What's Changed

• fix: reduce cognitive complexity of 5 functions in runtime.py by @sathyapramod in #602
• chore(deps): update all dependencies by @renovate[bot] in #596
• Sonar/s3776 s1172 src by @sathyapramod in #604
• fix: annotate mutable class defaults with ClassVar by @rockygeekz in #606
• chore(deps): update pep621 by @renovate[bot] in #597
• fix(deps): exclude ansible-core 2.17.x (CVE-2026-11332) by @rockygeekz in #609
• fix: skip collection modules in ANSIBLE_LIBRARY by @sudhirverma in #612
• fix(CI): strip tox-local Ansible env vars in smoke tests by @Hrithik-Gavankar in #613

New Contributors

• @sathyapramod made their first contribution in #602
• @Hrithik-Gavankar made their first contribution in #613

Full Changelog: v26.6.0...v26.8.0

Fixes

• fix: use absolute paths for roles and library in ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH (#583) @Dotify71
• fix(security): update dependencies [SECURITY] (#592) @renovate[bot]
• fix: update _extends syntax for release-drafter v7 compatibility (#587) @rockygeekz

Maintenance

• chore(deps): bump cryptography and cairosvg constraints (#601) @sudhirverma
• chore: remove previously-synced agent skills (#599) @ansibuddy
• chore(deps): update all dependencies pep621 (#595) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#594) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#585) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies pep621 (#593) @renovate[bot]
• fix(security): update dependencies [SECURITY] (#592) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update pep621 (#586) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update pep621 (#580) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#579) @renovate[bot]
• fix(security): update dependencies [SECURITY] (#578) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): bump the uv group across 1 directory with 3 updates (#581) @dependabot[bot]
• chore(deps): update pep621 (#574) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#573) @renovate[bot]

Fixes

• fix: avoid permissions errors with use of tmp folders (#571) @ssbarnea
• fix(security): update dependencies [SECURITY] (#566) @renovate[bot]

Maintenance

• chore(deps): update pep621 (#568) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#567) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#564) @renovate[bot]
• chore: remove use of pytest-sugar and pytest-plus (#563) @ssbarnea

Fixes

• fix: replace pre-commit with prek (#562) @ssbarnea

Maintenance

• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#560) @renovate[bot]
• Bump pillow from 12.1.0 to 12.1.1 in the uv group across 1 directory (#561) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump cryptography from 46.0.4 to 46.0.5 in the uv group across 1 directory (#559) @dependabot[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#557) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#555) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update dependencies [security] (#556) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#554) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#553) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#552) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#550) @renovate[bot]
• chore: update pre-commit hooks (#551) @pre-commit-ci[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#549) @renovate[bot]

Maintenance

• Add platform version check (#548) @cidrblock
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#547) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#546) @renovate[bot]
• chore: Temporarily disable tombi schema.strict for pyproject.toml (#545) @alisonlhart
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#544) @renovate[bot]

Maintenance

• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#543) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#542) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#540) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#539) @renovate[bot]
• Add finalize workflow for secure sonarcloud checks (#538) @alisonlhart
• Update sonar-project.properties configuration (#536) @alisonlhart
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#537) @renovate[bot]
• chore: tell uv to use unreleased ansible-core when running with py314 (#535) @ssbarnea
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#534) @pre-commit-ci[bot]

Fixes

• fix: add support for python 3.14 (#533) @ssbarnea
• fix: remove tox.ini and adopt pep-735 (#526) @ssbarnea

Maintenance

• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#532) @renovate[bot]
• chore: hooks update (#531) @ssbarnea
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#530) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#529) @renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update all dependencies (#527) @renovate[bot]
• chore: configure renovate (#524) @ssbarnea
• chore: update hooks (#525) @ssbarnea
• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 (#515) @dependabot[bot]

Bugfixes

• Restore ansible-lint<25.8.1 behaviour for ansible-lint<25.8.1 (#520) @cidrblock

Enhancements

• Bump the dependencies group in /.config with 5 updates (#507) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump markdown-exec from 1.10.3 to 1.11.0 in /.config in the dependencies group (#506) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump the dependencies group across 1 directory with 3 updates (#505) @dependabot[bot]

Bugfixes

• Fix first-run collection discovery by gating plugin loader initialization (#516) @cidrblock

Maintenance

• chore: pre-commit autoupdate (#508) @pre-commit-ci[bot]
• Bump the dependencies group in /.config with 4 updates (#503) @dependabot[bot]
• Avoid ack failure due to dependabot labels (#502) @ssbarnea

Maintenance

• Bump the dependencies group in /.config with 3 updates (#500) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump requests from 2.32.3 to 2.32.4 in /.config in the pip group (#499) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump the dependencies group in /.config with 2 updates (#498) @dependabot[bot]
• chore: pre-commit autoupdate (#497) @pre-commit-ci[bot]
• Bump the dependencies group across 1 directory with 9 updates (#496) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump the dependencies group in /.config with 4 updates (#494) @dependabot[bot]
• Add merge_group handler for tox workflow (#489) @Qalthos
• Bump the dependencies group in /.config with 4 updates (#491) @dependabot[bot]

Bugfixes

• Enable junit.xml reporting to codecov.io (#486) @Qalthos

Bugfixes

• Make warning signature compatible with ansible core 2.19 (#478) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Add site-package to the end of collection inclusion path (#470) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Avoid get_cache_dir errors with read only virtualenvs (#465) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Avoid get_cache_dir errors with read only virtualenvs (#457) @ssbarnea
• Simplify module presence testing (#460) @ssbarnea
• Fix grammatical error in collection path info message (#456) @bluikko

Bugfixes

• Ensure that cache directory is writable (#453) @ssbarnea

Major

• Inject venv site-packages at the top of collection path (test isolation) (#447) @ssbarnea
• Fail if old ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS is detected (#449) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Patch #449 to use ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH (#450) @ssbarnea

Major

• Support ansible 2.18, drop 2.14/2.15 and py39 (#443) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Change cache_dir location to prefer venv and project_directory (#439) @ssbarnea
• Enable toml-sort-fix (#442) @ssbarnea
• Refactor search_galaxy_paths to use pathlib (#437) @ssbarnea

Enhancements

• Add support for py313 (#416) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Re-init plugin loader after collections installation (#411) (#412) @irozet12

Bugfixes

• Avoid running prepare ansible paths twice (#409) @ssbarnea
• Avoid duplicate paths when path injection (#407) @ssbarnea
• Provide more detail on multiple collection installs (#405) @mrgum

Enhancements

• Add communication details (#400) @oraNod

Bugfixes

• Fix upload-artifact action to work with v4.4 and newer (#403) @alisonlhart

Bugfixes

• Updated dead links in constants.py (#397) @tanwigeetika1618

Bugfixes

• Minor code quality improvements (#390) @cidrblock

Bugfixes

• Allow the caller to set the ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH (#388) @cidrblock
• Don't nuke the collections path (#387) @cidrblock

Enhancements

• Drop support for Ansible 2.12 and 2.13 (#380) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Make collection location cache_dir aware (#384) @ssbarnea
• Correctly identify the installed collections when duplicates exist (#379) @ssbarnea
• Increase coverage (#378) @ssbarnea
• Removed leftover code related to ansible-core before 2.14 (#382) @ssbarnea

Minor Changes

• Add has_playbook method to Runtime (#364) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Fix packaging version to recognize pre-release versions (#371) @ssbarnea
• Update requirements (#365) @ssbarnea
• Allow dashes in role namespaces (#355) @sur5r
• If project_dir is passed, locate requirements within that directory (#339) @audgirka

Bugfixes

• Allow more control over verbosity when calling ansible-galaxy (#278) @ziegenberg
• Fix collection installation with custom project_dir (#343) @ssbarnea
• Fix collection installation bug when having custom config (#344) @ssbarnea
• Add support for python 3.12 (#336) @ssbarnea
• Remove isolated option while adding sys.path (#335) @shatakshiiii

Bugfixes

• Catch empty collection lists (#332) @lod

Bugfixes

• Automatically add --pre when installing collections from git repositories (#327) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Revise site packages collection search test (#325) @cidrblock
• Add only those sys.paths which contain an ansible_collections directory path (#322) @ajinkyau
• Allow git dependencies in galaxy.yml files (#321) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Add sys.path to collection paths (#318) @cidrblock

Bugfixes

• Fix logic on prepare environment (#310) @ssbarnea
• Add smoke testing with ansible-lint (#312) @ssbarnea
• Adapt collection install test to pass with ansible-core 2.15.3 changes (#313) @ssbarnea
• Support meta main yaml extension (#304) @zhan9san

Bugfixes

• Fix find roles inside collection repository (#297) @ajinkyau • Enable packit rpm packaging (#292) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Avoid stdout pollution cause by ansible logging (#287) @ajinkyau

Bugfixes

• Disable Ansible debug mode for sub-commands (#284) @ssbarnea
• Log retry attempt only when doing retries (#283) @ssbarnea

Minor Changes

• Enable access to available plugins (#277) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Avoid creating ~/.ansible/collections (#280) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Improve requirements.yml detection (#275) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Allow use of * version on dependencies (#268) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Automatically install tests/requirements.yml when found (#266) @ssbarnea
• Also install requirements from galaxy.yml files (#265) @ssbarnea
• Include original message in AnsibleWarning (#264) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Revert to previous behavior for ansible_collections_path (#261) @ajinkyau

Major Changes

• Rename Runtime.exec to Runtime.run (#256) @ssbarnea
• Introduce use of JSON recursive type (#253) @ssbarnea
• ruff: Make optional arguments keyword-only (#251) @ssbarnea
• Finish pathlib migration (#245) @ssbarnea
• Make Runtime.project_dir use Path (#244) @ssbarnea
• Migrate some functions to use Path (#243) @ssbarnea
• Make Runtime.cache_dir use Path (#240) @ssbarnea
• Remove support for py38 (#239) @ssbarnea

Minor Changes

• Monkeypatch ansible core Display.warning (#238) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Use YAML safe loader instead of full loader (#255) @ssbarnea
• Use dataclass sorting for json schema errors (#254) @ssbarnea
• ruff: Address more skips (#249) @ssbarnea
• ruff: address TRY and T201 (#248) @ssbarnea
• ruff: Address EM (#247) @ssbarnea
• Convert more code to pathlib (#242) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Change install_collection to avoid use of -p (#233) @ssbarnea
• Correct documentation links (#232) @ssbarnea
• Avoid using -p option with ansible-galaxy install (#230) @ssbarnea
• Fix collection loading (#223) @apatard

Bugfixes

• Avoid double initialization of ansible runtime (#218) @ssbarnea
• Update README.md for 3.0.0 release (#217) @ianw

Major Changes

• Require ansible-core 2.12 or newer (#215) @ssbarnea

Minor Changes

• Address ansible 2.15 compatibility related to AnsibleCollectionConfig (#213) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Required subprocess-tee>=0.4.1 (#211) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Restore offline more functionality (#201) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Adopt PEP-621 for packaging (#195) @ssbarnea
• Revert "Avoid running galaxy on offline mode (#180)" (#192) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Make galaxy installation verbose (#190) @ssbarnea
• Log current directory before running galaxy install (#188) @ssbarnea
• Update build-system dependency for setuptools-scm to >= 7.0.0 (#186) @dvzrv
• Update devtools repo url (#185) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Avoid running galaxy on offline mode (#180) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Correct offline cli arg support check (#178) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Add packaging to dependencies (#173) @ssbarnea
• Pass offline argument to galaxy command when needed (#172) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Avoid galaxy install failure with already symlinked collections (#166) @ssbarnea
• Avoid python warning about unknown warning category (#164) @ssbarnea

Minor Changes

• Allow installation of pre-released collections (#157) @ssbarnea
• Add support for python 3.11 (#155) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Refactor schema testing (#152) @ssbarnea
• Use jsonschema 4.6.0 (#153) @ssbarnea
• Avoid CryptographyDeprecationWarning from paramiko (#150) @ssbarnea

Minor Changes

• Add module to work with schemas (#143) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Expose role_name_check in prepare_environment (#147) @zhan9san
• Install role in cache dir (#135) @zhan9san
• Prevent occasional FileExistsError with symlink recreation (#145) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Add support for tower requirements (#140) @ssbarnea