Update dependency ansible.windows to v2.8.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
ansible.windows	galaxy-collection	minor	2.1.0 → 2.8.0

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Release Notes

ansible-collections/ansible.windows (ansible.windows)

v2.8.0

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Release Summary

Release summary for v2.8.0

Minor Changes

• setup - Remove dependency on shared function loaded by Ansible
• win_get_url - Added checksum and checksum_algorithm to verify the package before installation. Also returns checksum if checksum_algorithm is provided - #​596

Bugfixes

• setup - Add better detection for VMWare base virtualization platforms - #​753
• win_package - Support check mode with local file path sources

v2.7.0

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Release Summary

Release summary for v2.7.0

Minor Changes

• win_get_url - if checksum is passed and destination file exists with different checksum file is always downloaded (#​717)
• win_get_url - if checksum is passed and destination file exists with identical checksum no download is done unless force=yes (#​717)
• win_group - Added --diff output support.
• win_group - Added members option to set the group membership. This is designed to replace the functionality of the win_group_membership module.
• win_group - Added sid return value representing the security identifier of the group when state=present.
• win_group - Migrate to newer Ansible.Basic fragment for better input validation and testing support.

Bugfixes

• win_group_membership - Fix bug when input members contained duplicate members that were not already present in the group - #​736

New Modules

• win_audit_policy_system - Used to make changes to the system wide Audit Policy
• win_audit_rule - Adds an audit rule to files, folders, or registry keys
• win_auto_logon - Adds or Sets auto logon registry keys.
• win_computer_description - Set windows description, owner and organization
• win_credential - Manages Windows Credentials in the Credential Manager
• win_feature_info - Gather information about Windows features
• win_file_compression - Alters the compression of files and directories on NTFS partitions.
• win_http_proxy - Manages proxy settings for WinHTTP
• win_inet_proxy - Manages proxy settings for WinINet and Internet Explorer
• win_listen_ports_facts - Recopilates the facts of the listening ports of the machine
• win_mapped_drive - Map network drives for users
• win_product_facts - Provides Windows product and license information
• win_route - Add or remove a static route
• win_user_profile - Manages the Windows user profiles.

v2.6.0

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Release Summary

Release summary for v2.6.0. Includes various modules promoted from community.windows.

Minor Changes

• Added support for Windows Server 2025
• setup - Added ansible_os_install_date as the OS installation date in the ISO 8601 format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ. This date is represented in the UTC timezone - #​663

Bugfixes

• ansible.windows.win_powershell - Add extra checks to avoid GetType error when converting the output object - ttps[//github.com/Method invocation failed because the interface does not contain a method named 'GetType' ansible-collections/ansible.windows#708](//redirect.github.com/Method invocation failed because the interface does not contain a method named 'GetType' ansible-collections/ansible.windows#708)8
• win_powershell - Ensure $Ansible.Result = @​() as an empty array is returned as an empty list and not null - #​686
• win_updates - Only set the Access control sections on the temporary directory created by the module. This avoids the error when the SeSecurityPrivilege privilege isn't present.

New Modules

• win_certificate_info - Get information on certificates from a Windows Certificate Store
• win_dhcp_lease - Manage Windows Server DHCP Leases
• win_dns_record - Manage Windows Server DNS records
• win_dns_zone - Manage Windows Server DNS Zones
• win_eventlog - Manage Windows event logs
• win_firewall - Enable or disable the Windows Firewall
• win_hosts - Manages hosts file entries on Windows.
• win_hotfix - Install and uninstalls Windows hotfixes
• win_region - Set the region and format settings
• win_timezone - Sets Windows machine timezone

v2.5.0

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Release Summary

Release summary for v2.5.0. This is the first release that provides official support for using the ssh connection plugin.

Minor Changes

• Set minimum supported Ansible version to 2.15 to align with the versions still supported by Ansible.
• owner - Migrated to Ansible.Basic format to add basic checks like invocation args checking
• win_powershell - Changed sensitive_parameters to use New-Object, rather than ::new()

Bugfixes

• setup - Better handle orphaned users when attempting to retrieve ansible_machine_id - #​606
• win_owner - Try to enable extra privileges if available to set the owner even when the caller may not have explicit rights to do so normally - #​633
• win_powershell - Fix up depth handling on $Ansible.Result when using a custom executable - #​642
• win_powershell - increase open timeout for executable parameter to prevent exceptions on first-run or slower targets. (#​644).
• win_updates - Base64 encode the update wrapper and payload to prevent locale-specific encoding issues.
• win_updates - Handle race condition when Wait-Process did not handle when the process had ended - #​623

v2.4.0

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Release Summary

Release summary for v2.4.0

Minor Changes

• win_powershell - Added the sensitive_parameters option that can be used to pass in a SecureString or PSCredential parameter value.
• win_setup - Added the ansible_win_rm_certificate_thumbprint fact to display the thumbprint of the certificate in use
• win_user - Added the ability to set an account expiration date using the account_expires option - #​610

Bugfixes

• setup - Provide WMI/CIM fallback for facts that rely on SMBIOS when that is unavailable

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