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Ansible Utils Collection Release Notes
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v2.4.0
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Minor Changes
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- Add new plugin param_list_compare that generates the final param list after comparing base and provided/target param list.

Bugfixes
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- Update validate to use 2.11 ArgumentSpecValidator if available.

v2.3.1
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Bugfixes
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- Add support for the validation of formats to the jsonschema validator.
- Improve test coverage

v2.3.0
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Minor Changes
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- Add usable_range test plugin

Bugfixes
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- Also include empty lists and mappings into the output dictionary (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils/pull/58).

Documentation Changes
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- Update doc for usable_range filter plugin

v2.2.0
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Minor Changes
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- Add in_any_network, in_network, in_one_network test plugins
- Add ip, ip_address test plugins
- Add ipv4, ipv4_address, ipv4_hostmask, ipv4_netmask test plugins
- Add ipv6, ipv6_address, ipv6_ipv4_mapped, ipv6_sixtofour, ipv6_teredo test plugins
- Add loopback, mac, multicast test plugins
- Add private, public, reserved test plugins
- Add resolvable test plugins
- Add subnet_of, supernet_of, unspecified test plugins

v2.1.0
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Minor Changes
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- Add from_xml and to_xml fiter plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils/pull/56).

Bugfixes
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- Add missing test requirements (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils/pull/57).

v2.0.2
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Bugfixes
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- Fix cli_parse template_path read error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils/pull/51).
- Fix jsonschema input data format checking (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils/pull/50).

v2.0.1
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Bugfixes
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- Fix ansible.utils.cli_parse action plugin to support old cli_parse sub-plugin structure in ansible.netcommon collection.

v2.0.0
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Breaking Changes / Porting Guide
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- If added custom sub plugins in your collection move from old location `plugins/<sub-plugin-name>` to the new location `plugins/sub_plugins/<sub-plugin-name>` and update the imports as required
- Move sub plugins cli_parsers, fact_diff and validate to `plugins/sub_plugins` folder
- The `cli_parsers` sub plugins folder name is changed to `cli_parse` to have consistent naming convention, that is all the cli_parse subplugins will now be in `plugins/sub_plugins/cli_parse` folder

v1.0.1
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Minor Changes
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- Move CHANGELOG.rst file under changelogs folder as required

v1.0.0
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Minor Changes
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- Add cli_parse module and plugins (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils/pull/28)
- Added fact_diff plugin and sub plugin
- Added validate module/lookup/filter/test plugin to validate data based on given criteria

Bugfixes
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- linting and formatting for CI

New Plugins
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Lookup
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- get_path - Retrieve the value in a variable using a path
- index_of - Find the indices of items in a list matching some criteria
- to_paths - Flatten a complex object into a dictionary of paths and values
- validate - Validate data with provided criteria

New Modules
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- cli_parse - Parse cli output or text using a variety of parsers
- fact_diff - Find the difference between currently set facts
- update_fact - Update currently set facts
- validate - Validate data with provided criteria
