Mitogen

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* :gh:issue:`1127` :mod:`mitogen`: Consolidate mitogen backward compatibility
fallbacks and polyfills into :mod:`mitogen.core`
* :gh:issue:`1127` :mod:`ansible_mitogen`: Remove backward compatibility
fallbacks for Python 2.4 & 2.5.
* :gh:issue:`1127` :mod:`ansible_mitogen`: Remove fallback imports for Ansible

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* :gh:issue:`950` Fix Solaris/Illumos/SmartOS compatibility with become
* :gh:issue:`1087` Fix :exc:`mitogen.core.StreamError` when Ansible template
module is called with a ``dest:`` filename that has an extension
* :gh:issue:`1110` Fix :exc:`mitogen.core.StreamError` when Ansible copy
module is called with a file larger than 124 kibibytes
(:data:`ansible_mitogen.connection.Connection.SMALL_FILE_LIMIT`)
* :gh:issue:`905` Initial support for templated ``ansible_ssh_args``,
``ansible_ssh_common_args``, and ``ansible_ssh_extra_args`` variables.
NB: play or task scoped variables will probably still fail.
* :gh:issue:`694` CI: Fixed a race condition and some resource leaks causing
some of intermittent failures when running the test suite.

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* :gh:issue:`1097` Respect `ansible_facts.discovered_interpreter_python` when
executing non new-style modules (e.g. JSONARGS style, WANT_JSON style).
* :gh:issue:`1074` Support Ansible 10 (ansible-core 2.17)

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* :gh:issue:`952` Fix Ansible `--ask-become-pass`, add test coverage
* :gh:issue:`957` Fix Ansible exception when executing against 10s of hosts
"ValueError: filedescriptor out of range in select()"
* :gh:issue:`1066` Support Ansible `ansible_host_key_checking` & `ansible_ssh_host_key_checking`
* :gh:issue:`1090` CI: Migrate macOS integration tests to macOS 12, drop Python 2.7 jobs

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* :gh:issue:`1021` Support for Ansible 8 (ansible-core 2.15)
* tests: Replace uses of ``include:`` & ``import:``, unsupported in Ansible 9
* :gh:issue:`1053` Support for Ansible 9 (ansible-core 2.16)

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* :gh:issue:`974` Support Ansible 7
* :gh:issue:`1046` Raise :py:exc:`TypeError` in :func:`<mitogen.util.cast()>`
when casting a string subtype to `bytes()` or `str()` fails. This is
potentially an API breaking change. Failures previously passed silently.
* :gh:issue:`1046` Add :func:`<ansible_mitogen.util.cast()>`, to cast
:class:`ansible.utils.unsafe_proxy.AnsibleUnsafe` objects in Ansible 7+.