[Toshio Kuratomi]

Hi all- we're happy to announce that the general release of Ansible
2.7.7 and Ansible 2.6.13 are now available!


How do you get it?
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$ pip install ansible==2.6.13 --user
or
$ pip install ansible==2.7.7 --user

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

* 2.7.7
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.7.7.tar.gz
SHA256: 040cc936f959b947800ffaa5f940d2508aaa41f899efe56b47a7442c89689150
* 2.6.13
https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.6.13.tar.gz
SHA256: 96fbddc5b6a394d2a3259b23847611a61e8d24c5aca6f4325a9aabca54817f05

What's new in 2.7.7 and 2.6.13?
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These releases are maintenance releases containing numerous bugfixes.
The full changelog is at:

* 2.7.7
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.7/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst
* 2.6.13
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.6/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.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 February 28th.

We've published a porting guide at
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_2.7.html
to help migrate your content to 2.7. If you discover any errors, or if
you see any regressions from playbooks which work on 2.7.6 and prior,
please open a GitHub issue, and be sure to mention you're using 2.7.7.

Thanks!

-Toshio Kuratomi