New release candidates: ansible 2.8.16rc1, 2.9.14rc1

[Rick Elrod]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible 2.9.14rc1
and 2.8.16rc1 are now available! These are release candidates that you can use
for testing the next available minor releases of Ansible.


How do you get it?
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$ pip install ansible==2.9.14rc1 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.8.16rc1 --user

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

* 2.9.14rc1
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.14rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: 93dce66692d6a2c441b04163e204d21840c8687975eeca5ae670db08064e7cd0
* 2.8.16rc1
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.8.16rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: d5b22e08c41372268e4361ede0dd247aedf708c4722525af5184e7f6bd26b252


What's new in 2.9.14rc1 and 2.8.16rc1
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These releases are maintenance releases containing numerous bugfixes. The full
changelogs are at:

* 2.9.14rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
* 2.8.16rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.8/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst


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

We expect these release candidates to go out as final releases in one week.
Three weeks from that point, the next set of release candidates will be cut.


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 2.9.14rc1, 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