Matt Martz

2.18 Deprecation removal: `lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py`

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### Summary `lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py` contains deprecated functionality to be removed for 2.18 ### Issue Type Feature Idea ### Component Name ``lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py` `

2.18 Deprecation removal: `lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py`

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### Summary `lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py` contains deprecated functionality to be removed for 2.18 ### Issue Type Feature Idea ### Component Name ``lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py` `

Update bundled distro to 1.9.0

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### Summary Update the bundled package [distro](https://pypi.org/pypi/distro) from `1.8.0` to `1.9.0`. ### Issue Type Bug Report ### Component Name `lib/ansible/module_utils/distro/__init__.py` ### Ansible Version 2.18 ### Configuration N/A ### OS /...

Remove deprecated options.ssh_common_args

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### Summary The config option `options.ssh_common_args` should be removed from `lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py`. It was scheduled for removal in 2.18. ### Issue Type Bug Report ### Component Name `lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py` ### Ansible Version...

Remove deprecated options.ssh_args

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### Summary The config option `options.ssh_args` should be removed from `lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py`. It was scheduled for removal in 2.18. ### Issue Type Bug Report ### Component Name `lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py` ### Ansible Version...

Address non-UTF8 module responses with `diff` in git module

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##### SUMMARY Address non-UTF8 module responses with `diff` Fixes #82820 ##### ISSUE TYPE - Feature Pull Request ##### ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ```paste below ```

Add ssh-agent launching, and ssh-agent python client

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##### SUMMARY This PR adds: 1. the ability to `InventoryManager` to spawn an `ssh-agent` process, or re-use an existing `ssh-agent` process 2. a pure python `ssh-agent` client for interacting with...

##### SUMMARY In https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/79886 we have begun the work to no longer allow workers to inherit stdio file descriptors. This specifically impacts the `libssh` connection plugin as it uses `stdin`...

Right now payloads are splatted directly into the streaming classes, and ultimately into `ansible_runner.interface.run`. Knowing that we need to, support a potential version mismatch of runner inside and outside of...