1=========== 2Ansible 2.9 3=========== 4 5.. contents:: 6 :local: 7 8Release Schedule 9---------------- 10 11Expected 12======== 13 14PRs must be raised well in advance of the dates below to have a chance of being included in this Ansible release. 15 16.. note:: There is no Alpha phase in 2.9. 17 18- 2019-08-29 Beta 1 **Feature freeze** 19 No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code 20 21- 2019-09-19 Release Candidate 1 22- 2019-10-03 Release Candidate 2 23- 2019-10-10 Release Candidate 3 24- 2019-10-17 Release Candidate 4 (if needed) 25- 2019-10-24 Release Candidate 5 (if needed) 26- 2019-10-31 Release 27 28 29 30Release Manager 31--------------- 32TBD 33 34Temporarily, Matt Davis (@nitzmahone) or Matt Clay (@mattclay) on IRC or github. 35 36Planned work 37============ 38 39See the `Ansible 2.9 Project Board <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/projects/34>`_ 40