New release candidate: ansible-core 2.15.9rc1

[Matt Martz]

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

ansible-core 2.15.9rc1


How to get it
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$ python3 -m pip install --user ansible-core==2.15.9rc1

The release artifacts can be found here:

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https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8b/2e/032959f21434fa4353cdeb62bda1a7cf0d2a903ba292c13ecc93437836c5/ansible_core-2.15.9rc1-py3-none-any.whl
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https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/25/9c/85fa98447ab0656ac7f3492d5bda6f82e907dfd3c7ec11beac182c26ab85/ansible-core-2.15.9rc1.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/v2.15.9rc1/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.15.rst


Schedule for future releases
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The release candidate will become a general availability release on 29 January 2024.


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!