New release: ansible-core 2.16.3

[Matt Martz]

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

ansible-core 2.16.3


How to get it
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$ python3 -m pip install --user ansible-core==2.16.3

The release artifacts can be found here:

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What's new
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This release is a maintenance release containing numerous bugfixes.

The full changelog can be found here:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.3/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.16.rst


Schedule for future releases
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The next release candidate is planned to be released on 19 February 2024. The next general availability release will be one week after.


Porting help
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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!