v8.2.0

Minor Changes

• Exposes new libssh option to configure key_exchange_algorithms. This requires ansible-pylibssh v1.3.0 or higher.

Bugfixes

• Added support for private key passphrase in libssh connection plugin, when using encrypted private keys specified by the C(ansible_private_key_file) attribute.
• Avoid legacy imports deprecated in ansible-core 2.20 (#720).
• Avoid merging module_defaults for all ansible.netcommon.grpc_* modules.
• Set libssh logging level to DEBUG when Ansible verbosity is greater than 3, to aid in troubleshooting connection issues.

v8.1.0

Minor Changes

• Changes to supplement direct execution of Ansible module in validate_config(utils.py) and _patch_update_module(network.py) added.
• Override new 2.19.1+ AnsibleModule._record_module_result hook in network action plugin to bypass module result serialization when direct execution is enabled

Bugfixes

• Improved error handling in DirectExecutionModule._record_module_result method for better compatibility with core<=2.18

v8.0.1

Bugfixes

• (#633) Fixed typo in ansible.netcommon.telnet parameter crlf (was clrf by mistake)
• netconf - Adds check for netconf session_close RPC happens only if connection is alive.

v8.0.0

v8.0.0

Release Summary

With this release, the minimum required version of ansible-core for this collection is 2.16.0. The last version known to be compatible with ansible-core versions below 2.16 is v7.2.0.

Major Changes

• Bumping requires_ansible to >=2.16.0, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.

v7.2.0

v7.2.0

Minor Changes

• Exposes new libssh options to configure publickey_accepted_algorithms and hostkeys. This requires ansible-pylibssh v1.1.0 or higher.

Deprecated Features

• Added deprecation warnings for the above plugins, displayed when running respective filter plugins.
• parse_cli_textfsm filter plugin is deprecated and will be removed in a future release after 2027-02-01. Use ansible.utils.cli_parse with the ansible.utils.textfsm_parser parser as a replacement.
• parse_cli filter plugin is deprecated and will be removed in a future release after 2027-02-01. Use ansible.utils.cli_parse as a replacement.
• parse_xml filter plugin is deprecated and will be removed in a future release after 2027-02-01. Use ansible.utils.cli_parse with the ansible.utils.xml_parser parser as a replacement.

Bugfixes

• libssh connection plugin - stop using long-deprecated and now removed internal field from ansible-core's base connection plugin class (#522, #690, #691).

Documentation Changes

• Includes a new support related section in the README.

v7.1.0

v7.1.0

Minor Changes

• ansible.netcommon.persistent - Connection local is marked deprecated and all dependent collections are advised to move to a proper connection plugin, complete support of connection local will be removed in a release after 01-01-2027.

Bugfixes

• Updated the error message for the content_templates parser to include the correct parser name and detailed error information.

Documentation Changes

• Add a simple regexp match example for multiple prompt with multiple answers. This example could be used to for restarting a network device with a delay.

v7.0.0

v7.0.0

Release Summary

Starting from this release, the minimum ansible-core version this collection requires is 2.15.0. The last known version compatible with ansible-core<2.15 is v6.1.3.

Major Changes

• Bumping requires_ansible to >=2.15.0, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.

Bugfixes

• Fix get api call during scp with libssh.
• Handle sftp error messages for file not present for routerOS.

Known Issues

• libssh - net_put and net_get fail when the destination file intended to be fetched is not present.

v6.1.3

v6.1.3

Bugfixes

• The v6.1.2 release introduced a change in cliconfbase's edit_config() signature which broke many platform cliconfs. This patch release reverts that change.

v6.1.2

Documentation Changes

• Fixed module name and log consistency in parse_cli_textfsm filter doc.

Full Changelog: v6.1.1...v6.1.2

v6.1.1

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: v6.1.0...v6.1.1