diff --git a/.coderabbit.yaml b/.coderabbit.yaml
index b0d2d9a..dbc402c 100644
--- a/.coderabbit.yaml
+++ b/.coderabbit.yaml
@@ -39,12 +39,14 @@ reviews:
       mode: "warning"
       requirements: |
         PR title MUST follow Conventional Commits format:
-        - Format: <type>: <description> or <type>!: <description> for breaking changes
-        - Valid types: Refer to the 'type-enum' rule in .commitlintrc.js file for the complete list of allowed types
+        - Format: <required type><optional (scope)><optional !>: <required description>
+        - Valid types: Refer to https://github.com/linux-system-roles/auto-maintenance/blob/main/pr_title_lint.py#L23
         - Examples:
           - "feat: Add backup functionality"
           - "fix: Correct OSTree package installation"
           - "fix!: Remove deprecated variable (breaking change)"
+          - "chore(formatting): Fix indentation in my_module.py"
+          - "refactor(python)!: Use new python library thispy which has breaking api changes"
 
     custom_checks:
       - mode: "warning"
@@ -55,6 +57,8 @@ reviews:
           - Must contain "Reason:" section explaining why the change was needed
           - Must contain "Result:" section describing the outcome or impact
           - Can contain optional "Issue Tracker Tickets (Jira or BZ if any):" section
+          - Must contain "Signed-off-by:" section with your name and email address - use git commit -s
+          - Can contain optional "Assisted-by:" section with name of the AI coding assistant and models used
 
           Example:
           ```
@@ -65,6 +69,34 @@ reviews:
           Result: Users can now set network_secure_logging: false for debugging while maintaining secure defaults.
 
           Issue Tracker Tickets (Jira or BZ if any): RHEL-12345
+
+          Signed-off-by: John Doe john.doe@example.com
+
+          Assisted-by: Fish 4.3 using model Swim 6.2
+          ```
+
+          For PRs that are bug fixes, you can use the following template:
+          - Must contain "Cause:" section explaining the root cause of the bug
+          - Must contain "Consequences:" section explaining the impact of the bug and how it appears to users
+          - Must contain "Fix:" section explaining the fix for the bug and how it fixes the bug
+          - Must contain "Result:" section describing the outcome or impact of the fix
+          - Can contain optional "Issue Tracker Tickets (Jira or BZ if any):" section
+          - Must contain "Signed-off-by:" section with your name and email address - use git commit -s
+          - Can contain optional "Assisted-by:" section with name of the AI coding assistant and models used
+
+          Example:
+          ```
+          Cause: The variable rolename_user_name was being checked for a `none` value but was not being checked for string length greater than 0 if a string.
+
+          Consequences: The role allowed empty user names to be configured which caused the daemon to report "User not found".
+
+          Fix: The variable rolename_user_name is now checked for string length if not `none`, and will report an error in that case if the length is 0.
+
+          Result: The role will not allow the user to provide an empty user name and will report an error if the rolename_user_name length is 0.
+
+          Signed-off-by: John Doe john.doe@example.com
+
+          Assisted-by: Fish 4.3 using model Swim 6.2
           ```
 
   path_instructions:
@@ -180,6 +212,8 @@ reviews:
         - Tests should verify both success and failure scenarios
         - Use assert module to verify expected state after role execution
         - Include cleanup tasks to ensure tests are rerunnable
+        - Tests should be run in a block with an always section that runs the test cleanup to ensure that the cleanup is always run.
+        - The cleanup tasks should be tagged with `tests::cleanup` so that the cleanup can be skipped for debug purposes.
         - Tests should be idempotent - running twice should not cause failures
         - Example verification:
           ```yaml
diff --git a/.commitlintrc.js b/.commitlintrc.js
deleted file mode 100644
index f8a39ba..0000000
--- a/.commitlintrc.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,141 +0,0 @@
-module.exports = {
-	parserPreset: 'conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits',
-	rules: {
-		'body-leading-blank': [1, 'always'],
-		'body-max-line-length': [2, 'always', 100],
-		'footer-leading-blank': [1, 'always'],
-		'footer-max-line-length': [2, 'always', 100],
-		'header-max-length': [2, 'always', 100],
-		'subject-case': [
-			2,
-			'never',
-			['start-case', 'pascal-case', 'upper-case'],
-		],
-		'subject-empty': [2, 'never'],
-		'subject-full-stop': [2, 'never', '.'],
-		'type-case': [2, 'always', 'lower-case'],
-		'type-empty': [2, 'never'],
-		'type-enum': [
-			2,
-			'always',
-			[
-				'build',
-				'chore',
-				'ci',
-				'docs',
-				'feat',
-				'fix',
-				'perf',
-				'refactor',
-				'revert',
-				'style',
-				'test',
-				'tests',
-			],
-		],
-	},
-	prompt: {
-		questions: {
-			type: {
-				description: "Select the type of change that you're committing",
-				enum: {
-					feat: {
-						description: 'A new feature',
-						title: 'Features',
-						emoji: '✨',
-					},
-					fix: {
-						description: 'A bug fix',
-						title: 'Bug Fixes',
-						emoji: '🐛',
-					},
-					docs: {
-						description: 'Documentation only changes',
-						title: 'Documentation',
-						emoji: '📚',
-					},
-					style: {
-						description:
-							'Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)',
-						title: 'Styles',
-						emoji: '💎',
-					},
-					refactor: {
-						description:
-							'A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature',
-						title: 'Code Refactoring',
-						emoji: '📦',
-					},
-					perf: {
-						description: 'A code change that improves performance',
-						title: 'Performance Improvements',
-						emoji: '🚀',
-					},
-					test: {
-						description: 'Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests',
-						title: 'Tests',
-						emoji: '🚨',
-					},
-					tests: {
-						description: 'Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests',
-						title: 'Tests',
-						emoji: '🚨',
-					},
-					build: {
-						description:
-							'Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies (example scopes: gulp, broccoli, npm)',
-						title: 'Builds',
-						emoji: '🛠',
-					},
-					ci: {
-						description:
-							'Changes to our CI configuration files and scripts (example scopes: Travis, Circle, BrowserStack, SauceLabs)',
-						title: 'Continuous Integrations',
-						emoji: '⚙️',
-					},
-					chore: {
-						description: "Other changes that don't modify src or test files",
-						title: 'Chores',
-						emoji: '♻️',
-					},
-					revert: {
-						description: 'Reverts a previous commit',
-						title: 'Reverts',
-						emoji: '🗑',
-					},
-				},
-			},
-			scope: {
-				description:
-					'What is the scope of this change (e.g. component or file name)',
-			},
-			subject: {
-				description:
-					'Write a short, imperative tense description of the change',
-			},
-			body: {
-				description: 'Provide a longer description of the change',
-			},
-			isBreaking: {
-				description: 'Are there any breaking changes?',
-			},
-			breakingBody: {
-				description:
-					'A BREAKING CHANGE commit requires a body. Please enter a longer description of the commit itself',
-			},
-			breaking: {
-				description: 'Describe the breaking changes',
-			},
-			isIssueAffected: {
-				description: 'Does this change affect any open issues?',
-			},
-			issuesBody: {
-				description:
-					'If issues are closed, the commit requires a body. Please enter a longer description of the commit itself',
-			},
-			issues: {
-				description: 'Add issue references (e.g. "fix #123", "re #123".)',
-			},
-		},
-	},
-};
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ansible-lint.yml b/.github/workflows/ansible-lint.yml
index 11b40a0..2ac0ffe 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-lint.yml
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt install -y git
 
       - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Install tox, tox-lsr
         run: |
           set -euxo pipefail
-          pip3 install "git+https://github.com/linux-system-roles/tox-lsr@3.18.1"
+          pip3 install "git+https://github.com/linux-system-roles/tox-lsr@3.20.1"
 
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v6
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ansible-managed-var-comment.yml b/.github/workflows/ansible-managed-var-comment.yml
index 026e582..a2127cd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-managed-var-comment.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-managed-var-comment.yml
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt install -y git
 
       - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Install tox, tox-lsr
         run: |
           set -euxo pipefail
-          pip3 install "git+https://github.com/linux-system-roles/tox-lsr@3.18.1"
+          pip3 install "git+https://github.com/linux-system-roles/tox-lsr@3.20.1"
 
       - name: Run ansible-plugin-scan
         run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
index 37ad46e..03b3b03 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt install -y git
 
       - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Install tox, tox-lsr
         run: |
           set -euxo pipefail
-          pip3 install "git+https://github.com/linux-system-roles/tox-lsr@3.18.1"
+          pip3 install "git+https://github.com/linux-system-roles/tox-lsr@3.20.1"
 
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v6
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_docs.yml b/.github/workflows/build_docs.yml
index c373e94..eac3504 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_docs.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt install -y git
 
       - name: Check out code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - name: Ensure the docs branch
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ jobs:
           fi
 
       - name: Checkout the docs branch
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           ref: docs
 
       - name: Fetch README.md and .pandoc_template.html5 template from the workflow branch
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           sparse-checkout: |
             README.md
diff --git a/.github/workflows/changelog_to_tag.yml b/.github/workflows/changelog_to_tag.yml
index 633e495..7918402 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/changelog_to_tag.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/changelog_to_tag.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt install -y git
 
       - name: checkout PR
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Get tag and message from the latest CHANGELOG.md commit
         id: tag
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
index ee1d64b..f047ea6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt update
           sudo apt install -y git
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Initialize CodeQL
         uses: github/codeql-action/init@v4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codespell.yml b/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
index 764bd71..45c1913 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Codespell
         uses: codespell-project/actions-codespell@v2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/markdownlint.yml b/.github/workflows/markdownlint.yml
index 9f0266b..8956014 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/markdownlint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/markdownlint.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt install -y git
 
       - name: Check out code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       # CHANGELOG.md is generated automatically from PR titles and descriptions
       # It might have issues but they are not critical
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr-title-lint.yml b/.github/workflows/pr-title-lint.yml
index 079bfb6..a1eeabc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr-title-lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr-title-lint.yml
@@ -18,15 +18,15 @@ jobs:
   commit-checks:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - name: Install conventional-commit linter
-        run: npm install @commitlint/config-conventional @commitlint/cli
+      - name: Install pr_title_lint.py
+        run: curl -o pr_title_lint.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linux-system-roles/auto-maintenance/main/pr_title_lint.py
 
-      - name: Run commitlint on PR title
+      - name: Run pr_title_lint.py on PR title
         env:
           PR_TITLE: ${{ github.event.pull_request.title }}
         # Echo from env variable to avoid bash errors with extra characters
-        run: echo "$PR_TITLE" | npx commitlint --verbose
+        run: python3 pr_title_lint.py "${PR_TITLE}"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-unit-test.yml b/.github/workflows/python-unit-test.yml
index 798066c..90abbb6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-unit-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-unit-test.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt install -y git
 
       - name: checkout PR
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Set up Python 2.7
         if: ${{ matrix.pyver_os.ver == '2.7' }}
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ jobs:
             tox=tox
             virtualenv=virtualenv
           fi
-          pip install "$tox" "$virtualenv" "git+https://github.com/linux-system-roles/tox-lsr@3.18.1"
+          pip install "$tox" "$virtualenv" "git+https://github.com/linux-system-roles/tox-lsr@3.20.1"
           # If you have additional OS dependency packages e.g. libcairo2-dev
           # then put them in .github/config/ubuntu-requirements.txt, one
           # package per line.
@@ -92,4 +92,4 @@ jobs:
           TOXENV="$toxenvs" lsr_ci_runtox
 
       - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
-        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v6
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v7
diff --git a/.github/workflows/qemu-kvm-integration-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/qemu-kvm-integration-tests.yml
index d25baef..318b7e4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/qemu-kvm-integration-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/qemu-kvm-integration-tests.yml
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ jobs:
           # QEMU
           - { image: "centos-9", env: "qemu-ansible-core-2-16" }
           - { image: "centos-10", env: "qemu-ansible-core-2-17" }
-          - { image: "fedora-42", env: "qemu-ansible-core-2-19" }
           - { image: "fedora-43", env: "qemu-ansible-core-2-20" }
+          - { image: "fedora-44", env: "qemu-ansible-core-2-21" }
           - { image: "leap-15.6", env: "qemu-ansible-core-2-18" }
 
           # container
@@ -40,10 +40,11 @@ jobs:
           # broken on non-running dbus
           # - { image: "centos-10", env: "container-ansible-core-2-17" }
           - { image: "centos-10-bootc", env: "container-ansible-core-2-17" }
-          - { image: "fedora-42", env: "container-ansible-core-2-17" }
           - { image: "fedora-43", env: "container-ansible-core-2-20" }
-          - { image: "fedora-42-bootc", env: "container-ansible-core-2-17" }
+          - { image: "fedora-44", env: "container-ansible-core-2-21" }
           - { image: "fedora-43-bootc", env: "container-ansible-core-2-20" }
+          # ansible-core 2.21 cannot enable services using service module in bootc images
+          - { image: "fedora-44-bootc", env: "container-ansible-core-2-20" }
 
     env:
       TOX_ARGS: "--skip-tags tests::infiniband,tests::nvme,tests::scsi"
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Check if platform is supported
         id: check_platform
@@ -110,29 +111,24 @@ jobs:
           python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
           sudo apt update
           sudo apt install -y --no-install-recommends git ansible-core genisoimage qemu-system-x86
-          pip3 install "git+https://github.com/linux-system-roles/tox-lsr@3.18.1"
+          pip3 install "git+https://github.com/linux-system-roles/tox-lsr@3.20.1"
 
-      # HACK: Drop this when moving this workflow to 26.04 LTS
-      - name: Update podman to 5.x for compatibility with bootc-image-builder's podman 5
-        if: steps.check_platform.outputs.supported && endsWith(matrix.scenario.image, '-bootc')
+      - name: Check for podman version 5 or higher
+        id: check_podman_version
+        if: steps.check_platform.outputs.supported
         run: |
-          sed 's/noble/plucky/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plucky.sources >/dev/null
-          cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/podman.pref >/dev/null
-          Package: podman buildah golang-github-containers-common crun libgpgme11t64 libgpg-error0 golang-github-containers-image catatonit conmon containers-storage
-          Pin: release n=plucky
-          Pin-Priority: 991
+          podman_version=$(podman version -f '{{.Client.Version}}')
+          podman_major_version="${podman_version%%.*}"
+          echo "Podman version: $podman_version"
+          if [ "$podman_major_version" -lt 5 ]; then
+            echo "need_podman_update=1" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "need_podman_update=0" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
 
-          Package: libsubid4 netavark passt aardvark-dns containernetworking-plugins libslirp0 slirp4netns
-          Pin: release n=plucky
-          Pin-Priority: 991
-
-          Package: *
-          Pin: release n=plucky
-          Pin-Priority: 400
-          EOF
-
-          sudo apt update
-          sudo apt install -y podman crun conmon containers-storage
+      - name: Ensure use of podman 5
+        if: steps.check_platform.outputs.supported && steps.check_podman_version.outputs.need_podman_update == 1
+        uses: redhat-actions/podman-install@main
 
       - name: Configure tox-lsr
         if: steps.check_platform.outputs.supported
diff --git a/.github/workflows/shellcheck.yml b/.github/workflows/shellcheck.yml
index baea60c..fee85d9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/shellcheck.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/shellcheck.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt install -y git
 
       - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Run ShellCheck
         id: shellcheck_id
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_converting_readme.yml b/.github/workflows/test_converting_readme.yml
index 679e955..696275f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_converting_readme.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_converting_readme.yml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt install -y git
 
       - name: Check out code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Remove badges from README.md prior to converting to HTML
         run: sed -i '1,8 {/^\[\!.*actions\/workflows/d}' README.md
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tft.yml b/.github/workflows/tft.yml
index 563674e..1a7fc68 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tft.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tft.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
           GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}
 
       - name: Checkout repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Get head sha of the PR
         id: head_sha
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
       - name: Checkout PR
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           ref: ${{ steps.head_sha.outputs.head_sha }}
 
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ jobs:
           meta_main=meta/main.yml
           # All Fedora are supported, add latest Fedora versions to supported_platforms
           if yq '.galaxy_info.galaxy_tags[]' "$meta_main" | grep -qi fedora$; then
-            supported_platforms+=" Fedora-42"
             supported_platforms+=" Fedora-43"
+            supported_platforms+=" Fedora-44"
           fi
           # Specific Fedora versions supported
           if yq '.galaxy_info.galaxy_tags[]' "$meta_main" | grep -qiP 'fedora\d+$'; then
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         include:
           # Ensure ansible version is a string!
-          - platform: Fedora-42
-            ansible_version: "2.19"
           - platform: Fedora-43
             ansible_version: "2.20"
+          - platform: Fedora-44
+            ansible_version: "2.21"
           - platform: CentOS-7-latest
             ansible_version: "2.9"
           - platform: CentOS-Stream-8
diff --git a/.github/workflows/weekly_ci.yml b/.github/workflows/weekly_ci.yml
index 8be7b8e..758ad93 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/weekly_ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/weekly_ci.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt install -y git
 
       - name: Checkout latest code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - name: Create or rebase commit, add dump_packages callback
diff --git a/.github/workflows/woke.yml b/.github/workflows/woke.yml
index 471e7b4..7f34776 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/woke.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/woke.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Run lsr-woke-action
         # Originally, uses: get-woke/woke-action@v0