Release 4.5.0.

changelogs/fragments/3703-force-install-homebrew-cask.yml

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-bugfixes:
-  - homebrew_cask - fix force install operation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3703).

changelogs/fragments/3907-pacman-speedup.yml

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-minor_changes:
-  - pacman - the module has been rewritten and is now much faster when using ``state=latest``.
-    Operations are now done all packages at once instead of package per package
-    and the configured output format of ``pacman`` no longer affect the module's operation.
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3907, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/3783, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4079)

changelogs/fragments/3916-fix-vdo-options-type.yml

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-bugfixes:
-  - vdo - fix options error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4163).

changelogs/fragments/4.5.0.yml

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-release_summary: Regular feature and bugfix release.

changelogs/fragments/4029-proxmox-refactor.yml

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----
-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox modules - move common code into ``module_utils`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4029).

changelogs/fragments/4061-fix-mail-recipient-encoding.yml

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-bugfixes:
-  - mail callback plugin - fix encoding of the name of sender and recipient (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4060, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4061).

changelogs/fragments/4086-rework_of_gitlab_proyect_variable_over_gitlab_group_variable.yml

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-bugfixes:
-  - >
-    gitlab_group_variable - allow to set same variable name under different environment scopes.
-    Due this change, the return value ``group_variable`` differs from previous version in check mode.
-    It was counting ``updated`` values, because it was accidentally overwriting environment scopes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038).
-  - gitlab_group_variable - fix idempotent change behaviour for float and integer variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038).
-  - gitlab_group_variable - add missing documentation about GitLab versions that support ``environment_scope`` and ``variable_type`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038).
-minor_changes:
-  - gitlab_group_variable - new ``variables`` parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4038 and https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4074).

changelogs/fragments/4105-opentelemetry_plugin-enrich_jira_hetzner_jenkins_services.yaml

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-minor_changes:
-    - opentelemetry_plugin - enrich service when using the ``jenkins``, ``hetzner`` or ``jira`` modules (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4105).

changelogs/fragments/4106-proxmox-efidisk0-support.yaml

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-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox_kvm - added EFI disk support when creating VM with OVMF UEFI BIOS with new ``efidisk0`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4106, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1638).

changelogs/fragments/4136-gitlab_runner-make-project-owned-mutually-exclusive.yml

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-bugfixes:
-  - 'gitlab_runner - make ``project`` and ``owned`` mutually exclusive (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4136).'

changelogs/fragments/4150-gitlab-project-variable-absent-fix.yml

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-bugfixes:
-  - gitlab_project_variable - ``value`` is not necessary when deleting variables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4150).

changelogs/fragments/4151-dconf-catch-psutil-nosuchprocess.yaml

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-bugfixes:
-  - "dconf - skip processes that disappeared while we inspected them (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4151)."

changelogs/fragments/4154-ini_file_changed.yml

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-bugfixes:
-  - ini_file - when removing nothing do not report changed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4154).

changelogs/fragments/4168-add-keycloak-url-timeout.yml

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-minor_changes:
-  - "keycloak_* modules - added connection timeout parameter when calling server (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4168)."

changelogs/fragments/4179-linode-inventory-cache.yaml

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-minor_changes:
-  - linode inventory plugin - add support for caching inventory results (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4179).

changelogs/fragments/4183-fix-yum_versionlock.yaml

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-bugfixes:
-  - "yum_versionlock - fix matching of existing entries with names passed to the module. Match yum and dnf lock format (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4183)."

changelogs/fragments/4191-proxmox-add-win11.yml

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-minor_changes:
-  - proxmox_kwm - add ``win11`` to ``ostype`` parameter for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 support (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4023, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4191).

changelogs/fragments/4192-improve-passwordstore-consistency.yml

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-bugfixes:
-  - passwordstore lookup plugin - prevent returning path names as passwords by accident (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4185, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4192).

changelogs/fragments/4194-configurable-passwordstore-locking.yml

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-minor_changes:
-  - passwordstore lookup plugin - add configurable ``lock`` and ``locktimeout`` options to avoid race conditions in itself and in the ``pass`` utility it calls. By default, the plugin now locks on write operations (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4194).

changelogs/fragments/4206-imc-rest-module.yaml

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-bugfixes:
-  - imc_rest - fixes the module failure due to the usage of ``itertools.izip_longest`` which is not available in Python 3 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4206).

changelogs/fragments/4212-fixes-for-keycloak-user-federation.yml

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-bugfixes:
-  - keycloak_user_federation - creating a user federation while specifying an
-    ID (that does not exist yet) no longer fail with a 404 Not Found
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4212).
-  - keycloak_user_federation - mappers auto-created by keycloak are matched and
-    merged by their name and no longer create duplicated entries
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4212).

changelogs/fragments/4219-passwordstore-locale-fix.yml

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-bugfixes:
-  - passwordstore lookup plugin - fix error detection for non-English locales (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4219).

changelogs/fragments/4232-text-converter-import.yml

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-minor_changes:
-  - "Avoid internal ansible-core module_utils in favor of equivalent public API available since at least Ansible 2.9. This fixes some instances added since the last time this was fixed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/4232)."

changelogs/fragments/4240-ansible_galaxy_install-no_deps.yml

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-minor_changes:
-  - ansible_galaxy_install - added option ``no_deps`` to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4174).