New Ansible release 2.9.9

[Matt Clay]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible 2.9.9 is

now available!

How do you get it?

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$ pip install ansible==2.9.9 --user

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

* 2.9.9

  https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.9.tar.gz

  SHA256: e83d84ae8bf131c0499d8a4c0e1144bf969454c43086e61cca3c224227df29d1

What's new in 2.9.9

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This release contains a bug fix for a regression in 2.9.8 for the fileglob lookup plugin. The full

changelog is at:

* 2.9.9

  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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Future maintenance releases will occur approximately every 3 weeks.  So expect

the next one around 2020-06-04.

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 2.9.9, 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!

-Matt Clay