New Ansible releases 2.8.2, 2.7.12, and 2.6.18

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible 2.8.2,
2.7.12, and 2.6.18 are now available!


How do you get it?
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$ pip install ansible==2.8.2 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.7.12 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.6.18 --user

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

* 2.8.2
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.8.2.tar.gz
SHA256: 1e5ba829ca0602c55b33da399b06f99b135a34014b661d1c36d8892a1e2d3730
* 2.7.12
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.7.12.tar.gz
SHA256: d1e2941087e7778df34af14d2271d16f17ce2dbf03f01043162fb11a0a2708cc
* 2.6.18
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.6.18.tar.gz
SHA256: 588e4d85ec21cddf959a66cbe62bbfcff6236a1cd44b1264b14a19d34b8dffdf


What's new in 2.8.2, 2.7.12, and 2.6.18
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These releases contain a security fix for CVE-2019-10156. In
addition, the 2.8.2 release is a maintenance release containing
numerous bugfixes other bugfixes. The full changelogs are at:

* 2.8.2
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.8/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst
* 2.7.12
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.7/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst
* 2.6.18
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.6/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.rst


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

Future maintenance releases will occur approximately every 3 weeks. So expect
2.8.3 around 2019-07-25.

2.7 and 2.6 are only open for critical and security bugfixes
respectively so those will see new releases on an as-needed basis.

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

We've published a porting guide at
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.8.html to
help migrate your content to 2.8.


If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you
upgrade to 2.8.2, 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!

-Toshio Kuratomi

[Toshio Kuratomi]

One additional note: The Deb builds for the Ansible PPA failed.
We're working on getting those built and uploaded but no ETA yet.
(Tomorrow is a US holiday so it cuts into the time available to
diagnose, fix, and then release those).

-Toshoi