From 54084defd015ecc2fd38854537807e68f870bbdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:07:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare 5.0.0-a1.

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+release_summary: |-
+  First alpha release of community.docker 5.0.0.
+
+  The main changes are that the collection dropped support for some ansible-core versions that are End of Life, and thus dropped support for Python 2.7.
+  This allowed to modernize the Python code, in particular with type hints.
+  Also all module and plugin utils are now private to the collection, which makes it easier to refactor code.
+  All these changes should have no effect on end-users.
+
+  The current plan is to release 5.0.0 in time for Ansible 13's feature freeze, so in roughly one week.