=========== Ansible 2.9

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Release Schedule

Expected

PRs must be raised well in advance of the dates below to have a chance of being included in this Ansible release.

.. note:: There is no Alpha phase in 2.9.

• 2019-08-29 Beta 1 Feature freeze No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code

• 2019-09-19 Release Candidate 1

• 2019-10-03 Release Candidate 2

• 2019-10-10 Release Candidate 3

• 2019-10-17 Release Candidate 4 (if needed)

• 2019-10-24 Release Candidate 5 (if needed)

• 2019-10-31 Release

Release Manager

TBD

Temporarily, Matt Davis (@nitzmahone) or Matt Clay (@mattclay) on IRC or github.

Planned work

See the Ansible 2.9 Project Board <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/projects/34>_