New Ansible releases 2.9.14 and 2.8.16

[Rick Elrod]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible 2.9.14 and
2.8.16 are now available!


How do you get it?
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$ pip install ansible==2.9.14 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.8.16 --user

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

* 2.9.14
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.14.tar.gz
SHA256: efe7183e08f0c9dd9efd9124efa8978be62851b1e8eb856593a073538bfc6fb5
* 2.8.16
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.8.16.tar.gz
SHA256: 4221d3a4c0d4848679dcd5a91e80fe1395371ca5bbec35c9eb4e6acfacceae16


What's new in 2.9.14 and 2.8.16
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These releases are maintenance releases containing numerous bugfixes. The full
changelogs are at:

* 2.9.14
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
* 2.8.16
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.8/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst


What's the schedule for future maintenance releases?
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The next scheduled ansible 2.8.z and 2.9.z series is 3 weeks from today,
on 26 October 2020.
The GA releases should follow one week after.


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 2.9.14, 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