CHANGELOG.rst

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4.3.0 - Released 2020-08-17

Major Changes:

• Require Python 3.6 or newer (#775) @ssbarnea
• Require Ansible 2.8 or newer (#721) @ssbarnea
• LRU Cache for frequently called functions (#891) @ragne
• Change documentation website to RTD (#875) @ssbarnea
• Add rules for verifying the existence of imported and included files (#691) @jlusiardi
• Add a new rule for detecting nested jinja mustache syntax (#686) @europ

Minor Changes:

• Refactored import_playbook tests (#951) @ssbarnea
• Added MissingFilePermissionsRule (#943) @ssbarnea
• Enable github actions parsable format (#926) @ssbarnea
• Add linter branding for docs (#914) @ssbarnea
• Assure we do not produce duplicated matches (#912) @ssbarnea
• Enable annotations on failed tests (#910) @ssbarnea
• Refactor _taskshandlers_children complexity (#903) @webknjaz
• Make import sections consistent (#897) @ssbarnea
• Allow backticks in shell commands (#894) @turettn
• Add ansible210 testing (#888) @ssbarnea
• Enable isort (#887) @ssbarnea
• Combine MatchError into Match (#884) @ssbarnea
• Improve MatchError class (#881) @ssbarnea
• Expose package version (#867) @ssbarnea
• Replace custom theme with sphinx-ansible-theme (#856) @ssbarnea
• Improve unjinja function (#853) @ssbarnea
• Refactor MetaMainHasInfoRule (#846) @ssato
• Remove dependency on ansible.utils.color (#833) @ssbarnea
• Moved exit codes to constants (#821) @ssbarnea
• Document module dependencies (#817) @ssbarnea
• Refactor Runner out of __init__ (#816) @ssbarnea
• Added reproducer for become in blocks (#793) @ssbarnea
• Convert failed to find required 'name' key in include_role into a match (#781) @ssbarnea
• Fix exclude_paths from get_playbooks_and_roles (#774) @ssbarnea
• Update ComparisonToEmptyStringRule.py (#770) @vbotka
• Remove bin/ansible-lint script (#762) @ssbarnea
• Fix logging configuration (#757) @ssbarnea
• Allow returning line number in matchplay (#756) @albinvass
• Update cli output on README (#754) @ssbarnea
• Migrate some test to pytest (#740) @cans
• Use python logging (#732) @ssbarnea
• Make config loading failures visible (#726) @ssbarnea
• Add a test that fails with AttributeError on malformed import_tasks file content (#720) @mdaniel
• Consistent relative path display (#692) @cans

Bugfixes:

• E501: Add become_user and become inheritance (#964) @Tompage1994
• Add missing hosts to test files (#952) @ssbarnea
• E208: Improve MissingFilePermissionsRule detection (#949) @ssbarnea
• Make pre-commit hook use auto-detect mode (#932) @ssbarnea
• Fix severity formatter wrong use of color (#919) @ssbarnea
• Avoid displaying Null with missing filenames (#918) @ssbarnea
• Include contributing inside docs (#905) @ssbarnea
• Fix spelling mistakes in documentation (#901) @MorganGeek
• Avoid failure with playbooks having tasks key a null value (#899) @ssbarnea
• Fix MatchError comparison fallback implementation (#896) @webknjaz
• Avoid sorting failure with matches without an id (#879) @ssbarnea
• Fix broken always_run rule on Ansible 2.10 (#878) @ssbarnea
• Allow null config file (#814) @ssbarnea
• Fixed the search method when the file path not exists (#807) @cahlchang
• Restore playbook auto-detection (#767) @ssbarnea
• Gracefully process a missing git binary when falling-back to pure-python discovery (#738) @anryko
• Resurrect support for editable mode installs (#722) @webknjaz
• Avoid exception from 505 rule (#709) @ssbarnea

4.2.0 - Released 2019-12-04

Features:

• Enable ansible-lint to auto-detect roles/playbooks #615
• Normalize displayed file paths #620

Bugfixes:

• Fix role detection to include tasks/main.yml #631
• Fix pre-commit hooks #612
• Ensure variable syntax before matching in VariableHasSpacesRule #535
• Fix false positive with multiline template in UsingBareVariablesIsDeprecatedRule #251
• Fix role metadata checks when they include unexpected types #533 #513
• Support inline rule skipping inside a block #528
• Look for noqa skips in handlers, pre_tasks, and post_tasks #520
• Fix skipping when using import_playbook #517
• Fix parsing inline args for import_role and include_role #511
• Fix syntax proposed by 104 to not fail 206 #501
• Fix VariableHasSpacesRule false positive for whitespace control chars in vars #500

Docs/Misc:

• Disable docs build on macos with py38 #630
• Update dependencies and CI to supported versions of ansible #530
• Declare support for Python 3.8 #601

Dev/Contributor:

• Enable flake-docstrings to check for pep257 #621
• Remove code related to unsupported ansible versions before 2.4 #622
• Replace nosetests with pytest #604
• Support newer setuptools and require 34.0.0 or later #591 #600
• Added SSL proxy variables to tox passenv #593
• Have RunFromText test helper use named files for playbooks #519
• Fully depend on Pip having PEP 517 implementation #607
• Fixed metadata and travis deployment #598

4.1.0 - Released 11-Feb-2019

• Support skipping specific rule(s) for a specific task #460
• Lint all yaml in tasks/ and handlers/ regardless of import or include #462
• New rule: shell task uses pipeline without pipefail #199
• Remove rule 405 checking for retry on package modules #465
• Limit env var check to command, not shell #477
• Extend max line length rule from 120 to 160 #474
• Do not flag octal file mode permission when it is a string #480
• Check ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH before basedir #478
• Fix crash on indexing empty cmd arguments #473
• Handle argv syntax for the command module #424
• Add another possible license default with SPDX #472
• Ignore comments for line-based rules #453
• Allow config skip_list to have rule number id not in quotes #463

4.0.1 - Released 04-Jan-2019

Bugfix release

• Allow install with python35 and add to tox testing #452
• Fix 503 UseHandlerRatherThanWhenChangedRule attempt to iterate on bool #455
• Improve regex on rule 602 #454
• Refactor RoleRelativePathRule, fix keyerror #446
• Rule 405 now ignore case of 'yum: list=package' #444
• Allow jinja escaping in variables #440

4.0.0 - Released 18-Dec-2018

• New documentation site docs.ansible.com/ansible-lint
• Additional default rules for ansible-lint, listed in docsite default rules
• Fixed running with role path containing single or multiple dirs #390
• Fixed double sudo rule output #393
• Severity property added to rules to be used by Galaxy #379
• Packaging: consistency and automation #389
• Updated rule TrailingWhitespaceRule.py to remove carriage return char #323
• Allow snake_case module names for rules #82
• Suggest tempfile module instead of mktemp command #422
• Update tox to run with only supported ansible versions #406
• GitHub repository edits: move to ansible org, add CODE_OF_CONDUCT, add ROADMAP, label edits

3.5.1

Use yaml.safe_load for loading the configuration file

3.5.0

• New ids and tags, add doc generator. Old tag names remain backwardly compatible (awcrosby)
• Add more package formats to PackageIsNotLatestRule (simon04)
• Improve handling of meta/main.yml dependencies (MatrixCrawler)
• Correctly handle role argument trailing slash (zoredache)
• Handle include_task and import_task (zeot)
• Add a new rule to detect jinja in when clauses (greg-hellings)
• Suggest replace as another alternative to sed (inponomarev)
• YAML syntax highlighting for false positives (gundalow)

3.4.23

Fix bug with using comma-separated skip_list arguments

3.4.22

• Allow include_role and import_role (willthames)
• Support arbitrary number of exclude flags (KellerFuchs)
• Fix task has name check for empty name fields (ekeih)
• Allow vault encrypted variables in YAML files (mozz)
• Octal permission check improvements - readability, test coverage and bug fixes (willthames)
• Fix very weird bug with line numbers in some test environments (kouk)
• Python 3 fixes for octal literals in tests (willthames)