New Ansible release 2.9.4

[Matt Davis]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible 2.9.4 is

now available! This release contains a single bugfix to a regression in the

yum module, introduced in 2.9.3.

How do you get it?

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$ pip install ansible==2.9.4 --user

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

* 2.9.4

  https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.4.tar.gz

  SHA256: 2517bf4743d52f00d509396a41e9ce44e5bc1285bd7aa53dfe28ea02fc1a75a6

What's new in 2.9.4

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This release is a maintenance release containing a single bugfix to the yum

module. The full changelog is at:

* 2.9.4

  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst

What's the schedule for future maintenance releases?

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Future maintenance releases will occur approximately every 3 weeks.  So expect

the next one around 2020-02-13.

Porting Help

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We've published a porting guide at

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.9.html to

help migrate your content to 2.9.

If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you

upgrade to 2.9.4, 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!

-Matt Davis