Release 0.40.0 · ansible-community/antsibull

Release Summary

Feature and bugfix release.

Responsive parameter and return value tables. Also use RST tables instead of HTML blobs (#335).

Add a changelog (#378).
Allow to specify collection_cache in config file (#375).
Allow to still use HTML blobs for parameter and return value tables. This can be controlled by a CLI option --use-html-blobs and by a global config option use_html_blobs (#360).
Avoid prereleases when creating the .build file in antsibull-build new-acd. The old behavior of including them can be obtained by passing the --allow-prereleases option (#298).
Change ansible-base references in documentation and code to ansible-core where it makes sense (#353).
During docs build, only write/copy files to the destination that have changed assuming they are not too large (#374).
Improve build-ansible.sh script integrated in the release tarball (#369).
Improve galaxy-requirements.yaml generation (#350).
Mention new options in the porting guide (#363).
Modify thread_max default value from 80 to 8 (#365, #370).
Move modules to beginning of plugin index (#336).
Remove unnecessary Python 2 boilerplates (#371).
Simplify ansible-core dependency in setup.py with compatibility operator (#346).
Split antsibull-build single subcommand into prepare and rebuild-single subcommand (#341).
Stop using deprecated Python standard library distutils.version (#372).
Various improvements to the build role (#338).

The antsibull-build single subcommand is deprecated. Use the prepare and rebuild-single subcommands instead (#341).

Fix rsync flags in build scripts generated by antsibull-docs sphinx-init to allow Sphinx to not rebuild unchanged files (#357).
Fix boolean logic error when --skip-indexes was used in antsibull-docs (#377).
Fix feature freeze handling after Beta 1 in build role (#337).
Require Python 3.8 for Ansible 5 (#345).