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Ansible 10 Porting Guide
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Ansible 10 is based on Ansible-core 2.17.

We suggest you read this page along with the `Ansible 10 Changelog <https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/10/CHANGELOG-v10.md>`_ to understand what updates you may need to make.

Playbook
========

No notable changes


Command Line
============

* Python 2.7 and Python 3.6 are no longer supported remote versions. Python 3.7+ is now required for target execution.


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 v10.0.0
=========================

Added Collections
-----------------

- community.library_inventory_filtering_v1 (version 1.0.1)
- kaytus.ksmanage (version 1.2.1)

Known Issues
------------

community.docker
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Please note that the fix for requests 2.32.0 included in community.docker 3.10.1 only
  fixes problems with the *vendored* Docker SDK for Python code. Modules and plugins that
  use Docker SDK for Python can still fail due to the SDK currently being incompatible
  with requests 2.32.0.

  If you still experience problems with requests 2.32.0, such as error messages like
  ``Not supported URL scheme http+docker``, please restrict requests to ``<2.32.0``.

dellemc.openmanage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- idrac_diagnostics - Issue(285322) - This module doesn't support export of diagnostics file to HTTP and HTTPS share via SOCKS proxy.
- idrac_firmware - Issue(279282) - This module does not support firmware update using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP shares with authentication on iDRAC8.
- idrac_network_attributes - Issue(279049) -  If unsupported values are provided for the parameter ``ome_network_attributes``, then this module does not provide a correct error message.
- idrac_storage_volume - Issue(290766) - The module will report success instead of showing failure for new virtual creation on the BOSS-N1 controller if a virtual disk is already present on the same controller.
- ome_device_network_services - Issue(212681) - The module does not provide a proper error message if unsupported values are provided for the following 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(275231) - This module does not deploy a new configuration to a slot that has disabled IPv6.
- ome_diagnostics - Issue(279193) - Export of SupportAssist collection logs to the share location fails on OME version 4.0.0.
- ome_smart_fabric_uplink - Issue(186024) - The module supported by OpenManage Enterprise Modular, however it does not allow the creation of multiple uplinks of the same name. If an uplink is created using the same name as an existing uplink, then the existing uplink is modified.

Breaking Changes
----------------

Ansible-core
~~~~~~~~~~~~

- assert - Nested templating may result in an inability for the conditional to be evaluated. See the porting guide for more information.

amazon.aws
~~~~~~~~~~

- amazon.aws collection - Support for ansible-core < 2.15 has been dropped (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2093).
- iam_role - ``iam_role.assume_role_policy_document`` is no longer converted from CamelCase to snake_case (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2040).
- iam_role_info - ``iam_role.assume_role_policy_document`` is no longer converted from CamelCase to snake_case (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2040).
- kms_key - the ``policies`` return value has been renamed to ``key_policies`` the contents has not been changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2040).
- kms_key_info - the ``policies`` return value has been renamed to ``key_policies`` the contents has not been changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2040).
- lambda_event - | ``batch_size`` no longer defaults to 100. According to the boto3 API (https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/1.26.78/reference/services/lambda.html#Lambda.Client.create_event_source_mapping), ``batch_size`` defaults to 10 for sqs sources and to 100 for stream sources (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2025).

cloud.common
~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Bump minimum Python supported version to 3.9.
- Remove support for ansible-core < 2.14.

community.aws
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- The community.aws collection has dropped support for ``botocore<1.29.0`` and ``boto3<1.26.0``. Most modules will continue to work with older versions of the AWS SDK, however compatability 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/1763).
- aws_region_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.aws_region_info``.
- aws_s3_bucket_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.aws_s3_bucket_info``.
- community.aws collection - Support for ansible-core < 2.15 has been dropped (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/2074).
- 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 wss been deprecated in release 6.0.0 and removed in release 7.0.0. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1763).
- iam_access_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.iam_access_key``.
- iam_access_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.iam_access_key_info``.
- iam_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.iam_group`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1945).
- iam_managed_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_managed_policy`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1954).
- iam_mfa_device_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_mfa_device_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1953).
- iam_password_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_password_policy``.
- iam_role - 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_role`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1948).
- iam_role_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_role_info`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1948).
- s3_bucket_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.s3_bucket_info``.
- sts_assume_role - 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.sts_assume_role``.

community.ciscosmb
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- in facts of interface 'bandwith' changed to 'bandwidth'

community.dns
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- The default for the ``txt_character_encoding`` options in various modules and plugins changed from ``octal`` to ``decimal`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/pull/196).
- inventory plugins - ``filters`` is now no longer an alias of ``simple_filters``, but a new, different option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/pull/196).
- inventory plugins - the ``plugin`` option is now required (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/pull/196).
- lookup, lookup_as_dict - the default for ``search`` changed from ``false`` (implicit default for community.dns 2.x.y) to ``true`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/issues/200, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/pull/201).

community.general
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- cpanm - the default of the ``mode`` option changed from ``compatibility`` to ``new`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- django_manage - the module now requires Django >= 4.1 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- django_manage - the module will now fail if ``virtualenv`` is specified but no virtual environment exists at that location (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- redfish_command, redfish_config, redfish_info - change the default for ``timeout`` from 10 to 60 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).

community.hrobot
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- robot inventory plugin - ``filters`` is now no longer an alias of ``simple_filters``, but a new, different option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/101).

community.okd
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Bump minimum Python suupported version to 3.9 (https://github.com/openshift/community.okd/pull/202).
- Remove support for ansible-core < 2.14 (https://github.com/openshift/community.okd/pull/202).

hetzner.hcloud
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Drop support for ansible-core 2.13.
- certificate - The `not_valid_before` and `not_valid_after` values are now returned as ISO-8601 formatted strings.
- certificate_info - The `not_valid_before` and `not_valid_after` values are now returned as ISO-8601 formatted strings.
- inventory - Remove the deprecated `api_token_env` option, you may use the `ansible.builtin.env` lookup as alternative.
- iso_info - The `deprecated` value is now returned as ISO-8601 formatted strings.

kubernetes.core
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Remove support for ansible-core < 2.14
- Update python kubernetes library to 24.2.0, helm/kind-action to 1.8.0, kubernetes >= 1.24.

theforeman.foreman
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- content_view_filter - stop managing rules from this module, ``content_view_filter_rule`` should be used for that
- inventory plugin - do not default to ``http://localhost:3000`` as the Foreman URL, providing a URL is now mandatory

vmware.vmware_rest
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Remove support for ansible-core < 2.14

Major Changes
-------------

Ansible-core
~~~~~~~~~~~~

- urls.py - Removed support for Python 2

ansible.netcommon
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.14.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.

ansible.utils
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Bumping `netaddr` to `>=0.10.1`, means that starting from this release, the minimum `netaddr` version this collection requires is `>=0.10.1`.
- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.14.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.
- This release mainly addresses the breaking changes in the `netaddr` library.
- With the new release of `netaddr` 1.0.0, the `IPAddress.is_private()` method has been removed and instead, the `IPAddress.is_global()` method has been extended to support the same functionality. This change has been reflected in the `ipaddr` filter plugin.

arista.eos
~~~~~~~~~~

- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.14.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.
- This release removes previously deprecated modules and attributes from this collection. Please refer to the **Removed Features** section for details.
- Update the netcommon base version 6.1.0 to support cli_restore plugin.

cisco.asa
~~~~~~~~~

- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.14.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.

cisco.ios
~~~~~~~~~

- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.14.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.
- Update the netcommon base version 6.1.0 to support cli_restore plugin.
- ios_ntp - Remove deprecated ntp legacy module

cisco.iosxr
~~~~~~~~~~~

- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.14.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.
- This release removes previously deprecated module and attributes from this collection. Please refer to the **Removed Features** section for details.
- Update the netcommon base version to support cli_restore plugin.

cisco.nxos
~~~~~~~~~~

- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.14.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.
- This release removes four previously deprecated modules from this collection. Please refer to the **Removed Features** section for details.
- Updated the minimum required ansible.netcommon version to 6.1.0 to support the cli_restore module.

community.dns
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- The ``community.dns`` collection now depends on the ``community.library_inventory_filtering_v1`` collection. This utility collection provides host filtering functionality for inventory plugins. If you use the Ansible community package, both collections are included and you do not have to do anything special. If you install the collection with ``ansible-galaxy collection install``, it will be installed automatically. If you install the collection by copying the files of the collection to a place where ansible-core can find it, for example by cloning the git repository, you need to make sure that you also have to install the dependency if you are using the inventory plugins (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/pull/196).

community.docker
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- The ``community.docker`` collection now depends on the ``community.library_inventory_filtering_v1`` collection. This utility collection provides host filtering functionality for inventory plugins. If you use the Ansible community package, both collections are included and you do not have to do anything special. If you install the collection with ``ansible-galaxy collection install``, it will be installed automatically. If you install the collection by copying the files of the collection to a place where ansible-core can find it, for example by cloning the git repository, you need to make sure that you also have to install the dependency if you are using the inventory plugins (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/698).

community.hashi_vault
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- requirements - the ``requests`` package which is required by ``hvac`` now has a more restrictive range for this collection in certain use cases due to breaking security changes in ``ansible-core`` that were backported (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hashi_vault/pull/416).

community.hrobot
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- The ``community.hrobot`` collection now depends on the ``community.library_inventory_filtering_v1`` collection. This utility collection provides host filtering functionality for inventory plugins. If you use the Ansible community package, both collections are included and you do not have to do anything special. If you install the collection with ``ansible-galaxy collection install``, it will be installed automatically. If you install the collection by copying the files of the collection to a place where ansible-core can find it, for example by cloning the git repository, you need to make sure that you also have to install the dependency if you are using the inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/101).

community.mysql
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Collection version 2.*.* is EOL, no more bugfixes will be backported. Please consider upgrading to the latest version.

containers.podman
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Add quadlet support for Podman modules

dellemc.openmanage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- All OME modules are enhanced to support the environment variables `OME_USERNAME` and `OME_PASSWORD` as fallback for credentials.
- All iDRAC and Redfish modules are enhanced to support the environment variables `IDRAC_USERNAME` and `IDRAC_PASSWORD` as fallback for credentials.
- idrac_certificates - The module is enhanced to support the import and export of `CUSTOMCERTIFICATE`.
- idrac_diagnostics - The module is introduced to run and export diagnostics on iDRAC.
- idrac_gather_facts - This role is enhanced to support secure boot.
- idrac_license - The module is introduced to configure iDRAC licenses.
- idrac_session - This module allows you to create and delete the sessions on iDRAC.
- idrac_user - This role is introduced to manage local users of iDRAC.

dellemc.unity
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Adding support for Unity Puffin v5.4.

fortinet.fortios
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Add notes for backup modules in the documentation in both monitor and monitor_fact modules.
- Supported new FOS versions 7.4.2 and 7.4.3, and support data type mac_address in the collection.
- Update all the boolean values to true/false in the documents and examples.
- Update the document of log_fact.
- Update the documentation for the supported versions from latest to a fix version number.
- Update the mismatched version message with version ranges.
- Update the required ansible version to 2.14.
- Update the required ansible version to 2.15.
- Update the supported version ranges instead of concrete version numbers to reduce the collection size.

grafana.grafana
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Add Grafana Loki role by @voidquark in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-ansible-collection/pull/188
- Add Grafana Mimir role by @GVengelen in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-ansible-collection/pull/183
- Add a new config part to configure KeyCloak based auth by @he0s in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-ansible-collection/pull/191
- Add an Ansible role for Grafana Alloy by @ishanjainn in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-ansible-collection/pull/169
- Add an Ansible role for OpenTelemetry Collector by @ishanjainn in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-ansible-collection/pull/138
- Add promtail role by @voidquark in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-ansible-collection/pull/197
- Bump ansible-lint from 24.2.2 to 24.2.3 by @dependabot in https://github.com/grafana/grafana-ansible-collection/pull/195

ibm.qradar
~~~~~~~~~~

- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.14.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.

infoblox.nios_modules
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Upgrade Ansible version support from 2.13 to 2.16.
- Upgrade Python version support from 3.8 to 3.10.

junipernetworks.junos
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.14.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.
- This release removes previously deprecated modules from this collection. Please refer to the **Removed Features** section for details.
- Update the netcommon base version 6.1.0 to support cli_restore plugin.

splunk.es
~~~~~~~~~

- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.14.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.

Removed Collections
-------------------

- community.azure (previously included version: 2.0.0)
- community.sap (previously included version: 2.0.0)
- gluster.gluster (previously included version: 1.0.2)
- hpe.nimble (previously included version: 1.1.4)
- netapp.aws (previously included version: 21.7.1)
- netapp.azure (previously included version: 21.10.1)
- netapp.elementsw (previously included version: 21.7.0)
- netapp.um_info (previously included version: 21.8.1)
- purestorage.fusion (previously included version: 1.6.0)

Removed Features
----------------

- The ``gluster.gluster`` collection was considered unmaintained and removed from Ansible 10 (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/225). Users can still install this collection with ``ansible-galaxy collection install gluster.gluster``.
- The ``hpe.nimble`` collection was considered unmaintained and removed from Ansible 10 (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/254). Users can still install this collection with ``ansible-galaxy collection install hpe.nimble``.
- The ``netapp.aws`` collection was considered unmaintained and removed from Ansible 10 (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/223). Users can still install this collection with ``ansible-galaxy collection install netapp.aws``.
- The ``netapp.azure`` collection was considered unmaintained and removed from Ansible 10 (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/234). Users can still install this collection with ``ansible-galaxy collection install netapp.azure``.
- The ``netapp.elementsw`` collection was considered unmaintained and removed from Ansible 10 (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/235). Users can still install this collection with ``ansible-galaxy collection install netapp.elementsw``.
- The ``netapp.um_info`` collection was considered unmaintained and removed from Ansible 10 (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/244). Users can still install this collection with ``ansible-galaxy collection install netapp.um_info``.
- The deprecated ``community.azure`` collection has been removed. There is a successor collection ``azure.azcollection`` in the community package which should cover the same functionality.
- The deprecated ``community.sap`` collection has been removed from Ansible 10 (https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/247). There is a successor collection ``community.sap_libs`` in the community package which should cover the same functionality.
- The deprecated ``purestorage.fusion`` collection has been removed (https://forum.ansible.com/t/3712).

Ansible-core
~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Remove deprecated APIs from ansible-docs (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81716).
- Remove deprecated JINJA2_NATIVE_WARNING environment variable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81714)
- Remove deprecated ``scp_if_ssh`` from ssh connection plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81715).
- Remove deprecated crypt support from ansible.utils.encrypt (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81717)
- Removed Python 2.7 and Python 3.6 as a supported remote version. Python 3.7+ is now required for target execution.
- With the removal of Python 2 support, the yum module and yum action plugin are removed and redirected to ``dnf``.

amazon.aws
~~~~~~~~~~

- iam_role - the ``iam_role.assume_role_policy_document_raw`` return value has been deprecated.  ``iam_role.assume_role_policy_document`` now returns the same format as ``iam_role.assume_role_policy_document_raw`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2040).
- iam_role_info - the ``iam_role.assume_role_policy_document_raw`` return value has been deprecated.  ``iam_role.assume_role_policy_document`` now returns the same format as ``iam_role.assume_role_policy_document_raw`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2040).
- module_utils.policy - the previously deprecated ``sort_json_policy_dict()`` function has been removed, consider using ``compare_policies()`` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2052).

arista.eos
~~~~~~~~~~

- Remove depreacted eos_bgp module which is replaced with eos_bgp_global and eos_bgp_address_family.
- Remove deprecated eos_logging module which is replaced with eos_logging_global resource module.
- Remove deprecated timers.throttle attribute.

cisco.ios
~~~~~~~~~

- Deprecated ios_ntp module in favor of ios_ntp_global.
- Removed previously deprecated ios_bgp module in favor of ios_bgp_global and ios_bgp_address_family.

cisco.iosxr
~~~~~~~~~~~

- Remove deprecated iosxr_logging module which is replaced with iosxr_logging_global resource module.

cisco.nxos
~~~~~~~~~~

- The nxos_logging module has been removed with this release.
- The nxos_ntp module has been removed with this release.
- The nxos_ntp_auth module has been removed with this release.
- The nxos_ntp_options module has been removed with this release.

community.dns
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- The collection no longer supports Ansible, ansible-base, and ansible-core releases that are currently End of Life at the time of the 3.0.0 release. This means that Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, and ansible-core 2.14 are no longer supported. The collection might still work with these versions, but it can stop working at any moment without advance notice, and this will not be considered a bug (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/pull/196).
- hetzner_dns_record_set, hetzner_dns_record - the deprecated alias ``name`` of the prefix option was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/pull/196).
- hosttech_dns_records - the redirect to the ``hosttech_dns_record_sets`` module has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/pull/196).

community.general
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- The deprecated redirects for internal module names have been removed. These internal redirects were extra-long FQCNs like ``community.general.packaging.os.apt_rpm`` that redirect to the short FQCN ``community.general.apt_rpm``. They were originally needed to implement flatmapping; as various tooling started to recommend users to use the long names flatmapping was removed from the collection and redirects were added for users who already followed these incorrect recommendations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7835).
- ansible_galaxy_install - the ``ack_ansible29`` and ``ack_min_ansiblecore211`` options have been removed. They no longer had any effect (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- cloudflare_dns - remove support for SPF records. These are no longer supported by CloudFlare (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7782).
- django_manage - support for the ``command`` values ``cleanup``, ``syncdb``, and ``validate`` were removed. Use ``clearsessions``, ``migrate``, and ``check`` instead, respectively (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- flowdock - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- mh.mixins.deps module utils - the ``DependencyMixin`` has been removed. Use the ``deps`` module utils instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- proxmox - the ``proxmox_default_behavior`` option has been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- rax* modules, rax module utils, rax docs fragment - the Rackspace modules relied on the deprecated package ``pyrax`` and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- redhat module utils - the classes ``Rhsm``, ``RhsmPool``, and ``RhsmPools`` have been removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- redhat_subscription - the alias ``autosubscribe`` of the ``auto_attach`` option was removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- stackdriver - this module relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and was thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- webfaction_* modules - these modules relied on HTTPS APIs that do not exist anymore and were thus removed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).

community.grafana
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- removed deprecated `message` argument in `grafana_dashboard`

community.hrobot
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- The collection no longer supports Ansible, ansible-base, and ansible-core releases that are currently End of Life at the time of the 2.0.0 release. This means that Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, ansible-core 2.13, and ansible-core 2.14 are no longer supported. The collection might still work with these versions, but it can stop working at any moment without advance notice, and this will not be considered a bug (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/101).

junipernetworks.junos
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Remove deprected junos_logging module which is replaced by junos_logging_global resource module.

Deprecated Features
-------------------

- The ``inspur.sm`` collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 11 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 11. See `the removal process for details on how this works <https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#cancelling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection>`__ (https://forum.ansible.com/t/2854).
- The ``netapp.storagegrid`` collection is considered unmaintained and will be removed from Ansible 11 if no one starts maintaining it again before Ansible 11. See `the removal process for details on how this works <https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/removal_from_ansible.rst#cancelling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection>`__ (https://forum.ansible.com/t/2811).

Ansible-core
~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Old style vars plugins which use the entrypoints `get_host_vars` or `get_group_vars` are deprecated. The plugin should be updated to inherit from `BaseVarsPlugin` and define a `get_vars` method as the entrypoint.
- The 'required' parameter in 'ansible.module_utils.common.process.get_bin_path' API is deprecated (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82464).
- ``module_utils`` - importing the following convenience helpers from ``ansible.module_utils.basic`` has been deprecated: ``get_exception``, ``literal_eval``, ``_literal_eval``, ``datetime``, ``signal``, ``types``, ``chain``, ``repeat``, ``PY2``, ``PY3``, ``b``, ``binary_type``, ``integer_types``, ``iteritems``, ``string_types``, ``test_type``, ``map`` and ``shlex_quote``.
- ansible-doc - role entrypoint attributes are deprecated and eventually will no longer be shown in ansible-doc from ansible-core 2.20 on (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/82639, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82678).
- paramiko connection plugin, configuration items in the global scope are being deprecated and will be removed in favor or the existing same options in the plugin itself. Users should not need to change anything (how to configure them are the same) but plugin authors using the global constants should move to using the plugin's get_option().

amazon.aws
~~~~~~~~~~

- aws_ec2 inventory plugin - removal of the previously deprecated ``include_extra_api_calls`` option has been assigned to release 9.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2040).
- cloudformation - the ``template`` parameter has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2026-05-01.  The ``template_body`` parameter can be used in conjungtion with the lookup plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2048).
- iam_policy - removal of the previously deprecated ``policies`` return key has been assigned to release 9.0.0.  Use the ``policy_names`` return key instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2040).
- iam_role_info - in a release after 2026-05-01 paths must begin and end with ``/`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1998).
- module_utils.botocore - the ``boto3`` parameter for ``get_aws_connection_info()`` will be removed in a release after 2025-05-01. The ``boto3`` parameter has been ignored since release 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2047).
- module_utils.botocore - the ``boto3`` parameter for ``get_aws_region()`` will be removed in a release after 2025-05-01. The ``boto3`` parameter has been ignored since release 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2047).
- module_utils.ec2 - the ``boto3`` parameter for ``get_ec2_security_group_ids_from_names()`` will be removed in a release after 2025-05-01. The ``boto3`` parameter has been ignored since release 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2047).
- rds_param_group - the ``rds_param_group`` module has been renamed to ``rds_instance_param_group``. The usage of the module has not changed. The rds_param_group alias will be removed in version 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2058).

community.aws
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- aws_glue_connection - updated the deprecation for removal of the ``connection_parameters`` return key from ``after 2024-06-01`` to release version ``9.0.0``, it is being replaced by the ``raw_connection_parameters`` key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/518).
- ecs_cluster - updated the deprecation for updated default of ``purge_capacity_providers``, the current default of ``False`` will be changed to ``True`` in release ``9.0.0``.  To maintain the current behaviour explicitly set ``purge_capacity_providers=False`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1640).
- ecs_service - updated the deprecation for updated default of ``purge_placement_constraints``, the current default of ``False`` will be changed to ``True`` in release ``9.0.0``.  To maintain the current behaviour explicitly set ``purge_placement_constraints=False`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1716).
- ecs_service - updated the deprecation for updated default of ``purge_placement_strategy``, the current default of ``False`` will be changed to ``True`` in release ``9.0.0``.  To maintain the current behaviour explicitly set ``purge_placement_strategy=False`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1716).

community.crypto
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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/pull/714).

community.dns
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- hetzner_dns_records and hosttech_dns_records inventory plugins - the ``filters`` option has been renamed to ``simple_filters``. The old name will stop working in community.hrobot 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.dns/pull/181).

community.docker
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- docker_compose - the Docker Compose v1 module is deprecated and will be removed from community.docker 4.0.0. Please migrate to the ``community.docker.docker_compose_v2`` module, which works with Docker Compose v2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/issues/823, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/833).
- docker_container - the default ``ignore`` for the ``image_name_mismatch`` parameter has been deprecated and will switch to ``recreate`` in community.docker 4.0.0. A deprecation warning will be printed in situations where the default value is used and where a behavior would change once the default changes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/703).
- various modules and plugins - the ``ssl_version`` option has been deprecated and will be removed from community.docker 4.0.0. It has already been removed from Docker SDK for Python 7.0.0, and was only necessary in the past to work around SSL/TLS issues (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/853).

community.general
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- MH DependencyCtxMgr module_utils - deprecate ``module_utils.mh.mixin.deps.DependencyCtxMgr`` in favour of ``module_utils.deps`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.AnsibleModule`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.DependencyCtxMgr`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.StateMixin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarDict,`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarMeta`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate ``plugins.module_utils.module_helper.VarsMixin`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8280).
- ModuleHelper module_utils - deprecate use of ``VarsMixin`` in favor of using the ``VardDict`` module_utils (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
- ModuleHelper vars module_utils - bump deprecation of ``VarMeta``, ``VarDict`` and ``VarsMixin`` to version 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8226).
- apt_rpm - the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` is deprecated and will change in community.general 11.0.0. Right now the module will upgrade a package to the latest version if one of these two states is used. You should explicitly use ``state=latest`` if you want this behavior, and switch to ``state=present_not_latest`` if you do not want to upgrade the package if it is already installed. In community.general 11.0.0 the behavior of ``state=present`` and ``state=installed`` will change to that of ``state=present_not_latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8217, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8285).
- consul_acl - the module has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0. ``consul_token`` and ``consul_policy`` can be used instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7901).
- django_manage - the ``ack_venv_creation_deprecation`` option has no more effect and will be removed from community.general 11.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8198).
- gitlab modules - the basic auth method on GitLab API have been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 10.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8383).
- hipchat callback plugin - the hipchat service has been discontinued and the self-hosted variant has been End of Life since 2020. The callback plugin is therefore deprecated and will be removed from community.general 10.0.0 if nobody provides compelling reasons to still keep it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8184, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/8189).
- irc - the defaults ``false`` for ``use_tls`` and ``validate_certs`` have been deprecated and will change to ``true`` in community.general 10.0.0 to improve security. You can already improve security now by explicitly setting them to ``true``. Specifying values now disables the deprecation warning (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7578).

community.hrobot
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- robot inventory plugin - the ``filters`` option has been renamed to ``simple_filters``. The old name will stop working in community.hrobot 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/94).

community.okd
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- openshift - the ``openshift`` inventory plugin has been deprecated and will be removed in release 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/31).

community.vmware
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- vmware_guest_tools_info - `vm_tools_install_status` will be removed from next major version (5.0.0) of the collection since the API call that provides this information has been deprecated by VMware. Use `vm_tools_running_status` / `vm_tools_version_status` instead (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/issues/2033).

dellemc.openmanage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- The ``dellemc_idrac_storage_volume`` module is deprecated and replaced with ``idrac_storage_volume``.

kubernetes.core
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- k8s - the ``k8s`` inventory plugin has been deprecated and will be removed in release 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/31).