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+bugfixes:
+- ec2_vpc_route_table - automatically retry when attempting to modify freshly created route tables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/616).
+minor_changes:
+- ec2_vpc_route_table - use shared code for tagging route tables (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/616).