New release candidates: ansible-core 2.11.1rc1, ansible-base 2.10.10rc1, ansible 2.9.22rc1

[Rick Elrod]

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

- ansible-core 2.11.1rc1
- ansible-base 2.10.10rc1
- ansible 2.9.22rc1

Release candidates are published one week prior to general availability releases
to provide users with a chance to test changes and report any issues. We thank
you for testing the RCs and helping to make ansible as stable as possible!

How to get them
---------------

$ pip install ansible-core==2.11.1rc1 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-base==2.10.10rc1 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.9.22rc1 --user

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

* ansible-core 2.11.1rc1
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.11.1rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: 9dfdf95bbb65aa0a91808ce5a4358c325018718fe2adba0fb89932755dafed43

* ansible-base 2.10.10rc1
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-base/ansible-base-2.10.10rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: db72ff7ab884474609956944ab1e5b220d8614b8792acec5649727eab40dc9a2

* ansible 2.9.22rc1
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.22rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: d2b2cfc265b5716435eb52bce8eba79693e858afcdf76986caf10e574b70bb81


What's new
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These releases are maintenance releases containing numerous bugfixes. The full
changelogs are at:

* ansible-core 2.11.1rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.11/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst

* ansible-base 2.10.10rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.10/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst

* ansible 2.9.22rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst



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

These RCs will go to GA in one week, on 24 May 2021, assuming no major issues
are found. From that point, normal cadence will resume, and the next set of RCs
will be three weeks from then, on or around 14 June 2012.


Porting Help
------------

We've published a porting guide at
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.11.html
to help migrate your content to 2.11.


If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you
upgrade to 2.11.1rc1, 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