# Community Crypto Release Notes
**Topics**
- v2\.20\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Deprecated Features
- Bugfixes
- New Modules
- v2\.19\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.19\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Deprecated Features
- Bugfixes
- New Modules
- v2\.18\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Deprecated Features
- Bugfixes
- New Plugins
- Filter
- v2\.17\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.17\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- v2\.16\.2
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.16\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.16\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- v2\.15\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.15\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Deprecated Features
- Bugfixes
- New Plugins
- Filter
- Lookup
- v2\.14\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- Known Issues
- v2\.14\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- v2\.13\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.13\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Deprecated Features
- Bugfixes
- v2\.12\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- v2\.11\.1
- Release Summary
- v2\.11\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- v2\.10\.0
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- New Plugins
- Filter
- v2\.9\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- v2\.8\.1
- Release Summary
- v2\.8\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- v2\.7\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.7\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- v2\.6\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- v2\.5\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- v2\.4\.0
- Release Summary
- Deprecated Features
- Bugfixes
- v2\.3\.4
- Release Summary
- v2\.3\.3
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.3\.2
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.3\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.3\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- v2\.2\.4
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.2\.3
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.2\.2
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.2\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v2\.2\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- v2\.1\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- New Modules
- v2\.0\.2
- Release Summary
- v2\.0\.1
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- v2\.0\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
- Deprecated Features
- Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)
- Bugfixes
- v1\.9\.4
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v1\.9\.3
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v1\.9\.2
- Release Summary
- v1\.9\.1
- Release Summary
- v1\.9\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- v1\.8\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- v1\.7\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v1\.7\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- New Modules
- v1\.6\.2
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v1\.6\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v1\.6\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Deprecated Features
- Bugfixes
- v1\.5\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Deprecated Features
- Bugfixes
- v1\.4\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- v1\.3\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- New Modules
- v1\.2\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Security Fixes
- Bugfixes
- v1\.1\.1
- Release Summary
- Bugfixes
- v1\.1\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Bugfixes
- New Modules
- v1\.0\.0
- Release Summary
- Minor Changes
- Deprecated Features
- Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)
- Bugfixes
- New Modules
## v2\.20\.0
### Release Summary
Feature and bugfix release\.
The deprecations in this release are only relevant for collections that use shared
code or docs fragments from this collection\.
### Minor Changes
* acme\_certificate \- add include\_renewal\_cert\_id
option to allow requesting renewal of a specific certificate according to the current ACME Renewal Information specification draft \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/739](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/739)\)\.
### Deprecated Features
* acme documentation fragment \- the default community\.crypto\.acme\[\.documentation\]
docs fragment is deprecated and will be removed from community\.crypto 3\.0\.0\. Replace it with both the new community\.crypto\.acme\.basic
and community\.crypto\.acme\.account
fragments \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/735](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/735)\)\.
* acme\.backends module utils \- the get\_cert\_information\(\)
method for a ACME crypto backend must be implemented from community\.crypto 3\.0\.0 on \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/736](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/736)\)\.
* crypto\.module\_backends\.common module utils \- the crypto\.module\_backends\.common
module utils is deprecated and will be removed from community\.crypto 3\.0\.0\. Use the improved argspec
module util instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/749](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/749)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* x509\_crl\, x509\_certificate\, x509\_certificate\_info \- when parsing absolute timestamps which omitted the second count\, the first digit of the minutes was used as a one\-digit minutes count\, and the second digit of the minutes as a one\-digit second count \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/745](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/745)\)\.
### New Modules
* community\.crypto\.acme\_ari\_info \- Retrieves ACME Renewal Information \(ARI\) for a certificate\.
* community\.crypto\.acme\_certificate\_deactivate\_authz \- Deactivate all authz for an ACME v2 order\.
* community\.crypto\.acme\_certificate\_renewal\_info \- Determine whether a certificate should be renewed or not\.
## v2\.19\.1
### Release Summary
Bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* crypto\.math module utils \- change return values for quick\_is\_not\_prime\(\)
and convert\_int\_to\_bytes\(0\, 0\)
for special cases that do not appear when using the collection \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/733](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/733)\)\.
* ecs\_certificate \- fixed csr
option to be empty and allow renewal of a specific certificate according to the Renewal Information specification \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/740](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/740)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- since community\.crypto 2\.19\.0 the module was no longer idempotent with respect to not\_before
and not\_after
times\. This is now fixed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/753](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/753)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/754](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/754)\)\.
## v2\.19\.0
### Release Summary
Bugfix and feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* When using cryptography \>\= 42\.0\.0\, use offset\-aware datetime\.datetime
objects \(with timezone UTC\) instead of offset\-naive UTC timestamps \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/726](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/726)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/727](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/727)\)\.
* openssh\_cert \- avoid UTC functions deprecated in Python 3\.12 when using Python 3 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/727](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/727)\)\.
### Deprecated Features
* acme\.backends module utils \- from community\.crypto on\, all implementations of CryptoBackend
must override get\_ordered\_csr\_identifiers\(\)
\. The current default implementation\, which simply sorts the result of get\_csr\_identifiers\(\)
\, will then be removed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/725](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/725)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* acme\_certificate \- respect the order of the CNAME and SAN identifiers that are passed on when creating an ACME order \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/723](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/723)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/725](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/725)\)\.
### New Modules
* community\.crypto\.x509\_certificate\_convert \- Convert X\.509 certificates
## v2\.18\.0
### Release Summary
Bugfix and feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* x509\_crl \- the new option serial\_numbers
allow to configure in which format serial numbers can be provided to revoked\_certificates\[\]\.serial\_number
\. The default is as integers \(serial\_numbers\=integer
\) for backwards compatibility\; setting serial\_numbers\=hex\-octets
allows to specify colon\-separated hex octet strings like 00\:11\:22\:FF
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/687](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/687)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/715](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/715)\)\.
### Deprecated Features
* openssl\_csr\_pipe\, openssl\_privatekey\_pipe\, x509\_certificate\_pipe \- the current behavior of check mode is deprecated and will change in community\.crypto 3\.0\.0\. The current behavior is similar to the modules without \_pipe
\: if the object needs to be \(re\-\)generated\, only the changed
status is set\, but the object is not updated\. From community\.crypto 3\.0\.0 on\, the modules will ignore check mode and always act as if check mode is not active\. This behavior can already achieved now by adding check\_mode\: false
to the task\. If you think this breaks your use\-case of this module\, please [create an issue in the community\.crypto repository](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/new/choose) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/712](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/712)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/714](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/714)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* luks\_device \- fixed module a bug that prevented using remove\_keyslot
with the value 0
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/710](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/710)\)\.
* luks\_device \- fixed module falsely outputting changed\=false
when trying to add a new slot with a key that is already present in another slot\. The module now rejects adding keys that are already present in another slot \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/710](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/710)\)\.
* luks\_device \- fixed testing of LUKS passphrases in when specifying a keyslot for cryptsetup version 2\.0\.3\. The output of this cryptsetup version slightly differs from later versions \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/710](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/710)\)\.
### New Plugins
#### Filter
* community\.crypto\.parse\_serial \- Convert a serial number as a colon\-separated list of hex numbers to an integer
* community\.crypto\.to\_serial \- Convert an integer to a colon\-separated list of hex numbers
## v2\.17\.1
### Release Summary
Bugfix release for compatibility with cryptography 42\.0\.0\.
### Bugfixes
* openssl\_dhparam \- was using an internal function instead of the public API to load DH param files when using the cryptography
backend\. The internal function was removed in cryptography 42\.0\.0\. The module now uses the public API\, which has been available since support for DH params was added to cryptography \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/698](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/698)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey\_info \- check\_consistency\=true
no longer works for RSA keys with cryptography 42\.0\.0\+ \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/701](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/701)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey\_info \- check\_consistency\=true
now reports a warning if it cannot determine consistency \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/705](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/705)\)\.
## v2\.17\.0
### Release Summary
Feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* luks\_device \- add allow discards option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/693](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/693)\)\.
## v2\.16\.2
### Release Summary
Bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* acme\_\* modules \- directly react on bad return data for account creation/retrieval/updating requests \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/682](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/682)\)\.
* acme\_\* modules \- fix improved error reporting in case of socket errors\, bad status lines\, and unknown connection errors \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/684](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/684)\)\.
* acme\_\* modules \- increase number of retries from 5 to 10 to increase stability with unstable ACME endpoints \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/685](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/685)\)\.
* acme\_\* modules \- make account registration handling more flexible to accept 404 instead of 400 send by DigiCert\'s ACME endpoint when an account does not exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/681](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/681)\)\.
## v2\.16\.1
### Release Summary
Bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* acme\_\* modules \- also retry requests in case of socket errors\, bad status lines\, and unknown connection errors\; improve error messages in these cases \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/680](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/680)\)\.
## v2\.16\.0
### Release Summary
Bugfix release\.
### Minor Changes
* luks\_devices \- add new options keyslot
\, new\_keyslot
\, and remove\_keyslot
to allow adding/removing keys to/from specific keyslots \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/664](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/664)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- modify autodetect to not detect pyOpenSSL \>\= 23\.3\.0\, which removed PKCS\#12 support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/666](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/666)\)\.
## v2\.15\.1
### Release Summary
Bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* acme\_\* modules \- correctly handle error documents without type
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/651](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/651)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/652](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/652)\)\.
## v2\.15\.0
### Release Summary
Bugfix and feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* openssh\_keypair \- fail when comment cannot be updated \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/646)\)\.
### Deprecated Features
* get\_certificate \- the default false
of the asn1\_base64
option is deprecated and will change to true
in community\.crypto 3\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/600](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/600)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* openssh\_cert\, openssh\_keypair \- the modules ignored return codes of ssh
and ssh\-keygen
in some cases \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/645](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/645)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/646)\)\.
* openssh\_keypair \- fix comment updating for OpenSSH before 6\.5 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/646)\)\.
### New Plugins
#### Filter
* community\.crypto\.gpg\_fingerprint \- Retrieve a GPG fingerprint from a GPG public or private key
#### Lookup
* community\.crypto\.gpg\_fingerprint \- Retrieve a GPG fingerprint from a GPG public or private key file
## v2\.14\.1
### Release Summary
Bugfix and maintenance release with updated documentation\.
From this version on\, community\.crypto is using the new [Ansible semantic markup](https\://docs\.ansible\.com/ansible/devel/dev\_guide/developing\_modules\_documenting\.html\#semantic\-markup\-within\-module\-documentation)
in its documentation\. If you look at documentation with the ansible\-doc CLI tool
from ansible\-core before 2\.15\, please note that it does not render the markup
correctly\. You should be still able to read it in most cases\, but you need
ansible\-core 2\.15 or later to see it as it is intended\. Alternatively you can
look at [the devel docsite](https\://docs\.ansible\.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/crypto/)
for the rendered HTML version of the documentation of the latest release\.
### Bugfixes
* Fix PEM detection/identification to also accept random other lines before the line starting with \-\-\-\-\-BEGIN
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/627](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/627)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/628](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/628)\)\.
### Known Issues
* Ansible markup will show up in raw form on ansible\-doc text output for ansible\-core before 2\.15\. If you have trouble deciphering the documentation markup\, please upgrade to ansible\-core 2\.15 \(or newer\)\, or read the HTML documentation on [https\://docs\.ansible\.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/crypto/](https\://docs\.ansible\.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/crypto/)\.
## v2\.14\.0
### Release Summary
Feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* acme\_certificate \- allow to use no challenge by providing no challenge
for the challenge
option\. This is needed for ACME servers where validation is done without challenges \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/613](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/613)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/615](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/615)\)\.
* acme\_certificate \- validate and wait for challenges in parallel instead handling them one after another \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/617](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/617)\)\.
* x509\_certificate\_info \- added support for certificates in DER format when using path
parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/603](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/603)\)\.
## v2\.13\.1
### Release Summary
Bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* execution environment definition \- fix installation of python3\-pyOpenSSL
package on CentOS and RHEL \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/606](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/606)\)\.
* execution environment definition \- fix source of python3\-pyOpenSSL
package for Rocky Linux 9\+ \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/606](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/606)\)\.
## v2\.13\.0
### Release Summary
Bugfix and maintenance release\.
### Minor Changes
* x509\_crl \- the crl\_mode
option has been added to replace the existing mode
option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/596](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/596)\)\.
### Deprecated Features
* 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 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/596](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/596)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* openssh\_keypair \- always generate a new key pair if the private key does not exist\. Previously\, the module would fail when regenerate\=fail
without an existing key\, contradicting the documentation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/598](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/598)\)\.
* x509\_crl \- remove problem with ansible\-core 2\.16 due to AnsibleModule
is now validating the mode
parameter\'s values \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/596](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/596)\)\.
## v2\.12\.0
### Release Summary
Feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* get\_certificate \- add asn1\_base64
option to control whether the ASN\.1 included in the extensions
return value is binary data or Base64 encoded \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/592](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/592)\)\.
## v2\.11\.1
### Release Summary
Maintenance release with improved documentation\.
## v2\.11\.0
### Release Summary
Feature and bugfix release\.
### Minor Changes
* get\_certificate \- adds ciphers
option for custom cipher selection \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/571](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/571)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* action plugin helper \- fix handling of deprecations for ansible\-core 2\.14\.2 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/572](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/572)\)\.
* execution environment binary dependencies \(bindep\.txt\) \- fix python3\-pyOpenSSL
dependency resolution on RHEL 9\+ / CentOS Stream 9\+ platforms \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/575](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/575)\)\.
* various plugins \- remove unnecessary imports \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/569](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/569)\)\.
## v2\.10\.0
### Release Summary
Bugfix and feature release\.
### Bugfixes
* openssl\_csr\, openssl\_csr\_pipe \- prevent invalid values for crl\_distribution\_points
that do not have one of full\_name
\, relative\_name
\, and crl\_issuer
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/560](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/560)\)\.
* openssl\_publickey\_info \- do not crash with internal error when public key cannot be parsed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/551](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/551)\)\.
### New Plugins
#### Filter
* community\.crypto\.openssl\_csr\_info \- Retrieve information from OpenSSL Certificate Signing Requests \(CSR\)
* community\.crypto\.openssl\_privatekey\_info \- Retrieve information from OpenSSL private keys
* community\.crypto\.openssl\_publickey\_info \- Retrieve information from OpenSSL public keys in PEM format
* community\.crypto\.split\_pem \- Split PEM file contents into multiple objects
* community\.crypto\.x509\_certificate\_info \- Retrieve information from X\.509 certificates in PEM format
* community\.crypto\.x509\_crl\_info \- Retrieve information from X\.509 CRLs in PEM format
## v2\.9\.0
### Release Summary
Regular feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* x509\_certificate\_info \- adds issuer\_uri
field in return value based on Authority Information Access data \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/530](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/530)\)\.
## v2\.8\.1
### Release Summary
Maintenance release with improved documentation\.
## v2\.8\.0
### Release Summary
Feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* acme\_\* modules \- handle more gracefully if CA\'s new nonce call does not return a nonce \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/525](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/525)\)\.
* acme\_\* modules \- include symbolic HTTP status codes in error and log messages when available \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/524](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/524)\)\.
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- add option encryption\_level
which allows to chose compatibility2022
when cryptography \>\= 38\.0\.0 is used to enable a more backwards compatible encryption algorithm\. If cryptography uses OpenSSL 3\.0\.0 or newer\, the default algorithm is not compatible with older software \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/523](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/523)\)\.
## v2\.7\.1
### Release Summary
Maintenance release\.
### Bugfixes
* acme\_\* modules \- improve feedback when importing cryptography
does not work \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/518](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/518)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/519](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/519)\)\.
## v2\.7\.0
### Release Summary
Feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* acme\* modules \- also support the HTTP 503 Service Unavailable and 408 Request Timeout response status for automatic retries \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/513](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/513)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* openssl\_privatekey\_pipe \- ensure compatibility with newer versions of ansible\-core \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/515](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/515)\)\.
## v2\.6\.0
### Release Summary
Feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* acme\* modules \- support the HTTP 429 Too Many Requests response status \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/508](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/508)\)\.
* openssh\_keypair \- added pkcs1
\, pkcs8
\, and ssh
to the available choices for the private\_key\_format
option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/511](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/511)\)\.
## v2\.5\.0
### Release Summary
Maintenance release with improved licensing declaration and documentation fixes\.
### Minor Changes
* All software licenses are now in the LICENSES/
directory of the collection root\. Moreover\, SPDX\-License\-Identifier\:
is used to declare the applicable license for every file that is not automatically generated \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/491](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/491)\)\.
## v2\.4\.0
### Release Summary
Deprecation and bugfix release\. No new features this time\.
### Deprecated Features
* 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 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/460](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/460)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- when using the pyOpenSSL backend\, do not crash when trying to read non\-existing other certificates \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/486](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/486)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/487](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/487)\)\.
## v2\.3\.4
### Release Summary
Re\-release of what was intended to be 2\.3\.3\.
A mistake during the release process caused the 2\.3\.3 tag to end up on the
commit for 1\.9\.17\, which caused the release pipeline to re\-publish 1\.9\.17
as 2\.3\.3\.
This release is identical to what should have been 2\.3\.3\, except that the
version number has been bumped to 2\.3\.4 and this changelog entry for 2\.3\.4
has been added\.
## v2\.3\.3
### Release Summary
Bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* Include Apache\-2\.0\.txt
file for plugins/module\_utils/crypto/\_obj2txt\.py
and plugins/module\_utils/crypto/\_objects\_data\.py
\.
* openssl\_csr \- the module no longer crashes with \'permitted\_subtrees/excluded\_subtrees must be a non\-empty list or None\' if only one of name\_constraints\_permitted
and name\_constraints\_excluded
is provided \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/481](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/481)\)\.
* x509\_crl \- do not crash when signing CRL with Ed25519 or Ed448 keys \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/473](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/473)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/474](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/474)\)\.
## v2\.3\.2
### Release Summary
Maintenance and bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* Include simplified\_bsd\.txt
license file for the ECS module utils\.
* certificate\_complete\_chain \- do not stop execution if an unsupported signature algorithm is encountered\; warn instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/457](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/457)\)\.
## v2\.3\.1
### Release Summary
Maintenance release\.
### Bugfixes
* Include PSF\-license\.txt
file for plugins/module\_utils/\_version\.py
\.
## v2\.3\.0
### Release Summary
Feature and bugfix release\.
### Minor Changes
* Prepare collection for inclusion in an Execution Environment by declaring its dependencies\. Please note that system packages are used for cryptography and PyOpenSSL\, which can be rather limited\. If you need features from newer cryptography versions\, you will have to manually force a newer version to be installed by pip by specifying something like cryptography \>\= 37\.0\.0
in your Execution Environment\'s Python dependencies file \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/440](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/440)\)\.
* Support automatic conversion for Internalionalized Domain Names \(IDNs\)\. When passing general names\, for example Subject Alternative Names to community\.crypto\.openssl\_csr
\, these will automatically be converted to IDNA\. Conversion will be done per label to IDNA2008 if possible\, and IDNA2003 if IDNA2008 conversion fails for that label\. Note that IDNA conversion requires [the Python idna library](https\://pypi\.org/project/idna/) to be installed\. Please note that depending on which versions of the cryptography library are used\, it could try to process the converted IDNA another time with the Python idna
library and reject IDNA2003 encoded values\. Using a new enough cryptography
version avoids this \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/426](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/426)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/436](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/436)\)\.
* acme\_\* modules \- add parameter request\_timeout
to manage HTTP\(S\) request timeout \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/447](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/447)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/448](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/448)\)\.
* luks\_devices \- added perf\_same\_cpu\_crypt
\, perf\_submit\_from\_crypt\_cpus
\, perf\_no\_read\_workqueue
\, perf\_no\_write\_workqueue
for performance tuning when opening LUKS2 containers \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/427](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/427)\)\.
* luks\_devices \- added persistent
option when opening LUKS2 containers \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/434](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/434)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\_info \- add name\_encoding
option to control the encoding \(IDNA\, Unicode\) used to return domain names in general names \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/436](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/436)\)\.
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- allow to provide the private key as text instead of having to read it from a file\. This allows to store the private key in an encrypted form\, for example in Ansible Vault \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/452](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/452)\)\.
* x509\_certificate\_info \- add name\_encoding
option to control the encoding \(IDNA\, Unicode\) used to return domain names in general names \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/436](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/436)\)\.
* x509\_crl \- add name\_encoding
option to control the encoding \(IDNA\, Unicode\) used to return domain names in general names \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/436](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/436)\)\.
* x509\_crl\_info \- add name\_encoding
option to control the encoding \(IDNA\, Unicode\) used to return domain names in general names \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/436](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/436)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* Make collection more robust when PyOpenSSL is used with an incompatible cryptography version \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/445](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/445)\)\.
* x509\_crl \- fix crash when issuer
for a revoked certificate is specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/441](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/441)\)\.
## v2\.2\.4
### Release Summary
Regular maintenance release\.
### Bugfixes
* openssh\_\* modules \- fix exception handling to report traceback to users for enhanced traceability \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/417](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/417)\)\.
## v2\.2\.3
### Release Summary
Regular bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* luks\_device \- fix parsing of lsblk
output when device name ends with crypt
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/409](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/409)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/410](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/410)\)\.
## v2\.2\.2
### Release Summary
Regular bugfix release\.
In this release\, we extended the test matrix to include Alpine 3\, ArchLinux\, Debian Bullseye\, and CentOS Stream 8\. CentOS 8 was removed from the test matrix\.
### Bugfixes
* certificate\_complete\_chain \- allow multiple potential intermediate certificates to have the same subject \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/399](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/399)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/403](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/403)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- for the ownca
provider\, check whether the CA private key actually belongs to the CA certificate \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/407](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/407)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- regenerate certificate when the CA\'s public key changes for provider\=ownca
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/407](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/407)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- regenerate certificate when the CA\'s subject changes for provider\=ownca
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/400](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/400)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/402](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/402)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- regenerate certificate when the private key changes for provider\=selfsigned
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/407](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/407)\)\.
## v2\.2\.1
### Release Summary
Bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* openssh\_cert \- fixed false changed
status for host
certificates when using full\_idempotence
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/395](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/395)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/396](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/396)\)\.
## v2\.2\.0
### Release Summary
Regular bugfix and feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* openssh\_cert \- added ignore\_timestamps
parameter so it can be used semi\-idempotent with relative timestamps in valid\_to
/valid\_from
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/379](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/379)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* luks\_devices \- set LANG
and similar environment variables to avoid translated output\, which can break some of the module\'s functionality like key management \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/388](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/388)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/385](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/385)\)\.
## v2\.1\.0
### Release Summary
Feature and bugfix release\.
### Minor Changes
* Adjust error messages that indicate cryptography
is not installed from Can\'t
to Cannot
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/374](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/374)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* Various modules and plugins \- use vendored version of distutils\.version
instead of the deprecated Python standard library distutils
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/353](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/353)\)\.
* certificate\_complete\_chain \- do not append root twice if the chain already ends with a root certificate \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/360](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/360)\)\.
* certificate\_complete\_chain \- do not hang when infinite loop is found \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/355](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/355)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/360](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/360)\)\.
### New Modules
* community\.crypto\.crypto\_info \- Retrieve cryptographic capabilities
* community\.crypto\.openssl\_privatekey\_convert \- Convert OpenSSL private keys
## v2\.0\.2
### Release Summary
Documentation fix release\. No actual code changes\.
## v2\.0\.1
### Release Summary
Bugfix release with extra forward compatibility for newer versions of cryptography\.
### Minor Changes
* acme\_\* modules \- fix usage of fetch\_url
with changes in latest ansible\-core devel
branch \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/339](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/339)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* acme\_certificate \- avoid passing multiple certificates to cryptography
\'s X\.509 certificate loader when fullchain\_dest
is used \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/324](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/324)\)\.
* get\_certificate\, openssl\_csr\_info\, x509\_certificate\_info \- add fallback code for extension parsing that works with cryptography 36\.0\.0 and newer\. This code re\-serializes de\-serialized extensions and thus can return slightly different values if the extension in the original CSR resp\. certificate was not canonicalized correctly\. This code is currently used as a fallback if the existing code stops working\, but we will switch it to be the main code in a future release \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/331](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/331)\)\.
* luks\_device \- now also runs a built\-in LUKS signature cleaner on state\=absent
to make sure that also the secondary LUKS2 header is wiped when older versions of wipefs are used \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/326](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/326)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/327](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/327)\)\.
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- use new PKCS\#12 deserialization infrastructure from cryptography 36\.0\.0 if available \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/302](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/302)\)\.
## v2\.0\.0
### Release Summary
A new major release of the community\.crypto
collection\. The main changes are removal of the PyOpenSSL backends for almost all modules \(openssl\_pkcs12
being the only exception\)\, and removal of the assertonly
provider in the x509\_certificate
provider\. There are also some other breaking changes which should improve the user interface/experience of this collection long\-term\.
### Minor Changes
* acme\_certificate \- the subject
and issuer
fields in in the select\_chain
entries are now more strictly validated \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\, openssl\_csr\_pipe \- provide a new subject\_ordered
option if the order of the components in the subject is of importance \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/291](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/291)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\, openssl\_csr\_pipe \- there is now stricter validation of the values of the subject
option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey\_info \- add check\_consistency
option to request private key consistency checks to be done \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/309](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/309)\)\.
* x509\_certificate\, x509\_certificate\_pipe \- add ignore\_timestamps
option which allows to enable idempotency for \'not before\' and \'not after\' options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/295](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/295)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/317](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/317)\)\.
* x509\_crl \- provide a new issuer\_ordered
option if the order of the components in the issuer is of importance \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/291](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/291)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316)\)\.
* x509\_crl \- there is now stricter validation of the values of the issuer
option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316)\)\.
### Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
* Adjust dirName
text parsing and to text converting code to conform to [Sections 2 and 3 of RFC 4514](https\://datatracker\.ietf\.org/doc/html/rfc4514\.html)\. This is similar to how [cryptography handles this](https\://cryptography\.io/en/latest/x509/reference/\#cryptography\.x509\.Name\.rfc4514\_string) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/274](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/274)\)\.
* acme module utils \- removing compatibility code \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290)\)\.
* acme\_\* modules \- removed vendored copy of the Python library ipaddress
\. If you are using Python 2\.x\, please make sure to install the library \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/287](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/287)\)\.
* compatibility module\_utils \- removed vendored copy of the Python library ipaddress
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/287](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/287)\)\.
* crypto module utils \- removing compatibility code \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290)\)\.
* get\_certificate\, openssl\_csr\_info\, x509\_certificate\_info \- depending on the cryptography
version used\, the modules might not return the ASN\.1 value for an extension as contained in the certificate respectively CSR\, but a re\-encoded version of it\. This should usually be identical to the value contained in the source file\, unless the value was malformed\. For extensions not handled by C\(cryptography\) the value contained in the source file is always returned unaltered \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/318](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/318)\)\.
* module\_utils \- removed various PyOpenSSL support functions and default backend values that are not needed for the openssl\_pkcs12 module \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\, openssl\_csr\_pipe\, x509\_crl \- the subject
respectively issuer
fields no longer ignore empty values\, but instead fail when encountering them \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey\_info \- by default consistency checks are not run\; they need to be explicitly requested by passing check\_consistency\=true
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/309](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/309)\)\.
* x509\_crl \- for idempotency checks\, the issuer
order is ignored\. If order is important\, use the new issuer\_ordered
option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/316)\)\.
### Deprecated Features
* acme\_\* modules \- ACME version 1 is now deprecated and support for it will be removed in community\.crypto 2\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/288](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/288)\)\.
### Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)
* acme\_\* modules \- the acme\_directory
option is now required \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290)\)\.
* acme\_\* modules \- the acme\_version
option is now required \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290)\)\.
* acme\_account\_facts \- the deprecated redirect has been removed\. Use community\.crypto\.acme\_account\_info instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290)\)\.
* acme\_account\_info \- retrieve\_orders\=url\_list
no longer returns the return value orders
\. Use the order\_uris
return value instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290)\)\.
* crypto\.info module utils \- the deprecated redirect has been removed\. Use crypto\.pem
instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290)\)\.
* get\_certificate \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* openssl\_certificate \- the deprecated redirect has been removed\. Use community\.crypto\.x509\_certificate instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290)\)\.
* openssl\_certificate\_info \- the deprecated redirect has been removed\. Use community\.crypto\.x509\_certificate\_info instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290)\)\.
* openssl\_csr \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* openssl\_csr and openssl\_csr\_pipe \- version
now only accepts the \(default\) value 1 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/290)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\_info \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\_pipe \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey\_info \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey\_pipe \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* openssl\_publickey \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* openssl\_publickey\_info \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* openssl\_signature \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* openssl\_signature\_info \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- remove assertonly
provider \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/289](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/289)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* x509\_certificate\_info \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
* x509\_certificate\_pipe \- removed the pyopenssl
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/273)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* cryptography backend \- improve Unicode handling for Python 2 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/313](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/313)\)\.
* get\_certificate \- fix compatibility with the cryptography 35\.0\.0 release \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/294](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/294)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\_info \- fix compatibility with the cryptography 35\.0\.0 release \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/294](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/294)\)\.
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- fix compatibility with the cryptography 35\.0\.0 release \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/296](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/296)\)\.
* x509\_certificate\_info \- fix compatibility with the cryptography 35\.0\.0 release \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/294](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/294)\)\.
## v1\.9\.4
### Release Summary
Regular bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* acme\_\* modules \- fix commands composed for OpenSSL backend to retrieve information on CSRs and certificates from stdin to use /dev/stdin
instead of \-
\. This is needed for OpenSSL 1\.0\.1 and 1\.0\.2\, apparently \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/279](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/279)\)\.
* acme\_challenge\_cert\_helper \- only return exception when cryptography is not installed\, not when a too old version of it is installed\. This prevents Ansible\'s callback to crash \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/281](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/281)\)\.
## v1\.9\.3
### Release Summary
Regular bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* openssl\_csr and openssl\_csr\_pipe \- make sure that Unicode strings are used to compare strings with the cryptography backend\. This fixes idempotency problems with non\-ASCII letters on Python 2 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/270](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/270)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/271](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/271)\)\.
## v1\.9\.2
### Release Summary
Bugfix release to fix the changelog\. No other change compared to 1\.9\.0\.
## v1\.9\.1
### Release Summary
Accidental 1\.9\.1 release\. Identical to 1\.9\.0\.
## v1\.9\.0
### Release Summary
Regular feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* get\_certificate \- added starttls
option to retrieve certificates from servers which require clients to request an encrypted connection \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/264)\)\.
* openssh\_keypair \- added diff
support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/260)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* keypair\_backend module utils \- simplify code to pass sanity tests \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/263](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/263)\)\.
* openssh\_keypair \- fixed cryptography
backend to preserve original file permissions when regenerating a keypair requires existing files to be overwritten \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/260)\)\.
* openssh\_keypair \- fixed error handling to restore original keypair if regeneration fails \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/260](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/260)\)\.
* x509\_crl \- restore inherited function signature to pass sanity tests \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/263](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/263)\)\.
## v1\.8\.0
### Release Summary
Regular bugfix and feature release\.
### Minor Changes
* Avoid internal ansible\-core module\_utils in favor of equivalent public API available since at least Ansible 2\.9 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/253](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/253)\)\.
* openssh certificate module utils \- new module\_utils for parsing OpenSSH certificates \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/246](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/246)\)\.
* openssh\_cert \- added regenerate
option to validate additional certificate parameters which trigger regeneration of an existing certificate \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/256](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/256)\)\.
* openssh\_cert \- adding diff
support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/255](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/255)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* openssh\_cert \- fixed certificate generation to restore original certificate if an error is encountered \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/255](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/255)\)\.
* openssh\_keypair \- fixed a bug that prevented custom file attributes being applied to public keys \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/257](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/257)\)\.
## v1\.7\.1
### Release Summary
Bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- fix crash when loading passphrase\-protected PKCS\#12 files with cryptography
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/247](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/247)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/248](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/248)\)\.
## v1\.7\.0
### Release Summary
Regular feature and bugfix release\.
### Minor Changes
* cryptography\_openssh module utils \- new module\_utils for managing asymmetric keypairs and OpenSSH formatted/encoded asymmetric keypairs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/213](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/213)\)\.
* openssh\_keypair \- added backend
parameter for selecting between the cryptography library or the OpenSSH binary for the execution of actions performed by openssh\_keypair
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/236](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/236)\)\.
* openssh\_keypair \- added passphrase
parameter for encrypting/decrypting OpenSSH private keys \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/225](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/225)\)\.
* openssl\_csr \- add diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\_info \- now returns public\_key\_type
and public\_key\_data
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/233](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/233)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\_info \- refactor module to allow code reuse for diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/204](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/204)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\_pipe \- add diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150)\)\.
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- added option select\_crypto\_backend
and a cryptography
backend\. This requires cryptography 3\.0 or newer\, and does not support the iter\_size
and maciter\_size
options \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/234](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/234)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey \- add diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey\_info \- refactor module to allow code reuse for diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/205](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/205)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey\_pipe \- add diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150)\)\.
* openssl\_publickey \- add diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- add diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150)\)\.
* x509\_certificate\_info \- now returns public\_key\_type
and public\_key\_data
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/233](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/233)\)\.
* x509\_certificate\_info \- refactor module to allow code reuse for diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/206](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/206)\)\.
* x509\_certificate\_pipe \- add diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150)\)\.
* x509\_crl \- add diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/38)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/150)\)\.
* x509\_crl\_info \- add list\_revoked\_certificates
option to avoid enumerating all revoked certificates \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/232](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/232)\)\.
* x509\_crl\_info \- refactor module to allow code reuse for diff mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/203](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/203)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* openssh\_keypair \- fix check\_mode
to populate return values for existing keypairs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/113](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/113)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/230](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/230)\)\.
* various modules \- prevent crashes when modules try to set attributes on not yet existing files in check mode\. This will be fixed in ansible\-core 2\.12\, but it is not backported to every Ansible version we support \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issue/242](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issue/242)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/243](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/243)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- fix crash when assertonly
provider is used and some error conditions should be reported \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/240](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/240)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/241](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/241)\)\.
### New Modules
* community\.crypto\.openssl\_publickey\_info \- Provide information for OpenSSL public keys
## v1\.6\.2
### Release Summary
Bugfix release\. Fixes compatibility issue of ACME modules with step\-ca\.
### Bugfixes
* acme\_\* modules \- avoid crashing for ACME servers where the meta
directory key is not present \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/220](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/220)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/221](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/221)\)\.
## v1\.6\.1
### Release Summary
Bugfix release\.
### Bugfixes
* acme\_\* modules \- fix wrong usages of ACMEProtocolException
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/216](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/216)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/217](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/217)\)\.
## v1\.6\.0
### Release Summary
Fixes compatibility issues with the latest ansible\-core 2\.11 beta\, and contains a lot of internal refactoring for the ACME modules and support for private key passphrases for them\.
### Minor Changes
* acme module\_utils \- the acme
module\_utils has been split up into several Python modules \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/184](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/184)\)\.
* acme\_\* modules \- codebase refactor which should not be visible to end\-users \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/184](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/184)\)\.
* acme\_\* modules \- support account key passphrases for cryptography
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/197](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/197)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/207](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/207)\)\.
* acme\_certificate\_revoke \- support revoking by private keys that are passphrase protected for cryptography
backend \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/207](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/207)\)\.
* acme\_challenge\_cert\_helper \- add private\_key\_passphrase
parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/207](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/207)\)\.
### Deprecated Features
* acme module\_utils \- the acme
module\_utils \(ansible\_collections\.community\.crypto\.plugins\.module\_utils\.acme
\) is deprecated and will be removed in community\.crypto 2\.0\.0\. Use the new Python modules in the acme
package instead \(ansible\_collections\.community\.crypto\.plugins\.module\_utils\.acme\.xxx
\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/184](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/184)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* action\_module plugin helper \- make compatible with latest changes in ansible\-core 2\.11\.0b3 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/202](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/202)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey\_pipe \- make compatible with latest changes in ansible\-core 2\.11\.0b3 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/202](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/202)\)\.
## v1\.5\.0
### Release Summary
Regular feature and bugfix release\. Deprecates a return value\.
### Minor Changes
* acme\_account\_info \- when retrieve\_orders
is not ignore
and the ACME server allows to query orders\, the new return value order\_uris
is always populated with a list of URIs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/178](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/178)\)\.
* luks\_device \- allow to specify sector size for LUKS2 containers with new sector\_size
parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/193](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/193)\)\.
### Deprecated Features
* acme\_account\_info \- when retrieve\_orders\=url\_list
\, orders
will no longer be returned in community\.crypto 2\.0\.0\. Use order\_uris
instead \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/178](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/178)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* openssl\_csr \- no longer fails when comparing CSR without basic constraint when basic\_constraints
is specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/179](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/179)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/180](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/180)\)\.
## v1\.4\.0
### Release Summary
Release with several new features and bugfixes\.
### Minor Changes
* The ACME module\_utils has been relicensed back from the Simplified BSD License \([https\://opensource\.org/licenses/BSD\-2\-Clause](https\://opensource\.org/licenses/BSD\-2\-Clause)\) to the GPLv3\+ \(same license used by most other code in this collection\)\. This undoes a licensing change when the original GPLv3\+ licensed code was moved to module\_utils in [https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40697](https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40697) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/165](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/165)\)\.
* The crypto/identify\.py
module\_utils has been renamed to crypto/pem\.py
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/166](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/166)\)\.
* luks\_device \- new\_keyfile
\, new\_passphrase
\, remove\_keyfile
and remove\_passphrase
are now idempotent \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/19](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/19)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/168](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/168)\)\.
* luks\_device \- allow to configure PBKDF \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/163](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/163)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\, openssl\_csr\_pipe \- allow to specify CRL distribution endpoints with crl\_distribution\_points
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/147](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/147)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/167](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/167)\)\.
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- allow to specify certificate bundles in other\_certificates
by using new option other\_certificates\_parse\_all
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/149](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/149)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/166](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/166)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* acme\_certificate \- error when requested challenge type is not found for non\-valid challenges\, instead of hanging on step 2 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/171](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/171)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/173](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/173)\)\.
## v1\.3\.0
### Release Summary
Contains new modules openssl\_privatekey\_pipe
\, openssl\_csr\_pipe
and x509\_certificate\_pipe
which allow to create or update private keys\, CSRs and X\.509 certificates without having to write them to disk\.
### Minor Changes
* openssh\_cert \- add module parameter use\_agent
to enable using signing keys stored in ssh\-agent \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/116)\)\.
* openssl\_csr \- refactor module to allow code reuse by openssl\_csr\_pipe \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/123](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/123)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey \- refactor module to allow code reuse by openssl\_privatekey\_pipe \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/119](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/119)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey \- the elliptic curve secp192r1
now triggers a security warning\. Elliptic curves of at least 224 bits should be used for new keys\; see [here](https\://cryptography\.io/en/latest/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ec\.html\#elliptic\-curves) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/132](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/132)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- for the selfsigned
provider\, a CSR is not required anymore\. If no CSR is provided\, the module behaves as if a minimal CSR which only contains the public key has been provided \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/32](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/32)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/129](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/129)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- refactor module to allow code reuse by x509\_certificate\_pipe \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/135](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/135)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- report the correct state when action
is parse
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/143](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/143)\)\.
* support code \- improve handling of certificate and certificate signing request \(CSR\) loading with the cryptography
backend when errors occur \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/138](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/138)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/139](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/139)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- fix entrust
provider\, which was broken since community\.crypto 0\.1\.0 due to a feature added before the collection move \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/135](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/135)\)\.
### New Modules
* community\.crypto\.openssl\_csr\_pipe \- Generate OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request \(CSR\)
* community\.crypto\.openssl\_privatekey\_pipe \- Generate OpenSSL private keys without disk access
* community\.crypto\.x509\_certificate\_pipe \- Generate and/or check OpenSSL certificates
## v1\.2\.0
### Release Summary
Please note that this release fixes a security issue \(CVE\-2020\-25646\)\.
### Minor Changes
* acme\_certificate \- allow to pass CSR file as content with new option csr\_content
\([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/115](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/115)\)\.
* x509\_certificate\_info \- add fingerprints
return value which returns certificate fingerprints \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/121](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/121)\)\.
### Security Fixes
* openssl\_csr \- the option privatekey\_content
was not marked as no\_log
\, resulting in it being dumped into the system log by default\, and returned in the registered results in the invocation
field \(CVE\-2020\-25646\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125)\)\.
* openssl\_privatekey\_info \- the option content
was not marked as no\_log
\, resulting in it being dumped into the system log by default\, and returned in the registered results in the invocation
field \(CVE\-2020\-25646\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125)\)\.
* openssl\_publickey \- the option privatekey\_content
was not marked as no\_log
\, resulting in it being dumped into the system log by default\, and returned in the registered results in the invocation
field \(CVE\-2020\-25646\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125)\)\.
* openssl\_signature \- the option privatekey\_content
was not marked as no\_log
\, resulting in it being dumped into the system log by default\, and returned in the registered results in the invocation
field \(CVE\-2020\-25646\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125)\)\.
* x509\_certificate \- the options privatekey\_content
and ownca\_privatekey\_content
were not marked as no\_log
\, resulting in it being dumped into the system log by default\, and returned in the registered results in the invocation
field \(CVE\-2020\-25646\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125)\)\.
* x509\_crl \- the option privatekey\_content
was not marked as no\_log
\, resulting in it being dumped into the system log by default\, and returned in the registered results in the invocation
field \(CVE\-2020\-25646\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/125)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- do not crash when reading PKCS\#12 file which has no private key and/or no main certificate \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/103](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/103)\)\.
## v1\.1\.1
### Release Summary
Bugfixes for Ansible 2\.10\.0\.
### Bugfixes
* meta/runtime\.yml \- convert Ansible version numbers for old names of modules to collection version numbers \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/108](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/108)\)\.
* openssl\_csr \- improve handling of IDNA errors \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/105](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/105)\)\.
## v1\.1\.0
### Release Summary
Release for Ansible 2\.10\.0\.
### Minor Changes
* acme\_account \- add external\_account\_binding
option to allow creation of ACME accounts with External Account Binding \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/89](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/89)\)\.
* acme\_certificate \- allow new selector test\_certificates\: first
for select\_chain
parameter \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/102](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/102)\)\.
* cryptography backends \- support arbitrary dotted OIDs \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/39](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/39)\)\.
* get\_certificate \- add support for SNI \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/69](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/69)\)\.
* luks\_device \- add support for encryption options on container creation \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/97](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/97)\)\.
* openssh\_cert \- add support for PKCS\#11 tokens \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/95](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/95)\)\.
* openssl\_certificate \- the PyOpenSSL backend now uses 160 bits of randomness for serial numbers\, instead of a random number between 1000 and 99999\. Please note that this is not a high quality random number \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/76](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/76)\)\.
* openssl\_csr \- add support for name constraints extension \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/46](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/46)\)\.
* openssl\_csr\_info \- add support for name constraints extension \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/46](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/46)\)\.
### Bugfixes
* acme\_inspect \- fix problem with Python 3\.5 that JSON was not decoded \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/86](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/issues/86)\)\.
* get\_certificate \- fix ca\_cert
option handling when proxy\_host
is used \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/84](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/84)\)\.
* openssl\_\*\, x509\_\* modules \- fix handling of general names which refer to IP networks and not IP addresses \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/92](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/pull/92)\)\.
### New Modules
* community\.crypto\.openssl\_signature \- Sign data with openssl
* community\.crypto\.openssl\_signature\_info \- Verify signatures with openssl
## v1\.0\.0
### Release Summary
This is the first proper release of the community\.crypto
collection\. This changelog contains all changes to the modules in this collection that were added after the release of Ansible 2\.9\.0\.
### Minor Changes
* luks\_device \- accept passphrase
\, new\_passphrase
and remove\_passphrase
\.
* luks\_device \- add keysize
parameter to set key size at LUKS container creation
* luks\_device \- added support to use UUIDs\, and labels with LUKS2 containers
* luks\_device \- added the type
option that allows user explicit define the LUKS container format version
* openssh\_keypair \- instead of regenerating some broken or password protected keys\, fail the module\. Keys can still be regenerated by calling the module with force\=yes
\.
* openssh\_keypair \- the regenerate
option allows to configure the module\'s behavior when it should or needs to regenerate private keys\.
* openssl\_\* modules \- the cryptography backend now properly supports dirName
\, otherName
and RID
\(Registered ID\) names\.
* openssl\_certificate \- Add option for changing which ACME directory to use with acme\-tiny\. Set the default ACME directory to Let\'s Encrypt instead of using acme\-tiny\'s default\. \(acme\-tiny also uses Let\'s Encrypt at the time being\, so no action should be necessary\.\)
* openssl\_certificate \- Change the required version of acme\-tiny to \>\= 4\.0\.0
* openssl\_certificate \- allow to provide content of some input files via the csr\_content
\, privatekey\_content
\, ownca\_privatekey\_content
and ownca\_content
options\.
* openssl\_certificate \- allow to return the existing/generated certificate directly as certificate
by setting return\_content
to yes
\.
* openssl\_certificate\_info \- allow to provide certificate content via content
option \([https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64776](https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64776)\)\.
* openssl\_csr \- Add support for specifying the SAN otherName
value in the OpenSSL ASN\.1 UTF8 string format\, otherName\:\\;UTF8\:string value
\.
* openssl\_csr \- allow to provide private key content via private\_key\_content
option\.
* openssl\_csr \- allow to return the existing/generated CSR directly as csr
by setting return\_content
to yes
\.
* openssl\_csr\_info \- allow to provide CSR content via content
option\.
* openssl\_dhparam \- allow to return the existing/generated DH params directly as dhparams
by setting return\_content
to yes
\.
* openssl\_dhparam \- now supports a cryptography
\-based backend\. Auto\-detection can be overwritten with the select\_crypto\_backend
option\.
* openssl\_pkcs12 \- allow to return the existing/generated PKCS\#12 directly as pkcs12
by setting return\_content
to yes
\.
* openssl\_privatekey \- add format
and format\_mismatch
options\.
* openssl\_privatekey \- allow to return the existing/generated private key directly as privatekey
by setting return\_content
to yes
\.
* openssl\_privatekey \- the regenerate
option allows to configure the module\'s behavior when it should or needs to regenerate private keys\.
* openssl\_privatekey\_info \- allow to provide private key content via content
option\.
* openssl\_publickey \- allow to provide private key content via private\_key\_content
option\.
* openssl\_publickey \- allow to return the existing/generated public key directly as publickey
by setting return\_content
to yes
\.
### Deprecated Features
* openssl\_csr \- all values for the version
option except 1
are deprecated\. The value 1 denotes the current only standardized CSR version\.
### Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)
* The letsencrypt
module has been removed\. Use acme\_certificate
instead\.
### Bugfixes
* ACME modules\: fix bug in ACME v1 account update code
* ACME modules\: make sure some connection errors are handled properly
* ACME modules\: support Buypass\' ACME v1 endpoint
* acme\_certificate \- fix crash when module is used with Python 2\.x\.
* acme\_certificate \- fix misbehavior when ACME v1 is used with modify\_account
set to false
\.
* ecs\_certificate \- Always specify header connection\: keep\-alive
for ECS API connections\.
* ecs\_certificate \- Fix formatting of contents of full\_chain\_path
\.
* get\_certificate \- Fix cryptography backend when pyopenssl is unavailable \([https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67900](https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67900)\)
* openssh\_keypair \- add logic to avoid breaking password protected keys\.
* openssh\_keypair \- fixes idempotence issue with public key \([https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64969](https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64969)\)\.
* openssh\_keypair \- public key\'s file attributes \(permissions\, owner\, group\, etc\.\) are now set to the same values as the private key\.
* openssl\_\* modules \- prevent crash on fingerprint determination in FIPS mode \([https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67213](https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67213)\)\.
* openssl\_certificate \- When provider is entrust
\, use a connection\: keep\-alive
header for ECS API connections\.
* openssl\_certificate \- provider
option was documented as required\, but it was not checked whether it was provided\. It is now only required when state
is present
\.
* openssl\_certificate \- fix assertonly
provider certificate verification\, causing \'private key mismatch\' and \'subject mismatch\' errors\.
* openssl\_certificate and openssl\_csr \- fix Ed25519 and Ed448 private key support for cryptography
backend\. This probably needs at least cryptography 2\.8\, since older versions have problems with signing certificates or CSRs with such keys\. \([https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59039](https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/59039)\, PR [https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/pull/63984](https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/pull/63984)\)
* openssl\_csr \- a warning is issued if an unsupported value for version
is used for the cryptography
backend\.
* openssl\_csr \- the module will now enforce that privatekey\_path
is specified when state\=present
\.
* openssl\_publickey \- fix a module crash caused when pyOpenSSL is not installed \([https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67035](https\://github\.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67035)\)\.
### New Modules
* community\.crypto\.ecs\_domain \- Request validation of a domain with the Entrust Certificate Services \(ECS\) API
* community\.crypto\.x509\_crl \- Generate Certificate Revocation Lists \(CRLs\)
* community\.crypto\.x509\_crl\_info \- Retrieve information on Certificate Revocation Lists \(CRLs\)