New release candidates: ansible-base 2.10.7rc1, ansible 2.9.19rc1

[Rick Elrod]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the release candidates ansible-base
2.10.7rc1 and ansible 2.9.19rc1 are now available!


How to get it
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$ pip install ansible-base==2.10.7rc1 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.9.19rc1 --user

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

* ansible-base 2.10.7rc1
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-base/ansible-base-2.10.7rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: cbb9da07a60664841632e3861afbe917221d585931d5c852a13fa5ff4a1bccea

* 2.9.19rc1
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.19rc1.tar.gz
SHA256: 6f4f06f5df87c943ae0380adf30d89d515f602e2033c04184915009954db4b34


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

* 2.10.7rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.10/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst

* 2.9.19rc1
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst


What's the schedule for future maintenance releases?
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* 15 March 2021
- ansible 2.9.19 GA release
- ansible-base 2.10.7 GA release

* 5 April 2021
- ansible 2.8.20rc1 release (if any changes) (final 2.8 security RC!)
- ansible 2.9.20rc1 release (final 2.9 bugfix RC!)
- ansible-base 2.10.8rc1 release

Porting Help
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We've published a porting guide at
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.10.html
to help migrate your content to 2.10.

If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you
upgrade to 2.10.7rc1, 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