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+    <time>1589315777</time>
+    <user>dimstar_suse</user>
+    <comment>update to maintenance release 2.9.8</comment>
+    <requestid>803198</requestid>
+  </revision>
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 -------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue May 12 09:42:53 UTC 2020 - Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
+
+- update to version 2.9.8
+  maintenance release containing numerous bugfixes
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Apr 17 06:49:56 UTC 2020 - Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
 
 - update to version 2.9.7 with many bug fixes,
diff --git a/ansible.spec b/ansible.spec
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 Name:           ansible
-Version:        2.9.7
+Version:        2.9.8
 Release:        0
 Summary:        SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system
 License:        GPL-3.0-or-later