New Ansible releases 2.7.11 and 2.6.17

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible 2.7.11 and
2.6.17 are now available!


How do you get it?
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$ pip install ansible==2.7.11 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.6.17 --user

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

* 2.7.11
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.7.11.tar.gz
SHA256: e7e6de461b7d07cb4d8b2dd2a32b231af7c56e6bf39b851024671aaa52fd377e
* 2.6.17
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.6.17.tar.gz
SHA256: 230c00dd173350b714759d887a868717498d9efaeba0e9315d5d8065c31bb947


What's new in 2.7.11 and 2.6.17
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These releases are maintenance releases containing numerous bugfixes. The full
changelogs are at:

* 2.7.11
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.7/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst
* 2.6.17
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.6/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.rst


What's the schedule for future maintenance releases?
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These are the last regularly scheduled maintenance releases of
Ansible-2.7.x and Ansible-2.6.x. From here on, releases of these two
branches will be as needed. Ansible-2.7.x will continue to get fixes
for critical bugfixes and security issues. Ansible-2.6.x will only
receive updates for security issues.

Please see the Release and Maintenance page in our docs if you want
more information:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#release-status

Porting Help
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We've published a porting guide at
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.7.html to
help migrate your content to 2.7.


If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you
upgrade to 2.7.11, 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!

-Toshio Kuratomi