network/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

[1.17.3] - 2025-07-02

Other Changes

• ci: bump sclorg/testing-farm-as-github-action from 3 to 4 (#785)
• ci: bump tox-lsr to 3.8.0; rename qemu/kvm tests (#786)
• ci: Add Fedora 42; use tox-lsr 3.9.0; use lsr-report-errors for qemu tests (#788)
• ci: get rid of integration tests - broken, unmaintained (#789)
• ci: Add support for bootc end-to-end validation tests (#790)
• ci: Use ansible 2.19 for fedora 42 testing; support python 3.13 (#791)
• test: improve method for finding secondary interface (#792)
• refactor: support Ansible 2.19 (#794)

[1.17.2] - 2025-04-23

Bug Fixes

• fix: Refine MAC validation using interface name (#768)
• fix: Remove MAC address matching from SysUtil.link_info_find() (#769)
• fix: Correct attribute checks for routing rule validation (#774)

Other Changes

• ci: Check spelling with codespell (#754)
• ci: ansible-plugin-scan is disabled for now (#755)
• ci: bump ansible-lint to v25; provide collection requirements for ansible-lint (#758)
• refactor: fix python black formatting (#759)
• ci: Add an additional NIC for test purposes (#762)
• ci: Add test plan in .ci dir to be able to customize it per each role (#763)
• ci: Add test plan that runs CI tests and customize it for each role (#765)
• test: do not need to install from epel or pip (#770)
• ci: In test plans, prefix all relate variables with SR_ (#771)
• ci: Fix bug with ARTIFACTS_URL after prefixing with SR_ (#773)
• ci: several changes related to new qemu test, ansible-lint, python versions, ubuntu versions (#776)
• test: add another network interface device for qemu tests (#777)
• test: set shell to /bin/bash in order to use pipefail (#778)
• test: find second interface to use for mac address match (#779)
• test: skip initscript related tests on Fedora 41 and later (#780)
• test: exclude qemu interfaces from dhcp (#781)
• ci: use tox-lsr 3.6.0; improve qemu test logging (#782)
• ci: skip storage scsi, nvme tests in github qemu ci (#783)

[1.17.1] - 2025-01-09

Bug Fixes

• fix: Prioritize find link info by permanent MAC address, with fallback to current address (#749)

Other Changes

• ci: bump codecov/codecov-action from 4 to 5 (#746)
• ci: Use Fedora 41, drop Fedora 39 (#747)
• ci: Use Fedora 41, drop Fedora 39 - part two (#748)

[1.17.0] - 2024-10-30

New Features

• feat: Support autoconnect_retries (#737)
• feat: Support wait_ip property (#741)

Other Changes

• docs: Explain where network state examples originate (#734)
• ci: Add tags to TF workflow, allow more [citest bad] formats (#738)
• ci: ansible-test action now requires ansible-core version (#739)
• ci: add YAML header to github action workflow files (#740)
• docs: Promote network_state variable as the future for network management (#742)
• refactor: Use vars/RedHat_N.yml symlink for CentOS, Rocky, Alma wherever possible (#744)

[1.16.5] - 2024-08-29

Other Changes

• docs: Remove invalid network state example (#731)

[1.16.4] - 2024-08-22

Other Changes

• docs: Add examples using network_state variable (#728)

[1.16.3] - 2024-08-20

Other Changes

• test: use is-active instead of is-enabled to check for firewalld (#726)

[1.16.2] - 2024-08-19

Other Changes

• test: allow dhcp service if firewall is active (#724)

[1.16.1] - 2024-08-16

Other Changes

• tests: Use EPEL-7 from archive (#719)
• test: skip integration pytest on fedora 39 and later (#720)
• ci: fix and improve integration container testing (#721)

[1.16.0] - 2024-08-09

New Features

• feat: Add the support for the optional route source parameter in nm provider (#714)

Other Changes

• ci: Add workflow for ci_test bad, use remote fmf plan (#712)
• ci: Fix missing slash in ARTIFACTS_URL (#713)

[1.15.6] - 2024-08-01

Other Changes

• test: fix some Ansible warnings not caught by lint (#704)
• ci: Add tft plan and workflow (#705)
• test: team plugin test does not clean up properly (#706)
• ci: Update fmf plan to add a separate job to prepare managed nodes (#708)
• ci: bump sclorg/testing-farm-as-github-action from 2 to 3 (#710)

[1.15.5] - 2024-07-15

Bug Fixes

• fix: network_state must be defined in defaults/main.yml (#702)

[1.15.4] - 2024-07-02

Bug Fixes

• fix: add support for EL10 (#700)

Other Changes

• docs: Add documentation for specifying VLAN ID (#685)
• docs: network_connections module is only meant for internal usage (#686)
• test: debug deprecated bond test failures (#696)
• ci: ansible-lint action now requires absolute directory (#699)

[1.15.3] - 2024-06-11

Other Changes

• ci: use tox-lsr 3.3.0 which uses ansible-test 2.17 (#691)
• ci: tox-lsr 3.4.0 - fix py27 tests; move other checks to py310 (#693)
• ci: Add supported_ansible_also to .ansible-lint (#694)

[1.15.2] - 2024-04-04

Bug Fixes

• fix: Allow network to restart when wireless or team connection is specified (#675)

Other Changes

• test: improve bond test failure debugging (#676)
• ci: Bump ansible/ansible-lint from 6 to 24 (#677)
• docs: Add MAC VTAP example (#679)
• tests: Team interface is indeed supported on Fedora (#680)
• test: improve name text for skipped ostree tests (#684)
• ci: Bump mathieudutour/github-tag-action from 6.1 to 6.2 (#687)

[1.15.1] - 2024-02-14

Other Changes

• test: Clean up mock wifi at the end of each wireless test (#670)
• test: Rewrite tests_bond_options.yml in new testing format (#671)
• ci: Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3 to 4 (#672)
• ci: fix python unit test - copy pytest config to tests/unit (#673)

[1.15.0] - 2024-01-16

New Features

• feat: Support blackhole, prohibit and unreachable route types (#662)

Other Changes

• ci: Use supported ansible-lint action; run ansible-lint against the collection (#661)
• test: Skip running tests where initscripts is not supported (#663)
• tests: Fix installing kernel module in Fedora (#664)
• test: Fix wifi test failures (#665)
• ci: Bump github/codeql-action from 2 to 3 (#666)
• ci: Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 (#667)
• ci: Use new ansible-lint action, which requires collection format and 2.16 (#668)

[1.14.2] - 2023-12-08

Other Changes

• refactor: Use meaningful variable (#654)
• ci: bump actions/github-script from 6 to 7 (#658)
• refactor: get_ostree_data.sh use env shebang - remove from .sanity* (#659)

[1.14.1] - 2023-11-29

Bug Fixes

• fix: Allow address 0.0.0.0/0 or ::/0 for 'from'/'to' in a routing rule (#649)

Other Changes

• refactor: improve support for ostree systems (#655)
• tests: Fix tests_network_state_nm.yml CI failure (#656)

[1.14.0] - 2023-11-06

New Features

• feat: support for ostree systems (#650)

Other Changes

• docs(changelog): Fix wrong format in version 1.13.2 [citest skip] (#652)

[1.13.3] - 2023-10-23

Bug Fixes

• fix: Add dhcp client package dependency for initscripts provider (#639)

Other Changes

• test: Use variable to hold infiniband interface name [citest skip] (#636)
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (#637)
• ci: ensure dependabot git commit message conforms to commitlint; ensure badges have consistent order (#644)
• ci: use dump_packages.py callback to get packages used by role (#646)
• ci: tox-lsr version 3.1.1 (#648)

[1.13.2] - 2023-09-07

Other Changes

• ci: Add markdownlint, test_converting_readme, and build_docs workflows (#630)
• ci: Make badges consistent, run markdownlint all .md files (#631)
• ci: Remove badges from README.md prior to converting to HTML (#633)
• docs: Update README.md (#632)

[1.13.1] - 2023-07-19

Bug Fixes

• fix: facts being gathered unnecessarily (#628)

Other Changes

• ci: ansible-lint - ignore var-naming[no-role-prefix] (#626)
• ci: ansible-test ignores file for ansible-core 2.15 (#627)

[1.13.0] - 2023-07-10

New Features

• feat: add AlmaLinux to RHEL compat distro list (#618)
• feat: Support "no-aaaa" DNS option (#619)

Other Changes

• ci: Use tox-lsr 2.13 for py26 (#620)
• ci: Add pull request template and run commitlint on PR title only (#621)
• ci: Rename commitlint to PR title Lint, echo PR titles from env var (#623)
• ci: fix python 2.7 CI tests by manually installing python2.7 package (#624)

[1.12.0] - 2023-05-30

New Features

• feat: Support ipv4_ignore_auto_dns and ipv6_ignore_auto_dns settings

Other Changes

• docs: Consistent contributing.md for all roles - allow role specific contributing.md section

[1.11.4] - 2023-04-28

Other Changes

• test: Fix the failure of running ANSIBLE_GATHERING=explicit on tests_switch_provider.yml
• ci: Add commitlint GitHub action to ensure conventional commits with feedback
• style: Use standard Ansible braces and brackets spacing
• style: ansible-lint - fix missing YAML document start
• style: ansible-lint - remove line-length files from .yamllint.yml

[1.11.3] - 2023-04-13

Other Changes

• ansible-lint: Fix ansible-lint issues in tests
• Add README-ansible.md to refer Ansible intro page on linux-system-roles.github.io
• Fingerprint RHEL System Role managed config files

[1.11.2] - 2023-02-20

New Features

• none

Bug Fixes

• initscripts: Configure output device in routes

Other Changes

• none

[1.11.1] - 2023-01-24

New Features

• none

Bug Fixes

• none

Other Changes

• ansible-lint 6.x updates
• Support running the tests with ANSIBLE_GATHERING=explicit
• Clean up / Workaround non-inclusive words
• Add check for non-inclusive language
• fix the ansible-pull link, the old do not work
• tag all bond tests with expfail

[1.11.0] - 2022-12-12

New Features

• Support cloned MAC address

Bug Fixes

• none

Other Changes

• none

[1.10.1] - 2022-11-14

New Features

• none

Bug Fixes

• none

Other Changes

• support ansible-core-2.14, ansible-lint 6.x

[1.10.0] - 2022-11-01

New Features

• Support looking up named route table in routing rule
• Support 'route_metric4' for initscripts provider
• Support the DNS priority

Bug Fixes

• bond: improve the validation for setting peer_notif_delay
• bond: test arp_all_targets only when arp_interval is enabled
• bond: attach ports when creating the bonding connection

Other Changes

• Set the route metric when testing the 'auto_gateway'
• Fix markdownlint 'unordered list indentation' issue
• add ip.route_metric4: 65535 to failing bond tests
• use rpm -i instead of yum install for epel7

[1.9.1] - 2022-08-05

New features

• none

Bug Fixes

• network_state: improve state comparison for achieving idempotency
• argument_validator: fix IPRouteUtils.get_route_tables_mapping() for whitespace sequence

Other Changes

• none

[1.9.0] - 2022-07-07

New features

• Support the nmstate network state configuration

Bug Fixes

• IfcfgUtil: Remediate connection_seems_active() for controller

Other Changes

• use include_tasks instead of include
• make min_ansible_version a string in meta/main.yml

[1.8.0] - 2022-05-19

New features

• Support routing rules
• Support the ipoib (IP over Infiniband) connection

Bug fixes

• Reject configuring ipv6_disabled if not supported in NM
• Support playbooks which use gather_facts: false

[1.7.1] - 2022-03-14

New features

• Add support for Rocky Linux

Bug fixes

• bond: Fix supporting the infiniband ports in active-backup mode

[1.7.0] - 2022-02-14

New features

• NetworkManager provider: Support all available bonding modes and options

[1.6.0] - 2022-02-02

New features

• Support routing tables in static routes

Bug fixes

• Fix setting DNS search settings when only one IP family is enabled
• Fix switching from initscripts to NetworkManager 1.18

[1.5.0] - 2021-12-14

Changes

• Support ansible-core 2.11 and 2.12

New features

• Support matching network interfaces by their device path such as PCI address

[1.4.0] - 2021-08-10

Changes

• Drop the support for Ansible 2.8
• Display the stderr_lines only by default
• All the config parameters can still be displayed as previous using ansible-playbook -v

New features

• Support Simultaneous Authentication of Equals(SAE) authentication
• Support Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE)
• Support Ethtool ring settings
• Support auto_gateway option

Bug fixes

• Fix static IPv6 support for initscripts provider
• Fix dns_search and dns_options support for all address family
• Fix deprecation warning on Ethtool setting
• Fix the idempotence when applying the same network connection twice

[1.3.0] - 2021-04-08

Changes

• Use inclusive language
• slave is deprecated in favor of port
• master is deprecated in favor of controller

New features

• Support disabling IPv6
• Support dns_options when using one or more IPv4 nameservers
• Support Ethtool coalesce settings
• Support dummy interfaces

Bug fixes

• Fix static IPv6 support for initscripts provider

[1.2.0] - 2020-08-26

Changes

• Rename ethtool features to use underscores instead of dashes to support Jinja2 dot notation. Accept old notation for compatibility with existing playbooks.

New features

• Initial 802.1x authentication support (only EAP-TLS)
• Wireless support
• Handle OracleLinux as a RHEL clone
• Remove dependency on ethtool command line tool
• initscripts: Support creating and activating bond profiles in one run
• Ignore up/down states if a profile is not defined and not present on the managed host
• Document bond profiles

Bug fixes

• NetworkManager: Always rollback checkpoint on failure
• NetworkManager: Try to reapply changes to reduce network interruptions
• initscripts: Fix dependencies for Fedora 32
• Only log actual warnings as Ansible warnings