chore(deps): update dependency ansible.netcommon to v8.6.1

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
ansible.netcommon	galaxy-collection	minor	8.4.0 → 8.6.1

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Release Notes

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

v8.6.1

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Bugfixes

• cli_config: Apply C(diff_ignore_lines) when comparing the before/after running-config snapshots on platforms that support neither onbox diff nor generate diff, so volatile configuration lines no longer cause C(changed=true) on every run (#​156).
• cli_config: Fail with a clear error instead of silently pushing configuration when the connection plugin's capabilities cannot be determined (for example due to a malformed or empty response), rather than treating that failure the same as a platform explicitly declaring no diff support (#​156).
• cli_config: Push configuration and detect changes by comparing running-config snapshots taken before and after the change, for platforms whose cliconf plugin supports neither onbox diff nor generate diff. Previously the configuration was silently never pushed to the device in this scenario (#​156).

v8.6.0

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Minor Changes

• Remediate deprecated ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat module and replaced with collections.abc from the Python standard library.
• Remediate deprecated ansible.module_utils.six module and replaced it with native Python 3 equivalents like pickle, zip, urllib.parse, urllib.error etc.
• Remediate deprecated to_text and to_bytes from ansible.module_utils._text and replaced with ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters.
• Remediate deprecated warnings parameter in exit_json calls by introducing emit_warnings and warn_and_exit utility functions in plugins/module_utils/network/common/utils.py to centralize warning emission logic. The following modules were updated to use warn_and_exit - cli_backup, cli_command, cli_config, cli_restore, grpc_config, grpc_get, netconf_config, netconf_get, netconf_rpc, restconf_config, restconf_get. ResourceModule base class in rm_base/resource_module.py was updated to use emit_warnings, which automatically addresses the deprecation for all downstream collections (e.g. cisco.iosxr, cisco.ios, arista.eos).

v8.5.3

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Bugfixes

• memory cache plugin - Add missing _persistent attribute to CacheModule to fix 'CacheModule' object has no attribute '_persistent' error with ansible-core 2.19+ when single_user_mode caching is enabled (#​781).
• network_cli - Fix proxy_command silently ignored with ssh_type=paramiko (#​776).
• vlan_parser - Fix IndexError when an empty list is passed as input by returning an empty list instead of crashing (#​302).

v8.5.2

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Release Summary

Rereleased 8.5.1 with corrected changelog.

Bugfixes

• network action plugin - initialize _PARSED_MODULE_ARGS in DirectExecutionModule._load_params to avoid AttributeError on ansible-core 2.21+ when fail_json or exit_json is called.

v8.5.1

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v8.5.0

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Minor Changes

• The dependency on ansible-pylibssh (for ssh_type=libssh / network_cli) is now ansible-pylibssh>=1.4.0 in requirements.txt, raised from the previous >=0.2.0 requirement. Installations still on ansible-pylibssh 0.x or 1.x below 1.4.0 must upgrade to use the libssh connection path with this collection release.
• libssh connection - When log_path is set (e.g. via ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH or log_path in ansible.cfg), the plugin now routes ansible-pylibssh (libssh) logs into the same Ansible log file. Log level is derived from display.verbosity using Python standard logging: verbosity 0 -> WARNING, 1-2 -> INFO, 3+ -> DEBUG. This allows SSH/libssh debug and trace output to appear in the configured log file for troubleshooting without changing ansible-pylibssh configuration manually.
• network_cli - The in-collection paramiko path supports the same host key policy behavior (including host_key_auto_add and known_hosts handling) and persistent connection caching as the previous ansible-core paramiko integration.
• network_cli - When ssh_type is set to paramiko, the connection plugin now uses an in-collection paramiko implementation instead of loading ansible-core's paramiko connection plugin. This allows network_cli to work with versions of ansible-core, where the paramiko connection plugin was removed.

Deprecated Features

• network_cli - The in-collection paramiko support (used when ssh_type is paramiko) is a compatibility layer for environments where ansible-core's paramiko connection is no longer available. This layer is deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2028-02-01. Migrate to ssh_type=libssh by installing the ansible-pylibssh package.

Bugfixes

• filter plugins - Add plugin_routing redirects for ipaddr, ipv4, and ipv6 to ansible.utils so short names work when ansible.netcommon is in the play's collection list (ansible-collections/ansible.utils#404).
• filter plugins - Convert filter arguments to native Python types before AnsibleArgSpecValidator so filters work with Ansible 2.19+ lazy containers that cannot be deep-copied (e.g. vlan_parser, vlan_expander, hash_salt, type5_pw, comp_type5, parse_cli, parse_cli_textfsm, parse_xml, pop_ace).
• libssh connection - Fixed test_libssh_put_file unit test so the put_file code path (used by net_put, copy module, and other file transfer over libssh) is properly tested in CI. The test now sets connection options and mocks Session so put_file does not trigger a real connection attempt with an unset host (was failing with "Hostname required").
• network action plugin - Fall back when remove_internal_keys is not importable from ansible.vars.clean (e.g. some ansible-core builds), so direct module execution still cleans module return data.
• network_cli - Fixed file transfer (net_put / net_get) when ssh_type=libssh. For put_file, no longer call_connect_uncached() before delegating to the libssh connection the libssh plugin's put_file() calls _connect() internally. For fetch_file, call _connect() then fetch_file() for libssh instead of _connect_uncached(), so connection caching and the correct flow are used. Paramiko branch unchanged (still uses _connect_uncached() for scp/sftp).

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