Hi all- we're happy to announce that the beta release of ansible-core
2.11.0b3 is available!

ansible-core 2.11 is a rename of ansible-base. As with ansible-base, it includes
only a minimal, vetted set of modules and plugins, and is extensible through the
use of Ansible Collections. This release of ansible-core includes some new
features and changes that we'd like to highlight below. This list is not
exhaustive:

- As of this release, Python 3.8 is now a *soft requirement* on the
  controller. (This release will continue to work with the same versions of
  Python as ansible-base 2.10, but ansible-core 2.12 will NOT)

- Role arguments can now be validated at runtime to ensure that roles are used
  correctly

- ansible-galaxy now makes use of "resolvelib" for resolving dependencies

- New virtualization facts are now included (as lists), so that administrators
  can see all virtual guest and host technologies available to the node

- Playbooks can now be run from collections

- For module authors, module_utils imports are now treated as optional if in
  any nested block (such as 'try' or 'if') allowing for implementation of
  fallback behavior for module_utils that do not exist in older versions of
  Ansible.

How to get it
-------------

$ pip install ansible-core==2.11.0b3 --user

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

* ansible-core 2.11.0b3
  
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible-core/ansible-core-2.11.0b3.tar.gz
  SHA256: f674d676f573acd5a07ec43810735b8906c245afce64daa814ca2f4bb43df11a


What's new in ansible-core 2.11.0b3
-----------------------------------

This release is a maintenance release containing numerous bugfixes. The full
changelog is at:

* 2.11.0b3
  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.11.rst


What's the schedule for future releases?
----------------------------------------

2.11.0rc1 (and the creation of the stable-2.11 git branch) is slated to happen
on 29 March 2021.


Porting Help
------------

We've published a porting guide at
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_core_2.11.html
to help migrate your content to 2.11.



If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you
upgrade to 2.11.0b3, 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!

-Rick Elrod

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