New release: ansible 2.9.19

[Rick Elrod]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible 2.9.19 is
now available!


How do you get it?
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$ pip install ansible==2.9.19 --user

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

* 2.9.19
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.19.tar.gz
SHA256: 64445d133b3d2f8e0924d196740da81971b2e0c3f9df4a4976206ae059288732


What's new in 2.9.19
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This release is a maintenance release containing numerous bugfixes. The full
changelog is at:

* 2.9.19
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst


What's the schedule for future maintenance releases?
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The next release candidate of ansible 2.9.z, version 2.9.20rc1, will be on
5 April 2021. This will be the final bugfix release cycle for ansible-2.9.
Future ansible-2.9 releases will only be made for security-related fixes.


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 2.9.19, 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!

-Rick Elrod