New release v2.9.14rc1v2.9.14rc1

4 files changed, 80 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/changelogs/.changes.yaml b/changelogs/.changes.yaml
index abb558def1..53e8192540 100644
--- a/changelogs/.changes.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/.changes.yaml
@@ -1584,6 +1584,32 @@ releases:
     - v2.9.13_summary.yaml
     - win_setup-bios.yml
     release_date: '2020-08-31'
+  2.9.14rc1:
+    codename: Immigrant Song
+    fragments:
+    - 159_kubectl.yml
+    - 17-postgres_user-no_password_changes-no_log.yml
+    - 55152-add-more-info-to-AnsibleUndefinedVariable.yml
+    - 68699-prevent-templating-all-vars-when-copying-context.yml
+    - 69508-ansible-test-local-changes-detection.yml
+    - 71563-vmware_guest-support_hw_version_15.yml
+    - 71802-ovirt_disk-fix-upload-when-direct-upload-fails.yml
+    - 71965-ansible-doc-plugin-name.yml
+    - ansible-test-azp-resource-prefix.yml
+    - ansible-test-change-classification.yml
+    - ansible-test-ci-support-azure.yml
+    - ansible-test-ci-support-shippable-auth.yml
+    - ansible-test-ci-support.yml
+    - ansible-test-coverage-py26.yml
+    - ansible-test-endpoint-update.yml
+    - ansible-test-parallels-endpoint.yml
+    - cgroup_fix_write.yml
+    - community.general-777-interfaces_file-re-escape.yml
+    - docker-logout-newer-docker.yml
+    - psrp-copy-empty-file.yml
+    - runas-become-system-privileges.yml
+    - v2.9.14rc1_summary.yaml
+    release_date: '2020-09-28'
   2.9.2:
     codename: Immigrant Song
     fragments:
diff --git a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
index 491f09f9e9..94c0f7fd99 100644
--- a/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
+++ b/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,56 @@ Ansible 2.9 "Immigrant Song" Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics
 
 
+v2.9.14rc1
+==========
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+| Release Date: 2020-09-28
+| `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ansible-test - Added CI provider support for Azure Pipelines.
+- ansible-test - Added support for Ansible Core CI request signing for Shippable.
+- ansible-test - Allow custom ``--remote-stage`` options for development and testing.
+- ansible-test - Fix ``ansible-test coverage`` reporting sub-commands (``report``, ``html``, ``xml``) on Python 2.6.
+- ansible-test - Refactored CI related logic into a basic provider abstraction.
+- ansible-test - Remove the discontinued ``us-east-2`` choice from the ``--remote-aws-region`` option.
+- ansible-test - Request remote resources by provider name for all provider types.
+- ansible-test - Show a warning when the obsolete ``--remote-aws-region`` option is used.
+- ansible-test - Support custom remote endpoints with the ``--remote-endpoint`` option.
+- ansible-test - Update built-in service endpoints for the ``--remote`` option.
+- ansible-test - Use new endpoint for Parallels based instances with the ``--remote`` option.
+- vmware_guest - Support HW version 15 / vSphere 6.7U2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/vmware/pull/99).
+
+Security Fixes
+--------------
+
+- kubectl - connection plugin now redact kubectl_token and kubectl_password in console log (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.kubernetes/issues/65) (CVE-2020-1753).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Handle write_files option in cgroup_perf_recap callback plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/64936).
+- Prevent templating unused variables for {% include %} (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68699)
+- Provide more information in AnsibleUndefinedVariable (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55152)
+- ansible-doc - do not crash if plugin name cannot be found (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71965).
+- ansible-doc - properly show plugin name when ``name:`` is used instead of ``<plugin_type>:`` (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71965).
+- ansible-test - Change classification using ``--changed`` now consistently handles common configuration files for supported CI providers.
+- ansible-test - The ``resource_prefix`` variable provided to tests running on Azure Pipelines is now converted to lowercase to match other CI providers.
+- ansible-test - for local change detection, allow to specify branch to compare to with ``--base-branch`` for all types of tests (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/69508).
+- docker_login - now correctly reports changed status on logout for Docker versions released after June 2020.
+- docker_login - now obeys check_mode for logout
+- interfaces_file - escape regular expression characters in old value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/777).
+- ovirt_disk - fix upload when direct upload fails (https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-ansible-collection/pull/120).
+- postgres_user - remove false positive ``no_log`` warning for ``no_password_changes`` option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68106).
+- psrp - Fix hang when copying an empty file to the remote target
+- runas - create a new token when running as ``SYSTEM`` to ensure it has the full privileges assigned to that account
+
 v2.9.13
 =======
 
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/v2.9.14rc1_summary.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/v2.9.14rc1_summary.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0a0d22bb5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/v2.9.14rc1_summary.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+release_summary: |
+   | Release Date: 2020-09-28
+   | `Porting Guide <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides.html>`__
diff --git a/lib/ansible/release.py b/lib/ansible/release.py
index c6a5608870..c5da3f8732 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/release.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/release.py
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-__version__ = '2.9.13.post0'
+__version__ = '2.9.14rc1'
 __author__ = 'Ansible, Inc.'
 __codename__ = 'Immigrant Song'