New release beta: ansible-core 2.16.0b2 - All My Love

[Matt Martz]

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

ansible-core 2.16.0b2


How to get it
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$ python3 -m pip install --user ansible-core==2.16.0b2

The release artifacts can be found here:

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https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a7/c1/c05a3871180934492cb2c5bdffe67120afca4ca5fe55937c004cc1da8461/ansible-core-2.16.0b2.tar.gz


What's new
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This release is a major release. The full changelog can be found here:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.0b2/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.16.rst


Schedule for future releases
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Subject to the need for additional beta releases, the first release candidate is scheduled for 16 October 2023.


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!