New Ansible release 2.9.17

[Rick Elrod]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible 2.9.17 is
now available!


How do you get it?
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$ pip install ansible==2.9.17 --user

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

* 2.9.17
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.17.tar.gz
SHA256: d78b46d647d91dd478ba7f43baf36ffa27f9a5992b826b16a6cc15cf993f19dc


What's new in 2.9.17
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This release is a maintenance release containing numerous bugfixes. The full
changelog is at:

* 2.9.17
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst


What's the schedule for future maintenance releases?
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The next release candidate, 2.9.18rc1, is planned to be published 3
weeks from today, on 8 February 2021, with the general availability
2.9.18 to follow one week later.


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 2.9.17, 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