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Ansible 2.9
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Release Schedule
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Expected
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PRs must be raised well in advance of the dates below to have a chance of being included in this Ansible release.

- TBD 2019-??-?? Alpha 1 **Core freeze**
  No new features to ``support:core`` code.
  Includes no new options to existing Core modules

- TBD 2019-??-?? Beta 1 **Feature freeze**
  No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code

- 2019-??-?? Release Candidate 1
- 2019-??-?? Release Candidate 2 (if needed)
- 2019-??-?? Release Candidate 3 (if needed)
- 2019-??-?? Release



Release Manager
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Toshio Kuratomi (IRC: abadger1999; GitHub: @abadger)

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