Ansible 2.6.8 is available

[Matt Clay]

Hi all -- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible 2.6.8 is now available!

How do you get it?

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$ pip install ansible==2.6.8 --user

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

https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.6.8.tar.gz

SHA256: 012649806427e630ef8e8b71d42483af882bc39ade3b19e1f369b14c0afd5b87

What's new in 2.6.8?

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The 2.6.8 release is a maintenance release containing numerous bug fixes. The full changelog is at:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.6.8/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.rst

What's the schedule for future 2.6 maintenance releases?

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Future 2.6 maintenance releases will occur approximately every 2-3 weeks.

We've published a porting guide at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.6.html to help migrate your content to 2.6. If you discover any errors, or if you see any regressions from playbooks which work on 2.5.x and prior, please open a GitHub issue, and be sure to mention you're using 2.6.8.

Thanks!

Matt Clay (@mattclay)

Ansible Core Engineering / 2.6 Release Manager