v6.1.1

Bugfixes

• Added guidance for users to open an issue for the respective platform if plugin support is needed.
• Improved module execution to gracefully handle cases where plugin support is required, providing a clear error message to the user.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/compare/v6.1.0...v6.1.1

Minor Changes

• Add new module cli_restore that exclusively handles restoring of backup configuration to target appliance.

Bugfixes

• libssh connection plugin - stop using deprecated PlayContext.verbosity property that is no longer present in ansible-core 2.18 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/pull/626).
• network_cli - removed deprecated play_context.verbosity property.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/compare/v6.0.0...v6.1.0

Release Summary

• Starting from this release, the minimum ansible-core version this collection requires is 2.14.0. That last known version compatible with ansible-core<2.14 is v5.3.0.

Major Changes

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

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/compare/v5.3.0...v6.0.0

v5.3.0

Minor Changes

• Add new module cli_backup that exclusively handles configuration backup.

Bugfixes

• Fix attribute types from string to str in filter plugins.

Minor Changes

• Add default cliconf plugin good enough to use cli_command most of the time (#569) @Qalthos
• Add a new cliconf plugin default that can be used when no cliconf plugin is found for a given network_os. This plugin only supports get(). (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/pull/569)
• httpapi - Add additional option ca_path, client_cert, client_key, and http_agent that are available in open_url but not to httpapi. (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/issues/528)

Bugfixes

• Vendor telnetlib from cpython (#546) @Qalthos

Deprecations

• Indicate that ssh_args will be removed. (#566) @Qalthos

Bugfixes

• Ensure that all connection plugin options that should be strings are actually strings (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/pull/549).

Ansible Netcommon 2.0.0 release