm - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudwatch_metric_alarm.
cloudwatchevent_rule - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudwatchevent_rule.
cloudwatchlogs_log_group - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudwatchlogs_log_group.
cloudwatchlogs_log_group_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudwatchlogs_log_group_info.
cloudwatchlogs_log_group_metric_filter - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.cloudwatchlogs_log_group_metric_filter.
ec2_eip - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.ec2_eip.
ec2_eip_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.ec2_eip_info.
elb_application_lb - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.elb_application_lb.
elb_application_lb_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.elb_application_lb_info.
execute_lambda - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.execute_lambda.
iam_policy - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.iam_policy.
iam_policy_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.iam_policy_info.
iam_user - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.iam_user.
iam_user_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.iam_user_info.
kms_key - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.kms_key.
kms_key_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.kms_key_info.
lambda - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda.
lambda_alias - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda_alias.
lambda_event - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda_event.
lambda_execute - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda_execute.
lambda_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda_info.
lambda_policy - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.lambda_policy.
rds_cluster - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_cluster.
rds_cluster_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_cluster_info.
rds_cluster_snapshot - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_cluster_snapshot.
rds_instance - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_instance.
rds_instance_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_instance_info.
rds_instance_snapshot - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_instance_snapshot.
rds_option_group - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_option_group.
rds_option_group_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_option_group_info.
rds_param_group - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_param_group.
rds_snapshot_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_snapshot_info.
rds_subnet_group - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.rds_subnet_group.
route53 - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.route53.
route53_health_check - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.route53_health_check.
route53_info - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.route53_info.
route53_zone - The module has been migrated from the community.aws collection. Playbooks using the Fully Qualified Collection Name for this module should be updated to use amazon.aws.route53_zone.

arista.eos

Remove following EOS dprecated modules
Use of connection: local and the provider option are no longer valid on any modules in this collection.
eos_interface
eos_l2_interface
eos_l3_interface
eos_linkagg
eos_static_route
eos_vlan

check_point.mgmt

plugins/httpapi/checkpoint - Support for Smart-1 Cloud with new variable ‘ansible_cloud_mgmt_id’

chocolatey.chocolatey

win_chocolatey - Added bootstrap_script option to allow users to target a script URL for installing Chocolatey on clients.
win_chocolatey_facts - Added outdated packages list to data returned.

cisco.asa

Please use either of the following connection types - network_cli, httpapi or netconf.
This includes the following modules:
This release drops support for connection: local and provider dictionary.
This release removes all deprecated plugins that have reached their end-of-life.
Use of connection: local and the provider option are no longer valid on any modules in this collection.
asa_acl
asa_og

cisco.ios

Only valid connection types for this collection is network_cli.
This release drops support for connection: local and provider dictionary.

cisco.iosxr

Only valid connection types for this collection are network_cli and netconf.
This release drops support for connection: local and provider dictionary.

cisco.nxos

Please use either of the following connection types - network_cli, httpapi or netconf.
This release drops support for connection: local and provider dictionary.

community.aws

community.aws collection - The amazon.aws collection has dropped support for botocore<1.20.0 and boto3<1.17.0. Most modules will continue to work with older versions of the AWS SDK, however compatibility with older versions of the SDK is not guaranteed and will not be tested. When using older versions of the SDK a warning will be emitted by Ansible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/956).

community.docker

The collection now contains vendored code from the Docker SDK for Python to talk to the Docker daemon. Modules and plugins using this code no longer need the Docker SDK for Python installed on the machine the module or plugin is running on (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/398).
docker_api connection plugin - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/414).
docker_container - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422).
docker_container - the module was completely rewritten from scratch (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/422).
docker_container_exec - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/401).
docker_container_info - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/402).
docker_containers inventory plugin - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/413).
docker_host_info - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/403).
docker_image - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/404).
docker_image_info - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/405).
docker_image_load - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/406).
docker_login - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/407).
docker_network - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/408).
docker_network_info - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/409).
docker_plugin - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/429).
docker_prune - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/410).
docker_volume - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/411).
docker_volume_info - no longer uses the Docker SDK for Python. It requires requests to be installed, and depending on the features used has some more requirements. If the Docker SDK for Python is installed, these requirements are likely met (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/412).

community.general

The internal structure of the collection was changed for modules and action plugins. These no longer live in a directory hierarchy ordered by topic, but instead are now all in a single (flat) directory. This has no impact on users assuming they did not use internal FQCNs. These will still work, but result in deprecation warnings. They were never officially supported and thus the redirects are kept as a courtsey, and this is not labelled as a breaking change. Note that for example the Ansible VScode plugin started recommending these internal names. If you followed its recommendation, you will now have to change back to the short names to avoid deprecation warnings, and potential errors in the future as these redirects will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5461).
newrelic_deployment - removed New Relic v1 API, added support for v2 API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).

community.mysql

mysql_db - the pipefail argument’s default value will be changed to true in community.mysql 4.0.0. If your target machines do not use bash as a default interpreter, set pipefail to false explicitly. However, we strongly recommend setting up bash as a default and pipefail=true as it will protect you from getting broken dumps you don’t know about (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/issues/407).

community.network

The community.network collection no longer supports Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10. While we take no active measures to prevent usage, we will remove compatibility code and other compatility measures that will effectively prevent using most content from this collection with Ansible 2.9, and some content of this collection with ansible-base 2.10. Both Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 will very soon be End of Life and if you are still using them, you should consider upgrading to ansible-core 2.11 or later as soon as possible (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/426).
The internal structure of the collection was changed for modules and action plugins. These no longer live in a directory hierarchy ordered by topic, but instead are now all in a single (flat) directory. This has no impact on users assuming they did not use internal FQCNs. These will still work, but result in deprecation warnings. They were never officially supported and thus the redirects are kept as a courtsey, and this is not labelled as a breaking change. Note that for example the Ansible VScode plugin started recommending these internal names. If you followed its recommendation, you will now have to change back to the short names to avoid deprecation warnings, and potential errors in the future as these redirects will be removed in community.network 8.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/482).

community.postgresql

postgresql_user - the groups argument has been deprecated and will be removed in community.postgresql 3.0.0. Please use the postgresql_membership module to specify group/role memberships instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.postgresql/issues/277).

dellemc.enterprise_sonic

Added ‘static_routes’ module to collection (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/82).
Added a resource module for NTP support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/99).
Added a resource module for support of prefix lists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/100).
Updated backend REST API request formats in all applicable modules for compatibility with SONiC 4.x openconfig YANG compliant REST APIs. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/dellemc.enterprise_sonic/pull/53)

dellemc.openmanage

Added collection metadata for creating Execution Environments.
Refactored the Markdown (MD) files and content for better readability.
The share parameters are deprecated from the following modules - idrac_network, idrac_timezone_ntp, dellemc_configure_idrac_eventing, dellemc_configure_idrac_services, dellemc_idrac_lc_attributes, dellemc_system_lockdown_mode.
idrac_bios - The module is enhanced to support clear pending BIOS attributes, reset BIOS to default settings, and configure BIOS attribute using Redfish.
idrac_boot - Support for configuring the boot settings on iDRAC.
idrac_redfish_storage_controller - This module is enhanced to support LockVirtualDisk operation.
idrac_virtual_media - This module allows to configure Remote File Share settings.
ome_device_group - The module is enhanced to support the removal of devices from a static device group.
ome_devices - Support for performing device-specific operations on OpenManage Enterprise.

fortinet.fortimanager

Fix compatibility issue for ansible 2.9.x and ansible-base 2.10.x.
Many fixes for Ansible sanity test warnings & errors.
Support FortiManager Schema 7.2.0 , 98 new modules
support Ansible changelogs.

fortinet.fortios

Support Diff feature in check_mode.
Support Fortios 7.2.0.

infoblox.nios_modules

Feature for extra layer security , with cert and key parameters in playbooks for authenticating using certificate and key *.pem file absolute path #154
Fix to remove issue causing due to template attr in deleting network using Ansible module nios network #147
Update text field of TXT Record #128
Update operation using old_name and new_name for the object with dummy name in old_name (which does not exist in system) will not create a new object in the system. An error will be thrown stating the object does not exist in the system #129

junipernetworks.junos

Use of connection: local and the provider option are no longer valid on any modules in this collection.

vyos.vyos

Use of connection: local and the provider option are no longer valid on any modules in this collection.

Removed Collections

servicenow.servicenow (previously included version: 1.0.6)

Removed Features

Ansible-core

PlayIterator - remove deprecated PlayIterator.ITERATING_* and PlayIterator.FAILED_*
Remove deprecated ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMPFILES configuration option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77393)
Remove deprecated COMMAND_WARNINGS configuration option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77394)
Remove deprecated DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS environment variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77396)
Remove deprecated LIBVIRT_LXC_NOSECLABEL environment variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77395)
Remove deprecated NETWORK_GROUP_MODULES environment variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77397)
Remove deprecated UnsafeProxy
Remove deprecated plugin_filters_cfg config option from default section (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77398)
Remove deprecated functionality that allows loading cache plugins directly without using cache_loader.
Remove deprecated functionality that allows subclassing DefaultCallback without the corresponding doc_fragment.
Remove deprecated powershell functions Load-CommandUtils and Import-PrivilegeUtil
apt_key - remove deprecated key module param
command/shell - remove deprecated warn module param
get_url - remove deprecated sha256sum module param
import_playbook - remove deprecated functionality that allows providing additional parameters in free form

amazon.aws

cloudformation - the template_format option has been removed. It has been ignored by the module since Ansible 2.3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/833).
ec2_key - the wait_timeout option had no effect, was deprecated in release 1.0.0, and has now been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/830).
ec2_key - the wait option had no effect, was deprecated in release 1.0.0, and has now been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/830).
ec2_tag - the previously deprecated state list has been removed. To list tags on an EC2 resource the ec2_tag_info module can be used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/829).
ec2_vol - the previously deprecated state list has been removed. To list volumes the ec2_vol_info module can be used (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/828).
module_utils.batch - the class ansible_collections.amazon.aws.plugins.module_utils.batch.AWSConnection has been removed. Please use AnsibleAWSModule.client() instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/831).

ansible.netcommon

napalm - Removed unused connection plugin.
net_banner - Use <network_os>_banner instead.
net_interface - Use <network_os>_interfaces instead.
net_l2_interface - Use <network_os>_l2_interfaces instead.
net_l3_interface - Use <network_os>_l3_interfaces instead.
net_linkagg - Use <network_os>_lag_interfaces instead.
net_lldp - Use <network_os>_lldp_global instead.
net_lldp_interface - Use <network_os>_lldp_interfaces instead.
net_logging - Use <network_os>_logging_global instead.
net_static_route - Use <network_os>_static_routes instead.
net_system - Use <network_os>_system instead.
net_user - Use <network_os>_user instead.
net_vlan - Use <network_os>_vlans instead.
net_vrf - Use <network_os>_vrf instead.

cisco.ios

ios_interface - use ios_interfaces instead.
ios_l2_interface - use ios_l2_interfaces instead.
ios_l3_interface - use ios_l3_interfaces instead.
ios_static_route - use ios_static_routes instead.
ios_vlan - use ios_vlans instead.

cisco.iosxr

iosxr_interface - use iosxr_interfaces instead.

cisco.nxos

This release removes the following deprecated plugins that have reached their end-of-life.
nxos_acl
nxos_acl_interface
nxos_interface
nxos_interface_ospf
nxos_l2_interface
nxos_l3_interface
nxos_linkagg
nxos_lldp
nxos_ospf
nxos_ospf_vrf
nxos_smu
nxos_static_route
nxos_vlan

community.aws

aws_kms_info - the unused and deprecated keys_attr parameter has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
data_pipeline - the version option has always been ignored and has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1160”
ec2_eip - The wait_timeout option has been removed. It has always been ignored by the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1159).
ec2_lc - the associate_public_ip_address option has been removed. It has always been ignored by the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1158).
ec2_metric_alarm - support for using the <=, <, > and >= operators for comparison has been dropped. Please use LessThanOrEqualToThreshold, LessThanThreshold, GreaterThanThreshold or GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1164).
ecs_ecr - The deprecated alias delete_policy has been removed. Please use purge_policy instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1161).
iam_managed_policy - the unused fail_on_delete parameter has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1168)
s3_lifecycle - the unused parameter requester_pays has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1165).
s3_sync - remove unused retries parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1166).

community.azure

azure_rm_aks_facts, azure_rm_aks_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_aks_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_aksversion_facts, azure_rm_aksversion_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_aksversion_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_applicationsecuritygroup_facts, azure_rm_applicationsecuritygroup_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_applicationsecuritygroup_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_appserviceplan_facts, azure_rm_appserviceplan_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_appserviceplan_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_automationaccount_facts, azure_rm_automationaccount_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_automationaccount_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_autoscale_facts, azure_rm_autoscale_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_autoscale_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_availabilityset_facts, azure_rm_availabilityset_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_availabilityset_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_cdnendpoint_facts, azure_rm_cdnendpoint_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_cdnendpoint_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_cdnprofile_facts, azure_rm_cdnprofile_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_cdnprofile_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_containerinstance_facts, azure_rm_containerinstance_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_containerinstance_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_containerregistry_facts, azure_rm_containerregistry_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_containerregistry_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_cosmosdbaccount_facts, azure_rm_cosmosdbaccount_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_cosmosdbaccount_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_deployment_facts, azure_rm_deployment_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_deployment_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_devtestlab_facts, azure_rm_devtestlab_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_devtestlab_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_devtestlabarmtemplate_facts, azure_rm_devtestlabarmtemplate_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_devtestlabarmtemplate_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_devtestlabartifact_facts, azure_rm_devtestlabartifact_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_devtestlabartifact_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_devtestlabartifactsource_facts, azure_rm_devtestlabartifactsource_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_devtestlabartifactsource_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_devtestlabcustomimage_facts, azure_rm_devtestlabcustomimage_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_devtestlabcustomimage_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_devtestlabenvironment_facts, azure_rm_devtestlabenvironment_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_devtestlabenvironment_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_devtestlabpolicy_facts, azure_rm_devtestlabpolicy_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_devtestlabpolicy_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_devtestlabschedule_facts, azure_rm_devtestlabschedule_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_devtestlabschedule_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_devtestlabvirtualmachine_facts, azure_rm_devtestlabvirtualmachine_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_devtestlabvirtualmachine_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_devtestlabvirtualnetwork_facts, azure_rm_devtestlabvirtualnetwork_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_devtestlabvirtualnetwork_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_dnsrecordset_facts, azure_rm_dnsrecordset_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_dnsrecordset_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_dnszone_facts, azure_rm_dnszone_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_dnszone_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_functionapp_facts, azure_rm_functionapp_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_functionapp_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_hdinsightcluster_facts, azure_rm_hdinsightcluster_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_hdinsightcluster_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_image_facts, azure_rm_image_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_image_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_loadbalancer_facts, azure_rm_loadbalancer_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_loadbalancer_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_lock_facts, azure_rm_lock_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_lock_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_loganalyticsworkspace_facts, azure_rm_loganalyticsworkspace_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_loganalyticsworkspace_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_managed_disk, azure_rm_manageddisk - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_manageddisk instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_managed_disk_facts, azure_rm_manageddisk_facts, azure_rm_manageddisk_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_manageddisk_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_mariadbconfiguration_facts, azure_rm_mariadbconfiguration_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_mariadbconfiguration_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_mariadbdatabase_facts, azure_rm_mariadbdatabase_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_mariadbdatabase_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_mariadbfirewallrule_facts, azure_rm_mariadbfirewallrule_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_mariadbfirewallrule_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_mariadbserver_facts, azure_rm_mariadbserver_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_mariadbserver_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_mysqlconfiguration_facts, azure_rm_mysqlconfiguration_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_mysqlconfiguration_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_mysqldatabase_facts, azure_rm_mysqldatabase_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_mysqldatabase_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_mysqlfirewallrule_facts, azure_rm_mysqlfirewallrule_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_mysqlfirewallrule_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_mysqlserver_facts, azure_rm_mysqlserver_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_mysqlserver_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_networkinterface_facts, azure_rm_networkinterface_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_networkinterface_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_postgresqlconfiguration_facts, azure_rm_postgresqlconfiguration_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_postgresqlconfiguration_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_postgresqldatabase_facts, azure_rm_postgresqldatabase_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_postgresqldatabase_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_postgresqlfirewallrule_facts, azure_rm_postgresqlfirewallrule_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_postgresqlfirewallrule_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_postgresqlserver_facts, azure_rm_postgresqlserver_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_postgresqlserver_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_publicipaddress_facts, azure_rm_publicipaddress_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_publicipaddress_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_rediscache_facts, azure_rm_rediscache_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_rediscache_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_resource_facts, azure_rm_resource_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_resource_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_resourcegroup_facts, azure_rm_resourcegroup_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_resourcegroup_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_roleassignment_facts, azure_rm_roleassignment_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_roleassignment_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_roledefinition_facts, azure_rm_roledefinition_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_roledefinition_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_routetable_facts, azure_rm_routetable_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_routetable_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_securitygroup_facts, azure_rm_securitygroup_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_securitygroup_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_servicebus_facts, azure_rm_servicebus_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_servicebus_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_sqldatabase_facts, azure_rm_sqldatabase_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_sqldatabase_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_sqlfirewallrule_facts, azure_rm_sqlfirewallrule_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_sqlfirewallrule_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_sqlserver_facts, azure_rm_sqlserver_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_sqlserver_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_storageaccount_facts, azure_rm_storageaccount_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_storageaccount_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_subnet_facts, azure_rm_subnet_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_subnet_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_trafficmanagerendpoint_facts, azure_rm_trafficmanagerendpoint_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_trafficmanagerendpoint_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_trafficmanagerprofile_facts, azure_rm_trafficmanagerprofile_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_trafficmanagerprofile_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_virtualmachine_extension, azure_rm_virtualmachineextension - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualmachineextension instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_virtualmachine_facts, azure_rm_virtualmachine_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualmachine_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_virtualmachine_scaleset, azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_virtualmachine_scaleset_facts, azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset_facts, azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_virtualmachineextension_facts, azure_rm_virtualmachineextension_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualmachineextension_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_virtualmachineimage_facts, azure_rm_virtualmachineimage_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualmachineimage_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_virtualmachinescalesetextension_facts, azure_rm_virtualmachinescalesetextension_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualmachinescalesetextension_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_virtualmachinescalesetinstance_facts, azure_rm_virtualmachinescalesetinstance_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualmachinescalesetinstance_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_virtualnetwork_facts, azure_rm_virtualnetwork_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualnetwork_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_virtualnetworkpeering_facts, azure_rm_virtualnetworkpeering_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualnetworkpeering_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).
azure_rm_webapp_facts, azure_rm_webapp_info - the deprecated modules have been removed. Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_webapp_info instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.azure/pull/31).

community.docker

Execution Environments built with community.docker no longer include docker-compose < 2.0.0. If you need to use it with the docker_compose module, please install that requirement manually (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/400).
Support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 has been removed. If you need support for Ansible 2.9 or ansible-base 2.10, please use community.docker 2.x.y (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/400).
Support for Docker API versions 1.20 to 1.24 has been removed. If you need support for these API versions, please use community.docker 2.x.y (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/400).
Support for Python 2.6 has been removed. If you need support for Python 2.6, please use community.docker 2.x.y (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/400).
Various modules - the default of tls_hostname (localhost) has been removed. If you want to continue using localhost, you need to specify it explicitly (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/363).
docker_container - the all value is no longer allowed in published_ports. Use publish_all_ports=true instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/399).
docker_container - the default of command_handling was changed from compatibility to correct. Older versions were warning for every invocation of the module when this would result in a change of behavior (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/399).
docker_stack - the return values out and err have been removed. Use stdout and stderr instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/363).

community.general

bitbucket* modules - username is no longer an alias of workspace, but of user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
gem - the default of the norc option changed from false to true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
gitlab_group_members - gitlab_group must now always contain the full path, and no longer just the name or path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
keycloak_authentication - the return value flow has been removed. Use end_state instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
keycloak_group - the return value group has been removed. Use end_state instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
lxd_container - the default of the ignore_volatile_options option changed from true to false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
mail callback plugin - the sender option is now required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
module_helper module utils - remove the VarDict attribute from ModuleHelper. Import VarDict from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.mh.mixins.vars instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
proxmox inventory plugin - the default of the want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host option changed from true to false (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).
vmadm - the debug option has been removed. It was not used anyway (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5326).

community.network

aireos modules - removed deprecated connection: local support. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).
aireos modules - removed deprecated provider option. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).
aruba modules - removed deprecated connection: local support. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).
aruba modules - removed deprecated provider option. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).
ce modules - removed deprecated connection: local support. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).
ce modules - removed deprecated provider option. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).
enos modules - removed deprecated connection: local support. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).
enos modules - removed deprecated provider option. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).
ironware modules - removed deprecated connection: local support. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).
ironware modules - removed deprecated provider option. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).
sros modules - removed deprecated connection: local support. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).
sros modules - removed deprecated provider option. Use connection: network_cli instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.network/pull/440).

community.vmware

vca_fw - The deprecated module vca_fw has been removed.
vca_nat - The deprecated module vca_nat has been removed.
vca_vapp - The deprecated module vca_vapp has been removed.
vmware_dns_config - The deprecated module vmware_dns_config has been removed, you can use vmware_host_dns instead.
vmware_guest_network - The deprecated parameter networks has been removed, use loops to handle multiple interfaces (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1459).
vmware_guest_vnc - The deprecated module vmware_guest_vnc has been removed. The VNC support has been dropped with vSphere 7 and later (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1454).
vmware_host_firewall_manager - The module doesn’t accept a list for allowed_hosts anymore, use a dict instead. Additionally, all_ip is now a required sub-option of allowed_hosts (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1463).
vsphere_copy - The deprecated parameters host and login have been removed. Use hostname and username instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/pull/1456).

junipernetworks.junos

Remove following deprecated Junos Modules.
junos_interface
junos_l2_interface
junos_l3_interface
junos_linkagg
junos_lldp
junos_lldp_interface
junos_static_route
junos_vlan

vyos.vyos

vyos_interface - use vyos_interfaces instead.
vyos_l3_interface - use vyos_l3_interfaces instead.
vyos_linkagg - use vyos_lag_interfaces instead.
vyos_lldp - use vyos_lldp_global instead.
vyos_lldp_interface - use vyos_lldp_interfaces instead.
vyos_static_route - use vyos_static_routes instead.

Deprecated Features

The dellemc.os10 collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See the removal process for details on how this works (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/134).
The dellemc.os6 collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See the removal process for details on how this works (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/132).
The dellemc.os9 collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See the removal process for details on how this works (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/133).
The google.cloud collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See the removal process for details on how this works (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/105).
The mellanox.onyx collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 8 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 8. See the removal process for details on how this works (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/136).

Ansible-core

Deprecate ability of lookup plugins to return arbitrary data. Lookup plugins must return lists, failing to do so will be an error in 2.18. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/77788)
Encryption - Deprecate use of the Python crypt module due to its impending removal from Python 3.13
PlayContext.verbosity is deprecated and will be removed in 2.18. Use ansible.utils.display.Display().verbosity as the single source of truth.
DEFAULT_FACT_PATH, DEFAULT_GATHER_SUBSET and DEFAULT_GATHER_TIMEOUT are deprecated and will be removed in 2.18. Use module_defaults keyword instead.
PlayIterator - deprecate cache_block_tasks and get_original_task which are noop and unused.
Templar - deprecate shared_loader_obj option which is unused. ansible.plugins.loader is used directly instead.
listify_lookup_plugin_terms, deprecate ‘loader/dataloader’ parameter as it not used.
vars plugins - determining whether or not to run ansible.legacy vars plugins with the class attribute REQUIRES_WHITELIST is deprecated, set REQUIRES_ENABLED instead.

amazon.aws

amazon.aws collection - Support for the EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the access_key parameter or AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
amazon.aws collection - Support for the EC2_REGION environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the region parameter or AWS_REGION environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
amazon.aws collection - Support for the EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the secret_key parameter or AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
amazon.aws collection - Support for the EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the session_token parameter or AWS_SESSION_TOKEN environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
amazon.aws collection - Support for the EC2_URL and S3_URL environment variables has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the endpoint_url parameter or AWS_ENDPOINT_URL environment variable instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
amazon.aws collection - The access_token alias for the session_token parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the session_token name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
amazon.aws collection - The aws_security_token alias for the session_token parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the session_token name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
amazon.aws collection - The ec2_access_key alias for the access_key parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the access_key name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
amazon.aws collection - The ec2_region alias for the region parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the region name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
amazon.aws collection - The ec2_secret_key alias for the secret_key parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the secret_key name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
amazon.aws collection - The security_token alias for the session_token parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Please use the session_token name instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1172).
amazon.aws collection - due to the AWS SDKs announcing the end of support for Python less than 3.7 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/python-support-policy-updates-for-aws-sdks-and-tools/) support for Python less than 3.7 by this collection has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2023-05-31 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/935).
aws_s3 - The S3_URL alias for the s3_url option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795).
ec2_ami - The DeviceName alias for the device_name option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795).
ec2_ami - The NoDevice alias for the no_device option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795).
ec2_ami - The VirtualName alias for the virtual_name option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795).
ec2_ami - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/846).
ec2_instance - The default value for `instance_type` has been deprecated, in the future release you must set an instance_type or a launch_template (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/587).
ec2_instance - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/849).
ec2_key - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/846).
ec2_security_group - support for passing nested lists to cidr_ip and cidr_ipv6 has been deprecated. Nested lists can be passed through the flatten filter instead cidr_ip: '{{ my_cidrs | flatten }}' (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1213).
ec2_vol - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/846).
ec2_vpc_dhcp_option_info - The DhcpOptionIds alias for the dhcp_option_ids option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795).
ec2_vpc_dhcp_option_info - The DryRun alias for the dry_run option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795).
ec2_vpc_endpoint - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/846).
ec2_vpc_net - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/848).
ec2_vpc_route_table - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/846).
inventory/aws_ec2 - the include_extra_api_calls is now deprecated, its value is silently ignored (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1097).
module_utils.cloud - removal of the CloudRetry.backoff has been delayed until release 6.0.0. It is recommended to update custom modules to use jittered_backoff or exponential_backoff instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/951).
module_utils.url - ansible_collections.amazon.aws.module_utils.urls is believed to be unused and has been deprecated and will be removed in release 7.0.0.
s3_bucket - The S3_URL alias for the s3_url option has been deprecated and will be removed in release 5.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/795).
s3_object - Support for creation and deletion of S3 buckets has been deprecated. Please use the amazon.aws.s3_bucket module to create and delete buckets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/869).

cisco.ios

Deprecated ios_linkagg_module in favor of ios_lag_interfaces.

cisco.mso

The mso_schema_template_contract_filter contract_filter_type attribute is deprecated. The value is now deduced from filter_type.

community.aws

aws_acm - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True.
aws_codebuild - The tags parameter currently uses a non-standard format and has been deprecated. In release 6.0.0 this parameter will accept a simple key/value pair dictionary instead of the current list of dictionaries. It is recommended to migrate to using the resource_tags parameter which already accepts the simple dictionary format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1221).
aws_glue_connection - the connection_parameters return key has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-06-01, it is being replaced by the raw_connection_parameters key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/518).
aws_kms - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True.
cloudfront_distribution - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True.
community.aws collection - due to the AWS SDKs announcing the end of support for Python less than 3.7 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/python-support-policy-updates-for-aws-sdks-and-tools/) support for Python less than 3.7 by this collection has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2023-05-31 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1361).
ec2_vpc_vpn - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True.
iam_policy - the policies return value has been renamed policy_names and will be removed in a release after 2024-08-01, both values are currently returned (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1375).
lambda_info - The function return key returns a dictionary of dictionaries and has been deprecated. In a release after 2025-01-01, this key will be removed in favor of functions, which returns a list of dictionaries (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1239).
rds_param_group - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True.
route53_health_check - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True.
route53_info - The CamelCase return values for DelegationSets, CheckerIpRanges, and HealthCheck have been deprecated, in the future release you must use snake_case return values delegation_sets, checker_ip_ranges, and health_check instead respectively” (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1322).
route53_info - The CamelCase return values for HostedZones, ResourceRecordSets, and HealthChecks have been deprecated, in the future release you must use snake_case return values hosted_zones, resource_record_sets, and health_checks instead respectively”.
route53_zone - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True.
sqs_queue - the current default value of False for purge_tags has been deprecated and will be updated in release 5.0.0 to True.

community.crypto

Support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 is deprecated, and will be removed in the next major release (community.crypto 3.0.0). Some modules might still work with these versions afterwards, but we will no longer keep compatibility code that was needed to support them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/pull/460).

community.docker

Support for Docker API version 1.20 to 1.24 has been deprecated and will be removed in community.docker 3.0.0. The first Docker version supporting API version 1.25 was Docker 1.13, released in January 2017. This affects the modules docker_container, docker_container_exec, docker_container_info, docker_compose, docker_login, docker_image, docker_image_info, docker_image_load, docker_host_info, docker_network, docker_network_info, docker_node_info, docker_swarm_info, docker_swarm_service, docker_swarm_service_info, docker_volume_info, and docker_volume, whose minimally supported API version is between 1.20 and 1.24 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/396).
Support for Python 2.6 is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release (community.docker 3.0.0). Some modules might still work with Python 2.6, but we will no longer try to ensure compatibility (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/388).
docker_container - the ignore_image option is deprecated and will be removed in community.docker 4.0.0. Use image: ignore in comparisons instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/487).
docker_container - the purge_networks option is deprecated and will be removed in community.docker 4.0.0. Use networks: strict in comparisons instead, and make sure to provide networks, with value [] if all networks should be removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/487).

community.general

ArgFormat module utils - deprecated along CmdMixin, in favor of the cmd_runner_fmt module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
CmdMixin module utils - deprecated in favor of the CmdRunner module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
CmdModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the CmdRunner module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
CmdStateModuleHelper module utils - deprecated in favor of the CmdRunner module util (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5370).
cmd_runner module utils - deprecated fmt in favour of cmd_runner_fmt as the parameter format object (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4777).
django_manage - support for Django releases older than 4.1 has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400).
django_manage - support for the commands cleanup, syncdb and validate that have been deprecated in Django long time ago will be removed in community.general 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5400).
django_manage - the behavior of “creating the virtual environment when missing” is being deprecated and will be removed in community.general version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5405).
gconftool2 - deprecates state=get in favor of using the module gconftool2_info (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4778).
lxc_container - the module will no longer make any effort to support Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5304).
newrelic_deployment - appname and environment are no longer valid options in the v2 API. They will be removed in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/5341).
proxmox - deprecated the current unprivileged default value, will be changed to true in community.general 7.0.0 (https://github.com/pull/5224).
xfconf - deprecated parameter disable_facts, as since version 4.0.0 it only allows value true (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4520).

community.hashi_vault

vault_kv2_get lookup - the engine_mount_point option in the vault_kv2_get lookup only will change its default from kv to secret in community.hashi_vault version 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/issues/279).

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