New release candidates: ansible-core 2.11.2rc1, ansible-base 2.10.11rc1, ansible 2.9.23rc1

[Rick Elrod]

Hi all- we're happy to announce the release candidates of:

- ansible-core 2.11.2rc1
- ansible-base 2.10.11rc1
- ansible 2.9.23rc1

These releases fix a templating security issue, CVE-2021-3583, in
addition to several
other bugfixes.

How to get it
-------------

$ pip install ansible-core==2.11.2rc1 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-base==2.10.11rc1 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.9.23rc1 --user

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

* ansible-core 2.11.2rc1
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.11.2rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: 3c1a02c1af677c321528a0cf0ce29027e6f92253638e0c92e1af449ec2b560cb

* ansible-base 2.10.11rc1
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-base/ansible-base-2.10.11rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: b0a9b853f4528bb425e18059fcfecb9b183116c59308598ef422368e47f4db58

* ansible 2.9.23rc1
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.23rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: 8fbd8c09405f74dc33cf6f6a8bbb73796f5600958f6704c64489c5c014da82a7


What's new
----------

This release is a maintenance release containing numerous bugfixes. The full
changelog is at:

* ansible-core 2.11.2rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.11/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst

* ansible-base 2.10.11rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.10/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst

* ansible 2.9.23rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst


What's the schedule for future maintenance releases?
----------------------------------------------------

These releases are planned to hit GA on Monday 21 June 2021.


Porting Help
------------

We've published a porting guide at
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.11.html
to help migrate your content to 2.11.


If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you
upgrade to 2.11.2rc1, 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!

-Rick Elrod