New release candidates: ansible-core 2.11.3rc1, ansible-base 2.10.12rc1, ansible 2.9.24rc1

[Rick Elrod]

Hi all- we're happy to announce the following release candidates:

- ansible-core 2.11.3rc1
- ansible-base 2.10.12rc1
- ansible 2.9.24rc1

...which were released Monday night (US time).

How to get it
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$ pip install ansible-core==2.11.3rc1 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-base==2.10.12rc1 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-core==2.9.24rc1 --user

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

* ansible-core 2.11.3rc1
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.11.3rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: 64fafa6e53921b21dea79c38e4d4f2d86c8d330d46b29f88dcd1ac322c95283f

* ansible-base 2.10.12rc1
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-base/ansible-base-2.10.12rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: 829a6174e556b4e2bd3f797cd6b087b23eb7d020697fb6c1478bcaaf24746530

* ansible 2.9.24rc1
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.24rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: 3221f60b23fd793064b215c96d09a47ed6ddeab259e97a8d4f9b0eb77aef8474


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

* ansible-core 2.11.3rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.11/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst

* ansible-base 2.10.12rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.10/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst

* ansible 2.9.24rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst


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

These release candidates will become General Availability releases on Monday,
19 July 2021. The next batch of release candidates will be released 3 weeks
after that date.

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!

-Rick Elrod