Avoids a race condition where previously the registered variable message
was being sent after the 'host_task_ok' message, meaning the next task
may be started before the var is registered, leading to an undefined
variable error
* PluginLoader class will now be more selective about loading some
plugin classes, if a required base class is specified (used to avoid
loading v1 plugins that have changed significantly in their apis)
* Added ability for the connection info class to read values from a
given hosts variables, to support "magic" variables
* Added some more magic variables to the VariableManager output
* Fixed a bug in the ActionBase class, where the module configuration
code was not correctly handling unicode
James Cammarata