New releases: ansible-core 2.12.1, ansible-core 2.11.7, ansible-base 2.10.16

[Matt Davis]

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

- ansible-core 2.12.1
- ansible-core 2.11.7
- ansible-base 2.10.16


How to get it
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$ pip install ansible-core==2.12.1 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-core==2.11.7 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-base==2.10.16 --user

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

* ansible-core 2.12.1
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.12.1.tar.gz
  SHA256: a4508707262be11bb4dd98a006f1b14817879a055e6b6c46ad9fca8894fb3073

* ansible-core 2.11.7
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.11.7.tar.gz
  SHA256: b87188beacfac1bb6dc5cf65663f3c52e66e0f9990742db00a3dca71ebae2eee

* ansible-base 2.10.16
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-base/ansible-base-2.10.16.tar.gz
  SHA256: d974214ed03ac129c299967aa4c98205943ba36f20040e7feb7248e0c3e2ea15


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


* ansible-core 2.12.1
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.12.1/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.12.rst

* ansible-core 2.11.7
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.11.7/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst

* ansible-base 2.10.16
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.10.16/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst


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

The planned December releases have been deferred to account for holiday staffing.
The next batch of release candidates is planned to be released on 24 January 2022.
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!

-Matt Davis, Ansible Core Engineering