Ansible-2.10.3 released: quick fix for installation issue

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Greetings all,

Yesterday's release of Ansible-2.10.2 contained some output from
running tests which amounted to a 30% increase in the size of the
Ansible tarball. The size ended up doubling the time necessary to
install ansible using pip. The Ansible-2.10.3 release removes the
test output to bring the size back down to a more normal level. Other
than that, it should be the same as the 2.10.2 release.

If you've already upgraded to 2.10.2, the only benefit of 2.10.3 will
be a smaller installed size.


How to get it
-------------

Due to a limitation in pip, if you are upgrading from Ansible 2.9 (or
earlier), you need to uninstall ansible before installing the 2.10 version:

$ pip uninstall ansible
$ pip install ansible==2.10.3 --user

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

* Ansible 2.10.3
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-2.10.3.tar.gz
SHA256: eb1d08b9b98a60e90e7123a12f40770780f29f9d73168da55d449106a9f4d348


What's new in Ansible 2.10.3
------------------------------

* Collections which have opted into being a part of the Ansible-2.10
unified changelog will have an entry on this page:
https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/2.10/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst

* For collections which have not opted into the unified changelog,
consult the list of included collections in the link below and check
their entry on https://galaxy.ansible.com for information about their
changes.

* List of collections included in the 2.10.3 release:
https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/2.10.3/2.10/ansible-2.10.3.deps

* You can find more information for those on
https://galaxy.ansible.com/. For instance, the community.crypto
collection listed in the ansible-2.10.3.deps file has a galaxy page at
https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/crypto/

* Changelog for ansible-base-2.10.3 which this release of ansible
installs: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.10/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst


What's the schedule for new Ansible releases after 2.10.0?
-----------------------------------------------------------

* Patch releases will continue to be released approximately every
three weeks with bugfixes and new features as long as those features
do not cause incompatibilities.
* These releases will all be based on ansible-base-2.10.x
* However, the US Thanksgiving Holiday is happening three weeks from
now so expect the next release one week later, around December 1st.

* We're still discussing the release schedule for ansible-2.11.0.
* We're tentatively thinking of releasing ansible-2.11.0, with
potential backwards incompatible changes to the collections but based
on ansible-base-2.10 in early February, 2021.
* Take this information as being subject to change as we're in the
early stages of discussion.


Porting Help
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There's a unified porting guide for collections which have opted-in.
You can find that at:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.10.rst


Thanks!
-Toshio Kuratomi