New releases: ansible-base 2.10.9, ansible 2.9.21

[Rick Elrod]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general releases of ansible-base 2.10.9
and ansible 2.9.21 are now available!


How to get them
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$ pip install ansible-base==2.10.9 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.9.21 --user

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

* ansible-base 2.10.9
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-base/ansible-base-2.10.9.tar.gz
SHA256: 04635d3e08fc29358c76b8e7f1e9db0ce443fb09ce30b2acc6cacaad165f2151

* ansible 2.9.21
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.21.tar.gz
SHA256: 4098246b67aa143e1e3af79d99346419e0545d5405d1cdf6e7fd389beab6de5a


What's new
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This release is a maintenance release containing numerous bugfixes. The full
changelog is at:

* 2.10.9
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.10/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst

* 2.9.21
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst


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

On 17 May 2021, ansible-core 2.11.1 release candidate 1 will be released.

Also on 17 May 2021, one week earlier than normal cadence,
ansible-base 2.10.10 release candidate 1 and ansible 2.9.22 release candidate 1
will both be released.

From that point forward, normal cadence will resume (RC, 1 week, GA, 3 weeks).

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

We've published a porting guide at
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.10.html
to help migrate your content to 2.10.


If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you
upgrade to 2.10.9, 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 version that works and the one that
doesn't.

Thanks!

-Rick Elrod