news-for-maintainers VS ansible.utils

If you are using GHA to run tests on collections, you might have noticed strange failures when using ansible-test's --docker option when using ubuntu-latest. Read more about this and how to fix this in this issue.

In ansible/ansible, the stable-2.13 branch has been created (more infos), and the version of the devel branch has been bumped to 2.14.0.dev0 (more infos).

If you want to discuss this, we welcome feedback in ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/discussions/4.

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We're happy to announce the following networking collection updates: * ansible.utils 2.8.0 has been released with new features (changelog) * cisco.iosxr 4.0.3 has been released with bugfixes (changelog) * cisco.nxos 4.0.1 has been released with bugfixes (changelog) * junipernetworks.junos 4.1.0 has been released with new features (changelog)

The ipaddr filters are broken in ansible.netcommon 2.6.0 release as we have recently migrated ipaddr filters from ansible.netcommon to ansible.utils. We have released utils 2.5.2 and netcommon 2.6.1 which fixed these two issues (ansible.netcommon#375, ansible.utils#148). For the FQDN issue, the ansible-core team has already merged the fix. This fix will be available in the March 28th release, which means that users of non fqdn ipaddr filters can use the old netcommon collection version 2.5.1 as a workaround until the next ansible-core release (March 28th) by the core-team. For fqdn ipaddr filters, users can use the latest versions of any of ansible.netcommon (2.6.1) or ansible.utils (2.5.2).

We hope you'll enjoy part1 and part2, and take a look at the collection and source repo where we'd love to hear your suggestions on how to improve the collection.

Also handy for this and other IP related tests, the Ansible.utils collection https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils /u/CertifiedKnowNothing

See: https://www.ansible.com/blog/using-new-ansible-utilities-for-operational-state-management-and-remediation https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils/blob/main/plugins/sub_plugins/cli_parser/ttp_parser.py

Also, I've not done it this way, but I believe this could be short-cut even further using: https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils/blob/main/plugins/sub_plugins/cli_parser/ttp_parser.py#L23-L28