Release 0.42.0 · ansible-community/antsibull

Release Summary

Major feature release preparing for Ansible 6. Also adds support for the new collection links file, and improves the attributes tables.

Allow collections to specify extra links (#355).
Building Ansible 6+ now builds wheels next to the source tarball (#394).
From Ansible 6 on, improve setup.py to exclude unnecessary files in the Python distribution (#342).
Remove Ansible 2.9 / ansible-base 2.10 checks from setup.py for Ansible 6 so that we can finally ship wheels. This change is only active for Ansible 6 (#394).

Add a new docs parsing backend ansible-core-2.13, which supports ansible-core 2.13+ (#401).
Add an autodetection auto for the docs parsing backend to select the fastest supported backend. This is the new default (#401).
Add option --no-semantic-versioning to antsibull-lint changelog-yaml command (#405).
Change more references to ansible-base to ansible-core in the code (#398).
If the role is used to build a non-alpha or first beta version and the bulid file does not exist, it is created instead of later failing because it does not exist (#408).
Mention the ansible-core major version in the Ansible porting guide (#397).
Redo attributes table using the same structure as the options and return value table. This improves its look and adds a linking mechanism (#401).

Fix ansible-core version parsing for ansible-doc docs parsing backend (#401).
Fix filename of mentioned ansible-core porting guide in Ansible's porting guide introductionary comment (#398).
antsibull-docs will no longer traceback when it tries to process plugins not found in its own constant but are available in ansible-core (#404).