Subject: Ansible 2.4.4.0 Final released

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Hi all, For everyone who has not yet decided to upgrade to
ansible-2.5.0 we're happy to announce that ansible- 2.4.4.0 has been
released.

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How do you get it?


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

https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.4.4.0.tar.gz
SHA256: 2b02756b9b6bc02d9028a4577ef332f8126c607528e18db825672b0301343358


You can also install it via pip by pinning the version:
$ pip install ansible==2.4.4.0

Or you can retrieve the release from the git repository as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
$ cd ansible
$ git checkout v2.4.4.0-1

You can then source our testing script:

$ . hacking/env-setup

or you can build your own .tar.gz (output will be dist/ansible-2.4.4.0.tar.gz):

$ make sdist

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This is the last regularly scheduled release in the 2.4.x series.
We'll make further 2.4.x releases if we discover critical or security
bugs that must be fixed while 2.4.x is still supported but the
majority of new bugfixes will be made to the 2.5.x release series.

Thanks to everyone who's participated in bug reporting and bug fixing
to make this release possible!

-Toshio