New release candidate: ansible-core 2.16.1rc1

[Matt Martz]

Hi all- we're happy to announce the following release candidate:

ansible-core 2.16.1rc1


How to get it
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$ python3 -m pip install --user ansible-core==2.16.1rc1

The release artifacts can be found here:

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https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0c/c4/62204080db2e00fc31225c1b2b165f3c50449a6ef94b55c88fc5ef2527f7/ansible_core-2.16.1rc1-py3-none-any.whl
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https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/21/9b/a89dd5b240d3cfca6bba0ce0e8a453290b0488348b10355d353c6425c47e/ansible-core-2.16.1rc1.tar.gz


What's new
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This release is a maintenance release containing numerous bugfixes.

The full changelog can be found here:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.1rc1/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.16.rst


Schedule for future releases
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The release candidate will become a general availability release on 4 December 2023.


Porting help
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If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you upgrade, 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 version that works and the one that doesn't.

Thanks!