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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Update	Change
ansible.netcommon	minor	8.7.1 → 8.8.0

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ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon (ansible.netcommon)

v8.8.0

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Release Summary

Releasing 8.8.0 with minor changes marking connection plugin credential options as sensitive, along with libssh and netconf related bugfixes.

Minor Changes

• enable become plugin - mark the become_pass option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (#​816).
• grpc connection plugin - mark the password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (#​816).
• httpapi connection plugin - mark the password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (#​816).
• libssh connection plugin - mark the password and private_key_passphrase options as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (#​816).
• netconf connection plugin - mark the password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (#​816).
• network_cli connection plugin - mark the password option as sensitive so that ansible-core 2.22+ will automatically redact its values in outputs (#​816).

Bugfixes

• Address ansible devel changes for loader.py by creating init.py for actions to prevent failures during collection loading.
• libssh connection plugin - pass text paths to pylibssh SFTP operations so file transfers work with pylibssh versions that require string paths.
• network_cli - with ssh_type=libssh, fail immediately with a clear error when the remote device closes the channel while waiting for a prompt (for example due to a device-side exec or idle timeout, or right after login), instead of polling the closed channel until persistent_command_timeout expires and reporting a misleading command timeout. The closed connection is dropped so that the next task starts a fresh one (#​820).

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