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
* removes connection functions refactored into connection
* updates ComplexDict and ComplexList objects to use with AnsibleModule
* updates modules to add new argument to ComplexList & ComplexDict
* updates all ios modules to support persistent socket
* adds ios action plugin to connect to device
* adds exec_command() to ios shared module
* fixes ios_config and ios_template local action
* update all unit test cases
* adds base test module for ios module testing
Toshio Kuratomi
John R Barker
Peter Sprygada