Prepare release v4.0.0 (#54)

* Prepare release v4.0.0

* changes

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.gitignore

@@ -136,3 +136,4 @@ dmypy.json
 
 # ide
 .vscode
+.plugin-cache.yaml

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -4,6 +4,18 @@ Ansible Network Collection Release Notes
 
 .. contents:: Topics
 
+v4.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+With this release, the minimum required version of `ansible-core` for this collection is `2.15.0`. The last version known to be compatible with `ansible-core` versions below `2.15` is v3.0.0.
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.15.0`, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.
 
 v3.0.0
 ======
@@ -32,7 +44,7 @@ v1.2.0
 Release Summary
 ---------------
 
-- Released 1.2.0 with updated docs.
+Released 1.2.0 with updated docs.
 
 v1.1.0
 ======
@@ -47,12 +59,13 @@ v1.0.1
 
 Release Summary
 ---------------
-- Updated README.md and regenerated documentation.
+
+Updated README.md and regenerated documentation.
 
 v1.0.0
 ======
 
 Release Summary
 ---------------
 
-- Released 1.0.0 with updated changelog.
+Released 1.0.0 with updated changelog.

changelogs/changelog.yaml

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ releases:
   2.0.0:
     changes:
       major_changes:
-        - The platform agnostic resource_manager role has been moved from this collection to network.base (https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.base).
+        - The platform agnostic resource_manager role has been moved from this collection
+          to network.base (https://github.com/redhat-cop/network.base).
     fragments:
       - release_2_0_0.yml
     release_date: "2022-11-17"
@@ -46,3 +47,15 @@ releases:
     fragments:
       - update_required_ansible.yaml
     release_date: "2023-11-30"
+  4.0.0:
+    changes:
+      major_changes:
+        - Bumping `requires_ansible` to `>=2.15.0`, since previous ansible-core versions
+          are EoL now.
+      release_summary:
+        "With this release, the minimum required version of `ansible-core`
+        for this collection is `2.15.0`. The last version known to be compatible with
+        `ansible-core` versions below `2.15` is v3.0.0."
+    fragments:
+      - bump_215.yaml
+    release_date: "2024-06-10"

galaxy.yml

@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ repository: https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.network
 tags: [networking, security, cloud, network_cli, netconf, httpapi, grpc]
 # NOTE(pabelanger): We create an empty version key to keep ansible-galaxy
 # happy. We dynamically inject version info based on git information.
-version: 3.0.0
+version: 4.0.0