Community.Hrobot Release Notes

v2.5.2

Release Summary

Maintenance release.

Bugfixes

• Avoid using ansible.module_utils.six to avoid deprecation warnings with ansible-core 2.20 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/177).

v2.5.1

Release Summary

Maintenance release.

Bugfixes

• Avoid deprecated functionality in ansible-core 2.20 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/174).

v2.5.0

Release Summary

Feature and bugfix release.

This release adds support for the new Hetzner API for the storage box modules. You need to use hetzner_token instead of hetzner_user/hetzner_password to use the new API. Please note that the old API will be sunset on July 30th, 2025; the modules will then stop working if you do not provide hetzner_token and stop providing hetzner_user/hetzner_password.

Minor Changes

• Introduced a new action group (module defaults group) community.hrobot.api that includes all modules that support the new Hetzner API. This is currently limited to a subset of the storage box modules; these currently support both the community.hrobot.robot and the new community.hrobot.api action group, and will eventually drop the community.hrobot.robot action group once the Robot API for storage boxes is removed by Hetzner (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/166, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/167, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/168, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/169).

• storagebox - support the new Hetzner API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/166).

• storagebox_info - support the new Hetzner API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/166).

• storagebox_set_password - support the new Hetzner API. Note that the new API does not support setting a random password; you must always provide a password when using the new API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/168).

• storagebox_snapshot - support the new Hetzner API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/168).

• storagebox_snapshot_info - support the new Hetzner API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/168).

• storagebox_snapshot_plan - support the new Hetzner API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/167).

• storagebox_snapshot_plan_info - support the new Hetzner API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/167).

• storagebox_subaccount - no longer mark password_mode as no_log (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/168).

• storagebox_subaccount - support the new Hetzner API. Note that the new API does not support setting a random password; you must always provide a password when using the new API to create a storagebox (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/168).

• storagebox_subaccount_info - support the new Hetzner API (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/168).

Bugfixes

• robot inventory plugin - avoid using deprecated option when templating options (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/165).

Known Issues

• storagebox* modules - the Hetzner Robot API for storage boxes is deprecated and will be sunset on July 30, 2025. The modules are currently not compatible with the new API. We will try to adjust them until then, but usage and return values might change slightly due to differences in the APIs. For the new API, an API token needs to be registered and provided as hetzner_token (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/166).

v2.4.0

Release Summary

Bugfix and feature release. This release contains three new modules that support the remaining aspects of Hetzner Storage Boxes that were not covered so far.

Bugfixes

• storagebox - make sure that changes of boolean parameters are sent correctly to the Robot service (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/issues/160, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/161).

New Modules

• community.hrobot.storagebox_snapshot_info - Query the snapshots for a storage box.

• community.hrobot.storagebox_subaccount - Create, update, or delete a subaccount for a storage box.

• community.hrobot.storagebox_subaccount_info - Query the subaccounts for a storage box.

v2.3.0

Release Summary

Feature release.

New Modules

• community.hrobot.storagebox_snapshot - Create, update, or delete a snapshot of a storage box.

v2.2.0

Release Summary

Feature release.

New Modules

• community.hrobot.reset_info - Query information on the resetter of a dedicated server.

v2.1.0

Release Summary

Feature release with several new modules and a deprecation.

Minor Changes

• All modules and plugins now have a rate_limit_retry_timeout option, which allows to configure for how long to wait in case of rate limiting errors. By default, the modules wait indefinitely. Setting the option to 0 does not retry (this was the behavior in previous versions), and a positive value sets a number of seconds to wait at most (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/140).

• boot - it is now possible to specify SSH public keys in authorized_keys. The fingerprint needed by the Robot API will be extracted automatically (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/134).

• v_switch - the module is now part of the community.hrobot.robot action group, despite already being documented as part of it (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/136).

Deprecated Features

• boot - the various arch suboptions have been deprecated and will be removed from community.hrobot 3.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/134).

New Modules

• community.hrobot.storagebox - Modify a storage box’s basic configuration.

• community.hrobot.storagebox_info - Query information on one or more storage boxes.

• community.hrobot.storagebox_set_password - (Re)set the password for a storage box.

• community.hrobot.storagebox_snapshot_plan - Modify a storage box’s snapshot plans.

• community.hrobot.storagebox_snapshot_plan_info - Query the snapshot plans for a storage box.

v2.0.3

Release Summary

Maintenance release with updated documentation.

v2.0.2

Release Summary

Maintenance release with updated documentation.

v2.0.1

Release Summary

Bugfix release.

Bugfixes

• boot - use PHP array form encoding when sending multiple authorized_key (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/issues/112, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/113).

v2.0.0

Release Summary

New major release 2.0.0.

Major Changes

• The community.hrobot collection now depends on the community.library_inventory_filtering_v1 collection. This utility collection provides host filtering functionality for inventory plugins. If you use the Ansible community package, both collections are included and you do not have to do anything special. If you install the collection with ansible-galaxy collection install, it will be installed automatically. If you install the collection by copying the files of the collection to a place where ansible-core can find it, for example by cloning the git repository, you need to make sure that you also have to install the dependency if you are using the inventory plugin (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/101).

Minor Changes

• robot inventory plugin - add filter option which allows to include and exclude hosts based on Jinja2 conditions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/101).

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

• robot inventory plugin - filters is now no longer an alias of simple_filters, but a new, different option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/101).

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

• The collection no longer supports Ansible, ansible-base, and ansible-core releases that are currently End of Life at the time of the 2.0.0 release. This means that Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansible-core 2.12, and ansible-core 2.13 are no longer supported. The collection might still work with these versions, but it can stop working at any moment without advance notice, and this will not be considered a bug (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/101).

v1.9.2

Release Summary

Bugfix release.

Bugfixes

• inventory plugins - add unsafe wrapper to avoid marking strings that do not contain { or } as unsafe, to work around a bug in AWX (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/102).

v1.9.1

Release Summary

Bugfix release.

Security Fixes

• robot inventory plugin - make sure all data received from the Hetzner robot service server is marked as unsafe, so remote code execution by obtaining texts that can be evaluated as templates is not possible (https://www.die-welt.net/2024/03/remote-code-execution-in-ansible-dynamic-inventory-plugins/, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/99).

v1.9.0

Release Summary

Feature and maintenance release.

Minor Changes

• robot inventory plugin - the filters option has been renamed to simple_filters. The old name still works until community.hrobot 2.0.0. Then it will change to allow more complex filtering with the community.library_inventory_filtering_v1 collection’s functionality (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/94).

Deprecated Features

• robot inventory plugin - the filters option has been renamed to simple_filters. The old name will stop working in community.hrobot 2.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/94).

v1.8.2

Release Summary

Maintenance release with updated documentation.

Bugfixes

• Show more information (if available) from error messages (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/89).

v1.8.1

Release Summary

Maintenance release with updated documentation.

From this version on, community.hrobot is using the new Ansible semantic markup in its documentation. If you look at documentation with the ansible-doc CLI tool from ansible-core before 2.15, please note that it does not render the markup correctly. You should be still able to read it in most cases, but you need ansible-core 2.15 or later to see it as it is intended. Alternatively you can look at the devel docsite for the rendered HTML version of the documentation of the latest release.

Known Issues

• Ansible markup will show up in raw form on ansible-doc text output for ansible-core before 2.15. If you have trouble deciphering the documentation markup, please upgrade to ansible-core 2.15 (or newer), or read the HTML documentation on https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/hrobot/.

v1.8.0

Release Summary

Feature release for the Hetzner firewall changes.

Major Changes

• firewall - Hetzner added output rules support to the firewall. This change unfortunately means that using old versions of the firewall module will always set the output rule list to empty, thus disallowing the server to send out packets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/issues/75, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/76).

Minor Changes

• firewall, firewall_info - add filter_ipv6 and rules.output output to support the new IPv6 filtering and output rules features (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/issues/75, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/76).

• firewall, firewall_info - add server_number option that can be used instead of server_ip to identify the server. Hetzner deprecated configuring the firewall by server_ip, so using server_ip will stop at some point in the future (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/77).

v1.7.0

Release Summary

Feature release.

New Modules

• community.hrobot.v_switch - Manage Hetzner’s vSwitch

v1.6.0

Release Summary

Feature release with improved documentation.

Minor Changes

• Added a community.hrobot.robot module defaults group / action group. Use with group/community.hrobot.robot to provide options for all Hetzner Robot modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/65).

v1.5.2

Release Summary

Maintenance release with a documentation improvement.

Minor Changes

• The collection repository conforms to the REUSE specification except for the changelog fragments (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/60).

v1.5.1

Release Summary

Maintenance release with small documentation fixes.

v1.5.0

Release Summary

Maintenance release changing the way licenses are declared. No functional changes.

Minor Changes

• All software licenses are now in the LICENSES/ directory of the collection root. Moreover, SPDX-License-Identifier: is used to declare the applicable license for every file that is not automatically generated (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/52).

v1.4.0

Release Summary

Feature release.

Minor Changes

• robot inventory plugin - allow to template hetzner_user and hetzner_password (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/49).

v1.3.1

Release Summary

Maintenance release.

Bugfixes

• Include simplified_bsd.txt license file for the robot and failover module utils.

v1.3.0

Release Summary

Feature and bugfix release.

Minor Changes

• Prepare collection for inclusion in an Execution Environment by declaring its dependencies (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/45).

Bugfixes

• robot inventory plugin - do not crash if a server neither has name or primary IP set. Instead, fall back to using the server’s number as the name. This can happen if unnamed rack reservations show up in your server list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/issues/40, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/47).

v1.2.3

Release Summary

Docs update release.

v1.2.2

Release Summary

Bugfix release.

Bugfixes

• boot - fix incorrect handling of SSH authorized keys (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/issues/32, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/33).

v1.2.1

Release Summary

Maintenance release.

Minor Changes

• Generic module HTTP support code - fix usage of fetch_url with changes in latest ansible-core devel branch (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/30).

v1.2.0

Release Summary

Feature release with multiple new modules.

Minor Changes

• Avoid internal ansible-core module_utils in favor of equivalent public API available since at least Ansible 2.9 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/18).

• firewall - rename option whitelist_hos to allowlist_hos, keep old name as alias (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/15).

• firewall, firewall_info - add return value allowlist_hos, which contains the same value as whitelist_hos. The old name whitelist_hos will be removed eventually (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/15).

• robot module utils - add allow_empty_result parameter to plugin_open_url_json and fetch_url_json (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/16).

New Modules

• community.hrobot.boot - Set boot configuration

• community.hrobot.reset - Reset a dedicated server

• community.hrobot.reverse_dns - Set or remove reverse DNS entry for IP

• community.hrobot.server - Update server information

• community.hrobot.server_info - Query information on one or more servers

• community.hrobot.ssh_key - Add, remove or update SSH key

• community.hrobot.ssh_key_info - Query information on SSH keys

v1.1.1

Release Summary

Bugfix release which reduces the number of HTTPS queries for the modules and plugins.

Bugfixes

• robot - force HTTP basic authentication to reduce number of HTTPS requests (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/9).

v1.1.0

Release Summary

Release with a new inventory plugin.

New Plugins

Inventory

• community.hrobot.robot - Hetzner Robot inventory source

v1.0.0

Release Summary

The community.hrobot continues the work on the Hetzner Robot modules from their state in community.general 1.2.0. The changes listed here are thus relative to the modules community.general.hetzner_*.

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

• firewall - now requires the ipaddress library (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.hrobot/pull/2).