New Ansible releases 2.9.12 and 2.8.14

[Rick Elrod]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible 2.9.12 and
2.8.14 are now available!


How do you get it?
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$ pip install ansible==2.9.12 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.8.14 --user

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

* 2.9.12
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.12.tar.gz
SHA256: 7e95ddf719190b068fafc7d7c7877c218054cc5da4f6d9d794faf7bc66dab774
* 2.8.14
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.8.14.tar.gz
SHA256: 248990ade8689126ded598c5a931b2524ff4edf4629627b10962098d1303eaa5


What's new in 2.9.12 and 2.8.14
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These releases contain fixes to multiple CVEs: CVE-2020-1736,
CVE-2020-14332, CVE-2020-14330

These releases are maintenance releases containing numerous bugfixes. The full
changelogs are at:

* 2.9.12
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
* 2.8.14
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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Future maintenance releases will occur approximately every 3 weeks. So expect
the next one around 2020-08-31.


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 2.9.12, 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