New releases: ansible-core 2.12.2, ansible-core 2.11.8, ansible-base 2.10.17

[Matt Martz]

Hi all- we're happy to announce the general release of:

- ansible-core 2.12.2
- ansible-core 2.11.8
- ansible-base 2.10.17


How to get it
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$ pip install ansible-core==2.12.2 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-core==2.11.8 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-base==2.10.17 --user

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

* ansible-core 2.12.2
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.12.2.tar.gz
  SHA256: bc79e1723a5a92cbc105d581b25b66840d15bb5f4c98925c936ef5a71f92e7c3

* ansible-core 2.11.8
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.11.8.tar.gz
  SHA256: 5f360f090a6f2e3169e583542413bdd40b8122dbc4153603048e7747d1ba9604

* ansible-base 2.10.17
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-base/ansible-base-2.10.17.tar.gz
  SHA256: ef925882ca8d4c3c2ccd091cde199e0c869024ccad0d07a337dcf207bff32f34


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

* ansible-core 2.12.2
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.12.2/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.12.rst

* ansible-core 2.11.8
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.11.8/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst

* ansible-base 2.10.17
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.10.17/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst


What's the schedule for future maintenance releases?
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The next batch of release candidates is planned to be released on 21 February 2022. The next general availability release will be one week after.

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

If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you
upgrade, 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!

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Matt Martz
@sivel
sivel.net