New Ansible release 2.9.0rc5

[Matt Davis]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that Ansible 2.9.0rc5 is now available! This is

anticipated as the final release candidate before Ansible 2.9.0 is generally

available within the next week or so.

How do you get it?

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$ pip install ansible==2.9.0rc5 --user

The tar.gz of the release can be found here:

* 2.9.0rc5

  https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.0rc5.tar.gz

  SHA256: 0ef189c180a48d8702eba704093f7b7ab49ce54834a6a9848b33126f15e67ba8

What's new in 2.9.0rc5

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This release is a maintenance release containing minor bugfixes. The full

changelog is at:

* 2.9.0rc5

  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst

What's the schedule for 2.9.0 final?

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Ansible 2.9.0 final is expected to be generally available within the next week

or so. Future 2.9 series maintenance releases will be every few weeks as needed.

Porting Help

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We've published a porting guide at

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.9.html to

help migrate your content to 2.9.

If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you

upgrade to 2.9.0rc5, please use the following link to report the regression:

  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/new/choose

In your issue, be sure to mention the Ansible version that works and the one

that doesn't.

Thanks!

-Matt Davis