New release candidates: ansible-core 2.12.1rc1, ansible-core 2.11.7rc1, ansible-base 2.10.16rc1

[Matt Martz]

Hi all- we're happy to announce the following release candidates:

- ansible-core 2.12.1rc1
- ansible-core 2.11.7rc1
- ansible-base 2.10.16rc1


How to get it
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$ pip install ansible-core==2.12.1rc1 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-core==2.11.7rc1 --user
or
$ pip install ansible-base==2.10.16rc1 --user

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

* ansible-core 2.12.1rc1
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.12.1rc1.tar.gz
  SHA256: 1566fe38f8cc837ce8334f545b91e70cf61e2d3ffcee6cf6d28bdb1d0f5423c4

* ansible-core 2.11.7rc1
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.11.7rc1.tar.gz
  SHA256: b8e142e5cdd85533968d2d890b0e5938c0574882ba526263d3c87eebaaa7bfb3

* ansible-base 2.10.16rc1
  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-base/ansible-base-2.10.16rc1.tar.gz
  SHA256: b46ca88db98ad98abd8868742a69d7ff84f0469e70c80ed2f4164a085d0fc637


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

* ansible-core 2.12.1rc1
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.12.1rc1/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.12.rst

* ansible-core 2.11.7rc1
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.11.7rc1/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst

* ansible-base 2.10.16rc1
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.10.16rc1/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.10.rst


What's the schedule for future maintenance releases?
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These release candidates will become general availability releases on 6 December 2021.


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!

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Matt Martz
@sivel
sivel.net