v5.0.0a0

[ssbarnea]

Major Changes

• Remove lint command (Remove lint command #3802) @ssbarnea

Minor Changes

• Replace sphinx documentation with mkdocs (Replace sphinx documentation with mkdocs #3811) @ssbarnea
• Require ansible-core>=2.12.10 (Require ansible-core>=2.12.10 #3799) @ssbarnea
• Remove support for python3.8 (Remove support for python3.8 #3770) @ssbarnea
• Adopt PEP-621 for packaging (Adopt PEP-621 for packaging #3767) @ssbarnea

Bugfixes

• Documentation: Improve group names (Documentation: Improve group names #3812) @ltog
• Better indentation in verify template (Better indentation in verify template #3816) @muellerbe
• Replace sphinx documentation with mkdocs (Replace sphinx documentation with mkdocs #3811) @ssbarnea
• Remove embedded dockerfile (Remove embedded dockerfile #3824) @ssbarnea
• Upgrade linters (Upgrade linters #3813)
• Add support for custom driver name (Add support for custom driver name #3795) @gciavarrini
• Document molecule-plugins package (Document molecule-plugins package #3805) @ssbarnea
• Update test dependencies (Update test dependencies #3800) @ssbarnea
• Fix rpm building (Fix rpm building #3798) @ssbarnea
• Reorder heading and reformat badges (Reorder heading and reformat badges #3778) @mamercad
• Fixed typo in docs/ci.rst (Fixed typo in docs/ci.rst #3796) @mitchellroe
• Bump test dependencies (Bump test dependencies #3797) @ssbarnea

Deprecations

• Remove lint command (Remove lint command #3802) @ssbarnea

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This discussion was created from the release v5.0.0a0.

[pru-anixe]

Any details on why lint command is removed?

[ssbarnea]

We will add some documentation with explanations regarding the decoupling before we release v5.

Shortly is these are two different testing methods which are expected to be run in very different ways. Linting should be run per entire repository. Molecule executions are per scenario and one project can have even >100 scenarios. Running lint on each of them would not only slowdown but also increase the maintenance burden on linter configuration and the way is called.

We will likely recommend users to run ansible-lint using pre-commit with or without tox, the same way we run it in other repositories. That gives much better control over how/when it is updated.