files/file: add support for symbolic permission modes
Update docs to include directories inside group_vars
Added note on which version did dirs in group_vars start working
ELB enhancements

* connection draining
* cross AZ load balancing
Adds support for `kern_id` param in ec2_ls module.
Adds RAM disk id support for ec2_lc module.
Adds support for IAM instance profile in ec2_lc module
Adds support for EBS optimized instances in ecl_lc module.
Adds the possibility to attach a public IP address to instances launched into an autoscaling group within a VPC to ec2_lc module.
Adds support for instance monitoring in ec2_lc module.
Issue with printing unicode non-english characters #8425 patch
Unarchive should work when parent directory is not writable

Correct unarchive so that the checks for writeability are
sensible.

Added a test for when parent directory is not writable
Only chown on atomic move if invoked as root

Linux and BSD derivatives do not allow unprivileged users to
"give away" files to others for security reasons. (System V
derivatives allow that but they're rare nowadays.)
Try optimistic chown, do not error out if not permitted to chown

Add unit test
Fix RDS AWS connection

Use the common AWS connection improvements so that security_token,
boto_profile etc. are taken into account
Correct variable blending from vars_files with hostvars in them

Fixes #8638
roles: make role_path (path of current role) available as variable to the task
variable merging: detect if both vars are really dicts when combining/merging dicts
InventoryScript: better syntax checking for json stream
Tweak error language in dict validation