New releases: ansible-core 2.11.6, ansible-base 2.10.15, ansible 2.9.27

[Matt Martz]

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

- ansible-core 2.11.6
- ansible-base 2.10.15
- ansible 2.9.27


How to get it
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$ pip install ansible-core==2.11.6 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-base==2.10.15 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.9.27 --user

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

* ansible-core 2.11.6
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.11.6.tar.gz
  SHA256: 93d50283c7c5b476debf83dc089b3f679b939a8b9a7b5d628d28daafbb3d303a

* ansible-base 2.10.15
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-base/ansible-base-2.10.15.tar.gz
  SHA256: 4478818ba821dba143e123568ec5d317dc8fa4ac6e1513f7a501734e52976bff

* ansible 2.9.27
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-2.9.27.tar.gz
  SHA256: 479159e50b3bd90920d06bc59410c3a51d3f9be9b4e1029e11d1e4a2d0705736


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

* ansible-core 2.11.6
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.11.6/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst

* ansible-base 2.10.15
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.10.15/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst

* ansible 2.9.27
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.27/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.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 1 November 2021. 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