PRs must be raised well in advance of the dates below to have a chance of being included in this Ansible release.
Note
There is no Alpha phase in 2.9.
2019-08-29 Beta 1 Feature freeze No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code
2019-09-19 Release Candidate 1
2019-09-26 Release Candidate 2 (if needed)
2019-10-03 Release Candidate 3 (if needed)
2019-10-16 Release
Toshio Kuratomi (IRC: abadger1999; GitHub: @abadger)