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+# Community Sops Release Notes
+
+**Topics**
+- v1\.6\.7
+ - Release Summary
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.6\.6
+ - Release Summary
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.6\.5
+ - Release Summary
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.6\.4
+ - Release Summary
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.6\.3
+ - Release Summary
+ - Known Issues
+- v1\.6\.2
+ - Release Summary
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.6\.1
+ - Release Summary
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.6\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+- v1\.5\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+ - New Playbooks
+ - New Roles
+- v1\.4\.1
+ - Release Summary
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.4\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+- v1\.3\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+- v1\.2\.3
+ - Release Summary
+- v1\.2\.2
+ - Release Summary
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.2\.1
+ - Release Summary
+- v1\.2\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.1\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+ - New Plugins
+ - Filter
+- v1\.0\.6
+ - Release Summary
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.0\.5
+ - Release Summary
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.0\.4
+ - Release Summary
+ - Security Fixes
+- v1\.0\.3
+ - Release Summary
+ - Bugfixes
+- v1\.0\.2
+ - Release Summary
+- v1\.0\.1
+ - Release Summary
+- v1\.0\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+- v0\.2\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - Minor Changes
+- v0\.1\.0
+ - Release Summary
+ - New Plugins
+ - Lookup
+ - Vars
+ - New Modules
+
+
+## v1\.6\.7
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Bugfix release\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* sops\_encrypt \- ensure that output\-type is set to yaml when the file extension \.yml is used\. Now both \.yaml and \.yml files use the SOPS \-\-output\-type\=yaml formatting \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/issues/164](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/issues/164)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.6\.6
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Make fully compatible with and test against sops 3\.8\.0\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* Fix RPM URL for the 3\.8\.0 release \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/161](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/161)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.6\.5
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Make compatible with and test against sops 3\.8\.0\-rc\.1\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* Avoid pre\-releases when picking the latest version when using the GitHub API method \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/159](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/159)\)\.
+* Fix changed DEB and RPM URLs for 3\.8\.0 and its prerelease\(s\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/159](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/159)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.6\.4
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Maintenance/bugfix release for the move of sops to the new [getsops GitHub organization](https\://github\.com/getsops)\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* install role \- fix sops\_github\_latest\_detection\=latest\-release\, which broke due to sops moving to another GitHub organization \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/151](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/151)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.6\.3
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Maintenance release with updated documentation\.
+
+From this version on\, community\.sops is using the new [Ansible semantic markup](https\://docs\.ansible\.com/ansible/devel/dev\_guide/developing\_modules\_documenting\.html\#semantic\-markup\-within\-module\-documentation)
+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](https\://docs\.ansible\.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/sops/)
+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/sops/](https\://docs\.ansible\.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/sops/)\.
+
+
+## v1\.6\.2
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Maintenance release\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* install role \- make sure that the pkg\_mgr fact is definitely available when installing on localhost\. This can improve error messages in some cases \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/issues/145](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/issues/145)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/146](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/146)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.6\.1
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Maintenance release\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* action plugin helper \- fix handling of deprecations for ansible\-core 2\.14\.2 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/136](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/136)\)\.
+* various plugins \- remove unnecessary imports \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/133](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/133)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.6\.0
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Feature release improving the installation role\.
+
+
+### Minor Changes
+
+* install role \- add sops\_github\_latest\_detection option that allows to configure which method to use for detecting the latest release on GitHub\. By default \(auto\) first tries to retrieve a list of recent releases using the API\, and if that fails due to rate limiting\, tries to obtain the latest GitHub release from a semi\-documented URL \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/133](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/133)\)\.
+* install role \- add sops\_github\_token option to allow passing a GitHub token\. This can for example be used to avoid rate limits when using the role in GitHub Actions \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/132](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/132)\)\.
+* install role \- implement another method to determine the latest release on GitHub than using the GitHub API\, which can make installation fail due to rate\-limiting \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/131](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/131)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.5\.0
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Feature release\.
+
+
+### Minor Changes
+
+* Automatically install GNU Privacy Guard \(GPG\) in execution environments\. To install Mozilla sops a manual step needs to be added to the EE definition\, see the collection\'s documentation for details \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/98](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/98)\)\.
+
+
+### New Playbooks
+
+* community\.sops\.install \- Installs sops and GNU Privacy Guard on all remote hosts
+* community\.sops\.install\_localhost \- Installs sops and GNU Privacy Guard on localhost
+
+
+### New Roles
+
+* community\.sops\.install \- Install Mozilla sops
+
+
+## v1\.4\.1
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Maintenance release to improve compatibility with future ansible\-core releases\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* load\_vars \- ensure compatibility with newer versions of ansible\-core \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/121](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/121)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.4\.0
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Feature release\.
+
+
+### Minor Changes
+
+* Allow to specify age keys as age\_key\, or age keyfiles as age\_keyfile \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/issues/116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/issues/116)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/117](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/117)\)\.
+* sops\_encrypt \- allow to specify age recipients \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/issues/116](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/issues/116)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/117](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/117)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.3\.0
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Feature release\.
+
+
+### Minor Changes
+
+* All software licenses are now in the LICENSES/ directory of the collection root\, and the collection repository conforms to the [REUSE specification](https\://reuse\.software/spec/) except for the changelog fragments \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/sops/108](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.crypto/sops/108)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/113](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/113)\)\.
+* sops vars plugin \- added a configuration option to temporarily disable the vars plugin \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/114](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/114)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.2\.3
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Fix formatting bug in documentation\. No code changes\.
+
+
+## v1\.2\.2
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Maintenance release\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* Include simplified\_bsd\.txt license file for the sops module utils\.
+
+
+## v1\.2\.1
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Maintenance release with updated documentation\.
+
+
+## v1\.2\.0
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Collection release for inclusion in Ansible 4\.9\.0 and 5\.1\.0\.
+
+This release contains a change allowing to configure generic plugin options with ansible\.cfg keys and env variables\.
+
+
+### Minor Changes
+
+* sops lookup and vars plugin \- allow to configure almost all generic options by ansible\.cfg entries and environment variables \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/81](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/81)\)\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* Fix error handling in calls of the sops binary when negative errors are returned \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/issues/82](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/issues/82)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/83](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/83)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.1\.0
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+A minor release for inclusion in Ansible 4\.2\.0\.
+
+
+### Minor Changes
+
+* Avoid internal ansible\-core module\_utils in favor of equivalent public API available since at least Ansible 2\.9 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/73](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/73)\)\.
+
+
+### New Plugins
+
+
+#### Filter
+
+* community\.sops\.decrypt \- Decrypt sops\-encrypted data
+
+
+## v1\.0\.6
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+This release makes the collection compatible to the latest beta release of ansible\-core 2\.11\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* action\_module plugin helper \- make compatible with latest changes in ansible\-core 2\.11\.0b3 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/58](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/58)\)\.
+* community\.sops\.load\_vars \- make compatible with latest changes in ansible\-core 2\.11\.0b3 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/58](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/58)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.0\.5
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+This release fixes a bug that prevented correct YAML file to be created when the output was ending in \.yaml\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* community\.sops\.sops\_encrypt \- use output type yaml when path ends with \.yaml \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/56](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/56)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.0\.4
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+This is a security release\, fixing a potential information leak in the community\.sops\.sops\_encrypt module\.
+
+
+### Security Fixes
+
+* community\.sops\.sops\_encrypt \- mark the aws\_secret\_access\_key and aws\_session\_token parameters as no\_log to avoid leakage of secrets \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/54](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/54)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.0\.3
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+This release include some fixes to Ansible docs and required changes for inclusion in Ansible\.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+* community\.sops\.sops lookup plugins \- fix wrong format of Ansible variables so that these are actually used \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/51](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/51)\)\.
+* community\.sops\.sops vars plugins \- remove non\-working Ansible variables \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/51](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/51)\)\.
+
+
+## v1\.0\.2
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Fix of 1\.0\.1 release which had no changelog entry\.
+
+
+## v1\.0\.1
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Re\-release of 1\.0\.0 to counteract error during release\.
+
+
+## v1\.0\.0
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+First stable release\. This release is expected to be included in Ansible 3\.0\.0\.
+
+
+### Minor Changes
+
+* All plugins and modules\: allow to pass generic sops options with new options config\_path\, enable\_local\_keyservice\, keyservice\. Also allow to pass AWS parameters with options aws\_profile\, aws\_access\_key\_id\, aws\_secret\_access\_key\, and aws\_session\_token \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/47](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/47)\)\.
+* community\.sops\.sops\_encrypt \- allow to pass encryption\-specific options kms\, gcp\_kms\, azure\_kv\, hc\_vault\_transit\, pgp\, unencrypted\_suffix\, encrypted\_suffix\, unencrypted\_regex\, encrypted\_regex\, encryption\_context\, and shamir\_secret\_sharing\_threshold to sops \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/47](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/47)\)\.
+
+
+## v0\.2\.0
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+This release adds features for the lookup and vars plugins\.
+
+
+### Minor Changes
+
+* community\.sops\.sops lookup plugin \- add empty\_on\_not\_exist option which allows to return an empty string instead of an error when the file does not exist \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/33](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/33)\)\.
+* community\.sops\.sops vars plugin \- add option to control caching \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/32](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/32)\)\.
+* community\.sops\.sops vars plugin \- add option to determine when vars are loaded \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/32](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.sops/pull/32)\)\.
+
+
+## v0\.1\.0
+
+
+### Release Summary
+
+First release of the community\.sops collection\!
+This release includes multiple plugins\: an action plugin\, a lookup plugin and a vars plugin\.
+
+
+### New Plugins
+
+
+#### Lookup
+
+* community\.sops\.sops \- Read sops encrypted file contents
+
+
+#### Vars
+
+* community\.sops\.sops \- Loading sops\-encrypted vars files
+
+
+### New Modules
+
+* community\.sops\.load\_vars \- Load sops\-encrypted variables from files\, dynamically within a task
+* community\.sops\.sops\_encrypt \- Encrypt data with sops
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md.license b/CHANGELOG.md.license
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..edff8c7
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+++ b/CHANGELOG.md.license
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Ansible Project
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 45ce066..ae6325f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Community Sops Release Notes
.. contents:: Topics
-
v1.6.7
======
@@ -75,7 +74,6 @@ 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
------------
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 537822e..29076aa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ See [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
## Release notes
-See [CHANGELOG.rst](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.sops/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst).
+See [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.sops/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md).
## Releasing, Versioning and Deprecation
diff --git a/changelogs/config.yaml b/changelogs/config.yaml
index 844c5de..b31f77f 100644
--- a/changelogs/config.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/config.yaml
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ keep_fragments: false
mention_ancestor: true
new_plugins_after_name: removed_features
notesdir: fragments
+output_formats:
+- rst
+- md
prelude_section_name: release_summary
prelude_section_title: Release Summary
sections: