Changes to the metadata format were approved here:
https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/54
* Update documentation to the new metadata format
* Changes to metadata-tool to account for new metadata
* Add GPL license header
* Add upgrade subcommand to upgrade metadata version
* Change default metadata to the new format
* Fix exclusion of non-modules from the metadata report
* Fix ansible-doc for new module metadata
* Exclude metadata version from ansible-doc output
* Fix website docs generation for the new metadata
* Update metadata schema in valiate-modules test
* Update the metadata in all modules to the new version
* updates all iosxr modules to support persistent socket
* adds iosxr action plugin to connect to device
* adds exec_command() to iosxr shared module
* fixes iosxr_config and iosxr_template local action
* update all unit test cases
* adds base test module for iosxr module testing
The comment argument can be at most 60 characters per the IOS XR command
line. If a comment is > 60 characters, the module will now gracefully error
and return a well formed message.
fixes 5146
When the configuration is compared and the results deserialized, the
dumps() function returns a string. This cohereces the return to a list
in case before and/or after needs to be applied
fixes 4707
* add src argument to provide path to config file
* add new choice to match used to ignore current running config
* add update argument with choices merge, replace or check
* add backup argument to backup current running config to control host
* add comment argument to provide comment to commit
* deprecated force argument, use match=none instead
This adds a new module, iosxr_config, that can be used for configuring
Cisco IOS XR devices. It is provides a set of arguments for sending
configuration commands to the device over cli