updated changelog

Author: Bill Sirinek

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ## Development
 
+* Ensure the patching.json file exists by creating a blank file if it was previously missing.
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+  Contributed by Bill Sirinek (@sirinek)
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 * use 'name' instead of 'host' to better represent targets in inventory
 
   Contributed by Vadym Chepkov (@vchepkov)