7.0.0

General comments and important changes

A lot of things happened for this release. Thank you to all the contributors!

Amongst the major changes:

• We removed support of CentOS 7 in this release.
• We re-introduced debian testing, and rockylinux 8.
• We worked on tests: Increased coverage, validation of templates before they are applied, stabilized test suite.

See more details below, or go to the full changelog (link below).

What's Changed

• General ansible practices refresh by @Kariton in #205
• Make way for using dependabot for requirements by @evrardjp in #206
• Add dependabot for version updates by @evrardjp in #207
• Add new features vrrp_track_file, track_files, (no) accept, and safeguards. by @Kariton in #204
• Update ansible-lint requirement from <=5.4.0 to <6.4.0 by @dependabot in #208
• Ensure a masked unit does not break the role by @evrardjp in #210
• Remove deprecation warning "Use 'ansible.utils.ipaddr' module instead" by @zerwes in #211
• Fix meta for ansible-lint by @evrardjp in #214
• Update default scenario OSes by @evrardjp in #215
• Use systemd module now that bugs have been fixed by @evrardjp in #212
• Validate configuration if keepalived >= 2.0.4 by @evrardjp in #217
• Add more meta tags to improve visibility on galaxy by @evrardjp in #218
• Make vips optional by @evrardjp in #220
• Add monthly test of keepalived by @evrardjp in #221

New Contributors

• @Kariton made their first contribution in #205
• @dependabot made their first contribution in #208

Full Changelog: 6.1.0...7.0.0