New releases: ansible-core 2.11.5, ansible-base 2.10.14, ansible 2.9.26

[Matt Martz]

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

- ansible-core 2.11.5
- ansible-base 2.10.14
- ansible 2.9.26


How to get it
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$ pip install ansible-core==2.11.5 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-base==2.10.14 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.9.26 --user

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

* ansible-core 2.11.5
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.11.5.tar.gz
  SHA256: 7d3ce47014122907454704363485e48513f8ad0f00138b88870eb6d88953d121

* ansible-base 2.10.14
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-base/ansible-base-2.10.14.tar.gz
  SHA256: 800c4646c58a5897f71f2230167db5626a196deba208f0ef4560a183ffd9dfda

* ansible 2.9.26
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-2.9.26.tar.gz
  SHA256: 3ae02aad2bbedcfb419ce75ebd2a648e9deb73e9e2d8de86c82d6047b1bdeb63


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


* ansible-core 2.11.5
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.11.5/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst

* ansible-base 2.10.14
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.10.14/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst

* ansible 2.9.26
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.26/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst


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

The next batch of release candidates is planned to be released on 4 October 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