# minor-version RCs for ansible 2.8 and 2.9, and ansible-base 2.10 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Created:** [August 27, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/minor-version-rcs-for-ansible-2-8-and-2-9-and-ansible-base-2-10/33689 "2020-08-27T20:06:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![relrod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/relrod/32/107_2.png) [@relrod](https://forum.ansible.com/u/relrod)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/minor-version-rcs-for-ansible-2-8-and-2-9-and-ansible-base-2-10/33689/1 "2020-08-27T20:06:07Z")
Greetings, In an effort to provide more stability in our minor releases, the Ansible Core team is planning to start publishing release-candidates for minor versions of Ansible 2.8, Ansible 2.9, and ansible-base 2.10. When we start publishing these, our release cycle will move to a 4-week cadence: Every 4 weeks, an RC will be published, and will be followed one week later by a stable release. These RCs: - Will be published every 4 weeks, as noted above - Will appear on pypi - Will appear as .tar.gz files on releases.ansible.com - Will NOT be published as RPMs on releases.ansible.com - Will NOT be available through our Launchpad PPA Our hope is that these RCs will provide a short amount of time for users and community members to test an impending release with their playbooks (or in their CI setup) before the release becomes final, and to report any issues they have found so that they may be fixed (or so that the breaking change may be reverted as necessary). In the event that a regression is found, it will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and fixed or reverted as necessary. We do not plan to publish more than one RC per minor release at this time. We plan to start the RC process with ansible-base 2.10.1, and will start it shortly after for the Ansible 2.8 and 2.9 series. Thus, our timeline to start these RCs looks like the following (subject to change): - 31 August 2020:   ansible-base 2.10.1rc1   ansible 2.9.13   ansible 2.8.15 - 7 September 2020:   ansible-base 2.10.1 - 28 September 2020:   ansible-base 2.10.2rc1   ansible 2.9.14rc1   ansible 2.8.16rc1 - 5 October 2020:   ansible-base 2.10.2   ansible 2.9.14   ansible 2.8.16 We will announce the availability of these RCs to the devel mailing list. We hope that this helps to improve the stability of Ansible and ansible-base going forward. We welcome and encourage feedback from the community and are always looking to refine our processes to make Ansible and ansible-base as solid as possible. Rick / Ansible Release Engineering